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<v Speaker 1>Big Food and on with Cliff and Bubo. These guys

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<v Speaker 1>Greatest gone yesterday listening watching Limb always keep its watching.

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<v Speaker 2>And now you're hosts Cliff Berrickman and James Bubo Fay.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, Cliff, we got a great guest.

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<v Speaker 1>Today, Yes we do. This is one we've been looking

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<v Speaker 1>forward to for a long time.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't even want to find out what's going on

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<v Speaker 1>with you or tell what's going on with me, man,

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<v Speaker 1>I just want to jump right into this one, so

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<v Speaker 1>uh exactly. Yeah, why don't we just not waste anybody's

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<v Speaker 1>time and just bring it in. So our guest today

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<v Speaker 1>is a legend in bigfooting and I can always call

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<v Speaker 1>him the second generation. You know, it's not quite it's

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<v Speaker 1>not the four Horsemen level, although this gentleman worked with

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<v Speaker 1>all of the horsemen and many many more, probably of

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<v Speaker 1>the unsung heroes that don't get the credit they deserve.

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<v Speaker 1>So he kind of a second generation as far as

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<v Speaker 1>bigfoot goes. But you know enough of me, man, This

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<v Speaker 1>is Rick Nole. We have Rick Knowl on the podcast today. Rick,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you so much for spending some time with Bobo

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<v Speaker 1>and I today.

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<v Speaker 4>Thanks, y Hey, how's it going all right?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>You are a man of few words, so we're going

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<v Speaker 1>to do the best we can to get you talking

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<v Speaker 1>on this one. I've always I've known you for a

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<v Speaker 1>long time. I'm not Cassie. I know you very well,

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<v Speaker 1>but we've certainly crossed paths many times. And you're a

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<v Speaker 1>man of few words and kind of quiet and in

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<v Speaker 1>the background. And I do have a great amount of

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<v Speaker 1>respect for people with your temperament and bigfoot. But you've

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<v Speaker 1>been bigfooting since the late sixties. Is that accurate?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yep. I started off down in Olympia when they

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<v Speaker 4>were the first time they tried to change the state

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<v Speaker 4>animal to bigfoot. Dick Grover tried to do that, and

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<v Speaker 4>he had this old style wooden piano down on capital

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<v Speaker 4>steps in Olampia and nobody was playing it, but on

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<v Speaker 4>top of it where these bigfoot casts. And he would

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<v Speaker 4>stop senators or whatever they the representatives were, their titles,

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<v Speaker 4>walking up down the steps to show them the cast

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<v Speaker 4>and say, we really want to have this animal protected,

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<v Speaker 4>and the best way to do that is to make

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<v Speaker 4>it the state for the state animals. That's what got

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<v Speaker 4>me interested in the beginning.

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<v Speaker 1>But did you see this on TV or in person

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<v Speaker 1>or no?

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<v Speaker 4>It was a news article, And so I went down

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<v Speaker 4>there and then I met up with him. And then

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<v Speaker 4>the next thing that happened was there was a sighting

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<v Speaker 4>pretty close to my house. A kid and his girlfriend

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<v Speaker 4>were driving a truck their parents, his parents' truck, and

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<v Speaker 4>it had one of those racks and they put ladders

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<v Speaker 4>in it stuff. Yeah, And he claimed that they saw

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<v Speaker 4>a bigfoot across the road and run into a sign

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<v Speaker 4>and bend it with their hand and the hand was

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<v Speaker 4>not lifted up or anything that was the height of

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<v Speaker 4>the of the hand on the end of the arm.

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<v Speaker 4>Grover came down for that too, and then he introduced

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<v Speaker 4>me to a project Discovery and then they saying one thing,

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<v Speaker 4>went to another and got more and more involved.

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<v Speaker 3>You're a high school kid, weren't you.

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<v Speaker 4>At that time? Yeah? Yeah, I was. I was a boy.

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<v Speaker 3>That was just that.

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<v Speaker 4>I think that was my last year in high school.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that the same That must be the same sign

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<v Speaker 1>that Mark Marcel is now working hard to recover.

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<v Speaker 4>Could be at scratch marks on the back.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah. And this person lived out and I think

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<v Speaker 1>in Randall or something. I think Mark finally tracked the

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<v Speaker 1>person down is living in Randall, but he had a

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<v Speaker 1>tumultuous life and I think he abandoned the house where

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<v Speaker 1>the sign was in the front yard as the last

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<v Speaker 1>we heard so, but Mark has the address and he's wondering, well,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe somebody still has it.

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<v Speaker 4>Who knows they could. But on my investigation of it,

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<v Speaker 4>the parents loaned them the truck and there was damage

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<v Speaker 4>under the truck, and the kid was late, and the

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<v Speaker 4>parents of the girl was upset that they were out

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<v Speaker 4>so late. I don't know what they were doing, but

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<v Speaker 4>it wasn't bigfoot hunting at the time until they came

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<v Speaker 4>home and said it was bigfoot they saw. And I

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<v Speaker 4>kind of think that maybe they backed into that sign

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<v Speaker 4>and hit it with a ladder or something from on

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<v Speaker 4>top of that that rack, But I don't know. I mean,

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<v Speaker 4>the scratches were even, they were at an angle, they

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<v Speaker 4>were curved, but I just don't see fingernails being able

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<v Speaker 4>to make that, and I don't think bigfoot wears rings.

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<v Speaker 1>Interesting, So, now, how did you hear about that sighting?

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<v Speaker 4>I believe that was in report in the news.

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<v Speaker 1>This is nineteen sixty nine or seventy or something. There

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<v Speaker 1>was no Internet, there was no collection of reports at

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<v Speaker 1>that time beyond John Green.

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<v Speaker 4>I think someone heard it and they contacted the SEATTLEPI

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<v Speaker 4>that was the newspaper.

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<v Speaker 1>So that you met. When you said Grover came down?

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<v Speaker 1>Where you talking about Dick Grover or Grover Krantz, Dick Grover,

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<v Speaker 1>Dick Grober? Okay, and what who is he? I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>familiar with that name, but it sounds like I've heard

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<v Speaker 1>it before. I just can't place it.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, that was his claim to fame. And so when

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<v Speaker 4>he ever does anything with Bigfoot, he's looking for things

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<v Speaker 4>that Bigfoot interacts with other than people. So he was

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<v Speaker 4>looking for signs where it would run into a sign,

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<v Speaker 4>it would destroy a fence, it would uh leave handprints,

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<v Speaker 4>it would destroy the clapboards on a house, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>stuff like that. And so he likes signs.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm one hundred percent sure. Now Grover is the name

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<v Speaker 1>that Mark Myrcel was telling me about. He is looking

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<v Speaker 1>for this sign. I'm one hundred percent sure of that.

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<v Speaker 3>Now.

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<v Speaker 1>Now that's finally coming back to me. That's so interesting,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know that you might ow I didn't even

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<v Speaker 1>think about this. Now I've been working really hard lately

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<v Speaker 1>to track down the address of the house that had

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<v Speaker 1>the uddy handprint on it in nineteen sixty two. And

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<v Speaker 1>Fort Bragg. You wouldn't be able to help me with that,

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<v Speaker 1>would you, Rick Fort Bragg? You know that muddy handprint

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<v Speaker 1>that was on the outside. There's a picture of an

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<v Speaker 1>artist reconstruction of it in John Green's books that the

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<v Speaker 1>artist rendition of it was done by Chuck Edmonds, the

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<v Speaker 1>artist teacher, the art teacher from Ashland, Oregon.

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<v Speaker 4>That sounds like something that Renee would have. Most of

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<v Speaker 4>the stuff was surprising. Renee collected a lot of stuff,

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<v Speaker 4>and John used it in his writings and his books

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<v Speaker 4>and stuff. John didn't have a lot of physical material.

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<v Speaker 4>He didn't collect that stuff. He would have it. But

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<v Speaker 4>if if anybody would collect that, that would be Renee.

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<v Speaker 4>So probably his his son up in Canada has it.

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<v Speaker 1>But how did you meet Renee and those guys?

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<v Speaker 4>Ah?

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<v Speaker 1>Renee and I get it, man, I can't remember what

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<v Speaker 1>I had for breakfast yesterday.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, I remember all the stories, I just don't remember

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<v Speaker 4>exactly the first time. Let me see, here's the first

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<v Speaker 4>time I met John Green.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna go through all of them. You might just

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<v Speaker 1>whatever you remember.

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<v Speaker 3>Let us know.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, I guess the first person I met was actually

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<v Speaker 4>Peter Burn, so that would be the first person I think.

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<v Speaker 4>So I was going to college. I had that interest

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<v Speaker 4>in bigfoot, and I did a paper in anthropology and

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<v Speaker 4>I saw in the news about Peter Burn having a

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<v Speaker 4>museum and the Dallas actually it was an information center

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<v Speaker 4>as really was not a museum, but anyway, I went

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<v Speaker 4>down there, talked to him, asked him about coming up

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<v Speaker 4>to talk at the school, and he said, sure, he

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<v Speaker 4>could do that. He has an actual program that he

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<v Speaker 4>can show. So I hooked it all up. Out of

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<v Speaker 4>them involved.

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<v Speaker 3>Which college was it?

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<v Speaker 4>That was Green River Community College. So he gave the

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<v Speaker 4>talk there and that was pretty cool, and we sort

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<v Speaker 4>of associated ourselves. We had a little club kind of

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<v Speaker 4>thing in the college and we would go out and

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<v Speaker 4>look for stuff we got on the TV. We got

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<v Speaker 4>on a couple of Northwest TV shows about looking in

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<v Speaker 4>the woods for Bigfoot, and we would take trips down

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<v Speaker 4>to see Peter. And I also went with stayed down

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<v Speaker 4>there with Peter for a little while and when he

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<v Speaker 4>was still married with d D and we went on

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<v Speaker 4>a couple of trips, not not a whole bunch, but

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<v Speaker 4>a couple of trips out in the woods on some

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<v Speaker 4>called in reports and I drove his vehicle his internationals

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<v Speaker 4>and what happened was there was a report he wanted

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<v Speaker 4>me a check on. And at the time I was going,

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<v Speaker 4>I was in school with David Smith and David Smith

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<v Speaker 4>I had David and I hooked up way before Peter Burnet.

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<v Speaker 4>But David and I were contacted and we went out

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<v Speaker 4>to North Bend because there was some footprints and there

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<v Speaker 4>was just a couple and they were in the news

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<v Speaker 4>and they had showed a guy supposedly finding these tracks.

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<v Speaker 4>And then the next day there was another newspaper article.

