Ladies and gentlemen, hants and tickets, goblins and grogos, put your hands
together for the opening episode of the twenty sixteen Miss scrypt u god Oha.
Opening ceremonies provided by that guy whose a state might sue us. Ladies and
gentlemen, we have a great year of Yi's lined up for you, elegant
ladies, all of them, each and every one a treasure and atrocious from
poisonous claws to slobbering jaws, We've got them all here on the twenty sixteen
Misscrypted Contest. Low key this time, all right, Okay. We've spanned
the globe seeking out the most beautiful and by beautiful, miming, repugnant,
and terrifying examples of crypto biology. Tonight we bring you three mysterious creatures shrouded
in myth, sometimes covered it in trails, from the oil fields of Arkansas
to the misty moors of England and also the sweltering jungles of Indonesia. Masters
Dave and David have brought to you some of the finest examples of cryptozoology known
and unknown. Tonight your journey begins, or today or tomorrow or to yesterday.
Your journey started. You got it right. Now you're on a You're
in a go cart and it's on a track. The seatbelt barely works,
and that helmet smells funny. But do they rules? Are rules? Please
stop standing on the gas pedal and it doesn't make it go faster. They
top out at like fifteen miles per hour. Seriously, you can't will it
to go fest crush your hands if you let them outside, Mister Flora,
mister Stecko, I think it's time to meet the first lovely Lady of the
evening. For Week one, we have the Ashole also known as the Ahul,
from Java in Indonesia, from Cornwall, England, the owl Man who,
the owl Man oh and from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the gal
Rowl. So let's begin Week one of the twenty sixteen Miss krypted con Hi,
everybody, I'm your host, David Flora. I'm your co host to
Dave Stecco. Good evening. We've been hitting the complimentary bar quite heavily,
and I think we're finally ready. I've been availing myself of all the free
water I could find. Guys, I'm totally hydrated. Hey, welcome to
the twenty sixteen, Miss cryptic contest. Yeah, that's right, for reals,
Yeah, that's for real foolery. I'm sick of the pomp. I'm
sick of the circumstance. Now it's just time for some real serious, deep
crypto action. Let us start. Let's let's launch into this. Let's get
into this, and then at the end of it, we'll tell you get
out of it. The rules. Yeah, for how you can participate in
this glorious prize filled process, prize filled democracy. Now, remember it's a
caucus, So get together with all the rest of the people in your area,
all the lunatics, all the idiots, everyone does, everyone without a
day job. Yeah, and your vote won't matter anyway. It's whoever wait,
pick money. Yeah, Flora and I are the super delegates. All
right, who's kicking this thing off? Let's start with that athhole, the
white you're trying to tell me that the first contestant is just them athhole from
Indonesia. Man, you can keep this myth cryptic contest, thank you,
celebrity judge iced tea. Man, it's no problem. Oh that's right.
Uh this uh, this first contestant is the Ahu sometimes known as sometimes known
as I'm guessing it's atole, but it's spelled athhole at hoel athel death right,
man, look at that athol the thought that's what I'm trying to tell
you, the athole in the jungle these uh. This is a large bat
like creature native to the Jungles of Java in Indonesia. It's said to have
a wingspan of three meters, it's around twelve feet and have a height of
almost one and a half meters it's four and a half feet tall. While
some claim it is a gar gunchin bat, others say it's some kind of
flying primate, not necessarily a monkey bat, but maybe bot be monkey bat,
monkey baby, monkey bat bat bat bee. Also could just be an
immature bat squatch, could be. It has a long snout on a chimp's
face, huh, has dark eyes, red skinned wings, claws on its
forearms and feet, a long, thick crest of raised hair, and is
covered in gray fur now flora. When when did this this flying nightmare show
up on the scene. Well, a little while ago, twenty minutes ago.
We're coming up on the hundredth anniversary. Soon, We're like, just
pass the ninetieth dude, closer to one hundred than fifty. That is not
how numbers work, how everything works. It was first reported in nineteen twenty
five when a zoologist named Ernest Bartles was conducting field research regarding the listing of
new species of birds in the waterfalls in the mountains of Salac on Java.
There's a lot of volcanic activity, or old volcanoes and volcanoes fresh and young
too. Well. There's also a lot of vulcan nick activity around there.
