BRANDON "EASY" THOMPSON | Ep100 | Off The Clock with B Scott

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It's five o'clock in your Mouth Clock of Beast.
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Today we have as our guest, Easy.
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Now, today is special.
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This is episode 100, guys.
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So we're going to talk about hunting, fishing, how he got into the outdoor industry, and what he does for a living.
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But before we get into it, leave a like, hit the bell for notifications, subscribe.
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Let's get into it.
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So this is podcast number 100.
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Which is insane because, like, it don't feel like we've done 100.
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I don't feel like it's been 100.
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Dude.
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It's kind of crazy.
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Yeah, and you've probably been on 80.
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Yeah.
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I feel like I've been on like a lot of them.
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Yeah.
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If I've been in town, I've been here.
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So.
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So easy, really having you for episode 100 is a treat, dude.
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I'm glad you came.
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Listen, I I'm privileged to be here right now.
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Immensely grateful and thankful for the opportunity.
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Number 100.
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I will, I will, I won't forget.
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I might put 100 on the boat, dude.
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Hey, that'd be cool, man.
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We get a special decal money for that.
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Yeah, I gotta put 100 on the boat.
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Yeah, man.
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Dude, it's crazy too, because we hit episode 100 and it's getting to the best time of the year.
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Yeah.
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Like summer's coming to an end, dude.
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It's getting cooler.
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Hunting season's coming.
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Some of us are already bow hunting right now.
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Like, dude, this is the best.
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Football is here.
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Flash football, yeah.
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I mean, come on.
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I mean, what time of year is better than this?
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It don't get no better.
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I mean, they've been they've been uh bow hunting since August in Florida.
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So that's when it starts.
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That's crazy because it's like so hot down there in August.
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Like Zone A below Highway 70, they start in August.
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Y'all be out there in like shorts and short sleeves.
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I'm not I'm not out there.
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I can wait.
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I can wait till it cool off a little bit.
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I got so many gators.
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Like, I would be scared.
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Like early season, I'm I'm real weary about that.
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Well, it's not even the gators, it's the mosquitoes and and and the bugs that'll bite you.
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The last three years, early season, both season.
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I get out in the stand.
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First year it happened, I got bit on my lip, lip swell up.
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I get home.
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I mean, what I mean, what did it?
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It was like, it was like one of those little yellows.
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It's not a it was not a horse fly.
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Now I'm out.
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It's like them little yellow ones, right?
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And I got face masks on and everything.
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So go home, old lady look at her, whatever.
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So next year come around, I get stung again.
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But this time half my face swells up.
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So now I'm like kind of sketchy.
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Yeah, you know it's coming now.
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Check it out now.
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Next year roll round, September, early season, first day of both season.
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I get out there, I feel something hit me in the top of the head.
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So I'm doing all this, you know, doing all this, right?
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So then next thing I know, like I feel like just, I feel like I'm just swelling up and I don't know where it's coming from.
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I'm like, what man, this thing hit me up here.
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I got home and half of my head was swollen.
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Like half of my face was swollen, my head.
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So I just said, you know, three times is enough.
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Yeah, at that point, yeah.
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At that point, you know, learned.
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I'm good on early season.
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I can wait till October, November to get out there, you know what I'm saying?
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So the Gators, I don't mess with the Gators, bro.
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I I really don't.
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So I try to stay away from the early season stuff, but I'm a hunter dude, and I'm ate up about it, and I'm gonna get out there regardless.
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It's hard not to, man.
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Because like what you're excited for is like the good part of the hunting season.
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Yeah.
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And like you'll go early knowing it's not that.
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It ain't that.
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It's not that at all.
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But you still want to go because every then don't mess around and let somebody else kill one or have a chance of killing one.
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Then it's like, all right, I'm going.
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Yeah, I'm going.
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It's on your mind every morning.
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Yeah.
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And it don't matter if it's if it's hunting or if it's fishing, like Daryl, like we'll be talking all the time about fishing, and the conditions will be completely wrong for it, like terrible.
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And Daryl will be like, let's go.
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But what if it what if it was legendary?
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Like it could be legendary.
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It could be.
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It could be.
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What if just this time we went out in the lightning storm and it turned out to be the best fishing trip ever?
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Epic.
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And we, you know, we convince ourselves like, dude, this is the moment where we go through the most miserable trip of our lives for the best results.
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Yeah.
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And that never works out.
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Yeah, it's not like that one.
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We went one time and we literally slept at the ramp all night.
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We're gonna fish at night because it's gonna be the perfect night-to-night fish.
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And it stormed the whole night.
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We literally slept in the, we stayed in the truck all night.
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That ain't even the bad part though.
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Like, so that was like around the time we first got live scope and we're figuring it out.
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So I'm out there in the dark with live scope, and I'm like running into the bank and shit with my boat.
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Because you can't see where your face is blowing the screen, you know?
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Can't see nothing.
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I'm running in the trees and shit.
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It's terrible, man.
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Yeah, I um that sound like that sounds like me fly fishing, dude.
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Like I'm in the canoe.
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You know, anything over 10 miles an hour wind, it ain't really it to be.
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Yeah, how do you do that?
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So, man, it's a lot.
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So, first of all, if it's anything over 10, I'm not going.
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I'm fine.
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Now, if I'm in a boat, we're that's something you learn though from experience, or is that something you just like?
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Oh, oh, hefty experience.
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Getting out there, oh yeah, man, 10 to 12.
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I can get on the least side and I'll be all right.
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I can make it work.
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Next thing you know, it goes from 10 to 12 to 14 to 18.
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And now you're trying to push one way and it's taking you out.
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Listen, one day I went out there and that wind pushed me five miles away from the boat ramp.
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I couldn't even stop.
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I'm I'm taking my push pole because I push pole everywhere.
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Yeah.
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I'm taking the push pole and I'm literally using it as an oar because I'm moving so fast.
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And I'm just like, okay, what I'm on, what I'm okay, all right.
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Check it out, easy.
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You need to get over two, you need to get to the channel.
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Get to the channel, cross, and get your butt up out of these flats.
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Because if you keep going, you're gonna be in New Smyrna by the time we finish this.
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And that's literally like 10 miles from Oak Hill.
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So I'm I'm one of those same ones.
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Oh, yeah, I'm man, I'm about to catch a 35-inch red, the water dirty, it's murky outside.
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I can't see them, fail every time.
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I mean, like this.
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No fish.
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Ah, you just want it to happen so bad, you know?
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You just want to get out there.
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I just want to be out there.
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We just love it.
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Yeah.
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Ate up a bunch.
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You just give yourself a reason.
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But it's really what it is.
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Like, you know, it's not worth going and showing it.
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It's like fantasy.
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Yeah.
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It's an illusion.
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Dude, but if I did it and I told somebody the story, they're gonna be like, dude, I remember when you told me about that.
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Like, that was epic.
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Oh, dude, that's and every once in a blue moon it works out.
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But the stories, like the stories you get out of it, the like the learning lessons that come from it, though.
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I mean, come on now.
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Like, that's a crash course on learning.
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Yeah.
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Every single time.
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No doubt.
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Every single time.
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If I would have never gone out in 16 mile-an-hour wind, I wouldn't know that.
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Okay, you're not going in nothing over 10 years.
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Now you're you're learning.
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Oh, yeah.
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Now you pass that down to your kids, you're like, I wouldn't go out there.
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Yeah.
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But they're still gonna do it anyway.
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They'll be like, yeah.
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You soft.
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You a soft old man.
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You ain't lying.
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Oh my gosh.
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So, what got you in all this?
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So, like when you was young, did you decide to like, hey man, like hunting and fishing?
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I don't want to do that.
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So, growing up, uh, I got another little brother.
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He was big into the outdoors.
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His dad got him into the outdoors.
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Actually, his grandparents are uh they got inducted into the Future Farmers Hall of Fame in Florida.
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Really?
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His grandfather used to be FFA teacher, his grandmother was the same thing.
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So, me growing up in a single mom, single-parent home, I'm looking at my cousin and you know, he's with his dad.
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They go in the woods, they chasing deer.
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They didn't do too much bird hunting.
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Like bird hunting, very, very, very much so new the last six years to me.
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Right.
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But uh as a kid, I didn't I didn't do no hunting, man.
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I didn't have the opportunity to because I didn't grow up with uncles that can take me out, granddads that can take me out, moms, brothers.
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Hell, my mom has nine sisters, dude.
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So I grew up with pretty much predominantly women in my life.
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Um, you know, you go out fishing, you know, you can go, anybody, everybody learns how to fish.
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You go out to the river, put a piece of bait on, throw it out in the water, catch a fish.
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Mom might want to take it off, mom might not want to take it off.
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She might be trying to look at the guy at the boat ramp, like, hey, can you come help me with my boy?
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Right?
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Yeah.
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So, you know, I just I didn't have those opportunities, but I did have a couple uncles married in two, where they take me small game hunting, you know, 22 long range.
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And we go out to my uncle property or my great-granddad property, and we shoot a couple squirrels, put them in a pot, clean them up, eat them up.
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And that I could say that's what really like got me.
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Kind of started.
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It won't it got me wanting to go because I just seen the solitude.
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I was like, man, this I'm out in nature, it's just something different.
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And you know, seeing my cousin do it, and not being able to really hunt with him, it was just it sparked the fire.
