Speaker 1: Weird things happened in the back out weird, weird, weird.
Speaker 2: Hey everyone, Bletso said, So it's me Jenny, Hey, Jenny.
Speaker 3: Hey everyone, welcome Backalo Maaloe. I was about to say
Speaker 3: that Salomi stole the words right out of my soul.
Speaker 1: It's lovely to have you Jenny here.
Speaker 2: I am here, I am I've got my kitty cat
Speaker 2: on my lap. This is Nobody can see her. I
Speaker 2: swear she's here.
Speaker 1: This is Dedi's first episode in the studio.
Speaker 2: No, she's been behind Ryan before, not in this one.
Speaker 1: Not in this studio. Lift her up, yeah, put her
Speaker 1: on the camera, disrupt her, peace and sleep. She's real good.
Speaker 2: Anyway. Yeah, how's everyone feeling now? She's gone?
Speaker 1: I knew it, it was worth it. I'm feeling good.
Speaker 1: How are you.
Speaker 2: Feeling I'm feeling good as well. Yeah. We I don't
Speaker 2: know if we want.
Speaker 4: To talk about this yet, about the We just had
Speaker 4: a meeting, Yeah people, why not?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, by the time this comes out.
Speaker 2: Maybe we talk about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: So, somebody else to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Though. We just had a meeting with three lovely individuals
Speaker 1: about becoming our discord mods, and we're really really really
Speaker 1: pumped about it.
Speaker 3: I told them I would personally shout them out. So
Speaker 3: we have let's go in the order that they were
Speaker 3: recruited in the sense of fairness. Okay, so we have
Speaker 3: Daniel right done, Captain Skippy, he's one of the OG's
Speaker 3: in our discord, at least he's been in it as
Speaker 3: long as I can remember. And then we have Corey
Speaker 3: Corey moo enough said she's an amazing human being, and
Speaker 3: now she has an Instagram channel. I think it's Corey moufo.
Speaker 1: Oh. Yeah. She started posting her or videos because she
Speaker 1: got one of those psionics cameras right yeah, like the infrared.
Speaker 3: And she took videos while we were together at Riverfest,
Speaker 3: which we'll get into later. And then we got Blake
Speaker 3: our boy or break Powers, who we go way back with.
Speaker 1: We've went to high school with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was what the leader of some sort of
Speaker 2: the Valheim thing needs.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, he's he's basically the leader of all
Speaker 1: of our games. Yeah, like he becomes the main Minecraft guy,
Speaker 1: he becomes the main Valheim guy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So it just kind of happened this way. It's
Speaker 3: something that like definitely for years I have felt was
Speaker 3: going to someday be a necessity. And last week we
Speaker 3: were at that Vampire Weekend concert and after the Riverfest
Speaker 3: it had just happened like two days before, and Daniel
Speaker 3: and Corey were there along with many other people.
Speaker 1: We'll get more into that later.
Speaker 3: And we were at the concert and Jenny was just like, Ryan,
Speaker 3: I had an idea. You've been wanting a mod what
Speaker 3: if we We had been talking about it for weeks.
Speaker 3: Me and Jenny like, man, I really would like a moderator.
Speaker 1: What do we do? What do we do?
Speaker 3: And Jenny was like, what about Daniel? Asked Daniel, and
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god. And then the next
Speaker 3: day I saw Corey for lunch and one thing led
Speaker 3: to another and I was like, well, what about you?
Speaker 3: And then it was you know, we got to talking
Speaker 3: about it and we.
Speaker 1: Were like, well what about Blake? Yeah, you know, So
Speaker 1: it just.
Speaker 3: It just spontaneously happened, and we're all very very excited
Speaker 3: to officially expand our team.
Speaker 1: Welcome them to the team.
Speaker 5: And for the people that don't know what we're talking about,
Speaker 5: what's the discord?
Speaker 6: Ryan?
Speaker 3: Oh, Well, since you're asking, we do have a Patreon.
Speaker 3: We put a lot of love into it. We have
Speaker 3: a community of about six hundred really open minded, like
Speaker 3: minded individuals who have just formed a really tight community
Speaker 3: where we talk about everything under the sun. It's really
Speaker 3: an amazing I've had people This is not my opinion.
Speaker 3: This just literally messages that I have received from people
Speaker 3: joining our discord that have been a member of multiple
Speaker 3: other discords, other forums, on other websites on the internet,
Speaker 3: and I have been told that ours is the best
Speaker 3: spiritual community on the entire Internet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard those comments as well. It's just like
Speaker 1: it just like happened organically too.
Speaker 4: But I also wanted to say that, like, for me,
Speaker 4: I think that the reason that all of this is
Speaker 4: so like it's just perfect divine timing is like this
Speaker 4: riverfest just happened, and that's whenever we really were like,
Speaker 4: oh wow, like I feel like we need help and
Speaker 4: help was the first time where it was like we
Speaker 4: need help because I think that like, you know, we
Speaker 4: did as Daleifest back in April and it was really
Speaker 4: really great, really successful, and even then we were like,
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, we were so exhausted at the end
Speaker 4: of it and we were like why was that so?
Speaker 4: And it's really just speaking with so many people. Our
Speaker 4: energy is so high that we don't even realize that
Speaker 4: we're going all day.
Speaker 2: We're not drinking water. We're all just so excited to
Speaker 2: be with.
Speaker 3: Each other.
Speaker 4: And getting and well seeing like you know, these people
Speaker 4: and how dedicated they are to the community, and really
Speaker 4: thinking like, you know what, if we asked for help,
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure people would help us. So that's kind
Speaker 4: of I think whenever I started thinking about who, you know,
Speaker 4: maybe who we could talk to about, you know, helping
Speaker 4: us out. And I'm really just excited for this sort
Speaker 4: of this next phase. I feel like every time we
Speaker 4: have one of these festivals, which we plan to do more,
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure in twenty twenty five we'll do is
Speaker 4: Zela a Fest again, and we'll do Riverfest again.
Speaker 3: I would think that's that's the plan, that's the hope.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, too soon to commit.
Speaker 4: I mean, we talked to Christina about it and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I would do that again, you know, so we could
Speaker 4: kind of do like a partner booth again. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I think that every time we have one of those,
Speaker 4: it's like we get really excited and like really really
Speaker 4: back in the groove of like, yeah, what can we
Speaker 4: do next?
Speaker 3: Well, for those who are curious, if you're like new
Speaker 3: to the show or you just kind of listen out
Speaker 3: of order, which we sometimes get, The Azella Festival episode
Speaker 3: is episode one. This just happened six months ago in April.
Speaker 3: Now we are going to be talking about Riverfest, which
Speaker 3: just happened, not this past weekend recording on a Wednesday,
Speaker 3: but the weekend before last weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was it was so insane.
Speaker 3: I mean, we overdoubled our not audience, but we overdoubled
Speaker 3: our crowd size. We overdoubled our SkyWatch crowd.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know where to begin. Unreal. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: a good place to start is that these things. I
Speaker 1: think these events rejuvenate us so much because like it
Speaker 1: gives us a chance to kind of tangibly see like
Speaker 1: the impact of what we do, but also to just
Speaker 1: meet the people who enjoy the show and hear their
Speaker 1: stories and just like meet face to face share energy.
Speaker 1: Like it is so healing to do this. I stand
Speaker 1: them a thousand percent.
Speaker 4: I mean it biz our for them to see them
Speaker 4: in person, have never seen them before, and they like
Speaker 4: get the same inside jokes that I get.
Speaker 2: And it's like, wait, how did you know that?
Speaker 4: And it's like, oh, well, I guess they've been listening
Speaker 4: to the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean it's super wild talking to people who have
Speaker 5: listened to our voices for hours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hours, hundreds of hours, hundreds of hours.
Speaker 5: Not to mention the other shows and and this and that,
Speaker 5: and then they're like they're already my friend. And now
Speaker 5: it's like I'm meeting them for the first time, but
Speaker 5: they know everything about me.
Speaker 3: It's like it's a wild thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I told a few people it's like it feels like
Speaker 1: a family reunion. Yeah, it does, because when you're at
Speaker 1: a family reunion, you're like, I know I'm related to
Speaker 1: that person, but like I don't really Like, no, I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to them in person. I'm your cousin, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's like a familiar and would your daddy, yeah, since
Speaker 1: she was just tall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like that my favorite ones I've held you
Speaker 2: when you were a I know, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Like I didn't change any of our fans diapers. I
Speaker 1: just want to make that really.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, hey, you know what, we did have a
Speaker 3: particular fan that showed up in a diaper and his
Speaker 3: name was Obie.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and he was a monkey. Somebody I think
Speaker 1: it was me and Alex were sitting at the booth.
Speaker 1: We were sitting it really.
Speaker 3: I was really concerned with where you were going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. I think me and Alex were sitting
Speaker 1: at the table and this couple walks up with a
Speaker 1: stroller and I looked at it. I was like, oh, baby,
Speaker 1: I looked in the stroller. There's a little squirrel monkey
Speaker 1: with a diaper on in the stroller. And I just
Speaker 1: start screaming, there's a monkey. There's a monkey. Guys, come here,
Speaker 1: there's a monkey. I was like where people were just
Speaker 1: like throwing their stuff down and be lining straight for
Speaker 1: the monkey. Everybody crowded around this month. He was on
Speaker 1: the beach with us. Well, yeah, I saw one. I
Speaker 1: was like, what.
Speaker 4: The craziest part about it for me was I was
Speaker 4: I was kind of doing like line control quote unquote,
Speaker 4: because you know, there were other booths there and so
Speaker 4: other like our line for our booth was starting to
Speaker 4: kind of back into other booths, and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this isn't cool, so let me go out there and
Speaker 4: like chat, you know, chat with some of these people.
Speaker 4: And maybe you just get them out of the sidewalk,
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. And so I was talking to
Speaker 4: the parents of this monkey for I don't know how
Speaker 4: long left them came back and somebody's like, oh, is
Speaker 4: that a monkey, and I'm and I literally, for the
Speaker 4: first time ever, noticed that there's a carriage. I didn't
Speaker 4: even realize it was a carriage when I was.
Speaker 3: Speaking the same for our cats but black, yeah, same
Speaker 3: kind of animals.
Speaker 4: And so then I immediately because Teddy was like one
Speaker 4: of our guest of honors at the at the river Fest,
Speaker 4: our nephew, and we were like, oh my gosh, we
Speaker 4: have to grab Teddy. So then Teddy goes and he
Speaker 4: gets all excited. But the the the label on the
Speaker 4: monkey cage said that our monkey likes fingers, and.
Speaker 3: I was like, do not reach for him because it
Speaker 3: does like sign on the front.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was so precious.
Speaker 3: Did you see the copy that Teddy signed?
Speaker 1: No, okay, So we were signing books like we obviously
Speaker 1: it was it's a shared booth with we have our
Speaker 1: little BLEDSOE said, so corner with like we had merchant
Speaker 1: stuff and we're just hanging out whatever. But then the
Speaker 1: other side of the booth is UFO of god, your
Speaker 1: dad was there selling books, meeting people. It was It's
Speaker 1: always so incredible to see that too, And so we
Speaker 1: were a lot some people asked us to sign their
Speaker 1: book or whatever. I didn't know Teddy signed one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so obviously he wasn't there the whole time. He
Speaker 3: was in and out, but like dozens and dozens of
Speaker 3: people asked Teddy to sign their book and he's like, no,
Speaker 3: I don't want to. But he signed one copy. And
Speaker 3: if you recall, it was Kim Brooke, the ten.
Speaker 1: Year old girl. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: They got into playing and they became friends, like throughout
Speaker 3: the weekend, and he signed her copy.
Speaker 1: He's Teddy's what six now he's four. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: The camera is pretty good. Yep, beautiful. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: It looks like my handwriting.
Speaker 3: It's a little better if he.
Speaker 2: Got help from somebody.
Speaker 3: No, you don't think so for me, No, no, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't even know he can hold something yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They send me pictures all the time where he chases letters.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I have the idea.
Speaker 4: And Age is like, if I look at a human,
Speaker 4: I'm like, I literally have no idea.
Speaker 2: How old you are, especially for children.
Speaker 4: So for me, I'm like, I don't even know can
Speaker 4: he even grab anything at this age?
Speaker 2: I mean, what can he do?
Speaker 4: As a one thing that I recently learned, which you know,
Speaker 4: this is something I'm sure people have known forever. I
Speaker 4: didn't know that babies were born like blind? Did everyone
Speaker 4: know this most.
Speaker 1: Of the time? Yeah, they're born where they just like
Speaker 1: they can't even open their eyes.
Speaker 4: Well, but it's like even when they can't open their eyes,
Speaker 4: they can't, they.
Speaker 1: Can't they're in darkness.
Speaker 5: Yeah, think about what happens when you flick the lights
Speaker 5: on after sleeping.
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this. Do I don't know
Speaker 2: why I'm asking a bunch of men this anyway.
Speaker 4: But.
Speaker 5: Well I would consider myself a professional because I was.
Speaker 4: Born right, Okay, but I just like, do babies open
Speaker 4: their eyeballs inside?
Speaker 2: They can't do that?
Speaker 1: Right? You ever put them in a pool?
Speaker 3: Is it the same?
Speaker 1: It's for sure, exactly the same. Yeah, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: bot fluid it's the same. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I don't know, man, you're asking the wrong people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying, wrong, audience, talk about it later.
Speaker 3: That's a different conversation.
Speaker 2: So, hey, you never know what you're gonna get if
Speaker 2: I'm on this.
Speaker 3: That's next week's episode.
Speaker 1: Actually, right, Yeah about babies in the womb? Yeah? Are
Speaker 1: they born blind? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think so. We were going to bring it a
Speaker 3: baby to find out MythBusters.
Speaker 2: How are we gonna do it?
Speaker 3: You got a guest on the show?
Speaker 1: What is he? Fifteen?
Speaker 3: Hey, we'll wait for We'll wait for Blake's baby to
Speaker 3: be born, and then we'll get him to perfect interview
Speaker 3: the baby, interview the whole like this the whole time.
Speaker 1: Put it put its little head near the mic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great guest.
Speaker 3: I'm in.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be entertaining.
Speaker 3: I'm also in.
