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,
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Speaker 3: Hey I'm driving here was a asshole, Blair?
Speaker 4: Are you still there?
Speaker 5: Jesus? Look, I told you to rush getting here, not
Speaker 5: tell yourself.
Speaker 4: How did that journalist get my number?
Speaker 5: I thought you were all in on the Yettihook after
Speaker 5: listening to those tapes you found I'm.
Speaker 3: In on telling the un written history of my granddad,
Speaker 3: not the non existent one of the Yetti but for real,
Speaker 3: we cannot say anything about his covert mission to kidnap Lawmax.
Speaker 5: Wait, is that a special ops thing?
Speaker 6: Never mind, liv Look, you hired me to raise money
Speaker 6: for this expensive generation of scientific research, and we both
Speaker 6: know grants and donors aren't cutting big enough checks. This
Speaker 6: Yetti hunt could be our ticket to real capital and exposure.
Speaker 4: There's no story if there's no YETI but do you
Speaker 4: know that?
Speaker 3: Come on, Blair, I'm not free falling down some conspiracy
Speaker 3: theory rabbit hole with you.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
Speaker 5: All I'm saying is your grandfather might have found something.
Speaker 5: It could all be right here on the tapes.
Speaker 4: I have shit, dude, that's not your lane. Sorry traffic.
Speaker 5: Why are you trying to kill me?
Speaker 3: GPS says I'm twenty three minutes away from you and
Speaker 3: I'm finishing up the last tape down it's a green
Speaker 3: light move.
Speaker 5: You shut listening to that you're driving is a good idea.
Speaker 4: With five hours tilts tonight's event, there's no time for
Speaker 4: another one.
Speaker 5: Just remember you're our only speaker. Don't die God.
Speaker 7: So this is it, the last tape.
Speaker 8: I don't know how we made it out of Tibet,
Speaker 8: but I think it had something to do with him.
Speaker 9: Long for.
Speaker 8: It's March thirteenth, nineteen fifty eight. I've spent every waking
Speaker 8: moment since our escape with Lama X, and I've observed,
Speaker 8: as a man of science what can only be quantified
Speaker 8: as unadulterated mysticism. His power was menished in Tibet as
Speaker 8: the dark forces of Chinese communism mooned heavy, But out
Speaker 8: here in the wilds and the Himalayas, he's unleashed.
Speaker 1: Lightning. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 10: Lightning when there's nothing around.
Speaker 8: It must be drawn to the yin yang energy coursing
Speaker 8: through Lama x as he meditates, it's unreal. With the
Speaker 8: tap of a finger, he ignites our bonfires. During the escape,
Speaker 8: he used the palm of his hand to stop a
Speaker 8: Chinese soldier's bullet from executing Dawa.
Speaker 1: But what really.
Speaker 8: Baffles me is the Lama's understanding of yin Xi. He said,
Speaker 8: if one masters it, they unlock a higher dimension.
Speaker 9: We call it yung gunjh.
Speaker 8: Yes, the lost horizon. Yes, we got a day and
Speaker 8: a half till we reach asylum in India.
Speaker 10: Okay, yes, but I want more?
Speaker 9: What more enlightenment?
Speaker 4: Just a crash course.
Speaker 8: Please, it'll help me to understand the mysterious nature of
Speaker 8: the Yetti.
Speaker 9: I was so close, Lama.
Speaker 11: My son, Are you a believer?
Speaker 9: Yes, you know more than you know.
Speaker 8: Do translate, please, mister Tum.
Speaker 1: He's speaking English.
Speaker 8: The riddles they always get me.
Speaker 9: Do you hear that.
Speaker 1: Rig cleans, rig cleans.
Speaker 10: The Chinese they tracked us down.
Speaker 1: Slick, grab that Larla and take color bud run an
Speaker 1: ice cap.
Speaker 3: There is no cover at two hundred meters they'll drop
Speaker 3: out of troopers that you know looks like a good fit.
Speaker 12: At least six the number us run an ice cap
Speaker 12: don and a two undered me just with target practice.
Speaker 2: Do you have to argue with me?
