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All by you, by the the
Delta, the Desert Riverland. I am

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an avid out doors woman. I
grew up in the woods and men and

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mine go hunting and fishing and horseback
riding. I grew up in the nineteen

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eighties, and being a tomboy,
I usually carried more than one weapon on

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me, just in case I wanted
to bring home some kind of game to

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eat later. It was rare that
I did, because my brothers and their

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friends always disturbed the woods in my
area. I can remember one time when

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I was walking alone in the woods
behind my daddy's house in the Angelina River

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Bottom. I was probably a mile
or two in and on the way back

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home, and I heard something walking
with me. Then the worst smell you

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could ever imagine came over me.
When the wind changed. Well, I

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chambered around in my pump four ten, thinking it was something stalking me,

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but mainly hoping it was one of
my brothers or their friends just messing with

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me. Well, the noise got
louder and closer, and I took off

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running and I didn't stop until I
got to our porch. And once I

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got inside the house, I saw
all the boys sitting at the table with

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my father, Baby doll, what's
got you spook? My daddy asked,

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seeing the look on my face.
Nothing, I told him, and then

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I headed to the bathroom to check
my pants. A few days later,

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Dad and I were fishing farther down
river from the house then we usually went.

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It was the same spot I had
been a few days before, and

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I told him that I couldn't go
there because of what happened, and that

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he would just think I was crazy, And of course he laughed at me.

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Well, let's hear the story,
then, he said, trying to

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coax it out of me. I
cried a little bit and shed some tears,

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and I finally broke down and I
told him, and his response surprised

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me. I wondered how long it
would take one of you kids to come

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across it, he said, And
to realize that you aren't alone in the

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woods like you think you are.
He wanted on to tell me that if

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I didn't go too far up or
down the river from the house, and

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if I didn't cost too much noise
while I was in the woods, that

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I would be all right. It
would watch me, but it wouldn't bother

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me. I was only a girl
and a bunch of boys that totaled about

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five or six, depending on who
was hunting. With my two brothers,

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I would usually go by myself in
an opposite direction from them. My older

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brother had this habit of jumping out
at me from behind trees and bushes and

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other things to scare me, especially
at night. Well, one day he

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followed me and I didn't know he
was there, and I did my usual

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walking around the woods, looking at
the plants and minding my business. I

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knew I wasn't alone because I could
feel it, and an hour before dark,

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I woke up from a nap and
headed home the same way that I

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had gone in, and on my
way, this stupid brother of mine jumped

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out from behind a tree at me, and he scared me half to death.

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But this time, instead of hastling
me like he usually would, he

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turned white as a sheet. I
could tell that something was behind me,

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but I couldn't tell how close.
I took advantage of the situation, though,

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and I talked a mild wide load
of crap to my brother. And

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the whole time I was yelling at
him, he was looking behind me and

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slowly backing up, And I got
the feeling that my visitor took on a

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protective liking to me. It growled
so loudly that it was like someone put

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a speaker up against my chest and
turned the base and the volume up as

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high as it would go, and
it made my hairs stand on end.

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My brother backed into a tree,
turned and ran toward the house, and

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watching him go, I was giggling. I couldn't help myself. He was

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either that or start crying. I
bet that idiot won't do that again,

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I said aloud, and I heard
a loud grunt behind me, and then

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in silence. I never once looked
back, and I headed home. Later

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I went and got in my stand, and it consisted of a long chair,

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my pillow in a thick blanket.
Yes, I took frequent naps instead

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of really hunting. I found three
river rocks on my chair. I ended

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up leaving it there, and later
on my daddy asked how the hunting was,

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and I told him it was horrible
because my brother had scared the buck

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off when he ran past me,
screaming like a girl. I didn't get

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to go back after that, and
to this day, no one has spoken

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about it. I doubt they ever
will and since then, Daddy told me

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that they let some small bears out
in the river bottoms and that he had

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seen them. Yeah right, I
said, no, really they did,

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he said, bowing me some pictures
on his game cam. I leaned into

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the camera to get a better look, and then I scoffed and I shook

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my head. I didn't look like
a bear to me, I told him,

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and he winked, and then he
deleted the picture. When I was

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little, my mama used to scare
me and my cousins by telling us that

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we needed to stay in the house
or a woman would get us. What

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we would ask her a woman,
she would insist, and finally my Paupaul

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told us it was a boogeyman that
she was talking about. We didn't believe

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her though, that there ain't no
such a thing. But all these years

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later, I think she was onto
something. Maybe she was too afraid to

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completely tell us the truth. On
Easter Weekend in two thousand and eight,

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my daughter, my two sons,
and I were headed from Murphisboro, Arkansas,

