Bigfoot Society - Alaska Bigfoot Adventures and Exciting Monster Fest News | Small Town Monsters | Courteney Swihart

Episode Date: July 16, 2022

#137Courteney is a member of the Small Town Monsters crew and cinematographer. She started with STM a couple years ago as a photographer then become a cinematographer and is now the company business manager. Courteney loves to travel and experience new places.Prior to working with STM she worked as a registered veterinary technician for 12 years with a concentration in Neurology for her last 8 years in the field. Courteney currently lives in the North Canton area with her 6 year old daughter.In this episode we talk about behind the scenes thrills and chills, upcoming Monster Fest news that blew my mind and so much more!Episode Resources:Website: https://www.smalltownmonsters.comBecome a member of the Small Town Monsters Squad ( I AM!) here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfu4MCqbUGvcnQZ5uICx9RA/membershipAmerican Werewolves on Amazon (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3aHpIHVThe Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3yJJxX6_____________________________Join us over on Patreon! Get access to the audio from the Patreon, a whole library of extended shows, exclusive merch like a membership card and stickers, watch me interview guests weekly live on video, a Patron-only Discord and more.https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsocietyNOTE: I'm attending my first Bigfoot expedition this summer! Please pick up a Bigfoot Society shirt from my Etsy to help fund the gear I'll need to get.https://www.etsy.com/shop/BigfootSocietyContribute directly at the GoFundMe page for the expedition and get an exclusive sticker:https://www.gofundme.com/f/gear-needed-for-my-first-bigfoot-expeditionTune in every Saturday at 5 pm Central for new episodes of Bigfoot Society!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7QIG: https://www.instagram.com/bigfootsociety/Website: https://bit.ly/3jvKIm7Shop: https://etsy.me/3ptlubQiTunes: https://apple.cSmart Passive Income PodcastWeekly interviews, strategy, and advice for building your online business the smart way.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

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main show, exclusive merch and much, much more. In this week's episode, I get to talk to Courtney Swihart from Small Town Monsters. Fun chat about all sorts of different things to do with being a photographer, cinematographer, great advice for aspiring artists out there. We talk about some recent STM shoots and also get some interesting new information about the Monster Fest event coming out next year.

You won't want to miss this episode. Sit back. Get something to drink or eat. Whatever makes you comfy and enjoy this interview with Courtney. All right, Bigfoot Society. We've got Courtney Swihart with us from STM, Small Town Monsters. How's it going, Courtney? Very good.

Thank you for having me. Oh, you got, I am excited to talk to you tonight. Just because you haven't really gotten out there, you know, as we were talking about earlier, you like to be behind the camera. And let's talk about, just so. you know, there's a few people that probably they may not know what Courtney does. So I'm going to go over the bio that you provided. So we have Courtney is a member of the Small Town Monsters crew and cinematographer. She started with STM a couple years ago as a photographer, then became a cinematographer,

is now the company business manager. You keep it going. Courtney loves to travel and experience new places. She also, prior to working with STM, she worked as a registered veterinary, or I'm going to say it all silly. I'm sorry, I apologize. That's terrible for 12 years with a concentration and neurology for her last eight years in the field. Very cool. Courtney currently lives in the North Canton area with her six-year-old daughter.

I have seven-year-old, so I get the fun times you are having probably. So it's a lot of fun. A lot of dinosaurs. He's, you know, my kids, he's into dinosaurs. She loves dinosaurs. Dude. Yeah, dinosaur train. It's the thing.

I know train. Have you been to, oh, man, listeners are clicking off right now, but we got to talk about dinosaurs here, man. Have you been to the Indianapolis Children's Museum yet? Not with her. Like, we drive through Indianapolis all the time when we're filming, but I don't have her with me. I've had her to, so in North Canton, there's. actually the McKinley monument has a natural history museum with some dinosaur bones, but she doesn't

get it because they're bones and she's used to singing dancing dinosaurs. I get it. I get it. It's a little different. I will put in a plug for the Indianapolis Children's Museum. It's amazing. It's like way better than Spesonian, but they actually have paleontologists working there on dinosaur bones. And the kids can come up to this window where there's a paleontologist on the,

other side and they can talk to them about dinosaurs. It's amazing. But hey, let's talk about cryptids. So what, let's start. To you, what is STM, Courtney? So when I first started with it, it was something my best friend, Heather Mosier, was super into she started doing research for them. And she was like, you got to watch some of these movies. And I was like, okay, we'll watch some of these. We'll do like a girls night or whatever. And then the next thing I know, she's like, oh, I'm doing a series. Will you come on a shoot?

So the first couple things I did were the haunting shoots. Oh, sure, yeah. And then from that, I started taking stills because Jason wasn't in action at the time. So they need someone to take stills. And I had done some photography before. And then that rolled into the Rougaroo shoot, which just kept going from that point. So let's talk about some of that. So when you say you're talking stills, break that down for, you know, the person who's, let's say, you know, the listener who's just into STM because they like, you know, they like Bigfoot.

