November 7, 2025 • 46 mins
In this heartfelt and often hilarious conversation, Brian reunites with Daniel Lee Barnett and Chris Alford to talk about the long-awaited release of their new documentary, My Bigfoot Life. What began as a simple idea has become an international phenomenon — a story that bridges continents, friendships, and even belief systems.
Brian catches up with Daniel and Chris— as they reflect on their incredible journey making My Bigfoot Life, a documentary now preparing for release across the UK and soon worldwide. From the quiet forests of England to the misty ridges of Washington State, the team relives their wildest moments on and off camera — the laughter, the scares, the sleepless nights, and the life-changing experiences that bonded them forever.
They talk about the surreal moment the film got its theatrical release, the emotional screenings that left audiences in tears, and the deeper message behind the project — one that goes far beyond Bigfoot. My Bigfoot Life is about connection, courage, and embracing the neurodiverse perspectives that make the world a richer, more compassionate place.
Daniel shares what it meant to watch his personal journey unfold on the big screen — and how the film became a celebration of family, growth, and authenticity.
Chris opens up about stepping into the spotlight for the first time, and how their shared experience in the forest changed the way he sees the world.
And Brian reflects on that unforgettable night in the Pacific Northwest — the encounter, the energy, and the brotherhood that formed in the darkness.
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Brian catches up with Daniel and Chris— as they reflect on their incredible journey making My Bigfoot Life, a documentary now preparing for release across the UK and soon worldwide. From the quiet forests of England to the misty ridges of Washington State, the team relives their wildest moments on and off camera — the laughter, the scares, the sleepless nights, and the life-changing experiences that bonded them forever.
They talk about the surreal moment the film got its theatrical release, the emotional screenings that left audiences in tears, and the deeper message behind the project — one that goes far beyond Bigfoot. My Bigfoot Life is about connection, courage, and embracing the neurodiverse perspectives that make the world a richer, more compassionate place.
Daniel shares what it meant to watch his personal journey unfold on the big screen — and how the film became a celebration of family, growth, and authenticity.
Chris opens up about stepping into the spotlight for the first time, and how their shared experience in the forest changed the way he sees the world.
And Brian reflects on that unforgettable night in the Pacific Northwest — the encounter, the energy, and the brotherhood that formed in the darkness.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now one of your pudding. I got a string going
on here, something just because my dog. Something killed your dog.
My dog. We're flying through the air over the tree.
I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm
really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over
the fence and he was dead. And once you hit
the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I
saw was my dog coming over the fence.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Set.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
What are you putting? We got some wonder or something
prowling around out here? Did you see what it was?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Was?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It was standing enough. I'm out here looking through the
window now and I don't see anything. I don't want
to go outside. Jesus quiet, you're bick Hello, hit the
buddy out here, Quin, I'm out there. It's thought of
a bit, just about taking fort nine. I don't know.
Easy Ann out there. Yeah, I'm booking right.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Hey, Daniel Lee Barnett, as I live and breathe, Welcome
to the show man.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Very nice to be about, Brian, how are you mate?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I am hanging in like a hair and a biscuit.
It has been a long time since we've done one
of these shows, so thank you for joining me today.
Chris Alsford, my friend, my brother from another mother. Welcome
to the show man. What's going on, Hey man, it's
good to see again. You're looking fit and healthy. Yes,
it's much better to see you in this light than
(01:40):
in the hospital, which is the last time I saw you. Guys,
I am doing much better and I'm much happier doing
a show than laying in a hospital bed. So we're
here to talk about My Bigfoot Life. Let's jump right
into it headlong. This documentary that we've all been a
part of since its beginning. We've talked about it on
the show. The time has come. We've been teasing this
(02:01):
for months, but it's actually here. Daniel. Let's start with you.
Let's talk about My Bigfoot Life. Let's talk about the
exciting news that just happened very recently about the release
of this film. What can you tell us about My
Bigfoot Life? What can you tell us about what's going
on and it being in theaters over in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
We've had a phone call from eminem Productions about a
week and a half ago to say that My Bigfoot
Life has finally gone through the Everlasting editing, gone through
the everlasting filming, and we finally got to the deadline
of it coming out, So the first step of it
coming out, they really wanted a cinema release, and for
(02:41):
it to be a cinema release, it goes through so
many different channels, and were so impressed it to that point.
There's not many films get to that point of that release.
It will be in nineteen cinemas up and down the
UK with a company called Picture House, which is of
a big company in the UK for cinemas, and it's
going to be shown on Monday the fifteenth, and we
(03:03):
hope that everyone enjoys it.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Chris, You've been an integral part in this process as well.
You were there in the Pacific Northwest. We had our
experiences together. It bonded the team in ways that we
never thought were possible. What has it been like for
you being a part of this process and getting this
news that it's finally on the cusp of being out
there for a worldwide release. People are going to be
(03:26):
able to sit in a theater in the cinema, as
Daniel so eloquently says it over in the UK and
then obviously over here in the United States eventually. What's
it been like for you to be a part of
this on both ends. You've been there in front of
the camera, you've been behind the camera.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
You guys are.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Filming new things now with Summit View Studios. What's this
process been like for you? And how exciting is it
for you being a part of all those things to
know that it's finally on the cusp of being released.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Right from the start, I started to meet people that
I'd only seen on TV, and so it was exciting.
And then it evolved and now we're doing a documentary
and I'm in the forest with people on the TV
and there's camera clus and none of this is anything
I've got any experience of before, So it's all exciting
and new, and all you're worried about is making the
fool of yourself and keeping your gut sucked in because
(04:17):
all of a sudden, these camera men are everywhere. Then
it's made, and then we come over to your side
of the pond and we had our experience, which was
life changing in some respects. It's frustrating because you can't
ever portray to anybody the emotion of that moment unless
you're a witness, and in this case, it was an
(04:39):
exciting witness event, so it's even more difficult to try
and have a conversation.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
With anyone about it.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
It's changed me. I do a lot of hiking in
the forest with my wife. You look at the forest
differently now when you go out, because it feels like
it's giving up one of its secrets to you. And
then it's months it's not my industry, and I'm like,
what's taking you so long? Well, it's taking you so long.
Then finally you get this bus. Oh yeah, it's going
(05:09):
to be in the picture house. Picture House Cinema is
a unique cinema chain or theater chain movie theater chain,
which has restaurants attached to somewhere. You would take your wife,
I'm the anniversary dinner or something, and then go watch
a movie together. So even that's a little bit special. Yeah,
everybody at work has been asking me for a year,
(05:31):
when's it coming out? When's it coming out?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Is it going to be on the TV? Is it
going to be doing this? And I've been I don't
know till we go back to work. And now I'm
finally telling everybody and they're like, I'm on holiday that week.
You've been waiting a year. I'm so your holiday.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
I gotta say that my grandparents have just gone to
Greece and they get back Tuesday the sixteenth. They're gutted
and I'm making fun of them so much one day
of the year, one day of the year, and they
miss it.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I got to see a rough cut of this film
early on. Your dad Craig sent it over to me.
It was amazing then. And then up in Pennsylvania, we
were all up at the Central Pennsylvania Bigfoot Cryptid Conference
slash Festival a few months ago. God time flies when
you're having fun. Obviously, I had my horrible experience and
(06:21):
had to go into the hospital and have emergency surgery.
But before that, we got to show this film to
a select group of people. And I tell you, there's
something very special about being involved in a film like this,
in a project like this with people that you consider
your friends and family, and then to be able to
share that with so many people in a room of strangers.
(06:43):
This is the first time they've been able to see
what we all experienced, and it was a very powerful thing.
I was doubled over in pain most of the time
I'm doing the showing of the film, but I was
still able to take that in and I could feel
the visceral response and reaction that people were having to
the film. So I ask you first, Daniel, You've been
through a couple of these now where people have been
(07:04):
able to see the film. What has that been like
for you? This is about you, It's about your life.
It is your bigfoot life that these people are now
experiencing on the screen. What has that been like for
you to open yourself up to that and for people
to share something that's so special and so powerful to
you and your family? What's it been like for you
(07:26):
to share that with perfect strangers.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Actually gone back to the UK.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
When I showed it at my conference, we had a
good amount of people there and it was actually the
first time that christ saw it. It was first time
that a lot of the cast had seen it, the
first time Ryan had seen it. I've seen this documentary
now two hundred times, but it was almost like watching
it for the first time with everyone else.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
It felt really weird.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Now, I also have the team that actually worked for
the venue, and they said that they'll go off and
do stuff and they're all circle around in that same hole.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
We created a really nice atmosphere in that hole. But
what made it just turned special and magical. Let me
say is when that documentary finished and the credits were
coming up, it was DJ Brewster from Alaskan Killer big
Foot stood up and everyone stood up with him and
(08:24):
began clapping, and I got to say ninety percent of
the room were crying. It was that point where we go, wow,
look at the room, look at what's around. Chris did
that same thing, wipe as eye in the room. We
then stood up at the front. I was looking in
the room and going, Wow, these people get this doc
(08:46):
these people get that message. I think we had done
our job. It had paid off what we've done, the
amount of work that it's been over the past year
and a half is finally paid off. Then when we
came to the US, the reaction between loads of other
people was also really magical. Now I got to say,
I was a little bit distracted by Brian Kingshot, so
(09:09):
I was a little bit distracted towards the end, But
even at the end, people had that same reaction, meaning
that it's spreading around very quickly that this documentary isn't
only a big book documentary. It's a documentary about a
team coming together and a documentary about autism and at
the neurodiverse community. So yeah, Bigfoot, we got this great thing.
