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Hey everybody, this is Less Driving. Yes, yes I know aka
Survivor Man and you're listening to Brian on Sasquatch Odyssey. Hey there, and
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remember there and help support the show. I got to sit down with Daniel
Barnett and he is a fourteen year old cryptozoologist over in the UK and he's
been out in the forest looking for Bigfoot and he has made some really miraculous
discoveries, including probably the most significant is some footprints that he collected e DNA
from and had it sent off to the lab and it came back with Old
World Monkey and Great eight DNA. When Daniel and I sat down. He
had just got back from being out in the field and he had just collected
more DNA as well as here, and I let Daniel tell you all about
that in just a minute. He is having an event tomorrow that if you're
in the UK you can attend. I think he's near Somerset, but you
can also attend online. I've got a link to that in the show notes,
so you guys can check that out. I would love to have you
be a part of his event and support what he's doing over there. I
think he's doing some really fantastic stuff. So without further ado, let's get
into it. Daniel's on the line. He's ready to go. You just
sit back, relax and enjoy the show. I want to welcome my guest
to the show. It is Daniel from the UK. Welcome to the show.
Daniel. Thanks. I'm glad that we could reschedule this. I know
you were under the weather the last time we had this scheduled. I appreciate
you working with us on the schedule and coming back on the show. I
have been excited to talk to you about your research, so have I and
I'm very glad to be here. Let's get right into it. Let's talk
about Bigfoot. You're a young researcher. You're only fourteen years old, so
what guy you interested in Bigfoot as a subject? To begin with? I
was sut watching Expedition Bigfoot with my granddad and my cousin, and we were
just like watching normal TV. And it was when I was just sut there
going is this real? So I turned to Gramps and said, Gramps,
is this real? And he went, yeah, it is. I'm right
stucking, I'm from there. We were completely off on Bigfoot and everything Bigfoot.
All I've done for the last five weeks is Bigfoot. Talk a little
bit about his answer. Did he go into detail with you about why his
answer was? Just because that's honestly an interesting answer. Most people in that
situation, in your granddad's situation with tell their grandson, no, it's entertaining.
There's a lot of cool shows about it, but I'm not so sure
it's real. Do you know why he answered yes immediately? Has he had
experiences or was it something that he was interested in in some way? Me
and Gramps are very similar. I'll say I got sales about two years ago
now, so I was around about thirteen and I was old enough to know
that it was something that was being investigated, and I'm autistic, so I
take things very adult way and I went, Wow, that's incredible. So
my cousin went, that's not real. And I'll speak about him later.
But it was then a new beginning of watching everything. And it's like we
met for kind of three four weeks, I think, just watching the program,
and when it ended, we went, oh, when's season four going
to be on? And we were chatting about where it is, where it
might be, and I think it was just very open about it. He
didn't really have an opinion, and obviously we were working from there. Got
just you're watching Expedition big Foot. What is your favorite part about that show?
I know it captivates audiences around the world. People have their different things
that they enjoy about it. I've gotten to hang out with those guys Ronnie
Maria very very jealous, and those guys Russell the Cord is awesome. I
can see the draw from the personalities there, because they're just huge personalities.
They're really cool people. But what is it about the show show that really
captured you? Was it their scientific approach to it? Was it the way
they got out into the woods. Was it things that they were doing in
the woods that really captivated your attention? What really got you into Expedition Bigfoot
when you were watching the show? So I think it was the mystery behind
the show. And I know a lot of people discredit Expedition Bigfoot and a
lot of the shows, and I get why because a lot of people think,
why you capture in this one camera and some of it is for the
entertainment. My personal opinion, well, it is that they do it so
well it's hard to discredit. It's such a good show. And I like
Maria's side to it where she is really on the scientific side. I also
Russell's way of I'm going by myself investigating a lot more. Ronnie's just an
amazing person where he questions everything, and I think they're a great team together
with them Bryce handling it all. I think it's just a brilliant way to
do a show. Really, I think it's really clever. Yeah, I
agree with you, honestly, I told you before we started recording, I
don't really watch the show, but like I said, I'd met Maria,
Ronnie and Russell a couple of times at different conferences, and things like that.
