Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to the Big Outdoors News Radio seven
Speaker 1: hundred WLW, Cincinnati, home of the best Bengals coverage.
Speaker 2: And it is wah ship Hart and guess what. Joe
Speaker 2: Thomas joins.
Speaker 1: This my good buddy from way the hell back in time,
Speaker 1: and we've managed to stay in touch, albeit very casually,
Speaker 1: if you will. You know, I follow his Facebook page
Speaker 1: and and all that, and he's one of the few
Speaker 1: out there that doesn't lie and put up photos that
Speaker 1: have no business being there or you know, weren't you
Speaker 1: know they were shot in you know, some other ho
Speaker 1: bolk state.
Speaker 2: But anyway, Joe.
Speaker 1: Thomas, uh, what is running right now in terms of
Speaker 1: your television.
Speaker 3: Right now? Chip, thank you for having me back. I
Speaker 3: appreciate it, you know, dude, it seems like you blaked.
Speaker 3: And it was when we started to show how many
Speaker 3: years ago, I don't know how it was long long ago.
Speaker 1: It was nineteen ninety five because this year was my thirtieth.
Speaker 1: Here there you go, there you go, and look at
Speaker 1: you look at later. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just a little a little older. But I'm
Speaker 3: still having a good time, i know, and fit at
Speaker 3: the best I can be. That's what I can be.
Speaker 2: Okay, but no.
Speaker 3: Right now on Outdoor Channel, still with Outdoor Channel after
Speaker 3: all these years, and right now I've actually got two
Speaker 3: of our shows running, American Archer and then it's running
Speaker 3: five five times weekly, and then also Reeling the Outdoors.
Speaker 3: It's actually load lights. Reeling the Outdoors is running four
Speaker 3: times weekly here on Outdoor Channel, which is a fishing show.
Speaker 3: And so it's kind of fun right now because I
Speaker 3: get I'll get people to email me about the hunt,
Speaker 3: you know, one of the hunts they just saw on TV,
Speaker 3: and the next one is about a fishing trip. But
Speaker 3: the shows are doing really well still and I'm proud.
Speaker 3: I mean, we put a lot of work into them,
Speaker 3: but they they've they've stayed current. And you know, our
Speaker 3: producer is great. Jim Cranery does a great job.
Speaker 2: Jimmy's still with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the longevity just amazes me really
Speaker 1: of the two of you. When you look at you know,
Speaker 1: everybody that's out there these days, you know, and it
Speaker 1: got really crowded ump you know maybe fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1: You know, have all the social media because the YouTube,
Speaker 1: you know, and then you know what my Outdoor TV.
Speaker 1: You know, everything that's out there and it's amazing that
Speaker 1: the longevity you've been able to manage just just just.
Speaker 2: Beyond me, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, we're proud the shows have been on.
Speaker 3: All of our shows have been on an excess of
Speaker 3: twenty years on Outdoor Channel. And you know, we've had
Speaker 3: to change with the times a little bit. You know,
Speaker 3: we are a TV production and but but we also
Speaker 3: offer the you know, the sponsors, which is what we
Speaker 3: also offer them a lot of social media value and
Speaker 3: content and that type of thing. So you change with
Speaker 3: the times. But at the end of the day, people
Speaker 3: still love hunting and fishing and that's what that's what
Speaker 3: we do, and that's what we we we show them
Speaker 3: And you're right, none of my stuff's made with AI.
Speaker 3: It is boots on the ground. It's a real deal.
Speaker 3: You see. If you see it, it really happened, good
Speaker 3: or bad.
Speaker 2: Oh, I believe you.
Speaker 1: I've known you long enough to know that that is
Speaker 1: you know the way it's done. So I you know,
Speaker 1: big congrats to you, and you know I know that, Uh,
Speaker 1: you've got a few more years left and and you're
Speaker 1: gonna make the most of those.
Speaker 2: Now, are you done filming?
Speaker 1: Say for the next couple of months, will you pick
Speaker 1: it up again here shortly?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, actually, right now I'm in the you know, white Tail.
