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- 0:10Speaker 1: Oh God is dead. I'm Robert Evans, Welcome to the podcast.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Were first episode of Spooky Week try to figure out
- 0:20Speaker 1: who murdered God and come to the conclusion that it
- 0:24Speaker 1: was almost certainly will Weep. I'm pointing my finger at
- 0:27Speaker 1: someone else. Actually, Robert, I'm fingering Bigfoot. And wow, you're
- 0:32Speaker 1: definitely okay. Now now, Daniel, Daniel, I'm gonna need you
- 0:35Speaker 1: to just cut that audioline out of the episode so
- 0:39Speaker 1: that everyone on the team can play it as a
- 0:41Speaker 1: drop whenever we need to. James admitting to fingering Bigfoot. Um, alright,
- 0:47Speaker 1: that's gonna be an episode everybody of a good week.
- 0:49Speaker 1: God bless you. This is it could happen here. This
- 0:54Speaker 1: is Spooky Week, right, we're recording our first spook crazed
- 0:59Speaker 1: b two God, Um, all right, what do we what
- 1:03Speaker 1: do we have for the ladies and not not the gentleman.
- 1:06Speaker 1: This one's just for the ladies. I'm gonna say that
- 1:08Speaker 1: right now, says hers and slurs. It's it's yeah, we
- 1:17Speaker 1: where we got today? What we got today? Robert Garrison
- 1:19Speaker 1: is some stories about cryptids. So I want to start
- 1:23Speaker 1: in the autumn of Garrison was not alive and Robert.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Now we're much younger, and I want to start in
- 1:29Speaker 1: northern California, where one night, three men set out to
- 1:34Speaker 1: execute a pretty routine We trade right, dropsyself, get some money,
- 1:39Speaker 1: come home. And it's not exactly a secret that at
- 1:42Speaker 1: that time and in that place there was a lot
- 1:44Speaker 1: of illegal girl operations and it's not exactly a secret. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:49Speaker 1: have you heard about this? I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:52Speaker 1: I mean, like it's number one once you hit about
- 1:56Speaker 1: anywhere in like the coastal northern caliph Fornia from like
- 2:00Speaker 1: and a cruise on up. Uh, bigfoot is like a
- 2:04Speaker 1: topic not even not even really of discussion. But there's
- 2:06Speaker 1: just big foot ship all over the goddamn place. Um,
- 2:10Speaker 1: from ARCADEA to like Grants Pass is probably the biggest
- 2:13Speaker 1: density of bigfoot ship. But it's all throughout or again,
- 2:16Speaker 1: all throughout Washington. You get a decent amount in Idaho,
- 2:19Speaker 1: I think too. Um, but yeah, people make a lot
- 2:23Speaker 1: of money of big foot. It's even a bigfoot highway
- 2:25Speaker 1: up there. But yeah, I was listening to a dogship
- 2:29Speaker 1: podcast recently. It's not very good. It's called wild Thing
- 2:32Speaker 1: and it's by some former NPR reporter the Squatches podcast. Right, Yeah,
- 2:38Speaker 1: she's doing like a Bigfoot thing. It's just not very good.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Like there's bits in there where she'll like quote one
- 2:45Speaker 1: guy who's like, there's a lot, there's so much evidence
- 2:47Speaker 1: for Bigfoot. If you type big foot into Google, there's
- 2:50Speaker 1: like a eleven million results, and that an actual scientist
- 2:54Speaker 1: will be like, there's no evidence for Bigfoot, and she
- 2:56Speaker 1: just as like, what are we to think? What? Both sides?
- 3:02Speaker 1: Both sides? Yeah, yeah, I did not find it very edifying.
- 3:05Speaker 1: I was listening to it while I was alone on
- 3:07Speaker 1: the mountain this weekend. There are two sides to a
- 3:10Speaker 1: Bigfoot story, Robert. It doesn't matter if one of them
- 3:12Speaker 1: is wrong. No, um, it's very fun. But yeah, because
- 3:17Speaker 1: I also, the parts of the West Coast that are
- 3:20Speaker 1: Bigfoot country are also the parts of the West Coast
- 3:23Speaker 1: that grow like more pot than anywhere else on planet Earth. Yeah. Yeah,
- 3:28Speaker 1: which is interesting, isn't it, Because these two things may
- 3:31Speaker 1: or may not overlap. Yeah, I think they do. But
- 3:35Speaker 1: please continue. Yes, so Hulu made I will use to
- 3:41Speaker 1: loosely use the word documentary here. Yeah, loose is is
- 3:44Speaker 1: good for this, So I again to use a few
- 3:48Speaker 1: words loosely here. So, according to David Holt house journalist,
- 3:52Speaker 1: which is again a word I'm using maybe loosely. He
- 3:55Speaker 1: does a pretty good job in what he's fine hold house.
- 3:59Speaker 1: So the interesting thing about him and what I do
- 4:01Speaker 1: kind of like about him, is he's like he worked
- 4:05Speaker 1: as a trimmer. Like so the pot industry. The there's
- 4:10Speaker 1: the people who moved the marijuana around the country, including
- 4:13Speaker 1: smuggle it into places where it's still fully illegal. There's
- 4:16Speaker 1: the people who sell it, either illegally or at dispensaries. Um.
- 4:20Speaker 1: There's the people who grow it. And then the largest
- 4:24Speaker 1: by number chunk of the weed trade, or the trimmers.
- 4:26Speaker 1: And those are the people every season, usually in the fall,
- 4:29Speaker 1: come down for three or four months, northern California's southern
- 4:32Speaker 1: Oregon mostly and they take raw marijuana that's been like
- 4:37Speaker 1: bucked and cut off of the plant and they trim
- 4:39Speaker 1: it into the kind of buds that you buy. UM.