And I tell you what really sent me over the edge of being more
apt to believe what was going on the show was hanging out with Zach Hall,
which is the cameraman that's always with Russell that records, and Zach was
very open about the experiences and how real what they do actually is. Getting
to know Zack and hanging out with he and Russell a couple of different times
have really pushed me towards the fact that I think they're doing this for the
right reasons. Everybody has their opinions about the show. Some people have said
that it's fake. I was hanging out with Todd Standing a couple of weeks
ago up in Radium and Todd was really bashing Expedition Bigfoot Finding Bigfoot and talking
about how fake the show. Again, everybody's got their opinions about it.
I get that if you're getting something out of it as a young researcher,
I think that's really what the show's all about. It's obviously for entertainment.
It's television, so they have to make things entertaining for the people who watch
it. But for you, as a young researcher, you're going out into
the woods. Let's talk about that. A shift from Expedition Bigfoot to talk
about Expedition Daniel. Because you got out into the woods and started looking into
this for yourself. Talk about what that journey looked like. How did you
first get out into the woods and what kind of area were you going into
and what were you finding. This is where I switched back to my cousin.
After an episode of Expedition of Bigfoot. I turned to my cousin William
and said, I want to go out in the forest. I want to
go and do what they do. Now, we were quite smart about this
and we went we're going to gain the experience first our local animal, which
is there. So we decided Expedition Deer. Let's go out, let's look
for deer, let's research them, look for footprints. So we did that
for seven different episodes, and that took up by a year and a half
and it was an incredible journey. We found deer that were barking in front
of us, and we found different footprints, we got plaster of Paris,
we were experimented with trial cameras, all sorts. It was just incredible.
When we returned from Expedition Deer, I went, there's only so many times
you didn't go out and do the same thing. Now, although we do
have a good bit of land down here. See, I'm right off of
the contok Kills, which are a massive area of forest, which is just
incredible. Now I said to my nan, who's my partner, and crying.
We can't stop. But I did say, let's switch. Let's now
go to the exmal beast, which is a big cat we have. Now
we were going right, there was a very low chance that we're going to
find this cat. So I said, let's go and find where this cat
may be living maybe eating. So I picked the forest near a stream that
we have running through where we live. Now, this forest is fifteen minutes
from where I'm sat right now. We went to the forest with the intention
of just open mind. We didn't even have bigfoot in our heads. Now
this is where it just gets ridiculous. Is we were walking up this trail
and we got to the trail that goes down a ridge and he got two
trees with a gap in the middle and and goes, what's this. Now,
I wish I hadn't turned round, but when I did it, it
was an eighteen inch footprint in front of us. Now, that's just mad.
Now I knew about bigfoot, I was quite knowledgeable about bigfot I didn't
think I would come across a footprint. Well, I looked at it,
we got run out and went, yeah, that's eighteen inches. I'm like,
what's walking around Bethy has an eighteen inch foot? No one? We
make a cast with it, and I decided to take DNA. So I
took the DNA and went right, I'm going to find someone that is going
to test us for me, and we're going to get result. Now I
didn't have any intention of getting any result. I sent off to a company
called SGS. It took about six weeks. Now, during that six weeks,
we found bones, we found tree structures, we found scat, we
found more indentations. I sent off about five samples and it got to last
week. I'm like, you can't do any more in this forest. Now
it's about three mile fox, so it's not big at all. There's a
part of the forest where you physically can't get into. It is three brambles,
nettles, ferns, and you can't get in. What's in there?
I dread to think. But when I got the DNA results back. I
just froze, honestly, just froze. Now, obviously we had our typical
pheasant. We had chicken, deer, wild boar, human DNA, which
I shume came from US, squirrels, rabbits, badgers, your normals,
normal woodland animals. Look, you have old world monkeys and great apes.
