May 19, 2026

The Weekly Strange: Sasquatch, Dogman, Lost Civilizations, and the Unknown

The Weekly Strange: Sasquatch, Dogman, Lost Civilizations, and the Unknown
The Weekly Strange: Sasquatch, Dogman, Lost Civilizations, and the Unknown
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The Weekly Strange: Sasquatch, Dogman, Lost Civilizations, and the Unknown
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Bennett Tanton welcomes Jon F. Merz, host of The Weekly Strange, for a wide-ranging conversation about Sasquatch, Dogman, UAPs, lost civilizations, supernatural phenomena, and the mystery that still surrounds the human story. Jon shares his own strange backyard encounter, his theory of “suburban Sasquatch,” and why he believes the unknown may be much closer to us than we think. This episode is a deep dive into cryptids, ancient mysteries, media narratives, and the strange comfort people find in knowing we still do not have all the answers.

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I should explain that my backyard backs up to at

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least three hundred acres of conservation land. There were these

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incredibly heavy footsteps up there. I paused the music because

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I just was unusual, and it's very unusual. None of

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my neighbors go into that backwoods at all. So I

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paused the music in the footsteps continued for two more times,

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and then they stopped. And so I'm sitting there on

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the porch kind of reaching for my phone trying to

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get the voice memo app and I'm sort of waiting

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for something to start up again, and nothing did. Second

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night that I actually got better audio on. They were

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like like somebody had two rocks and was clicking them together.

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And this was couldn't have been more than fifty yards

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away from where I was actually sitting.

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On the porch, broadcasting scenes, broadcasting scenes, planning troop in

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the Minds of the Pino.

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John Murrz is a US Air Force veteran, a martial artist,

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an author, and the host of The Weekly Strange, a

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twice weekly podcast covering cryptids and UAPs and law, civilizations

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and the supernatural. But here's what separates John from most

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people in the space. He doesn't just study the strange

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from behind his desk. He's been sitting on his porch,

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backed up to three hundred acres of conservation land where

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something fifty yards away started clicking rocks together in the dark.

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John is what he calls a skeptical optimist. He's not

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here to sell you a conclusion. He's here to ask

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better questions. And his theory about where sasquatch and other

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cryptids are actually hiding is going to make you look

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at your own neighborhood very differently. Today we're getting into

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suburban cryptids, lost civilizations, Why academics bury the researchers who

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get too close to the truth. And the one thing

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John says, people in the paranormal world understand that the

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rest of the world has completely forgotten. So, John, you've

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lived several lives already. Man, it's so author veteran podcaster.

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Which one of those shapes the others the most?

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Who I would say the fact that I'm a veteran,

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the fact that I've been in martial arts for forty

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almost forty five years now. It taught me early on

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about how to persevere in the face of challenge, and

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that has gone a long way towards sort of propelling

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me in different areas of my life. We were talking

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before the show started. My personal motto is who dares Lives,

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which is taken from the British essays who dares wins motto,

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and I am somebody that wants to experience as many

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different things in life as possible. My father passed when

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I was twenty three years old, so his death is

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sort of informed every decision that I've every sort of

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interesting pathway that I've walked in my life has been

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informed by his passing. So I want to do as

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much as I can.

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Yeah.

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I fell into acting in twenty fourteen because as a writer,

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I'm constantly chasing new experiences and I had an opportunity

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to do a photo shoot and at the end of

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the photo shoot, the camera guy was like, Oh, you

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should really get representation. The camera likes you. I was like, dude,

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I write books, you don't have to blow smoke up

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my ass. It's totally He's like, no, no, I'm being serious,

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and then you know, before I know it, I'm in

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a mini series on the History Channel called The Cars

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That Made America, and then I'm in a Whitney Houston movie.

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And it's just it's that attitude of just being open

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to different experiences is it's wild. And I have a

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great life. I'm recently a sarcoma survivor. I announced that

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on my show just on Sunday, found a strange lump. Yeah,

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thank you man, found a strange lump in my back

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about nine months ago. Fortunately it was entirely contained within

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the muscles. So they kind of snipped the top, snipped

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the bottom, lifted it out like a sausage and put

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it aside. I didn't wow. That's yeah, all the while

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still bringing the still bringing the episodes out. It's been

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it's been a crazy couple of the last couple of

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nine months there.

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That's wild. So what really was your gateway to this whole,

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like the idea of your show, you know, like what

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what was the what was the gateway to that to

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this world of high strange?

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So I was a kid, and I so I was

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born in sixty nine, So I remember very vividly seeing

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the promotions, the advertisements for In Search of with Leonard Nimoy,

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and you know it's the surgeons, the surgeon's photo of

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locke Ness and then you know it was the Patterson

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Gimlin film, and I remember just being honestly captivated by

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that and going to my parents and saying, what is

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what is this show? Like what did first of all,

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what's that creature? And then what's that creature?

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You know, it's supposed to be this this big hair

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guy that lives in the woods. And I was like, what, well,

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what you know? And that was it. I was off

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to the raisins after that. It was It was very

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much I used to have in the early seventies. You

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could get your kid's bedroom furniture that was made out

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of heavy duty cardboard, and I can remember having a

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little nightstand that had three drawers on it that you

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could pull out and I would literally snip newspaper clippings,

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and the top drawer was for UFOs, the second drawer

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was for Bigfoot, and then everything else went into the

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third drawer, and I would just constantly stuffed things aside

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in there. And so I've been addicted to it for

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for as long as I can remember. It's it's only

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you know, in the last couple of years that I've

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actually been able to really sort of devote some time

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to exploring it to a respectable degree.

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Yeah. Right, have you ever had an encounter I have?

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I have something, I love it, I've done something something. Yes,

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there's something that. Yes, last year, my wife and I

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we have a nice three season porch that we like

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to sit out. We play music out there. We've got

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you know, the lights. We set it up during COVID,

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so it's we call a club VIP and you know,

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we sit out there, have a couple of cocktails. And

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she had gone in to get a to get a

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refresh on her drink, and the song that was playing

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was coming to an end, so there was that dead

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space between music, and all of a sudden, I just outside,

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and I should explain that my backyard backs up to

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at least three hundred acres of conservation land. There were

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these incredibly heavy footsteps up there, and I paused the

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music because I just was unusual, and it's very unusual.

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None of my neighbors go into that backwoods at all.

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So I paused the music in the footsteps continued for

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two more times and then they stopped. And so I'm

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sitting there on the porch kind of reaching for my phone,

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trying to get the voice memo app and I'm sort

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of waiting for something to start up again, and nothing did.

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So now I'm trying to record. I'm kind of like, guys,

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I don't And this was probably about two or three

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months after I started the Weekly Strange and I'm sort

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of sitting there and I'm going, I'm hearing some stuff.

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And I don't know what it is, and.

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So forth and so on. So that was the first night,

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and then the second night that I actually got better

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audio on. They were like like somebody had two rocks

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and was clicking them together. And this was couldn't have

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been more than fifty yards away from where I was

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actually sitting on the porch. Didn't find anything in the woods,

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but very odd, and it got me into thinking. My

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working theory is that these creatures, whatever they may be,

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are actually closer to us than we think they are.

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I mean a lot of people think that you got

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to go into the deep dark woods to find them.

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I'm about twenty miles southwest of Boston, and I have

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plenty of green space around me. It's just it's just huge.

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So my whole investigative slant when I get out into

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the field is looking I call it suburban sasquatch I think,

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you know, there's a chance way, you know. So that's

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the extent of what I've had so far, just those

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two nights where it was just very odd. And I've

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been in those woods, I've been in other woods, very

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comfortable in them, and this was unlike anything that i'd

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heard previously.

