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Cliff Barackman

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130 total appearances

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Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Well, I do. I've encountered them actually several times. I've put my eyes on one, one or maybe two times. I'm not sure what that second one was.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Well, I do. I've encountered them actually several times. I've put my eyes on one, one or maybe two times. I'm not sure what that second one was.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

I really do think that, and I think we're getting closer all the time. Just recently, the last year and a half, two years, North Carolina State University is now undertaking a study. It's a university-sponsored study, the first and only of its kind. Now, they got it past the guards, so to speak. They're like, we're going to study Bigfoot. No, they didn't quite do that.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

I really do think that, and I think we're getting closer all the time. Just recently, the last year and a half, two years, North Carolina State University is now undertaking a study. It's a university-sponsored study, the first and only of its kind. Now, they got it past the guards, so to speak. They're like, we're going to study Bigfoot. No, they didn't quite do that.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

But the guy who's putting the study together, this guy named Darby Orcutt, his job description at the university is interdisciplinary project coordinator. He basically gets these people to talk to these people, and the two departments had never really speak back and forth.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

But the guy who's putting the study together, this guy named Darby Orcutt, his job description at the university is interdisciplinary project coordinator. He basically gets these people to talk to these people, and the two departments had never really speak back and forth.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

But he got it past the guards, so to speak, by describing the project like, we are giving grad students and postdoc students opportunities to examine real unknown samples from North America. using whatever techniques, genetic, whatever techniques they want to identify the species. And they're undertaking this large study.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

But he got it past the guards, so to speak, by describing the project like, we are giving grad students and postdoc students opportunities to examine real unknown samples from North America. using whatever techniques, genetic, whatever techniques they want to identify the species. And they're undertaking this large study.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

The North American Bigfoot Center, we're working with them closely on some interesting projects. They're soliciting hair and possible blood samples and flesh samples. They are doing their best at this moment to push this study ahead.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

The North American Bigfoot Center, we're working with them closely on some interesting projects. They're soliciting hair and possible blood samples and flesh samples. They are doing their best at this moment to push this study ahead.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

And if they start getting genetic hits on this, that's going to raise a tremendous amount of effort all throughout North America, through all the institutions involved. So I really am very optimistic about this unique and fantastic study. The literal first study sponsored by academics of any sort on that level.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

And if they start getting genetic hits on this, that's going to raise a tremendous amount of effort all throughout North America, through all the institutions involved. So I really am very optimistic about this unique and fantastic study. The literal first study sponsored by academics of any sort on that level.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

So I have great optimism, essentially, because technology is catching up to the Sasquatch. Let's hope that Donald Trump doesn't hear about that.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

So I have great optimism, essentially, because technology is catching up to the Sasquatch. Let's hope that Donald Trump doesn't hear about that.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Well, I'm not sure mean or not mean is the way to couch it, really. But now, they are wild animals. They are scary animals, I'll tell you that. They're very human-like, which makes them even more horrifying. They're everything about, everything monstrous that we've been trained to fear, you know? So I would say that they are... He's a child, Cliff. Eight years old.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

Well, I'm not sure mean or not mean is the way to couch it, really. But now, they are wild animals. They are scary animals, I'll tell you that. They're very human-like, which makes them even more horrifying. They're everything about, everything monstrous that we've been trained to fear, you know? So I would say that they are... He's a child, Cliff. Eight years old.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

If he has nightmares, then I'm not sleeping. Well, yeah, they're potentially dangerous, but let me say it like this. If they were out to get us, there would be very few of us left. They're clearly not out to get us.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

If he has nightmares, then I'm not sleeping. Well, yeah, they're potentially dangerous, but let me say it like this. If they were out to get us, there would be very few of us left. They're clearly not out to get us.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

They're cute and cuddly. They're okay. They're okay.

Flightless Bird
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail

They're cute and cuddly. They're okay. They're okay.