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What I'm hunting in South Africa | The bow I'm bringing · The Bow Disciples Podcast

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So, Miss Brianna? Yeah.
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I see you got a cheese Danish you're eating on the pod.
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How is it? Oh, delicious.
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OK, he wants it as well. Oh, he this dog, if, if we
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enabled him, he would be very, very heavy.
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Oh yeah. This guy, never.
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He never gets full. Never.
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Literally never. I think you could put a 20 LB
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dog bag of food open on the floor and I bet he would eat at
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least 1/4 of it in one go. He would just keep eating and
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eating and eating. Then he might go lay down a
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little bit and cruise back by and nibble a little more.
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Oh yeah. Yeah.
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He's just dead, staring at my He's trying to adjust so he can
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get a better look at it right now.
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Not happening. He's a good boy.
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Yes, you are. Your breast smells right now.
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So I think, you know, your dad told me to look inside his
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mouth. He does have, you know, a red
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kind of inflamed hard spot in there again.
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But it's like on his lip, I think.
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I think truly they are bites and then those bites get infected,
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you know, like like any bite does on a human.
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And then it takes time for it to heal and then it goes away and
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then his breath gets better. You know, sure at some point he
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could for sure use a teeth cleaning.
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What's your you eating on the pod is insane.
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It's insane. But you're at least chewing very
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quietly today, so that's good. Today.
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Today, Yeah. So what is your one to 10
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rating? My good buddy outdoors with
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Travis, who works with Elands River Safari that I'm going to
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be with, I'm going to be with when this podcast comes out,
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I'll be with him at that time. He asked a question.
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He said, you know, what is Brianna's one to 10 rating of
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your haircut? And I said, well, probably
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pretty high. So what, what do you think?
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What's what's your rating of this luscious flow of this good
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looking chiseled guy? When it's styled, which it is
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not, I don't care what you claim right now, it is not.
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When it's styled, it's not bad. It's like a haircut you know,
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that some people enjoy like yourself.
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So you know then I might give it like a 6.1, OK.
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That's not too bad. If it were to grow out, I think,
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you know, it's just interesting because I've, I've only seen
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pictures of your hair like a little like Bieber longer when
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you were younger. The bowl cut look.
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Yeah, and your hair is like mine.
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It's like pins straight, you know, And it's fine.
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You've got a lot of it. But it's fine, which means, you
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know, like not coarse or thick or dense.
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I do have kind of, yeah, very fine hair I would agree with.
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That so I'm just interested to see how it looks even more grown
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out than your Bieber stage. I do think it'll.
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Be two pins straight to like. Do things with.
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I don't know. So what's your one to 10 rating?
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Then maybe it'll be like A7. What about right now?
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Right now it's like a four. A4.
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It's like parted down the middle.
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It looks ridiculous. I think, I think honestly where
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it'll get the best is red ferrin.
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Like once it gets to about red ferrin length, like I think
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it'll look like his because he got straight hair too.
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So yeah, I'm excited. I don't know how long we'll grow
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it, but I don't plan to cut it anytime soon.
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Other. Than well, I mean to get that
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length, you're talking at least two to three years.
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Yeah, I don't know that I'll do that, but I could see myself
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doing like another solid year running it and just kind of go
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with the flow. The, the, the coin phrase is 1/2
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an inch a month, which is more probably like for women, they
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say probably like 1/4 inch because you fry your hair,
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you're putting an iron through it, you're blowing it with heat
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the hair, dry it and whatnot. You know, for healthy hair,
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which I mean for men who you know, you're not doing much to
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it, probably 1/2 an inch a month maybe.
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So you got to think that's only 6 inches in a year.
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That's a lot. I mean 6 inches would be like to
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here in the back. In the back, yeah, it'd be fair.
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Which is all I need. The top.
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I don't really care much about the length, it's more the back.
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But the back of my hair does grow slower than the top, which
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is interesting. I feel like most guys are the
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opposite. They start to lose it here and
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get that George Costanza. Thankfully balding is not really
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in my genetics at all, so I'm happy about that.
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I don't think I'll really probably.
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Bald Have you had any bald family members or balding family
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members? Both my grandpa's on both sides
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of the family had full heads of hair.
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Your brother surely is not. My brother does, my dad he.
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Could donate. Hair to me dad does they say it
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comes from your mom's side of the family, but my mom's dad, he
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wasn't really balding at all and he lived till over 90 he wasn't
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balding so. Luckily I have also like you
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very fine hair but if it comes from my mom's family side of the
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family I'm I'm good to go. My grandpa had like long white
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like biker hair for a long time and like would wear a top hat
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for fun. Oh yeah, the top hats a crazy
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look. I mean, I'll be honest.
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He was a biker, so it was like. If, if I'm, if I'm.
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For them. If I'm being honest, if I'm just
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being honest with everybody in here, I think that top hats,
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fedoras, you probably couldn't find a picture of me in a fedora
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if you dug real hard, but. Oh God.
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But top hats, fedoras and those golfer caps that Bryson
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Dechambeau used to? Wear I saw Chuck put one on for
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being in England. It is one of his.
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Pictures. They're trash.
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All those hats are trash. I don't even know who wears a
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top hat anymore other than as like a comedic thing.
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The only guy I can think of that wears 1 is that old dude at Red
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Wing who sings. Doesn't he wear a top hat?
