WEBVTT - Ep. 73: Ball Drops and Salmon Alibis 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:09.400 Do at least a little something irresponsible like light off 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:11.600 an m A D at midnight and rattle the neighbors windows. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:13.680 You know what I'm saying. I just want to point 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:17.760 out I never introduced myself like, Hey, I'm Marty. The party. 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:20.680 One guy had a rain jack and they're switching hats. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:24.079 They had it figured out that nobody was gonna know 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.599 that they weren't fishing for three days. You know those 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:28.920 Bass Pro Shop hats. I think I'm going to like 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:37.400 start wearing those more in like posts. Good morning, degenerate anglers, 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.640 and welcome to Bent, the fishing podcast that recently replaced 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.640 all the tubes on its beer helmet, because tonight all 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:48.560 it wants to do is I'm Joe Surmellie, and I'm 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:54.880 Hayden Samac and uh Joe, Do I sense a rager tonight? No? No, no, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.480 not at all. Actually, I'll be enjoying a quiet evening 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.800 in slippers. But I mean it is New Year's Eve, 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:06.920 which is really ever you've ever said, Yeah, that's that's fine. 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:08.680 I just figured, look, this is the only time I 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.200 can ever get away with with theming a show entirely 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:23.320 around Andrew w K. No, did you know Joe that uh. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:28.839 Comedian Burt Kreisher is adamant that Andrew w K doesn't 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.000 actually like to party them like he he was like 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.000 adamant about He didn't have like a sketch about it, 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.680 but like he had mentioned in one of his podcasts 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.800 that he tried to have a beer with him and 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:40.000 he was like, oh no, man, I'm good and he 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.040 drank like a quarter of the beer and I wouldn't 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:44.720 I wouldn't be shocked. Did you know? There's also a 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.880 conspiracy you can watch those videos that claims Andrew w 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.440 K doesn't actually exist, like he's not a real person. Yeah, 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.600 I swear it. It's crazy. It's crazy. It's kind of 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.640 like the Mattress Firm thing, only cooler. Um. But yeah, 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.760 so I also follow the Hard Times on Instagram right 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.440 and one of my favorite ye oh my god, so 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.000 good and one of my favorite headlines of their's was 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:10.320 aging Andrew w K declines Facebook party invite, and I 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.640 thought that was genius. Um. Oh yeah. I also saw 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.200 him open for Aerosmith once and I was the only 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.920 guy in Madison Square Garden that both knew who he 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:25.360 was and was excited to see him anyway, anyway. Yeah, right, 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.880 So anyway, look, you're you're pretty, You're you're young and 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.680 pretty untethered. What are you doing for New Year's I'll 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:38.280 just assume there's a vote collusion involved, would I be right? Oral? As? Uh? 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.919 You know, some listeners know I've I've lived kind of 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.600 a another life, and at one point that might have 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.399 been true, man, um, but you know I don't wanna 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.799 afford a VOD collusion anymore. Right, Yeah, well, you know, um, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.080 I think that uh, I think it might be taking 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:56.920 it easy to My girlfriend and I were going to 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.120 the East Coast for the holidays, and I'll tell you what, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.520 if we're with her parents, it's certainly not going to 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:07.720 uh not going to be a vo not gonna be 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.960 a party. I'd say, well, if we're with my parents, 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.760 we're gonna get wine drunk. But I don't know how 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.680 it was. I was going to play out and your 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.519 parents got a case of Josh Sellers or something, boxing 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.360 wine whatever. Anyway, listen, no matter no matter how you're partying, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.360 that's supposed to mean. Man, I don't know, I'm broke. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:32.120 My parents aren't fair enough, fair enough no matter how 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.359 you're partying though, right, I feel we we at least 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.760 have to say do it responsibly, please, And if you're 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.680 not partying like me and apparently Hayden, do at least 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.440 a little something irresponsible like laid off an M A 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.560 D at midnight and rattle the neighbors windows. You know 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.480 what I'm saying. Yeah, Um, you know, speaking of responsibility, 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.480 I believe that the end of the year is kind 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.240 of the time to take stock of your many interesting 0:03:55.280 --> 0:04:00.480 and circuitous life decisions and perhaps make a resolution on 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.840 the way you might carry yourself forward to that end. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.360 Are you a resolutions person? Joe? You know this came 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.440 up last year and and nothing's changed. I am, but 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.720 I don't share them publicly, right Like, I make a 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.880 little deal with myself and then when I fail myself, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.440 there's no one to yell at me other than myself perfect. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.800 So it works out. Joe's strategy to success kiddos, a 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.279 lack of accountability exactly, That's what That's how you gotta be. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.560 Um I do. However, I have one fishing related resolution 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.040 that I am happy to share. Um No, not not kidding. 