Full Transcript for This Is What Brain Damage Sounds Like

I'll say All the companies that I work with are in my opinion best in the game 04:37.003 --> 04:37.983 [SPEAKER_00]: Take that, how you want to take it. 04:38.864 --> 04:42.105 [SPEAKER_00]: Four tech's optics, best in the game, lost broadheads. 04:42.185 --> 04:45.586 [SPEAKER_00]: Most of their heads are still manufactured in the United States, best in the game. 04:46.147 --> 04:51.909 [SPEAKER_00]: Code Blue sense, best in the game, vapor trail archery, best arrow rest in the game. 04:52.169 --> 04:53.970 [SPEAKER_00]: Dude, best arrow rest in the game. 04:55.090 --> 05:05.154 [SPEAKER_00]: Then we have Ozonix, best send elimination product in the game, a one of one company, basically, Ozonix says, and then we have reveal trail cameras, best in the game. 05:05.714 --> 05:12.322 [SPEAKER_00]: Dude, so vortex, co-blue sense, uh, waspartary, Ozonix. 05:14.546 --> 05:17.708 [SPEAKER_00]: vapor trail and reveal trail cameras. 05:17.908 --> 05:19.249 [SPEAKER_00]: All of these are best in the game. 05:19.570 --> 05:22.552 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why I like working with these companies, dude, because they're the best in the game. 05:23.232 --> 05:29.157 [SPEAKER_00]: And I have worked with companies in the past that I no longer work with that I call them up. 05:29.197 --> 05:31.238 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, dude, you're fucking product stock shit, dude. 05:32.139 --> 05:33.720 [SPEAKER_00]: What do I need to do to make this work? 05:33.800 --> 05:34.400 [SPEAKER_00]: What am I doing? 05:34.881 --> 05:40.285 [SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that the fact that I even have to call a company for it to work properly, 05:40.905 --> 05:42.327 [SPEAKER_00]: It is blows my mind. 05:42.467 --> 05:43.128 [SPEAKER_00]: It should not be. 05:43.269 --> 05:46.233 [SPEAKER_00]: I should never have to make a call, especially for a hunting product. 05:48.779 --> 05:53.880 [SPEAKER_00]: I should never have to make a call to the actual company to get something to work. 05:54.020 --> 05:58.541 [SPEAKER_00]: If it is an arrow, like for example, an arrow rest, I should be able to take it into a bow shop. 05:58.861 --> 06:02.841 [SPEAKER_00]: If the bow shop has to call the company, then something's wrong, right? 06:03.322 --> 06:05.402 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't have to do that with vapor drill. 06:05.462 --> 06:06.842 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, so that's what I'm getting at. 06:06.882 --> 06:09.763 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are the companies that I like working with, I like working with. 06:09.783 --> 06:11.403 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are the companies that I've used in the past. 06:11.903 --> 06:15.264 [SPEAKER_00]: And so shout out to those brands, really, really appreciate them. 06:15.324 --> 06:16.684 [SPEAKER_00]: And I really appreciate you guys. 06:19.107 --> 06:22.872 [SPEAKER_00]: If you could do me just the favor of going to their website, right? 06:22.952 --> 06:24.494 [SPEAKER_00]: And take a look, that's what my job. 06:24.534 --> 06:28.659 [SPEAKER_00]: My job isn't necessarily for you guys to pull the trigger and go and buy something. 06:29.159 --> 06:34.846 [SPEAKER_00]: My job is to say the brand name and then tell you, I like them and then also tell you that 06:36.716 --> 06:38.017 [SPEAKER_00]: That there's a website out there. 06:38.297 --> 06:43.340 [SPEAKER_00]: Go visit their websites and Google them do your own research I don't know how you hunt. 06:43.380 --> 06:44.420 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know where you hunt. 06:44.480 --> 06:50.624 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what animals you hunt But if you could go check those check those brands out that would be awesome. 06:50.884 --> 06:51.104 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay 06:55.948 --> 07:04.252 [SPEAKER_00]: In this world, I believe that we are all, in some way shape or form hypocrites, a little bit, right? 07:05.032 --> 07:15.317 [SPEAKER_00]: And I would say that that is one of my flaws where I will say something and then if I had the resources or the opportunities that some other people, 07:16.237 --> 07:18.118 [SPEAKER_00]: may have, I would do that. 07:18.479 --> 07:19.579 [SPEAKER_00]: I would do that thing. 07:19.640 --> 07:28.966 [SPEAKER_00]: So there's a little bit of me that feels like a hypocrite at times when maybe I rag on people who have large amounts of private ground. 07:30.107 --> 07:38.352 [SPEAKER_00]: And then talk to the end user or when they're guests on the podcast, they talk to us like, 07:45.375 --> 07:51.998 [SPEAKER_00]: 40 acres of food plots on your 250 acre farm that nobody hunts except you or that is highly managed. 07:52.598 --> 07:54.739 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I get a little upset at that. 07:55.060 --> 07:57.581 [SPEAKER_00]: But if I had a million dollars, do you know what I would do? 07:58.381 --> 08:09.987 [SPEAKER_00]: If I had, you know, I guess 250 acres would be one million, two million, probably close to three million dollars, maybe four million dollars here and I would depending on where at the soil, all that stuff. 08:10.807 --> 08:14.169 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so if I had had that money, I would go buy a 250 acre farm. 08:14.569 --> 08:15.770 [SPEAKER_00]: I would manage it for big bucks. 08:15.970 --> 08:17.471 [SPEAKER_00]: I would plant food plots, right? 08:17.511 --> 08:19.212 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd put a tower blind in there for my kid. 08:19.232 --> 08:20.773 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what my kid wants right now. 08:20.933 --> 08:21.893 [SPEAKER_00]: He's been watching YouTube. 08:21.913 --> 08:22.414 [SPEAKER_00]: He's like that. 08:22.954 --> 08:24.475 [SPEAKER_00]: This kid here, he shoots giant bucks. 08:24.895 --> 08:25.836 [SPEAKER_00]: We need a tower blind. 08:26.216 --> 08:27.016 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, oh, buddy. 08:27.697 --> 08:29.137 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not how your old man hot stood. 08:29.158 --> 08:31.139 [SPEAKER_00]: He'd, like, I would feel... 08:31.939 --> 08:42.649 [SPEAKER_00]: After years of sitting in a tree stand or hunting from a ground, like hunting from the ground, I can't even sit in a ground blind, unless it's

negative temperatures outside. 08:43.049 --> 08:53.378 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't, I would feel claustrophobic and not be able to like turn my head, I'd be moving around all the time in there, thinking, you know, there's a buck coming up behind me, all that stuff. 08:53.878 --> 08:56.801 [SPEAKER_00]: And I get, I get it, dude, I get that's how a lot of people hunt, 08:59.419 --> 09:01.741 [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe there's a time that I'll be able to do that. 09:01.841 --> 09:05.303 [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, my son, he wants that. 09:05.423 --> 09:12.448 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just, you know, I'm taking my morning poop or I'm at the coffee shop. 09:12.488 --> 09:14.009 [SPEAKER_00]: I was working a little bit this morning. 09:14.770 --> 09:20.714 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just hearing all these people telling you what you should do, what we should do. 09:21.034 --> 09:22.195 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, you got to do this. 09:22.795 --> 09:24.016 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's one that I heard this morning. 09:26.005 --> 09:33.089 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm gonna, I'm gonna back this up with facts that are, that are my experiences. 09:33.770 --> 09:35.891 [SPEAKER_00]: This guy's talking about how to hunt the wind. 09:36.071 --> 09:38.853 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, the, the book needs to be in charge, right? 09:39.153 --> 09:40.234 [SPEAKER_00]: And I've said this before too. 09:40.574 --> 09:44.557 [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta act like the book has the advantage, whether, you know, 09:47.639 --> 09:47.979 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 09:47.999 --> 09:57.304 [SPEAKER_00]: He's coming down a area and you're set to the north wind or a north south trade deer trail. 09:58.045 --> 10:01.186 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's a northwest or a southwest wind. 10:01.567 --> 10:05.889 [SPEAKER_00]: You want to be on the east side of that trail and you want that wind to blow to the north east. 10:08.090 --> 10:20.203 [SPEAKER_00]: and that way the deer has it into his nose right the the the wind is in his favor and he thinks like he's you know he's got that wind to an advantage and this guy was so adamant about having to do that. 10:20.243 --> 10:22.285 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to make sure the wind is this dude. 10:22.305 --> 10:26.249 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know how many bucks I have killed since 10:27.988 --> 10:33.512 [SPEAKER_00]: 2000 and five when I started where the wind was to their back. 10:34.093 --> 10:40.417 [SPEAKER_00]: So for every example that that I could talk to you about, hey, you know, this is what you got to do. 10:40.537 --> 10:45.901 [SPEAKER_00]: I can provide another example of something completely opposite, right? 10:46.221 --> 10:46.901 [SPEAKER_00]: And here we are. 10:46.941 --> 10:52.565 [SPEAKER_00]: We're trying to be like, oh God, if you want to be a good hunter, you got to do this and this bullshit. 10:52.585 --> 10:53.146 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to be a 10:57.903 --> 10:58.783 [SPEAKER_00]: That's all you got to do. 10:59.383 --> 11:03.024 [SPEAKER_00]: Go sit in a tree stand or in