Speaker 1: Okay, back to Riverfest. It was it was really shocking
Speaker 1: to me. Like we started getting messages on like Tuesday
Speaker 1: and Wednesday of people being like I'm here, and I
Speaker 1: was like, y'all know. I was like, y'all know, it's Saturday.
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't say that, but in my head,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, all right, you're you're early. You're here
Speaker 1: a little early.
Speaker 3: I had the opposite messages like I'm gonna be here
Speaker 3: till next Wednesday. Oh yeah, yeah, I'll be here a week.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah yeah uh. And then like it was
Speaker 1: really cool because Omi's like started meeting up at like
Speaker 1: people that people were getting dinner together and like hanging
Speaker 1: out and I think people were skywatching even before Saturday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fact that they are.
Speaker 4: But this is the biggest part for me, you say,
Speaker 4: the word omis the fact that people are using the
Speaker 4: word Omi's. I didn't realize how much that was actually
Speaker 4: used until I like until I was at Riverfast and
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh my gosh, this is so nice, Like
Speaker 4: people are actually.
Speaker 2: Using the word omie.
Speaker 4: It was so so cool, And that was like one
Speaker 4: of those things where you kind of realize that there's
Speaker 4: like a little bit of impact going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, people would meet for the first time
Speaker 1: ever and be like, what's up on me?
Speaker 3: I think something that we really learned this weekend was
Speaker 3: like what might be a silly little moment for us
Speaker 3: on the show that's a joke that we laugh about
Speaker 3: and then never think about again, like deeply impacts people
Speaker 3: talk about. Scott Scott Phantom, Phantom.
Speaker 1: Big shout out. I have a couple of.
Speaker 3: The little buttons you got to take your headphones off.
Speaker 3: Oh it's right there, Alex, can you grab the bucket.
Speaker 3: It's the I want to tell my Scott's story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's right behind the moon.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, the orange bucket right there. Yeah. We we
Speaker 1: had a lovely, lovely fan named Scott who showed up
Speaker 1: with this.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, wait a little bit of ASMR please?
Speaker 3: Is that good?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you have to tap it right, rub it
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my favorite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it on the mic. Yeah, okay, so this is
Speaker 1: this is Scott brought us this cool little container. And
Speaker 1: look on the front. It says, owe me Luke.
Speaker 5: I want the people at home to know that that's
Speaker 5: my contact picture for Ryan. So anytime it calls me,
Speaker 5: I see that. And this has been this way for
Speaker 5: a year now, when he never showed me that.
Speaker 1: Oh so so Scott, this amazing, amazing person. He took
Speaker 1: the liberty of buying a button making machine and creating
Speaker 1: some very incredible niche like deep cut.
Speaker 2: Some of them are really need some I didn't even know.
Speaker 3: Some of them are like only I didn't know some
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 1: I didn't know some of them. So look I'll show
Speaker 1: off a few of them. We got practice your mudras?
Speaker 1: Can you do that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, got practice your mudras. This is a really
Speaker 1: really good This is one of my favorite ones.
Speaker 3: It's the Man.
Speaker 1: What was it?
Speaker 4: The Man was Ryan's Halloween costume and alter.
Speaker 3: I'm concerned that you guys genuinely think on that.
Speaker 2: Character what you are, isn't it not your alter ego?
Speaker 1: This this one is a very toss. That one, to
Speaker 1: me is having a hard time. Okay, that's a very
Speaker 1: deep That one's very deep cut. That one is from
Speaker 1: our Valheim server. Like, there's some really really niche ones,
Speaker 1: and then okay.
Speaker 4: He knows a little bit of all of the references,
Speaker 4: just so.
Speaker 1: Cool going way back. There are a lot of really
Speaker 1: cool ones that just said Omi's on them. But the
Speaker 1: OM was the OM symbol.
Speaker 3: I think the one that like really got me and
Speaker 3: just made me die laughing was Salome.
Speaker 1: Salome is Unbelieved.
Speaker 3: Because that was on the Full Disclosure episode like the
Speaker 3: week before and oh really, yes, oh my god, yes,
Speaker 3: and then let me just that's why I just lost it, dude.
Speaker 1: This one is the star of the show in my opinion. Personally,
Speaker 1: it's the we we love you, Alan.
Speaker 4: But we love you Alan button.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. So, yeah, Scott, You're incredible. We can't
Speaker 1: thank you enough for doing that. That is so unbelievably cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to tell my Scott story.
Speaker 1: And every oh, yes, sorry and everybody. He was just
Speaker 1: walking around just giving these buttonses.
Speaker 3: How empty the bucket is? I begged him. I was like,
Speaker 3: name the price. I don't care. I don't care if
Speaker 3: it's two hundred dollars, Like you tell me what it
Speaker 3: will take for me to take this home. And he
Speaker 3: was like, dude, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: How a hat?
Speaker 1: And I looked it was literally the last hat we had.
Speaker 3: It was on the mannequin, and I was like, it's yours.
Speaker 3: That's so I literally took it off the mannequin. We
Speaker 3: sold every other hat and it was just perfect timing,
Speaker 3: and I gave it to him and he sent me
Speaker 3: home with the bucket. But you see how empty this
Speaker 3: thing is. Every single other pin that was, you know,
Speaker 3: filled to the top. Hundreds of people were wearing these pants.
Speaker 3: It was it was mind really cried.
Speaker 4: I had tears in my eyes and I was thinking
Speaker 4: him just because I'm like the fact that somebody put
Speaker 4: this much thought into something made all of these designs
Speaker 4: from scratch, went out of their way to physically make
Speaker 4: all of these buttons and mentally use their brains to
Speaker 4: kind of.
Speaker 2: Be like, what would be the coolest little callbacks? He's
Speaker 2: a graphic design I can't even believe that.
Speaker 4: So I literally had tears in my eyes, and then
Speaker 4: I had people coming up to me like what's wrong me.
Speaker 1: I was like, she's crying, Are you okay? Are you okay?
Speaker 1: And She's like.
Speaker 2: Touch just touch.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, Because just to give the listener an idea of
Speaker 5: the weekend for us, right, it was Friday was set up.
Speaker 5: Then y'all went to a movie. I went skywe watching
Speaker 5: with some people who organize their own SkyWatch Corey separately.
Speaker 5: Corey Sorry sorry Corey. Corey organized the SkyWatch independently, didn't
Speaker 5: worry about us being there. Ended up showing up with
Speaker 5: your dad and not the most successful SkyWatch, but still
Speaker 5: it was completely cloud completely cloudy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, anyway, at the SkyWatch till twelve, go home, wake up,
Speaker 5: nine o'clock in the morning, Day one of the river
Speaker 5: Fest nine o'clock until twelve or one o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 5: again because immediately out to the beach. This is all
Speaker 5: day at the fest out at the beach. Then day
Speaker 5: two rolls around and I'm kind of feeling it, you know,
Speaker 5: like I'm tired.
Speaker 3: I love being there.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't miss it for the world, but I'm tired,
Speaker 5: and so I'm kind of dragging. In the morning, I
Speaker 5: was I was like, maybe thirty minutes, run like running behind.
Speaker 5: About thirty minutes, I show up and I'm just like,
Speaker 5: you know, like trying to hype myself up. I show
Speaker 5: up and here's Scott. Immediately he's like the first person
Speaker 5: I walked up to. He said, dude, look, introduced himself.
Speaker 5: Show me the bucket. I started going through the bucket
Speaker 5: and I'm like, oh my god, Like this is why
Speaker 5: we do this, you know, like like just making it
Speaker 5: real and making it like physical reality. Just like you said,
Speaker 5: it's so easy for us to sit here in our
Speaker 5: room and do our thing and have a laugh and
Speaker 5: have a great time, because ultimately we're like we're doing
Speaker 5: it for us, Like if we weren't having fun this,
Speaker 5: we wouldn't still be doing this. And then the episode
Speaker 5: gets posted and onto the next and onto the next one.
Speaker 5: Like I don't remember what I said last week, but
Speaker 5: someone does and someone took it, and like it is
Speaker 5: like valuing that and it's like that it's just so amazing.
Speaker 5: And then to see all of these people show up
Speaker 5: because of what we're doing. It's just anyway, Scott gave
Speaker 5: me so much life that morning because immediately like from there,
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, this is like absolutely.
Speaker 1: Renewed, you know, yeah, just filled you with.
Speaker 5: And I made sure to tell him that on the
Speaker 5: beach that night, and it was just.
Speaker 1: Oh, he was out there on the beach.
Speaker 5: I bumped into him because I liked Friday the second night, Okay,
Speaker 5: on Sunday, Sunday, Yeah, Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when when we SkyWatch on the beach.
Speaker 5: I like to just like walk around the perimeter and
Speaker 5: just like join people's conversations and like just say hey,
Speaker 5: try to say hey to as many people as I can.
Speaker 5: And I think it's so funny because it's dark, you
Speaker 5: can't really see, and like I'll just join a conversation
Speaker 5: like is that Alex.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, yeah, dude, I got a funny little
Speaker 3: story about that. So I want to give a shout
Speaker 3: out to someone in particular that that this this interaction.
Speaker 1: Like touched me.
Speaker 2: So okay, then I'm going next. Okay, I already call
Speaker 2: the next story.
Speaker 3: All right, well why don't you go now?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, okay, take it.
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding. But I think you guys probably notice
Speaker 3: this too. We we didn't really talk much about this,
Speaker 3: but something that was different this time than last time. Right,
Speaker 3: did you guys notice that a ton of Welmington people
Speaker 3: came through?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I didn't notice that at is Eliafes.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 3: Granted I was there the last day, but I also
Speaker 3: feel like maybe things are different since then. But so
Speaker 3: many people, like for example, there was this guy named Kurt.
Speaker 3: We were setting up on Friday. The dude is riding
Speaker 3: on his bike, hops off the bike, sees us setting
Speaker 3: up the tent, and he's like, UFO of god, what
Speaker 3: is this? What is it? I love this book? It
Speaker 3: was like, what's happening? I was like, oh, yeah, nice
Speaker 3: to meet you man. I'm Ryan, I'm Chris's youngest son.
Speaker 3: That's the author right there. This is the river fest.
Speaker 3: He was like, I didn't know there was a festival.
Speaker 1: He was just biking.
Speaker 2: See his apartment complex at my tent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like, I love this book. What is
Speaker 1: he here?
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, he's right there, and I invited
Speaker 3: him out skywatching and I saw him at the beach.
Speaker 3: And it was a lot of moments like that, Like
Speaker 3: there were so many times this time around that I
Speaker 3: would meet people and they're like, I'm from Wilmington. I
Speaker 3: read the book, I'm from Wilmington. I heard the podcast.
Speaker 3: But there was one person in particular. It was this
Speaker 3: this this young I say, young lady. She's our age, right,
Speaker 3: she's an adult. She's like probably mid twenties, maybe early twenties,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Her name was Lauren. And the line
Speaker 3: was getting really long, and I when that would happen,
Speaker 3: we would we would, you know, take turns like going
Speaker 3: out to talk to people on the line and be like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know what's going on. I'm so and so what
Speaker 3: can we do for you? We want to apologize for
Speaker 3: the long wait. And this this girl was standing there
Speaker 3: for quite a while. So I got up and I
Speaker 3: went and I spoke to her. I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, give her the whole spiels start. Thanks for waiting.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. She's like, hey, well, actually I brought
Speaker 3: this for you, and she gave me a bag of tea,
Speaker 3: like a little bag of tea from her shop down
Speaker 3: the street. She's like, I'm Wilmington local. I work at Immunity,
Speaker 3: which I love by the way, you see and Jenny
Speaker 3: love this story.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, Now that Immunity was just the flavor of
Speaker 2: the tea.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, what was the name of the store?
Speaker 2: Let me find it.
Speaker 3: I sat Immunity Tea on the bag, so I thought
Speaker 3: that was the name.
Speaker 2: Of the No, no, no, that's just the kind of tea
Speaker 2: that it is.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 2: The name of the company is Queen s Thirtis. She's awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she has stuff all around the community. She actually
Speaker 4: is like getting her first and I love that. I'm
Speaker 4: just doing a sales pitch right now, but she has
Speaker 4: her first break and mortar store opening up right outside
Speaker 4: of Wilmington. Amazing tea. Her husband, her family, her loved
Speaker 4: ones hustle for this tea company. I think it's so awesome.
Speaker 4: Casey and I have gone to several markets, have met
Speaker 4: her family, met her family again, met her family again.
Speaker 3: And uh, I think you've told me about them.
Speaker 4: Yes, because what they do is they have this business
Speaker 4: together and I think it's so yes, because she teaches
Speaker 4: her sons. They have sons of I think, like a
Speaker 4: teenage son. They have other sons that are a little younger,
Speaker 4: and literally they teach them like these quote unquote.
Speaker 2: Like business, business ethics.
Speaker 4: And this little boy is out here selling rocks and seashells.
Speaker 2: You're a dollar each, and I spent some money on that, okay,
Speaker 2: because I'm like, it's I'm telling me about it.
Speaker 1: I was like, what is this? And she told me
Speaker 1: all about it.
Speaker 2: Because he literally he goes into it. He's like uh,
Speaker 2: and keep in mind, this is a young boy.
Speaker 4: He literally goes up like, oh uh, that's courts and
Speaker 4: this one is you know, and I'm just like, yeah,
Speaker 4: tell me more, like I will buy all of it.
Speaker 2: And I just think it's so neat. So this family has.
Speaker 4: Always been one that has like caught my eye. So
Speaker 4: then to know that they also caught yours and they.
Speaker 3: Well, so let me explain the interaction. So I walk
Speaker 3: up to her and she has this bag from again.
Speaker 3: I literally just read the name of the tea and
Speaker 3: it was so hectic. I figured that was the name
Speaker 3: of the company. But it's Queen as their teas, right,
Speaker 3: and She's like, actually, I'm a local. I work at
Speaker 3: this tea shop down the street, and I heard about
Speaker 3: you know your family. I heard you on a podcast.
