WEBVTT - Ep. 44: Don’t Be Such a Meanmouth, Skylar 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.840 The way I see that hybridization could have easily produced 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.119 like a small math that didn't really fight, or like 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.680 a large mouth that wouldn't eat pretty much anything you 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.079 dropped in front of it. Question number one, do you self, No, 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.200 we did not. We did not sell launches either. Guess 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.200 who does Walmark, but he's got it all tied together 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:27.040 with a giant Colt forty five belt buckle. I am 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.480 not talking about the Billy D. Williams could forty five 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.720 malt liquor. We were talking about the pistol, though I 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.760 often opt for white sweatpants when I fish drive unless 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:41.520 it's after Labor Day. Good morning, degenerate anglers, and welcome 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.360 to Ben to the Fishing podcast. That's better than Netscape, 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.839 but not quite as good as asked Jeeves. When it 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.320 comes to answering Huormo's burning fishing questions, I'm Joe sph 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:54.840 Millie Miles Nulty. I was more. I was more web 0:00:55.000 --> 0:01:00.160 crawler and Legos WebCrawler. Web Crawler. Those are that my 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.480 go to source for for cliffs notes and uh leisure 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:07.200 suit Larry game hacks back in the nineties. Where as 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.440 fun as this is that to drop stupid reverences where 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.479 we're going. Dude, is this like the are were theming 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.720 this show doom and slow download speeds or something. Oh no, 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.199 but that would be a fun challenge. I would take 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.440 that on. I don't want to do a doom show. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.600 Doom and Doom and dogpile. The sound effects alone, that grunting. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.760 It was just constantly grunting and gunfire. Um no, but 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.840 I'm actually what I'm doing here is I'm ripping off 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.560 something we dabbled with a while back. Remember that we 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.880 did a one off segment with Tom Rosenbauer called the 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.160 Right Question. Remember that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.120 that one. I thought that was good. We told was 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.240 actually making that a segment where we we asked people 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.880 about dumb we were gonna like. The whole idea was 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:45.840 that we would take smart people who get lots of 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.680 questions that are not so smart and and asked them 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.240 to explain how to formulate better or smarter questions. The 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.920 idea being if you ask better questions, you get better answers. 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.000 But we never really like, we were never able to 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.360 make it into a full set. If I remember correctly, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:02.800 We thought it was a great idea, but we didn't 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.600 have that many opportunities to pull it right, and I 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.760 still think it's a really good idea. It has merits. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.160 So just just for some fun today, I wanted to 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.080 reframe it a bit and make it kind of personal because, 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.200 as many of you guys know, I hope most of 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.760 you know, Miles and I are very much open doors 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.320 right like you d m U s a question or 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.000 email a question to the Bent email account, we answer right. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.400 We love entertaining and telling good stories, but our job, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.360 you know, has for a long time also been helping 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.480 people catch more fish and have fun doing so. And uh, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.680 I mean we also just love to talk fishing, Like 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.760 punk music and fishing are really the only things I'm 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.560 qualified to talk about. If we're not talking about one 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.280 of those two things. I just kind of turned into 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:46.920 a vegetable. Um. So, like we genuinely enjoy answering phishing questions. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.280 I'll say Joe's better on the d M S. I'm 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.320 better on the email. Fan which route you want to 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.560 take it? But uh, you're setting up a theme for 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.440 the show, dude, and you're just telling people about this now, 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.919 like right now, who are listening into the show at 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.320 this moment, So I don't exactly know how we're gonna, like, 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:05.520 I don't know how are we going to make an 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.840 episode based around questions that we we haven't yet received. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:12.200 I'm struggling. Now that's a valid point. But see, I 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.600 thought i'd use this opportunity to address the two most 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.080 common questions I get and I'm sure if you get 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.600 them or similar questions, and I want to talk about 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.440 them and how you should rework them a little so 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:31.200 we can help you. Okay, okay, help mat, help me, 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:36.320 help me, help you, all right, this is this is fun. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.760 This is fun. Thank you, Jerry. And uh, I'm I'm 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.080 curious to see. I'm guessing our questions will overlap, but 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.920 let's see. Let's me too. Okay, So most common question 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.960 number one, could you recommend a good fly outfit? And 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.440 Lord knows I can recommend a good outfit for everything 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.680 from bull reds to blue girls, right, it does. I 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.880 will say it's trickier when dude says, where I'm fishing 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:02.480 the mostly stocked trout, but there's also some huge car. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.680 Occasionally we get some giant pike in there are loads 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.720 of perch. But those details I can work around, like 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.400 I can. We'll figure that out. But the basic question, 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:17.479 the initial question is always answered with another question every 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:21.080 single time. And you know what it is? How much? 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.800 What's the budget? What do you guys? You can't just 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.200 ask an open questions like that without any expanding parameters 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:31.039 there it is. I think that's a good tip kind 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.320 of when you're asking anyone to recommend anything about gear 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:39.920 like a recliner of walkman, that's that phone and fishing 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.080 around whatever budget is critical and and you know you 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.279 you have both. We know about gear, like we know 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.160 about lots of fishing gear. We've had to be up 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.080 on it as a lot of our jobs for a while. 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.560 So like it doesn't matter the price range. We fished 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.920 the snazzy stuff, we fished cheap stuff, and we can 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.960 we can tell you which one you should get, Like 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:59.880 doesn't matter. I don't care if you're trolling your cast 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.599 or whatever. We probably have some some opinions, but damn it, 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.400 we got what do you what do you? What do 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.559 you got? How much can you spend? Like if I needed, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.320 say a good cranking rod, I would write, dear Joe, 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.520 can you recommend a crank bait rod that could pull 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.080 double duties? Say as a late swim bait rod and 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.520 that we'll I'm gonna catch everything from big large mouth 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:24.240 to SCHOOLI stripers. I'm looking to spend around two bucks 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.320 because that's what I got see and i'd write back, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:32.960 dear Miles, first, excellent question, thank you for including your budget. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.960 I'd go with the thirteen Fishing Envy black two krunkenstein. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.480 Matter of fact, I recently use mine to put the 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.440 screws to a bunch of ten and twelve pound stripers 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:46.800 on the Delaware River and it was fantastic. He texted 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.400 me photos the same day, just just to everybody knows, 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.920 because I wasn't. Yeah. Yeah, you'd also say that because 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.600 bent is officially brought to you by thirteen Fishing, a 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.080 fact about which we were very very proud, and like, Okay, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.039 I know that's this all sounds like a cheesy plug, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.120 but it's actually valid. Joe's Joe's not making that up 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.320 about the stripers and and the crunk and steam earning 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.880 his keith. This season, he's been using that thing a lot. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.800 I even used it a few times when I was 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.680 out there with him. Anyway, we love rods and reels. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.640 Please check them out at thirteen Fishing dot com And 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.840 now that we've covered that, what's question number two? What's 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.479 your what's your second most fielded question that you wish 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.279 we're I get this a ton? Okay, get this a ton. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.240 Me and my buds have two weeks off in September. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.080 We're planning a fishing trip. Where should we go? Or 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.279 sometimes this ends with if you could pick one place 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.760 to go, where would it be? And of course my 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.360 answer is vana watt to for giant travallis, which isn't 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.320 It's like, it's not really a good answer for these 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.040 questions most of the time. But like once again, okay, 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.719 budget is really important here too, but it goes, it 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.720 goes far beyond that, like for starters, where where do 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.440 you live? Where are you from? Not only yeah, because 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.520 before you figure out what's gonna cost, you gotta know 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.080 how far you're going where? Yeah? Yeah, No, I I 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.200 get this one. I get this one all the time 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.720 to like, help help us out, help us out, a little, 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:20.320 help me, help me, help me help you. Are you driving? 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.160 Are you flying? Are you like do you want to 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.320 stay in a swank lodge? Are you car camping? Are 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.840 you backpacking? Are you like? We're cool with gem and 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.160 the whole crew of eight dudes into a Super eight motel. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.360 Do you do you want to get a guy? Do 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.040 you want to get a guy the whole time, just 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.760 the first day or you just straight d I Y 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.400 like there there are so many elements of like pieces 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.640 of information you could provide that would get you a 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.160 better answer. Yeah, and quite often, I mean with stuff 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.760 like this, the first round of answers dictates the second. 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.600 It's like if you answered, ay, we're driving, then the 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.840 next part of the choose your own adventure is, well, 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:00.360 how far do you want to drive? You know, I 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.280 always asked do you want? How many days off do 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.720 you have? Exactly? Do you want quantity or quality? Is 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.760 this a trophy hunt? Are you trying to feel coolers? Like? 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.320 It's like, okay, you know, well I want to catch stripers, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.240 but I'm gonna recommend a different place if you want 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.080 them on fly than if you just want to soak 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.120 bait and drink beer and wait for a cow. So 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.240 this is what I'm again. I'm always happy to help 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.000 with this, but you can't just say I have two 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.960 weeks off, man, send me somewhere. Can't. It's not can't. 