- 4:42Speaker 1: And this guy was doing that back in the nineties,
- 4:44Speaker 1: and he ran into these stories about a big foot
- 4:46Speaker 1: murdering two or three Mexican guys. Yeah, that's exactly it. Yeah,
- 4:50Speaker 1: so I think he actually has a really good job
- 4:52Speaker 1: in this documentary. Yeah. I I actually didn't think it
- 4:55Speaker 1: was was bad. No, I was ready for it to
- 4:59Speaker 1: be bad, but I always quite impressed with So what
- 5:02Speaker 1: happened is, Yeah, like Crobert says said, they are these
- 5:04Speaker 1: probably migrant probably undocumented workers, right who come well, a
- 5:09Speaker 1: lot of them, there's a good chunk of them, probably,
- 5:11Speaker 1: I don't know by my estimates. Maybe are like mostly
- 5:15Speaker 1: white kids from various parts of the country. A lot
- 5:18Speaker 1: of them are folks who are either kind of seasonally unhoused.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Many of them like live in camp basically in places
- 5:26Speaker 1: like Arcada a big chunk of the year and then
- 5:28Speaker 1: we'll live on farms while they trim. Um. There are
- 5:30Speaker 1: a decent chunk who are undocumented. A lot are mong um,
- 5:34Speaker 1: Like a lot of are like first, like particularly older
- 5:37Speaker 1: among people who like came here after Vietnam and started
- 5:42Speaker 1: businesses and then like their kids and grandkids got into
- 5:46Speaker 1: the pot trade. And we're like, well, my you know,
- 5:48Speaker 1: grandma and my aunts retired, and they like they living
- 5:51Speaker 1: in the woods and are good at trimming, Like we
- 5:53Speaker 1: can make a bunch of extra money this way. Um,
- 5:55Speaker 1: it's all sorts up there. Yeah, it's kind of fascinating.
- 5:59Speaker 1: So these guys set out to do this deal, right
- 6:02Speaker 1: that they're three of the people who fall into the
- 6:04Speaker 1: undocumented labor category, and they never come back, and a
- 6:08Speaker 1: whole house is sitting in one of these farmhouses or
- 6:11Speaker 1: in a trailer or something, when when gouvern guys come
- 6:13Speaker 1: in and say, hey, those those dudes never came back
- 6:16Speaker 1: and they've been killed, right, they seem to have been
- 6:19Speaker 1: sort of pretty brutally murdered, but the we that they
- 6:23Speaker 1: were carrying was still there, so it wasn't like somebody
- 6:26Speaker 1: shook them down and stole the weed. Right. And yeah, you,
- 6:30Speaker 1: by the way, if it was a weed industry thing,
- 6:33Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't because everyone's got a lot of fucking weed.
- 6:37Speaker 1: I mean, people do steal weed, but if you're out
- 6:40Speaker 1: there doing a murder, it's probably because somebody's fucking with
- 6:42Speaker 1: your business in a bigger way than whatever they happen
- 6:44Speaker 1: to have on the fucking farm. Like, I wouldn't be
- 6:46Speaker 1: surprised if a pot murder would not result in whatever
- 6:49Speaker 1: ship they had in their trailer actually getting jacked. Okay,
- 6:53Speaker 1: right then, yeah, because the weeds the thing that everyone has,
- 6:56Speaker 1: so at the time, their deaths are largely, if not entirely,
- 7:00Speaker 1: factually attributed to bigfoot, right, it's put out there that
- 7:05Speaker 1: these people were murdered by Bigfoot. Now they are not
- 7:08Speaker 1: the only people whose deaths have been blamed on bigfoot.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Earlier this year, duly Seminole County Sheriff's Office reported the
- 7:16Speaker 1: murder of Mr Jimmy Knighton and the press release they said,
- 7:20Speaker 1: Larry Sanders has reported killing Mr Jimmy Knighton by the
- 7:23Speaker 1: South Canadian River. Sanders and Knighton had been noodling in
- 7:27Speaker 1: the river on July. Okay, now, yeah, so give it
- 7:32Speaker 1: to me, Robert, you're you're you're from this part of
- 7:34Speaker 1: the world. It's when you stroke a catfish you don't
- 7:37Speaker 1: stroke well, yes, basically, it's when you use kind of
- 7:40Speaker 1: your fingers as bait and you catch a catfish by
- 7:42Speaker 1: the mouth. Right, we call it what a country? Yes,
- 7:48Speaker 1: I mean James C. Robert to the kids these days,
- 7:51Speaker 1: catch a catch a catch a catfish by the north
- 7:54Speaker 1: being something very different. So does noodling, Yeah, or as
- 7:58Speaker 1: the Mormons call it, soaking. Sure, there's a great story.
- 8:05Speaker 1: This is off topic, but there was just an outbreak
- 8:08Speaker 1: in South Lake City of armpit crabs because so many
- 8:14Speaker 1: Mormon kids are having having armpit sex and protection it's awesome.
- 8:20Speaker 1: It's so funny. Really, it's not. That's just wow, we're
- 8:25Speaker 1: still doing this. We're still doing this, Gere. We're gonna
- 8:27Speaker 1: be doing this the rest of your natural life. Yeah,
- 8:30Speaker 1: never getting past this ship. This is what the future
- 8:34Speaker 1: halls feed decades of arm fucking. So, uh, sand Is
- 8:39Speaker 1: a knighting with They were old school noodling. They weren't online,
- 8:42Speaker 1: of course. Yeah, that's that's the best kind of noodling
- 8:45Speaker 1: in my opinion. That's what I've heard. So they're at
- 8:47Speaker 1: they're at. At some point, Mr sand Is becomes convinced
- 8:52Speaker 1: that Knighton has summoned Bigfoot to kill him. Now, that's interesting.
- 8:57Speaker 1: You don't hear that a lot. You don't because I
- 8:59Speaker 1: didn't Bigfoot was summonable. That wasn't on the table of
- 9:03Speaker 1: things that I thought one could do to a Bigfoot.
- 9:05Speaker 1: I mean, I've always thought Bigfoot was summonable, but not
- 9:09Speaker 1: for murder. For sex, sure, Okay, yeah, that's why his
- 9:13Speaker 1: armpits are so crabby. Well, that's what everyone says about Bigfoot,
- 9:17Speaker 1: so you can identify him in a crowd. So at
- 9:20Speaker 1: some point Sounders becomes convinced that Bigfoot is on his
- 9:24Speaker 1: way and he's going to kill him, and so he
- 9:26Speaker 1: unfortunately strangles his noodling partner to death. Well that's tragic,
- 9:32Speaker 1: and then noodling partly tragic. Well, guess gonna leave it.
- 9:36Speaker 1: We're it's gonna leave it. We're just gonna move straight on. Yeah, yeah,
- 9:41Speaker 1: So yeah, it does sound rather tragic. It does sound
- 9:44Speaker 1: rather sad. But he seems to have reported pretty openly
- 9:49Speaker 1: that he believed that Bigfoot was on its way and
- 9:52Speaker 1: if he didn't stop this ritual, that Bigfoot will kill him.
- 9:55Speaker 1: And a lot of as it turns out, things that
- 9:57Speaker 1: people can't really expla rain. Often the times when people
- 10:02Speaker 1: are in human to other humans tend to be explained
- 10:05Speaker 1: as the actions of monsters. Right, And I want I
- 10:08Speaker 1: want to quote from the documentarian, the director Joshua Rope,
- 10:14Speaker 1: who made that film. He says, the thing that people
- 10:18Speaker 1: should be afraid of is not the boogeyman in the woods.