Speaker 1: Means I like you? Well, don't argue with you or
Speaker 1: like you?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Whoa love?
Speaker 14: God?
Speaker 11: Oh shit?
Speaker 9: What is that?
Speaker 8: It looks like smoke but clouds their clouds?
Speaker 9: He's calling them.
Speaker 1: Do you see that?
Speaker 10: He's flying away?
Speaker 15: Keep up the Crooningxama.
Speaker 1: They can't see us.
Speaker 13: It's the mist.
Speaker 2: They'll come back.
Speaker 1: We need to find shelter, trees, a cave, something, guys.
Speaker 1: This altitude, Oh my.
Speaker 2: God, again arguing you like it?
Speaker 11: Not this aborto?
Speaker 13: Wait?
Speaker 11: Do you all see that?
Speaker 8: Twenty meters northwest? Looks like some sort of rock doo?
Speaker 11: Watch a Lama.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go check it out.
Speaker 1: I don't see anything.
Speaker 8: It's a cave in the valley.
Speaker 1: Look, come on, it's bringing up to hold all of us.
Speaker 11: There's nothing there.
Speaker 1: First thing we agree on, mister Tom Yeah dawah d Llama.
Speaker 1: He wants to speak to you me alone.
Speaker 12: Oh okay, yes, I knew that Lama had a favorite
Speaker 12: grote meal.
Speaker 1: After I kidnapped him.
Speaker 11: God, I pulled on him off for his first magic trip.
Speaker 8: Didn't do me any favors, Lama, are you asked for me?
Speaker 4: That cave?
Speaker 11: Its name is Kembaloon. It is an oracle, does not
Speaker 11: exist for most. But if you see it, you are worthy.
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 8: Is that another riddle?
Speaker 9: You can see it?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So now you can find the yity.
Speaker 10: Chapter six. This is the mostly true tale of Tom
Speaker 10: Slick mystery Hunter.
Speaker 4: That's it, yep, last tape.
Speaker 1: Shit, he's so close.
Speaker 5: Okay, there's gotta be more on one of the tapes
Speaker 5: I found. Yeah, what do you want?
Speaker 1: How many seats you want to set up?
Speaker 5: At three hundred and sixteen? But I'm hoping for more.
Speaker 4: I thank you that many people are coming to this thing.
Speaker 1: I told you i'd feel seats with that yetti hook.
Speaker 4: Well, I hope you find that hook you promised in
Speaker 4: one of these tapes. Where did you find them?
Speaker 7: Again?
Speaker 5: With a pile of letters.
Speaker 3: Written by granddad or sent to him?
Speaker 16: Sent to him?
Speaker 4: Then these tapes aren't his? What he didn't record them?
Speaker 12: Hey watch it? Shite Indians racing around triggers my.
Speaker 4: Plur to go, that's bud, These are his tapes.
Speaker 5: He was on the yette Hund with their granddad.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, he was the lead guide.
Speaker 12: I'm at the Kolcutta Airport documenting the handoff of our
Speaker 12: big prize with one of six recorder thingies. Not because
Speaker 12: he asked me to. I just don't trust people, especially
Speaker 12: some guy who gets paid to pretend for a living. Jesus,
Speaker 12: you think i'd be able to spot him. Jimmy Stewart
Speaker 12: has to be the only posted in near over six feet.
Speaker 1: Who's Kimmy Star?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 4: Oh he's not on TikTok. You might have to grow
Speaker 4: up and google him. Oh, darning to say? Excuse me?
Speaker 17: Oh hi, are you a peer.
Speaker 4: Calling me Bud?
Speaker 17: But yeah, nice to see you. I'm Jimmy. This is
Speaker 17: my wife, Gloria Pleasure.
Speaker 1: You have the guns?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: Why did it cut off?
Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe because Bud's new to this recording thing.
Speaker 4: Let's just here, Let's try another one.
Speaker 11: God damn you placid recorder. You're working now, you're wanka.
Speaker 4: Oh look, jim one of the fingers it still has
Speaker 4: skin on it. Oh that long blood inger nail.