Speaker 3: It's whitetail season, so you know, I'm filming just about
Speaker 3: every day. Uh, in a tree stand right now in
Speaker 3: southern Ohio near in my home, which is great. I
Speaker 3: can sleep in my own bed. Uh. Did I jump
Speaker 3: to Kansas here? I drew a Kansas tag, So I'll
Speaker 3: be filming in Kansas and in the middle we're trying
Speaker 3: to shoot a fall Lake Erie episode before it gets
Speaker 3: too cold, you know, try to catch them one of
Speaker 3: those blade baits up there, one of the big stall
Speaker 3: them out there biting. So I'm already filming for next year.
Speaker 1: To answer your question, well yeah, I mean that's basically
Speaker 1: how it has to work. I mean, you film now
Speaker 1: for something that comes up in you know, it could
Speaker 1: be next year. If you're doing the White Tail right now,
Speaker 1: of course, that's when it's done because it's not live
Speaker 1: so to speak.
Speaker 2: And I think people understand that.
Speaker 3: You know, right, and we try to run you know,
Speaker 3: we are a lot of our shows run the time
Speaker 3: of the year coincides with the time of the year
Speaker 3: we run them. But yeah, we're almost a year out,
Speaker 3: almost always a year out. Now, you know, anything you
Speaker 3: see on social media, we try to keep that by
Speaker 3: the day, you know what I mean, happen today. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and so that's kind of nice. We've got that, you
Speaker 3: know that, that element is nice to keep people current.
Speaker 3: But then you know, there's like I said, everything that
Speaker 3: a year a year hot behind or ahead. I guess
Speaker 3: I shoot a year ahead. But it's it's it keeps
Speaker 3: me busy. The schedule is intense, always intense, and we
Speaker 3: we've traveled to some to some crazy places to do it.
Speaker 3: I love it. I really did well. You know.
Speaker 1: Coming up we're going to talk about one of those
Speaker 1: crazy places that I know you did probably early last summer.
Speaker 1: And this is a good time for it because those
Speaker 1: the people heading for their stands right now or maybe
Speaker 1: they'll duck by whatever it might be, they don't want
Speaker 1: to hear how to do how to do anything better with,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever their forte is, whether it's bow hunting
Speaker 1: or duck hunting. They could care lest they already know everything.
Speaker 1: So Joe Thomas, sit tight, We'll be back more of
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Speaker 1: a good time at the Big One today, Gary Jeff
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Speaker 1: and uh, I like Mike the science guy. You know,
Speaker 1: he's pretty slick, you know. But then Steve from Etton
Speaker 1: with his fifty whatever you want to call him. You know,
Speaker 1: it is a lot of fun, a lot of storytelling,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 1: Also Dick and Dayton, Dick and Dayton. God, I'm glad
Speaker 1: I don't take phone calls. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: could handle that. I'll let everybody else handle that anyway.
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas is with us this morning, and we're just
Speaker 1: catching up years and years of being mutually acquainted. Now, Joe,
Speaker 1: you were somewhere in Asia hunting last summer, and I
Speaker 1: think it was one of those countries that ended in Stan,
Speaker 1: you know, like because Zurkistan, Afghanistan or Jerkistan, I can't.
Speaker 2: Remember what it was.
Speaker 1: Somebody over there must be named Stan. To have all
Speaker 1: those countries with the ending of their their country name Stan,
Speaker 1: I'm not right up on that him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well I can tell you one thing. All right,
Speaker 3: one thing's for sure, you're right. I was in Asia
Speaker 3: and my dream was to finally get to do all
Speaker 3: the continents bow hunt on all continents were huntings allowed.
Speaker 3: The only one you can't hunt on is Antarctica because
Speaker 3: there's nothing down there you're allowed to hunt. So Asia
Speaker 3: was the last one for me. It's on my bucket list.
