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Cryptid Corner - The Pope Lick Monster
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SPEAKER_02:Okay, we're good. Great, grand. Wonderful.
unknown:Great.
SPEAKER_01:All right, let's go. Ready? Welcome to Crip Crip Cryptid Corn. Whoa. Welcome to uh uh We need the buttons. We need the buttons. What's the family guy one where it's like the 101 the hawk?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, the hawk. You should do 101.5 the hammer. Oh no. Hold on, my smoke alarm's beeping.
SPEAKER_01:I gotta find where it came from. But yeah, welcome everybody to Cryptic Corner. Um Cryptids. Oh, we're bringing it back. Um bringing it back. Yeah, so I know we mentioned a while ago, but we we ended Cryptic Corner a while ago because as much as Doug and I love Cryptids, our hearts weren't really in making the outlines, and we decided on things literally like 10 minutes before recording. It was just it wasn't going to be.
SPEAKER_02:We weren't organized and we were trying to do too much shit.
SPEAKER_01:It was in that point. Yeah, it was in that that diluted point when we were like, let's record 10,000 things, and that's gonna end up being healthy and long lasting, yes, for sure. Um so we decided heart of the gate. Yeah, we decided recently, um, now that we restructured everything, and Doug and I, you know, we work together, we understand each other's work um schedules. We figured we could make Cryptic Corner happen and and actually make a little effort into it. Yeah, make it a bit more quality. So um I I really enjoyed the first episode we did with Cryptic Corner. We never got back to that kind of quality, in my opinion, when we did the Jersey Devil. I wrote out a whole fucking thing for the Jersey Devil. Um looking back, it doesn't make much sense when it's like two people reading shit off, but like I I just liked creating my own little like uh um outline narrative. Narrative, yeah. It's it was my own narrative, something that I put together based off of my research. From then on, we just like basically read off the Wikipedia page. Um I neither worked well, I don't think. I don't think a narrative is gonna work too well with two people reading off it because it's I Doug's not gonna be able to read things off in my voice, and I'm being very distracted. Not with that. Yeah, but um we brought it back, and the way that we're doing it, I think, is gonna be a make a little bit more sense. Um, so here's cryptic corner. Um we got one that is a little bit more um lesser known, and it's a lot of mystery behind it, and we're actually it's like cryptic corner 1.5. We have kind of two things we're talking about, so I'm pretty excited for it. Um Doug, do you want to kind of kick us off a bit?
SPEAKER_02:Yes. Yes, yes, I do. Alright, so tonight, hold on, my kid is being a fucking ding-dong. Get all right, so what are we talking about tonight, Mike? We're talking about I feel like I caught you off guard.
SPEAKER_01:Well, yeah, because I I gave it to you thinking you would start it off. That's okay. So I was gonna start it off.
SPEAKER_02:I was gonna start it off, but then I was gonna have you, I wanted you to just tell us who it was, and then I'll start us off.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so alright, so I will. Um you got anything for us? Now, I know what you're thinking by the name of this guy, but we're not talking about the Catholic Church here. We're talking about the Pope lick monster. And the Pope's probably licked a bunch of things, but this ain't that.
SPEAKER_04:But how many people have licked the Pope? That's not a good question to ask anybody.
SPEAKER_02:No, that kind of the Pope probably licked a lot of people, but let's get into it. Oh god, destroy your religions.
SPEAKER_04:Um, all right, so the only reason your brain went there is because you know what is happening.
SPEAKER_02:Um, so what is the Pope Lick monster, you ask? Uh well, it's a half-man goat creature said to live near, you guessed it, Pope Lick Creek. I I so the name is literally just the the region. Is that creek? Um it's a terrible, terrible place. Um just plagued, plagued to death.
SPEAKER_01:No, uh it's it's off of uh it's like 20 minutes from Louisville, uh Kentucky, Kentucky.
SPEAKER_02:Louisville? Yeah, just out just outside the town and like near like kind of a foresty area. Um Corbin adjacent. Yeah, Corbin is further south.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_02:Technically, maybe maybe near. Um, but yeah, so he's uh he's said to live in Poplik Creek below the Poplik train trestle. Um now, uh if you're unfamiliar what a train trestle is, um think of like a giant bridge going through a valley where there's no like water underneath, it's just grass. Uh but it's like really high-raised train tracks. It's it's that thing in the valley.
