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Hey there, thanks so much for joining me for the show. I wanted to bring you guys this live that we did a couple of days ago with a group of folks that are going to be down with me at the Great Florida Bigfoot Conference in O'calla on June the eighth, I'm going to be down there hosting the Skuncake Brown Table. I'm so excited about this. I've never done this conference before. It's going to be a great time. There's a great lineup. In addition to me hosting the Skunkcake Brown Table, You've
got David Sadoti hosting the Encounter's portion. You've got Russell Acord, Matt Pruitt, Renee Holland, Ken Gearhard, Daniel Lee Barnett, and the incomparable Adam Davis. If you're in or around o Caalla, Florida, this is going to be the hottest ticket in town on June the eighth. It's twenty five bucks for nine hours of a maze. We'd love to see you all there. But enough of that, I know you guys are ready to get into it, So without further ado, I'm going to start this live that we
did a couple of days ago back on YouTube. And we are here on the Great Florida Bigfoot Live Dat and we have mister rappg with us, the Master of Ceremonies. How are you, buddy? Oh? I am doing well, But we get the top squad to get the hang with my homeboy, Daniel Martin and Nicky my favorite bosses of all time. Well let's go, let's go. I'm sure everyone knows you, mate, but could you tell everyone a little bit about stuff, Bud. Yeah, I've been a
lifelong weirdo man. I've been chasing ghosts, aliens, UFOs, sea monsters, and most importantly Bigfoot. I got my PhD in Bigfoot working on finding Bigfoot, which was we could just take a one second pause for the most wonderful professional part of my life. Should have shot a show about the behind the scenes because it'd be the most successful show after Cops in terms of reality television. But then went on to actually get cast an expedition Bigfoot, got
sick, fell out. But the day that I died, home boy, right here, this special kid, Daniel was born. So I was all for a good purpose. Now here I am. I teamed up with Martin and Nikki to work their events, and I'm going to Alaska this year. It's my three favorite events of the year. The other thing I like more is my family and looking for this watch did that on one press It sounds
like an amazing love to live mate. We are going to bring some other amazing guests on so please welcome to the stage Bigfoot Researcher down in sunny Florida with RPG. David. Hello, Hey everybody, Hey, my house things. That's great. It's great, hot but great. Could you tell everyone a little bit about you, David? Yes, I guess so. I've been a researcher since gosh, since nineteen ninety five. Got into this technically.
I got into this when I was seven years old, because that's when I saw the Patterson Gimlin film and I was like, man, that would be awesome to see something like that out in the woods. Back then, as kids, that's all we did is play it out in the woods, build forces, check stuff out. Was awesome. It wasn't until later in life I got interested in it again. It just sparked that fire. Started learning more about it. During the ninety five computer industry years, when everyone
started getting more computers, I was getting into the computer industry field. So I was doing a lot of stuff online just for giggles. I said this, look up big Wood, Sasquatch and boom Man. There's a lot of people into the subject, not as many as today, but there's quite a few people actually going out on the field and looking for these things, and I was like, wow, I want to be one of those guys.
So I started doing a lot of armchair research on stuff, doing background stuff, learning more, getting your feet wet, reading books upon books, and literature upon literature on stuff. I think I've read a lot of reports, I said, a lot of report is oh, I would say, over thousands of eyewitness reports all over the country, across the world. And I just burned that fire up in you again. I said, Okay, let's do it. Let's jump in both beat. Ever since then, here I
am. I've been doing that ever since, loving it. He's an og and a respectable dude. Man, that guy does real research. Yeah, man, we try to get out there and do the real deal. It's not just so I wonder. Let's find out what these things are. Now. It's fine to find foot friends, it's exciting to get that kind of stuff. But when you see it so much now in the field, we go to another level things. Okay, let's move this up a little a little more, a little higher level now, because we know what to look
for in the field. We know what we see out in the field. Okay, they're here. Okay, let's get try to get a little closer, try to get more information from these things if we possibly can or if they'll possibly let us correct. So that's the thing. You want to try to get a good rapport with these creatures. And that's the ticket right there, I think, is getting them comfortable with you. Try to get closer to them, to get a better understanding and the next level of understanding with
these creatures. Now, if you guys don't mind, I'm going to bring on the podcaster of Sasquatch Odysseyn Bigfoot researcher, also one of my buddies, mister Brian King Shop. What's going on, gentlemen? Hello Daniel RPG David, longtime, no speak man, it's good to see you guys. Hey now, man, it's good to see it. Very good to see you as well, mate. And I'm sure again everyone knows who you are,
mate, But could you say a little bit about itself please mate. Sure, I've been a full time podcaster, as you mentioned, Sasquatch Odyssey was born back in February of twenty twenty one. We're about four hundred and sixty some episodes in and it's all about encounters, man, It's about the people who have had experiences with these creatures. That's what the show's all about. I host for full time podcast outside of Sasquatch Odyssey, so it is a
full time gig for me. It's the best thing I've ever done. I took a little break from bigfooting to be a cop for about sixteen years, and I've gotten back into it after twenty sixteen when I left that, and I've never looked back. And I've met some of the most amazing people, lifelong friends like RPG David, plenty of people that have been on the show that I am stoked about getting to hang out with and talk about Bigfoot.
Daniel, you, obviously we've become good friends and I love what you're doing. I'm just glad to be a part of everything that's going on in Bigfoot right now. There's so much that's happened in Bigfoot over the last fifty years, but I feel like we're on the cusp of something. For some reason, I've been super excited since the beginning of twenty twenty four. I feel like something big is about to happen. I don't know what it is. I'm not clairvoyant, so I can't tell you what it is. I just
have this feeling. I don't know if it's just the discovery itself or if we're just gonna come together as a community. I don't know. There's something big brewing in twenty twenty four. So anytime I get to do anything related to Sasquatch like this, be involved with Marty and Nicky and gather up events and some of the phenomenal stuff they do. This is my first time at the Great Florida Bigfoot Conference, and I am absolutely stoked and honored to be
a part of it. In any way, I could not agree more with that. I think when Brian and you say there's something big coming, I think there's two people individually that are responsible for that. But before we bring those two in, we are going to bring the skeptical scientist herself, Miss Renee Holland. I believe I can flya fan big foodreat Hey, guys, Hello David. So nice to finally meet you. Brian. I'm looking forward to catching up again. And then I'm a bit of a brother RPG here
in my British pickfoot little buddy Danielle. Good to see you, guys, Good to see you Rene. I'm so glad to have you here again. I'm sure everyone knows exactly who you are, but could you tell us a little bit aboute Actually I don't know if they really do. We've seen a edited version. One of the first things I wanted you to know, Daniel is, don't believe everything on television. I don't believe everything that you see on television. When it's said documentary, it's not. My Name's Ray Holland.
