The Talegate Podcast

We've reached over 600 downloads, baby! This is a special tribute for all of our voice actors and Talegaters out there, compliments of DJ Florida Man. From the bottom of hearts, thank you.

Remix of "I always love you" (Prod. by Lukrembo)

This song takes clips from every Talegate interview up until this point. We hope you enjoy and expect more sweet tunes to come your way in the future!

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We've reached over 600 downloads, baby! This is a special tribute for all of our voice actors and Talegaters out there, compliments of DJ Florida Man. From the bottom of hearts, thank you.

Remix of "I always love you" (Prod. by Lukrembo)

This song takes clips from every Talegate interview up until this point. We hope you enjoy and expect more sweet tunes to come your way in the future!

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Florida Man and Cheesehead sit down with cryptid-enthusiast, urban explorer, and YouTuber, JACOB THE CARPETBAGGER. Jake discusses the sky anomalies he witnessed at during his nighttime exploration around AREA 51, his "Cryptid Hall of Fame" tattoo (which cryptid he might add next), and his prep work and inspirations behind his pro wrestling career with Supreme Wrestling .

The Carpetbagger is a youtube channel following Jacob as he travels all 48 contiguous Unites States to showcase every oddity and unique attraction dotting American roadsides. We encourage you to join Jacob on his adventures by clicking the link: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCarpetbagger

This episode was sponsored by CRYPTID CRATE, a monthly service delivering the latest and greatest cryprid-related merch! Get 15% off your first month's subscription by entering promo code: "TALEGATE"

https://boxmountainllc.com/pages/cryptid-crate

Background music is "Buscuit" prod. by lukrembo. Check out this track and more here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtZ2m2Zm3vY

Check out more on these topics by listening to The Talegate Podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or any other fine podcast directories; and please rate, review, and subscribe. OR simply follow the link our user-friendly website at www.thetalegatepodcast.com! Also, be sure to follow us on Instagram @thetalegatepodcast and write us with your own stories at [email protected].

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Florida Man and Cheesehead sit down with cryptid-enthusiast, urban explorer, and YouTuber, JACOB THE CARPETBAGGER. Jake discusses the sky anomalies he witnessed at during his nighttime exploration around AREA 51, his "Cryptid Hall of Fame" tattoo (which cryptid he might add next), and his prep work and inspirations behind his pro wrestling career with Supreme Wrestling .

The Carpetbagger is a youtube channel following Jacob as he travels all 48 contiguous Unites States to showcase every oddity and unique attraction dotting American roadsides. We encourage you to join Jacob on his adventures by clicking the link: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCarpetbagger

This episode was sponsored by CRYPTID CRATE, a monthly service delivering the latest and greatest cryprid-related merch! Get 15% off your first month's subscription by entering promo code: "TALEGATE"

https://boxmountainllc.com/pages/cryptid-crate

Background music is "Buscuit" prod. by lukrembo. Check out this track and more here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtZ2m2Zm3vY

Check out more on these topics by listening to The Talegate Podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or any other fine podcast directories; and please rate, review, and subscribe. OR simply follow the link our user-friendly website at www.thetalegatepodcast.com! Also, be sure to follow us on Instagram @thetalegatepodcast and write us with your own stories at [email protected].

Cryptid Crate
A monthly subscription box filled with cryptid and paranormal themed items. Use promocode: TALEGAT

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Feeling homesick as we travel west through the Deep South, Cheesehead finds a little Northern comfort by interviewing Wisconsin’s own Hodag of Rhinelander! Risen from the ashes of abused oxen, this spirit of vengeance wreaked havoc on the early lumbermen of the American North, including none other than Paul Bunyan himself!

The Hodag is quirky and beloved cryptid to many. While most famous in Rhinelander, WI, the Hodag has had many high-profile cameos in media throughout the centuries. The Hodag was featured first as a shovel-nosed and hooved creature bulldozing trees across the northern states in search for it's primary food source, the porcupine, in the text, Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts, William T. Cox. From there, the name "Hodag" was reassigned to address a woolly green beast with a spiny back and tail, saber teeth, and large oxen horns said to be a spirit of vengeance manifested out of the ashes of abused beasts of burden.

