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in for Bobo. Number seventy four. Matt Pruitt. What's up, dude?
Yeah, thank you very much. All right, So, yeah,
Bobo is not with us on the call. We don't know what happened to
him. We don't know where he is, we don't know if he's awake,
asleep. Dead. Rumor is that he's dead, but we deflate those
rumors almost weekly. I got more emails about that just last week actually.
But hey, I'm sorry about Bobo being dead because dude, he's not dead
anyway. So anyway, yeah, so instead of having Bobo on the line
with us live, unless he shows up in the next ten or twenty minutes
or an hour, We're just gonna interject little boboisms here and there throughout the
episode so you feel like he's there with us. But anyway, yeah,
Bobo's nowhere to be found right now. But this is Bigfoot and Beyond with
Cliff and usually Bobo and today Matt Preuitt. So anyway, Matt Prue,
how you doing, sir, I'm very good. Just got back from the
Path of Totality, where my wife's family is from, so I got to
see the eclipse, and I had told you off the air. Unfortunately,
the last time there was an eclipse in twenty seventeen, where I live here
in Middle Tennessee was right in the path of totality then, but I worked
for evil overlords that told us that we were needed on the phones. I
worked as a recruiter, and that if anyone went outside to watch the eclipse,
their position would be terminated. So we all missed it. And so
now that I've seen the glory of the eclipse, I feel like writing a
strongly worded letter to them to tell them that they deserve a place in eternal
damnation. Oh yeah, yeah, there are no words strong enough for that.
You know. I did not get a chance to see this one.
I had to work. There's a lot of reasons I couldn't travel this time
of year right now. But anyway, I saw the last one in twenty
seventeen, and actually I saw it with Bobo. If you were here,
you could tell us about it. So yeah, Bobo and I were there,
Tom Powell was there. I think the b LARTs were out. It
was great, man, it was so much fun and Melissa I just had
a blast. Tears came to my eyes. It was such a beautiful,
beautiful thing. I think the way I described to you what I saw,
Matt, was that the eclipse was easily one of the top three coolest things
I've ever seen in my life, and I have no idea what the other
two things might be. It was just absolutely amazing. So any scumbag employer,
and I don't I can't say that strong enough. Any scumbag employer that
would not let their employees step outside to check out one of the miracles of
existence, you deserve nothing better than eternal damnation. Oh, I totally agree.
You know, it's interesting too. I got a lot of emails and
you probably did as well, from people asking if we were planning to be
in the field to see if there are any reactions from sasquatches, And so
I just told people like, you know, since so many animals do seem
to react to it, that you'd have to assume that there's some degree of
continuity that perhaps sasquatches would react to it as well. But this time I
wanted to be with family instead of you know, sasquatches are not very good
family. They're very as I've said before, emotionally distant. They never return
call, They're never there when you need them. You know, I think
about them a lot more than they think about me, and so I didn't
feel inclined to enjoy the spectacle of nature amongst such terrible friends as the sasquatch.
Yeah, and honestly, at the end of the day, I mean,
Bigfoot is in everything. It's most things in my life. But it
is and everything, and as even nerds like us have to put it down
at some point and enjoy it. Just what's happening, you know, it's
like it's like these people go to concerts and would rather take pictures of the
band instead of listen to the music. It's like, what are you doing?
What are you doing? There's actually life going on right now. Maybe
you should pay attention to that instead, just for a minute. And I
kind of feel Bigfoot in some ways. It's kind of similar, like if
you're so obsessed that during any clips you're wondering, no, wonder how bigfoots
are, but you're kind of missing the point. Man, You're just missing
the point at that moment. So yeah, it's good to have balance.
Like I always have my devoted hours of the day to the subject, whether
that's reading, studying, working on this podcast, or other sasquatch related endeavors,
and then there's plenty of other things that I use to sort of like
turn my brain off of that. And without that balance, yeah, things
get You can easily get burnt out on the things, no matter how much
you love them, if they just occupy too much time or energy or something
like that. And again, because sasquatches are not very cooperative or rewarding critters,
I don't feel obligated to give them any more time than they deserve.
I suppose that's a good way to say it. Yeah, because you know,
that's one of the things that people coming into the subject who are fairly
new. And when I say new, I mean like five years or so.
I think that's fairly new at this moment. You know, at least
for me, it is. It can very easily throw your life out of
balance very quickly, and things can go awry. And this probably has something
to do with that. The legendary curse of Bigfoot or whatever. You know,
a lot of cultures in general, like native cultures or otherwise have like,
oh, you know, you see a Bigfoot, it's bad news as
a curse, or someone's gonna die this or that, you know, And
I think there's some truth. There's some truth to that. I mean,
it's not verbatim. No one's going to die, it's totally fine. But
things often come to those who maybe see a sasquatch will become interested in the
subject early on. It's early on because their life is out of balance,
you know. Like I know one guy who was a really good drummer.
Now this guy's a pretty good friend of mine, a really really good drummer.
He ended up seeing a sasquatch at one point, and then he completely
stopped drumming, and then he just was bigfooting all the time, whereas before
he was in like four or five bands. Now I think this gentleman's personality.
And again, I like this guy a lot. He's a good friend
of mine. This guy's personality is one that swings pretty widely. You know.
