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<v Speaker 1>Big Food and on.

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<v Speaker 2>With Cliff and Bubo.

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<v Speaker 1>These guys are your favorites, so like say subscribe and

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<v Speaker 1>raid it.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm stuck and me.

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<v Speaker 2>Greatest on Bush today and listening, oh watching Limb always

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<v Speaker 2>keep its watching. And now you're hosts Cliff Barrickman and

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<v Speaker 2>James Bubo Fay.

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<v Speaker 3>Greetings, Bobo.

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<v Speaker 2>How you doing? Man?

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<v Speaker 3>Go it's up, Cliff, Oh, lots of stuff, lots of stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>Matt Prode, how you doing. I'm hanging in there a

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<v Speaker 3>little under the weather, but hanging in there. Traveling like

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<v Speaker 3>you were this past week will always get you sick.

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<v Speaker 3>I got sick after last week's travel kind of sucked.

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<v Speaker 3>I still quite haven't shaken it because I've been out

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<v Speaker 3>in the woods like two or three days this week

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<v Speaker 3>because stuff is happening and the weather's uncooperative, and so

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<v Speaker 3>I've been very, very wet, and even though I feel better,

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<v Speaker 3>I just can't quite shake the end of my sickness

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<v Speaker 3>because I keep going out in the rain to do things.

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<v Speaker 1>I ran out a high fever yesterday, but yeah, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>sure it's something I picked up with the one of

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<v Speaker 1>the various airports that I rolled through on the way

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<v Speaker 1>back home. So just trying to fight through it and

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<v Speaker 1>get back to a normality.

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<v Speaker 2>Whenever I start feeling sick, I would take two whole

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<v Speaker 2>heads of garlic, like you know, big heads of garlic,

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<v Speaker 2>and cut all the clothes up, mince them all up

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<v Speaker 2>and cook some pasta with some butter, and then just

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<v Speaker 2>dump in like two hoole clothes at garlic and just

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<v Speaker 2>it'd be like do you do a knock out? Everything?

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<v Speaker 2>Like whatever I had would be gone, like within twelve hours.

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<v Speaker 3>I definitely prescribed to the raw garlic diet when I

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<v Speaker 3>am sick at one hundred.

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<v Speaker 2>Percent, you gotta do a ton of it. Though.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, I usually do like three to five clothes raw.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't cook it. I do it just straight and

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<v Speaker 3>I just like braw dog it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I put it on raw, I spoil the news,

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<v Speaker 2>put butter on them. Then I throw the garlic on. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Garlic's one of the best things for you when you're sick,

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<v Speaker 3>when you if you can eat the clove isn't exactly

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<v Speaker 3>the easiest thing, especially if you're new at it.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, you get it's bad. It's bad because that's what

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<v Speaker 2>I found out because I was eating them hole and

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<v Speaker 2>then I found out how bad that was. It eats

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<v Speaker 2>holes in your stomach. You gotta you gotta slice it

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<v Speaker 2>up good, mince it up.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, I think as long as what works for

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<v Speaker 3>me is if I eat crackers or something with it,

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<v Speaker 3>crackers or bread or something. I particularly like saltines with

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<v Speaker 3>it for some reason.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you gotta slice it. You gotta make it really small.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it absorbs way way better. And it doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>like deposit and set on one spot and then you know,

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<v Speaker 2>cause an ulcer.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, isn't that what chewing does.

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<v Speaker 2>Cliff, as you called chewing, I have referred a mastication masticating.

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<v Speaker 2>It does not thoroughly pulpizers as much.

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<v Speaker 3>Ignorant Hick, I love it well anyways. So yeah, we're

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<v Speaker 3>all getting over some stuff. Bobo seems the only one

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<v Speaker 3>with an iron constitution who's not sick at all right now.

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<v Speaker 3>And I hope you get better soon, Matt. Tis the

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<v Speaker 3>season when things start changing, you know. But I guess, uh,

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<v Speaker 3>we had a Class B sighting this past week. I'm

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<v Speaker 3>covering hours now in the museum. I guess I should back. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>yeah you can do that. Yeah you can have a

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<v Speaker 3>Class B siding. Indeed, no, no, you can have a

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<v Speaker 3>class B siding.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh or you're not positive?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, well, you know, let's talk about that, because

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<v Speaker 3>I heard class A and class B thrown around pretty

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<v Speaker 3>willy nilly a lot of times people who don't seem

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<v Speaker 3>to understand what those designations mean, you know, and in

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<v Speaker 3>bigfoot land those are kind of important. They become part

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<v Speaker 3>of the like the language, you know that the it's

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<v Speaker 3>what we all use to throw around. And of course

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<v Speaker 3>Matt Moneymaker for the BFROO, he made these terms up

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<v Speaker 3>to kind of classify as his the sightings and reports

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<v Speaker 3>that were coming in and generally speaking, uh, it has

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<v Speaker 3>class A and class B that the real difference there,

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<v Speaker 3>to put it very simply is how how much of

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<v Speaker 3>a possibility of misinterpretation is there. I'm going to read

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<v Speaker 3>directly from the BFURO website right now. Class A Class

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<v Speaker 3>A reports involve clear sightings and circumstances where misinterpretation or

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<v Speaker 3>misidentification of other animals can be ruled out with greater confidence.

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<v Speaker 3>For example, there are several footprint cases that are well documented.

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<v Speaker 3>These are considered way footprint cases that are very well documented.

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<v Speaker 3>These are considered class A reports because misidentification of common

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<v Speaker 3>animals can be confidently ruled out. Thus, the potential for

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<v Speaker 3>misinterpretation is very low. Class B incidents where a possible

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<v Speaker 3>sasquatch was observed at a great distance or in poor

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<v Speaker 3>lighting conditions, or incidents in any other circumstance that did

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<v Speaker 3>not afford a clear view of the subject are considered

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<v Speaker 3>Class B. So basically, the difference between classifications relates directly

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<v Speaker 3>to the potential for misinterpretation.

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<v Speaker 2>I did not know that.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, yeah, A lot of people don't know that,

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<v Speaker 3>and you're obviously clearly a veteran bigfoot researcher.

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<v Speaker 2>I think I'm almost positive those are updated. Those are updated.

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<v Speaker 2>He updated the criteria definitions.

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<v Speaker 3>He might have, because my understanding until I just read

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<v Speaker 3>that a minute ago, is that all footprints are Class B.

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<v Speaker 3>But you know, like I guess the grays Harbor one,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, I guess that could be because that was

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<v Speaker 3>so well documented by Dennis Herford and those guys. Maybe

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<v Speaker 3>that would be a Class A. But still it could

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<v Speaker 3>be a hoaxer, you know, I mean, I mean, I

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<v Speaker 3>don't think it is, but it, you know, potentially could be.

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<v Speaker 3>So maybe maybe the footprints do all belong in a

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<v Speaker 3>Class B. I don't know what do you guys think.

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<v Speaker 2>Dude, I'm telling that he updated those the terminology definitions.

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<v Speaker 2>I like this doing better. I like this doing better

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<v Speaker 2>because I've had audio where there's no way it could

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<v Speaker 2>like like I said that my first setting fin days

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<v Speaker 2>before I had that encounter, Like I never saw anything,

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<v Speaker 2>but it was like way more freaked me out, was

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<v Speaker 2>way more compelling and like like the most like in

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<v Speaker 2>your face, like there's no other thing, like it can't

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<v Speaker 2>be like you're chick in the eye. Or I think

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<v Speaker 2>it was just too intense. Yeah, you know.

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<v Speaker 3>Matt goes on here and it says credible reports where

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<v Speaker 3>nothing was seen but distinct and characteristic sounds of sasquatches

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<v Speaker 3>were heard are always considered Class B reports and never

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<v Speaker 3>Class A, even in the most compelling sound only cases.

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<v Speaker 3>This is because the lack of visual element raises a

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<v Speaker 3>much greater potential for a misidentification of the sounds. But this,

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<v Speaker 3>I love this next paragraph here that he writes class

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<v Speaker 3>B reports are not considered less credible or less important

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<v Speaker 3>than Class A reports. Both types are deemed credible enough

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<v Speaker 3>by the bfro O to show in public. So that's

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<v Speaker 3>really important here. But yeah, so I received a class

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<v Speaker 3>b observation of a sasquatch on Saturday, because, like I mentioned,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm covering hours on Saturday pretty much every Saturday. Anybody

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<v Speaker 3>wants to come in and say hi, I will be

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<v Speaker 3>at the NABC And this will be throughout pretty much

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<v Speaker 3>the entire winter until things start picking up again. We

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<v Speaker 3>kind of shift the winter hours as many many tourism

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<v Speaker 3>based into industries do, you know, or establishments do. But anyway,

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<v Speaker 3>this guy comes in and I kind of know the guy.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean I didn't. I didn't not well enough to

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<v Speaker 3>recognize him. But when he told me so, oh, I

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<v Speaker 3>emailed you about those prints, and blah blah blah. Oh yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>He's actually emailed me several times before with really nice

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<v Speaker 3>looking footprints that he is found in various places in

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<v Speaker 3>Mountain Hood National Forest. He's a hunter, he's a mushroom forager,

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<v Speaker 3>he's just an outdoors guy in general. I trust what

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<v Speaker 3>he says, because on at least two or maybe three

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<v Speaker 3>occasions so far, he has sent me some really good,

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<v Speaker 3>good looking footprints in the ground that I wasn't able

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<v Speaker 3>to get out to unfortunately, because one of them was

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<v Speaker 3>in one of my look one of the locations I

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<v Speaker 3>like to frequent up there kind of by Timothy Lake,

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<v Speaker 3>on the north side of Timothy Lake there, and then

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<v Speaker 3>the others. The other that that happened a couple of

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<v Speaker 3>years before he told me about it. And then last November,

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<v Speaker 3>I think it was the last November, he sent me

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<v Speaker 3>a footprint photograph for south of Timothy Lake that looks

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<v Speaker 3>really good. And of course that night it snowed pretty heavily,

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<v Speaker 3>so I couldn't get out there. They couldn't get to

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<v Speaker 3>the location. But anyway, I trust this guy because he's

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<v Speaker 3>proven himself to be a reliable observer. He's got a

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<v Speaker 3>good eye for footprints, clearly, because if I can see

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<v Speaker 3>them in a picture, they've got to be really good

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<v Speaker 3>in the ground because pictures never never really turn out

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<v Speaker 3>the way that you're looking at something in the ground, does,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, It's just entirely different. But anyway, he was

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<v Speaker 3>out on so I took the report on Saturday, but

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<v Speaker 3>he was out on Friday foraging for mushrooms, because mushrooms

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<v Speaker 3>are just popping everywhere right now. It's an amazing season

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<v Speaker 3>for mushrooms right now, and depending on what altitude you're

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<v Speaker 3>going to, I've been seeing them all over too, Chantrell's

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<v Speaker 3>and lobster, mushrooms and blats and the whole nine. They're

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<v Speaker 3>all kicking right now pretty hard. So he was out

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<v Speaker 3>the day before at a location that's not too far

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<v Speaker 3>from one of my spots. It's close enough. It's probably

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<v Speaker 3>about through two or three miles as the crowfly from

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<v Speaker 3>one of my really good spots that I'd like to

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<v Speaker 3>go to.

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<v Speaker 2>Hold on, I'm Monny Thinker's calling in right now to

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<v Speaker 2>clarify what Hey, Matt, Yeah, we're recording. Can I put

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<v Speaker 2>you on the air real quick?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, we did you change the definitions for the BFR

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<v Speaker 2>classification like A, B and C. It used to be

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<v Speaker 2>all settings had to be I mean could like the

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<v Speaker 2>whole tracks trash could be A, and settings could be B.

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<v Speaker 2>That whole deal a long time ago.