But they don't really know what taking stills like, you know, the whole, how being a photographer is very important for something like STM. Yeah. So obviously we have cinematographers that do the actual filming of the movies. So they do the video. But we also do still photography or just your regular pictures for behind the scene stuff because that is what we use on social media to promote everything. We have at least one on the trail of companion guide, which is our book that goes along the first handful of, you know, on the trail of movies, both Bigfoot and UFOs. So having that documentation of the behind the scenes action and still photography. is pretty important for both promotional needs as well as like we'll do video for our uh we have a

YouTube channel where we have a squad and the squad gets exclusive stuff whenever we can get someone to edit it so it's good to have that stuff for that so it's still photography might sound like something that isn't that important when we're doing video and making movies but if we don't have that still photography we can't promote the movie later that's true and like as a guy who does like big for society right now is just me and that's a lot of work but like it would be amazing if i had someone who was like over my shoulder like snapping photos and like oh there's jeremiah like doing the podcast and like hey let's put that up on instagram no it doesn't happen but um maybe i can get my seven-year-old to do that though there's a thought we'll see maybe give him a

cell phone be like me doing what i do no he's already he's already like one to get a cell phone dad and I'm like never yeah anyways um oh I do want to say if you're not in this STM squad you absolutely need to be in it because so I've been in I'm like plus 12 months awesome and but the thing is is like to be able to say to see like the 4k version of videos is it that to me is like what I love and it's you know you got it you got to support what you love so I love I love SCM stuff no doubt um and the ridge just came out yesterday I am I know so stoked about it Eli did such a good job with that edit and I was on that shoot you can kind of see my head bobbling around on the night investigation and he left a cliffhanger at the end and boy is the next

episode going to be exciting because I know what happens from there you're going to tell us right now what happens I'm not going to tell you what happens I'm just going to say I was there and I remember that night and he stopped at a very good cliff hang. Dude, Elon Watson is so good. He's so good. He's a very good editor and that was such a fun series to film. Like he hasn't even used a portion of the interviews we did.

We did so many interviews for that already. Wow. So there's so much more to come from that. And I think the next couple episodes are going to be really exciting and we're already playing. and we're already planning our next trip back for more investigations for that series. Wow. I'll tell you what. I am,

this is terrible, but I have to confess that I'm extremely behind in all STM stuff because we just got back for a two-week vacation. And the two weeks before that, we moved to a new house. Oh, I understand. That's a lot of work. You get it.

So it's like, I, you know, I'm on vacation and I see stuff like, you know, well, anything come out. And I haven't seen chestnut,

Ridge yet. I haven't seen the ridge yet, but I will tell you, so we went out to New England and we're driving back through the Ridge area. I'm like, I know it's right here. And I'll tell you, there's weird vibes in that area. Like, it's just, it's just something weird. Yeah, I can totally get how weird stuff happens in that, that Chestnut Ridge area. So I'm excited to watch that, that, uh, production by STM. It's going to be awesome. Everyone should check it out. Go check out their YouTube channel. What would you say that your favorite STM project that you've been involved with so far has been?

Well, I mean, the easy answer is Alaska. We spent over two weeks filming what's going to be two movies and two Beyond the Trails in Alaska. Wow, two Beyond the Trails. Awesome. Yeah. So there's going to be one Beyond Trail already came out. The other one is going to come out coinciding with the movie release. here in the fall late fall time it's going to be our last release of the year so the beyond the trail will come out the same time as uh on the trail of bigfoot the last frontier oh man um it must have been

beautiful up up there literally everywhere you look looks like a green screen it's too pretty wow like so there's actually four sections of alaska which i only found out because we got one of those travelers guys when we were up there and I looked and we actually stayed in each of the four sections of Alaska. So we technically hit all the parts of it even though I mean, I feel everywhere we drove was four to six hours. Like it's so spread out. But there's so much more that we didn't see. But we technically hit all the different areas. Man, that's that's awesome. Do you have any crazy behind the scenes adventures or like a crazy story that sticks out that you would be able to share? Or if you don't, don't worry about it.

I'm kind of just. I mean, the craziest thing that I've been a part of was in Alaska. We took a helicopter with the doors off. And I had, we have a new Ronan DJI film camera. So it's basically a really nice cinema camera. camera on a gimbal so it doesn't shake. It's very steady. And I had that doors off on a helicopter and we flew to the top of a mountain within

Denali National Park landed and we were able to get out on the tundra and film there before we then like the helicopter pilot was super chilly. He's like, yeah, take your time. So we're like, how high can we get? And then we were able to get back in and leave. It was great. Oh, that's amazing. Oh, so cool. So cool.

Did you see any, do you see any bear up there? So we saw some moose. We saw her herd of caribou. Ooh. But we didn't see any bear. Alex and Eli saw bear. Because part of their BTT filming was on this island that the main crew didn't go to. It was just the two of them.