The pendulum goes really far one direction, then really far the other,
almost nothing but drums, and then all of a sudden, I saw a
sasquatch. So I'm doing nothing but bigfoot. There is so much room in
between. There's plenty of time for drums and bigfoot metaphorically speaking, and the
bigfoot subjects somehow captures people and just brings brings that out. It's like,
I'm gonna just do this. I'm there's nothing I'd rather do the be in
the field. There's this, only this, only this, only this,
you know, And you look at the carcasses along the side of the road
behind these people, you know, and you see a lot of things,
like you know, jobs and marriages and friendships and relationships in general just just
thrown aside because of obsession or lack of balance, you know, and myself
included I've gone through that, Absolutely have I gone through that. But I'm
also thirty years deep into the subject at this point where I've learned a few
things from my time, and I can say that with complete confidence that balance
is probably more important than bigfoot A thousand percent. I would agree with that,
and I've experienced that too, And I tried to include a section in
the book, especially the last chapter, is sort of an optimistic call to
action maybe or at least some general guidelines about what I think is the proper
way to move forward. And the first thing that I lay out is you
have to realistically define your expectations. And I think that's where a lot of
people go astray and get burnt out very quickly and experience a lot of headache
and heartache because so many people start out with the expectation like, oh,
I'm going to either prove this to the world or I'm going to be a
part of this community that proves it to the world. It's like, well,
you know, if you're setting that goal for yourself, you've got a
really, really hard road ahead that no one has been able to navigate for
seventy years of this pursuit. And so for the people that want to just
prove it to themselves, it's like they're going to have the most fun because
they get to be the arbiters of what constitutes proof. You know, if
they choose to interpret a divot in the ground or a bump in the night
as absolute proof that the Sasquatch exists to themselves, well great, you know
they've set the standard and they've met it, and they can move on or
continue to do so. The second you want to prove it to other people,
well, now you're playing by their standards, because maybe the person that
you're trying to demonstrate something who doesn't accept divots in the ground or bumps in
the night, And so if you expect them to see the same value in
these sorts of experiences that you see, well you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
And then if you want to prove it to the world, while we
have to look to these institutions that we sort of designate to arrive at truth,
and now you've got to play by their standards, which are much much
higher than any given individuals for the most part. And so I think that's
where a lot of people get frustrated with the subject is that what constitutes proof
to them hardly does to another person. And of course, who do we
spend the most time with, while it's our friends, our peers, our
colleagues, our loved ones, and so it can be really deflating to those
people if they're going to the people most proximal, the most immediate in their
lives to say, look at this proof that I found, and they're saying,
hey, I'm sorry, I don't see what you're seeing in that.
That's not proof at all to me. And then people become bitter and resentful
and angry or disappointed. And it's a tough gig for sure. Yeah.
I don't know about anybody else. I don't even really know about me sometimes,
but it seems to me that my I don't have a goal. People
ask me that, and you know, it's kind of frustrating. Even last
night, I was cleaning up my desktop on my computer and going through this
and putting this PDF and this file and you know, doing that kind of
stuff, you know, housekeeping on my computer just literally last night, and
I ran across it's a digital version of a magazine that I was interviewed for
a number of years ago, and then I said, I remember this.
I never did read this, you know, so I kind of glanced because
again, I don't watch the things I'm in the TV shows and what.
I don't read the articles that are written about me for the most part,
just because you know, I already know what I said, and I don't
want to see how the interviewer screwed it up, because generally speaking, it's
not quite the what I not quite what I intended it to say, but
but I have I just kind of glanced this one over and right there at
the beginning, it was like, you know, I I it said,
it cast me as a person who is intent on proving the species, and
I'm just not. I'm just not. I know they're real. I'm totally
I'm completely convinced they're real. I mean, I'm going to call that.
I know they're real. I've had lots and lots of they things happening.
I Mean, my sighting wasn't the best in the world, but I think
it was one. I could be wrong, I mean, I'm open to
that, but I'm pretty confident it was one even nowadays. You know,
this last week, I went to a location out in the woods that nobody
knew I was going to be there. I wasn't even sure I was going
to be walking that road and I found footprints. You know, that says
a lot to me, you know. I mean, I'm completely convinced these
things are real. Why do I need to prove it to somebody? I
don't care what other people think, you know. I mean, so people
ask me like why am I doing this? You know? And I can
always come up with reasons that I guess, but there is no driving reason
because despite what culture says I should do, or should be or should have,
I don't really have goals. I'm not a goal driven individual, you
know. I don't try to reach this pinnacle, this point, this skill
level, this whatever. I do things because I enjoy them, you know,
just like going for a walk. If I leave the house to go
for a walk, it's not to get somewhere because it turns out I always
come back home. It's actually just to go out and experience the thing itself,
the actual walk, And I view Bigfoot and playing guitar and most things
that way. But anyway, so yeah, this goal thing has always kind
of eluded me. I just don't really adhere to that mindset, so I'm
not out there trying to prove it, despite what that magazine article said said
about me, which I guess is a danger of being a public figure because
you're constantly mischaracterized. Yeah, well, you've got to play a certain role.
You know. They want to interview a character, and so they're going
to fit you into that character role, whether whether you fit into it naturally
or not. But you know, I think we all have goals that are
hopefully reasonable and attainable, even if we put them just out of reachion,
even if that goal is just like I'm going to go out in the field
and see what I can see. And goals are a little bit different than
expectations, I would say. If you're saying, like I expect to go
out and find evidence, that's a pretty tough proposition. Let alone, I'm
going to go out and acquire proof for the world. And so you know,
I certainly have goals, but I think they're as realistic as I can
make them, and certainly some are loftier than others, Like I would love
to have the experience of seeing one. I was in communication with the gentleman
who read the book and had an interest in starting a dialogue and we're sort
of talking through some of the points, and you know, he leans more
that the psychological hypothesis is the more likely, and obviously I'm arguing that I
think the biological hypothesis is simpler and therefore more likely. But you know,
I do agree that there's a psychological phenomenon occurring, whether or not there's a
biological route at the base of it. But I had brought up, you
know, of all these years of wishing to see one and hoping and mentally
preparing myself, like I've never had that experience, and not only that,
but I've never even had one in my dreams, Like I've never even had
a a sighting of a sasquatch and a dream that I can recall. And
so that's why I kind of giggle a little bit when certain skeptics or cynics
would say that, oh, well, the sasquatch is just a wish fulfillment,
it's just a desire people see what they want to see. And I
always joke like, well, if that were true, I would have seen
one hundred of them by now. So if it is simply a psychological phenomenon,
whatever portion of the human psyche produces such images, I must not have
it, And I said that could either be a blessing or a bummer.