I am the Renee Sayer, this skeptical scientist from Discovery Channels finding Bigfoot. Got to know my good Big Flop by RPG. I use part of production there, but a little bit of a background for me. I will say. One of my favorite things about these pasts I don't do a lot is I get to find out information about friends I don't know. Brian, I didn't know that you were a police officers. It's good to know,
good to know where I'm hanging out with you. So on a respiration of colleges by training, I've got over four years of field work experience, basically spending what Sam and do, or more specifically, what part the Sam and the Brown Bear eats from a love of Bigfoot and all things mysterious that was
instilled in me by my father. If you've seen my Ted talk helped me a big story that led me to wanting to find Bigfoot stories where I was doing field work, which led me to meeting the BFRO, which somehow the way the amazing universe works. Instead of heading off to graduate school, I wound up on a television show that one in the world looking for Bigfoot. But as you're saying that most people know me, they actually don't know my belief system. And I know that Daniel's are on board, and RPG is
on board, and Brian knows. But a lot of people don't realize. It's so funny our society. We need to put everybody in a little bin and label them. To me, it's not about are you a believer? It's the mystery of what it's big Foot. When people say, Renee, if you finally saw, would you believe now, it's it's like going to change anything for me. I want to know what it is, and that's part of the greater mystery. I know one hundred percent spending a week with
you, you are a completely different person from TV. So to everyone out there, Rene is definitely a different person from TV. Now I'm going to bring the organizers the other up event and organizers of the Great Florida Bigfoot Conference, Marty and Nick Klausing's guys, everything's good. Just even listening to you guys. I'm so excited about having everybody here participate this year. That's literally
what makes it what it is. We love it. Familiar faces now and so this to be RPG probably what our six or seventh time working together on things. Unfortunately only our second was Renee. Bigfoot family is definitely turns into your Bigfoot family, that's for sure. Every one of you guys are family, and that Dave has definitely been around almost every Florida big Book we've had.
Oh yeah, absolutely. And Brian. I think we met Brian what two three years ago now, and you've been a participant at both the Gapnburg a couple of times and now Florida. So yeah, it's a big, happy family. And I'm thinking about that first talking to you, Daniel and learning about you and just being so excited to bring you on this year that we're so excited. So you guys may or may not know that the podenial
to reach out to us some time Ago pretty good. While Ago, I still recall that he's like, I'm just going to get him on Facebook and invite him. It was a very fun fifteen minute conversation we had, and the enthusiasm that he has for this field, it's amazing. Thanks guys, And I'm going to say this for the final time. I'm sure everyone knows who you guys are, but would you introduce yourselves? Sure, I'm Nicky Baby. I am the owner of gather Up Events pretty much the co organizer
of most events. Marty does a lot of the organizing, especially on the speaker side. He's in the jack of all trades. But I'm in the background doing the social media ten ds and just making sure he's doing his job. You give me a lot of jobs. I did get a lot of jobs. I'm Martin Pippin. As she said, pretty much whatever she wants done, if she doesn't feel like doing it, that's my job. He's
humble. That guy can do anything. You know what they said, I don't know, cruise to Alaska. That sounds impossible, you know, Mark said, bo it don't be impossible. So Bodes two are one two combo that are basically unstoppable in my opinion, a humble opinion, but it's strong. We have a great team behind us, and like I said, I'm the best delegator there is so RPG all you guys. Hey, I have
done a handful of these Bigfoot conventions. I want to say one thing, especially now that Daniel and Brian, you guys are introducing Marty and Nicky here. When Funny Bigfoot wrapped, I needed a break to heal myself physically, mentally, emotionally on all levels. And I've gone to a handful of these conferences. They've been great. I've seen Mark up at Ohio Bigfoot Conference. He is wonderful. I wrote with the other one in Tennessee with Crypticomba.
