Jan. 12, 2026

My Military Bigfoot Training

My Military Bigfoot Training
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Season 1

In this episode of Bigfoot Society, host Jeremiah Byron speaks with Kevin Lee Gallagher, a fully disabled combat veteran who has served in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Kevin shares his chilling childhood encounter with a mysterious creature in Huntsville, Alabama, as well as curious anecdotes about Bigfoot-related briefings he experienced during his military training in various locations across the U.S. and Canada. Tune in to hear Kevin's harrowing story and his thoughts on what Bigfoot might truly be. Don't miss this enthralling discussion that delves deep into one man's lifelong journey with the unknown.

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You're listening to Big for Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron.

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In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to

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bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've

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seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers

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to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere,

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and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.

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These are the voices of the people who've lived it.

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To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that

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just might change the way you see the woods forever.

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So stay with us, all right, Big for Society. You've

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got the privilege of talking to Kevin Lee Gallagher today.

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A little bit of info about Kevin's background. Kevin is

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a fully disabled combat veteran who has served in both

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the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War. Thank you for

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your service, Kevin. More specifically, he served as a heavy

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wheeled mechanic and a weapons specialist in the army. Kevin

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is on the show today to share some things that

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he's experienced and also some things that in your training, correct, Kevin, Yeah.

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Anecdotes from my training when I was in the military

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at the time, I thought there were jokes.

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Gotcha, gotcha? Oh man, yeah, some of that stuff. Absolutely.

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And Kevin, you are currently based out of the southern

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part of the US, is that right?

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I am.

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I live in Alabama, actually born and raised from the state,

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and I went back to it when I got out

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of the military.

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Kevin, Let's let's get right into things. Was there an

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experience that started you off into the bigfoot world when

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you were much younger? Or how did how did things

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get kicked off for you?

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I guess I could say it didn't come from my family.

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My dad is a space plasma physicist spent his whole

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life working for NASA, and sister is a wildlife biologist

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and she spent her whole life teaching. They both would

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laugh at the subject of bigfoot as being serious. But

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they know what I feel, and they're they're cool about it.

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But I guess what drug I'm a little bit too

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young for Peter Peter give the Patterson that came out

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in the sixties of the next generation.

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So mine was Harry and Henderson's right. But what I so,

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I guess it started out when I was in childhood.

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It is what I had by sighting and uh, as

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far as hearing about it as an adult. It you know,

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I didn't really believe in Bigfoot at that time him,

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you know what I mean. So there's a kind of

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like a chroological order of realization of what I actually

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saw as a kid, because you know, as a kid,

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you don't know what animals necessarily are around you.

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I don't know.

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I didn't grow up in a hunting family. My dad

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never hunted a day in his life. Is not really

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big on goods, which is funny because I specialized at

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one time just on the subject almost entirely, which is

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weird considering he wouldn't touch one if you paid him

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to do it.

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He's a pacifist and I like that about.

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Him absolutely, So maybe it would be it would be

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best to start. Can you share the experience that you

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had as a as a young child that you weren't

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even really sure that it was Bigfoot at that time?

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Sure, when I was six years old, I remember getting

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woke up in the middle of the night. I thought

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of earthquake, because happened, It's what I thought. But when

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I looked out my window, I saw what I thought

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was a bear standing on two legs and a wolf

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and it scared me to death, to a point where

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I closed my curtains for ten years, and I started

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having horrible nightmares from then on about Bigfoot, and not

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too look after that, I saw Harry and Hampton's.

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And Harry the Henderson's.

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Made my sister laugh and thought it was a jovial comedy.

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Scared that that be.

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From then on, I thought Bigfoot was going to come

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get me a child. I always had this feeling that

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he was going to come and get and I had

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vivid Even to this day, I still here Bigfoot dreams,

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which is weird because I don't think I've ever really

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gone bigfooting personally. I just haven't had the opportunity.

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Wow, So do you feel comfortable sharing what part of

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Alabama this took place in.

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It happened in Huntsville, Alabama. It's called the Rocket City.

