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<v Speaker 1>Big Food and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo. These guys

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<v Speaker 1>are your favor It's so like say subscribe and rade it.

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<v Speaker 2>Live Stock and me.

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<v Speaker 1>Greatest gone Yesterday, listening watching limb always keep its watching.

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<v Speaker 2>And now your hosts Cliff Berrickman and James Bubo Fay.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, everybody, this is Cliff, and you are listening to Beyond,

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<v Speaker 3>Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and usually Bobo and always

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<v Speaker 3>Matt Pruitt. So and you can tell by my my

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<v Speaker 3>slightly sarcastic introduction there that Bobo is not with us today.

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<v Speaker 3>We don't know where he is. We don't have a reason,

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<v Speaker 3>we don't know anything. We've been trying to get Ahold

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<v Speaker 3>of It form about two days now and he won't

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<v Speaker 3>get back to us about scheduling or he hasn't. It's

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<v Speaker 3>not like he's refusing, but he might be refusing. You

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<v Speaker 3>just don't know he's We have not heard back from

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<v Speaker 3>Bobo about when he can record. But fact is it's

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<v Speaker 3>a job and we have a responsibility. So we're going

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<v Speaker 3>to go ahead and record without him. So there you go. So,

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<v Speaker 3>but you know what, if Bobo's not here, that means

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<v Speaker 3>we have a robo Bobo behind the curtain somewhere are

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<v Speaker 3>you there? Robo? Bobo? All right?

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<v Speaker 2>Sweet?

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<v Speaker 3>So it's just like Bobo's here. So yeah, it's going

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<v Speaker 3>to be Matt Prue and I just kind of riffing

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<v Speaker 3>on some topics. So we have a couple of cool

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<v Speaker 3>things to talk about today and maybe and some of

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<v Speaker 3>the stuff it comes from you, the listeners as well,

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<v Speaker 3>because we listen to you. We want you to be

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<v Speaker 3>part of the show. We couldn't be doing We wouldn't

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<v Speaker 3>be doing the show with that s you'd be weird.

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<v Speaker 3>But I guess that's what regular conversations are, a show

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<v Speaker 3>without an audience. So we're going to try to attack

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<v Speaker 3>a couple of those things today, and you know, you

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<v Speaker 3>never know, because Bobo is an unpredictable kind of guy.

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<v Speaker 3>He just might show up. He did last week. This

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<v Speaker 3>exact same thing happened last week, except that he agreed

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<v Speaker 3>to be on the podcast last week and just kind

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<v Speaker 3>of forgot what day it was. You may you may

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<v Speaker 3>have remembered that just a week ago. But today we

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<v Speaker 3>haven't heard from Bobo at all.

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<v Speaker 2>Classic classic.

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<v Speaker 3>Matt, how are you doing?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm good? It is classic Bobo. In fact, I titled

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<v Speaker 2>this session where four arct al bobio hoping that when

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<v Speaker 2>he logged in he would answer that question for us.

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<v Speaker 2>So we'll see. I'm kind of excited. It's like Schrodinger's bobes,

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<v Speaker 2>like will he or won't he? You know, Yeah, he's

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<v Speaker 2>inside the box and outside the box. Inside the box,

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<v Speaker 2>of course it's foe bobo robo bobo. We did get

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<v Speaker 2>some kind feedback from our good man Wes Germer this

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<v Speaker 2>morning that it's funny because I just mentioned that a

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<v Speaker 2>member of ours had said something like, oh, I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>realize how much I needed a robo bobo in my life.

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<v Speaker 2>And Wes's first words in the text to you and

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<v Speaker 2>I this morning were I need a robo bobo in

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<v Speaker 2>my life.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, we can lend out a row bobobo occasionally to

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<v Speaker 3>various people. I don't see why not.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there could be a cottage industry for other podcasters,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, like, hey, if you want, you know, dialo bobes,

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<v Speaker 2>we got you covered dialo bobs.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, because it's well, it could be like a

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<v Speaker 3>service he provides. Should I call him bo bites instead

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<v Speaker 3>of sound bites? Maybe we should put bo bites in

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<v Speaker 3>the merch listing. You know, have a little online bo

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<v Speaker 3>Byites merch shop, so you can just buy a belch

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<v Speaker 3>for like, you know, ninety nine cents. Oh yeah, would

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<v Speaker 3>you like Bobo belching as your ring tone? Let us know.

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<v Speaker 2>Another listener, Oh, I should probably find this real quick

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<v Speaker 2>so I can give credit where credit is due, because

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<v Speaker 2>it would be a great shout out. It's a great idea.

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<v Speaker 2>So one second here. Oh it was our great listener

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<v Speaker 2>who's also a member submitted a lot of good questions

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<v Speaker 2>over the years. Woodbooger James suggested that we consider manufacturing

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<v Speaker 2>for retail a talking Bobo action figure. Remember the action

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<v Speaker 2>figures back in the day that would make sounds when

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<v Speaker 2>you press the button. We should incorporate Robo Boo into

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<v Speaker 2>a Bobo action figure, which I think would be amazing.

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<v Speaker 3>You know at the pretty high tech stuff for us

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<v Speaker 3>many maybe something more like a Bobo Magic eight ball

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<v Speaker 3>or something like that. You know, asking a question, you

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<v Speaker 3>turn it over.

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<v Speaker 2>He goes yep, and speaking of listeners, I do. I

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<v Speaker 2>did want to give a shout out to our good

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<v Speaker 2>listener Nigel Williams, who he submitted questions in the past.

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<v Speaker 2>We did a voicemail from him recently, and I had

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<v Speaker 2>mentioned that he had authored a book and I had

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<v Speaker 2>weighed in a little bit on some of the Sasquatch

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<v Speaker 2>oriented information there. And that book is out now. So

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<v Speaker 2>it's a book for young readers, sort of like middle

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<v Speaker 2>school grade readers maybe, like ages nine to thirteen, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's called Alfie and the Bigfoot of Bluff Creek. It's

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<v Speaker 2>a great young adult book. It's got a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>good Sasquatch information. The Sasquatch is incorporated into the story

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<v Speaker 2>and it's treated sympathetically and scientifically. And I'll have the

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<v Speaker 2>link to the Amazon listing there in the show notes.

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<v Speaker 2>So I wanted to give a shout out to Nigel

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<v Speaker 2>and Nigel congratulations on getting the book published. Rad Rad.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, speaking of books, I came into the museum

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<v Speaker 3>yesterday named Tom Buker. He's been writing me a little

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<v Speaker 3>bit off and on through the years or whatever, and

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<v Speaker 3>he actually gave me a book a little while ago

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<v Speaker 3>that he wanted to incorporate a little just a little

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<v Speaker 3>sasquatch snippet or something in there, and it turned out

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<v Speaker 3>to be a much larger snippet than he anticipated. A

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<v Speaker 3>real super nice guy. So I want to give a

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<v Speaker 3>little plug to his book in case anybody is interested

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<v Speaker 3>in some cool fiction or whatever. It's basically about a

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<v Speaker 3>US army like a marshal, basically trying to track down

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<v Speaker 3>a killer looking in the wilderness of Idaho. And cause

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<v Speaker 3>it was a fictional thing, but there's a there's a

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<v Speaker 3>sasquatch section in there. And this guy's name is Thomas Buker,

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<v Speaker 3>I know him's Tom. He came in the museum yes ohough.

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<v Speaker 3>The name of the book, by the way, is Dust

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<v Speaker 3>and Duty. I don't know if it's available on Amazon

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<v Speaker 3>or may maybe that tickles somebody's fancy, but it looks

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<v Speaker 3>like a pretty slick book man, and he gave me

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<v Speaker 3>a copy of it, so whatever that's worth, whatever that's worth,

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<v Speaker 3>I want to give Tom a heads up and like

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<v Speaker 3>a shout out there because he was the reason he

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<v Speaker 3>came into the shop yesterday. Is that this guy is

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<v Speaker 3>a pretty rabbit hunter. You know. He's out there all

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<v Speaker 3>the time, you know, because some tags are all year long,

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<v Speaker 3>like mountain lions, I think, and all that sort of stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>And he's always scouting for good elk areas and whatever else.

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<v Speaker 3>And he's got a spot not far from where he

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<v Speaker 3>lives where a few years ago he started running across

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<v Speaker 3>sign that didn't make sense to him, you know, when

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<v Speaker 3>he's out there tracking and stuff, and long story short,

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<v Speaker 3>over the years, he has come to the realization that

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<v Speaker 3>sasquatches are in fact real animals, and there's apparently at

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<v Speaker 3>least one in the area where he goes, because every

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<v Speaker 3>once in a while he finds some sign. So he

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<v Speaker 3>dropped by yesterday and he donated two casts to the museum,

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<v Speaker 3>and he's out all the time, and now he's seen

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<v Speaker 3>a line of sasquatch tracks that were pretty plain his

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<v Speaker 3>day before, and he's finding these other things and now

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<v Speaker 3>he's carrying plaster around. So it sounds like ANYBC has

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<v Speaker 3>a really good contact out in the Idaho area who

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<v Speaker 3>is keeping his eyes on the ground for us out there.

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<v Speaker 3>So I look forward to hearing from Tom in the future.

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<v Speaker 3>So Tom, if you're listening, hats off to you, buddy.

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<v Speaker 3>Thanks so much for the donation, And of course, if

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<v Speaker 3>anybody's interested in some cool looking fiction. I'm just judging

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<v Speaker 3>a book by its cover here, but it's a pretty

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<v Speaker 3>interesting cover here. It looks rat Thomas Buker has written

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<v Speaker 3>Dust and Duty. Maybe you guys could check it out

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, give him some love. So there you go.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm sure it's available online. I'll find the link

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<v Speaker 2>and I'll put that in the show notes too. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>sure there's an online place to click through and buy it.

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<v Speaker 2>So we'll make sure Tom gets well represented in the

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<v Speaker 2>episode description. Fantastic got back from Seattle yesterday. Basically I

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<v Speaker 2>did a gig out there with George Norury. Remember George Norris,

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<v Speaker 2>the general host of that Coast to Coast AM show

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<v Speaker 2>started out I think as the Art Bell Show, and

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<v Speaker 2>now George norriy kind of runs most of that stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>And I don't know if they still have guest hosts

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<v Speaker 2>or not. I know a woman named Connie Willis did

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<v Speaker 2>that for a second. But I've been on the George

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<v Speaker 2>norri Show a few times. The Coast to Coast AM.

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<v Speaker 2>So they did a live event up in Seattle and

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<v Speaker 2>Everett actually was in Seattle's Everett, just north of Seattle,

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<v Speaker 2>at a place called the Historic Everett Theater, and that

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<v Speaker 2>was an interesting show. They had some dude that was

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<v Speaker 2>into Atlantis, you know Atlantis, you know, like the Fallen City,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, like the new Manure of Earth.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he was on. He did a talk I guess,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, not a talk. He did an interview with

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<v Speaker 3>George I guess. And he shows some maps.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess.

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<v Speaker 3>This guy's deal is that he thinks it's in the

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<v Speaker 3>South Pacific somewhere. Interesting take, especially since he was written

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<v Speaker 3>about in Greek literature. Seems like that's a long ways away.

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<v Speaker 3>But I don't know, I don't I'm sure he's written

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<v Speaker 3>a book. I can't remember the guy's name.

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<v Speaker 2>There.

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<v Speaker 3>There's another guy named Matthew. That is his titles an

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<v Speaker 3>AI cosmologist. He seemed to be more like an AI

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<v Speaker 3>philosopher to me. I think that you can tie in

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<v Speaker 3>cosmology or whatever to whatever you want, but he seemed

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<v Speaker 3>big takeaway from that guy that in his interview with

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<v Speaker 3>George Nori was, you know, AI wouild will kind of

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<v Speaker 3>show us what it means to be human once the

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<v Speaker 3>humanity of so much as strip away. And he was

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<v Speaker 3>advocating for like a higher consciousness sort of thing with

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<v Speaker 3>in tangent with AI helpers or something. And it's like,

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know, whatever, whatever, it's not my gig man,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm too busy looking for Bigfoot. And then I of

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<v Speaker 3>course talked to George for about twenty minutes on stage

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<v Speaker 3>or something like that. I brought a few items for

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<v Speaker 3>show and tell, like the butt print. Everybody loves the

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<v Speaker 3>butt print, and luckily George asked, I said, what do

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<v Speaker 3>you have in the box? It's not Bigfoot pooh is

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<v Speaker 3>it or something like that. I oh, next, best thing,

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<v Speaker 3>it's like pre Bigfoot Pooh, it's the butt you know.