Hodag got his first taste of the fame as an antagonist throughout some of the earliest Paul Bunyan stories. In the late 1800's, Eugene Shepard capitalized on the popularity of the Hodag by claiming to have killed the beast, with photo evidence, and even later exhibiting a what he claimed to be a living, breathing Hodag! Even the Smithsonian Institute was drawn in by such claims. Ever since, the Hodag has continued his success in pop culture by becoming the mascot of Rhinelander, WI, an canonized creature of JK Rowling's Wizarding World of Harry Potter by it's mention within Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and even had his own episode of Scooby Doo!

Bringing the Hodag to life in this episode is our first featured guest, JACOB THE CARPETBAGGER! The Carpetbagger is a youtube channel following Jacob as he travels all 48 contiguous Unites States to showcase every oddity and unique attraction dotting American roadsides. We encourage you to join Jacob on his adventures by clicking the link: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCarpetbagger

This episode was sponsored by CRYPTID CRATE! Get 15% off your first month's subscription  by entering promo code: "TALEGATE"

https://boxmountainllc.com/pages/cryptid-crate

Check out more on these topics by listening to The Talegate Podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or any other fine podcast directories; and please rate, review, and subscribe. OR simply follow the link our user-friendly website at www.thetalegatepodcast.com! Also, be sure to follow us on Instagram @thetalegatepodcast and write us with your own stories at [email protected].

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Feeling homesick as we travel west through the Deep South, Cheesehead finds a little Northern comfort by interviewing Wisconsin’s own Hodag of Rhinelander! Risen from the ashes of abused oxen, this spirit of vengeance wreaked havoc on the early lumbermen of the American North, including none other than Paul Bunyan himself!

The Hodag is quirky and beloved cryptid to many. While most famous in Rhinelander, WI, the Hodag has had many high-profile cameos in media throughout the centuries. The Hodag was featured first as a shovel-nosed and hooved creature bulldozing trees across the northern states in search for it's primary food source, the porcupine, in the text, Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts, William T. Cox. From there, the name "Hodag" was reassigned to address a woolly green beast with a spiny back and tail, saber teeth, and large oxen horns said to be a spirit of vengeance manifested out of the ashes of abused beasts of burden.

Hodag got his first taste of the fame as an antagonist throughout some of the earliest Paul Bunyan stories. In the late 1800's, Eugene Shepard capitalized on the popularity of the Hodag by claiming to have killed the beast, with photo evidence, and even later exhibiting a what he claimed to be a living, breathing Hodag! Even the Smithsonian Institute was drawn in by such claims. Ever since, the Hodag has continued his success in pop culture by becoming the mascot of Rhinelander, WI, an canonized creature of JK Rowling's Wizarding World of Harry Potter by it's mention within Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and even had his own episode of Scooby Doo!

Bringing the Hodag to life in this episode is our first featured guest, JACOB THE CARPETBAGGER! The Carpetbagger is a youtube channel following Jacob as he travels all 48 contiguous Unites States to showcase every oddity and unique attraction dotting American roadsides. We encourage you to join Jacob on his adventures by clicking the link: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCarpetbagger

This episode was sponsored by CRYPTID CRATE! Get 15% off your first month's subscription  by entering promo code: "TALEGATE"

https://boxmountainllc.com/pages/cryptid-crate

Check out more on these topics by listening to The Talegate Podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or any other fine podcast directories; and please rate, review, and subscribe. OR simply follow the link our user-friendly website at www.thetalegatepodcast.com! Also, be sure to follow us on Instagram @thetalegatepodcast and write us with your own stories at [email protected].

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St. Augustine is more than just the nation’s oldest colonized city. It is home to the fabled Fountain of Youth, a college with installations by Thomas Edison and Louis Tiffany, and more ghosts than seagulls at a beachfront picnic. Join us as we explore!

Everyone knows the history of the Fountain of Youth. How famed conquistador, Juan Ponce de Leon searched Florida high and low for the immortality-granting spring. But what if I told told you that NONE of this was true? That de Leon never in his entire career as a sailor and explorer even mentioned The Fountain of Youth, much less longed to find it? The root of this myth dates back to a feud between Ponce and the son of Christopher Columbus, which is touched on in this episode.

So, while St. Augustine may not be home to the real Fountain of Youth, it is the oldest colonized city in the United States and boasts perhaps the richest history to boot. Towering within this historical district is Flaglar College, formerly the Ponce de Leon Hotel. It was the Florida's first luxury resort hotel, build by Henry Morrison Flaglar. What makes this building so special is that Thomas Edison installed the electricity, which is still in use today, and Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany Glass Co. is credited for it's interior design. The Tiffany Glass windows are still very much in tact for visitors to admire. 

