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

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<v Speaker 2>These guys, are you fav It's so like say subscribe

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<v Speaker 2>and rage.

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<v Speaker 3>It five star sho and me.

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<v Speaker 2>Rights on us today listening. Oh watchie Limb always keep

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<v Speaker 2>it's watching.

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<v Speaker 4>And now your hosts Cliff Barrickman and James Bubo fay.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, Big Food and Beyond folks, welcome. Bobo and I

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<v Speaker 2>are sitting across the table from one another here in

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<v Speaker 2>lovely Sandy, Oregon, where Bobo is blown through town for

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<v Speaker 2>a moment. He showed up on my doorstep like a

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<v Speaker 2>lost puppy about ten o'clock last night. I welcomed him in.

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<v Speaker 2>I put a blanket on him, got him out of

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<v Speaker 2>the cold wet rain, fed him. Actually, none of this

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<v Speaker 2>is true, except for he showed up at.

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<v Speaker 5>Ten I had I had my own blue blanket.

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<v Speaker 2>By the way, Oh yeah, he was ranting about your

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<v Speaker 2>blue blanky for a while. You mentioned it like legitimately

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<v Speaker 2>two or three times. And I I've known Bobo a

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<v Speaker 2>long time, but I don't know what the blue blanky

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<v Speaker 2>is about.

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<v Speaker 6>Tell me about it.

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<v Speaker 5>It's a comfort thing.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a comfort thing. Well, when did you first get

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<v Speaker 2>the blue blanky? Like twenty thirty years ago, thirty years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of DNA on that thing. Oh no, who

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<v Speaker 2>gave it to you?

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<v Speaker 7>I just bought a store for like eight bucks back

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<v Speaker 7>then or something like that.

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<v Speaker 5>It's cheap.

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<v Speaker 7>When it's hot out, like you know, like getting down

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<v Speaker 7>in the low sixties or something, it's and I don't

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<v Speaker 7>want to lay out just wearing like a T shirt

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<v Speaker 7>or whatever.

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<v Speaker 5>I just put that on it. It's perfect.

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<v Speaker 2>Nice and now now it's a comfort blanky. Yeah, binkie,

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<v Speaker 2>shall we say similars binky?

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<v Speaker 5>But functional as well?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I think most binkies are rather functional. That

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<v Speaker 2>could be wrong about that.

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<v Speaker 7>I kind of think of it kind of like my

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<v Speaker 7>Hobbit cape when those guys go on the journey.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh right, right, guests from Laurion, Right, Lady Gladryl gave

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<v Speaker 2>those to the Hobbits.

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<v Speaker 5>Of course, I kind of always imagine that is mine.

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<v Speaker 3>That's what that was.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, you're passing through town. It's to have you at

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<v Speaker 2>the house.

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<v Speaker 6>But let me know what I can do for you.

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<v Speaker 2>And of course Matt, Matt's out there in Tennessee. We're

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<v Speaker 2>missing out. You should be here, man.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it's beautiful, it's nice.

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<v Speaker 7>And kind of cloudy and not too hot, not too cold,

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<v Speaker 7>just just perfect.

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<v Speaker 5>It's like the Little Bear's porridge, right.

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<v Speaker 4>I wish it's been over four years since all of

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<v Speaker 4>us have been together, so it would be nice. Usually

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<v Speaker 4>it's just Bobo and Cliff, or me and Cliff. I

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<v Speaker 4>haven't seen Bobo in four years.

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<v Speaker 5>We got to rectify that pruite.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, I was thinking the next time I come out here,

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<v Speaker 7>I think we should just fly you out one of

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<v Speaker 7>these times if I know it here on a certain date,

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<v Speaker 7>and then just get a cheap ahead of time ticket

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<v Speaker 7>and you come out and do it live.

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<v Speaker 5>We've knock got a few of them. Let's do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, we're all here, Well, most of us are here

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<v Speaker 2>in person except for you, prut. What do we want

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<v Speaker 2>to talk about today?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, we've done a couple of deep dives on listeners

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<v Speaker 4>suggested topics. Sometimes people submit questions for the Q and

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<v Speaker 4>a's that are like there's no short answer for and

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<v Speaker 4>they really deserve a full discussion, And so we did

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<v Speaker 4>a couple of those recently that we affect referred to

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<v Speaker 4>as above and beyond Bigfoot and beyond discussions, And so

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<v Speaker 4>we had a few of those to choose from. There

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<v Speaker 4>was one that we had actually teased in a previous

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<v Speaker 4>episode from one of our members, Darene Myers, who had

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<v Speaker 4>asked us what aspects of the sasquatch subject we were

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<v Speaker 4>really interested in but we never get to talk about,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, like when we go on other podcasts or

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<v Speaker 4>we do sasquatch related interviews. As you guys know, everyone

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<v Speaker 4>always asks like where are the bones.

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<v Speaker 3>And how many do you think there are? And what

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<v Speaker 3>do you think they eat? That kind of thing.

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<v Speaker 4>But I thought it would be fun to talk about

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<v Speaker 4>the things that we're hyper interested in but no one

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<v Speaker 2>And wasn't the opposite of that some sort of complementary

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<v Speaker 2>sort of question, like what do we hate being asked?

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<v Speaker 5>Was?

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<v Speaker 6>It?

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<v Speaker 2>Wasn't that part of it as well?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, originally someone had asked something along those lines, and

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<v Speaker 4>so like our least favorite interview questions, and so it

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<v Speaker 4>was after that discussion, I think that Doreen sent in

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<v Speaker 4>this question of like, well, what do you wish you

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<v Speaker 4>could discuss in these interviews?

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<v Speaker 2>So well, you know, I actually have a new least

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<v Speaker 2>favorite review question, and that question is will you do

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<v Speaker 2>an interview with my podcast? It's been too much lately,

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<v Speaker 2>so anyway, Yeah, it's that's just me being cynical or whatever.

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<v Speaker 6>But I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you want to start with that boba, like

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<v Speaker 2>what is your what is the thing that you would

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<v Speaker 2>want to talk about that you're almost ever asked about?

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<v Speaker 7>I see, Well, it's not like a big thing in

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<v Speaker 7>my mind. But one thing I'm interested in is what

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<v Speaker 7>I don't think anyone knows is like what their mating

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<v Speaker 7>habits are, like Hollyday, decide who goes with who, that

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<v Speaker 7>sort of thing, you know, how do they how do

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<v Speaker 7>they separate the studs from the not so steadily? What

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<v Speaker 7>the women find they get breeding stock, and what the

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<v Speaker 7>males do. Is if there's humanists a lot of people

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<v Speaker 7>think they are. You know, does personality have anything to

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<v Speaker 7>do with it? Or is it just size? Is it

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<v Speaker 7>just who's the biggest brood? Or is it you know,

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<v Speaker 7>this guy's a little casanova and he's got some tricks,

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<v Speaker 7>like he might be able to slip in and get

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<v Speaker 7>like you know, go to like behind some donut shop

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<v Speaker 7>and get some donuts and bringing back and we're with that.

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<v Speaker 5>Or is it just the big stud.

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<v Speaker 7>Guy that can just knock out any of others male

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<v Speaker 7>sasquatch that comes around the female he wants or females.

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<v Speaker 5>You know, I'd be religion to know that kind of stuff.

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<v Speaker 6>You know what.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd have to wonder as far as like a courtship

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<v Speaker 2>or something like that, if if that's the right word

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<v Speaker 2>for it, I don't really know, I would wonder. And

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<v Speaker 2>just because sasquatches, you know, there's some sort of ape species,

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<v Speaker 2>but so are we.

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<v Speaker 6>It's not a big deal.

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<v Speaker 2>We can learn a lot about apes in general by

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<v Speaker 2>looking at ourselves because we exhibit a lot of the

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<v Speaker 2>same behaviors. We have common ancestors, and a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>those behaviors are our behaviors but masked in other ways,

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<v Speaker 2>you know. And one of the things about humans that

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<v Speaker 2>is reflected I believe in sasquatches to some degree in

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<v Speaker 2>some circumstances is gift giving. You kind of have to wonder,

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<v Speaker 2>do you know, if if I give Melissa flowers, you

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<v Speaker 2>know it it makes her smile and that kind of thing,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know it helps our bond, et cetera. So

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<v Speaker 2>you kind of have to wonder if sasquatches are kind

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<v Speaker 2>of up to same thing, you know, because they seem

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<v Speaker 2>to have some sort of gift giving capacity, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>to some degrees, although to be fair, their gifts kind

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<v Speaker 2>of are terrible. You know, there are pieces of trash

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<v Speaker 2>or torn up nerve footballs or something like that, something

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<v Speaker 2>that I could personally never get away with Melissa, But

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<v Speaker 2>you kind of have to wonder if there's anything going

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<v Speaker 2>on in that regard and thinking about it, there might

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<v Speaker 2>even be other parallels and ape species that I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>thinking of right now.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, like Bobo and mentioned in many of the other

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<v Speaker 4>ape species, it is the females are indiscriminate maters, and

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<v Speaker 4>so it's based on the dominant male. The dominant male

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<v Speaker 4>will you know, outcompete or run off the sub adults

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<v Speaker 4>or the males that are lower in the hierarchy, smaller,

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<v Speaker 4>et cetera, et cetera. Now, where that really applies that

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<v Speaker 4>we see the most often would be in large social

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<v Speaker 4>groups like chimpanzees and gorillas are organized into, whereas sasquatches

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<v Speaker 4>don't seem to have large social groups. You know, they

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<v Speaker 4>don't live in big groups with multiple males and multiple

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<v Speaker 4>females all sharing space and moving cooperating together. They seem

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<v Speaker 4>to live more like orangutans, and so I think that

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<v Speaker 4>model would make a lot more sense. Their social model

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<v Speaker 4>is I think it's pronounced nyaw or nu yal, but

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<v Speaker 4>it's spelled nyau.

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<v Speaker 3>That particular sort of social structure, which.

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<v Speaker 4>Is a lot more about maintaining and defending a given

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<v Speaker 4>territory than it is about maintaining or defending a harem. So,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, a male roam's a particular piece of real estate,

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<v Speaker 4>and females that occur within that real estate or wander

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<v Speaker 4>into that real estate.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, as long as the.

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<v Speaker 4>Male wards off other males, gets essentially the mating rights

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<v Speaker 4>for any females within that territory. And I would assume

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<v Speaker 4>that sasquatches are pretty similar just given the distribution of

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<v Speaker 4>sightings and the distribution of footprint finds, etc. I think

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<v Speaker 4>that makes a lot more sense than some of these

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<v Speaker 4>other more complex things that occur in large social groups.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I agree with you.

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<v Speaker 7>There one thing that surprised you we've learned about orangutans

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<v Speaker 7>the last couple of years is how the.

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<v Speaker 5>Big males are. Like I didn't realize how.

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<v Speaker 7>Brutal they could be, Like, like what like maaming each

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<v Speaker 7>other and killing smaller ones? Do you know proved once

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<v Speaker 7>do you know to deal with that when they kill

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<v Speaker 7>as smallest, like it's not their ostream they kill it,

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<v Speaker 7>or is it just any other male that comes in

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<v Speaker 7>their territory, Like I was reading reports of them even

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<v Speaker 7>killing females.

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<v Speaker 5>That I don't know.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm not super familiar with that aspect of a ranguetam behavior,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, what occurs in a lot of other analogous mammals.

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<v Speaker 4>So perhaps that's the case. But usually, you know, they'll

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<v Speaker 4>generate those big loud, you know, the long calls, and

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<v Speaker 4>that's to both you know, ward off potential competitors, competitive males,

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<v Speaker 4>and to let females know that like, hey, there's a

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<v Speaker 4>big stud in the area, so to speak, so much

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<v Speaker 4>like a bobo's howl that wards off males and alerts

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<v Speaker 4>potential baits to his presence. But I'm not super familiar

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<v Speaker 4>with like violence that they may or may not exhibit,

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<v Speaker 4>So I'll have to look into that aspect of a

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<v Speaker 4>range hands we know.

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<v Speaker 2>I think all these things that we're bringing up right

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<v Speaker 2>now that have kind of wandered away from the initial subject,

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<v Speaker 2>it can be fit under the umbrella of social behavior.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think that that's something that the Bigfoot community

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't look hard enough at just because they're there. Seems

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<v Speaker 2>like so many people are focused on, you know, are

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<v Speaker 2>they real or they've got to be real because so

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<v Speaker 2>many people talk about them or say they see them

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<v Speaker 2>or encounter them or you know, all those people can't

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<v Speaker 2>be lying. Yes, So what I'll go back. I said

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<v Speaker 2>this in my presentation a few weeks ago in Ohio.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're still if you're still wondering if they're real,

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<v Speaker 2>you're behind the learning curve. And in my opinion, they're

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<v Speaker 2>They're in my opinion, clearly real and and and the

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<v Speaker 2>evidence strongly supports that. You know, So now the question

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<v Speaker 2>is not if they are, but how they are? What

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<v Speaker 2>do they do? Where do they go, why do they

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<v Speaker 2>want to go there? What's their their motivation and doing

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<v Speaker 2>certain things? And I don't I don't see the robust

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<v Speaker 2>discussion that I would hope for in the Bigfoot community

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<v Speaker 2>about that topic, because that's what I that's what I

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<v Speaker 2>I Mean, there's hundreds of them in organ right now

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<v Speaker 2>at this very minute, and they're all doing something. What

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<v Speaker 2>are those things they're doing? When people bring up the

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<v Speaker 2>Patterson Gimlin film. Yeah, sure, it's great.

