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Speaker 3: All right, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: If you're sitting there on a and you and you

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Speaker 1: look at your feed, and you and you think, what

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Speaker 1: in Sam Hill? Is this a special episode of the

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Speaker 1: meat Eater podcast, Well, you're correct. This is a special

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Speaker 1: edition called truck Stories met Eaters truck Stories. Maybe you've

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Speaker 1: heard meters campfire stories. This is truck Stories. And here

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Speaker 1: to share in this event with us is as though

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Speaker 1: dealing poker, not the dealer.

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Speaker 4: Clay nukelemb Yeah, Clay nukelemb here, glad to be here, Gamble.

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Speaker 3: That's probably why you don't know what I'm not as

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Speaker 3: No dealing old maid.

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Speaker 5: Little horse, little horse racing, dealing old maid Texas hold

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Speaker 5: them yeah, Clay nukelemb from Barrier's podcast.

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Speaker 1: Casey Smith Casey Smith from The Element, Tyler Jones, Tyler

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Speaker 1: Jones from The Element.

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Speaker 4: Big Truck Guys out Here, Chester Floyd.

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Speaker 6: One time I won rent money off of a poker game.

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Speaker 1: Chesterha has a big concert coming up the har Dady

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Speaker 1: asked him how long till the concert? When was the concert?

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Speaker 1: And he gave it to me in hours days and

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Speaker 1: said he wasn't nervous, but the fact that he knew

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Speaker 1: how many hours the way it was suggested nervousness.

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Speaker 6: No, I'm excited. I saw a great concert last night

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Speaker 6: Paul Coffin, and I took some mental notes of performing

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Speaker 6: and it should be fine.

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Speaker 3: The Big Velvet they call him, do you know that?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I did.

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Speaker 3: I like that guy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's good, talented.

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Speaker 3: I texted him about coming on the show. Yeah, we

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Speaker 3: should get him. Well, he's like referred me out. It's

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Speaker 3: just got complicated.

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Speaker 1: You're like, was like head talk to like the manager is.

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Speaker 1: But if you're out there at Paul Cough, we still

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Speaker 1: like to have you come on the show. I just

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Speaker 1: want to like not have to make it so complicated.

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Speaker 7: Ye.

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Speaker 3: Jason, Jason Phelps cutting the Distance.

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Speaker 8: And Dirk Durham cutting the distance.

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Speaker 9: And you boys are going weekly. We are changing it

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Speaker 9: up from bi weekly to weekly. Yeah twice, How are

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Speaker 9: you gonna double the output?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 9: Just add Dirk every other week? So right now I'm

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Speaker 9: every you just got to every other week.

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Speaker 1: So if you're cutting the Distance podcast fan, now you

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Speaker 1: can listen to every week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah? What if that cuts into my listenership?

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Speaker 4: Here?

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Speaker 3: It shouldn't.

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Speaker 4: Should the name of the podcast now not be twice

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Speaker 4: as long as opposed to cutting the Distance?

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Speaker 3: Brent?

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Speaker 2: Who?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Who's Who's gonna start out? I mean I could tell

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Speaker 1: my story. I could tell my truck story and listen,

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Speaker 1: my story is so old I had to call I

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Speaker 1: had to call the person it's about to go over

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Speaker 1: all the details this morning.

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Speaker 2: You should?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think I think this is what we

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Speaker 4: should do. I think we should go around the table

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Speaker 4: rate our story based upon the what how we think

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Speaker 4: the world is going to perceive it, and then you

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Speaker 3: Know, inferno.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you may we may order it a certain way.

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Speaker 4: I would say mine is like a It is like

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Speaker 4: And then there's a smaller story that's like a seven.

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Speaker 1: Mine is a is maybe a seven, and it's a

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Speaker 3: It's a love story.

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Speaker 4: It's hard to be What about you, guys.

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Speaker 8: I think everybody thinks their own story is the best.

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Speaker 3: I gave mine a seven, but you know that's the

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Speaker 9: But you know, mine just got like a funny part

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Speaker 3: Okay, who goes first? You had the highest number at seven.

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Speaker 11: Okay, So that's for last though, right.

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Speaker 3: What's that stories?

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Speaker 3: No, no one story.

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Speaker 1: I got one story that I'm very committed to and

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Speaker 1: I even made phone calls about it, so I'm there's

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Speaker 1: no backing out now, Clay, go ahead.

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Speaker 4: I was just gonna say this. This isn't even on

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Speaker 4: When I was a junior in high school, I had

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Speaker 3: This is the story or not.

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Speaker 4: This is not the story. This is a appetizer story.

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Speaker 4: And I started complaining to my dad that there was

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Speaker 4: I said, Dad, the cab of my truck leaks. There's

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Speaker 4: So that's your appetizer story. That truck was an incredible truck.

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Speaker 4: It was a it was a it was a reclaimed,

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Speaker 4: for like eight years while I had it, I didn't

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Speaker 4: That would mean that wasn't even my story.

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Speaker 4: That somebody else. I passed it off. Now right, well, yeah, I.

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Speaker 11: I'll go, okay, all right, I'm tired of this.

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Speaker 3: All right, gell and buckle up for a four.

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Speaker 11: Let's go Uh, okay, so I'll start it.

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Speaker 5: Uh. You know last song was on the podcast you

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Speaker 5: So we Uh I had. I was living basically.

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Speaker 1: And I'm held as he held his hands out as

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Speaker 5: That's right, a solid tree, like you don't want to

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Speaker 11: You know what a Casey's is anybody?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like a convenient Uh, the general store, some pizza,

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Speaker 5: It's all on videos on YouTube on the Element channel. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Oh that was your punchline. Yeah, it's not like I

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Speaker 11: Yeah. No, but I you know, just sleeping in the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, No, no, like no infernos or I was sure

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Speaker 11: For sure.

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Speaker 5: Whose truck was it? It is my wife's granddad. He

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Speaker 11: And so, yeah, it's a nice truck. I still have it.

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Speaker 4: That's great.

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Speaker 3: Yep, yep, digging in Chester, let's go.

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Speaker 3: So my parents, did you let her know what you

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Speaker 1: So young Chester is flying the coop and it will

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Speaker 6: Basically, it was more of like the family truck, right,

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Speaker 6: I was like, I can work at this drift boat shop.

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Speaker 6: And I was fishing with my buddy Steven Smith. It

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Speaker 6: I remember, great hopper fishing. So we were it was

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Speaker 6: like you know, cloud nine, two young kids. I've got

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Speaker 6: We had the drift boat on the back. And at

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Speaker 6: We're going to start rolling. Well we didn't. We like

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Speaker 3: Why is it always an old rancher? There's ever a

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Speaker 1: There is ny no nervous isn't a young rancher came

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Speaker 1: up to me.

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Speaker 3: He might not have been a rancher either, he.

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Speaker 6: I didn't ask him at the time, but dude, we yeah,

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Speaker 6: I mean we drove that truck back home that night.

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Speaker 6: My buddy brought a subway sandwiches, and we went and

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Speaker 6: went to the drift boat shop and got a flatbed

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Speaker 6: the flatbed and we were out there fishing that day. No, no, no,

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Speaker 8: But then was your sister mad?

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Speaker 4: Was my sister mad?

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Speaker 3: Nothing to be mad about.

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Speaker 4: Man, The truck just ramped her truck sixty feet.

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Speaker 6: It just but I think what happened there was what

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Speaker 2: Like a rudder.

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Speaker 6: And I think that exactly. Yeah, I think that's what

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Speaker 2: We all learned that young man, like around twenty.

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Speaker 1: It's such a thing when with young I don't know

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Speaker 1: it was just a real thing. Yeah, I gotta pull over,

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Speaker 3: You were so tired. We didn't stop and jumping jacks

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Speaker 3: He would get it.

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Speaker 1: He would stop at a gas station, get a cup

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Speaker 1: full of ice and I'm not joking. We'll just drop

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Speaker 1: now it was his whole like, well, I know how

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: But man, lucky to be fishing, that's for sure.

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Speaker 3: Here you are now.

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Speaker 4: Didn't hurt the truck much?

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Speaker 6: No, didn't hurt drove it out of the field. Didn't

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Speaker 4: Yeah, did you go through any fences or did you

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Speaker 4: ramp the fence?

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Speaker 6: One?

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Speaker 3: One fence?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: How did you have to fix it?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 6: That we the guy said we were good.

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Speaker 11: We were good.

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Speaker 6: When we talked to him, he'd fix it.

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Speaker 1: You know what I like about Chester's little Genesis story

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Speaker 3: Drove away from home mm hmm and became fishing guide.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I wanted. My guidance counselor in high

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Speaker 6: I didn't. I don't want to go to college. I

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Speaker 6: like you're not you can't catch.

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Speaker 4: They were like cheez and fish don't go together, right, So.

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Speaker 1: When I I went down, this would never happen anymore.

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Speaker 1: I went down to my guidance counselor. In fact, people

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Speaker 1: don't believe that I'm telling the truth that this happened.

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Speaker 1: I went to my guidance counselor in high school and

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Speaker 1: I had I signed up for a zero hour so

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Speaker 1: I had to do a gym credit. Still, I went

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Speaker 1: get out of school, I'm going check on my traps.