I won't expected a lot of talk. I'll also say we had another hit.
Now. I don't know if this is related, but it is a
dog walking area. It's not heavily populated with dogs though. Now on one
hit you had wolf and dog, and on another one you had wolf and
domestic dog. Now I'm like, okay, that's a bit weird. Why
is wolf DNA in print? I don't know. Now, dogs could have
just stepped the net. But this was off a track. I'm like,
okay, it's just something I'm going to have to look into. But the
main thing was the old world of monkeys and great ape DNA. Let's talk
a little bit about that. Because I looked at one of the articles that
you had posted on Facebook, and I read some of the preliminary results of
the DNA and I saw that immediately my eyes lit up, and I started
getting chills, honestly, because I was fascinated with the fact that there was
old world monkeys, as you said, and great apes that shouldn't be there
in that area. Talk a little bit about that. Did they give you
any kind of an indication of how that might have been or was it just
here's your results, Daniel, Now run with it and let your imagination run
wild. What did you do? Did you start digging into those types of
DNA that they came back with, and if so, what were you finding
and what was going through your mind when you were doing the research? So
when the result came through, I was trying my very best to debunk as
fast as I possibly could, and I couldn't. I honestly couldn't. Now,
this is very highly unlikely that someone from a zoom the nearest sooo is
an hour away, is to come down wearing the same boots that they wore
in the zoo, which seems very unlikely, and to take the shoe off
and put it in the much. I'm like, if it was, it
would have to be a bit of a looney for you and do that.
That's just so I could almost say I can all out that I can say
it wasn't human. Now some people have said and I can't say this.
Sometimes human has a Grade eight DNA, so it can come off as that.
But we don't have old World Monkey DNA. That's just Matt. Now
it's more than one hit. Now, we had other indentations that we collect
edit from that came back as our World Monkey. It's more than just one
hit. Now. We have been to that forest. I can't even count
out at times. But the scary thing is is it's only fifteen minutes from
where I'm sat now. As I said, we went out to a forest
today where I had tracked where this singer gone. I don't know if this
sing is still here. I don't know if this sing has moved on.
I do know that there has been some sort of sighting in Wales very recently.
But I do know what we found today is we found a very large
footprint, the same size as the one we found five minutes down road.
And when I was taking the DNA from it, out popped a very long
orange that is brand new fresh investigations that now I'm doing. But this can't
get any bigger, Honestly, it can't get any bigger. Because the piles
and piles of stuff that we're finding. Now, in my mind, it
seems ridiculous that we're finding something every day. I'm like, this isn't us
making up in our mind, It's really not. I have an event which
I'll talk about later with Richard Freeman, one of the biggest cryptno zoologists here
in the UK, and I showed him the picture of the footprint. He
went, holy crap, don't know all the scientists. I've spoken to doctor
Jeffrey maldrm spon to Amy Boo, I've spoken to the big ones and they've
gone, don't know. Not even the big scientists know what is going on,
and that just blows my mind, honestly. With then the DNA,
it striked me today when I went, if we can replicate these results in
a forest five minutes down the road, that would be shute. If we
could replicate primate DNA, I would be able to fully say this thing has
been moving very briefly through the area. We saw a lot of down trees.
We saw loads of tree structures, but made by humans as well,
so there could have been structures there, but I couldn't. We're up there
for two hours and within two hours we found a footprint and gained EDNA and
gained a hair. Now that's an ongoing investigation that I'm trying to get my
head around. But so then, have DNA in the past. I'm like,
no one in the UK has done this before, So why is this
thing here? And how long has it been here? And we haven't known?
Now, not once have I said that this is bigfoot. Not once
that I've said that it's anything. I've said that it's weird, this doesn't
belong here, and I think as we strange, I'll say that it's definitely
strange, for sure. I would love to see any photographs that you have.
