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In the Shadow of Big Red Eye - Bigfoot Adventures on Spaced Out Radio · The Cryptid Huntress

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well, let's get this show on the road, shall we. I have
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such a fantastic guest here tonight. Don't forget that. I think After Hours
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next weekend if they're not on After Me tonight. Okay, so let's get
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to our guest tonight. Mike Famelant, a thirty four year old EMT firefighter
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and graphic designer, is a full time bigfoot researcher, producer, and lead
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investigator from Northwest New Jersey. He first got into bigfooting in twenty eleven on
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an expedition in North Florida, where him and a friend experienced rocks being thrown
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at them while sitting a campfire. Since then, he's made it his personal
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goal to find out exactly what is roaming the woods of America. In twenty
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sixteen, after becoming frustrated with a lack of true research expedition shows on TV,
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he created his own show called In the Shadow of Big Red Eye.
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The show is currently filming their eighth season. In twenty eighteen, Mike also
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created a docuseries called Squatchables, which is creative for people who are just getting
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into big footing. Sort of a big footing one oh one. With a
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passion for bigfooting and a history and video editing, I decided to make the
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first real show about what expeditions are truly about. You'll see raw and cut
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footage of what bigfooting actually is. There's one thing that he wants people to
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gain from the show is for families and friends to get off the couch,
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get outside into nature and explore what this amazing world has to offer. All
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of his shows can be found on his website, Shadow Offredeye dot com,
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and he also has a YouTube channel. You guys, please help me.
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Welcome to the show, Mike Family. Aand did I pronounce that right?
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It's close enough femline family, good enough? Uh? I think I want
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to join you in that watch party in Reno by the way, that sounds
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amazing. Oh awesome. Well, hey, I'll put you on the list.
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You better be there then that's going to be a good time. Have
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we always have a good time. All right, good, Thank you so
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much for having me. I'm so excited to be here. I've been low
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key wanting to do this for so long. Now I'm so excited to be
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here. So thank you. Well, welcome to Space Out Radio. I
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am so glad that you're here. You and I have so much in common
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when it comes to these critters out there in the woods. And it's so
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interesting that you actually started bigfooting the exact same year that I started big footing.
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Okay, so whoa, So this is like back we're like ancient monsters.
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Now, oh my god, I know career. I mean, like
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we're old people. Now, that's crazy, we're old school. Well your
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first experience you were, you said, it says you were in North Florida.
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Okay, So, like one of the first places that I ever investigated
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was in Chattahoochee, Florida, up in North Florida. So I don't know
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if that's when you were or not, but that's where one of my first
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investigations, was chattahoochie, that sounds like three Rivers? Am I not mistaken?
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I believe? So, yeah, three rivers is beautiful. We were
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a little bit east of there in ter Reya State Forest. Yeah, okay,
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very cool. A lot of bigfoot activity down there now. And I
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say down there because I'm in Georgia, Okay, And but they have like
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skunk ape activity and wildman reports have been had been coming out of there since
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the eighteen hundreds. Yeah, it's crazy. They there's definitely something going on
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down there. I mean, for short, we were just down there a
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week and a half ago, and I'm heading back down there next week actually
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on another expedition. So I can't wait to get back down there. I'm
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so excited. Oh my gosh. Well, tell me a little bit about
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what you do and about your docuseries and boys, I mean, that's a
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lot. So let's start off with this. How about this. Tell me
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how what got you interested in bigfooting and how you got your foot in the
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door with the big footing stuff, and then and then we'll move on to
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your head. Okay, yeah, yeah, that sounds that sounds great.
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How I got into bigfooting? I was never into the outdoors at all.
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This is so going back into back to like twenty eleven. We're going to
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say, and I'm watching I'm working in Sarasota, Florida at a beach resort,
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right, best job I've ever had my entire life. The boss was
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like, Hey, if you want to go out and watch the sunset every
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night with our guests, go ahead and do that. I'm like, okay,
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you don't kind of tell me twice, you know. Anyways, watching
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Finding Bigfoot on TV and they were like, hey, do you want to
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come out with us? And I said, oh my god, There's no
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way that I'm not doing this. This is like the coolest thing ever.
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I'm going to go out a big squadch expedition with the people from TV.
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This was wild, right, So yeah, anyways, come to find out,
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it was very expensive. Signed up that night, non refundable tickets,
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mind you come to find out. So anyways, uh, I was engaged
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at the time, and I bought two tickets because I wanted to bring my
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fiance and I did not tell her what we were going to do. This
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was going to be like a pre wedding surprise little thing type thing, right,
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So Anyways, she had no idea. I had to start. This
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is my first time ever camping, so I had to start like acquiring camping
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gear, like my tent and my sleeping bag and stuff like that. Right.
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So, and I was hiding all this stuff in my little like patio
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closet that I had in my one bedroom apartment with my fiance and anyways,
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so she for some reason one day decided to clean the place. Never in
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my life had she ever cleaned ever anything ever before. However, she decided
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that she was going to clean this, this, this apartment, and she
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found all the camping gear, and she was like, Mike, what are
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we doing? And I said, hun, we are going to North Florida
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and we are looking for Bigfoot, right, and then she was like wow,
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what was She was, Oh no, we broke up after it?
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No? No, yeah, well yeah, well, I you know,
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there's probably you know, some other reasons on top of that. But yeah.
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Uh so, anyways, that left me in a pretty uh uh unfortunate
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situation because these tickets, like I said, were non refundable. So I
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moved up to Tampa. I get a job on the ambulance, which is
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my uh my career I'm an emt by trade, and A got the job
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of the ambulance and I met my partner, Jimmy. He was very weird,
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so I was like, oh, he might be able to go with
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me on this expedition. So I asked him. I said, hey,
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Jimmy, I got this trip to go up to look for Bigfoot. You
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want to come with me? And He's like, man, I've always wanted
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to do that. It's like nice, right, perfect. So we end
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up in North Florida and Terree Estate Park and the nothing happened at all.
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It was it was kind of terrible. I mean it was good. We
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had, you know, three days of hiking and meeting bigfoot witnesses and talking
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to experts and researchers and stuff like that, but we didn't have any like
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bigfoot activity. And that was until the last night. We were up watching
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a meteor shower that was coming down. It was really really beautiful, and
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all of a sudden we hear a knock on a tree and I didn't think
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too much of it. I was like, whatever, excuse me, And
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then all of a sudden we hear another knock the complete opposite direction, So
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I was like, hmm, I thought it was these people that put on
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the expedition. I was like, they must be hoaxing us, right,
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because this is what they do. You know, we didn't have any big
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foot activity, so whatnot. Whatever. Anyways, so then all of a
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sudden, about ten minutes later, you hear them crashing through the forest a
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fist sized rock, right, And it was at this point in my life
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where I said, now this is how horror movies start. I am getting
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out of here, right. So I go. My buddy's like Jimmy,
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He's like, well, if you want to sleep in the car, you're
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more than welcome to sleep. And by the time he said that, I
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had my tent, my sleeping bag and I was just be lining it right
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to the car. So anyways, it's like Mike, you know, he
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comes up to me. He's like, Mike, bigfoots throw rocks and they
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knock on trees. This could be like, this could be squatchy activity.