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back to Huntsville, Texas, that's
where we lived, and I decided

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that we would go to the Red
River Museum in Idabelle, Oklahoma, but

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I needed a way there. Instead
of going back into Texas and then north

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Oklahoma, I headed west toward a
little blink if you missed it, town

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called Cara Gordo ce r r o
g o r d. I don't know

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how to pronounce that, right on
the border of Oklahoma and Arkansas and the

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Watchtaw National Forest. I should have
known something was wrong when we stopped at

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the store on the border. The
girl behind the counter asked where we were

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headed, so I told her and
if I asked if we could go that

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way to Idabell, well yeah,
she said, warning me with her tone,

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but don't go fast on that road. Well I had no problem with

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that, since the suv I had
at the time was kind of top heavy

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and I didn't like to speed.
So we took off again and headed down

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the road. It turned from a
farm to market road into a white rock

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road, and I realized then while
she told me not to go fast for

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a while, it turned back into
a farm to market road where you could

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barely see the stripe in the middle, and after a couple of sharp terms,

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we came up onto a set of
bridges. At the first bridge,

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I slammed on the brakes and came
to a complete stop, and my teenage

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daughter started fussing because her chip spilled
all over her. But all I could

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do was point out the window ahead
of us. At the other end of

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the bridge was a tall, hairy, reddish it. It was huge,

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and it walked across the road and
down the embankment. It never bothered to

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look at us, but it had
to know we were there. I know

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what a gorilla looks like, and
that was not a gorilla. I also

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know what a gilly suit looks like, too, and I had seen my

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dad wearing one before, and this
was not a man in a gilly suit.

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We finally made it to Ida Belle
and sat down somewhere to eat,

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and after a few minutes my daughter
asked if what we had seen was a

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bigfoot. I don't know, I
said, I've never seen one. What

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do you think it is? Well? She thought about it and then mention

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the old man sitting in the booth
next to us looking at us. Funny,

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I don't think we need to talk
about it anymore, she said.

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My daughter and her friends go into
Sam Houston National Forests by Lake Conroe,

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and on the Lone Star Hiking Trail, which runs over one hundred miles from

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one end to the other. In
one area of Lake Conroe, there's a

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road sign that says watch out for
wood apes. Even the BFRO has reported

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sightings in the area, and I
think my daughter is hoping to see another

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one or some sign that they're there, like she's been told. We ride

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horses in the area's National forests all
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Ebenezer Equestrian Park on sam Rayburn Lake, it was a February weekend and had

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a campful of drunken women and horses. We had a great time. The

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weather was cool but not too cold, which was unusual for February. I

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had gotten my camp set up like
I wanted, and I was cozy in

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my tent. But after I had
been asleep for some time, I woke

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up and I decided it was because
it was too quiet. Well, I

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got out of the tent and went
and did my business in the horse trailer

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because the bathroom was too far to
walk in the dark from my camp,

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And that's when I realized my horse
was watching something across the road from the

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catch pin. I looked too,
and I saw some kind of big animal

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hunched over. I thought it was
a hog from the size of it,

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except it didn't really move like a
hog. My horse started snorting at this

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thing, and I started petting him
to try to calm us both down,

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but it didn't help much because at
that moment the wind changed and I could

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smell it, and it was awful. It was rank, like a skunk,

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like a dead animal, like hog
mud haul in one. I felt

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the urge to vomit, but I
held back because I didn't want to draw

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attention to us. Fat chance of
that. With my horse snorting and walking

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anxiously around the pin like you was, the thing turned away from us and

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then went down the road on all
fours and went around the corner. It

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was a full moon that night,
and I could see somewhat but not well

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enough, into the shadows, and
ten minutes later I was standing in the

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catchpin with my horse, trying to
calm both of our nerves, when I

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heard this god awful scream coming from
the woods where I had seen the creature

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walk away before. Needless to say, the next morning, I was still

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in the catchpin with my horse.
My friend found me there asleep hanging on

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to him, and she thought I
had passed out there drunk from the night

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before. I just agreed with her
and went on about my day, and

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I got to thinking maybe all of
us women laughing and cutting up brought one

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out of the woods to see what
was going on. I've been there other

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times, both alone and with others
to ride. Each time it felt like

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someone was watching us. On one
occasion last year, I was the only

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one in camp, and this time
with a different horse that I raised and

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trained myself. He's a level headed
four h horse, and he and my

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other two horses are certified for mounted
search and rescue. They're considered very quiet

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and calm animals in the woods.
When I got to the catch pin,

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my level headed horse was trying to
jump out of the pin. He's not

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one to be buddy bound or act
like a fool when he's alone, but

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this day had me worried because the
woods had gotten quiet, and still he

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had me so spooked that I packed
up everything in half the time it took

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to set it up. I think
he knew something was out there because he

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beat me to the horse trailer and
he was shaking like a leaf. I

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know my horse is just like I
know my kids and my dogs, and

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he hasn't acted like that anymore,
and we've been there numerous times since.