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<v Speaker 4>So I already knew about this sighting but or not

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<v Speaker 4>sighting but footprint fie before Peter called us. And the

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<v Speaker 4>next day there was a guy that had a broken

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<v Speaker 4>foot and there was like this weird thing that was

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<v Speaker 4>attached to the cast underneath his heel sticking out like

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<v Speaker 4>a heel on a shoe. I guess because he to

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<v Speaker 4>wear cowboy boots or something. I don't know, maybe he

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<v Speaker 4>had to have a heel on the cast so he

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<v Speaker 4>didn't walk with a limp or something. But I don't

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<v Speaker 4>know how he broke his foot or anything like that,

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<v Speaker 4>but they had a picture of his cast facing the

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<v Speaker 4>camera and him in the background. So the casts looked

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<v Speaker 4>really huge, his foot looked really huge, and he had

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<v Speaker 4>three toe sticking out the top. Those weren't cast, and

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<v Speaker 4>that the footprints in the ground were three toed, they

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<v Speaker 4>weren't five toed, and they didn't have that little bump

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<v Speaker 4>in the bottom. But it was kind of sort of similar.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know about the size because there was nothing

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<v Speaker 4>to compare the two. So that was the next day

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<v Speaker 4>that that picture appeared. I still have the articles, and

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<v Speaker 4>so I was planning on going out there. I asked

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<v Speaker 4>David that he wanted to go, and then we got

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<v Speaker 4>a call from Peter and he says, you need to

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<v Speaker 4>go out there and check this out because it's getting

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<v Speaker 4>a lot of news down here. So Dave and I

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<v Speaker 4>went out there. We camped, and we ran into Dennis

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<v Speaker 4>Skates and his buddy Dennis Skates and I forget who

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<v Speaker 4>the other guy's name used to live in on the

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<v Speaker 4>way up to well, it was on highway too. It

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<v Speaker 4>was in like around concrete or something like that, and

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<v Speaker 4>they were helping John Greenow to do investigations in Washington

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<v Speaker 4>State and he Dennis Skates was was a character. But

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<v Speaker 4>they were trying to cast a track and they destroyed

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<v Speaker 4>everything they tried to pull it out. They were making

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<v Speaker 4>fun of us because you know, we said we were

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<v Speaker 4>with with Peter Burn, and at that time John Green

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<v Speaker 4>and Peter Burn already hated each other. So I saw

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<v Speaker 4>himself out on those tracks. Whoever made those tracks, they

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<v Speaker 4>and I got a picture of him pulling up a

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<v Speaker 4>squashed mouse and from the footprint, and then he said,

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<v Speaker 4>person that found the tracks, and then we're going to

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<v Speaker 4>talk to the person that had the cast. So we

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<v Speaker 4>got in there. We were sitting around his wood stove

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<v Speaker 4>and Peter and John just their whole body shook, looking

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<v Speaker 4>finished up what we were saying and we got out of there.

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<v Speaker 4>But John got out of the building and waited. Well,

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<v Speaker 4>we left and then we went over to the other house.

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<v Speaker 4>time I met John Green.

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<v Speaker 1>Did he hold it against you that you were working

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<v Speaker 1>with Peter at that point or.

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<v Speaker 4>As he did? He didn't want to talk to me

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<v Speaker 4>at all, And later on he didn't want to talk

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<v Speaker 4>to me at all. And then it was only until

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<v Speaker 4>that John started worming up to me.

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<v Speaker 3>Were you a fan of John Green? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 4>He was. The first books, the first books I read

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<v Speaker 4>about it was is Big eight and a half eleven

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<v Speaker 4>by paperbacks, you know, the first the red and the yellow,

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<v Speaker 4>the yellow one first and the red one on the

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<v Speaker 4>track of the file of the Sasquatch file.

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<v Speaker 3>That must have suck, because I mean, like I can

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<v Speaker 3>imagine like having one of your heroes come in and

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<v Speaker 3>also he thinks you're a dick right on the bat,

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<v Speaker 3>just yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, And you know, and Renee never wrote. Renee hadn't

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<v Speaker 4>written his book yet, and Grover wasn't involved yet. Peter

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<v Speaker 4>hadn't written a book yet, and I started seeing flaws

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<v Speaker 4>in the chink of Peter burn at that time. He

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<v Speaker 4>asked me to go to Little Eagle, South Dakota to

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<v Speaker 4>look into some bigfoot reports back there. And so I

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<v Speaker 4>went back there and I met up with a guy

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<v Speaker 4>that wrote a really nasty book. And I can't remember

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<v Speaker 4>his name, but I have his book and it's a

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<v Speaker 4>classic now everybody likes it. And I talked to him.

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<v Speaker 4>He says, so you work with Peter, huh. I go, well,

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<v Speaker 4>sort of. He asked me to do stuff, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>And I go out and I investigate farm he can't

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<v Speaker 4>get everywhere. And I got a phone call from Peter

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<v Speaker 4>later that night saying, you know, Rick, I need to

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<v Speaker 4>have I'm being heckled by this character Reneede to hind

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<v Speaker 4>it and I need to do something about it, and

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<v Speaker 4>blah blah blah blah. And it ended up where he

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<v Speaker 4>went to use my name to by having me call

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<v Speaker 4>Renee from Little Eagle saying I'm going to be at

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<v Speaker 4>such and such a place. Can you meet me there?

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<v Speaker 4>And Rene Hardy knew me at all, but he went there,

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<v Speaker 4>I met Renee. That's that's not when I met him.

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<v Speaker 4>So I met Renee. I just don't remember when it

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<v Speaker 4>might have been. I might have met him at Oh

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<v Speaker 4>I know where I met him. Okay, there was a

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<v Speaker 4>bus driver and Hope that claimed to have a big

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<v Speaker 4>foot run across the road in front of him, and

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<v Speaker 4>all these passengers saw it. Turned out to be a fake.

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<v Speaker 4>So I was there, Renee was. He had just left

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<v Speaker 4>and we went into Harrison afterwards. I met up with Renee.

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<v Speaker 4>Then I remember, that's when I met him the first time.

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<v Speaker 1>Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll be right back after these messages. So three to

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<v Speaker 1>six months doesn't seem like a long time right in

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<v Speaker 1>bigfoot Land. It's not very long because we've been looking

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<v Speaker 3>Was that pretty tense, those things, with the the divisions

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<v Speaker 3>there and the rivalries already? Like, was that was it

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<v Speaker 3>would it be uncomfortable to those early get togethers.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, it was. It was pretty uncomfortable at UBC conference.

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<v Speaker 4>That's where I first met Grover Krantz and he came

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<v Speaker 4>in and he was like, matter of fact, this is

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<v Speaker 4>the gun I would use, this the bullet I would use.

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<v Speaker 4>And he turned that place into to kill or not

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<v Speaker 4>to kill and had nothing to do with what the

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<v Speaker 4>original story was about that conference, you know. And for

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<v Speaker 4>the time, I didn't have a lot of money and

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<v Speaker 4>that was like one hundred and fifty bucks to go

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<v Speaker 4>that thing. And it was years later that they actually

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<v Speaker 4>produced a book about it and published the papers. That's

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<v Speaker 4>also the where I met Alan Barry and we listened

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<v Speaker 4>to the first We were the first people to hear

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<v Speaker 4>in the Bigfoot community, the other than Alan Berry and

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<v Speaker 4>morehead those tapes and we thought that was interesting. I

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<v Speaker 4>met Bob Gimmin there, Peter Atheson.

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<v Speaker 3>Real Murderers, Rother that's an all star Hall of Fame lineup.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah. I don't think Matt was around at that time.

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<v Speaker 3>No, he was too young.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah. Yeah, I don't think anything in Ohio was going

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<v Speaker 4>on at that time either. The stuff going down in Texas,

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<v Speaker 4>Canada was they had.

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<v Speaker 3>The movie Oh Boggie Creek.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I think that came out a year later after

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<v Speaker 4>Roger Patterson's movie or something.

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<v Speaker 1>That was seventy two seventy three in that zone there, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>the legend of Boggie Creek, so that, but you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it was reverberating up throughout the nineteen seventies of course, right.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah. So I don't think anybody from down there was

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<v Speaker 4>at this conference. Either was two scientific so Sprague was there.

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<v Speaker 4>There was a bunch of people that were you know,

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<v Speaker 4>listened to as scientists. The first time I met Meldrum

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<v Speaker 4>was at one of the UBC Harrison Hot Springs conferences

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<v Speaker 4>and he was really young dead and Steinberg was there also.

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<v Speaker 4>That's when I met Steinberg and Krantz was there. I

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<v Speaker 4>got a picture of Krantz with the skull and he

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<v Speaker 4>liked to shock people with things that he would say.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know why, but hey.

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<v Speaker 1>It's that personality. Like you know when that famous clip

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<v Speaker 1>is probably in search over one of those you know,

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<v Speaker 1>where he says that somebody who you know, talking about

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<v Speaker 1>the cripple foot stuff in Bossburg, like whoever did this?

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<v Speaker 4>Is?

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<v Speaker 1>You know da Vinci like creativity and way smarter than me.

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<v Speaker 1>And that person doesn't exist. And you know when he's

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<v Speaker 1>when he lays that line down, you can almost see him.

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<v Speaker 1>You see his eyes are smiling and he can his

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<v Speaker 1>mouth just starts to curl up because he knew, he

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<v Speaker 1>it was hilarious.

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<v Speaker 4>I went when I was at his house one time,

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<v Speaker 4>I had cast at his feet and took a picture

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<v Speaker 4>of him and his dog with the dog up on

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, yeah, you're the photographer.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, I'm a photographer that took that, and that's why

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<v Speaker 4>he's posed that way. That was just one of his

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<v Speaker 4>favorite pictures.

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<v Speaker 3>You're a photographer in the Smithsonian. That's pretty impressive.

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<v Speaker 4>I also was at the Puella when Mark Pinacher, the

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<v Speaker 4>ex cop, said that he saw a bigfoot and the

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<v Speaker 4>kids saw the bigfoot, and there was tracks up there,

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<v Speaker 4>and then there was a bunch of recordings of screams

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<v Speaker 4>and stuff, and someone would run around and pound on

425
00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:30.720
<v Speaker 4>people's houses. Because what happened was the areas started growing

426
00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:35.039
<v Speaker 4>and the cities were expanding into the woods, and that

427
00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:39.160
<v Speaker 4>was the hilltop above Pualla and there was new housing

428
00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:42.039
<v Speaker 4>projects going in there. There used to be a lot

429
00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:44.160
<v Speaker 4>of animals up there and they were being pushed out,

430
00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:47.160
<v Speaker 4>and they thought that maybe Bigfoot was one of those

431
00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:48.240
<v Speaker 4>animals being pushed out.

432
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<v Speaker 1>Since you were involved in that, did you ever meet

433
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<v Speaker 1>Joel Hurd?

434
00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:53.559
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, yeah, Yeah.

435
00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:56.000
<v Speaker 1>He's become a good friend of mine. Oh yeah, he

436
00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:58.440
<v Speaker 1>lives locally. When he's in town, we try to have

437
00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:01.680
<v Speaker 1>lunch or something, and he's always at our events. So

438
00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:03.319
<v Speaker 1>if you do ever want to come down to do

439
00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:05.559
<v Speaker 1>an event, I can almost guarantee Jobel show up.