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So I was like, yeah, you're right. Jersey in the house and
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I was like, yeah, this, I guess you're right. So we
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went back out by the campfire, and over the course the next fifteen minutes,
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four more of these fist sized rocks come crashing down, land five to
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ten feet from us, right. So, my buddy, he's like,
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I'm gona throw a rock back at it. I said, I don't think
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that's a good idea, Jimmy. You know. So he takes a rock,
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chucks it back in that direction, and I knew it wasn't a person
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that was throwing these rocks because at that exact moment, a fifteen pound laptop
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sized boulder came crashing down, landed five feet from us. So that was
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my find first experience in a big footing and what got me into this whole
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phenomenon of the cryptid world. Boths, Oh my gosh, it must have
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been quite the experience because it got you really super interested. Some of the
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first times I ever went out with my team, which before it was my
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team, I had a big rock thrown across a creek and it landed by
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my feet around the campfire one night. Yeah. You know, if they
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wanted to hit me, they would have hit me. Absolutely. They don't.
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They never, they never actually hit us. But it gets really you
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know, they actually got to be really good aim if they're throwing it right
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at us, or they don't hit us. Yeah, yeah, well,
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I think they they intentionally threw rocks at us because they wanted to get us
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out of the area. I think it was like an intimidation type thing,
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and I think that's that's what they do. I'm pretty sure I've gotten rockstorwn
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at me excuse me up in a white hall in New York as well,
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and I think that was more of an intimidation thing, like like, you
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know, hey, get out of the area. You know, yeah,
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we get we get a lot of warnings. Okay, so you had mentioned
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something about the TV show okay that you had, You're gonna go down there
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and hang out with the guys from I was Finding Bigfoot, right, Yeah,
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much much like you. I know, I watched the Bigfoot shows and
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I remember thinking, and I actually have a very good friend who's like family
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to me, who's on a show it's called killing Bigfoot at the time.
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Okay, Grumpy's on. I'm actually on his team. Okay, but they're
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not going to kill a bigfoot by the way, Okay, so anybody's wondering
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they didn't kill a bigfoot, but he that was the name of the show.
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And uh and so, but before before that show, you know,
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I'm watching these shows and I'm watching it, I'm thinking, man, those
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that's not really what we do out in the field. It's not like a
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real representation. What they're showing the public is not really what we're out there
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doing. So that's why I really appreciate what you do, because you started
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documenting. Eventually, you started documenting your journey with the Bigfooting, right.
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Yeah. I was just kind of like, why uh, why not?
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You know, I got the experience doing some video editing and and like you
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said, the shows on TV. After doing this for a couple of years,
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I was like, man, these shows on TV are really cool,
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but they don't really show the true gist of what big footing truly is.
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So I was like, I'm gonna make my own show. And we just
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hit three thousand subscribers the other day, so I think it's doing pretty good.
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Oh congratulations, Thank you appreciate it. Yeah. What I really like
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about you documenting what you're doing is, like you you say, it's like
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raw and uncut kind of stuff. Right, So what we do out there,
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Okay, first of all, we get dirty. Ok and this is
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coming from my field research experience. You get dirty, my hair gets greasy,
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okay, like we're covered in mud, we're covered in bugs and gnats
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and mosquito bites, and it can be quite boring. Sometimes poison ivy got
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poison ivy last time I was out. Don't forget that. Oh my god,
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and poison ivy. Okay, well that happens, just don't. Yeah,
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be careful what you're touching out there and what you And I started getting
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allergic to poison ivy at this point. I don't know. As I've got
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as I gotten older, I'm more susceptible to like poison ivy for some reason,
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so or poison oak. I don't know. But anyways, it can
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be rather like kind of brutal out there, and it's not really what some
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of those TV shows portray it to be. Not not that it's glamorous by
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any means what they show, but but yeah, and and I appreciate the
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fact that you want to bring every you know, anyone who's interested into it
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into it and to teach them about bigfooting and stuff. And it's excuse me,
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it's not even like is you know, it's it's one thing to bring
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you know, people out, Like you said in my intro to to bring
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friends and families outside into nature, and I think that's that's paramount. I
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think that's that's fundamentally one of the one of the the most genuine wine things
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that you could do is to just get outside and explore nature. But big
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footing, you know, is not inherently for everybody. It's kind of scary,
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right looking for an eight foot tall bipedal hominid out there in the in
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the in the middle of the nights. Not for everybody. But I would
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challenge anybody, if you're not even into big footing, go out there and
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start to like like go fishing or hiking, or learn survival stuff like I
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could, like I could rub two sticks together and make a fire. Now,
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like that's crazy. Never thought I could be able to do that.
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But you know, anything, anything that gets you outdoors and its nature,
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I think is just paramount to anything sitting watching TV on the couch. You
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know. Yeah, tell me about your experience up in New Jersey, because
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I'm way down here in the south and when I think of New Jersey,
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I think of the Jersey Devil and I'm into all the cryptids. Okay,
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So, like I love all the local legends and lore of all the different
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areas, and I've done several shows on the Jersey Devil and we talked about
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it pretty often. But I've actually been bigfooting in New York, so I
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know y'all got big foot sep there where New York were you? I was
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up at near Montalk actually Montauk, New York, off Long Island, of
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all places. Yeah, that's cool, Montalk Monster up that way, no
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Kidd's Yeah, that's that. I was actually up there with some survivors of
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the Montalk project that happened up there, and I had my own personal tour
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guide. His name is Long Island Bigfoot. Okay, Mike. He might
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be in the chats and I don't know, but Mike and uh, some
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of the guys they they were like my own personal tour guys up there,
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and we had some bigfoot activity while we were there, for sure. Yeah,
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because you take of places like New Jersey and New York, especially Long
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Island, and a lot of people don't think that there'd be bigfoot set there.
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Uh, there's a lot of big what's up there though? Yeah?