(09:34):
But that is the underlying meaning and for everyone that
keeps saying that also makes a bonus point that we've
done an amazing job on that side, meaning that the
message to go around the world about autism, which is amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Absolutely, Chris, same question for you. You are one of my
favorite people in the world. You and I hit it off,
We clicked immediately. Your personality is fantastic. You're very outgoing,
amazingly funny guy, but you're very behind the scenes kind
of guy. You're not used to being out there in
front of the camera that sort of thing. What has
that been like for you to be a part of
(10:10):
this project in front of the camera and then share
that with people something that meant a great deal to
us personally. You and I especially had some experiences together
that nobody else got to experience, and I know how
powerful that was and what an emotional thing it.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Was for me.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
How has that been for you, not only going through
that with the team that night in the woods doing
our thing, but to see how people are responding to that,
because that's a very different thing when you put something
out there that's very emotional and very private and very
special to you, people are judging it. Let's be real,
that's what's happening. People are watching this or they have
(10:46):
an opinion about what they think about it. What has
that been like for you going through this process and
being able to share this in a room full of
people and then responding to what you lived through.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
So thanks for the kind wits.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
I either give you my wife's telephone number so you
tell her what great guy I am.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
She doesn't know. Yeah, I've not been on camera before.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
So when I watched it the first time in the UK,
first of all, I'm checking myself out on the screen,
because you know, I'm checking how bad I looked. And
that one thing I noticed is I am so obviously
not looking at the camera. I'm like, geez, you look
such a prat like you like looking in the full
three sixty. But a little bunk at the camera's a
(11:28):
time be more natural.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Christ.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
And then there's the little surprise for everybody in there
from me.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
I saw everybody in the UK turn and look at
me when it came to the US screen and.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Has that a moment approached?
Speaker 8 (11:40):
I was stood in the doorway and I took a
little side step out so that nobody could look at me.
That's where I ran into you, and you said, Chris,
I'm in so much pain.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
I didn't know how serious it was. I'm just like
sucking up the princess. We got a movie going.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
I sleep around the door and I see Daniel looking
at me, going, yeah, you shit.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
It's not something that's natural to me.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
But when you're actually out in the forest people are
asking you questions, comes naturally to you that you tend
to start to get the cameras. And obviously in the
Pacific Northwest, you don't think about the cameras or the
sound or the anything. You were in the zone, and
at one point it was only me and you in
the forest.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Right.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
You were about I don't know, thirty thirty five feet
away to my left.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
What can I say? Shit go real?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
That is definitely the best way to put it. Shit
did get real. But before that, this film started in
the United Kingdom, and that's something that I want to
get into today. We haven't really talked about that. I
wasn't a part of the filming in the United Kingdom.
You guys were so I want to kick it back
to you, Daniel and talk a little bit about the
beginning of this film, what it was like to experience
(12:47):
that over there, because it's a different beast. Right, You're
in your home, you're in the place where you're familiar with,
You're in the United Kingdom, and you have these people
flying over you start filming this documentary. Let's start there.
Talk a little bit about what the idea was behind this.
Was that always the plan to start there and then
maybe end up in the United States and talk about
some of the amazing experiences that you guys had over
(13:09):
there while you were out in the forest filming.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
A lot of people don't know the story, but I
skipped back all the way to January twenty twenty four
where I had my first meeting with Monica. I proposed
this idea. It evolved and it got into a story
of Wow, it's going to be about my journey.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Now.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
A lot of people keep saying to me, Oh, I'm
connecting my book My Bigfoot Life to the documentary My
Bigfoot Life. It has nothing to do with each other.
People go, oh, Minette, I thought I was a book. No,
they just chose to name it My bigfoot life. So
in March, I remember myself, Chris, Nan and Monica went
(13:51):
out to the forest and we scouted the filming and
it's the first time that we're together and we're filming
in about a month and a half time. So we
get them ready and I can remember that point going
when Monica is talking about we'll put the toilet there,
this is where the food bands going.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
We're like, this just got very real.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Now.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Obviously for people in big production that's not very big,
but for people like us, we go wow.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
So when I had to on the day in the
UK marshall.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
The toilet in, I always remember that we're getting basic
up set up in two different forests because we're in
two different locations very close to each other.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
It was that.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Moment, and then Monica was sat in my house and
we got all the contracts written, all of it was
signed of like, wow, let's go. That became very real
at that point. Now to be filming in my own
forest that me and Nan have been researching in for
a year and a half.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Literally been in that.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Forest every other weekend, so we knew it like the
back of our hands. So we had certain okay, where
we were going to go and hit.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
And stay tuned for more Sasquat Chalousy.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
We'll be right back after these messages.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
And we were going to go and show the Americans
that came over. And when we hit first film and
day it was all exciting and it was like, let's go.
It was day two when Chris turned up and I
looked that Chris and Chris are like, oh, this is real,
this is rare. We're to see the amount of camera
equipment that was everywhere to see the cause it became unimaginable.
(15:37):
And we won't be able to say that feeling to
anyone because you have to be in there to feed it.
So to go into a little bit the backstory of
the UK now, the first night shoots, first time I've
been out but night, apparently the first time Chris has
been out at night with these guys.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
We split up.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
We had Runnee on one team with Ronnie and Nam
and Tony went with that team, and then on our
team we had Ryan, Chris, myself, my dad Craig. We
had split into two teams and our plan was to
do calls across the two different ridges, so we were
opposite each other.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
And then he went until that point that we've finished are.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Kind of on the fly interviews, and we heard a
real loud bird that flew by.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Now at this point we're not believing the.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Bigfoot or anything like that in this forest, but something
scared of that bird, and Chris says that in the
actual dock that this bird is scared. So Ryan proposes
that we go up and try and look for what's
up there.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Chris has got his thermal out there. We're walking up
this ridge.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Now I'm halfway up and you see this sit in
the dock, and I look back down. It just looks
very real. Everything that's in this dock is real. Nothing
is fake or exaggerated.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
It's all real.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
So when I say I've enough, I've enough. But then
we got back down. Chris then says to turn the
camera off and there's a bit of a magical moment
there as well that behind the scenes, there was a
lot more in the UK, and half it was cut out,
so there's an awful lot that we filmed that.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Isn't in this dock.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Now, only pass over to Chris, because I've now been
talking for god knows how long to tell some stories
about the day.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
She Oh, thank you, what do we do.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
We went searching with Ronnie and Ryan for there was
some old earthworks there, there was an old line kill
and stuff like our curious stuff that you find in
the forest. But also the other thing that struck me
about the forest was he was teeming with deer and yeah,
all sorts of wild lights that we have in the UK.
You could see signs a bit everywhere, so it's a
really comfortable place to be. Yeah, the bird was running
(18:05):
away from us at night. Shortly before that was shortly
after that, I'm certain. Well, we got the four deer
running and it was at night and they were running
at full Well, didn't think about it till afterwards, but
they were running towards us, which was a little random.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
That was a little random.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Yeah, it was definitely so a story that I would
never forget.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
And okay, Chris to say this, because otherwise I'll be
in hysteric for the next two hours.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
So we've split.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Up again and we're walking along both ridges and now
we're getting a bit bigger. We got a stream right
in the middle of us and Chris is walking down
the middle.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Now we take the option to go completely dark.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Torches cameras are on the lowest brightness setting things like that,
everything is quiet. Now I'm going to past over to
Chris because he knows where I'm going with this. So
this is probably one of the funniest moments in the UK.
And this is from the other director, Monica to you.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Yeah, we all huddled together and decided let's go dark,
see what we can see.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
We'll keep the thermal out.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
The director was at the back Monica, and so we
all went dark at the same time.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Nobody told her.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
So there was this big crash in and make someone
out of a cartoon that saucepans flying everywhere and windows
breaking or something like that, and so all the torches
come back on. And because she has a Slovakian accent,
instead of saying she chipped herself, she said, I just
did chip myself with something like that. Of course the
(19:41):
caprice may as well just turned off a thought of
an hour twenty minutes then, because we were on the
floor and laughing, we were all going to go dark,
and she fell over something.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
And so basically what then happened after that, So of
course we're still in the middle. Monica came to us
and said to the director of Freddy. Well, wow, she's
all huffy and puffee. She said that could have been
a rat, a rabbit, a deer. Were like, those are
three very different animals, she said, just so I heard
(20:11):
something behind me. I've got to say that was the
most funniest moment, and we have it on camera somewhere.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
We just comes out and said, I think I've just
shitted myself.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
I see, I think I've just shitted myself.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
That might be the name of this episode. I think
I might have shitted myself. There was another moment when
we heard an owl. We're like, yes, an owl, it's normal.
