Speaker 1: Weird things happened in Weird, Weird Weird. Welcome to Bledsoe said, So, everybody,
Speaker 1: it feels good to be back into the swing of things,
Speaker 1: and I'm actually really excited to hear all about Alex's
Speaker 1: weekend at his first conference. We talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about it before, but I did want to save the
Speaker 1: majority of it for the show, so you know, I'm, I'm,
Speaker 1: I'm really I know it went well. They were kind
Speaker 1: of updating me through the weekend, but I am looking
Speaker 1: forward to hear the full scoop and hear about all
Speaker 1: the you know, the good times and the cool people
Speaker 1: they met. And before we get into that, I want
Speaker 1: to do a special thank you to our Light Being
Speaker 1: Tear members on Patreon. So we have Dylan Kim, my
Speaker 1: friend who wants to remain anonymous, Brian Lynch, Derek Longoria,
Speaker 1: and the Eperson's married couple, Chris and Danielle Epperson. And
Speaker 1: my brain is really fuzzy from no sleeps, So I
Speaker 1: got everybody that was everybody, Thank you guys very much
Speaker 1: for supporting us. Also, just in general, to anybody who
Speaker 1: listens to the show or who is involved in anything
Speaker 1: that we do, thank you very much for your kind
Speaker 1: and generous support at any level, monetarily or otherwise, and
Speaker 1: we are just trying to keep this train going day
Speaker 1: by day. It's getting better. I'm recovering from all of
Speaker 1: the situations and you know, with the childbirth and everything.
Speaker 1: Thank you for all of the support from last week's
Speaker 1: episode that just aired today. So I'm seeing all the
Speaker 1: really nice comments and I really do a prepreciate it. And
Speaker 1: then you know, the other thing that I wasn't really
Speaker 1: talking about is my aunt is going through a really
Speaker 1: heavy battle with stage four cancer. So and it's really serious.
Speaker 1: So if you guys would be inclined, you know, check
Speaker 1: it out. We do have a GoFundMe on some of
Speaker 1: our social medias between me and my dad, so if
Speaker 1: that's something that you'd be willing to help with. They
Speaker 1: have exhausted an incredible amount of resources into medical bills
Speaker 1: and having to pay for things like babysitters for special
Speaker 1: needs children, and you know, just all kinds of things
Speaker 1: that are really expensive and really exhausting and things that
Speaker 1: someone who is battling such a hard battle should not
Speaker 1: have to be so stressed about. So thank you. If
Speaker 1: you'd be willing to check that out. And anyway, without
Speaker 1: further ado, now I'm going to bring in my special guest,
Speaker 1: the producer of the show, Alex, to talk about his
Speaker 1: weekend at his first conference. Oh man, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for having me on, Ryan. I cannot wait to
Speaker 1: talk about contact medalities. Dude, Wisconsin. It was incredible, Like
Speaker 1: I've blown away. I've never really spent much time on
Speaker 1: a lake before. First, I do want to say that
Speaker 1: I got to basically film kind of a vlog style
Speaker 1: thing for Full Disclosure, which is on Patreon, so if
Speaker 1: you go subscribe to Patreon you can get to see that,
Speaker 1: but a lot of behind the scenes content of the weekend.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm going to tell you all about it,
Speaker 1: so stick with me here. But man, and it was
Speaker 1: just so beautiful and the people there were so nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean everybody that I ran into was just incredible,
Speaker 1: from Chad who picked me up all the way down
Speaker 1: the line to Sarah, who I basically you know, had
Speaker 1: the same flight home with. So we just chatted and
Speaker 1: chatted and chatted. That's really cool. Yeah, we had a blast. Man.
Speaker 1: We'll just start at the beginning, Okay, So I get
Speaker 1: in a little bit late, right, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to expect. I get I get linked up with the driver.
Speaker 1: Everything's cool. I get in a little bit late. The
Speaker 1: sun had already gone down. So I drive up to
Speaker 1: this mysterious, enormous lake lawn resort and it's dark and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh yeah, oh my gosh, and it's dark.
Speaker 1: It's dark. Yeah, and it's massive too, and dude, and
Speaker 1: all the hallways look the same. It's beautiful, but it's
Speaker 1: all like one story or sub story, which is not
Speaker 1: something I'm used to going underground because we live so
Speaker 1: close to the to the water, so in other words,
Speaker 1: we're at sea level. It's flat. Yeah, yeah, so you
Speaker 1: can't it's not I don't grow I didn't grow up
Speaker 1: with a basement, Like, I don't know about basement life.
Speaker 1: But so I am so disoriented, right, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at a map, but the map doesn't line up
Speaker 1: because I can't see anything outside. And then I get
Speaker 1: linked with your family and I say hello, and next
Speaker 1: thing I know, it's nine o'clock. I did a little
Speaker 1: filming in my room of you know, just getting in,
Speaker 1: and then it was like nine thirty. Your whole family
Speaker 1: had already eaten. But your mom and your sister were
Speaker 1: nice enough to go with me to the restaurant and
Speaker 1: sit down, so they're taking me all around. I'm still
Speaker 1: I had such a hard time because I really I'm
Speaker 1: the kind of person that likes to get my bearings,
Speaker 1: and this was not happening. And I'm like walk wandering
Speaker 1: down these halls and have no clue where I am,
Speaker 1: and it almost feels like you're just walking in circles.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we sit down in the restaurant and I
Speaker 1: ordered some cheese kurages cheese curds. It was really important.
Speaker 1: It's a huge note. They were delicious. But we sat
Speaker 1: right in front of the door, and we're sitting in
Speaker 1: front of the door and people start recognizing us, and
Speaker 1: it was I had to take a moment because I
Speaker 1: had just like crossed over from the real world to
Speaker 1: like Bledsoe said, so world where you know, I am
Speaker 1: someone that gets recognized, right, And so it felt at
Speaker 1: first like the celebrity treatment of like getting recognized in public.
Speaker 1: And then I kind of realized that we're at a conference,
Speaker 1: so it's not like the same as getting recognized in public.
Speaker 1: But it was still so cool. Some people stopped, got
Speaker 1: to talk to him, and it was just like it
Speaker 1: was an awesome like shift into that world. So we
Speaker 1: had a lovely dinner and then ended up trying to
Speaker 1: go to sleep. Got back to my room about ten
Speaker 1: eleven o'clockish, and dude, I had such a hard time
Speaker 1: going to sleep, Like I was just the energy of
Speaker 1: all of it. I was just absolutely buzzing, And I
Speaker 1: ended up, I think, staying tossing and turning until about
Speaker 1: two in the morning. But then I kicked my day
Speaker 1: off right and got linked up with your dad and
Speaker 1: made our way down to the booth and you know,
Speaker 1: set up some books and then it just started rolling.