I know people listening to this are going to want to see the photos
of the footprints that you're talking about. But do your best, if you
would, for me and the audience to describe the type of foot. Are
we talking a very humanoid type foot? Obviously it's big if it's eighteen plus
inches, but talk a little bit about the foot, How wide is it?
How is it looking when you guys are coming across these tracks. I
would say the track that we already have the DNA for that was found probably
about eight weeks ago, now had sides and five distinct toes with then kind
of indentations in it. Now a lot of people can't see the footprint,
and my god, met it's hard to see. But when I look at
it closer, I go, no, that is something, And I keep
going back to going, come on this time, it can't be a fit.
Now people are going, oh, it's nothing. It's just now that's
where the edi and egg came from, which is why I know it is
something. And then the one we found today, we couldn't cast it because
it was right on the surface. But what it could do is it was
it had rained quite a lot last night, so I could really pick away
the mud and I could really bring those that EDI and A. Now,
the weird thing about it is that the hairs weren't on the top. They
were ingrained into the bottom in footprint, which kind of indicates this thing would
have added some weight on it. It would have had some weight to push
this in. It could have been a deer, because deer have quite long
hair. The brownish now, I'm color blind, so I'm not one hundred
per cent sure on the color side of it, but I know that when
Nan was stood next to me, She went, I have no idea what
that is. Ago. My best job now is to try and get hold
of a microscope to try and see if I can say anything. Yeah,
I'm definitely thinking the same thing. I would love to have somebody that has
some training there, maybe even a veterinarian that could probably look at it and
identify maybe what type of hair it is, or at least tell you what
it's not. I'm definitely interested in that for sure. Let's talk a little
bit about the tree breaks and the tree structures. That's something that has come
up. I found those here on my property. I'm in North Carolina.
Here in America, We're finding those everywhere. I went in Radium up in
Canada on my recent expedition up there. Obviously, tree breaks are very subjective,
like most of the things that we're talking about here. It's very difficult
to say without actually seeing whatever pulled the tree down and broke it, to
say that it was anything to do with sasquatch. And I'm very much like
you. I've never said that, but it's interesting because I've tried to replicate
these, at least the ones that I found in Canada and here on the
property, and I can get close, but it's just not the same as
the tree breaks that we were finding. Particularly, I'll talk about the Radium
expedition. Talk a little bit about what are you guys finding very similar things
as far as tree breaks, and you talk about structures, talk about some
of the structures that you guys are finding. Are they TP like structures?
Going to detail about what they look like when you're coming across these structures.
So obviously today we couldn't decipher anything because it was just complete loads of trees
down Now, obviously like scouts or something would have been in there, but
in the other forest there were distinct ones. Now I have a story that
kind of honestly frightens me, as in not emotionally, just what is that?
Now? It's a very big ridge and we have to use rope to
get down there. And this was a fifteen feet tree structure with kind of
a two branches going that way and two branches holding in the middle. You
would have had to use these to hold these branches in. It was very
weird. And a few days before we found that, and I was with
my cousin at that point where we found that, I smelt something that was
just horrendous. Gives me the indication of hold on was something there when I
was there when I found this structure with my cousin now was all the way
up on the top of the ridge because she was with the stuff, because
it's still a public borest. When we got down there, you're on like
a track that led into just fields and it was probably five hundred meters of
just ridge and then into the fields. So we were just having a look
at the tree structure and I ran up to get nap. My cousin William
was taking with our very good camera. I didn't think even of it them.
I returned home with the amazing tree structure and I was actually on another
podcast and I posted it on Facebook to say what what I thoughts, and
someone said, is that bigfoot? I'm like what? I go on air
and to my surprise, in the background it was just a black head two
errors, and I say to the guys I'm on the podcast with, I
need to stop a sec what is that I have just found? And I
look at it and go William to that he was alone when he took that.
That's scary that a boy that is ten was down there alone with that
thing. Now, it could have been a shadow, it could have been
the way the sun was because it was setting. But we conn ignore that.
