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First Whitetail Deer | Vegas 300 Round | Badlands Deer Camp · The Bow Disciples Podcast

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Welcome to the show. Sure you don't want to put them
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in the room? No, it's OK.
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It says vortex on it so I think this may go to like.
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Maybe try a? Spottering scope tap.
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Yeah, that's probably what it is.
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Might not want to lose that. Matt will probably want that
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back. Well, here we are back again.
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Third pod in three weeks. We're on a roll.
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That's phenomenal production for for this pod, you know what I
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mean? Yeah, very good it is.
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We're doing a good job. New set.
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Yeah, well, we got a a temporary cat in the in the pod room
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that's vacationing here. So we thought why not bring it,
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You know, bring Christmas to the show.
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And if nobody knows, I love Christmas.
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I love Christmas mostly. I love shopping and I love
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decorating and this is the one holiday that puts the two
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together. I think Halloween kind of does
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that, but in a different way. The only thing you shop for is
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the candy, which I mean, you do have to get, right?
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Well, and your outfit. Yeah, but that's for yourself.
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I like buying lots of things for other people.
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You know, I have a bit of a hot take.
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I like Christmas, of course. The sentiment, Jesus's birthday,
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the whole deal. But he wasn't really born at
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Christmas time. Huh.
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He wasn't really born at Christmas time.
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Who says that? I don't know.
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It's like a rumor. I don't.
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Think that's true? I think it is.
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I'm pretty sure I'm a Google it right?
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I'm pretty sure Christmas is Jesus birthday.
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I'm going to, I'm going to Google it real quick, real
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quick. I mean, I don't know that the
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good book actually says Jesus birthday specifically because
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they may have had a different calendar but.
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Born on Christmas? No, Jesus was not actually born
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on December 25th. The Bible doesn't specify Bible.
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Biblical evidence suggests a different month.
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The Bible describes shepherds watching their flocks, which
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would not have been possible in December.
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OK, interesting. Interesting.
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OK, well, there you go. There you have it.
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His birthday was not in December, correct.
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You know whose is mine? Yours, yes.
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I'm going to be. I can't say my age.
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No. There is a couple podcasts where
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if you one I say it and that one another one I I give it like a
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way you could figure it out, but you got to, I'm not going to
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tell you what podcast I said that.
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On Yeah, I'd have to think. I don't even remember which one
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it was. He's being a needy boy today.
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Yeah, he's upset about the cat. My birthday is actually
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tomorrow. It is.
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It is, yeah. We don't quite know what we're.
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Doing the day after we're recording.
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This I have an excellent present coming though.
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To well, you got me these shoes. Yep, that was like a birthday
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present and then the next one's supposed to be the Christmas
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present. But I just literally can never
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wait to give people their presents.
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So most likely I'm also going to give it to you unwrapped
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tomorrow when it shows up and I can't wait.
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I'll be honest with you, yeah. Yeah, yeah, you.
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Know I'm not big on giving or receiving gifts and and.
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That's not going to work for me. Well, let me explain why, right?
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I feel like you know not when I, you know, came from my
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beginnings. You go to a rags to riches
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story. Right now, not when we went, not
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from my beginnings, but like now I don't need anything, you know
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what I mean? And everyone I know doesn't need
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anything. And if they do want something,
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they could just buy it. So for me, I'm like, this is
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seems sort of goofy, but I do like how we do it with the
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family now doing the Secret Santa.
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I think that makes it fun. And then you're only buying a
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gift for one person, not like. 6:00 So I.
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Do like it I. Like that?
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It keeps it fun. Or like white elephants are fun.
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You know, Paul had a Paul had a good point because you you could
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put a wish list on Elfster for the Secret Santa.
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But when you do that, the person just goes and buys everything in
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the wish list. So he's like, I'm not doing a.
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Wish there's no point of even asking and like, who do you
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think was your your Secret Santa?
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It's like there's no like hint in the gift to who it may have
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been from because you, you picked it out, you picked your
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own gift. So it's like, how can you even
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guess who your Secret Santa? Is I'll I'll tell you I'm not
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going to tell you who I have for my Secret Santa, but I can tell
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you I will very likely be re gifting them something I got for
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free. OK, so if that makes me be a bad
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guy, you know, I may be a bad guy.
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But what if it's something I got for free but they really like?
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What's wrong? With that, I feel like I already
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want to know who it is now. And two, I already know what
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you're giving them. I mean, it's an expensive gift.
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It's like a $600. Gift, which I would say would be
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super cool if it hadn't arrived at their home with the label on
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it. That's not the gift.
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That is not the gift. No, no, no, it's not.
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It's not. So anyway, I'm excited for
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Christmas. I'm excited.
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I love the shoes because I before I flew out to my hunt in
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Oklahoma on a span from a Saturday to a through a
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Wednesday. So four days.
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Where's that five? That's five days, a span of.
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I think he might be eating cat poop.
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Yeah, he'd been getting into that litter box.
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So nasty. It's disgusting.
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He's never eaten a piece of poop in his life.
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All of a sudden the cat shows up and he's eating it's cat poop.
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I'm sure he's eaten poop before, but anyways, Long story short,
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in five days I ran four of them and I went like 22 miles, you
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know? So you getting the spike and
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like I said in the last pod, you don't particularly want to ride
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by yourself, although you did while I was gone, but it's not
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your preference. There's cat litter on his nose.
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Yeah. So I've been running, you know,
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with you and rather than doing the typical one to two miles
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that I normally do, I've been doing like 5 or 6, you know.
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So these shoes are going to be a lot better than the knock off
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Nikes that I got from Ross 2. Years ago, yes they are.
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They came recommended. Shout out to Ashley, past guest
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on the pod. You know, Yep.
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In a running, they wear them out though.
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They wear out kind of fast and you know, 350 to 400.
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Yeah, I don't know what she thinks we're running over here,
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but certainly, well, if you. Think about it, if I do, you
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know, I don't know, 30 miles a week or something, and that's
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only 10 weeks. But ten weeks is a long time.
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That is true. It's.
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Like 2 1/2 months, which I think is pretty good, yeah.
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But if you look at it that way, that is actually a very short
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time to go through expensive shoes.
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Well, you have to look at it that way.
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It's kind of like when people go, could you afford, you know,
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$300.00 right now and they go no.
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And they go, well, could you afford $30 a day And they go, Oh
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yeah, I can. But then it's it's the same.
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Amount thing. Yeah, true, true, true.
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So we have my favorite chocolate.
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Yeah, tell me about this. I see.
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So. Well, they've been sitting here
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for a while and I only got to munch on them once and you don't
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like you don't let me eat on the show, so I figured I'll just
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make it a part of. This.
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Well, first let me tell you why you only ate it once.
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Let me let the audience know. It's because you only like about
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3 of the chocolates, so once you eat those three on both layers
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then you're done. Pretty much so, but so in order
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to to, you know, maybe have some more of them and hopefully I
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pick my favorite with my eyes. Alright, so so we're going to
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I'm going to take the top layer off because I've definitely.