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So, of course, you go through life and you grow up, you get opportunities to do things, you you you get opportunities not to do things as well, but uh just having growing up in a single family home with just a mom, she's not doing none of that.
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So it came a time I was uh 23, going through a little rough patch in life.
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I was doing AC work.
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So I'm I was I went to school, HVAC certified, did AC work for like five years, worked at Clark Atlanta University for a little while, and then uh I moved back home.
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Moved back home, got a job at this place called uh Sunshine AC.
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Well, like I said, it was a rough time in my life, but I got a good job, dude.
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I'm making like$18,$19 an hour.
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It's the most money I done made ever.
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You know?
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So I'm like, man, well, I'm making it now, but I ain't got no time to do nothing.
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I'm working 90 plus hours a week.
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So I'm sitting outside of my apartment building.
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Um, it's always been a dream of mine to be a cowboy, bull rider.
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Yeah.
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More so.
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Because uh my mentor, his name was Arthur Williams, God raised his soul.
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He uh he got me like when I was a little boy, he used to take me to rodeos.
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He'd come get me, single mom, you know, he influenced in my town.
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So went to the same church.
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He picked me up, go to Sunday school, go to church, and then you know, some weekends we'd go to rodeos.
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So I got pictures of me and him, like every year up until I'm like 10, we go to the rodeos.
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So it was always a dream of mine to be a bull rider specifically.
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So fast forward, I'm 23, I'm sitting outside on my porch.
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I'm I'm like, man, what am I gonna do with myself, dude?
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Like, dang.
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I did like that.
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And it was a livestock pavilion like across the fence.
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So I'm hearing the horses, I'm hearing everything, the sights, the smells, and it's coming back to me.
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And I had an epiphany like right then and there.
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It was like, well, you can be young and work till you're 65 and then retire at 65, have a half a million dollars, but your back broke, you can't do nothing, and you want to live out all your dreams, or you can bust your ass right now, do what you want right now, become an entrepreneur right now, and live your dreams right now.
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What's stopping you?
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You grown.
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Like when you was young, you didn't have the money or the finance, or you know, you didn't have none of that to do it.
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Now you're a grown man.
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What's stopping you, dude?
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So then I was like, holy crap, this is like that's the key to happiness.
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I need to do what I want to do, not like what I thought people should think I should be doing or, you know, oh, that's a certain amount of money, that's what you should be doing.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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It wasn't that.
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You do what makes you happy and you follow your dreams and chase your dreams.
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So I literally had that epiphany, ended up going to work the next day, um, and was like, you know what?
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It is what it is, dude.
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I put in my two weeks.
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But within that putting that two weeks, my aunt called me and was like, Brandon, they got the barbering class over here in New Smyrna.
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I think you should come do it.
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And I'm thinking, like, man, I don't, I don't know.
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I whatever, I'm gonna do it.
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So, like I said, I put in my two weeks, ended up working another week, got to my two weeks, packed up my truck, came home.
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When I came home, signed up for barbering school.
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This was like 2014, uh, signed up for barbering school, ended up like buying a uh truck from the company that I was working with, fleet truck, because I was down, I was down bad, dude.
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Like, I ain't have a vehicle, ain't have I was riding my bike, the doggone Dollar General.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Hey, be like that.
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Be like that.
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I got a hundred, I got literally half a million dollars worth of equipment in this van, right?
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Parked in front of my apartment, but I can't take the truck anywhere besides to service calls.
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Oh, yeah.
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So I get home, now I gotta jump on my beach cruiser, ride up to the store.
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And I got Pearl with me.
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So I got a pit bull.
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So she's a bully.
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She was about this big.
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I literally had a basket and I would put her in the front.
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We'll ride up to the store, had a basket on the back, ride back.
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So my boss, he was like, Man, I got a fleet truck you can buy.
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Sold me a Chevy, 1500, long bed, two-door, 15, or 500 bucks.
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Couldn't beat it.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Mr.
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Paul.
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I appreciate you, you know.
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Like, mean a lot to me.
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Well, fast forward, I get home, I sign up for school in October of 2014.
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2015, January came, it was like the 18th.
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School called me.
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Brandy, you owe us 900 bucks, so you can't start school.
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Oh, crushed.
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What am I gonna do?
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Another What am I gonna do, right?
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Yeah.
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I looked outside, I was living with my best friend at the time.
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I looked outside, I said, man, I got about$3,000 sitting in the doggone driveway.
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And I went out there, washed that thing up, filled it up with oil, put some transmission fluid to make sure the transmission went slip like it was.
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Put it online for$3,500, had it sold in 48 minutes.
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Like literally 48 minutes sold.
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Took 900 up to the school, took the rest of it.
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I went up to the bow shop.
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It was a gun store called Bucks Gun Rack.
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I went up there, I put me a PSE stinger on layway, 90-day layway, put it on layaway, did paid some bills, and you know, whatever.
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So I'm in my head, I'm like, boy, I got me a bow.
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But now I need to see how somebody teach me how to shoot this dang on thing.
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So it was a guy in my town, near and dear to my heart, and then Howard Douglas.
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I called Howard, and uh I had Brad my bully at the time as well.
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So I had these$5,000 puppies, but who's gonna pay that much money for a dog from a non-reputable breeder?
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And yeah, they got papers and all that stuff, but it's a lot of money, right?
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So I said, Howard, man, I got a deal for you.
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I know you got them pups.
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How much you want for one?
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I said, I don't want nothing if you teach me how to shoot this bow.
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He said, What?
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So yeah, man, I got a bow on layaway.
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I gotta go get it.
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When I get my FAFSA check, I'm gonna get it and I'm gonna come down to the house.
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Well, you go get the bow and come on to the house.
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He thought I was playing.
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I went and got that bow.
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I got pictures.
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It's not on Instagram or nothing, but I got pictures in my phone.
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I went to his house, it was 9.30 at night.
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Went down there, I had an arm guard on.
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Uh I'm talking about rookie.
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I'm green, super green.
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All you knew is you wanted to do it.
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That's it.
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I went down there at 9 o'clock at night.
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I set that target up on the basketball court, I put it in half court, and I sat at the free throw line.
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I might have shot that boy a hundred times.
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Arm was, I'm talking about my arm was tore up.
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Tore up.
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But, you know, I wanted to do it, dude.
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And I wanted to hunt.
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I just wanted to, I always, you know, I just wanted, I aspired to be the best outdoorsman that I can be all the way around, whether it was hunting, fishing, just being outside.
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I wanted to be complete, you know.
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So uh, man, like just doing all of those things, like even learning how to shoot the bow, being up under those lights like that, it just clicked for me.
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It did something for me.
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So fast forward, this was 2015.
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Uh-huh.
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Going into six.
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So the whole 2015 shot my bow, didn't go hunting.
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I had places to go hunting, but I didn't go.
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Shot my bow all of 2016, didn't go hunting.
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I didn't hunt, start hunting until 2017.
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My first sit on my uncle's property, hit a doe at 30 yards.
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Two more sits, I shot two does in the same hunt.
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So now I got three does.
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Then later on in that that same year, this was in like October time, December 17, 2017, I shot my biggest buck, which was he was seven-point, and he was like 118 inches.
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So in Florida, that's a good buck.
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It only gotta be 120 to be in the registry of Florida, if I'm not mistaken.
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Really?
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And I don't I don't want to be factual on that, but I'm pretty sure it's 120.
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Because it's not big deer in Florida, right?
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But um ended up hitting this deer, and it was crazy because me and my buddy Howard went out to the property, and this was, you know, SD cars, put them in the and oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So this was at this time.
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So I'm going out there once a week, check the car, you know, spray down.
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I'm going out, check the car.
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So this week we go out, I pull the car and I look.
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He's there every single morning, seven days straight at 6:45 on the dot, and I can see him walking in.
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So I looked at Howard, I was like, Howard, we gotta get out here tomorrow.
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Like he's been here every single day.
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So next morning, wake up, I get out there an hour early.
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I'm I'm excited.
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I'm like, I know he's gonna come.
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They get out there at like five o'clock.
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I'm just out there.
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So I'm just sitting in the dark.
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He like that.
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Yeah, I'm just sitting there.
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So all of a sudden, I'm chilling, and uh, I heard something hit the hit the waterline.
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So I said, I don't know if that's him.
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So I'm kind of just peek over.
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Of course, this morning, the fog super low.
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Like it was literally on top of the grass.
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So I I hear him, I hear him, I hear him.
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So now he's to the point where I can just do like this.
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So I do like that, and he's he's down.
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He's like eating corn.
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So I'm looking, I'm like, damn, is that a dough or is it a buck?
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I don't know yet, right?
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Man, he lifted his head up and it was like the most eerie, cool, like oh my god.
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He lifted his head up, and all I seen was all I seen was rack.
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That's it.
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So now I'm at the point where I'm like, should I stand up and draw and wait for him?
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Or what do I do?
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I'm used to shooting these does, but I'm like, this buck, I don't want to spook him.
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Yeah.
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When I tell you he came all the way to 15.5, stood right on my corn pile, and literally stood there.
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So I waited, I waited, waited for him to put his head down.
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As soon as I drew back, he looked, looked right at me.
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I'm talking, he looked right at me, and I was just like, it's now or never.