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<v Speaker 5>You know.

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<v Speaker 6>I love it too.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't get me wrong, I don't seem to be quite

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<v Speaker 6>But I think.

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<v Speaker 2>For me the reason is the most interesting thing about

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<v Speaker 2>the Patterson Gimlin film is what that creature was doing

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<v Speaker 2>an hour before she was filmed. By far the most

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<v Speaker 2>interesting thing it would be that. And I just don't

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<v Speaker 2>see the robust discussion that I would hope for in

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<v Speaker 2>the community about that. They're too hung up on are

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<v Speaker 2>they real or are they not? It's like such a binary,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, on off zero one sort of discussion where

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<v Speaker 2>you have all this fertile middle ground of like, well, okay, well,

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<v Speaker 2>if they are real, let's just I mean, if you're

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<v Speaker 2>still on that fence, then okay, sit there. But if

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<v Speaker 2>they if they are real, what would they do? Where

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<v Speaker 2>would they go to stay out of the way of humans?

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<v Speaker 2>What kind of behaviors would they exhibit in order to

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<v Speaker 2>be successful right on the outskirts of society? Like those

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<v Speaker 2>are the interesting questions, and those, to me also are

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<v Speaker 6>They can help the researcher.

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<v Speaker 2>Remember a few weeks ago, I commented about the question

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<v Speaker 2>question is, now, what, well, all of these ideas, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>how do they do this, where do they go? What

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<v Speaker 2>kind of foods are they exploiting? How do they get

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<v Speaker 2>so many calories? To how facetes are metaboligy all that

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<v Speaker 2>kind of stuff is now we have something to work with.

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<v Speaker 2>So what can you do with that? And how will

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<v Speaker 2>that help us encounter them, see them, film them, document them,

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<v Speaker 2>et cetera. I wish more people spoke about that, honestly.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel you there.

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<v Speaker 4>But then we have the dual problem is that you know,

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<v Speaker 4>there's not enough people asking that question and posing it

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<v Speaker 4>as a question because it is an open question. So

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<v Speaker 4>you have a certain set of the audience who's not

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<v Speaker 4>asking that question, and another set of the commentator community

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<v Speaker 4>not asking that question because they already have all the answers.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, all is in you know, air quotes in

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<v Speaker 4>terms of like they know everything they do in every

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<v Speaker 4>single one of their habits, and you know, they've extrapolated

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<v Speaker 4>everything about the Sasquatch lifestyle from birth to death, and

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<v Speaker 4>you know, it gets so outlandish and preposterous, and you know,

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<v Speaker 4>I think that's as equally big a problem. I mean,

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<v Speaker 4>one of the things that I had thought about aspects

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<v Speaker 4>of the subject is the negative effects of over enthusiasm,

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<v Speaker 4>and that, to me would be one of them. It's like,

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<v Speaker 4>which is worse, the skeptical or cynical take that there

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<v Speaker 4>are no sasquatches i e. That they don't exist, i e.

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<v Speaker 4>That they're nowhere, or the over enthusiastic shouting from the

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<v Speaker 4>rooftops that they're everywhere.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, they're seemingly equally bad. But I actually think

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<v Speaker 3>the latter is worse.

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<v Speaker 4>I think the people that the overly enthusiastic, the people

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<v Speaker 4>who make too many claims in terms of absolutes that

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<v Speaker 4>you know that we get confronted with all the time. Oh,

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<v Speaker 4>I've seen them hundreds of times. I know where they are.

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<v Speaker 4>I can take you exactly to where they are, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>if you're worthy. You know, those sort of claims have

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<v Speaker 4>been around for a long time, but obviously they've gotten

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<v Speaker 4>more and more prevalent in the social media age. And

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<v Speaker 4>it's things like that with nothing to show for it,

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<v Speaker 4>no physical evidence, and no understanding of the analyzes of

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<v Speaker 4>existing physical evidence or the history. I think that drives

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<v Speaker 4>the skeptics and cynics further and further into their positions that, yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>they must not really be anywhere, because these people think

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<v Speaker 4>they're everywhere. And so I agree with you that not

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<v Speaker 4>enough people are asking the right questions, but they're also

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<v Speaker 4>being bombarded by people who think they have all the answers.

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<v Speaker 3>And that's part of why. Know, Unfortunately, well.

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<v Speaker 2>The folks that think they have all the answers, there's

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<v Speaker 2>probably some motivations for that, and some which I understand. Actually,

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<v Speaker 2>I can be kind of forgiving for some of that,

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<v Speaker 2>and not the ones that are you know, the look

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<v Speaker 2>at me crowds. You know, I'm not very forgiving about

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<v Speaker 2>those sort of folks because I've had a touch of

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<v Speaker 2>fame and I know what nonsense it is, and I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's ridiculous who would want that, honestly? But how

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<v Speaker 2>should I say this? I guess a good way to

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<v Speaker 2>say it is, I remember when I was young and

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<v Speaker 2>I knew everything too. You know, It's just as simple

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<v Speaker 2>as that. It's a matter of maturity for a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of people. You know, some people they're just hucksters or

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<v Speaker 2>their attention seekers, or they have some sort of narcissism

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<v Speaker 2>to deal with or or any number of things. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>they didn't get enough hugs from mom or dad when

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<v Speaker 2>they're growing up, and they did it. They're looking for

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<v Speaker 2>something else from the community in general, and they want

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<v Speaker 2>the attention. They want money or something, they want fame,

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<v Speaker 2>they want something, you know, and they're going for it,

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<v Speaker 2>and they don't realize that what they want probably isn't

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<v Speaker 2>what they're actually going for. But the other side of

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<v Speaker 2>that is, yeah, I was a young Bigfoot enthusiast, probably

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<v Speaker 2>to enthusiastic, honestly, like some level of addiction was probably involved.

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<v Speaker 2>I would imagine some sort of like I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>social or mental like mental addiction, I guess to this Bigfoot.

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<v Speaker 6>Thing, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>And again I remember when I was in my twenties

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<v Speaker 2>or something like that, and I knew everything too. But

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<v Speaker 2>that's just a matter of maturity and growing older and

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<v Speaker 2>slowing down and realizing that I, you know, you just

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<v Speaker 2>don't stay tuned for more Bigfoot and beyond with Cliff

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<v Speaker 2>and Bobo will be right back after these messages. Hey, Boba,

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<v Speaker 2>whatever happened to your gone squatch and hat used to wear?

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<v Speaker 2>And finding Bigfoot now?

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<v Speaker 5>I don't have that hat anymore.

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<v Speaker 7>I gave it to Lauren Coleman for his museum, but

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<v Speaker 7>I might be asking for it back because I'm getting

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<v Speaker 7>a little nervous in summertime, getting too much sow in

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<v Speaker 7>the scalp up there now, and I'm getting bip y mosquitoes.

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<v Speaker 7>There's not a big lush crop to fend them off.

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<v Speaker 7>It's as hell bobs.

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<v Speaker 2>I think I said it in Ohio last week. I

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<v Speaker 2>said very clearly, like I don't really know that much

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<v Speaker 2>about sasquatches. I have some ideas, I have some things

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<v Speaker 2>that I think are probably true, but I don't really

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<v Speaker 2>know that much at all about them.

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<v Speaker 6>I just like to learn.

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<v Speaker 5>Well.

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<v Speaker 4>That to me is the difference between saying like, well,

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<v Speaker 4>they probably do this based on this massive repository of testimonies,

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<v Speaker 4>supported by some of the trace evidence, and from looking

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<v Speaker 4>at the lifestyles of other apes and other animals that

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<v Speaker 4>live similar lifestyles. So here's a reasonable inference that we

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<v Speaker 4>could make, or at least a starting point when we're

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<v Speaker 4>trying to build a model of what Sasquatches do with

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<v Speaker 4>regards to X, Y or c. That's just so different

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<v Speaker 4>than saying Sasquatches always do this, or they definitely do this,

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<v Speaker 4>or this is exactly how they That's a huge difference.

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<v Speaker 7>That's where you kind of can incorporate for a little

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<v Speaker 7>more like a viewpoint is well, literally, we know about

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<v Speaker 7>the archaic, archaic, ancient hominin, you know, our ancestors, like

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<v Speaker 7>what we know about them, and which isn't a lot.

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<v Speaker 7>But when you mix set in with what we know

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<v Speaker 7>about modern day primates and like you know, the uncontacted

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<v Speaker 7>tribes and that sort of stuff, you get it.

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<v Speaker 5>You get kind of a more rounded picture.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh, I totally agree with that, and that to me

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<v Speaker 4>is the big difference between you know, us speculating, and

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<v Speaker 4>it's hopefully informed speculation based not only in the sasquatch data,

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<v Speaker 4>but in relevant related data versus the people that are

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<v Speaker 4>out there that will tell you you know, everything about

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<v Speaker 4>a sasquatch in terms of absolutes and what they always

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<v Speaker 4>do and what they never do, you know, these kind

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<v Speaker 4>of things like that absolute sort of speaking. There's a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of that, and I think there's a certain subset

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<v Speaker 4>of the audience that is drawn to those people and

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<v Speaker 4>believes them. And that's why that said, at least isn't

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<v Speaker 4>asking those questions, is because they've already heard from people

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<v Speaker 4>who have quote unquote all the answers. And then yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>I would differentiate that, I guess from the people who

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<v Speaker 4>are overly enthusiastic, you know, the people who go out

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<v Speaker 4>and have quote unquote activity. Every single time they're out,

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<v Speaker 4>they have encounters. You know, every bump in the night

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<v Speaker 4>is the sasquatch, Every broken twig is because a sasquatch

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<v Speaker 4>passed by. Every divot in the ground is a sasquatch.

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<v Speaker 4>Track airgo. They are everywhere, you know, every sasquatch report

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<v Speaker 4>is true, on and on and on.

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<v Speaker 6>You know, along these same lines.

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<v Speaker 2>As far as social behavior goes, I'm really interested in

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<v Speaker 2>I'm very interested actually in tracking individuals over time. And

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's also a neglected corner of the Bigfoot investigation.

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<v Speaker 2>Doctor Meldrum addressed it of course in his book to

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<v Speaker 2>some degree looking at the Bluff Creek evidence. But I

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<v Speaker 2>am super interested in that in general, because not only

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<v Speaker 2>does that give us insight to their social behavior, and again,

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<v Speaker 2>the only way you can do this is by tracking them. Essentially,

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<v Speaker 2>you can't see a sasquatch hardly ever, but you can

425
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<v Speaker 2>find their tracks if you know where and how to look,

426
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<v Speaker 2>and if you are become familiar with their tracks and

427
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<v Speaker 2>tracks in general, you can start looking at individuals over time,

428
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<v Speaker 2>and that gives us some sort of insight into the

429
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<v Speaker 2>social structure, that larger umbrella that we were just speaking

430
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<v Speaker 2>about a while ago. Like in one of my areas,

431
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<v Speaker 2>we have two individuals that are around a lot and

432
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<v Speaker 2>we're learning stuff all the time. There's a fourteen inch individual,

433
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<v Speaker 2>a twelve inch individual, and an occasionally a fifteen or

434
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<v Speaker 2>so inch individual. That's as far as the foot length goes,

435
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<v Speaker 2>and you can infer that's a female in an offspring,

436
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<v Speaker 2>and probably a male that drops by every once in a while.

437
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<v Speaker 2>You know, you're guessing. We don't know, but I think

438
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<v Speaker 2>that's a reasonable guess. We usually find the small one,

439
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<v Speaker 2>the twelve, We sometimes find the fourteen, and we almost

440
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<v Speaker 2>never find the fifteen.

441
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<v Speaker 6>So what can we learn from that?

442
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<v Speaker 2>Like you gather the data, you take a guess, make

443
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<v Speaker 2>a hypothesis and push forward that. I think that tells

444
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<v Speaker 2>us something about their family group.

445
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<v Speaker 6>I think at.

446
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<v Speaker 2>Least but yet at another one of our locations, there's

447
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<v Speaker 2>an eight or ten inch foot, there's a fourteen, and

448
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<v Speaker 2>there's a seventeen, and we find all of them at

449
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<v Speaker 2>the same time, generally always in the same general area,

450
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<v Speaker 2>Like if we find one, we'll look around, we'll find

451
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<v Speaker 2>the others. Or well, that's not always true, but most

452
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<v Speaker 2>of the time we have all three of them in

453
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<v Speaker 2>the same general area if you look hard enough, in

454
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<v Speaker 2>that same general area might be like a quarter mile

455
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<v Speaker 2>apart or something like that. But I'm not saying they're

456
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<v Speaker 2>walking next to each other. But what does that tell us?

457
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<v Speaker 2>So we have two data sets there from two areas

458
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<v Speaker 2>with presumably three different sasquatches, what does that tell us

459
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<v Speaker 2>about sasquatches as a whole? Or are we barking up

460
00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:10.680
<v Speaker 2>the wrong tree in a way? And maybe I don't know.