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Known my favorite. You can't look.
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No, no. Well, we can't look at the
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chart. We can't.
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Look at the chart. Well, you can't even look.
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At the I won't look in there either, but I want to get the
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layer off that I've eaten all my favorites so I have a chance of
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getting my favorite. So give me the chart and wait.
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Don't pick 1 yet. Don't pick 1 yet.
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OK, I'm not looking. Are you looking?
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OK, give me the chart it's right in.
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Oh, we're not going at the same time.
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No, you're going to go 1st. I'm going to watch which one
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you. Pick you tell me when to go, OK?
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I have to make sure I understand the chart.
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OK, I got it. Go ahead.
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I'm not a huge sweets guy. This one I just go with the
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first one I got. Let me take a guess what it is.
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It's definitely got filling and it maybe has a little top on it.
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I can't tell. I I feel like it might have a
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little a little white dot or something or some sort of
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coloration. I'm going to say it's a regular
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dark chocolate with let's go fudge filling.
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OK, let me take a bite and see how I actually let me look at.
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So OK, I got the white wrong. Now let me bite in and see if
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the frosting is correct. Don't look at the color.
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Nope, it's pink. Pink inside.
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Very good. What is this?
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That is strawberry, one of my favorites.
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Orange cream. And so you probably never, yes,
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it is. You probably never had it
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because like rags to riches, you know, but one of my top tier
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favorite candies. My favorites come around the
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holidays. OK, your turn, but it's this
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orange. It's shaped like an orange and
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it tastes like orange, but it's a chocolate ball.
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Close your eyes. OK.
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No, I'm I'm mixing it so you don't know which.
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Wait, mixing. That way you don't know which
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one I'm setting. No, don't go yet.
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Don't go yet. I thought you were like going to
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move them around like then you don't know which one I got.
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OK, I'm good on the map. Go ahead.
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OK, how many do I get? Feel them.
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Are you sure? Then how is that fair?
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You can't do that. You, you just you.
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You erase the whole. Did I eat all of my favorites
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because I'm not feeling any of. You erase the whole point of the
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game by not grabbing the. First one.
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Get out of there. Get.
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Out I haven't picked 1. No, I'm going to mix it and then
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and then you can go, but you're grabbing the very first one you
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touch that's you can't make the game and then do the rules
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wrong. OK, close your eyes.
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They're closed. OK, the first chocolate you
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touch, you are. Picking up OK.
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Can't go? Oh.
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Fudge This is going to be a gross one.
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What do you think it is? You can't open your eyes.
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Are you open then I? I guessed for.
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Oh no, you're a. Disaster at this game.
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Well. What do you think it is?
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Actually, it's a very good, very good.
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It's a coconut. Coconut cream, yes.
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Yes, coconut is my next favorite.
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Like I love Almond Joys, but it has to be the kind that has like
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actual coconut ground in it. The coconut like like the pasty
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coconut stuff. Oh, that's like, got the
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strands. Yeah, not good.
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I'm not a big sweets guy, I'm really not, but I mean,
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chocolate's good here and there, but.
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Can't have some more. Maybe we play one more time.
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No, we're not going to play again.
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No, Yeah. I don't know what it is.
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I've never been a giant sweets guy, but you know, I like
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savory, like salty stuff. Or, you know, popcorn's like my
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favorite dessert. Is popcorn savory and sweet
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together? Delicious.
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Like having some a little bit of popcorn in the movie theater and
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then my bunch of crunch. I've always thought that's.
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Delicious. Insane when people do that like
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chocolate with. No.
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So like as a kid I'd have a peanut butter and Jelly some
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people. Put the popcorn in the, I'm
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sorry, the chocolate in the popcorn.
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Yeah, I couldn't do that, I think, but maybe I could because
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I do love sweet and savory. So like as a kid I'd have a
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peanut butter and Jelly, but like mostly Jelly because I like
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the sweet stuff crunchy. Peanut butter, of course,
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because it's a texture thing. And then I'd have potato chips
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with it because you get the sweet Jelly with the salty
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potato chips. Best combo ever.
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And. What did you think about the
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news of? I just disregarded what you said
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because I didn't find it important.
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What did you what did you think of Josh opening a shop in
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Tennessee? What do you think about that?
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I think that is phenomenal news. So you wouldn't tell me for for
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the whole time. That's how all of a sudden you
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didn't even tell me. Once it was announced I had to
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see it on Instagram and then I screenshot and send it to you
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and said this must have been what you were hiding.
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That's how much of A steel trap I am.
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You are. I won't even tell stuff that my.
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Buddy wired shut. I won't tell it to you.
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To nobody. Literally.
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Literally. Close those legs, lock them up.
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Yeah, so. My legs, I mean mouth, I'm.
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Excited about it? Yes, yeah, I think it's great.
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I think there's a lot of stuff that gets used on the East in
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the hunting world more so than on the West.
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It's just a different type of sale of stuff, way different.
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And so to have a store on both ends, you're really for him
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business wise, you're really touching both styles of hunting
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because they're different on both coasts.
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Well, and, and you know, I mean, he, he runs a website that now
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this is going to make shipping faster and cheaper for him.
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So it makes the. Total and faster for the people
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or. That's what I'm.
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Saying it allows him, you know, to reach people where we know he
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has a phenomenal shop now he can reach more people and closer and
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faster for them by being on both.
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Did you not on the coast? You.
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Just re say exactly what I said. Kind of.
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But you said for him and I'm talking about for the people.
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Well, I'm saying the people. I said it would be faster that I
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meant for the people. But you said and so that would
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that's a conjunction. One I.
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Believe which ties the two thoughts.
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Together. OK, All right.
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But anyway, I'm excited about it.
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I teach English for a. Year I really am excited for the
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shop to get off the ground and I want to help Josh out.
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I want it to be a a huge smash and I know it's stressful to
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open another business. So I bet if you guys need an
14:21
archery product for Christmas or for yourself or anything like
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that, be sure to #1 go to your local shop.
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But if you can't or you're going to order online anyways, order
14:34
off Podium archer.com, help out Josh.
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And then you can also help me and Bo disciples out by using
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Code Pump Station and saving some money on those purchases.
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But I highly suggest doing that because I know for a fact
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spending a lot of time with Josh and getting to know him and
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being buddies, that he genuinely cares a lot about archery and
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wanting people to be better. So I support that because I am a
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big advocate of getting more people into archery and letting
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them know you can just do it to have fun.
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You don't even have to hunt if you don't want to.
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Yes. With that being said, I just
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went on a hunt that was. Insane.
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Yeah. So this is the first one in
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other than August where you had some days by yourself, a few,
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and then you ended up kind of tying in with some people
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anyways and camped one out of like 6 days.