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Yeah, he does. He wears like a fedora.
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A fedora OK. Contacts are are Selena.
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Yeah, I know what a top hat is. They're like that Walter White
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hat, A little more of the Black Hat he wore.
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He lost her white. From Breaking Bad bro.
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Oh my God, can you finish this bite?
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I'm going to set up the next segment while you finish.
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This bite, What hat did Walter White?
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Wear well, he wore one that was like a a round brim Black Hat.
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It was it was a sick hat. That's hat, yes, that's.
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Kind of, yeah. But a top hat is taller, yeah.
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But that's. That's it.
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Doesn't have that indentation in the top there.
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That was like his signature. Hat gotcha.
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God, that thing's hideous. Also, so is Walter White.
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That's I'm not a fan. That's not Walter White right
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there. But it's not OK, you know,
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here's here's some questions. Where Where do we write my hair?
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We rated yours. Your hair is good.
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I mean, I cut it. I think I did a pretty good job.
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Tegan cut it some too, as a group effort is a social group
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thing. But I think it looks good.
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I know how you are. And in about two months you'll
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put extensions in there because it's not as long as you want.
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And it then it just goes back and forth and I've learned.
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To no no, we're so we're you know, we're where it's healthier
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than it's been in years and years and years.
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Thanks to, you know, Becky, Josh's girlfriend for hooking me
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up with some products. But we're going to keep, you
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know, applying little heat to it, growing it out, getting that
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natural color you see up here along with the silvers, you
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know, to to grow in and then let.
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Me try this coffee let me just. Oh boy.
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So good. That was like an improv on the.
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OG we should talk a little bit about TikTok right?
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Tik Tok's been kind of a new thing for for the program.
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Shout out to Botox Mr. TikTok lives.
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TikTok live Well, I've always posted yeah, but doing these
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lives is new and I think they've been a heck of a lot of fun.
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I mean last night we ripped one for like 3 hours.
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That was very long. That had it started as me,
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Scotty and your sister took your sister a little while to get the
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bike warmed up. Oh yeah.
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And then she. Started.
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It was so only lightly warmed. She started, well, she started
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to get it warmed up and then we surprised her by having Paige
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drop in, who's like her hero in archery, you know, that shell
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shock. And then she got quieter.
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So it didn't really work how I anticipated.
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And then Josh, MFJJ pops in. So she's just.
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Surrounded, like the first time I'd ever seen him or a video of
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him, I was like, who is this? It was watching.
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She pulled up a video of him doing her beau review when I was
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down in Florida at her house. So, like, she's watched him, you
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know, longer than I have. Yeah.
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And so I think she just got hit with a lot of stardom.
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Yeah. Last night.
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If you. Could, yeah, it kind of kind of
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made her, you know, shell up a little bit, I think.
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But well, I think the lives have been fun.
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I think that TikTok is a pretty smooth live experience like I
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think. Other than if you can figure out
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the screen thing, yeah, leaving those, there's got to be a way
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to do it. But you got to like almost turn
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on alive and like fuck with it to to get it right.
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Yeah, but you got to get rid of those request boxes somehow, you
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know, because you can't quite like focus on all the people in
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the live other than if there's just two of you.
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I agree with. That it's.
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Too many. Like if you could have, like
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you're gonna knock that coffee over if you could have.
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My feet aren't that long. Don't give me too much credit
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for being tall. Well, if you could have all four
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people the same size, yeah, at the same time, 4 quadrants like
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that would be really nice. But I think it's pretty smooth.
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I really like the tips. They're kind of fun.
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And obviously they make a little money, which is cool too.
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But it's just a different platform.
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And I always say that as someone who relies largely on content
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for my, my profession or, you know, monetary gain, you know,
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it. I think it's really important to
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try to grow all your platforms just in case because it's so
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possible that one gets hacked or something happens and you lose
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it, which would suck, but it would suck even worse if that
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was your only 1. So for me, if I lost, say the
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YouTube, that would be that would really, really suck.
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But I can regrow faster because I have the other platforms built
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up, Facebook, TikTok, you know, Instagram, things like that or
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vice versa. So.
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Well, and I think. I think it's important not to
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have all your eggs in one basket.
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Correct. And now we, we differ on this
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just because you're the sole editor of video content.
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And so in your opinion, you know, you either take the same
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short or real or whatever and you put it on all three
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platforms. You know, YouTube shorts,
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Instagram reels and TikTok are the TikTok is called just
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TikTok. So they called TikTok shorts or
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just TikTok just Tik Toks. In my personal opinion, if
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you're new to social media, not new to social media, but new to
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being a content creator, I suppose my personal opinion is
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to experiment because every, yeah, every platform is
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different than without a doubt. And the type of people that view
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content on each platform are different.
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Their age groups are different. The type of content that they're
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looking to watch is different. And so to me, I don't think the
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same, you know, cut and paste should be on all three because
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what if you have a personality that blossoms more with and
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relates more to Instagram viewers than to TikTok viewers
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or vice versa? You know, what if you're this
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really charismatic, like you are person, but like, that's only
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like bits and pieces of what's going on TikTok.
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When like so much more of your TikTok could be like the funny
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stuff, the games, the jokes, the skits, the memes, the, you know,
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all the bad shots, whatever the funny phrases and jokes.
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Like that stuff to me screams TikTok.
