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Head to 36 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,040 immortal workshop.com and 37 00:00:50,580 --> 00:00:51,620 join the Metazoo revolution, 38 00:00:51,180 --> 00:00:52,620 your collection and your 39 00:00:52,620 --> 00:01:06,040 fellow 40 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:26,160 Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Cryptid Cocktail Party, a show 41 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,200 where we have a few drinks, share a few laughs, and take a dive into the unknown. 42 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,480 Today I'm joined by Lisa, owner and operator of Cryptid Comforts and also organizer of 43 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:35,480 Squonkapalooza. 44 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:36,480 Lisa, how you doing? 45 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:37,480 Spectacular, glad to be here. 46 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:38,480 Yeah, I'm glad to have you. 47 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:39,480 So, I don't know, where do we start? 48 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:40,480 Where do we start? 49 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:41,480 Well, I don't know, wherever you want to, it's your show. 50 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:42,480 That's fair enough. 51 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:43,480 It's been a week, okay? 52 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,480 My brain's been all over the place. 53 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:45,480 I know. 54 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:46,480 I'm just trying to get back into the swing of things. 55 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:47,480 I understand completely. 56 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:48,480 Yeah. 57 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:53,480 So, like I said, you're the owner and operator of Cryptid Comforts. 58 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:58,480 For those who may not know while listening to this, what is Cryptid Comforts? 59 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:05,480 Just so they have an idea. 60 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:14,480 Well, it is a business that I started a few years back that is mostly cryptid-themed. 61 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:19,080 I have a little bit of horror too, but mostly cryptid-themed items. 62 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:26,480 I specialize in handcrafted cryptozoology and extraterrestrial monster-themed stuffies 63 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,480 that I make. 64 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:34,480 So yeah, that's my specialty, but I also have an assortment of other nonsense. 65 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:40,360 Cat toys, tumbler, hats, lanyards, pins, buttons, whatever. 66 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:41,360 You name it, I probably have. 67 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,040 I was going over the Etsy store today, and I didn't notice this the first time I looked, 68 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,480 but I just saw that you have serial killer catnip toys. 69 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:49,480 I do, yeah. 70 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:53,080 I saw those and I was like, I love this so much. 71 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:58,400 Yeah, because it's funny to watch a cat beat up on a serial killer. 72 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,720 So I guess what got you started on making cryptid plushies? 73 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:06,080 Did it start with plushies or did you start with doing stickers and then move on from 74 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,080 there or have you always been a seamstress type? 75 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:16,080 Well, I'm not a seamstress type by any means, but it did start with regular plushies, like 76 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:17,080 regular animals. 77 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,080 Actually, it started with sock animals. 78 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:20,080 Okay. 79 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,080 Like sock monkey type kind of things? 80 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:23,080 Yeah. 81 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:30,400 So it started off with a sock monkey and went from there into other sock animals and then 82 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:37,240 eventually some fabric animals and then eventually into cryptids and then the cryptids took over 83 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,240 and now that's pretty much it. 84 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:41,240 Yeah. 85 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,000 Have cryptids always played a big part in your life? 86 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,440 Has it always been like, or is it just something you fell into? 87 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:51,600 I fell into it completely accidentally. 88 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:59,680 It was when I was teaching in Portland, I came up with that class for summer discovery 89 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,880 called Unicorns, Dragons and Bigfoots. 90 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,960 Oh my. 91 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:13,640 So from there, I started learning about cryptids and I often say that Bigfoot is the gateway 92 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,680 drug to other cryptids. 93 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:20,040 It is kind of a rabbit hole that you just kind of get sucked into the more you find 94 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,040 out about them. 95 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:22,040 Yeah, right. 96 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,480 And the more I learned, the more I got into it. 97 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:28,960 And then I did some Bigfoot festivals. 98 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:34,160 I was hooked at that point and I was doing both things for a long time, regular animals 99 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,280 and then I put in some cryptids. 100 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:41,160 I mean, started with Bigfoot, then I threw in some Mothman, some Loch Ness Monster. 101 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:42,160 The classics. 102 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:49,600 Yeah, aliens, slowly kind of leading to doing the what, the re-film that I do now. 103 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:57,480 Yeah, you got a big chunk of the cryptozoology in your little store there. 104 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:02,400 Well then my Etsy store only has a teeny tiny bit of what I've got. 105 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,520 I mean, if you go through my Instagram feed over the last couple of years, you'll see 106 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:12,360 like there are some that I've just done one-offs of that I haven't made a bunch of, others 107 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,160 that I make thousands of a year. 108 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,160 Mothman particularly. 109 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:22,040 I was going to say, I feel like that's probably the biggest one, right? 110 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:27,920 Well yeah, because of the Mothman festival, like I sold through so many Mothman plushies 111 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:29,200 at last year's festival. 112 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,680 I sold out by like 11 a.m. on Saturday. 113 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:38,120 So trying to make a lot more of them for this year, but I don't know how I'm going to fit 114 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,000 them all in my car, but we'll figure it out. 115 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,320 You have to get one of those like Build-A-Bear stations at like the festivals so that way 116 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,240 they can just get the loose Mothman and they can just stuff it themselves. 117 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:50,240 Yeah, exactly. 118 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,000 I don't know if that's like a... 119 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,000 How I travel is, so I make all the skins first and then I travel with them and then I stuff 120 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,800 them when I get to the other side of the country. 121 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,480 So I'm only like stuffing so many per event. 122 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:10,180 That's how I do most of it because I stay with my family when I'm on my tour in Tennessee. 123 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:15,920 So I have a studio set up at my parents' house and this year I'm going to stay at my sister's 124 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:16,920 house for a while. 125 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,560 She's going to set up a studio there for me. 126 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:26,680 So yeah, I'm lucky to have such a wonderful supportive family who lets me just destroy 127 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,800 their house while I'm in town. 128 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,760 I'm sure just stuffing everywhere. 129 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,320 It's like living with a dog, I would assume. 130 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,280 Something like just tearing open everything. 131 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:36,320 Yeah, yeah, that's dang. 132 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,960 I'm exactly like a dog. 133 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,560 That's not what I meant. 134 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:46,080 Yeah, I probably could have worded that a little better. 135 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:47,720 Okay, I thought it was funny. 136 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:48,720 It's on me. 137 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,640 I'll take the heat for this one. 138 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:57,200 But speaking of Mothman being, like you said, your biggest seller so far, I guess we can 139 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,640 dive right into the Scouts Kickstarter. 