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<v Speaker 3>So yeah, so I brought the butt cast out, which

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<v Speaker 3>everybody loves, of course, and a few footprints and that

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<v Speaker 3>kind of thing. I had a good conversation with George.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, I don't George is in a Sasquatch Specialists

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<v Speaker 3>or anything like that, so his questions are pretty pretty

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<v Speaker 3>you know, basic in a lot of ways. And then

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<v Speaker 3>I of course took questions from the audience, and one

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<v Speaker 3>of our members came up and did a little in

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<v Speaker 3>the microphone as we started, so I knew, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>I knew what was up. He gave us the high sign,

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<v Speaker 3>So thank you very much to that member. I really

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<v Speaker 3>really appreciate it. And took a lot of other questions,

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<v Speaker 3>and of course, you know me, I'm out there, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>that these things are just perfectly normal mammals. And there

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<v Speaker 3>challenging question, saying like, I'm a portal guy, So where

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<v Speaker 3>in the woods because you don't follow them. Yeah, they

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<v Speaker 3>go everywhere that humans aren't, which is like ninety nine

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<v Speaker 3>point nine percent of the forest at any given moment,

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<v Speaker 3>eyes don't see everywhere. So it's really not that hard

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<v Speaker 3>an equation. Yeah, yeah, man, I had one. I had something.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know what it was, a bear of bigfoot

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<v Speaker 3>and elk, something close to me. This is past week.

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<v Speaker 3>like one hundred yards away, one hundred and fifty yards

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<v Speaker 3>away at the most. Yeah, And I have no I

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<v Speaker 3>ever saw it, tried to see it, never saw it

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<v Speaker 3>at all, and don't know what it was. So they

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<v Speaker 3>don't have to go anywhere in particular, and they especially

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<v Speaker 3>don't have to go through a portal. So there's that.

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<v Speaker 3>But yeah, it was a good time, good gig, a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of fun. I didn't know this, but between if

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<v Speaker 3>whatever else. So it was just a fun show. And

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<v Speaker 3>of course all the George Norri listeners came out of

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<v Speaker 3>the woodwork and came and really enjoyed the show. And

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of really eccentric, wonderful weirdos out there at

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<v Speaker 3>a really good time. I was in basically backstage at

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<v Speaker 3>the Muppet Show, hanging out with a bunch of weirdos.

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<v Speaker 3>It was great, very much in my element. I really

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<v Speaker 3>enjoyed it. A lot of great people, a lot of

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<v Speaker 3>great conversations.

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<v Speaker 2>very formative years. I mean I always say, like born

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<v Speaker 2>of the Pacific Northwest to and there's definitely a Pacific

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<v Speaker 2>Northwestern type of character, you know, like that that you

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<v Speaker 2>see parody in the same way that I would say

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<v Speaker 2>there's a Southerner type of character that I see portrayed

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<v Speaker 2>on like sketch comedy shows or in movies or that's

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<v Speaker 2>sort of like satirized. It's like, yeah, I get it,

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<v Speaker 2>I know people like that. But then when you go

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<v Speaker 2>to other parts of the country and you see people

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<v Speaker 2>there that are like the living examples of the parodies, Like,

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<v Speaker 2>there's definitely a Pacific Northwestern type of weirdo, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>And of course you're doing an esoteric, slash, paranormal or

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<v Speaker 2>fringe kind of event, you know, strange subjects outside of

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<v Speaker 2>the box, of course, you're going to get a gathering

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<v Speaker 2>of those. So that's amazing.

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<v Speaker 3>It was pretty fun.

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<v Speaker 3>It was definitely a fun list. It's like a whole

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<v Speaker 3>theater full of markmer cells, you know, just like good

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<v Speaker 3>natured fun people who are into really weird things and

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<v Speaker 3>hold these odd beliefs and such, and you know, and

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<v Speaker 3>I'm one of them too. I get it. I totally

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<v Speaker 3>get it. I'm not slamming anybody man, because from the

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<v Speaker 3>outside looking in, I'm a freak too. Like you think

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<v Speaker 3>sasquatches are real animals, what's wrong with you? You know?

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<v Speaker 3>I get it, I totally get it. We all are

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<v Speaker 3>those people. But yeah, it's just just fun. And you

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<v Speaker 3>know what's really refreshing for me is because I'm going

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<v Speaker 3>to these events and after having these conversations and after

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<v Speaker 3>watching the previous interviews and hanging out with the speakers

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<v Speaker 3>backstage and and all that sort of stuff, it really

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<v Speaker 3>drives home this this unusual idea for me because it's

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<v Speaker 3>not reinforced very often, this idea, it really drives home

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<v Speaker 3>of how normal I am. I'm not used to being

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<v Speaker 3>the normal guy in the room at all. It's weird

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<v Speaker 3>when I go because of my family, I'm the weirdest person.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm the weirdest person my family's made, you know, and

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<v Speaker 3>most of my most of my non bigfoot friends think

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<v Speaker 3>I'm freak. My neighbors didn't know what to do with me.

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<v Speaker 3>That kind of stuff. I'm not used to being the

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<v Speaker 3>most normal guy in the room, but I wasn't. I

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<v Speaker 3>wasn't the most normal guy in the entire theater as

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<v Speaker 3>far as I could fell. Stay tuned for more Bigfoot

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<v Speaker 3>and Yawn with Cliff and Bobo. We'll be right back

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<v Speaker 3>after these messages. You know, Bobes, squatching season is in

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<v Speaker 3>full swing and I can't help but notice you're wearing

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<v Speaker 3>that gone squatch and hats. But are you wearing that

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<v Speaker 2>restrictions and important safety information. That is one of the

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<v Speaker 2>strangest things about this particular subject, and it comes up

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<v Speaker 2>so often in conversations with people, and I really think

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<v Speaker 2>it's born of this idea of like the known versus

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<v Speaker 2>the unknown, and that we make all these allowances for

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<v Speaker 2>the unknown. Like if you take the Big three, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>non human intelligence slash extraterrestrial slash UFOs whatever that phenomenon,

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<v Speaker 2>and then the ghost spirit apparitional phenomenon, and then something

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<v Speaker 2>like the sasquatch phenomenon, it's like, well, non human intelligence

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<v Speaker 2>UFOs space is vast, it's nearly infinite, so to speak,

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<v Speaker 2>or at least as far as we can tell or

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<v Speaker 2>to our perceptions, and so of course there's all kinds

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<v Speaker 2>of things out there that we can't be expected to

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<v Speaker 2>know about yet, and so we make allowances that, oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>things could come and go, and they'd be hundreds of

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<v Speaker 2>thousands or millions or billions of years more advanced than us.

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<v Speaker 2>And people have no problem assuming that there are entities

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<v Speaker 2>out there that might come, visit or intervene. And then

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<v Speaker 2>the apparitional world like, well, of course there's some degree

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<v Speaker 2>of reality that we don't get understand or that we

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<v Speaker 2>can't perceive, and there's something about consciousness that doesn't seem

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<v Speaker 2>to be time or space bound, and so of course

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<v Speaker 2>consciousness survives, and the dead come to us or whatever

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<v Speaker 2>the case may be. You know, these really sort of wild, unverifiable,

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<v Speaker 2>unfalsifiable things. But then the idea that you know, we

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<v Speaker 2>know apes exist and there might be one additional ape

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<v Speaker 2>on one additional continent is somehow the most taboo, fringe

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<v Speaker 2>frowned upon, vociferously dismissed, emotionally rejected. You know, people have

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<v Speaker 2>no problem talking about UFOs or ghosts, but you bring

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<v Speaker 2>up the sasquatch thing, and they're like, oh, you couldn't

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<v Speaker 2>possibly believe that, you know, there's a lot of scorn,

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<v Speaker 2>which is so strange. Like in this day and age,

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<v Speaker 2>it is much easier for an educated person to claim

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<v Speaker 2>either interest in or contact with non human intelligence or

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<v Speaker 2>an apparition that it is for a person like that

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<v Speaker 2>to come out and say, hey, I think I saw

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<v Speaker 2>an animal that science hasn't recognized yet. Like that's the

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<v Speaker 2>most taboo of all of those claims, which is bizarre

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<v Speaker 2>because nothing about our propositions require any new science or

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<v Speaker 2>really any new discoveries.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and I said it from the stage that the

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<v Speaker 3>paranormal model of sasquatches is not it's not congruent, you know.

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<v Speaker 3>I said, if you ask ten different paranormal advocates about Bigfoot,

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<v Speaker 3>they're going to give you at least thirteen different answers,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, And it was true, true, true. At this

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<v Speaker 3>gig as well, I had people saying that they went

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<v Speaker 3>through portholes. One person said he went to some sort

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<v Speaker 3>of retreats where the bigfoots went around in the dark,

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<v Speaker 3>touching them or something like that. I had another person

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<v Speaker 3>telling me that they were UFO related or some other

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<v Speaker 3>biblical people saying that nepheline was involved somehow and interbreeding

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<v Speaker 3>with angel and it's like, okay, well proof is in

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<v Speaker 3>that pudding there, right, So yeah, just again a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of clashing views in the paranormal world, but they can

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<v Speaker 3>at least all unite against the one that actually makes

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<v Speaker 2>It's a bizarre thing, and that's just a consequence of

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<v Speaker 2>I think a lot of the modern state of not

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<v Speaker 2>just social media, but media in general, and that a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of the barriers have been kicked out and so

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<v Speaker 2>everyone has a voice in a platform, which is really

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<v Speaker 2>good in a lot of ways, but it also has costs.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, every benefit comes with costs, and every pro

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<v Speaker 2>with cons And the more that I see the modern

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<v Speaker 2>landscape of sasquatchry, it's like the creature, let's say, or

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<v Speaker 2>at least the phenomenon that's described by modern sasquatchy bears

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<v Speaker 2>like zero resemblance to the creature that's described by history.

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<v Speaker 2>Evidence and eyewitnesses like those are two very very different things,

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<v Speaker 2>not just the trace evidence and physical evidence, but the

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<v Speaker 2>preponderance of eyewitnesses that you can interview in person, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>let's take away the anonymous YouTubers, the anonymous podcast guests,

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<v Speaker 2>the YouTube channels or podcasts that read, you know, quote

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<v Speaker 2>unquote read emails that were submitted by quote unquote witnesses

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<v Speaker 2>that don't read like anything one would write. But you know,

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<v Speaker 2>like the people that you talked to in person, or

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<v Speaker 2>that I've talked to in person, or that most devoted

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<v Speaker 2>Sasquatch researchers have talked to in person. Like what they're

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<v Speaker 2>describing bears no resemblance to what the Internet is promoting.

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<v Speaker 2>And unfortunately, now most people do all of their research

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<v Speaker 2>on the Internet, and so the phenomenon that they're researching

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<v Speaker 2>isn't even the Sasquatch phenomenon. It's this new weird hybrid,

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<v Speaker 2>like you said, like amalgam of every strange thing under

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<v Speaker 2>a single umbrella that they could shoehorn into the sasquatch,

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<v Speaker 2>you know. And I guess every once in a while

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<v Speaker 2>you encounter that in person at an event like that,

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<v Speaker 2>which which makes sense again. Coast to Coast has always

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<v Speaker 2>been a big catch all for the strange and the weird.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a wildly entertaining program. I remember hearing it

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<v Speaker 2>many times in the nineties and early two thousands. I

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<v Speaker 2>think one of the first interviews I ever heard you

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<v Speaker 2>on was that two thousand and seven interview that you

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<v Speaker 2>and Moneymaker did. But yeah, I mean coast to coast.

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<v Speaker 2>I would imagine that attracts a certain kind of crowd,

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<v Speaker 2>so to speak.