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It's in North Alabama. It's at the foothills of Appalachian Mountains,

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at the very very end of the Appalachian Trail. Actually

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was my dad's, my dad's childhood home that I grew

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up in. So my backyard was the foothills of the Appalation.

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It's not true, and my backyard butted up to a mountain,

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green mountain to be specific, that kind of area. You know,

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if there were to be an elusive creature, that's where

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I would be in this area, whereas where I am

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now it's all farmland. There's no I don't think i'd

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ever see one here unless he's bored in. Just tune around.

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Because some people think these things follow them home, you know,

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and keep my eyes on them. I wouldn't put it past.

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I would do it if you came to my house.

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I'm going to go to your house.

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Yeah, exactly. So you mentioned that this has kind of

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been in your dreams ever since. What kind of dreams

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are you having when it comes to bigfoot related ones?

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I've always I've always had it to where there were

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another horminid species and they have a society just like

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we do, but it's all based towards nature, and any

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any technology they have is all nature based. It's not

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what we do. Basically, that there are thousands of them,

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you know, in my dreams almost like there's another maybe

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even another world that that's that they're the pnominant species.

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You know.

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Absolutely what you saw when you were a young child.

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Do you remember any were you able to see any

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specific details of the face at all.

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So this is where it gets interesting. So at the time,

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you know, I thought it was grizzly bear and a wolf.

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Well I start to get older, and as I get

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age and get older and bigfoot, you know, the big

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all these bigfoot.

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Stuff come out and I start thinking.

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About it, and I'm like, there are no brown bear

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in North Alabama. And this had been a brown bear

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if it was a bear, because it stood when it

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was standing on two legs, it was taller than the

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roof of the overhang to my house, and my window

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overlooked the whole front porch, so they were just staring

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at me. And there are also there are no wolves

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in this area either, but there are coyotes. And wouldn't

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you know that a lot of bigfoot sightings have coyotes

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in them. I think they worked together with coyotes. We

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used wolves originally, now we have dogs. I got one

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that is attached to me almost physically.

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So you had seen was it two different figures there

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on a big foot in one that looked like a

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wolf or looked like a combination.

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Yeah, there was one that looked like a wolf, which

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I think was a coyote, and there was one that

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was brown, really shaggy, and was taller than my roof

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at least by a foot maybe two foot, and that

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would make it between ten to twelve foot tall.

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Okay, now the wolf type one was that down on

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all fours or was it standing on two legs as well?

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The wolf was on fours okay, but the other one

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was just on two legs. Both were staring at I

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just remember they just I had this. They would not

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stop staring at me. It haunted my drains for years.

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I thought it was ridiculously this weird kid like, Why

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am I scared of bigfoot? Especially considering it was tied

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with Harry and Henderson's. I've always thought it was funny.

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So when you saw Harry and the Henderson's did the

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way that they portrayed Harry's face, did that remind you

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of what you saw? Or is what you saw completely

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different than that?

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It? That's when I started. It really reminded me almost

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exactly what I saw. I saw a very hairy person

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that was huge. I think I think they have to be.

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Another commented.

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The area that you were living in this area and

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growing up there was it a thing where you would

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ever hear other people talking about bigfoot or seeing weird

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things like this.

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So there was some stuff. I've heard a lot of

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different weird animal sightings on the military base Redstone Arsenal.

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Now that let's talk about the military thing, all right.

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So when I was in.

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The military, uh there.

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Every time you go to a training area or anytime

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you go to do training, you get brief and you

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got to do a briefing in and out of every training,

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which is kind of annoying. And then you got to

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do a briefing on the training. So never mind, you

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get my drift. Uh so uh, Fort Letterwood, Fort Lewis,

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and Redstone Arsenal. They had a briefing about a hairy

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bipedal preacher. Aha. If you see a hairy bipedal preacher

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that doesn't have clothes on, do not approach, don't do anything,

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Just walk away like it's a sake. Treat it as

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if it was a particulated python or a rattlesneak.

