WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:07.400 Views and opinions expressed by the guests that Sasquatch Experience 2 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:10.519 do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the host, sponsors, 3 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:14.960 or affiliates of the Sasquatch Experience. As always, listener discretion 4 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:15.880 is advice. 5 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:22.440 We got some one or something crawling around out your 6 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:23.559 see what it was? 7 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:27.199 Was it a person or an animal? Or I can't know. 8 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:29.679 All I know that my underway came on and I 9 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:32.200 did have a glimp and say this thing running across 10 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:34.399 the yard a goodbye man or. 11 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:35.560 A company looked like the man. 12 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:36.359 I don't know what it was. 13 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:43.039 Back in two thousand and five, we set out with 14 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:46.039 one goal to give voice to the mystery and those 15 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:49.840 who pursue it. Sasquatch Experience podcast has been your go 16 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:53.640 to source for serious Bigfoot discussion, where we separate fact 17 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:58.240 from folklore. Always grounded in research and respect. We've interviewed 18 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:02.399 eyewitnesses experts since to like because understanding Bigfoot isn't just 19 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:06.760 about belief, It's about the journey. Nearly two decades later, 20 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:11.000 we're still chasing shadows and sharing stories. The search never stopped. 21 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:13.760 Welcome to the Sasquatch Experience. 22 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:36.280 Hello, hit somebody out of here and good evening everyone. 23 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:40.920 Welcome to the Sasquatch Experience for Monday, June twenty seventh, 24 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:45.079 twenty twenty six. I can't believe that we're already at 25 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:47.959 the end of July. Guys. Here we are this year 26 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.319 almost done. And I don't know about you, guys, but 27 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.480 I really feel like I've gotten shit done for research 28 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:59.680 this year for my own personal repertoire. I guess. 29 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:05.840 No shit done or you didn't get shit done. 30 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:11.120 No, now, listen, Matt and I are more fall type 31 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.639 researchers anyhow, Maan, look as we were bigger men and 32 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:17.680 enjoy the cooler seasons of fall and winter. But but 33 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:23.039 hopefully it hasn't been very active in terms of reports 34 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:25.439 coming through either. I mean, we've had some, but not 35 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:29.719 as as many as years past. So I think we're 36 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:33.599 kind of on the downward slope again, or you know, 37 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:35.960 we just have folks that aren't reporting them right now. 38 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.919 And that's always a possibility. And that's not everywhere, that's 39 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:42.280 just here in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Our guest 40 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:46.159 tonight Mike Hartman. Good friend. Mike and I met on 41 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.120 a podcast someone else's hosting a couple of years ago, 42 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.680 and we got a lot in common. We really approached 43 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:54.919 the subject in the same way. And I'll tell you 44 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:59.879 he's hilarious and when you get him started, he's hard 45 00:02:59.879 --> 00:03:03.599 to stop. So Mike comes to us from the Buckeye State. 46 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.879 He does a lot of research in Ohio. Not limited 47 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.599 to Ohio, but does a lot of research there predominantly. 48 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:15.199 He's also the driving force behind the Bigfoot at right now, 49 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:18.520 which is a pretty unique tool, and we'll let Mike 50 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:20.439 talk about that here just a little bit. 51 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.800 Mike, thanks for joining us tonight. My friend didnesuya No, 52 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:27.680 I just like moving my lips and not making sound. 53 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:33.319 I'll just mess with you. It's cool to be here. 54 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:36.479 It's glad to be here. It's I mean, you guys 55 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.479 got a great show, so I'm glad to be here. 56 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:42.719 Oh, we appreciate that. Not everybody agrees. But we've been 57 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:45.080 doing it for twenty years this year, Mike, twenty years 58 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:49.719 of Sasquatch experience. And you know it's funny. We got 59 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:52.080 a comment on our YouTube page that do you have 60 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:56.479 to use the same uh nine call the Sasquat chronicles 61 00:03:56.520 --> 00:04:01.000 for the record. Listen, We've been around longer and I've 62 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:03.879 used the nine to one one call longer, so don't 63 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:07.599 mistake no one's got a monopoly on it. Hell, we 64 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:09.199 don't even know if it's real. I mean, we know 65 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:11.159 the call is real, but we don't know if the 66 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:13.879 subject is real. So let's just enjoy it for what 67 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.519 it is, a fun piece of potential bigfoottery, and we're 68 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.759 using it for entertainment purposes, and it's off if you 69 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:26.040 don't like it, that's all I have to say that respect. 