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<v Speaker 3>And I love it. You know, it sounds like I'm

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<v Speaker 3>dissing them or whatever, or it may sound like that,

419
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<v Speaker 3>especially if you're touchy about that kind of thing, But

420
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<v Speaker 3>I am not. I am not. I love freaks and

421
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<v Speaker 3>weirdos and people who think way outside the box, you know,

422
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<v Speaker 3>as long as they're not you know, mentally ill and

423
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<v Speaker 3>aggressive or something like that. I just love weird ideas.

424
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<v Speaker 3>And I don't have to accept ideas. You know, I

425
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<v Speaker 3>can hold an idea in my head and not think

426
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<v Speaker 3>it's real. I think that's great.

427
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<v Speaker 2>I love.

428
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<v Speaker 3>That's why I love Tom Powell, you know, Tom Powell.

429
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<v Speaker 3>I considered it. Actually his name was brought up. A

430
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<v Speaker 3>woman came up and mentioned Melbourn, Ketchum and Tom Powell

431
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<v Speaker 3>and somebody else. I forget who, you know, kind of

432
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<v Speaker 3>challenging my idea that these are animals as opposed to

433
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<v Speaker 3>whatever these other folks think they are. But yeah, say

434
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<v Speaker 3>what about there or whatever I say. Well, Tom Powell

435
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<v Speaker 3>is a close personal friend who's been at my home

436
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<v Speaker 3>many many times, and I've been at his home many

437
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<v Speaker 3>many times. I love the guy, and I just don't

438
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<v Speaker 3>agree with him at all. But the great thing about

439
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<v Speaker 3>Tom is that he's very rare, in my opinion, amongst

440
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<v Speaker 3>the paranormal folks, and that he doesn't take it personally,

441
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<v Speaker 3>you know. And that's something I struggle with too, because

442
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<v Speaker 3>I do take it a little bit too personally sometimes

443
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<v Speaker 3>and because I'm so close to the subject and it

444
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<v Speaker 3>means so much to me, so I kind of have

445
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<v Speaker 3>to remember to keep it light hearted. But Tom, in particular,

446
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<v Speaker 3>like the best quote ever from Tom as far as encouragement,

447
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<v Speaker 3>and you know, and Henry Franzoni, by the way, who's

448
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<v Speaker 3>also put on a pedestal put on a trading card

449
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<v Speaker 3>by the paranormal people, said the same thing to me basically,

450
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<v Speaker 3>and maybe not in these exact worders, but the Tom

451
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<v Speaker 3>Powell quote is, Ah, Cliff, I'm glad you're doing the

452
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<v Speaker 3>ape thing. That means I don't have to, you know,

453
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<v Speaker 3>and that's great, that's great. And Framzoni said the exact

454
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<v Speaker 3>same thing to me Yeah, he was thrilled that what

455
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<v Speaker 3>I'm up to and the and the finds that I'm

456
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<v Speaker 3>getting and all that sort of stuff. And I would

457
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<v Speaker 3>share with him very openly when he would come to

458
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<v Speaker 3>the museum and hang out, and he would love to

459
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<v Speaker 3>see what I'm getting at. Because both those guys started

460
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<v Speaker 3>out as flesh and blood, both those guys. But I

461
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<v Speaker 3>think I think that they either found. In Tom's case,

462
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<v Speaker 3>I know that he found he encounters some stuff that

463
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<v Speaker 3>couldn't be reconciled, and so he started going parent normal

464
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<v Speaker 3>and basically started getting the results that he was looking for,

465
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<v Speaker 3>you know, things that I think a lot of it

466
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<v Speaker 3>for both those guys, it was just more fun to

467
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<v Speaker 3>go do the other weird stuff, you know. I think

468
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<v Speaker 3>that's what's behind a lot of that. It's just more

469
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<v Speaker 3>fun and it's fun to get weird results you can't

470
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<v Speaker 3>explain and then try to explain them. And yeah, that

471
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<v Speaker 3>kind of thing, because both those guys are brilliant. They're

472
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<v Speaker 3>super super smart and love to theorize about stuff and

473
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<v Speaker 3>just see like, hey does this pan out? Okay, Well

474
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<v Speaker 3>that's some pretty shaky evidence at best, but it does

475
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<v Speaker 3>support it, you know, Like, and I think that either

476
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<v Speaker 3>of those guys. And I know Tom. I've seen Tom

477
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<v Speaker 3>speak several times and he says this. It's like, yeah,

478
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<v Speaker 3>it's not the best evidence, but that's the kind of

479
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<v Speaker 3>stuff you get when you're looking into paranormal stuff, the

480
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<v Speaker 3>fact that they just do it because they love it

481
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<v Speaker 3>and that's where they ended up. I see nothing wrong

482
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<v Speaker 3>with that. But yeah, Cliff, I'm glad you're doing the

483
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<v Speaker 3>ape stuff so I don't have to That sums it

484
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<v Speaker 3>up because I feel the same way about Tom. Yeah,

485
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<v Speaker 3>good man, I'm glad you're having fun with it because

486
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<v Speaker 3>I think that stuff's ridiculous and I don't that would

487
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<v Speaker 3>that means I don't have to look into it.

488
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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. The frustrating thing about a lot of those debates

489
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<v Speaker 2>because I agree with you about Tom and Franzoni. In fact,

490
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<v Speaker 2>I only met Henry once, but I was just pulling

491
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<v Speaker 2>up the message he sent me afterwards. I gave a

492
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<v Speaker 2>presentation about origins and ancestral candidates and what I thought

493
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<v Speaker 2>were the most likely candidates and why, and he sent

494
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<v Speaker 2>me a nice message and said, I attended your presentation today.

495
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<v Speaker 2>I thought it was a wonderful likelihood analysis, sorting through

496
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<v Speaker 2>the plausible explanations to find the most plausible one we

497
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<v Speaker 2>should talk And so I was like, oh, thank you

498
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<v Speaker 2>very much. You know, because I met him, I didn't

499
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<v Speaker 2>expect him to sit in the presentation, but I would

500
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<v Speaker 2>have guessed like, oh, he's not going to agree with

501
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<v Speaker 2>me or like this very much. But he was very

502
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<v Speaker 2>kind and that was a thoughtful thing to send. And

503
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<v Speaker 2>so yeah, I mean there's a lot of people who

504
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<v Speaker 2>have strong beliefs who don't necessarily use that as a

505
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<v Speaker 2>prerequisite for any social interaction, where it's like, well, you

506
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<v Speaker 2>have to agree with me wholesale or else we can't

507
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<v Speaker 2>be friendly or even have a conversation or a dialogue.

508
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<v Speaker 2>But you know, Henry was very well researched, as is Tom.

509
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<v Speaker 2>The frustration that I have with a lot of people,

510
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<v Speaker 2>and it's not just in the sasquatch phenomenon, it's many

511
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<v Speaker 2>of the subjects I'm passionate about. Is I encounter people

512
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<v Speaker 2>very often who have done very very little research, but

513
00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:19.960
<v Speaker 2>they have like a preconception or a strong commitment that

514
00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:23.599
<v Speaker 2>drives there again their social interactions and the way they

515
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<v Speaker 2>treat people. And so I'll try to talk to them

516
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<v Speaker 2>to learn about like where are you coming from and

517
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<v Speaker 2>you know, what is it that led you to those conclusions?

518
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<v Speaker 2>And so you see very often that they just haven't

519
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<v Speaker 2>seen any of the information that you've seen, or contended

520
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<v Speaker 2>with any of the data that you've contended with. And

521
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<v Speaker 2>I try to tell them like, look, we can't have

522
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<v Speaker 2>you know, you think you're having a debate, but we

523
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<v Speaker 2>can't have a debate unless we've both seen the exact

524
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<v Speaker 2>same information and then arrived at two different conclusions. Like

525
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<v Speaker 2>in lieu of that we're debating you know, the quality

526
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<v Speaker 2>of a movie that only one of us has seen,

527
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<v Speaker 2>or the contents of a book that only one of

528
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<v Speaker 2>us has read. Like that's that's not a debate. It's

529
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<v Speaker 2>not very helpful or useful. And you know, it's never

530
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<v Speaker 2>easy to navigate those things. So I always appreciate someone

531
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<v Speaker 2>who's able to say like, oh, I don't care if

532
00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:12.880
<v Speaker 2>you agree with me, just here's what I think. Okay, great,

533
00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:14.720
<v Speaker 2>because I don't care if you agree with me. You know,

534
00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:16.599
<v Speaker 2>we can still be friendly and have a good time

535
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<v Speaker 2>without having to you know, battle over bringing one to

536
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<v Speaker 2>the other side.

537
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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and you know Tom Powell in particular, and again

538
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<v Speaker 3>I'll harp on him because I'm closest to him if

539
00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:31.119
<v Speaker 3>I think of all the paranormal people, and I love

540
00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:33.119
<v Speaker 3>him so much, and I just consider him such a dear,

541
00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:36.440
<v Speaker 3>close friend. I think at the root of much of

542
00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:41.319
<v Speaker 3>what Tom has maybe experience, but certainly what he has

543
00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:44.160
<v Speaker 3>shared with me is a is a wonderful sense of humor.

544
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<v Speaker 3>Right Like, let's see, oh, okay, the Chehalis project. You

545
00:26:50.680 --> 00:26:53.359
<v Speaker 3>know that he details pretty heavily in his book The Locals,

546
00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:55.680
<v Speaker 3>and then goes on and tells him behind the scenes

547
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<v Speaker 3>stuff in his other book, Edges of Science. I think

548
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<v Speaker 3>it's called Edge Edge or of Science, either one. You'll

549
00:27:01.640 --> 00:27:04.319
<v Speaker 3>find it, you know, I can't remember. But anyway, he

550
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<v Speaker 3>so he goes out there in like the year two

551
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<v Speaker 3>thousand and he's out there at this habituator's place or

552
00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:11.559
<v Speaker 3>long term witnesses place, and he's doing It's like, well,

553
00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:13.680
<v Speaker 3>they supposedly knock on tree. I'm going to try that.

554
00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:15.880
<v Speaker 3>Because that's how long this was, Like it wasn't widely

555
00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:19.920
<v Speaker 3>known that sasquatches knock when when this with a situation

556
00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:21.960
<v Speaker 3>is going out up in Chahli's and he's up there

557
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<v Speaker 3>and he's knocking on trees and trying to do what

558
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<v Speaker 3>he can and he's in Jalis is like a two

559
00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:28.480
<v Speaker 3>or three hour drive for him. Probably I'm going to

560
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<v Speaker 3>say three hours, because it was a long ways up there.

561
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<v Speaker 3>And so he's up there knocking and doing all this stuff,

562
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<v Speaker 3>and he gets eventually gives up, and I think he

563
00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:38.920
<v Speaker 3>climbs in his car at like midnight or one or

564
00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:41.119
<v Speaker 3>so in the morning, and I think it's one in

565
00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:43.079
<v Speaker 3>the morning. And again this is all detailed in his book.

566
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<v Speaker 3>Fact check me, please, but this is approximately right. He

567
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<v Speaker 3>drives all the way home, and of course Tom lives

568
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<v Speaker 3>in rural Clacamus County. He lives out in the woods

569
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<v Speaker 3>as well. So he drives all the way to his

570
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<v Speaker 3>house and he gets out of his car and he's

571
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<v Speaker 3>going up the steps on his rural property and as

572
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<v Speaker 3>he's one at the steps, there's a there's a wood

573
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<v Speaker 3>knock from the back of his property. And he goes, oh,

574
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<v Speaker 3>and he starts basically starts laughing to himself, going like,

575
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<v Speaker 3>I spent how many hours in the rain knocking and

576
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.359
<v Speaker 3>I come home and there's a knock on my property,

577
00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:20.480
<v Speaker 3>you know. And there's a certain humor in that that

578
00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:23.599
<v Speaker 3>Tom revels in, of course, because he's a wonderful speaker,

579
00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:25.680
<v Speaker 3>and of course he's a great speaker. He taught like

580
00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:28.960
<v Speaker 3>middle school science, so of course he's a great speaker

581
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<v Speaker 3>for anybody in the audience. But the fact that he

582
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<v Speaker 3>brings that up and just laughs about it, and to me,

583
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<v Speaker 3>that's just the cosmic giggle, you know, And maybe people

584
00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:39.640
<v Speaker 3>don't know what the cosmic giggle is, but it's that

585
00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:41.799
<v Speaker 3>idea that the universe has a fun sense of humor,

586
00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:44.480
<v Speaker 3>or the coincidence has happened in a sort of way

587
00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:47.079
<v Speaker 3>like that or whatever. You know, look it up, cosmic giggle.

