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Ep. 1068: Foundations - You Don't Know What You've Got, Until. . . · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired2Hunt Foundations Podcast, your guide to the
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals of better deer hunting. Presented by First Light, creating proven,
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  Speaker 1: versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. First Light,
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  Speaker 1: go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired2Hunt Foundations Podcast, which is
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  Speaker 2: brought to you by First Light. I'm your host, Tony Peterson,
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  Speaker 2: and today is all about loss in life and in
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  Speaker 2: the deer woods. I know that last week I said
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  Speaker 2: I was going to write about early season buck sign
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  Speaker 2: this week and how you could use that to kill
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  Speaker 2: a big one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to push that back. Something came up.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, that's just how it goes in life.
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  Speaker 2: And I kind of want to point you in a
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  Speaker 2: different direction this week. Next week I'll cover that, deer
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  Speaker 2: scouting and the sign. But today I want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about loss and about life. Well, in a way about deer,
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  Speaker 2: I guess. I know that makes almost no sense, but
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  Speaker 2: it will soon enough. Earlier this morning, I sat down
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  Speaker 2: to join a Wired to Hunt episode with Mark and
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  Speaker 2: Dan Johnson from the Nine Finger Chronicles podcast. What I
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  Speaker 2: got was a desktop that wouldn't boot up and just
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  Speaker 2: gave me the spinning wheel of computer death. Half an
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  Speaker 2: hour later, I threw my hat across my office, texted
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  Speaker 2: Mark that I was out for the recording, and contemplated
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  Speaker 2: chucking my Mac into the pond in the backyard. As
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  Speaker 2: much as I wanted to take this computer for a swim,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. I sat there thinking about my life. and
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  Speaker 2: listening to my old dog limp her way across the
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  Speaker 2: floor to look at me with eyes that just don't
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  Speaker 2: see very well anymore. The lumps on her 13-year-old body
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  Speaker 2: are impossible to ignore these days, and while I know
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  Speaker 2: what's in store for me with her, it doesn't make
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  Speaker 2: it any easier. It's one of those mornings where I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking for a reason to be pissed off, after some
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  Speaker 2: reasons found me when I wasn't looking for them. Once
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  Speaker 2: that balance shifts in your brain, though, it's pretty easy
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  Speaker 2: to find more reasons to rage against the world at large.
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  Speaker 2: I can hop on Instagram or Reddit and watch videos
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  Speaker 2: from the recent flash flood in Nepal, where a glacier
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  Speaker 2: calved a huge chunk of ice from an extremely high elevation.
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  Speaker 2: Now that 2,000 foot wide piece of ice plunged 7,000
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  Speaker 2: feet down, allowing it to heat up and grab a
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  Speaker 2: whole bunch of earth along the way, meaning that a
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  Speaker 2: landslide happened concurrently with that glacier falling down. This massive
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  Speaker 2: amount of moving earth hit a river, which fed into
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  Speaker 2: another river, which runs along the China-Nepal border.
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  Speaker 3: This caused a flood.
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  Speaker 2: Wave of pulverized ice and rock and, of course, water
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  Speaker 2: that covered the first 14 miles at speeds of about
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  Speaker 2: 120 miles per hour. Think about that for a second,
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  Speaker 2: because that huge mass of earth and water moved nearly
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  Speaker 2: 14 miles in less than seven minutes. If you've seen
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  Speaker 2: the videos, and I'm sure most of you have at
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  Speaker 2: this point, It looks like end-of-days stuff, and it's pretty
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  Speaker 2: surreal to watch people to try to outrun that water,
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  Speaker 2: only to be engulfed by it. It's a terrifying reminder
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  Speaker 2: that Mother Nature doesn't much care for our well-being. My
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  Speaker 2: buddy and I talked about this and quite a bit
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  Speaker 2: of other stuff as we put up some blinds for
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  Speaker 2: our kids to hunt, picked up a few acorns off
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  Speaker 2: the ground to peer up to the trees and gauge
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  Speaker 2: how long they'll be dropping and if that would impact
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  Speaker 2: our plans, and, well, we just got some work done recently.