a ground blind in the woods. 11:04.065 --> 11:07.805 [SPEAKER_00]: And you have to have a big buck walk through that area. 11:10.226 --> 11:11.606 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that so hard to think? 11:13.407 --> 11:19.268 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that, is that, I don't know, it blows my mind. 11:19.548 --> 11:22.449 [SPEAKER_00]: It just, and I'm guilty of it, right? 11:22.489 --> 11:25.770 [SPEAKER_00]: I've done and said these things before, but, 11:26.917 --> 11:28.619 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, you gotta get out and hunt. 11:28.759 --> 11:31.242 [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta go do these things on your own. 11:31.442 --> 11:37.948 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't rely on Joe Blow, who hunts completely different than you, or me, who hunts in Iowa. 11:38.789 --> 11:46.898 [SPEAKER_00]: What do I know about hunting the big woods in New York or Pennsylvania or Northern Michigan or highly pressured public? 11:47.873 --> 11:57.799 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I've hunted a little bit of highly pressured public, but not to the point where I've made any type of career on it, right? 12:00.040 --> 12:09.006 [SPEAKER_00]: And then like listening to people talk in how arrogant they are about, oh, yeah, I did. 12:09.346 --> 12:11.527 [SPEAKER_00]: Shootin' a 200 incher isn't even cool anymore. 12:11.707 --> 12:13.789 [SPEAKER_00]: Or shootin' a 170 incher isn't even cool anymore. 12:16.476 --> 12:22.100 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what my question is, who is a 170 inch deer not cool to? 12:22.740 --> 12:23.701 [SPEAKER_00]: I live in Iowa. 12:23.861 --> 12:25.522 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been hunting for 30 years. 12:25.702 --> 12:29.605 [SPEAKER_00]: I have never killed a buck over 154 inches. 12:30.045 --> 12:32.166 [SPEAKER_00]: My biggest deer is a 154 inches. 12:33.367 --> 12:43.254 [SPEAKER_00]: And do you know how many deer over 150 inches I have had encounters with over 30 years of hunting in the best areas of Iowa? 12:43.994 --> 12:44.915 [SPEAKER_00]: Probably less than 10. 12:46.598 --> 12:47.558 [SPEAKER_00]: probably less than ten. 12:49.058 --> 12:54.039 [SPEAKER_00]: So that tells you right there, like, it's all smoke and mirrors, man. 12:54.899 --> 12:56.920 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything on social media smoke and mirrors. 12:57.280 --> 13:00.440 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't relate to me, it doesn't relate to you. 13:01.100 --> 13:06.021 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet a lot of us are very invested in what some of these people are telling us. 13:07.001 --> 13:11.082 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we go all that bullshit or that's not, or yeah, I agree with you 100%. 13:11.322 --> 13:13.303 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we put some of these people on a pedestal. 13:13.463 --> 13:13.963 [SPEAKER_00]: And this isn't 13:16.263 --> 13:26.766 [SPEAKER_00]: We put all these people on a pedestal and then when they make a mistake, we kick the fucking pedestal out from underneath of them and they all come crashing down and we cannot wait to jump on top of them. 13:27.946 --> 13:30.847 [SPEAKER_00]: And and essentially crucify them. 13:34.928 --> 13:43.730 [SPEAKER_00]: So as of right now, and I haven't thought this out, I probably sound like a douchebag right now, which I think I've made my career off sounding like a douchebag. 13:46.105 --> 13:56.453 [SPEAKER_00]: As of right now, I Dan Johnson and promising for the next, well, I'm going to New York City on Thursday. 13:57.414 --> 14:01.577 [SPEAKER_00]: And my, the grand parents are going to be taking care of the kids. 14:03.118 --> 14:07.281 [SPEAKER_00]: And I got, I got to be in New York City this upcoming weekend. 14:08.662 --> 14:11.485 [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you guys have any recommendations of 14:12.542 --> 14:13.903 [SPEAKER_00]: places, cool places to go. 14:13.923 --> 14:15.704 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we're going to do the 9-11 Memorial. 14:15.984 --> 14:17.865 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do some history museum. 14:18.245 --> 14:19.406 [SPEAKER_00]: We're doing a food tour. 14:20.326 --> 14:27.850 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have any like really cool restaurants that you would recommend, hit me up, send me a DM on the Nine Finger Chronicles Instagram page. 14:29.531 --> 14:39.637 [SPEAKER_00]: But I Dan Johnson promise that the first two weeks of November, I'm going to just hunt. 14:42.073 --> 14:43.095 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna overthink. 14:43.917 --> 14:49.670 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna try to do fucking long division in my head to try to figure out a box pattern. 14:49.931 --> 14:51.374 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna do that anymore. 14:52.255 --> 14:53.876 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to hunt. 14:54.357 --> 14:55.798 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to get out there and hunt. 14:56.319 --> 15:04.165 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not going to use CIA surveillance like the fly, night vision drones over my property to try to figure this out. 15:04.806 --> 15:07.088 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to use some cell cam data. 15:07.548 --> 15:10.211 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to use my woodsmanship. 15:10.651 --> 15:11.692 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to cut the wind. 15:12.272 --> 15:13.874 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to not cut the wind. 15:14.134 --> 15:15.495 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to use some osonics. 15:15.776 --> 15:17.137 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to use some nose jammer. 15:17.417 --> 15:18.458 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to use camo. 15:18.738 --> 15:20.019 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to use chemo. 15:20.399 --> 15:24.100 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to use a limb-driven rest with some badass arrows. 15:24.360 --> 15:30.503 [SPEAKER_00]: And my goal is to put a broad head through the vitals of a deer that makes me happy. 15:31.203 --> 15:36.165 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's my goal for this upcoming rut vacation. 15:36.906 --> 15:39.387 [SPEAKER_00]: I have exhausted myself. 15:40.375 --> 15:49.042 [SPEAKER_00]: over the course of the last handful of years, trying to figure out how to beat the system. 15:50.062 --> 15:58.949 [SPEAKER_00]: And the best and most fun I've had in a hunting season is when I stop giving a fuck about what the end result is. 15:59.750 --> 16:01.911