It's the UK forrest.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Don't know my owls in and out one hundred percent.
But I said, in this region, probably a torny owl
or a barn owl. Where I was shot down in flames,
it was some other species of owl. Absolutely, one hundred percent. No,
there could not be any other side. I recognize that,
and I've done this qualification, that qualification.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
It's this owl.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
And I thought, I'm a relatively keen outdoors. I've never
heard of that specific owl, so I googled it.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Yes, only in the US, it's not in Europe at all.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
So the chances of that owl being in the forest,
there was more likely big films in that forest than
the howl.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
What can you do? I sucked it up.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Suck it up.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
Cup.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
So we've talked about some funny moments, Daniel, I'll throw
it back to you and ask you this, is there
a favorite moment? I know you guys had some weird
things that do show up in the documentary that you
guys were able to document. I don't know how much
you want to talk about that or how much you
can't talk about that, But is there a favorite moment?
And I know that's tough to pick out. Maybe it's
some of the funnier stuff, but was there something that
(21:39):
really suck out with you daring filming that made it
into the dock? Maybe it didn't make it into the
dock while you were filming in the UK that stuck
out to you that you want to convey and share
with the folks.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Now, a lot of people don't know this, but when
I first met the Three Hours as we call them,
Mars Ray starstruck and I had to pull up very
quickly because I was working with these guys and I
had to work with these guys on a professional level.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Now, I gotta say the person that I was most star.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Struck by it would have been Ryan, but he just
kept talking at me, and then we'd been on the
phone twenty times by the first meeting was actually Ronnie.
It was broad daylight and we were all walking down
this stream. Now Ryan had gone off somewhere. I can't
remember if crystals with us. I think he might have
(22:31):
gone off up the hill and we're just by this
waterfall and it's me Ronnie that I think. There might
have been a couple of camera guys with us, possibly
even Tony Bannon with us.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
We just sat there with.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
This waterfall, not big waterfall, but it was peaceful, and
we came across this nest thing where it was very
clear that it was shaped like that. Whether that was
humans or not, we don't know. But on a personal level,
to sit there with Ronnie, just me and Ronnie for me,
and take DNA with him and then just sit there
(23:07):
and chat was probably my favorite moment in the UK.
There was a lot of amazing moments in the UK,
but to sit there with someone that got me into
this Now, I've got to say I saw Ryan before Ronnie.
But to sit there with him and just chat normally
in front of this amazing waterfall with zero sound, you
(23:30):
just got birds. That was just unreal for me and
I have that foe up on my Facebook sometimes because
we just treasured that moment.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
So from the UK, I think that was my favorite bet.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, Chris, same question for you. I know it's tough,
it's not a fair question, but I'm going to ask
it anyway. Did you have a favorite moment? Was there
something that stuck out either a day shoot, night shoot?
What stuck out for you? As far as the filming
in the UK.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
He had in the breaks from film meeting.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
I don't know how I'd missed this, but basically production
crew went off and ordered Chinese takeaway. Everybody put in
their order, everybody, but I didn't know anything about it.
So when they came back and everybody's dishing out or
this really good smelling food and it's cold, and I'm thinking, yeah,
I could eat. How did you know what to order that?
Like everyone wrote it down there? I started to dawn
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on me. Yeah, I didn't know anything about that, but
everybody Kristen Getty food and it's like being treated as
on an equal level with your favorite TV stars. Yeah, dear,
use my spoon. I'm making people like Daniel throw up.
But the idea of double dipping now, so yeah, that
was a favorite moment where all of a suddenly I'm
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just one of the in crowd.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
With these people. Yeah, yeah, it was good.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
So let's bring it from the UK over to the
United States. You guys, make it over to the Pacific Northwest.
I was able to fly out and meet you guys,
and we he had some amazing moments. Some of the
best moments I've ever had in my life that I
will never forget happened on that trip while we were
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in the Pacific Northwest, Washington State specifically, But I remember
there was a special moment. Daniel used to sit on
the couch with your gramps. You guys were watching Finding
Bigfoot together. That was your thing that really brought you
into this world of Bigfoot, right, And I remember being
out there at the Olympic Project headquarters and you guys
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were going in to meet Bobo for the first time.
That was a huge moment for me, and it had
nothing to do with me. It was all about you guys.
But it was a very powerful moment, an emotional moment
for me to see you guys be able to experience
that together. So let's go to that moment. Let's talk
a little bit about that. What was that like for you?
(25:50):
I guess you'll have to speak for Grams because he's
not here. What was that like for you, guys to
have those moments that you guys shared so intimately in
your home on the couch watching these guys and then
you're going in and there's James Bobofe waiting to see
you guys? What was that like for you? Was that
one of those moments that stuck out for you in
the United States?
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Before I go into that, I don't know why Chris
is covering his face, but every time I keep rewatching,
I was the one that helped edit that piece of
footage and we zoomed in and both of you are
absolute bloods of tears.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I'm going to interject here and say, that's allegedly.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Would you agree there was a lot of pollen up
there that none of us were accustomed to.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
We were from out of the area. Yeah, very true,
very true.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Continue, Daniel, one day I'll tell everyone about when I
showed you the backstory on the phone, and maybe we
should have recorded that because you were on the floor,
so basically walking into that burden with Grahams. Now, I
know that Grahams has watched this show for years, probably
since it first came out, meaning that for him, this
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is a more moment for him.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
So I'm very aware of that.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Gramps watched Expedition big but he watches Expedition Act, but
Finding Bigfoot he watched endlessly, meaning that to meet Boa
in person, he was shaking. So when we got in there,
when Gramps shook Bobo's hands, you can see him shaking,
and that's real. I don't mean for this to sound
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stage because Grams is worried about, oh, I'm trying to
act here, but no, all those emotions were serious, and
all those emotions I knew would come out of him
because for him, that's a really special moment because I
can imagine when you get to seventy four you begin
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to go, what do I want to do?
Speaker 5 (27:48):
And that wasn't on his list of what I want
to do.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
So for him to go and experience that, go to
where he's watched, go to the Pacific Northwest and actually
meet these guys and go out in the forest where
Bobo is just incredible for him. He keeps speaking about
it on how amazing it was. I know that he
sat there with him talking about when he was watching
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on the Finding big Foot, and then when Bobo cracked
a joke when Graham says, I feel quite honored to
meet you, he then says, yeah, you should be. That
just jelled everyone together. That just yelled Bobo, Grampt and
eye together through that, because then once someone cracked the
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joke and we laughed back, you then get into that
element of just laughter. I think then when everyone else
came in, that's when it's sunk in to him at
that point that I just met my idol. I'm currently
in the Pacific Northwest, and I've got everyone very special
around me, and that really pushed him to that edge
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there where it was a very magical moment. Now I've
gotta say, I don't know how Ryan does it, but
Ryan does a really good job interviewing someone. And I
think that message has stayed with him at the stake
because it was the anniversary not so long ago, it's
been just over a year.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
I think we still keep thinking about it every week.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
There's not a week that I don't think about that,
and I think that's the same with Gramps.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
I think that was possibly his favorite moment.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
I also know we had taken off to their minds,
possibly been killed by big foot up the ridge. But
Gram's also spent a long time sat with Bobo in
the middle of the forest, and that they talked about
everything that they had loved. And I think that's where
we can't explain those feelings. Just like we keep saying,
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no one will ever feel, see, smell, touch what we
did up there, and that's what Gramps feels as well,
that he will never be able to tell anyone how
it felt to him sit next to these idol. Now,
a lot of people say never meet your idols. Well,
(30:05):
I think there's some people that are just lovely, and
I think Bobo is one of those people. I think
that also made the trip amazing.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Stay tuned for more Sasquatch out to see.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
We'll be right back after these messages.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Christen, same thing for you. You're a well traveled guy.
You've been all over the place. I think you've been
to more US States than I have. But it was
a very special place. I think you would agree with
me when I say the Pacific Northwest Washington State in
and of itself is a very special place. I felt
a feeling I'd never felt before when I touched down
there in Seattle. We went around that day doing b
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roll with the guys, the camera crew, me, you and Ryan.
We had so many laughs, so many good times. And
obviously we've talked about the experiences that we shared together
on the hill that night. And I feel like this
is probably an unfair question because I know what sticks
out and what does it from most people. But I'll
ask you anyway, was there something that stuck out with
you either while filming, between filming just in general in
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that area in the Pacific Northwest, during the process of
making the documentary?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Yeah, do you want an exclusive? Not in the film?