I suppose, And what I meant by that, it's like, it's still
a matter of faith for me that people do have these experiences, because I've
interviewed many people, many of whom are great friends, who claim to have
seen a sasquatch in broad daylight, unobstructed and I believe them. And could
I be wrong, well, sure, but I do believe that they've authentically
had that experience. But it's still an act of faith because I can't say
that I know that such experiences occur because it's never happened to me. But
I do think those are authentic experiences. I think that the most likely source
is something exogenous to the observer and not something indogenous and strictly internal. So
I would say, of all the big goals, that's the big goal that
is totally out of my reach, is like I would love to see when
maybe that never happens. But the more proximal goals like oh, well,
I'm going to get out in the field for four days. I'm going to
explore, I'm going to see what's there to be seen. Maybe I'll have
some interesting wildlife encounters. Maybe I'll find something really cool or historic or interesting.
Like the last time I was out in North Georgia a couple of weeks
ago, found a really cool old homestead, like the remnants of a foundation
and a chimney all stone and a really remote drainage, And so I love
finding things like that, and those are like little mini goals. Well,
I accomplished something. I found something cool, and you know, do a
lot of searching online and I don't see that anyone else ever found this,
or if they did, they didn't post pictures of it on the internet.
And so goals and expectations should definitely be put in their proper place, you
know. Yeah, that's it sounds like you're describing like capital G goals and
little G goals. Yeah, because little G goals are I mean, I
guess, I guess I do have some of those, but I don't think
of them as goals. I think I think of them as like, uh,
that would be cool, you know, and that's really about it,
you know, like I'd like to see one that would be cool, but
that's not really the goal. I mean, that's not what I'm doing here.
You know, I'm just I'm just enjoying it. Stay tuned for more
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Yeah, And I'm sure you get a lot of people reaching out to ask
for advice, and you know that's that's usually the response that I give is
to find your expectations and you know, try to conduct yourself accordingly to those
expectations and do your best to make them realistic expectations. I think when most
people reach out for advice, they want to know, like what audio recorder
do you recommend, or where specifically should I go? And I think,
no, there's something else that undergirds all that that needs to be grasped first.
And once you grasp that, then you can move on to the next
stages of making purchases or you know, going wheels up and putting boots on
the ground in places. But if you have a strong foundation and what it
is that you actually hope will happen, that you expect will happen, that
you would like to happen or like to achieve, then everything else can be
very enjoyable. But like you said, I've seen it really consume a lot
of people and destroy relationships from professional relationships to friendships to marriages, you know,
and it can be really sad. But I'm sure the same is true
and a great many other endeavors. It's just that this one is so much
harder for the average person to sign on to because a lot of it is
experience dependent. We've had our own experiences, and so that certainly fuels and
informs a lot of our desire to move forward. You know, if you
had never found a track, if you had never heard a sound, you
know, it would probably be a lot more difficult to find the motivation time
and time again. But expect to describe that sound to another person to have
them go, hey, I'm totally on board. Like that's just not going
to happen in most cases. And so I think that's where people get so
frustrated, is that they want the values that they see in the subject to
be immediately conferred to another person and that another person will see it, and
it's just not the way our interests work or the way that our brains are
wired. And so getting that firm foundational grasp is really a necessary step if
someone wants to have any longevity because I cannot tell you, and you probably
ten times more than me. I cannot tell you how many people I've encountered
since two thousand and seven, let's say, when I started speaking publicly about
it and being involved with BFRO expeditions that were brand new to the subject,
just total neophytes who had like the temerity, like this abundance of confidence to
say, oh, I'm going to get this thing figured out in a year.
And ninety nine point nine percent of those people I have never heard from
again. I've never seen their names anywhere. They just completely engaged. It's
like they were so certain that they could take down this foe, so to
speak, they could slay this proverbial dragon. And I think they realized pretty
quickly how difficult it is. And they don't even back off. They just
walk away completely. You know. Yeah, when people ask me advice,
I always got to know where what angle they're coming from. But my first
advice is basically rewording what you said. It is like, go for a
different reason. Go to the woods for a different reason than encountering a bigfoot,
because you know, if you go for another reason like camping or fishing
or mushroom hunting or hiking, you'll come back successful nearly one hundred percent of
the time. If you go for Bigfoot, you will come back unsuccessful nearly
one hundred percent of the time. Then they they kind of laugh, and
I go, well, oh, wait a minute, hold on, hate
to interrupt this conversation, Hey bobs, what's happening? Man? I just
got all of Texas eighteen Texas some different people last couple of days. I
didn't know about the pot waiting to hear something. Anyways, I'm on the
bridge, all right now, all right, well, give me a call
when you're back on your computer. Okay, Well, actually the link has
already been sent. Go ahead and click it and join us. All right,
talk to you soon. But well that's good news. Oh bobo,
oh bobo. You know, oh bobo is a palindrome as long as you
don't as long as you don't spell oh h Anyway, what we were going
to say, I was going to say along those lines of giving advice because
there are so many new people. Do you remember when you were new,
Like, is there any advice that stuck out with you that still holds true
to this day that you're grateful you received in those early days? You know
what. The earliest days I was alone because you know, I'm, as
most of our listeners know, I'm a pretty like you know, crippling introvert.
In a lot of a lot of ways, I'm a professional extrovert.
I'm good at what I do. But you know, I really did this
alone from two thousand, I'm sorry, from nineteen ninety three or four up
until about two thousand and two thousand and one. That was my first branching
out into the Bigfoot land. So I was doing it for six or seven
years alone. So I didn't have a lot of advice. It's just kind
of fumbling in the dark. But when I did finally get to a certain
point, probably what's stuck with me more than anything is advice or modeling.