- 10:21Speaker 1: It's our next door neighbors who will usually commit acts
- 10:23Speaker 1: of violence that will then terrify, you know, everybody on
- 10:27Speaker 1: the block or in the neighborhood. Said that working in
- 10:30Speaker 1: northern California was very scary. We did enter a sort
- 10:33Speaker 1: of underworld. You know, for lack of a better term,
- 10:36Speaker 1: and you know, we were really mindful to try and
- 10:38Speaker 1: not overstay our welcome there. So I want to get
- 10:42Speaker 1: into cryptichs a little bit, and I want to get
- 10:45Speaker 1: into some some of the more famous ones as well
- 10:48Speaker 1: as a curse. I've got a curse here. Yeah. The
- 10:52Speaker 1: curse is great because it's invented by the California Park Service.
- 10:55Speaker 1: But I want to explain kind of the social functions
- 10:58Speaker 1: that they sometimes serve as well as just having some
- 11:00Speaker 1: fun talking about cryptids. So the one that I thought
- 11:04Speaker 1: might serve a social function, and probably the most famous
- 11:06Speaker 1: cryptid aside from Bigfoot, is our friend the chupacabra, right
- 11:11Speaker 1: and yeah yeah In English, that translate to goat soccer,
- 11:15Speaker 1: which is okay, yeah, yeah, we're staying we're staying on
- 11:22Speaker 1: this bit. I see, yeah, yeah, we're on themes. Not
- 11:25Speaker 1: a bit garrison. Its culture, yeah, corporate, not a costume.
- 11:31Speaker 1: I'll say this. I'm reading a great book right now
- 11:33Speaker 1: about the goat soccer. No it's it's called The Last
- 11:37Speaker 1: Emperor of Mexico, and it's about that Habsburg who tried
- 11:40Speaker 1: to become the Yeah yeah, and they hung his assid
- 11:43Speaker 1: in like three weeks. It's very funny. Um yeah, good stuff.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Huge respect to the people of Mexico. So actually that
- 11:52Speaker 1: chupacabra doesn't come from Mexico, comes from Puerto Rico. But
- 11:56Speaker 1: oh I didn't know that. Actually, yeah, we get a
- 11:58Speaker 1: little bit about the chubercabra. The perhaps the best source
- 12:02Speaker 1: for this, as far as I can find, is this
- 12:04Speaker 1: guy Benjamin Redford, who has written a book about the
- 12:07Speaker 1: tuber carbre and he shows that nearly all of the
- 12:12Speaker 1: eyewitness accounts can be traced back to this one, the
- 12:18Speaker 1: first account, which was this woman called Madeline Tolentino in
- 12:22Speaker 1: the ninety nineties in uh in Puerto rican Right. So
- 12:26Speaker 1: it's also much more recent than I thought. Like, the
- 12:29Speaker 1: tuber Cabra is twenty seven years old. It is said
- 12:32Speaker 1: it's younger than me, which is quite remarkable given how
- 12:35Speaker 1: much cultural impact has had. Yeah, I thought I thought
- 12:39Speaker 1: it was much older. Yeah, be too. I thought it
- 12:41Speaker 1: was this like an old tiny border legend, and you're
- 12:44Speaker 1: a forty nine James, that's correct. Yeah, yeah, okay, just
- 12:48Speaker 1: making it No, Yeah, I'm just I'm just kicking here
- 12:50Speaker 1: for a couple more years before I can claim that sweet.
- 12:52Speaker 1: I heeart media Hitchen, get that air p go to
- 12:56Speaker 1: the be able to go to the fucking the Sizzler
- 12:59Speaker 1: and get five percent off. That's it, man. I'm got
- 13:01Speaker 1: to be issued in my nineteen eleven, which you get
- 13:03Speaker 1: when you're sixty years old. You get a you get
- 13:06Speaker 1: a nineteen eleven and you get a Loui's Gift card
- 13:09Speaker 1: and you get to evoke the Second World War whenever
- 13:11Speaker 1: anyone is rude to you, even if you weren't in it,
- 13:13Speaker 1: and you're you're allowed to drive your car into a
- 13:16Speaker 1: farmer's market in the state of California up to twice.
- 13:19Speaker 1: You have to try. After that, you have to move
- 13:21Speaker 1: to Oregon. M that's right. So yeah, I'm until my retirement.
- 13:26Speaker 1: They I want to talk a little bit about this
- 13:27Speaker 1: is tuper copter. So uh, they're fascinating because like with Bigfoot,
- 13:33Speaker 1: right there are, as you have mentioned, eleven million Google results,
- 13:37Speaker 1: but no actual bigfoots right now, no one's ever found
- 13:40Speaker 1: a big foot. No one can present to biggs feet
- 13:43Speaker 1: a big big feet? Is that? Yeah? It takes an eye, right,
- 13:46Speaker 1: So it's it's from the Italian big feet. That's ready.
- 13:50Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, Okay, so there are a big feete.
- 13:55Speaker 1: But there are tuper carputers um. And the reason there
- 13:59Speaker 1: are tuperbras is that what people a chapter right, the
- 14:04Speaker 1: name goat sucker. And this this will shock you, Garrison,
- 14:08Speaker 1: especially that the way that they are sucking goats is
- 14:10Speaker 1: perhaps not the way you would expect. Interesting. Yeah, they're
- 14:14Speaker 1: very innovative in this regard. What is happening is people
- 14:16Speaker 1: are finding their goats, their chickens, their live stock, with
- 14:19Speaker 1: their throat ripped out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so it
- 14:22Speaker 1: is the way you would most animals need throats, right,
- 14:25Speaker 1: it's one of the parts that yeah, they're not interchangeable,
- 14:28Speaker 1: they're not. Yeah, they're really it's good to know. This
- 14:30Speaker 1: is all really important information. Yeah, so throat free goats, cattle,
- 14:35Speaker 1: cheap chickens tend not to survive very long. So a
- 14:38Speaker 1: lot of a lot of times people come out in
- 14:39Speaker 1: the morning find their animals throatless and dead. Yeah, you could.