588
00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:49.279
<v Speaker 3>It's a thing that I think is a very very

589
00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:52.480
<v Speaker 3>amusing But to me, it's a cosmic giggle. But for

590
00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:55.440
<v Speaker 3>Tom Powell, that was the Sasquatches playing a trick on him,

591
00:28:55.599 --> 00:28:58.559
<v Speaker 3>you know, like communicating through what he calls the coconut Telegraph,

592
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<v Speaker 3>which I believe is a tip of the hat to

593
00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:05.279
<v Speaker 3>Jimmy Buffett, but I could be wrong about that. So yeah,

594
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<v Speaker 3>and that's what I love most about Tom is that,

595
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:11.119
<v Speaker 3>like his sense of humor guides him in many many

596
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:16.079
<v Speaker 3>cases to these these proclamations and thoughts and of course,

597
00:29:16.119 --> 00:29:17.880
<v Speaker 3>man his new book. I know we've had him on

598
00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:20.759
<v Speaker 3>the podcast a few times, but I think he brings

599
00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:23.200
<v Speaker 3>up the word sasquatched once or twice in the whole thing.

600
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<v Speaker 3>The rest of it's about the pyramids and the moon

601
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:28.559
<v Speaker 3>and just crazy stuff, like I said, as a tour

602
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<v Speaker 3>de fource of the entire series of In Search of

603
00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:33.680
<v Speaker 3>in one book. So it's pretty nuts, man. It's awesome.

604
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<v Speaker 3>Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo.

605
00:29:39.079 --> 00:29:47.759
<v Speaker 3>Will be right back after these messages, you know, And you.

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<v Speaker 2>You brought up a good point earlier about the fact

607
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<v Speaker 2>that like he doesn't take things personally, and that's such

608
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<v Speaker 2>an important thing to keep in mind. And I'd never

609
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<v Speaker 2>understood that element of a lot of the alternative contril

610
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<v Speaker 2>sasquat proponent, you know, i e. The WU crowd, who

611
00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:12.079
<v Speaker 2>can be really emotionally hot and very vocal, confrontational, almost

612
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:16.200
<v Speaker 2>like battlesome in a way about their views where it's like, well,

613
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<v Speaker 2>why do you care what I think? Really? I mean,

614
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<v Speaker 2>does it matter that I don't agree with you? Or like,

615
00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:22.960
<v Speaker 2>what would it change if I did agree with you?

616
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<v Speaker 2>Is because I don't really care if you agree with me.

617
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<v Speaker 2>And that's why I love an outlet like this podcast,

618
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<v Speaker 2>is that I kind of see a podcast or a

619
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<v Speaker 2>YouTube channel or my book or whatever. It's like a storefront.

620
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<v Speaker 2>You know, there's a sign above the store that tells

621
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<v Speaker 2>you what it is. If you're interested, you are free

622
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<v Speaker 2>to walk in. If you don't like what you see,

623
00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:46.480
<v Speaker 2>you're free to leave. You don't have to stay. We're

624
00:30:46.519 --> 00:30:48.839
<v Speaker 2>not going to lock you in and shut the doors

625
00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:51.920
<v Speaker 2>and make you buy something that you're not interested in.

626
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:55.640
<v Speaker 2>So I really never understood that element of like people

627
00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:59.960
<v Speaker 2>walking in and then being angry, complaining, wanting to fight

628
00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.079
<v Speaker 2>about what's inside the proverbial store, when it's like, well, hey,

629
00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.160
<v Speaker 2>you could have just kept walking. You're not obligated to

630
00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:10.119
<v Speaker 2>listen or agree, and if you disagree, that's fine. I'm

631
00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:12.839
<v Speaker 2>not obligated to listen to or agree with you. And

632
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:18.119
<v Speaker 2>I do see that, unfortunately, more from that particular faction

633
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:21.400
<v Speaker 2>of Sasquatchry than I do from anywhere else. That's where

634
00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:25.079
<v Speaker 2>a lot of the like insults and ad hominems and

635
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:31.039
<v Speaker 2>anger and vitriol comes from, which is really unfortunate. So again,

636
00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:34.440
<v Speaker 2>hats off to Tom for having the right kind of

637
00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:36.359
<v Speaker 2>attitude about like, hey, I don't care if you agree

638
00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:38.240
<v Speaker 2>with me or not. You know, I know some of

639
00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:40.000
<v Speaker 2>this stuff is kind of weird, but hey, you know,

640
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:42.240
<v Speaker 2>and I love that about him. I respect Tom like

641
00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:45.400
<v Speaker 2>I have no problem with any of his views just

642
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.000
<v Speaker 2>because I don't hold them, you know. So we could

643
00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:50.200
<v Speaker 2>all learn a lesson to be more like Tom Powell

644
00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:51.400
<v Speaker 2>in that regard, for sure.

645
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:53.160
<v Speaker 3>Oh I think, yeah, the world to be a much

646
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:55.039
<v Speaker 3>better place if we're all just a little bit more

647
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:55.920
<v Speaker 3>like Tom Powell.

648
00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:59.279
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I wouldn't. I would not go attend an

649
00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:03.680
<v Speaker 2>event that was discussing a subject that I A wasn't

650
00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:06.400
<v Speaker 2>that interested in or B was interested in but didn't

651
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:09.279
<v Speaker 2>agree with the speakers and then make it a point

652
00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:11.119
<v Speaker 2>to go to their tables or stand up in the

653
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:15.119
<v Speaker 2>Q and a's and hurl insults or arguments at them.

654
00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:17.440
<v Speaker 2>Like that would never occur to me. It's just not

655
00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:22.319
<v Speaker 2>that interesting. So there are certainly people who I've seen

656
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:25.160
<v Speaker 2>do that at these conferences, in these events, and it

657
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.359
<v Speaker 2>gets a little strange because you're like, well, there's nothing

658
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:30.039
<v Speaker 2>you could say to those people in those moments that

659
00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:34.000
<v Speaker 2>are going to alleviate the problem. You know, even if

660
00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:36.920
<v Speaker 2>you said, oh, I agree with you wholeheartedly, like, I

661
00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:39.000
<v Speaker 2>still don't think that would. I don't know what it

662
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:41.119
<v Speaker 2>is they want, you know, maybe they just want to

663
00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:45.640
<v Speaker 2>be heard. Who knows. But there was a gentleman who

664
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:48.680
<v Speaker 2>came up to me in at Squatchfest the first year

665
00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:51.440
<v Speaker 2>that I did with you, in twenty twenty four, and

666
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:56.759
<v Speaker 2>he came up very angrily, and basically, he angrily and

667
00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:59.119
<v Speaker 2>directly asked me if I was aware of like a

668
00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:01.519
<v Speaker 2>certain case, certain area, and I say, oh, yeah, I'm

669
00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:05.039
<v Speaker 2>I'm familiar with that case and those claims. And then

670
00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:08.920
<v Speaker 2>he angrily told me that he had designed and built

671
00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:12.559
<v Speaker 2>the device that opened the portal that brought the Sasquatches

672
00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:13.480
<v Speaker 2>to that location.

673
00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:15.920
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, I remember that. I do remember that.

674
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:19.559
<v Speaker 2>It was like this sort of angry, fiery delivery. And

675
00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:21.960
<v Speaker 2>all I could say was like, oh, good for you, man.

676
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:23.519
<v Speaker 2>What do you say to that?

677
00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:25.920
<v Speaker 3>You know, I don't know, Yeah, I designed the machine

678
00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:28.319
<v Speaker 3>that opened the Yeah, it doesn't make yeah, yeah, what

679
00:33:28.359 --> 00:33:31.359
<v Speaker 3>do you say? A lot of times I'm left speechless.

680
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:33.720
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what to say, and it's probably best

681
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:37.799
<v Speaker 3>that I don't say anything oftentimes, but I rarely get

682
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:39.240
<v Speaker 3>in trouble for things I didn't say.

683
00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:42.599
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, well, I'm not going to say, oh I

684
00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:44.960
<v Speaker 2>believe you, and you know it's not going to go

685
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:48.119
<v Speaker 2>very well if I, Oh, that's all bs, because you know,

686
00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:51.440
<v Speaker 2>clearly this person, I think, to some degree believed what

687
00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:56.359
<v Speaker 2>he was saying. Hints the emotional content of the interaction,

688
00:33:56.480 --> 00:34:00.359
<v Speaker 2>and so all I could say is, oh, good for you, you know, congratulations.

689
00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:05.160
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what else you are looking for here.

690
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:09.519
<v Speaker 2>It's a very difficult situation. I just don't imagine that

691
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:15.280
<v Speaker 2>there are very many ecologically or biologically oriented people going

692
00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:20.559
<v Speaker 2>to WHO or paranormal conferences and saying how familiar are

693
00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:23.719
<v Speaker 2>you with the you know, like the phylogenetic continuity across

694
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:26.239
<v Speaker 2>the Asian wood ain't blind? Huh? You know, Like I

695
00:34:26.360 --> 00:34:27.800
<v Speaker 2>just don't see that happening.

696
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:31.159
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And you know what Bob goes my mind is

697
00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:34.199
<v Speaker 3>like why does my opinion matter to people? I'll never

698
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:36.559
<v Speaker 3>quite understand that, because I mean, a lot of times

699
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.119
<v Speaker 3>my opinion doesn't even matter to me, Like, why would

700
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:41.000
<v Speaker 3>it matter to these other people I've never even met.

701
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:43.039
<v Speaker 3>And I know that they're looking for authority figures and

702
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:45.039
<v Speaker 3>they for some reason see me as one and whatever.

703
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:47.320
<v Speaker 3>I get that. I get that, but it's just like

704
00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:50.079
<v Speaker 3>when you bring it home, man, I don't I'm nobody special.

705
00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.840
<v Speaker 3>I just have a little bit more experience, and then

706
00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:55.440
<v Speaker 3>and then people get mad at me for saying things

707
00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:57.760
<v Speaker 3>like you asked me a question and then I give

708
00:34:57.800 --> 00:34:59.719
<v Speaker 3>you an answer you don't like, and you're mad at me. Now,

709
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:01.679
<v Speaker 3>don't ask man. It's like, don't get mad at me

710
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:04.199
<v Speaker 3>for answering the question you asked. I had some guy

711
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.800
<v Speaker 3>on social media just recently tell me that he'll never

712
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:10.360
<v Speaker 3>forget the time that I told him that sasquatches don't

713
00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:12.960
<v Speaker 3>climb trees, which is weird because I think they do.

714
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:14.599
<v Speaker 3>I don't know why I would have said that. Maybe

715
00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:16.920
<v Speaker 3>it was a long long time ago. I don't really know.

716
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:18.639
<v Speaker 3>But this guy was so mad because you lost my

717
00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:21.480
<v Speaker 3>vote that day permanently, is what he told me. And

718
00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:24.559
<v Speaker 3>I looked him up. He follows me, Yeah, he follows

719
00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:27.119
<v Speaker 3>me on social media. It's like, like, what did I lose?

720
00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:30.000
<v Speaker 3>What vote is this? I'm not running for office, dude,

721
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:32.360
<v Speaker 3>Like what vote could you possibly have that I lost?

722
00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:34.599
<v Speaker 3>You still follow me on social media? That's the only

723
00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:38.159
<v Speaker 3>vote you get. I just don't understand people. But you

724
00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:41.559
<v Speaker 3>know what's oddly funny is like, while we're having this

725
00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:46.159
<v Speaker 3>conversation right now, I think it was pretty funny that

726
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:49.360
<v Speaker 3>I just got a text from Maria Bay or actually

727
00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:52.639
<v Speaker 3>from Expedition Bigfoot, right. She just happened to text me

728
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:56.440
<v Speaker 3>right now while we're on this conversation about if maybe

729
00:35:56.559 --> 00:35:59.039
<v Speaker 3>I have a few bins to talk about possibly doing

730
00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:01.519
<v Speaker 3>a presentation, maybe some event or something that she's involved in.

