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Ep. 198: Hunting with the Home Run King · The MeatEater Podcast

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  Speaker 1: nor where you stand with on X. Yeah, I want
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  Speaker 1: to revisit um argument we had this morning. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait before we get out. Oh you know, first,
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  Speaker 1: let's introduce couple people because we got Let's we have
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  Speaker 1: some people that everyone's used to. Rick Smith's here, Cameraman Extraordinaire,
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  Speaker 1: Seth Morris, the flip flop flasher here in the Flesh,
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  Speaker 1: and then very special guests Pete Alonso happy to be here,
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  Speaker 1: roll out some of the super litives. This kind of
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  Speaker 1: stuff makes you uncomfortable. Roll out the super I'll do
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  Speaker 1: it for you. Thank you. Okay, your first Major League
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  Speaker 1: baseball year, you're a rookie with the New York Mats,
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  Speaker 1: and you hit more home runs than than any rookie
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  Speaker 1: in the history of the world. Yeah. Not only that
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  Speaker 1: he had so many damn home runs that he breaks
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  Speaker 1: the rookie record, but then hits more home runs than
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  Speaker 1: anyone rookie or not for the year. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and won the home run Derby. This is a this
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  Speaker 1: is a special year. But what did the uh what
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  Speaker 1: did the thing on my rifles say? It says you
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  Speaker 1: gotta have a high ass? High ass? That's right? Explain that, yeah, exactly. No,
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  Speaker 1: what did I say your rifle? Home run King? That's right,
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  Speaker 1: home run King. Yah, you're comfortable with that. Absolutely, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's my thing. So the home run King is here,
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  Speaker 1: and then uh, Yanni's back from assignment. He still hasn't
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  Speaker 1: listened to that, so we made of all with Yanni highlights.
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  Speaker 1: Did you listen to it yet? I will to maybe
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow on every plane ride home, I'll try. It really
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  Speaker 1: surprises me that you wouldn't listen. I would feel that
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  Speaker 1: because like you're like a co host and everything that
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  Speaker 1: if you weren't there, you'd listen just out of like
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  Speaker 1: a sense of obligation. Listen. I really want to, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, my to do list is long. Maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was just a nice break. And then our other very
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  Speaker 1: special guests, Houndsman, Uh Cody. When you use your last name,
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  Speaker 1: I know you'd like to be a little under the
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  Speaker 1: radar in life. Yeah, just a little bit. It'd be
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  Speaker 1: our eyes Steve Cody. Yeah, there you go. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: Good to be here. Yeah, give me a favorite Cody
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  Speaker 1: and pull your mic a little closer to your mustache.
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  Speaker 1: There you go like that. Yeah, Um, I want to
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  Speaker 1: get to the fight me and Yanni had. But I
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  Speaker 1: think the real quick I want to say about Cody, uh,
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  Speaker 1: probably the more most interest. If I was still a
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  Speaker 1: magazine writer, I would be after you hard about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you one of your many revenue streams comes
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  Speaker 1: from retrieving wild catching wild cattle. That's a fact with
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  Speaker 1: hound dogs, Yes, sir, can you explain real quick the
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  Speaker 1: folks what like, uh like, what constitutes a wild wild cattle.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the ranches around here they'll have some domesticated
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  Speaker 1: livestock gon Ferrell, Right, they've been tried to been rounded
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  Speaker 1: up together, but the resources they have are limited, meaning
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  Speaker 1: that they ride out and try to chase it with
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  Speaker 1: a quad runner exactly. Yeah, everything we do, most everything
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  Speaker 1: we do is horseback and with dogs, you know, catch
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  Speaker 1: to baby to catch. So the rancher will call up
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  Speaker 1: and he'll be like, I rounded everything up, but there's
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  Speaker 1: ten I can't catch exactly, then Dante put the hounds down, right,
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  Speaker 1: But how do the hounds? How do the hounds um?
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  Speaker 1: How do they know where to drive it? Like I
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  Speaker 1: can picture that they would catch it and surround it,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what they do ultimately. Like the stuff that's
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  Speaker 1: really wild, you want to uh the dogs to see
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  Speaker 1: it first. They don't. You shouldn't even be in the
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  Speaker 1: picture for quite some time. And you want to sneak
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  Speaker 1: in real easy because what they're scared of, obviously is
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  Speaker 1: a human being. You know, they haven't had bay dogs
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  Speaker 1: on them. But you bay them up. Ultimately, you bay
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  Speaker 1: them up and then easy and and he's out, easy
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  Speaker 1: in and then until you until you close the distance,
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  Speaker 1: and then you start roping them. And so that's what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing, subduing the creature. Yeah, right, you're throwing a
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  Speaker 1: lariat around it exactly. I thought you somehow we're driving
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  Speaker 1: them with the dogs. Well, you can do that the
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  Speaker 1: dogs and follow you and push the cow along and
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  Speaker 1: they will, like I have some dogs like three or
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  Speaker 1: four that'll bay and then if you ride in, they'll
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  Speaker 1: opposet me and go to the other side of the
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  Speaker 1: cattle and then push cattle to the horse, and then
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  Speaker 1: the cattle get a sense of security and they come
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  Speaker 1: to the horseback, you know, the rider, and then you
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  Speaker 1: can you can go in some pretty rough country and
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  Speaker 1: get some pretty pretty bad stuff out that way. Uh
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  Speaker 1: what would be? How many can you catch in today?
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, depends on how bad they are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and how much they've been molested throughout their life, and
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  Speaker 1: how many tricks they know, you know, has some stuff
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  Speaker 1: just been quattered around and kind of you know, messed
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  Speaker 1: with their pretty pretty easy to change their mind, but
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  Speaker 1: if they've been through it a bunch. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: met when you couldn't catch How many have you ever
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  Speaker 1: caught in a single day? Oh gosh, it just depends,
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  Speaker 1: Like bay ups, I would say, on a good day,
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  Speaker 1: with help, of course, you know, usually have some cowboys
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  Speaker 1: helping me just to tie and or whatever rope once
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  Speaker 1: we get getting bade up with the dogs. But man,
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  Speaker 1: i'd say, on a good day and really good pickings,
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  Speaker 1: you know, twenty head, you know, and sometimes you'll strike
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  Speaker 1: a deal where the ranch are so fed up with them,
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  Speaker 1: you'll strike a deal where you'll you'll get a the
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  Speaker 1: sale price exactly everything you can catch, right they're ready
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  Speaker 1: to set that, the ranch is ready to sacrifice that
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  Speaker 1: to get you someone to catch them, most definitely, because
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  Speaker 1: what happens is like on a on a on the
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  Speaker 1: big outfits, you'll have some pretty wild or feral cattle
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  Speaker 1: that will teach your good cattle bad habits, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and so that incentivizes them to get them off exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you might get you some really good angus
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  Speaker 1: or you know, a good commercial herd, and you want
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  Speaker 1: to interject it into a ranch that has some wild
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  Speaker 1: stuff on it. Well, you'll start losing pieces because they
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  Speaker 1: you know, they'll start ganging up together and got Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta start with a clean slate, like yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: then you'll go as far as so you live in
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  Speaker 1: southern Colorado and you'll stray as far as Utah, Nevada. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll cast some cattle out in California even Yeah. How
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  Speaker 1: long do you stay? How long do you stay when
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  Speaker 1: you go out to catch cattle just kind of depends
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  Speaker 1: on the project and how many there is, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: on what condition your horses and dogs are in. After
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  Speaker 1: a while, sometimes it beat you up a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and you camp out while you're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Most certainly, Yes, sir. Have you ever stayed somewhere for
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  Speaker 1: a month catching wild cattle? Oh? Yeah, yeah, I was
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  Speaker 1: out in the Utah desert for about six months, kind
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  Speaker 1: of taking care of a place that what's pretty rugged
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  Speaker 1: and wild, just catching cows. Yeah, that's a hell of
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  Speaker 1: a business. How do people find you got a name
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  Speaker 1: for your business? Are you looking for more business? I
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  Speaker 1: don't at the present time, but yeah, we're doing all right.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't need to. You don't need to like
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  Speaker 1: you got you don't put a plug in here. I
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  Speaker 1: don't imagine you have like a website. No, sir, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even have electricity at my house. And I
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  Speaker 1: take that back. I did get solar about four months ago,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty five panels. So how many dogs
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  Speaker 1: you got? How many horses you got? Just a couple?
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  Speaker 1: Do you bring that whole slew of dogs when you
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  Speaker 1: go to catch wild cattle? Oh? I got some dogs
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  Speaker 1: in particularly that stay home, like I got just one
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  Speaker 1: or two. But for the most part, everybody goes. Even
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  Speaker 1: my lion dogs like or hog dogs. They all they're multipurpose.
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  Speaker 1: So you got like hog dogs, lion dogs, and cattle dogs.
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  Speaker 1: And they're all the same dogs. Yes, okay, they's got
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  Speaker 1: wiry different hats. Yeah, how do you how do you
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  Speaker 1: keep your lion dogs from running lions when they're when
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  Speaker 1: you're chasing cattle And that's the thing like usually you're
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  Speaker 1: in and I wouldn't mind it, you know, if they
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  Speaker 1: did kind of go do their deal, as long as
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  Speaker 1: they're staying straight on what I want. But usually if
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  Speaker 1: you set your dog down in cattle country, you're the
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  Speaker 1: likelihood that you catching the line is you know, slim
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  Speaker 1: to none. And when you go hunt a hog, you're
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  Speaker 1: you're in cattle country, but there's usually not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of lions in hog country. Well how do you how
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  Speaker 1: does he know where these running hogs or cattle? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you put them on them, you know, you start the
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  Speaker 1: track and say that's what we're gonna hunt today, man.
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  Speaker 1: And they're smart dogs, you know. I started out my ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: my the first dogs that I had was mostly Catahoula,
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  Speaker 1: and then I injected a little bit of red tick
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  Speaker 1: English red tick into him and then now I went
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  Speaker 1: to some Argentine dogo with the mix. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're fast, fast to catch, and they'll still put
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  Speaker 1: their nose on the ground to trail and they're fun
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  Speaker 1: to hunt. Yeah you're saying, you're telling I mean one
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  Speaker 1: of your lion hounds. Um, we'll visually track the line,
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  Speaker 1: but you'll see the track right and run along and
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  Speaker 1: just check it now and then. But he said he
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  Speaker 1: can still grind it out if you need to. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he'll cheat a bit, you know, especially on fresh snow.
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  Speaker 1: You know there's a and they'll get in the dirt too,
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  Speaker 1: And there's been a that's a whole another deal controversy,
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  Speaker 1: controversy about dry tracks or dirt tracks versus snow tracks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how's that a controversy? Well, as far as
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  Speaker 1: all the guys that do it on dry ground are badass,
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  Speaker 1: that's the controversy. I mean a snow track up here.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen snow tracks that you would look at it
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  Speaker 1: and swear to be damned that she could that was
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  Speaker 1: the last night track, but it might be a week old,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the scent is dissipated through it. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: it's and sometimes I'm psyching you don't like dry ground
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  Speaker 1: guys talking all about how they're badass and you're not.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's uh yeah, there's just certain places for
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  Speaker 1: certain dogs. And so would your dogs be able to
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  Speaker 1: catch a lion down in Arizona with no snow? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we hunt it south of here in New Mexico quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit down the red dirt, the buffs and uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's short cedar country and it's mostly dirt. But even
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  Speaker 1: down there, you know, the freezing the thaw is what
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  Speaker 1: gets you ultimately, Like even with its snow or snow
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  Speaker 1: or dirt, like it's it's a scent that's held in
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  Speaker 1: the track and that freezing, that thaw just slowly dissipates it.