Speaker 11: Could take you out with one swipe, darling.
Speaker 17: Hmm, God damn bastard Roy did it?
Speaker 9: Of course he did.
Speaker 4: I knew he would.
Speaker 1: He's Tom Slick.
Speaker 17: You hold it downe Oh.
Speaker 11: Slick wasn't the only one on that hunt, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh well tell us what it was like.
Speaker 17: Yeah, what did you do when you came face to
Speaker 17: face with the beast?
Speaker 11: That's a question for Slick to answer.
Speaker 1: So so Slick was the only one who actually saw it.
Speaker 11: I didn't say that, now, did I?
Speaker 17: Now, bod, tell me where is Tom arriving in London
Speaker 17: to meet us?
Speaker 1: Yes? I'd love to see him.
Speaker 11: On Friday before I Yet he exhibit opens. He had
Speaker 11: to tie up some loose ends in India.
Speaker 17: Now did he really want me to smuggle this yetty
Speaker 17: hand into the UK? Or is it just away for
Speaker 17: him to go out?
Speaker 11: You were a safer bet than me, he said, A
Speaker 11: movie star wouldn't be searched.
Speaker 10: I need you to turn around.
Speaker 11: Shite the god he saw it?
Speaker 10: Din around. He's speaking to you, Jimmy, Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: state your name, James Steward.
Speaker 17: Am I in some sort of trouble.
Speaker 15: If you don't make a sequel to Strategy Care Command
Speaker 15: you are? I have seen that movie of yours at
Speaker 15: least twelve times.
Speaker 4: That's a shame.
Speaker 17: It's no rear window.
Speaker 2: Oh god, Jimmy, he doesn't want your opinion.
Speaker 12: He wants an autograph.
Speaker 17: Oh oh yeah, let me let me sign something for you.
Speaker 10: Oh my god, my kids, you love this?
Speaker 7: Please, thank you.
Speaker 11: Where's the yetty aunt Somewhere?
Speaker 1: No one would dare look this tape is proof.
Speaker 5: Okay, Slick found the Yetti.
Speaker 4: Then why isn't it out there in the media in history.
Speaker 1: Books live No one knew about these tapes.
Speaker 4: Granddad must have hidden them for a reason.
Speaker 12: He didn't.
Speaker 5: He gave them to you. Now you have to decide
Speaker 5: what we do with them. Do we tell this juicy,
Speaker 5: compelling will bring tons of publicity and money to this
Speaker 5: institute story? Or do we let it die?
Speaker 4: Let's just listen to bud last tape.
Speaker 5: Is that an answer?
Speaker 4: You're insufferable?
Speaker 5: All thanks, Just play the tape with pleasure.
Speaker 11: It was a long track, but we made it to
Speaker 11: the London Natural History Museum and the Yetti palm. Well
Speaker 11: it had a very intimate journey.
Speaker 2: Well it should be right here here, But hold my panties,
Speaker 2: will you?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 1: And this brosier pretty lace.
Speaker 11: Soft?
Speaker 14: Oh and also this.
Speaker 11: Really soft.
Speaker 4: Are you all right?
Speaker 11: I've been deprived of the feminine for the past year
Speaker 11: and a half.
Speaker 9: So oh and uh.
Speaker 1: Watching me rummage through my intimates doing anything for you
Speaker 1: more than you know, Gloria, have some decency.
Speaker 17: Oh here it is God, Doctor Osmond Hill, meet Bud
Speaker 17: and my modest bride, Gloria.
Speaker 1: A pleasure after fondling your unmentionables. I do hope the
Speaker 1: creature's fingers are still intact. Brother, He's funny, Gloria, I
Speaker 1: promise you, madam, I am not.
Speaker 11: May I see this messuremen, this yetti poor Here is
Speaker 11: for the exhibit about the Hunt opening this week.
Speaker 1: Indeed, I am here to confirm that it is not
Speaker 1: a fake.
Speaker 18: Hello, Hello, hello, everyone dropping a jet lag after your
Speaker 18: exhaustive journey to bring us the greatest discovery of all time.
