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1.05 - Squatch Talk
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The inaugural episode of SQUATCH TALK, recorded in Jake Talbott’s living room. In this episode, Jake’s friend and prospective co-host, Abe Ramirez, brings Sasquatch questions and sightings from across the Oregon Bigfoot Highway. What is Bigfoot? Could he be an alien? A protector? Dare we say, a friend? Find out all this and more on SQUATCH TALK!
The transcript for this episode is available here. See research notes and further reading at BelieverPodcast.com
Due to recording delays from, well, everything, the main storyline of BELIEVER is going on hiatus. Please stay subscribed for bonus content (including spin-off and prequel episodes) as well as regular show recommendations and resources for self-care and activism.
If you enjoyed Squatch Talk, you’ll love King Falls AM.
CONTENT NOTES
- Strong language
- Harm to wild animals
- Dissociative behavior
CAST
- Jake Talbott - Jason Markoff
- Abe Ramirez - Enrique Garnica
- Bill - Mark Fossen
- Ben - Zichi Calhoun
- Sheila - April Fossen
- Rose Boone - Mara Hernandez
- Dr. Penelope Simmons - Samantha Ronceros
MUSIC
- “Julie’s Melody (Believer Theme),” by Aaron Ferenc
- “C-Four,” by Deskant
- “Obsessions (Instrumental Version), by Can’t Find Ollie
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Transcript
Introduction and Show Announcements
00:00:06
Speaker
Believer, Episode 5. Stay tuned after this episode for some important announcements.
Welcome to the Oregon Big Foot Highway
00:00:30
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Squatchtower, broadcasting from the heart of the Oregon Big Foot Highway. We're here to discuss the news and information about our most mysterious neighbor, Sasquatch. I'm Jake Talbot, and this is my co-host. We'll see. Interim co-host. Yes, for this episode, Abe Ramirez.
00:00:47
Speaker
Yo, now, citizens of charity know Abe from the local public access station. WKCH, charity's only local public radio. What you may not know about Abe is that he's also one of the region's foremost experts on paranormal events. The truth is out there, folks. Alright, let's get to the main topic.
Exploring Sasquatch Lore
00:01:04
Speaker
Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Skunk Age, Giganto Pithicus, El Sisimente. They have Bigfoot in Mexico?
00:01:08
Speaker
I don't know, I'm Guatemalan. Right. But you said you had some recordings you wanted to share. Yeah, as the listeners may know, my show on WKCH has an open inbox policy so anyone can call with tips and we might choose to explore them on air. That's how you found that big story on the farmer's market price fixing, right? Yeah, that was a good one. But I also get a lot of calls that are more difficult to authenticate.
Listener's Mysterious Encounter
00:01:31
Speaker
Squatchy, you might say.
00:01:33
Speaker
I might say that. Anyway, I thought I'd play them for you and get your take, please. Let's hear it. All right. Let's start with this one. Hey, this is Bill. I've just been listening to your show and just wondered if you've heard anything like this. See, I was backpacking up around Eagle Creek about two weeks ago. Got my third day out there. I was up real early in the morning and I heard this knocking. Not at my tent. More like out in the trees.
00:02:03
Speaker
like someone knocking branches on each other. Well, I figured it was just some kids outscrewing around, so I shouted, you know, hey, you kids quiet down out there, you know, that kind of thing. And then it got weird. See, there was this crashing, like something big breaking through the brush, like real big mowing down everything on its path, coming towards me. I kind of froze, you know, not sure what to do. But as it got closer, smell, whoo, bad, smell, real bad.
00:02:33
Speaker
sulfur mixed with feces real bad and that kind of shook me loose you know so so I took cover behind a boulder nearby and just as it crashed out of the woods it made this noise like a like a roar and then it was just gone I didn't see what it was but my whole tent and my can't stove thrown over and you know we don't get a lot of bears here but I know bears and it wasn't a bear
00:03:00
Speaker
Yeah, anyway, just wondered if you heard about the scaped animal, maybe from the zoo or something I thought I'd mention it. Cause this thing, it was real big, real smelly, aggressive. Seems like it warned people. Okay, that's it. Thanks.
00:03:14
Speaker
Yeah, that's a squash. You sure? Oh, yeah. Classic Sasquatch encounter. In Eagle Creek. Oh, well, Sasquatch have got huge territories. And make no mistake, they are territorial. That knocking bill heard? That's how they communicate. Two of the Bigfoots. Big feet. They take two big branches, right? And they just slam them together. I see it all the time on my Sasquatch trail. You see them. Sasquatches.
