Speaker 1: School of Humans.
Speaker 2: This podcast is based on the true story of explorer, inventor, visionary,
Speaker 2: and science pioneer Tom Slick. Some of the story elements, names,
Speaker 2: and characters have been altered for dramatic purposes. Consider using
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Speaker 3: Sure used, Dan Fidils, don't see how many testing testing
Speaker 3: one too?
Speaker 4: Damn it.
Speaker 3: We have over three hundred guests coming through those doors
Speaker 3: in an hour. They're expecting entertainment. Not to go deaf.
Speaker 3: Miss Slick, you're early. We're still prepping in her office.
Speaker 3: Those go over there.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I'll take you.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, you look busy. I'll find her.
Speaker 3: Just Tommy favor. Pretend you didn't see any of this.
Speaker 3: Tonight will be a celebration of your father's legacy, not
Speaker 3: a ship show. What the accent are those new cheers?
Speaker 4: Do?
Speaker 3: Do you.
Speaker 6: Live? It's me?
Speaker 7: Come in, Shut the door behind you and lock it.
Speaker 1: Is this an interrogation?
Speaker 7: You've had years to tell me who my grandfather really
Speaker 7: was and you didn't. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Come on, I'd heard some of the story worries on
Speaker 1: those tapes growing up but live. I don't really know him.
Speaker 1: I was nine when he died.
Speaker 7: And what about the Yettie hand that Bud says, you
Speaker 7: have this? Oh my god, that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the hand, it's heinous. That's why it's in the tupperware.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to touch it or free to touch me.
Speaker 5: Here was it?
Speaker 1: When Dad passed, his assets were divided. I got a
Speaker 1: key with mine that opened a safety deposit box, and there.
Speaker 7: Was I've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 1: Can I sure touch away at your own risk?
Speaker 7: Why haven't you shared this with the institute. We could
Speaker 7: like quintests and find out what this.
Speaker 1: Story of the Yetti hunt was killed. After Dad died,
Speaker 1: no one talked about it.
Speaker 7: I wonder why the institute's.
Speaker 1: President at the time thought a leader in science hunting
Speaker 1: a fairy tale would degrade the reputation of this place,
Speaker 1: which is probably why I never got Bud's takes. They
Speaker 1: were buried with all the evidence of Dad's hunt.
Speaker 7: Well, Bud said, you have proof.
Speaker 1: This was also in safety deposit box.
Speaker 7: It's the only tape that's labeled proof.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was to the point.
Speaker 7: So whatever's on here is proof of the Yeddies' existence.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't listened to it. Why I
Speaker 1: didn't care if he've had it, if he didn't. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to believe like he did.
Speaker 7: Well, there's a yetty hand here, so he found something.
Speaker 1: I think I'm ready for him to tell me that.
Speaker 5: Tom Slick, April third, nineteen fifty eight. It's three am.
Speaker 5: I can't sleep. I haven't been able to since I
Speaker 5: parted ways with Bud in that appendage. I'm still in
Speaker 5: India planning a solo trek through the Himalayas, which all
Speaker 5: set out on after the Eddie exhibit opens in London
Speaker 5: on Saturday. I did it. I got ample proof that
Speaker 5: the Eddi exists. The hand hadn't been thoroughly tested by
Speaker 5: scientists yet, and it may have been devious how we
Speaker 5: laid claim to it. But think of the science and
Speaker 5: the magnitude of this discovery. Now I'm no man's junior.
Speaker 5: I'm about to change the world. I can't sleep. Why
Speaker 5: can't I sleep? Dullas, come in? I know you're there, Tommy.
Speaker 6: Is how this works?
Speaker 5: When have you ever followed protocol? See Crackodle?
Speaker 6: What do you want?
Speaker 5: It's simple payback.
Speaker 7: Revenge?
Speaker 5: Okay, let me get some coffee.
Speaker 8: First chapter seven. This is the mostly true tale of
Speaker 8: Tom Slick, mystery hunter.
Speaker 6: All right, Lucky Cob, you did it.
Speaker 1: You got your damn Yetti.
Speaker 5: No I didn't. I stole it. Oh okay, well Bud
Speaker 5: did that.