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Yeah, I mean New Jersey, you got the most densely populated state,
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so you don't think it would be good for any cryptids, right, but
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or the really haunted roads West Milford Clinton Road. If you go on to
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my YouTube channel, we did a whole documentary on Clinton Road. Very cool.
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That's right outside of Sussex County, New Jersey. But yeah, New
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Jersey's got some really cool and fascinating places to pine barrens one point one million
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acres. I mean, that's that's a that's a legitimate it's actually the largest
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undeveloped tract of land between Florida and Maine on the eastern seaboard. So we
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got some some land if you if you, if you think about it.
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Uh. And then up by where we are up in northwest New Jersey,
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up in the in the Kiddatiti Mountains, you have the Delaware Water Gap area
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and high Point State Park, Stokes Mountain, Stokes State four. It's really
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absolutely phenomenal. There's a lot of area that something can roam for sure.
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Oh yeah, well you don't just stay in the New Jersey area, but
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cause you pretty much go and do research all over, especially like the southeast
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and just the eastern part of the United States, right, yeah, the
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whole East coast. Yeah, we're hitting this year we have had nineteen states
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lined up for our tour this year, so I'm so excited to get on
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the road. You have no idea. I got cabin peeps so bad.
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Oh, I bet I'm actually jealous. I would love to be out doing
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big footing all the time now. So you take off on like a whirlwind
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tour, right, It's like a tour where you're going from city to city
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every day for how long months on end, like a couple of months.
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What I do is I pick like a geographical area, say the Midwest or
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something like that, or the South. I'm doing the South Southern leg of
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the tour, so I'm going to Mississippi, Florida, Georgia for Georgia and
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Alabama this tour the next one coming up, and I were staying in the
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Florida Panhandle so I can hit those kind of states from there. And I
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go for about two to three weeks and hit as many venues as I possibly
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can, try to bring my message to people to come out and explore the
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outdoors more. And they happened to I normally speak at libraries, and they
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happen to pay me to go, and that funds my way to camp at
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these state parks and national forests and stuff at night, and it funds my
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way to keep the show up and look for Bigfoot on the road. So
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it's really a win win win, if you can think of it that way.
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It is. What do you think about the national parks having lots of
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bigfoots in them? Do you think that they were designated that land was designated
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as national parks potentially to take care of the bigfoots and give them a place
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to live. I'm not sure about that, but I do know that the
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national parks are very desolate. I mean, you don't have a lot of
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people there. Especially. You have the National park system, which is which
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is phenomenal. It's it's it's it's it's unrivaled anywhere else in the world.
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Really, uh, it's it's magnificent. But then you have also the national
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forests and uh that uh the you know, you have a lot of just
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undeveloped, just wild lands out there. And that's what I prefer to camp
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in is national forest one because they're free, uh and two because it's it's
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a lot of primitive camping in national forests. There's not a lot of designated
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areas, which I think you know, you have a better chance of punning
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bigfoot in Oh. Yeah. Oh. I do a lot of my research
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in national forest and in state parks, and we've got out and done investigations
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at state parks here in Georgia, where I get calls from state park rangers
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and stuff. They're saying, hey, you know, we've got all these
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big foot reports come in you plase come and investigate and stuff. So there
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are people that actually work in these parks that are pretty aware that there's big
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foot activity going on in some of those. Now do you ever get calls
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to go investigate or do you just kind of pick places that have high densities
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of bigfoot sightings? So here's kind of a secret between behind how I pick
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the places that I go to. Right, So about six to eight months
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prior to going to we'll say a library, right, what I'll do is
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I'll email pick a state, and I'll email every library in that state and
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I'll say, hey, I got this really amazing bigfoot program that I could
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bring to you, and do you want me to come out and speak at
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your library? And they'll say absolutely yes. I'll say Okay, awesome,
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and then I'll get a couple libraries in that area to do the same thing,
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and I'll schedule that, you know, day after day after day.
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And then what I'll do is I'll pick a place in the middle of those
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geographic areas is and try to camp there. So it's not necessarily I don't
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go to areas that are necessarily bigfoot sightings, but areas that are geographically logistically
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in the area of where I need to be library presentation wise, it just
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makes more sense to do it that way. Nice. I like that.
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Okay, So that's kind of what's your own out and doing and getting out
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in the community and talking to the communities about bigfoots. Do people ever come
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into these meetings that you have and tell you about their experiences with bigfoots?
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Oh, that's like one of the best parts about it. Yeah, that's
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the library has always asked me how long is your presentation, and I say,
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well, it's an hour long, but people stay after and they chat,
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so it usually usually lingers. People linger about an hour or so after,
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which is awesome because a lot of times these people will have never had
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the opportunity to share their bigfoot story before, so I'll give them I'll be
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you know, in they're local from the areas, so it gives them a
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good output to In all my presentations, I always ask you know, one
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of the first things I asked is has anybody seen a bigfoot? And if
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you would like to share about it? And there's people that you know,
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have never raised their hands and said, I've never shared anything like this before,
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but this is what happened. And I think that's one of the coolest
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things that I can offer people through my presentations, is that output to be
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able to share their experience. Yeah. You know, what I find is
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that people just want to tell their story and they want to know that they're
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not crazy. Okay, absolutely, yeah, yeah, And it's great to
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do these kind of like pseudo town hall meetings, if you will, at
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these library presentations, because they they you know, more times than not,
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one person will share their story and then all of a sudden, three other
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people will be like, oh, well, actually I saw a bigfoot in
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the same area, and it's like, oh crap, you know, it's
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it's perfect, you know, it's it's great, It's really cool. Yeah.
27:00
Now, okay, here's a question. Do you ever have people that
27:03
tell you that they've experienced other things that they're not sure if it was a
27:07
bigfoot, and it could be something different. I mean we get reports of
27:11
things like dog men and wear wolves here in Georgia sometimes. Have you ever
27:15
gotten any kind of reports like that from people as you're looking for Bigfoot?
27:18
Yeah, I've gotten I've gotten some reports of it. I've gotten a lot
27:23
of UFO things. A lot of people and especially in the libraries, come
27:27
up and they they they say they have some UFO connections or interdimensional connections.
27:32
I think Bigfoot's more of a biological creature, but yeah, I don't know.
27:37
So so here's here's here's kind of my thing is. Like I spent
27:42
one hundred and twenty seven nights tent camping last year out in the woods.