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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna be active. And if I didn't have

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Speaker 1: And that's what I'm going to be doing anyways, is

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Speaker 6: They're like, okay, really, you got a credit they for trapping.

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Speaker 1: They let me leave, so I was leaving at noon

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Speaker 3: Now that just goes to show what's happened in this country.

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Speaker 8: Something wrong.

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Speaker 3: Dude, that's great. Oh yeah, just excuse me, my pe

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Speaker 3: credit sweet man. That's a good guy. I should find

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Speaker 6: Make a little side money, you know, trapping krin. Do

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Speaker 6: you want me to mention the other quick story I have? Okay,

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00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 6: I'll make this brief. This is about a truck that

447
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 6: is like larger than life. You know, everyone like maybe

448
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 6: knew a guy that he had a truck, and you'd

449
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 6: see that guy and be like, oh, there's old old Bob,

450
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,679
Speaker 6: you know, doing something, and like the truck has its

451
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:56,360
Speaker 6: own careacter.

452
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, the truck is the person.

453
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, so my my grandfathers.

454
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:01,520
Speaker 3: It is an accessory to the truck.

455
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:06,159
Speaker 6: The person's an accescerated truck. And yeah, this person was

456
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 6: my grandfather and uh he was a great, great man.

457
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:15,040
Speaker 6: He raised seven girls, my mom being one of them.

458
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 11: And baby truck it.

459
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,880
Speaker 6: Was a it was a it was a half This

460
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,480
Speaker 6: one was a half ton. Yeah, Scotch bigger than the

461
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 6: truck I drove out west.

462
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 2: Is that a mom joke?

463
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 4: No, just saying seven kids, But it was a truck.

464
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 6: It was a fifty three to fifty five I don't

465
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 6: know the exact year, like a blue truck just like that,

466
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,120
Speaker 6: like that truck right here, right here. Yeah, I have

467
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,400
Speaker 6: I have some pictures that I want to show you.

468
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 6: I'll pass my computer around. Oh wow, he's got this

469
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,639
Speaker 6: is This is a truck. This is a picture with

470
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 6: my dad, his brothers and his father with some deer

471
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,159
Speaker 6: in the back of the truck, with some foxes on

472
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 6: the ground in a coyote. There were more trappers than hunting,

473
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 6: real mixed bag the Chikowski family. And he bought this

474
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,120
Speaker 6: truck new, which was like one of the only things

475
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 6: he bought new ever for a farm truck. And he

476
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 6: you know, the neighbors would see this truck coming down

477
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 6: the road and they'd be like, oh, there's John Chikowski

478
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 6: coming to help out, or you know. It was just

479
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 6: that kind of character of truck. Anyways, he's ninety six

480
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 6: years old right now.

481
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 3: Wow, and he still Yeah.

482
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 6: His sister lived to be like one hundred and seven

483
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 6: and his grandma was like one hundred and nine. Anyways,

484
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 6: my mother is right now getting this truck fixed and refers.

485
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 6: So I'll show you these photos.

486
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 4: Really wow, this should have been well.

487
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, next time Chester, we can put them up on

488
00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 3: the TV and have everyone.

489
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,919
Speaker 4: Oh see them, but this is big.

490
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 6: Yeah, let me find these real quick. Sorry, I didn't

491
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,400
Speaker 6: have them pulled up. So here's a little text from

492
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 6: my brother in law who's fixing them, fixing it up.

493
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 6: Just waiting on a little of everything for parts because

494
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 6: you cannot find it. Wasn't It's not like one of

495
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 6: those trucks where people want to fix up nowadays because

496
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,159
Speaker 6: it will have no value. But it's just sentimental value

497
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 6: to the family. He's waiting on some clutch parts, transmission parts,

498
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 6: parts for the steering box, seals for the rear axle,

499
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,360
Speaker 6: some brake parts, some.

500
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 3: Interior parts, parts parts.

501
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, the engine was completely rebuilt with possibly the last

502
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 6: set of pistons that were ever made in the factory.

503
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 6: He got all the six pistons from a different store

504
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 6: in different states. Really, so here's here's the color of it.

505
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 6: But so my mom's getting it redone and my grandfather

506
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 6: is not doing great right now, and the plan was

507
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 6: to have my grandfather surprise him with this truck and

508
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 6: then take him to the local warehouser parade and he

509
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 6: would ride in that with my mother or whoever, and

510
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 6: all the people like his nieces and stuff that are

511
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 6: still around there would be surprised and see my grandfather

512
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 6: in the truck at the parade like he was meant

513
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 6: to be, like he was meant to be, and they would,

514
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 6: you know, see that, and it would just so hopefully

515
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 6: this can happen.

516
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 3: God puts my faith back in America.

517
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: I lost my faith thinking about counselors these days and

518
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 1: not letting kids out.

519
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 4: Of good story.

520
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 2: Yea so good story.

521
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, Grandpa Chicklsi, good Man, good truck America, the story,

522
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 6: last name Chaikowski, Chikolski.

523
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, think a one or too long? Where that guy

524
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 3: come out of?

525
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 6: Yeah?

526
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 3: Holding, all right, who's up? I'll go okay, okay.

527
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 9: Twenty fourteen, I trade into my fresh store, my half

528
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 9: ton gas rig for a three quarter ton diesel. And

529
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 9: this is this will be important later. I'm not just

530
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 9: showing off. It's a beautiful truck. Eight inch lift, thirty

531
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 9: seven inch tires, just an eight inch lift, just a

532
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,719
Speaker 9: nice truck, truck fourteen.

533
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 3: It's a humble brag like a monster truck.

534
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, but this is gonna be important detail later when

535
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,919
Speaker 9: we get to something trying to get in it. So

536
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 9: twenty fourteen, my my Hunt and buddy Charlie Smith's wife

537
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 9: draws a coveted bluestag there in our state of Washington,

538
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:48,879
Speaker 9: so it screws up our whole plans. We gotta go

539
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,199
Speaker 9: film that. I'm gonna run camera. He's gonna call. We

540
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 9: go get that one out of the way. She kills

541
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 9: a great bull. On September fourteenth, when me and Charlie, like,

542
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 9: our plan was to still go to Idaho. That was

543
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 9: back in the good days when you could buy a

544
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 9: tag over the counter. We go home because we had

545
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 9: all of September off, wash our clothes, and then we

546
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 9: take off Rida home and this is really twenty fourteen,

547
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 9: my first time really hunting out of state for ELK.

548
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 9: You know, I'd hunt a deer in Montana and stuff,

549
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 9: but this is like my first on my own, no

550
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 9: dad uncles around, I'm gonna go go out of state.

551
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 9: So we leaving the brand new truck the night before

552
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,400
Speaker 9: and so we get to nowhere, Idaho at three am

553
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 9: in the morning, just waiting for the gas station to

554
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 9: open up.

555
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 3: We're gonna buy one tag.

556
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 9: We're gonna be real thrifty, buy one tag in case

557
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 9: we you know, don't need the other one. And so

558
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 9: we go up look at the spot we intended to

559
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 9: go a few elk tracks. Nothing we get we get

560
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 9: up there and hunt. So it's about two o'clock we're

561
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:42,239
Speaker 9: coming out. I remember, like vividly, he's chewing on a

562
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 9: purple bag of skittles, and I bugle out the window

563
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 9: like this is how this is how like exhausted I am.

564
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 9: We just did like five miles in, five miles out,

565
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,439
Speaker 9: no elk a little bit like maybe our spot we

566
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 9: pick sucks. Begle out the window and I'm like, will

567
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 9: you stop chewing on your damn skittles. I just heard

568
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 9: a bugle and he didn't believe me. So he's over there,

569
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 9: still rattling the bag, and I'm like, Charlie, stop with

570
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 9: the skittles.

571
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 3: I said, I want to hear this bull. Be there't

572
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:05,239
Speaker 3: a bull out there.

573
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 9: So we get out and listen again, and there's a

574
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 9: bull answers and it's like, well, it's getting pretty late.

575
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 9: It's like kind of a one track road. Let's fly

576
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 9: up here. We have a fourler trailer on the back

577
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 9: on a one track road. Let's go cut it and

578
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,199
Speaker 9: then we'll get on the fourll or drive back to

579
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 9: this point and drop in.

580
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 3: Successfully.

581
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 9: Fortunately, my first day in Idaho, Like kill a bull

582
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 9: and then we're kind of yet the bull, doub bull

583
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 9: cut the distance, no pun intended cut the distance, got

584
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 9: him killed. And I'm like, first thing, You're like, nobody's ever,

585
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,959
Speaker 9: Like we did nothing wrong, but this looks real fishy,

586
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 9: Like we bought the tag three o'clock this morning.

587
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 3: We got a bull in the truck this night.

588
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,479
Speaker 9: Like it's just not exactly but everything was legit, and uh,

589
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 9: get it to the truck and uh like it's hot,

590
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 9: it's real hot. We got to get to a cooler,

591
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 9: so we drive to a town later and then we

592
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 9: go buy his tag the next day. Very fortunate get

593
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 9: into bulls that morning. Can't make it work that evening

594
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 9: he kills his bull well a little bit of a

595
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 9: tough shot. We watched it through our binocular state on

596
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 9: its feet, so we had to go camp in the truck.