Mister Salac Mountain, whilst recording some data, something flew over him, an
apparent bat like animal, unlike anything he'd ever seen. Later investigations by the
encrypti zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson included reports on sightings of this creature, especially
among the natives. Apparently they already knew the animal and treated it as one
more of its fauna. Just another thing in the woods, the white your
thing. It's just another athol, Just another athol running around the woods.
Man. I'm never getting tired of this joke. They are said to feed
on fish and the occasional humor. One interesting note is that although the descriptions
of the animal are very similar according to witnesses, the proportions are sometimes varied,
as some claim that it can measure as much as a grown man,
while others say it's size it's much smaller, like a toddler. Flying toddlers
are more scary to me than flying grown man. Flying toddlers are athols.
I don't know. I feel like, I mean, giant fruit bats might
be in that may giant bats maybe at that point, monkeys also jump from
tree to tree. It could be sailing overhead and appear to be flying.
Yeah, at that point, it's just how is it not a giant bat
of some type? You know, Like that's a that's a pretty largely unexplored
area still, isn't it. Yeah, it's to get in there, yeah,
And and they do find things in those forests that no one thought were
there. So I kind of feel like with this one could lean more towards
a real thing out there, just yeah, bigger than what we're used to
bat species or like a flying squirrel, but of the raccoon size variety,
flying pandas, flying flying red pandas. That would be cool. Yeah,
to have a whole new thing as opposed to just oh, it's just a
bigger bat than than We don't need a bigger bat people. What we need
is something new and awesome. We need we need one in flying raccoon monkey
things. Yeah, what do you think I dig it? I in that
part of the world. I'll say this, I don't doubt that these people
all saw something, and I think that it's it's kind of a horse race
as to what it could be. There are lots of small monk keys,
there's orangutans, you know, there's lots of things that can go whipping through
the air over someone. And they do have pretty large bats there too,
I don't I don't know if they have the the titular giant bats there,
I don't know. And also, you know, we we've run into this
thousand times. It's hard to tell when something's in the air how far it
is from you, Yeah, the perspective on it and how big it is
and stuff. Although I feel like maybe this one gets a little bit because
I mean it's jungle, so there's got to be a trees all around a
lot, so maybe it's a yeah. But if it's you know, if
it's going over a clearing or something, could be hard to tell the exact
size because you're not sure how far it is In our Thunderbirds episode, we
reference the roping, which is I think in nearby. It's in an island
nearby. I forget if it's Papua New Guinea or an island down around there.
But the locals, we're talking about this creature that more resembled a taridon
yeah than a bat. But it's something that the locals swear, you know,
is is just another animal the of the area. But to us who
haven't seen catalogued scientifically torn it apart, it doesn't currently exist, right what
I mean? So I you know that they connect the Ahul and all these
athols to rope and and things in that area. I don't know, It's
just it's another thing where natives are like, yeah, it's here, we
we everybody knows about it. Why don't you know about it? Yeah?
But you know, people say the same thing about angels. You know,
I don't know who who's who says saying I mean, you could you could
run into a person that was like, oh, yeah, well there's angels
or you know, fairies. You know, they say that. I'm not
saying okay, I'm saying that it's hard to tell if they are describing a
belief held through storytelling or if they're describing something that. Yeah, no,
I do run into these things sometimes it's hard. It's just hard to tell.
Yeah, yeah, it's my point. I got you. I thought
it was like a regional thing. I was like like Georgia. Anyways,
that Ladies and gentlemen is your first contestant. It is the apol as known
as the ahu up. Next, where are you flying us too? Next?
Dave did Jolio Danglin Oi ya just toying a mate off friendly Almon.
The Awlman, also known as the Cornish Alman or the Alman of Monon.
This is a human bird man, cited several times recently in the village of
Monon, Cornwall, England. Man. I don't know Cornish accent, so
I can't even attempt it, right, I don't. Sorry, Sorry,
guys, Yeah, it'll just have to be stereotypical English for you. The
first sightings of the almon occurred around April nineteen seventy six, when Don Melling
and his daughters John de Melling I was I was at in England and my
daughters man to June that she was twelve back then, Vicky here, she's
nine years old. This character comes from the Andy Daily podcast pilot project.