Speaker 1: And something that I really liked about the conference that
Speaker 1: I have never had the luxury of of before with
Speaker 1: the street fairs is like the street Fair just does
Speaker 1: not stop, you know. The line just is constant the
Speaker 1: whole time. But the conference, especially at the size of
Speaker 1: the conference, which I was like, I thought it was
Speaker 1: just perfect, like and it was my first one, so
Speaker 1: I had nothing to compare it to. But I was like, man,
Speaker 1: this is awesome. But someone really cool would be having
Speaker 1: their talk for two hours and like the line would
Speaker 1: disappear and everybody would disappear and it would be like, okay,
Speaker 1: cool for like two minutes, we can catch our breath
Speaker 1: and like, you know, use the restroom whatever I didn't
Speaker 1: feel stressed about, like being glued to the table, And
Speaker 1: then that talk gets let out and here come everybody again,
Speaker 1: and the line builds back up. And so the spacing
Speaker 1: of all of that was perfect. There was always something
Speaker 1: really interesting going on, and then like all of the
Speaker 1: interesting people around us, it was just it was awesome.
Speaker 1: And I remember, I mean day one, the weather was beautiful.
Speaker 1: I started to get an understanding of where I was,
Speaker 1: and then it just kicks off, man, and we just
Speaker 1: start meeting people, people who already know me, people who
Speaker 1: didn't know me, just chatting it up. And I was
Speaker 1: in a wonderful mood the whole time. So I was
Speaker 1: a joy to be around. Yeah that's fair. I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, I know, man, So I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1: So then so day one ends right, and then we
Speaker 1: get into the SkyWatch, and that is all about making
Speaker 1: sure that everybody gets dinner and some rest before the SkyWatch.
Speaker 1: And that's always the tricky part. That's always the tricky part,
Speaker 1: And comparing it again to the street fairs. This was
Speaker 1: so much nicer. Yeah, to just be like, okay, hard stop,
Speaker 1: go to the hotel room, you know, make sure everybody
Speaker 1: is taken care of, and and then we transitioned. But
Speaker 1: that first night SkyWatch Man, it was. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: Junior's family, Emily, Chris and probably my guess and I
Speaker 1: did you know, I didn't count. I didn't bring the
Speaker 1: clicker with me, but my guess is somewhere around seventy people.
Speaker 1: That's kind of how it felt. It was cold, dude,
Speaker 1: it got down to like thirty three that night. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that was colder in last year's. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: great part is is it warmed up every night by
Speaker 1: about ten degrees, so wow. Yeah, someone came out, started
Speaker 1: to fire, someone else had a PA system. Everything just
Speaker 1: kind of fell into place. I was so pleased with
Speaker 1: like the the orderliness of it, but also like how
Speaker 1: organic and relaxed. It felt like it did not feel
Speaker 1: like a production, and it never has felt like a
Speaker 1: production for me, just with what I'm used to because
Speaker 1: I've never been to a conference. So that part was nice.
Speaker 1: But all of the needs kind of got taken care
Speaker 1: of and all the boxes got checked, and the vibe
Speaker 1: was just pretty much perfect on Friday. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite quotes is from a gentleman. We were your dad's
Speaker 1: talking and getting everybody into kind of a prayer and
Speaker 1: meditation state, and someone goes, let Chris cook, that's fine,
Speaker 1: and so that was awesome, and we ended up seeing
Speaker 1: you know, orbs and how many do you think on
Speaker 1: that first night, like a rough estivate, So you know,
Speaker 1: there we were getting some in light interference from the resort,
Speaker 1: but that's one of those things that you just can't
Speaker 1: you can't really control. And it was so cloudy that day.
Speaker 1: Everybody was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. And
Speaker 1: the clouds just disappeared about two hours to sundown and
Speaker 1: then the moon, the full moon rises. It was a
Speaker 1: beautiful moon, but that does also wash the sky out
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yep. Given that, I would still say
Speaker 1: that we probably saw around fifty or Oh wow. I
Speaker 1: wasn't expecting that number. Yeah, I was expecting you to say,
Speaker 1: like twenty. I mean, that's great. I didn't count, right,
Speaker 1: So I can confidently say it was probably somewhere between
Speaker 1: twenty and fifty orbs. Yeah, probably closer to fifty, Like
Speaker 1: there was a lot of the football. Chat was low, right,
Speaker 1: the connection was high, the vibe was right. Everybody was
Speaker 1: very open, very receptive, and that's something I've really appreciated
Speaker 1: about this conference. Like there was a lot of people
Speaker 1: speaking at this conference. I mean, you know, you had
Speaker 1: Dahlia there, you had Megan, and I'm going to blank
Speaker 1: on everybody else. Is because I was so wrapped up
Speaker 1: in what was going on, right, but they had so
Speaker 1: many cool people shout out Trey Hudson and the God Helmet, like,
Speaker 1: so many cool things going on that you know, this
Speaker 1: is far from the most out there thing. So so
Speaker 1: most people, like most everybody there had their mind right.
Speaker 1: And when I say that, I mean they're looking for something,
Speaker 1: they're they're excited, they're open to it, and they're reserving,
Speaker 1: you know, they're really their cynicism disguised as skepticism. And
Speaker 1: that allowed for the phenomenon and the connection to be
Speaker 1: heightened and to be greater, and the experience for everybody
Speaker 1: to be to be better. Right, even though it was cold, right,
Speaker 1: but that's just what you have to deal with, and
Speaker 1: very successful evening. The walk back down the warm hallway
Speaker 1: was perfect. I mean, it was just so warm, and
Speaker 1: then you start to realize why all the hallways are covered,
Speaker 1: like because if if you built the Lake Awn Resort
Speaker 1: in Wilmington, it would all be open air walkways. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, why is all this stuff covered? And
Speaker 1: then it's like, oh yeah, because it gets to be
Speaker 1: cold all the time. But man, that first SkyWatch was
Speaker 1: just just awesome, and I just remember, I mean I
Speaker 1: did sleep a lot better that next night because I
Speaker 1: was just so tired exhaustion from just being on. But
Speaker 1: before you move on past the first SkyWatch, I was
Speaker 1: curious if you had seen any sort of like standout
Speaker 1: orbs in particular, or were they all just kind of
Speaker 1: like running the mill? You know, Like I want I
Speaker 1: hate this question, man, because I mean, were they just
Speaker 1: like normal orbs? Because you were telling me the ones
Speaker 1: that stuck out to me were from the third SkyWatch.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, yeah, so my initial thought is
Speaker 1: just run of the mill. But that's my bar is
Speaker 1: different than everybody else's, you know, because I've been so
Speaker 1: close to you and your family for so long that
Speaker 1: like it's just another day, you know what I mean. So,
Speaker 1: but responding to the crowd, right, so we're still having
Speaker 1: that where when the attention gets focused on the orb
Speaker 1: it dims out or brightens up or dims out or
Speaker 1: reacts right. And there were the cool thing about this,
Speaker 1: this particular Skywatches, there was a lot of people there
Speaker 1: with their own night vision. We had green phosphorus night vision,
Speaker 1: we had white phosphorus night vision, and a lot of
Speaker 1: psionics cameras and so people were like sharing their night vision.
