Before we get into the video today, I just want to give a quick shout out to one of our sponsors, Gnostic TV. Gnostic TV is ancient wisdom reimagined. This is a Netflix for those who are spiritually curious and want a place to go where there is no censorship. I personally am doing a whole series on Gnostic TV called The Esoteric Explorer, where I am providing exclusive content to Gnostic. Gnostic TV is a host to all sorts of different content creators, many of whom are your old favorites. If you would like to check out Gnostic TV, there is a link down in the description box below. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Esoteric Atlanta. Of course, my name is Bryce.  I've just noticed it when I saw it. I don't know how to fix it, so I apologize. I'm going to sit back here. I'm just going to hold my microphone back here. Well, you're so pretty. There's no problem. You're lucky they don't have wrinkles and things. So you're good, girl. You're good. Well, I will say, before Jessica signed on, I was giving Shaunty a little tutorial and editing, and I let her know my secret.    Watch me, girls. I'm going to put this up a little bit. We're a little younger for our audience. Anyway, I don't know why I'm so close, you guys. I'm going to back up. But that was a really cool show today. I've got two of my favorite people on the planet. I've got my southern sister, Jessica, who you guys know, Jessica, on my channel. She's from Georgia, too, just like me. We feel like Mahaley Lancaster brought us together, which is a story for another day we'll have to share with Shaunty. Mahaley was one of us. Shaunty, let's just put it that way. And she was in Georgia as well. And then I've got my other southern sister over all the way in South Africa. From the southern point of Africa, yes, and the most southern tip of the world. What have you called it before your life? The Ascent of Africa or something? What is it you say, Shaunty? I'm more than the Ascent of Africa, yes. South Africa is a beautiful country. The countryside of South Africa in certain areas almost looks identical to Georgia. It's very similar in its terrain. We were chatting offline. Shaunty, you and I, we are such weirdos when it comes to the paranormal. You and I have had so many ghost experience. We're very into the spirits. We've seen demons, angels.  Jessica is not a novice when it comes to the cryptid world. Exactly. I sent you guys today. Today I'm a beginner in this class because I have no idea what we're going to... I mean, I do not we're going to be talking about, but I'm super excited as well to hear from you, Jessica, as to what you and your big footy stuff with huge feet. I'm just assuming it has big feet, right? Yes.  I like that. You've got a big foot right there. Yes. Okay.  That would be kind of funny if that would be a sense of humor. But before we get started, Jessica, because I asked Shaunty before, and I was like, Shaunty, just clarify. Have you ever seen a cryptid?  So, Jessica, for our audience who are new to this, who are novices like Shaunty and me, what is a cryptid? A cryptid is an animal that has been said to exist, but has not been proven to exist. That's the actual definition of a cryptid.   We've seen them. We've interacted with them.  So I'm not really a cryptid hunter at that point. But that's the definition of what a cryptid is. And that can be anything from... Well, they say big foot. A lot of us field researchers are proving the existence of these things. There are videos. There are pictures. There are recordings. Big foot is so real that people have analyzed their language. Anything from big foot to dog man and werewolves to moth man to lake monsters to the little people and elves and gnomes, you name it. They're cryptids. Okay, so they'd be considered cryptids. Okay, awesome. It is so interesting. Jessica and I, this past weekend, as many of our viewers know, you were speaking up at a conference here in Georgia. It was a big foot kind of convention. You do these a lot where you go and you speak for people to travel in to learn more about this big foot experience. I kind of wanted to recap some of that with you, Jessica, because I personally, like Shanti, someone that's never experienced a cryptid before, I've experienced other things. I absolutely do believe that they exist. I don't need to see it. There's so much out there from so many people from all through the ages. Obviously, not this many people are in on some hoax throughout the ages. There's so many people, but one thing that was super interesting, Jessica, the first speaker who's one of your friends, he asked a question to the audience. He said, how many people are here today because they believe that big foot exists and majority of the people in the room raise their hand? Then he said, how many people are here today because they're skeptical of the existence of big foot and only a couple of people raise their hands? Then he said, how many people here are knowers, which I would assume to mean they've absolutely experienced this before. They know it was something that wasn't of this dimension. A lot of people did raise their hands and it kind of really kind of touched me in a way. I'm a Scorpio moon, you guys, so I get emotional at the weirdest things, but it seems like so many people find themselves in these paranormal communities, not because they've chosen to be there, but because they've had an experience that they cannot explain, and it absolutely changes them as a person. It changes their perspective on life. I think it's a door opener. It's a gateway to the quote-unquote truth of the world where you start going, well, if this exists and we didn't lie to about this, what else are they lying to us about? For starters, Jessica, can you share with our audience what got you into Bigfoot research? What turned you into hunting for this? Hunting in the sense, guys, I want to clarify this as in locating, as having research on these beings. What got you there? Well, I started off as a kid having paranormal experiences, so I was seeing ghosts. I was always going outside to look for UFOs. There's a long story behind this and it does have roots in Mahaly Lancaster. I know you and I talk about her all the time, but I'll give a brief overview because when I was in elementary school, I used to do storytelling contests at my elementary school, and the two years that I did those, I won and I was reciting stories that my grandmother had written about Mahaly Lancaster and Ghost of the Civil War. There's two different stories. After winning those contests, I was giving encyclopedia Britannicas that were about the solar systems and black holes and stuff, so I got really into UFOs and strange things like that when I was a kid. And it kind of set me on this path. I was a kid that would always go to the library and look for all the ghost books, the books about Bigfoot and werewolves and monsters. So I was into that kind of stuff, but yeah, I was seeing ghosts even as a young lady, a young woman. I'm an old lady now, okay? I'm kidding. But when I was like in my 20s, I was having experiences with ghosts and my early 30s, my brother passed away in a car accident, and I went searching for answers at that point. All of my spiritual gifts started coming online a lot more. I started connecting with the other side as far as ghosts. I was seeing full-bodied apparitions after he passed away. The solid figures that were not there, they were ghosts. And I got really interested in the esoteric, getting my tarot cards read. I was like, well, if I can read these, if they can read my cards, I want to learn how to read cards. So I got into that. Let's see. Oh, I started ghost hunting too, okay, with some friends. And I stumbled across a group of men at a meeting one night that my mom was going to. She took me along for the ride for this meeting, and they were Bigfoot Field Researchers out of North Georgia. And so I went and I saw it. Well, if ghosts are real, and I've seen ghosts, and I know they're real, and UFOs, I've seen UFOs, I've seen all sorts of weird stuff, why would Bigfoot not be real? And so I went to this meeting. I met the gentleman. They had real evidence of Bigfoot, from foot castings, the print castings, to they had a really interesting way of researching Bigfoot. They were into the mind, body, spirit aspect of Bigfoot. One of them was a highly trained, remote viewer. And so they were actually establishing communication amongst themselves in the Bigfoot's telepathically and energetically. So it really piqued my interest, but I had a bunch of questions for them at the end of their presentation. And at the end they saw that I was really interested, so they invited me on an expedition. And so I went. I couldn't believe my friends thought I was crazy. They thought I was absolutely nuts. I was going into the woods with a group of strange men to go hunt for a Bigfoot. Okay. And so, but I got all my gear together and I went on that expedition. I actually had Bigfoot encounters that weekend.  I'm now the cryptid huntress. Okay. So it all started with that. How long ago was this? 2011. It was either 2011 or 2012. Right. And you've been quiet for a very long time, didn't you, Jessica? You didn't tell people. And I understand that being in the south, you know, Jessica, speaking of like Mahaley Lancaster, like I always say on my channel, there are two sides to the south. You have the very fundamentalist, very religious side, but then there's this other side, which is definitely and myself and I think my family, they'll go to church on Sunday, but they're conjuring spirits on Sunday night. You know, there's a famous scene in Midnight in the Garden of the Neville where he's out walking his ghost dog and the guy from the north is freaked out that he's walking a ghost dog and no one in Savannah, Georgia, blinks an eye because that's normal in the south. Of course he's walking his ghost dog. So we have, Jessica, you know, it's so humid down here in the south, like I do believe that the weather does have a lot to do with it because there's so much water in the air that I think things do come through, especially with ghosts. I think they're able to materialize better down here in the south than elsewhere in a more drier climate because of the elements. And we have had a lot of destruction down here and there has been a lot of blood spilled on the south and so it, you know, most how, you know, if you're selling, if you're selling your home, the realtor by law is obligated to tell potential buyers if the house is haunted by law and a lot of places in here in the south, that's how normal this kind of eccentric side is. But again, you do have that side of the south, the Bible dumpers, the fundamentalists, where you do have to be careful sometimes, as Chauncey and I know very well, because you will get called names and you, you know. So anyway, but something you said that was, can we do a big foot? I think of like the Pacific Northwest, right? That's where a lot of people claim to see big foot. But Jessica, I learned something this weekend. George is one of the top hot spots for big foot, isn't it? It is. We rank, we rank 10th in all 50 states. We are 10th in the highest ranking, I guess for the highest number of sightings and reports of big foot in the United States. Now, what was really shocking to me when I first saw it. It wasn't super shocking, but I was perplexed that Florida is third highest. So Florida has the third highest amount of big foot sightings only. And I believe it's California or Oregon or Washington. They have some pretty high, you know, rates of sightings. But Florida the home of the skunk ape down there, they, and yeah, there are different types of big foot to the regional. And so there's not just that one type of big foot that you see that video we call her Patty. Okay, that's a famous big foot footage from the Patterson Gimlin film that was filmed in Northern California. And, and that was back in, I think it was 1967 if I'm not mistaken. But that is the, that is like the pinnacle of like big foot right there. It's like the she and it was a she by the way, Patty was a woman, a female and you could tell by her dress. Okay. And we have I've seen that the original video of that and we do see children we think she had at least two kids in the background there as well.  