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  Speaker 2: In the back of his mind, and in my mind,
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  Speaker 2: was a good friend of ours who we both used
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  Speaker 2: to live with, who we've hunted and fished with, and
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  Speaker 2: who has gone through a lot. Earlier this year, we
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  Speaker 2: attended his father's funeral. And as it goes with fathers
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  Speaker 2: and sons, their relationship was complex. It was built on
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  Speaker 2: a foundation of a lot of things, but alcohol was
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  Speaker 2: a huge part of it. I think that every person
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  Speaker 2: at that service was surprised that his father made it
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  Speaker 2: as long as he did.
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  Speaker 3: I know I was. But that wasn't why this friend
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  Speaker 3: was on our minds, though.
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  Speaker 2: His wife, who fought cancer twice before she was 40,
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  Speaker 2: caught an infection through one of her surgical scars at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of July, bacterial meningitis, which is no joke.
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  Speaker 2: It took her out and led to a series of
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  Speaker 2: cascading failures that kept her in the hospital for nearly
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  Speaker 2: two months. Now, our buddy managed that situation and their
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  Speaker 2: two children, one who is a junior in college and
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  Speaker 2: the other one who is just starting her first year
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  Speaker 2: as a freshman. Through those two months, she would come to,
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  Speaker 2: she'd be lucid, she'd communicate, and then she'd crash. It
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  Speaker 2: was a series of hope and then despair that to
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  Speaker 2: us on the outside felt like, you know, one big
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  Speaker 2: step forward and two steps back. And in a situation
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  Speaker 2: like that, you can only go in reverse for so long.
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  Speaker 2: So when he texted us that she had passed peacefully,
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  Speaker 2: it just kind of broke my heart, as you can imagine.
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  Speaker 2: We look for equality in this world, and for some
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  Speaker 2: reason we expect it. But it isn't owed to us
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  Speaker 2: or promised to us or even possible for it to
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  Speaker 2: be delivered. It doesn't work that way. It never will.
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  Speaker 2: We just have the unfortunate processing power in our brains
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  Speaker 2: to expect it. Although I guess my dogs kind of
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  Speaker 2: do too, so maybe all animals hope for the best.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a consequence of consciousness to want things to
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  Speaker 2: work out and to rage against the reality that it
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  Speaker 2: often just doesn't. And there's no accounting for that. I'm
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  Speaker 2: reminded of two quotes from my favorite author, Cormac McCarthy here.
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  Speaker 2: The first is from No Country for Old Men, and
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  Speaker 2: it goes like this. You never know what worse luck
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  Speaker 2: your bad luck has saved you from. A clever way
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  Speaker 2: to explain why we should be optimists, or at least
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  Speaker 2: not dwell on what we perceive as bad luck, because
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  Speaker 2: as parents are prone to saying to children, could be worse.
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  Speaker 2: The second quote, which has a little less hope in
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  Speaker 2: it and comes from his novel The Road, goes like this.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody wants to be here, and nobody wants to leave.
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  Speaker 2: If there is a better, more concise way to address
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  Speaker 2: the human condition than that, I have yet to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: It's nearly perfect in its simplicity, which was one of
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  Speaker 2: the many hallmarks of his writing. Another hallmark of his
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  Speaker 2: writing is that his stories mostly don't work out for
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  Speaker 2: the protagonists. They are good versus evil, dark versus light,
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  Speaker 2: and well, they don't work out like hallmark movies do.
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  Speaker 2: When you think about it, most of life doesn't work
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  Speaker 2: out that well with big wins. That's why we celebrate them.
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  Speaker 2: That's why when I meet a bunch of deer hunters somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: they tell me about the biggest deer they killed first
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  Speaker 2: and not about the amount of times a big one
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  Speaker 2: came in and then got away or the amount of
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  Speaker 2: times no deer came in, let alone a couple of booners.
