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Crashouts, Black Ducks & Pookie Man: Duckfellas Podcast | 16 · DuckFellas Podcast

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Welcome back to the Duckfellas podcast, episode 16.
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Today I am joined by Cade, and I think Austin was here, but I don't know.
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I think he got scared and left.
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Already? I didn't even roast him that bad. I was taking it pretty easy on him. Yeah, I know.
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I see he did just Snapchat us, but I think he said that he shit his pants or
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something. I wouldn't doubt it.
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His computer's updating. updating right now.
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See, if he would have gotten on earlier than 45 seconds before we started,
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he would have had time to update it. In his defense, he wasn't late.
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He was here for the start time of 7.
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He was. But he just left the chat right after that.
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Oh, man. I knew that was going to be an interesting start when I just watched
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him disappear. And I'm like, if he doesn't make it back here,
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he's going to get fucking roasted.
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Oh, yeah. I was looking at my phone while that video was playing,
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and I looked up and I was like, Wait a second.
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Pookie's gone. See ya.
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Bye, Felicia. Fucking guy. Well, how was, man, the past two weeks?
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I don't think you weren't on last week, and I haven't seen you since I was home.
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We've just been busy working and working in the race shop, you know?
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Days are getting longer. They are. They are.
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I noticed that yesterday. Looking out the window at, like, 6 o'clock,
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and it was still a little light out. I'm like, ooh, it's getting time.
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I can't wait for fucking summertime. I hate getting dark early. That shit sucks.
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I know. That's the only thing I really hate about winter is how short the days are.
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But, yeah, we're warming up.
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It feels like it's already summertime outside, but that's going to change here
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this week. It does. We're about to get fucked.
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Yeah. I mean, the good news is, though, it looks like the Dakotas,
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well, North Dakota mainly, is going to get a decent little snowstorm here this
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week. So that'll help out with the drought conditions.
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Yeah. Honestly need it.
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Yeah. I know. I think I've seen a forecast that are calling up to like six or
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seven inches through the northern and eastern part of it.
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So, yeah, whatever.
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You left it wide open, my boy. Wide the fuck open. I'm tired of it. I'm out of here.
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I'm going to pull a Pookie and just get on out of here.
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Well, I know we've decided to do a giveaway here coming up.
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We're going to have two of the Alps blinds that we have that,
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honestly, nobody really likes using them.
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I mean, they're comfy, but they're just not our style.
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Really so we gotta get those cleaned up take a couple pictures of them and we're
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gonna get that giveaway going I think that's gonna last for we'll run it for
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about a month probably and it's gonna be each blind will be given away separately yeah,
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exciting times so exciting yeah then I gotta buy two new blinds cause I'm gonna replace them ha ha ha,
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Have we confirmed that we have a guest next week? We did. I was going to bring
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that up at the end of the podcast, but evidently you don't read the document.
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Well, dude, you got to get the exciting shit out of the way. Come on. I know.
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Yeah. So I confirmed tonight that Mr. Brett Henderson from Woody Creek Taxidermy
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is going to be joining us next week.
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So bring your freaking A game on taxidermy questions.
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And then you can ask him when your pintail is going to be done.
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He'll probably say, whenever you bring me the rock, you're supposed to bring me a month ago. Yeah.
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I mean, we've had a few people tell us now that your bird was skinned.
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Yeah, but don't they have to dry and all sorts of funky shit?
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Yeah, and I don't know how long they have to dry for, so there's that.
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I'd imagine the rock will be the last thing he does.
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Yeah, I'm sure he'll actually position the bird and then bring the rock in. Yes.
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Like the last thing he will do is put the bird on the rock.
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But you still got to find a rock. Oh, finding it's not the problem. It's just getting it.
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Like, it's been so fucking cold, and then now where I want to go get it,
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the road's an absolute pile of shit because it's all fallen out.
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You want me to bring Ellie and tell her to fetch a rock?
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No, because she likes the round rocks. I need a flat rock so my bird can sit on it.
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We can, I'll start showing her pictures of types of rocks that you were looking
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for. I'll get her trained up for it.
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Oh, shit. Well, before we really get going here, might as well bring up that
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the spring DNR meetings are just getting closer and closer here.
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We're down to less than three weeks, I think, from the beginning meetings. Bring that list up.
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Thanks to Mr. Cade for making this list, other than spelling Okoboji wrong.
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I was going to say, don't forget to go to the Okoboji one. Yeah.
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Guy's a fucking idiot. it can't trust
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him for nothing but no
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i'm looking forward to this i'm looking forward to hopefully having a decent
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turnout we're gonna the whole state really needs a good turnout so people can
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really get their opinions out there yeah for sure and like we've said like you
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don't have to agree with us but whatever you feel make sure you go and express
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how you feel otherwise nobody ever knows well it really
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just by showing up it really shows the DNR that how many active waterfowlers
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or just hunters in general actually care about the sport whether it's deer hunting
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or anything yeah for sure,
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so that'll be a big deal yeah well like I said we'll be at the Des Moines one
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I will hopefully you are and pretty sure Pookie will be and then I might go
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to another one which one are you gonna go to? I don't know yet.
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I wish it wasn't on the same oh no it isn't where
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is it march 4th i could
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if i have to come back to work up here i could hit it on the way you got to
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make sure you walk in there and is this the okoboki meeting dude i would no
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you wouldn't i would no way i'll record it i'll make a little reel about it me walking in there.