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<v Speaker 4>We were fight tuning it. But the classifications have been

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<v Speaker 4>for a long time. That class A were visual signings

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<v Speaker 4>where it was a visual that was clear enough so

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<v Speaker 4>that it either had to be a bigfoot or somebody

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<v Speaker 4>in a bigfoot costume. And then there could be kind

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<v Speaker 4>of week signings like out of the corner of your

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<v Speaker 4>eye for a split second, you're not sure Those would

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<v Speaker 4>be class B siding. So Class A had to mean

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<v Speaker 4>something where they really they're either lying or they saw

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<v Speaker 4>a bigfoot or somebody a big foot costume. And then

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<v Speaker 4>Class C is like secondhand reports, so it's not directly

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<v Speaker 4>for so if you talk to a class C person,

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<v Speaker 4>you might actually get to the actual witness if you

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<v Speaker 4>were to pursue that. But we don't like posting like

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<v Speaker 4>secondhand stories because they're the two reliable we wanted in

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<v Speaker 4>the in the in the words of a of a witness.

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<v Speaker 4>Class B is also sounds and track finds, and I

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<v Speaker 4>think there's been occasions where I think there's only been

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<v Speaker 4>a couple of what we had called Class A track finds.

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<v Speaker 4>Whether it was the tracks were so clear and so

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<v Speaker 4>under you know, photographed, well I just couldn't be anything else, uh,

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<v Speaker 4>and that we called that, But that I can't even

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<v Speaker 4>remember the last time we had a track find as

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<v Speaker 4>a Class A because it's just it's usually not that

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<v Speaker 4>that convincing where you could show photos and say like

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<v Speaker 4>like really good tracks in deep snow or deep tracks

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<v Speaker 4>I shouldn't say not necessarily deep snow, but deep tracks

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<v Speaker 4>in snow, showing that it was heavy in a big

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<v Speaker 4>long stride and it would have been like basically impossible

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<v Speaker 2>It, Okay, because we didn't know that there was Class

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<v Speaker 2>A footprint fives I guess Hereford that would be one,

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<v Speaker 2>or like the PG films, there's footage of them and

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<v Speaker 2>there's casts, right right.

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<v Speaker 4>So something that kind of there's some elements to that

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<v Speaker 4>corroborates the tracks so much that you had to put

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<v Speaker 4>it in the category of certitude of a visual siding.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, Yeah, we were all wrong. We were all like,

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<v Speaker 2>we just saw someone on Class A track. We were like, no,

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<v Speaker 2>there's no cross, Like we thought you had redone the

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<v Speaker 2>definitions or something.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, we tweaked it in a couple of cases, because

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<v Speaker 4>it's all the classification system is really just about reliability

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<v Speaker 4>in that like, so the further you get away from

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<v Speaker 4>a the more you're talking in the potential for misinterpretation.

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<v Speaker 4>So I've a lot of times put like if there's

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<v Speaker 4>a whole lot of sounds and rock throwing and stuff,

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<v Speaker 4>I would call it a B plus, you know. So

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<v Speaker 4>it's that sliding scale is all about reliability, and some

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<v Speaker 4>track finds are can be as just as reliable as

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<v Speaker 4>a visual and but again I can't you remember the

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<v Speaker 4>last time we did that. There's very few cases. I

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<v Speaker 4>think I've only done it for two cases where it

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<v Speaker 4>was where I called it. And it wouldn't even be

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<v Speaker 4>the Patterson because we don't have the written submission from

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<v Speaker 4>you know, from Bob Gimbling. Yeah, it's not even in

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<v Speaker 4>the database the Patterson incident.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh So the most famous setting out of VFL, I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>the most the most famous setting ever doesn't qualify from

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<v Speaker 2>VFR because there's no first time account from Bob exactly.

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<v Speaker 4>He hasn't somebody, he hasn't put anything writing and rimats

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<v Speaker 4>he could, but if.

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<v Speaker 2>He wants to be taken seriously, he better.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, there was there was no way to submit something

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<v Speaker 4>like that back when when it happened, and I wouldn't

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<v Speaker 4>expend it. But I think people are aware of that

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<v Speaker 4>if it isn't on our web.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, any questions from matater Cliff now, just thank him

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<v Speaker 2>for coming on. Okay, Yeah, thanks Matt. We appreciate that.

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<v Speaker 2>We were just having a debate about it and we

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<v Speaker 2>said let's see if that's are available and clear this up.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, all right, anytime you guys needed a street you.

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<v Speaker 2>On, all right, we need plenty of straighten out, So

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<v Speaker 2>let me call on you soon.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, bye, Yes, there you go, straight from the man's mouth.

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<v Speaker 2>Classic. That was so awesome.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a he's a pleasure to have him drop by. Yeah, well,

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<v Speaker 3>I would think that for our listeners at least. I mean,

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<v Speaker 3>I know for me personally, but I'm not really the

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<v Speaker 3>got to be kind of fun to have people pop

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<v Speaker 3>on every once in a while that are unexpected, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>whether it's money Maker or maybe Melissa or somebody like that.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, just somebody who happens to be in the neighborhood.

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<v Speaker 3>We just grab some Yeah, stay tuned for more Bigfoot

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

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<v Speaker 1>where was I forgot?

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<v Speaker 3>I wasn't listening?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh should I cut you off? Or Matt caught you off?

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<v Speaker 2>What was my fault?

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<v Speaker 1>You were still starting to get into like your work

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<v Speaker 1>on Saturdays. And there was a guy who came in

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<v Speaker 1>that you know fairly, Well, yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>That's right, that's right. So this guy comes in and

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<v Speaker 3>he sent me footprint photographs before that I think are legitimate.

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<v Speaker 3>And he's out in the woods a lot. So I

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<v Speaker 3>put weight in what this guy's saying for sure. And

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<v Speaker 3>so I was talking to him and he said that

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<v Speaker 3>just the day before, on Friday, October tenth, he was

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<v Speaker 3>out in the woods in an area about two miles

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<v Speaker 3>from one of my locations, three miles from one of

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<v Speaker 3>my locations out there, way out there, this is way

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<v Speaker 3>up on top. I'm trying to hit the higher elevations

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<v Speaker 3>right now before they get shut down by snow, because

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<v Speaker 3>I bet you we probably have about two or three

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<v Speaker 3>weeks left of getting those higher elevation spots before. I

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<v Speaker 3>won't see him again until the snow melts in June

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<v Speaker 3>or July. But anyway, he was out foraging for mushrooms

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<v Speaker 3>at a location out there that I'm very familiar with.

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<v Speaker 3>I've been to the spot several times, even though it's

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<v Speaker 3>not exactly at my precise location. And he was poking

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<v Speaker 3>around a few hundred yards from his car, which he

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<v Speaker 3>left on the road, and he saw a big chantrell

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<v Speaker 3>big delicious orange yellowy mushroom that grows here in the fall.

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<v Speaker 3>He saw a big chantraill that was gorgeous in a

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<v Speaker 3>bush or a brush of something like that, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>So he kind of squatted over. It wasn't on all fours,

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<v Speaker 3>but he kind of like hunched down low and started

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<v Speaker 3>pushing into the middle of the bush in order to

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<v Speaker 3>get the chantrelle. And as he did so, a short

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<v Speaker 3>distance away I can't remember if he said thirty yards,

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<v Speaker 3>maybe thirty forty yards somewhere, that's the feel I got.

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<v Speaker 3>At least just a short distance away, he hears a

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<v Speaker 3>sound that he interpreted as something standing up from either

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<v Speaker 3>a sitting or lying or squatting position, you know. And

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<v Speaker 3>of course that's his interpretation, not quite sure if that,

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<v Speaker 3>but he said it sounded like some thing stood up

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<v Speaker 3>in the brush. Ben it sounded kind of big, you know.

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<v Speaker 3>So he stopped for a minute and then and he

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<v Speaker 3>looked over there. Then I guess he said he could

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<v Speaker 3>hear the thing moving, although it was very very quiet,

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<v Speaker 3>but he said he could hear the thing moving kind

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<v Speaker 3>of like circling around him and kind of probably just

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<v Speaker 3>positioning himself to move away, you know. And he's at

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<v Speaker 3>this point he's thinking bear. He's like, oh, well, shoot,

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<v Speaker 3>I just served this big bear or whatever. And then

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<v Speaker 3>I guess the thing grabs some tree and just shook

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<v Speaker 3>the crap out of a tree, just just like violently

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<v Speaker 3>shook this thing, and and then that was this guy's

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<v Speaker 3>cue to go. He basically said that. He's like, well,

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<v Speaker 3>it was pretty clear that I was wanted there, and

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<v Speaker 3>I took that. I took that invitation to leave and

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<v Speaker 3>did so. But in the meantime, as the thing was

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<v Speaker 3>moving through the brush, he kept getting glimpses of black fur.

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<v Speaker 3>At some point and I asked him and say, well,

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, could that have been a bear, because you know,

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<v Speaker 3>bear's poke at trees and rub their back on them,

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, just do that kind of thing sometimes,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, it's not out of the question that it

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<v Speaker 3>could be a bear. And he goes, now, I don't

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<v Speaker 3>think so, man. It was just too big. I mean,

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<v Speaker 3>the thing was as big as Murphy was. And Murphy

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<v Speaker 3>is our bigfoot statue in the back of the NABC there,

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<v Speaker 3>and Murphy stands seven and a half feet tall. So

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<v Speaker 3>he said that I saw a fur that was at

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<v Speaker 3>least as high as your head and probably higher. That's

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<v Speaker 3>the level of the fur that I saw above the ground.

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<v Speaker 3>So he probably saw a sasquatch, is what I'm thinking. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, I mean it sounds everything you need is

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<v Speaker 3>there right, quietly moving through the woods, tree shaken, tall,

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<v Speaker 3>black fur covered figure in the woods. And the area

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<v Speaker 3>is really good. The area is really there's never been

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<v Speaker 3>sighting reports out of this specific area, but there's been

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<v Speaker 3>stuff not that far away, you know, within five miles,

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<v Speaker 3>as I said, And so yeah, I didn't have any

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<v Speaker 3>reason to doubt the guy at all, especially since I've

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<v Speaker 3>already kind of been interacting with him over the last

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<v Speaker 3>couple of years, and I've already deemed him as a

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<v Speaker 3>competent observer, so I got the directions best I could.

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<v Speaker 3>I tried to get the GPS coordinates, but he had

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<v Speaker 3>his location services turned off on the phone when he

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<v Speaker 3>took the photographs that he shared with me, so I

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<v Speaker 3>wasn't able to get the exact location. But I mean

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<v Speaker 3>he gave pretty good directions. He said, go to the

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<v Speaker 3>end of the road. There's a there's you know, pull

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<v Speaker 3>off on the side of the road right before the end,

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<v Speaker 3>there's an obvious parking spot, which there was. Head down

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<v Speaker 3>downhill towards the creek. I'm about one hundred yards or so,

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<v Speaker 3>and he says, you should see a big root ward

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<v Speaker 3>turned over with a bunch of big mushrooms. And I'll

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<v Speaker 3>tell you that, I'm pretty sure those are king bullets

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<v Speaker 3>or bellets. I guess that's how you pronounce it. These

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<v Speaker 3>giant mushrooms that grew up here, and they're really big.

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<v Speaker 3>They've got away like the big ones, probably five to

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<v Speaker 3>eight pounds because they're all just chalk full of water

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<v Speaker 3>and stuff. They're really large mushrooms. You can look them up.