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  Speaker 1: So in the in the dirt conditions, Um, the right
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  Speaker 1: kind of dirt I believe will hold scent longer than
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  Speaker 1: a snow track. And and there's different types of snow
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  Speaker 1: that will hold a scent longer than uh just regular snow.
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  Speaker 1: Snow ain't just snow once it's the ground. It could
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  Speaker 1: be wet, or it could be fluffy or what's what's
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  Speaker 1: the best kind of snow for holding scent? Uh, And
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit of more cheering it seems, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not it not the real fluffy stuff that dry, dusty powder. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of kicks back into itself. And you don't
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  Speaker 1: want a real wet track, it seems because it leaches. Maybe,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just saying, but yeah, how many lions have
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  Speaker 1: you caught in your life? Oh gosh, man, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I've only been doing it like eighteen seventeen, eighteen years.
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  Speaker 1: Telling you my first year is pretty dry. We chased
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  Speaker 1: him and that was before callers. You know that, even
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  Speaker 1: the telemetry. I didn't have a settle telemetry until two
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  Speaker 1: or three years later. But mostly it was set your
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  Speaker 1: hounds down, you know, and go. You just listened to
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  Speaker 1: him and try and follow him. And that was usually
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  Speaker 1: a ship rock. But uh, okay, I wanna get back
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  Speaker 1: to fighting, and Joanni, heck, I thought about it, Johnnie.
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  Speaker 1: Yanni took offense. I was saying, yeah, I got into
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  Speaker 1: his head. No, I mean, explain everything, and you tell
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  Speaker 1: me if I explain it wrong. I was saying that, um,
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  Speaker 1: I would that I don't understand when people send away
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  Speaker 1: their kids to boarding school because I want my kids
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  Speaker 1: around so I can snuggle them. And I was like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I would hate if they had left earlier than is natural.
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  Speaker 1: Yanni took offense at this, not because he thinks that
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  Speaker 1: it's great to send your kids off a boarding school
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  Speaker 1: and not snuggle them. But because he took offense at
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  Speaker 1: the idea that one would describe something as natural when
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  Speaker 1: there's plenty of places in the world where you don't
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  Speaker 1: move away from home at all and you stay in
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  Speaker 1: your tight in your family unit for the whole life.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought about it this morning. If I said
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  Speaker 1: to you, uh, white tail dear have their breeding season
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  Speaker 1: in mid November, it's natural for them to do that,
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  Speaker 1: would you be like, uh? Because is they rot in
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  Speaker 1: January and Mexico? So does that make it unnatural that
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  Speaker 1: they rout in mid November elsewhere? That's what you were
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  Speaker 1: trying to do to me this morning. And now that
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  Speaker 1: I present to you that way, you're left speechless. You
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  Speaker 1: got you had many hours to think about it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So now that you're coming back at me with a debate,
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  Speaker 1: I think you should give me at least more than
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  Speaker 1: three seconds before you say I'm speechless about this. Um, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you want me to give you you want me You
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  Speaker 1: want to come back to it. No, I think I can.
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  Speaker 1: I can give you a rebuttal right now. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: think that it's uh, how do I put it? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: You're a learned thing. You left home, yeah, and went
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  Speaker 1: away far away, Yeah, never to return. It's sad to
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  Speaker 1: think about sometimes. Was that unnatural? I don't know perfectly natural.
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  Speaker 1: I just felt like it was the wrong use of
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  Speaker 1: the word, that's all. What will be the right word? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think you figured it out after we started talking
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  Speaker 1: about You said that it was like culturally not the norm.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so I think for the deer, I took
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  Speaker 1: offense that you taken offense. I hurt my feelings. Um,
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  Speaker 1: can you tell everyone real quick, yann about your Colorado alcunt,
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  Speaker 1: real quick hunting story, whatever you need. Then then we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna then we're gonna narrow in on Pete Alonzo's big hunt. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was good. You know I burned um like twelve
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  Speaker 1: or thirteen points. Yeah, you need to know which because
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  Speaker 1: I have a bet with Brody that it was in
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  Speaker 1: the teens. Oh, it was definitely in the teens. I
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  Speaker 1: want my bet. Definitely the teens. Even my buddy Ethan,
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  Speaker 1: who drew the tag with me, was in the teens
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  Speaker 1: as a resident. He was eleven, I think, and I
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  Speaker 1: had one or two more than he did. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I had known about the unit for a while and
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  Speaker 1: been thinking about it for a while. What was your
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  Speaker 1: exposure to it? Just people friends and people I met
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  Speaker 1: through the industry, people that lived around it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: had good things to say about it. And um, unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: I'm setting the stage for sort of like a letdown.
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  Speaker 1: He can he can feel it coming because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: end up killing the bi little giant that I was,
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  Speaker 1: you know that you hope for when you burn twelve
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  Speaker 1: or thirteen points on a unit. Um. But we had
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  Speaker 1: a great hunt. The best part about the hunt was
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  Speaker 1: I had to hang on my buddy Ethan, who was,
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  Speaker 1: yeah and definitely like my main mentor over all my
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  Speaker 1: elk hunting years. He's like the guy that definitely took
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  Speaker 1: me from just like could dude that kind of knew
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  Speaker 1: how to walk around in the woods and would bump
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  Speaker 1: into stuff every now and then, to someone that could
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  Speaker 1: get it done on a regular basis. Um. So that
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  Speaker 1: was rat to you know, be able to share an
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  Speaker 1: elk camp with him. And we had a photographer with
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  Speaker 1: us that captured the the action for us. And then
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  Speaker 1: another buddy of ours, uh Jim, that came down from
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  Speaker 1: Eagle County and helped us out on the hunt. The
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  Speaker 1: hunting was rad like aside from not being never finding
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  Speaker 1: a giant bull like anything over three. Um, well, was
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  Speaker 1: it just dudes everywhere? No superlimited? Yeah? Um, we definitely
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  Speaker 1: there were some camps around, but like you never felt
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  Speaker 1: like the elk were even pressured, like every every day
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  Speaker 1: you could have just walked in the woods and shot
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  Speaker 1: a bull within an hour during prime time. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we had like great bugling action. Um. And I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of torn between because they are bugling in his
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  Speaker 1: own where you cut in glass, as well as I
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  Speaker 1: would like to just to be able to look over
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  Speaker 1: a lot of critters. So I was torn between like
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  Speaker 1: jumping in and having great fun bugling and chasing the
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  Speaker 1: herd around and and trying to look look pick over
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  Speaker 1: bulls that way versus trying to just look at a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of open country and trying to find a big one.
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  Speaker 1: We had very similar weather to what we had this week,
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  Speaker 1: meaning that it was like unseasonably warm, dry, no precipitation. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so they were definitely not hanging out long, not not
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  Speaker 1: being you know, like I felt like the big bulls
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  Speaker 1: had left the herds and they weren't being like forced
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  Speaker 1: to go out into the open and feed. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they were just tucked away in some hole and it
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  Speaker 1: was gonna take a little bit of a miracle, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to catch one sticking his nose out five minutes before dark,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Um, so yeah, sweet sweet hunt and um
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  Speaker 1: the last day, how many you think you looked at?
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: How many bulls? I don't know, say average five a day?
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: How many could you take in the poke at mm hmm,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know twenty, No kidding? One evening? Yeah, I
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: saw how many bolds we see that night, not counting spikes.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I think seven branch chandler bulls like in this one
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: little drainage that we cruised around in. But just all
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: youngsters I had throwing all my Colorado out points into
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the garbage. Hadn't. Oh, but you never would have caught
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: up with the point creek that's going on in Colorado.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: You only had like five, and as I burned thirteen,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: you never would have made it in your whole life
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: if it keeps going like it's been going. Yeah, because
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: next year you'd have six and it would take fourteen
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: to draw. Then you'd have seven and take fifteen. You'd
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: always be behind by quite a few it's a problem
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: that they're trying to deal with. Here's got a lot
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: of problems, man. So anyways, yeah, it all started when
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: they legalized weed, you think, so, um yeah, super fun hunt.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Just never found the big one, oh quick thing. But
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you had fun. But you left everybody like they don't
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: know you got one. Yeah, I got one on the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: last day with ten minutes left the morning. We were
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: hunting like a small, little teeny tiny drainage where I
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: was hoping that like it was off the beaten path,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: there was no trail going to it, and I had
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: not seen any boot tracks in it. And We've gotten
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: a hot tip to go and check this out from
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: from from locals, and uh so we went in there,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and we were just looking at some pretty small, like
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: south facing steep rocky slopes that you know, don't look
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: like great habitat, but it could be a place where
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: one could be hide and you know, and I didn't
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: see the elk in there, but while we were in there,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I could look up and see like some alpine country
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: and I saw two big herds move into this basin
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: and uh too far away to even like even with
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: like the spot and scope to see if there was
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: any Like I could see bulls, but I couldn't see
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: what they were, And so we decided to go in
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: there that afternoon. You think he'll one that morning, So
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: we went and packed his bull out. Was it a
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: giant Nope, he had like he was in the magic
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: circle all morning and had let him all walk by,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: like kind of died down. And so he was just
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: kind of slowly cruising back to the truck, and all
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, right below him, he just heard a
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: little and he just crept over to the edge and
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: there was one bed at like fifty yards and it
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: was kind of like, yes, this is the perfect opportunity.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: So he rolled him yep, and it's bed. Where do
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: you get that, Cody? What's that shooting something in his bed?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: If you're sneaking, have to get up on it. I
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: think it's all all good me too. People get pissed
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, I don't know why. I mean, because
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: they're not good at sneaking. They get jealous. Gotta get
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: in there. A monkst him. I shot a bucket in
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: s bed this year. He never flinched. Yeah, it's controversial
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: because people, It's controversial for two reasons. One reason is
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: that people think it's unsportsmanlike, Like it's sportsman like to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: shoot him when they're running away from you, but not
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: sports like to shoot him when you've stuck up on him.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: They don't know you're there or something. And because somehow
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: they feel like that you're they're at the disadvantage because
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: they're sleeping, their eyes are closed. And then it's controversial
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: to shoot something that's bad for good reason, in part
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: because it's it's hard to shot. Placement's difficult. Sometimes it's
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: hard to tell what's going on, definitely, So that's the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: thing you gotta watch out for, is can you tell
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: what's going on? What about shooting a duck on water, Well,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: that's really great point. Why is it bad to shoot
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: a turkey in the air, Good to shoot it on
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the ground. Good to shoot a duck in the air,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: bad to shoot it on the ground. It's confusing. It
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: is if I was duck hunting by myself in the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: duck landing in the decourse, dude, bank Town. But when
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: you're with people, everybody looks at each other nervously. Oh,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: if you're with me, you're gonna watch my gun go off.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not that good at shooting and flying man. So
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: if I can, you know, get a bonus one towards
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: my limit like that, I'll take it. Um. So in
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the afternoon we decided, Joe and I decided to go
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: after him, and uh, it was a commitment. It was
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: about three miles. We knew we had to go about
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: three miles and had to climb close to two thousand
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: feet to get to where they were where we had
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: last seen him, and I'd watch him till like so
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I you that they had they weren't gonna go much farther.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And as soon as we got the elevation to where
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: we could see right into this little it was like
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: a I don't wanta say miniature, basically an avalanche shoot,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: but uh kind of mellow. It didn't look like it
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: slid a lot, you know. It was more like a
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: just a real steep grassy meadow rocky above. And uh
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: we got first got eyes on him, and we were
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: maybe fift hundred plus yards away, and we saw this
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: bowl and all I could see was like a really