Speaker 1: And this was really cool just because the crowd was
Speaker 1: so right and the perfect size for this kind of
Speaker 1: thing where you could you felt good about handing a
Speaker 1: stranger your psionics camera so that they could see what
Speaker 1: you were seeing. That also kind of lifted the vibe.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I remember from this one SkyWatch that
Speaker 1: stuck out to me was as oh, and I'll preface
Speaker 1: this too, when I hang out with your dad and
Speaker 1: at the sky watches, he basically we get to the
Speaker 1: location and he hands me the psionics and he says
Speaker 1: record it all. And so it's like, Okay, he's got
Speaker 1: the mic and a laser pointer and he's interfacing with
Speaker 1: the sky more or less and here's me and trying
Speaker 1: to keep up, and I'm just like ping ping, ping ping,
Speaker 1: follow the laser pointer and record every orb. But I
Speaker 1: remember watching this particular orb, two of them coming from
Speaker 1: different points in the sky, and and you know, if
Speaker 1: you weren't really paying attention, it would look to that
Speaker 1: this this orb was on a linear track. When the
Speaker 1: second orb came into play, the linear track becomes a
Speaker 1: curved track, and then they begin traveling together. So you
Speaker 1: know you're talking about that's that's one of the biggest things.
Speaker 1: It's a satellite. Well, I don't think that it would
Speaker 1: curve and then join up in succession. No, it's impossible
Speaker 1: because the Earth is supposed to be orbiting in a
Speaker 1: specific way and those satellites are in that gravitational orbit. Oh,
Speaker 1: they can't turn like that. We did see I saw
Speaker 1: starlink for the first time with the naked eye. Cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and everybody was like, it's starlink and it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's starlink. That's it was still cool. I've never seen
Speaker 1: it before. It's if you were someone who had their
Speaker 1: head under a rock and did not know what that was,
Speaker 1: that would be an intense experience. Yeah, it's like, holy crap.
Speaker 1: So it was cool to have basically the example of
Speaker 1: a true satellite passed by while we're doing this, and
Speaker 1: you can say, okay, that was but this isn't right.
Speaker 1: Same thing with planes and all that. It's very clear
Speaker 1: and everybody would shout plane, and you know, then you
Speaker 1: look for the next orb So for one that stood
Speaker 1: out for that first guy, watch that's what I would say.
Speaker 1: But otherwise for Alex's radar, it was pretty run of
Speaker 1: the mill. So we get onto day two and you know,
Speaker 1: the mornings are mostly the same. The fun part was
Speaker 1: having breakfast with different people every day, because yeah, I
Speaker 1: enjoyed that too. Yeah. And I would wake up and
Speaker 1: I would I feel like, oh man, I'm the first
Speaker 1: one up. I'm early. And then I walk down and
Speaker 1: I see your dad sitting at the restaurant with new
Speaker 1: people every time, and there's a seat and I go
Speaker 1: sit down with them, and it turns out I'm like
Speaker 1: one of the last ones to get to get up.
Speaker 1: That's funny. Yeah. So but getting to really meet some
Speaker 1: cool people over a meal, that part was awesome, and
Speaker 1: then you know, then we get to it. I forgot
Speaker 1: to mention your dad was on a panel that first day.
Speaker 1: A lot of it was a very diverse panel, it
Speaker 1: was really cool. I got to meet doctor Hennessy and
Speaker 1: it telepathy tapes. She's great. She was awesome, really cool
Speaker 1: to meet her. She was on a panel all with
Speaker 1: your dad, and the way that they talked with each
Speaker 1: other was just so cool. I mean, they're so aligned
Speaker 1: in their mission. Yeah, I'm a big fan of her
Speaker 1: work and yes, yeah, so that was cool. Getting to
Speaker 1: meet her and and see that that happened between them
Speaker 1: was really cool. So that was the first day. Second day,
Speaker 1: the speaking engagement was your brother Chris Junior, and your
Speaker 1: dad and Jimmy church On, Like I sit down two hours,
Speaker 1: sit down, I'm not gonna lie to you. I did
Speaker 1: take this time of like, okay, I know where everybody is.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go have a minute. And I would
Speaker 1: just kind of pop out and clean up the booth
Speaker 1: and sit around and catch my breath. So I didn't
Speaker 1: watch one hundred percent. I watched probably like fifty percent.
Speaker 1: But still it was incredible, you know, talking about a
Speaker 1: lot of the experiences, but your brother man, your bro
Speaker 1: like just to think that that and they talked a
Speaker 1: little bit about this, but just to think that he's
Speaker 1: the same guy that came on our show. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know that first time and he's come along when he's
Speaker 1: come such a such a far away and it's so
Speaker 1: cool to see and and he really was just like, dude,
Speaker 1: it for a while. Your dad was there, but it
Speaker 1: was the Christian and your show, and he was just
Speaker 1: like answering and had the answers and and was off
Speaker 1: the cuff and then when he didn't like the question,
Speaker 1: he would throw it right back at Jimmy and it
Speaker 1: was just so it was it was so perfect, you know.
Speaker 1: And while it was going on, people in our discord
Speaker 1: were freaking out and they were given commentary on it
Speaker 1: saying it was amazing. Yeah he really. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: it myself, but I've heard that it was just truly amazing.
Speaker 1: They recorded it. I don't know where yeah that went.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask, but awesome, so awesome. And uh, I
Speaker 1: can't remember the day that your sister's sang, do you
Speaker 1: know what we should do? What is that if they
Speaker 1: invite us back next year, you and I should do
Speaker 1: a live podcast. We should That'd be cool because I'm
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna do one in a few weeks
Speaker 1: in California and contact in the Desert that just occurred
Speaker 1: to me. Next time, if she comes calling, I'll say,
Speaker 1: but this is what I want. I want to do
Speaker 1: a live podcast. Yeah, dude, I'd love to go back. Man.
Speaker 1: I did not get enough kurds, I did. Did you
Speaker 1: have any prepackaged ones? They're nasty. Yeah, you gotta have
Speaker 1: the Yeah, yes, yeah, shout out Tim, thank you buy
Speaker 1: some curds. Yeah, that was nice. Uh. And then I
Speaker 1: did buy some cheese in the in the airport for Olivia.
Speaker 1: Brought her some cheese home. Awesome. Yeah, Wisconsin's great, Jude.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm really looking forward to going back. I
Speaker 1: met a lot of great people. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: save my shout outs for the end, and I hope
Speaker 1: I don't hurt anybody's feelings if I forget them. But
Speaker 1: moving to day two, it was like really cool because personally,
Speaker 1: like I was catching my groove. I was understanding the
Speaker 1: layout of everything. I can't believe it took me so
Speaker 1: long to figure out how to walk from there to
Speaker 1: I never figured it out, dude. But then amaze, you know,
Speaker 1: and I just really caught a groove with myself. So
Speaker 1: that probably translated to my interactions with everybody met more incredible.
Speaker 1: People talked more with the people from before, and Day
Speaker 1: two it was your uh No, Day two was christ Junior.
