June 6, 2023 • 40 mins
The Tsuchinoko is a snake-like cryptid that is seen in the mountainous regions of Western Japan, & appears to look like your common snake, although with a central girth that is wider than its head & tail & appears to look like a hammer or mallet without a handle. It has large, plate-like scales that run down its earth-tone speckled body, & because of their color & shape, they are often said to resemble beer bottles.
Despite having an awkward shape, the Tsuchinoko is very nimble. It is said that it can jump up to a meter in distance followed immediately by a 2nd jump while it is still in the air & by some estimates, can jump up to 5 meters. It is also reported to sometimes swallow its tail & roll like a wheel, which is similar to the hoop snake. According to legend, some Tsuchinoko are able to speak & are notorious liars, & are said to have a taste for alcohol or sake.
Join us on episode 162 to hear more about this strange & elusive cryptic from Japan!
Sources: cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Tsuchinoko, yokai.com/tsuchinoko/, snake-facts.weebly.com/tsuchinoko.html
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Despite having an awkward shape, the Tsuchinoko is very nimble. It is said that it can jump up to a meter in distance followed immediately by a 2nd jump while it is still in the air & by some estimates, can jump up to 5 meters. It is also reported to sometimes swallow its tail & roll like a wheel, which is similar to the hoop snake. According to legend, some Tsuchinoko are able to speak & are notorious liars, & are said to have a taste for alcohol or sake.
Join us on episode 162 to hear more about this strange & elusive cryptic from Japan!
Sources: cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Tsuchinoko, yokai.com/tsuchinoko/, snake-facts.weebly.com/tsuchinoko.html
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Paranormal Punches is part of the PodbellyNetwork. Go to podbelly dot com for
more great podcasts. Hey, y'all, this is Frank the Bigfoot and you're
listening to the Paranormal Puncher. Hey, friends, welcome to another episode Paranormal
(00:35):
Punchers. I'm Mark, I'm Alicia, I'm Nash, I'm Dave, and
we are coming to you outside onDave's patio. So if you hear some
birds and some cars, just enjoyit. We're having a pick that's right,
Yeah, all right. On thisepisode, we're gonna talk about something
crypto from Japan, which we havenot really explored anything in Japan no ever.
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This is my this is the firstone, right, I believe,
so I think so cool. We'regonna talk about the Succinokoe, which is
like a snake like cryptid that kicksit in the mountain regions of western Japan.
And then on the second half we'vegot some lisser feedback. We're gonna
hang out shoot the Breeze. Nomovie this time, but that's okay because
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we're gonna try to be destroying it. Sunococco. Yeah, I like the
fact you said that it kicks itin the mountain region and it's a snake.
Kick it anywhere? Kick it,I guess we'll find out and kick
it could mean partying because it alsoit likes the party, likes the party.
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Hi, my name is Succinoko andI like the party. Oh boy,
all right, you ready, Solicia, won't you kick us? All
with some backstory on Succhinoko the partyanimal? Okay, So the word succinoko
means dirt child or child of hammer, but it also h child of hammer.
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Nice, don't entertain them? Yeah, I know, keep going.
But it also can be called likefifty plus other names, and that just
depends on what part of Japan you'rein or you're mood at the time.
Right. A suchinoko is a snakelikecryptid or a yukai, which is a
Japanese spirit from the mountainous regions ofwestern Japan and are said to be seen
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slithering deep in the watery caves ofno, Hikokua, Shikoku, and Hanshu.
So those are those are part ofthe islands like different islands, part
of Japan, um and parts ofthe Korean Peninsula. Did we put our
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We didn't put our Apologies yet upfront. Yet Oh I know, I'm
yeah pronunciations today, so I apologizeforgive us. Yeah. They are reported
to be between thirty and eighty centimetersalong, so that's like one foot to
two point six yeah, something likethat. Um. A succinoco appears to
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look like your common snake, althoughwith a central girth that is wider than
its head and tail. It's groth, so it's a big boy um,
but in the middle's very uh.And he appears to look like a hammer
or a mallet without a handle.He looks like a hammer. Uh.
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It has large plate like scales thatrun down its body on it's an earth
tone speckled body. Because of theircolor and their shape, they are said
often said to resemble beer bottles.The succinoco itself, Yes, yeah,
when the way I read, Iread that a little odd because it was
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talking about its face and its eyes, and he said where the eyes located?
The eyes, and I said itand the and it tends to look
like beer polls right, And Iwas like, well, the eyes.
I was a little confused by that. Yeah, some of the drawings made
it look like it might have swallowedright, you know, all right,
right, elly area is just wickedgirth. So what's interesting? Um?
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So, snakes don't have eyelids,but apparently the succino does. So I
was as soon as I read that, of course, I was thinking like
when the Succinoko starts partying. We'llget into that later. Yeah, the
female succinos, you know they puttheir the fake fake lashes on lipsticks,
gonna wink at you. It's gonnawink at It's gonna be like, hey,
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Suci, how are you can callyou over? Okay? Yeah?
And also, just like other snakes, he it has fangs and venom.
So now signs the Succinoku maybe nearby. If you hear a mouse like squeak
coming from a river, uh,I guess there's legends that claim that it
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can chirp or squeak. I heardit. It sounds like when it's okay,
what no, I heard it.It makes a cheese sound and it's
snores. Oh see, I readthat as it's it's snore. You can
find it by by it's snoring,which sounded like a cheese sound. So
that made me think of the ThreeStooges. Oh boy, Now if you
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hear a human voice, that ismimicking your conversations, but it sounds like
it's coming from the depths of adank cave. There might be a shoot,
sushio. I know, I wasdoing good. My bad now.
As far as behavior of this snake, they're active from spring to fall,
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in hibernate during winter and are mostactive during the day like most snakes.
Now, despite having an awkward shapethe soup soup, Yeah, thank you,
I am. I was doing goodat the beginning, not anymore.
Yeah, don't let nash get inyour head now. The suko is very
nimble. It is said that itcan jump up to a meter in distance,
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followed immediately by a second jump.It's got a double double jump.
Yeah, it can jump up tothree feet in the air and then and
then yeah, you hit that buttonagain. Yeah, while it's still in
the air. I already like I'mlike Indiana Jones snakes. Yeah, this
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would be terrifying. Yeah, ifit could already jumped three feet at you
and then double dump, double jump. I don't know how you're getting away
from it. And then it doeswhat is the other thing you're going to
say, the other thing that itdoes? Uh? Yeah, well maybe
I don't know what note you have, but nobody ever does. It can
move around like an inchworm, butare more known to roll and tumble about
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where they roll sideways like a log. Yes, that, but they can
also they can also swallow their owntail, yes, and turn into a
wheel. So I'm thinking it justrolls downhill. So I'm thinking this is
not this is not a mythological creature. Okay, this is sonic the hedge
snake. It can double jump,it's gonna go down, it's gonna get
all the coins and then roll sideto side. Sonic the hedge snake.
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Okay, that's what it is.So I have that on a tangent.
Okay, so not the sonic sideof things, but the so um the
one site was talking about it's similarto a hoop snake. Yeah, so
hoop snake is in American folklore andum, you know these snakes that would
grab its own tail and start rolling. But that led me to the concept
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in Greek mythology of the aura boros, which is the snake which swallows its
own tail. And it's um thisit depicts dragons, it picks snakes,
it depicts you know, all thesetypes of you know, creatures, but
also the circle of life, thecircle of death, you know. So
this like this is one of thosethings that appears everywhere in the world,
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Like the concept shows up, yetwe don't have any sightings of it.
So how do all these cultures cometogether around this and tell similar stories?
