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Chance Painter of History Channel's "Mountain Men" · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: All right, ruminators, welcome, final half hour of the show
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  Speaker 1: for the day. It's a show fifty four to forty
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  Speaker 1: three of The Morning Show with Preston scottis OAIAHM. Preston.
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  Speaker 1: I am really geeked about this segment. If you've listen
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  Speaker 1: to my show at all, you know I am a
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  Speaker 1: habitual watcher of Alone and Mountain Men. I love the series.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched it since its inception, and the new season
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  Speaker 1: comes up tomorrow night eight o'clock Eastern, seven o'clock Central
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  Speaker 1: on the History Channel. And joining and it's weird to
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  Speaker 1: say cast but now part of the show. Chance and
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  Speaker 1: soirea painter, and Chance Painter joins me right now, bright
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  Speaker 1: and early in Alaska. Chance, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: Hi?
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  Speaker 3: Hi, I'm doing good. How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm terrific. I'm fascinated to know. How did you and
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  Speaker 1: your wife your family to get connected to doing the show.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, So, we were living in a in a wall
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  Speaker 3: tent on our property and we were running our Instagram
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  Speaker 3: and stuff, and we just we had people like messaging
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  Speaker 3: on Instagram about doing a TV show, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: I always kind of didn't answer them or whatever at first,
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  Speaker 3: and then like a few months later we were talking
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  Speaker 3: and I honestly just kind of cold called the the
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  Speaker 3: studio and just asked them if they were interested.
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  Speaker 1: Really and yeah, I guess. And now did you know
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  Speaker 1: about the show? I mean, how remote of a life
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  Speaker 1: are you living over these last however many years were
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  Speaker 1: you aware of Mountain Men the program?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Before we we also like do brain Tan like
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  Speaker 3: the tom Or guy. Yep, we would watch him brain
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  Speaker 3: tan beavers and stuff, you know, and we would beaver's
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  Speaker 3: are incredibly hard to brain tan, and so we're trying
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  Speaker 3: to figure out how he was also getting them so
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  Speaker 3: soft and right. And we also would like to watch
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  Speaker 3: the Marty guy. We really like Marty two. Yeah, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we we we weren't living like super super remote like
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  Speaker 3: I guess your definition of remote is you know, subjective? Sure, like,
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  Speaker 3: like how long does it take you to walk out?
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  Speaker 3: I guess that would if it takes you more than
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  Speaker 3: a couple of days to walk out, I would say
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  Speaker 3: you're pretty remote.
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  Speaker 1: But how many days it take you to walk out?
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  Speaker 3: Only one? Yeah, you know, we're not like a fly
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  Speaker 3: in only area or nothing. Chance.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me about your background, Soreya's background, How did you
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  Speaker 1: decide to adopt the lifestyle, because living in Alaska living,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's remotely a one day walk, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's not for everyone. How did this come your way?
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  Speaker 1: Why did you go this way route?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we we just wanted to raise our like kids
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  Speaker 3: in like a more natural way and were I was
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  Speaker 3: living in a wall tent and like burden sheep down
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  Speaker 3: in like northern Washington, and my wife's also from that
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  Speaker 3: general area, and I was living in the wal tent
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  Speaker 3: and I just kind of lived in it for so
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  Speaker 3: long that when kind of thought about like going back,
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  Speaker 3: it just didn't really seem right, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Just just thought it was something you wanted to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, Like it's just it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: go from living in the woods in the forest like
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  Speaker 3: full time and then like go back to living in
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  Speaker 3: like like a city. Sure you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, well, I don't really know what
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  Speaker 1: you mean, but I can I can understand it from
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  Speaker 1: the perspective of watching others in this lifestyle over the years.
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  Speaker 1: On the show Chance stand By, We're going to take
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  Speaker 1: a real quick break here, we're coming back, got another segment.
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  Speaker 1: I could spend a day with this guy, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to ask him what it's been like spending his
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  Speaker 1: days with a camera crew around he and his family.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the m a d Radio Network, where we
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  Speaker 2: challenge you to make a difference in your world in
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  Speaker 2: a positive way, improving the lives of others. It's the
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  Speaker 2: Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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  Speaker 1: For any of you who are fans of the program
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  Speaker 1: Mountain Men. Our guest Chance Painter mentioned Tom Orr this
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  Speaker 1: is his last season. Tom's a legend on this show
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  Speaker 1: and he's he certainly is a legend in the world
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  Speaker 1: that he occupies trapping, and it's been fun watching him
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  Speaker 1: pass along his skills to a young kid that that's
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  Speaker 1: the son of a gentleman who's been kind of helping
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  Speaker 1: him over the last few seasons of the show. But
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  Speaker 1: with me, Chance Painter and he and his wife Sirea,
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  Speaker 1: their three children are in this season of Mountain Men.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like to share your life with not
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  Speaker 1: just the video crew, but realizing chance that you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be sharing your life with millions of people, you know.
