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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Norriy with you.

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Speaker 2: Jason Offedback with Us has been a journalist since nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty seven, teachers journalism at Northwest Missouri State University. Prior

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Speaker 2: to that, he was the managing editor for the Kansas

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Speaker 2: City entertainment magazine called The X and a humor columnist

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Speaker 2: for The Examiner Newspapers in Jackson County, Missouri. He's got

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Speaker 2: a Master's of Arts degree in communication from Central Missouri

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Speaker 2: State University in Warrensburg. And Jason, welcome back to your

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Speaker 2: latest book. I hear is called The Girl in the

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Speaker 2: Corn That sounds scary, Well yeah.

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Speaker 3: It just won a won an award. It's the won

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Speaker 3: the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award from the Independent Book Publishers

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Speaker 3: Association and was one of the finalists for the Silver

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Speaker 3: Falcon Falcon Award from the Killer Nashville Book Award. Content

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Speaker 3: Good for you with it?

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Speaker 2: Is there a possible movie here?

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Speaker 3: You know what? I got the fingers crossed. But I've

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Speaker 3: had some dealings with uh with folks out in Hollywood

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Speaker 3: before and if there is this sort of thing takes

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Speaker 3: a long time, and you.

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Speaker 2: Have another novel I'll called How to Build a Time Machine?

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I like humor and and I try to keep it

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Speaker 3: out of my try to keep it out of my

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Speaker 3: horror for obviously, but I really cut loose with How

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Speaker 3: to Build a Time Machine. It's a it's a humorous

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Speaker 3: sci fi and it got a lot of great reviews.

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Speaker 2: Good for you. How have you been lately, Jason Man, You.

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Speaker 3: Know, George, I've been. I've been great. I've did the

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Speaker 3: weather's weather in northwest Missouri has finally started turning cold,

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Speaker 3: so I'm happy it's coming this way.

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Speaker 2: I'm in Saint Louis right now, and uh, we're going

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Speaker 2: to get it pretty soon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's coming.

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Speaker 2: How did you get involved in paranormal writing?

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Speaker 3: Well, I had always wanted to write. It's one of

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Speaker 3: those one of those dreams as a little kid that

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Speaker 3: I told my parents I wanted to write books when

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Speaker 3: I grew up, and they patted the top of my

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Speaker 3: head and then sent me along to play. But I've

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Speaker 3: been interested in monsters ever since the early seventies. I've

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Speaker 3: always been avacious, voracious reader, even when I was pretty young.

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Speaker 3: And I'd look at the newspaper and back in nineteen

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Speaker 3: seventy three there were stories in the Kansas City newspaper

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Speaker 3: about Bigfoot sightings out in Louisiana, Missouri, and thinking, my gosh,

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Speaker 3: there's monsters in my home state. Amazing. So that got me, Momo,

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Speaker 3: got me fascinated in monsters.

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Speaker 2: And you've wrote a book four years ago called Chasing

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Speaker 2: American Monsters. They're all over the place, aren't they, right, Yes,

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Speaker 2: they are.

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Speaker 3: And what I tried to do with Chasing American Monsters

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Speaker 3: is go state by state and show what monsters are

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Speaker 3: in each state, because yes, whether legendary or real, they're

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Speaker 3: all out there, out there everywhere.

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Speaker 2: What kind of monsters are we talking about here, Jayce, Well.

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Speaker 3: We're talking everything from of course, Bigfoot. It's Uh. It's

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Speaker 3: the one monster that is in forty nine has been

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Speaker 3: encountered in forty nine states. The only one it hasn't

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Speaker 3: been in is Hawaii. I guess it doesn't like Uh

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Speaker 3: doesn't like POI for some reason. I don't know, but

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Speaker 3: it's it's been seen everywhere. I mean, everything from Bigfoot

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Speaker 3: to extreme monsters like the like the hodag or or

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Speaker 3: not ringing a bell right now, Hold all for a

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Speaker 3: second and I'll get it. But it's it's a it's

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Speaker 3: a monster that is uh that cries all the time.