I guess by Kathy's train and Tommy Amarone basically of documentation about the evidence is
very, very important because I went on a little field trip I guess with
Kathy and Bob and Mantra and all sorts of people were there. That's where
I met. I already knew Tommy Amarone. He was there and a bunch
of good people were there, and it was a weekend workshop of documentation of
evidence and I think that that obviously, I mean, if you know who
I am as a bigfooter, I think that obviously left an indelible impression upon
me. That evidence is really really important. When you combine that early influence
with my general introversion and you know, and low tolerance for extended social interactions,
you can see why I don't put a lot of emphasis on siting reports,
but I really put a lot on physical evidence. So I don't know
if that counts as advice or not, you know, but it's certainly influenced
who I am today, you know. And that was twenty something years ago,
twenty five years or twenty three twenty five years ago or something. So
yeah, those early influences certainly talent, I suppose. Yeah, I would
agree with that. The first minds that I communicated with were in book form
on the subject, you know, because I was alone for those early years
too, and so I think there was a lot to be gleaned from that.
But I got very lucky that I met people early on when I did
start interacting with other people who were kind and friendly and reasonable and not jumping
to conclusions and not everything was a sasquatch, And so I look back,
and I'm like, that's kind of winning the lottery in a lot of ways,
because it could have easily gone another direction. And so having a sort
of a firm series of interactions with those people before I started meeting other people
who were a little more loose with their standards of evidence straight on to people
who were just completely outlandish or just total liars and hoaxers. I'm glad that
I met the right people first, and a lot of those people are still
my friends to this day, thankfully. But yeah, I guess, yeah,
the models for emulation are just as important as any words, you know,
any like axioms, or aphorisms or adages that you might encounter. But
some of those are helpful. But there's also the case that you can tell
a young person anything and it just goes in one to ear it out the
other. Like that certainly would have happened with me, as I would have
probably not taken as much of the advice as I should have. Yeah,
young people, you know, I was young once too, couldn't tell me
anything. Yeah, but you know, one of the other pieces of advice
that I give because I know what they're asking, you know, when they
say what advice do you have like for it? Want to get out there
and do field research. And they're out they're asking what you mentioned earlier,
you know, what kind of gear or something like that. So I always
sideswipe him with the go for other reasons and you would say, you know,
temper your expectations. But realistically, one of the first pieces of advice
that I give is look where they've been seen before. I mean, it's
as simple as that. Look where they've been seen before, and look for
clusters of reports. And you know what really drove that home is when I
was on Finding Bigfoot, you know, because finding Bigfoot was an incredible,
incredible education in bigfoot and big footing and all sorts of stuff, and a
lot of amazing lessons came out of that. But money Maker would if there
was a report from an area where we happened to be that week, if
there was a report from say a campground or something like that that he liked,
he trusted it, Maybe he trusted the investigator, maybe he spoke to
the witness like something in flats And of course, if you don't know,
FLATS is the behind the scenes BFRO database of citing reports. If there was
something in flats that that really tickled his brain for some good way. He
would go to that same campground and camp in that same camp site, and
he would get activity a significant percentage of the time, you know, like
twenty thirty percent of the time or more by doing the exact same things and
the exact same places as previous witnesses did. And I think and that really
drilled at home. I figured, you know, at the time, it's
like, yeah, animals or are creatures a habit? You know, you
go to the same place where they were at a certain time, maybe there's
a resource there. But he would do like the exact same camp site and
he would get good results a significant percentage at the time. And that really
started drilling at home. And now, of course nowadays, as I talk
about all the time on the podcast, you know, we're finding footprints within
ten feet of where we has them before. So that has really been solidified
in my psyche. So just finding local reports where there's a cluster of reports
like maybe two to three four reports or so within five miles, that tells
you all you need to know. Go there. Yeah, simply being there
in the right environment is a huge step in the process. And I do
think because I felt it myself when I was young, and I encounter it
with people now that people sort of assume that, well, there's a goal
and so therefore there's a path, and so if you take the right steps
in the right order along the path, you'll hit the goal. And so
people will say, like what should I do? Like do you knock once
or do you knock twice? Do you knock once and wait five minutes?
Do you knock three times, wait twenty minutes, as if you know there's
some secret code or some combination of actions you can take that will result in
Oh, one will definitely show up if you do these things in this specific
sequence. And it just doesn't work that way, and it can get deflating
for people because there's really nothing better that you can do than be in the
environment and keep your eyes in, the ears open, and be prepared if
you have a camera or whatever the case may be. And it feels like
inactivity. Oh, you're telling me I should just go camping and sit out
there. That's not very active, it's not very involved. And I suffer
from that too, because I'm a pretty kinetic person, so I usually have
a hard time sitting still, and I want to explore and walk around and
see what's to be seen. But I do know that, like no,
the best thing you could do is just be in the right habitat and be
still and quiet and very very observant, pay attention, pay close attention.
But it's just not as romantic as the notion of trying to establish communication or
you know, mimicking them, emulating them using some secret code that they'll fall
for every time. And so I get that part of it, but I
think a lot of times that's what people are looking for, is what things
should they do that would be surefire ways to summon them in. You know,
like Daryl always says, you know, there is no panacea, there
is no magic bullet, and you know, you just get lucky. And
the only way, you know, in a right place, right time equation.
You try to be in the right place for as much time as you
can, and maybe you'll get lucky, and that's really the best you can
do. Oh yeah, I totally agree with that. I've been interacting with
this one gentleman who wants to throw money at the and there's and I keep
telling them there's really no place to put that money. You're just wasting it,
you know. I mean, you could send somebody out with twenty bucks
and get the same result as twenty thousand if he's if that person's in the
right place at the right time. That's what it comes down to. It's
not a money thing, you know. And of course people with a lot
of money aren't used to hearing that that your money is no good here.
That doesn't help in any way. It's just a matter of luck and perseverance.
That's that's really it. So these people don't like to hear that because
people with money think that money can solve anything. And for a lot of
things, yeah, it can solve things like debt. It can solve things
like I need a vehicle or something like that. But for the most part,
with bigfoot, you know, if you're out there, but you know,
boots on the ground, you're suddenly your money is no good. You
know, your money's not good for anything at all when you're walking on a
trail. So it can make you a lot more comfortable and well fed while
you're sitting waiting for something to happen and nothing happens exactly. It can help
you pass that time more quickly, but Yeah, that's what I think.
That's one of the things I like about the woods. It's like when you're
out there, you're off trail, your bottom of some river, river valley
somewhere, you're you know, you're going over logs and stuff like that.
