"We Started our own Bigfoot Museum"

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podcast on this one episode. All
right, So thanks for coming back to

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the Bigfoots podcast. We have the
pleasure of having Melissa Brickman as the person

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we are interviewing today, which is
amazing. Thank you for a greening to

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come on, Melissa for having me. Yeah, definitely, and would you

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mind sharing a little bit about who
you are. If people are not I

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do not know who you are,
which I would be surprised, but it's

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a possibility. So, oh jeez. I don't think anybody knows who I

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am, but it's really hard to
put it in a description because I think

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we're all so many different things.
But I am. I'm married to Cliff

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Brickman. That's probably more people know. Yeah, he was on Finding Bigfoot

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and I actually met him on the
show as I worked in production, and

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so we started up a museum.
We own, the North American Bigfoot Center

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in Boring, Oregon. We've owned
that for about a year now. And

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I also do special effects makeup,
and I sculptures and pretty much anything I

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could just create. I'm into that. So that is fantastic, very very

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cool. So I was listening to
a few few podcasts. You haven't been

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on a lot of things, so, but you've been on some interesting things.

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You've been on the dive Bar podcast, which is kind of fun.

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And then there was a gentleman who
interviewed you in Cliff, who you had

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done like some commercial work for in
the past or something of that regard.

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But that was pretty interesting. He
I wanted to ask you this. This

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is kind of like a off the
cuff question, but I don't want to

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forget it. You'd mentioned that you
were a counselor in Connecticut. That feels

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like there could be an interesting story
there. Is that anything that you could

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I don't. So I grew up
at a summer camp and I am very

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like drawn to that atmosphere. But
can you tell me more about that?

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That's very cool? Yes, I
love you know, growing up, I

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never actually got to go to any
summer camps. But I was working at

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Hollywood Video during the summer between college
break, you know, and my friend

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Mike Newall he called me up and
he said, hey, we you know,

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we're short staffed up in Connecticut.
You know, how do you feel

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about coming up here? And I, you know, I say yes to

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pretty much everything and that could be
terrible, but I thought, you know,

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I've been a Hollyween Video for how
many years now or whatever. I

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just felt like, what a great
opportunity to get out of where I grew

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up and experience something I'm not used
to and do things that scare you.

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And that kind of did. Because
I didn't have a background, so I

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was like, well, what's a
summer camp like? And it was so

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fun and pretty much every eighties movie
you've ever seen about it. He totally

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is, Yeah, totally is.
And we were up to no good,

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no good at all, sneaking out, lots of different things, a lot

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of things you can't you know,
you don't want to put on audio or

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video, but right, but yeah, it's a lot of fun stuff,

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is it? Was it the setup
where it's like a mixed camp or like

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you got the boys camp across the
lake and the you know, sneak across

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type deal. It's like all those
these movies. It's totally like that.

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I mean, I know, I
was called a nit NOOI and I had

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ten to twelve year old girls and
I was cabin eight A and there was

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eight B and it was mostly all
you know, there's just separated by you

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know, sex and then also with
age, just like in the movies.

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So it was really fun. Like
Britney Spears was really popular. So I

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came home and they would be like
dancing and jumping around and it was it

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was really cool to bond with some
of them and I wonder where some of

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them are right now? You know, it was a really good experience for

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me. I get that. Yeah, and it was creepy because Blair Witch

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came out that summer and we had
to oh that's right that yeah, yeah,

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yeah, totally. Oh my goodness, So did you was that before

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the before you worked at the camp
or after or daring that it came out?

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Was storing? Storing? It had
to have been or like right before

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I went. I can't remember what
a month it was released, but it

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was a summer, you know,
and we had to go on one overnight.

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They stayed with us for two weeks
and we would take them on one

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overnight as a group tent camping,
and every time we would get up in

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the morning, they'd be piles of
rocks outside of our It was really scary.

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I love it. That is so
funny. Yeah, it's a great

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film. I love that film so
much. It's as creepy as I'll get

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out. And I guess that guy
who wrote it is coming out with another

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found footage film. It was just
it's in another podcast, was it' I

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haven't listened to it yet, but
whatever, it's not important, but it's

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out there. It's like, Okay, this is terrible. Someone's going to

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get mad at me, but it's
fine. I can never think of any

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titles or names when I'm being in. Every years we're talking about it,

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I've been like, five minutes later, I'll have it. So yeah,

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okay, I'll wake up at three
am and I'll be like that was the

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one and the weird stuff happens.
So you are you said Boring, Oregon

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is right outside of Portland, Is
that right? Yeah, it's about i'd

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say forty forty five minutes east towards
Mount Hood, that really huge volcano snow

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capped all year. It's beautiful.
And my husband and I live in Sandy,

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so you know, Boring is actually
a little closer to Portland, but

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it's only like fifteen minutes away.
Okay, and you actually so you used

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to live in in Portland? Then
yeah, we did. We did.