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.760 I'm worried. I feel like I feel like we're going 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.960 to come off as sounding snarky right now, and we 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.200 all know, but we're being We're being snarky for the 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.040 sake of entertainment, because that's why people partially listen to this, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.800 just to be entertained. But this really is all about 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:46.600 asking good questions like, yes, don't ask what setup should 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.240 I buy? Or where should I go fish? Be specific, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.760 like if you want a good answer, ask a good question. 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.280 And that goes for phishing questions. You could ask any 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.400 word to anyone through your local Chackel shop, or you're 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.679 with a guide or a fishing body who knows more 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:04.520 than you. Don't shortcut it with some kind of broad 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.120 generalization because you're too lazy to figure out the details 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.120 of what you need to know. Think about it, Ask 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.800 a detailed question. That's it. That's if you want to 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.200 get a lot out of it, you have to put 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.640 something into the crafting of the question. More specific you 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.640 are about what you want or what you want to do, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.600 the faster and easier that anybody can help you, whether 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.480 it's us or someone else. And and we do want 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.080 to help, like we enjoy that, we love being helpful 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.720 when we can be. We really do. And I'll say 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.920 that like, we really try to stay on top of 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.320 answering everything and if you give me the information I 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.360 need to help you. People have written me back and 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:40.800 be like, oh my god, dude, you just wrote me 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.000 a novel. Like yeah, because if I'm if I'm into 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.440 your question, I'm a detail oriented person, so like I 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.200 will go all in, I'm more likely to avoid it 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.240 when I have to do too much work to get 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.200 to what you're really asking first. But we really do 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.040 love helping everybody. Um and um, you know who else 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.720 loves to help you. Our friends Sammy Gerardo, owner of 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.320 and Sun's Fly Shop and Franklin Lakes, New Jersey trout seas. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.360 It is in full swing. Hatches are popping off. You 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.880 have questions, He's got answers, some of which he graciously 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:17.040 supplied for this week's Regional Fishing Report. Hey, everybody, how 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:21.160 he's doing. Sammy Jnado Jennado and Son's Fly Shop, Jesus 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.520 christ as Spring. Anything you want to be hatching is 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.120 hatching right now, so stop calling me. Just go fish 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.600 size sixteen. I don't care what it is, just put 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.040 it out there. That's all you need to do. I've 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.520 been getting a crapload of calls this week. I hung 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.600 up on most of them. So instead of a report, 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.840 he's the five questions I'm just sick of hearing. Question 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.320 number one, do you sell big No? We do not. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.400 We do not sell lawn chairs either. Guess who does 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.000 Walmart post up title line to your toe? Take a 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.439 nap call today? I don't care, see you later. Question 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.240 number two? What color are they hitting on? Let me 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.440 ask you a question? What call you sweatpants? Great? Question 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.520 number three? What's the best time to go fishing? I 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.040 couldn't tell you. I closed in ten minutes. Question number four, 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.480 where should I go fishing? Answer? Under the power lines? 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.760 You know you're there when your cell phone don't work. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:20.120 Question number five, Last and most least, I went what 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.280 you just told me to go? How come I didn't 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:26.040 catch nothing? Maybe because you bought your flies off some 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.679 toddler on Instagram was turning them out like Slurper's at 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.880 seven eleven. Maybe next time, assole support your local fly shop. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:38.480 I E. Gennado and Sons fly Shop, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.320 Asked the right questions, you get the right answers. Spend 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.040 the right amount of money, you might get a little 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:47.959 bit more. The sweatpants thing was on point, man, I 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:52.800 just I gotta say totally, totally, that's accurate. Went in down, 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.400 you tie on a gray body, dry and call it done. Adams, 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.320 you covered them. I live and die. I live and 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.760 die by them, though I often off for white sweatpants 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.520 when I fish dries. Unless it's after labor day. Then 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.720 you can't wear them anymore. Hard hard to get the 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.880 fish slam off sweatpants, especially the white ones. Yeah, think 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.800 about thinking about your wordrop choice anyway. Speaking of sweatpants, uh, 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.559 which I don't fish in. They've been worn a time 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.120 or two by people who wound up featured on our 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.760 Awkward Moments and Angling segment. We've seen some sweaty sweatpants, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.760 some soiled sweatpants. We've seen a lot, but not this week. No, no, no, 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.040 very different. The dude in this photo that we're roasting 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:37.880 or perhaps exalting, went head to toe crisp Denim Chris Dude. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:43.440 This dude is either awkward or just straight baller. And 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.320 we're gonna let you decide for yourself. But I know 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:53.840 which way I'm leaning back a picture. This week's Awkward 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:58.240 Moments and Angling submission comes to us from listener Raise Abrawski. However, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.000 it is not It is not Raise Abrowski in the photo. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.600 In this photo is his Bud Skyler Hagen, And just 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.280 very quickly this leads to it's too good of a 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.480 spot to not drop an obligatory p s A. Remember, 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.720 we can't use photos of your friends and relatives unless 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.400 they give you permission to send them to us, and 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:23.600 in this case, Skyler gave Ray his blessing, and thank goodness, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.760 thank you. This photo is both rad and like a 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:32.000 total mind bender, and we love it. It took us. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:33.560 It took us some time to figure this one out. 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.400 Which our favorite ones, right, the ones that you get 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.120 right off the bat, they're just not as interesting. When 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.000 we first saw it, Joe and I both assumed it 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.040 was an old photo, like something taken in the mid 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.319 eighties range. And I'll say if it had been, it 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:52.560 would still qualify, because it's great, totally, totally, but the like, 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.360 the more you look at it, the photo quality just 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.199 didn't seem right. It didn't seem like an eighties era 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.319 printed photograph that had been digitized. It just seemed a 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.839 little too good. It looks like an eighties era image 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.880 judging by like everything that's in it, like all the 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.120 subject matter. But but if you really dig in, it's 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.400 clearly a newer digital photo. And and then we eventually 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.080 figured out that it was taken in and so we 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:20.560 just we had to go with it. We had to 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.240 get a full story. Yep, yep. So we're gonna dive 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.040 right in here. Okay, and maybe listen, maybe grabbing notepads, 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.400 you can keep track of all the elements were about 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.360 to rattle off. That makes Skyler awesome. Okay, it's a 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.920 lot of elements. So this this shot was taken in 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.320 the dark. It's taken at night lit by a flash, 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.200 which again at a quick glance, somehow managed to like 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:47.280 nearly replicate that eighties photo graininess. Okays off, Yeah, exactly. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.000 So he's showing off a large mouth bass which maybe 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.400 weighs two pounds, and that's enough. That's it about the fish. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.200 We need not say anything else about the fish, Okay. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.760 But he's got his spinning rod in his left hand 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.520 and the bass is angling from the line that he's 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.200 holding up in his right hand, and it's got a 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:09.000 big old black jitterbug hanging out of its mouth, old 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:13.400 school and right there nighttime jitterbugging Skyler is my people. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.560 Not many of us out there doing that. And it's 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.200 not just that I gotta I gotta say, it's not 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.640 just any jitterbug, but a jointed jitterbug dude goes what's up? 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.000 Like extra extra points for the old school joint at jitterbug. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:31.640 He's also wearing a full Canadian tuxedo. The whole deal. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.480 Has got he's got. He's got the like the Wrangler 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:39.040 style jeans, you know, the ones. They're snug, but they're 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:43.560 broken in cowboys snug, not like hipster sky jean snug. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:48.360 That there's a there's a definite difference between those two fits. Yep. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:50.840 And he's up top when you move up from the 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.600 jeans up top, he's got a much letter stonewashed jean 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:58.360 jacket that there's also clearly been well worn and and 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:03.120 just fits him right. It's just it's there. It's a thing. Yeah, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:08.000 it's an extension of his body. But what ties this 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.440 look together? What sets this apart? Because you know, Kenyan 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.600 tuxed is good, some people wear it better than others. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.560 This dude wears it exceptionally well. But he's got it 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:21.080 all tied together with a giant colt belt buckle. And 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:22.880 so we are all on the same page. I am 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:26.600 not talking about the Billy D Williams Cold forty five 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.440 malt liquor. No, we're talking about the pistol, the cold 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.520 forty Yeah, just big old pistol right there, it's it's 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.400 it's great. Okay. Now moving moving up the tour, So 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.640 look closely at the front pocket of that badass Jeane 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.800 jacket and you'll see a freaking box of black and 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.800 miles protruding out ever so slightly. And I've just gotta 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.320 throw a shout real quick. My father's favorite fishing smokes 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.320 for the record, black and that's cool. That's cool. I 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.760 was more of a backwoods guy, but he liked those two. 