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So to me, if you were granted, I can't say because I'm not the
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video editor and I don't want to be.
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I literally want to throw the phone across the room when they
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try to use splice and then it keeps yelling at me like you
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need premium. I'm like, well, I don't want to
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buy it, but I would experiment with, you know, the type of
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content you're posting on each one.
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I mean, that's what Ashley's been doing, you know, because
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she's been pushing it pretty hard and she's seen the best
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success thus far on TikTok. But you're going to get the
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comments are going to roast. You about vaping, I don't give
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a. Shit.
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Oh yeah. But.
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You only have one life to live. You'll low.
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Oh. My God.
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But but she's seen the best results on TikTok and see what
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she's been doing is she's like, yeah, you know, I'm trying to
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kind of put little make the stuff for Instagram a little bit
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different to see if that works with the different audience.
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So I'm interested to see the results because.
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Obviously my. Approach is pretty much paced
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everywhere you know aside. 1111 Make a wish.
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OK everyone, even though you might be watching this at 2:00
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in the morning, I do also wonder if that could be a little bit to
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do with the, I almost think a downward trend in that and I
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have to research this. I haven't researched this at
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all. So I could be talking out my ass
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right now, but a downward trend in the usage of Instagram via
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TikTok, just kind of kind of like on a celebrity post a naked
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picture. And you know, that shit happens
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on purpose because they're not, you know, on the magazine covers
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as much as they've wanted to be. So like they need something
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viral to happen in their career. TikTok essentially just had that
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with the election with TikTok being shut down in the US for 24
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hours and then boom, all of a sudden it's back.
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And like, you know, the the memes and the snap screenshots
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of like what it said and everything going viral
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throughout all social media platforms.
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It kind of got like a little viral boots on top of the fact.
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Yeah, that was big. That Instagram lately though I
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will say TikTok is asked for hunters like you can't post your
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your dead animals whereas you can somewhat get away with it on
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Instagram. But Instagram has been hitting a
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lot of AI walls. Lately, I haven't in a while.
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Which is good, Hopefully it's getting fixed, but I think
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ticked or Instagram was going through a bit of an issue over
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the past few months that was probably pushing a lot of people
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away from it, either to TikTok or to the new.
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Borax. Yeah, yeah.
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So that may have something to do with it a little.
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Bit well, here's here's my theory why Ashley probably is
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doing better on TikTok than Instagram and I could be
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completely wrong. But on Instagram, you know,
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that's the platform, you know that people our age have really
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SAT with the longest. So people have probably followed
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her, her friends that have known her a long time on no on
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Instagram. Oh yeah, as I say, Instagram.
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Instagram, I mean, but my point is like on Instagram, you know,
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her following has probably been there a long time and they're
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friends that know her and we're used to like whatever her normal
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content was. Then when she's trying to really
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only push for the most part running content, her friends
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might be like Oh my God, like I don't want to see this, you know
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what I'm saying? Whereas on TikTok she had no
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audience. So the audience she's building
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engages. With are engaged running
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followers. Exactly.
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So I think that I think that may be part of it as well, but I
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think both could be valid. Also, how good does that bow
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look over there? I will say, you know, I am
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always a fan of my new camouflage, but the black is, I
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think, the way to go when like, you know, all accessories come
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in black. It's just clean.
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Everything is black. Like you might as well put black
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fletches on it and you can probably like blend in and
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anything, but you'd never find your.
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Yeah, that's the problem I think.
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It looks so sick though. It does.
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It does. And like when I built that bow
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or had it built up, I was like, Oh my gosh, this thing is so
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sick. Especially what really drove it
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home for me was getting the stabilizer on and the quiver set
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properly because I think quiver set for me is really big on
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aesthetics of a bow. Like how your quiver, you know,
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sits flush in the bow, like as far as tight under it, you know,
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side to side, as well as how it looks from the side, like front
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to back. I think is like can make or
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break the aesthetics of a bow. And to me I think that's nailed.
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Like I think that looks perfect. Yeah.
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But I think like more so that just like as best as you can get
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with a quiver, that's the closest you can get to center
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alignment of your weight, you know?
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Yeah, it's gross. I mean it's.
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You can't get any closer without.
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Yeah, without starting to touch strings and stuff, that would be
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super crazy with all white strings because your white
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fletches, but those would be dirty in about .5 seconds.
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I. Feel like we got to kind of pull
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it in here, and now I know where to make my cut as well.
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You bastard. Yeah.
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I mean, just look at this thing. It's friggin so pretty.
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I mean, and what I like too is I got the white veins.
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What do you think? Like all white.
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But look, then I got the white ring around the site and the
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white tape, so there's just like a little bit of touch.
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What do you think? It'd be crazy with all white
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strings though, just like the all white fletches.
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But then also like just little tiny details.
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I also got the hints of orange. I got the orange knocks.
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I got the orange nose button, the orange peep tuner.
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Like this bow is definitely just really well thought out
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aesthetically and looks wise. Like it's a good freaking
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looking bow. So this is the one.
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It weighs like nothing. It weighs 5.9 lbs.
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Yeah, ready to hunt. This is the bow.
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Of course, I'm taking over to South Africa tomorrow, so.
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Now what is this drop down to 25 inches in draw length?
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25 to 30, I believe, yeah. Yeah.