70 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:28.600 I'm a little fired up tonight, guys, Today has not 71 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.920 gone as planned. We've dropped two co hosts tonight. As 72 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.160 you can see. That's all right though, Vance's kitchen blew 73 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:40.439 up and Henry that's a trend and Henry is under 74 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:44.439 the weather tonight. So above and beyond that, Matt. We 75 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:49.240 did have our executive producer down at the Smoking Mountain 76 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:50.800 Bigfoot conference this weekend. 77 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:56.000 Yes, and Brian gave us a play by play that 78 00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:02.240 entire time. So lots of pictures, lots of great reviews 79 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:07.199 coming from Brian. And then we had so my wife 80 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:11.240 watches a lot of these videos about Gatlinburg Pigeon Forge area, 81 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:14.399 and there's a YouTuber that we follow. His name is 82 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:18.879 Tampa Jay. If anyone's ever heard of Tampa Jay, great 83 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.879 guy and he loves anything having to do with bigfoot 84 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:27.639 and sasquatch. I posted a it was probably about an 85 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:33.759 hour long video of Tampa Jay at the conference. Really 86 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:37.959 gave another perspective because we're getting Brian's perspective, and we 87 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:42.920 know Brian, you know, he's an awesome, awesome bigfoot guy, 88 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.759 but then hearing from Tampa Jay, who's basically, you know, 89 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:50.639 someone who's just learning about this, it really gave a 90 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:55.319 great perspective. So we look at things that when we 91 00:05:55.560 --> 00:06:00.439 do any sort of shows or events that what he 92 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.680 found to be interesting we could use, uh you know, 93 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:08.160 through some of the evidence and some of the uh 94 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:13.079 you know, just encounters that that we've had or we've investigated, 95 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:18.040 that we could incorporate that better for people again, you 96 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:22.800 know that aren't coming in as bigfoot experts, but you know, 97 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:25.439 someone coming in off the street with just a general knowledge. 98 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:29.120 It's absolutely perfect. And like I said, having those two 99 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:34.639 perspectives from both Brian and from from this guy, Tampa 100 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:36.519 Jay was outstanding. 101 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:40.560 Absolutely and we're going to get Brian's content posted to 102 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.800 our Patreon soon and then get some sort of way 103 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.040 to display it to the viewers here on probably on 104 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.720 next show we'll get a little recap put together. I 105 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:50.720 know we're a little bit of distant for time, but 106 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:53.920 you know, uh do want to get that because it's 107 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.079 great to have somebody associated with the show. We had 108 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:57.720 a great time when we went a few years ago. 109 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:02.800 It did. We enjoyed ourselves in Gatlinburg. 110 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:08.319 Yeah, oh yeah, and now they have a a flavor 111 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:10.000 town market, so we got to go back. 112 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:15.399 Baker's obsessed with Guy Fierry and uh, well, Paula Dean too, 113 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:23.199 I got pictures. Yeah, oh god, and that's well no, yeah, no, okay, 114 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:25.879 And we're going to segue from that from uh and 115 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:30.160 to tonight's topic. So, Mike, we're glad you're with us. Man, 116 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:33.759 you've been going after Bigfoot in Ohio for how long now, 117 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:34.879 A pretty decent time. 118 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.560 In the field thirty years in the book forty. 119 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:42.920 So you're not a newbie to this field. And I 120 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:46.879 think you know regionally, I think you're well known, Mike. 121 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:50.040 And as we get listeners from all over the UK, 122 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:54.600 New Zealand, all over, tell them how you got started 123 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:57.800 into this, Mike? How did you get bought into Bigfoot 124 00:07:57.879 --> 00:07:59.839 and what's kept you going for so long? 125 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:06.839 So growing up they when I went to elementary school, 126 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.959 adhd all that stuff didn't exist. You were either learning 127 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:16.240 disabled or you were normal. And I got put in 128 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.519 the learning disabled class. So one day we were going 129 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:23.519 to the library and we're down there, were looking around 130 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.199 here this old car, and I find a book by 131 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:30.800 John Green called On the Trail of Bates Foot, and 132 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:37.080 I ended up. So I may have not been learning disabled, 133 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:39.879 but I was a delinquent because I stole the book. 134 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:44.360 I checked it out, it never went back. In the 135 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:46.080 middle of that book. 136 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:49.879 I got the same thing. I will also admit we're 137 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:51.759 both the Linquits together in that respect. 