440
00:23:05.880 --> 00:23:09.279
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. So you see most of the Bigfoot researchers, they

441
00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:13.799
<v Speaker 4>probably have more information and data on other researchers than

442
00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:15.400
<v Speaker 4>they actually do on this phenomenon.

443
00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:18.839
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think you're right. Well, even still nowadays you

444
00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:20.880
<v Speaker 1>look at the YouTube or something and all the bigfooters

445
00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:23.759
<v Speaker 1>are talking about themselves or somebody else. They're not talking

446
00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:25.319
<v Speaker 1>about the animals. It seems right.

447
00:23:25.559 --> 00:23:27.559
<v Speaker 3>How much did you get to work with Bob Tipmos?

448
00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:28.960
<v Speaker 3>Did you get out on the field of Tipmos?

449
00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:33.160
<v Speaker 4>You know, i'd never met Titmus really, Yeah, I didn't

450
00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:33.880
<v Speaker 4>get to meet him.

451
00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:35.039
<v Speaker 1>What about Patterson?

452
00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:38.839
<v Speaker 4>No, I didn't meet him, but I joined his club. Yeah,

453
00:23:38.920 --> 00:23:42.559
<v Speaker 4>I joined that club, got the book. I was too

454
00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:44.960
<v Speaker 4>young actually to get over to Yakba, even though my

455
00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:48.440
<v Speaker 4>relatives lived over there. But I did meet Bob, and

456
00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:51.400
<v Speaker 4>Bob is a lot different now than he was at

457
00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:56.039
<v Speaker 4>the UBC conference. It was pretty reserved back then, not

458
00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:58.960
<v Speaker 4>believing in anything, and now it's almost like he's a proponent.

459
00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:01.799
<v Speaker 4>I don't know if he's seen the light or what,

460
00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:05.400
<v Speaker 4>but in his later days, but he didn't really talk

461
00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:06.319
<v Speaker 4>about that much. Then.

462
00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:08.680
<v Speaker 1>Did you get a chance to spend any time in

463
00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:11.759
<v Speaker 1>the field with any of these folks, because I'd like

464
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<v Speaker 1>to what my ultimate question will be, can you compare

465
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<v Speaker 1>and contrast their field methodologies here?

466
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<v Speaker 3>You're impressed with the most Mayan Chinski.

467
00:24:20.599 --> 00:24:23.960
<v Speaker 4>Oh, yeah, he's good. He's really good. I don't know,

468
00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:26.480
<v Speaker 4>you know, sorry, Monto. He was supposed to be a

469
00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:31.319
<v Speaker 4>field person for a museum back east, and he was

470
00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:33.920
<v Speaker 4>on a couple of shows. I took him out. He

471
00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:37.160
<v Speaker 4>saw some elk prance and says, there's some humans here.

472
00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:44.640
<v Speaker 4>I'm like, okay, that was another person that's really good.

473
00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:47.319
<v Speaker 4>I didn't go out in the woods with Well. I

474
00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:49.079
<v Speaker 4>went out of the woods with Peter Matheson, and I

475
00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:52.960
<v Speaker 4>was shocked that he doesn't have that much experience because

476
00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:56.279
<v Speaker 4>he you know, he was out with gorilla researchers. He

477
00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:57.319
<v Speaker 4>was all over the place.

478
00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:00.240
<v Speaker 3>He went to Nepal, he went out with melgum And

479
00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.079
<v Speaker 3>and min Chinsky. I mean I was I was impressed,

480
00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:05.640
<v Speaker 3>like he had some Yeah he got out there.

481
00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:08.640
<v Speaker 4>Yeah. I mean when I was in the coast cart

482
00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:12.079
<v Speaker 4>I read his first book on bluewater white death. It

483
00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:16.119
<v Speaker 4>was called Blue Meridian. It was about the great white sharks,

484
00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:19.119
<v Speaker 4>and they contracted him to be on the on the

485
00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:22.519
<v Speaker 4>ship and write a book about it. And man, I

486
00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:25.720
<v Speaker 4>just loved that book. And when I finally met him

487
00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:29.960
<v Speaker 4>at UBC, I thought, well, you're really young to write

488
00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:32.720
<v Speaker 4>that book. I mean, that just blew me away. So

489
00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:35.759
<v Speaker 4>then later on when I met him and he said, uh,

490
00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:39.279
<v Speaker 4>when he wrote snow Leopard and stuff. I loved the book.

491
00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:42.960
<v Speaker 4>But when I met him, he was more like a hippie.

492
00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:46.559
<v Speaker 4>He would walk around barefoot out in the woods out there,

493
00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:48.319
<v Speaker 4>and I'm going, what do you Why are you walking

494
00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:51.119
<v Speaker 4>into barefoot? He says, I just feel more uncomfortable doing

495
00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:53.319
<v Speaker 4>this is what I did all over the world. I said, well,

496
00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:57.160
<v Speaker 4>you know, you can get diseases that way out here,

497
00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:01.079
<v Speaker 4>because we have goats and elk and not not very

498
00:26:01.079 --> 00:26:04.640
<v Speaker 4>many out there, but deer and goat and bear, and

499
00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:09.240
<v Speaker 4>they have parasitic worms that can or that are in

500
00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:11.400
<v Speaker 4>the soil and it can get up in your go through

501
00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:14.480
<v Speaker 4>your heels and your the sole of your foot. Freaked

502
00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:17.680
<v Speaker 4>him out. He was wearing his shoes after that. And

503
00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:19.519
<v Speaker 4>then I found out that he died a few years later.

504
00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:22.759
<v Speaker 4>That was so sad. But I fed him. I cooked

505
00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:28.920
<v Speaker 4>him in uh and uh doctor Meldrum breakfast, and I

506
00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:32.880
<v Speaker 4>screwed up the soft boiled eggs pat but he made

507
00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:33.480
<v Speaker 4>him anyway.

508
00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:35.839
<v Speaker 3>But you guys, is that when you had the rock

509
00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:37.119
<v Speaker 3>incident when you were a cat with.

510
00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:43.319
<v Speaker 4>Yes, Yes, that was on We were filming King Kong,

511
00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:48.119
<v Speaker 4>the real King Kong. Gichan Epitheca is the real King Kong. Yeah,

512
00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:51.359
<v Speaker 4>he was there with Meldrum and Isak Masinski's was there

513
00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:54.279
<v Speaker 4>and we went across the river with the horse and stuff.

514
00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:57.519
<v Speaker 4>That was the second That was the first movie we

515
00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:00.920
<v Speaker 4>would especially we did, and then the second one, Giganta,

516
00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:05.400
<v Speaker 4>was out further in the same area North Cascades. So

517
00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:08.000
<v Speaker 4>that's sort of you know, you've got to ask people,

518
00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:11.680
<v Speaker 4>the researchers, you know, what are you doing? Are you

519
00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:15.119
<v Speaker 4>are you one of these ambulance chasers. You go after

520
00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:18.720
<v Speaker 4>like a sighting or do you have a study area?

521
00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:21.000
<v Speaker 4>And if you have a study area, how do you

522
00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:26.319
<v Speaker 4>define this study area? So I told everybody that I

523
00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:28.559
<v Speaker 4>have a study area, and Renee asked me what is

524
00:27:28.599 --> 00:27:33.680
<v Speaker 4>a study area? I said, well, it's an ecoregions. It's

525
00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:36.440
<v Speaker 4>like a watershed, but it's not cut off by water.

526
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:40.920
<v Speaker 4>It's an ecoregion. So everything in that region has flora

527
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:45.240
<v Speaker 4>fauna very similar to one another, and if a species

528
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:48.599
<v Speaker 4>is in there, it's part of the food chain somehow.

529
00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:51.240
<v Speaker 4>So you know, you study everything in that area. You

530
00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:53.599
<v Speaker 4>just don't try and look for bigfoot sightings. That's if

531
00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:56.279
<v Speaker 4>you just do the bigfoot sightings, then that's ambulance chasing.

532
00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.400
<v Speaker 4>So if I wanted to find a black bear, and

533
00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.480
<v Speaker 4>there's twenty thousand of them here in Washington, I wanted

534
00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:05.720
<v Speaker 4>to find a black bear, would I wait till I

535
00:28:05.799 --> 00:28:08.319
<v Speaker 4>hear about someone seeing one or would I just go

536
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:10.839
<v Speaker 4>out in the woods to where I know the food

537
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:11.960
<v Speaker 4>that they eat is.

538
00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:15.359
<v Speaker 1>And unless, of course, somebody sees one in your area.

539
00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:17.880
<v Speaker 4>Well, even if you get there, what are you going

540
00:28:17.960 --> 00:28:20.640
<v Speaker 4>to see? The only thing we've ever seen is footprints.

541
00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:23.640
<v Speaker 4>Nobody ever goes out to an area a researcher. At

542
00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:26.759
<v Speaker 4>least someone says, I saw a bigfoot here, I'm going

543
00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.559
<v Speaker 4>to go and see what I can find, see the footprints,

544
00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:32.759
<v Speaker 4>and then actually see the creature. The only person I've

545
00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:36.480
<v Speaker 4>ever heard someone similar than that would be Patterson. He

546
00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:39.759
<v Speaker 4>heard a bunch of footprints were up in that area

547
00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:41.279
<v Speaker 4>over and over and over and over, and he went

548
00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:42.920
<v Speaker 4>there and he photographed one.

549
00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:43.440
<v Speaker 3>Right.

550
00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:46.440
<v Speaker 1>We actually we did that met the museum because the

551
00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:49.359
<v Speaker 1>museum is just a front, so can we can pay

552
00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:52.200
<v Speaker 1>our bills and go to the field. Basically, we have

553
00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:53.960
<v Speaker 1>a study area we've been pulling some prints out of

554
00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:56.759
<v Speaker 1>and one of my guys saw a sasquatch there in August.

555
00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:00.319
<v Speaker 1>But again that's a research area, as you're saying, you know, like.

556
00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.359
<v Speaker 4>For me, I look at the food sources mainly, and

557
00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:07.880
<v Speaker 4>it could be taste, it could be you know how

558
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.599
<v Speaker 4>the quality of the food. Certain areas have better berries

559
00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:14.920
<v Speaker 4>in other areas because of the minerals in there. They

560
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:17.960
<v Speaker 4>taste better, they're not as tart, or they got more nourishment,

561
00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:20.559
<v Speaker 4>or there's a lot more of them. Maybe they're not.

562
00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:27.279
<v Speaker 4>They're Himalayan blackberries. There, or maybe native native ones with

563
00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:30.880
<v Speaker 4>the Indians used to hoard over are not as good

564
00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:33.279
<v Speaker 4>as the Himalayans. That the Himalayans have a lot more

565
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:39.079
<v Speaker 4>berries than our native ones, but the Himalayans have a

566
00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:41.640
<v Speaker 4>lot more stickers and they grow. It's like they take

567
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:44.119
<v Speaker 4>over their weed. But I also look at the fish,

568
00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:48.799
<v Speaker 4>and the fish could easily hide a population of animals.

