Today's episode I welcome Ron Murphy - the Crypto-Guru. That's crypto as in cryptozoologist. Ron actually helped mentor Colin from episode 02.

Ron has been giving lectures at various conventions and festivals and has written several books about various crypto and supernatural topics. He has been on tv (with Robert "Freddy Krueger" England) and he also co-hosts a weekly podcast that explores the strange.

Lately, Ron has written some poetry and fiction. And on top of all that - he just became a grandfather!

If you'd like to check out his work:

Ron's Amazon author page

Inside the Goblin Universe podcast

Corridor 13

and some of his books:

Transcript:

Stephen 0:47All right. little technical difficulties. Yeah, just a little technical difficulties. That's right. It's all good. All right. Well, Ron, thank you. I appreciate you taking the time coming on this to talk to me a little bit. It's great to see you. We've been friends for a couple years now. So

Ron 1:04Oh, yeah. We've been friends for probably. I bet you what's going on about four years now? Yeah. I mean, Collin, is almost 20. So that's That's right. That's right. So I think that Oh, yeah. He may have been 15 years old. So yeah, it's probably been a little bit longer. Yeah. But I've been excited ever since you asked me to come on. I've been I actually was very flattered. And I'm sorry about those little monitor tech, I think will be it will be fine. Now. No big deal. All right.

Stephen 1:31Well, let's just jump right into it. So I appreciate it. First of all, let tell us a little bit about you outside of writing who you are.

Ron 1:41All right. Well, I mean, I think that's the same way with you. I think the one of the reasons why we hit it off so well, is that we're both dads who are basically with her families, right. I mean, that is the thing. I think the overall thing about who I am anymore as a father and now just a month ago today a grandfather so that's packs and shapes you who you are, you know, but you know I'm I work with families have worked with families for most of my adult life. I've been working with young kids and I've also been working with the senior population as well. So I've always had a form of counseling in my background that I've been doing, like I said, for most of my adult life, I like the outdoors. I like to read I like to write I like, like Chinese food. I like Italian food. I like long strolls on the beach, you know, all that good stuff.

Stephen 2:31You like yogurt?

Ron 2:34That's right, that's right. Yogurt with a little bit of granola and, and my daughters are the ones that got me onto that. Yeah, I

Stephen 2:39agree. That's, that's pretty good. Okay, so I know a little bit about your background and what you do, you're an interesting writer in that you don't focus on nonfiction or fiction, you kind of do both. And it kind of ties into a lot of your daytime work and some of your e...