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Welcome to the Rack Junkies podcast.
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I am here in Ohio, doing a very interesting podcast today, I hope.
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It's all about how we're making a real difference.
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I have some uh kind of behind-the-scenes stuff going on.
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I've been talking with state reps, state senators, uh politicians from around the country.
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They call me.
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Turns out that since my post goes so viral, when you write about somebody, especially in an election year, they get kind of nervous.
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And I gotta admit a few mistakes that I've made.
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And I kind of want to go over a specific example and show exactly how we're actually, as a hunting community, through Rack Junkies specifically, getting politicians to pay attention and have real change to real legislation, uh, not just the complaining online, you know, because obviously I get a lot of criticism because I'm a content creator, all of us do, like, oh, this is just rage bait or oh, all you do is complain.
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Yeah, that's that's true for a lot of it.
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Um, but if I want to actually produce, have something to hold my to to to really hold on to, like actual pieces of legislation that move things in the right direction.
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If I don't get anything tangible, that's a failure.
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That's that's my standard.
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So, no, it's not just about complaining for me.
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It's about getting real tangible results.
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Now, we have seen some of that.
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We've seen a little bit with one of the viral posts that we put up.
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Um, I've talked about it before, so I won't go into great detail on it.
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But 12-year-olds, I think it was 12 to 14 year olds, weren't allowed to hunt in part of New York because of one politician.
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I created a viral post, put the guy's number in there.
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He got a thousand phone calls, and all the people below him overrode.
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It was a veto.
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Again, I'm not gonna get into all the details, but basically, it this next hunting season, we will have a tangible win.
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It's one state, it's one part of one state, but it is a tangible win, proving the concept that you can get things done through the political process with pressure from social media.
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Uh, I don't think that guy's ever gotten that million views.
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Uh, the post I put up, the initial one, the first one got 10 million.
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All right.
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And so he ended up with, I don't know, probably a thousand phone calls.
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Guy was panicking.
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Um, and rightfully so.
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He did something bad trying to prevent 12, 13, and 14-year-olds from hunting.
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And I don't stand for that.
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And you guys didn't stand for that.
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You guys shared the post, you guys made the calls, you guys liked it, you guys read it.
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That's what gets things into the pushed into the algorithm.
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Facebook sees like, oh, this group of people really likes this content.
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And that's what that's that is the key to getting things to go viral and to making, again, tangible changes.
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I don't see anyone in the hunting community really getting tangible, like actual legislation that they can say, hey, look, this was the problem.
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Here was the pressure we put on the political system, here's how we did it, and here's what we got in return.
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I'm not seeing it.
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I mean, uh the NGOs that are supposed to be doing this for us, they're not doing it.
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I've talked about that at great length.
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Most of them are just sitting there getting rich off of our money while producing absolutely nothing.
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The only real, the only, the only exception to that would be, and I wish I wore their shirt today, uh, not this Dead Ringer shirt, which by the way, somebody sent me that for free.
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Uh, the uh uh Hunter Nation.
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Hunter Nation's the only one I'm seeing that's like actually in Washington.
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They're in these states.
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They're helping politicians get elected that are pro-hunting.
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I mean, Keith Mark is brilliant on this stuff.
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Um, you know, I've I've I don't know of any controversies around him.
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He's just a good guy.
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I he's just, you know, I know some people don't like me, but that guy, he's just, he's just really good at finding pro-hunting, pro uh, you know, and he takes on multiple different topics, you know, like the wolf topics when he's taking on, CWD is taking on.
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Yeah, he's really good at helping people get elected.
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That's why I like Hunter Nation so much, because I'm doing the same thing here in Ohio.
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And I want to explain the process because I don't think most people understand the process of why things don't get done in politics.
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As uh, and this this will be broader.
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And if you understand this, it'll be interesting uh for for the uh other contexts, but it's especially needed to be understood by hunters, not the political side, the political process side.
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I know people get all hung up on uh I hate politics.
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Well, guess what?
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Sorry, our hunting is politics.
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It may suck.
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I agree, you know.
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I actually don't agree.
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I actually I'm the one of the few people that likes politics, but you know, so so I want to I want to explain the process.
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I was gonna get into uh West Virginia's open field doctrine and how we're making real changes here and actually getting laws passed.
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And this is because of you guys.
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But before I do it, I want to first explain why things don't get done.