00:03:35
Speaker
No, I see the branches. Ah. Trust me, big tree branches don't just fall. Not on each other. Not, you know, perpendicular. It's Sasquatch every time. So why didn't this Sasquatch stick around? It just ran through? Oh, well, they don't stick around, Law. Your average Bigfoot encounter is only about 10 seconds. They're shy animals. My guess, this one heard Bill yelling, thought he was a rival male, and just made a quick territorial display. Just enough to scare him off. A warning. Exactly. This is why you always approach the Sasquatch with respect. Talk quietly.
00:04:04
Speaker
apple for them to find? That's how you gain their trust. How long have you been trying to tame the Sasquatch out of your place? Oh, we've been on good terms for a few years now. It started with just the one, but now there's a whole clan that comes around.
Sasquatch, UFOs, and Theories
00:04:16
Speaker
They're beautiful creatures. You've seen them. Well, no, but they take the apples. That's how you know when the apples are gone. Okay, well, here's a listener question you can maybe answer. Ask the local expert. Sure.
00:04:31
Speaker
I want you to find out what the aliens are doing with the Sasquatch around here. You know they've been getting together lately. Every time you see a UFO, there's another damn Sasquatch. It's an infestation! This is the kind of stuff your show should look at, you know. I've been listening for a year now, and some of the top
00:04:49
Speaker
That's enough of that. You know your show should focus on more of this stuff Abe. That's what your show is for. Man there are things going on out here the public just has no idea about. The government is hacking our phones and you want me to talk about a hairy man in the woods? Come on man. But this connection between Sasquatch and aliens? That's interesting. It all comes back to aliens with you. No man I looked into it. Sasquatch encounters are highly correlated with UFO sightings. Sasquatch is not an alien.
00:05:15
Speaker
But could he have been created by aliens? Maybe the same ones who created us. Come on, man. No, really. Hairless skin, weak teeth and claws, big heavy head that we hold far from the ground. Why? You really think those are the product of natural selection? Survival of the fittest? Okay, well, you have a point. Of course I do, man. So what? A race of extraterrestrial Sasquatches came down to Earth and made humans for some reason? No, no, that would be silly. Sasquatch was an earlier experiment. To do what? A slave race. Think about it.
00:05:45
Speaker
They are huge, hearty, surprisingly intelligent, clearly resilient to thriving in secret for this long. So why move on to humans? Because, man, humans are easier to control.
00:05:59
Speaker
Oh, Sasquatch is not an alien though. No, no, he protects us from the aliens. He turned on them, so whenever they try to come back, Sasquatch shows up. I don't know, man. Here, try this one. You'll see. There's more to Bigfoot than meets the eye. Alright.
00:06:16
Speaker
Listen,
Mysterious Call and Technical Glitch
00:06:17
Speaker
Abe, I was driving down Highway 224, just coming back from Estacada and... Heavily would there. Shh, listen. There's just something kind of weird out there. So I was driving along and it was getting dark, you know, and I see this elk in the road, just one bull elk all by himself. And he's standing there just staring at me. I don't hear any Sasquatch. She's getting to it. I flashed my lights, I honked the horn, but this thing just would not move. And I think there was something up with it because it had this
00:06:46
Speaker
Well, I could swear it was blood all around its mouth on its teeth. Anyway, I thought maybe it was blinded, you know, by the headlights. So I shut them off and that's when it happened. I heard this sound like a cry or a call, maybe a whistle and this elk. He looks up toward the sound and he blinks and he sniffs twice and then he just falls over. And I'm so surprised. I just, I started to get out of the car, like to see if it was okay. And then this
00:07:15
Speaker
dark thing came. Not dark. Like, I mean, it was night, but darker than that. Like, I've never seen anything so, but it was walking. I think it came out of the woods, this huge black thing. And it bent down over the elk and then it, then it was just gone. The elk, the thing that I blinked and I was just standing on an empty road, headlights on, horn blaring. And since then I can't, it's like I can't get it out of my head.
00:07:41
Speaker
Look, Abe, I know it sounds crazy, but I wasn't seeing things. It happened. There's something out there and I just think maybe you should... I don't know. I wanted you to know. Don't call me back.