So maybe it's you're what you're sayingis possibly that succino is more than just
in Japan. It was more prolific, and then it just stayed alive past
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the seven centuries when I got firstnoticed in Japan. So according to legend,
some Suchinoko are able to speak andour notorious liars. Obviously, since
I said, signs that you mighthave one nearby is when it's mimicking your
conversations. M Their diet consists ofsex, frogs and mice. Sorry,
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what you can't see right now isthe attack the hazards of podcasting. Outside
there's a fly that's really mazzing withthe dandelion. It was, uh yeah,
insects, frogs, and mice andoccasionally on small cats and dogs because
they can't get big, and fromthe looks of them, they can eat.
They're they're super super wide because there'sso girthy. You could probably put
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a shoe in there, or youknow, or somebody's lunch box. The
yeah, I saw that they whenthey're young they eat insects, and as
they get older they graduate to youknow, the larger you know creatures.
So and I was looking at thepictures of the Succinoko and because it's all
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such a wide body in their head, like you said, it looks like
a like a hammer, what actuallyreminded me kind of like a Helo monster.
The head of a Helo monster umor like not quite as big as
a Kimodo dragon, but the Helomonster head is very similar and shaped.
And then I thought, well,definitely know so giant head snake like,
so it can eat giant you know, cats, dogs, whatever, insects,
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mice. And then on the backend, when it it's not grothy
all the way down now it's supertapers back in. So that makes me
think of that thing's gonna take somegiant rip or dumps, you know what
I'm saying, because yeah, thisis where this is what did you see
the size of the tail. It'sgrothy the whole way down and then he
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goes whoop whoop, like this isa little point and tail. I was
like, well, that's where thetookie tookie is right there. I gotta
tell you, that's where you doyour business. If you're a shot,
you actually only on this show.Do you have evidence that that's where it
just what I saw online in variousvideos. What if it's like in the
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episode of South Park where Cartman wouldlearn how to poop out of his mouth.
How do you know this doesn't dothat? You're right, it could.
You have a very valid point.Yeah it could. I'm just going
off of you know, images thatI've seen. Okay, so um.
They're also apparently attracted to the smellof miso, dried squid, and burning
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hair. I'm like, I know, two of those things don't seem like
third, but burning hair would beif you did a fresh kill and you
were cooking your meat. Mm right, old school, don't think about like,
yeah, you know, okay,I prefer getting my meat from the
supermarket where it doesn't have hair.And then they dig on sake. Yeah
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I'm not there yet. Yeah,well that was going to be the next
thing I said. They are alsosaid to have a taste for alcohol or
sake buds already not now because ofthat I think you could have one as
a pet, except for the factthat we leave huge, gigantic fact that
it has two big fangs and itis poisonous, right, that's true.
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That kind of keeps it from beinga pet, that's true. And also
it loves alcohol and you know peopletalk about you know, stealing people's boobe.
Now, how is that a greatpet. That's a terrible, terrible
pet. Well, you could justkeep it fed with boots. Think of
how big of an enclosure you needso it can double jump, it can
roll, you know, that's reallythe point of it. That's really the
logistical issue. I'm just thinking thatyou let it out to go to the
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bathroom in the snake that's about twofeet long, leaves like great Dane sized
mounds in your backyard, because that'show you find it. Nobody's happening,
So it's kind of it's like lookingafter the tray saratops on Unjurassic Park.
That's how you gotta track it.Boy, Oh, it's not that big,
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So I think your theories wrong.But what do I know? Yeah?
Uh, and you already mentioned thisnash, but they also snore when
they're obviously, and their fingers areso big that they had to leave their
mouth open and really bad sinuses.I wonder if they know have c paps
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and stuff. Nice nice mm hmm. Now, as far as like when
this all first kind of came aboutduring the German period, which was fourteen
thousand BC to three hundred BC,discoveries of motifs of stubby snakes have been
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found on the pottery and the toolsfrom that time. UM. The Succinoko
is also referenced in the Kojiki,which was a book it's the oldest book
UM that was written in seven twelveeighty about the history of Japan. The
succinoko is very popular, is theevol super popular up. It's a It's
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a very popular cryptid in Japan,with many residents believing in its existence or
claiming to have seen it. Inthe government of Yoshi Okayama Yama sorry uh
once offered a twenty million yen whichis two hundred thousand dollars, and there
was another one though, for onehundred million yen. Oh people really want
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to find Oh yeah, yeah,they want a successful capture, so not
a kill, right, But look, man, you're trying to capture something
that double jump yeah, and youand kill you. Yeah, and steel
is your booze? Yeah? Goodluck? Yeah, and it's so popular.
Don't they have a festival for it? They do. Stop jumping ahead
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in my notes, I'm even lookat your nose. Sorry, I wanted
to quick jump in on what youjust said there, Mark Um. I
didn't see anything on how toxic thevenom was equivalent to like a viper.
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Okay, so I mean not good, but no the world's deadliest thing,
right, yeah, but it's updouble jump that. Maybe you could double
bite. Yeah yeah, so ifyou get bit enough by a viper,
your days are numbered. Right.So in the nineteen seventies, the succinoko
became a national sensation when a numberof sightings and live captures occurred. A
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noo noo boom began where people allover the country began hunting for it.
That sounds like like what you woulddo jumping into a pool. Yeah yeah,
succinoko boom. Yeah. So therewas an explosion of eyewitness accounts and
blurry photos that became a thing atthat time. Now, in June nineteen
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ninety four, man named Kazua keyNoda and his wife reported that they came
in contact with a huge snake witha thick body that looked like a beer
bottle and had a head that describedas being the hat by the hat,
I'm sorry being described as wow,my notes, I'm sorry. Hasn't had
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this tortoise? Yeah? Sorry,Now I don't have a date for this
one. But a farmer spotted onewhile cutting its grass and said it had
a face similar to a doremon,which is a popular anime character. He
didn't he like, hit it withhis weed whacker. Yes, he reported
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to have injured it with his weedwhacker before it escaped. A few days
later, his body was discovered neara stream by an old woman and she
buried it. Oh, not thefarmer's body. But no, I hit
a garter snake in my yard theother day with the weed whacker. Didn't
try he didn't say it. Ididn't say, well then all is dead?
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Okay, yeah, because I alwaysthink weed wracker is not that.
I mean, it's annoying. Yeah, it was unfortunate. But now after
she buried it, didn't she goback and report it? And they well,
word got out, so then uh, yeah, I think she showed
the local government where she dug it. She wanted some money. Yeah,
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So they dug it up and theysent the body to a university forum examination.
They concluded that, and this isn'tquotes, it may be suchoko,
but scientifically speaking, it was akind of snake, which is okay,
yeah um. On May eighth,two thousand, a farmer named Sugi Tanaka
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reported having come across two metallic coloredsnakes with tails like rats. Okay,
because rattails are really narrow. Andif he made had a big, fat
body and it got rid of allof its inners whatnot, before it would
have a tail, the tail wouldbe this little like a yeah, like
a rattail. And then a monthlater, a woman named Mitsuko Arima reported
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a suit chinoko swimming along a river, and this is her um her quote,
Yeah, I was surprised. Ijust pointed at it and asked,
who are you? Who are you? It didn't answer me, but just
stared. It had a round faceand didn't take its eyes off me.
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I can still see the eyes now. They were big and round, and
it looked like they were floating onthe water. I've lived over eighty years,
but I've never seen anything like that. In my wife. I wonder
how buoyant that snake is, well, you know, does it like float
on the water. I would imagineit would. It has that giant body
and it would just like float likean inner tube, you know, just
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cruising'll be tuking down the river,you know, I don't know. Yeah,
sure with a little tailings, youknow, like a little propeller.