Of course, drum roll please.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
So it's an ongoing joke where everybody thinks they're going
to make me cry, and of course they failed dismally
every time, because I'm far too tough for that. But
the whole premise of me going to Seattle and then
off into the woods to film had to be agreed
with my wife prior to leaving, Okay, and she said, of.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Course she will go. I'm really keen for that.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
But my daughter, your bonus daughter is arriving in the
UK from Poland on Friday, and we are taking her
out in London.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Go do what you.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
Want, but you make sure you're back here to Thursday night.
I said, I will do that, and I booked my
flights on Wednesdays so that I would arrive in the
UK on Thursday.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
And then it's so easy for.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
Where I live to catch the bus from the airport
to home and a nice rest, and Friday we drive
up and take Dora out in London, which is great
until Tuesday night when the cameras are off and everybody's working.
And this guy Bobo that you've been watching for about
twenty five years on.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
TV on repeat every episode.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
You've seen them multiple times, and he said, Chris, when
are your flights Wednesday? Dude, you should change your flights
so we can hang out. If you'd had a camera
on me, then you would have noticed a little tear
trickled down my cheek as I had to say, come on,
I'm almost as memorable as seeing Bigfoots stand up from
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behind the tree twenty feet away from me.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
That is the behind the scenes that you don't get
anywhere else. Books all right, before we get out of here,
I got to go back ask the same question of
both of you guys. Daniel, the film was coming out,
we talked about it earlier. It's going to be in
cinemas throughout the United Kingdom, It's going to be in
movie theaters over here in the United States. It's going
to eventually end up on streaming. So everybody in the
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world that's listening to this right now is going to
have a chance to see it. Final words for you.
I'll go to Chris first and I'll give you the
last word, Daniel. Chris again, you are an integral part
of this, a huge part of the production. What is
it that you wish that everybody takes away from this documentary?
It's a rare thing to be involved, in my opinion,
in a project like this. I've done other television shows,
(33:36):
I've done other documentaries. I've never been involved in anything
that I cared about as much as I do my
Bigfoot life. I know that was the case for everybody involved.
But for you, when people sit down and watch this,
what do you want them to remember? What do you
want them to understand about the film? And what's the
big takeaway from you personally for my Bigfoot life.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
It is the fact that we are all normal, everyday
people and we came together with the common passion. We
went out into the forest and had this adventure, and
anybody can do the same. There's nothing special about us.
You can have your own adventure and it is right
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outside your front door, right That's.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Why you Daniel, same thing for you. This is your
Bigfoot life. The name of the film is My Bigfoot Life,
but it is your Bigfoot life. It is you on display,
it is your family. You guys have always been so
open and honest and welcoming to all of these strangers
that have come into your life. Because of Bigfoot, we've
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all become this huge family that I never thought I
would find, and I don't think you thought that when
you set out in search of this elusive creature. But
it is your bigfoot life, my Bigfoot life. The documentary
is about you and your family's ernie through all of this.
What is it that you want people to take away
when they sit down and watch this film. What's the
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end off be off for you when it comes to
my big Foot Life.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
I'll answer that question in one minute, because we've missed
one thing in this podcast. You've asked us questions, Brian,
but there's one question I know that Chris is thinking
the same thing is that I'm going to ask you.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
First of all, I know you've found that trip very emotional.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
I know every time you watch that documentary it becomes
very emotional.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
But what was your favorite moment that you keep with you?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Very much like you guys said, there was so much
behind the scenes. That first day that we were in
Seattle with me, Chris, Ryan and the camera crew was
one of my favorite times because that's when we really
were able to bond in jail. That's where Chris became
my brother from another mother that day. That'll never change.
But I honestly, I have to say it was the
night shoot for me that was the most powerful thing
(35:59):
I've ever experienced in my life. It was something that
I never thought was possible. And when that kind of
thing happens to you, I don't think you ever get
over that. It never leaves you. It'll be something that
I will remember and cherish for the rest of my life.
And I've said it before, it wasn't just the experience
of being able to have an encounter and see these
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things it was the people that I got to experience
it with that was the most powerful thing to me.
Was to be surrounded by people that I love and
care about so much and to have that experience at
the same time. It's indescribable. It's like you said earlier,
it's impossible to describe what that felt like. The excitement,
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the adrenaline, and the emotion of it. Yeah, hands down,
I'm not going to get emotional. I'm just gonna say
that for me, it wasn't just about the experience of
being able to say that I saw something I never
thought truly existed so close and in such a powerful way,
but to be able to experience it with the people
that I experienced it with. Frankly, I'd have to say
(37:05):
I never thought that would be the most important thing
to me. Honestly, I always thought it would be about
the experiences, but it truly became about the people that
I was sharing it with on that heel, that was
the most powerful thing for me.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
And I must say to everyone that listens to every
podcast or watches all the documentaries or see something caught online,
you would never know, never know how this team gelled
together into a family on that hill very quickly. We
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didn't need to say it because we felt it individually.
That's where everyone that I also care about in the
big Foot world says the same thing. We had the
right people there, We had everyone's energy there that gelled
together very well, and you could tell that, and I
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think if one person was absent, or if one person
stayed down or came up, it would be very different.
I think the way it happened was amazing, and that's
where that will stay with us forever.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Now, to go back and answer your question.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Brian, a message that this team always shares is that
you can learn outside of four Wolves, because when you're ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, whatever,
even when you get to twenty, twenty one, twenty five,
whatever age you are, you can learn outside of four Wolves,
and you can find a classroom that belongs to you. Now,
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we found our classroom, and our classroom is the forest,
and that's where I'm my most calm, I think, And
that is the main message that I think people should get.
But also they're an awful lot of bad moments. There's
a lot more that will happened that we didn't put
in the dock. I think that a lot of people
(39:08):
focus on the bad moments more than the good, and
I think people need to reverse that to focus on
the amazing good things that happened. Because we're currently focusing
on the best experience of our life rather than other
things that really went wrong. I hope that people listen
to that, and people listen to you can do anything
(39:31):
in life, and second of all that focus on the
good things rather than the bad. And I hope.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Everyone in the world gets this documentary.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
If you don't cry at this documentary, or you don't
get emotional at this documentary, there's something wrong or we
haven't done our job properly. Because this is more than
an autism documentary. It's more than the big book documentary.
It's a family documentary that everyone should watch and feel
that the This is about of family that have grown.
(40:02):
So that's why I hope people get from the dot.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
My Bigfoot Life coming to a cinema or theater near
you soon, and obviously it will end up on streaming platforms.
You guys, stay glued to the show Sasquatch Odyssey, listen
to Mythical Legends podcast. We will keep you guys updated
when it's coming to you. Daniel Chris. Thank you guys
so much for the experiences, the amazing time that we
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had and shared together, and for being here to talk
about it today. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
Thanks you man, Thanks buddy chess mate.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
What an incredible conversation and what an amazing journey it's
been watching this story unfold from the very beginning. I
can honestly say being a part of My Bigfoot Life
has been one of the most powerful and emotional experiences
of my career, not just because of what we witnessed
out there, but because of the people I got to
share it with. Daniel, Chris, the whole crew. You guys
(40:59):
poured your hearts and souls into this and it shows
in every frame. This film isn't just about Bigfoot. It's
about family. It's about resilience. It's about finding connection and
purpose out there in the wild and sometimes inside ourselves.
So here's my call to action for everyone listening. When
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My Bigfoot Life hits theaters, go see it. Take your friends,
take your family, and experience this story together. Support indie filmmaking,
support neurodiversity, and most of all, support the people brave
enough to tell their truth on screen. Keep your eyes
on our social media and on the show for updates
on when and where you can watch it, whether you're
(41:42):
in the UK, the US, or anywhere around the world
when it hits streaming. Trust me, you don't want to
miss this one. And now to close things out, here's
an exclusive listen to some audio from the official trailer
of My Bigfoot Life.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
True for some.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Ladies and gentlemen, every once in a while in your
life you come across people that inspire you and motivate you.
And hopefully today you've met a couple of them. And
to be honest, that person could just be sitting right
next to your names Ryan Paul Golumbski. But within the
cryptozoological world, I'm known as RPG, so I kind of
got lucky with the acronym there. I've been a lifelong
(42:54):
purveyor of the weird and wonderful.
Speaker 11 (42:56):
I am Ronnie LeBlanc. I'm with the show Expedition Bigfoot,
as well as paranormal caught on camera on Travel Channel
and Discovery. You know. For me, I've looked at Bigfoot
as something as a undiscovered primate early on. But what
I found really interesting was that researchers that have been
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doing this for ten twenty thirty forty years have then
had their worldview shifted that they realized that maybe this
is something else.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
What you just did was bleeping brilliant.