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So, like, I mean, it was nothing.
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It was the best feeling I ever had.
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And it was like 29 degrees out.
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You get all shook up.
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Do you like after the shot?
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Were you?
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Dude, I was shaking the whole time.
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The whole damn tree was shaking the whole time.
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Tree, the stand, everything.
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And my buddy, he texted me.
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He was like, I just seen the buck run across the field.
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Did you hit him?
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I said, Yeah, that's my buck.
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He said, Boy, that's a big one.
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And all of a sudden, you just heard crack.
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I was like, oh man.
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And you can't always get there.
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I don't know what to do.
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I think I sat there for an hour, just sitting.
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He's hit my buddy is texting me.
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He can see the deer because his stand is right there.
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You ready?
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Nah, uh-uh.
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I can't get down.
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I'm still shaking.
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I don't know what.
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Finally get down and go get it and had to do all the field dressing and all of that good stuff.
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So it was it was a first for it.
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But my buddy Howard, he introduced me to it, you know, and I I have not turned back since, dude.
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I've been ate up about hunting, every aspect of it.
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The scout, the hunt, the fellowship afterwards, cooking, everything.
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I I'm I'm made up about.
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And it's the same for fishing, dude.
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So like I got an equal love for both because I I'm from Florida, so I can fish 365 days of the year.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Oh, it's great for that for sure.
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Yeah, man.
00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:16.599
I mean, one thing I think is great, like when it comes to especially deer hunting, when you're out there on the stand, you know, like 10% of it's the actual deer.
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Yep.
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The other 90% of it, you're just sitting there and you're just thinking about life.
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You know, you going through everything in your head, it's been happening, but going on, what you want to do.
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And it's I mean, it's just a great time to just really stop and like put things in perspective.
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You know, and you think about everything, you know, you text people that you maybe haven't texted in a long time.
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You're just sitting there.
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It's like it's just a solitude of it, you know.
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That's the best part.
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I think a lot of people miss that too.
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Like you go sit in the woods, you know, there's people you don't talk to very often, but you all know you're on a deer stand, and also you start texting, like, hey man, what you up to?
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And they be like, Man, and just sit in the deer stand.
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Everybody's kind of just doing it, you know, hoving.
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Like, and then you start texting every day.
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Like, these people that you only talk to during home, not because you want to go home with them, but literally just because it's like uh That's what y'all are doing, it's a community.
00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:03.639
Yeah, it's like what are you doing, man?
00:22:03.719 --> 00:22:04.759
I'm chasing this deer over here.
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Yeah, and they ask you what deer, you're like, Yeah, I can't show you that.
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You're a little too close.
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You're a little too close.
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We good, we eat that good.
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Yeah, we might be chasing the same deer, my friend.
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Yeah, you might also have permission over here.
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It's that, but you're right, though.
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People miss that solitude part, and um it's the same for me with like fishing, fly fishing, right?
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I fly fish by myself a lot because I'm on my canoe.
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Now it's usually a team, team effort.
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You got one guy polling, he's looking for fish, and a guy on the bow who's actually fishing, he's looking for fish.
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Fish, so I see it's hand in hand.
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So I might be on the polling platform, right?
00:22:45.719 --> 00:22:50.359
Yeah, you'll be on the casting platform, and I might be a hey B, check it out.
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12 o'clock, 50 feet.
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I need you to lay a cast and just let it sink.
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Don't move it.
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Can you see the fish at 55 or 60 feet?
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Okay, yeah, no, I don't see him.
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I don't see him.
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All right, wait.
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Just wait.
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Look at the mangroves and come 10 feet off the mangroves.
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All right, I see him.
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Okay, when you feel ready, make a cast.
00:23:10.439 --> 00:23:12.359
So it's so it's kind of like a team effort.
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Is listen, it's his position is probably important, I imagine.
00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:30.439
The placement of your boat where whoever is polling, if they don't make that placement just right, you gotta think you might have to make a back cast when it was way easier if he could have pushed you this way and you could have made a forward cast.
00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:40.519
So instead of making a lot of false casts this way, you could have instead of making a lot of false back cast, you could have just made one cast forward, boom, and laid it down.
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So it very much so is a team effort.
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Like you want somebody to know how to pole.
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Right.
00:23:47.879 --> 00:23:49.239
You that's that's a big thing.
00:23:49.639 --> 00:23:53.719
So like in fly fishing, if you know how to pull a boat, you'll get invited on any trip.
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Any trip.
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That makes sense.
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60, 70% of them don't know how to pole.
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They'll get up there and they don't know how to push the boat around, or you know, they get in a little bit of wind and they don't know, put the nose in the wind.
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Like put that nose in sh directly into the wind, and I promise you the boat will stay straight.
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I don't care what you got going on this way.
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You know, it's a little small stuff, you know?
00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:19.159
But uh it is very similar to hunting in every type of way.
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You know, it's just you got a partner with you now, you know.
00:24:21.719 --> 00:24:24.359
But so just like turkey hunting, you got somebody with you, you know.
00:24:24.439 --> 00:24:29.399
I mean, you'll go by yourself, but sometimes you got a buddy, and your buddy can be the eyes behind your back.
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That's the guy on the platform.
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Or driving back and calling for you.
00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:33.639
Yeah, that's what I was what I was about to say.
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Like stepping back 60, 70 yards and calling.
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Same, same thing, dude.
00:24:37.719 --> 00:24:48.359
So you have dude on platform, and he might have a, we might be pushing forward, but it might be, let's just say, let's just say you fishing like oceanside.
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So we're going for big fish, tarpon.
00:24:51.399 --> 00:24:57.399
These tarpon might come in in a certain area or like they come in in a daisy chain, right?
00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:00.599
And they're gonna come right down this row, and you know it.
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Like I can sit right here and I know they're gonna come, but for some instance, this day, they come from behind you.
00:25:08.679 --> 00:25:16.439
You're not gonna see that on the bow of the boat, but the guy that's polling, he's literally looking everywhere, like making sure, all right, cool.
00:25:16.519 --> 00:25:19.479
So we got some coming literally right behind the boat.
00:25:19.559 --> 00:25:30.199
You push it straight to the left, spin him, and it's now he's facing the fish, and I'm behind him, and I'm looking and telling him, all right, cast at that second fish in that daisy chain.
00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:32.759
You know, he keeps coming up blowing air.
00:25:33.159 --> 00:25:34.759
All right, get it right in front of him.
00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:35.799
Make sure he can see it.
00:25:35.879 --> 00:25:37.319
If he can't see it, they ain't gonna hit it.
00:25:37.479 --> 00:25:39.239
You know, and that's pretty much that's every fish.
00:25:39.399 --> 00:25:44.199
The only fish you now you like permit, not almost say permit, excuse me.
00:25:44.439 --> 00:25:46.039
Um jacks.
00:25:46.519 --> 00:25:48.759
So a jack, super aggressive.
00:25:49.079 --> 00:25:51.079
They won't, they're gonna hit, they wanna hit it.
00:25:51.239 --> 00:25:56.439
Like when you get a school of like a hundred jacks, bro, throw a popper out there, it is the coolest.
00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:00.519
All you see is just mouths, just green mouths, just coming and trying to hit this popper, you know?
00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:01.079
Crazy.
00:26:01.159 --> 00:26:01.639
Yeah, it's crazy.
00:26:01.959 --> 00:26:07.159
Yeah, so you gotta bring the, you gotta bring the they say like certain fish, you gotta bring the jack out of them.
00:26:07.239 --> 00:26:07.479
Yeah.
00:26:07.639 --> 00:26:13.000
So you gotta throw that fly out there and move that fly to where he wants to aggressively hit it.
00:26:13.079 --> 00:26:14.359
You know, it's it's cool.
00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:15.559
There's a lot to it though.
00:26:15.639 --> 00:26:15.719
Yeah.
00:26:16.199 --> 00:26:19.239
Hunting and fish, like fly fishing and hunting, they correlate so much.
00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:20.439
There's levels to it too.
00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:21.799
I mean, there's definitely levels to it.
00:26:21.959 --> 00:26:22.599
Yeah, 100%.
00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:23.719
That's a big one right there, dude.
00:26:23.879 --> 00:26:24.519
There's levels to it.
00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:25.559
Yeah, it's a lot of levels.
00:26:25.639 --> 00:26:29.959
And if you don't understand those levels and you move too fast, you're gonna get bumped back down real quick.
00:26:31.159 --> 00:26:38.199
That's what like I couldn't imagine out there fly fishing like that with a pole doing it by myself.
00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:39.319
I couldn't imagine.
00:26:39.479 --> 00:26:40.919
So I wouldn't even know to start.
00:26:41.239 --> 00:26:47.159
Dude, I love to have the dude, the rod, the pole, like you pretty much got everything set up.
00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:52.919
So, like, whenever I am out there on the canoe, I already got my line stretched out, right?
00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:57.559
So when I'm pushing, I'm literally just pushing, right?
00:26:57.879 --> 00:26:59.079
I put the pole down.
00:26:59.159 --> 00:27:06.199
So I see a fish, I'm gonna put the pole down, and then I'm gonna lift my rod up and I'm gonna start casting at that fish then.
00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:11.879
Now, if it's a moving fish, I'm not about to try to even cast at him, just like a deer.
