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The Hidden Zoo
The Hidden Zoo
106 episodes
8 months ago
Join Blake and Don as they dig into the world of cryptozoology in order to make fun of the ridiculous creatures people claim to have seen around the world.
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Join Blake and Don as they dig into the world of cryptozoology in order to make fun of the ridiculous creatures people claim to have seen around the world.
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Comedy
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The Hidden Zoo
Episode 104 - Whaler, Whaler, Wally Gator
Blake is on a movie again, so Don is joined by former co-host Ryan! Back again! Our subject is a Nebraska Lake monster with a very...interesting physiology. Also, trans rights are human rights! Further Reading https://history.nebraska.gov/blog/flashback-friday-nebraskas-lake-monster-giganticus-brutervious https://history.nebraska.gov/blog/chadrons-petrified-man https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Alkali_Lake_Monster https://web.archive.org/web/20200821025456/http://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/2014/04/throwback-thursday-monster/ https://books.google.com/books?id=dqPfdfE1LNkC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=John+G.+Maher+hoaxes&source=bl&ots=Vn05jJ_NTs&sig=ACfU3U2kgG3yJTM5-JgMNYi53u0w4_iUcg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR3NrjranyAhWRKM0KHdi0D6UQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=John%20G.%20Maher%20hoaxes&f=false
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4 years ago
1 hour 10 minutes 36 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 103 - Get a Rope
This week, Don convinces Blake to download a bad app called Paranormal Map so he can troll the other users. And he also tells the tale of the Altamaha-ha, a river cryptid from Georgia. Also, violent 90s salsa commercials!
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4 years ago
57 minutes 33 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 102: Mammal Teeth
This week, Blake and Don review/ridicule a deeply mediocre cryptid movie: Legendary, starring Dolph Lundgren and some other people. It's free on Amazon Prime video if you, too, want to spent two hours watching a bunch of interchangeable characters chase a humongous lizard. Also, a quick review of the Hulu documentary Sasquatch!
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4 years ago
1 hour 26 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 101 - Get Your Tribal Band, Graduate, and Go See Creed
This week Blake brings a seriously fascinating cryptid that is in more military history books than it is cryptozoology books, by a wide margin: the Rock Ape. Also, Rambo!
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4 years ago
57 minutes 9 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 100 - Nazi Monkey
This week Blake and Don are joined by special guest Garrison Davis (@hungrybowtie on Twitter) of Behind the Bastards and Uprising: A Guide from Portland to discuss a cryptid they have been dancing around since the very beginning of this show. That's right, we're finally giving the full show treatment to that creepy MFer DeLoys' Ape, and hoo boy does it take a turn at about the halfway point. Also, lots of Star Wars bookending the creepy monkey on a box! Further Reading https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2016/01/31/de-loys-ape-was-a-well-played-anthropological-fraud/?sh=585a1674d257 https://books.google.com/books?id=R_om6jVeaiAC&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/de-loys-8217-ape-and-what-to-do-with-it/ https://bigfootbase.com/blog/geologists-odd-ape-history-de-loys-ape https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Dey_Loy%27s_Ape https://allcryptid.fandom.com/wiki/De_Loys%27_Ape http://historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com/2011/02/de-loys-ape.html
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4 years ago
1 hour 35 minutes 42 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 99 - Too Hot to Handle, Too Cold to Hold
This week Don's research gets away from him, so he runs Blake through another AI Dungeon! Sorry for two so close together, but this one goes whackadoo. We promise you'll like it.
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4 years ago
1 hour 23 minutes 21 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 98 - Bigbury
This week, Blake is back! He tells us a bit about the movie he worked on and then goes into detail about the cadborosaurus, a Canadian sea monster. Also, ficus plants!
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4 years ago
50 minutes 7 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 96 - Clearly Sasquatches Should be Power Rangers
This week Don and his friend Cameron play an AI Dungeon that begins with an Albert Ostman-inspired scenario and quickly goes sideways. And violent. And a little psychotic.
