August 22, 2024 • 23 mins
Tom Slick’s beliefs are challenged when he encounters someone who makes him question everything. Meanwhile his “proof” of the Yeti’s existence is smuggled out of India.
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“Tom Slick: Mystery Hunter” Stars Owen Wilson, Sissy Spacek and Schuyler Fisk
Written and Directed by Caroline Slaughter
Story Edited by Jeb Stuart
Produced and Assistant Directed by Emilia Brock
Original Score, Sound Design, Mixing and Mastering by Jesse Nighswonger
Executive Produced by Owen Wilson, Sissy Spacek, Schuyler Fisk, Jeb Stuart, Caroline Slaughter, Brian Lavin, L.C. Crowley, Brandon Barr and Virginia Prescott
Special thanks to historian Catherine Nixon Cooke whose expert advice on Tom Slick Jr. and book – “Tom Slick, Mystery Hunter!” – served as inspiration for the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
School of Humans.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This podcast is based on the true story of explorer, inventor, visionary,
and science pioneer Tom Slick. Some of the story elements, names,
and characters have been altered for dramatic purposes. Consider using
headphones to enhance your listening experience. We've created an immersive
(00:29):
soundscape to tell our story.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hey I'm driving here was a asshole, Blair?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Are you still there?
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Jesus? Look, I told you to rush getting here, not
tell yourself.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
How did that journalist get my number?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
I thought you were all in on the Yettihook after
listening to those tapes you found I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
In on telling the un written history of my granddad,
not the non existent one of the Yetti but for real,
we cannot say anything about his covert mission to kidnap Lawmax.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Wait, is that a special ops thing?
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Never mind, liv Look, you hired me to raise money
for this expensive generation of scientific research, and we both
know grants and donors aren't cutting big enough checks. This
Yetti hunt could be our ticket to real capital and exposure.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
There's no story if there's no YETI but do you
know that?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Come on, Blair, I'm not free falling down some conspiracy
theory rabbit hole with you.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
All I'm saying is your grandfather might have found something.
It could all be right here on the tapes.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I have shit, dude, that's not your lane. Sorry traffic.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Why are you trying to kill me?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
GPS says I'm twenty three minutes away from you and
I'm finishing up the last tape down it's a green
light move.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
You shut listening to that you're driving is a good idea.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
With five hours tilts tonight's event, there's no time for
another one.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Just remember you're our only speaker. Don't die God.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
So this is it, the last tape.
Speaker 8 (02:35):
I don't know how we made it out of Tibet,
but I think it had something to do with him.
Speaker 9 (02:40):
Long for.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
It's March thirteenth, nineteen fifty eight. I've spent every waking
moment since our escape with Lama X, and I've observed,
as a man of science what can only be quantified
as unadulterated mysticism. His power was menished in Tibet as
the dark forces of Chinese communism mooned heavy, But out
(03:05):
here in the wilds and the Himalayas, he's unleashed.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Lightning. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 10 (03:15):
Lightning when there's nothing around.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
It must be drawn to the yin yang energy coursing
through Lama x as he meditates, it's unreal. With the
tap of a finger, he ignites our bonfires. During the escape,
he used the palm of his hand to stop a
Chinese soldier's bullet from executing Dawa.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But what really.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Baffles me is the Lama's understanding of yin Xi. He said,
if one masters it, they unlock a higher dimension.
Speaker 9 (03:52):
We call it yung gunjh.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Yes, the lost horizon. Yes, we got a day and
a half till we reach asylum in India.
Speaker 10 (04:03):
Okay, yes, but I want more?
Speaker 9 (04:06):
What more enlightenment?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Just a crash course.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Please, it'll help me to understand the mysterious nature of
the Yetti.
Speaker 9 (04:15):
I was so close, Lama.
Speaker 11 (04:20):
My son, Are you a believer?
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Yes, you know more than you know.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Do translate, please, mister Tum.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
He's speaking English.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
The riddles they always get me.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Do you hear that.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Rig cleans, rig cleans.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
The Chinese they tracked us down.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Slick, grab that Larla and take color bud run an
ice cap.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
There is no cover at two hundred meters they'll drop
out of troopers that you know looks like a good fit.
Speaker 12 (04:55):
At least six the number us run an ice cap
don and a two undered me just with target practice.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Do you have to argue with me?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Means I like you? Well, don't argue with you or
like you?
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (05:19):
Whoa love?
Speaker 14 (05:21):
God?
Speaker 11 (05:21):
Oh shit?
Speaker 9 (05:23):
What is that?