Speaker 3: I can't remember. Oh, maybe it was Molly. Maybe it
Speaker 3: was Back from the Borderline Molly. Because I had several
Speaker 3: people tell me that they heard about us from on there,
Speaker 3: that might be it. But anyway, she heard me on
Speaker 3: a show before she dove down the rabbit hole started
Speaker 3: listening to our show, saw that we were going to
Speaker 3: be in town. She walked up to me and she
Speaker 3: was like, I just wanted to come say hi and
Speaker 3: bring you a gift, and she basically she got emotional.
Speaker 3: She kind of started crying a little bit, and she
Speaker 3: was like, since I was a little girl, I've been
Speaker 3: having these dreams and these experiences where I'm seeing things
Speaker 3: and no one's ever believed me. And hearing your story
Speaker 3: helped me to understand that I'm not crazy. And I
Speaker 3: just gave her a big hug. I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: thank you, Lauren. You know that I know how you feel.
Speaker 3: You're not crazy. And I invited her out to this
Speaker 3: SkyWatch and I was like, this was Sunday. I was like,
Speaker 3: we're going out tonight. I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 3: I know it's last minute, come join us. There's going
Speaker 3: to be a lot of people, and naturally how it goes.
Speaker 3: I get there and I'm kind of like working the crowd,
Speaker 3: so I didn't see, you know, out of almost two
Speaker 3: hundred people, I didn't get the chance to talk to
Speaker 3: everybody and see who was there. So for the last
Speaker 3: week and a half, I've been racking my brain, like
Speaker 3: I wonder why she didn't come. I wonder why she
Speaker 3: didn't come.
Speaker 1: I was sad.
Speaker 3: I really wanted her to have that experience, you know,
Speaker 3: just to really have proved that, you know, she's not crazy.
Speaker 3: Last night when Meredith was here, which for those who
Speaker 3: don't know who Meredith is, she's been on our show before.
Speaker 3: I don't have the episode number, but she's Meredith for real.
Speaker 3: And she swung by town last night and her and
Speaker 3: her husband Carrett, and they visited and we just hung
Speaker 3: out and had the best time. We didn't record, but
Speaker 3: we hung out anyway. I was pulling up pictures to
Speaker 3: show her and I pulled up a picture of the
Speaker 3: beach crowd. She was right there in the phone. I
Speaker 3: didn't see her on the beach but she was there.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: And I saw that last night and I.
Speaker 1: Was like, she did come, That's amazing.
Speaker 2: And then I brought it up like an hour later
Speaker 2: He's like, I can't believe she came.
Speaker 3: Episodeah, So that kind of touched me, Like the even
Speaker 3: you just to prove your point, like you you never
Speaker 3: know who you impact. Yeah, it can be in your
Speaker 3: freaking backyard, dude, and you have no idea.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: When I when I pulled up to the beach, it
Speaker 5: was at the same day and it's got the whole
Speaker 5: I was tired in the morning. Then after the festival,
Speaker 5: we had like a little break for dinner and then
Speaker 5: out to the skywash, and I got hired in between
Speaker 5: that and I'm driving and I'm like, honestly, I felt
Speaker 5: like I could fall asleep while I was driving, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, man, I really hope I can just show
Speaker 5: up for all these people who showed up for us.
Speaker 5: And we picked the access at the beach that had
Speaker 5: probably the most parking yeah, and I mean it's probably
Speaker 5: one hundred plus parking spots. And when I pulled in
Speaker 5: that parking lot early and it was slam packed, I panicked. Dude, No,
Speaker 5: I almost started crying.
Speaker 2: Dude, I felt the same way.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I pulled in and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 5: we did we did this.
Speaker 1: I panicked. We pulled up and Casey was like, there's
Speaker 1: no way that this is all Allmi's right, and I
Speaker 1: was like, ye.
Speaker 5: Dude, two cars in front of me pulled in that
Speaker 5: lot and the car behind me pulled in that lot.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 4: This is the craziest part for me was I literally
Speaker 4: show up and this was the Saturday night one, which
Speaker 4: I think is the one that we're referencing here, was
Speaker 4: totally like kind of thrown together. Sunday night was going
Speaker 4: to be more of our like, Okay, we're all gonna
Speaker 4: go skywatching. Saturday was like Okay. During the day, we
Speaker 4: kind of decided vibes are high, weather's good, like, let's
Speaker 4: try to do a SkyWatch tonight as well, which is Saturday.
Speaker 4: So I we were already on a high from the
Speaker 4: day and then we literally show up Ryan, myself and Emily.
Speaker 4: We were a little bit late just because we had
Speaker 4: some food order mishaps Chick fil A forgot poor Emily sandwich,
Speaker 4: So we show up late. And so whenever I showed
Speaker 4: up to that parking lot. I literally thought I wasn't
Speaker 4: going to get a spot. But not only was I
Speaker 4: worried that I wasn't going to get a spot, I
Speaker 4: could see people getting stuff out of their car and
Speaker 4: like running.
Speaker 2: Walking very very fast get out there.
Speaker 4: Ryan was like ran past everyone, and Emily and I
Speaker 4: were there and I was literally shaking, like I don't
Speaker 4: know what happened, but physically I started getting so nervous
Speaker 4: to like go out on this beach, and like, you know,
Speaker 4: it was already dark, so I couldn't see anybody. But
Speaker 4: it was just so alarming because then we got on
Speaker 4: the beach and there it was literally, you know, it
Speaker 4: was dark, but there was.
Speaker 2: Like a dark cloud of people in the middle of
Speaker 2: the beach, and I'm.
Speaker 4: Like like a huge black hole on the beach.
Speaker 5: So it's wild how I had such a different reaction,
Speaker 5: Like I almost like I was completely humbled in an
Speaker 5: awe and like speechless, and I just walked out there
Speaker 5: and was so calm, like I just I just felt
Speaker 5: so like put into place by everything, like this is
Speaker 5: so much larger than me, This is so much larger
Speaker 5: than the show, Like I'm just this small piece of.
Speaker 3: What's going on, like it was definitely that. It was incredible, man.
Speaker 2: No, I was physically shaking.
Speaker 3: Yeah. For the first time since Riverfest, I felt like
Speaker 3: it's not just us doing this anymore, but it's like
Speaker 3: an army of people around us helping us. I've never
Speaker 3: felt that way before. I've always felt like it's people
Speaker 3: trying to use us, to pick us apart, to learn
Speaker 3: about what's going on, to get something out of us.
Speaker 3: But after Riverfest, I've finally feel like people are helping us.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Well, the level of consideration from so
Speaker 2: many people at that booth, it was incredible. First of
Speaker 2: all that Scot out, you know, not Scott out.
Speaker 4: The shout out to Scott, but also there were people
Speaker 4: that brought waters for everyone, brought sandwiches for everybody, brought
Speaker 4: snack bars for everybody, Oh yes, drinks.
Speaker 2: What can I do?
Speaker 4: Can I, you know, something as small as hey, can
Speaker 4: I help like throw this trash away from you, like
Speaker 4: for you while you're you know, talking with somebody. And
Speaker 4: it was just like insane the level of thoughtfulness that
Speaker 4: everyone had for each other, Like that was the first time,
Speaker 4: like sure like Azalea Festival was super magic super amazing.
Speaker 2: Yes, this time.
Speaker 4: You know, I think the people that had come before
Speaker 4: too had kind of caught on to like, oh wow,
Speaker 4: like this is like a thing, it's an event, and
Speaker 4: people just start giving stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well it was definitely Azelia was definitely our first time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and it was so nice having that experience and then
Speaker 5: getting to like adequately prepare for River.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh and name tags somebody brought me, Jennifer, which was
Speaker 4: so such a fo idea. That was something that I
Speaker 4: had thought about, Oh would that be good to do?
Speaker 4: And it's like, no, Jen, don't even stress it, don't
Speaker 4: even worry about it. So for somebody to buy these
Speaker 4: name tags and they were so so good.
Speaker 1: Again, next time, Jennifer talking about charitable omies. Jennifer's husband
Speaker 1: heard that my poor little knees were in pain. And
Speaker 1: the man got on his knees for ten minutes and
Speaker 1: massaged my knees like that, very.
Speaker 2: Giving, like he got there's some context of that.
Speaker 3: She was hyping him up as having this really special
Speaker 3: ability to be able to like do trigger points, and
Speaker 3: it's like he's not even a massage therapist, but.
Speaker 1: His father did it professionally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he taught him. So I was like, really,
Speaker 3: my back hurts. Can you do my back? And he
Speaker 3: did this thing where he got the trigger point out
Speaker 3: of my back and I felt amazing, and he had
Speaker 3: already been talking about doing it.
Speaker 1: I grabbed him. I was like, let's go.
Speaker 3: I was like, Nick, now, this man touched your knees.
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was. I was like and
Speaker 1: then I was like, you do not have to do that,
Speaker 1: and he was like no, no, no, no, no, I'm going
Speaker 1: to do it. And like I felt like I had
Speaker 1: new legs.
Speaker 2: Like it was crazy that guess who got in line
Speaker 2: next me?
Speaker 3: What did you do? My neck?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Really my neck.
Speaker 4: It was the most insane feeling because it literally is
Speaker 4: like like if you were to just like jump off
Speaker 4: a cliff or something like. It literally felt like him
Speaker 4: he was pushing, pushing, pushing.
Speaker 2: The pain was like ah and then all of a.
Speaker 1: Suddenly really yeah, it was amazing.
Speaker 2: It just felt like.
Speaker 3: It felt light.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just like it just like disappeared out.
Speaker 1: Of nowhere, unbelievably kind of him. So nice, that's insane.
Speaker 1: They're really cool people.
Speaker 4: They're they're really talking, and so many people brought little
Speaker 4: gifts and stuff and it was just so and the
Speaker 4: people who just literally brought themselves like, oh yeah, that
Speaker 4: means just as much to us. Some of these people
Speaker 4: traveled from California, Canada, Denmark.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Frank and Martin from Denmark. We had Caesar from Columbia.
Speaker 3: We had like over a dozen people from Canada and Brook.
Speaker 3: We can tell that story in a little bit, because
Speaker 3: I think that's a funny story. If you want to
Speaker 3: talk about Brooke, I'll let you know what I'm talking about, Okay.
Speaker 3: I wanted to reiterate something when I said earlier about
Speaker 3: five minutes ago that I have felt like it's people
Speaker 3: using us. I don't mean that for the people that
Speaker 3: came to Azalia Festival. I don't want anyone to be
Speaker 3: offended by what I said. I just mean generally, throughout
Speaker 3: my life, I felt like people have tried to take
Speaker 3: advantage of us for our story. And I came on
Speaker 3: the third day of Azelia Fest when you guys were
Speaker 3: there the whole time. I had a different experience than
Speaker 3: you guys, and I was in a rush to get
Speaker 3: there and it was awesome, and I was like, this
Speaker 3: is awesome. These are really cool people. But I still
Speaker 3: never really processed the notion that people are like, you know,
Speaker 3: seeking to help us, right, But after a Zealia Fest,
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sorry, after Riverfest last weekend, when that
Speaker 3: was over, we had, dude, there were so many people
Speaker 3: out there with their own psionics, cameras.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and then like night vision goggles. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: all kinds. People brought their own equipment and cameras.
Speaker 3: And I had this strange sense that like, we're not
Speaker 3: collecting this data anymore alone, but we have an army
Speaker 3: of people helping us crowdsourcing data. So for everybody who
Speaker 3: has taking good footage, I was like, send that to
Speaker 3: me because I can tag this, I can post this
Speaker 3: and tag you. But now I don't have so much
Speaker 3: of a burden and a responsibility to get this data.
Speaker 3: There are people here with me who have like heard
Speaker 3: our story, know the truth about this thing, have learned
Speaker 3: our method, are now replicating it. So there are people
Speaker 3: I trust and it's genuine footage because I'm literally with them,
Speaker 3: you know. And it's like, dude, there's an army of
Speaker 3: people who are literally learning our method, replicating it, and
Speaker 3: we're crowdsourcing data now. It just changed the way I
Speaker 3: think about things like oh my god, like there are
Speaker 3: a literal army of people out there who want to
Speaker 3: help us.
Speaker 1: We'll not a literal army, well, they don't have a
Speaker 1: literal mass run out there.
Speaker 3: There's a mass number of people out there who's getting
Speaker 3: to be a comparable size for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was so unbelievably mind blowing.
Speaker 4: It definitely helped share my story. Now, yes, please, because
Speaker 4: you were talking. The reason I had thought about it
Speaker 4: is because you were talking about how you don't like
Speaker 4: understand your own impact sometimes. And there was this lady
Speaker 4: that Ryan Literally I was in the middle of having
Speaker 4: a good conversation with somebody and Ryan comes and it's
Speaker 4: just like, hey, I need you now quickly come over here.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, dude, like I'm in the middle of something.
Speaker 4: She's like no, no, no, no, for real. And I did that
Speaker 4: to him all throughout the weekend, smashed everyone else's attention anyway.
Speaker 4: But anyway, he's like, yes, he says, so I saw
Speaker 4: this lady. She looked really familiar, and she's like, Hi,
Speaker 4: I believe that I gave you a facial a few
Speaker 4: years ago. And and her name is Jennifer by the way,
Speaker 4: which was also funny and I was like, oh.
Speaker 2: My gosh, yeah, I remember you. And I was very date.
Speaker 2: I was just very out of it that day. I
Speaker 2: remember that. I remember it was just one of those things.
Speaker 4: I had a gift card and I'm like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go get this facial and it was nice, you know,
Speaker 4: I just I don't really get facials a whole lot.
Speaker 4: But she was so sweet and so I think it
Speaker 4: was maybe a recording weekend or something, and she was like, so,
Speaker 4: what are you doing this weekend? Like so, I think
Speaker 4: I had started talking about the podcast and just saying, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm recording this weekend.
Speaker 2: We have this podcast. What's it about? Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: And then I was telling her and she's like, oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, wow, that's amazing. And I was telling her,
Speaker 4: go look it up, go look it up. And then
Speaker 4: here she is, in person, right in front of me.
Speaker 4: She said, Hey, I just want you to know, like
Speaker 4: I've actually been keeping up with you since that appointment.
Speaker 4: I'd never seen her again because again, I'm not really
Speaker 4: a facials gal, so i'd never really seen her again.