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So this would be the majority of females could shoot this bow. 25
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to 30 inches on this bow yeah. And then of course it's got the
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magnesium riser with the rare earth metals.
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I don't I wish I kind of want to know more about those it's got
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time lock, of course, deadlock grip lock.
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So it's got all the tech of the other bows, but it's got that
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different metal. So it's.
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Louder side note, why does everybody like you know, I think
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people just need to start treating me like because I'm
19:24
with you, I need these things like I I always get the like
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basic bitch 1. You know, the little foam piece.
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I want this thing. The rubber.
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One, yeah. This comes with this comes with
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the ripcord ratchet. So the one you have is what
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comes on the ham Ski I. Believe and this comes with the
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Ratchet to step up their game then.
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Josh did say when we built this bow that he likes the he likes
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the pad for the ratchet the best.
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Yeah, for sure. It's definitely flatter.
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The rubber is more, Yeah, it's more rubber.
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It's not foam, you know, I think it's more sturdy than the the
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little foam one and it's I think wider.
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Generally. You're not these off.
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That's OK. They're a tool.
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But yeah, so the only thing I would change on this bow, I
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would change nothing aesthetically for now.
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Like I think it looks really good.
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I do prefer the smaller pin. This is the .19 and the second
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one is a .10 which I do. I do like that at least one is
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what I like, but that pin just for shoots and stuff is a little
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big for me. But for hunting I don't mind the
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bigger pin at all. So for hunting it'll be good
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because you just need a place in the and the tape is freaking
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money When I checked out the tape so.
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And it does. It's so crazy how smooth they
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run in the beginning. But I will say the one thing I
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never liked about my Black Gold vice, my Ultra view is how
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quickly it started stopping up as dirt and stuff build, dust
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builds up in there. Those I think got harder to move
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faster for sure than my ultra view.
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Yeah, but still, like I never other than that, I never
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disliked anything about the Black gold sites.
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I think they're phenomenal. Definitely brighter, you know.
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Oh, they got the brightest pins for sure.
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I really like black gold sites. I mean, I like that they're a
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reasonable price. They're one of the cheaper sites
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and they're very, for the most part, durable.
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I do agree over time the dial gets kind of tough and then
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it'll strip. But I think if they revamp the
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site, like they haven't really been revamped in a long, long
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time. If they did one redo and just
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fixed a couple of the issues and maybe just changed a few of the
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aesthetics, it's such a freaking good site and I think it just
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with a couple tweaks it could be even better.
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Well, and I wish they would so I could mount mine, you know, with
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the the what? I have the center mass thing
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now, don't I? Or.
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No. Center Mass, Yeah.
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Yeah, and I can't because the ultra view doesn't go through
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it. But yeah, shout out to Bow Tech
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and and and the Virtue. I really like the virtue.
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Also, my buddy Brandon McDonald said he's gonna run it this
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year. The virtue, yeah.
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So he sounded like that was debated last.
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Night no, he he text me and told me he was going to so this is
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the bow he's gonna shoot. He said he wanted a year off of
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our of Matthews. He shot Matthews a long time.
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So he's going to give this one a try, which for him he's a tall
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sum bitch. So for him this is. 32's going
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to be tiny for him. 32 it was feel.
22:29
Like it's tiny. It's not tiny. 32 is not a short
22:32
bow, no at all. It's pretty.
22:34
Average. I would say it's probably your
22:36
average runned bow. I would say 30 is probably.
22:40
Your you think so? Yeah.
22:42
I just have you count male and female.
22:45
Most men run like 30s. Really.
22:47
I would think they'd run 32. I don't even like a 30.
22:50
You're you've been on the West Coast too long.
22:53
I think it's what happened. Yeah.
22:55
Oh yeah, people out east run tiny bows a lot of time.
22:58
That's true if you're accounting for the entire US.
23:01
Yeah, got their little bows and their little tree stands.
23:05
Sometimes that's fun. I love tree stand hunting, I
23:08
really do. Yeah, me too.
23:10
It's. Nice and a pleasant day and you
23:12
watch the birds and the squirrels and the Bunny.
23:14
The squirrels are the worst. Sometimes I wish I like could
23:17
bring like an extra quiver up in my true stand with blunt tips
23:21
just to like, shoot squirrels in my off time when nothing's
23:25
coming in, You know, collect the squirrel.
23:28
Make some squirrel Stewarts. You got any good subjects you
23:32
want to toss in here that you want to chit chat about?
23:37
What are you thinking? Oh, I did have one, it was just
23:40
out of randomness. I thought about it on my way to
23:43
get groceries yesterday. This is completely off topic, so
23:46
if you were loving the archery topic, you know, skip forward in
23:49
the video. But I think this is a good one.
23:52
So did you guys ever do this out East back when I was younger,
23:58
like as a kid, young kid, middle-aged kid, when you went
24:04
to the grocery store? Yeah.
24:06
There's always like your your checker, you know, who's
24:09
scanning your stuff and your bagger.
24:10
Yeah. And it was almost like when you
24:13
go to like, bases, like grocery stores, commissaries, like,
24:17
they're like eager to take your groceries out for you because
24:20
they do get paid on tips some. Whereas in the regular world, I
24:25
think you always got, you know, a general, you know, minimum
24:28
wage. Well, back when I was a kid, it
24:31
was kind of still like that, like your bagger was like at
24:35
Publix was always like, can I help you take your groceries out
24:38
for you? Eager to try to help you get
24:41
your groceries loaded in your car.