Uh. Now, even if someonesaw a sucinoko, it is taboo to
say you did, as people believethat they'll be cursed. Then wait wait
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wait wait wait yeah, good,so you're gonna get cursed if you said
you saw one, but you couldget paid to mow mo money and earn
you know, eleven thousand and fivehundred as a reward or up to two
hundred thousand dollars US. That's us. That sound too bad, and be
cursed. Yeah, that's a mI wonder what the curse is. I
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don't know. They didn't specify ifit's like a cursive like excessive body hair
or something like that. There's azillion curses. Oh is that what happened?
Bro's I thought it was And nowlook at me, I'm a gorilla.
So uh. As far as whatcould sukanoco be, most sightings are
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thought to be misidentified known species ofsnakes. It is possible the sightings could
be of snakes that had recently beenfeeding so gave them a bulging middle.
Um, I don't know, Idon't know why you're looking at me.
Where they could also be misidentified sightingsof blue tongued skinks. Yeah, blue
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tongue yeah, blue tongue skank.Yeah, yet it right now, it's
not skank. Well maybe not notfor you. I'm just saying they're kept
as pets by um, some Japanesepeople, of course, the skinks,
the blue tongue skinks. But thereis a possibility because it didn't really get
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popular until like nineteen seventy for peopleto have that as a pet. Right,
So all the sightings before for thatit's kind of like, um,
and then the last one I haveit is possible that the succinoko maybe a
new species of snake altogether. Andthen yes, there's a festival, so
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if you want to do that youcan. I just don't know, I
just festival. I'm sorry, it'sMay third. There you go. You
stoked at my notes. I knowit's gonna say with them being a possible
snake but what about the islets?Like, true, where did the islets
come from? It's not another snake? Yeah, maybe a new species that
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had eyelids. But yeah, seeI I kind of evolutionary tree. Did
they come day? That's where Iwas trying to, like, Okay,
let me try to think where couldthis thing come from? So I,
with my I would say, withmy western mind, thought, okay,
I'm thinking something I had to createthis. So I went back and I
was like, let me look atthe deities in Japan, okay, and
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see what could have possibly put thistogether. And the closest thing that I
came up with, okay was theserpent, the serpent god Reugion right are
y u j i n who isthe sea god but master of all serpents?
Okay? So I'm like, okay, we're on the right track.
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Here we go. There's part ofit. And Show Joe, who is
a primate but loves saki. Now, the thing about Show Joe is that
Sojoe gets around by taking his earsan extra long saki ladle that he just
scoops in the sea and turns itinto saki. So I was thinking there
could have been something there between thetwo of them. But I gotta tell
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you, I was having a heckof a time connecting these dots. So
I was trying to think I reallywas welcome to the rest of us.
So, but you had to daythat you have maybe something about in Greek
mythology that's the boros so or borosis the the circle of life, how
everything interrelates. And yeah, it'salso the um thing that the Umbrella Corporation
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did and resonatable five. Yeah,you know in the Succi Noko has actually
been in some video games, Castlevania, one of the series, so it's
kind of solidified in pop culture someof these video games. Do you know
what other video games has been inthat's all remember metal gear, metal gear,
that's the metal metal gear. Youget a special achievement. You get
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special ranks and special camera and ifhe finished with one in your in your
in your inventory, you get aspecial achievement for Okay, So you were
asking rhetorically if there was others.Yeah, you know, right on,
right on, uh, And it'sactually a in the in the card game
for Yugio, it's a three starmonster. There you go. So if
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you're so, yeah, I don'tknow, is that big small? Whoa
is not a question I can answer. How do you count gurth? Is
it big and small? These arequestions do I say all the time.
Anyway, Maybe on that note,we should take a RecA and we'll come
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right back with more fun and we'reback all right. You know one thing
I came across and one of thearc I was reading that some say it
has four tiny little legs and Icould use occasionally. Now I didn't find
it anywhere else, just this onearticle. So interesting that you were talking
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about the skanks skinks. Yeah,no, no, you were Nash was
talking about the skanks. Yea skanksskinks again? Like is it's just being
confused with the kind of animal.It looks like like a sound, like
a really wide, larger than normalsound, or even like a As soon
as I saw the image of it, I thought it was a groundhog,
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a groundhog with the tail. Waitwhat, I didn't see any images that
looked like that. If you fromthe top down and you put a little
four little short stubby legs on it, it looks exactly like a groundhog,
but without fur, without fur withscales. Interesting, So what do you
say? It looks exactly like agroundhog, you mean, but not exactly
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right like a groundhog. It lookspretty darn close. I've got some groundhogs
that come in our backyard. Igot it looks this weird. It looks
like a groundhog, but a snakeform with a little tail like sake,
which makes you want to go givethe groundhog some sake exactly. Isn't exactly
an exact term exactly exactly, it'sa carbon copy. Nope, I for
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one, do not want to findeven for two hundred grand I do not
like snakes. Do you ever tellyou the story to be a chase by
a snake? No? They don'thave legs. Oh see, here's the
thing. This is when I wasyounger a Perry County, back in the
day, when I was working onthis farm baal and hay for the summer
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to extra money from my bicycling.Uh my b a mixing days where I
wanted to trick out my bike.I got there before the farmer was home,
so just milling around, and Isaw the snake. It was like
black and white striped. I don'tknow what kind of was I can't remember,
but I hate snakes. So Ipicked up a rock and I might
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have been six feet from this thing, and I threw it at it and
missed. So for somebody who usedto play baseball, it was a pitcher,
it was. It was a terriblethrow. That thing kind of reared
up into like an S four nationreally and then started chasing me and I
ran out, screaming into the driveway. I just kept on going and I
stood there until the farmer got homeand told him, like, her snake
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in your yard, and he justdidn't care. Let's get to work.
They don't have legs, it man, this so I don't want to encounter
one that can also double jump rightor roll? Yeah, roll? You
know when I read that about therolling, it made me think of the
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D and D movie with the dragonthat was just so big kind of yeah,
I was like, that's hilarious.Let see, I grew up with
snakes, and we used to havesnakes as pets and you, oh,
yeah, they're they're wonderful pets.Yeah yeah. And you get the feet
the middle of mice, and thenthey can curl up around your neck and
squeeze in and steal all your heat. Really lovely. James RL Jones,
(27:37):
your leader, great, he wouldcome over and he would just stare at
you. You know. On episodethree of Swollen Cinema, Ryan and I
talk about Conan the Barbarian. Findit on any of your podcast apps.
Check it out Cinema and be likeuncle fulsa, why do you keep staring
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at me? Stop staring at Imean, look over there, and he's
like, no, ever tell youthe story where I was doing a photoshoot
and had my friend dresses with noI had I was it was involved a
snake and when you want to getout of his costume, he said,
here, hold this man so Icould change and just threw the snake in
(28:18):
my hand kind of and I wasparalyzed. Was it a fake snake?
No, it was a Oh thoseare the sweetest things in the whole world.
Hey, man, I don't likesnakes. So I was frozen with
fear and then just holding it withmy hand, my two hands out,
and his hand started coming up andlooking at me in the eye and flicking
his tongue, and I was justlike smelling. It's like, Jeff,
Jeff, help, can you comeget it? Yeah? I couldn't move.
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They're they're so sweet. I know, Hey, some people like snakes.
Some don't let they'll they'll wrap aroundyour wrists. And I actually took
one. I was I wanted totake one to school so bad, and
like where to school because it wouldsay on my neck for hours and just
sit there. And did you likesnakes? I'm not. I don't mind
them. I've never had one onme, but I wouldn't mind if I
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did. I mean I was.I know that you encountered a snake in
the woods because I was with you. But that was a right, very
five foot It was a baby gartersnakes. Yeah, yeah, there when
one time when I was playing golfat the clubhouse, there was a you
know, probably a one foot blacksnake something like that. Yeah, but
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they're not running after you fast?Yeah, um dude, yeah serious,
that thing reared up and chase me. Yeah, you threw a giant stone
that you tried to kill him?How does he know I missed him,
Briano, I was trying to hitthe bug next to him. Um,
I had to go weird tangent onthis. But yeah, which do you
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think you're on? Yeah? IndianaJones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Okay, beginning of that movie,you know, after he's through U
everything. He jumps on the planeand um, he's talking to the pilot
and he looks down and there's asnake. Right. Well, so I
was rewatching it lately, uh youknow, not too long ago, and
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it didn't The scene wasn't the sameone that I remember as a kid watching
that movie. I distinctly recall theplane going in the sunset that you could
see the snake being thrown out anddrop. And now I don't see that.