27:48
I have yet to come across anything else besides what I believe to be like
27:52
a Bigfoot type creature. Not saying that it's not out there, but I
27:59
have yet to come up crossed it. We'll say it like that. Yeah,
28:02
Oh my gosh, that's that's interesting, you know. Yeah, big
28:07
It's very elusive, like all these cryptos are super elusive, and and a
28:11
lot of times things get misidentified as well too. So people will be like
28:15
when we went to that national to the state park where the state park ranger
28:18
asked me to come out and investigate. You know, we have to make
28:22
sure they're not just seeing bears in the area and stuff. And once one
28:26
person said thinks they see a big foot, everybody thinks they see a bigfoot
28:30
sometimes, So you know, it's just that kind of a deal, you
28:33
know. Absolutely. We have a question actually out of the chat. Yes,
28:40
okay, Andrew. Andrew's got a question. Have you encountered different types
28:44
of bigfoots in a same national park? Have there have you ever gotten reports
28:49
of like different looking big foots, because I know they're different types of bigfoots
28:53
right according to the region. Though usually Yeah, what I can't I can't
28:59
say for specific national parks, I can speak for We'll say the state of
29:03
New Jersey, New Jersey, I believe. And this is gonna sound a
29:08
little crazy, and your listeners may think I'm going out on the crazy level
29:14
here, but I'm not. I promise you you're a good company. So
29:21
I think there's like like nine to twelve bigfoot that reside in the state of
29:26
New Jersey, and one of the I think there's two family groups that live
29:32
in the state. And I say that because we'll take my county, Sussex
29:36
County, for example, there's a reports of dark hair individual bigfoots that come,
29:44
say in June or whenever they come, and then about a month later,
29:48
you have the red hair bigfoots that we get reports and citing reports of
29:52
in the same area about a month later, that follows the black hair So
29:56
I think that that would be show two different individual family groups of bigfoot that
30:00
live in the state. So, like I say, I can't say specific
30:03
national parks, but I can say that they are probably multiple family groups that
30:07
live in the same area, which just makes sense. Yeah, about how
30:11
tall are your big foots in New Jersey? I mean because down here in
30:14
the South we get anything, they're usually around like seven to eight feet tall,
30:18
sometimes a lot taller. But and in Florida they're a little bit smaller
30:22
too, they're like six to seven feet. Yeah, we get that.
30:25
We get the same about about eight foot normal. Here we have a six
30:29
foot female bigfoot that would get sighted all the time, you know, just
30:33
outside of human range for a female, but eight foot tall male bigfoots that
30:38
we have, and we also have some juvenile bigfoots that are growing up in
30:44
the state that we get reports of as well, which is really cool.
30:45
We find juvenile footprints in the pine barrens when we go down there, which
30:49
is really cool. So that kind of shows I know, I'm not crazy,
30:53
Thank you so much. That kind of shows a a don I appreciate
30:59
that you have. No. No, that shows more of a kind of
31:03
healthier population of bigfoot that resigne in the state, which is pretty cool.
31:07
Yeah. No, that's super cool. Okay. The other question that he
31:12
was asking was how do you protect yourself out there? Now? I did
31:15
see a video on your channel. Oh, here we go. You might
31:19
have released some bear spray in the car the other day or a while back.
31:22
I don't know how long ago that was. That was a little bit
31:25
ago. Yeah, still that was like I think that was like three years
31:29
ago, and I still am hurting from it. It's still burn it still
31:33
burns. Yeah, yeah, no, it's still burns when I pee.
31:37
No. No, the the bear mason is that. That's exactly why I
31:42
don't carry any any weapons or anything. Why I go you want to tell
31:48
you the story of the bear mace please? I love it. Yeah,
31:51
because a lot of people that go bigfooting carry bear mace, they carry bear
31:56
spray. Especially my friends up in Alaska, Okay, they're always they're all
32:00
carrying bear spray up there. So yeah, well it works, I'll tell
32:06
you that, that's for sure. It definitely is very powerful. I was
32:12
we were in the Delaware Water Gap area of New Jersey and I was in
32:15
the back of a jeep I had. It was the driver, a passenger,
32:20
and me in the back seat, and we were going to this investigation
32:22
area, ironically enough, where we almost stepped on a bear. We were
32:27
coming back from that, and uh, it's so old mine road in the
32:34
Delaware Water Gap area, which is it's a really cool road. It's very
32:37
squatchy. It's actually the oldest continuously used road in the United States, which
32:42
is super awesome. So we were on it and it feels like it has
32:45
not been paved since then either. So we were on that road and it
32:50
was bumpy, I mean, you know, and all of a sudden,
32:54
I hear the fire extinguisher go off in the back of the jeep. You're
32:58
in a jeep, right, and it starts and I'm like, Mike,
33:05
why is your fire extinguisher going off in the car? And all of a
33:08
sudden, by the time I said that I could, I started coughing.
33:14
I couldn't catch my breath. I couldn't. I started this this pain in
33:19
my eyes that I could I can't describe. Uh and uh so, so
33:25
he also gets bear mace up front. We kind of like hot box the
33:30
car a little bit with bear maids and uh so he kind of like he
33:36
tries to stop the jeep and almost flips in the process. They the two
33:39
front passengers dive out onto the dry under the on the ground and they're coughing
33:45
and rolling around. They shut the doors. It was a two door jeep.
33:51
They shut the doors. I'm in the back seat and I'm stuck now
33:53
in the jeep, hot box in the jeep with this bear mace, and
33:59
I'm like, oh, I gotta can't get out. I can't get it.
34:00
I'm jumping over the back seats trying to get out. Finally I get
34:02
out and there's the uh the the the video pops on of how we're all
34:09
rolling around on the ground thrown up and and yeah, it took me three
34:15
days to open both of my eyes. No, yeah, I swear to
34:19
God, three days. Yeah, it was it was it was bad?
34:22
Yeah, uh, a little funny fun think so yeah. So after that,
34:29
uh, we uh like a week week or so, a month or
34:32
so after that, we went back out big footing and I put on my
34:37
backpack and I guess I sweated a little bit, and I guess the bear
34:42
mace was still from like where it sprayed on my back, because it was
34:45
on my hip the bear mace, So I guess it sprayed on the backpack
34:49
too. The sweat on my back reactivated it and I got bear maced all
34:53
over again. So that was fun. Do not use on humans? Yeah,
34:59
yeah, I I gotta agree with Millie. Yeah, that's that's terrible.
35:02
That's terrible. So it's important to kind of know, like how what
35:07
measures to take in case that ever happens. I would assume you would include
35:10
that with your big Foot one oh one course, now right with your Squatchules.
35:15
Do you still do the Squatchables series. I haven't done a Squatchules episode
35:21
in a while. What I try to do is try to include them into
35:23
my normal episodes. Now. Uh, the Squatchules was really cool. It's
35:28
a really cool mini series about how to find big Foot big Foot one on
35:31
one but probably The number one tip I would give anybody that carries bear mace
35:37
is it's not fail proof. I had the safety on and it was even
35:42
zip tide, but the zip tie broke, so oh fat. Yeah.