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<v Speaker 3>They were everywhere. I never found, in my opinion, I'm

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<v Speaker 3>not sure I found the specific root ward he was

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<v Speaker 3>talking about because he said there's a root wod with

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<v Speaker 3>large mushrooms on it. But there were so many blown

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<v Speaker 3>over trees in this area that you know it had

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<v Speaker 3>to be in there somewhere, because about one hundred or

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<v Speaker 3>hundred and fifty yards down from the road there were

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<v Speaker 3>all these blown down trees, and those big mushrooms were

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<v Speaker 3>pretty common in the area, so it could have been

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<v Speaker 3>any one of those things. He says, at that point,

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<v Speaker 3>you head off on the thirty forty yards at a

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00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:20.920
<v Speaker 3>forty five degree angle to the left, and that's where

423
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<v Speaker 3>he was standing, and he did say that if you

424
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<v Speaker 3>go a little further to the left, you'll run into

425
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<v Speaker 3>an elk wallow, which I did. In fact, I ran

426
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<v Speaker 3>into several elk wallows out there. There's a little a

427
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<v Speaker 3>seat that comes out of the ground in that area,

428
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<v Speaker 3>and right past that is a big swamp which I

429
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<v Speaker 3>also ran into. So I know I'm in the approximate area.

430
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<v Speaker 3>And Keith and I did a lot of walking around.

431
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<v Speaker 3>We actually filmed some stuff. It's not really enough to

432
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<v Speaker 3>make a video for the members for the NABC or

433
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<v Speaker 3>anything like that, but we did document it on video

434
00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:52.759
<v Speaker 3>as best as we can. We found a couple like

435
00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:56.240
<v Speaker 3>maybe footprints, but the tracking was in you know, we

436
00:21:56.279 --> 00:21:58.920
<v Speaker 3>found elk, we found deer, there was there was bear

437
00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:02.279
<v Speaker 3>sign mostly in the law of very very large turds.

438
00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:08.319
<v Speaker 3>But found a couple maybe tracks that like maybe, but

439
00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:10.759
<v Speaker 3>like really not even enough to make me think probably

440
00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:13.640
<v Speaker 3>just like, well, maybe that could be one. You know,

441
00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:15.000
<v Speaker 3>there's two or three of them in a row here.

442
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<v Speaker 3>Maybe that is one, don't know. And we just kind

443
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<v Speaker 3>of gave it about an hour and a half two

444
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<v Speaker 3>hours of walking around in the brush and it was

445
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<v Speaker 3>raining and it was cold. It was like thirty eight

446
00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:28.680
<v Speaker 3>degrees and it was raining pretty hard, and yeah, and

447
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<v Speaker 3>then of course I'm walking through like, you know, six

448
00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:35.480
<v Speaker 3>foot tall BlackBerry brush or not BlackBerry blueberries. Thank god,

449
00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:37.920
<v Speaker 3>I want to walk through blackberries stuff with blueberries. So

450
00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:42.000
<v Speaker 3>I'm just drenched, just completely drenched and trying to get

451
00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:43.960
<v Speaker 3>over my illness and all this other stuff. And I

452
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<v Speaker 3>keep doing this to myself. But we didn't find anything

453
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<v Speaker 3>that we could really hang our hats on. But what

454
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<v Speaker 3>I think is interesting is that on the drive out,

455
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<v Speaker 3>you know, I've been talking about these tree breaks that

456
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<v Speaker 3>we've been finding in a couple of my areas with

457
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<v Speaker 3>these odd branches bent back upon themselves that I've nicknamed

458
00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:05.480
<v Speaker 3>do dads and whatever else. And so I'm trying to

459
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<v Speaker 3>pay attention to other locations that have tree breaks.

460
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<v Speaker 2>Well.

461
00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:12.240
<v Speaker 3>On the way out there, there were plenty of broken trees,

462
00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:13.680
<v Speaker 3>you know, here and there. But this is a high

463
00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:16.640
<v Speaker 3>elevation area, and I would expect snow and weather and

464
00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:20.759
<v Speaker 3>stuff to do damage up there. But I would stop

465
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<v Speaker 3>and look at all the trees that I would see

466
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<v Speaker 3>on the side of the road that might be broken

467
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<v Speaker 3>in case there was a dudad on there or some

468
00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:28.759
<v Speaker 3>other sign that a sasquatch may or may not be

469
00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:31.799
<v Speaker 3>responsible hair or something, you know. But one of the

470
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<v Speaker 3>trees that caught my eye, I think it was a cottonwood.

471
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<v Speaker 3>I'm not really good with my trees, but I'm pretty

472
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<v Speaker 3>sure it was a cottonwood. It was still green, you know,

473
00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:45.480
<v Speaker 3>which isn't that telling, but it was fairly fresh, I guess,

474
00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:48.319
<v Speaker 3>you know, like last couple of months it was broken.

475
00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:51.440
<v Speaker 3>There was this tree that was broken about seven or

476
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<v Speaker 3>eight feet off the ground. I said, we'll stop and

477
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<v Speaker 3>look at that one, because it was broken in the

478
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<v Speaker 3>midst of a bunch of other trees that were not broken,

479
00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:03.680
<v Speaker 3>and in an odd direction that caught my eye. So

480
00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:06.319
<v Speaker 3>when we got out and looked there, there seemed to

481
00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:09.160
<v Speaker 3>be a footprint at the base of it, a big

482
00:24:09.799 --> 00:24:13.880
<v Speaker 3>flattened area where something had pushed something. The ground had

483
00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:15.920
<v Speaker 3>been pushed down. Basically all the all the needles and

484
00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:19.279
<v Speaker 3>stuff were pushed into the dirt at that point, and

485
00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:24.440
<v Speaker 3>it had what I interpret as a toe, one toe

486
00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:28.400
<v Speaker 3>impressed into the ground. I think it was fairly old though,

487
00:24:28.759 --> 00:24:31.519
<v Speaker 3>because the toe that was impressed, if I'm right and

488
00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:34.640
<v Speaker 3>it was a toe, it was kind of sheltered because

489
00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:37.920
<v Speaker 3>it was pushed forward into the hill, so it had

490
00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:40.319
<v Speaker 3>like a cave like structure, so which is why it

491
00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:42.039
<v Speaker 3>didn't get washed out like the other ones may have

492
00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:43.880
<v Speaker 3>been washed out because I think it was at least

493
00:24:43.880 --> 00:24:45.519
<v Speaker 3>a few weeks old, at least a few weeks old,

494
00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:49.839
<v Speaker 3>maybe older, but anyway, that was of interest. So that

495
00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:53.839
<v Speaker 3>all happened on Saturday, this past Saturday, So it was

496
00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:57.160
<v Speaker 3>encouraging that we got another fresh report because there hasn't

497
00:24:57.200 --> 00:24:59.000
<v Speaker 3>been a There have not been a lot of fresh

498
00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:03.119
<v Speaker 3>reports in the last few months. In particular, We're expecting

499
00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:05.079
<v Speaker 3>a few more over the over the summertime because we

500
00:25:05.160 --> 00:25:07.240
<v Speaker 3>usually had some pretty good ones coming in, but it's

501
00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:08.039
<v Speaker 3>been kind of slow.

502
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<v Speaker 1>So do you think people are more reticent to tell

503
00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:14.559
<v Speaker 1>other employees versus you, like when you're there a lot

504
00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:16.480
<v Speaker 1>and people are like, oh hey, it's Cliff, Hey, let

505
00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:18.400
<v Speaker 1>me tell you what happened to me, versus.

506
00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:19.039
<v Speaker 2>Like you'd mentioned.

507
00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:21.160
<v Speaker 1>There was one the other day, was it Dave? Where

508
00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:23.599
<v Speaker 1>a guy come in and he asked Dave, like you

509
00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:25.319
<v Speaker 1>ever seen one of these things? And Dave was like, no,

510
00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:28.160
<v Speaker 1>have you? And the guy was like, actually yes, and

511
00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:30.599
<v Speaker 1>it was like he might have come and gone without

512
00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:32.960
<v Speaker 1>ever telling that story. So do you think that's part

513
00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:35.880
<v Speaker 1>of it, Like when you're there less, maybe less stories

514
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<v Speaker 1>get recorded.

515
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<v Speaker 3>I'm confident that's true, Yeah, because sometimes I'll come in

516
00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:44.160
<v Speaker 3>the shop and somebody will have been shopping or I've

517
00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:46.119
<v Speaker 3>already been in the back and they're getting ready to leave,

518
00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:48.559
<v Speaker 3>and then they see me and we talked for a minute,

519
00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:51.359
<v Speaker 3>then they tell me their story. Yeah, So I'm confident

520
00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:53.759
<v Speaker 3>that happens. How much that happens, I don't know, but

521
00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:57.240
<v Speaker 3>I know it does happen that, you know, when they

522
00:25:57.319 --> 00:25:59.319
<v Speaker 3>probably come in they don't realize that, you know, I hire,

523
00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:02.240
<v Speaker 3>you know, pretty good people who are rather knowledgeable about

524
00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:06.359
<v Speaker 3>Bigfoot and to various extents, you know, but they're probably

525
00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:08.440
<v Speaker 3>looking for me to tell because they kind of know me,

526
00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:09.880
<v Speaker 3>which is an odd thing.

527
00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:10.079
<v Speaker 2>You know.

528
00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:12.680
<v Speaker 3>Another customer had the insight to point out to me

529
00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:14.920
<v Speaker 3>the other day that it's like, it must be very

530
00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:18.200
<v Speaker 3>odd for people to come in the shop and know

531
00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:21.359
<v Speaker 3>so much about me, you know, and I'm used to it,

532
00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:23.160
<v Speaker 3>so I don't even think about it anymore. But it's

533
00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:25.759
<v Speaker 3>like somebody says, yeah, like like I'll come in here

534
00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:27.559
<v Speaker 3>today and I know that. You know, Melissa was in

535
00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:30.240
<v Speaker 3>Pittsburgh and a couple of weeks ago or whatever in August,

536
00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:32.640
<v Speaker 3>and he started telling me all these things about my life,

537
00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:35.119
<v Speaker 3>and I said, yeah, it is weird that you know

538
00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:36.799
<v Speaker 3>all these things. But again, I talk about it on

539
00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:39.640
<v Speaker 3>the podcast, So of course people know things about my life,

540
00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:42.319
<v Speaker 3>because if I can't talk about my life on the podcast,

541
00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:43.519
<v Speaker 3>I've had nothing else to share.

542
00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:46.559
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's a I think a big part of podcast

543
00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:51.079
<v Speaker 1>is they do create sort of like parasocial relationships. You know,

544
00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:54.400
<v Speaker 1>like there's people I've been listening to for years and

545
00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:56.920
<v Speaker 1>so it's like, yeah, I feel like I kind of

546
00:26:57.000 --> 00:26:59.319
<v Speaker 1>know that person because you've heard them over so many

547
00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:03.240
<v Speaker 1>hours and different iterations and all that, and so yeah,

548
00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:04.799
<v Speaker 1>like if I had something to share with him, I

549
00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:06.839
<v Speaker 1>would probably do it, you know what I mean. So

550
00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:09.839
<v Speaker 1>I do think that to your point, when people come in,

551
00:27:09.880 --> 00:27:11.880
<v Speaker 1>if you're there, if they've had an encounter and they

552
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:14.200
<v Speaker 1>feel reticent about it, they're more likely to tell you.

553
00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:15.960
<v Speaker 1>And if they're at all reticent, they're not going to

554
00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:18.680
<v Speaker 1>tell a total stranger, because at least they have a

555
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:20.279
<v Speaker 1>parasocial relationship with you.