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Speaker 3: It looks like a giant wrinkled pig in it. Uh

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Speaker 3: and and and it's just really depressed. So anything from

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Speaker 3: stuff that can be real to the you know, legendary

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Speaker 2: Is that the White Screamer.

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Speaker 3: No, no, the White Screamer is out of uh, out

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Speaker 3: of Tennessee. It A man encountered it back in the

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Speaker 3: members of his family who were all slaughtered by by

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Speaker 2: Clearly people are seeing things, aren't they.

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Speaker 3: There are way too many sightings for them not to be,

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Speaker 2: A couple of nights ago, I was talking to Lawn

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Speaker 2: Did you ever come across any of those?

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Speaker 3: Well, I only came across one ring winged at your lawns.

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Speaker 3: Great by the way, he has done some done some

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Speaker 3: tremendous work through the years, and I followed his work through, uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, through the winged wing creatures in Chicago, and

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Speaker 2: What are some of the most unusual creatures is that

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Speaker 3: Well, there are a lot of a lot of different

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Speaker 3: different bizarre creatures. One of them is the demon Leaper

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Speaker 2: Monster cat coming in to get you.

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Speaker 3: Exactly if the if the phone goes dead, that's it

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Speaker 2: I mean, what else could they be looking at to

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know that sort of thing. I mean,

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Speaker 3: There aren't any extraordinarily large, you know bats in the

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Speaker 3: the fox fox based bat. Those things are enormous. But

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Speaker 3: what else? What else could it be? I mean the

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Speaker 3: wings could be could be pterodactyl wings, which which those

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Speaker 2: Over the years, prehistoric birds, So you think they could

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Speaker 3: You know, if any, if anything could be I think

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Speaker 3: I think it could be the birds. There have been

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Speaker 3: coming home from a conference and they saw a pterodactyl

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Speaker 3: they very well could. Something I think might be a

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Speaker 3: little bit a little bit more realistic would be the

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Speaker 3: thunderbirds from Native American Low.

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Speaker 3: The description of those are basically the description of a

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Speaker 3: Those very well still could be around.

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Speaker 2: I think that's real. There's a historical story of the

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Speaker 2: pious bird, which is a thunderbird in Alton, Illinois and

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Speaker 2: It was incredible. Did you ever hear of that the

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Speaker 3: I I sure did, And I know exactly what painting

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Speaker 3: because those type of birds have been seen not just

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Speaker 2: Truly remarkable. Jason often with us. We're talking about his

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Speaker 2: works and Chasing American Monsters as a book he wrote

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Speaker 2: tocoastdam dot com. You got to tell me about this title,

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Speaker 2: The Girl in the Corn That sounds like a horror book.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it definitely is a horror book. I've you know,

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Speaker 3: I've investigated. Uh, I've just done a lot of fun research, reading,

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Speaker 3: reading for fun on all sorts, of all sorts of

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Speaker 3: paranormal and mythological beings. And one that has always fascinated

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Speaker 3: me is the little People the fame because these things

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Speaker 3: are all over the world. You know, when you think

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Speaker 3: you know Irish leprechauns, but you know elves and cobolds, trolls,

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Speaker 3: you know, fairies aren't like that. They're not like that

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Speaker 3: Disney you know, they're They're not like the Disney faery

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Speaker 3: But it's about a boy who sees a faery in

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Speaker 2: I was first I was first introduced to leper cons

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Speaker 2: Why do you think mainstream science, Jason really doesn't dive

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Speaker 3: I understand that it's it's it's either you know, talk

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Speaker 2: Lose their job exactly. That's what it comes down to, right,

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Speaker 2: What would you say is the most ludicrous monster story

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Speaker 3: I know, all these all these people that come out, well,

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