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Hey everybody, this is Left Strive.
Yes, yes, I know aka Survivor Man, and you're listening to Brian on Sasquatch Otisy. Hey there and welcome back to Sasquatch Odyssey. Thank you so much for being with us for the show. It is Sunday. I hope you're having a fantastic weekend. We have an amazing show lined up for you. But as always, I want to start by inviting you. If you've had an encounter and you'd like to be on the show, shoot me an email
and get me at Brian Apparentomoworldproductions dot com. Get head over to the website, check it out, become a member there and help support the show. We went live over on that Bigfoot podcast gosh over a week ago now, me, Wayne, Tiffany and all the folks who piled into the chat. We're there to celebrate our five hundredth episode of this podcast. So I just wanted to replay this over here for all of you guys who didn't get a chance to
watch it live and say a huge thank you. We have surpassed the five hundred episode Mark, and I have to be honest with you, none of that would be possible without you. Guys. I could create all the episodes in the world, but if there's nobody to listen to them, it doesn't make a bit of difference. So I cannot thank you enough for everything you have done for me from my family and you continue to do for this show.
You show up week after week, you download the episodes, you hit that subscribe button, You keep this train on its tracks, and I am so looking forward to the next five hundred episodes. So, without further ado, let's get into this live. All this is left for you to do is sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. We are live. We are nothing if not punctual around here at the Paranormal World Production Studios. Thank everybody for being here first and foremost. Oh, Wayne's doing hearts. That is
so cool. You can do it too, Yeah, let me see if I can do it. No, my heart looks.
Your heart looks like a punkin honey.
Yeah, my heart is cold and dead. That's probably a heart circle. Yes, I'm very heartless that it's like a red circle around my heart. Wayne, what's up man, what's going.
On Hey doing buddy. I am looking forward to this, happy to be talking about your five hundred. That's very impressive, guy, that's awesome. Congratulations.
I would pat myself on the I should go ahead and do that. Tiffany, what's going on with you?
Not much, I can copy what Wayne is. Happy to be here and happy to be celebrating with you. You are where I began, so that's an honor.
It is so funny to me that we're talking about the five hundredth episode of Sasquatch Odyssey on that Bigfoot podcast. I never thought this show would happen. It's one of the many amazing things that have come out of doing the Sasquatch Odyssey podcast. I think I posted the five hundred and third episode that will drop tomorrow on the show. Five hundred happened while I was actually traveling. I was out of town. I was out west doing some things
in undisclosed areas with undisclosed people. It was just one of those things that when I did the episode, I was like, man, it just happened so fast. It seems like yesterday I started the show.
He was shooting a porn y'all, that's what he was doing.
Yes, Yes, undisclosed location with undisclosed people doing undisclosed things that we I cannot talk about, at least for a couple of months. We'll talk about it when it comes out. I want to take a second to say hello to everybody. It's been so long since I've done a live I don't even remember how to do it. But we've got about thirty people piling in here, so I want to say hello to everybody that's in the chat. Charlotte Jay first and foremost. Hello, my friend Ristol, Chris Blaylock. We've
got sasquatch. Oh, that's me bff. Bigfoot research that is, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, that is my buddy from down south in Florida. Hello, my friend. Who else do we have in here? Let's see, let's see Jimmy t Oh, let's see. Let's see Jimmy T's I'm a poet and didn't know it. Who else we got in here? Matthew Maynard? Hello, sir, there is Paranormal World Productions, that is us. Who else did I see in here? I thought, Yeah, mister Tiffany, what's going on? My friend? I haven't seen
you in a month of Sundays. Tyler, Paul, what's up, my friend? Say hello to Brian and Wayne and Tiffany. Tyler, say hello to Tiffany. Damn it, she's here. Little Matt. I'm not sure who you are as Big Matt in the house, I'm not sure who that is. Patty Troy says, hello. Five hundred is crazy. It does feel like you just started. Let me tell you, if you're the one producing those five hundred episodes, it definitely does not feel like you just started. But it is a labor of love. I
love it very much. And I saw discovering Bigfoot in here. I believe, yes, that is Logan. Hello, my friend, thank you for the congratulations on the five hundred episodes of the podcast. It's probably more than five hundred, to be quite honest, at this point, because there are some that have been behind paywalls in the past and other things, so it's probably a little bit more than that, but the point still stands that it is quite the milestone.
I actually started looking around today and I thought, I've talked about this in the past, about how many people, Hey, we got mythical legends in the house, stayed up late for this. That is our buddy from across the pond. Daniel is up way too fricking late. Does your dad? I know you're up. I'm going to send Kraig a text and tell him that you're still up. It's one o'clock in the morning over there. We won't tell no,
we can't do it. I talked to him today. He was so excited about a couple of things that he called me about, and I got to see he and his dad today. I love those little phone calls we get every day. So yeah, I was looking at and I've talked about this before, like less than it's probably less than one percent of the world's population that actually does podcasting full time and makes a living doing it. It's a very small pond to be swimming in. I never in a million years thought that I would be
at the point that I'm at. It's because of everybody who's in the chat right now, everybody who's listening, and we'll watch this at some point in time on YouTube and or listen to it on the podcast. It is one of those things that we couldn't do it without you. It's cliche to say that, but as podcasters, if you don't have anybody listening. You're talking to yourself, right, You're just doing a podcast for one basically, And that's what it was like when I started the show. There was
nobody listening, and I just kept at it. I kept putting the episodes out because I really did enjoy doing it, and I still enjoy doing it to this day. I definitely want to get into some of that stuff later on. I want to talk a little bit about some of the relationships and some of the things that have come out of the show. But I want to get into some of the moments of the show for you guys, for me, and for the folks that are in the audience and in the chat right now. This is a
call in show. I hope people call in. That's definitely something we're going to do later on is open up the phone lines, and there's nothing worse than doing a live show and nobody call in. Hopefully there'll be at least a couple of you guys that are willing to call in and talk about what you like about the show, what you don't like. We'll talk about anything. We make no qualms about it here on that Bigfoot Podcast. It's
not all love and smiles here. We talk about some of the things that people don't like about the show as well. Let me start and go around the horn with you, guys. Let me start with ladies first. Here, start with Tiffany and talk about some of the things that you've enjoyed about Sasquatch Out to See. We were talking about it before we went live, and honestly, I would have never met you or Wayne had it not
been for the show, because that's where we met. Ultimately was you guys were guests on the podcast, and we've become not only friends but family outside of those appearances on a Bigfoot podcast. Talk a little bit about what got you interested in Sasquatch Outisy first, How did you discover the show? Tiffany, and talk about some of the experiences obviously from coming on and some of the things that you've enjoyed the most about the show Over the last few years.