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So I've had encounters in both Massachusetts and Connecticut.

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So oh really, Okay.

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I lived in Connecticut from age thirteen to eighteen and

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my family's from there, So yeah, whereabouts Fairfield and then

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new Haven as well.

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Okay, okay, yeah, so.

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Fairfield's you know, between like halfway between Greenwich and new Haven. Okay, nice, Yeah,

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So I get it. And it's all woods man, the

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whole thing's woods. It's all one giant wildlife corridor as

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far as I'm concerned, it really is. So so yeah,

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that's wild.

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It'll be interesting. So I'm coming up on a year.

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It was it was around this point last year where

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I heard those noises. So I'm going to be setting

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up the audio recorder out there and and other things

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and see if we can get something this year.

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Yeah, this is one of the things that I do.

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I go for bigfoot, I go to the out way

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out in the woods, and then I go to more

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local areas as well. So yeah, it's fun. It's definitely

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cool and gets you out in the.

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Get you out in the woods. So I appreciative of

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mother nature. How could you not?

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Could you not exactly exact?

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Although I am told that the tics around me this

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year are absolutely brutal, so yeah, that'll be something.

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I just did an episode on the Plumb Island, which

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isn't far from you either, so they're you know, and

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I live in New York now, so are you upstate? Upstate?

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I'm right outside Syracuse, so okay, great, so we get

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hammered with the ticks too, it's brill But I just

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did an episode on the conspiracy of lime disease, so

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fun times.

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Yeah, I'm the only thing I'm really concerned about with

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I mean, I should be concerned about lime disease too,

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but I'm super concerned about that thing that causes you

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to reject meat gale.

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Yes, it's the long star tick. So yeah, different tich.

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I'm told in Massachusetts, though.

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I think I've heard that too, But I've also heard that,

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like they don't talk about out of cure, but I

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think there there might be one but goes.

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All I'm saying is if I get bitten by that,

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I will literally starve to death because vegetables and I

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do not have a good relationship.

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Well, if you get off the gel, I mean, now

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I can send you to somebody that as a I

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think as a treatment.

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I gotta I gotta have my mistakes.

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You man, And I'm right there with you for sure.

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So with so with your writing, let's touch on this

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just a second. You've got you've written dozens of books, right,

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and what does fiction allow you to say?

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That?

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Like nonfiction sometimes can't.

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I think fiction allows you to take real world experience

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and inject it into a fantastical situation such lovely. You

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don't have to get security in order to publish it.

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Let's just uh, let's let's let's put it at that.

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When my first novels came out, My First Wife came

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out in two thousand and two, and I started hearing

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from certain people in certain communities, and they were they

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would they would send me email and say stuff along

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the lines and wow, you're your vampire Jason Bourne. The

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character really seems to have an interesting background. So it

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was it was, it was definitely a matter of.

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Going, oh, yeah, well, you know, I'm a writer.

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So I am a writer and I have an active imagination.

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Yes, exactly, Yeah, so I enjoy The fifth book in

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that Losson series is actually my based on my trip

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to Japan in two thousand and three where I got

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my fifth grade black belt from the grand master of

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the martial art tradition that I study. So I took

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all that experience from there and put it into the

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context of a supernatural adventure for the main character. So

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while he's trying to solve this, he's going.

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Through this Jason Borton Vami.

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Vampire character. I always tell people, Look, if you're looking

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for the great American novel, please do not buy my book.

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It's amazing. That's amazing. What what inspired you to launch

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the Weekly Strange and and like whine now like which

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harder and harder to get eyeballs on your work. Facebook

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used to be fantastic. You could have a page, you

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monetize everything and started throttling your feed, so that if

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thousand people that are subscribed to my page being able

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to see it, fifteen will see it, and then it'll

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just go away unless I choose to pay Facebook to

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advertise it. So I was faced with this problem of

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how do i get eyeballs on the fact that I've

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written all these books and simultaneously I was writing screenplays

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and I was generating content in YouTube for me, is

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the new and for Hollywood too, it seems, is the

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new proving ground for new ideas for new creators. So

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if you can establish yourself on YouTube and generate good

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content that looks decent, that has good production value to it,

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as your show does and hopefully as my show does,

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then you can start to attract the following. You can

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you can hopefully channel some of those folks that are

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following you into becoming readers of your work. You can

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hopefully expose them to some different stuff, some different ideas.

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putting out on the channel as well. So for me,

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it was it was taking a look at the best

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those boxes perfectly. So when it came time to trying

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to figure out, you know, okay, so how am I

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going to do this, the first thing that popped into

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you know, I finally, I finally just want to get

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search of and go for it.

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Have you done any other podcasting before this or not?

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real sort of major initiative on my part, and and

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when I realized that I wanted to do it, I

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wanted to make sure that that you know, it's worth

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people's time to tune into so that that means you know,

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good video, good good audio, good production value, and so

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forth and so on. And so we're coming up on

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our hundredth episode, and so I've got a brand new

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sort of intro that I'm getting ready to latch with

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one hundredth episode and hopefully just keep elevating things.

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like covering the paranormal and I'll say, weird stories right

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weekly and you've been doing this for a bet now

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one hundred episodes. It's congratulations, by the.

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Way, you appreciate the couple couple more weeks.

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a there's milestones, and those matter in this business. They

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do absolutely matters to the algorithm. It matters to all

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kinds of things. So so with that being said, though

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the weekly stories, what patterns are you noticing and what

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people are hungry to like for right now? I mean, like,

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obviously we have like UFOs and disclosure and right I did.

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I did really like your analyzing of the the the blood,

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the bloom of Bigfoot in Ohio. Yeah, it was a

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pretty good one too. So but like with that being said,

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what what are you seeing.

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A lot of bigfoot? A lot? So I can. I can,

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given the sort of the five pillars of my channel,

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I can look at my video performances, as you absolutely

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know as well, and see which of my videos get traction,

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and it's always, it's always the bigfoot Sasquatch videos. I

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just had an episode last night talking about dog Man

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in Connecticut that I thought was going to take off

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and just go through the roof, because I've had other

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dog Man episodes do that, but this one didn't. So

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I think the public right now is really hungry for

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the Sasquatch videos, but I don't never know. Plus you

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never know exactly. Yeah, and there have been I'm told

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that once you hit ten thousand subscribers things change on YouTube,

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and I'm about nine hundred subscribers away from that waypoint.

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But it's been it's been very interesting to just sort

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of look at the analytics and see the little dips

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in peaks as you're climbing ever higher. And I mean,

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I'm not saying that the algorithm's out to get you,

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but there are certainly I feel like there are certain

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little crucibles that come come.

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Along, and I agree with you, I agree.

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I'll have a fantastic week, and then the very next

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week it'll be a dead zone out there by maintaining

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that posting frequency, and I find myself going, uh, okay,

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I didn't do anything wrong, like yeah, yeah.

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I get it my face. My most popular episode is

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an episode I absolutely hate. I like, I am not.

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It's not anywhere near one of my best episodes. It

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was done, it's but whatever, it doesn't make any sense.

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And then episodes that I totally love, Like you were saying,

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like dog Man, I nothing. It's like thousands views over

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like over a year. You're like, what, it's so weird.

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It's even weirder when all of a sudden, so on

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My very first episode last year, last March, was about

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the discovery of big foot tracks at Maine, and that

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came out in March. I think it was like March fourteenth,

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and then all of us sudden around June, it blew

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up just out of the blue and just got fifty

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thousand views in the matter of a couple of days.

