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into the investigation of the Sasquatch Experience. And here we are back to the
Sasquatch Experience live on Monday July. This is July eighth, right, two
thousand and twenty four. You know, it's been a while, and Vance
and I had an hour long production meeting before the show, so we're already,
yeah, a little geared up. Uh for tonight, Vancy. We
did order what was a case of fifteen w D forty's for Baker's chair.
I think, yeah, travel size. I got my own lube. Yeah,
well we could tell you where to put that. We got Henry May
joining us in the bottom square there. It's like Hollywood Squares but hex tagonal.
He's how are you doing, Henry? How are you Tony buddy?
It's oh, yeah, right, we did. It's hurricane weather. It's
hurricane Baker. Watch your sign language. We don't know what you're saying the
folks. And that you don't know what you're saying the folks, it could
be bad. Anyhow, guys, we've been busy lately, and uh,
of course this show about Monsterfest two. What a hell of an event.
I mean, I'm still exhausted from that trip. A lot happened. There
was a lot that I mean, between the travel and the fund that Bacon
I had, we only got to do one fifteen minute live stream. We
got to do the live panel, which is now available as of today for
our Patreon listeners, and in a month we'll put that out there for everyone
else. Give our patreons an exclusivity to that for just a little bit,
because they paid for you know, some of them as little as two dollars
a month and some of them much more. But we want to give them
the opportunity to enjoy that before it goes out to the masses. But that
was a bitch to put together. Let me tell you. It came to
me in three segments. It came to me unedited, It came to me
in a untypical file format that I had to convert, and I promised patreons
it was going to be on one day and I just Scott it done today.
So a week and a half later, I finally got it uploaded.
It's uploaded in three parts, raw and one part and a final edited.
You know what they say, better late than ever. No, No,
of course, we got to say hi to our good buddy Scott, who
is our latest Patreon Scott. We thank you for your support. And my
god, we've seen Scott at so many conferences this year. He's become one
of the crew. We love Scott and we thank him for his support,
and we thank him for just, you know, really being a good friend
to us here at Sasquatch Experience and being a friend on the road. And
of course our friend Mike, an tactical Mike who did a great presentation workshop
at Monsterfest two. And of course just another guy that's a hell of a
lot of fun to be around and a good conference traveling partner as well.
Go ahead, one hell of a bar conversationalist, how about it, you
know. And you know, that's the thing about these conferences, guys,
so much happens at the bar. It's not an alcohol induced rob that's not
what we're saying. But there's an awful lot to the conversation, and we
have some really good, really good conversation, and you know, there's people
that go to the hotel. There was a guy that we were talking to
with, Jeremiah from Bigfoot Society, we were talking with I think maybe Scott
was in the conversation, but Mike was part of the conversation and then I
managed Larry Baxter and I managed to walk our way over and have a conversation
with this guy that he just came up because he needed something to do,
and he sat down at the table and just start asking his questions like why
do you guys do this? Like what got you involved? I mean there
are some people that are into this, but why do you guys do this?
Put so much into it? And that kind of set the temperature for
the weekend. I think, don't you bake because what I found interesting and
I'll give you a moment to talk about this. This is the first conference
we had in a long time where we didn't have people wanting to come up
and share their story with us. They came up to talk about us.