00:07:55
Speaker
So? Hm? Is that Bigfoot? Uh, that a... I don't think I got that. Like, you don't know where it is, or... No, like, it didn't play. What? No, man, I played the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, I don't know, man. Maybe something's wrong with your computer. There's nothing wrong with my computer, Jake. You know I take care of my rig. Yeah, I don't know. I gotta get a drink. Oh, you have water right here. I gotta get a drink. Uh, okay. Are we just gonna edit this part out, or...
00:08:25
Speaker
Jake, what the... How is this happening? Jake, you seeing this? Hello? Hello?
00:08:55
Speaker
Dude, this is fucked. Hey, sorry. Everything okay? This machine is supposed to be unhackable.
00:09:04
Speaker
Okay. That message came from nowhere. It's not on my computer. There's no record of it. So you still want to do the show or... Jake, you don't understand. This is not possible.
Gigantopithecus and Sasquatch
00:09:15
Speaker
Someone is using tech that just doesn't exist. Well, so we didn't really get to talk about Gigandopithecus and it sounded like that girl, Rose. Don't you think? But she doesn't have access to this kind of tech. So Gigandopithecus is an ancient species of primate.
00:09:29
Speaker
Jake, are you listening to me, man? This is serious. Yeah, I'm telling you, this thing, let's just call him Giganto, it's easier. It was the largest primate that ever lived, at least according to current fossil records. Dude, I've... I've gotta go. You should disconnect your Wi-Fi.
00:09:47
Speaker
Giganto was 10 feet tall and likely weighed over a thousand pounds. Now there have been plenty of species that people thought were extinct and then they found them out there in the world. They're called Lazarus species because they came back from the dead. Now what about our friend Giganto? Could he be a Lazarus? The evidence is pretty compelling. For example, Abe, if you look at the fossilized foot samples from
00:10:10
Speaker
Oh, that's right, Abe had to go. Well, this has been a fantastic episode of Squash Talk! I don't think I need to do any edits.
00:10:19
Speaker
The next episode should be out in just a couple of days, but if you want to see the evidence, and maybe even a live Sasquatch in the flesh, then you'll need to join me for a Squatch Walk. Just head on out to Charity Oregon and follow the signs from the Town Hall. Someone took them down a bit ago, but I'll put them back up. Oh, this episode is sponsored by Dave's Hardware. At Dave's, you can get hammered and screwed. Hey, that doesn't sound right.
00:10:44
Speaker
Anyway, shoot me a message with your Bigfoot questions and stories. Maybe you could find yourself featured on Squash Talk. Until next time, everybody. So what did you think? I really just came by to speak with Laura Campbell. Is she here? Oh, no.
00:11:12
Speaker
Well, that's half an hour of my life. I'll never get back.
COVID-19 Impact and Future Plans
00:11:25
Speaker
Thank you for listening to Believer. I've got a bit of a bad news, good news situation today. The bad news is that we've reached the end of the audio that we were able to record as a cast before COVID-19 shut down the recording studios in Los Angeles. With the outbreak continuing and protests filling the streets, I really can't say for sure when we'll be able to get back together again. So this is a long way of saying that the main storyline of Believer is now on hiatus.
00:11:56
Speaker
But there is some good news. We've got prequel and spin-off episodes planned that make use of some of the remote recording possibilities that we have. I've also got lots of plans to revamp the show in the meantime. When we come back, we will have better audio, a more consistent release schedule, and lots of cool ways to interact with the show.
00:12:17
Speaker
As always, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at BelieverPod for all the latest news. You can also email BelieverPod at gmail.com to get in touch. For full credits, transcripts, press kit, other information, stop by the website at www.believerpodcast.com.
00:12:37
Speaker
If you enjoyed Squatch Talk, then you should really subscribe to King Falls AM. It's a fiction podcast about two guys running a radio show in a small paranormal town. I swear I didn't do this on purpose, but when I listened back to this episode, I was like, oh, I made a King Falls episode in the believe reverse. So if you liked this, go to kingfallsam.com or look them up in any podcasting app. You will love it.
00:13:02
Speaker
Now, this feed's not going completely silent, because there's a lot going on. So over the next few weeks, you can expect many episodes recommending other shows, opportunities for activism, and resources for coping with our collective life situation. We'll have new believer content soon, but in the meantime, it's important for us to help each other.
00:13:23
Speaker
Until then, remember, be safe. Wear a mask. Black lives matter. Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary people are wonderful. And while you're at it, just try to get a good night's sleep. You encounter far, far fewer ghosts when you're well rested. Bye now.