Speaker 4: But she was like that conversation that we had together
Speaker 4: really made like a difference for me and really really
Speaker 4: liked helped me. And now I've been following this story
Speaker 4: and like I just want to thank you and blah blah.
Speaker 4: So the fact that she literally like came up to
Speaker 4: me and said that conversation meant something to her, when
Speaker 4: to me, I was just like, oh, I haven't thought
Speaker 4: about that facial in like.
Speaker 2: Three years, you know what I mean, and like really nice.
Speaker 2: It was so.
Speaker 4: Crazy and it was just it was so nice, and
Speaker 4: that was one of those moments for me that I.
Speaker 2: Was like, wow, yeah, like she heard you right, exactly right.
Speaker 1: And like actually internalized it and it and it meant
Speaker 1: something to her.
Speaker 4: I know, Like that's really strange sometimes to think that
Speaker 4: there's like value in.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, oh.
Speaker 2: That's so nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's It's incredible. The whole weekend was just jam
Speaker 1: full of little moments like that. Yeah, just just too incredible.
Speaker 1: And that's not even talking about the unbelievable skywatches.
Speaker 3: Get to that. We saved the best for last. I
Speaker 3: wanted to talk about Brook for a second. So this
Speaker 3: is this this lady from Canada. I say, okay, I
Speaker 3: say lady. I estimate she was probably like twenty Okay,
Speaker 3: So that's what I was thinking, maybe twenty one or
Speaker 3: twenty two based on our conversations because she was definitely
Speaker 3: like an undergrad and she traveled alone from Canada. She
Speaker 3: was really nice and she was just really like bubbly
Speaker 3: and she was I mean, I felt concerned for like
Speaker 3: making sure some of these people are like out of country,
Speaker 3: have no call.
Speaker 1: Yeah ubering.
Speaker 3: We're skywatching on the beach till like one in the morning,
Speaker 3: so I'm like, I'm concerned, how are.
Speaker 1: These people going to get home? Some of them?
Speaker 3: So on Saturday night, I think, yeah, I think it
Speaker 3: was Saturday night. We were staying really late and Brooke
Speaker 3: was one of the last people out there.
Speaker 5: Because I was doing so there was a gentleman named
Speaker 5: Evan and Brooke and we kind of started talking towards.
Speaker 3: The end of the evening. Evan was cool.
Speaker 5: I ended up sitting them both down and doing Cube
Speaker 5: in the Desert to both of them at the same time.
Speaker 5: So we all had fun doing Cuban in the desert, talked.
Speaker 5: He had a whole awesome like zero gravity chair set up,
Speaker 5: like he out he wasn't playing around, so he was like,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna stay and yeah, she she had traveled here
Speaker 5: by herself and was like going to catch an uber
Speaker 5: and I was like, nah, I'll just give you a ride,
Speaker 5: Like it's not a big deal. Otherwise, I mean, I
Speaker 5: would have been worried about it all night. Oh, you
Speaker 5: would have been worried about it.
Speaker 3: I was leaving the parking lot thinking to myself, Jenny,
Speaker 3: I was talking to her and Emily. I was like,
Speaker 3: should we go back and offer her ride? Like I'm
Speaker 3: really worried. Maybe I could ask Alex if he'll give
Speaker 3: her a ride. And then sure enough I turned around
Speaker 3: and Alex and broke her walking out behind. And Alex
Speaker 3: was like, I'm gonna take her home. And I was like,
Speaker 3: thank god, dude, what a gentleman. Like I was sitting
Speaker 3: here panicking, how is this young girl from Canada gonna
Speaker 3: get to her place at one in the morning? Right,
Speaker 3: So I'm getting somewhere with this.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So then Sunday night comes around and of all that,
Speaker 3: now you guys are there, so you know, like pretty
Speaker 3: much everybody we saw Saturday, they were back at that
Speaker 3: booth on Sunday.
Speaker 5: Well, and I saw her when I got there, and
Speaker 5: I was like, hey, if you need to ride home,
Speaker 5: I got you.
Speaker 3: Don't worry. Well, Brooke was the one person all day
Speaker 3: on Sunday that I never noticed at the booth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So in my head, I was like, what happened
Speaker 1: to Yeah, I was wondering the same thing.
Speaker 3: I was like, what happened to her? What happened to her?
Speaker 3: So I saw her at the beach that night. I'm
Speaker 3: thinking she went home or something, and I bumped into
Speaker 3: her at the SkyWatch. I was like, where were you
Speaker 3: and she said, oh, well, I came out to the
Speaker 3: beach by myself. I fell asleep on the beach for
Speaker 3: several hours. I got sunburned, And anyway, SkyWatch goes on.
Speaker 3: This is the part that I brought this whole story
Speaker 3: up for that I thought was so funny that it's
Speaker 3: again you know what I'm getting at now, don't you.
Speaker 3: And it just goes to show you never know, like
Speaker 3: how you impact people like Alex's actions have impacted her,
Speaker 3: maybe forever. So second night comes around, Alex is like,
Speaker 3: don't worry about it. I can give you another ride
Speaker 3: home tonight. So Alex ends up giving Dad and Brook
Speaker 3: a ride home. So Brooke is sitting in the back
Speaker 3: of that Alex's truck and he's up in the front
Speaker 3: talking with Dad. Dad's turning around talking to Brooke. I
Speaker 3: have no clue what he said to her, right, I
Speaker 3: just remember she's just silent in the truck. He's just
Speaker 3: silent that Alex drops Dad off down the street to
Speaker 3: rights Full Beach because he had a condo there that
Speaker 3: was an airbn be And then I guess after you
Speaker 3: drop that off, she's like, oh my god, I just
Speaker 3: got to ride home home with Chris Bledsoe in the
Speaker 3: back of the car.
Speaker 1: She was too stunned to even talk to him. So awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he acknowledged her in the car, and he was
Speaker 3: just talking a head off like he was just like.
Speaker 5: We were, Me and your dad were just chatting business
Speaker 5: as usual, like we were chatting about SkyWatch, about what's
Speaker 5: going on. Like I was just like, hey, you know,
Speaker 5: you need to talk to this person, this person, this person.
Speaker 5: And I dropped him off like because all the way
Speaker 5: it all shook out on the way there was I
Speaker 5: gave him a ride to the thing, right, and I
Speaker 5: just like, I don't like leaving your dad like stranded
Speaker 5: because he is so nice and he will let people
Speaker 5: just talking talking, talking, talking, talk, which is great, Like
Speaker 5: it's not a bad thing, but it's something.
Speaker 1: It's what we wanted to do. He's a human being
Speaker 1: at the cost of himself, right right.
Speaker 5: And that's where I start to like, all right, come on,
Speaker 5: let's like it's time to go. You know, someone's got
Speaker 5: to be the bad guy sometimes. But anyway, so this
Speaker 5: was happening, and I was like Brook, like, grab your stuff,
Speaker 5: like we're leaving, and uh put yeah, got him in
Speaker 5: the car and then uh yeah they he they exchanged
Speaker 5: some words and I just I don't remember. So there
Speaker 5: was so much going on, but I just anyway, after
Speaker 5: he got out, it was kind of it was I
Speaker 5: got tickled. I was like, yeah, you know little magic moments.
Speaker 3: Yeah, magic moment. It just was like really special for us,
Speaker 3: Like she was such a nice person anyway, all the
Speaker 3: way out by herself from Canada. That's the thing is
Speaker 3: my mom is like, why are you doing this?
Speaker 1: Why are you doing this?
Speaker 3: Is weird?
Speaker 5: Well, and that was part of it too, is like
Speaker 5: everybody that travels, I feel like everybody kind of has
Speaker 5: their little groups or they bring a friend, you know,
Speaker 5: or they've got their little click click that they meet
Speaker 5: up with and have traveled with when they get here,
Speaker 5: like Omi's are friends, like there's friend groups within the
Speaker 5: Omi's and stuff, and she was kind of outside of
Speaker 5: all that, and I was like, I'm gonna worry all night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh my gosh, can I say another person.
Speaker 2: That I just yeah, ever a personally think of shout
Speaker 2: out moment, So, oh god. One of my favorite people
Speaker 2: ever is Rosa. I just love you. I just think
Speaker 2: you're amazing.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought. The story was.
Speaker 3: She is just.
Speaker 2: I love you. I love you Rosa. Essentially what happened
Speaker 2: was she.
Speaker 4: Was waiting in line, and you could tell that she
Speaker 4: would maybe was a little bit stressed from travel.
Speaker 2: She had just flown in that kind of thing.
Speaker 4: And I was, of course, like I said, kind of
Speaker 4: doing line control, if that's what you want to call it,
Speaker 4: just speaking to people in the line, just like, you know,
Speaker 4: making sure everyone is isn't.
Speaker 2: You know, Chris likes to talk with people a lot,
Speaker 2: So I was just.
Speaker 4: Kind of making sure that, you know, people weren't getting
Speaker 4: impatient or something. And I come across Rosa and Roses like,
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I can't believe you're in the line,
Speaker 4: like that kind of thing. And then was like I
Speaker 4: was telling her, yeah, yeah, like we're all here, like
Speaker 4: you know, Nick and Alton, everyone's here.
Speaker 2: She's like everyone's here.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I get to talk to him.
Speaker 2: And I was like yes, please, please please.
Speaker 4: I got Ryan And anyway, everyone ended up coming, you know,
Speaker 4: over to Rose overtime and I had everyone sign her
Speaker 4: book and she is just I just think she's an angel.
Speaker 2: And I love her and I wanted to shout you out.
Speaker 4: I also wanted to shout at some of my other
Speaker 4: favorite buddies from the weekend. Jimmy was my skywatching buddy
Speaker 4: and we had so much fun, like so much fun
Speaker 4: on the beach. I think like he was super awesome Orange,
Speaker 4: super awesome.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah Orange.
Speaker 1: On the on Sunday night, me and Pierce ended up
Speaker 1: just like laying down next to each other and like
Speaker 1: watching for over an hour, hour and a half something
Speaker 1: like that. He's hilarious and we were just cracking jokes
Speaker 1: back that dude is.
Speaker 4: To get him on the show I watch literally, so
Speaker 4: we were like the last ones to leave on Sunday,
Speaker 4: the last ones, oh yeah, were we really got to
Speaker 4: go to bed, like you know, it's getting late or
Speaker 4: he got in the car and he's like driving off
Speaker 4: but passing us as we're walking to our cars and
Speaker 4: he literally just goes.
Speaker 2: It's like one am, he goes and one want to
Speaker 2: hit up w House. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: So it was. It was on Sunday night. It was me,
Speaker 1: Casey Orange was next to us, and then Paul and
Speaker 1: Emma were on our blanket with yeah to go, two
Speaker 1: of my favorite people in the world. They are so incredible.
Speaker 1: And then Ashland big shout out. Ashley, our friend from
Speaker 1: high school, showed up for us. Came from Fayetteville. It
Speaker 1: was she surprised all of us. So cool and I
Speaker 1: swear to you, dude, we're all there like on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: like skywatching Orange has us rolling. Dude, He's so funny.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. That was That was a little magical moment
Speaker 1: of mine.
Speaker 3: Like it was cool to meet him in person, dude,
Speaker 3: because he is literally one of the very first members
Speaker 3: of our discourse. Yeah, we have known him for three years.
Speaker 3: I've played Valheim with him for countless Minecraft with him,
Speaker 3: yeah hours, And I never thought he would look like that.
Speaker 2: Give everyone context. What did you say say he looked.
Speaker 5: A musician music? He plays the rock and roll aesthetic
Speaker 5: very well.
Speaker 3: I told him he looked like the poly short character
Speaker 3: from the Goofy movie. He loved it, dude, he loved it.
Speaker 3: He had the ear ring like he thought that ship
Speaker 3: was so funny. Man, we were cracking up about it.
Speaker 3: He's cool.
Speaker 1: I really liked him. He's so so cool. Every every
Speaker 1: every single person that we met was truly incredible. It
Speaker 1: looks true, right, I mean, his hair is different.
Speaker 4: But the vibe that's yeah, that's the hair is totally different,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: And you're right, dude.
Speaker 3: Everybody was every single person was incredible and sweet and
Speaker 3: they said the nicest things like it truly healed my
Speaker 3: heart so much. That's why I was saying, like, I
Speaker 3: felt like people are here to help us, absolutely, you know,
Speaker 3: not to take from, but to help. And I've never
Speaker 3: felt that before.
Speaker 4: It was cool to see other people get along with
Speaker 4: each other like that was really some of the book.
Speaker 4: The fact that it's like, wow, like you guys came
Speaker 4: together because we decided one day to put together a
Speaker 4: discord and now you know you And it was also
Speaker 4: a reason for some people to connect with old friends,
Speaker 4: like for example, Meg and Rose Rose across the country
Speaker 4: and they're like, you know what, I think we're gonna
Speaker 4: make this kind of like a yearly like friend meet
Speaker 4: up thing for us to come here and do this.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, yes, they live across the country and
Speaker 3: they and same with Mike and Danny, and they both
Speaker 3: of these different friend groups, and I'm sure others did this.
Speaker 3: They were like, all right, we'll meet in Wilmington. And
Speaker 3: they flew both from different states into the same city.
Speaker 3: So because of our little event, multiple people who are
Speaker 3: friends remotely all the way across the country came into
Speaker 3: town and got to be together with us. And that's
Speaker 3: just amazing.
Speaker 4: But wait, one of my favorite parts is that our
Speaker 4: friends from Denmark, Frank, Frank and Mark, I think, like
Speaker 4: I might be getting it the wrong way. I think
Speaker 4: Frank had just brought it up to Martin and said, hey,
Speaker 4: I want to go meet and he's just like, well,
Speaker 4: I gotta go with him, you know. So then he's
Speaker 4: just like, yeah, sure, I'll go with you to Wilmington,
Speaker 4: North Carolina, of.
Speaker 2: All places in the USA, and go like meet.
Speaker 1: These people from Denmark.
Speaker 2: It's also funny you bring up Mike.
Speaker 4: For some reason, I always just thought his name was Sam,
Speaker 4: And even whenever he said hide me in the discord,
Speaker 4: I'm like.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, are you Sam like Mikes?
Speaker 3: So he was Sam was Sam was the guy who
Speaker 3: had the black lap Venus.