00:27:11.959 --> 00:27:16.839
I'm not about to shoot at a moving deer unless it's just that trophy boy, and I'm gonna try to stop him.
00:27:17.159 --> 00:27:17.559
You know what I'm saying?
00:27:18.679 --> 00:27:21.799
But other than that, I'm not trying to go at a moving target.
00:27:21.879 --> 00:27:25.959
I would rather him be sitting there eating, feet and it happy, tail up out of the water.
00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:29.479
So all I gotta do is put it in front of his nose, and he just boom, you know?
00:27:30.199 --> 00:27:36.919
So like a lot of it is just watching the fish, seeing what the fish doing, and making sure that you can make the right placement.
00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:39.239
So, like, where I'm at, it's it's technical.
00:27:39.559 --> 00:27:42.679
Go to Louisiana, you hit them on the head, and they boom.
00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:43.799
Everybody says it.
00:27:43.879 --> 00:27:45.239
I I mean, that's all you hear about.
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:47.319
Man, go over there, they're dumb, they're dumb, they're dumb.
00:27:47.479 --> 00:27:51.159
They could be dumb in New Smyrna and the lagoon too, but it's it's techie.
00:27:51.239 --> 00:27:52.519
So it teaches you a lot, dude.
00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:53.879
And like I said, it goes over.
00:27:54.039 --> 00:28:00.679
So whenever I get in a stand and I start pulling that bow back, now I know you got one shot and you better focus.
00:28:01.319 --> 00:28:07.079
Because if you miss, you're gonna be mad and you're gonna be going back home and you done sat in three days.
00:28:07.879 --> 00:28:09.559
That's me right now, dude.
00:28:09.879 --> 00:28:13.479
I missed the buck yesterday, and I just the whole drive home.
00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:15.159
It was a 45-minute drive.
00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:16.519
I didn't say a word.
00:28:16.679 --> 00:28:18.119
I didn't even listen to music.
00:28:18.439 --> 00:28:18.839
Silence.
00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:22.199
I mean, it's just straight up anger driving.
00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:25.319
Like, you know, if a cop pulled me over, I wouldn't pull over.
00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:26.759
You'd see me on the news.
00:28:26.919 --> 00:28:27.399
You know what I mean?
00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:28.519
It's hot by that, dude.
00:28:28.599 --> 00:28:29.559
It'd been a big deal.
00:28:29.879 --> 00:28:34.679
You know, you know, because once you miss, you start thinking about all little things like, did I look down my peep site?
00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:35.879
Was I even aiming at the deer?
00:28:35.959 --> 00:28:37.559
Was I looking like outside the peep site?
00:28:37.719 --> 00:28:40.439
Like you'd be like, Yeah, I mean I dropped my bow before I went in there.
00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:42.759
You'd be thinking like all these crazy scenarios.
00:28:43.399 --> 00:28:45.479
I was recapping the shot like a hundred times.
00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:47.159
I was like, did I hit a limb?
00:28:47.399 --> 00:28:48.279
I could hit a limb.
00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:48.519
Yeah.
00:28:48.679 --> 00:28:49.399
Maybe I hit a limb.
00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:51.959
Then I start texting out, start texting the guy at the bow shop.
00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:53.639
Yeah, I think my putting wrong my bow.
00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:54.839
My bow's out of tune, bro.
00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:55.719
Sure.
00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:57.159
You sure you got this thing right?
00:28:57.319 --> 00:28:58.519
I need you to cite this thing.
00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:00.359
I think I dropped it down just a little bit.
00:29:01.159 --> 00:29:03.079
Once you come look at it, I think you got a screw loose or something.
00:29:03.639 --> 00:29:04.599
It's gut-wrenching.
00:29:04.679 --> 00:29:09.879
I mean, it's like you put in so much work, and it's like not even the work of like be getting yourself in position.
00:29:09.959 --> 00:29:12.199
It's the work of like you're baiting out.
00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:17.239
You're baiting out, you're setting your spots up, you're planning, you're up late at night checking your game cameras.
00:29:17.399 --> 00:29:22.199
Like, just all that time accumulatively went into this one moment.
00:29:23.159 --> 00:29:24.839
And it's like, what did I even do?
00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:27.159
I don't remember even aiming at all.
00:29:27.719 --> 00:29:28.039
Yeah.
00:29:28.279 --> 00:29:30.919
All you all you remember is just release.
00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:31.399
That's it.
00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:35.479
I put a bit I put a video on Facebook uh not yesterday, Saturday.
00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:37.239
And it was like shooting some ducks, you know?
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:37.479
Yeah.
00:29:37.639 --> 00:29:41.879
But you know, naturally, you keep, you know, you just keep clicking until your gun don't click anymore.
00:29:41.959 --> 00:29:44.199
Well, all these dudes like, you must be used to shooting four shells.
00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:46.919
I'm like, no, I just black out I start shooting.
00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:49.639
I don't sit there and count.
00:29:49.719 --> 00:29:51.479
I just keep squeezing until one doesn't go off another one.
00:29:51.639 --> 00:29:56.279
I think I seen that comment and I laughed because I was like, it I was just like, what, man, get out of here.
00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:58.599
When you're in a moment and you're shooting, I'm just I'm pulling.
00:29:58.679 --> 00:29:59.399
Bing, bang, bang.
00:29:59.719 --> 00:30:00.759
I'm gonna keep I'm gonna keep squeezing.
00:30:02.439 --> 00:30:06.439
But you'll hit you'll hit it the fourth time and you'll squeeze off a fifth.
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:13.399
If everybody around you is shooting, you're like, you'll squeeze the fourth point no.
00:30:13.639 --> 00:30:16.439
And you don't, you'll be like, you don't you don't remember if you're gunshot or not?
00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:18.439
So you think you'd be like, oh my god, yeah.
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:22.039
I mean, how many times you you shot twice and think you shot three times?
00:30:22.199 --> 00:30:22.359
Yeah.
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:24.039
And that's all you did was shoot twice.
00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:24.919
Then you pull the trigger.
00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:26.679
You're like, dang, I had one more shell in there.
00:30:26.919 --> 00:30:27.639
You thought you did.
00:30:27.719 --> 00:30:29.399
Yeah, thought you did.
00:30:29.639 --> 00:30:30.919
No, you seriously, dude.
00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:35.559
In the moment, and that's what hunting does for you, too, like the adrenaline rush, like especially with deer.
00:30:35.719 --> 00:30:35.959
Yeah.
00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:39.959
Like for a perfect situation, it's like I want a deer to come in.
00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:45.239
I want to see him coming for 15 minutes, or I want him to only come for five seconds.
00:30:45.399 --> 00:30:46.439
Yeah, I don't want you to be there too.
00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:51.159
That like two-minute or three-minute dude, you start getting like the the shakes, dude.
00:30:51.239 --> 00:30:56.439
Like, it needs to be a super long time so you can calm down, or it needs to be so fast that it's too quick to even get excited.
00:30:56.679 --> 00:31:04.599
Yeah, because if that if that deer starts doing any kind of like weird, like little one little half stump, or like he starts like doing, I'm like, I start freaking out, like your stomach done fell out the stand.
00:31:04.679 --> 00:31:07.959
As soon as he said that, and every everything starts sounding loud to you, too.
00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:09.000
Like, you like everything.
00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:11.799
You touch something, you're like, Golly, I'm so loud.
00:31:12.439 --> 00:31:17.399
Like that deer I videoed the other day, like, dude, I was like literally, he was in there so long, I was just comfortable with him.
00:31:17.479 --> 00:31:20.199
I'm there, I done reached in my bag, got a Gatorade out, drinking a Gatorade.
00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:22.519
I'm sitting there playing with the glasses, trying to video him.
00:31:22.679 --> 00:31:28.439
But you know, like, but if it had been like any other time, like when he first walked up, I was like, before you knew what he was, yeah.
00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:31.239
You know, I'm like, holy crap, my head enough, am I high enough?
00:31:31.319 --> 00:31:32.119
I definitely wasn't.
00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:35.399
Well, that's you know, that's a recurring thing for you, dude.
00:31:35.959 --> 00:31:38.519
You see Daryl out there in the street, he'd be like eight feet off the ground.
00:31:39.079 --> 00:31:43.959
Dude, I can reach up on my tippy toes, grab his platform, be like this time, this time I'm so low.
00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:47.319
If you look in my game camera, you can see my whole setup in the game camera picture.
00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:50.359
Looks like my top of the dick.
00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:52.519
That is no, you ain't no work.
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:53.959
I'm I want to look you in the face.
00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:54.839
That's what I want to do.
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:58.199
Look, I put up, I put, I'm saddle hunting, right?
00:31:58.279 --> 00:32:00.199
So I got three sticks, technically.
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:01.319
Well, I get one stick on.
00:32:01.479 --> 00:32:02.919
This is my first climb of the year.
00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:05.479
So I get one stick on, I put the second stick on the ground.
00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:06.519
Well, I got four sticks.
00:32:06.679 --> 00:32:07.559
I put the second one on.
00:32:07.639 --> 00:32:09.559
Well, then I have a carabin that carry my sticks up.
00:32:09.639 --> 00:32:11.079
So I'm like, all right, how am I gonna do this?