SPEAKER_01:It's that thing in standby me when the kid that the kids run across when the train's coming. Oh there you go.
SPEAKER_02:That's what it's trusting. Long story short, gotcha. Um but as I mentioned before, it is described as a human goat hybrid. Um, and this actually has changed over time. Uh, some people would say sheep, some people would say goat. Um but uh yeah, it's a the body of a man, powerful fur-covered goat legs, a smooth-skinned face with an uh with like an aquilane nose, wide eyes, and uh a crown sits uh like uh like on its head, he's got horns, essentially. Mike, the way you write, I hate on its crown sits short. Yeah, I'm not fucking reading a poem. All right, so uh he can mimic voices and hypnotize victims as well.
SPEAKER_03:I understand what you're talking about. I've tried to read Mike's notes before and just been like, how does your brain function?
SPEAKER_00:Fuck you.
SPEAKER_02:I seriously, it it drives me mad sometimes when I look at his notes, but it's fine.
SPEAKER_01:The problem is when I when I type my mystery stream of consciousness, it's all of it. I type it out how I think of it, not how it yeah, and it's scary.
SPEAKER_04:Well, the thinking pattern is terrifying. Like that's it's concerning nothing.
SPEAKER_01:And this fucking thing is like me big and evil and mean. That's how I type shit. It doesn't work.
SPEAKER_02:I should have run, I should have proofread this prior. You told me, I mean, I was talking I skimmed it. I was talking to Amanda this weekend.
SPEAKER_03:I was talking to Amanda this weekend, and Mike came up and she was like, I think sometimes Mike thinks faster than he can process the words that make up the thoughts. And with that in mind and thinking about your notes, I would um yeah, that makes total sense.
SPEAKER_02:A hundred percent that yeah, that kind of thoughts, but I like when to read what the last bit said, and like I I saw it and then it like it just like didn't compute. I was like, alright. No. Oh, please continue.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Anyways, so yeah, it's got fucking horns on its head, um, but also it's been known to like mimic voices, and some people might say that it hypnotizes folk uh as well. Uh Mike, you want to give us some more like of its origin story here?
SPEAKER_01:Um fucking sure, dude. So some tales say that the public monster is a circus freak who has vowed revenge on others for being mistreated.
SPEAKER_04:Um I can't take any of these sentences seriously.
SPEAKER_01:Well, it's a fucking fictitious goat man, so you shouldn't anyway.
SPEAKER_04:Wow. We don't know surrealism from Mike. Damn.
SPEAKER_01:Um people say that it's a when I when I say circus freak, the tale is that um it was basically on a circus train, um, and it kind of was being bullied and mis misused and uh basically just degraded throughout its entire time at this circus, and finally it got booted off the train at Pope Lick Creek, and it's vowed revenge on the human race for the way it was treated in this circus. There are other tales, there's a lot of tales of the origins of this guy, but another tale says that the creature escaped from a train derailment, which links the creature to a uh what is called a ghost train sighting that also happens in Pop Lick Creek of a train uh incident that happened in real life in 1909. There was a no one was hurt, but it was a train delivering Christmas presents and um other goods that uh derailed in Pop Lick Creek. And people still to this day say that they see this ghost train, um, and they think the two might be related. Uh uh uh I don't know. You you tell me. Um I don't know. You tell me. You fucking figure it out. Um other myths, this one's my favorite, uh, claim that the creature is some fucked up reincarnation of a farmer who sacrificed goats to the devil in exchange for satanic power. Um you see other tales like this.
SPEAKER_02:R.I.P.
SPEAKER_04:I implore you to look that up.
SPEAKER_01:Now, an interesting thing with this one is you do see similar tales like this just across the world in general, of people being turned into monsters uh by the devil in pursuit of power, um, or um leaning on the devil for power. I mean, that's just like a tried and true um like tale of the devil. If you hear any type of like myth having to do with the you know, satanic power or the devil, it's usually a guy making some sort of sacrifice to gain some sort of power. I mean, that's also the whole myth of like the crossword the crossroads where you give up you know your soul for the power places. Every myth ever something. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Almost every myth ever has something to do with somebody something that's powerful, granting a wish to someone who asks it.
