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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for

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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan in this episode number two and

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Speaker 1: eighties six, and today in the show, Dan and I

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Speaker 1: are checking in on our two thousand nineteen hunting habit changes.

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Speaker 1: We're discussing trial cam analysis and summer habitat projects, and

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Speaker 1: I'm regaling you with the story of my recent somewhat

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Speaker 1: cursed cross country adventure with my wife and toddler. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by on X, and today we are back with me

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Speaker 1: and Dan just for one of those fun episodes. You

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Speaker 1: might not learn anything today, but but I think you'll

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Speaker 1: you'll get a laugh or two. Um. But you know,

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Speaker 1: the last like five weeks or so, four four or

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Speaker 1: five weeks since you were up back with me, Dan, Um,

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Speaker 1: it's been like a bunch of deep learning, deep knowledge

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Speaker 1: type podcast. I think we need a breather from that.

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Speaker 1: We need something that Dan is obviously not qualified for.

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Speaker 1: That's not true, but but you might be more qualified

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Speaker 1: for for this kind of talk. So I wanna I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna check in on you on something. That's one of

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Speaker 1: the things I want to do. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: summer dear projects, if there's any on near side. I've

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Speaker 1: got some stuff on my son. Um. And then I

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Speaker 1: got another kind of out of left field. I know

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Speaker 1: we never do this, but I want to talk parenting,

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Speaker 1: UH and toddler travel ideas and lessons learned because I've

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Speaker 1: been in the middle of probably the most probably the

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Speaker 1: worst trip of my entire life and possibly best. But

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Speaker 1: um but oh man, if I got some stories. We've

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Speaker 1: had all sorts of stuff go wrong. Because because I'm

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Speaker 1: recording this one as I do most summers, you know this, Dan,

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Speaker 1: Usually at some point during each summer, I'm recording podcasts

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Speaker 1: from the front of my truck out in Montana, and

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Speaker 1: this is the first truck podcast of the year. Um.

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Speaker 1: So I'm out west, um barely. We're surviving, just barely,

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Speaker 1: but we are out here. And uh, and that's the

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Speaker 1: podcast plan I got. What do you What do you

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Speaker 1: think about those ideas? Yeah, I'm down for just about

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Speaker 1: anything as long as I'm not in a room with

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Speaker 1: any of my children. It's like I'm down for talking

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Speaker 1: about whatever. So last time we were recording, I edited

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Speaker 1: this out. But last time when we were recording, uh,

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Speaker 1: halfway through your one of your kids start screaming and

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Speaker 1: made me feel like, you know what, I'm glad I'm

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Speaker 1: not the only one who's dealing with these challenges. Sounds

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Speaker 1: like a nice feeling for me. So I gotta tell

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell a really quick story. Okay. So I

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Speaker 1: am in the process of building a Sportsman's Nation headquarters

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Speaker 1: above my garage. Okay, so it's like an office that's

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Speaker 1: just me right, And my wife's like, well, why can't

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Speaker 1: And I go, Sarah, because I am putting out almost

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Speaker 1: every episode of the nine Finger chronicles that I put

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Speaker 1: out is you in the background yelling at the kids,

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Speaker 1: or the kids yelling at you, And at some point

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Speaker 1: a sponsor is gonna be like, come on, man, we

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Speaker 1: we can't have this. Maybe adds a little charm, but

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Speaker 1: yet at some point that might run off. Right, how

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Speaker 1: is the progress of the renovation project? I've been following

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. I'm seeing that things are coming along. What's

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Speaker 1: what's the story there? So it's good. So I'm to

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Speaker 1: a point now where the only thing that is holding

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Speaker 1: Sweet and you know how to do that stuff? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know how to Uh, I know how to do

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's huge, really huge. That's good man. I Um,

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Speaker 1: you take it for granted. What the difference that makes?

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Speaker 1: Just have a space to get your stuff done? Um?

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Speaker 1: want to get done. Um. Specifically, we're talking like hunting stuff. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I broached the idea to you of us each

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Speaker 1: I gave myself, yeah, like a fist pump. Good yeah,

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Speaker 1: good job. Dan. A little self motivation there, So how

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Speaker 1: So last week I did too three mile runs and

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Speaker 1: uh and I'm I'm getting some hikes in out here

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Speaker 1: What about shooting your boat? Any updates with that? Yeah? So, um,

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Speaker 1: I think I got it. Uh crop rotation. If if

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Speaker 1: let's say everything from two years ago was like it's

429
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: good and okay, So everything from two years ago is

430
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 1: going to be same as this upcoming year for I know,

431
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: for crops. Yeah, I know where I need to be.

432
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 1: I know where you know where I think he's gonna

433
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:26,119
Speaker 1: be throughout specific times a year. Uh, just you know,

434
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 1: just continuing to refine that. And then when I go

435
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,880
Speaker 1: to set my tree stands up in July, I'll be uh,

436
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a couple pre hung, and then the

437
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: rest is gonna be like I always do. Running gun man.

438
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,399
Speaker 1: So have you been able to see how how the

439
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 1: rain or flooding has impacted any of these crop fields,

440
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: because I don't know if you've had that issue by you,

441
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 1: but by us, there's been so wet that a lot

442
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 1: of farmers either haven't got stuff planned at all or

443
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: we're planting really really late. What's what's going on by you?

444
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess based off of what I've seen down

445
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: river bottom ground. I don't think they're going to get

446
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 1: it in this year, depending on I don't like where

447
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,880
Speaker 1: the flooding has happened within the county high ground on

448
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,400
Speaker 1: all the farms. Doesn't look like it's gonna be too

449
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,400
Speaker 1: bad or especially if it's it's got tile in it.

450
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure that all the top fields are

451
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 1: going to be planted, not a problem. It's the bottom fields,

452
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 1: which the only thing that's gonna do is bring deer

453
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: up into the high part of the property from for

454
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: most of the year. However, you know, do you remember

455
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: that buck? Uh several years ago, no show Jones. Okay,

456
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 1: the year that it flooded, the river bottom flooded. They

457
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 1: fertilize first, then they go in and plant, and well

458
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 1: in between after fertilizing, the flood came killed all the seeds.

459
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: The grass grew like twelve fift high. Yeah, and now

460
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,439
Speaker 1: that that was just this giant habitat. And so we

461
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: flanked that field one day during the rout and what

462
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: do you know, big mature buck right in the middle

463
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: of that grass, right over top of a hot dough.