138 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:57.960 Yeah, I owe Elmwood Elementary like eighty thousand dollars in 139 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.240 late we use probably I hope they never tried to collapse. 140 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:06.039 But in the middle of that book was that picture, 141 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:12.720 you know, the famous picture of Patty. And that picture 142 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:18.879 captivated me. It just burned into my memory for some reason, 143 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:23.600 like imprinted on me. And it wasn't so much the 144 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:27.840 photo with the self. It was everything around the photo. 145 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:30.720 What is what what am I looking at? 146 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:31.039 You know? 147 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:31.759 What is it? 148 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.120 What does it do? What does it eat, does it eat? 149 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:36.679 Does it you know? 150 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:38.799 Where does it live? 151 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:39.799 What? So? 152 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:44.240 Yeah, just the questions at that young age. And and 153 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:49.399 then it was later that dad discovered that. Actually he 154 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.919 went to the school and like almost had my principal 155 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:56.600 by the throat and told him he's not learning disabled. 156 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:01.159 You guys are teaching disabled because if he wants to 157 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:06.200 learn it, he will learn it. You're just not captivating 158 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:10.360 him because I could recite every newspaper article. If you 159 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:12.600 asked me about that book, I can tell you what 160 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:16.039 page the sentence was on and I could complete it 161 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:21.639 for you. I just got so absorbed into it. So 162 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:25.519 for me, it started in the third grade eighty three, 163 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:27.279 eighty four somewhere in there. 164 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:30.679 Yeah. And it's something I noticed about you when we 165 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:35.559 were doing that podcast together, as you were very like 166 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.000 on point with the faction. I think we were talking 167 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:40.799 about the DNA study from Catch Them or something along 168 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:41.360 the line. 169 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:41.720 Yeah, and. 170 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.200 You were just you have an acumen to be able 171 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:49.720 to recite that stuff. Man, and funnier than hell, you know, 172 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:53.080 which I think is great for this seal needs a 173 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:58.440 lot more infotainment personalities, not just entertainment, my folks that 174 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:02.039 actually know what the hell they're talking about. And that's 175 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:03.320 kind of why I wanted to get you on the 176 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.720 show because I think, you know, through the work you're 177 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:09.200 doing with the Bigfoot app, which you know, people like 178 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.759 to use the term groundbreaking, I think it's very relevant 179 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.519 in today, especially when we've got a lot of folks 180 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:19.519 that are interested in information at their fingertips as soon 181 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:22.639 as possible. I don't know how many folks. Well, let's 182 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:24.480 talk about the Bigfoot app a little bit. Well, what 183 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:28.200 you know, tell us about it and how's it working out. 184 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:33.960 So it started last year as an idea. Probably since 185 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:39.159 two thousand, I was making websites and back then you 186 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:43.399 had to put the little HDML alligator mouth, alligator mouth 187 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:47.039 blah blah blah. Yeah, write the whole damn code. And 188 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:51.960 I was computering literate at that time, So my websites 189 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:55.679 were horrible because I'm not a code writer. I was 190 00:11:55.840 --> 00:12:00.600 working at McDonalds at the time. You know, my operations 191 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:03.799 weren't that high at that period in my life. So 192 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:08.879 but yeah, I was only building websites. I got better 193 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:12.200 over the years. The programs got better, made it easier. 