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Little Woods Season 1: Episode 9- TLW outdoors crew roundtable with a welcome back to Jake
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Jake is back after having a new kid (Boone Everett). We shoot the bull with him, Sam, Drew and Whitt.
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Transcript
Introduction and New Parenthood Humour
00:00:13
Speaker
All right. Episode nine. We're here with the Little Woods outdoors crew. We've got Jacob Martin, Drew Hampton, Sam. Sam, thanks for stopping by. Jake, we're going to start with you tonight. You've been gone for a long time. We ain't seen you. Well, you know, just, uh, having a baby and getting it raised up, you know, the three weeks of age.
00:00:41
Speaker
You know, that's about whenever I can start podcasting again when I hit three weeks. They start getting fun about that age, don't they? Oh yeah. They're, they're fun the whole time. Yeah. This is, this is weird on the mic as well. I just, I was giving Jake earlier some trouble. He missed one podcast and I act like he ain't been on in, in three years. So glad to have you back, brother. I'm glad to be back.
00:01:07
Speaker
Uh, we tried to do a couple episodes here recently and it just didn't work out. Talk about that was like perfect timing baby in the background where we know why it don't work out. But, uh, you know, uh, we still got the rest of the crew here. Sam had some time.
00:01:27
Speaker
We caught him, we got him out of an argument tonight, so it was perfect timing. He's ready to debate something, I'm sure. Drew's internet's holding up so far. He's made it past a minute and a half, so we ain't gonna be complaining. He's still getting close. Getting close to that timeout. Waiting on that dial-up to start beeping in the background. Hey, if somebody calls your house, like back in the old days, it'd knock you offline.
Post-Hunting Season Plans and Weather Woes
00:01:57
Speaker
So the little woods outdoors, everybody's like, what are y'all going to talk about now that hunting season's over? Well, it ain't over for long. We're in February, which is, I would have to say it's probably my least favorite month. It's got a Valentine's day in it. Me and my wife love each other. We don't need another holiday.
00:02:21
Speaker
to have to spend money on each other right after Christmas. I mean, we know we love each other, right? Uh, I don't know y'all feel the same way. I mean, February is like one of my least favorite months for sure. Luckily it's the shortest. Yeah. It is the month with the snow goose conservation order going and, uh, they just make me mad.
00:02:45
Speaker
That's right. I mean, we try to chase them, but by the time the conservation starts now, especially this year in particular, it was like a majority of them have already migrated. So we, we missed that part. Maybe they're up in Northeast Arkansas, but we kind of missed a little bit on that and it was wet. I mean, all of February is wet. You don't know if it's going to be cold ice in or snowing. I mean,
00:03:13
Speaker
It's one of my least favorite months for sure. I was about to say it. I think it's rained every day, almost over here. The whole time I took an extra week off after Boone was born. And, uh, I think it rained or it was below freezing just about every day. You talk about getting star crazy. Hmm.
Mice Encounters and Appliance Frustrations
00:03:38
Speaker
Yeah, it's been getting pretty crazy for us at work too. We, we get pretty busy during the weather season and, um, I'm just not looking forward to having to continue through that. You know, February is that month where all those people that set those good new year's resolutions, like working out and all, it's probably a good month for that. Don't you think so? I mean, you're still at it, aren't you? Was that your new year's resolution again? You getting big?
00:04:07
Speaker
Yeah, I'm trying to actually started before. Yeah. So you're going to do good. Dang. So you're going to do good probably to about middle of March when that, you know, Turkey season starts up and then it's going to be fall off. Like it'll fall down like that Chinese spy balloon, baby. Just right to the ground. Yeah. You, you hit the nail right on the head.
00:04:34
Speaker
Hey, but it, it bridges that gap. I mean, we got to have something to bridge gap February. All I feel like I do is clean. I try to clean up after all this different hunting I've been doing and putting it off. So, and somehow every year I feel like I become a storage shed for everybody's crap.
00:04:54
Speaker
I mean, I got duck decoys that don't ever belong to me and their response is, well, I only hunt out there with you. Well, that don't mean I got to spot my shot for your stuff though. I mean, John Jay, I'm sure you've left something here on purpose. Uh, how there's no telling. I know I left the whole pack of batteries over there. I never could find that got used. Okay. I know I left a couple of shotguns and a headlamp over there too.