It's so interesting to see them all and everybody's so good. You guys really do have family events, and not to say that the other ones aren't, but it's really nice to see that Daniel's enthusiasm meet with equal positivity, enthusiasm and connection. As you guys know, the reason why I go to these Bigfoot events really is about belonging aquivity. Really, I think you guys really elevate that. So thank you and thank you again for the introduction. Looking
forward, to it. Yeah, thank you too, because you introduced me to Daniel. That's how I met Daniel, and that's alternate life on a new course. We all have our different Daniel origin stories, but thank you for creating money. It was the same we've running, I think. Yeah, literally, you guys, I've only I've been sprinkling and going in conferences, starting to do them more. Really, if I am doing anything this book related, as we were speaking earlier, I may not believe Big puts
a biological inscription. PCIs easy now down Daniel. My goals are very close to newline with indigenous peoples. So if I am going out and researching, it is usually on reservation land. I did a charity event for Saint Jude's where we raised about ten thousand dollars for Saint Jude by taking out a retired to Seattle seahawk and myself, and I also was able to give back to some friends at a low Pacific Northwest trial. But my research and investigations are
basically those long term witness ones. I'm private land or the reservation. But I'm not here to discuss what Big Pot is right now. I'm here to talk about this amazing event. There is so many questions coming out, but I'm gonna start with going round new all individually. I'm going to start with AMII and Nikki, So going all the way back to the start. What was the inspiration guys for you starting this company? All these events looks like
they might a frozen Daniel, y'all talk amongst yourselves. Let's double back. Do you want to give a different question to someone else while we're waiting for them. Let go to Brian. Brian, mate, you are the host of the skun Cake Roundtable? Am I right? Yes? So could you tell us a little bit about this roundtable? Yeah, we're going to have
a group of investigators that are specific to the Florida area. I am stoked about this because I talked to so many people across the country and even in other countries in the UK, Ireland, other places that claimed to have had experiences with these things. But I'm so stoked to talk to investigators that are specific to Florida and the skunkpe because I see so many differences in what we hear in the Pacific Northwest, for example, versus what's going on in Florida
with the skunk Ape. I've had people like David on the show in the past, who have shared experiences, people like Marie Dumont, who's going to be a part of our roundtable. But we're going to have five people that are specifically in the Florida area looking into skunk ape specifically, so I want to get into all kinds of things. I've got tons of questions. I'm probably going to have to pare the questions down because i have way too many,
because I'm stoked to hear what they have to say about this. But I'm going to get into all kinds of things. We're going to talk about some of the things that they've found, right, some of the evidence, whether it be footprints, what they look like, anecdotal experiences that people are shared with them, some of the more interesting experiences that they've gotten from other
folks. Get into the evidence that they're finding. Talk about the differences in what we're seeing around the country and in different places throughout the United States versus what's going on in Florida. Some people say they've seen smaller versions of bigfoot. I've talked to David and he says, no, they're just as big as they are in the Pacific Northwest. So I want to dive into all
of that stuff. We've got an hour to dive into some of the amazing experiences and some of the amazing work that these researchers are doing in Florida, and I am absolutely stoked to be a part of it. I cannot wait to have that conversation during the conference. It is going to be incredible. I say that right now. Now we have our host spot. I'm going to reside to you guys. Now I'm go with what was the inspiration for you to stop company and to start these events? So actually it started out
as just doing fun community type events. Bigfoot was actually one of our themes. We did a Bigfoot and barbecue up in the high mountains of Tennessee when you really didn't have an idea that bigfoot was such a special interest. When we had a few people show up to speak about bigfoot at this festival, we realized how big the community was and we instantly got interested in bigfoot as not only just like a novelty, but as an actual something to research and
believe in. It doesn't take long to sit down and listen to everyone talk about it before you start going, wait a minute, is this really real, this is real, this could be real. One of the speakers that we had, his name was Matt Seber. He's from the East Tennessee Bigfoot. He said we needed to do a conference, and we sat back and was like, did we do a conference? Where would we do a conference? Gatlinburg Smoky Mountain seemed like the best place to try it. It was
a huge risk, terrifying. Let's get this convention center and pour a ton of money into something, which, Daniel you're probably learning quickly up and stake to organize. Tickets started selling and we were like, Wow, people actually want to sit down and listen to people talk about Bigfoot for hours on end. Yes, they do, And I think it's important to say It's like we were blown away the first event, and it was called the Bigfoot and
Barbecue Festival, and we had this little, tiny building. We didn't think it was tiny, but like, what one hundred and fifty people. Yeah. We had multiple areas of entertainment. One one was we had a lot people all day long, locals talking about their Bigfoot research experience. And then we had a main stage. We had programmed really good talented people at the main stage playing music, and we had a kids on with tons of stuff for kids to do. Despite all of that, we found and that little,
tiny room was attracting eighty percent of everybody. It was like they were just squeezing in trying to listen in to what was going on with that stage. And these were researchers that had there been on a TV show I take it back, women had been on a town hall on finding Big COVID that was the most famous person there. A guy stood up during one of the town halls and talked, but the passion was tremendous, and when they said,
hey, we want to do a conference, we did. We looked at it, and we did find it terrifying because most of these places are generally free venues, and probably in the big Foot world still probably eighty percent of all the events are done in very inexpensive venues. And we're like, if we're going to do it, let's do it big. Let's give these people a place that matches their passion, give them a place that people can't
look at and go, oh yeah. Another bunch of thirteen people hiding in the back of our holiday inn telling about Big But we wanted to be professional and make it a respectable event, and so last one we try to go as hard as we did and we're super happy if we it turned out, and stay tuned for more Sasquatch out to see. We'll be right back after these messages. And the Spunky Mountain one it did well for a couple of
years. And I'm originally from Florida. I grew up in Drove Beach, and so I said, I want to do another one, but I want to do it in Florida. There's nothing like that in Florida right now. There's something called the Skunkcake down there for and we need to find a place that can hold over one thousand people. So we ended up in Lakeland, Florida the first with it two years and realized we'd outgrown it really quickly.
And so then we found the World Equestrians that Are, which at the time wasn't even built yet, so it wasn't even an option in the beginning. And as soon as they said we're ready for you, guys, we can hold three thousand people at once, or were like, let's do it, yeah, and it would hold ten thousand if we had ten thousand show up. It's that big. But yeah, it's hard to find a place in that two thousand person range, which I blew right through it last year.
I think there was close to twenty five hundred people at the event last year. Then we had to start dealing with some locals and walks RPG and now he's part of the family, part of the events. We were thinking, you know, we'll just we'll get a new MC every year, but you can't feed RPG. Thanks guys, you're You're the only people I would leave my family for, rarely leave the family for. Hey, and I want
to say too with Brian. With over five million downloads, people do want to talk about this, and people will cramp a small room if they have to get that out of them. Man, it's cathartic when you finally can tell people that and they look at you and wonder and awe and go, that's amazing, as opposed to you're crazy. And you guys provide that with this event, which is another part that I know Renelo agree with me.
It makes it wonderful. It's it's like therapy and Bigfoot and fun and every nicknack pattiwack you could ever want to buy to put up in your man cave or woman shed or whatever you want, come swim in it. It's wonderful. Congratulations again, Brian, I'm the five Marie downloads. It's fabulous. We're talking about community belonging that we have. Ronnie when we were over in the UK, I call mister Manifesto and RPG to me is captain positivity.