[SPEAKER_00]: I left my phone this past weekend. 16:02.812 --> 16:09.975 [SPEAKER_00]: I left my phone in my truck on accident and I needed it right because I had to be out at a certain time to make it to a baseball game. 16:10.895 --> 16:15.897 [SPEAKER_00]: But I left my phone in my truck and I climbed into the trees. 16:15.917 --> 16:18.698 [SPEAKER_00]: Dan, I usually keep it in my vinyl harness and I went to reach for it. 16:18.718 --> 16:19.318 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't there. 16:19.338 --> 16:20.859 [SPEAKER_00]: I knew exactly where it was. 16:20.879 --> 16:25.420 [SPEAKER_00]: It was sitting on the console of my truck and then for the 16:30.088 --> 16:32.490 [SPEAKER_00]: I listened to nature. 16:33.211 --> 16:34.272 [SPEAKER_00]: My eyes were up. 16:35.193 --> 16:49.286 [SPEAKER_00]: I was watching squirrels and birds and the trees and the sunlight come up over the ridge and all the awesome things that are in front of you when I didn't have a cell phone. 16:49.507 --> 16:51.849 [SPEAKER_00]: All of that came kind of flooding back to me. 16:52.329 --> 16:52.690 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, 16:54.154 --> 16:55.934 [SPEAKER_00]: For a safety, yeah, cell phones are nice. 16:55.954 --> 16:57.795 [SPEAKER_00]: You fall out of a trade, be nice to have a cell phone. 16:58.455 --> 17:08.017 [SPEAKER_00]: But maybe in a low impact hunt, something where you don't, you're not rushed, maybe just hunt, leave the phone in the car. 17:08.877 --> 17:11.338 [SPEAKER_00]: Just for one hunt, maybe you'll like that. 17:13.258 --> 17:20.060 [SPEAKER_00]: And like, I just can't get on board where the hunting 17:21.495 --> 17:22.295 [SPEAKER_00]: hunting is going. 17:23.235 --> 17:25.136 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I'm thinking about this. 17:25.176 --> 17:26.096 [SPEAKER_00]: Why I'm ranting about it. 17:26.136 --> 17:27.096 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I'm a hypocrite. 17:27.537 --> 17:37.319 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm, you know, if you want to argue that I personally impart the problem, I probably would agree with you at, at some point. 17:38.459 --> 17:41.360 [SPEAKER_00]: But man, that felt awesome. 17:41.540 --> 17:45.781 [SPEAKER_00]: It felt, it felt really good to get out there and just 17:49.774 --> 17:51.914 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, oh, God, what's that noise, right? 17:51.974 --> 17:54.595 [SPEAKER_00]: My, I wasn't distracted by my phone every little crack. 17:54.695 --> 18:00.816 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, man, oh, I reminded me of when I was in my 20s, I felt youthful, dude. 18:01.936 --> 18:03.036 [SPEAKER_00]: I felt really youthful. 18:03.816 --> 18:08.017 [SPEAKER_00]: I felt disconnected. 18:08.717 --> 18:10.437 [SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't worried about working males. 18:10.478 --> 18:17.179 [SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't worrying about whether or not I should document this hunt for social media, things like that. 18:20.797 --> 18:21.417 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, dude. 18:21.457 --> 18:23.098 [SPEAKER_00]: It just felt really, really good. 18:24.558 --> 18:26.279 [SPEAKER_00]: The air was cold. 18:26.319 --> 18:29.840 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I could sit here and describe it in detail to you. 18:31.501 --> 18:39.483 [SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't see a single deer until my ass stepped up off the bottom step and I hit the ground and I had all these doves blow at me. 18:39.583 --> 18:40.204 [SPEAKER_00]: Could have been a buck. 18:41.524 --> 18:43.025 [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, man. 18:44.785 --> 18:46.646 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what that's why we should do this. 18:47.594 --> 18:47.834 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 18:48.575 --> 18:52.478 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know like again, there's some hardcore guys out there right there. 18:52.578 --> 18:52.959 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man. 18:53.559 --> 18:56.782 [SPEAKER_00]: I've killed I don't know what the example was. 18:56.802 --> 19:08.652 [SPEAKER_00]: I've killed 1,595 inches of antler out of this food plot and it's the best setup ever because I did it and I did this and I didn't okay Good for you, bud. 19:09.292 --> 19:09.433 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 19:09.453 --> 19:10.253 [SPEAKER_00]: Congratulations. 19:10.393 --> 19:11.074 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad it worked. 19:11.334 --> 19:11.514 [SPEAKER_00]: Right. 19:11.915 --> 19:12.235 [SPEAKER_00]: No hate. 19:12.735 --> 19:13.016 [SPEAKER_00]: No hate. 19:13.036 --> 19:13.736 [SPEAKER_00]: Congratulations. 19:15.063 --> 19:18.805 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's where I think we need to do a lot more of, is take the high road, right? 19:19.625 --> 19:24.568 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, I don't know, like, I have my own opinions on baiting. 19:24.848 --> 19:28.610 [SPEAKER_00]: I have my own opinions on crossbows. 19:28.930 --> 19:30.651 [SPEAKER_00]: I have my own opinions, and that's what they are. 19:30.691 --> 19:31.772 [SPEAKER_00]: They're my opinions. 19:33.353 --> 19:39.056 [SPEAKER_00]: I have a vision in my head of what I think cunning should be like, but that's not everybody's vision. 19:40.261 --> 19:45.778 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's why at the end of the day someone posted deer that they shot with a crossbow hayman congrats. 19:46.630 --> 19:48.590 [SPEAKER_00]: They shot it over a feeder, hey man, congrats. 19:49.251 --> 20:07.535 [SPEAKER_00]: They shot it, you know, doing everybody has different circumstances in life during different hunting circumstances, whether you hunt in the south, whether you could bait, whether you hunt in the north, whether you can use a crossbow, high-powered rifle during the rut, all of that stuff like what your management practices are. 20:08.055 --> 20:14.837 [SPEAKER_00]: If you even have management practice, oh, you hunt Iowa, oh, you hunt high-pressured public, whatever, congrats. 20:15.777 --> 20:16.898 [SPEAKER_00]: You shoot a doe, congrats. 20:16.938 --> 20:18.218 [SPEAKER_00]: You shoot a spike congrats. 20:18.679 --> 20:23.522 [SPEAKER_00]: You shoot 120 inch one year old that has a shit ton of potential congrats. 20:23.822 --> 20:26.223 [SPEAKER_00]: You shoot a booner congrats, right? 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20:28.985 [SPEAKER_00]: You shoot a once in a lifetime deer, congrats, man. 20:29.565 --> 20:31.987 [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe that's what we should be doing. 20:32.407 --> 20:42.753 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of hating, instead of hating, maybe we should be more like, 20:43.674 --> 20:49.076 [SPEAKER_00]: preach more gratitude and say thank you and and say congrats to people, right? 20:49.617 --> 20:50.137 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know there. 20:50.277 --> 20:52.618 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know their circumstances in life, right? 20:53.478 --> 20:57.440 [SPEAKER_00]: The other thing would be like, this this is the way I look at it. 20:58.000 --> 20:58.881 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to talk shit. 20:59.021 --> 21:02.102 [SPEAKER_00]: You're like, if you call somebody a hater, you're also a hater. 21:02.682 --> 21:04.243 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't give a shit what you say. 21:04.643 --> 21:11.466 [SPEAKER_00]: If you talk shit on somebody thinking that you have some moral high ground, you're also a hater, right? 21:11.486 --> 21:12.507 [SPEAKER_00]: The best thing to do is probably 21:14.822 --> 21:16.723 [SPEAKER_00]: Let them let whoever be whatever. 21:16.983 --> 21:19.183 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes things, I'll be completely honest, man. 21:20.184 --> 21:22.524 [SPEAKER_00]: There's times where things need to be called out. 21:23.765 --> 21:26.305 [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe that's the direction of the hunting industry. 21:26.345 --> 21:28.386 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that's the direction of the hunting community. 21:28.826 --> 21:32.247 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody wants the easy button so that they can post the picture. 21:34.048 --> 21:37.169 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, is the easy button is the easy button worth it. 21:38.289 --> 21:40.209 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you learn by hitting the easy button? 21:40.670 --> 21:41.470 [SPEAKER_00]: And as a father, 21:42.442 --> 21:45.223 [SPEAKER_00]: I've really had to check myself this year. 21:45.684 --> 21:50.486 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to go put my son on the biggest buck on the farm. 21:50.526 --> 21:55.488 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it would be completely awesome if my son shot the biggest buck on the farm. 21:56.189 --> 22:03.212 [SPEAKER_00]: But then I had to step my another part of me goes, what would happen if he shot the biggest buck on the farm as a 10 year old? 22:05.849 --> 22:13.432 [SPEAKER_00]: does he now only want to hunt giant bucks and that's an unreal, unrealistic expectation of this. 22:14.988 --> 22:20.810 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think as a father, I got to do something that's a little bit difficult, and make him shoot some doughs, you know? 22:20.930 --> 22:24.512 [SPEAKER_00]: Put him in some spots where some spikes are gonna walk through, some doughs are gonna walk through. 22:24.952 --> 22:29.754 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he connects, maybe he doesn't, but guess what, there's a lesson learned in life on every path we take. 22:30.454 --> 22:40.118 [SPEAKER_00]: And all you have to do is open your eyes, ears, and senses, and absorb that lesson, so that the next time that you're out in the woods, you can learn from that lesson. 