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I'm just doing my best to get us canceled right off the rip.
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People are going to look at us and be like, total idiots. This guy has the tism
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way too bad. Especially today.
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Ripping it. Today's full rip. Another thing that I'm looking forward to is that
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Delta Waterfowl Expo being in Des Moines this year.
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This is the first time ever it's coming to Des Moines.
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And that's going to be July 24th through the 26th.
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If you are looking for something to do that weekend, it'll be a good time and,
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any product you're looking to look at or get for next time the season will be there.
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For sure. That place is going to be packed full of shit.
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Yeah. It'd be awesome if you could make it down, but I know you raced that Saturday. Yeah.
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But, I mean, it's three days, noon. I think it's noon.
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On Friday, it's noon to six and then every Saturday and Sunday is like nine
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to six or something like that. I could probably to make Sunday?
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I plan on hanging out up there with someone's booth most of the days and walking
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around and we'll have stickers to give away and maybe some other stuff.
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Like what? What kind of other stuff? I don't know yet. I'm still debating on
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something I want to give away.
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Giving away like half-eaten ham sandies or?
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No, I'm thinking about Pokemon cards.
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We should make our own Pokemon cards of Austin and call them Pookie Man cards.
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Pookie Man. Dude.
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Oh. That would be good. I'm about it. Let me, uh, I'll get to work on the Photoshop
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here. We'll, we'll make some.
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Yeah, we'll just start taking random screenshots of him on the podcast too and
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he's making his goofy little faces.
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Or half the Snapchats that we get. Yep. Coming at you soon, Pookie Man cards.
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Coming to a Dollar General near you. Not even that, dog. You gotta get that shit off Timu. Yeah.
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Vivoor. Man, that's the place to go now. Sure. They got a lot of cool shit. They do.
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Man, I was really hoping Pookie would have jumped back in here before we really
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started to get going, but.
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Dude, we've seen his internet. You know, it's going to take him four to seven
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business days to get back in here.
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Yeah. No, it's not doing good.
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Well, the topics this week we're going to talk about are just kind of some fun
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ones, really. We're going to talk about some superstitions that we have while hunting.
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And if you're watching, comment.
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Austin's listening. Any superstitions that you're making. Yeah.
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I'm trying. I'm tired of this, Grandpa.
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Too damn bad. But then we're going to talk about, actually, we're not going
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to talk about, we're going to make some way too early season predictions.
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So that could be fun. Which two, just for the listeners? The one with two O's.
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Go to bed.
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I think you need to go to bed. Nope. I did this on, like, I did whatever is in this Google Doc.
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I did it all on, like, Monday. At work.
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Well, that would have been Tuesday, right? Yeah, Tuesday.
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Yeah, would have been Tuesday. Definitely would have been Tuesday.
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Yeah, the other show was on Monday. Yeah.
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You're right. Maybe I was just blind in the head.
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Fair, fair, fair. I wasn't. Definitely wasn't. We're not that coordinated around
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here. Well, no, because we made the doc after the episode.
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Dude, don't be giving away everything we got going on here.
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They don't need to know. Sure they do. All right. Yeah, no, the people deserve to know.
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All right. Let's just get the obvious superstitions out of the way.
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I think this is everybody's, that Waterfowl Haunts.
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As soon as you start cooking breakfast, between the moment you start cooking
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breakfast to when it's done, there will be a group of ducks come by and probably come in.
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It is a good thing that you're not super anal about having to shoot in every
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group because it seems like legitimately every time you're cooking breakfast,
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it's like we get at least two groups. Yeah.
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I don't know. I'm pretty sure they just hang out downwind and like,
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oh, yeah, they're cooking now.
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Let's go do a flyby. I will say that day we used the, the maple,
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maple sausage. We didn't have any.
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Man, what day was that? The snow day when we were, Austin and I were out fucking
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with decoys. Because it was starting to slush up.
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Yeah, but that was a... That was an exception. Yeah, that was an exception because
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our whole area we were hunting turned to slush.
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And I don't, the ducks just quit coming anywhere near us.
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They said, see you later, nerds. Yeah, so we spent the last two hours of our
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day that day just hanging around. Yep.
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Good times. Good times. Yeah, I'm fucking soaking wet.
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But I'll tell you what. I mean, once breakfast... is done and you
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get that first bite of let's just say a burrito it never fails there's a group
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of ducks that flies by and you're like oh shit somebody call and everybody's
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got a mouthful of food the problem is every single time i eat a snack which
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is often everybody knows i'm a snack.
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Every time tyler's like why aren't you calling i'm like
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dude i have a fucking mouthful of cheese crackers right now i'm not blowing
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that shit michael that happened a lot this year I feel like sitting there ripping
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the call and about ready to pass out and I look over at Cade and he just It
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was always the cheese crackers too every time,
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Snacking scene.
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Another one that didn't really work as well this year for us as it did last
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year, I mean this thing was money the year before ESPN alerts.
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Every time Pookie's bone would go off with one, you had to just start paying
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attention because there was going to be a group of ducks or a group of geese fly by.
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What was our window? Did we say 5 to 15 minutes? Yeah, within the next 5 to 15 minutes every time.
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And like last year, we would shoot him every time.
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Yeah, this year it was like, yeah, you might see them in Omaha, but.
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Boone Speedway. Nowhere near there. Yeah.
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No, I don't know. This year wasn't as good of a year, though,
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in general. We had less birds all year.