24:43
And if they did we you, we would always like tip them some cash
24:47
because they load the groceries in your car for you and they
24:50
push your cart out for you. One did like you guys ever do
24:54
that out here or like tip your grocery?
24:57
No, but well, no one ever loaded them.
25:00
The only time I would see people load groceries for the customer
25:04
is if they were like elderly or handicapped.
25:07
I feel like Publix like it might have been like a back story to
25:10
Publix. Like I feel like maybe they
25:12
weren't paid minimum wage or something, kind of like a like a
25:17
waitress or something. And so they worked on their
25:19
tips. So that's why they had to push
25:21
trying to take the card out for you.
25:22
But anyways, the reason I thought of that story and it was
25:26
like, hell, I remember that. That's funny, was I was on the
25:29
way to, you know, get the groceries and it was the first
25:32
time I'd done, you know, me, I love Instacart, but this time I
25:35
didn't do Instacart. I just did the pick up and go or
25:38
whatever. Like I ordered.
25:40
You pay normal prices, but someone brings your groceries
25:43
out to you, you park in a spot. Thank God, because I freaking
25:47
hate grocery shopping. Pulling in that parking lot is
25:50
like pulling it into an amusement park.
25:52
Yeah, that park. It's ridiculous.
25:54
And so I pulled it and I was like, is this kind of like the,
25:59
you know, going through a drive through and they asked if you
26:01
want to give a tip just because like they made your coffee for
26:05
you but they had to do nothing else.
26:06
Like do you tip the person bringing out your?
26:09
Groceries. I wouldn't think so, no.
26:12
I wouldn't. You didn't have to do any of
26:13
your grocery shopping. Maybe you're supposed to, I
26:16
don't know. That would be something to just
26:18
ask like the person at the front desk.
26:20
Like what's customary? I'm not really sure.
26:22
I obviously did not cuz I never. Cared.
26:24
I think that I think that tipping is like.
26:28
It's a dying. Thing, well, it's reached like
26:31
it got so overly pushed on consumers for the last, I don't
26:38
know, 5-6 years. It was like so bludgeoned over
26:42
your head to tip all of the time.
26:44
And then the percentage kept climbing as well.
26:48
And I think now we've kind of reached like the pendulum going
26:51
the other way where people are like, look, I am not tipping you
26:55
at a drive through. No, and I think that's
26:57
ridiculous. Or or if I call in an order, I'm
27:00
not tipping you like I'm tipping personally based on service and
27:05
even if your service is like if your waiter's ass and like
27:09
unattentive and not nice. Why do I Why would you pay the
27:12
minimum tip then that? Yeah, you don't have to.
27:14
People do that like regardless, and it's like, no, they didn't
27:17
give the minimum quality of service that their job requires.
27:21
Yeah, and my thing is too like depending on the cost of the
27:24
bill and granted, like I'm, I don't spend money too, too Willy
27:29
nilly, but like I'm also not gonna tip like 25%.
27:34
Like I'm going to tip about 15 to 18%, which people go like
27:38
that's so ass. I don't think that's ass.
27:41
Like that's pretty good. I do wonder.
27:42
What? The service is amazing, like
27:45
phenomenal. Blowing my wing off by how good
27:48
the service is. Then maybe I will tip 20%.
27:51
Yeah, I still don't think. But that's my point though.
27:55
I think tipping is just like, I think we're kind of coming out
27:58
the other side of it being. Too old?
28:00
Well, I do wonder how much of like waitresses and waiters
28:05
nowadays, like make minimum wage, you know, or more they
28:09
don't make under the minimum wage because they get tips
28:12
because that used to be the thing like waiters and
28:14
waitresses would make like $2.00 an hour because they survived on
28:17
tips. Now here's an interesting topic.
28:20
And you could say it's political.
28:22
I wouldn't really say so it's more economic, but like if
28:26
someone you know, says like, oh, I'm at this job like a waiter,
28:29
for example, and they're like, oh, you know, I, I don't make
28:32
enough money, blah, blah, blah. And it's like kind of like
28:37
complaining about it in my head. I'm kind of like, OK, well,
28:41
maybe just get a different job. That's kind of how I think about
28:45
it. Like, I feel like the as a
28:47
person or as as people, we can kind of decide what choices we
28:50
make that, you know, then have a return on them.
28:55
So, you know, just maybe choose something that's higher output.
29:00
Yeah. Or earns more, I should say, you
29:03
know, not to say wait, wait, waiter or waitress doesn't make
29:06
a lot. I'm just saying use that as an
29:07
example because that's what we're talking about.
29:09
But that could that could work for any profession where
29:11
someone's saying that and complaining about their wages.
29:14
They could be an engineer and go, oh, I don't get paid enough
29:17
as an engineer. OK, well, maybe go to another.
29:19
Well, that's engineering company.
29:20
Yeah, maybe you could do that. But I think nowadays like cost
29:25
of living anywhere is so high in relation to how much like cost
29:32
of living. We should just throw that phrase
29:34
out the window now because there is no, in my personal opinion,
29:39
there's no relation to the amount of money you make the
29:43
minimum wage and or salary or whatever to the cost of living
29:48
in your area. Yes, if we were to go from VFE,
29:53
you know, Umatilla to San Diego, CA yeah, there's a difference.