Suddenly you know your bank account has absolutely no bearing on anything whatsoever, nor
does the type of car you drive or how you dress, except for you
know, you might be cold or warm. That's really about it. It's
a great equalizer. Certainly agree with that. Yeah, anyway, so I
thought these conversations I've been having a couple couple different people with who Someboddy tucked
away. I find them enjoyable because I think I'm correct in this. I
know that Bobo took a disagreed a few weeks ago or a month or so
ago when we were talking about the same thing. He thinks that gear and
whatever else will solve it. But gear can't put you close to one.
You know, if you're at the right place at the right time, then
maybe your fancy pants gear will help, but maybe not, because you only
get a couple of seconds worth of observation to make it happen. So stay
tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo. We'll be right back
after these messages. Oh, speak of the Devil himself, Bobes, can
you hear us? Yeah? I got you? Hey, Bobo? How
you doing? Man? All right? Sorry that dude. I was driving.
I was pulling up to the stoplight to go over the bridge, and
all of a sudden, my phone just went So I just started. Message
after message after message came through. I tried to call on Prus. I
wouldn't even dial out. Earlier I was trying. I was going, I'll
thought we'd do something booked by now, and then I was like, oh,
I haven't heard anything. So I took off and I just got back.
Should we should we put the screen grab of when you agreed to do
this podcast up on the members section What's up? A couple of days ago.
It looks like on at ten oh five am on Monday, you said
that we were gonna you were okay to do this podcast? Uh? Well,
the last one I saw said two there Wednesday's best for us. That
I'm wide open then anything else okay. Yeah, though the one right after
that, I guess it says, okay, let's do Wednesday. It doesn't
matter. We're here now. Well, Boba, now that you're here,
we were planning on doing a Q and A at this moment, but Matt
and I are just kind of shooting the poop about various topics and subjects,
et cetera. But since you're here, we have time for a couple of
the submissions. We're gonna save the voicemails for next time, So we're gonna
go straight to the written submissions this time and see how many of those we
can get through for this month, and then we'll head over to the Patreon
section, the member section, uh to answer all of those questions? Sound
good? Yeah, okay, it's tough to be the Bobes. Also,
you don't get this on any other podcasts. This is gold. Everybody loves
this about you, not me. I kind of have a love hate relationship
with it myself, honestly. But all right, well, anyway, let's
go on. Let's take the first question for our Q and A this week.
This one comes from Brandon cowboc Hey. Guys, Patty's height was calculated
by comparing known casts of her foot to the PG film. Are there any
other examples of this? And if so, what height did they determine the
animal to be? Ooh, I know this one. Take it, yeah,
the Freeman footage, now do you take it close? Well, now,
this was not done with the Framan footage, because we don't. The
Patterson Giblin film, to my knowledge, is the only piece of bigfoot footage
that we have that we can see the entirety of the underside of the foot,
the entire planter surface is called, and you need that in order to
make a determination using the casts. And of course that is rife with error,
by the way, just because of the fuzzy outline of the foot.
And it's not because the film is fuzzy and out of focus. It's because
of the granular size of the footage itself, of the individual frames. So
there's at least a half inch variability half inch margin of error on the side
of each of those footprints, or on the side of each of the pictures
of the feet. And you know that stacks up, say six times well
six times one half. I mean that that kind of adds up pretty quick,
man. So we're talking a pretty big air on either side of the
foot. That adds like maybe six inches or subtraxi. So we don't know
exactly how big Patty is. We do have a range, though. The
range I think it's this point can safely be said between six and seven feet.
I like just to say six and a half feet because with that plus
or minus six inches there it adds up. Now somebody's out there saying,
well, clip six times one half is three. Yeah, but there's two
sides of the foot, right, so don't forget about that. Don't forget
about that. So the give or takes six inches there. So I say
six and a half feet tall because that seems pretty safe. Now the model
we have in the NABC, because we have a full size picture of Patty
with the cast placed right next to her foot to show that they are pretty
much the same size. When we did it here at the museum, she
only clocked out be like a like right at six feet if I remember right
now. Of course, that's very conservative. It's probably the smallest that she
is reasonably construed to be. But at the same time, the point of
that exhibit here in the NABC is how massive she is. She's not very
tall, but she's you know, thirty one in shoulders or something like that.
She is absolutely she is a barrel walking on two legs. She is
absolutely huge, even at the smallest expected height of the animal. But to
my knowledge, to get back to Brandon's question, there are no other examples
of footage that we can do this with. Well, probably the closest would
be the Freeman though. I mean, like, you know, seeing the
subject and the footprints right there. Yeah, but you can't use the footprints
to measure the height of the figure, right, No, that's true.
Did it come in close to being Patty's size your estimations? Right? Yeah,
Yeah, the work I've done at the site of she's probably about six
six and a half feet tall, that thing, that the Freeman's thing,
the Freeman figure. But you know, we also don't even have measurements of
the footprints in the ground. Paul didn't put a tape measure down in front.
Also, they're measuring no, no, no, no, Paul just
filmed them and kept going. But we do have two casts from that footage
site though, Paul cast one. Actually, Paul and West Summerlind both cast,
and most people don't know. West cast one of those things, but
not the same day. Paul and Wes came back the next day, on
the twenty first, of August nineteen ninety two. I'm gonna say that again.
By the way, I've seen once again, there's this a whole rash
of misreporting the date of the Freeman film as nineteen ninety four. That is,
that is not correct. Some bloggers are out there putting it out there.
I saw it on Twitter last week. I kind of held myself back
from correcting it. But it's nineteen ninety two. Everybody thinks it's nineteen ninety
four because Doug Hichek made that mistake in Sasquatch Legend Meat Science. He put
that out there as nineteen ninety four. It's nineteen ninety two. August twentieth
is when they filmed it. But anyway, Paul and West came back on
the twenty first with a local TV station camera crew and they cast footprints at
the site. There's actually photographs of Paul casting these footprints, and we have
that cast, and then there's a much lesser known cast in the Summerland collection
taken at that same time in same place. I wish they would have cast
another ten. They should have cast another ten. In my opinion, I
would have, but you know me, I'm a little obsessive about those things.