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We moved here about I want to
say, three or four years ago.

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So okay, remember man, that's
one of them. We were so close

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to almost moving there, but my
wife has well so health condition that is

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not good in that type of climate. So that put the kabash on that,

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which is too bad. Because we
fell in love with southeast Portland,

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my goodness, like that is the
hipster heaven? Right, Oh, it

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totally is. So. Something I've
been I've been curious about is so you

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got hired onto Finding Bigfoot as like
it was like a was it production assistant

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or yeah? Actually it was yeah, And then I took it because it

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was such a good opportunity to you
know, and be on a big show

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like that. And I thought,
you know, yeah, I'll say yes

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like I usually do. And it's
just I had no idea I would end

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up you know, putting me together
and with my future husband. You know,

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It's just it's just crazy the way
the universe works like that. I

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was totally not in a place to
even be there, you know, honestly.

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But it was panned. So for
some of our listeners, let's say

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that, like they're totally in The
Bigfoot and they have no idea what production

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assistant is. Oh, maybe a
summary of that. Basically, you do

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it's the first job you get what
you know, if you if you want

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to go and work on a set, you know, you just I want

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to be a PA. And most
of the time, you know, I

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lived in Pittsburgh, so you didn't
really get paid for a lot of stuff.

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But you're the grunt. You're you're
doing all the things for every department.

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You're throwing away trash or you know, just it's like a base level.

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And I have been in the business
for like almost two years or I'm

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ten years at that point, but
I you know, that was a step

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below obviously, but before I was. But I always say, if you're

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modest, you'll always have a job, and you know what I mean.

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And it's just like, I'm not
too good to do any job. Honestly.

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After TV, I was a janitor
at a zoo on the midnight shift.

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Like, I don't know, that
sounds awesome. It was awesome.

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Yeah, how has that never come
out anywhere? That's fantastic. I think

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you're the first person I've told.
All right, let's get into it.

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So what did you were a janitor
at a zoo? I was. I

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realized that I could make more money
because I knew I was going to come

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out here because we were dating for
almost two years and this was like the

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endgame. It was like me coming
out here sure, because I could not

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get him to come to Pittsburgh,
that's for sure. I don't know your

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husband, but I can guess that
will never happen exactly. You're right.

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You're right about that. So I
figured, you know, I worked a

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couple of shows in Ohio and then
I realized, like I was driving all

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the time, not making the money, and I found out that you make

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so much more money as a janitor
in a union for the zoo at midnight,

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and I thought, well, that's
interesting. And I love gorillas,

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I love old primates, I just
love all of that stuff. So I

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figured we was kind of interesting.
And there were like two or three of

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us on at night. We worked
independently of each other, and we had

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zones, and it was if you're
an introvert, like I pretty much am.

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I mean, I can be extroverted
when I'm comfortable enough. But it

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was a perfect job because it was
quiet. They were like, you know,

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there was an energy there that was
weird and creepy, and I just

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loved it. Yeah, what do
you mean by that? Just like the

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weird like animal energy or like,
yeah, I mean there have been people

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who had been attacked and killed by
lions to elephant. Actually African painted dogs

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killed somebody, so there's a little
bit of like a weird energy. Yeah,

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what kind of was this out in
West Coast area, Pittsburgh. Oh,

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Pittsburgh, that's right, Okay,
man, that's crazy. Yeah,

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And I remember And it was perfect
though, because I was dating Cliff,

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who was, you know, three
hours time zone behind me, and i'd

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have to work at midnights. I'd
call them and have time to talk to

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him before I started my shift.
You know. It was like a nice

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stal and I always remembered pulling in
and thinking, you know, I don't

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really know that there's not a lion
out there, that someone forgot to close

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the gate because there's nobody here but
me, and that used to freak me

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out. Yeah, that's crazy.
Is did you the jobs? Did you

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ever hear like you probably would hear
like the animals, like at night,

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they probably go nuts? What you
do? Oh? Man? Yeah.

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The the snow leopard was the most
terrifying. And I worked with this kid.

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I would train him, you know, he was going to be a

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new cleaner and I trained him and
he shadowed me. He wouldn't get out

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of his car because I said,
Oh, where'd you go? He says,

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I I heard something and here was
a snow leopard and it would just

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do this really weird high pitched thing. And I knew what it was because

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I was used to it. But
he was like, I'm not getting out

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of the car Melyssa, do you
know what it might have been? Do

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they do infrasound? Oh? You
know, I just some bigfoot related Yeah,

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because some of the bigger predators,
right, they do the low things

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that affect people. Yeah. Yeah, I mean this was more of a

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higher pitched interesting but it wasn't Yeah. I can't even do it with my

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own vocal ability, but it was. It was. It was creepy.