597
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 9: At this point, I had kept my head in the truck.

598
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 9: The guy the cooler didn't want us to keep the head,

599
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 9: and I'm like, well, I'm just gonna do a euro

600
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 9: so I'll skin it out. But like we were just

601
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 9: tossing it in the brush. And I'm always like man

602
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 9: predators around here, like it's a little iffy, it's warm,

603
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 9: it's gonna get stinky. But we're we're making it work.

604
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 9: So we're we got to sleep in the truck. Now,

605
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 9: we throw it off and pack it. We go find

606
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 9: his bowl next morning, get it all broken down, get

607
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 9: it out. So now normally we would just like bomb home,

608
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 9: but my meat's in a cooler. I can't get to

609
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 9: cause it's five o'clock at night. So I'm like, well,

610
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 9: what are we gonna do? Like he's like, oh my,

611
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 9: my childhood cousin I grew up, who lives up here

612
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 9: at the ski resort. We're gonna go. I'm gonna give

613
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,239
Speaker 9: her a call, calls her up. She's like, yeah, come

614
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 9: on over, blah blah blah. My, you know, the the

615
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 9: in laws are over and come hang out. You guys

616
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 9: can shower up. So we I mean, it's nice. You know,

617
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 9: you've been living like dirt bags for the last last

618
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 9: three days, all sweaty, so you get to go take

619
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 9: a shower. We drink, you know, have a few drinks,

620
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 9: eat some pizza, and just kind of refresh.

621
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 3: But there were some bad decisions made along the way.

622
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,479
Speaker 9: You know, Normally people would say like, why is your

623
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 9: meat in the back of your truck? Why are the

624
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 9: heads in the back of the truck. Charlie's attacks a

625
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,959
Speaker 9: drymas so he wanted to save his cape. We were

626
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 9: able to save it and get it out, and you know,

627
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 9: you're always like, well, there's houses everywhere. You're in a

628
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 9: ski resort, like we should be fine. So we get

629
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 9: my bedroom, you know, a bonus room kind of over

630
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 9: the top of the garage which directs directly overlooks the trucks,

631
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 9: and Charlie's down the hallway and so it's a I

632
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 9: don't know somewhere in the middle of two am, and

633
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,239
Speaker 9: Charlie comes sprinting into my room like wakes me up

634
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 9: out of a like middle sum's.

635
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 3: In your truck? I'm like, how did you hear that?

636
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 9: Way down the hall But so we kind of peek

637
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 9: out my blinds and you can see something like in

638
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 9: some some sort of light out there, you can see

639
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 9: that there's a bear in the back of my truck.

640
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 9: And in the short five seconds, like I don't know

641
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 9: how it'llked out, but you could see that he's also

642
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 9: trying to get on your bumper and he's coming up

643
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 9: like the side of the tire and like trying to

644
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 9: get Charlie's cape out right at this point, so.

645
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 6: Me, good, think you got that lift?

646
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I know he's working hard, right and you

647
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 9: can you can hear horns banging and this is my

648
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 9: brand nude truck and all right, we gotta get down

649
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 9: there quick. Well I had to wherewithal to put my

650
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 9: pants on. Charlie is in a hurry. So Charlie flies

651
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 9: down to the garage. Well, my pistols and like, we're

652
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 9: not too worried, but he was like, there's a bear

653
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 9: and once he's decided he wants to eat, Like who

654
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 9: knows what we're dealing with. So we get down to

655
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 9: the garage and it's this point I realized Charlie is

656
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 9: still in his whitey tidies and I have to paint

657
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 9: the picture of Charlie for you, and I paint it

658
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 9: with a white brush because he is an Italian ger

659
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 9: or no, an Irish ginger. He's about five foot seven

660
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 9: pere redhead and he's in tidy whities, but you really

661
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 9: can't tell where the lion's at. So it's at that

662
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 9: point where we turn the garage light on and I'm like, well,

663
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 9: you didn't evident'ly hit your cousin and her family.

664
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 3: I'm like, why at least put my pants on him?

665
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 3: You get down there.

666
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 9: And so we're sitting in the garage kind of trying

667
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 9: to peek out the glass line of windows, like is

668
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 9: he still in there?

669
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 3: Yeah? And then you could just hear him just beating

670
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 3: the piss out of my truck. So what do we do?

671
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 9: And these people live on the ski resort, well, skis

672
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,719
Speaker 9: and ski poles are available, So before I could like

673
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 9: think of any good sense, Charlie has a ski pole

674
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 9: in his hand and is running out the side door

675
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 9: at the bear with his ski pole like a joust.

676
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 3: Yeah he was.

677
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 9: I don't know if he's braver than I am or

678
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 9: just less, like it doesn't take the time to put

679
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 9: all of the things together. But I'm like, I just

680
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 9: don't know. He's got meat, he's got hide, He's already

681
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 9: on it. And Charlie runs at this bear and gets

682
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 9: about two feet from its butt with a with a

683
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 9: ski pole before it decides to take off. And then

684
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 9: instead of I mean he didn't have any way to

685
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 9: tell where it was gonna go, it runs up a

686
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 9: dang tree ten feet away from my truck. Like that

687
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 9: was okay, he's not in my truck anymore, but we're

688
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 9: not gonna be able to go back to sleep now

689
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 9: until we go back in. I'm at this time, everybody

690
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 9: else is awake and Charlie's now just in his underwear

691
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 9: talking to everybody. So we kind of evaluate the situation

692
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 9: and sure is I mean five minutes later, that bear's

693
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 9: coming back down the tree and he doesn't run away,

694
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 9: he goes back for the truck, and so we have

695
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 9: to basically load up and leave at two am, get

696
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 9: out of that country. Go down well, evidently when you

697
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 9: park with elkheads in the back at a gas station.

698
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 9: So we had sheriff stop us at three point thirty,

699
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 9: woke us up, tapped on our window like what's going on.

700
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 9: At five o'clock, a different game warden pulls in, asks

701
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 9: us what's going on, and it's just starting to get daylight.

702
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 9: And it was at that point when the game warden

703
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 9: tapped on the window with his flashlight that I was

704
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 9: able to evaluate the damage. Yeah, I had my brand

705
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 9: new truck had bear scratches down all three corners of

706
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 9: the truck bed.

707
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 3: It is. It was cool, that's like a sticker.

708
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 9: The punchline that story was just Charlie like I could

709
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 9: never remember, like he was.

710
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 3: I think he was more.

711
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 9: Interested in protecting his cape than he was protecting my truck.

712
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 9: But he just ran around the corner ski pole in hand,

713
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 9: was gonna joust that bear. And yeah, I've had bad

714
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 9: luck with bears. Two years ago, we were in Colorado,

715
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 9: frozen cold. I lay a four x four post across

716
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 9: the bed brails right from side to side and just

717
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 9: try to get my wife's meal deer up off of

718
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 9: and that bear decided he was going to lift the

719
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 9: entire deer hanging on the post out in it like

720
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 9: wrapped the side of my truck and smashed that four

721
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 9: by four post, scratched it. Bear scratches all over my

722
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 9: brand new pickup truck on that that time. But yeah,

723
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 9: I've had I'm not keeping meat in the back of

724
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 9: my truck anymore. You have a topper, now I do

725
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 9: have a ton but that I had a topper. Then

726
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 9: I had the tunnel cover, but I rolled it up

727
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 9: so that I can kind of seem I hang the meat.

728
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 2: I bet your insurance guy's like, come on, yeah, another bear.

729
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 3: Listen the first time the whole bear thing. Yeah, the

730
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 3: first time I was going to roll it. Second some

731
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 3: of them up buying it.

732
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 9: We followed that second bear down to the creek where

733
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 9: you'd try. We could see the drag marks in the snow,

734
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:06,879
Speaker 9: and that bear was just I thought it was late

735
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 9: in November or middle of November, cold as heck, like

736
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 9: that bear be gone. He was down there by a

737
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 9: big old oak tree or cottonwood or something whatever Colorado

738
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 9: grows along the rivers, and I think he was just

739
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 9: sitting there picking at some of the front quarters. Fortunately

740
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 9: he didn't touch the back quarters or the backstrap, but yeah,

741
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 9: he was just down there munch and we scared him

742
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 9: off and got the meat back, and oh did Yeah

743
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 9: that's cool.

744
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I got.

745
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 2: A topper on my truck. Yeah, you know, it's like

746
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 2: a hunter thing, you know. Apparently for sure we got

747
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 2: told or comment on a video. Somebody's like, people can

748
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 2: tell you're from out of state because you got a topper.

749
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 2: I'm like, you get you instators, get your stuff wet.

750
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, we like our stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

751
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 2: So Tyler not traveled the country hunting deers kind of

752
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 2: what we do. You know, you heard historical bombs. He

753
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 2: has the topper, had toppers on both of those trucks.

754
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 2: You know, you can sleep in the back of it,

755
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 2: like he was saying. You know, and I in particularly

756
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 2: got the six and a half foot bed because of that,

757
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 2: you know, and make sure you can sleep back there.