464
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: So weren't you hunting with ibern? Yeah? That yeah, that

465
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: was the previous year, the following years when Ryan shot

466
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:23,639
Speaker 1: him in the ailer. But yeah, I mean, so what

467
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 1: what I think that's gonna do is it's gonna it's

468
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 1: actually gonna hold more dear just for some great cover

469
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,199
Speaker 1: unless it's extra wet and extra floody. And you know,

470
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: I haven't been back on the farm in a couple

471
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 1: of months. So it's such a great point though, is

472
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: like the importance of of remembering past years types of situations,

473
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: so now you know what happens when it floods. You've

474
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 1: got some experience to show you how to adjust. Or

475
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: thinking back now to crop rotation, that's a huge thing,

476
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: like we really should be thinking in many cases, like

477
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,400
Speaker 1: if you hunt where there's agg you want to think

478
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: of every other year kind of patterns because of those

479
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: crop changes change dear behavior so much. I mean it's

480
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: it's almost you'll still get the same deer in this

481
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: general area many times. But I think there's some pretty

482
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: drastic changes I've seen. I've had bucks that just totally

483
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,400
Speaker 1: disappear on the off years sometimes too. Yep. I can

484
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 1: tell you a story. I can tell you a story

485
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: hundred stories about that. You know, It's like deer only

486
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 1: shows up in corn on this one trail camera. Next

487
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: year he's a mile north, uh, and that's his core range.

488
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: But you flip it now he's a mile south. You know.

489
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's crazy. And I think especially if

490
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: you're hunting the Midwest and depending on where your farm is,

491
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: if you're hunting big woods, I don't think that's as

492
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: much as of an issue as um egg ground like

493
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: Illinois and Iowa and maybe some of Missouri and whatnot.

494
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: But it's definitely something that I've been focused on a

495
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: lot more and just going back and checking my trail

496
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 1: cameras because I have a camera that per deuces a

497
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: lot of good deer on years that the main part

498
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: of this agg field is beans, and when it's corn,

499
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: they show up late like in the during the hunting season,

500
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: but not during the summer right, and then they shift

501
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: back into the big chunk of timber. But this year,

502
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: if if I'm if I was a betting man, I

503
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: would bet that that trail camera is going to blow

504
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: up with big bucks, big mature deer all summer long

505
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: until until they get harvested. Yeah. So, speaking of this

506
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: whole trail camera, Dad and looking back in past years,

507
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 1: it's probably worth just recapping, um for people that might

508
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 1: be tuning in, you know new as new hunters. One

509
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: of the big things that both you and I have

510
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: have started paying a lot of attention to the last

511
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,919
Speaker 1: couple of years based off of things we've seen and

512
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: have a lot of people have talked to, is the

513
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: idea of of looking at trail camera pictures not just

514
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 1: from like this week, but also looking at what deer

515
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,200
Speaker 1: we're doing last year at the same time or two

516
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: years ago at the same time, because a lot of

517
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: times we're seeing these bucks either the very same deer

518
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 1: doing the same thing at the same time every year.

519
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: So like you just said, like yeah, if there's corn

520
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: on mid October, the big this, you know, big Joe

521
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: shows up mid October every year on the types of cameras, Like,

522
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: I've seen patterns like that, and then I've also seen

523
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: things where maybe it's not the same exact deer, but

524
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: it will be for some reason every year such and

525
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: such time of year the bucks start moving through certain

526
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: areas and you start seeing annual patterns in that kind

527
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: of way. Um, I mean I feel like that, like you,

528
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: like you've been doing that's some of the very most

529
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: most important offseason work now is just studying all these

530
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: previous years worth of pictures. Yeah, I agree. The next

531
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: step in all of this is, I got my dots

532
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: on the map, I got the area where they're where

533
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: that information is. Now my goal is to try to

534
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: forecast this all, right, forecast this deer movement. So every

535
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: dot on a map is going to get a number, right, So,

536
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do it over a couple of different ways.

537
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go back to two thousand eighteen Narlie Charlie.

538
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: Where was the first time he showed up on camera

539
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: that gets a number one? Where was the second time

540
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: he gets a number two? Where was the third time

541
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: that gets the number three? And the goal is to

542
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: find how he's circling through this through this property? Right?

543
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: Is he is he coming? What? What's his circuit? How

544
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: are you are you? Are you doing this in like

545
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: an Excel spreadsheet or something that you're marking all this stuff,

546
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: or how are you actually documenting this? Right? So, I'm

547
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: using um uh software called deer Lab. Deer Lab, I

548
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: use a little bit of that, but there there's some

549
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: things that deer Lab really can't do. And that's where

550
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to basically just create a print out

551
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: or I gotta hunt t a map with the magnets

552
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: on it. Yeah, so I'm gonna put put all my

553
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: trail cameras or where all the data points are, and

554
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: then basically just it a little number next to it, one, two, three,

555
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: and hopefully what I can see is maybe there's four

556
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: days in a row on different cameras where he showed up,

557
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: and then I can say, oh, well, look at this,

558
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: he's taking this half moon through here, or he's working

559
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: this on this wind. And the goal is to really

560
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: just study it and put myself in a position where,

561
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: you know, if I'm really going to focus on one deer,

562
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: I have to be willing to not hunt the first

563
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: week of November. No one. Now you're saying that based

564
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: off if you think that there's certain data that tells

565
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: you do that. You're saying exactly, well, last year he

566
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: didn't show up on any trail cameras until like November nine.

567
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: Now could you still hunt? Just hunt elsewhere? Oh yeah, yeah,

568
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: I could definitely hunt elsewhere, and you know, try to

569
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: go but you know, you want you're you're you're still

570
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: sticking to maybe could it possibly be in the only

571
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: buck year for you? Like he is the one? There's

572
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: you know, I'm coming off of a year where I

573
00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: just shot my biggest scoring buck ever, So it's not

574
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: like for me. First and foremost, I got a brand

575
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: new freezer, so I'm gonna I'm gonna stack some meat

576
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: in there, like I'm gonna I'm gonna go shoot a

577
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: ton of dose. That's my goal. I'm gonna fill the

578
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: freezer with you know, try to get three doughs in there.

579
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: And then this, like you said, this might be a

580
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: year where I dedicate a season to an animal, depending

581
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: on if he shows up this summer. Right, if I

582
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: don't have any intel on him going into the summer,

583
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what I always do and put together

584
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: a hit list. And I'm still gonna put together a

585
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: hit list and just like you know, all that could change. Yeah,

586
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: very true. That's exciting though, Like it'd be it would

587
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: be fun for me to follow your hunt for that

588
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: one buck. Like I know, um, it's not for everyone,

589
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: but man, there's something extra interesting. I feel like when

590
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: you've got one deer, you're trying to figure out I don't,

591
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: at least for me, I really cheek out about it.