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I'm here helping out a state rep in Ohio, and she said to me, she goes, Stephen, you you have more power than I do as a state legislator because I can put together a bill that 80% of people agree with.
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I mean, think of the Save Act, right?
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Everybody agrees.
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Uh this is a little different than Save Act, though.
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What but if it can't get passed out of committee, it will never even come to a vote.
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So what happens is a legislator will put put together this great bill, right?
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Let's just say, just make an example, say open fields, because Ohio, there's zero protections on open fields.
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If you live in Ohio, game wardens police, they're allowed to sneak onto your property, put up cameras on your property, spy on you.
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They can hang out in your backyard at any time of day or night in a ghillie suit with binoculars spying on you.
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That is 100% legal according to the state of Ohio.
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It's called open fields doctrine.
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Go back and listen to my open fields doctrine podcast if you want to know the details on that.
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We need a lot of states are starting to put together changes like West Virginia.
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But let's say Heidi put together this great bill, right?
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And we all agree with it, even all the state reps agree with it.
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But there's money pressure from the game wardens.
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This is going on in Texas.
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I'll get into that later.
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But let's say that there's there's political donations and pressure put on the speaker of the House, right?
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And he pushes it into a committee.
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This is how it works.
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You write a bill, it has to go through, go to a committee.
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Whoever's the chair of the committee decides if that bill even gets a hearing.
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One person can kill a bill that everybody supports.
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Now, when there's political pressure put on these politicians, and these committee chairs, well, they want to keep their seats too.
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So what do they do?
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They have to listen if there's political pressure put on them.
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And that's exactly where I'm pushing.
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And the reason why I'm pushing on West Virginia, because JB Akers, who actually I've I've had multiple conversations with him, head of the House Judiciary Committee, very important person out there, very smart guy, by the way.
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I talked to this guy, very, very sharp.
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Very, he's an he's an attorney.
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And if you've ever talked to attorneys, it's it's it's it's it's a fun conversation if you like people that are, I don't want to say anything bad about the guy, but attorneys are just, I mean, they're the worst.
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They're the worst.
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And I'm not talking about JB specific, sorry, delegate acres specifically, but it's it's it's fun for me to talk to these guys.
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Now, if if back to my point, if you're not putting pressure on the committees, the bill doesn't get a hearing.
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Once you get the bill to get a hearing, that committee votes.
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So say there's 10 members.
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We're gonna make this easy.
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Let's say there's let's say there's 11 members of the DNR committee, a bill is brought forward that everybody agrees with.
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First hurdle is making sure that you get people to actually pick up the bill.
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So once the bill gets picked up for a hearing, they'll they'll have cut people come in and testify.
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The committee, those 11 people will sit there and listen and ask questions, and then they'll decide and they'll vote.
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Hey, do we pass this bill through committee for a vote on the House floor?
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Or do we do we kill the bill?
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So in in we're gonna use West Virginia as an example.
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They had no rules around their open fields doctrine.
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There were cases of game wardens, police using cameras
to spy on people on their private lands.
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And so they put together a bill that said, hey, we're gonna, we're gonna stop that from happening.
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Now, JB Akers could have very simply said, no, no, no, no, no.
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I'm not even gonna let this bill come to a hearing because he makes the schedule.
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And then the bill's dead, even though we all agree with this stuff, right?
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That's the political process.
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That's step one.
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And I'm gonna bet that you've never heard another punting podcast or probably even political podcast talk about this.
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But unless you understand the system and you know where to put pressure, you won't get anything done.
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Now, I'm gonna take a step back again to, you know, I'm I'm actually a campaign manager here in Ohio for a state rep.
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And it is, I'm working with her to understand this process so that I can put pressure in the right places.
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Like she said, you have more political power than I do because if you put all this pressure, people want to get re-elected.
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They're going to make sure that that bill gets a hearing.
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Okay.
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So now we're to the hearing part, right?
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That we put together a good bill first.
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The pressure needs to be put to make sure it comes to a hearing.
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And then you have to put pressure on the whole committee, right?
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And then generally with the open field stuff, you have more Republicans and Democrats.
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Republicans and Democrats agree that police and game warden shouldn't be spying on you with cameras or hiding in your backyard without a warrant.
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Like this is not, this is a bipartisan issue.
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It should be easy to get change to happen.