758
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 2: The five and a half foot bed doesn't really work

759
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 2: for me very good. Yeah, you definitely. Yeah, So I

760
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 2: got a it's not an old Drugs twenty sixteen a

761
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 2: half ton, you know, four world drive. But it's like

762
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 2: you gotta be comfortable for the road, you know what

763
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 2: I mean, Like, uh, we don't do the lift thing,

764
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 2: not the big tires, but just like some good smooth

765
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 2: all terrains, you know. And and we we just like

766
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 2: spend a ton of time trucks scouting. It's like a

767
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 2: thing we do. So you drive, you know, you go

768
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 2: to said state and you just drive around, get a

769
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 2: feel for the land. Elk is a lot like that, right,

770
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 2: Like you're bugling out the window, you know, it's cool,

771
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 2: so like.

772
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,439
Speaker 4: You're just one out the window, like Jason, did I.

773
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 2: Have not you know, I just might have to, you know,

774
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 2: be an experiment.

775
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 5: He usually takes his have Alina call and it's right

776
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 5: and it gets him to stop out.

777
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 2: You do a quite loud call to make an animal.

778
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,240
Speaker 1: Like should have Oh yeah, you were saying about this sound.

779
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has to sound again.

780
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 11: Well, it's very loud.

781
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 3: It's very loud.

782
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 2: Should a back up from the mic and do the thing?

783
00:36:58,239 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 3: I want to hear this? So this is your universal

784
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 3: animal stop? Yeah?

785
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 4: This yeah, this, this, this makes sense in the story

786
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 4: right now because he does this from his truck like

787
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,280
Speaker 4: a deer jumps across the road, running across the field.

788
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 4: Roll down the window and.

789
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 2: And you make the noise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why

790
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: it's I got this from the old days as being

791
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 2: a government trapper, like you got to stop the coyote

792
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 2: and shoot it. So you got to figure out the

793
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 2: sound that makes things stop.

794
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 3: So he's gearing up for the sound I didn't do right.

795
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 2: Hold on, I can't do it.

796
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 3: I don't know if have I lost my call.

797
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 2: Once more?

798
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 3: Heard it first, I believe somewhere.

799
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can do it.

800
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 4: Try it again?

801
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 2: You got it?

802
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 3: Come on? What it?

803
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 4: Sometimes when people put you on the spot, barred out.

804
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 5: Literally, you know how when a grenade goes off in

805
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 5: a war movie and everything goes like, oh, put you.

806
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 11: He did that one time.

807
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,439
Speaker 5: We're looking at have Alena's in the HeLa actually, and

808
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 5: he did that to the back of my head and

809
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 5: that happened.

810
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 11: I had the high pitched grenade sound.

811
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 2: It was like, try, but it just might be an

812
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 2: outdoors thing. You know. There's thing.

813
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 11: Diaphragm.

814
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 2: I can't do it, guys, I can't do it. It

815
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 2: doesn't it doesn't work in uh.

816
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 11: Yeah.

817
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 2: Anyways, there's nothing to do with my story. So sorry, but.

818
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 3: The story.

819
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 2: It doesn't roll the story at all, but it may.

820
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 2: I don't know.

821
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 3: I tend to use it.

822
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 2: Did you hear it in Arkansas?

823
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 6: I do it?

824
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it is impressive.

825
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 3: Did he stop an animal with the universal animal stop call?

826
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 7: Uh?

827
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 4: I think we were talking about the universal animal stop call,

828
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 4: and I said, let me do it, you know, show

829
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 4: it to me, and he did it.

830
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 3: It will yeah.

831
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 2: So anyways, we're driving around trucks out and doing the thing,

832
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 2: and I'm a public land deer hunter. I always have men.

833
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 2: Tyler kills a awesome buck. This is all on film.

834
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 2: We produced a series called buck Truck that's on meat Eater,

835
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 2: you know, And so he killed an awesome dear early

836
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 2: and that kind of puts me in a pickle because

837
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 2: I'm like, my buddy's waiting on me to kill.

838
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:06,760
Speaker 11: A deer the first of November.

839
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, you killed a deer on November one, and it's

840
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 2: the best week of the year, and you're like sitting

841
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 2: around being the best buddy ever camp chef, you know,

842
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 2: like just making breakfast and stuff, and I'm just struggling

843
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 2: so bad. And we decide, all right, we cannot find

844
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 2: a deer on public land. We're gonna get on the phones.

845
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 2: Get on the phones, do some calling. Tyler somehow, some

846
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 2: way gets a hold of this guy, remembers this guy's

847
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 2: dad's name from like six years ago when he talked

848
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 2: to him and like had that personal connection thing, and

849
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 2: gets us permission to go hunt. Like it four thousand

850
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 2: acre place, except there's no trees on the property. It

851
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 2: is like rolling hills nothing. So we drive the truck

852
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 2: out there. We're driving through. You got to go through

853
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 2: like another property, gonna easement.

854
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:52,919
Speaker 3: Go out.

855
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 2: We scout the place. Looks great, see a giant buck run,

856
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 2: get glass on that thing, and decide, Okay, tomorrow morning's

857
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 2: the push. We're gonna go out there and we're gonna

858
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 2: find a deer to shoot like I'm gonna get it done. Well,

859
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 2: just so happens that, I don't know. Three days before this, Uh,

860
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 2: one of the other guys that travels with us got

861
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 2: sick in the back of my truck. And uh, he's

862
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 2: a young lad, and I guess he doesn't have as

863
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 2: much experience with the you know, feeling it coming on,

864
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 2: so he has a hard time getting the window down

865
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 2: in time. So the sickness then perforates throughout the vehicle.

866
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 7: Of course, look, he puked back, he up chucked the

867
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 7: back of the truck, hits the back of the hits

868
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 7: the back of the headrest, you know, and all down

869
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 7: the side. Ye doesn't have the wherewithal to clean it

870
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 7: up off the truck, so I have to do all that.

871
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 2: And then he's gonna be mad that I'm telling that part,

872
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 2: but whatever. And so we're out scouting this bad to

873
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 2: the bone property, like just the private land thing. Being

874
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 2: able to drive around a property is not a thing

875
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 2: I'm used to, right, And so I get a rumble

876
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 2: down deep while we're out scouting, like this ain't good.

877
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 2: I have to go find a bush and I'm like, okay,

878
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 2: well that's over. Well, no, for the next ten hours.

879
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 2: I have the most violent sickness that I've probably ever

880
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 2: had in my life. And I'm thinking, like, this is

881
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 2: the baddest opportunity I've ever had at hunting, whitetail, deer,

882
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 2: private ground, Giant Bucks, some of the best dates. And

883
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 2: I'm sick and I just can't do anything right. I

884
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 2: can't even get out of bed, which is not like

885
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 2: a me thing to do. I'm a high energy guy.

886
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 2: And so about like three point thirty, I finally get

887
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 2: everything worked out or something I don't know, and I

888
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 2: get an hour of sleep, get up the next morning,

889
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 2: go up, make coffee, and I'm like, huh, all right,

890
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 2: I can do this. Tyler actually woke Tyler up and

891
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 2: he could not believe that I was moving. It was

892
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 2: a weird thing. And go out to that property. Run

893
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 2: a little bit late. Tyler drops me off. He's gonna

894
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 2: go do some more scouting for me while I am

895
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 2: gonna go on a hunt at least try, you know,

896
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 2: like you got to give it a go. It's like

897
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 2: November fifth, It's the the best day of the year,

898
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 2: probably one of the best. It's a cold front, and uh,

899
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 2: go out just kind of like have a beautiful morning sunrise.

900
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 2: You know, it's just frosty. We're on the planes glass

901
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 2: and it's just it's just enjoyable. I'm just thankful to

902
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 2: be there. And all of a sudden, I see a

903
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,919
Speaker 2: giant buck at like five hundred yards and thinking, well,

904
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can do anything about this,

905
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 2: but these deer are amped up. I'm gonna rattle with

906
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 2: this deer, and uh, I get my antlers, and just

907
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 2: if you've a hundred whitetails, you know that, like sometimes

908
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 2: the things you do with antlers actually isn't realistic, but

909
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 2: you're playing on their instincts, right, So I'm just cracking

910
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:39,919
Speaker 2: these things as hard as I can. It's five hundred

911
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 2: yards away, right, and I this thing isn't gonna hear me.

912
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 2: Sure enough, whips his head up and looks, and this

913
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 2: thing just makes a bee line straight to He's trying

914
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 2: to get down wind of us, five hundred yards away.

915
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 2: I run down the hill, sickness and all about to

916
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 2: pass out, and uh get to where I'm gonna be

917
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 2: able to make a shot on this deer, and long

918
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 2: story short, I uh get an opportunity at thirty two

919
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 2: yards and shoot this deer. It's the biggest deer of

920
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 2: my life. And I'm just recovered after being like death sick,

921
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 2: and it's just one of those moments where we've all

922
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 2: had them, you know, out in the outdoors, where you

923
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 2: just kind of in awe of just the situation. It's

924
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: it's a bigger thing than what you are, you know,

925
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 2: and you you have to like kind of step back

926
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 2: and be like, Okay, I didn't really accomplish this. This

927
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 2: just happened to me, and I was blessed to be

928
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 2: a part.