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It reminded me of my other horse, Tray, and how he acted just

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the same when he was there in
February a few years back. Now people

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look at me like I'm crazy,
But there are some things in the East

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Texas woods that need to stay hidden, whether the world needs to know about

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them or not. Like Bigfoot.
You can't tell me the government doesn't know

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about them. They have to because
they are everywhere, just like the government

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knows about them. Folks from outer
space, they know about them and know

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that they are here among us.
I know there are people like doctor Ketchum

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that have done extensive testing and research
to prove that bigfoots are part of the

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Homo sapien species. You should read
her paper if you get time. And

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I think with the help of people
like her and others in the field,

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it can be proven that they exist
and are a part of us. It

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sure makes you wonder. Well.
I thought that was a great story.

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That's a whole series of experiences this
woman has had that were actually kind of

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fascinating to me. And I know
I used that word a lot, but

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I'm not very smart. I can't
think of other words to use, interesting,

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fascinating. Sometimes in the comment section, people say, well, you

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said fascinating like twelve times in this
video. Well, give me another word

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to use, and I'll use it. These stories intrigued me and I love

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to hear them. And this,
I mean, just think about what you

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just heard. This woman has had
encounter after encounter after encounter, and she's

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actually visually seeing these things. She
even had one that kind of backed her

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up when her brother was picking on
her. So I don't know. Sometimes

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I wonder if Bigfoot's really real,
And then I listen to these stories and

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I'm like, who would what kind
of a mind would just sit down and

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make this stuff up and spend time
writing it. It doesn't make sense,

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you know, it doesn't make sense, and they put their reputation at risk

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by doing it, especially when they
tell others, friends and family. But

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I love the story. Hey,
I want to catch you guys up.

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You've been watching some video. I
took my family to the zoo, my

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grandkids, my son and his family, my wife, and I just had

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I found I didn't take a go
pro on purpose, but I had a

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backpack and there was a GoPro in
there with three fresh batteries, so I

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just kind of walked around with that
gopra all day thinking people might like seeing

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the Memphis Zoo. It's a wonderful
zoo. I think it's one of the

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top ten zoos in the United States. If you're ever in the mid South.

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It's one of the few places I
would go in Memphis. It's pretty

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heavily policed, the parking lot is
they're real decent busy routes to get into

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the zoo. It's in midtown Memphis
and Overden Park, and it's a beautiful

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place and they've done a wonderful job
at the zoo, and these videos don't

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really do it justice. I'm not
bragging about Memphis because it's really it's a

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very high crime area. I grew
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I loved growing up in that town. There was so much to do,

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and like the zoo and the ball
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you used to go to at Bell
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if you paid me a thousand dollars. There's no way I'm going down on

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Bell Street or even close to the
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road from Bell Street, and it's
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Memphis are just maniacs. They're just
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the zoo is a pretty nice,
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get into the parking lot, you're
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going on at the zoo. Everyone
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begin to the zoo. So anyway, that's what that video is. Some

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people have asked me some questions over
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I hope you guys, I don't
mind if I address them here.

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You can click away and go to
another video. And I don't have these

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written down, but I'm going to
try to remember. I've gotten comments,

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a few comments about my voice.
I don't know if my voice is changing

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with my age, don't. I
have a little bit of a cold right

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now. I don't feel bad,
but I have just a little bit of

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a sniffle and I keep sneezing,
but it doesn't feel like normal sinus drainage

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or infections. That's the only thing
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sounds the same to me, maybe
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know. I really don't pay attention
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age. When I started this channel, I was fifty seven and I'm sixty

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two now, so five years,
you know, you get into your sixties,

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maybe your voice changes a little bit. I don't really know, but

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there's nothing going on with my voice. Maybe it's just changing with time.