But Daniel, you're a captain enthusiasm, you really are. But what are people bring into the table? This is what I love and enjoy and it's a safe place. People can be on camera or not on camera, but it's a safe place to share their experiences. Some people are just excited and they just can't stop talk about. Some people are terrified, as you're all familiar with. But brings me back to the one point and until Marty and
Nicky come back here about belonging. But it's also about let's be compassionate. Because for those of you who have seen a handful of talks, but in the last couple of years I've gone to a few of these, I'm trying to get out and go to more. But what I'm really calling about in our community is whether you're biological, whether you're whatever it is, we're all in the same community and we can learn from each other. Let me say
something real quick before we move on about the podcasting side of this. I get to sit down with one person at a time and talk about their experiences on the show. If I'm million downloads in the first half of this year, has been phenomenal. But what happens at this conference is if you guys have not been to a conference, particularly either the Great Forward to Bigfoot Conference or the Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Conference, is you get to come together with so
many like minded people at one time. For me, it is like a kid in a candy store because I get to talk to literally thousands of people in one day that would take me years to do on the podcast talking to one person at one time. When Marty and Nicky put together these kind of events and bring together so many like minded people at one time, that you get to experience all at the same time. Again, it's like me being
a kid in a candy store. So if you haven't got to experience that and come out to a place like that where there's so many like minded people who may disagree on whether they're flesh and blood or whether they're high strangeness, it doesn't matter, all of that is washed away in that one time frame where you get to experience all of this at one time. It is one
of the most phenomenal things that you'll ever get to experience. So if you're anywhere close to O Cali, Florida, you need to be at the Great Bigfoot Conference to experience that. At least once. My wel complaint is manning my booth. I don't get to see all the speakers this event when you're doing that, that that you're head that you're leading for the skunk Cape round table, right, because that at what time? And am I able to attend it? Am I going to be manny? Am I both missing it?
Again? I think as the schedule goes Now it's ten am. It's one of the first things after RPG warms everybody up, and we'll let me make you something special about Florida. Right. The other world of Questrian Center has a jumbo trone right in the middle of right. We actually broadcast it at a level that doesn't hopefully interfere with but that you can see and hear it from anywhere in the entire vendor hall or anything else led screen above the
stage, I believe is forty foot wide, about twenty foot tall. It's insane. It's like your biggest screens I've ever ever seen. You'll get to see it all just from your actual speaker booth. Good good to know, good to know from Brian. Then I'm gonna go to David, so you'll have I'm in the encounter's part of the conference. Could you tell us a little bit about that, please, But we're hoping you get at least what five or six people to come up on stage, maybe more, depending on
how many respond back. I got my feelers out there some folks I was talking to you earlier about Steve's encounter, actually reached out to him, Hey, buddy, would you would you like to come out on stage and talk about your encounter to the whole world. Hopefully he'll come. And there's other another handful of people I reached out to haven't heard back from yet, but
hopefully here soon. I'm going to reach back out again and say, hey, you guys want to come to the conference and talk about your encounters. So I think we have maybe Marty will back this up. Maybe I think we may have two possibly signed. I had a couple more sign up in the list a couple of days. I don't know if more you've seen it, but we've got at least five. Now. Yeah, inside that building there will probably be two hundred people that have a story they're wanting to tell.
One of the reason RPG is so good is he'll start all the day is saying, hey, you got an encounter story, come to to me or David. Usually we have more than we can actually fit up there. We try to give them five to ten minutes at most, and we won't let go ten minutes less. It's really good, but yeah, use the more like five minutes. So there's no road for ten or twelve if we can't get all of them on there, which is I know it's going to
be impossible to get fit in a certain amount of time. I'll have some business cards of mine that I hand out, and then let's hook up and we'll talk about your encounter and get some people out in the field there to check out those areas. Definitely want to hear their experiences, even if they
can't get up on stage. There's somebody one of us. You know, they're going to have a lot of researchers at this event, so there's going to be somebody wants to listen to your encounter even though they don't get up on stage that day. Well, it's definitely a crowd favorite. People love listening to the local encounters for sure. To go to Miss run A Holland. Now, obviously you'll give in a talk, you'll before me. Could you tell us a little bit about your talk? The first official presentation that
I did was in Tennessee at Smoky Mountain. Basically a call out to my experience within the Bigfoot community is everybody feels rejected by science a lot of times, and there's, unfortunately, is this whole resistance to it and that we're just shooting it down and that's not the situation at all. And an actual scientists, I don't just play one on televisions. And again there's cynicism, there's Zelo Tree, skepticisms, that sweet spot in the middle. A skeptical
scientist is someone who says, here's the information. Somebody comes in and I'm pushing back to say, wait a minute, you can't sit in your office and sit good coffee and write these models about the natural world and just state that is right and that applies to climate change, natural resource management and Bigfoot. So my specialty is rivers, forests and everything and all the animals that are in it, and with all my field experience, my view of what
bigfoot is through a scientific lens. But what people don't realize about me is growing up in South Dakota and so many of my friends were Lakota and Nakota Sioux, and then moving out to Washington State and all the field work I did for twenty years. I work a lot of tribal members and work with
indigenous tribes. Basically, my view of the natural role and my view our connectedness to it, my views and my beliefs of how we treat each other and family units, and my view on what bigfoot is very influenced and aligned with that of the indigenous people. So my talk as a skeptical scientist is saying we don't know what bigfoot is. My community is not rejected by science, my community and science is rejected by junk science people. So big push.
