1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:25,400 Hey everybody! 2 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,720 Welcome back to another episode of Crypto Cocktail Party Show where we have a few drinks, 3 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,080 share a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. 4 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,640 I'm your host Dave, joined as always by my wonderful co-host Sarge. 5 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,240 How's it going handsome? 6 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,440 What's up motherfuckers? 7 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:46,000 This is going to be our first proper episode together in a while. 8 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,000 In like three weeks. 9 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Yeah, this is going to be insane. 10 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 This is a good time. 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,000 It's a good time. 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,000 I missed you. 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:52,000 I hated that you were gone. 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,000 I know, I hated it too. 15 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,720 But we did a little Halloween special together. 16 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:55,720 That was fun. 17 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:56,720 We did. 18 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:57,720 We did because I needed it. 19 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:58,720 I really needed it. 20 00:00:58,720 --> 00:00:59,720 Happy Veterans Day you motherfuckers. 21 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:00,720 Oh yeah, it's coming on Veterans Day. 22 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:01,720 Happy Veterans Day everyone. 23 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:03,720 All my brothers and sisters. 24 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:08,800 Yeah, thank you to Sarge for your service, I guess. 25 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:09,800 Sorry about gas prices. 26 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:11,600 Really thought we had that locked down. 27 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,240 No, I have a cousin who's in the military. 28 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,760 I actually have a few friends and stuff. 29 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:21,000 And they told me that they fucking hate being told thank you for your service. 30 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,080 Is that like across the board? 31 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:29,520 You know, I feel like people recognize like how fucking weird it is that like they just 32 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:34,600 met somebody who was like, yeah, you know, I was totally willing to die so that you could 33 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,280 eat Fritos. 34 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,800 And so like it's uncomfortable for people like they don't know what to say. 35 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,880 And so like thank you for your service has become like this default thing. 36 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,880 And so for me, it's not that I hate it. 37 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,580 It's that I don't know what to say afterwards. 38 00:01:50,580 --> 00:01:54,800 So we always joke like you're welcome for your freedom. 39 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,040 But obviously, I'm not going to say that to like a real person. 40 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,560 So I feel like if you did, I just say thank you. 41 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,820 They'd be like, I think they'd be fine. 42 00:02:02,820 --> 00:02:05,880 If they're the type of person that goes out to people and says thank you for your service, 43 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,680 they probably expect that kind of response back. 44 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,600 Yeah, like, yeah. 45 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,360 But I so typically I just say you're welcome. 46 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,280 Or I actually what I try to say, because I don't even want to say you're welcome. 47 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,760 Like I didn't fucking give you a freedom. 48 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,040 Don't thank me, thank George Washington. 49 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:27,000 So instead, I'm like, you know, thank you for supporting us or something like that, 50 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,380 something along those lines. 51 00:02:28,380 --> 00:02:31,320 So you basically like the opening band at a local show. 52 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,320 Just like, yeah, thanks for that's exactly. 53 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:34,320 Yeah. 54 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:35,320 Thanks for coming out. 55 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:36,320 Appreciate it. 56 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:37,600 We played all the hits tonight. 57 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:38,600 Thank you. 58 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,120 Like at least for me, like I feel bad for the for the fucking guys that like didn't 59 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,120 see combat. 60 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,920 And I don't mean like, no, I don't mean like, I just feel because like, what are they? 61 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:48,920 You know what I mean? 62 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:52,800 Like, yeah, I mean, like I manned a radar for six years. 63 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:54,920 So now you're welcome. 64 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:56,720 You don't have to thank me. 65 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:58,840 Like in my case, like at least I did combat missions. 66 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:04,480 Like I didn't experience any like fucking gunfights or anything like that. 67 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:05,780 You know, we were. 68 00:03:05,780 --> 00:03:12,200 But like the moment that we got murdered, I was like, OK, finally, I can I can be like, 69 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,120 yeah, yeah, I saw some shit. 70 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:15,120 You're welcome. 71 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:16,120 Yeah. 72 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:17,120 Yeah, exactly. 73 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:18,120 It wasn't bad. 74 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,960 I mean, I played Halo for the most part and Call of Duty. 75 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,120 But yeah, I was out on missions. 76 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,920 I was, you know, out in out in sector hanging out with the Iraqis. 77 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:33,480 So but I feel bad for the guys that like didn't have that because like, what do they say? 78 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:34,480 I don't know. 79 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,040 I've never been in a situation like it. 80 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,320 But the closest I've come to it's awkward. 81 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:39,320 Yeah, it's awkward. 82 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:40,320 I used to work. 83 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:41,720 You live in Philly, so you're close. 84 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:42,720 Yeah. 85 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:45,760 Well, when I back living in New Hampshire, I used to work in the in the Fox Run Mall 86 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:46,800 twice. 87 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:56,240 I was there as a manager at Hot Topic, if you can't tell by looking at me and also the 88 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:02,280 the manager of a journey is again, if you couldn't tell again, both make sense. 89 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,680 I would have managed a hot topic, too, but I didn't have enough piercings. 90 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,720 The Fox Run Mall is right next to Pease Air Force Base in Portsmouth. 91 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,560 Yes, I know it very well. 92 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:13,560 Yeah. 93 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,200 So we'd have like people come in all the time, like on their break and stuff like that. 94 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,080 Obviously, like in their fatigues, like they're fully. 95 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:21,080 Yeah, yeah. 96 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,480 And then I'd go to the what's it called? 97 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:28,000 I'd go to the food court on my lunch breaks to get like some pizza or something like that. 98 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,880 And you'd see like these just like a lone soldier just like eating this fucking food 99 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:39,920 court Chinese food and have in the span of like 20 minutes, like five white ladies just 100 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:41,840 like come up like, thank you for your service. 101 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:43,720 Like, you'll never finish a meal. 102 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,360 I'm just trying to eat my fucking lo mein, like leave me alone. 103 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,240 You can see the frustration. 104 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:50,640 It got so bad. 105 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:55,960 Like in the beginning, I used to wear my uniform like on my way to drill, you know, because 106 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,240 in the National Guard, we go to training one week at a month. 107 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,240 So I wear my uniform on the. 108 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,440 I remember those commercials. 109 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:04,440 They were never two weeks a year. 110 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,440 It was always like three weeks at the at the least. 111 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,200 And it was always like five fucking days, not a weekend. 112 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,880 But anyway, I would wear my uniform there so I didn't have to get changed when I got there. 113 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:18,120 And then I stopped doing that because I could never get through a fucking meal. 114 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,320 And it's again, I'm not ungrateful. 115 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,360 Yeah, I just want to eat in my head. 116 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:29,960 I was like, dude, if it was my lunch break from peas, I would just have like a like a 117 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,640 like a go bag of just like civilian clothes because I could not. 118 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:34,960 I couldn't handle it. 119 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:35,960 That's too much. 120 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:36,960 It's rough. 