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Ep. 465: A Truck Story That’s A Love Story · The MeatEater Podcast

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  Speaker 1: to share in this event with us is as though
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  Speaker 1: dealing poker, not the dealer.
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  Speaker 4: Clay nukelemb Yeah, Clay nukelemb here, glad to be here, Gamble.
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  Speaker 3: That's probably why you don't know what I'm not as
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  Speaker 3: No dealing old maid.
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  Speaker 5: Little horse, little horse racing, dealing old maid Texas hold
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  Speaker 5: them yeah, Clay nukelemb from Barrier's podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Casey Smith Casey Smith from The Element, Tyler Jones, Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Jones from The Element.
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  Speaker 4: Big Truck Guys out Here, Chester Floyd.
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  Speaker 6: One time I won rent money off of a poker game.
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  Speaker 1: Chesterha has a big concert coming up the har Dady
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  Speaker 1: asked him how long till the concert? When was the concert?
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  Speaker 1: And he gave it to me in hours days and
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  Speaker 1: said he wasn't nervous, but the fact that he knew
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  Speaker 1: how many hours the way it was suggested nervousness.
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  Speaker 6: No, I'm excited. I saw a great concert last night
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  Speaker 6: Paul Coffin, and I took some mental notes of performing
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  Speaker 6: and it should be fine.
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  Speaker 3: The Big Velvet they call him, do you know that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 3: I like that guy.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's good, talented.
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  Speaker 3: I texted him about coming on the show. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: should get him. Well, he's like referred me out. It's
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  Speaker 3: just got complicated.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, was like head talk to like the manager is.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're out there at Paul Cough, we still
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  Speaker 1: like to have you come on the show. I just
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  Speaker 1: want to like not have to make it so complicated.
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  Speaker 7: Ye.
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  Speaker 3: Jason, Jason Phelps cutting the Distance.
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  Speaker 8: And Dirk Durham cutting the distance.
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  Speaker 9: And you boys are going weekly. We are changing it
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  Speaker 9: up from bi weekly to weekly. Yeah twice, How are
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  Speaker 9: you gonna double the output?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Just add Dirk every other week? So right now I'm
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  Speaker 9: every you just got to every other week.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're cutting the Distance podcast fan, now you
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  Speaker 1: can listen to every week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? What if that cuts into my listenership?
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  Speaker 4: Here?
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  Speaker 3: It shouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: Should the name of the podcast now not be twice
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  Speaker 4: as long as opposed to cutting the Distance?
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  Speaker 3: Brent?
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Who's Who's gonna start out? I mean I could tell
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  Speaker 1: my story. I could tell my truck story and listen,
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  Speaker 1: my story is so old I had to call I
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  Speaker 1: had to call the person it's about to go over
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  Speaker 1: all the details this morning.
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  Speaker 2: You should?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think I think this is what we
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  Speaker 4: should do. I think we should go around the table
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  Speaker 4: rate our story based upon the what how we think
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  Speaker 4: the world is going to perceive it, and then you
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  Speaker 4: could assign because you know, I may have like a
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  Speaker 4: really happy, fun story about family that people are gonna go, oh,
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  Speaker 4: that was cute. And you may have a story about
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  Speaker 4: a truck, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, inferno.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you may we may order it a certain way.
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  Speaker 4: I would say mine is like a It is like
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  Speaker 4: a four point eight on the scale of like fun
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  Speaker 4: And then there's a smaller story that's like a seven.
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  Speaker 4: It's got a great punchline.
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  Speaker 1: Mine is a is maybe a seven, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: love story. Listen, you're gonna think it's about wrestling in Infernos.
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  Speaker 3: It's a love story.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to be What about you, guys.
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  Speaker 8: I think everybody thinks their own story is the best.
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  Speaker 10: Usually.
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  Speaker 3: I gave mine a seven, but you know that's the
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  Speaker 3: best we got to offer seven.
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  Speaker 6: I don't I don't think mine it would be the best.
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  Speaker 9: But you know, mine just got like a funny part
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  Speaker 9: at the end, and then like it's a lot of
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  Speaker 9: a lot of build up to a funny and then
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  Speaker 9: there's a predator issue at the end. You know, poor
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  Speaker 9: Kren had to really talk to a lot of people
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  Speaker 9: to find a room full of people with a good
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  Speaker 9: truck story. So you guys better bring it.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm, it's gonna be good. What are you guys rating?
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  Speaker 11: Mmm?
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  Speaker 2: I'm I like to under rate but overachieve, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like four, probably because I don't know how people perceive
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  Speaker 2: out of ten.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, you know, my jersey never was a five, So
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  Speaker 11: I'm gonna go with that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, who goes first? You had the highest number at seven.
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  Speaker 3: Here you go.
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  Speaker 11: Okay, So that's for last though, right.
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  Speaker 3: What's that stories?
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  Speaker 10: No?
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  Speaker 3: No, no one story.
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  Speaker 1: I got one story that I'm very committed to and
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  Speaker 1: I even made phone calls about it, so I'm there's
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  Speaker 1: no backing out now, Clay, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: I was just gonna say this. This isn't even on
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  Speaker 4: my roster of stories, but just to get as started.
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  Speaker 4: When I was a junior in high school, I had
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  Speaker 4: a four wheel drive pickup truck.
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  Speaker 3: This is the story or not.
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  Speaker 4: This is not the story. This is a appetizer story.
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  Speaker 4: And I started complaining to my dad that there was
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  Speaker 4: there was mud getting into the cab of the truck.
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  Speaker 4: I said, Dad, the cab of my truck leaks. There's
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  Speaker 4: something wrong with my truck. I don't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: And so we were like, what's wrong with this truck?
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  Speaker 4: And a few weeks later, is back when we developed film.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you had film cameras and you took to
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  Speaker 4: the store and got filmed. Well, he took a camera
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  Speaker 4: to the to Walmart, got the film developed, and there
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  Speaker 4: was a picture of me in my truck and you
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  Speaker 4: could not see the truck. I was, I was deep.
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  Speaker 4: I was, I was you know, rear view, like side mirror,
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  Speaker 4: deep in mud, going like twenty miles an hour. And
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  Speaker 4: he came home with a photo and said, Clay, this
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  Speaker 4: is why your truck leaks. And it never occurred to me.
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  Speaker 4: So that's your appetizer story. That truck was an incredible truck.
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  Speaker 4: It was a it was a it was a reclaimed,
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  Speaker 4: it had been salvaged, had a salvage title because it
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  Speaker 4: had been in a flood somewhere down south. And so
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  Speaker 4: for like eight years while I had it, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: have it for eight years. However long I had it,
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  Speaker 4: it blew sand when you turn on the air conditioner,
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  Speaker 4: had like wearing glasses in the truck was blowing sand ambience.
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  Speaker 4: That would mean that wasn't even my story.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, are you going to do I go out No.
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  Speaker 4: That somebody else. I passed it off. Now right, well, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Feel like the main course comes after the appetizer.
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  Speaker 11: I'll go, okay, all right, I'm tired of this.
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  Speaker 3: All right, gell and buckle up for a four.
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  Speaker 11: Let's go Uh, okay, so I'll start it.
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  Speaker 5: Uh. You know last song was on the podcast you
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  Speaker 5: had talked about kind of our story and it involves
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  Speaker 5: being a true white tail bone. So just completely broke
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  Speaker 5: trying to kill white tail deer on video and make
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  Speaker 5: something you know that we can people would like, right,
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  Speaker 5: So we Uh I had. I was living basically.
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  Speaker 11: In my truck for the season.
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  Speaker 5: I mean like I would camp some, but I would
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  Speaker 5: sleep in the back seat. And so I had uh
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  Speaker 5: I had a let's see two thousand and seven half ton,
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  Speaker 5: is that acceptable you're staying and and I killed a
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  Speaker 5: couple deer that year, one on Texas public land, which
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  Speaker 5: was my first Texas public land buck that I killed.
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  Speaker 11: This is twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 5: And then we spent I had an Iowa tag, which
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  Speaker 5: is like a five year draw. I mean it's like
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  Speaker 5: and it's six hundred bucks you got to put in
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  Speaker 5: every year. It's like fifty bucks, sixty bucks every year.
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  Speaker 5: So you're like racking up an expensive tag for a
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  Speaker 5: whitetail deer, I mean close to one thousand bucks probably.
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  Speaker 5: So it's an important tag. It's you have the chance
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  Speaker 5: of shooting the biggest buck you've ever you know, seen
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  Speaker 5: in Iowa. It's just it's the greatest state in my
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  Speaker 5: opinion for deer hunting. So anyway, the first time we
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  Speaker 5: went up there was in October, and Case and I
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  Speaker 5: went together and we hunted last part of October all
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  Speaker 5: the way up to Halloween, like eight days, and there
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  Speaker 5: was like two snowing events, and I mean, we're from Texas,
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  Speaker 5: so that doesn't happen in October. We get up there
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  Speaker 5: and have a pretty good hunt, we don't kill a deer.
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  Speaker 5: So I got to go back. Well, on the way home,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to edit some footage, so I get the
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  Speaker 5: computer out. He takes my keys, and we were driving
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  Speaker 5: right and uh, we get down into Missouri and it's
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  Speaker 5: it's icy, and we come up over this big hill
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  Speaker 5: and it's just flat prairie, you know, come.