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But if you know what it is, you know. I mean I knew

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what it was. I wasn't scared, but this poor kid, I was

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like, oh, you poor thing. And I walked them down in the

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dark and we went and looked at
it and it still did the sound.

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I said, that's what you're hearing. Don't worry, You're good. That's

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awesome. Yeah. So another question
I had is, so is have you

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have you been interested in cryptis throughout
your life or is it a thing where

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it's like, oh, I just
happened to get this job, it's finding

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bigfoot. Okay, this stuff is
kind of cool, let's get into this,

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or like, were you kind of
interested in that sort of stuff beforehand

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too, growing up. That's a
very good question. I get that not

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as we well well said, as
you just now, that was really good.

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I can't even think right now,
sorry, but that was really well

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put. That was a good question. I got to say. I was

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more into ghosts and as as far
as cryptos, I think the most you

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know, interested I was was Mothman
because I was from Pennsylvania. That was

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in Pleas in West Virginia. Yeah, yep, so episode comes back to

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man. Yeah, yeah, so, but I had seen the show.

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I was a fan of it.
I thought, I thought, what are

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these four doing? Like, what
is going on with these people? I

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thought it was hilarious. I thought
they were so fun and then you know,

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an opportunity, I thought. Yeah. But I got to say when

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I was in turn our main for
the episode, that's the first vocalization I

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heard, oh man, And then
I started to change my opinion on whether

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or not they exist. And I
do think they exist. You know,

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live with Cliff for a month,
and you know he can there's somebody.

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You know, we have so much
evidence at our house right now. You

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know, we have over three hundred
don't casts and you know there's even if

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one of those are you know,
that's crazy. Three hundred original casts.

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Ye, that's got to be like
your garage is just full of casts or

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I don't know, you probably have
something, uh weight to to store them.

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Yeah. He actually uses uses baking
racks, which is really because they

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have trays you just pull out.
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don't tell anybody my secrets, but
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tools of the trip. That's awesome. So like it's like those these old

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shows. I used to uh watch
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in the Smithsonian. They pull out
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it's like that, but with big
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from our sponsors. Yeah, that's
exactly, and it's a great way to

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all the time. As long as
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good, Okay, cool. So
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water soluble. So it makes sense. Yeah. Cool. What's it like

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having Bobo for just showing up at
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I love you, Bobo, You're
my brother. He was so you know,

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and I could say that about all
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they're just very kind and welcoming and
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are really close in real life too, and uh, you know, he

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cruises up here and we'll couch surf
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that's okay, Like he's always welcome, and uh, he's just he's just

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such a Bobo is an anomaly,
you know, yes, and he forever

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will be. Just love the guy. Probably one of the best anomalies you

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can hope for. I mean,
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a cool guy from what you know. Yeah, he would give you the

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shirt off his back, he would
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you know. And actually Cliff and
Bobo have a podcast too, called A

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Big vanand Beyond and it's fantastic.
It's listen to it. Yeah, that's

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so nice. It's it's you know, I was going to say it eventually,

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but I didn't want to come off
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it's really good, Like kudos to
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it, and you know, with
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and I don't know, it's going
pretty well so far. Yeah, and

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they seem like they are. They're
they're kicking it up a notch with who

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they're starting a partner with, which
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something like that. I hope I'm
not saying it wrong. But because they

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have like ads come up in the
middle of their episodes now, which is

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cool. So yeah, and they
read them, right do they read them?

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Some of them? Some of them
it's like, hey, next podcast

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on iHeartRadio and you're like, whoa, this is glo Okay, I had

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no idea. Yeah, that's kind
of I need to listen to the newer

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ones. I guess, yeah,
they're good. You should check out your

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husband's podcast. So hmm, let's
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curious about is so have you always
You're big into creating different things right now,

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you create I think I've heard that
you've created like fingers, Bigfoot fingers

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for the Museum, stuff like that. You're very into like special effects and

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like, uh, you know,
horror makeup, and your Instagram has some

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crazy stuff. Like I every once
in a while I'll see a picture from

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it. It's like, Holy mackerels, some guy got bit by the shark.

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It's like, oh, it's just
Melissa making some guy like amazing,

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Thank goodness. But have you always
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that something you got to like you
went to college for or you just like

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that was your thing? You know. I got to say I always had

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a passion for horror, and I
think what I didn't even know like special

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effects so much, because I think
the first taste I got of something like

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seeing something being put on would be
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doing the makeup for the music video, which Stoke is kind of creepy

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to me at forty one, I'm
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that they turned him into that I
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you could do that, and that
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think where I started to notice,
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someone else's vision. They created this. And then there was a nineteen I

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think it was eighty seven and I
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had Mark Harmon in it, and
he was like, freak double bit way

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from all there. Yes, I
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the same Yeah, Mark Harmon the
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we're similar in like, yeah, yeah,

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I think Carl Ryan I think directed

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them. But it was just so
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school and they didn't want to be
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poking out their eyeballs with the pencils
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those eighties, you know, and
you're like, I could do that too.