- 14:45Speaker 1: You could call it a deep throating. That's where they
- 14:48Speaker 1: get it right deep in the throat. So they these
- 14:53Speaker 1: animals are dead, and the people claim that they're drained
- 14:57Speaker 1: of blood, which isn't quite true. But of course there's
- 14:59Speaker 1: there's only there's only two possible explanations, one obviously being
- 15:04Speaker 1: vampires um, the other being this being this cript creature.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Well only possible things that could be that Subercabra is
- 15:13Speaker 1: a vampire. It's okay, okay, okay, so yeah, that's where
- 15:16Speaker 1: the ven diagram overlaps. It's this kind of it's it's
- 15:19Speaker 1: got goat like legs actually, but then it's bipedal. It
- 15:22Speaker 1: has kind of a human torso and a sort of
- 15:25Speaker 1: lizard meets wolf face. It's okay, so we're we're virgin
- 15:29Speaker 1: and like Jersey devil vampire terror. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 15:33Speaker 1: but it prefers warmer climate. It doesn't like Jersey and frankly,
- 15:37Speaker 1: I mean me neither. So ye who doesn't think? Yeah, look,
- 15:41Speaker 1: I don't go east to New Mexico, and I don't
- 15:43Speaker 1: think anyone else should either. No, it doesn't. It doesn't
- 15:46Speaker 1: care for Bruce Springsteen, and it doesn't want to live
- 15:48Speaker 1: in New Jersey, so it stays out west. But it's
- 15:51Speaker 1: been reported all over the world. Actually. Now, the couple
- 15:56Speaker 1: of interesting things about these supercabra is one is that
- 15:58Speaker 1: people have found them, especially in Texas. Right, are you
- 16:01Speaker 1: familiar Robert with Texas blue dogs? No? Okay, I'll go
- 16:07Speaker 1: tell Robert something about Texas. So this lady, I don't
- 16:10Speaker 1: have her name right down here, she was a Texas nutritionist.
- 16:12Speaker 1: And but we do by the way, I will say,
- 16:14Speaker 1: when it comes to like cryptids people taught me about
- 16:17Speaker 1: in Texas, it was the chopercabra. Oh well yeah, we we.
- 16:21Speaker 1: I mean we're basically Mexico like yeah, yeah, not Ted Cruz,
- 16:24Speaker 1: who is the other famous Texas cripted Yeah, but unlike
- 16:29Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, this this tuper cabra had actually been to
- 16:31Speaker 1: a farm and it had been ripping out the throats
- 16:34Speaker 1: of these animals, right, And this lady had a problem
- 16:37Speaker 1: with with the animal's throats being ripped out. And then
- 16:40Speaker 1: one day she finds a corps of which she presumes
- 16:42Speaker 1: to be a chuper cabra. It is hairless, it looks
- 16:46Speaker 1: kind of like a dog, but it has pronounced glands
- 16:48Speaker 1: on its bumps, on its back, I guess, and it
- 16:51Speaker 1: has thick blue skin. Sorry, what why would you do,
- 16:54Speaker 1: Robert if you, if you were living in Texas you
- 16:57Speaker 1: come across a dead chuper cabra, I mean, fry it
- 17:01Speaker 1: up a little, you know. I hadn't even even some
- 17:05Speaker 1: green chili throw that ship on there and just kind
- 17:07Speaker 1: of friar. I haven't even makes sense that one didn't
- 17:11Speaker 1: even hit me, but yeah, having yeah, I know, there
- 17:13Speaker 1: was a couple of taco spots we went to in Texas,
- 17:15Speaker 1: which that might have been what was going on. Yeah,
- 17:17Speaker 1: you just get whatever can of me done man or
- 17:19Speaker 1: meets meat. Yep, so that's not what the study did.
- 17:22Speaker 1: She was a nutrition it is, perhaps so she was
- 17:24Speaker 1: a little little worried about nutritional content. She had it
- 17:27Speaker 1: stuffed and it's in her living room today. Okay, okay,
- 17:32Speaker 1: it's just like a coyote, like what like what what
- 17:34Speaker 1: is it? Well, that's an interesting question, isn't it. Garrison
- 17:37Speaker 1: is an interesting questions? Yes, what the what the blue
- 17:40Speaker 1: dog seems to be. It's some kind of hybrid of
- 17:42Speaker 1: a Mexican wolf and a coyote that has some kind
- 17:46Speaker 1: of mange which has made all its fall off. Nearly
- 17:51Speaker 1: all of the chupa cabras are are some sort of
- 17:53Speaker 1: canine with mange, because mange makes it look like a
- 17:57Speaker 1: fucking monster. Yeah, so like if you saw a giant
- 18:02Speaker 1: sphinx cat, you would also think that's the criptace. Yes, yeah,
- 18:06Speaker 1: and especially if they've been ripping the throats. Are you animals? Right?
- 18:09Speaker 1: Because these poor coyotes and feral dogs and search is
- 18:14Speaker 1: so weakened by the main so they can't prey on
- 18:17Speaker 1: wild animals, and so they tend to come. Okay, right,
- 18:21Speaker 1: it's pretty easy to catch chickens. You can get into
- 18:23Speaker 1: the coop, right, because they've got nowhere to go or
- 18:25Speaker 1: to catch goats. And so unfortunately, what's happening is that
- 18:30Speaker 1: these dogs, these various canids are getting mange and they
- 18:34Speaker 1: are unfortunately too weak to hunt, and so they're killing
- 18:37Speaker 1: things like captive goats and chickens. And that is where
- 18:39Speaker 1: the tupercarbra miss comes from. Going back to the bipedal
- 18:44Speaker 1: tupercarbra though, it's very interesting. That sounds a little bit
- 18:47Speaker 1: more fun. Yeah. So, in the year before the tuper
- 18:50Speaker 1: Carbra was seen, there was a film made in Puerto
- 18:53Speaker 1: Rico and it was called Species Oh man, Yeah, okay, okay.