Speaker 1: Day three was Emily, Chris Junior and your dad. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so day two SkyWatch was a little bit later, and
Speaker 1: there was a little bit more people. I'd say they're
Speaker 1: probably was closer to like eighty this time is eighty
Speaker 1: to one hundred, like just a handful more people. And
Speaker 1: it was about ten degrees warmer and the same same setup,
Speaker 1: same location. But there was something just a little bit
Speaker 1: different about this one that no one could really kind
Speaker 1: of place that the energy had just shifted a little
Speaker 1: bit and it was more of like kind of a
Speaker 1: party vibe. There was a lot of group talking going on.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of like football chats so to speak.
Speaker 1: You know, people were more there to like socialize and
Speaker 1: for the vibe than to really like have a contact experience.
Speaker 1: So that they had come from a cocktail mixer and
Speaker 1: they were drinking alcohol, weren't they. That's correct, So there
Speaker 1: you go, right, So that is certainly a theory as
Speaker 1: to what it was. I don't anyway run of the
Speaker 1: mill experience like still sawt war. There was still plenty
Speaker 1: to be seen. I would estimate what was my last estimate,
Speaker 1: thirty fifty. This was probably just just shy, just a
Speaker 1: little bit less. That's amazing, Yeah, considering you know the vibes.
Speaker 1: We Yeah, I'm also really bad at counting, so it's
Speaker 1: hard to in the dark anyway, And you know how
Speaker 1: I am. I just got a lot and I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I'm bouncing back and forth. Every time I see a
Speaker 1: green laser go up in the sky, I'm like on it.
Speaker 1: And then it all happens so much. I just have
Speaker 1: to take a break from the camera for a second.
Speaker 1: But then I feel bad because I'm like, I'm missing
Speaker 1: all this I'm missing all this data. Right anyway, move
Speaker 1: on from that right the third day, I think I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure Emily sang on the third day. That was
Speaker 1: really cool to experience that live. And then it was Emily,
Speaker 1: Chris Junior and your dad. Again. I probably experienced about
Speaker 1: fifty percent because again I use that time to like
Speaker 1: catch my breath. But that went really well. It's the
Speaker 1: whole conference got empty, like I was the only one
Speaker 1: that wasn't in that talk, you know what I mean. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're the only one not in that room and Uh,
Speaker 1: I actually I think I ended up I ended up
Speaker 1: doing an interview for somebody's TikTok during that time, and
Speaker 1: I had I honestly had a great time. So that's cool.
Speaker 1: I think that was Jack I did an interview for.
Speaker 1: But cool. Yeah, that was my little celebrity moment. But
Speaker 1: then that that gets us to the vip SkyWatch and
Speaker 1: this was this was really cool. This was out on
Speaker 1: a farm and uh, get everybody out there. So many
Speaker 1: people wanted to donate and and like hop on at
Speaker 1: the very end, and we worked with with the event
Speaker 1: and made that happen. So that was cool. Got extra people.
Speaker 1: The fundraiser for or Chris Junior son that it was incredible.
Speaker 1: We raised a ton of money for Vincent and all
Speaker 1: of that. It went great, right, So this vip SkyWatch
Speaker 1: fundraiser incredible. Is probably the best guy watch of the
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Speaker 1: So this awesome gentleman have donated basically his farm for
Speaker 1: the SkyWatch to happen this VIP SkyWatch fundraiser and show.
Speaker 1: It's away from the resort. It's extremely dark. I was
Speaker 1: curious about that. How is the drive situation? So everybody
Speaker 1: just kind of piled into cars, And the funny thing
Speaker 1: was is that the GPS took everybody to a different place,
Speaker 1: Like there was an email sent out. Everybody had the address,
Speaker 1: Like everything that could be done was done, and we
Speaker 1: end up like a mile down the other end of
Speaker 1: the road. Oh wow, to where I was. Like, I
Speaker 1: basically had to pull up a satellite and because we're
Speaker 1: in the middle of farmland, Wisconsin, like, yeah, you can
Speaker 1: count the buildings on the road, right, And so I'm
Speaker 1: pulling up a satellite map and like took a guess
Speaker 1: and was basically like Junior turned the car around right now,
Speaker 1: and that's how we got there. Crazy because like, without
Speaker 1: that we would have been very late to our own skywash.
Speaker 1: Hasn't been the first time. It wouldn't be the first time,
Speaker 1: right right, it's most times really, but yeah, this guy,
Speaker 1: this guy had us in. His name was Lee. And
Speaker 1: it gets dark and we go out into this hayfield,
Speaker 1: his hay farm, Basically the whole story was that he
Speaker 1: hey got expensive, so he bought the farm, and that's
Speaker 1: a great backstory. Yeah. Yeah, he harvest the hay, rolls
Speaker 1: it up and then takes it to his homestead where
Speaker 1: he feeds all of his animals. And I guess you
Speaker 1: saw some too or whatever. So we're a good ten
Speaker 1: miles away from the now, ten minutes away from the resort,
Speaker 1: far enough away, so much less light. The moon rose
Speaker 1: probably a good couple hours later, so we had a
Speaker 1: from probably about like eight to ten ish ten is
Speaker 1: about when the moon came up, So we had a
Speaker 1: great like two hours of really really dark sky. That'll
Speaker 1: do wonders for a SkyWatch. Absolutely, it's really cool to
Speaker 1: look at the full moon, but it really washes out
Speaker 1: the sky. And I remember, just stepping back a little bit.
Speaker 1: I remember being at the SkyWatch the night before where
Speaker 1: the moon rose just a couple of minutes earlier, where
Speaker 1: I'm like walking around the SkyWatch and like I'm trying
Speaker 1: to pick out people's faces and who they are, and
Speaker 1: it's like extremely dark, and then the moon comes up
Speaker 1: and I feel like, all of a sudden, I can
Speaker 1: see it was just like weird, like yah. Who turned
Speaker 1: the lights on anyway other than rain or clouds of
Speaker 1: full moon is like the worst thing for a SkyWatch, right,
Speaker 1: But man, everybody that came to this one pretty much
Speaker 1: came correct. And the vibe was perfect. And the original
Speaker 1: wireless PA system that we had broke. The guys, the
Speaker 1: sound guys, who were awesome, all volunteers, shout out Elliott
Speaker 1: pulled through with the wired sound system. I have no
Speaker 1: clue how they got everything going on, but they did.
Speaker 1: So next thing I know, you know, chairs show up
Speaker 1: and and PA system shows up, and again everything comes
Speaker 1: together in such an organic but like orchestrated way. It
Speaker 1: was just perfect and we had everything we needed and
Speaker 1: then we start. And not long after we start, Man,
Speaker 1: this is probably the the the orb that that stands
Speaker 1: out the most to me from that night where this
Speaker 1: this orb shoots across the sky and where maybe it
Speaker 1: was a it was a half a mile walk. You know,
Speaker 1: we're maybe like an eighth of a mile to the
Speaker 1: tree line, and this orb is just beyond the tree line,
Speaker 1: but in the sky above the trees. Bright white shoots
Speaker 1: across the sky with this orange tail coming off the
Speaker 1: back of it, and the it's hard to describe. Wait,
Speaker 1: the orb was white with an orange tail. The white
Speaker 1: and orange because the tail looked like a sparkler on
Speaker 1: the fourth of July and was throwing sparks off the
Speaker 1: back of the tail as it stretched to the sky.