556
00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:21.119
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

557
00:27:21.160 --> 00:27:23.839
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, Yeah, So it's going to be good that I'm

558
00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:25.240
<v Speaker 3>going to be back in the shop, but on a

559
00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:27.720
<v Speaker 3>more regular basis, so you know, if somebody's looking for me,

560
00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:30.240
<v Speaker 3>they can find me. Then you know, I hope to

561
00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:33.079
<v Speaker 3>record some more reports from the area, you know, I mean,

562
00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:35.559
<v Speaker 3>everybody knows that reports aren't exactly my thing, but I

563
00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:38.279
<v Speaker 3>sure like to know where and when they happened, because

564
00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:40.920
<v Speaker 3>that points me in the right direction. That's what any

565
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:44.559
<v Speaker 3>good sighting report that the main purpose isn't just the story,

566
00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:46.680
<v Speaker 3>it's actually to point you in the right direction of

567
00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:49.480
<v Speaker 3>where you should be looking. So and of course this

568
00:27:49.559 --> 00:27:53.079
<v Speaker 3>one this past weekend just kind of reaffirmed that that

569
00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:56.359
<v Speaker 3>area that I've already been working for a while is

570
00:27:57.240 --> 00:27:58.480
<v Speaker 3>still active and still good.

571
00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:01.440
<v Speaker 1>Do you still get a bunch of sending to you, Bobo,

572
00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:04.240
<v Speaker 1>like through the uh, I think your Facebook or social

573
00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:05.160
<v Speaker 1>media things.

574
00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:07.359
<v Speaker 2>Dude, I haven't looked at those things in months.

575
00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:10.839
<v Speaker 1>We get very few like in the podcast, but every

576
00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:12.079
<v Speaker 1>once in a while, and we get a lot from

577
00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:14.519
<v Speaker 1>northern California. So I always ford you like I ford

578
00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:16.720
<v Speaker 1>you anytime someone fills out a report for him, if

579
00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:19.039
<v Speaker 1>ford it to you. But it is funny to see, Yeah,

580
00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:22.359
<v Speaker 1>how many come from northern California. So I always feel like, oh, yeah,

581
00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:25.839
<v Speaker 1>they're specifically probably trying to get in touch with Bobo.

582
00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:28.799
<v Speaker 2>You know, I'm gonna do a couple of interviews this

583
00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:31.920
<v Speaker 2>week actually, some people just for like some bonus stuff

584
00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:32.839
<v Speaker 2>for the Patreon.

585
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:38.039
<v Speaker 3>Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo.

586
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:40.000
<v Speaker 3>We'll be right back after these messages.

587
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<v Speaker 2>Cliffs, I know you got a Jeff Papers and you

588
00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:51.559
<v Speaker 2>know his collection of Bigfoot stuff that you've been going

589
00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:51.960
<v Speaker 2>through it.

590
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:54.680
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, found some good stuff in there too. I mean,

591
00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:57.319
<v Speaker 3>obviously it's there's gonna be a tremendous amount of good

592
00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:01.519
<v Speaker 3>stuff in there. But yeah, back up a little bit,

593
00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:03.160
<v Speaker 3>because we haven't really talked about this on the air,

594
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:05.720
<v Speaker 3>and doctor Meltrim has been gone for a while now,

595
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:09.079
<v Speaker 3>you know, a month or so. Yeah, so I've been

596
00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:10.839
<v Speaker 3>I've been humbled, I think is a good way to

597
00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:14.960
<v Speaker 3>say it. I've been humbled with the responsibility of doctor

598
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:20.200
<v Speaker 3>Meltrim's collection. When he he died, you know, he left,

599
00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:23.400
<v Speaker 3>he wanted me to have his stuff, basically his big

600
00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:27.279
<v Speaker 3>foot stuff, which is obviously an extraordinary responsibility. And I

601
00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:30.279
<v Speaker 3>can't tell you how humbling it is. And if I

602
00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:33.519
<v Speaker 3>didn't have an inferiority complex beforehand, I certainly do now

603
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:38.200
<v Speaker 3>because I've got this tremendous wealth of knowledge from you know,

604
00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:41.079
<v Speaker 3>my mentor, and he's he's passed me the baton to

605
00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:44.720
<v Speaker 3>do something appropriate I think with it. And the first step,

606
00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:47.720
<v Speaker 3>I mean beyond just like the acquisition and getting it

607
00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:50.079
<v Speaker 3>here and making sure that you know, everything was taken

608
00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:56.000
<v Speaker 3>care of that the first step was integrating the footprint casts.

609
00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:56.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

610
00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:59.640
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, integrating the footprint cast was the first step, which

611
00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:01.640
<v Speaker 3>was a lot harder than I thought it would be.

612
00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:05.720
<v Speaker 3>I mean, you, guys, Mad and Bobo, you've seen how

613
00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:09.200
<v Speaker 3>I organize my collection, basically I have, but most people

614
00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:11.519
<v Speaker 3>have not. I have these baker's racks, you know, like

615
00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:15.880
<v Speaker 3>these aluminum baker's racks, like those twenty shelves high. You

616
00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:17.920
<v Speaker 3>see them in bakeries and all that sort of stuff

617
00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:22.279
<v Speaker 3>for you know, cooling off muffins or whatever. They work

618
00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:25.400
<v Speaker 3>really well for footprints, apparently, because that's why I've been

619
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:27.200
<v Speaker 3>storing these things for years. That's the way we store

620
00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:30.519
<v Speaker 3>them at the North American Big Foot Center. And they

621
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:32.680
<v Speaker 3>are these racks. They don't take a big floor space

622
00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:35.319
<v Speaker 3>or like maybe eighteen by twenty four inches or something,

623
00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:38.200
<v Speaker 3>maybe you know a little bit bigger, but approximately that.

624
00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:42.559
<v Speaker 3>And they have shelves like these trays that kind of

625
00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:46.559
<v Speaker 3>slide into the shelves there, and each tray can hold

626
00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:49.279
<v Speaker 3>between one and three or four casts, depending on the

627
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:51.960
<v Speaker 3>size of the cast. And so I've been and I

628
00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:56.920
<v Speaker 3>store them, you know, alphabetic, alphabetically and chronologically within the alphabet, right.

629
00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:59.680
<v Speaker 3>So that's how I organized my footprint cast. And when

630
00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:03.559
<v Speaker 3>I got doctor Meldrum's collection, which includes the Blue Mountain stuff,

631
00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:06.759
<v Speaker 3>the first thing I did is I had to first

632
00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:09.200
<v Speaker 3>I had to move all those shelves from my garage

633
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:13.200
<v Speaker 3>down to the outbuilding, which was a scary thing to

634
00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:15.680
<v Speaker 3>do anyway, because I tried a couple methods, Like they

635
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:18.440
<v Speaker 3>have wheels on the bottom, so I tried rolling one down,

636
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:20.319
<v Speaker 3>but I've got that big hill on my driveway right,

637
00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:23.079
<v Speaker 3>so that was scary. And then when I got down

638
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:25.759
<v Speaker 3>to the gravel road, turns out those wheels suck on

639
00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:30.000
<v Speaker 3>gravel roads, so that didn't work well. So I did that.

640
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:34.880
<v Speaker 3>I did a test run with kind of the rack

641
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:37.200
<v Speaker 3>that contained the hoaxes and some other stuff, you know,

642
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:39.200
<v Speaker 3>so if something broke, it wouldn't be a big deal.

643
00:31:39.799 --> 00:31:43.039
<v Speaker 2>What people realized is your driveways like forty five degrees slow.

644
00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:46.640
<v Speaker 3>I wouldn't say it's quite that, but yeah, it is steep.

645
00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:49.319
<v Speaker 3>It might as well be forty five. I mean it

646
00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:51.960
<v Speaker 3>has claimed one of Melissa's cars in the snow if

647
00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:54.799
<v Speaker 3>you remember that, Yeah, with a car just slid backwards

648
00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:56.680
<v Speaker 3>on the ice down the hill and went over the

649
00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:58.799
<v Speaker 3>road and over the grass and down the embankment and

650
00:31:58.799 --> 00:32:02.079
<v Speaker 3>almost hit the outbuilding. It was crazy. So, yes, it's

651
00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:05.519
<v Speaker 3>pretty steep. It's pretty steep. It's at least thirty degrees.

652
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:08.079
<v Speaker 3>I'll say that it's somewhere between thirty and forty five degrees,

653
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:11.559
<v Speaker 3>but yeah, it's pretty gnarly. But anyway, so what I

654
00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:15.160
<v Speaker 3>eventually had to do is I brought the tractor up,

655
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:19.079
<v Speaker 3>and then I put the racks on the tractor, on

656
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:21.160
<v Speaker 3>the on the front loader or the front end loader

657
00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:23.960
<v Speaker 3>or the tractor, and I use ratchet straps and all

658
00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:26.599
<v Speaker 3>these other things to like really really tighten it down,

659
00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.759
<v Speaker 3>and then I slowly backed up. And that seemed to

660
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:32.519
<v Speaker 3>be the most effective wave because I can bring down

661
00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:35.839
<v Speaker 3>an entire rack, and of course I use ratchet straps

662
00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:39.519
<v Speaker 3>to make sure that the trays themselves wouldn't slide out.

663
00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:42.960
<v Speaker 3>And I went so slowly and so carefully, it took

664
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:49.160
<v Speaker 3>me probably cumulatively for the seventy nine ten, like maybe

665
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:51.720
<v Speaker 3>twelve racks I had. I bet it took me three

666
00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:54.000
<v Speaker 3>hours to move all three of those rats, or all

667
00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:54.960
<v Speaker 3>twelve of those racks.

668
00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:56.279
<v Speaker 2>That's pretty quick.

669
00:32:56.839 --> 00:33:00.359
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, kind of didn't seem quick, but yeah, but I

670
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:03.880
<v Speaker 3>rolled those into the new room, which you saw Bobo

671
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:04.519
<v Speaker 3>just recently.

672
00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:05.440
<v Speaker 2>Yep.

673
00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:08.119
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so thank you for moving your trailer. I have

674
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:14.039
<v Speaker 3>a new room now, So I put the I put

675
00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:17.759
<v Speaker 3>my racks all around the outside wall in some sort

676
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:20.559
<v Speaker 3>of order, and then I brought doctor Meldrim's casts in

677
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:23.519
<v Speaker 3>and I kind of stacked them up by location of

678
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:25.279
<v Speaker 3>where they needed to go. And I've had a lot

679
00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:27.519
<v Speaker 3>of difficult choices to make because at the end of

680
00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:29.519
<v Speaker 3>the day, you know, it's like, say, for example, I

681
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:32.680
<v Speaker 3>have an original cast from doctor Meldrim, Like I'll just

682
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:35.559
<v Speaker 3>like a nineteen eighty seven cast from the Blue Mountains

683
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:38.200
<v Speaker 3>from the Freeman collection or something like that, So I

684
00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:41.240
<v Speaker 3>put that in front of the appropriate rack, and then

685
00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:44.759
<v Speaker 3>of course I already have a copy of that cast.

686
00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.680
<v Speaker 3>You know, I had a there were many mini casts

687
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:50.279
<v Speaker 3>in doctor Meldrim's collection that I already had copies of,

688
00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:52.519
<v Speaker 3>you know, because he was one of my main sources

689
00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:54.279
<v Speaker 3>of getting foot pretty casts.

690
00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:56.680
<v Speaker 2>And I got the one generation closer to the source

691
00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:59.279
<v Speaker 2>about the original exactly exactly.

692
00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:02.759
<v Speaker 3>So in these cases is like I had the original cast.

693
00:34:03.559 --> 00:34:06.400
<v Speaker 3>Many times doctor Meldrm might have another copy of that

694
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:10.840
<v Speaker 3>particular cast line around, I have my copy that I

695
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:15.400
<v Speaker 3>obtained sometimes years and years ago, and occasionally I would

696
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:18.599
<v Speaker 3>have a copy of that same cast from doctor Krantz

697
00:34:18.679 --> 00:34:23.559
<v Speaker 3>as well. Oh cool, yeah, because remember doctor Meldrum inherited

698
00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:28.119
<v Speaker 3>a significant portion of doctor Krantz's collection, So what do

699
00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:30.519
<v Speaker 3>I do with all those? Right? So it was kind

700
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:33.079
<v Speaker 3>of a struggle in some cases, obviously the original is

701
00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:38.400
<v Speaker 3>to be kept. I think doctor Krantz's copy is important

702
00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:40.760
<v Speaker 3>enough to keep because that's a piece of history right there.