121 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,680 That's why I hope this show never blows up and no one really knows my face looks like 122 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,880 because I would. 123 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:48,000 I do have to tell you a funny story about Peace Air Force Base before we get started. 124 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,640 This is my favorite story ever. 125 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,520 It is about my grandfather, who is a fucking badass. 126 00:05:53,520 --> 00:06:00,440 This guy, he just like he's always been my superhero ever since I was a little kid. 127 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,360 I spent a lot of time with him because my parents worked a lot. 128 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:15,200 And so anyway, so back in the 40s, my grandfather had his pilot's license and he is just before 129 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,400 he deployed to Germany at the very end of the war. 130 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:23,200 And so he's on he's on Camp Edwards out in Cape Cod. 131 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:29,460 For those of you not familiar, Camp Edwards is where I've spent much of my military career, 132 00:06:29,460 --> 00:06:32,200 but also there's a lot of runways out there. 133 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:37,800 And so back in the day, you could just kind of steal an airplane. 134 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:38,800 As one does. 135 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:46,360 It's so my grandfather hopped in a little airplane, a little military aircraft with 136 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:47,360 his buddy. 137 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,600 And he flew up to Peace Air Force Base one day just because he felt like it because there 138 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,120 was a coffee shop there that he really liked at the base. 139 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,120 And so yeah. 140 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:02,280 And so he steals this airplane and lands at Peace Air Force Base, just as he's like getting 141 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:06,200 towards the coffee shop, he sees his commanding officer. 142 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:11,040 And he had no reason to be at Peace Air Force Base. 143 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:17,180 So immediately turns around, gets back in the plane and just flies back to Massachusetts. 144 00:07:17,180 --> 00:07:18,180 That's pretty good. 145 00:07:18,180 --> 00:07:21,400 I thought for a second, I thought for a second you were going to say he was driving from 146 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:26,480 peace to the coffee shop and he saw his commanding officer in a plane like tailing the car. 147 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,480 You mother fucker. 148 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,080 You can't just steal government property like that. 149 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:33,680 That would have been good. 150 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:35,120 The planes are side by side. 151 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,040 He just like slides down in the seat. 152 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:38,720 So it looks like the plane's flying itself. 153 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:39,720 Oh man. 154 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:44,560 The autopilot from fucking what is airplanes just to fucking inflatable. 155 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:45,560 Yeah. 156 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:46,560 Yeah, exactly. 157 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,000 But yeah, my grandfather is my absolute hero. 158 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,640 I never got to steal an airplane. 159 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,680 So, you know, there's still time. 160 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,440 I was gonna say we've got plenty of time, bud. 161 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:57,440 All right. 162 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:58,440 Well, fuck. 163 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,880 I'm sorry if I'm wheezing and I breathe in a lot. 164 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,040 There's forest fires all around me. 165 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,520 And yeah, no, that same thing. 166 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:06,520 Same thing here. 167 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,960 There was, there's been forest fires everywhere. 168 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:13,360 So yeah, in Pennsylvania and in South Jersey, there's forest fire. 169 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:19,520 So my city right now, you walk outside, it looks like a post-apocalyptic world. 170 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,400 It's almost like, it's almost as bad as the wildfires last year when the smoke came in 171 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,120 from Canada or. 172 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:26,120 Oh God. 173 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:27,120 Yeah. 174 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,960 So my, my lungs are, uh, needless to say, they're not great. 175 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:32,960 Okay. 176 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:39,600 Um, uh, Sarge, are you ready to dive into today? 177 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,600 I am still ready. 178 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,960 You made a motion like this is a visual medium. 179 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:46,960 I know. 180 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:47,960 I always do that. 181 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:49,280 No one can see me. 182 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:50,280 Just the camera. 183 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:51,280 I get it. 184 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,240 You're used to making your little fun TikTok videos. 185 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:54,240 I'm sorry. 186 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:55,240 I'm taking a break. 187 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,600 I, you know, I started for a little bit. 188 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,640 I started coming back and then I was like, you know what? 189 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,200 I need a break again. 190 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,240 So um, but yes, I am. 191 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:08,000 I can see you on the camera and I feel like everyone's watching and they're not. 192 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,560 It's just me, but hey, I'm your biggest fan. 193 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:10,560 So it doesn't matter. 194 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:11,560 Um, all right. 195 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:17,600 So in, uh, so we have the, uh, so Sarge and I, Cryptic cocktail party, we have the distinct 196 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:26,360 honor of being, um, part of the, uh, I guess the influencer community, uh, for a new TCG 197 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,640 coming out for anyone who doesn't know what TCG stands for. 198 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:29,960 It stands for trading card game. 199 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,840 And that is the new TCG Cryptid Camp. 200 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:39,200 It's being run in part by, uh, Erica Fett, who you may know from the Camp Cryptid podcast. 201 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,000 So I'm super excited about it. 202 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:48,640 And in honor of us being invited into the Cryptid Camp, uh, camp, I guess, uh, I figured 203 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:54,800 this week we would begin our journey as Cryptid Camp counselors by covering a Cryptid slash 204 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:59,720 folkloric creature that I've always wanted to cover, but I just haven't gotten around 205 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:00,720 to it. 206 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,560 And coincidentally, not only is it one of the first prototype cards that they ever released 207 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:10,600 to the public parts of its story kind of mirror some of the stuff happening in our country 208 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:11,800 right now. 209 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,440 So I figured, Hey, what better time than now? 210 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:16,440 Right? 211 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,240 Would you say what's on fire? 212 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:19,240 Uh, kinda. 213 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:24,120 Uh, so, so today's search, we're going to be headed to the great state of Maryland. 214 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:27,560 Uh, you're a Ben, I've never been, I don't think I've ever been in Maryland. 215 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:28,560 Oh yeah. 216 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:30,040 I've definitely been to Maryland. 217 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:36,800 Uh, I've been to Baltimore, um, and I've been to parts that aren't terrible. 218 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:42,760 Um, I saw Edgar Allen Poe's, uh, grave site, which is fucking cool. 219 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:43,760 Oh hell yeah. 220 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:45,440 I've been to Maryland a couple of times. 221 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:46,440 Yeah. 222 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,600 Well, for those who don't know, uh, Maryland is famous for a few things. 223 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,120 Uh, one of which being crabs, blue crabs. 224 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:56,640 Uh, there's a, they have a broke ass version of clam chowder called cream of crab soup, 225 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:58,400 whatever the fuck that is. 226 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,600 And it's also home to one of the worst things to ever happen to French fries since the whole 227 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,000 freedom fry nonsense. 228 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,040 And that is old Bay seasoning. 229 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:12,840 Um, it's, it's, it seems like Maryland doesn't have much going on, but, uh, but one thing 230 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,720 that it does have that separates from all the other states in the union, those other 231 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:21,820 states, they don't have what I can only describe as a nightmare half reptile, half bird, one 232 00:11:21,820 --> 00:11:26,760 eyed metallic beak tentacle monster known as the snally gaster. 233 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,360 Are you familiar with the snally gasser? 234 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:30,360 Your face says it all. 235 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:31,360 I am, I am not. 236 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:32,360 Okay. 237 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:33,360 The snally gaster? 