I scrolled through podcasts. Y'all listen to music until I'm just like, hey, listen to so many songs on podcasts when you're work, and you're just like, I don't want to hear the shit anymore. So then you start listening to podcasts, you watch our episode. I've always had a fascination with it. I thought it was drawn to yours based off your logo. Really doesn't the logo, so I started listening to it and I never stopped.
So then it was your.
Voice that I was listening to when I was working this awful, toxic job. But it got me through my workday. And then Zach had his encounter here, so our episode two twenty two was my genesis. I got to talk to you, and then it was days, weeks, and months progressed.
We became closer and started talking about.
What I could do to help ben here around you, And it's just one of those things that and the show has evolved over the years. When you first started, you say it all the time. I didn't like the way I sounded. The interviews have definitely gotten better. You're good at asking questions. It's what you did when you were caught, so it's like second nature. But overall, as the years have progressed, has just gotten better and better. In my opinion.
Oh, I thank you so much for that.
No, you welcome.
Yeah, it's one of those things that I've said that I've made no qualms about it. In the beginning, the audio quality was not great. As with most podcasters, there are people that I helped behind the scenes with their show. Now I tell them little secrets that I wish somebody had told me when I first started the show, and it immediately helps them with their audio. That's one of the things that I've always struggled with. I guess I'm a little bit. I'm definitely a perfectionist when it comes
to my work. I've always constantly tried to improve every aspect of the show. One of those was getting better equipment. One of those was working on the audio editing, then getting into the interviews with folks. I've tried to do a better job of asking the right questions at the right time, not talking as much, not repeating myself as much. There's plenty of people who email me because I repeat
things over and over. But it's one of those things that we've talked about it before when and I've had these conversations off air, and I've even talked about it on the air. Every conversation is different because it's with a new person that I've never talked to before. So when I repeat things or talk about my past and law enforcement or whatever the case may be, the experiences i've had. It's because I'm talking to a new person
that I've never had that conversation with. It gets lost in translation for me because I get so engrossed in the conversation. It's the first time I'm having it with this person. I want to give them everything that i've hsibly can. If it's relevant, I'm going to talk about it. It gets a little redundant at times for people who listen to every episode, They're like, oh my god, here he goes again talking about Todd standing in Canada, or he's talking about when he was a cop, or whatever
the case may be. But if you look past that and just get into the meat and potatoes of the interaction with the person, that's what I've really tried to do more than anything is connect with people on a different level. I want to get into some of that later on and talk a little bit about some of those relationships and how that doesn't necessarily happen on every single podcast, because I've talked to so many people just over the last twelve months that have had so many
negative experiences with other shows. We're not going to call anybody out. It's not going to be one of those kind of sessions, But I do want to talk about that because to me, it's important is the relationships that you build with the people that have come on the show. Wayne, What about you, man, How did you find Sasquatch Odyssey? Did I find you? Because I do remember calling you up or sending you an email and asking you to come on the show. Were you listening to the show?
Then?
How did you find the experience when you came on the show and we did your interview and then obviously what's happened afterwards.
A lot of people don't know this, and I don't even know if you know all of this, Brian, because I've never really talked about it. Before I teamed up with you, I was doing my thing with Manimal Research. I did the YouTube channel. Right before I got with you, I started a podcast. It wasn't a YouTube one. It was with a guy who is not very popular with a lot of bigfoot people. That's one of the reasons I chose him to be my partner was he was very outspoken, he had it.
Kind of a name.
He rubbed people the wrong way. That's what I was looking for. He did not like you. We have talked about this. He did not think very highly of you at all. He told me a whole bunch of stuff, and I am guilty of listening, and I developed a not so great opinion of you based on what he was saying. Then I was given the opportunity to be in a movie called Bigfoot Versus Jettie, Battle of the Beasts.
Doctor Jeff Meldrum's in there, Cliff right, man. A couple other people you may have heard of are in there. So it's something I'm proud of. I posted on Facebook about it, and you and I were in a couple of the same groups and you saw it, and that's when you reached out to me. And I told this gentleman about it, and he said, I don't know about him, man, I might stay away from him. I don't know. So he and I had a falling out a little bit.