Speaker 11: It was just me on the hunt, and yes it
Speaker 11: was debilitating, violent, destructive. Dear, they just suffered through flying commercial.
Speaker 1: As a human mule for that. Yetty's filthy hand.
Speaker 17: You make it sound like we were flying in sturage.
Speaker 9: Well we might as well have been, Darling.
Speaker 17: We'll say I'm dramatic.
Speaker 9: We are so.
Speaker 15: Thrilled to have this one of a kind memento as
Speaker 15: the centerpiece of our exhibit. Mister Slick has been mailing
Speaker 15: us photos of his epic adventures.
Speaker 11: Are epic adventure. I led the thing, But this, this,
Speaker 11: it's proof cryptozoology is not a hoax.
Speaker 16: It's science.
Speaker 15: This yet is bony odious hand will reanergize the hunt
Speaker 15: for cryptids.
Speaker 13: It will.
Speaker 1: It will breathe a.
Speaker 15: Generation of amateur mystery hunters who, like Slick, will set out.
Speaker 1: A prove that fantasy is a reality.
Speaker 18: By the end of this decade, I'll have a whole
Speaker 18: wing dedicated to cryptozoology, with a stuffed Bigfoot, the hide
Speaker 18: of Sweet Missy and the vampiric fangs of the trooper carbra.
Speaker 13: Will.
Speaker 11: What do you think, doc, That YETI palm look real
Speaker 11: to you.
Speaker 1: I have a more detailed study to do on the specimen,
Speaker 1: but my initial impression is that it.
Speaker 17: Is an anthropoid Arthur who who It.
Speaker 1: Resembles a human inform but has primary characteristics. I've never
Speaker 1: seen anything like it, so.
Speaker 15: Just look at it. It's yetty.
Speaker 17: My God, I'll spank my ass and call me Marrey.
Speaker 19: Breaking news, the London Natural History Museum was preparing for
Speaker 19: a highly publicized cryptozoology exhibit hosted by American explorer Tom Slick,
Speaker 19: which according to sources, were supposed to feature his unique
Speaker 19: discovery that would upend science as we know it, but
Speaker 19: that scientific finding will never be witnessed. Last night, the
Speaker 19: exhibit in its main feature vanished. The actor Jimmy Stewart,
Speaker 19: who was supposed to speak at the event, along with
Speaker 19: other sources involved with the exhibit, gave the BBC an
Speaker 19: exclusive interview.
Speaker 17: That was the stranger's saying. The museum custodian arrived this morning.
Speaker 17: The entire exhibit.
Speaker 9: It was all gone.
Speaker 4: It was gone, the photos, the documents.
Speaker 1: Did you say, yetty Hand?
Speaker 17: Oh, oh, you don't know.
Speaker 19: Was that the featured discovery?
Speaker 9: It was Slick.
Speaker 4: He's up to something.
Speaker 1: No, we don't know that glory oh James, you think
Speaker 1: is behind this?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 12: The yaddy.
Speaker 16: Well, I have no earth the idea what you're talking about?
Speaker 15: The yetty hand?
Speaker 18: Oh please, My museum abides by scientific standards.
Speaker 16: If there's no proof, then it's not science. And as
Speaker 16: you can see from my barren front hall, there is
Speaker 16: not just no sign of proof, there is absolutely no
Speaker 16: evidence that any exhibit existed. And yes, before you grill
Speaker 16: me that is.
Speaker 15: A bullet hole in the floor, and how it got there?
Speaker 16: No comment.
Speaker 1: I am destroyed by this development. I didn't have the
Speaker 1: suitable amount of time to thoroughly examine the yetty specimen,
Speaker 1: but from my initial tests I can confirm that it
Speaker 1: belonged to a beast. Humanity has yet to discover.
Speaker 13: It wasn't just Tom Slick hunted the YETI okay, Jesus
Speaker 13: don't have to be a gang to get any respect
Speaker 13: around here. So you want to comment about the Yettypoh,
Speaker 13: here it goes. I cannot confirm or deny that it
Speaker 13: wasn't a fake.
