{"podcast":{"title":"Driving to the Rez - With Inelia Benz and Larry Buzzell","slug":"driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885","podcast_index_feed_id":704885,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2671365.rss","website_url":"https://dttr.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2671365/e45a8365ee8c92724796000b55e18950.jpg","author":"Inelia Benz","episode_count":335,"summary":"Private Podcast expanding on the topics from Driving to the Rez - with Inelia and Larry.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T04:20:02.472511+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885"},"episode":{"title":"The Week Todd Standing Drove to the Rez - Chapter 1 — The Arrival & The Invitation","slug":"the-week-todd-standing-drove-to-the-rez-chapter-1-the-arrival-the-invitation","published_at":"2026-04-15T14:45:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885/the-week-todd-standing-drove-to-the-rez-chapter-1-the-arrival-the-invitation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885","url":"https://dttr.substack.com/p/the-week-todd-standing-drove-to-the-rez-part-one","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/194294580/5e91cf38ed63d7c324e174a7b9433ba9.mp3","summary":"Todd Standing is a Canadian Sasquatch researcher with decades of field experience under his belt. He doesn’t study Sasquatch from a computer screen. He goes out into the wilderness and has physical encounters with this elusive species. Not only that, but instead of writing books and trying to “prove” that Sasquatch exists, he now focuses on being a bridge between Sasquatch and people. He has a popular YouTube channel where he shares videos and evidence, and most importantly, he takes people into the wilderness so they can have their own experiences. We first came to know Todd in 2018-19. While watching his documentary Discovering Bigfoot , Larry’s mother, Makah Elder Deanna of the Makah Tribe in the northwest of the USA, was walking past the television. She looked up and shouted, “look! That’s a Sasquatch! That’s exactly what they look like. That’s what I saw in the woods by the road just a few weeks ago.” That moment changed the tone in the room immediately. Although I had seen a Sasquatch in our backyard, I had not seen his face. Only his body from the chest down as he ran through the woods, his shoulders and head hidden by tree branches. I had also heard a couple of them speaking to each other in a fast, unfamiliar, almost rhythmic language. At another time, I recorded multiple long, extremely loud wails. So when Deanna spoke, we listened. Larry and I went from casually watching the documentary to paying very close attention. We contacted Todd and invited him to the Rez for a conversation. At the time, we assumed Todd had recreated his experiences for the film. That the images were not actual Sasquatch. But after Elder Deanna identified one immediately, and then shared her own experiences seeing them in and around the Makah Indian Reservation her entire life, that q…","meta_description":"Todd Standing is a Canadian Sasquatch researcher with decades of field experience under his belt. He doesn’t study Sasquatch from a computer screen. He go…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3961,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885/episodes/the-week-todd-standing-drove-to-the-rez-chapter-1-the-arrival-the-invitation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/driving-to-the-rez-with-inelia-benz-and-larry-buzzell-704885/the-week-todd-standing-drove-to-the-rez-chapter-1-the-arrival-the-invitation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}