194 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.639 Soon it got to where you didn't have to write code. 195 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:17.639 You could just tell it what you wanted off of 196 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:22.960 a template, but it was never enough. And then AI 197 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:26.440 hit and everyone got, you know, was terrified of AI. 198 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:31.440 I love technology. I like to have tools and shit 199 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:35.639 at my fingers that I can utilize. So that's where 200 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.639 last year I got the idea for the Bigfoot Apps, 201 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:41.799 started building it, started working on it. It's a pay 202 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:47.399 as you go program and it's website me based, but 203 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:51.879 it's also a lot of AI around it. So I 204 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:57.559 built tools using AI that I would have loved to 205 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:01.480 have had thirty years ago, twenty years ago, ten years ago. 206 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:04.480 And now I can just tell my computer to build 207 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:08.159 it and it'll screw up a few times, sure, but 208 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.120 you keep at it and it's all in the wording, 209 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:17.120 and boom it came to be the bigfootapp dot com. 210 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.759 So right now I'm fighting with Google. Google loves me. 211 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:24.559 They will let my app go to Google Play, but 212 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:31.120 it's the other people that it takes fourteen testers and 213 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:35.679 each tester has to stay on for fourteen days. And 214 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.840 I got the four people part down. It's the other 215 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:42.879 ten that keep dropping the ball and failing me on Google. 216 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.879 But eventually it will be on Google Play. But yeah, 217 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:50.120 it's called the bigfootapp dot com. It's called a login. 218 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.600 You can it's web based. You can save it to 219 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.759 yours cell phone just like an app. It works offline 220 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:04.039 better than an app. And it just is the biggest 221 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:12.879 most comprehensive information base whatever I've ever built in my life. 222 00:14:12.919 --> 00:14:15.759 And that's what I was driving for. I wanted it 223 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:19.519 to be half of the library and the other half 224 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:24.600 I wanted to be tools, field, tools, field tutorial. So 225 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:28.000 I built things like the I worked with doctor, the 226 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.960 late doctor Meldrum, and he helped me come up with 227 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:36.679 a footprint mass algorithm, and so you can take your 228 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:40.399 footprint and you can put stuff in it, and it 229 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:43.879 can measure it for you. And after you get that measurement, 230 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:49.960 it then converts it to a guestiment of the height 231 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:52.960 of the animal based off the length of the print. 232 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:56.759 Doctor Meldrim helped me with that one, so I call 233 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:01.759 it the Meldrum Heist Calculator. And then it's got an 234 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:05.240 actual map, which is my favorite part. It has a 235 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.519 map of the entire United States and you can get 236 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:12.840 on that map and wherever you can build a public map, 237 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:17.120 or you can build your own private map, so you 238 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:20.240 don't have to share your information if you don't want to, 239 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:24.559 your honeyholes, your hotspots, all that, but your basic areas. 240 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:27.000 You can go on the public map if you want to. 241 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:32.600 But on my map you can add information time, weather. 242 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:37.559 You can add a photograph, video, audio recording to it. 243 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:40.159 So when you click on the pin on the map 244 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:43.559 to view it as a user, if there's an audio 245 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.960 file associated to it, it shows up blow you can 246 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:50.720 play it and you can listen to the woops, the hows. 247 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:54.600 You can zoom in and go into the map, look 248 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:58.000 at the area, see what it was like. You can 249 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:01.240 see what the weather was for that day. You can 250 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.519 hit the historical layer and see how it lines up 251 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:10.600 with historical data. And it's more than I could explain 252 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:15.879 in one podcast. I mean, it has the Squatsonian, it 253 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:23.440 has uh the library, it has oh got an entire 254 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:28.080 page dedicated just the information. And then it has my 255 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:32.600 old Bigfoot Ohio app built into it as another button, 256 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:36.799 and it just it has so much stuff in it, 257 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:39.480 I can't even describe it all. In a little bit. 258 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:43.600 I overbuild it. Actually, it's to the point almost being 259 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:44.279 too much. 260 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:47.879 I think I'd rather have it overbuilt than under built. 261 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.480 And really everything that you said, Mike, I mean that 262 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:56.840 sounds awesome for one in just one general. 263 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:57.200 App like that. 264 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:02.080 How long did it? How did you say it took 265 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:03.720 to put everything together? 