35:47
I mean I've actually been sprayed with mace before by accident. I had it
35:52
on a key chain one time and the keychain broke, so or maybe I
35:55
sprayed it. I don't know. I didn't mean, but yeah, it
36:00
broke and I accidentally sprayed it at the same time and it sucked, but
36:04
it wasn't bear spray. Bear spray is so much worse, you know.
36:07
Yeah, but this is so great that you actually go out in the community
36:12
and you teach people, you put it out online, you give him like
36:15
the it's like the cliffs not it's almost of like, Okay, this is
36:19
what you need to bring. I mean, I haven't taken your course or
36:21
seen you know, seen the squatchables yet. However, you know, I
36:24
have a young I have a kid, he's nine. He's just getting into
36:28
big footing. I just started taking him out in the woods with me,
36:30
and this would be perfect for him and his friends. Because I remember when
36:34
I first started big footing, I was like, you, like I went
36:37
and I bought all the gear. Okay, when I was so nervous I
36:39
was going out with a team, I went over to my best friend's house
36:44
and had her husband helped me set up my tent in the backyard so I
36:46
didn't look like a fool when I got out into the woods by myself with
36:51
that team. And so I did a gearsheck and I made sure I knew
36:53
how to use everything and that I had all the right gear. And a
36:58
lot of people don't. They don't don't know what to take out there,
37:00
and they don't know what to do, and you need the right equipment,
37:02
right, Yeah, I think what it what it boils down to, is
37:07
if you want to if you're just trying to get into big footing, my
37:12
my suggestion would be to network with people to find out what you need.
37:16
Uh. You don't have to spend a whole ton of money like I did
37:21
to go out looking for bigfoot. You can totally network with people and do
37:24
it for free. You know, there's no no cost of doing what you
37:28
you know you're passionate about. You shouldn't have to you know, you shouldn't
37:30
have to pay somebody to do something you're passionate about I don't think, but
37:37
you can definitely do it. Squatchables is a good way, but even on
37:39
Facebook. Facebook's a great social media is a great platform just to get to
37:44
know some people. I wouldn't advise going out in the woods with a stranger,
37:46
obviously, but it's a great way to get some knowledge about the areas
37:52
and where you want to go to check out. So definitely, you know,
37:55
it's it's it's a great thing to try to get out in the woods
38:00
instead of not trying to get out of the woods. Yeah, Mike,
38:04
where's your favorite place to go bigfooting? Because you've been all over there the
38:07
South and the East Coast. Where where's your favorite place to bigfoot? Man,
38:12
That's a that's a hard question. I gotta say, you know,
38:16
I I don't know favorite place to go bigfooting. I like, I don't
38:23
know. Whitehall, New York is probably if I wanted to find a bigfoot
38:27
I would go to Whitehall, New York, just because every time I go
38:30
there I have activity. But uh, if I wanted to like look for
38:37
views or scenery or something like that, it would go to like the Smoky
38:39
Mountains or the Adiron Deck Mountains in New York State. Uh but uh,
38:45
I mean yeah, but if I wanted to get some some squatchy activity,
38:47
Whitehall, New York, Bomosine, Vermont, half Moon Pond State Park in
38:52
Vermont is definitely a good, great place to look for Bigfoot. Okay,
38:55
Well, you know, I've been bigfooting all over the place, and especially
38:59
a little with the south and the southeast. We have the biggest concentration of
39:02
bigfoots in North Georgia of all places. Do you believe that? I mean,
39:08
you've You've been in North Georgia right to squatchy as anything in North Chia
39:14
you have people don't realize how like, like you got the mountains up there
39:17
and stuff like. People don't realize that it's it's awesome. Okay, it's
39:24
the Affalachian Mountains and that's the oldest mountain range in the entire world. And
39:30
there's a lot of weird stuff going on in the mountains, okay, and
39:34
including Bigfoot. Uh yeah, I mean what I gotta imagine that you've been
39:38
told a lot of strange stories and stuff about Bigfoot. What is what is
39:44
the scariest thing It's either happened to you or somebody else that you've talked to
39:49
in all your travels out there when it comes to bigfoot. Oh man,
39:52
that's a good So the scariest thing that's ever happened to me in the woods
39:54
will tell you. That's a that's a that's a good story. I was
39:59
this in February, so this time of year. It was abnormally nice.
40:06
It was right before an expedition, and we were in Stoke State Forest in
40:08
New Jersey and all it was cold but a clear night. So I remember
40:16
I had this one person sleeping tent, so it's like like a backpacking tent,
40:22
so you can't sit up in it, like you can't, like,
40:24
the only thing you could do in this thing is literally lay down. So
40:29
I'm laying down, just got bundled up in my two like mummy sleeping bags,
40:34
and I am like set for the night. But the moonlight has come
40:37
in. It's a beautiful night, right, and then all of a sudden
40:40
it happens, right, so you see like over top of you the shadow,
40:45
and you see the shadow come down, and then it starts coming down
40:49
right above my head. What is it, spider, Oh, that's the
40:54
scariest, scarious thing that's ever happened to me. There's there's audio of me
41:00
somewhere that screams like a little girl. I don't know where that is,
41:04
but somebody has it somewhere. It's probably worth a lot of money. But
41:07
that that was the most scared I've ever been in the woods before. Yes,
41:10
Oh my god, okay, man, I see, I grew up
41:14
in the country. I'm a country girl, and i grew up with spiders
41:17
all over the place. I've never been scared of spiders ever. Well,
41:22
you and you and I have different people. Well there we go. Oh
41:25
my gosh, that is so funny. But so many people are scared of
41:28
spiders, and it's understandable. I did see a clip where whoever you were
41:31
with did have a spider on her. So I did see that today.
41:36
So I saw that on one of your sworts. I've been But okay,
41:40
so you said that in the Shadow and that reminded me of your your show
41:45
in the Shadow of Big Red Eye. Now tell me the history behind what
41:49
is Big Red Eye. Yeah, so in nineteen seventy we're going to go
41:52
back to nineteen seventy two, So right after the Patterson Gimlin film that that
41:57
kind of era. We we are in Sussetts County, New Jersey, and
42:02
we had a state park ranger that was doing his uh his patrols at night,
42:09
and during one of his patrols, he he saw a two reflecting red
42:16
pairs of eyes staring back at him. So he went on put on his
42:22
record and he said, during his patrol he found this and he uh,
42:28
he put the he put that in his report, and somehow the news newspaper
42:32
got a hold of that, and thus the name big Red Eye was born.