- 19:00Speaker 1: So unfortunately, the the original eyewitness reports which began the
- 19:04Speaker 1: year after that film was released, Yeah, this I've heard,
- 19:08Speaker 1: they all perfectly described the creature. It's got the spines
- 19:12Speaker 1: on its back. Radford. Radford is a person doing right
- 19:15Speaker 1: in the book Radford said, the resemblance between the creature,
- 19:19Speaker 1: which is called Sill in the film, and the tuper
- 19:22Speaker 1: cabra is really impressive. So yeah, the the old quadrupedal
- 19:26Speaker 1: tuper cabra, it's a dog with Maine. The bipedal tuper
- 19:30Speaker 1: cabra seems to be exclusively explained by this this movie
- 19:36Speaker 1: and people's feelings about United States colonialism in Puerto Rico,
- 19:41Speaker 1: specifically the number of defense facilities and labs in the
- 19:45Speaker 1: un k Rainforest, and their feelings that maybe something like
- 19:47Speaker 1: this ship could come out of one of these US labs,
- 19:50Speaker 1: because if the US was developing a terrible creature that
- 19:53Speaker 1: sucked the blood of people, it would absolutely do it
- 19:55Speaker 1: in one of its colonial properties. Right, Yes, that entirely
- 19:59Speaker 1: makes sense. So there's there's in a sense, to chupa carbra,
- 20:02Speaker 1: according to Radford's theory, gives a physical manifestation of this
- 20:07Speaker 1: feeling of disgust with the the United States. And I
- 20:11Speaker 1: got a couple of other cryptids. I was going to
- 20:14Speaker 1: talk very briefly about the Beast of Procter Valley, and
- 20:18Speaker 1: then I want to talk about the Curse of Body,
- 20:20Speaker 1: which is a curse, not a cryptid, but First, Robert,
- 20:23Speaker 1: do you know which what will not ambush your lifetock
- 20:25Speaker 1: and rip its throat out? Um? I mean like a
- 20:29Speaker 1: like a good sheep dog wouldn't do that. That's right,
- 20:32Speaker 1: and that's why this episode is presented by border colleagues. Wow,
- 20:37Speaker 1: finally we finally got the big deal with the border collie. Yeah,
- 20:41Speaker 1: that's as real complex. That's good. Yep. Just use promo code,
- 20:46Speaker 1: Robert Evans when you're buying your border collie attempt and off.
- 20:49Speaker 1: Just walk up to a border collie and shout my
- 20:52Speaker 1: name in its face. Try to grab its food away
- 20:55Speaker 1: from it rapidly too. That's a good way to get
- 20:57Speaker 1: their attention and see what happens. Ye used to be herded. Yeah,
- 21:01Speaker 1: so see if it likes that. All right, we're back.
- 21:13Speaker 1: I hope you've all got your border collies because this
- 21:16Speaker 1: this next, this next crypted is it's a little local one. Okay,
- 21:19Speaker 1: So they're a crypted a bit like the Trouper carbro
- 21:21Speaker 1: all across the country. But the one that we have
- 21:24Speaker 1: closest to San Diego is called the Proctor Valley Beast.
- 21:27Speaker 1: And now to understand the Proctor Valley Beast, I think
- 21:30Speaker 1: you've got to understand Proctor Valley. Proctor Valley is exactly
- 21:33Speaker 1: the sort of dirt road that you go down when
- 21:35Speaker 1: you're sixteen years old when you want to go somewhere
- 21:38Speaker 1: with your date, pound a few beers and get away
- 21:40Speaker 1: from your parents. Right, these kind of exist all over
- 21:44Speaker 1: the country, all over the world probably, and there a
- 21:48Speaker 1: little closer. They're close enough to know about, but far
- 21:51Speaker 1: enough away to seem weird and distant. Right, And Proctor
- 21:55Speaker 1: Valley is a gravel road and you can drive down
- 21:58Speaker 1: at a regular carb. It's pretty washboarded. There's no lights,
- 22:00Speaker 1: there's no street lights, nothing like that. Right, these days,
- 22:04Speaker 1: your greatest danger when you're driving, riding a bike, or
- 22:07Speaker 1: walking or driving down Prompt Valdy Road is the Border
- 22:09Speaker 1: Patrol absolutely hauling ass in one of their Ford Raptors,
- 22:14Speaker 1: which they seem to have obtained. And I will never
- 22:17Speaker 1: understand their love for the Ford Raptor. Yeah it is.
- 22:21Speaker 1: I don't know how much those costs, but it is
- 22:23Speaker 1: an obscene amount of money to spend on a pickup truck. Well,
- 22:25Speaker 1: it's also like, look, if I'm going to be out
- 22:27Speaker 1: in the in the middle of nowhere and trusting an
- 22:30Speaker 1: off roading vehicle, my first pick is not going to
- 22:32Speaker 1: be the Ford goddamn rap. Well you've got to buy
- 22:34Speaker 1: American robot. Yeah. But the Border Patrol, of course they're
- 22:37Speaker 1: driving for it's unbelievable. Yeah. Well they always have a
- 22:40Speaker 1: predator drowne hanging out. It can come rescue him. Yeah. Yeah,
- 22:43Speaker 1: the Border Patrol and steroid abusers in my old neighborhood
- 22:48Speaker 1: in West l A. Shaking hands over the Ford Raptors. Yea,
- 22:52Speaker 1: Ford Raptors with illegal things. Yeah, Ford Raptors. The car
- 22:55Speaker 1: you can only drive if you have adult onset acne
- 22:58Speaker 1: caused as a result of actually hormones into your fucking
- 23:01Speaker 1: thigh every night. Yeah. They sell a lot of them
- 23:04Speaker 1: in the l A. Coming to Deny. Yeah, well you
- 23:07Speaker 1: already need one for, you know, getting down Beverly Hills.
- 23:09Speaker 1: But not the good hormones, like the ones you you
- 23:12Speaker 1: steal from the horses blood. Yeah. Yeah, the hormones you
- 23:16Speaker 1: take when you're wanting to be more match of but
- 23:19Speaker 1: maybe not quite, not quite achieving your gender insecurities. Okay,
- 23:22Speaker 1: So legend has it that young couple headed off down
- 23:25Speaker 1: Proctor Valley Road one night and their car broke down,
- 23:29Speaker 1: so the young man gets out this is a male
- 23:32Speaker 1: female couple, and he's going to fix the car, right,
- 23:35Speaker 1: And he says to the lady in a very chivalrous
- 23:37Speaker 1: way that she should lock the doors so she's safe. Right.
- 23:41Speaker 1: That's the last she hears him. So she assumes he's
- 23:44Speaker 1: gone off to get some help, and she nods off.
- 23:48Speaker 1: She's got the doorstops very safety knots off and she's
- 23:50Speaker 1: a welcome by a kind of scratching sound and the
- 23:52Speaker 1: winds howling. Every time the wind blows is a little
- 23:55Speaker 1: scratch on the roof. Scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch scratch, right,
- 23:58Speaker 1: wind noise. I'm not going to do the wind noise.
- 24:02Speaker 1: And she starts shooting herself right. She's very scared now.
- 24:05Speaker 1: Scratch scrat, scratch, win, win win, scratch scrat scratch. And
- 24:08Speaker 1: she stays there till sunshine when she's son up. When
- 24:12Speaker 1: she's woken up by the good people of the San
- 24:14Speaker 1: Diego Sheriff's Department, San Diego Sheriff's Department of shouting their
- 24:18Speaker 1: point of guns that they're doing their thing. Why are
- 24:20Speaker 1: they doing that? Because her boyfriend is hanging upside down,
- 24:24Speaker 1: dismembered from the tree above her and his nails are
- 24:27Speaker 1: catching the top of the car every time the wind
- 24:30Speaker 1: blows him. Right, he's been killed by the Procter Valley beast.