Speaker 2: Yes, Venus, shout out to Venus. She was with us
Speaker 2: all weekend.
Speaker 1: Good vibes, oh yeah, and Sam to One of the
Speaker 1: most touching things I heard the entire weekend was from Sam.
Speaker 1: And it was Sunday night when we were leaving and
Speaker 1: people were packing up and heading out. We were about
Speaker 1: to head out, and he just like stopped and he
Speaker 1: was like, I just I just want to thank you
Speaker 1: so much for all of this and everything you guys do,
Speaker 1: and you really gave me a really a beautiful memory
Speaker 1: with Venus. Yes, he was like, this is probably the
Speaker 1: last time that she's an old dog fourteen maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. And he said, this is probably
Speaker 1: the last time that me and Venus will take a
Speaker 1: trip together. And it was so beautiful and amazing, and
Speaker 1: that dog she was an angel. She's a little angel.
Speaker 3: She didn't make a peep the whole weekend. She just
Speaker 3: sat right there in front of everybody, and she was
Speaker 3: like the mascot of the crew, like the sweetest dog.
Speaker 5: If I'm correct, I think Sam came for the book
Speaker 5: and your dad and stayed for the omies. Oh really,
Speaker 5: I think he was there in the morning. I could
Speaker 5: be the one there.
Speaker 3: He was the first one there. It was Saturday when
Speaker 3: I showed up to the he was there talking to that.
Speaker 5: Right, and then he just started hanging out in the back.
Speaker 5: The omie started filling in, and he just assimilated into
Speaker 5: the culture.
Speaker 3: So many people that weekend, so many that I can't
Speaker 3: even tell you a number because it's wet.
Speaker 4: But let's give another super duper special shout out to
Speaker 4: our friend Ken Brooke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, what about her. We did a little bit
Speaker 3: how Teddy signed her book, but I mean there's so much.
Speaker 2: More, no, but okay, well let me say something about her.
Speaker 2: I think she was so cool. Yeah, girl, and shembroke
Speaker 2: for listening.
Speaker 4: You are really smart, Like it was really really cool
Speaker 4: to just watch her talk. And she literally would ask
Speaker 4: questions while we're out there skywatching, questions like how do
Speaker 4: you make a connection with them? Or do you feel
Speaker 4: connected to them? Are asking very like advanced questions for her.
Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay, this is the future right here, this
Speaker 4: is the future generation.
Speaker 1: Yes, awesome.
Speaker 3: This this ten year old girl asked us. She asked me,
Speaker 3: she said, do you think that something will come out
Speaker 3: of these orbs? And I got the sense that, like,
Speaker 3: you know, I need to be careful about how I answer,
Speaker 3: because I don't want her to be afraid, right, And
Speaker 3: I said, well, they usually don't. That's not something that
Speaker 3: they usually do. But in my experience, they're very, very friendly,
Speaker 3: so if they did, it probably would be okay, you know.
Speaker 3: And she was just like huh. And at some point
Speaker 3: she goes, if you had asked me to talk about
Speaker 3: when she was nine years old, She goes, if you
Speaker 3: had asked me about the stuff a year ago, I
Speaker 3: would have said, I don't believe it.
Speaker 1: So funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so she was. She was really awesome.
Speaker 1: It was amazing getting to meet Kyle's daughter. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was so awesome.
Speaker 2: She was so giddy, so Emily's voice.
Speaker 1: There was a students so well mannered, so well awesome.
Speaker 1: She another bright little girl, so smart, so smart.
Speaker 3: Shook my hand, introduced yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I know. She shook my hand to
Speaker 1: job Kyles, great, great job, Kyle.
Speaker 6: I told him that, right, Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 6: think we're I think we're probably at a point where
Speaker 6: we can start talking about what those who didn't come
Speaker 6: we're waiting for.
Speaker 3: But I wanted to finish what I was saying earlier
Speaker 3: before we started talking about Kimbroke again, was that I
Speaker 3: couldn't tell you how many people were there with us
Speaker 3: that were like, please let me help. If there's anything
Speaker 3: I can do to help, let me do it. I'll
Speaker 3: help break down the tent.
Speaker 1: Do you need food? Do you need this?
Speaker 3: Do you need that? And people they were really like,
Speaker 3: you know, taking care of us, and that was just
Speaker 3: like really humbling. I don't know it was. It was
Speaker 3: definitely life changing for me.
Speaker 1: Absolutely it was, and you know we could it would.
Speaker 1: It would take us four hours to mention everybody in
Speaker 1: every interaction. But to everybody who came, uh.
Speaker 3: Changed my life.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. You You are so special and incredible and we
Speaker 1: can't thank you enough for coming and showing up for
Speaker 1: us and this project and the community that you're a
Speaker 1: part of.
Speaker 4: So this is I was telling people, like, you might
Speaker 4: be really excited to be here, and like I get
Speaker 4: that and all that, but like I promise you that
Speaker 4: were just as excited, if not even more excited to
Speaker 4: meet you.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there wasn't a dull feeling. No, you know how
Speaker 3: it's like, there wasn't a dull moment. No, there wasn't
Speaker 3: a dull feeling.
Speaker 1: Not one. I was just ecstatic the entire time.
Speaker 3: I was buzzy, even when exhausted, even when hungry, even
Speaker 3: when you know, it was.
Speaker 5: Every time, Yeah, every time I had a thought like that.
Speaker 3: We didn't want to go immediately turned around to get
Speaker 3: a way to use the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know whatever, right like.
Speaker 5: You know, my dad called me, said, how was Riverfest?
Speaker 3: I said, I don't know. I never left the booth.
Speaker 1: I have no clue what was Yeah, no, no, no
Speaker 1: exploring whatsoever. We just stayed right there and hung with
Speaker 1: the omies.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 4: I did mosey on over to the reptile booth. Okay,
Speaker 4: I had to go. Hold They had a snake there.
Speaker 4: They had a whole bunch of big snakes and iguanas
Speaker 4: and huge frogs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so I did have to go pay them
Speaker 2: a little visit. I don't know what it is. I'm
Speaker 2: just drawn to him lately. But anyway, yes to everyone
Speaker 2: for real.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I guess now we can kind of talk
Speaker 3: about what actually happened on the beach. Yeah, let's start
Speaker 3: with Saturday night. Yeah, so Saturday night, me, Jenny, and
Speaker 3: Emily get there late by about thirty minutes. Dad's out
Speaker 3: there by himself with about two hundred people we had
Speaker 3: at Azelafes. Jennifer, the one we were talking about who
Speaker 3: brought the name tags from Tennessee. Her and Brent basically
Speaker 3: got a count for us, which is how we knew
Speaker 3: there were seventy five people. So when I got it
Speaker 3: was our counter last time yep. And again that's her
Speaker 3: other job. When I got there and she volunteered to
Speaker 3: do that, she just went and did it and told
Speaker 3: me a number.
Speaker 1: I was like great.
Speaker 3: So this time when I got to the crowd Saturday,
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 1: Like, where's Jennifer.
Speaker 3: Not my wife, but where's Jennifer from Tennessee? And they're like,
Speaker 3: you know, two hundred people? They were like who you know?
Speaker 3: And eventually she came and found me. She was like, hey,
Speaker 3: I heard you're looking for me. I was like, yes,
Speaker 3: last time, you got a count for me, would you
Speaker 3: mind doing it again? And she comes back to me
Speaker 3: and I don't know, fifteen twenty minutes or something, and
Speaker 3: she's like, it's so dark. I started counting the people
Speaker 3: around the outside, and then I started getting to the
Speaker 3: clusters on the inside and there were a lot more people,
Speaker 3: but it's so dark I couldn't distinguish them.
Speaker 1: She lost counted one hundred.
Speaker 3: And seventy five, but she was like, but I think
Speaker 3: it's really more like two hundred. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: so anywhere from one seventy five to two hundred people
Speaker 3: were there. So I get there late. I'm freaking out
Speaker 3: cause Dad's out there by himself. And Dad's not really
Speaker 3: a loud persons He's kind of soft spoken. So I
Speaker 3: get there. He has his camera. He's just like literally
Speaker 3: in front of two hundred people with his camera on
Speaker 3: the horizon. I just bust right through the crowd. I'm
Speaker 3: excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. I get up to
Speaker 3: the front and I find Dad and I.
Speaker 1: Start whispering in his ear. I'm like, Dad, you know
Speaker 1: we need to get these people.
Speaker 3: Together, Like have you addressed the crowd yet? And he
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, I did a little bit. I told
Speaker 3: them this, that and the other. And I was like,
Speaker 3: I'll be right back. So I ran around to the
Speaker 3: side of the crowd, and I just basically was like, hey, everybody,
Speaker 3: you know, put your minds together.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what I said.
Speaker 3: Did a great job, Yeah, well, thank you, but I
Speaker 3: really don't remember what I said. On Saturday night, I
Speaker 3: was very stressed because there was the thought in my mind,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just we usually feel the vibe, but
Speaker 3: I was unable to feel the vibe because of the
Speaker 3: pressure in the stress because the only thought in my
Speaker 3: mind was what if this crowd of two hundred people
Speaker 3: goes home and there's this massive ripple effect of two
Speaker 3: hundred people going out into the world and saying I
Speaker 3: SkyWatch with the Bloodstones didn't say see anything, you know,
Speaker 3: so I was like, oh, crap, we you know, the
Speaker 3: pressure's on us. They have to see something. So I'm
Speaker 3: freaking out and freaking out. And I think over that
Speaker 3: night we saw five things in total.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was it was, yeah, about five. I thing.
Speaker 3: After being there till like midnight, we saw maybe five things,
Speaker 3: maybe six, at least five. And the final thing we
Speaker 3: saw that night was pretty crazy, I guess. And this
Speaker 3: was several hours into it. I could probably get a
Speaker 3: timestamp because Paul, who we were talking about earlier, Paul
Speaker 3: Drew took a video and sent it to me. So
Speaker 3: at one point, the crowd is I mean, it's just
Speaker 3: like two hundred people meeting each other for the first time,
Speaker 3: and a lot of these people have never skywatched, and
Speaker 3: everybody wasn't on the same page, and I kept I
Speaker 3: kept thinking, in my mind, someone here is afraid. The
Speaker 3: reason these experiences aren't popping off is because the crowd
Speaker 3: is so big, and there has to be at least
Speaker 3: one or a number of people who are really afraid
Speaker 3: and not sure what to think. So you know, the
Speaker 3: crowd is being eased into it. Because the orbans we
Speaker 3: saw were very dim and very faint. But the final
Speaker 3: one we saw that night, I started seeing it and
Speaker 3: I started shouting, hey, everybody looked this way, looked this way.
Speaker 3: And then you know, the whole crowd of two hundred
Speaker 3: people turn around. Because Dad had him looking at the ocean,
Speaker 3: I was looking behind us. I was like, look this way.
Speaker 3: The whole crowd turns and looks around and there's this
Speaker 3: big orb and the cell phone video doesn't do it justice,
Speaker 3: but it when everybody looked, it got so bright, like
Speaker 3: super bright, right, and the whole crowd.
Speaker 1: Screamed yeah, and I was clapped.
Speaker 3: Yeah, clap cheered, and I was like, yes, the pressure
Speaker 3: is off.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was an amazing Yeah. And Casey the second
Speaker 1: we stepped on the beach, she said, I feel like
Speaker 1: there's an energy of like fear and anxiety to hear.
Speaker 1: But it got broken when like everybody sees something and
Speaker 1: everybody's like yeah and cheering, and the whole vibe flipped
Speaker 1: at that moment because.
Speaker 3: Initially there were two hundred constant chattering voices. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: we have to focus, right, We can't.
Speaker 1: We don't.
Speaker 3: We're not constantly chattering when we SkyWatch. Sometimes we do
Speaker 3: and they're like, all right, refocus, you know, Dad refocuses us.
Speaker 3: But it was literally two hundred chattering people.
Speaker 5: And it's easy to do when it's a group of
Speaker 5: five or six people, but it's not easy to do right.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 5: Also, I just counted the parking spots in that lot.
Speaker 5: There's exactly one hundred, and you've got to think most
Speaker 5: people are traveling to wait.
Speaker 2: Is that? Was that what your prediction was?
Speaker 5: Well, dude, not to mention the Yeah, yeah, no, I'm
Speaker 5: just saying that rot was full, So minimum one hundred yeah,
Speaker 5: and that that's that's like a worst case exaggeration minimum, right, like,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, that is double that is the bare minimum,
Speaker 5: and it was actually double that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Jennifer lost count at one seventy five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she literally told me, she was like, there's
Speaker 3: got to be at least twenty five more.
Speaker 5: People, far better than me. Because I lost count at
Speaker 5: twenty five. I was like, I could do this. No,
Speaker 5: I can't think.
Speaker 3: I think Kyle said in a discord he counted one
Speaker 3: of the pictures. I can't remember the number. Oh oh oh,
Speaker 3: but it was at least one seventy five, like like
Speaker 3: bare minimum, one seventy five realistically like counted people. But anyway,
Speaker 3: so it ended up great. Saturday night, we saw five
Speaker 3: or six things, but the final thing was a massive flash, right,
Speaker 3: and everybody's cheering. The next day when I wake up,
Speaker 3: I'm really just thinking to myself, like, someone was afraid
Speaker 3: last night. It's just just based on the experience of
Speaker 3: growing up with this thing and knowing how it reacts
Speaker 3: to certain people and the energy of crowds and stuff.
Speaker 3: I just kept telling myself, like, somebody was afraid, but
Speaker 3: maybe tonight they won't be and I just knew that
Speaker 3: Sunday night we were going to have a way bigger sighting.
Speaker 3: I was not stressed about it. The rest of the day.
Speaker 3: I started inviting everybody off the street, like I told
Speaker 3: the story about Lauren. Everybody who came by. I was like,
Speaker 3: come tonight, come to night, Come to night. Wasn't worried
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: What Jenny was saying, what's that noise?
Speaker 2: It was your It sounded like thunder. It's like banging
Speaker 2: on the door or something.
Speaker 3: Anyway, so I knew Sunday night was gonna be great.