Speaker 8 (05:25):
It looks like smoke but clouds their clouds?
Speaker 9 (05:28):
He's calling them.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Do you see that?
Speaker 10 (05:31):
He's flying away?
Speaker 15 (05:34):
Keep up the Crooningxama.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They can't see us.
Speaker 13 (05:38):
It's the mist.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
They'll come back.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We need to find shelter, trees, a cave, something, guys.
This altitude, Oh my.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
God, again arguing you like it?
Speaker 11 (05:49):
Not this aborto?
Speaker 13 (05:51):
Wait?
Speaker 11 (05:52):
Do you all see that?
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Twenty meters northwest? Looks like some sort of rock doo?
Speaker 11 (05:58):
Watch a Lama.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
I'm gonna go check it out.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I don't see anything.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
It's a cave in the valley.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Look, come on, it's bringing up to hold all of us.
Speaker 11 (06:08):
There's nothing there.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
First thing we agree on, mister Tom Yeah dawah d Llama.
He wants to speak to you me alone.
Speaker 12 (06:17):
Oh okay, yes, I knew that Lama had a favorite
grote meal.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
After I kidnapped him.
Speaker 11 (06:24):
God, I pulled on him off for his first magic trip.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Didn't do me any favors, Lama, are you asked for me?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
That cave?
Speaker 11 (06:35):
Its name is Kembaloon. It is an oracle, does not
exist for most. But if you see it, you are worthy.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Is that another riddle?
Speaker 9 (06:54):
You can see it?
Speaker 10 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
So now you can find the yity.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
Chapter six. This is the mostly true tale of Tom
Slick mystery Hunter.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
That's it, yep, last tape.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Shit, he's so close.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Okay, there's gotta be more on one of the tapes
I found. Yeah, what do you want?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
How many seats you want to set up?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
At three hundred and sixteen? But I'm hoping for more.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I thank you that many people are coming to this thing.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I told you i'd feel seats with that yetti hook.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Well, I hope you find that hook you promised in
one of these tapes. Where did you find them?
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Again?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
With a pile of letters.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Written by granddad or sent to him?
Speaker 16 (08:18):
Sent to him?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Then these tapes aren't his? What he didn't record them?
Speaker 12 (08:24):
Hey watch it? Shite Indians racing around triggers my.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Plur to go, that's bud, These are his tapes.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
He was on the yette Hund with their granddad.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Right, yeah, he was the lead guide.
Speaker 12 (08:40):
I'm at the Kolcutta Airport documenting the handoff of our
big prize with one of six recorder thingies. Not because
he asked me to. I just don't trust people, especially
some guy who gets paid to pretend for a living. Jesus,
you think i'd be able to spot him. Jimmy Stewart
(09:01):
has to be the only posted in near over six feet.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Who's Kimmy Star?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Really?
Speaker 11 (09:05):
What?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh he's not on TikTok. You might have to grow
up and google him. Oh, darning to say? Excuse me?
Speaker 17 (09:14):
Oh hi, are you a peer.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Calling me Bud?
Speaker 17 (09:19):
But yeah, nice to see you. I'm Jimmy. This is
my wife, Gloria Pleasure.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You have the guns?
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Why did it cut off?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I don't know. Maybe because Bud's new to this recording thing.
Let's just here, Let's try another one.
Speaker 11 (09:44):
God damn you placid recorder. You're working now, you're wanka.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Oh look, jim one of the fingers it still has
skin on it. Oh that long blood inger nail.
Speaker 11 (10:00):
Could take you out with one swipe, darling.
Speaker 17 (10:02):
Hmm, God damn bastard Roy did it?
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Of course he did.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I knew he would.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
He's Tom Slick.
Speaker 17 (10:11):
You hold it downe Oh.
Speaker 11 (10:13):
Slick wasn't the only one on that hunt, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh well tell us what it was like.
Speaker 17 (10:17):
Yeah, what did you do when you came face to
face with the beast?
Speaker 11 (10:21):
That's a question for Slick to answer.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So so Slick was the only one who actually saw it.
Speaker 11 (10:27):
I didn't say that, now, did I?
Speaker 17 (10:30):
Now, bod, tell me where is Tom arriving in London
to meet us?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yes? I'd love to see him.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
On Friday before I Yet he exhibit opens. He had
to tie up some loose ends in India.
Speaker 17 (10:42):
Now did he really want me to smuggle this yetty
hand into the UK? Or is it just away for
him to go out?
Speaker 11 (10:48):
You were a safer bet than me, he said, A
movie star wouldn't be searched.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
I need you to turn around.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
Shite the god he saw it?