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  Speaker 11: Up with this big hill.
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  Speaker 5: It's pretty ice. So we've been driving for like two
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  Speaker 5: or three hours and I'm like, hey, look at that
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  Speaker 5: eighteen wheeler right there. It's turned over. And about that time,
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  Speaker 5: it was like the top of the hill turned and
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  Speaker 5: went to the left and we just kept going and
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  Speaker 5: black Eyes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: And it was like there was a bunch of cars
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  Speaker 5: that had the same problem that day. But I mean
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  Speaker 5: we tore through a fence like two hundred yards of
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  Speaker 5: pasture I had. I had a tree about that big
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  Speaker 5: around that was coming right at me in the pastures.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm held as he held his hands out as
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  Speaker 1: though gripping Clay's head.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, a solid tree, like you don't want to
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  Speaker 5: hit that, you know, And it came so close it
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  Speaker 5: blew the mirror off side.
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  Speaker 8: For sure.
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  Speaker 5: And then and it was like it was deep snow,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Well we somehow I'll come to a stop. Finally,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, way out in this pasture. We limped the
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  Speaker 5: truck back up to the road and got it fixed
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  Speaker 5: that day. Enough, it had broken a tyrod or something,
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  Speaker 5: and so anyway, ended up getting it fixed that day
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  Speaker 5: and made it home that night with no rearview mirror
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  Speaker 5: on one side and like some of the lights weren't working.
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  Speaker 5: But uh, you know, I got to borrow a truck
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  Speaker 5: and come back in the rut because it was a
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  Speaker 5: special tag. So I come back in December and I'm
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  Speaker 5: doing and I'm literally I leave my house with a
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  Speaker 5: dollar sixty seven in my account. I had played, I
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  Speaker 5: played guitar, I had played a show and I made
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  Speaker 5: like two hundred bucks, which is pretty good.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting.
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  Speaker 11: I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you the venue name later on. You know,
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  Speaker 5: get to Inner Bucks, you know, pretty easy. Uh, but
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  Speaker 5: I I had the cash, so that was what I
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  Speaker 5: was gonna pay for gas to get up there, and
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  Speaker 5: I was gonnaigure it out. I think we were supposed
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  Speaker 5: to have like a deposit. Happened, you know, happened when
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  Speaker 5: I was up there. But my wife, she's been very
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  Speaker 5: faithful through this whole thing.
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  Speaker 11: So, uh, we get up.
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  Speaker 5: I get up there and I'm by myself and I
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  Speaker 5: have to sleep. I have no money, so I have
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  Speaker 5: to sleep in the back of this this new truck
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  Speaker 5: that I got, and I'm borrowing across it in a
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  Speaker 5: sleeping bag. It's it's cold out, and I'm in a
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  Speaker 5: Casey's parking lot.
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  Speaker 11: You know what a Casey's is anybody?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like a convenient Uh, the general store, some pizza,
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  Speaker 5: they have great pizza. You can get gas there, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you can't get gas there, and so anyway, I mean
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  Speaker 5: it was just terrible, like all night, just big trucks
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  Speaker 5: were coming in and waking me up. I slept terribly,
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  Speaker 5: but I end up like the third or fourth day
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  Speaker 5: that I was there on that trip, I'm hanging like
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  Speaker 5: eighty yards off the road. This road was too too
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  Speaker 5: slick to for cars to come through at the time,
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  Speaker 5: it had been raining. And uh, I see a deer
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  Speaker 5: pass across the road and then I hear the buck
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  Speaker 5: before I ever saw him, and I thought it was
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  Speaker 5: a motorcycle coming down the road.
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  Speaker 11: He was he was doing.
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  Speaker 5: He was grunting so loud and long that it was
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  Speaker 5: just like I thought of dirt bikes coming. He's fixing
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  Speaker 5: a mess. This whole thing up. It was, It's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: It's all on videos on YouTube on the Element channel. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and I shot him and he ran like twenty yards
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  Speaker 5: and fell over. Could see the truck from the stand too, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it was up the hillways.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that was your punchline. Yeah, it's not like I
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  Speaker 4: can see the buck yeah from the stand.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah. No, but I you know, just sleeping in the
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  Speaker 11: bed of my truck. Is poor boy in it? You know?
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  Speaker 3: So that's great?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, No, no, like no infernos or I was sure
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  Speaker 5: happy to shoot that buck.
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  Speaker 11: For sure.
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  Speaker 5: Whose truck was it? It is my wife's granddad. He
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  Speaker 5: had uh had gotten to where he couldn't really walk,
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  Speaker 5: and so he wasn't using his truck much.
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  Speaker 11: And so, yeah, it's a nice truck. I still have it.
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  Speaker 4: That's great.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, yep, digging in Chester, let's go.
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  Speaker 6: So I took my sister's truck from her senior year
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  Speaker 6: of high school. The day I graduated from high school,
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  Speaker 6: I took her truck out to Montana. I drove it
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  Speaker 6: all the way out because I wanted to be a
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  Speaker 6: fishing guide. The truck that I had in high school
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  Speaker 6: was not going to make it kind of out west,
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  Speaker 6: make the big trip.
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  Speaker 3: So my parents, did you let her know what you
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: were gonna take it?
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  Speaker 6: I let her know, Well, my parents basically let her
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  Speaker 6: know that that's kind of how it was going to work.
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  Speaker 1: So young Chester is flying the coop and it will
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  Speaker 1: be in your truck.
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  Speaker 6: Basically, it was more of like the family truck, right,
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  Speaker 6: But she drove it. Yeah, So I took that out
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  Speaker 6: west the day after I graduated, just like super excited
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  Speaker 6: to kind of start my own life. So I drove
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  Speaker 6: it across the country and I got a job working
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  Speaker 6: at a drift boat shop, and I wanted to become
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  Speaker 6: a fly fishing guide. So that was like the job.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, I can work at this drift boat shop.
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  Speaker 6: This truck can handle, it handle pulling a light drift boat.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna work my way up and buy a drift boat.
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  Speaker 6: So I did that and got a drift boat and
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  Speaker 6: was kind of eager to fish as much as I
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  Speaker 6: possibly could. So I would work and or I'd get
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  Speaker 6: up real early, fish then go work or fish after work.
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  Speaker 6: And I was fishing with my buddy Steven Smith. It
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  Speaker 6: was in Yeah, it was real high water year twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 6: I remember, great hopper fishing. So we were it was
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  Speaker 6: like late July. We were literally going burning the candle
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  Speaker 6: on both ends, getting up before the sun comes up,
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  Speaker 6: and driving out to the Yellowstone and we had a
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  Speaker 6: pretty phenomenal day of fishing hopper fishing, and the wind
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  Speaker 6: was blowing and it was blowing all these hoppers in
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  Speaker 6: the water, I remember, and grasshoppers. Yeah, we were on
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  Speaker 6: like you know, cloud nine, two young kids. I've got
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  Speaker 6: a drift boat. I moved out from Wisconsin. You know.
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  Speaker 6: It was like the as good of memory as anyone
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  Speaker 6: could have. Meet some buddies at the boat ramp talking
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  Speaker 6: about our day and we get in the truck and
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  Speaker 6: I turned the AC on and we're cruising down I ninety,
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  Speaker 6: just feeling great about life. And my buddy's sitting there
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  Speaker 6: in the passenger seat and he said the next thing.
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  Speaker 6: He looks over at me, and I got my eyes shut,
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  Speaker 6: which is never good, man, never good. We got that
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  Speaker 6: AC going, we got music going, and I was tired.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, if we were in like today's trucks,
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  Speaker 6: this probably wouldn't have happen because there's all these alarms
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: and safety things that are in him. But I hit
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: the rumble strips and I was out cold sleeping, and
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  Speaker 6: I woke up and kind of from a dead sleep
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  Speaker 6: and over corrected.
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  Speaker 8: Ooh.
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  Speaker 6: We had the drift boat on the back. And at
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  Speaker 6: any moment I was like, it's one of those slow
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  Speaker 6: motion things in life that you're like, we're going to go,
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  Speaker 6: We're going to start rolling. Well we didn't. We like
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  Speaker 6: slid sideways on going eighty miles an hour, which is
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  Speaker 6: the speed limit out here on cruise control. Slid sideways
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  Speaker 6: and launched the truck off the side of the road
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  Speaker 6: airborne for like sixty feet. Whoa with a drift boat
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  Speaker 6: on the back and we land in a farmer's field.
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  Speaker 6: There's cattle around us, and they're like, what's that happening?
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: And I'm just as surprised as the cows because I
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: had just waken up from a nap, and you know,
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: my buddy is like, you know, like shaken, and we
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: did not have a scratch on us, So like, how
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: was the boat? The boat was completely fine. It was
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: an aluminum drift boat, just a burly boat and uh,
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: but the trailer was kind of messed up. But yeah,
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: I remember old rancher coming and looking over the side
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: and being like, you boys are lucky.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Why is it always an old rancher? There's ever a
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: young rancher?
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: There is ny no nervous isn't a young rancher came
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: up to me.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: He might not have been a rancher either, he.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: I didn't ask him at the time, but dude, we yeah,
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: I mean we drove that truck back home that night.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: My buddy brought a subway sandwiches, and we went and
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: went to the drift boat shop and got a flatbed
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: trailer and drove right back out there and went back
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: whinch the trailer in the drift boat back on the
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: the flatbed and we were out there fishing that day. No, no, no,
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: we were out there fishing a couple of days later.