Or also, I mean he's been a comedy bang bang, it's Andy Daily's
character. We're stealing it. So it's a fun great um. Anyway,
they were on easter break. It's so Don Demelling and his daughter's June and
Vicki, twelve and nine, were on easter break. Other girls were walking
through the woods when they saw a creature described as look up, big man
with flapping way. He's mad with flapping wings. They wasn't look a big
man daddy big flapping wings did. Don took the frightening kids to the police,
but declined an interview, opting instead to have them draw the creature separately.
The drawings were very similar, and the family cut their break short three
days to bug her off back home to Lancashire. That's that's funny. He
was like, let's go to the police, but don't talk to them,
right. But he also was like, I want this right. Separate the
girls. See if there's stories match, See if the stories match. I
want to see if this is just a jape at all expense. I want
to see if they're having a laugh, having a bit of fun. You're
having laugh girls, No, we're not having a laugh. Later that year,
two fourteen year old girls, one Sally Chapman and Barbara Perry captain in
a vicinity of the church and a hissing sound In turn to see a figure.
It looked like an owl as big as a man, and they described
it dusty. It was not a big owl a port it is big as
a man. In mind it was your eyes were red and glowing. At
first I thought it was someone dressed up, paying a joke, having a
bit of a laugh and having laughed, trying to scare us. Well,
I laughed at it. We had a laugh, we both did, and
then it went up in the air. We both screamed. When it went
up, you could see its feet were locked. Pincers, classic pincers classic.
Sorry, everybody, I just I just kept doing that voice. Remember
they were teenagers. Oh yeah, you know those Cornwall girls. They've got
that stare like cornish look. Paranormal researcher named Tony Shields had them draw their
sightings, and their drawings were also very similar. A few days later,
another sighting occurred by another girl saying it has red slanting eyes in a very
large mouth. The feathers are silvery gray, and so is body and legs.
The feet are like a big black crab's clothes. Maybe frightened at the
time, it was so strange, not something out of the whole film.
After the thing went up, they were crackling sounds in the tree tops for
ages. Oh, mother, we made it all up just because we read
about these things. But it's not true. We really saw the birdman,
though. It could have been someone playing a trick in a very good custom
and makeup. But who could rise up like that? If we imagined it,
then we both imagined it at the same time. After that, the
sightings thinned out, but in nineteen eighty six Shields so did the listeners of
this episode. Sightings thinned out, but in nineteen eighty six Shields was accused
of hoaxing the encounters. In nineteen eighty nine, a man going by the
name of Gavin and his girl friend Classic hover Hander claimed you have seen a
creature about five feet tall. The legs had high ankles, and the feet
were large and black, with two huge toes. On the visible side.
The creature was gray with brown and the eyes definitely glowed. Of that we
are quite certain definitely, they're more definitely a glowing A glowery was. In
nineteen ninety five, a female tourist for Chicago sent a letter to the local
newspaper, the Western Morning News in nearby Truro. It said, Dear Sir,
I am a student of marine biology at the Field Museum in Chicago.
On a last day of summer vacation in England last Sunday evening, I had
a most unique and frightening experience in a wooded area here the old Church in
Mounting Cernwall. I experienced what I can only describe hiss, a vision from
hell. The time was fifteen minutes after nine more or less, and I
was about I was walking along in a narrow track through the trees. I
was all fitting my tracks, when about thirty meters ahead, that's like a
thirty yards or so, I saw a monstrous man birthday. It was the
size of dica, with a ghastly face, a widemouth lowing ice, and
pointed ears. It had used claude wings and was covered in fetters of a
silver gray color. The thing he had long bird legs, was terminated and
in large black class. He saw me in rows floating I see in quotes
towards me. I just screamed and turned and ran for my life. The
whole experience was totally irrational and dreamlight Lincoln nightmare. My friends tell me that
there is a tradition of a phantom alman in that district. Now and in
a way, they told me that I've seen the phantom myself, Police ont
publish with my real name and address. This could adversely affect my career.
Now I have to rethink my quote unquote worldview entirely. Yours very sincerely scared,
Yeah, wn Tommy Trobiowski. Also, I'm a girl, Linda Trois
Dammi Trobiowski. I think that's pretty funny. Have you ever heard of someone
being a student at the Field Museum, No and studying marine biology there?