592
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: So I'm intrigued. I can't wait to see what it

593
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: looks like this summer. You'll, uh. The only other thing

594
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: on that, on that particular farm and for the white

595
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: tail side of things, is catch those damn thieves like

596
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: trail cameras. I got more cell cams coming in, and

597
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like some spy type ship. Like my

598
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: goal is to just document. I don't even care, like

599
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: I'm I have a feeling that if I get the

600
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: intel that I want off of that particular off the farm,

601
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: like Okay, he's alive, I feel like I'm gonna take

602
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: all my cameras out again and switch them to places

603
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: where these you know, where people are going to steal

604
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: my ship. So go from Okay, I've identified that this

605
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: buck is still alive. That's all I needed to know.

606
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: Now it's time to go catch some people, right. Yeah,

607
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: you gotta get that figured out. Yeah, that's a perfect

608
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: tool for it, that's for sure. Absolutely So on the

609
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: camera thing. One more thing I want to add. I

610
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: don't know if I talked about this whether it or not,

611
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: So tell me if I did already. But um, you

612
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: mentioned trying to you know, how you're trying to track

613
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: all that data and how dear lab is really helpful

614
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: for a lot of stuff. But for me, the big

615
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: issue is a deer lab. You can't um it doesn't

616
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: work quite as well for sightings. So I'd like to

617
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: be able to track both trout camera pictures and actual

618
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: in person sightings. So what I did is I run

619
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: stuff with the deer lab, but then I also put

620
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: together my own little spreadsheet. And I don't know if

621
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: this is something that you might find helpful or not,

622
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: but what I did is I created a spreadsheet that

623
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: tracks the date. It tracks whether it's a photo or sighting.

624
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: So each one of these is a column. It tracks

625
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: the location of that sighting or picture. It tracks was

626
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: a M or p M. So I just wanted to

627
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: simply say is it morning or evening? And then I've

628
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: got it tracks is it daylight? Yes or no? And

629
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: then I have the as what the actual temperature was,

630
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: and then I've got a column for was it a

631
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: cold front or not? So what I did is if

632
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: if that sighting or that picture came after a temperature

633
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: drop of ten degrees or more, it would get a yes.

634
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: If it was not, that it would get to know.

635
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: And then I tracked the wind direction south southwest, northwest, whatever,

636
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: and then I tracked the wind speed, and then I

637
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: put in the barometric pressure, and then I put in

638
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: whether or not it was a red moon. So you've

639
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: you know, we've talked to people about this red moon

640
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: and theory. So if it's a moon that's directly overhead

641
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: or underfoot, um during key times of day, that would

642
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: be categorized or red moon. That's something that some people

643
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: think my trigger movement. And then the other one is

644
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,760
Speaker 1: if you have a moon that is rising or setting

645
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: at dawn or dusk. That's another thing that some people

646
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: have theorized might get bucks moving. So I tracked that.

647
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: So those are the I don't know how many of those,

648
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: Like those are the eleven columns that I have. And

649
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 1: then each one of these is you can filter by

650
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: each one, so it's like a pivot table. So I

651
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: could say, so I've got and this is for one buck.

652
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,439
Speaker 1: I created this for just Holy Field back in the day. Um,

653
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: so I have I have sixties six sightings or daylight

654
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: pictures that I have tracked on here, and then I

655
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 1: could go in here and I could say, okay, well

656
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: let's just look at the daylight sightings or pictures and

657
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: then it will filter for that, and then I can

658
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: see all the spots where that happened, and I could

659
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: see all the wind directions or things, and so it was.

660
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: It was a helpful tool. Unfortunately that dear's gone. But um,

661
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: you could go in there and filter by wind direction

662
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: or filtered by cold fronts, or filtered by was it

663
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: a red moon or not, and you can start to

664
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: see I don't remember what the specifics were, but it

665
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: was like sixty seven percent of the sightings or daylight

666
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: pictures were on cold friend days. You I saw that

667
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: the majority of them were with south or southwest winds.

668
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: So stuff like that. I was able to figure out, Um,

669
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 1: to get those kind of patterns standing out a little

670
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: bit more that you can start taking action when you

671
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: can actually quantify like this. It was helpful for me

672
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: at least. So if you're interested, I can send you

673
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: that file if you want to copy it and experiment.

674
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dude, I'll take it. Yeah, I'll send it

675
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: your way. Let me know what to think. Um, it's

676
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: kind of it's kind of neat neat way to do it.

677
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, that's exactly what's gonna say. The thing

678
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: I like about and a Graham is you can tell

679
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: when someone's just like really being fake and at the

680
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: same time being real. And I love I loved watching

681
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: and I gotta I gotta kick out of it because

682
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: I loved watching you try to spray and plant your

683
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: food plots. Yeah. I was sitting there laughing, going, God,

684
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: thank God, I do not have to do any of that. Ship.

685
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: Holy sh it, man, I had just a debacle of

686
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: all debacles this spring. How many miles did you put

687
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 1: on your truck just driving into town and back? Way

688
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: too many. I don't know what the mileage is, but

689
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: way too many. I went back and forth to the

690
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: store so many times. Um and and really the amount

691
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: of work I got done is so minimal it's embarrassing.

692
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: But it was days in days of tacking around. So

693
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: so here's just for people that didn't follow the Instagram store,

694
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: here's what happened. So I had to laugh it up,

695
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: laughing up. All I needed to do was get my

696
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: food plats greens planted. So this is just like planting

697
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: some strips in tall vegetation to to kind of break

698
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: up some big open fields, you know. UM. So basically,

699
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: and I talked about this in the past, but the

700
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 1: cliff nose version of it is, I've got a couple

701
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: of properties now that I can do some small bits

702
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: of habitat work and UM. A lot of its wide

703
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: open field or adjacent to open crop fields. And so

704
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: if I plant a food plot, the only places I

705
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: could plant it would be like right next to the

706
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: big field. That is why it open all the way

707
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: to the road. So to make it so that deer,

708
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: especially mature bucks, would feel comfortable going out into that

709
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: area during daylight, I started planting UM basically a ten

710
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: yard wide strip of different things. In the past has

711
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: been Egyptian wheat and sorghum. Um. This year I'm testing

712
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: out some different blends. Some have got a little bit

713
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: of sunflowers in them, some stuff called sun hemp isn't

714
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: some of the blend, and then of course a lot

715
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 1: of Egyptian wheat and sorghum still too. UM. But basically

716
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: it kind of just looks like a wall of corn.