569
00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:54.000
<v Speaker 4>The fish they are on a cycle of going out

570
00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:57.559
<v Speaker 4>for a couple of years and coming back, and they

571
00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:00.319
<v Speaker 4>go up a river when the river is flow at

572
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.440
<v Speaker 4>a certain speed and go up and they spawn and

573
00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:06.079
<v Speaker 4>they die and they end up on the shoreline up there.

574
00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:09.839
<v Speaker 4>And so I like, I go. I told this to

575
00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:13.519
<v Speaker 4>Doug Hicheck. He goes, well, you've been doing rick a

576
00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:16.240
<v Speaker 4>phone call recently and I said, well, I've been going

577
00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:18.920
<v Speaker 4>up in the woods and I'm visiting these historic places.

578
00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:21.319
<v Speaker 4>Goes historic place. I go, yeah, down in Oregon, I've

579
00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:23.799
<v Speaker 4>been going around to some of these historic places where

580
00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:26.039
<v Speaker 4>they have big ones. I'm what I'm looking for is

581
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:29.359
<v Speaker 4>these specific blocks in the river where salmon can't make

582
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:32.799
<v Speaker 4>it up. And he goes, what are those? And I said, well,

583
00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:36.640
<v Speaker 4>they're waterfalls basically, And he goes, you've got to do

584
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:42.160
<v Speaker 4>something else waterfalls. You got to research some better than waterfalls.

585
00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:46.799
<v Speaker 4>I said, no, no, that right, there could actually be

586
00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:50.759
<v Speaker 4>something to go to go up to a waterfall and

587
00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:54.440
<v Speaker 4>then from that waterfall down on the river. If salmon

588
00:30:54.519 --> 00:30:58.359
<v Speaker 4>go up there, either it's the pink shnow chum saw

589
00:30:58.519 --> 00:31:03.240
<v Speaker 4>guy whatever, they'll end up on the shoreline there dead

590
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:07.079
<v Speaker 4>and something's eating, something's taking them. It could be birds,

591
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:10.359
<v Speaker 4>it could be bear, it could be bigfoot. Who knows.

592
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:13.000
<v Speaker 4>He still doesn't think it's a good idea for me

593
00:31:13.079 --> 00:31:17.319
<v Speaker 4>to tell people I go up to waterfalls and a photograph.

594
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:21.079
<v Speaker 1>I think that's fine. I think that's great, because yeah,

595
00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:23.960
<v Speaker 1>you're not You're not going to know positive or negative

596
00:31:24.279 --> 00:31:26.319
<v Speaker 1>unless you do it, you know. And we've been looking

597
00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:29.920
<v Speaker 1>and doing stuff for fifty sixty years now and haven't

598
00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:32.519
<v Speaker 1>gotten really far. So I think that you have to

599
00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:34.880
<v Speaker 1>try some of these random things that make sense, that

600
00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:38.519
<v Speaker 1>has a nice logical foundation, and see what comes of it.

601
00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:41.559
<v Speaker 1>Because we're missing something. We're missing something, we're missing a

602
00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:44.759
<v Speaker 1>big chunk of their behavior that would make it a

603
00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:46.960
<v Speaker 1>lot easier to get some photographs of them or further

604
00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:50.440
<v Speaker 1>expand the cast inventory or whatever. We're missing something, so

605
00:31:50.599 --> 00:31:54.920
<v Speaker 1>we got to try these things. Stay tuned for more

606
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:57.960
<v Speaker 1>Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bobo will be right

607
00:31:58.000 --> 00:31:59.200
<v Speaker 1>back after these messages.

608
00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:08.440
<v Speaker 3>You're a professional photographer, Rick with like, do you carry

609
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:10.960
<v Speaker 3>a film camera or it's always digital? Do you for

610
00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:13.240
<v Speaker 3>the clear shot? You can, you know, do a lot

611
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:14.799
<v Speaker 3>more with the film. Do you ever use those or

612
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:16.400
<v Speaker 3>there's just too inefficient.

613
00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:21.640
<v Speaker 4>I have a film and digital and video, so I

614
00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:24.160
<v Speaker 4>have a lot of different cameras. I got like thirty

615
00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:28.640
<v Speaker 4>different cameras. It just depends. I carry probably five or

616
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:32.599
<v Speaker 4>six cameras when I go, And depending on what I

617
00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:35.279
<v Speaker 4>want to do or what I'm thinking of, or the

618
00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:38.960
<v Speaker 4>light or the conditions, is the camera and that I

619
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:42.720
<v Speaker 4>take out? Now that will also dictate what kind of

620
00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:45.440
<v Speaker 4>lens I'm going to have, so you know, like I

621
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:47.960
<v Speaker 4>sometimes I have a six hundred millimeters lens with me.

622
00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:51.079
<v Speaker 4>Sometimes I'll have a wide angle. It just depends. Most

623
00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:55.839
<v Speaker 4>of the time it's not a zoom, it's fixed or

624
00:32:55.960 --> 00:33:00.480
<v Speaker 4>prime lens. So yeah, I one thing that Renee into me,

625
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:02.799
<v Speaker 4>he's always have a camera. That guy, he had a

626
00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:05.920
<v Speaker 4>camera where he went. That's why I never trust him.

627
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:09.880
<v Speaker 4>He had a camera everywhere. You went, so you name it.

628
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:11.119
<v Speaker 4>You had a camera.

629
00:33:11.559 --> 00:33:14.079
<v Speaker 3>I always thought you'd be the best guy researcher because you

630
00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:16.480
<v Speaker 3>are a professional photographer. And I thought, and you're in

631
00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:18.400
<v Speaker 3>a great spot and you go to the same spot

632
00:33:18.440 --> 00:33:20.240
<v Speaker 3>so over and over, and I thought, if anyone's going

633
00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:24.319
<v Speaker 3>to get a good picture, it's not blurry, and you know, indistinct,

634
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:24.880
<v Speaker 3>it would be you.

635
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:29.240
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I've gotten only a couple of blurry And that

636
00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:34.160
<v Speaker 4>was I said. Some camera traps out and something knocked

637
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:37.759
<v Speaker 4>the trees down that the cameras were on, and I

638
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:40.920
<v Speaker 4>got a picture of something black moving but it wasn't

639
00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:45.200
<v Speaker 4>very good. I couldn't tell what it was. But most

640
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:48.640
<v Speaker 4>of my pictures of other animals come out, you know,

641
00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:53.039
<v Speaker 4>real clean, sharp and everything. So it must have been

642
00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:56.119
<v Speaker 4>just a shadow. Because if it can stop a deer

643
00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:59.559
<v Speaker 4>from moving, or an elk, or stop a bear from moving,

644
00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:04.079
<v Speaker 4>it's going to stop a bigfoot. Unless see these things,

645
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:09.760
<v Speaker 4>they don't have tools. We're not finding, they're not using fire,

646
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:13.159
<v Speaker 4>they're not processing their foods. You know. Every once in

647
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.199
<v Speaker 4>a while we hear people saying that they hear them

648
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:20.440
<v Speaker 4>chattering like they're talking, or that they are throwing things

649
00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:23.920
<v Speaker 4>rocks and sticks and stuff like that, or some of

650
00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:28.000
<v Speaker 4>these tp like structures that there's stick formations they're saying

651
00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:33.159
<v Speaker 4>that maybe are attributed to Bigfoot. But to me, I

652
00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:36.400
<v Speaker 4>think they're just another animal, and I think that they're

653
00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:40.079
<v Speaker 4>just so rare that it's hard to find them. They're big,

654
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:44.480
<v Speaker 4>and people are forgetting that when they go out and research.

655
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:46.800
<v Speaker 4>I mean, I went with a couple and they're well

656
00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:50.440
<v Speaker 4>known researchers and they're on their hands or knees going

657
00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:54.360
<v Speaker 4>underneath BlackBerry bushes looking for evidence of Bigfoot stepping there.

658
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:56.519
<v Speaker 4>There's no way you'd see the evidence before you even

659
00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:59.760
<v Speaker 4>got down to the ground. It's like logic left their brain.

660
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:03.559
<v Speaker 4>If something that big was going through, like an elephant,

661
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.239
<v Speaker 4>all the vegetation would would indicate that something big went

662
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:13.880
<v Speaker 4>through there. So I don't know. I know that rivers

663
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:17.119
<v Speaker 4>like Washington has thirty five thousand rivers and streams and

664
00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:21.239
<v Speaker 4>creeks all together, and there's a lot of fish there.

665
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:23.960
<v Speaker 4>I know about all the animals that are there. I mean,

666
00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:28.320
<v Speaker 4>there's not many cougars. There's only fifteen hundred, and it's

667
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:31.639
<v Speaker 4>only like less than a less than twenty per thousand

668
00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:38.159
<v Speaker 4>square miles of territory that that's the home range for cougars,

669
00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:42.960
<v Speaker 4>and there's a hell of a lot of deer. They're

670
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:46.199
<v Speaker 4>starting a population of grizzly now in there. I think

671
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:49.639
<v Speaker 4>that Washington, right next to BC has more sightings and

672
00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:55.159
<v Speaker 4>stuff because BC has grizzlies and if anything that would

673
00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:58.920
<v Speaker 4>be a danger to a bigfoot, a grizzly, I think

674
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:03.639
<v Speaker 4>so if there's grizzly there, I think there's less sightings.

675
00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:07.559
<v Speaker 4>And I also, you know, strongly believe that an animal

676
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:12.519
<v Speaker 4>like a bigfoot would avoid any type of confrontation where

677
00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:14.599
<v Speaker 4>it could get injured the less. I think it's a

678
00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:22.079
<v Speaker 4>It might be a natural law that the population of

679
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:26.800
<v Speaker 4>a species, if it's a low population number, that the

680
00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:33.280
<v Speaker 4>individual is more cautious in its life, not consciously saying

681
00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:35.920
<v Speaker 4>I'm not going to take the chance of being skewered

682
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:40.480
<v Speaker 4>by an elk's antlers, but they look for the easy way.

683
00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:43.159
<v Speaker 4>I'm going to go after the young that was just born.

684
00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:46.840
<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, that makes sense. That's why they raid trash cans,

685
00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:49.599
<v Speaker 1>that's why they're eating roadkill. That they're always going after

686
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.480
<v Speaker 1>the easy stuff because because they are smart. That's what

687
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:54.480
<v Speaker 1>I would do, and I'm smarter than the average bear.

688
00:36:54.519 --> 00:36:56.159
<v Speaker 1>I'd like to think and I would be doing I

689
00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:58.800
<v Speaker 1>would be doing the same thing. The average bear might disagree,

690
00:36:58.800 --> 00:36:59.760
<v Speaker 1>but that's my opinion.