My boyfriend now just you guys know I think my boyfriend made himself an honorary member. He wants to go big funny big funding with the team next time. Actually, we were out into the woods with you guys. We were away. I was like, you got to be in shape to hunt some big foot. Let me tell you the Appalachian Mountains are not forgiving when it comes to the steep hills and the, you got to be really in shape to do this to be out in the woods like that. Do you think it's because of the Appalachian Mountains, Jessica, that we have so the Appalachian Mountains are magical and terrifying at the same time. So much. Yeah. I mean I could do a show every day on just the Appalachian Mountains legends and lore and all the the different cryptids that we have in just the Cherokee legends alone from spearfinger to, you know, you name it the skin walkers. I mean we have we have reports of modern day dinosaur sightings in the Appalachian Mountains. Oh yeah. Dogman werewolves witches spearfinger is my favorite though. That's definitely one of my favorite one of my favorite characters out of the Appalachians if you want to call it that. You told me about spearfinger what tell our audience a little bit about spearfinger spearfinger spearfinger is a terrifying shape shifting witch that roams the mountains mostly the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina but North Georgia I mean I believe that my team we've had at least one or two encounters with spearfinger out there and it may not be on a three dimensional level it's almost like her spirits out there you know and another dimension so it's really interesting and that sounds a little crazy to the to the normal person I know but it makes sense to me and my team because we experienced some weird stuff out there what is her purpose I mean what does she do well she well this is a shape shifting almost kind of like a demon in a way because she takes the form of an old lady like an old hag I guess you could call it and she has a long finger a spear that comes off of her index finger and what she'll do is she'll hide that finger and she kind of lulls she entices children she loves children she actually loves to eat children which is odd right and so she'll make friends with children sometimes she pretends to be she'll shape shift into their loved ones but she will she'll trick children to come over to her she'll stroke their hair and when they fall asleep on her lap she sticks her spear into their back and pulls out their liver and eats their liver so she loves to eat liver that's her thing now interesting sorry to intervene but interesting the liver because if you look at the liver that's the organ in the body obviously that it stores the most toxins and it's the seat of anger basically when you're looking at the body parts so it's interesting to me that she would go for the liver I mean why not the heart why not the brain why the liver interesting I thought that same thing yeah so there are stories of the Cherokee warriors actually the people in the tribe getting together and the men luring her into their their area and unaliving her well say unaliving and they had to actually go for her hand when they were shooting arrows at her the arrows would pop off of her they wouldn't actually penetrate her skin and so she but she's known also as the stone coat witch and once you start doing bigfoot field research you'll start learning about the stone coat giants which we which are bigfoot basically because arrows bounce right off of them well she's the stone coat witch and so a little chickadee a little bird landed on her hand as the warriors were shooting arrows at her and it was as if to say hey shoot here and inside her hand I think it was the opposite hand of the one that had the spear in it she holds her heart and so the heart was beating in her hand so they were able to shoot her heart in her hand and that unalived her yeah so it's a very interesting story but when I'm in the woods and we don't use flashlights and stuff usually it's dark and I've heard tapping on a tree tap tap tap tap and in my mind I'm seeing spearfinger tapping her spear so it is a little creepy so obviously she's not on the earth plane this is her spirit that oh yeah that bedroom very interesting you say that because I'd love to share with you as well a couple of years ago when I was I work a lot in Namibia which is certainly I mean if you're the Namib desert and a special area there called the moon valley it's it's part of earth's original crust I mean that part of Africa is absolutely magnificent you go into for example I mean where the stone people are they I mean you like this big and these rocks on the slopes of people and animals it is absolutely magical so there's a lot of Angelina Jolie by the way is so loving that place she's definitely got her blood invested in there and all sorts of things Shiloh was born there and when you look at why these people actually do make that happen it's because that's the part that they claim they claim that but interesting there was a child on one of my trips there the day I arrived there the news broke that the day before a little nine or 10 year old girl was unalived as you say and completely dismembered so her head was gone and everything so I was actually working with the police to try and find out what happened to that child and it was insane because I immediately said firstly this is Muti Muti is which graft in Africa it's called Muti and I you talk about the spearfinger there was a witch exactly far away like in the in the area but quite quite quite away away the way you explain also with the kids she shape shifted she was this beautiful young girl thereafter she became this ancient old witch and she had a blood disease so she ate this child as well specifically her sexual organs which I find particularly interesting and the whole thing was to keep her revived and what have you it was just insane I mean when I was telling the cops the story thank god they were African because the African people understand this if it had been a European cop he would definitely I think the cops Jessica we talked the cops in the southeast in the Appalachian they totally totally would have been like yep yep they have stories about the same side they same same same I think you you can't like in areas like that like you're talking about shots you're like in Appalachia you cannot live in Appalachia for more than a week without realizing you're powerless like you there is a energy in and I was telling Jessica like when we were leaving the mountain on Saturday night and you really definitely like for me anyway like when you're on the Appalachia mountains I always want to be off of the mountain by the time the sun sets because you get disoriented like it's there was this voice and I didn't say anything to anybody as we were leaving so I didn't want to freak anybody out that kept telling me if the mountain doesn't want you to leave you're not going to leave as we were trying to get back because we were off trail totally off trail trying to get back to the main road and I didn't say anything to anybody else until we got into the car and then I like text Jessica and I said something to my boyfriend I was like this voice kept telling me if the mountain doesn't want you to leave you're not going to leave but yet we know the Appalachian mountains is the oldest mountain chain in the world and so we look at like there's places if you look at people who explore Appalachia there are places in Appalachia that man can't even get to supposedly regular folk camp isn't that where we isn't that where the feral's are the feral people yep yeah we're talking about that we just found the same channel that I've been listening to this guy named Doug who reads stories off of reddit oh just wait he has a whole section on Appalachia it's so crazy because someone sent me a link to his channel today and just before we I mean you were doing some showing me how to work certain things earlier on and you heard his voice and you said and I said you want to just discover this dude so yeah he talks he reads stories and he grew up in upstate New York he talks about that so he grew up in Appalachia as well and so it is just like that it's beautiful and the Smoky Mountains guys which Jessica's referring to that's an area of Appalachia and I've referenced this too on my channel it's like Tennessee, North Carolina a little bit of North Georgia this little pocket that's where most of the Feral people are as well sightings and it's called the Smoky Mountains because the clouds get stuck in the mountains and so when you are stuck you can't see in front of your face it gets actually we were driving up to the convention we got stuck I filmed it I felt maybe I'll place it in the video here so you guys can see and all the cars it's bright daylight but all the cars have to turn their lights on everyone slows way down because the clouds have settled in so you literally cannot see so for something like a cryptid or a feral person they can roam because us humans cannot see do you think alright we're headed to the Bigfoot convention day and I just wanted to record this for those of you guys who are not from the southeast we talk a lot about the Smoky Mountains this is the area of Appalachia that we're in and this is what the Smoky Mountains are like you can't really see too far in front of you Jessica do you think cryptids have better eyesight than we do when it comes to the mountains well they know the mountains way better than we do they navigate them better I mean it's really crazy because the Bigfoot's don't make any noise sometimes they'll just creep up on us and you don't hear them at all and so in my experience I mean I believe that they are able to access Earth's natural portals that's my experience with them I do believe that these are ancient beings we're talking about here and so they know the Earth way better than we do they know how to utilize everything this Earth this planet has to offer plus the caves plus we got the whole the whole like rabbit hole we can go down of the underground places that are in the mountains okay so we have like government things going on out there we have portals opening and closing my team actually documented a portal and we sent two team members inside of it and have it on video and have them coming out and re-emerging from it okay so there's all sorts of stuff