Yikes. But they said they saw two or three bear. And I think the one was actually swimming. because they were on an island they would have had to swim, but we didn't see any. Wow. Oh, man. I was legitimately, like, paranoid for you guys.

I was like, oh, man, they're going to Alaska. This is, like, the one time where I feel like, okay. Because, so it's like, you know, you watch the STM, like, when you guys, you had the production diaries. And you get, like, that it's a real, like, family atmosphere. like, you know, everyone's hanging out, joking around, having a good time. But then it's like you put something into Alaska in the mix and like, that's like do or die time because it's like, that's some crazy stuff out there. But, you know, you guys made it through.

Life was good and you still were able to. Zach in particular was very concerned about the bears and all of us. So we all had our own bear bell. Oh, what's a bear bell? It's a bell that you can wear like on your pants or on a book bag. it has like a little carabiner. Okay. But then it has a little mesh bag with a magnet in it so you can put the magnet on it so that it doesn't ring when you don't want it to.

Oh, that's cool. And then he also took two canisters of bear spray. Nice. And of course, Alex and Eli, wherever they go, they're armed. So if they were with us, we had firepower as well. Yep, yep. Man, go Zach. You're ready to go running out of two cans.

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You got this and thank you. Well, if you're just taking pictures, if you just have like a point and click camera that's like auto focus, like most digital cameras that you get, you just want to make sure there's good lighting because that really helps get definition on things. If you have like an actual nice camera that you can manual focus, you want to make sure that you have a lens that's going to be able to capture your subject. Like when I do still photography, I get a lot of landscape. So I like the primary lenses that don't have a zoom on them. So to change your framing, you physically move your body. If you're wanting to do something like wildlife photography, such as a cryptid, you're going to want a zoom lens so that you don't have to move so that you can zoom in with the lens itself and hopefully get good definition on it if your lighting's good. But after that, it's all about exposure, which a lot of cameras will do automatically for you unless it's something that you've set on manual.

So it's just a matter of light, your light, your exposure, and how you're able to zoom on it to get good definition. That's good advice. What if, let's say, scenario, you're out in the woods, you're looking for Bigfoot and you see it? Like, how do you be ready as a photographer for something that might pop out for half a second? And like, are you just, like, I know the NAWAC down in Area X, like, there's a, like, there's, guys literally they walk around with their camera ready. I believe in the big foot and beyond episode. Like, how do you handle that as a photographer? What's very funny is I was with Seth when he saw his big foot during filming the Bigfoot project. I was the one in the back of the gator filming.

And I filmed him because that's what I was doing. I was doing behind the scenes stuff. You were doing what was there. Yeah. I was filming him, film the episode. So I was getting like the be camera stuff. So I'm filming him as he's talking to Corey Mosier driving around the thing. And then all of a sudden he's jumping out of the gator and running up the hill before it even stops. So I'm filming him as he's yelling, I just saw him. So I'm in that situation with a running camera pointed in the wrong direction. I think a lot of that is going to be

just luck. Yeah. It's got to be. Because if you're not facing the right. direction. And I mean, you're not going to adjust your camera settings in that situation because you have fraction of a second. Yeah, no, it's true. You have a fraction of a second. Man, so we kind of talked about this earlier.

So you are, you're primarily, you know, you're taking the pictures, you're taking the video. But let's talk about this. You are, cryptids are not your thing per se. or are they? I like stories. I like the spooky stories. I like the lore.

So I like a lot of things that involve cryptids, but they weren't what was my first thing. I guess if that makes sense. Yeah, I get it. So because I am putting myself in that situation, like I'm, you know, pretty into Bigfoot, like in Cryptids. Like, if I was in that situation, like, I know a Bigfoot had been seen. And I was like, I would think about that all the time.

Like, you could have taken the picture. But thankfully, you're not like super Bigfoot fanboy, which is. I was upset because I was there. And I was like, I get it. I saw him react. And I filmed him running up the hill rather than panning up the hill to see what was up there. Though from where he saw it, it was far enough up the hill that I was filming with a medium grade. like handy cam so the zoom on it isn't fantastic anyway and it was broad daylight so i'm focused on

something in front of me exposed for that so to pan up there that far away it would have been blown out like it would have been too bright yeah so i don't know that even if i were fast enough to react i would have done an image that was worth anything and i think that's the problem with a lot of these these crypted things is you see them and they're they're grainy they're blown out you can't see them well. And a lot of that is cameras aren't that fast yet. Like if you're moving something that quickly, even if you're exposed properly, it takes the computer and the camera a second to adjust to that. So if you only have a fraction of a second, you might get something, but the quality is not going to be that good. Okay. Wow. So you would, you're saying like you would try to do the whole

CSI zoom in on it and it would not be a good time. Like you would all be. You could. You I can't add pixels that are there. Okay, I got you. Yeah. Wow. What was, what was sets, so, you know, we've all seen the, the episode. And I'm a huge fan of it. A lot of people are digging it.

