Bigfoot Society - Sabine River Sasquatch Encounter of Texas

Episode Date: March 18, 2024

In this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast, we are joined by John, a listener from Texas, who shares an intriguing tale from his past. Growing up immersed in the wilds of Deep East Texas, John's childhood was filled with hunting, fishing, and exploring the dense forests. Yet, a haunting experience one night in 1983 left a profound impact on him, changing his perception of the woods he once knew so well. John and Mark, his sister's boyfriend, found themselves in an unexpected situation that night, which John recounts with vivid detail. The experience evidently shaped his attitude towards the outdoors for years to come.Resources:Texas Bigfoot by Lyle Blackburn: https://amzn.to/3vl1M7u (Amazon Affiliate link)Share your Bigfoot encounter here: [e-mail]🔴 Subscribe to hear more Bigfoot encounters: https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSociety?sub_confirmation=1Share this video with a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5v75Od-X38Watch more episodes of the Bigfoot Society podcast here – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-MGeHs0XglFJE5LwUHpmJm_&feature=sharedRecommended Playlist – New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-Mk4032IyZtWgP6LVPU8uat✅ Help me help others share their Bigfoot Encounter by joining the community on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsociety✅ Hear ad-free episodes early by joining the community on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinLet’s connect:Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bigfootsociety/Twitter – https://twitter.com/bigfoot_societyTiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bigfoot.societyAffiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYPut some pep in my step by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsocietyPick up some merch here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bigfootsociety/?etsrc=sdtSend mail here:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072Send business inquiries to: [e-mail]

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on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles Welcome to the Bigfoot Society In this episode Listener John shares publicly for the first time in 40 years about his Bigfoot experience that he had in the Sabine River area

of Deep East Texas You've experienced something similar to what John has or have more information regarding Bigfoot or other cryptids in the same areas Please reach out immediately to meet after this episode

Remember your encounter could be the key to unlocking this mystery once and for all. So please don't hesitate to contact me at Bigfoot Society at gmail.com. All right, Bigfoot Society, I've got the privilege of talking to John. He's a listener from down in Texas. He's had some interesting things happen that he did want to share. So John, hope everything's going well. I'm going to go ahead and hand it on over to you, sir.

Yes, sir, Jeremiah. It's good talking to you this evening. I've read some of your podcasts and listened to them. So I wanted to share my story. It was something that I've never experienced before, of course. So basically I grew up in northeast Texas. A little town called Henderson is where we first lived when I was six, seven years old, I guess. And we lived way on the country.

Our closest neighbor was probably three miles from where we lived. And we had a property that was on about 40 acres. So I would hunt and fish. I mean, I was always outdoors. I had three sisters. So it was just me and my dad. would come along sometimes. Most of the time he was working or, you know, he did pipeline.

So he was gone a lot. So I spent a lot of times in the woods. And it's pretty thick woods up there in northeast Texas. You got a lot of pine and oak and cedar, of course, and stuff like that. But squirrel hunted, deer hunted, nothing really out of the ordinary really happened. All those years I spent out in the woods. And so I guess when I was probably 12, maybe 13, We moved to what I would call deep east Texas, which is Newton, Jasper area.

If you look at a map, it's where Texas, if you're not familiar with Texas, where Texas kind of jets out a little bit into Louisiana, right along the Sabine River. You've got the Angelina and the Sabine River right there, Lakevillevillevilleville, Sam Rayburn, and Toledo Bend to the north of that area. Closest thing I would call to a rainforest. It's got its own micro environment down there. It rains in summer almost every day. It's a really thick woods when you get down in that part of Texas.

When we first moved there, I would take a can of spray paint and I would mark the trees when I was going into the woods. I wouldn't get turned around. It was literally that thick where you just, and there were some spots you probably couldn't even see 50 feet in front of you. And so I would wear my dad's welding shirts and some thick jeans. I'd have my mom. There used to be patches that you'd get.

for your knees. I'd have my mom put those patches on my jeans, so when I walked through this stuff, I wouldn't get tore up by all the thorns and bushes and all that stuff going through there. It was a really thick stuff. But I was a kid, and every day after school, I'd go out there, and I'd be after squirrel hunting with duck hunting in the wintertime,

the ducks would fly through there, and wood ducks and stuff and hunting acres and stuff like that. So it's been a lot of time in the woods, and one of my sisters had met this guy, and they started dating, and so I got to know him. And his name's Mark. And so, and they're still together now.

