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Today, I want to tell you
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most of my life. Ever since
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of bigfoot and wild men while spending
time with my friends and family. As

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the paranormal, my interest in encryptids and

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Now, what are your reporting?
I got a screen going on here.

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Something just kid with my dog.
Something to kill your dog? My dog.

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We're flying through there over the tree. I don't know how it did

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it, Okay, Damn, I'm
really confused. All I saw was my

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dog coming over the fence, and
they would dead once you hit the ground.

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I didn't see any cars. All
I saw was my dog coming over

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the fence. Sat, what are
you reporting? We got some wonder or

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something crawling around out here? Did
you see what it was? It was

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enough out here looking them near the
window now and I don't need anything.

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I don't want to go outside.
Frank, Hello, hit the buddy out

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here. Quinn on out there?
It's thought of a bench about ticket nine.

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I don't know. Easy announce there. Yeah, I'm walking right Eddy,

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Hey there, thanks so much for
joining me for the show. I

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wanted to bring you guys this live
that we did a couple of days ago

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with a group of folks that are
going to be down with me at the

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Great Florida Bigfoot Conference in O'calla on
June the eighth, I'm going to be

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down there hosting the Skuncake Brown Table. I'm so excited about this. I've

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never done this conference before. It's
going to be a great time. There's

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a great lineup. In addition to
me hosting the Skunkcake Brown Table, You've

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got David Sadoti hosting the Encounter's portion. You've got Russell Acord, Matt Pruitt,

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Renee Holland, Ken Gearhard, Daniel
Lee Barnett, and the incomparable Adam

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Davis. If you're in or around
o Caalla, Florida, this is going

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to be the hottest ticket in town
on June the eighth. It's twenty five

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bucks for nine hours of a maze. We'd love to see you all there.

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But enough of that, I know
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it, So without further ado,
I'm going to start this live that we

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did a couple of days ago back
on YouTube. And we are here on

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the Great Florida Bigfoot Live Dat and
we have mister rappg with us, the

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Master of Ceremonies. How are you, buddy? Oh? I am doing

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well, But we get the top
squad to get the hang with my homeboy,

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Daniel Martin and Nicky my favorite bosses
of all time. Well let's go,

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let's go. I'm sure everyone knows
you, mate, but could you

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tell everyone a little bit about stuff, Bud. Yeah, I've been a

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lifelong weirdo man. I've been chasing
ghosts, aliens, UFOs, sea monsters,

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and most importantly Bigfoot. I got
my PhD in Bigfoot working on finding

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Bigfoot, which was we could just
take a one second pause for the most

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wonderful professional part of my life.
Should have shot a show about the behind

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the scenes because it'd be the most
successful show after Cops in terms of reality

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television. But then went on to
actually get cast an expedition Bigfoot, got

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sick, fell out. But the
day that I died, home boy,

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right here, this special kid,
Daniel was born. So I was all

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for a good purpose. Now here
I am. I teamed up with Martin

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and Nikki to work their events,
and I'm going to Alaska this year.

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It's my three favorite events of the
year. The other thing I like more

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is my family and looking for this
watch did that on one press It sounds

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like an amazing love to live mate. We are going to bring some other

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amazing guests on so please welcome to
the stage Bigfoot Researcher down in sunny Florida

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with RPG. David. Hello,
Hey everybody, Hey, my house things.

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That's great. It's great, hot
but great. Could you tell everyone

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a little bit about you, David? Yes, I guess so. I've

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been a researcher since gosh, since
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I got into this when I was
seven years old, because that's when

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I saw the Patterson Gimlin film and
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be awesome to see something like that
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as kids, that's all we did
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build forces, check stuff out.
Was awesome. It wasn't until later in

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life I got interested in it again. It just sparked that fire. Started

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learning more about it. During the
ninety five computer industry years, when everyone

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started getting more computers, I was
getting into the computer industry field. So

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I was doing a lot of stuff
online just for giggles. I said this,

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look up big Wood, Sasquatch and
boom Man. There's a lot of

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people into the subject, not as
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few people actually going out on the
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I was like, wow, I
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So I started doing a lot of
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learning more, getting your feet wet, reading books upon books, and

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literature upon literature on stuff. I
think I've read a lot of reports,

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I said, a lot of report
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thousands of eyewitness reports all over the
country, across the world. And I

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just burned that fire up in you
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do it. Let's jump in both
beat. Ever since then, here I

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am. I've been doing that ever
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and a respectable dude. Man,
that guy does real research. Yeah,

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man, we try to get out
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not just so I wonder. Let's
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It's fine to find foot friends,
it's exciting to get that kind of

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stuff. But when you see it
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go to another level things. Okay, let's move this up a little a

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little more, a little higher level
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for in the field. We know
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Okay, they're here. Okay,
let's get try to get a little closer,

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try to get more information from these
things if we possibly can or if

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they'll possibly let us correct. So
that's the thing. You want to try

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to get a good rapport with these
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I think, is getting them comfortable
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to them, to get a better
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these creatures. Now, if you
guys don't mind, I'm going to bring

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on the podcaster of Sasquatch Odysseyn Bigfoot
researcher, also one of my buddies,

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mister Brian King Shop. What's going
on, gentlemen? Hello Daniel RPG David,

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longtime, no speak man, it's
good to see you guys. Hey

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now, man, it's good to
see it. Very good to see you

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as well, mate. And I'm
sure again everyone knows who you are,

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mate, But could you say a
little bit about itself please mate. Sure,

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I've been a full time podcaster,
as you mentioned, Sasquatch Odyssey was

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born back in February of twenty twenty
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some episodes in and it's all about
encounters, man, It's about the people

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who have had experiences with these creatures. That's what the show's all about.

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I host for full time podcast outside
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full time gig for me. It's
the best thing I've ever done. I

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took a little break from bigfooting to
be a cop for about sixteen years,

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and I've gotten back into it after
twenty sixteen when I left that, and

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I've never looked back. And I've
met some of the most amazing people,

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lifelong friends like RPG David, plenty
of people that have been on the show

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that I am stoked about getting to
hang out with and talk about Bigfoot.

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Daniel, you, obviously we've become
good friends and I love what you're doing.

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I'm just glad to be a part
of everything that's going on in Bigfoot

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right now. There's so much that's
happened in Bigfoot over the last fifty years,

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but I feel like we're on the
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I've been super excited since the beginning
of twenty twenty four. I feel

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like something big is about to happen. I don't know what it is.

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I'm not clairvoyant, so I can't
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have this feeling. I don't know
if it's just the discovery itself or if

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we're just gonna come together as a
community. I don't know. There's something

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big brewing in twenty twenty four.
So anytime I get to do anything related

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to Sasquatch like this, be involved
with Marty and Nicky and gather up events

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and some of the phenomenal stuff they
do. This is my first time at

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the Great Florida Bigfoot Conference, and
I am absolutely stoked and honored to be

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a part of it. In any
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that. I think when Brian and
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think there's two people individually that are
responsible for that. But before we bring

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those two in, we are going
to bring the skeptical scientist herself, Miss

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Renee Holland. I believe I can
flya fan big foodreat Hey, guys,

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Hello David. So nice to finally
meet you. Brian. I'm looking forward

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to catching up again. And then
I'm a bit of a brother RPG here

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in my British pickfoot little buddy Danielle. Good to see you, guys,

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Good to see you Rene. I'm
so glad to have you here again.