Yeah, they were aware that we existed, which was weird because like,
no, I mean, like right, I know that we're not like like
what's the words, I'm looking for reality TV stars and that, But I
mean like a lot of the people that go to the conference, like I
ran into Lyle Blackburn, I ran into Ken Gerhart and they were like,
oh, hey, how's it go on, Baker, And I'm like,
you know who I am? You know, like I know, I know
you guys because we like wave and shit. But like they knew who I
was and they were like, I haven't seen you in a while. It's
been since blah blah blah conference, you know. And then you know,
we have conversations about little things like you know, how's it going. I
know, you know, how's your book going? Things like that and stuff
like that. But like a lot of the one thing I like about the
conferences are is that everybody is approaching if you're doing it correctly, you know,
you know what I mean. The difference between barging in while somebody's talking
and you just sit down and there three there are three stools over and they
wave and they know who you are. They they don't mind you joined into
the conversation, you know. But like we had, I had some really
good conversations the day before of it. After it, we stayed two extra
days because we just need that wind down day, you know. And it
was always we'd get down to the lobby and run into somebody and thirty minutes
would go by and you wouldn't notice, you know, right, And you
know, I think this year more than ever, we needed the the wind
down day. There was a lot going on, a tremendous vendors venue,
lots of new vendors, new folks. We got to meet our friends from
Miles Mysteries and Menus. They were great. Hope you guys follow us all
on social media because we did post some fun pictures. Baker's got a ton
of pictures and videos that he took from the event. But these folks they
go around and they go check out paranormal destinations and they try to find a
local food place to also talk about and discuss. And I said, well,
you know, funny, we kind of do the same thing for our
patreons. Matt and I have big rubbin that when we go out and do
our research or we go out on these travels, we also talk about a
place that we go and we eat, and we like these off to beat
places. They're not chain restaurants, these mom and pop, you know,
good places you can go. And so we introduced them as to George's,
Georgie's Lounge and downtown Canton, Ohio where you can really get one of the
best burgers on a you know. And when you guys shared that with me,
because unfortunately I was unable to participate and Sean, you said to me,
we're going to go get this pub burger. I'm like, I'm going
to spend the next three hours in my home to make the best pub burger
I can possibly make. And then when you guys are eating your pub burgers,
I was eating mine. Probably not nearly as good as what you guys
had, but it was pretty delicious, I'll give you that. Well,
it's and George's lunch is weird because outside it's like art everywhere, but inside
it's like that whole in the wall place that you almost feel you're going to
get bad bar foodw It looks like a vfw R. It's like we're close
to the stage. We needed a large we needed a larger booth slash table,
not for food, but for us, for you know, right,
you know. And it was one of those situations that it's a great place
to go in, but if you if you walked in and didn't know the
quality of the food, you'd be like, we're going to get the water
and then we'll leave it. Okay, you know, all right? Yeah,
Georgia, Hey Matt, there is our friend. Welcome buddy, Matt.
We're talking about George's lounge right now, because that's the most important thing
about Sad Squatch is George's lounge. Your Yeah, you know, I mean,
I do my research so, uh you know, I'll go through trip
Advisor, I go through Facebook, I'll Google reviews everything, and it's like
on the outside, it's a little hole in the wall. And uh,
you know, remember the first time we went there, we had the chain
smoking waitress. You know, the chips is what's out about the chips?
Yes? So uh so anyways, I figured this is a place to check
out, and I'm glad we did. Right. We were talking about our
friends from Miles, menus and mysteries that were right across the hall from us
there in the vendor room. And great people Lexi and I can't think of
her is her husband or partner's name? Ben, I don't. I hope
I got his name right, I remember Lexi anyhow, uh and just great
people, so many people we met. Matt. You were interviewed briefly for
another podcast while we were there. I was, I was, I have
the name of the podcast in my book. I don't have it with me.
It's like it was a fantastic group of people, and I told about
my experience in the el Yan National Forest, which is funny because they pull
us both both in and they want to hear our experiences in this The first
time, I just set back and let Matt do everything and I'm like,
check us out. That's watch experience. I got to do nothing. It
was wonderful. Then a really cool display too, like they had a little
diner set up with an alien and he got a little weird near the end
with the alien. I think he needed an adult. But that was,
you know, the other thing. And but a lot of these just I'll
tell you what if you if you go to a lot of these events,
it's the it's the atmosphere and the people selling stuff, and it's not always
buying things. Just look at some of the art that comes out of there.
Like every year I buy a postcard from and I send it to my
family from the hotel, and it's always neat to see it come back to
me. And the guy that does it, he's always got He's got like
a little Ranger Ranger uniform dust designs yea, and he makes such cool things
and like an animation more style than a realistic style. I have. I'd
probably say I have like ten twelve postcards at this point, I'm slowly adding
stickers to my fridge. Yeah, I mean so, I mean, you
know, the traveling part of it's, you know, Baker sending himself chochkeys
and no booze. You can't ship that. But you know, just the
overall event, getting to meet and hang out with Alex and Eli in person,
of course, is always a great experience. We got to meet Tyler
Hall, the new member of the Small Town Monsters team this weekend or that
weekend, of course, got to hang out with Seth and Courtney, and
I got to spend a lot of time in the morning as I usually do.