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Treat it like that. And I thought it was a

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joke because they.

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Always did it with a little spurt, and they always

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did it a little jovial, you know, and they always

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had a cute little slide that went around with it,

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you know. But looking back at it and hearing a

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lot of your podcasts, I noticed I'm about the only

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one that had.

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Briefings absolutely, so just for listeners that aren't up to

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date with where these places are. This is Fort Lewis

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and Washington State is one of them, yes, which is

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an extremely active area around that base. And then Fort

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Leonard Wood that's in southern Missouri, correct, which is another.

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Lost in the woods.

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We caught lost in the woods too, which I think

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is a native It comes from Native folklore that that phrase.

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Lost in the woods.

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It comes from Native foroklore, it wouldn't surprise me. Oh,

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and get this. My neighborhood is built on Indian barrow

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grounds for real.

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Uh. They try to put one of my neighbors across

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the street, try to put it in ground pull in.

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And they dug out human remains and.

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They had to shut down the whole subdivision and no

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one was allowed to put an inground pull.

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In from then on out.

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Yeah.

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Oh goodness, the university had took over and everything.

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So wow, and this is where you were growing up, Yes, happened, Okay,

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So it's.

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I think that Native Americans know about them and always

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have known.

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One hundred per one. I've had some really interesting conversations

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on the show and off the show with individuals from

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different tribes, and yeah, one hundred percent. Now, when you

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had these briefings during your military service, were there any

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interesting conversations after these briefings with you know, other other

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soldiers or anything related to what had been seen in

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that slide?

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Uh?

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No, but I didn't.

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My military experience was in the you know it's better

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less said not said era. You know, you don't you

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don't rock the boat back then. You don't divulge information

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necessarily unless you're asked directly for it. I was always

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trained to do that, like overly trained to do it,

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which is not a good way to do.

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You become a signerative person if you live like that.

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Sure it makes more sense why you have to really

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retrain yourself when you get out of the military, because

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they did. That's that's how it was in the I

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would say, the early two thousands and the like all

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the twenty teams those years under Bush Junior and under Obama.

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Right absolutely to ask to ask specific as well, just

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in case. So during your time at Fort Lewis. Did

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you ever hear any stories that were shared around base

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about sightings of Bigfoot in the woods around the base?

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At all?

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I did at the h the parade grounds in the

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Yakama of where the tribal lands are. We we did

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training out there. Oh, your mom, that Yakama is considered

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part of Fort Lewis, even though they're separated by four

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hours of it.

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It wasn't related to military training.

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I was just.

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I've always been.

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Drawn the Native American tribes and information and history and

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stuff like that. So I was talking to some Native

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Americans and they told.

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Me a story about it.

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A gotcha, gotcha. So it's just you happen to be

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in the area because you're up there, you know, for

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your training, et cetera, and you would talk to san

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individual Sarah tild you get it.

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Yeah, I have had a medicine man ask me, how

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how did you enjoy the conversation you had with the

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old hairy man as a kid?

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And really, oh boy.

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I think they were I think that they was talking

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to me too.

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That's that's incredible. I've I've heard of stuff like that

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before too, where I mean, there's no possible way that

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individual would have known that your history at all because I.

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Wasn't even thinking about it. It was weird.

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Yeah, yeah, oh man, that that's that's some wild stuff.

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Was there a point in your life then that you

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started to uh, kind of connect the dots when it

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came to what you had experienced as a child and

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what you had heard during your service.

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Yeah. Over these last I don't know, fifteen years, I've

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been working hard on my mental health military message you

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up mentally and no, i don't think I'm perfect yet,

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but I've done a lot of work and I'm doing

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that work.

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I've that's when I've.

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Uncovered and figured out a lot of the stuff that

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I just never knew at the time. I wish I

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realized what I now now. You know, the really hindsight

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is twenty twenty and ages. You do get.

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Something with age. Wisdom is real.

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Is there anything you can share about how you had,

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you know, your journey to to figure this out in

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the last few years.