00:05:24
Speaker
But you got room for it. Yeah, got room for it. My dad's over here trying to pressure me into getting one of them storage containers, probably from China over here and putting it up so I can put all the hunting stuff in it. It worked. It'd be dry. Have you ever wanted one of those during the summertime? It was about a hundred degrees. It's like a damn sauna.
00:05:57
Speaker
Just put some boards up on the side of it, it'll look like a cabin from the road. That's just a long square cabin. Just catch a little hole out, put a line in it. I put it close to where the pool's gonna be so we can jump off the top of it though.
00:06:17
Speaker
The pool might not get dug this year if it don't quit raining. That's all I know. Hmm. It's been wet. But hopefully that actually comes to fruition. We pay the deposit. So I still got to go finish gathering all my stuff up out of the woods. I got a feeder. I need to get put up climbing stand. I left on a tree cameras. Yep. Getting time to do that. It's pretty hard.
00:06:46
Speaker
Anyways in February and then you throw a baby into the mix, makes it a little more difficult. At least you're, at least you're staying in feeder, ain't, but 50 yards off the back of your house. So you ain't got no excuse. Uh, no, uh, just baby duties, my only excuse. You know, uh, probably since the last time we were on here, lots happened. Um, it might not be.
00:07:13
Speaker
So much hunting wise, but we've got some good hunting stories. I think we can touch on a little bit of them, but kind of in regards to what's all happened, a lot's happened in the world since we'd taught last. I mean, I think we could kind of get on a few subjects, but I think the one that's most fresh on our minds, uh,
00:07:34
Speaker
The number one and number two pound per pound fighters took on each other, didn't they
UFC Highlights and Sunburn Stories
00:07:39
Speaker
Sam? Let me get that synopsis. Anybody watch the UFC out there? I know. I was going to watch it, but Sam was trying to hit me with the $80 charge. So, Hey, I think I figured it out. They give you about four screens to mess around with. After that, they start cutting you off.
00:08:01
Speaker
I didn't even, I didn't even have time to turn it on. I watched the prelims and I forgot I flipped it over to something else and I think I went and chase the dogs for a minute. Yeah, it was good stuff. Uh, the co-main fight was good too with Yair Rodriguez. I think this is how you pronounce his first name, but I mean that kid was just flying, doing all types of aerial attacks. Uh, he ended up, uh, choking Josh Emmett out.
00:08:29
Speaker
with a triangle choke there, which was his first submission. But this kid has some skill. Let me tell you, it's impressive. And so the main event was Volkanovski in Islam market share and Volkanovski ended up losing on decision.
00:08:54
Speaker
But, uh, he's going back down to featherweight to fight Yair Rodriguez. And that's going to be a heck of a fight. I can't wait for that. Is that what he came from? Featherweight up to lightweight. Yeah. Yeah. He came from one 45 up to the one 55 lightweight class and he held his own for sure. I mean, that guy's strong man for sure. Very skillful worked on his wrestling. That just blows my mind up. I've always been skinny. I mean,
00:09:25
Speaker
I thank God for that ability, but I mean, the way that these guys take weight off and put it on so fast, I mean, it don't make no sense to me. Yeah. It's gotta be healthy.
00:09:41
Speaker
I'll tell you what ain't healthy is getting put in a triangle choke. I've had it a few times. It's not fun. You know, what's more deadly than that, that dag I'm full Nelson son. Oh, never watch out for that thing. It'll just be on you. Yeah. Tell me a little about this full Nelson. What is this? Oh, it's just something I got to do to the coyotes every once in a while when they come up, try to hop up on me. We'll paint a picture.
00:10:10
Speaker
Yeah, what you got? Yeah, his buddy Nelson. I already told the story that that coyote ran up on me a few weeks ago and I thought I was going to have to put him in a full Nelson right there on the tree line right there. But I didn't. I haven't seen the coyotes in a couple of days. They've been keeping their distance, I guess. I don't know what it is. I can't say I blame them either.