929
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 3: You were the recipe.

930
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 2: That's exactly right, man. And so I'm so pumped about

931
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 2: all this. Right, well, Tyler's out scouting and I want

932
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 2: to share this with my best bud. Well ends up,

933
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 2: he gets a flat tire in the truck while while

934
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 2: I'm waiting on him to get there, and it's like

935
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 2: an hour and a half before and I'm just like

936
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 2: sitting out on the planes, just out here with this deer,

937
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 2: you know, just hanging out. And we get to back

938
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 2: the truck up, put the deer in the back of

939
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 2: the truck and just do the thing as opposed to

940
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 2: like what we're used to, you know, with just packing

941
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 2: stuff out and you know, cutting it up or whatever.

942
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 2: Just kind of a neat different experience to be able

943
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 2: to kind of like what that pictures showed that you showed.

944
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 2: You know, it's of like what people have been doing

945
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 2: for a long time, loading de arup in the back

946
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:02,720
Speaker 2: of the truck.

947
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 11: Yep. I could work for NASCAR. By the way, changed

948
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 11: a lot of tires. I've changed a.

949
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 5: Lot of tires turning around the country with trailers and stuff.

950
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 11: We're buying the cheapest tires we could we could find.

951
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, keep the used time places.

952
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 11: Yep.

953
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's my truck story.

954
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 3: Excellent nks. Who's next, I'll go dirt hit them. So.

955
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,240
Speaker 8: I don't know about you guys, but in my twenties

956
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 8: I had a lot of really good opportunity to learn

957
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 8: life lessons.

958
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 2: And I continue to do that.

959
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 8: But in my twenties it seemed like they're really a

960
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 8: lot of times where I, you know, maybe made the

961
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 8: wrong choice. So, uh, picture this North Idaho. It's nineteen

962
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 8: ninety seven, and my best friend and my brother in law.

963
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:50,280
Speaker 8: We grew up hunting together and he married my wife's sister,

964
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 8: and so we're brother in laws. And it's February and

965
00:44:54,160 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 8: on back up, your best friend married my wife's sid.

966
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 4: They married sisters.

967
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 2: Wow, so we're.

968
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 8: Brother in law.

969
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 3: She told me that before, and I was equally surprised.

970
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, that's great.

971
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 8: So yeah, so we we went out to our old

972
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 8: Elk Hunton's spot right out of town in North Idaho

973
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 8: in the winter time and especially in February. So by

974
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 8: this time, we've had quite a bit of snow on

975
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 8: the ground and it's in its thawed and we've got

976
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 8: more snow and then it's it's frozen, and it's been

977
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 8: in the below zero you know, probably five ten blow

978
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 8: zero at this point. Beautiful crystal clear days, but it's

979
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 8: ice cold out and the snow has a crust like

980
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 8: you can't believe. I mean, you can walk around on

981
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,919
Speaker 8: without falling through. Well, we're out on this old road

982
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 8: and he has a quarter Ton pickup if you will.

983
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 8: It's a compact quarter Ton pickup and we're driving on

984
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 8: top of the snow and it's beautiful sun. It's yes, yeah,

985
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 8: and it's like a you know, standard cab, little light

986
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 8: truck and piece of junk. You know, this is so.

987
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 3: Hard to picture, the floating on the floating on the

988
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 3: crust on snow.

989
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 8: Yeah no, no, no factory and they were worn out

990
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 8: as good. There's a coar toime, yeah yeah. And I'm

991
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 8: looking out the window and the sun is starting to shine.

992
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 8: It's about seven o'clock in the morning. And I tell

993
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 8: I look over her handy and I said, you know,

994
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 8: you might want to And about that time it fell

995
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 8: through the snow.

996
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:27,839
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh no.

997
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 8: So we get out. And of course the young men

998
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 8: we were we weren't prepared. We didn't have a shovel,

999
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 8: we didn't have a come along, we didn't have anything.

1000
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 8: There was a handyman jack in the back of the truck,

1001
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 8: so handyman Jack's. I don't know if you're familiar with those,

1002
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 8: but they're really good for a lot of things, you know,

1003
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 8: jacking up your truck. I mean, you can put chains

1004
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 8: on them and use them for like a come along.

1005
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 8: You can, uh, but they're dangerous. You gotta be careful

1006
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 8: because if you're not, if you don't have a real

1007
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 8: good grip on that handle, it'll it'll come loose and

1008
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,240
Speaker 8: whack you in the chin and then go and ratchet

1009
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 8: back down and let the truck down. Widow Maker, I've

1010
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 8: got to if I didn't have my beard. You'd see

1011
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,439
Speaker 8: a scar on my chin from another time.

1012
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1013
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 8: But anyhow, so we get and we're facing the wrong way.

1014
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 8: We're faced away from where we want to be. So

1015
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 8: we get the old handyman jack and jack it up

1016
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 8: and then push it off, and we're going to try

1017
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 8: to turn this truck around so we can maybe get.

1018
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: By jacking it and pushing it over. Yeah, yep, so

1019
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 1: ten inches over yep.

1020
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 8: An hour later we got it turned around.

1021
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 11: Wow.

1022
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 8: And mind you, we're not prepared. We don't have what

1023
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 8: we're in tennis shoes. You know, this is usually always

1024
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 8: if I get stuck or have some bad decision made

1025
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,280
Speaker 8: in a truck, it's always wearing tennis shoes or loafers

1026
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 8: or something. I'm not prepared. So we get this thing

1027
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 8: turned around and we're just not going to get out.

1028
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 8: So we're in the middle of this old logging road.

1029
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:01,800
Speaker 8: There's probably three feet of snow there, and I'm like, well,

1030
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:03,720
Speaker 8: we better walk back to town. So it's six miles

1031
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 8: back to town. We walked back to town. It's the

1032
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 8: end of the day. It's like, all right, tomorrow we're

1033
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 8: gonna get reinforcements. We're gonna come out. We're gonna get

1034
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 8: this truck. So my dad's got this old wood truck.

1035
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,799
Speaker 8: It's like a nineteen fifty eight that he's kind of

1036
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 8: that he's had refurbished and he cuts a lot of

1037
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 8: firewood with. It's got a winch, it's got positive traction

1038
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 8: rear in. This thing's a bad mambajamba. So we drive

1039
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 8: back out there the next day. But it's an automatic

1040
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 8: and we're going up up this little hill and the

1041
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 8: snow is deep and the truck's working hard, and I'm like, man,

1042
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 8: something's getting hot. Well I get out and that truck

1043
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 8: is just bleeding automatic transmission fluid underneath. It over overheated,

1044
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 8: the transmission boiled, all the automatic transmission fluid out, and

1045
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 8: now we got to walk back not six miles. We

1046
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 8: have another We have another truck parked back on the

1047
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 8: on the gravel where it's plowed. So we walk back,

1048
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 8: getting the other truck, drive to town. And this is

1049
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 8: a small town of five hundred pe right, So a

1050
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 8: local convenience store. They've got like four quartz of automatic

1051
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 8: transmission from ATF. So we buy everything they got, take

1052
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:11,359
Speaker 8: it back out there, pour it in there, and then

1053
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 8: get the old truck out of there. Well, we got

1054
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 8: to do something else. So the next day, my wife's uncle.

1055
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 8: He's got the ultimate hunting rig. You know, it's got

1056
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 8: a bit of a lift. Kid's got big tall mud tires,

1057
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,720
Speaker 8: it's got a winch. It's like, oh yeah, this thing'll

1058
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 8: get up there. It's got posic, it's got a rear

1059
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 8: locker in that. This thing's gonna get up there and

1060
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 8: get this truck out. So we get up there and

1061
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 8: we make it past where my dad's truck boiled over. Well,

1062
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 8: he had an automatic transmission too, and it's boiled over

1063
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 8: as well. You're just like he was working so hard

1064
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 8: it just overheated the transmission. So well, we bought all

1065
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 8: the atf in town the day before, so we'd walk

1066
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 8: back to the other truck, drive all the way to

1067
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 8: the next town over that have six hundred people in

1068
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 8: it by a little more at okay, drive back out there,

1069
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 8: rescue that thing, and he's like, yeah, you're on your own, guys,

1070
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 8: I'm out of here. So well, I grew up my

1071
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 8: first car or my first vehicle, I can't It was

1072
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 8: a a nineteen sixty nine four wheel drive, so it

1073
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 8: was basically kind of a kind of an antique almost,

1074
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 8: And then this thing is a brute, but it's not

1075
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 8: the most you know, roadworthy machine. Right, you don't run

1076
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 8: that gray, but man, that thing will wheel. But I

1077
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 8: didn't really want to take it up there because who

1078
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 8: knows it may breakdown to So I get this old

1079
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 8: machine out there. We start going up there. I go

1080
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 8: right past where everybody else went, and it's just going

1081
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 8: great through the snow, like like nothing, and it's just

1082
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 8: cutting and it's got real skinny mud tires on it.

