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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 Hunt podcast. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyan, and this is episode number twelve. Today we're

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Speaker 1: going to chat about bums. Yes, bums, don't worry, I'll

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Speaker 1: explain today. We're changing things up a bit as my

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Speaker 1: co host Dan isn't able to be with us. For

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Speaker 1: that being the case, we're just going to chat you

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Speaker 1: and me. As I mentioned in the intro, we're chatting

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Speaker 1: about bums. Yes, bums. They're all sorts of kinds. Ski bums,

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Speaker 1: trout bums, climbing bums, and of course there are just

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Speaker 1: bum bums, you know, the kind of walking the street

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Speaker 1: at the football tailgate, collecting your empty cans and high

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Speaker 1: fiving the chest painted college grants to be But I digress.

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Speaker 1: What I want to talk about today are bums with

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Speaker 1: a passion skiing, fly fishing, climbing. How do you define

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Speaker 1: this kind of bum? Well, let's first look at that

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Speaker 1: example of a climbing bum, or, as they like to

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Speaker 1: call themselves, dirt bags. According to a popular climbing website,

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Speaker 1: a dirt bag is defined as a person who dedicates

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Speaker 1: her or his entire existence to the pursuit of climbing,

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Speaker 1: making ends meet using creative means, often found living near

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Speaker 1: major climbing destinations. The dirt bag is a rebel with

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Speaker 1: a cause who finds happiness in nature. When the dirt

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Speaker 1: bag grows up, if ever, he or she often is

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Speaker 1: drawn to a profession, engage with the outdoors or creative arts. Interesting, well,

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Speaker 1: how about trout bombs. According to one definition online, serious

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Speaker 1: trout bumming involves a concerted effort to avoid civilization in

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Speaker 1: a single minded pursuit of fish. And later they're going

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Speaker 1: to say, a trout bums day might go something like this.

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Speaker 1: Arise whenever, eat whatever, decide to fish wherever, take a break, eat,

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Speaker 1: maybe nap, maybe even shower at a campground, and then

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Speaker 1: decide whether you want to stay on one particular water

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Speaker 1: or jump over to another. Coming off the stream after dark,

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Speaker 1: probably boil up some ramen, maybe have a cup of tea,

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Speaker 1: and then sleep in the bed of your truck. M hm.

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Speaker 1: So what can we surmise here? It seems that to

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Speaker 1: be a ski, trout or climbing bum. One must be

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Speaker 1: seriously addicted to an outdoor sport or activity. It must

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Speaker 1: pursue it with a single minded intensity and obsession. Number

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Speaker 1: two one must be willing to sacrifice financially to pursue

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Speaker 1: this activity. And number three one must spend a massive

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Speaker 1: amount of time on this activity at the expense of

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Speaker 1: most everything else. So at this point you might be asking,

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Speaker 1: what does this have to do with me? Well, it

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Speaker 1: might or it might not. You see what I want

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Speaker 1: to discuss here today is the life of a white

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Speaker 1: tail bumb. Today we're asking the question what makes someone

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Speaker 1: a white tail bumb? And finally, am I or you

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Speaker 1: a white tail bumb? I can't remember what the movie was,

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Speaker 1: but it probably had Matthew McConaughey or some other chick

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Speaker 1: flick actor, a few goofy romantic scenes, and a happy ending.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I chuckled occasionally and gave my wife a

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Speaker 1: nice BackRub, but my mind was elsewhere, And as the

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Speaker 1: my two dogs, cat and a very understanding wife. As

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Speaker 1: fought for a little space, and then flipped off the lights.

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Speaker 1: Ten minutes later, I heard my wife's breathing getting heavy.

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Speaker 1: She was asleep. This was my cue. As carefully as

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Speaker 1: of the bedroom quiet as a church mouse, and then

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Speaker 1: proceeded to step on something thin, long and soft. The

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Speaker 1: frantic yowl from our three legged cat quickly clued me

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Speaker 1: on my tiptoes, pulled on a winter jack it and

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Speaker 1: headed out the door. The truck was packed, an energy

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Speaker 1: drink was in the cup holder, and Ted Nugent's fred

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Speaker 1: Bearer was the first track on the CD player. I

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Speaker 1: was hitting the road. It was midnight and I had

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Speaker 1: four and a half hours to drive to get to

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Speaker 1: have an hour of darkness to spare perfect. Eighteen hours later,

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Speaker 1: those many long hours, some good things had happened. I

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Speaker 1: had close calls with a hundred and fifty in and

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Speaker 1: the ninety nine cent double cheeseburger and thought to myself,

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Speaker 1: life is good. This is something like my twenty three

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Speaker 1: My friends, well, they thought I was crazy, but me,

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Speaker 1: I called it living the dream. M h m h

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Speaker 1: m m. Climbing bums, trout bums, ski bums, and I'd

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Speaker 1: say white tail bums as well, all pursue their obsession

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Speaker 1: with a single minded focus, an uncompromising dedication to the activity,

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Speaker 1: and all consuming intensity for the pursuit. So does hunting

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Speaker 1: thirteen hours a day for weeks on end make you

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Speaker 1: a white tail bum? Maybe, but I think there's a

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Speaker 1: lot more to it. For white tail bums. Hunting isn't

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Speaker 1: just something done for a few weeks or months during

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Speaker 1: the fall it's a three sixty five day a year lifestyle.