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Yeah, for sure. We definitely got fucked more often than not,
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too. I know, depressing.
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Another one that I have wrote down is Every time that I get out of the boat To move a fucking decoy,
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a flock of like 50 of them come in, not just to have single or a pair.
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No, it's a flock of 50 every time. And it's always, especially on the really
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shitty days where like, you need that big group.
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Yeah. And they're, they're just like, look at this fucking weirdo. Yeah. Yeah.
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What's that guy doing out there? He's playing with plastic ducks, but a jackass.
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And then, well, what annoys me is whenever I'm out there and I'm putting,
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I'm moving decoys and then obviously a big group comes by and And nobody shoots.
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Like, well, we were scared of shooting at you. Well, don't shoot straight across.
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Just shoot up. Shoot at them. Not me.
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I'm guilty of not shooting when you're out in the decoys. I don't like playing that game.
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I mean, obviously, I don't like it. I don't like playing dodgeball with BBs either.
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Probably not very good at it. Haven't tried.
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If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. But not saying that if you
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can dodge a ball, you can dodge a BB.
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Yeah, I was going to say, I mean, definitely a BB is a ball.
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Unless you're shooting blindside.
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Yeah, then it's a cube. and you're out there playing dice.
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Unlucky roll you're fucked.
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You lose game over,
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what do you got what are some that you've noticed or the groups that you've
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hunted with through the years have said I don't know it's usually all the same
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shit Pookie added the pink pony club this year gotta play that on the way to
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the boat ramp or you're fucked,
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if you didn't play that and he was riding with you he was even if he didn't
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ride with you he was going to try and fight you when you got to the boat ramp
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if you didn't play it yeah well great we must just go home today it's going to suck,
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Dude loves him some Pink Pony Club. I will say it back when you used to smoke ciggies.
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If you didn't have a ciggy on the boat ride in, cooked.
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You always had to start with one before you left the boat ramp.
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And then I'd get like, I'd take off and I'd have like, I don't know,
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I've smoked a quarter of the cigarette.
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I just throw it out because we're doing 60 mile an hour and I can't inhale it.
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Those were always the coolest things. Like those super dark mornings.
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You just look back and all you see is the the light in this little cherry red
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thing hanging out of Tyler's mouth.
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As we're getting thrown around in the boat like a bing bong.
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Woo! Woo!
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I always liked it whenever nobody was paying attention in the boat and I literally
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would say, are everybody ready?
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Not always would I give them the proper amount of time to really get ready.
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Yeah, but you get one yeah, you're going.
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Yeah, no Somebody would say, yeah, I'm ready. Soon, gone. People are rolling through the boat.
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That boat is terrible with a hangover.
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Yeah, no, it's made some people want to throw up big time in there.
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I always think it's super funny. Like, I'm too nice and I give people a warning,
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but I don't give them a stern warning.
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Like, when I say hang on, I mean hang the fuck on.
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But I'll be like, hey, when he asks if you're ready, you better be hanging on.
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And it's always funny to watch people, like, just two-finger grab,
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like, the edge of the blind. Next thing you know, they're laying clear in the back with Ellie.
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Come crashing through the door like the Kool-Aid man.
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Oh yeah oh no you're gonna fix that fucking wall before my mom comes home.
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Oh shit no like on the lucky cigs when I was younger like in high school we
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used to have to get all around the robo duck that we'd put out and smoke a cigarette
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we called it the lucky smoke,
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Jesus what about the lucky train we forgot about
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the lucky train oh the lucky train dude yeah
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no that made me want to commit suicide a few times when i was a child jesus
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christ not i'm not joking so the lake that i grew up hunting had a railroad
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that went across the middle of the lake and it just so happened that just on
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the north side of those tracks was where all the good waterfowl hunting was,
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well it'd be like 10 o'clock 11 o'clock in the morning and my dad'd be like
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all right well i guess we can get out of here we ain't seen a duck in an hour
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or two and then all of a sudden you'd hear that faint whistle of the train horn.
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Ah, shit. Now we're staying until one every time.
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That's funny. But it did work a lot. I mean, them ducks used to raft up around
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that trestle, and it would go by and just rip the horn and scare ducks up every
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time. It works, it works, bud.
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Hey, no, I mean, you can't argue with science. No. Facts are facts, my guy.
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This has been studied and proven. um,
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Not scientifically proven, but it's been proven. I'm sure there's a scientist that hunted there once.
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Fucking Bill Nye or what? Could have been. Or that lady off of,
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like, wasn't the lady off the magic school bus a scientist?
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Could have been her. Jesus.
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Just let it rip. Trying to think of some more.
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I don't know, like, I won't cut my hair during hunting season until,
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like, we start doing really bad.
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If we start doing real bad, then I'll change it up. I do have another one,
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and it proves true every year.
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Mustache on duck opener, dog.
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Wait, just a mustache? Yes. No, I ain't doing that. Yeah, dude,
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it works. That's why I won't hunt a duck opener then.
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Honestly, like every time that we start having... Duck opener's tradition for
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me. Gotta have a mustache.
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If we start having a really shitty slump, the stache comes back and it always
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pulls us back out of it. I don't know what the hell it is.
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Ducks love it. My wife, not so much. Ducks, they fucking love it.
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Well, I mean, nobody, we're not asking her opinion. We're just asking the ducks
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what they like. Sorry, Maggie.