But, you know, at the time he was probably 17, 18 years old. Like I said, I guess I was maybe 12, 13. This was around 82, 83, I think. And Mark had this old Ford truck and his pride and joy and put a lot of money into it and single cab, a little old truck. And I had put some brand new pioneer speakers in there with an amp and just typical, high school kid. I think I was in middle school at the time.

So he was always messing with me a little bit. I guess because I was a little brother. I was the youngest of all of us. And plus I was just his girlfriend's little brother. So he'd take me out and would test me and we'd go hunt and leave me out there to find my way back and that sort of thing, just a little prank. And so just fun, it's just in fun. So one weekend, my sister had decided she was going to go to a party with some of her friends.

And so Mark was like, yeah. Hey, man, you want to go play some video games or something like that. So I met him over by his house, and we were going to stay at his house that night. So we took off, and the first thing he did was went to a little convenience store. And he was going these back roads. He wanted to stop the main roads. So we started off on what was a tar road and then it turned into a dirt road. And then he made a ride into what was a logging road.

So I recognized, you know, I was from here. with logging roads and stuff of course growing up in east Texas you get pretty common. So we were driving on this old logging road and go pretty slow. You could tell it had been there a while. Well, saplings were already starting to grow up in the middle of the road. And so we were taking the easy getting back up in there. So we got back there and he's got the high beams on and he cranks up his new stereo and you really couldn't hear yourself think almost over over the top of this thing.

He's got ban, hailing, blasting. So we get back in the end of this logging road, and people that are not familiar with logging roads. Most of them are half a mile to three-quarter a mile long, and typically one side will be logged out, and other side will be pretty fit. So you can see pretty good ways back in there. There's a lot of new growth and stuff,

and then towards the end of it, they've got a turnaround for the trucks. I guess we had loaded them back in the day, and they would have a place to turn around and get back out. So anyway, we stopped. right before that's it area where the turnaround was and it's just a big open area. On my side, it was pretty thick, woods still, and on his side, it's more cleared out. People that have never been to East Texas or a place that's really away from the city,

you don't realize how dark it is out there until you really get out there in it. When the moon's not out, if you get out in the woods, you can't see your hand in front of your face. It's just that dark where there's no light pollution. all. The stars just amazing how dark it can get out there. I never really realized it until I went back. I lived in the city for a while. I went back there. It's just incredible. So we were sitting back there and just shooting the breeze, talking about girls and video games and fishing and hunting and stuff. Like I said, he was a prankster. He cut the music off real quick and I'm still singing and he's laughing about it. We're both laughing about it. And he cranks it back up. And so we're just sitting there

hanging out and listening to music. We hear something over the radio and muffled it. I couldn't tell what it was. It sounded like somebody screaming. And so he turned the radio down and we were both looking at each other and not saying anything. And about that time, it was something like you would hear out of a horror movie. It was a lot of screaming. At that time, those slashing movies were coming out.

And that's how I refer to it as a woman screaming or torn apart. hard, however you want to say it, man, we heard just a loud scream beside his truck. About that time something hit the truck or hit it or I don't know exactly how to describe it or throw through something at it. The whole truck just shuttered. Literally like somebody had dropped a 50-pound log from 20 feet up into the bed of the truck as what it felt like. And there was, it went from just us wondering what was going on to. It's sheer panic. in seconds. So he put it in reverse, and we're hauling out of there.

We're in reverse. We're trying to navigate down this little logging road in reverse. And we finally hit the dirt road. And he's, I mean, he's fish-tailing out. I can tell he's freaked out. I'm freaked out. We're not saying anything. We're just trying to get back to his house.

So we hit the tar road, finally get back to his house. He jumps out of his truck, man, runs into his house, before I can get around his truck, he's in the house and he's locked the door. And so I run up on his porch and I'm trying to get in. I go to one of his windows and his windows were unlocked. And so I was able to open the window and crawl through the window. He wouldn't even come to the door. And so that was back in the day when people actually did leave their doors and windows unlocked.