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  Speaker 2: That's also why when I talk to a lot of hunters,
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  Speaker 2: especially hunters with 10 or 20 deer seasons under their belt,
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  Speaker 2: their optimism is always heavily tempered by reality. They have
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  Speaker 2: learned to mostly expect failure because in simple terms, That's
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  Speaker 2: what we mostly get out of deer hunting. On any
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  Speaker 2: given sit, we don't fill a tag. And in any
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  Speaker 2: given season, most of us won't kill a, you know,
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  Speaker 2: no doubt mature buck. The people who learn to be
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  Speaker 2: good at deer hunting aren't just the ones who figure
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  Speaker 2: out how to kill deer more often than most weekend warriors,
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  Speaker 2: but they are the ones who understand that most of
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  Speaker 2: those no-kill sits and those no-kill seasons are just part
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  Speaker 2: of a lifelong process that is stingy with rewards, but
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  Speaker 2: not completely bent on never delivering the good stuff. They
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  Speaker 2: learn that you have to wade through a lot of
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  Speaker 2: shit to get them. And that makes those sits where
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  Speaker 2: the big ones don't show up and those seasons where
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  Speaker 2: it just won't quite come together something different, something more tolerable,
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  Speaker 2: something better. That's a hard lesson to learn in deer hunting.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a hard lesson to learn in life. Partially
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  Speaker 2: because there's so much extra unnecessary noise all the time.
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  Speaker 2: We are all tired of it. The performance review at work,
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  Speaker 2: wherever you are, we have to justify our paychecks to
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  Speaker 2: the people who have been watching us to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that we do our jobs to begin with. No, the
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  Speaker 2: nonstop slide into year-round sports for eight-year-olds because for some
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  Speaker 2: reason we feel that literal children need the equivalent of
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  Speaker 2: a part-time job and the pressure to perform in front
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  Speaker 2: of a bunch of adults shouting instructions at them because
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  Speaker 2: we decided that was more important than just going out
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  Speaker 2: to net some frogs or catch some fish after a
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  Speaker 2: full day of school. The guy who comments on a
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  Speaker 2: picture of a 150-inch buck by saying he's a solid deer,
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  Speaker 2: but could definitely use one more year. Like, maybe you
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  Speaker 2: could use some challenging hunting if you think that's the case.
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  Speaker 3: Go out there and pass up a.
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  Speaker 2: Bunch of giant bucks on public land and get back
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  Speaker 2: to us, Chief. Everyone is running their own deer race,
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  Speaker 2: and the course is vastly different for each of us.
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  Speaker 2: It's those things and a million others that chip away
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  Speaker 2: at us and make enjoying what we should love just
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  Speaker 2: a little more difficult. But we can't silence the trophy-hunting
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  Speaker 2: keyboard warriors any more than we can quit our jobs
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  Speaker 2: so we don't have to sit through another performance review, which,
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  Speaker 2: if you think about it, is perfectly named. Our performance
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  Speaker 2: is to convince the higher-ups we deserve more money. while
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  Speaker 2: their performance is designed to convince us that we are
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  Speaker 2: very lucky to get paid what we do. It's all theater,
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  Speaker 2: but also our real lives. I think we need to
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  Speaker 2: guard our hobbies and our passions from that as much
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  Speaker 2: as possible. I have a friend who's relatively new to
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  Speaker 2: deer hunting game, at least when compared to guys like me,
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  Speaker 2: but she's working her ass off to find public land
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  Speaker 2: bucks in Wisconsin. And I'm not joking there. When I
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  Speaker 2: say she's putting in more work than most deer hunters
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it.
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  Speaker 2: She's terrified she won't find a buck that's at least
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  Speaker 2: two and a half years old to shoot because she
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  Speaker 2: wants to level up on deer.