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I'm so I'm sitting there going, okay, I mean, this

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is great, but you know, I have no idea why.

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And the same thing happened to another video of mine,

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the werewolf photo over in the UK. That was something

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that I posted, and then again there was sort of

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like a ninety day delay and all of a sudden

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it just blew up and it was so yeah, it's

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so strange. And I know that there's you know, I'm

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sure there's this incredible amount of scientific data behind everything,

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but damned if I could figure it out.

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But sometimes there's just not. Now. I think it's just

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it is what it is.

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Yeah, No, you know, I think I think the big

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the single biggest thing that we can do as creators,

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it's just maintained that consistent schedule, try to elevate the

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production every time, make make good episodes, and hopefully people

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enjoy it.

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Absolutely absolutely. I mean there's not much you can do

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after that. I mean, so it is what it is.

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It's out in the ether at that point.

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So absolutely, it's very much. I'm sorry, it's very It's

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very much like being a writer. You know, you you

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create this thing, you spend all this time on it,

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and then you just have to release it and go

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that's it. Folks like.

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Yeah, absolutely, yeah, man, do you think people are searching?

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How do I say it? For truth? Entertainment or like meaning,

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when they consume strange content.

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Like that, I think people are searching, and this is

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going to sound like a dichotomy. I think they are

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searching for the security of mystery. And by that I

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mean there is so much in our world right now

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that I mean we walk around these phones in our

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pocket that literally have the entirety of knowledge that we

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possess as a species on it and as such, excuse me,

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life can get pretty boring. And so when you have

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this prospect of a creature like a sasquatch, or you

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have this prospect of extraterrestrials or some other supernatural phenomenon,

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there's a really, as strange as it sounds, there's a

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reassurance there that I think a lot of people find

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comfort in. It's nice to say, at the end of

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the day, when you close your eyes, we don't know everything. Yet,

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we don't have the answer for this. We think we might,

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we might have an opinion on it, and there's a

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certain level of comfort in that because it means that

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your life still has a certain degree of excitement in it.

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You know, if we woke up tomorrow to definitive proof

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that sasquatch exists. Think about how groundbreaking that would be

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on one hand, and on the other hand, it would

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also be a little bit sad because it means that

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one more mystery has just been solved for us concrete.

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I don't know what about.

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Oh I'm a writer. I'm blanking on the word usage

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now that I'm looking for. But yeah, so I so,

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as strange as it sounds, I think people are still

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looking for that mystery, that that little jolt of fear

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or uncertainty, that that makes life interesting.

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Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I can't even imagine what it

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would be like, definitively right. I wonder how many people

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would still go out in the woods.

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I probably would.

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I would too. I know, I know, I'm a knower.

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I'm not a I've had a class A sighting oh

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so from But I still go out there. I still

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go out and night traps through the woods, even by myself,

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like I'm moron.

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Hey, you know I can't Well, I can't bring my

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wife with me because she is literally the biggest mosquito

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magnet man. So that would just that would make a

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horrible headline the next day. So right, fourth thing, I

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can't bring her out with me. So but yeah, hopefully

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eventually I'll get one of my sons to come on

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out in the woods with me.

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So very cool. So which episode, like the topic surprised

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you the most after researching it?

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Let's see, I had well, look of the most recent

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ones that I've that I've done, I had not heard

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a lot about the Barksdale UFO drone incursion that it

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just happened only you know, back at Marchep. So for

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me researching that, it was very interesting to see the

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level of how much tamping down had been done with

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regard to news about that situation. Certainly it appeared on

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all the local outlets around Barksdale Air Force Base, but

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apart from that, I hadn't heard anything up here in

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the Northeast about it, that's sure. So for me that

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was really interesting to read about the developments of log

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nests were another one that was good. And then I

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think just overall because dog Man for me was not

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something that I was intimately familiar with, that was really fascinating.

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And in contrasting with that, this whole notion of were

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wolves over in the UK that was really interesting to

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me that there was a definitive like they think they

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have a were wolf problem in the UK, right, yeah,

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you know, And it was just wow, Okay, I hadn't

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even seen that, and i'd seen anything about that quite frankly.

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And when that episode, excuse me, and that episode actually

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took off and I started hearing from a ton of

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people in the UK, it was it just I was like,

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I had no idea this was this.

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Big, actual thing. Yeah, that's an actual thing. Yeah, it's crazy.

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So after studying all this stuff, right, the stories, the phenomenon,

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what do you think deserves more like serious attention Like UFOs,

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you got haunting, scrypted synchronicities, ancient mysteries, all that stuff.

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What do you think really deserves some serious attention.

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I think the easy answer is, you know, like you said, UFOs, cryptids,

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stuff like that. But I think more attention needs to

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be paid toward the idea of lost civilizations and pre

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human history. We we went through this whole period where

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our archaeologists and anthropologists were so convinced that they had

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the timeline of our evolution down, and now we're finding

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out that, you know, every every day there's literally a

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discovery that pushes that timeline back. And I'm a big

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fan of Robert Howard and his Conan the Conqueror and

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Conan the Barbarian stories and his prehistory of humanity has

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just always fascinated me to the point where I wish

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we invested more in trying to figure out what is

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our exact timeline, what may have happened to any did

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we rise and then there was this epic disaster and

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then we had to start over. I've always just been

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so fascinated by that idea that our timeline is not

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what we thought it was when I was growing up.

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Certainly it's you know, well before that so bizarre.

470
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I mean, it's not bizarre, it's just out there.

471
00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:59.480
Yeah. Yeah, but I wish I wish we took more

472
00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:02.440
of that seriously, as opposed to I feel like with

473
00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:05.480
a lot of academics, if you don't sort of toe

474
00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:07.880
the line, the established line, then all of a sudden

475
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:11.440
you become a springe lunatic. And that's that's not helping anybody.

476
00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:14.640
That's just helping somebody's ego. It's not helping the cause,

477
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:16.680
the cause of civilization.

478
00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:18.599
Like you're not actually trying to find out the truth.

479
00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:22.880
You're just trying to either get research grants, or whatever

480
00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.039
and get your hand, your hand, yeah, get it, Yeah,

481
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:28.319
I get it. But at the end of the day,

482
00:29:28.359 --> 00:29:31.759
that doesn't help anybody. It's like the the you know,

483
00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:36.119
the fact that the Egyptologist folks, you know, they they're like,

484
00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:37.680
this is how it is, and this is it. We're

485
00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:39.960
not going to let anyone look at anything else to

486
00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:44.039
try and disprove it or prove it or whatever, and

487
00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:49.079
you find out that they're just it just it muddles

488
00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:53.480
everything so and it makes you at the end of

489
00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:57.799
the day, it makes your whole profession look shady and

490
00:29:57.799 --> 00:29:58.680
it's just not cool.

491
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:02.039
Yeah, and it's don't you know, it doesn't help us.

492
00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:05.799
So if we are able to get to a place

493
00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:10.799
where we definitively know what our own timeline is, then

494
00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.480
that's just going to make it easier to figure out

495
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.920
what these other phenomenon are. Because if we are able

496
00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:21.759
to say concretely, this is this is when we developed,

497
00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:23.720
this is where we are now, there were all these

498
00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:26.839
things that happened in between, you're going to start finding

499
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.799
tendrils to other phenomenon that could then be explained by that.

500
00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:35.200
But we operate from this perspective of, well, we think

501
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.920
this is the timeline for this particular civilization, and we

502
00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:41.759
think that this is and so nothing's really known. So

503
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.519
how do we expect to be able to factually say

504
00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:49.200
this phenomenon does exist, this one doesn't, this, that and

505
00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:50.960
the other thing. If we can't even get our own

506
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:51.920
stories straight.