29:59
But I'm saying independently, looking at your city, I don't
30:03
think minimum wage or salaries have ever caught up to the how
30:07
inflated cost of living now is. So that makes to me it almost
30:13
nearly impossible. I'm experiencing this now.
30:16
So I'm trying to find a job that makes something near what I, you
30:19
know, have made for the last almost six years.
30:23
And it's extremely, I'm not going to say it's impossible,
30:29
but it's extremely difficult. And that's just trying to find
30:32
something similar to what I've already done.
30:35
Now you're in a little different boat because like you don't have
30:37
a degree in it or whatever, but like there's experience there,
30:40
which I would still say in the, you know, business world, they
30:44
still do look for that degree. Check mark on your your resume.
30:50
But say you are a waitress or even an engineer.
30:57
What an engineer especially like you're an engineer and you're
31:00
not enjoying it. Better hope you saved your
31:03
shekels because I can almost guarantee you you're not going
31:07
to go say, I want to try to be, I'm just going to give an
31:10
extreme example, a photographer for this company.
31:14
Well, they might hire you as an intern, but you're not going to
31:18
make what you made as an engineer.
31:20
It's just it's near impossible to 180 flip careers because you
31:25
want to find something that interests you more.
31:27
You're going to invest your time into it, your passion into it.
31:30
You're going to get a return on it, you know, because you love
31:32
what you're doing. But it's almost impossible to do
31:37
that. And I would say even as like a
31:40
waitress or whatever, like what can you like jump from into and
31:48
make the same amount? Yeah, it is hard.
31:50
I mean, lateral moves like that are tough, definitely.
31:54
And they're not even lateral like they're, it's like jump in
31:57
the pond. I'll be honest with you, I
31:59
always, I would love to one day be a waiter or or like a
32:05
bartender. I think would be so fun.
32:08
Like one day I would like to do it.
32:09
Yeah. I don't know when.
32:10
Or social butterfly. I would love to be a waiter.
32:13
I think it would be cool and I think I would murder on tips or
32:16
do pretty good, you know? I don't know, husbands might
32:19
think you're flirting with their ladies too much to tip you, I
32:22
don't think. So.
32:23
Maybe. Maybe, but I think that.
32:25
Would you might have to flirt with them too?
32:27
Yeah, that's fine. So at least maybe they'll just
32:29
think they're gay and then it'll be OK.
32:32
Classic Brianna here. Just my gosh.
32:38
Yeah, I didn't think anything was wrong with that statement.
32:40
You're a wild. You are a wild.
32:43
So now we're just completely like you do change topics cuz
32:46
this is gonna come out while you're in Africa.
32:50
So you're sitting here with him now, but you're gonna be
32:53
actively on the African continent hunting African
32:57
animals while people are watching this?
32:59
That's correct. Give us your 5.
33:01
Hopefully you've memorized it by now.
33:02
And you? Nope, you.
33:03
Don't have you got to call the? Phone, give us the five animals.
33:07
Shoot, let me see here, OK? The animals I'm going to be
33:11
hunting are a Impala, Blesbach, heart of beast, zebra, black
33:20
wildebeest. Now, which one are you most
33:24
excited for? I'm in all of them but I really
33:26
like the I think the heart of beast is badass looking.
33:29
The one that looks like the devil it.
33:30
Kind of looks like. Satan, I prefer not to come
33:32
home. Yeah, I like that one.
33:34
Yeah. I think the Heart of Beast is
33:36
really cool. I think the I think the Blessed
33:39
Box really cool. Too.
33:40
I do like the blessed, but I think the blessed box has a
33:42
gorgeous coat. If I were to I wouldn't even
33:44
care. Is Zebra Coat so like wild like
33:47
it doesn't really match a lot of things the The blessed Bach I
33:51
have to change my choice now if you're going to come home with
33:54
anything I want the blessed Bach a hide hand.
34:02
Not a shoulder mount. You could do that too.
34:05
Shoulder mounts kind of bad ass on the Blessed Bach.
34:08
Well, you see what the price is, you know, when you get out there
34:11
and if you know, you're like, oh, if I want to, you know,
34:14
shoulder mount one, it's going to be the heart of beast, then
34:16
at least tan the blessed Bach hide.
34:20
Are you excited to have two weeks with just you and the dog?
34:25
So many projects. Oh gosh.
34:27
I have a big one that I really want to do that I haven't
34:30
mentioned to you, but you'd probably shit bricks so oh.
34:36
Gosh. Yeah, yeah, I'm very excited.
34:40
I think 1 project, I'll, I'll tell you now that I'm going to
34:43
do, it's a small one, but I'm going to take down that
34:46
backsplash in the kitchen, start really, you know, prepping here
34:49
and there for the kitchen remodel.
34:52
And, and then I'm going to go through all of the cabinets and
34:55
throw away the 8000 things that we do not use really, you know,
35:00
minimalize, minimize, minimize, not minimize.
35:04
That's 2 words put in one minimize the amount of stuff we
35:09
have in the kitchen. And then I'm going to use some
35:12
of that Gray paint before it goes bad that's been on the
35:15
porch for forever that I painted the rest of the whole house
35:17
with. I'm going to paint the kitchen
35:19
walls that color. Oh geez.