Speaker 1: And it's hard to like gauge the size, right, but
Speaker 1: it had this long tail that I've never seen. You know,
Speaker 1: I've seen shooting stars. I've seen many shooting stars. This
Speaker 1: is very different. Like I think you've said it before,
Speaker 1: where someone took a brushstroke across the sky, but think
Speaker 1: of a brushstroke that was on fire and these sparks
Speaker 1: were flying off it. The crazy thing is we've talked
Speaker 1: about we've shouted out mel On here, right, mel who
Speaker 1: organized the event. She is eating dinner at the resort,
Speaker 1: and she has her back to the window and they're
Speaker 1: eating and I think it's her family or whoever she's
Speaker 1: eating with, and all of a sudden, their jaws hit
Speaker 1: the floor because they saw it, Oh wow, out of
Speaker 1: the windows, like a ten minute drive away. They saw it. Interesting, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they go and she's like, what was that? And
Speaker 1: they explain it to her and then she's like, it
Speaker 1: must have been Chris, and then talks to people who
Speaker 1: were at our SkyWatch and then fully, yes, we just
Speaker 1: saw that, so, you know, and every time a little
Speaker 1: bit of chatter happens, your dad, you know, they call
Speaker 1: it back with prayer. Your dad asked your sister to
Speaker 1: read a prayer. They read the prayer to the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, everybody's aligned and the orbs
Speaker 1: are back. This is happening. They're they're moving in threes,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of incredible movement, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously not satellites again. And then there's this orb that
Speaker 1: goes across the sky and everybody reacts to it and
Speaker 1: it brightens up, and then your dad goes, well, let's
Speaker 1: ask it to do it one more time, and it
Speaker 1: brightens up and everybody freaks out, and he's like, well
Speaker 1: let's try again, and it brightens up and everybody freaks out.
Speaker 1: And so then I'm like, okay, it's happened three times.
Speaker 1: So like, this is not skeptic me. This is me
Speaker 1: holding a psionics camera for the purpose of data. I
Speaker 1: start counting the seconds in between, because I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's flashed this many times, let's just count the seconds, right,
Speaker 1: counted the seconds the first time, it's ten seconds in
Speaker 1: between the flashes. Because it keeps flashing, we keep calling
Speaker 1: out to it, and it keeps flashing again. Right, the
Speaker 1: first times ten seconds, the second time is fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, well it's clearly not on a pattern here.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to keep counting. It ended up flashing
Speaker 1: for us probably five or six times. Oh wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: until it finally disappeared. That's amazing. It was that one
Speaker 1: stood out to me. And then this isn't just what happened,
Speaker 1: this is just what stands out. So this is like
Speaker 1: outside of the normal u se orbs appear in the sky,
Speaker 1: move around and disappear, right. That happened many times. This
Speaker 1: one probably maxed out the sightings we had probably closer
Speaker 1: to one hundred one hundred and fifty orbs. Jesus. We
Speaker 1: were also out there for a little bit longer, but
Speaker 1: it was it was constant. I mean I when I
Speaker 1: tell you your dad had a laser, Emily had a laser,
Speaker 1: and Chris Junior had a laser and they were all
Speaker 1: pointing at different things in the sky at the same time.
Speaker 1: So we're talking three different orbs in the sky at once.
Speaker 1: I can't keep up. I just have to pick one
Speaker 1: laser and watch it because I like to watch one
Speaker 1: from the moment I turned the camera on until it disappears.
Speaker 1: But like dude, in my videos, I'm just bouncing around
Speaker 1: the sky. Yeah, boom boom boom boom boom boom boom.
Speaker 1: I mean, definitely I would. I would one hundred percent
Speaker 1: waiser on one one hundred and fifty. It was probably
Speaker 1: more wow after the one that was reacting to what
Speaker 1: we were saying and calling out to it. I kind
Speaker 1: of missed this one. I kind of caught the tail end.
Speaker 1: But what I heard was that it like dropped out
Speaker 1: of the sky and it was green. What do you
Speaker 1: mean dropped out of the sky like it was on
Speaker 1: a tree line to our right, But this one looked
Speaker 1: more like it was out in the sky and not
Speaker 1: as close as the last brushstroke one that but it
Speaker 1: like fell down like hmm, fell almost forward, like out
Speaker 1: of the sky. It's like a weird, unnatural movement, yes,
Speaker 1: and green. Interesting and then through a green tail wow,
Speaker 1: and then went out and I caught it out of
Speaker 1: the corner of my eye. People were screaming, and I'm
Speaker 1: like scanning the sky about what the streaming about, and
Speaker 1: I catch it just over the tree line. Wow, very wild.
Speaker 1: Dang sounds like the most successful SkyWatch yet. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean it is kind of hard to beat. You know,
Speaker 1: other events where there have been things like, you know,
Speaker 1: balls of light materializing with wings and splitting into multiple
Speaker 1: I mean that that's Oh, there were not birds. There
Speaker 1: were on the God you want to be more lear
Speaker 1: because I don't like that word. What do you mean?
Speaker 1: There were beings of light with wings. There were winged
Speaker 1: beings that flew over and disappeared. Okay, some people call
Speaker 1: them not birds. I'm not particularly a fan of that.
Speaker 1: I think it's confusing and people like to throw nicknames
Speaker 1: and they stick. But as in they were not birds,
Speaker 1: as in they were not birds. There were beings of
Speaker 1: light that materialized and they had wings like a bird
Speaker 1: or a dove or something. Right, And with this this,
Speaker 1: at least in my experience, with this phenomenon, everybody seems
Speaker 1: to see something different. Yeah, sometimes for sure. What I
Speaker 1: can tell you for sure is that I saw a
Speaker 1: flock of things with wings. Yeah, they did not seem
Speaker 1: very They seemed dark to me, as in not giving
Speaker 1: off light, fly over our head. And then it was
Speaker 1: impossible to see them, so they disappeared. Essentially very strange activity,
Speaker 1: especially given you know, everything that was going on. Some
Speaker 1: people reported that they were glowing, some people other other descriptions, right,
Speaker 1: But that to me kind of advances the point of
Speaker 1: that they were something else, because if everybody's having a
Speaker 1: different experience as to what it is, it has in
Speaker 1: my mind that makes me think that it's something else.
Speaker 1: That sounds like the most successful SkyWatch yet it was.