507
00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:55.079
Yeah, it's true, I mean we I mean even our

508
00:30:55.279 --> 00:31:02.839
human story. I mean, they'll say in Dell, they that

509
00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:06.440
will say that, you know, at one point there was

510
00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:12.960
up to seven hominids living in conjunction essentially on this

511
00:31:13.079 --> 00:31:18.359
planet at one time, everything from you know, Homo florensis

512
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:25.039
to Homo sapien, Neanderthal, Dosnovin's, a couple others, homoerectus. But

513
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:28.519
what they don't talk about then, is that the same

514
00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:32.240
way that they figured this thing these things out, is

515
00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:37.480
that if they look at our genome, there's other species

516
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:41.319
there or other it's not species is not the right word,

517
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:45.880
but there's other markers that show that we interbreeded with

518
00:31:46.039 --> 00:31:51.079
other things that we don't have an archaeological or fossil

519
00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:54.759
record for. But there's something like you know, a dozen

520
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:58.960
or so that they can identify, and they know that

521
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:01.880
it's a unknown hominid.

522
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:06.720
Right, But but I mean it's it's like going to

523
00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:08.920
your relatives and going, I heard I have a cousin

524
00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:12.000
Harold somewhere. What's that story? Oh, well, you know so

525
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:14.559
and so shocked episode, So we want to talk about that.

526
00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:17.480
Yeah, and there's from like Botswana, but we don't know

527
00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:19.759
anything about it, you know, like it's still random.

528
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:22.759
Like here, they might be a Thanksgiving this year, but

529
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:24.680
if so, just quite carefully right.

530
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:27.720
But these ones they're not even the same genus. You know,

531
00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:30.759
it's like or whatever, you know what I'm saying, genus species,

532
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:33.960
they're not even the same. They're they're human, but they're

533
00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:37.359
a different type of human. I don't know. So, I mean,

534
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.640
that's a real thing. And so that's the kind of

535
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:46.240
thing that opens doors, right and uh wow, it's just wild.

536
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:48.960
So that would be that would be what I would

537
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.240
like to see us be able to establish, would be

538
00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:55.839
a definitive timeline of human history and every everything that

539
00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:59.039
we interacted with and where it went and which branch

540
00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:01.359
died off and which branch was killed off because that

541
00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:05.720
probably happened to and you know, and then once we

542
00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:08.839
get that figured out, it just makes it easier in

543
00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:11.759
my mind to sort of start tackling these other mysteries

544
00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:12.440
of the universe.

545
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.079
Yeah, and the fact that there are other mysteries. It's

546
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:21.240
like modern society has become entirely too materialistic to understand,

547
00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:25.200
to understand and en mass, I should say, and you know,

548
00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:30.960
because there are people like us that that understand that

549
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:34.200
there is an unseen side of all of this, right,

550
00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:38.519
and there's an unseen side of life yep. So at

551
00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:40.839
the end of the day, I think we're just too

552
00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:46.480
materialistic too as a species or maybe a culture, because

553
00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:49.519
other cultures it's part of their life.

554
00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:54.440
So I think we've forgotten a lot of what we

555
00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:59.000
used to be. So the fifth degree black belt test

556
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:02.079
and the martial art that I've study is the ability

557
00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:06.759
to sense this murderous intention, so to speak. So basically

558
00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:10.079
it involves you kneel. Grand master of the system stands

559
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:12.840
behind you, swings the sword at the back of your head,

560
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.800
and you have to sense his killer intent and roll

561
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:18.079
out of the way. So a lot of people look

562
00:34:18.119 --> 00:34:20.800
at it and go, oh, that's just you know, mumbo jumbo.

563
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:24.880
But if you've been in a bad situation before, you

564
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:29.199
generally become aware, if not when it's happening in the

565
00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:32.440
aftermath of it, happening of this sort of sensation that

566
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:34.679
you get in the pity of your stomach or you

567
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:37.920
feel it in the back of your shoulders. And that's

568
00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:42.119
a relic instinct that we have that has been dulled

569
00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:45.639
by the onslaught of modern society. And so this martial

570
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:48.719
art that I study is designed to sort of peel

571
00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:51.559
that back and get rid of that fluff and reawaken

572
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:55.000
that instinct within you. There's nothing supernatural about it. It

573
00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:57.400
just used to be very much a part of who

574
00:34:57.480 --> 00:35:01.320
we as humans were because you had a sabertooth tiger

575
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:03.960
lurking around the corner from you, and you need to

576
00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:06.079
be able to sense that if you hope to survive.

577
00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:08.920
And so there is there is this whole other side

578
00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:12.960
that we have lost touch with that exists very in

579
00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:16.360
a very real way. Ask any combat veteran who's been

580
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:18.880
out on patrol in the middle of the night and

581
00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.719
all of a sudden you want to stop. Why am

582
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:25.440
I stopping? Exactly?

583
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.000
For sure? Yeah, So, I mean, why do you think

584
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:34.519
the mainstream media often I say mainstream media, but I mean,

585
00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:39.480
you know, just the general media in general often mocks

586
00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:44.639
fringe subjects until suddenly they begin you know, they become.

587
00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:50.880
Out fringe anymore. Right, I think. I think modern media,

588
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:57.000
in all of its forms, is designed to feed a

589
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.000
sense of a certain sense of appeasement to the public.

590
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:03.599
They know what the public is looking for down and

591
00:36:03.599 --> 00:36:05.960
they've gotten that down to a science. They know that,

592
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:09.519
you know, if it bleeds, it leads, you know, they've

593
00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:12.719
got to you know, they've got to instill that immediate

594
00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.039
sense of oh my god, you know, and then they

595
00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:18.719
start hitting on the emotional you know, rage points, and

596
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:23.119
you know, we've got good news tonight, after you know,

597
00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:26.920
twenty nine and a half minutes of absolute horror that

598
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:29.119
you're sitting there going, oh my god, I thought my

599
00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:32.440
life sucked. Look at all these poor people. You know,

600
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:35.519
he lost his house to a tornado, a bustload of

601
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:37.599
nuns goes over a cliff. You know, but oh no,

602
00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:40.320
hold up, we've got good news. And here's the story

603
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:43.440
of Frankie the Puppy that we're gonna show you. It's

604
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:46.159
going to make you feel all good. Oh that's nice.

605
00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:48.880
Now I can go eat my dinner. Don't forget to

606
00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:51.039
tune in tomorrow when we talk about the weather again,

607
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:54.960
because forty million people are under alert for rain it's

608
00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:58.280
just right. One thing. I mean, every day I turn

609
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.079
on the news and I watch about five minutes the

610
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:03.559
headlines and one of these morning shows. It's like it's

611
00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:08.119
been the weather consistently for the last three months. And

612
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:10.239
that's not to take anything away from it. There's some

613
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:14.280
severe weather going on. But at the same time, this

614
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:17.320
is gonna now morph. It's going to morph from tornadoes

615
00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:20.400
and heavy rain. It's gonna morph into temperature as we

616
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:23.280
come into the summer. You know, forty million people at

617
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:27.920
risk of high temperature. It's just sort of you know,

618
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.239
so they've they've gotten this all down to a science

619
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:33.039
and how to and how to get to uh get

620
00:37:33.039 --> 00:37:36.280
to us, and I think they just serve that up.

621
00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:37.920
You know, at the end of the day, they've got

622
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:40.480
to they've got to sell advertising. That's how they make

623
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:41.000
their money.