703
00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:43.639
<v Speaker 3>And then the doctor Meldrim copies if he wrote on

704
00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:47.239
<v Speaker 3>the back, he has a designation of how he labeled

705
00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:49.360
<v Speaker 3>his casts that I still haven't quite figured out yet,

706
00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:52.199
<v Speaker 3>Like they have like a D thirty seven or something

707
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:54.559
<v Speaker 3>on the back, and I don't I haven't found the

708
00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:57.559
<v Speaker 3>key yet to that, so I'm not sure what I'm

709
00:34:57.599 --> 00:34:59.559
<v Speaker 3>looking at as far. And I know what the cast is.

710
00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:01.719
<v Speaker 3>I know where came from, because I'm well versed in

711
00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:04.000
<v Speaker 3>the history of footprint casts, particularly the Blue Mountain stuff,

712
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.599
<v Speaker 3>but I don't know that particular designation. If it was,

713
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:11.039
<v Speaker 3>I could have told you, well that's a different thing.

714
00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:15.199
<v Speaker 3>That's a different thing. But yeah, so I haven't found

715
00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:17.039
<v Speaker 3>those yet, so I'm kind of working on it. So anyway,

716
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:18.840
<v Speaker 3>I've been faced with a lot of dilemmas. Which wants

717
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:21.760
<v Speaker 3>to keep, which wants to get rid of, you know,

718
00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:24.159
<v Speaker 3>And some of these might be of interest maybe some

719
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:28.239
<v Speaker 3>NABC members, you know, because remind you, like I also

720
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:32.880
<v Speaker 3>inherited doctor Meltrim's molds for these same casts. So if

721
00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:36.599
<v Speaker 3>doctor if Jeff had a copy of one of these casts. Well,

722
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:38.440
<v Speaker 3>I have the mold for it. I can just make

723
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:41.199
<v Speaker 3>another copy and it'll be the exact same as his

724
00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:43.400
<v Speaker 3>version of it. So do I keep that one too?

725
00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:45.480
<v Speaker 3>So I don't know. There's a lot of decisions to make.

726
00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:49.199
<v Speaker 2>Weren't pretty bad? Weren't his molds pretty dried out in

727
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:51.039
<v Speaker 2>bad shape like a lot of them?

728
00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:54.800
<v Speaker 3>Yes, and no, there's he has two different versions. He

729
00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.679
<v Speaker 3>had two different styles of molds. Basically, he had a

730
00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:03.039
<v Speaker 3>sylastic molds, which are a silicone sort of plastic mix

731
00:36:03.079 --> 00:36:06.599
<v Speaker 3>that doctor Krantz initially started using. And those are fantastic.

732
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:10.599
<v Speaker 3>I've never worked at that material before, but those casts

733
00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.480
<v Speaker 3>or those molds turn out really good copies of the footprints,

734
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:18.800
<v Speaker 3>and they're easy to work with and it's just a joy.

735
00:36:18.840 --> 00:36:21.639
<v Speaker 3>But that stuff's really expensive. And if I remember, doctor

736
00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:25.280
<v Speaker 3>Krantz somehow came across maybe two or one or two

737
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:27.559
<v Speaker 3>fifty five gallon drums of that material, so which is

738
00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:31.960
<v Speaker 3>why he was using it. And Meldrum I think obtained

739
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:34.320
<v Speaker 3>those same drums that he had not finished yet and

740
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:36.480
<v Speaker 3>made some molds out of that. Those are great, but

741
00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:38.679
<v Speaker 3>he also made latex molds kind of like the ones

742
00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:44.000
<v Speaker 3>I use now, I use water based latex for copying

743
00:36:44.280 --> 00:36:47.400
<v Speaker 3>prints with the latex molds. I suspect, and I don't

744
00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:49.000
<v Speaker 3>know this. I don't know this for a fact. I'm

745
00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:52.119
<v Speaker 3>probably one of our listeners does. But I suspect that

746
00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:54.880
<v Speaker 3>the latex that doctor Krantz and maybe the ones that

747
00:36:54.880 --> 00:37:00.400
<v Speaker 3>doctor Meldrum used were perhaps ammonia based latex, because I

748
00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:02.199
<v Speaker 3>don't like the smell of ammonia, so I never used

749
00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:06.079
<v Speaker 3>that stuff, but I think there's reasons that some people

750
00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:09.599
<v Speaker 3>prefer that. And because all the latex molds that came

751
00:37:10.519 --> 00:37:14.119
<v Speaker 3>with the collection were pretty dry. Many of them were

752
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.599
<v Speaker 3>brittle or cracked in a certain place, and they were

753
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:19.840
<v Speaker 3>just very very dry. So actually, three or four nights

754
00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:22.800
<v Speaker 3>last week, you know, like after Melissa went to bed

755
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:24.320
<v Speaker 3>or whatever, she goes a bit earlier than I do,

756
00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:26.639
<v Speaker 3>so nine or ten o'clock at night, I'm out there

757
00:37:26.679 --> 00:37:31.719
<v Speaker 3>in the outbuilding reconstituting those latex molds. I looked up

758
00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:33.480
<v Speaker 3>how to do that. You soak them in water, you

759
00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:35.760
<v Speaker 3>spray them down with the solution and stuff, and I've

760
00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:41.559
<v Speaker 3>actually reinvigorated all of doctor Meldrum's molds, those latex molds

761
00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:43.679
<v Speaker 3>and many of those I believe came from Krantz. I'm

762
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:47.239
<v Speaker 3>not sure. Really interesting stuff though out there, really interesting casts.

763
00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:50.840
<v Speaker 3>So there's a lot of originals. I'll be just beyond

764
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:53.000
<v Speaker 3>the Blue Mountain stuff. There's a lot of original casts

765
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:55.599
<v Speaker 3>in there that are fascinating. Some stuff I have no

766
00:37:55.639 --> 00:37:59.079
<v Speaker 3>idea where it came from. They're not labeled, so I've

767
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:01.960
<v Speaker 3>got some sleuthing to do. But also to get to

768
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:05.800
<v Speaker 3>our story point here, I also inherited doctor Meldrim's files,

769
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:08.960
<v Speaker 3>you know, which included the Vance Orchard files and doctor

770
00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:11.920
<v Speaker 3>Krantz's files as well. Apparently I didn't know Vance Orchard

771
00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:14.320
<v Speaker 3>stuff was in there, but it is. I'm pretty sure

772
00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:16.519
<v Speaker 3>that's what it is. And then of course doctor Krantz's

773
00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:21.400
<v Speaker 3>files super interesting, and then doctor Meldrim's files as well.

774
00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:26.440
<v Speaker 3>So and I think I counted, was it eighteen of

775
00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:29.400
<v Speaker 3>those big totes you know right now out of my

776
00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:31.039
<v Speaker 3>garage full of papers and other things.

777
00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:33.280
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I went through two of those. That's why

778
00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:34.800
<v Speaker 2>I got to go through two of them with books.

779
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:36.400
<v Speaker 2>That was Rugs never mind.

780
00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:39.119
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that was Mike Rugs stuff. Yeah, it's mostly papers

781
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:41.119
<v Speaker 3>and a lot of stuff printed from the Internet and

782
00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:43.639
<v Speaker 3>correspondences and stuff. So it's going to take forever to

783
00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:47.119
<v Speaker 3>get through this stuff. So my archivists, I know my

784
00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:49.519
<v Speaker 3>archivists are listening, So you've got your work cut out

785
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:51.519
<v Speaker 3>for you. Wait till I get things organized here and

786
00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:53.199
<v Speaker 3>I'll start bringing in for you guys at the shop.

787
00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:55.599
<v Speaker 3>But anyway, there's a lot of treasures and a lot

788
00:38:55.639 --> 00:38:58.559
<v Speaker 3>of really interesting historic pieces out there, and one of

789
00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:01.519
<v Speaker 3>the ones I ran into recently, I'm kind of I'm

790
00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:04.880
<v Speaker 3>starting to familiarize myself now that the cast room is

791
00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:09.360
<v Speaker 3>close to being done. I started branching out because you

792
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:11.599
<v Speaker 3>got to dive into this pile of papers at some point,

793
00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:14.559
<v Speaker 3>right and so I've started going through them and leafing

794
00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:16.920
<v Speaker 3>through them and seeing what's in here, and just kind

795
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:18.960
<v Speaker 3>of getting a feel for what's in the boxes right

796
00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:21.719
<v Speaker 3>before I start organizing them all. And one of the

797
00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:24.519
<v Speaker 3>things that I ran across that I just found so interesting.

798
00:39:24.599 --> 00:39:26.840
<v Speaker 3>I just shared this with the DABC members last week,

799
00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:30.039
<v Speaker 3>so members, you've already seen this, but this is worthy

800
00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:34.119
<v Speaker 3>of a discussion. I believe it was a letter from

801
00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:37.320
<v Speaker 3>Bob Tipmos. Now, Bob Tipmos, everybody knows is a veteran

802
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:40.920
<v Speaker 3>Bigfoot researcher, he's been there from the beginning. He's the

803
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:45.159
<v Speaker 3>guy that instructed Jerry Crewe how to take footprint casts,

804
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:47.920
<v Speaker 3>which is what gave us the word bigfoot and also

805
00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:51.320
<v Speaker 3>our first Bigfoot footprint cast. You know. So Bob Timmos

806
00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:53.840
<v Speaker 3>was in it from the very very beginning. Doctor Krantz

807
00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:56.760
<v Speaker 3>referred to as one of the most competent observers he knew.

808
00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:59.800
<v Speaker 3>So good guy. But anyway, there's a letter to a

809
00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:02.440
<v Speaker 3>It says, dear George, and we don't even know who

810
00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:06.159
<v Speaker 3>George is at first, but I had later George Hast. Well,

811
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:08.719
<v Speaker 3>it turns out it is George Haass, but there were

812
00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:11.960
<v Speaker 3>a couple other options. But I thought it was George Haass,

813
00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:16.239
<v Speaker 3>but I confirmed it was George Haas because of some

814
00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:22.440
<v Speaker 3>other historic notes from the Bayery Group collection. You know,

815
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:24.320
<v Speaker 3>there's some stuff that he wrote back in the day.

816
00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:26.480
<v Speaker 2>Well, what other George's are there?

817
00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:28.480
<v Speaker 3>Well, proud you came up with another George.

818
00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:32.199
<v Speaker 1>It could have been Who was that George Agagino, Remember

819
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:35.119
<v Speaker 1>he was He was an academic that was pretty supportive

820
00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:37.639
<v Speaker 1>of the subject. He wrote the ford for Ivan T.

821
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:41.320
<v Speaker 1>Sanderson's book, and he had some other supportive writings. So

822
00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:44.360
<v Speaker 1>he was another George, that was a rend in that timeframe.

823
00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:46.719
<v Speaker 2>Has I could think of?

824
00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:48.760
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I thought it was Haws and it turns out

825
00:40:48.760 --> 00:40:51.000
<v Speaker 3>it is. I found verification in some other documents that

826
00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:54.440
<v Speaker 3>in the mildrum stuff that that it was in fact

827
00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:57.360
<v Speaker 3>George hass At this letter was going to and this

828
00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.800
<v Speaker 3>letters dated September thirteenth, nineteen six. And you know, we

829
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:03.000
<v Speaker 3>can put this the picture of the letter up on

830
00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:05.760
<v Speaker 3>the member section if you want, Matt Prutt, if you

831
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:07.880
<v Speaker 3>want to do that so they can actually see the

832
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:11.559
<v Speaker 3>paper itself. But yeah, it was written on September thirteenth,

833
00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:14.559
<v Speaker 3>nineteen seventy. Pretty good ways back right.