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  Speaker 3: And she's doing everything right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that. Yet the voice in her head comes
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  Speaker 2: from outside of herself. And it consists of a collection
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  Speaker 2: of general deer hunting sentiment on what constitutes a big
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  Speaker 2: buck and what is worth shooting. And I hate to
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  Speaker 2: see that because if she could dial down that volume
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  Speaker 2: and just tune out those nagging thoughts of having to
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  Speaker 2: shoot something someone else deems respectable, she'd be having so
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  Speaker 2: much more fun. But that's really easy advice to give,
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  Speaker 2: but difficult advice to follow, like a lot of advice.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe this is just because of my mood this week,
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  Speaker 2: but I can't help but think how quickly we'd change
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  Speaker 2: our thinking if deer hunting was taken away from all
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  Speaker 2: of us. If we lost this thing that we love
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  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, I wonder what we would miss most
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  Speaker 2: about it. I doubt it would be picking up a
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  Speaker 2: big one from the taxidermist as much as it would
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  Speaker 2: be the anticipation of a new season coming on. You know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we would miss the trail camera notifications or that
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  Speaker 2: feeling of settling into a stand or blind well before
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  Speaker 2: first light and waiting on the day to unfold. The
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  Speaker 2: mystery of who's going to come walking down the trail.
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  Speaker 2: The glimpse of something big and brown and antlered walking
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  Speaker 2: through the woods in your general direction. Maybe the feeling
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  Speaker 2: of watching your kids try to keep their shit together
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  Speaker 2: when a 23-inch forky shows up at last light. Would
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  Speaker 2: we miss the feeling of posting a grip and grin
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  Speaker 2: on Instagram more than we'd miss leaving work and driving
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  Speaker 2: right out to the woods to sit for an evening
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  Speaker 2: in mid-October when the leaves are changing and the sound
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  Speaker 2: of acorns hitting the ground keeps us on red alert
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  Speaker 2: until we hear that very, very welcome sound of hooves
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  Speaker 2: shuffling through the leaf litter? It's not an easy thought
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  Speaker 2: exercise to engage in. Because it feels like deer hunting
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  Speaker 2: isn't going anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: It is, though.
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  Speaker 2: And whether we get another 25 or 50 years out
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  Speaker 2: of it is anyone's guess. Maybe every season is a gift,
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  Speaker 2: and we should treat it as such. Maybe we should
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  Speaker 2: also try to recognize that in others as well. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't that long ago that I didn't have much hope
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  Speaker 2: of that happening. But after shaking hands with several hundred
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  Speaker 2: people at our store opening here in the cities a
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  Speaker 2: few weeks ago, I'm actually more hopeful than I've been
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  Speaker 2: in a long time. the people I met, most of
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  Speaker 2: them anyway, seemed to all have their priorities largely in
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  Speaker 2: a spot I consider to be a good one. You know, sure,
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  Speaker 2: there was plenty of big buck talk, but there was
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  Speaker 2: also plenty of small buck talk and doe talk and
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  Speaker 2: public land talk and talk about how the next generation
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  Speaker 2: of deer hunters is coming up. We are dang lucky
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  Speaker 2: to give them the opportunity to sit in those woods
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  Speaker 2: with those animals we love and allow that small part
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  Speaker 2: of life to give them what so much of life
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  Speaker 2: seems hell-bent on taking away from them. Maybe I'm being
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  Speaker 2: overdramatic here. I honestly don't know. I know that it's
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  Speaker 2: very easy for me to focus on what has been
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  Speaker 2: lost in hunting and what could be lost any day now.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't make me feel good to look at the
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  Speaker 2: new developments around me on farms I hunted not that
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  Speaker 2: long ago and think about the greed involved or the
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  Speaker 2: callousness of it all because the nature I loved is
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  Speaker 2: no longer there. But I live in a house with
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  Speaker 2: a yard and I know without question deer used to
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  Speaker 2: live here too. I've never had a developer offer me
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  Speaker 2: life-changing money for my land, either. It's easy for me
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  Speaker 2: to say I'd turn it down, but that's because the
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  Speaker 2: offer isn't on the table. My natural default setting is
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  Speaker 2: to find the negative outcome first, and then go through
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  Speaker 2: with whatever it is I'm sure will fail. And sometimes
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  Speaker 2: just be pleasantly surprised it didn't. That's a dumb way
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  Speaker 2: to live, if I'm being honest.