Does anybody else remember that? No? No, but they might,
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right, yeah, yeah, editingthat up. Yeah, it always it
was one of those like, oh, Indy didn't like the snake and he's
complaining about it to the to thepile his name Mac or something, Yeah,
yeah Jack. It wasn't like agiant bo yea. Yeah. I
mean it's like, oh that's Jock, don't worry about him. Yeah,
And then it switches to the fadeaway and like I said, I just
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remember there was, yeah this littlething you know, out of the plane.
And what you're saying is you thoughtIndie chucked that bella yes, the
plane? Yeah, So I don'tknow, maybe I don't know ifybody else
remember on the internet. Yeah,let me know if anybody yeah, remembers
it or if I'm just crazy.I have a similar situation with the movie
Blazing Saddles. Okay, not havingto do with snakes, but the scene
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that I remember that wasn't it.We're talking about snakes. I know,
I know, but that's funny.But I feel I know what you're talking
about. You feel like you're losingyour mind, that you've seen this thing,
but it's not there anymore. Okay, I guess that's it for snake
encounters. I feel like I hadthe most snake en counter stories because I
have another one where I was rockclimbing stuck my hand into a crack and
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there was a copper head and Iwas like, Nope, my day's done.
And I went home and packed upand just went back. I was
done being in the outdoors. Wouldyou we just see the snake on our
backyard? A little teeny tiny one, a little little baby only about that
big. It's really cutem, allright, you know it's cute. List
her feedback? Why don't we moveon to that? Everybody we heard from
(32:07):
will and this was in reverence becausewe just did an episode about the Stanley
Hotel been on the night tour atthe Stanley. It's an amazing sight to
see been up there just to goand see. You can only roam through
the lobby area and can't really gothrough throughout the floors. The tour can
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take take you room by room.Uh into the room King stayed in.
Now I'm gonna move on to otherlistener feedback because I think we just got
an alert from Will. He postedsomething else and I think it says he
may have proposed to his wife atthe Stanley Hotel. So she's gonna look
that up. Why why I readrest of the stuff, Well, no,
(32:52):
I just I saw the alert orin the podcast. We're here from
Indiana, Johnny, I have tosay that Nash must have been booking it
on his drive to Arizona. I'vemade that trip twice when I lived in
Lafayette, Indiana, western part ofstate, and from there it was a
twenty four hour drive two twelve hourdays with minimal stops. No, No,
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I had to I when I movedfrom Arizona to Pennsylvania, I left
work on a Friday, and Ihad to work on Monday in Pennsylvania.
I had to do it right then, so it was a matter of me
getting in the car. I hadtwo cats in the back. It was
drive, but I was by myself, and I'm too cheap too to stay
in the hotel. I just sleptin my car. I was only really
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I stopped for one meal where Istopped by the Hooters and had a burger.
And depending on what time Friday youleft and Monday morning when you had
to be there, that's like sixtyhours of time available, right, So
there's a fair amount of time inthere, right, So you're saying that
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forty five or twenty four hours,like, what did you do with rest
your weekend? Well? I wenthome. I had to go home.
I had to pack. I hadto go home and get all this stuff
in the car, load up thecats, and then then off I went.
I wait and went to bed.I think, I sorry, So
were you booking it? I lookedat like four in the morning. Was
it was two twelve hour days?You weren't breaking the speed limits? I
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could have problem, but not really. I was in a RAV four.
I was in a nineteen ninety sixRav four. There's no no, no,
just you in a rap for isthe funny part of that? Yeah,
to the top with clothes and atrunk that has nothing in it except
for two cats in the cat boxand water. Awful. Yeah, now,
(34:39):
thank you for hamming it up.I think Lish found the new Palace
by Will Yep, yep, uhso Will. He says that he proposed
to his wife there in front ofthe fireplace. Wow, they had their
first date there. Um man,we've been on the night Ghost tour.
(34:59):
It's an awesome place and the townis great as well. That's awesome.
Yeah, thanks for sharing that.Well yeah right, you ever have a
chance to go to park It's amazing. We want to. It's amazing.
Okay, all right, and thedogs out there scratching. Now the listeners
might not be able to hear thejingle jangle, all right. And last
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one here we have from Jennifer.Still listening to the show, but haven't
caught up yet. I'm on episodeninety three. You got a long way
to go, so it'll be anotheryear or two you hear this. In
addition to my real job, Iclean banks a few nights a week and
listen to your show makes it goway faster, So thank you for that.
(35:43):
I wrote a while back about someof my paranormal experiences and have some
things to add. Since you havean Indiana Johnny that writes you can call
me Indiana Jenny if you'd like.Yes, there it is. So now
we have an Indiana Johnny and anIndiana Jenation. I mean, I don't
(36:04):
know, maybe all right in theend of Jenny. So one of the
episodes tripped a memory about a doorincident. In one of the old homes,
I experienced paramormal activity in the bedroomI slipped in had a little door
next to my bed that opened tothe basement. There were no stairs.
It was used to drop laundry tothe basement, since the bedroom was right
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above where the washer and dryer were. For several mornings in a row,
I would wake up and the littledoor would be open. It had a
good latch on it, so itseemed unreasonable that it would pop open,
but I kept closing it again,making sure it was secure, and sure
enough, the next morning it wouldbe open again. I finally got frustrated
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that I put a little table infront of it to be sure that it
would stay closed. Late that night, I was laying in bed, trying
to go to sleep and thinking aboutmy day, my entire body froze in
terror when I heard a thud onthe little door. I laid there for
I don't know how long in disbelief. I knew this stuff was happening,
(37:15):
but it was one of those momentswhere they were zero way to deny it
or explain it. Something was tryingto open that door. It was only
one thud, and it never happenedagain, but needless to say, it
shook me. That was just anotherstory of the many that your show is
brought to mind, and I thoughtyou might enjoy hearing about it. Wow,
(37:38):
seriously freaky Yeah, And INDI endof Jenny finishes here, and I
only have a couple other things thatI thought you'd find interesting that's happened to
me recently, but I'll say themfor another day. Don't want this to
get too long. Thank you Agetting for the entertainment. Someday I hope
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to up on your most recent showsand then you'll hear this Jenny. But
then again, maybe not, becausethen I won't be able to listen to
it three times a week. Keepon punching. Thank you, right,
thank you, all right, we'llbe guys talking about the well, just
thudding on the door. If Iwas in her shoes and listening to us
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brought up all these memories, I'dstop listening to him. No, No,
don't do that. I don't needthat negativity in my life, remembering
trauma, the door trying to openwhile I'm asleep, and I don't want
to be blamed for that, right, it's it's all you, Mark,
(38:43):
I'm sorry. Yeah, well sure, yeah, yeah. Do you want
to share one of your paranalum experienceswith us? No, I'm good that
Just email said paranall Punches at gmaildot com, or just go to parallel
Punches dot com and you'll find allthe ways to contact us, all the
social media things like that. Allright, what else? List? Would
you have anything else to say tothe wonderful people that listen to the show?
(39:06):
No? Okay, sorry everybody?She does it? Uh nah?