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I could make that. Yeah,
But I never thought that I could

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go to school for that because I
mean we're still old enough now that that

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wasn't an option really. I mean, I went to school for communications journalism

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whatever. But I mean, yeah, I mean it's good. I jumped

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through the hoops, I did the
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honestly, I would have tried to
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He has a whole special effects really you

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know school there, and I would
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I didn't know. I know,
my family we couldn't have afforded to send

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me there. I mean, it's
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kids now, you know when I
work on marshals or movies, they say,

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like if they're an extra, they
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I get more acting jobs or how
do I get into this? I said,

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volunteer to be a PA because guess
who you work for? A director?

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Guess who casts in movies? Directors, you know, do all the

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hard work, do all the production
stuff exactly, and then you understand you'll

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be a way better actor if you
do production because you know kind of like

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how everything works and even with like
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I probably wouldn't even gone to college, no offense, but I probably would

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have just started making things in volunteering
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legit. That is awesome. Yeah, just do it when you're young and

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work at it and just try to
connect with people and you will get a

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job. You know. That's good
advice. That's really to throw away college.

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No, college is so good too, guys. Just get it.

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It's crazy go to school. Yeah, what would you say? You're so

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it's obvious you have a big love
for horror. When did that? When

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do you think that started out?
M M? Probably in the eighties.

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I'll be more specific, like as
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something so for me? Like with
Bigfoot. It's like I can remember watching

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In Search of with Nimoy with my
dad like boom. You know you're into

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it? Yeah, yeah, and
I think mine too. Exorcist and Amityville

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Horror. I saw those way too
young. Honestly. I had an older

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sister and she'd have our girlfriends over
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Street, you know, Michael Myers, all those good You know. I

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was just really into it, you
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didn't know that you can actually do
something with it or try to get a

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job or you know. But I
just figured if you just you know,

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when I make stuff, you know, and I'll bring it in the museum

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to sell, like a severed Bigfoot
finger magnet, or I have these monster

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teeth mandibles that I paint up real
gross and they're wet looking, and that's

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awesome, and Cliff's like, Okay, we'll see if they sell, and

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then you know, maybe somewhere will
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of this is like, that's not
my crowd, you know. I know

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that that's probably not my people that
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I think horror conventions and things like
that, that's like, that's my people.

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Yeah, sure, totally. Do
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or like set up a booth or
non. I usually just work with Cliff,

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like when we do something, I
just work as stable. Like I

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said, it's it's good because we're
interested in different things, but we run

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the business and we have different roles
in that business. But we work really

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well together, so I think,
which is good. If I was obsessed

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with Bigfoot and I knew everything and
I had such a strong opinion about what

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I think it is or they are. I think that wouldn't really work out

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so well. It would be tricky, wouldn't it. Yeah, Yeah,

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And I honestly think it's a great
mayor it's because well, oh, double

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meaning, but it's it's just because
we both let ourselves do our own things

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and be who we are, and
I don't know, it works out well,

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very cool, can you? I
guess? Kind of leading into I

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know you've talked about this in other
places, but let's so let's talk about

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like, why was it that you
guys felt compelled to create the North American

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big Foot Center. We kind of
led into that well, you know,

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we moved out here and the show
had been you know, off the air

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for about two years at that time, I know, and we had you

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know, we had so much,
so much stuff. You know, he's

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collected for thirty years. You know, he's got so many things. And

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we just discussed about what's our next
move? What do you think? You

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know, do you want to go
who? Do we want to work for

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ourselves? We want to try does
he go back to teaching? Like what

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you know? That means he has
to go back to school and get credit,

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you know, all that kind of
jazzure. And you know, my

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film work here is very hit or
miss. You know, I don't get

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jobs, you know, one after
the other. I am available, and

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I say yes because I love working
in that industry. Anyone listening, But

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I think we just sat down one
day we was like, you know,

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let's have a Let's create a place
where people can come and talk about their

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experiences or learn about sasquatches and they
don't have to feel like they're being judged

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or laughed at, because that it's
a weird thing that people are, oh

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a bigfoot, but it's such a
normal thing in our lives that I was

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like, there has to be people
out there that would really love to come

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into a center and learn. And
so we just decided to pull together and

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and make it happen. And we
have a really great contractor Keith. Okay,

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oh it's his last name, but
Keith. I'm sorry, I don't

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know his last name right now,
but Keith listens to this podcast. Don't

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worry. Well, I'm all on
too. Okay, cool, hey,

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Keith. But he did an amazing
job getting He does carpentry, He builds

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like all our exhibits, and he
does a great job. So he really

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helped us do all that on the
in the back end of things. And

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then Cliff decides what, you know, what exhibits. I help with that

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too, and then if he needs
fake rocks, you know, I made

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a big foot plaster foot with hair
and a bone coming out of it.