And before we'd go fish or hunt, we could put all of our stuff in the boat and not have to worry about it. So that was early 80s. So anyway, all the commotion, I guess, woke his dad up and his dad came in there and we're both just free. Not knowing what to say, man. This was just like something almost traumatizing would be a word for it. So his dad comes in there and what was going on what happened. So he finally calmed down and up and he started telling his dad about what happened. And his dad told us this story.

And that night, later that night, he told us. the story that he had seen something, they had some pastures behind their house, they had a few, had cattle and that sort of thing. He had seen something behind his house one morning, early in the morning he said he saw something stocking some deer back there. And he said he went to get his rifle to look through the scope and get a better look at what it was. And before he could come back, the thing was gone. And so he said, man, you guys, that was probably a big foot. And I've heard a big foot. And I was a kid. We used to go up into the Ozarks around that area.

And I guess Bigfoot's kind of a bigger deal up there. I knew about Bigfoot. I've never heard any vocalizations, of course, or anything like that. So I really didn't expect or didn't know what to expect. So he said, man, I'd seen something out there a few years ago. I don't think he ever told Mark about it. We stayed up the whole night. We didn't sleep.

And we came out the next morning and went out to Mark's truck and they had a big dent inside of it, right behind the passenger on the driver's side. When Mark was sitting, there was a big dent in the back of his truck, and I don't know if something through something at his truck and hit the truck and made the dent, or if something actually hit the truck with his fist, or I don't know how it got there. I just know that I'm assuming that's what caused the truck to shutter. That's his baby, I guess you'd say, and I took really care of it, so I knew what the dent wasn't there before we went out to the woods. So yeah, it was just one of those things that you had never experienced before, and I didn't

see anything. I never saw what caused it. He didn't want to really talk about it. He's one of those guys. I guess some people are open to telling a story, and it's just the first time I've really told it in a public forum in my life. So it just happened over 40 years ago. But, you know, I told my wife.

and stuff about it through the years I've asked Mark when he basically just says yeah I remember remember that happened and it scared the shit out of me and but other than that he really didn't want to talk about it so yeah this is really the first time I've shared that story it was something that's never happened since it did keep me out of the woods when I was the next couple of years I would go into the woods but I wouldn't really, I was subconsciously, I guess, just didn't want to get in that thick stuff like I did carefree in the past. I was still go out there and squirrel hunts, but I was scared to go out there. I had friends that would go out and coon hunt at night and they would, you know, run dogs and chase the coons and all that stuff. And I just, I didn't want to get out there at night again.

Even though I didn't really see anything, I just hearing that, it took me a couple, two or three years to get back into the woods. to actually go back out there and a coon hunt and deer hunt and that sort of thing, back in that thick stuff, and never saw anything or heard anything again that was like that night. So, of course, years later, I got married and I would tell my wife about it. I was, hey, this one time me and Mark went back there in the woods over and where you live in East Texas, and we heard something. And I think she, I guess she'd believe me.

It's just one of those deals. You believe or you don't. And we were sitting there watching TV one night. And I've always been fascinated by, you know, foes and ever since then kind of Bigfoot stuff. And so we were listening one night, it was one night, Bigfoot hunters or one of those shows like that. It was in that same general area, deep east Texas, right around the Sabine River. They were talking to a lady that said that she had big foot around her house. And so we were watching it.

And I described from my wife what it sounded. like. And so she said, well, she told these guys, I've recorded some vocalizations of what this Bigfoot sounded like. And I'd heard other shows the whoops and the howls. But never, I'd never heard the same screen. Never that same intensity, I guess. But when she played the recording, the hair literally stood up on my arms and the back of my neck, I looked at my wife and I said, that's what we heard. Just everything came back that night. And it was getting back. that kind of emotional body. It was just like, okay, well, that kind of confirmed it for me.

We had heard a Bigfoot back there on back this logging road in the middle of nowhere. And this lady apparently had heard the same thing and recorded it and that sort of thing. So it's, like I said, it's been 40 years. I've been back there. Anything has never happened like that again. But that's what happened on a winter's night back in 1983. That's wild. Do you know what else happened in a.