731
00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:02.920
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what it is. I haven't talked her yet.

732
00:36:02.920 --> 00:36:04.559
<v Speaker 3>I don't know anything about it. But Maria is a

733
00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:05.920
<v Speaker 3>good friend, you know. I don't talk to her a

734
00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:08.320
<v Speaker 3>lot or whatever, but whenever on gigs together, you know,

735
00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:10.800
<v Speaker 3>we hang out. We talk about biology and apes and

736
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:12.960
<v Speaker 3>all that sort of stuff. It's fun. So I said, hey,

737
00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:14.840
<v Speaker 3>I'm on a podcast, let me call you back, and

738
00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.360
<v Speaker 3>she goes, oh, yeah, I should have known that, because

739
00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:21.480
<v Speaker 3>you know how I can. I'm a remote viewer, And

740
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:24.039
<v Speaker 3>of course she put the joking emoji. She's not a

741
00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:26.920
<v Speaker 3>remote viewer, of course, but she thought that was pretty funny.

742
00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:30.480
<v Speaker 3>Kind of again once again heckling, lightly, heckling the paranormal folks.

743
00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:33.719
<v Speaker 3>But so, because we've talked about how difficult it is

744
00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:37.079
<v Speaker 3>to keep things grounded in science when everybody wants sasquatches

745
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.280
<v Speaker 3>to appear and disappear interdimensionally and all that sort of stuff.

746
00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:42.679
<v Speaker 2>So you should ask her if she has an hour

747
00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:45.559
<v Speaker 2>to spare right now, and we'll do a bonus episode

748
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:49.159
<v Speaker 2>with her. Since has showed on us well, I can

749
00:36:49.159 --> 00:36:51.559
<v Speaker 2>certainly rope her into being a podcast guest. I mean,

750
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:53.760
<v Speaker 2>you and I have both on her show, so she

751
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:57.039
<v Speaker 2>kind of owes us one right. Absolutely, But No, to

752
00:36:57.079 --> 00:37:01.800
<v Speaker 2>your point about people's oh kind of word this, I'm

753
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:03.719
<v Speaker 2>really trying to thread the needle here and not just

754
00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:05.599
<v Speaker 2>like piss off everybody.

755
00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:09.320
<v Speaker 3>Everybody can't piss everybody off. You're not that good. No.

756
00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:11.639
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I think most of our audience knows where

757
00:37:11.639 --> 00:37:14.000
<v Speaker 2>we're coming from. Again, they've the sign's been on the

758
00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.400
<v Speaker 2>door for a long time. They've walked in knowing what

759
00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:18.599
<v Speaker 2>to expect and what they're going to get. I just

760
00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:21.679
<v Speaker 2>think there's something to be said for like the idea

761
00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:26.280
<v Speaker 2>of strong beliefs loosely held because so much I wrote

762
00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:28.239
<v Speaker 2>about this in the book, and this is a recurring

763
00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:30.480
<v Speaker 2>conversation I have with people, and it rubs a lot

764
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:32.880
<v Speaker 2>of my friends the wrong way, but I still think

765
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:34.519
<v Speaker 2>it's the right way to think about it. Is that

766
00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:39.039
<v Speaker 2>so much of what we are engaged in is belief based. Again,

767
00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:42.079
<v Speaker 2>for the listener, Like, the definition of belief is to

768
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:46.559
<v Speaker 2>accept a statement or proposition as true, and so much

769
00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:49.639
<v Speaker 2>of what we engage in, you know, is dependent on

770
00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:53.039
<v Speaker 2>the acceptance of statements or propositions is true that we

771
00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:58.079
<v Speaker 2>can't directly verify or falsify, and that opens up a

772
00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:00.559
<v Speaker 2>lot of doors. A it makes you a lot more

773
00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:02.920
<v Speaker 2>humble when you realize, like, well, some of these things

774
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:06.239
<v Speaker 2>like I don't know, and I can't know like any

775
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:09.639
<v Speaker 2>given sasquatch case, I can't know what really happened. It's

776
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:12.519
<v Speaker 2>not possible. Do I believe this witness? Do I not

777
00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.400
<v Speaker 2>believe this witness? Do I believe that this evidence was

778
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:17.400
<v Speaker 2>collected in the way that it was claimed to have

779
00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:20.000
<v Speaker 2>been or was found in the place and in the

780
00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:22.280
<v Speaker 2>conditions that it was said to have been found? And sure,

781
00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:25.199
<v Speaker 2>but it also makes me humble because I realize a

782
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:27.920
<v Speaker 2>lot of that those are just beliefs. And it also

783
00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:30.480
<v Speaker 2>makes me more forgiving of other people. And so I

784
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:33.559
<v Speaker 2>will readily say, whereas I used to really shrink away people,

785
00:38:33.559 --> 00:38:36.039
<v Speaker 2>do you believe in Bigfoot? Well, it's not about belief,

786
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:39.760
<v Speaker 2>it's about evidence, and it's about what's convincing. And I

787
00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:41.920
<v Speaker 2>have no problem with saying, yeah, I believe that the

788
00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:46.480
<v Speaker 2>Sasquatch exists. I accept that proposition. I don't know in

789
00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:49.199
<v Speaker 2>the sense that like I've not seen one in daylight

790
00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.760
<v Speaker 2>at close range, like you know that I think would

791
00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:56.800
<v Speaker 2>be the absolute knowledge, like that direct knowledge, short of

792
00:38:56.840 --> 00:38:58.920
<v Speaker 2>getting like you know, picked up and thrown by one

793
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:01.920
<v Speaker 2>or something like that. But I can hold a lot

794
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:04.280
<v Speaker 2>of these things loosely. If any given case that I

795
00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:07.280
<v Speaker 2>think is true right now we're overturned and proven to

796
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:10.400
<v Speaker 2>be a hoax, well that's fine, Like it wouldn't shatter

797
00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:13.679
<v Speaker 2>my identity. It wouldn't. It'd be a bummer, depending on

798
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:16.320
<v Speaker 2>the case. But none of that has anything to do

799
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:19.679
<v Speaker 2>with like, Okay, well I had a strong belief loosely held.

800
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.880
<v Speaker 2>There's other things to pursue and to look into related

801
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:25.199
<v Speaker 2>to this subject. And so it's not like a house

802
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:26.880
<v Speaker 2>of cards where you pull out one thing and the

803
00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:31.360
<v Speaker 2>entire system comes crumbling down. But for some reason, a

804
00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:33.599
<v Speaker 2>lot of people in this faction that we're talking about,

805
00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:36.760
<v Speaker 2>you know, their beliefs and their identity are sort of

806
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.239
<v Speaker 2>one and the same, and so to question a belief

807
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:42.760
<v Speaker 2>and half of them aren't even beliefs, they're just really

808
00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:48.239
<v Speaker 2>like unexamined assumptions, you know, untested presuppositions, that kind of

809
00:39:48.239 --> 00:39:52.119
<v Speaker 2>thing that they do take it personally, and they do

810
00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:54.800
<v Speaker 2>see it as sort of like an insult, or they'll

811
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:58.920
<v Speaker 2>vice versa, use our beliefs as insults. You believe this,

812
00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:02.800
<v Speaker 2>then you must be you think they're just apes? How

813
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:06.159
<v Speaker 2>stupid are you? On and on and on where it's like, well, yeah,

814
00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:08.519
<v Speaker 2>that is what I think, and could I be wrong? Like, oh,

815
00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:13.159
<v Speaker 2>well of course, but if there was some other phenomena

816
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:17.480
<v Speaker 2>behind the sasquatch phenomenon and that was demonstrated, Okay, fine,

817
00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:21.320
<v Speaker 2>that's great. I would love the answers. But none of

818
00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:24.719
<v Speaker 2>that I don't think would be like identity or life

819
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:27.480
<v Speaker 2>shattering in any way, shape or form. And so it's

820
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:32.559
<v Speaker 2>usually this faction that we're describing that has that, you know,

821
00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:35.880
<v Speaker 2>instead of strong beliefs loosely held, they have like loose

822
00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:37.679
<v Speaker 2>beliefs strongly held, you know what I mean.

823
00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:43.159
<v Speaker 3>That's funny, that's great. Yeah, which I guess is the

824
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:45.639
<v Speaker 3>need for science, because I'll say it again, I say

825
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<v Speaker 3>this in a lot of my presentations. Science is not

826
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<v Speaker 3>a body of knowledge that is tightly held by academics

827
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<v Speaker 3>in order to keep us all in line. It is

828
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<v Speaker 3>not a way. Really, it's not something that they are

829
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:01.119
<v Speaker 3>hiding from us and all this. It is a process.

830
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:03.599
<v Speaker 3>Science is really kind of a verb in a lot

831
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<v Speaker 3>of ways. It is a process to find out what

832
00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:08.800
<v Speaker 3>is real. You think something is real, you design a

833
00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:11.599
<v Speaker 3>test for it. Does it pass the test. If so,

834
00:41:12.119 --> 00:41:14.119
<v Speaker 3>you design another test to see if it passes that

835
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:15.920
<v Speaker 3>one too, and you share with your friends and they

836
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:19.280
<v Speaker 3>can do similar tests. If it does not pass the test,

837
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.679
<v Speaker 3>then you guess again. You know, that's basically science. It's

838
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:27.840
<v Speaker 3>a process of testing your beliefs, beliefs against the evidence

839
00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:32.000
<v Speaker 3>that you find, especially in well designed experiments, to see

840
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:35.599
<v Speaker 3>what is true it is not. You know, this works,

841
00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:38.519
<v Speaker 3>that doesn't period. Believe me, No, it's not that at all.

842
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:42.920
<v Speaker 3>It's the questioning process to get to that place. And

843
00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:44.920
<v Speaker 3>then that's what science is really all about, which is

844
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:47.239
<v Speaker 3>why I'm glad we have good thinkers. There's a small

845
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:50.639
<v Speaker 3>number of really good thinkers in this field, and of

846
00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:52.920
<v Speaker 3>course the whole Derby thing as well. By the way,

847
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:55.960
<v Speaker 3>Darby is going to be speaking at the museum this

848
00:41:56.079 --> 00:42:00.320
<v Speaker 3>coming Wednesday, and only if you are a member of

849
00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:03.639
<v Speaker 3>the podcast or the museum, are you allowed to come.

850
00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:07.000
<v Speaker 3>So if you want a ticket and you are a member,

851
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:10.400
<v Speaker 3>go to the Patreon and do what you need to

852
00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:13.000
<v Speaker 3>do down there. So it's not for the general public,

853
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.119
<v Speaker 3>but that's just another benefit of being a member of

854
00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:18.920
<v Speaker 3>the podcast or the museum. But this is a podcast

855
00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:21.039
<v Speaker 3>right now, So if you want to become a member

856
00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:24.079
<v Speaker 3>and attend the Darby Talk at the Museum, go to

857
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:25.800
<v Speaker 3>the link that Matt Prode we'll put down in the

858
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:28.199
<v Speaker 3>show notes, and then become a member. It's five dollars

859
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:30.480
<v Speaker 3>a month. And for that five dollars a month, you

860
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:34.679
<v Speaker 3>get an extra episode every single week, and you also

861
00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:40.440
<v Speaker 3>get this episode, the regular one with zero commercials period. Nothing,

862
00:42:41.559 --> 00:42:46.440
<v Speaker 3>no hair growth products, no read alouds, no locally piped

863
00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:49.920
<v Speaker 3>in commercials, nothing, just us so and of course a

864
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:52.159
<v Speaker 3>lot of other benefits too, like when I talk about something,

865
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:54.480
<v Speaker 3>hey you got a goold cast or this happened or whatever,

866
00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:57.119
<v Speaker 3>we get pictures and we put them up on the

867
00:42:57.119 --> 00:42:59.880
<v Speaker 3>Patreon for people we ask we ask questions, you get

868
00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:03.440
<v Speaker 3>the submit questions for member episodes, and also every once

869
00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:05.199
<v Speaker 3>in a while you get to come to cool special

870
00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:07.159
<v Speaker 3>events that nobody but the members get to come to,

871
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:09.760
<v Speaker 3>like this thing, So if that's you, If you want

872
00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:11.880
<v Speaker 3>to come and you want to buy a ticket, feel

873
00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:15.000
<v Speaker 3>free to become a member. So cool stuff is happening.