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.280 I want to take my kids fishing more in two 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.000 and it's not that I don't now right, because I 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.120 love taking my kids fishing. But to be honest, like 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.680 free time for me is precious right now. Like you, 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.080 you have a lot more of it than I do. 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.480 So when you have that day to get out, it's 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.600 very easy to talk myself out of blue gills and catfish, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.400 you know what I mean, and like packing up loads 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.480 of fruit snacks and show and talking myself into doing 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:57.960 the grown up stuff that I want to do. So 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.320 I'm promising myself that I'm gonna do that less this year, 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:02.920 even if it means I have to miss a few 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.039 more opportunities, um, you know, to do the kind of 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.440 fishing I really want to do. How about you, man, 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:13.120 Any any resolutions that you're willing to share at least? Yeah? Man, Um, 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.440 you know, I think that I want to get myself 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.120 into like alpine lake shape. We have this one scale 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.159 at the Mediator office that we use to, uh when 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.120 we're planning trips or whatever. We got to weigh the 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.000 gear because we take it on a bunch of flights 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:31.039 and stuff. I stepped on that thing, man, and I'll 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:36.560 tell you what. I'm still hoping that scales broke. Oh God, please, dude, 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.719 I would kill to be built like you are you nuts? Um, 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.800 that's a that's a that's a fine resolution though, man 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.200 like I'll probably never see an alpine lake. Um you 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.040 after listening, also, you should probably resolve to get yourself 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.680 some gear in two from our sponsors, thirteen Fishing, and 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.640 there I just went in for the quick, hard sell, right. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.159 I didn't even dance around that. But I really do 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.520 want to thank thirteen for being part of BENT and 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.279 supporting this this year. We're so proud to have them, 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.760 and we genuinely love their gear, and they're a great 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.119 group of people. Glad to have him here. A great 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:18.200 group of party people, I hear. I've heard that thirteen 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.160 Fishing knows how to party, and of course there are 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:21.840 lots of ways to party. Right back in the day, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.919 I was a house party guy on New Year's I hosted. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.200 My dad would would clear out and give us the 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.479 house as long as nobody drove. He's like, do whatever 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.240 you want, just nobody leaves. Um. But also I know 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.520 people that that like, just go to the local bar 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.520 for New Year's. I know people that buy tickets to 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.159 those all inclusive club parties. You know what I'm saying, 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.640 Like at a hotel or something. It's weird. I went 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.600 to school at Tampa briefly, and and down there there 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.240 were a bunch of kids running around with way too 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.520 much money. And one year one of them rented out 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:57.599 a strip club, private thing. I lived at an international dorm, 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:02.640 and uh, there was some oil money there, oil money many. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.839 I've never known anybody who could rent an entire place out, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.679 but I did almost get suckered once into paying whatever 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.680 it was a hundred bucks to go to one for 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.720 a private Super Bowl party. Um, and I passed. It's 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.200 not really my scene, tell you the truth. But we 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.880 know a guy that knows some guys that wouldn't have 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.720 passed on that kind of party. Right, So let's shift 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:27.880 into Smooth Moves, our segment where we let guides and 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.720 captain's vent about ridiculous things their clients have done and 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.600 talk to my old friend, Captain Frank Campbell about an 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:45.200 unforgettable photo shoot. Why joining us today for Smooth Moves, 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:49.600 My very good friend, Captain Frank Campbell from Louis to 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.400 New York. What's going on, Frank? How are you? Uh? 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.280 Not too much? Joe, just enjoying the weather, great day. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.040 A lot of snow. You know, nothing crazy going on 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.760 around here. So what is the weather up there? Because 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.080 I was just there, which is why we're doing this, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.760 because you actually told me a story while I was 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.320 fishing for steelhead with you on the Niagra Um and 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.600 we got lucky. It was pretty mild. Has it gotten cold? 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.400 Is it? Is it more true to form up there 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.480 right now? Well? Actually it got windy ergs you know, 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.320 if it could, it's crazy. I mean I think I 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.520 think I'm going to give up the fishing business and 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:29.000 starting a fight flying service or something, because, yeah, it 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.400 got windier than the fifty miles an hour we dealt with. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.040 We dealt with sixty winds on Monday. It's that. The 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.280 problem is it keeps going from cold to warm while 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:41.000 cold can't can't you know, figure out what it wants 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.440 to do here like a lot of people, and you know, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.319 we're dealing with dirty water, clean water, winds, snow, rain, 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.080 you know, we we caet all four seasons in the 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:54.720 same day. Sometimes yeah, yeah, no for sure. So just 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.080 just remind me how many years you lived up there 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:58.839 your whole life, right, how many years you've been guiding 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.440 on the Niagara I've lived up here in my whole life. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.120 I've been guiding going on thirty one thirty two years, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.920 so it's been but a long stretch, no doubt about it. Okay, 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.720 So before we get into this story, we we have 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.880 to we have to set we have to set something 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.920 up very quickly, sort of established something and um man, alright, 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.280 we're going to hear from our Canadian listeners. But that's okay, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.680 it's fine. Part of the conversation that we were having 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.320 that led to this story when you and I are fishing, Frank, 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.040 was that the strip club scene across the border in 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.120 Canada is a little different, generally speaking than here in 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.200 the States. Right. Uh, that's not that I know personally, 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.599 but uh yeah, well in my younger years, I'm not 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.000 gonna lie. It was it was on the way to 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.160 debate shop. You had to stop, she did, right, Yeah, 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:46.800 I picked up, but yeah, it would have been rude 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.800 not to. Yeah. But but but I think and we're 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.160 certainly not going to get explicit, but like, um uh, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.320 they can wear a lot less over there. It's just 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.600 it's just like a little bit looser kind of vibe. Right, 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.400 you know what I'm saying. You're gonna say a lot 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:03.920 of them forget are folding right? Yeah, yes, got it? 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.760 Because I I also have never been to a strip 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.400 club across the border. I'm not really a strip club guy. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.960 But like, this is something in fishing maybe in hunting too, 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.120 that you hear a lot about. Like, oh man, the 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.920 strip clubs up in Canada are crazy. So obviously where 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.840 you fish is right on the border. All the bridges 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.920 are right there. You can throw a rock and hit Canada. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.840 So's it's important to understand that, so that we get 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.280 the full scope of this story. Now, how long ago 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.680 did this happen? It was probably fifteen years ago, I 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.760 want to say, some somewhere in that range. Okay, So 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.439 take us from the beginning what happened, you know, and uh, well, 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.840 we'll just we'll just let it, We'll let it roll, okay. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.720 So as it always, you know, we're booking a lot 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.160 of trips for salmon and the fall, and I happened 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.400 to book these, uh three three guys to come in 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.200 and they booked three days for salmon Friday, Saturday, Sunday. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.320 It's kind of during the peak time of the year, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.200 but that time of the year were balls to the all, 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.760 you know, fishing every day fishing twice a day, so 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.040 it's really where we make our money. So anyways, these 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.880 guys booked these three days and they show up in 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.320 the morning for the Friday morning trip and they're like, uh, 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.520 coming on. I'm like, guys, you really don't need a cooler. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.679 We have something to keep the fishing. We have a 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.439 live well if you want to keep no, no, no, 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.560 So it's not for that. We got our clothes in there. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.520 I'm like, wow, that's a big cooler, right, and it's 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:30.200 like a hundred fifty court YETI type thing yeah, but 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:34.880 I'm like yeah, like okay, you know, we'll make room 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.200 for it. Not a problem, you need to close. So 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.480 they get the cooler, put it on, we go up fishing, 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.199 and within half an hour, man, we're bam, we got 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.959 our first fish on. Catch it. It's a nice, you know, 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.880 twenty pound king, and the guys are all excited. Guy 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.480 holds it up, you know, takes a picture with it. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.640 Next thing, you know, budd he's taking a turn taking 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.400 a picture with it. Then as other buddies taking a 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.440 picture with it, I'm like, what are these do is doing? 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.920 And now they're saying hold on a minute. I said well, 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.240 we'll get hold on a minute, we want to get 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.120 some more pictures. Next thing you know, they're pulling clothing 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.440 out of their cooler and changing and saying, can you 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.480 turn the boat so we can get the bridge in 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.760 the background. All three of them change their clothing. They 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.360 rain jackets on, and I'm like, whatever, I'm not thinking 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.920 about anything. They do this, and they take like two 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.360 sets of clothing each. I think, I know what's going on. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.640 These guys are like, hey, you know, let's go back fishing. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.079 We go back, we touch another one, same exact thing happens. 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.600 I'm like, what are you guys doing. They want to 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.679 keep the fish, but they say, you know, we'll keep Okay, 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.920 they're keeping them. It goes on. We touched like three 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.920 or four fish the guys, which which is an average 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.440 day that time of the year, and they're happy. I'm happy. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.320 Were going about one o'clock and I go to clean 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.199 the fish, and after I clean them, they're like, uh, Frank, 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.800 just let you know we're not gonna fish the next 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:08.600 So I'm like, what, guys, this is like prime time. No, no, no, no, 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.480 We're gonna pay you, but we're not gonna fish. I'm 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.880 like Okay, I'll take that. You know, they're gonna pay 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.600 me full rate, not gonna fish. Frank gets to sleep 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.720 in there in a time of the year. All good. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:25.240 I said, well, we caught enough today that we were 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.040 able to take enough pictures. We're going to the strip clubs. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.360 We're gonna stay right there for three days. Well, then 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.120 I'm putting two and two and two together and saying, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:39.520 these guys took like twenty pictures of free fish, and 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.720 they're like, we got we got plenty of plenty of 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.920 photography to show to our wives, plenty of pictures. We're 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.480 gonna prove that we were here. Wasn't a gripping green, 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.600 it was an alibi. Yeah, that's all you. And also 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.120 I was thinking these guys were premeditated and everything they did. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.600 It was crazy because I'm the guys. The other guys 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.600 are like, Frank, what are you doing. You're over there 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.240 with like for five minutes with one fish. I'm like, well, 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.240 we had to get some alibis. Basically, you know, for 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.440 the pretties guys, I mean, Joe thirty thirty some years, 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.280 I've seen a lot, but these guys went to extremes. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.360 I mean, the one guy had a range jacket, the 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:19.480 other they're switching hats there. They had it figured out 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.360 that nobody was gonna know that they weren't fishing for 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.280 three days. I mean, you look at pictures, you'll be like, okay, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.280 and you look at it. Can we go over the 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.840 other side of the river. It was definitely well planned out, 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.800 and kudos to them. I mean they had been there 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.800 before the year before, and it must have taken three 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:41.000 d sixty five days to conceive this, uh plan, because 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.640 they were like, we're going here. We know a time 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.040 Miss Nude World goes on and you know, four thirtists, 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:53.280 Like what these guys are unbelievable. I'm not necessarily saying 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.560 I condone it, right, but it's pretty slick, right. I mean, 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.840 that is a lot of four thoughts again, until until 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.840 their wives start counting the spots on the back of 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.040 the salmon man. They're gonna be like, here's the other part. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:08.680 And after you told me this story, I was like 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.320 blown away. And then I started thinking about it and 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.880 I'm like, they actually took it to another level because 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.840 why would they pay you full rate for two days 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:24.040 that they're not fishing unless the funds on the credit 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:28.360 card or whatever also have to match the amount of 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:32.320 days they stayed. That's because I was like, yeah, I 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.640 think they gave me a check, Joe. I think they 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.520 ended up giving me a check for the days, and 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.360 the guys like, what are you talking about. We got 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.080 the guy to receipt here, we got the check canceled cash. 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.400 They had everything figured out. I mean, they weren't going 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.240 to leave something, you know, to uh, hey, why did 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.680 this end? No, they were they had everything. It was, 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.960 it was it was ingenious. I would have hired these 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:59.080 guys to murder someone if I was. They had it 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:06.600 all cover. You know. There's definitely a resolution message wrapped 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.680 up in that, like some totally yeah, I mean, definitely 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.560 some good party buys, but also like maybe resolving not 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.760 to be shady with with the mrs would be a 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.360 good one. Yeah, yeah, I agree. The premeditation in that 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.080 is insane and uh it's it's like one of those 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.600 stories where if you say, um, if you only harness 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.240 that brain power for something good, you know what I mean, 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.440 Like the world might be a better place if you 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:35.040 put that much forethought into something good. Anyway, we're about 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.240 to harness our brain power, though barely one last time 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.600 in the year one to bring you the fish related 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.120 stories dropping harder than the ball in time square. This 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:52.480 is fish news. Fish news. That escalated quickly. All right, 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:56.040 let's kick out this news jam. Um. We don't really 0:16:56.080 --> 0:17:00.440 have much housekeeping other than wanting to mention that. Um. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.720 Several listeners reached out in regard to last week's show, 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:08.119 which of course featured a riveting interview with Santa Claus 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.159 and wanted to know. I wanted to know why he 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.120 sounded so much like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:17.919 I wasn't I wasn't sure what to say. Well, you know, 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:19.919 I feel like both of them spend a lot of 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:26.840 time in isolated locations. It's dark and cold. Yeah, Um, 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.840 anybody who spent enough time out in like real cold 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.320 weather like that knows what. You know, you can dry 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.280 out your skin, so I think put the motion on 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:40.760 their skin. It's starting to get dark, sorr. But you know, 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.800 I think I think that pretty much sums it up. 