- 24:34Speaker 1: Now the producta valley beast is an animal of kind
- 24:37Speaker 1: of nondescript shape and size. The in the local radio
- 24:44Speaker 1: DJ organized a search for the Proctor Valley beast. Right,
- 24:48Speaker 1: people went out at night. Previously, the Proctor Valley beast.
- 24:51Speaker 1: Most of the stories it kind of looked like a
- 24:53Speaker 1: kind of winged, bipedal, half human, gobbling creature. It changed
- 24:58Speaker 1: in form in the seventies when people conducting it's just
- 25:03Speaker 1: kind of a teen radio thing. In the seventies, right,
- 25:05Speaker 1: people conducting the search reported finding a deranged cow. Okay,
- 25:10Speaker 1: the cow was probably not directed. The cow is just sleeping. Yeah.
- 25:14Speaker 1: I've known more cows than most people. I grew up
- 25:18Speaker 1: on a cow farm. I've seen them behave in a
- 25:20Speaker 1: variety of ways. I've never seen one appeared deranged. That's
- 25:23Speaker 1: because they're moving very quickly. Sometimes they're scared, sometimes they're sick.
- 25:28Speaker 1: Deranged is an interesting because cows don't really have enough
- 25:30Speaker 1: going on up there to be deranged. Because you didn't
- 25:33Speaker 1: grow up in the United Kingdom in a certain period
- 25:35Speaker 1: of time, Robert, when our cows became mad. Well, but
- 25:38Speaker 1: that's still I've I've seen cows that have mad cow
- 25:41Speaker 1: disease and they're like, they're ill, but they're I don't know, yeah,
- 25:45Speaker 1: they're they're not like yeah, yeah, that's they're like getting
- 25:50Speaker 1: the name of their eldest daughter, and like as they
- 25:54Speaker 1: lose their way home going on violent rampages, they're not
- 25:58Speaker 1: asking where their husband, who died twenty three years ago
- 26:01Speaker 1: is when they wake up in the middle of the
- 26:03Speaker 1: night anyway, a senile cow that they have to go.
- 26:07Speaker 1: They go and live on a farm when they get
- 26:09Speaker 1: all the cats. Why you haven't seen him, Robert, I
- 26:11Speaker 1: sure do like that, young Rodal Reagan. My cowboys. Yeah, yeah,
- 26:16Speaker 1: they they get they get, Oh, they forget things. They
- 26:19Speaker 1: vote for Donald Trump, they do a fascism. That's what
- 26:22Speaker 1: happens to cows is the only ways cows can die.
- 26:24Speaker 1: Otherwise they live very happy and fulfilled lives in the countryside.
- 26:28Speaker 1: So why why do we have this proct valley bes right?
- 26:30Speaker 1: Why is there a mad cow that murdered a young
- 26:33Speaker 1: man who was it was out late that with a
- 26:37Speaker 1: young woman. No one, No one knows who this young
- 26:40Speaker 1: man is right. I did trauma best to find reports
- 26:43Speaker 1: of any murders in Prompt Valley. And of course it
- 26:46Speaker 1: won't surprise you to learn that we have in fact
- 26:48Speaker 1: discovered dead bodies in Promptic Valley, because unfortunately, Proptic Valley
- 26:51Speaker 1: is just a few miles from the border, and and
- 26:55Speaker 1: I've spent quite a lot of time out in that area,
- 26:57Speaker 1: and that unfortunately, the people that we are finding their
- 27:00Speaker 1: Proctor Valley haven't been killed by deranged cow or a
- 27:02Speaker 1: bipedal beast, but in fact by the elements rights people
- 27:07Speaker 1: trying to cross the border and find a better life
- 27:09Speaker 1: for themselves and not making it as far as the
- 27:12Speaker 1: dirt road which leads to a small town, which leads
- 27:14Speaker 1: to a big road, which leads to a big town
- 27:15Speaker 1: that is close to there. And so what the Proctor
- 27:21Speaker 1: Valley Beast is a myth that serves to tell kids
- 27:24Speaker 1: to not drive down dirt roads late at night on
- 27:26Speaker 1: their own, right. It's two kids, fun your parents. Yeah, absolutely,
- 27:31Speaker 1: fucking send it. Your mediata can handle it, Get off road,
- 27:36Speaker 1: do some drifting. What's the worst that could happen? Maybe,
- 27:40Speaker 1: if you're out there, take a gallon of water, and
- 27:43Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'm not going to say that because there
- 27:46Speaker 1: might be a crime. Yeah, we can cut that. I
- 27:49Speaker 1: was going to say, a hand down with a single
- 27:51Speaker 1: bullet in case you get stuck off road, a silver
- 27:54Speaker 1: bullet and yeah, and a nail to hit it with.
- 27:57Speaker 1: So the last, the last case I want to get
- 27:59Speaker 1: to you is the Curse of Body State Historic Park.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Do you know, Joe, what at is? Robert? No, When
- 28:05Speaker 1: you said Body, I thought immediately about the movie Point Break. Okay,
- 28:09Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. Oh well that's okay, that Garrison
- 28:12Speaker 1: you've seen it. Point I'm sorry, I forgot this is
- 28:18Speaker 1: the Point Break. This is an audio medium. Yeah, I
- 28:21Speaker 1: can't shake my head. No, No, I'm not seen Point Break.
- 28:24Speaker 1: You haven't seen Point Break? Oh my god, Oh my god.
- 28:27Speaker 1: I watched the filmmaker's previous, far superior film that will
- 28:32Speaker 1: not be named. This is that like one person will
- 28:36Speaker 1: get who Well, we're gonna have to watch Point Break.
- 28:39Speaker 1: But there's a guy named Body on it and he
- 28:41Speaker 1: is kind of a crypted interesting so there Body has
- 28:44Speaker 1: a bit of a problem, right, Body is robbing all
- 28:48Speaker 1: those those banks anyway, this story does involve some robbing.