I try not to go too far into this because they don't want to be this. I'm telling people how to think, Like I said, bring a back full circle. In Tennessee, I talked about mon Saint Helens as an example, as a scientist, I did a quick application of natural resource management was with with Mount Saint Helens. How this cataclysmic event changed the world in science. By using a process, the scientific method, we were able
to change that management and the new thing I'm seeing. And I actually came on board right before Darby or cut and I actually switched my top because I knew Matt was going to come after me, and I thought there might have been some kind of push against science, and so that's why I switched that up. I was having to explain, here's an example in the known world, with known processes, how we switch it. Look, I know how boring it is. It requires patients a lot of artwork, but if you
repeat it, it can happen. If Bigfoot is real, biological and discovered species, I'll apply the scientific method, the steps will come. And with a lot of the e DNA that's out there, I wanted to say, Look, we have had DNA studies recently, and unfortunately the majority of them they are jont science. You're using the Cutchen study as an example, So I'm not shooting down or being simple about Bigfoot being anything. What I'm saying
is with my training with my lens. I'm defending my community and saying I'm raising the bar, and I'm saying, if you're gonna apply any research to this field, follow the money. What are they doing? Are they just trying to fill their own pockets? Is it for solely the purpose of a TV show to fill their own pockets? Are they trying to do the research
to answer this mystery? Are they people who just roll their eyes and not get back to That's my call out, and I speak to this again, we don't know what bigfoot is. I love it how the people now if you can share with friends who have known me for years and then they find out about the big foot things, they're like, what, you're on this TV show and they do a little digging and they come back and it's like everybody thinks you don't believe in and it's like, that's because they're only watching
television. But as word has gotten out there and I've gone to a few conferences and people that my beliefs are it's something beyond science, something beyond the current grasp of science. What that is, I don't know. I'm not
here to tell anybody what they experience. You know, it's one of the hardest things for me about the show is I would be paid into this box where I have to be this or Dad RPG was their firsthand is would see that I'm there though I'd never been to the Southwest, because of my relationships with Lakota and Dakota Sioux and then all throughout the Pacific northwestern Canada, my friends who are in different tribes. As we took the Finding Big Pot across
North America and the world for that matter. When I would come to a point of the country I'd never been, elders would be there to give me blessing because they know my beliefs. They know that I believe like they do. I would ask I would give gratitude for letting us own the land. I would ask for their blessing. I would ask them what they did not want me to do during our investigations. I respected that I ought for that
to be respected. The arguments I would get in on that show would be not faking anything and respecting either witnesses I'd lined up with or my indigenous friends. If I'd made a promise to them while underland to treat things a certain
way. I'd get in an argument for that and when I said about not faking anything, I just I always have to do this real quick note, A low budget TV show came on television and I was involved in twenty ten, but for everybody, twenty eleven and Finding Bigfoot becomes this cultural pop hit phenomenon out of nowhere. I now understand everybody loves Bigfoot. And then put these poor good characters together in my dysfunctional big pot family, my big flip
brothers, with a low budget, huge ad dollar discovery. We saved them for many quarters. The one thing that people don't know is that we had all of a sudden, we have this leverage, and we did me with that vocal. What was important to us was that each week one person got to go on actually and try to squatch. And then really the most important thing is that if we were going to come back because they were done, those were three guys who did that, and that show never happened, they'd
still be doing what they're doing. And I fell into this wanted Bigfoot stories posted my dad, and there I was. We now had leverage and we were able to write into our contract if anything was picked on that show. And that is the only television show that I know of that did that. So even though wins might have come on or people tried to hoax us or something might not been accurate. Yeah, we might not have teaking hot air
will into location and that were those facts that were esthetic television. But what was filmed on that in those night investigations was not fake. And I appreciate that. I staid by that to this day. I just want to just tossing there is from the production side, people talked clap about reality TV and that it's fake and that everything they literally at risk of losing their jobs, said no, we're not going to fake anything. That show was legit,
and they told the truth all the way through. So anyone on the fence about that understand when that lady speaks, she speaks the truth. The show is real. Yeah. And sometimes we would even do investigations where I would be like, I just rewatched one. Something came up in conversation and it's fortunately a guy. He was in Washington State and he was an indigenous member and the way they made me say, I don't think that necessarily happened.
Him and I had a conversation about it, and him and I were on their tribal land and had a discussion about it. I so you understand, we're all good, but yeah, it's important to me. Everybody has what brings them to this community. That first of all, whether you've had an experience or not. Whether you've an experience, remember I have never seen or people consider a bigfoot described as a bigfoot. So whether you had the experience or not, we're all here and it brings us to this big book family.
But to me, it's that community. It's that connection to my dad. It's that seeing of those parents come with their kids some years later after me, to see that next generation will Junia future naturalists. Rian you talked about this. To me, it was the town halls. And as disheartened and struggling as I was to find purpose and meaning in the show in the beginning, as awful as it was, a friend of mine in the music industry says, you got to find some keep your stuff going, And it
was the kids. It was the kids of the town halls and Ryan Clip and Bubble will speak to this. The only reason I've come back into this community and started going to conferences. Marty Nicky had talked to you about this. Those kids again, it was the families miss Uarday and I was like, okay, because it was Blodle. It was a decade. I kind of check in with Ronnie about this first thing. I'm like, how you doing, Ronnie? The reality TV and the grind that we went through was
crazy. One hundred hours of film and one minute of good stuff we actually filmed one hundred hours would get condensed forty two minutes part an episode. So the guys didn't think everything was a squatch and I didn't immediately shoot everything down. They also would never let me say and speak my true beliefs about Bigfoot being beyond I'm not here to talk again about what I think foot is. Talking about this amazing conference. You had a great job at Spnkey Mountain Bigfoot
Conference. We had nothing but wonderful feedback from that, and I think you'll get the same at the Great Floor Bill. Yeah. People, glad to hear what you have to say. Yeah, it'll be more of that. It's really me talking to my community about how we can work together and to really come on people. I'm just here to call out community of follow the money. If you want entertainment, you want motin monsters. They're great guys. They're hilarious. Step Gary. I'm just saying, as a scientist,
there are two bands. There's entertainment and there's research, and I'm calling out. It's my community. So I call out the people who are saying it's real research, but them really if they're faking it. That's the one thing I don't like in this community. Don't bully people. Everybody's entitled to opinion, and don't fake it. Because this is a community. We all want to understand what this mystery. So those poxers and fakers and the interests of
