WEBVTT - Short Stuff: Chupacabra

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff. I'm Josh and

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<v Speaker 1>there's Chuck and Jerry's here sitting in for day. So

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<v Speaker 1>it's short stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>And now cheop of cabra, that's right?

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<v Speaker 1>Is that? Okay? That was gold?

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<v Speaker 2>All right?

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<v Speaker 1>I asked Chuck said that before we recorded. I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>can you please say that on this episode? It was

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<v Speaker 1>just that great.

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<v Speaker 2>It's better than saying goat sucker because that sounds like

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<v Speaker 2>a very nasty thing that you would call somebody.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's the literal translation of chupa cabra. Chop are

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<v Speaker 1>means to suck, hence why they call them chupa chups.

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<v Speaker 1>I just realized. And cabra means goat, not cobra like

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<v Speaker 1>you would think it means goat, So chuop a cabra

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<v Speaker 1>means goat sucker, not cobra sucker.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right. And if you're already frustrated a minute and

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<v Speaker 2>a half in because you don't know what these words mean,

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<v Speaker 2>we are talking about the probably urban legend of the cryptid,

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<v Speaker 2>which is an animal that doesn't exist but has a

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<v Speaker 2>great legend around it, of the chew cup. Here I go,

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<v Speaker 2>the chewpacabra aka the goat sucker.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's a reason that they call it a goat

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<v Speaker 1>sucker too, and it's pretty straightforward. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, one of the telltale signs at the chewpacabre

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<v Speaker 2>if they have come by your farm in the middle

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<v Speaker 2>of the night is you will wake up to dead

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<v Speaker 2>farm animals that have been drained of their blood.

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<v Speaker 1>Usually with puncture wounds in their neck, and often there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of them and some chupacabra sightings or attacks.

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<v Speaker 1>I guess, hundreds of different animals around a farm, sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>domestic pets, sometimes wild animals in the area are found

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<v Speaker 1>dead all at once. The thing is this chupacabra, which

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<v Speaker 1>is a cryptive we should say, no one's ever actually

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<v Speaker 1>seen one, and all of the sightings and evidence that

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<v Speaker 1>has been collected can be easily explained away by science.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not that big. And from what I can tell

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<v Speaker 1>there people seem to believe there's just one. Did you

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<v Speaker 1>get that impression like there's a choop ofcabra, like there's

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<v Speaker 1>a locknus monsters are speed a different species or race

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<v Speaker 1>of something to where there's multiple ones. Did you that's

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<v Speaker 1>the impression that I have.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure I got that impression, but I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>sure that that that I'm right about that impression.

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<v Speaker 1>Can't you just say, yeah, Josh, you're right, way to go?

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<v Speaker 1>Is that so important for me? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, should we describe what this thing looks like since

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<v Speaker 2>you brought that up?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because imagine what we're about to talk about, killing

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred goats the way that we said they do

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<v Speaker 1>in a night.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I've seen its short as three feet tall, but

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<v Speaker 2>generally about four and a half to five five and

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<v Speaker 2>a half feet tall, oval shaped head, glowing eyes like

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<v Speaker 2>sort of alien shaped eyes, which you know, put a

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<v Speaker 2>pin in that because that'll come back, long sharp spines,

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<v Speaker 2>usually from the back of its head down to the tailbone. Strong,

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<v Speaker 2>a stinky odor. A lot of people say it is

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<v Speaker 2>sort of like a sulfur smell. Some people say it

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't smell at all. And then the skin can either

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<v Speaker 2>be like lizardy or like a frog's, or it can

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<v Speaker 2>be what's been described as like a fuzzy lizard with

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<v Speaker 2>like little prickly hairs and scales.

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<v Speaker 1>Fuzzy wuzzy wizard.

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<v Speaker 2>But here's a key walks on two legs for the

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<v Speaker 2>most part, which is one of the creepy parts.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yes, so there's a do you want to take

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<v Speaker 1>a break down, come back and talk about this, like

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<v Speaker 1>what people think it is or the origin of it

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<v Speaker 1>or what.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, let's do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, this is not scripted, everybody.

