Studying Sasquatch: Science beefs, hostile audiences, & weighing the evidence with Dr. Jeff Meldrum

Are you the kind of person who questions everything? Do you crave the stories that exist on the edges of reality—the ones that challenge what we think we know? If so, get yourself a cold one and pull up a stool.

In this episode of Writers Drinking Whiskey, we're joined by Dr. Jeff Meldrum, a renowned anthropologist, author, and leading expert on Sasquatch. As a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, Dr. Meldrum has dedicated decades to the study of primate locomotion and the possibility of undiscovered hominids. His insights into the physical evidence, historical accounts, and scientific methodologies surrounding Bigfoot bring a fascinating perspective to the discussion.

Join us as we sip, speculate, and science our way through topics that will leave you questioning, laughing, and maybe even believing. If you love the intersection of writing, the unexplained, and good whiskey, hit that subscribe button and down a shot with us!

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William R. Hincy: “Some people run from their demons; others sit down and have cocktails with theirs.” William R. Hincy is a man who does and writes about the latter. Having become a writer after deciding it was the only sensible thing for a problem drinker to do, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create messes but have instead become the mess. Between rounds, Hincy has won 3 American Fiction Awards, an International Book Award, and his personal anthology of short fiction WITHOUT EXPIRATION was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and kids, having found solace in the notion that the only things sacred are self and whiskey-winged interludes.

Chapters:
0:00:00 Start
0:01:09 Introducing Jeff Meldrum
0:27:01 The Scientific Method and the Unexplained
0:56:57 Occam's razor and extraordinary claims
1:14:02 Patterson-Gimlin Film
1:22:51 Writing to a hostile audience
1:37:17 Would you kill a sasquatch?
1:41:46 Advanced technology and the future of Sasquatch research
1:53:13 Shots - rapid fire fun
2:10:16 Reading from LEGEND MEETS SCIENCE
2:15:29 Last Call

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