624
00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:44.719
Yeah, algorithm, the days.

625
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:49.960
Of Walter Kronakhite and you know, independent thinking journalism is,

626
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:51.800
as far as I'm concerned, it's over.

627
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:59.000
Yeah. Yeah, what separates people who chase truth from people

628
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:01.480
who just chase attention?

629
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:11.159
Speaking of Cronkit, Yeah, well, people who chase attention tend

630
00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:14.280
to come and go. People who chase truth tend to

631
00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:18.840
stick around in some form or another, at least, you know,

632
00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:22.159
until they find what they're looking for or piss off

633
00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:27.800
enough people so that they are effectively muzzled. I think

634
00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:33.400
people that seek truth, I think they live a hard life.

635
00:38:33.719 --> 00:38:38.880
Quite frankly, it's hard to walk a path that is

636
00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:44.280
different from others because so many people, if they have

637
00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:46.199
a good intention of setting out to try to find

638
00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:48.239
the truth in something, as soon as there's an obstacle,

639
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:50.800
most of them will say.

640
00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:53.079
Eh, maybe I don't want to.

641
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:56.039
Do this anymore, Maybe this is too difficult, Maybe I

642
00:38:56.039 --> 00:38:59.440
don't want to ruffle feathers, rock the boat, that sort

643
00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:03.719
of thing. If you're actually seeking the truth, you tend

644
00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:07.119
to have a very what I would call immovable spirit,

645
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:11.280
where you're just going to keep walking that path regardless,

646
00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:15.360
and you acknowledge the fact that there are going to

647
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:19.880
be obstacles and hindrances to you, but you stay on

648
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:23.760
that path regardless, and you keep going until you're satisfied

649
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:24.480
with what you find.

650
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:34.559
If you could investigate one mystery firsthand anywhere on Earth,

651
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:36.599
what would it be?

652
00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:47.199
Probably I would say the Yeti in Bhutan, because that

653
00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:51.199
is probably one of the most remote countries on the planet.

654
00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:55.159
It takes a hell of a lot of luck to

655
00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:59.519
even be admitted into that country. And it was supposedly

656
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:04.800
the setting for Changrola and the idea of being in

657
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:10.119
such a remote, beautiful wilderness looking for a creature like

658
00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:13.000
the Yetti who maybe related the Sasquatch, may not be,

659
00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:14.960
that would be pretty.

660
00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:17.000
Cool, I would I would be pretty happy with that.

661
00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:22.679
Yeah, that's pretty cool, isn't Isn't Bhutan the happiest place

662
00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:23.159
on Earth?

663
00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:26.599
Weren't they like supposedly one of them. I think Finland

664
00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:27.480
was the other, wasn't it.

665
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:30.159
Yeah, I can't remember. There was that one study and

666
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:32.239
I couldn't remember if it was Bhutan or if it

667
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:35.599
was what else is right there? It's not the It

668
00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:38.239
wasn't the Paul, but I think it was Bhutan. Yeah,

669
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:40.679
imagine people are the happiest or whatever.

670
00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:42.440
Yeah, I can't. I can't imagine. It would be like

671
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:49.679
Turkmenistan or Kyrgyzstan. Yeah, we love the Soviet federal concrete buildings.

672
00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:50.559
They're so beautiful.

673
00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:54.639
Oh my gosh, can you I spent a little time

674
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:59.119
in Uzbekistan and it was like, what in the heck, Yeah,

675
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:00.519
you're in the us SR.

676
00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:03.599
Straight out oh yeah, yeah, No, the wall has not

677
00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:04.599
fallen along here.

678
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:08.840
Yeah, that's so. Speaking of my genetic research stuff that

679
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:11.159
I've been doing, Like, one of the things that's cool

680
00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:15.000
about those folks in like Bhutan, in the Tibetan Plateau

681
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:19.360
is that they have something like anywhere from like five

682
00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:23.960
to eight percent of their DNA is from Homo. From

683
00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:28.920
Desnovans yep and Dosnovans are were known. It's like, the

684
00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:31.119
one thing that they can show is that they were

685
00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:35.119
highly adapted for high altitude living, and this is one

686
00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:38.840
of the reasons that there they thrive up there. It's

687
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:41.119
crazy to me.

688
00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:44.679
Oh yeah, and the sherpers are able to carry how

689
00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:49.480
many Yeah, they get the straps around on the forehead

690
00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:51.920
and they're just like right, my god. I've heard of

691
00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:56.280
neck exercises before, but that's something else. Yeah, it reminds

692
00:41:56.320 --> 00:41:59.119
me of that. There's a there's an island in the

693
00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:03.239
South Pacific where the people there have been adapted to

694
00:42:03.719 --> 00:42:07.639
holding their breath for longer, being able to swim under

695
00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:08.440
and fish.

696
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:09.760
Like the pearl divers too.

697
00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:11.960
I think I think the Pearl divers as well, but

698
00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:14.400
this is this is in the South Pacific, and they

699
00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:16.800
can hold their breath for some insane amount of time,

700
00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:19.400
and it would it would be fascinating to see what

701
00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:24.679
their genetic makeup is and what they know. Yeah, right,

702
00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:32.920
Ken water World splash. Now I'm dating myself.

703
00:42:33.039 --> 00:42:43.679
To remember that. Yeah, what's scarier what we know or

704
00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:44.400
what we don't know?

705
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:48.800
Oh, what we don't know? What we don't know.

706
00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:50.559
I can't tell you how many times I've gotten up

707
00:42:50.599 --> 00:42:53.320
in the middle of the night and the moon just

708
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:57.320
comes through the curtains in such a way that, you know,

709
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:00.679
makes you think, wow, that's really bright. Is there's something

710
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:04.719
outside you peek through the curtain, was expecting to see

711
00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:06.920
this spacecraft.

712
00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:09.239
Or waiting just waiting?

713
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:11.679
Yeah, you know, yeah, and it is. It's that type

714
00:43:11.719 --> 00:43:14.360
rope where you're like, wow, that'd be really cool, but

715
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:17.039
also I'd be really terrified, but also that would be

716
00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:17.679
really cool.

717
00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:23.239
Yeah. No, I know, I of man because we have Yeah,

718
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:26.519
we live on woods as well, so behind us, and

719
00:43:26.760 --> 00:43:29.440
I'll look out in those woods at night and just

720
00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:34.320
be like, man, what's going on out there? Like yep,

721
00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:39.599
so crazy. One strange topic people laugh at now that

722
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:43.679
that you think may take they may take seriously and

723
00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:45.679
like say ten years m.

724
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:54.760
Hm, wow, that's a good that's a good question. I

725
00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:59.119
think the dog Man I would have to go with

726
00:43:59.159 --> 00:44:02.880
that simply because, like I said earlier, for me, dog

727
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:06.039
Man was new. I was when I started hearing about it.

728
00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:08.119
I went, well, that's just a werewolf, isn't it. And

729
00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:10.800
the dog men and the and the werewolf people are

730
00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:15.079
very very careful, like, no, no, the werewolf is supernatural

731
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:19.639
and it transforms, whereas the dog man is its own individual,

732
00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:26.320
cryptid species. And so I think it just seems to

733
00:44:26.440 --> 00:44:29.920
me that there's been a lot more around that phenomenon

734
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:33.199
happening lately, especially with the land between the Lakes and

735
00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:36.440
some of these other areas that we're seeing, and even

736
00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:38.800
of the most recent episode of The Weekly Strange that

737
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:44.880
dropped yesterday on dog Man sightings in Connecticut. You know,

738
00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:48.440
what started in Michigan, excuse me, and in Wisconsin is

739
00:44:48.519 --> 00:44:51.440
now just sort of seemed to spread everywhere. And I

740
00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:53.280
think we're going to see a lot more attention on

741
00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:56.840
that as many people, as many people who don't believe

742
00:44:56.880 --> 00:45:01.440
in Bigfoot of Sasquatch. It's definitely more mainstream than dog

743
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:03.440
Man is. And I think that in the future dog

744
00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:08.199
Man will probably achieve you know, parody with with Sasquatch

745
00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:08.880
in that regard.