Yeah? That none of that makes sense. It's like saying I'm a culinary
student at the Louver Yeah right, yeah, like no one, you don't
no one studies there? Do they teach classes? Do they? Maybe?
Ninety five? Yeah? Before our time, Dammy Trobiowski is the guest and
the knocking a few back, you know, just to take the edge off,
and then she starts telling tales. I believe it. Here's some other
odd phenomena. During the spring of nineteen seventy six, the weathering Cornwall went
through extreme shifts between unusual heat and cold snaps. Animals started behaving strangely,
and there are reports of packs of dogs and cats and birds terrorizing people.
In a edition, there was an upsurge in UFO reports around the countryside.
Was also suggested that the church may be built on a lay line. Oh
yo, we did that, which is a line that passes through you know,
it links ancient sites with mystic energy. And Jim jam uh And speculated
that the appearance of the alman may be a manifestation of earth energy in that
place. So that kind of gets a little bothmanny, you know, like
harbinish, yeah ish, I don't know, or as we said, could
have been straight up hoaxed by shields, or it could have been escaped you
know from uh from the circus, from zoos or circuses secret British landed gentry
societies. Yeah, al yeah, I'll tell you what. I don't trust
Tammy's story. I don't either, Yeah, from that first sentence. It's
fun to think of it being like a lay line guardian or something. Yeah,
but or like like the like how much we love talking about or me
talking about rifts. Maybe it's something coming through their aft. I wonder if
there's anything too that weird stuff going on in UH seventy six. Yeah,
it sounds like there was just I mean, and who's to say what was
the initial thing? Was it that the u the upticking, the uptick in
UFO activity was affecting the weather other way around where the shifts creating weird uh
climate tingistions that made optical effects. You know there's I mean, like where
where what's the what's the cause and what's the effect and what's the arrow of
Yeah? Could it have been like an eagle owl in particular, like a
just a big owl that maybe maybe he was getting affected by whatever the weird
weather stuff was going on that was causing all the dogs and the cats to
fuck you know. Maybe there's a gigant or owl that was that was like
you know what, I want'll go to church and I want to scare little
girls. Yeah, there it is just girls that saw it. Who the
girls? Who? That's the albument for you last certainly not least well you'll
determine that the gal raw ya raw raw. This is a creature of Arkansas
folklore. Wait, did we finally get into an Arkansas folk myths? Is
a straight up Arkansas folk We have threatened it forever. That may be more
tall till than Krypton. It was a dragon like animal twenty feet long,
with tusks and a row of small horn spikes down its back. Its tail
was long and thin and ended in a blade shaped spike. Sweet. It
was reported in the Arkansas Gazette on January thirty first, eighteen ninety seven.
The story went, wait, wait, at this point, you gotta queue
up like some jangly eighteen some pianny from like a saloon bar. Yeah,
I got some piani in there. Nice story with it. William Miller,
a little Rock businessman who had been traveling in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas,
told of a whole a monster known as the gal Row. Its name came
from the noise it made during its nocturnal depredations gross the creature. The creature
had been slaughtering livestock and pits near Blanco in Searcy County in calf Creek Township.
Miller formed a posse that tracked the gal raw to its layer. What
a time to be alive when every problem is solved with a Posset's how you
do it. If only only we had that these days, I'll bet you.
You know, like, there were certain communities that were like, hey,
guys, you know I get it. When we first moved here,
everyone was real excited, But can we can we can we lower the number
of posses? Well, Dale hedgens, you know he's gonna call posse the
man he hears something happened. He's just posse crazy. I'm like, can
you can't someone talk him out of it? Hits his right and everyone hates
Dale because he's like, let's get a posse. They're like, I really
just wanted to stay home tonight, Dale, Ah, right in the middle
of dinner, there's the posse bill going about. They formed a posse that
tracked the Galeru to its lair, a cave littered with animal skeletons and even
some human remains. As they waited to ambush the monster, they heard it
emerge from a nearby lake, causing the earth to tremble as it made its
way toward him. The garrow perished after several volleys from the posse Before its
death, it ripped up several trees and tore off the leg of one of
the posse members. Miller claimed to have sent the body to the Smithsonian Institution,
but it never arrived at the Washington, DC Museum, now the Ozark
Research of folklore collector Vance Rudolph Field additional details about the gowrow which he believed
had been reported as early as the eighteen eighties. Randolph's sources suggested that the
Gowerrowl was a species of creature rather than an individual monstrosity. The young hatch
from soft shelled eggs as large as beer kegs, and the mother carried newly
hatched infants in a pouch. Randolph related a story about an encounter with a
Gowerrawl by a spelunker exploring Devil's Hole in Boone County. Wait Wire, Boone
County. Holy. So this is just a best friend of the Woodnot it
looks like it, especially if the uh I won't know how they have come
there having been a wood snot myth crypted yet you answer me that fifth man.