It's kind of almost a traditional Monster Fest catch up with Mark Madskin and
I where we get to sit stand there and you know, shoot the shit
for about an hour and a half two hours and we have had a great
conversation. And we got to get Mark back on the program. He was
just up in Prince Edward Island. Uh. You know, he and his
wife Sue have been traveling around. You know, we're both getting to be
in that empty nester stage in life, so we had a lot to talk
about and catch up on. But they don't make I think, a more
well rounded, uh philosophical presenter, right right, Yeah, I would agree,
consider even their son, uh and yeah, yeah, Andy and Mark
both those guys. I don't know. I can't say enough about them,
but if you really want to have a perspective about the whole subject, just
listen to some of the stuff that they talk about. And it's it'll bring
a new perspective and a new light on the whole subject matter of sasquatchery that
I greatly appreciate. And wow, there's there's three great people right there that
you could you know, listen to. And you know, like I said,
Mark will give his analogy and I think his analogy is very heartfelt and
it's something that you need to take into heart yourself in order to understand a
little bit more about the whole subject matter. Yeah, and integral to small
town Monsters, you know, they've been there from the beginning, Mark and
Mark and Andy's it feels it would feel not right in my opinion, to
be there without them, like at least they definitely need to be there same,
you know, the whole small Town Monster's crew. I've come to know
them, you know, understanding they're coming up on ten years and Mark and
I had a great conversation about that. But in the overall, you know
length of time, I've been there with them when they started Minerva, you
know, and helping to sell you know, just because you guys know me.
I love my friends and I will do whatever I can for them,
hawking their merchandise at their table and need to run to the bathroom or you
know, you put forker Baker at your merch table. Shit sells. We
can't sell our own stuff, but we can sell everybody else's. I don't
know everybody because we love it. It's it's a personal thing, you know.
We support our friends and of course, hey, look you joined into
the chat tonight. JR. Core are number one super fan. JR Is
only one that's going to have that official title. We all vote on weekend.
Uh yeah, we appreciate her. She was a great, uh motivational
force for us over the weekend. And again, like I said, I
don't know what happened. I kind of felt like we were all hit by
an energy vampire because we were going and going and going, and then it
was exhaustion, like it was a baker, Matt. Was it not a
day's work. It was work, Yeah, it was I mean, uh
and then with me, I had that drive home after. I mean,
you know, I didn't even want to all right. We had so many
good memories from Saturday, and I think that was the whole thing was you
know, it was positive and you know between Friday and Saturday. So uh,
you know, like I said that that does take uh, you know,
the good with does take your in. He's not my uncle's not paid
for that opinion, by the way. Yeah, sure, okay, and
the weekend was too short. But Matt, the great takeaway for me from
this event as I had you, Mike and Larry Baxter. So we have
this new group called Forker and the Squatch Cops. It sounds like a great
movie, but we literally had the three you know, active law enforcement gentlemen
there, and you know, it really had a great time for me.
It's a pleasure to be around to three of them when they're together, because
one, I love seeing them empathize and work with each other through things.
But me, I get to absorb it all. I get to take it
in. And my journey has been about learning how to do things better and
be more forensic and evidential collecting and I learned so much from Mike and Matt
and Larry it's just unreal. So I'm thankful to be able to be a
tag along on that group of three really professional gentlemen. Yeah, and I'm
grateful that, you know, you keep your mouth shut about all the nefarious
things I've done so that they don't come after me. Martin Groves was there
too, but we didn't get to interact with Martin besides a brief hello,
Matt and I really didn't get to see Martin Grobs. Nice gentleman, very
very kind man. Uh. And again, Jeremiah, we got to hang
out with Jeremiah from Bigfoot Society. Go check him out. He's always I
was just about to say, because, like I said, I came in
a little late. But yeah, Jeremiah, man, you know that guy
was everywhere, and like I said, just such a great person to talk
to. You know, just he amasses all this you know, all these
reports, all this infiration gets it out as podcast. But you know,
like I said, just an awesome, awesome guy. And uh, we
appreciate him hanging out with us, right, got the go ahead, Bakeer,
Larry Beans Baxter. I learned a lot of random stuff about Alaska.
No, you know, Baker has a paunch off for asking like random questions,
and uh that's what makes him, you know, a great integral part
of the team. And sometimes he just you know, we'll say what's on
his mind and you know, ask a thought there and it leads to some
great conversation. Yes, yes, another one. Amy Boo and the Project
Zoo Book people, we got to hang out with Monica and uh, Monica,
Mona and Amy great ladies. Love hanging out with them. Uh you
know Amy again. I I don't think we ever talk enough about the contributions
that women make in this research. And she's out there doing some phenomenal work,
boots on the ground, great educational presentation to these you know establishments,
putting together Project Zoo Book, really giving it a real scientific accreditation, you
know, and just a sweet lady. And of course you know she she
lost a couple of teeth because of some you know, things she had experienced
with her battle with medical issues. She was in great spirits about it,
like she made me laugh my ass off. She lost her tooth and she
was telling you, she's like you should see the other guy, you know
like that. Yeah, but you know what, Amy's going to be back
on the show again, so oh absolutely we'll catch up with her. Well.
I think if anything, Matt, I don't want to speak for you,
but I'll throw it to you, like it really reaffirms Matt and I's
commitment to doing the field work and being present and being boots on the ground
and people. I think that was one of the big takeaways that Matt and
I left folks with. And maybe it's because Matt put together this great little
poster behind me which was on my wall. Now it fell on the floor.