Speaker 3: But I was told do not go to a country
Speaker 3: that had stand in its name. It was unsafe, So
Speaker 3: I did not do that. But okay, I forgot about Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, actually there's some good hunting in a lot
Speaker 3: of those places. But I chose Mongolia and it was
Speaker 3: kind of like a dreams. I can remember years ago
Speaker 3: watching these dudes, you know, hunt, you know in the fact,
Speaker 3: in the old Outloork TV days, they were they were
Speaker 3: hunting these ibecs and these sheep off the uh you know,
Speaker 3: the Asian ponies up in the mountains, and I thought,
Speaker 3: you know, there's probably not even a handful ever been
Speaker 3: killed with a bow. I'm gonna go give it. Heck,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go try it. And uh I booked a
Speaker 3: Mongolian uh Ibex hunt. Yeah, it's actually the Altai species,
Speaker 3: which is at the Altai Mountains of Mongolia, and it
Speaker 3: was it was one of the best and worst experiences
Speaker 3: of my life. The travel is the worst. When I
Speaker 3: tell you the travel, I'm talking. Uh. They canceled one
Speaker 3: of my flights and it was thirty hours in a
Speaker 3: land cruisers, dodge and dodge and sheep and goats, and
Speaker 3: the last six or eight hours is on rock with
Speaker 3: no pavement. It was for real. But yeah, once we
Speaker 3: were there, it was amazing. Honestly, Chip, it was, Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, we're staying in the yurts, the traditional yurt
Speaker 3: nomadic houses and uh, you know, our we our guides,
Speaker 3: we were herders and horsemen, and they had the little
Speaker 3: Asian ponies, you know, they're they're they're stooped strong, with
Speaker 3: half the size of ours, and they go they'll go
Speaker 3: up in more hundred thirteen thousand feet and they can
Speaker 3: they just carry it, carry up the mountain. Thank god
Speaker 3: they were there, because thirteen thousand feet. But no, I
Speaker 3: ended up taking an amazing ibex with my bow. I
Speaker 3: actually went there with a good friend of mine, local
Speaker 3: beaconn orthopedic surgeon, David Argo, and he he took one
Speaker 3: with his rifle and but we had an amazing time.
Speaker 3: We really did it was it was just one of
Speaker 3: those things. I'm really glad I did it. Probably wouldn't
Speaker 3: do it again. Ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess there's no way to fix what could
Speaker 1: go wrong in a place like that, because you're kind
Speaker 1: of screwed, you know, and you're you're the first parton
Speaker 1: the only person I've ever talked to that's been to Mongolia.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think Mongolian.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about Indiana Jones movie uh in Mongolia with
Speaker 1: the you know, with the guys with the you know,
Speaker 1: the sheep outfits, you know, all that kind of cool stuff.
Speaker 1: That's that's what kind of comes to mind. Was that
Speaker 1: is that how you feel?
Speaker 3: Well? It is you know, it's it's sandwich between kind
Speaker 3: of sandwich between Russia and China. I was hunting nine
Speaker 3: miles from the China border, Yeah, which was very intimidating,
Speaker 3: you know, just to be honest with you. And but Mongolia,
Speaker 3: you know, I complained about that thirty hours that I
Speaker 3: didn't get to fly. I had to ride in a
Speaker 3: land cruiser. But it was pretty interesting. It is an
Speaker 3: absolutely beautiful country. I mean we're talking vast, green, open spaces,
Speaker 3: lots of mountains in lakes and stuff, and it's and
Speaker 3: the people are super cool. I mean, I didn't understand
Speaker 3: the word they said.
Speaker 2: They were talking about, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: That's right. But they're very accommodating and really good hunters.
Speaker 3: These guys were good. My guide was one of the
Speaker 3: best that I've ever had. And you know, our ibec's
Speaker 3: are extremely difficult. And we went down into a canyon,
Speaker 3: you know, and stalked and came around on this on
Speaker 3: this ibex and I made the shot, which was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: One of the top things I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 2: Well awesome.
Speaker 1: I know you got some more bucket list, but I
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell it could be. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: find out after the right Uh nonetheless, uh, just well,
Speaker 1: may mentioned a couple more things about Mongolia when we
Speaker 1: get back.
Speaker 2: So Joe Thomas, sit tight.
Speaker 1: We got some bills, Pai chip Hart The Big Outdoors
Speaker 1: News Radio seven hundred w l W Cincinnati Back in
Speaker 1: the moment.