So me and Nan go back a few days later and I'm not place
it, so she does and what we realized we're looking at I level was
twenty feet up a tree. Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see.
We'll be right back after these messages. That is definitely crazy. I have
not seen that photograph, so I would definitely like to see that. Let's
talk a little bit about the equipment that you guys are taking out You mentioned
your camera. What are the kind of equipment are you guys taking out there
on your expeditions. That's what I always find fascinating. Some people are into
thermals, some people are into audio stuff. I'm more of an audio kind
of guy because I work with audio obviously on the podcast every day. What
are you guys taking out there beside your camera? What are you using as
far as equipment, are you guys putting out trail cams and stuff like that?
Talk about the equipment there you're using. Because of the limited money that
we do have now, although we do have money, don't have enough to
buy good equipment now from the National Press. I got paid one hundred pounds
and I went, we are buying proper equipment now to start off with,
Dad actually had a professional camera and a video camera and a tripod. I'm
like mine now. We started with that, and I got like my bag
and like some cheap stuff like tort and for my birthday, I got tent.
Now. We don't like camping tool, but it's good for a base
camp during the summer when we're in the forest and we're there for a day,
it's good just to sit down. And we've got camping chairs. And
then well I got the cash. I went, we're getting some proper EDNA
stuff. So we have now test tubes, tweezers, proper LATEX gloves,
small bags to put the test tubes in. We've got late now and I
bought two trout cameras with my own money. It's a good amount that we
can go out and use it. We bought a professional rope, just the
basics you need really, so we have a lot of cameras and then obviously
the EDNA stuff. We now have a bucket for plaster Paris. We were
offered some free bags of plastra Paris, which I'm like, yay, So
we have three free bags from there, So we have basic amazing equipment that
you have. I'm hoping for Christmas to have a normal drone now that is
probably one of the most amazing pieces of equipment you can ever have. I
want to put that drone over the forest where we found all the prints to
see if there's anything there. Obviously, then a normal camera. I've got
someone coming down next for with a thermal camera. But the basics we have,
which is incredible, sounds like it. I'm very excited for you guys,
and I want to talk a little bit about the latest stuff that you
just found. The hair, the other EDNA samples that you just took.
Are you sending those back to the same lab they're going to do more testing.
Are you holding on to the hair to see if maybe you can do
a little preliminary stuff on your own. What's the plan for that evidence that
you just collected. Obviously it's completely brand new. I'm currently sitting on it
for a minute. I have sent an email. Now. Obviously they did
the DNA free for us, which is absolutely incredible. Now, whether they'll
do that again, I don't know. I have sent an email to say,
look, one more time, we have some incredible evidence, because all
I would need is number one. If it comes about the same, We've
got jack Bot there. This isn't a mistake. They did offer to actually
send us some DNA kits, so we might actually do it ourselves, which
will be amazing. Wise, I have quite a lot of hair samples I
still need to test. Luckily, my mum is the senko at a local
school, so I'm hoping to say, could you borrow a microscope for me?
So I'm hoping to get a microscope to see if we can get the
hairs under there. Once I run there and I think it's something, then
send off the EDNA. If I don't think it's anything, I might not.
I don't know yet to answer that yes, but I'm just going to
try and sit on it for as long as I can. Now, I'm
not one for waiting. I'll do it immediately. But there's a few things
you've got to think about. First. Is there a chance that we're going
to find something bigger? And if there is, then we want to wait?
Or is this big enough to send it? It's a big question you've
got to ask yourself. But is am I feeling this is something? Or
am I not? Is this worth it or not? It's a big question
that most adults can't really answer for themselves. I am in awe of your
thought process when it comes to this stuff, because it is exciting when you
find something, obviously, but to do it in the right way, because
you're thinking globally, right, you're thinking outside the box, because this could
be a huge discovery. In my opinion, I think you've already discovered something
pretty impressive just with the first e DNA. Not very many EDNA samples come
back anywhere with old world monkeys and great apes. They're not supposed to be
there, So that in of itself is huge. And now to have the
hair samples and the other EDNA, just to have that thought process at your
age, and I don't mean that to be demeaning, obviously actually helps.