35:21
Oh, Pete. So that's one little project I
35:24
have. Oh God, spit.
35:25
This is so. That's one project that I have
35:28
planned for a while. You're gone.
35:30
The other one I one day I will do it and you'll, you know,
35:39
probably freak out, but we're getting towards being more
35:44
organized with the amount of stuff that we have.
35:46
And I think if we get closer and closer to that, cut down on, you
35:49
know, the amount of junk, I think this is possible.
35:53
You know, we have like our 1972, you know, closet organizers in
35:57
the closet. I think if we had better closet
36:00
organizers, our bedroom closets are ginormous.
36:06
The left one being huge. But so much of it is just
36:11
shelving. It's stuff that we could, if we
36:12
organize the porch even more, we can fit out there onto our
36:16
shelves. So what I want to do is get a
36:20
new closet organizer where it's mostly hanging stuff on the left
36:29
sliding doors. And then I want to RIP out the
36:32
right closet and I want to make it a little cubby.
36:35
It's not little, it's actually giant.
36:37
It's like almost, it's like set over 7 feet wide and two and a
36:42
half three feet deep. So then you can put like say you
36:48
know if you rent this place out and you have two working at home
36:52
people now you could put a desk in there or for the normal
36:57
person of the world IE myself, a dresser goes in there.
37:02
Now you have places to put all your clothes and best part is
37:07
you'd finally have a place to put ATV in the bedroom.
37:11
Now granted I know you don't want ATV in the bedroom, but
37:14
what if a normal renter it does? What do you keep saying?
37:18
Why do you keep? Saying normal like.
37:20
Are you insinuating that like? Yeah, you're not normal.
37:23
Yeah, normal people I feel like like to have TV's in the
37:25
bedroom. I don't think so.
37:27
I do, I do. I don't know, I prefer it.
37:30
It drowns out your snoring. You already have a dresser.
37:33
I don't have a dresser. There's a dresser on the left
37:35
side of the closet with. Drawers.
37:37
With drawers and stuff. It has four tiny drawers.
37:41
Yeah. Alvis.
37:46
Why we should talk about how? Anyway, so don't you like that
37:51
project? Like, you know, I think that
37:53
would make it way better for a renter to come in.
37:56
They have a place to actually put a dresser because there's
37:58
nowhere to put a dresser in that bedroom and there's a place to
38:01
put ATV now. There's literally nowhere you
38:03
can put ATV in that bedroom right now.
38:06
I mean, I've definitely heard you pitch worse projects.
38:08
See, it's not a bad one. And it's not.
38:10
Great. And it's not hard either.
38:12
It's the one. You say that about.
38:13
You say that about every single project, and then usually
38:17
they're very difficult. No, no.
38:19
No. You just got to build 1 wall.
38:21
Yeah. One wall.
38:23
You know, here's the thing, right?
38:25
I love projects, We know this and there's so many projects
38:29
that can be done in this house. What you like is lip you like.
38:32
Molding, crown molding. I could do that while you're
38:35
gone, in the bed, in the bathroom.
38:38
What you like, easy. What you like is lipstick on a
38:41
pig is. What?
38:41
No, no, I like to update things. Poorly.
38:45
No, not poorly. I just don't go at the pace of a
38:50
snail like you do. Oh.
38:52
My. God, your floors have separated
38:55
in your house just as much as mine happens.
38:58
Don't say no. No, you pointed that out to me
39:00
all the time. Going down the hallway, in
39:04
multiple places in the bedroom and all along the sliding door
39:08
closets. Little groove there, it's
39:10
separated. Guess what?
39:12
Probably took you 10 times longer to put your flooring in
39:15
and our floors did the same thing.
39:17
So what's the difference? First of all, I I did your
39:21
flooring also. So I did both the flooring.
39:24
Yeah, well, I moved you along. No, I did it.
39:27
You guys are over there like, well, if X + y = Z + 32, we got
39:32
this geometry, you know, algebraic equation to do.
39:36
And then if we flip it upside down and rotate it on the, the,
39:39
the, the the skill saw, then I think we could get this angle
39:43
cut. And then we would just need to
39:45
divide that by 75 and, you know, add 17 more square pieces
39:49
together and we would make the 90° corner.
39:52
That is hilarious. That is what goes through your
39:56
head. That is sort of true.
39:58
Yes it is. And it's just like just cut a
40:00
fucking 90. Here's like.
40:02
It's not hard. Here's what I would like, OK,
40:06
it's my last day here for two weeks, right?
40:09
I think I don't know what we're going to be eating over in South
40:12
Africa. I think it's going to be good
40:13
food though are. You about to say Thai food?
40:15
Again, no, no, I thought about that.
40:17
I did, because I want kind of a, you know, a last meal.
40:21
Like I'm on death row, you know what I mean?
40:23
And I was. Thinking James is moving to
40:25
Africa. I was thinking, oh boy, sushi
40:30
sounds kind of nice sushi. 'S not bad.
40:32
You know what I mean? I love sushi.
40:35
Yeah, I really do. It's a top five food for me, for
40:38
sure. Top five.
40:40
I would honestly say Thai might be #1 for me.
40:43
Like it's so good. Or Mexican.
40:46
I might have to go Mexican. I might have to go Mexican.