42:36
So it's been seen eight foot tall, Big Red Eyes been seen all
42:39
over the country since then. So it's little our little claim to fame in
42:44
Sussetts County, New Jersey. I love that we have an old green eyes
42:49
down here in Georgia. Oh that's so cool. Yeah, up in Chickamauga
42:52
at the Yeah. Sorry, I've been talking a lot tonight. Okay,
42:58
so yes, I've been talking. I was actually on a show before this
43:01
one too. Shout out to mid last Night watcher, y'all. What's up,
43:05
GARYL and Jane. Okay, So we have an old green eyes,
43:08
but we see a lot of eyes, red eyes, white eyes, you
43:13
know, all these different colors of eyes in the woods and they have they're
43:16
associated with bigfoots. Sound there, y'all. So they have these like self
43:20
illuminating eyes. Some people say that the red eyes. Okay, so this
43:24
is what you hear all these different theories, right, is like the different
43:29
eyes mean different things, like the red eyes mean it's something you know,
43:34
bad, like it's something evil out there. I don't think so. I
43:37
just think that it's potentially the tin of their eyes or something. I don't
43:40
know, what do you think? Yeah, I think you know. I
43:43
actually recently heard a theory which I don't know if I agree with, but
43:46
it's interesting enough to bring up. Is that red eyes are juvenile bigfoots and
43:54
the eyes change over time. Their eyes eyes change over. I don't think
43:59
that happens. I don't think that can happen biologically. But I think bigfoots
44:04
are kind of like humans where they have just different color eyes, right,
44:07
we have different color eyes. Of course, bigfoot can have the same potential
44:12
to have that as well. I think I don't know if they can illuminate
44:15
themselves. You said self illumination. I don't know if they could do that.
44:19
I think it's pretty cool. I've talked to some of my best friends
44:22
in the bigfoot community have seen like eyes that self illuminate. I've never seen
44:27
it, so I can't say anything. But I mean, I can't say
44:30
anything that they haven't seen that either. So I think that's really wild,
44:32
you know, that has that potential to have that self illuminating. It's odd.
44:37
I've seen it, Okay, I've seen it. Yeah, it doesn't.
44:42
It doesn't make sense. But we think in like human terms and like
44:45
what we know from the animals that we already know that have been documented.
44:49
We're talking about cryptids, you know, and bigfoot, so it's it's different.
44:52
I don't know. Glynn has an interesting point in the chat the eye
44:55
colors related to orb colors. Okay, so that's something I guess I can
45:00
ask you about orbs and stuff, because you know, there's there's a lot
45:05
of different elements to the big footing phenomenon, and a lot of times people
45:09
are associating and I and I myself included, we almost always have orbs in
45:15
the environment, and we don't know what orbs are. There's all sorts of
45:17
different types of orbs orbs in the environment when there's a bigfoot experience, okay,
45:23
and sometimes these orbs are like different colors and stuff, and I would
45:27
not associate the same the colors of the orbs with the eyes of the bigfoots.
45:30
I've never done that. I've never made that connection or anything. But
45:35
there aren't orbs in the environment sometimes. Have you ever encountered orbs Once I
45:39
was in Pennsylvania. I think it was in Forbes State Forest, and which
45:45
is creepy, a creepy area in itself. I think that's actually I think
45:49
Forbes State Forest we were camping in one time and we actually found bloody doll
45:55
on the side of the road. Creepiest thing ever came across in while I'm
46:00
bigfooting, so that would not be cool. But we were in the doing
46:05
our big footing thing. We're at camp and we saw just a blue a
46:09
blue orb, and I don't know. We weren't by a swamp, so
46:15
I can't say it's swamp gas, which everybody says it is, but it
46:20
was just strange. I can tell you what it is, you know.
46:22
But but we didn't have any big food activity, so I can't associate the
46:25
two together. Man our friend at the show, Raymond Samanski, he wrote
46:30
a book called Swamp Gas My ass. Oh my gosh, but it was
46:37
in relation to UFOs and stuff, Okay, and yeah, so anyways,
46:42
that's that's funny. I know. So some people say it is swamp gas,
46:45
you know, and a lot of these phenomenon can probably be explained by
46:49
natural phenomenon. You know. Some of the stuff that we think is like
46:52
supernatural, it has a scientific solution or you know, it can be explained,
47:00
Okay, a lot of it. I think it's what's paramount for anybody
47:06
that's looking to go into big footing is or get into the bigfoot world or
47:12
whatever is. Familiarize yourself with the animals that are out there. Familiarize yourself
47:17
with the phenomena that are out there, with the creatures, what the wood
47:21
sounds like, because a lot of things, especially at night, sound crazy,
47:27
but they're not. They're just explainable things away, Like a squirrel at
47:30
night sounds like a freight train running at you, you know what I mean.
47:35
So so just you know, I would say, familiarize yourself with like
47:39
a peacock down in south of Florida, sa per Se. Peacock sound crazy.
47:45
So if you don't know what a peacock sounds like, that could be
47:46
like a squatch thing. I don't know, but definitely familiarize yourself with what
47:51
kind of stuff is an is an area that you're going out into. I
47:54
totally agree, Okay, Like I've okay, so I've heard owls when I
48:00
was walking my dog. I lived in Decatur, Georgia, Okay, in
48:05
the in the in the city right outside of Atlanta. I walking my dog
48:07
one night and we I lived in this place. I had these huge oak
48:10
trees and I'm walking my dog and I'm hearing monkeys in the trees and I'm
48:15
talking about monkeys and I must have really because they were They started making noises.
48:20
So I made the noise back. I like to imitate animals, you
48:22
know, just for fun. I thought it sounded like a monkey, okay,
48:28
and so I made that noise back. Well, it started getting violent,
48:30
okay, and it started following me and my dog, and I thought
48:35
that I was going to be attacked by monkey or something in the trees.
48:37
I ran home. It turns out that was an owl, okay, because
48:42
I we had. Owls are there, but when they get they get mad,
48:45
they start sounding like monkeys, like rab rabid monkeys. The way I
48:49
will describe it so things that you wouldn't expect come out of animals body like
48:55
they make weird noises, just like bobcats, screaming women, podcast foxes,
49:02
foxes sound crazy. Yep, owls sound crazy. I like I heard one
49:09
time you heard the owls going the bar owls going right right, and then
49:16
then you hear sometimes like the bigfoots will imitate the bar owls. So it
49:23
was funny because you hear whoaa, whoa whah, so they get coughed in
49:29
between the bard alcohol. It's kind of funny, like, oh, bigfoot,
49:34
silly creature. Oh no, I've been in situations where they sounded like
49:38
they're trying to sound like cows and we're talking about big foots. Okay,
49:42
they're making noises. We're in on top of a mountain. There should be
49:45
no cows in the environment, on top of a mountain in the dent woods,
49:50
and we're hearing a cow mowing or making some kind of weird noise and
49:53
then it moves and then it goes into a it's like dying of laughter.