Speaker 19: We could not track down mister Slick for an interview,
Speaker 19: though his secretary did give us a direct quote, Hello
Speaker 19: you can hey, yep.
Speaker 4: Hello Mabel you there? Can you hear me?
Speaker 11: Hello?
Speaker 9: Hackney good good?
Speaker 6: Okay, this is mister Slick's direct quote.
Speaker 5: He is appalled that the museum allowed this to happen.
Speaker 14: Is that it is that always to say, unquote, hey.
Speaker 10: Hey boss, yes, oh well, we all got two hundred
Speaker 10: and fifty chairs, and the flower lays just showed up.
Speaker 4: Where'd you want the caterers?
Speaker 1: They got all this food shit?
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll deal with that.
Speaker 9: Thank you got it.
Speaker 4: It sounds like this tape's over anyway.
Speaker 5: Look just let me know if the YETI makes a cameo. Okay, okay,
Speaker 5: I gotta go.
Speaker 1: Hi. Yes, uh, how quickly can you deliver seventy five
Speaker 1: years in stall?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 12: Maybe it's not over alrighty, I think I got it working.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, there's more.
Speaker 12: Jesus you on the new ones of Bastards. So I
Speaker 12: found that old news clip somewhere on the web and
Speaker 12: thought i'd record it for you now. Also, I wanted
Speaker 12: to send you the other tapes that I had, all.
Speaker 11: That went down in nineteen fifty eight, after the hunt.
Speaker 11: It's two thousand and ten.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 11: I thought these tapes would help tell the tale of
Speaker 11: Tom Slick Junior. He was one of a kind, a legend. Really.
Speaker 11: His life was almost as mythic as the fantastical creatures
Speaker 11: he hunted. But you know that you're keeping one of
Speaker 11: his greatest secrets, the mystery of that YETI pow it
Speaker 11: was a relic. Everyone thought it was proof of the
Speaker 11: Yetties existence. But we both know that's not true. Your
Speaker 11: father's last tape is the real proof, isn't it. Claire?
Speaker 11: What hey? Han?
Speaker 4: Mom, We need to Talk.
Speaker 10: Tom Slick Mystery Hunter is a production of School of
Speaker 10: Humans and iHeart Podcasts starring Owen Wilson as Tom Slick,
Speaker 10: Sissy Spasic as Claire Slick, Skyler Fiske as Livslick. Written
Speaker 10: and directed by Caroline Slaughter, story editor Jeb Stewart. Executive
Speaker 10: produced by Owen Wilson, Sissy Spasic, Skyler Fisk, Jeb Stewart,
Speaker 10: Caroline Slaughter, Brian Lavin, l C. Crowley, Brandon Barr, and
Speaker 10: Virginia Prescott. Produced and assistant directed by Amelia Brock. Original score,
Speaker 10: sound design, mixing and mastering by Jesse Niswanger, Casting by
Speaker 10: Daisy Church and Caroline Slaughter. Sag coordination by Day and
Speaker 10: Julia Christgau. Promo and trailers by Carl Catel. Special thanks
Speaker 10: to Catherine Nixon Cook. Recording engineers are Tyler Klang and
Speaker 10: Casey Pegram.
Speaker 14: For iHeartMedia Episode six, cast Ian Shaw as Bud, Ava
Speaker 14: Davis as Blair, Michael Mao as Jimmy Stewart, Tiffany Morgan
Speaker 14: as Gloria Stewart, Selinas Tibio as Dominique, Jenny Fleming as Mabel,
Speaker 14: Vince Canlas as Dawa and Lama X, Cameron Shake as
Speaker 14: the Indian security guard, David Devrees as the museum director,
Speaker 14: Lowry Brown as Doctor Osmond Hill, Mike Schatz as the
Speaker 14: maintenance guy, and the introductory voiceover, with additional roles voiced
Speaker 14: by David Devrees, Michael Mao, and Phil Clark. Additional audio
Speaker 14: assembly by Noah Kamer. Executive producer for iHeartMedia is Maya Howard.
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