SPEAKER_01:Uh Mashed Potatoes Johnson himself, you know? Yeah. Um now the creature itself unfortunately has no official reported sightings, but the myth still does live on. Some say that the monster, the Poplik Creek monster, is a metaphor for the dangers of the train trestle itself. This is coupled with the fact that many kids like to search for the monster um down at the Poplik Creek and the Trestle. This unfortunately results in uh a slew of train incidents and deaths. Um just so many people by trains.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so many people and how do you not hear it coming? Like it's a fucking train.
SPEAKER_04:You know, I I thought that as well until I read a story about a man who was taking a phone call while walking on the train tracks because it was relaxing to him, and the train blew its horn to let him know it was there. So I mean, I guess talking, and you know what he does? He goes, I can't hear.
SPEAKER_01:Um hold on, hold on. I can't hear. I don't know why, but I can't. I kind of get a little bit. I mean, right now, Jason, you're it sounds like you're on a train, so I get I get a little bit.
SPEAKER_04:I gotta fix this, I gotta fix this issue. I'm so sorry.
SPEAKER_01:Um so um in the late 80s, a movie was made about the creature, and uh during the filming of this movie, two kids were killed in a train-related incident, and in 2016, a 26-year-old tourist uh was also hit by a train while searching for the monster. Um, the woman who died, Raquel, uh, was with her boyfriend who survived being hit by the train because he just clung on to the side of it. I'm assuming it kind of like I'm assuming the train just kind of like like like what's the word I'm looking for, like um just barely scraped. Yeah, grazed him and he just used the momentum to just cling on and just roll with it.
SPEAKER_02:Like a fucking hobo in the wind.
SPEAKER_04:He just was like a hobo in the hobo in the wind.
SPEAKER_00:A hobo in the wind. Um it's also hobo's in the wind.
SPEAKER_01:You're five thousand hobos in the wind. Um it's also worth noting uh that the creatures myth could have originated from a poem that was submitted to the Atlantic Monthly in 1966. Um this poem was called The Sheep Child, and it was about a half man, half sheep, which helps with how Doug mentioned before. The myth itself is kind of uh up in the air, is if it's half goat, half man, or half sheep, half man.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. While I was doing my research for this, and I I came across like a uh a really good article actually on like the Ohio State University website, actually. Uh pretty good reason.
SPEAKER_03:The Ohio State University website.
SPEAKER_02:The T M dot Edu, dude.edu. Long story short, damn. Just some things that I noticed from a lot of the stuff I was looking at is that the goat and the sheep story kind of seems to be all over the place. Like a lot of a lot of the the things you hear about this uh interchange between the two. And I thought to myself, I'm like, okay, well, the goat and the sheep are like huge icons in horror movies. You see that trope commonly used, like you know, take for like the witch, for example. Um like the idea of a goat and a sheep are really drastically different, though, when you think about like their meanings. Um, like uh a sheep is kind of more of like a malleable person, whereas like uh a goat, I guess.
SPEAKER_04:Um and I think where you were going with malleable sheeple and shit. You can find them all over the place and they won't find you easily.
SPEAKER_02:Swing my sheep over my head all the time. Um no, but basically, the the the reason I'm bringing this up is because uh I think people started to lean into the goat because it was it was just scarier. Like that that's really all it was. Like it had more of a menacing tone to it.
SPEAKER_01:And like we mentioned before, too, the goat is more or uh the goat is just more what's the word I'm looking for? It's attached to other myths.
SPEAKER_02:It's yeah, like it's attached like like Black Phillip and like um Yeah, there's more of a there's a more of a satanic connotation to a goat than a sheep has. Um, and a lot of yeah, it it again, like I said, it really just kind of feels like they were just trying to go scary on it. Yeah, exactly. Um but yeah, this this article that I was mentioning, um, they they bring it up uh that uh basically uh they go they go into this whole thing about tradition, and that uh this guy felt I forget his name, but I should have wrote it down. I don't know why I didn't. Uh this guy made a film about the public monster, and this was before uh the internet really ex like was a thing. Um, and he he basically quoted this guy saying, Yeah, he's like, I went around to all these people that lived in the town, and I couldn't get a goddamn like straight story from anyone. Like everyone I talked to that like had seen or knew about the Public Monster had completely different stories.
