The Byte: Taylor Kress
We talk about UFOs and strange occurrences in this shorter episode-Taylor has pretty much seen it all! Every single day Taylor is putting his life on the line, whether it's helping save the lands we live on, singing with his band, Jubal...(or regaling us with his stories of ghosts), Taylor's got your back. Please note: This track may include some explicit language.
Transcript
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Bite-sized Blessings.
Sorry the episode is delayed this week.
On Saturday and Sunday,
I was driving to Arkansas,
Which is where I'm recording this from.
I'm also outside,
So if you hear some birds or the passing train,
That's just what I've got to work with this week.
This week,
I get to interview a super cool friend,
Taylor Kress,
Who fronts the band Jubal.
At the end of this episode,
You'll hear a song by Taylor and his bandmates called Reynosa from the album County Ball.
Taylor talks about UFOs.
He talks about something unexpected that happened during a therapy session.
In fact,
Taylor had so much to share,
We had to whittle it down to the two events included in this episode.
Taylor's many things.
A musician,
A wildland firefighter,
A coffee barista.
He's pretty much done it all,
But I think you'll understand that it's really with his band and his music.
For me,
That's where he shines.
So now,
Episode 114 of Bite-sized Blessings.
Where it got weird was,
So we were talking and then she asked me where it was now and it was in my neck and what color it was and it was gray.
And these are the things that I remember very vividly because then she asked me,
Was it conscious?
And I,
Shit you not,
I lost control of my body.
Why don't you tell me one,
Or if you want to,
Share one of your UFO stories?
I love hearing those.
Sure.
I've had a couple,
Some of them,
You know,
When I say UFO,
I don't necessarily mean aliens,
I just mean truly an unidentified flying object.
And some of them were just lights,
Crazy lights situations that I was like,
Being like,
Oh,
I'm never going to,
No one's going to believe that.
Not really sure what I just saw,
But the one,
The weirdest one I had was actually this year and I was on an assignment in Cal,
That assignment in California that I was talking about earlier that it was at night and the fire camps are really weird.
They're like a city that they set up in the middle of,
You know,
The woods basically.
And we were,
It was dark,
There's a bunch of generators,
You know,
Like generators,
Lights,
So you can't really see a ton outside of your area,
But they were just shutting those all down.
We had set up our tents to get ready to go to bed.
And again,
For the people that want to check the credibility of my story,
We were seven,
Like seven to 10 days into this assignment,
You're sober.
You can't tell me that we were drinking or anything.
It's like,
We're sober,
Seven days,
10 days sober.
You're sitting there like no one's had a drink or done anything.
So you're sitting there and you're,
I was talking to my friend,
Sarah,
And we're over the hillside.
There's just this dark black oval.
And again,
There's all these generator lights.
So the sky is slightly illuminated from that.
But this thing is solid black,
Like completely pitch black.
And it has about 25,
I think 20 to 25 is what I counted,
Little lights in the middle of it.
And it's just floating really slow across the sky,
Like almost like a blimp would.
And I remember pointing to Sarah,
I was like,
Sarah,
Do you see that?
I was like,
What the fuck am I looking at?
And Sarah turned around and she was,
Did the same thing.
She was like,
What the fuck?
And it just,
We watched it for about five seconds to 10 seconds,
Just in complete awe.
And then it disappeared.
And the other,
So then that was the whole visual part of it.
But just so other people that would know,
There's,
You can't,
You'd be like,
Oh yeah,
Well someone might've been flying something.
You can't do that on a fire.
There's a thing called a temporary flight restriction,
A TFR.
So nothing can be flying in that zone unless it's monitored and recognized and acknowledged within like the,
Their whole system that's there.
So this thing,
But we looked on the map and it was flying right on the edge of this,
Like the inside edge of this TFR.
And so we have no idea,
Again,
No idea what it was.
Was it,
Did it make any noise?
Could you even hear anything?
No,
Couldn't hear or see anything.
And then it just disappeared,
Like I said.
And it was one of those times that all the other times I had seen weird lights and stuff in my life,
I've been like,
You know,
Had a couple of drinks.
So I'm like,
Ah,
I never know who's going to believe this one.
But it's like that one,
I was like,
No,
You can't.
I know what I saw and someone else was literally standing with me and saw it too.
I would love to hear your ghost stories.
Any of your ghost stories?
Yeah.
Um,
I will share one.
This one is,
Is weird.
So I was,
I was dating a girl who was into this.
She was doing this work that's for,
Um,
To help people get over trauma.
And it could be physical traumas,
Um,
Emotional,
Mental,
And it's Eastern philosophy and some Eastern work for Westernizing and using it like a more medical,
Like a Western,
To make it apply to Western medicine and like work within the framework.
So my answer is,
She had been doing that and hadn't really talked,
We hadn't talked a lot about it.