but the cryptids do know how to access the things that we don't know how to access out there there are two things I want so you found out we kind of touched on this earlier there are four different that we know of four different types of Bigfoot this is stuff that was new to me too because like Shanti I'm like I'm the ghost girl like I'm the ghost girl like I'm not I don't know but again I absolutely believe that these things exist there's way too many people that have had these experiences and just experiencing everybody at the convention the people that had had that were there that found themselves at this convention because they saw something what people try to tell them oh it was an escaped orangutan from the zoo and you're like no it's not like a sketch orangutan from the zoo are you kidding me I know what an orangutan looks like that was not what I saw you know and it's kind of nice I got a little emotional I was like here are these complete strangers are that are all bound by this one this experience that changed their view on life and they're coming to these conventions traveling hours just to connect with other XP other knowers and then hear people like Jessica speak who can kind of maybe answer some questions for them and make them feel less crazy and less alone in their own little world so what are the four types of Bigfoot because I thought this was fascinating I know I take this for granted that I'm always so familiar with different types of Bigfoot and then everybody has that one view of a Bigfoot that one idea of patty from that film in their head but we actually have four types that we know of Lord don't get me started on dogmen they have like six types of different ones that have been I guess categorized so we have four types the type one is the patty type that does look like patty from the Patterson Gimlin film of the big you know eight to nine feet they can't I mean it's like nine to thirteen feet they can be really tall they're actually really huge these are bigger ones now patty by the way was only about six feet tall so that Bigfoot you'd think that she was huge and gigantic she was actually just a little bit taller than me she was petite she was a she was a thick girl but she was petite things by our standards petite by their standards I know some women who are thick and petite it's all good are you being rude about me again she was matrily let's put it that way she was matrily truly she had those birthing hips you got way more in common with us than you realized girl she got a you got the birthing hips she was setting the life out of her breasts like girl oh my goodness patty you just sit down have a daiquiri with us we can commit oh my goodness oh man because there's one that's friendlier right there's one that's a little bit more adorable from what I saw on your on what you were talking about is that what patty would be yes I'll send you this picture so you can put it in you can include it in the show okay so in that picture she was smiling okay now don't let that fool you I mean I smile but I will whoop somebody but if I have to okay look at her boobies her big old boobies patty ain't scared she would come at you okay but yes they well they're very human like okay and that's the thing a lot of times when people encounter a big foot they are shocked at how human they are except they're just like big I like to consider them like big big hairy humans okay some of them but now the type two is a little bit different type two looks like a chimpanzee okay they have canine teeth that come out of their mouths like they have canines and they're more they're more monkey like a more ape like than the type one where we have patty who looks kind of like a big hairy human but also almost like a perfect mix between an ape like a silverback gorilla and a human of a perfect mix that's type one type two would be more like a chimpanzee with like the sharp teeth protruding from its mouth yeah more animalistic okay and they are more animalistic in their actions in the way they act they're more the type they're going to be just looking for food all the time how tall are they how tall is type two they're going to be they're going to be kind of similar to the patty type maybe a little bit smaller they're going to be anywhere probably about six or seven feet seven eight I don't it just depends on what area you're in what region in the Pacific Northwest and the United States they're going to be about six to nine or bigger okay they're going to be actually bigger probably I mean down here in the south they're around six feet seven feet as far as the skunk apes go now there have been sightings in Georgia so it just depends listen in Alaska there's some that are 13, 15 feet tall so in Alaska they're bigger I saw a 12 foot big foot walking through them I would shit my pants y'all I was literally I mean like that's tall I mean I know some six foot men who are quite hairy not soy boys either let me introduce you to the razor men can wax too introduce you to that concept so but that's that's what which one's the most threatening of all four the most the most threatening is the next one type three and we consider those to be a gugway kind of it's a very large a very large big foot but they have a muzzle a long snout usually they have a long snout they look kind of baboonish like a baboon kind of sometimes or they can they could just look like a big silverback gorilla but with a long muzzle now they do get kind of confused for a dog man and a werewolf but they're just they're huge like they're they're really big but they do have that long snout and I and I consider those gugway now it is debatable it's up for debate everybody everybody's kind of different and they they have their own ideas as to like what exactly is the category like what fits into this category so that these are these are my categories in general type three would be what I consider to be a gugway okay some of the Native American tribes will say well they actually clump in gugway werewolves and dog men together okay even though that I think that they're different I think that the gugway is more of a Sasquatch dog man or dog man and werewolves but but some people clump them all together okay now the type four we have one last type and that's type four now the type four we consider to be like a Neanderthal like it looks like a man like a human man but like a caveman with a lot of hair and we back in the 1800s if you go back and read newspaper clippings they actually used to tell the truth a little better back then for our media and you'll find clippings of not only not only do we have giants and giant bones were in the newspapers they talked about giants here finding them in Indian mounds and stuff like their bones buried well they had a lot of wild man sightings and some wild men were actually captured and they were written about in the newspaper back then so that would be type four relic hominid is what those are called mostly wild man relic hominid relic hominid relic hominid relic hominid there's some very popular or you want to say famous cases of wild men we had the Kentucky wild man you can look all these up online the Kentucky wild man there was the cheesy pond wild man in Florida that was a man that was found at a cheesy pond someone actually kind of captured him took him up to the governor's mansion in Florida and the governor said and I mean because he he was a wild man he was on display I would not expect anything less from the Floridians exactly exactly so they actually took him they kind of captured this man they found him bathing in a pond at a cheesy pond in north Florida and took him to the governor's mansion the governor said I don't want to have anything to do with this and so they sent him to the hospital in Chattahoochee Florida and that's where he lived there until he passed away and they say that he's buried there on the grounds of the Chattahoochee hospital now but he was a certified wild man I believe some people say that wild men or the type four are the result of a big foot having a baby with a human woman so some people say that I'm trying to understand how a big foot okay so I would imagine that what type what number of big foot would then impregnate would this not like be sort of almost like if we're looking at even the fallen angels kind of thing that we're impregnating human women some people do compare them to the Nephilim yeah well they're okay so the Native Americans have some Native Americans have stories of the Sasquatch kidnapping their women and their children and impregnating the women so it's yeah so it could be very dangerous for women and children I have noticed that the big foots that we interact with do have an interest in women and children and that's why I volunteer to be bait for research purposes not because I want to go have a baby with a big foot it's nothing like that okay that's weird what I was actually told as well is that they weren't necessarily having sex with a woman these the Nephilim but what they were doing was just like literally taking their DNA and some are implanting it in the woman so that they could then have the babies like the Neph, yeah well I'm just thinking listen I know some girls have had some bad dates out there but could you imagine like that Harry Shlong coming at you talking about how wacky that's very interesting wow well they do have the anatomy and here's the thing there have been DNA tests done there's a scientist a researcher named Melba Ketchum who did the genome project she was getting samples like DNA samples hair samples saliva samples whatever she had her hands on and for years she worked on this project where she she discovered with the evidence and everything that they are partially human they have human DNA they have DNA it's like human I think it's on the mitochondrial DNA which is I think on the mother side was human but it was mixed with something else they just don't know what the other is I wonder what Darwin was actually looking at you know like I don't think we evolved I don't believe we evolved from monkeys myself but there's always a little bit of truth into everything they put out because they can't create anything so what is the Neanderthal what is is that what this is was this a time like the law of one speaks about a time when there was no veil it would have been really slow spiritually because we could see the finish line so they made us a little dumber so we would hurry up and so was that before the veil dropped where we have these remains of it's not human it's actually maybe more maybe that's just that's very interesting and I actually wanted to do a part two with you ladies over some of sightings here in Georgia especially south Georgia because I don't know if Shanti knows this I know Jessica and I have talked about this a lot but north Florida south Georgia has these it's very swampy like the New Orleans they call it the bayou which is a swamp very swampy and you know you don't mess with the swamp there's kind of like the appellations you got critters in the swamp that will take you down in a heartbeat so people are very cautious as we know from a lot of these documentaries is a great place to drop a body because a lot of people just drop bodies there it's because no one's going to go fond of but north Florida south Georgia has these springs and we've talked about them