Speaker 3: So my point is, at one point I'm walking around
Speaker 3: towards the end of the day trying to tell everybody like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're about to pack up the tent. Hey, we're about
Speaker 3: to pack up the tent. I get to Alex and Olivia,
Speaker 3: his wife, which is still so strange to.
Speaker 4: Say, shout out miss shot or.
Speaker 2: Is it misses. I don't know.
Speaker 3: You guys were talking to this individual, and I was
Speaker 3: just passing through really quick. I was actually delivering books,
Speaker 3: and because I had signed it, and then I had
Speaker 3: to find the people, right So I walk up to
Speaker 3: you and Olivia, and maybe I was getting you to
Speaker 3: sign the copy or something. But there was someone you
Speaker 3: were talking to and his eyes were wide.
Speaker 1: Like he had seen ghosts.
Speaker 3: And unfortunately I can't remember his name, and I wish
Speaker 3: I could shoot, but his eyes were wide and he
Speaker 3: was like, Ryan, am I okay?
Speaker 1: I had nightmares last night.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I cannot remember his name.
Speaker 3: He was like, I had terrible nightmares last night. I'm
Speaker 3: so afraid. What you know, I had demonic dreams about
Speaker 3: what I saw in the sky. And I was like,
Speaker 3: I freaking knew it.
Speaker 1: I knew it.
Speaker 2: I knew I didn't even know this, so that's oh.
Speaker 5: Gosh, Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry if you're listening
Speaker 5: and I can't remember your name. But no, he came
Speaker 5: up to me and was like, man, can I tell
Speaker 5: you about my dream? And I'm like sure, and he
Speaker 5: starts telling me about this bad nightmare that he had
Speaker 5: that night involving orbs and that he's had him in
Speaker 5: the past, and a lot of there's a lot of
Speaker 5: religious I want to say, religious trauma up in there.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't fraggle uh what was it? Fraggle rotruggle rock.
Speaker 4: Gosh?
Speaker 3: I lovely gosh.
Speaker 5: I'm so sorry, but anyway. I was like, yeah, man,
Speaker 5: I don't know, like completely caught off guard. I don't
Speaker 5: know a whole lot. I'm not as good at obviously
Speaker 5: as good as you are. Anyway, you come up, I'm like,
Speaker 5: here's the guy.
Speaker 1: Ask him.
Speaker 5: And he did. And whatever you said was so eloquent
Speaker 5: and graceful and correct, and you just put him at
Speaker 5: ease immediately.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 3: I said something very quick, and I walked away because
Speaker 3: I didn't have much time. But I thought very carefully
Speaker 3: in that moment about what to say, and I put
Speaker 3: my hand on his shoulder. I was like, look, you
Speaker 3: are totally fine. I was being sincere, but I was
Speaker 3: being very fast. I said, you are totally fine. You
Speaker 3: are experiencing religious trauma. And I want to ask you
Speaker 3: a question, and I want you to think about the answer.
Speaker 3: Why would something that is evil and scary care so
Speaker 3: much to get brighter and brighter at a crowd of
Speaker 3: two hundred screaming and cheering people. Why would something that's
Speaker 3: evil and has bad intentions for us want to interact
Speaker 3: with us in such a fun and positive way. You're
Speaker 3: gonna be okay, you are totally safe. I want you
Speaker 3: to pray for good dreams because he mentioned, you know,
Speaker 3: I've been praying for my safety. I've been praying him Okay,
Speaker 3: he looked really scared, dude. His eyes were his eyes
Speaker 3: were like like he had seen a ghost, Like he
Speaker 3: was really terrified. And I felt sorry for him, but
Speaker 3: I had to go do something. I was in a rush,
Speaker 3: so I was like, you're gonna be okay, it's religious trauma.
Speaker 3: I want you to pray for good dreams tonight, and
Speaker 3: I promise you you're gonna be totally fine. And there
Speaker 3: are some doorways that you have to cross, basically like
Speaker 3: in your mind to overcome this fear.
Speaker 1: But you are totally safe.
Speaker 3: And he was he I just I walked off and
Speaker 3: I never saw him again. Yeah, I never saw him.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he was there that night or not.
Speaker 3: But I wish I had more time, want to say
Speaker 3: he was that.
Speaker 5: I can't remember exactly either. I feel so bad, But
Speaker 5: then again, there's like two hundred people, right, Yeah, and
Speaker 5: I wish I had more time to talk to him.
Speaker 5: But hopefully that impacted him in a good way. And oh,
Speaker 5: after what he said, he was like, I said something about, man,
Speaker 5: I'm glad you got to talk to him because he
Speaker 5: did so much better than me. Like it was like,
Speaker 5: I'm glad you got the pro right, and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: that was awesome.
Speaker 3: Thanks. Well that morning, I forgot to say. That morning
Speaker 3: he also put a message in our discord saying, did
Speaker 3: anyone else have nightmares last night? I had terrible nightmares
Speaker 3: about the ORBS? What do I do? So when I
Speaker 3: talked to him in that moment, I knew it was him,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, I made the connection really quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, and I had already been
Speaker 3: thinking someone's afraid.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was weird how it presented itself. So anyway, Sunday
Speaker 3: night comes around, and I mean, you guys want to
Speaker 3: take a crack at what happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was unbelievable. So we show up again around
Speaker 1: the same time, a little early. Wait, yeah it was
Speaker 1: a little earlier. Yeah, we wanted to get there a
Speaker 1: little earlier so we could get a picture of everybody
Speaker 1: group picture. Everybody got there on time. We were all
Speaker 1: there at the same time. Energy was very high. Everybody's
Speaker 1: so excited. It was good vibes all around. And I
Speaker 1: mean we probably got there at what seven thirty yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that. And I don't know, it couldn't have
Speaker 1: been more than ten minutes maybe, and then boom it started.
Speaker 3: Dude, it started while I was explaining the process. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: we saw like six by the time I was even
Speaker 3: done explaining how we do this.
Speaker 4: Well, wait, I actually have to give us credit for
Speaker 4: getting a photo of that many individuals after dark and
Speaker 4: I was up on this on one of those really
Speaker 4: big yeah the lifeguard towers, and I was like everybody,
Speaker 4: and then we had to wait for Chris.
Speaker 3: Okay, wait, I want to tell this. I want to
Speaker 3: tell this play.
Speaker 5: So y'all left and and then I was like, Chris,
Speaker 5: you need a ride and he's like yeah. So we
Speaker 5: hop in the truck. I got his camera equipment. We go,
Speaker 5: We go all the way there, We're like on time,
Speaker 5: we pull in, we park.
Speaker 3: He goes, I don't have the batteries. Yeah, but I
Speaker 3: mean luckily we're only like five minutes down the road.
Speaker 3: We're just going.
Speaker 5: It's all in Riceville Beach, and I know Jenny was
Speaker 5: all about this picture and the sun is going down.
Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, no problem, back up, leave, grab the
Speaker 5: grab the batteries.
Speaker 3: Pull back up.
Speaker 5: We get in the parking lot, I get him out
Speaker 5: in the car, like we're hustling, right, And I feel
Speaker 5: so bad because someone came up and is like, Chris,
Speaker 5: can I get a picture? And I was like, actually, no,
Speaker 5: we're trying to go get a picture. Jenny's gonna kill me.
Speaker 1: So good for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, And so I felt really bad.
Speaker 5: Because I'm like, man, I'm so sorry, We've got to go.
Speaker 5: So then Frank grabs the dude's camera, Frank from Denmark,
Speaker 5: and is taking pictures of them walking together, so like
Speaker 5: never stopping, but walking, and I'm like, all right, all right,
Speaker 5: let's go, let's go, let's go, and we get out
Speaker 5: there and get the picture. After the fact, we caught
Speaker 5: back up with that guy. Sorry I can't remember your name,
Speaker 5: got his picture and then that's good. Yeah, we got
Speaker 5: a picture after but yeah, it was a that was
Speaker 5: a funny moment. So we get the picture. Sorry, who
Speaker 5: was Who's telling the story?
Speaker 1: Oh? Whoever? I mean, we were all there, well, it
Speaker 1: was it was crazy.
Speaker 3: I just felt that that tonight, like it kind of
Speaker 3: worked out perfectly that the reverse happened and Dad was
Speaker 3: late this time because then I was thrust to kind
Speaker 3: of like wrangle the crowd without him being there.
Speaker 5: And Sunday is when you really shined with your crowd control.
Speaker 5: I will tell you. I mean you took absolute control
Speaker 5: of the situation.
Speaker 3: And I'm the Joko baby No, I mean I kind
Speaker 3: of felt like I had to too soon source subject
Speaker 3: to me. I had to though, you know, it's like
Speaker 3: you kind of sink or swim and and well we I.
Speaker 4: Think we also had the intention too of like we
Speaker 4: know what the first night was, like, we kind of
Speaker 4: a lot of people showed up after dark, so we
Speaker 4: didn't really recognize each other. We were just catching up
Speaker 4: for the first time, you know, since kind of like
Speaker 4: coming back together. So I think this like the second night,
Speaker 4: we went in with the intention of like, Okay, we're
Speaker 4: going to try to get the attention of everyone so
Speaker 4: that we can kind of get on the same wavelength.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was Jenny's idea, like just maybe tonight we
Speaker 3: can address the crowd like and kind of explain to
Speaker 3: them that we need to all be on the same page.
Speaker 3: So it just you know, basically telling the crowd like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, sorry I showed up late last night. Tonight
Speaker 3: We're gonna do things differently. We need to all be
Speaker 3: on the same page. We don't need a billion different
Speaker 3: chattering conversations. I know it's fun and exciting to meet everybody,
Speaker 3: but it's a lot of pressure for us, For people
Speaker 3: who have traveled all around the world to come here
Speaker 3: and expect to see things. It's a lot of pressure
Speaker 3: on us to get this to appear. We cannot be chattering.
Speaker 3: We have to focus. We have to put our minds together.
Speaker 3: We have to send our thoughts to the sky and
Speaker 3: make the connection in our mind with these beings or whatever.
Speaker 2: So, because that's what we do at home, that's literally
Speaker 2: what we do. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So right out the gate when it was time to SkyWatch,
Speaker 3: it was quiet.
Speaker 1: It was quiet. Everybody knew the assignment. Everybody knew.
Speaker 4: You kind of forgot how many people were there, yeah,
Speaker 4: because it was like, oh wow, Like you know, if
Speaker 4: you're looking one way and you got everyone behind you,
Speaker 4: you forget everyone's there, you know.
Speaker 3: And that night we lost count again with the same
Speaker 3: problem the night before at one fifty. So it was
Speaker 3: still a large crowd. Yeah, slightly smaller, but still over
Speaker 3: one fifty.
Speaker 5: I want to tell the story that I forgot. I
Speaker 5: don't know if I told you guys. Okay, so this
Speaker 5: is right in the beginning. So it's happening like the
Speaker 5: orbs are popping off right in their normal kind of
Speaker 5: state of being. The crowd is very quiet, everybody's very focused,
Speaker 5: and these experiences are happening very rapidly.
Speaker 3: In the beginning, I'm.
Speaker 5: Kind of I like to circle and see what's going on, right,
Speaker 5: and here comes this group of people coming off the
Speaker 5: access onto the beach, and I can't see.
Speaker 1: It's the dark.
Speaker 5: I don't know if they're here for this or whatever.
Speaker 5: So I just say hello and young young kids, college kids,
Speaker 5: and they go, what's going on here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you're telling this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They're like, what is going on here? And I'm like, okay, so,
Speaker 5: y'all aren't here for the sky watching. You're not part
Speaker 5: of the skywatchers club? Like no, So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: well let me tell you first, I'm not crazy. Second,
Speaker 5: all we're all out here skywatching looking at UFOs. This
Speaker 5: guy wrote a book. I'm like giving them the cliff
Speaker 5: notes of what's happening, right, and then I'm like, look,
Speaker 5: there's one. Look there's one. And they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 5: you're right. I'm like, yeah, that's not a satellite, man,
Speaker 5: that's a plane over here. They're like yeah, I'm like
Speaker 5: that's not right. And then it goes sideways. It's not
Speaker 5: a satellite, all right, look and then it fades out,
Speaker 5: get brighter. It's happening right, And they're like, oh my god.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, so sorry, we're taking up so much
Speaker 5: of the beach, Like you can hang out and stay
Speaker 5: and keep watching if you want, or go do whatever
Speaker 5: you want, like I don't care.
Speaker 3: And they're like yeah. And I'm like, by the way,
Speaker 3: I'm a normal guy. I have a normal job. Like
Speaker 3: I'm not crazy.
Speaker 1: I want to reiterate I am not crazy.
Speaker 3: No I did.
Speaker 5: I'm not exaggerating to you when I said that, exactly right,
Speaker 5: that's all because it's like it's dark, I'm stranger.
Speaker 1: I don't have a way out.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 5: No, I'm just like trying to bring their guard down
Speaker 5: because it's wild, right, it's wild. And she goes and
Speaker 5: I have no clue who she has never asked. One
Speaker 5: of the girls said, man, we came out here because
Speaker 5: I was having such a terrible day, Like thank you
Speaker 5: so much. Oh wow, this is this is truly really
Speaker 5: cool and I'm glad you know you said hello or whatever,
Speaker 5: and wow, I can't believe we saw anything today. I'm like, yep, cool,
Speaker 5: see you guys.
Speaker 4: That's another example of like literally meeting people in our
Speaker 4: town and like making somewhat of a Yeah.
Speaker 1: I ended up bumping into them.
Speaker 3: They were pretty far from the crowd, but I was
Speaker 3: looking for my mom who was sitting.
Speaker 2: Oh, we did together.
Speaker 3: We bumped into them and we just were looking for somebody.
Speaker 3: And one of the girls was like, are you rying
Speaker 3: with the podcast? I was like, yeah, how you know,
Speaker 3: basically like, oh, I think they pulled the podcast up
Speaker 3: right there. Well, she was like, I was just talking
Speaker 3: to your buddy Alex. She didn't remember your name, but
Speaker 3: she was like, I just talked to one of your
Speaker 3: crew who was part of the podcast. I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: was it Alex Buzzcut or not? Well, yeah, I was like,
Speaker 3: was it Alex or Nick?
Speaker 1: She was like I don't know. I didn't catch his name.