238 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,880 You know, the snally gasser, it's a fucking nightmare, dude. 239 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:37,880 It's not good. 240 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:43,360 It sounds like, it sounds like you asked an Australian to name an elephant. 241 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:55,420 No, it's a, it's so, so the snally gaster, uh, well, I guess the story of the snally 242 00:11:55,420 --> 00:12:01,960 gasser AKA the Schneller guys, AKA the Schlangen geist. 243 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:03,760 That's my favorite Schlangen geist. 244 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:04,760 There we go. 245 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,800 Is that actually, that's translates to a snake spirit. 246 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:08,800 We'll get to it. 247 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:13,960 Uh, so this actually all begins way back in the 1700s when German immigrants made their 248 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:20,240 way to the good old us of a now these settlers, which eventually became to be known as the 249 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:25,760 Pennsylvania Dutch brought with them a rich tapestry of folklore, myths and culture as 250 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,280 any good immigrant does. 251 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:31,520 It's why we should allow them into our country periodically. 252 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:32,880 I feel like, yeah, I agree. 253 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,000 I mean, like you can't go around telling everybody you're the greatest country in the world. 254 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,680 And then they're like, oh cool. 255 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:39,680 Can I come in? 256 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:45,120 And they're like, no, nah, dude, sucks a suck nerd. 257 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:49,120 Among these legends and myths were stories of monsters, winged creatures and like spooky 258 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:50,360 ass ghosts. 259 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:55,900 Uh, actually initially the snally gase, uh, initially the snally gaster was more like 260 00:12:55,900 --> 00:13:01,720 a ghostly apparition, like a, like a, like a, like a vaporous shape that would just like 261 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:03,200 appear to people. 262 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:07,320 But over time, the German settlers in the Appalachian region, and especially those in 263 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,720 Maryland, they started combining some of those old, like Germanic folklore stories with new 264 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:17,040 local fears, uh, about like the untamed wilderness and the unknown of living in like in a new 265 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:18,040 land. 266 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:24,400 It's now the gaster began to evolve from just like a fucking, like a fuck boys vape cloud 267 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:26,520 to just like a straight up like nightmare. 268 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,720 Like like the evolution of this thing is fucking wild. 269 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:35,960 So it started out as like a, like I said, like just like a ghostly cloud. 270 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:42,280 So the descriptions of the snally gaster, it kind of now changes depending on who you 271 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,180 ask and like where in the region you ask it. 272 00:13:45,180 --> 00:13:51,400 But Sarge, if based off the name alone, snally gaster, I want you to tell me what you think 273 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:52,960 this thing would look like. 274 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:57,560 Oh man, with no, with no context whatsoever. 275 00:13:57,560 --> 00:14:02,600 Snally gaster is a guy wearing an Adidas tracksuit. 276 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,120 You're too far south. 277 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,400 You're thinking Jersey, you're thinking Jersey, right? 278 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:10,400 But hear me out. 279 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:11,400 He's got a scally cap. 280 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:12,400 Okay. 281 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:18,800 In the 1700s, in a giant nose. 282 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:23,840 And he says, he says, what's going on guy to everybody he runs into. 283 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:29,160 You're describing most people outside of dives in Brockton right now. 284 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:30,160 Yeah. 285 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:31,160 Okay. 286 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:32,160 All right. 287 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:33,160 What's going on guy? 288 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:34,160 What's up kid? 289 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:38,440 Uh, you know me just, uh, just doing my snally gaster shit. 290 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:40,840 I'm going to start saying that whenever I do anything. 291 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:44,680 When I, when I know I'm about to do something that is just deplorable, you know, you know 292 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:50,320 me, I'm just on that snally gaster shit. 293 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:54,040 So like I said, the description of the Sally gaster inside, I'm just going to tell you 294 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:55,040 right off the bat. 295 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,320 You are so far off. 296 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,560 It changes depending on who you ask and we're in the region. 297 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:06,520 So it's basically just like a chimera of all the worst things just smashed into one creature. 298 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:13,480 So the most common description of it is that it's a large scale covered beast with a 20 299 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:22,360 foot long tail wings, four legs with claws that are said to be glowing hot metal that 300 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:26,120 will just fucking like ruin your whole world. 301 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:31,800 Has a metallic beak lined with razor sharp teeth and a tongue that resembles octopus 302 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,920 tentacles plural, not just one tentacle. 303 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:42,040 It's a full on, uh, and it has a large singular glowing eye in the middle of its head. 304 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,320 It also says that some descriptions give it horns. 305 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:46,800 Either way doesn't matter. 306 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:47,800 It has wings. 307 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,460 So this fucker is airborne and it's a nightmare. 308 00:15:50,460 --> 00:15:51,460 How you feeling? 309 00:15:51,460 --> 00:15:53,680 You look upset by this description. 310 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:58,920 I just feel like the name isn't really doing it. 311 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:07,280 Like this thing could be called the doom dragon or like, I don't know. 312 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:16,800 I just feel like snally gaster is a guy outside a dive bar in, in, uh, Brockton offering to 313 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:19,920 show your girlfriend his Schlangengeist. 314 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:26,800 But instead what we got is this monster that I feel like I've seen in a D and D session. 315 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,920 Yeah, it's very, um, it's very bold. 316 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:30,920 It's very boulders gate. 317 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:31,920 Ask. 318 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:32,920 Okay. 319 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:33,920 Yeah. 320 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:34,920 You know what I mean? 321 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:35,920 Like it's not ideal. 322 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:36,920 The Nate, you're right. 323 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:44,480 I don't give it justice, but you know, Schlangengeist is kinda, that does not also give it the name 324 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:45,480 it deserves. 325 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,720 Well, that's what, that's what the snally gaster calls his penis is the Schlangengeist. 326 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,120 The Schlangengeist got it. 327 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:56,440 So the, now the snally gaster was to, was believed to be a predator. 328 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,240 No fucking shit. 329 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,500 I would guess that metal teeth and everything. 330 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:04,920 It was a, it was said to swoop down from the sky and grab livestock. 331 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,720 And every so often I was like a little treat to itself. 332 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:12,580 Some people now in this sense, the snally gaster represented the dangers of the new 333 00:17:12,580 --> 00:17:17,400 world that lurk just beyond the safety of home and a reminder of just like how perilous 334 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,800 the wilderness was for like those early immigrants. 335 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:25,320 Well that's why I like on, on maps, on old maps, if they didn't know what was beyond 336 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,920 a certain area, they drew a monster. 337 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:28,920 Yeah. 338 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:29,920 Yeah. 339 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:30,920 Yeah. 340 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:31,920 Why not? 341 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:32,920 Fuck it. 342 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,080 Oh yeah, we're time jumping now. 343 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:36,080 Okay. 344 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:37,080 Spoiler, spoiler. 345 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:38,080 We're, we're time jumping. 346 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:42,880 The Snally gaster had been part of like the local folklore in the region for over a century, 347 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:48,720 but between 1909 and 1903, that changed real fucking quick. 348 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:53,480 Reports started coming in from all over Maryland of giant wing creatures with a metal beak 349 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:58,680 swooping down from above, snatching livestock, buzzing houses, like a drunk pilot, probably 350 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:00,640 your grandfather. 351 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:04,080 All the while this thing is just like, he didn't drink though. 352 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:05,080 He didn't drink though. 353 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:06,400 So he was just fired up on caffeine. 