Mat, I gotta fix that. But I am but is that we
do boots on the ground research. You know, we're just not commentators.
We get out there and do the investigating in the research. And folks left
again Matt with that understanding. Yeah. And the one thing I tried to
you know, really kind of emphasize when we talk to people was like,
we have such a nice, you know, blend of you know, people
that contribute, you know, in you know, not just with this podcast,
but with collectively also you know, we do have you know, again,
the two of us do white to go out in the field. You
know, James is a skeptic. You know, Henry is that encyclopedia Vance
has that Midwestern you know, uh look at things. So and that's the
one thing you know that we tried to put out as well when we were
having new people come to the table, because we had people that never heard
our podcast before. And I said, listen, I said, we have
this. You know, it's collectively a group and we all contribute in in
in our different ways. And you know, like I said, my I
still have a video that I want to that I want to get, you
know, put out for the Patreon. But I am technologically not very savvy,
so uh you know, so I'm still kind of like you know,
hanging. I got to get that, get that out. But then you
know, like you were the brains with the with the technology. Uh,
like I said, James offers just the most you know, I I guess,
the most interesting viewpoint. Yeah, you know, and like I said,
you know, we all contribute in ol boy, we all contribute in
certain ways. So you know, I particularly like nature, so and I
try to keep up on you know, the science and of things, particularly
when it comes to like, you know, the Appalachian woodlands. So I
do try to be that you know person that I can look at the tracks
and you know, and say, okay, this is this is what we
have. You know, uh, this is going to be you know,
a raccoon, this is going to be a bear tract that's in lady,
you know, looking at the different pathways for tracking and such, trying to
look at food sources. That's where you know, I kind of fall into.
But like I said, with Sean, Sean had is that you know,
he's out in the field, but he also has that aptitude for the
technology as well. So, like I said, we blend very very well
and and we gotta get vans out here. You know, I'll be out
there. Oh I'll be out there. Brother, don't believe me. I'll
be out there. Isn't it probably Isn't that that out of a dry for
you? So no, it's not. And to be completely honest with you,
Matt, when I was seeing pictures that Sean was sending back from the
Monsterfest, I went through an entire box of tissues, wiping the tears from
my eyes, going I want to be there with you, guys. I
want to be there. It'll happen, you know, it will definitely happen.
I hope some of our friends that has spent time with Baker understood that
little subtle Baker moment that just happened. That was a work of art right
there, subtle And if you didn't, folks, you got to watch the
live stream over again, and just around that twenty sixth, twenty seven mark,
that little subtle Baker moment that just makes life worth living. But again,
you know, first and foremost, I think we have to thank Courtney
from small Town Monsters for really working her ass off and putting this event together.
The volunteers who helped make it happen. It was a lot of work,
and Courtney really, I think was ready to have exhaustion. We bitched
about being tired. I can only imagine how you know, tired she had
to have been through all this, you know, our just so much work
went into this amazing event. And every time I leave, I'm sad,
like leaving behind Canton on Monday mornings. Yeah, that's how it is,
because you don't get to have that, you know, that coming together,
the conferences all around all year, and I mean you know, in fact,
more and more of them we're popping up, is you know, all
over I'm sorry, if you pay twenty dollars to go listen to the same
Force speakers. It's not a conference as a cult, all right, So,
but there are actual conferences that go around and happen and happen, and
when you go to these events, the thing I appreciate the most is that
kind of like OBC, but at least in Canton, there's more to do.
You're in the hotel, the guests are at the hotel, the speakers
are at the hotel, there's mingling, there's socializing, and then you can
go transcend that and go into town and have a nice meal. You really
get to build friendships and relationships. And you know, I feel that's one
of the things we took away Matt with you know, both Mike and de
Larry was being able to really grow, you know, much stronger brotherhood and
then it really is a family. And of course, you know, you
know, I, you know, Seth and Crue, they have a special
place in my heart. I love these guys. I've got to watch them
grow and yeah, how about it, right, It's it's been a great
growth story and you know they're coming up on ten years. We have to
really analyze this and think that they're really responsible for the continuation and interest into
the cryptozoological and paranormal. Sure, and I think it all started with Whitehall,
No Minervava, I'm sorry, Yeah, I started with Minervam and my
favorite movies. Yeah, well those were those are my favorite to bake.
We're just laughing at Mike and Scott on Sundays. Nobody's there on Sundays.
