The Cryptid Factor

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Rating
4.9
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373 reviews
This podcast has
110 episodes
Language
Explicit
No
Date created
2013/05/07
Latest episode
2025/12/01
Average duration
62 min.
Release period
35 days

Description

Three best buddies - Rhys Darby, Dan Schreiber, and Leon 'Buttons' Kirkbeck bring you The Cryptid Factor - a podcast dedicated to all things weird that are yet to be defined by science.Since 2008 they have passionately (and often awkwardly) been discussing 'cryptids' and monsters like Yeti, Chupacabra, Bigfoot and Nessie - as well as weird news of the world, UFO's, Time travellers, robots and space stuff.Though they take these pseudosciences as seriously as they can, they struggle to take themselves seriously at all.Hosted by comedian and actor Rhys Darby, star of top rating podcast 'No Such Thing as a Fish' Dan Schreiber - and Pulling it all together is their best friend, 'Buttons'. If anything goes wrong, it is probably his fault. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#112 EdFringe LIVE Night Three Issue
2025/12/01
“If doesn’t go wrong, you haven’t seen us” Welcome back to the Cryptid Factor Live in Edinburgh - Night 3! In this show you will find a man who has LITERALLY taken his life into his hands, plants evolving into musicians on San Pellegrino diets, eye ball yoga, stereotypical evil villains bringing giant birds back to life (Jurassic Park style), Rhys sounding fish that refuse to die, and whale threesomes to finish us off…  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#111 EdFringe LIVE Night Two Issue
2025/09/26
Night two of the Edinburgh Fringe and the boys put whole jail house of stories behind bars.   In this rebellious issue we have backstage gatecrashing, psychic attacks, deceitful leggy leaves, cryptid impersonators, historically resentful house pets, a poorly pulled-off coattail theory theft and the tiniest noisiest cat-erpillar to ever be eye-witnessed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#110 EdFringe LIVE Night One Issue
2025/09/04
The Edinburgh Fringe couldn't keep us out if they tried! And trust us...they did. Kicking their second run off with a wobbly blast, the trio find their feet with tales of swampy airport crotches, poles flipping out on Santa, UAPs coming to scope out Earth, High School teachers leaving their special marks, and a thief busted by book too good to run away from. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#109 The Heavy Lifting Issue
2025/07/06
With Rhys exhausted from his seemingly endless UK standup tour - Buttons and Dan gallantly decide to do the heavy lifting this episode, and although a wonderful offer, it's not long before the weight becomes too much to bear... for us all! In issue you’ll find giant courting caves, dead dog clouds (and pizza), endangered hotel wake up calls, black icebergs complete with lazy code, an old man walks with lions, revenge of the birds... and stinky skin rust. Naturally. Enjoy the weight Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#108 The Animal Adjacent Issue
2025/06/19
After the tangent filled 107 episode, It’s time for some top-tier tangent-free animal news! (With the disclaimer that 'tangent-free' excludes animal tangents - of which there are MANY!) In this issue, we get answers to the burning questions that we never wanted the answers to, like which host is the funniest? Which host is most likely to survive in the wild? Who is most likely to tame a wild moose whist riding an ancient Moa? Obvious! And, if you wade through this swamp of tangents long enough, you might just spot something that resembles content - such as a neck egg-laying giant snail, fresh Moose sightings in New Zealand, Mermaid’s purses spotted beneath an underwater volcano, Mouse Deer and Flying Squirrels going from extinct to extant as well as a Bigfoot eyewitness account thats fresh off the page! Last and certainly least, theres a dog pushing their owner off a cliff, which leads to the world’s first ever live animal reenactment on a podcast! You don’t want to miss this one! If you want to support Peach and Orion in their efforts in environmental education: https://givebutter.com/NAAEE5KChallenge2025/peachandorion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#107 The Stopped Pod Issue
2025/06/06
STOP THE POD!  But seriously, you should stop this pod before you even start it if any of the below applies: •You don’t enjoy 1 hour long advertisements  •You do enjoy Cryptid content... or any content at all really •You prefer your Weekly World Weird News to have occured within the past three years. However, do get this pod going if you enjoy:  •Confirmation that Buttons is a human mushroom •Rhys' Personal Memorable Moments •Your podcasts infused with Dans Sexual Energy  •or container ships ringing door bells, fungi chatting or tea-leaf reading, divorce causing AI. *NB for advertising requests please email… Halina. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#106 The P.S.A Issue
2025/03/31
THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Please take note of the following warnings before proceeding into this issue. TRIPPING HAZARD! Legendary 'Kappa' Hunter's flustered, loosey-goosey balls are rolling around freely in the streets of Japan. BEWARE of Schreiber's Animal Husbandry! In light of animals now being able to talk to humans, please refrain from placing any hands on Dan's new LITERAL chick. And REMINDER to check your call sheet number on today's episode of The Darby Truman Show (proudly brought to you by Name Brand cereal). Also, in this disturbed issue, we have: murderous colleagues stranded in Antarctica, very quiet sounds in a Sasquatch hotspot (audiobook available now... please!), freshly generated footage of the morally questionable Mexican 'Chaneques' goblins, and a new three-day Bigfoot festival in Oregon—which hasn't even happened yet! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#105 The Robot Host Issue
2025/03/20