SPEAKER_01:Everything they said was just like Ron Shick Schicklinicked was his name.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Well whoa, watch it there, bud. Um, so well, yeah, he it long story short, he talked to so many people and they just couldn't give him the same story. So every story about the Public Monster was different, and um they they kind of just were bringing up the point that like uh this is like a tradition in the town to tell the story, and that's really it. And it's it's uh oh fuck, what are those things called? Tulpas?
SPEAKER_01:Tolpas, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Tolpa. So many people have this idea of the same thing that they've all that's that's what I think this is.
SPEAKER_01:Um I had a theory about Tulpas that I want to bring up in the bonus after this, something that brought me into existential dread one night.
SPEAKER_02:Um but yeah, uh what do you got anything else, sir?
SPEAKER_01:Um yeah, so with all uh we have a couple different things to talk about. First and foremost, um with all the talk between the Poplik monsters, um like myths and where it comes from. There's the myth of it um you know coming from a circus act, it falling off of a train and it popping coming up here, um, ghost trains itself. Um, you know, honestly, it's it's hard to say where this myth lands. And I think this all leads to one big question. And to me that question is is the Pope Lick monster truly a hybrid of man and goat? Or is it more of a hybrid of steel and steam?
SPEAKER_04:You know I I I'm trying to find the connection here. I don't trains team locomotives.
SPEAKER_00:You people do not appreciate what I bring to the table.
SPEAKER_02:I read this, I I now understand what you meant earlier. I read this earlier and I was like, I hate that. Trains!
SPEAKER_00:This whole thing is trains. We're talking about ghost trains later. It's trains.
SPEAKER_01:You no one here appreciates me. None of you have to do it. Don't give this man the satisfaction. And I hate you all. I I that was a very clever uh and in my in my defense that was supposed to be the end bit, but I put it in a horrible spot, and now I'm embarrassed because that would have been a great cap off to this entire thing. But we're gonna keep so definitely.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, why did you cap it off? Why didn't you cap it off with that? What why now I have to talk about this last bit that's because I forgot about these other I forgot I wrote it there.
SPEAKER_01:I wrote it there because I thought of that pun like first, and I wrote it down.
SPEAKER_03:Then why did you say it's you wrote you wrote it, realized it was in the wrong spot, and then said it anyway. You just said it anyway.
SPEAKER_01:I can't keep up with what's in here out here.
SPEAKER_04:He did just go over this.
SPEAKER_02:So to follow up with that, yeah, with those crickets, I have to say, so some good has come out of the Poplik monster. Uh Medazoo made a card. Um the town of Louisville, Kentucky had a Halloween.
SPEAKER_03:Louisville. There's a new pronunciation.
SPEAKER_02:Louisville. Lubert.
SPEAKER_04:Louisville.
SPEAKER_03:Everybody here just says Louisville. Like you're swallowing it as it comes out of your mouth.
SPEAKER_04:Just forget most of the letters in it, and you just first oil's just all roof. Good to be back. Damn.
SPEAKER_01:Good to be back.
SPEAKER_04:So Pope Popelijk monster has nothing to do with the Pope or the act of licking.
SPEAKER_01:Well, it's finished.
SPEAKER_04:It's a town called Poplik. Finish, Doug, finish.
SPEAKER_02:Doug, I'm gonna let you finish, but no, I don't think so. In fact, the Hollow event the Halloween event, Danger Run, is theorized to be where the circus train origin was created.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, it's like Louisville has a fun, like, yearly Halloween run where they tell the story and they go on like they have like haunted hay rides. Yeah, they have like haunted hay rides where like they tell the myth of the Public Monster, and like it's theorized that on one of these like tours and runs, like this is where the main like myth of it being a circus freak um uh came out. Oh, okay. I thought that was interesting.
SPEAKER_02:It's it's actually really funny. I did read something about this too, where they were like, Yeah, like the Poplik Monster was brought up in like 1909, but then wasn't written about until 1980.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:They're like, what happened in the 70s some years between that? Well, a lot of nothing.