I reached out to you, I went on, I recorded that first episode and I came away shaking my head, What the hell is he talking about? This is one of the coolest dudes I've ever freaking met in my entire life. That first interview, before I had ever spoken to him. Before, I had never talked to Brian in my life. I came away with him, asking if he could come to the squatch out that I was going to have in a few months. He said he wanted to come to it. He offered to help me with
my podcast, he said in the audio needed work. He offered to help me with all of that. This was long before he offered me the opportunity to take over Paran on my odyssey. But he did all of that after knowing him for an hour, and I just thought, man, it's true that old saying you don't judge a book by its cover, don't listen to other people, make up your own mind about people. Because Brian, you were everything opposite of what this person told me. Everything is just blown up since that episode.
I am glad that happened. I'm glad that you didn't listen to him. I'm glad you came on the show because I've done it to everybody. Does that right? You hear about Oh that person's a horrible person. I've heard it about people that I am good friends with in Bigfoot. I still hear it to this day. Some people have bad experiences with people, and I'm like, I just don't have that experience with these people. It is one of
those things that we are all guilty of. I think we all, on occasion judge books by its cover, and I think we need to get past that. And I'm glad you did. Man, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. You and Tiffany both are amazing additions to this family. And what you guys have done with paran on my odyssey, it has blown me away and blown me out of the water. I thank you both for forgiving me the opportunity to not being an asshole. I guess is the height word. I
don't know. It's funny. I get that from people all the time. They listen to the podcast and they have this preconceived notion about who you are, what you are in person. Then they meet me and they're like, man, I didn't expect you to be that way. What do you mean. I'm just a person. I am the person that you hear on the show at this show, my show. If I'm a guest on another podcast, which I do quite a few, I'm the same person all the time. It's just one of those things that I think it
strikes people in different ways. But it happened to me the first time I met Bobo. The first thing Bobo said to me was, Man, your voice don't match what I was expecting. And I was like, what part doesn't match? He said, I expected you to be shorter. Okay, there's that. I guess I sound shorter. I'm not sure how you sound short or tall, but yeah, you just never know what to expect with people. I am so glad that you both came into my life, so many people. I
was looking through today at it. I want to get sappy and go through and pull a bunch of stuff and play a bunch of clips and things that people have already heard from the show. But I got to looking back in the archives and I went back all the way to episode one of the show, and I started going through the episodes, and I'm thinking to myself, the people that I have connected with. I still talk
to some of these people to this day. Occasionally I get text messages from people who were on episode seven and eight or nine of the show. It just blows me away that I still have those connections with people. I looked back and I had so many people on from locally. The first show was a roadside crossing from right here in North Carolina. I had kale On. He came on and talked about his roadside crossing that he had about three hours from here up at Meadock Mountain
State Park. Then I got into episode three, Bigfoot Hunts with Coyotes. It's still one of my favorite episodes ever. I quote Dave often because I tell you what, he was one of the most out there people. He was one of the first people that I ever get interview that talked about possibly being affected by I guess would be the word or what he called zapped by infrasound. Dave told a story about bigfoot hunting with coyotes. That's
why I named the episode Bigfoot Hunts with Coyotes. I've since seen that, although I thought it was complete bullshit at the time, I've talked to so many people who have had similar experiences with bigfoot having some sort of a symbiotic relationship with coyotes. Now I look back and think maybe Dave wasn't as crazy as I thought.
He was.
Right, there's so many things, And then I look at episode ten. I had doctor Jeff Meldrum on the show.
Hold on, let me interrupt you real quick, Brian. I want that to sink in with everybody out there. Episode ten, he was barely double digits, and he is reaching out to the biggest name in Bigfoot to get him to come on a show that no one had ever heard of, because he's only ten episodes in, nine episodes in at that point, and he reaches out to him. When I first got with Brian, you were two hundred episodes in something. I'm not sure, but I told you one of my
problems as a podcaster was I'm intimidated. I am intimidated by big names. What you said to me just stuck out. It's why you don't have to be You're a person there, a person. All they can say is no. That resonated with me. I'm like, all he can say is no. All I have to do is reach out to these people and ask. But it shocks me that you had Meldrim on episode ten and you had less Stroud. We were talking before we went live, you, Tiffany and I. You had less Stroud on it episode sixty nine. Dude,
what the hell? How do you have the balls to reach out to these people, especially Meldrum at ten when you're nobody. You were nobody in the community at that point.
Yeah, I was absolutely nobody. I'm still a nobody. Just so everybody is clear on that. Jeff Meldrim was one of the nicest people ever. I just reached out to him via email and he called me up up and said, yeah, let's schedule it. Then there he was. It was so frustrating to me because I had no idea what I was doing as far as editing, and I over compressed that audio to the point it was unlistenable. You couldn't even listen to it. It was horrible. And stay tuned for
more sasquatch oat to see. We'll be right back after these messages. And thank god I've developed the skills that I have now that I was able to go back and remaster that and I put it out again recently within the last probably six to eight months. It was one of the episodes that I remastered. Now you can actually listen to it. It sounds like a regular interview because it was an amazing interview. He's always an amazing interview no matter what he's talking about or where he's
at talking about whatever he's talking about. But yeah, it's been remastered, So if you guys want to listen to episode ten of the show, you can go over and listen and hear what Meldrim had to say. It was so funny. I'll never forget. We got towards the end of the interview and we were still going. I had five or ten more, Quie, I am so sorry, I've got to go. I've double booked to myself and I've got another interview starting in five minutes. He was just like cutting it out, so I had to go back
and edit that in. It seems pretty seamless now. But it's so funny to me because I now know Jeff Right. We've spoken together at conferences, I've set around and had dinner with he and his wife, and it's just amazing. And it goes back to what you always talk about, Wayne, and what my friend Cliff has always talked about. Cliff Brickman has always said Bigfoot is one of those things
where your heroes can become your friends. That's truly what's happened to me in this is so many people that I've looked up to for so long in Bigfoot, just as people in general, and things that I enjoyed the entertainment, whether it be on television or other podcasters and things like that have just become friends. To me, it's one
of those things that I cherish every single day. I know I'm one of the luckiest people on earth to be able to do what I love so much and then be able to build my friendships and build friendships and relationships with people that I never thought. I was watching Cliff on Finding Bigfoot ten twelve years ago. Now he's writing the forward to my new book. It's just so surreal, man, I can't even describe it. But to your point Less Stroud was episode sixty eight of the show.
