John Willison Green

really thought there was going to be a joke like 'and at the funeral there was a mysterious woman nobody knew, who spoke to no-one, wore all black, even a full veil- and she was a good eight feet tall'

It would take much more than a mere cavalry charge to defeat a true master of Kumite

tragic that Mattie didn't finish saying "forget it Jake, it's bigfoot town"

Excellent episode :D

I finally came back to this episode page to check out the Accursed Website, and the strangely melancholic lighting works *so* well with exactly one of the sand sculpture photos. There’s one photo of four different sculptures, which all have a clock theme. If you’re looking for it, it’s between the tipi and the hexagons. All four of the clocks sort of work with the sad vibe, but the one in the back right especially works. It seems to be about fertility and the feeling of running out of time. I am so unironically here for expressing sad concepts through whimsical art forms, but the weird lighting and near-nonexistent web design combine with it to make it into a new piece of art

Over a decade ago, John Green (author) denied bigfoot's existence. He claimed John Green (mayor) later wrote to him to say he was a disgrace to John Greens everywhere. I can't find it right now, but I swear it's in a vlogbrothers video.

This is beautiful and lovely and reminds me of the weakerthans song "Bigfoot". "I'll go through it all again Watch their doubtful smiles begin But the visions that I see believe in me"

Two things: 1) You can absolutely rent out the Diefenbunker for events. I have definitely done a scotch tasting that could have survived a nuclear blast. PLEAAAAAAAAASE host a show on the bunker. 2) Riley, there is currently an auction in Kingston, Ontario that includes the item "140 Books about Canada." If I buy it, can we start the Canada Stuff podcast?

You should really talk about Olaf Scholz, another (really bad) mayor (Hamburg) who went on to be a (really bad) global leader

Bigfoot dual wielding greatswords is just Nosferatu Zodd

November's pronunciation of Kokanee gave me the same joy I got hearing a Brit order an O'Kanagan Springs beer once.

Under a Klan hood, nobody can see your gender.

Fear and loathing in BC

Hearing Kokanee in Scottish pronunciation added 5 years to my life

A suit with no shoes is how you get buried. Wearing that daily is more goth than a black lace corset and chalk white foundation, which might also be in Riley's wardrobe. EDIT: Chief Editsman Sam has the patience of a saint. EDIT2: Mate ran into an Elder Scrolls NPC. "Have you heard of Bigfoot?" "I saw a Bigfoot the other day, nasty creatures." "Do you get out to British Columbia much? What am I saying? Of course you don't." Manbeast mentioned! I'll make you higher up! HYAH!

Everyone paying homage to the Sasquatch Shogun

Outstanding

I cannot stress enough how much bigfoot hunters refuse to believe in normal animals. I had a family friend growing up who was a devout bigfoot believer, and nothing was ever deer, bears, raccoons or birds to him. Obviously only a bigfoot could have so perfectly split open these melons or whatever other thing we left out to see if they would come and get it

This is the episode you need to share with friends to convince them to listen

The major in Cambridge sounds like the EDI lead for the lgbt+ taskforce at *redacted* university that I was previously on. The one time we got fed up and asked her to do her job (take the minutes or something) she said we were bullying her and brought the fucking provost to the next meeting as back up 🙃

Could bigfoot be caught in a video so blurry, even he wouldn't think he was real?

I'm so tired of this wes Anderson guy! writing these same formulaic plots every time

It’s 1:39 am and I’m teary over big foot mayor’s story and the prose you presented it 10/10 I’m a trans wheelchair user and furry on a municipal accessibility council, so my gaze is inclined to shift towards the margins of a space and community since it’s where all my freaks (positive) are too. “And it will also destroy a stone bench outside a village office, dedicated to Mayor John Greene” evoked so many of the little towns I know and love built on crumbling finances, flood plains, fault lines and fire paths (If you’re my birth city, it’s on all four). Beyond the material goods lost, what I mourn in our struggling towns is the stories that go unrecorded, especially in their fringes. It’s why I adore the tyee and our small local publications so much. Reporting and narratives like NGNM help preserve the subtle traces of our freaks, better and worse .A rainbow flag here, a janky ramp there. A scout-troop funded by Bigfoot. Normal stuff. It’s not like the globe and mail is about to cover the international puppet convention happening in my rural community, or the queer fashion in the valley exhibit at our old mill. Also now that there’s two Sam’s if they ever reconcile, they could unionize

Mattie, are you going to show us your stylised Bigfoot tattoo? I'd love to see what that looks like.