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But there's money involved.
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And, you know, there's a big donation that's given to the speaker.
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The speaker sends the bill through a committee where he controls the guy in charge of it and says, hey, don't put this for a hearing.
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We're getting too much money from the game wardens or the police unions or whatever it is.
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Now I'm I'm pro-police.
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You know, I'm back the blue for sure, but also get a warrant.
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Now, this bill gets all right.
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Let me see if I can sum this up in a way that makes this easy to understand.
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Bill gets written, good bill.
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Now we've gotten pressure put on the committee chair.
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He brings it up for a hearing.
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Now we put pressure on the whole committee saying, hey guys, I'm gonna be watching you.
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Whoever votes for or against this, because open fields doctrine specifically is really easy.
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You know, Democrats and Republicans are both gonna vote for this.
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So, okay, and if you don't vote for it, I'm going to put your face online for millions of views saying this person did this, right?
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Most of these people don't want that heat.
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Politics is a pressure game.
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If you're not putting pressure on politicians, they're not gonna take up your bill, they're not gonna vote for your bill, they're just not going to care.
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Now, what we're doing here, I I wrote a I wrote a bad article about I wrote an article that was very critical of JB Akers, and we're gonna get into that next.
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But with this bill, specifically in West Virginia, he pushed it through committee, it got vote, then it goes to an overall House vote.
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Well, now you can hold everybody accountable.
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The problem is a lot of politicians sit back and go, I didn't vote for or against that.
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I didn't even get to vote on that.
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You know, and and and that's a fair statement.
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A lot of politicians, like the politician I'm helping, she's like, oh, if there was an open fields bill that came, I 100% I'm voting.
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I'm all for private land rights.
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I'm all for privacy rights.
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I support the Constitution, which is what open fields is generally obviously.
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Open fields, Fourth Amendment.
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Again, go listen to that podcast so that you can understand it.
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Um, it's a great podcast explaining exactly what open fields doctrine is the the Fourth Amendment, the Ninth Amendment, how it applies, why it's good legislation.
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It's a couple podcasts, but it's from a few weeks ago.
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It's pretty easy to find.
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So they in in in West Virginia, they got this bill passed, right?
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This is good.
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But it doesn't completely eliminate open fields doctrine.
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It just stops them from putting cameras on your property.
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JB Akers, the head of the Judiciary Committee, did push it through, but he didn't do everything that I
wanted, right?
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Like I'm not gonna pretend like he did.
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I'm not even gonna pretend like I know.
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Well, I think we kind of agree now.
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But he he put forward a bill and said, hey, we're just gonna take up this one, this one bill.
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We're just gonna take up this one part of Open Fields doctrine, not the whole thing.
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And I didn't like that.
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And for me personally, that made me mad.
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So I want to first first make it clear that we are making a difference.
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All right.
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That that these people, I'm getting numerous calls.
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I've received uh three phone calls today, two phone calls yesterday from either state represent state delegates in West Virginia or state senators, um, and one person that was high up in the DNR.
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I I gotta keep some of these names private.
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I I'll talk about some of them.
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Uh, you know, I'm still figuring out where, you know, what what is the right thing for me to do?
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You know, like should if somebody calls me confidentially, you know, if they say something confidential, I don't want to, you know, because I want people to keep calling me.
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I also don't want to, you know, kind of just give in to them and be like, yeah, I'm not gonna talk about all this stuff you're telling me.
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I just I don't, you know, I'm I'm learning, I have to come up with my own morals in this uh arena because I'm not a trained journalist.
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And quite frankly, journalists suck.
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So I don't really want to hold to their morals.
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That'd be, I think that's a mistake too.
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Um, but anyways, so I'm getting these calls, we're making a difference.
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They are being pressured.
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JB Akers didn't give us everything we wanted.
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Okay.
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I'm not gonna sugarcoat that for him.
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He did give us a big win.
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I talked with uh uh delegate uh Horst just a little bit ago.
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I will say his name.
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Great guy.
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He's a big proponent of the Fourth Amendment, big proponent of freedoms.
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I mean, this this guy's great.
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I mean, he's everything you want in a state rep as a hunter, as a pro-freedom person, as somebody who believes in the Constitution, he's what you want.
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Uh I will give this guy credit.
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You know, what he said to me was you know, JB's a good guy, I like him, we don't agree on everything, but he gave you a first down.