It aired on October the first of twenty twenty one. I was definitely still a fledgling when it comes to the podcasting in all actuality. He was episode sixty eight, but I started emailing him probably around episode ten. It took me almost a year and a half to book Less to come on the show to his interview, because he's such a busy person. He's always busy. He's always got things going on. He's not only into Bigfoot, obviously does television, he's into video games and all the crazy
things he's doing now. And oh, by the way, he travels almost constantly doing music. It was very difficult to get him booked. He was one of the harder people to book. And after that was Todd Standing, who had been on my list for quite a while. Eventually, after I had less On and we talked about Todd at length. During that episode I had Todd on. He was somewhere in the one hundreds. I don't remember exactly what episode Todd was, but it just keeps going and going. There's
been such a transition with the show. I know everybody tunes in to hear the encounter stories and to hear the interviews, but I've tried things like Storytime. I wanted to get into telling stories because I love narrating stories and telling stories. So I started Storytime. Somewhere around episode one hundred or so. I started doing those, and I've
done those continuously throughout. I've dropped them again. That eventually became a new podcast, Backwoods Horror Stories was born basically from Bigfoot story Time on Sasquatch Odyssey that channel, and look today and it's the fifteen thousand subscribers on YouTube. People are enjoying those stories. It's just one of those things that I've dabbled with and we're still tweaking the show. Fred from Alaska has made constant appearances. I had Fred
on and interviewed him. I can't remember what episode it was, but it's been within the last fifty or sixty episodes of the show. I had Fred from Alaska on and I immediately bonded with Fred and the stories he was telling from the First Nations and Native American perspective that we honestly don't get a whole lot of in Bigfoot. He was telling some amazing stories. I reached out to him after I had him on for his interview and I said, hey, man, I would love to wait. Jeremac says,
I like Fred, yet I'm getting tired of him. Sorry.
Ah.
There are so many people who send me emails every single week telling me how much they love Fred. So unfortunately Fred is going to stay around, I think at least for the near future. But yeah, I really wanted to highlight those stories because he has a huge channel. Don't get me wrong. His channel has I think sixteen seventeen thousand subscribers on YouTube, so he's doing okay. But we have a big audience on Sasquatch Odyssey. I was like, look, dude,
I want people to listen to these stories. I think they're so important because they tend to be a little bit more out there, they tend to be a little bit more aggressive. I think it's important that if those things are happening to people, it's important for us as podcasters to put that out there. That's why I continue to focus on and share those stories from Fred. So there you have it. That's what's going on with Fred,
and we're going to continue to do that. But over the years, we've continue to try to do different things, whether it be narrate stories or focus on like the Fred stories from Sorry, I'm getting distracted by the.
Chat, running a show and talking at the same time, right, That's why I have Tiffany, Thank God.
I do a lot of You'll see me during the show, and I swear to all of our past guests and future guests, I am paying attention, but you will see me look over more than I'm looking at you because I have a whole chat screen and people are talking. I'm trying to throw things up on the screen and it's a lot.
It's awesome.
Heaving Tiffany. I'm telling you, Brian, if you did more of these, you would have to have your on Tiffany because I'm not going to share her. She's mine.
Hey, is there anybody in chat? Raise your hand if you want to be my Tiffany out there.
Say he is a god send because I can focus on the guest. I can listen to the guest and have a conversation with them. And people have made the comment on Paranormal Odyssey we'd like to hear tiffany more because when she does talk, she makes great points and asks really good questions. But she's doing her job. She's answering the chat, she's watching. She's looking stuff up on the fly. If I've got a question, where is that place at? Before you even ask, he's looking it up.
And it's awesome.
When we started this, Brian, I'm sorry if I'm getting a little off topic, but when you and I become friends, you offered me the opportunity to take over Paranormal Odyssey. I had done minimal research for a while, and I had a co host, and I had somebody that always helped me. And that's one of the things I said to you, was it would be nice to have a producer, someone that says there and helps me run the show. We reached out. We had Lisa for a little while.
Lisa was amazing. We still we were talking Lisa last night.
Yeah, she was texting some really cool stuff, some really cool audio that happened on a shoot that she was doing for a movie. So yeah, Lisa's still out there. Hello Lisa, if you're listening, we love you.
Yeah, we absolutely love you, Lisa. Lisa and I became close for that six months or so that she was doing it, and Tiffany was a moderator. But Lisa is a TV producer, a movie producer. She is busy as hell, so she had to step away. That allowed Tiffany to come in. I can't tell you I'm bragging on Tiffany. I'm sorry to interrupt you, Brian, but he makes my life so much easier on the show. It's awesome. I love you, ma'am. She's become one of my best friends and I'm so grateful for her.
Yeah, just keep bragging on Tiffany's.
If you it's swell in my head. I'm gonna have to knock the lawn down back here to be able to get out of my office.