What about you? You know?I just think this this was a fun,
fun way to get into looking atcryptids in Japan. I think there's
a lot there. I think thatthis was a nice little teaser to a
whole other world of what's out there. Yeah, our gateway cryptid. Yeah,
there you go, there you go, Dave. Yeah, just it
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was fun. I enjoyed it there. I think certainly we could have gone
a lot bigger on a lot ofdifferent topics, but keeping it constrained to
the to what was a lot offun. And yeah, all right,
on that note, we're gonna closeit out here because we're gonna have a
Davey's gonna cook some food on thegrill. We're gonna enjoy a couple of
beers. So I hope you getto spend time with your family, your
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friends, have an awesome day,weekend, night. Whenever you're listening to
us, that's right. Take care. Remember it's not weird, it's not
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Paranormal Punches is part of the PodbellyNetwork. Go to podbelly dot com for
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Punchers. I'm Mark, I'm Alicia, I'm Nash, I'm Dave, and
we are coming to you outside onDave's patio. So if you hear some
birds and some cars, just enjoyit. We're having a pick that's right,
Yeah, all right. On thisepisode, we're gonna talk about something
crypto from Japan, which we havenot really explored anything in Japan no ever.
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This is my this is the firstone, right, I believe,
so I think so cool. We'regonna talk about the Succinokoe, which is
like a snake like cryptid that kicksit in the mountain regions of western Japan.
And then on the second half we'vegot some lisser feedback. We're gonna
hang out shoot the Breeze. Nomovie this time, but that's okay because
(01:18):
we're gonna try to be destroying it. Sunococco. Yeah, I like the
fact you said that it kicks itin the mountain region and it's a snake.
Kick it anywhere? Kick it,I guess we'll find out and kick
it could mean partying because it alsoit likes the party, likes the party.
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Hi, my name is Succinoko andI like the party. Oh boy,
all right, you ready, Solicia, won't you kick us? All
with some backstory on Succhinoko the partyanimal? Okay, So the word succinoko
means dirt child or child of hammer, but it also h child of hammer.
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Nice, don't entertain them? Yeah, I know, keep going.
But it also can be called likefifty plus other names, and that just
depends on what part of Japan you'rein or you're mood at the time.
Right. A suchinoko is a snakelikecryptid or a yukai, which is a
Japanese spirit from the mountainous regions ofwestern Japan and are said to be seen
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slithering deep in the watery caves ofno, Hikokua, Shikoku, and Hanshu.
So those are those are part ofthe islands like different islands, part
of Japan, um and parts ofthe Korean Peninsula. Did we put our
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We didn't put our Apologies yet upfront. Yet Oh I know, I'm
yeah pronunciations today, so I apologizeforgive us. Yeah. They are reported
to be between thirty and eighty centimetersalong, so that's like one foot to
two point six yeah, something likethat. Um. A succinoco appears to
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look like your common snake, althoughwith a central girth that is wider than
its head and tail. It's groth, so it's a big boy um,
but in the middle's very uh.And he appears to look like a hammer
or a mallet without a handle.He looks like a hammer. Uh.
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It has large plate like scales thatrun down its body on it's an earth
tone speckled body. Because of theircolor and their shape, they are said
often said to resemble beer bottles.The succinoco itself, Yes, yeah,
when the way I read, Iread that a little odd because it was
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talking about its face and its eyes, and he said where the eyes located?
The eyes, and I said itand the and it tends to look
like beer polls right, And Iwas like, well, the eyes.
I was a little confused by that. Yeah, some of the drawings made
it look like it might have swallowedright, you know, all right,
right, elly area is just wickedgirth. So what's interesting? Um?
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So, snakes don't have eyelids,but apparently the succino does. So I
was as soon as I read that, of course, I was thinking like
when the Succinoko starts partying. We'llget into that later. Yeah, the
female succinos, you know they puttheir the fake fake lashes on lipsticks,
gonna wink at you. It's gonnawink at It's gonna be like, hey,
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Suci, how are you can callyou over? Okay? Yeah?
And also, just like other snakes, he it has fangs and venom.
So now signs the Succinoku maybe nearby. If you hear a mouse like squeak
coming from a river, uh,I guess there's legends that claim that it
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can chirp or squeak. I heardit. It sounds like when it's okay,
what no, I heard it.It makes a cheese sound and it's
snores. Oh see, I readthat as it's it's snore. You can
find it by by it's snoring,which sounded like a cheese sound. So
that made me think of the ThreeStooges. Oh boy, Now if you
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hear a human voice, that ismimicking your conversations, but it sounds like
it's coming from the depths of adank cave. There might be a shoot,
sushio. I know, I wasdoing good. My bad now.
As far as behavior of this snake, they're active from spring to fall,
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in hibernate during winter and are mostactive during the day like most snakes.
Now, despite having an awkward shapethe soup soup, Yeah, thank you,
I am. I was doing goodat the beginning, not anymore.
Yeah, don't let nash get inyour head now. The suko is very
nimble. It is said that itcan jump up to a meter in distance,
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followed immediately by a second jump.It's got a double double jump.
Yeah, it can jump up tothree feet in the air and then and
then yeah, you hit that buttonagain. Yeah, while it's still in
the air. I already like I'mlike Indiana Jones snakes. Yeah, this
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would be terrifying. Yeah, ifit could already jumped three feet at you
and then double dump, double jump. I don't know how you're getting away
from it. And then it doeswhat is the other thing you're going to
say, the other thing that itdoes? Uh? Yeah, well maybe
I don't know what note you have, but nobody ever does. It can
move around like an inchworm, butare more known to roll and tumble about
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where they roll sideways like a log. Yes, that, but they can
also they can also swallow their owntail, yes, and turn into a
wheel. So I'm thinking it justrolls downhill. So I'm thinking this is
not this is not a mythological creature. Okay, this is sonic the hedge
snake. It can double jump,it's gonna go down, it's gonna get
all the coins and then roll sideto side. Sonic the hedge snake.
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Okay, that's what it is.So I have that on a tangent.
Okay, so not the sonic sideof things, but the so um the
one site was talking about it's similarto a hoop snake. Yeah, so
hoop snake is in American folklore andum, you know these snakes that would
grab its own tail and start rolling. But that led me to the concept
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in Greek mythology of the aura boros, which is the snake which swallows its
own tail. And it's um thisit depicts dragons, it picks snakes,
it depicts you know, all thesetypes of you know, creatures, but
also the circle of life, thecircle of death, you know. So
this like this is one of thosethings that appears everywhere in the world,
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Like the concept shows up, yetwe don't have any sightings of it.
So how do all these cultures cometogether around this and tell similar stories?
So maybe it's you're what you're sayingis possibly that succino is more than just
in Japan. It was more prolific, and then it just stayed alive past
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the seven centuries when I got firstnoticed in Japan. So according to legend,
some Suchinoko are able to speak andour notorious liars. Obviously, since
I said, signs that you mighthave one nearby is when it's mimicking your
conversations. M Their diet consists ofsex, frogs and mice. Sorry,
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what you can't see right now isthe attack the hazards of podcasting. Outside
there's a fly that's really mazzing withthe dandelion. It was, uh yeah,
insects, frogs, and mice andoccasionally on small cats and dogs because
they can't get big, and fromthe looks of them, they can eat.
They're they're super super wide because there'sso girthy. You could probably put
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a shoe in there, or youknow, or somebody's lunch box. The
yeah, I saw that they whenthey're young they eat insects, and as
they get older they graduate to youknow, the larger you know creatures.
So and I was looking at thepictures of the Succinoko and because it's all
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such a wide body in their head, like you said, it looks like
a like a hammer, what actuallyreminded me kind of like a Helo monster.
The head of a Helo monster umor like not quite as big as
a Kimodo dragon, but the Helomonster head is very similar and shaped.