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: long main beam and a giant fourth and I thought, man,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: here it is last day. It's all gonna come together.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: So I didn't even bust out the spotting scope. I
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: just said, let's go, and we had to. They were
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: sort of feeding on the opposite side of this the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: The shoot was bowl like and we were kind of
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: on a knob looking into it, and we had to
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: roll all the way around this knob and then get
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: on the face with him. And we tried to go
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: down off the knob and thought we'd get close enough
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: to where we could kind of shoot across into him.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: But once we got to within range, like sub five
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: U uh, I just couldn't get a shooting lane at all.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: So we had to climb back out and got on
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the face with him and just waiting for the wind
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: was good. It was dropping down the face at that
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: point and just started. We got a great elk trail
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: that went right through the timber right at this open avalanche,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you know, meadow, and just kept sneaking, sneaking, sneaking, And
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: then it's like, I don't know, when I was probably
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: sixty yards from the edge of the meadow, I could
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: start to see, you know, elk moving in the meadow
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and got a little closer and uh, I could see
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the bowl, and that moment I glassed him up and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I realized that he wasn't you know what I was
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: after the Nice Bowl. You know, he's he's cool, but
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: not not the big the big giant. Yeah, but the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: hunt was pretty much over. I had like at that point,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I had thirty minutes left in my season, and I'm like, Joe,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: we could kill this bowl. We're gonna be packing elk
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: me all day tomorrow. And he was just like, this
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: dude's gotten into hunting. It like probably the age of fifty,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: maybe fifty plus. He's about to turn a sixty and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: it's so jazz and stoked on it that when I
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: turned around and kind of posed the question to like,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: should should we kill or should we just happily roll
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: off the mountain under the stars and be done with it,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: he was just like, get him, take him down, you know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: like I don't want this to end. And uh, you know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: my buddy Jimmy, he wanted some elk meat, and so
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: it wasn't a done deal, but I still had to
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I had to sneak in there. By the time I
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: got a little bit closer, I had to fight off,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: not fight off, but I was fighting all these calves
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: that were feeding right where I was trying to get to.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: So they put their head down and move a little bit.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: They lift their head up and they'd be chewing and
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: kind of they'd look at me, stare a little bit,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: but then look away and put their head down. I'd
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: take another step or two. You can get a little
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: way a lot with calves, you know, they just don't
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: they haven't put two and two together yet. They're only
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: what at that point, they're six months old, right, And uh, Anyways,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: he ends up me embedded. So I get into like
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: fifty sixty yards. Yeah, the bulls bedded out in the meadow.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like maybe now ten fifteen yards from the edge
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: of the meadow, and I'm trying to get a shooting lane.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: But I got some branches still in front of me,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and he's bedded, and he's kind of quartering away, and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: there's a cow behind him, and it's getting dark. And
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: finally I stand up and I kind of moved to
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: my left and getting next to this tree, and I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: just leaning against a tree. I still couldn't get the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: angle I needed, but then I just brought my gun
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: up on this little branch and I kind of had
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to almost get on my tippy toes and from there,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I had a clear sight path. Coincidentally, at the same time,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the one calf finally saw me going through all those
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: motions and she's sort of you know, bounced out a
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: little bit and it got everybody on their feet, and
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: once he got on his feet, it was I had
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a you know, just a nice easy shooting lane. Yeah,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you know, I shot him, and hard to tell because everything.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: It was late in the day and so I didn't
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: get to do a great neck crops knee crops knee
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: cropsy because it was dark out later, you know, so
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: it's hard to tell what happened. But the first shot
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: didn't bring him down, it stunned him. He was dead
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: on his feet. So I ran out after him. He
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: had gone maybe fifty yards and he was just facing away,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: standing there, kind of wobbling, just ears pinned back, you know,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: sick but not falling over, and um, I almost actually
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: just ran at him a little bit more or try
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to change positions so I could get one in broadside,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and eventually he just he turned enough broadside that shot
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: again and that tipped him over. So yeah, it was sweet. Yeah,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: he's a big adventure and the bull like tell him
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: how to go find you on because they'll be able
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: to find a picture of it on Instagram. Yeah, I
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: actually haven't. I need to post a um do a
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: little post about that hunt. But I'll have it up
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: there by the time you guys listen to this. But
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: it's uh my handles your honest underscore to tell us. Um.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: But he's got a cool main beam that at his force,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: it almost does a hard ninety both main beams, and
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: they almost come back together. The tips are probably only
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know, what do you think ten twelve inches apart? Yeah?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: If that so? Yeah, Uh, quick thing remember we Oh
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you weren't there and you haven't listened the We had
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: an emergency room doctor talking about all kinds of things
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: that bad things that happened to hunters and anglers. And
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: he suggested that when you bust your tooth off and
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the nerves hanging out and it hurts real bad, do
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: you put um super glue on there to seal it
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: up so that so the air isn't touching it. My dentist,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Kevin said, man, don't do that, creep piece of feedback. Uh,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: he didn't have an alternative. He said, you're gonna wind
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: up gluing your lip to your tooth, your lips to
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: your lip. He just thought it sounded like not smart.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Those things can hurt, they hurt. I would let you
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: administer that, because, especially if it was a top to
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: youth and you're just trying to squirt super blue up
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in there, you would end up do it very delicately.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I'd lay it in there, just perfect to yourself, do
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: you That's what I'm saying. I wouldn't want to do
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: it to myself because you can't see you. I would
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: end up not know. We're eating talking about director for day.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: So Peterlans will tell everybody where you're from. I'm from Tampa, Florida,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: still live there today, but you play playing for the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: New York Mets. UH live in Manhattan and UH for
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the summer. I live in UH live in New York City,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: just twenty four years old. Played in high school, YEP,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: played in college, left college of playing the miners. He
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: was trying to say, he couldn't tell you were trying
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to You were saying, I don't know if I should
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: say I'm auld dropout or what were you asking? I
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: didn't know if I wanted to tell people that I
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: got my degree from college in baseball, or that I
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: was a college dropout baseball. And I said that what
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you should say is you left college to play professional baseball. Yeah,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I think that that one sounds the best out of
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: all the options. I think that one sounds good. You
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: told me you were a dropout. Yeah, I think it's
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: kind of funny. True. My old man dropped out of
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: high school to go fight in World War Two. I
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: mean that's bad. I don't think it's like, yeah, I
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: don't think it's just I wouldn't say he's a dropout
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: right because it's a it's kind of like a bigger
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: life calling or your journey, your your journey of life
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: that you guess you kind of go on. So you
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: knew you were gonna Like at what point you know
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be a professional ball player, Steve, I had
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: no plan b at all, Like from like, believe it
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: or not. My first word as like a baby was ball.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: That was my first word. Yeah, you know, I don't
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: want to pop your bowl, but that's a That was
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: my first word. But for me, it's it's kind of
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: fitting um. And I'm only joking with you like that. Yeah,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I mean for me, it fits. And I mean when
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I was younger, um, from preschool all the way throughout
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: high school, like every single level of my life, I've
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: always wanted to be a professional baseball player, and I
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: dedicated all my energy, my time, um to uh to
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: be a big league ball player. That's were your parents
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: were your parents Like, oh, enough already with the baseball. No.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I mean I played I played like five sports one year. Um.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I mean in middle school, I played lacrosse, football, soccer, basketball,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and baseball. I mean I feel like in the sports world,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: like I grew up playing a bunch of different sports.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I mean I tried a lot of them. I love
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I love sports, I love outdoor activities. UM. But for me,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: it's like my true passion and love is um is baseball.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: And I'm just really fortunate that I get to pay.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I get paid to play a game. When you started
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: in college, I'm not really fromiling how this goes. You're
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: in college, it's better to be it's And also someone
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: says that you can come be in the minor leagues
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and that's preferable to play in college. That's like a
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: step closer. Well, it kind of depends, like, um, you
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: can get drafted out of high school, UM at eighteen
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: years old. But the downside of that, if you're not UH,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: if you're not giving or offered UH, like money, you
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: can't refuse, Like if you're offered a million dollars to
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: turn down the college experience UH to go play professional baseball.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, it's, UM,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: you want to be in the big leagues. Like you
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: can dream of playing for the college you grew up for,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, you want to
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: end up in the in the show, you end up
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the big leagues. UM. But for me, it's like I
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: wasn't drafted out of high school. I didn't really have
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: that option to go play professional baseball at eighteen years old.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: So for me, I kinda I mean, if I if
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: someone says I'm not good enough at something, I I
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: take it personally, and I work harder and I try
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: and shows as much as the results as possible to
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: UM to put myself in that position to get that chance.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: If if that would make sense. So when I went
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: into college, UM, I just wanted to make the most
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: of my time so I could have a chance at
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the big leagues. And I didn't care how like if
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I had to go through the minors or not. And
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, whatever the path I had to take, I
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: had to take to get there, and I'm willing to
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: put in whatever work and whatever time is needed to
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: uh succeed or to accomplish the goal. You're getting married,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: uh coming up right? Yeah? Next year? Ye? Or you
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: getting married a year from now. Yes. When you met
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: your girlfriend, you were doing what so. I was in
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: um so, I was in college. UM at the time,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I was playing in the Cape Cod League and um
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: we met at Pete Town. It is kind of funny.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's not really a place where some
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: people go to meet meet ladies, and it's kind of serendipity,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: you know. It's like I after we met and it's
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: like I just couldn't get enough of her, and we
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: hung out every single day for the rest of that summer.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: We did long distance um our last year's of school
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and UM as soon as um as soon as she graduated.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: It's Cape Cod. Sorry, put the tenner ups. Cape Cod
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: is not known as a place town. It's a place
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: where guys would go to meet guys. Oh that specific beach,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: That specific beach yeah, so the reason why could figure
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: out why he was getting cat called. So the reason
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: why we were at that beach. I mean, it's said,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: long story short, I didn't being from Florida, It's like,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like rocks and wearing shoes on
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the beach. You know what I mean. I like white, fluffy,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: sandy beaches and reminiscent of home. Yeah, reminiscent. I mean,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: who likes wearing shoes on the beach. I don't think
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: any of it's just rocks on the shot. You won't
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: like the beaches at Steve's cabin, dude, Yeah, the barnacles, man,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: you got rocks with barnacles. You don't have to wear shoes.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: You have to wear waiters and uh and rubber boots
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the whole time I got you. You want to have
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: a beach experience? Yeah? And then are you able to
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: concentrate while eating mars you know, cherries out of my glass? Absolutely? Absolutely?
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: But um yeah, it's like she's uh, she's just so unbelievable,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Like and did she believe you? Like you're like, oh,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a professional baseball player? Was she like okay? Whatever?