And Troy says, miss t is the Bee's D's no true, Tyler, I'm just to put it out there. So is your barbecue, Troy, your barbecue is the be's and ees, my friend we at his barbecue when we was up in Tennessee doing the Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Conference. It was really good, my friend, excellent stuff.
And can I just say that those days of that conference was three of the best days of my life.
Oh my god.
You know, with all of you guys, it was amazing, it was great. I'm sorry to interrupt.
Keep you interrupting you, Brian, Go ahead, buddy, just keep interrupting your podcast or you talk for a living. I'm okay with that, dude, I'm okay with that.
This show is all about you. It's gonna talk about me, and we're gonna talk about Troy's barbecue.
No, that's the thing. It's really not about me. I'm glad you said that, Tiffany, because that's one of the things I've always said about Sasquatch Odyssey. It is never about me. That's one of the things I've tried to do. I've been called out. People have called me out when I talk too much on the episodes and I interrupt people and I try to tell my stories too much. People always bring me back to it's not about you, dude,
It's about the person that's on the show. I think that's one of the things that has resonated over the years with people that have watched the show and listened to the show, is I do make it all about the person that's on the show. It is about the stories. It is the highlight for them. I'm going to continue to try to do that from now on, because that's really what it's all about on the show. We are trying new things. We talked about storytime and some other things.
Danny and I are working on something right now that I'm pretty excited about. He's taking a look at Bigfoot in pop Culture. He's putting together some episodes on Bigfoot in pop Culture. I just put it out there as that and tease it that way. He's going to be making some appearances on the show on the air on his own. I'll be in the mix a little bit, but we're gonna supplement here and there and put some of those shows out over the next couple of months,
So you got to stay tuned. Danny's made appearances over here on that Bigfoot podcast. When Wayne has been otherwise and disposed and people resonate with him. He has a different take on this. He's very skeptical. Has a dual degree in sociology and psychology, so he knows people, he knows subject matter. I'm really excited, and he was going over the first three episodes that he's written out going to produce here over the next couple of weeks. I
am stoked for you guys to hear it. So that's just one more thing that we're going to be working on to bring you some extra content over on Sasquatch Odyssey. Something else to look forward to.
I was to hear.
Danny on there. He is such a sweet soul. I got to eat him up. His personality, his sass is beyond the pill.
I just absolutely freaking is a great word for Danny. I got to meet Danny for the first time at the conference. Yeah, I had talked to him a little bit, been associated with you, Brian for a couple of years now. I've talked to Danny a little bit, but me actually laying eyes on him and meeting him in person was at the Smokey Mountain conference, and I felt like I had known him forever. I don't know if he has that ability to make people feel that way, but gave
him a big hug. It was just like talking to an old friend like you and I when we get together, we just cut up. And that's rare.
When we all met in Tennessee because I have not ever met you guys in person, I have not ever met Danny, and it was like we've known each other our whole life.
So we got North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. We're not all sitting in the same town. We're in the southeast, but we're definitely not neighbors.
Yeah, and here's the thing about Danny. People don't realize. We get to turn on the microphones and are the faces and the voices of the show. But Danny truly runs everything behind the scenes and make sure that things go according to the way they're supposed to go as far as the business is concerned. If you come to a conference and you see all the merchandise that we've curated that we offer you, guys, that's all him. Everything
is him. He's put his heart and soul into curating those things and bringing people as much quality merchandise as we can put out there. Again, like I said, just keeping everything running, keeping everybody paid behind the scenes and all the business things that go into what we do behind the scenes that I don't get into. It's not my thing. I turn on the microphone and just do what I do, same thing for you guys. But everything behind the scenes is all Danny, So kudos to him
and very much appreciated. We cannot talk about the show without talking about the series that we did back. It was around episode three hundred, three hundred and fifty or so, dog Man Taire in the Woods. Everybody loved that. We made no qualms about it. Tiffany wrote dog Mantaire in the Woods specifically for Sasquatch Odyssey. It was a phenomenal ten part series. Everybody fell in love with it. I told Tiffany, I was like, why don't you turn this
into a book? People would love to read this. Me narrating it is one thing, but people like to have this in a book form. She was like, how would I publish it? And I was like, Hanger One Publishing would publish it for you? Really? And I was like, yeah, why would they do that? Because I'm gonna call Doug Hichek and Alex and say, I want you to publish this book because it's freaking phenomenal. They did. So if you guys are interested in Dog Mantaire in the Woods,
make sure you head over to Amazon. Look it up dog Mantaire in the Woods, look up Tiffany. You can find the book and get your copy of it today because it is phenomenal. And guess what, there's a ten part series on the show. Yeah, I'm looking at the final chapter now. It was episode three point fifty two was the final chapter that I read. But guess what, if you pick up the book, it's not the same ending that you hear on Sasquatch Odyssey. It's completely different.
Go pick up the book, show Tiffany some love. You will not be disappointed as a phenomenal real quick.
While she was doing the Terror in the Woods, she was also doing the Unfamiliars for Paranormal Odyssey at the exact same time.
She was a busy lady.
She was writing for me and then writing for Brian as well. She actually came on and helped narrate some of the Unfamiliars because I'm not a narrator. You got I'm sorry if y'all tried to listen to some of those episodes.
But the story is right.
What was really cool is we came up with the idea together. I told her I wanted a habituation. My grandpa was really important to me. His name was Hardy. I asked if the main character it could be Hardy. My grandpa Hardy was the sheriff of a small county in Tennessee. She made him a retired sheriff. She just ran with it. And that's also a book. So you've got a big Foot Tear in the Woods and The Unfamiliars. She published them at the same time. Please check out both. They are equally fantastic.