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But you know, rugged life for I. Stayed by myself only one day
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and like camped one day. And then you crashed some
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people's hotels for a couple days.
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Then you stayed in someone's home for a couple.
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Let me tell you why it's real bad.
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Well, yeah, we we never talked about this on.
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So yeah, I go out on the school's deer hunt.
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The plan is to I'm going to rug it in by myself.
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So I get out there and Taylor. You've been dying for that.
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I had and then Taylor and Garrett hit me up and they said,
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hey, you should come. You know, they just told me
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where they were at and I was like, hey, maybe I'll come by
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and just, you know, was, you know, I'll, I'll stay there one
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night and then I'll leave in the morning, you know, and finish
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the drive. It's a it's a very long drive,
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right? So I get to the hotel and they
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go, hey, you know, there's like some good deer right around
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here. I go, OK, you know.
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So I stay the night and end up staying a couple more.
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And I mean, then I finally, you know, my buddy Ryan calls and he
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goes, hey, you want to hunt this other unit with me?
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I was like, yeah, absolutely. So I start driving, it's very
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far. Then he calls me and goes, hey,
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I I just got a deer, so I'm not going to be able to come.
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So now I'm, I am. This is it, you know.
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Finally, or not a good day. I'm going to be by myself so I
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get out there very remote get out there I do I wind up camping
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you know, I wind up camping in the back of the truck and then,
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you know the next day I headed out again, you know, in the
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afternoon almost shot a deer that.
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Day. I think you spent more days.
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Honestly. There might be more hours spent
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driving back and forth across this state that there was
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actually hunting. Oh, I drove a lot.
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Yeah, I drove a lot. I know.
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But anyways, I ended up, you know, I called my buddy, I said,
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hey, do you know anywhere like in this particular unit that I
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could go glass and maybe see some deer?
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He go, sure. I go, OK, cool.
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Send me a pen and I'll just, I'll park there and camp and
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then you can meet me in the morning.
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He goes, dude, I got a extra bedroom and a shower and all
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this stuff if you just want to come stay at my house.
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And I said, well, get the pops ready.
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I'm heading over, you know. So then.
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Yeah, so you see that one day. This is what happens when you
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have lots of connections. I have lots of friends, people
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love me, people love me. Cool.
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You know why? It's because I'm a genuine guy
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who does the right, does people right, and that's why they like
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me for sure. I've noticed that people that
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burn through a lot of relationships generally are
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trash. Have you noticed this?
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Yeah, or if you're like me, just don't have any you.
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Don't have. Yeah, you just.
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You just don't have. It's way easier honestly.
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You know, I mean you got a dog and now a cat for a short period
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of time. 10 days. But anyway, so we go.
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I go to Oklahoma. Yeah, so you finally went on
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another hunt. So I don't want to hear anything
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for the near future that you don't get to hunt by yourself.
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Don't want to hear it. So I miss all of Turkey season.
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So you go on this hunt by yourself, just kind of, you
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know, give me like the rundown of how you even heard about
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this, got to go on this and then the whole experience.
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Yes, I mean, it definitely wasn't by myself.
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I mean, I was hunting by myself, but we had a epic group of
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people, which is what made the trip so good.
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But how I got to be there was, you know, I guess really stemmed
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ultimately from my relationship with, with, with Botech, sorta
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because through Botech, I got tied in with this company Idea
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Ranch. Shout out to them.
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Phenomenal company that really helps outdoor companies a lot
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with kind of their, their branding and just kind of
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all-encompassing help businesses in the space, right?
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So I got tied in with them through Botech and then I got
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tied into Badlands through them as well.
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And that's how I ended up going on this hunt, which I feel very
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blessed to be invited because there was only like 5 people
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that were not working with Idea Ranch or with Badlands.
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There was only like a handful of guests and I was one of those.
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So yeah, get there. I flew in kind of a long travel
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day. I mean, I started early, you
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land and then it's like an hour 20 drive and Trevor picked me up
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and yeah, we drove to the camp and no one was there other than
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Claire and Bob. And because they were out
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hunting, you know, most of them had got there earlier.
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So there's only like literally 2 hours till dark.
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So I'm kind of thinking that maybe I won't hunt and I land
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and they're like, or we get there and they're like, hey, you
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want to go hunt? Sure.
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So I go real quick, swap out my clothes of cold.
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You know, that was the coldest day.
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They gave me some bigger pants that were like those warm outer
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layers to put on. They're.
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Called bibbers. Yeah, Silence, I think is the
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model Silence pants, and they're great.
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Were those the ones that are like tough material, fuzzy
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material on the outside too right?
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Those look like my favorite. I've seen those on their
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website. Oh, they're warm.
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Yeah. And I love that they go over
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your boots without having to take them off.
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So anyways, we pinned it out there to the stand.
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And when we pulled up, I almost got emotional because it really
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drove home my rags to riches story, you know, like I got
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there and I've haunted public land, you know, on brutal hunts
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my whole life, you know, and now I made it you.
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Know I haven't seen too much of that lately.
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I saw this feeder. I almost broke down in tears.
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I said, look, it it paid off, you know, my hard work paid off.
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And yeah, I sat there and I was just having to reflect
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personally and how far I've made it.
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You know, this is a guy who haunted D16.
21:23
You know what I mean? What?
21:24
I wouldn't actually because we never hunt local.
21:26
Hey, that's not true. That's not true.
21:28
We did this here. I don't want.
21:29
I don't want. You mean the you mean the day
21:30
that I brought the camera and didn't bring a bow because I was
21:34
the cameraman? No.
21:35
What about those other days we went out?
21:36
There's a few you're forgetting. Oh, the one other day we went
21:40
out and we. Went around like two or three
21:42
days. But anyways, my point is when I
21:45
saw this feeder, it was like, it was like seeing my first check,
21:49
you know what I mean? I was like, Oh my gosh, It was
21:52
like when when Juan Soto signed his deal with the Mets, that's
21:55
how I felt. We're seeing this feeder.
21:57
So I get up in the tree and I'm like, OK, here I am.
22:01
Look at me. Look at that Dang feeder.
22:04
You know, I couldn't stop looking at it and smiling.
22:06
Yeah. And some time goes by and the
22:09
tree stands kind of low. And again, I was the only bow
22:12
hunter, by the way, I think I didn't say that, but Claire was
22:15
bow hunting too, but she only got to hunt a couple days 'cause
22:18
she was like working. So I'm sitting the first day and
22:23
I'm like, this tree stand is awfully low and I'm going to
22:27
have to draw a bow and this feeder's like 22 yards.
22:30
So like, it's going to be hard to draw my bow and not get
22:33
busted, right? But so I'm waiting, waiting.
22:36
And then a little buck comes in and this little guy is so
22:40
spooky. I mean, he's just like on pins
22:44
and needles, anything happens. He's like flinching like this,
22:46
like a little bug flies by. He's like doing this.
22:49
So I'm like, this might be tricky.