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: But then was your sister mad?
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Was my sister mad?
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Nothing to be mad about.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Man, The truck just ramped her truck sixty feet.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: It just but I think what happened there was what
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: saved us was the boat trailer. I think because when
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: we turned, it stayed, you know, parallel to the road.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Like a rudder.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: And I think that exactly. Yeah, I think that's what
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: kept us in there. But man, that was, like, you know,
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: one of those life lessons that like, you do not
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: drive tired.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: We all learned that young man, like around twenty.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: It's it's something.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: It's such a thing when with young I don't know
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: if it will be in future generations, but it just
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: that I am so far away from that now, but
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: it was just a real thing. Yeah, I gotta pull over,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: you gotta drive. And like ten minutes later I got
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: pulled over.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: You were so tired. We didn't stop and jumping jacks
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: together a whole bunch. Man. My buddy hit on this strategy.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: He would get it.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: He would stop at a gas station, get a cup
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: full of ice and I'm not joking. We'll just drop
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: ice keeps down his back of his T shirt and
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: then lean into the ice cube against the seat and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: now it was his whole like, well, I know how
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: to get a long ways.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: But man, lucky to be fishing, that's for sure.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Here you are now.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Didn't hurt the truck much?
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: No, didn't hurt drove it out of the field. Didn't
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: hurt the truck at all? Man.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, did you go through any fences or did you
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: ramp the fence?
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: One?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: One fence?
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: How did you have to fix it?
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: No?
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: That we the guy said we were good.
• 19:45
  Speaker 11: We were good.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: When we talked to him, he'd fix it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: You know what I like about Chester's little Genesis story
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: about a fishing guide is he had no idea what
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: he's doing or talking about, but he actually did it, just.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Drove away from home mm hmm and became fishing guide.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I wanted. My guidance counselor in high
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: school asked everybody, like, they want to kind of help
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: you with your career goal in college, and I said
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: I didn't. I don't want to go to college. I
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: want to be a fishing guide. And saying that in Wisconsin,
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: in the Holy Land of Dairy Country. She's like, you know,
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: like you're not you can't catch.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: They were like cheez and fish don't go together, right, So.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: When I I went down, this would never happen anymore.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I went down to my guidance counselor. In fact, people
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: don't believe that I'm telling the truth that this happened.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I went to my guidance counselor in high school and
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I had I signed up for a zero hour so
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: you started like seven in the morning and I and
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I had to do a gym credit. Still, I went
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: down to the guidance counselor and said, listen, when I
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: get out of school, I'm going check on my traps.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna be active. And if I didn't have
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: to go to gym, I could get out an hour earlier.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: And that's what I'm going to be doing anyways, is
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: out canoeing and all that.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: They're like, okay, really, you got a credit they for trapping.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: They let me leave, so I was leaving at noon
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and no one would ever be able to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: do that anymore.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Now that just goes to show what's happened in this country.
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: Something wrong.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Dude, that's great. Oh yeah, just excuse me, my pe
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: credit sweet man. That's a good guy. I should find
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: that guy.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: Make a little side money, you know, trapping krin. Do
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: you want me to mention the other quick story I have? Okay,
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: I'll make this brief. This is about a truck that
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: is like larger than life. You know, everyone like maybe
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: knew a guy that he had a truck, and you'd
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: see that guy and be like, oh, there's old old Bob,
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: you know, doing something, and like the truck has its
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: own careacter.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the truck is the person.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so my my grandfathers.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: It is an accessory to the truck.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: The person's an accescerated truck. And yeah, this person was
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: my grandfather and uh he was a great, great man.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: He raised seven girls, my mom being one of them.
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: And baby truck it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Was a it was a it was a half This
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: one was a half ton. Yeah, Scotch bigger than the
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: truck I drove out west.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Is that a mom joke?
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: No, just saying seven kids, But it was a truck.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: It was a fifty three to fifty five I don't
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: know the exact year, like a blue truck just like that,
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: like that truck right here, right here. Yeah, I have
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: I have some pictures that I want to show you.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: I'll pass my computer around. Oh wow, he's got this
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: is This is a truck. This is a picture with
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: my dad, his brothers and his father with some deer
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: in the back of the truck, with some foxes on
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: the ground in a coyote. There were more trappers than hunting,
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: real mixed bag the Chikowski family. And he bought this
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: truck new, which was like one of the only things
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: he bought new ever for a farm truck. And he
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: you know, the neighbors would see this truck coming down
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: the road and they'd be like, oh, there's John Chikowski
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: coming to help out, or you know. It was just
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: that kind of character of truck. Anyways, he's ninety six
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: years old right now.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Wow, and he still Yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: His sister lived to be like one hundred and seven
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: and his grandma was like one hundred and nine. Anyways,
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: my mother is right now getting this truck fixed and refers.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: So I'll show you these photos.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Really wow, this should have been well.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, next time Chester, we can put them up on
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: the TV and have everyone.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Oh see them, but this is big.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, let me find these real quick. Sorry, I didn't
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: have them pulled up. So here's a little text from
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: my brother in law who's fixing them, fixing it up.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: Just waiting on a little of everything for parts because
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: you cannot find it. Wasn't It's not like one of
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: those trucks where people want to fix up nowadays because
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: it will have no value. But it's just sentimental value
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: to the family. He's waiting on some clutch parts, transmission parts,
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: parts for the steering box, seals for the rear axle,
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: some brake parts, some.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Interior parts, parts parts.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the engine was completely rebuilt with possibly the last
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: set of pistons that were ever made in the factory.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: He got all the six pistons from a different store
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: in different states. Really, so here's here's the color of it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: But so my mom's getting it redone and my grandfather
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: is not doing great right now, and the plan was
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: to have my grandfather surprise him with this truck and
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: then take him to the local warehouser parade and he
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: would ride in that with my mother or whoever, and
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: all the people like his nieces and stuff that are
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: still around there would be surprised and see my grandfather
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: in the truck at the parade like he was meant
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: to be, like he was meant to be, and they would,
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: you know, see that, and it would just so hopefully
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: this can happen.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: God puts my faith back in America.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I lost my faith thinking about counselors these days and
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: not letting kids out.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Of good story.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Yea so good story.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Grandpa Chicklsi, good Man, good truck America, the story,
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: last name Chaikowski, Chikolski.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, think a one or too long? Where that guy
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: come out of?
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Holding, all right, who's up? I'll go okay, okay.
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: Twenty fourteen, I trade into my fresh store, my half
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: ton gas rig for a three quarter ton diesel. And
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: this is this will be important later. I'm not just
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: showing off. It's a beautiful truck. Eight inch lift, thirty
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: seven inch tires, just an eight inch lift, just a
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: nice truck, truck fourteen.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: It's a humble brag like a monster truck.
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah, but this is gonna be important detail later when
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: we get to something trying to get in it. So
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: twenty fourteen, my my Hunt and buddy Charlie Smith's wife
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: draws a coveted bluestag there in our state of Washington,
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: so it screws up our whole plans. We gotta go
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: film that. I'm gonna run camera. He's gonna call. We
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: go get that one out of the way. She kills
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: a great bull. On September fourteenth, when me and Charlie, like,
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: our plan was to still go to Idaho. That was
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: back in the good days when you could buy a
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: tag over the counter. We go home because we had
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: all of September off, wash our clothes, and then we
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: take off Rida home and this is really twenty fourteen,
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: my first time really hunting out of state for ELK.
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: You know, I'd hunt a deer in Montana and stuff,
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: but this is like my first on my own, no
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: dad uncles around, I'm gonna go go out of state.
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: So we leaving the brand new truck the night before
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: and so we get to nowhere, Idaho at three am
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: in the morning, just waiting for the gas station to
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: open up.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: We're gonna buy one tag.
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: We're gonna be real thrifty, buy one tag in case
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: we you know, don't need the other one. And so
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: we go up look at the spot we intended to
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: go a few elk tracks. Nothing we get we get
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: up there and hunt. So it's about two o'clock we're
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: coming out. I remember, like vividly, he's chewing on a
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: purple bag of skittles, and I bugle out the window
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: like this is how this is how like exhausted I am.
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: We just did like five miles in, five miles out,
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: no elk a little bit like maybe our spot we
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: pick sucks. Begle out the window and I'm like, will
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: you stop chewing on your damn skittles. I just heard
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: a bugle and he didn't believe me. So he's over there,
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: still rattling the bag, and I'm like, Charlie, stop with
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: the skittles.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: I said, I want to hear this bull. Be there't
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: a bull out there.
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: So we get out and listen again, and there's a
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: bull answers and it's like, well, it's getting pretty late.
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: It's like kind of a one track road. Let's fly
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: up here. We have a fourler trailer on the back
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: on a one track road. Let's go cut it and
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: then we'll get on the fourll or drive back to
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: this point and drop in.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Successfully.
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: Fortunately, my first day in Idaho, Like kill a bull
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: and then we're kind of yet the bull, doub bull
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: cut the distance, no pun intended cut the distance, got
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: him killed. And I'm like, first thing, You're like, nobody's ever,
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: Like we did nothing wrong, but this looks real fishy,
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: Like we bought the tag three o'clock this morning.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: We got a bull in the truck this night.