Actually that a lot more people more more understanding. Now. Some people are
like, no, he's fourteen, he can't. But a lot of people
are like, he's fourteen, he wouldn't make this ut up. No fourteen
is asked to ever do this before, So yeah, let's help him.
So actually, yeah, it's actually a Pardi. It's great, and I
think it was because of your age that Amy bou reached out to me and
said, hey, you should get this this guy on your show. He's
doing great work. And I love Amy, she's a good friend of mine,
so obviously I rowed you out and said friend of mine, Yeah,
let's get him on and talk about this stuff. There's a whole lot going
on here for a lot of people. Again that there's a lot of adult
researchers out there don't approach this thing the way that you're doing it. So
I commend you and kudos for that. Let's talk a little bit about Obviously,
you've gotten some press out of this. You've got some international press.
We've been on the radar here. How are you handling the notoriety. How
have you been assessing that, because that in and of itself is a whole
nother layer to what you're doing. Obviously, you just want to be in
the woods doing your research, but you're doing things like talking to me on
this podcast, and tens of thousands of people are going to hear you on
here, and you've been doing these press things and they've been writing articles about
you. How have you been handling that as far as the pressure that comes
with that. Is it just something you're taking in stride or has that been
difficult for you. I really struggle with school, Honestly, I could not
stress enough how I'm not even in school at the moment. I'm doing online
lessons and obviously I'm in year ten, so I'm very close to my GSEs.
So I'm owned doing English, maths and science, and this is different
universe for me now. I actually contacted the news myself, and then Dad
got involved and helped. So we've been on national press here and I don't
know about the US, but I do know that I'm finding different people picking
up the story every day. I know Ronnie shed it on his page loads
of times. So to answer that, all right, yeah, there's been
a few issues that we've had, but it's gonna happen. And obviously I've
got a very big Bigfoot event coming up next weekend, and We've got to
be careful on who attends because now I'm on national news and I am young.
It can bring in people that we don't want me myself on the news.
I think it's incredible. I laugh every time I find me on the
news. Especially when I found one day that I was on a picture with
me and Patty from the Padison Gimmnam film. That's just incredible, that's just
amazing. But yes, I'm saying it's yeah, it's good. That's a
good thing. Danny and I went back and forth with your dad Craig.
He was great in helping it, but he didn't really do a whole lot.
He just said Daniel was perfectly capable of setting up his own interviews.
So we immediately shifted gears and started dealing with you. But your dad's been
great. So how is your mom and dad handled that? Your nan and
your grandfather, how have they handled you getting into Bigfoot? Is that something
that they're interested in? Are they very supportive of your efforts? How is
that going on in the family dynamic? So if I start with my dad,
Jill, she is on top with me the whole time. Now she's
seventy two, I think or seventy three, and she comes out in the
forest every time me, and she's very on board. Now, she did
not believe in Bigfoot at all a year Buck, I haven't believed in it,
but I didn't know about it for kind of two years. But when
she got really interested was when we were finishing expedition there and we started this
new expedition and the podcast, and she he got interested. Grumps is in
noun. He doesn't really like being on in front of people. Now.
He has some traits of autism from me, I sweart God, but he's
way into it still and liked it. Dad doesn't really believe in the subject,
but he is very on top with me, very very on with me,
and very into everything, into the DNA and all stuff like that.
And Mum is the same as well. She's interested in what it could be.
She doesn't really know much about book Foot, which kind of makes it
hard for her, but she's still very very much on top of it.
Yeah, that's awesome you've mentioned it. Let's talk a little bit about the
podcast. Let's shift gears and talk about that. How did that come about,
What can people expect when they check out the podcast? And then I
want to talk a little bit about some of the people that you've interviewed.