49:59
It's something that's like, you know, it's crazy, it is, so
50:04
it's such a creepy feeling, but it's really funny. Too at the same
50:06
time, because it's like it's trying to trick us, but it started laughing.
50:10
Yeah, I heard we were up in a Balsom Mountain wild forest in
50:19
the Catskill Mountains in New York State and swear, uh, swear as serious
50:25
as a heart attack. Heard of cow middle of the woods. No cows
50:30
are up there. Definitely, definitely nothing up there. But just like you,
50:34
middle of the woods. And I'm like, what in the world is
50:37
that? And you know that's crazy. Yeah, that's why it is so
50:40
important to know your environment, to know all the animals and the sounds that
50:45
they make. And there's actually an app okay, because we have a wildlife
50:50
biologist on my team and I have we have some we have such a dynamic
50:53
team. I'm on three different field research teams, and everybody has such a
50:58
a verse background from even we have medics, okay, amts like yourself,
51:04
from you know, military personnel, firefighters, nurses, nuclear scientists, wildlife
51:09
biologists like I said, and Keith is our wildlife biologist, and and he
51:15
sent me one day an app and I forgot the name of the app,
51:19
but it's like you you record a bird noise. Let's just say you hear
51:22
a bird, a bird sound, you can record it if you're a bird,
51:27
or any kind of noise that sounds like a bird, and it locates
51:31
whatever bird that is, it identifies it for you. So it's just all
51:34
in an app. And if I can figure out what that app is,
51:36
I'll let y'all know, okay, because it's important for us to have that
51:39
as researchers, you know, just just to know what alse what we're hearing,
51:44
because not everything's a bigfoot, y'all. Okay. And now with the
51:47
advancement with this technology that's coming out where we can identify bird sounds just from
51:53
recording them on our phone, we're going to be able to identify a whole
51:58
bunch more other sounds. Then when you're able to not identify the sounds,
52:02
that's when it gets interesting. And that's the kind of stuff that I look
52:05
out for. Yeah, oh for sure, Donna's got a cool comment.
52:10
Yeah, they'll laugh at you. That's when you know you've been recruited into
52:14
their gang. Well out in the out in the build. Yeah. Have
52:20
you ever researching area so much that you feel like you kind of know the
52:23
bigfoot sound there? Not say not per se know them. Uh. The
52:30
closest I've got into like a habituation type thing is my in a research area
52:36
and Sparda, New Jersey. I had this area that is just crazy.
52:40
It's sparted the Mountain my life management area. And there's something there for sure.
52:45
Oh Merdlin, app Yep, that's it, thank you ch I was
52:51
trying to remember that too. I can remember it for sure. But I
52:54
would leave like little gift things like little puppets and little cat toy and stuff
53:00
like that there and they would be gone and then returned in a couple of
53:02
weeks and stuff like that. Very unusual stuff. But that's the closest I've
53:07
gotten to actually like getting to know a bigfoot per se. Yeah. Yeah,
53:13
Well see, we go and research kind of the same areas over and
53:15
over again. For the most part. We've been going there for a long
53:19
time, and we feel like we some of those places, we might have
53:22
like kind of a working relationship with some of them. So that's why I
53:24
was asking, Uh, we're like family. We're not a gang. Though
53:28
we haven't I have it. They have not initiated me to their gang.
53:32
I might have been initiated. I actually had something behind me one night and
53:37
knocked my legs out from behind me and there was nothing there. Yeah,
53:40
so it's interesting. We do have another question for you, though, Uh
53:45
this is from Donna. Have you had any of these bigfoots or anything follow
53:49
you home before? Hey, Donna, No, I don't think I have.
53:53
I'm trying to think I did one time. Probably the closest experience that
54:00
I had to that was I did get zapped one time, I think by
54:02
a bigfoot. That's on my YouTube channel. I actually recorded the whole thing.
54:07
I think it's the only time that anybody's ever recorded themselves getting zapped,
54:10
which is kind of interesting. Uh, but uh, yeah, I think
54:14
that's the closest thing that that that I've ever gotten to get followed home.
54:16
That was in a kind of Worse County, New Jersey, right right behind
54:22
my house there. Yeah, this is something that I haven't talked about.
54:25
I don't think I've ever told you guys this people that are watching. I
54:30
got zapped for the first time when it was about a month or two ago,
54:35
I guess a couple of months ago. We were out in the field
54:37
down down around the troop head quarteror a place that my team goes and researches.
54:42
And my my son was with me that night actually, and we was
54:45
a couple of guys on my team, and my son saw his first big
54:49
foot that night. We all saw with my son saw his first big foot.
54:52
And as we were walking away, I got zapped. Wow, zapped.
54:57
So I didn't I'd always heard about but you don't really understand what it
55:01
is until you get zapped, Okay, and uh, and it was quite
55:05
the experience. But yeah, I don't know this is This has been a
55:09
fun conversation tonight, Mike. And we are almost at the end of the
55:13
hour. Oh my goodness. I just looked down the clock. Holy crap.
55:15
It is so wild, right, but I don't think we have after
55:19
hours on afterwards, so it's okay, we don't have to like cut it
55:22
right at you know the time. But because it's the super Bowl night,
55:25
right, most people a lot of people have been watching the super Bowl.
55:29
But hey, we've got a good crowd in here. Man, this has
55:31
been an amazing chat. Uh, tell tell the audience tonight, what what
55:37
kind of advice do you have, Like, what are what is like your
55:39
main advice for people that want to get into big footing. What would you
55:43
tell them, oh man, uh don't uh, don't go into the woods
55:49
with strangers. That's my number one thing I always like to tell people because
55:52
that's inherently what bigfooters like to do, is they like to uh uh go
55:57
go into uh, you know, in the woodstres. Don't do that.
56:00
That's definitely vet your people before that. But really, the best thing that
56:06
I could offer advice wise is just enjoy it and have it. Just don't
56:10
don't expect anything. Don't expect there to be activity. I think that's probably
56:15
one of the one of the things you could that set yourself up for disaster
56:19
really is to expect to have activity. I think, you know, as
56:22
a bigfoot researcher yourself, you know, we don't have activity every time,
56:25
So I think that's important to note. But the other thing is just to
56:30
be safe and be smart about it. You know, don't do anything stupid,
56:35
don't do anything against the law. And oco trespassing on private property.