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Din around. He's speaking to you, Jimmy, Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
state your name, James Steward.
Speaker 17 (11:08):
Am I in some sort of trouble.
Speaker 15 (11:10):
If you don't make a sequel to Strategy Care Command
you are? I have seen that movie of yours at
least twelve times.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
That's a shame.
Speaker 17 (11:18):
It's no rear window.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh god, Jimmy, he doesn't want your opinion.
Speaker 12 (11:23):
He wants an autograph.
Speaker 17 (11:24):
Oh oh yeah, let me let me sign something for you.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
Oh my god, my kids, you love this?
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Please, thank you.
Speaker 11 (11:32):
Where's the yetty aunt Somewhere?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
No one would dare look this tape is proof.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Okay, Slick found the Yetti.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Then why isn't it out there in the media in history.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Books live No one knew about these tapes.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Granddad must have hidden them for a reason.
Speaker 12 (11:48):
He didn't.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
He gave them to you. Now you have to decide
what we do with them. Do we tell this juicy,
compelling will bring tons of publicity and money to this
institute story? Or do we let it die?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Let's just listen to bud last tape.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Is that an answer?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
You're insufferable?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
All thanks, Just play the tape with pleasure.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
It was a long track, but we made it to
the London Natural History Museum and the Yetti palm. Well
it had a very intimate journey.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Well it should be right here here, But hold my panties,
will you?
Speaker 15 (12:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And this brosier pretty lace.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
Soft?
Speaker 14 (12:45):
Oh and also this.
Speaker 11 (12:48):
Really soft.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Are you all right?
Speaker 11 (12:53):
I've been deprived of the feminine for the past year
and a half.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
So oh and uh.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Watching me rummage through my intimates doing anything for you
more than you know, Gloria, have some decency.
Speaker 17 (13:09):
Oh here it is God, Doctor Osmond Hill, meet Bud
and my modest bride, Gloria.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
A pleasure after fondling your unmentionables. I do hope the
creature's fingers are still intact. Brother, He's funny, Gloria, I
promise you, madam, I am not.
Speaker 11 (13:32):
May I see this messuremen, this yetti poor Here is
for the exhibit about the Hunt opening this week.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Indeed, I am here to confirm that it is not
a fake.
Speaker 18 (13:48):
Hello, Hello, hello, everyone dropping a jet lag after your
exhaustive journey to bring us the greatest discovery of all time.
Speaker 11 (13:58):
It was just me on the hunt, and yes it
was debilitating, violent, destructive. Dear, they just suffered through flying commercial.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
As a human mule for that. Yetty's filthy hand.
Speaker 17 (14:12):
You make it sound like we were flying in sturage.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
Well we might as well have been, Darling.
Speaker 17 (14:17):
We'll say I'm dramatic.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
We are so.
Speaker 15 (14:21):
Thrilled to have this one of a kind memento as
the centerpiece of our exhibit. Mister Slick has been mailing
us photos of his epic adventures.
Speaker 11 (14:31):
Are epic adventure. I led the thing, But this, this,
it's proof cryptozoology is not a hoax.
Speaker 16 (14:41):
It's science.
Speaker 15 (14:43):
This yet is bony odious hand will reanergize the hunt
for cryptids.
Speaker 13 (14:49):
It will.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It will breathe a.
Speaker 15 (14:51):
Generation of amateur mystery hunters who, like Slick, will set out.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
A prove that fantasy is a reality.
Speaker 18 (14:58):
By the end of this decade, I'll have a whole
wing dedicated to cryptozoology, with a stuffed Bigfoot, the hide
of Sweet Missy and the vampiric fangs of the trooper carbra.
Speaker 13 (15:14):
Will.
Speaker 11 (15:16):
What do you think, doc, That YETI palm look real
to you.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I have a more detailed study to do on the specimen,
but my initial impression is that it.
Speaker 17 (15:24):
Is an anthropoid Arthur who who It.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Resembles a human inform but has primary characteristics. I've never
seen anything like it, so.
Speaker 15 (15:37):
Just look at it. It's yetty.
Speaker 17 (15:42):
My God, I'll spank my ass and call me Marrey.
Speaker 19 (15:58):
Breaking news, the London Natural History Museum was preparing for
a highly publicized cryptozoology exhibit hosted by American explorer Tom Slick,
which according to sources, were supposed to feature his unique
discovery that would upend science as we know it, but
that scientific finding will never be witnessed. Last night, the
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exhibit in its main feature vanished. The actor Jimmy Stewart,
who was supposed to speak at the event, along with
other sources involved with the exhibit, gave the BBC an
exclusive interview.