00:10:39
Speaker
But they've ran off every raccoon that was anywhere close to my house. I've had a trap set for like two weeks and Nola, the mice, uh, went through and ate all the peanut butter out of one of my traps. I had set, they munched it down and, uh, I just moved it further. What about that? They left the jelly for the ants.
00:11:08
Speaker
When it gets warm enough on these 70 degree days, those ants slip in there and take your jelly, really? Well, the thing about baiting with peanut butter and jelly, no matter how safe I am doing it, I get it all over me. So I'll be getting back on the ranger and my fingers will be stuck together and I'll have it on my face or somewhere, you know.
00:11:33
Speaker
I did make something else with that. It's so sticky. Is that like a half and half deal? It's like half on your hands, half your stuff in your mouth and rub it on your face. Well, I did get two big scoops out of that peanut
Earthquake Tales and Super Bowl Reflections
00:11:45
Speaker
butter before I put it on that trap today. I ain't even gonna lie. Put you some face paint on. You know, the last time I used peanut butter to bait something, I was baiting these little snap traps and I had a little bit of a mice problem out here in the shop because I had all that protein for deer out there that
00:12:02
Speaker
Uh, I guess, I guess the mice got in there, figured it out. Well, I tell you, I, going back to these little trap things, I showed up at tractor supply and it was, you know, six, 37 o'clock at night and, and Lacey drove me. So I had had a beer too. And I meet this fella in there and he just so happens to stop me when I'm looking at mouse traps and he's like,
00:12:29
Speaker
Hey man, what you tryin' to catch? I said, well I got some mice in there, I'm pretty sure.
00:12:35
Speaker
He said, well, let me direct you to the best thing they're selling right now. And he takes me over there and he's showing me this trap. I swear to you would have caught a full sized cat. And he's like, this is it. This is, this is the snap trap. And all I could think about was like, Oh my gosh. He said, I've dealt with my own share of rat and mouse problems. And I'm thinking, dude, you didn't have mice. You had.
00:13:01
Speaker
freaking giant rats. And I was, I'm very fortunate, but I caught a few. I mean, he had some good points. He said, yeah, make sure you use that peanut butter. Make sure you use that peanut butter. He said it's Nutella. That's what works best. And so I found the, the mice King at tractor supply the other day. That's a good place to see the mice King. Yeah. And as soon as you got that first mouse, you're like, Oh, hell he's right.
00:13:29
Speaker
It was right. They need to send him over to Atwood's. Why is that? I didn't catch some of them, uh, rats and mice over there. I'm tired of picking up dog food and spilling half of it across the aisle. That happens with that horse food more times than not when I'd go get horse feed. Yeah. Atwood's is just a humongous, uh, food plot for mice and rats.
00:13:53
Speaker
Indoor sanctuary is all it is. Like every time I pick up a bag of food, half of it's chasing me to the cart and I got to fling that one back there in the back, get me another one that's got tape on it. I'm like, this ain't working. Yeah, you get up there and it's got tape on half the bottom of the bag. You're like, is there a discount for this or nah, nah, just damage and transport.
00:14:15
Speaker
Yeah, my other favorite thing about tractor supply, they don't believe in price tags. So I'll take like 10 items up to the front. Like, I don't know if I'm gonna buy this yet. How much is it? And they got to go through the whole scanning. They got one cashier, you know, I got half the store backed up, but that's not my fault. That's not my fault. They got to put price on stuff.
00:14:36
Speaker
Do you hear that guy? At Atwood's, I am, yeah. Because I done spilt three bags of dog food in the process of finding whatever I was looking for that don't have a price. Yeah, are you the guy that brings up the big bag of 40 pound dog food and just, you know, it's overpriced. You're like, oh, I can't do that. And you just leave it up there for them to take it back. You leave it on the counter.
00:15:00
Speaker
I wish these red bones were eating a bag every two weeks of that Victor dog food. That stuff's high.
00:15:08
Speaker
You know, I was feeding them Purina and, uh, somehow my whole house got infested with little beetles because it was in the dog food. The dogs weren't eating the food. I'm like, what's going on with this food? And, uh, further investigation, I'm just, I brought home another species from that woods and infested my house. So anybody's got Purina's, uh,
00:15:36
Speaker
QA, uh, phone number, I'll probably be happy to take it. You're going to give them a comment or two. Yeah. They were getting in my bags of chips. Oh, that's five words. I sitting there munching a bag of chips and I probably ate one. I got down like the last five chips. They're pulling out and there's one of them little bugs on my, Oh God.