Speaker 7 (43:29):
Okay, because those are the baby steps we take.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
Because it's all in here where we beat ourselves up
way more in here than life every world. So I'm
super proud of your dad's super proudy your christ super
proud of you.
Speaker 7 (43:40):
Great job.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
So you're progressing in your discipline, but are you ready
to go on in evnic Bigfoot Adventure?
Speaker 7 (43:49):
I get I get a lot of messages and like
interview requests and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (43:52):
I was just like whatever and just click click, you know,
it just didn't even open it or nothing.
Speaker 7 (43:59):
Then RPG called me and he's like, no, the family
is great.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
And I was hearing movement. Chris and I were both
here in movement. I heard what sounded like stuff snapping,
heard a couple of faint whistles. We went a little
further and I was hearing like this faint like kind
of sound. The next thing I remember is I hear
Daniel yelling I see eye shine.
Speaker 9 (44:32):
They say you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay.
I don't world out.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Stick steps trying this job, that chid everything? Can you
ride by crying back joy for me? Joy? Stay right,
(45:21):
you call it right away?
Speaker 9 (45:26):
Still still stop.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Step steps
Speaker 9 (46:04):
Down to dosasssssssst usss
Now one of your pudding. I got a string going
on here, something just because my dog. Something killed your dog.
My dog. We're flying through the air over the tree.
I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm
really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over
the fence and he was dead. And once you hit
the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I
saw was my dog coming over the fence.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Set.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
What are you putting? We got some wonder or something
prowling around out here? Did you see what it was?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Was?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It was standing enough. I'm out here looking through the
window now and I don't see anything. I don't want
to go outside. Jesus quiet, you're bick Hello, hit the
buddy out here, Quin, I'm out there. It's thought of
a bit, just about taking fort nine. I don't know.
Easy Ann out there. Yeah, I'm booking right.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Hey, Daniel Lee Barnett, as I live and breathe, Welcome
to the show man.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Very nice to be about, Brian, how are you mate?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I am hanging in like a hair and a biscuit.
It has been a long time since we've done one
of these shows, so thank you for joining me today.
Chris Alsford, my friend, my brother from another mother. Welcome
to the show man. What's going on, Hey man, it's
good to see again. You're looking fit and healthy. Yes,
it's much better to see you in this light than
(01:40):
in the hospital, which is the last time I saw you. Guys,
I am doing much better and I'm much happier doing
a show than laying in a hospital bed. So we're
here to talk about My Bigfoot Life. Let's jump right
into it headlong. This documentary that we've all been a
part of since its beginning. We've talked about it on
the show. The time has come. We've been teasing this
(02:01):
for months, but it's actually here. Daniel. Let's start with you.
Let's talk about My Bigfoot Life. Let's talk about the
exciting news that just happened very recently about the release
of this film. What can you tell us about My
Bigfoot Life? What can you tell us about what's going
on and it being in theaters over in the United Kingdom.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
We've had a phone call from eminem Productions about a
week and a half ago to say that My Bigfoot
Life has finally gone through the Everlasting editing, gone through
the everlasting filming, and we finally got to the deadline
of it coming out, So the first step of it
coming out, they really wanted a cinema release, and for
(02:41):
it to be a cinema release, it goes through so
many different channels, and were so impressed it to that point.
There's not many films get to that point of that release.
It will be in nineteen cinemas up and down the
UK with a company called Picture House, which is of
a big company in the UK for cinemas, and it's
going to be shown on Monday the fifteenth, and we
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hope that everyone enjoys it.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Chris, You've been an integral part in this process as well.
You were there in the Pacific Northwest. We had our
experiences together. It bonded the team in ways that we
never thought were possible. What has it been like for
you being a part of this process and getting this
news that it's finally on the cusp of being out
there for a worldwide release. People are going to be
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able to sit in a theater in the cinema, as
Daniel so eloquently says it over in the UK and
then obviously over here in the United States eventually. What's
it been like for you to be a part of
this on both ends. You've been there in front of
the camera, you've been behind the camera.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
You guys are.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Filming new things now with Summit View Studios. What's this
process been like for you? And how exciting is it
for you being a part of all those things to
know that it's finally on the cusp of being released.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Right from the start, I started to meet people that
I'd only seen on TV, and so it was exciting.
And then it evolved and now we're doing a documentary
and I'm in the forest with people on the TV
and there's camera clus and none of this is anything
I've got any experience of before, So it's all exciting
and new, and all you're worried about is making the
fool of yourself and keeping your gut sucked in because
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all of a sudden, these camera men are everywhere. Then
it's made, and then we come over to your side
of the pond and we had our experience, which was
life changing in some respects. It's frustrating because you can't
ever portray to anybody the emotion of that moment unless
you're a witness, and in this case, it was an
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exciting witness event, so it's even more difficult to try
and have a conversation.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
With anyone about it.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
It's changed me. I do a lot of hiking in
the forest with my wife. You look at the forest
differently now when you go out, because it feels like
it's giving up one of its secrets to you. And
then it's months it's not my industry, and I'm like,
what's taking you so long? Well, it's taking you so long.
Then finally you get this bus. Oh yeah, it's going
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to be in the picture house. Picture House Cinema is
a unique cinema chain or theater chain movie theater chain,
which has restaurants attached to somewhere. You would take your wife,
I'm the anniversary dinner or something, and then go watch
a movie together. So even that's a little bit special. Yeah,
everybody at work has been asking me for a year,
(05:31):
when's it coming out? When's it coming out?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Is it going to be on the TV? Is it
going to be doing this? And I've been I don't
know till we go back to work. And now I'm
finally telling everybody and they're like, I'm on holiday that week.
You've been waiting a year. I'm so your holiday.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
I gotta say that my grandparents have just gone to
Greece and they get back Tuesday the sixteenth. They're gutted
and I'm making fun of them so much one day
of the year, one day of the year, and they
miss it.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I got to see a rough cut of this film
early on. Your dad Craig sent it over to me.
It was amazing then. And then up in Pennsylvania, we
were all up at the Central Pennsylvania Bigfoot Cryptid Conference
slash Festival a few months ago. God time flies when
you're having fun. Obviously, I had my horrible experience and
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had to go into the hospital and have emergency surgery.
But before that, we got to show this film to
a select group of people. And I tell you, there's
something very special about being involved in a film like this,
in a project like this with people that you consider
your friends and family, and then to be able to
share that with so many people in a room of strangers.
(06:43):
This is the first time they've been able to see
what we all experienced, and it was a very powerful thing.
I was doubled over in pain most of the time
I'm doing the showing of the film, but I was
still able to take that in and I could feel
the visceral response and reaction that people were having to
the film. So I ask you first, Daniel, You've been
through a couple of these now where people have been
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able to see the film. What has that been like
for you? This is about you, It's about your life.
It is your bigfoot life that these people are now
experiencing on the screen. What has that been like for
you to open yourself up to that and for people
to share something that's so special and so powerful to
you and your family? What's it been like for you
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to share that with perfect strangers.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Actually gone back to the UK.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
When I showed it at my conference, we had a
good amount of people there and it was actually the
first time that christ saw it. It was first time
that a lot of the cast had seen it, the
first time Ryan had seen it. I've seen this documentary
now two hundred times, but it was almost like watching
it for the first time with everyone else.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
It felt really weird.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Now, I also have the team that actually worked for
the venue, and they said that they'll go off and
do stuff and they're all circle around in that same hole.
Speaker 9 (08:01):
Now.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
We created a really nice atmosphere in that hole. But
what made it just turned special and magical. Let me
say is when that documentary finished and the credits were
coming up, it was DJ Brewster from Alaskan Killer big
Foot stood up and everyone stood up with him and
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began clapping, and I got to say ninety percent of
the room were crying. It was that point where we go, wow,
look at the room, look at what's around. Chris did
that same thing, wipe as eye in the room. We
then stood up at the front. I was looking in
the room and going, Wow, these people get this doc
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these people get that message. I think we had done
our job. It had paid off what we've done, the
amount of work that it's been over the past year
and a half is finally paid off. Then when we
came to the US, the reaction between loads of other
people was also really magical. Now I got to say,
I was a little bit distracted by Brian Kingshot, so
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I was a little bit distracted towards the end, But
even at the end, people had that same reaction, meaning
that it's spreading around very quickly that this documentary isn't
only a big book documentary. It's a documentary about a
team coming together and a documentary about autism and at
the neurodiverse community. So yeah, Bigfoot, we got this great thing.