Speaker 1: It was up there, man, I mean I hate to
Speaker 1: like compare, right, Like comparison is a thief of joy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the one I keep thinking about is the
Speaker 1: one from the from the beach where everybody cheers on
Speaker 1: and it just gets to be the most bright thing
Speaker 1: in the sky. I don't know if you remember that one,
Speaker 1: but everybody looks and it just gets so bright and
Speaker 1: everybody screams and hollers, and like that experience itself was incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't. I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and say it was the most successful SkyWatch. But
Speaker 1: what I really learned, and what was clearly observable to
Speaker 1: everybody there that the is that the experience the orb
Speaker 1: experience that you had directly correlated to the group energy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that brings me to another thing that I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk more about too, is like how how were
Speaker 1: the And you could talk about all three nights, You
Speaker 1: could talk about it in whatever order you want, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But what I want to know is like,
Speaker 1: how are the people reacting? I know, yeah, the crowd
Speaker 1: screaming and all that, but like on an individual level,
Speaker 1: what kind of things were people saying when they would
Speaker 1: see these things? What was what was their reaction more
Speaker 1: than just like a ooh, you know, because there's always
Speaker 1: this moments where people will talk to us in between, right,
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't have a lot of things
Speaker 1: to say here, mainly just because I try to like
Speaker 1: stick to Chris, and that's just to help him with
Speaker 1: the camera and you know, like make sure he's taken
Speaker 1: care of, for lack of a better word, right, make
Speaker 1: sure everything goes smoothly and all that, because as soon
Speaker 1: as you step away, everybody's wearing a black puffy coat
Speaker 1: with a hood on, and it's like, okay, whered Chris
Speaker 1: go I see. So not a lot of people sharing
Speaker 1: their intimate experiences with the orbs that we're currently seeing,
Speaker 1: but just you can feel the energy of how excited
Speaker 1: people are. And then when it starts to fizzle out
Speaker 1: towards the end, especially the VIP skywatching, people are coming
Speaker 1: up to your dad and telling him how he's changed
Speaker 1: their life and this phenomenon has changed their life, and
Speaker 1: that they're writing a book about this, or they're researching
Speaker 1: this and this has been the most incredible experience they've
Speaker 1: ever had. That's I guess that's probably the best way
Speaker 1: to answer your question. Like, it doesn't really happen to me,
Speaker 1: but I get to observe. Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: Or it could. It doesn't even have to be the skywatches.
Speaker 1: It could be throughout the weekend. Yeah, I mean many
Speaker 1: you bring me to a wonderful point. So I want
Speaker 1: to talk about something I observe, but I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure that I hit all the points of
Speaker 1: this SkyWatch. But basically that's it. That wraps it all up.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, he stayed your dad was a trooper,
Speaker 1: especially he stayed out super late, but especially that night. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't think we got home till about midnight. I
Speaker 1: think we probably left the property somewhere around eleven ish,
Speaker 1: you know, and I didn't really get settled in until
Speaker 1: about midnight and then yeah, I mean three days of
Speaker 1: just being one. But you know what I observed man
Speaker 1: in myself is that there was not a moment this
Speaker 1: entire weekend where I was clock watching other than you
Speaker 1: have to be on stage in five minutes, right right,
Speaker 1: other than keeping track of time for that reason. And
Speaker 1: there was never like I was never comparing it to work.
Speaker 1: I was never like, oh my gosh, only five more
Speaker 1: hours of this, not a moment. The day went by
Speaker 1: so fair. It never gets like that. And I was
Speaker 1: so fulfilled. I was like personally so fulfilled the whole time.
Speaker 1: And I've talked about this phenomenon before where you know,
Speaker 1: I wake up and I'm physically tired because I've been
Speaker 1: physically going, going, going, And then you talk to that
Speaker 1: first person and you are just filled with this energy
Speaker 1: and it just snowballs and you just like it's awesome.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. It's awesome, it's awesome, and then you're tired
Speaker 1: again at the end of it when you when you
Speaker 1: separate from everybody. Yeah, but for me, the whole thing
Speaker 1: is just making sure you have the time to eat,
Speaker 1: get your coffee or whatever, and you're good to go.
Speaker 1: And it's not always easy to get away and eat, right.
Speaker 1: That's not a challenge for me. And that's why I
Speaker 1: was like the time when they were on stage, I
Speaker 1: was eating. I was cleaning up the booth, like, you know,
Speaker 1: these people don't understand. Like when my dad is in
Speaker 1: in a booth selling books, it's like he's there. So
Speaker 1: let's say the conference starts at nine, right, he's there
Speaker 1: at eight, and he's talking to everybody in the lobby.
Speaker 1: He's sitting with him, like Alex said, he's sitting with
Speaker 1: everybody eating breakfast. And then they're there at the table
Speaker 1: and then until the thing is closed down and they're like,
Speaker 1: all right, the boots are done. The people at the conference,
Speaker 1: he's not stepping away except to use the bathroom a
Speaker 1: couple of times, like pee or whatever. And you know
Speaker 1: he will not leave to eat. We don't do It's
Speaker 1: it's like a it's like a hound. Just he stays
Speaker 1: and stays and stays, and he'll spend thirty minutes talking
Speaker 1: to everyone and then his kids are like, Dad, you
Speaker 1: need to eat, you need to eat. It's it's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to share an experience. So this is night
Speaker 1: number two. We are invited to the to the mixer
Speaker 1: right before the SkyWatch. In my head, I'm like, Chris
Speaker 1: needs to eat and he needs to sit down so
Speaker 1: that because he's getting ready to be out all night
Speaker 1: at the SkyWatch, right. So I'm like trying to make
Speaker 1: all this happen. But naturally we go to the mixer
Speaker 1: and then he's surrounded by people and like, just like
Speaker 1: you said, he won't pull himself away, right. So in
Speaker 1: my mind, I'm thinking, oh my gosh, I've got to
Speaker 1: get something to eat. The options are limited. There's only
Speaker 1: a couple restaurants in the hotel. Like, I can't break
Speaker 1: away for this long, and I'm like, man, I've got
Speaker 1: to get him something to eat. I walk out the door.
Speaker 1: He's like right behind me. I just kind of walk
Speaker 1: out around behind him, and there's this woman there with
Speaker 1: a pizza box in her hand, and I hold the
Speaker 1: door up and for her and she's like, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what to do with I'm like, what's
Speaker 1: going on. She's like, Oh, I just I'm trying to
Speaker 1: see if anybody wants the pizza. We didn't need all
Speaker 1: of it, I'll take hands And I'm like, sure, I'll
Speaker 1: take it. And so, dude, I get like half a
Speaker 1: pizza from these this wonderful woman I cannot remember her name,
Speaker 1: but the other woman that was with her was Jenna,
Speaker 1: and they were both like psychics. That was there. They
Speaker 1: had booths there, they were psychics, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: this is how did I just manifest this pizza in
Speaker 1: like two seconds flat? Is wild to me? But anyway,
Speaker 1: I get the pizza. I'm like, Chris, you want pizza.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, we started eating pizza. Man, it was awesome.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, pizza fell out of thin air. Just yeah,
Speaker 1: here do you want to do you want to have
Speaker 1: a pizza? Like, yes, I do. That's really cool. But
Speaker 1: back to the I kind of derailed you a little bit,
Speaker 1: but no, no, so what I what I observed? Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm actually excited to talk about this because it opens
Speaker 1: up the door for a lot and a lot of
Speaker 1: people came up and it told me about their personal experience,
Speaker 1: you know, and meeting a lot of people here that
Speaker 1: are extremely psychically gifted, Like everybody kind of has their
Speaker 1: own little niche and what they like to do. And
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's healing, or whether it's your readings,
Speaker 1: or whether it's past life or whatever, a ton of people.