Jessica these and I'll put pictures in for you guys like Wakala both Jessica and I played in Wakala Springs as a kid that's in north Florida I go to itch and tuck me a lot when we're going down to Florida it's these crystal clear blue water freezing cold like colder than cold springs which is a weird phenomenon when it's so hot outside and the water is so cold but there's been all these mystical like these folklore and legends around they're everywhere in north Florida south Georgia they're everywhere you can't go 10 miles without there being another one and they have these like mystical sayings of like them being healing they're healing springs they're crystal clear blue they're beautiful they don't look like they're from this earth so do you think there's a correlation Jessica between these springs and the swamp land and cryptids yeah I think there could be I mean the native Americans have legends that go back with the skunk apes and the Sasquatch everything down there and I mean even at Wakala there's some some kind of like smoke stacks or volcano I forgot what they call them my friend Connor Flynn aka Bigfoot Anonymous he has a YouTube channel he's my local cryptid expert down there and so he could tell me all about it if you want to go to his channel yeah there's something to it it's just areas of high strangeness I mean I've done bigfoot field research down in Florida especially in north Florida and I did mention the Chattahoochee hospital where they took that wild man now I did some big footing on it was actually an investigation of a couple's home down there in north Florida who they were featured on the animal planet okay for having a bigfoot sighting they had a bigfoot on their property they came up to their back porch and was beating on their door and started screaming on their back porch where their bedroom was one night and so I went and investigated their property there's also a gentleman named Stacy Brown who's down in Florida he is known for his famous he and his dad have some famous skunk ape footage from down in Florida and he got some of that footage on their property that place that I'd investigated many years ago when my son my son was like two or three years old back then so like seven or eight years ago but yeah there's it's just an area of my strangest it's not just bigfoot whenever there's a bigfoot in the environment there's usually UFO activity there's usually a portal somewhere I mean there's there's all sorts of high strangeness I mean you name it there's something else out there there's something else I can guarantee you it's not just bigfoot when you brought up something interesting at the conference that I thought was such an interesting you know we in this paranormal world that we all find ourselves in you brought up but people kind of tend to stay in their box like if you're researching ghosts if you see an alien you're not going to mention it or you know if you're researching bigfoot and you see a ghost you don't put it in your your records but it's like why not it's all coming from the same metaphysical we should acknowledge when we're out hunting bigfoot we see a damn UFO we should write it down because it's interesting the Cassiopeans say that bigfoot is basically the pet of the grays isn't that what my boyfriend said Jessica he talked about it this weekend and he says something like that like that that they're the pet that they're kind of controlled by the grays I can't totally disagree with that okay because in my experience there's usually T activity around bigfoot and actually when I was out doing my bigfoot research that first weekend that I went out we had a low flying UFO hovering over us and flying all around us out there one of the guys and I had gone on a kamikaze mission we were hiding in the woods and we were waiting for our team to come out we were going to try to trick a couple of bigfoot to step on top of us okay and we do stuff like that out in the field and while we were sitting there waiting for it to get dark I thought I was crazy we were on our camo in their ghillie suits but we were sitting out there and we started noticing like orbs we have a lot of orbs that show up in the environment we know for a fact there's bigfoot out there we actually had had a bigfoot encounter the night before so we're watching orbs and what turned out to be a spacecraft was flying over us and we didn't really know exactly what happened we knew we had some missing time and the equipment had malfunctioned so his digital recorders and equipment had changed the time on his it had gone forward an hour mine had gone backwards an hour on my equipment so we were just a little confused but we didn't know what had happened a couple of the guys were trained in remote viewing at the time this is why we all got trained in remote viewing in incidents like this so that we could actually go back and we could go and watch what happened we could view it because there's things that happened we would never know unless we had remote viewed it and we had been accosted by a spacecraft that night and shortly after all that happened I went home and I was waking up with ETs in my bedroom after that so I don't know if I had always been visited by ETs and I thought they were ghosts okay so here's where it starts to get crazy right because I'd mentioned that as a young child and a grown you know a young woman I was getting visited by spirits that was at night I'd wake up and they'd stand around my bed and talk to me but their mouths would never move they were telepathically talking to me well I was waking up and having ETs doing the same thing around my bed talking to me and their mouths aren't moving so I started thinking well were those ghosts actually ETs the whole time so I don't know it's interesting though that was an interesting video somebody played when we were there too because I've always associated orbs with ghosts that was played at the conference where the orbs actually it was like a home camera picked up orbs morphing into aliens that actually is a video that I've been begging my friend Matt to come on my show and release it's important that we put things out there this is real hardcore evidence that video came from actually it's from Angelina Shear who passed away a couple of years ago Shear's with Tennessee Mufon I believe and she had this video and she as Matt did not ever release it publicly and so that's why he's held on to it for so long but we've been talking about it and I think the time the time is kind of now it's been a while I can understand when you're alive not wanting it released because it's dangerous it was dangerous some of the implications of us even discussing the cryptid world there's an active cover up first of all and I'm not going to say it's just the government there's a whole lot that goes into this the reason that it's so covered up okay because when the general public finds out that this is real what else are they hiding from us exactly exactly and of course when you're talking about the underground bases and stuff like that I've spoken to people over the years about stuff that goes on under there there is such a big cover up exactly what's going on in there and it's like everyone talks about area 51 but hello what about the other 50 areas right well okay well with the remote viewing stuff that I do I mean I've come across many underground facilities and some of them have laboratories down there where they're making animal human hybrids and chimeras and I've actually brought some gentlemen onto my shows who are actually part of the secret space program and confirmed a lot of the data that I get in my targets that I talk about where they have actually seen animal human hybrids underground these facilities yes these huge big spiders that have got a 5 or 6 foot leg span that actually eats humans and when we're looking at stuff like this as well a lot of when we're looking at the kids these things like literally eat babies so what I was told as well is that a lot of the kids that are being disappearing and these breeder programs this is where they're going to so there's a lot of this kind of stuff and they for some reason love to combine the human and the pig I mean Jesse was saying part of these programs the breeder programs whilst the girls are pregnant they operate on them and they put little hooves on and pig noses and things like this so when this baby is born it literally is half human half pig and for some reason they have a fascination with pigs and I've since heard as well that the reason that the pigs are so intelligent is because they contain human DNA that humans actually created the pigs I mean it's absolutely insane to think that's why some of the religions say not to eat pork right and I was actually mentioning that on one of my shows the other days because is that why especially in Judaism they're not allowed to eat pork because it's unclean and yet how many of us have fed these poor animals right how many of us have fed these poor animals it's crazy to think that and isn't that on some level they've been turning us into cannibals already for such a long time so yeah there's definitely different and spiders they've got this absolute obsession with spiders I've noticed with spiders and pigs and rabbits as well I mean the other day I was seeing stuff going around on Facebook the new trend is women wearing rabbit teeth now I mean you look at a lot of this stuff the bunny rabbit I'm so glad I don't have to do all this stuff that the new don't know there's a whole series of photographs of women now wearing these rabbit teeth we tend as balls to make our boobs bigger I messed up I was doing a mess that was what we did as kids that was about as crazy as what we got for sure and if you had bug teeth you were your ass was sent to the order Donis for braces exactly we're trying to give yourself bunny but that's a rabbit definitely I mean when you look at a lot of these pedos they will often be wearing rabbit suits and stuff like that so for me it's something crazy no cheating it just happened again government's listening right now do you ever they always do they're listening to everything that goes on I'm gonna end on this do you ever feel like you've been followed by the GOV I've gotten a proverbial knock at my door already I used to work in government myself and at this point I don't worry about this stuff for whatever reason I do feel like I've been able to talk about what I talk about and I really do push the envelope and I go out on limbs and I think outside the box and I just put things out there but I always end my show saying this is for entertainment purposes only and that's kind of how I get around that for entertainment purposes only I always think that the GOV man who watches me must be really bored because the only exciting thing I do is on YouTube like beyond that I'm just like at my house he's like all she does is play with her dog but alright one last thing Jessica I do when we sign off I do want to plan a part too with you ladies but for anybody watching right now Jessica who wants to go amateur big foot hunting in their own backyard because even though we have an abundance of these sightings in the United States I'm sure that's everywhere all over the world what would you recommend for a beginner what do they need to do, what do they need to do to prepare for it, do they