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It's like just weird things like that. Yeah, like we're just what do

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we want to build? What do
we want to make? You know,

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what's a skull look like? So
yeah, it's been really really fun and

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we've met so many amazing people and
the support has been amazing. So we

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thank you everyone who supports us.
So there's a there was a question where

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I'm just I'm filling in questions I
have from other interviews. Oh yeah,

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who's who's the person that walked through
the door at the North American big Foot

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Center that you were like, I
wasn't expecting to see you here today?

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Is there anyone cool that comes to
mind? They're like, oh, oh

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cool, Oh okay, I'm like, okay, I thought you met like

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the guy who brought in he thought
a foot or maybe poop that's happened.

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That's cool. Well, you know, I would say, so far,

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there's amazing. Now now he's one
of our friends and he's really nice.

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His name is Kelly Elemiu and he
came in with this big energy and he's

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just like wow, what's going on. And he's like the funniest guy,

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and he's got energy and he's telling
us all about Bigfoot and I was like,

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wow, this guy is such a
big personality and he's such good energy,

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you know. And uh and he
started talking about touring and everything else.

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And we're like, oh, you're
in a band, you know,

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and he's like, yeah, but
Cherry another Band's one of my favorite episodes

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of Bigfoot beyond so good. He
is so good. I love that guy.

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Do you love him? Yeah,
he's so good. I was not

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expecting all that, you know.
And and he's just such a fan of

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Bigfoot. He knows a lot,
you know, so smart. I was

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surprised that day. Yeah, he's
totally smart. And he's a rad bass

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player and you know, you know, and just just people who are ninety

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seven. You know, a man
coming in who's ninety seven. That's so

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cool, you know, and we
let him in for free because you know,

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you're ninety seven. I mean,
come on it, Yeah, you're

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not going to charge a ninety seven
if you're if you're still going, I'm

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not going to charge you. You
know, I know, I feel bad

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even charging, but we have to
make a living, you know, I

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know. Yeah, but I yeah, just just just nice people who you

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just you know. Kelly was his
personality is so great and like I said,

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now I can call him a friend. He's a good guy. And

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you know, and I it's nice
because Cliff plays music too out Oh really,

408
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.440
Oh no, no, no he
does. Yeah. I knew that

409
00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.319
he guitar, is it. Yeah, yeah, he could play. He

410
00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:12.599
could play drums, chew O cool. Okay, he doesn't really do much

411
00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:15.839
with that, but yeah, he's
more guitar. But yeah, so you

412
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:18.720
just never know who you're going to
meet and hang out with. And yeah,

413
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:25.559
that's awesome. That that is is
really cool. So it looks like

414
00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:30.240
there's some changes. So right now
there's some fantastic So I've never been to

415
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:33.319
the North American big Foot Center because
truth be told, I live in central

416
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:37.440
Iowa. It's not I'm just going
to ask you where you're from. Okay,

417
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:45.680
okay, but we have gone over
to Portland and Olympic Peninsula in Washington.

418
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:49.359
Stuff beautiful area. We live in
Iowa for now, so it's cool.

419
00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:56.599
Nice. So you've got some fantastic
exhibits in the center. Is there

420
00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:03.319
anything cool coming down the road that
people could look forward to show up that

421
00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:07.599
they might want to return to see. We'll be back with more Bigfoot Society

422
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:18.160
after these words from our sponsors.
Yeah, we're adding six more panels this

423
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:22.079
this week. We're you know,
it's going to take some time with electrical,

424
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:27.640
but we're having a thermal imager.
So along with Stacy Brown, we

425
00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:32.519
have a whole entire exhibit with Stacy
Brown footage from Florida. One of the

426
00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:38.359
best infrared shots of a big foot
at night. It's really epic. So

427
00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:41.039
we're working on that now. I
just prof reread it two nights ago,

428
00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:44.839
so I think it's at the printers. It's good. So then we're going

429
00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:48.839
to hook up an infrared camera so
that people can see what they look like.

430
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:52.880
And I like that. Yeah,
so we're trying to like when we

431
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.720
first open, we just were so
you know, excited to be open,

432
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:00.079
but it wasn't polished. I gotta
be honest, you know, it was

433
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:03.200
as good as it was going to
get for that time, but as we've

434
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:08.920
worked so much more into it now
that it's more polished and professional. And

435
00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:15.240
we even have a cabin theater inside
that's actually a little movie theater that people

436
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:18.799
can go in and watch a chapter
of about a Clackamas River photo from a

437
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.400
trail cam that's really good. Yeah. We we have a life sized patty

438
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:27.400
that we have. It's a picture, but with the foot attached to it,

439
00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:32.000
there's some really nice visuals. Okay, so people can like stand out

440
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:34.480
next to it and be like yeah, actually really big. Yeah, yeah,

441
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:37.559
yeah. We have the mattress prints
and then we're going to add some

442
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.920
audio step pad stuff that I'm really
into haunted houses, so I'm like,

443
00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:48.160
honey, we need to make this
like more. So I got freight Freight

444
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:51.839
Props. I believe that's where I
bought everything from. But they have like

445
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:55.839
this mega screen box and this this
pet and this step on. So we're

446
00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:57.160
gonna get all in nuts and crazy
in there. If it's up to me,

447
00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:00.759
I'd be all out. But I
don't want to like have anyone have

448
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:04.440
a heart attack because they're scared,
so I have to Well, that's true.