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: Like it's just not exactly but everything was legit, and uh,
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: get it to the truck and uh like it's hot,
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: it's real hot. We got to get to a cooler,
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: so we drive to a town later and then we
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: go buy his tag the next day. Very fortunate get
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: into bulls that morning. Can't make it work that evening
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: he kills his bull well a little bit of a
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: tough shot. We watched it through our binocular state on
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: its feet, so we had to go camp in the truck.
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: At this point, I had kept my head in the truck.
• 29:10
  Speaker 9: The guy the cooler didn't want us to keep the head,
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: and I'm like, well, I'm just gonna do a euro
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: so I'll skin it out. But like we were just
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: tossing it in the brush. And I'm always like man
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: predators around here, like it's a little iffy, it's warm,
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: it's gonna get stinky. But we're we're making it work.
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: So we're we got to sleep in the truck. Now,
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: we throw it off and pack it. We go find
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: his bowl next morning, get it all broken down, get
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: it out. So now normally we would just like bomb home,
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: but my meat's in a cooler. I can't get to
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: cause it's five o'clock at night. So I'm like, well,
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: what are we gonna do? Like he's like, oh my,
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: my childhood cousin I grew up, who lives up here
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: at the ski resort. We're gonna go. I'm gonna give
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: her a call, calls her up. She's like, yeah, come
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: on over, blah blah blah. My, you know, the the
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: in laws are over and come hang out. You guys
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: can shower up. So we I mean, it's nice. You know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 9: you've been living like dirt bags for the last last
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: three days, all sweaty, so you get to go take
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: a shower. We drink, you know, have a few drinks,
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: eat some pizza, and just kind of refresh.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: But there were some bad decisions made along the way.
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: You know, Normally people would say like, why is your
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: meat in the back of your truck? Why are the
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: heads in the back of the truck. Charlie's attacks a
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: drymas so he wanted to save his cape. We were
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: able to save it and get it out, and you know,
• 30:19
  Speaker 9: you're always like, well, there's houses everywhere. You're in a
• 30:21
  Speaker 9: ski resort, like we should be fine. So we get
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: my bedroom, you know, a bonus room kind of over
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: the top of the garage which directs directly overlooks the trucks,
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: and Charlie's down the hallway and so it's a I
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: don't know somewhere in the middle of two am, and
• 30:37
  Speaker 9: Charlie comes sprinting into my room like wakes me up
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: out of a like middle sum's.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: In your truck? I'm like, how did you hear that?
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: Way down the hall But so we kind of peek
• 30:47
  Speaker 9: out my blinds and you can see something like in
• 30:51
  Speaker 9: some some sort of light out there, you can see
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: that there's a bear in the back of my truck.
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: And in the short five seconds, like I don't know
• 30:59
  Speaker 9: how it'llked out, but you could see that he's also
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: trying to get on your bumper and he's coming up
• 31:03
  Speaker 9: like the side of the tire and like trying to
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: get Charlie's cape out right at this point, so.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: Me, good, think you got that lift?
• 31:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so I know he's working hard, right and you
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: can you can hear horns banging and this is my
• 31:16
  Speaker 9: brand nude truck and all right, we gotta get down
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: there quick. Well I had to wherewithal to put my
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: pants on. Charlie is in a hurry. So Charlie flies
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: down to the garage. Well, my pistols and like, we're
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: not too worried, but he was like, there's a bear
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: and once he's decided he wants to eat, Like who
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: knows what we're dealing with. So we get down to
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: the garage and it's this point I realized Charlie is
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: still in his whitey tidies and I have to paint
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: the picture of Charlie for you, and I paint it
• 31:43
  Speaker 9: with a white brush because he is an Italian ger
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: or no, an Irish ginger. He's about five foot seven
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: pere redhead and he's in tidy whities, but you really
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: can't tell where the lion's at. So it's at that
• 31:57
  Speaker 9: point where we turn the garage light on and I'm like, well,
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: you didn't evident'ly hit your cousin and her family.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: I'm like, why at least put my pants on him?
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: You get down there.
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: And so we're sitting in the garage kind of trying
• 32:07
  Speaker 9: to peek out the glass line of windows, like is
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: he still in there?
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah? And then you could just hear him just beating
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the piss out of my truck. So what do we do?
• 32:16
  Speaker 9: And these people live on the ski resort, well, skis
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: and ski poles are available, So before I could like
• 32:22
  Speaker 9: think of any good sense, Charlie has a ski pole
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: in his hand and is running out the side door
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: at the bear with his ski pole like a joust.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah he was.
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: I don't know if he's braver than I am or
• 32:34
  Speaker 9: just less, like it doesn't take the time to put
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: all of the things together. But I'm like, I just
• 32:38
  Speaker 9: don't know. He's got meat, he's got hide, He's already
• 32:41
  Speaker 9: on it. And Charlie runs at this bear and gets
• 32:45
  Speaker 9: about two feet from its butt with a with a
• 32:48
  Speaker 9: ski pole before it decides to take off. And then
• 32:51
  Speaker 9: instead of I mean he didn't have any way to
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: tell where it was gonna go, it runs up a
• 32:55
  Speaker 9: dang tree ten feet away from my truck. Like that
• 32:58
  Speaker 9: was okay, he's not in my truck anymore, but we're
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: not gonna be able to go back to sleep now
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: until we go back in. I'm at this time, everybody
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: else is awake and Charlie's now just in his underwear
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: talking to everybody. So we kind of evaluate the situation
• 33:14
  Speaker 9: and sure is I mean five minutes later, that bear's
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: coming back down the tree and he doesn't run away,
• 33:18
  Speaker 9: he goes back for the truck, and so we have
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: to basically load up and leave at two am, get
• 33:23
  Speaker 9: out of that country. Go down well, evidently when you
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: park with elkheads in the back at a gas station.
• 33:29
  Speaker 9: So we had sheriff stop us at three point thirty,
• 33:31
  Speaker 9: woke us up, tapped on our window like what's going on.
• 33:34
  Speaker 9: At five o'clock, a different game warden pulls in, asks
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: us what's going on, and it's just starting to get daylight.
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: And it was at that point when the game warden
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: tapped on the window with his flashlight that I was
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: able to evaluate the damage. Yeah, I had my brand
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: new truck had bear scratches down all three corners of
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: the truck bed.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: It is. It was cool, that's like a sticker.
• 33:59
  Speaker 9: The punchline that story was just Charlie like I could
• 34:02
  Speaker 9: never remember, like he was.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: I think he was more.
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: Interested in protecting his cape than he was protecting my truck.
• 34:08
  Speaker 9: But he just ran around the corner ski pole in hand,
• 34:11
  Speaker 9: was gonna joust that bear. And yeah, I've had bad
• 34:14
  Speaker 9: luck with bears. Two years ago, we were in Colorado,
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: frozen cold. I lay a four x four post across
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: the bed brails right from side to side and just
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: try to get my wife's meal deer up off of
• 34:26
  Speaker 9: and that bear decided he was going to lift the
• 34:28
  Speaker 9: entire deer hanging on the post out in it like
• 34:31
  Speaker 9: wrapped the side of my truck and smashed that four
• 34:34
  Speaker 9: by four post, scratched it. Bear scratches all over my
• 34:36
  Speaker 9: brand new pickup truck on that that time. But yeah,
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: I've had I'm not keeping meat in the back of
• 34:42
  Speaker 9: my truck anymore. You have a topper, now I do
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: have a ton but that I had a topper. Then
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: I had the tunnel cover, but I rolled it up
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: so that I can kind of seem I hang the meat.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I bet your insurance guy's like, come on, yeah, another bear.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Listen the first time the whole bear thing. Yeah, the
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: first time I was going to roll it. Second some
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: of them up buying it.
• 35:01
  Speaker 9: We followed that second bear down to the creek where
• 35:03
  Speaker 9: you'd try. We could see the drag marks in the snow,
• 35:05
  Speaker 9: and that bear was just I thought it was late
• 35:06
  Speaker 9: in November or middle of November, cold as heck, like
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: that bear be gone. He was down there by a
• 35:10
  Speaker 9: big old oak tree or cottonwood or something whatever Colorado
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: grows along the rivers, and I think he was just
• 35:15
  Speaker 9: sitting there picking at some of the front quarters. Fortunately
• 35:18
  Speaker 9: he didn't touch the back quarters or the backstrap, but yeah,
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: he was just down there munch and we scared him
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: off and got the meat back, and oh did Yeah
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: that's cool.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I got.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: A topper on my truck. Yeah, you know, it's like
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: a hunter thing, you know. Apparently for sure we got
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: told or comment on a video. Somebody's like, people can
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: tell you're from out of state because you got a topper.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you get you instators, get your stuff wet.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we like our stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: So Tyler not traveled the country hunting deers kind of
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: what we do. You know, you heard historical bombs. He
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: has the topper, had toppers on both of those trucks.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: You know, you can sleep in the back of it,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: like he was saying. You know, and I in particularly
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: got the six and a half foot bed because of that,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: you know, and make sure you can sleep back there.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: The five and a half foot bed doesn't really work
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: for me very good. Yeah, you definitely. Yeah, So I
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: got a it's not an old Drugs twenty sixteen a
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: half ton, you know, four world drive. But it's like
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: you gotta be comfortable for the road, you know what
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, Like, uh, we don't do the lift thing,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: not the big tires, but just like some good smooth
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: all terrains, you know. And and we we just like
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: spend a ton of time trucks scouting. It's like a
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: thing we do. So you drive, you know, you go
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: to said state and you just drive around, get a
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: feel for the land. Elk is a lot like that, right,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Like you're bugling out the window, you know, it's cool,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: so like.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: You're just one out the window, like Jason, did I.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Have not you know, I just might have to, you know,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: be an experiment.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: He usually takes his have Alina call and it's right
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: and it gets him to stop out.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: You do a quite loud call to make an animal.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Like should have Oh yeah, you were saying about this sound.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he has to sound again.