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Really, it's just opening yourself up to infinite possibilities and

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start talking about your dreams and everything that has happened

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to you.

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Share.

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Find someone that you care about and that cares about you,

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that you can share your soul with I didn't have

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a soulmate the first half of my life.

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I do now, and that's what's made all the.

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Difference in my life and vice versus. It's like a mirror,

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you know, when you do something it's mutually that because

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I think most relationships are one sided and that's why

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they never really work. Whereas those those soulmates, that's a

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full equal relationship, you know.

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One hundred percent. I agree with that. Thinking back to

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the training or the briefing that you went through and

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the slide that you had seen, how they portrayed it.

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Do you remember any details about that or does that

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drying or whatever they used. Does it look did it

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look familiar to anything else that you've seen.

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I think they portrayed it the more human like purposefully

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when they were showing us stuff, because they purposely meant

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to say that it's human like no clothes but too big.

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Oh boy. Yeah, that makes you wonder when you hear

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stuff like that.

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And I think Fort leonard Wood was where they gave

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the most in depth briefing, But I almost thought it

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was a skit they were putting it on, you know,

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at the time. That's how I portrayed it. I would

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never have thought that he was being serious. I never

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saw it personally when I was in fort landmon Wood,

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and I spent as depict amount of time in the

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woods right right.

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So the individuals that were giving these briefings where they

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specific specifically trained individual I have not been through the military,

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so my knowledge of stuff like this is very low.

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So okay, whenever you join the military, that you know,

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your first anywhere from three months to uh some some

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training the last ninety six weeks. Wow, you know, I

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I think there's another one that the nuclear training could be,

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you know as years of training. But once you get

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out of training, you go to the regular unit. Every

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regular unit has a echelon of leadership, and in that

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echelon leadership is a training officer or a training non

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commissioned officer, which.

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Is the other part of the rainbow, the one you know, the.

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Ones that actually work, not the ones that just tell

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people how to work and don't actually work. So yeah,

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I was a training NCO for ten years. It was

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fun almost, It was fun.

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Most of my time.

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I ended up doing a lot of training stuff. I

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guess because I was good at it. I was really

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good at electronics, and I was really good with slide shows,

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and I ended up being really good at public speaking,

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and I never thought I would be.

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Gotcha. Gotcha. So the individuals then that were given this

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briefing where they do you think they were specially trained

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to give the briefing on Oh yeah, wells on those slides.

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Well, looking back at it now, you know, because at

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the time I didn't. I didn't know that all this

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stuff officers, you know, I knew about the I knew

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who my training officer was, you know, but I didn't.

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Know how he did his job.

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I was, you know, when I heard all these briefings,

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I was under a specialist. I was a private. I

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wasn't even I wasn't in even any four.

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I was at E two and E three at this time,

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really green.

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Sure, So that's why I thought they were jokes, you know,

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But now that I know how things really work, they

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had to plan and give that full briefing, whereas they

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do do skits like that, you know, people to let

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loose for morale, you know, military is it always serious?

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You know, they do let they do give us a

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little bit of leeways as training in CEO's you know,

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to for morale reasons. But most the classes we in

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time that we a lot. That stuff is planned out months,

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if not. I was three years out when I was

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training in CEO for a battalion which is thirty thousand soldiers.

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I was in charge of it that much training. It's

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it is a lot now that you know, I look

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back at it. I was never not busy.

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Ever.

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Wow, that's I can't imagine the amount of things you

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were keeping track of.

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Guys, they don't ever their brains don't ever get to

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cease to stop. It's never ending for them, and they're

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going to be pulled in like thirty different directions or

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one hundred different directions, you know, especially nowadays they're doing

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now in specops. I had some cool stuff my friends

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that are still in there. The future tech that they have,

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that's the cool stuff.

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They're not getting to be into fighter JITs.

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I can't imagine, not even a year.

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Maybe they're going to be in a chair like I am.

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Right, like enders game, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, And you're gonna have a whole fleet of

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airplanes under your bill.