717
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: And you know that that bucket killed in Michigan last year,

718
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: Dan Frank, he would have never came out into the

719
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 1: spot where I killed him if it wasn't for that screen.

720
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: So it's very important for these couple of spots where

721
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: I do this, those screens are are really important. Like

722
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: it's a great spot to hunt if the screens there.

723
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: If the screen is not there, it's a horrible spot

724
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: to hunt. Um. So I had to get these things

725
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,879
Speaker 1: in and the long short of it is the first

726
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: thing I had to do is spray them. So I

727
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: get out and drive my forew with the spray bowl.

728
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: First off, I go to get ready to go do

729
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: the spring and then I remember that last summer my

730
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: dad had broken the wire harness that connects the sprayer

731
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: to the four wheelm So I got crap. I gotta

732
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 1: go drive a town. So I drive to town, go

733
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: buy a new wire harness, drive back, get the four

734
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,240
Speaker 1: wheel I'll set up. You gotta put you know, water

735
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: in the tank, and you put the herb side in

736
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: the tank. Take that out to this property, drive out

737
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: to the where this food plat is. I get to

738
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: the spot where I want to start spraying, hit the

739
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,479
Speaker 1: power button and I hear him do do do doo

740
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: doo doo, But nothing's coming out. So the pump on

741
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: the sprayer is like doing something, but it's not pumping

742
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: out water. And I know I'm not handy at all.

743
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: Like you've heard me plenty plenty of stories in the past,

744
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: I don't know how to fix anything. I struggle so

745
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: bad with the stuff. I'm like son of a gone,

746
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,720
Speaker 1: I gotta figure this out. So I'm only watching YouTube

747
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: videos about broken sprayers, trying to figure out different things

748
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: I should look for. I try to figure it out

749
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: in the field. Couldn't figure out field. So take it

750
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 1: back to my house, take it in the barn, get

751
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: all set up, start. I just completely took apart. The

752
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: whole sprayer took apart. The pump system took apart. I

753
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: thought first like maybe it was maybe it was plugged,

754
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 1: like the the thing the jigger that goes down to

755
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: the tank. Maybe that was plugged. It was keeping water

756
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: from getting up in there. So I took that all part,

757
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: try to clean it out. Nothing, check the filter and nothing.

758
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: Took all the all the different um tubes that run

759
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: into the pump, make sure those were all clammed on properly.

760
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 1: Wanted to make sure that the pressure was getting there,

761
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: so I took a part pump and there's these different

762
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,479
Speaker 1: valves and crap in there. I don't remember what stuff

763
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: is called. But the long story short of it is

764
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: that I took it all a part check the things

765
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: that's suppose were supposed to check. Nothing worked. So then

766
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: I go to town and I was going to either

767
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: try to just buy a brand new tank and sprayer.

768
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,479
Speaker 1: They didn't have anything I needed there, but I did

769
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,399
Speaker 1: find a pump, just the pump that the guy there

770
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: told me that it could probably would be universal and

771
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: I could put that on the new one. So I

772
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: come back, reinstall a new pump and got it to work.

773
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: But I started that day at like two o'clock in

774
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: the afternoon, and this is nine thirty at night. I

775
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,439
Speaker 1: finally got that sprayer pumped in and ready to work.

776
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 1: So next day I go, everything's working, find the pump.

777
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: I get out to this property and um, i'd start spraying.

778
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: I think I sprayed for like fifteen minutes, and then

779
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: my wife called me and answer the phone to the

780
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: turn of a TV. Answer the phone, talk to my wife,

781
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: and then I go to start back up again when

782
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: we're done, and the four ula won't start now, So

783
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: now I gotta walk all the way back to my

784
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: truck where I have a little jump kit like a

785
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: jump box type feeling a portable one. Take that back,

786
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: jump it starts to work again. Drive like another hundred yards,

787
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: the a TV dies again. Jump it again, go like

788
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,720
Speaker 1: thirty yards it dies again. Basically, I have something wrong

789
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: with my a TV now, so I can't spray where

790
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: my a TV keeps dying. So this would be like

791
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: a half hour long explanation of everything that went wrong

792
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: that nobody probably wants to hear. But I'll just tell

793
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: you that I ended up having to go back and

794
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: forth to town to first try to get a battery charged,

795
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: and then I had to go pick out the battery,

796
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: and then I brought it back and tried and it

797
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,760
Speaker 1: worked for a little bit, and then I stopped working again.

798
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: Then I had drive back to town, bought a new battery,

799
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: and then I had to drive back to the property

800
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: again reinstall that. Got that to work for a bit

801
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: um and then I think it finally worked, and then

802
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: I had to go back home because I didn't have

803
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: enough water, had to go get more water. Then I

804
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: had to go back the property and basically, like you said,

805
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 1: drove back and forth, back and forth like seventeen different times.

806
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 1: What should have been one afternoon of a couple hours

807
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: of spraying took me three days of headaches. Um, and

808
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,760
Speaker 1: that was just to get the thing sprayed. Now fast forward,

809
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 1: I got sprayed. Now I need to plan it now.

810
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: I don't think you were with me when I told

811
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: I talked about how I'm changing up my food planning

812
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: process this year. Um. But basically I've been learning a

813
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: bunch about how um, trying to go no till will

814
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: be better for the environment, better for the planet life,

815
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: better for everything. Um. In the long run, it could

816
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: help reduce how much I need to spray overside, reduce

817
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: how much like synthetic fertilizer I have to put out there. UM.

818
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to implement this no till idea, but

819
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: I don't have a no tail drill. So there's this

820
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: kind of method that some people are doing. Just they're

821
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: calling like throwing mo. So basically the gist of the

822
00:42:55,760 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: idea is like you you broadcast a seed, um, hopefully

823
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: right around the time of a rain. So you well, sorry,

824
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you back. You spray an area so

825
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: that vegetation is going to die eventually, and then you

826
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: broadcast seed over that area and then you're gonna mow it.