22:40.718 --> 22:42.639 [SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe you like it, maybe you don't like it. 22:44.817 --> 22:47.439 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what I'll say, here's an example of that. 22:48.300 --> 22:50.982 [SPEAKER_00]: I went to a, this was several years ago. 22:51.102 --> 22:53.403 [SPEAKER_00]: I got invited, I've probably told the story before. 22:54.264 --> 23:01.069 [SPEAKER_00]: I got invited to a media hunt down in Texas in four exotics, I think it was like in May. 23:02.330 --> 23:12.817 [SPEAKER_00]: Exotics, like ostrich and audad and just like black buck 23:14.017 --> 23:19.343 [SPEAKER_00]: a whole bunch of, like, there was a whole bunch of different animals that you could, it was like a calendar or a menu here. 23:19.543 --> 23:21.185 [SPEAKER_00]: All these are available for you. 23:21.485 --> 23:23.187 [SPEAKER_00]: These are off limits, you can't shoot these. 23:23.227 --> 23:25.609 [SPEAKER_00]: If you shoot these, then you've got to pay some price, right? 23:25.970 --> 23:29.073 [SPEAKER_00]: So I went and I took advantage of the free hunt, things like that. 23:29.494 --> 23:29.714 [SPEAKER_00]: And... 23:31.249 --> 23:33.810 [SPEAKER_00]: I did it because I wanted to see what it was like. 23:34.631 --> 23:36.311 [SPEAKER_00]: I did not feel like that was hunting at all. 23:36.811 --> 23:37.552 [SPEAKER_00]: I did not like it. 23:38.492 --> 23:39.753 [SPEAKER_00]: I took it for what it was. 23:40.453 --> 23:47.176 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was a high fence hunt where the environment was ultra controlled by feeders. 23:47.936 --> 23:51.358 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I did, right? 23:51.418 --> 23:55.059 [SPEAKER_00]: There was a white tail all over in that high fence environment as well. 23:55.900 --> 23:56.060 [SPEAKER_00]: And 23:57.646 --> 23:57.966 [SPEAKER_00]: That was it. 23:57.986 --> 23:59.728 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's what it is. 23:59.768 --> 24:01.669 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't like it, so I probably won't do that again. 24:03.671 --> 24:10.376 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I don't know where or why I just kind of felt like talking today, talking to myself. 24:10.436 --> 24:24.428 [SPEAKER_00]: I usually what happens is these types of episodes backfire, because I say something that I don't remember saying, or I, that doesn't click, I say it out loud, because I'm always, I don't ever think anything through. 24:25.829 --> 24:26.490 [SPEAKER_00]: I just speak. 24:26.950 --> 24:35.979 [SPEAKER_00]: And then someone comes up or reaches out to me during on Instagram and says something like, hey, Dan, what about this? 24:36.299 --> 24:38.462 [SPEAKER_00]: I do this, this, this, and this, I'm like, yeah, dude, cool. 24:39.390 --> 25:04.531 [SPEAKER_00]: okay yeah that's a good perspective to have and then it really what it does is it opens up conversation uh between two hunters about how everybody hunts different environments uh

Texas and the south and how everything is different in certain states you know even neighboring states like Ohio and Pennsylvania and like the the Midwest and then the people out west 25:09.494 --> 25:10.175 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know where I'm going. 25:10.515 --> 25:11.095 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm saying. 25:11.535 --> 25:14.256 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, let me be a hypocrite for a moment. 25:14.956 --> 25:18.618 [SPEAKER_00]: We have, so I'm not gonna be able to hunt for the next 10 days. 25:19.218 --> 25:20.118 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe even more. 25:20.138 --> 25:22.939 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna try to sneak out at the end of next week. 25:23.039 --> 25:26.420 [SPEAKER_00]: We're talking like the 27th, 28th, 29th, maybe 30th. 25:26.660 --> 25:30.722 [SPEAKER_00]: I gotta do Halloween again because that's, I still got young kids. 25:31.062 --> 25:32.923 [SPEAKER_00]: They wanna dress up, they wanna do trick or treat. 25:33.303 --> 25:35.944 [SPEAKER_00]: And then after that, then I'm gonna start my rut vacation. 25:38.615 --> 25:44.838 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's where I'm hunting in the next between now and the rut. 25:47.379 --> 25:49.619 [SPEAKER_00]: Staging areas, that's it, right? 25:49.880 --> 25:51.300 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking for staging areas. 25:51.440 --> 25:54.261 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking for trails leading in and out of staging areas. 25:54.562 --> 25:57.623 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking for edge inside a timber. 25:57.863 --> 25:59.203 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking for fresh sign. 25:59.664 --> 26:01.004 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where I'm going. 26:01.424 --> 26:04.786 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where historically over the years I have, 26:07.285 --> 26:13.587 [SPEAKER_00]: I have hunted, and I'm going to rely on some trail camera data to tell me where some shooter bucks are, and that's where I'm going to go. 26:13.967 --> 26:17.809 [SPEAKER_00]: If I can't find any shooter bucks, I'm going to go try and fill the freezer. 26:18.069 --> 26:21.010 [SPEAKER_00]: This past weekend, dude, I had 11 deer. 26:23.712 --> 26:44.133 [SPEAKER_00]: no way I had 11 deer come through nine of them were within shooting range two of them were box the rest were those and I said I'm going to shoot a doe I'm going to shoot a doe and then I did shoot a doe because the drag would have been too far and the drag would have been too far and too muddy and the bottom the river bottom was still soaked from all the rain we had. 26:46.800 --> 26:48.862 [SPEAKER_00]: My wife is rubbing off on me dude. 26:48.882 --> 26:51.325 [SPEAKER_00]: She's like, oh, I don't like it when you shoot. 26:51.745 --> 26:54.448 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like it when you shoot a dough that has a fun with it. 26:55.754 --> 27:00.639 [SPEAKER_00]: All these do's had fonds with them, like a single fond or twins. 27:01.240 --> 27:04.903 [SPEAKER_00]: And I like, I'm thinking meeting the freezer. 27:05.344 --> 27:07.946 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I, like, I had a little mini wife. 27:08.467 --> 27:09.448 [SPEAKER_00]: My wife's tiny anyway. 27:09.988 --> 27:11.790 [SPEAKER_00]: I could probably fit my wife in a baby Bjorn. 27:12.371 --> 27:13.372 [SPEAKER_00]: That's how small she is. 27:13.912 --> 27:17.736 [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, I had a little version of my wife and then a little version of the devil. 27:18.096 --> 27:19.318 [SPEAKER_00]: On my other side, the devil's going. 27:20.038 --> 27:21.179 [SPEAKER_00]: Shooter in the lungs. 27:21.679 --> 27:23.800 [SPEAKER_00]: Shooter in the lungs and put her in your freezer. 27:24.000 --> 27:25.841 [SPEAKER_00]: And my wife is like, she's got babies. 27:26.262 --> 27:27.802 [SPEAKER_00]: She's got babies in my wife. 27:28.343 --> 27:31.665 [SPEAKER_00]: The little version of my wife on my shoulder was talking the loudest. 27:32.165 --> 27:35.067 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I did not shoot any dose this year. 27:35.147 --> 27:38.849 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, now I'm going to make the drag easier. 27:38.889 --> 27:44.292 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to probably go set a couple places where I know the dose are going to be 27:46.217 --> 27:56.745 [SPEAKER_00]: But I know the do's are going to be hanging out in some of these staging areas, and I'm going to have a tractor coming through my backyard. 27:57.106 --> 28:02.590 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, where these do's are hanging out, and I'm going to be doing a lot of that. 28:02.850 --> 28:08.695 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm going to be looking for a Phil some freezer, and then it's it's sleight time, dude. 28:08.835 --> 28:14.059 [SPEAKER_00]: And then it comes down, November 1st is when I'm going to start, and because I'm going to New York City, 28:15.675 --> 28:17.638 [SPEAKER_00]: I am going to hunt hard for two straight weeks. 28:18.579 --> 28:20.642 [SPEAKER_00]: I have set my life up to do that, right? 28:20.682 --> 28:23.025 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have the, you know, I don't got to worry about PTO. 28:23.045 --> 28:30.695 [SPEAKER_00]: The only thing I got to do is remotely worry about getting podcasts launched and I can do that from a campground. 28:30.875 --> 28:31.716 [SPEAKER_00]: I can do that from, 28:33.518 --> 28:35.521 [SPEAKER_00]: A, uh, I can do that from a campground. 28:35.541 --> 28:36.983 [SPEAKER_00]: I can do that from my phone. 28:37.223 --> 28:39.867 [SPEAKER_00]: My, uh, my hot spot on my phone. 28:39.987 --> 28:42.971 [SPEAKER_00]: I can go into some cafes in the area that have Wi-Fi. 28:42.991 --> 28:43.972 [SPEAKER_00]: I can do, I can do that. 28:44.713 --> 28:48.739 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm really looking forward to the next one month. 28:49.239 --> 28:50.580 [SPEAKER_00]: Right, the next four weeks. 28:50.901 --> 28:56.345 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of cool things in my life that are happening, not just with hunting, but my daughter. 28:56.565 --> 28:59.067 [SPEAKER_00]: She's getting ready to start as an eighth grader. 29:00.108 --> 29:06.052 [SPEAKER_00]: Russell in the varsity room, which is a new law that's been passed in the state of Iowa, so I'm really looking