Winters in 1983? I do not. I was born. All right. Now you're making me so old, man. So yeah, that area that you experienced that there's a lot of Bigfoot things that happen in that area of East Texas. There's a really good book you can pick up called, I believe it's just called Texas Bigfoot. It's by Lyle Blackburn and it does go into detail about Bigfoot in that area, I believe.

but there was a part where you were talking about how the scream you heard was really loud. You describe in any way like how loud it seems like... It was like you felt it in your chest. I don't know. It was like being in the movie theater, but three, four, five times as loud as, like I said, that was when the slasher movie started coming out, I guess Friday the 13th and those sort of things. And so you would hear that audibly, but you didn't feel it physically. And this was like, if it's, I would guess maybe the thing was standing beside his window and just let out of, yeah, it could have been.

Like I said, we never saw it. I don't know exactly where it came from. It felt like it came from his side of the truck. And that's where the mark on the truck was or the den in the truck. I have type 2 diabetes, but I manage it well. It's a little pill with the big story 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.

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So like I said, the best way I could describe it is I thought if when I first heard it, it was like, is he playing a prank on me out here? See, have one of his friends out here screaming. But it just, it didn't make sense.

And then to have the big dent in the truck, I know he wouldn't have gone to that extreme to try to scare me to put a dent in the side of his truck. So after I've told the story, people said, you just heard a Black Panther or something like that in the woods. And just all the, I guess, explanations that people gave just didn't make sense to me because, one, if you're going through the woods, you've got the radio on the high beams on the truck. You're making a bunch of noise coming back through this.

on this logging road, you're going to scare everything off. It's within a mile and a half of that area. This thing had no truck of the noise we were making. Just like I said, it was something that we just heard over the, like you said, when we were talking back, we couldn't talk back and forth already. You had to yell back and forth to hear yourself even or try to hear him over the radio. And this thing was audible over the noise inside the cabin of the truck. We could hear it from outside.

And then, like, once he cut that radio off, it was, it was just overwhelming loud screen. You said that when you heard the scream, it felt like you could feel in your chest. Did it affect you emotionally in any way that you remember thinking about it? Not so much at the time. That night, yes. But, like I said, I didn't, I couldn't explain what it was. We never saw it. So I just knew that it was something that wasn't normal.

I'd spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours out in the woods. And I'd never heard anything like that off in the distance. I'd never heard anything like that at close. I never knew anything could make that loud of a sound out in the woods. And like I said, it took me, I guess it, I guess on a subconscious level, it did affect me. Like I said, I really couldn't go back in the woods or didn't go back. back in the woods for a couple of years. I spent more time fishing and duck hunting and stuff.

It was more open where I didn't have to go back into that thick stuff. It took me a while before I got the nerve to hunt at night again, even. I used to go out and few rabbits. I'd go out in the fields behind our house and have a shotgun, and I'd go out there and hunt rabbits at night, and that sort of thing to spotlight them. And, man, after that, I would, I still went out in the woods, It's, you know, worked up the nerve to go off there at night, but I made sure that I had, you know, a couple of shotgun slugs with me in my pocket when I was out there.

It had a six shot or whatever, seven and a halfs to shoot the rabbits with, but I'll make sure that I always had some slugs or some buckshot in my pocket because I guess it was back there in the back of my mind. Something's out there in the woods of East Texas, and it doesn't want you out there. Like I said, it only happened one time, but it made an impression of them. any looking into that area where you had that situation and see if anyone else has had any weird things happen in that area no i really didn't it's such a it's those are really small communities out there so he didn't really talk about mark my brother and all now he didn't really talk about it uh like i said his dad uh had seen something his dad really never talked about it so i got followed their lead i guess like i said i

told my parents about it. When I got married, I told my wife about it. But as far as going back, I have been back to that area. Since then, I've never, I know exactly where he took us. I just, I just never really wanted to go back to the exact spot. I don't know if he could even still get back there today. The trees has been pretty good while now. I'm guessing it's grown up, but I've been on other logging roads and stuff.

just hunting and stuff. And when I started going over the story in my mind, I really never thought about it a whole lot in the years recently. But it made sense that something, if predator is in the woods in East Texas, they would be hanging out along with logging roads and that sort of a natural ambush area. I would hunt logging roads.