354 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:11,000 Well, either way, this thing was just screaming nonstop into the night sky. 355 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,080 And I mean like literal screaming. 356 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:13,800 I don't know what it sounded like. 357 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,600 No, that also sounds like my grandfather. 358 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:16,600 Okay. 359 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:17,600 Fair enough. 360 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:18,600 He was an angry man. 361 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:19,600 I loved him for it. 362 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,080 Now I don't know what it sounded like, but I am Matt. 363 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:26,840 You ever see that video of like that pug who was trying to get his nails clipped and it's 364 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:28,240 just screaming. 365 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,880 That's what I kind of think it sounds like sort of, you know, the one talking about. 366 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,200 See I was immediately thinking of the screaming goats. 367 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,480 It's well, this kind of actually this pug kind of sounds like that. 368 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:38,760 It's not far off. 369 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:45,400 Like imagine if you see this giant metallic fucking evil dragon with molten claws and 370 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,720 then it's just like, ah, ah, or like the little frog. 371 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:50,720 You know the one I'm talking about? 372 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,840 Oh, the adorable little frog. 373 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:54,840 The angry frog. 374 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:55,840 Yeah. 375 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:56,840 Yeah. 376 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:57,840 I feel like. 377 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:02,120 I feel like it's probably more aggressive than that, but it's way funnier to imagine 378 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:05,120 it just being like, yeah, it's like Mike Tyson's voice. 379 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:08,520 Like I would never make fun of the man to his face, but his voice is adorable. 380 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:12,280 Now one of the most famous sightings came from a local farmer who said the creature 381 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:15,680 just like straight up obliterated his lifestyle. 382 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,240 Like all of it, like just absolutely slaughtered. 383 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:23,280 Like everything he had and it left huge claw marks on trees and structures around the property 384 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:28,240 as well as like when it ever was seen over like other local municipalities, like just 385 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:29,760 just leave claw marks. 386 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:34,760 Now these stories caught the attention of the media with the Washington Post covering 387 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:35,760 a majority of them. 388 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,920 Now at this time, the Washington Post wasn't like what it is now. 389 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:39,920 It wasn't WAPO. 390 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:40,920 You know what I mean? 391 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,360 Like it was just, yeah, it was just in the area. 392 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:48,280 And with these stories coming from somewhat credible sources, like farmers, townspeople, 393 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:57,240 police officers, which is wild to think that in 1909 that was your credible sources. 394 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:01,920 And with the description of the creatures being so vivid, other national news outlets 395 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:08,880 started covering the stories and kind of grew what was like local folklore into a real living 396 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:15,600 threat that was like actively fucking up whole communities in the area. 397 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:16,600 Jesus. 398 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:21,800 And now because of all this new found fame, people did what they did best. 399 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,760 Can you guess what we Americans do best when there's a threat to our community? 400 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:27,720 I want you to guess. 401 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,080 An armed mob with guns and torches. 402 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:37,360 So there was that and to add fuel to the fire, the Smithsonian Institute, like the Smithsonian 403 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:46,560 Institute, they got involved offering a bounty for the creature for either capturing or 404 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,560 killing the creature and giving them its hide. 405 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,880 And here's where things get good. 406 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:58,040 President Theodore Roosevelt, avid adventurer and hunter that he is, was rumored to have 407 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:05,160 almost canceled a diplomatic trip to Europe to gather up a posse and try and hunt this 408 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:06,160 thing. 409 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,520 But there's no evidence that he actually made any attempt to actually do it. 410 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:13,560 But there was talk that he did actually was like, fuck this trip. 411 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,200 World War One is about to pop off. 412 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,680 I don't have time for this shit. 413 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,960 There's a snout, the gasser running around. 414 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:23,720 That's what happens is without question the most American story we have told on this show. 415 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,000 It's quintessential. 416 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,720 And what better time to do it than Veterans Day, which I did not even know was tomorrow 417 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:38,280 because most people don't. 418 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,960 They only care about us when there's a war on. 419 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:41,960 Yeah. 420 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,360 You're not much good to us besides that. 421 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:50,760 So, yeah, if CNN doesn't have at least one night vision footage clip, no one remembers 422 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,960 that they are veterans in America. 423 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,160 Now, thank you for your service. 424 00:21:55,160 --> 00:22:02,520 Now over time, this, this wave of sighting freedom, this wave of sightings and monster 425 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,880 hunting died down as they always do. 426 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:10,200 And for a little time, you know, mum was the word from the sally gasser for like a first 427 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:14,160 a little while that is until the 1930s, specifically 19. 428 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,440 Oh my God. 429 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:17,640 Specifically 19. 430 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:22,480 Why can't I fucking say this word specifically? 431 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:23,480 19. 432 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:24,480 What's the matter? 433 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,480 Schlangengeist got your tongue? 434 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:30,720 1932 when things started to ramp up again. 435 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:34,840 What's different about these sightings, though, is that they introduce a new element to the 436 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:39,680 sightings moonshine still see this is during the time. 437 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:45,520 This is during the age of prohibition in the U.S. a time where I would not have thrived 438 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,760 and more than likely I would have gone blind from bath bathtub gin within like the first 439 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:50,760 year. 440 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:54,000 But all same. 441 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:58,880 Well during this time, there was a shit ton of illegal distilleries hidden in the remote 442 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,680 areas of Maryland. 443 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:05,600 People moonshiners claim the sally gasser was attracted to these sites for one reason 444 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:11,640 like or another, and in the late 1932 reports came out that a sally gasser had fallen into 445 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:16,160 a vat of boiling moonshine mash and died when discovered. 446 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,040 All that were left of the of the beast was like its bones. 447 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,680 But obviously no evidence was ever produced to confirm this story. 448 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:28,560 And many believe that these 1930 sightings were just part of a hoax or some sort of like 449 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:34,600 tactic by moonshiners as a ploy to keep police and prohibition like agents away from their 450 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:35,600 stills. 451 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:42,000 Or they're making high content alcoholic beverages and just getting fucked up on their own supply 452 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,120 and see in all manner of pink elephants. 453 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:45,320 It could be that. 454 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:50,080 But I'm going to go with the previous one and say that they just started talking shit 455 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,160 to make sure to try and keep people away. 456 00:23:53,160 --> 00:24:00,240 But it but it does kind of make sense considering like after 1932 sightings kind of just stopped 457 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:05,680 again and I'm sure it's just a coincidence that prohibition happened to have ended in 458 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:06,680 1933. 459 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:11,120 So I'm thinking it probably has a lot more to do with them being like stay away from 460 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:14,120 the stills, the sally. 461 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:15,120 What is it? 462 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:20,240 Oh, sally gasser is going to come down and get you if you touch my alcohol. 463 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:21,240 Don't drink it. 464 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:26,400 But this isn't the first or only example of the sally gasser being labeled as a hoax or 465 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,800 being used to frighten people for some pretty fucked up reasons. 