22:51
You know, this might be tricky. I, I was under the impression if
22:54
I was sitting a feeder, a 200 inch would just walk out and
22:57
stand there and shoot them. That's what I thought.
22:59
You know, I, I guess I haven't flown that close to the sun yet,
23:03
but we're going to try. That's the dream, you know what
23:06
I mean? That's the dream and.
23:09
All those high fence tears, you know, running in with their 50
23:13
plus, you know, little antler horns and 300 inch.
23:21
I don't want one of those. Well, we'll see.
23:23
We'll see. Well, it's like a mutant.
23:25
Yeah, I ain't never hunting pretty soon.
23:28
I ain't never going back to these Brutal.
23:30
There's no way, you know. Going to get to January and be
23:34
like Take Me Home. This is peasant.
23:36
Work. I'm kidding.
23:37
I actually like those really hard hunts.
23:39
It's still my bread and butter. But like these mule deer right
23:41
here, both public land over the counter, very, very big bucks,
23:46
you know what I mean? And I got a whole shit load more
23:49
just like an outside. So that's still what I like to
23:52
do, you know what I mean? But these hunts are fun.
23:54
Trust me, I'm a big fan. And it does.
23:56
I wouldn't know, but it does make me feel sounds like it.
23:59
So emotional. So anyway, I'm sitting there and
24:02
a little while goes by and that buck kind of leaves, and then
24:07
another buck comes in, but he's also small.
24:10
So then that they both kind of leave.
24:11
And then, oh, at one point I saw a ton of deer up on a Ridge, but
24:15
they were like really far away, 300 yards or something.
24:20
And then right before kind of last lights getting there, maybe
24:24
10 minutes left, the light, I see this whole string of doze
24:27
coming in, you know, and they're coming.
24:29
So I stand up early because like I knew how skittish these deer
24:33
were. I'm see, I'm a pro at sitting
24:35
these feeders. So I'm standing up for like 15
24:39
minutes, right? And my hands are getting cold as
24:41
a bastard because I don't have gloves on.
24:43
I don't shoot with gloves on, so I'm standing there and I'm like
24:46
they good or get here quicker. I'm not going to be able to feel
24:48
my release, you know? It's cold as shit.
24:51
If you say that, I would have froze my.
24:53
Oh, yeah, yeah. So I'm standing there like this
24:55
with my bow resting on the little arm, which, reviewing the
24:58
footage, I realized was a mistake.
25:00
So I'm sitting like that, or standing, and then the doe's
25:04
come in and I'm finally I draw the bow and as I draw they kind
25:12
of spook but one of them. Made a mistake.
25:17
Stopped and I just like held the pin shot and I was like don't
25:24
hit him too high, don't hit him too high, don't hit him too
25:27
high. I let the arrow go.
25:28
I hit him a little bit too high, just a little bit too high.
25:33
He was dead in 20 seconds. But upon the footage it did, you
25:38
know, it did drop. So I that and I knew it would,
25:41
but I still didn't hit them. And then upon the footage, it
25:44
looks like all three of yours did.
25:48
They were all, you know, pinwheel shots.
25:51
But all three of them are are duck and turners.
25:54
And you know what? I think that, you know, should I
25:59
talk about all three of the situations I shouted out, or
26:02
should I wait to do the other two on the next pod after the
26:06
video's out? I got to maybe, maybe that.
26:09
So we'll save the next two stories and I don't want to
26:11
spoil them because I did get them all on film.
26:14
And but I will speak to the camp more.
26:18
You know, we had, like I said, all a bunch of people from Idea
26:21
Ranch who are fantastic, the president of Badlands and then
26:27
the guy who Blake, who's in charge of essentially all of the
26:32
marketing and, and things of that nature.
26:34
And then their filmer as well, who I got to look up his name.
26:42
I'm not the best with names. Was it Badlands marketing person
26:46
there or idea ranches? Blake's the marketing guy for.
26:51
Badlands. Yes.
26:52
Gotcha, gotcha. Yes, but the camera guy was my
26:57
boy. I feel bad that I'm but I'm I'm
26:59
ass with names. I'll just be honest with you,
27:02
Jordan. Jordan was the man too.
27:05
And then, you know, All in all, just really fun at camp.
27:11
A couple of the guys from bearded butchers YouTube channel
27:13
came and they were they were awesome.
27:16
One of them actually got a really nice buck, you know,
27:18
probably like 100 and mid to high 130 inch buck.
27:23
Really nice 8 pointer. Yeah.
27:25
And then Bree was there. Bree Cole Ho, I believe is how
27:30
you say it. Is that how you say?
27:31
It I have no idea. I'm just going I'm I'm sounding
27:34
it out. She was there.
27:35
She's awesome. She's a cook and I guess has ATV
27:38
show. I'm not sure what it's called,
27:39
but really fun vibe been with her.
27:41
She says her favorite is hunting birds with her dog and then like
27:46
cooking the bird meat is like her favorite.
27:48
So that was pretty neat. And then, yeah, the guys from
27:52
Deer and Deer Hunting were there and yeah, it was just a lot of
27:57
fun. A lot of content was gathered
28:00
and a lot of good times were had.
28:02
I mean, one thing I liked about it was they wanted kind of a old
28:07
school feel and it it was that, you know, I mean, we're camping
28:12
in tents, we're eating good food, everyone's hanging out,
28:15
sometimes late into the night late.
28:18
We're having a few libations potentially and.
28:22
Yeah, I think that was my favorite part about the applet.
28:24
Not application but the. Oh yeah.
28:27
Like I don't know what you call it just form for, you know?
28:30
It was a. Make sure they have all your
28:31
information. Yeah, it was like a multiple.
28:33
Choice Questionnaire. Questionnaire, that's what it
28:35
was before the trip. Yeah, Yep.
28:36
They had plenty of libations and lots of good food.
28:40
I mean, the first night we had rib eyes and or New York's and I
28:44
think also strips or flat iron. Sorry, yeah, New York strips,
28:51
rib eyes or flat irons and then really good sides.
28:57
The second day we had chicken fried steak that was catered
29:00
with like gravy and biscuits and stuff like that.
29:03
And then the third day we actually ate deer meat only from
29:07
deer we shot. Oh no, it's not your first time
29:11
eating whitetail because you had whitetail in Indiana.
29:14
We had it that one. Night.
29:15
Oh, which was good. Yeah, yeah.
29:16
How did you like? It.
29:17
Oh yeah, we did. Yeah, I remember.
29:18
That how did you like it this go around?
29:21
Great. Do you find it more or less
29:25
gamey than than mule deer? It was just prepared really well
29:28
and it was fresh, you know, so one of them had like a whiskey
29:35
marinade or something like that and that one of them was bacon
29:38
wrapped. Who made it that night?
29:41
Eric from Idea Ranch and one of the bearded butchers boys, they
29:46
actually both of them process the deer and then like set up
29:50
the cuts and then they cooked on.