1083
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 8: It's just digging and it's going. And we get to

1084
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:53,720
Speaker 8: the we get almost to Randy's truck, the freaking gas

1085
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 8: pedal breaks off.

1086
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:58,439
Speaker 3: It breaks off on the floor.

1087
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 8: I'm what the hell, So now what do we do? Well?

1088
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 8: This thing had kind of like a manual cruise control

1089
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:07,919
Speaker 8: up on the dash. You have this knob you pull,

1090
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 8: and this little knob has a little cable that reaches

1091
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 8: in to the carburetor and will operate the throttle. So

1092
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 8: kind of like an old school huh h, old school.

1093
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

1094
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 8: So I'm like, and I'd never used it, but I

1095
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 8: knew what it was. I'm like, man, I got to

1096
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 8: get this thing working. So I jerked on that thing

1097
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 8: and finally got it moving to where I read the

1098
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 8: motor up enough where we could get that thing kind

1099
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 8: of turned around and we got out of there. I said,

1100
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 8: I don't know, Randy, I don't know what you're gonna do.

1101
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 8: So we had to leave that thing literally for a month.

1102
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:41,919
Speaker 8: We had to leave it for a month in the wood,

1103
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 8: and I said, you know, maybe we can get it

1104
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 8: off the road. At least we had some shovels, so

1105
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 8: we dug a trench to where we could get it

1106
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 8: off throw jumped it up on the on the bank

1107
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 8: next to the road out of the way, because who knows,

1108
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 8: a road grader may come through, or people on snowmobiles,

1109
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 8: or you know, just hooligans in general, they may you know,

1110
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 8: vane it. It's kind of a piece of junk truck anyway.

1111
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 8: But anyway, we had to leave that thing for a

1112
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 8: month and UH in March we went back and UH

1113
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 8: was able to drive it most of the way out.

1114
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 8: We had to shovel a little bit in a couple

1115
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 8: of places, but we're able to get it out.

1116
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 3: But a lot of casualties.

1117
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,319
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that was like, that's that's my worst. I

1118
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:24,479
Speaker 8: think my worst trucks do. Oh no, no, we were

1119
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 8: both poorous could be. You know, we're dumb kids in

1120
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 8: our twenties. We didn't have any money to pay you know. Fortunately,

1121
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 8: you know the old timers, they had money.

1122
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 2: To pay for stuff.

1123
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 3: So that's good.

1124
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 8: It was good. But yeah, life lessons, you know, it

1125
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 8: seems like I've I keep learning my Even last fall,

1126
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 8: my wife and I were out there hunting and we

1127
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 8: were driving along like I'm gonna pull into this landing

1128
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 8: here with my pickup in the snow and and and

1129
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 8: do some glass. And I pulled over there. It was

1130
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 8: pretty deep, you know, about a foot of snow. Well

1131
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 8: I couldn't tell because it drifted, but the landing had

1132
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 8: kind of sloped. As soon as I pulled over there,

1133
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 8: I started sliding over towards this little cliff and have

1134
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 8: to stop. So I'm prepared. I'm prepared now because you

1135
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 8: know I'm forty nine years old.

1136
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 3: Were prepared by your twenties, man.

1137
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 8: That's right. So I've got to come along. And I

1138
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 8: got lots of cable and chains, you name it. So

1139
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 8: I sat there for an hour and demonstrate and showed

1140
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 8: to my wife out how prepared I was, and how

1141
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,959
Speaker 8: you you know, recover a vehicle with a come along

1142
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 8: and lots of chains, and about an hour of that

1143
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 8: moving that come along and getting my truck out inch

1144
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 8: by inch, But we made it out, didn't have to walk.

1145
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 3: And didn't nothing to drive by transmission fluid.

1146
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 8: No, no transmission fluid perfect. Yeah, and I shot a

1147
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 8: buck about an hour later. No man, Yeah, timey, hell

1148
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 8: of the day.

1149
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:39,720
Speaker 3: It was.

1150
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 2: My turn, Clay, Yeah, bring the inferno.

1151
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:54,280
Speaker 4: This is our number seven story.

1152
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,359
Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to give it a seven? Did

1153
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 3: I say that earlier? You did? I'm not in the story.

1154
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: So long ago, way back in history, they introduced a

1155
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: fish called a rainbow smelt into the Great Lakes and

1156
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: you go smelt dipping after dark. So when you're talking

1157
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: about driving real tired, that was a trademark of smelt dipping.

1158
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: And thinking about my favorite truck story, which now I'm

1159
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: not even in, I called my buddy from high school

1160
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: who I'm still friends with, Craig Christensen, today, to say, hey,

1161
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:33,479
Speaker 1: remember that story about your truck smelt dipping, and he said,

1162
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: we wasn't smell dipping. I'm like, oh, I've been telling

1163
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 1: that story wrong for a long time. So he retells

1164
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: me the story. The first part of the story is

1165
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: this Craig wrestled in our high school wrestling team.

1166
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,440
Speaker 3: Okay, he.

1167
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: Had a pair of shoes that he wrestled in all

1168
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: through his high school wrestling career, and he got up

1169
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: to where he was gonna. He got up to where

1170
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 1: he said, when I get my when I win my

1171
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 1: one hundredth match, I'm going to retire my wrestling shoes. Okay,

1172
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 1: red wrestling shoes. He goes on to have a thirty

1173
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: six wrestling match winning streak and hits his one hundredth

1174
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: win on his thirty sixth his one hundredth career win

1175
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: high school career win. He was good on his thirty

1176
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 1: sixth match in a row that he won, so his

1177
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: hundredth win was his thirty sixth consecutive win.

1178
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 6: I imagine he was a state champion.

1179
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 3: He had all that kind of stuff going on.

1180
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 1: So he then says he's going to retire his shoes,

1181
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 1: and he borrows a pair of shoes from another buddy

1182
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: of ours, John Merchant, puts on John Merchant's wrestling shoes

1183
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:53,760
Speaker 1: and goes out and gets pinned by a guy who

1184
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: for that who had a thirteen loss eleven win record

1185
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: declares these shoes to be cursed.

1186
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 11: What does the wrestling shoe look like? I've never very.

1187
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 6: Minimalist converse like boxing shoes like they're kind of yeah, okay, so.

1188
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, minimalist, like a minimalist, a little high topper ankle support.

1189
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 3: So hold that in the back of your head. That

1190
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:26,239
Speaker 3: little wrestling shoe deal.

1191
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: Craig's he he had an eighty four three quarter ton

1192
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 1: truck and his dad had a much newer half ton truck.

1193
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:42,959
Speaker 1: But Craig's ice shanny won't fit in Craig's dad's truck.

1194
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 3: Dude, I love this story already. Wrestling It's very common, man.

1195
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:50,839
Speaker 11: I have no clue what's going on here.

1196
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:54,280
Speaker 3: It's listen.

1197
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: Craig is now so that that Hunters match when the

1198
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 1: wrestling shoes were in he he's a senior in high school.

1199
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: He's now at Skiing Community College. I went there, Merchant

1200
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 1: went there, Craig went there, everyone went to the Skiing

1201
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 1: Community College. He's at with Skiing Community College and his

1202
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: dad wants to go ice fishing, and his dad goes

1203
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: ice fishing. It's Craig's dad, Craig's grandfather and Craig's wrestling

1204
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: coach want to go ice fishing, but they can't fit

1205
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: the shanny in.

1206
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:24,919
Speaker 3: Craig's dad's truck. So they take Craig's truck. And there's a.

1207
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:28,560
Speaker 1: Real heinous corner as you're approaching White Lake where we

1208
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: grew up, and it's icy on the way to ice fish,

1209
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: and they blast off the corner off into the woods

1210
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: and hit the guy that just blasted off.

1211
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 3: The road prior to that.

1212
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 8: Oh man, gosh.

1213
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: Somehow when they hit, Craig's truck is racing and won't

1214
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: shut off.

1215
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 3: So his dad, Craig I even pressed him on this.

1216
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 3: He doesn't understand.

1217
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: Why or what, but his dad's idea is to pop

1218
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: the hood and cut the battery cable.

1219
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 3: Not unhook it cuts the battery cable.

1220
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean it's probably quicker than getting out of

1221
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: Criss Ranch because he desperately wants to get the truck

1222
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: turned off. Now they a week later fixed, the truck appears.

1223
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: The truck appears to be fixed. Craig drives the truck

1224
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: to the Skidon Community College and parks truck under an

1225
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 1: oak tree. Okay, does his classes and everything, and at

1226
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: the end of school comes out and goes to start

1227
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 1: the truck and turns it and just clicks like a

1228
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:41,560
Speaker 1: dead battery. He thinks, whatever, I don't know, click dead

1229
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 1: battery something or another. He's got all his stuff and

1230
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: in another friend is going to drive him home. He

1231
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: happens to have John merchants losing wrestling shoes, okay, the

1232
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: pair he lost in the year prior. He has those

1233
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: wrestling shoes and he also has a dual cassette tape

1234
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 1: boombox belonging to John Merchant. Places the cursed wrestling shoes

1235
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: in the truck with the boombox, a box of twenty

1236
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 1: two AMMO, a box of twenty gage shotgun shells, and

1237
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 1: half of his clothes. Goes about his evening. They go out,

1238
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: they go to some bars and whatnot. Craig gets home

1239
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: to his mom's house late at night and the phone

1240
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:28,919
Speaker 1: is just ringing up a storm at night. He never

1241
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: picks it up. Later realizes that was the fire department.