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Another comment I got that I just
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I don't care anymore. That's not
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thing I love about it is I've
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people just in the last couple of
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creative minds and being You may think, well, you've got a fairly popular

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YouTube channel, so you know a
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many people, and it's just me
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videos and doing these podcasts, and
so I don't talk to anybody. There's

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only all the bigfoot people hate me, which is fine with me except one

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group, Mark and Larry and the
Woodwalker's Crew. They're just a great bunch

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of people, and I suppose if
they didn't know me, they may not

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really like me that much. But
they know what I do. They know

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I'm not into the Bigfoot culture and
the I don't know the evidence that they

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are, but I go to their
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around them. So that would be
the Woodwalker's channel, and the Beast of

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the Woods Channel, which is Larry
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Channel, which is Mark Nuble's channel. Let's see her. Yeah, those

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are my friends in the community,
and I could just actually get to see

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them about once a year at a
camp out at LBL if they remember to

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remind me that it's going on.
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about doing this. The other thing
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word into something audible. I try
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it. I love doing audio books. I'm working on a Western now that

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is a fantastic book, and I'm
not sure where I'm going to put it.

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The author is going to get the
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book on Audible and Spotify or wherever
they decide to put it. But in

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exchange for me doing the audio,
I'm not charging him anything. I'm just

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getting permission from him to put it
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and I get paid through the ad
revenue. That way, you don't pay

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anything. Nobody pays anything, at
least to hear it from me or through

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my podcast. I'm not sure whether
the Westerns and stuff rate another channel,

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but I love doing These Westerns are
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it'll be eight or ten hours long. It's a really long one.

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I hope y'all don't mind that I
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catch you up on some stuff,
all right, let me think of some

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other questions. Oh, Steve Lily, I'm working on Steve Lilly now.

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As soon as I get this podcast
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this. Steve Lily sixteen is kind
of an epic episode. I'm kind of

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kind of broadening the direction of the
story and I'm trying to do it justice.

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And yes, I've been busy.
I haven't had time to write.

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I know people are frustrated. Yes, it's been a year since I've over

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a year since I put a Steve
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I just wrote them real fast,
and I know y'all like them.

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I'm just trying to I'm trying to
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something that's really really good and epic
and can continue the storyline on.

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So you guys know where Steve Lily
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I think you're gonna like it.
I think you're gonna like it if you

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can just hang on. Taking so
long has probably lost me half of the

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audience. Speaking of losing the audience, one comment I got was that I've

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read through all the comments on your
latest videos and I don't see a single

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negative comment. And they asked,
do you delete them? No, I

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don't delete them unless they have some
kind of profanity in them, and if

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they do, I just blocked whoever
that person is. They can't. They

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can comment, but nobody sees it. But I think the reason my views

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are down, my subscriber count is
down, the income is down. It's

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half what it used to be,
and I think I'm almost one hundred percent

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sures that I've run off all the
bigfoot nuts, all the really staunch,

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mean bigfoot people. They're gone.
I made them so mad that they left.

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I think that has a lot to
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you know, these channels have a
shelf life, you know. I mean

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there were channels I was watching five
or six years ago, and I watched

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them for a couple of years,
and I kind of kept up with them

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best I could, and you know, you just get kind of tired of

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watching the same old things, so
you move on to other things. I

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get that I never had plans for
this channel to be what it is in

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the first place. So I mean, I mean every view I get is

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like this giant blessing from heaven.
Anybody that listens to me narrating a story,

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I mean, it's just a blessing, or it's good luck, or

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it's whatever. But anyway, the
comment section is really cleaned up lately.

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I mean, for years, I
would get these nasty comments from people telling

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me I was ruining the credibility of
the bigfoot topic and all this stuff,

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and because I did fiction and this
and that, when here to listen to

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no fiction and all this stuff?
And I told them, well, then

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don't listen to my channel. And
apparently they took my word and they went

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away, and I'm happy about that. I would rather have a smaller sorry,

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all my phone went off. I
would rather have a smaller, happy,

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cheerful audience than to have this huge
audience of half nasty people. Does

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that make sense? And I was
looking through the comment section on the last

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video I uploaded. What's cool is
people engage with each other in the comments.

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Somebody will make a comment, somebody
under that will go, hey,

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so and so, where have you
been? And then this conversation, virtual

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conversation ensues underneath the original comment.
And I think that's so nice that this

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community of people that follow this channel, at least this channel, are comfortable

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and happy and willing to, you
know, make comments and engage with each

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other. And everybody is so nice
to everybody, and I just love it.

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So I would say to people in
the if you do make comments,

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feel free to in get on my
phone. Man, I won't put it

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on vibrate all right now, it
won't make any noise, but feel free

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to engage with each other. I
don't you never know. I mean,

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I don't want to make a blanket
statement but I don't think you're going to

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get any blowback from anybody. I
think what we've done and this makes me

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so happy. And this is what
I told my wife one hundred times.

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I wanted if there's going to be
a decent size audience, I just want

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it to be a bunch of people
that are happy, love who like to

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come to this channel and look at
it as a fun, enjoyable thing to

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do. They look forward to hearing
the stories. They're nice people, and

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they're not here with an agenda like
those crazy Bigfoot people. I can't stand

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those people. They're just main honery, vicious vipers is what they are.