- 28:52Speaker 1: Oh good, Yeah, but I have a bit of theft
- 28:54Speaker 1: on the podcast. So what happened in Body is Body's
- 28:59Speaker 1: got a problem, right, But he has a problem specifically
- 29:01Speaker 1: with mail, because almost every week when the rangers from
- 29:05Speaker 1: Body travel into town to get the mail, they have
- 29:09Speaker 1: to collect half a dozen or so little packages containing
- 29:12Speaker 1: little things like rocks, pizzas of wood, fragments of pottery,
- 29:15Speaker 1: or coins. And all of those little packages have letters
- 29:18Speaker 1: attached to them, and I'm going to read from some
- 29:20Speaker 1: of those letters. Please find enclosed one weather beating an
- 29:25Speaker 1: old shoe. The shoe was removed from Body during the
- 29:28Speaker 1: months of August. My trail of misfortune is so long
- 29:32Speaker 1: and depressing it can't be listed here. Another one. You
- 29:35Speaker 1: can have these god forsaken rocks back. I've never had
- 29:38Speaker 1: so much rotten luck in my life. Please forgive me
- 29:41Speaker 1: for ever testing the curse of Body. Okay, so what
- 29:46Speaker 1: we got here, what we got here is a curse, right,
- 29:49Speaker 1: just a good old fashioned If you steal something from
- 29:52Speaker 1: the town, the town will come back and hurt you, right, Yeah,
- 29:56Speaker 1: And so Body popped up in the late nineteenth century
- 30:00Speaker 1: gold Rush rights in between Mono Lake a Lake Tahoe.
- 30:04Speaker 1: They it's it's named after a gold prospector, there was
- 30:08Speaker 1: some gold found there. In fact, at its height, body
- 30:11Speaker 1: hosted around ten thousand people, right, And for those ten
- 30:14Speaker 1: thousand people, there were sixty saloons, which is a pretty
- 30:18Speaker 1: good ratio. There's multiple documented gunfights on the main street.
- 30:22Speaker 1: But it seems like the stereotypical wild West town that
- 30:25Speaker 1: after the gold rushers are over, it wasn't such a
- 30:27Speaker 1: great place to live, so people abandoned it. And it's
- 30:31Speaker 1: now managed by the California Park Service, right, And the
- 30:34Speaker 1: California Park Service curates this ghost town in arrested decay
- 30:38Speaker 1: so that people can come and see this little slice
- 30:40Speaker 1: of history. And there's a lot we can learn from these,
- 30:44Speaker 1: like these places that have been abandoned, right, we can
- 30:46Speaker 1: learn a lot about the history of everyday life, like
- 30:49Speaker 1: what things do people have in their kitchen? Why with
- 30:51Speaker 1: this next to that? Why is there a knife here?
- 30:54Speaker 1: Why is why the beer bottles kept here? There's a
- 30:57Speaker 1: lot that historians can learn over time that they might
- 30:59Speaker 1: not find initially. So it's important to keep these things
- 31:02Speaker 1: in really pristine condition. Right. The problem that they had
- 31:07Speaker 1: was once they opened the park, you could just walk
- 31:10Speaker 1: around town, right, It's not like a museum there aren't
- 31:12Speaker 1: a little ropes that there aren't plexiglass dividece keeping you
- 31:16Speaker 1: away from stuff, and people took that as an invitation
- 31:18Speaker 1: to steal ship, and steal ship they did so. The
- 31:25Speaker 1: park's ranger, who I cannot find the name of anywhere,
- 31:29Speaker 1: but at some point a park ranger giving the walking
- 31:32Speaker 1: tours around Body, started telling people about this legendary curse.
- 31:37Speaker 1: And this curse, he said, made it so that anyone
- 31:40Speaker 1: who took anything from Body would be pursued by bad
- 31:43Speaker 1: luck for the rest of their life. Didn't really think
- 31:46Speaker 1: anything which didn't want people to steal ship, right, And
- 31:49Speaker 1: as a result, hundreds of people who had stolen things
- 31:52Speaker 1: from Body started returning them in their mail. Right. They're
- 31:56Speaker 1: blaming everything from cellulitis, cancer, failed relationships, so on the
- 32:00Speaker 1: thing that they stole from body. That this would just
- 32:03Speaker 1: be funny if it wasn't for the fact that every
- 32:07Speaker 1: single one of these items has been stolen from a
- 32:09Speaker 1: protected site. Right. The Park Service has now set itself
- 32:14Speaker 1: up with this huge administrative burden, which is reporting a
- 32:18Speaker 1: theft for every single shoe or piece of glass or
- 32:22Speaker 1: button that's stolen from body, So it's taking up a
- 32:26Speaker 1: huge in order amount of their time, and they no
- 32:28Speaker 1: longer will speak. I've tried to reach out. I didn't
- 32:31Speaker 1: get a response. I did. I did drop them a
- 32:33Speaker 1: Facebook message on their page trying to trying to talk
- 32:36Speaker 1: to someone about this. But they no longer talk about
- 32:38Speaker 1: the curse because it's created such a burden for them,
- 32:42Speaker 1: filing police reports and all these buttons. This is the
- 32:46Speaker 1: actual curse that they did themselves. Like this is this
- 32:49Speaker 1: is how most curses actually work. That you just actually
- 32:53Speaker 1: like the effect is what you turned the thing into
- 32:58Speaker 1: and now you're forced to all the police reports and
- 33:00Speaker 1: that's the actual effect of the curse. Yeah, I think
- 33:03Speaker 1: it's wonderful. I think it's great that they made just
- 33:05Speaker 1: this rod for their own bag. You know, you know
- 33:08Speaker 1: what won't curse you with cancer or sell you litis? Garrison,
- 33:12Speaker 1: I cannot There's there's a lot of weird stuff that
- 33:17Speaker 1: Excellent mobile will give you cancer. Yeah. Well, the gold
- 33:21Speaker 1: that we're about to plug, that's totally totally said. You
- 33:24Speaker 1: can huff that gold, you can melt it down, dip
- 33:26Speaker 1: your hand in, get a gold plate at hand, totally fine,
- 33:30Speaker 1: lick it, lick it, pop it. You know, it's that
- 33:34Speaker 1: to Garrison, sure. Shame was incredibly popular when I was
- 33:39Speaker 1: a kid. It was like everywhere. Alright, we're back and
- 33:53Speaker 1: having well received our little bags of gold for that
- 33:56Speaker 1: plug we did. Yep, I have mine right here. I
- 33:59Speaker 1: like to keep it with me in case the ship
- 34:02Speaker 1: hits the fan. I'm buried. I've buried mine in the
- 34:05Speaker 1: middle of the Organ desert. Smart, I've buried a couple
- 34:09Speaker 1: of things in the middle of the Oregon desert, none
- 34:12Speaker 1: of them gold. Well, that was a big sense on
- 34:16Speaker 1: your definition of gold. Bigfoot to arm pit, that's what
- 34:20Speaker 1: you buried out in your definition of that guy started
- 34:24Speaker 1: a barbershop in whatever. Continue Okay, yeah, yeah, we don't
- 34:27Speaker 1: need to talk about that on the podcast. Thanks Dan.