What, how would you describe Seth's reaction to that whole, like being there and actually seeing it as a happen? What was, that must have been interesting. So I was standing in the back of the gator filming down. on him and Corey talking as they were driving along. All of a sudden, Seth starts yelling, look, look, I just saw one. And he's jumping out of the gator.

We're still going like 10, 15 miles an hour. Significantly fast to jump out. Corey's confused. So he starts hitting the break, but Seth's already out, but we're on an embankment. So it's quite steep that he's jumping out of a moving vehicle running down a hill and then starting to run up.

But there's deep brush. So you can only get so far. Okay. So I jump. out to film him. Corey goes and turns the gator around to come back so we can park on this hill. And by the time that's done, it's just Corey being confused. I'm not sure what's going on. And then Seth's going, no, I just saw one up there. And he's telling us what you saw. And we're like, okay, we believe you. But there's no way to get up there because like two weeks later, they cleared all the brush on that

pipeline but at that point the brush was four and a half feet deep and it was thorns you couldn't get up there a couple weeks later when we went back and they'd cleared it where he saw that there's actually a small like a tv track on either side of the woods so it'd be an easy pathway for game or anything else to travel across makes sense we didn't know that at the time if we knew that we could have found that path and gone around. Let's let's let's you've been involved with the big foot project to when you watch that that series I get the feeling that it just seems like it is it a weird place it seems like there's some weirdness at time I don't know I mean how did what do you feel like when you're like going

through the woods with the group and like there's some weird stuff that you guys are catching. Yeah, well, the Bigfoot project is filmed on Heather's farm. That's my best friend's farm. Oh, sure. So I've spent a fair amount of time there through the years. But definitely, there are areas of it that get spooky, especially when it gets dark. The one area that we call the Rougaroo Woods, because that's where we filmed the recreation for Hala Rougaroo. Yeah. There's definitely been some weird noises up there. There was one. an area or one time I was out there with Heather and Seth and then Adam Dugan was up and there were these weird lights and the only explanation is it was something weird or there were poachers like there's no other explanations for that which in the area poachers aren't out of the question but that was so far onto the property that it would have to be a very bold poacher right right. It's not like it was just off the road.

It was like a quarter mile or so off the road. Oh, wow. In an open field. So that's pretty bold if you're a poacher to go that far in open space. Right. And then, I mean, there's been several weird things. There was one day where it was like 11 a.m. We just filmed the night before.

We were cleaning up to leave. So we're packing camera. equipment. Heather and Corey had just taken a load of like sleeping bags and trash up on the gator. And it was me, Seth and someone else still packing up the last of the camera equipment. And I went outside to like empty the cooler or something. And there was just the clearest whoop in the world. Really? And it was the first whoop I had ever heard. Oh, man. So I turned around and I looked for the boys and I was like, are you guys messing around? And then, one of the guys peaked from behind the cabin,

they were like, no, I thought that was you. And I'm like, no. Wow. That wasn't me. I'm not going to stand on the front porch and whoop at 11 a.m. I'm tired. Cool, boy. But it was like so weird because all night before,

we'd had wood knocks, but that was the first vocalization we had heard on the property at all. And it was just mid-morning when we were leaving all kinds of noise. There were tractors going nearby. and just who. Wow. That's so this is this is interesting because you not being a hundred percent a big foot person like did that sound remind you of anything else or like or is it something completely different than anything that you'd heard before? I mean, I'm aware of what it's supposed to sound like, but I hadn't heard anything exactly like that before. Okay. So I'm like one of these guys is doing a really good impression. or that's something weird.

And I was like, that's not a bird. I know that. I don't know anything else that would make that sound in this area. So I'm like, if it's not one of the guys, then I don't know what it is. Interesting. That's very interesting. Have there, you know, you've been on quite a few other shoots as well. Have there been other situations where it's like something that wasn't captured on camera,

but you're like, oh, man, that would. is kind of weird. Anything that comes to mind. If not, no problem. Let me think. I'm trying to think what all, we've had such a busy year.

You guys have. It's not. I mean, there were lots of stuff in Alaska that was just fun. I don't know if I'd say anything like crazy. I know there was one, so the one haunting shoot we did at Mansfield Reformatory and this one.

Oh, yeah. legitimately may have been like mass hysteria. I think I like this stuff. But so there is, I think it's above the west block. There is a attic area where whenever the one prison in Columbus caught on fire, they brought up all the hardened criminals. They put them there. It's supposed to smell like smoke or whatever and the guards wouldn't go in there.

Like it's supposed to be very violent when those people were there. So it's supposed to be. really haunted or just heavy in there. Right. So we were filming the Hauntments episode. There were 10 or so of us there. Like it was a very big crew that night because it was a very big building. We had the whole place to ourselves.