Speaker 1: Don't follow.
Speaker 5: Bud and I parted ways. After securing Lama X in India.
Speaker 5: Bud returned to the mountain, no tent or food so
Speaker 5: he could move with stealth.
Speaker 6: Did he hunt the bastard down without you?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 5: Technically?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: You see, the Yetti exhibit was set to open in
Speaker 5: London in a month, and you know I needed something
Speaker 5: besides photos and tapes of a failed expedition. So Bud
Speaker 5: returned to the Pongochet Temple, where he first saw evidence
Speaker 5: of the Yettis existence. During that first visit, he stole
Speaker 5: a photo. During this one, he stole a whole YETI hand,
Speaker 5: replacing it with a not very convincing stand in.
Speaker 8: Ah, that thing's buried, he's gonna know.
Speaker 1: And you're not just praying to it.
Speaker 5: You're using that hand to expose real information.
Speaker 1: That's the American way.
Speaker 5: Well it's problematic, yes, it is patriotic. Indeed, I didn't
Speaker 5: say that. Look Dulles. The point is in spending time
Speaker 5: with Lama X, I learned all I need to know
Speaker 5: about the YETI is he gonna thank me for that intro?
Speaker 5: The only thing we should do to that creature is protected.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, I'm only obligated to protect my country and
Speaker 6: those who ate in a betass.
Speaker 5: Well, turns out I have hours of recorded tapes that
Speaker 5: could upend.
Speaker 6: All of that.
Speaker 5: Is there a threat, Tommy? If you don't meet me
Speaker 5: in London in twelve hours, you'll find out?
Speaker 4: Live? Can't?
Speaker 1: I don't want to touch it.
Speaker 7: Just put it in your bag? Live? Why is this lot?
Speaker 6: Mom?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 5: Put it in your purse?
Speaker 4: Fine?
Speaker 1: Stick it to my dawn purse, unless do you want
Speaker 1: it for the exhibit?
Speaker 3: I really there's no time for this. Oh hi, Governor Nielsen,
Speaker 3: you're here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Finally, Governor Claire, it's so lovely of you to come
Speaker 1: to this little for dad.
Speaker 6: Little I heard there might be some reveals about the
Speaker 6: mysterious Tom Slick. As a kid, always thought your father
Speaker 6: lived a double life, Claire. Remember when we had those
Speaker 6: sleepovers at your house? Sure, and your dad he tell
Speaker 6: us these wild tales about mysteries the world and never
Speaker 6: known holy men who could levi at tape a tunnel
Speaker 6: on the Amazon line with diamonds, the abominable Snowman that
Speaker 6: he said roam the roof of the world. He told
Speaker 6: those tales like he lived them, So I guess I
Speaker 6: thought he always had.
Speaker 3: I think you're really going to enjoy the event tonight, Governor,
Speaker 3: isn't he live?
Speaker 6: Well, that's why I'm early. I can't stay for the
Speaker 6: whole thing. But Claire, I wanted a word of course.
Speaker 1: Let's go sit in there to see of empty chairs.
Speaker 3: Okay, that will be filled to capacity in thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: I love love the dress, but that bold red lip.
Speaker 3: It's giving more nightclub less academia. But you know, choices.
Speaker 7: Okay, thirty minutes. M there's time.
Speaker 5: The helicopter Dallas, I asked for inconspicuous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all those were fucked. It's like you want me
Speaker 3: to fail.
Speaker 1: Hell, you did threaten me.
Speaker 5: Well, at least we didn't land on top of the museum.
Speaker 1: Here's our backup.
Speaker 2: You know you landed on top of the museum, right.
Speaker 5: Ah, fucker again trying to make me fail, Larry, We're
Speaker 5: gonna jump out circle the city, drop down on another
Speaker 5: roof or two. If anyone's tracking, they'll think you're confused.
Speaker 1: We'll find a way home.
Speaker 7: I'll be that.
Speaker 2: You're rusty Dallas.
Speaker 7: The fancy title of yours just another name for bencil bushy.
Speaker 6: Fuck off, god, fucking this?