forward to that. 29:07.353 --> 29:34.977 [SPEAKER_00]: She's going to wrestle off another girl for a varsity spot or I don't know how many girls are out of weight So I kind of want to be here for that and so I'm if I do that might be something where I Go hunt I come back I go hunt I come back and Bounce around a little bit between family and and then I may be I even hunt past into the third week of November Which I typically don't so 29:35.437 --> 29:41.939 [SPEAKER_00]: The issue becomes is I'm going to have to sleep in a truck or a tent in colder temps. 29:42.359 --> 29:50.761 [SPEAKER_00]: The campground that I usually hang out at or stay at when I travel here in Iowa, they shut the water off. 29:51.301 --> 29:57.542 [SPEAKER_00]: And when they shut the water off, then my dad doesn't want to have the camper down there because he likes to take showers and stuff. 29:57.562 --> 30:00.123 [SPEAKER_00]: And I honestly don't give a shit all wipe down with a wet cloth. 30:01.674 --> 30:05.576 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I got that, I kind of am debating on that. 30:06.916 --> 30:08.137 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I'm just on it. 30:08.257 --> 30:09.697 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just all over the place today. 30:10.398 --> 30:12.159 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, staging areas. 30:12.939 --> 30:13.919 [SPEAKER_00]: I like staging areas. 30:14.059 --> 30:15.540 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to talk about staging areas. 30:15.720 --> 30:26.885 [SPEAKER_00]: Staging areas are awesome, because I feel like they are other than field edges, which I rarely, I rarely, I rarely haunt field edges anymore. 30:27.775 --> 30:40.744 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like hunting, or I like hunting staging areas because they always seem for me to be the least impactful hunting location. 30:42.205 --> 30:49.651 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you got to take a little bit longer of an access route to make sure your wind's not blowing directly at them, at where they're coming. 30:55.852 --> 31:02.483 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, I've kind of learned over the last 10 years, where I'm willing to roll the dice on some wind. 31:03.995 --> 31:29.545 [SPEAKER_00]: if it's kind of even going back and forth, if they bust me that I tried or if I'm hogging a line, also if that wind is blowing directly in my face and out into the the field from the staging area and the deer, did I've learned that those are equally as good hunts with the deer coming to their back, the deer or the wind coming to the deer's back, so they're actually using the wind 31:31.367 --> 31:36.690 [SPEAKER_00]: to their back as they go through the staging area into the destination food source. 31:37.111 --> 31:39.292 [SPEAKER_00]: So that the wind is coming out of the timber. 31:39.792 --> 31:44.836 [SPEAKER_00]: So a predator, let's say, comes through, maybe it's a human, maybe it's a coyote amount lying, grizzly bear. 31:45.256 --> 31:51.180 [SPEAKER_00]: I do not ship my pants if I walked into the timber and a grizzly bear in Iowa was looking right back at me. 31:51.220 -->

31:52.080 [SPEAKER_00]: I would poop myself. 31:52.400 --> 31:54.462 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I would play dead because I can't run. 32:00.533 --> 32:22.447 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think a lot of times they're okay with the wind to their back to get to a destination food so that wind where they're coming from is blowing then they spend the whole night out there maybe they'd bed down in some grass that you their cut and then in the morning if that wind is the same they are then coming back into the wind to where they cannot see and 32:25.955 --> 32:29.136 [SPEAKER_00]: It seems like a pretty good thing today to do, right? 32:29.456 --> 32:33.378 [SPEAKER_00]: If they're going to a bedding area, you kind of want to know what's in the bedding area before you walk into it. 32:33.718 --> 32:43.761 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're coming to a destination food source, it's not about they are able to use their eyes and the wide open and don't necessarily need to rely on their scent. 32:44.161 --> 32:46.702 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, even though they are, then they get out there. 32:46.722 --> 32:51.564 [SPEAKER_00]: They start feeding and now everything that they can't see is all that scent is blowing right to them. 32:53.257 --> 32:55.198 [SPEAKER_00]: So I've had to do that before. 32:56.119 --> 32:58.741 [SPEAKER_00]: Or I, that's kind of something that I've noticed as well. 33:00.542 --> 33:03.044 [SPEAKER_00]: That's usually where the sign is at in the staging areas. 33:03.384 --> 33:07.387 [SPEAKER_00]: That's usually where you're gonna find the most amount of sign, the freshest sign. 33:07.787 --> 33:09.489 [SPEAKER_00]: They're coming from bedding. 33:09.629 --> 33:16.154 [SPEAKER_00]: They're usually using some kind of terrain feature to kind of pop out, middle around. 33:16.954 --> 33:20.256 [SPEAKER_00]: And for me, if I'm going to describe to you 33:23.988 --> 33:43.754 [SPEAKER_00]: there's a field edge and then where the sunlight can go through the timber line and the next 20 to 30 yards are usually really thick because sunlight gets there, the stem count is up, there's way more vegetation and then there's it almost kind of trickles away and it creates this edge inside of the timber and 33:46.674 --> 33:48.295 [SPEAKER_00]: That's where the sign starts to pop up. 33:48.995 --> 33:55.398 [SPEAKER_00]: They're holding up and if there's an oak tree in there, if there's some food, some brows in there for them, then they really like it. 33:55.698 --> 34:00.860 [SPEAKER_00]: And they come through and they just kind of hold up a little bit and they slowly work their way to the field. 34:00.920 --> 34:05.562 [SPEAKER_00]: And then usually this time of year, the dozer popping out, they're kind of looking around. 34:05.982 --> 34:28.453 [SPEAKER_00]: they've already had a little bit to eat and then they go to mungent all night out in this grass and the beans and in the corn and combines your kicking up stuff right now so kicking you know like I would be okay hunting

a staging area that's 50 to 100 yards away from a field edge where a combine's just going back and forth and back and forth. 34:29.340 --> 34:30.161 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd haunt that still. 34:30.481 --> 34:48.552 [SPEAKER_00]: I would sit there and I would watch a combine go back and forth for all day and then you know, if it's really close, maybe not, but dude, I've watched some deer just totally ignore combines and come out and feed while the combines are still in the field. 34:49.807 --> 34:52.609 [SPEAKER_00]: So, I'm a huge fan of staging areas. 34:53.629 --> 35:18.724 [SPEAKER_00]: Betting areas probably, I probably, I probably, unless I have some good intel coming to me from maybe some pinch point type trail cameras, I am not going to worry too much about betting until the end of the pre-ret, which would be for me, the pre-ret kind of goes from 35:19.918 --> 35:25.502 [SPEAKER_00]: The last week of October, probably the 25th to the 5th. 35:26.122 --> 35:31.606 [SPEAKER_00]: There's this 10 day window that I consider the pre-wrote. 35:32.547 --> 35:33.668 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know right now. 35:33.888 --> 35:36.570 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see, it is October 20th. 35:37.110 --> 35:39.032 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, I don't have any real chasing going on. 35:39.052 --> 35:47.818 [SPEAKER_00]: I have a couple of small deer that looks like their bumping dose and they're just like, hey, you wanna get this started right now and the dose like now, not interested in you. 35:48.598 --> 35:53.242 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm waiting for Big Dog to show up just like I have the last however many years. 