And then I thought, well,definitely know so giant head snake like,
so it can eat giant you know, cats, dogs, whatever, insects,
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mice. And then on the backend, when it it's not grothy
all the way down now it's supertapers back in. So that makes me
think of that thing's gonna take somegiant rip or dumps, you know what
I'm saying, because yeah, thisis where this is what did you see
the size of the tail. It'sgrothy the whole way down and then he
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goes whoop whoop, like this isa little point and tail. I was
like, well, that's where thetookie tookie is right there. I gotta
tell you, that's where you doyour business. If you're a shot,
you actually only on this show.Do you have evidence that that's where it
just what I saw online in variousvideos. What if it's like in the
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episode of South Park where Cartman wouldlearn how to poop out of his mouth.
How do you know this doesn't dothat? You're right, it could.
You have a very valid point.Yeah it could. I'm just going
off of you know, images thatI've seen. Okay, so um.
They're also apparently attracted to the smellof miso, dried squid, and burning
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hair. I'm like, I know, two of those things don't seem like
third, but burning hair would beif you did a fresh kill and you
were cooking your meat. Mm right, old school, don't think about like,
yeah, you know, okay,I prefer getting my meat from the
supermarket where it doesn't have hair.And then they dig on sake. Yeah
(11:43):
I'm not there yet. Yeah,well that was going to be the next
thing I said. They are alsosaid to have a taste for alcohol or
sake buds already not now because ofthat I think you could have one as
a pet, except for the factthat we leave huge, gigantic fact that
it has two big fangs and itis poisonous, right, that's true.
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That kind of keeps it from beinga pet, that's true. And also
it loves alcohol and you know peopletalk about you know, stealing people's boobe.
Now, how is that a greatpet. That's a terrible, terrible
pet. Well, you could justkeep it fed with boots. Think of
how big of an enclosure you needso it can double jump, it can
roll, you know, that's reallythe point of it. That's really the
logistical issue. I'm just thinking thatyou let it out to go to the
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bathroom in the snake that's about twofeet long, leaves like great Dane sized
mounds in your backyard, because that'show you find it. Nobody's happening,
So it's kind of it's like lookingafter the tray saratops on Unjurassic Park.
That's how you gotta track it.Boy, Oh, it's not that big,
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So I think your theories wrong.But what do I know? Yeah?
Uh, and you already mentioned thisnash, but they also snore when
they're obviously, and their fingers areso big that they had to leave their
mouth open and really bad sinuses.I wonder if they know have c paps
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and stuff. Nice nice mm hmm. Now, as far as like when
this all first kind of came aboutduring the German period, which was fourteen
thousand BC to three hundred BC,discoveries of motifs of stubby snakes have been
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found on the pottery and the toolsfrom that time. UM. The Succinoko
is also referenced in the Kojiki,which was a book it's the oldest book
UM that was written in seven twelveeighty about the history of Japan. The
succinoko is very popular, is theevol super popular up. It's a It's
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a very popular cryptid in Japan,with many residents believing in its existence or
claiming to have seen it. Inthe government of Yoshi Okayama Yama sorry uh
once offered a twenty million yen whichis two hundred thousand dollars, and there
was another one though, for onehundred million yen. Oh people really want
(14:24):
to find Oh yeah, yeah,they want a successful capture, so not
a kill, right, But look, man, you're trying to capture something
that double jump yeah, and youand kill you. Yeah, and steel
is your booze? Yeah? Goodluck? Yeah, and it's so popular.
Don't they have a festival for it? They do. Stop jumping ahead
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in my notes, I'm even lookat your nose. Sorry, I wanted
to quick jump in on what youjust said there, Mark Um. I
didn't see anything on how toxic thevenom was equivalent to like a viper.
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Okay, so I mean not good, but no the world's deadliest thing,
right, yeah, but it's updouble jump that. Maybe you could double
bite. Yeah yeah, so ifyou get bit enough by a viper,
your days are numbered. Right.So in the nineteen seventies, the succinoko
became a national sensation when a numberof sightings and live captures occurred. A
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noo noo boom began where people allover the country began hunting for it.
That sounds like like what you woulddo jumping into a pool. Yeah yeah,
succinoko boom. Yeah. So therewas an explosion of eyewitness accounts and
blurry photos that became a thing atthat time. Now, in June nineteen
(15:58):
ninety four, man named Kazua keyNoda and his wife reported that they came
in contact with a huge snake witha thick body that looked like a beer
bottle and had a head that describedas being the hat by the hat,
I'm sorry being described as wow,my notes, I'm sorry. Hasn't had
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this tortoise? Yeah? Sorry,Now I don't have a date for this
one. But a farmer spotted onewhile cutting its grass and said it had
a face similar to a doremon,which is a popular anime character. He
didn't he like, hit it withhis weed whacker. Yes, he reported
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to have injured it with his weedwhacker before it escaped. A few days
later, his body was discovered neara stream by an old woman and she
buried it. Oh, not thefarmer's body. But no, I hit
a garter snake in my yard theother day with the weed whacker. Didn't
try he didn't say it. Ididn't say, well then all is dead?
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Okay, yeah, because I alwaysthink weed wracker is not that.
I mean, it's annoying. Yeah, it was unfortunate. But now after
she buried it, didn't she goback and report it? And they well,
word got out, so then uh, yeah, I think she showed
the local government where she dug it. She wanted some money. Yeah,
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So they dug it up and theysent the body to a university forum examination.
They concluded that, and this isn'tquotes, it may be suchoko,
but scientifically speaking, it was akind of snake, which is okay,
yeah um. On May eighth,two thousand, a farmer named Sugi Tanaka
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reported having come across two metallic coloredsnakes with tails like rats. Okay,
because rattails are really narrow. Andif he made had a big, fat
body and it got rid of allof its inners whatnot, before it would
have a tail, the tail wouldbe this little like a yeah, like
a rattail. And then a monthlater, a woman named Mitsuko Arima reported
(18:17):
a suit chinoko swimming along a river, and this is her um her quote,
Yeah, I was surprised. Ijust pointed at it and asked,
who are you? Who are you? It didn't answer me, but just
stared. It had a round faceand didn't take its eyes off me.
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I can still see the eyes now. They were big and round, and
it looked like they were floating onthe water. I've lived over eighty years,
but I've never seen anything like that. In my wife. I wonder
how buoyant that snake is, well, you know, does it like float
on the water. I would imagineit would. It has that giant body
and it would just like float likean inner tube, you know, just
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cruising'll be tuking down the river,you know, I don't know. Yeah,
sure with a little tailings, youknow, like a little propeller.
Uh. Now, even if someonesaw a sucinoko, it is taboo to
say you did, as people believethat they'll be cursed. Then wait wait
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wait wait wait yeah, good,so you're gonna get cursed if you said
you saw one, but you couldget paid to mow mo money and earn
you know, eleven thousand and fivehundred as a reward or up to two
hundred thousand dollars US. That's us. That sound too bad, and be
cursed. Yeah, that's a mI wonder what the curse is. I
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don't know. They didn't specify ifit's like a cursive like excessive body hair
or something like that. There's azillion curses. Oh is that what happened?
Bro's I thought it was And nowlook at me, I'm a gorilla.
So uh. As far as whatcould sukanoco be, most sightings are
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thought to be misidentified known species ofsnakes. It is possible the sightings could
be of snakes that had recently beenfeeding so gave them a bulging middle.
Um, I don't know, Idon't know why you're looking at me.