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I'm sure everyone knows exactly who you
are, but could you tell us a

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little bit aboute Actually I don't know
if they really do. We've seen a

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edited version. One of the first
things I wanted you to know, Daniel

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is, don't believe everything on television. I don't believe everything that you see

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on television. When it's said documentary, it's not. My Name's Ray Holland.

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I am the Renee Sayer, this
skeptical scientist from Discovery Channels finding Bigfoot.

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Got to know my good Big Flop
by RPG. I use part of

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production there, but a little bit
of a background for me. I will

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say. One of my favorite things
about these pasts I don't do a lot

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is I get to find out information
about friends I don't know. Brian,

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I didn't know that you were a
police officers. It's good to know,

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good to know where I'm hanging out
with you. So on a respiration of

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colleges by training, I've got over
four years of field work experience, basically

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spending what Sam and do, or
more specifically, what part the Sam and

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the Brown Bear eats from a love
of Bigfoot and all things mysterious that was

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instilled in me by my father.
If you've seen my Ted talk helped me

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a big story that led me to
wanting to find Bigfoot stories where I was

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doing field work, which led me
to meeting the BFRO, which somehow the

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way the amazing universe works. Instead
of heading off to graduate school, I

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wound up on a television show that
one in the world looking for Bigfoot.

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But as you're saying that most people
know me, they actually don't know my

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belief system. And I know that
Daniel's are on board, and RPG is

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on board, and Brian knows.
But a lot of people don't realize.

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It's so funny our society. We
need to put everybody in a little bin

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and label them. To me,
it's not about are you a believer?

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It's the mystery of what it's big
Foot. When people say, Renee,

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if you finally saw, would you
believe now, it's it's like going to

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change anything for me. I want
to know what it is, and that's

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part of the greater mystery. I
know one hundred percent spending a week with

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you, you are a completely different
person from TV. So to everyone out

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there, Rene is definitely a different
person from TV. Now I'm going to

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bring the organizers the other up event
and organizers of the Great Florida Bigfoot Conference,

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Marty and Nick Klausing's guys, everything's
good. Just even listening to you

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guys. I'm so excited about having
everybody here participate this year. That's literally

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what makes it what it is.
We love it. Familiar faces now and

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so this to be RPG probably what
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things. Unfortunately only our second was
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your Bigfoot family, that's for sure. Every one of you guys are family,

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and that Dave has definitely been around
almost every Florida big Book we've had.

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Oh yeah, absolutely. And Brian. I think we met Brian what

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two three years ago now, and
you've been a participant at both the Gapnburg

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a couple of times and now Florida. So yeah, it's a big,

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happy family. And I'm thinking about
that first talking to you, Daniel and

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learning about you and just being so
excited to bring you on this year that

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we're so excited. So you guys
may or may not know that the podenial

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to reach out to us some time
Ago pretty good. While Ago, I

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still recall that he's like, I'm
just going to get him on Facebook and

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invite him. It was a very
fun fifteen minute conversation we had, and

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the enthusiasm that he has for this
field, it's amazing. Thanks guys,

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And I'm going to say this for
the final time. I'm sure everyone knows

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who you guys are, but would
you introduce yourselves? Sure, I'm Nicky

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Baby. I am the owner of
gather Up Events pretty much the co organizer

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of most events. Marty does a
lot of the organizing, especially on the

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speaker side. He's in the jack
of all trades. But I'm in the

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background doing the social media ten ds
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jobs. I'm Martin Pippin. As
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done, if she doesn't feel like
doing it, that's my job. He's

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humble. That guy can do anything. You know what they said, I

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don't know, cruise to Alaska.
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the best delegator there is so RPG
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done a handful of these Bigfoot conventions. I want to say one thing,

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especially now that Daniel and Brian,
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When Funny Bigfoot wrapped, I needed
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mentally, emotionally on all levels.
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conferences. They've been great. I've
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He is wonderful. I wrote with
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It's so interesting to see them all
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do have family events, and not
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but it's really nice to see that
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and connection. As you guys know, the reason why I go to these

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Bigfoot events really is about belonging aquivity. Really, I think you guys really

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elevate that. So thank you and
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forward, to it. Yeah,
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to Daniel. That's how I met
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new course. We all have our
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for creating money. It was the
same we've running, I think. Yeah,

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literally, you guys, I've only
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starting to do them more. Really, if I am doing anything this

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book related, as we were speaking
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a biological inscription. PCIs easy now
down Daniel. My goals are very close

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to newline with indigenous peoples. So
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it is usually on reservation land.
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where we raised about ten thousand dollars
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to Seattle seahawk and myself, and
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some friends at a low Pacific Northwest
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basically those long term witness ones.
I'm private land or the reservation. But

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I'm not here to discuss what Big
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talk about this amazing event. There
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I'm gonna start with going round new
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AMII and Nikki, So going all
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was the inspiration guys for you starting
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they might a frozen Daniel, y'all
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them. Let go to Brian.
Brian, mate, you are the host

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of the skun Cake Roundtable? Am
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tell us a little bit about this
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a group of investigators that are specific
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about this because I talked to so
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other countries in the UK, Ireland, other places that claimed to have had

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experiences with these things. But I'm
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specific to Florida and the skunkpe because
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with the skunk Ape. I've had
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past, who have shared experiences,
people like Marie Dumont, who's going to

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be a part of our roundtable.
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are specifically in the Florida area looking
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to get into all kinds of things. I've got tons of questions. I'm

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probably going to have to pare the
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because I'm stoked to hear what they
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I'm going to get into all kinds
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some of the things that they've found, right, some of the evidence,

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whether it be footprints, what they
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shared with them, some of the
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folks. Get into the evidence that
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what we're seeing around the country and
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what's going on in Florida. Some
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as they are in the Pacific Northwest. So I want to dive into all

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of that stuff. We've got an
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experiences and some of the amazing work
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and I am absolutely stoked to be
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to have that conversation during the conference. It is going to be incredible.

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I say that right now. Now
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to reside to you guys. Now
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you to stop company and to start
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as just doing fun community type events. Bigfoot was actually one of our themes.

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you really didn't have an idea that
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we had a few people show up
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we realized how big the community was
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not only just like a novelty,
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believe in. It doesn't take long
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about it before you start going,
wait a minute, is this really real,

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this is real, this could be
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was like, did we do a
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Gatlinburg Smoky Mountain seemed like the best
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a huge risk, terrifying. Let's
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of money into something, which,
Daniel you're probably learning quickly up and stake

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to organize. Tickets started selling and
we were like, Wow, people actually

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want to sit down and listen to
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we were blown away the first event, and it was called the Bigfoot and

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Barbecue Festival, and we had this
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it was tiny, but like,
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people all day long, locals talking
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we had a main stage. We
had programmed really good talented people at the

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main stage playing music, and we
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for kids to do. Despite all
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tiny room was attracting eighty percent of
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just squeezing in trying to listen in
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it back, women had been on
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was the most famous person there.
A guy stood up during one of the

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town halls and talked, but the
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hey, we want to do a
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at it, and we did find
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generally free venues, and probably in
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of all the events are done in
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if we're going to do it,
let's do it big. Let's give these

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people a place that matches their passion, give them a place that people can't

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look at and go, oh yeah. Another bunch of thirteen people hiding in

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the back of our holiday inn telling
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and make it a respectable event,
and so last one we try to go

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as hard as we did and we're
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and stay tuned for more Sasquatch out
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these messages. And the Spunky Mountain
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and so I said, I want
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to do it in Florida. There's
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There's something called the Skunkcake down there
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that can hold over one thousand people. So we ended up in Lakeland,

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Florida the first with it two years
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wasn't even built yet, so it
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hold three thousand people at once,
or were like, let's do it,

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yeah, and it would hold ten
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It's that big. But yeah,
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that two thousand person range, which
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I think there was close to twenty
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he's part of the family, part
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you know, we'll just we'll get
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can't feed RPG. Thanks guys,
you're You're the only people I would leave

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my family for, rarely leave the
family for. Hey, and I want

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to say too with Brian. With
over five million downloads, people do want

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to talk about this, and people
will cramp a small room if they have

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to get that out of them.
Man, it's cathartic when you finally can

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tell people that and they look at
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that's amazing, as opposed to you're
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this event, which is another part
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It makes it wonderful. It's it's
like therapy and Bigfoot and fun and every

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nicknack pattiwack you could ever want to
buy to put up in your man cave

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or woman shed or whatever you want, come swim in it. It's wonderful.