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I don't think she said like whatever, Um, I think,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I mean I think that she would have that didn't
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: matter what I did. I think. I mean she told me,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I mean she told her dad that she would have
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: dated me if I pumped gas for a living, So like,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I don't think he was necessarily the what I did. Um,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I think it's just the chemistry and the relationship. I mean,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: she's she's awesome. She's my soul mate. I mean, I
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: can't picture going through life without her because I mean
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: she's I mean, she's my rock, like she keeps I mean,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: she's a sports psychologist, like she's everything and more. I mean,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and for how much like we travel and like I mean,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: we don't really live anywhere for more than seven seven
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: days at a time during during the baseball season, and
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: it's like you go through the apartment, you go to
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the hotel, like there's no sense of home. And sometimes
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: like I get h I'm not gonna say jealous, but
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I kind of wish I knew what it was like
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: to have like a like a home for like an
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: extended period of time, because like packing and traveling a lot,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: it gets gets kind of exhausting, you know, and you're
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: going home with a bunch of deer meat. Now I'm
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: excited and and you don't have any concerns that she's
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: gonna she's gonna eat the deer meat. Oh, she's she's
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: gonna love it. I think I'm a I think I'm
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I'm a pretty good cook. Um. I learned. I learned
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff from my grandpa. Um, well, the
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: one from the one from Spain. He can he could,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: he could whip up anything. And just kind of watching
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: him navigate the kitchen, utilize all the different spices, um
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: and different creative ways like to bring out the best
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: of the food. I think that, Um, I can do that.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I can do this. Dear meat Justice either one that
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: taught you the cinnamon trick. No, actually so a buddy
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: of mine. His name is Vince. He's one of my
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: best buddies. Uh. He went out to Houston, UH to
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: visit one of our really good friends. He plays for
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: the Houston Astros. His name is Lansper Colors and Dallas
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Kikl was his teammate. And Dallas Kikl is like just
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: an absolute hardcore Texan like Breede lives breathe Texas and
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: he used he uses like cinnamon on like red meat,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: and Vince brought it back and uh, we went over. Um,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: me and my fiance and him and his wife are
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: really good friends. We went over to dinner for their
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: house one night. He was growing steaks. He was putting cinema.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, what the hell are you doing. He's like,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: shut up, just try it, Just wait till I'm done,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and try it. And I'm like, oh my god, this
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: is unbelievable. And so I I kind of adopted it,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and um brought it to you guys. Yeah, we did.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: We liked so much. We had it twice this week. Uh,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: tell everybody what high ask means. So in the baseball world,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: it's my new favorite term. So that's why Pete likes
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: mildeers milder. He got a mild your buck he felt
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: had a high as So a high ask means just
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: a just a big, powerful, muscular butt. And in the
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: baseball in the baseball world, if you have a high ask,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: that means that you're probably a strong guy, like strong
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: and athletic and you could probably hit a ball for
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: pretty far. Your I mean, you gotta have a lot
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: of asks to hit the ball. Oh damn, right, man,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: When I hit a ball, it doesn't really go anywhere. Man,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: It's always kind of embarrassing. Well, you gotta you have
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: to act like I'm not interested, I'm playing. You have
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: to figure for baseball tea, Steve. You gotta put your
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: ass into it. That's the thing. That's why you gotta
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: have a high as not not enough of an ass
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Yanny what I tell you earlier about oh, chocolate milk
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: and squats, You need to get on that training program, Steve. Yeah,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: you know what happened one time, man um the last
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: real heavy duty bit of chocolate milk I got, I
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: had a lot of gastrow and testinal upset. This is
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: many years ago, but it turned me off on it. Okay,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: turn me off on chocolate milk. And now but I
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: look at chocolate milk and I get leary. Well, I mean,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: there's is it like with the girl I had just
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: started dating, and there I was sneak off every couple
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: minutes trying to figure out what was going on? Were
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: you farting in her in her bathroom towels? It was
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: just horrible, man, It's horrible, as my my the writer
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Ian Fraser put it once he talked about it, sounded
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: like he was yodeling. He was yodeling in the bathroom.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: So now that chocolate milk man, you look at it
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: like I look at it with great suspicion. Is it
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: a dairy thing? Well, just a fluke. I was real sick.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I got real sick overseas God, and I was just
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: not right for quite a long time. Seth had that. Yeah,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Seth was sick for uh at least a year. He
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: couldn't even date. He had the ship so bad he
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: had to take a year off dating was still on
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: this day. Have no clue, was it really? Did you
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: go to coastu Ecer? No, No, they had him. They
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: had him, just no, they had him. They had him
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: peg for like a real serious look affliction Crone's disease. Yeah,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: but it just went away one day. I woke up
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: and was gone. He woke up, had a nice solid
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: and it was gone. Stressed for a year, couldn't date,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: couldn't even date? Were you stressed out? I mean before
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: do you think stress was Did he look stressed out?
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think I was stressed one time of life?
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: What else was going on in your life at the time? Oh,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: come on, talk me through this he had was in college.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: This is the worst time ever leave alone, geez. So
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I asked the powerful ass strong power for lass. Yes,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: typically when you have a strong power for last, you
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: have strong legs and in like athletic ability and that
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: they'll look for that. Absolutely. So when you started playing baseball?
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: How did it come to? Because I want to trying
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: to get around to is how you won the home
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: run Derby and that's how I found and that's and
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: then you took the opportunity to express interest in going hunting,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: which is pretty funny. Well, so the home run derby
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: soles telling people what you get when you win the
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: home run Derby. No, no, that's two questions. You're you're
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: asking three questions at once. Which one? So first question,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: how did I start playing baseball? Oh? No, no, we're
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: told us how you started playing baseball? Okay, so what
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: what was the what was the second question? I just
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: kind of like the all of sting you made it,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: and you're like you're in the get in the major league,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Like here you are, yeah, and you're in the major leagues.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: And then the home run Derby comes up? Yeah, so
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I got the uh, I got the official invite I
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: got the call from uh one of the people from
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball Office asking if I was gonna
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: do it. It's like, would you like to participate? No, ship,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I would like to participate. This is like a like
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: that's like the one night a summer my parents let
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: me stay up late at night to watch like I have,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Like I grew up watching the Homer and Derby. Like
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: I never watched the All Star Game. I watched the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Homer and Derby. That was like my thing because I
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: was just in awe of like just how far these
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: guys would just punish these baseballs, Like you just just
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: absolutely disintegrate these uh like these baseballs into the night
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: and it's just like it is majestic almost. It's it
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: was really cool and um and to be honestly, I
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: didn't even know what I was saying, Like after the
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Homer and Derby, I would just like black like it
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: was all like just this blur like I had, Like
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I remember like my cousin. My cousin was the guy
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: that thrown me BP or batting practice. He was the
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: one throwing me the pitches and after I hit it,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I remember just chucking my bad as far as I
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: could in the air, and my cousin just jumped on me. Um.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: And then after that, I was just Daddy Yankee like
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: put a chain on me. Do you guys know who
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee is. He's like some really fame. He's like
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: a famous Latin rapper. Like he put like this, like
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: the Homer and Derby championship chain on me. I got
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: hinted the trophy and then it's like, holy sh it,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: what do I do now? Sorry, the fact that your
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: cousin was pitching, he seems a little suspicious. Or did
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: you get to choose that? I chose that. Yeah. Oh
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: so everybody gets to choose their picture. Yeah. Yeah, so
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: they're they're throwing you pitch is meant to be hit? Yes, exactly.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: And um, my cousin grew up playing baseball. He played
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: he played D one college baseball, uh St Bonaventurely, I'm
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: not sure if you guys know where that is upstate
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: New York. Um, but yeah, he we both kind of
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: grew up around the game. And um, it was in Cleveland,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: and he's, um, he's from the Cleveland area, and I
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: just like, you know what, and both my parents are
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: from Ohio, so this is It was kind of like
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: a whole like homecoming family reunion type thing. And I
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: was just like, what how crazy would this be just
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: to like have this moment with Uh. I mean, there's
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: there's a ton of family members there, and to have
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: my cousin Derek like throw to me. Was just yeah,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: you couldn't dream You couldn't dream it up better. I mean,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: and you win a million dollars? Yeah, yeah, Wait, how
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: many homers did you hit in the in the derby?
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: So I hit fourteen, uh to knock off Santana, I
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: hit twenty to knock off a Kunia, and I hit
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: twenty three to knockoff lad Jr. So were any of
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: those guys rookies? Um? Vladi was and Santana is a
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: season vet and a Kunya was a rookie last year
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: signed he was rookie the year last year. So all
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: those guys are very well respected um in the game
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: of baseball. And yeah, came out on top. It was,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, and then when I got the got the
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: interview or when the interview thing, it is just like
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: all this everything happened so fast, like my family's coming
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: on the field. Um, Like I I was like holding
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: back tears. Like the entire time, I was just so
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: just like wow, like because coming into spring training, I
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: didn't know if I was going to be playing in
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: the big leagues and then here I am two and
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: a half three months later, like wanting the home on derby.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: It's like this ship doesn't even make sense to me.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: It's like I was living a dream, Like it happened
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: so fast. And then the interview came up, and I
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: was just like, I mean, I'm a big fan of
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: meat eater, Like I watched, Yeah, what question did the
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: interviewer ask you? How did how did you? So this
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: is this is how two things happen. So he's like,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: so you made the big leagues out of spring training,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: You're you're an All Star as a rookie. Like, you
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: just won the home run derby. You get a million dollars,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: you get the you get the trophy, you get the chain.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: And he said you got to meet Jerry Seinfeld, which
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: is weird. Is that something you ask for? No? He
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld is just a big New York Mets fan,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: um and he was at one of the games and
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: me and him talk for a while. He's he's a
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: hilarious dude, what did you guys talk about? Um, It's
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: it's kind of funny because like my dad, uh, my
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: dad was a huge Seinfeld fan and it is just
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: and I was like, dude, like my dad, I remember
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: my dad's sitting me down and making me watch shows
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: of you. Like I'm like, it's crazy that He's like,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: I'm such a huge fan, and I'm like, how how
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: are you a fan of me? Like that dude is
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: like a like a legit ogl in New York. And
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: it's like, like, I don't I couldn't understand that he
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld liked Jerry Seinfeld was a fan of me.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: I just like, there's a lot of things that happened
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: this year that I couldn't comprehend. He's like, and then
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: the guy said, or the ESPN guy, He's like, what
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: could possibly make this year better? And I'm like, I
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: go to go hunting with Steve Ronelle. It just it
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: just like came out. I didn't plan it. This wasn't it,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: but all that other stuff. It's like it was it
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: was so funny. So many people said that to him.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Man like this people kept texting me to be like,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just like when I watched your shows.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: It's like, I love the way that you kind of
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: put things in in in perspective and you have kind
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: of like a certain way I mean you being a
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: writer and you just have a certain way with words
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: and describing things. Um. It's it puts a lot of
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: things in perspective. And the way that you kind to
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: treat um, not just not just the animals, but the
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: way you prepare um because I love what you do,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: like especially with the cooking and the preparation of the food.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: I mean me, I'm a huge food I love awesome
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: food and the way that you do try and do
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: the best justice you possibly can for the animal. Like
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: I have the utmost respect for that. And I mean
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to Like this trip was just
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: so special because I could be able to just kind
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: of watch and learn and um be I mean kind
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: of pick your brain a little bit. Um. I mean
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: there's kind of like I mean, after baseball and like
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I'd love to do kind of something that you're doing. Um.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: I mean this is like, I mean, baseball is of
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: the utmost priority, but I mean outdoors and and food
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: is is a huge passion of mine and I know
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: it is for you too, and uh, quite honestly, I
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: felt like we get along. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: So what we did just to bring people up speed
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: is a friend of mine has a ranch in Colorado
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: and he uses the ranch. Um he's been on that,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: he's been Matt, he's been on the show a couple
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: of times. Um, he used the ranch like he hosts
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: wounded veterans to hunt on his ranch. He takes business clients, friends,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: uses it for fun. Like I first came out here
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: to do a TRCP fundraiser. Like TRCP, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Partnership will auction off like last year they auctioned off
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: a deal where four people could come out too, could
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: hunt out and two could fish. And so I hunted
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: with Um. One of the guys Jana's hunting was another guy,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: and then Cody is a what do you call yourself?
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: You're like a ranch manager? Yeah, hunt man, I don't
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: know that. Yeah. In addition to catching cattle and lines
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: and whatnot, jack of all trades. So we did these
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: this fundraiser hunt and it came out here and Matt has, uh,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: if your own properties in Colorado, you can get these,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: you get like these tag vouchers that you're able to use.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: So we were able to very much like on the
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: spur of the moment, playing a hunt without needing to
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: do the applications to get a permit because we've got
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: the vouchers. So we came out to hunt deer and
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: then you were able to buy it over the counter.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: ELK tag. Um, what all like when we came out
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: to do is what all were your expectations and and
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: like apprehensions and expectations. I mean I was I felt
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: like whatever it was gonna I mean, I was just
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: happy to be here. I just wanted to tag along
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: and um just kind of just kind of learn and Um,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: I'm just I just feel really blessed to to to
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: be here. I mean, all you guys, this whole Metator team,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: this whole Meteator experience was just um, I mean I'm
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: gonna remember this for us from my life. I mean,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: this was absolutely fantastic. The boys boys are awesome, Like
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: you got a hell of a team, Steve, and like
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: you guys are are fucking awesome thanks to all you
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: guys um did when you were imagining it, Like you
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: played so now you play baseball and everything you do
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: is filmed, right, you're filming the game. It's being put
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: on as a spectator sport um. And like you the
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: way you're there to produce a thing that's watched, you
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: know whatever means that you personally like, that's what justifies
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: the whole thing is it's an audience participation thing. Um.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: To know that you were gonna come and we're gonna
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: hunt and we're gonna film it for a television show.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Did that make it seem more Uh? Does that make
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: it seem more in line with how your life goes anyways?