Where they could also be misidentified sightingsof blue tongued skinks. Yeah, blue
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tongue yeah, blue tongue skank.Yeah, yet it right now, it's
not skank. Well maybe not notfor you. I'm just saying they're kept
as pets by um, some Japanesepeople, of course, the skinks,
the blue tongue skinks. But thereis a possibility because it didn't really get
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popular until like nineteen seventy for peopleto have that as a pet. Right,
So all the sightings before for thatit's kind of like, um,
and then the last one I haveit is possible that the succinoko maybe a
new species of snake altogether. Andthen yes, there's a festival, so
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if you want to do that youcan. I just don't know, I
just festival. I'm sorry, it'sMay third. There you go. You
stoked at my notes. I knowit's gonna say with them being a possible
snake but what about the islets?Like, true, where did the islets
come from? It's not another snake? Yeah, maybe a new species that
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had eyelids. But yeah, seeI I kind of evolutionary tree. Did
they come day? That's where Iwas trying to, like, Okay,
let me try to think where couldthis thing come from? So I,
with my I would say, withmy western mind, thought, okay,
I'm thinking something I had to createthis. So I went back and I
was like, let me look atthe deities in Japan, okay, and
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see what could have possibly put thistogether. And the closest thing that I
came up with, okay was theserpent, the serpent god Reugion right are
y u j i n who isthe sea god but master of all serpents?
Okay? So I'm like, okay, we're on the right track.
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Here we go. There's part ofit. And Show Joe, who is
a primate but loves saki. Now, the thing about Show Joe is that
Sojoe gets around by taking his earsan extra long saki ladle that he just
scoops in the sea and turns itinto saki. So I was thinking there
could have been something there between thetwo of them. But I gotta tell
(22:45):
you, I was having a heckof a time connecting these dots. So
I was trying to think I reallywas welcome to the rest of us.
So, but you had to daythat you have maybe something about in Greek
mythology that's the boros so or borosis the the circle of life, how
everything interrelates. And yeah, it'salso the um thing that the Umbrella Corporation
(23:11):
did and resonatable five. Yeah,you know in the Succi Noko has actually
been in some video games, Castlevania, one of the series, so it's
kind of solidified in pop culture someof these video games. Do you know
what other video games has been inthat's all remember metal gear, metal gear,
that's the metal metal gear. Youget a special achievement. You get
(23:33):
special ranks and special camera and ifhe finished with one in your in your
in your inventory, you get aspecial achievement for Okay, So you were
asking rhetorically if there was others.Yeah, you know, right on,
right on, uh, And it'sactually a in the in the card game
for Yugio, it's a three starmonster. There you go. So if
(23:55):
you're so, yeah, I don'tknow, is that big small? Whoa
is not a question I can answer. How do you count gurth? Is
it big and small? These arequestions do I say all the time.
Anyway, Maybe on that note,we should take a RecA and we'll come
(24:18):
right back with more fun and we'reback all right. You know one thing
I came across and one of thearc I was reading that some say it
has four tiny little legs and Icould use occasionally. Now I didn't find
it anywhere else, just this onearticle. So interesting that you were talking
(24:41):
about the skanks skinks. Yeah,no, no, you were Nash was
talking about the skanks. Yea skanksskinks again? Like is it's just being
confused with the kind of animal.It looks like like a sound, like
a really wide, larger than normalsound, or even like a As soon
as I saw the image of it, I thought it was a groundhog,
(25:03):
a groundhog with the tail. Waitwhat, I didn't see any images that
looked like that. If you fromthe top down and you put a little
four little short stubby legs on it, it looks exactly like a groundhog,
but without fur, without fur withscales. Interesting, So what do you
say? It looks exactly like agroundhog, you mean, but not exactly
(25:25):
right like a groundhog. It lookspretty darn close. I've got some groundhogs
that come in our backyard. Igot it looks this weird. It looks
like a groundhog, but a snakeform with a little tail like sake,
which makes you want to go givethe groundhog some sake exactly. Isn't exactly
an exact term exactly exactly, it'sa carbon copy. Nope, I for
(25:49):
one, do not want to findeven for two hundred grand I do not
like snakes. Do you ever tellyou the story to be a chase by
a snake? No? They don'thave legs. Oh see, here's the
thing. This is when I wasyounger a Perry County, back in the
day, when I was working onthis farm baal and hay for the summer
(26:12):
to extra money from my bicycling.Uh my b a mixing days where I
wanted to trick out my bike.I got there before the farmer was home,
so just milling around, and Isaw the snake. It was like
black and white striped. I don'tknow what kind of was I can't remember,
but I hate snakes. So Ipicked up a rock and I might
(26:32):
have been six feet from this thing, and I threw it at it and
missed. So for somebody who usedto play baseball, it was a pitcher,
it was. It was a terriblethrow. That thing kind of reared
up into like an S four nationreally and then started chasing me and I
ran out, screaming into the driveway. I just kept on going and I
stood there until the farmer got homeand told him, like, her snake
(26:52):
in your yard, and he justdidn't care. Let's get to work.
They don't have legs, it man, this so I don't want to encounter
one that can also double jump rightor roll? Yeah, roll? You
know when I read that about therolling, it made me think of the
(27:14):
D and D movie with the dragonthat was just so big kind of yeah,
I was like, that's hilarious.Let see, I grew up with
snakes, and we used to havesnakes as pets and you, oh,
yeah, they're they're wonderful pets.Yeah yeah. And you get the feet
the middle of mice, and thenthey can curl up around your neck and
squeeze in and steal all your heat. Really lovely. James RL Jones,
(27:37):
your leader, great, he wouldcome over and he would just stare at
you. You know. On episodethree of Swollen Cinema, Ryan and I
talk about Conan the Barbarian. Findit on any of your podcast apps.
Check it out Cinema and be likeuncle fulsa, why do you keep staring
(27:57):
at me? Stop staring at Imean, look over there, and he's
like, no, ever tell youthe story where I was doing a photoshoot
and had my friend dresses with noI had I was it was involved a
snake and when you want to getout of his costume, he said,
here, hold this man so Icould change and just threw the snake in
(28:18):
my hand kind of and I wasparalyzed. Was it a fake snake?
No, it was a Oh thoseare the sweetest things in the whole world.
Hey, man, I don't likesnakes. So I was frozen with
fear and then just holding it withmy hand, my two hands out,
and his hand started coming up andlooking at me in the eye and flicking
his tongue, and I was justlike smelling. It's like, Jeff,
Jeff, help, can you comeget it? Yeah? I couldn't move.
(28:41):
They're they're so sweet. I know, Hey, some people like snakes.
Some don't let they'll they'll wrap aroundyour wrists. And I actually took
one. I was I wanted totake one to school so bad, and
like where to school because it wouldsay on my neck for hours and just
sit there. And did you likesnakes? I'm not. I don't mind
them. I've never had one onme, but I wouldn't mind if I
(29:02):
did. I mean I was.I know that you encountered a snake in
the woods because I was with you. But that was a right, very
five foot It was a baby gartersnakes. Yeah, yeah, there when
one time when I was playing golfat the clubhouse, there was a you
know, probably a one foot blacksnake something like that. Yeah, but
(29:29):
they're not running after you fast?Yeah, um dude, yeah serious,
that thing reared up and chase me. Yeah, you threw a giant stone
that you tried to kill him?How does he know I missed him,
Briano, I was trying to hitthe bug next to him. Um,
I had to go weird tangent onthis. But yeah, which do you
(29:52):
think you're on? Yeah? IndianaJones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Okay, beginning of that movie,you know, after he's through U
everything. He jumps on the planeand um, he's talking to the pilot
and he looks down and there's asnake. Right. Well, so I
was rewatching it lately, uh youknow, not too long ago, and
(30:18):
it didn't The scene wasn't the sameone that I remember as a kid watching
that movie. I distinctly recall theplane going in the sunset that you could
see the snake being thrown out anddrop. And now I don't see that.
Does anybody else remember that? No? No, but they might,
(30:38):
right, yeah, yeah, editingthat up. Yeah, it always it
was one of those like, oh, Indy didn't like the snake and he's
complaining about it to the to thepile his name Mac or something, Yeah,
yeah Jack. It wasn't like agiant bo yea. Yeah. I
mean it's like, oh that's Jock, don't worry about him. Yeah,
And then it switches to the fadeaway and like I said, I just
(30:59):
remember there was, yeah this littlething you know, out of the plane.