266 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:09.440 So I've been working on it since last year. I 267 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:15.640 really started building it around January, and I released it 268 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:19.160 prematurely because I like being able to just go online 269 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:22.799 look at it from a user standpoint and say, what 270 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:27.400 would I want on here? And I hope the wife 271 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:30.279 don't want watch this show because I've got about three 272 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:37.119 thousand dollars wrapped up in Yeah, it's been a lot 273 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:44.079 of building, a lot of work, but I'd say like 274 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:50.319 the big push has probably been from January to two 275 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:51.039 weeks ago. 276 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:54.559 I'm on it right now, Mike. I just pulled it 277 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:56.759 up in the web browser, and folks, you got to 278 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.559 get on this because as he's talking about, actually know 279 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:02.640 what I'll do because we put it up on the 280 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:05.960 I'm gonna put it up on the screen, all right, 281 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:09.839 tell me when you can see it. We got it. 282 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:11.839 You can see it right there. Just make sure it's 283 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:14.000 the right screen. It's not any kind of adult videos 284 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.519 or anything, not that I I would do that, but 285 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:20.039 just making sure, you know, but you know, he's got 286 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:21.920 it up here at the top the Bigfoot app You 287 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:25.640 got the Hopping Hills Bigfoot Festival coming up, a public 288 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:29.000 appearance at Squatch and sip report a sighting. But here 289 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:32.720 it's where it starts. Getting the good stuff feel weather station, camp, 290 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:36.559 wind speed, rain and you know, Mike, this is something 291 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:38.960 that years ago when I was working with a small 292 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:42.720 group called the Keystone Bigfoot Project, one of the things 293 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:46.440 that was incredibly important to us was being able to 294 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:52.680 log weather conditions, moon conditions, any kind of atospheric conditions. 295 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:55.920 So when you put a pin on the map or 296 00:18:56.039 --> 00:19:00.599 make a report, if you click on the weather button 297 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:06.680 block it. There's like five different places. It automatically loads 298 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:13.799 the weather to your sighting report to the information and yeah, 299 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:19.279 it automatically opens on your geographical location. As soon as 300 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:22.759 you open the map, you see where you're at on 301 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:26.480 the map, and so you can log your own GPS. 302 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:31.039 But yeah, if you make a report, it logs everything. 303 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:35.319 But we could go up here and put save current 304 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:38.759 or like when we're at the location right be able 305 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:43.519 to yes, you saved, which is pretty awesome. And and 306 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.200 folks that don't realize all this stuff was incredibly important, 307 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:49.079 like Uh, you know time and year, time of day, 308 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:54.960 it's it's impressive, like it really speeds. Right. 309 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:00.319 The one thing I use I usually even in the 310 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:02.720 pen and paper days, I always wrote down what the 311 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:06.799 barometer was that day. For some reason in my head, 312 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:09.279 I just felt the barometer was important. 313 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:13.240 So a buometric pressure is funny. You know, look how 314 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:15.640 it affects regular you know, regular animals. 315 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:22.799 That yeah, because yeah, my background is wildlife biology, even 316 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:25.240 though I went to school for it. But I'm a 317 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:29.720 maintenance guy that plug plunges toilets for a living. So yeah, 318 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:35.759 but yeah, wildlife biology, that's my background. So and then 319 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:38.559 I'm also a bow hunter, so I yeah, the weather 320 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:40.039 effects at everything. 321 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:44.160 I just love all the resources. Go ahead and mad, 322 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:46.839 I'm just kind of still taking folks on an overview here. 323 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:51.480 No, and what Mike said is right. I'm I'm a 324 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:56.160 bow hunter also. And it's not just it's not just 325 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:58.279 looking at the wind, but it's looking at the pressure, 326 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:01.720 it's looking at the moon phase. Uh, is looking at 327 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:06.279 you know so much and and then you know, being 328 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:09.799 able to And I think that's where I've talked to 329 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:14.559 a couple of people and uh that are our bow hunters, 330 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:18.160 not just you know, your your typical rifle hunters, but 331 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:21.480 the bow hunters because we have to read that terrain 332 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:25.599 uh differently. And then somebody you know, just going out 333 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:28.200 for rifles, setting up on a stand somewhere. We're looking 334 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:31.200 at the funnels, we're looking at the uh at the 335 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:34.640 food cover and uh in you know, the transition areas. 