Speaker 17 (16:36):
That was the stranger's saying. The museum custodian arrived this morning.
The entire exhibit.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
It was all gone.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
It was gone, the photos, the documents.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Did you say, yetty Hand?
Speaker 17 (16:49):
Oh, oh, you don't know.
Speaker 19 (16:52):
Was that the featured discovery?
Speaker 9 (16:54):
It was Slick.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
He's up to something.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
No, we don't know that glory oh James, you think
is behind this?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (17:02):
The yaddy.
Speaker 16 (17:06):
Well, I have no earth the idea what you're talking about?
Speaker 15 (17:09):
The yetty hand?
Speaker 18 (17:10):
Oh please, My museum abides by scientific standards.
Speaker 16 (17:16):
If there's no proof, then it's not science. And as
you can see from my barren front hall, there is
not just no sign of proof, there is absolutely no
evidence that any exhibit existed. And yes, before you grill
me that is.
Speaker 15 (17:31):
A bullet hole in the floor, and how it got there?
Speaker 16 (17:37):
No comment.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I am destroyed by this development. I didn't have the
suitable amount of time to thoroughly examine the yetty specimen,
but from my initial tests I can confirm that it
belonged to a beast. Humanity has yet to discover.
Speaker 13 (17:56):
It wasn't just Tom Slick hunted the YETI okay, Jesus
don't have to be a gang to get any respect
around here. So you want to comment about the Yettypoh,
here it goes. I cannot confirm or deny that it
wasn't a fake.
Speaker 19 (18:14):
We could not track down mister Slick for an interview,
though his secretary did give us a direct quote, Hello
you can hey, yep.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Hello Mabel you there? Can you hear me?
Speaker 11 (18:27):
Hello?
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Hackney good good?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Okay, this is mister Slick's direct quote.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
He is appalled that the museum allowed this to happen.
Speaker 14 (18:41):
Is that it is that always to say, unquote, hey.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Hey boss, yes, oh well, we all got two hundred
and fifty chairs, and the flower lays just showed up.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Where'd you want the caterers?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
They got all this food shit?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Okay, I'll deal with that.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
Thank you got it.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
It sounds like this tape's over anyway.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Look just let me know if the YETI makes a cameo. Okay, okay,
I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Hi. Yes, uh, how quickly can you deliver seventy five
years in stall?
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Now?
Speaker 12 (19:25):
Maybe it's not over alrighty, I think I got it working.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Oh my god, there's more.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
Jesus you on the new ones of Bastards. So I
found that old news clip somewhere on the web and
thought i'd record it for you now. Also, I wanted
to send you the other tapes that I had, all.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
That went down in nineteen fifty eight, after the hunt.
It's two thousand and ten.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
Now.
Speaker 11 (19:59):
I thought these tapes would help tell the tale of
Tom Slick Junior. He was one of a kind, a legend. Really.
His life was almost as mythic as the fantastical creatures
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he hunted. But you know that you're keeping one of
his greatest secrets, the mystery of that YETI pow it
was a relic. Everyone thought it was proof of the
Yetties existence. But we both know that's not true. Your
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father's last tape is the real proof, isn't it. Claire?
What hey? Han?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Mom, We need to Talk.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Tom Slick Mystery Hunter is a production of School of
Humans and iHeart Podcasts starring Owen Wilson as Tom Slick,
Sissy Spasic as Claire Slick, Skyler Fiske as Livslick. Written
and directed by Caroline Slaughter, story editor Jeb Stewart. Executive
produced by Owen Wilson, Sissy Spasic, Skyler Fisk, Jeb Stewart,
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Caroline Slaughter, Brian Lavin, l C. Crowley, Brandon Barr, and
Virginia Prescott. Produced and assistant directed by Amelia Brock. Original score,
sound design, mixing and mastering by Jesse Niswanger, Casting by
Daisy Church and Caroline Slaughter. Sag coordination by Day and
(22:00):
Julia Christgau. Promo and trailers by Carl Catel. Special thanks
to Catherine Nixon Cook. Recording engineers are Tyler Klang and
Casey Pegram.