00:16:02
Speaker
You know, uh, that's funny. You're bringing up the rest of your house here on this episode. I, I think there's been another occurrence. I mean, besides a baby making its way to its house, I feel like you, you got, you got a few new, uh, things in the kitchen. Uh, I know you got a new fridge and that was just a real seamless process. Wasn't it? Oh, yeah. We don't have enough time to talk about that poor deal. They finally, they finally came out and swapped my door panels out.
00:16:32
Speaker
And then the microwave went out and I'm like, all right, it's two weeks out. I ordered it from a different box store. They said, oh, it's two weeks out. I'm like, I can go with that a microwave for two weeks. Well, about three hours into not having a microwave. I regretted that decision. Uh, those ramen noodles were looking good over there. Man. I got real creative. That's true. Oh, I don't microwave my ramen.
00:17:02
Speaker
Yeah, that popcorn was looking good with it. Oh, anything I wanted real quick was looking good. I had the air fryer in service, you know, trying to heat stuff up, but I was, you know, burning it, trying to heat stuff up on the stove. You know, if you got to be born in like 75 ish to be an expert on heating up on the stove without burning something because
00:17:29
Speaker
I failed at that. You know, uh, the stove top cooking is pretty hard. I mean, unless you've got that gas consistency, I think those gas, uh, stove tops cook way better. I mean, the electric ones are just so on and off on and off, but I mean, I ain't a cook. I don't have that much experience, but I'll throw down in the kitchen, but here lately it's been annoying because nothing was working right.
00:17:57
Speaker
I've been making this sandwich. I ain't come up with a name yet, but I fry, I toast my bread, put a little mayo and a little sriracha. Then I fry two pieces of bologna, fry a couple of pepperonis, those big pepperonis, and fry an egg and slap all that together. Son. That sounds like a nap. Oh, it'll shut you down.
00:18:26
Speaker
Sounds like what I had from Jimmy John's just a second ago. I walked in there with 10 minutes to close. They caught it like this. Oh, the spicy Italian West coast style or something. I don't know. But I grabbed some of that and some jalapeno chips and ran. They locked the door behind me. You were that guy. Was it good?
00:18:56
Speaker
I, for I got home. So yeah, but now pounds don't add on itself. You know, you got to get after it, but now I just, uh,
00:19:12
Speaker
It's been a nightmare on home projects over here, put that new microwave in it. I might as well just got a, uh, Jack hammer and routed my cabinets with it. Cause that's what it about came to. I mean, we've gotten to this point about your anger at the microwave, but.
00:19:28
Speaker
And you keep trying to avoid it, but it's not that long of a story. I just, the world needs to hear about the fridge problem because I don't think you're the only person that's got this problem, Jake. I mean, I dealt with my own problem. I'll, I'll say this big box store brand. I never in a million years will recommend Best Buy for any of your furniture or anything like that. Do not sponsor the Little Woods outdoors Best Buy. That is awful idea.
00:19:57
Speaker
Yeah, I got about four more out of that list. We order this high dollar fridge and it comes and the doors are not level. All right. Like that doesn't bother me that much cause I'm not that OCD, but between my, me and my wife and her telling me about how we spend this much money on our fridge and it's the doors ain't level. It don't make much sense. So, but my favorite thing is
00:20:26
Speaker
Is when they don't show up when they're supposed to, and then they call you. That's, that's the funny one. Well, long story short, I order a new refrigerator. They say it's going to be here on a certain day. They give me an automated, what brand of fridge? Yeah. Yeah. What brand fridge? It's a Samsung.
00:20:52
Speaker
and talked to some appliance people. They said, they're pretty good. So I said, all right, get an automated message. It doesn't show, or I'm like, all right, it'll be here tomorrow. So my wife takes off work. This is before the baby's here and we're on crunch time needing a refrigerator here because we're using the one out in my shop, which is very inconvenient. And we just got to have it. At least it was winter for the beer to be outside on the porch.