1242
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: He gets a ride to school and still unbeknownst to him,

1243
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: unbeknownst to him until later, his truck has melted into

1244
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 1: the ground. Everything in the truck is gone. He said,

1245
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 1: the steering wheel is laying on the ground. Everything is melted.

1246
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: Glass is gone. It burned up a oak tree. It

1247
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: defoliated oak tree he was parked underneath. Okay, burned up.

1248
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: The cursed wrestling shoes, which he blames this whole thing,

1249
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 1: are gone. The dual cassette tape, boombox gone. Oh, his

1250
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 1: term paper is gone.

1251
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 8: Oh no.

1252
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 3: He goes to a teacher and says, I don't have

1253
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 3: my turn paper. It was destroyed in a fire. And

1254
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 3: she's like, come on, Craig.

1255
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 1: Heys no, it was burned up right out in this

1256
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: parking lot and she goes, oh, that was your truck.

1257
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: So he then goes to a wrestling match after all

1258
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 1: this happened. He has a wrestling match to go to.

1259
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: Goes to a wrestling match and he's telling a buddy

1260
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 1: of his this story. At the wrestling match. Behind him,

1261
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: he hears a girl laughing, turns around, doesn't know her,

1262
01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 1: and says, what are you laughing at? And she said,

1263
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: that's a pretty funny story about your truck. This year

1264
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 1: they're married twenty five years. Wow, you catch that, Phil,

1265
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 1: It's a love story.

1266
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 4: Wow about the love story.

1267
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 3: It's a love story that's better than.

1268
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:20,960
Speaker 1: I tell that story all the time, but I tell it,

1269
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 1: uh that he was coming back from smelt dipping, not

1270
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 1: ice fishing.

1271
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 3: Did it kill that oak tree no more?

1272
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: Acres Cerig said, it defoliated it. But I haven't heard

1273
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 1: the oak trees dead. My favorite.

1274
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:36,919
Speaker 6: Those oaks are tough.

1275
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:37,959
Speaker 3: Story.

1276
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: That's how, that's how his that's how your wife has

1277
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 1: met his wife, Brittany.

1278
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:44,520
Speaker 3: That's good, beautiful children.

1279
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 4: So the s so going from what seemed like something

1280
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:52,640
Speaker 4: so negative, these cursed shoes to a burn up truck.

1281
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 4: That leads to.

1282
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 3: When I was talking.

1283
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 1: I was talking to him today, he says, I like

1284
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: to blame those shoes for losing that truck, but considering

1285
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: that halving my wife is a good thing, I suppose

1286
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 1: it was all good in the end.

1287
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 11: That's no, it's a great story.

1288
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 3: It's like a it's a love story.

1289
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 2: Good story. Should things go well for him throughout life after.

1290
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 1: The shoes are always once the shoes were gone, everything

1291
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 1: picked right up.

1292
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 4: About that, he sounds like a heck of a wrestler.

1293
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 3: Things picked right up.

1294
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 6: What if the truck burnt and the shoes were just still.

1295
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 10: There.

1296
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 4: Hey, I've got so I've got a couple of just

1297
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 4: like machine gun stories, yeah. So once me and my

1298
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 4: buddy Nick Cunningham were coon hunting in his dad's hunting truck,

1299
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 4: which was a half ton four wheel drive pick up,

1300
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 4: and we called it Old Gray. It was as gray

1301
01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 4: as it called it.

1302
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:03,400
Speaker 3: Old Gray. Yeah, I knew where this is going.

1303
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:07,120
Speaker 4: So we went. We went coon hunting one night. It

1304
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 4: was in the wintertime and it was cold. It was

1305
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:13,440
Speaker 4: just him and I we were both about sixteen. And

1306
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:15,920
Speaker 4: we got way back into an area we called wolf

1307
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 4: Pen Gap and uh, and we had two dogs named

1308
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 4: and Macy and Maddie, my first blue Tick registered blue

1309
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 4: Tick coonhounds. And we got way back in the mountains.

1310
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 4: Don't remember anything about the hunt, but we went to

1311
01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 4: the dogs, got back in the truck and the truck

1312
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 4: wouldn't drive forward, but the truck would drive in reverse,

1313
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 4: and so we drove nine miles home in reverse. We

1314
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 4: took turns because our next week get a crick. We

1315
01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,000
Speaker 4: it was so late at night and it was just

1316
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 4: back roads the whole way, and so we drove nine

1317
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:54,600
Speaker 4: miles all the way home.

1318
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 2: Was that a parking break issue?

1319
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 4: It was the transmission went out, a transmission dial transmit.

1320
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 2: We had this meme my dad did duck hunt.

1321
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 11: When I was a kid.

1322
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:04,840
Speaker 2: The parking break froze in place, but it would go

1323
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:07,440
Speaker 2: in reverse, so went reverse in circles in the pasture

1324
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 2: till it warmed up enough to thow the parking break down.

1325
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:13,480
Speaker 2: That's my first story.

1326
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 4: I just remember that short me and had some pretty

1327
01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 4: good some pretty good times coon utting. His dad also

1328
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 4: had another truck that was a long bed extended cab,

1329
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 4: full size three quarter ton pick up. Huge. It was

1330
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:31,919
Speaker 4: like a boat. I mean it was like eighteen feet long,

1331
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 4: you know. And we're sixteen year olds and at this

1332
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 4: time we were at a place called two Mile Motorway,

1333
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 4: which was a long stretch that went through national forests. Basically,

1334
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 4: basically it's like a one way road and the way

1335
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 4: you hunt two mile Motorway is you start at this

1336
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 4: end and you road hunt your dogs all the way

1337
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 4: to the other end, which the other end of two

1338
01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:57,080
Speaker 4: mile Motorway ends up in a really small rural community

1339
01:04:57,400 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 4: outside of the bigger town we lived in. Which town

1340
01:04:59,840 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 4: we lived in was like five thousand people, but this

1341
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:03,440
Speaker 4: was like a community way out.

1342
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 3: That community was called hell Fire Wolf Can.

1343
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly what it was. Look it up on

1344
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 4: a X. Well, we get out there and and and

1345
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:15,160
Speaker 4: it's cold. And I remember we'd played basketball against a

1346
01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:19,920
Speaker 4: Catholic high school that night and afterwards we went counhuting Subiaco.

1347
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 4: Now they always beat us, man, Catholics are good at basketball.

1348
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 2: Not this one.

1349
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 4: We got the truck. This story and this is a

1350
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 4: machine gun story, so there's not there's no this is

1351
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:33,920
Speaker 4: not a love story. But we we tried to do

1352
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:37,480
Speaker 4: the eighteen point turnaround in this one way road and

1353
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:40,280
Speaker 4: turned this eighteen foot truck around and it didn't work.

1354
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 4: And you along, we we banked it like the front

1355
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 4: bumper was embedded in the bank on the back, and

1356
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 4: the in the in the back bumper was embedded on

1357
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 4: the bank of the road in the back of the truck.

1358
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 4: And basically we got the truck just dead stuck across

1359
01:05:57,080 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 4: the middle of this one lane road. And I mean

1360
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 4: we dug and tried to do everything we could and

1361
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 4: could not get the truck on stuck. And it was

1362
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 4: one o'clock in the morning, and we walked. The story

1363
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 4: we tells we walked five miles. I could probably go

1364
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:13,360
Speaker 4: on on X and actually find out it was, you know,

1365
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 4: like three and a half. We claimed we walked five

1366
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 4: miles to the nearest house, which happened to be our

1367
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 4: English teacher's house. A man named Mike McMaster was an

1368
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 4: incredible man. Yeah rarely, and he was known for being

1369
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:34,920
Speaker 4: the nicest guy in the world. And we were nervous

1370
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 4: as we could be, but we went up to his

1371
01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 4: house in the middle of the night before cell phones

1372
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 4: and knock on his door. Nothing, knock on his door,

1373
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:47,760
Speaker 4: and finally his wife. We hear his wife like, who's there,

1374
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 4: and we're like, it's Clay and Nick. We're mister Master's students.

1375
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 4: And we got our truck stuck, and she was like okay,

1376
01:06:56,000 --> 01:07:00,360
Speaker 4: And like ten seconds later, here comes mister McMasters. And

1377
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 4: he was always just energetic and just the greatest guy

1378
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 4: in the world. And he literally pops out of the door.

1379
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 2: Hey boys, Oh, it's great to see you.

1380
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 3: Oh you got your truck stuck.

1381
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 4: Well, hop in mind, we'll take care of you. I mean,

1382
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 4: it's like out of a movie. And he goes and

1383
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 4: pulls us out.