691
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:03.320
<v Speaker 4>What's weird is, you know, John green goes the only

692
00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:05.840
<v Speaker 4>thing I found similar in my database. He gave me

693
00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:09.039
<v Speaker 4>the database and I entered in a lot of it

694
00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:13.480
<v Speaker 4>in the BFO. That's why the Washington sightings are so high.

695
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:18.599
<v Speaker 4>But the database in there. He said that, you know,

696
00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:21.880
<v Speaker 4>the only thing I could find was that when it

697
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:25.639
<v Speaker 4>rains or when there's a certain amount of water, is

698
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:30.119
<v Speaker 4>when there is sightings that happen. So there's two things

699
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:34.599
<v Speaker 4>that I thought, Well, the fish like it when it rains,

700
00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:38.239
<v Speaker 4>and when the rivers have a seven foot per second flow,

701
00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:40.639
<v Speaker 4>that's when the salmons start going up, and so that's

702
00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:43.239
<v Speaker 4>a source of food. And the other is is if

703
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:46.280
<v Speaker 4>you look at the states that have these large populations,

704
00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:47.760
<v Speaker 4>for the most part, there is a few that have

705
00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:51.360
<v Speaker 4>large populations and this doesn't work out. But if you

706
00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:55.239
<v Speaker 4>look at there's like thirty one states that have elk

707
00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:58.719
<v Speaker 4>breeding and the rest of them don't that elk breeding

708
00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:02.039
<v Speaker 4>gives a pretty good meal at certain times of the year,

709
00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:07.840
<v Speaker 4>and those areas where the breeding and the calving occur

710
00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:13.719
<v Speaker 4>have been in areas where it seems that bigfoot sightings

711
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:18.719
<v Speaker 4>and reports and information coming out of those areas are

712
00:38:18.719 --> 00:38:23.800
<v Speaker 4>more aggressive for some reason. And so like, the elk

713
00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:29.480
<v Speaker 4>population for Utah is pretty huge, and Oregon is really huge.

714
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:35.440
<v Speaker 4>Washington it's fairly huge. We're talking sixty to one hundred

715
00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:39.119
<v Speaker 4>and fifty thousand elk. I'm surprised that Oregon has as

716
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:41.159
<v Speaker 4>many as it does, one hundred and fifty hundred and

717
00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:43.119
<v Speaker 4>forty one hundred and thirty something like that.

718
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:47.039
<v Speaker 1>Oregon has the third highest number of forested acres of

719
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:52.480
<v Speaker 1>all fifty states after Alaska, and crazy enough, but Georgia

720
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:54.719
<v Speaker 1>has more forested acres than Oregon does.

721
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:59.519
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's a that's a makeup they're making up for

722
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:02.519
<v Speaker 4>when they cut all the trees down, so all the

723
00:39:02.599 --> 00:39:03.760
<v Speaker 4>trees that they ever knew.

724
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:06.320
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we were number two, and we being Oregon, we

725
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:08.119
<v Speaker 1>were number two until it's a few years ago. I

726
00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:10.199
<v Speaker 1>get so, I guess our logging caught up to us

727
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:12.199
<v Speaker 1>and maybe perhaps George's reforestation.

728
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:15.880
<v Speaker 3>So, hey, Rick, I was going to ask you, how

729
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:19.559
<v Speaker 3>often do you find scat and do you find it

730
00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:23.840
<v Speaker 3>in association with trackways? And if so, is do you

731
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.960
<v Speaker 3>notice that dietary changes during the year. And do they

732
00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:29.159
<v Speaker 3>hide the scat that you've found.

733
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:32.280
<v Speaker 4>No, I don't find that much scap. And the scat

734
00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:35.679
<v Speaker 4>that I do find from other animals, the majority of

735
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:37.320
<v Speaker 4>the time, I find it in the middle of a

736
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:41.920
<v Speaker 4>road like they're scared and they just defecate right there. Now,

737
00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:45.880
<v Speaker 4>I have seen a lot of bear right near a

738
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:47.760
<v Speaker 4>place where they are eating a lot of berries. I

739
00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:52.280
<v Speaker 4>guess it looses up their bowels or something. Yeah, and

740
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:56.880
<v Speaker 4>I've seen where you know fish. I mean I didn't

741
00:39:56.920 --> 00:39:59.079
<v Speaker 4>believe that. You know, maybe a bigfoot could catch a

742
00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:03.239
<v Speaker 4>fish they don't have like a bear does. But I

743
00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:07.599
<v Speaker 4>pulled fish right out of the river. I pull pulled

744
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:10.360
<v Speaker 4>steel head and stuff like that. And I found some

745
00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:13.280
<v Speaker 4>weird stuff right next to where those I did that.

746
00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:17.320
<v Speaker 4>You know, it looks like someone peeled a fish and

747
00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:20.440
<v Speaker 4>the head was gone, the tail was there, and the

748
00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:22.840
<v Speaker 4>skin was pulled back. Now, I don't think a bear

749
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:25.119
<v Speaker 4>does that, and I know an eagle wouldn't do that.

750
00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:25.920
<v Speaker 4>So what did it?

751
00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:28.920
<v Speaker 3>Well, I got them catching fish. I got a pretty

752
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.599
<v Speaker 3>interesting story. I was up talking to people in tweets

753
00:40:32.679 --> 00:40:35.599
<v Speaker 3>up there, you know, in quinn Out Reservation, and they

754
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:37.920
<v Speaker 3>were telling me because they had a group of teenagers,

755
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:41.639
<v Speaker 3>like a mob of like anywhere from eleven to fourteen

756
00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:45.639
<v Speaker 3>juvenile bigfoots would pack up around their village and they'd

757
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:49.039
<v Speaker 3>see them all the time for years. It quit probably

758
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:53.480
<v Speaker 3>it really slowed down about fifteen years ago. But they

759
00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:55.880
<v Speaker 3>had a story about watching in daylight during a salmon

760
00:40:55.960 --> 00:41:00.639
<v Speaker 3>run the group of young bigfoot's, about ten or eleven

761
00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:02.960
<v Speaker 3>of them in the river and the Quets River right

762
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:07.480
<v Speaker 3>where it does the big horseshoe bends around of the village,

763
00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.800
<v Speaker 3>and they watched them jumping in and they would herd

764
00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:14.320
<v Speaker 3>the salmon into the shallow areas and like, and they'd

765
00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:17.559
<v Speaker 3>grab them and then they'd run off and they'd hold

766
00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:19.159
<v Speaker 3>it like a football and run away like not to

767
00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:21.239
<v Speaker 3>share it. And they'd run up somewhere on the embankment

768
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:23.559
<v Speaker 3>and needed it alone and wouldn't share. And then when

769
00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:27.440
<v Speaker 3>it got down to like three or four bigfoots left,

770
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:29.559
<v Speaker 3>they just gave up because there wasn't enough of them

771
00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:31.480
<v Speaker 3>to corral the salmon anymore.

772
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:32.320
<v Speaker 4>Wow.

773
00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:34.440
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, who knows, Man, that seems like an awful lot

774
00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:35.639
<v Speaker 1>of bigfoots to be seen at once.

775
00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:40.199
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I've heard that. I think I heard Chris talk

776
00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:42.119
<v Speaker 4>about something like that up in Canada.

777
00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:44.679
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, Ice have some more data points supporting

778
00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:47.360
<v Speaker 1>something like that. But there are a couple a couple

779
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:51.840
<v Speaker 1>of reports of them peeling back the skin of other animals. Yeah,

780
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.760
<v Speaker 1>there's one I know where he's sasquatch was holding a

781
00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:57.400
<v Speaker 1>fawn like a baby deer and peeling the skin off it.

782
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:00.440
<v Speaker 1>And there's another one I think with a dog. That

783
00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:02.440
<v Speaker 1>might be a few more in my records. I some

784
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:04.440
<v Speaker 1>of the memory to recall them.

785
00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:09.440
<v Speaker 3>Well, in Louisiana, the DuPonts, the cattle dog went out

786
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:12.800
<v Speaker 3>and when the squatch was around, it pulled the hide off,

787
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:15.400
<v Speaker 3>and the dog came running back with no hide left,

788
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:17.880
<v Speaker 3>and it just ran back screaming and then died like

789
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:18.800
<v Speaker 3>twenty minutes later.

790
00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:20.760
<v Speaker 1>Wow, bummer.

791
00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:24.480
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I had, I've had I've seen stuff like that,

792
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:26.559
<v Speaker 4>but it was another dog that ripped off the skin.

793
00:42:26.920 --> 00:42:27.639
<v Speaker 4>They can do that.

794
00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:32.760
<v Speaker 1>So nowadays, you've basically escaped the spotlight, which is I

795
00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:35.519
<v Speaker 1>congratulate you on that. By the way, you've escaped the

796
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:37.360
<v Speaker 1>spotlight in Bigfoot, which is kind of nice. And you

797
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:39.679
<v Speaker 1>can do things quietly at your own pace and without

798
00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:43.559
<v Speaker 1>anybody else criticizing or yelling or screaming or whatever they

799
00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:47.320
<v Speaker 1>like to do, because bigfooting hasn't really changed, you know,

800
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:52.280
<v Speaker 1>since the nineteen seventies or before. What do you do, like,

801
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:55.800
<v Speaker 1>like how often, like say during the good months where

802
00:42:55.880 --> 00:42:58.039
<v Speaker 1>it's more the woods are more accessible in the mountains

803
00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:00.440
<v Speaker 1>and whatever, how often do you get out and what

804
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:03.639
<v Speaker 1>does an expedition look like for you nowadays?

805
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:06.480
<v Speaker 4>Well, I like to look for tracks because that's the

806
00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:10.880
<v Speaker 4>immediate concern. So I wait until it rains, and then

807
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:12.239
<v Speaker 4>when it rains, that's when.

808
00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:15.280
<v Speaker 1>I go out in the rain or after it can be.

809
00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:17.599
<v Speaker 4>In when it's when it's in there because when it

810
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:19.960
<v Speaker 4>starts to rain, because it'll wash a lot of my

811
00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:20.519
<v Speaker 4>sand away.

812
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:25.599
<v Speaker 1>Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and beyond with Cliff and

813
00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:34.480
<v Speaker 1>Bobo will be right back after these messages. Are you

814
00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:38.760
<v Speaker 1>finding tracks in the same general area that you found

815
00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:39.280
<v Speaker 1>them before?

816
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:46.320
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, And there's some specifics to where the tracks are. First,

817
00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:48.599
<v Speaker 4>you know, you look at you only look in areas

818
00:43:48.639 --> 00:43:52.760
<v Speaker 4>where tracks are are going to be seen or where

819
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:55.559
<v Speaker 4>they're going to be made along a river. If if

820
00:43:55.559 --> 00:43:58.159
<v Speaker 4>the river is like loose gravel, I mean you're not

821
00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.519
<v Speaker 4>gonna you know, go there. If I spots on rivers,

822
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:06.880
<v Speaker 4>where it's good conditions for it. Then sometimes on the

823
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:10.079
<v Speaker 4>side of the roads depends. If the vegetation is growing

824
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:12.280
<v Speaker 4>up to the edge of the road, that's no good.