When I was a kid, there'd be brush piles and stuff on the side of these logging roads And a lot of times, you know, you could jump on the brush pile and the rabbit run out. Or one time I walked by big brush pile or some hogs in the brush pile. So I could see where a logging road would be an ideal ambush spot, I guess, if there is something out there in the woods for something that big to hunt. In that same area growing up in there, were there any other reports of strange things, not necessarily Bigfoot related or anything? else weird that would happen over the years in the same area? Well, my dad told me a story one time.

He used to tournament fish on Rabin and Salida Ben when we were living in Houston that time. I was probably three, four, five years old. He said he was coming back from a fishing tournament. Like I said, they had fished on, I guess they, I think it was Rayburn. They had fished on Rayburn. And this was back in the early 70s. that this happened to him. So it was him and another guy, and they teamed up,

and they were following each other, pulling the boats, and they were coming through Conroe, which is still East Texas. It's not deep East Texas, because that area around Newton, Jeff, but they call that the big thicket. So it's really thick with, it thins out when you get deep out of that area a little bit.

And he was coming through, you told me the story, he was coming through Conroe, and it had already got dark, and they saw something in the woods, and he said he thought the woods were on fire. So him and this other guy pulled over, and they were looking at it,

and he said, I thought it was a force fire. And so they stopped and got out and were looking at the way he described it had been sitting there looking at it for a couple minutes. And something, he said, well, he said, what looked like is a saucer, lifted up out of the woods, got to tree top level,

and was gone. a secchi. He'd never really told me that story before until I shared my story with Mark. And so, yeah, he saw something over there close to Conroe, which is probably an hour away from the area where I saw or heard. We never saw anything, but we heard the vocalization of what I believe was probably a big foot. My wife has actually seen UFOs who grew up in Pasadena, heavily populated area in Pasadena. She was outside with one of her girlfriends and their kids, her girlfriend's kids. And she said she looked up and there was something that was coming over her house. No noise. She said the thing was huge. I tried to press her on

dimensions and stuff. But, you know, she's not real good with that sort of thing. So she just described it as probably as wide as a football field. and a chevron shaped is what she called it. And nothing happened. You just watched this thing as it glided over her friend's house and then out of sight. And that was the end of it. She just, her friend ran inside with her kids

and my wife still out there and watched this thing fly by. So I've never seen anything like that. Like I said, I've never heard another vocalization. That was really the only thing that happened to me. the whole area of east and southeast Texas there's some weird stuff that that goes on for sure the area of around newton where your account takes place what do most people think that they're dealing with when they they think a big foot down there if you've been able to talk to other people about it as well I really didn't. I've never,

his dad was really the only one that had shared anything about Bigfoot. We lived there probably, it wasn't a long time that we lived there, probably from the time I was 13, 12, 13 to the time I was about 16. We ended up moving. Like I said, my dad was a pipeline welder. So we ended up moving to the LaGrange area. So we moved out of that area.

But we had lived in Northeast Texas and, like I said, Deep East Texas from the time I was about four years old until I was probably 16. And like I said, this happened when I was, I guess, I said, middle school, I was 17th grade. So I guess I was 12, 13. So I didn't know what it was. So I didn't really know to ask or think to ask anybody. Have you seen a Bigfoot or heard of Bigfoot or anything like that? because it's so unusual that, like I said, his dad shared his story with us that he had seen something really big and hairy and black. But it was early in the morning, it was the very back of his farmland back there probably, I would guess, 300 yards away from his actual house.

So he never really got a good look at it. He, I guess in his mind, that was probably what it was a big foot. And that's how he described it to us was just a big hairy black creature. I know that some people have said there are black bear in that area. I've never seen a black bear. I've never seen any scat from black bear. People always talk about, and a lot of people that have come across of, hey, man, why you never find any bones of this thing?