00:21:21
Speaker
Right. Yeah. I mean, it works till you forget and it gets down in the real cold and it doesn't work. It works against you at some point and got automated message. It'll be here. She took off work. I'm at work call. First off, I spent more time on hold trying to get ahold of people at Lowe's than I've ever had in my entire life. So don't ever expect somebody to answer your phone call.
00:21:52
Speaker
Didn't show up on time. Couldn't get ahold. Nobody finally get ahold of somebody. They're like, Oh, well it was damaged. So we're not going to deliver it. That's why they didn't deliver. I'm like, all right, well, a phone call would have been nice to know. We'll get it to you Monday. Well, Monday rolls around. They show up. Uh, they give me 15 minute heads up notice too, when they're going to be at my house. So you got to love that. I
Fatherhood Challenges and Conspiracy Theories
00:22:16
Speaker
was halfway across the County working.
00:22:20
Speaker
And that guy said, well, he said, they're 15 minutes out from your house. I said, well, I'm not home right now. He goes, well, I guess you're just going to stop and just go meet him over there. Anyway, he got cussed. And, uh, so I get over here. The delivery guys are awesome. They said, uh, you know, we tried to not bring this out today because it was damaged. I'm like, are you kidding me? So then they.
00:22:50
Speaker
Oh, before that, the manager told me it wasn't damaged. They show up. They tell me it's damaged. Oh my God. Oh my God. This'll be your loaner. You can just borrow this one until your other one comes in. I'm like, Oh, that's pretty cool. Yup. This is a full size refrigerator. They like to kill themselves getting in my house. Anyway, they get it in here and it's all scratched up and look like somebody drug it through the briar thicket.
00:23:19
Speaker
So the damage was just kind of more cosmetic, like scratch and all. Yeah. But it still functioned. Yeah, it functioned. It probably been a lot better if, you know, I hadn't went through all the crap before that. But anyway, three weeks later, I got my panels replaced and I had to go down there and talk to everybody that was involved and.
00:23:44
Speaker
It sucked. Did you apologize for being hateful that day? Did I apologize? Yeah. No. Well, did they at least take off the old one? Take out the old one. Oh yeah. Yeah, they took the old one. They took it. You know, RIP Whirlpool.
00:24:07
Speaker
Yeah, I asked that question because we got a fridge not too long ago and our old fridge is sitting in our garage right now, just collecting dust, taking up space. I'm like, dang, y'all don't take this off. No, it's extra charge. Oh, I gladly paid my $45 for them to haul mine off. That's no joke. I don't, it's really impressive how they haul all that stuff in. I mean, they've got those,
00:24:33
Speaker
which they're bigger than me. They can carry a lot more than I can, but they've got these straps. Drew, you've got some of those straps, don't you? Kind of like go underneath hooks to your waist or something or arms. Yeah, the hook to your forearms, you slip it underneath the plights and you just take your hands through them and they sit on your forearms. It carries all that extra weight. It's pretty neat.
00:24:56
Speaker
Yeah. Talk about it. That just, that just sounds like I'm about to bust a knuckle wide open going through a doorway. Just bear hugging that thing. Oh yeah. Those guys. Hey, I give it to them. They, they worked their butt off getting it. That old one out and this new one in and it wasn't their fault. It was a, it was a store's fault. They got it taken care of finally, you know, I, oh, and then I'm up at the hospital about
00:25:25
Speaker
nine o'clock that one night I was up was up there for three or four days or a month I couldn't tell it all just ran together there for a minute and uh my in-laws were staying at the house and they called at nine o'clock they said hey Lowe's is here to swap your refrigerator out I said are you serious yeah there's a there's two people here to swap it out a guy and a girl I said well first off it's nine o'clock at night that ain't going to work
00:25:54
Speaker
Number two, it took three grown men plus me to get the other one in and they got to do it twice. I said, that ain't happening, but I don't know. I didn't see that old gal. She might've been tough. Uh, did they get it in? No, I told him to go. I told him to tell him, get out of there, get off my property. Then I tried, then I was so mad. I told him, I said, y'all just come get the, get this thing tomorrow. I'll go somewhere else.
00:26:23
Speaker
Anyway, like I said, it's a long story. It just got better. I mean, and if y'all would have heard it in the flash the first day when he was steaming, I thought he was about to run off the road. He was so mad.