• 36:54
  Speaker 11: Well, it's very loud.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: It's very loud.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Should a back up from the mic and do the thing?
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: I want to hear this? So this is your universal
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: animal stop? Yeah?
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: This yeah, this, this, this makes sense in the story
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: right now because he does this from his truck like
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: a deer jumps across the road, running across the field.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: Roll down the window and.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: And you make the noise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: it's I got this from the old days as being
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: a government trapper, like you got to stop the coyote
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: and shoot it. So you got to figure out the
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: sound that makes things stop.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: So he's gearing up for the sound I didn't do right.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Hold on, I can't do it.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: I don't know if have I lost my call.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Once more?
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Heard it first, I believe somewhere.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I can do it.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Try it again?
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: You got it?
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Come on? What it?
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Sometimes when people put you on the spot, barred out.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: Literally, you know how when a grenade goes off in
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: a war movie and everything goes like, oh, put you.
• 38:00
  Speaker 11: He did that one time.
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: We're looking at have Alena's in the HeLa actually, and
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: he did that to the back of my head and
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: that happened.
• 38:07
  Speaker 11: I had the high pitched grenade sound.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: It was like, try, but it just might be an
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: outdoors thing. You know. There's thing.
• 38:17
  Speaker 11: Diaphragm.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: I can't do it, guys, I can't do it. It
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: doesn't it doesn't work in uh.
• 38:23
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Anyways, there's nothing to do with my story. So sorry, but.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: The story.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: It doesn't roll the story at all, but it may.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: I tend to use it.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Did you hear it in Arkansas?
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: I do it?
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it is impressive.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Did he stop an animal with the universal animal stop call?
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: I think we were talking about the universal animal stop call,
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: and I said, let me do it, you know, show
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: it to me, and he did it.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: It will yeah.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: So anyways, we're driving around trucks out and doing the thing,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: and I'm a public land deer hunter. I always have men.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Tyler kills a awesome buck. This is all on film.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: We produced a series called buck Truck that's on meat Eater,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: you know, And so he killed an awesome dear early
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: and that kind of puts me in a pickle because
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: I'm like, my buddy's waiting on me to kill.
• 39:05
  Speaker 11: A deer the first of November.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you killed a deer on November one, and it's
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: the best week of the year, and you're like sitting
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: around being the best buddy ever camp chef, you know,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: like just making breakfast and stuff, and I'm just struggling
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: so bad. And we decide, all right, we cannot find
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: a deer on public land. We're gonna get on the phones.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Get on the phones, do some calling. Tyler somehow, some
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: way gets a hold of this guy, remembers this guy's
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: dad's name from like six years ago when he talked
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: to him and like had that personal connection thing, and
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: gets us permission to go hunt. Like it four thousand
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: acre place, except there's no trees on the property. It
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: is like rolling hills nothing. So we drive the truck
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: out there. We're driving through. You got to go through
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: like another property, gonna easement.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Go out.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: We scout the place. Looks great, see a giant buck run,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: get glass on that thing, and decide, Okay, tomorrow morning's
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: the push. We're gonna go out there and we're gonna
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: find a deer to shoot like I'm gonna get it done. Well,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: just so happens that, I don't know. Three days before this, Uh,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: one of the other guys that travels with us got
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: sick in the back of my truck. And uh, he's
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: a young lad, and I guess he doesn't have as
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: much experience with the you know, feeling it coming on,
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: so he has a hard time getting the window down
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: in time. So the sickness then perforates throughout the vehicle.
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: Of course, look, he puked back, he up chucked the
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: back of the truck, hits the back of the hits
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: the back of the headrest, you know, and all down
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: the side. Ye doesn't have the wherewithal to clean it
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: up off the truck, so I have to do all that.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: And then he's gonna be mad that I'm telling that part,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: but whatever. And so we're out scouting this bad to
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: the bone property, like just the private land thing. Being
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: able to drive around a property is not a thing
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I'm used to, right, And so I get a rumble
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: down deep while we're out scouting, like this ain't good.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: I have to go find a bush and I'm like, okay,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: well that's over. Well, no, for the next ten hours.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I have the most violent sickness that I've probably ever
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: had in my life. And I'm thinking, like, this is
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: the baddest opportunity I've ever had at hunting, whitetail, deer,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: private ground, Giant Bucks, some of the best dates. And
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: I'm sick and I just can't do anything right. I
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: can't even get out of bed, which is not like
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: a me thing to do. I'm a high energy guy.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: And so about like three point thirty, I finally get
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: everything worked out or something I don't know, and I
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: get an hour of sleep, get up the next morning,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: go up, make coffee, and I'm like, huh, all right,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: I can do this. Tyler actually woke Tyler up and
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: he could not believe that I was moving. It was
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: a weird thing. And go out to that property. Run
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: a little bit late. Tyler drops me off. He's gonna
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: go do some more scouting for me while I am
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: gonna go on a hunt at least try, you know,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: like you got to give it a go. It's like
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: November fifth, It's the the best day of the year,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: probably one of the best. It's a cold front, and uh,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: go out just kind of like have a beautiful morning sunrise.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: You know, it's just frosty. We're on the planes glass
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: and it's just it's just enjoyable. I'm just thankful to
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: be there. And all of a sudden, I see a
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: giant buck at like five hundred yards and thinking, well,
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I can do anything about this,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: but these deer are amped up. I'm gonna rattle with
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: this deer, and uh, I get my antlers, and just
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: if you've a hundred whitetails, you know that, like sometimes
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: the things you do with antlers actually isn't realistic, but
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: you're playing on their instincts, right, So I'm just cracking
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: these things as hard as I can. It's five hundred
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: yards away, right, and I this thing isn't gonna hear me.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Sure enough, whips his head up and looks, and this
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: thing just makes a bee line straight to He's trying
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: to get down wind of us, five hundred yards away.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: I run down the hill, sickness and all about to
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: pass out, and uh get to where I'm gonna be
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: able to make a shot on this deer, and long
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: story short, I uh get an opportunity at thirty two
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: yards and shoot this deer. It's the biggest deer of
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: my life. And I'm just recovered after being like death sick,
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: and it's just one of those moments where we've all
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: had them, you know, out in the outdoors, where you
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: just kind of in awe of just the situation. It's
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: it's a bigger thing than what you are, you know,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: and you you have to like kind of step back
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: and be like, Okay, I didn't really accomplish this. This
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: just happened to me, and I was blessed to be
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: a part.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: You were the recipe.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: That's exactly right, man. And so I'm so pumped about
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: all this. Right, well, Tyler's out scouting and I want
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: to share this with my best bud. Well ends up,
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: he gets a flat tire in the truck while while
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: I'm waiting on him to get there, and it's like
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: an hour and a half before and I'm just like
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: sitting out on the planes, just out here with this deer,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: you know, just hanging out. And we get to back
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: the truck up, put the deer in the back of
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: the truck and just do the thing as opposed to
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: like what we're used to, you know, with just packing
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: stuff out and you know, cutting it up or whatever.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Just kind of a neat different experience to be able
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: to kind of like what that pictures showed that you showed.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: You know, it's of like what people have been doing
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: for a long time, loading de arup in the back
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: of the truck.
• 44:02
  Speaker 11: Yep. I could work for NASCAR. By the way, changed
• 44:05
  Speaker 11: a lot of tires. I've changed a.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: Lot of tires turning around the country with trailers and stuff.
• 44:10
  Speaker 11: We're buying the cheapest tires we could we could find.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, keep the used time places.
• 44:15
  Speaker 11: Yep.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's my truck story.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Excellent nks. Who's next, I'll go dirt hit them. So.
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: I don't know about you guys, but in my twenties
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: I had a lot of really good opportunity to learn
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: life lessons.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: And I continue to do that.
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: But in my twenties it seemed like they're really a
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: lot of times where I, you know, maybe made the
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: wrong choice. So, uh, picture this North Idaho. It's nineteen
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: ninety seven, and my best friend and my brother in law.
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: We grew up hunting together and he married my wife's sister,
• 44:50
  Speaker 8: and so we're brother in laws. And it's February and
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: on back up, your best friend married my wife's sid.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: They married sisters.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Wow, so we're.
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: Brother in law.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: She told me that before, and I was equally surprised.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, that's great.
• 45:08
  Speaker 8: So yeah, so we we went out to our old
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: Elk Hunton's spot right out of town in North Idaho
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: in the winter time and especially in February. So by
• 45:19
  Speaker 8: this time, we've had quite a bit of snow on
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: the ground and it's in its thawed and we've got
• 45:23
  Speaker 8: more snow and then it's it's frozen, and it's been
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: in the below zero you know, probably five ten blow
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: zero at this point. Beautiful crystal clear days, but it's
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: ice cold out and the snow has a crust like
• 45:36
  Speaker 8: you can't believe. I mean, you can walk around on
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: without falling through. Well, we're out on this old road
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: and he has a quarter Ton pickup if you will.