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Or did it feel like, Oh, I wish we weren't
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: doing that. I wish we were just going out for fun. No,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: I mean if because for me, it's like in the
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: world of baseball, it's it's a game of failure, in
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: a game of disappointment. Like if you fail seventy percent
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: of the time throughout your entire career, you're more than
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: likely to end up in the Hall of Fame. Seventy
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: percent of the time you fail, And there's a lot
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: of cases where we need seventy percent of the time.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Like you get up to bat and you're out. Yeah,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: that's what's funny. When I asked you, like, what happened
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: the first time you got out to bat in the
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: major leagues? You said, I struck out? Yeah, I struck out.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Did you strike out swinging? Are looking at it? I
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: struck out. I struck out swinging struck out. It was
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: against a three time Cy Young winner. So, um, what's that?
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: So that's like the m v P for for pictures.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: He's a three time uh m v P for uh
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: for the pitching aspect of the game. So, I mean
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: he's so. The guy's name is Max schers Are. To
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: all you listeners, if you're from baseball world, you knew
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: exactly who he is. But uh, to the guys that
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: or guys and gals out there that aren't familiar with
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: the baseball, this guy is Um, this guy is tough.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's probably uh probably gonna end up
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: being a Cooperstown, which is the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: And uh, I respect the hell out of him. And um,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: I mean this guy is just an absolute master of
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: of of the art of pitching. Are you looking forward
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: to facing him again? Oh? Yeah, I love competing. Have
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: you have you gotten a homer off from yet? Not
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: a homer but I got a couple of hits, got
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: a couple of hits, So they put that in your
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: pipe and smoke it. I guess so, Uh, we're really
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: leave off. I can't remember if I got distracted by
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: uh expectations. Oh yeah, was it weird to come out
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: like make a show where we were to be filmed?
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Are you just so used to be in film though?
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: I mean I this year I get. I mean just
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: in real like going through like real life. It's like
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: I don't realize in being filmed like during uh during
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: the game, because I gotta be locked in on on
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I mean, the cameras are are just
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: kind of exterior stuff. Um. I mean for me, it's
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: like if I'm I'm just gonna be myself because at
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, that's um like I take
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: pride in knowing who I am. Like, like I told you,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: what did I tell you about knowing something? Oh? Yeah,
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say it? Is that? Is that too? Uh?
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Maybe may be honest it What do you want me
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: to say? I don't want to. Well, maybe you weren't there.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that, Okay, if it's not podcast friendly,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: I won't say it. It's a it's a it's an
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: expression saying you need to know your your panga. Yeah
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: you're penga. Know you're you know what you're working with.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: You know what you're working with, you, what your strengths are,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: what your limitations are. No, know who you are. That's
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: that's the that's the g rated know who you are,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: um and for me, doesn't doesn't pack the punch that
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: right now your panga um? And for me, like, I
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm really comfortable with who I am and
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: if someone else wants to have an opinion, then let
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: him have it, you know. And I mean that's whatever,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: whatever happens and whatever people think of opinions like great,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: But uh, are you kind of like the added pressures?
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: It's like for me, it's like I try and live
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: in the moment and whatever I can do to accomplish,
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: whether it be like putting a good shot on a
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: deer or hitting a baseball, it's um, it's honestly pretty similar,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: pretty similar type of type of pressures. What was your
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: favorite thing about what's your favorite thing about? Hunt Milder?
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I know you like the moments when we were looking
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: at them. Yeah, I mean I just think they're they're
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: just incredible creatures. Also, it's like I think the mesmerizing thing,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: like they're really cool to look at, but also that
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: they could disappear at the blink of an eye, Like
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: if you're glass and you see them and then let's
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: say you like let's say you kind of just move
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: around to adjust or whatever, and then you look back
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: in that same spot, they could be gone and to
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: split second. I mean, these creatures are just um, I mean,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: I have just this utmost respect for him. I mean
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: they're almost perfect. They're almost perfect this trip, and their
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: camouflage really well, they're really just super aware of their environment.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: And um, I mean there. I mean it's a great challenge.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean we hunted really hard these five days.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Am I right? I would say we did. We had
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: some obstacles, Yeah, I think that. Um Cody bat me
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: up on this. Like it's like like Colorado does like
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: the first season so it's week long, then there's some
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: days off, and the second seasons a week long and
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: there's days off, and the third season is and I
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: think you get like a sort of like added up.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of pressure. You're right, You're exactly right.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: And things get skittish, and it's compounded, you know, throughout
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: the season until later the season. You're right, and we
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: had the chance we'd come out, and we thought, oh, well,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: come out and they'll be routting and chase each other
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: around playing grab bass. Not even kind of none of that. Uh.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: And then two nice the weather, which is wonderful to
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: be out and but just isn't like that's what you're
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: really hoping for, I think in Colorado's third rifle season,
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: because that's why most people don't come and hunt it
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: and come in second season instead. It's because they like
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: this weather. They don't want get their teeth by the way.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Out of locals at least where when I was living
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: called all the locals all hunted third because they would
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: expect the weather to come in and then put the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: animals out into the open. We did not have that,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: or a little migration. We had a little pre migration
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: before you guys showed up, but you know, you were
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: still in a lot of deer. There's still a lot
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: of deer up high. Yeah. It was tough, man, It
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: was tough, but worst case, worst comes to worst. We
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: we didn't shoot anything and got to watch a beautiful
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: sunset or sunrise? What would you have thought about that
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: if you didn't get one, if I didn't get one. Um,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: I know hunting, there's no guarantee for success. Um, same
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: thing with baseball. You're not gonna get a hit every time.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: And I feel like even though like our worlds are
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: so different, but the expectation of success isn't like just
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: just had to snap of a finger like that can't
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: be guaranteed. Like, you gotta work, You gotta work for
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: your success. You gotta put yourself, you gotta prepare, you
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: gotta put yourself in the right position to have that
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: great opportunity. Like am I is that? Just like keep
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: keep putting yourself in positions. That's the thing now, And
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: then I'll think about is um at a point just
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: this matter of like staying out, being out, you know,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: you keep being out Like tonight we sat that same
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: we set, the same metal night that we sat five
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: nights in a row. It's still no buck showed up
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: out there. But I'm thinking, like, how many nights could
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: you actually sit here and not have just like not
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: have one just like a lost one comes through. Yeah,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: we saw we saw those tonight that we had never
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: seen the whole time we sat there, and then night
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: before tonight last night we saw, didn't you see a
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: couple of days last night one one. It's not like
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: they weren't dear there. It's just that opportunity that, like you,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: we put ourselves in position. It's just that nature just didn't.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: That wasn't in the cards. But you know, it's funny
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: as we went up because when I was down here
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: doing the TRCP fundraiser during second season, Brody comes on
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: the show, a lot was down and he went up
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: and scouted that area in all kinds of bucks, and
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: then Matt Cook looked at it, all kinds of bucks.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: We go up there the first night, we go there
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: and here's four bucks. And I kind of thought him
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: as I thought him was like money in the bank.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: I wasn't even kind of thinking about going. I wasn't like,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: is that why we didn't go after Sapphire that first night?
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: Well it wasn't that. It was that, you know, if
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: it had come in range, absolutely, but I was like,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: no sense in spooking it, no sense in doing a
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: hasty stock. We'll set up better tomorrow and get them
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: and not spook them not knowing that we would never
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: lay eyes on that thing. Again, very true, but that's
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: the that's the thing though, I mean, same same thing
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: with baseball. You could get an absolute meatball right down
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: the middle and not see and expect to see it
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: later on and that at that or expected to see
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: later on the game. But if the picture doesn't give
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: it to you, it's I mean, then you're sl And
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of the same thing for us.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: It's like we thought we were gonna see at least
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: one for the for the remainder of the trip. But
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: I mean it's not like we didn't work hard for it,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: you know, No, five days, haunted every morning, early every
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: night till the end, um and then had that one
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: not quite opportunity and then scratch it out and got opportunity. Yeah,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: how did you feel that happen? Like, how did you feel?
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: Like all of a sudden, like we're me going like,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: oh my god, get up, get up, get up, got hup?