Speaker 2: W l W, Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas is my guest, and we're catching up in
Speaker 1: his uh all of his adventures, and he's gonna have
Speaker 1: more adventures, so I'll get to talk to him again
Speaker 1: down the road, which is which is always fun. Uh, Joe,
Speaker 1: just a little bit more on Mongolia. A uh with
Speaker 1: the language barrier, I mean, and did they like America?
Speaker 2: Did they like Americans?
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm going anywhere out of the country,
Speaker 1: I want to know if where I'm going, whether they
Speaker 1: like me or hate me before.
Speaker 2: I get there.
Speaker 3: No. I think I think they're probably one of the
Speaker 3: most neutral countries that you know that you can go
Speaker 3: to the language barrier. They speak zero English unless you
Speaker 3: have an interpreter. The cool thing about when you you know,
Speaker 3: this hunt that I did, is that was part of
Speaker 3: the deal that that we we had an interpreter embedded
Speaker 3: with us, even in the field. The guy was hiking
Speaker 3: with us and carrying a pack and and uh, that
Speaker 3: was really really important. And and there's several different dialects
Speaker 3: inside of Mongolia. We were on extreme one end, and
Speaker 3: and that they they they their language doesn't exactly mesh perfectly,
Speaker 3: which is kind of strange. But it's like the difference
Speaker 3: between a New York and a Southern Kentucky accident. I
Speaker 3: guess you know what I mean. It's quite you had
Speaker 3: trebles like yao. The guys like what's y'all? But no,
Speaker 3: it was that part though with the interpreter, it was
Speaker 3: it was fine. People, super friendly, just they're just out
Speaker 3: there trying to make a living. The average wage of
Speaker 3: a herder in Mongolia. The average wage of a family
Speaker 3: in Mongolia that are sheep herders and cattle farmers out
Speaker 3: there is about four hundred dollars a month, So that
Speaker 3: gives you an idea. They live truly off the lane,
Speaker 3: and I just thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm not spent any time really looking
Speaker 1: at it. I remember some from my geography class, but
Speaker 1: that's the extent of it.
Speaker 3: Uh. Uh.
Speaker 1: They're not at war with anybody, so you don't have
Speaker 1: to dodge bullets, okay, at least in corect and to me,
Speaker 1: I mean, and how they remain neutral between China and
Speaker 1: Russia is totally beyond me, uh because I've never heard
Speaker 1: of them being involved in the war since gang Is
Speaker 1: Khan I think is from Mongolia.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's true, you know that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's probably so for some reason. Uh, nobody
Speaker 1: wants to really piss these people off.
Speaker 3: Right right. Well, and they're the least populated, they're giants,
Speaker 3: a huge land mask with very very few people, and
Speaker 3: of them live in the city of Ulamatar. So it's
Speaker 3: kind of like Greenland. Nobody's gonna go you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well no, nobody's gona mess with Greenland either, because you
Speaker 3: know it's well they tried. Okay, well I get that.
Speaker 3: I forget about that. Okay, skips that I said that, Okay, Okay,
Speaker 3: but no, man, it was it was. It was a
Speaker 3: cool trip. Like I said, it was one of those things.
Speaker 3: I'm glad I did it. You know. It was like, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, I love hunting though that I know people
Speaker 3: that when I'm with people that that are hunters, that
Speaker 3: the real hunters, that just makes it special for me.
Speaker 3: And I thought it was just cool.
Speaker 1: You can't get any more real than that. So now
Speaker 1: what okay, now, now what do you do? Okay, you've
Speaker 1: been on every continent that allows bow hunting. Okay, you know,
Speaker 1: nothing's going to evolve in in Antarctica in the in
Speaker 1: the you know, the near future, a couple of thousand
Speaker 1: years maybe okay, maybe something will accidentally see them there.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what what? What? Oh?
Speaker 1: By the way, is the program airing uh right now?
Speaker 2: Or has it aired, Will it air?