40:49
Mexican Thai. After that I'll honestly go just
40:54
like a good. Calling all Californians like
40:57
Mexican. I'll go like a good hearty steak
40:59
for three, like a good piece of beef you're putting like a rib
41:02
eye. African food above steak.
41:06
Well, sort of like it depends what we're talking.
41:09
Let me finish my list. So then I got.
41:11
Any steak is better than Mexican food.
41:13
I don't get how you say this like Mexican food's a.
41:17
Good beefy steak, just thick medium rare, kind of seeping a
41:23
little bit of blood They. Really make steaks tonight.
41:26
Oh. Yeah, on our What existed grill.
41:29
I can do it in the in the oven. I mean, there's no, yeah, you
41:34
could comment below. Steak or Mexican.
41:36
What's number one? It's steak, except it's gonna be
41:39
like a bunch of Californians commenting.
41:40
They're all going to be like Mexican.
41:44
Mexican food's elite you're out of.
41:46
Here it's not. It is not elite.
41:48
It's elite. And then and then after that, I,
41:52
I love popcorn. You know what I'm saying?
41:54
I love popcorn. Your list is ass.
41:59
It is ass. Popcorn isn't even real food.
42:03
What? Do you mean?
42:06
It's a dried up corn kernel. That is hilarious.
42:13
I cannot. My list would go obviously steak
42:16
would be #1 followed by probably Italian.
42:24
I love Italian and then and then maybe like the the Asian foods
42:37
like Thai or sushi or Japanese. I love hibachi, which is just
42:42
like American Japanese food and then like your Southern foods
42:50
kind of like my like chicken and dumplings last night, chicken
42:52
and rice, great, easy, easy meal.
42:57
You know, pulled pork, Peach cobbler.
43:00
Oh my God, Peach cobbler. So good.
43:03
It's so good. I feel like that's, you know,
43:07
that's a good list to start with.
43:10
No, it's. Great you like sweets though,
43:12
and pastries and stuff like that's not really.
43:14
My yeah, but that wasn't even on my list other than Peach
43:16
cobbler. Yeah, I don't know that I've
43:19
ever had a Peach cobbler. What?
43:25
God. You know, you know my
43:26
background. Wealthy.
43:30
What do you what? Wealthy, cheap and poor are not
43:36
even in the same room together. Cheap and poor.
43:40
It's like you're over here living like, you know, the white
43:43
collar life just being cheap while poor people are working 80
43:47
hours a week just trying to pay all their bills.
43:49
Like you guys live on different side of the train tracks.
43:52
You're over here, you know, in Uptown, downtown, and they're
43:59
over here in Southside on the other side of the train tracks
44:02
just trying to survive. Cheap, poor Choo Choo.
44:07
But. You are you are off the rails.
44:13
No, you drove off the rails out of the wrong side and thought
44:17
you lived on one and forgot you lived on the other.
44:20
You. Are wild.
44:22
So anyway. You really do sort of excel on
44:24
the podcast. I'm always nervous that I'm
44:26
gonna like you say so much wild stuff that.
44:29
I think it's completely. Accepted if anyone else.
44:31
Culture is over. If it if.
44:33
We do nothing. What I'm saying is bad.
44:34
Like if we do get cancelled, it's going to be because of you
44:37
someday. But you know, it's fun.
44:40
It's fun. You're the viewers love it.
44:42
I love it. It's almost your show.
44:44
I'm just like the kind of like side cook, you know that?
44:47
Like for my $1.00 an hour or $1.00 an episode or whatever
44:52
we'll make one day. It'll be more than that.
44:54
Where are we at with subscribers?
44:56
Oh yeah, I should mention to subscribe almost 900.
45:00
OK. So probably within a month or
45:01
two, our episodes will be monetized, which will be nice.
45:04
That'll be nice. Yeah, that'll be nice.
45:06
I don't think I can live in California on $20.00 a month,
45:09
but I can try. That's actually poor.
45:11
I think it'll be in case you're wondering what poor looks like.
45:14
That's poor. I think it'll be more than 20 a
45:16
month maybe. Yeah, we'll see who.
45:18
Knows I don't really know how the ad revenue.
45:20
Works. This has been a phenomenal
45:21
podcast. It's been really fun.
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Yeah, I'm very interested. You know, we got to get your
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WhatsApp set up today, if you haven't done that already.
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So you're prepared to talk while you're over there, you know, or
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give updates because I'm going to need updates.
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I'm going to need to know. When this DM on Instagram or
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Facebook? When you're connected to Wi-Fi.
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WhatsApp? You need Wi-Fi too, don't you?
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It's still an Internet platform. Yeah, maybe you do.
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With an iPhone, though, you can text international to either
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iPhone. Yes.
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Yeah. So there we go.
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I'll be fine. OK.
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But anyways, it's been an iPhone.
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It's been a pleasure. There's another bonus to the
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iPhone. Yeah, the iphone's OK.
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It's me. That's great.
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But I appreciate you coming on the show having me as.
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A guest coming on my shelf. Yes, yeah.
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But thank you very much. Yes.
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And to the viewers, thank you for tuning in to another crazy
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wild episode of Brianna's podcast.
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So I hope you all had fun. Be sure to subscribe and.
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Maybe I'll paint the podcast for.
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Five stars on Shop Spotify, Apple subscribe to the YouTube,
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drop a comment and we'll see you next week, but on Thursday or
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Friday, so we'll see you then. Bye.