56:37
That's a big thing. Check your local laws where you go to see make
56:42
sure. I know, in like some state parks, it's illegal to be
56:45
out after dark if you're not in your campsite. So just check, make
56:50
sure and don't go alone. Yes, and make sure you don't go alone
56:52
as well, So all good tips of the trade. Yeah. No,
56:57
we never go anywhere alone. And we always even when we're out with our
57:01
team, we carry our two way radios. Everybody is certified in ham radios
57:07
and we've all got our bio funks, and we go out and we have
57:10
somebody that sits back at base camp. This is when we're out as a
57:14
team. We always let somebody know where we're going. We go in groups
57:17
of at least two people everywhere we go. And yeah, it's safety first,
57:23
that's number one. Safety first ally, so you can't find big Foot
57:27
if you're not safe yourself, right, that's right, because you might not
57:30
make it back. Listen, there's those missing persons clusters all over these national
57:34
parks. So we got to yeah. Yeah, oh my gosh. Well
57:38
where are you going next, Mike? Tell me about your adventures. Where
57:43
are you headed out next? Yeah, week and a half, I'm going
57:46
to be in Florida. We're going to be outside of Jacksonville, Florida,
57:50
doing a library presentation in Orange Park, and then we're heading over to the
57:54
uh the Panandle of Florida. I'll be down by you. I'm actually going
57:59
to be in southern Georgia. Upsh, not up by you, but down
58:00
in southern Georgia. But we're doing that, doing that tour and then golly
58:07
gee, we're going to be nineteen states this year so far. So I
58:12
mean, you tell me where and I'll probably be there. If you're looking
58:15
into if you want to come to one of my presentations and you think I
58:20
might be in an area by you, I probably will be. Just go
58:22
to my website Shadow of Redeye dot com and you can see where I'm going
58:30
to be in My upcoming appearances are all up down there. Oh my gosh,
58:34
you know what. I actually have this. I have your schedule at
58:37
year. Is it okay if we show it? I have this Yeah,
58:39
okay, I got this off your Facebook page. Yeah, okay, So
58:44
this is It's hard for me to see it because it's so little on my
58:46
screen, but this is kind of I mean, that's that's a lot,
58:50
no matter what, that's a lot of places you're going. I'm so jealous.
58:52
I'm so jealous man sixty eight and counting today. Yeah, and this
58:57
is your map. This is like some of the places you've been right this
59:00
is where I'm going to go this year. Yeah. Oh my gods in
59:04
Indiana. That's going to be a fun fun one. Oh wow, yeah,
59:08
man, that is so cool. Well, maybe I can maybe we
59:12
can link up sometime when you're down here in the South, Okay, because
59:15
I researched all over the South, including Florida, including South Georgia, including
59:21
Alabama including Tennessee, southlin Norkoline, and Virginia everywhere. Okay, so exactly
59:25
where I go. That's perfect. Oh okay, Well we're actually gonna we're
59:30
gonna link up sometime okay. And uh and we're going to do some big
59:32
funning okay. So that great to me. Oh my gosh my. Oh
59:37
and where can people find you? Okay, So tell us about your website.
59:40
Shadow redeye dot Com has all of our stuff on there. That's kind
59:45
of our main main thing. Oh look at that, you got it right
59:46
there. Look at that all professional here here that radio. I love it.
59:52
But uh, no, Shadow redeye dot Com or webs or our Facebook
59:57
is in the shadow of Big red Eye. We have an awesome Instagram behind
1:00:02
the scenes kind of thing a shadow of red Eye. So that's pretty cool.
1:00:08
Uh and uh yeah, that's that's where you can find us. So
1:00:14
we're definitely all over social media. We have an awesome Etsy shop where we
1:00:20
sell like we have like over one hundred unique bigfoot items. I'll show you
1:00:23
one right here. Let me let me dig it out real quick. Look
1:00:28
at this thing. Come on, just oh bigfoot? Hey, any kind
1:00:32
of bigfoot merch? I am so down for it, man, I love
1:00:37
Yeah, we just got we just got some some awesome, really cool Look
1:00:43
at these things. It's a three D wood cut out of Bigfoot. Come
1:00:47
on, who needs You can't go wrong with buying gifts that are bigfoot,
1:00:52
really, especially coming from like us bigfoot enthusiasts and stuff like, and every
1:00:58
scale supports bigfoot research, so you can't go wrong on it all. It
1:01:00
actually supports our trips going, you know, to different places, so we
1:01:06
we definitely appreciate the Etsy Etsy thing. And last but not least, we
1:01:10
have a bang An email list which is monthly and if you want to get
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involved in that, all you got to do is shoot us your email to
1:01:20
any of our socials and we'll get you added to that as well. Perfect,
1:01:24
and you can sign up for that on Shadow of Redeye dot com Okay,
1:01:30
Oh my gosh, Okay, this has been amazing. Mike. Will
1:01:32
you please come back and hang out with me again here? Okay, absolutely?
1:01:37
Okay, Well listen, you'd be safe out there. Keep your head
1:01:40
on a swivel and and do some big footing for me. Okay. Oh,
1:01:45
you're the best. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it,
1:01:47
and thank you so much for the opportunity to be on. Like I said,
1:01:50
I've been a fan for a long time and I'm so excited that I
1:01:53
was on the show. Thank you so so much. Oh my god,
1:01:57
anytime I'm a fan of yours two Okay, well, I'll see it.
1:02:00
I'll see in the woods sometimes, Okay, all right, days Mike,
1:02:04
all right, Oh my gosh, y'all, what a great show tonight.
1:02:07
That was so great. Thank you guys for coming and hanging out with me.
1:02:09
I know it's super Bowl night and uh and you guys were here with
1:02:13
us tonight. That just makes my heart feel good. And uh and I
1:02:16
hope you guys had a wonderful night. I don't believe that After Hours is
1:02:20
going to be having a show tonight because of the super Bowl, but you
1:02:22
guys come back and see me this week on my YouTube channel Wednesday at one
1:02:28
Thursday at eight pm. And then I will also be back here next weekend,
1:02:32
same time, same place, and uh and I hope you guys have
1:02:36
a wonderful week. You guys, keep your head on a swivel uh,
1:02:42
be sure to lock those doors and night'. I always say be safe out
1:02:45
there, okay, because we are living in crazy, crazy times right now.
1:02:49
But I'm sending all my love and like, do you guys have a
1:02:51
great week. I'll see y'll leater Bye,