827
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: So what happens is the vegetation's existing, there is dying,

828
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 1: but your seeds, hopefully this is with a small type

829
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: of seed that will work with a broadcasting method like this,

830
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: the seeds on the ground, the dead vegetation is falling

831
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: down over and then you mow everything on top of it,

832
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: so you create like a maltia vegetation over top of

833
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: your seed. And you coincide all of this with a

834
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: rain so that you get a bunch of rain coming

835
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: down soaking all this grass and malts on top of

836
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 1: your seed. And that's what gets it to german it. It

837
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: It gets you your seed to sell contact. That's the

838
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: basic gist of this. So you can plant stuff without

839
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: needing to disk and til everything up. So that's what

840
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 1: I was gonna try. I don't have a tractor, I

841
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: don't have a brush hog, I don't have any of

842
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: these things. So I thought, well, maybe I could get

843
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: my Maybe maybe I could get my lawnmower, like my

844
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: my lawnmower from my house. Maybe I could do that.

845
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: So I go and to try to mow a clover

846
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: plot first, with this, and I sink my mower in

847
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: about a foot and a half a muddon, So the

848
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: lawnmower stuck in foot and a half of mud. I

849
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: have to go drive back, get my wife and son

850
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: and my A t V. Bring my a t V

851
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: out to this property, have my wife and sons sit

852
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: in the lawnmower because you have to be sitting on

853
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: it for it to be turned on. And so I

854
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 1: had to go get a winch in my a t

855
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: V and had to winch out my lawnmower with my

856
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: wife and son on the lawnmar in reverse trying to

857
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: get it out. So that was a thing got that realized, Okay,

858
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: there's no way this is gonna work on this other

859
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: property where I'm trying to do more of this stuff.

860
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 1: So I had to get my father in law to

861
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: bring his tractor and a brush hawk he had over

862
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,919
Speaker 1: to this property and he was able to brush hawk

863
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: and mow everything but my broadcaster. So the thing that

864
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: spreads all your seed that broke. And the three different

865
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: stores in the nearest town didn't have a big like

866
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen people using these big

867
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: cloth bag cedars. Do you know what I'm talking about.

868
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: It's a big canvis bag um that holds I don't know,

869
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds of seeds or something like that. Well, I

870
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: couldn't find one of those anywhere, and I'm running out times,

871
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: so I had to use like one of those little

872
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 1: tiny fertilizer spreaders that people use on their like quarter

873
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: acre yard for something like throwing moll It's like it

874
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: holds like two handfuls of fertilizer and seed. So that's

875
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:30,800
Speaker 1: what I used for a large portion of the seating. Um.

876
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know if it's worth going

877
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: any more detail. And the fact that this should have

878
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: been an afternoon too, it took I don't know, five days,

879
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: so many debacles, um, but I do have them planted. Yeah,

880
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: you call me farmer Mark, Um I made people proud

881
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: of I'm sure. Well, Mark, it sounds to me like

882
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: you need to become friends with a local farmer. Yeah

883
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 1: that is Uh, that's exactly what I need to do.

884
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: And you either need to become friends with the farmer

885
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: or just need a man up and uh cash my

886
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: savings in on some kind of equipment because this is

887
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:07,280
Speaker 1: not I could just see your wife. You're coming home

888
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: with a brand new tractor and like all these food

889
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 1: plot implements and whatnot, and uh, I can see her

890
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: getting pretty upset at something like that. Well, it's funny

891
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: is that she would like, she'd hate it if I

892
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: spend all that money. But at the same time, she's

893
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: so sick of me coming home every day and like,

894
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: you're not done yet. Why didn't you get anything done?

895
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: What happened? So now if she's like, you should just

896
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: buy something, just sell something and buy it, buy something

897
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: you need, um, because she's getting equally frustrated with right.

898
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: But but yeah, it's in, so we'll see if it

899
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,320
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. And uh, that's that's the extent

900
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: of my habitat stuff. The only other good thing I

901
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: got done is um started. I tried to get a

902
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: little bit of a head start on some of my

903
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: tree stand stuff. So like, there's one spot I've want

904
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: a tree stand forever on one of these main Michigan properties.

905
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:54,919
Speaker 1: So I just got that set up for a saddle hunt,

906
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: put some pegs in the tree and put a platform

907
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: there and trimmed everything out. So I've a little like

908
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: it's a weird little transition point where there's a swamp

909
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: and then a little finger of a field, and then

910
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: on the other side of that a betting area, and

911
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: then there's like this low spot in that little finger

912
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: field where they'll cross from the swamp to get to

913
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: the other timber stuff on the other side. And this

914
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: is that one Michigan property that I've talked about tons

915
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: that I have mostly just like field that stuff that

916
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: I'm allowed to hunt. Um but this is the spot

917
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: where if a buck's going to cross the field seven

918
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: times out of ten, that's usually where it is. And

919
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: I've got a stand on either side of it, but

920
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 1: not quite in like the spot within the spot, you know,

921
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: like we talked about. And h finally, I just like

922
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta get something moved in there. So

923
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: did that that's set to go? Um So all I

924
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: need to do, at least on that farm in late

925
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: summer is just go and just double check on my locations,

926
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: just make sure they're trimmed out and make sure the

927
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 1: straps are good. But yeah, I'm in good shape otherwise.

928
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: Um So, the only other thing for me, I don't

929
00:47:58,120 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: know what else is in your mind, but the only

930
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: thing for me is that when I got done with

931
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 1: all that habitat stuff I was talking about, all the

932
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: spraying and plant to those food plat screens. The reason

933
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: I was on such a time crunch is because my

934
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 1: wife and I were leaving for our annual Western trip

935
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 1: and that's where I'm right right now, and so I

936
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: had to vent to someone about how that's been going. Now,

937
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: I just vented for fifteen minutes about my food plots,

938
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: So maybe this is too much venting, um, But do

939
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,439
Speaker 1: you want to hear about what's happening on this trip? Yes?

940
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 1: I do, because I'm somewhat jealous, UM. But at the

941
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: same time, I'm glad it's you and not me. Yeah.

942
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping for some advice to somewhere along the way.

943
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: So let me know if you've got any ideas for

944
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: how I could have or how we could either better

945
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: handle us next time UM or solve this UM if

946
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: I ever try to do it again. Because what we

947
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: try to do this year was go out and spend

948
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:55,240
Speaker 1: our summers like we usually do out in Montana. And

949
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: you know, last year I did this with ever for

950
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,359
Speaker 1: the first time, and we did them camped in our

951
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: camper um and it went pretty dwn good. You know,

952
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 1: it was not bad at all. He wasn't mobile at

953
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,399
Speaker 1: that point, and that is the crux of it right there.

954
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: He was not mobile. He was five months old. He

955
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 1: didn't do anything at all. Um, he slept all the time.

956
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: He was the picture of angelic joy. Now he's a

957
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: year and a half old and he is a tyrant.