461
00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:13.920
<v Speaker 2>I think you can say things as a whole for

462
00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:16.440
<v Speaker 2>sasquatches because you can do that for humans as well.

463
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<v Speaker 2>But when saying it about humans you always run into

464
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<v Speaker 2>problems because people are so weird and different from one another.

465
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<v Speaker 2>It's hard to say one thing about say Bobo, and

466
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<v Speaker 2>have that apply to Cliff or vice versa. Right, is

467
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<v Speaker 2>that the problem is that going to be a problem

468
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<v Speaker 2>with studying sasquatches so that the individuals in general, like

469
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<v Speaker 2>tracking individuals over time based on their footprints, which is

470
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<v Speaker 2>the only effective way to do so, is a much

471
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<v Speaker 2>neglected study area of sasquatchry in general. Again, very few

472
00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:49.920
<v Speaker 2>people pay attention to that at all. And I think

473
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<v Speaker 2>if you got if one got better at identifying footprints

474
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<v Speaker 2>and identifying individuals, I think a lot could be learned.

475
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<v Speaker 2>And I'm going to throw a little shade at the

476
00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:03.160
<v Speaker 2>early investigators about this, John Green, for example, And I

477
00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:05.599
<v Speaker 2>don't have much I'm not saying anything bad about John

478
00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:09.279
<v Speaker 2>Green right now, but this isn't a super positive thing.

479
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<v Speaker 2>John Green strongly thought that the fourteen inch individual was

480
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<v Speaker 2>different than the fourteen and a half and was different

481
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<v Speaker 2>than the fifteen inch individual in Bluff Creek. And that's ridiculous.

482
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<v Speaker 2>I mean, maybe there are more than one individual at

483
00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:24.680
<v Speaker 2>that same size foot but almost certainly those are all patty.

484
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<v Speaker 2>But he was an early investigator. He didn't have we're

485
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<v Speaker 2>standing on John's shoulders. John Green didn't stand on really

486
00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:34.160
<v Speaker 2>anybody's shoulders essentially, I mean, very few people came before him.

487
00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:36.960
<v Speaker 2>He knew a couple folks that helped him out along

488
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<v Speaker 2>the way. But the assumption that the fourteen, fourteen and

489
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<v Speaker 2>a half, and fifteen were different individuals, and that looks

490
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<v Speaker 2>silly to me. Those are almost certainly the same individual especially,

491
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<v Speaker 2>you know, if you had say eight foot prints and

492
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<v Speaker 2>they all fell into those three categories, there is a

493
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<v Speaker 2>very high probability that at least some of them are

494
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<v Speaker 2>the same individual. Fourteen and a half and fourteen, come on,

495
00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:04.000
<v Speaker 2>it's a half inch different. I have found up to

496
00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:07.480
<v Speaker 2>three four five inches in some case difference in footprint

497
00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:12.599
<v Speaker 2>lengths from known individuals. So again, looking at these individuals

498
00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:14.720
<v Speaker 2>and tracking them over time, it's going to teach us

499
00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:18.279
<v Speaker 2>a lot about the species in general. And I think

500
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<v Speaker 2>that once quote unquote discovery happens, that will be the

501
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<v Speaker 2>primary way of studying sasquatches in their natural habitat, doing

502
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<v Speaker 2>natural behavior.

503
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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that is one of the most I think neglected

504
00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:34.279
<v Speaker 4>aspects of the subject. A because sasquatches don't give us

505
00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:36.799
<v Speaker 4>very much information to work with, but b because this

506
00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:39.079
<v Speaker 4>community has a high turnover rate and people have a

507
00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:42.480
<v Speaker 4>very short memory. There's a short institutional memory, let's say

508
00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:48.119
<v Speaker 4>within sasquatchry, but the long term cases, whether that's you know,

509
00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:51.400
<v Speaker 4>an individual that owns a property that has repeated experiences

510
00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:54.599
<v Speaker 4>over a number of years, or the repeated occurrences of

511
00:24:54.680 --> 00:24:57.640
<v Speaker 4>recognizable individuals like you're describing. I mean, there was a

512
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<v Speaker 4>great section in Crets's book where he was talking about

513
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<v Speaker 4>repeated instances of individuals in the Blue Mountains that I

514
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<v Speaker 4>heard you speak about not too long ago on another

515
00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:11.559
<v Speaker 4>podcast in Depth, where you can almost piece together the

516
00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.559
<v Speaker 4>story of this small handful of individual Sasquatches in the

517
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<v Speaker 4>Blue Mountains over a number of years. That kind of

518
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<v Speaker 4>thing fascinates me to no end, and we have so

519
00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:24.680
<v Speaker 4>little of it, but it's definitely to me a neglected

520
00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:28.599
<v Speaker 4>area of focus from both ends, from the evidence analysis

521
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<v Speaker 4>side or from hearing from you know, reliable, credible, long

522
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<v Speaker 4>term witnesses or people who've had repeated experiences in a

523
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<v Speaker 4>given location with you know, a finite number of Sasquatch individuals.

524
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<v Speaker 3>For sure.

525
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<v Speaker 7>I think one thing we should look for is because

526
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<v Speaker 7>I've heard of probably half a dozen reports of.

527
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<v Speaker 5>People saying that they see them, you know, take a dump.

528
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<v Speaker 7>Somewhere and then white with a ball of grass or

529
00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:57.759
<v Speaker 7>like a smoothish pine come. It's not like you know

530
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<v Speaker 7>fully developed yet or like red cones or you know

531
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:05.839
<v Speaker 7>that sort of thing. Especially if you find any suspected scat,

532
00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:08.519
<v Speaker 7>i'd look around for something they wiped with. I mean,

533
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<v Speaker 7>so I think that that's one thing. I don't think

534
00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:12.920
<v Speaker 7>people look for that at all. I think that'd be

535
00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:14.519
<v Speaker 7>something to keep an eye. I mean it'd be hard

536
00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:17.480
<v Speaker 7>to spot, but I think the bald grass.

537
00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:19.720
<v Speaker 5>Would be the the easiest thing to see.

538
00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:22.359
<v Speaker 3>Guiltiest charged I have never looked for.

539
00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:24.880
<v Speaker 2>I can't see I've used any of those things either

540
00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:26.920
<v Speaker 2>in the woods. I might add, you haven't, No, not

541
00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:30.200
<v Speaker 2>to get too fecal about things, but no, no, I

542
00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:35.200
<v Speaker 2>have what have like pine cones, yeah, really red because

543
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:36.240
<v Speaker 2>those are tiny, like.

544
00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:39.119
<v Speaker 7>Just like I'm not sure what kind of pines s are,

545
00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:41.240
<v Speaker 7>but like they're like this bigger than they don't have

546
00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:42.319
<v Speaker 7>the barber sticking out.

547
00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:44.440
<v Speaker 2>Like no, you go barblous.

548
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<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

549
00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:50.519
<v Speaker 7>And then I've used grasses. I've used skunk cabbage when

550
00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:52.319
<v Speaker 7>you're out there for a while. I mean, I don't

551
00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:54.039
<v Speaker 7>do that anymore because I don't I don't go out

552
00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:56.359
<v Speaker 7>long enough. I don't when I did something like that.

553
00:26:57.160 --> 00:26:59.559
<v Speaker 7>But uh, yeah, I used all those things when.

554
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<v Speaker 2>You got to go you gotta go. I feel you.

555
00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:02.680
<v Speaker 6>I feel you the.

556
00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:05.640
<v Speaker 4>Picture that's emerging here for for potentially, if you're a

557
00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:08.480
<v Speaker 4>podcaster listening to our podcast, then you want to interview

558
00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:10.640
<v Speaker 4>Bobo what he's been waiting to be asked about his

559
00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:13.480
<v Speaker 4>sasquatch is humping and how they wipe their butts.

560
00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:18.720
<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, to get back to the unless you

561
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:20.440
<v Speaker 2>want to talk more about that. Don't you have anything

562
00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:20.880
<v Speaker 2>else to say?

563
00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:23.559
<v Speaker 5>Ups? No, I was waiting for some infant from the listeners.

564
00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:27.359
<v Speaker 7>If anyone has anything to say, send us a message.

565
00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:28.480
<v Speaker 5>I don't know.

566
00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:30.160
<v Speaker 6>I think I'll plead the fifth or whatever it is

567
00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:30.799
<v Speaker 6>on that one.

568
00:27:31.079 --> 00:27:33.039
<v Speaker 7>Guy I talked to you gout that had a ball

569
00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:37.119
<v Speaker 7>of grass, like two balls of grass with Scott wiped

570
00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:39.640
<v Speaker 7>on it. He collected him and he had them for

571
00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:40.240
<v Speaker 7>a long time.

572
00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:42.720
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. See, that's exactly why I don't I don't publicly

573
00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:46.039
<v Speaker 2>show any interest in Scott, you know, because I want

574
00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:47.880
<v Speaker 2>to deal with that. And can you imagine the mail

575
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:51.000
<v Speaker 2>I'd get at the museum, A lot of human fecal

576
00:27:51.039 --> 00:27:55.599
<v Speaker 2>matters in the museum, Like I'm going to show these guys. Yeah,

577
00:27:55.599 --> 00:27:57.319
<v Speaker 2>because I can think about your buddies and I don't

578
00:27:57.319 --> 00:27:59.400
<v Speaker 2>know I've got some friends too that would like it's like,

579
00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:01.680
<v Speaker 2>oh my god, looking for scats samples, I've got one

580
00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:02.119
<v Speaker 2>for them.

581
00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:03.599
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I'm not looking for it.

582
00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:05.599
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's like, oh, you know those poop in the

583
00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:08.440
<v Speaker 2>box colonoscopy tests that are send off somewhere. It's like

584
00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:10.759
<v Speaker 2>they're all gonna be sent to the museum or something like. Now,

585
00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:13.640
<v Speaker 2>I've got no interest in doing that. The only uh,

586
00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:18.920
<v Speaker 2>scats samples I'm interested in are the ones that I

587
00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:22.000
<v Speaker 2>see come out of the Sasquatch as I observe it.

588
00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:23.160
<v Speaker 6>And that's it.

589
00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:24.319
<v Speaker 2>That is it.

590
00:28:24.839 --> 00:28:26.680
<v Speaker 3>You should be so lucky.

591
00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:28.359
<v Speaker 2>I should.

592
00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:32.319
<v Speaker 6>I agree, I should be that lucky someday.

593
00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:36.519
<v Speaker 2>Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bogo.

594
00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:38.480
<v Speaker 2>Will be right back after these messages.

595
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<v Speaker 7>Glenn Thomas saw a young female deprecated to the stream

596
00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:51.720
<v Speaker 7>and then wipe her hand, wipe ers up with their

597
00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:54.440
<v Speaker 7>hands and then well, I guess wash the hand in

598
00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:56.440
<v Speaker 7>the water and then licked her hands clean after that

599
00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:57.440
<v Speaker 7>was not the case.

600
00:28:57.680 --> 00:28:59.559
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I remember the washing the hands in the water part,

601
00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:00.079
<v Speaker 6>but the rest.

602
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.200
<v Speaker 7>To his leg report, it didn't want Maybe we see

603
00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:03.920
<v Speaker 7>guerrillas do that.

604
00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:07.599
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, COPPRAI there you go, yeah, but Bend and Augle

605
00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.640
<v Speaker 2>was commented like a something like a very Semian gesture.

606
00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:13.240
<v Speaker 6>I think it's his term or something.

607
00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:15.160
<v Speaker 2>He said something to that effect in his book about

608
00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:17.400
<v Speaker 2>that when he addressed it, most people don't know that's

609
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:21.240
<v Speaker 2>Glen Thomas stuff. When Thomas had three sightings, and so

610
00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:25.240
<v Speaker 2>that drew doubts from the early greats because who could

611
00:29:25.240 --> 00:29:28.599
<v Speaker 2>possibly be so lucky? He said, well, they're normal animals.

612
00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:30.759
<v Speaker 2>You could see more than once. Whether the house away,

613
00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:32.839
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I don't know, but he lived around

614
00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:34.960
<v Speaker 2>here somewhere. I still have yet to meet someone who

615
00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:35.519
<v Speaker 2>knew him.

616
00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:37.799
<v Speaker 4>It might be good to talk a bit about the

617
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:40.480
<v Speaker 4>Glenn Thomas story, because we've referenced it in a couple episodes,

618
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:42.799
<v Speaker 4>and you know, when we're having these conversations, I'm just

619
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:44.680
<v Speaker 4>hanging out with my friends. But then when I was

620
00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:46.920
<v Speaker 4>editing it, I realized, like, oh, I wonder how many

621
00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:50.319
<v Speaker 4>people don't know who Glenn Thomas is or the significant

622
00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:53.720
<v Speaker 4>when we talk about the site and how the site

623
00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:56.880
<v Speaker 4>is still basically intact. So maybe you give him like

624
00:29:57.240 --> 00:29:59.799
<v Speaker 4>a rundown of that initial encounter.