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Congratulations again, Brian, I'm the
five Marie downloads. It's fabulous.

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We're talking about community belonging that we
have. Ronnie when we were over in

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the UK, I call mister Manifesto
and RPG to me is captain positivity.

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But Daniel, you're a captain enthusiasm, you really are. But what are

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people bring into the table? This
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a safe place. People can be
on camera or not on camera, but

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it's a safe place to share their
experiences. Some people are just excited and

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they just can't stop talk about.
Some people are terrified, as you're all

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familiar with. But brings me back
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Nicky come back here about belonging.
But it's also about let's be compassionate.

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Because for those of you who have
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the last couple of years I've gone
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to get out and go to more. But what I'm really calling about in

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our community is whether you're biological,
whether you're whatever it is, we're all

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in the same community and we can
learn from each other. Let me say

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something real quick before we move on
about the podcasting side of this. I

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get to sit down with one person
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on the show. If I'm million
downloads in the first half of this year,

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has been phenomenal. But what happens
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have not been to a conference,
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or the Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Conference,
is you get to come together with so

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many like minded people at one time. For me, it is like a

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kid in a candy store because I
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in one day that would take me
years to do on the podcast talking to

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one person at one time. When
Marty and Nicky put together these kind of

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events and bring together so many like
minded people at one time, that you

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get to experience all at the same
time. Again, it's like me being

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a kid in a candy store.
So if you haven't got to experience that

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and come out to a place like
that where there's so many like minded people

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who may disagree on whether they're flesh
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it doesn't matter, all of that
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where you get to experience all of
this at one time. It is one

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of the most phenomenal things that you'll
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anywhere close to O Cali, Florida, you need to be at the Great

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Bigfoot Conference to experience that. At
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my booth. I don't get to
see all the speakers this event when you're

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doing that, that that you're head
that you're leading for the skunk Cape round

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table, right, because that at
what time? And am I able to

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attend it? Am I going to
be manny? Am I both missing it?

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one of the first things after RPG
warms everybody up, and we'll let me

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make you something special about Florida.
Right. The other world of Questrian Center

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has a jumbo trone right in the
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at a level that doesn't hopefully interfere
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it from anywhere in the entire vendor
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stage, I believe is forty foot
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insane. It's like your biggest screens
I've ever ever seen. You'll get to

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see it all just from your actual
speaker booth. Good good to know,

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good to know from Brian. Then
I'm gonna go to David, so you'll

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have I'm in the encounter's part of
the conference. Could you tell us a

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little bit about that, please,
But we're hoping you get at least what

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five or six people to come up
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how many respond back. I got
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talking to you earlier about Steve's encounter, actually reached out to him, Hey,

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buddy, would you would you like
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about your encounter to the whole world. Hopefully he'll come. And there's other

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another handful of people I reached out
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hopefully here soon. I'm going to
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you guys want to come to the
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So I think we have maybe Marty
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we may have two possibly signed.
I had a couple more sign up in

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the list a couple of days.
I don't know if more you've seen it,

406
00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.559
but we've got at least five.
Now. Yeah, inside that building

407
00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:53.880
there will probably be two hundred people
that have a story they're wanting to tell.

408
00:26:55.400 --> 00:26:57.039
One of the reason RPG is so
good is he'll start all the day

409
00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:00.240
is saying, hey, you got
an encounter story, come to to me

410
00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:03.119
or David. Usually we have more
than we can actually fit up there.

411
00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:07.000
We try to give them five to
ten minutes at most, and we won't

412
00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:07.960
let go ten minutes less. It's
really good, but yeah, use the

413
00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.319
more like five minutes. So there's
no road for ten or twelve if we

414
00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:15.200
can't get all of them on there, which is I know it's going to

415
00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:18.640
be impossible to get fit in a
certain amount of time. I'll have some

416
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:22.160
business cards of mine that I hand
out, and then let's hook up and

417
00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:25.640
we'll talk about your encounter and get
some people out in the field there to

418
00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:30.200
check out those areas. Definitely want
to hear their experiences, even if they

419
00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.759
can't get up on stage. There's
somebody one of us. You know,

420
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:37.200
they're going to have a lot of
researchers at this event, so there's going

421
00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:40.519
to be somebody wants to listen to
your encounter even though they don't get up

422
00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:44.200
on stage that day. Well,
it's definitely a crowd favorite. People love

423
00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:48.920
listening to the local encounters for sure. To go to Miss run A Holland.

424
00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:52.119
Now, obviously you'll give in a
talk, you'll before me. Could

425
00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:56.200
you tell us a little bit about
your talk? The first official presentation that

426
00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:02.200
I did was in Tennessee at Smoky
Mountain. Basically a call out to my

427
00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:07.079
experience within the Bigfoot community is everybody
feels rejected by science a lot of times,

428
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:12.799
and there's, unfortunately, is this
whole resistance to it and that we're

429
00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:17.519
just shooting it down and that's not
the situation at all. And an actual

430
00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:21.559
scientists, I don't just play one
on televisions. And again there's cynicism,

431
00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:25.920
there's Zelo Tree, skepticisms, that
sweet spot in the middle. A skeptical

432
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:29.960
scientist is someone who says, here's
the information. Somebody comes in and I'm

433
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.200
pushing back to say, wait a
minute, you can't sit in your office

434
00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:37.200
and sit good coffee and write these
models about the natural world and just state

435
00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:45.319
that is right and that applies to
climate change, natural resource management and Bigfoot.

436
00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:49.799
So my specialty is rivers, forests
and everything and all the animals that

437
00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:55.440
are in it, and with all
my field experience, my view of what

438
00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:59.440
bigfoot is through a scientific lens.
But what people don't realize about me is

439
00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:03.519
growing up in South Dakota and so
many of my friends were Lakota and Nakota

440
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:06.759
Sioux, and then moving out to
Washington State and all the field work I

441
00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:11.119
did for twenty years. I work
a lot of tribal members and work with

442
00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:18.440
indigenous tribes. Basically, my view
of the natural role and my view our

443
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.720
connectedness to it, my views and
my beliefs of how we treat each other

444
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:30.480
and family units, and my view
on what bigfoot is very influenced and aligned

445
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.319
with that of the indigenous people.
So my talk as a skeptical scientist is

446
00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.559
saying we don't know what bigfoot is. My community is not rejected by science,

447
00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:45.640
my community and science is rejected by
junk science people. So big push.