Speaker 1: What I observed was that all of these people had
Speaker 1: very intense eye color. Not that they all had one
Speaker 1: eye color, not that all their eyes were blue, or
Speaker 1: all their eyes were brown, or all their eyes were green,
Speaker 1: but if they were blue, they were an intense blue.
Speaker 1: If they were green, they were this intense vivid green.
Speaker 1: If they were brown, they were this intense vivid brown.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, man, not that they were crazy eyes
Speaker 1: or anything, but like I just as I'm talking to people,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, all of these people have such such
Speaker 1: life behind their eyes, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: very interesting thing that I don't know what the correlation is.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the science is, but all of
Speaker 1: these people who seem to be extremely awake or whatever
Speaker 1: however you want to label it, all had so much
Speaker 1: depth to their eye right, yeah, yeah, I know what
Speaker 1: you means. You do. My father does pretty dim. I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I know, like a dark blue gray, but it's an
Speaker 1: intense I mean, if you think so, great, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that they all were bright like neon blue green,
Speaker 1: but they were all like intense. They all had very vivid,
Speaker 1: intense eye color. And like, you know, this gentleman that
Speaker 1: I met told me about his experience, Joe, he did
Speaker 1: for sure, Dahlia does well. And he's, yeah, Dahlia does.
Speaker 1: And he's explaining to me his experience like no one,
Speaker 1: you know, his family has a hard time believing him,
Speaker 1: and all the classic stuff, very relatable to your experience
Speaker 1: and your family's experience. And he's like, and my boys,
Speaker 1: my sons, they they are experiencing this stuff too. And
Speaker 1: I was like, do their eyes look like yours? And
Speaker 1: he's like, how'd you know? Wow? Is day two at
Speaker 1: this conference for me. I'm like, I'm starting to put
Speaker 1: some puzzle pieces together. That's interesting, it is, And I
Speaker 1: don't know really thought about that, Like I noticed these,
Speaker 1: like the eye color on certain people and everything, but
Speaker 1: I've never really made the connection like that. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: like gray for you, that's not super popular. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess you know popular, I know what you mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like kind of a dark blue gray, like it's
Speaker 1: not a popular eye color. Yeah, yeah, whereas my dad's
Speaker 1: are like bright blue, right, Yeah, I got dark beady
Speaker 1: little gray eyes. So oh, and Sarah Brestmann cosme she
Speaker 1: went to her thing. Wow, so your dad was doing
Speaker 1: God helmet. This is the third day your dad's doing
Speaker 1: God helmet. Which I didn't get to pick his brain
Speaker 1: about that, but he had an experience. And if you
Speaker 1: want me to explain what that is, I can explain
Speaker 1: what that is. That's up to you. So it's a device.
Speaker 1: And I think so I met a gentleman named Trey
Speaker 1: Hudson who I think developed this or played a key
Speaker 1: part in developing this technology. But basically, the way he
Speaker 1: explained it to me was how Monroe bridges the hemispheres
Speaker 1: of your brain using audio sound. This bridges the hemispheres
Speaker 1: of your brain. This helmet bridges the hemispheres of your
Speaker 1: brain using like electronic pulses or like it stimulates your
Speaker 1: brain physically in a way where these they merge like
Speaker 1: that the bridge, right, And he said, the way he
Speaker 1: explained it to me was like shooting off a flare
Speaker 1: into the ether like the other worlds saying hey, I'm here,
Speaker 1: and then they are able to recognize you and come
Speaker 1: have a direct experience with you. So it's like an
Speaker 1: intense meditation aid or He also explained it to me like,
Speaker 1: if I'm with a group of people over here talking
Speaker 1: and I come in and I and I introduce myself
Speaker 1: to you, you and your group are more apt to
Speaker 1: come over and talk to me in my group because
Speaker 1: I've established this connection. That's how he explained it to me.
Speaker 1: So people put this on and have forty minutes of
Speaker 1: meditation using this helmet and apparently have an intense Monroe
Speaker 1: esque psychic psychic experience. Yeah, so your dad's doing Monroe.
Speaker 1: And Emily was really interested in Sarah's talk, so she's like,
Speaker 1: I want to go to this. It was like okay,
Speaker 1: So we ended up doing a past life Sarah walked
Speaker 1: to everybody in the room through a past life progression. Yeah. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I've never heard of a group when done
Speaker 1: like that. It was very, very interesting. I had a
Speaker 1: unique experience. I don't really I don't want to go
Speaker 1: into it really live on air. But Emily had a
Speaker 1: wonderful experience. I'm sure many people in the room did.
Speaker 1: I don't want to drop too much. I encourage you
Speaker 1: to look into her, but I think there's some more
Speaker 1: to come, so I don't want to. I don't want
Speaker 1: to dive into it too deep. But that part was
Speaker 1: awesome and that was the only person that I got
Speaker 1: to watch out of the whole thing, which I was
Speaker 1: bummed because I wanted to go to Dahlia's sing and
Speaker 1: I wanted to do all of this other stuff. So
Speaker 1: you never got to see Dahia do her thing. No, dang,
Speaker 1: that was gonna be my next question. I know I
Speaker 1: got to meet Lee do good. How was that? Did
Speaker 1: you also communicate with her at all? Not really? Yeah,
Speaker 1: when we got a high five and took a picture
Speaker 1: and like I chatted with her and she was hanging
Speaker 1: out with she had headphones on. Yeah, they came on
Speaker 1: and off. I think it was just depending on the
Speaker 1: sound how loud it was. Yeah, got to take a
Speaker 1: picture with who she was hanging out with and her
Speaker 1: and then and then hung out with them and kind
Speaker 1: of walked around a little bit because I think that
Speaker 1: was also during the speaking engagements where I was taking
Speaker 1: a break, but got to got to meet her and
Speaker 1: that was just that was incredible. I'm sure that they'll
Speaker 1: be there in California. Yeah, and also at the side game,
Speaker 1: so you'll have plenty of opportunity to to speak more
Speaker 1: with h with Dolia and Lee Doo. Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 1: So man, I got to meet Daly. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is who I am, so nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: And then how was that? Well? That was it? I mean,
Speaker 1: like how how did she react? Like she's oh yeah, no, positively,
Speaker 1: like good, you know, putting putting faces to names and
Speaker 1: stuff and and voices voices to names right in our case. No,
Speaker 1: she's great, she's amazing, yeah, and wonderfully talented. And then
Speaker 1: her whoever she was working with at this conference, his
Speaker 1: name was Alex. He was in my car on the
Speaker 1: ride from the airport, so I got to talk with
Speaker 1: him before I even got to the conference, so that
Speaker 1: was cool. And then I also noticed along with eye color, man,
Speaker 1: it's Chris is Alex's and Jay names. Oh yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: I know. And I meet someone their names Chris, I