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<v Speaker 2>All right? Take two?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh wait, can it start from the beginning? You have

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<v Speaker 1>to take it with and now cheopicabra again.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, and now part two of Chop of Cabra. So

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<v Speaker 2>you talked about the origins. I've seen mentions of this

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<v Speaker 2>all the way back to the nineteen fifties in Arizona.

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<v Speaker 2>It seems like it really picked up steam in the

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<v Speaker 2>nineties as probably as the Internet picked up steam. And

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<v Speaker 2>it looks like Puerto Rico, even though it's been found

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<v Speaker 2>in a lot of countries, supposedly mainly in South America,

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<v Speaker 2>but there's a lot of stories from Puerto Rico and

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<v Speaker 2>may have even originated, as at least the modern online

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<v Speaker 2>version from a woman named Madeline Tolentino in San Juan

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<v Speaker 2>in nineteen ninety five.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Apparently her description kind of set the tone for

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<v Speaker 1>the basis, or set the basis I guess for the time. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>of other descriptions and sightings to come that's right, very

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<v Speaker 1>similar to Betty and Barney Hill. She was the Betty

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<v Speaker 1>and Barney Hill of chupacabra sightings.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right, she was both of them.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, Puerto Rico is a hot spot of chewpacabra sightings. Apparently,

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<v Speaker 1>in just one year, in one area alone, there was

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<v Speaker 1>several hundred livestock fatalities that were attributed to the chupacabra.

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<v Speaker 1>And I mean in just this one town. Just hundreds

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<v Speaker 1>of livestock dying in one year alone is very bizarre

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<v Speaker 1>and strange. So you can kind of guess that if

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<v Speaker 1>everybody's aware of the chupacabra already, they might be like,

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<v Speaker 1>I think this is the chupacabra at work.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, for sure. If you've been online and you've seen

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<v Speaker 2>pictures of like chupacabra washed up on the beach, there

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<v Speaker 2>are quite a few of those, and most of them

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<v Speaker 2>have been thoroughly debunked and proven to be It's usually

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<v Speaker 2>like a with mange who had rotted such that their

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<v Speaker 2>skin receded and it ended up looking really, really weird.

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<v Speaker 2>Those aren't chupacabra. In fact, there are no chup of cabra,

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<v Speaker 2>but there have been some sightings in the past couple

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<v Speaker 2>of years that I did look up on YouTube that

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<v Speaker 2>aren't compelling that like where I was like, oh my god,

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<v Speaker 2>it's totally real. But it was enough to where I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, what in the world is that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, In particular, there's one from twenty twenty two where

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<v Speaker 1>the Amberillo Zoo in Texas found an image or like

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<v Speaker 1>a short snippet of some creature inside its perimeter fence. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>like one in thirty in the morning. Yeah, walking around,

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<v Speaker 1>and it looks very much like a werewolf if you

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<v Speaker 1>ask me. It's got the big, massive, massive like back

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<v Speaker 1>and shoulders with its head like up around its ears. Essentially,

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<v Speaker 1>it's the way it's holding its arms and fingers make it.

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<v Speaker 1>It looks a lot to me like somebody who was

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<v Speaker 1>dressed up like a werewolf and got into the Amarillo

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<v Speaker 1>Zoo on purpose.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, fair.

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<v Speaker 1>It's been chalked up as a chupacabra siety.

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<v Speaker 2>That's right. There was another one from twenty twenty three

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<v Speaker 2>in Bolivia, and this one also coincided with a bunch

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<v Speaker 2>of livestock death supposedly drained of their blood. This drone footage,

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<v Speaker 2>So it's a much higher, but it's near Auru City

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<v Speaker 2>and you definitely see like a shadowy figure kind of

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<v Speaker 2>moving through the field. And uh, I mean it's hard.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not as kind of clear clearly werewolf be looking

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<v Speaker 2>as the other one. But again, it was just another

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<v Speaker 2>recent thing. And you know, both of these could be

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<v Speaker 2>people screwing around with people. It could be dressing up

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<v Speaker 2>like what they think of Chupacabra looks like exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>So I mean Chupacabra, it's a fairly you can tell

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<v Speaker 1>it's a fairly recent phenomenon. I mean, the nineties really

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<v Speaker 1>are when it started to take off, and definitely it's heyday,

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<v Speaker 1>but it is found itself cemented into popular culture, not

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<v Speaker 1>just in Latin America, but in the Southwestern United States too.