448
00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:48.519
I try not to go too far
into this because they don't want to

449
00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:51.559
be this. I'm telling people how
to think, Like I said, bring

450
00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:53.839
a back full circle. In Tennessee, I talked about mon Saint Helens as

451
00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:59.079
an example, as a scientist,
I did a quick application of natural resource

452
00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:04.000
management was with with Mount Saint Helens. How this cataclysmic event changed the world

453
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:08.799
in science. By using a process, the scientific method, we were able

454
00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:14.559
to change that management and the new
thing I'm seeing. And I actually came

455
00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:18.720
on board right before Darby or cut
and I actually switched my top because I

456
00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:19.799
knew Matt was going to come after
me, and I thought there might have

457
00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:23.359
been some kind of push against science, and so that's why I switched that

458
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:26.839
up. I was having to explain, here's an example in the known world,

459
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.960
with known processes, how we switch
it. Look, I know how

460
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:36.759
boring it is. It requires patients
a lot of artwork, but if you

461
00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:41.240
repeat it, it can happen.
If Bigfoot is real, biological and discovered

462
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.920
species, I'll apply the scientific method, the steps will come. And with

463
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.759
a lot of the e DNA that's
out there, I wanted to say,

464
00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:55.839
Look, we have had DNA studies
recently, and unfortunately the majority of them

465
00:30:55.880 --> 00:31:00.200
they are jont science. You're using
the Cutchen study as an example, So

466
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:07.759
I'm not shooting down or being simple
about Bigfoot being anything. What I'm saying

467
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:14.000
is with my training with my lens. I'm defending my community and saying I'm

468
00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:18.359
raising the bar, and I'm saying, if you're gonna apply any research to

469
00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.680
this field, follow the money.
What are they doing? Are they just

470
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.000
trying to fill their own pockets?
Is it for solely the purpose of a

471
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:30.319
TV show to fill their own pockets? Are they trying to do the research

472
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:34.240
to answer this mystery? Are they
people who just roll their eyes and not

473
00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:37.839
get back to That's my call out, and I speak to this again,

474
00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:41.759
we don't know what bigfoot is.
I love it how the people now if

475
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:45.559
you can share with friends who have
known me for years and then they find

476
00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:48.680
out about the big foot things,
they're like, what, you're on this

477
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:51.480
TV show and they do a little
digging and they come back and it's like

478
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:55.680
everybody thinks you don't believe in and
it's like, that's because they're only watching

479
00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:57.599
television. But as word has gotten
out there and I've gone to a few

480
00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:05.599
conferences and people that my beliefs are
it's something beyond science, something beyond the

481
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:08.519
current grasp of science. What that
is, I don't know. I'm not

482
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:12.200
here to tell anybody what they experience. You know, it's one of the

483
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.400
hardest things for me about the show
is I would be paid into this box

484
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:22.640
where I have to be this or
Dad RPG was their firsthand is would see

485
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:29.480
that I'm there though I'd never been
to the Southwest, because of my relationships

486
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:31.960
with Lakota and Dakota Sioux and then
all throughout the Pacific northwestern Canada, my

487
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:37.480
friends who are in different tribes.
As we took the Finding Big Pot across

488
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.839
North America and the world for that
matter. When I would come to a

489
00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:44.039
point of the country I'd never been, elders would be there to give me

490
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:49.319
blessing because they know my beliefs.
They know that I believe like they do.

491
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.839
I would ask I would give gratitude
for letting us own the land.

492
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.119
I would ask for their blessing.
I would ask them what they did not

493
00:32:55.319 --> 00:33:00.440
want me to do during our investigations. I respected that I ought for that

494
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:04.839
to be respected. The arguments I
would get in on that show would be

495
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:12.599
not faking anything and respecting either witnesses
I'd lined up with or my indigenous friends.

496
00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:15.039
If I'd made a promise to them
while underland to treat things a certain

497
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:19.319
way. I'd get in an argument
for that and when I said about not

498
00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.160
faking anything, I just I always
have to do this real quick note,

499
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:28.640
A low budget TV show came on
television and I was involved in twenty ten,

500
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:31.960
but for everybody, twenty eleven and
Finding Bigfoot becomes this cultural pop hit

501
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:37.319
phenomenon out of nowhere. I now
understand everybody loves Bigfoot. And then put

502
00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:40.160
these poor good characters together in my
dysfunctional big pot family, my big flip

503
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:45.480
brothers, with a low budget,
huge ad dollar discovery. We saved them

504
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:49.839
for many quarters. The one thing
that people don't know is that we had

505
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:52.599
all of a sudden, we have
this leverage, and we did me with

506
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:59.119
that vocal. What was important to
us was that each week one person got

507
00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:01.920
to go on actually and try to
squatch. And then really the most important

508
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:04.960
thing is that if we were going
to come back because they were done,

509
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:07.559
those were three guys who did that, and that show never happened, they'd

510
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:12.039
still be doing what they're doing.
And I fell into this wanted Bigfoot stories

511
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:15.480
posted my dad, and there I
was. We now had leverage and we

512
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:17.280
were able to write into our contract
if anything was picked on that show.

513
00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:22.280
And that is the only television show
that I know of that did that.

514
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:25.440
So even though wins might have come
on or people tried to hoax us or

515
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:31.079
something might not been accurate. Yeah, we might not have teaking hot air

516
00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:37.079
will into location and that were those
facts that were esthetic television. But what

517
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:40.760
was filmed on that in those night
investigations was not fake. And I appreciate

518
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:44.880
that. I staid by that to
this day. I just want to just

519
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:50.119
tossing there is from the production side, people talked clap about reality TV and

520
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:53.840
that it's fake and that everything they
literally at risk of losing their jobs,

521
00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:58.559
said no, we're not going to
fake anything. That show was legit,

522
00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:01.119
and they told the truth all the
way through. So anyone on the fence

523
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:06.480
about that understand when that lady speaks, she speaks the truth. The show

524
00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:10.239
is real. Yeah. And sometimes
we would even do investigations where I would

525
00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:15.480
be like, I just rewatched one. Something came up in conversation and it's

526
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:19.119
fortunately a guy. He was in
Washington State and he was an indigenous member

527
00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:21.360
and the way they made me say, I don't think that necessarily happened.

528
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:22.960
Him and I had a conversation about
it, and him and I were on

529
00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:25.840
their tribal land and had a discussion
about it. I so you understand,

530
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:31.000
we're all good, but yeah,
it's important to me. Everybody has what

531
00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:34.840
brings them to this community. That
first of all, whether you've had an

532
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.360
experience or not. Whether you've an
experience, remember I have never seen or

533
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:43.039
people consider a bigfoot described as a
bigfoot. So whether you had the experience

534
00:35:43.119 --> 00:35:45.519
or not, we're all here and
it brings us to this big book family.

535
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:49.079
But to me, it's that community. It's that connection to my dad.

536
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:53.239
It's that seeing of those parents come
with their kids some years later after

537
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:59.320
me, to see that next generation
will Junia future naturalists. Rian you talked

538
00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:02.280
about this. To me, it
was the town halls. And as disheartened

539
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:06.480
and struggling as I was to find
purpose and meaning in the show in the

540
00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:08.880
beginning, as awful as it was, a friend of mine in the music

541
00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:12.639
industry says, you got to find
some keep your stuff going, And it

542
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:15.559
was the kids. It was the
kids of the town halls and Ryan Clip

543
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:19.559
and Bubble will speak to this.
The only reason I've come back into this

544
00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:22.960
community and started going to conferences.
Marty Nicky had talked to you about this.