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Speaker 1: As best as I can figure, A white tail bums

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Speaker 1: year starts in January, just after the previous hunting season closes.

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Speaker 1: He or she begins walking the trails on his hunting property,

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Speaker 1: scouting out dough bedding areas, checking for popular food sources,

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Speaker 1: then comes shed hunting. A few years back, I took

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Speaker 1: Three days later, I returned happy as could be, with

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Speaker 1: the gales in my office, after gushing over her weekend

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Speaker 1: not white tail bumbs as winter fades into spring and

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Speaker 1: spring into summer. A white tail Bums mind quickly turns

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Speaker 1: to Christmas. He's been looking forward to this moment for weeks.

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Speaker 1: Anticipation has risen to a frenzy, and as he looks

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Speaker 1: at the package, he wonders to himself, what might there be?

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Speaker 1: He quickly opens the package and slips it out of

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Speaker 1: reader on his laptop. Yes, this is Christmas, Christmas in July,

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Speaker 1: and the gift every white tail bumb wants is a

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Speaker 1: mega giant, heavy horned white tail buck on trail camera. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: is there any more anxious moment than those first few

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Speaker 1: minutes flipping through pictures, just dying for there to be

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Speaker 1: up along the main beam like prongs and a pitchfork

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Speaker 1: stretching towards the sky eight inches ten inches twelve. He's

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Speaker 1: a giant. I will call him the skyscraper twelve. Yes,

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Speaker 1: a whitetail bum has a hell of a time naming

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Speaker 1: He'll add the Skyscraper Twelves picture to the pile, along

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Speaker 1: with the Triple ten, Big Sexy, spread Zilla, and Steve.

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Speaker 1: Over the coming weeks and months, a white tail bumb

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Speaker 1: will think of almost nothing else. Colahani stands specifically for

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Speaker 1: close to Big Sexy's bed, he'll plant a food plot

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Speaker 1: in Skyscraper Twelves core area, and he'll just think a

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Speaker 1: lot about Steve, but not in a weird way. Finally,

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Speaker 1: his element. M m m m h m. The season

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Speaker 1: first ski bum. This is the time to hop in

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Speaker 1: too different for the white tail bum. He or she

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Speaker 1: reck of being a bum of any kind seems to

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Speaker 1: be not only a single minded focus or obsession on

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Speaker 1: other time consuming activities. And this is most evident during

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Speaker 1: the season. My wife, for example, has grown used to

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Speaker 1: This is the time of harvest. All the months of

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Speaker 1: work have led up to this, and now let's time

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Speaker 1: make it happen. Whitetail bums, of course, prepare for this season,

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Speaker 1: but they live for the rut. This is the super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: do some strange things. For instance, have you ever seen

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Speaker 1: Or how about this one? What right minded individual would

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Speaker 1: species will begin engaging in intercourse. That kind of conversation

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Speaker 1: isn't even allowed on National Geographic. And let's talk about

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Speaker 1: This definitely isn't Food Network Great Food. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: they're hunters out there who live completely off of coffee

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Speaker 1: truck seat cushions. I'm not naming any names now. For

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Speaker 1: And yes, they may be in close proximity at home,

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Speaker 1: but their family and friends can't hardly tell. They're out

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Speaker 1: even when they are home, they're not really there. A

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Speaker 1: quick dinner, reorganize the gear, check SD cards, off to bed,

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Speaker 1: and then the next day they do it all over again.

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Speaker 1: For some of these at home white tail bums, this

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Speaker 1: wasn't how it always was. In fact, I know many

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Speaker 1: a white tail attic who up and left their original

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Speaker 1: Iowa or Illinois simply to be closer to big bucks.

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Speaker 1: For others, though, the seas and the Rut in particular,

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Speaker 1: and in typical bump fashion, their bootstrapping it to make

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Speaker 1: ends meet. Take for example, my friend Tyler a few

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Speaker 1: years back. He packed up his things during the fall,

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Speaker 1: filled his vehicle with gear and tent, and headed to Iowa.

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Speaker 1: For the next six weeks or so, I believe, he

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Speaker 1: current events, not interested where he'd get his next meal.

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Speaker 1: That was a problem for future Tyler Locals whispered in

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Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with the white tail bumb and us

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Speaker 1: coming out every once in a while, or every three

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Speaker 1: it's who we are, it's why we are. The love

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Speaker 1: cool November morning, and the hope of an early October afternoon.

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Speaker 1: It pulls it us deep down. It nips at the

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Speaker 1: of our soul. White Tails, those mysterious, majestic, and occasionally

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Speaker 1: and more times than that, they make fools of us

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Speaker 1: or should I say bums. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: joining me today on this slightly different than usual podcast.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed listening and maybe you can get

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Speaker 1: a chuckle from it. And as always, if you've enjoyed

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Speaker 1: the show today, we would love it if you could

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Speaker 1: leave a rating or review on iTunes. It's a quick

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Speaker 1: action that can make a big difference. Thank you. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of thanks, we also like to thank our very supportive

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Speaker 1: this show possible. Our partners big thanks to sick Gear,

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Speaker 1: thanks again Wired Hunt Nation. Until next time, have a

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Speaker 1: great week, keep chasing the dream, and as always, stay

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Speaker 1: Wired to Hunt.