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All right, we're live, Shane, tell us who you are
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and what you do.
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What's up? Man? I am Shane Jones from multiple podcasts actually, uh,
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Anchories of Our Reality and Bizarre Encounters with Shannon Oran,
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and uh, you know, I've been podcasting now for going
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on like three years or so, on top of you know,
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doing my own little side ventures research all that kind
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of stuff. But I guess at the heart of it, man,
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I'm a researcher, a podcaster, an investigator, and you know
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what was a father to Yeah?
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For sure? How long have you been podcasting?
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About three years or so?
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Now?
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I think the fourth season is about to start up
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for both my shows in April and June, so it's like,
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you know, a season ahead, so it should be just
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starting the third year in about two three weeks or
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stuff something like that.
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Yeah, and where what's the best place? So obviously people
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can find you everywhere, right, but what's the place? I mean,
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you know, tell us where they can find you, but
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also what's the place you want people to go?
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Like? Well, I guess the one per I guess would
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be if anybody uses spreaker, just because that's my main
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one that I use. I get a little bit of
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a boost if anybody use a speaker. But realistically, at
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the end of the day, you know, I'm on Spotify,
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I'm on Amazon, I'm on iTunes, I'm on any podcast
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or you happen to look up, and on YouTube and
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stuff of course, so anywhere you look up increase while reality,
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I have that whole feed taken and Bizarre Encounters with
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Shane and Oran sounds a little bit long, but there
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was this whole story behind it that about a year
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ago or so, some other podcasts decided to start up
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and call themselves Bizarre Encounters Podcast after we'd been running
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Bizarre Encounters for a couple of years, so it started
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messing up all of our feeds and everything. So in
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order to separate it, I did Bizarre Encounters with Shane
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and Oran, and I think that other show stopped, but
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I just kind of left it. So if you see
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that long annoying name, yes, that one is me.
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That one is me. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty funny.
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So hey, you gotta have some kind of ownership over
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your shows.
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Like oh absolutely so, so speakers the place, right, because yeah,
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you do get a little bit of a boost. I
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just actually moved everything migrated everything to Spreaker. I'd been
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running through like importing the speaker and then kicking out,
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but now I just made them my my base honestly.
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I mean for the price and all the stuff they offer.
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Though for anybody honestly starting up a podcast, actually I
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wouldn't say it's like the best for if you just
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started out. I would say like anchor or one of
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the free ones, for sure, if you just started. I
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guess even Spreaker has like a free version. But didn't
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you get rolling a bit and you start getting listeners
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and you get monetized and all that stuff. There's no
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better choice than Spreaker, at least at this current time.
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But it's always shifting, as I'm sure you've seen this podcast.
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Oh oh my gosh.
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Yeah, I Circle was the one for a minute. Now
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it's like everybody.
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And now I was on Red Circle for about a
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day and some things just didn't happen the way that
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I wanted them to. When I was like, you know what,
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this is not right, I'm going to so I just
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took everything again, went from Bean to Red Circle and
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then straight I'm just all out of Spreaker now. Yeah.
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See I started off with Anchor and then I temporarily
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switched to pod Being for like a day a Red Circle.
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I switched to that one, ran that one for a while,
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thought it was really good until I started seeing what
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other people were doing with Spreaker, and then I had
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Jeremiah from Bigfoot Society. I was like, man, you gotta
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get on Speaker. And then I also had who was it, uh,
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Bryan's Brian uh from Sasquatch Odyssey. Yeah, yeah, yeah, then
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he was like, yeah, you got to switch over to Spreaker.
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So I just had too many other good podcasts.
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The only the only one that convinced me to go
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to Red Circle he did, and then it just didn't
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work out was uh the guys from Cryptids of Corn.
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They had they had convinced me to go to Red
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Circle and I so I tried it and I literally
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last a day.
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So I did jumped from there because I had Jerry
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from well now the late Jerry from Hillbilly Horror Stories.
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Uh, he he was the one that told me to
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do that, which I'm pretty sure he's the same one
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that sold Tony Markle at the time and Crypts of
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the Corn, so yeah, I think he was the one
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that started the bowl, the ball rolling down on that one,
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probably we all switched over and then yeah, no.
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I did like it. It just didn't have everything that
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I wanted exactly the way that I wanted it. So whatever. Anyway,
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strikers neater anyways, it's just and and they give you
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boosts for doing things with them.
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So I actually have sponsors that aren't you know, just
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random Spanish ads.
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So right, isn't that bizarre.
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I I'm not trying to say ads are good for anybody,
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but I don't know about you, but I would rather
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hear like a McDonald's ad on a podcast than like, oh,
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here's your thing for some off the wall drug or
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prescription that you might want to take. Here's this thing
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for this local random thing like it just it sounds
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a little bit better if it's just a quick, you know,
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bigger head, you know, like they got better sponsors for
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the shows anyways, for sure.
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So all right, so with that being said, what what
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was your gateway to this world of high strength? Like
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mine was Bigfoot? What what got you into this crazy
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land that we live in? Well?
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I guess this is kind of a complex question with
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multiple possible answers depending on if you're asking podcasts, what
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started getting me into like believing in the possibility of
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stuff being off or just paranormal experiences in general.