625
00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:03.920
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, sure. It was October of nineteen sixty seven,

626
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:07.839
<v Speaker 2>very fruitful month in Bigfoot lore obviously, but a few

627
00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:10.440
<v Speaker 2>weeks before the Patterson Gimlin film was shot and completely

628
00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:15.039
<v Speaker 2>separate people and all that other stuff. Glenn Thomas, what

629
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:17.240
<v Speaker 2>was a lagger? At least a lager. He might have

630
00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:18.640
<v Speaker 2>been a road we're guided too, but I know he's

631
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:21.359
<v Speaker 2>at least a lagger. And he was on a job

632
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:24.640
<v Speaker 2>site in October of nineteen sixty seven up on Burnt

633
00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:27.759
<v Speaker 2>Granite Ridge in that general area in Mount Hood National Forest,

634
00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:31.400
<v Speaker 2>and he was walking up ro down the road for

635
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:33.599
<v Speaker 2>whatever reason I can't remember why, maybe going back to

636
00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:35.920
<v Speaker 2>the rig or going to it, I don't really know,

637
00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:38.559
<v Speaker 2>going away from it, and he looked up on this

638
00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:42.440
<v Speaker 2>talus slope. A taialus slope is a kind of rocky

639
00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:44.920
<v Speaker 2>slope where the rocks are big. If the rocks are

640
00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:49.200
<v Speaker 2>very small, it's called a scree slope. So the word

641
00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:51.920
<v Speaker 2>is taylus ta l us. It means like big rocks,

642
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:54.319
<v Speaker 2>like the size of your head or bigger. Essentially is

643
00:30:54.359 --> 00:30:57.240
<v Speaker 2>the gist. And it's at the top of this peak.

644
00:30:58.079 --> 00:30:59.440
<v Speaker 2>It's on the ridge. It's not really at the top

645
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.160
<v Speaker 2>of the peaks on a ridge line. And he looked

646
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:05.720
<v Speaker 2>up in there and Apparently he saw three sasquatches moving

647
00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:10.279
<v Speaker 2>rocks aside looking for something underneath, and they presumed it

648
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:13.720
<v Speaker 2>was some sort of ground squirrel or something like that.

649
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:16.720
<v Speaker 2>Although I've been to the site many times and I

650
00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:19.279
<v Speaker 2>think there are pikas. I think they're called There are

651
00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:22.039
<v Speaker 2>a lot of those there, and you know, unless you

652
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:24.119
<v Speaker 2>know a new population came out and drove out the

653
00:31:24.119 --> 00:31:26.559
<v Speaker 2>old ones, they're probably pikahs. But anyway, back to the

654
00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:30.240
<v Speaker 2>original report, they said ground scrolls of some sort, and

655
00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:32.880
<v Speaker 2>basically the male was on one side, then the female

656
00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:34.559
<v Speaker 2>was next to her, and then a young one was

657
00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:37.920
<v Speaker 2>next to that, and the male would move these big

658
00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:40.240
<v Speaker 2>rocks aside to make these pits, looking for things, and

659
00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:42.559
<v Speaker 2>then every once in a while they'd find these hibernating

660
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:45.319
<v Speaker 2>rodents of some sort and gobble them up. I think

661
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:47.079
<v Speaker 2>he used the term like ate them like a hot dog.

662
00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:48.960
<v Speaker 2>If I remember correctly, I'd have to go back and

663
00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.519
<v Speaker 2>reread John Green's reports, but that's essentially it. And so

664
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:55.960
<v Speaker 2>he saw these things digging these holes. These pits are

665
00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:01.440
<v Speaker 2>still there that the sasquatches presumably excavated, and eventually they

666
00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:04.200
<v Speaker 2>kind of clued in that he was watching and they

667
00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:06.440
<v Speaker 2>left the area. Essentially. That's the long and short of it.

668
00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:09.359
<v Speaker 2>But of course that lit a fire in Glenn Thomas,

669
00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:13.279
<v Speaker 2>as happens with many bigfoot folks, and he started spending

670
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:16.400
<v Speaker 2>a lot of time looking for sasquatches, and his other

671
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:20.279
<v Speaker 2>two sidings that he had in that general area are

672
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:23.160
<v Speaker 2>less well documented. I don't know the dates or anything

673
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:25.039
<v Speaker 2>like that. I'm not even sure where to find the dates.

674
00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:27.519
<v Speaker 2>I mean, maybe John Green recorded them somewhere. I'd have

675
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.200
<v Speaker 2>to go back and look. But essentially he saw these

676
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:32.680
<v Speaker 2>things two more times over the next maybe few years

677
00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:37.119
<v Speaker 2>or something. Sasquatch, as Bobo noted, was seen pooping defecating

678
00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:39.920
<v Speaker 2>in a river essentially, and then it wiped his belt

679
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:42.640
<v Speaker 2>with its hands and then licked off its fingers and

680
00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:46.240
<v Speaker 2>kind of went about his business. What other stuff Glenn

681
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:50.480
<v Speaker 2>Thomas did, I don't know. I have no idea, but gosh,

682
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:53.240
<v Speaker 2>I mean, he was from Colton or Estacada or somewhere

683
00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:57.559
<v Speaker 2>around here. I would love to speak to offspring of

684
00:32:57.599 --> 00:32:58.119
<v Speaker 2>some sort.

685
00:32:58.160 --> 00:32:58.680
<v Speaker 6>I would.

686
00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:01.079
<v Speaker 2>I don't even have any information on when he died.

687
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:04.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure he's dead by now, I would think, But

688
00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:07.680
<v Speaker 2>I don't have very much information on the man except

689
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:08.640
<v Speaker 2>for what John Green wrote.

690
00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:10.880
<v Speaker 5>Essentially, I wonder if that was the same female he was.

691
00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:13.319
<v Speaker 2>I mean, how many females are in an area. It's

692
00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:16.640
<v Speaker 2>a very high likelihood, I would imagine, you know, because

693
00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:18.720
<v Speaker 2>I think all that stuff happened in that general area.

694
00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:20.880
<v Speaker 2>And this is also the same area, by the way,

695
00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:22.720
<v Speaker 2>that a lot of bigfoot step happens. You know, this

696
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:25.279
<v Speaker 2>is above a place called Big Bottom. It's not just

697
00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:28.680
<v Speaker 2>a spinal tap song. It's an area, the swampy sort

698
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:30.960
<v Speaker 2>of low lying area along Clacamus River that there are

699
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:36.000
<v Speaker 2>been numerous reports out of Tarzan Springs is not far away.

700
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:38.319
<v Speaker 2>And Tarzan Springs for our listeners, if you don't know,

701
00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:40.000
<v Speaker 2>I think we've talked about it a few times on

702
00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:42.960
<v Speaker 2>the podcast was named according to Joe B. Lart, who

703
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:44.839
<v Speaker 2>tracked down some folks in the federal level who gave

704
00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.279
<v Speaker 2>him this story. He can read about it in his book,

705
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:50.240
<v Speaker 2>The Bigfoot Highway book Oregon's Bigfoot Highway. I think it's

706
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:54.559
<v Speaker 2>called Apparently he was told by some federal worker who

707
00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:56.640
<v Speaker 2>went back in the records for Joe that it was

708
00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:58.160
<v Speaker 2>named the nineteen twenties.

709
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:00.319
<v Speaker 5>I think, say.

710
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:03.839
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, somewhere in there, and the surveyors who were in

711
00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:07.319
<v Speaker 2>the area, ran across like some sort of hermit or

712
00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:10.599
<v Speaker 2>you know, a prospector or somebody like that up at

713
00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:16.719
<v Speaker 2>Tarzan Springs who was quote unquote living with the apes unquote.

714
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:16.920
<v Speaker 5>Right.

715
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:18.840
<v Speaker 2>And of course at this time, you know, it was

716
00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:23.639
<v Speaker 2>kind of before television, and so the thing that everybody

717
00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:26.119
<v Speaker 2>spoke about in the media at that time were books,

718
00:34:26.599 --> 00:34:30.360
<v Speaker 2>oh the Lost Golden Age, and the big book at

719
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:33.960
<v Speaker 2>the time was Tarzan of the Apes. Everybody was reading

720
00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.559
<v Speaker 2>Tarzan of the Apes, you know, one of the most

721
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:40.719
<v Speaker 2>popular books ever at that time. And so I guess

722
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:43.920
<v Speaker 2>the surveyors who stumbled across this gentleman who was living

723
00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:47.559
<v Speaker 2>with the apes in Mount Hood National Forest before it

724
00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:51.199
<v Speaker 2>was a national forest, they named it Tarzan Springs. So

725
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:55.360
<v Speaker 2>the area is just full of history, full of citing reports.

726
00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:58.679
<v Speaker 2>I have found footprints in that general area before more

727
00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:03.719
<v Speaker 2>than once, actually several times. It's just a great area.

728
00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:06.559
<v Speaker 2>And that's the Glen Thomas gist right there. But you know,

729
00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:10.679
<v Speaker 2>if sasquatches were doing this, like digging through these taless

730
00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:14.639
<v Speaker 2>slopes and making these big pits, I mean you can

731
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:17.159
<v Speaker 2>actually I plan to go there this weekend. Ugly enough,

732
00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:19.400
<v Speaker 2>it's funny you brought that up. I intend to go

733
00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:21.519
<v Speaker 2>to the Glen Thomas site this weekend. I've got some

734
00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:24.079
<v Speaker 2>folks coming into town and I'm taking them out for

735
00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:26.039
<v Speaker 2>a day at bigfooting, And I think that's a great

736
00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:28.079
<v Speaker 2>spot to go because I can't promise them a Bigfoot,

737
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:30.719
<v Speaker 2>but I can promise to show them something that Bigfoot

738
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:34.239
<v Speaker 2>supposedly did. So but if they if that was a

739
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:37.280
<v Speaker 2>normal behavior for Sasquatches, we should be seeing these kind

740
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:40.440
<v Speaker 2>of all over the place, and you really don't. And

741
00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:43.280
<v Speaker 2>a lot of the ones that you do find are

742
00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:46.920
<v Speaker 2>are thought to be like vision quest sites from local

743
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:49.880
<v Speaker 2>native tribes and that sort of thing. So I kind

744
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:52.840
<v Speaker 2>of wonder about that. I mean, did this particular family

745
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:55.320
<v Speaker 2>group of Sasquatch develop a new way of foraging that

746
00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:58.320
<v Speaker 2>wasn't thought of before or is that unique to them,

747
00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:00.679
<v Speaker 2>because there's other tallest slopes in there and I've never

748
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:03.199
<v Speaker 2>seen anything like that. But then again, to be fair,

749
00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:05.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm not really looking that hard for him, so maybe

750
00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:06.639
<v Speaker 2>there's more stuff out there to find.

751
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:07.639
<v Speaker 5>Found one.

752
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:09.719
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, he brought me to that one that was

753
00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:12.639
<v Speaker 2>up kind of up by high rocks in a way

754
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:14.000
<v Speaker 2>up in Mountain Hood National Forest.

755
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:15.119
<v Speaker 6>I've seen that one.

756
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:18.760
<v Speaker 2>So I mean again vision side or Sasquatch sign, I

757
00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:19.119
<v Speaker 2>don't know.

758
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:22.199
<v Speaker 7>You know, Jamie Jay was talking to a guy he

759
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:24.840
<v Speaker 7>knows up in Washington and he's telling him he's keeps

760
00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:26.639
<v Speaker 7>you got to call to Elsbury's all. We got a

761
00:36:26.679 --> 00:36:28.880
<v Speaker 7>Glenn Thomas that there's like a hundred holes.

762
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:31.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I see at the Glenn Thomas site, there's more

763
00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:33.119
<v Speaker 2>than that that big hole.

764
00:36:33.239 --> 00:36:34.000
<v Speaker 6>You always see.

765
00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:36.679
<v Speaker 2>Pictures of Bender and Auguler to Hinden or somebody standing

766
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:38.519
<v Speaker 2>in the big hole. But there's a lot of other

767
00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:40.519
<v Speaker 2>holes there, and that's one of these things. And I

768
00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:43.239
<v Speaker 2>think that if we're going to differentiate, if Sasquatches are

769
00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:47.079
<v Speaker 2>actually responsible for some of these, I'm perhaps a way

770
00:36:47.079 --> 00:36:52.079
<v Speaker 2>to differentiate would be counting them. I mean something like

771
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:53.679
<v Speaker 2>that would take a lot of work. You know, some

772
00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:55.960
<v Speaker 2>of these rocks way two three hundred pounds or more,

773
00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:59.000
<v Speaker 2>you know more in some cases is not an awful

774
00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:01.960
<v Speaker 2>big one that is in dangerous slipping back into the hole.

775
00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:03.519
<v Speaker 2>And last time I was there, it's been a few

776
00:37:03.559 --> 00:37:04.840
<v Speaker 2>years though, But.

777
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:08.079
<v Speaker 6>I imagine, I mean, i'd have to ask.

778
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.159
<v Speaker 2>Some Native folks about this because I really don't know,

779
00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:13.000
<v Speaker 2>but maybe, like would they dig more than one if

780
00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:15.039
<v Speaker 2>they were out doing what they do in these places,

781
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:16.920
<v Speaker 2>or it seems like a lot of work to day one,

782
00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:20.039
<v Speaker 2>let alone five or eight. But I think at the

783
00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:24.800
<v Speaker 2>Glenn Thomas site, I don't remember exactly, but I bet

784
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:28.480
<v Speaker 2>you there's at least a dozen of them. And I

785
00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:31.800
<v Speaker 2>was told that further up the ridge line there's other

786
00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:34.079
<v Speaker 2>tailess slopes that have these things in them too, but

787
00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:36.679
<v Speaker 2>just not as dramatic as that really big, deep one.