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But that is the underlying meaning and for everyone that
keeps saying that also makes a bonus point that we've
done an amazing job on that side, meaning that the
message to go around the world about autism, which is amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Absolutely, Chris, same question for you. You are one of my
favorite people in the world. You and I hit it off,
We clicked immediately. Your personality is fantastic. You're very outgoing,
amazingly funny guy, but you're very behind the scenes kind
of guy. You're not used to being out there in
front of the camera that sort of thing. What has
that been like for you to be a part of
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this project in front of the camera and then share
that with people something that meant a great deal to
us personally. You and I especially had some experiences together
that nobody else got to experience, and I know how
powerful that was and what an emotional thing it.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Was for me.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
How has that been for you, not only going through
that with the team that night in the woods doing
our thing, but to see how people are responding to that,
because that's a very different thing when you put something
out there that's very emotional and very private and very
special to you, people are judging it. Let's be real,
that's what's happening. People are watching this or they have
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an opinion about what they think about it. What has
that been like for you going through this process and
being able to share this in a room full of
people and then responding to what you lived through.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
So thanks for the kind wits.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
I either give you my wife's telephone number so you
tell her what great guy I am.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
She doesn't know. Yeah, I've not been on camera before.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
So when I watched it the first time in the UK,
first of all, I'm checking myself out on the screen,
because you know, I'm checking how bad I looked. And
that one thing I noticed is I am so obviously
not looking at the camera. I'm like, geez, you look
such a prat like you like looking in the full
three sixty. But a little bunk at the camera's a
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time be more natural.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Christ.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
And then there's the little surprise for everybody in there
from me.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
I saw everybody in the UK turn and look at
me when it came to the US screen and.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Has that a moment approached?
Speaker 8 (11:40):
I was stood in the doorway and I took a
little side step out so that nobody could look at me.
That's where I ran into you, and you said, Chris,
I'm in so much pain.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
I didn't know how serious it was. I'm just like
sucking up the princess. We got a movie going.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
I sleep around the door and I see Daniel looking
at me, going, yeah, you shit.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
It's not something that's natural to me.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
But when you're actually out in the forest people are
asking you questions, comes naturally to you that you tend
to start to get the cameras. And obviously in the
Pacific Northwest, you don't think about the cameras or the
sound or the anything. You were in the zone, and
at one point it was only me and you in
the forest.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Right.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
You were about I don't know, thirty thirty five feet
away to my left.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
What can I say? Shit go real?
Speaker 4 (12:27):
That is definitely the best way to put it. Shit
did get real. But before that, this film started in
the United Kingdom, and that's something that I want to
get into today. We haven't really talked about that. I
wasn't a part of the filming in the United Kingdom.
You guys were so I want to kick it back
to you, Daniel and talk a little bit about the
beginning of this film, what it was like to experience
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that over there, because it's a different beast. Right, You're
in your home, you're in the place where you're familiar with,
You're in the United Kingdom, and you have these people
flying over you start filming this documentary. Let's start there.
Talk a little bit about what the idea was behind this.
Was that always the plan to start there and then
maybe end up in the United States and talk about
some of the amazing experiences that you guys had over
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there while you were out in the forest filming.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
A lot of people don't know the story, but I
skipped back all the way to January twenty twenty four
where I had my first meeting with Monica. I proposed
this idea. It evolved and it got into a story
of Wow, it's going to be about my journey.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Now.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
A lot of people keep saying to me, Oh, I'm
connecting my book My Bigfoot Life to the documentary My
Bigfoot Life. It has nothing to do with each other.
People go, oh, Minette, I thought I was a book. No,
they just chose to name it My bigfoot life. So
in March, I remember myself, Chris, Nan and Monica went
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out to the forest and we scouted the filming and
it's the first time that we're together and we're filming
in about a month and a half time. So we
get them ready and I can remember that point going
when Monica is talking about we'll put the toilet there,
this is where the food bands going.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
We're like, this just got very real.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Now.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Obviously for people in big production that's not very big,
but for people like us, we go wow.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
So when I had to on the day in the
UK marshall.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
The toilet in, I always remember that we're getting basic
up set up in two different forests because we're in
two different locations very close to each other.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
It was that.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Moment, and then Monica was sat in my house and
we got all the contracts written, all of it was
signed of like, wow, let's go. That became very real
at that point. Now to be filming in my own
forest that me and Nan have been researching in for
a year and a half.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Literally been in that.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Forest every other weekend, so we knew it like the
back of our hands. So we had certain okay, where
we were going to go and hit.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
And stay tuned for more Sasquat Chalousy.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
We'll be right back after these messages.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
And we were going to go and show the Americans
that came over. And when we hit first film and
day it was all exciting and it was like, let's go.
It was day two when Chris turned up and I
looked that Chris and Chris are like, oh, this is real,
this is rare. We're to see the amount of camera
equipment that was everywhere to see the cause it became unimaginable.
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And we won't be able to say that feeling to
anyone because you have to be in there to feed it.
So to go into a little bit the backstory of
the UK now, the first night shoots, first time I've
been out but night, apparently the first time Chris has
been out at night with these guys.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
We split up.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
We had Runnee on one team with Ronnie and Nam
and Tony went with that team, and then on our
team we had Ryan, Chris, myself, my dad Craig. We
had split into two teams and our plan was to
do calls across the two different ridges, so we were
opposite each other.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
And then he went until that point that we've finished are.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Kind of on the fly interviews, and we heard a
real loud bird that flew by.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Now at this point we're not believing the.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Bigfoot or anything like that in this forest, but something
scared of that bird, and Chris says that in the
actual dock that this bird is scared. So Ryan proposes
that we go up and try and look for what's
up there.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Chris has got his thermal out there. We're walking up
this ridge.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Now I'm halfway up and you see this sit in
the dock, and I look back down. It just looks
very real. Everything that's in this dock is real. Nothing
is fake or exaggerated.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
It's all real.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
So when I say I've enough, I've enough. But then
we got back down. Chris then says to turn the
camera off and there's a bit of a magical moment
there as well that behind the scenes, there was a
lot more in the UK, and half it was cut out,
so there's an awful lot that we filmed that.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Isn't in this dock.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Now, only pass over to Chris, because I've now been
talking for god knows how long to tell some stories
about the day.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
She Oh, thank you, what do we do.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
We went searching with Ronnie and Ryan for there was
some old earthworks there, there was an old line kill
and stuff like our curious stuff that you find in
the forest. But also the other thing that struck me
about the forest was he was teeming with deer and yeah,
all sorts of wild lights that we have in the UK.
You could see signs a bit everywhere, so it's a
really comfortable place to be. Yeah, the bird was running
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away from us at night. Shortly before that was shortly
after that, I'm certain. Well, we got the four deer
running and it was at night and they were running
at full Well, didn't think about it till afterwards, but
they were running towards us, which was a little random.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
That was a little random.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Yeah, it was definitely so a story that I would
never forget.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
And okay, Chris to say this, because otherwise I'll be
in hysteric for the next two hours.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
So we've split.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Up again and we're walking along both ridges and now
we're getting a bit bigger. We got a stream right
in the middle of us and Chris is walking down
the middle.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Now we take the option to go completely dark.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Torches cameras are on the lowest brightness setting things like that,
everything is quiet. Now I'm going to past over to
Chris because he knows where I'm going with this. So
this is probably one of the funniest moments in the UK.
And this is from the other director, Monica to you.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
Yeah, we all huddled together and decided let's go dark,
see what we can see.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
We'll keep the thermal out.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
The director was at the back Monica, and so we
all went dark at the same time.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Nobody told her.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
So there was this big crash in and make someone
out of a cartoon that saucepans flying everywhere and windows
breaking or something like that, and so all the torches
come back on. And because she has a Slovakian accent,
instead of saying she chipped herself, she said, I just
did chip myself with something like that. Of course the
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caprice may as well just turned off a thought of
an hour twenty minutes then, because we were on the
floor and laughing, we were all going to go dark,
and she fell over something.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
And so basically what then happened after that, So of
course we're still in the middle. Monica came to us
and said to the director of Freddy. Well, wow, she's
all huffy and puffee. She said that could have been
a rat, a rabbit, a deer. Were like, those are
three very different animals, she said, just so I heard
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something behind me. I've got to say that was the
most funniest moment, and we have it on camera somewhere.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
We just comes out and said, I think I've just
shitted myself.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
I see, I think I've just shitted myself.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
That might be the name of this episode. I think
I might have shitted myself. There was another moment when
we heard an owl. We're like, yes, an owl, it's normal.
It's the UK forrest.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Don't know my owls in and out one hundred percent.
But I said, in this region, probably a torny owl
or a barn owl. Where I was shot down in flames,
it was some other species of owl. Absolutely, one hundred percent. No,
there could not be any other side. I recognize that,
and I've done this qualification, that qualification.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
It's this owl.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
And I thought, I'm a relatively keen outdoors. I've never
heard of that specific owl, so I googled it.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Yes, only in the US, it's not in Europe at all.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
So the chances of that owl being in the forest,
there was more likely big films in that forest than
the howl.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
What can you do? I sucked it up.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Suck it up.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
Cup.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
So we've talked about some funny moments, Daniel, I'll throw
it back to you and ask you this, is there
a favorite moment? I know you guys had some weird
things that do show up in the documentary that you
guys were able to document. I don't know how much
you want to talk about that or how much you
can't talk about that, But is there a favorite moment?