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.680 Those were the two options. Yeah, it's been a while, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.879 but both good. Anyway, Moving up to Skyler's face, Okay, 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.840 you just can't miss how it's framed by what appeared 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.720 to be a pair of vintage eighties glasses. Okay, and 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.639 the best way I can describe them, you know what 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.119 I mean, It's like their aviator shaped but they have 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:20.760 really thick frames, and these are are glasses glasses, not sunglasses, right, 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:25.240 And like Mike, I swear my grandpap had those glasses 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.320 glasses just like that when I was a little kid, 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.880 and he'd keep them in one of those glasses protectors 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.800 that you'd stick in your front pocket. Right. Um, they're 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.320 like a much more like masculine version of glasses Dustin 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:41.160 Hoffman worn in Tutsie. Um. And also when I look 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.320 at at Skyler's face, Um, a particular actor comes to mind, 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:46.680 and I want to see how good you are, okay, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.960 because we're gonna we're gonna dig deep here. To me, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.000 what I see right away is Billy's abka. Do you 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.879 know who Billy's abka is? No, I have no idea, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.760 so you don't know him by name, right, But Billy's 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.320 a is the actor that played Johnny in The Karate Kid. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.000 I when you said that, I was like, I was thinking, 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.560 it looks like Cobra Kai Johnny. I don't know the 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.880 actor's name, but that's exactly you didn't know. You didn't 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.399 know his name, But Cobra Kai Johnny also in not 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:17.840 just one of the guys, one of my favorite eighties actors, 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:22.879 A great movie just one of the guys good. So yeah, 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.080 when I was like, oh, it looks like Johnny, it 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.719 does it does? Uh? That paints it. I mean you 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.679 can see. I think you guys are getting getting a 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:32.399 pretty good image of what we're talking about. But best 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:36.240 of all, on top of Skyler's uh shaggy blonde mop, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.680 He's got this trucker hat. But I've definitely never seen 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:41.800 before and it's hard to make out in the photo, 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:43.520 but it was. It was in the email, and it 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:48.120 says I'd rather be a roper than a doper. I 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.920 went the hat. I don't know where that. We didn't 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.240 We couldn't figure out where the phrase originated, but it 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.320 is included in the lyrics of Ray Willie Hubbard's up 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:21.120 against the Wall redneck mother, Damn the mother. I'm gonna say, 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:22.880 for the record, I have plenty of friends who can 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.520 prove that the two are not mutually exclusive. But that's 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.800 another story. Anyway, what's going on here? What is going 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.080 on with Skyler? Is this? Is this a costume? Is 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.840 this like or is this dude just that unique? Is 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:41.840 he that much himself? Well, according to Ray, this is 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:48.000 just Skyler. Ray rode to us and said Skylar works 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.880 for John Dear, drives classic cars, and listens to hair 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.320 metal loud. He gave me permission to send this photo. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:57.960 I asked if there were any notable points of interest 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.720 from the night it was taken. He said, quote, we 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:02.600 just listened to a bunch of rat and kicks and 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:04.520 drank a lot of old style, caught a couple of fish. 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:09.880 End quote. It's fascinating, isn't It's like a fascinating guy. Yes, 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.239 he belongs in the outsiders or something. I can't. I 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.720 can't quite place it. But you dug even deeper on 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:18.520 the day. Of course I did, Of course I did. 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.960 I just just for ships. I googled Skylar and found 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.720 a little bit of info about him on the website 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:29.440 of the University of Wisconsin Madison's College of Engineering. Apparently 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.880 he want to fairly prestigious ward in grad school here 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:37.840 if you d major award he Skyler completed his master's 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.719 degree in mechanical engineering sixte His research was aimed at 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.240 developing a compact system that can transfer electrical energy wirelessly 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.520 across a rotating air gap between a stationary power source 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:52.160 and a rotating electrical load. Totally got that. I'm sure 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:55.560 he did too. He's a volunteer firefighter with two departments. 0:20:56.040 --> 0:21:00.240 He's the president of the u W Madison's Ham Radio Hub, 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:04.800 and his hobbies include restoring antique electronics and ice fishing. 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.320 Oh my god, he's he's just so American. I hate 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.159 I hate to even call this photo awkward anymore, Dude, Like, 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:15.920 just for this movie, I want to change the name 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:21.440 of the segment to Photos of our Heroes because it's 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.080 it's like, it's very perplexing. But I love it. I 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.760 love Skyl, I love all the things. Ray. Thank you 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:29.600 for sending this. Skyler. Don't ever change. Okay, you just 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.280 keep cranking the rat and chugging old style and designing 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.960 technology that will better our society. Okay, if you guys, 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:40.120 God bless you. Guys have God bless you. If you 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.400 guys have any awkward fishing photos to share that maybe 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:47.000 you'd like for us to consider roasting or celebrating. I 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:49.120 feel like we've opened a new chapter here. We we've 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.080 celebrated more than roast of this time. Please send them 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:59.040 to Bent at the meat eater dot com. I want 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.639 a party with Tyler. Dude. The fact that he is, 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:04.080 that he is rocking this look that he has this 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:06.480