336 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:40.400 So that really really does that kind of coincides with 337 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:44.839 what we're doing because it helps us to track, you know, 338 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:48.559 any of these you know from these sightings, Hey, where 339 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:51.880 is that? Where is that cover at? Where's this? You know? Uh, 340 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:54.279 you know where's this at? And again yeah, what was 341 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:54.680 the weather? 342 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:55.200 You know? 343 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:59.480 Yeah, it's go ahead. 344 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.079 I'm sorry, Mike. I love how it's got a confidence 345 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:08.160 barometer on here. Ye like, yeah, that's pretty important. 346 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:13.240 I think, Yeah, I think so. I mean cause and 347 00:22:13.319 --> 00:22:15.599 you're got to put that in yourself, you know, how 348 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:21.480 sure are you that? And some of mine are low, 349 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:23.920 some of mine are high, some of them are like, 350 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:28.640 I'm not sure, but it was odd this happened. But 351 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:31.400 then there's the ones that like, yeah, I'm pretty sure 352 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:35.960 that this was you know, so yeah, it's I just 353 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:37.359 like having that on there. 354 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:40.640 Oh I do too. I think that's phenomenal. 355 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:45.000 Mm, we'll have to add some for for our area. 356 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:48.039 Yeah, we're going to have to get busy, like. 357 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:52.279 We have a honey hole, but we're we don't keep 358 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:53.160 it private. 359 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:53.640 You know. 360 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:58.400 It's such a huge expanse of land that we're trying 361 00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:01.079 to get people out there, you know, and uh but 362 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:05.720 it's fairly uh not the best you know environment, it's 363 00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:11.119 not it's not general rolling hills. It's uh no, it's yeah, yeah. 364 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:16.119 Yeah kind of. That's my theory with Wayne National Forest 365 00:23:16.440 --> 00:23:21.359 because it's like three different tracks, but the three together 366 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:25.400 are almost seven hundred thousand acres and there ain't no 367 00:23:25.559 --> 00:23:29.759 way five people could cover that in ten years, let alone. 368 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:32.640 So the more people that you can get to go 369 00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:37.759 to that big area and start making those pins, the 370 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:40.759 easier the story and the quicker the story. 371 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:46.880 I'm full, Yes, oh I was. 372 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:50.480 If you don't where what databases are using for the 373 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:54.279 for the reports, is it just self reported or are 374 00:23:54.359 --> 00:23:58.000 you getting using like the be f Republic and some 375 00:23:58.160 --> 00:23:58.839 other reports. 376 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:05.599 No, it's all user reports. Because there's another map out 377 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:09.160 there and I won't mention its name, but I hate 378 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:12.680 it because it has dots all over their map and 379 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:16.880 when you click on them, like sixty percent of them 380 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:19.720 are dead empty. It's just to pen on the map. 381 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:22.720 It doesn't even say if it was a wood knock, 382 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:26.359 a footprint, a citing what. It's literally just a dot 383 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:30.400 on a map, and that dry stuff like that wild 384 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:35.279 just drive me insane. So it actually forces you to 385 00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:41.319 put in some information before it'll let you submit your report. 386 00:24:42.279 --> 00:24:44.279 But it's all user reported. 387 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:49.720 Have you seen like a certain amount of reports from 388 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:52.839 a specific area that surprised you when you've developed this. 389 00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:57.319 So it's still in its infancy. There's not a lot 390 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:02.200 of people reporting on it yet. I just really haven't 391 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:04.960 got the word out about it a whole lot, so, 392 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:10.319 but I'm interested to see that as it grows. But 393 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:14.000 like right north of me, I don't have any of 394 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:16.440 the reports on there. I think I only have the 395 00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:21.119 general location, like the Man Too, a flap that happened 396 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:25.799 back in March twenty twenty five. Everybody's all bigfoot Man too, oh, 397 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:29.400 so that you know that it's kind of in that 398 00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:33.319 same general wheelhouse. But that shocked me a good little 399 00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:35.839 bit that that happened and was going on. 400 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:38.880 Because I'm looking at the Maut and I mean i 401 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:42.279