And I know that's tough to pick out. Maybe it's
some of the funnier stuff, but was there something that
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really suck out with you daring filming that made it
into the dock? Maybe it didn't make it into the
dock while you were filming in the UK that stuck
out to you that you want to convey and share
with the folks.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
Now, a lot of people don't know this, but when
I first met the Three Hours as we call them,
Mars Ray starstruck and I had to pull up very
quickly because I was working with these guys and I
had to work with these guys on a professional level.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Now, I gotta say the person that I was most star.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Struck by it would have been Ryan, but he just
kept talking at me, and then we'd been on the
phone twenty times by the first meeting was actually Ronnie.
It was broad daylight and we were all walking down
this stream. Now Ryan had gone off somewhere. I can't
remember if crystals with us. I think he might have
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gone off up the hill and we're just by this
waterfall and it's me Ronnie that I think. There might
have been a couple of camera guys with us, possibly
even Tony Bannon with us.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
We just sat there with.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
This waterfall, not big waterfall, but it was peaceful, and
we came across this nest thing where it was very
clear that it was shaped like that. Whether that was
humans or not, we don't know. But on a personal level,
to sit there with Ronnie, just me and Ronnie for me,
and take DNA with him and then just sit there
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and chat was probably my favorite moment in the UK.
There was a lot of amazing moments in the UK,
but to sit there with someone that got me into
this Now, I've got to say I saw Ryan before Ronnie.
But to sit there with him and just chat normally
in front of this amazing waterfall with zero sound, you
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just got birds. That was just unreal for me and
I have that foe up on my Facebook sometimes because
we just treasured that moment.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
So from the UK, I think that was my favorite bet.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, Chris, same question for you. I know it's tough,
it's not a fair question, but I'm going to ask
it anyway. Did you have a favorite moment? Was there
something that stuck out either a day shoot, night shoot?
What stuck out for you? As far as the filming
in the UK.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
He had in the breaks from film meeting.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
I don't know how I'd missed this, but basically production
crew went off and ordered Chinese takeaway. Everybody put in
their order, everybody, but I didn't know anything about it.
So when they came back and everybody's dishing out or
this really good smelling food and it's cold, and I'm thinking, yeah,
I could eat. How did you know what to order that?
Like everyone wrote it down there? I started to dawn
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on me. Yeah, I didn't know anything about that, but
everybody Kristen Getty food and it's like being treated as
on an equal level with your favorite TV stars. Yeah, dear,
use my spoon. I'm making people like Daniel throw up.
But the idea of double dipping now, so yeah, that
was a favorite moment where all of a suddenly I'm
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just one of the in crowd.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
With these people. Yeah, yeah, it was good.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
So let's bring it from the UK over to the
United States. You guys, make it over to the Pacific Northwest.
I was able to fly out and meet you guys,
and we he had some amazing moments. Some of the
best moments I've ever had in my life that I
will never forget happened on that trip while we were
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in the Pacific Northwest, Washington State specifically, But I remember
there was a special moment. Daniel used to sit on
the couch with your gramps. You guys were watching Finding
Bigfoot together. That was your thing that really brought you
into this world of Bigfoot, right, And I remember being
out there at the Olympic Project headquarters and you guys
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were going in to meet Bobo for the first time.
That was a huge moment for me, and it had
nothing to do with me. It was all about you guys.
But it was a very powerful moment, an emotional moment
for me to see you guys be able to experience
that together. So let's go to that moment. Let's talk
a little bit about that. What was that like for you?
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I guess you'll have to speak for Grams because he's
not here. What was that like for you, guys to
have those moments that you guys shared so intimately in
your home on the couch watching these guys and then
you're going in and there's James Bobofe waiting to see
you guys? What was that like for you? Was that
one of those moments that stuck out for you in
the United States?
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Before I go into that, I don't know why Chris
is covering his face, but every time I keep rewatching,
I was the one that helped edit that piece of
footage and we zoomed in and both of you are
absolute bloods of tears.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I'm going to interject here and say, that's allegedly.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
Would you agree there was a lot of pollen up
there that none of us were accustomed to.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
We were from out of the area. Yeah, very true,
very true.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Continue, Daniel, one day I'll tell everyone about when I
showed you the backstory on the phone, and maybe we
should have recorded that because you were on the floor,
so basically walking into that burden with Grahams. Now, I
know that Grahams has watched this show for years, probably
since it first came out, meaning that for him, this
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is a more moment for him.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
So I'm very aware of that.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Gramps watched Expedition big but he watches Expedition Act, but
Finding Bigfoot he watched endlessly, meaning that to meet Boa
in person, he was shaking. So when we got in there,
when Gramps shook Bobo's hands, you can see him shaking,
and that's real. I don't mean for this to sound
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stage because Grams is worried about, oh, I'm trying to
act here, but no, all those emotions were serious, and
all those emotions I knew would come out of him
because for him, that's a really special moment because I
can imagine when you get to seventy four you begin
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to go, what do I want to do?
Speaker 5 (27:48):
And that wasn't on his list of what I want
to do.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
So for him to go and experience that, go to
where he's watched, go to the Pacific Northwest and actually
meet these guys and go out in the forest where
Bobo is just incredible for him. He keeps speaking about
it on how amazing it was. I know that he
sat there with him talking about when he was watching
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on the Finding big Foot, and then when Bobo cracked
a joke when Graham says, I feel quite honored to
meet you, he then says, yeah, you should be. That
just jelled everyone together. That just yelled Bobo, Grampt and
eye together through that, because then once someone cracked the
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joke and we laughed back, you then get into that
element of just laughter. I think then when everyone else
came in, that's when it's sunk in to him at
that point that I just met my idol. I'm currently
in the Pacific Northwest, and I've got everyone very special
around me, and that really pushed him to that edge
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there where it was a very magical moment. Now I've
gotta say, I don't know how Ryan does it, but
Ryan does a really good job interviewing someone. And I
think that message has stayed with him at the stake
because it was the anniversary not so long ago, it's
been just over a year.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
I think we still keep thinking about it every week.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
There's not a week that I don't think about that,
and I think that's the same with Gramps.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
I think that was possibly his favorite moment.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
I also know we had taken off to their minds,
possibly been killed by big foot up the ridge. But
Gram's also spent a long time sat with Bobo in
the middle of the forest, and that they talked about
everything that they had loved. And I think that's where
we can't explain those feelings. Just like we keep saying,
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no one will ever feel, see, smell, touch what we
did up there, and that's what Gramps feels as well,
that he will never be able to tell anyone how
it felt to him sit next to these idol. Now,
a lot of people say never meet your idols. Well,
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I think there's some people that are just lovely, and
I think Bobo is one of those people. I think
that also made the trip amazing.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Stay tuned for more Sasquatch out to see.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
We'll be right back after these messages.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Christen, same thing for you. You're a well traveled guy.
You've been all over the place. I think you've been
to more US States than I have. But it was
a very special place. I think you would agree with
me when I say the Pacific Northwest Washington State in
and of itself is a very special place. I felt
a feeling I'd never felt before when I touched down
there in Seattle. We went around that day doing b
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roll with the guys, the camera crew, me, you and Ryan.
We had so many laughs, so many good times. And
obviously we've talked about the experiences that we shared together
on the hill that night. And I feel like this
is probably an unfair question because I know what sticks
out and what does it from most people. But I'll
ask you anyway, was there something that stuck out with
you either while filming, between filming just in general in
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that area in the Pacific Northwest, during the process of
making the documentary?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Yeah, do you want an exclusive? Not in the film?
Of course, drum roll please.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
So it's an ongoing joke where everybody thinks they're going
to make me cry, and of course they failed dismally
every time, because I'm far too tough for that. But
the whole premise of me going to Seattle and then
off into the woods to film had to be agreed
with my wife prior to leaving, Okay, and she said, of.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Course she will go. I'm really keen for that.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
But my daughter, your bonus daughter is arriving in the
UK from Poland on Friday, and we are taking her
out in London.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Go do what you.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
Want, but you make sure you're back here to Thursday night.
I said, I will do that, and I booked my
flights on Wednesdays so that I would arrive in the
UK on Thursday.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
And then it's so easy for.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
Where I live to catch the bus from the airport
to home and a nice rest, and Friday we drive
up and take Dora out in London, which is great
until Tuesday night when the cameras are off and everybody's working.
And this guy Bobo that you've been watching for about
twenty five years on.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
TV on repeat every episode.