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He gave you a couple first downs.
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This was this was his analogy.
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He goes, he didn't give us a touchdown.
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Uh he didn't throw an 80-yard touchdown pass, but he gave us three or four first downs here, and we're driving down the field.
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And so do you want to use, do you do you want to be critical of him here, or do you want to give him credit and let him keep getting us first downs till we get what we want?
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And I think that's an important lesson to learn.
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And the comparison I would make, because I'm a very libertarian guy on the I'm on the right side of the aisle, generally on economic issues, you know, freedom, I want to be left alone, that kind of thing.
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Uh, but JB, yeah, or not JB, but I guess the the comparison I'd make would be like uh two politicians I like, Rand Paul and Thomas Massey.
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All right.
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Thomas Massey, I agree with him on almost everything, right?
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Like he's the libertarian guy, you know, cut the spending, pro-freedom, America first.
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Like he's he's all these things.
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I I'm just I'm all for it.
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But he was an incredibly ineffective legislator.
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I hate to say it.
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I'd have voted for the guy.
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But instead of getting things done, he decided to go online and complain constantly.
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I don't like that Trump kind of, you know, pushed him out personally.
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I don't like that.
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But at the same time, he wasn't getting things done.
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He was not willing to use his political power to get first downs.
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He said, either you throw a touchdown, I'm one vote.
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So if you if you write the bills the way that I want them, you're gonna get two or three votes.
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They're never going to pass.
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But you either get me a touchdown or nothing.
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I'm not going to accept you driving down the field with first downs and getting the touchdown later.
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I'm not going to accept that.
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And I think that's a mistake.
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Rand Paul, on the other hand, especially in the first term of Trump, he would argue with Trump, and Trump would go at him online,
right?
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Like he was like criticizing him, you know, Rand Paul's ugly, Rand Paul sucks, right?
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He did his thing.
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And then, you know, Rand Paul would be like, I'm not budging, I'm not budging.
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And then they would come together, they would have a meeting, and Trump would move that bill 5% in his direction.
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Right?
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He's just one vote.
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He used his political power to move the bill in the right direction.
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And then he had the vote.
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He didn't get the touchdown, but he said, you know what?
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I don't like this bill right now.
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I think that this bill, like, we need to get a first down on this play.
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Let me get a first down.
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And if we want to get more and more first downs, we want to get more and more touchdowns, we need to elect more politicians like Rand Paul, like JB Akers, like Horst, like Heidi Workman.
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We have these people around the country that are getting us first downs.
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And so I, for the third time ever, took down an article I wrote.
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Because I don't, I don't, I don't take down articles.
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If I I'll correct things, I'll say I was wrong, I'll do all that, but I don't take things down because even if I get something wrong, that should hang on my shoulders.
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That's that's just that's just that's who I am.
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I took down the article that was critical of JB Akers because he didn't give us the touchdown.
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He gave us the first downs.
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And I thought about it.
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I talked, he called me, called me, wasn't happy.
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Not super nice either, by the way.
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I tend to not take too kindly when somebody's really yelling at me and being very critical, even if, yes, I disagree with them on some things.
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But uh, I did feel that where this social media platform has gotten with Rack Junkies, the Sportsman Party, Aaron over there's doing a fantastic job pushing, you know, the the news side of this as well, uh, the hunting news page, the long.
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I mean, I we got we got a we got massive reach.
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We average uh my goal is four billion views this month this year on uh Facebook.
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So over 300 million a month.
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That's the goal.
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If we're gonna use that to get first downs, we need to give credit where credit's due.
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Aaron said this to me the other day.
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He goes, you know, a politician is like a dog.
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When they like a puppy.
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When they go outside and they go pee, you give them a little Scooby snack.
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And when they pee on the floor, you rub their nose in it.
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And that's what politicians are like.
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And I I really like that analogy because JB Akers gave us the win.
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Why am I being critical?
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Now he's not done.
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But he got the first down.
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You don't you don't yell at your quarterback for getting first downs, do you?
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He got us a first down.
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And by the way, in our conversation, he said that he wants those other things passed as well.
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So now when I have a seat at the table and I can talk to him and I can be the conduit for the people listening to this, for the people that are, you know, obviously liking and sharing my posts.
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I hate saying that.
