Tyson likes getting to learn about different cultures and time periods, through their legends, ‘old wives tales’, and folk heroes. Though they don’t always hold much credence, Tyson enjoys seeing how some values remain the same but others will deliver a different moral or tell the story in a different way.
Where one culture might tell of a child disobeying their parents to chase their passion and say the child was right to do so and prospered, another will use it as a tale of humility and listening to the advice of others, still others will strike a middle-ground between the two.
The same applies to urban legends. He likes hearing which impossibly tall tales change depending on where they are told, and finding out that certain ones are actually true. Even more than that, Tyson loves hearing about times people tried - and failed - to replicate an urban legend.
Cryptids, he simply finds fun. Tyson absolutely does not think The Jersey Devil exists, but he will always tell Dick to watch out for the Jersey Devil whenever he goes out for a walk at night; because it absolutely followed Dick from New Jersey to New York.