545
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:25.679
Those kids again, it was the
families miss Uarday and I was like,

546
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:30.960
okay, because it was Blodle.
It was a decade. I kind

547
00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:32.239
of check in with Ronnie about this
first thing. I'm like, how you

548
00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:35.800
doing, Ronnie? The reality TV
and the grind that we went through was

549
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:38.480
crazy. One hundred hours of film
and one minute of good stuff we actually

550
00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:43.519
filmed one hundred hours would get condensed
forty two minutes part an episode. So

551
00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:46.000
the guys didn't think everything was a
squatch and I didn't immediately shoot everything down.

552
00:36:46.039 --> 00:36:51.880
They also would never let me say
and speak my true beliefs about Bigfoot

553
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:53.679
being beyond I'm not here to talk
again about what I think foot is.

554
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:59.559
Talking about this amazing conference. You
had a great job at Spnkey Mountain Bigfoot

555
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:04.400
Conference. We had nothing but wonderful
feedback from that, and I think you'll

556
00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:07.320
get the same at the Great Floor
Bill. Yeah. People, glad to

557
00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:08.840
hear what you have to say.
Yeah, it'll be more of that.

558
00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:14.400
It's really me talking to my community
about how we can work together and to

559
00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:17.639
really come on people. I'm just
here to call out community of follow the

560
00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:22.360
money. If you want entertainment,
you want motin monsters. They're great guys.

561
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.239
They're hilarious. Step Gary. I'm
just saying, as a scientist,

562
00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:29.760
there are two bands. There's entertainment
and there's research, and I'm calling out.

563
00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:31.840
It's my community. So I call
out the people who are saying it's

564
00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:36.239
real research, but them really if
they're faking it. That's the one thing

565
00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:38.920
I don't like in this community.
Don't bully people. Everybody's entitled to opinion,

566
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:43.440
and don't fake it. Because this
is a community. We all want

567
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:49.159
to understand what this mystery. So
those poxers and fakers and the interests of

568
00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:52.440
dollars are the one group I can't
stand. I don't know about you,

569
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:57.599
Mayan Nikki, but that sounds one
hell of a talk. Yeah. Absolutely,

570
00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:00.679
we're so excited. Renee Go Go
is all in a eleven am?

571
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.679
Is that correct? Who has the
schedule? Yes, eleven am, and

572
00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:08.079
only because you preferred to go on
earlier as your headliners for the end.

573
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:13.400
I was thinking, coming from the
talks where we hear the real stories,

574
00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:15.960
and then I want to talk about
real stories, and I do talk about

575
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:20.760
what's important to me. Always people
ask have you had something that's change your

576
00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:22.679
mind? I might briefly share that, and then I want to introduce Daniel,

577
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:25.440
but really I want to talk about
all of those stories, and we

578
00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:30.199
are seeing so many different things.
Daniels heard me say this. All major

579
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:36.239
discoveries in the scientific community are multidisciplinary. So all of you people who are

580
00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:39.760
in the camp of it's a biological
species and you close yourself off and get

581
00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:45.639
in an echo chamber and shut down
as a report, you're missing the boat

582
00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:50.159
potentially. And all of the people
who don't think it has a biological aspect

583
00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:52.559
and it's only going through a Porverloer's
only a spirit. Equally, we can

584
00:38:52.639 --> 00:39:00.280
learn from each other. Range showows
that multidisciplinatary reports and information. How do

585
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:04.519
you grow in the conference? I
welcome everyone every belief. We want to

586
00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:07.960
hear it. We want you to
have your chance on stage to talk about

587
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:10.840
it and tell us what you think
and why. So I agree. I

588
00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:14.880
just had to say this though,
back in twenty twenty I was talking to

589
00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:19.559
Marty back in twenty twenty one or
before the first conference here in Florida.

590
00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:22.679
It's like, Man, I'm glad
you guys are doing the conference here in

591
00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:25.440
Florida because I was sweating it because
people are asking coming to me and say,

592
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:28.239
hey, man, we need a
conference here in Florida. We need

593
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.960
to have an annual conference here.
And I was like, okay. I

594
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.199
started doing research and I was telling
Daniel about this earlier. I was doing

595
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:37.159
research and I actually flew up to
the International Big for conference in Washington that

596
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:40.920
Russell A. Court had and I
wanted to see Bob Giddlum. Of course,

597
00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:44.559
that was a great conference. Got
to meet everybody, lots of people.

598
00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:47.840
Adam Davies spoke to Russell about the
conference. What does it take to

599
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:52.760
start a conference? A man?
My head was wow, and I was

600
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:53.760
like, oh my god, how
am I going to do this? And

601
00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:58.679
then lo and behold here comes Marty
and Nikki and I'm like, wow,

602
00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:00.519
they know how to do this.
You leave it up to me, it'll

603
00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:05.280
be just probably a train wreck.
So I just want to say thank you

604
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:09.239
guys for making it possible for here
in Florida to have an annual conference here,

605
00:40:09.239 --> 00:40:14.320
because you guys nailed it right out
of the gate here in Florida,

606
00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:16.519
because people loved it. I can't
believe it's the fourth year already. Can

607
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:21.719
you this as your number four already? Yeah? Right? It was right

608
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:25.000
after our second Smokey Mountain Bigoo when
we had decided to do the Florida Bigfoot

609
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:30.400
and I trapped I think is Adam
Davies and Loud Blackburn, maybe Ken Gearhart

610
00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:34.599
was two or three them that I
was carrying back to the airports. I

611
00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:37.280
was like, Okay, we're doing
this thing in Florida next year. Who

612
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:39.400
do we need to give this local? And David was one of the first

613
00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:43.119
names, and one of the names
came up regularly that year. So we're

614
00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:45.920
very happy that door got opened because
it's definitely nice having local people that are

615
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:50.000
really invested in interested in this.
And then next thing we do, we

616
00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:52.280
found o RPG and he does a
great do we we talked a minute ago

617
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:55.159
about you guys are talking men to
go about the nature and the positivity inside

618
00:40:55.159 --> 00:41:00.199
of the building and respecting all the
different opinions. And RPG does a great

619
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:01.679
job of setting the tone at the
very beginning of every show. I'm not

620
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:04.679
going to show you're thunder. You'll
see it when you come to the show.

621
00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:07.079
It's because we always try to as
best we can. In some years

622
00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:09.920
it's harder than others try to develop
the show in a way that it has

623
00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:15.679
a kind of a roller Coastery effect
back and forth from biological to supernatural and

624
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:17.679
all points in between, trying to
make sure that everybody's got something that they're

625
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:22.840
interested in being talked about. That
therefore means that half the people are like,

626
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:24.760
what's this about? Half the other
half of the show's going, what's

627
00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:28.000
this about? So it's great to
get them all in because at the end,

628
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:31.960
we've been almost we've ever had a
negative moment except people try to get

629
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:36.800
doctor Mildrim and that they bodies a
fight last year. That almost is almost

630
00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:38.760
always been a wonder And then we
started thinking that should we be doing this

631
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:43.280
more? Should we be? Ronnie
and I had front row seats to that,

632
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:45.119
and we were sitting there and now
here. This is the tough part

633
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:50.320
for you guys running encounters and round
table. When that goes off, you're

634
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:52.239
like, when do I step in? Where do I step in? I'm

635
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:53.639
hoping Martin and Nikki come over,
just tell me to step in. But

636
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:57.599
Ronnie and I are having like the
time of our life. These two powerhouses.

637
00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:00.079
They're like, oh yeah, yeah, and they just keep toughing you.