We spread out. And I went up there with a couple of the guys and we started seeing these lights at the end. But it's this football field-sized room with no windows, one door. goes one door at the other end. Yeah. And I'm like, I think we're seeing things. This is weird. Like we're seeing lights, but we've been in dark.

It's very quiet, like sensory deprivation. So we left. We got a couple other people. We came back. And we sat there at the far end away from the door. The door closed completely dark. And after about 10 to 15 minutes, we saw the lights again. I'm like, okay, I don't know if this is our minds or if this is mass hysteria.

because on the tour, we did interviews ahead of time, and they told us that sorry thing happened. So I'm like, was this implanted in our minds who were expecting to see it so our brains producing it? Or did this happen? But one of the lights did kind of look like a guy running towards us with like a baseball bat above his head? I mean, sort of, but not like, that's very specific, Courtney. That's wild. I don't get scared easy, but at that point I did grab the person next to me. and I'm like, I think we're done here.

I would have too. I'd been like, let's get out of here. Yeah. I mean, and Heather was there at that point and she was like, this is crazy. Yeah. I was like, we were told to expect this. So we're in a dark room. Our, you know, sensory deprivation.

Could this be something happening? I don't know. If we went back again and it was repeatable, I think that would be very interesting. But it is so expensive to rent that point. place. Oh, really? Oh, my gosh. Wow. I mean, it's man-skilled performatory. Like, it's so expensive to rent. And we even got it. I mean, we're filming there. It was promotional for them. So we got a very slight discount. But it's like so expensive to rent the whole place. And I've also, with Heather and some other friends, got on a public ghost hunt. to tell I take one's daily Jardians at each day start. And for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease, Jardians can lower the risk of cardiovascular death too. Prescription Jardians, Empiglphlosin, 10 or 25 milligram tablets, are used to lower

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So you couldn't even try to re-experience that unless you had the whole place to yourself where it's quiet. Stay tuned from our Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. Crazy. Yeah. I'm glad you guys. That's not my thing is the cryptids. I don't like the ghost stuff.

It's like, you know, I'm not into that stuff. Like, the scariest movie I can watch is signs. So that should tell you something. But what else? That's interesting story. Guy rushing at you with a baseball bat. No, thank you. It was really weird.

And the thing is, we all saw it at the same time. And we're like, what color did you see? I saw like a yellowish green. Well, so did I. Really? Yeah, we were able to confirm that we were all seeing the same thing. We weren't seeing different things. But at the same time, it was implanted ahead of time during the interviews that X, Y, and Z is seen in here.

These are the colors and this sort of thing. Oh, okay. So here's the thing. If you guys had not had that talk ahead of time and you were like, I saw this, I saw it too. Then it would be game over 100% real. But, you know, now that I know that it's like, okay, you had this briefing and, you know. One second. Do what you need to do.

You are good. All right. I'm going to look at the chat. We got the chat going on with the Patreon right now. Let's see. Megan says, oh, the Alaska episodes are my favorite. I can't wait to see more. Heck, yes, Megan.

I can't wait to see either. I got to watch those up. Watch them. All right. Megan also says, LOL, science is also my threshold. It's a creepy movie. Everyone watch it if you haven't.

All right. So, oh, I also wanted to ask you about cinematography. The advice that you gave for taking photos, does that also apply to, you know, those people that might be, you know, wanting to make sure they can take videos of cryptids as they're out researching or is there completely unique advice

when it comes to being a cinematographer? I mean, if you're looking for just cryptids, you're going to want something that will take pictures quick and probably we're not going outside to you guys. My daughter thinks it's time to go outside. But it is not. it is dark. But also like night vision is very helpful.

Oh yeah. So there are a lot of cameras that have like IR. So you can do the infrared light with them. That's very helpful. We have a handful of hand-cams that do that. And if you're doing that, you're going to want the IR extender to go on top of it because the IR on the camera only goes a short distance, like 20 to 40 feet, depending on how good of a camera you have.

an iR extender can get you up to 100 to 150 depending on what you get so that just gives you a bigger range of what you can film especially when you're talking about like big foot because a lot of times you're doing it at night true that's my daughter try to open the front door don't do it there's trying dinosaurs out there she's trying so hard but she can't figure it out um but yeah iR is very good for filming at night. So it's just a matter of getting something that'll do that. Usually you're looking at a handy can for that sort of thing. Okay. Very cool. Very cool. Actually, I've got a weird question. This is kind of a swing for the fences and see if it hits and if it doesn't, that's fine. Your background as, you know, being a vet tech, concentration, neurology, you got certain

skills from that, I would assume. Did you find anything like the knowledge you gain from that coming into play when you're working with STM, any weird crossover knowledge? I've gotten Seth FaceTiming me to look at bones or claw marks or something he's found so many times. One was on a Bigfoot project

where he found a pelvis in a tree. Yes, yes. And he's like, what's this from? I'm like, it looks like a cow. And then whenever Alex and Eli were up filming the Beyond the Trail that was at the farm where we do Bigfoot project. There's a outhouse there that was destroyed, and they're like,

what made these claw marks? I was like it looks like a coyote. So I definitely have gotten lots of questions about what animal could this have been or what makes this. We're actually getting ready to collaborate with someone. I don't think I can announce it yet, but it's on a dogman type project. that I just answered a series of questions for. So it's definitely come up a few times in those regards.