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Yeah, I know that. My haircuts, mustache. Sometimes, like, if we're on a burner,
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like we're killing limits every day, that same hoodie is not getting washed
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and it's getting worn every day for me.
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I've heard people say that with, like, underwear, and I'm like,
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dude, that's fucking disgusting. No, I change underwear and socks every day.
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That's a real thing. And take a fucking shower, you dirtball. Yeah, yeah.
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I feel like if August is in here, he's definitely an underwear kind of guy.
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Well, yeah, but he probably wears it on his head.
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Cuts the little eye holes out. Hang on, I'm fucking with my eye hole.
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Yeah, I wonder where August is. We haven't seen him comment tonight yet.
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Getting past his bedtime. We're at 730 now. Yeah, but he's usually about halfway
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through the podcast. He's jumping in all of a sudden.
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Yeah, that's true. That's true. Maybe he just takes a little nap and then he wakes up.
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Oh, you know what we forgot? Christmas tree cakes.
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Oh, dude, yeah. But you can't eat them during the hunt.
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It's a fucking reward. It's like having a beer at the boat ramp when you're
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done. Christmas tree cakes are after a banger.
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Yes. Like, when people that don't normally hunt with us come with us and they
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bring Christmas tree cakes and they start trying to, like, hand them out before
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we're done, like, what are you doing? Get those put back out of here.
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Let me tell you something. You want a Christmas tree cake? Absolutely not.
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I have three mallards, not four yet.
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We were really good about it this year legit anytime that we shot our mallards,
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it was as soon as we got back to the boat ramp there you go,
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probably we let it slide and we're like yeah we'll have one in the boat not
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this year well sometimes we would finish early enough though where we'd rip
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them out and everybody would eat one and enjoy one maybe work a group or two
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of birds and take some pictures videos,
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yeah that was not really the case this year. No. No, it was long days almost
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every time. We had a couple banger days, but nothing, nothing like normal.
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Yeah, but then the days that we did get done semi-early, we were like,
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fuck that, let's get out of here.
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Because it was either stupid cold or whatever. Or just straight up tired of seeing the place.
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Yeah. Yeah. I see this place every day. I'll be here tomorrow too.
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You guys got to act the same though. Yeah. Yeah, let's repeat this again to my. Be like, ha ha.
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Another one, another superstition, it's the peanuts. Dude, the peanuts and Sunday football.
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Yep, if it's a Sunday. That combo, that combo slaps. The ducks ain't flying.
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If you break out the peanuts, put the phone up on the rail of the blind where
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you get cell phone service, kick on some football, it's over for them.
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They're just coming in by the flocks.
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That is honestly like the weirdest thing that I've ever seen work,
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What was that, two years ago? Yeah. When it really worked?
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Between that and the ESPN, like those are two of the weirdest fucking things
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that I've ever seen just be so spot on.
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But the peanuts even this year were hard to argue with because,
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I mean, it worked. It worked pretty well.
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I mean, obviously you can't just sit there and eat peanuts all day and think
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you're going to kill ducks nonstop.
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But you bust them out at the right time, boy howdy. Yeah, here they come.
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Tuck in, tuck in. I think the only two times that I had peanuts this year,
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I ended up like when we went to pick up, I still had a stash of like 30 of them
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up on the blind because I didn't have time to eat them. Like a little squirrel. Yeah.
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Oh, we need more ducks. Let me, let me grab a peanut real quick.
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Oh shit. I can't even crack it yet.
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Yeah. Remember this year when we asked Siri, what was, what did we ask Siri?
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We asked Siri how to kill a duck on a no end day and she said the aggressive
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feed chuckle. So we were sitting there being jackasses just...
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Next thing you know.
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Here they come. Oh, he's back! Dude, we got both of them back.
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We got August in the comments, Jimmy Dean breakfast, and we got Mr. Pokey Pants.
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Don't worry. I know you guys miss me.
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Did you catch the Pokemon segment? I was watching the whole thing.
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What are your thoughts on that? Yeah. Dude, I knew it. As soon as that screen
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went black and I saw that rotating circle, I'm like, this is bad for my mental health. I am cooked.
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Did you take that depression medication before we got on? I did. Yes. You're welcome.
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Mark safe from you tonight. Bitch, you thought? Yeah.
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For rip. Now the podcast is getting good. Pookie's here. August is here.
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Even Brett was in the comments here. We're so back. I can't see fucking shit out of this thing.
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Good times. What? So, Pookie, if we have not touched one of your superstitions,
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like not changing underwear, I know you do that one.
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You got any for us? were the same pair for a week straight.
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God, I just knew you stank like a muffo whenever you got in the truck.
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I heard you guys calling out my ESPN alerts already, so.
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We had to, because you left the chat. I know, I get it. I'm not faulting you for it. I understand.
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Someone's got to do it, dude. Got to give the people what they want.
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Yeah, the show must go on. Preferably without me. Oh, dang.
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Why are you so depressed, little guy? No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. Okay.
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Wah, wah, wah. All right, well, here we go.
28:12
We're going to jump into the way, way too early season predictions for next season.
28:19
And who better to kick it off with? Mr. Pookie.
28:23
Perfect. I have a couple, actually. Oh, man. To keep a wild one for the next part.
28:29
Oh, okay. Well, that's fine. I'll do my just boring ones.
28:33
I have a prediction that you are finally like you're going to see that black
28:38
duck early in the season and you're going to get your black duck that has evaded
28:43
you the last couple of years.