00:32:11.239 --> 00:32:18.839
So I'm like, I'm gonna climb up two, put the third one, then I'll climb back down and get the get the other stick in my platform because I didn't have enough to carry my platform up either.
00:32:18.919 --> 00:32:21.239
This is a brand new platform as well, so I don't even know how it works.
00:32:21.399 --> 00:32:23.159
And I got a camera orm that I haven't ever used.
00:32:23.239 --> 00:32:24.599
So I'm just trying to like just figure all this.
00:32:24.919 --> 00:32:25.559
You just winging it.
00:32:25.639 --> 00:32:26.359
It is just throwing.
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:32.039
So I get up there and I put the the uh the third stick on, I climb back down to get the fourth stick.
00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:38.359
Well, when I go to put the the third stick or step on the third stick to put the fourth stick on, the third stick falls off the tree as I'm stepping on it.
00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:40.359
So like I still got one for the second one.
00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:41.959
So the third stick's gone.
00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:43.159
It's I'm like, you know what?
00:32:43.239 --> 00:32:45.000
This is how I'm just sitting right here.
00:32:45.479 --> 00:32:47.639
So I put the platform up at my high level.
00:32:47.719 --> 00:32:50.519
So then I'm like trying to climb the tree with one foot just to step on it.
00:32:50.679 --> 00:32:52.439
Then the platform went sit and get on the tree.
00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:55.000
It's definitely probably a sketch session situation.
00:32:55.239 --> 00:33:01.000
I'm telling you, dude, the first sit, you all right, the first hunt you go on is basically like a practice hunt.
00:33:01.159 --> 00:33:01.319
Yeah.
00:33:01.479 --> 00:33:05.000
Like you gotta make sure you have all your stuff because half the time you get there, you're like, dang.
00:33:05.239 --> 00:33:07.159
Yeah, I was surprised that you even bring a strap.
00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:08.039
Because I was so loud.
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:09.799
Oh, dude, don't even talk about a bow rope.
00:33:09.879 --> 00:33:13.639
I literally tied my backpack straps on like the panga that comes into inside of the bag.
00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:15.239
I literally just tied it to the bow.
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:15.399
Yeah.
00:33:15.639 --> 00:33:19.479
Where it's like it's a little bit below me, and I'm just it's just slowly coming up, and it is a cluster.
00:33:19.639 --> 00:33:26.919
Dude, we hunted Illinois last year, and the first three days, Daryl had a game plan of what tree is gonna go get in.
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:27.239
Yeah.
00:33:27.399 --> 00:33:32.599
And the first three days we hunted, Daryl never successfully made it up the tree.
00:33:32.679 --> 00:33:33.399
It never got there.
00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:34.519
No, it never got there.
00:33:34.679 --> 00:33:37.239
The first day I got in there, I just sat on the ground.
00:33:38.199 --> 00:33:39.399
I gave up immediately.
00:33:39.639 --> 00:33:40.439
Nah, I'm done.
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:43.239
Then the second day, I don't think I had no way to get the sticks.
00:33:43.479 --> 00:33:44.279
I don't remember the ship.
00:33:46.439 --> 00:33:49.319
And then the third day, I think I climbed up there and I dropped everything out of the tree.
00:33:49.399 --> 00:33:51.399
Like I dropped my bow, I dropped the release.
00:33:51.479 --> 00:33:51.799
Oh, yeah.
00:33:51.959 --> 00:33:53.000
So then I sat on the ground again.
00:33:53.159 --> 00:33:53.799
It was over with.
00:33:53.959 --> 00:33:55.319
From day one, it was over with.
00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:57.559
And that tree was not meant for you to sit in.
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:04.359
And I know, you know, Daryl, like at the beginning of the season, when he starts to go do this, you know, he's gonna have some trial and errors he's gonna have to go through.
00:34:04.439 --> 00:34:07.399
So like that first evening, I called Daryl, he didn't pick up.
00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:10.440
I'm like, you know, it's like 8:40, you know, I know it's dark.
00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:12.280
I'm like, okay, I'm gonna give him 30 more minutes.
00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:13.800
I call him again, didn't pick up.
00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:16.360
I'm like, you know, now it's like 9.15.
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:17.159
I'm getting nervous.
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:18.599
I'm like, dang.
00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:21.000
So I called dad, I'm like, dude, I ain't heard from Daryl.
00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:22.280
I ain't heard from him.
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:26.760
I was like, I'm gonna give him another 30 minutes so you don't call again if you don't pick up, and it's about that time.
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:27.239
He called me.
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:29.880
I was like, you never know, man.
00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:36.440
Like, you gotta check on people, especially early season, because like you know, you be up there just trying to make it work, you don't got all your stuff together.
00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:40.840
And that's what you know, that's why I think saddle hunting is so safe.
00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:47.719
It's because like I'll go up with my lyman belt and then when I get up there, I'll put my lifeline on and everything's hooked up.
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:49.880
I'm hooked up to the tree all the time, you know.
00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:53.719
Because you know, I know tons of people that just slip up for one second.
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:55.719
Next thing you know, you know, you're falling out of the tree.
00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:56.039
Yeah.
00:34:56.759 --> 00:35:00.119
I don't even, I don't even uh you know, you're supposed to take your lemon belt off.
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:00.759
I don't even do that.
00:35:00.839 --> 00:35:02.039
I got my leave it on the tree.
00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:03.960
I got two points.
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:04.920
I ain't even playing with them.
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:05.559
Yeah, I need to.
00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:15.159
If it's loose enough or like, you know, like it's like, I mean, it cannot be on, but if I if I was to somehow, yeah, something was to fail, I would, you know, I would get slammed into the tree.
00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:17.400
But you know, I think about it that a lot.
00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:18.920
I'm like, because I got the lime belt on.
00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.719
I was like, but if I was to fall, like, dude, it would've hurt.
00:35:21.799 --> 00:35:21.960
Yeah.
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:23.319
You're gonna bang that tree.
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:26.839
You're gonna go, it's gonna snatch you right into it.
00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:29.719
It's gonna be like just a and it's not gonna be on just like bare tree.
00:35:29.799 --> 00:35:33.719
It's gonna be on like sticks, yeah, and like and then you're gonna slide down something too.
00:35:33.799 --> 00:35:35.559
You're gonna have like rash, but it's gonna be better than a broke.
00:35:35.799 --> 00:35:41.960
That's what I that's what I like when I think about like out of the tree, like, you know, first instinct, I'm gonna grab it.
00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:42.920
Oh my gosh.
00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:44.599
Then think about a palm tree.
00:35:44.759 --> 00:35:45.559
Ooh, yeah.
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:46.679
How much pain?
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:47.639
How much pain?
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:50.359
How much pain you're gonna have trying to hold it?
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:58.679
I don't think I've ever heard or even imagined the fact that you would be climbing palm palm trees.
00:35:58.839 --> 00:35:59.639
Yeah, deer hunt.
00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:00.119
You know what I mean?
00:36:00.279 --> 00:36:00.920
Like, oh yeah.
00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:07.079
I'm talking about, I mean, you can get in any tree, but palm tree might be the best thing for you to get into, you know?
00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:08.839
So you it is what it is, dude.
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:09.400
It is.
00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:10.440
Yeah, man.
00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:12.839
So I need to get me a saddle, though.
00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:13.960
I gotta I definitely.
00:36:14.359 --> 00:36:15.559
That's a whole nother thing, man.
00:36:15.799 --> 00:36:21.639
Once you get it and you figure out like the system, like after the first hunt of the year, it's it don't matter, it's still like a system.
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:25.480
It's I don't, it's it's really nothing better, honestly.
00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:36.679
I mean, for a flexibility of like, if I'm gonna go out of state, and say I'm going to hunt public land somewhere out of state, like you can take a saddle setup and you're just so versatile.
00:36:36.759 --> 00:36:37.639
Like you can go anywhere.
00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:40.359
Like you can make anything kind of work.
00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:40.759
Yeah.
00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:48.119
I mean, there was one time where I was in uh I don't remember where I was, I was on a river somewhere, and there was like no straight trees.
00:36:48.279 --> 00:36:52.920
They were all bent, like river trees, all everything was all bent over, and there's like no good trees.
00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:54.920
So I had a stick on one tree.
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:59.079
There's like a little cluster of like three trees, and they're all bent different directions.
00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:05.799
Well, I put one stick on this tree, I had the next stick on a different tree, and then the next stick was on like the third tree.
00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:08.519
So I had like three different trees that I had sticks on.
00:37:08.839 --> 00:37:11.799
And it took me a while to get up there, but it was like the only way I could get in there.
00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:12.599
That was it.
00:37:12.839 --> 00:37:14.759
And like I couldn't have done that with anything else, you know.
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:16.440
Yeah, you ain't doing that with no climber.
00:37:16.759 --> 00:37:19.799
No, I've I've been wanting to get into a saddle, so I'm I'm definitely gonna look at it.
00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:23.799
I'd have had some scares of climbers too, because them circuits are just kind of like they sketchy, dude.
00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:26.440
I mean, my little like make sure you tie them together though.
00:37:26.519 --> 00:37:27.000
I know that.
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:29.000
Yeah, yeah, I figured that out.
00:37:29.319 --> 00:37:31.000
Real, you better figure that out real quick.