- 34:30Speaker 1: We don't want any more Robert's felonies on on Maine,
- 34:34Speaker 1: since only a felony if the police find the body,
- 34:38Speaker 1: that's true, But maybe you could put put some sh
- 34:40Speaker 1: it out there about a curse related to the body. Yeah,
- 34:44Speaker 1: I give it some Maine, yeah, and then stuff it.
- 34:48Speaker 1: So why why do we have curses encrypted? Obviously partly
- 34:53Speaker 1: because it's just fucking fun, and partly because some of
- 34:59Speaker 1: our beliefs, right, like if we if we look at
- 35:00Speaker 1: Dirk him or what Dirk him thought religion worth Religion
- 35:03Speaker 1: is kind of an outgrowth of society that unites people
- 35:06Speaker 1: based on a moral code. Right, and functionalists more broadly
- 35:10Speaker 1: in sociology, believe that these beliefs serve and function in society.
- 35:15Speaker 1: And I think a lot of these things help us
- 35:17Speaker 1: explain things that we can't otherwise explain, or give a
- 35:23Speaker 1: more palatable explanation for things that we don't care to explain, right,
- 35:28Speaker 1: or things and and like in nearly all of these cases,
- 35:33Speaker 1: there are things that ripped children away from their mothers.
- 35:36Speaker 1: There's another Mexican like shape shifting, which that ripped children
- 35:40Speaker 1: away from their mothers. Right. Unfortunately, there are things that
- 35:44Speaker 1: RiPP children away from their mothers, and your taxpayer dollars
- 35:47Speaker 1: pay for them. Right, But it it works a little
- 35:50Speaker 1: better to explain things that we don't that don't fit
- 35:53Speaker 1: with our other systems of belief through Like if we
- 35:57Speaker 1: fundamentally believe right that that I know that that the
- 36:00Speaker 1: world is good in capitalism is wonderful, and that gradually
- 36:03Speaker 1: things will trickle down so that everyone gets richer of
- 36:05Speaker 1: the rich get richer first, it can become very hard
- 36:08Speaker 1: to explain the state of the world unless you are
- 36:11Speaker 1: a member of the Conservative and Union As Party of
- 36:13Speaker 1: Great Britain and Northern Ireland of course, And so instead
- 36:17Speaker 1: we create these external things, right, these things that go
- 36:21Speaker 1: bump in the night, So sometimes they can be a
- 36:23Speaker 1: proxy for external forces, right. The chuper Cabra in a
- 36:28Speaker 1: way kind of explains as we get closer to nature
- 36:31Speaker 1: and nature pushes back on us a little bit, that
- 36:34Speaker 1: why that happens, right, rather than just saying what funk
- 36:37Speaker 1: we've given all these cooties Maine? How that? How on
- 36:39Speaker 1: earth are we in a state where there's a blue
- 36:40Speaker 1: dog walking around the The tuper caabre also serves as
- 36:45Speaker 1: a way to kind of personify for people in Puerto Rico,
- 36:47Speaker 1: either consciously or unconsciously, that the terrible impact of the
- 36:51Speaker 1: United States colonialism there right, which it's not very hard
- 36:54Speaker 1: to see, and even the Proctor Valley beast right that
- 36:58Speaker 1: says stay away from this dark road near the border
- 37:01Speaker 1: late at night. There were reasons to stay away from there,
- 37:05Speaker 1: but unfortunately there are there are also reasons to go
- 37:08Speaker 1: there and try and help people who are genuinely suffering,
- 37:11Speaker 1: and lots of people I know going go and leave
- 37:13Speaker 1: water out there. So these curses, they kind of let
- 37:18Speaker 1: credit scores right. They're not real, but they can sometimes
- 37:20Speaker 1: ruin your life, and so sometimes it's just easier to
- 37:24Speaker 1: pretend that it's magic doing that rather than its overarching
- 37:28Speaker 1: global system, which is not very nice. And that's kind
- 37:32Speaker 1: of where I want to finish up. I guess is this.
- 37:36Speaker 1: These are ways to explain things that we can't always explain,
- 37:38Speaker 1: and that's that's sometimes okay, because sometimes it can be
- 37:41Speaker 1: hard to confront these things. You've got anything else you
- 37:45Speaker 1: want to say about cryptids, Robert, I don't know. Um.
- 37:49Speaker 1: I think if you're in an industry that's adjacent to
- 37:53Speaker 1: illegal drugs and you murder someone in the woods, it's
- 37:56Speaker 1: probably a good idea to blame it on Bigfoot. So
- 37:59Speaker 1: that would be my advice for our listeners is to
- 38:01Speaker 1: blame your crimes on bigfoot. M hmm, I don't know.
- 38:05Speaker 1: Do you guys believe in Bigfoot? Let's let's end by
- 38:07Speaker 1: talking about that, like like actually like believe in the
- 38:12Speaker 1: physical ape like thing that's been dustly undiscovered that rooms
- 38:18Speaker 1: in force, say ape like Garrison primate, I think doesn't
- 38:23Speaker 1: necessarily mean ape like sure primate probably, and I do
- 38:28Speaker 1: I do do not do not think that there's a
- 38:31Speaker 1: physical one exists. Now. I think, like we've mentioned before,
- 38:36Speaker 1: like the words you know, you can say like a
- 38:38Speaker 1: curse isn't really, but it can still have effects based
- 38:40Speaker 1: on how we talk about it and how like we
- 38:43Speaker 1: can kind of make it real by our own actions.
- 38:46Speaker 1: And the same thing like I don't think bigfoot of
- 38:48Speaker 1: the primate exists, but as a cultural symbol that has
- 38:51Speaker 1: impact based it is real in some way. Um, but
- 38:55Speaker 1: it's not like not like except for I would say
- 39:00Speaker 1: it is real in a physical way. Um. And uh,
- 39:04Speaker 1: have you seen a big foot robber? Are you gonna
- 39:06Speaker 1: this is this way you drop in your big foot?
- 39:08Speaker 1: I actually I actually have. I've seen a couple. I've
- 39:11Speaker 1: seen a couple of large animals out in the woods.
- 39:14Speaker 1: I seen weird in the woods. I don't think I'm
- 39:17Speaker 1: not comfortable calling it a bigfoot, but well I am
- 39:20Speaker 1: weird weird things in the woods certainly. Certainly. Yeah, I've
- 39:24Speaker 1: seen a lot of weird things in the woods and
- 39:27Speaker 1: all of them were bigfoot, as far as has anyone
- 39:30Speaker 1: has ever been able to convince me. Um. And you know,
- 39:35Speaker 1: when you get right down to it, isn't that what
- 39:38Speaker 1: Christmas is all about Yes, half Happy Halloween, and Happy
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