958
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: Like he is just like a whirlwind going through our lives,

959
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: just trying to rip everything down, terror thing, try to

960
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: find different ways to get himself killed. Um, I mean

961
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 1: it's nuts. Like I look at like so many times

962
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: in a day, I'll look at Kylie and be like,

963
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: who is this thing? Like how did we bring this

964
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: into the world? But it's going I love him to death,

965
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: but he's crazy. Um. So I'll try to make this.

966
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 1: I'll try to trim it as much as I possibly can.

967
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: But basically we are plan was We're gonna take seven

968
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: days of like vacation. So like we haven't really took

969
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 1: a vacation in in a long time. We travel, but

970
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: I'm always working while we travel. Um, So this year

971
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, we deserve a break

972
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 1: from work for a little bit. So he was gonna

973
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: take five vacation days. I wasn't gonna check my phone,

974
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna do stuff. Was just gonna take that time

975
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go to Grand Teatown National Park and

976
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: Yellowstone two our favorite spots, and just have a fun

977
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: time hiking with withevert and show him the animals and

978
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: camping and do all stuff. Well, the basic gist of

979
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: it is that we got out and the first night

980
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: tried to tent camp. He wouldn't sleep at all in

981
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: a nap, wouldn't sleep in the tent for nap time.

982
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 1: That was debacle. Then at night, try to put him down,

983
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: he wouldn't sleep, wouldn't sleep, with screaming, with screaming, with screaming. Finally,

984
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 1: it's like nine thirty and the neighbors hate us, and

985
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna take him the truck.

986
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: So I took him, drove him the truck for an hour.

987
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,800
Speaker 1: He finally fell asleep that I transferred him to the

988
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 1: tent to like tent thirty night after dark, and he

989
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:52,280
Speaker 1: was able to sleep through the night. So like, okay,

990
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: maybe that's what we gotta do. Next day we try that.

991
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: He sleeps, but then like two in the morning, he

992
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: wakes up in the middle and I just screaming bloody murder,

993
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: like just inconsolable. And we got tents all around us,

994
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: you know, other people camping all around us. So this

995
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: is not gonna work. Like we're waking everybody out, the

996
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 1: kids going nuts. So we all get out of the tent,

997
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 1: get in the truck, drive to the nearest town, get

998
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: a hotel room like four in the morning. Um had

999
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 1: to go to four different hotels try to find one

1000
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: that was open. So after two nights of disastrous tent sleeping, UM,

1001
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: we're like, screw up, We're just gonna get a place

1002
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 1: to stay. Because no one slept. Kylie was miserable and

1003
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: couldn't sleep, and so we had to rent a cabin

1004
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: for three nights, and after that a hotel for three nights.

1005
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: And so I have spent more traveling what would have

1006
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,479
Speaker 1: been like an almost free camping trip for a week.

1007
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: I've now spent more on this trip than any other

1008
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: vacation I've ever spent my entire life. Like you know,

1009
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: I've gone to Mexico's and all inclusive in the past,

1010
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: We've done that kind of thing, but never ever spent

1011
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: so much money on all these crappy hotel rooms just

1012
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: so there's somewhere forever to sleep. Otherwise it's like zero naps,

1013
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: zero nighttime sleep. He's not doing the tent thing, um.

1014
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: So I mean it's just been like super duper stressful

1015
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 1: from a sleep standpoint, um. And if that all wasn't

1016
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 1: bad enough, though, we're we got hit with what bad weather.

1017
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,319
Speaker 1: It's been snowing and raining and really cold here the

1018
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: last three days, so that made it tough. And then

1019
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 1: we're like, okay, but we're gonna go pick up our

1020
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: camper because what we did is we left our camper

1021
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: in Montana over the winter because we only use it

1022
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: out here, so we put it in a storage facility

1023
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: lockdate storage facility, kept it here, and then when we're

1024
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: gonna you know, come out and do our little vacation

1025
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 1: I just talked about, and then at the end of

1026
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: that time, we pick up the camper and then go

1027
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: set it up in our usual place and then we're

1028
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: gonna stay here another month and work. Well. We've been

1029
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: looking forward to getting the camper because that would be like,

1030
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: you know, a closed space. It would be dark, ever

1031
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: it would be asleep hopefully, and even if you did

1032
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: wake up. You know, we're not gonna wake up other

1033
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: people because we'll be inside the camper. So we get

1034
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: to the storage facility and as we're pulling in, I

1035
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: know us that the cover we have a cover of

1036
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: the whole thing, the cover's gone. So I'm like, oh, no,

1037
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 1: what what happened? And this was this is yesterday afternoon.

1038
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 1: This all happened. Damn. So the cover is not on

1039
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: our camper anymore. So now I'm thinking, oh, man, did

1040
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: the cover get ripped off in the wind? Is it

1041
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,240
Speaker 1: gonna be rain damage or something. Then I go walking

1042
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: up to the to the door and I noticed that

1043
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: the door handles pride open. Oh you gotta be kidding me.

1044
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: Someone broke into our camper while we're going, ripped the

1045
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: door open, got in there. They stole two full propane tanks,

1046
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 1: oliver fuel. They stole our whole solar power system. So

1047
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:33,879
Speaker 1: the way we get power to the camper is through

1048
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:37,240
Speaker 1: solar panels on top and then too deep cell batteries

1049
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 1: and then like an inverter or converter or something like

1050
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: that that runs it all through. They stole all that.

1051
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: They stole all my tools that I had out here,

1052
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 1: my drills and all the different things I need to

1053
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: fix stuff. Um stole Like Kylie done a really great

1054
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: job like renovating this, you know a few years ago,

1055
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: and had really cool artwork on the walls and decorations.

1056
00:53:54,960 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 1: They stole all that stuff, stole our silverware. Um, we're

1057
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 1: did you keep this just like in a parking lot? No, Well,

1058
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: it's a it's like a you know, like a storage facilities,

1059
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: you know, where there's all those like little buildings that

1060
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: look like, I don't know how to describe it, just

1061
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: like one of the storage facility. And then there was

1062
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: a a fenced and gated and locked area where you

1063
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: could put a trailer and put your campers and stuff.

