Ranking Our Favorite Cryptids - Intentionally Blank Ep. 184

[@joeludlow8837]

My favorite cryptic is pattern

[@ezmoore27]

THE MAN LITERALLY WRITES BOOKS IN HIS SLEEP!!!

[@alexe3700]

I saw a Chasmfiend in Nevada once.

[@maluse227]

fun fact the loch ness monster is also super helpful to marine biologists because the people who believe in cryptids fund the hell out of any and all research to prove themselves right. So as a result Loch Ness is one of the most well mapped and explored freshwater areas on the planet and helped marine biologists catalogue and research tons of different species. so weirdly its a cryptid that does a public good lol.

[@justinchandler-holtz7206]

There was a lake at my college that had an underground passage to the ocean. It was thin and the water was salty enough so what would happen is fish like snook and tarpon would swim into the lake, grow too big to escape and get stuck in there. The lake was filled with massive fish and was also home to the happiest fattest alligator you could imagine.

[@nathancarter8239]

This comment starts like a limerick. There once was a lake at my school With passage to the ocean so cool In would swim many fish Who'd be made such a dish By an alligator who wasn't a fool

[@maddmatts1320]

@@nathancarter8239 It should maybe be gator instead of alligator to fit the flow

[@thecosmicaesthetic]

WaT is amazing! Just saying. Thanks Brandon for another great book.

[@MrLimpWrist]

Dan's MTG in a cabin dream is awesome...Inflict Agony actually sounded like a real card too until I looked it up.

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

Back in the day I used Megrim to Inflict plenty of Agony

[@MrSilvUr]

I'd have gone with a 5 point scale for likelihood: 1 - I would bet against it existing every time. 2 - I would bet against it existing, but be a little worried. 3 - I would be skeptical of any evidence, but would research any evidence I came across with an open-mind. 4 - If confronted with evidence, I would say, "Huh. I guess so." 5 - I'm just wating for the inevitable evidence to be found (or have a reason in mind why the evidence is unoptainable).

[@Paul_McSeol]

Brandon on Nessie: She seems nice. Love these two.

[@chrisashford3379]

You missed my personal favorite, the Maryland Goatman! Part man, part goat, product of a failed experiment, and attacks cars that park at make-out points with an axe! What's not to love?

[@eusociality]

Gotta love Maryland

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

Since I've never seen direct evidence of "Ben" existing, I must conclude that he is simply a shared delusion of Brandon and Dan

[@swinkscalibur8506]

There are episodes with Ben though, unless it was all a lie...

[@thelvey1]

I love Diana Gabaldon's inclusion and explanation for Nessie in her Outlander novels!

[@drinkbooks]

Just starting WaT. It's going to hurt me and I know it but I'm really happy to have it as my gift to myself for the holidays. Thank you! I have a niggling belief in any "cryptid" that is supposed to exist in very deep water, deep underground or in vast tracts of unexplored wilderness. There's always crap out there we don't know about and some of it is extremely weird. Once, the giraffe was a cryptid and so was the gorilla... soooo... yeah.

[@jamesmontgomery7074]

I would be interested to hear their take on the Joplin Missouri Butterfly People.

[@jaredferguson6082]

Lowkey, I had never heard of the Mongolian death worm until literally a week ago when I was reading 'The Curse of the Wendigo' by Rick Yancey. Weird that it was brought up twice so close together.

[@rad4924]

I had a dream about a week ago that I lived on Roshar and Brandon Sanderson was there (with no one commenting that he was the creator of the world) and for some reason he had decided to hold a picnic on the shattered plains, which thousands of people went to. And in the dream I was like "Cool, I wonder if he'll sign my shardblade?" and then I had to my ride my horse to the modern supermarket that definitely exists on the edge of the shattered plains because I needed to buy baguettes for the picnic.

[@Supaawesomeification]

Alright who else read the thumbnail as “cryptic hunting” 😂

[@sadee4175]

Never thought id hear them talk about Cealocanths on this podcast. That is such a freaky almost extict fish. The ocean is a wild place

[@zenthepoet.]

Adoooonalsium

[@CyphersBasement]

One time I had a dream, I posted about it on Twitter, but dressed it up in a way where I was a tour guide and the reader was experiencing the dream in my place. From this, I recognized that my Twitter following doesn't actually like stories, even though my following was made up entirely of people who were critical of storytelling. How do I know they don't like stories? The post was a visual treat in text form that ended with an unexpected advertisement for the claymore sword that Home Depot sells online. The complete absence of interaction on that post had me doubt bothering with Twitter anymore beyond that point because I felt as though all my time and effort would have been completely squandered from then on because the post really was quite good and imaginative. Glad to be away from Twitter because the people there only really seem interested in negativity and drama.

[@jaspermooren5883]

At the end they started to ask the real ontological questions!

[@dylanbryant7237]

the mothman museum is super cool

[@tatebrown5733]

Some o the worst dreams I ever had were when I did a little Door to Door pest control sales. I HATED the job and would wake up having dreamt I worked a day. Felt like 20 hours straight of knocking strangers doors 😂

[@crimsonraen]

bahaha This was great. Thanks for the video, y'all. :)

[@kath4240]

I dreamt a dream so vivid, about how my address had changed DRASTICALLY, that I was halfway through changing my address of Backerkit for Year of Sanderson before it occurred to me that it didn't actually happen.