140 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:04,080 For those of you who don't know, Scouts is a upcoming off-Broadway musical based off 141 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:09,520 cryptids, Mothman, gender identity, just a whole bunch of stuff. 142 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,200 Did you offer to be part of the Kickstarter? 143 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:17,920 They asked me and I was so excited that they asked me. 144 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,280 I've been following them since they kind of started. 145 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,520 I'm very intrigued and I love what they're doing. 146 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:31,440 And I think it's really cool to do a musical that not only is about gender equality, but 147 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:32,440 also Mothman. 148 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,480 And I'm like, yes, please. 149 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:39,560 I'm curious to see how they're going to meld the two stories into one. 150 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,280 I am too, but I love it. 151 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:51,920 And it seems like Mothman has become kind of iconic in the LGBTQ plus community, which 152 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:52,920 is interesting. 153 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:53,920 And I love that. 154 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:54,920 That is good. 155 00:07:54,920 --> 00:08:00,080 I mean, at one point I think, what was it, the Babadook or the Baba Yaga? 156 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,800 One of those was like, they use that too. 157 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:03,800 Yeah. 158 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:04,800 I love that. 159 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,960 I mean, I love it too. 160 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:13,680 I mean, obviously I am someone who supports equality and human rights. 161 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:20,760 So the chance to actually do something that involves that is awesome for me. 162 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:24,920 I love what they're doing and I think it's just fantastic. 163 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,180 And I mean, what a great idea for a musical. 164 00:08:28,180 --> 00:08:32,840 So it sounds like a lot of fun and when they asked me to be involved in their Kickstarter, 165 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:34,000 I was all in. 166 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,600 And so right now the Kickstarter is at almost 50%. 167 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,600 So let's put it out there. 168 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:47,000 That it would be really cool if you want to go support the Kickstarter and get a Mothman 169 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,400 plushie while you're at it. 170 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,960 You can, or they have lots of other good swag too. 171 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:56,040 Some stickers and patches and t-shirts and tickets to the show. 172 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,880 VIP passes if you're in the area. 173 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,240 You can be, also I think like the highest tier, you can get like everything plus like 174 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:07,600 a credit for being like in the, whatever it's called. 175 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:08,600 Yeah you can get the program. 176 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:09,600 Is it called Playbill? 177 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:10,600 I don't know what it's called. 178 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:11,600 Yeah, Playbill. 179 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:12,600 That's the word. 180 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:13,600 Yeah. 181 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:14,600 Not program, Playbill. 182 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:15,600 Yes, that sounds right. 183 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:16,600 Yeah. 184 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,840 It's been a long time since I did theater. 185 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,520 But anyone who's listening, if you're more curious to find out about Scouts, if you go 186 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:27,460 to the link in my Instagram, it's at Cryptid Cocktail. 187 00:09:27,460 --> 00:09:30,680 There is a link to the Scouts Kickstarter in there. 188 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:31,680 So. 189 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:32,680 Great. 190 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:33,680 Thank you. 191 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:34,680 Yeah. 192 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:35,680 So definitely check it out. 193 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:36,680 Yeah, that's awesome. 194 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:42,000 I couldn't have, like I would be worried taking on a project like that if everyone who donates 195 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 donated at that level. 196 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:48,120 You're like, I'd have to make a billion fucking Mothmans on top of the Mothmans you already 197 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:49,120 have to make. 198 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:50,120 I'm on it. 199 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,280 Like they originally were going to set the Mothman plushie at a higher rate. 200 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,080 And I was like, honestly, it's not that hard for me to make them. 201 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,640 Let's just do it at a lower rate so I can bust them out for you. 202 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:00,640 Let's do it up. 203 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,320 I'm sure at this point you can make a Mothman in your sleep. 204 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:04,320 All right. 205 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:05,320 I totally can. 206 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,480 I made 25 of them this morning. 207 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:09,480 Jesus Christ. 208 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:10,480 Just the skins. 209 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,200 I haven't stopped them. 210 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:17,800 But yeah, those ones I can make pretty fast. 211 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:23,160 So I embroider them all ahead of time, then stack them and then do the wings. 212 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,520 All in a stack and then pin them together. 213 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:26,520 Stitch, stitch, stitch. 214 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:27,520 Done. 215 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,960 It's like a one man assembly line kind of thing. 216 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:30,960 It is. 217 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:32,360 Yes, I have. 218 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,720 But my studio is such a wreck right now. 219 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,600 It's terrible. 220 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,960 We are moving in a couple of weeks, so I will have a bigger space very soon, which will 221 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:49,480 be so nice for me because I'm definitely too big for an 11 foot room. 222 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:53,880 When I first started podcasting, me and my wife lived in a one bedroom apartment, so 223 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:55,480 I'd have to use the bedroom as a studio. 224 00:10:55,480 --> 00:11:00,680 So I'd have to set up everything, break it down, put it away. 225 00:11:00,680 --> 00:11:02,040 So every time we'd have to do an episode. 226 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:07,200 But thankfully we moved into an apartment with more than one room. 227 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:12,080 So I know the struggles of having just like a smaller and smaller space. 228 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:13,080 Right. 229 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:14,080 Yeah. 230 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,080 No, but that's awesome. 231 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:16,080 I'm stoked for you. 232 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:17,080 I'm stoked for the people in Scouts. 233 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,240 Their Kickstarter seems to be doing pretty well so far. 234 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:20,240 Oh yeah. 235 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:26,240 The link can also be found on my Instagram page at cryptid underscore comfort. 236 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:32,360 I probably should be promoting your Instagram more than promoting my Instagram. 237 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,840 The more places that it's easy to find, the better. 238 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:41,520 And of course it'll be on the Scouts Instagram, which is I believe at the Mothman is Real. 239 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:42,520 It's at the Mothman is Real. 240 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,880 I honestly didn't even think to say go to theirs instead, but yeah, go to their Instagram 241 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:47,880 instead. 242 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:48,880 Go to all of them. 243 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:49,880 Yeah. 244 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:50,880 Just whatever you want to do. 245 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,880 So yeah, but everyone's Instagram. 246 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:54,880 Yeah. 247 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:55,880 Yeah. 248 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,440 Just really drive up that traffic. 249 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:58,440 Yeah. 250 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,640 So we covered what you do, what you're doing. 251 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:07,640 Why don't we cover the future, which is Squonkapalooza coming up in August. 252 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:09,520 It is so exciting. 