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Absolutely one hundred percent. You said there there were times

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when there was there were skits, but then there are

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other times obviously where they're not. So were there any

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details that you remember that would lead you to believe

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that what you had seen during that training was not

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a skit?

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My training when I was in Alaska, because the Canadians

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did a training, and I didn't think about it at

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the time, but right after I did at the time,

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right after the training that we were given, I did

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think about it immediately. It occurred to me like, why

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would they jump around at this time on their time?

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And I always like, dude, why would they be having

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a skit? You know, It occurred to me that had

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to have been real. They had to have been seriously

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talking about it and showing us. They showed us pictures

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that there was these trails, and they showed us pictures

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of signs that they have up on those trails beware

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of Sasquatch, and they had to be of hairy man.

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So just to just to ask for clarification a little bit.

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So at one point you were also in Alaska having

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training from the Canadian military.

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Well, when we did cold weather training, we go to Alaska.

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Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha?

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Yeah, all us armies we just go all over the place.

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I did training in California.

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I did training in Louisiana.

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I did training in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, tennes See,

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three places in Alabama. There's trainings every I think they

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have lost more training areas than.

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You would be scared.

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It would be scary to know how many.

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Absolutely so. Was the training that you received in Alaska?

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Was that different in any way talking about the Bigfoot

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related training? Was it different than what you had received

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in Washington State and Missouri?

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Oh? Yeah, because they went to as far as to say,

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don't go out by yourself in these certain areas. Period

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always go out in threes. And they always wanted us

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go out and triangle formations or box formations.

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They never wanted us to just go single file.

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Or none of that. You know in the movies. You

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see however gets picked off going single file because it's

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the stupidest way to walk. You don't do that. If

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you strategically are walking, you don't ever walk like that.

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You do a box whereas you're a two or two,

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or you do a triangle. People wonder what's triangle formation? Well,

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it's because you got a group of people that are

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making a trying where you've got a group of people

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that are making a box.

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That's what I mean when I say those things.

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Okay, that's what I was thinking. So you're in literally

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the shape of a triangle, you and two other individuals,

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and then you're also moving forward at the same time. Okay, gotcha.

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Triangle is me because you can be three to sixteen people,

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whereas a box formation you really got to be like

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four a twelve, You know what I mean?

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Right? And just to ask one more question about the

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Alaska Canadian stuff, So the areas that they were referring

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to were these areas then in Alaska or Canada.

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They're on the board. We did a lot of training

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on the board. You get dual training. And you know, honestly,

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our military has worked so closely alongside Canada for decades.

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That's why don't give me a start about politics.

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Right, freaking yes, I get you.

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Yeah, it feels so bad for the military in that way.

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It has to be rough. It has to be so

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rough right now, I can't imagine it. Right, A question

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for you and we'll see if you can even do

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anything with it. So you you had all this time

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that you were a training officer, so you were giving

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out these trainings to like your battalion. Was there a

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time then when you were given a training to do

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on bigfoot related things or anything else that could be

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considered weird in the same category.

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No, okay, Unfortunately I wish it would have been really awesome.

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But also I was in the military pre they just

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Obama had just passed the Freedom of Information Actor when

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I was outprocessing out of the military. I really got

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out in like twenty ten.

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Okay, So.

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Yeah, unfortunately I didn't get those glory days of live freeze.

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Say everything that you go out on a mission actually

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come back and there's no black that you have to

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put in you know what.

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Oh yeah, I didn't even think about that. Yeah, you

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have to do all that, you know.

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I don't know if people realize though, if you look

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at the Obama era post Free Information Act and look

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at all of his missions, unless they were like seriously

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classified for.

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Operational reasons.

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You know, you don't want to get people die, you know,

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you know, kill people exactly. You know they're where they are,

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how they do their business needs to be secret for

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years because that's they don't just do things one way.

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They do things a lot of ways. But we use

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that book. We use that book off it, you know

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what I mean?