788
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:37.760
<v Speaker 6>So I don't know.

789
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:40.719
<v Speaker 2>Maybe that maybe that would be a differentiator, but again

790
00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:43.480
<v Speaker 2>we're also looking at the data set. I think that's

791
00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:48.760
<v Speaker 2>the only example of that behavior being observed by that

792
00:37:48.840 --> 00:37:53.239
<v Speaker 2>sasquatch behavior or purported sasquatch behavior being observed by humans.

793
00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:53.719
<v Speaker 6>So I don't know.

794
00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:55.239
<v Speaker 2>Maybe maybe they don't do it at all, and he's

795
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:55.519
<v Speaker 2>a liar.

796
00:37:55.559 --> 00:37:56.280
<v Speaker 6>I have no idea.

797
00:37:57.119 --> 00:37:58.440
<v Speaker 3>Well, it just could be the case.

798
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:01.360
<v Speaker 4>I mean, there's there's twice now that it's kind of

799
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:05.400
<v Speaker 4>touched on idiosyncrasy and individuality. You're talking about it a

800
00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:07.320
<v Speaker 4>bit earlier, and then this brings it back to mind.

801
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:08.920
<v Speaker 4>That is one of the things I had written down

802
00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:11.880
<v Speaker 4>is that when you're looking at animals that have long

803
00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:16.960
<v Speaker 4>developmental periods and especially animals that have really complex behaviors,

804
00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:21.159
<v Speaker 4>like a behavioral repertoire that's highly complex. That leads to

805
00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:25.440
<v Speaker 4>a lot of individualism because most of those behaviors are learned.

806
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:28.360
<v Speaker 4>They're not innate, they're not extinctual, they're not like baked

807
00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:32.519
<v Speaker 4>in or inborn, and so you'll have so much variation

808
00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:36.360
<v Speaker 4>across individuals within a given species, like humans are a

809
00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:38.840
<v Speaker 4>great example of that. Tigers are a great example of that.

810
00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:41.480
<v Speaker 4>There's a number of great examples of that in the

811
00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:44.079
<v Speaker 4>natural world. And so what you're left with is like

812
00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:47.559
<v Speaker 4>individuals to the earlier point you had made about like,

813
00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:50.639
<v Speaker 4>you know, are we painting a picture of the sasquatch

814
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:55.280
<v Speaker 4>as a species that's not directly applicable anywhere that I

815
00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:57.559
<v Speaker 4>made that exact point in my book. I'd said, like

816
00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:01.280
<v Speaker 4>you could create a highly act you're a general image

817
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:04.719
<v Speaker 4>of the sasquatch, and yet never find a single individual

818
00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:08.280
<v Speaker 4>sasquatch that conforms to that image. Right, And so in

819
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:11.119
<v Speaker 4>the case like this, it might be that all sasquatches

820
00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:15.000
<v Speaker 4>will forage for rodents, but depending on the environment and

821
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:19.039
<v Speaker 4>their learned behaviors and you know, things they've become successful at,

822
00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:21.719
<v Speaker 4>and so they start repeating and it gets instantiated, almost

823
00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:25.320
<v Speaker 4>like a positive feedback loop. That like the general pictures

824
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:28.400
<v Speaker 4>that they'll you know, search for, forage for and eat rodents,

825
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:31.079
<v Speaker 4>but the specific picture is like, well, maybe this family

826
00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:34.519
<v Speaker 4>unit found a strategy to acquire rodents that's highly different

827
00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.760
<v Speaker 4>than an individual or a family unit would in the

828
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:41.480
<v Speaker 4>Washutaws or in Appalachia. I mean, one of the interesting

829
00:39:41.519 --> 00:39:44.800
<v Speaker 4>things about Area X, where all that activity was concentrated

830
00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:47.800
<v Speaker 4>around the old cabin compound, you know, it was just

831
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:50.280
<v Speaker 4>a draw for a lot of creatures. There was a

832
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:53.480
<v Speaker 4>couple of like smaller open grassy areas there that were

833
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:57.440
<v Speaker 4>like the only little open meadows in that whole valley.

834
00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:00.440
<v Speaker 4>Everything else is like thickly forested. It was a big

835
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:03.079
<v Speaker 4>draw for deer and other browsing animals. I mean, there's

836
00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:05.400
<v Speaker 4>deer all over the valley, but they're easier to observe

837
00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:07.960
<v Speaker 4>and like reliably know that they're going to come through

838
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.559
<v Speaker 4>and browse in these areas. But one thing that cabin

839
00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:14.360
<v Speaker 4>compound had in abundance was rodents. Because these are old,

840
00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:16.599
<v Speaker 4>you know, kind of wooden structures and a lot of

841
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:19.599
<v Speaker 4>stuff laying around, you know, human stuff, and so there

842
00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:22.159
<v Speaker 4>was just all kinds of mice and rats and everything

843
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:24.199
<v Speaker 4>that would make homes in there and live in there.

844
00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:26.119
<v Speaker 4>So we always wondered if that was a big part

845
00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:28.199
<v Speaker 4>of the reason why they hung around, is this abundance

846
00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:30.840
<v Speaker 4>of rodent food. And I know you've seen that in

847
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.880
<v Speaker 4>your study areas where they seem to be really going

848
00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:36.079
<v Speaker 4>after rodents a lot. So I think that's the general image,

849
00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:39.199
<v Speaker 4>and if Glenn Thomas is telling the truth, and what

850
00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:41.679
<v Speaker 4>you're seeing there is specific, so it is applicable. But

851
00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:45.480
<v Speaker 4>you know, you might not say, like, well, all sasquatches will,

852
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:49.119
<v Speaker 4>you know, lift rocks and create holes in their search

853
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:52.599
<v Speaker 4>for rodents, but all sasquatches will search for rodents.

854
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:53.400
<v Speaker 3>Does that make sense?

855
00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:54.000
<v Speaker 5>Oh?

856
00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:57.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, absolutely. And I've certainly found other instances of them

857
00:40:57.400 --> 00:41:00.800
<v Speaker 2>moving things aside to see what delicious treats are living underneath,

858
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:06.559
<v Speaker 2>mostly logs. I've observed logs in several different locations, but

859
00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:08.800
<v Speaker 2>I also see overturned rocks in a lot of these

860
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:11.800
<v Speaker 2>locations as well. I just don't have any evidence sasquatches

861
00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:14.679
<v Speaker 2>were responsible for it, because that's also a known bare

862
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:19.199
<v Speaker 2>behavior and it's just hard to differentiate there when they

863
00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:21.239
<v Speaker 2>don't leave anything behind. It's just hard to know who

864
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:24.000
<v Speaker 2>did what right, But you know, if you're digging, if

865
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:26.320
<v Speaker 2>you're pulling over a rock to see what might be

866
00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:30.000
<v Speaker 2>living in that hole underneath it, or something in a

867
00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:33.000
<v Speaker 2>tailor's slope, well you move it aside and there's another

868
00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:35.199
<v Speaker 2>rock there. It's not that big of a stretch that

869
00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:37.360
<v Speaker 2>they would learn that sort of behavior in those sorts

870
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:40.159
<v Speaker 2>of environments, especially as you said, if they were successful

871
00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:43.280
<v Speaker 2>previously and they were going back to the area to

872
00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:47.360
<v Speaker 2>see what else might be edible in the area. And again,

873
00:41:47.559 --> 00:41:49.960
<v Speaker 2>I've been to the site probably a dozen times, and

874
00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:52.960
<v Speaker 2>I think every time I go, I see not only

875
00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:56.880
<v Speaker 2>one pika or whatever they are, but multiple. So those

876
00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:59.199
<v Speaker 2>areas must be just thick with food.

877
00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:01.719
<v Speaker 4>Wish I could have seen that place the one time

878
00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:03.440
<v Speaker 4>that were The last time I was up in that

879
00:42:03.559 --> 00:42:06.000
<v Speaker 4>area with you, there was still snow block in the way.

880
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:08.760
<v Speaker 4>I think we were there in like June, so the

881
00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:11.599
<v Speaker 4>valleys were pretty open, but some of those higher places

882
00:42:11.639 --> 00:42:13.639
<v Speaker 4>we couldn't get up into, which was a bummer because

883
00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:14.920
<v Speaker 4>I really want to see that place.

884
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:16.719
<v Speaker 3>So maybe the next visit will do that.

885
00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:17.639
<v Speaker 6>Yeah.

886
00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:19.639
<v Speaker 2>Well, like I said, I'll be going this weekend, so

887
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:22.960
<v Speaker 2>I'll probably take some pictures and stuff, And of course

888
00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:25.960
<v Speaker 2>that stacking is of interest as well, because that's one

889
00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:28.280
<v Speaker 2>of the notable things about the site that I neglected

890
00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:31.119
<v Speaker 2>to mention, is that the sasquatches are not only digging

891
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:33.199
<v Speaker 2>the holes out of the Taili's slope, but they were

892
00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:36.480
<v Speaker 2>actually stacking the rocks on top of one another. And

893
00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:38.280
<v Speaker 2>some of these rocks were very, very large. I think

894
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:40.400
<v Speaker 2>Hender and those Hennery Fahrenbach and those folks went to

895
00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:42.320
<v Speaker 2>the site and weighed some of the rocks and they

896
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:44.719
<v Speaker 2>were well over two hundred pounds, as I mentioned, and

897
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:47.360
<v Speaker 2>some of them are quite large, so that's probably four

898
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:50.639
<v Speaker 2>hundred pounds in some cases. But those those rock stacks

899
00:42:50.639 --> 00:42:55.239
<v Speaker 2>are still there, and you know, sasquatches have noted, or

900
00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:58.159
<v Speaker 2>at least there's a trend, I guess, and the sighting

901
00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:01.360
<v Speaker 2>reports over the years that sas squatches seem to be

902
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:04.079
<v Speaker 2>a little, i don't know it's right word, a little

903
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:09.039
<v Speaker 2>neurotic in some ways about stacking things. There was a

904
00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:11.920
<v Speaker 2>report from the Bull Run Watershed that I got secondhand

905
00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:15.840
<v Speaker 2>about some guy who's grown marijuana illegally in there many

906
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:20.320
<v Speaker 2>many years ago, and his crop was eaten and by

907
00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:22.159
<v Speaker 2>one of these things supposedly, and when he came back

908
00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:24.119
<v Speaker 2>to this, when the guy came back, he was chased

909
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:27.920
<v Speaker 2>out of the area by this thing. The stalks of

910
00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:31.559
<v Speaker 2>the plants were all piled very fastidiously, you know, very

911
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:34.039
<v Speaker 2>very neatly in piles. And I kind of hear that

912
00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:37.039
<v Speaker 2>sort of general theme a lot about sasquatches kind of

913
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:39.400
<v Speaker 2>be in neat freaks in a way. So the stacking

914
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:43.840
<v Speaker 2>of rocks lines up well with some other trends in

915
00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:45.760
<v Speaker 2>the sighting reports, at least to me.

916
00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:48.880
<v Speaker 4>You know, that's another great example. I think that trend

917
00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:52.960
<v Speaker 4>of like orderliness. So yeah, you could say, generally speaking,

918
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:55.199
<v Speaker 4>there's an orderliness. But then if you're looking at the

919
00:43:55.239 --> 00:43:57.599
<v Speaker 4>specific like, well do they always stack rocks? Well, no,

920
00:43:57.639 --> 00:44:00.320
<v Speaker 4>not all of them, not everywhere. And so I said,

921
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:03.840
<v Speaker 4>I think that individuality plays a large part of why

922
00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:07.039
<v Speaker 4>they're still undiscovered. Is when you have something that's really

923
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:11.360
<v Speaker 4>individualistic and very idiosyncratic, and you're chasing a specific individual,

924
00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:14.039
<v Speaker 4>it's like, well, at that point, it's very unpredictable. Even

925
00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:17.480
<v Speaker 4>if you have a good general image of the sasquatch's

926
00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:22.400
<v Speaker 4>lifestyle and behavior, that might not apply to any one individual.

927
00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:24.639
<v Speaker 4>I'd pulled a quote from Carl Jung, because he was

928
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:26.920
<v Speaker 4>describing people as the same way that, like, you know,

929
00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:30.679
<v Speaker 4>we look at averages with humans, but humanity never produces

930
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:34.400
<v Speaker 4>anything except for exceptions to the rule. People are so

931
00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:37.119
<v Speaker 4>individual and so different. And he'd used an analogy like,

932
00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:40.440
<v Speaker 4>you know, you could go to a rocky beach shore

933
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:43.480
<v Speaker 4>and know that the average pebble on that beach weighs whatever,

934
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:46.440
<v Speaker 4>you know, seventy five grams, And then you could weigh

935
00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:48.239
<v Speaker 4>every pebble on that beach for the rest of your

936
00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:50.519
<v Speaker 4>life and never find a single pebble that weighs seventy

937
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:53.039
<v Speaker 4>five grams, you know. And I think a lot of

938
00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:57.920
<v Speaker 4>that does apply to Sasquatches because they must have long,

939
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:01.679
<v Speaker 4>slow development periods, come plex behavioral repertoire, and a lot

940
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:03.480
<v Speaker 4>of that must be learned, and so they must be

941
00:45:03.639 --> 00:45:06.760
<v Speaker 4>very individualistic and idiosyncratic for those reasons.