253 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:10,520 Okay. 254 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:15,040 So for those not familiar with Squonk, let me give a little background on Squonk. 255 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:19,080 He is the saddest creature in the whole wide world. 256 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:20,080 He is. 257 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,940 But the most relatable, I feel like, the most relatable cryptid, I feel like. 258 00:12:22,940 --> 00:12:27,120 I will say when people ask at events and I tell them the story of the Squonk, they're 259 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:28,120 like, yeah, I feel that. 260 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:29,120 I really... 261 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,520 There's a little Squonk in all of us. 262 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:33,520 There is. 263 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:40,560 For anyone who has ever felt self-conscious in any way, you too are a Squonk. 264 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:46,240 The Squonk, it's part of lumberjack folklore, so it's not technically a cryptid. 265 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:53,800 It's a folklore creature, but there's so much crossover in those these days that it's fine. 266 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:59,120 So they're all kind of cryptids if you're not looking... 267 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:03,700 Some people get real technical about what a cryptid is though, so I like to verify no 268 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:05,640 Squonks are not actually cryptids. 269 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:06,640 They're folklore critters. 270 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:08,640 I've had to do that before. 271 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,280 I did that before the Wendigo episode we did. 272 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,400 I was like, the Wendigo is not a cryptid. 273 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,000 It is a Native American spirit. 274 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:21,520 Sometimes you have to clear the air so people truly understand the difference between. 275 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:22,600 Right. 276 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:28,000 And also, I mean, the furious cryptid zoologists out there, I don't want them to be offended 277 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,000 by the nonsense I say. 278 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,000 But anyone who knows me knows that I'm not a serious cryptid zoologist. 279 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:41,680 I'm just a good all who likes weird stuff. 280 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:49,880 But yeah, I enjoy this field and I enjoy all aspects of the cryptids, the folklore. 281 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,080 It's also fascinating to me. 282 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:54,080 Getting back to the Squonk. 283 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:55,080 I get off track. 284 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:56,080 Oh, back to the Squonk. 285 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,840 The running theme on the show is to get off track, so that's fine. 286 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:01,740 I'm so good at that. 287 00:14:01,740 --> 00:14:06,360 So the Squonk was first featured in the book, Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, that 288 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,840 came out in 1910. 289 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:13,000 It's said to live in the northern Hemlock forest in Pennsylvania. 290 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:20,600 And the story is that this little creature, it cries all the time because it's so ugly. 291 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:25,080 It has the worst self-esteem of any creeper in the world. 292 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,440 It doesn't even want to see its own reflection and it's puddled of tears. 293 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,760 If it looks down, it gets very, very upset. 294 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:37,440 And you can't capture a Squonk because if you try to, it would cry so much it would 295 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:38,440 dissolve itself. 296 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:39,440 Such a good story. 297 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:40,440 I love it so much. 298 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:49,320 Very literally the most pathetic creature in the whole wide world and I love it so much. 299 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:50,320 His skin's too loose. 300 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:51,320 He thinks he's ugly. 301 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:52,320 Yeah. 302 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:53,320 I've been there. 303 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:54,320 I've been there. 304 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:55,320 Me too. 305 00:14:55,320 --> 00:15:01,520 I started making the Squonk plushies back in 2021. 306 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:10,640 First premiered them at the CryptidCon that year and started spreading the word of the 307 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,360 Squonk to those who didn't know. 308 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,600 And like you said, it's the most relatable cryptid. 309 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:24,080 So people found it very endearing and it became kind of a popular thing for me. 310 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:29,520 And as I was making them, I came up with this weird little loose idea of a children's book. 311 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:35,440 I was going to bring up you wrote a children's book and it's adorable as all hell. 312 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:43,000 The idea behind the children's book started off as a book about body positivity for children. 313 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,380 And it ended up being a little different than that. 314 00:15:45,380 --> 00:15:49,560 That does have some of that in it, but it's more of a book about friendship and kindness 315 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:50,560 now. 316 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:56,880 And it's more of an anti-bullying kind of situation. 317 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:02,640 So yeah, I wrote the book, me and my friend Brandy, who is a professional songwriter. 318 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:09,120 So she has great writing skills and I have weird cryptid knowledge. 319 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:15,080 So together we made a great team and I did all the illustrating myself after debating 320 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,080 whether to hire an illustrator. 321 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:23,200 I decided I can draw and I should probably illustrate my own book because I couldn't 322 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:24,200 afford an illustrator. 323 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,320 That's really what it came down to. 324 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:28,440 I couldn't afford to think of someone else to do it. 325 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:31,040 So I was like, I'll figure it out. 326 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:32,320 This is probably around my life. 327 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,560 It's like, I'll figure it out and see how it goes. 328 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:41,080 And so I learned to draw on the iPad one day and luckily my friend, Elaine, loaned me her 329 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:49,400 iPad, taught me a few things and gave me the iPad for an unlimited amount of time. 330 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,440 Just said, here you go, have fun. 331 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,600 So nice when people have just extra iPads they can lend me theirs. 332 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,880 It'd be nice to have that kind of disposable income to just be like, oh yeah, my iPad, 333 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,560 you can just take that for however long you need. 334 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,600 She's so nice and so generous and so helpful and I miss her. 335 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:10,400 She was a friend of mine in Washington and she was my boss and also just a really great 336 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:18,760 artist and she was super cool and understanding that the art took priority over the job. 337 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:23,360 I worked at a coffee shop that she owned, but because she was an artist, she understood 338 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:27,380 that I was going to be gone for months out of the year on tour and things like that. 339 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:31,200 But then pandemic hit and I was there full time. 340 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,800 And finally it was time for me to go. 341 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,440 She totally understood and was great about it. 342 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:45,240 So to have that kind of support and workplace is rare and I was very, very lucky for that. 343 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:50,800 But yeah, so she helped me learn how to draw on the iPad so I could illustrate the book. 344 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,720 And then that book was a labor of love. 345 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,360 It is the hardest I've ever worked on anything in my life. 346 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:00,600 I am so proud of it. 347 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:04,080 And yeah, so everyone go buy my book. 348 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,240 Check it out. 349 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:08,240 It's awesome. 350 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,200 If I do say so myself, it's all that kindness, compassion and friendship. 351 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,240 Except for those two squirrels. 352 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:18,120 I remember there was two squirrels that were just an asshole to the squawk and I wanted 353 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:19,840 to fight those squirrels. 354 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:20,840 Right? 