need to have protection like what like one of these like for protection like what do they need to do for somebody who wants to do it what's your tips if you want to start out if you want to go with actual big foot researchers EFRO online that's the big foot field researchers organization they do expeditions that you can join okay and it depends on what state you're in I mean I know people just about every single state that go out and do stuff down in Florida, Kentucky I don't know down here in the south at least but you can contact them and just see like join an email list, find out when people are going out I personally don't I'm on an actual research team so we don't take extra people with us out in the field we stick with our team for the most part but there are expeditions that go out now if you want to go out without an expedition just go to your local campground okay big foots are everywhere y'all okay go to your local campground get all the just go camping and sit around the campfire especially somewhere that has if you go to the BFRO website it'll give you accounts in every state okay they have all their documents are there on that website go to the Bigfoot mapping project actually go to Bigfoot mapping project online you can find out where the clusters of big foots are go camping there but I gotta warn you where there's cluster of the Bigfoot sightings there's also clusters of missing people yes so please be careful please be careful don't ever go by yourself always tell somebody where you're going if you take your kids please be careful I don't recommend taking kids deep into the woods you said that's me don't take big foots don't like dogs very much and so you may not make at home with your dog if you're out in the woods with the Bigfoot but don't let that stop you don't be scared don't live in fear but yeah just go what do they have against dogs well they don't I guess the dogs give their locations away potentially so now they're more sensitive yeah and if the dogs charge at them they will take the dog and unfortunately they'd sling it across a tree usually so you have to be very careful with dogs out there because big foots like to they like to be incognito they like to hide they don't like their locations giving away they're not trying to be seen that's right that's right but yeah just just go camping go camping somewhere let people know where you're going to be I recommend staying around your campground okay you don't have to venture far off even at night as long as you are out in the woods the big foots will come to you you just got to act like a normal human okay don't get too rowdy but uh but they will they'll come out and they'll make their presence known maybe after you're sleeping but they'll make their presence known my last question for if somebody is out just hiking and they have no intention of seeing a cryptid and they do run across one you know we have precautions if you see a bear, if you see a poison a snake what is the best thing for somebody to do if they see a big foot do you run or do you stand still what is the best thing for someone to do if they do happen to run across this to keep them safe well a big a big foot is probably not going to let you see it okay so uh not not intentionally I don't think you have to worry so much about big foots I mean go with your gut okay I personally always carry something to protect myself with like I do have a firearm I do carry it I know some people don't like that but it is what it is we have to contend with large cats bears snakes we have a lot of things and and if I have my kid out there on a hike I have to protect him too but missing missing people and stuff are in these clusters out there where the big foots are so I protect myself you can carry bear spray carry something just in case a wild animal comes up around you or with a big or a feral human yeah well it was a big foot usually okay there's going to be a couple of different options with a big foot because they're either going to stand there and observe you and you observe it and nothing happens you can just turn around and walk off or you can just looking at each other it will disappear eventually it's not going to come up and shake your hand I can promise you that or there could be like an alpha they're very territorial and and you will know if you have crossed their boundary and and it will do something that we call bluff charging it might it might run at you but just run okay just run just turn around and go and leave if that happens yeah just don't run you're not trying to challenge it you literally are like I didn't see anything I didn't see anything wouldn't it be funny though if there was a patty around with all these kids and the they just walked up to a human and like handed the human her kids and was like I'll be back in an hour take care of them I didn't break like oh yeah well this has been awesome I love this I'm going to ask our audience I have an idea for a second show which I'll talk to you ladies off camera but is there anything you ladies want to end with before we close out anything on my side I found this absolutely fascinating and yes I'm definitely going to invite you onto my channel as well Jessica and I'd love to hear more about secret I think so much to share and not just on this topic so I always love a mind like yours as well which I'm going to go big big big and I would love to would love to know more about what you do actually I know Bryce has been speaking about you for a long time and I've it's been on our mind to to invite you on beginning of the year anyway so now that we kind of like halfway through the year already just about right I would yes I definitely would like to to have you on Aquarius Rising Africa as well and talk about all sorts of other things too so yeah fascinating and thank you very very very informative thank you well thank you that would be a treat I would love to come on your show to you and talk about this I mean I love I love big footing it's my thing I started off as a big foot field researcher and I've ended up being a YouTuber with the you know at the cryptid huntress so it's just really fun getting to spread the knowledge and talk about big foots and the cryptids especially you know just just meeting people that have had the same experiences that I have that have the same mind and not that everybody has the same mindset but just people that are kind of we're all on the same boat here we're all trying to figure things out we're trying to you know figure out what else is being hidden from us and what are the dangers you know my my thing is I like to inform the public about the dangers of what's out there so so this has been a lot of fun thank you for having us Bryce I'm so excited I'm going to put I'm going to put the cryptid huntress and spaced out radio because Jessica is a host on Spaced Out Radio on Sunday night so I'll put links to those and then Shanti obviously Aquarius Rising Africa and Solutions with Shanti I'll put all their channel links down in the description box below guys so if you're not subscribed I don't know why you're not subscribed if you're not subscribed but go and get subscribed to all of their all the channels all y'all all the channels I cannot wait I have an idea for a part two so we'll discuss that when I hit the end button here but you guys thank you so much and it's such a weird and wacky world out there and I know the Cassiopeans say the veil is thinning and they call them window droppers beings from other densities are accidentally being seen because the veil they don't mean to so I find that hysterical especially the airy face stares through your window they'd be shocked I like that the Cassiopeans are clever with their names the window droppers these like they're just walking through our world that's hilarious the window droppers and all of a sudden everybody's looking at oh you can see me like you can see me that's big footed out yeah you didn't see anything oh hilarious wow thank you Bryce really fun I thoroughly enjoyed this hopefully by next time I film I won't be so freaking close to the camera I feel like it's you're all good you can of course be close to the camera I'm definitely gonna be filtering this video because I'm so close to the camera so thank you guys we will talk to you all later bye everybody cheers


Welcome back to a new session on dentistry and work. So today we are seeing about the difference between primate space and leeway space. So this is very important to understanding the occlusion concept in our dentition because the next video will be seeing mesial shift, the early mesial shift and late mesial shift how the permanent molars are getting into its final position utilizing the primate space or leeway space. So it is nothing but the space available and which is being utilized by the permanent molars to accommodate to its final position. So let's move on to primate space it is also known as simian space or anthropoid space which is present in mostly 87 percentage of the cases. So it is present between an upper arch between the lateral incisor and canines that is anterior to canine whereas in lower arch it is present between canines and first molars that is posterior to canine. So it is easy to remember this way anterior to canine in upper arch and posterior to canine in lower arch. So this canine lateral in maxilla, canine and molars in mandible. So this is primate space or physiologic space which is utilized by the permanent molars because once it erupts the erupting force pushes these deciduous molars into this space and giving space for this permanent molars. So that will be seeing in next video. So that is the primate space. So what is leeway space? Leeway space is nothing but it is the difference between the mesiodisital dimension that is a mesiodisital width of primary canine and molars primary canine and molars with against its successes that is permanent canine and primolars. So that is the difference between primary canine and primary molars that is first and second molars against permanent canine and first and second primolars because the successor deciduous canine will be replaced by permanent canine. The first and second molars will be replaced by first and second primolars. So that is the leeway space the mesiodisital difference. So definitely it will be larger in deciduous dentition and this space will be utilized by permanent molars where the primate spaces are absent. So this will be happening only when the deciduous molars are exfoliated that will be seeing in a mesioshift concept. So this is nothing but the difference between mesiodisital width of primary canine and molars against permanent canine and primolars. So this will be utilized in late mesioshift to reach to class 1 occlusion when primate space is absent. So this is maxillary it is lesser 0.9 mm per side that is 1.8 mm total whereas in deciduous it is 1.7 mm and it is 2.5 mm it is average so 1.7 mm in lower arch and 3.4 mm in total. So upper arch it is 1.8 mm and lower arch it is 3.4 mm which will be utilized by the permanent molars if primate space is absent for to getting to its final position. So that is primate space and laver space. This is important in understanding the concept of mesioshift that is early mesioshift and late mesioshift. So next video I will be explaining about early and late mesioshift. Thank you.