00:37:31.319 --> 00:37:38.359
Bottom will go to fall out, and you just see sitting up you sitting there like a pull up, just sitting there like, I don't know how I'm gonna get down for you.
00:37:38.759 --> 00:37:39.719
Yeah, it's not good.
00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:41.159
But just let go.
00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:42.440
Yeah, it is what it is.
00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:44.440
You gotta try to wrap your legs around the tree.
00:37:44.759 --> 00:37:45.880
I'm trying to tell you, man.
00:37:46.759 --> 00:37:48.359
Izzy, tell us something about the the barbering.
00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:52.599
Tell us what you you know, you cut me up the past I what three years at ICAS?
00:37:52.839 --> 00:37:53.079
Yeah.
00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:55.960
And so many times we duck bond, I mean duck camp.
00:37:56.199 --> 00:37:57.079
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:57.159 --> 00:37:59.799
I mean every time I see you, actually I get a haircut almost.
00:37:59.960 --> 00:38:05.000
Well, a lot of people don't know or realize I own a barber shop in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:08.839
I've been a barber for going on 12 years now.
00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:10.759
Um, that is my foundation.
00:38:10.839 --> 00:38:18.119
That is what I do five, six days a week, 25, 30 heads a week, sometimes five heads in a week.
00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:21.239
You know, it just is what it is, but that's what I've been doing.
00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:25.079
Um, I've always wanted to be a barber since I was a little boy.
00:38:25.319 --> 00:38:35.319
Just going to the barbershop, as far as when you all right, so when I say that, the first job, like you think, like, what's what do I want to do?
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:35.480
Yeah.
00:38:35.799 --> 00:38:39.960
When I was a little boy, you know, my dream was bull rider, right?
00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:40.279
Right.
00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:48.920
But job money-wise, you know, my mom dropped me off at the barbershop, or I ride my bike up there with my little$10 in my pocket, you know.
00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:50.440
Getting getting shop.
00:38:50.519 --> 00:38:51.480
It's full of people.
00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:54.279
You gotta wait for the old man to get ready to cut everybody's hair.
00:38:54.359 --> 00:38:56.039
He probably gonna thump you in the back of the head.
00:38:56.119 --> 00:38:57.799
He probably gonna talk some mess to you.
00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:00.440
You put a hot towel that's way too hot on you.
00:39:00.759 --> 00:39:03.159
You line up, be crooked, and everything else.
00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:09.000
But, you know, it was just the fact of being around all the old guys, listening to the conversations.
00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:14.359
He might have some old basketball on the TV, old football, old something, you know?
00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:19.559
Um, those smells, raggedy floor, raggedy barber chair, everything raggedy in the place.
00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:21.559
Everybody arguing in there for no reason.
00:39:21.799 --> 00:39:22.279
For no reason.
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:23.480
What y'all argue about?
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:23.880
Nothing.
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:25.319
You know, like what are you talking about?
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:26.839
You think everybody in there hate each other?
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:27.400
You do.
00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:33.559
And uh, you know, you get out of this chair, and you know, barber, hey man, ten dollars, right?
00:39:33.799 --> 00:39:43.159
You go to take five ones, you know, five out your pocket, however it may be, whatever mama gave you, whatever daddy gave you, take that money out of his pocket, you hand it to that barber.
00:39:43.319 --> 00:39:53.799
First thing you notice that barber do take the fattest wad of money out of his pocket and go to just counting through just to get through all these hundreds, fifties, and twenties, just to give you two damn dollars back, right?
00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:54.039
Yeah.
00:39:54.279 --> 00:39:55.000
You know what I'm saying?
00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:56.839
I was intrigued by that.
00:39:57.079 --> 00:40:00.359
So fast forward, I stay in a very small town.
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:05.400
New Smyrna is a surfing, beach, drinking country town.
00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:06.119
That's it.
00:40:06.279 --> 00:40:11.000
If you ain't coming for the beach and you ain't coming to drink, ain't no reason to be.
00:40:11.319 --> 00:40:11.719
Ain't no reason.
00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:13.480
Yeah, it's just or fish.
00:40:13.559 --> 00:40:14.679
That's it, you know?
00:40:15.319 --> 00:40:19.719
So my dad, uh my dad lived in West Palm.
00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:26.119
So that very much so in my life, my whole life, just not physically, like every day, right?
00:40:26.279 --> 00:40:26.599
Right.
00:40:26.839 --> 00:40:35.400
So uh Pops used to take me to a Spanish barber shop in West Palm, and it was uh it was actually called Pacino's.
00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:37.559
So Pacino is Eric Pacino.
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:40.199
Eric Pacino is a famous celebrity barber.
00:40:40.279 --> 00:40:43.079
He has his own signature line in Target now.
00:40:43.719 --> 00:40:45.400
He was my barber as a kid.
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:45.960
Really?
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:46.440
Yeah.
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:50.039
So I would go to his shop and just imagine like this room right here.
00:40:50.279 --> 00:40:56.279
Just imagine if the top of the like the border of the walls were nothing but celebrities all the way around.
00:40:56.440 --> 00:41:07.480
So back in the early 90s, early 2000s, and all of that, every celebrity you can think of was coming into Eric's shop, getting their hair by Eric Pacino, Pacino, Pacino, Pacino.
00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:14.440
And his shop was so cool because it was half black, half white, and then there was a silhouette of him like Scarface.
00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:14.839
Yeah, yeah.
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:18.920
But as his hand, it was a clipper, and then the other one was a sheer.
00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:28.359
So between going to a really, really sophisticated upscale celebrity shop to the hood raggedy shop, what was the common denominator?
00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:34.920
They both had money, they both were successful, they both were having fun, they was talking.
00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:36.920
It wasn't a work environment.
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:37.719
You know what I'm saying?
00:41:37.799 --> 00:41:39.400
I was like, man, I can do this.
00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:44.519
So, you know, I get into barbering and same thing.
00:41:44.679 --> 00:41:46.519
So now I'm coming to duck camp.
00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:47.639
I'm cutting at duck camp.
00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:48.759
I man, get me cleaned up.
00:41:48.920 --> 00:41:56.039
Next thing you know, I cut one person, now I'm cutting two, now I'm cutting three, now I'm cutting four, but it's not cutting to me because I love cutting hair.
00:41:56.199 --> 00:41:58.440
I love seeing like people with a smile.
00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:03.239
Like a cut can transform your entire attitude just like that.
00:42:03.559 --> 00:42:03.880
You know?
00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:17.799
So I noticed that and fell in love with that, but just starting to take my clippers all around, like Puerto Rico and doing haircuts on the crow's nest or uh uh taking them out to Texas and doing the cuts on the cornfields.
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:22.440
It's just it's all a cool experience because everybody needs a haircut, dude.
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:25.079
So why not do it in your favorite setting?
00:42:25.159 --> 00:42:25.480
You know?
00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:26.679
Yeah, no, it's definitely cool.
00:42:26.759 --> 00:42:28.199
Like you don't see a lot of stuff like that.
00:42:28.359 --> 00:42:30.199
Nah, man, and I love the collateral.
00:42:30.359 --> 00:42:36.519
Like my barbershop, a lot of people come into my barbershop and automatically think they're going to be in a regular barbershop.
00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:38.759
No, my barbershop looks like a hunting lodge.
00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:48.679
I got taxidermy, I got green heads, I got model ducks, I got green wings, um, I got a speckle belly, a blue face, uh Dead Mount in my shop.
00:42:48.759 --> 00:42:55.799
I got one, two, three, I got four, set, I got seven, eight, nine, and a 10-point all hanging up.
00:42:56.039 --> 00:43:03.480
I got flags from all of the companies that I work with, or you know, some of my partners, some of the sponsors, some of the company, like I got flags.
00:43:03.559 --> 00:43:06.279
So, you know, me, I'm big with the community.
00:43:06.359 --> 00:43:07.400
I got a barber shop.
00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:13.239
So if I can show my people who I work with and who support me, you know, why not?
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:14.199
Why not show them?
00:43:14.359 --> 00:43:16.359
Why not, you know, show them off to the world?
00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:18.519
Because half of them don't know, like, damn, they come.
00:43:19.079 --> 00:43:19.719
Who is that?
00:43:19.799 --> 00:43:21.719
Or who is this company, or who is this?
00:43:21.799 --> 00:43:26.119
Or like just recently, you know, uh Sportsman Pride put me on a big banner.
00:43:26.279 --> 00:43:28.679
So now I got that big banner on my shop.
00:43:28.759 --> 00:43:30.599
But when you walk in the shop, you don't see it.
00:43:30.759 --> 00:43:34.440
When you're walking out of the shop and you look up, that's all you see.
00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:41.639
So like now people are getting more familiar with like all the companies that I work with, because I tell people, hey man, you got a big three by five flag?
00:43:41.799 --> 00:43:42.920
Let me put it up in my shop.
00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:45.400
Oh, heck yeah, you got a neon sign.
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:46.679
Send it to me.
00:43:46.759 --> 00:43:47.799
I'm putting it up in the shop.
00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:56.119
So my shop, the only thing that you can tell that like my my shop is a barber shop, is if I turn to the station and you see a toolbox and a barber chair.
00:43:56.199 --> 00:43:59.880
And then I just I'm blessed enough to have another barber in my shop now.