355 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:21,840 Exactly. 356 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,640 And then the dog man, Kate, I'm spoiling the book. 357 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,080 They're like, oh shit, it's the dog man. 358 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:28,080 We got to book it. 359 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,080 And I was like, yeah, you fucking better run. 360 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:31,080 Yeah. 361 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:36,520 So the point of making dog man the secondary character was because dog man is thought of 362 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:41,240 as so scary and a freakish, voracious creature. 363 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,120 But it comes down to it that he's not like that at all. 364 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:46,000 He's actually the sweetest guy. 365 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,920 He's the one who reaches out to the squawk, finds him, befriends him, tells him that he's 366 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:51,800 perfect and beautiful the way he is. 367 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:52,800 And you know. 368 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,200 It's like don't judge a book by its cover kind of. 369 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:56,200 Yeah. 370 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,040 That's kind of the point I was trying to drive home with that. 371 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:03,600 And also that everyone's feelings get hurt and the dog man, you know, even though he's 372 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:10,040 a big, strong dog man, his feelings get hurt by people thinking that he's me and that I'm 373 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:11,040 scary. 374 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:12,520 So he's just a good boy. 375 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:13,520 Right. 376 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:14,520 Exactly. 377 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:18,920 And so that's why I chose the dog man as my secondary character to kind of give that kind 378 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:23,320 of feeling of, you know, like everyone's feelings get hurt. 379 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,320 Be considerate about what you're saying to people. 380 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:27,520 Yeah. 381 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:33,360 So I wrote the book and then I, you know, just randomly. 382 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:38,640 I talked to all my friends who are, you know, into cryptic events and things. 383 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:43,200 We all, you know, have like our little chats on Instagram where we talk about different 384 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,160 events and stuff. 385 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,480 And a lot of them have, are hosting their own events. 386 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:53,800 And so I kept throwing it out there kind of loosely, like we should do squawk fast. 387 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,800 And you know, kept just kind of throwing it out as a joke. 388 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:03,800 And no one was fighting until one day I was chatting with Joe of CryptoTeology right before 389 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:07,400 the Hodak Heritage Festival last year. 390 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,360 Cause we were both going to that. 391 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:16,240 So we were kind of chatting beforehand on Instagram and I said something to him about 392 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,320 squawking, having a squawk fast. 393 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,280 And he immediately was like, yeah, let's do it. 394 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:21,280 I live in Pennsylvania. 395 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,840 It's like, oh, okay. 396 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:29,720 I'm honestly super shocked that there wasn't already a squawk fast, especially with like, 397 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:34,440 cause I feel like the rise in cryptic festivals has gone up over the years, like exponentially. 398 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:39,440 Like any, any state that has a cryptic or a folklore tale associated about them, no matter 399 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:43,880 how small or irrelevant it is, they'll make a festival out of it. 400 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:48,520 And you know, there's not here in Colorado, there's not, we don't have a fly rock bolter 401 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:49,520 fast. 402 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:51,960 We show that it, there's your next endeavor. 403 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:57,960 I did find out that they have Mike the Headless Chicken Festival though, which unfortunately 404 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,760 I'm not going to be around for that. 405 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:01,720 Cause that was a fun one. 406 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:08,560 That is the most like deep dive cryptic folklore story that anyone can. 407 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:09,560 Yeah. 408 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,960 When I found out they had a festival about that, I was like very intrigued. 409 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,040 I feel like that festival would just be like a regular old state fair. 410 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:21,920 And it'd be like one of those things where like, you have to like get in a ring and 411 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:22,920 try and catch a chicken. 412 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:23,920 And then, you know what I mean? 413 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,920 I feel like it'd be like, it's just like a state fair. 414 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:28,680 Cause like, I know I grew up in New Hampshire. 415 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:35,520 So when we have state fairs, we do like the, like you have to get in a pen with a pig. 416 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,960 You catch the pig and I think, and I think you win the pig. 417 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,960 I think that, I don't know. 418 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:45,840 Well, it's New Hampshire, a lot of farm people up there, but I think that's, I honestly think 419 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:46,840 that's what it is. 420 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,920 I don't know, but I just assume that the Headless Chicken Fest would be something like that. 421 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:51,520 I could be way off base. 422 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:52,520 I have no idea. 423 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:53,520 But anyway, sorry. 424 00:21:53,520 --> 00:22:00,160 So you, so Cryptid Comforts teamed up with CryptoTeology to start planning and figuring 425 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,160 out Squonkapalooza. 426 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:02,160 Yes. 427 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,880 Originally, we were calling it Squonkfest. 428 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,240 And then after a while, we changed the name. 429 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:14,720 Joe came up with Squonkapalooza and I immediately was like, yeah, that sounds great. 430 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,440 The reason we ended up changing it from Squonkfest is kind of hilarious. 431 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:23,880 I was filling out paperwork for insurance and if it's listed as a festival rather than 432 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:29,400 like an arts fair, insurance costs three times as much. 433 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,000 I was like, well, okay. 434 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,200 So we just won't call it a festival. 435 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:38,680 And so we came up with the name Squonkapalooza, which we ended up not even needing that insurance 436 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:39,680 anyway. 437 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:45,240 And I had to cancel the policy because we didn't get the whole big fiasco with that. 438 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:53,920 We're learning a lot about the hiccups in planning an event and things that can go wrong. 439 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:59,680 But we're also doing a lot of great things with this event, I think. 440 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,100 And I mean, we've got some good speakers lined up. 441 00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:07,960 We're going to be showing a Mothman movie and having a Q&A with the creator. 442 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,380 We've got entertainment. 443 00:23:10,380 --> 00:23:17,480 So we've got a, so far we've lined up like little, she's a clown of some sort, but she's 444 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,440 doing like bubble shows and then balloon animals and things like that. 445 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,600 So excited about that. 446 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,040 And then all around entertainer kind of. 447 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:27,040 Yeah. 448 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:33,680 And then my friend Brandy will be coming out and being the festival troubadour. 449 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,300 So she'll be walking around with her guitar and playing. 450 00:23:37,300 --> 00:23:39,320 So that's super exciting and fun. 451 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:45,360 And it's also the first time that the co-author of Why So Sad Squawk is going to be at an 452 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:46,360 event. 453 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:50,080 So it's pretty exciting that she'll be there. 454 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:55,600 She'll also be able to sign books, which it won't just be me for a change. 