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<v Speaker 1>There's been sightings apparently and everywhere from Arizona to New Mexico,

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<v Speaker 1>all over the southwestern United States over the years, and

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<v Speaker 1>apparently the earliest, the earliest newspaper account of it dates

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<v Speaker 1>back to the fifties in Arizona, which I found very interesting.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's right. And I've said to put a pin

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<v Speaker 2>in the fact that some people say they have glowing

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<v Speaker 2>alien like eyes. That's because some people think, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>there of course theories on what could be going on here.

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<v Speaker 2>Some people do think that it's a visitor from outer space,

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<v Speaker 2>or maybe a pet from a visitor from outer space.

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<v Speaker 2>I can you know, like et was left behind, just

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<v Speaker 2>like this chew picabra was, or that it is like

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<v Speaker 2>NASA was breeding like alien things with human things, and

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<v Speaker 2>this was one of those that got out. Supposedly, sure

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<v Speaker 2>as they do.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a veterinarian who believes that it was a genetically

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<v Speaker 1>modified vampire bat because I don't remember it supposedly as

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<v Speaker 1>a bloodsucker, a goat sucker in particular. I believe because

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<v Speaker 1>of the fact that this was biggest in the nineties,

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<v Speaker 1>I think that whole left behind alien pet is it

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<v Speaker 1>was folklore directly influenced by porno for pyros.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh from the pet song.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, from Will Make Great Pets.

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<v Speaker 2>I love that song.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's a great song. But I guarantee somebody added

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<v Speaker 1>that to the folklore from that song.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, so it was a future human that was kept

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<v Speaker 2>as a pet.

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<v Speaker 1>No, No, just the concept that aliens even have pets. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>that's why I'm linking it too, could have been a

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<v Speaker 1>future human. That's the thing. Everybody's just throwing anything that

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<v Speaker 1>can stick at the wall, at the whole cup oficabra phenomenon.

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<v Speaker 1>It Again, it's fairly recent enough that it hasn't taken

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<v Speaker 1>full solid shape. Still, it seems like to me you

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<v Speaker 1>can say, oh, it's a genetically modified vampire bat or whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>The best explanation I've seen. You kind of already touched

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<v Speaker 1>on about carcasses washed up on the beach being dogs

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<v Speaker 1>having mange. Coyotes get mange too, and coyotes tend to

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<v Speaker 1>kill live stock. Yeah, if they're from the circus, yes, yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>The telltale signed to me though, is that part of

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<v Speaker 1>mange is the hair on the back between the shoulders

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<v Speaker 1>usually remains a patch of hair. Yes, hence the spikes

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<v Speaker 1>of spines down well the spine and the fact that

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<v Speaker 1>they lose their hair so they look really weird. And

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<v Speaker 1>apparently just about every single carcass that's ever turned up

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<v Speaker 1>and has been attributed or chalked up as chupacabra and

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<v Speaker 1>the autopsy is revealed it's an animal with mange. Well done,

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<v Speaker 1>my friend, Thank you. Well done to you too, Charles.

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<v Speaker 2>I just want to say one more thing. I had

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<v Speaker 2>tickets to see that porner. For Pyro's reunion tour last year,

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<v Speaker 2>you were one of ten got canceled.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because they couldn't sell enough tickets, right, That's what

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<v Speaker 1>I heard. Surprising.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but Jane's Addiction is on tour again, and I

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<v Speaker 2>love those guys. I just want to publicly say give

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<v Speaker 2>credit to Casey Nikolee for her work and if.

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<v Speaker 1>The one who was erased from their.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, their history basically great, great call out. Yeah, go

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<v Speaker 2>read up about that because she's talking about it now

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<v Speaker 2>and it's not cool at all.

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<v Speaker 1>I also want to give a shout out. If this

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<v Speaker 1>kind of stuff is up your alley or float your

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<v Speaker 1>boat or float your alley or whatever, go check out

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<v Speaker 1>the site and not The Anomalist. It's an aggregator of

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<v Speaker 1>different weird stories, including cryptids and UFOs and all that

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<v Speaker 1>stuff from around the internet. It's great. Check out The Anomalist.

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<v Speaker 2>It's fun.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, since Chuck said fun, I mean short stuff, friends

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