28:46
I don't call him. I'm calling bullshit. I don't think that black duck exists.
28:51
I will say two years ago. He was the now you were the only one.
28:57
No, no. You guys, I think you all seen him on that last day. I saw it.
29:02
Pookie probably didn't, because that was the group that he was busy choking
29:05
down a meat stick with. I didn't choke. Oh, yeah. Sorry.
29:11
Yeah, Buddy doesn't choke. He's a professional. No, and I don't really have,
29:16
it's not necessarily a prediction, but on Cade's side, I'd like to put a poll
29:21
out for our listeners and all the people that follow us.
29:24
I want an over under 10 crash outs for Cade before the split.
29:32
Wait before the split yeah like
29:35
within the first seven days of hunting within the first seven days oh that is
29:41
wild depends on how okay well then we can do we can do two poles because we
29:45
can have over under on boat issues
29:48
for the year because those directly correlate into your two crash outs,
29:55
Oh, man. All right. My bad. Look at this guy bringing the smoke all of a sudden.
29:59
Must be nice to just not have to drive the boat or blow calls or... It's amazing.
30:06
It's amazing. Amazing. All I do... Well, he's going to start driving the boat this year.
30:10
Yeah, he doesn't have a choice. I drove the boat plenty last year.
30:14
Well, that's your bitch next year. All right. It's all of you. That's fine.
30:18
Austin's going to take in 20 on the over on that.
30:21
Yeah. that's august not austin but august whatever whatever i can't i can't see out of these things.
30:30
August is a smart man for that yeah there ain't no way dude i had i had like
30:35
two crash outs all year long wrong okay let's not get carried away two the first
30:41
week of goose season like after,
30:45
duck season closed i think you went like three for three on the first three days that we hunted,
30:51
I take that back I did have two on the river Yeah bad I mean I have 32 a year But in a season,
30:58
Yeah those were back to back crash outs too I know I missed both of those ones
31:02
too It's fucking depressing Yeah you missed the fucking broken foot too That
31:07
was fun thanks Dawson Broken foot,
31:11
Yeah you dropped August trailer on my foot Broke the fuck out of it Oh yeah no I did hear about that,
31:18
Yep, August just called me out. He was there for the twice-in-one-day crash-out.
31:23
See, but that's the same day. That doesn't count. Nope, they both count.
31:27
Nope, nope. Same day doesn't count. That's just a bad day. I'm definitely keeping a running tally.
31:33
Just for that, I'm going to crash out every single day and make you hate your life. I hope so.
31:40
What is the number one thing that makes you two crash out the most?
31:44
I'll just put it on you guys. what is that one thing that just pushes you over
31:48
the top, Cade? Cade, you go first, yep.
31:53
It's between, it's hard to pick a top one,
31:57
but it's between dipshits that get there right before shooting time and try
32:03
to set up directly on top of you, like 100 yards on top of you.
32:07
That shit drives me nuts.
32:09
What else pisses me off is the shit that is supposed to be stupid easy that
32:14
just doesn't go right that day, that's when I'm fucking spiraling directly downhill.
32:21
Not good for Cade. I love that. Or anybody around Cade. I mean, I'm not going to lie.
32:27
If I take the over in this bet and we're teetering real close,
32:32
this is why I asked you both these things so I can just kind of maybe push you
32:36
over the edge a little bit.
32:38
He's going to just start unhooking all the lights on boats and breaking pole
32:42
cords and throwing trailers around.
32:46
Checks out. Damn.
32:50
I would say for me people calling that shouldn't be calling,
32:55
like if like I get it we're all out there to have fun right we're all out there
32:59
because we love to do it and we wanna like everybody wants to call it I'm like
33:03
have that self-satisfaction but when it starts ruining everyone in the party's hunt,
33:10
it starts really grinding my
33:12
gears and I'll just nowadays I'll just sit there and stew in it and then,
33:15
until it gets way boiled over and We have a major crash out. Like, it's not good.
33:21
Yeah, the cool thing about that is normally we have two to three pretty good
33:27
callers in the boat and we can typically call over that other person.
33:31
But when they start blowing like a cut down or something and it's like louder than us, I'm like, fuck.
33:37
Yeah, one of these days you're just going to hear them choke on that call because
33:40
I reach over and just shove it down their throat as they're blowing it.
33:43
Better hope you don't try that on Poogie. He'll just fucking...
33:46
Yeah, he'll be talking and duck then.
33:51
That's not a good sign either because I sit right next to him in the boat like it's only me.
33:59
Be scared for my life every time I grab my call next year you know how you hear
34:04
Ellie's teeth chattering when she gets excited in the back of the boat that'll
34:07
be pooky all year except for shaking in his boots,
34:10
his chair is just rattling I'm so fucking scared right now,
34:16
another one for me is when And, you know, people are sitting there like,
34:19
you're working birds, but they're not, they're flaring off of something and
34:22
half the people in the boat can't figure out why they're flaring or when we're in a field.
34:26
And you're just like, you know what it is. And it's them sticking their big
34:30
face directly up into the sun at them. And they're like, I don't know why they're not finishing.
34:36
No, no, me fucking neither. Like, I have no idea. That's wild.
34:40
That is another thing. That's another thing too, which a lot of us are really
34:44
good about it, but we still have those couple exceptions that don't even think about it.