I am not a scienceman. You're just too busy hating on rich folk.
Is what's your problem here? If you're so rich, why don't you
buy me budweither felec. I don't buy beer for others. A terrible policy
near the village of Self was the entrance to the Devil's Whole Cave on the
estate of one E. J. Rhodes. One day, after hearing a
commotion emanating from the Devil's Whole underground recesses, Okay, technician Rhodes decided to
investigate by lowering himself into its shaft and descending and descending via rope to allege
two hundred feet below the opening. Below this point, the shaft was too
narrow to permit further descent, so Rhodes failed to satisfy his curiosity, which
was probably just as well. When some men lowered a flat iron down to
the same level that Roads had reached, a loud, angry, hissing noise
was plainly heard. They heard it again when they repeated the procedure, this
time using a large stone attached to the rope. Moreover, when they drew
the rope back up, they discovered that the stone was gone. Did they
have to do? Do you think that no one noticed until they actually got
the rope out of the hole, and they're like, do you think they
may have suspected. Prior to that moment the section of the rope holding it
had been completely bitten through. Randolph also heard tell of the oh oh,
no, no, no, I'm gonna need a little Jerry Clower for this
one. Oh. Once I see the phrase heard, tell that's true,
that's true, I will go for Clower power, the classic Cloud Power Mississippi
comedian Jerry Cloud. Randolph also heard tell of the man who claimed to capturing
a gal rawl by inducing the creature to eat so many dried apples move it's
swelled to a size of prevented its escaping into its burrow. And the gal
Raul's captor was exhibiting his catch to anybody who'd pay a quarter for it.
Me and Marcel lad Better went up there to see this gal rawl one time.
Two bits they charge and not happen. They plunked it down. And
once this man had a fishing augins, he'd stagger from behind the curtain with
his clothes and rags, announcing the garral. How to escape the garral?
How to escape? Who run into the wood fla fla from the wrath of
the garral, Run for your life. Only the fluke can savor you ga
who Me and Marsel we tore on out of there, and we never looked
back, and we never got our quarters back. I found tholeth in the
braith of the wood new Jerry Clower. It's funny. Yeah, whoa,
I like the Cherry Clow. Ooh he does this like coo like who?
Now most likely this is uh, Dave, just newspaper hype, oh of
a toll tale. So this does this live in the same ballpark as the
hoodag? Then I believe so? Oh dagh? So that is the gal
raw three three elegant fanging, crusted fur spitting hell beast ladies. That's right,
mmmmm. And now we're gonna trot out before you the ugliest puns you've
evils. Oh, it's the hideous other side to this beautifully polished coin.
Are really going clour crazy? You go, first of all, well,
sometimes you go out drinking at night. Huh, and you're on the island
of Java. Yeah, this happens sometimes and you have to stumble home from
the pub. M You just want to be careful you don't try and go
down an alley where you could get mugged by one of Java's infamous hooligans.