Alright, I got something to say here. You know, there are all these dudes, these alpha males, online explaining how to be the best alpha male and how to climb up the dominance hierarchy and attain greater social status. And you know, they tell you how to stand like a champion and talk like you know what you're talking about and how to look like a leader and something always rubs me wrong about this.  And I thought about it for like 30 seconds and I think I know why. So all the stuff they're telling you to do is just superficial stuff. Like, specifically designed just to get you higher status in this thing. And I don't think that a person should get more status because they're trying to get more status. But that's what we've got today. We've got this social hierarchy that relies on people fighting for the higher status positions. Pushing each other down and climbing on top of each other and crapping on the people below them while they claw at the ankles of the people above. And it's not based on anyone's competence usually. It's just based on looking like they should be there and sounding like they should be there and pushing their way in and all this stuff. And generally, if I say anything about this, the response is, well you don't like it because you're at the bottom. Nobody likes being at the bottom. Except I'm not at the bottom. I've been at the bottom before. Grade seven and eight. I was bottom of the food chain.  So I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I was kind of anti-social. I was bottom, bottom. And then in high school, I was still, you know, the weird loser, whatever. And then one day I won this award. It was athlete of the year. And the next day, the cool girls came up and talked to me. This cool girl comes up, you know, cool girl. And she says, hi, starts this conversation with me. And I say to her, why are you talking to me? You wouldn't have said one word to me yesterday.  Now that you've won this award, everything's going to change for you. I remember saying that. Everything's going to change for you. Now that you've got this piece of recognition. Now that you've got this little title beside your name that says Jamie Menzel, not just normal, Jamie Menzel, athlete of the year. Now everyone's going to treat you different.  But it didn't even matter that I was not nice to the cool kids. I was cool because I had that title and that was it. And for the next 10 years, I was like top of the food chain socially. And that annoyed me too. And what really annoyed me about it was why I'd moved up in the social standing.  Give me a second. So what really annoyed me about moving up in the social standing so much, so suddenly overnight was why. And it wasn't because I had, it wasn't because of who I was or anything I had accomplished or improved about myself. It was just this award. And you might say that no, no, you moved up because you had attained all this athletic excellence and people were recognizing except that entire year people had heard my name over the announcements. Every week Jamie Menzel won this race. Jamie Menzel scored this many goals. Jamie Menzel was on the winning team for this, this, this. So everyone already knew about that, all that stuff. But I was still like a weird nerd, uncool guy until I got the right award. You know, it gave me the title. And I had to have some sort of authority stating that I was cool and then I was cool. And this kind of brings about two different types of hierarchies. So you've got the hierarchy that these alpha males are always talking about where you got to claw your way up in status, where you jump in there and you fight your way into higher status. Like you try to get higher status. And it's all based on superficial nonsense. You don't actually have to be good on anything. In fact, if you're good at something, it's kind of a detriment often because when you're good at something you have to spend time doing that thing. So the people who get highest up on this dominance social hierarchy we have today are the people who really have nothing going on on the inside. They're just like, I know how to play the game. I know how to work the thing. And then there's this other hierarchy. I mean there's an infinite number of hierarchies but another one I'm going to talk about right now which is a competence hierarchy. Now in the competence hierarchy you don't increase in value in the competence hierarchy by trying to increase in value. If you try to push someone else down you kind of go down with them because you're wasting your time on not valuable activities. The way you increase your value in a competence hierarchy is you actually become more competent. You look in yourself and say, what can I improve? What can I do? You gain some skills. You gain some knowledge. You gain understanding.   And in this hierarchy since people aren't dependent on the people above and below them for their position you could have 10 people in the same position. They could all move up at the same time. You could have a bunch of people move down at the same time. Their position is not dependent on the other people's positions whereas the dominance hierarchy of the superficial one that I think is nonsense. You basically line everyone up and everyone's position is dependent on everyone below them and above them. It has nothing to do with their ability to actually accomplish anything. And, okay Jamie, so what? What's the problem? Well the problem is that people in this superficial hierarchy are trying to climb their way up to the higher positions to get stuff. Now there are two ways you can look at a leadership role. You can look at a leadership role as someone who has responsibility and has to take care of things and do a good job or you can look at a leadership role as power where you get to take stuff and these people in this superficial hierarchy they're climbing their way up in the hierarchy to get stuff because the higher up they are on that ladder the more stuff they get to take, the more people they get to control the more for them. Whereas competent people, the higher up they get in that hierarchy the more they can give, the more they can do for the world.  And there is so much pressure in our society today to get on this dominance hierarchy of the superficial where you're supposed to claw your way up and take as much as you can and this is dragging down our entire society.  Another huge problem with this is that our society is so focused on this superficial hierarchy that women are interested in the guys who are highest up on this superficial hierarchy. Most useless people who just want to fight their way to the top make terrible husbands, make terrible fathers and they're raising horrible kids and because so many women are interested in this all the competent people are like what's the point of even doing all this hard work and trying to be competent when I'm not going to be able to have a family because no women are interested in me because I'm looked down upon as the nerd or the working class and actually adding value to the world.  We're going downhill pretty quick and this is why cost of living is going up because there's less stuff fewer people are making the stuff and quality of life is going down. There aren't enough people keeping everything going. Now this kind of goes in cycles through history. To create a civilization everyone looks to the competent people and the competent people become the important ones they become the leaders because people are like we really need more food we don't have enough food we don't care about any of this bull crap or posturing we need someone who can actually figure out how to do more food and you get the competent people taking the leadership positions and becoming the big status people in society but when they do such a good job that there's just surplus everything they're not needed as much anymore and so then you start getting people coming out and saying hey well I want the position that guy has look he doesn't even do anything and it's because that guy's not doing anything because he's already done it and now he's just kind of got to maintain it and it's a lot easier to maintain something than it is to build it so then you get these guys coming in and they're barely doing anything I can take that position because I can get in there and I can get all the perks they're getting and it becomes the more abundance there is the easier it is for those crappy people to slide into those positions of power and once that starts happening they start changing the narrative of everything they start looking down on the people who created the society the nerds and the working class because when you're faking it the scariest person to a faker is the person who can do it for real so they look down on them and say I'm a better leader than them because they just start making up all kinds of they're not even cool they don't have a deep enough voice or they don't stand properly or we're strung around with the right suit or whatever and do everything they can to diminish the people who are actually useful and that's where we've been for a while and that's why our society is going downhill and at some point it's going to get bad enough that people are going to start looking to the competent people again which is kind of starting already because you know well I don't need to get into it but it's kind of starting now but things are still going to go downhill for a long time before the competent people can rebuild start rebuilding things because it takes a lot more effort to build things than it does to tear them down we have so much momentum tearing our infrastructure apart right now alright so I don't want to just leave things like that so let me give a couple a couple of ways that a civilization can avoid this kind of downfall one you keep women interested in competent people because that's a huge incentive this may sound sexist and whatever but women being interested in men who are competent changes everything because right now most women are interested in just the superficial thing and all the competent guys are like what's the point to keep women particularly interested in competent guys and people in general men too but you know the men kind of like I mean I don't want to say it because it sounds kind of like wimpy but we want to impress women it's kind of built into our DNA now another thing is to keep a civilization going you have to keep striving for something so you have to keep some kind of impossible goals otherwise the competent people become obsolete and once the competent people are obsolete you don't need them anymore they kind of diminish they kind of disappear then everything falls apart but if you keep some kinds of goals where you need competent people you'll keep you'll keep the competent people around because they'll be interested they'll be valued they'll be doing stuff and that whole hierarchy of competence will be encouraged and you know you could look back in the United States in the 60's when they said when the president said alright we're going to the moon and everyone was like what? that's impossible we can't do that except if we get a whole bunch of competent people and we start thinking about doing instead of just taking and that probably extended the life of our civilization to a significant degree of course you know once people once humans got to the moon they quickly diminished after that and everything's kind of been downhill from there and you know the crappier people have been taking over more and more and doing worse stuff and taking more and more and just not not maintaining our civilization not creating everything you know the roads are getting crappy you got financial systems falling apart you got inflation and all this stuff is the the results of this of people in this superficial hierarchy so you know as it kind of goes up and down it's almost like pistons of an engine like you get the competent people coming to dominance to create a civilization and once the civilization gets good they're not needed so much and then the superficial little little takers they come in so that's why I really don't like all these videos about these alpha males coming in and talking about how to climb your way up this dominance hierarchy so you can take more for yourself and get all the chicks and take all the stuff and just live off the hard work of other people who are diminishing and yes I actually kind of consider those people to be like if I had to say who was the alpha males and the beta males the alpha males are the are the competent people the beta males are the ones who are climbing over each other and crapping in each other's face trying to climb up to this top of this stupid food chain okay I gotta go do some real stuff increase my competence and excellence in the world okay