Speaker 14 (22:10):
For iHeartMedia Episode six, cast Ian Shaw as Bud, Ava
Davis as Blair, Michael Mao as Jimmy Stewart, Tiffany Morgan
as Gloria Stewart, Selinas Tibio as Dominique, Jenny Fleming as Mabel,
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Vince Canlas as Dawa and Lama X, Cameron Shake as
the Indian security guard, David Devrees as the museum director,
Lowry Brown as Doctor Osmond Hill, Mike Schatz as the
maintenance guy, and the introductory voiceover, with additional roles voiced
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by David Devrees, Michael Mao, and Phil Clark. Additional audio
assembly by Noah Kamer. Executive producer for iHeartMedia is Maya Howard.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
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School of Humans.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This podcast is based on the true story of explorer, inventor, visionary,
and science pioneer Tom Slick. Some of the story elements, names,
and characters have been altered for dramatic purposes. Consider using
headphones to enhance your listening experience. We've created an immersive
(00:29):
soundscape to tell our story.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hey I'm driving here was a asshole, Blair?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Are you still there?
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Jesus? Look, I told you to rush getting here, not
tell yourself.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
How did that journalist get my number?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
I thought you were all in on the Yettihook after
listening to those tapes you found I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
In on telling the un written history of my granddad,
not the non existent one of the Yetti but for real,
we cannot say anything about his covert mission to kidnap Lawmax.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Wait, is that a special ops thing?
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Never mind, liv Look, you hired me to raise money
for this expensive generation of scientific research, and we both
know grants and donors aren't cutting big enough checks. This
Yetti hunt could be our ticket to real capital and exposure.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
There's no story if there's no YETI but do you
know that?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Come on, Blair, I'm not free falling down some conspiracy
theory rabbit hole with you.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
All I'm saying is your grandfather might have found something.
It could all be right here on the tapes.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I have shit, dude, that's not your lane. Sorry traffic.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Why are you trying to kill me?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
GPS says I'm twenty three minutes away from you and
I'm finishing up the last tape down it's a green
light move.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
You shut listening to that you're driving is a good idea.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
With five hours tilts tonight's event, there's no time for
another one.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Just remember you're our only speaker. Don't die God.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
So this is it, the last tape.
Speaker 8 (02:35):
I don't know how we made it out of Tibet,
but I think it had something to do with him.
Speaker 9 (02:40):
Long for.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
It's March thirteenth, nineteen fifty eight. I've spent every waking
moment since our escape with Lama X, and I've observed,
as a man of science what can only be quantified
as unadulterated mysticism. His power was menished in Tibet as
the dark forces of Chinese communism mooned heavy, But out
(03:05):
here in the wilds and the Himalayas, he's unleashed.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Lightning. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 10 (03:15):
Lightning when there's nothing around.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
It must be drawn to the yin yang energy coursing
through Lama x as he meditates, it's unreal. With the
tap of a finger, he ignites our bonfires. During the escape,
he used the palm of his hand to stop a
Chinese soldier's bullet from executing Dawa.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
But what really.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Baffles me is the Lama's understanding of yin Xi. He said,
if one masters it, they unlock a higher dimension.
Speaker 9 (03:52):
We call it yung gunjh.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Yes, the lost horizon. Yes, we got a day and
a half till we reach asylum in India.
Speaker 10 (04:03):
Okay, yes, but I want more?
Speaker 9 (04:06):
What more enlightenment?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Just a crash course.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Please, it'll help me to understand the mysterious nature of
the Yetti.
Speaker 9 (04:15):
I was so close, Lama.
Speaker 11 (04:20):
My son, Are you a believer?
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Yes, you know more than you know.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Do translate, please, mister Tum.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
He's speaking English.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
The riddles they always get me.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Do you hear that.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Rig cleans, rig cleans.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
The Chinese they tracked us down.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Slick, grab that Larla and take color bud run an
ice cap.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
There is no cover at two hundred meters they'll drop
out of troopers that you know looks like a good fit.
Speaker 12 (04:55):
At least six the number us run an ice cap
don and a two undered me just with target practice.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Do you have to argue with me?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Means I like you? Well, don't argue with you or
like you?
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (05:19):
Whoa love?
Speaker 14 (05:21):
God?
Speaker 11 (05:21):
Oh shit?
Speaker 9 (05:23):
What is that?
Speaker 8 (05:25):
It looks like smoke but clouds their clouds?
Speaker 9 (05:28):
He's calling them.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Do you see that?
Speaker 10 (05:31):
He's flying away?
Speaker 15 (05:34):
Keep up the Crooningxama.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
They can't see us.
Speaker 13 (05:38):
It's the mist.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
They'll come back.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We need to find shelter, trees, a cave, something, guys.
This altitude, Oh my.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
God, again arguing you like it?
Speaker 11 (05:49):
Not this aborto?