Speaker 5: Come on? The man is back together again?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, whatever you say.
Speaker 7: Why the hell are you wasting my time on this job?
Speaker 6: Slick?
Speaker 5: Remember that YETI.
Speaker 7: I was after it's all you talked about.
Speaker 5: How can I forget there's a piece of it here
Speaker 5: in the museum and we have to steal it without
Speaker 5: anyone knowing.
Speaker 2: Also, that's a solo job. I could have done that already.
Speaker 5: Well, there's an entire exhibit.
Speaker 7: I'm a government employee.
Speaker 5: Slick, who answers to me?
Speaker 6: And you think your.
Speaker 2: Boss in the White House would approve this?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 6: I mean it's called covert for a reason.
Speaker 5: Like I was saying, I'm a government employee, and unlike
Speaker 5: dulls here, I'm pay like one. Yes, but you have
Speaker 5: a picasto, right yeah?
Speaker 7: Throw that in us a tip and I'll sweep up
Speaker 7: after we clean the place out.
Speaker 5: The picasso is going to my daughter. What about a
Speaker 5: Georgia O'Keefe.
Speaker 2: They're beautiful, lest In.
Speaker 5: When no alarm, you think they'd at least have a
Speaker 5: trip wire or.
Speaker 7: It is Oh duless. The boxer shut this off is
Speaker 7: probably up front with security.
Speaker 5: Well, I got syringes at the ready.
Speaker 7: Dude, you know you can just knock someone out and
Speaker 7: tie them up right.
Speaker 8: Or put a gun to the head.
Speaker 5: Oh no, damn it, Come on, bod again with the gun.
Speaker 3: What are you doing here, Slick?
Speaker 2: We missed you too much.
Speaker 5: I knew you liked me, Jeth, This is government business,
Speaker 5: Bud step aside. Okay, Champ, you know why.
Speaker 1: The head of this joint asked me to replace his
Speaker 1: security tonight.
Speaker 9: He knew if anyone touched that YETI, Paul, I'd shoot.
Speaker 5: To kill bullshit.
Speaker 3: Wha damn it.
Speaker 8: But you gotta killed me. Hell I warned you.
Speaker 9: I'm not fooling around.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: I gathered that when you fired off a gun in
Speaker 5: a museum. But listen to me. I'm the one who
Speaker 5: asked you to steal that YETI hand, but this isn't
Speaker 5: what you want.
Speaker 3: It was what we wanted. It's a fake bullshit.
Speaker 5: Yes, Look, when doctor Hill ran those tests, I asked
Speaker 5: him send the labs to my institute, and I just
Speaker 5: got a call from Mabel saying the test came back
Speaker 5: that yetti hand. It's not some undiscovered species. Look, po,
Speaker 5: if the digits on this hand are primate, this thumb's human.
Speaker 8: Really you're wired together, then I see.
Speaker 2: Slick grab the gun.
Speaker 5: Got it?
Speaker 3: Ah, Jesus, Christy, Tony, you're gonna discociate.
Speaker 5: My arm means I like you.
Speaker 3: Jesus. It's filling up.
Speaker 7: That's what you wanted, right, Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Are you ready?
Speaker 7: Oh I've never heard a speak in front of this
Speaker 7: many people before.
Speaker 3: Okay, pretend they're not there. Just just look at me.
Speaker 7: God, that's even scarier.
Speaker 3: Hey, I am an amazing cheerleader.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but you don't hide your emotion. So if I
Speaker 7: mess up, I'm gonna look at you, and I'm gonna know.
Speaker 3: Think about it this way.
Speaker 2: These people aren't here for you.
Speaker 3: They're here for your granddad, m and the YETI we're
Speaker 3: just gonna say you found it right. No, but the
Speaker 3: tape where but smuggles the yetti handed to the UK.
Speaker 3: It's it's proved.
Speaker 7: We don't know that yet, and it's just I think
Speaker 7: there's something better on this last tape.
Speaker 3: Shit the governor is leaving already. Okay, I gotta go.
Speaker 3: Just remember your speech needs to be a draw for
Speaker 3: the donors. Science isn't sexy but a yetti.