Speaker 3: And we were like buzz cut or no buzz cut,
Speaker 3: you know, because it's easy, and she was like buzz Cut.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, Alex cool and she was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: he just explained what it all was very cool.
Speaker 1: It was nice Topeet.
Speaker 3: She was like, yeah, you know, come on hang out,
Speaker 3: and she was just like, we're gonna go check out
Speaker 3: the show. And I was like, yeah, I think you'll
Speaker 3: really like it. Looked me up later kind of thing.
Speaker 3: But they were super nice. They were definitely young, like
Speaker 3: maybe college age. It was a few they were at yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a little crowd of people, like maybe three or four,
Speaker 3: and it was really weird that you bumped into them,
Speaker 3: and then I bumped into them.
Speaker 1: Super weird.
Speaker 3: So, like I said earlier, when we were explaining the
Speaker 3: process to this crowd, we already saw like six orbs
Speaker 3: before we even started, before the sun even went down,
Speaker 3: we saw about twenty or thirty. And at some point
Speaker 3: shortly after that, I was like, okay, we need a
Speaker 3: hard count. So I yelled out to the whole crowd,
Speaker 3: somebody start counting right now. And this one gentleman I
Speaker 3: didn't get his name, and it was dark, so it
Speaker 3: was really hard to even see faces. But he was
Speaker 3: the only guy with like a solid white long sleeve
Speaker 3: kind of like light jacket, so it was easy to
Speaker 3: keep track of him in the dark. And he was
Speaker 3: like I'm counting. By the end of the night, when
Speaker 3: he left, he stopped counting. We're talking probably eleven PM
Speaker 3: he stopped counting. He was like, Ryan, one fifteen.
Speaker 1: This is he's counting the number of sightings after.
Speaker 3: We had already seen Yeah, twenty five thirty.
Speaker 1: So that's very clear for everyone. Yeah, this guy is
Speaker 1: counting the number of orbs that we're seeing.
Speaker 3: Realistically, like a very genuine, like non exaggerative estimate. We
Speaker 3: probably saw about one fifty that night, but a very
Speaker 3: real number is maybe one thirty five, because, like I said,
Speaker 3: we saw like twenty five or thirty year it was
Speaker 3: a very rapid fast number, sometimes three and four at
Speaker 3: a time. Oh yeah, and then we were like, somebody
Speaker 3: count please starting now, we'll go from starting now. And
Speaker 3: by the time he left it was one fifteen. So
Speaker 3: I mean, realistically it was probably one fifty.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now here's the.
Speaker 3: Crazy thing, all right, So we saw tons of orbs.
Speaker 3: I mean I've literally never seen that many in one day.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna ask if you've ever because I
Speaker 1: certainly have not seen that many. I think the most
Speaker 1: prior to that was like maybe fifteen or twenty in
Speaker 1: a night.
Speaker 3: I count every time, because I think it's data. I
Speaker 3: think that's how you can build. That's why I confidently
Speaker 3: say I've seen thousands of orbs because I count every time,
Speaker 3: and realistically, on a normal night, when Dad and I
Speaker 3: go out there, it's usually around fifty. I'm talking like
Speaker 3: we're actually seriously skywatching. Sometimes I'll walk outside and I'll
Speaker 3: see one or two and I'm like great, and I
Speaker 3: move on. Yeah, you know whatever. But uh, yeah, the
Speaker 3: most I've ever seen in one night is fifty to
Speaker 3: seventy before that night, and that's like a serious my
Speaker 3: whole family's together. That night, we saw about one fifty again,
Speaker 3: over double.
Speaker 1: My top number might have been one for every person
Speaker 1: on that beach. Dude, you're right. I didn't think that's true.
Speaker 1: That's true. That would be really really I didn't think about.
Speaker 3: That well, talk about special. Crazy thing is even though
Speaker 3: I like had an estimate of twenty five to thirty
Speaker 3: before we started counting.
Speaker 1: At one point.
Speaker 3: Hours you know, down the line, when we had already
Speaker 3: seen so many crazy orbs, orbs crossing over each other,
Speaker 3: streaks across the sky, I mean it was just average orbs.
Speaker 3: I mean it was a very heightened night of activity.
Speaker 1: It's clusters of four or five of them went crossing
Speaker 1: over each other and like circling each other.
Speaker 3: Some of them hovering over the ocean like last till,
Speaker 3: some of them in triangle formations. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I Corey got a great video of that. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was so wild.
Speaker 3: At one point, I was like, it's been a while
Speaker 3: since I've asked. I need to know the number. And
Speaker 3: I went up to the guy in the white jacket.
Speaker 3: He was an older guy too, He had white hair.
Speaker 3: He was like, I don't know, maybe fifty five sixty
Speaker 3: like he was. He was, you know, it was he
Speaker 3: was just easy to spot. Yeah, you know, because he
Speaker 3: looked so distinct from most of the crowd. He was younger,
Speaker 3: and I was like, hey, man, what's the count. He
Speaker 3: was like, Ryan, we're at ninety nine. And I kid
Speaker 3: you not. Moments after he said we were at ninety nine.
Speaker 1: We got special one hundred, the craziest ORB siding I
Speaker 1: have ever seen. You can't even call it an ORB siding. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't orbs. I've never, in all of
Speaker 1: my years, seen anything like this instance that that happened.
Speaker 3: So I'll just talk about how it started because I
Speaker 3: was one of the first to see it. Ironically, we
Speaker 3: have had people in the discord who described exactly what
Speaker 3: I was initially seeing before the crowd saw it, So
Speaker 3: I know that other people were seeing it too, but
Speaker 3: didn't want to speak up. All right, So we're looking
Speaker 3: and there's about two hundred people here. We're looking all
Speaker 3: different directions, right, so, you know, maybe fifty people are
Speaker 3: looking this way, maybe two people are looking this way.
Speaker 3: I mean, we have three hundred and sixty degree view
Speaker 3: of the sky. I was looking straight up. I'm talking
Speaker 3: like you know, you're typically looking at a ninety degree
Speaker 3: angle from the ground. I'm looking one hundred eighty degrees
Speaker 3: up from my feet directly over my head into the
Speaker 3: sky at this moment, and I see these four bars
Speaker 3: of light appear. They look like these four rectangles. This
Speaker 3: all happens so fast and a two second span. I'm talking.
Speaker 3: The processing of my brain was so fast because of
Speaker 3: the adrenaline. You're you're thinking so many thoughts, like slashing out.
Speaker 3: You know, once you do it so long, you're like,
Speaker 3: is it this? Plain? Sounded like this, this this You're
Speaker 3: filtering out all these different possibilities like instantaneously, and I'm
Speaker 3: watching this thing and it's like, basically was these four
Speaker 3: bars of light, and then they started coming lower and
Speaker 3: lower and getting brighter and brighter. And by this moment,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, Okay, are they clouds?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Are they this?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: So I start saying I don't even remember what I
Speaker 3: was saying. It's probably on video, but I was like, everybody,
Speaker 3: look overhead, look overhead, look overhead, and we look up
Speaker 3: and these bars of light get brighter, and by the
Speaker 3: time everybody's looking, they sprout these wings and then they
Speaker 3: start flapping and there were four massive They weren't even orbs,
Speaker 3: they weren't even balls. They were light beings. They were
Speaker 3: these massive light beings and there were four of them,
Speaker 3: just flapping wings and people, you know.
Speaker 1: You could see through them. They were glowing golden.
Speaker 3: Daniel kept saying, I was seeing the stars through them, dude,
Speaker 3: and uh, oh my god.
Speaker 2: It was like I was away from the crowd.
Speaker 1: It was chaos.
Speaker 2: I was away from the.
Speaker 4: Crowd because I was trying to find a spot for Biscuit,
Speaker 4: Like I was trying to find Ryan's mom's dud, like
Speaker 4: I had her dog, and I was trying to bring
Speaker 4: him back to her.
Speaker 2: So I was away from the crowd, like looking, come
Speaker 2: on hello.
Speaker 4: And I just hear everyone over on that side of
Speaker 4: the beach just scream.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: So I immediately look up, I get the memo and
Speaker 4: I see these things.
Speaker 2: Right, we keep calling them.
Speaker 3: Not birds, No, the people in the discord keep calling that,
Speaker 3: but I call.
Speaker 1: Them what it is.
Speaker 3: They were angels right right right, I was saying that night,
Speaker 3: they're angels right right.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: The reason that people started saying that is so from
Speaker 1: my perspective, it was like me, Casey, Ashlynd Pierce, like
Speaker 1: a little cluster of people standing in front of the
Speaker 1: lifeguard tower. And I think it might have been Kyle
Speaker 1: or somebody who pointed look at that whatever. By the
Speaker 1: time I looked straight up, they were directly over me,
Speaker 1: and it looked. The first thing I thought was it's
Speaker 1: four birds. And then I noticed that they were glowing.
Speaker 1: I was yeah. I was like, and like kind of translucent,
Speaker 1: and I was like, uh, okay, maybe that's some really
Speaker 1: weird light from the sun that set an hour ago.
Speaker 1: Brain is filtering was freaking out, So I just like,
Speaker 1: I am not letting my eyes get off of these things,
Speaker 1: and so they're flying and I see them flapping, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, they are behaving like birds, but they don't
Speaker 1: look anything like birds. I'm saying this out loud to
Speaker 1: the people around me. I'm watching them flying away. And
Speaker 1: then the second that I said that, I hear you
Speaker 1: from probably fifty feet behind me, yell, those are not birds.
Speaker 1: And the second you said that they vanished, they disappeared.
Speaker 3: No, I had a similar so they came from it.
Speaker 1: When I'm looking at them, they were silhouetted, like in
Speaker 1: front of like a slightly lit up cloud. I could
Speaker 1: see their silhouettes perfectly. Yeah, And the moment you said that, poof,
Speaker 1: they and I kept looking for like thirty seconds, like
Speaker 1: did I just lose them in the light or what?
Speaker 1: And no, they were now Yeah, dude, I saw them manifest.
Speaker 5: So you were on the south side of the crowd, nick,
Speaker 5: I was on the north side of the crowd, complete
Speaker 5: opposite side.
Speaker 3: I hear everybody scream. I look up.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, those are just birds, because that's what
Speaker 5: they look like. And I was like, Oh, those are
Speaker 5: just birds. And then I keep looking and then they
Speaker 5: just disappear and I'm like no, And then Ryan goes,
Speaker 5: those are not birds.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, then they disappeared.
Speaker 3: Those weren't. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 5: All happened very quickly. But I'm like, yeah, those are birds.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, they're not They're not birds.
Speaker 3: So Heather, dad dad got them on camera, but he
Speaker 3: hasn't processed all his footage yet. It's so overwhelming and
Speaker 3: after these events he takes a week to just vegi out. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but Heather from who was there that night, got them
Speaker 3: on camera, so I'm sure she wouldn't mind. Will attack
Speaker 3: her and give her credit. I've already asked her permission
Speaker 3: to share some of her footage, you know what. I
Speaker 3: also have footage from Corey and Paul that we could
Speaker 3: drop too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I've seen a couple videos of it, and they're
Speaker 1: just like astounding. You can clearly see these not birds, Yeah, glowing.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Do you want to share?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Maybe at the maybe at the end of the
Speaker 3: episode after Yeah, we could just we could put a
Speaker 3: few of them on and you could put a quick
Speaker 3: little textus. I'll ask them all for permission first, but
Speaker 3: I've already asked them permission to post on Instagram. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: go nuts, Okay, But I think that could be really
Speaker 3: cool for people to actually see what we were seeing
Speaker 3: and hear the reaction of the crowd. Now, granted this
Speaker 3: happened so fast. When Heather recorded this thing, I wasn't
Speaker 3: standing near her, but I imagine she didn't see it
Speaker 3: form like I did, and she kind of like so
Speaker 3: oh oh, you know, and she put the camera on
Speaker 3: it and she got a part of it. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's really cool footage.
Speaker 2: They really were glowing, they were going, and they were going.
Speaker 4: What really gets me the most is, you know, we're
Speaker 4: on the east coast, so that means that the ocean
Speaker 4: at that time was pitch black and that there was
Speaker 4: light pollution coming from the opposite way. But also the
Speaker 4: sun was still setting on that side the west right,
Speaker 4: so I you know, it was still it was lighter
Speaker 4: on that side of the beach where they were they
Speaker 4: were flying from.
Speaker 2: You know, the darkness from the dark line kind of.
Speaker 4: Toward the light is like the perspective came off ice right.
Speaker 4: So I literally, like I said, I was away from
Speaker 4: the crowd. I didn't even know you were talking. I
Speaker 4: didn't know who was talking. I just heard screaming and yelling,
Speaker 4: So I looked up. So I was far away, and
Speaker 4: I was watching these things go from my far left
Speaker 4: to my far right, and the closer they got to
Speaker 4: my right is when they were getting closer to the daytime.
Speaker 4: So if you have something that's back lit, which these
Speaker 4: birds at that point in time, from my perspective, would
Speaker 4: have been back lit from all of the light pollution
Speaker 4: and from you know, just that part of the.
Speaker 1: Because the sun had really set for a while. That
Speaker 1: was all just like that was all the light pollution
Speaker 1: from the city.
Speaker 4: And so from my perspective, you know, if you have
Speaker 4: something in front of a light, it's going to be dark.
Speaker 4: It's going to be like a shadow. It's going to
Speaker 4: be dark. And they weren't dark. They literally disappeared. They
Speaker 4: were not there. I did not see this.
Speaker 1: I saw them manifest.
Speaker 3: Most people did it for about a second or two.
Speaker 3: I saw them manifest and change form, and then I
Speaker 3: was like, everybody, look up, they're not birds because I
Speaker 3: knew they were birds. You know why, because I've seen
Speaker 3: orbs with wings multiple times, sometimes five feet away.
Speaker 4: I'd like to give a special shout out to all
Speaker 4: the airplanes that showed up, because I love that there
Speaker 4: are airplanes on that path because.
Speaker 2: You can clearly that's a plan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it actually works in our favors.
Speaker 2: You have no man, it's so cool.
Speaker 4: And I don't mean to out Emily, but whenever we
Speaker 4: showed up, Emily was just like, you know, we were
Speaker 4: all just kind of feeling, oh my gosh, you're so
Speaker 4: many people.