dollars are the one group I can't stand. I don't know about you, Mayan Nikki, but that sounds one hell of a talk. Yeah. Absolutely, we're so excited. Renee Go Go is all in a eleven am? Is that correct? Who has the schedule? Yes, eleven am, and only because you preferred to go on earlier as your headliners for the end. I was thinking, coming from the talks where we hear the real stories, and then I want to talk about real stories, and I do talk about
what's important to me. Always people ask have you had something that's change your mind? I might briefly share that, and then I want to introduce Daniel, but really I want to talk about all of those stories, and we are seeing so many different things. Daniels heard me say this. All major
discoveries in the scientific community are multidisciplinary. So all of you people who are in the camp of it's a biological species and you close yourself off and get in an echo chamber and shut down as a report, you're missing the boat potentially. And all of the people who don't think it has a biological aspect and it's only going through a Porverloer's only a spirit. Equally, we can learn from each other. Range showows that multidisciplinatary reports and information. How do
you grow in the conference? I welcome everyone every belief. We want to hear it. We want you to have your chance on stage to talk about it and tell us what you think and why. So I agree. I just had to say this though, back in twenty twenty I was talking to Marty back in twenty twenty one or before the first conference here in Florida. It's like, Man, I'm glad you guys are doing the conference here in Florida because I was sweating it because people are asking coming to me and say,
hey, man, we need a conference here in Florida. We need to have an annual conference here. And I was like, okay. I started doing research and I was telling Daniel about this earlier. I was doing research and I actually flew up to the International Big for conference in Washington that Russell A. Court had and I wanted to see Bob Giddlum. Of course, that was a great conference. Got to meet everybody, lots of people. Adam Davies spoke to Russell about the conference. What does it take to
start a conference? A man? My head was wow, and I was like, oh my god, how am I going to do this? And then lo and behold here comes Marty and Nikki and I'm like, wow, they know how to do this. You leave it up to me, it'll be just probably a train wreck. So I just want to say thank you guys for making it possible for here in Florida to have an annual conference here, because you guys nailed it right out of the gate here in Florida,
because people loved it. I can't believe it's the fourth year already. Can you this as your number four already? Yeah? Right? It was right after our second Smokey Mountain Bigoo when we had decided to do the Florida Bigfoot and I trapped I think is Adam Davies and Loud Blackburn, maybe Ken Gearhart was two or three them that I was carrying back to the airports. I was like, Okay, we're doing this thing in Florida next year. Who do we need to give this local? And David was one of the first
names, and one of the names came up regularly that year. So we're very happy that door got opened because it's definitely nice having local people that are really invested in interested in this. And then next thing we do, we found o RPG and he does a great do we we talked a minute ago about you guys are talking men to go about the nature and the positivity inside of the building and respecting all the different opinions. And RPG does a great
job of setting the tone at the very beginning of every show. I'm not going to show you're thunder. You'll see it when you come to the show. It's because we always try to as best we can. In some years it's harder than others try to develop the show in a way that it has a kind of a roller Coastery effect back and forth from biological to supernatural and all points in between, trying to make sure that everybody's got something that they're
interested in being talked about. That therefore means that half the people are like, what's this about? Half the other half of the show's going, what's this about? So it's great to get them all in because at the end, we've been almost we've ever had a negative moment except people try to get doctor Mildrim and that they bodies a fight last year. That almost is almost always been a wonder And then we started thinking that should we be doing this
more? Should we be? Ronnie and I had front row seats to that, and we were sitting there and now here. This is the tough part for you guys running encounters and round table. When that goes off, you're like, when do I step in? Where do I step in? I'm hoping Martin and Nikki come over, just tell me to step in. But Ronnie and I are having like the time of our life. These two powerhouses. They're like, oh yeah, yeah, and they just keep toughing you.
You get the one guy in the audience just poking the beast and getting it going and I'm like, this is amazing, but I think I'm gonna get fired if I don't stop it. But I don't, I stop the two kings of the sport. Essentially, it was amazing. It was amazing, and we all survive no scars or And I just wanted to add too, why do you love bigfoot? We all may love it for slightly different reasons. If you love it because it is flesh and bone and you believe
it in your soul, awesome, you right just about it. You really are, like, dude, I think it's ghost. Look at all these weird things that it's attributed to. That's awesome. Just keep in mind when you're there, you're all in love with the same thing. You're just approaching it from a different angle. And that's life. Life allows you to love things a little different from everyone, so it feels special. It's a big
suit man, it's a big melting pot of all of us. But they're right, there's a level of respect there because, you know what, y'all got to act a little better when you're in congress, when you're in people, right, when you're swimming that thing, we all act that you have to, But that's their for you to enjoy. That is exactly what I was talking about. You're gonna feel good in that audience. I might even make it stretches this year. Just keep what moving. That's the whole thing
about these conferences. People hear different comments about Bigfoot conferences and all this stuff, but it's the community. And this community has grown and growing. But not only that it brings to the table, makes us enlarge the table sort of speak as far as the scientific part of it goes. Because you have all these people that come to these conferences that have many skills that they may be able to bring to the table. I've talked to a lot of people.
I'm sure Brian's talked to a lot of people about their background. Sobrian was a police officer. Great knows how to break down stories and look for people may not be telling, could be lying, or could be telling the truth. Those skills are impeccable when trying to investigate an area or an encounter or whatever. And then you have people that are going to live off the
land and can track and do all this stuff. So all these people get together and that meeting table gets larger with all these skills that are floating around all these people will get more interested due to conferences that they go to and they're curious about. Well, they said, Oh, I can bring my skills to this. I can really help these guys out. So that helps
tremendously in this field that family grows and grows. Renee was saying, even though you have differences on what you may or may not think these things are, we all want to be able to get to the point where we can put our differences hide and say, hey, let's figure out what the heck these things are. That's what we're all here for more absolutely, because I've spent the last couple of years just dipping my tail back into the big Book
community publicly. That is, like I said, as I've been away since Fining Bigfoot wrapped up, I've been reconnecting. My dad was adopted. I find my dad's birth family. So I've been reconnecting. Waking up one day and fighting out. I had twenty one cousins on one side click know me through a Fining Bigfoot, which is pretty odd. The one thing I was doing is working on following up reports again on indigenous land, and in the last couple of years, I don't go to a lot of big cook conferences.