834
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:17.400
<v Speaker 2>The only bone with that letters is not in his handwriting.

835
00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:20.199
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, because it does have such beautiful handwriting.

836
00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:20.559
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

837
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:22.840
<v Speaker 3>I do have a couple other historic letters actually in

838
00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:25.880
<v Speaker 3>his handwriting, which are interesting, but not originals or photocopies

839
00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:28.440
<v Speaker 3>of the originals. Okay, let's see should I read, Matt?

840
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:29.760
<v Speaker 3>You think I should read the whole thing or just

841
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:31.679
<v Speaker 3>the pertinent part.

842
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:33.159
<v Speaker 5>I think read the whole thing.

843
00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:34.039
<v Speaker 2>The whole thing.

844
00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:38.039
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, okay, So the letter starts with Dear George, my

845
00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:41.920
<v Speaker 3>apologies for being so long in answering your letter when

846
00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:44.599
<v Speaker 3>it arrived. I was one hundred and fifty miles from here,

847
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:48.280
<v Speaker 3>out in the bush northeast of Hazleton, where John Green

848
00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:51.320
<v Speaker 3>got word to me that he and I were to

849
00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:54.360
<v Speaker 3>be in Salt Lake City the next evening to meet

850
00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:59.079
<v Speaker 3>with the film company and help with the computer programming.

851
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:04.519
<v Speaker 3>What panic to get back here to get cleaned up, packed, etc. Etc.

852
00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:08.280
<v Speaker 3>And make the early morning flight from the airport thirty

853
00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:11.679
<v Speaker 3>miles from here. I read your letter and my other

854
00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:16.159
<v Speaker 3>mail somewhere between here and Utah. Since returning, I've been

855
00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:18.639
<v Speaker 3>out in the bush for the most part of the time.

856
00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:22.320
<v Speaker 3>An answer to your question, to the best of my recollection,

857
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:26.239
<v Speaker 3>on a few occasions I have heard the rock pounding

858
00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:30.280
<v Speaker 3>sound that you describe, but as best as I can recall,

859
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:34.679
<v Speaker 3>I arrived at no conclusion as to what was responsible

860
00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:38.400
<v Speaker 3>for this noise, and was only puzzled about it. These

861
00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:41.599
<v Speaker 3>cases could all well have taken place before I started

862
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:45.599
<v Speaker 3>to seriously investigate and to hunt Bigfoot, some twelve or

863
00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:50.519
<v Speaker 3>thirteen years ago. I just can't remember. However, if this

864
00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:54.079
<v Speaker 3>were the case, I would not have associated it with Bigfoot.

865
00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:59.480
<v Speaker 3>Bill Hampton has a valid thought regarding bears snapping their jaws. However,

866
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:03.440
<v Speaker 3>I doubt that an experienced woodsman would ever confuse a

867
00:43:03.480 --> 00:43:07.679
<v Speaker 3>bear popping his teeth with the rock pounding sound. By

868
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:11.320
<v Speaker 3>the way, especially in dealing with grizzlies, when they start

869
00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:14.119
<v Speaker 3>popping their teeth at you, it's prudent to be prepared

870
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:16.800
<v Speaker 3>for a charge, for they do this both as a

871
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:21.719
<v Speaker 3>warning and challenge. Give old hamp my hello and good

872
00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:24.079
<v Speaker 3>wishes next time you see him. Haven't seen him for

873
00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:27.800
<v Speaker 3>fifteen years. In nineteen fifty eight or nineteen fifty nine,

874
00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:32.679
<v Speaker 3>Art Long and myself were tracking bigfoot on Upper Bluff Creek.

875
00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:37.639
<v Speaker 3>These tracks were fresh as you'll ever find. Shortly after

876
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:40.800
<v Speaker 3>they left the creek and started climbing the mountain, we

877
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:44.719
<v Speaker 3>were brought up short by what sounded like something pounding

878
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:48.760
<v Speaker 3>on a rather hollow tree or perhaps log with a

879
00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:52.840
<v Speaker 3>very big club. These sounds were being made in what

880
00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:57.880
<v Speaker 3>could have been taken to be a coated series. Eventually

881
00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:01.280
<v Speaker 3>I found a large stick and a log and started

882
00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:04.679
<v Speaker 3>pounding out a series of my own. Each time I

883
00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:09.960
<v Speaker 3>stopped my series of pounding, it was repeated from above exactly,

884
00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:14.119
<v Speaker 3>both in timing and the number of blows I had struck,

885
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:19.000
<v Speaker 3>only very much louder. This continued for some fifteen or

886
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:23.199
<v Speaker 3>twenty minutes, whereas this story or experience is much too

887
00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:26.800
<v Speaker 3>long to recount here. At this time, I am just

888
00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:29.800
<v Speaker 3>as convinced today as Art and I were that day.

889
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:33.840
<v Speaker 3>It happened that one of the Bigfoot creatures was doing

890
00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:36.840
<v Speaker 3>the pounding some thirty or forty yards ahead of us

891
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:40.639
<v Speaker 3>in the dense timber and undergrowth. Art refused to move

892
00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:43.880
<v Speaker 3>one step further in that direction and wanted only to

893
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.960
<v Speaker 3>return post hace. So my investigation of the area the

894
00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:51.719
<v Speaker 3>sound had come from was done rather hurriedly, was incomplete,

895
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:54.639
<v Speaker 3>and did not prove anything one way or the other.

896
00:44:55.239 --> 00:44:58.400
<v Speaker 3>Don't bother yourself, George, wondering if it could have been

897
00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:02.320
<v Speaker 3>any of the usual animals or another human. It wasn't.

898
00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:05.599
<v Speaker 3>We've already been through that. Hoping the above will be

899
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:08.519
<v Speaker 3>of some little help to you. I'll say bye for

900
00:45:08.599 --> 00:45:11.519
<v Speaker 3>this time and be off to the bush near Hazelton again.

901
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:13.960
<v Speaker 3>All the best wishes, Bob, tipmos.

902
00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:14.719
<v Speaker 2>Ah so.

903
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:21.079
<v Speaker 3>Very rad Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and beyond with

904
00:45:21.159 --> 00:45:23.880
<v Speaker 3>Cliff and Bogo. Will be right back after these messages

905
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:34.599
<v Speaker 3>to mind now. A few months later, George Hass actually

906
00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:40.000
<v Speaker 3>published this particular letter from Bob in his newsletter from

907
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:43.800
<v Speaker 3>the Bar Area Group newsletter Manimals Now isn't animals?

908
00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:47.159
<v Speaker 5>Manimals was McLaren's thing, that's right.

909
00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:50.400
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I was the Bigfoot bulletin, the Bigfoot bulletin.

910
00:45:50.679 --> 00:45:50.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

911
00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:52.800
<v Speaker 3>So he actually published this letter a few weeks or

912
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:56.440
<v Speaker 3>a few months later, and it's quarterly newsletter. But but

913
00:45:56.800 --> 00:46:00.880
<v Speaker 3>so that makes this possibly possibly the very very first

914
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:02.480
<v Speaker 3>written account of tree knocking.

915
00:46:03.239 --> 00:46:05.840
<v Speaker 1>I wish we could see George's letter because he's saying,

916
00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:08.719
<v Speaker 1>in answer to your question, to the best of my recollection,

917
00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:12.400
<v Speaker 1>I have heard the rock pounding that you described. Oh yeah,

918
00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:14.280
<v Speaker 1>he's responded, like George, it's.

919
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:15.079
<v Speaker 2>Like, hey, have you ever heard this?

920
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:18.119
<v Speaker 3>You know that kind of thing? Yeah, yeah, so it

921
00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:20.920
<v Speaker 3>makes me wonder. But who knows, Maybe that's in there too.

922
00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:24.079
<v Speaker 3>There's files on George Haas. Who knows what's in there.

923
00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:26.960
<v Speaker 3>You know, we will see, we will see. But yeah,

924
00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:29.760
<v Speaker 3>very interesting stuff because this and that was in fifty

925
00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:32.119
<v Speaker 3>eight or fifty nine. You know, that was like at

926
00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:36.400
<v Speaker 3>the birth of Bigfoot essentially, and you know, as I'm

927
00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:40.440
<v Speaker 3>kind of gathering things together and trying to gather information

928
00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:43.400
<v Speaker 3>and maybe even trying to get a book outline together

929
00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:46.800
<v Speaker 3>or something, like that. I've run across other things that

930
00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:51.079
<v Speaker 3>were observed i'll say, discovered in nineteen fifty eight or

931
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:53.800
<v Speaker 3>fifty nine, including tree snaps and tree twists. Like some

932
00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:55.800
<v Speaker 3>of these things that we kind of take for granted,

933
00:46:55.920 --> 00:46:57.960
<v Speaker 3>they were there from the very very beginning, and tree

934
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.639
<v Speaker 3>knocking is apparently one of them. It's so interesting to

935
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.000
<v Speaker 3>me that doctor Meldrum, I think, finally came around to

936
00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:06.159
<v Speaker 3>the tree knocking thing, but for many many years he

937
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:08.440
<v Speaker 3>was like, I don't know about that. Because even in June,

938
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:10.199
<v Speaker 3>when I got to spend so much time with him

939
00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:12.760
<v Speaker 3>before he passed in June, he says, so, Cliff, you

940
00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:15.719
<v Speaker 3>really think these things knock? They go absolute one hundred percent.

941
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:18.119
<v Speaker 2>I can't believe you never, like I remember like just

942
00:47:18.159 --> 00:47:20.079
<v Speaker 2>doing like what do you like, Jiff? How can you

943
00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:23.239
<v Speaker 2>not know that's what they do? Like? Do they definitely

944
00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:25.000
<v Speaker 2>do it one hundred percent? Well?

945
00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:26.920
<v Speaker 3>I think it was just very very skeptical and wanted

946
00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:29.159
<v Speaker 3>as much input as possible, you know, which you can't

947
00:47:29.159 --> 00:47:31.079
<v Speaker 3>blame any scientists or person. We should all be like

948
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:31.639
<v Speaker 3>that in a way.

949
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:33.679
<v Speaker 2>But I double guaranteed it. Cliff.

950
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:36.559
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well of course you did, and I'm sure that

951
00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:40.800
<v Speaker 3>your your voice carried much more weight than most other people's.

952
00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:47.440
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, really cool letter, really interesting correspondence, a window

953
00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:51.440
<v Speaker 3>into the past, like I said, probably to at least

954
00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:53.239
<v Speaker 3>to my knowledge at least. I mean, if there's another one,

955
00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:55.079
<v Speaker 3>I'd love to hear about it from our listeners. Send

956
00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:57.360
<v Speaker 3>it to you know, to be on podcast at gmail

957
00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:01.039
<v Speaker 3>dot com. If there's an earlier reference to tree knocking

958
00:48:01.079 --> 00:48:02.880
<v Speaker 3>in any sort of way, I would love to know

959
00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:06.239
<v Speaker 3>about it, because that's, you know, November of fifty eight

960
00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:09.199
<v Speaker 3>or fifty nine, that Bob Tipmos is down a Bluff

961
00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:11.760
<v Speaker 3>Creek and tracking a Sasquatch and this is what he

962
00:48:11.880 --> 00:48:13.920
<v Speaker 3>this is what he heard down there. And it's not

963
00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:17.519
<v Speaker 3>only did he hear knocking, hear the pounding, but he

964
00:48:17.559 --> 00:48:21.199
<v Speaker 3>would do it and it would copy him. That's super

965
00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:23.760
<v Speaker 3>significant because that's the kind of thing that occasionally happens

966
00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:26.679
<v Speaker 3>even still today. But right there in November of fifty

967
00:48:26.679 --> 00:48:29.480
<v Speaker 3>eight or fifty nine, Bob Tipmos was pounding cadence and

968
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:32.599
<v Speaker 3>number of pine and like those things were being answered

969
00:48:33.079 --> 00:48:37.360
<v Speaker 3>in kind to imitate his own pounding in the depths

970
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:39.480
<v Speaker 3>of Bluff Creek, and Bluff Creek's a wild place today.