Yeah. Any interview I don't have to edit is amazing. So better to air on the side of caution when it comes to Seth coming after me. Who would like, hey, hey, Jay, Jeremiah, you got to edit that up. No, I'm just kidding. Seth doesn't do that. He's a cool deal. STM is coming out with a lot of from from what I hear STM is coming out with a lot of really cool stuff in the future and I am psyched for that.

You know, like, yeah, you guys are definitely branching out into a lot of cool stuff. I'm excited. Let's let's talk for a few minutes about like what does it, what does it mean to be the company business manager? Like what do you do exactly? They've got to do a lot, I'm guessing. I do a lot of stuff that probably isn't that interesting. Oh, yeah. I'm the one that like pays people.

And so if you buy something from our web store, I'm the one that ships it. If you backed our Kickstarter and you're getting rewards, I'm the one that's in charge of doing all of that. And making sure the credit. credits for our movie is, you know, correct when it comes to like the backers and that sort of thing. So it's a lot of paperwork mostly. I help plan our trips logistically when it comes to, we're filming here, here, and here.

So we need an Airbnb in the middle. Do we need a rental car? How much is that going to cost? A lot of math. Yeah, it is. But with my background, I guess I'm a little better. suited for math than, you know, everyone else is very artistic and very creative. So they're better suited with the research and storytelling and Heather does the research and

talks to people and is very charming and gets us all the information we need. So any other hole that needs plugged, I try to do that. That's awesome. Yeah. And like, thank goodness that you're there to do all that stuff because it's like, I feel that a thing like STM when they're small, they might not need something like that, but I feel like you probably got to a point and they're like, oh my goodness, I need someone to do this and that's all they do.

Because like I can't imagine like trying to do all that while you're out filming a documentary. It's not going to work, you know. Yeah. Well, and a lot of times, I mean, I'm also a cinematographer. Oh, sure. Yeah, that's true. When I'm on the road, laptop goes and doing all that stuff on the road, which a lot of my job, other than shipping of things, is from my computer. So I can't kind of do that wherever I need to do it from.

But then it's like, all right, I've been gone now for a shoot for four days. So I have all the stuff to ship out from order. Exactly. And our squad members, we have squad leaders on our YouTube page and they get quarters. quarterly care packages that I put together actually just shipped them out today. And they have goodies from Alaska, New Jersey, and everywhere that we've been in the last three months. That is cool. So whenever we're out, I'm the one that's like, all right, I know I need to get stuff for this.

And we need to make sure that we're taking care of X, Y, and Z while we're doing stuff, while also, you know, maintaining a budget of sorts. Right. I totally get that. That's funny. Which is hard when you are. I mean, we're small.

We're like a company of five or six people. Okay. Depending on what we're doing. Like as far as payroll, there's like five of us. And then we have other people that come on like project to project or collaborate with us because, you know,

a lot of the people we work with have other jobs and they're friends. So it's like, hey, Yes, you're hired for the project. They're not necessarily on payroll. So it's just a matter of we have, you know, four to five, you know, employees, but there's always more than that. They have to keep track of you need paid for this, you need paid for that. So it's it's just a lot of keeping track of things and reminding of things.

Oh, man, that's got to be wild. And so Eli does the social media, right? Yes. Eli's our social media guy and he's also the one editing the ridge as well as being co-host of Beyond the Trail. Totally. I couldn't remember if you did if you do any of the social media or, but that's a guy that needs to do that all himself pretty much. Yeah. I was on occasionally like I'm also planning and putting together Monster Fest.

So anything that's been posted about that has been me. Okay. But 98% of anything that's on social media is Eli. Fantastic. So let's talk about Monster Fest. Yeah. This is a pretty big deal, isn't it? It's going to be pretty fantastic.

I'm very excited. We haven't even announced our biggest guest yet. Are you serious? Oh, yeah. Oh, my, this is, I'm going to get some stuff on Cliff. Cliff. Cliff is, like, a big name. I thought he was the name.

He is not. Wow. We have, we've announced, what, six? I think we have nine or ten total. So, and I know we got one, a real big fish in the boat that's going to be announced last as fitting. Oh, man, that's awesome. And we had a total between, between sponsors, guests, and vendors. We have 70 tables.

All of the vendor tables are sold. We have a couple sponsorships left, but not many. So we have this grand ballroom at the Double Tree by Houghton in downtown Canton, and it's going to be packed with vendors. And then we have a speaker area. We have a live podcast area. And we have another room that is going to be film screenings. So we're going to show some of our films.