Speaker 8 (32:31):
You've seen them multiple times, and he said, Chris, when
are your flights Wednesday? Dude, you should change your flights
so we can hang out. If you'd had a camera
on me, then you would have noticed a little tear
trickled down my cheek as I had to say, come on,
I'm almost as memorable as seeing Bigfoots stand up from
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behind the tree twenty feet away from me.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
That is the behind the scenes that you don't get
anywhere else. Books all right, before we get out of here,
I got to go back ask the same question of
both of you guys. Daniel, the film was coming out,
we talked about it earlier. It's going to be in
cinemas throughout the United Kingdom, It's going to be in
movie theaters over here in the United States. It's going
to eventually end up on streaming. So everybody in the
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world that's listening to this right now is going to
have a chance to see it. Final words for you.
I'll go to Chris first and I'll give you the
last word, Daniel. Chris again, you are an integral part
of this, a huge part of the production. What is
it that you wish that everybody takes away from this documentary?
It's a rare thing to be involved, in my opinion,
in a project like this. I've done other television shows,
(33:36):
I've done other documentaries. I've never been involved in anything
that I cared about as much as I do my
Bigfoot life. I know that was the case for everybody involved.
But for you, when people sit down and watch this,
what do you want them to remember? What do you
want them to understand about the film? And what's the
big takeaway from you personally for my Bigfoot life.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
It is the fact that we are all normal, everyday
people and we came together with the common passion. We
went out into the forest and had this adventure, and
anybody can do the same. There's nothing special about us.
You can have your own adventure and it is right
(34:22):
outside your front door, right That's.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Why you Daniel, same thing for you. This is your
Bigfoot life. The name of the film is My Bigfoot Life,
but it is your Bigfoot life. It is you on display,
it is your family. You guys have always been so
open and honest and welcoming to all of these strangers
that have come into your life. Because of Bigfoot, we've
(34:45):
all become this huge family that I never thought I
would find, and I don't think you thought that when
you set out in search of this elusive creature. But
it is your bigfoot life, my Bigfoot life. The documentary
is about you and your family's ernie through all of this.
What is it that you want people to take away
when they sit down and watch this film. What's the
(35:07):
end off be off for you when it comes to
my big Foot Life.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
I'll answer that question in one minute, because we've missed
one thing in this podcast. You've asked us questions, Brian,
but there's one question I know that Chris is thinking
the same thing is that I'm going to ask you.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
First of all, I know you've found that trip very emotional.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
I know every time you watch that documentary it becomes
very emotional.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
But what was your favorite moment that you keep with you?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Very much like you guys said, there was so much
behind the scenes. That first day that we were in
Seattle with me, Chris, Ryan and the camera crew was
one of my favorite times because that's when we really
were able to bond in jail. That's where Chris became
my brother from another mother that day. That'll never change.
But I honestly, I have to say it was the
night shoot for me that was the most powerful thing
(35:59):
I've ever experienced in my life. It was something that
I never thought was possible. And when that kind of
thing happens to you, I don't think you ever get
over that. It never leaves you. It'll be something that
I will remember and cherish for the rest of my life.
And I've said it before, it wasn't just the experience
of being able to have an encounter and see these
(36:19):
things it was the people that I got to experience
it with that was the most powerful thing to me.
Was to be surrounded by people that I love and
care about so much and to have that experience at
the same time. It's indescribable. It's like you said earlier,
it's impossible to describe what that felt like. The excitement,
(36:42):
the adrenaline, and the emotion of it. Yeah, hands down,
I'm not going to get emotional. I'm just gonna say
that for me, it wasn't just about the experience of
being able to say that I saw something I never
thought truly existed so close and in such a powerful way,
but to be able to experience it with the people
that I experienced it with. Frankly, I'd have to say
(37:05):
I never thought that would be the most important thing
to me. Honestly, I always thought it would be about
the experiences, but it truly became about the people that
I was sharing it with on that heel, that was
the most powerful thing for me.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
And I must say to everyone that listens to every
podcast or watches all the documentaries or see something caught online,
you would never know, never know how this team gelled
together into a family on that hill very quickly. We
(37:39):
didn't need to say it because we felt it individually.
That's where everyone that I also care about in the
big Foot world says the same thing. We had the
right people there, We had everyone's energy there that gelled
together very well, and you could tell that, and I
(38:01):
think if one person was absent, or if one person
stayed down or came up, it would be very different.
I think the way it happened was amazing, and that's
where that will stay with us forever.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Now, to go back and answer your question.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Brian, a message that this team always shares is that
you can learn outside of four Wolves, because when you're ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, whatever,
even when you get to twenty, twenty one, twenty five,
whatever age you are, you can learn outside of four Wolves,
and you can find a classroom that belongs to you. Now,
(38:43):
we found our classroom, and our classroom is the forest,
and that's where I'm my most calm, I think, And
that is the main message that I think people should get.
But also they're an awful lot of bad moments. There's
a lot more that will happened that we didn't put
in the dock. I think that a lot of people
(39:08):
focus on the bad moments more than the good, and
I think people need to reverse that to focus on
the amazing good things that happened. Because we're currently focusing
on the best experience of our life rather than other
things that really went wrong. I hope that people listen
to that, and people listen to you can do anything
(39:31):
in life, and second of all that focus on the
good things rather than the bad. And I hope.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Everyone in the world gets this documentary.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
If you don't cry at this documentary, or you don't
get emotional at this documentary, there's something wrong or we
haven't done our job properly. Because this is more than
an autism documentary. It's more than the big book documentary.
It's a family documentary that everyone should watch and feel
that the This is about of family that have grown.
(40:02):
So that's why I hope people get from the dot.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
My Bigfoot Life coming to a cinema or theater near
you soon, and obviously it will end up on streaming platforms.
You guys, stay glued to the show Sasquatch Odyssey, listen
to Mythical Legends podcast. We will keep you guys updated
when it's coming to you. Daniel Chris. Thank you guys
so much for the experiences, the amazing time that we
(40:27):
had and shared together, and for being here to talk
about it today. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
Thanks you man, Thanks buddy chess mate.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
What an incredible conversation and what an amazing journey it's
been watching this story unfold from the very beginning. I
can honestly say being a part of My Bigfoot Life
has been one of the most powerful and emotional experiences
of my career, not just because of what we witnessed
out there, but because of the people I got to
share it with. Daniel, Chris, the whole crew. You guys
(40:59):
poured your hearts and souls into this and it shows
in every frame. This film isn't just about Bigfoot. It's
about family. It's about resilience. It's about finding connection and
purpose out there in the wild and sometimes inside ourselves.
So here's my call to action for everyone listening. When
(41:19):
My Bigfoot Life hits theaters, go see it. Take your friends,
take your family, and experience this story together. Support indie filmmaking,
support neurodiversity, and most of all, support the people brave
enough to tell their truth on screen. Keep your eyes
on our social media and on the show for updates
on when and where you can watch it, whether you're
(41:42):
in the UK, the US, or anywhere around the world
when it hits streaming. Trust me, you don't want to
miss this one. And now to close things out, here's
an exclusive listen to some audio from the official trailer
of My Bigfoot Life.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
True for some.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Ladies and gentlemen, every once in a while in your
life you come across people that inspire you and motivate you.
And hopefully today you've met a couple of them. And
to be honest, that person could just be sitting right
next to your names Ryan Paul Golumbski. But within the
cryptozoological world, I'm known as RPG, so I kind of
got lucky with the acronym there. I've been a lifelong
(42:54):
purveyor of the weird and wonderful.
Speaker 11 (42:56):
I am Ronnie LeBlanc. I'm with the show Expedition Bigfoot,
as well as paranormal caught on camera on Travel Channel
and Discovery. You know. For me, I've looked at Bigfoot
as something as a undiscovered primate early on. But what
I found really interesting was that researchers that have been
(43:16):
doing this for ten twenty thirty forty years have then
had their worldview shifted that they realized that maybe this
is something else.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
What you just did was bleeping brilliant.
Speaker 7 (43:29):
Okay, because those are the baby steps we take.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
Because it's all in here where we beat ourselves up
way more in here than life every world. So I'm
super proud of your dad's super proudy your christ super
proud of you.
Speaker 7 (43:40):
Great job.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
So you're progressing in your discipline, but are you ready
to go on in evnic Bigfoot Adventure?
Speaker 7 (43:49):
I get I get a lot of messages and like
interview requests and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (43:52):
I was just like whatever and just click click, you know,
it just didn't even open it or nothing.
Speaker 7 (43:59):
Then RPG called me and he's like, no, the family
is great.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
And I was hearing movement. Chris and I were both
here in movement. I heard what sounded like stuff snapping,
heard a couple of faint whistles. We went a little
further and I was hearing like this faint like kind
of sound. The next thing I remember is I hear
Daniel yelling I see eye shine.
Speaker 9 (44:32):
They say you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay.
I don't world out.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Stick steps trying this job, that chid everything? Can you
ride by crying back joy for me? Joy? Stay right,
(45:21):
you call it right away?
Speaker 9 (45:26):
Still still stop.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Step steps
Speaker 9 (46:04):
Down to dosasssssssst usss
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