#110 EdFringe LIVE Night One Issue

The Cryptid Factor

Improv, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The Edinburgh Fringe couldn't keep us out if they tried! And trust us...they did.

Kicking their second run off a wobbly blast, the trio find their feet with tales of swampy airport crotches, poles flipping out on Santa, UAPs coming to scope out Earth, High School teachers leaving their special marks, and a thief busted by book too good to run away from.

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0:00.0	The Cryptid Factor with Rhys Darby, Dan Shriver and Buttons.
0:25.6	Woo! We're back. We are back.
0:52.3	And it's Edinburgh, 2020. And I say that because, you know, a lot of people go back and listen to the old episodes. Oh, yeah. So in the future, they might do that and wonder, I wonder what year this one was. So I've said it there. So that's stated. Handy. Handy. I thought of that earlier. Well done. Well done. We're back guys. Everyone between you 25,
1:13.6	the last year was amazing. So we decided to come back, didn't we? Well, we had to. So, well,
1:19.9	there's so much going on. There's so much mystery. There's so much going on in the universe that we
1:23.5	need to talk about. And we prefer, in a way way talking about it with a live audience of like-minded
1:27.8	people. So thank you all for being here today for this. Can I tell you about a weird experience
1:32.6	that I had the other day just very quickly? Before we kick into the...
1:36.2	Yeah, before we kick into it just to set the tone because I think people need to know that
1:39.7	we are explorers of the mysterious as well. We are journalists and note takers and so on, and I've been
1:44.8	studying my kid recently. He's seven years old. You mean you've been parenting? Well, that's
1:53.1	the word I'd love to use. But yeah, yeah, I've been observing. And he's seven years old. His name is
1:57.7	Wilf. And he told me something extraordinary the other day. He said, Daddy, we were walking along a beach and he said, Daddy, I've started doing a thing where I'll say a sentence out loud, but out loud in my head, and no one else can hear it. So he's basically discovered he has an inner monologue at seven, which I don't know if that's late or if that's, you know. Wow. Yeah.
2:16.7	So I said to him, what kind of stuff are you saying? And he's like, well, one thing I say a lot, and please don't get angry with me. So I was like, okay, what is it? He says, well, sometimes you'll get really angry at me for doing something bad and you'll yell at me. And so when you leave the room, I will say in my own head,
2:36.9	God, Dad's being a real dickface today.
2:40.2	Wow.
2:42.0	I was like, I was proud and also like, what a horrible parent I must be.
2:47.2	Where did he learn dickface?
2:48.4	You know?
2:50.2	But next time you yell at him or do something
2:52.3	like that and then he just stands there kind of like what are you saying in your head what are you
2:59.3	saying in your head yeah exactly so anyway the study continues with wilf and i'll bring more to the
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