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  Speaker 3: It was honestly kind of like the I think our boys.
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  Speaker 3: They definitely liked the camera guys at first, like they
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  Speaker 3: have like drones and they think they're airplanes and they
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  Speaker 3: you know, they love airplanes. Sure, but it was definitely
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  Speaker 3: kind of strange having the camera guys. But the realization
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  Speaker 3: of having people watch us, I think is it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really quite feel like real yet. Like earlier in the
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  Speaker 3: winter when we were like running trap line and it
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  Speaker 3: just kind of felt like I was just hanging out
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  Speaker 3: with my camera guys, right, It just yeah, it seemed
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  Speaker 3: like more they were like just like my friends rather
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  Speaker 3: than making a TV show.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Uh huh, Well you mentioned your friends, what
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  Speaker 1: are friends and family? What's the reaction to the news
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  Speaker 1: that you're going to be on the show, and then
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  Speaker 1: anything that you've shared with them along the way, what's
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  Speaker 1: been their reaction.
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  Speaker 2: To it all.
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  Speaker 3: I think basically everybody was pretty surprised that I was
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  Speaker 3: going to be on TV. I'm considering I'm basically just
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  Speaker 3: like a simple bush trapper guy as of right now.
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  Speaker 3: My sister is the one that wanted to be on
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  Speaker 3: TV and whatnot, and yeah, and I'm just.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so is your sister going to join you next season?
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  Speaker 1: Is she gonna move in?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, she's gonna come up here and can't hide
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  Speaker 3: with us.
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  Speaker 1: No she's ever tell tell me this, are you going
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  Speaker 1: to Are you able to watch the show when it
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  Speaker 1: premieres tomorrow night? Have they shown you the series yet?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how does that work now that you've done
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  Speaker 1: this the first season with you in it?
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  Speaker 3: So technically like we don't have a TV or like
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  Speaker 3: cable or anything. We don't have like a History Channel subscription, right,
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  Speaker 3: I guess technically there's no way for me to watch it.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm sure there's a way the producer could send
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  Speaker 3: me like a link or something, yeah, or some some
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  Speaker 3: some form of way. But I'm honestly, I'm probably going
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  Speaker 3: to be like moose hunting or something.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not it's not that big a deal. Now
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  Speaker 1: that you've done this the season, they're producing the show
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to do whatever it's going to do,
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  Speaker 1: You're you're still busy doing what you have to do
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  Speaker 1: literally daily to survive.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, yeah, there's yeah, I got a I
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  Speaker 3: got a whole got a whole litany of chores and
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  Speaker 3: things I got to get done before the freeze up.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me this was the experience such that you you
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  Speaker 1: want you're willing to do this series again? Was there
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  Speaker 1: an agreement to do X number of years or is
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  Speaker 1: it season by season? What does it look like for
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  Speaker 1: you next year?
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  Speaker 3: It's season by season that we are contracted to do,
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  Speaker 3: and I would I would definitely do it again for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you you got enough out of it in
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  Speaker 1: terms of it wasn't so intrusive that that you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: you know, enjoy the process?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: No, yeah, I thought it was fun. Like it's definitely
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  Speaker 3: a good job. I'd rather be doing that than a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me this, I've always wondered, chance, where does the
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  Speaker 1: crew stay when they're doing all of this filming day
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  Speaker 1: after day, week after week? Are they pinching tents somewhere?
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  Speaker 1: Are they flying in on helicopter? Where is the crew?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it entirely depends on where the shoots are, like
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  Speaker 3: the location that they need to be, But yeah, they
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  Speaker 3: stay in like a wall tint or like an arctic
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  Speaker 3: oven tent or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, I'll just say if they needed the
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  Speaker 3: helicopter in, I'm sure that they could if they needed to.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, that's yeah, it's entirely specific. Usually they just
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  Speaker 3: write snow goes and or something. Well.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you making time for us this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: I wish you and Soreya and the kids nothing but
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  Speaker 1: the best. And I look forward to seeing you tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: night on the two. Buddy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, thank you very much, man.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. You'd be well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: YouTube Chance Painter with us this morning. Cannot wait. Mountain Men,
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  Speaker 1: the Legend Tom Moore. He mentioned Marty. Marty's a pilot.
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  Speaker 1: I love Marty as well because of that. He's been
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  Speaker 1: teaching his daughter. He left the series for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years, came back and yeah, he's the skill sets
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  Speaker 1: that people have to develop to do this is next
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  Speaker 1: level because you have to do it or else you
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  Speaker 1: don't survive. So you just either do it or you
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  Speaker 1: pack up and go back to that city that he
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  Speaker 1: said he can't even conceive of living in. Forty eight
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  Speaker 1: minutes past the hour, Chance Painter from Mountain Men here
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  Speaker 1: on The Morning Show with Preston Scott