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: What's wrong? Well, you didn't care, that's the problem. Yeah,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: that's the problem. Um, what's the problem. Yeah, so you
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: didn't crumple under then you weren't even influenced by my pressure. No,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: he had that good saying earlier. Was it the Navy,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: he said, of the Marines that have that saying, yeah,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: it's in the um in the military. It's like slow
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: slow as smooth and smooth it's fast. And that's that's
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: kind of my um my method to hitting and my
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: approach to to the game of baseball, whether it be
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: offensively or defensively, because you have to be under under
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: control of the situation in order to capitalize. And I
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, thank you Seth for spotting it first of all, um,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: and I'll spot bucks for you any day, Pete. And
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: then uh, Steve is like helping me direct kind of
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: where to where to aim on the scope and and
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: where to to Um was it the magnification and stuff
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: like that. I Mean, this wasn't just like yes, I
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: shot it, but this was like like a team effort.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of different people involved in in
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: the in in that success. Um. Yeah, we got up there,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: we had a little bit. It was like we got
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: up that morning, we got befour. Yeah, we got up
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: a little early, and I had a pop tart. You
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: had a pop tart And I keep blaming my pop tart,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: but I had a pop tart for breakfast in a
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: coffee Did you put too much or did you putting
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: on enough cream in your coffee? So you had too
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: much caffeine and too much man, Like, I'm pretty I'm
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: not like a fragile person. You were that more. I know.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: We had a little hike. We had got a four,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: had a pop tart, had a little hike and we
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: got into where we wanted to be and I was
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: shaking so bad I couldn't hold my binoculars up. So
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: I had to take a time out and lay on
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: the ground and told Seth was there to film. I
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: was like, you gotta come up in glass, man, I
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: can't even and I laid down. I offered you the
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: chair and on my back laid down. Rick got me
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: a little water, It got me a little energy bar.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: Eventually got back to my feet, and uh, you could
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: tell I was still incapacitated because I was like, uh yeah,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna put I was still incapacitated
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: because I was up full on, feeling like I was
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: glass and sets back Meth was camera and I'll say
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: it's like buck buck yeah, um like blow us yeah.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: I like when I'm looking you're just like looking in
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: the in that little patch right there, I'm like where
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: And I didn't realize that it was like that far down.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: It was perfect spot. Yeah, Like I thought it was
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit further out, but it was legitimate.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: Why isn't it when we arranged it? Yeah? H yeah,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: hunting firty horizontal. I mean it was right there. Um
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: jumped on him, hunting for the r jump. Maybe if
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: I had one of those like flying squirrel suits or
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: whatever to fly down the hillside. And man, he was.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: That's why I like mule to your man is like,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: you know, no hang out in people's yards like anything, right,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: but now and then when you see a meal or
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: just like lurking through the you know what I mean,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: timber buck, they just got like a like a lurky
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: kind of almost a haunted kind of thing they do
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: now and then man, it's almost kind of like a
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: like a swagger. It's like, uh, it's like they like
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: they're strutting their stuff, but then they know they can
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: disappear at any second. And him coming down that trail
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: aspens on either side all that brush and that little
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: fern trail he's coming down. That was perfect window because
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: like I was gonna kick you in the side of
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: the head if you didn't shoot. I was like as
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: I was, I was, I was planning on shooting, but
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: I wanted to be precise. I didn't I didn't want
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: to harm the animal in any way. I wanted to
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: make it as clean as cleaning, humane as possible. And
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: you know, I was thinking about giving you kind of
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: an elaborate description of where I wanted you to hit it,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: but like like aim for the but that was just
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: like French older, funch older, and Pete shot the heart
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: out of it. Yeah, I told myself I was gonna
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: I'm aiming for the heart. I'm not hitting anything else
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: but the heart. Um. I mean to me, I think
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: that's probably the quickest and concise way to do it.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: And I wouldn't accept anything else. I had a nice slow,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: uh slow, controlled trigger press and when I let the
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: I let the gun do its thing. I didn't try
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: and stop it from rick coil And I think the
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: scope may hit me in the mouth, um something. But
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: you looked like a vampire a little bit. That's fine. Um.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: I know when I because I know when I'm when
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: I relaxed my body, it's like my body was almost
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: limp uh and I let the gun do its thing.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: That's when I knew I I stuck it really well.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: That's that's when I knew why. I put put the
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: shot right where I wanted it yep, and it took
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: a couple of bounds and bam, piled up. I don't
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: even think it went yards and then do nothing. I
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: was pretty happy. Yeah, I felt like real happy, was
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: real happy. I felt like a little bit as I
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: felt like, I love I love filming it. His face
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: light up like that makes me happy. I felt like
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: a little bit for crying. But I was just so
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: overcome with joy because I've I've wanted to go hunting
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: for so long. I just never had the opportunity because
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: as soon as I entered the world of professional baseball,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: uh to kind of that work and that time being
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: put in, like the hunting stuff got put on a
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: back burner. In um having time this offseason and be
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: able to capitalize on that, I mean, this is just
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: a pure blessing, Like you haven't still no idea how
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: appreciative I am of of all you guys, So thank
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: you for having me and um no, this is I'm
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: gonna remember this for us of my life. This is
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: this is sick. We'll get out again. Hell yeah. Uh.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: When we're doing a show, um, there's people who watch
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: our show will know. We usually if we're lucky in
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: getting something, we kind of highlight a food preparation in
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: the end. And for this one, we're working on what
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: why why are you laughing, Seth? Because I just you
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: know where going? So we wanted to do where we
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: wanted to take. Uh uh. Pete likes a good hamburger.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: I love good burgers. I love a good burger. And
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: we wanted to do a bone out of shoulder and
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: and and do some grind. So like talking about making
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: good grind burger. To do that, you need to cut
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: it with pork fat or beef tabo, um, beef suet
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: and sorry not Yeah, so like beefs why do they
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: call it beef suet? But you don't know us as
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: pork suit, do they? I don't think so. Yeah, so
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: you caught it with be fatter pork fat. And it
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: just so happens that Cody has had see how I
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: bring this full circle? Yeah, Cody's had a pig that
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: you bought four butchering purposes seven dollars. Yes, it was
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: a discounted hog. Yeah, fourth like a four hundred pound
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: pig for twenty seven dollars. He was five d plus
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: when we first picked him up for a closure pig, right,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: big old fella. Why did the guy want to sell
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: pick for twenty seven bucks? Why he just slaughter it?
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the situation was. He come out
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: of a sale barn. I had an order buy or
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: buy him for me. So you got a pig and
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: you fed it on expired produced stand produced through the summer,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: an expired horse feed throughout the fall. Yeah, and uh.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: When I was out here before to pick, scared the
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: ship out of me. Because I was walking along. No
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: one told me about the pig, and I walked along
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: and I thought, I keep telling everybody this, but it's funny.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a dead black angus and I
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, what the hell that thing died from?
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: And I went up and got pretty close to it
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: before the pig finally woke up and turned a little. Yeah,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: scared the ship out of me. And you're like, oh, yeah,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: I was gonna tell you. I failed to mention that.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: But we uh this morning because you've been meaning up
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: because you don't want to feed it through the winter
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: to lose weight. You're I ambodying for the intentions of
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: but your n Yeah, and it just so happened. So
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: the Meat Eat Your crew is here and yeah, and
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Cody wants us to start a domestic show around domestics.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: So we had the the deer and then this morning
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: we helped slaughter the pig um and cut some of
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: the back fat off it. And I was a little
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: worried about the fat. I don't know why, because I
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: just doesn't know what that thing has been getting into, right,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: you know, I can situation, but yeah, it's super clear.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: We've been dealing with pigs and blanche lately too and
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: having this this question arise, you know often about what
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: pigs have been getting into and we're gonna eat him.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah because me and Yeah, we just bought a pig ourselves,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: but it was dead. We bought a butcher pig from
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: a guy that a friend of ours. The guy we
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: worked with, Kevin Harlander, who's been on the show. Um,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: he raised some pigs and we bought a pig from him.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: He was feeding the pigs. I don't know if it
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: was solely but barley mash right, what's left? Hm? And
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: so we got that pig now. But then we went
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: to your pig and took some of the back fat off,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: and then got back here, and I don't and I
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: was nervous about the fat wouldn't be good because I
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: know the pigs like old. Yeah, he was older, losing weight,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: still had one of his nuts kind of kind of.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: So we took a thin slice of that back fat.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: The back fat comes off like what half inch thick county,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: that's say an inch probably an inch. Those pieces we
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: had were not an inch thick. We'll let you cook
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: him down. Oh, just let's go three quarters, let's meet halfway.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna meet halfway to wrongness.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: They're not an inch thick. That's an inch. Five eights
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: comes off and five and we caught them into like
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: we could all the back fat and like these sort
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: of like six by six or seven by seven squares
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: of five h inch thick back fat and put in
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: the freezer so it'll start to set up nice, real
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: clean white fat. Boned out the deer leg and cube
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: that in one inch cubes. Put the squares of fat
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: from the from beans the pig that was his name
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: in the freezer until it got firm, slice it and
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: thin slice, and then put a thin slice in a
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: pan to test it for goodness before we ground up
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: all the deer meat. And would you think of that
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: pig fat? I think that was the best little pork
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: crackling I've ever had. That was tasty as hell, especially
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: when you put a little salt on it. That was
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: really good pork fat plus plus. And then we ground up.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: We were gonna do temper same we did, like a
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: healthy grind. I think we didn't do all of it.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: I think how much do we do? We did like
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: whole like maybe like two like slabs of it. I'd
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: have to guess we did about twenty. So we did
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: one whole meal to your shoulder and then cut in.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: I would say, of that weight and of beans as fat,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: like a healthy twenty. Yeah. Let me ask you this, Pete.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: Just give me yes or no answer. The beans go
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: down easy. He died a hero. That's all I'm gonna say. Um,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: wonderful fat. Then ground off. You know how beans guy's
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: names named Beans? Well, everybody called I named him, but
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: everybody calls her pig bacon. You know, let's go eat
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: some baker or whatever. Hamm, yeah, your nickname him hambone
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: or that's a bacon or chop or pork and beans.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that was the thing. Yeah. And and Charlotte,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, we saw a black widow. Charlotte was a
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: spider right, yeah, yeah, black widow in my tent that
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: you guys let live. No, we found a black widow
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: in your camp. Black widow in your camp. Rick argued
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: to leave it there to kill you not very long.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: You made a quick case of like you're gonna leave
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: that around to fight somebody, and I was like a
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: displaced black widow and cordies camp. Um uh yeah. So
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: we ground it up and man, really good. The burgers
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: made burgers. I mean, that's probably the upper echelon of burgers.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: If if I said some myself, those those are awesome burgers.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: And what do you feel you're gonna bring your whole
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: deer home? Yes? Do you feel that you'll eat it
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: like really fast and be done with it. I remember
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: when I went when when we took Joe Rogan uh
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: deer hunt for the first time, he brought his deer home,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: and man, it feels it's like two or three weeks
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: later he was that a dear me, his deer was gone.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: He's went home and ate it. Man, do you think
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: you'll milk it out? Or you think you'll just eat it?
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I got I got some really good uh.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: I got some really close friends that I'm sure would
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: appreciate some of it. Um, I got some family members.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: I know I'm probably gonna have some backstrap for Thanksgiving.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I mean I think that I mean,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: if we have it, I'd probably rather eat that than
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: go to the grocery store, because, hey, I know where
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: it came from. It's probably it's got packed with way
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: more vitamins and nutrients and uh like a regular regular
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: cow you get from the grocery store super food. Man. Yeah, absolutely,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: So I think that i'd probably rather cook a steak
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: from the backstrap or um do like an awesome buco
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: than from the deer meat, rather than go to the
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: grocery store. I don't know. If I'm gonna buy red
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: meat and until the deer's gone to that's that's advisable.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: That's what I would do. Um do you uh you
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: have our our Wild Game cookbook. I do. Yes. Uh.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: You know what I think you ought to make what
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving? Yeah, is make the make the all the
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: flower puree in the backstrap dish. Hell yeah, it's a
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: recipe from our buddy Pooter. Yeah, I mean very very
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving me perfect because I don't think that I've taught
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: this for I don't think that Um on Thanksgiving. Uh.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: If you want to have a traditional Thanksgiving, eat dear meat. Absolutely,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: they know those sons a Bitch and pilgrims eight dear meat.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: It's it's debated whether or not they ate turkeys. So
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: if you want a real Thanksgiving, have yourself to do.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think they had cauliflower puree. They wish they did. Yeah,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: but I also don't think they had apple pie. They
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: wish they didn't as well. Yes, so I think you
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: should make that because it's a very It's like you're
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: gonna have your you're gonna have your wife's family over girlfriends.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: We split, We split holiday, so we'll be up in
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: Um where her family is in Boston for for think
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: for for Christmas, will be and Tampa for Thanksgiving. So
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: you'll be cooking it for your family. Yeah, man, do
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: the back strap with the cauliflower pure. Yeah, absolutely, very
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: very thanksgiving me. And also, um, and we're gonna send
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: you home with a sack of beans is fat. You're
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: gonna make cracklins for everybody. I'm gonna make cracklands. Um.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Probably if you send me home with the thing of
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: a cracklins, I'm probably gonna make that as soon as
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: I land. For for my fiancee, I'm just gonna tell
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: her just just just hold on, just taste it and
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: just tell me after you eat it, and then she's she's.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was kind of skeptical at first. I mean,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: I'll I'll try anything. I love cracklands, but that was
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: like the best crackling I've ever had. What you can
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: do too is render all that fat out, cupe it up,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: rendered out, and then you have a little bucket of
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: special lard. Hell yeah, cook your eggs in, cook your
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: eggs in, make some biscuits, whatever kind of stuff you
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: can do. Make pie crossed mince me ice, that bear
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: lard from black pear, and I made a really nice
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: pie cross for mince meat pie with that With that
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: bear lard. I mean there's a ton of stuff that
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: you could you just it's all about being creative. That's
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: why I like, I mean that cookbook is is helpful
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways because there's a lot of
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: really creative ways to to dress up whild game as
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: as opposed to just doing the old, old timey, old
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: fashioned recipes. And that's a way to kind of I'm
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: not saying, like kind of put like an elegant twist
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: on something, uh something from the field. And that's why
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: I wanted to get the book, you know, Um yeah
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: I had. It was a fun It was a really
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: fun time to have you out, uh to go thank
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: you because we don't really know each Yeah, I didn't
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: know not really didn't know you at all, but like
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: I just kind of like watch how you sort of
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: handle yourself, and I thought you were an intriguing person,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: and um, thank you. Rather than like and you last
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: through the whole week, I only what I liked you
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: more every day. Thank you. Yeah, I think everybody did. Man,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: it was really fun to have you. Thank you. Um,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: I mean I just try and be as as positive
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: as I possibly can be and regardless of every situation,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: and um, I guess that's kind of like my motto.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to be any any negative
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: because I think that's I mean, it's I don't think
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: negativity is ever helpful, if that makes sense. You know,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: it's funny you told me at one point, not bragging,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: but you told me we're having a conversation about complaining.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: You tell me a matter of factly, like I don't complain,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: but not like you're bragging about You're just like stating
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: a point. You just don't complain, just like make that
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: part of your life. Yeah, I don't. I don't like
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: to because this is a great this is a great
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: way to go through outstanding, but hard to pull off, man,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: because like it's like, let's I mean, there's a couple
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: of mornings or its fucking cold. Yeah, Like if I
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: would saying, oh man, it's fucking yeah, No, ship is
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: cold like that stayed in the obvious, Like that's not
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: gonna make it any warmer, you know what I mean?