Yeah, nice. That makes sense. Why not? Totally. can and if you need to say I can't talk about that I don't care but I'm can you tell me anything like what's the deal with the podcast the live podcast room so I'm interested we wanted we have a lot of friends who have podcasts sure and we have some podcasts so we're like yeah this is a thing that people are into obviously they listen to them they enjoy them so we wanted to be able to highlight some of those so Seth curated the list of who's going to be doing a live podcast. I don't actually know who's doing all of them, other than I know we're doing some,

and I believe Astonishing Legends is recording. Oh, that would be cool. Yeah. So they'll be doing a live recording there. But basically, we know our guest speakers are going to have big problems, but we wanted something to break that up because we wanted everyone to feel like there's something that they can do it all the time. So we're going to have the live podcast recording going on at the same time.

So no matter. what time it is, there's going to be something interesting to do if you don't want to shop at the moment with the vendors. Totally. Oh, man, that is so cool. Because it's a one-day event, right? It is. And if this goes well, obviously, the plan is to grow it in the future. But since this is, I mean, we did Minerva Monster Day in the past. It's been a couple years due to COVID since we've done anything. And that was an outdoor event. So this is our first time doing something, this grand indoors in a hotel with everything that involves. So we kind of wanted to dip our toe with a one-day event to see what the response would be.

So far it's been very good. And we do have the VIP tickets as well, which will get you in an hour early to everything. And it includes being on the guest list for our film premiere that Friday night before at the Camp Palace, which is less than a block away from the hotel. And doesn't it get you like, for the podcast room, it gets you like something too, right? Yeah. So we're reserving the first two or three rows of the podcast room for VIP, first come for a serve, but those first three rows will just be for VIPs and you get a T-shirt,

which will be, you know, exclusive to the event. We're going to have special shirts made for those. That's great. So it's very hard for me to focus right now. now because I'm like, I thought that the astonishing legend, I was trying to figure I was like, I know he's going after like big names. Okay, it's weird. He already announced the astonishing legend guys. Obviously, they're the big names. But you're saying, nope, there's something even bigger. And that's going to blow people away. Yeah. I mean, to me, it's bigger. Okay. Interesting.

So, I mean, within the cryptid world, I feel like there's some names that are just really big and people that don't do events very frequently. And I think we're very blessed that we're, have a couple of people coming that would fall into that category. You have connection. The thing about Seth and SDM is you guys have cultivated connections over years that are definitely coming into play for an event like this. And it's very, very smart. Stay tuned for more Bigfoot Society.

We'll be right back after these messages for sure. Oh, man. Good stuff. I'm excited. We were dressed so we drove from Iowa Out to north of Boston And like so we're driving past Columbus And I'm like oh man there's a sign for canton

That's where Monster Fest is going to happen There's a sign for salt fork That's where all the crazy Bigfoot stuff happens And to anyone who buys tickets or anything We do have a block at the hotel So whenever you reserve your tickets You get a link to get in the block Which is significantly discounted rates

and you can do one night or two nights with that right at the lower level. So if you wanted to go Friday night and Saturday night, you can get at the cheaper rate. An important thing to us was that we wanted everyone to come and for it to be affordable, especially for our vendors because they're paying to come. They're coming to make money. So we... I have type two diabetes, but I manage it well. It's a little bill with the big story to tell.

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what if I mess up? What if I'm not ready? I see a whole highlight reel of everything I don't want to happen. Missed shots, turnovers, letting my team down. And for a second, there's doubt. But then, I realize I've done enough to be. where I'm at. The early mornings, the extra reps, the days I wanted to quit and didn't. So, I smile. Self-doubt is natural, but my smile is a reminder that I'm resilient. To put more smiles out

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Because if you don't have good vendors, that's pretty important. So I feel like we got that figured out pretty well, but that's also available to anyone that buys tickets. That's, oh, man, I love that. It's very awesome to me how over the last year and a half, the community is stepping. it up and making amazing events. And I'm going to shout out definitely the Moth Boys. Crypted bash slash. Oh, my goodness.

I can't wait though this year. It's, it's, you know, that, that, I think, you know, them making that, it kind of opened up the floodgates for like, like, hey, let's, I'm, hmm, how do I say things and not get people mad? let's take pride in what we're doing and make amazing events for the cryptic community. Let's do it, guys. And like Seth, I know Seth has been planning this for a long time and like he's going to blow the doors off the community with Monster Fest. And I'm excited for you guys to do this.

Like, it's amazing. So hats off to you. Thank you. Yeah, definitely. I always need to ask, we're coming into the last minutes, but I got to ask you because I always ask my guest. I'm curious, what according to you is Bigfoot? Oh, that's a really good question because I've been on all these interviews and it's all the, is this a flesh and blood creature? Is this something paranormal?