449
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:08.279
You can put a warning on the
door, I guess, but yeah,

450
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:12.000
I know, he's like, it's
not Halloween all the time. I'm

451
00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:15.079
like, oh, oh, yeah, I guess that because, Yeah,

452
00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:20.839
in the other interview you had mentioned
and I think this is pre COVID that

453
00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:23.640
you did that interview, but you
were thinking about doing like a bigfoot haunt

454
00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:30.640
thing. Maybe yeah, that's probably
it's not going to happen. Yeah,

455
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:32.839
but I think that we are going
to happen, Thank you so much.

456
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:37.160
And I know we're going to eventually
have We're probably about two clicks away from

457
00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:40.759
doing the Yetti cave. Behind all
the exhibits, there's a cave that we're

458
00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:45.240
going to be building eventually. But
we're kind of waiting to see, you

459
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:47.680
know, how this whole thing works
out with COVID, and you know,

460
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:51.000
we don't want to put a whole
bunch of money into something if we're not

461
00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:53.319
really sure if it can stay open. So we're trying to kind of hold

462
00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:58.720
off on that. But it's it's
you know, it's coming. If everything

463
00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:04.839
works out, keep it. So
yeah, keeping the lights on. Yeh.

464
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:08.799
You had mentioned or you were a
cliff mentioned that there is like the

465
00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:14.799
potential of a patrion. Oh yes, we okay, so I should mention

466
00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:17.680
also yes, you know that it
would be just like, it would be

467
00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:22.599
amazing if you set that up.
You know, it'd be like, I'm

468
00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:25.839
so excited to start that. Yeah, because membership, I mean, I'm

469
00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:30.160
so excited about that. But we
try to figure it out. We're not

470
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:36.480
real techy people. But I will
say we just hired Connor Anderson from Colorado.

471
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.319
He's just moved here and he's currently
living with us, and we love

472
00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:45.279
we love that guy, so we
really trust him. He's been doing really

473
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:49.160
great work. He's mature, he's
modest. That's what like most importantly,

474
00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.400
I want someone in there who's not
going to be like I know it all.

475
00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:54.039
You know, he's so nice,
and so we brought him in.

476
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:58.960
And not only is he going to
do a lot of shooting videos because he

477
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:02.400
has a you know, a good
film background, and he's he's twenty nine,

478
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:06.240
so he can like text stuff.
Yeah, he could figure out Patriot.

479
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:09.320
I'd way quicker than Cliff and I
get so now that we have another

480
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:15.320
person on board, Connor Anderson,
you know, it's going to be so

481
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:17.800
nice because Cliff and I, A, we're gonna have a little more time

482
00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:22.559
to do other work that we have
coming. But also somebody who loves Bigfoot

483
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:27.559
as much as we do and wants
to the business to excel, so so

484
00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:30.960
excited that he came. Yeah,
very cool, very cool. Yeah that's

485
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:35.960
good to know that you guys are
still going towards that, because I think

486
00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:42.679
that could really help give the center
and the extra boost that it might need

487
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:47.719
during this time where I'm sure people
are starting to come back. But I

488
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:52.360
mean, I know everything is affected
as well, you know it is.

489
00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:53.719
You know, we're just kind of
like day by day. That's why I

490
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:58.239
just keep telling myself just day by
day. You know, don't get don't

491
00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:01.400
read the news three times day because
I'm obsessed with like, well's going on

492
00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:07.039
now? You know, but day
by day and people have been coming,

493
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.519
you know and supporting every day.
Our numbers are good, and that's you

494
00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:15.159
know, we can't say it enough, how grateful. And I can't even

495
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:21.239
believe that, like a I own
a business and two like it's a Bigfoot

496
00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:24.239
museum, but that people come and
I mean we've been building it for so

497
00:35:24.519 --> 00:35:29.239
long that it's just you could like
cry about it because you're just like I

498
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.519
can't believe people want to come here, and then hearing them in the back

499
00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:37.719
laughing or enjoying it. It is
like so heartwarming. I can't say it

500
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:42.079
enough. That's awesome. And you
know it's because you you totally hit the

501
00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:45.840
nail on the head where it's just
so people in this field are just they're

502
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:50.239
looking for a place where they're not
going to get judged or like say you're

503
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:52.679
crazy, get out of here.
Like it's just a place that they can

504
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:57.440
go and they're like, oh,
okay, everyone here is cool, I

505
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:00.239
can be. So I have a
ton of people around the world that listen

506
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:05.599
to this podcast, but I'm very
selective who I tell in real life that

507
00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:08.280
yes, I have a podcast called
Big for Society, because I know some

508
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:12.639
people are just going to be like, dude, what are you doing?