I would love to do more. If it works with kids, I always fay school administrators and teachers reach out to me because my favorite thing is to go and talk to the schools. And if those overlap with big book conferences, all the more, bring it. But what I've been seeing at conferences just the last couple of years is more of an indigenous sense and I love it. And you guys, that's to me. I don't know.
I got choked up. I was at an event recently. I tried to come in and work the room, and I promise I didn't do the best job that night, because I call myself. It was a lot of indigenous members for my home state were at this table and it was just this moment of Oh. I literally was shedding tears that we were having so my four years. I love to see the indigenous presence at these conferences. We need
to welcome them more invitations. It's a breadth of knowledge and experience and skill set that they bring to the table that we need to bring everybody on board, take down the barriers of what bigfoot is and listen and learn from each other and stay tuned for more sasquatch Obsy. We'll be right back after these messages. Before we get to the organization of this conference and going into the details for you guys, I'm going to say thank you so much for both
to Marty and Nikki for inviting me into it. I have not stopped talking about it with Dad. I know that me and Brian have not stopped talking about it have We made The main argument was how it was how many books we're going to bring to the conference? Is this going to be your first time in Florida, you said, well to O'Connor. Yes, my family and myself love Orlando. We love the Disney Parks, and we love Universal.
So I'm fifteen and I've been seventeen eighteen times. Me and Dad are planning a trip to Universal after the conference, but our first time out of Orlando. It's going to be an incredible weekend and an incredible week for us, starting with Friday night. Then, do you guys want to say a little bit about the VIP dinner. So we have one hundred and sixty of our attendees who are our VIP lists that get to come and do a meat
and eat is what we call it. So we'll do a huge barbecue buffet with everything from pulled four chicken, macarai and cheese, all the good Florida fixens. We'll bring everybody together. This year it will be indoors. We don't really announce the location because we don't need party crashers, but it will be indoors in the ac Last year we did it outside under pavilion, but it was April and it was hot enough then, so we knew better than to do that again. So we'll have about two hours to meet, eat
mingle. We don't really do a lot of signatures and stuff there, but we do give everybody an opportunity to meet the speakers in front of a backdrop, take their picture, say hi, then let the speakers have their little introduction and talk. That's just a great segue to the Saturday conference because then they end up getting to be the first ones in the door on Saturday to come get their signatures and everything, and then then they end up in the
first four rows of the front row and seatings. Everybody seems to always enjoy it. We always have a blast, and I think there's still left. Yeah, there's very few left. Where there's very few VIP spots left if anybody's still interested in getting one, all of you will be there hopefully. Well, David, you can't make it, I think you've got Yeah, we'll be able to make it Friday night, but I'll be there Saturday for
sure. Yes, and you'll get to meet everybody else that's not here as well, Russ and Ken, and it's just gonna be a great Adam. I'll just say for people listening Matt Truitt talking about books phenomenal sasquatch, if you are in the fleshing bone camp, he is the next Meldrum or Cliff Barrackman or whatever you believe would talk to him. The dude is smart.
Ken Gearhart, He's got his own cryptozoological course. So if you're more wide open on the spectrum of the things that you love, he gets someone that definitely talk and meet with. We also have Adam Davies Ken Gearhart. Adam It's you want hat or non hat on a super star for show zoology, and Adam Davies is actually he found like real proof. So if you want to talk to someone that legitimately has found proof of these cryptos who logic plans,
then he's your man, and then Russell Accord. If you love the TV show Expedition Bickfoot, if you love a military member approach, survivalist approach to the phenomenon, then russ is your guy to talk to. That's my two cents and all them. But they're all awesome. It's a great lineup and they're very social, so you'll have a chance to pick their brains. Trew It is an old friend of mine. Used to live in Washington State, a lot of squashing out here before he moved back to the East Coast.
Matt was actually a part of our very first Smoky Mountain Bix gooodwroof. One thing I'll say about Adam Davies Renee. He doesn't even know this, but she was locked in a metaphysical imagine arm wrestling match with Adam Davis for the right tonounce. Daniel Renee took it over because Adams like, I'm British, I should introduce him, put him three. I was like just being British or really being into the love of the kids, you know, so I just said, yeah, gift Renee. After all these years, it's
Adam Davis. I've been calling it if Davies to his space. Yeah. In fact, my one request is I can never come after Adam. I mimic people's I've called him Madam Davies forever, and I kept putting this one guy calling Madam Davis, and then I realized it was himself calling them Madam David. So I realized, that's correct. I should probably assume that mine was wrong, seeing we learned something at these conferences. Matt wanted to be with us for the podcast. I texted him a couple of days ago and
he's, dude, I can't make it. I'm in the woods doing research. So that's why he's not here today. But you guys can catch him at the conference. He is one of the best in Bigfoot. You will not be disappointed. Yeah, I'm the same without him without well, and I just I haven't spoken at him recently, but with Pruet, what I love about him is he's goods to the ground and the great conversation, open minded. I have that dialogue to be able to back it up. But
I'm not saying that the people aren't. But I'm just I think Prode is a great example of somebody who's in the biological species can't and is doing the active current research, and then we'll engage in dialogue to learn more from the entire community. We need more examples like Ken. I have not seen in forever, so I am looking forward to seeing him. It's been years since I've passed with him, and Adam I saw recently, so I'm looking forward
to he. Ken has a little bit of experience I believe here in Florida because of the first time I met Ken was in two thousand and four here in the Green Swamp. He was great. I've met him out in Washington as well, so he's an awesome guy. He knows his stuff about cryptozoologies. Everyone's off so that's going to be a great event for everybody. So just get out there, drop your money in there, go and you're just gonna have a blast. You're going to learn a lot of stuff. Yeah.