29:53
Did you learn? That's the question I haven't
29:54
asked yet. Did you learn?
29:56
Like did you watch that or? Yeah, I did a little.
29:58
Bit anything different like the way that they process in Butcher
30:02
then like you do or? I mean, usually I'm just
30:06
quartering stuff nowadays again cuz I've, you know, I don't have
30:12
to do that anymore. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
30:15
But but usually I'm just quartering stuff and bringing it
30:19
to a butcher, you know? But when I did used to process.
30:22
But yeah, did they do anything? Oh, yeah.
30:24
I mean, when they were when they were like cutting up like, say a
30:28
hind leg to pull the actual cuts out of it.
30:31
I mean, it was so smooth. They're just like separating,
30:34
like, OK, this is this piece. This is this cut, this is this
30:38
cut. And then they're making them.
30:40
You would love it because they're making them like squeaky
30:42
clean. No silver strip, no nothing.
30:44
So cool. Oh, my favorite.
30:46
Whereas me, I'm just like, I'll just eat that.
30:48
You just said it all through the grinder and it's.
30:51
Disgusting. If it fits, it ships.
30:53
No, no, I'm over there like cutting every little piece off
30:57
now. That's cool though.
30:58
I was does it hanging when they processed it.
31:00
Yeah, from a John Deere. Yeah, That is, you guys don't do
31:05
it much out here, but it's harder because, like, you never
31:07
know where you're going to shoot a deer.
31:08
You could be two miles off the road.
31:10
You could be, you know, 100 yards off the road.
31:13
But tree stands sitting, it's just, it's just easier.
31:17
You know, you throw it in the back of your truck or whatever,
31:20
a Ranger, you drive it back to camp or your house and you hang
31:23
it up in the garage and you just you process it right there.
31:28
It definitely it saves time. I think on the back end where
31:33
you're like, oh, shoot, we have all this meat to still process.
31:36
We need to set a date and go through it all and pick up a
31:39
bunch of fat. Now you're just right there that
31:41
day it's hanging up. You process it, cut it all out
31:44
and, you know, wrap up your pieces that you're not going to
31:48
ground. And basically the only thing you
31:49
ever got to take to a butcher is what you want to ground if you
31:52
don't do it yourself. But you know, I like all the
31:54
flavors. You know, and, and I mean, yeah,
31:58
it was, it was just a great trip.
31:59
They really nailed it. It was like, it was definitely
32:03
like hunting first and foremost. We're always to stands on time,
32:06
like everything was dialed hunting wise, but then it wasn't
32:11
like like strict on schedule either, which I liked other than
32:16
being strict about getting in the stand and.
32:19
Get up on time. Yeah, for most people got up on
32:22
time, but. Then you don't say who.
32:25
Can't leak. Because somebody did not make it
32:27
there. Was one guy who did not make it
32:29
out of bed very easily. But like multiple times, yeah.
32:33
Oh man. Yeah, and I'm like, I would.
32:36
We wouldn't be the great hunting buddies.
32:38
No, no, you're about as energized as the Energizer
32:42
Bunny. 4:00 AM. I'm a lunatic for sure.
32:45
Ridiculous. But now a really good hunt and I
32:48
will say this too, the Badlands gear I was super impressed with.
32:52
I haven't. I have used it on a couple of
32:55
hunts but not. And you know Ted swears by it.
32:58
He has for a long time. I'm not using it or I have not
33:01
yet used it on kind of like my style of hunting like which
33:05
you're about to. I'm about to, but so far it's
33:08
passed every every test I had and I'm pretty picky with gear.
33:11
So I'm really excited to get out to.
33:14
The rug and. Really put it through the hammer
33:16
and see. And then I'm hoping, you know,
33:18
it'd be really cool to get a relationship with them moving
33:21
into the future. So we'll just have to see what
33:23
happens. But the hunt was great and yeah,
33:27
hopefully you get to do it again.
33:28
You know, it was a cool opportunity and I'm super
33:32
grateful to get to go. It definitely seems like a
33:34
company that it's it's fun when you get to do that stuff because
33:38
like it's like a little like sneak peeks behind the scenes
33:41
kind of stuff to like you see these companies and ads,
33:45
commercials at Expos, you know, online, whatever.
33:49
But like to sneak, you know, a peek behind the curtain and see
33:53
what they do, whether it's, you know, Badlands because they work
33:58
with Idea Ranch because like somebody owns the leash.
34:00
I think you said it's Idea Ranch, right?
34:03
Well, I mean they lease it. Well, yeah, but that's what I
34:06
mean. They own the like they pay for
34:10
the lease. Yeah, I believe so.
34:11
But to like go out of the way to cooperate with their their
34:16
companies they work with and then Badlands to reach out and
34:20
say like, you know, all right, like let's work with you in the
34:25
future. Then if if that happens or
34:27
whatnot. But it's just a nice fun peek to
34:30
see like companies that are working together and like, it's
34:35
not all corporate. It's still like home grown, you
34:38
know? Super home grown and it didn't
34:40
feel corporate at all like it felt like real just home towny
34:44
and fun and and like I said is. It almost like when you hear it,
34:47
it sounds like, which is still cool, like if that were my
34:49
company's like holiday Christmas party was a, you know, retreat
34:53
to Elise and go shoot deer. You know, all for it.
34:58
But, you know, it's like, it didn't seem like a corporate
35:03
getaway. No, no, no, not at all.
35:05
It was very. Like I said, my chocolates back
35:07
up. No, it was very hometown Y and a
35:11
really good time. And like I said, I mean, if I
35:13
never like if this was a one off I get to go with on this hunt
35:17
one time, I'm super grateful for it.
35:19
And if I get to go more times, that's even better.
35:22
So we'll just wait and see. But yeah, I mean, aside from
35:26
maybe I might try to get out local hunting a couple more
35:29
times before season ends and see if I can get a local deer.
35:35
But other than that, I mean the years.
35:37
Pretty much like the a local deer.
35:39
Oh, you want to go travel? I I don't have one.
35:41
Yeah. How many do you have?
35:45
Just a couple. How can you give me a rough
35:47
estimate you? Know local deer?
35:49
Yeah, like more than the 10 fingers that you have.
35:51
Oh yeah, definitely. Huh.
35:53
And I've I will. I got.
35:55
AI will say this. I just take all my fingers away.
35:58
I will say this too, I have probably antler wise I bet you I
36:04
have shot a top $3 all time in D16 I bet.
36:09
Of like all buck shot in. D16 I bet I have of all time I.
36:13
Where's that one in Ramona, No. It's in the, it's in here, it's,
36:16
it's. Is it the one that's in there?
36:18
It's in the not the girthy 1, the big old 4. 4 by 4 it's
36:21
probably like 100 and I don't know 35.
36:23
Inches. The girthy one or the other one?
36:27
You don't like that word? Should I try a different one?
36:29
It's the thinner 1. The skinnier 1.