509
00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:16.639
And you know, it's whatever,
but yeah, they just need a people

510
00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:22.599
just need a safe place. And
for us, it's the North American big

511
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:25.360
Foot Center. So yeah, and
families too, Oh you're welcome, and

512
00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:30.360
families. You know, it's it's
it's been so amazing because honestly, you

513
00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:34.039
know, summertime, kids are home, they've been home for a very long

514
00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:37.960
time. Now we get so many
families, real people from out of town

515
00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:44.480
Texas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, lots of Idaho, Nevada,

516
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:49.840
Utah, Washington obviously, but it's
just so nice that they come in

517
00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:53.519
and it gives a family something to
do because there's really not that much besides

518
00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:58.000
eating, you know or whatever.
I'm around here. There's a lot.

519
00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:01.360
Yeah. Well, because you're right
next to a pizza place, right we

520
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:06.519
are. Yeah, it's really good
pizza called Nuts on Sports. Yeah.

521
00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:12.239
Cool. There's chesters next to us
too. Oh nice, that's actually that's

522
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:14.400
good to know. So there's a
place you can get a drink, right,

523
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:21.119
I like that because there's a room
that you sometimes rent out above the

524
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:24.960
public the pizza price and have like, yeah, special speakers maybe sometimes.

525
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:29.880
Yeah, we had doctor Yeah,
I think we had three. We had

526
00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:32.800
Doctor Meldrum. I think twice.
Maybe I'm wrong. I think we did

527
00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:37.599
at least three of these. So
you would buy a ticket and you know,

528
00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:40.960
say it's like twenty five bucks or
forty bucks. I don't actually remember

529
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.000
what we charged, but you get
free access into the museum and then the

530
00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:49.079
speaker is there selling his books,
he'll sign, he'll talk to you,

531
00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:52.199
take pictures, whatever, And we
let that go for like an hour and

532
00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:55.440
then we all hit over the pizza
place upstairs banquet room and then he does

533
00:37:55.480 --> 00:38:00.480
a you know, one or two
hour presentation and then people are eating and

534
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:04.400
cool. I love doing those and
I miss it. We can't do it

535
00:38:04.440 --> 00:38:07.280
now, you know, obviously,
but when things get better, we'll we'll

536
00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:10.480
be bringing that back because that was
super fun. We had Tom Powell.

537
00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:15.719
Do you know that guy. I've
heard a few things with Tom in it.

538
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:17.280
Yeah, yeah, Oh, I
love Tom. He's one of our

539
00:38:17.320 --> 00:38:20.599
friends, one of the first people
I met when I lived here, and

540
00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:25.119
he or when I moved here.
He's he's he's amazing. He's so good

541
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:30.639
at speaking, and he's paranormal.
And that's just proof right there. One

542
00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:32.840
of Cliff's best friend, but he's
paranormal and doesn't share the same ideas.

543
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:37.840
Oh that's a true best friend.
Well, Cliff always says that I don't

544
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.400
have to agree with someone in order
to hang out with them, which I

545
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:45.639
think is a huge thing that our
culture has forgotten, that it's okay to

546
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:50.440
hang out with someone you don't agree
with exactly, not freak out like.

547
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:53.199
So I've always respected Cliff for saying
that. That's really cool, thank you.

548
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:58.880
Yeah, he's he's just yeah,
he said it. He nailed it

549
00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:01.119
on the head there. I don't
know. Yeah, he's That's how Cliff

550
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:07.119
is. We have the strangest friends, some of them here, I know,

551
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:10.440
you know what I mean. It
is like an array of amazing people

552
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:14.760
who know no one's like the other. You know, there's there's just such

553
00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:19.039
an array of amazing people in my
life and they're all different. And oh

554
00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:22.320
yeah, I bet I love the
people out here. They're so fun.