Absolutely, Before we do our final few things, Marty and Nikki, is there anything else you guys want to say about the actual staff today, the actual day of the confer I don't know how many minutes we half left, but I would love to hear Brian speaking of delegating. Brian tell us a little bit about the Skunk Cape Brown Table, and who we have. I don't think that's what announced or did we miss it? You missed that, you missed that. I don't want to give away everything. I want
to leave a little mystery out there. But we do have at least five folks from Florida. Marie Dumont's going to be there for sure. I'm confirming these people as we go. We've got Christopher Balzano, who is an author, and we've got Richard Fairby, the founder of b FG. And I'm working on confirming the last one of our members for the round table. But yeah, you guys froze up and missed that. We did get to talk a little bit about that. We're going to get into all of the things.
I'm stoked to get into the skunk Ape and the research that people are finding down there. We're going to get into all the evidence. We're going to get into what they're finding, what the theories are. While you guys were gone, Marty and Nikki, I've got to pair down the questions because I've got so many questions to ask these folks and we've only got an hour. So we'll get into that and get all those questions answered, So it's
going to be a good time. I'm really looking forward to doing it, and it's worth all the guys in the Skunkky round Table, they have their own boosts right off the adjacent to where the speakers are. We may not get a lot out of them individually in an hour, but you've got the rest of day to drop in on them and the deep rouls. It's gonna be a long day, you guys. We've got nine am doors open,
we go till seven, so you've got ten hours. Yeah. We're always amazed that the ones that are still there at seven, and there's always a lot and as they're walking out, we're telling them by we're like, these people are troopers the hours. Yeah, we're shameless stellers, even from ourselves. And the Skunkcat Ground Table has always been such a love segment of this event that we actually, for the first time ever in Gallenburger' you'll be doing
the Appalachian Bigfoot round Table. We brought a lot of Gallenberg to Florida to start with, and now we're sneaking a little Florida back up to galliber But oh that just in general, we're next quo to this year, which if anybody came last year, we're one building away from what we were last year next door. But we did buy a giant inflatable bagso this year we're gonna stick out. Figure that'd be better than one of the thousand signs around the
World Questrian Center. So if you can't figure out where you're at, look for the big Foot, and if that doesn't give it away, then you're probably at the wrong place. Huge. The World of Questions Center is huge. If anybody's been there before, I know you write some of you have, but it will have a lot of people going. I couldn't find it. It's a yeah, college, large college campus. So it is a billion dollar resort. It is the most pro amazing new area for us to
gather. Ever, so like that place is that the screen is like the definition is too good, it's four K. It's I don't want to see myself that closed like filter. Yeah, go as much as you want. You'll get a bracelet when you check in. And so when you get your bracelet you can leave and go around, have onech other's four or five restaurants, just so much to see just in the World Question Center itself, and we have people come leave for an hour and come back and hopefully we'll be
able to feed everybody. Last year that was a big to do. It's hard to get at the position stands. Isn't a lot the food trucks this year they did. Yeah, they you told me we're have boot trucks. We'll see, we'll see a long day, so just come planning for that. A lot of fun. It is a marathon, not a sprint, but engaging. If you're into any of this stuff, you can have a long, fun day. We're not amazing in a little press of twenty five
dollars. Why thank you for twenty five dollars these days? That's there. That's right, guys. I want to thank you all for being here today. I believe thirteen days I look this morning, thirteen days this conference will be taking place. I can see Marty's face going it's second day's way. Is that anything else, Brian that you would like to say? No, just looking forward to seeing everybody there. Thanks everybody in the chat. Share
this. Let everybody know there's still tickets available. We would love to see you all there on June the eighth. I'll bey Jing. Yeah, so we've talked about kids. But please, if your kids are curious, bring them. It's not scary at all. It is informative and education. There is a lessener discussion though, because we don't know what's coming out of anybody's mouths. But yeah, come on. I'm family orientated and ably and there's enough time in the day to do everything. If you're there for it.
Whoever you want to meet, you'll meet them. You'll be able to hit the vendor boost and you'll be able to listen to your favorite Just like Harpy g says, just come on down. If you're curious about big quit sasquatch yetty, it's gonna gepe all that. If you have questions, you just want to ask people. You got a ton of people here that you can ask. Just reach out. It's going to be fabulous. So this facility is huge. It's like the Disney World of Equestrian in Okala. It's the
biggest facility there in Okala. We hope to see everyone there. Come on down. Rudie Holland, that's a beautiful Memorial Day weekend here. I'm wearing some flannel in the hat because it's fifty two degrees in Seattle, and I love brain be happier. So I'm going to have to dig deep into my closet to find potentially some shorts and lighter oner weather. But I think we're
indoors. It's going to be air conditioned. I just keep saying, everybody, bring your sandals, shorts, and your big smile, because I'm looking forward to seeing everybody I know. On that night after the VIP meet and greet, there's one hundred and sixty people, but usually everybody figures out where we're staying at the hotel, and just like the last three conferences I was
at, I stay up until about four in the morning. Usually it's a lotty talking to people want to talk to me, So then I roll in that next day and talk all morning and into the afternoon into the evening. So I hope that I will still have a voice at the end of the night. I am stoked. Bring your family, bring everybody, bring your
heart, and know y'all do. I'm looking forward to seeing y'all. Just stay tuned this week everyone, if you follow our page, the Great Quarter Big Foot Conference will be making announcements all week just as we're tying everything together. It's the last kind of puzzle pieces coming together, and we're excited that all of you are going to be there and that we get to do this. Oliver AA, It's gonna be a huge tience in the end. I'll
just say this here. With the people that we've got involved with the Skuncave, Rown Table and the total number of people we've got involved doing presentations and everything else, there are gonna be so many people actively involved in the research as well as people have had these experiences that if you are remotely interested, it's a great data to be inn Okala for this event. So Indiana, we appreciate you so much putting this all together and doing that for us.
You are more than welcome. I am so excited to be there in a couple of days. We're flying out a week before. We are so excited to be a part of this. I know Dad can't stop talking about it either. We are all so excited to be there. We will see you all on June eighth. They say, you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay. I don't want to happen steps step, Joy, this chart, that chart, everything calling right, pry back, joy for me,
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