874
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:18.079
<v Speaker 2>And we do have the best member community of all

875
00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:20.719
<v Speaker 2>of the online Sasquatch communities that I've seen him been

876
00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:22.679
<v Speaker 2>a part of, which is a great many over the years,

877
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:27.119
<v Speaker 2>this one is the best. Everyone's very thoughtful, you know,

878
00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:30.360
<v Speaker 2>haven't had to kick anybody out or delete any comments

879
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:32.559
<v Speaker 2>or anything like that. Like, there's a good vibe. So

880
00:43:33.559 --> 00:43:36.440
<v Speaker 2>if that's your vibe, feel free to join. Don't be

881
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:40.360
<v Speaker 2>the first person I've kicked out. Please, Now that's going

882
00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:40.960
<v Speaker 2>to be Bobo.

883
00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:41.480
<v Speaker 3>No.

884
00:43:41.719 --> 00:43:44.320
<v Speaker 2>Actually I wanted to bring this up with Bobo on

885
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:47.840
<v Speaker 2>the podcast, but since he's not here. Not only is

886
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:50.599
<v Speaker 2>Bobo a member, but I've just noticed he actually has

887
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:55.280
<v Speaker 2>two membership accounts because he has two email addresses, you know,

888
00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:59.159
<v Speaker 2>two different servers, but the same like user name. So

889
00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:01.960
<v Speaker 2>I can only guess that he signed up with one

890
00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:03.960
<v Speaker 2>and then he tried to sign in with the other,

891
00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:05.920
<v Speaker 2>and when it told him he didn't have an account,

892
00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:08.840
<v Speaker 2>he just created another account. So Bobo pays for two

893
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:12.360
<v Speaker 2>memberships for himself, and as far as I can tell,

894
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:15.440
<v Speaker 2>none of our other members pay for two memberships, so

895
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:19.280
<v Speaker 2>Bobo is our highest paying, single highest paying member.

896
00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:23.360
<v Speaker 3>Well, he must like the podcast more than anyone else,

897
00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:26.199
<v Speaker 3>not enough to show up, but as far as as

898
00:44:26.199 --> 00:44:33.199
<v Speaker 3>far as listening, he must love this podcast. Few well played,

899
00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:35.000
<v Speaker 3>well played Robo Bobo.

900
00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:39.239
<v Speaker 2>We do miss Bobo? Wherefore ardl Bobio? I guess Well,

901
00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:41.159
<v Speaker 2>that's the great thing is we will get to find

902
00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:44.920
<v Speaker 2>out altogether one day when he hops on next and

903
00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:47.719
<v Speaker 2>tells us where he was and why he missed it.

904
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:49.199
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure it will be amazing.

905
00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:55.079
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff

906
00:44:55.079 --> 00:45:04.159
<v Speaker 3>and Bobo will be right back after these messages. You know,

907
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:05.559
<v Speaker 3>one of the things that came to mind while we

908
00:45:05.599 --> 00:45:08.599
<v Speaker 3>were speaking this a little while ago, Matt, is this

909
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:13.800
<v Speaker 3>idea of being a sasquatch researcher, right, because I've been

910
00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:15.280
<v Speaker 3>saying this a lot, because it occurred to me that

911
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:18.880
<v Speaker 3>like most Bigfoot researchers aren't really researchers per se. You know,

912
00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:22.639
<v Speaker 3>they're more fans of the subject. They're officionados. They go

913
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:25.239
<v Speaker 3>to the conferences, maybe they surf the web. They have

914
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:28.519
<v Speaker 3>maybe a Facebook group or something like that. And I'm

915
00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:31.960
<v Speaker 3>only judging that and for some people, I guess that

916
00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:35.679
<v Speaker 3>would be a pretty harsh judgment to accept. But I'm

917
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<v Speaker 3>only saying that from a cliff centric point of view,

918
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<v Speaker 3>which is from the position I do most things. You know,

919
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:43.920
<v Speaker 3>very cliff centric world I live in. So for me,

920
00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:47.760
<v Speaker 3>I have this idea of what sasquatch research looks like,

921
00:45:48.480 --> 00:45:51.320
<v Speaker 3>and I'm not sure a lot of people do that.

922
00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:53.719
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I try to live up to my own standards,

923
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:55.199
<v Speaker 3>and I feel like I fail most of the time.

924
00:45:55.840 --> 00:45:59.199
<v Speaker 3>So I'm curious, because you're very thoughtful gentleman, and you

925
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:01.880
<v Speaker 3>think about things all the time. You have really interesting

926
00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:09.039
<v Speaker 3>ideas and stuff. What does what does quality research look like?

927
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<v Speaker 2>I think it is equal parts armchair and field research,

928
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:19.559
<v Speaker 2>and I think it's equal parts like propositional and participatory.

929
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<v Speaker 2>I've seen a lot of people who are strictly armchair

930
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<v Speaker 2>quote unquote researchers, and there's a lot of value to that.

931
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<v Speaker 2>And if someone was digging into the right materials or

932
00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:33.159
<v Speaker 2>at least what I would consider to be like the foundational,

933
00:46:33.719 --> 00:46:38.159
<v Speaker 2>rock solid sort of canonical materials and that was what

934
00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:42.000
<v Speaker 2>their armchair research consisted of, I think that would be

935
00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:45.519
<v Speaker 2>amazing and beneficial, whether not just within the canon of

936
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:50.239
<v Speaker 2>sasquatch literature either, but you know, related disciplines, other relevant disciplines,

937
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:54.880
<v Speaker 2>things about the other apes or evolutionary biology, ecology, behavioral ecology,

938
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:57.119
<v Speaker 2>et cetera, et cetera. But I think there's a number

939
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<v Speaker 2>of people now who's entirety of armchair resoarch hich is

940
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<v Speaker 2>solely restricted to network television, sensational YouTube channels, and you

941
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:11.679
<v Speaker 2>know podcasts, not really you know, being hosted by other researchers,

942
00:47:11.679 --> 00:47:14.960
<v Speaker 2>but just by other enthusiasts. And then I've seen the

943
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:17.280
<v Speaker 2>flip side where there are these people that spend all

944
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<v Speaker 2>their time in the field of whatever amount of time

945
00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:25.039
<v Speaker 2>that is, but all of their sasquatch allotted time is

946
00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:28.880
<v Speaker 2>you know, in the woods, whether hiking, camping, searching, whatever

947
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:31.880
<v Speaker 2>the case may be. But who flat out refuse to

948
00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:35.440
<v Speaker 2>crack the first book a resource. I've encountered that many times,

949
00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:39.320
<v Speaker 2>where people say, like, I don't want to be influenced

950
00:47:39.360 --> 00:47:41.800
<v Speaker 2>by the literature. I want to make up my own mind,

951
00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:44.880
<v Speaker 2>so I don't need to read that stuff, you know,

952
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:46.360
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to read it, I don't need to

953
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:49.400
<v Speaker 2>read it, And that to me is equally problematic. I mean,

954
00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:52.679
<v Speaker 2>I've been in organizations with people like that who had

955
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:57.320
<v Speaker 2>no clue about the history of sasquatchry or the you know,

956
00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:01.480
<v Speaker 2>the best like analyzes of the best physical or trace

957
00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:06.000
<v Speaker 2>evidence or multimedia evidence, and so very often they'll quote

958
00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:09.760
<v Speaker 2>unquote discover things that's still useful information, but they don't

959
00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:12.360
<v Speaker 2>even understand where that would fall in the context of

960
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:14.920
<v Speaker 2>the history of the pursuit or how it relates to

961
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:19.920
<v Speaker 2>other finds elsewhere. I've seen people totally reject amazing opportunities

962
00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:24.519
<v Speaker 2>in these organizations because they were so unfamiliar with the person.

963
00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:27.760
<v Speaker 2>And then after the opportunity was rejected, I'd bet, hey,

964
00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:32.119
<v Speaker 2>that was a huge mistake this person. Did you know ABC, D, E, F,

965
00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:34.559
<v Speaker 2>and G. And they, well, how am I supposed to

966
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:37.920
<v Speaker 2>know that? I'm like, well, if you were a real researcher,

967
00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:39.639
<v Speaker 2>you would know who this person is and what their

968
00:48:39.639 --> 00:48:42.480
<v Speaker 2>accomplishments were and why it would have benefited you to

969
00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:45.239
<v Speaker 2>take this opportunity with them. And so I think you

970
00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:47.559
<v Speaker 2>have to have equal parts of both. But I do

971
00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:52.119
<v Speaker 2>think the term has been so bastardized in the modern

972
00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:56.119
<v Speaker 2>culture to sort of be an identity. It's almost like

973
00:48:56.119 --> 00:48:59.400
<v Speaker 2>there's a a costume, you know, like well, I get

974
00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:02.960
<v Speaker 2>the backpack and the headlamp and the hat and the

975
00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:06.199
<v Speaker 2>camp chair, and now I'm a sasquatch researcher, you know.

976
00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:06.639
<v Speaker 1>What I mean?

977
00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:11.119
<v Speaker 2>Like there's a certain look or like cosplay LARPing element

978
00:49:11.159 --> 00:49:12.920
<v Speaker 2>of it, which is the skeptics think we're all doing

979
00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:15.559
<v Speaker 2>all the time. But you know, I think it's a continuum.

980
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:17.679
<v Speaker 2>There's people who are strictly doing that. So when I

981
00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:20.519
<v Speaker 2>wrote the book, for example, you know, you're trying to

982
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:26.280
<v Speaker 2>set up these designators for people, whether it's like proponents

983
00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:30.199
<v Speaker 2>and skeptics or believers and cynics. But instead of using

984
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:32.880
<v Speaker 2>researcher for the most part, I chose to use the

985
00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:36.840
<v Speaker 2>word contender because I think that a lot of us

986
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:40.800
<v Speaker 2>are contending with the mystery or the proposition or the

987
00:49:40.920 --> 00:49:45.119
<v Speaker 2>question what is behind the sasquatch phenomenon? Does the sasquatch

988
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:49.159
<v Speaker 2>exists as a living species of animal, whatever the case

989
00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:52.880
<v Speaker 2>may be. Like we're grappling or wrestling with those questions,

990
00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:57.679
<v Speaker 2>and you know, fighting and struggling against trying to sort

991
00:49:57.800 --> 00:49:59.679
<v Speaker 2>the wheat from the chaff and get to these answers.

992
00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:02.880
<v Speaker 2>And so I wanted to use that term so that

993
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<v Speaker 2>the reader would understand that there's a difference between like

994
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<v Speaker 2>genuinely contending with the mystery and just getting a red

995
00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:13.360
<v Speaker 2>headlamp and saying I'm a researcher because you go camping

996
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:15.840
<v Speaker 2>once a year or something like that. So to me,

997
00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:19.320
<v Speaker 2>good research is participatory, like you're out in the field.

998
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:22.599
<v Speaker 2>You're doing it. It's propositional. You know, you're not only

999
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.079
<v Speaker 2>getting familiar with the literature, but you're trying to add

1000
00:50:25.119 --> 00:50:27.840
<v Speaker 2>to it and expand to it with new hypotheses and

1001
00:50:28.119 --> 00:50:32.639
<v Speaker 2>new perspectives and concepts. So it's equal armchair and field

1002
00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:37.480
<v Speaker 2>research using sober minded, dedicated methods that you could derive

1003
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:38.719
<v Speaker 2>from relevant disciplines.

1004
00:50:39.599 --> 00:50:43.079
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you know, the foundational literature has really become a

1005
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<v Speaker 3>new focus again for me, or refocus, i should say,

1006
00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:47.920
<v Speaker 3>because I mean I've read all the John Green books,

1007
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:50.480
<v Speaker 3>of course, probably this couple of times. I've read Krantz's stuff,

1008
00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:54.119
<v Speaker 3>of Meltrum's book. I revisit many of these books yearly, actually,

1009
00:50:54.440 --> 00:50:56.320
<v Speaker 3>and I try to branch out and read some new

1010
00:50:56.320 --> 00:50:57.800
<v Speaker 3>stuff every once in a while. But there's not a

1011
00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:01.199
<v Speaker 3>lot of new stuff in my PA. Of course, I

1012
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<v Speaker 3>don't a lot of the books that are coming out.