942
00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:11.599
<v Speaker 2>Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and

943
00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:13.920
<v Speaker 2>Bogo will be right back after these messages.

944
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:23.880
<v Speaker 7>Another interesting thing people have reported from the I know,

945
00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:27.079
<v Speaker 7>from the Rockies and from Sierra Nevada's researchers say that

946
00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:30.960
<v Speaker 7>they're convinced that they build up like little piles of

947
00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:34.360
<v Speaker 7>rocks like they'll build a little like pyramid, like yeah,

948
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:37.159
<v Speaker 7>like a car, like a pyramid of rocks, and then

949
00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:40.840
<v Speaker 7>the ground scrolls or whatever. Rodents will go in there

950
00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:42.639
<v Speaker 7>and nest in those rocks, and they come back when

951
00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:45.519
<v Speaker 7>they're hibernating and just pull them apart and pull them

952
00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:46.880
<v Speaker 7>out sleeping and just they got.

953
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:49.840
<v Speaker 5>A frozen snack. Are basically well, it's it's warm. It's

954
00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:50.519
<v Speaker 5>a warm snack.

955
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:54.719
<v Speaker 2>But you know something that's interesting. I think that something

956
00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:56.320
<v Speaker 2>I wrote down on my list as far as like

957
00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:59.199
<v Speaker 2>what I wish more people spoke about. We're doing it

958
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:02.960
<v Speaker 2>right now, right now, and that is the early reports,

959
00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:07.360
<v Speaker 2>the early foundational literature. Because again we lament about this

960
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:09.679
<v Speaker 2>all the time. We're a bunch of old men kneeling

961
00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:11.679
<v Speaker 2>at the kids to get off our grass. I totally

962
00:46:11.679 --> 00:46:16.719
<v Speaker 2>get it. But so many of the Bigfoot officionados nowadays,

963
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:20.920
<v Speaker 2>they don't realize the people who laid the foundation for

964
00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:23.920
<v Speaker 2>what we all love. They don't realize the importance of

965
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:27.840
<v Speaker 2>Green and Krantz in their ilk because they came in

966
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:31.159
<v Speaker 2>with the Finding Bigfoot days or the Expedition Bigfoot or whatever,

967
00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:33.360
<v Speaker 2>you know, whatever flash in the pan thing is on

968
00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:35.679
<v Speaker 2>TV at the time. They don't understand all the work

969
00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:38.679
<v Speaker 2>that has been done beforehand. And I've seen grave mistakes

970
00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:43.719
<v Speaker 2>done by people who thought they perhaps discovered something, discovered

971
00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:49.960
<v Speaker 2>a trend, only to look in John Green's books and realize, oh,

972
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:52.960
<v Speaker 2>this was done in the nineteen seventies or I don't know,

973
00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:56.039
<v Speaker 2>Matt even you said something about this recently, about the

974
00:46:56.599 --> 00:46:59.039
<v Speaker 2>color of the animals and real and thought, oh, no,

975
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:01.519
<v Speaker 2>one's really talked about this, And sure enough Sanderson did,

976
00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:04.159
<v Speaker 2>like the literally the first book, the first book ever

977
00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:07.280
<v Speaker 2>written kind of in a way that talked about it.

978
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:10.920
<v Speaker 2>So I think that, then again, I'm just an old man.

979
00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:12.679
<v Speaker 2>You'll let the kids to get off my grass. I

980
00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:14.440
<v Speaker 2>fully realize that, and I do it all the time.

981
00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:19.840
<v Speaker 2>But I think that the foundational literature, the early researchers,

982
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:25.719
<v Speaker 2>the early reports are hugely important, especially now because if

983
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:28.199
<v Speaker 2>you wanted to fake a sasquatch report, it would be

984
00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:29.039
<v Speaker 2>really easy to do.

985
00:47:29.159 --> 00:47:29.360
<v Speaker 5>Now.

986
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:32.320
<v Speaker 2>You listen to a couple of podcasts, you read a book,

987
00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:35.000
<v Speaker 2>you go to the BFR site, and you know, average

988
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:36.960
<v Speaker 2>those things out and spit it back, and someone's going

989
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:39.800
<v Speaker 2>to believe you, because why not. The Sasquatches are real.

990
00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:43.000
<v Speaker 2>You can actually see them no big deal. But like

991
00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:46.920
<v Speaker 2>the best example of something I mentioned recently is like

992
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:49.920
<v Speaker 2>these tree things that I've been discovering, not not trees structures,

993
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:54.239
<v Speaker 2>but tree breaks. Turns out, John Green wrote about the

994
00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:59.000
<v Speaker 2>tree breaks literally in the very first bigfoot thing that

995
00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:02.079
<v Speaker 2>pretty much ever happened, and under the word big Ford

996
00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:05.559
<v Speaker 2>the least the Jerry Crew the Jerry Crew footprints. John

997
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:08.000
<v Speaker 2>Green wrote in his book that he followed the tracks

998
00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:10.440
<v Speaker 2>of the Jerry Crew creature down the creek and up

999
00:48:10.440 --> 00:48:13.519
<v Speaker 2>the other slope. He lost the tracks and some rocky

1000
00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:17.519
<v Speaker 2>train and then found trees broken. Three different trees broken

1001
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:20.920
<v Speaker 2>with the tops broken off and twisted around the lower trunk.

1002
00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:23.559
<v Speaker 2>That's exactly what we find nowadays. And he didn't know

1003
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:26.559
<v Speaker 2>if sasquatch, that sasquatch was responsible for it, but they

1004
00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:28.639
<v Speaker 2>were in the trackway that he was following, so it

1005
00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:31.760
<v Speaker 2>could be inferred, I think. But going back to that,

1006
00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:36.119
<v Speaker 2>the earliest reports you can find and looking for behaviors

1007
00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:39.719
<v Speaker 2>and descriptions and that sort of stuff carries more weight

1008
00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:44.559
<v Speaker 2>than a report that happened two weeks ago, because the

1009
00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:47.360
<v Speaker 2>report that happened two weeks ago happened in the context

1010
00:48:47.559 --> 00:48:50.000
<v Speaker 2>of a lot of people knowing a little bit about

1011
00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:52.920
<v Speaker 2>sasquatch stuff. But you go back to nineteen fifty eight,

1012
00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:57.039
<v Speaker 2>nineteen fifty nine, nobody knew anything, nobody knew squat about

1013
00:48:57.039 --> 00:49:02.159
<v Speaker 2>squatch at that time. So the thing the next you know,

1014
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:07.719
<v Speaker 2>fifty years of reports supporting those behaviors is very telling

1015
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:09.840
<v Speaker 2>to me. So I think that the early reports and

1016
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:14.880
<v Speaker 2>the early literature is even more valuable now than perhaps

1017
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:17.360
<v Speaker 2>it was thirty forty fifty years ago.

1018
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:18.760
<v Speaker 3>Oh, I agree with that.

1019
00:49:19.199 --> 00:49:21.960
<v Speaker 4>I do think it's really important not only to read

1020
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.519
<v Speaker 4>that early literature, but to reread it often. And you

1021
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:27.559
<v Speaker 4>know the example you brought up that I mentioned with

1022
00:49:27.599 --> 00:49:30.519
<v Speaker 4>Wes about Sanderson. You know, there's a handful of books

1023
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:34.159
<v Speaker 4>that I reread every year and every single time, and

1024
00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:35.920
<v Speaker 4>some of them, you know, I've read for twenty plus

1025
00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:38.559
<v Speaker 4>years now, and every single time I see something new

1026
00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:41.519
<v Speaker 4>in there that didn't like shine forth in the previous

1027
00:49:41.639 --> 00:49:45.400
<v Speaker 4>you know, fifteen readings or ten readings or whatever. And

1028
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:48.159
<v Speaker 4>that's I always say, like, the information doesn't change, but

1029
00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:51.199
<v Speaker 4>you change, and what you're looking for changes, and what

1030
00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:54.000
<v Speaker 4>stands out to you and what resonates with something new

1031
00:49:54.039 --> 00:49:57.000
<v Speaker 4>you've learned, all those things change, and so it's definitely

1032
00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.679
<v Speaker 4>worth getting really familiar with that stuff and then revisiting

1033
00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:03.360
<v Speaker 4>it often because new things will appear that were there

1034
00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:06.239
<v Speaker 4>all along, but they just weren't relevant to you at

1035
00:50:06.239 --> 00:50:08.800
<v Speaker 4>the time, so they didn't really stick out in your

1036
00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:11.280
<v Speaker 4>perception as you were reading it. So all those things

1037
00:50:11.280 --> 00:50:12.880
<v Speaker 4>are very very important.

1038
00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:13.840
<v Speaker 3>You know.

1039
00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:17.639
<v Speaker 4>It's funny, like you mentioned the validity of older sasquatch reports.

1040
00:50:18.239 --> 00:50:20.320
<v Speaker 4>One of the things that frustrates me so much with

1041
00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:24.320
<v Speaker 4>some of these podcasts I listen to or YouTube channels

1042
00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:27.480
<v Speaker 4>is that you can tell like, at least for me

1043
00:50:27.719 --> 00:50:31.119
<v Speaker 4>in my opinion, which could be very wrong, But when

1044
00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:35.679
<v Speaker 4>someone is feigning ignorance about the subject and they're fabricating

1045
00:50:35.719 --> 00:50:39.599
<v Speaker 4>a story and they're weaving in every element of the

1046
00:50:39.599 --> 00:50:42.960
<v Speaker 4>sasquatch phenomenon, and I've heard people say things like, you know,

1047
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:45.559
<v Speaker 4>more than once, more than one person say things like,

1048
00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:47.639
<v Speaker 4>and you know, I have to it run off. I

1049
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:49.800
<v Speaker 4>went and looked at its tracks, and I mean, this

1050
00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:52.840
<v Speaker 4>is going to sound weird, but the tracks almost look

1051
00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:56.039
<v Speaker 4>like the foot bends in the middle. Has anyone ever

1052
00:50:56.119 --> 00:50:59.559
<v Speaker 4>said that before? Yeah, you're going to tell me that, Like,

1053
00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:02.920
<v Speaker 4>it's so obvious that they're trying to make it sound

1054
00:51:03.039 --> 00:51:06.880
<v Speaker 4>like they spontaneously saw a mid tarsal break and didn't

1055
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:09.960
<v Speaker 4>know what they were looking at. And people send me

1056
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:11.519
<v Speaker 4>that stuff and I'm like, look, man, I think that

1057
00:51:11.559 --> 00:51:15.199
<v Speaker 4>person's lying. I think they're trying to include all these

1058
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:18.239
<v Speaker 4>elements that will make it seem more legitimate. And they'll

1059
00:51:18.239 --> 00:51:19.840
<v Speaker 4>be like, oh, but he said he doesn't know anything

1060
00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:22.960
<v Speaker 4>about the Sasquatch, And it's like, well, he found that podcast,

1061
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:25.159
<v Speaker 4>didn't he. Who's to say he hadn't been listening to

1062
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:28.000
<v Speaker 4>that podcast for five years before he decided to tell

1063
00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:30.840
<v Speaker 4>his you know, quote unquote story. So those kind of

1064
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:34.440
<v Speaker 4>things are so frustrated. There's a lot of that out there.

1065
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:36.679
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, definitely.

1066
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:38.840
<v Speaker 2>Well, I remember we were looking at that picture by

1067
00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:41.599
<v Speaker 2>Lyle Labberty, taken at the Patterson Gimlin film site. I mean,

1068
00:51:41.639 --> 00:51:44.599
<v Speaker 2>the whole community was looking since nineteen sixty seven, and

1069
00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:47.320
<v Speaker 2>it was only in the year two thousand or something

1070
00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:50.559
<v Speaker 2>like that that doctor Meldrum kind of let us in on, well,

1071
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:52.840
<v Speaker 2>what that actually what we're looking at. We didn't have

1072
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:55.320
<v Speaker 2>eyes to see, but it took somebody with an expertise

1073
00:51:55.400 --> 00:51:58.119
<v Speaker 2>in primate foot anatomy to say, oh, that's that's evidence

1074
00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:01.199
<v Speaker 2>the mid tarsal pressure. That's pressure ridge right there, and

1075
00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:03.360
<v Speaker 2>the flexibility the mid part of the foot, and because

1076
00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:06.119
<v Speaker 2>that's perfectly normal, all apes have that, you know, and

1077
00:52:06.159 --> 00:52:08.840
<v Speaker 2>we're all looking at it forever. So this one random

1078
00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:11.880
<v Speaker 2>witness that you mentioned or whatever, like coming to that

1079
00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:14.920
<v Speaker 2>conclusion on his own, I doubt it. Yeah, And that's

1080
00:52:14.960 --> 00:52:20.480
<v Speaker 2>just more evidence that modern day reports can easily be

1081
00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:25.320
<v Speaker 2>tainted essentially by fabrication or whatever else. But those early reports,

1082
00:52:26.079 --> 00:52:28.400
<v Speaker 2>I think again hold a little bit more value now

1083
00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:32.920
<v Speaker 2>because of the prevalence of sasquatch information now on the

1084
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:35.519
<v Speaker 2>Internet and television and what it podcasts, everything like this one,

1085
00:52:35.559 --> 00:52:39.320
<v Speaker 2>et cetera. Those early reports they had no they had

1086
00:52:39.320 --> 00:52:40.320
<v Speaker 2>no information to go on.