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I like and subscribe, you know, millennial things.
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Like, like, but you guys do that, and it does make a difference because when content goes viral, positive, you know, carrot, or negative, the stick, it puts pressure on politicians to actually represent the hunting community.
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And I think that that's that's important here in West Virginia because now I have all these people calling me from West Virginia saying, hey, look, we're gonna get you some more first downs.
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We're working on this.
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This is going to happen.
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I love the fact that you're doing this.
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Politicians call me all the time, hey, we love that you're putting pressure on the Fourth Amendment stuff.
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We love the open fields pressure.
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It's helping us get things passed.
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And it's it's I I think that I'm not seeing anybody else get in, get anything passed because the new, I mean, quite frankly, Rack Junkies, the Sportsman Party, we kind of create the news in the hunting industry now.
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I mean, you have a few others, like like Steve Rennell, a meat eater, he he does a little bit.
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Um but other than that, wide open spaces doesn't.
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You know, I grew up watching, reading their magazine, reading their stuff.
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You know, they didn't figure out the social media thing.
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You know, I think they're good people over there for the most
part, I think.
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I don't really remember.
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Uh, you know, Field and Stream.
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How many how many bills is Field and Stream getting pushed through?
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Zero?
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When was the last time you read a Field and Stream article?
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I don't remember.
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As a kid, decades ago.
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I don't read magazines anymore.
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Nope, none of us do.
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They're barely even online.
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They don't they don't push hardly anything.
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Their their social media game's horrible.
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Uh outdoor life.
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Outdoor life is very much a they're actually a very left-wing hunting organization.
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If that's you, that's fine.
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I mean, that's that's your position.
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They they do they do a little bit.
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Uh, but I I find them the only ones that are effective at all, really, but not very.
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You go go look at their numbers, they're they're not really pushing the ball forward.
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So we need as a hunting community to come together through debate, through disagreement, and make sure that we are getting tangible changes.
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Now, here's something else that I've noticed.
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When I send an article that I'm about to post to a state-level politician, I get a call back within 24 hours.
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And it would blow you away.
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People know who I am now.
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You know, I have contacts inside of a lot of these state legislatures, and I'll send them something like, hey, I'm getting ready to write an article on this guy.
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I'm sending him an email, you know.
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I just want I just want to make sure that they get it.
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I want to be fair.
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I want to make sure that they see that I'm gonna be critical of them or I'm gonna praise them, you know, and and within 24 hours I'm getting phone calls.
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Hey, let me talk about that.
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Well, here's the pressure campaign I was talking about.
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You know, for good and bad.
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Carrot or stick, both sides of this.
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I write a bad article about somebody saying, hey, call me up.
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Tell me where I'm wrong.
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I'm more than willing to hear how you're gonna push this legislation forward and make tangible changes that hunters can
put their that they can actually, that we can actually hold.
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We can say, hey, we're no longer allowed to have cameras on our properties.
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Hey, corner crossing is legal.
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Hey, you know, uh, we're gonna, we're gonna put protections in place for drones.
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We're oh, the CWD stuff that's screwing you over.
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Yeah, actually, we're going to be limiting what they're allowed to do here because the science doesn't back it up.
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Now, obviously, the CWD thing, I'm not gonna get in into it on this podcast.
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I have previous podcasts on it that you can go back and listen to.
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Um, because again, this podcast does kind of build on itself a little bit.
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I'm noticing that.
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Now I, you know, as I as I get better at podcasting, um Hopefully the people listening to this understand the CWD debate.
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And if not, you know, follow Rack Chunkies.
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You're gonna you're gonna learn a lot quick.
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The other thing I've noticed is that to the point of all of the pressure and the fact that we make hunting news is that I get sent stuff all the time.
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I get sent YouTube videos, right?
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I don't really post much on YouTube other than this podcast.
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And what happens is I will see people talking about me.
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Right?
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They're talking about like, oh, oh, you know, hey, look at this CWE thing, look at this open fields thing, look at this uh corner crossing thing, look at these dumb, look at look at all of this wasted money inside of our game agencies.
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And they're making videos on it.
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And sometimes they they use my name, sometimes they dance around it, sometimes they cite me directly.
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Same thing with TikTok.
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I got a TikTok video the other day.
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I forget who it was.