[@RushedAnimation]

Bats are bugs. "Dusk! With a creepy, tingling sensation, you hear the fluttering of leathery wings! BATS! With glowing red eyes and glistening fangs, these unspeakable giant bugs drop onto..."

[@timothyallman694]

I think it’s fun to talk about a belief in cryptids. But, to be serious a moment, I think we all need to take time and reflect on whether or not these cryptids believe in themselves.

[@ZatoichiBattousai]

Animate Mistborn! Like Invincible, but better.

[@clementgoh9270]

I always imagine the city having a perpetually red sky like in Batman the animated series

[@dark_winter8238]

The meg was surprisingly an enjoyable watch. The sequal not so much.

[@Dark_Peace]

Is Ben a cryptid ?

[@PenDragonx]

Sandworm wouldn't exist because their physiology describes slimes and slimes requires loads of water Which is in short supply in the desert

[@fakjbf3129]

8:43 There are actually lots of dinosaurs living in Scotland, they are called birds.

[@praetorxyn]

Trazodone is awful. Works great til you run out and can't get a refill because it's a weekend or something, and then you can't sleep for literally days or weeks. I got my doctor to help me ween off it and thankfully so.

[@Fitzpl]

SCOTLAND MENTIONED got to comment my country is talked about

[@Jasonwolf1495]

I'm kinda shocked Dan didn't associate Chupacabra to Puerto Rico which is where the first sighting was.

[@SaintNicholasFan]

The Loch Ness Monster is extremely famous because St. Columba is extremely famous.

[@809003721]

That goes to show, all Sanderson thinks about is writing the next book. Even in his dreams 😂

[@_Conzo_]

That's weird, I just heard about the Skunk Ape this week. I think I'm being pursued by the Ape.

[@captainsirk1173]

I saw someone describe a werewolf as a cryptid a little while ago. I kinda feel like including werewolves would mean you have to also include vampires though. What's the category for that? Is that all supernatural as opposed to cryptid? It seems like it'd be weird to put werewolves in the same category as ghosts. Is a cryptid something that has to be scientifically plausible? the Jersey Devil kinda just sounds like a demon, and the Chupacabra is just a lizard vampire. Hmm...

[@lizmadden4895]

Pretty sure I saw Ben wandering at DSNX

[@RaulRamirez-se9qo]

Was hoping they would include the giant sloth stories lol guess not a popular one

[@aerynmusick4548]

For me, the sea-based cryptids are kinda low-rent. No disrespect to Nessie intended, but of course there's stuff down there we don't know about. We don't live there. Land cryptids are the really spicy ones.

[@thelvey1]

How about the Hodag? 😄

[@shaunmeldrum4302]

Meldrum is not a very common name, and the most famous of us wrote about sasquatch.

[@Ridgeback1307]

Fun fact: Bigfoot eats babies.

[@RemingtonGorilla]

"Bug" is actually a scientific term that refers to a kind of insect.

[@corinnedrollette6107]

A+ The order Hemiptera, or true bugs, look like beetles but the wings lay crossed instead of parallel.

[@laxwanna1976]

Cryptid Mythological creatures - more book research for me

[@kirkwagner461]

Oh yah? Well whatabout "Nessieledon?" The carnivorous Nessie?

[@beep_boop]

I am a stick!

[@Schellnino1994]

Please tell me Dan listens to Saxsquatch!

[@skybreaker7966]

Long time fan and Paleontologist here! Let me know if you ever want to have a conversation about dinos or Megalodon or the like! :)

[@jdhd2837]

How dare you be so chipper after the emotional damage you inflicted on me this week

[@Atom-fc6my]

Nothing close to spoilers!!!

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

The book has a beginning, a middle, and an end. SPOILT!!! ​@@Atom-fc6my

[@TheLordofMetroids]

@@Atom-fc6my To be fair, has there ever been a single book that Sanderson has Ever published that didn't inflict emotional damage?

[@Atom-fc6my]

Some more or less than others but the user implies that the new book has a greater tragedy to my understanding and I like to avoid spoilers of that nature at all costs

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

WaT inflicts heaps. ..... gets absolutely wrecked, but at least ....... gets a happy ending. It's a real shame what happened to ........., and .......... will be missed. MadLibs is fun!

[@TheLordofMetroids]

I hate the Megalodon on the Cryptid list. It was a shoreline hunter, not a deep sea hunter. If it was still out there we would know, because it would be impossible to miss. If it evolved to secretly live in deep sea trenches, guess what? it wouldn't be a Megalodon.

[@JEDSaje15]

Who else is finished? NO SPOILERS (in Patterns voice)

[@randomdude4505]

The episode naming sceme has really gone down hill. How is this one not named "I love you New Jersey, but you're no Scotland."

[@XamuselUzumaki]

I think we can knock off the Ben jokes by now, Brandon.

[@EnCwoisant]

No

[@XamuselUzumaki]

@@EnCwoisant Is there any real reason for keeping the Ben jokes, though?

[@psal8715]

the yeti/bigfoot/skunkape are all a 0 for me. i think they are dumb. just big stinky gorillas

[@davidv815]

Just a friendly heads up wrong form of there (instead of their) used in descr - feel free to fix and delete this comment