35:53.283 --> 36:02.711 [SPEAKER_00]: He usually comes, unless they shoot Big Dog, then maybe I'll think about, you know, but Big Dog comes in and puts his ears back once. 36:03.031 --> 36:05.593 [SPEAKER_00]: That dope now is his, he doesn't have to fight for it. 36:07.115 --> 36:09.457 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's usually what's happening. 36:16.510 --> 36:26.633 [SPEAKER_00]: I have a farm where the 27th and the 28th of October seems to be the light switch moment where the bucks are up during daylight. 36:26.793 --> 36:27.753 [SPEAKER_00]: They are on their feet. 36:27.793 --> 36:35.915 [SPEAKER_00]: They're cruising more scientific evidence proves this and all you have to do is have a big buck in your area. 36:36.858 --> 36:39.741 [SPEAKER_00]: And some people don't have big bucks in their area. 36:40.722 --> 36:46.647 [SPEAKER_00]: And some of us, like I used to in the past, will do things like hope and wish a big buck. 36:47.448 --> 36:54.374 [SPEAKER_00]: Shows up, you pass a whole bunch of little deer and thinking that or medium deer, deer you've never shot before. 36:54.934 --> 36:56.756 [SPEAKER_00]: I can remember passing 150 inch deer one year, 150 inch 10. 36:59.058 --> 37:01.159 [SPEAKER_00]: hoping that a bigger deer would show up. 37:01.459 --> 37:05.422 [SPEAKER_00]: And there was no, I had no evidence that there was a bigger deer on the farm. 37:05.442 --> 37:07.203 [SPEAKER_00]: I had no evidence of that. 37:07.763 --> 37:10.564 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I was just like, Oh, God, there's got to be a big deer out here. 37:10.945 --> 37:13.706 [SPEAKER_00]: No, there doesn't have to be a big deer out there for you. 37:14.366 --> 37:15.247 [SPEAKER_00]: Take invent. 37:15.267 --> 37:23.932 [SPEAKER_00]: You know how hard it is to get in shooting range of a deer with a with a bow without it. 37:25.089 --> 37:31.953 [SPEAKER_00]: Spooking or catching your scent, especially the next time a dough walks by and you don't play it on shooting it. 37:33.053 --> 37:34.394 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it gets real close. 37:34.854 --> 37:43.559 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe your tree stands in the right direction, but there's always the dough, the mama dough, who is just on edge all the time. 37:43.739 --> 37:50.883 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if you hunt the highest pressure ground or the lowest pressured ground. 37:51.638 --> 37:53.439 [SPEAKER_00]: I got it in where I hunt as well. 37:53.920 --> 37:54.960 [SPEAKER_00]: There's always that dough. 37:56.321 --> 37:58.082 [SPEAKER_00]: It's almost like she's tricking you. 37:58.263 --> 38:01.245 [SPEAKER_00]: She'll fake, go down and feed and pop her head up and look around. 38:02.045 --> 38:12.512 [SPEAKER_00]: Hoping that someone will make a mistake or try to pull a phone out for a picture while she's, it's almost like a wrestling where they do a fake, they fake for a take down and then she comes brings her head down. 38:12.973 --> 38:16.115 [SPEAKER_00]: Looks like she's gonna dig a bite to eat and I'm pop your head right back up and looks around. 38:17.130 --> 38:19.893 [SPEAKER_00]: the old that does been around for a while. 38:20.114 --> 38:27.242 [SPEAKER_00]: And she might be, she might be one of the best do's to take out of the herd because she's so smart. 38:27.522 --> 38:31.947 [SPEAKER_00]: However, I heard from a guy who knows more about deer than me, his name's Sam Klaura. 38:32.228 --> 38:33.169 [SPEAKER_00]: You hear me pop? 38:33.189 --> 38:34.891 [SPEAKER_00]: You hear me talk about him quite a bit. 38:36.367 --> 38:40.090 [SPEAKER_00]: He told me like, I will never shoot the oldest dough. 38:40.210 --> 38:42.251 [SPEAKER_00]: They come into heat first. 38:42.652 --> 38:46.374 [SPEAKER_00]: They are the most consistent as far as every single time. 38:46.454 --> 38:48.115 [SPEAKER_00]: They come in to heat the same day. 38:48.476 --> 38:51.778 [SPEAKER_00]: And the big buck always comes and finds him. 38:52.218 --> 38:55.481 [SPEAKER_00]: This guy has more inches of antler on his wall than me and you. 38:56.341 --> 38:59.324 [SPEAKER_00]: And big giant bucks, obviously he's from Iowa. 38:59.904 --> 39:03.427 [SPEAKER_00]: But he's very knowledgeable about white till deer behavior. 39:04.348 --> 39:13.849 [SPEAKER_00]: and he's like, dude, and this is kind of, this is how I have kind of formed my, this is how I have formed. 39:15.875 --> 39:30.444 [SPEAKER_00]: my

method of locating dough groups and hunting the rut and waiting for big bucks to come in and investigate these doughs, get downwind, send check them, look for a good dough and then if there's no doughs ready, go on to the next one. 39:30.904 --> 39:35.847 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, find where that sign is and kind of put the pieces of the puzzles together. 39:36.187 --> 39:40.209 [SPEAKER_00]: But he always said, dude, I will hunt that. 39:40.389 --> 39:40.950 [SPEAKER_00]: I will hunt 39:43.920 --> 39:48.003 [SPEAKER_00]: and there's always a he always a big buck following following. 39:48.424 --> 39:51.406 [SPEAKER_00]: He was huge fan of cold fronts from what I gathered. 39:52.006 --> 39:54.368 [SPEAKER_00]: I would love to have him on at some point. 39:54.868 --> 39:56.270 [SPEAKER_00]: He's a huge fan of cold fronts. 39:56.810 --> 40:09.660 [SPEAKER_00]: He's a huge fan of letting the dog, the old big dog walk so that the next year, she's a just this indicator of when the rut's gonna kick off. 40:11.349 --> 40:18.592 [SPEAKER_00]: And so those are some things that I have kind of built my method around as far as hunting is concerned. 40:18.632 --> 40:24.134 [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, we're going to have fun. 40:24.774 --> 40:28.035 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have a lot of fun this this year. 40:28.895 --> 40:30.356 [SPEAKER_00]: And here's what I want you guys to do. 40:30.876 --> 40:33.797 [SPEAKER_00]: I want you to walk out and like I said earlier, we're just going to hunt. 40:36.223 --> 40:40.667 [SPEAKER_00]: and you're gonna text your boys from the tree stand and you're gonna be like, yo, what up dog? 40:41.327 --> 40:42.308 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, how we doing? 40:42.348 --> 40:43.169 [SPEAKER_00]: You see anything? 40:43.609 --> 40:44.310 [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna do that. 40:44.510 --> 40:46.212 [SPEAKER_00]: To people that you normally wouldn't do. 40:46.372 --> 40:54.519 [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna get your phone out on the days, on the days that you decide to not bring your phone with you or to to bring your phone with you. 40:54.579 --> 40:58.963 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, I wanna challenge all of us to leave the phone in the truck for at least one hunt. 41:00.128 --> 41:04.912 [SPEAKER_00]: And then I want you to interact this year with other people. 41:05.312 --> 41:09.014 [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe you know them, maybe you don't, just to do do you know. 41:09.795 --> 41:14.679 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm gonna challenge myself to text more of my buds in the tree stand. 41:14.739 --> 41:16.660 [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe even jab them a little bit. 41:16.700 --> 41:21.704 [SPEAKER_00]: What I mean by that is tell them how big of pieces of shit they are when it comes to deer hunting. 41:21.724 --> 41:23.985 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, dude, I hope you don't shoot a spike this year. 41:24.966 --> 41:25.767 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you're gonna shoot a spike. 41:25.867 --> 41:28.369 [SPEAKER_00]: You're probably gonna shoot a spike this year and then you're gonna say it's 170. 41:30.312 --> 41:31.373 [SPEAKER_00]: I know a couple of guys like that. 41:31.833 --> 41:34.836 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'll call them up and rib them a little bit. 41:34.856 --> 41:38.039 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we start a group text. 41:38.059 --> 41:42.503 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, I'm gonna bring in all you guys in a group text and we're gonna talk shit on each other. 41:42.883 --> 41:44.364 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what guys are really good at. 41:44.805 --> 41:49.969 [SPEAKER_00]: And we're gonna celebrate the rut and we're going to be like, dude, just shot one. 41:50.350 --> 41:56.195 [SPEAKER_00]: Then we get the video phone calls, the video calls, and it's like, look at this guy! 41:56.596 --> 42:01.347 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody cheers for you and everybody's happy for you and then maybe one of your buddies is like, hey, dude. 42:01.367 --> 42:03.592 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm in the area I'm gonna come help you drag. 42:03.712 --> 42:04.454 [SPEAKER_00]: I would love 42:05.870 --> 42:07.451 [SPEAKER_00]: I would love it if you would help me drag. 42:07.772 --> 42:18.562 [SPEAKER_00]: Drag it, maybe you crush a beer, maybe you smoke a cigar, maybe you go to cases and eat a breakfast pizza, maybe you go out to breakfast, and you get something called a shipwreck. 