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Right, Yeah, So, based off of of what you experienced

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as a younger child and what you had heard at

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different places during your military career, do you have any

478
00:32:54.119 --> 00:33:00.319
thoughts about what way you lean towards. Is big Foot

479
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:04.839
more of a undiscovered great ape or or some kind

480
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:06.599
of human or anything like that.

481
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:09.759
Other I think there's some kind of human like the

482
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:11.359
Donovans and.

483
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:14.240
What's the name of.

484
00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:18.319
The small people that we've we've found skeletal remains now

485
00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:24.359
of other hominids, and to where we're scientists now see

486
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:28.119
there may be as much at one time a couple

487
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:34.000
hundred different homited living on the planet at the same time,

488
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:38.240
and they're just most of them died out as far

489
00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:41.720
as we know. Well, it's can't it can't be too

490
00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:44.880
crazy that the ones that didn't die out, that we

491
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:47.480
think are dead are still around and one of them

492
00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:55.880
is maybe giant. You know that. I can't. Ever, I'm

493
00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:59.519
not good with remembering words because of Yeah.

494
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:03.759
I totally get it. You're absolutely right, don't function as

495
00:34:03.799 --> 00:34:08.880
well as east I totally get it. But yeah, you've

496
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.679
got Maybe I could try to fill in some of

497
00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:18.400
the blanks you've got everything from gigantapithecuss to uh, that's

498
00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:22.159
what I was trying to say to I believe most.

499
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:25.199
That is a hominid. See that's a hominid.

500
00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:28.760
Or you've got like paranthepists, which I believe is the

501
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:32.639
one that a lot of people like Cliff and others

502
00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:36.079
believe that's what Bigfoot probably is.

503
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:40.920
So I mean there's yeah, like I said, there's lots

504
00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:45.880
of different hominids that existed, so why not they've got

505
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:50.880
to be It would make a lot of sense, especially

506
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:56.119
considering how the Native Americans classify them and how they

507
00:34:56.840 --> 00:35:02.519
they don't ever really say they're animals. No they're not animals. No,

508
00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:06.800
they say no, they're not animals. They always say that instant.

509
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.199
But it's like, it's funny how white people gloss over that.

510
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:15.239
I don't. Yeah, we have a way of glossing over

511
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:18.800
things until we are out in them the thick of it,

512
00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:21.480
and it's just hitting off the face a lot of

513
00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:26.960
things I hear. I mean, really, if you if you

514
00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:30.480
talk to individuals and you read the stories, it's almost

515
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:33.760
like it was it's a it's a forgotten tribe or

516
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:36.559
yeah they had that kind of relationship.

517
00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:42.000
You know, I don't know how scripted these TV shows

518
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:47.000
really are, you know, but that the most recent Bigfoot show,

519
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:53.039
they're Finding Bigfoot. Those guys they're entertaining, but they seem

520
00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:56.880
like they're real serious and how they're allowing them to

521
00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:59.880
portray it and I read what they do after all

522
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:01.079
and what they put out.

523
00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:02.199
M hmm.

524
00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:06.079
I wonder if they're going to be allowed to come

525
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:07.760
out come out with it soon.

526
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:14.519
I would say, looking at the shows that have come

527
00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:20.079
out over the last let's say, probably thirty years, our

528
00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:27.000
best ones to look at would be Finding Bigfoot is

529
00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:32.800
a really good one, and also Monster Quest back in

530
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:37.239
the day had some some really good stuff that was

531
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:41.159
put out. But Finding Bigfoot, I would say, is up there.

532
00:36:41.639 --> 00:36:47.079
But there's probably some different opinions on that, which is fine, But.

533
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:49.360
Well, yeah, I think a lot of it is because

534
00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:51.400
they have to make it entertaining.

535
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:57.519
Obviously exactly TV's TV, I mean, but.

536
00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:00.760
I think I think.

537
00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:06.800
People that help those shows exist, that's what's going to.

538
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:09.840
Make it to where the government feels okay with that information,

539
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:12.840
come it out. The reason why the government has been

540
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.519
holding back, if they really are holding back.

541
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:17.599
Which I think they are, I think so too.