00:43:59.960 --> 00:44:06.279
So I've been in there 10, 11 years, and this is the first year I've actually had a barber, and he is really good.
00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:07.960
Like, really good.
00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:10.279
So I'm extremely happy about that.
00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:18.279
So now when I do leave the shop for duck season, which was my favorite season, now I don't have to worry about my clients getting pissed off and mad at me.
00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:19.159
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
00:44:19.319 --> 00:44:19.719
You know what I'm saying?
00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:20.599
Yeah, it wouldn't be hard.
00:44:22.759 --> 00:44:25.639
You also sell a bunch of uh merch too, right?
00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:29.719
Like you sell them, well, not a bunch, but like you can people come in there and shop too, like little things.
00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:35.719
Yeah, they can, they definitely can because a barbershop is technically in a retail space.
00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:39.880
So I'll have stuff in the shop for sale sometimes, some of my old gear.
00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:45.400
If not old gear, I'll get stuff from guys that they've been having sitting around for a long time.
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:47.000
I might still have price tags on it.
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:48.039
I'm like, seriously.
00:44:48.199 --> 00:44:50.679
So it's almost like I got a consignment shop as well.
00:44:50.839 --> 00:44:51.079
Yeah, yeah.
00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:51.799
You know what I'm saying?
00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:55.799
So I definitely have times where I'm it's a good place for it though.
00:44:55.960 --> 00:44:59.960
Yeah, I mean I get guys coming in, I get guys coming in and out all the time.
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:07.559
I got, you know, I got everybody coming in and out of the shop all the time because not only is it me, I also brought my aunt.
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.039
My aunt's been a beautician for 20 years.
00:45:10.199 --> 00:45:12.679
So I built her a studio in the back of my shop.
00:45:12.839 --> 00:45:13.960
But it's totally separate.
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:21.239
So like you walk in my shop, you walk to the back, and you open these barn doors, and she got her own like entire section.
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:31.880
So like you get all of her clients, then their husbands come see me, and then their husband, the sons, and then the grandkids, and it's just like a revolving door.
00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:36.039
So like they come in, they might see, damn, Brandon, you selling that?
00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:36.440
Yeah.
00:45:36.599 --> 00:45:37.000
Go ahead.
00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:38.119
How much you want for?
00:45:38.279 --> 00:45:39.159
Ah, a little bit of nothing.
00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:40.679
Just give me something out of your pocket.
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:41.319
Really?
00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:41.799
Yeah.
00:45:41.960 --> 00:45:44.039
Like, it's it's not that big of a deal.
00:45:44.279 --> 00:45:45.719
So I like it.
00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:47.639
The community comes through all the time.
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:50.519
I do back to school haircuts every single year.
00:45:50.759 --> 00:45:54.359
Haircuts free, backpacks free, food free.
00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:56.119
Um, everything is free.
00:45:56.279 --> 00:45:57.000
I don't ask for it.
00:45:57.159 --> 00:45:58.039
I don't want nothing.
00:45:58.199 --> 00:46:00.839
Like, I tell people, if you want to give me a tip, that's cool.
00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:10.679
But like, these kids gotta, they gotta look up to somebody and they gotta see somebody want to do something for them out of the kindness of their heart and not just because you're a kid and I gotta do this for you.
00:46:10.759 --> 00:46:11.719
No, no, no, no, no.
00:46:11.799 --> 00:46:13.000
I want to see you be successful.
00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:18.359
I want to show you, show you somebody, show you something that you probably won't see ever in your life.
00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:19.559
Right, just help them out, you know.
00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:25.480
Yeah, you know, so I do my little fair share of definitely like giving back, but it's about to really turn up.
00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:27.480
Now, now that I got another barber in the shop.
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:31.960
It's definitely uh, definitely going up, dude.
00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:33.719
It sounds like a moving for sure.
00:46:33.880 --> 00:46:34.359
It is, man.
00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:37.639
I'm very passionate about cutting hair, I'm passionate about the outdoors.
00:46:37.799 --> 00:46:43.159
So me collotting both of my worlds together, you just don't get that.
00:46:43.319 --> 00:46:47.639
You know, like I tell people all the time, I live, I'm literally living my dreams.
00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:53.960
And I talk to a lot of guys every single day, and they ain't living, bro.
00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:55.719
Like they really aren't living.
00:46:55.799 --> 00:46:58.519
And I'm like, man, you gotta you gotta think about you, dude.
00:46:58.599 --> 00:46:59.799
Yeah, you gotta be a provider.
00:46:59.880 --> 00:47:03.239
Yeah, you have to be all of those things, but you need to think about you too.
00:47:03.319 --> 00:47:03.799
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:05.799
There's a million different ways to do it.
00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:07.079
A million, you know?
00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:08.039
Yeah, a million.
00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:09.559
So like that's my big thing.
00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:15.319
I always try to like push men's health, men's like mental health, like get out there and do something for you, dude.
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:16.119
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:19.079
Like, we as men, that's what we're taught.
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.599
You protect and you provide, protect and provide, protect and provide.
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:24.039
But then we forget about ourselves.
00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:31.000
So going back to the beginning of this story, when I was like, man, I want to be in the outdoors, I want to do this, I want to do that.
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:42.199
Well, if I don't think about myself right now, then when I get 65, how the heck can I make and help anybody else be happy if I was never happy for the 30 years that I had to go do all this stuff?
00:47:42.279 --> 00:47:42.839
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:44.199
I'm gonna be a miserable old man.
00:47:44.759 --> 00:47:48.679
Something I wish I could have been in the woods right now, doing I can't even get up, dog on stand.
00:47:48.839 --> 00:47:50.679
I I should have done this 20 years ago.
00:47:50.759 --> 00:47:51.960
I don't want to be that man.
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:52.759
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:52.839 --> 00:48:00.679
I'd rather be that dude that's 65, 70, talking junk to the 30-year-old, because I'm dragging the deer out and he ain't want to listen to me.
00:48:00.839 --> 00:48:01.480
You know what I'm saying?
00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:01.960
Oh yeah.
00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:02.759
Yeah, dude.
00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:05.639
So barbering is barbering is everything to me.
00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:13.559
And it gives you, it also gives you, especially now you have another uh barber in there, it gives you kind of the freedom to go do these things.
00:48:13.799 --> 00:48:14.039
Yes.
00:48:14.199 --> 00:48:19.000
You know, like to be able to go all season, to be able to go here, go there, travel a little bit.
00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:21.159
But you don't learn that without trial and error.
00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:22.119
You know what I'm saying?
00:48:22.279 --> 00:48:26.279
Like it was at one point, I wasn't even worried about the shop.
00:48:26.519 --> 00:48:27.719
Which is crazy to say that, right?
00:48:27.799 --> 00:48:29.559
Because like, what you mean you won't worry about the shop?
00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:31.319
Man, I wanted to chase this bird, bro.
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:33.639
I wanted to go, I wanted to go, I wanted to go.
00:48:33.799 --> 00:48:36.519
But not realizing, like, dude, this is your foundation.
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:40.199
If you aren't here for your clients, you ain't gonna be able to go nowhere.
00:48:40.279 --> 00:48:42.199
So you need to see about your clients first.
00:48:42.359 --> 00:48:45.559
Make sure the foundation of this shop is sound, all four corners.
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:48.119
You don't want no cracks, you don't want no dance, you don't want nothing.
00:48:48.279 --> 00:48:50.920
You want this to be a smooth foundation.
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:54.519
Once you get this foundation laid, son, we can start putting the walls up.
00:48:54.759 --> 00:48:56.920
You get the walls up, now we can frame the roof.
00:48:57.079 --> 00:48:59.319
You get the roof in, now we can put the windows up.
00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:02.279
Now we can put everything, we can make this house sound.
00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:06.440
But if you don't have a solid foundation, you're not gonna get nowhere.
00:49:06.599 --> 00:49:08.839
You can build it up, but it's gonna crash every time.
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:09.319
That's right.
00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:12.440
It's gonna crash, walls gonna fall, roof gonna cave in.
00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:16.519
Something's gonna happen because you wasn't focused on your foundation.
00:49:16.839 --> 00:49:23.799
So I had to stop hunting for a year, two years, had a couple incidents happen, and I just kind of like took a break.
00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:27.000
I just stepped back and I just put all my focus into my shop.
00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:31.559
Once I did that, then I realized like, now you can do it all, son.
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:33.400
That's your foundation.
00:49:33.480 --> 00:49:38.199
Uh, this is this is you got blessed to be a barber.
00:49:38.839 --> 00:49:40.440
Don't mess up your blessing.
00:49:40.839 --> 00:49:44.519
Because you you're gonna miss this blessing if you keep looking past it.
00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:45.239
You know what I'm saying?
00:49:45.799 --> 00:49:50.359
I was just looking past it, just taking taking it, uh taking advantage of it.
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:51.159
You get what I'm saying?
00:49:51.239 --> 00:49:51.559
Oh, yeah.
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:54.279
So now I'm just now I just sit back and I chill.
00:49:54.359 --> 00:49:56.039
You know, if I'm able to go, I can go.
00:49:56.199 --> 00:49:57.719
If I can't go, I can't go.
00:49:57.799 --> 00:50:03.000
But it's not gonna be too much longer where I say, I can't go, which is I had to sit back and wait and chill.