466 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:38,520 The the sally gasser has what some would call a complex and layered background, a.k.a. 467 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,160 maybe some racist shit going on. 468 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,880 Yeah, this is racism in America. 469 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:43,880 No, that's crazy. 470 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,080 It's going to get we're not racist. 471 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:51,360 So from here, it's going to get a little bummer for a minute. 472 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:53,240 I'm sorry. 473 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,480 But it's it's history. 474 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,000 So history is fun, right? 475 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,000 You don't. 476 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,640 Yeah, it's it's you know, it's it's really fun. 477 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,440 Like 1939, Germany is. 478 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,320 And then, oh, no, we're going far back in American history. 479 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,840 This is like 1860s America. 480 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,960 We just did a great job. 481 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,160 So so so in the antebellum south, which I just learned today, the antebellum means like 482 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,880 pre-war and then in America, that means like pre-Civil War. 483 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:21,880 Fun fact. 484 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:22,880 Yeah. 485 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:28,000 So in the antebellum south, various legends of ghosts, monsters, curses, what have you 486 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:34,240 were used by those in power, i.e. slaveholder plantation owners to create the impression 487 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:40,320 that the wilderness was dangerous and supernatural as a means to control and deter enslaved people 488 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:41,320 from escaping. 489 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:45,840 And the legend of the Snallygaster was not immune from being used in this way. 490 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:46,840 Of course. 491 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:47,840 Yeah. 492 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,840 So escaping from enslavement and running into unknown woods or mountains already seems like 493 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,360 an impossible feat. 494 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:59,200 Now throwing a winged, one-eyed, metallic beak, tentacle mouth monster that just happens 495 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,040 to also live in those woods and mountains. 496 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:05,520 And you're going to be slightly less inclined to want to go in there. 497 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:10,800 You know, I mean, this is really par for the course for slaveholders because they tried 498 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:17,360 other mythical beings in the Bible to justify being awful. 499 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:21,240 And I guess when they were like, well, the Bible's not working, let's invent a molten 500 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,360 dragon creature with a hard to pronounce name. 501 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:25,360 Here's the thing. 502 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:26,360 The Bible's fake. 503 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:27,360 Snallygaster is real. 504 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:28,360 So. 505 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:29,360 Okay. 506 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:30,360 Fair enough. 507 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:31,360 You make a good point. 508 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:37,760 Now, they pretty they pretty much like put it in the enslaved people's heads that while 509 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,240 you may be able to avoid the master at night because he's sleeping or something like that, 510 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,720 you can't really avoid the supernatural, if that makes sense. 511 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:46,720 Yeah. 512 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,760 So they kind of use that as a tactic now. 513 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,280 But that was the seventeen hundreds. 514 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:55,560 What about like the sightings in like nineteen oh nine through nineteen thirteen? 515 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,120 You know, like what does that have to do? 516 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:02,720 Well, one thing I may have left out was that many of those original reports from the time 517 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:11,360 seem to imply or just straight up say that the snallygaster only praise at night and 518 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:15,280 specifically on black people. 519 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,400 Now, god damn it. 520 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,280 God damn it. 521 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:26,360 You know, this is just some mongo fucking Klansman riding around with like a torch, 522 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:30,440 blowing fire at people because he's got moonshine in his mouth. 523 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:31,440 God damn it. 524 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,920 It's not Spring Hill Jack or the devil of the dunes that we talked about the very first 525 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:36,920 time he came on. 526 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:37,920 No one's blowing fire. 527 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:43,920 And we're going to get to it now on February 12th, 1909, which just happens to be the same 528 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:50,160 day that the NAACP was founded, a newspaper called the Valley Register had a headline 529 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:55,920 about the Snallygaster that read, quote, The colored people are in great danger, end quote. 530 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:01,040 And then went on to say that, quote, This vampire devil only attacks colored people. 531 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,560 It is seldom seen during the day feeding at night only. 532 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:09,840 And the strange part is, is that it seems to prefer colored men to colored women, though 533 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,920 it attacks the latter at times. 534 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:12,920 End quote. 535 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,320 There's more of these, but if you want to say something, get it out now. 536 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:21,720 So the Snallygaster is essentially like Jim Crow, Alabama, really just targeting black 537 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:22,720 folks. 538 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,000 Well, all right. 539 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,440 I wrote this down later on in the script, but I will say this. 540 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,040 The Snallygaster wasn't invented for this. 541 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,200 It was used by white people. 542 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:39,360 So you can say whatever you want, but the Snallygaster, its origins aren't specifically 543 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:44,680 to disparage and to control the African-American black community. 544 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:45,680 Yeah. 545 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,760 Neither were the police, but that's eventually where it went. 546 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:55,360 Well, I mean, that's not, I think they kind of were. 547 00:28:55,360 --> 00:29:00,520 The police specifically, I think were used for that. 548 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:01,520 I'm sorry. 549 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:02,520 I meant the constitution. 550 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,920 No, that too was also invented too. 551 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:05,920 Yeah. 552 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:06,920 Fuck. 553 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:07,920 No. 554 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:08,920 Why is America so fucking racist? 555 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,320 Why can't I have a cryptid that's just bad ass? 556 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:13,320 It's a doom dragon. 557 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:18,240 Then there has been a lot of like a controversy over the Snallygaster recently, which is weird 558 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:23,160 because most folkloric and or cryptid, I mean, a lot of them can date back. 559 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:29,400 Like the fucking Mothman was born out of a fucking legend about a native American chief 560 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,400 getting murdered. 561 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:35,160 I mean, like it all kind of goes back to us white people being just the worst puck wudgies, 562 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:36,160 all of that stuff. 563 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,360 The, the legend of Mount Chikora. 564 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:38,480 Would you just call me? 565 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:39,480 The curse. 566 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:40,480 I'm sorry. 567 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:41,480 The curse of Mount Chikora. 568 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:42,480 Yeah. 569 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:48,200 So another article written around that time included a statement from an eyewitness that 570 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:53,480 said that the Snallygaster was quote, an omen of ill for colored voters who deserted the 571 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:58,700 Republican party in the presidential election and quote, with other outlets reporting. 572 00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:05,720 And I hesitate to say this, but this is the quote, quote, this is the headline. 573 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,800 White bird preys upon Negro children after dark. 574 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:09,800 End quote. 575 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:10,800 Yeah. 576 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:11,800 It's not great. 577 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:16,000 Uh, so the Snallygaster is taking black jobs is what you're saying. 578 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:21,000 No, unless you're saying that black people prey on other black children at night. 