1013
00:51:03.639 --> 00:51:06.000
<v Speaker 3>They're not they're not formatted very well. They're the rife

1014
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<v Speaker 3>with the spelling mistakes and that sort of stuff, and

1015
00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:09.800
<v Speaker 3>it's like, well, I'm not going to read this. The

1016
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<v Speaker 3>person didn't take the time to do it right, I'm

1017
00:51:12.159 --> 00:51:13.599
<v Speaker 3>not going to read it. I may have it, but

1018
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:15.480
<v Speaker 3>I'm not going to read it. But the foundational stuff,

1019
00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:19.000
<v Speaker 3>the John Green stuff, for example, has become a little

1020
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<v Speaker 3>bit more important to me lately, just because maybe it

1021
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:24.840
<v Speaker 3>was through conversations with you, because you and I talk

1022
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:26.480
<v Speaker 3>all the time off when we're not on the air

1023
00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:28.960
<v Speaker 3>or whatever. It might be somebody else as well. I

1024
00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:33.280
<v Speaker 3>don't remember. But nowadays, if you want to know what

1025
00:51:33.719 --> 00:51:36.079
<v Speaker 3>bigfoots are thought to do, you can watch you know,

1026
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<v Speaker 3>any number of television shows or YouTube channels and you know,

1027
00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:43.119
<v Speaker 3>and get a general idea pretty quick, which makes it

1028
00:51:43.119 --> 00:51:46.639
<v Speaker 3>a lot easier to fake evidence. For example. You know,

1029
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<v Speaker 3>but if if you find a reference to knocking in

1030
00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:53.400
<v Speaker 3>the nineteen seventies or nineteen eighties or something like that,

1031
00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:56.320
<v Speaker 3>well that's significant because that was before it was widely

1032
00:51:56.360 --> 00:51:59.000
<v Speaker 3>known they did that. And just recently I've been rereading

1033
00:51:59.199 --> 00:52:01.079
<v Speaker 3>the John Green like the thin books, you know, like

1034
00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:04.400
<v Speaker 3>the skinny ones. You're the Sasquatch and you know, all

1035
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:07.039
<v Speaker 3>that kind of stuff, the softcover ones that he published

1036
00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:10.519
<v Speaker 3>in the early nineteen seventies, You're the Sasquatch, all those things,

1037
00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:14.079
<v Speaker 3>and I came. I was doing some research for a

1038
00:52:14.119 --> 00:52:17.400
<v Speaker 3>new display that we're developing at the NABC about the

1039
00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:21.039
<v Speaker 3>nomenclature of a bigfoot and sasquatch and stuff, and Jerry

1040
00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:23.280
<v Speaker 3>Crew in particular. So I was reading through the Jerry

1041
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:25.159
<v Speaker 3>Cruse stuff just in case there is something I missed

1042
00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:27.840
<v Speaker 3>in there. And of course I'm assuming that all of

1043
00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:30.119
<v Speaker 3>our listeners know who Jerry Crew is, but just in case,

1044
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.719
<v Speaker 3>because we do have, you know, fledgling people out there

1045
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:35.599
<v Speaker 3>coming into the subject. And you know, I referred a

1046
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:38.519
<v Speaker 3>couple of customers in the NABC today to the podcasts

1047
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:40.360
<v Speaker 3>who you know are just kind of new to the subject.

1048
00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:43.079
<v Speaker 3>Maybe they're going to listen. But Jerry Crewe was the

1049
00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:46.800
<v Speaker 3>guy who casts the very very first known Sasquatch footprint

1050
00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:50.000
<v Speaker 3>cast that is still in existence. There was a police

1051
00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:52.400
<v Speaker 3>officer that casts several before that, but all those are

1052
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:54.320
<v Speaker 3>we don't know where they are. They're probably destroyed or

1053
00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:57.079
<v Speaker 3>thrown away. But Jerry Crew casts one and it is

1054
00:52:57.159 --> 00:53:00.639
<v Speaker 3>still in existence. Actually, a little known fact cast two,

1055
00:53:01.480 --> 00:53:03.400
<v Speaker 3>but one of them crumbled when they removed it from

1056
00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:05.599
<v Speaker 3>the ground, but one of them survives to this very day.

1057
00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:08.800
<v Speaker 3>While reading through the Jerry Crewe Encounters and whatever else,

1058
00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:11.920
<v Speaker 3>I found a reference. It's just a short little paragraph

1059
00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:14.559
<v Speaker 3>in one of the John Green books that says something

1060
00:53:14.639 --> 00:53:17.119
<v Speaker 3>to the effect of an odd We followed the tracks

1061
00:53:17.159 --> 00:53:19.000
<v Speaker 3>down to the creek that crossed the creek and started

1062
00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:20.760
<v Speaker 3>going to the other side of the creek or whatever,

1063
00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:24.679
<v Speaker 3>and they mentioned an odd find of a small I

1064
00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:26.960
<v Speaker 3>think three or five, I don't remember how many, they said,

1065
00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:32.920
<v Speaker 3>of trees that the tops had been partially broken off

1066
00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:35.880
<v Speaker 3>of at about you know, six or eight feet off

1067
00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:37.719
<v Speaker 3>the ground or something like that. And I say, oh,

1068
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:41.199
<v Speaker 3>partially broken. Well, that's exactly what we're finding, you know,

1069
00:53:41.239 --> 00:53:44.119
<v Speaker 3>out in the woods right now. Basically, you know, I

1070
00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:47.159
<v Speaker 3>found a new tree break just a couple of weeks ago,

1071
00:53:48.480 --> 00:53:50.960
<v Speaker 3>and most of mine are twisted, of course, not just broken,

1072
00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:54.119
<v Speaker 3>but twisted, and several of them have had sasquatch footprints

1073
00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:55.800
<v Speaker 3>at the base of them. So I'm pretty confident that

1074
00:53:55.840 --> 00:54:00.119
<v Speaker 3>sasquatches are responsible for at least a percentage of the

1075
00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:02.800
<v Speaker 3>tracks or the tree breaks that we're finding. But the

1076
00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:05.599
<v Speaker 3>fact that you found that in a John Green book

1077
00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:10.960
<v Speaker 3>foundational literature, when he was following up on the first

1078
00:54:11.639 --> 00:54:17.360
<v Speaker 3>trackway that was recorded in casts ever in all Bigfoot history,

1079
00:54:18.079 --> 00:54:22.440
<v Speaker 3>that adds extra weight to that level of evidence to me,

1080
00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:27.920
<v Speaker 3>because there was no influence at that time that sasquatches

1081
00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:31.280
<v Speaker 3>break trees back in nineteen fifty eight. I don't even

1082
00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:34.559
<v Speaker 3>think it was widely known. I could be wrong. That's

1083
00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:37.760
<v Speaker 3>where we need a primatologist widely known that apes broke trees,

1084
00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:40.719
<v Speaker 3>you know, in stress stressful situations and stuff. Maybe they

1085
00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:43.039
<v Speaker 3>did know that, but that was before Jane Goodall and

1086
00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:45.880
<v Speaker 3>Diane Fosse and stuff did all their pioneering research. So

1087
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:48.679
<v Speaker 3>there's at least a reasonable chance that privatologists didn't know

1088
00:54:48.679 --> 00:54:51.400
<v Speaker 3>that about apes. And the fact that John Green just

1089
00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:55.480
<v Speaker 3>had this throwaway paragraph in his book that said basically,

1090
00:54:55.559 --> 00:54:58.599
<v Speaker 3>that adds a lot of weight to the tree break

1091
00:54:58.719 --> 00:55:01.840
<v Speaker 3>situation to me. Do you have any thoughts on that?

1092
00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:05.039
<v Speaker 2>I think you're exactly right in that it's very important

1093
00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:10.199
<v Speaker 2>to find information that describes environmental evidence like that or

1094
00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:14.960
<v Speaker 2>things that we can infer were associated with the sasquatch phenomenon,

1095
00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:19.960
<v Speaker 2>if not living sasquatches themselves in those earliest times, and

1096
00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:23.880
<v Speaker 2>especially in the times prior to the observational field studies

1097
00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:25.719
<v Speaker 2>of great apes in their environments.

1098
00:55:26.199 --> 00:55:28.800
<v Speaker 3>I hate to interrupt, but I just found the paragraph

1099
00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:30.039
<v Speaker 3>because I took a picture of it, and I think

1100
00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:31.360
<v Speaker 3>I might have sent it to you. I'm not sure.

1101
00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:34.039
<v Speaker 3>But here's the paragraph itself that we're discussing right now.

1102
00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:36.320
<v Speaker 3>And I forget which book it's from. It's one of

1103
00:55:36.599 --> 00:55:40.199
<v Speaker 3>the softcover John Green books. And here's a direct quote

1104
00:55:40.199 --> 00:55:42.559
<v Speaker 3>from the book as I'm reading it. The track maker,

1105
00:55:42.679 --> 00:55:45.559
<v Speaker 3>which is the Jerry Crue animal, had reached the bar

1106
00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:48.559
<v Speaker 3>over the log jam and had left. By the way,

1107
00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:51.280
<v Speaker 3>this bar isn't a drinking bars, a sandbar. The track

1108
00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:53.840
<v Speaker 3>maker had reached the bar over the log jam and

1109
00:55:53.920 --> 00:55:56.960
<v Speaker 3>had left to climb the hillside. Most of the area

1110
00:55:57.079 --> 00:55:59.960
<v Speaker 3>was rocky or was too hard packed to show print.

1111
00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:03.559
<v Speaker 3>Following the line of the tracks into the brush, however,

1112
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:08.760
<v Speaker 3>we were puzzled to find three small trees some distance apart,

1113
00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:12.960
<v Speaker 3>each with the top partially broken off about eight feet

1114
00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:16.480
<v Speaker 3>above the ground, and then twisted around the lower part

1115
00:56:16.599 --> 00:56:19.440
<v Speaker 3>of the trunk. Olthough it was a twist, that's what

1116
00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:20.320
<v Speaker 3>I'm talking about here.

1117
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:23.639
<v Speaker 2>So it's fascinating because, yeah, you know, I've read and

1118
00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:26.400
<v Speaker 2>re read those books. I try to read all the

1119
00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:28.920
<v Speaker 2>ones I consider to be foundational at least like once

1120
00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:32.400
<v Speaker 2>a year, once every two years, and every single time

1121
00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:34.159
<v Speaker 2>something new leaps out to me. And if you would

1122
00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:37.320
<v Speaker 2>ask me, hey, do you remember John Green writing anything

1123
00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:41.719
<v Speaker 2>about twisted trees, especially, you know, during the Bluff Creek

1124
00:56:41.719 --> 00:56:43.559
<v Speaker 2>investigations in the early days, I would have said, now,

1125
00:56:43.559 --> 00:56:45.920
<v Speaker 2>I don't remember anything like that, even though I've read

1126
00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:48.960
<v Speaker 2>those books so many times. Because they're so densely packed,

1127
00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:52.119
<v Speaker 2>you can't memorize every bit of it. So it is

1128
00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:54.320
<v Speaker 2>really important. And then to your earlier point, like, the

1129
00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:58.519
<v Speaker 2>first real observational field study that gets published was George

1130
00:56:58.519 --> 00:57:02.119
<v Speaker 2>Schaller's field study is Mountain Gorillas, and that would have

1131
00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:04.280
<v Speaker 2>been in that fifty eight to fifty nine time frame,

1132
00:57:04.679 --> 00:57:07.320
<v Speaker 2>and then published in book form in the Mountain Gorilla

1133
00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:11.519
<v Speaker 2>Behavior and Ecology in like sixty one or sixty two

1134
00:57:11.639 --> 00:57:13.800
<v Speaker 2>somewhere thereabouts. I'd have to pull up the book and

1135
00:57:14.159 --> 00:57:17.199
<v Speaker 2>double check that date, but that's roughly the timeline, so

1136
00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:21.039
<v Speaker 2>that certainly would have preceded the publication of that book.