1087
00:52:41.039 --> 00:52:43.880
<v Speaker 4>If you use the analogy of like you know, large

1088
00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:48.679
<v Speaker 4>language models, they're sort of trying to approximate, you know,

1089
00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:52.480
<v Speaker 4>some degree or some style of human learning, and you

1090
00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:54.199
<v Speaker 4>have to you have to train them, you have to

1091
00:52:54.199 --> 00:52:56.679
<v Speaker 4>give them information to build the model on. And so

1092
00:52:57.039 --> 00:52:59.960
<v Speaker 4>that's I think a good analogy is like the testimony

1093
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:04.639
<v Speaker 4>today could represent humans that have been trained, you know,

1094
00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:08.400
<v Speaker 4>by listening to many many many other sasquatch podcasts and

1095
00:53:08.440 --> 00:53:11.679
<v Speaker 4>what many other claimants say and many TV shows, and

1096
00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:14.400
<v Speaker 4>so from all of that information, you could train a

1097
00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:18.199
<v Speaker 4>person to then generate a report that would have all

1098
00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:22.719
<v Speaker 4>the hallmarks of something legitimate versus like what were people

1099
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:25.599
<v Speaker 4>in the eighteen hundreds being quote unquote trained on. You know,

1100
00:53:26.239 --> 00:53:30.360
<v Speaker 4>they didn't even have the known apes to incorporate into

1101
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:33.360
<v Speaker 4>their models. And so when they observe things that are

1102
00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:37.079
<v Speaker 4>consistent and things that are reflective of what we now

1103
00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:41.719
<v Speaker 4>know to be actual ape behaviors and other trends, and well, yeah,

1104
00:53:41.719 --> 00:53:44.760
<v Speaker 4>that's that's pretty compelling at the very least.

1105
00:53:45.320 --> 00:53:47.519
<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, let me throw this out because I

1106
00:53:47.599 --> 00:53:50.559
<v Speaker 2>ran across some pretty shocking statistics this past week or so.

1107
00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:54.559
<v Speaker 2>And again, always fact check me, always look at the numbers.

1108
00:53:54.599 --> 00:53:57.599
<v Speaker 2>And you know, maybe I'm underestimating, maybe I'm overestimating. I

1109
00:53:57.599 --> 00:54:01.000
<v Speaker 2>don't really know, but something on the turn, something on

1110
00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:03.880
<v Speaker 2>the term of one out of five Americans today is

1111
00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:07.559
<v Speaker 2>functionally illiterate. I mean, that's a sad truth, but it

1112
00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:10.159
<v Speaker 2>seems to be the truth. So something like twenty give

1113
00:54:10.239 --> 00:54:12.440
<v Speaker 2>or take a few percentage. Whether it's seventeen or twenty

1114
00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:14.119
<v Speaker 2>three doesn't matter. Let's just say one out of five,

1115
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:18.000
<v Speaker 2>twenty percent of Americans today are functionally literate, and what

1116
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:21.079
<v Speaker 2>that essentially means is that they can't read directions well,

1117
00:54:21.519 --> 00:54:25.960
<v Speaker 2>if at all, they would have trouble filling out forms

1118
00:54:26.199 --> 00:54:27.679
<v Speaker 2>and all that sort of stuff. You know, it's a

1119
00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:31.440
<v Speaker 2>real detriment. And I've known people in my life, very

1120
00:54:31.480 --> 00:54:34.000
<v Speaker 2>intelligent people who were functionally literate. They just didn't have

1121
00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:37.840
<v Speaker 2>the schooling. They didn't they had other issues. I speak

1122
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:41.559
<v Speaker 2>to Michael Freeman very frequently. His father was largely illiterate.

1123
00:54:41.639 --> 00:54:46.760
<v Speaker 2>You know, I think he was very heavily dsyslexic based

1124
00:54:46.760 --> 00:54:48.960
<v Speaker 2>on his writing styles and things like that. I've seen

1125
00:54:48.960 --> 00:54:51.960
<v Speaker 2>a lot of his original writing and things like Michael

1126
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:53.920
<v Speaker 2>told me, if you ever saw my dad's signature, that's

1127
00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:57.360
<v Speaker 2>almost certainly my mother's. Because dad didn't write, he didn't read.

1128
00:54:57.400 --> 00:54:59.320
<v Speaker 2>I never knew him to read a book, although to

1129
00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:02.679
<v Speaker 2>his credit, he was trying really hard to read better.

1130
00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:04.880
<v Speaker 2>Towards the end of his life. He was trying to

1131
00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:08.159
<v Speaker 2>read Bigfoot books and things like that, and he had

1132
00:55:08.199 --> 00:55:10.760
<v Speaker 2>some struggle with it. He was getting better by the

1133
00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:13.519
<v Speaker 2>time he died. But essentially he's functionally literate. So when

1134
00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:16.280
<v Speaker 2>I when when when I bring up like people should

1135
00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:20.960
<v Speaker 2>read the foundational texts, I have to at least put

1136
00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:23.440
<v Speaker 2>it out there that, like I fully understand this, probably

1137
00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:25.760
<v Speaker 2>you know, again, one out of five people in America,

1138
00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:28.480
<v Speaker 2>maybe one out of five people listening to this very

1139
00:55:28.519 --> 00:55:30.480
<v Speaker 2>podcast would be unable.

1140
00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:32.320
<v Speaker 6>To read that those posts.

1141
00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:35.000
<v Speaker 2>Well, probably not this podcast, to be fair, but I'm

1142
00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:39.760
<v Speaker 2>still there's there are some listeners, whether they're young or older,

1143
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:41.800
<v Speaker 2>and just didn't get the schooling they needed or had

1144
00:55:41.880 --> 00:55:47.360
<v Speaker 2>some other stability that perhaps prohibited them. And so coming

1145
00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:49.079
<v Speaker 2>around to my point here, and I'm going to ask

1146
00:55:49.159 --> 00:55:51.440
<v Speaker 2>you Matt this or maybe you might know too, Boba,

1147
00:55:51.480 --> 00:55:53.639
<v Speaker 2>but it feel like this is like in Matt's ball park.

1148
00:55:54.960 --> 00:55:59.320
<v Speaker 2>How many of these foundational texts have an audio book

1149
00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:00.760
<v Speaker 2>that's available?

1150
00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:01.519
<v Speaker 5>Oh?

1151
00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:06.280
<v Speaker 4>Man, yeah, unfortunately, like almost none of them. I do

1152
00:56:06.440 --> 00:56:10.039
<v Speaker 4>think that Sanderson's book is available in an audiobook format

1153
00:56:10.039 --> 00:56:11.960
<v Speaker 4>because a good buddy of mine, shout out to my

1154
00:56:11.960 --> 00:56:14.679
<v Speaker 4>buddy Kevin in Colorado, one of my good friends, known

1155
00:56:14.760 --> 00:56:17.159
<v Speaker 4>him for many many years, had texted me and he

1156
00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:20.039
<v Speaker 4>was like, oh, I'm listening to Abominable Snowman Legend come

1157
00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:23.039
<v Speaker 4>to life and the narrator has an epic English accent.

1158
00:56:23.639 --> 00:56:26.320
<v Speaker 4>So at least that one's out there, But you know,

1159
00:56:26.760 --> 00:56:30.320
<v Speaker 4>it really comes down to like, for example, I think

1160
00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:35.559
<v Speaker 4>the author or the publisher has to initiate that process

1161
00:56:35.599 --> 00:56:39.079
<v Speaker 4>for that project. So whoever owns Green's works, let's say

1162
00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:43.840
<v Speaker 4>is Hancock House, would have to either send in a

1163
00:56:43.960 --> 00:56:45.639
<v Speaker 4>manuscript that could be read.

1164
00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:45.960
<v Speaker 5>You know.

1165
00:56:46.239 --> 00:56:50.480
<v Speaker 4>Even I think Audible now has an AI reader where

1166
00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:52.679
<v Speaker 4>you can you can apply and they can have an

1167
00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:56.320
<v Speaker 4>AI voice read your text and that becomes the audiobook.

1168
00:56:56.599 --> 00:56:59.199
<v Speaker 4>But you know, it's it's up to either the author

1169
00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:02.400
<v Speaker 4>or whoever owns owns the work. So unfortunately, I you know,

1170
00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:04.440
<v Speaker 4>whoever owns a lot of those works has just never

1171
00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:09.480
<v Speaker 4>initiated that process to have those converted into audiobooks. And

1172
00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:11.960
<v Speaker 4>that's that's they're missing out on a lot because I

1173
00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:15.039
<v Speaker 4>do think people would would glean something from that, and

1174
00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:18.840
<v Speaker 4>the audiobook process is not easy. I've been wrestling with

1175
00:57:18.920 --> 00:57:21.280
<v Speaker 4>that for a while. But you know, I'm sure there's

1176
00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:24.440
<v Speaker 4>other especially for authors that are deceased, why not use

1177
00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:26.639
<v Speaker 4>the AI function, you know, because it's not like we

1178
00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:29.639
<v Speaker 4>can get Green to read it because he's deceased.

1179
00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:31.079
<v Speaker 3>Or Krants, et cetera, et cetera.

1180
00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:33.199
<v Speaker 4>So there there are pathways to that now, but it

1181
00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:35.440
<v Speaker 4>would be up to you know, whoever owns those books

1182
00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:38.199
<v Speaker 4>to do it. But that is an unfortunate reality, is

1183
00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:40.519
<v Speaker 4>that there's not a lot of other options, and not

1184
00:57:40.679 --> 00:57:44.239
<v Speaker 4>all of those books are readily available to find and

1185
00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:47.360
<v Speaker 4>get from let's say Amazon with two days shipping, you know,

1186
00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:49.079
<v Speaker 4>because some of them are out of print, or some

1187
00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:53.199
<v Speaker 4>of them are by small publishers who print stock first

1188
00:57:53.239 --> 00:57:56.519
<v Speaker 4>and then list some of that stock online to be ordered,

1189
00:57:56.559 --> 00:57:59.840
<v Speaker 4>and it becomes expensive, and there's expensive shipping. So there

1190
00:57:59.920 --> 00:58:01.840
<v Speaker 4>is a bit of a barrier to entry on some

1191
00:58:01.920 --> 00:58:02.840
<v Speaker 4>of those older books.

1192
00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:03.000
<v Speaker 5>You know.

1193
00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:04.280
<v Speaker 4>Some of them are easy to get and some of

1194
00:58:04.280 --> 00:58:07.519
<v Speaker 4>them are not, which is very unfortunate, you know. To

1195
00:58:07.559 --> 00:58:11.159
<v Speaker 4>your point about literacy, it is I laugh at myself

1196
00:58:11.239 --> 00:58:14.880
<v Speaker 4>often because I often lament that, you know, people don't

1197
00:58:14.920 --> 00:58:17.000
<v Speaker 4>read books anymore. And so the way I addressed it

1198
00:58:17.079 --> 00:58:18.480
<v Speaker 4>was to write about it in a book.

1199
00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:25.239
<v Speaker 2>Right, all right, stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond

1200
00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:28.239
<v Speaker 2>with Cliff and Bobo will be right back after these messages.

1201
00:58:35.079 --> 00:58:35.760
<v Speaker 3>Well, you know, your.

1202
00:58:35.639 --> 00:58:39.840
<v Speaker 2>Book brings up another thorn on that rose. There is

1203
00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:43.960
<v Speaker 2>that along with that statistic that I stumbled across about

1204
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:49.159
<v Speaker 2>approximately twenty percent of Americans are functionally illiterate, a little

1205
00:58:49.239 --> 00:58:52.440
<v Speaker 2>over fifty I was told, and again, fact check me. Please.

1206
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:55.519
<v Speaker 2>Whatever the number is, you're going to find it horrifying.

1207
00:58:56.400 --> 00:58:59.960
<v Speaker 2>About fifty percent of Americans read at fifth grade level

1208
00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:03.960
<v Speaker 2>or below, so books like yours were, you know, are

1209
00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:07.079
<v Speaker 2>going to be inaccessible to them in some ways. But also,

1210
00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:09.960
<v Speaker 2>being a teacher, a former teacher at least, I know

1211
00:59:10.079 --> 00:59:15.920
<v Speaker 2>that comprehension levels when you're listening are many years above

1212
00:59:16.559 --> 00:59:19.119
<v Speaker 2>that which you read. You know you can understand a

1213
00:59:19.239 --> 00:59:23.000
<v Speaker 2>story much higher than your reading level by listening to

1214
00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:28.000
<v Speaker 2>it than reading it. So again, so to get the

1215
00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:33.639
<v Speaker 2>foundational information that we all three here deem so important,

1216
00:59:34.519 --> 00:59:36.960
<v Speaker 2>what are the options? I guess, as you mentioned, AI

1217
00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:39.480
<v Speaker 2>can read a book to you, okay, that that's a

1218
00:59:39.639 --> 00:59:43.440
<v Speaker 2>real solid, kind of brand new innovation that will help

1219
00:59:43.480 --> 00:59:46.400
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people. I think with this this kind

1220
00:59:46.440 --> 00:59:49.239
<v Speaker 2>of disability, I don't know if if it's appropriate or

1221
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:53.360
<v Speaker 2>correct even to say that illiteracy is some sort of disability,

1222
00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:55.679
<v Speaker 2>But when you're trying to read a book, it is right.