Yeah I tricked you. Here's everybody else. It is over here. Can we just all be together? Hey guys it's Leigh-Anne and I'm here today to talk about my favorite trilogies. My rule for myself with this is that the trilogy both has to be finished and I have to have finished it. Necessarily there are things that are not on this list because they are not completed trilogies by the author. I have not completed reading them or needless to say some of my favorite books are not trilogies. I have a list of 10 and I did actually rank them this time so instead of my usual there are no particular order they are in a particular order. It was really tough to rank them so some of the middle of this ranking is uh like could be you know the order could be shifted. I'm not 100 on kind of the middle portion but the top and the bottom the bottom of my top 10 are pretty set. So we're gonna start with 10th the least best. Number 10 on my list is The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Klick. Don't click away. I have other series on this list. I unironically, unapologetically love The Infernal Devices. Is Cassandra's Claire writing style kind of ridiculous? Yeah that is. Is this book series kind of ridiculous? Yes it is. Is it the best thing that I've ever read? No it's not. That's why it's counting the list but credit where it's due I've rarely read anything more compelling. My feelings were very feeling-y. I bawled my eyes out when I was reading in particular the third one. To this day I would die for Demcar Stairs and to this day I have never read another love triangle that is really a true triangle like this that I found compelling and well written and believable. And a true triangle in the sense of all three of these people love each other. It's not a girl choosing between one bad boy and another slightly different bad boy. It's not a girl choosing between the bad boy and the friend that was always there for her. No these two boys love each other. These two boys love her and she loves these two boys. It's a lot of selfless love. What they want for each other is happiness so of course the one wants the other to have the girl and be with her because he loves his friend and he loves this girl and he wants them to be happy and the other feels the exact same way and she loves them both and loves that they love each other and doesn't want to come between them. So there's a lot of pain. So much pain. Mainly I kept thinking why can't all of y'all just be a threple? Why can't y'all just be together? All three of you because y'all love each other so much. No one has to lose.  But no. Set in a Victorian era so we didn't do that. So much pain and I mean I like Will too. I don't dislike him but Gem, Gem, Gem, Gem. I mean I was rooting for Tem. I was mainly rooting for all three of them and I was like can we just all be together but no we can't because why I don't know. But if we can't all three be together which is my favorite option. But if that's not an option which apparently it's not then I'm rooting for Gem. So should you read it? I mean if you like pain I do think the characters are compellingly written. The magic stuff, the political, political stuff, like the plot stuff is it's it's ight. It's not the best kind of some of it doesn't really make a lot of sense. You know random MacGuffins and silly magic rules and arbitrary things like it's it's not great but the emotional journeys of these three characters wrecked me. Wow that's my number 10 on the list. Number nine on my list is The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. Yeah you heard me that's correct. It is allowed to be on my list because the majority of that trilogy I enjoyed the heck out of and thought was tip top quality. I really really enjoyed The Final Empire. I gave The Well of Ascension five full-hearted. Full-hearted is that a phrase? Full-hearted? Why can't you say full-hearted? It means the same thing. Stars. I didn't love the way that it ended which is why my notorious now taken down video was made because as always as I've said many times I post so many rant reviews because I like to like what I read and I expect to love everything that I read and I get very upset and angry when I don't love what I read hence the ranting because it's not an emotional reaction of immense disappointment. I can't be disappointed by something if I didn't expect great things. It's because I expect great things that I am so disappointed and therefore angry. So because I really really liked Final Empire and really really liked Well of Ascension I felt quite let down by the end of the trilogy but nevertheless for the majority of the runtime I really really enjoyed it and I still think a lot of its strengths are there. They're not entirely ruined some of it a little bit. It's not like all that great work it's not like all of the things that I did think were original and compelling unique and thought-provoking are just gone because of how it ended because of the answer to some of the questions posed by the beginning and just a middle of the trilogy. Would I have preferred it to end differently? Would I have preferred the message to be a bit different? Yes, hence that video but I did really really like that trilogy. I just preferred to ignore how it ended. The second book in particular, Chef's Kiss. That was incredibly compelling and unique and immersive and I'm very proud of myself for guessing the twist. Number eight on my list is The Winner's Trilogy by Mary Rutkowski. Part of the reason this is on here, a large part of the reason why this is on here is that I have seldom read anything that was as just compulsively readable. Every time I picked up one of the books in that trilogy I just could not put it down. The unputdownableness of those books I don't know why or what it is or how it is or anything but something about Mary Rutkowski's writing style is unputdownable and it's not because like every page ends with a cliffhanger or anything. I mean there is some of that. I just I'm just gobbling it up like I'm gulping it down. I can't read it fast enough so credit where it's due. That's impressive. I mean I really hate the covers both versions the original hard covers on the paperbacks because I think they do an immense disservice to the impression they give people of what this trilogy is like. The covers make it look like I don't even know. They make it look like it's like The Bachelorette or Throne of Glass. It is like neither. This is serious with a lot of political intrigue, quite a bit of war particular by the end of it. Very low magic. There's a really clever heroine who is not some badass assassin going around killing people. She's also not a flighty flirty girl wearing ball gowns every goddamn day. She's an intelligent and savvy political thinker. She's not a Mary Sue. She's not amazing at everything. Gee there is something she's good at. It's a sort of enemies to lovers but it's not a tropically shea one. These are two people coming from very different political social backgrounds and so that makes this awkward. It creates real problems because of where they've come from and what their priorities are and how they would ordinarily be in opposition to each other. But because they respect each other as humans and they respect each other in terms of intellect, personality, and even morality, they find common ground but nevertheless because of where they've come from this is really very tricky and creates a lot of misunderstanding, miscommunication, and impossibility between them. Which is a political impossibility. So there's a lot of political maneuvering and political navigating on both their parts. And they're really complex layered individuals with compelling stories and you really root for them, at least I did. And I think that again the readability of it, I mean I was just chewing my way through it and I just had to keep going. I thought they were really really well done and I really feel like those covers need to go. Number seven on my list is The Winter Night Trilogy by Catherine Arden. This I just finished. While I did find the ending to be less than completely satisfying, I do think it's an immense achievement and a really great trilogy. The work that she has done to research and to include really... I mean I'm not an expert on this but as far as I can tell and then my impression of it is it is fairly authentically Russian. Transliterated Russian words, Russian names, Russian history, Russian politics, Russian culture, Russian food, Russian vibes to the max. But it's not just you know a grand old mishmash of Russian-ish stuff. It's a really compelling story with an amazing main character. I love Vasya so much. Vasya is an amazing main character. She's not typical in any way. She's not the most beautiful maiden in all the land. She's not like a stabby assassin. She's not wildly flirtatious. She's not super sassy and sarcastic. She's just strong and independent and knows her own mind. She is flawed. She makes mistakes. She pays for those mistakes. Her strong will can turn into stubbornness. She's not. By no means a perfect character but she is a confident and compelling and independent and fantastic character. And like a lot of the strengths of this trilogy is just how amazing Vasya is as a character. And then I mean all the Russian folkloric elements are just so lush and so wonderful to be immersed in. There's a lot of other characters in it as well, not just Vasya. Her family and the magical creatures around her are also heartwarming and endearing and interesting to read about. The love story element of it is not my favorite. Even that is handled in a way that like I'll allow it. I think it's done as good as I guess it could be done in this situation. I would just prefer it to not really be a thing but if it's gonna be a thing that's as good as I could really hope for it to be. And not yeah it's just it's lush and evocative and beautiful and it's fantastic. So good. Number six on my list is The Far Serial Trilogy by Robin Hobb which also I quite recently finished. And Robin Hobb where you've been on my life girl. You've been writing books but why wasn't I reading them? Robin Hobb's storytelling is also incredibly compelling, immersive. She writes characters in a way that has your whole heart. I think I've said a lot that a lot of characters have my whole heart. My heart belongs to so many. But as I've said also now a few videos and I've talked with a few people about this that like there is a sort of grim dark quality to the stories and the worlds that she's written. And yet because it's told from the perspective and through the lens of a really naive and idealistic character then the books themselves could never really be shallowed in grim dark because their tone is not grim dark. But the occurrence is what goes down what people are up to around Dear Sweet Fits is pretty freaking grim dark on par with anything you'd read in an Abercrombie book. It's just that there's this sort of uplifting quality to having the story told from the perspective of Fits that makes it not grim dark. But it is layered and complex and it is thought provoking. The characters are three dimensional and the world feels truly lived in and lush and so it's so good. I'm quite staggered and I mean everyone has been praising Robin Hobb so I expect you good things but I wasn't ready for how good her writing is and I am so excited to read more from Robin Hobb but the parts of your trilogy which I have completed most