1064
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,359
Speaker 1: So that's where we had it. So it's under lock

1065
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: and key, but someone had hopped the fence or dive

1066
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: orneath the fence or something and uh or or maybe

1067
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 1: someone who had access to it was the one who

1068
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 1: did it. I don't know. Yeah, man, So that was

1069
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: what we came to yesterday, after driving six hours across

1070
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: the park to get to hear and all that, and

1071
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: Everts screaming and throwing a fit and I'm trying to

1072
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: figure out what to do with this and had to

1073
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 1: call the police file report and then oh and then

1074
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: on top of that, I get the thing hooked up

1075
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: and I'm ready to pull out, and none of the

1076
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: lights in the camper work anymore, so the running lights

1077
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 1: that break, lights that turn signals, nothing on the campers working.

1078
00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: Um so, so I luckily found a guy who works

1079
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: for the facility that was willing to drive behind me

1080
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: to get us to a campground. So now I'm at

1081
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: a campground, and as soon as we get done recording this,

1082
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 1: I'm going to be going to town and trying to

1083
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 1: find somewhere I can buy new propane tanks and buy

1084
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: new batteries and buy new inverter. And then I've got

1085
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,879
Speaker 1: a local ur r V repair guy that's gonna helpfully

1086
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: come out here in the next hour or two and

1087
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: look at and see if he can reset up the

1088
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,919
Speaker 1: wiring to make all the power and stuff work. Man, Like,

1089
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 1: I wish you wouldn't have told me, because now I

1090
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: want to like beat somebody up. Yeah, that is crap.

1091
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 1: It was just like the cherry on top after like

1092
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,760
Speaker 1: the week has been, you know, it's been really cool,

1093
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: Like there's moments of greatness like whenever it's having a

1094
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: good time. It's so awesome to see him out there,

1095
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:48,879
Speaker 1: like pointing out a buffalo or running up and down

1096
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:50,839
Speaker 1: the trails, like he's having a lot of fun, just

1097
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,640
Speaker 1: playing in the dirt, exploring. He's having a blast, but

1098
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: he's he's sick of being in the car seat, so

1099
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: he's just throwing a fit every time we're driving anywhere.

1100
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: He's not sleeping well, so he's always overtired. And then,

1101
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 1: like we talked about earlier, he's just in everything. So

1102
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: it's there's there's no way to like set up the

1103
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: camp or to do all these different things the way

1104
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:10,399
Speaker 1: we used to, because usually it's like a two person job.

1105
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:11,879
Speaker 1: We're doing all this stuff, and now it's like one

1106
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: person has to be watching him an all time, and

1107
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: then one person is trying to do a bunch of stuff,

1108
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: and uh, it's just made stuff more stressful than it's

1109
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: ever been. So I'm constantly trying to remind myself, like

1110
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 1: focus on the good stuff. It's super cool to be

1111
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 1: out here with whatever. He's having a blast a lot

1112
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: of the time, but man, many times a day we

1113
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: look at each other, my wife and I were like,

1114
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: can we do this any longer? Like how long are

1115
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: we gonna last? We're playing being out here for six

1116
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 1: weeks doing this, and we've seriously been thinking like maybe

1117
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:43,719
Speaker 1: we maybe we go home now. I don't know what

1118
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: we're doing. Man, Yeah, that's nuts, man, I don't have

1119
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: any more kids if that's the case. Yeah, any any

1120
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:55,280
Speaker 1: other parental advice or how to handle traveling and venturing

1121
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: with the tydler because I I don't have any really

1122
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: good answers yet. Well, we got a portable DVD player

1123
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: recently that shuts them up for quite a quite a bit,

1124
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: um because we went on a four hour drive to

1125
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: oh Mahal a couple of months ago that that worked.

1126
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 1: And then like feed them heavy before they get then

1127
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: they kind of get sleepy eyed or drive when they're driving,

1128
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: So feed them portable DVD player and then a lot

1129
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: of well everage probably too young for threats, but that's

1130
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: but that's how I work with the older two. That

1131
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:32,919
Speaker 1: makes sense. I'm sure we'll get to that point sometime soon.

1132
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Yeah, dude, I don't know, like we have

1133
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: these grand ambitions of I still think we can do

1134
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: it to a degree, but it's just I think our

1135
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,680
Speaker 1: expectations are just changing drastically as far as like the

1136
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: kind of stuff we can do for now. Um, you know,

1137
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: still we love doing all these outdoor adventures and camping

1138
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: and stuff, but I don't know if these like two

1139
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 1: months grand trips are going to be super realistic for

1140
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: the short term. Um, well, you took the kid out

1141
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:09,080
Speaker 1: of a routine and that's where that's where it hurts, right,

1142
00:58:09,120 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: So if you can find him, get him in a

1143
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 1: routine to where you know, every night, maybe you just

1144
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: don't try to put him straight to bed. Maybe you

1145
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 1: let him watch your phone for a little bit, or

1146
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: you let him do some of that stuff until it

1147
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: gets a little tired, give him his bottle or whatever

1148
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 1: drink before bedtime and then hopefully falls asleep. Or you

1149
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 1: can just go back to the old school method and

1150
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: put a little whiskey in his uh sippy cup and

1151
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: you know, help him fall asleep that way. That might be.

1152
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: That might be after last night. I forgot last night,

1153
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: our first night sleeping, and we had mice again last night.

1154
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: This kept waking him up in the middle of night

1155
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: because we the lights to beyond we tried to sleep

1156
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: in them, being mice scaring around right next to him

1157
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: and so I killed two of those suckers. I helpe.

1158
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:56,439
Speaker 1: I hope that's it, um, But if that doesn't work,

1159
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: it might be whiskey and whiskey and milk for the

1160
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: little man. Been in thrill. By the way, this is

1161
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 1: not good parenting. I would not we will not actually

1162
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 1: do that anyone. Don't. Don't worry, um. But but yeah,

1163
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: it's trial buff trial by fire, learning some strike. But

1164
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: you know, at the same time, it's like I find

1165
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: myself going back and forth because yeah, it's been stressful. Yeah,

1166
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: it's been way more difficult than any of our previous trips.

1167
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:26,439
Speaker 1: But at the same time, probably you know, a month

1168
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 1: from now, when I look back on it, I'm gonna

1169
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: be glad we did it. You know. It's like it's

1170
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: I think it's it's type too. Fun is what it is.