Speaker 13 (05:51):
Wait?
Speaker 11 (05:52):
Do you all see that?
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Twenty meters northwest? Looks like some sort of rock doo?
Speaker 11 (05:58):
Watch a Lama.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
I'm gonna go check it out.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I don't see anything.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
It's a cave in the valley.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Look, come on, it's bringing up to hold all of us.
Speaker 11 (06:08):
There's nothing there.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
First thing we agree on, mister Tom Yeah dawah d Llama.
He wants to speak to you me alone.
Speaker 12 (06:17):
Oh okay, yes, I knew that Lama had a favorite
grote meal.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
After I kidnapped him.
Speaker 11 (06:24):
God, I pulled on him off for his first magic trip.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Didn't do me any favors, Lama, are you asked for me?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
That cave?
Speaker 11 (06:35):
Its name is Kembaloon. It is an oracle, does not
exist for most. But if you see it, you are worthy.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Okay?
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Is that another riddle?
Speaker 9 (06:54):
You can see it?
Speaker 10 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
So now you can find the yity.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
Chapter six. This is the mostly true tale of Tom
Slick mystery Hunter.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
That's it, yep, last tape.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Shit, he's so close.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Okay, there's gotta be more on one of the tapes
I found. Yeah, what do you want?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
How many seats you want to set up?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
At three hundred and sixteen? But I'm hoping for more.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I thank you that many people are coming to this thing.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I told you i'd feel seats with that yetti hook.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Well, I hope you find that hook you promised in
one of these tapes. Where did you find them?
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Again?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
With a pile of letters.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Written by granddad or sent to him?
Speaker 16 (08:18):
Sent to him?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Then these tapes aren't his? What he didn't record them?
Speaker 12 (08:24):
Hey watch it? Shite Indians racing around triggers my.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Plur to go, that's bud, These are his tapes.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
He was on the yette Hund with their granddad.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Right, yeah, he was the lead guide.
Speaker 12 (08:40):
I'm at the Kolcutta Airport documenting the handoff of our
big prize with one of six recorder thingies. Not because
he asked me to. I just don't trust people, especially
some guy who gets paid to pretend for a living. Jesus,
you think i'd be able to spot him. Jimmy Stewart
(09:01):
has to be the only posted in near over six feet.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Who's Kimmy Star?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Really?
Speaker 11 (09:05):
What?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh he's not on TikTok. You might have to grow
up and google him. Oh, darning to say? Excuse me?
Speaker 17 (09:14):
Oh hi, are you a peer.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Calling me Bud?
Speaker 17 (09:19):
But yeah, nice to see you. I'm Jimmy. This is
my wife, Gloria Pleasure.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You have the guns?
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Why did it cut off?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I don't know. Maybe because Bud's new to this recording thing.
Let's just here, Let's try another one.
Speaker 11 (09:44):
God damn you placid recorder. You're working now, you're wanka.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Oh look, jim one of the fingers it still has
skin on it. Oh that long blood inger nail.
Speaker 11 (10:00):
Could take you out with one swipe, darling.
Speaker 17 (10:02):
Hmm, God damn bastard Roy did it?
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Of course he did.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I knew he would.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
He's Tom Slick.
Speaker 17 (10:11):
You hold it downe Oh.
Speaker 11 (10:13):
Slick wasn't the only one on that hunt, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh well tell us what it was like.
Speaker 17 (10:17):
Yeah, what did you do when you came face to
face with the beast?
Speaker 11 (10:21):
That's a question for Slick to answer.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So so Slick was the only one who actually saw it.
Speaker 11 (10:27):
I didn't say that, now, did I?
Speaker 17 (10:30):
Now, bod, tell me where is Tom arriving in London
to meet us?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yes? I'd love to see him.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
On Friday before I Yet he exhibit opens. He had
to tie up some loose ends in India.
Speaker 17 (10:42):
Now did he really want me to smuggle this yetty
hand into the UK? Or is it just away for
him to go out?
Speaker 11 (10:48):
You were a safer bet than me, he said, A
movie star wouldn't be searched.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
I need you to turn around.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
Shite the god he saw it?
Speaker 10 (11:00):
Din around. He's speaking to you, Jimmy, Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
state your name, James Steward.
Speaker 17 (11:08):
Am I in some sort of trouble.
Speaker 15 (11:10):
If you don't make a sequel to Strategy Care Command
you are? I have seen that movie of yours at
least twelve times.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
That's a shame.
Speaker 17 (11:18):
It's no rear window.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh god, Jimmy, he doesn't want your opinion.