455 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,720 And people will like that. 456 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,480 And she's just amazing and wonderful in every way. 457 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:08,760 But yeah, we've got tons of great vendors signed up. 458 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:14,760 It's just, it's going to be lots of great art and makers that are mostly cryptid based, 459 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,760 but a few that are. 460 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:22,320 But the majority of it is cryptid related, folklore creature related. 461 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:27,680 I'm hoping, yeah, hopefully we'll get some more entertainment and some more food trucks 462 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,800 lined up before the actual event. 463 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:36,600 Right now all we have is like, you know, sweets and no real food. 464 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:37,600 We're having trouble. 465 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:38,880 That's all you need. 466 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,760 No, no, I want a real food truck. 467 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:47,360 I mean, luckily there are restaurants within walking distance, like around the vicinity. 468 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:54,400 But I really want a food truck that has actual food out there. 469 00:24:54,400 --> 00:25:00,880 Every good fair has like fair fries and fair, fair fries hit different than like regular 470 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:01,880 fries. 471 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,040 I did not expect that part to be the challenge. 472 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:09,760 I assumed food vendors are just a thing everywhere. 473 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:15,000 I mean, I would, I would assume that there's like an app you can go to that's like hire 474 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,000 my food truck. 475 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,640 Like there has to be a way to find out. 476 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:23,520 It's incredibly hard apparently to get a food truck to come to your event if you're in Johnstown, 477 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:24,520 Pennsylvania. 478 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:30,200 It is, it is a bit out of the way. 479 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:31,440 I live in Philly right now. 480 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,960 So I, and I think, I think it's like 70. 481 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:41,280 11 hours from me, which is basically the same amount of distance from me to Pittsburgh. 482 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,440 I always forget how close to Pittsburgh. 483 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:47,800 I always forget how big Pennsylvania is until I have to go somewhere. 484 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:52,960 You know, it is, I have not been long state since I was a small child. 485 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,040 I don't know Pennsylvania. 486 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,040 It's long. 487 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:58,040 It's a long state. 488 00:25:58,040 --> 00:25:59,600 It's not tall, but it's, it's long. 489 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:06,120 Well, I remember driving through there when I was little on one of our trips, cause we 490 00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:08,960 had lived in upstate New York and then moved to Tennessee. 491 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,880 So it was the drive through at one point with last time I was there. 492 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,440 We stopped at Hershey. 493 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,280 I never been, I don't like chocolate. 494 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,000 I'm not a chocolate guy. 495 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Don't look at me like that. 496 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,320 Come on. 497 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,240 I get that look every time I say that. 498 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:26,960 And I just don't, I don't know. 499 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:27,960 I'm not a sweets guy. 500 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,160 I'm a, I'm a salty savory guy. 501 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,600 Is that what you mean? 502 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,200 Everyone else their thing. 503 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,080 So, and apparently whenever I tell anyone that I'm, I'm the wrong, that's the wrong 504 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,080 thing. 505 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,640 No, you're entitled to your opinion. 506 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:47,040 That's ridiculous as it may be. 507 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,120 But you said that you guys have been finding out the hardships that come with setting up 508 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:54,280 a festival, like the downs and the ups. 509 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,680 Has it been mostly ups though? 510 00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:00,120 Like have you found, have you found that it's, it's been easy, not easier, but like, have 511 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:03,800 you hit a lot of roadblocks setting up this festival or has it, has it been kind of just 512 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:04,800 like a? 513 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,560 Our first roadblock, like we had a location picked out and it seemed like it was going 514 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:09,760 to be a go on that. 515 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,320 They had us get the insurance for it and everything. 516 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,240 And then it just didn't happen. 517 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,640 So then we had to find another location. 518 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,120 But the second location turned out to be perfect. 519 00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:21,280 It's right downtown. 520 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,360 It's out at Central Park in downtown Johnstown. 521 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:32,160 And the city of Johnstown has our back and is letting us use the space for free, which 522 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:38,200 is amazing and helping us along the way with the, you know, some things. 523 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,320 So that challenge got immediately resolved. 524 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:46,000 I mean, a couple months, you know, stress, but it got resolved. 525 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,800 I feel like that's immediate enough though. 526 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:48,800 You know what I mean? 527 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:49,800 Yeah. 528 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,840 And once we had the location locked down, like other things started falling into place, 529 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:57,280 like we opened up the vendor apps and then our vendors filled up in a matter of like 530 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:58,280 three weeks. 531 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,400 We had all the vendor space this fall and went on a wait list. 532 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,880 And like, so that's amazing. 533 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,960 With so many great vendors too. 534 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,920 I'm so happy about that. 535 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:16,400 We've got several great sponsors, people helping us out, like Holly, who art, she did our website 536 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:17,400 for us. 537 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,280 She's amazing. 538 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:27,400 We've got, you know, just such a cool crew of people helping. 539 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:32,140 So a lot of things have fallen into place perfectly and are exactly how we wanted it. 540 00:28:32,140 --> 00:28:36,300 Other things are taking some more time, but we're getting it all sorted. 541 00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:42,680 We did have like our first entertainer that we hired was like a juggler act and he had 542 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,600 to cancel on us. 543 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:51,320 So it was like the day after I announced that he was going to be there, he ended up canceling. 544 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:52,320 Come on, dude. 545 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:53,320 But so. 546 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,480 I feel like jugglers are a dime a dozen. 547 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:56,480 You can find... 548 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:57,480 You would think. 549 00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:58,480 I would think. 550 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,480 Is that not the case? 551 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,480 No. 552 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:07,240 And it's also like a lot of them are very expensive. 553 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:14,680 Then I understand, like it's a rare or interesting talent, but to, for a small festival where 554 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:21,320 we're not trying to make any money off of it, we just can't afford like some of these 555 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,940 great acts as much as I would love to. 556 00:29:24,940 --> 00:29:26,920 So we're having to, yeah. 557 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:32,000 I did have someone recently that I was chatting with who does like fire stuff and I was like, 558 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:37,320 well, like is that safe for like roaming, you know, entertainment? 559 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,000 I'm like, is that a safe thing to do? 560 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,160 And he's like, well, you'd have to have particular barriers and permits and things. 561 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,200 So I was like, oh yeah, I don't want any of that. 562 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,680 So no fire. 563 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,120 But then he was like, well, I can do other stuff. 