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Go go to some of the other
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You'll see what I'm talking about.
But that doesn't happen on this channel.

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I really appreciate it. I also
appreciate the people who listen who never

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never have left a comment. I
think probably two to five percent of the

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people that watch the videos actually leave
a comment. So there's that, you

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know, worst case or best case, there's ninety five percent of the people

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that wantch that do not ever comment
at all. They're like me, I

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just watch videos and I move along. I don't take time to comment.

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I don't. There's nothing I'm going
to say that's going to add to the

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experience. But I understand that people
read the comments and liked comment because my

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wife's she likes TikTok and Instagram and
Facebook the reels, and she likes YouTube

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as well, but she reads the
comments on every video she watches. I'm

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like, good god, woman,
how do you have time to do that.

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I just want to watch the video
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And so for all the people out
there that don't comment, I'm just

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like you. I mean, I
have left a few comments, but they're

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always encouraging comments to another channel.
It doesn't have to be in this genre.

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It could just be, you know, a guy cracking nuts loose on

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an engine, wrenching on an engine. If he does something cold, I'll

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once a month, I might say, man, that's an awesome video.

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You should have a million subscribers or
whatever. I never have ever left a

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bad comment. I've never left a
terrible review for a company that I've done

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anything with. I'm just not that
way. So thank you to the people

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who don't comment. You're very very
much a preiated I don't know. I

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guess that's all that was on my
mind. I got to get back to

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writing. Steve Lily. My mother
is over in Arkansas. She has some

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property over there, in close to
Hebrew Springs, and she's trying to sell

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it. She's eighty two years old. She's got people over there working on

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the house on the property, getting
it ready to sell. I may go

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over there and relieve her in the
next day or two, so I might

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be out for a couple of days
helping my mother. I love my mother.

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I want to help her. But
she's real independent. She drives everywhere.

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She's healthy, she's her mind is
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She's always got books with her.
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The workers didn't show up today and
I called her, and she says,

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well, I'm just reading. I'm
having a good time. I'm enjoying

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the solitude. She lives with her
sister in Memphis, and I think she's

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enjoying being by herself for a little
while. Anyway, all I have to

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say, I may jump up go
over there for three or four days,

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may be, and give her a
break so she can come home and I'll

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kind of oversee the repairs being done
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that, I don't have any work
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be doing the podcast, all right. I just thought I would catch you

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guys up on what's going on with
me, because I don't talk much in

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these videos anymore because I think it
annoys people. Oh here's another email,

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here's another comment I got. Why
don't you do yeddiebar commercials anymore? The

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reason I stopped doing that is because
you have to deal with enough ads on

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YouTube anyway. The people who don't
have YouTube premium, for example, you

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have to deal with enough ads anyway. And I got the sense that I

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wouldn't like I mean, I do
click on channels a lot of times.

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You know, they'll spend It'll be
a thirty minute video, might be a

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political thing, and right in the
middle of it, just when you're getting

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into it, it'll be a thirty
minute video and they'll do a ten minute

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ad for some dummy bear health thing
or something, and it's just annoying.

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And I know it's annoying. So
I called Yetti Bars. I told them

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that, guys, I'm gonna drop
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health of the channel. I'm glad
you're selling a bunch of Yetti bars,

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but I still buy Yetti bars.
They're a great deal. I don't know

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if they're honoring the discount code that
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I still buy Yetti bars. A
matter of fact, I opened up a

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brand new bar of the Glacier Bar
this morning, and go buy Yetti bars.

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It's good price, it's good product. The soap last a reasonable amount

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of time. I have used other
soaps since, and I never got a

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free bar of Yetti soap from them
at all. I did get paid a

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commission for the sales that used the
discount code, but it wasn't much.

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So the money to annoyance ratio tip
toward me just not doing ads during my

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own baked in ads during the podcast, so I don't do any ads anymore.

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I just bore you now with me
talking. How does that sound like

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I'm doing now? Just like I'm
doing now? All right, you guys,

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I'll end this up and say thank
you for watching this podcast. Now

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you're kind of up to date on
what's going on with everything, and I

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guess we'll see you on the next
one. I'll have another one or two

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out before the end of the week, and I hope you guys still enjoy

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this podcast. I love doing it
just as much as I ever have.

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I'll still look forward to coming out
here early, pulling up these stories,

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going through these stories. I just
love it. I found something that I

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think I will enjoy doing until I
can't do it anymore so, and a

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lot of that is how nice you've
been. So thank you, thank you

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for joining me on this podcast,
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