What do 'progressive conservatives' want? What do they do? What do they think about?

Hey Mattie, were any of those books by Daniel Cohen? Because SAME.

This has been an absolutely beautiful story to hear

Ohio mentioned!!!

Hello 👋

Gods & angels how the fuck am i crying?! How was that eulogy shaped so beautifully? Like ppl put too much of the onus of beauty on the beheld when in truth of the two it is the beholder that causes things to be lovely by loving the world despite & because it all. Thanks for letting one see things as you do.

I suspect all children's libraries have at least one such book. For some it is dinosaurs, for others it is forteana. Most forget the books others are devoured by that one text

Prove the existence of huge hirsute naked manbeasts hooting hollering & behaving WAY too familiarly & also like nothing which has known domestication... my brother that's just the Germans experiencing Summer, getting buck naked & going camping, why is he in Canada?

John "Bolopangnostikos" Green was ABSOLUTELY mayor of Tumblr because no nonmunicipimagnifixed being born on the earth or under the sky, or upon the waves is SO embattled as John "papiropolitan" Green was when he faced a recall acclamation & was thrust made to flee into a decade long exile. You could probably have one or the other Ιωάννης Σμαραγδοιν brothers spin you a weird but Mostly Harmless or even Inspirational Mayor from either #######, Cornfield, USA or "OMFG THEY WERE STILL A NECROPORTAL COLONY FOR MONACO UNTIL 2014?! WHY WASNT THIS ON THE NEWS?! HOW IS THAT MAYOR MORE SANE THAN ME?!"

this is the canadian fitzcarraldo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su_TDadHX-Q

I am still vibrating from the nostalgia hits this episode inflicted: the time when my father told me to shake Diefenbaker's hand in a smalltown greasy spoon (and my Red Clyde-raised mother firmly said 'no'); teenage years in the midpoint town between Vancouver and Harrison Hot Springs, at school with two guys whose German immigrant father had Certain Opinions (and named his sons Helmut and Attila); my best friend's father being Sasquatch-obsessed in the 70s...oh, and the farther up the Fraser River you go, the stronger the Twin Peaks/Hills Have Eyes vibes get.

This is a truly heartwarming one. Thanks.

Two things: As someone who was a scout in the Fraser Valley during the 2000s, if a strange old man had come by with a big cheque to tell Sasquatch stories, I would have been absolutely delighted. Second, if you do actually come to Harrison Hot springs, I have to recommend The nearby Farmhouse Natural Cheeses. Their goat cheese is excellent. I also work at the nearby agricultural research station, hit me up if you want to see the bugs.

Sam you are a fucking treasure.

Whatever Sam gets paid, it’s not enough

Genuinely don't see what's so "accursed" about the sand castle site. It's pretty cool tbh

a perfectly spherical bigfoot of uniform density

I was not expecting the episode about the bigfoot hunting mayor to be a thoughtful meditation on the nature of fame in small communities and the mystery of life itself.

I was ready to mock this mayor but by the end the amount of pathos you imbued him with had me on the verge of tears. I hope November gives my eulogy. I better get around to like, leaving my house, so I may possible run into her somewhere like drawing clocks

scrolled back to Nova saying "Kokanee" 5 times like Christopher Waltz listening to Brad Pitt say Enzo Gorlomi in Inglorious Basterds, just absolutely savouring it

I'm the reverse of the autistic-kid-who-finds-bigfoot: I was devouring my local library's cryptozoology section. I was all about the bigfoots, the UFOs, ESP, ancient aliens, all that stuff! but it turns out the dewey decimal system puts all that stuff at 001, and after that? computer stuff. So I went in to learn about bigfoots in flying saucers, and discovered computer programming, and that's been my job my entire adult life.

