Hey, this is Outside In. I'm Nate Hedgy, here with producer Justine Paradise.

Hey, Nate, what's up?

I have got a question for you.

Okay.

Do you believe in Bigfoot?

Hmm. The short answer is no.

Do you want to hear the slightly longer answer?

Yes.

Okay.

Well, I think that creatures and stories and, you know, you could call myths like Bigfoot,

they're kind of like root negative one.

You know, it doesn't exist.

But if you decide that it does exist,

you can learn a lot using something imaginary. Oh. And I don't, by the way, with when I say you can learn a lot, I don't mean like anthropologically, like other people believe this. I mean

accepting that it literally does exist, at least in some part of your mind. That's a really great

answer. I think I feel similarly. I also don't believe in Bigfoot. But what I do find interesting is that so many places around the world have

mythologies surrounding these giant bipedal apes. I mean, you've got Sasquatch in the Pacific

Northwest, Yeti in the Himalayas, the Yawi in Australia, and then like Bigfoot is all over the

place from Illinois down to even the mountains of North

Carolina.

Yes.

And actually, recently I was down in North Carolina reporting for Outside In.

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