564 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,000 So I'm still waiting on him to get back to me. 565 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,200 Maybe he can come in and do some juggling and still walking and things like that. 566 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:01,280 So yeah, we're still several months out. 567 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:02,600 Things will fall into place. 568 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:03,600 I feel confident. 569 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:04,600 And I mean... 570 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:09,280 You got to secrete it to the universe, like that book, The Secret. 571 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:13,040 I feel like secreting it to the universe is a gross way to put it. 572 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:17,520 I don't know how else you say your secretinging. 573 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:18,520 Secretinging. 574 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:19,520 I don't know. 575 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:20,520 Whatever. 576 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:21,520 All right. 577 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:22,520 I don't know. 578 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,720 But it sounds like it's going to be a good time. 579 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:29,600 Yeah, we're going to have games and make and take craft tables, tons of things for the 580 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:30,720 kids to do. 581 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,320 And speakers are going to be at the state theater. 582 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:35,840 The movie is going to be showing. 583 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:40,600 Plus we're going to be doing a story time for children with different cryptic books 584 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,020 with a few different readers. 585 00:30:43,020 --> 00:30:48,720 We've got a lot going on all day and around the town. 586 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:54,200 They're doing haunted history tours, the night before, which will be cool. 587 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:58,520 And then the day after, there's an art walk in the park. 588 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:03,480 So there's stuff going on all weekend, even though our event is only a one day event. 589 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,960 There'll be stuff all weekend. 590 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:12,200 And so we're kind of co-promoting things with other things going on in town. 591 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,960 So it'll be a really fun weekend, I think. 592 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:23,800 I'm really excited for everyone to come out and hopefully, you know, it'll be a wild, 593 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:24,800 crazy fun time. 594 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,760 We're encouraging people to come dressed up and just be silly. 595 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:35,720 Of course, the Squawk will be running around, which is me in a squawk mascot suit. 596 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,720 Oh, that sounds fun. 597 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:39,840 I'm adorable. 598 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:40,840 It's so great. 599 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:46,480 You may have seen the pictures of the Squawk. 600 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:47,960 And then there's a Hodag one too. 601 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:48,960 Was that? 602 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,720 Yes, the Squawk and the Hodag are good friends. 603 00:31:51,720 --> 00:32:01,320 But yes, Ben at the Hodag store definitely inspired me a lot to get my Squawk mascot 604 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:05,880 suit by seeing how much fun it was having the Hodag mascot suit. 605 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:12,560 Yeah, he's just so great at promoting and just having fun. 606 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,240 And I'm like, that's what I want to do. 607 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,160 So it's really fun when the two of us get together in our mascot suits, like at Cryptid 608 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:19,720 Bash last year. 609 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:24,800 And then we went to Grafton afterwards to visit the Grafton Monster. 610 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:30,480 We did a silly little photo shoot there and just we had fun. 611 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:36,280 The Hodag is like the gritty of cryptid mascots, I feel like. 612 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,000 He does not care. 613 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,640 He does whatever he wants. 614 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:40,640 It's amazing. 615 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,960 But at least I just wanted to say thank you. 616 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:50,400 I know I ended up sponsoring SquawkaPalooza after the enrollment, I feel like. 617 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,720 OK, we're still accepting sponsors. 618 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,560 If people want to give us money, we're still taking it. 619 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,200 No, that's the mentality you should have. 620 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,320 But I just want to say thank you. 621 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:04,080 I know I probably won't be able to make it, which sucks, but I'm glad that I could be 622 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,120 a part of it and support it in any way that I could. 623 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,120 I'm glad you can, too. 624 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,120 Yeah, but I just found out that we might not be moving in August, so I might be able to 625 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:13,120 make it. 626 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,120 Oh, really? 627 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:15,120 Oh, well, let me know. 628 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:16,120 Figuring it out. 629 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,120 Yeah, well, let me know. 630 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,120 Yeah, of course. 631 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:28,000 Well, Lisa, we talked about Cryptid Comforts, we talked about Scouts, SquawkaPalooza. 632 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,400 I think it's time for me to tell you a story now. 633 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:31,400 OK, great. 634 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:37,960 All right, so are you familiar with any sort of Russian UFO alien encounters? 635 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:38,960 I don't think so. 636 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:43,680 OK, so today I'm going to tell you the story of the Lake Baikal, I think that's how you 637 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,400 pronounce it, Lake Baikal humanoids. 638 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:46,400 Are you familiar? 639 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:47,400 I'm not familiar. 640 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:52,040 OK, I thought this, so I did this because it's like a pretty quick story. 641 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:53,640 It's like a one-off source story. 642 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:59,960 In doing research, I didn't realize that it ends in kind of a real bummer, so sorry in 643 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:02,280 advance, but we'll get through it. 644 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:03,280 OK. 645 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,800 Are you an alien's person or are you more cryptids? 646 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:06,800 Oh, yeah. 647 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:07,800 Yeah? 648 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,920 I mean, me and my sister once decided that all cryptids are aliens, which there's a lot 649 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,800 of people who will fight me for saying that. 650 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,480 I don't know about that. 651 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,120 I definitely believe in aliens. 652 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,560 All right, so let's start with a little backstory. 653 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:24,440 Lake Baikal is located near the Mongolian border in southeastern Siberia and is considered 654 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:29,160 the deepest and oldest lake on the planet Earth, with scientists stating that it formed 655 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:34,520 more than 25 million years ago and it contains a quarter of Earth's freshwater, depths of 656 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:39,480 over 5000 feet, and is home to a number of plant and animal species that exist only in 657 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:40,480 this lake. 658 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:45,360 So it's like a pretty significant lake as far as like planet Earth is concerned. 659 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:46,360 Yeah. 660 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:51,240 Now, this region, this region of Russia is no stranger to UFO activity. 661 00:34:51,240 --> 00:34:56,660 Locals claim that they frequently see like strange lights, cigar shaped UFOs, and even 662 00:34:56,660 --> 00:35:02,360 some claiming that there is a subaquatic extraterrestrial base hidden at the bottom of Lake Baikal. 663 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,920 I really hope I'm pronouncing that right. 664 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:06,680 I'm pretty sure I am. 665 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:07,680 It's fine. 666 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:08,680 Someone will tell you if you're not. 667 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,160 Yeah, I'll get some angry comments. 668 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,520 But yeah, but that brings us to the incident we're about to talk to today. 669 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:18,800 So this is the story of the Russian military's encounter with what people call the Lake Baikal 670 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,040 swimmers. 