But anyway, we do have those, but are they the same animal?
Almost almost for sure ninety nine percent, But there's always that margin erring.
You know, we did not see we did not get a footprint cast
from where that animal was seen walking, So there's always that was it was
there two cents of tracks there too, right, No, there's only one,
just one, although Paul did say, oh, I guess there's two
of them now. He said that, And I've had long discussions with Michael
Freeman about this. We don't know why you said that that. There's a
couple possible explanations. Okay, maybe he heard two of them at the same
time. Maybe that's true. We don't really know, can't tell him.
The footage now, my recreations at the site indicate that Paul almost certainly lost
sight of the thing because when the thing walks in front of the trees over
to the left, you know, it pauses behind the trees and looks at
Paul and goes over to the left. There's a cut in the camera by
the time Paul gets up there. Again. We don't know how long,
how much times happened there. We have no idea, there's no way to
know that when Paul gets up there to where the animal actually walked across the
road, he's looking in the wrong direction from where the animal went. He's
looking back a little bit further by that big stump. He's not even looking
in the right direction. And then he eventually finds the animal walking away where
the possible baby lift happens and all that other stuff. Right, So,
I think Paul lost sight of the thing and thought there might have been two
of them there. But also Michael tells me that when he saw the animal,
and of course there's some discrepancy in a story too. I think Michael
and I have talked about this, and we think that he kind of chickened
out. And for such a big dude, he was like six foot four,
two hundred and eighty pounds, he was a big, big dude who
wasn't afraid of anything. You know. His initial report had something like the
sasquatch was being aggressive at him, like charged at him or ran at him
or did something like that. And we don't know if that's the case for
he's cover and for his he kind of chickened out, honestly, is what
happened. We don't really know what the thing was, Yeah, because I
saw footage. I saw some footage that way back when the right after that
happened, like right around the time it happened ninety two. That was supposedly
I think it was, Yeah, ray Crow had it. I think it
was ray Crow had it. It must have been some kind of fake or
something. Maybe it was a gorilla from Africa footage. But it was like
some giant black thing in the brush comes charging a guy tearing it up and
he falls down and goes, oh, you know, it starts like kind
of crying. You're like going, oh no, Like it looked real.
It sounded real. I mean it was pretty intense and I've never seen it
since. But we talked to Michael Freeman. He said, no, that
was definitely not his father. Yeah, there's I don't, I don't.
I'm not aware of any footage, and I'm pretty aware of the Freeman stuff
at this point. It would have came out by how Yeah, there's there's
the first Freeman footage. Freeman got footage. I believed the previous April.
I have to check the date, but I think it was previous April,
not that far away. And then he got the stuff at d Duck Springs
in August, so he did get two pieces of footage. But that first
piece of footage really doesn't show very much. It's with the same camera or
the same kind of camera. Certainly I think I think it was the same
camera. I could be wrong about that, but it really doesn't show very
much. There's a couple of footprints in the ground, and really that's about
it. That the second one is really stellar compared to the first one.
But yeah, but anyway, when the thing, Paul reports seeing the thing,
and Michael says that he remembers his dad talking about a weird hump on
its back, almost like it was miss miss mouth shaping, you know,
of some sort. And now we're kind of wondering, well, maybe that
was a baby, you know, if the thing is picking up a juvenile,
maybe that that's what Paul saw, and maybe that's what he meant by
there's two of them, but we don't We just don't know. But the
footprints at the site that are on camera, the stuff that we can take
to the bank, the stuff that's actually on camera seemed to be a known
individual, and that same individual is represented in the footprints that Paul and Wes
cast the next day. So that's what that's what we can take. That's
what we know. We'll take that to the bank. That that seems to
be the same animal that left the Prince and the fine Duff, which is
almost certainly the same animal that Paul filmed. But we digress from Brandon's question.
Sorry, it's all right, that's what I think they listen. I
think a lot of people listen to this podcast in order to hear us digress.
This is a question that comes in a lot, and I know it's
been addressed before, but it's been a long time since either of you have
addressed it. So this would be good for newer listeners and fans of the
show. From Steve Lancaster, when you were getting activity in an area on
finding Bigfoot, why did you guys go to another location? Because we had
to book everything in advance, and you had to have film permits for certain
days, and because you can't just show up and like get eighteen hotel rooms
and six SUVs in some small podunk, little regional airport like we're usually be
based out of somewhere like that, and it's just logistics. So it's strictly
logistics because we were We couldn't believe it at first. We were like,
we got in here, let's go, well, let's go get them right
now while we leave them. But yeah, it's it sounds it sounds like
stupid, but it's reality is you had to do it that way if you're
going to be on the road. Yeah, every one of the episodes that
we filmed what was being planned to some degree for at least three months before
we put boots on the ground. They generally tried to get together a day
by day schedule. But after the first season of Finding Bigfoot was done,
and you know, we kind of you know, got things going in the
Bigfoot direction as opposed to just making television, which is kind of what they
were expecting, I think for a long time. You know, once they
started seeing and we both both parties, the Bigfooters and the TV production company,
once both parties started seeing what the other one needed, they became much
more flexible with us, and we really appreciate it. You know. Of
course, you know, we still butted heads and stuff like that, but
I think that we made a great show because of that, because the production
company was willing to set aside what they normally do to make television and be
a little bit more flexible. But generally speaking, things are planned out day
by day. You have a certain number of days to be there, and
there's a ton of money writing on that episode. I mean, I don't
know how much they cost, but several I think it's safe to say that
each episode probably costs several hundred thousand dollars then about four and fifty thousand per
episode. But half of that was supposed to be for like post you know,
all the editing and sound and all that stuff, right, right,
So whatever the number is, it's huge, right, So, and our
production companies are scared because they're there. Their network overlords have given them this
giant chunk of money to make them happy. So everything's planned out really well.