746
00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:15.360
Yeah, I don't know, there's something about it that terrifies me, Like, yeah, Sasquash,

747
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:19.119
not that not a giant ape walking through the you know,

748
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:23.480
walking through the woods. That doesn't scare me at all,

749
00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:28.559
but this dog does. But there's also a historical precedent

750
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:34.000
for like dog headed men, like the Silo Cephally. I mean,

751
00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:39.239
there's there's a whole city and I can't remember where

752
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:43.119
it's at, but it's somewhere in the Middle East that

753
00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:46.440
is named after these dog headed men. It's like the

754
00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:49.039
City of Dogs, right, so.

755
00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:53.559
Or even the episode I did with the with the ablet,

756
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:58.239
which is this intuit creature, that was that they considered

757
00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:00.920
they would go to war with tribe of these creatures,

758
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:05.360
these these creatures, you know, and it's we have excuse me,

759
00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:09.440
as you said, we have historical perspective for the existence

760
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:12.159
of dog Man, and it's it's been fascinating for me

761
00:46:12.239 --> 00:46:15.199
to to learn as I as I try to bring

762
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.599
out new episodes on it, to learn more about this,

763
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:20.360
and I really do think that that's going to be

764
00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:23.599
an interesting development in the world of the Parer Normal.

765
00:46:24.119 --> 00:46:26.840
Yeah, I think a cross thing too, that's kind of

766
00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:30.840
more of a So there's the classes of bigfoot, right,

767
00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:34.280
or sasquatch or whatever you want to call them. But

768
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:39.360
I want to say it's like a class three, Class

769
00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:43.760
four that's more like baboon like, and that can be

770
00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:47.760
very much like a caneid because they have the snout.

771
00:46:48.119 --> 00:46:51.320
So who knows, I mean, who knows. It's just wild

772
00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:53.840
the stuff that's coming out of here now.

773
00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:55.960
And I love it, though, I love it.

774
00:46:55.960 --> 00:47:05.400
It's really fault It is really freaking crazy though, So

775
00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:09.440
so what do you believe after everything you've studied? What

776
00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:12.480
do you believe really actually exists?

777
00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:17.320
You know, It's funny, the more the deeper you get

778
00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:22.400
into trying to study these phenomena, it the more you

779
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:28.599
find your opinion doesn't necessarily change, but it evolves.

780
00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:29.440
Yeah.

781
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:31.239
So when I when.

782
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:33.280
I started the Weekly Strange, I was very much of

783
00:47:33.320 --> 00:47:37.880
the opinion that Sasquatch was a relict domind that we

784
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:42.719
have just somehow lost track of and you know, it's

785
00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:45.599
it's found a way to survive. But over you know,

786
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:48.960
over the last year, year and a quarter, at this point,

787
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:52.920
I'm not so sure. I really am not. And I

788
00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:57.679
think that's also part of the appeal as to why

789
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:02.599
people enjoy paranormal shows like yours and like mine hopefully,

790
00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:07.400
and like countless others, is because it's nice when you

791
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:12.440
don't have the answers. It's nice to allow yourself the

792
00:48:12.599 --> 00:48:17.880
freedom to change your belief about a topic. The current

793
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:21.280
state of affairs in the world in general right now

794
00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:25.159
is that people have an opinion about something and then

795
00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:29.079
that then becomes their little fortress that they will defend

796
00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:32.400
until the dying day. You can't really do that in

797
00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:36.360
the paranormal world because the nature of the paranormal world

798
00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:40.119
is one that is always changing and always evolving. And

799
00:48:40.199 --> 00:48:44.599
for me, the idea of saying, okay, I thought Sasquatro

800
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:47.199
was a role commented, but I could have been wrong.

801
00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:51.280
Here's a piece of information that has just shifted my

802
00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:55.760
perception of that creature. And now I'm sort of kind

803
00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:58.000
of over here. But maybe i'm over here, and if

804
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:02.559
somebody brings me something compelling from over here, I'll consider

805
00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:06.519
that too. And there's there's a certain liberation, a certain

806
00:49:06.519 --> 00:49:10.079
freedom that goes along with that where you don't have

807
00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:13.039
to sort of plant your flag and say I know

808
00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:17.119
for a fact that this is this you know, it's okay.

809
00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:19.920
It's okay to be wrong, it's okay to be you

810
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:23.159
know educated. I've had people reach out on episodes of

811
00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:26.199
my show and say, hey, you know you got that wrong.

812
00:49:27.079 --> 00:49:30.199
This is actually and this is speaking more about the

813
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.199
Last Civilization episodes. You know, this is actually where this

814
00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:37.199
came from. And like I write them back and I say,

815
00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:40.199
thank you, that's that's fantastic. I did not know that,

816
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:41.719
you know, thank you for correcting.

817
00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:48.079
Yeah. So I absolutely think, like I mean this, this

818
00:49:48.159 --> 00:49:50.920
podcast started as a sasquatch podcast.

819
00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:53.239
And oh you did, yeah, and then you expanded.

820
00:49:53.719 --> 00:49:57.960
I because everything rhymes. So it was like, so at

821
00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:01.199
the end of the day, like I'm really the whole

822
00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:04.480
you know, everything from the genetics side, but I've really

823
00:50:04.519 --> 00:50:08.800
gone in a biblical direction as a Christian anyway. I

824
00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:12.960
but it's it's not in a normal Christian route. It

825
00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:17.840
is a supernatural route. So but at the end of

826
00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:25.119
the days, it's all it all rhymes, So I couldn't

827
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:26.800
just stick in the lane.

828
00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:30.320
I guess I'm the same way. I. You know, it's funny,

829
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:33.320
I going back to the to the YouTube thing. I

830
00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:36.159
look at my my videos, I'm like, well, clearly everybody

831
00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:38.280
loves the Bigfoot videos, but I don't want to just

832
00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:41.280
have a big Foot channel because I love all of

833
00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:45.760
this stuff. Literally, you know, I get these little digests,

834
00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:48.440
and I go out and I research little little things,

835
00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:51.639
and every day there's something new, there's some little mystery

836
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:57.360
that doesn't fall necessarily into the Bigfoot sosquatch lane, and

837
00:50:57.440 --> 00:50:59.679
so I want to have the freedom to explore that.

838
00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:03.159
I don't ever want to be sort of pigeonholed the same.

839
00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:04.840
Way you know, if I if I.

840
00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:08.159
Write urban fantasy novels, but then oh I have an

841
00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:10.559
idea for a sort and sorcery novel. I want to

842
00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:14.159
be able. I want to have that freedom. So I think,

843
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:17.039
at the end of the day, right especially you know,

844
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:21.639
with having gone through this Saracoma thing, the biggest luxury

845
00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:25.320
that we have is time. The second biggest luxury that

846
00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:28.199
we have is the freedom to explore that time.

847
00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:29.079
And so.

848
00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:32.519
Yeah, that's that's kind of where I'm at. I want

849
00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:34.480
to I want to see everything. I want to. I

850
00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:36.199
want to I want to experience everything.