Check out more on these topics by listening to The Talegate Podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or any other fine podcast directories; and please rate, review, and subscribe. OR simply follow the link our user-friendly website at www.thetalegatepodcast.com! Also, be sure to follow us on Instagram @thetalegatepodcast and write us with your own stories at [email protected].

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St. Augustine is more than just the nation’s oldest colonized city. It is home to the fabled Fountain of Youth, a college with installations by Thomas Edison and Louis Tiffany, and more ghosts than seagulls at a beachfront picnic. Join us as we explore!

Everyone knows the history of the Fountain of Youth. How famed conquistador, Juan Ponce de Leon searched Florida high and low for the immortality-granting spring. But what if I told told you that NONE of this was true? That de Leon never in his entire career as a sailor and explorer even mentioned The Fountain of Youth, much less longed to find it? The root of this myth dates back to a feud between Ponce and the son of Christopher Columbus, which is touched on in this episode.

So, while St. Augustine may not be home to the real Fountain of Youth, it is the oldest colonized city in the United States and boasts perhaps the richest history to boot. Towering within this historical district is Flaglar College, formerly the Ponce de Leon Hotel. It was the Florida's first luxury resort hotel, build by Henry Morrison Flaglar. What makes this building so special is that Thomas Edison installed the electricity, which is still in use today, and Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany Glass Co. is credited for it's interior design. The Tiffany Glass windows are still very much in tact for visitors to admire. 

Check out more on these topics by listening to The Talegate Podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or any other fine podcast directories; and please rate, review, and subscribe. OR simply follow the link our user-friendly website at www.thetalegatepodcast.com! Also, be sure to follow us on Instagram @thetalegatepodcast and write us with your own stories at [email protected].

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“Unto many, a sailor falls to the luring sound of the siren’s call.” Mermaids are one of the most enduring myths of all time. The Talegaters attempt to interview one… or will they, too, submit to the Siren’s Call?

Mermaids have been a part of myth and lore since some of the very earliest civilizations. Dating back to ancient Assyria, the goddess Atargatis, is the first recorded instance of a human body becoming part aquatic animal. Since then, countless civilizations have incorporated merfolk as part of their folklore and mythologies. While Sirens are often synonymous with mermaids, they were actually half-human, half-bird in the original Ancient Greek texts, though they, too, were known to lure sailors to their deaths as "sirens" and merfolk are thought to do today. 

It may be easy these days to dismiss the idea of these submariners, famous European explorers such as John Smith, Christopher Columbus, and Henry Hudson have all logged sightings of these creatures in the Americas with conviction. Be that as it may, it was common to mistake the tails of manatees, dugong, whale, and dolphin tails for that of mermaids, and so this complicates the sailors's authenticity. But we at The Talegate Podcast can tell for you in all earnest that mermaids are very real...

Check out more on these topics by listening to The Talegate Podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or any other fine podcast directories; and please rate, review, and subscribe. OR simply follow the link our user-friendly website at www.thetalegatepodcast.com! Also, be sure to follow us on Instagram @thetalegatepodcast and write us with your own stories at [email protected].

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“Unto many, a sailor falls to the luring sound of the siren’s call.” Mermaids are one of the most enduring myths of all time. The Talegaters attempt to interview one… or will they, too, submit to the Siren’s Call?

Mermaids have been a part of myth and lore since some of the very earliest civilizations. Dating back to ancient Assyria, the goddess Atargatis, is the first recorded instance of a human body becoming part aquatic animal. Since then, countless civilizations have incorporated merfolk as part of their folklore and mythologies. While Sirens are often synonymous with mermaids, they were actually half-human, half-bird in the original Ancient Greek texts, though they, too, were known to lure sailors to their deaths as "sirens" and merfolk are thought to do today. 

It may be easy these days to dismiss the idea of these submariners, famous European explorers such as John Smith, Christopher Columbus, and Henry Hudson have all logged sightings of these creatures in the Americas with conviction. Be that as it may, it was common to mistake the tails of manatees, dugong, whale, and dolphin tails for that of mermaids, and so this complicates the sailors's authenticity. But we at The Talegate Podcast can tell for you in all earnest that mermaids are very real...

Check out more on these topics by listening to The Talegate Podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or any other fine podcast directories; and please rate, review, and subscribe. OR simply follow the link our user-friendly website at www.thetalegatepodcast.com! Also, be sure to follow us on Instagram @thetalegatepodcast and write us with your own stories at [email protected].

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