Speaker 3: No, I'm really glad you asked that. Ship. Yeah, my man,
Speaker 3: my Mongolia show will air on Outdoor Channel here in
Speaker 3: about two weeks. Oh and so just watch the guide
Speaker 3: for it, and uh, it's it's going to air here
Speaker 3: in about two weeks and uh it'll air on Outdoor
Speaker 3: Channel as always. And uh, yeah, I'm kind of timely
Speaker 3: that we would talk about that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In fact, if you think about put a put a
Speaker 1: link to your schedule coming up.
Speaker 2: On your Facebook page too.
Speaker 1: Did I know you get a lot of hits.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we'll do that for sure.
Speaker 1: I was always a marketing guy, you know that just
Speaker 1: couldn't help myself. What can I say? You know, if
Speaker 1: you need help, just call me on. You know you
Speaker 1: got creamer. Oh by the way, uh, I guess one
Speaker 1: thing is good to take an orthopedic surgeon with you
Speaker 1: on a trip like that, okay from from Beacon.
Speaker 2: You know what, that's a hell of a good idea.
Speaker 3: Okay, really yeah, I didn't plan it that way, but
Speaker 3: the fact that he was a doctor was could have
Speaker 3: been a nice thing. He brought plenty of sutures and
Speaker 3: things like that in case you fell what we did.
Speaker 3: But the other thing that.
Speaker 1: The other thing before we go is and I know
Speaker 1: I cut you off. I'm sorry about that, but you know,
Speaker 1: I know you do that to your guests. Okay, uh no,
Speaker 1: So the other thing, the other person you should take
Speaker 1: with he is a pharmacist.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, there you go. Hey, I just checked that chip.
Speaker 3: The Mongolia Show airs the week of December eighth.
Speaker 2: On that excellent Joe, we gotta go. It's great catching up.
Speaker 1: You have fun in that deer stand and uh you know,
Speaker 1: by guy, we'll see it at all the shows in
Speaker 1: the winter first quarter too.
Speaker 3: All right, you got that, buddy, sounds good ship.
Speaker 2: Thanks you, all right, bye bye. All right, we got
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Speaker 2: Just a little bit of Poe Perie this morning.
Speaker 1: Of course, I always love it when Trump's uh you know,
Speaker 1: I guess Fish and Wildlife Service or or Interior Department,
Speaker 1: you know, decides to do things that are popular with
Speaker 1: the hunting, fishing, and outdoor community.
Speaker 2: But uh uh if.
Speaker 1: You recall, Colorado was getting their wolves from Canada because
Speaker 1: none of the Western states were interested in providing Colorado
Speaker 1: with wolves, and uh it was it did go to
Speaker 1: a vote to I guess, uh reintroduce wolves. So anyway,
Speaker 1: the Trump administration has told Colorado their wolves must must
Speaker 1: now come from the US Rocky States and not Canada,
Speaker 1: which means essentially they aren't getting any more wolves. And
Speaker 1: quite frankly, uh, it's a very populated state. It really wasn't,
Speaker 1: at least in my opinion, a hell of a good
Speaker 1: idea to reintroduce wolves into a state that's populated as Colorado. Okay,
Speaker 1: And of course some of them went back. They went
Speaker 1: north in Wyoming, and uh, Wyoming doesn't want them, so
Speaker 1: that took care.
Speaker 2: Of it, you know, I guess pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Uh, keple love stories like that.
Speaker 2: Uh what do we got?
Speaker 1: We gotta new state record fish in Kentucky and it's
Speaker 1: a big one people. Uh, let's see. Uh uh what's
Speaker 1: his name? Okay, hold on, hold on, let me find
Speaker 1: you okay.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Joe Johnson landed a seven point nine inch point one
Speaker 1: six pound river chub from the Red River in pouk
Speaker 1: County using pow County using fly fishing tackle, and uh
Speaker 1: he has a new state record.
Speaker 2: I mean, this thing's huge, point one six pound.
Speaker 1: I mean, heck, what could you say about graduate congratulations?
Speaker 1: It was a heck of a fight, that's all I
Speaker 1: got to say. All Right, I'm out of here, Danny boy,
Speaker 1: just care. Jeff is next the Big Outdoors News Radio
Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati'd be safe in the woods, safe
Speaker 1: on the water, and safe in that deerstand.