579 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,000 No, no, no, no. 580 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,640 I mean, that's what I'm saying is a Snallygaster has taken black jobs. 581 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:31,600 The Snallygaster is, is, is, you know, the, the new boogie is the boogeyman of its time. 582 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,640 Oh, cause like, gotcha. 583 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:38,720 Cause the Democrats were taking black jobs and now it's before that it was a Snallygaster. 584 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:39,720 Yeah. 585 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,560 Uh, Jesus fucking Christ. 586 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:46,360 Now one source that I used for a lot of this was, uh, Atlas Obscura. 587 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:47,520 They're really good. 588 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,640 If you don't know that they're phenomenal. 589 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:50,640 So good. 590 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:51,640 Yeah. 591 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:55,800 Uh, they had a quote from one of their sources, a book called Knight writers and black folk 592 00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:01,760 history by Gladys Marie Frye that for anyone listening that may be confused by what exactly 593 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:06,960 the tactics being used here are, I think that this kind of sums it up pretty well. 594 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:11,860 Cause it's probably better than either me and you could ever, cause I know what's happening. 595 00:31:11,860 --> 00:31:14,840 You know what's happening, but how do you put into words what's happening? 596 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,880 So they said, quote, the primary aim of such pressure was to discourage the unauthorized 597 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:24,880 movement of blacks, especially at night by making them afraid of encountering supernatural 598 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,080 beings from the post civil war to world war one. 599 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:33,560 The method helped to stem the black movement from rural farming communities to the S of 600 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,840 in the South, to the urban industrial centers of the North. 601 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:42,880 Basically what's happening here is that they're using the supernatural and the superstitious 602 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:47,680 aspect of like the African American community and the black community to drive them from 603 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,320 the South to the North. 604 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,920 They want to get you all, everyone out of there. 605 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:56,800 So now it's probably no coincidence that around the turn of the century, you did see a lot 606 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:01,160 of black people start like leaving the rural and mountainous parts of Maryland for urban 607 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,960 environments like Baltimore and even further North. 608 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:04,960 Yeah. 609 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:09,440 So, and there are many more examples of this type of reporting on the sally gaster in the 610 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:14,720 1900s, but I think it's super important to note again that like the story and myth of 611 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,480 the sally gaster wasn't created specifically for this purpose. 612 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:23,720 It's just us whites being whites and just using it to try and, you know, to our advantage. 613 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,720 Crack is going to crack. 614 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:26,720 Yeah. 615 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:31,880 The legend had been in circulation for a while, just like the timing wasn't great for this 616 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,600 story to be around. 617 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,200 You know what I mean? 618 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,480 Just makes me so angry. 619 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:37,480 Yeah. 620 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,600 Well, I mean, expand on that. 621 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,200 How are you feeling right now about the sally gaster as a whole? 622 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:46,600 And then also what it's being, you know, I feel like this, I feel bad for the sally gaster. 623 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:47,600 Honestly, right? 624 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,760 Like, I can't imagine this dragon's like, no, no, no, no. 625 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,840 I only like that version of human. 626 00:32:54,840 --> 00:33:00,000 But also like it just, it frustrates me anytime there's something to be afraid of that a group 627 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:07,160 will will cling to it and then try to target people, like weaponize it towards a specific 628 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,160 group of people. 629 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,160 It's fucked up. 630 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:14,240 Which if you just look through our history, it's something we've been doing forever. 631 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,240 Oh yeah. 632 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,200 It's happened to every marginalized group. 633 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:23,560 And it's so frustrating to me because it's like, this is, this is like a folktale, like 634 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,280 a harmless fucking folktale. 635 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:27,280 Yeah. 636 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:32,800 And they're just going after people with it and being like, no, no, no, it's coming right 637 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:33,800 for you. 638 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,200 If you happen to leave your house at night to move to a better place. 639 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:38,200 Yeah. 640 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:39,200 Like, come on. 641 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,160 No, this is so, so this is, I didn't even leave. 642 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,800 I left out the, there's a whole portion of this. 643 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:50,000 That's like the xenophobia of the, I mean, that was really big in the early 1900s. 644 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000 Oh no, I'm talking about against the Italians. 645 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,440 I'm talking about like the Germans who brought this here. 646 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:56,680 Like there was Germans too. 647 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:57,680 There was like Germans. 648 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:03,160 Like I didn't put any of that in because let's put it this way. 649 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,080 German Americans are doing just fine. 650 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:06,080 Yeah. 651 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:07,080 Yeah. 652 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,080 No, they're doing fine. 653 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:09,080 Yeah. 654 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,600 Just like the Irish, the Irish caught it for a while, but they're doing okay. 655 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:12,600 Yeah. 656 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,600 But Hey, Sarge, let's, let's move on to, so why some people may have thought this little 657 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:17,600 guy was a hoax. 658 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:23,240 We'll, we'll move on from our terrible history and you know, just kind of fucking. 659 00:34:23,240 --> 00:34:27,080 There's only so much awful things about this country that I can take in the, in the course 660 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,080 of a day. 661 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:29,080 Yeah. 662 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,320 Especially cause I volunteered to die for it at one point. 663 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:32,320 Thank you for your service. 664 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,320 Yeah. 665 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:34,320 You're welcome for your freedom. 666 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,480 I'm sorry about gas prices. 667 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:46,320 So we, we've, I think, I think it's like a common trope that immigrants are bad. 668 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,440 And if you look across the world, this has just been a typical thing. 669 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:57,160 It's part of the reason why the Roma got shit on so much because they just frequently traveled. 670 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:58,160 Just stop moving around. 671 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,360 So that frustrates me, you know, but I also feel really bad about the Snallygaster because 672 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,600 this is, this is like such a harmless little fucking folklore thing. 673 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:05,600 Like is it harmless? 674 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:11,200 It has talons made out of molten metal and a beak that has full on hentai coming out 675 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,800 of it. 676 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,560 So essentially it's just, you know, a predator drone. 677 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:17,560 Fair enough. 678 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:18,560 Thanks Obama. 679 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:19,560 It's there to help. 680 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:25,200 This can all be traced back to Obama. 681 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:26,200 Yeah. 682 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,920 That's I've been saying that a lot recently because that was my favorite thing to say 683 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:29,920 back in the day. 684 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:30,920 It's so good. 685 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:35,160 Now, like I said, we're going to talk about how this thing may be a hoax. 686 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,080 And when I say hoax, I mean it like in like the pretty loosest of terms. 687 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:44,640 So when the Snallygaster gained all that widespread attention in the early 1900s, like reports 688 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:49,360 of sightings grew, which meant more stories to sensationalize and publish. 689 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:54,600 Now this leads some historians to think that some papers, mainly the Valley Register, the 690 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,440 one who did a lot of that racist shit may have been fabricating stories of the Snallygaster 691 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,280 as a way to like boost sales. 