542
00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:22.840
I think it's because they don't want mass hysteria. We

543
00:37:24.119 --> 00:37:27.559
already have hundreds of people look going through the woods

544
00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:31.159
looking for Do you realize how many people would do it?

545
00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:32.880
If they do? Is real?

546
00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:35.480
It would be intense.

547
00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:40.079
Hundreds of thousands of people will be in the woods.

548
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:46.840
And all that pristine wildlife is really going.

549
00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:47.480
To get destroyed.

550
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:50.880
Well that and I mean another way to look at

551
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:57.000
it is imagine the amount of search and rescue calls exactly.

552
00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:59.719
It would be crazy. The amount of people that are

553
00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:01.639
not prepared to go out and to be like, oh,

554
00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:02.519
it's the great thing.

555
00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:05.639
The numbers already mind boggling. Do you, I mean, have

556
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:11.119
these I look at the missing totals out of Alaska

557
00:38:11.559 --> 00:38:15.800
and especially the frontier states like Maine and places like that.

558
00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:19.519
It's pretty Shushually, it's.

559
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:20.599
A couple thousand people.

560
00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:24.440
It's really wild stuff. It's crazy.

561
00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:28.039
It's a lot and it's a lot of It's a

562
00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:34.239
couple hundred at least a year. Appllation, you know, Appllation

563
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:38.119
is the most dangerous trail. Appalation trails the most dangerous

564
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:42.280
trail in the world where people die on our appalation trail,

565
00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:46.239
A little, tiny, mighty appellations that you know that are

566
00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:48.440
the oldest mountain chain of.

567
00:38:48.679 --> 00:38:53.199
That's still alive, you know, right right, extremely old mountains

568
00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:57.679
for sure. You're right. A lot of people end up

569
00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:02.519
having some serious issues on their I hiked some of

570
00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:06.639
that when I was like in high school, but even

571
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:09.119
more now because you have to deal with a lot

572
00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:14.519
of people being attacked on the trail by people with

573
00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:18.119
ill intentions. Just there's all sorts of weird stuff that

574
00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:19.480
happens on that trail one hundred.

575
00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:22.599
I grew up hiking. I had a dad that was

576
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:23.280
a backpacker.

577
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:26.840
He went through a he went through a forty stage

578
00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:29.119
where we went backpacking every weekend.

579
00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:32.199
I wouldn't be too.

580
00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:35.440
Far off to say that I might be, I don't know,

581
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:38.679
sixty miles shy of doing the whole thing.

582
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:45.280
Wow, that's really cool. I've done. I've done Connecticut and Massachusetts,

583
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:48.159
which you know, there's a lot left to do, but

584
00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:51.079
it's still pretty cool. Some cool stuff to go to

585
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:57.440
being a veteran and talking about, you know, things that

586
00:39:57.519 --> 00:40:02.800
you experienced during your military career. Were you nervous at

587
00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:05.800
all coming forward with what you experienced during your time

588
00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:17.679
in the service, or or how did that play out.

589
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:17.760
Before I met my wife. Now, yeah, I was.

590
00:40:18.119 --> 00:40:21.280
I was very selective for years on what I talked about.

591
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:29.159
But that's because that's the mentality that they they want.

592
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:32.800
They don't want everyone knowing what we do and how

593
00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:37.000
we do it. Now we live in a world that

594
00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:42.280
we feel like we can start sharing, you know, and

595
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:47.760
that sharing is caring and it's okay, right people. People

596
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:51.880
will freak out maybe, but they'll get over it. They'll

597
00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:56.639
start to think about it maybe, and maybe these truths

598
00:40:56.719 --> 00:41:00.719
need to start being told. You know.

599
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:03.519
I think you're one hundred percent right. It is at

600
00:41:03.519 --> 00:41:06.679
the point I think so Personally, I think it's at

601
00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:11.679
the point where I don't think anyone really cares if

602
00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:15.360
people are coming out and sharing about their Bigfoot story,

603
00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:18.559
which is like, I think back in the day, you

604
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:20.679
had a lot to lose if you were putting it

605
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:23.239
out there. But at this point, now that we've said

606
00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:28.199
aliens and all that, and UFOs and and Nhi and

607
00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:31.239
however you want to say it, I mean, I think

608
00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:33.960
it's a perfect time to throw other stuff into the

609
00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:34.480
mix too.