Speaker 8: That's all fetish.
Speaker 9: Okay, m Monday podmeyum m money pod maum um money
Speaker 9: pod maum.
Speaker 5: Is this working? I can't tell. I don't feel any different.
Speaker 5: Tom Slick, June fifth, nineteen fifty eight. I'm conducting a
Speaker 5: scientific study out here in the Himalayas, one I had
Speaker 5: to do alone. So I put Bud on another investigation,
Speaker 5: one closer to home. He's recording eyewitness accounts a bigfoot
Speaker 5: in northern California. Took his mind off that yety hand,
Speaker 5: which has disappeared as far as anyone who knows about
Speaker 5: it is concerned. Exposure to that hand it would have
Speaker 5: opened up these mountains to a whole new generation of
Speaker 5: poachers set on hunting a creature. I've come to see
Speaker 5: his other world. So I'm back at Kampaloom Cave, a
Speaker 5: cave only true believers can see. Those who not only
Speaker 5: believe the yetty exists, but also and where it's found,
Speaker 5: a place known as gyang Gonge. Some call it the
Speaker 5: Lost Horizon others Shangri law, but all know that Giyang
Speaker 5: gongj is not a physical place. It's a higher dimension
Speaker 5: one can harness through their optimization of energy. But I've
Speaker 5: been sitting here for the past seven hours doing exactly
Speaker 5: what Lama X instructed, and I think I missed the point.
Speaker 5: But for once, I don't care. I'm on a mountain
Speaker 5: night trek for months on a hunt for validation, but
Speaker 5: that dogged drive blinded me. Good God, this place is
Speaker 5: magnificent and so still.
Speaker 4: H oh my god, oh ah.
Speaker 9: There it is.
Speaker 5: That's Stitch.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's you.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I dropped it with my recorder.
Speaker 4: It's gone.
Speaker 5: It's just me and you, and you're magnificent.
Speaker 1: Hey, Blair asked me to come get you. They're kicking
Speaker 1: out some screaming toddler.
Speaker 7: He found it. Mom found what granddad found the yetti
Speaker 7: this tape.
Speaker 6: It is proof.
Speaker 1: If he found anything, you think he would have told
Speaker 1: the Institute or Bud Jemmy Stewart.
Speaker 7: So he did. He told you this is your tape.
Speaker 1: What does that even mean?
Speaker 7: It means you get to decide if we tell the
Speaker 7: real story of Tom Slick and his Yetti hunt. Hi,
Speaker 7: thank you all for coming. I'm Live Slick, granddaughter of
Speaker 7: Tom Slick Junior. And right down there is Claire Slick,
Speaker 7: his daughter, my mom.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 7: I don't know how to sum up a scientific legend.
Speaker 7: Like my grandfather, he was complicated, but his life's mission
Speaker 7: was simple, to implement the machinery of science toward the
Speaker 7: advancement of humanity.
Speaker 2: But not all of.
Speaker 7: His scientific pursuits were done in a lab coat. How
Speaker 7: many of you are here because you want to learn
Speaker 7: more about his Yetti expedition. But what you don't know
Speaker 7: is that Tom Slick navigated the wilds of the Amazon
Speaker 7: in search of a diamond pipeline in India. He studied
Speaker 7: mind control with monks. South American Shamans taught him secrets
Speaker 7: of their herbal medicines and cures. He was an inventor
Speaker 7: who created his own brand of cattle. He patented a
Speaker 7: new method of construction he called the lift slab oh,
Speaker 7: and he helped put infamous bank robber machine gun Kelly
Speaker 7: behind bars. And those are all just footnotes to chapters
Speaker 7: of a life of Tom Slick on exhibit now at
Speaker 7: the Institute. And yes, there was an expedition to the Himalayas,
Speaker 7: but not a lot is known about what was discovered
Speaker 7: on that mission. And these rumors that there were tapes,
Speaker 7: well those are as big of a myth as the Yetti.
Speaker 7: What I do know is that my grandfather hunted mysteries,
Speaker 7: and he knew that some of the greatest mysteries are
Speaker 7: best left unsolved.