42:18.622 --> 42:25.108 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if they have shipwrecks where you're at, but let me kind of describe what a shipwreck is real quick. 42:25.128 --> 42:29.492 [SPEAKER_00]: A shipwreck is a layer of hash browns. 42:30.497 --> 42:36.660 [SPEAKER_00]: followed by maybe some cheese, some over-easy eggs, some bacon or sausage, you get a pig. 42:37.321 --> 42:43.864 [SPEAKER_00]: And then over top of that is the biscuits and then biscuits and gravy, the gravy over top. 42:44.244 --> 42:45.325 [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's a side of toast. 42:46.306 --> 42:50.348 [SPEAKER_00]: And there used to be a place that I would meet every turkey season 42:56.495 --> 42:58.919 [SPEAKER_00]: That there used to be an old restaurant there. 42:59.040 --> 43:00.142 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it's there anymore. 43:00.262 --> 43:02.887 [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, it kind of just faded away with time. 43:04.349 --> 43:06.473 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'd meet some people there. 43:07.195 --> 43:08.437 [SPEAKER_00]: And we need a couple shipwrecks. 43:09.239 --> 43:34.708 [SPEAKER_00]: and we'd chug some chocolate milk and then we'd go back out into the woods probably about one o'clock in the afternoon so tired because we just stuffed our fucking faces with about 10,000 calories and you know like from from one thirty to four you're just struggling to keep your eyes open and then finally you see a deer and it sparks your attention and then the movement starts and then the things start to happen. 43:36.048 --> 43:37.509 [SPEAKER_00]: And those are what we need. 43:37.649 --> 43:39.890 [SPEAKER_00]: We need more shipwrecks eaten between friends. 43:40.750 --> 43:45.152 [SPEAKER_00]: We need more bow hunters to get

together and start like bro groups. 43:45.812 --> 43:49.393 [SPEAKER_00]: We need more guys to get together and do an archery league. 43:50.393 --> 43:51.834 [SPEAKER_00]: And archery league. 43:52.074 --> 43:58.536 [SPEAKER_00]: We need more guys to get together to, I don't know, help drag. 43:59.217 --> 44:04.159 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, that would be cool if there was a society of bro's like ourselves 44:06.122 --> 44:07.284 [SPEAKER_00]: We'd create a group. 44:07.685 --> 44:09.368 [SPEAKER_00]: We'd call it the drag society. 44:09.849 --> 44:17.482 [SPEAKER_00]: And when one of our group members shot a deer, we would go and all of us would go help him drag it out of the woods. 44:18.562 --> 44:20.323 [SPEAKER_00]: together to make his life easier. 44:21.364 --> 44:26.547 [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, we would make him drag the most of the deer out. 44:26.567 --> 44:31.590 [SPEAKER_00]: We would probably just sit there in micro-manage and like a construction supervisor. 44:31.610 --> 44:33.171 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, you go do that. 44:33.751 --> 44:35.032 [SPEAKER_00]: We'd probably tell him what to do. 44:35.172 --> 44:37.954 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we wouldn't help that much, but we would be a part of the book. 44:41.156 --> 44:42.536 [SPEAKER_00]: We would be a part of the moment. 44:42.697 --> 44:43.697 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's what we need 44:47.617 --> 44:50.618 [SPEAKER_00]: There's only a small group of guys that I'll do this for, just so you know. 44:50.778 --> 44:54.180 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna drive to Minnesota to help you drag a deer out. 44:54.560 --> 44:57.601 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're in my area and you text me, hey dude, I just shot a good buck. 44:58.242 --> 45:04.304 [SPEAKER_00]: I need my favorite is what I hear the stories of a guy who just gets fired up. 45:04.744 --> 45:07.686 [SPEAKER_00]: Like he's like, I shot a giant, I shot a giant. 45:07.706 --> 45:15.469 [SPEAKER_00]: So he calls his buddy, his buddy gets fired up and the next thing you know, the buddy's like dude, you got a big one, he's like, I got a big one. 45:16.895 --> 45:26.234 [SPEAKER_00]: drives to wherever he was at, gets out of the truck, walks to him, and it's just a drink, and he's like, dude, I thought he said he was giant. 45:28.617 --> 45:30.859 [SPEAKER_00]: That he's got a drag like a two year old out of the woods. 45:31.900 --> 45:35.002 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, that's funny, but that's what you do for your bros, right? 45:35.022 --> 45:39.906 [SPEAKER_00]: You help him drag over reactive, like, you help him drag. 45:40.367 --> 45:51.316 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to drag, if you're a true friend, you will help him drag a booner out, but you also help him drag a doe out, or a deer he thought was a booner, but it's actually a two year old. 45:51.636 --> 45:52.717 [SPEAKER_00]: So think about that. 45:54.240 --> 45:58.822 [SPEAKER_00]: I have ranted for too long, and we're in the thick of it now boys. 45:59.543 --> 46:08.628 [SPEAKER_00]: We are, we're in my favorite time of year, college football, hoodie, hoodie weather. 46:09.808 --> 46:11.089 [SPEAKER_00]: I had a bowl of chili. 46:12.431 --> 46:13.132 [SPEAKER_00]: two nights ago. 46:13.353 --> 46:14.174 [SPEAKER_00]: Fucking chilly. 46:14.214 --> 46:15.577 [SPEAKER_00]: It's chilly season, dude. 46:16.037 --> 46:16.899 [SPEAKER_00]: Venison chilly. 46:17.260 --> 46:20.866 [SPEAKER_00]: I also had Venison stew with sweet potatoes. 46:21.287 --> 46:23.751 [SPEAKER_00]: Didn't even know that existed until two days ago. 46:24.132 --> 46:25.194 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh God, it was delicious. 46:27.936 --> 46:31.938 [SPEAKER_00]: bow hunting, hoodies, college football, the leaves are changing. 46:32.078 --> 46:34.679 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sweating when I go outside, right? 46:35.059 --> 46:39.381 [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody in the house seems to be just a little bit relaxed because the kids are back in school. 46:39.901 --> 46:43.142 [SPEAKER_00]: Holy shit, it's the best time of the year for guys like me, and you. 46:43.962 --> 46:52.666 [SPEAKER_00]: So be safe, go shoot your bow, go practice your weapon, go clean your gun, go hang out with the bros out in the woods, 46:54.450 --> 46:59.471 [SPEAKER_00]: We do not know how many more of these years we have left. 47:01.211 --> 47:05.072 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but you could get in your car today. 47:07.072 --> 47:11.393 [SPEAKER_00]: And you could say, okay, well, I'm just gonna go through this intersection. 47:11.413 --> 47:12.653 [SPEAKER_00]: I stop to go through this intersection. 47:12.793 --> 47:14.333 [SPEAKER_00]: Boom, you get T-bone by a semi. 47:15.894 --> 47:16.274 [SPEAKER_00]: It's over. 47:18.114 --> 47:18.354 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 47:18.634 --> 47:20.975 [SPEAKER_00]: Depending on what you believe, right? 47:21.095 --> 47:23.095 [SPEAKER_00]: Your time here right now is over. 47:24.873 --> 47:33.155 [SPEAKER_00]: So with that said, why not experience life to the fullest, stop being such a grumpy asshole all the time. 47:33.395 --> 47:36.156 [SPEAKER_00]: I need to take that advice too. 47:36.596 --> 47:46.058 [SPEAKER_00]: I need to take that advice project happiness and that will project happiness on others and people might loosen up a little bit. 47:46.745 --> 47:46.925 [SPEAKER_00]: Right? 47:47.165 --> 47:58.493 [SPEAKER_00]: Go out, have as much fun as humanly possible, because at the end of the day that 170 inch deer you have on the wall is going to go into a fucking dumpster at some point. 47:59.934 --> 48:05.277 [SPEAKER_00]: You think your daughter wants that in her house after she's got kids? 48:05.738 --> 48:05.998 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 48:06.894 --> 48:31.667 [SPEAKER_00]: you can donate it to a tackle shop or something like that in your area and someone say hey who shot that buck the guy who owns the tackle shop is going to say I have no idea it was there when I bought it or some some kid donated it said it was his dad's don't know go out have the best