825
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:16.039
<v Speaker 4>So I wait until either that is all washed away

826
00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:19.119
<v Speaker 4>or it's just muddy. And you look for prints along there.

827
00:44:20.920 --> 00:44:24.119
<v Speaker 4>When I'm walking down a dirt road or something, I

828
00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:27.280
<v Speaker 4>walk on one side going up and on the other

829
00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:29.199
<v Speaker 4>side coming down. I don't walk in the middle of

830
00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:33.679
<v Speaker 4>the road, and I find a lot of tracks along there.

831
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:38.000
<v Speaker 4>They come and they stand by the side, you know things,

832
00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:39.639
<v Speaker 4>stand by the side of the road, check it out,

833
00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:42.440
<v Speaker 4>and then cross it and call the other side. So

834
00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:46.400
<v Speaker 4>it's just common sense. A lot of times. It's almost

835
00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:51.719
<v Speaker 4>like if you know, you're like you're playing a game

836
00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:55.920
<v Speaker 4>and you don't want to be seen, and so you

837
00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:58.800
<v Speaker 4>might go out in the open. As soon as something happens,

838
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:04.199
<v Speaker 4>you hear some or you see something in the distance,

839
00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:08.119
<v Speaker 4>you think that they could see you. You change your

840
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:11.599
<v Speaker 4>body shape, you squat down, or you jump, or you

841
00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:15.360
<v Speaker 4>fall down, or you get out of that line of sight.

842
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:19.039
<v Speaker 4>You try and avoid. It's almost like an evasion kind

843
00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:21.440
<v Speaker 4>of technique. And deer do it too, but they do

844
00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:24.599
<v Speaker 4>it a different way. They can hop and then drop

845
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:26.800
<v Speaker 4>their tail and they turn their butt towards you, and

846
00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:28.719
<v Speaker 4>then they turn around look at you with their butt

847
00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:32.599
<v Speaker 4>towards you, and it breaks up their look. That's if

848
00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:36.320
<v Speaker 4>they think you are a threat. I don't think elk

849
00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:38.559
<v Speaker 4>do that, but a lot of times elk will lower

850
00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:42.119
<v Speaker 4>their antlers and it's almost like they're behind a tree

851
00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:47.039
<v Speaker 4>with limbs and a bear I think. I don't think

852
00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:51.079
<v Speaker 4>bears of that bright and they just they waddle along.

853
00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:55.480
<v Speaker 4>They don't care their eyesight is poor. There's a sense

854
00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:58.280
<v Speaker 4>of smell is good. I have a blind cat and

855
00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:02.039
<v Speaker 4>it acts like a bear at home, and it just

856
00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:06.440
<v Speaker 4>waddles around, whereas I got another cat and it zings around.

857
00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:12.760
<v Speaker 4>It's like super hyper sensitive to airy stimuli. But that

858
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:18.840
<v Speaker 4>blank cat is is really lethargic, and so I think

859
00:46:18.880 --> 00:46:21.599
<v Speaker 4>the eyesight is really, you know, one of those kinds

860
00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:26.039
<v Speaker 4>of things. And Bigfoot has got eyes like us, meaning

861
00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:28.719
<v Speaker 4>that they're both forward facing. They're not on the side

862
00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:32.239
<v Speaker 4>of the head like a deer or even I think

863
00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:34.760
<v Speaker 4>a bears pretty much on the side of the head too.

864
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:36.960
<v Speaker 4>They have to turn their head a little bit to

865
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:41.760
<v Speaker 4>see what's right in front of them. They're kind of

866
00:46:41.800 --> 00:46:45.599
<v Speaker 4>the same cat sizes are they look straight at you,

867
00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:50.039
<v Speaker 4>They're not on the side of the head. They're a predator.

868
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:53.760
<v Speaker 4>So I don't know if you know I've heard where

869
00:46:54.039 --> 00:46:57.760
<v Speaker 4>you know, the eyes facing straight ahead as a predator.

870
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:04.039
<v Speaker 4>But anyway, I go to places where it's noisy and wet,

871
00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:07.679
<v Speaker 4>and that's waterfalls because I make a lot of noise

872
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:10.480
<v Speaker 4>if I'm walking around trying to get up and down

873
00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:15.559
<v Speaker 4>into into some deep canyons, and with a waterfall there

874
00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:17.239
<v Speaker 4>nothing really hears you.

875
00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:19.760
<v Speaker 1>And as that panned out, if you if you've had

876
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:23.400
<v Speaker 1>some positive results by frequenting these waterfalls.

877
00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:27.440
<v Speaker 4>I found a few interesting things that look like tracks.

878
00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:30.800
<v Speaker 4>I wouldn't nothing i'd cast or take a picture of,

879
00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:33.920
<v Speaker 4>but they look like something had gone through that area

880
00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:36.800
<v Speaker 4>with a soft foot. Didn't look like it was a boot,

881
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:40.199
<v Speaker 4>didn't look like it was a small foot. Knocks off

882
00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:42.400
<v Speaker 4>some you know moss on a rock that is a

883
00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:46.920
<v Speaker 4>large moss section of it on a rock, and then

884
00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:51.760
<v Speaker 4>further down there's another rock and it's within the bigfoots

885
00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:55.280
<v Speaker 4>reported you know, step it could it could reach one

886
00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:57.440
<v Speaker 4>to the other with one foot a human would be

887
00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:02.119
<v Speaker 4>able to. So that it's interesting. And sometimes I see

888
00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:06.360
<v Speaker 4>where rocks are picked up and disturbed and they're turned over,

889
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:09.639
<v Speaker 4>and you would think that maybe it was, you know,

890
00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:13.840
<v Speaker 4>like a hoofed foot that kicked it, but it isn't.

891
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:17.719
<v Speaker 4>It's like only you know, two or three inches away,

892
00:48:18.760 --> 00:48:22.480
<v Speaker 4>but it's turned completely over and it's the same distance

893
00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:27.559
<v Speaker 4>like a bigfoot would biped would that's the size of

894
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:31.159
<v Speaker 4>a bigfoot. So I've seen stuff like that.

895
00:48:31.679 --> 00:48:35.320
<v Speaker 3>Have you seen a bigfoot yet, Rick, No, I haven't.

896
00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:38.719
<v Speaker 4>I've seen some strange things out of the corner of

897
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:42.440
<v Speaker 4>my eyes, could be in a bird or something like

898
00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:46.559
<v Speaker 4>that moving flying by and just caught your attention and

899
00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:50.239
<v Speaker 4>then it drifts into a shadow. But I've also read

900
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:55.639
<v Speaker 4>where apparently we tell stories in our heads of what

901
00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:58.039
<v Speaker 4>we're seeing. It goes directly to the front of our

902
00:48:58.079 --> 00:49:01.199
<v Speaker 4>brain and tells us a story I see is completely

903
00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:05.440
<v Speaker 4>different than what anybody else sees because it's all interpreted

904
00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:10.360
<v Speaker 4>by my brain's storytelling ability. I see something and it's

905
00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:12.920
<v Speaker 4>telling me the story of what I'm seeing. What you

906
00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:15.519
<v Speaker 4>see is telling you the story of what you see.

907
00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:19.719
<v Speaker 4>And I really recommend everybody reading a book called The

908
00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:22.880
<v Speaker 4>Science of Storytelling, and it goes into a lot of

909
00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:25.960
<v Speaker 4>really interesting stuff. It's more than just being fooled by

910
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:28.960
<v Speaker 4>your eyes. It's your brain that is interpreting what your

911
00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:32.360
<v Speaker 4>eyes see. Your eyes don't have a memory. Your eyes

912
00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:35.840
<v Speaker 4>are just interpreting signals. Your brain is what has the

913
00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:40.559
<v Speaker 4>memory and what's doing stuff with what your eyes are seeing. So, no,

914
00:49:40.679 --> 00:49:42.880
<v Speaker 4>I haven't I don't claim to see a bigfoot. I

915
00:49:42.920 --> 00:49:45.800
<v Speaker 4>haven't seen a bigfoot. It's not like I'm hiding that

916
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:51.119
<v Speaker 4>I've seen a bigfoot. And if I ever saw a bigfoot,

917
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:54.719
<v Speaker 4>i'd probably tell people, yeah I think I seen one. Yeah.

918
00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:58.480
<v Speaker 1>So for more paranoid listeners, he's not hiding anything from you.

919
00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:03.519
<v Speaker 3>What's the most compelling audio, Like, have you had like

920
00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:06.480
<v Speaker 3>a class being counterlike that was intense, or you like,

921
00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:08.679
<v Speaker 3>you know, you got your hair up like anything like that.

922
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:12.039
<v Speaker 4>Well, on the Schook of Expedition, I got my hair up.

923
00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:15.400
<v Speaker 4>That was there was some some really strange stuff there.

924
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:18.239
<v Speaker 4>And I know Matt claims that some of it was

925
00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:24.519
<v Speaker 4>just doctor bam bam uh talking in his sleep, but

926
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:27.880
<v Speaker 4>it wasn't. It was not him talking in a sleep.

927
00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:34.000
<v Speaker 4>It was bizarre and and it was it was spooky.

928
00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:38.440
<v Speaker 4>Other sounds that I've heard the most compelling sounds that

929
00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:45.840
<v Speaker 4>I've heard have been at Bumping Lake. My parents called me.

930
00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:51.440
<v Speaker 4>They were hunting over there, and this is over on

931
00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:56.800
<v Speaker 4>the cascades, going over to that cheese and it's a

932
00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:02.119
<v Speaker 4>it's a cabin area, and they were hunting and there

933
00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:06.599
<v Speaker 4>were some tracks found and I got the pictures from

934
00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:09.480
<v Speaker 4>the people that took the pictures sent them to me.

935
00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:12.960
<v Speaker 4>They were slides, and I sent them down to Peter

936
00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:17.280
<v Speaker 4>and he never returned them, so I was sad. I

937
00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:20.480
<v Speaker 4>took some made some prints room, so I have that.

938
00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:24.840
<v Speaker 4>But anyway, there are really some good prints in snow.

939
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:30.480
<v Speaker 4>And the sounds that they were hearing there were like warning,

940
00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:33.760
<v Speaker 4>you know, for humans to get out of there. They

941
00:51:33.880 --> 00:51:36.920
<v Speaker 4>heard these rifle shots and it was almost like, you know,

942
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:40.960
<v Speaker 4>there's another tribe of people that were saying, you know,

943
00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:43.639
<v Speaker 4>get out of our area. This is our hunting ground.