1223
00:59:55.719 --> 00:59:57.039
<v Speaker 6>I don't know any way around that one.

1224
00:59:57.079 --> 00:59:59.559
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to handle with kids, gloves or anybody

1225
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:01.599
<v Speaker 2>getting mad at me about this. But if you want

1226
01:00:01.599 --> 01:00:03.880
<v Speaker 2>to read a book and can't there's the issue, right,

1227
01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:07.280
<v Speaker 2>So what can get you through that bump? Because I

1228
01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:10.800
<v Speaker 2>imagine some of our listeners would think that doctor Meldrum's

1229
01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:13.159
<v Speaker 2>book is too high above their head because these are

1230
01:00:13.199 --> 01:00:16.239
<v Speaker 2>scientists and I don't know about science, and it's actually

1231
01:00:16.239 --> 01:00:18.559
<v Speaker 2>pretty accessible.

1232
01:00:18.119 --> 01:00:19.039
<v Speaker 6>I think to most readers.

1233
01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:23.280
<v Speaker 2>But what other options might there be? So we have

1234
01:00:23.360 --> 01:00:26.239
<v Speaker 2>the AI option. If you can get that text into

1235
01:00:26.239 --> 01:00:28.800
<v Speaker 2>a computer, the AI can read it to you. Are

1236
01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:34.519
<v Speaker 2>there other avenues or other resources available for people our

1237
01:00:34.559 --> 01:00:37.760
<v Speaker 2>listeners who might want to access those foundational texts, or

1238
01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:41.239
<v Speaker 2>at least ideas Todd Prescott's YouTube channel I think would

1239
01:00:41.239 --> 01:00:43.360
<v Speaker 2>be one of them, because he has a lot of

1240
01:00:43.400 --> 01:00:48.159
<v Speaker 2>the foundational people on video talking about things anything else

1241
01:00:48.159 --> 01:00:49.719
<v Speaker 2>that I'm overlooking that might be able to help our

1242
01:00:49.760 --> 01:00:51.719
<v Speaker 2>listeners who might struggle with this.

1243
01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:57.320
<v Speaker 4>I mean, anybody listening to this podcast is technologically literate,

1244
01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:00.480
<v Speaker 4>you know, because they found the podcast. They're using us smartphone,

1245
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:03.960
<v Speaker 4>a tablet, a desktop, a laptop, something of that nature.

1246
01:01:04.360 --> 01:01:05.880
<v Speaker 4>And so I think, you know, if they had a

1247
01:01:05.880 --> 01:01:08.159
<v Speaker 4>book and they encountered a word that they weren't familiar with,

1248
01:01:08.199 --> 01:01:10.159
<v Speaker 4>they could they could google it, you know, they could

1249
01:01:10.199 --> 01:01:13.239
<v Speaker 4>search the definition of that word. I do think that

1250
01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:17.559
<v Speaker 4>encountering things that you've never encountered before is very good

1251
01:01:17.559 --> 01:01:20.119
<v Speaker 4>for people now in my book, like any term that

1252
01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:23.079
<v Speaker 4>I used that I thought wasn't in common parlance or

1253
01:01:23.119 --> 01:01:26.559
<v Speaker 4>something like that I define next to the word. But

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<v Speaker 4>other words that you know, I might not have defined. Well,

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<v Speaker 4>if you found my book because you heard me on

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<v Speaker 4>a podcast and you ordered it from Amazon, you have

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<v Speaker 4>a smartphone or a laptop or something, and people might

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<v Speaker 4>be encouraged to go, oh, let me look that up,

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<v Speaker 4>let me learn. Because that's one of the things that's

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<v Speaker 4>frustrated me over the years, whether it was like television

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<v Speaker 4>people or people in other literary avenues. When I was

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<v Speaker 4>talking to people about potentially being involved with this book,

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<v Speaker 4>they'd be like, Oh, you shouldn't use that word because

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<v Speaker 4>no one's ever heard it. I'm like, well, how do

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<v Speaker 4>you expect anyone to learn? Like you don't want to

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<v Speaker 4>publish something that only includes things that you already know

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<v Speaker 4>that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. And I don't think

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<v Speaker 4>the audience feels that way. Everything I know is because

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<v Speaker 4>I encountered it at a time when I didn't know it,

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<v Speaker 4>you know what I mean. And so the books that

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<v Speaker 4>were way above my comprehension at first, like Krantz's book,

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<v Speaker 4>which is one of the first books I read, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>I read Krantz's book years before I took an anthropology class,

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<v Speaker 4>and or you know, like physical anatomy class. I mean

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<v Speaker 4>I knew some degree of obviously anatomy and basic sciences,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, coming from a family with all medical backgrounds

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<v Speaker 4>and having completed high school or whatever. But like I

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<v Speaker 4>learned because I encountered things. I'm like, I don't know

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<v Speaker 4>what that is, but I sure need to know if

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<v Speaker 4>I want to make it further in this book, and

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<v Speaker 4>maybe it's useful for me as a sasquatch researcher. So

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<v Speaker 4>I'm not a big fan of the idea that we

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<v Speaker 4>should avoid things because they might be new to people,

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<v Speaker 4>or to assume that well, no one's going to understand

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<v Speaker 4>this because they're just not smart enough.

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<v Speaker 3>Like I just don't. I don't believe that at all.

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<v Speaker 4>But it is I think to your point, it is

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<v Speaker 4>hard for newcomers because if they do step into the

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<v Speaker 4>sea of podcasts and YouTube, they're not all created equally

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<v Speaker 4>in terms of like their presentation of historical material or

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<v Speaker 4>commitment to presenting that material.

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<v Speaker 3>Accurately.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, a lot of it is straight out wrong.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, some of them are bs, but like a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of the ones that from good people and stuff

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<v Speaker 2>are just inaccurate, you know, And anybody can be wrong,

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<v Speaker 2>of course, you know, but how's the guy supposed to.

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<v Speaker 3>Know wildly inaccurate?

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<v Speaker 4>But I would again, I don't think it's an erroneous

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<v Speaker 4>assumption to think that if you're listening to this on

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<v Speaker 4>your phone or your laptop desktop, you know that you

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<v Speaker 4>do have access to some of that foundational material online

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<v Speaker 4>via Amazon, you know, and I can put links to

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<v Speaker 4>some of that in the show notes. There's a great

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<v Speaker 4>repository of published papers that came from like Northwest Anthropological

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<v Speaker 4>Research Notes or the International Society of Cryptozoologies Journal, or

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<v Speaker 4>the Journal of Scientific Exploration, like a whole host of

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<v Speaker 4>different journals that are all cryptozoological articles that are all

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<v Speaker 4>in one place, alphabetical by author, and I'll link that

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<v Speaker 4>in the show notes. And so you can read a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of great papers by Green, Krantz, Bender, Nageld, Meldrum,

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<v Speaker 4>on and on and on. You know a number of

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<v Speaker 4>different people that made big contributions. So there's plenty of

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<v Speaker 4>free options online too. Or Meldrum's Relict Hominoid Inquiry, which

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<v Speaker 4>is a lot of that's going to be a lot

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<v Speaker 4>more technical than my book too, But at the very least,

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<v Speaker 4>even without spending a dollar, using the same smartphone or

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<v Speaker 4>computer that you're listening to this on, you can read

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01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:37.599
<v Speaker 4>a bunch of really good material written by excellent researchers

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<v Speaker 4>who are definitely committed to the truth.

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<v Speaker 2>That's fantastic because you know, Bigfoot is for everybody, and

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<v Speaker 2>information is for everybody, and I'm a huge advocate for

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<v Speaker 2>access for all essentially when it comes to information and

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<v Speaker 2>that kind of stuff. So it's good to know that

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<v Speaker 2>there are resources for people, and you know, because again,

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<v Speaker 2>I think most of our listeners probably have these books

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<v Speaker 2>or have read most of them, or at least some

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<v Speaker 2>them at some point or another. But I'm thinking it

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<v Speaker 2>occurred to me this past week when I ran across

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<v Speaker 2>that startling statistic that maybe one out of five, as

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<v Speaker 2>much as one out of five people could not access

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<v Speaker 2>the information even if it was in their hands, and

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<v Speaker 2>then thinking, well, what do we do for those folks?

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<v Speaker 2>Because bigfoots for them too, and I want to make

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<v Speaker 2>sure that they have some sort of accessible avenue to

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<v Speaker 2>get these sort of information. So I'm glad we had

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<v Speaker 2>a chance to at least speak about that.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, And I think for the average person listening to this,

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<v Speaker 4>they still have it pretty easy in terms of getting

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<v Speaker 4>that stuff because I started searching in the early two

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<v Speaker 4>thousands and you guys started much earlier than me, and

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<v Speaker 4>that like Bobo had the advantage of going to Humboldt State,

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<v Speaker 4>and so he's kind of like in a repository of

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<v Speaker 4>books in the epicenter of Bigfoot, you know, the history

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<v Speaker 4>of Bigfoot. But dude, how hard was it, Bobo back

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01:05:48.719 --> 01:05:51.639
<v Speaker 4>in the day, pre Internet or pre Amazon to find

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<v Speaker 4>like five big Foot books that you wanted to read,

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<v Speaker 4>like one library or just in general, like, it was

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<v Speaker 4>so hard to find those.

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<v Speaker 7>Book book Yeah, yeah, it was, it was, It was.

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<v Speaker 5>It was tough.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, And I still I laughed because a lot of times,

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<v Speaker 7>like well, Humboldt State, the only other person to check

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<v Speaker 7>out some of these books or like, you know, like

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<v Speaker 7>the stuff in the humbold room for local stuff was

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<v Speaker 7>was Danny Perez nineteen eighty one.

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<v Speaker 4>Because I remember it took me years to find a

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<v Speaker 4>copy of Apes among us.

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<v Speaker 3>I think the first book.

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<v Speaker 4>I read was Krantz and then once I remember getting

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<v Speaker 4>Lauren Coleman's Bigfoot The True Story of Apes in America,

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<v Speaker 4>like right when that was released, and I got Melton's

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<v Speaker 4>book right when it was released, and I don't think

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<v Speaker 4>I got a copy of Apes among Us until after

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<v Speaker 4>those two.

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<v Speaker 7>Well, I was pretty lucky because I lived in La

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<v Speaker 7>County and La County Library system was pretty big, and

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<v Speaker 7>like you could put in a request they'd searched the

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<v Speaker 7>whole library system for they said it might take two

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<v Speaker 7>weeks or three weeks to get it. They they could

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<v Speaker 7>get you a lot of those. I looked for any

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<v Speaker 7>book with Bigfoot or Sasquatch in the titles, and they

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<v Speaker 7>were pretty good about getting those teop but it was

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<v Speaker 7>still it was hard to know what the title was

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<v Speaker 7>and you had to know the author. And if you

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<v Speaker 7>never saw the book before, you know, you might hear

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<v Speaker 7>someone talk about it, or I'd say, like if you

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<v Speaker 7>found two or three books in the library that I

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<v Speaker 7>had big Foot stas question, that was like a.

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<v Speaker 5>Gold mine because that was rare.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, And I think nowadays, like with the exceptions of

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<v Speaker 4>the ones that are out of print, if you went

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<v Speaker 4>to our book Recommendations episode just about every one of

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<v Speaker 4>those books you can find on Amazon. You might have

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<v Speaker 4>to get a used copy, but they're all on there

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<v Speaker 4>for the most part, which is like if we had

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<v Speaker 4>had that in the early days, like oh, you can

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<v Speaker 4>just get like one click and get this book, that'd

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<v Speaker 4>have been pretty nice, you know.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh dude, for sure.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Well that's about it. Should we tie this

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<v Speaker 2>one up and head over to the member section for

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<v Speaker 2>a brand new topic of discussion?

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<v Speaker 4>We should because I know Bobo was just out in

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<v Speaker 4>the woods for a few days and we need to

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<v Speaker 4>hear how that went.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah, for sure.

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<v Speaker 6>Absolutely.

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<v Speaker 7>All right, folks, Well, thanks for joining us at Bigfoot

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<v Speaker 7>Beyond with shooting.

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<v Speaker 1>May some of us. Yeah, so thanks for joining us.

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<v Speaker 1>We appreciate it. Hit like hicks, Share and check out

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<v Speaker 1>those books we mentioned. Their links are below those papers

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<v Speaker 1>and articles. You can read good stuff and let us

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<v Speaker 1>tell you think.

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<v Speaker 7>All right, you all keep it squatched until next week.

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