610
00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:38.920
So I'm surprised Trump hasn't did it, done it for us.

611
00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:41.360
I wouldn't that be crazy?

612
00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:43.079
But he would do it.

613
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:46.920
He would totally would you.

614
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:48.320
Didn't care if there's science.

615
00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:52.880
Pine, Yeah, hey bigfoot, two guys, that would be man,

616
00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:54.639
what what a crazy.

617
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:57.360
Thing when he could sneak on past if he did

618
00:41:57.360 --> 00:41:58.480
that right?

619
00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:07.280
Exactly? Oh man, wild stuff, Kevin. Extremely interesting conversation. I

620
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:13.599
haven't had many individuals with military background like yourself that

621
00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:15.800
have been able to come on to the show, so

622
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:20.159
I appreciate you doing so. A lot of them send emails,

623
00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:23.159
but it ends up not happening. So I've been able

624
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:24.760
to talk to a few people. But thank you so

625
00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:28.840
much for especially for coming on camera as well and

626
00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:32.159
sharing what you experienced during your time and also your

627
00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:36.199
citing as a younger child. I do greatly appreciate it,

628
00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:40.239
and thank you so much for coming on the show today.

629
00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:43.079
Thank you for having me. I love your show.

630
00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:48.880
Please don't thank you. That's not in the cards, so

631
00:42:48.920 --> 00:42:52.679
we'll see what happens. Have you ever heard all the

632
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:56.960
accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oakridge, Oregon? And you think

633
00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:59.599
to yourself, Man, I would love to get out in

634
00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:02.880
those ways. It's an experience it for myself. Well guess

635
00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:07.239
what this year you can If this is interesting to you,

636
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637
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638
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639
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number one, I'll be one of the speakers. It's gonna

640
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:29.239
be wild. I'll probably I'll say this. There may be

641
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:33.280
stuff you haven't heard anywhere else, because let's just say

642
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:37.960
sometimes it's well, you just got to be there. We'll

643
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644
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661
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I hope to see you at the booth in Oakridge

662
00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:02.679
this year we can talk about your encounter. Was able

663
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664
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year before. It is an incredible time. You're not going

665
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to want to miss it, and I'll see you there.

666
00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:15.679
Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something

667
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:18.920
directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're

668
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:22.719
in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've

669
00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:25.599
seen something that no one can explain, or if you're

670
00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:28.880
a National Park ranger or forestry worker who's been told

671
00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:31.880
to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot who's seen

672
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:35.199
something strange down on the ground, or if you're with

673
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:38.840
the FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence and you

674
00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:42.079
stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about. And

675
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:45.480
if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue responder

676
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:48.840
who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense.

677
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:53.199
If you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field,

678
00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:56.360
or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something

679
00:45:56.440 --> 00:46:00.599
happen that you've never told a soul, And if you're biologist,

680
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:04.559
a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under contract who

681
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:07.960
has found evidence you're not allowed to report. If you're

682
00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:11.280
a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a spiritual retreat

683
00:46:11.679 --> 00:46:14.519
and you saw something that shook your faith, or if

684
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:18.000
you work in the shadows CIA, NSA or anything with

685
00:46:18.079 --> 00:46:22.480
clearance and you've seen what the public hasn't, then I

686
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:27.519
want to talk to you, even if it's anonymous. You

687
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:31.000
can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com.

688
00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:33.880
The world needs to hear what you've been forced to

689
00:46:33.880 --> 00:46:39.719
carry alone. And you're not alone. You've got the story,

690
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:44.079
We've got the mic. See you in the woods. Thank

691
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:46.960
you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast.

692
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693
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694
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712
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714
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And see you in the woods.