1137
00:57:21.079 --> 00:57:23.079
<v Speaker 2>So there wouldn't have been some place that they could

1138
00:57:23.119 --> 00:57:26.639
<v Speaker 2>have derived that inspiration from. Now, you know, there might

1139
00:57:26.679 --> 00:57:31.280
<v Speaker 2>be references to the manipulation of vegetation in Dshaiyou's book.

1140
00:57:31.679 --> 00:57:35.360
<v Speaker 2>I think it's called Explorations of Equatorial Africa, in which

1141
00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:40.360
<v Speaker 2>DSHAIU in the mid eighteen hundreds officially, you know, discovers

1142
00:57:40.400 --> 00:57:43.360
<v Speaker 2>for the western world the lowland gorilla. But I don't

1143
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:46.000
<v Speaker 2>know how familiar you know, Green and those guys would

1144
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:48.239
<v Speaker 2>have been with that particular book that would have already

1145
00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:51.519
<v Speaker 2>been almost one hundred years old at that point. And

1146
00:57:51.719 --> 00:57:56.039
<v Speaker 2>keeping in mind too that in those early days, Green

1147
00:57:56.320 --> 00:58:00.239
<v Speaker 2>is very explicit about this, is that the pardamin in

1148
00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:04.199
<v Speaker 2>view that was proposed by J. W. Burns and some

1149
00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:07.360
<v Speaker 2>of the other early writers was that the Sasquatches were

1150
00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:10.079
<v Speaker 2>some sort of a type of people, and so they

1151
00:58:10.079 --> 00:58:13.960
<v Speaker 2>were almost envisioning them as like humans with basically like

1152
00:58:14.119 --> 00:58:17.960
<v Speaker 2>loincloths or some kind of clothing and long head haair

1153
00:58:18.519 --> 00:58:22.599
<v Speaker 2>running around, barefooted, giant humans, very large humans. But it

1154
00:58:22.719 --> 00:58:26.880
<v Speaker 2>took a lot of eyewitness interviews in testimony firsthand before

1155
00:58:27.039 --> 00:58:30.000
<v Speaker 2>the image really emerged in their minds that like, oh no, no,

1156
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:32.800
<v Speaker 2>that's not what people are describing at all. They just

1157
00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:36.440
<v Speaker 2>you know, pulled from indigenous accounts that referred to them

1158
00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:39.519
<v Speaker 2>as another sort of people, and then they transposed or

1159
00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:43.159
<v Speaker 2>transmuted that image into what they perceived to be just

1160
00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:47.079
<v Speaker 2>large indigenous people. And so you know, Green's very explicit

1161
00:58:47.159 --> 00:58:49.920
<v Speaker 2>about that to say, well, look at William Roade described

1162
00:58:50.320 --> 00:58:54.920
<v Speaker 2>prior to fifty eight or what Osman ended up describing,

1163
00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:57.880
<v Speaker 2>like that didn't quite jib with J. W. Burns's version

1164
00:58:57.880 --> 00:58:59.880
<v Speaker 2>of the Sasquatch, but a jib with all the other

1165
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:05.519
<v Speaker 2>eyewitness accounts. And so it's not like even if Green

1166
00:59:05.639 --> 00:59:09.679
<v Speaker 2>had the inclination to pull inspiration from something like Paul

1167
00:59:09.679 --> 00:59:16.000
<v Speaker 2>Deshaihu's eighteen sixties book, that he would have necessarily transposed

1168
00:59:16.039 --> 00:59:18.679
<v Speaker 2>like gorillas or those other sorts of apes onto that

1169
00:59:18.800 --> 00:59:22.199
<v Speaker 2>versus trying to look for analogs in the human realm,

1170
00:59:22.280 --> 00:59:22.840
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean?

1171
00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:26.400
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I like that early. That early stuff

1172
00:59:26.440 --> 00:59:28.320
<v Speaker 3>carries more weight now to me. That's kind of a

1173
00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:30.840
<v Speaker 3>new a newer revelation. I think I've been coming to

1174
00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:33.079
<v Speaker 3>that for a long time, but it's a newer revelation

1175
00:59:33.199 --> 00:59:36.639
<v Speaker 3>to me because of the lack of influence that could

1176
00:59:36.639 --> 00:59:40.079
<v Speaker 3>have been put on those earlier those earlier sources, you know,

1177
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:41.400
<v Speaker 3>like those earlier reports.

1178
00:59:41.719 --> 00:59:44.599
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they didn't have inspirational materials. You know, they didn't

1179
00:59:44.639 --> 00:59:48.880
<v Speaker 2>have podcasts and YouTube channels and network televisions and documentaries

1180
00:59:49.079 --> 00:59:53.320
<v Speaker 2>or you know, billboards or jack links, jerky commercials or

1181
00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:57.239
<v Speaker 2>you know. The imagistic representation of the Sasquatch is so

1182
00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:02.280
<v Speaker 2>pervasive now that you can hardly meet anyone who can't

1183
01:00:02.320 --> 01:00:05.000
<v Speaker 2>immediately recognize that image and tell you what it is,

1184
01:00:05.079 --> 01:00:07.800
<v Speaker 2>even if they don't believe that animals exist. They'll go, oh, yeah,

1185
01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:09.519
<v Speaker 2>that's a bigfoot or a sasquatch. Well, what is a

1186
01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:11.599
<v Speaker 2>big foot? Oh, it's this big hairy thing lives in

1187
01:00:11.639 --> 01:00:13.840
<v Speaker 2>the woods. Some people say they see it. You know,

1188
01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:16.679
<v Speaker 2>they move around at night, they smell bad. You know,

1189
01:00:16.760 --> 01:00:20.119
<v Speaker 2>people have like a general knowledge because it's such a

1190
01:00:20.159 --> 01:00:24.719
<v Speaker 2>cultural icon wink wink to the book subtitle. But it

1191
01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:27.760
<v Speaker 2>genuinely is versus. At that time, it just wasn't you know,

1192
01:00:27.800 --> 01:00:31.039
<v Speaker 2>there was no inspirational material from which they could draw

1193
01:00:31.719 --> 01:00:34.880
<v Speaker 2>these points, let alone these finer points. And I think

1194
01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:38.079
<v Speaker 2>that just gets more and more important further back in history.

1195
01:00:38.119 --> 01:00:41.119
<v Speaker 2>You look, I try to lay out multiple examples in

1196
01:00:41.159 --> 01:00:44.360
<v Speaker 2>my book, not only in the indigenous representations chapter, but

1197
01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:49.239
<v Speaker 2>the Historical record chapter about what I interpret to be

1198
01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:54.239
<v Speaker 2>behavioral norms, ecological norms and trends that we now know

1199
01:00:54.400 --> 01:00:56.519
<v Speaker 2>well about the Great Apes and the way that they

1200
01:00:56.599 --> 01:01:00.239
<v Speaker 2>interact with their environment and not only their physical adaptations,

1201
01:01:00.280 --> 01:01:04.480
<v Speaker 2>but more specifically behavioral adaptations to thrive and survive in

1202
01:01:04.519 --> 01:01:09.280
<v Speaker 2>those environments. That I try to demonstrate multiple examples that, like, well,

1203
01:01:09.320 --> 01:01:12.480
<v Speaker 2>the first time you see this sort of behavior described

1204
01:01:12.599 --> 01:01:17.199
<v Speaker 2>is actually in the canon of Sasquatch data before it's

1205
01:01:17.280 --> 01:01:22.079
<v Speaker 2>described in the you know, known extant Great Ape literature.

1206
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:24.519
<v Speaker 2>And to see so many examples of that, it's like,

1207
01:01:24.679 --> 01:01:27.840
<v Speaker 2>there's really something going on there, because again, they would

1208
01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:31.000
<v Speaker 2>have had no inspiration to pull that from There would

1209
01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:33.559
<v Speaker 2>have been nothing, you know, unless they actually saw what

1210
01:01:33.559 --> 01:01:34.480
<v Speaker 2>they claimed to have seen.

1211
01:01:34.519 --> 01:01:37.199
<v Speaker 3>You know, I was having this conversation just the other

1212
01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:42.119
<v Speaker 3>day with somebody who has some issues with the Freeman casts.

1213
01:01:42.320 --> 01:01:46.119
<v Speaker 3>But evidence needs to look be looked at in context,

1214
01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:48.880
<v Speaker 3>and you know, I think that's a good topic that

1215
01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:51.280
<v Speaker 3>how about if we get off now and we'll talk

1216
01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:57.039
<v Speaker 3>about that. How the context of evidence matters quite a bit,

1217
01:01:57.840 --> 01:02:01.119
<v Speaker 3>lending authenticity or not to whatever piece of evidence there is,

1218
01:02:01.199 --> 01:02:06.480
<v Speaker 3>but the contextual thing is very very interesting, particularly when

1219
01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:09.480
<v Speaker 3>you come to some of the individual footprints gathered by

1220
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:11.880
<v Speaker 3>the Blue Mountain folks, a couple of them by Paul Freeman,

1221
01:02:11.920 --> 01:02:14.519
<v Speaker 3>a couple by West Summerland, other folks. So don't want

1222
01:02:14.519 --> 01:02:16.199
<v Speaker 3>to we get off the main episode here and go

1223
01:02:16.239 --> 01:02:19.519
<v Speaker 3>over and join the pigeons and see what they're up

1224
01:02:19.519 --> 01:02:21.960
<v Speaker 3>to there, and we can do our member episode over

1225
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:26.079
<v Speaker 3>there and talk about like the contextualization of evidence and

1226
01:02:26.159 --> 01:02:29.039
<v Speaker 3>what that can't show us or can't show us in

1227
01:02:29.039 --> 01:02:29.519
<v Speaker 3>some ways.

1228
01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:31.840
<v Speaker 2>I would love to do that, because, Yeah, there's there's

1229
01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:34.000
<v Speaker 2>a lot to be said for that. As you were

1230
01:02:34.039 --> 01:02:36.320
<v Speaker 2>describing that, multiple examples came to mind that I think

1231
01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:39.039
<v Speaker 2>it would be good to discuss. So let's make it happen.

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<v Speaker 3>Right on, very good. Well, before we go, I just

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<v Speaker 3>want I know we talked about Tom Powell a lot

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<v Speaker 3>this episode. I haven't talked to him in a couple

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<v Speaker 3>of weeks. Here. I need to give him a call,

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<v Speaker 3>miss a guy, but I wanted to let everybody know

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<v Speaker 3>that Tom Powell. I don't think that that's even been

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<v Speaker 3>announced yet, but here's a secret for you. Tom Powell

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<v Speaker 3>is going to be speaking at the same event as

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<v Speaker 3>me in Hawking Hills. I hope this isn't getting anybody up,

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<v Speaker 3>said aout. I'm announcing this, but Tom Powell is going

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<v Speaker 3>to be at the Hawking Hills Bigfoot Festival with me

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<v Speaker 3>out in August August seventh through tenth in MacArthur, Ohio.

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<v Speaker 3>So if you want to come hang out with me

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<v Speaker 3>and Tom Powell and whoever else might are you going

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<v Speaker 3>to go to that one?

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<v Speaker 2>Matt, I am not going to be at that one.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm doing a different event in Ohio at the end

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<v Speaker 2>of September, so my travel days are limited to the

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<v Speaker 2>few events that I've committed to, which I guess, speaking of,

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<v Speaker 2>it's probably about time that I start announcing. I will

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<v Speaker 2>be speaking at the Capitol Library, the Warren County Public Library,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'll put links in the show notes in Bowling Green,

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<v Speaker 2>Kentucky with doctor Moray Mayer and other speakers there. And

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<v Speaker 2>that's August first and second. I think first is the

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<v Speaker 2>speakers meet and greet VIP dinner sort of thing. So

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<v Speaker 2>the event is on Saturday, August the second, where the

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<v Speaker 2>speakers will be, but I'll put a link to that

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<v Speaker 2>in the show notes.

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<v Speaker 3>Well. Robo Bobo you want to get us out of here,

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<v Speaker 3>so all right, well, I think that's the We have

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<v Speaker 3>a pretty limited vocabular in the robo bobo, So right

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<v Speaker 3>there you go, folks, do what you need to do,

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<v Speaker 3>and thanks so much for listening, and until next time,

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