Speaker 12 (11:23):
He wants an autograph.
Speaker 17 (11:24):
Oh oh yeah, let me let me sign something for you.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
Oh my god, my kids, you love this?
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Please, thank you.
Speaker 11 (11:32):
Where's the yetty aunt Somewhere?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
No one would dare look this tape is proof.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Okay, Slick found the Yetti.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Then why isn't it out there in the media in history.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Books live No one knew about these tapes.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Granddad must have hidden them for a reason.
Speaker 12 (11:48):
He didn't.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
He gave them to you. Now you have to decide
what we do with them. Do we tell this juicy,
compelling will bring tons of publicity and money to this
institute story? Or do we let it die?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Let's just listen to bud last tape.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Is that an answer?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
You're insufferable?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
All thanks, Just play the tape with pleasure.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
It was a long track, but we made it to
the London Natural History Museum and the Yetti palm. Well
it had a very intimate journey.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Well it should be right here here, But hold my panties,
will you?
Speaker 15 (12:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And this brosier pretty lace.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
Soft?
Speaker 14 (12:45):
Oh and also this.
Speaker 11 (12:48):
Really soft.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Are you all right?
Speaker 11 (12:53):
I've been deprived of the feminine for the past year
and a half.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
So oh and uh.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Watching me rummage through my intimates doing anything for you
more than you know, Gloria, have some decency.
Speaker 17 (13:09):
Oh here it is God, Doctor Osmond Hill, meet Bud
and my modest bride, Gloria.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
A pleasure after fondling your unmentionables. I do hope the
creature's fingers are still intact. Brother, He's funny, Gloria, I
promise you, madam, I am not.
Speaker 11 (13:32):
May I see this messuremen, this yetti poor Here is
for the exhibit about the Hunt opening this week.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Indeed, I am here to confirm that it is not
a fake.
Speaker 18 (13:48):
Hello, Hello, hello, everyone dropping a jet lag after your
exhaustive journey to bring us the greatest discovery of all time.
Speaker 11 (13:58):
It was just me on the hunt, and yes it
was debilitating, violent, destructive. Dear, they just suffered through flying commercial.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
As a human mule for that. Yetty's filthy hand.
Speaker 17 (14:12):
You make it sound like we were flying in sturage.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
Well we might as well have been, Darling.
Speaker 17 (14:17):
We'll say I'm dramatic.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
We are so.
Speaker 15 (14:21):
Thrilled to have this one of a kind memento as
the centerpiece of our exhibit. Mister Slick has been mailing
us photos of his epic adventures.
Speaker 11 (14:31):
Are epic adventure. I led the thing, But this, this,
it's proof cryptozoology is not a hoax.
Speaker 16 (14:41):
It's science.
Speaker 15 (14:43):
This yet is bony odious hand will reanergize the hunt
for cryptids.
Speaker 13 (14:49):
It will.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It will breathe a.
Speaker 15 (14:51):
Generation of amateur mystery hunters who, like Slick, will set out.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
A prove that fantasy is a reality.
Speaker 18 (14:58):
By the end of this decade, I'll have a whole
wing dedicated to cryptozoology, with a stuffed Bigfoot, the hide
of Sweet Missy and the vampiric fangs of the trooper carbra.
Speaker 13 (15:14):
Will.
Speaker 11 (15:16):
What do you think, doc, That YETI palm look real
to you.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I have a more detailed study to do on the specimen,
but my initial impression is that it.
Speaker 17 (15:24):
Is an anthropoid Arthur who who It.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Resembles a human inform but has primary characteristics. I've never
seen anything like it, so.
Speaker 15 (15:37):
Just look at it. It's yetty.
Speaker 17 (15:42):
My God, I'll spank my ass and call me Marrey.
Speaker 19 (15:58):
Breaking news, the London Natural History Museum was preparing for
a highly publicized cryptozoology exhibit hosted by American explorer Tom Slick,
which according to sources, were supposed to feature his unique
discovery that would upend science as we know it, but
that scientific finding will never be witnessed. Last night, the
(16:21):
exhibit in its main feature vanished. The actor Jimmy Stewart,
who was supposed to speak at the event, along with
other sources involved with the exhibit, gave the BBC an
exclusive interview.
Speaker 17 (16:36):
That was the stranger's saying. The museum custodian arrived this morning.
The entire exhibit.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
It was all gone.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
It was gone, the photos, the documents.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Did you say, yetty Hand?
Speaker 17 (16:49):
Oh, oh, you don't know.
Speaker 19 (16:52):
Was that the featured discovery?
