June 9, 2025

The X Letters EP 2 - We do what we can

The X Letters EP 2 - We do what we can
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We do what we can folks. Time runs out, and life gets in the way. Do what you can.


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Hey, everybody, Welcome back to the X Letters. These are

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leftover emails from the Kentucky X Files podcast and we'll

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be reading them on here. So far, i've been able

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to get one or two out at a time, and

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I'm just gonna upload these, probably in bulk, just so

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you can binge them, and then we'll go from there.

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I'm yeah, so like I said, like I said on

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the last one, I'm still really rusty at this. It's

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been a year since I've been on a podcast, Mike, So.

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Here we go. Let's dive in. Uh.

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The next email I have on my list here is

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from February eleventh, twenty twenty four, from a man named

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Blake in Arkansas, which still is spelled like ar Kansas.

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I just can never get over that. I'm sorry, all right,

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Dear Denny.

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I'm not one for tall tales, but I've hunted these

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woods since I was old enough to carry a rifle,

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and I know the difference between black bear and what

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we saw. This happened last November. Me and my cousin

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Tyler were out for the weekend hunt in the o

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Wood Owi cheetahs och Ochina. I don't know how to

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say that I am so sorry. We camped a couple

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miles off of the old logging road, close to the

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ridgeline that overlooked a creek bottom. That's a that's thick

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woods out there, oak pine, some hickory. It's good cover

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for good deer. We'd been out all day with no luck.

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Just before dusk we started heading back to camp. Uh

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that's when we both got that feeling, you know, the

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one like someone behind you.

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The woods went quiet. The woods went quiet. Where's that?

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I just lost my place, Like someone's behind you. The

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woods went quiet. No birds, no wind, no nothing, just

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the crunch of our boots. Well, we hear that a lot,

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and some of you know some of the stories right

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as everything goes silent, you know, the pressure, the presence

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or whatever. Anyway, we were about one hundred yards from

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camp when we heard something move and it was big.

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I'm talking branches snapping, not twigs. Tyler raised his rifle

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and froze. He whispered, did you see that? I looked

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ahead and saw it. There, just beyond the fire pit

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was something standing behind a pine tree, not crouched, not moving,

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just standing. The tree was probably ten inches across. Whatever

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it was still had mass on both sides of it.

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It was covered in dark brown fur. The arms were

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too long, the shoulders were too wide. The head cone

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the head was cone shaped like an apse. And those

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damn eyes. They were amber colored and reflective when it blinked,

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Oh I'm sorry. Then it blinked and stepped back and

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vanished into the woods. We didn't move, we didn't speak.

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We literally just stood there. We just listened. I think

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we stood there for a solid five minutes. Then we

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heard it again, this time circling to the left, but

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it was deeper in the brush. We slowly backed out,

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rifles up, and every hair on my body was standing

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straight up. We finally had made it to camp, packed

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our gear and under ten minutes and we hiked out

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with our lights off. I don't think either of us

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even breathed until we hit the truck. Here's the thing.

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I went back the next morning by myself. I found

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where it stood, and there were impressions in the ground,

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not footprints, not clear, but heavy enough to crush the

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pine needles and moss. Deep down. There was a path

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of them. I followed them for about thirty yards and

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they just stopped. There was no broken branches, no scat,

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just nothing. It was like it stepped out of the world.

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I didn't see it again, but I've heard it since.

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The wood knocks, the long low howls after dark, and

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one night there was rocks thrown from at the cabin

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from the tree line. I kept this quiet, but I

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know I'm not the only one. There's stories around here

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that don't make the papers, stories about eyes in the woods,

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voices that mimic your own. I've heard them, and I've

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seen the aftermath. Some people think that it's Bigfoot. Other

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people think it's just a myth, a big ape.

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But I'll tell you what I don't think.

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So.

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I think it's older than that, and it's smarter too,

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Like it watches us to see how close we're getting.

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It knows who believes and who laughs, and it picks

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out the It picks who gets to leave based on that.

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But I saw it, guys, I saw it, and it

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saw me. I'll never go back to that ridge again.

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So if you're ever out this way, stay out of

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that place, especially after dark. Blake, Wow, that's a that's

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pretty wild. I've definitely heard of being watched before by

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him and actually catching them watching so I don't know.

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That's uh, it's hard to say on that one. I mean, yeah,

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I'm a little I'm about a year you know out,

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and I haven't even dove into this topic since I

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wanted a nice, long, clean break. But I remember stories

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about people seeing them, you know, and then trying to

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you know, later, trying to follow the trail, and the

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trail just breaks. There's no there's nothing, it goes cold.