1171
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 1: In the moment, it can be miserable, but like when

1172
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: you look back out at the pictures and the stories,

1173
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: and probably what we'll remember is we'll remember the good

1174
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: times and the bad times will just be funny. They'll

1175
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 1: just be funny stories. Yeah, so I'm hoping that we

1176
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 1: can push through and it'll be good. And you know,

1177
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: it's I do love like it is awesome to be

1178
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 1: able to share like these outdoor things with him and

1179
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 1: seeing him geek out about seeing a bear, Like he'll

1180
00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: he'll go running up to the trailhead like at the

1181
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: beginning of her trail, there's these, um you know, these

1182
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: boards where they've got different announcements and like warnings and

1183
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: you know, how to be bear safe and all this

1184
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And he's really in the bear, so

1185
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 1: he'll go running up to it. And if there's a

1186
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,320
Speaker 1: picture of the grizzly, he'll just point and he'll roar

1187
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: at it. Um. And like if you will go hiking

1188
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 1: and we get, you know, a couple of miles in

1189
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:18,960
Speaker 1: and we're gonna take a break or something to set

1190
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 1: them down, and he's just a man on a mission.

1191
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 1: He'll start taking down the trail himself. And then he

1192
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 1: stops and he picks flowers and he's plays with the

1193
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:29,960
Speaker 1: rocks and he's chasing ground squirrels and um like seeing

1194
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:33,439
Speaker 1: that just you know, that's so cool as a dad

1195
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 1: to see and uh, to be able to share that

1196
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: stuff with with your child, this is pretty cool. So

1197
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: I mean, that kind of stuff is what I try

1198
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 1: to focus on. But that's the most important stuff. Yeah, yeah,

1199
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 1: it is so man. That's where we're at. We got

1200
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: four more weeks that we're supposed to be out here. Um,

1201
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: and I don't know. We'll see if we can get

1202
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 1: everything fixed here today or tomorrow. And um, once we

1203
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 1: get I think it'll be good as we get settled.

1204
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: We haven't been able to settle anywhere, have been like

1205
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: two days here, three days there, one day there. Um.

1206
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: But once we are able to get settled into one

1207
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 1: of these spots that we usually stay at for a

1208
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: week at a time, um, like you said, maybe get

1209
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: a little bit of routine again. And um, then we'll

1210
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: see in a week or two we'll have updates and uh,

1211
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: we'll see if the Kenyon two thousand nine adventure has

1212
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: come to an unceremonious end or if it's it's still going.

1213
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:30,480
Speaker 1: Dead life man, Yeah, Dad life, dead life. I don't

1214
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: and that's that's all I got. I don't know anything

1215
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 1: else in your world. As far as me, it's just

1216
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 1: like trying to survive this trip, try to get some

1217
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:40,959
Speaker 1: work done, and then August will be just run around

1218
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: like crazy with all the last minute stuff. Yeah. Same

1219
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,640
Speaker 1: here man, just getting ready for my elk hunt. Getting

1220
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 1: ready for the mule deer hunt that may or may

1221
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 1: not happen, and and then obviously white tails. So hey,

1222
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:56,960
Speaker 1: do you remember like four years ago when we used

1223
01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: to do um like Dan's crazy Question of the day. Yeah,

1224
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 1: we we should bring that back. I feel like we

1225
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:08,680
Speaker 1: should bring that back. Um And either when you're on

1226
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 1: episodes of a guest, we should throw them a crazy

1227
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:13,640
Speaker 1: question or we should just give each other a crazy

1228
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 1: question of the day. It's like, for example, if you

1229
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 1: had to pick a beverage that would describe you at

1230
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,120
Speaker 1: this moment, like how you're feeling or where you are

1231
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: at in life right now, what beverage would you be? Well,

1232
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 1: it would be a mixed drink, okay, and it would

1233
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 1: be coffee and bourbon. Explain just because that's basically how crazy. Well,

1234
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. It would be coffee, bourbon and

1235
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:49,080
Speaker 1: CPD oil and because that's literally what my life is

1236
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 1: right now. It's like wake up tired, slam coffee. Um.

1237
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 1: You know, work throughout the day, and then relax by

1238
01:02:56,680 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: having a cold drink at night. So what what drink

1239
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 1: do you think signifies like defeated as what's the drink

1240
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 1: that makes you think of some being very defeated. What

1241
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: would that drink be like when you're the lowest point

1242
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: and this is gonna stop. I don't want like to

1243
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 1: offend anybody, but just like ship, I am down on

1244
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: my I got nothing left in my life. Like the

1245
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 1: only thing left for me to do is just like

1246
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: fade into existence. And that would be like drinking a

1247
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:30,720
Speaker 1: natural ice. Yeah, Natty ice twenty in a paper bag.

1248
01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 1: That that is what drink I am at this moment

1249
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 1: as I sit here waiting for a repairman to come

1250
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 1: and try to figure out how to fix this CHILLPI

1251
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 1: ship mark, I didn't know was that bad? Oh? But

1252
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:51,400
Speaker 1: type too fun? It is type two. The stories. There's

1253
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 1: a song um that I heard on the radio the

1254
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: other day. It's called a hundred Bad Days and the

1255
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: chorus is a hundred bad days makes a hundred good stories,

1256
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 1: and a hundred goods stories makes me interesting at parties.

1257
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,440
Speaker 1: And so that's been like my mantra. I'm like, all right, man,

1258
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 1: hundred bad days equals a hundred good stories. That's how

1259
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:12,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get through this one. So yeah, I gotta

1260
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 1: have content for your job, buddy, gotta content. Definitely getting

1261
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 1: that getting that in spades on this trip. So alright, dude, well,

1262
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 1: I think, uh, I think our little update podcast here

1263
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 1: is is is full of stories, so we can wrap

1264
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: it up. But thanks for letting me vent, thanks for

1265
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 1: the advice on on drinks of choice, and um, let's

1266
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 1: talk soon and see what else crazy is going on. Yeah,

1267
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: I think you could probably hear what's going on right

1268
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:42,400
Speaker 1: now in my hallway. Yeah. I think you gotta get

1269
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:46,200
Speaker 1: that office done pretty soon. Yeah. Absolutely, all right, buddy,

1270
01:04:46,280 --> 01:04:50,200
Speaker 1: talk to you soon later, and that's gonna do it

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Speaker 1: for us today. I hope you enjoyed this lighthearted episode,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's always just good to catch up

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Speaker 1: with Dan and laugh a little bit and tell some

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Speaker 1: of these stories. And uh, I sure hope that your

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Speaker 1: summer projects and vacations are going a little smoothly, more

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Speaker 1: smoothly at least than mine have. It's uh, it's been interesting,

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Speaker 1: but like we're saying, you know, if you're having some

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Speaker 1: tough times like that, remember all those bad days do

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Speaker 1: make for great stories, so keep that in mind. And

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Speaker 1: with all that said, thank you so much for tuning in.

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Speaker 1: Until next time, Stay wired to Hunt