And what you're saying is you thoughtIndie chucked that bella yes, the
plane? Yeah, So I don'tknow, maybe I don't know ifybody else
remember on the internet. Yeah,let me know if anybody yeah, remembers
it or if I'm just crazy.I have a similar situation with the movie
Blazing Saddles. Okay, not havingto do with snakes, but the scene
(31:22):
that I remember that wasn't it.We're talking about snakes. I know,
I know, but that's funny.But I feel I know what you're talking
about. You feel like you're losingyour mind, that you've seen this thing,
but it's not there anymore. Okay, I guess that's it for snake
encounters. I feel like I hadthe most snake en counter stories because I
have another one where I was rockclimbing stuck my hand into a crack and
(31:45):
there was a copper head and Iwas like, Nope, my day's done.
And I went home and packed upand just went back. I was
done being in the outdoors. Wouldyou we just see the snake on our
backyard? A little teeny tiny one, a little little baby only about that
big. It's really cutem, allright, you know it's cute. List
her feedback? Why don't we moveon to that? Everybody we heard from
(32:07):
will and this was in reverence becausewe just did an episode about the Stanley
Hotel been on the night tour atthe Stanley. It's an amazing sight to
see been up there just to goand see. You can only roam through
the lobby area and can't really gothrough throughout the floors. The tour can
(32:27):
take take you room by room.Uh into the room King stayed in.
Now I'm gonna move on to otherlistener feedback because I think we just got
an alert from Will. He postedsomething else and I think it says he
may have proposed to his wife atthe Stanley Hotel. So she's gonna look
that up. Why why I readrest of the stuff, Well, no,
(32:52):
I just I saw the alert orin the podcast. We're here from
Indiana, Johnny, I have tosay that Nash must have been booking it
on his drive to Arizona. I'vemade that trip twice when I lived in
Lafayette, Indiana, western part ofstate, and from there it was a
twenty four hour drive two twelve hourdays with minimal stops. No, No,
(33:15):
I had to I when I movedfrom Arizona to Pennsylvania, I left
work on a Friday, and Ihad to work on Monday in Pennsylvania.
I had to do it right then, so it was a matter of me
getting in the car. I hadtwo cats in the back. It was
drive, but I was by myself, and I'm too cheap too to stay
in the hotel. I just sleptin my car. I was only really
(33:37):
I stopped for one meal where Istopped by the Hooters and had a burger.
And depending on what time Friday youleft and Monday morning when you had
to be there, that's like sixtyhours of time available, right, So
there's a fair amount of time inthere, right, So you're saying that
(33:57):
forty five or twenty four hours,like, what did you do with rest
your weekend? Well? I wenthome. I had to go home.
I had to pack. I hadto go home and get all this stuff
in the car, load up thecats, and then then off I went.
I wait and went to bed.I think, I sorry, So
were you booking it? I lookedat like four in the morning. Was
it was two twelve hour days?You weren't breaking the speed limits? I
(34:17):
could have problem, but not really. I was in a RAV four.
I was in a nineteen ninety sixRav four. There's no no, no,
just you in a rap for isthe funny part of that? Yeah,
to the top with clothes and atrunk that has nothing in it except
for two cats in the cat boxand water. Awful. Yeah, now,
(34:39):
thank you for hamming it up.I think Lish found the new Palace
by Will Yep, yep, uhso Will. He says that he proposed
to his wife there in front ofthe fireplace. Wow, they had their
first date there. Um man,we've been on the night Ghost tour.
(34:59):
It's an awesome place and the townis great as well. That's awesome.
Yeah, thanks for sharing that.Well yeah right, you ever have a
chance to go to park It's amazing. We want to. It's amazing.
Okay, all right, and thedogs out there scratching. Now the listeners
might not be able to hear thejingle jangle, all right. And last
(35:22):
one here we have from Jennifer.Still listening to the show, but haven't
caught up yet. I'm on episodeninety three. You got a long way
to go, so it'll be anotheryear or two you hear this. In
addition to my real job, Iclean banks a few nights a week and
listen to your show makes it goway faster, So thank you for that.
(35:43):
I wrote a while back about someof my paranormal experiences and have some
things to add. Since you havean Indiana Johnny that writes you can call
me Indiana Jenny if you'd like.Yes, there it is. So now
we have an Indiana Johnny and anIndiana Jenation. I mean, I don't
(36:04):
know, maybe all right in theend of Jenny. So one of the
episodes tripped a memory about a doorincident. In one of the old homes,
I experienced paramormal activity in the bedroomI slipped in had a little door
next to my bed that opened tothe basement. There were no stairs.
It was used to drop laundry tothe basement, since the bedroom was right
(36:28):
above where the washer and dryer were. For several mornings in a row,
I would wake up and the littledoor would be open. It had a
good latch on it, so itseemed unreasonable that it would pop open,
but I kept closing it again,making sure it was secure, and sure
enough, the next morning it wouldbe open again. I finally got frustrated
(36:53):
that I put a little table infront of it to be sure that it
would stay closed. Late that night, I was laying in bed, trying
to go to sleep and thinking aboutmy day, my entire body froze in
terror when I heard a thud onthe little door. I laid there for
I don't know how long in disbelief. I knew this stuff was happening,
(37:15):
but it was one of those momentswhere they were zero way to deny it
or explain it. Something was tryingto open that door. It was only
one thud, and it never happenedagain, but needless to say, it
shook me. That was just anotherstory of the many that your show is
brought to mind, and I thoughtyou might enjoy hearing about it. Wow,
(37:38):
seriously freaky Yeah, And INDI endof Jenny finishes here, and I
only have a couple other things thatI thought you'd find interesting that's happened to
me recently, but I'll say themfor another day. Don't want this to
get too long. Thank you Agetting for the entertainment. Someday I hope
(37:59):
to up on your most recent showsand then you'll hear this Jenny. But
then again, maybe not, becausethen I won't be able to listen to
it three times a week. Keepon punching. Thank you, right,
thank you, all right, we'llbe guys talking about the well, just
thudding on the door. If Iwas in her shoes and listening to us
(38:21):
brought up all these memories, I'dstop listening to him. No, No,
don't do that. I don't needthat negativity in my life, remembering
trauma, the door trying to openwhile I'm asleep, and I don't want
to be blamed for that, right, it's it's all you, Mark,
(38:43):
I'm sorry. Yeah, well sure, yeah, yeah. Do you want
to share one of your paranalum experienceswith us? No, I'm good that
Just email said paranall Punches at gmaildot com, or just go to parallel
Punches dot com and you'll find allthe ways to contact us, all the
social media things like that. Allright, what else? List? Would
you have anything else to say tothe wonderful people that listen to the show?
(39:06):
No? Okay, sorry everybody?She does it? Uh nah?
What about you? You know?I just think this this was a fun,
fun way to get into looking atcryptids in Japan. I think there's
a lot there. I think thatthis was a nice little teaser to a
whole other world of what's out there. Yeah, our gateway cryptid. Yeah,
there you go, there you go, Dave. Yeah, just it
(39:29):
was fun. I enjoyed it there. I think certainly we could have gone
a lot bigger on a lot ofdifferent topics, but keeping it constrained to
the to what was a lot offun. And yeah, all right,
on that note, we're gonna closeit out here because we're gonna have a
Davey's gonna cook some food on thegrill. We're gonna enjoy a couple of
beers. So I hope you getto spend time with your family, your
(39:50):
friends, have an awesome day,weekend, night. Whenever you're listening to
us, that's right. Take care. Remember it's not weird, it's not
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