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Um, but he but I mean it had like 10,000 likes on the video, it had maybe close to a million views, and it was all talking about CWD, and it had my article right there pinned on there, saying, hey, look, this is what I read.
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This is this is where I'm getting some of this information from.
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So obviously, this is expanding beyond just Facebook and other platforms.
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It's expanding to the state legislatures, and we have their attention, but we have to keep their attention.
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Now, how do we do that?
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This is you know, obviously viral content.
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You guys, you guys make make all of that happen.
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But that brings me to my the third part of this uh podcast is the debate.
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Debate's good, disagreements good.
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We got we gotta get past this whole this this really dumb narrative of well, if we disagree or we argue about something, all we're doing is giving the anti's ammunition.
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It's like, what?
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What?
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Oh, if if you guys argue over crossbows versus compounds, man, the anti's are gonna get us.
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Like this is this is a super popular thing to say online.
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You guys are disagreeing over CWD.
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You're you're critical of the game agencies, you're critical of the politicians.
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The anti's are coming for us.
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That's I hear this all the time.
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You can see it in the comments constantly.
00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:17.359
That might be the most incoherent, illogical, stupid thing that anybody in the hunting community is saying right now.
00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:19.519
Debate is good.
00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:22.559
How do we get to better opinions if we don't debate them?
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Guess what?
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I've been wrong about things in the past.
00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:27.519
You've been wrong about things in the past.
00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:30.000
We're probably we're we're wrong about things right now.
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We have un we have opinions that are not fully formed on lots of different topics.
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How are we ever going to win if we don't have one, calling out the bad behavior in the hunting community, and two, at least debating and coming to some level of agreement?
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I'm married, I've been married a long time, and and you know, I can't just, you know, if me and my wife have an argument, it doesn't go away if we disagree on something.
00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:59.359
It doesn't get better by ignoring it.
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Tell me, in fact, think about this.
00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:06.559
What problems in your life have gotten better from ignoring them?
00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:14.480
What things have you disagreed with your spouse or your parents or or your or anybody where there's a major disagreement?
00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:20.799
What has ever gotten better by burying your head in the sand?
00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:21.680
They don't.
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They get worse.
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They fester actually.
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So not only are they wrong when they say, hey, you gotta stop disagreeing on you gotta stop disagreeing with each other because you're
giving anti-hunters ammunition, not only are they wrong, the exact opposite is true.
00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:40.240
In fact, they couldn't be that it it's it's not even just being wrong.
00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:41.680
You know, I've been wrong before.
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It's that what you're saying is the exact opposite of truth.
00:25:46.799 --> 00:25:48.880
We have to have the debates.
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And we're gonna have them in obviously a respectful manner.
00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:52.640
I try to do that.
00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:57.039
I'm guilty sometimes of being, you know, a little condescending from time to time.
00:25:57.200 --> 00:25:59.599
Not gonna pretend that that's not true occasionally.
00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:03.119
I mean, if you follow me on Rack Junkies, you'll know that.
00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:08.960
But I will say, I'm gonna try and get better.
00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:11.039
Uh we we still have to have the discussions.
00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:16.880
So I put out a post about this the other day, you know, because there was a there was a specific podcast, uh, Southern You.
00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:20.160
They they they were talking about open fields doctrine and they they disagreed with me.
00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:21.279
It's just fine.
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Uh, and it was basically a big long podcast about, you know, them saying, I understand both sides, I get it, I understand property rights, I understand it, but we really need to be able to put cameras on your property and sneak around in geely suits and spy on you.
00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:38.960
I might be over exaggerating how they said it a little bit, but that was the crux of their position.
00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:43.920
Now, they never explained why at all.
00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:48.400
They never once explained, like they never gave the the landowner side.
00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:50.559
There's like, we get it, but believe us.
00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:50.799
Right?
00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:52.799
It was it was incoherent at best.
00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:55.839
It was it was you know full of straw man arguments.
00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:59.200
It was very uh I was I was very unimpressed with the the debate.
00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:02.640
And it about the 50-minute mark, they start talking about me.
00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:11.440
You know, they're like, oh, this guy calls himself an outdoor writer, whatever that means, you know, with millions of views in his echo chamber.
00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:14.960
Like, wait, my echo chamber millions of views in an echo chamber?
00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:15.119
What?
00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:17.440
Hundreds of millions of views a month.
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:18.079
Echo chamber?