851
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:41.679
Agreed, absolutely agree. I just can't pigeonhole myself anymore. I

852
00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:45.480
can't do it. Everyone else tries to pigeonhole. You and

853
00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:48.280
I fight against it. It's like it gives me an eck.

854
00:51:48.480 --> 00:51:50.719
So I'm like, nope, I'm I'm going to do this

855
00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:53.880
just because you don't want me to. Like I literally

856
00:51:53.880 --> 00:51:56.559
we just went to I just took one of my daughters,

857
00:51:56.599 --> 00:52:00.880
her friend and my wife to Gettysburg and talk about

858
00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:05.599
a place that's if there's a haunted place on Earth,

859
00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:08.320
that's there, Oh my lord, oh my god.

860
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:09.400
Thank Yeah.

861
00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:12.920
So at the end of the day, like I did

862
00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:14.840
a bunch of footage and we're going to do an

863
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:17.480
episode on it. But awesome, you know what I mean,

864
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:20.679
Like I am, that's that's just how it works.

865
00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:24.920
So the more eyes, the more people that are interested

866
00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:27.440
in this as far as I'm concerned, the better you know,

867
00:52:27.639 --> 00:52:30.880
bring bring, bring this out, you know, show us, show

868
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:33.199
us how you research it, show us how you study it,

869
00:52:33.199 --> 00:52:35.960
show us how you go out and investigate it, because

870
00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:40.000
that just it helps us all, you know. And I mean,

871
00:52:40.039 --> 00:52:42.039
at the end of the day, that's what it's about. Yeah,

872
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:43.480
So what I'm with you to help.

873
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:47.400
How are we seeing like an awakening or just are

874
00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:51.119
we just in like information overload? Considering that we get

875
00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:52.840
bombarded from all directions.

876
00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:56.519
You know, I think I think I think we are

877
00:52:56.599 --> 00:52:59.920
seeing a type of awakening. I think more people are saying,

878
00:53:01.239 --> 00:53:03.800
especially because of YouTube and because of the shows like

879
00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:05.920
ours that are out there, I think a lot of

880
00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:09.360
people are saying, Wow, you know, this guy seems pretty

881
00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:13.320
well grounded. He's kind of skeptical, but he's also open

882
00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:16.559
to stuff. Maybe there's something to this, you know. I

883
00:53:16.559 --> 00:53:18.800
mean if you if you watch a show and they're

884
00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:20.159
out in the middle of the woods and every little

885
00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:23.199
twig break that they that they hear, they kind of go,

886
00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:25.280
oh my god, that's going to be a bigfoot, then

887
00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:30.960
there's you know, there's no I mean, it's you know,

888
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:33.239
but if if you're out with somebody and they and

889
00:53:33.280 --> 00:53:34.960
they hear a twig break and the first thing they

890
00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:36.639
say is, well, that was a twig break, that's not

891
00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:38.599
a socequatch, then you can kind of buy into it

892
00:53:38.599 --> 00:53:41.559
a little bit more because especially so much of our

893
00:53:41.599 --> 00:53:47.360
audience are experienced outdoorsmen who know every sound that every

894
00:53:47.400 --> 00:53:50.159
animal makes out in the woods. You know they've been there,

895
00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:53.840
and so credibility is is this sort of idea. But

896
00:53:53.880 --> 00:53:56.400
I think a lot of people find credible channels that

897
00:53:56.440 --> 00:54:00.760
they like for the presentation for the production, and that

898
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:03.360
may then encourage them to go out and start their

899
00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:06.239
own channel, you know, because maybe they've had an experience

900
00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:09.119
that they couldn't explain, but if they look at it

901
00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:11.960
from a certain perspective, they say, I might have something

902
00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:15.360
to add to the conversation, which again is a good thing.

903
00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:21.719
Yeah. I just try to really highlight that we humanity

904
00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:26.840
has always lived beside the unknown. We have always lived

905
00:54:26.920 --> 00:54:31.719
beside the unknown, but now we finally have cameras and

906
00:54:31.800 --> 00:54:37.199
platforms to convey that and show it and discuss it

907
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:40.400
in a very personal way. And I think I think

908
00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:43.639
that's what's going on. It's that, like you, it's exactly

909
00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:47.480
what you said, that we're able to actually show it now.

910
00:54:47.800 --> 00:54:51.559
Unfortunately AI is kind of tweaked that a little bit

911
00:54:51.639 --> 00:54:56.079
because you know, what is real anymore. But that's not

912
00:54:56.199 --> 00:55:00.239
the point actually, is that I think that folks like

913
00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:04.280
us need to just report what we what we see,

914
00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:08.039
what we experience, and the you know, it's the the

915
00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:12.119
chaff and the wheat, it all gets the when the

916
00:55:12.159 --> 00:55:14.440
wind well figured it all out right.

917
00:55:14.559 --> 00:55:19.960
Absolutely absolutely, that's why you know, any any field investigation

918
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:22.480
that that I do, I there's there's a guy that

919
00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:25.880
I like. His name is, his channel is Mike Wanders.

920
00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:29.519
He goes up, he goes up by Yeah. Yeah, but

921
00:55:29.559 --> 00:55:32.320
his his thing is always very much like, look, if

922
00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:38.360
nothing happens, I'm gonna tell you nothing. No, that's kind

923
00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:39.960
of the that's kind of the approach that I take.

924
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:42.719
And I'm only just starting to do the field research episodes.

925
00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:46.719
But you have you have a target rich area where

926
00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:49.840
you live. Yeah, there's there's a couple of spots where

927
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:52.519
it's uh.

928
00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:54.920
We're going to be bringing some My uncle lives in

929
00:55:55.079 --> 00:55:59.199
the heart of the Bridgewater Triangle, so he's had some

930
00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:02.679
very interesting experiences. And this this is exclusive for your

931
00:56:02.719 --> 00:56:05.719
for your channel, Betett, because nobody, nobody over on Mind

932
00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:07.320
even knows that we're doing this yet. But we're going

933
00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:09.920
to be doing some So we're gonna sit down with him,

934
00:56:10.039 --> 00:56:12.559
do some interviews. We're gonna go out and he's going

935
00:56:12.639 --> 00:56:14.480
to take us to the places that he's actually had

936
00:56:14.519 --> 00:56:17.400
these he's experiences. So I'm really looking forward to that.

937
00:56:17.480 --> 00:56:20.840
He's he's a he's a great guy. He's very he's

938
00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:23.639
got a great character about him. So yeah, yeah, some.

939
00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:28.719
Puckwadgy could be could big puckwadgy stuff going on there.

940
00:56:29.079 --> 00:56:29.320
Yeah.

941
00:56:29.880 --> 00:56:30.920
So there's another guy.

942
00:56:31.079 --> 00:56:34.320
I can't remember his name though, because he literally has

943
00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:37.239
dropped off the face of the planet. I mean, he's

944
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:40.159
still around, but he doesn't he doesn't do it anymore

945
00:56:40.159 --> 00:56:44.639
because he had too much stuff happen and it started

946
00:56:44.679 --> 00:56:47.199
to affect his psyche and his life. And he's like,

947
00:56:47.320 --> 00:56:51.639
I'm done. Wow, And I can't remember his name. When

948
00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:55.679
I do find him, i'll send it send yeah, because

949
00:56:55.719 --> 00:56:58.719
he was a super interesting dude and I and I

950
00:56:58.760 --> 00:57:01.239
had him on. I had him set up to come

951
00:57:01.239 --> 00:57:03.679
on the podcast and he canceled because he's like, I'm done.