00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:05.159
You gotta you gotta almost give to get.
00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:05.400
Yeah.
00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:07.639
You know, like you gotta give up those two years.
00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:08.679
Ain't no almost.
00:50:08.839 --> 00:50:09.159
You're right.
00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:13.719
You have if you if you wanna get something, you gotta give up something.
00:50:14.119 --> 00:50:14.679
You know what I'm saying?
00:50:14.920 --> 00:50:15.239
Absolutely.
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:20.519
And a lot of I think a lot of dudes get it misconscrewed because they think they gotta give up everything.
00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:21.319
No, bro.
00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:22.679
You don't have to sacrifice.
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:28.039
It's just a little bit uh, this little bit of sacrifice is gonna get you this much.
00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:33.639
Why are you why are you so worried about this little sacrifice when you got all of this coming to you, dude?
00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:36.599
Just sacrifice that little bit, a little bit of time.
00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:40.119
Next thing you know, you be hunting for 70 days.
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:42.679
Now you're going way over to Washington State.
00:50:42.759 --> 00:50:44.359
They got a 120-day season.
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:44.679
Yeah.
00:50:44.839 --> 00:50:45.480
You know what I'm saying?
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:47.079
Now you're going to Canada in October.
00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:49.239
You can shooting birds before everybody.
00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:52.199
But that don't happen unless your foundation right.
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:52.759
That's right.
00:50:52.839 --> 00:50:53.480
You know what I'm saying?
00:50:53.559 --> 00:51:01.400
So I always, uh I said, I I push, I put even like all this stuff I'm talking about now, I push this in my shop, dude.
00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:02.920
I try to be as positive as I can.
00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:07.400
And it is a such thing as uh toxic positivity.
00:51:07.799 --> 00:51:10.679
So I try to be very realistic about the positivity.
00:51:10.839 --> 00:51:14.119
Like, nah, dude, like that's gonna happen and this gonna happen.
00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:18.199
You're gonna, it's up and down, right and left, yin and yang, you know.
00:51:18.359 --> 00:51:21.799
So if you're not putting in, what do you think you're gonna get out?
00:51:22.279 --> 00:51:23.400
Nothing, you know?
00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:29.480
So I try to push that even into the younger boys, like my high school kids.
00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:34.279
I I talk to them like they're grown men, you know, like I don't babying on no nothing.
00:51:34.359 --> 00:51:37.880
Even my younger kids, like I'm talking about kid kids, dude.
00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:43.799
I got, listen, I put them in my chair, I got some duck hunting plan or something like that, and I just go to talking to them.
00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:44.519
How was school?
00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:45.319
What you up to?
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:47.480
You hunt, you fish, you do this, you do that.
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:49.719
Next thing you know, they opening up out everything.
00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:50.599
You know what I'm saying?
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:53.799
And yeah, that's all it takes is just to talk to them, you know?
00:51:53.960 --> 00:52:08.440
So, and they be so intrigued with me because they just see the duck hunting, they see the fishing, they see my dog training, then, you know, then they see me on ads and this little ad and that little ad and this little stuff.
00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:12.920
So at first I didn't realize how much of an influence I was in my town.
00:52:13.159 --> 00:52:21.480
And then once I got my foundation right, I started to pay attention and stop overlooking stuff, I started to realize like you need to watch yourself.
00:52:21.799 --> 00:52:23.559
You know, you are a huge influence.
00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:25.480
You got little kids watching you, dude.
00:52:25.639 --> 00:52:29.000
You got high school guys, why you got grown men watching what you do.
00:52:29.799 --> 00:52:32.279
Gotta make the right steps even when ain't nobody looking.
00:52:32.359 --> 00:52:33.239
You know what I'm saying?
00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:40.519
So the barbering has taught me a lot about life, but hunting and fishing has taught me just as much about life, you know?
00:52:40.599 --> 00:52:43.400
And I only been, I mean 2017.
00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:45.639
I haven't been hunting that long, you know what I'm saying?
00:52:45.799 --> 00:52:48.199
But I wouldn't trade this for the world.
00:52:48.519 --> 00:52:49.079
Nothing.
00:52:49.239 --> 00:52:50.440
You couldn't, nothing.
00:52:50.599 --> 00:52:55.239
Like God, outdoors, family.
00:52:55.799 --> 00:52:57.239
Like, that's my order.
00:52:57.480 --> 00:53:03.400
Like, my my my my old lady, my whole everybody in my family know, like, Brandon is gonna be outside.
00:53:03.719 --> 00:53:04.599
He is not in that shop.
00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:20.440
Well, you know, I was telling, you know, I was telling Dad, I was like, if you really think about it, say you got three months, you know, a year that you're hunting and you're only healthy enough to hunt for another 30 years, you add it up, you only got like six years of hunting left in your whole life.
00:53:20.599 --> 00:53:21.000
Yeah.
00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:25.400
So like of those six years, you want to get the six years out of it.
00:53:25.719 --> 00:53:26.759
And the best six years.
00:53:26.920 --> 00:53:27.319
Yes, yeah.
00:53:27.480 --> 00:53:27.799
You know?
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:28.279
Yeah.
00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:37.880
You gotta get the best while you can because you know, once once that, once that clock starts to tick it down, you can't do too much, now it's dang, dude.
00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:38.920
That that's it.
00:53:39.079 --> 00:53:42.519
Now all you can be is that that guy that's like, hey man, do this right.
00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:47.239
Hey, do this, do this, do that, do this, but you can't really show no action, you know?
00:53:47.319 --> 00:53:52.599
Yeah, I I I want to be the 75, 80-year-old guy still putting in work, you know.
00:53:52.759 --> 00:53:55.480
Like I told my uncle the other day, I don't aspire to retire, dude.
00:53:55.559 --> 00:53:56.359
I don't want to be like you.
00:53:56.440 --> 00:53:58.039
I want to work till I'm 85.
00:53:58.119 --> 00:54:00.359
You know, I want to I want to be able to get up and go.
00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:02.679
You know, I still want to be able to get in the tree stand.
00:54:02.759 --> 00:54:07.960
I still, even if I can't get in the tree stand, at least I want to be able to walk 500 yards into the woods, sit on a bucket.
00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:08.599
You know what I'm saying?
00:54:09.400 --> 00:54:10.359
I don't want to stop moving.
00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:11.480
I want to keep going, you know.
00:54:11.880 --> 00:54:13.799
Well, they say when you stop moving, that's when it's over.
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:14.599
That's when it's over.
00:54:14.759 --> 00:54:16.839
So I mean, you keep pushing, you keep keep doing it.
00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:18.679
I mean, you never, I mean, you just keep it on.
00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:19.799
Grind it out, man.
00:54:19.880 --> 00:54:21.159
Put your head down and just keep going.
00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:22.039
It's like that old truck.
00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:23.799
You let it sit up for a couple months and ain't never running.
00:54:23.880 --> 00:54:24.759
It don't take long either.
00:54:24.839 --> 00:54:25.079
Yep.
00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:27.239
But if you keep that truck running, you keep moving every day.
00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:29.159
Well, you be in there slamming on the gas.
00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:33.079
Trying to jump start that nigga.
00:54:35.960 --> 00:54:37.159
Okay, all right, okay, baby.
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:37.799
All right, all right.
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:38.759
I hear you, I hear you.
00:54:38.839 --> 00:54:40.199
I'm gonna come back, I'm gonna get you right.
00:54:40.599 --> 00:54:42.119
I ain't gonna neglect you no more.
00:54:42.359 --> 00:54:43.799
It's just like that, man.
00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:44.839
Life, life.
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:45.960
But I love it though, man.
00:54:46.039 --> 00:54:48.279
It's a journey, and you gotta embrace the journey.
00:54:48.519 --> 00:54:53.239
Um, in every which way, good, sad, bad, you gotta embrace it all.
00:54:53.319 --> 00:54:53.799
You know what I'm saying?
00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:54.839
It's all for a reason.
00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:58.279
You know, everything is placed in your in your path for a reason.
00:54:58.519 --> 00:54:58.839
Always.
00:54:59.719 --> 00:55:00.759
Always, always, dude.
00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:01.159
It is.
00:55:01.239 --> 00:55:04.440
Well, we're gonna check out that boat, see if it's ready to go.
00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:05.239
Let's do it, man.
00:55:05.319 --> 00:55:06.039
I appreciate you coming.
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:06.440
Seriously.
00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:07.559
He's Scott D.
00:55:08.039 --> 00:55:09.719
Y'all boys mean everything to me.
00:55:09.960 --> 00:55:14.519
Immensely grateful for this podcast, immensely grateful for the partnership, man.
00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:19.880
And I'm I'm looking forward to running this boat up and down freshwater, salt water.
00:55:19.960 --> 00:55:21.960
When I tell you, y'all might be getting text, man.
00:55:22.279 --> 00:55:25.559
Man, who is this dude in this habit running up and down the doggone St.
00:55:25.799 --> 00:55:26.359
John's, man?
00:55:26.599 --> 00:55:29.639
Dang, he done flew past me three times already.
00:55:30.359 --> 00:55:31.319
I'm ready to see it, man.
00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:32.199
I'm ready to see it, dude.
00:55:32.440 --> 00:55:32.839
Yes, sir.
00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:33.880
That wraps it up, guys.
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