00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:21.119
Have you fought have you have you looked at the comment section?
00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:25.599
My page is full of people who disagree with me.
00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:27.279
Full of them.
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In
fact, I engage with the people who disagree with me so that their comments go to the top so that people can see their points of view too.
00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:36.160
Because I believe in debate.
00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:38.880
Now, I did reach out to them and say, hey, you want to have me on?
00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:39.680
Let's talk about it.
00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:41.279
We can do this in a respectful way.
00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:45.599
You know, if you're gonna talk about me on your podcast, at least say my name and, you know, and invite me on.
00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:46.640
Let's let's have this discussion.
00:27:46.799 --> 00:27:48.400
You know, maybe maybe I am wrong about a few things.
00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:49.920
Maybe I haven't considered a few points.
00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:53.279
A debate there would be helpful for both of us.
00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:55.759
But I haven't heard back yet.
00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:57.839
You know, it was about four or five days ago.
00:27:57.920 --> 00:27:58.799
I've messaged them.
00:27:58.960 --> 00:27:59.680
They've seen the message.
00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:02.880
You can tell when somebody's seen the message on Facebook, still, still no response.
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:09.039
Um, but then again, most people, when they disagree, won't come on.
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:11.920
Which brings me to what I'm doing with this podcast.
00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:13.119
I am setting it up.
00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:15.920
In fact, I just set it up today to have guests on.
00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:20.480
Problem is that the guests that I want to have on are people who disagree with me.
00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:22.640
I want to have people on that say, hey, you know what?
00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:24.400
I think you're wrong about CWD.
00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:25.200
Okay, okay.
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:31.680
And shout out to Jason Sumners, the one, the single person who ever came and did an interview with me who disagreed with me.
00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:33.119
He's the only one so far.
00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:39.200
And now, you know, and and I've trust me, I've I've contacted scientists, I've contacted, I've contacted so many people.
00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:45.359
I've put so many posts out there with tens of millions of views saying, hey, if you disagree, call me, message me.
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:51.200
I've had one other scientist ever reach out, and turned out we agreed on 90% of the issues.
00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:54.960
And and in fact, half of the things we disagreed on, she was actually right.
00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:55.359
Right.
00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:57.119
And I wrote some follow-up articles on that.
00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:57.920
Like, yeah, you know what?
00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:01.920
I overstated this one thing, and the people who are mad at me actually do have a point here.
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:03.039
I wrote a follow-up article.
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I think that's important.
00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:08.160
But that's what this podcast is going to turn into.
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I want debates.
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I want people on that disagree with me.
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I want some people on that agree with me too.
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You know, some people that have maybe some information that I don't have, maybe are more of an expert in an area than I am.
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You know, I do dig, dig really deep into a topic uh before I start top talking about it, read the bills, read the science.
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You know, I spend most of my day reading government documents, court cases, um, you know, Supreme Court decisions, uh, you know, laws that have been passed.
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That, that, the, you know, the actual, you know, uh scientific research itself.
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You know, I have scientists who send me their stuff.
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Uh, you know, Dr.
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Christopher Seaberry, brilliant guy.
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He every time he gets a new study out, he's like, he's like, sends it to me.
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He's like, hey, here you go.
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You know and it takes me a takes me a little while to understand his stuff.
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But uh, you know, I dig into it.
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And I I want to have those type of discussions on here.
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I want to have a robust, um, very uh, you know, I don't want to say controversial, but controversial discussion on these things because that's how we're gonna get to a more uh united front.
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And we're gonna get, you know, away from and we're gonna we're gonna pick out some of the bad things happening in our community and bring people together around them, kind of like I feel that I've done with all of this grant spending, where there's just tens of millions of dollars that are just wasted.
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I mean, just stolen from the hunting community.
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Every ordinary guy out there, unless you're part of the industry, you're like it's it's completely on my side on this, right?
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And so, you know, we are united, but it is the average guy versus the industry on this.
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So I think that we need to, and you tell me what you think uh about that and about how we should have these discussions.
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I want to hear from you guys.
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I think that covers everything, but again, want to give a special shout out to the politicians helping us, like JB Akers, like delegate uh horst, uh like state rep Heidi Workman, like, you know, um, oh, there's a guy in Pennsylvania.
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Um, I forget his name.
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But anyways, I get calls.