944
00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:48.400
<v Speaker 4>And and so it was kind of eerie listening to

945
00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:51.519
<v Speaker 4>these these screens over there. And I tried to recreate

946
00:51:51.559 --> 00:51:55.039
<v Speaker 4>the screens my parents had recorded on a little eight track,

947
00:51:55.800 --> 00:51:59.840
<v Speaker 4>not a track, but a little a cassette recorder, and

948
00:51:59.880 --> 00:52:02.559
<v Speaker 4>I transferred to a bigger recorder and then it went

949
00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:04.840
<v Speaker 4>to the University of Washington had them. It was the

950
00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:07.639
<v Speaker 4>first time I ever heard of the audio department there

951
00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:09.400
<v Speaker 4>and had them tried to recreate it so that they

952
00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:13.679
<v Speaker 4>could get it cleaned up and like they make the sound.

953
00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:18.840
<v Speaker 4>So they did that with a synthesizer and put it

954
00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:20.760
<v Speaker 4>on there, and I tried to use that for call blasting.

955
00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:24.559
<v Speaker 4>That was way back, that was late seventies. Then I

956
00:52:24.599 --> 00:52:27.880
<v Speaker 4>took it to the University of Washington, so that was

957
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:30.920
<v Speaker 4>before call blasting. I wouldn't call it call blasting, and

958
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:33.360
<v Speaker 4>I tried it a couple of times, and I didn't

959
00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:36.719
<v Speaker 4>have the power behind there for portable stereo. You just

960
00:52:36.760 --> 00:52:40.960
<v Speaker 4>played it in your car and the finished product I

961
00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:43.199
<v Speaker 4>had to record it after playing on a reel, to

962
00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:47.079
<v Speaker 4>reel on speakers and then record it onto a tape machine,

963
00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:50.320
<v Speaker 4>then take that tape and stick it in. I had

964
00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:53.960
<v Speaker 4>an eight tap eight track tape deck and an eight

965
00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:57.480
<v Speaker 4>track tape recorder, and I transferred over to the eight

966
00:52:57.519 --> 00:52:59.920
<v Speaker 4>track and put that into the eight track player because

967
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:02.079
<v Speaker 4>because that's weren't there at that time.

968
00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:04.400
<v Speaker 3>Were you ever stoked like you thought it was a

969
00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:06.119
<v Speaker 3>big foot, like you know, hearing like the crunch and

970
00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:08.400
<v Speaker 3>falling you out or anything like that or bluff charge.

971
00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:11.519
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I've been stocked, but it was a bear, and

972
00:53:12.239 --> 00:53:14.920
<v Speaker 4>I stalked. Another time it was a cougar, but not

973
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:20.039
<v Speaker 4>a big foot. They showed themselves the bear. I thought

974
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:24.920
<v Speaker 4>bears were stupid. I still do. But we were falling.

975
00:53:24.920 --> 00:53:27.320
<v Speaker 4>I was falling a bear, and all of a sudden,

976
00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:31.239
<v Speaker 4>I see my footprints and the bear was on top

977
00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:36.559
<v Speaker 4>of them. Go wait a minute. I traveled around in

978
00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:39.400
<v Speaker 4>a circle and the bear is chasing me.

979
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:42.199
<v Speaker 1>They're smart dogs, you know, basically is what they are.

980
00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:48.599
<v Speaker 4>You know now the cougars, they're different. They're scary. I'll

981
00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:52.840
<v Speaker 4>tell you. When I was on that horse and we

982
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:55.480
<v Speaker 4>got off the horses, we were crossing the river. The

983
00:53:55.599 --> 00:53:58.320
<v Speaker 4>river had been washed The bridge there was washed out,

984
00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:01.719
<v Speaker 4>so there has been like five years that it's been

985
00:54:01.800 --> 00:54:04.880
<v Speaker 4>washed down. So that side of the river was all

986
00:54:04.920 --> 00:54:07.239
<v Speaker 4>overgrown on the end, and there was a lot of

987
00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:10.960
<v Speaker 4>logs down on the road stuff. So we were we

988
00:54:11.039 --> 00:54:13.199
<v Speaker 4>crossed the river on the horses. The horses got all

989
00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:16.800
<v Speaker 4>beat up a crossing that river. They were bloody on

990
00:54:16.840 --> 00:54:19.719
<v Speaker 4>the other side. I felt sad for them. And we

991
00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:22.920
<v Speaker 4>got to the point where my boots were in the water.

992
00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:26.440
<v Speaker 4>It was deeper than I thought, and I was surprised

993
00:54:26.440 --> 00:54:29.239
<v Speaker 4>that the horses didn't lose their footing and started swimming,

994
00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:31.440
<v Speaker 4>and then I went to ruined my ten thousand dollars

995
00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:35.360
<v Speaker 4>video camera. It was it was scary, but when we

996
00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:37.199
<v Speaker 4>finally got over there, we dried off a little bit.

997
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:42.519
<v Speaker 4>And then we're walking, or the horses were walking. We're

998
00:54:42.519 --> 00:54:45.039
<v Speaker 4>on their back, and we come up to a log.

999
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:47.039
<v Speaker 4>We have to get off, and then we get them

1000
00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:48.880
<v Speaker 4>to come over the log, and then we get back

1001
00:54:48.920 --> 00:54:52.000
<v Speaker 4>on and we have to get the camera ready and

1002
00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:55.079
<v Speaker 4>stuff like that, and I have a pistol on and

1003
00:54:55.360 --> 00:54:59.519
<v Speaker 4>we keep on going. So after about the fifth log

1004
00:54:59.599 --> 00:55:02.880
<v Speaker 4>across the road, there was a big one and I

1005
00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:05.159
<v Speaker 4>had to go under the log instead of over it,

1006
00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:08.199
<v Speaker 4>and the horse had to be led over it on

1007
00:55:08.320 --> 00:55:09.840
<v Speaker 4>the side of the road and threw a bunch of

1008
00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:12.039
<v Speaker 4>mud to get across. And then we got back on

1009
00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:14.719
<v Speaker 4>and I'm going, this is getting old. I don't know,

1010
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:17.800
<v Speaker 4>you know, when are we going to turn around? This

1011
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:20.960
<v Speaker 4>is this is getting ridiculous. And we'd only traveled, you know,

1012
00:55:21.079 --> 00:55:26.000
<v Speaker 4>maybe four miles on the horses with all these down trees,

1013
00:55:26.639 --> 00:55:29.800
<v Speaker 4>and I get back up on the horse and we

1014
00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:33.159
<v Speaker 4>went I don't know, I had the video camera in

1015
00:55:33.239 --> 00:55:36.360
<v Speaker 4>my arm, and it was the camera lens was pointed

1016
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:41.239
<v Speaker 4>towards the guy that owns the horses to my left,

1017
00:55:41.599 --> 00:55:45.239
<v Speaker 4>and we're walking on the horses just I don't know,

1018
00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:49.519
<v Speaker 4>maybe ten feet and the side of the of the

1019
00:55:49.639 --> 00:55:52.559
<v Speaker 4>road on my side had a lot of forest up there,

1020
00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:54.119
<v Speaker 4>and it was a steep hill, and then there was

1021
00:55:54.119 --> 00:55:58.039
<v Speaker 4>this big rock. I didn't see anything. And then I

1022
00:55:58.119 --> 00:56:00.719
<v Speaker 4>get past the rock, just like I don't know, not

1023
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:05.760
<v Speaker 4>very far, maybe a foot to two foot past this big rock.

1024
00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:09.920
<v Speaker 4>It's like above my head, about at least say eight

1025
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:14.440
<v Speaker 4>feet above my head. I'm about five feet away from

1026
00:56:14.440 --> 00:56:17.159
<v Speaker 4>the side of the road, and all of a sudden,

1027
00:56:17.199 --> 00:56:21.800
<v Speaker 4>this thing lands right from the horse. It's got a

1028
00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:25.280
<v Speaker 4>tail sticking up and it's brown and it's wagon and

1029
00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:28.239
<v Speaker 4>it leaps off the center of the road and over

1030
00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:30.639
<v Speaker 4>to the side, and then you see it moving through

1031
00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:34.639
<v Speaker 4>the forest and it was a cougar almost. I could

1032
00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:36.079
<v Speaker 4>feel the air going past my.

1033
00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:41.920
<v Speaker 1>Heads straight out of that Sasquatch movie from the nineteen seventies,

1034
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:44.079
<v Speaker 1>you know that one. Ron Olson kind.

1035
00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:46.280
<v Speaker 4>Of really I didn't know that, but.

1036
00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:49.280
<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, they're like they're their caravan of horses, you know,

1037
00:56:49.320 --> 00:56:51.000
<v Speaker 1>got attacked by a cougar or whatever.

1038
00:56:51.079 --> 00:56:54.199
<v Speaker 4>So I couldn't believe that. And then I found out

1039
00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:58.000
<v Speaker 4>that that's where the Game Department releases their cougars that

1040
00:56:58.039 --> 00:57:01.199
<v Speaker 4>they catch that are too close to populations. They come out,

1041
00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:03.880
<v Speaker 4>they catch them after people see them, and then they

1042
00:57:03.880 --> 00:57:08.599
<v Speaker 4>release them out there. No wonder, there's cougar's there.

1043
00:57:08.960 --> 00:57:09.920
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah you think.

1044
00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:12.920
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I wanted to ask you what's your thought on

1045
00:57:13.400 --> 00:57:17.519
<v Speaker 3>tree breaks, glyphs and cheaping structures.

1046
00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:20.639
<v Speaker 4>You know, I've never seen a TP being made, so

1047
00:57:21.159 --> 00:57:24.719
<v Speaker 4>I don't have an explanation for it. The twists, this

1048
00:57:24.760 --> 00:57:27.599
<v Speaker 4>is what I would say. If there's a twist in

1049
00:57:29.559 --> 00:57:31.719
<v Speaker 4>a limb or something like that and it goes to

1050
00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:35.519
<v Speaker 4>the right, there's a good chance that's just natural. Somehow

1051
00:57:36.199 --> 00:57:39.679
<v Speaker 4>it happens, especially with lightning strikes. It affects some sort

1052
00:57:39.719 --> 00:57:43.280
<v Speaker 4>of structure inside the tree and they start acting weird

1053
00:57:43.320 --> 00:57:47.880
<v Speaker 4>and everything. This is a right hand universe and things

1054
00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:51.599
<v Speaker 4>travel in that direction to the right. Everything twists to

1055
00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:54.119
<v Speaker 4>the right for some reason. That's how the electrons go

1056
00:57:54.199 --> 00:57:59.079
<v Speaker 4>around the atoms and how It's just how things work

1057
00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:02.880
<v Speaker 4>in a toilet bowl. Yeah, if if it goes around

1058
00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:06.559
<v Speaker 4>the opposite way to the left, then I start wondering

1059
00:58:06.599 --> 00:58:08.800
<v Speaker 4>what could have done that? And I don't know what,

1060
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:13.159
<v Speaker 4>but I never I've seen the you know, the the

1061
00:58:13.239 --> 00:58:15.639
<v Speaker 4>teepee like structures out in the woods. I don't know

1062
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:18.119
<v Speaker 4>what causes them. It doesn't make sense when I look

1063
00:58:18.199 --> 00:58:21.519
<v Speaker 4>up and see where these things are coming from, that

1064
00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:24.280
<v Speaker 4>they could have been blown over there and land that

1065
00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:30.480
<v Speaker 4>way doesn't make sense. It's almost like, is someone someone

1066
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:32.880
<v Speaker 4>climbing up these trees, breaking them off and throwing them

1067
00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:33.639
<v Speaker 4>down like spears?