Bake and I are there on Sunday. We're worth the price of admission to
hang out on Sunday. Yeah. But I've watched this group grow and change
and more and singularly may be responsible for this continuance of interest in the paranormal
and cryptozoological that we enjoy. This is an Ebb and flow business, right.
This is thirty years of this research for me and interest, right,
thirty years and I've watched it high and I've watched it low, and I've
watched it ebb and flow. And this has been the longest continual run of
interest. It's no, no, no, terrible. And you think about
that when we got into this, or when we were kids, we had
a couple episodes of Unsolved Mysteries, we had a couple episodes of in Search
of We had, you know, a documentary or two in the two thousands,
but we had nothing consistent until you know, Monster Quest came along.
Then Finding Bigfoot, and that was great for you know, you know,
the one offs and the Bigfoot. But Small Town Monsters has said it all
and they've kept it going now for ten years. It's twenty fourteen. I
really think they've helped keep the interest and there's been a lot of trying to
I feel replicated on a higher end TV scale level that abysmally fails because they
lack vision and they lack heart, all right, and those are things that
you get from our friends at Small Town Monsters. Vision and heart and guys,
I'm eligible. If you need to hire me for any kind of sales
pitch, I'll do it. Yes he is, Yes he is shamelessly self
promotion. But we got to do our live broadcast which will be available.
It is available to patreads as of today. What a great show. I
thought it was something different that we did. We talked, we went through
the narrative of the cow Man of Capola's Beach, taking some time to break
where we got to sit and talk about different and evidence trends and different behavioral
trends, and I think the audience was really into that. And we actually
have to think Brian Seech too for really being kind of our substitute Henry May
in the back of the room. We could refer he did like another man
with amazing recall. We were able to probe at at Brian when we had
a question and he was able to throw back to us. So it's really
made that special, right, you know what though. The other thing too
was having Larry on on our panel because of the fact that there was experiences
that he was able to describe to us from Area A that were similar to
what was going on or or what did or didn't happen at uh, you
know, with the with that particular incident. So having that perspective was that
was awesome, all right, And I got to talk to Mark a little
bit about that in the morning. It was also there at that at that
area, so it was also great to get a little bit more context on
that place. And if you take the time to listen, you know,
Booker makes a really good point on how to let's get the story yourself and
some of the key players. So if you want to do the research yourself,
you have the pieces, you know, So not just go by one
thing. I've always said, don't always go by what the popular opinion is.
Make sure you, you know, dive into what you want to learn
about, you know, because if you're the only one in the cult that
knows that doesn't know Latin, you're probably the guy getting knife. All right,
Well, and on that note, we're going to take a break for
our news segment and we come back, we'll dive into this a little bit
more. Yeah, so how about that carpe dim We'll be right back.
Seize the carpet. Redneck type like he was at my bird feeder, I
said, get Bigfoot. He shows up about twice a week, messed with
my feeters because I put peanut butter out with that bird seed. He's out
there licking on him. He likes smooth, not chunky. It hurts his
gums. They've never found one bigfoot, but they know what kind of peanut
butter Bigfoot likes. M peanut butter. I'm actually in the mood for peanut
butter. Now. It does go good with the redneck rivi era. You
know, you just smear a little bit around the rim and the glass,
kind of like salt to a margarita, and I shall name it the Bunghole
Whiskey. It'll be a new drink. I know it's a family show.
I get it anyway. Happy Monday Night to everybody. I'm glad everyone is
so far that I know of, has all their digits after this pass forth
of July fireworks, big bang. But we're here to talk about Bigfoot on
the Bigfoot bullorn right here on the Sasquatch experience. And there was earlier this
year in April, a flurry of activity that gripped Richmond County, North Carolina,
as reports emerge of a dramatic nighttime operation involving low flying aircraft tracking a
suspected Bigfoot sighting in the remote forest regions. Eyewitnesses report seeing a convoy of
military style aircraft swooping low over the tree tops in the dead of night.
Both thermal imaging and searchlights have allegedly been used to scour the rugged terrain for
signs of the elusive creature. Speculation runs rampant as residents exchange theories about the
purpose of the operation and the possible connection to recent Bigfoot sightings in the area.
I couldn't believe my eyes, exclaimed one resident who witnessed the spectacle from
his backyard. It was like something out of a movie. These aircraft are
flying so low it felt like they were practically brushing the tops of the trees.