It was very special for me, especially writing The Unfamiliars, because I really wanted to cultivate your grandfather. I wanted to cultivate every aspect. His description is the first thing that I asked, because I don't know how I do it. I just sit down and I write. I don't outline, I just write. So I asked the description of him, and I had him in my head. So that just carried on throughout the book. But if you go to Tiffany S. Duram dot com you can find me all of our books, Paranormal Odyssey.
All of that. There you go Tiffany. She's not even a triple threat. She is a quadruple threat, folks, She's got it all. This is a call in show, so I want to give people the opportunity to call in. But I want to get into this before we open up the phone lines and take some phone calls. We've talked about relationships. Obviously, you guys are two relationships that
were built because of this show. I have tons of other relationships, but this is something that's come up recently, and I want to talk about this because I think it's important. There are other podcasts out there, believe it or not. Know it's weird, but I looked up the stats to I know, right, it's crazy, there's other podcasts. I looked up the stats today because I was really interested in how many podcasts there are. I looked up our rankings on our podcast. I am so proud of
what we've done on this network. There is not one podcast on this network, including your show, my show, The Basement, Hangout, Kentucky X Files Guy, every single show that we host on this podcast network is in the top one to three percent of all podcasts in the world. By the way, there's over five million active podcasts across the world today five million, So we are in elite company to say
that you're in the one to three percent. Sasquatch Odyssey is in the top point five percent of all podcasts in the world. That has nothing to do with me. It has everything to do with the people who come on and share their stories. More importantly, everybody who subscribes, who listens to every episode, downloads every episode. We can't thank you enough. But back to the relationships. I had a guy on recently Dylan, and Dylan reached out to
me via email. He was apprehensive about telling his story because he had some past experiences with other podcasters who shall remain unnamed, who basically baited him in They wanted his story. They wanted him to come on and tell his story. Once they got the story, all other communications stopped. Basically ghosted him. That's the word that I use, is ghosted.
He was a little bit upset about that because he told his story and connected with this podcaster based on the fact that he was going to be a part of this elite club that had seen the Sasquatch. He just wanted to talk to people about his experiences and have this connection. He came on the show. We had a great conversation. We talked about it. Hey, man, what's
going on. That's perfect timing. I don't mean to put you on front Street, Dylan, but I told you this because he and I have been texting over the last couple of days, because I gave him my number and I said, dude, I even said it on the episode. It airs tomorrow, So if you guys want to listen to Dylan's episode, make sure you check out sasquatch Otys See tomorrow. It drops at midnight actually tonight, you can listen to Dylan telling his story. But here's the thing
about it. I told him, I said, look, dude, will I not ghost you? If I give you my number. I'm not going to leave you unread. I'm not going to just get your story out of you because that's what I'm seeking and that's what I need for content, and I'm not going to leave you in the lurch because that's not what I do. Again, we've talked about
it before. I still can communicate and talk to people that I interviewed episode two, three four of the show, because it's important to me to continue that kind of connection with people because guess what they do. They text me when they get new encounters. They text me, or they call me when they get new evidence. I'm like, holy shit, I'm so glad that you're still in contact with me. I would probably be in contact with more people, but I've changed my number since I started the show.
Anybody that has my number or had my number, you can try to reach out to me. I've thought about this before. I think you might have talked me out of it. Wayne. I was at a point when I was so fed up with people talking shit about me. I was literally going to put my personal sel phone number out there for people to call me up and be able to have these kind of conversations because I am that passionate about the show, and if you have a problem with the show, I'm the person you need
to be talking to. Don't put it on social media, don't put it on Apple Podcasts and leave us a horrible review. Just call me up and we'll have a conversation. That's the kind of guy I am, or try to be. So that's what I've tried to do with Dylan. He said, it's totally fine. I'm an open book. I appreciate it. Man, I've really enjoyed continuing to talk to him because that's important to me. I wanted him to know publicly and privately. I am not going to ghost to do because I've
had experiences I can't explain. I've seen things that I can't explain. There's so much that I would love to talk about right now from my recent project that I was involved in, but I'm under an nda I can't talk about it right now. But there's so many things that I connect to people like Dylan on a new level. It's so important to me to continue that. I said all that to say, I know you guys do a
fantastic job about it. Every time I talk to you, Wane, you've got some new friend that you're going to do new things with. The genesis has been because they've come on your show and talked to you. So let me go to you first and talk about that. How important is that to you and how have you seen that progress from you being a host of Paranormal Odyssey and the connections you've made to people. Is that something that you see grow and is it something that you hear
behind the scenes. That is not always the case with other podcasters.
One hundred percent. One thing that I get. Miss Chris Blaylock has mentioned it end this episode to not the reason she feels so at home with us is because we make her feel at home. She says that we make her feel like family. We at Paranormal Odyssey. We have a discord. If you become a member of our channel, you get the link to the discord. We hang out, we talk all the time. We keep saying we're gonna have a movie night. I don't know if we've been able to nail that down to figure out exactly how
it's going to happen. We've had some pre run, some trial runs, but we're just a family at That's all it is. And it's not the same. Brian, It's so weird how things happen. You and I were talking earlier about another show that came from a show that got it start from another show. This guy would not be anything if it wasn't for this other show. He's not that good. We're not gonna call names. He's not that good. He doesn't have the best voice, he doesn't ask the
best questions. Honestly, he would not be where he's at today if it weren't for the person that promoted him to hear the way that person treats people. We do the opposite. People feel like they can talk to us because we treat everyone with respect. I have so many friends people that haven't been on the show. I've seen several of them in the chat tonight. Kevin is one of my best friends.