971
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:41.320
<v Speaker 3>I can only imagine what it was like in fifty

972
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:42.920
<v Speaker 3>eight or fifty nine.

973
00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:44.760
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I remember, I had that happened to me a

974
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:46.320
<v Speaker 2>couple of years ago. Remember I told you about that

975
00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:49.119
<v Speaker 2>where I was clapping my hands and it was daytime

976
00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:50.960
<v Speaker 2>and it was clapping back in the Redwoods.

977
00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:54.239
<v Speaker 3>Oh, yeah, it happened. I'm on camera doing it with

978
00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:57.679
<v Speaker 3>something in Australia. Yeah, the kind of thing happens. Yeah,

979
00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:01.000
<v Speaker 3>very interesting. And you know this may I mean, I

980
00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:07.199
<v Speaker 3>think there's earlier I think there's earlier mentions of rock clacking.

981
00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:09.639
<v Speaker 3>I could be wrong, but I think the rock clacking

982
00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:12.920
<v Speaker 3>thing dates back earlier. Maybe not in association with Bigfoot,

983
00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:17.079
<v Speaker 3>but in some of those historic newspaper reports. I have

984
00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:19.559
<v Speaker 3>it in my head that there's an earlier reference to that,

985
00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:21.760
<v Speaker 3>and I don't know what it is. But maybe again,

986
00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:23.559
<v Speaker 3>maybe one of our listeners does and they can send

987
00:49:23.559 --> 00:49:25.280
<v Speaker 3>it her away. But I don't think this is the

988
00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:28.119
<v Speaker 3>first time that rock clacking was associated with it. But

989
00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:31.960
<v Speaker 3>to my knowledge, tree knocking is so. But who's art long?

990
00:49:32.679 --> 00:49:35.159
<v Speaker 5>That is a good question because that didn't sound familiar

991
00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:35.400
<v Speaker 5>to me.

992
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:37.880
<v Speaker 2>Oh, wasn't he a logger? Was he a local lagger?

993
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:38.360
<v Speaker 4>Up? There?

994
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:41.000
<v Speaker 2>No idea I think that might. I think he might

995
00:49:41.039 --> 00:49:42.400
<v Speaker 2>have been a local logger up there.

996
00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:44.480
<v Speaker 3>Let's see if I can come up with that answer

997
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:45.039
<v Speaker 3>real fast.

998
00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:50.039
<v Speaker 1>I googled art long Bigfoot, but I don't see anything, you.

999
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:51.559
<v Speaker 2>Know, I was looking up. I just look that kiddy

1000
00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:54.239
<v Speaker 2>matt where he lived up there in BC. He was

1001
00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:56.719
<v Speaker 2>he was right there, I mean he could he was.

1002
00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:58.840
<v Speaker 2>I mean that that place is awesome. It's way north

1003
00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:00.679
<v Speaker 2>of Bella, coolas. I mean, it's up there in northern

1004
00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:03.519
<v Speaker 2>BC and like just a killer spot. I went at

1005
00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:04.719
<v Speaker 2>the head of an inlet.

1006
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:07.159
<v Speaker 3>That's where I think it was a taxi driver or something.

1007
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:09.679
<v Speaker 3>Wasn't he up There'd be great if somebody got the

1008
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:13.719
<v Speaker 3>resources together to write a biography of Bob Timmis, because

1009
00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:15.360
<v Speaker 3>so little is known about him, because he didn't bother

1010
00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:18.000
<v Speaker 3>writing anything now or sharing. He wasn't out there for attention.

1011
00:50:18.039 --> 00:50:21.280
<v Speaker 3>He was just doing it right. Yeah, there might be

1012
00:50:21.320 --> 00:50:24.920
<v Speaker 3>photographs of this other footprinting casts out there, and I

1013
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:26.840
<v Speaker 3>have photographs with all the collection that's in the Willow

1014
00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:30.000
<v Speaker 3>Creek Museum. But oh, speaking of the Willow Creek Museum,

1015
00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:32.599
<v Speaker 3>do you guys see the new documentary. I watched it myself,

1016
00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:34.360
<v Speaker 3>and I hardly ever watch any bigfoot stuff.

1017
00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:35.679
<v Speaker 2>I just watched it last night.

1018
00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:38.800
<v Speaker 3>It's called Willow Creek. It's on YouTube. Turned out it

1019
00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:41.039
<v Speaker 3>was a student project, but they released it on YouTube

1020
00:50:41.039 --> 00:50:44.079
<v Speaker 3>and apparently it's making the rounds. And our good friend

1021
00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:46.400
<v Speaker 3>Eric Nelson, who's one of the guys the board of

1022
00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:49.920
<v Speaker 3>directors volunteers at the Willow Creek Museum, he's the central

1023
00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:53.960
<v Speaker 3>figure in it. Todd Samples, Yeah, Todd Samples is in there.

1024
00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:56.480
<v Speaker 3>When camping with him this past June out of the Bluff Creek.

1025
00:50:56.519 --> 00:50:58.840
<v Speaker 3>He was a really good guy, a good tracker, super

1026
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:00.079
<v Speaker 3>fun guy.

1027
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:01.880
<v Speaker 2>The only problem, my problem with it, it was just

1028
00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:05.559
<v Speaker 2>kind of as another just talking heads rehashing the same stuff.

1029
00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:08.239
<v Speaker 2>It was like the production on it was like a

1030
00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:11.400
<v Speaker 2>plus plus like better than anything you see on TV. Really,

1031
00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:14.760
<v Speaker 2>like you know, the cinematography and all that. But I

1032
00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:17.119
<v Speaker 2>like the but in the end it was I was

1033
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:18.320
<v Speaker 2>like kind of waiting for him to go out and

1034
00:51:18.440 --> 00:51:21.360
<v Speaker 2>do stuff and show more stuff from the field, and

1035
00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:23.119
<v Speaker 2>it was just kind of just interview.

1036
00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:26.079
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, but it was it was a student project

1037
00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:26.840
<v Speaker 3>after all, you know.

1038
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:28.880
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I mean for for like some of this

1039
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:30.960
<v Speaker 2>is any thing about bigfoot introduction, it was it was

1040
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:31.559
<v Speaker 2>it was good?

1041
00:51:31.639 --> 00:51:34.679
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, I liked it. I liked it, and of course,

1042
00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:36.880
<v Speaker 3>anything we can do to help the Willow Creek Museum

1043
00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:39.840
<v Speaker 3>get on everybody's map. I think it is better for

1044
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:42.239
<v Speaker 3>the subject and better for the Willow Creek area, of course,

1045
00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:44.199
<v Speaker 3>So I was thrilled that somebody did that.

1046
00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:46.920
<v Speaker 1>Since you're going through that stuff, is there anything else

1047
00:51:46.920 --> 00:51:49.880
<v Speaker 1>you've you've stumbled across yet that you like a holy

1048
00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:50.599
<v Speaker 1>crap moment?

1049
00:51:51.079 --> 00:51:53.880
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, yeah, there's been even packing it up. There

1050
00:51:53.880 --> 00:51:55.800
<v Speaker 3>were a lot of holy crap moments.

1051
00:51:55.519 --> 00:51:57.760
<v Speaker 2>You should have. You should have a weekly update clip

1052
00:51:57.800 --> 00:51:59.079
<v Speaker 2>on your holy craps.

1053
00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:03.320
<v Speaker 3>It'd be like another Bobo story time but different.

1054
00:52:03.800 --> 00:52:04.639
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, way better.

1055
00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:06.559
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'm just saying you have a lot of crap

1056
00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:11.719
<v Speaker 3>in your in your a lot of fecal stories, shall

1057
00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:17.719
<v Speaker 3>we say? Well, you know, I've been trying to I'm

1058
00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:22.159
<v Speaker 3>going to start doing some more updating the well not updated.

1059
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:25.079
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to be notifying I guess the NABC members

1060
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:28.360
<v Speaker 3>as things come together. But I'm also hesitant, like, for example,

1061
00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:31.239
<v Speaker 3>just as a quick teaser, I guess before because I

1062
00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:34.119
<v Speaker 3>see we're kind of running out of time here. As

1063
00:52:34.159 --> 00:52:37.480
<v Speaker 3>a quick teaser, I found you know, obviously, I have

1064
00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:40.559
<v Speaker 3>the original five point tracks from Meldrum in nineteen ninety six,

1065
00:52:41.760 --> 00:52:44.880
<v Speaker 3>and Jeff kept a stack of photographs in the same

1066
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:49.519
<v Speaker 3>drawer as his casts from the Five Points area ninety six.

1067
00:52:49.559 --> 00:52:51.400
<v Speaker 3>Those are the ones that he details in this book

1068
00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:53.639
<v Speaker 3>at the beginning of his book and talks about all

1069
00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:55.960
<v Speaker 3>the details he saw, and it's what really convinced him

1070
00:52:55.960 --> 00:52:58.559
<v Speaker 3>that these animals are real and that he would be

1071
00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:03.480
<v Speaker 3>negligent of his duty as an anthropologist to ignore this question,

1072
00:53:04.280 --> 00:53:09.559
<v Speaker 3>especially when he was so perfectly qualified to look into

1073
00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:11.559
<v Speaker 3>this particular kind of evidence, you know, as being an

1074
00:53:11.599 --> 00:53:16.320
<v Speaker 3>expert in foot anatomy than by pedalism. So I've got

1075
00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:19.119
<v Speaker 3>those the original casts now, and as well as much

1076
00:53:19.159 --> 00:53:22.119
<v Speaker 3>of photographs of those footprints in the ground, as well

1077
00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:25.480
<v Speaker 3>as probably a dozen or more others. Just the other night,

1078
00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:29.400
<v Speaker 3>like two nights ago, maybe I opened a file and

1079
00:53:29.519 --> 00:53:32.960
<v Speaker 3>there were other photographs from that same scene, including a

1080
00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:37.639
<v Speaker 3>picture taken by Jeff's brother that of doctor Meldrum like

1081
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:40.280
<v Speaker 3>kneeling down documenting one of the footprint casts, which is

1082
00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:43.559
<v Speaker 3>really interesting and a snapshot into history, because it was

1083
00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:47.079
<v Speaker 3>that moment that really solidified I think Jeff was very

1084
00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:49.760
<v Speaker 3>interested in the subject. But it was that moment which

1085
00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:56.840
<v Speaker 3>was which was Jeff's first in person contact with the evidence,

1086
00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:00.480
<v Speaker 3>you know, and that's what really did it for him.

1087
00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:04.039
<v Speaker 3>And so I ran across a photograph of him examining

1088
00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:07.719
<v Speaker 3>these footprints in the ground, as well as handwritten notes.

1089
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:10.679
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if they're from the scene because there's

1090
00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:12.480
<v Speaker 3>no dirt or anything on him, but he might have

1091
00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:15.679
<v Speaker 3>written them directly afterwards, but it is definitely his handwriting

1092
00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:18.880
<v Speaker 3>talking about that day, about how he visited Summerlin and

1093
00:54:18.880 --> 00:54:21.159
<v Speaker 3>these other people were present, and then he visited Paul

1094
00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:23.239
<v Speaker 3>who and Paul didn't remember who he was at first,

1095
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:26.239
<v Speaker 3>and all that kind of stuffs. And then there's some

1096
00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:29.840
<v Speaker 3>handwritten drawing or hand drawn sketches of the footprints in

1097
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:33.280
<v Speaker 3>the ground with various anatomical features pointed out and things

1098
00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:36.639
<v Speaker 3>like dat dramaticallythics evident on medial side of this and

1099
00:54:36.679 --> 00:54:40.599
<v Speaker 3>that and whatever. So yet, that kind of stuff is

1100
00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:44.039
<v Speaker 3>what really tickles my fancy because it's snapshots in the

1101
00:54:44.159 --> 00:54:47.880
<v Speaker 3>history that we're still benefiting from. You know, doctor Meldrim

1102
00:54:47.960 --> 00:54:49.079
<v Speaker 3>was a giant in our field.