Why, you never see any tracks of this thing? And I say to that, I say, I really never found a lot of bones of anything out in the woods. Occasionally, I would come across some deer bones. because there was a hunting lease that was behind my house that was probably went back about 10 or 12 miles back there. And I guess occasionally somebody would shoot one and run off and die. And so I have found deer bones. I found a couple of times I found just a little small, whatever it was, I couldn't really tell. Just small bones.

But as far as seeing anything else, I know Bobcat lived back there. There's been, like I said, people saying that panther. and that sort of thing. I never saw a bobcat or a path through either. So to not believe that something as big as the big foot could live back there, I just, it doesn't make sense to me that something, if something like as common as a bobcat,

and I've never seen one in the wild out in the woods, could be back to there. Why couldn't something bigger be hiding out in the thicker part of the woods? And I always tell people when they question me about it, I say, Bigfoot finds you. And that's where I left it off. And I do tell people, people asked me where I grew up. And for the most part, it was East Texas and Deep East Texas. And I could say, hey, if there is such a thing as Bigfoot, that's where he'd be. And not too long ago, one of the guys at work, I'd taken a customer home, I buy cars over here in San Antonio now. And one of the guys at work was at his to ride with me. And after we dropped the guy off, he had been, BS and back and forth, you know, where we, you know, he had asked me where I was. You know, he had asked me where I was. And he had asked me, lived and you know I told them I lived in East Texas and I said man if there was such a big thing is big for you know that's where one would live I think you know he said it's funny you say that

john he said I used to sell cars you know up in northeast Texas and he said he told me story he said I was coming home one night I was driving down farm to market road I come around the curb and my headlights hit something on the side of the road and it was eight nine foot tall and covered with black fur, black reddish fur. And, I mean, it wasn't a whole lot to the store. He just said he saw it. He recognized what he thought it was. And I pressed him a little bit on it.

And I said, well, what happened? What did it do? And I said, well, it just stood there. And I drove by it. I said, well, how close were you? He said, well, I was close enough to it that if it would have reached out, it could have hit my car as it was going by. So he got a pretty good look at whatever it was.

and it's just like same kind of deal with me and he said first time last time I never saw anything like that and I've never seen anything like it again it was just one night and middle of nowhere and it just happened yeah it's it's one of those fascinating stories

where you know you didn't have a visual but it's just enough to jog the memory of people that listen to this and you know I'm sure I will hear from quite a few people that are like, you know, I've seen stuff in the same area of East Texas. So I do like accounts like this for sure. But John, I definitely want to thank you for coming on the show for reaching out and sharing what you experienced with me about 40 years ago down in deep East,

Texas. Well, Jeremy, I appreciate. I appreciate the time. Like I said, this is the first time I've really told the story and really even thought about it. and as much depth as I have revisited it, so to speak. And in some ways, I guess I'm glad that I didn't see it. If I would have seen it, I don't know if I ever would have gone back in the woods and been able to go back there and certainly not at night, hunting these woods. It was, like I see, it was always in the back of my mind.

Something unusual happened to us, but it wasn't until we saw that show on TV that really sank in, that this was not, this probably, it probably was a big foot. just like I said it just did it was just a normal night we just had gone down this old logging road and we'd get off the main roads he wanted to drink a few beers we're just sitting there bullshit and going back and forth and it just happened it can't explain any better than that and then that's usually how it is there's no way to be prepared for it usually just happens and it's wild I love talking to people

about what they've seen or what they experienced, what they heard. It makes my day. So thank you so much for coming on, John. I'm sure your account will help some listeners that are listening out there for sure. Like I said, thank you very much, Jeremiah. I appreciate you. Allow me the time to share the story. And like I said, recount it in my own mind.

Just relive it, I guess you'd say. I hadn't really thought about it in a long time. So thank you. And I hope this helps somebody maybe struggling to figure out what they heard or saw or whatever. There's something, something was out there. Like I said, I never saw it, heard it. And it scared the crap of us. Yes, sir.

You have a great night. All right. Thank you, Jeremiah. Thank you very much. Yes, sir. Bye-bye. I just want to take a few minutes to say thank you to you, all my listeners, for listening to the podcast.

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