34:49
But like eyeglasses or like really bright, like the blue lens sunglasses,
34:57
I don't care if you have them, but you got to hide them.
35:00
Like you can't be up fucking rubber neck and looking around.
35:04
That shit drives me nuts.
35:06
No. Yeah. Or like, I don't know. I know you guys don't always wear hats necessarily
35:11
out hunting, but if you're like, For me, I always wear a hat when I'm hunting
35:15
just because I like to peek out the bottom of that brim of my hat.
35:20
Yeah, dog, I always wear a hat. Remember that day I didn't have it in the morning
35:23
and I was all discombobulated.
35:26
Yeah, yeah. God, that was fucking terrible. If you're working birds and you're
35:31
calling, it's almost required to really have one because in that boat,
35:35
you put your face right up against that front bar.
35:38
And they can see the hole, obviously,
35:41
because you can't completely conceal that, but you hide yourself.
35:45
That's what I like about the front of the boat, too. I can get underneath that front panel.
35:51
Then I'm like in the black hole they can't really see me but like when people
35:55
just poke their head up and they're like where's the books at sit down stupid,
36:00
I used to have a guy that hunted with me that had big glasses and he would just always be.
36:08
I'm gonna have to watch it this year I got summoned to wear them all the time,
36:12
you got summoned I'm gonna have to watch my my face hole you need to get some
36:17
contacts dog I can't wear them. My eyes are too dry.
36:21
Get the moist ones. I also work in dirt, bruh.
36:26
So? You work in a cab all day. No, I don't. You do.
36:33
If Buddy saw a shovel, he'd be like, fuck, I'm out of here. Cade,
36:37
scoop the dirt. Cade, throw the dirt. Fuck, here we go.
36:43
Well, I hate it here. I hate it here. No, you don't. I'm done. I quit.
36:47
All right. So, your prediction was that I'm going to kill a black duck early
36:51
in the year, and Cade is going to crash out early?
36:57
So, all right, then, what...
37:00
It's a little different take. So for my prediction, I think on the first hunt
37:07
of the year, not like the first week of season because that don't count for
37:10
me, but like the first hunt in November, we kill a band on the first hunt.
37:16
Somebody in the group is going to kill a band. You better hope I don't go.
37:22
Our little fan whore. Don't invite Cade for the first hunt of the season.
37:27
Well, if you don't, you're not going to kill a band. You already know.
37:29
No, we're going to. No, it's fine. You already know that.
37:32
Hey, if you truly think that that's going to happen, wait until they get 10
37:37
feet away, then call the shot.
37:38
Cade won't hit it. Oh, that's true.
37:41
Bullshit. You motherfuckers watched me wreck that goose at 5 feet that Daniel missed. Yes. I'm good.
37:47
That thing got whacked. That extra full choke was not quite the one for that goose. No.
37:55
Yeah, that's not good.
37:58
It'll buff. I'm not gonna lie if Cade's the one that shoots the band I'm drowning
38:03
him I'm just gonna put that out there your waiters are gonna be full of water,
38:08
I honestly hope it's Austin cause I mean you haven't shot a band yet right?
38:14
No never I think that'd be cool I've seen you guys kill a couple the day that
38:20
he had a shot to shoot a band he had to leave really mhm.
38:24
To take his wife to the airport. I'll never forget that. I know, yeah. Poor guy.
38:30
Yeah, I talked to him on his way back after you sent us all the picture of that,
38:34
and he was just depressed.
38:36
Fuck. I knew it, too. Like, we were, like, just outside of Carlisle,
38:40
and I get, I think it was a snap, actually, and I got the snap,
38:44
and I turned, looked at my wife.
38:46
I was like, I don't even want to fucking open this.
38:50
Then he opens it. I don't even want to see you no more. Go to your trip and don't come back. Yeah.
38:57
Oh shit Alright Cade what's your prediction here What's one of them Not the wild one,
39:04
I don't really... You guys kind of took mine, but... You didn't take my wild
39:09
one. My wild one's out there.
39:12
Not really a prediction, but, like, if we get the water that we had,
39:20
like, our full duck season pool,
39:25
early, like, early...
39:27
Like beginning of November? Yes.
39:30
Instead of, like, middle to end? yes we could absolutely fucking
39:34
wreck some ducks and that would be fine
39:37
with me really you want to wreck them yes
39:42
that's wild that'd be sweet i mean when was the last time we had water like
39:48
for over half of the season yeah and what drives me nuts is like last year we
39:53
had oh my god water and then like the first week of october they said fuck you
39:59
and your water No, dude, that's two years in a row.
40:02
Like, the year before that, we were flooded all the way until July.
40:05
Yeah. It's like, oh, we drain it now. Bye-bye.
40:10
Oh, I'll never understand that. Freaking Corps of Engineers. Gotta love them. Yeah.
40:17
All right, we'll just stick with Cade, since you're fresh in the list here. Wild take. Go.
40:23
I'm going to piggyback off the having water early. It's going to be a wet summer.
40:28
It's going to be a wet fall.
40:30
We're going to have water in places that we don't normally have water.
40:34
We're going to have to say, fuck the boats and start walking in to shoot the
40:38
ducks. Cause they're going to get stale as fuck right off the rip.
40:41
Like they always do rest in peace to our legs.
40:44
It's happening. You can walk in, but I'll just get there.
40:50
Just put that bitch on plane and let it fly. Yeah. You'll see me jumping levees
40:54
and stuff. I'll be there.