Speaker 9 (16:54):
It was Slick.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
He's up to something.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
No, we don't know that glory oh James, you think
is behind this?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (17:02):
The yaddy.
Speaker 16 (17:06):
Well, I have no earth the idea what you're talking about?
Speaker 15 (17:09):
The yetty hand?
Speaker 18 (17:10):
Oh please, My museum abides by scientific standards.
Speaker 16 (17:16):
If there's no proof, then it's not science. And as
you can see from my barren front hall, there is
not just no sign of proof, there is absolutely no
evidence that any exhibit existed. And yes, before you grill
me that is.
Speaker 15 (17:31):
A bullet hole in the floor, and how it got there?
Speaker 16 (17:37):
No comment.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I am destroyed by this development. I didn't have the
suitable amount of time to thoroughly examine the yetty specimen,
but from my initial tests I can confirm that it
belonged to a beast. Humanity has yet to discover.
Speaker 13 (17:56):
It wasn't just Tom Slick hunted the YETI okay, Jesus
don't have to be a gang to get any respect
around here. So you want to comment about the Yettypoh,
here it goes. I cannot confirm or deny that it
wasn't a fake.
Speaker 19 (18:14):
We could not track down mister Slick for an interview,
though his secretary did give us a direct quote, Hello
you can hey, yep.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Hello Mabel you there? Can you hear me?
Speaker 11 (18:27):
Hello?
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Hackney good good?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Okay, this is mister Slick's direct quote.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
He is appalled that the museum allowed this to happen.
Speaker 14 (18:41):
Is that it is that always to say, unquote, hey.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
Hey boss, yes, oh well, we all got two hundred
and fifty chairs, and the flower lays just showed up.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Where'd you want the caterers?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
They got all this food shit?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Okay, I'll deal with that.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
Thank you got it.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
It sounds like this tape's over anyway.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Look just let me know if the YETI makes a cameo. Okay, okay,
I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Hi. Yes, uh, how quickly can you deliver seventy five
years in stall?
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Now?
Speaker 12 (19:25):
Maybe it's not over alrighty, I think I got it working.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Oh my god, there's more.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
Jesus you on the new ones of Bastards. So I
found that old news clip somewhere on the web and
thought i'd record it for you now. Also, I wanted
to send you the other tapes that I had, all.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
That went down in nineteen fifty eight, after the hunt.
It's two thousand and ten.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
Now.
Speaker 11 (19:59):
I thought these tapes would help tell the tale of
Tom Slick Junior. He was one of a kind, a legend. Really.
His life was almost as mythic as the fantastical creatures
(20:21):
he hunted. But you know that you're keeping one of
his greatest secrets, the mystery of that YETI pow it
was a relic. Everyone thought it was proof of the
Yetties existence. But we both know that's not true. Your
(20:48):
father's last tape is the real proof, isn't it. Claire?
What hey? Han?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Mom, We need to Talk.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Tom Slick Mystery Hunter is a production of School of
Humans and iHeart Podcasts starring Owen Wilson as Tom Slick,
Sissy Spasic as Claire Slick, Skyler Fiske as Livslick. Written
and directed by Caroline Slaughter, story editor Jeb Stewart. Executive
produced by Owen Wilson, Sissy Spasic, Skyler Fisk, Jeb Stewart,
(21:39):
Caroline Slaughter, Brian Lavin, l C. Crowley, Brandon Barr, and
Virginia Prescott. Produced and assistant directed by Amelia Brock. Original score,
sound design, mixing and mastering by Jesse Niswanger, Casting by
Daisy Church and Caroline Slaughter. Sag coordination by Day and
(22:00):
Julia Christgau. Promo and trailers by Carl Catel. Special thanks
to Catherine Nixon Cook. Recording engineers are Tyler Klang and
Casey Pegram.
Speaker 14 (22:10):
For iHeartMedia Episode six, cast Ian Shaw as Bud, Ava
Davis as Blair, Michael Mao as Jimmy Stewart, Tiffany Morgan
as Gloria Stewart, Selinas Tibio as Dominique, Jenny Fleming as Mabel,
(22:33):
Vince Canlas as Dawa and Lama X, Cameron Shake as
the Indian security guard, David Devrees as the museum director,
Lowry Brown as Doctor Osmond Hill, Mike Schatz as the
maintenance guy, and the introductory voiceover, with additional roles voiced
(22:56):
by David Devrees, Michael Mao, and Phil Clark. Additional audio
assembly by Noah Kamer. Executive producer for iHeartMedia is Maya Howard.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
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