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You want to go, Yeah, so like literally what what
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guy you intrigued in the whole? Just in in life
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in general, the whole, like did you have an experience
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when you were a kid or or what? You know
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what I mean, So.
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It kind of has like multiple steps. That's why I
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was kind of asking for that question. So when I
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was a kid, of course, I grew up having these
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astral travel experiences, except I didn't exactly know what they
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were at the time, but I just remember like I
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would like see myself sleeping in the bed still and
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I would like walk around and like traverse around like
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reality around me, and that was super duper weird. I
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didn't again, didn't quite know where to place that. But
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then of course that as I got older started kind
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of leading into some other stuff such as some shadow
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people experiences sleep paralysis. And I can definitely get into
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this way, however, if afterwards if you'd like me too.
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But also on top of that, I also had my
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grandma who was one hundred percent Cherokee. They would always
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grow up telling me all these folklore stories about like
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Native American like cryptids, folklore, like all these different things too.
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So I kind of had this combination of these like
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weird astro travel experiences, and I also had growing up
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hearing all of these like folklore stories. And then from that,
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of course, you start kind of questioning like what's real
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what's not, and you start really starting to like tear
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things apart. So like the first like on a solid
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real world thing that started connecting everything for me just
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because I was in first grade when it happened, but
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it ended up being nine to eleven weirdly enough, That's
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when I like really really started questioning stuff, which kind
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of led the ball down to like looking into like,
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all right, do aliens exist? Does Bigfoot exist? Does this exist?
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Does you know? Or does the government lying to us?
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Which for most people in this field, I know, you know,
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some people stick to squatch, some people stick to this,
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but it's kind of like an avalanche to me, like
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once it starts, it all just kind of rolls in
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all those other things. So and then of course I
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have had a multiple multitude of just weird different sightings
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and all that kind of stuff through the years, and
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then inevitably led into me kind of researching all this
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stuff and investigating it myself, and which led eventually into
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like the podcast and eventually kind of where I am
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now as far as you know, doing the two shows.
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One of them's interview styles so that I can talk
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to people about their experiences, their research, start connecting stuff
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like that. And then the other side, my other show
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is primarily like me and my co host doing deep
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dives in research. So kind of has two different sides
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of the spectrum depending on, like, you know, what I'm
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feeling at the time, because you know, one of them
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you want to be able to do your deep dives
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and research, the other one you want to do your interviews,
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and most people just kind of want one or the others.
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So I kind of made two different places to take
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individual type of show. But yeah, like I said, it's
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been like a like a constant spiral of just like
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weird events that have happened. I know, I have this
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one particular sighting that I'm sure a lot of people
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like hearing about, so I definitely can get into that
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and set the pace for that one. But that's kind
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of honestly what opened the door for me, step by
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step was just multiple events, just kind of opening the
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door a little bit more each time, until eventually the
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door was just completely blown wide and I just immersed
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myself in verse. You know.
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Yeah, those doors don't last long.
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No, especially once they start cracking at the seams. Man,
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It's only so long before they completely bust out. Like
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I said, it's like an avalanche. Man.
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So what is what is your favorite subject?
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Honestly, it kind of shifts depending on what I'm into
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at the current time. But as far as I usually
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like diving into different like types of creatures, beings, entities, folklore,
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So that kind of sounds like a broad range of things.
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But yeah, you know, aliens, cryptids, the paranormal, different weird
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entities and sightings and everything, just because for me at least,
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that's like the connection that I need to like open
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everything up to the real world. So it's like for me,
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that's the one that's the closest for me to be
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able to actually be able to full blow and like investigate.
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Like I definitely dive into like government conspiracies and all
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that kind of stuff. But at the end of the day, yeah,
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like I can't you know, get this document that I need.
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I can't get this that I need. Like, there's only
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so much moving around you can do unless you have
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connections as far as like whistle blowing or letting out conspiracies.
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But you know, when it comes to and trying to
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investigate the paranormal UFOs aliens all that kind of stuff,
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it's a little bit more hands on where you can
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actually get out in the field and actually try to
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do something, talk to people with sightings, and it just
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opens the door more for you being able to do
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your own research and not basically just wait at the
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beck and call of like the government releasing documents for example,
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or you know, astrophysicists releasing the next big crazy idea
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opening a portal, or whatever else happens to be at
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the time.
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I am finding especially well with you growing up with
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a Cherokee grandmother. Cherokees had the best stories. Man, have
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some good stories, and I think it's indicative of where
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they're from or where the with the Appalachian Mountains and
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the you know, western North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, the whole
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that whole area. They got some really good stories. So
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you were kind of blessed growing up with that stuff.
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I think, man, I heard a lot about different sasquatch stuff.
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I heard about like thunderbirds, I heard about Uktena, all
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that kind of stuff. And the cool part was I
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live up in Michigan and my grandma lives up in Michigan,
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but her family was from down in Georgia and she
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used to still make it down there. So she used
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to go down for pow wows and all that kind
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of stuff all the time up until she eventually like
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got a little bit older and got into some accents
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and she just wasn't his mobile and stuff. But you know,
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it was cool. Well, she still kind of had that
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real world connection where she was going back, she was
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hearing new stories, she was going to the pow wow.
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I wasn't hearing about new stories and everything and then
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coming home and sharing them. So honestly, it was It