Nice one for you. Um Now, people in Cornwall are familiar with the
al Man and you know, I guess he's got kind of a fame thing
going himself, but it's part of a larger family. The rest of his
family. He's got a lot of siblings, mostly male. They formed a
band and it was pretty pretty popular in Cornwall, very popular in the United
States, so much so that people didn't even know of his Uh that's British
origins. It's the Alman Brothers band. Yeah. They wrote recorded the song
Midnight Flighter, not Don't let him Catchman, No, don't let him catch
the Midnight flood Lord. I was born at out Man, living in the
trees and scaring girls are best at cad. We're great. That's a little
that's just a little little taste of puns for you. Also got also got
something on the other side of the ballot slip here looks like a little slice
of listener because we have so much of it that we're going to shove it
into every crevice and crack in corner and crewton. I got one here from
the panthery Panther, Yeah, panthery Panther, writes Hi the panthery of panthers
here. Yeah, you can't do the whole thing caught onto y'all thanks to
Cam and Kyle over at Expanded pe who. Yeah, love the chillness,
God, love the chillness and hilarity with which you approach the weirdness. Thank
you. I'm hooked in catching up on episodes fast. Anyhow, I have
something that may be worth at least a segment on the show. And then
he's got a link here to something we've been talking about lately. We touched
on it briefly in our last episode Polybius. Oh the Mist, the Portland
mystery video game slash. Yeah, we almost included it with Cicada, but
then it kind of was just enough. We touched on it. Yeah,
So thank you so much for that panthere panther. Oh and also you know
what also panther likes? Oh? How about a gaunt medieval executioner who specializes
in drawing and quartering. The dismemberman, Oh, bye bye bye, the
btentacled specter who will feed you for a price, the vendor man. Ye.
And finally, when I was a kid, I had we had a
garden in which we grew a lot of gourds. One year, there was
a plant that turned purple and grew to a monstrous size. When we went
to picket, we noticed it had sprouted hairs and two large membranous leaves on
opposite sides of the plant. We called it the bats squash. Peace,
Love and whisk Pacthory Panther, Thanks panthery p Thanks double p. Dave.
We've heard from Maddie. Oh Maddie, She says, Hi David, David,
Hi, Hi agen long time, first time she has made the rounds
with us in candy chat and iTunes and all that good stuff. So we
thank you for that. Yes, I was wondering why didn't we bring up
the Greek Fire on the Legendary Weapons episode. You know what, It is
so crazy that you would say that, because just today I literally almost text
you do that that we never touched on Greek Fire, and I was just
thinking about that today. So I enjoy the synchronicity of that little moment.
I think we should get around to do in a Greek Fire episode. Well
yeah, I don't know if maybe not a whole episode, but you know
not, it's a good point, though, I'll say I'll say this.
I wouldn't put Greek fire into legendary weapons because we know Greek fire existed,
and I would put it into like something like along the lines of a lost
technology. Yeah, well, you know it, if it got in that
episode, it would have been with like the long bow. Yeah that's true.
But yeah, I was just today thinking about where to fit Greek fire
and because it is something that's cool that we should go over. Yeah,
it's uh, you know, it was a game changer for naval warfare at
the time. Yeah, just pots of oil that burned, burned and burned
and burned, burned out water. Water. Wouldn't put it out water to
make it burn Hotter says I hate to say this, Lap but I hate
to say this, but I have two really horrendous trashy puns. Bring it.
Oh, I love trash puns. Crampas gets along well enough on enslaving
naughty children and polishing his goat horns, But what people don't know is that
he secretly has a huge sweet tooth. His favorite candy in particular is of
a traditional Irish variety. What's that It's called glucose barley narn. Well,
most people have already written off the cinematic abomination that is the Pirates of the
Caribbean series. Most people don't know that the island that Jack and Elizabeth gets
stranded on and the first movie is based on a real island further up north
in the Atlantic. It was said to be rampant with mutant raccoon and deer,
and was rumored to house a small army's worth of dennis and liquor.
It was called rum Island. I like that that's a good place for a
pirate to end up. True enough, says thanks again for the podcast.
Thank you, Maddie. Oh and there's the PostScript. I know I don't
have a distinctive enough name or nickname or seniority to warrant a special pit,
but if you're feeling particularly generous, could you do a scene with Godzilla and
the ladies at candy Chat? How would that go? Yeah? And I
told him tab I said, listen, I understand what thirty percent off means,
but I feel like if you could just turn this, thirty percent could
turn thirty percent could turn into fifty percent just the touch of a button.
It what Danny will you play? Turn that dark television? Dan I'm trying
to talk to tab on the telephone. I'm sorry. I wasn't hearing anything
you were saying because there was something screaming in my ear. I'm so sorry,
Tab. Danny just loves those gurd zillas. What gird zillas? I
can't there? You go, mad, madame Maddie. See where. We'll
give you whatever you want. It's how we work. We are audio prostitutes.