36:31
Skinnier. Yeah, not girthy.
36:34
No. The other one in there, it's got
36:36
some girth. That's a Buckeye.
36:37
Shot. That's a honker.
36:39
I mean I almost takes 2 hands. That's the Buckeye.
36:41
That's a Buckeye shot in Arizona.
36:44
Which, by the way. That's insane.
36:45
That's an insane buck. So I've had that over the
36:47
counter tag. I was.
36:50
It sucks. It sucks.
36:51
It's one of the things I regret in life, which is not many, but
36:55
we did the javelina hunt every year or I have since like I I
36:59
don't 98 like I've been going on that hunt for a long time.
37:02
Every year going on the javelina hunt.
37:04
I was so stupid. We didn't because we were we
37:08
didn't have the resources. We weren't buying the deer tag
37:11
ever like which is looking back, I'm so bummed.
37:15
So I didn't start buying the OTC deer tag till 2016 and I've
37:20
bought it ever since. So you know that like that's
37:23
like I don't know how many seasons of 161718192021222320
37:29
that's 9 seasons so far I have filled it on really big bucks 8
37:35
times. I did not fill it one year.
37:38
And the reason, the reason was I guess I wasn't good enough, but
37:42
I was passing bucks in January that, you know, I could have
37:45
shot and I was waiting to shoot a really big one.
37:48
I couldn't hunt in the summer, I believe because.
37:53
I can't remember what year was it that you didn't. 21 I think,
37:58
or maybe 22. I was injured too.
38:00
Then I had an injury and I was in the hospital a bunch.
38:04
Because I met you in 21 and you were on a summer hunt.
38:11
That's why I wasn't there, I think, because I was on a
38:13
different hunt in another state. You were in New Mexico.
38:15
And then and then I got that face infection.
38:18
Did you know me when I got that? Face.
38:20
That was 2020 then. So maybe it was 2020, but there
38:23
was one year I didn't fill it and it was because I got this
38:26
really, really bad infection. So I couldn't go out in December
38:29
for most of the month because I had to like I was doing all
38:33
these tests and and then finally when I got good to go, it was
38:36
only like a handful of days in December I could go hunt.
38:40
Was just bad. It's not enough.
38:41
And I got out there. No, it was, it was I found this
38:45
nice buck. I put in a killer stock.
38:47
I get right up to him. It's like 60 yards.
38:50
I draw back. It's windy as a bastard.
38:54
And I held it for a so long and I finally let the shot go and I
38:58
missed under him and that was it.
39:00
So I, so I have filled it every time except one on really big
39:07
bucks and I'm, I'm very proud of that.
39:09
You know, that's what, that's the stuff that makes me proud.
39:12
That and like doing 3 over the counter elk hunts and shooting
39:15
an ice bowl on all of them. Like that's the stuff that makes
39:18
me proud because I know that some of the locals that are like
39:21
always been jealous of me are going to like make fun of me for
39:25
hunting feeders. Like I guarantee that's going to
39:28
happen, but they also don't have over the counter bowls or bucks
39:32
and if they do, they're small and mine are not.
39:34
So I mean in the all nine are with a bow.
39:36
So it's like, I don't feel like I need to defend myself.
39:40
Talent. Wise not that guns are bad.
39:42
No, no, no, no, I have no issue with gun hunting at all.
39:45
But I'm just saying, like I've gotten to a point where I don't
39:51
feel that I need to ever defend my hunting skills.
39:55
But there are times where I think, you know, as I do more
40:00
private land stuff and more lease stuff, and I'm sure I'll
40:03
get more opportunities like that.
40:05
I do always. Get a few more people who voice
40:08
their their hate. Yeah, or they might not know,
40:10
they might not be educated. So I'm going to be sure to keep
40:12
whacking stuff over the counter on really hards hunt.
40:15
So that way, you know, if people try to discredit me, it's like,
40:18
well bitch, you haven't done this.
40:20
You know what? I.
40:21
Mean. Yeah, but it's true, you know,
40:24
And sometimes I love to just backhand people, too.
40:26
What was that, Ted? I do Well, that was a good one
40:33
there. What a good.
40:35
Well, I'm I'm, I'm 2 for two. I'm not going to jinx it.
40:39
I will knock on wood right now. Think somebody knocked at the
40:45
door? He does.
40:47
Yeah, he does. I'll be nobody's there.
40:48
You're 2 for two. You're 2 for yes.
40:51
Give him a moment. One for two on elf, one for one
40:56
on peccaries, yeah. Yeah, the first.
41:02
Do you think you could have done all of those hunts with no
41:05
guides? No, absolutely not.
41:08
But it still counts, yeah. Does it count if you have a
41:10
guide or does it only? Count.
41:14
I think it depends on the Alice Come here.
41:24
I think it depends on how much the guide is guiding you like
41:30
the the first year that that Coos that like I would I'd call
41:34
it like a kind of stock it. Was a stock 100%.
41:37
I know you always say that but you're wrong.
41:38
It was a stock. Yeah, and.
41:40
Nobody knows more about this than me.
41:42
Yeah, for sure. Nobody ever but that one.
41:47
I mean, I don't know that it would have been possible because
41:52
like we literally, you know, you told me where to run.
41:55
We ran. You tell me, come up to that
41:57
knob. I came up to the knob.
41:59
You came up behind me and then you said over there, it's right
42:02
there. And I looked and it was right
42:04
there. How about the one where we and
42:05
then you told me when to shoot? How about the one where we
42:07
crawled through the snow for like an hour and a half?
42:12
Again, I don't know still, because I think I could have
42:16
gotten to that point, but I don't know if I would have been
42:19
patient enough to wait as long as we waited once we pulled up
42:24
and and, you know, dropped anchors and.
42:28
Dropped anchors. And and waited it out.
42:32
So I will say, I know you're, you know, you're in a little bit
42:37
of a like fly the coop thing, but I don't quite think I'm fly
42:44
the coop ready yet. Oh, you mean like like go?
42:48
On out by yourself, not just by not by myself, but like this is
42:52
hard to hunt spot and stock by yourself without like.
42:55
Well, most of the times I'm filming, you know, if you go on
42:58
a stock, I'll be filming and then.
43:00
We want it on film and. Then I'm obviously able to, you
43:03
know, drop a few, drop a few nugs.
43:05
But do I think that, like, if you know, if you weren't getting
43:09
it on film, like it's time to be like, go stock it by yourself?
43:16
I would like to try and see what happens.
43:20
Do I think I'll be successful? Sure, why not?
43:24
We'll see. Yeah, I do think I have pretty
43:27
good judgement skills when out there on a stock.
43:33
Yeah, you just got like as far as making the.
43:35
Call to get less less clunky in the 4th.
43:37
Quarter, yeah, that's the thing. I think getting to them is not
43:40
not too, I wouldn't say not too hard for me, but like that is
43:44
not the challenge. I also think you would struggle
43:46
to go to the wrong place if you didn't have someone.