excellent. Five on my list is the Conqueror Saga by Kirsten White. This I haven't talked about in a minute. This is a reimagining retelling alternate history about Vlad the Impaler. If Vlad the Impaler had been a girl Lada Dragulia and Lada has a lot in common with Vassia honestly. If you like Vassia from the Winter Night trilogy then I recommend the Conqueror Saga because Lada is just definitely got Vassia vibes. This is also just a staggering achievement in terms of again this research that was done into the politics and history surrounding the life of Vlad the Impaler. It is a really sweeping epic story and it's not just told from Lada's perspective, it is also told from the perspective of her brother Radu. There is a queer romance in it. The world I mean I hesitate to say I hesitate to say world because this is an alternate history so it's not a fantasy world invented by Kirsten White but the setting she places you in her writing is very lush and evocative. You really feel like you're placed in Wallachia and in Constantinople and you like a lot of it is it is just so viscerally written. All the feelings are at the surface and it's it's passionately written and there is violence and there is heartbreak. There is betrayal. Cities are falling and our armies are sweeping across the land. People are being impaled but she's written a character in Lada that is far from perfect. It's definitely not a cleaned up version of Vlad the Impaler. Lada does some truly reprehensible things but this added element of a woman in a man's world kind of not justifying a lot of the barbaric things that Lada does but it gives it a new flavor because there's this added element of what a woman has to do in order to make it in a man's world that she cannot choose the benevolent path because that is regarded as weakness in a woman where a man would be seen as being kind a woman would be seen as being weak and so that does change things in terms of like if Vlad the Impaler had been a woman it would kind of change the why of why these things how this is going down why those choices would be made. So that does affect it and in a way that is compelling and thought provoking and it is well done it is so well done and frankly the end of the conquer saga the third book is one of the best endings to a trilogy that I've read. I frequently said that the second books of trilogies are often my favorite but in this instance Kirsten White stuck the landing. The end of the conquer saga is a perfect ending.  Number four on my list is the daughter smoke and bone trilogy by Laini Taylor. It always astounds me that there isn't a name for this trilogy. I wish it had a name I don't know what I'd call it the chimera trilogy that's what I'd call it. Um Laini Taylor's writing is just wow you want beautiful prose Laini Taylor's your gal daughter smoke and bone in particular the first book I have rarely read something that is just such a immersive mind-body experience. When I read daughter smoke and bone I felt like I ahead like lived a thing coming out of that book felt like I was like coming up for air. It is such an intense experience the way her writing puts you not just in the headspace of a character but in the feelings of that character where like you are feeling the feelings and that's even more staggering because the things going on you couldn't possibly relate to.  It just grips you and then squeezes your heart. It is fantastic and the back of the international edition there's a blurbed quote from Patrick Rothfuss that just says I wish I had written this book from Patrick Rothfuss. I don't think you can get really a much higher accolade than that and a second that sir that book is an achievement and the trilogy is really good. I think the third book in the trilogy is the weakest which is often what I think but it's still the trilogy as a whole is fantastic and the second book is is really really really good the first book is probably my favorite but it is an excellent trilogy and I highly recommend. Number three on my list is The Ravensmaric Trilogy by Ed McDonald. This series is so underhyped and underrated I never see anybody talking about it like ever at all breaks my heart. I've talked about it a few times because I will keep talking about it well mainly I just talk about things I love but also in particular that because like freaking reading guys what are you doing? The Ravensmaric trilogy is is grimdark as all hell. If you don't like grimdark or you're on the fence about grimdark or you only like to dip your toes in the water of grimdark a bit maybe don't read Ravensmaric trilogy. It's pretty grim as grim as grim gets really but I think it is excellent and it has an element that a lot of fantasy doesn't have and that is a really true political conspiracy not espionage but yeah conspiracy kind of plot that is reminiscent to me of like a genre carat kind of plot. Blending grimdark with this sort of political intrigue is just it's so compelling it's so great. You have your rough main character who works for this godlike entity Crowfoot who is one of the nameless ones. He's got a raven tattooed on him. Whenever Crowfoot has instructions for Raihull Gal Harrow an actual raven bloodily explodes out of his tattoo to squawk instructions at him. Day to day Raihull Gal Harrow's job is faring I say faring but guiding people across this like nuclear fallout vibes zone called the misery which is this like death magic zone that was left over from like a sort of godlike war that occurred where it's very much that like nuclear vibes where like we pulled out all the stops and land suffered for it and now the reason there isn't war anymore is because there's mutually assured destruction because there is an engine that is like this basically doomsday device that's keeping the other side at bay but you still have this nuclear fallout zone that people have to get across and there are creatures that are warped by the toxic magic that is like seeped into the land there so crossing it is dangerous for your health so Raihull is like feeling the wear and tear of that he has a background that is obscure at first so there's obviously more to him and how he came to both work for Crowfoot and also be working as this guide there's more to him and his story and how he ended up here but in his job faring people and working for Crowfoot he comes to realize or is made aware of the fact that something is up with the government things are not as they should be people are up to things or not up to things or basically something's up so he because no one else will do it is basically investigating this and there's people that don't want him investigating this and so having this kind of like conspiracy plot which again feels very Sean Le Carré where like the government like who is doing what in the government and who can you trust and why are things shady meanwhile like horrific nightmarish creatures from the misery it's just it's so good it's so freaking good what is not to like about that tell me what is not to like number two on my list is Red Rising by Pierce Brown no one is surprised I love Red Rising I don't know if it's in a frame but I have like more additions than any human should have of the Red Rising books I've met Pierce Brown three times I intend to meet him again when the next book comes out which I very much hope it will come out soon and I very much hope that pandemic life will allow for events again Red Rising what can I even say that I haven't already said about Red Rising it is compelling it is immersive it is unique it is a space opera that feels like a Greek tragedy and also a fantasy it has some of the most compelling characters it has some of the most shocking twists and turns in particular Golden Sun is one of my it's on my top 10 list my list of top 10 books of all time the experience of reading Golden Sun is an experience I love how he weaves in all it's very apparent like his influences his interest in politics and in geopolitical history and in Roman and Greek history and in Greek classics and in dune dune comes into the new books more definitely influences from dune I recently read Shadow and Claw which is the first two books in the book of the new Sun by Gene Wolfe which I know is an influence on Pierce Brown and now having read that I can see those influences as well in Red Rising it's just it's kind of a unique project I've never read anything like Red Rising it's amazing and it's kind of an amazing fandom too and the just like the excitement and diehardness of the fans and Pierce Brown himself is like very good with the fans so it's just like it's like a lot of fun to be a part of in so much in so far as you can be a part of you know a fandom it's just great it's great and number one on the list say it with me now first law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie do I need to explain this I have an entire playlist on my channel that has all the videos that I've made that pertain to Joe Abercrombie and the first law the first law trilogy is the best so far I mean the new trilogy is not complete and the rules for this list were that it has to be complete and then I have to have completed reading it if I make this list again in you know a few months or a year very possibly the age of madness will first law trilogy often replace it because it's new books much like Pierce Brown's new books I mean it's not a new trilogy it's just a continuation of the saga so Pierce Brown situation is slightly different both Pierce Brown and Joe Abercrombie have impressed and delighted me with the fact that their writing craft has only improved I'm just like oh I'm so glad you guys didn't like shoot the wad on your early work you guys are improving and growing and it is a delight to see but yeah first law trilogy Glockta Logan Giselle Artie Farrell I love love love love the first law trilogy of all the books on this list I've read the first law trilogy the most I've read the first law trilogy in its entirety three times and I've read the blade itself four times I love the fuck out of it of course it's number one on the list and god tier yeah I tricked you there's 11 on this list but I've said multiple times about this that it shouldn't go on lists that it can't be compared to other things that it's on its own level it's in its own category it's it cannot be discussed with other things and that's why it couldn't be one through ten on this list it doesn't belong on a list it is god tier and that is the broken earth trilogy by nkjemisin I have a whole video on the broken earth trilogy I was recently on world hoppers um where we talked about nkjemisin I know I just said that you know red rising is really unique and it is but broken earth I have literally never in my life read anything like broken earth it defies comparison it defies explanation it defies it it defies everything I was completely gobsmacked by that trilogy I remain gobsmacked by that trilogy I question whether nkjemisin is an ordinary mortal human because she's written that and I'm just like wow wow wow wow wow wow I don't have words most of my video on broken earth was me being like I can't explain it because it can't be explained I can't describe it because it can't be described it has to be experienced and uh since then I haven't come up with anything it's not like since then I'm like oh you know I finally come up with a way to explain it nope have to read it it is just if you want to talk about groundbreaking boundary defying just amazingness broken earth on its own list its own tear it is over here and here's everybody else broken earth over here so let me know in the comments down below how you feel about the trilogies on my list if you agree or disagree with me if uh there were any surprises so you could have definitely predicted this whole list maybe not the precise order but like you're like yep if you were playing bingo you've got them all whatever you want to let me know I post videos on saturdays other random times as well but definitely saturdays so like and subscribe join my patreon if you feel so inclined and I'll see you when I see you


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