Speaker 1: Live.
Speaker 7: Sorry, I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: I just your mom didn't tell you.
Speaker 7: Tell me what?
Speaker 3: We didn't need the Yetti hook? What the governor allotted
Speaker 3: an annual budget for the institute. We're good for the
Speaker 3: next decade.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Holy shit.
Speaker 3: Holy something. It's a miracle.
Speaker 7: Yay Wow, huh. I just got a voicemail, but my
Speaker 7: phone didn't bring it.
Speaker 3: Could be the governor. You should call him back while
Speaker 3: I celebrate our win for science by drinking my body
Speaker 3: weight in prosecco.
Speaker 7: Hey, can you get my mom in here?
Speaker 3: Before or after I ravaged that tray of pigs in
Speaker 3: a blanket? Come in, little piggies.
Speaker 7: That's why didn't it ring live?
Speaker 5: What you know who this is by now? Oh my god,
Speaker 5: But I guess you never thought I'd be speaking directly
Speaker 5: to you, seeing as I eclipsed the human realm before
Speaker 5: you were born. Jesus, that sounded insane, but believe me,
Speaker 5: my communicating with you from the other side is anything.
Speaker 5: But it's possible because of science, the dash of mysticism.
Speaker 5: At first, all I could do was leave you a
Speaker 5: box of tapes in the attic that I recorded while
Speaker 5: I was living, and yeah, it was a life worth documenting.
Speaker 5: But now I'm gonna share some profound discoveries I've made
Speaker 5: from this other plane of existence. You know it. I
Speaker 5: reached Gyang Gunch in that final tape your mother shared
Speaker 5: with you, the one where I made contact with the
Speaker 5: YETI I can show you how to find it, but
Speaker 5: you gotta believe, not just that this tape is real
Speaker 5: and that Giang Gunge exists, but you have to believe
Speaker 5: that anything is possible. Oh, and there's some meditation cheese stuff.
Speaker 5: I'll walk you through. I know what you're thinking, What
Speaker 5: does any of this mean? Is this voicemail reel? Is
Speaker 5: the man speaking to me really my grandfather? The crux
Speaker 5: of that lies in a simple question. Does believing in
Speaker 5: something make it real? I think it does.
Speaker 8: Do you live?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 5: Whow live?
Speaker 4: Mom?
Speaker 2: You're not going to believe this.
Speaker 1: Oh Honey, I'm my father's daughter.
Speaker 6: Try me.
Speaker 8: Tom Slick. Mystery Hunter is a production of School of
Speaker 8: Humans and iHeart Podcasts starring Owen Wilson as Tom Slick,
Speaker 8: Cissy Spasik as Claire Slick, Skyler Fiske as Livslick. Written
Speaker 8: and directed by Caroline Slaughter, story editor Jeb Stewart. Executive
Speaker 8: produced by Owen Wilson, Sissy Spasic, Skyler Fiske, Jeb Stewart,
Speaker 8: Caroline Slaughter, Brian Lavin, l C. Crowley, Brandon Barr, and
Speaker 8: Virginia Prescott. Produced and assistant directed by Amelia Brock. Original score,
Speaker 8: sound design, mixing and mastering by Jesse Niswanger, Casting by
Speaker 8: Daisy Church and Caroline Slaughter. Sag coordination by Daisy Church
Speaker 8: and Julia Christgau. Promo and trailers by Carl Catele. Special
Speaker 8: thanks to Catherine Nixon Cook. Recording engineers are Tyler Klang
Speaker 8: and Casey Pegram.
Speaker 10: For iHeartMedia, Episode seven, cast Ian Shaw as Bud, Dave
Speaker 10: Willis as Alan Dulles, Ava Davis as Blair, Selinas, Tarivio
Speaker 10: as Dominique, Chuck Bryant as Governor Nielsen, Mike Schatz is
Speaker 10: the maintenance guy and the introductory voiceover, with additional roles
Speaker 10: voiced by David Devrees, Michael Mao, and Phil Clark. Additional
Speaker 10: audio assembly by Noah Kamer. Executive producer for iHeartMedia is
Speaker 10: Maya Howard.
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