Now. Of course, the finding Bigfoot thing, because we were so
stubborn and because the Bigfooters were just so disagreeable and personality, we kind of
had our way a little bit more than perhaps I think a lot of other
TV shows. If you're filming in a house somewhere you know, or in
like a ghost show, for example. I have no idea if there've been
on a ghost shoot, I don't know, but we had our way a
little bit more. So we eventually got softened softened up the production company to
the point where, say, like at a town hall meeting, if somebody
showed up with a picture or a footprint, cast or some amazing story that
we're super excited to be involved in, they would actually let us do those
things instead of the one or two ringers that we had in the audience in
case nobody else could showed up, because no matter what, we had to
make a show. So we'd raid the BFROO database or Bobo's friends or my
database, and then we make sure that we had enough witnesses so we can
film a show no matter what. But if somebody showed up, that was
even better. We'd bump somebody and take them instead. And that is a
huge degree of flexibility. But still nothing is so flexible that like, Okay,
well, you know what, we're supposed to go to West Virginia next
week, Let's just forget about that and stay at the spot an extra few
days. You can't do that. You just can't do that because the money
and the expectations, and the fact that all of the production schedule had already
been more or less planned out with some wiggle room in there three months ahead
of time. So that's pretty much why. Because at the end of the
day, Finding Bigfoot isn't bigfooting. It's a TV show about some bigfooters kind
of. That's really what it comes down to. It's a TV show first
and foremost made by a TV show network, by a TV show production company
for TV viewers. If you want bigfooting, go bigfooting. But we did
a pretty good job at it. I'd say, I mean, I I
don't like TV, but I mean, I mean I laugh at some of
our TV shows now because it's been so long, I don't. I don't.
I can't remember like, oh, you know, like Bobo was being
a jerk that to me that episode or something. You know, I was
like, I don't think of it like that anymore. You know. I
was never a jerk to you. No, No, you never were.
But I mean I didn't want to pick on money Maker or Ana either,
so I just said you it was most like it was most likely Moneymaker or
Renee. I'm just teasing. But but nonetheless, I don't. I don't
look at the I'm not close enough to the episodes now that I can look
at it and go, oh that that one sucked because of this or something
like that. You know now now they're just funny. They're a lot funnier
than I remember them being. You're welcome. Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and
Beyond with Cliff and Bobo. Will be right back after these messages. This
next question comes from Mike Carey. Hello there, y'all. Love the show,
and yes, I am a believer. As a child, my family
camped at what I think was tish Tang campground. I remember a fish lake
near Hoopa, California. Indigenous people at the nearby store said that they never
go there because there is something odd about it. Do you know this area?
Is there a fish lake? Do you know if the Indigenous people have
an area they are freaked out by? Up there? Are there areas there
that y'all won would not go to. Again, Love the show and keep
it squatchy, Yeah, I mean tish Tang's definitely. That's the very southern
border of Hoopa. When you go on the reservations coming up from Willakirk.
It's a killer campground. I love that spot. It's beautiful. They cleaned
it up a lot. It's anchor. The guy was on the show with
us. His daughter runs it and they did a good job of keeping it
cleaned up. And it's usually empty. I mean it's usually pretty empty,
and you can access there's a killer swimming spot. There's a big swimming hole
in a rock you can jump off, and yeah, I love that.
And that's also where Al Hotston cast in also nineteen ninety two. I think
it was ninety two, Yeah, i'll cast or was it eighty eight?
Shit, I can't remember. It was tier eighty eight or ninety two,
but anyways, that was the cast. I got a cast copy from him,
and that was the print that the that was the model for my big
foot print tattoo on my arm. Was that cast from tish Tang? You
have a copy of that print? I did. You don't know what happened
to it, that's gone. Oh that's unfortunate. I didn't even know they
made molds of it. Then, Yeah, I've seen that cast. Of
course it was a sand copy. Oh okay, right, that makes sense.
Yeah, the eighty nine, by the way, I'm just looking it
up. That's nineteen eighty nine. Oh okay, yeah. So but yeah,
the Indians were afraid to go there for a long time because about three
hundred years ago, there was a chieftain. They had like seven villages and
that was the furthest one south and the headman of that village. You know,
it was a small little village, a couple of whatever families. They
had seven seven I think girls live there, and supposedly sasquatches came in raided
the place kidnapped all seven of the girls and that's why Tishtang was abandoned and
no one lived there for I mean, no one's still no one lives there.
Well, Eager's daughter lives there, but other than that, no one
lives there. Beautiful area, the good swimming hole fish Like, yeah,
that's that's definitely squatchy. Ut there's been there's stuff still reported out of there.
I mean that's a pretty consistent spot. There's just always people camping.
There's the problem, like you just feel a sneaking there in the winter,
like when they close the gates because there's like three miles from the road,
you can cruise in there and have it all to yourself. But there's always
people in there now, Like there's always like illegal campers and people fishing in
there because they stock it. It is a great campsite though. I mean
even when there are people there, there are sasquatches around. Just said,
I wouldn't go around knocking and calling. It's disrespectful to the other people.
You don't need to there either. I think it's counterproductive of that spot.
Yeah, there's that road that goes around the whole thing. I'd love to
walk that road tonight. I'd never have. You haven't, Yeah, you
have. No, I've never walked the entire around the entire lake at night
on that road. I I've done that quite a few times. No,
I never have, because I mean, I mean I used to camp at
fish Fish Lake if after long like a twelve hour drive up there when I
lived in Long Beach or whatever. But nowadays you know now that it's only
like seven hours away or something. If there's somebody staying there, I just
won't stay there. I know too many other spots in the area. I
don't sit there in probably fifteen years. But it's a cool spot. I
like. The whole area around there was great. Yeah, when I was
a bluff last time, which I think was a year ago, September or
something like that, it's the last time I made it down to Bluff Creek.
I did drop by there. I didn't camp there because two of the
camp sites it might be there's kind of a lot of campsites. I mean
how many boats, probably one hundred or eighty fifty maybe what at fish Lake?