SPEAKER_01:Um it is No Popes were licked. No pupes were licked in 70 years for 70 years. Now, something that I want to bring up. Unfortunately, that's kind of the end of the Pope Lick Monster. Um, that's it. There's not a whole lot on this guy. There's not a lot, yeah. But I there's one thing that it helped bird scooter us into that I find very fascinating, and that is the thought of ghost trains. I don't know what it is, maybe it's Alan Rails. Um, I love that guy from Rick and Morty.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I was gonna say the ghost train man.
SPEAKER_01:Vindicators 3, Alan Rails. Parents were killed by a train, so now he can call upon the spirit of that train. All aboard. Um, but I just I there's something very fascinating to me about like um like not living things having a spirit, like like ghost ships and ghost trains, and like how there are like ghost car things, too. There's something very fascinating about that to me. Um I I love that concept of you don't have to be alive to have a a ghost of you. It's it's it's it it falls into that category of like hauntings, what is it called? Um, where it's not they're not sentient, it's just reliving that same thing on recursively. Echoes, echoes, yeah. Thank you.
SPEAKER_03:For like multiple dimensions and there being crossover where like this thing is the just that thing in another dimension.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. And I I just thoroughly love the the the concept of this because it's like at what point can can anything have a ghost? Like, am I gonna walk through my house one day and there's a ghost of like a frying pan sizzling up bacon? I don't know, but that's fascinating.
SPEAKER_04:Like the green beans that I undercover. I think a potato in your sink, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I think that's and forgot the connotation of a ghost train, a ghost ship, etc. Uh I like the idea that like you're not gonna see a ghost frying pan because there's no traumatic event with a ghost frying pan, you know what I'm saying? Like the like some of the things that we may or may not be talking about here in a moment are are like things that have like a a bit of like a like a huge energy to them that would be like negative, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01:Also, slapping Mothman's ass so hard in Discord came up with a really good question. Could a necromancer raise a ghost car? That's a great question.
SPEAKER_04:Uh what does that work? What you're talking about? So if okay, actually, we're we're gonna combine some concepts here. If necromancy and tulpas exist in the same space that we are in, then I don't see why not. Like, why the fuck wouldn't you be able to resurrect a dead car? You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's fair. Anyway, I want to talk about a couple uh uh ghost trains here. So uh Doug, I guess you and me, there's there's really only two here that matter. I guess I'll do the first one if you want to do the second one. Um but so the first one is the Lincoln Funeral Train. And um, this is from AAR.org, um which is a railroad uh website, which is very fascinating. Uh this is the Association of American Railroads. Uh so that's very fascinating that they have an AER. I think it's it's just really cool that they have a uh a page dedicated to this stuff. That's fun to me. But so one of the most famous ghost trains in American history is the Lincoln Funeral Train. After the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865, a funeral train carried his body on a 1600-mile journey from Washington, D.C. to its resting place in Springfield, Illinois. This train, covered in black cloth and adorning a morning uh crip, uh became a morning cre morning crep. What? Depressed, a depressed pancake.
SPEAKER_04:Um I heard morning crate or uh like and I thought of just like a I'm upset because someone died, so I'm gonna have some real thin pancakes about it.
SPEAKER_01:That's it's it's called uh C R E P, yeah, like a morning crip, like a depressed pancake.
SPEAKER_04:Like a Swedish pancake.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, um but the legend the legend of the Lincoln funeral ghost train arises from um the belief that on the anniversary of Lincoln's death or any other significant dates, a spectral train reenacts the funeral procession. Witnesses have claimed to see the eerie train moving silently along the tracks, drawn by a locomotive draped in black and lit only by dim lanterns. It is said to be accompanied by phantom mourners and the sound of tolling bells. As the story of Lincoln uh funeral ghost train spreads through history, it reminds us of the enduring signification of Abraham Lincoln's legacy and the mournful echoes of the past that continue to resonate through time. Four scores and several ghost trains ago. Well shit.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. Uh this one isn't as cool, but could be kind of creepy. Um, this is the Phantom Express of Marshall Pass. Um and the Alley Express of Marshall Pass. Yeah, I bought some great stuff off of it. Um, so in the rugged and remote terrain of the Rocky Mountains, there's a haunting legend of a shadowy locomotive known as the Phantom Express. This ghost train is believed to have traversed the treacherous Marshall Pass, which was part of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in the late 19th century. Uh the pass was known for its dangerous conditions, and witnesses have described seeing an old-fashioned smoke-belching locomotive thundering down this new desolate route, emitting an unsettling otherworldly glow. Could you imagine just like being up in like a fucking on a mountain and you're just a train, bro?