671 00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:26,480 So in 1982, Soviet military divers were running a routine training exercise in the lake. 672 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:31,400 While on one of these dives at a depth of about 164 feet, one of the Navy men, I don't 673 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:37,480 know if they're called the Navy men, but one of the Navy men noticed strange humanoid shapes 674 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:38,720 swimming nearby. 675 00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:45,400 Now obviously there shouldn't be anyone in the lake because it is a military exercise. 676 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,760 And the Soviet military, and especially the 80s during the Cold War, they're pretty good 677 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,360 at keeping riff raff out. 678 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,320 You know what I mean? 679 00:35:55,320 --> 00:36:00,600 So the diver who first noticed the weird shapes got the attention of the other divers. 680 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:05,760 Basically what happened is they were watching the shapes and then several humanoid creatures 681 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:12,520 swim up to them and they were reported to be 10 feet tall, wearing tight fitting metallic 682 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:17,220 silver suits and a clear domed helmet that covered their entire head. 683 00:36:17,220 --> 00:36:23,760 So at this depth, I feel they were shocked because you should have like modern equipment 684 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,000 to like keep you like pressure out. 685 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,000 You know what I mean? 686 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,000 Like, yeah. 687 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000 So they were pretty freaked out. 688 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,520 The encounter only lasted just like moments. 689 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,040 And then the creatures kind of like scurried off back to whatever they were doing. 690 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,480 Now obviously they were out of sorts. 691 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:41,680 So the divers rose to the surface and then immediately were debriefed by their commanding 692 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:42,760 officer. 693 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,720 And after learning what had happened, and since I'm assuming he wasn't the one who would 694 00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:52,800 have to go back into the water, he ordered seven divers back in to try and capture one, 695 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,480 if not all, of the aquatic humanoid fish alien people. 696 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:01,200 Which I guess would that be like, all right, so they're aliens and they're trying to capture 697 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,200 one. 698 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:03,200 Is that considered an alien abduction? 699 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,200 Yes. 700 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,760 I had to throw that in there. 701 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:10,840 I thought that was a good, I had to. 702 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,640 No, I like it. 703 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:13,640 All right. 704 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:15,360 I needed validation for that joke. 705 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:16,360 It was pretty good. 706 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,880 Yeah, I think so. 707 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:26,400 As the seven divers descended down into the lake and battling ever dropping water temperatures, 708 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:31,600 I forgot I wrote this, the Arctic alien aquanauts finally emerged. 709 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:37,360 And at this moment, one of the divers attempted to capture one of the creatures, pretty much 710 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:38,360 Looney Tunes style. 711 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:42,200 He just had like a big net and just like tried to throw it at him. 712 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:49,280 Needless to say, they were not very excited about the idea of being captured. 713 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:55,160 So these aliens fought back and they did this by shooting high intensity sonar waves at 714 00:37:55,160 --> 00:38:00,540 the divers, pretty much rendering every single one of the members of the dive team unconscious 715 00:38:00,540 --> 00:38:04,160 and rapidly like shooting them to the surface. 716 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:09,160 Now I'm not sure if you or the listeners are aware of what happens to the human body when 717 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:13,280 you're down at very deep depths and then you just ascend at a very high rate. 718 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:14,280 You get the battens. 719 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:15,280 Yeah. 720 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:19,040 So you get decompression sickness, which is known as the bends. 721 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:25,600 So for anyone listening who doesn't know what the bends is, it's basically gas bubbles 722 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:32,960 form inside your body tissue during or like right after a sudden decompression ascent. 723 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:38,560 You know, like being shot by alien shock waves that knock you to the surface. 724 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:43,440 These bubbles can form or migrate to any part of the body and cause symptoms ranging from 725 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,600 like just like joint pain to like rashes all the way to paralysis and death. 726 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:53,360 Now as for our submerged Siberian alien hunting squad, which is I shouldn't have wrote that. 727 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,120 That was too much to say. 728 00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:01,320 Three of them are very seriously injured, but did not become affected by the bends. 729 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:02,320 I got to clear my throat. 730 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:03,880 I sound like a frog. 731 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:04,880 Yeah. 732 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:09,020 So three, three of them were seriously injured, but did not become affected by the bends. 733 00:39:09,020 --> 00:39:12,880 The other four, however, would require immediate transfer to a recompression chamber, which 734 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:18,160 is basically you go into like a big tube and they just kind of pump oxygen into you in 735 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:19,160 the room. 736 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:20,160 So good news. 737 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:21,480 There was one in the region. 738 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:22,480 Bad news. 739 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,720 It was only designed to fit two people. 740 00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:29,600 So out of desperation, all four men entered the chamber to save their lives in an attempt 741 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,600 that ultimately ended in tragedy. 742 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:36,280 Three of the four men losing their lives due to the encounter and those that did survive 743 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,000 were left with life altering disabilities. 744 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:45,240 And I'm sure like terrible PTSD from obviously being attacked by aliens in the shot to the 745 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:46,480 surface. 746 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:52,440 Now following this event, the KGB halted any further attempts at capturing like USOs or 747 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:53,440 aliens. 748 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:59,120 And for decades, this encounter was kept hidden by officials at the highest level. 749 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,680 Now I don't know how this story got out. 750 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:06,560 I've seen it claim that this story was came from like declassified Russian government 751 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:11,440 documents, which I couldn't find any real evidence or sources for aside from a Fox News 752 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:17,240 article reporting on a Russia Today story, which is if you don't know Russia Today is 753 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:23,960 pretty much a state run like Russian news outlet that say that it happened. 754 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:29,640 And all other sources of this story are pretty much copy and paste of the same information. 755 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,680 I think Nick Pope also did a YouTube video about it. 756 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:37,880 If you don't know Nick Pope, he's like a UFO researcher like Randall from Forrest, that 757 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:38,880 kind of stuff. 758 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:44,440 But I don't know, the Russian government isn't like the most trustworthy when it comes to 759 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:45,440 pretty much anything. 760 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,240 I didn't bring but yeah, this story is true. 761 00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:52,680 It's like one of the most harrowing alien counters that I have ever heard. 762 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:56,560 But that is the story of the Lake Baikal swimmers. 763 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:57,560 It's pretty messed up. 764 00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,040 It's not ideal. 765 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:06,120 No, it is interesting that they're referring to it as aliens rather than mermaids. 766 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,120 I don't know. 767 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:08,120 Yeah, I don't know. 768 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:13,320 I think I said the area has been like host to a lot of weird strange activity. 