• 45:49
  Speaker 8: It's a compact quarter Ton pickup and we're driving on
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: top of the snow and it's beautiful sun. It's yes, yeah,
• 45:57
  Speaker 8: and it's like a you know, standard cab, little light
• 46:00
  Speaker 8: truck and piece of junk. You know, this is so.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: Hard to picture, the floating on the floating on the
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: crust on snow.
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah no, no, no factory and they were worn out
• 46:10
  Speaker 8: as good. There's a coar toime, yeah yeah. And I'm
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: looking out the window and the sun is starting to shine.
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: It's about seven o'clock in the morning. And I tell
• 46:20
  Speaker 8: I look over her handy and I said, you know,
• 46:23
  Speaker 8: you might want to And about that time it fell
• 46:25
  Speaker 8: through the snow.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh no.
• 46:28
  Speaker 8: So we get out. And of course the young men
• 46:32
  Speaker 8: we were we weren't prepared. We didn't have a shovel,
• 46:34
  Speaker 8: we didn't have a come along, we didn't have anything.
• 46:38
  Speaker 8: There was a handyman jack in the back of the truck,
• 46:41
  Speaker 8: so handyman Jack's. I don't know if you're familiar with those,
• 46:44
  Speaker 8: but they're really good for a lot of things, you know,
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: jacking up your truck. I mean, you can put chains
• 46:48
  Speaker 8: on them and use them for like a come along.
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: You can, uh, but they're dangerous. You gotta be careful
• 46:53
  Speaker 8: because if you're not, if you don't have a real
• 46:56
  Speaker 8: good grip on that handle, it'll it'll come loose and
• 46:59
  Speaker 8: whack you in the chin and then go and ratchet
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: back down and let the truck down. Widow Maker, I've
• 47:06
  Speaker 8: got to if I didn't have my beard. You'd see
• 47:08
  Speaker 8: a scar on my chin from another time.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:11
  Speaker 8: But anyhow, so we get and we're facing the wrong way.
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: We're faced away from where we want to be. So
• 47:17
  Speaker 8: we get the old handyman jack and jack it up
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: and then push it off, and we're going to try
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: to turn this truck around so we can maybe get.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: By jacking it and pushing it over. Yeah, yep, so
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: ten inches over yep.
• 47:30
  Speaker 8: An hour later we got it turned around.
• 47:34
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 47:36
  Speaker 8: And mind you, we're not prepared. We don't have what
• 47:38
  Speaker 8: we're in tennis shoes. You know, this is usually always
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: if I get stuck or have some bad decision made
• 47:43
  Speaker 8: in a truck, it's always wearing tennis shoes or loafers
• 47:46
  Speaker 8: or something. I'm not prepared. So we get this thing
• 47:50
  Speaker 8: turned around and we're just not going to get out.
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: So we're in the middle of this old logging road.
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: There's probably three feet of snow there, and I'm like, well,
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: we better walk back to town. So it's six miles
• 48:03
  Speaker 8: back to town. We walked back to town. It's the
• 48:06
  Speaker 8: end of the day. It's like, all right, tomorrow we're
• 48:08
  Speaker 8: gonna get reinforcements. We're gonna come out. We're gonna get
• 48:10
  Speaker 8: this truck. So my dad's got this old wood truck.
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: It's like a nineteen fifty eight that he's kind of
• 48:16
  Speaker 8: that he's had refurbished and he cuts a lot of
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: firewood with. It's got a winch, it's got positive traction
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: rear in. This thing's a bad mambajamba. So we drive
• 48:25
  Speaker 8: back out there the next day. But it's an automatic
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: and we're going up up this little hill and the
• 48:30
  Speaker 8: snow is deep and the truck's working hard, and I'm like, man,
• 48:34
  Speaker 8: something's getting hot. Well I get out and that truck
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: is just bleeding automatic transmission fluid underneath. It over overheated,
• 48:43
  Speaker 8: the transmission boiled, all the automatic transmission fluid out, and
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: now we got to walk back not six miles. We
• 48:50
  Speaker 8: have another We have another truck parked back on the
• 48:53
  Speaker 8: on the gravel where it's plowed. So we walk back,
• 48:56
  Speaker 8: getting the other truck, drive to town. And this is
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: a small town of five hundred pe right, So a
• 49:01
  Speaker 8: local convenience store. They've got like four quartz of automatic
• 49:06
  Speaker 8: transmission from ATF. So we buy everything they got, take
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: it back out there, pour it in there, and then
• 49:11
  Speaker 8: get the old truck out of there. Well, we got
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: to do something else. So the next day, my wife's uncle.
• 49:17
  Speaker 8: He's got the ultimate hunting rig. You know, it's got
• 49:21
  Speaker 8: a bit of a lift. Kid's got big tall mud tires,
• 49:25
  Speaker 8: it's got a winch. It's like, oh yeah, this thing'll
• 49:27
  Speaker 8: get up there. It's got posic, it's got a rear
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: locker in that. This thing's gonna get up there and
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: get this truck out. So we get up there and
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: we make it past where my dad's truck boiled over. Well,
• 49:39
  Speaker 8: he had an automatic transmission too, and it's boiled over
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: as well. You're just like he was working so hard
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: it just overheated the transmission. So well, we bought all
• 49:50
  Speaker 8: the atf in town the day before, so we'd walk
• 49:54
  Speaker 8: back to the other truck, drive all the way to
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: the next town over that have six hundred people in
• 49:58
  Speaker 8: it by a little more at okay, drive back out there,
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: rescue that thing, and he's like, yeah, you're on your own, guys,
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: I'm out of here. So well, I grew up my
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: first car or my first vehicle, I can't It was
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: a a nineteen sixty nine four wheel drive, so it
• 50:17
  Speaker 8: was basically kind of a kind of an antique almost,
• 50:21
  Speaker 8: And then this thing is a brute, but it's not
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: the most you know, roadworthy machine. Right, you don't run
• 50:26
  Speaker 8: that gray, but man, that thing will wheel. But I
• 50:29
  Speaker 8: didn't really want to take it up there because who
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: knows it may breakdown to So I get this old
• 50:35
  Speaker 8: machine out there. We start going up there. I go
• 50:38
  Speaker 8: right past where everybody else went, and it's just going
• 50:40
  Speaker 8: great through the snow, like like nothing, and it's just
• 50:43
  Speaker 8: cutting and it's got real skinny mud tires on it.
• 50:46
  Speaker 8: It's just digging and it's going. And we get to
• 50:48
  Speaker 8: the we get almost to Randy's truck, the freaking gas
• 50:53
  Speaker 8: pedal breaks off.
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: It breaks off on the floor.
• 50:58
  Speaker 8: I'm what the hell, So now what do we do? Well?
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: This thing had kind of like a manual cruise control
• 51:06
  Speaker 8: up on the dash. You have this knob you pull,
• 51:08
  Speaker 8: and this little knob has a little cable that reaches
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: in to the carburetor and will operate the throttle. So
• 51:14
  Speaker 8: kind of like an old school huh h, old school.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 51:20
  Speaker 8: So I'm like, and I'd never used it, but I
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: knew what it was. I'm like, man, I got to
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: get this thing working. So I jerked on that thing
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: and finally got it moving to where I read the
• 51:29
  Speaker 8: motor up enough where we could get that thing kind
• 51:31
  Speaker 8: of turned around and we got out of there. I said,
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: I don't know, Randy, I don't know what you're gonna do.
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: So we had to leave that thing literally for a month.
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: We had to leave it for a month in the wood,
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: and I said, you know, maybe we can get it
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: off the road. At least we had some shovels, so
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: we dug a trench to where we could get it
• 51:49
  Speaker 8: off throw jumped it up on the on the bank
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: next to the road out of the way, because who knows,
• 51:54
  Speaker 8: a road grader may come through, or people on snowmobiles,
• 51:57
  Speaker 8: or you know, just hooligans in general, they may you know,
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: vane it. It's kind of a piece of junk truck anyway.
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: But anyway, we had to leave that thing for a
• 52:04
  Speaker 8: month and UH in March we went back and UH
• 52:09
  Speaker 8: was able to drive it most of the way out.
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: We had to shovel a little bit in a couple
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: of places, but we're able to get it out.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: But a lot of casualties.
• 52:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that was like, that's that's my worst. I
• 52:18
  Speaker 8: think my worst trucks do. Oh no, no, we were
• 52:24
  Speaker 8: both poorous could be. You know, we're dumb kids in
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: our twenties. We didn't have any money to pay you know. Fortunately,
• 52:30
  Speaker 8: you know the old timers, they had money.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: To pay for stuff.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: So that's good.
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: It was good. But yeah, life lessons, you know, it
• 52:36
  Speaker 8: seems like I've I keep learning my Even last fall,
• 52:39
  Speaker 8: my wife and I were out there hunting and we
• 52:42
  Speaker 8: were driving along like I'm gonna pull into this landing
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: here with my pickup in the snow and and and
• 52:47
  Speaker 8: do some glass. And I pulled over there. It was
• 52:50
  Speaker 8: pretty deep, you know, about a foot of snow. Well
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: I couldn't tell because it drifted, but the landing had
• 52:56
  Speaker 8: kind of sloped. As soon as I pulled over there,
• 52:59
  Speaker 8: I started sliding over towards this little cliff and have
• 53:01
  Speaker 8: to stop. So I'm prepared. I'm prepared now because you
• 53:06
  Speaker 8: know I'm forty nine years old.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: Were prepared by your twenties, man.