Speaker 1: meet someone their names Alex. I'm like, uh cool, this
Speaker 1: is all? This is so yeah, man, wow, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was awesome, like I I can't. I mean, everybody
Speaker 1: I met awesome, the whole conference awesome, the perfect first
Speaker 1: conference for me, I think, just the perfect size, the
Speaker 1: perfect vibe, the perfect everything. And now on to the
Speaker 1: next chapter. We're gonna be going to California for Contact
Speaker 1: in the Desert, and this time I will be going
Speaker 1: because it'll be, you know, basically two months after James
Speaker 1: was born. Ja name as opposed to you know, contact
Speaker 1: Motalities was only a few weeks. It was just too
Speaker 1: soon and we're definitely not ready. But I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to California. I think it'll be a really good experience.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of sad Jenny can't come, but it's just
Speaker 1: the way it is. I don't feel comfortable with my
Speaker 1: less than two month old baby, or just that two
Speaker 1: month old baby flying across the country and being around
Speaker 1: thousands of people. I just I feel really wrong about that,
Speaker 1: so I'm not I'm not having him there. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be awesome. I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: The SkyWatch, well, you know, you've done them with hundreds
Speaker 1: of people multiple times. I think you've done them with
Speaker 1: upwards of almost four hundred on the beach. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was max with no infrastructure or framework. That was probably
Speaker 1: the most hectic thing. So when we go to California
Speaker 1: last year's was almost a thousand people, and you know,
Speaker 1: talk about stress being in a crowd of almost a
Speaker 1: thousand people in the dark, and it's produced, by the way,
Speaker 1: you have a whole team of audio people there on
Speaker 1: behalf of the conference and they have chairs set out
Speaker 1: and it's like almost like you know, a sea of
Speaker 1: people all around you in all directions and you can't
Speaker 1: see all them, but they can see you. And people
Speaker 1: are just free to walk up to you and snatch
Speaker 1: the mic or whatever. Because that happened last year, that
Speaker 1: won't be happening this year. Good, but that'll be The
Speaker 1: next thing is doing a SkyWatch with you know, upwards
Speaker 1: of a thousand people, assuming that it's the same number
Speaker 1: as last year. Yeah, and it'll be fun. It'll be
Speaker 1: exactly how it always is, which is it's gonna be great. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I'm I'm I'm gonna save the anxiety
Speaker 1: for day off well, and I'm gonna be excited until then.
Speaker 1: The big thing is, like you go to Wisconsin in
Speaker 1: early May to late April. It's cold, you're in the Midwest,
Speaker 1: and now we're going to California in June at a
Speaker 1: resort with a pool, so it's gonna be a different vibe. Dude,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be in short swimming. Bro. They had a
Speaker 1: pool and I didn't didn't well, yeah it wasn't. It
Speaker 1: was indoor. But you don't have time at that one.
Speaker 1: At this one, you'll have time. Cool, So can I
Speaker 1: give some shout outs real quick? Yeah? Please? And if
Speaker 1: I forget you and we had a good experience, I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry. I'm so sorry. Quick, Kyle, Demi, Joe, PJ, Sarah.
Speaker 1: We'll end it there. I guess. I guess that's that
Speaker 1: the top of my head. Everybody I mentioned in the
Speaker 1: episode that got their shout out it was awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a wonderful time. I want to give it shout out
Speaker 1: to Jimmie Jimmy Church because I was sitting with my aunt,
Speaker 1: who I had mentioned earlier is dealing with stage four cancer,
Speaker 1: and she shows me her phone and says, hey, who
Speaker 1: is James Church? And I said why? Why do you
Speaker 1: want to know? She said, he's with your mom right now.
Speaker 1: He just donated five hundred dollars to my GoFundMe or
Speaker 1: it was Vemo to my mom or something. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to give a shout out to him and a
Speaker 1: big thank you to Jimmy Church for doing that and
Speaker 1: that meant a lot to me and I'll never forget
Speaker 1: that for sure, In addition to all the other really
Speaker 1: kind stuff he's always done and been a friend to
Speaker 1: our family, I think that one hit the deepest. So
Speaker 1: that's if you wanted to know about his character. That
Speaker 1: was something he did and I really appreciated it. And
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you got to meet Sarah. I didn't
Speaker 1: know she was even gonna be there, but when I
Speaker 1: was in Colorado back in January shooting with Gaya with Jimmy,
Speaker 1: you know, it was like for two days, he and
Speaker 1: I just ate together at the hotel basically, and then
Speaker 1: you know, we would go film and he talked about
Speaker 1: her quite a bit and as someone that I need
Speaker 1: to meet. So I think it's funny that you come
Speaker 1: home and you're just like, oh my god, this is
Speaker 1: my buddy. We flew home on the same flight and
Speaker 1: I see her joining the Discord and I'm like, whoa.
Speaker 1: They must have really hit it off. But I knew
Speaker 1: who she was because Jimmy was telling me all about
Speaker 1: her in Colorado, so she was really awesome. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they do esoteric tourist together, like in Egypt and all that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know that's cool. So anyway, I'm glad
Speaker 1: you had fun. I'm looking forward to the next one.
Speaker 1: It's just in what three weeks. Yeah, we're going to
Speaker 1: coming up. Man, three weeks, we're flying together. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to meet some more people. And yeah, I'm so happy
Speaker 1: to be back in the studio. Dude. Good. It'll be
Speaker 1: a lot more people. It's going to be about ten
Speaker 1: times the amount of people at that conference, and about
Speaker 1: ten times the booths, if not more. It's gonna be like, okay,
Speaker 1: as many boots as you saw at this conference. Keep
Speaker 1: in mind, this is only the second year they're running.
Speaker 1: It's still expanding. Yeah, Contacting the Desert is shut up.
Speaker 1: Shout out Mal, Yes, shot out Mal. She's wonderful, so wonderful,
Speaker 1: so lovely. But you know, it's growing. It's the second year.
Speaker 1: It has a lot of promise. It's an amazing conference,
Speaker 1: the management and you know, it's just wonderful people, very
Speaker 1: kind to our family. And then you go to Contact
Speaker 1: the Desert And I'm not comparing the two by any means.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, because we're going to it
Speaker 1: in three weeks, it's just what we're doing, and it's
Speaker 1: on my mind, is all. It's it's a lot bigger
Speaker 1: because it's more established. Just wait till you see the booths.
Speaker 1: It's going to be like a highway of booths. It's insane.
Speaker 1: It's insane, and then you know it'll be fun. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you enjoyed contact mentalities. I hope to be invited
Speaker 1: back next year and I would love to actually be
Speaker 1: there next time. Al Aaron and Hailey. And now I
Speaker 1: said my piece, all right, and that's it. He said
Speaker 1: his piece. Bye, guys. Weird things happened in the backyard
Speaker 1: to let the house, the garden, to let the houses.
Speaker 1: So weird, weird, no weird. Wow,