43:48
Help. That too.
43:49
I'm very bad directionally. I I agree, and a lot of people
43:52
struggle with that because it's really hard to go to the right
43:54
place. Well, just topography looks
43:56
different once you're down there in the topography than what
43:59
you're seeing through the, I mean take.
44:01
Take take the hunt we did in July when we were stalking.
44:04
I was dead set. You were going the wrong
44:06
direction. So yeah, everyone was.
44:08
And I got, no, I'm telling you, it's right here.
44:09
And then the deer was right there.
44:11
But like I've that's something I've always been good at is
44:14
being able to go to the right spot, remembering the terrain.
44:17
But it's really hard. And I think what happens is a
44:20
lot of times before someone goes on a stalk, I think they're like
44:23
too amped up and they don't even look or study and try.
44:27
To that was what I was about to say is like take a few minutes.
44:30
A lot. I'll sit there sometimes for
44:32
like 15 minutes and then go, OK, I think I got it and then I'll
44:37
go. They're so afraid, I think, that
44:38
that deer or whatever animal's going to get away.
44:41
What I always say is an animal is not going to leave unless you
44:44
make them. I've had it maybe once where an
44:49
animal just left on me that I didn't spook one time out of I
44:53
don't know how. Like I've done a lot of stocks.
44:55
It's if you don't bump them, they're going to post up most of
44:59
the time. Yeah, and, but yeah, no and.
45:01
You can see so much through your vinos that like they might
45:05
venture off, they might be done feeding the.
45:07
Dead shot this year is a perfect example.
45:09
That deer bumped a bunch and he just, all he did was just stay
45:12
with him and then eventually got close enough to shoot.
45:14
Him, well, I wouldn't even say that.
45:18
Maybe one time it was bumping but like.
45:20
No, I'm saying the deer was moving.
45:22
Oh yeah, they were just naturally feeding.
45:24
This is what I'm saying and and see that's my point.
45:26
Sure, the deer moved, but it didn't spook.
45:30
It was only going to spook if Ted made it spook, but he didn't
45:34
right. And it just took a lot of
45:35
adjustments. But I'm I'm excited for this
45:38
year. I mean, I have a buck I got
45:39
really close to getting last year, but I would I would really
45:43
love to find again so that. And if we see him again?
45:47
That's what I'm hoping is I find him again and I think I will
45:49
find him again. I I doubt anyone got him in
45:51
rifle season. So my goal is to find that buck
45:56
and hopefully be able to hunt him again and.
45:59
I want those Coos out there. Oh, it's great Coos.
46:02
Yeah. So there's a lot of fun stuff.
46:03
I can't wait. And it'll just be exciting.
46:07
I'm excited to get back on and kind of like the hunt what I do,
46:12
you know, that's like, that's like my bread and butter hunt.
46:14
So I'm really excited for that. And then, you know, I think
46:19
another little fun topic is I finally got my target rig up and
46:23
going. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
46:26
yeah. I completely forgot about.
46:27
That Yep, got the target rig going.
46:29
The video readjust. The video's live right now,
46:32
actually. Correct.
46:35
So it's basically a bow tech reckoning 39 Gen. 2.
46:40
It's kind of a. 39 or 29? It's a 3939.
46:44
Have you seen how long that bow is?
46:46
Yeah, that number means the length.
46:48
For some reason I thought it was called the reckoning 29.
46:51
I don't know why, but I know it's 39.
46:53
It's a 39. Anyways, continue.
46:55
Continue. So the video is me getting the
46:58
bow built at the bow and arrow shop by Joe and Joe kind of I
47:06
just said, hey, build it how you would because I don't know
47:09
anything about this target stuff.
47:11
You do shoot target, so set it how you want and then I'll shoot
47:17
it for a while and go from there.
47:18
That'll be like my start and I'll tweak it from there so we
47:22
get it set up. He was nice enough to lend me
47:25
some arrows till I get mine built and he even lent me AV bar
47:31
and a front bar. So like a $500 in bars or more
47:35
he lent me to use. So I'm running I think a 27 inch
47:39
up front if I recall, and two fifteens out the back.
47:43
And how are you enjoying that? Well so in the shop I was
47:48
shooting and right away he put the biggest dot on the site and
47:54
it's got a six sense 6 power lens on my UV sight.
47:58
I'm sorry, it's a black gold sight rail with AUV scope and my
48:02
scope has 6 power in it and he likes a big dot, right?
48:06
And he explained why and in my head I was like, I don't think
48:09
I'll like that, but like I said, I'm going to let him set it up
48:11
and then I'll go from there. So then some time goes by doing
48:18
stuff and I'm like itching to shoot it.
48:21
Finally get to go over to Chuck's house.
48:22
I shoot it on the baseball game, get it dialed at 20.
48:25
So I knew it was good at 20. I was hitting the same spot, you
48:27
know? Then we go to performance to
48:32
shoot, to shoot indoor right, which you can do also at
48:36
Lionheart, but they don't open till 4, which didn't work for us
48:40
and I had to get it done before we went to Oklahoma.
48:43
That was the next video in the pipe.
48:45
So then we go to performance, get the target up there, do a
48:50
couple practice shots. They were all right in the
48:52
center, you know, so I said all right, let's run the tape.
48:56
So we start shooting and I think I was good for, I don't remember
49:00
the first four rounds or something was just clear in 10s
49:03
and XS and then yeah, broken. I shot A9.
49:08
It's just out a little bit and then I shot one really bad shot.
49:12
But the interesting part is the shot that I hit an 8 on, I
49:15
actually felt like that shot was in the center.
49:20
And I am not a guy who blames equipment for something.
49:24
I'm just saying it was odd. I'm sure I just made a bad shot
49:27
and it felt nice but it looked like I broke it in the center
49:30
you know? So I don't know.
49:31
Then I missed one more 9 and then the rest were 10 and XS.
49:34
So I got 19XS2 nines and 1/8. And setup wise I do like the bow
49:43
a lot. I think I am going to try a
49:47
smaller dot like I said on the scope.
49:50
That's one change I want to make.
49:52
And then what about the scope? Because they make the smaller
49:55
and the bigger. I may try the smaller scope as
49:57
well, but I definitely want to change the color of the dot.
50:02
I had a green dot, I couldn't see it for shit hardly.
50:05
It really blended with the target.
50:07
So Pedra suggested I tried black, but then another guy who
50:11
I really trust on target stuff said blue.
50:13
So I'm going to try black and blue and see which one I see
50:16
better. Bars.
50:19
I think we're fine. I do think I might try a lizard
50:23
tongue rest rather than a drop away for indoor.
50:26
I just think there's more variables with the drop away
50:29
that you can eliminate with a lizard tongue.
50:32
And then lastly, I may try more magnification.
50:37
I may try an 8 rather than a six.