Now there is speculation that recent control burns in the sand Hills game Lands
have been conducted to help flush Bigfoot from the deep woods. Local authorities remained
tight lipped about the nature of the operation, fueling rumors and speculation across the
community. However, sources close to the investigation hint at a coordinated effort by
multiple agencies to investigate the reported Bigfoot sightings and gather evidence to confirm the existence
of the legendary creature. Night skies still remain ablaze with the glow of searchlights
and the hum of air craft engines echoing through the forest. The hunt for
Bigfoot in Richmond County, North Carolina has taken on an intensity and urgency,
and has certainly captured the imagination of the entire region. When we come back,
we'll try to remember a time in September when grass was green and green
was yellow. You're listening to the big footballhorn right here on the Sasquatch Experience
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promises to be a memorable experience for all. You can contact the event organizer,
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that's PA Bigfoot Campingadventure dot com. Thanks again for listening to this edition of
the Bigfoot Bullhorn right here on the Sasquatch Experience and unless You're Dead until we
Meet again to you and Baker are kind of dark tonight, you know with
unless You're Dead. You know, if you're not speaking Latin, you're the
one getting a knife like wow. Brought to gloom folks. Sasquatch Experienced Sean
Worker Vance and has a James Baker, Matt Arner, Henry May has been
popping in and out of here, uh, but been talking about recapping Monsterfest
to Ryan Sprague, my friends a man. I finally got to meet a
fellow podcaster. Folks may know him from Somewhere in the Skies, the book
and the podcast. He's also got another pro wrestling podcast called Somewhere in the
Ring. Ryan and I had a great chance to talk and catch up like
we've known each other for years, but this is the first time we got
to be together in the same place at the same time, and he asked
me to be a part of the speaker lineup for his conference at the beginning
of September, which is virtual, and I think I'm going to take them
up on that offer. What will I talk about? I have no clue.
I'll figure it out as we get closer. Airy armpits right, you
know, Well that's it. Well, anyhow, I guess another since we're
talking in the same vein of PA camping weekend, we also have the Central
Pennsylvania Bigfoot encryptid Festival in Elysburg, Pennsylvania being sponsored by our good friends at
gott Knockers, So we want to make sure we turn people's attention to that
as well. Gotten Knockers dot org or Central Pa Bigfoot dot com. That
may be the email address. I should really look into these things before I
just start saying them out loud. But you know, I just want to
say something about the Central PA and then I have another another one about UH
about the Benner Springs UH camp out, but the Central PA Bigfoot UH Expo
that is literally like two miles away from Cannoble's Grove. If no one here
has ever heard of Cannoble Scrove, check out the videos on this place.
It is completely free to walk in. And yeah, I mean the food
there is. This is another one of our food thinks. The food there
is fantastic at Cannobles Grove. And it's one of these like old style amusement
parts. You go, you buy tickets. It's like, you know,
four tickets to to ride the roller coaster, two tickets to ride the train.
You know if you're yeah, oh, the ski lift too, So
come on out for the Central PA Bigfoot Expo and then after it's done,
head over to Canobles. Is freaking fantastic. So maybe I'll ride the roller
coasters with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The train's the best because
they take you out past the campground. They put the little corn feeders up
there for the deer and the squirrels. But anyways, I digress. Uh
going back to uh Eric Aleman. One of the best parts of the weekend
was having uh Eric Allman come to the you know, he came in and
he had the cast. I believe that they're calling it the Bedford cast now,
is that they finally named him. I think I think they're naming it,
and I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I thought it was the
Bedford cast. But uh, he was out there with that and we got
to spend some time with him, and uh that was fantastic. I mean,
he is uh you know, he is just such a great mentor h
for a lot of us, not just in Pennsylvania but throughout the country.
And and if you get a chance to, if you have some time in
September to come out to that camping adventure, I think that would be a
great event to go out too. I'll be out there at least one of
those days for the Bigfoot Camping Adventure. I will be at the Central PA
Bigfoot Festival. I'll I think, matter are you going to those as well?
I jumping out right, yeah, I'm definitely going to the Bigfoot the
Central PA Benner Springs. Unfortunately, I have something right now that's scheduled,
but I'm trying to kind of yeah, yeah, make it work, is
what he's trying to do. It's a Saturday. I should be well.
I think it's a good time. I was at the last one that they
had. It was me and the late, but Kwakowski went out and represented
Arcane Radio, the show we were running at the time, and had a
wonderful time with everybody again there Again, these events become so much more than
just a place to share and sell things. It's a place to gather and
be together and learn from one another and grow yourself as a researcher and your
network. When you were talking about the conferences too, you know, saying,
you see the same four, you know, maybe six speakers at you
know, all these different conferences Monsterfest. What they didn't have was you know,
people going up there, you know, you know, each person going
up there and doing their speech or their speel. What you had instead at
Monsterfest was you had someone like Mike Ann or you had somebody to Amy do
yes doing workshops, and that in itself, if there was conferences out there,
yeah, oh my god. Yeah. And and then you know,
being able to sit in the in the in the crowd and ask questions of
Mike or ask questions of Amy and have them show you how to how to
Amy did the casting of footprints, you know, being able to see that
and now you're taking something away from that conference or you know from that from
that event that you can use in the field, you know, as opposed
to somebody just you know, talking about their experiences and being on TV.