Yeah, I think there's sixty or something like that. Okay, right
in there. Yeah, two of them were occupied, and that was too
much for me. And talk about history. That that wasn't Irwin? What
it was that Guy Erlin? You know, I just found an article on
him. No really, yeah, well, I mean he's in the article
about Bigfoot. Yeah. I was helping out the Humble Historical Society and we
got like thirty five years of back or thirty years of back newspapers from the
time standard. They were getting rid of all their old puplicate copies and there
was just a warehouse of this stuff. So I was helping go through those
and I found a couple of big Foot articles. I found the stuff from
two thousand and seven, the thing we threw it will look quick remember for
the fortieth anniversary. Oh yeah, yeah, that was that was in there,
and then an article related to that. Irwin was in there, and
they had his age wrong and had some of the story wrong. With Yeah,
it's uh, he was. They mentioned him in there and he was
talking about fish Lake. That's where he brought up, like fish Lake.
I've seen him there twice and I've heard him there many times. So yeah,
it goes way back. I hope you saved those Yeah, I did.
That's cool. That's really cool. They have a picture of them.
No, no, okay, yeah, because as I've only heard of that
dude through you. Yeah, but I was spelling his name wrong the whole
time. It was E R W I N. Well how cool is that?
Though? That's neat? Yeah, I was stoked. I was like,
no way, there's ever one. All right, well, next question?
All right, we got our next question from Steve Wood. How the
world do you guys separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to reports?
After listening to hundreds, I'm reasonably certain I could put one together.
Must be an absolute minefield. Do you have my sympathy? And you were
one hundred percent right. It's gotten way easier to write. I mean,
if you want to make a fake report, it's pretty easy. That's why
you got to talk to the person a few times and hopefully go to the
spot with them. But Yeah, people that just take reports over the internet,
it's rough. I mean, even if you go onto the site,
you know, there they could be mistaken what they saw and like just talking
soults inding like they're absolutely positive what they saw that they really weren't or Yeah.
That's why I guess Cliff doesn't focus on reports too much unless there's footprints
or other evidence. Yeah, that's my My approach is that, yeah,
okay, so you say you saw one. Great, now what you know
and like? And I understand that, you know, seeing a sasquatch is
a big deal for the person who saw it, et cetera. But for
me, it's just another one of the several thousand people I've spoken to that
say they did see one and I don't know if they did. To you
know, to use Matt Pruit's terminology, it's a claim. It's like,
all right, who cares? I'd love Tom Powell. Been thinking a lot
about Tom Powell late length, by the way, because Tom singers like,
oh you saw a sasquatch. Guess what, nobody cares. I love that
attitude. I don't necessarily exactly agree with it, because I do think that
time and when and where is important has some level of importance to it,
but generally speaking, yeah, I don't know if you're lying. How would
I know if you're lying? I mean, body language tells me a little
bit, because I did teach ten year olds after a while. I was
a fifth grade teacher for a lot of my career, and basically everybody is
still ten years old in one way or another. But still, Okay,
So you saw a bigfoot, that's great, Okay, when and where cool?
I know that spot or I didn't know that spot, And we'll see
if other people corroborate that. Because if a group of Sassquatches is in the
area, it is my opinion they stay in that area, and it's also
my expectation I suppose that eventually somebody else will see one they're too. We'll
see if that happens, and if it doesn't, then that's I mean,
that spot may not be something I want to look into anyway, you know,
unless it's really local and it's easy for me to get into, you
know, in which case I'll be all over it. But I don't know.
You tell me you saw one in northern Washington somewhere. It's like,
what am I going to do about it, so, yes, Steve,
I guess if the Cliffs perspective is just don't put too much importance on any
given sighting unless there's physical evidence associated with it. Anything else to add not
really Okay in that case, let's go to the last question of this day.
This comes from Gary White. Did you hear about the one hundred thousand
chinook salmon dumped into a river in Northeast Oregon? Sounds like a big foot
buffet. I did hear about that? Yeah, I mean too, Yeah,
I thought that was kind of interesting. It's say, well, that's
what an interesting experiment that might turn out to be, you know, five
to eight years down the line, when the salmon are returning. Pretty cool,
Pretty cool. I mean, as far as mistakes go, I think
that's a pretty good mistake to make. I don't know if they'd bond that
creek though, I mean, I don't know if they would or not.
I'm sure they're just fingerlings right like they were planting. Uh huh, I'm
sure of it. Yeah. Yeah, So I thought that they're like chemically
bonded like a certain creek, Like it's in their genetics, like that's where
they're going to head. I don't know. I just I don't know.
I don't know if that's true or not. Yeah, so I guess that's
part of the experiment, maybe because there's got to be some marine biologists or
you know, fish biologists of some sort that would be kind of fascinated with
that question, like if that's true. And I don't know if that's true
or not. I mean, I just assume it is for the sake argument.
If that is true, how cool would that be to see how many
fish return? Well, I know they've done stuff like that where they took
salmon that were from this creek, whatever, stream or river and they needed
to replenish somewhere else, like there's an oil spit whatever whatever, I mean,
something like that, and they put them there. Then the offspring of
them still go to where the parents were spawned, usually like more than not.
Well, we'll see what happens when they might have just started a new
salmon run some river somewhere, who knows. But anyway, back to the
bigfoot side of this question, do you think a bigfoot buffet or probably more
of a bird buffet than anything. Yeah, I think just everything's going to
exploit that. Oh yeah, yeah, they they need poor little salmonids that
do make it through good luck returning. Hope you do right, Yeah,
we'll see. I forgot the end of that creek. Yeah, I forgot
it too. I saw a picture of the truck rolled, but I didn't.
I don't don't remember the name of it. Yeah, I think the
article I saw, though. I love the way they did it. They
framed it as bad news, good news, bad news like bad news,
truck accident, you know, one hundred thousand salmon, you know, truck
accident, blah blah. Good news it rolled over to creek, you know,
bad news like a lot of the fish died. Good news, a
lot of them are going to live, you know. So it was kind
of a funny way they presented it, right. So that's a last question
there. Thank you for all that, by the way, and we'll get
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