Well well well, let’s all give a warm virtual welcome to TCF's newest host! He’s so switched on, it’s almost like he’s made for it. Although, we have enough host action going on to keep us entertained with just our regular three: We have a time travelling child host coming back to cosplay as other hosts, a normal travelling host on a mission to coat tail another host, and a celebrity host and a not-so celebrity host meeting celebrity non-hosts, giving celeb-envy to another host…host hosty hosts!  In this flotilla of information you will sail past the first Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2025, adorable wooly mice created by a whole company of genetically engineered employees, national cheesy naan crazes, and World-Record breaking vegetables making some oddly familiar noises.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#104 The Gardening Angel Issue
2025/02/27
In this flourishing issue, take a gander into the Great Glasshouse, wear a sash in the Seat-less Storeroom and dive deep into a Devalued Diary!  At long last, Buttons reveals the tease of his personal proof of the afterlife and Darbs may actually be one of many Darbs. We have kayakers being swallowed by whales, celebrities and side kicks being harassed by ghost children in haunted ships, and Bigfoot hunts with ex-girlfriends causing dramas in divorce courts. Turns out the FBI might be tapping into your phone line from the comfort of your mothers bedroom, and for the first time ever, we have animals doing perfectly normal things in places they should be...you don’t want to miss this one! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#103 The Or-Fish Issue
2025/02/04
Many say Oarfish are an omen for disaster about to strike - Well consider yourself warned! In this chaotic episode we have Dan battling with psychic abilities, crocodiles mimicking drowning humans, overwhelming feelings of being a mermaid and AI (quite rudely) requesting all humans to die...promptly followed by AI romance! A fresh new book idea is brewing which is fitting as it turns out we are in the midst of the World Smartest Man AND the Stephen Fry of New Zealand and to top it all off, who doesn't love a good cliff hanger? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#102 The Unprecedented Issue
2025/01/18
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#101 The Broken Curse Issue
2024/12/24
We're Back!! Which in essence means the 'Buttons in the titles curse' is broken! (as long as you can actually hear this, that is). In this Xmas issue you'll find Hillary's backpack going on a lazy code expedition, ocean song curses continue, Bears do insurance fraud, a yellow brick road found at the bottom of the sea, spooky digital cryptids,Thai chickens eaten by baby-eating Krasue's, Darby discloses the Drone/UFO situation - and some other wonderful tit-bits! All this, as well as a very special guest - Steve Wriggly! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#100 The LIVE 100 Issue
2024/10/17
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#099 The X Issue
2024/10/03
99!! At LAST!! it's the penultimate to the ultimate 100 issue - and as per usual it's full of epic craziness. In here the AI bot team wreak havoc in the background producing fake news, there's Kings in UFOs, bees in showers, secret sightings of an old Oasis, copyright threats from Bono and 99 bottles of Bigfoot casts on the wall. Also get ready for a super exciting revival of the age old segment 'Expedition Update' with the team from the hit TV show Expedition X. Jessica and Phil fill us in on their expedition to Loch Ness - as well as deal out some heart felt appreciation for the Cryptid Factor team's Nessie inspiration. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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#098 The Guerrilla Issue
2024/08/02
Here we go again! In here you'll find a GI hunting for a costume, dead rockers in finger tattoos, vampire and bogeyman warfare, and monoliths found in the wild (yet again) Also you'll hear of self cloning mutant crayfish become old news and an eyewitness account of bad parenting. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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4.9 out of 5
373 reviews
Pooties 2025/02/07
Unique and Entertaining
Thanks guys! I really didn’t know that I was into this stuff. You all have lured me into the fold. I am a bit of a nerd, but probably not the target ...
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P.I.T.T.S.B.U.R.G.H! 2024/08/12
Let’s Go Bois!!
Rhys is so satisfying to listen to. Also, this is so funny and amazing, and the theme song is fantastic. Also if you like that you’d love the dollop ...
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Randomnumbers6348482653 2024/03/28
My favorite annual podcast
Always worth the wait. I legit watch the news for when Darbys next project gets canned so I know when the next episode will be 😂 I’m re editing thi...
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bugwillystyle 2024/03/04
The great podcast issue
The only issue is there’s not more of it!
takinite 2024/01/31
Unexpected Humor
This is surprisingly funny As funny as Mothman doing standup. Well Mabe not, but good.
Merricat Blackwood 2023/09/22
Podcast super group of nice guys
I came into the program knowing Dan Schreiber from No Such Thing As A Fish and Rhys Darby from film and television - I now consider myself a Buttons f...
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SlayerOB 2023/08/27
My thoughts of the cryptid factor
The best podcast I’ve ever heard! I love there sense of humor. I love there cryptic talk. And I think they are the best podcast ever!!
Cieslamour 2023/08/19
Never know what I’m listening to 🤣
Each episode is a crazy ride. It’s like climbing into these best friends heads for an hour or so and learn a few things about crytids. I have never la...
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Nickname8375 2023/06/28
Smiles
Gotta love Rhys’ chaos. Dan always brings interesting stories to the table in any podcast…. And Buttons… if these are his friends then he must be pret...
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Bornloren 2023/05/25
Wholesome dads
What’s not to love!? They are so wholesome, funny, and make you wish they were all your dads! I love cryptids and when I found out my favorite actor h...
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