You know. So I mean, you know, like I said, the
Mic and Amy, you know, programs were fantastic. And then and then
on the other hand, you had the podcast room where where we did ours,
and there was a lot of podcasts that I'm not aware of. I'm
not that much of a podcast person other than us, you know, and
it really opened my eyes and I added a few more now to the collections.
So kudos to the STM crew for that. Yeah, they really died
everybody's strengths, and I think that's a good thing. You pointed out,
it wasn't just listening to lectures, it was being part of an experience and
really playing to the strengths of the people that were invited to be a part
of it. We weren't speaking on anything. We were doing a live podcasts.
You know, you had people doing what they were good at, entertaining
people in unique ways, and that itself was worth the price of admission.
And you know, again, great kudos to the organizers for that piece.
Baker, you're going to say something, go ahead. We had a nice
interview with Seth himself during the weekend, and we had a lot of nice
conversations with a lot of the speakers and even the vendors. And I'll tell
you what a lot of times these vendors go to so many other places we
can and the nice thing is kind of nice that like once a month or
once over a couple of months, we'll get to compare notes. You know,
how was this festival? What'd you get there? Who was there?
Things like that. So, I mean a lot of times when these festivals
you get going on a regular basis, you get to know people and you
pick up so much more information, you know, agreed, agreed. Will
there be a next one? I don't know. People have asked. I
think all of us that were in attendance are sure, hope there is.
We really want there to be another one. It was just a spectacular event
and words just escape me for the you know, the entire eclipsing, the
eclipse of the entire experience, it was just so hard to you know,
I just left with sadness that it was over. Really, it was its
disappointing considering over, you know, the Monsterfest one came back to Monster Fest
two. Why because of popular demand, and I think you know number three
will probably come back by here. It is popular demand. Well it it
can also kill people. So like it's a lot to put together, you
really bust your ass. No, I get it put together, and there'll
be enough people that'll say, man, I really enjoyed that. I learned
a lot, and it's I think it'll probably come back by popular demand.
Here. Well, here's to hope. And you know, one of the
other things we didn't talk about, as you know, mister Breedlove was there
Seth's dad, Ronnie, mister bu talking about their family history, which you
can go if you go to the Smoking Mountain Bigfoot conference here. And the
next I guess is it next this weekend or next weekend? I think it's
the end of the end of July. Is it the end of July.
It's one of these weekends anyhow they're promoting they're gonna be the debut of On
the Trail Bigfoot the Ancients, which is kind of a labor of love for
Seth. It's his longest movie he's done so far and really gets personal because
it's also as much about his family story as it is about the subject and
how it intertwines. And they had mister b there, you know, handing
out pamphlets talking about it, and you know, I can't wait to see
the documentary myself. I can't wait to see it put together here. You
know, mister Bee's just a great guy. You just being around him puts
a smile on your face, always a positive person, wants to shake your
hand, you know, offering a word or two, a kindness, and
it was just great to see him there working that table with his grandsons,
his family, and that element Ga diorama they had put together. You know,
I'm excited to see the fruits of the labor for that. I want
to see the Ancients. I'm waited for bated breath. Hopefully I get a
wink a preview copy so I can get it out there. There's just so
much to talk about. Our friends, the far Georgio's were there. Am
I missing anybody else? We really didn't get that to We talked, Oh
you have the hell did I not? For the first time. You know,
Paul Bartholomele. I've known Paul from you know, online for twenty years
or more, and this was the first time we got together to shake hands
and to have a conversation, to take a photo. You know you don't
take for granted folks. You know this is this is gonna sound a little
morbid in the moment, but you know, the folks that have been around
in this field for some time aren't going to be around forever. And if
you've built a relationship with somebody, make it to an event, Introduce yourself,
talk, get to build that relationship and make it better because the only
things you regret are the opportunities you don't take. And make sure you do.
I found Paul to be just a gentleman, a sweetheart of a man,
very you know, cordial. I just I enjoyed my conversations with him.
There's just so many folks that I know we're going to leave somebody out
and it's not intentional. Got to talk with Ken Gerhard and you know,
I said to Ken, how long does it take you to write a book?