952
00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:12.000
I'm like, okay, wow, all right. So last question. This

953
00:57:12.679 --> 00:57:16.320
show is called Broadcasting Seeds, and I like people to

954
00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:21.840
plant seeds as their last thing on the show. So

955
00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:23.639
do you have a seed that you would like to

956
00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:25.320
plant in the audience's mind.

957
00:57:27.719 --> 00:57:32.599
Just the working hypothesis that I mentioned earlier that the

958
00:57:32.599 --> 00:57:36.719
Sasquatch is closer to our civilization than we give.

959
00:57:36.559 --> 00:57:37.239
Them credit for.

960
00:57:37.719 --> 00:57:42.119
If you look at the map of Massachusetts especially, and

961
00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:44.800
I'm sure that this is the same with any sort

962
00:57:44.840 --> 00:57:49.079
of major urban area. There are green carrits that they

963
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:53.079
can easily use to come in and leave where I

964
00:57:53.119 --> 00:57:55.760
grew up. I grew up in the neighborhood at Jamaica

965
00:57:55.800 --> 00:57:58.760
Plane in Boston, and there was a thing called the

966
00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:02.039
Emerald Necklace that stretched from the bottom of my street,

967
00:58:02.079 --> 00:58:03.920
which was the rold Arboretum, and it was two hundred

968
00:58:03.920 --> 00:58:06.960
and sixty five acres of just gorgeous land, and it

969
00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:09.239
would go through Jamaica Pond, it would go down the

970
00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:12.159
river Way, and it would go all the way in

971
00:58:12.880 --> 00:58:17.360
close to Boston Common, and it was just this green expanse,

972
00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:19.800
a green card that led right into the heart of

973
00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:23.880
the city. And I always growing up, thought, what's that

974
00:58:23.960 --> 00:58:26.480
place like in the middle of the night, you know,

975
00:58:26.519 --> 00:58:31.000
because there's water, there's food, you know. And so my

976
00:58:31.199 --> 00:58:33.800
seed would be to the next time you take you

977
00:58:33.840 --> 00:58:35.639
if you're in the suburbs, the next time you take

978
00:58:35.679 --> 00:58:38.239
your dog out for a walk, or you're out for

979
00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:43.760
a jug, look around. Because I really and truly feel

980
00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:45.679
that you don't have to be in the deep dark

981
00:58:45.719 --> 00:58:49.239
woods of the Pacific Northwest, or down in the swamps

982
00:58:49.239 --> 00:58:53.079
of Louisiana or any place else that's remote to find

983
00:58:53.079 --> 00:58:56.199
these mysteries. I really believe that they are closer to

984
00:58:56.559 --> 00:58:59.599
us than we give them credit for being so.

985
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:06.480
I agree absolutely so again, thank you so much for

986
00:59:06.519 --> 00:59:11.639
coming on so Bett conversation. Tell everybody where they can

987
00:59:11.679 --> 00:59:12.360
find you again.

988
00:59:13.079 --> 00:59:15.760
I am at The Weekly Strange. We're rocking to our

989
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:18.719
brand new T shirts here on the on the podcast.

990
00:59:18.719 --> 00:59:19.719
I like that. That's great.

991
00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:22.199
Yeah, I'm trying to get one done for dog Man too,

992
00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:23.840
but I'm having a little bit of hard time kind

993
00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:26.960
of getting the exact same vibe. But we'll see. Yes,

994
00:59:27.239 --> 00:59:31.119
the Weekly Strange episodes Tuesday night at seven, Sunday morning

995
00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:35.480
at ten, and here and there we throw in an extra,

996
00:59:35.639 --> 00:59:38.960
an extra little episode called Extra Strange if something breaks

997
00:59:38.960 --> 00:59:41.400
in the news or we have a little extra extra

998
00:59:41.480 --> 00:59:44.760
thing pop up. And but yeah, I'm out here on YouTube.

999
00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:46.639
Find us out there. You can find us on Instagram

1000
00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:49.679
at the Weekly Strange as well, but YouTube is primarily

1001
00:59:49.719 --> 00:59:50.440
where we're found.

1002
00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:55.000
Amazing. Again, thanks for coming on, and we'll do it again,

1003
00:59:57.280 --> 00:59:57.679
all right.

1004
00:59:57.760 --> 00:59:58.199
I love it.

1005
00:59:58.239 --> 00:59:59.400
I love it, Thank you so much. Ben.

1006
01:00:32.559 --> 01:00:37.719
But there's a sound on the tree. It steps from

1007
01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:39.800
the mangles.

1008
01:00:40.960 --> 01:00:45.440
A shape between the porch that and the place.

1009
01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:48.679
Some light folks, you.

1010
01:00:48.719 --> 01:00:51.280
Can cut it, pusta shirt.

1011
01:00:52.519 --> 01:00:54.639
You can last and good.

1012
01:00:56.519 --> 01:01:00.880
But if it sound has shadows that don't The band

1013
01:01:01.800 --> 01:01:09.719
days and we've built our glass towers with our answers

1014
01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:15.320
in our hands. But the old world just breathing.

1015
01:01:16.599 --> 01:01:19.400
Underneath this smardern land.

1016
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:21.519
They're closer than you think.

1017
01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:29.280
Move and where the blacks are fence, closer than you know,

1018
01:01:31.440 --> 01:01:34.280
where the wild be against again.

1019
01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:37.599
There's old spurs study.

1020
01:01:39.519 --> 01:01:44.519
There's a big about the crams. You can say the

1021
01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:45.800
darkest smite.

1022
01:01:47.719 --> 01:02:00.920
It's closer than you think. There are bout timeline. There

1023
01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:06.760
are ruins on the sand over myth was once a warning.

1024
01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:13.880
Every monster wants her helps. Dark face kakes.

1025
01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:20.760
And mountain giants, lots throats beneath the range, and the

1026
01:02:20.960 --> 01:02:26.000
green voice through the suburbs bring me old things back again.

1027
01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:34.599
We chasing letter signals through the noise and through the field.

1028
01:02:36.480 --> 01:02:39.199
But the mystery is mercy.

1029
01:02:40.440 --> 01:02:45.480
When the truth gets too near, the closer than you think,

1030
01:02:48.039 --> 01:02:58.599
move and where the blacks appens concerning well while begins again.

1031
01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:01.599
Noise, bird and standing.

1032
01:03:03.519 --> 01:03:05.480
There's a big boy the creek.

1033
01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:12.000
You could say the darkness, but it's.

1034
01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:13.400
Closer than you say.

1035
01:03:21.239 --> 01:03:24.400
Locked the dark kill the light watched the woods through

1036
01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:25.000
the night.

1037
01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:29.079
Something late, something sees, something walks between the trees.

1038
01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:32.280
Not a dream, not a lion, not quiet earth, not

1039
01:03:32.440 --> 01:03:33.159
quite sky.

1040
01:03:33.199 --> 01:03:35.119
Say a prayer, Hold your ground.

1041
01:03:35.239 --> 01:03:36.920
They're a secret sorrow.

1042
01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:51.840
Thing breathing in the midnight, closer than you know. Standing

1043
01:03:53.079 --> 01:04:00.760
up onlad there's a signal in the silence. Let's shadows

1044
01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:01.480
the street.

1045
01:04:03.480 --> 01:04:08.519
You can say the dark is empty, but it's closer

1046
01:04:08.719 --> 01:04:17.960
than you think, closer than you think, closer than anything.

1047
01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:21.400
Where the old roads sing.

1048
01:04:23.719 --> 01:04:25.400
The closer thnything