• 53:10
  Speaker 8: That's right. So I've got to come along. And I
• 53:12
  Speaker 8: got lots of cable and chains, you name it. So
• 53:14
  Speaker 8: I sat there for an hour and demonstrate and showed
• 53:17
  Speaker 8: to my wife out how prepared I was, and how
• 53:19
  Speaker 8: you you know, recover a vehicle with a come along
• 53:22
  Speaker 8: and lots of chains, and about an hour of that
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: moving that come along and getting my truck out inch
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: by inch, But we made it out, didn't have to walk.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: And didn't nothing to drive by transmission fluid.
• 53:31
  Speaker 8: No, no transmission fluid perfect. Yeah, and I shot a
• 53:33
  Speaker 8: buck about an hour later. No man, Yeah, timey, hell
• 53:38
  Speaker 8: of the day.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: My turn, Clay, Yeah, bring the inferno.
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: This is our number seven story.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to give it a seven? Did
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: I say that earlier? You did? I'm not in the story.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: So long ago, way back in history, they introduced a
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: fish called a rainbow smelt into the Great Lakes and
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: you go smelt dipping after dark. So when you're talking
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: about driving real tired, that was a trademark of smelt dipping.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: And thinking about my favorite truck story, which now I'm
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: not even in, I called my buddy from high school
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: who I'm still friends with, Craig Christensen, today, to say, hey,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: remember that story about your truck smelt dipping, and he said,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: we wasn't smell dipping. I'm like, oh, I've been telling
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: that story wrong for a long time. So he retells
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: me the story. The first part of the story is
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: this Craig wrestled in our high school wrestling team.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: Okay, he.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Had a pair of shoes that he wrestled in all
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: through his high school wrestling career, and he got up
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: to where he was gonna. He got up to where
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: he said, when I get my when I win my
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: one hundredth match, I'm going to retire my wrestling shoes. Okay,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: red wrestling shoes. He goes on to have a thirty
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: six wrestling match winning streak and hits his one hundredth
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: win on his thirty sixth his one hundredth career win
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: high school career win. He was good on his thirty
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: sixth match in a row that he won, so his
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: hundredth win was his thirty sixth consecutive win.
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: I imagine he was a state champion.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: He had all that kind of stuff going on.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: So he then says he's going to retire his shoes,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: and he borrows a pair of shoes from another buddy
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: of ours, John Merchant, puts on John Merchant's wrestling shoes
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: and goes out and gets pinned by a guy who
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: for that who had a thirteen loss eleven win record
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: declares these shoes to be cursed.
• 56:05
  Speaker 11: What does the wrestling shoe look like? I've never very.
• 56:07
  Speaker 6: Minimalist converse like boxing shoes like they're kind of yeah, okay, so.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, minimalist, like a minimalist, a little high topper ankle support.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: So hold that in the back of your head. That
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: little wrestling shoe deal.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Craig's he he had an eighty four three quarter ton
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: truck and his dad had a much newer half ton truck.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: But Craig's ice shanny won't fit in Craig's dad's truck.
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: Dude, I love this story already. Wrestling It's very common, man.
• 56:49
  Speaker 11: I have no clue what's going on here.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: It's listen.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Craig is now so that that Hunters match when the
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: wrestling shoes were in he he's a senior in high school.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: He's now at Skiing Community College. I went there, Merchant
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: went there, Craig went there, everyone went to the Skiing
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Community College. He's at with Skiing Community College and his
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: dad wants to go ice fishing, and his dad goes
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: ice fishing. It's Craig's dad, Craig's grandfather and Craig's wrestling
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: coach want to go ice fishing, but they can't fit
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: the shanny in.
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: Craig's dad's truck. So they take Craig's truck. And there's a.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Real heinous corner as you're approaching White Lake where we
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: grew up, and it's icy on the way to ice fish,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: and they blast off the corner off into the woods
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: and hit the guy that just blasted off.
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: The road prior to that.
• 57:42
  Speaker 8: Oh man, gosh.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Somehow when they hit, Craig's truck is racing and won't
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: shut off.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: So his dad, Craig I even pressed him on this.
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: He doesn't understand.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: Why or what, but his dad's idea is to pop
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: the hood and cut the battery cable.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Not unhook it cuts the battery cable.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, I mean it's probably quicker than getting out of
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Criss Ranch because he desperately wants to get the truck
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: turned off. Now they a week later fixed, the truck appears.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: The truck appears to be fixed. Craig drives the truck
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: to the Skidon Community College and parks truck under an
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: oak tree. Okay, does his classes and everything, and at
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: the end of school comes out and goes to start
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: the truck and turns it and just clicks like a
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: dead battery. He thinks, whatever, I don't know, click dead
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: battery something or another. He's got all his stuff and
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: in another friend is going to drive him home. He
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: happens to have John merchants losing wrestling shoes, okay, the
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: pair he lost in the year prior. He has those
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: wrestling shoes and he also has a dual cassette tape
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: boombox belonging to John Merchant. Places the cursed wrestling shoes
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: in the truck with the boombox, a box of twenty
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: two AMMO, a box of twenty gage shotgun shells, and
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: half of his clothes. Goes about his evening. They go out,
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: they go to some bars and whatnot. Craig gets home
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: to his mom's house late at night and the phone
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: is just ringing up a storm at night. He never
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: picks it up. Later realizes that was the fire department.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: He gets a ride to school and still unbeknownst to him,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: unbeknownst to him until later, his truck has melted into
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: the ground. Everything in the truck is gone. He said,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: the steering wheel is laying on the ground. Everything is melted.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Glass is gone. It burned up a oak tree. It
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: defoliated oak tree he was parked underneath. Okay, burned up.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: The cursed wrestling shoes, which he blames this whole thing,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: are gone. The dual cassette tape, boombox gone. Oh, his
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: term paper is gone.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 8: Oh no.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: He goes to a teacher and says, I don't have
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: my turn paper. It was destroyed in a fire. And
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: she's like, come on, Craig.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: Heys no, it was burned up right out in this
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: parking lot and she goes, oh, that was your truck.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: So he then goes to a wrestling match after all
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: this happened. He has a wrestling match to go to.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Goes to a wrestling match and he's telling a buddy
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: of his this story. At the wrestling match. Behind him,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: he hears a girl laughing, turns around, doesn't know her,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: and says, what are you laughing at? And she said,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: that's a pretty funny story about your truck. This year
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: they're married twenty five years. Wow, you catch that, Phil,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: It's a love story.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: Wow about the love story.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: It's a love story that's better than.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: I tell that story all the time, but I tell it,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: uh that he was coming back from smelt dipping, not
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: ice fishing.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: Did it kill that oak tree no more?
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: Acres Cerig said, it defoliated it. But I haven't heard
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: the oak trees dead. My favorite.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 6: Those oaks are tough.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: Story.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: That's how, that's how his that's how your wife has
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: met his wife, Brittany.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: That's good, beautiful children.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: So the s so going from what seemed like something
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: so negative, these cursed shoes to a burn up truck.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: That leads to.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: When I was talking.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: I was talking to him today, he says, I like
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: to blame those shoes for losing that truck, but considering
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: that halving my wife is a good thing, I suppose
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: it was all good in the end.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 11: That's no, it's a great story.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: It's like a it's a love story.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: Good story. Should things go well for him throughout life after.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: The shoes are always once the shoes were gone, everything
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: picked right up.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: About that, he sounds like a heck of a wrestler.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: Things picked right up.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 6: What if the truck burnt and the shoes were just still.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 10: There.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: Hey, I've got so I've got a couple of just
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: like machine gun stories, yeah. So once me and my
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: buddy Nick Cunningham were coon hunting in his dad's hunting truck,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: which was a half ton four wheel drive pick up,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: and we called it Old Gray. It was as gray
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: as it called it.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: Old Gray. Yeah, I knew where this is going.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: So we went. We went coon hunting one night. It
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: was in the wintertime and it was cold. It was
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: just him and I we were both about sixteen. And
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: we got way back into an area we called wolf
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: Pen Gap and uh, and we had two dogs named
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: and Macy and Maddie, my first blue Tick registered blue
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: Tick coonhounds. And we got way back in the mountains.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: Don't remember anything about the hunt, but we went to
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: the dogs, got back in the truck and the truck
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: wouldn't drive forward, but the truck would drive in reverse,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: and so we drove nine miles home in reverse. We
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: took turns because our next week get a crick. We
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: it was so late at night and it was just
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: back roads the whole way, and so we drove nine
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: miles all the way home.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: Was that a parking break issue?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: It was the transmission went out, a transmission dial transmit.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: We had this meme my dad did duck hunt.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 11: When I was a kid.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: The parking break froze in place, but it would go
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: in reverse, so went reverse in circles in the pasture
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: till it warmed up enough to thow the parking break down.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: That's my first story.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: I just remember that short me and had some pretty
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: good some pretty good times coon utting. His dad also
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: had another truck that was a long bed extended cab,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: full size three quarter ton pick up. Huge. It was
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: like a boat. I mean it was like eighteen feet long,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 4: you know. And we're sixteen year olds and at this
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: time we were at a place called two Mile Motorway,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: which was a long stretch that went through national forests. Basically,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: basically it's like a one way road and the way
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: you hunt two mile Motorway is you start at this
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: end and you road hunt your dogs all the way
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: to the other end, which the other end of two
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: mile Motorway ends up in a really small rural community
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: outside of the bigger town we lived in. Which town
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 4: we lived in was like five thousand people, but this
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: was like a community way out.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: That community was called hell Fire Wolf Can.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly what it was. Look it up on
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  Speaker 4: a X. Well, we get out there and and and
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  Speaker 4: it's cold. And I remember we'd played basketball against a
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  Speaker 4: Catholic high school that night and afterwards we went counhuting Subiaco.