Absolutely so it's called Mythical Legends podcast. Now, I started there to gain
more info about Bigfoot. Just before we went out to the forest. I
started the podcast. Now I've spoken to some incredible people and it's one where
I just started to gain experience about it. Because I am young, there's
a lot in my head and one thing I will bring up is the Bigfoot
event that I'm doing as well, that I've brought a lot into it,
and I am the youngest crypto zoologist here in the UK. I don't know
about the world, but I'm the youngest here in the UK, which makes
my name even bigger. It's amazing and that's why people love it. On
the podcast, people that I've interviewed, I started with Amy Boom and she
is incredible. I chat to her every other day. She's got advice from
me and she's just incredible, absolutely incredible. I've spoken to doctor Jeffrey Meldom
twice and my Gramps was on for that one and probably talked more than I
did because that's his idol, absolute idol. That he spoke more than I
did, and probably more than Maldin did. We did two parts with him
that was amazing, but we've done one with Doug Kiche. I'm actually planned
to do another one with him soon. Kathy Strain and all sorts of just
amazing researchers in the US and here in the UK. That is awesome.
Those are some of my favorite people in the world that you've gotten to sit
down and chat. I know you got Ron moorehead on the show. Ron
lives here in North Carolina and hung out with him earlier in the year at
an event. He's definitely a character. So let's talk about your event.
We've mentioned it a couple of times. Let's get into the event. What
can people expect, how can they attend? Is it going to be an
online thing and in person? Talk about your event, how that came about
and what people can expect when they attend. Again, It's something my family
don't let me get bored because because when I get bored, I come up
with new ideas. I phone my nan immediately and go we're doing this.
So I tend to keep myself very busy. We started with a children's event
in Purple Spoons Cafe here in Somerset, and we were meant to have one
bigfoot researcher come and it was a low key thing and it turned out to
be a success, absolute success. And I met a guy named Chris Alsford.
He's another big for a researcher here in the UK, and When I
left that event, I went, right, now, let's move on,
and my dad went, maybe we should do a few bigger guests, and
he said, so let's leave it for a bit. I went, okay.
Two days later I'm like, no, I'm doing it now. I
can't wait any longer. So I was contacting Amy and that and we went
it is too difficult to get people over here at the moment, so we've
decided to go over there next year at some point for a conference, which
I can't wait for. So I then started going UK. Who's here in
the UK? I have now ended up with and different guests. I don't
know if you've heard this of the CFZ. They're a kryptos zoology company,
and I've got the owner of that to come to my event. I've got
Richard Freeman, who I mentioned, attending the event. It's here in Sunset,
Burnham Hybrid Purplespoon's Cafe, and we've managed to get a home that's for
three yes, and it's Saturday. We are also doing an online kind of
meeting with Amy and Mike Ann. I don't know if you've heard of Mike.
He's a best friend of Amy as well. We're having them on to
do an online talk at one forty five. We're also having an online talk
with a young researcher here. He's sixteen, and he's doing a talk at
our event as well. All our guests are doing talks, and we've got
three people doing book signings at our event, which is amazing. I've literally
just had a message now say we've got people coming with Bigfoot dioramas that they've
created. I'm like, rollim all right then, and I am planning to
do an online screen. I haven't confirmed that yet though, And I now
hear that Bridgewater Mayor and burn and Mayor maybe attending our event. Now I'm
like, oh my god. It's gone from being little to now a big
Bigfoot convention. And we've still kept children's stuff that I have loads of children's
activities, factables. The cast will actually be there and it should be a
very good event, very busy week for me though it definitely sounds like it,
Daniel. I appreciate you taking time out of your schedule and come on
here. I will link in the show notes for everybody who wants to check
out all of your stuff. Obviously, we'll link to the event so people
can attend that if they want to. Virtually, if you get that set
up, we'll certainly link to that as well. But Daniel, I really
appreciate you coming on. Man, I've had a blast talking to you.
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