555
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:25.800
That's a really cool culture out there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you

556
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:32.760
got something cool in Oregon definitely.
So it's beautiful. I know, there's

557
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.440
so there's a lot of people in
this community that you know, they like

558
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:43.039
places like the North American Bigfoot Center, and there's others across the the US

559
00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:45.679
as well. But how can let's
say, let's say there's people that they

560
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:50.840
can't come to your center. What
are ways that they can help support you

561
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:54.760
guys? Oh yeah they could,
well, yeah, they could share posts,

562
00:39:55.199 --> 00:40:00.039
they can go on and I mean
they can make a donation. I

563
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:01.760
mean, we've had people do that, but that's we really appreciate. It's

564
00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:07.000
not necessary though. Also there's on
our website. We do have a store,

565
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:10.079
so we sell t shirt stickers,
I don't even know what's up there

566
00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:13.800
right now. But that's also why
Connor's here, so he can help us

567
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:19.079
get more stuff up there. We
ship anywhere, even casts. Cliff has

568
00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:22.519
a certain amount that he has the
intellectual property for and that people can get

569
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:31.239
a cast from Cliff will ship it
out. So like that boy, it's

570
00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:36.880
intellectual property for a cast. So
he can make like copies of the cast.

571
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:39.960
Yeah, like he has mother molds
of all the originals he has,

572
00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:43.760
you know, he has to get
their permission. Like, we don't sell

573
00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:47.760
anything that we don't have the rights
to. That is so smart. So

574
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:53.599
like, oh man, that's super
super smart right there. Yeah, he's

575
00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:59.800
a smart guy. Yeah, yeah, so that that is you know,

576
00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:02.440
so of the ways I guess buying
stuff or just telling your friends or sharing

577
00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:07.320
posts like anything. It doesn't have
to be buying or supporting us with money,

578
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:10.719
but even just supporting us by sharing
or liking or whatever, you know,

579
00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:15.920
and we're we're probably gonna do another
Facebook live and those are fun.

580
00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:21.119
I like those those are fun.
Yeah, thank you, And especially if

581
00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:24.079
you're if you're making new stuff,
like you know, that's a great time

582
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:28.159
to do another one of those.
I think. But yeah, very cool.

583
00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:32.000
Yeah, did Cliff ever figure out
like the whole Facebook thing getting locked

584
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:37.039
out of Facebook? Or no,
he's still using mine? Maybe Connor.

585
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:40.159
Maybe Connor has magic regard in that. Yeah, I speak. That's terrible.

586
00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:44.480
I'm going to have to bring that
up to him. Maybe he Yeah,

587
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:46.320
maybe he can figure it out.
It's been such a weird thing.

588
00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:51.480
He just they can't verify that he
lives here, and so I just said,

589
00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:54.039
just sign in online and then now
I'm an admin on his page.

590
00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:58.119
But like, I don't even I
don't even have to do that. So

591
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:06.360
yeah, all right, very strange. Before we transition to something else,

592
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:12.159
So I like to close out the
main part of the episode or the main

593
00:42:12.199 --> 00:42:15.840
episode. Bye. So let's say, if people are listening to this and

594
00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:21.440
don't know who you are, what
is the best way that they can How

595
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:22.960
would you like them to keep you
know, if they want to keep up

596
00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:30.159
to date with what you're doing?
Oh, like myself. Okay, I'm

597
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:36.719
Melissa Brickman. I love all things
horror and sculptures and bigfoot whatever. You

598
00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:40.000
can find me on Instagram Melissa dot
Brickman, Facebook, Melissa Barrickman, Twitter,

599
00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:45.880
Melissa Brickman. So that's where I'm
at. Yeah, and the North

600
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:51.679
American Bigfoot Center best waits. Oh
yeah, yeah, North American Bigfoot Center

601
00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:54.159
dot com. If you, if
anybody out there has a sighting, has

602
00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:59.199
a picture, has something, please
email us at North American Bigfoot Center at

603
00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:04.719
gmail dot com. Because Cliff or
I read those so nice. Possibly Connor,

604
00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:07.280
Now I don't know, but you
know, we look into everything.

605
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:12.840
Cliff is actually at a location right
now looking not far from here. There

606
00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:16.639
was a sighting, so really I
know. Yeah, and so we always

607
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:21.400
follow up on any reports. But
anyway, other than that, we're North

608
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:27.360
America Bigfoot Center on Instagram, Twitter, I think it's NA Bigfoot Center and

609
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:30.599
then Facebook North America Bigfoot Center.
It's a very long word, a very

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long title for a business, but
it works. But you're exactly right.

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It makes the Instagram game a little
interesting America O. Yeah, and the

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acronym is NABC, which is on
our logo too. It stands for a

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National Association of Basketball or something like
that. Yeah, it's got to be

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something, you know, that's got
to be something. Yeah, that must

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be fun. Oh we love it
so thank you for coming on here.

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At Bigfoot Society, our goal is
to provide a platform for those that have

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encountered Bigfoot to share their encounter and
a safe and respected environment. But we

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need to hear your story. If
you've experienced something that you just can't explain,

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please send me an email at Bigfoot
Society at gmail dot com. Then

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we can start the conversation. And
I know a lot of you have not

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shared your encounter at all. It's
been twenty years and it's time that you

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get this off your chest and then
you can get some well deserved for rest,

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because I know you haven't been sleeping. I understand what you're going through,

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and I appreciate every one of you
listening