50:42
And then I'll start, I'll probably make a few of those
50:45
changes. Actually, I'll probably, I think
50:47
I'm going to shoot it one more time with how the bow is now.
50:50
Then I'm going to change it from there.
50:52
And I'll probably start with all those other changes, leave the
50:55
bars how they are until Joe needs them back.
50:59
And then after that start to maybe try to adjust the bars a
51:03
little bit. But a guy left a comment on the
51:06
video that I thought was like really good.
51:10
And when you when you when you draw a bow with that much weight
51:16
on it and you hit the back wall and then come into your anchor,
51:20
it waggles for a while, right, because the bar is going to stop
51:23
moving. And I don't know why I never
51:26
thought of this, but he said, hey, if you try to like, draw
51:31
extra, extra smooth, your bow will stabilize faster and you
51:37
won't have to wait for it to waggle.
51:40
Yeah. And I was like.
51:41
Ginormous. I was like in the front.
51:43
It's genius, like I never thought of that, so shout out to
51:47
whoever said that comment, but I'm also going to just same, I'm
51:50
going to draw, just make it smoother and not hit that.
51:54
When you hit the back wall, that's when you 'cause that
51:56
shake. So I'm just going to try to get
51:57
into the back wall really, really easy and then maybe even
52:01
break the shots a little quicker.
52:03
I already break shots fast, you know, it's kind of my thing, but
52:06
I think I can get it even a little quicker with that tip.
52:11
So I would guess I'll do a 300 the next time I shoot, but we'll
52:17
see, you know, and definitely a couple of those changes will
52:20
help. You know, I mean, I did it cold
52:23
Turkey with a setup that, like I said, someone else set up and he
52:28
did a great job and I think it's a really good starting point.
52:31
But now I need to and I got to do it more.
52:34
You know what I haven't. Yeah, that's the, I mean it's
52:38
kind of tough. It's just everything is close in
52:43
San Diego, but also not quite because of traffic.
52:47
So what you know should be a 10 to 15 minute drive, even to
52:52
maybe 15 to performance is like a 25 minute drive because of
52:57
traffic, because you got to take highways.
52:58
Yeah, and then Lionheart is not open till 4.
53:01
And then traffic on a Saturday. Which I'm OK with doing on a
53:04
Saturday and I think I may start doing that.
53:07
I don't mind weekends, I just. I just not want to drive after
53:09
four and then I. Do wish we had more indoor
53:12
options. And then I do think I'm going to
53:13
start shooting at Morley Moore. Granted, it's outside, but in
53:18
the morning when it's dead, there's not really much wind.
53:22
The main difference will be the lighting will be a little
53:25
different, but I still think that is better practice than
53:29
only going and practicing indoors.
53:31
So I think. Well, especially if you want to
53:33
use it like if you want to use the target and more outdoor 3DS
53:37
this year, you should be used to using that target and that scope
53:43
outside as well. Yeah, and I got to learn how to
53:45
even adjust it for yardage. Like I don't know how to do that
53:48
yet. So double changes, but people
53:52
seem to really like the video. People seem to be as excited as
53:56
I am to kind of see how the journey goes.
53:58
And I think it'll go really well.
54:00
I mean, I, I think so we'll see. And yeah, I mean, like I said,
54:06
that video is up now. Got another video, the from
54:10
Oklahoma Hunt coming this coming Sunday and this pod obviously on
54:16
Wednesday. So pods are going to be coming
54:17
every Wednesday, flagship videos, of course, every Sunday.
54:22
And then as usual, short form, like all the time, you know, and
54:25
big, big thing I want to touch on is we're giving away the the
54:29
fully built core Sr. with a, you know, limb driven rest, dual
54:35
track sight, aim for a pass through stabilizer.
54:38
It's even going to have a set of brand new unbound strings I'm
54:41
going to get put on there and a quiver, airlock quiver.
54:45
So yeah, she's up, up for grabs. Every $10 spent on
54:50
bowdisciples.com is an entry and you have now till December 24th
54:56
through December 24th to get entered.
55:00
You're announcing it Christmas. We're going to announce it
55:02
Christmas morning, which I think is a lot of fun, you know, so
55:06
someone for Christmas is going to win a bow, and I think that's
55:08
pretty sick. So get in on that and good luck
55:11
to whoever puts in. I hope, I hope whoever wins it,
55:15
you know, loves that bow as much as I did because I really liked
55:17
it. And yeah, just be sure you know,
55:22
five stars on Spotify, five stars on Apple.
55:26
Or Apple. Subscribe to YouTube for the
55:30
podcast and the channel. And that's it.
55:33
I'd appreciate it. And we're going to keep doing
55:36
the pod because it's been a lot of fun and I think we can get
55:41
maybe one or two more episodes with the Christmas setting.
55:44
It's phenomenal. Don't you love my Christmas
55:46
tree? I do actually like it, yeah,
55:47
it's quite nice. Yes, it's very well organized.
55:50
Yeah, I helped put it together. Yeah, I had to move a few
55:52
ornaments, but you did good. Yeah.
55:55
Oh, and then, you know, I've been a huge fan of musicals
55:59
lately. Oh gosh.
56:00
A. Big fan.
56:02
Yeah, yeah, you have. I think I I created a monster
56:05
with that one. But they're just so good.
56:07
They're just so good. Wicked's phenomenal.
56:10
I will say, especially the back half was phenomenal.
56:15
Once they became friends, that's when the movie really slapped.
56:18
Yeah, but it was great. What a good movie, huh?
56:22
And then I watched Frozen, and Frozen's out of here.
56:25
Yeah. Are you tried frozen 2 but you
56:27
fell asleep? I love Frozen 2 too but I just
56:30
could not stay away. So today we're going to watch
56:32
what? Moana.
56:33
Yes, we are. Because I love we are.
56:36
Stitch Yeah, it's very lilo and stitchy by.
56:39
Lilo and Stitch. This is a hot take.
56:42
I think it's one of the better animated Disney movies.
56:44
I'm serious and we looked it up on like a ranker list and they
56:50
did have it pretty high. And you?
56:52
You got to admit when I, when I show hold on, when I showed you
56:55
Lilo and Stitch, 'cause I don't think you had seen it.
56:57
I yeah way. Back in the day you were like,
56:59
it's ass, I go, I'm telling you it's not.
57:01
And then you watched it and at the end I go, what do you think?
57:03
You had to admit, it was really. Good.
57:05
It was good. It was good.
57:07
Once Lilo becomes, like, cute and nice.
57:10
Yeah. Or Stitch.
57:12
When Stitch does, then Alby's licking me.
57:14
He's being very needy. Oh.
57:20
That's. One I forgot and then two I
57:22
smelt the cat litter. Oh my.
57:24
God, and that's the end of this pod because I got to go wash,
57:27
all right? Thank you everybody for
57:29
watching. You're nasty.
57:31
Enter to win that bow and we'll see you in the next one.
57:34
Yes.