And,
Uh,
I was like,
Hey,
If you ever want to,
You know,
Practice or do anything,
It's I'd love to,
You know,
Work with you on some stuff,
Just like if you're,
If you're comfortable with that.
And I have some pretty severe back pain that I've always had since I was like 21.
And we,
We sat down and she's like,
Yeah,
Let's try it.
And um,
So the way it starts is ask you mostly,
It'll ask you a lot of questions and you just answer the first thing that comes to your head.
Like,
Uh,
She'll ask you like,
You know,
What color is it?
And you're like,
Whatever you use it first thing you say,
You know,
What shape is it?
Uh,
Where is it located?
And you're like,
Okay,
It's here.
And it's like,
Well,
Has it moved?
And it's like,
Okay,
Blah,
Blah.
So this goes on for probably five to 10 minutes and the questions and it's changing locations.
It's,
You know,
You're feeling the pain kind of moving her up to different areas.
And like,
The more you think about it and the,
The,
Where it got weird was,
So we were talking and then she asked me where,
Where it was now.
And it was in my neck and what color it was.
And it was gray.
And these are the things I remember very vividly because then she asked me,
Was it conscious?
And I,
I shit you not,
I lost control of my body and my back arched up like you're trying to pop your back,
You know?
And the worst part is she continued to ask me questions and I was answering,
But I was not,
I had no,
No control over why answers.
And it took about a minute before I could,
Could speak for myself.
And I didn't know,
I had no recollection of what was saying.
I was,
Cause I was like,
I was just too honestly in shock.
And I was like,
We got to stop this.
Like I,
I did not explain what happened.
And so she went back and talked to her,
I guess,
Teacher instructor on it.
And the instructor's only answer really was that it was,
It was just,
She was saying that you're really not supposed to have run into that that often in that line of work,
But it does happen.
And they kept the word they used for it was energetic influences,
Which sounds like a nice,
Nice way to say ghost or whatever you want to put the term on it.
But yeah,
It was,
It was pretty terrifying,
I guess.
I wasn't necessarily scaly,
Just like really changed my viewpoint on a lot of that stuff where I was like,
Okay,
I guess there are,
There's some different stuff out there that I've not been acknowledging.
At least,
You know,
And I'll sit down and listen to someone's argument to say it was hypnosis or something like,
Sure,
Maybe there was some,
Something that she didn't,
She didn't know.
Like,
I know that's a full other science there,
But like,
It,
While I know is the details happened the way they happened for me.
And it was pretty,
Yeah,
Pretty incredible.
I guess that's the word for it.
Maybe it was just like a helpful little gremlin that lives in your body and is gray.
That's exactly,
I've always jokingly referred to it as the little gray man in my neck.
So,
You know,
I think we're all thirsting for those stories of the inexplicable,
The unexplained.
Yeah.
Well,
And I wish,
I wish there was,
And maybe it's not as bad as I feel like I,
I picture it to be like,
I've told people before,
I try to tell people when we talk,
When I talk to them about it,
Because I want,
I want it to be like,
Yeah,
It's,
I'm not crazy.
I'm not,
I'm not some,
You know,
I didn't,
I'm not a lunatic here.
So it's like,
This is what happened and it happened very really.
And this was the exact circumstances in which it did.
So it's like,
You can,
It doesn't have to be viewed in this.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm just used to people that don't,
That are skeptical of everything.
So it's,
It's been,
It was very eye opening for me.
That's for sure.
One last question.
When black oval disappeared,
Did it literally just wink out of existence or did it?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
It just like,
It was like moving there perfectly.
And then it just like was gone because we were both staring at it.
I can literally have a second viewpoint that also said the exact same thing.
We were both watching it.
Like what the hell?
And then it just gone.
You're like,
Oh,
That.
Okay.
That's it.
That was it.
Of course.
And that's always how it is.
And it's so frustrating because you want to go get like five other people,
But come everybody come take a video.
It's like too late.
Like I was so in awe and then it's just gone.
Right.
And I'm like,
Oh,
That's,
That was all I'm going to get on it.
That is amazing.
And I'm so jealous.
Oh,
It was so cool.
And Sarah is a big alien.
Like I'm not going to say conspiracy theorist,
Alien theorist.
There we go.
And like Sarah lost it.
She was so excited.
She was like,
Oh my God,
We just saw the craziest shit.
It was so cool.
I mean,
I think it like the whole next day,
That's all we could talk about.
And I bet everyone else there who didn't see it was jealous.
Oh,
Or that or they thought we were lunatics.
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To be.
I don't know where,
This girl is going.
I don't know where she's going,
She's gone.
I guess I'll never be the same.
I call for water,
It's giving rain.
I know I'm not,
It's no win.
I guess she's going back again.
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It's giving rain.
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It's no win.
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It's giving rain.
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It's no win.
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It's giving rain.
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It's no win.
I guess she's going back again.
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It's giving rain.
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I guess she's going back again.
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I guess she's going back again.
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This girl is going.
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This girl is going.
