64: The Australian Cryptids You Never Knew Existed: The Bunyip, The Yowie & Drop Bears | Red Thread

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🗓️ 11 May 2025

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Get 50% off FactorMeals with free shipping: go to https://www.factormeals.com/redthread50off Welcome to The Red Thread, a podcast series where two friends (Jordan and Jackson) investigate the peculiar space just beyond reality. Cryptids, Conspiracies, Cults and more are on the investigation board and nothing is off limits. What will they discover? There's only one way to find out... --- Common Threads Initiative: The 30 day YouTube ad revenue generated from this video will be donated to the following charities; The Indigenous Literacy Foundation: https://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au/ Koala Conservation Australia: https://koalaconservationaustralia.org.au We highly encourage audience members to check out the charities featured in our Common Threads Initiative each month! We greatly appreciate those that do! Thank you. --- Check out FriendlyJordies: https://www.youtube.com/@friendlyjordies Check out Jordan Shanks: https://www.youtube.com/@jordanshanks5340 Check out Jordan on tour in Australia:https://www.friendlyjordies.com/ Support the show, leave a rating and remember to subscribe: Listen on Audio ➡️ https://linktr.ee/redthreadshow Listen to other Our Other Shows ➡️ https://linktr.ee/theofficialnetwork Support us on Patreon ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/theofficialpodcast This is Episode #64, where we talk about some of the most popular Australian cryptids; The Bunyip, The Yowie & Drop Bears. Originally recorded 06/05/25. Show Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d0uOgQxgy-grJMF4iIecaOWXZ5yqCrh6UsQzCdc-13U/edit?usp=sharing Hosts: Jackson - https://www.twitter.com/zealotonpc Jordan - https://www.twitter.com/friendlyjordies Writer/Producer: Jackson Clarke Music/Editing by: https://linktr.ee/zayaLT Thumbnail: https://www.instagram.com/nook_eilyk/ Designer: http://www.jr-design-co.com/ Produced under The Official Podcast Network Contact (business only): [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.8	entrepreneurs like you. The undergrowth crackles beneath your boots as you edge closer and closer to the hulking shadow crouched among the gum trees.
1:09.1	Its fur matted with dew, its breath fogging, the crisp dusk air. Your
1:14.4	heart thrums with primal fear. Was this the Yowie of legend? The phantom of the Australian
1:20.7	outback and the subject of many a bushman's tail? You raise your camera, inching forward, desperate
1:26.7	to get the perfect shot for that sweet, sweet YouTube ad revenue. You raise your camera, inching forward, desperate to get the perfect shop for that sweet, sweet
1:29.3	YouTube ad revenue. You feel a twig snap underfoot, and the beast turns around suddenly to face
1:35.4	you. Not a beast, but a face. Human, unmistakable. It's Jeffrey Epstein. Of course, it all makes
1:42.2	sense now. He's been hiding out in the Australian woods for years now after his escape from prison,
1:47.0	growing hairier and hairier by the day.
1:50.0	Before the breath could leave your lungs in a scream, with your brain understanding how
1:54.0	dangerous it is to be alone in the forest with a hairy and desperate Jeffrey Epstein,
1:58.0	the canopy above splits with a hiss, and something heavy and clawed drops from
2:02.3	above. A snarling drop bear falling like vengeance from the heavens. This is red thread. And
2:08.6	you died in the Australian outback with Jeffrey Epstein as the only witness. Jordan, I wanted to
2:15.1	really formally induct you into Red Thread Law now.
2:19.5	I think that's your first Jeffrey Epstein story intro.
2:23.4	That was a staple in red thread history for the first, you know, 30 episodes, I think.
2:28.8	Pretty much every episode started with a twist to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
2:35.5	I put it on hiatus.
2:37.3	Yeah, I put it on hiatus for a couple of months there just to lull people into a false
2:43.1	sense of security, perhaps.
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