638
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:04.199
You get the one guy in the
audience just poking the beast and getting

639
00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:06.800
it going and I'm like, this
is amazing, but I think I'm gonna

640
00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:08.639
get fired if I don't stop it. But I don't, I stop the

641
00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:14.079
two kings of the sport. Essentially, it was amazing. It was amazing,

642
00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:17.400
and we all survive no scars or
And I just wanted to add too,

643
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:21.880
why do you love bigfoot? We
all may love it for slightly different

644
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:23.840
reasons. If you love it because
it is flesh and bone and you believe

645
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:27.880
it in your soul, awesome,
you right just about it. You really

646
00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:29.880
are, like, dude, I
think it's ghost. Look at all these

647
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:32.679
weird things that it's attributed to.
That's awesome. Just keep in mind when

648
00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:36.320
you're there, you're all in love
with the same thing. You're just approaching

649
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:38.800
it from a different angle. And
that's life. Life allows you to love

650
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:42.840
things a little different from everyone,
so it feels special. It's a big

651
00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:45.199
suit man, it's a big melting
pot of all of us. But they're

652
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:46.719
right, there's a level of respect
there because, you know what, y'all

653
00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:51.039
got to act a little better when
you're in congress, when you're in people,

654
00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:52.719
right, when you're swimming that thing, we all act that you have

655
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:57.079
to, But that's their for you
to enjoy. That is exactly what I

656
00:42:57.119 --> 00:42:59.719
was talking about. You're gonna feel
good in that audience. I might even

657
00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:01.519
make it stretches this year. Just
keep what moving. That's the whole thing

658
00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:07.079
about these conferences. People hear different
comments about Bigfoot conferences and all this stuff,

659
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:09.360
but it's the community. And this
community has grown and growing. But

660
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:14.239
not only that it brings to the
table, makes us enlarge the table sort

661
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:16.679
of speak as far as the scientific
part of it goes. Because you have

662
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:22.480
all these people that come to these
conferences that have many skills that they may

663
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:24.440
be able to bring to the table. I've talked to a lot of people.

664
00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:30.159
I'm sure Brian's talked to a lot
of people about their background. Sobrian

665
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:32.760
was a police officer. Great knows
how to break down stories and look for

666
00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:36.559
people may not be telling, could
be lying, or could be telling the

667
00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:42.960
truth. Those skills are impeccable when
trying to investigate an area or an encounter

668
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:45.159
or whatever. And then you have
people that are going to live off the

669
00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:49.159
land and can track and do all
this stuff. So all these people get

670
00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:53.400
together and that meeting table gets larger
with all these skills that are floating around

671
00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:59.159
all these people will get more interested
due to conferences that they go to and

672
00:43:59.159 --> 00:44:00.559
they're curious about. Well, they
said, Oh, I can bring my

673
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:05.840
skills to this. I can really
help these guys out. So that helps

674
00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:09.239
tremendously in this field that family grows
and grows. Renee was saying, even

675
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:13.880
though you have differences on what you
may or may not think these things are,

676
00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:16.159
we all want to be able to
get to the point where we can

677
00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:19.840
put our differences hide and say,
hey, let's figure out what the heck

678
00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:22.920
these things are. That's what we're
all here for more absolutely, because I've

679
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:25.920
spent the last couple of years just
dipping my tail back into the big Book

680
00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:30.400
community publicly. That is, like
I said, as I've been away since

681
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:32.440
Fining Bigfoot wrapped up, I've been
reconnecting. My dad was adopted. I

682
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:37.880
find my dad's birth family. So
I've been reconnecting. Waking up one day

683
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:42.360
and fighting out. I had twenty
one cousins on one side click know me

684
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:45.039
through a Fining Bigfoot, which is
pretty odd. The one thing I was

685
00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:49.800
doing is working on following up reports
again on indigenous land, and in the

686
00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:52.119
last couple of years, I don't
go to a lot of big cook conferences.

687
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:55.239
I would love to do more.
If it works with kids, I

688
00:44:55.280 --> 00:45:00.360
always fay school administrators and teachers reach
out to me because my favorite thing is

689
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:02.559
to go and talk to the schools. And if those overlap with big book

690
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:07.639
conferences, all the more, bring
it. But what I've been seeing at

691
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.639
conferences just the last couple of years
is more of an indigenous sense and I

692
00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:15.119
love it. And you guys,
that's to me. I don't know.

693
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:16.440
I got choked up. I was
at an event recently. I tried to

694
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:20.119
come in and work the room,
and I promise I didn't do the best

695
00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:23.159
job that night, because I call
myself. It was a lot of indigenous

696
00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:27.199
members for my home state were at
this table and it was just this moment

697
00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:30.280
of Oh. I literally was shedding
tears that we were having so my four

698
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:35.440
years. I love to see the
indigenous presence at these conferences. We need

699
00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:40.599
to welcome them more invitations. It's
a breadth of knowledge and experience and skill

700
00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:45.840
set that they bring to the table
that we need to bring everybody on board,

701
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:49.119
take down the barriers of what bigfoot
is and listen and learn from each

702
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:53.159
other and stay tuned for more sasquatch
Obsy. We'll be right back after these

703
00:45:53.280 --> 00:46:02.440
messages. Before we get to the
organization of this conference and going into the

704
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:07.440
details for you guys, I'm going
to say thank you so much for both

705
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:13.480
to Marty and Nikki for inviting me
into it. I have not stopped talking

706
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:16.039
about it with Dad. I know
that me and Brian have not stopped talking

707
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:20.719
about it have We made The main
argument was how it was how many books

708
00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:22.519
we're going to bring to the conference? Is this going to be your first

709
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:28.320
time in Florida, you said,
well to O'Connor. Yes, my family

710
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:31.960
and myself love Orlando. We love
the Disney Parks, and we love Universal.

711
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:37.719
So I'm fifteen and I've been seventeen
eighteen times. Me and Dad are

712
00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:43.880
planning a trip to Universal after the
conference, but our first time out of

713
00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:47.480
Orlando. It's going to be an
incredible weekend and an incredible week for us,

714
00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:51.840
starting with Friday night. Then,
do you guys want to say a

715
00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:57.320
little bit about the VIP dinner.
So we have one hundred and sixty of

716
00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:01.480
our attendees who are our VIP lists
that get to come and do a meat

717
00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:06.519
and eat is what we call it. So we'll do a huge barbecue buffet

718
00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:12.159
with everything from pulled four chicken,
macarai and cheese, all the good Florida

719
00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:15.800
fixens. We'll bring everybody together.
This year it will be indoors. We

720
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:20.760
don't really announce the location because we
don't need party crashers, but it will

721
00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:23.880
be indoors in the ac Last year
we did it outside under pavilion, but

722
00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:28.039
it was April and it was hot
enough then, so we knew better than

723
00:47:28.119 --> 00:47:32.159
to do that again. So we'll
have about two hours to meet, eat

724
00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:36.519
mingle. We don't really do a
lot of signatures and stuff there, but

725
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:39.599
we do give everybody an opportunity to
meet the speakers in front of a backdrop,

726
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:45.440
take their picture, say hi,
then let the speakers have their little

727
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:50.960
introduction and talk. That's just a
great segue to the Saturday conference because then

728
00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:53.599
they end up getting to be the
first ones in the door on Saturday to

729
00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:58.320
come get their signatures and everything,
and then then they end up in the

730
00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:02.480
first four rows of the front row
and seatings. Everybody seems to always enjoy

731
00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:06.079
it. We always have a blast, and I think there's still left.