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: So you just you just grind through it. And I
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: mean when I got sick and laid down, did you
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: think less of me? No? Absolutely not I did. I
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: was like Steve, I was getting soft, awful, are fearless?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: He's weak? No, ship happen. Ship happens to everybody. I
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: mean pop tart. Think about when was the last time
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: you had a pop tart? Yeah, we've been hitting. We
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: got a hold. I don't know how we wanted up.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't know you. I didn't know you're hitting the
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: pop tarts heavy. I was eating pop tarts, saying cream
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: and wheat, and that's the only day. Somehow, getting up
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: at four thirty, I wake up hungry. Somehow getting up
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: at four I wasn't hungry yet. I needed one more
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: half hour to get hungry. But also, didn't you say
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: you didn't sleep that well that night? Sleeps everything. I
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: had too much to drink the night before, too much
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: alcohol because we had the Toasted thing the night before, right, Yeah,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: so I had too much fun doing that. I loved it.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: That was awesome, Hopefully I surprised a couple of people. Oh,
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: we're gonna edit it down, so you just have all
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: wrong answers. No, we won't do that to you. Okay,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: we'll do a fair representation. Yeah, we we filled an
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: episode of our thing, get Toasted with Pete, So if
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: you stay tuned on on on YouTube, you'll find get Toasted.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: Um yeah, and you got to try the fancy whiskey
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: that I haven't I haven't even gotten try yet. What
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: do you think was it good? I thought it was outstanding, dude.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: It's because you said right now, Johnny, didn't you say?
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: It's like the secret was the Kentucky What is it?
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: The Kentucky whiskey, Kentucky bourbon? You bring it up to
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Montana and it's the mon Tannah snow melt water. That's right.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: That's that's hell of a touch like job all done
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: on the on the mediat or special edition whiskey. That
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: ship's also it's high quality. Man, it's good, top notch.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: I'm drinking right well, I'm I drank it already now
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: I'm just I make a special drink right, put bourbon
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: in there on ice, and I put a bunch of
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: cherries in there. So in Manhattan, I don't know. Yeah,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: as what they call that, it's good. It is good.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: We have a recipe on the website. You should check
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: it out. We're going home with a bottle of it. Um.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: It's called a meat hatton. That our buddy that works
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: for us more. He's on Chucker's right now. You know
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: what the Chucker is what's the chucker? I'm asking do
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: you know what the chucker is? I'm asking you. I
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: don't know what a chucker? What's chucker? It's a bird
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: from eur Asia called a red legged partridge and they're
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: they're like cliff faces. They're like the rockiest, driest na
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: asty is. It's like they eat rocks, um and they
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: they they've been introduced around, but they do well in
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: places like you know, Snake River Canyon, um, where like
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: Nevada has good some chucker spots just like rugged sheep plate,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: sheep country, Utah. Okay, that's okay, sheep country, that's right. Um.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: He likes to hunt chalkers. Cool. But yeah, look up
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: that recipe. Check it out. The meat hatton? What is what?
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: How did he like infused bacon into it? Is that
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: how he made the meat hatton? M hmm Yeah. Put
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: some beans beans cracklings in there. Now you're talking there,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: it's good man, Cody. What's the status on the on
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: the beans bacon, the beans bacon. He's hanging. He's hanging
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, he's he's in chill mode for a bit. Uh.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: What else do we want? We had a couple things
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: we want to touch on now and before we wrapped up.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: Yep for sure. Oh me and Yanni are running for president.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: We're doing a writing campaign. I'm voting for you guys,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: Are you really Yep, we're doing writing. It's Runella tells
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: all the you know, normal people when they run for president,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: they take all the money that they get and they
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: use it to keep running for president. The money we
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: get UM, all the money we get through our bumper
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: stickers and yard signs and T shirts, we're using to start,
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: uh filling up our piggy bank for access projects absolutely
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: hell yeah, for hunting effiicient access. And then we're gonna
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: take our big piggy bank and we're gonna continue to
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: notify people. But how this is gonna work. We've got
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: some other plans and the works on access projects to
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: help help increase hunting efficient access and so we need
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: to but it's gonna take dollars. So this is the step,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: and this is one of the first steps, and getting
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: our dollars together is running for president UM. Our buddy
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: Ronnie Bam has been the show. He's gonna run the
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: a t F for us UM because he likes the
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: alcohol and tobacco l and firearms and uh, Ryan Callahan
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: is gonna be our Interior secretary. Perfect. A lot of
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: people wait to announce all the appointments until that after
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: they win. But we're still positive to win that we're
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: just announcing all of our appointments now, and that's awesome.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, I really appreciate you guys doing that because
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: um running for president or not not just running for president.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: I mean that's that's a given, but sacrifice, right, But
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: also it's the kind of the thought of kind of
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: making hunting, of hunting and fishing available to the general public. Um. Yeah,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: that's our you know, our campaign slogan, Yeah, better hunting
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: and fishing for America because um, in in in the
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: state of Florida, a lot of fisheries available, that's that's
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: not the issue. But the hunting stuff that's really the issue.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: It's there's not there's pretty much barely any ablic land
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: available to to go hunt. I mean, we hear a
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: lot of complaints from from Floridian hunters. Yea who they
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: have like they live in the fishing paradise. Yeah, I
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: mean I love to fish. Like the complaining about hunting
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: to us a lot. Yeah, I mean I'm a I'm
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: a flat fishing enthusiast. I love trout, redfish, snook. Um.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's an awesome, awesome type of
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: fishing and big fan, big fan of it, big fan
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: of Florida fishing. Like it's just so diverse. I think
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: that's I think it's some of the best fishing in
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: the entire world. Um. But on the on the flip
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: side of that coin, having readily accessible hunting opportunities just
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: isn't for the isn't for the normal person. Um. And
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: I mean there's just not enough like public land hunt
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: and the public land that is available to hunt, it's
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: crowded as hell. It's crowded as hell. It's almost to
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: the point where it can be unsafe, especially especially during
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: gun season. So, um, the fact that you guys are
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: doing that, um, especially if you're that's gonna that's gonna
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: impact my home state directly. If you guys invest in
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: properties there uh to make available to the public. So
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: I think that'd be outstanding. Well, we'll keep at it.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: To find out, you have to follow the campaign, go
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: to the to just go to the meat or dot
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: com or oh you know what, I wanted to mention
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: the Bucky guy was a pretty nice damn buck for
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: a first buck. Yeah, real nice buck. I put a
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: picture up on Instagram now and people are like, we're
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: talking about a buck A guy shot that got impaled
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: on a stick. And I was gonna put it on
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: Instagram too a long time ago, and people are like,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: do it's not on there. I just got to think
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: it felt a little gratuitous to put it on there.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: But the picture of your box already there, so people
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: can go there and see it. They'll find our campaign
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: announcement video. They'll find Ronnie Bam announcing that he's gonna
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: run the a t F for us. All there. Uh
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: uh what other? What else are we're gonna talk about
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: real quick? Oh no. We was plugged the UM the
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: Back forty giveaway, So we bought a modest farm in Michigan,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: UM sixty four acres we called the back Ford. Because
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: it's always important to undersell things, not oversell, we bought
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: a place called the Back forty. It's sixty four acres
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: in Michigan, and we're doing a bunch of habitat work
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: on it. Mark Kenyan is running the project for us.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: We're doing a bunch of habitat work on this property.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: Eventually we're gonna give the property away, but in the meantime,
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: we're going to give away a hunt where people could
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: come out and and go out and hunt with me
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: and Mark. And me and Mark will be more like
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: your like errand boys, because the winner will get the
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: cherry spot and we'll just be there to facilitate and
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: cook wild game at night and hang out. So we're
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: doing this give way hunt. Um and you find that
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: two at the mediator dot com a lot of announcements. Yeah,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: you just sign up for the newsletter. Yes, that's a
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: good way to get yourself entered for that in the
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: New white our New White Tail weekly newsletter. Quick question
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: about that? What type of person are you looking for
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: to win? It's randomized, completely randomized. It's not like an
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: essay contest, got you. It's randomized got you. Some of
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: the lies have a good time, you know, into hunting. Well,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe they hate hunting. They have one. Yeah,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine someone entering the contest if they don't
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: like hunting. It would seem weird. It would seem weird
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: that one would do that. I'm expecting it to be
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: a hunting enthusiast. Can you but just picture of this
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: like someone not wanting, not just winning the contest, just
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: out of spite to say it, dear, just just sitting
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: there in the tree stand with the arms crossing their
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: and their mean eyebrows, with me going, what's the problem
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: they did that with the grizzly bear. Oh yeah, I
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: would love to know how many people actually protesting. A
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: few I heard, Yeah, like they actually like got noticed
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: that they were gonna be drawn for a tag. Well,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: one guy for sure. Oh yeah, you know you're right,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: You're right, you're right. The wildlife photographer, so Magnelson, Yeah,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: some guy that hangs out in the park too much.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: UM one of those things we're gonna I'm gonna release
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: it when we uh, when we win the presidency. Even
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: before then, we're gonna release a detailed platform like all
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: the things ways that which is gonna better hunting and
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: fishing for America. Rick's gonna hate this one, but one
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: of them is gonna be that a National Parks wildlife
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: management is handed over to the state in the state
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: um will in the same spirit regulatory structure in which
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: the surrounding lands are managed for hunting. The national parks
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: will be managed for hunting, and during hunting season, only
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: those license hunters will be allowed in the park. It's
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: gonna be wonderful, very controversial, very controversial position, but it's
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: cut down on revenue for the part unless I'm like
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren Man, I got a plan for that. I'll
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: tell everybody about it later. So, um, so would you
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: put with the person that applying for those tags? Would
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: they have to pay more to hunt in the park.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Think about doing something called the Yellowstone
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: supertag and it'd be like a handful of people will
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: draw a Yellowstone supertag and the super tag is good
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: for you. It's good for one of everything, and you
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: can you can transfer him to your bodies. So if
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: you do the yellosone super tag, it's like bison, elk, sheep,
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: black bear backlog of maintenance if you could help close
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: that budget gap. No, hell, this is all gonna make sense.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a wonderful country. Um, it's gonna be one.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be the saying's gonna be so much better.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: Pebble Mine is done dead. Michigan is getting a dove season.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: We're gonna be hunting the national parks. It's gonna be
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: a win for hunters and hunt on Sundays. Hunt. Pennsylvanians
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: will be hunting on Sundays. That's a rule in Pennsylvania.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: There's they're fighting. The first thing that's gonna happen. The
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: first thing we're gonna sign in the law, you know, Yanni,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: is we're gonna sign in the law making it illegal,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: um illegal to prohibit Sunday hunting. And it's if you
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: discard a wild turkey's thighs. It's a capital, a federal capital.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: It's a death penalty offense to a scarred a wild
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: turkey sighs. We're gonna be a fishing too. We're not
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: gonna even have to run for a second term. We're
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: gonna get it all done in four done. Yeah, be
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: back to enjoying the fronts of our labor. So you're
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: telling me people get rid of the five meat, not
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: after four years of being having them whittled away. It
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: just bogged. Oh yeah, No, they'll tay the time in
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: a way. But we're gonna have black, black booted thugs
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: that kick your door down the hall. Y off. If
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: you throw out your thigh meat and um yeah, and war,
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: we're gonna give it like full wilderness protection. I like it.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: You're coming across all the boundaries. It's the country is