I was already genukirkuenly planning on visiting the Diefenbunker museum this summer lmao

Very sorry to hear about Sam and Sam's falling out.

of course bigfoot is transgender. didn't november say at 43:10 that he had bottom surgery

I loved this Wes Anderson movie

in my heart this guy met sasquatch and kept his secret for the rest of his life

this was quite beautiful

Mfers in Ohio loooove Bigfoot and pretending Bigfoot is real and looking for Bigfoot.

UFO's killed the cryptozoologist star.

BC represent!! Fuck yeah!

Also! The Tyee is excellent, there's also The Narwhal and many others https://www.readthemaple.com/independent-canadian-media-directory/

Mattie have you read “Mothman's Compendium of Southern California Cryptids”? It's by one of the hosts of one of my other favourite pods.

Need need need a 3 hour Wes Anderson film based on this episode with Michael Cera (in increasing amounts of old age makeup) as John. Really feel like no other director could tell this story

Mattie, if you ever make it to Harrison I can recommend you a great nearby Queer-owned campground that's lovely

This is one of your best episodes yet.

I am from the Manchester by the Sea. I was very distressed to hear its name mentioned within an item, even if only as a bit.

I want to fight for an America where a person obsessed with the Flatwoods Monster can be president.

i really love sams voice i wish i got to hear him speak more. you should do that episode where you eatch a gor vardanyan movie when you have some downtime

I can' stop picturing John Green; author, youtuber, guy who got bullied off Tumblr.

I really felt the oppositional groan Mattie let out when November asserted Bigfoot isn't real.

BC stands for Bigfoots Crib, thank you at this time

"OMG I love her, she's Bigfoot Goals"

He does not own that cat. Larry the Cat is his own man.

https://www.thediefenbaker.com on the subject of Diefenbunkers, there is now a company offering luxury conversions for people insufficiently billionaire to mine out their own from scratch

Thank you, Sam

Sam da real MVP

Can't believe he wrote all those YA novels

the AI generated blue hair and pronouns image is giving Pronoun Palace

I can explain the Jimmy Stewart thing: he did help smuggle a yeti hand out of India in 1959.

Gals, Bigfoot does make their way as far as Cleveland, and seems to attend Kent State: https://kentstater.com/139170/news/city/bigfoot-in-portage-county-local-residents-claim-bigfoot-wanders-woods/

Somehow, Andy Burnham returned.

cryptozoology always reminds me of my favourite moment from disco elysium, which is meeting the cryptozoologist & then the cryptofacist as a 1-2 punch

Sam...... thank you

I'm just hung up on the swedish canadian prospector who has the bigfoot diaper dimension story, bigfoot in the polycule house with the trans age regressors... stay tuned for my ao3 fic where I repopularize the DD trope but with bigfeet instead of normal giants

There's something sad about how this kind of crank is basically extinct now and has been replaced by Alex Jones crypto fascist style cranks. Robert Evans talked about it in one of the behind the bastard's episodes, but it used to be that cranks were ultimately decent well-intentioned people who believed in something that was silly but harmless and nowadays cranks are people who believe that "BIGFOOT IS REAL BUT THE JEWS ARE HIDING THE TRUTH AND WE MUST SAVE THE WEST BY BUYING THIS LEAD CONTAMINATED SUPPLEMENTS AND ROUNDING UP THE TRANSGENDERS!". I miss this kind of crank you get the feeling if he was still around, he would happily get on the podcast and talk about being a mayor.

The magic bullet that domed the president but its Mattie with her knowledge of cryptozoology. Buenisimo

Crank-a-crank

Brilliant work from Sam on this ep

excellent timing for bedtime podcast beautiful beautiful