732
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:09.360
Yeah, there's very few left.
Where there's very few VIP spots left if

733
00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:14.320
anybody's still interested in getting one,
all of you will be there hopefully.

734
00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:15.960
Well, David, you can't make
it, I think you've got Yeah,

735
00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:20.079
we'll be able to make it Friday
night, but I'll be there Saturday for

736
00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:23.159
sure. Yes, and you'll get
to meet everybody else that's not here as

737
00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:30.239
well, Russ and Ken, and
it's just gonna be a great Adam.

738
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:35.559
I'll just say for people listening Matt
Truitt talking about books phenomenal sasquatch, if

739
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:39.159
you are in the fleshing bone camp, he is the next Meldrum or Cliff

740
00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:43.400
Barrackman or whatever you believe would talk
to him. The dude is smart.

741
00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:47.119
Ken Gearhart, He's got his own
cryptozoological course. So if you're more wide

742
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:51.199
open on the spectrum of the things
that you love, he gets someone that

743
00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:53.559
definitely talk and meet with. We
also have Adam Davies Ken Gearhart. Adam

744
00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:58.480
It's you want hat or non hat
on a super star for show zoology,

745
00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:01.360
and Adam Davies is actually he found
like real proof. So if you want

746
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:06.719
to talk to someone that legitimately has
found proof of these cryptos who logic plans,

747
00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:08.880
then he's your man, and then
Russell Accord. If you love the

748
00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:15.280
TV show Expedition Bickfoot, if you
love a military member approach, survivalist approach

749
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.159
to the phenomenon, then russ is
your guy to talk to. That's my

750
00:49:19.199 --> 00:49:21.639
two cents and all them. But
they're all awesome. It's a great lineup

751
00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:23.760
and they're very social, so you'll
have a chance to pick their brains.

752
00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:28.480
Trew It is an old friend of
mine. Used to live in Washington State,

753
00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:30.760
a lot of squashing out here before
he moved back to the East Coast.

754
00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:36.760
Matt was actually a part of our
very first Smoky Mountain Bix gooodwroof.

755
00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:39.719
One thing I'll say about Adam Davies
Renee. He doesn't even know this,

756
00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:45.719
but she was locked in a metaphysical
imagine arm wrestling match with Adam Davis for

757
00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:50.920
the right tonounce. Daniel Renee took
it over because Adams like, I'm British,

758
00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:52.719
I should introduce him, put him
three. I was like just being

759
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:55.639
British or really being into the love
of the kids, you know, so

760
00:49:55.760 --> 00:49:59.400
I just said, yeah, gift
Renee. After all these years, it's

761
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:01.440
Adam Davis. I've been calling it
if Davies to his space. Yeah.

762
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:06.320
In fact, my one request is
I can never come after Adam. I

763
00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:08.800
mimic people's I've called him Madam Davies
forever, and I kept putting this one

764
00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:13.559
guy calling Madam Davis, and then
I realized it was himself calling them Madam

765
00:50:13.639 --> 00:50:16.280
David. So I realized, that's
correct. I should probably assume that mine

766
00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:21.320
was wrong, seeing we learned something
at these conferences. Matt wanted to be

767
00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:22.599
with us for the podcast. I
texted him a couple of days ago and

768
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:25.000
he's, dude, I can't make
it. I'm in the woods doing research.

769
00:50:25.119 --> 00:50:28.920
So that's why he's not here today. But you guys can catch him

770
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:30.760
at the conference. He is one
of the best in Bigfoot. You will

771
00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:36.119
not be disappointed. Yeah, I'm
the same without him without well, and

772
00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:38.679
I just I haven't spoken at him
recently, but with Pruet, what I

773
00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:44.840
love about him is he's goods to
the ground and the great conversation, open

774
00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:49.159
minded. I have that dialogue to
be able to back it up. But

775
00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:52.320
I'm not saying that the people aren't. But I'm just I think Prode is

776
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:57.840
a great example of somebody who's in
the biological species can't and is doing the

777
00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:01.760
active current research, and then we'll
engage in dialogue to learn more from the

778
00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:07.239
entire community. We need more examples
like Ken. I have not seen in

779
00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:10.360
forever, so I am looking forward
to seeing him. It's been years since

780
00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:15.559
I've passed with him, and Adam
I saw recently, so I'm looking forward

781
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:17.519
to he. Ken has a little
bit of experience I believe here in Florida

782
00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:21.440
because of the first time I met
Ken was in two thousand and four here

783
00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:24.960
in the Green Swamp. He was
great. I've met him out in Washington

784
00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:29.800
as well, so he's an awesome
guy. He knows his stuff about cryptozoologies.

785
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:32.199
Everyone's off so that's going to be
a great event for everybody. So

786
00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:37.360
just get out there, drop your
money in there, go and you're just

787
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:39.360
gonna have a blast. You're going
to learn a lot of stuff. Yeah.

788
00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:45.960
Absolutely, Before we do our final
few things, Marty and Nikki,

789
00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:51.239
is there anything else you guys want
to say about the actual staff today,

790
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:54.239
the actual day of the confer I
don't know how many minutes we half left,

791
00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:59.039
but I would love to hear Brian
speaking of delegating. Brian tell us

792
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:00.559
a little bit about the Skunk Cape
Brown Table, and who we have.

793
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:05.239
I don't think that's what announced or
did we miss it? You missed that,

794
00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:09.239
you missed that. I don't want
to give away everything. I want

795
00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:13.199
to leave a little mystery out there. But we do have at least five

796
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:17.519
folks from Florida. Marie Dumont's going
to be there for sure. I'm confirming

797
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:22.960
these people as we go. We've
got Christopher Balzano, who is an author,

798
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:25.719
and we've got Richard Fairby, the
founder of b FG. And I'm

799
00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:30.719
working on confirming the last one of
our members for the round table. But

800
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:32.000
yeah, you guys froze up and
missed that. We did get to talk

801
00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:36.480
a little bit about that. We're
going to get into all of the things.

802
00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:39.440
I'm stoked to get into the skunk
Ape and the research that people are

803
00:52:39.480 --> 00:52:42.800
finding down there. We're going to
get into all the evidence. We're going

804
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:45.000
to get into what they're finding,
what the theories are. While you guys

805
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:49.119
were gone, Marty and Nikki,
I've got to pair down the questions because

806
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:52.400
I've got so many questions to ask
these folks and we've only got an hour.

807
00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:55.480
So we'll get into that and get
all those questions answered, So it's

808
00:52:55.519 --> 00:52:59.559
going to be a good time.
I'm really looking forward to doing it,

809
00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:02.360
and it's worth all the guys in
the Skunkky round Table, they have their

810
00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:07.039
own boosts right off the adjacent to
where the speakers are. We may not

811
00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:08.639
get a lot out of them individually
in an hour, but you've got the

812
00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:12.239
rest of day to drop in on
them and the deep rouls. It's gonna

813
00:53:12.239 --> 00:53:15.159
be a long day, you guys. We've got nine am doors open,

814
00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:17.679
we go till seven, so you've
got ten hours. Yeah. We're always

815
00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:21.440
amazed that the ones that are still
there at seven, and there's always a

816
00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:23.440
lot and as they're walking out,
we're telling them by we're like, these

817
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:29.960
people are troopers the hours. Yeah, we're shameless stellers, even from ourselves.