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4 years ago
54 minutes 29 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 96 - Keep on Basque Truckin'
This week, Don invites his old friend Aaron to guest host and they discuss life, the universe, and Octo-Squatch. Don and Aaron do incredibly cool science shows that teach science while also blowing things up! Find them on http://www.explosionsinc.com. They don't swear this much during a science show, unless you request it. Also, a short history of the Basque region! Further Reading https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Octo-squatch https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/01/octo-squatch-spain/ https://non-aliencreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Octo-Squatch https://thecreaturecodex.tumblr.com/post/176000643182/octosquatch
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4 years ago
1 hour 49 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 95 - Only the Squatchiest
This week Don and special guest Jeff wax nostalgic about their shared hometown, discuss shitty rust belt economies, and then cover the Ohio Grassman, Ohio's very own sasquatch. Also, the time Don pissed off Jim Davis!
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4 years ago
1 hour 10 minutes 59 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 94 - Mansion, Nunnery, Prison, Asylum
This week Don and special guest host Sean (Blake is still shooting a movie) discuss Star Wars (of course) and then dig into the wonderful world of the Michigan Melonheads. Also, the death of Wolverine!
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4 years ago
55 minutes 36 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 93 - Butter Beast's Big Beautiful Bodacious Bubble Butt
This week, Don tells Blake all about a beast from Kentucky, the Beast of the Land Between the Lakes! It's very silly. Also, Blake has a big Hollywood job!
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4 years ago
43 minutes 50 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 92 - Amy Good Gorilla
We are back after a bit of a hiatus to learn about the agog we, an African cryptid, but mostly we talk about great ape language and cognition and the 1995 cinema classic Congo. Also, The freakin' Mandalorian, of course.
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4 years ago
1 hour 5 minutes 9 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 91 - Half Man, Half Goat, Half Man
This week we talk about the new season of The Mandalorian (of course)! Then a quick DC-area cryptid, and then Blake navigates the Amazon looking for DeLoy's Ape in another AI Dungeon! It gets sexy, then it just gets weird.
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5 years ago
1 hour 16 minutes 33 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 90 - Stalin's Yetis by Arthur Dyatlov, Winner of the Caldecot Medal
It's time for another Halloween special! in 2018 we told you about cryptids that legitimately creeped us out, and this year we do the same! Kind of! Really, they're more cryptic-adjacent. Also, Tomb Raider!
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5 years ago
56 minutes 45 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 89 - Your Time Life Operator
This week Blake has been digging through his collection of Time Life hardbacks...And he found the one about cryptids! We meander through the pages of a classic cryptozoology book. Also, we try to make a Will Smith rap about Jaws!
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5 years ago
1 hour 13 minutes 54 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 88 - Randy Sparxxxxxx
This week, Don tells Blake the tale of the Tennessee Wildman! Which turns out to not be much of a tale, but man does the one guy who claims to have seen it have a pathetic paranormal research group. Also, labor uprisings!
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5 years ago
1 hour 12 minutes 49 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 87 - Budget Reynolds
This week we discuss a phenomenal bigfoot horror movie called Night of the Demon! It's available on Prime Video, it has lots of cheap blood and mayhem, some nudity, rampant breaking and entering by Bigfoot hunters, and all sorts of other insanity. Watch it! Watch it now! Also, bulbous organic alien spaceships!
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5 years ago
1 hour 3 minutes 11 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 86 - Dutch Angles
This week we review a very bad movie that you can watch on Amazon Prime Video this very moment: Rise of the Chupacabras! Strap in, kids, cause it ain't good.
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5 years ago
45 minutes 46 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Episode 85 - Deli 5
This week Blake tells Don about the Monkey Man of Delhi, and we speculate about generational naming conventions in the Star Wars universe. Also, an accidentally racist Wolverine comic!
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5 years ago
38 minutes 30 seconds

The Hidden Zoo
Join Blake and Don as they dig into the world of cryptozoology in order to make fun of the ridiculous creatures people claim to have seen around the world.