40:58
You're just going to get, honestly, that would be the time for the Argo.
41:03
If that happens, we'll find one on Marketplace. It'll happen.
41:08
Those are pretty expensive. That's all right. You're rich. No,
41:10
I'm not. Doug, I am not rich.
41:14
We were just talking to your dad. They're not that expensive.
41:16
Yeah, I know. He actually did say they were cheaper than we thought.
41:19
I shouldn't say them. I don't know what he said they were, but they were definitely
41:23
cheaper than we anticipated.
41:26
I shouldn't say we just talked to him. That was two months ago.
41:31
Time flies. Actually, I think that was longer than that because that was,
41:34
I think, during duck season.
41:37
And duck season's been over for three months now almost. It was in goose season
41:41
because it was right before you went back to work.
41:44
Which time? I've gone back to work like 17 times during hunting season.
41:48
It was right before goose wars. Yeah, right.
41:51
I remember. I remember talking to him, but I don't remember when it was for sure.
41:55
I remember Kashaki called you and asked you when the fuck you were coming back
41:57
to work. Yeah, but he calls me all the freaking time.
42:02
That could be any given day, any given hour. I hope he listens to the podcast.
42:07
He does. He listened to last week's podcast.
42:10
Hell yeah. His number's getting blocked next year during hunting the season, by the way.
42:17
All right, Austin. You were all pumped about your wild take.
42:22
Send it. No, I wasn't really pumped. I just think that maybe a net caller in
42:29
the group. You son of a bitch, I'm in.
42:33
That would be so sick. Yeah. It'll probably be a swan, though. Oh, God.
42:43
If Brett's still in the chat, hold on it. We'll be in North Dakota when we kill the swan.
42:47
It's legal there. Or South Dakota, whatever. I was going to say,
42:50
so we're going back to North Dakota.
42:53
Yeah. Cade's also like, oh my God, they're going to kill a swan in Iowa.
42:56
Like, no, dude, that's illegal.
43:00
That was just a bold statement from a guy that lives in Iowa.
43:07
With no background on it. Throw in the wrench. Better start buttering my wife up for another trip.
43:15
Yeah. Good luck with that. RIP to your trips now, boy. Mm-hmm.
43:20
Yeah. Cooked. Sorry. Roasted.
43:24
Hmm. I've been thinking of a wild take, and I'm just terrible at that.
43:30
But if we're going to go on a wild one, we're going to go out there and say
43:34
that we don't have to take a trip this year because we end up having a year
43:39
like the year before, and we hold just a ton of birds. I don't know if the water will be high.
43:44
I mean, that'd be sick if it was, but the way the weather's kind of lining up
43:47
this year, it looks like it's going to be dry again.
43:51
Quiet down, please. Quiet down. just saying but I think we're gonna have an
43:57
incredible year where we can go out there and pretty much kill a limit of ducks every time we go,
44:02
that would be sick if not we'll find a fucking way I'll go sit right in the
44:06
middle of the lake I don't give a shit.
44:09
August had a comment earlier I've been kind of waiting to pull up until we were
44:11
done with those he said what about migration predictions early year or last
44:16
three days of season will be the best,
44:19
probably last three days like usual yeah it's always the last three days what's
44:24
even better is like the 50 days after that,
44:28
it would be yeah would be.
44:31
It's just been a going thing. I mean, they got up pretty close this year,
44:34
though. We got lucky this year.
44:35
Yeah, they did. Because we did freeze out pretty hard pretty much until about
44:38
Christmas one night. Yeah.
44:41
Actually, it was after Christmas because we were, when I came home,
44:44
I think goose season had opened back up like the 22nd or something like that.
44:48
And I had to break some real thick ice to get out there.
44:52
Yeah. That shit was weird.
44:55
Yeah, that sucked. The ice this year was crazy.
45:00
It was really weird spots, too, I feel like. Normally the spots that aren't
45:04
that thick, it was fucking eight inches thick.
45:08
It was definitely a different year out of the normal for where the ice piled up at.
45:14
Yeah, that shit was terrible.
45:17
I mean, obviously, if you're going off my wild take, obviously we're going to
45:21
have a really good migration throughout the whole year.
45:25
But if I'm being realistic, It's probably going to be like that second to third
45:31
week in November When it starts getting good And it just gets better from there
45:35
Until we close season And we can sit there and watch them all Tornado in all the cornfields Yep,
45:42
Sounds about right Yep.
45:46
I hate that It's terrible Oh Trent said earlier that he always keeps extra hats
45:52
in the blind For when everybody's pie facing,
45:55
that would be just start throwing hats down the boat like a frisbee yeah this
46:02
one's definitely got lice oh man that's fucked up.
46:07
Fucked up fucked up,
46:10
Yeah. What else we got here? What else we want to discuss?
46:14
When everybody go at once. Easy now. Careful. When do you think we're going
46:18
to freeze out this year? Man, I don't know.
46:22
I thought this year we were going to have a pretty snowy and cold year.
46:26
Honestly, by the way, the summer trended, because it wasn't a hot summer.
46:29
Yeah. I mean, we got hot, but it didn't get hot for a sustained period of time.
46:33
No, it was only hot for like a week.
46:35
Yeah. And we were fairly wet all year, so I'm like, oh yeah,
46:38
we're going to have a cold, snowy winter. It's going to be awesome. We did not have that.