SPEAKER_00:It's glowing.
SPEAKER_03:I feel like this is somebody that just got hit by an airplane and didn't realize it.
SPEAKER_04:I don't know, man. I just I found a maca plant like a mile back. I took a bite. I didn't think anything happened, but is that maca?
SPEAKER_01:Is that what it's called? I thought it was matcha.
SPEAKER_04:That is something else. No, it's it's maca. Oh the hallucinatory root that grows in Mexico. Yes, that's maca. Oh, red.
SPEAKER_03:I think he's thinking of matcha. That's what I was thinking then.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Anyway, yeah, that's creepy though. Just a train in the mountains. All aboard.
SPEAKER_02:The train grew arms and jerked me off. It was weird.
SPEAKER_01:Locahotion, you know. What the fuck? Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_03:What the fuck? It doesn't even make sense. It doesn't make sense, but it makes sense. That's what I hate.
SPEAKER_04:I understand what you were trying to do. Right, exactly.
SPEAKER_03:That's what it is. He finds that weird sweet spot where it's like you understand what he's trying to do, but it doesn't make any sense. But you hate that it makes enough sense that you understand it.
SPEAKER_04:You understand what you're trying to do. And then you think of nine things that would work better, and you just get angry.
SPEAKER_03:No, it's not even that. It's just it's it's that I'm mad that I'm mad that I understand it. That's what that's all it is. It's as simple as that. Because I want to be able to be like that doesn't make any sense, Mike. But that but I know, but deep down, yeah. Deep down, I know that I know that it makes enough sense. Yeah. And you're mad about that. Right, exactly.
SPEAKER_04:Because he didn't actually say a full sentence.
SPEAKER_01:Like well, that's the PopLick monster, everybody. I feel like I'm being bullied here, but I'm okay with it. You are boogity boogity boogity. Let's go racing, boys. That's not what I thought the most.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:Um you have too many of those. Uh yeah, no, that that's that's PopLick uh and some ghost trains in there.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I've never I've never heard of the Pop Lick monster. Um neither did I. I would never have I would never have learned anything about it unless you brought it up.
SPEAKER_01:I Googled weird obscure cryptids, and this was the first one to pop up, and I I get why. There's like a paragraph of information to it.
SPEAKER_02:Um but yeah, we like to hit those uh obscure ones, you know.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I want to I want to hit the small boys. I don't want to Attacking Bigfoot. Nah, fuck that. Everyone knows that.
SPEAKER_04:We should throw a uh a new bonus into the into the rotation where we just call it Cryptid Factory. And we make our own cryptids. Sure. Based on snakes, but with dicks. Snakes. Huge snake dicks. We're already off to a fucking fantastic start.
SPEAKER_01:Snakes on planes. There's your fucking cryptid. Snakes on trains.
SPEAKER_04:As long as they have dicks, I'm good. I don't care where they are.
SPEAKER_02:It's a bunch of snakes, but they have Crohn's disease.
SPEAKER_04:They have Lou Gehrings' other disease. I don't even know what the fuck we're talking about anymore.
SPEAKER_00:Alright, everybody.
SPEAKER_02:How long is this episode?
SPEAKER_00:That was Cryptic Corner.
SPEAKER_02:32 minutes.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, that was Cryptic Corner. That's all it needs. That was Cryptic Corner. Expect one of these hopefully every month. Expect nothing, actually. But we're hoping.
SPEAKER_02:Expect nothing, enjoy great. Something.
SPEAKER_01:Expect nothing, enjoy something. There you go. Yeah, hopefully we get one of these. Hopefully we get one of these out every month. This is really fun. I enjoyed this thoroughly. So we'll see if we can keep this up.
unknown:Thanks for watching.
SPEAKER_04:I do love learning about these little like cultural niches in the world and why they think the ways they do.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. So thanks for joining us on this cryptic corner. Have a blessed day. Those of you that are listening on Discord, hang out. We're doing one more thing after this.