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.240 So you can stop asking that. Hayden just figured it out. 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:46.879 You know, you get a little ashy, you need a 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.359 little lotion, you know what I mean. Anyway, UM, we 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.560 should probably try and get ted Levin on the show. 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.280 Sometimes maybe he fishes. He's one of the most underrated 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.880 actors ever, you know what I mean, So I would 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.880 just ask him to say Buffalo bill lines. Um. Anyway, 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.359 friendly reminder news, here is a competition, Heyden and I 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.720 do not know which story the other guy has grabbed. 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.960 Um and at the at the end, our resident noisemaker 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.560 audio engineer Phil will declare one of us a winner. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.119 And it's it's my lead this week. So unless you 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.520 you have anything else to add, I'll get started here. 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.440 Get on with the Joe. Yeah, I know people want 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.560 to go party, so let's just move it along. Anyway, 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.800 as we close out begin a new year, I'm actually 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.080 gonna help you twice with my story today. I'm gonna 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:35.399 make you more fashion conscious and richer in one fell swoop. 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.320 Does that sound I'm gonna do it. I'm about to 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.240 So this story comes from the story comes from the 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:46.800 Wall Street Journal, and um the headline, Lord, give me 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.520 strength to read. This is how a six dollar bass 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:58.879 pro Shops hat became a fashion trend. Nice? Nice you know? Uh? 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.280 This is honestly this I've been noticing for about how long, 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.879 like a like a year or so well. See that 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.040 just tells you we we look at I think maybe 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.720 some different things online, like because I have not really 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.439 been noticing this and then this story hit and I 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.480 was like, wtf is happening here. Here's how the story begins. 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:22.560 Direct quote from the story. Jesse Alvarado doesn't fish or hunt, 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.000 and he wouldn't describe himself as an outdoorsy person, but 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:30.520 on many mornings, Mr Alvarado, a restaurant worker in Los Angeles, 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.640 plops a Bass Pro Shops Trucker hat on his head. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.520 To Mr Alvarado, it's just a good looking hat. It's 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:41.280 a simple design, like you can throw it on with anything. 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:50.280 He said, Yes, my hatred will grow as the piece 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.840 goes on. Anyway, According to John Paul Morris that's the 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.880 son of Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris, uh BPS 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:01.479 has definitely noticed the run on the trucker hat with 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:05.560 the classic BPS logo, the vintage one with the jumping bass. Now, 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.119 he wouldn't specify how much of a sales increase they've 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.719 seen with these hats, but I'm betting it's pretty staggering, 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.639 right because part of the charm of these hats is 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:19.600 that they only cost six bucks, and these days it's 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.440 not uncommon for the hats to be completely sold out, 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.480 both in store and online. In fact, there's so popular 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.560 that Fashion East is shall we say, routinely check the 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.800 BPS website and there are even rings where where the 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:37.040 members tip each other off to when they'll be restocked 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:41.040 so that they can get the hats. Right. So, uh, 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:43.640 why the rush to hoard them? What's the big deal? Well, 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:46.400 here's the part where I help your financials in two 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:48.439 because I'd be willing to bet some of you probably 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.879 have this hat listening right now right It's it's a 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.960 classic hat. According to the story, people are flipping the 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.879 six dollar Bass Pro Shop trucker hat for up to 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.200 twenty bucks a pop on eBay right now because they 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:04.919 have become hard to get commodity. And as I understand it, 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:07.119 you could flip a new one. You could flip one 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.040 that you've sweated in on on Lake of the O's 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.280 Arks for the last twenty years. Both will sell. You 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:15.480 might get more for this for the sweaty one. Oh man, Yeah, dude, 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:19.480 nothing more that hipsters like than like provenance. There's not 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:22.880 even hipsters really, man, It's like, Joe, are you familiar 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:27.360 with the term boy. Yeah, yeah, I am. I mean, 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:29.480 I don't know like the full definition, but I've heard 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.840 it thrown around. It's just like kind of like a 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:37.040 kind of like gen Z millennial, Like toolbag is what 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.720 that basically comes from. I like it. I'll start using 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:43.080 that more now that you've explained it. It is the 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.120 same negative connotation of a hipster, but it's more widely 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:50.080 applied to like jockey sort of folks. Got it. I'm 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:51.320 not sure if it's going to make it to the 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:53.720 podcast listeners now, you know, no, no, no, it is. 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:55.399 I'm trying to think, I I you know where I 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:56.720 heard the term I don't want to get off. There 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.440 was the thing on Instagram. It was like a comedy 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.120 thing out of California called Cherdley's. Does that ring a bell? 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:06.080