1068
00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:36.960
<v Speaker 3>How about sasquatches in trees? I know you're like, you know,

1069
00:58:37.000 --> 00:58:40.039
<v Speaker 3>you're you got all evergreens around you for the big

1070
00:58:40.079 --> 00:58:41.800
<v Speaker 3>part of where you're at a lot of evergreens, and

1071
00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:44.719
<v Speaker 3>we hear either more in deciduous trees than they climbing

1072
00:58:44.719 --> 00:58:47.159
<v Speaker 3>the trees. But what's your take on that? Do you

1073
00:58:47.199 --> 00:58:49.039
<v Speaker 3>have any experience with that or ideas.

1074
00:58:49.559 --> 00:58:51.840
<v Speaker 4>I've seen a couple of black things up in trees

1075
00:58:51.880 --> 00:58:54.480
<v Speaker 4>and I took in some pictures, but I couldn't tell

1076
00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:57.199
<v Speaker 4>what it was and it wouldn't move, And I've walked

1077
00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:00.280
<v Speaker 4>up to the tree, I can't get up there, and

1078
00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:02.880
<v Speaker 4>so I just thought better of it, thinking that it

1079
00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:05.079
<v Speaker 4>must have been you know, a cub or a bear,

1080
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:09.239
<v Speaker 4>up there, what kind of it was at least one

1081
00:59:09.360 --> 00:59:13.320
<v Speaker 4>hundred feet up in the air, and they were fir

1082
00:59:13.719 --> 00:59:17.320
<v Speaker 4>and pine. They were pretty far up there, and where

1083
00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:20.960
<v Speaker 4>they were was close to the trunk, not out on

1084
00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:25.559
<v Speaker 4>a limb, but close to the trunk. And the limbs

1085
00:59:25.559 --> 00:59:28.920
<v Speaker 4>were so thick that parts of it were broken up,

1086
00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:31.239
<v Speaker 4>so it didn't look like it was one big black thing,

1087
00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:32.119
<v Speaker 4>but you knew it was.

1088
00:59:32.719 --> 00:59:35.239
<v Speaker 3>Did you see claw marks on the near of the base.

1089
00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:37.920
<v Speaker 4>No, I didn't, so I don't know what it was.

1090
00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:44.559
<v Speaker 4>That's telling Yeah, yeah, that was That was that Rattlesnak Reservoir,

1091
00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:50.599
<v Speaker 4>which is close to the talt Indian are not tilt. Yeah,

1092
00:59:50.599 --> 00:59:53.360
<v Speaker 4>it's a tolt, but it's not the Indian reservation. It's

1093
00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:56.960
<v Speaker 4>the watershed for Seattle, so it's out by Izakuah.

1094
00:59:57.639 --> 00:59:59.000
<v Speaker 1>Is that watershed off limits?

1095
00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:02.599
<v Speaker 4>Yes, so you can walk in. If they catch you,

1096
01:00:02.599 --> 01:00:02.960
<v Speaker 4>you get in.

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01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:04.119
<v Speaker 3>Trouble, gotcha.

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01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:06.440
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, of course. We have the bull run over here

1099
01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:09.079
<v Speaker 1>that you're not even allowed to walk in there. But

1100
01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:10.760
<v Speaker 1>on the other side of the hill there's the Dallas

1101
01:00:10.760 --> 01:00:13.559
<v Speaker 1>Watershed and that's where Peter Burn suggested I go big footing.

1102
01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:15.679
<v Speaker 1>We I already knew about it by that time, I

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01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:19.119
<v Speaker 1>already found a spot over there, and you're allowed to

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01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:20.880
<v Speaker 1>drive through it. You just can't stop and get out.

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01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:25.960
<v Speaker 4>Supposedly, when I was doing cedar salvage, I worked in

1106
01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:29.679
<v Speaker 4>that area, and it's really rugged. In the water down

1107
01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:32.840
<v Speaker 4>there in that reservoir is just crystal clear. Oh man,

1108
01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:38.000
<v Speaker 4>looks so beautiful, and it's really dangerous because the way

1109
01:00:38.639 --> 01:00:42.400
<v Speaker 4>it's so steep walking on those hillsides. They hire people

1110
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:46.119
<v Speaker 4>to come in and do cedar salvage and also to

1111
01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:48.880
<v Speaker 4>do pre commercial thinning. They call it that. It's not

1112
01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:52.239
<v Speaker 4>really pre commercial because they don't allow commercial thinning out there,

1113
01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:58.519
<v Speaker 4>and the RESI in the watershed. But the way you

1114
01:00:58.639 --> 01:01:02.199
<v Speaker 4>use a bow bar, it's hollow on a chainsaw and

1115
01:01:02.239 --> 01:01:05.599
<v Speaker 4>you cut it and then these trees that are about

1116
01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:09.519
<v Speaker 4>to well to maybe the most is two and a

1117
01:01:09.559 --> 01:01:13.800
<v Speaker 4>half inches in with at the base, and you cut

1118
01:01:13.880 --> 01:01:18.360
<v Speaker 4>up and it falls into the middle of their boat bar,

1119
01:01:19.079 --> 01:01:21.559
<v Speaker 4>and then you flip the saw and the tree goes

1120
01:01:21.599 --> 01:01:26.079
<v Speaker 4>flying and it leaves that stump there. And it's a

1121
01:01:26.119 --> 01:01:31.320
<v Speaker 4>small stump, but it keeps the ground from washing away,

1122
01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:36.960
<v Speaker 4>and it allows certain species or certain trees to grow

1123
01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:40.599
<v Speaker 4>and other ones to not crowd them. So you just

1124
01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:47.519
<v Speaker 4>thin the trees there and you get tired, and you're

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01:01:47.559 --> 01:01:51.000
<v Speaker 4>at an angle, a real sharp angle on those hills,

1126
01:01:51.599 --> 01:01:54.239
<v Speaker 4>and when you're cutting them, you end up cutting them

1127
01:01:54.320 --> 01:02:00.159
<v Speaker 4>like spikes. So if you fall, you're going to be skewered.

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01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:02.079
<v Speaker 1>Maybe impaled by your own work. Right.

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01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:05.400
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, So you know, there's a lot of dangerous stuff

1130
01:02:05.400 --> 01:02:07.679
<v Speaker 4>out there, and for big One to be out some

1131
01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:10.920
<v Speaker 4>of that area, it's just amazing that we don't find one,

1132
01:02:11.440 --> 01:02:13.760
<v Speaker 4>you know, debt from something that humans have done.

1133
01:02:13.960 --> 01:02:16.199
<v Speaker 1>But as you mentioned, there's so few of them, and

1134
01:02:16.320 --> 01:02:19.199
<v Speaker 1>where they like to hang out aren't exactly places people

1135
01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:19.800
<v Speaker 1>love to go.

1136
01:02:20.400 --> 01:02:24.639
<v Speaker 4>Right. This is an animal that is very in tune

1137
01:02:24.679 --> 01:02:29.519
<v Speaker 4>with with this, with the ecology. It has a very

1138
01:02:29.559 --> 01:02:35.039
<v Speaker 4>specific niche and it's a it's adaptive and so uh

1139
01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:37.800
<v Speaker 4>that's how if it is, if there is such a

1140
01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:40.159
<v Speaker 4>thing as a big Way, it's got to be so

1141
01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:45.840
<v Speaker 4>adaptive that it can survive in low numbers and it

1142
01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:50.639
<v Speaker 4>is commanding of its environment. It knows it has very

1143
01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:56.559
<v Speaker 4>good mental models of when when uh, vegetation changes and

1144
01:02:56.599 --> 01:03:00.400
<v Speaker 4>when this that if humans are interfering in acting with

1145
01:03:00.440 --> 01:03:04.199
<v Speaker 4>the environment around them, what dangers those are When the

1146
01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:06.519
<v Speaker 4>food comes up in this area, when the food comes

1147
01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:09.519
<v Speaker 4>up in that area, all sorts of things like that,

1148
01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:14.480
<v Speaker 4>Like you know, they can tell when the weather is

1149
01:03:14.519 --> 01:03:17.840
<v Speaker 4>going to change. I don't know, it's just it's got

1150
01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:19.039
<v Speaker 4>to be so in tune.

1151
01:03:19.519 --> 01:03:24.599
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's phenomenal, phenomenal animals all around, and the lack

1152
01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:26.280
<v Speaker 1>of proof is testament to that, I think in a

1153
01:03:26.280 --> 01:03:29.159
<v Speaker 1>lot of ways. Well, you know, Rick, we're drawn to

1154
01:03:29.199 --> 01:03:30.840
<v Speaker 1>the end of our regular episode here, but we have

1155
01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:32.599
<v Speaker 1>a member section if you can stick around for a

1156
01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:35.039
<v Speaker 1>few minutes, because we haven't even touched on the Scuokum stuff,

1157
01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:37.000
<v Speaker 1>the Skukum casts and I have a ton of questions

1158
01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:40.119
<v Speaker 1>about that, So why don't we end the regular recording

1159
01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:43.559
<v Speaker 1>for this week and we'll talk about the Skukum expedition

1160
01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:47.880
<v Speaker 1>in the member section. Okay, thank you very much, Rick,

1161
01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:50.519
<v Speaker 1>I really appreciate you coming on, Bobo.

1162
01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:52.559
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's almost like getting Elvis in the middle to

1163
01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:54.760
<v Speaker 3>get you on here. We've been trying for a while.

1164
01:03:54.840 --> 01:03:56.440
<v Speaker 3>So thanks a lot for coming on.

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01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:00.960
<v Speaker 4>I don't call it that thanks.

1166
01:04:02.079 --> 01:04:03.960
<v Speaker 3>Okay, folks, we're going to take it to the member

1167
01:04:04.039 --> 01:04:08.440
<v Speaker 3>section now, the Patreon folks, and so thanks for listening,

1168
01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:11.079
<v Speaker 3>and thanks to Rick Mill for joining us, so until

1169
01:04:11.159 --> 01:04:14.280
<v Speaker 3>next week, you all keep it squatchy.

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01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:21.880
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01:04:24.599 --> 01:04:27.920
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1173
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1174
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1175
01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:38.480
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