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The Cryptid Factor
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Three best buddies - Rhys Darby, Dan Schreiber, and Leon 'Buttons' Kirkbeck bring you The Cryptid Factor - a podcast dedicated to all things weird that are yet to be defined by science.Since 2008 they have passionately (and often awkwardly) been discussing 'cryptids' and monsters like Yeti, Chupacabra, Bigfoot and Nessie - as well as weird news of the world, UFO's, Time travellers, robots and space stuff.Though they take these pseudosciences as seriously as they can, they struggle to take themselves seriously at all.Hosted by comedian and actor Rhys Darby, star of top rating podcast 'No Such Thing as a Fish' Dan Schreiber - and Pulling it all together is their best friend, 'Buttons'. If anything goes wrong, it is probably his fault.
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#112 EdFringe LIVE Night Three Issue
Dec 100:33:27Tap to summarize“If doesn’t go wrong, you haven’t seen us”Welcome back to the Cryptid Factor Live in Edinburgh - Night 3!In this show you will find a man who has LITERALLY taken his life into his hands, plants evolving into musicians on San Pellegrino diets, eye ball yoga, stereotypical evil villains bringing giant birds back to life (Jurassic Park style), Rhys sounding fish that refuse to die, and whale threesomes to finish us off… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#111 EdFringe LIVE Night Two Issue
Sep 2600:31:10Tap to summarizeNight two of the Edinburgh Fringe and the boys put whole jail house of stories behind bars. In this rebellious issue we have backstage gatecrashing, psychic attacks, deceitful leggy leaves, cryptid impersonators, historically resentful house pets, a poorly pulled-off coattail theory theft and the tiniest noisiest cat-erpillar to ever be eye-witnessed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#110 EdFringe LIVE Night One Issue
Sep 400:41:28Tap to summarizeThe Edinburgh Fringe couldn't keep us out if they tried! And trust us...they did.Kicking their second run off with a wobbly blast, the trio find their feet with tales of swampy airport crotches, poles flipping out on Santa, UAPs coming to scope out Earth, High School teachers leaving their special marks, and a thief busted by book too good to run away from. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#109 The Heavy Lifting Issue
Jul 601:12:05Tap to summarizeWith Rhys exhausted from his seemingly endless UK standup tour - Buttons and Dan gallantly decide to do the heavy lifting this episode, and although a wonderful offer, it's not long before the weight becomes too much to bear... for us all!In issue you’ll find giant courting caves, dead dog clouds (and pizza), endangered hotel wake up calls, black icebergs complete with lazy code, an old man walks with lions, revenge of the birds... and stinky skin rust. Naturally. Enjoy the weight Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#108 The Animal Adjacent Issue
Jun 1901:13:16Tap to summarizeAfter the tangent filled 107 episode, It’s time for some top-tier tangent-free animal news! (With the disclaimer that 'tangent-free' excludes animal tangents - of which there are MANY!)In this issue, we get answers to the burning questions that we never wanted the answers to, like which host is the funniest? Which host is most likely to survive in the wild? Who is most likely to tame a wild moose whist riding an ancient Moa? Obvious!And, if you wade through this swamp of tangents long enough, you might just spot something that resembles content - such as a neck egg-laying giant snail, fresh Moose sightings in New Zealand, Mermaid’s purses spotted beneath an underwater volcano, Mouse Deer and Flying Squirrels going from extinct to extant as well as a Bigfoot eyewitness account thats fresh off the page!Last and certainly least, theres a dog pushing their owner off a cliff, which leads to the world’s first ever live animal reenactment on a podcast! You don’t want to miss this one!If you want to support Peach and Orion in their efforts in environmental education:https://givebutter.com/NAAEE5KChallenge2025/peachandorion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#107 The Stopped Pod Issue
Jun 601:13:28Tap to summarizeSTOP THE POD! But seriously, you should stop this pod before you even start it if any of the below applies:•You don’t enjoy 1 hour long advertisements •You do enjoy Cryptid content... or any content at all really•You prefer your Weekly World Weird News to have occured within the past three years.However, do get this pod going if you enjoy: •Confirmation that Buttons is a human mushroom•Rhys' Personal Memorable Moments•Your podcasts infused with Dans Sexual Energy •or container ships ringing door bells, fungi chatting or tea-leaf reading, divorce causing AI.*NB for advertising requests please email… Halina. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#106 The P.S.A Issue
Mar 31, 202501:05:36Tap to summarizeTHIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:Please take note of the following warnings before proceeding into this issue.TRIPPING HAZARD! Legendary 'Kappa' Hunter's flustered, loosey-goosey balls are rolling around freely in the streets of Japan.BEWARE of Schreiber's Animal Husbandry! In light of animals now being able to talk to humans, please refrain from placing any hands on Dan's new LITERAL chick.And REMINDER to check your call sheet number on today's episode of The Darby Truman Show (proudly brought to you by Name Brand cereal).Also, in this disturbed issue, we have: murderous colleagues stranded in Antarctica, very quiet sounds in a Sasquatch hotspot (audiobook available now... please!), freshly generated footage of the morally questionable Mexican 'Chaneques' goblins, and a new three-day Bigfoot festival in Oregon—which hasn't even happened yet! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#105 The Robot Host Issue
Mar 20, 202501:09:47Tap to summarizeWell well well, let’s all give a warm virtual welcome to TCF's newest host! He’s so switched on, it’s almost like he’s made for it.Although, we have enough host action going on to keep us entertained with just our regular three: We have a time travelling child host coming back to cosplay as other hosts, a normal travelling host on a mission to coat tail another host, and a celebrity host and a not-so celebrity host meeting celebrity non-hosts, giving celeb-envy to another host…host hosty hosts! In this flotilla of information you will sail past the first Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2025, adorable wooly mice created by a whole company of genetically engineered employees, national cheesy naan crazes, and World-Record breaking vegetables making some oddly familiar noises. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →#104 The Gardening Angel Issue
Feb 27, 202501:04:02Tap to summarizeIn this flourishing issue, take a gander into the Great Glasshouse, wear a sash in the Seat-less Storeroom and dive deep into a Devalued Diary! At long last, Buttons reveals the tease of his personal proof of the afterlife and Darbs may actually be one of many Darbs. We have kayakers being swallowed by whales, celebrities and side kicks being harassed by ghost children in haunted ships, and Bigfoot hunts with ex-girlfriends causing dramas in divorce courts.Turns out the FBI might be tapping into your phone line from the comfort of your mothers bedroom, and for the first time ever, we have animals doing perfectly normal things in places they should be...you don’t want to miss this one! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#103 The Or-Fish Issue
Feb 4, 202501:04:28Tap to summarizeMany say Oarfish are an omen for disaster about to strike - Well consider yourself warned! In this chaotic episode we have Dan battling with psychic abilities, crocodiles mimicking drowning humans, overwhelming feelings of being a mermaid and AI (quite rudely) requesting all humans to die...promptly followed by AI romance! A fresh new book idea is brewing which is fitting as it turns out we are in the midst of the World Smartest Man AND the Stephen Fry of New Zealand and to top it all off, who doesn't love a good cliff hanger? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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