818
00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:34.519
And the Skunkcat Ground Table has always
been such a love segment of this

819
00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:37.920
event that we actually, for the
first time ever in Gallenburger' you'll be doing

820
00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:42.000
the Appalachian Bigfoot round Table. We
brought a lot of Gallenberg to Florida to

821
00:53:42.039 --> 00:53:44.760
start with, and now we're sneaking
a little Florida back up to galliber But

822
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:46.159
oh that just in general, we're
next quo to this year, which if

823
00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:50.400
anybody came last year, we're one
building away from what we were last year

824
00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:52.800
next door. But we did buy
a giant inflatable bagso this year we're gonna

825
00:53:52.800 --> 00:53:57.079
stick out. Figure that'd be better
than one of the thousand signs around the

826
00:53:57.159 --> 00:54:00.519
World Questrian Center. So if you
can't figure out where you're at, look

827
00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:01.639
for the big Foot, and if
that doesn't give it away, then you're

828
00:54:01.639 --> 00:54:05.559
probably at the wrong place. Huge. The World of Questions Center is huge.

829
00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:07.559
If anybody's been there before, I
know you write some of you have,

830
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:10.239
but it will have a lot of
people going. I couldn't find it.

831
00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:15.599
It's a yeah, college, large
college campus. So it is a

832
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:22.679
billion dollar resort. It is the
most pro amazing new area for us to

833
00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:28.239
gather. Ever, so like that
place is that the screen is like the

834
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:30.599
definition is too good, it's four
K. It's I don't want to see

835
00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:35.920
myself that closed like filter. Yeah, go as much as you want.

836
00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:38.119
You'll get a bracelet when you check
in. And so when you get your

837
00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:43.159
bracelet you can leave and go around, have onech other's four or five restaurants,

838
00:54:43.519 --> 00:54:45.800
just so much to see just in
the World Question Center itself, and

839
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:49.920
we have people come leave for an
hour and come back and hopefully we'll be

840
00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:52.800
able to feed everybody. Last year
that was a big to do. It's

841
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:57.760
hard to get at the position stands. Isn't a lot the food trucks this

842
00:54:57.840 --> 00:54:59.920
year they did. Yeah, they
you told me we're have boot trucks.

843
00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:04.079
We'll see, we'll see a long
day, so just come planning for that.

844
00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:06.920
A lot of fun. It is
a marathon, not a sprint,

845
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:09.400
but engaging. If you're into any
of this stuff, you can have a

846
00:55:09.480 --> 00:55:13.159
long, fun day. We're not
amazing in a little press of twenty five

847
00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:16.639
dollars. Why thank you for twenty
five dollars these days? That's there.

848
00:55:16.719 --> 00:55:22.039
That's right, guys. I want
to thank you all for being here today.

849
00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:27.000
I believe thirteen days I look this
morning, thirteen days this conference will

850
00:55:27.039 --> 00:55:30.920
be taking place. I can see
Marty's face going it's second day's way.

851
00:55:32.199 --> 00:55:36.480
Is that anything else, Brian that
you would like to say? No,

852
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:38.880
just looking forward to seeing everybody there. Thanks everybody in the chat. Share

853
00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:43.320
this. Let everybody know there's still
tickets available. We would love to see

854
00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:45.639
you all there on June the eighth. I'll bey Jing. Yeah, so

855
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:50.000
we've talked about kids. But please, if your kids are curious, bring

856
00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:52.880
them. It's not scary at all. It is informative and education. There

857
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:55.880
is a lessener discussion though, because
we don't know what's coming out of anybody's

858
00:55:55.960 --> 00:56:02.159
mouths. But yeah, come on. I'm family orientated and ably and there's

859
00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:06.280
enough time in the day to do
everything. If you're there for it.

860
00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:07.679
Whoever you want to meet, you'll
meet them. You'll be able to hit

861
00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:12.440
the vendor boost and you'll be able
to listen to your favorite Just like Harpy

862
00:56:12.519 --> 00:56:15.320
g says, just come on down. If you're curious about big quit sasquatch

863
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:20.239
yetty, it's gonna gepe all that. If you have questions, you just

864
00:56:20.320 --> 00:56:23.000
want to ask people. You got
a ton of people here that you can

865
00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:27.440
ask. Just reach out. It's
going to be fabulous. So this facility

866
00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:32.880
is huge. It's like the Disney
World of Equestrian in Okala. It's the

867
00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:37.760
biggest facility there in Okala. We
hope to see everyone there. Come on

868
00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:43.199
down. Rudie Holland, that's a
beautiful Memorial Day weekend here. I'm wearing

869
00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:45.320
some flannel in the hat because it's
fifty two degrees in Seattle, and I

870
00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:50.519
love brain be happier. So I'm
going to have to dig deep into my

871
00:56:50.599 --> 00:56:53.239
closet to find potentially some shorts and
lighter oner weather. But I think we're

872
00:56:53.239 --> 00:56:57.719
indoors. It's going to be air
conditioned. I just keep saying, everybody,

873
00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:00.239
bring your sandals, shorts, and
your big smile, because I'm looking

874
00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:04.559
forward to seeing everybody I know.
On that night after the VIP meet and

875
00:57:04.559 --> 00:57:07.760
greet, there's one hundred and sixty
people, but usually everybody figures out where

876
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:09.679
we're staying at the hotel, and
just like the last three conferences I was

877
00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:13.519
at, I stay up until about
four in the morning. Usually it's a

878
00:57:13.559 --> 00:57:16.199
lotty talking to people want to talk
to me, So then I roll in

879
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:22.000
that next day and talk all morning
and into the afternoon into the evening.

880
00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:24.039
So I hope that I will still
have a voice at the end of the

881
00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:30.519
night. I am stoked. Bring
your family, bring everybody, bring your

882
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:32.280
heart, and know y'all do.
I'm looking forward to seeing y'all. Just

883
00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:36.599
stay tuned this week everyone, if
you follow our page, the Great Quarter

884
00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:40.400
Big Foot Conference will be making announcements
all week just as we're tying everything together.

885
00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:45.119
It's the last kind of puzzle pieces
coming together, and we're excited that

886
00:57:45.320 --> 00:57:46.960
all of you are going to be
there and that we get to do this.

887
00:57:47.079 --> 00:57:52.599
Oliver AA, It's gonna be a
huge tience in the end. I'll

888
00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:55.400
just say this here. With the
people that we've got involved with the Skuncave,

889
00:57:55.480 --> 00:58:00.119
Rown Table and the total number of
people we've got involved doing presentations and

890
00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:04.320
everything else, there are gonna be
so many people actively involved in the research

891
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:07.960
as well as people have had these
experiences that if you are remotely interested,

892
00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:12.719
it's a great data to be inn
Okala for this event. So Indiana,

893
00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:15.079
we appreciate you so much putting this
all together and doing that for us.

894
00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:20.320
You are more than welcome. I
am so excited to be there in a

895
00:58:20.360 --> 00:58:23.360
couple of days. We're flying out
a week before. We are so excited

896
00:58:23.480 --> 00:58:27.639
to be a part of this.
I know Dad can't stop talking about it

897
00:58:27.719 --> 00:58:30.159
either. We are all so excited
to be there. We will see you

898
00:58:30.360 --> 00:58:37.880
all on June eighth. They say, you don't gotta go home, but

899
00:58:37.119 --> 00:59:10.199
you can't stay. I don't want
to happen steps step, Joy, this

900
00:59:10.719 --> 00:59:17.320
chart, that chart, everything calling
right, pry back, joy for me,

901
00:59:19.360 --> 00:59:47.039
Joy, staying right. You come
it right away, still step,

902
00:59:51.039 --> 01:00:36.800
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