00:26:38
Speaker
I'm glad I went on the other end. Whoever he called got a cussing that day. And I, I was like 30 seconds away from getting one at any moment, just from him, just repeating it to me. So everybody was, everybody was taking shots. You know, Cole never would have heard that cussing cause he'd already been having to get another call in on the other side. RIP Cole, we miss you. Yeah. He got me for 13 seconds of the day. That was pretty low.
00:27:06
Speaker
That's pretty low. That's a new record for sure. But, you know, and we'll kind of get off that, but that's, that cracked me up, Jake. I mean, not only are you going through the stress of everything, oh hell, I say you're going through the stress. Jess was going through the stress, so thereby you had a little bit of added to your life. It wasn't that much, was it?
00:27:30
Speaker
No, babies are awesome. I mean, it's definitely a game changer as far as, you know, I'm going to run outside and hang out in the shop for 45 minutes. Cause you can't do that very often. Uh, you know, stuff like that. But I tell you, I was roughing at that hospital there a couple of nights on that plastic couch. They got, let me tell you, I was about to, I was about to have them hook that fit and all thing up to me and pump me full of it. So I could sleep on that Daggum couch. And, uh,
00:28:00
Speaker
I know how y'all, I know how y'all felt out in Colorado because that's how cold it was in that room. I woke up jackhammer and just freezing. I had a blanket. It was about as thick as a t-shirt. So you didn't like take nothing with you, like a pillow, nothing? Oh yeah, I did. I didn't, I didn't take a whole lot of bedding because I'm thinking, you know, I'm going to have a decent little pad, you know, but
00:28:26
Speaker
It wasn't. What did you think? They were going to put two hospital beds together for y'all to lay on or what? I mean, I was kind of, I was kind of wanting to lay in one of them striker beds like Jess had over there, but it's one of them couches, you know, you gotta be about six foot 12 to sit on this couch because it's the, where your buck goes is about four feet. So my feet don't even bend that's couches so long. So you can't sit on it comfortably.
00:28:52
Speaker
And it's just long enough to where you can't fully stretch out. And that's made out of this plastic material that, you know, it's just, you can't, can't get comfortable. Hey, did it have like one of those rollout pieces of paper, kind of like a, like a exam bed does at the doctor? No, that's what the blankets felt like though. That sounds pretty comfy. Oh yeah. I mean.
00:29:19
Speaker
Luckily they kept it about three degrees above freezing there. I mean, I'm telling you it was cold. Yeah, it reminds me of sleeping over at a buddy's house and he doesn't give you a blanket or anything. So you just grab anything close to you for warmth. Yeah. You just grab the smaller couch and lay it on top of you.
00:29:42
Speaker
Hey, speaking of that, I got to tell you this story. It was down at vet school at LSU and I went down there to visit him and we watched the hogs game. And this dude put his bedsheets and everything in the dryer and forgot to pull them out. So I'm laying in that bed, it's like 50 degrees and I just like wrapped up in a little ball. And he said, Drew, we come in there about 6 a.m. He said, Drew, you want some covers?
00:30:06
Speaker
It's a little too late for now. I was freezing my butt off all night. Curled up in a little ball. I had Bobo next to me, thank goodness, so I could warm up a little bit. That man let me sleep without no covers. Yeah, I got a cheat code on that. You just have towels. You just double up on the towels. Go to the bathroom. We went to one of them big deals up at Fayetteville one time during Rush.
00:30:35
Speaker
I don't remember where we stayed, but everybody, uh, everybody went hard and, uh, get back to the little apartment with staying at and a buddy of mine sleeping in the recliner. And I'm talking when I say he was snoring.
00:30:52
Speaker
It was like a heart of Davidson over there. You know how they pull up. They don't idle. You got to sit there and rev them up at the stoplight. Yeah, they'll die if you didn't. Yeah, they'll die if you don't. So that's what it sounded like in that recliner. I was like, I cannot go to sleep. That's like my big pet peeves. I mean, I snore, but I don't hear it. So I'm good. So I was like, I got to figure something out. So I ended up taking all the couch cushions off, took them in the bathroom floor, laid them out, made my own little makeshift couch, shut the door and slept in the bathroom.