season in your life be safe be kind be empathetic go help 48:36.591 --> 48:37.331 [SPEAKER_00]: Who gives a shit? 48:38.052 --> 48:40.213 [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody gives a shit, right? 48:40.493 --> 48:46.456 [SPEAKER_00]: In the grand scheme of things, bow hunting, deer hunting is this. 48:46.516 --> 48:49.117 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just a little minuscule part of your life. 48:49.617 --> 48:51.098 [SPEAKER_00]: Go be great and other things. 48:51.438 --> 48:52.499 [SPEAKER_00]: Go be a better dad. 48:52.539 --> 48:53.639 [SPEAKER_00]: Go be a better husband. 48:53.679 --> 48:56.541 [SPEAKER_00]: Go be, if you're a female, listen to this. 48:56.561 --> 48:57.541 [SPEAKER_00]: Go be a better mom. 48:57.721 --> 48:58.602 [SPEAKER_00]: Go be a better wife. 48:59.282 --> 49:00.483 [SPEAKER_00]: Go learn how to cook better. 49:04.024 --> 49:08.930 [SPEAKER_00]: That came off real bad go go make a really good meal for your man. 49:09.550 --> 49:15.978 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm saying All right God bless 49:17.702 --> 49:19.964 [SPEAKER_00]: That's who you need to thank for all this. 49:20.624 --> 49:21.745 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank him for a good day. 49:22.166 --> 49:24.808 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank him that we get to have hoodie weather. 49:25.148 --> 49:28.951 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank him that the leaves are changing and you've made it to another both season. 49:29.271 --> 49:36.277 [SPEAKER_00]: Pray to him and say dear Lord, I want to experience this season and I want to experience next season. 49:38.100 --> 49:40.661 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank him for all this, because he's the one, right? 49:40.821 --> 49:42.702 [SPEAKER_00]: He's the one that makes all this possible. 49:43.462 --> 49:46.603 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank your wife for letting you go and do these things. 49:47.483 --> 49:50.404 [SPEAKER_00]: Be appreciative where you're girl, right? 49:50.564 --> 49:56.306 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're single, go hunt as much as humanly possible right now, right now. 49:56.667 --> 49:59.908 [SPEAKER_00]: If you go at, I mean, single without kids, or you gotta be a dad. 50:01.006 --> 50:02.366 [SPEAKER_00]: got to be a husband. 50:02.386 --> 50:03.807 [SPEAKER_00]: You've made promises to people. 50:04.407 --> 50:09.828 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're, uh, if your chick is cool, go out and hunt as much as possible, right? 50:10.028 --> 50:10.849 [SPEAKER_00]: Fill the freezer. 50:11.229 --> 50:13.389 [SPEAKER_00]: You can, there's plenty of dough tags out there. 50:13.489 --> 50:15.130 [SPEAKER_00]: Go shoot as many doses you want. 50:15.190 --> 50:15.910 [SPEAKER_00]: Go have fun. 50:16.650 --> 50:17.450 [SPEAKER_00]: Go kill a buck. 50:17.931 --> 50:23.512 [SPEAKER_00]: Put that on in your garage on the wall, have an argument with your wife about, oh, we have too many deer heads in the house. 50:23.592 --> 50:24.112 [SPEAKER_00]: Bull shit. 50:24.292 --> 50:26.593 [SPEAKER_00]: There's never enough deer heads in the house. 50:27.767 --> 50:37.429 [SPEAKER_00]: I know guys who have built extra walls in their house, not an extension of their home, but extra walls in their house just for deer heads. 50:37.809 --> 50:45.992 [SPEAKER_00]: I walked into this one dude's trailer one time, and this is no shit on dudes who live in trailers. 50:46.752 --> 50:47.692 [SPEAKER_00]: I used to live in a trailer. 50:49.755 --> 50:56.757 [SPEAKER_00]: This dude had so many deer heads on his wall by the way, this guy know who this guy is. 50:57.097 --> 50:58.017 [SPEAKER_00]: This guy's a slayer. 50:58.198 --> 50:59.478 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't even know who he is. 50:59.718 --> 51:01.218 [SPEAKER_00]: This guy's figured it out. 51:01.579 --> 51:07.680 [SPEAKER_00]: He's killed bigger bucks than almost everybody I know who bow hunts and nobody knows who he is. 51:08.181 --> 51:11.602 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you guys have, I'm sure you guys have guys like that. 51:11.782 --> 51:13.282 [SPEAKER_00]: You know guys like that, no one ever knows. 51:13.782 --> 51:15.823 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, this dude for a while lived in a trailer. 51:16.723 --> 51:23.290 [SPEAKER_00]: and he had so many inches of antlers on the wall that you had to walk a single path. 51:23.870 --> 51:37.464 [SPEAKER_00]: There was only room for one path, and then you get to his hallway, and I believe in his hallway, he had deer hanging too, and you had to like scoot around in his hallway, so you didn't knock deer mounts off of the wall. 51:38.523 --> 51:39.363 [SPEAKER_00]: Go be that guy. 51:39.744 --> 51:41.944 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that would be awesome to be that guy again. 51:42.565 --> 51:46.726 [SPEAKER_00]: If you could do that, would you, if you could do it over again, would you change your life? 51:47.146 --> 51:55.290 [SPEAKER_00]: Would you trade your current home for a trailer but a whole bunch of giants that you, that you slayed, would you do that? 51:55.390 --> 51:55.810 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 51:55.970 --> 51:57.491 [SPEAKER_00]: That sounds pretty tasty to me, dude. 51:58.071 --> 51:59.171 [SPEAKER_00]: But you can't go back in time. 51:59.672 --> 52:04.493 [SPEAKER_00]: So now you got to do it the hard way, you got to dodge, you know, you got to plan, you got to prep, 52:08.495 --> 52:17.623 [SPEAKER_00]: Balancing because you got kids and you got life who we all love her our lives, but some about this time here just makes me drool, right? 52:19.184 --> 52:21.586 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to lay a scrape right in the middle of the living room. 52:21.727 --> 52:27.872 [SPEAKER_00]: See what my life would do if I just like palled out a part of the the rug that's in our living room just took a huge piss. 52:30.879 --> 52:32.702 [SPEAKER_00]: And said, I am in charge right now. 52:33.122 --> 52:34.084 [SPEAKER_00]: This is my house. 52:34.444 --> 52:37.108 [SPEAKER_00]: I wonder what she would do if we all acted like dear for a day. 52:37.849 --> 52:46.702 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine society, imagine society, if we could only breed, if women only wanted to have sex for 52:49.953 --> 52:54.455 [SPEAKER_00]: One month, a 30-day window throughout the entire year. 52:55.616 --> 52:56.856 [SPEAKER_00]: Society would crumble. 52:57.617 --> 53:00.718 [SPEAKER_00]: Wars would break out all over the place. 53:01.359 --> 53:05.280 [SPEAKER_00]: The murder rate would go up across all the entire world. 53:05.901 --> 53:06.621 [SPEAKER_00]: The entire world. 53:07.341 --> 53:08.042 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine that. 53:09.118 --> 53:12.300 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine that and then it becomes primitive, right? 53:12.660 --> 53:22.307 [SPEAKER_00]: Only the biggest, baddest, most highly trained individuals who had the most resources would win and they would have an elk herd there that they would breed. 53:22.867 --> 53:23.668 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what would happen. 53:24.228 --> 53:31.733 [SPEAKER_00]: But then some, some dude would, would figure it out and he'd go and murder. 53:32.514 --> 53:35.516 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got to end this episode because even I'm starting to scare myself. 53:36.356 --> 53:37.137 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, check this out. 53:39.328 --> 53:54.792 [SPEAKER_00]: Good vibes, where you're safety harness, do me a huge favor, go to iTunes, go to Spotify, wherever you download the 9 finger Chronicles podcast, give me a 5 star review, let everybody know I'm some crazy douchebag who loves bow hunting dude, I love it. 53:55.212 --> 54:01.273 [SPEAKER_00]: I love bow hunting, I love talking about bow hunting, and I want all of you to send me pictures. 54:01.813 --> 54:14.176 [SPEAKER_00]: When you slay this year, I don't give a shit if it's a fun with milk dripping out of its mouth or if it's the biggest state record book you've just giant, all of them in between. 54:14.256 --> 54:17.357 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to see them, I want to see bear, I want to see 54:18.337 --> 54:19.758 [SPEAKER_00]: Elk I want to see mule there. 54:19.838 --> 54:22.078 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to see ground hogs. 54:22.318 --> 54:23.319 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to see squirrels. 54:23.739 --> 54:26.800 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to see all of that shit That's whenever you guys send me stuff. 54:26.980 --> 54:28.700 [SPEAKER_00]: I get fired up dude. 54:28.780 --> 54:33.102 [SPEAKER_00]: I love it I want to see pictures of your wife, you know 54:38.397 --> 54:39.599 [SPEAKER_00]: like not your wife. 54:39.699 --> 54:46.689 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to see pictures of your wife's deer, your kids deer, your grandma shoots a deer, did that be awesome. 54:46.709 --> 54:47.591 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to see that shit too. 54:48.031 --> 54:52.618 [SPEAKER_00]: So good vibes, be safe and we'll talk to you next time.