692 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:07,520 Their articles were like always wildly sensationalized and they relied heavily on super dramatic 693 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,000 descriptions that would draw in more readers, more eyes, stuff like that. 694 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,400 So like the New York Post. 695 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:13,400 Yeah. 696 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,960 Or the Washington Examiner or every other newspaper. 697 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:17,960 Yeah. 698 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,680 But what I found out while writing this is that this type of writing paired with the 699 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:26,920 fact that like newspaper hoaxes were a popular form of entertainment and publicity for the 700 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,880 papers, kind of like national inquire type shit. 701 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,640 Like it led tabloid media. 702 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:38,560 Yeah, it led people to suggest that the Snallygaster legend was in part at least stoked more by 703 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,640 financial reasons rather than like genuine eyewitness accounts. 704 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:49,360 So they think that like these newspapers, especially this one, was like just full on 705 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:54,040 fabricating stories to try and like boost sales, which I mean, it makes sense. 706 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,040 Why wouldn't you? 707 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:56,040 I mean, right. 708 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:57,040 It's 1909. 709 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,880 Who the fuck's fact checking you? 710 00:36:58,880 --> 00:36:59,880 Do you even have fact checkers? 711 00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:00,880 Yeah. 712 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:06,160 Like it takes five days for you to hear news from four towns over. 713 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:07,840 Like it's no one's going to. 714 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:13,040 Well, it was like it was a popular trope back in the day to say that your political opponent 715 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:19,920 had died because it took forever to to dispel that. 716 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:20,920 That's great. 717 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:21,920 We should go back to that. 718 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:22,920 That's real funny. 719 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:30,280 Like like Ben Franklin actually, Ben Franklin used that trope against somebody and he held 720 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:34,900 it out for like a full year saying that the guy had been dead, even though like people 721 00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:36,500 kept saying he was alive. 722 00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:38,040 And then he finally did die. 723 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:42,480 And Ben Franklin was like, I commend his supporters for finally admitting the truth. 724 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,040 That's so fucking good. 725 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,360 Yeah, it's pretty awesome. 726 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:51,180 No, with like with like the financial reasons and all that stuff, you add in the fact that 727 00:37:51,180 --> 00:37:56,400 there's no solid evidence that the Snallygaster has ever been produced, no remains or definitive 728 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:02,480 tracks, and that paired with the over the top descriptions and like media sensationalism. 729 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:08,480 A lot of historians and even a lot of cryptozoologists pretty much agree that the Snallygaster was 730 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:13,480 little more than like a hoax or a myth fueled by newspapers for profit. 731 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:19,160 And I mean, it kind of was fueled more by trying to get black people out of the South. 732 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,740 But I mean, profit was definitely part of it. 733 00:38:21,740 --> 00:38:25,480 But also, like it's it's just a folkloric tale. 734 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,920 Like you know, I mean, like it was. 735 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:29,920 That's what makes me so mad. 736 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,400 Like I just want to enjoy a fun tale. 737 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,000 And then I find out racism. 738 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,000 Yeah. 739 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,080 But I mean, Sarge, god damn it, you fuckers. 740 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:39,600 Stop ruining good stuff. 741 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,280 We'll always have robot flowers, though. 742 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,560 There was nothing racist about robot flowers. 743 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:44,960 Nothing racist about robot flowers. 744 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,040 We're always going to have the robot flowers. 745 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,560 And for me, that's enough. 746 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:51,640 But yeah, so there you have it, Sarge. 747 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,440 That is the story of the Snallygaster. 748 00:38:55,440 --> 00:39:00,880 It's maybe we should have done this as our first episode as part of like trying to promote 749 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,880 Cryptid Camp. 750 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:03,880 But you know what? 751 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:04,880 Fuck it. 752 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:05,880 I love the Snallygaster. 753 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,280 The imagery is fucking wild. 754 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,520 I'll send you a picture of what like artists descriptions of this thing. 755 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,480 And it's a fucking nightmare, dude. 756 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:14,960 I'm I. Here's the thing. 757 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:16,920 I don't think the Snallygaster is racist. 758 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,200 I think racist people tried to steal the Snallygaster. 759 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,440 Yeah, it's like cultural appropriation. 760 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:24,440 But for like cryptids. 761 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:29,440 It's just like the racist people tried to steal the Don't Tread on Me flag. 762 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,840 True, which makes no sense. 763 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,680 It makes me so mad because I love that flag so much. 764 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:40,960 And I can't hang it anymore because people now think that I read the Bible and shit. 765 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:45,480 The funniest thing about the Don't Tread on Me flag is that like you can't fly that and 766 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:51,280 the Blue Lives Matter flag like the pro cop flag, because, you know, when you're going 767 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,680 to get treaded on, you know who's going to tread on you. 768 00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:00,880 You know, definitely, definitely going to be somebody with a gun who's who's encouraged 769 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:01,880 to use it. 770 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:02,880 Yeah. 771 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,360 So it's the fucking it's wild. 772 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:09,320 I love it so much, though, because it just shows like how in tune they are with their 773 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,360 environment and the world around them. 774 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:12,360 All right. 775 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:13,360 Sorry. 776 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,720 So that is that is a story. 777 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:15,800 What do you think? 778 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,280 Beginning to end, give me your thoughts. 779 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,200 I'm sure you have a lot of thoughts. 780 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:20,200 Maybe not. 781 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:21,200 I fucking love this thing. 782 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,080 I want it to be real so bad. 783 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:30,320 And I hope that everyone who thinks it's it's going after black people, I hope it eats those 784 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:31,320 people instead. 785 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:36,920 Yeah, because it wasn't like I picture the Snallygaster like having a big pride flag 786 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:37,920 at its house. 787 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,640 Yeah, it's a big Black Lives Matter supporter. 788 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:45,640 It's got a Chay Gravera t shirt like the Snallygaster is all about. 789 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:50,240 No, yeah, I get it. 790 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:55,400 It's I would love of like the Snallygaster were real and it preferred white people because 791 00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:04,680 it knows that like it knows there's too many of them. 792 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:15,280 I just I think that like it's it's not uncommon for the group in power to use folklore against 793 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:16,440 a marginalized community. 794 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,800 If you look at it was used a whole bunch back in the day. 795 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:24,520 Yeah, I mean, if you look at Vandyman's Land, which is now Tasmania, I believe it's now 796 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:28,360 Tasmania down in Australia. 797 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:29,560 That was that was really common. 798 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:34,080 They would talk about the Tasmanian devil and the Tasmanian tiger and these like, you 799 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:39,320 know, mythically terrifying creatures that are literally just, you know, small, soupy 800 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,760 predators that live in the fucking woods. 801 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:42,760 Yeah. 802 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:43,760 Yeah. 803 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:45,560 And they would tell him these horrible stories that they're going to like eat you alive. 804 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,240 And then you see what a real life and it looks like a dingo. 805 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:50,440 It's just like this little tiny dog creature. 806 00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:55,600 I mean, Australians still do that to outsiders with the drop bear and stuff like that. 807 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:56,600 Yeah. 808 00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,480 But which is fine, because Australia is arguably the scariest continent on the planet. 