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  Speaker 3: And I am.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to try to be better for myself and
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  Speaker 2: my daughters. We have a couple of big weekends coming
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  Speaker 2: up with deer openers in Wisconsin and Minnesota, although I
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  Speaker 2: just found out that Wisconsin's out because I'll be at
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  Speaker 2: a funeral. It's how life goes. Now, I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 2: either way in those first couple weeks, we'll piece together
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  Speaker 2: a blood trailer too. That should be enough to keep
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  Speaker 2: the bad thoughts at bay because that's pretty incredible, especially
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  Speaker 2: considering it took me four full seasons of bow hunting
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  Speaker 2: to kill a buttonbuck, and it'll probably take the girls
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  Speaker 2: about four full hours of hunting to kill something bigger
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  Speaker 2: than that this year. And maybe that easy success is
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  Speaker 2: the wrong measure. But looking at volleyball schedules and basketball
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  Speaker 2: schedules and homecoming weekend and my work schedule means that
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  Speaker 2: the days when we do get out there don't deserve
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  Speaker 2: to be bogged down by focusing on the what-ifs of life.
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  Speaker 2: I know that I won't get a mulligan on those
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  Speaker 2: moments with my daughters any more than I'll get to
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  Speaker 2: replay a season in the woods for myself.
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  Speaker 3: They're here, and then they're gone.
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  Speaker 2: Like a woman I've known for 25 years who gave
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  Speaker 2: one of my best friends a son and a daughter,
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  Speaker 2: and a path toward a life that wouldn't consist of
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  Speaker 2: throwing back long necks at the local watering hole every night.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, other than his father's funeral, the last time
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  Speaker 2: I saw them together and got to spend real time
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  Speaker 2: with them was last year's bow opener in Minnesota, when
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  Speaker 2: I brought one of my daughters down and we all
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  Speaker 2: got to hang out. We laughed until we cried then,
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  Speaker 2: and it had nothing to do with deer.
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  Speaker 3: It was just the reason to be there.
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  Speaker 2: And because we were there, it allowed us to get
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  Speaker 2: together and have a great night like we used to
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  Speaker 2: when we were in college in those pre-kid days when
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  Speaker 2: whatever we could see through the windshield was so much
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  Speaker 2: bigger than anything in the rearview mirror. And that's not
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  Speaker 2: the case anymore after a couple of decades. But there's
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  Speaker 2: still plenty to look forward to. And it doesn't do
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  Speaker 2: any of us any good to dwell on the things
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  Speaker 2: that we can't change, as much fun as it is
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  Speaker 2: to do just that. So I guess I'll wrap up
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  Speaker 2: this meandering rant here that took the space of some
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  Speaker 2: good old deer hunting advice I was fully prepared to
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  Speaker 2: dish out by saying that maybe you've started hunting this year.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you're shooting every night and just dying of anticipation
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  Speaker 2: on the upcoming deer opener. Maybe it's your first season
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  Speaker 2: on a new property or your last season on a
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  Speaker 2: property you hate to lose. Maybe your kids are going
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  Speaker 2: to hunt for the first time. Or maybe they're going
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  Speaker 2: to just sit next to you in a blind and
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  Speaker 2: help you look for deer and eat some candy. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is that is waiting for you this fall in
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  Speaker 2: the woods, and when you're not in the woods, I
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  Speaker 2: hope it's just good.
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  Speaker 3: I hope it gives you what you need.
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  Speaker 2: And if it doesn't, I hope you figure out why
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  Speaker 2: and you have the opportunity to find it somewhere else
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  Speaker 2: down the road. We don't know how many seasons any
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  Speaker 2: of us have left. And that might seem like a
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  Speaker 2: totally abstract concept until it's suddenly not. And when it's not,
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  Speaker 2: I bet we will give a hell of a lot
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  Speaker 2: to go back, you know, one more time. And meet
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  Speaker 2: up with some friends the night before the deer opener
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  Speaker 2: or to climb up into a stand while our fathers
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  Speaker 2: stand on the ground and watch to make sure we
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  Speaker 2: make it up there okay. I think we should all
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  Speaker 2: try to remember that as long as we can. And
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  Speaker 2: I know that I'm going to try starting right now.
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  Speaker 2: That's it for this week, folks. I'm Tony Peterson. This
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  Speaker 2: has been the Wired Hunt Foundations podcast. As always, I
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