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I get calls from
too many people to even remember.
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I have notes.
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Uh, but we're gonna make some tangible changes that we can hold our hats on.
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We have a couple of them right now, but that's not enough for me.
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I want to see open fields doctrine put common sense laws in place across the country.
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I want corner crossing to have so much pressure that judges and politicians go, hey, you know, like like Republicans in in Montana that are, you know, being just absolutely showered with money and and hunts to, you know, Governor Gene Forte hunts on some land from somebody that's, you know, very connected to the Montana Outfitters and Guides Association.
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And he magically is against the corner crossing thing.
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I think that it needs to be, there needs to be laws around these things, but we have to put pressure on our politicians.
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And I know some people don't like, you know what?
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I shouldn't even say, I shouldn't say that people don't like the politics when it comes to hunting, because I think increasingly they do.
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Because people increasingly understand that while we like to be left alone, if we don't get involved in politics, like the founding fathers did, they won't leave us alone.
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They will continue to infringe on our freedoms.
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The real threat isn't disagreement amongst each other.
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That's the solution.
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The real threat are politicians that don't listen to you.
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Anti-hunters to a certain extent, but I'm very much not worried about them.
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It's our own game agencies, it's our own politicians, and it's people not getting involved.
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So I'm gonna be involved.
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Please like these posts, share them, just read them.
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Even just spending the time to read them helps them go viral.
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And when we put pressure on politicians, you don't even have to like it, share it.
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Just because I know some people don't like doing that.
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Just like the post, you know, or read it.
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Just take the time.
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If you sit on that post and read it, it actually does help.
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Um, Facebook goes, oh, people are paying enough attention to read.
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You know, that's probably the biggest tick in the algorithm now is when people will sit there and actually spend the time to read to understand something, whether they agree with it or not, Facebook goes, Oh, well, people care about
this.
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And I think that's good.
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And I'm trying to use it for good.
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I'm open to criticism.
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And again, if anybody who disagrees with me wants to come on, similar to how Charlie Kirk did things, when he would go to his obviously, I'm not comparing myself to him, way smarter, way wiser, way, you know, I'm not comparing myself there, but to the extent that he would say, People who disagree with me, come to the front of the line.
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You ask your questions first.
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Well, people who disagree with me, you guys come to the front of the line and let's do a podcast together.
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I genuinely want to have these discussions.
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And it is very difficult.
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It's difficult to find somebody who's an expert in something because I don't want, I don't like, there's look, there's a lot of idiots.
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You know, I don't want just some, I mean, it wouldn't be fair to say the CWD crowd, because there's a couple of real idiots on CWD that that are on the opposite side of me that that I could have on.
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I want I want somebody that's like actually educated on the on on like really to have a good debate.
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So I'm gonna be doing that.
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I know I had some people on that post, you know, like Spook Span said, hey, come on, you know, that's that's a guy that I would love to talk to.
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Um what was there's a couple, um, there's a couple podcasts I'm going on now, but um, there's some anti-hunters.
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Uh that's the other thing.
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I'm going to have, I have a couple of anti-hunters that said that they would come on.
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This is the this is the crazy thing.
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Our own community won't debate me about topics we disagree on, even though they already know what I think about them.
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They they can prepare, they can read all my posts, they can listen to my podcast, they can get every argument that I have and prepare for it.
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And I know little to nothing about them, and they won't do it.
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But anti-hunters will come on.
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I have anti-hunters going, nah, let's let's talk.
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Isn't that crazy?
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Why why are why are anti-hunters have more stones than the hunters who disagree with me?
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I can't, for the life of me, wrap my head around that.
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You know?
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Um, politicians, I'm gonna start calling out politicians.
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You guys have seen me do that.
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I'll plaster someone's face all over social media and say, hey, good job.
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And that's that's again, you know, politicians are like puppies.
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So say good job or rub their nose in it.
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And when politicians don't do the things we want, they need called out.
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So I'm doing my best.
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Um, let me know what you think of this podcast.
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I've got to go do some campaigning now because I am a campaign manager and it's a lot of work on top of what I'm already doing.
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But we need a seat at the table.
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I assure you guys agree with me, disagree with me.
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That's all fine.
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But I am getting us a seat at the table inside, talking with the people that are making the rules, making the laws that we have to follow.
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So let's get involved.
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Let me know what you think.
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