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So I don't know, Blake.

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If if you ever get a chance to hear this,

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and I would love to hear more, you know, if

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you've been back to it, if you've seen anything or

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heard anything, or even you know, if you hear any

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other stories that you want to share, I'd love to

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hear them, and we'd love to read them out.

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Let's go here. Here's another one from.

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This one's actually a bit older. I don't really know

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how this one went under the radar, but this is

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April fourth, from twenty twenty three. And yeah, anyway, let's

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see here. It looks like they did not leave me

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a name, but it says here, dear guys, have you

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ever heard something scream like a train whistle in the

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middle of the night and just dear guys, Have you

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ever heard something scream like a train whistle in the

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night and you know just to your bones that it

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wasn't made by anything from this world? Well that's what

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I heard three nights ago. I ain't one to go

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flapping my mouth about things I don't understand.

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Fuck start over, start over, right here, edit right here.

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Dear guys, you ever hear something scream like a train

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whistle in the dead of night and you just know

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in your bones that it wasn't made for this world?

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Well that's what I heard three nights ago. Now, I

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ain't want to go flapping my mouth about things I

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don't understand. Folks around here keep stuff quiet like this.

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We've seen things, we've heard things, but we don't talk

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unless we have to. Not because we're scared, though maybe

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we probably are, but because around here, when you speak

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something out loud, we think it listens. I lived just

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outside a point pleasant I was born and raised. My

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daddy worked the barks all barges. I said that wrong, sorry, folks.

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My mama cleaned cabins out by the river. I got

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a little place up on a ridge that overlooks Ohio.

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It ain't much, but it's home. That night, the fog

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rolled out early thicke as soup. You couldn't see the

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porch railing from the steps. I was sitting out there smoking,

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listening to the frogs when the air changed, still heavy.

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Even the crickets went quiet. It's always the thing is,

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then everything goes quiet, so it's almost as if all

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the animals know before we do. Anyway, Sorry, it's okay.

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You know. One more thing.

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It is really hard for me to read these and

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not chime in, guys, so you get the bear with

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me a little bit. I'm sorry if I'm being annoying.

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Then I heard it, a long, high pitched screech, like

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metal twisting, but deeper wrong. It echoed through the hills

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like it was looking for someone.

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Now.

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My dog June ran under the truck and wouldn't come out.

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Well.

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I saw the eyes. They were red as break lights.

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They were about twenty feet off the ground, just floating

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there in the mists, staring right at me. I stood up,

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heart stammering, and those eyes dipped low, like whatever they

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belonged to had dropped to the ground. I didn't hear

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it move, no footsteps. I didn't sleep at night next morning,

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I hiked down to the river to make sense of it.

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The fog was gone, the sky was clear, but I

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found something strange by the bank. All the trees along

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the edge were bent like, bowed inward towards the water.

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Birds didn't want to go near it.

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I tossed a rock in and not a single ripple

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came back. That just ain't right, guys.

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Now.

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Later that week, a buddy of mine said he saw

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something gliding over a route sixty two. He said it

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had wings, huge ones and wasn't flapping, just sailing through

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the air like making us sound. I didn't even have

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to tell him what I thought it was. He just

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nodded and said, I think he's back. Well, we don't

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say the name around here, not those of us who

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really believe, because if you say it out loud, you

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never know if he'll show up. Uh, the one they

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talk about from sixty seven. Folks say he's tied to

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a tragedy, shows up just before something bad happens.

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And the way the.

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Birds go quiet every now and again, I think something

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is coming. I'm writing this because I usually can't sleep.

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I just keep waking up to the same sound. I

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don't know if I'm dreaming it or not. I guess

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I sound crazy, but it's the truth. If this gets

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read on the show, just let everybody know to be

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very careful. Well, oh, that's that's a very interesting I mean,

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that sounds like Mathman, right, that sounds like the old

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Mothman thing. Okay, so yeah, he said Point Pleasant. So

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I guess it is the mock Man, right. I mean, wow,

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that's crazy. And all the time we talked and we

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were so interested in the mock Man. At one point

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we had wanted to take a trip to Point Pleasant

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and just spend the day talking to people and recording.

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You know, that would have been crazy. But yeah, I

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don't know, folks, that's pretty wild. Well crap, I would

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definitely scare the absolute shit out of me.

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But uh yeah.

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Anyway, So I guess I will see you on the

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next one. I'm gonna go ahead and end this one,

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and guys, let me know what you think. If you

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want to keep going, leave me some comments, leave me

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some emails, Just let me know, all right, So take care.

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Of each other out there.

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I'll see you on the next one.

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