In the world.
Kevin Jones. He's a member of Animal Research. He has been on the show, but I like pulling teeth to get him to come on that he's been on once. Jonathan Pulley is another police officer here in Tennessee that I met. He's never been on the show, just met him through Facebook. There's two or three others that are escaping me right now. It's just we're welcoming. We accept everyone. We don't ghost people, we don't leave people on red. I'm a father of a toddler. I'm very busy. I
do my best to get back to everybody. But that's just the kind of people we are. I mean, we don't have huge heads, and I don't understand why some people do.
Yeah, it's unfortunate and I've seen it so many times with Bigfoot. I said it to Dylan. I think on his episode. One of the things I've learned, and not everything has been roses. I've made relationships with people that I've met through Bigfoot Wayne, some of them you and I have met together, and they turned out to be
shitty people. And I think it's just one of those things that no matter what you're doing, whether you meet somebody on the street or at Walmart, or whether it's got to do with Bigfoot or not, they're just shitty people in the world. That's what it is. You have to take people where they are and understand that not everybody's going to be great. But by and large, the majority of the people I have met in the Bigfoot community have been absolutely phenomenal, some of the greatest people ever.
It is one of the biggest and most welcoming and loving communities I've ever been a part of. They have embraced us, they've embraced our shows, and they allow us to do what we do every day that we love so much. We couldn't do it without you. At the end of the day, that's what it's really all about. I want to take some calls. People have been asking for the numbers, so I'm going to put the banner
up here before it gets too late. I want people to be able to call in, and we want to take some phone calls and talk about Sasquatch Odyssey, talk about your favorite moments, talk about this show, talk about Paranormal Odyssey. It's an open it's free for all Friday on a Thursday. It doesn't necessarily have to be me. I'm not looking for praise here. I'm not looking for you to talk about the show at nauseum, whatever you want to talk about, because ultimately, like everything else, this
is about you, guys. I've got my phone on. Do not disturbed. We are for killing bro. You're killing me, brou You are professionals.
Here, so really thing you screwed up? Because Wayne gives me so much shit.
Hold on, who says I screwed up? We're not supposed to put that on Front Street. That happened before we hit play. Nobody was here for that, but you, guys. I sent you the wrong freaking link, and then I corrected it almost immediately because I texted you and said, I hope I'll sent you the right damn link, and I didn't, so I fixed it. You were like, I'm in somebody else's room. I don't know where I'm at. What I'm do is we fixed it quickly, like I see it. We get just you know, it wouldn't be
us if it wasn't on Front Street. So I take responsibility for sending you the wrong frecking link.
Are you getting any calls?
No, clearly we're not. I see, damn it. There's something that is suspected spam from May the seventeenth here, so.
Go with it.
Let's take that. Should I call back the spam? Should I call back this, I'm gonna just say sorry. I'm going to take a seton and stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. We'll be right back after these messages.
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We're calling you about your extended car warranty.
We've been trying to reach you about your extended car warranty. Would you like to switch from to spectrum? Oh wait, somebody called. I'm going to call you back. I don't know who you are, but somebody just called. I'm so excited. If you're a six six one number, I'm gonna call you back. Let me put it out there. It is nine no, not no, I'm just kidding. I'm not gonna
do that. They're not gonna be able to hear you, guys, but I'm gonna call them back and they can hear me because I am the most important person of the evening. And I'm just kidding. Let's see, Oh boy, replaying your call through? What the fuck? Oh well, here we go. Somebody's calling or I'm calling them, Coler, how's your mominem?
Hello to chat?
Hey Chad, what's going on?
Man?
It's Brian brock Ed, Tiffany and Wayne cannot hear you and you cannot hear them, but you are live on the air with us. Man, what's going on?
I'm going to make this real quick in regard to relationship.
Your show, their show, That Bigfoot podcast gets me through my day gets me through so much.
I'm in your semity right now on a job.
I run my own business, and I'm looking at the mouth of the on Semite and I want to go up those mountains so bad. Last night my wife told me if I do, I'll become a misting floor on one and we just bought a house, so she's not having it.
But I just wanted to say thank you guys so much. Man. You guys mean a lot to me, and that's all I got.
We appreciate you, Chad. You have meant a lot to this show and their show for a very long time. So thanks for everything.
Man.
We love you and we appreciate you. I thank you, all right, take care. That is what it's all about, folks. Chad has been on your show. He has shared some amazing things on your podcast. It is fantastic that those kind of relationships can can come from a show like that. Man, It's just amazing to me.
Chad has had people in tears on our shows. He's an amazing dude. He's a veteran, an Army vet. And when he came on and talked about what he went through in Katrina, like when his first big deployment was Katrina Relieve, Hurricane Katrina Relief, and just it was so heartbreaking the things that he saw when he went into the nursing home. But y'all got to go back and listen. If you haven't heard it, we love you, Chad. You're awesome dude.
We love you one hundred percent.
Love you.
Man.
All Right, We've got other calls, so I'm going to call these people back. I don't know who this is but we're gonna call them right now. You talk amongst yourselves, and yes, Tyler, it is free to call. You do not have to call unless local rates will applay.
Just fine.
Hello, Hey, it's Brian. You're on the air with me, Tiffany and Wayne.
Hi, guys, how are you this evening?
We are great. They can't talk to you because of our setup. You can only talk to me, so we're in a one on one conversation, but they can't hear everything you're saying.