769 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,680 Scientists from the space station took pictures of the lake at one point and there was these 770 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:22,680 big circular like impressions or like missing parts of like the ice on top of the lakes, 771 00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:26,280 which people say are from UFOs going in and out. 772 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:31,520 So the idea of an alien base at the bottom of it isn't so far fetched to me. 773 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,680 But like I said, I have no idea. 774 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:39,000 But also those circular patterns on water when it gets frozen could be from anything. 775 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,400 I'm not trying to like disprove what happened. 776 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:49,160 Like I said, I don't even know if it's true, but it's pretty weird to say the least. 777 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:50,520 I didn't mean to bum everyone out. 778 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:51,520 This was a... 779 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:52,760 And then everyone's dad. 780 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:57,640 Yeah, when I started researching, I was like, oh, this is a cool story. 781 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:03,680 And then I got halfway through and I was like, God damn, this is a bummer. 782 00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,280 They're not all happy. 783 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:11,000 And I think that's what also made me think of mermaids as the killer mermaids of Zimbabwe. 784 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,000 Yeah. 785 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:18,240 It seemed somewhat similar in the attack aspect. 786 00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:22,600 Yeah, I never heard of anything underwater like hitting you with like a shockwave. 787 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:23,600 Yeah. 788 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:24,600 I don't know. 789 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,800 It didn't say like if they pulled out like a shockwave gun. 790 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:29,440 I don't know what a shockwave gun would look like. 791 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:30,440 I don't know how they did. 792 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,480 I don't know if it was like a scream and like a banshee scream or something like that. 793 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:35,480 I don't know. 794 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:36,480 But yeah, that's the story. 795 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:37,480 It's fucked up. 796 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,480 Sorry for bumming you all out. 797 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:41,480 Yeah. 798 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:42,480 So what do you think? 799 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:43,480 What do you think of this story? 800 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:48,520 Do you think it's like I said, it was from the KGB, from Russia. 801 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:49,520 I don't know. 802 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,360 Like I said, the only thing I could find about it is that they said it's from declassified 803 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:53,360 Russian documents. 804 00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:58,680 But again, that came from Fox News, which came from RT, which both of those are not. 805 00:42:58,680 --> 00:42:59,680 None of it's trustworthy. 806 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:00,680 Ideal. 807 00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:01,680 Yeah. 808 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,600 I mean, and that's the thing about any of these stories. 809 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:10,320 Like I used to tell the kids in my class during my summer discovery classes when they'd say 810 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,040 Ms. Lisa, is that true? 811 00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:16,920 I'd say, well, anything I teach you in this class may or may not be true. 812 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:23,440 And that's a good little, yeah, that's kind of what cryptozoology is at this point. 813 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,280 I mean, we can't prove it. 814 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,880 Otherwise it wouldn't be crypted. 815 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:32,600 So it may or may not be true. 816 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,520 And we have no way of knowing because we weren't there to witness it. 817 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,160 I don't think I'd want to be there to witness this though. 818 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:40,160 Oh, God no. 819 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:41,160 Definitely not. 820 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,880 First of all, I already don't like open water. 821 00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:49,760 Like if I if I can't touch and or see the bottom of where I am, I won't go in. 822 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:50,760 There's no way. 823 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:55,720 Like I can't do it because any little piece of anything that touches my foot, I'll immediately 824 00:43:55,720 --> 00:43:59,400 think sea monster and I will cry and I'll I'll just give up. 825 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:00,680 I'll just be like, take me. 826 00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:01,680 It's it. 827 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:02,680 It's over. 828 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,080 Just sink myself to the bottom. 829 00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,240 Like I can't do it. 830 00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:12,200 I can't even really swim, but I actually really enjoy the water. 831 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:16,480 And like I love going out on a boat and floating and things like that. 832 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,600 But I I'll go on a boat. 833 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:23,600 But like I have like I have to know that that boat is like sturdy. 834 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:28,680 Like I need to know that it's not going to just like descend to the bottom as soon as 835 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:29,680 I step foot on it. 836 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:30,680 Like there's no way. 837 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:31,680 All right. 838 00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,720 Well, Lisa, I had a blast talking to you. 839 00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:35,400 I had such a good time. 840 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,600 Thanks for having me on. 841 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:44,920 And I know I rambled a lot and got off topic several times, but that's just that's me. 842 00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:45,920 That's who I am. 843 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:50,040 That's again, just running theme for for any episode we do. 844 00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:51,040 It's fine. 845 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:55,640 And we're only like 10 minutes past like a normal episode length is. 846 00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,440 So well, there you go. 847 00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:58,440 We're all good. 848 00:44:58,440 --> 00:44:59,440 All right. 849 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:00,720 Thank you so much for listening. 850 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:06,920 Lisa, if you want to plug whatever you want to plug right now, websites, social media. 851 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:07,920 Yes. 852 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,880 Anything else? 853 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:15,200 Squonkapalooza.com Instagram at Squonkapalooza. 854 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:20,200 CrypticComforts.com Instagram Cryptid underscore Comforts. 855 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,200 That should have all my info. 856 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:31,200 It's also CryptoTeology.com at CryptoTeology for updates on everything Squonky. 857 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:36,280 And yeah, if you follow all three, you're definitely going to be in the know about anything 858 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:37,760 that happens. 859 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:41,440 Squonk related in the near future. 860 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,400 Well, definitely do all that, please. 861 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:45,400 Everyone listening. 862 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:49,840 And everyone go support the Scouts Kickstarter, please. 863 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:50,840 Do that. 864 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:57,240 And yeah, you can find links to that in all of our bios, I assume. 865 00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:01,960 You can also just go to at the Mothman is real on Instagram and they'll have links to 866 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,740 all that stuff as well. 867 00:46:03,740 --> 00:46:09,160 But also if you want to follow me on Instagram, it's at Cryptid Cocktail. 868 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,360 Also we just opened up, opened up. 869 00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:13,400 We started a co-fi. 870 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,960 If you want to donate to the show, help us raise money so that we can sponsor other festivals 871 00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,800 as well or even try and get to some of these festivals. 872 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:26,520 It's at it's a co-fi backslash Cryptid Cocktail party. 873 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,680 That'd be greatly appreciated. 874 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,560 But besides that, I don't think I have anything else to plug. 875 00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:36,280 So I guess we'll we'll we'll end the show and then I'll play the inter music now. 876 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:37,280 Thank you. 877 00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:38,280 All right. 878 00:46:38,280 --> 00:47:01,200 Thank you.