46:43
It got cold. I mean, I'll say that it got cold for the month of December was cold.
46:48
And then like what the first, I guess most of January, maybe.
46:52
Yeah. Most of January for sure.
46:55
Yeah. And we're now we're kind of in a weird spot in February here where we're
46:58
hitting 65, 70 degrees and snow geese are migrating through like what, what the heck?
47:03
It's that fall spring, bud. also speaking of
47:06
snow geese saw some people absolutely wrecking the
47:10
white hoodies love to see it yeah no that
47:13
was awesome down in arkansas by mississippi and
47:17
old brockmeyer mr zb kitchens was just down in arkansas repping it so that was
47:22
pretty cool this morning was the first first day i've seen snows moving through
47:28
and i walked out on the back deck to let the dogs out and i could straight up in the air.
47:35
I'm like, oh man, those things are high.
47:39
Cruising on through. That's what happens when you go out of your house.
47:42
You'll actually see geese flying by. I try not to.
47:46
It's not hunting season. Do you stay inside the rest of the year? Son, bad. Not my friend.
47:55
That's what your sunscreens do on your table. Eat.
47:59
I wish I would have gotten a video of it, but it was fucking hilarious this morning.
48:05
It was like the sun was just creeping up behind this house, and these two geese
48:10
landed right on top of the house in West Des Moines. It was honestly fucking sick.
48:16
That would have been like a badass picture. That always cracks me up when you're
48:21
driving through town, like Des
48:22
Moines or whatever, and you just see geese standing on roofs everywhere.
48:25
It's like, what are you guys doing? Aren't you afraid of heights?
48:30
I'm safe here. I don't leave. No, you don't have to jump. Yeah.
48:36
That would make a good TikTok. Oh, look, he's flying.
48:40
August said he predicts hundreds of flooded cornfields. What a freaking nerd. That's a hot take.
48:46
Yeah. Yeah.
48:51
Well, if you're listening live here, if you have any questions you want to throw
48:56
out there or, like I said, superstitions or maybe even your own early season
49:01
predictions are out there, now's the time. We're getting right in this bitch.
49:06
Bye.
49:09
Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Yeah. I haven't seen any
49:13
snow geese come through up here yet, though.
49:15
But we're, I mean, they're still ice fishing up here.
49:18
Oh, yeah. I definitely would not be ice fishing down here.
49:22
I honestly wouldn't be ice fishing here. Like, the look of the ice does not look good out there.
49:28
Dog, I'm telling you right now, I'm not ice fishing any fucking time.
49:33
That shit would crack one time and I'd be like, fucking see you later.
49:37
Nope. Be spinning out on the ice trying to get out of there.
49:42
Like a little fucking road runner.
49:47
August said there's none in central South Dakota. Nope, but I've heard reports
49:51
that are in southern South Dakota already. Staging.
49:54
I mean, I don't think there's any snow on the ground. Like anywhere right now.
49:58
I was going to say not anywhere in the Midwest.
50:01
Yeah. As soon as these lakes keep thawing, they're just going to keep blowing north.
50:06
It's going to go quick, unless we get a massive snowstorm, which we're getting
50:11
a little bit later in the year for that.
50:13
Yeah, it's going to be rain now.
50:16
I don't know. I feel like the past couple years, we have gotten snow on or right around Easter.
50:22
Yeah, that's fair. I mean, that's been the going thing, I think,
50:26
for two or three years now. I feel like it's, I'm not talking like we got a
50:29
foot of snow, but it's, I think it's snowed around that timeframe.
50:34
Yeah. Cause people always have their plants all planted in the garden.
50:38
They're like, oh shit. Yeah.
50:42
Have you not heard the saying April showers bring Mayflowers?
50:47
I didn't know that was real.
50:51
Before we close it out, though, I will remind everybody, since I was going to
50:55
mention this at the end anyways, before Cade brought it up beginning,
50:58
next week, we do have a special guest from Woody Creek Taxidermy, Mr.
51:03
Brett Henderson. Definitely look forward to having him on.
51:06
That should bring some prime entertainment.
51:10
Ooh. Chris brings up a good point. Lucky decoys.
51:14
Dude, how do we not even think of that? Kevin, what did we name the blue bill?
51:20
I don't know. You named him. Yeah. Did I name him Billy or something?
51:24
It was something with a B.
51:25
I don't know. It could have been Billy, but I don't remember.
51:30
We have one that's for sure a lucky decoy that we try to throw out every time we go. Yeah.
51:37
I think Kevin made an appearance like almost every time.
51:43
Yeah, dude. Kevin has to make an appearance. Yeah. But we have one in the boat too.
51:47
Yeah, if we don't throw Kevin in the field, Kevin destroys the trailer when
51:51
we close the door. Just throwing a fit.
51:54
Yeah, no, he's not. He's not taking it. He don't take no shit from no one.
51:58
You want to talk about a crash out?
52:03
Everything on the shelves? Gone.
52:07
Goddamn it. Now I got to think about what I named that Bluebill.
52:10
That's going to piss me off.
52:12
I don't know. We need to get a group photo with Kevin, though.
52:14
He's been OG for a while now.
52:17
I do love how like every single time we set him out
52:19
he's always like front and center and he's always right and right at us right
52:24
in front of the blinds just staring right at us what y'all doing yeah you got
52:29
any caring over there yeah with no water no agua all right though i think that
52:36
about does it for this week's episode uh,
52:40
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