He goes, if I'm really on about six months? I was like,
why they're working on one for ten years, so maybe you can,
you know, send some info my way. Oh and Jason Hewlett from the
Oga Pogo book, you know, the Cursed Waters. I got to meet
him and talk to him. Another sweetheart of a gentleman. And I'm looking
forward to building these relationships and talking with him more. Get out there,
folks, start absorbing this material. You're not going to regret. How about
Keating, Well, you know the big football dog himself was right next door.
Don was an attraction and he was a busy man. M h you
know Don is one of a kind. How about it, mister breed love
was just the best. Scott. We agree. You can't gotta love mister
b Oh. You know what one thing that we forgot about, and it
was James James thing. So you mentioned ken Gerhart and who but Lyle Blackbird
room in the same room. Hat. So James, please tell us of
that. I don't know if honor is the best word. But I had
my little I had my hat and it was it was my special needs ken
gearhard hat. It was not it was not. It was not a quality
of hats they have. I'm sure that their hats. Mine was. I
got it from the Dollar General. Mine was. You know, it's a
floppy hat, a floppy bucket hat. But it keeps it keeps my head
from burning, you know, And may take with me. We were inside
all weekend though there was no sun inside. It doesn't matter. Incandescent bulbs
can glow that day. Don't do that, you're going to shine and blind
a light. Well, speaking of a beacon light, it's about that time
to call it for the night. Just yeah, we're winding down. I
wanted to give I wanted to give some opportunity for final thoughts from Baker and
Matt, like I've given mind, just complet sadness that it's over. I
love the event. I can't give enough kudos to it. I can't talk
about it enough, but I uh, I'm just left with still an overwhelming
feeling of sadness. I think everything went smoothly, there were no hiccups.
I unfortunately missed the movie. I know that the movie is coming out soon.
It's more of a water creature og Pogo and I really enjoyed the you
know, South Courtney did their job, but so did everybody else from small
town of Monsters right, and they were very happy about it. I mean,
there wasn't anybody you know, stepping over anybody else. It was very
smooth. We didn't have any issues like we had the year before with with
people who you know, who didn't understand the concept. All to speak,
all the people who spoke were good, and they were nice and ones that
everybody was for none ale afterwards, like you could just come over and have
a conversation with any of them and they would talk to you. That was
part of the reason I loved Sunday the best, was because Sunday was they
were all waiting on their little bus to get back to the airport and they
were just chatting back and forth about variety of topics and did you see this
video? Did you see this video? You know, and a lot of
times like it's little things, you don't you don't. I remember those things
more than I remember the things directly from what the conversations were during the actual
conference, right, the presentations and whatnot. Mm hmm man. Any takeaways
from you, well, I mean probably, I mean, like I said,
you know, uh, with me and Mike and Larry there, Uh,
that was that was fantastic, you know, And I was going through
some rough times recently and you know, so that that was definitely a big
pick me up. But the one thing that I kind of took away from
it is, you know, I love owls from the hotel. No I'm
kidding now, but uh, you know, just my you know, my
need to get back out in the field, you know, like you know,
especially from talking to uh, you know, several other researchers and you
know ideas, uh you know, but really you know the best thing to
do is get those boots on the ground and and get out there in those
woods. So it really uh like when I left there on you know,
on Saturday night, like you know, if I wasn't as tired as I
was, I would have been out Sunday, you know, like out in
the out in our area, you know, just around. But yeah,
it's so you know, when you go to places like that, you get
that end, you know, yeah, your your energy gets out from you
know talk and then and you know getting set up and everything. But it
really revitalizes that energy to go out and do the research and be out in
the woods. And and again a bad day in the woods is better than
a good day at work. So yeah, I agree, how about that.
Yeah, and your your display was really nice and I listened to you
talk to some of the people ask questions, and you were really engaged and
informed on Hey this is what happened here, and this is what we think
and like no matter what they said, you had you had a coherent answer,
but you also had like a well I see where you're coming from,
but what do you think about this? And like the people are listening,
you know, you know, I think having having more like an interactive display
like that, I think is is a plus. And uh and I think
over the next you know, a couple of months, especially as we're getting
in the fall, I think, you know, there's going to be hopefully
more that we can add, you know, with you know, with us
going out there so right, I mean, I guess we have to also
give one shout out to Heather, Zach Jason, you know, the crew
at Small Town Monsters, alex Eli for putting on just a great show of
force, a great conference, folks. Thank you so much for everything that
you did to make it a great event for us to be a part of
and for everyone that attended. Thank you for supporting each and every one of
us. And we were proud sponsors of that event. We'll be proud sponsors
of the next event. And on that note, Vance, since Henry's not
here, why don't you give the opportunity to give those last words? As
I rolled that beautiful bean footage. Well, if you're watching this on YouTube,
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