1384
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:17,320
Speaker 1: Gotta tell you quick, rapid fire because that brings it

1385
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: to mind. Uh, Michigan Dear. Season one was November fifteenth,

1386
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 1: and back then, the way you would do things you'd

1387
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:32,680
Speaker 1: make your ground blind late at night November fourteenth, just

1388
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 1: just not thinking clear anyways, get real stuck out at

1389
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,440
Speaker 1: the Zeldnros Farm like buried up to the frame in

1390
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 1: my truck. I can't remember how we went about it,

1391
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: but somehow got word or got a ride to my

1392
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: friend Matt Jones. He comes out in his truck and

1393
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 1: blows the engine out in his truck. At this point,

1394
01:07:56,600 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 1: we got no recourse and I had my then girlfriend

1395
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 1: Kelly with me. Me and Matt Jones and Kelly then

1396
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 1: walk to the nearest house and it is a blizzard

1397
01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 1: at this point. Bang on the door and this woman

1398
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 1: is no way know how gonna let us come into

1399
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:18,639
Speaker 1: her house, but she's like, I'll make a phone call

1400
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 1: for you. So she makes a phone call and we're

1401
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:27,680
Speaker 1: within forty yards of her front door in a snowstorm,

1402
01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:30,679
Speaker 1: laying in a drainage ditch to get out of the wind,

1403
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:35,760
Speaker 1: Me and Matt Jones laying on top of Kelly to

1404
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 1: try to keep her warm, while this person stares at

1405
01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:42,599
Speaker 1: us out of window, waiting for a rescue to come.

1406
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:43,519
Speaker 3: M M.

1407
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:48,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's that Michigan hospitality.

1408
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 3: That never happen. They would never do that to you

1409
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 3: in the South, Well, it wouldn't be cold. They wouldn't

1410
01:08:57,439 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 3: need to.

1411
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:02,160
Speaker 6: Explains the Michigan Hello.

1412
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could take it. I don't know who lives

1413
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 3: there now. I can take you and show you that

1414
01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 3: house right now.

1415
01:09:08,320 --> 01:09:09,639
Speaker 4: Probably the same woman lives there.

1416
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 3: I don't know. You know, I should step in there

1417
01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:13,680
Speaker 3: and say, you know what one time? You know what

1418
01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:15,639
Speaker 3: happened to that ditch in front of your house? One time?

1419
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 4: Do we need a closer?

1420
01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:22,600
Speaker 3: Do we have? Well? That was I thought that was

1421
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:23,280
Speaker 3: the rapid fire.

1422
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 4: I mean I got another rapid fire. I mean you sure? Yeah,

1423
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:28,719
Speaker 4: when I was landscaping one time.

1424
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:31,520
Speaker 3: So these are all rapid fires.

1425
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:35,720
Speaker 4: I Well, my long story is that my twenty fourteen

1426
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:39,479
Speaker 4: Chevy Silverado pickup that I bought brand new in twenty

1427
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 4: twenty fourteen V six. I have carried my mules literally

1428
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:49,680
Speaker 4: all over America in that V six pickup. And when

1429
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:51,519
Speaker 4: I got it, people were like, man, you can't haul

1430
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 4: those trucks not made for pulling. You can't, I mean

1431
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:58,160
Speaker 4: for real, like guys that haul livestock and trailers, and

1432
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 4: they're like, man, you're gonna burn the training out of

1433
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 4: that truck. It has two hundred and twenty two thousand miles.

1434
01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:07,440
Speaker 4: And I have hauled my mules from Arkansas to Montana

1435
01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 4: at least three times, to Colorado, once to New Mexico,

1436
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 4: all over the country and it's still still rolling. That's

1437
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:18,439
Speaker 4: my long story. That's no fun though. That was yeah,

1438
01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:21,960
Speaker 4: I mean for it's an incredible I've got the truck

1439
01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:24,200
Speaker 4: to this day. I drove it to the airport this morning.

1440
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:30,799
Speaker 4: But I also had Okay three quarter ton single cab

1441
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:36,000
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety four model three quarter ton truck. I had

1442
01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 4: my trailer on and had my Caboa tractor on the

1443
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:45,599
Speaker 4: trailer in Fadville, Arkansas. Very hilly. Do you know the story?

1444
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 4: Have I told it before?

1445
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:48,000
Speaker 3: He told me the.

1446
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 4: Fade was really hilly, and I was commercial landscaper is

1447
01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 4: my job. It's working by myself. I had backed my

1448
01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:03,639
Speaker 4: trailer way down this steep driveway, and the steep driveway

1449
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 4: ended on a concrete landing, and on the back side

1450
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 4: of the concrete landing was a very steep and severe

1451
01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 4: drop off. Like these people had this beautiful view at

1452
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 4: the back of their house. My truck is up on

1453
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:17,640
Speaker 4: the main part of the driveway. The trailer is on

1454
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:21,600
Speaker 4: the concrete pad, and fifteen feet behind the end of

1455
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 4: the trailer is the drop off. This I was young

1456
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:28,599
Speaker 4: and dumb like Dirk was at one time, and I

1457
01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:33,360
Speaker 4: didn't realize that when you're backing up heavy equipment off

1458
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 4: a trailer on an endcline, that something very special happens.

1459
01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 4: So I'm I had to park break on the truck,

1460
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:44,640
Speaker 4: and I got on the tractor and start backing the

1461
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:47,560
Speaker 4: tractor off. And there comes a point it's all physics,

1462
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:52,080
Speaker 4: when the weight that's exerted as you back the equipment

1463
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 4: off the trailer lifts the ball and tongue of the

1464
01:11:57,320 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 4: trailer up, taking the pressure off the black wheels of

1465
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:05,800
Speaker 4: your truck. And I'm on which is holding in the

1466
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 4: back you know, the truck is is the parking brakes on.

1467
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:12,880
Speaker 4: And so I'm on the tractor on the trailer. The

1468
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:16,400
Speaker 4: truck's up above me. Uphill behind me is a drop off.

1469
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:20,160
Speaker 4: And I mean that truck starts moving, I mean not

1470
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 4: just not just like creeping moving, and and and that

1471
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:29,800
Speaker 4: the the your instinct is to jump off. Well, my

1472
01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:33,479
Speaker 4: instinct was to jump off the trailer and the truck

1473
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 4: continues to slide, is moving open the door while it's moving,

1474
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:41,599
Speaker 4: jumping the truck and slammed on the brake and skid

1475
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:43,960
Speaker 4: to a stop. And the and the tailgate of my

1476
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:47,600
Speaker 4: trailer was hanging out over the over the over the

1477
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:52,760
Speaker 4: drop off. The tractor is in gear, still running on

1478
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 4: the trailer. Now what I should have done was kept

1479
01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:58,680
Speaker 4: driving the tractor back, because if I had, if I

1480
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:01,920
Speaker 4: had driven the tractor back even while it was rolling.

1481
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 3: You put the weight back on it, it would have

1482
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:05,080
Speaker 3: just stopped. Like but it was.

1483
01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:08,240
Speaker 4: It's everything against your instinct and so.

1484
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 3: You have to make it worse for it gets better.

1485
01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I jumping the pick up and

1486
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:18,679
Speaker 4: it just, you know, just slides. And we had flip

1487
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 4: cell phones at that time. And I don't know how

1488
01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 4: I had a wrecker service or how I got the number.

1489
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 4: I don't even remember, but I called a wrecker and

1490
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:29,760
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just like cramming the brake, pedal in

1491
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:32,519
Speaker 4: and I'm like, man, how quick can you get here?

1492
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 4: Like I am on the side of a mountain and

1493
01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 4: if I let my foot off this break this truck,

1494
01:13:39,200 --> 01:13:42,120
Speaker 4: trailer and tractor is going over the edge. How quick

1495
01:13:42,160 --> 01:13:45,400
Speaker 4: can you get here? And I think my my my

1496
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 4: energy sped him up a little bit and he was like, man,

1497
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:49,599
Speaker 4: I can be there in thirty minutes.

1498
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 11: Oh.

1499
01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:52,719
Speaker 4: So I sat there for thirty minutes and this customer's

1500
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:58,519
Speaker 4: driveway they weren't home, tractor running, hanging off. And when

1501
01:13:58,560 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 4: he came, I just I just you know, had the

1502
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:03,360
Speaker 4: window down. I was like, do what you can do, man,

1503
01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 4: I'm not getting I took my foot.

1504
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 3: Off the breaking with slot.

1505
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:11,040
Speaker 4: So that was that was, That was the nail.

1506
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:13,960
Speaker 3: Nail biters good.

1507
01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:15,679
Speaker 11: Must have some strong calves.

1508
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:20,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like doing three hundred Calfreys.

1509
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 3: Oh everybody, thanks for joining. Talk to you soon.

1510
01:14:31,240 --> 01:14:32,600
Speaker 4: Ride on.

1511
01:14:38,040 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 10: Sealed gray shine like silver in the sun, right.

1512
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:55,080
Speaker 1: Right on alone, sweetheart.

1513
01:14:55,960 --> 01:15:00,880
Speaker 10: We dun beat this dawn, of course, Dad taking a

1514
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:10,200
Speaker 10: new one and ride. We're done beat this damn Horsiday,

1515
01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:23,120
Speaker 10: So take a new one and ride on. H