So is going to just say that I love you guys so much you don't even know. I am just so fascinated by the Bigfoot topic. And you guys are just awesome. I love you guys. I love listening to you. It is amazing. I am going to my first Bigfoot conference in Indiana, the first one in Indiana. I am so excited to go. It's just gonna be awesome. So I want to say thank you and I love you guys. And that's all happened.
Awesome. Thank you, We love you as well. Oh, it's so good to be loved. I have no idea. I probably shouldn't ask you that I am a shitty host tonight. I'm not gonna do you find out how many episodes. I don't care who it is. They know who they are, we know who they are. We love you. I love them anyway, no matter what the names are, we love them. I'm sorry. I'm going through my miscalls so I could try to find the other ones here. Oh, we've got quite a few. So I'm gonna call this next one.
If you guys are ready, you are ready, Here we go. I'm calling this person back. This is so much fun. This is one of my favorite things about doing a live call in show.
It was Terra Smith by the way.
Oh, I got to hit another the button. Sorry, here we go, Arispitt. Hello, Hello, Hey, who are we talking to?
Hey?
It's Logan and the going.
Hey man, it's Brian. You're on with me, Tiffany and Wayne live. They can't talk to you, but they can hear you, so everybody else can hear you. Man, what's going on?
I think Grig Show and the mouth Low rounded show out there, and I've been a listener for a year to now. Honestly, it hopped energized me and my own red third. I love to go and go a walk. I look into your show and put get being more motivated to do bup the night when I'm doing my own all around dead.
You gotta do a great job.
We definitely appreciate it. Logan, thank you so much man for calling in. I appreciate it much. I'm gonna give Logan a shout out really quickly. If you guys have listened to the show for any amount of time, Logan's been on a couple of times. He has actually the mind behind the new live cameras that are up at Tide Standing's Radium BC research area. He sent me some really cool video. Yes, I haven't asked him if I
could share it, but I probably should do that. I'll send him a text or give him a call and see if I can share that with you guys. But they caught some really cool video of something being thrown at one of the campers. It's a rock being thrown out of the woods at the camper that he caught on these live cameras. So if you guys are into that kind of thing and you want to check that out, you can look up Discovering Bigfoot in your app store, whether you're on Apple or Android. You can see them live.
If you've ever wanted to check out Radium. I'd like to apologize on behalf of Ontario, Saysquatch and the Bigfoot for it. Sorry, yes, thank you, Steve. But yes, back to the seriousness. If you want to check out Discovering Bigfoot the app, you could check that out. It is live down for a while because of some pretty severe wildfires that were going on up in that area that we're threatening the Radium camp. But fortunately I think those have been extinguished and everything is back on tracks. You
can check out those cameras if you want. You can see it live. And it's one of those cool things that I got to go up there last October and spend seven days out in the woods there. It's a beautiful place. It's a phenomenal place, had some really cool experiences that I will never ever forget. That's the next best thing. If you can't make it up there and do an actual full expedition in that area, you could definitely check out the cameras and live it vicariously through them.
I don't know what else to say, guys. I am so humbled by the amazing support that we all experience that allows us to do what we do every day. I get to do what I love. I can't thank you guys enough. Everybody who listens to the show, everybody who supports us, everybody on our Patreon, everybody who listens to the podcast. It's truly humbling. It's an honor to
get to do what we do. I love it. It's one of the best things I've ever done for myself was taking the leap of leaving the job that was shitty behind the thing I hated doing the most of my life traveling two hours back and forth to work every day and spending so much time working for somebody else. Now I'm able to do that for myself. It is one of the most amazing experiences of my life. It's honestly because of all of you. I could do the show every day, and I could record all these episodes
and put them out there. But if nobody's listening, ain't nothing happening, right, you guys make it happen. All the support is not unnoticed. It is one of the things that I love the most about this community. You got to support us wholeheartedly, and I cannot thank you enough. Let me go around before we get out of here. Tiffany, do you have any last words for everybody, whether it's about this show or your show, what you guys have coming up, anything you want to say to the people.
Yes, we feel for you guys, how you feel for us. I've said it on our show before. We can just be having the shittiest day and we can sign in to do our show and it is a complete rejuvenation for our demeanor, our mind, our everything, and the people that we have on to share their encounters, whether it be paranormal or cryptid or whatever.
You're not just your encounters.
You are people behind the scenes behind that encounter. You are people with feelings, and that is how.
We treat you. We love you all.
We wouldn't be able to do what we do without you.
I'm humbled too.
I'm like, Wow, all of these people are like, we love you, we think you're great, you love your show, and I'm just like, oh, I just think it's sweet Wayne.
As is tradition on that Bigfoot podcast, my friend, fittingly, you get the last word on the show, Gus.
I just want to echo everything that Tiffany said and what Brian said, because it is the absolute truth. You can't have a podcast without people listening, no matter how good your show is. If people don't tune in, you're not gonna last long, You're not gonna be anything. It's because of you, guys. Tippy and I can speak together about our show, Paranormal Odyssey. In the small community that we have built, you people come together, you send in
superstickers for money, just little small amounts and stuff. It adds up and you, guys, y'all mean the world to us. You really do. We love everything about you guys, and Brian's not just saying it. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for y'all. That's the absolute, god's honest truth. We love you, guys. We thank you so much. Please rate and review the show. I know you can't do that on YouTube, so it's that like button subscribe. If you haven't done so, comment, please comment. That helps out
as well. But as far as the podcast, send in your rating, your reviews, all of that. Get stuff until we talk to y'all again. Y'all take care of yourselves, take care of each other.
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