00:31:24
Speaker
It was bad. I've slept on the bathroom floor before, but usually I'm like hurting when that happens. And that's a good rest right there. Oh yeah. You just wake up just clammy. I mean, Sam, how cold was it that first night we were at elk hunt? I mean, like 10 or 12 degrees outside, we're in a canvas tent. Uh, you can't, you can't run that propane propane heater in there. Cause you might wake up dead. So it was.
00:31:52
Speaker
It was freezing cold. Next night I had every piece of clothing I had on my feet because they were, they got the coldest. And then I had about four of them body warmer, uh, hot hands all in my sleeping bag, trying to keep warm. Yeah. Yeah. You had to figure it out. I had a negative 20 degrees sleeping baggers. That's what it said on the box when I pulled it out. And, uh,
00:32:21
Speaker
So I was like, Oh, I'm good. You know, it's never gonna get below freezing or below zero. Well, come to find out the stuffing in my sleeping bag is that stuffing that you get from dog toys. You know, when the dog tears up and so there's no insulation there. Where did you get that sleeping bag at Amazon? I think I got it off Cabela's, you know, the old
00:32:49
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I want everybody to take a, learn a lesson from our mistakes right here because that was bad, Sam. I mean, my sleeping bag said negative 22, but that was the low end. It said comfortable was like zero degrees. Uh, you'd be too hot if it was like over 40, something like that. Well, I don't know what the warmest sleeping bag is in this world. It might weigh 150 pounds, but I guarantee you next time I pack in, I'm carrying it because.
00:33:19
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You probably need to see what they're using at base camp up there at Everest. I mean, there's about a hundred people sleeping up there. Like it's just state park. Yeah. Props to them. I mean, I watch those documentaries. I've never seen it personally.
00:33:36
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Yeah, you've never, you've never been firsthand. I've never been to the, I've never been to Nepal. No, my, my little, my little driver, I had driving me around Saudi Arabia. He was from Nepal. Really? Me and him talked for two hours. I don't, still to this day, don't know what he said. He probably didn't know what you said either. Oh, I guarantee you didn't. All I know is that Toyota Hilux was going as fast as one will go across that desert. Never missed a beat.
00:34:05
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It really blows my mind you get to a country like that and speeds here, you think we drive fast? Man, they don't care if they hit each other. I mean, just full speed. I was telling Jess the other day, I was talking about that over there and I said the most dangerous part's been on the highway over there.
00:34:27
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I bet I've seen 25 wrecks just in the little short time I was on the highway over there. And I'm telling it, we I'm in this summer. Jay had these Suburbans that had basically like roll cage, like a race car in them. That's what we rode in, you know, a little safer than just whatever you hop in. And we're driving down this interstate. I mean, they'll go from two wide to five wide hitting the ditch. They don't even care.
00:34:57
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And, uh, we pull up, we're driving up my, there's this really bad wreck. I'll tell that dude, I said, I said, Hey man, we need to stop and help these people or what? And he said, Oh no. Uh, uh, they'll, they'll try to blame it on us. Basically is what he said. I was like, all right, keep going. That's crazy. Think about it. I mean, like when I was in Mexico, me and Lacey went down to South tip down to Cabo and all the way from the airport.
00:35:25
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to actual Cabo, I felt like we were trying to outrun the cartel in this van. And I'm like, my God, at any moment, who's about to try to steal us? I've rode in those vans from the Cancun airport down to Playa del Carmen. Yeah.
00:35:40
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It's like a, it just looks like a soccer mom van from like the early 2000s. Hey, we're getting this, we're getting this thing from the airport. And first off, they tried to tell us our name wasn't on there and get us to pay again. You know, it hits right off the bat. They were trying to screw a man, right?
00:35:59
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and we get in this van finally this guy's got he's got a full cooler in there it's just full of beer he said just grab a beer y'all drink what y'all want just drink a beer so we're drinking corona's i had to drink like two or three of them just to get my head right because i was already tired of people badgering me and all i had done is stepped off a plane and walked to a taxi well whenever that same trip it was after the hurricanes made their little lap through there and
00:36:27
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I guess there are still some of it in the area. Cause I thought we was in an air show coming in there to land. I'm like, I've flown a lot and I thought we was fixing to do some tricks or something on the way in there. I was getting nervous. That wind was bad. Oh God. I don't even, is that that time you got sunburned so bad? Yeah. My wife, my wife put diesel fuel or something on me. I don't know what it was, but it run me about two days.
