Tinfoil Tales - MonsterQuest | Interview with Showrunner Jared McGilliard

Cult of Conspiracy

The Cajun Knight & Raven Lee

Comedy, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Producer and filmmaker Jared McGilliard (Nomadica Films) joins Tinfoil Tales to talk about bringing MonsterQuest back and what it took to reboot a show that helped shape modern cryptid media. Jared shares how the new season was built, why they focused on credible first person witnesses, and how they tried to keep the tone objective without turning encounters into cheap sensationalism.

They also get into patterns across sightings, why a body is still the line science demands, how AI complicates evidence, and Jared’s own unexplained experience in the Pacific Northwest that still sticks with him.
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0:00.0	And I just turned around and I pulled ass out of there.
0:07.0	I was done. I wasn't dealing with that.
0:10.0	The hypocrisy of the cult is one of the things that turned me away the quickest.
0:19.0	When I turned my headlights on, it turned and looked at us.
0:24.6	And one of the things I remember the most were the eyes were glowing red.
0:28.6	I see an orb of light.
0:33.6	It is just circling these steps like it is waiting for me.
0:40.3	And he begins to tell them that he saw a UFO.
0:45.3	They're basically like, what are you talking about?
0:51.3	That's seven foot up on a tree peeking around it, and that's where I saw the top of the muzzle
0:56.0	nose and the eyes as soon as I made eye contact with this thing it felt like death
1:02.3	welcome back cult listeners it's Brandon with tinfoil tells you're a fan of tinfoil tells
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1:48.7	email directly to tenfoil tells podcast at gmail.com thanks to cult of conspiracy
1:53.6	welcome back to ten foil tells tonight I'm joined by my guest j Jared. Jared, thanks for coming on here and talking to me.
2:02.6	I was stoked to be here, Brandon.
2:03.9	Thanks for having me. Would you like to let the audience know a little bit about yourself? Oh, man, I guess I should. I am, I own a company called Nomadic of Films. of films have been making TV shows and films for,
2:18.0	I always think that everything has been like a couple years,
2:19.7	but really it's been like 20-some years.
2:21.4	You know, I think everything's just a couple years ago,
2:23.8	but it's been a while.
2:24.9	And, yeah, the latest project we've been working on
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