Does it come through portals? Is that how it disappears and gets away so well? And I've heard compelling stories and arguments from both sides through the interviews as someone who studied. anatomy and biology and I did an ape lab and all these things. I feel like it's very possible that it could be a flesh and blood creature that is just really, really good of hiding. I mean, when you figure pack animals grow up and they are taught by their elders, so if they're taught, people are bad, humans are bad, we stay away from them.

That's somebody that's going to be passed down and they're going to get. better at. And something when we were in Alaska is there they're told or the story that the big books are very aggressive. So it's like, all right, they have less exposure to people up there. So they're not necessarily told these are harmless things to stay away from. These are armed people living off the lab or off the land who are aggressive and something to be feared. So you need to be aggressive back. So if that's a lesson that is taught through lineage, then that could explain the difference in behavior. And I don't know if that necessarily, I mean, means anything.

But when you look at it from like an animal behavior point of view, if these are lessons that are passed down, then that kind of makes sense to a point. Gotcha. Megan says, got those VIP, Megan from the Patreon. She is ready to go. I know there's a few people that are excited that was Justin, oh my goodness, Churnapesky. I struggle with his life.

The guy from Canada. That's cool. I don't think he comes to a lot of this stuff. So that's a pretty big deal. Good stuff, good stuff. I've got to read a comment real quick. Okay. So, oh, do you have any favorite cryptic books?

I like to ask people that. Oh, books? I mean, I don't read a lot of cryptic books. That's Heather Straub. Yeah. Just a Sean and dark, no problem. I'm kind of a comic book nerd, really. Oh, what do you like?

Right now I'm actually reading fables and Umbrella Academy and an apocalyptic Scooby-Doo book. Nice. And I just finished the first six issues of the nice. house on the lake and if you haven't read that and you like graphic novels and you like an apocalyptic theme it is so good i really like the uh the uncle scrooge comics when i was a little kid really like those yeah at the office a special edition of that just showed up i know um that has like oh you probably saw the story set up. I saw it. I was so jealous. So heavy. And I'm like, you are moving. And there are so many books in this office. We have to carry this now. Because it like goes into detail about like the

history of Scrooge McDuck. And there's all these articles. And it's like super nerding out stuff, which is amazing. And it's it's like a really thick hardcover too. And it's all of it. It has a gold coin in the cover of it. Oh, cool. That makes sense. Excuse me, Doug. Listeners are like, what in the world am I listening to right now? Jonathan Dodd had a question. I asked for questions. Yeah, yeah, he's a cool dude. His question that he had, this would be interesting if it hits. Do you have a favorite Bigfoot encounter story? Oh, so. So when we were just filming in a lot of

Okay. This will probably be in the second Alaska movie we make, not Last Frontier, because the second one is a little bit more centered on a different aspect of it. But there was this one young man who was a native. He came in and he talked about being at his uncles or relatives fishing cabin and how a Bigfoot basically attacking. them and blocked them into the cabin. And these natives who are prone to hunting and living off the land and fishing, like rough men were so scared that they couldn't speak for like six hours. Wow.

As they looked out the window and watched this thing and then finally we're able to get out. And with the conviction, he told that story, I don't know how you could question what he thought he saw because this. is a man in his late 20s, early 30s, like, he knows what he's talking about. He's not confused. He's telling the story with all of the conviction and emotion that you would expect from a traumatizing story. And that was really interesting. That's the most violent Bigfoot story I'd ever heard. But all the, he had so many details too. And I, that that will be in, I believe, the Alaska movie that'll be out next year.

Gotcha. Looking forward to it. Courtney, it has been super fun chatting with you. Thanks so much for coming on. Definitely going to have links to small town monsters and all that good stuff in the show notes. Is there anything else that people should know about, you know, following if they want to keep up to date with what you're doing with small town monsters?

So Eli does a good job with our social media. So our Facebook, our Instagram are really good. American Werewolves just came out It's finally on Amazon crime Our distributor had an issue I was an angry child You're good

It took a little over a week To get on there But it's out now And it's really good I hope to film that movie The stories are really good I recommend watching it Just because it's an interesting take

On not the subject matter necessarily But the stories behind it And it focuses on the world which I don't think is done enough because everyone wants the proof they want the evidence but behind all that are these people who have had these experiences exactly so focusing on them I thought was a really cool thing to do and I really enjoyed filming it so I'd recommend that uh and the ridge so I think those are the major things right now Jersey devil comes out the end of September slash early October.

Awesome. That was super fun. We just got back from New Jersey two weeks ago, filming the doc portion of that. Their narrative portion was filmed like a month and a half ago, and it is going to be really cool. Yeah, I'm excited for it. Yeah.

There's going to be three basically mini movies within this documentary, and they all have completely different styles. Man. So it's not only going through history, but it's kind of going through some history. Oh, cool. Good stuff. Good stuff.

Oh, man. Thank you again so much for coming on. Courtney. Love what you guys are doing. Keep up to good work. And thank you so much for coming on. All right. Thank you.

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