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: gonna be ready for the craziest moderate ever, the most
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: extreme moderates. So get your get your if you stand
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: in the most liberal conservatives, if you stand for hunting
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: fish and get your bump stickers. Now, Um, this was
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: probably I was the worst deer hunter I've ever been
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: this week. You didn't scout up a single thing. I
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: found some deer. Matt and I took a little trip
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: down south where the deer were possibly migrating to. We
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: found some deer. Um did he say they were elk? No,
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: he didn't know. He thought he saw some milk. We
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: didn't see any elk, but we saw something. We found
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: some deer. Uh. And we could have possibly gone and
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: hunted there and it could have panned out for us,
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: you know, if we needed to. But uh yeah, um,
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: it was rough, rough hunting for me this week. Then
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: you went back in the morning that place had gotten Colorado. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: for sure, for sure. I thought I knew, but I
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: knew in the back of my head. I'm like, there
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: ain't no way that this little sneaky spot, you know. Yeah,
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: And so I went there in the morning. I was
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: the sixth chuck to pull. Uh yeah. So no, I
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: don't I don't have anything great to give you. As
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: a final father than I was just a sad and
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: mean I'm like, I'm like itching, I need to go home,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: and I'm trying to right now playing my week out
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: to figure out when's the first day I can play
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: hooky and go hunting and try to get my mojo back.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: Over the weekend. We're gonna um uh me and my kids.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say me my kids are taking
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: Tracy deer hunting. Oh that's cool, but I'm taking Tracy
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: deer hunting and my kids are coming along to confuse
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: the matter. Wow, just you, you're gonna be the only
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: other adult and Tracy and three kids and my wife's
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: out of town. That's gonna be a lot on your place. Seth.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: You should go and be helped. No, you help Tracy
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: out and I'll yell at my kids. Yeah. Um. Any
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: final thoughts. I think my thought is the deer and
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: elk seasons are going to get progressively better throughout the years,
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: if the structure has changed. They're talking about changing the
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: season structures in Colorado. A lot of pressure, like we
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: talked earlier on me to make it that everything isn't
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: over the counter, right, that's gonna it has to happen,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: it does. It has to happen. That's my thought. It's
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: not it's not sustainable. Mhm. It's gonna be unpopular, but
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: its just and after seeing what you guys want through this,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: you know this hunt because it was kind of tough
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: with the pressure and the outside pressure and whatever from
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: even if you don't yeah, even there's just the cut
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: off there, there's gonna have to be. Something's gotta something,
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: something's gonna give, something's gonna give. They don't want to
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: destroy the reputation that they've built. Uh rick Uh. What
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed the fact that you guys have such an
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: amazing like ability to navigate the vernacular of like hunting.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: Like when you're talking hunting with it doesn't matter if
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: it's like sports like fisherman from Florida or like duck
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: hunting or all these different forms of hunting and fishing,
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: you're like, no, the lingo and you never know what
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: we're talking about, and I sort of him yeah, like
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: I'm like barely hanging on or all. Or I'll try
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: to ask a question, I'll like, like the thought behind
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: the question is right, but I like, don't use any
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: of the right words or whatnot. So I got to
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: witness you do that with sports, with baseball, and it
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: was just fantastic to ask questions that were good questions
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: but using not know how to ask, yeah, not not
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: even know the words to ask the question. And I
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: just I just I just kind of enjoyed watching that.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: Who knew that there were two leagues in Major League Baseball, right,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: like and L and A let that National League and
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: and they got different rules. Yeah, yeah, so all that
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: stuff Like I I mean, you know, I play Little
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: league and learned about all that stuff and watch baseball.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: I like it. Man, I'm like, not only this listen,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: I'm like a big time Mets fan now, man, yeah,
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: I mean you should be. I'm gonna have my face
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: painted and ship now and I'm at yeah, to be
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: able to pick the brain of somebody that's in the
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: in the big league, big leagues and watching YouTube videos
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: and hitting homers, I mean it is it is like unreal.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it was. It was cool being able to
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: he looks so much older and different when you're up
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: there hitting them homers because I know what I'm doing.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: Oh and yeah, and the other thing is is Steve's
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: ability to kind of in those moments of high pressure.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: You know, he's mentoring. You know, I've I've watched him
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: interact with many many a hunter mentoring. You know, Buck
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: shows up and he gets home using that word. Yeah,
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: it is a it's a mental relationship, and you're really
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: good at it. But in that moment of like I've
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: heard that I'm not well, I feel differently. But in
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: that moment, in that moment of like it's go time,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: your level of patience, uh, like you're projecting your own
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: like I'm doing this now, and it just you know,
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: it takes somebody that's not used to doing it as
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: much a little time to get comfortable or whatever. But
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: Pete stayed true to his own Yeah and yeah, my process,
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: and so I would always call him, uh resistant to
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: my mentoring and that he was resistant to the frenetic
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: nature of your mentoring uh strategy there, but he stayed
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: calm and like, I mean, that moment is intense, right,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: like there's like two to three second window that you
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: gotta make the shot. And uh and with somebody like
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: barking in your ear, like go go, go, go go.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: It is not a whisper. Yeah, it wasn't a whisper.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: And he got it done. It was, it was. It
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: was a pretty fantastic moments. So seth. Yeah, man, I'm
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: gonna start watching more baseball too. Let's watch it together. Man,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: we'll go AT's house there, but we'll get you, we'll
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: get your little computer out. You know what the beautiful
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: thing is is that you guys are two hours behind us,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: so at five so seven h five Eastern time is
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: when the game starts at five oh five. When business
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: hours are done. You guys can chill, relax, hanging out
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: the office for the extra hour or so. Then I
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: gotta go home make dinner, or you could watch it
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: while making dinner. It's a relaxing game to watch. Yeah,
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: fantastic swinging in the miss. There's a lot of that,
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: by the way, a lot of failure. All right, man,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: do you got any thing you wanna final thing you
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: want to add? Yeah, um, just kind of not just
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: learning from you, Steve, but just kind of learning from everybody. Um,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: I mean everyone has just I mean, Cody, I've never
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: knew dogs were used to hunt mountain lines. That's just
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: a whole different world. The hunting that was, that's just nuts.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: Did you know they were used the round up stray cattle.
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: I learned that just right now. And that your dogs
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: are just multitalented and uh, I mean to be able
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: to manage that and I mean that's that sounds like
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: an absolute rodeo. It's a cool feeling for sure. Yeah,
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: that's that's nuts. Um, I mean hell, I mean what
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: you do like on that ranch. I mean I just
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: kind of saw like this small little sample size of it.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: But damn man, you're a fucking jack of all trades
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: and that's that's awesome to see, like a true outdoorsman.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: True uh, just true cowboy like it's in southern Colorado.
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: That's that's it, man. I mean I feel like you're
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: part of a dying breed. I mean, honest, just you Like,
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not a cowboy, you're not a cowboy, but you're
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: an X fishing guide Like you're there when I don't
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: think we mentioned that, um that we went fly fishing
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: for an hour and a half, an hour and a half, Um,
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: I mean it was that was awesome. I mean, I mean, Seth,
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: you're there taking pictures and you spot in the buck
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: and UM, I mean I think you're the the closest
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: one to to my age, right, Matt, how old are you? You?
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: So you're younger, so I guess me and you are
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: kind of the the young I mean, I'm the youngest one,
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: but I feel like me and you kind of connect
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: on kind of like a similar wavelength from a similar lens.
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: And um, I mean I mean, Rick, I mean, I
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: have a hell of a hell of respect from what
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: you do because you have to get the right angles.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: And um, being a part of the baseball world, I know,
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: kind of like all the camp I don't know it,
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: but I'm familiar with having to get the different takes
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: a different angles, changing the lens, the light. Um. And
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine how difficult that is, Like moving around quietly,
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: not being able to make a sound sort of quietly.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: That's extremely quiet, while Steve's yelling at you the whole time.
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: That's that's that's that's why one of the best parts
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: was watching Steve over last. It's more of a stair
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: than it's yells of love. Lastly, Steve, I felt like, um,
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like the way that you kind of,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: I mean rec put it in a really good in
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: a really good way, like you were mentoring me because
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: I haven't hunted since, um since my grandpa pass when
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: I was in I haven't and then after that, like
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: I was in college and baseball kind of took over.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: And I've always had this affinity for um, like outdoor
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: activities and all right, and being able to come out
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: here and do this, and and you being like one
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: of the main mentors. I feel like all of you
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: guys were mentors in a way, but Steve, like the
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: way that you and the cool thing is is like
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: even though it's like the first day, like you weren't
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: afraid to say shit, like you just like Pete, stop
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: stomping around, quit dragging your feet, Like I felt like
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: you're the older brother, like I never had like that
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  Speaker 1: with me into shape, but did it in a way
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  Speaker 1: where it's like you cared what I did, like, um,
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: like letting me take that first shot on the deer,
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  Speaker 1: like trying to work your ass off, putting me in
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  Speaker 1: that position to Um to have a successful hunt. Like
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  Speaker 1: that's like, I'm so appreciative of that. I'm appreciative of
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  Speaker 1: all you guys. Matt, like this is your first shoot,
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  Speaker 1: like you're a rookie on this thing. I know he's
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: not on the pod, but like, I mean this whole
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  Speaker 1: crew and then Um and then Matt Um the owner.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, hell, this is a this is a team
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  Speaker 1: effort in um, all you guys kind of teaching me
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  Speaker 1: different different little things of the big world about oars
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  Speaker 1: and outdoor activities. I mean, I'm just so appreciative just
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  Speaker 1: to just to be a part of this. So I
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  Speaker 1: can't thank you having me for just all this. This
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  Speaker 1: is I'm going to remember this for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: my life. This is this is fucking electric. So thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I can't thank you enough. Thank you many.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: Thank Pelso. The power Platform, the Power Platform. So that's ps.
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  Speaker 1: To the to the final note, Steve mentioned that the
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  Speaker 1: that we're on in the episode, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: aired as just the Platform, but just a platform called
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: the platform, the platform called but Cody's just like, we
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  Speaker 1: don't got a name for it, and uh, platform it's
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: only like two months old. Because yeah, Cody Cody Coda
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  Speaker 1: built that thing, right, Yeah, I had help from a
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: couple of friends, but yeah, exactly. And then he's just like,
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  Speaker 1: we don't got a name for it. So I was
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  Speaker 1: just like Pete five form, like no, that's that can't
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: do that, and it was like power the power platform,
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  Speaker 1: and like platform is sweet though, Yeah, yeah, it's built there.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's important to mention because Matt does a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of haunts for wounded vets and so it's
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  Speaker 1: a way to get like is it full on like
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  Speaker 1: chair accessible Exactly. We're gonna put a ramp on it
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  Speaker 1: and we wheeloks there. Wheelchair accessible. Yeah, super cool place
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  Speaker 1: for the veterans wounded warriors to come and enjoy what
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: we have for sure. So it's power platform. Boom, got
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  Speaker 1: it all right, Pete, thanks again, Thank you, thank you
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: everyone for having until next time. Man. Okay, everyone, if
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: you like me, Eater and our guests here that you
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: just listen to Pete Alonso, go to YouTube and check
• 1:49:52
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• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: show where we test people's outdoor knowledge. Pete did a
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: pretty bang up job. It's funny. We drank bourbon we
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: had some laughs. YouTube meat Eater get toasted pet Alonso
• 1:50:06
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  Speaker 1: one with the beautiful and lovely Brian Callen