Wow, put that on the business cards. Already done? Yeah,
thanks, Mattie, thank you. I got one here from How about our
buddy Nathan? Hello Nathan, he writes, Uh, short time listener,
first time emailer. Okay, yeah, we'll take it. Turned it twisted
it. I recently came across your podcast as a result of your being guests
on another program. Oh, I wonder which one he doesn't say? He
doesn't say? Then, I really wonder which one. Oh, I can
tell you right now. Unfortunately I don't remember which one it was. I've
been interested in paranormal stuff for a long time, as well as legends and
other various topics. When I was first introduced to your show, I was
like, what the seriously, these guys are annoying? Guilty as charged,
However, I am. I'm not one to give up, and so I
listen to a few more of your shows, and I'm happy to say that
Blurry Photos has grown on me like a tumor. That was. I added
that I've really come to enjoy the different voices you use. Well, A
lot of the jokes are grown worthy. Shut up, dude, No,
A lot of them are making awesome. Of course they're grown worthy, and
I don't. I don't find myself laughing as awesot often. As you like,
Blurry Photos has quickly become one of my favorites. Keep up the great
work. Ps. I really enjoyed the dry fuss. I feel like I'm
demanding a dry fuss right now. Damn it, damn it, yam Richard
Dreyfus here, Thank you, Hey, Thanks Nathan. I feel like like
like I was like a like I was a girl at a bar and he
decided to pick me up by nagging me and it worked. What does that
say about me? Flora, you're an audio prostitute. Prostitute? Thanks Nathan.
We've heard from Justin Fulu. Chocolate says Hello, Dad, Hello Justin
Ulu. Been listening for a while, couldn't nest for a more entertaining hour
or so out of a series of dull work workdays. Heavy on the or
so anymore, but thank you. Still picture Bobby Yga making Italian hands and
he's nothing get up for and watery cabbage stew have become in jokes in my
circle of friends. Watery cabbage stew. Oh this is nice. He says
that hearing what we do and how much fun we have doing it has led
him to become a co host for a local gaming podcast in Washington called the
Digital and Dice Podcast. Oh I like gaming podcasts. Yeah, so everybody
go check out Justin Thulu on that damn right, says he's still finding his
radio voice. He can certainly see why we both have kept at it.
It does take a while to find your voice. Yeah, that's whyness,
I think someday we'll find ours. Until then we'll use all of them.
That's true. But do you ever listen to the first episodes and we're just
like you're going to talk about Alistair Crowley. We don't have a format.
We're just going to dive into this. Yeah, here's a bunch of information
for you, and boy hope we're sure not offending anyone, I said,
my found Satan. I wish I had a gift of that was that was
awesome, Flora that the tongue and the We didn't find satan, we just
found a radio voice. But keep at it justin Thulu. Yes, thanks
for writing. I got one here from Wesam. Wesam. Wesom writes,
Actually he's reloading a punt into the old pun gun. We clearly missed at
some point or other in our ignorance. It's rumored that long ago, when
Genghis Khan was sweeping across Asia, he stopped for a while in the Siberian
Valley. After a battle where many of his men died. Genghis had his
men erect a giant statue of himself that would cast a long shadow across the
encampment. Most of the time, they stayed awhile until they could reinforce their
numbers and move on. Surprisingly, one of the most prestigious jobs was that
of a cook, feeding so many men required them to use a gigantic Japanese
style cooking pan. When they finally moved on, they left the pans there,
but many held on to their fond memories of what they wound up of
what they wound up referring to as walking in the in the shadow of the
Valley of Death. Wow, he told up a word picture that was artistry,
and that was and he's got one little little after dinner mint here for
you. Yeah, there's a rumor that a lot of heart attacks, blood
clots, and the like are actually caused by mischievous proteins in your blood called
emo goblins. Oh that's a good one. I like that a lot,
love the show, and I'm on a crusade to single handedly pushed towards two
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Dave quick pun from Amy hit me over at Injured Springhill. Jack keeps
checking out the pictures of those sweet sweet kitties. And one more here from
a big shout out to Male Wombat Waters. Oh John, I just want
to give John here a shout out. Gives us a show suggestion along the
lines of Male's hole and oh yeah art Bill classic looney on there. So
thank you for that. Mel Wombat Waters aka John that's a line name.
Thank all of you. Yes, you guys are the very best. Now
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