809 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:01,480 It's all. 810 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:02,480 Yeah. 811 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:03,480 Fuck that place. 812 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:04,480 I want to go so bad. 813 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,480 It's all murder. 814 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:06,480 Every creature there wants to kill you. 815 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,400 Even though even the koalas are like, I'll find a way. 816 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:14,160 Yeah, there's nothing great about Australia, but I do want to go. 817 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:15,160 But mostly to the coast. 818 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:16,680 I don't want to I don't want to deal with that. 819 00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:17,680 Yeah. 820 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,920 I mean, that's where the arts that's where all the cults and incest are. 821 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:20,920 Yeah, I've seen Wolf Creek. 822 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,360 I don't need that shit in my life. 823 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:23,360 All right. 824 00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:24,360 Yeah. 825 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:25,800 And that wasn't an attack on Australia. 826 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:27,600 No, it is for me. 827 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:32,280 Because for me, it is the whole bottom part of our country is all cults and incest. 828 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:33,280 True. 829 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:34,280 But also. 830 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,920 No, I was going to say Australia is founded by criminals. 831 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,160 I think we kind of work too, in a way. 832 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,600 But anyways, what Ireland was as well. 833 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:43,600 So. 834 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:48,320 All right, with that all out of the way, do you want to. 835 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:49,320 Your story, look it up. 836 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:50,320 I'm not lying. 837 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:51,400 The island founded by criminals. 838 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:52,400 I believe that. 839 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,200 Is there anything you want to plug before I get into Shpil about plug and stuff? 840 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:57,200 Yes. 841 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:02,560 Saja Supernormal is still around and probably need it more now more than ever. 842 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:07,000 It's a coloring book about all all of the fun stuff that I talk about. 843 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:13,080 But there's also some some digs at some political figures that we may not all be pleased with. 844 00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:19,040 So please get my coloring book at Saja's supernormal dot com. 845 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:24,600 All one word spelled like it sounds, unless you're a weird person who would put a J in 846 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:25,600 Sarge. 847 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,600 That's weird. 848 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,680 Sarge's supernormal dot com. 849 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:29,920 You can get my coloring book. 850 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:30,920 Nine ninety nine. 851 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,360 Lots of fun. 852 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:33,520 And then send me your pictures. 853 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,920 I want to see the coloring that you do. 854 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,200 There's also like word searches and amaze. 855 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:39,520 It's fun. 856 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:44,480 Sarge, this is the first time you've plugged your coloring book and you haven't accidentally 857 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:45,760 called it a comic book. 858 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:46,760 I'm very proud of you. 859 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,280 I think this is growth. 860 00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:49,560 This is growth as a human. 861 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:50,920 And I'm very proud of you, buddy. 862 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,680 Thanks so much for listening. 863 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,560 Make sure you check out Cryptid Camp TCG dot com. 864 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:57,680 Please check out Cryptid Camp. 865 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,320 The cards are so cool and they're such great people. 866 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:01,680 I follow them on Instagram. 867 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:03,640 I love the stuff they put out. 868 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:04,920 Very excited to be a part of this group. 869 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,240 If you want to learn more about it, like I said, hit up their website. 870 00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:09,320 There'll be a link in the episode description. 871 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:13,600 If you like what you see and you want to, you know, back them on Kickstarter, get a 872 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,720 booster box, a couple of decks, maybe whatever, you can head to Kickstarter dot com slash 873 00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:21,160 projects slash Cryptid Camp. 874 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:22,760 It'll show you everything you need to know. 875 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,480 I'm very excited about it. 876 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:25,480 Super stoked. 877 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:26,480 Sarge is very excited. 878 00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:27,480 His kids are excited. 879 00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:28,480 You got 19 days. 880 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:29,480 Actually, you know what? 881 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:33,560 When this comes out, there'll be 18 days left to back them on Kickstarter. 882 00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,480 And then after that. 883 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:36,760 Who knows? 884 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:41,480 They were funded in they were fully funded in less than an hour when it launched. 885 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:42,840 So that's amazing. 886 00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:43,840 Yeah. 887 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:44,840 So I'm very hyped about it. 888 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:45,840 I'm so excited. 889 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:50,160 I love I love playing games with my friends when we're drinking beers. 890 00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,480 But I also my kids and I love to play games. 891 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:56,940 We get very competitive, slightly antagonistic. 892 00:44:56,940 --> 00:45:01,440 We are cool to each other in the spirit of competitiveness. 893 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,320 So I'm very much looking forward to this. 894 00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:09,960 So I'm I'm going to make a bunch of like weird drunk Tim and Eric, Eric Andre style videos 895 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:14,480 for take an Instagram after this. 896 00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,840 So you'll see some fucked up shit. 897 00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:18,800 But anyways, yeah, go be fun. 898 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:19,800 Go support them. 899 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:20,800 It's awesome. 900 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,880 Like I said, Erica from came crypto podcast. 901 00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:24,880 She's in this. 902 00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:29,120 And that's the only reason like that's why I'm putting my confidence behind it is because 903 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:30,260 her show is amazing. 904 00:45:30,260 --> 00:45:31,260 She's amazing. 905 00:45:31,260 --> 00:45:35,160 She's a big supporter of our show, which is weird because she has like nine thousand times 906 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,080 more followers. 907 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:42,080 But hey, all I'm saying is that she put her faith in us to help try and spread the word 908 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,080 to this. 909 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,880 So I'm putting my faith in her to create a good product. 910 00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,800 And that's all any of us can ever ask for. 911 00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:53,320 You can find links to all these things in the link in our Instagram at Crypto Cocktail 912 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,920 follows on TikTok Crypto Cocktail Party. 913 00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:04,240 Sarge, you can find all of his social media in the same link underneath our Instagram. 914 00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:09,280 And also, once again, just to remind everyone, we are the twenty twenty four best pod cryptic 915 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,000 podcast award winners. 916 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,240 So award winning podcast. 917 00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:14,240 Yeah. 918 00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:17,280 So we don't I mean, we show a lot of things. 919 00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,480 And by that I mean, Narragansett drink Narragansett, you can see in the background. 920 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,400 Drink Narragansett beer, God damn it. 921 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:23,400 Yeah. 922 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,400 Don't be a fucking goon. 923 00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:31,180 So we don't we don't we we we only show things that we believe in, obviously. 924 00:46:31,180 --> 00:46:34,520 So we're not trying to fucking sell you some snake oil. 925 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:39,280 But I mean, I just I can promise you we're never going to talk about fucking cryptocurrency. 926 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,320 So yeah, unless it's cryptocurrency. 927 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:45,680 Yeah, that would be just coins that have like Mothman books. 928 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,200 All right. 929 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,480 So with that out of the way, Sarge, would you like to say goodbye? 930 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,160 I love you to the audience. 931 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:57,120 Hey, you guys, may the blessings of Mothman be upon you. 932 00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:58,180 And I love you. 933 00:46:58,180 --> 00:47:21,480 And also upon you.