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  Speaker 4: Now they always beat us, man, Catholics are good at basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Not this one.
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  Speaker 4: We got the truck. This story and this is a
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  Speaker 4: machine gun story, so there's not there's no this is
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  Speaker 4: not a love story. But we we tried to do
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  Speaker 4: the eighteen point turnaround in this one way road and
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  Speaker 4: turned this eighteen foot truck around and it didn't work.
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  Speaker 4: And you along, we we banked it like the front
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  Speaker 4: bumper was embedded in the bank on the back, and
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: the in the in the back bumper was embedded on
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  Speaker 4: the bank of the road in the back of the truck.
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  Speaker 4: And basically we got the truck just dead stuck across
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  Speaker 4: the middle of this one lane road. And I mean
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  Speaker 4: we dug and tried to do everything we could and
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: could not get the truck on stuck. And it was
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  Speaker 4: one o'clock in the morning, and we walked. The story
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  Speaker 4: we tells we walked five miles. I could probably go
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  Speaker 4: on on X and actually find out it was, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like three and a half. We claimed we walked five
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  Speaker 4: miles to the nearest house, which happened to be our
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  Speaker 4: English teacher's house. A man named Mike McMaster was an
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  Speaker 4: incredible man. Yeah rarely, and he was known for being
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: the nicest guy in the world. And we were nervous
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: as we could be, but we went up to his
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  Speaker 4: house in the middle of the night before cell phones
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  Speaker 4: and knock on his door. Nothing, knock on his door,
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  Speaker 4: and finally his wife. We hear his wife like, who's there,
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  Speaker 4: and we're like, it's Clay and Nick. We're mister Master's students.
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  Speaker 4: And we got our truck stuck, and she was like okay,
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  Speaker 4: And like ten seconds later, here comes mister McMasters. And
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  Speaker 4: he was always just energetic and just the greatest guy
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  Speaker 4: in the world. And he literally pops out of the door.
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  Speaker 2: Hey boys, Oh, it's great to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you got your truck stuck.
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  Speaker 4: Well, hop in mind, we'll take care of you. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's like out of a movie. And he goes and
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  Speaker 4: pulls us out.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta tell you quick, rapid fire because that brings it
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  Speaker 1: to mind. Uh, Michigan Dear. Season one was November fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: and back then, the way you would do things you'd
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  Speaker 1: make your ground blind late at night November fourteenth, just
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: just not thinking clear anyways, get real stuck out at
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  Speaker 1: the Zeldnros Farm like buried up to the frame in
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: my truck. I can't remember how we went about it,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: but somehow got word or got a ride to my
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  Speaker 1: friend Matt Jones. He comes out in his truck and
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: blows the engine out in his truck. At this point,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: we got no recourse and I had my then girlfriend
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Kelly with me. Me and Matt Jones and Kelly then
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: walk to the nearest house and it is a blizzard
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: at this point. Bang on the door and this woman
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  Speaker 1: is no way know how gonna let us come into
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  Speaker 1: her house, but she's like, I'll make a phone call
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: for you. So she makes a phone call and we're
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  Speaker 1: within forty yards of her front door in a snowstorm,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: laying in a drainage ditch to get out of the wind,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: Me and Matt Jones laying on top of Kelly to
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: try to keep her warm, while this person stares at
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: us out of window, waiting for a rescue to come.
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  Speaker 3: M M.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's that Michigan hospitality.
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  Speaker 3: That never happen. They would never do that to you
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  Speaker 3: in the South, Well, it wouldn't be cold. They wouldn't
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: need to.
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  Speaker 6: Explains the Michigan Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I could take it. I don't know who lives
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  Speaker 3: there now. I can take you and show you that
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  Speaker 3: house right now.
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  Speaker 4: Probably the same woman lives there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. You know, I should step in there
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  Speaker 3: and say, you know what one time? You know what
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: happened to that ditch in front of your house? One time?
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: Do we need a closer?
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: Do we have? Well? That was I thought that was
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: the rapid fire.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I got another rapid fire. I mean you sure? Yeah,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 4: when I was landscaping one time.
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  Speaker 3: So these are all rapid fires.
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  Speaker 4: I Well, my long story is that my twenty fourteen
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 4: Chevy Silverado pickup that I bought brand new in twenty
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 4: twenty fourteen V six. I have carried my mules literally
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 4: all over America in that V six pickup. And when
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: I got it, people were like, man, you can't haul
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: those trucks not made for pulling. You can't, I mean
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: for real, like guys that haul livestock and trailers, and
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: they're like, man, you're gonna burn the training out of
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: that truck. It has two hundred and twenty two thousand miles.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: And I have hauled my mules from Arkansas to Montana
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: at least three times, to Colorado, once to New Mexico,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 4: all over the country and it's still still rolling. That's
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: my long story. That's no fun though. That was yeah,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: I mean for it's an incredible I've got the truck
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: to this day. I drove it to the airport this morning.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 4: But I also had Okay three quarter ton single cab
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: nineteen ninety four model three quarter ton truck. I had
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: my trailer on and had my Caboa tractor on the
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 4: trailer in Fadville, Arkansas. Very hilly. Do you know the story?
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 4: Have I told it before?
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: He told me the.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: Fade was really hilly, and I was commercial landscaper is
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 4: my job. It's working by myself. I had backed my
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: trailer way down this steep driveway, and the steep driveway
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: ended on a concrete landing, and on the back side
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 4: of the concrete landing was a very steep and severe
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: drop off. Like these people had this beautiful view at
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: the back of their house. My truck is up on
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 4: the main part of the driveway. The trailer is on
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: the concrete pad, and fifteen feet behind the end of
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: the trailer is the drop off. This I was young
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: and dumb like Dirk was at one time, and I
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 4: didn't realize that when you're backing up heavy equipment off
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 4: a trailer on an endcline, that something very special happens.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: So I'm I had to park break on the truck,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 4: and I got on the tractor and start backing the
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: tractor off. And there comes a point it's all physics,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 4: when the weight that's exerted as you back the equipment
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: off the trailer lifts the ball and tongue of the
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: trailer up, taking the pressure off the black wheels of
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: your truck. And I'm on which is holding in the
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 4: back you know, the truck is is the parking brakes on.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: And so I'm on the tractor on the trailer. The
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 4: truck's up above me. Uphill behind me is a drop off.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 4: And I mean that truck starts moving, I mean not
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: just not just like creeping moving, and and and that
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 4: the the your instinct is to jump off. Well, my
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: instinct was to jump off the trailer and the truck
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 4: continues to slide, is moving open the door while it's moving,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: jumping the truck and slammed on the brake and skid
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: to a stop. And the and the tailgate of my
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: trailer was hanging out over the over the over the
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: drop off. The tractor is in gear, still running on
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 4: the trailer. Now what I should have done was kept
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: driving the tractor back, because if I had, if I
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 4: had driven the tractor back even while it was rolling.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: You put the weight back on it, it would have
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 3: just stopped. Like but it was.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 4: It's everything against your instinct and so.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: You have to make it worse for it gets better.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I jumping the pick up and
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 4: it just, you know, just slides. And we had flip
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 4: cell phones at that time. And I don't know how
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 4: I had a wrecker service or how I got the number.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: I don't even remember, but I called a wrecker and
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just like cramming the brake, pedal in
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, man, how quick can you get here?
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: Like I am on the side of a mountain and
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 4: if I let my foot off this break this truck,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 4: trailer and tractor is going over the edge. How quick
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 4: can you get here? And I think my my my
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 4: energy sped him up a little bit and he was like, man,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: I can be there in thirty minutes.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 11: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: So I sat there for thirty minutes and this customer's
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: driveway they weren't home, tractor running, hanging off. And when
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 4: he came, I just I just you know, had the
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: window down. I was like, do what you can do, man,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 4: I'm not getting I took my foot.
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  Speaker 3: Off the breaking with slot.
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  Speaker 4: So that was that was, That was the nail.
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  Speaker 3: Nail biters good.
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  Speaker 11: Must have some strong calves.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like doing three hundred Calfreys.
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  Speaker 3: Oh everybody, thanks for joining. Talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 4: Ride on.
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  Speaker 10: Sealed gray shine like silver in the sun, right.
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  Speaker 1: Right on alone, sweetheart.
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  Speaker 10: We dun beat this dawn, of course, Dad taking a
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 10: new one and ride. We're done beat this damn Horsiday,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 10: So take a new one and ride on. H