1103
00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:52.880
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, you have to get a new building, cliff, you,

1104
00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:59.239
<v Speaker 2>I mean, with a Meldrum wing, a crafts wing. I mean,

1105
00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:01.800
<v Speaker 2>you we got so much stuff. You need a way

1106
00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:02.559
<v Speaker 2>bigger building.

1107
00:55:02.960 --> 00:55:05.000
<v Speaker 3>I know, I know we're gonna need a bigger boat.

1108
00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:10.400
<v Speaker 3>Yeah for sure, for sure, But you know eventually, eventually

1109
00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:14.280
<v Speaker 3>our rent is so good right now, that's when we

1110
00:55:14.320 --> 00:55:17.880
<v Speaker 3>renegotiated our lease. I mean our landlords, who are fantastic people.

1111
00:55:18.280 --> 00:55:21.559
<v Speaker 3>I just love our landlords are really really kind, funny people,

1112
00:55:21.599 --> 00:55:24.159
<v Speaker 3>and they and I just so appreciate them because they

1113
00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:27.440
<v Speaker 3>never check it check up on me. I've made their

1114
00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:30.079
<v Speaker 3>building so much better than what it is or what

1115
00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:34.000
<v Speaker 3>it was. We bring families to the complex because you

1116
00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:36.599
<v Speaker 3>know that there's a bar, there's a pizza place, there's

1117
00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:39.639
<v Speaker 3>a coffee place, and an awesome burrito place, and that's

1118
00:55:39.679 --> 00:55:42.840
<v Speaker 3>it and besides us, right, so we bring families in

1119
00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:45.400
<v Speaker 3>who wouldn't normally be there otherwise, and they go to

1120
00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:49.239
<v Speaker 3>other businesses and order coffee or food or whatever. We

1121
00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:51.639
<v Speaker 3>get it. We've been on the Discovery Channel, We've been

1122
00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:55.480
<v Speaker 3>on Animal Planet, We've been on History Channel. We get

1123
00:55:55.480 --> 00:55:58.800
<v Speaker 3>international visitors like almost every week. I mean we had

1124
00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.760
<v Speaker 3>people from the Netherlands day and the UK on Saturday

1125
00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:05.239
<v Speaker 3>when I was there both that same day. What other

1126
00:56:05.360 --> 00:56:09.599
<v Speaker 3>thing in Boring, Oregon? Does that, you know? I mean,

1127
00:56:09.639 --> 00:56:11.119
<v Speaker 3>it's not a slight against Boring Oregon.

1128
00:56:11.159 --> 00:56:13.199
<v Speaker 2>It's it's aptly named.

1129
00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:15.840
<v Speaker 3>It's an apptly named city, shall we say. I say

1130
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:17.760
<v Speaker 3>it all the time. Nothing against the feed store. But

1131
00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:19.559
<v Speaker 3>we are the most exciting thing in Boring.

1132
00:56:20.320 --> 00:56:22.639
<v Speaker 2>Well, you guys, I mean like you're not even really Boring.

1133
00:56:22.679 --> 00:56:24.719
<v Speaker 2>I mean you're you're you're a whole little separate, little

1134
00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:27.800
<v Speaker 2>like just off the freeway, little little you know, a

1135
00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:30.960
<v Speaker 2>couple of buildings, gas station, pizza and the bar or whatever.

1136
00:56:31.559 --> 00:56:31.800
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

1137
00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:34.400
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we're not in downtown Boring, that hustle and bustle

1138
00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:38.039
<v Speaker 3>of downtown Boring. But but we are. We are in

1139
00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:41.559
<v Speaker 3>the unincorporated city of Boring. So but but anyway, our

1140
00:56:41.599 --> 00:56:45.800
<v Speaker 3>landlords recognize the value of what we bring. All the

1141
00:56:45.840 --> 00:56:50.119
<v Speaker 3>local uh, tourism industries, mountain hood territories, travel Oregon, all

1142
00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:52.519
<v Speaker 3>those people they love us were like like their poster

1143
00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:54.440
<v Speaker 3>child from when they need something cool and interesting to

1144
00:56:54.480 --> 00:56:57.159
<v Speaker 3>put on the posters and you know whatever else. So

1145
00:56:57.280 --> 00:56:59.800
<v Speaker 3>they recognize us, and they were there. My landlords were

1146
00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:05.320
<v Speaker 3>exceedingly gracious when we renegotiated our lease. So I think

1147
00:57:05.360 --> 00:57:08.039
<v Speaker 3>I'm just gonna bide my time unless something drops in

1148
00:57:08.079 --> 00:57:10.199
<v Speaker 3>my lap, that's perfect. I'm just going to bide my

1149
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:15.639
<v Speaker 3>time and save money for that initial down payment on

1150
00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:20.239
<v Speaker 3>that commercial loan that it would be necessary because because

1151
00:57:20.239 --> 00:57:22.559
<v Speaker 3>otherwise I got to have to refinance, you know, things

1152
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:24.400
<v Speaker 3>that I have and stuff, and it's like it's just

1153
00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:28.280
<v Speaker 3>a big and the museum doesn't get to buy the property,

1154
00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:31.400
<v Speaker 3>you know, Cliff and Melissa have to buy the property,

1155
00:57:31.639 --> 00:57:33.960
<v Speaker 3>you know, which is which changes the dynamic of the

1156
00:57:33.960 --> 00:57:36.960
<v Speaker 3>interaction quite a bit, you know, when I'm when I'm

1157
00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:39.440
<v Speaker 3>buying a big building and stuff like that. So it's

1158
00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:42.559
<v Speaker 3>a little complex. But luckily, our rent is so forgiving

1159
00:57:42.599 --> 00:57:45.039
<v Speaker 3>at this point that I can do with a slightly

1160
00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:51.559
<v Speaker 3>smaller than wished facility for the sake of saving money

1161
00:57:51.599 --> 00:57:54.199
<v Speaker 3>for a better one someday. You know, I can sock

1162
00:57:54.280 --> 00:57:57.880
<v Speaker 3>this money away because they expect to really like a

1163
00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:00.840
<v Speaker 3>ten to fifteen percent down payment and these and the

1164
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:03.119
<v Speaker 3>commercial building the size that we need is not going

1165
00:58:03.199 --> 00:58:03.679
<v Speaker 3>to be cheap.

1166
00:58:04.639 --> 00:58:06.679
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I.

1167
00:58:06.599 --> 00:58:08.719
<v Speaker 3>Think the smart thing to do. And again, unless something

1168
00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:11.039
<v Speaker 3>perfect drops in my lap, I get it. You know,

1169
00:58:11.559 --> 00:58:13.639
<v Speaker 3>I won't turn that away because my landlord, this sounds

1170
00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:15.320
<v Speaker 3>like my landlords said, you know, if you find the

1171
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:18.320
<v Speaker 3>great they know I'm looking, and they said, if you

1172
00:58:18.440 --> 00:58:20.760
<v Speaker 3>get something, just come talk to us. We'll work it out,

1173
00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:22.440
<v Speaker 3>you know. So they're not going to like as sue

1174
00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:24.880
<v Speaker 3>me or something if something great happens and something drops

1175
00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:29.000
<v Speaker 3>in my lap. So yeah, they're really really nice people

1176
00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:32.320
<v Speaker 3>like I can't see their praises high enough. So anyway, Yeah,

1177
00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:36.000
<v Speaker 3>they're aware that we need a larger building, and they're

1178
00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:38.079
<v Speaker 3>aware that we're kind of halfway keeping an eye out

1179
00:58:38.800 --> 00:58:41.679
<v Speaker 3>and if something drops my lap, great, But in the meantime,

1180
00:58:41.840 --> 00:58:44.400
<v Speaker 3>my rent is so forgiving that I might as well

1181
00:58:44.440 --> 00:58:46.039
<v Speaker 3>stay there and just you know, out with the old

1182
00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:48.039
<v Speaker 3>and of the new. Like the next few months, we'll

1183
00:58:48.039 --> 00:58:49.719
<v Speaker 3>be pulling out some of the old displays that we've

1184
00:58:49.719 --> 00:58:51.599
<v Speaker 3>had up for a couple of years and putting brand

1185
00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:53.920
<v Speaker 3>new ones in. I've got a couple of new photographs.

1186
00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:56.639
<v Speaker 3>I have photographs of sasquatches that I have permission to

1187
00:58:56.719 --> 00:58:59.320
<v Speaker 3>use by their owners, so I'll be putting those up here.

1188
00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:02.159
<v Speaker 3>Of course, we have the doctor Meldrum and doctor Krantz

1189
00:59:02.280 --> 00:59:06.639
<v Speaker 3>collection as well to integrate somehow. And Brian Smith, the

1190
00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:09.360
<v Speaker 3>veteran bigfoot researcher, just gave me the original co cuter

1191
00:59:09.400 --> 00:59:11.480
<v Speaker 3>bill cast. I want to make a display out of that.

1192
00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:14.199
<v Speaker 3>We got to have him on as a guest as well.

1193
00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:16.119
<v Speaker 3>There's a lot of cool things coming up, and wintertime

1194
00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:18.719
<v Speaker 3>is our time to do it because summer's too busy

1195
00:59:18.760 --> 00:59:21.280
<v Speaker 3>with customers. We just can't we can't pull away. But

1196
00:59:21.480 --> 00:59:24.679
<v Speaker 3>wintertime gets a little quiet and lonely in the NABC,

1197
00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:28.039
<v Speaker 3>so it gives us more time to improve the place.

1198
00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:30.920
<v Speaker 2>So is that I guess that's about a wrap then

1199
00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:31.360
<v Speaker 2>for this.

1200
00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:33.360
<v Speaker 3>Week, I think we covered a lot of ground.

1201
00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:36.239
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, that was a good one. I enjoyed it.

1202
00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:39.360
<v Speaker 3>I hear from a lot of people that they enjoy

1203
00:59:39.519 --> 00:59:42.920
<v Speaker 3>us just kicking things around and the banter between friends.

1204
00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:44.639
<v Speaker 3>You know, it's nice to have interviews and stuff like

1205
00:59:44.679 --> 00:59:46.639
<v Speaker 3>that and guests and everything. But at the same time,

1206
00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:49.719
<v Speaker 3>I don't hear any negative reviews of us just hanging

1207
00:59:49.719 --> 00:59:50.639
<v Speaker 3>out and shooting the poop.

1208
00:59:51.360 --> 00:59:53.159
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, that tends to be a lot of people's favorite

1209
00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:54.280
<v Speaker 5>type of episode.

1210
00:59:54.639 --> 00:59:56.480
<v Speaker 2>Well cool, all right, we folks were Now next, we're

1211
00:59:56.480 --> 00:59:59.920
<v Speaker 2>going to go listen to Matt Preuitz, the best bigfoot

1212
01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:03.800
<v Speaker 2>ed bondistore I've heard in at least a decade, so

1213
01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:05.800
<v Speaker 2>we're gonna go over there and out of our Patreon

1214
01:00:05.880 --> 01:00:08.559
<v Speaker 2>and do that over there for our members. So thanks

1215
01:00:08.559 --> 01:00:12.199
<v Speaker 2>for listening, and until next week, you'll keep it Squatchy.

1216
01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:20.719
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01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:23.360
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