Speaker 2: This is crazy.
Speaker 4: Emily was like, you know what, I might have to
Speaker 4: take a moment to go stand over there. And I'm
Speaker 4: like why, She's like, because this is usually like a
Speaker 4: very like intimate thing for us as a family, like
Speaker 4: you know, friends and family. We it's just a very
Speaker 4: special thing for us, and now to be doing it
Speaker 4: with so many people just feels very like vulnerable.
Speaker 2: It makes you feel very vulnerable.
Speaker 3: I was pressured on Saturday, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: But it's so like the amount of like electricity is
Speaker 4: just the only way I can describe it.
Speaker 2: That that just like.
Speaker 3: People were crying yes on Sunday night when we saw
Speaker 3: those you.
Speaker 4: Know electricity and everyone's just and it was just like
Speaker 4: it makes it even more magical and everyone's like laughing,
Speaker 4: shaking and like maybe happy crying, but like just I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 2: It was really outstanding.
Speaker 3: People were describing to me how they felt after seeing that.
Speaker 3: That was exactly how we felt at the Monroe Institute,
Speaker 3: after we were like going through these expanded states of
Speaker 3: consciousness for a week. The effect that we had seen
Speaker 3: that together, the way people were describing how they were feeling,
Speaker 3: the profound emotional releases, the kind of like going home
Speaker 3: the next day and just being spaced out at the
Speaker 3: airport like it was like genuinely, the consciousness of around
Speaker 3: two hundred people in that moment were profoundly altered.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it was mind blowing.
Speaker 3: And I knew they weren't birds, because not only have
Speaker 3: I seen orbs with wings before, but also I had
Speaker 3: seen them two nights before when we were all out
Speaker 3: on the beach, right before you guys came, when we
Speaker 3: were at that condo on Thursday night, Remember, Yeah, when
Speaker 3: you guys were all upstairs and it was just me, Alex,
Speaker 3: Emily and Dad and Bear outside. You guys were still upstairs.
Speaker 3: We were out there watching. Alex and Dad were looking
Speaker 3: out over the water with Bear skywatching that way. I'm
Speaker 3: always looking everywhere. I have my head on a swivel.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to see every direction right, and I
Speaker 3: am looking behind y'all towards the city over this, you know,
Speaker 3: over the city whatever in the sky, and I was
Speaker 3: so stunned by what I saw in this moment. All
Speaker 3: I could say was I pointed and I said whoa.
Speaker 3: And Emily was like, I see it, I see it.
Speaker 3: And it was these two They looked kind of like doves,
Speaker 3: but there were these little, round, glowing golden orbs with wings.
Speaker 3: And Emily saw the whole thing just like I did.
Speaker 1: I literally just said whoa.
Speaker 3: And they appeared and they had wings and they started
Speaker 3: we were fluttering their wings and they swooped in and
Speaker 3: out like a helix pattern, and just vanished. That was
Speaker 3: Thursday night, so on. I think that was for me
Speaker 3: Emily too, obviously because she saw it, But I think
Speaker 3: that was planted in me to be able to have
Speaker 3: the confidence on Sunday to be like.
Speaker 1: Those aren't freaking birds people, you know, because.
Speaker 4: You know people your dad has seen something like that
Speaker 4: before the queenex of course I know, but it was
Speaker 4: so it was amazing to see it in person, with
Speaker 4: two hundred.
Speaker 5: People telling people that I was around. I was like,
Speaker 5: this is the kind of activity that they see when
Speaker 5: it's just the family.
Speaker 1: I shouted that over the crowd.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was like, I want you guys to understand, Like,
Speaker 3: I know those are not birds. I've seen these things.
Speaker 3: This is what we see when people are not around.
Speaker 3: They're angels.
Speaker 1: People are like, what was that? What was that?
Speaker 3: It was an angel? They're all angels. People are like
Speaker 3: it was different than New yorbs. Yeah, they're all the
Speaker 3: same thing. They're angels. I'm like telling people, like, now
Speaker 3: you get it, You've seen it. This is what we're
Speaker 3: talking about when we say we see these things. Sometimes
Speaker 3: we see them in the house.
Speaker 1: You know, this is this is that dream that you
Speaker 1: always had.
Speaker 3: Dude, I've been talking about that for days. You haven't
Speaker 3: even heard me say that.
Speaker 1: Not once. I haven't heard you say that. How haven't
Speaker 1: I been talking about this for a week. But but
Speaker 1: but Bro, since i've known you, you've had a reoccurring dream.
Speaker 1: You've always had this this dream that you hoped one
Speaker 1: day would come true. And you're out with crowd people people, yeah,
Speaker 1: sky watching, they all see it, and you tell everyone,
Speaker 1: this is what we've been seeing all this It's there,
Speaker 1: It's really there. It's real.
Speaker 3: I've had this dream since I was eighteen, yeah, Well,
Speaker 3: now I have another reoccurring dream it I'm gonna say this,
Speaker 3: and this is really vulnerable but who knows, But I
Speaker 3: mean whatever, In the last two weeks, have been having
Speaker 3: a reoccurring dream that I'm going to meet Theovonne.
Speaker 1: What so, Yeah, let's definitely maybe it'll definitely manifest that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe it'll come true.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's one of my favorite human beings.
Speaker 4: Maybe you're watching this. We'd really really loved to meet you, dude.
Speaker 4: I don't know, we have some stuff.
Speaker 2: To talk about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know if I wanted to say that
Speaker 3: or not, but it's been calling to me, this dream
Speaker 3: I've been having multiple times in the last two weeks.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, you're right, man, I've been talking about
Speaker 3: that with Ginny and Emily for a week now, Like,
Speaker 3: this is a reoccurring.
Speaker 1: Dream I've been having, You've always The.
Speaker 3: Next day I realized, like, oh my god, I've been
Speaker 3: dreaming about this since I was eighteen years old, and
Speaker 3: it's happening. There's a lot of things I've been dreaming about.
Speaker 3: That was one of them. Yeah, so lately it's been
Speaker 3: I just keep dreaming about meeting you. One it's wish
Speaker 3: for me, I don't know. But anyway, so Riverfest was unbelievable.
Speaker 3: I think for all of us, it was equally shocking
Speaker 3: and mind blowing. Nick, it was funny, man. You just
Speaker 3: kept saying, dude, I've never seen anything like that.
Speaker 1: I was shaking. Friends, I've seen a lot of shit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: since I was a kid, I've been seeing shit at
Speaker 1: your house and other places with you, and at my
Speaker 1: house and all over the place.
Speaker 3: And with other people.
Speaker 1: I've never seen nothing like that ever. I was shaking
Speaker 1: for an hour. I was tripping, bro, I was buzzing.
Speaker 1: Everybody was. I just kept going up to everyone I
Speaker 1: saw and going to see that, and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it disappeared. I'm like, I know that. Like it was nuts.
Speaker 4: It was me walking into the crowd, right. I was like, uh,
Speaker 4: because I just.
Speaker 2: Experienced it alone around trying to find you. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: then just goes, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: I was like, where's my wife. I have to make
Speaker 3: sure she saw this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was I saw it. I got the memo.
Speaker 1: It was bonkers.
Speaker 3: So then two days later, which was Tuesday night, we
Speaker 3: go to the Vampire week In concert and I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there at the concert, and I'm just deep in thought.
Speaker 4: It was the holiest of moments because sorry, I had
Speaker 4: to interrupt you, because I had to honor it. Vampire
Speaker 4: Weekend is a very big band for Ryan and I
Speaker 4: and our relationship because we've listened to it since we
Speaker 4: started dating, before we were dating, and so we went
Speaker 4: to this concert. It was also the first concert Ryan
Speaker 4: and I have ever been to on a date, like
Speaker 4: just me.
Speaker 3: And him over Vampire Weekend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it was ten years ago then today, and
Speaker 4: it was on our four year wedding anniversary.
Speaker 3: And we walked down the aisle of Vampire Yes we did.
Speaker 2: Well, I did to you, oh walk down the islene. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Anyway, So it was like a very lovely show and
Speaker 4: like for me, it was very just like a mental.
Speaker 3: It was good too, going.
Speaker 4: It was really Emily ended up coming because she, you know,
Speaker 4: evacuated the hurricane, and so her and Jack ended up
Speaker 4: coming on our date with us, which was great.
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed it, and Randy was there so we
Speaker 3: got to see her.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing, though, Jack kept thinking, we just told Jack, like,
Speaker 4: you're coming to a concert with us. He kept thinking
Speaker 4: it was imagine dragons. He literally thought the Vampire Weekends
Speaker 4: very I thought we were going to imagine dragons. He
Speaker 4: was like, I was kind of like wondering. I was like, okay,
Speaker 4: like whatever, I'm like, dude.
Speaker 1: He got his mythical creatures. Swap it is.
Speaker 3: Anyway, So the whole reason I'm bring the concert up
Speaker 3: is so I'm just like kind of deep in thought
Speaker 3: before it starts, and there's this band called Colts playing.
Speaker 3: I had never heard of them before, but they were
Speaker 3: really good, amazing, and they defin When I was buying
Speaker 3: food at one of the venders, I was like, who
Speaker 3: is this band? She was like, trust me, you'll recognize
Speaker 3: some of their songs.
Speaker 1: And I did. I was like, oh, this is that band?
Speaker 3: Cool whatever, they're they're pretty out there, but anyway, so
Speaker 3: I enjoyed their music and I was just like really
Speaker 3: deep in thought. And it's a nice venue and I'm
Speaker 3: just sitting there outside relaxing and I'm looking up and boom,
Speaker 3: orbs start appearing. Dude. We saw like probably fifteen to
Speaker 3: twenty five orbs over the freaking content.
Speaker 4: They did literally actually did and came from all I
Speaker 4: recorded several of them. There have been times where I've
Speaker 4: been at that venue and I'm like, oh, do I
Speaker 4: see something?
Speaker 2: Do I not? Whatever?
Speaker 3: No, I do.
Speaker 2: There was something.
Speaker 4: It was like our energy was like magnified or something.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it was like after being with
Speaker 4: everyone at Riverfest, like we were even more magnetic or something.
Speaker 4: But these things were coming from left and right and
Speaker 4: left and right, and.
Speaker 1: We're they were flashing at us.
Speaker 4: We're trying to be kind of subtle when thousands of
Speaker 4: people looking straight.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I think we are kind of showing off.
Speaker 3: We're weird. No, well, everybody's looking straight, so they're not
Speaker 3: seeing this, but I'm always looking No.
Speaker 2: But they're all they're seeing us looking.
Speaker 3: Keep looking up. That's why I keep writing the shit
Speaker 3: in the book. Keep looking up, like you'll be surprised
Speaker 3: what you see. Right, But they were flashing at us,
Speaker 3: they were crossing each other. I mean, we're having a
Speaker 3: crazy light show over the concert and this is two
Speaker 3: days after Sunday people, So I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: like this is crazy. And then Jenny that's when she
Speaker 3: swoops in and she goes Ryan, we should ask Daniel
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 1: A mod.
Speaker 3: And that's the end of my Riverfest experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that really was the end.
Speaker 4: Well, and then we had the meeting that there are
Speaker 4: mods today, and then here we are full circle.
Speaker 3: Now we're an expanded team physically and spiritually.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I feel like more than ever we've been talking about
Speaker 4: this being like the Age of Aquarius, and like this
Speaker 4: past weekend to me was more proof than anything that
Speaker 4: I think that we are in the Age of Aquarius,
Speaker 4: or at least getting pretty darn close.
Speaker 1: I think we're in it.
Speaker 4: Even just seeing those children on the beach talking about it,
Speaker 4: seeing them, you know, get excited about it. There were
Speaker 4: several children. It was so crazy. It gave me a
Speaker 4: lot of hope for like, wow, the fact that these
Speaker 4: people are seeing this at such a young age, like
Speaker 4: they don't under like there's so much potential. Yeah, like
Speaker 4: for I don't know for what's next. I feel like
Speaker 4: it's good vibes all around. I'm very grateful for this weekend.
Speaker 2: We all are.
Speaker 4: I know it means a lot to Chris and Emily
Speaker 4: and the rest of the family as well, so it.
Speaker 1: Was amazing, magical.
Speaker 2: Shout out to him, Nick's coworker for coming.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Logan, Yeah, that was really cool showed up.
Speaker 1: He was a cool, big shout out. He has not
Speaker 1: the first idea about any of this stuff. And I've
Speaker 1: like tried to like give him the cliff notes before
Speaker 1: and it's just like and I can tell, and so
Speaker 1: I don't like bore him or bring down with it.
Speaker 1: It's a lot for somebody. Yeah, but he asked questions
Speaker 1: about it, and he like keeps up with like he's
Speaker 1: he's always asking me how's it going, and at what
Speaker 1: we're going to record about and all this stuff. And
Speaker 1: he was like, I'm gonna come check it out. I'm
Speaker 1: going to come and uh, me and Megan are going
Speaker 1: to come and see see what's up. And he came
Speaker 1: and met some omis and it was really cool.
Speaker 4: This is a serious, like real life moment of like, oh,
Speaker 4: here's somebody from my real life and then now they're
Speaker 4: intermingling with my people from this part of my life.
Speaker 3: Like that's just how he's probably like, Wow, this is
Speaker 3: a lot more people than I.
Speaker 1: He was really cool though.
Speaker 3: He was just blended right in.
Speaker 2: Oh it was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the best, very nice guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was a magical weekend. So thank every single one
Speaker 1: of you for being a part of it and making
Speaker 1: it so special it was. It was magical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm at peace with it all
Speaker 3: it was. It was just mind blowing, life changing. I mean,
Speaker 3: it was was profoundly altering for a lot of people,
Speaker 3: including us. Yeah, so, any more thoughts, Alex, I don't
Speaker 3: know if I could add to all that. Absolutely, I
Speaker 3: can't wait for the next one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, same.
Speaker 4: I just feel like I feel like somebody has to
Speaker 4: do a Mickey outro of say.
Speaker 2: You're real soon.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Alex, you know, so.
Speaker 3: You're next week?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's a wrap. Okay, bye, I gotta
Speaker 1: end it on that.
Speaker 2: My gods.
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