00:36:55
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Hey, when you get that good like a central US or central America kind of burn, there ain't nothing that fixes that. Yeah. Yeah. I get up the next day and I mean, I'm just lobster and I go barely get a shirt on. I get out there. I lay up in the little thing next to the pool cause I can't move and uh,
00:37:23
Speaker
order me a couple drinks for start my breakfast outright. And there's this girl out there in the swimming pool with the microphone telling everybody at this resort, Oh yeah, you're in the Yucatan or Yucatan Peninsula, blah, blah, blah.
00:37:40
Speaker
You can't use normal sunscreen down here. It just traps it in. I'm like, where were you at yesterday? So what's the recommendations you got any, or do you know now or what? Me, I just wear clothes. I don't even take my shirt off. I ain't going to take my shirt off down there. That happens like that. You don't do you. Uh,
00:38:07
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Well, you see me this past summer, I don't, I don't get sunburn no more. Cause that ruined me. I'm telling you, when it started itching about week, about seven or 10 days in, I mean, I could have took a cactus and just scratched my whole body with it. I mean, that's the only thing that I put alcohol on it just so it hurts. So it quit itching. Wow. Anyway. The same you ever had to sunburn like that? I know I have.
00:38:37
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Man, every time I fight the sun, I lose, so I'm trying to layer up.
00:38:42
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Hey, Drew just walked out and he's instantly sunburned his red sunburn right now. Man, I had to tell you, y'all talking about going down south, I went to Guatemala and that's right there on the equator. And I made that same mistake. And I'm red headed, so I've got the freckles and everything else. I come back to that room that night and I had sunburn blisters all up and down my shoulders and I had to wear a shirt the next day.
00:39:10
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I thought I was going to cry and die at the same time. It was so bad. I, I'd never been so burnt in my life, but, uh, and it was just weird cause I just got through laying poly pipe the week before we went down there and I'm like, I'll be fine. It's been a hundred degrees in Arkansas. You know, we'll be good. And I was completely wrong about that. It was so hot down there and it burnt me to a crisp. I'd rather lay poly pipe five times before I get somewhere like that again.
00:39:39
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That's why I wear a shirt no matter what. I don't take it off no more. I'm married up. I don't have to worry about impressing nobody anymore. Yeah. I'd rather sit in an electrocution chair before I get sunburned like that again. It's bad. It was brutal. As long as they turn it on low grade, I can handle that. I don't even know what it was talking about, but those sunburns ain't nothing to play with. They ain't nothing to play with. We were talking about traveling. You were out there sodding and all.
00:40:06
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I'm glad you were out there with that big earthquake they had. That's crazy. Oh man. That's bad. That's hard to even watch on TV, man. I feel bad for them people. I mean, we don't, that just kind of blows us away bigger pitcher than the Little Woods here. I mean, man, they just don't have nothing to get people out from that. I mean, it would happen the same way here. We'd have trouble getting them, but boy, there'd be a whole crew of excavators move in and try to work. They don't got them.
00:40:35
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Well, I don't know if you can use heavy equipment a whole lot like that. I mean, they kind of got to pick through it, don't they? Is that the thing? I feel like at some point I'd have started, if I was trapped in it, I'd want them to do whatever they had to get me out. They could take dynamite, blow it off of me for all I care. I don't know. I just hope our engineering is leaps and bounds ahead of that. I mean, that's third world where they got hit the hardest. Easy.
00:41:06
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What was it? A couple of years ago, three. I don't know. I think I lived in this house. That big earthquake that hit, uh, Cushing Oklahoma up there. We felt that at my house. You felt one. Yeah. I just felt it. No, she, she was, she was in bed. And, uh, she said, I woke up, felt like somebody shaking the bed in here. I said, yeah, there's an earthquake over there.
00:41:35
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It had to be what it was. Or the boogie, man. What'd you sleep right through that one? Oh, it's going, the house going to cave in before I feel it. I've never felt the earthquake. You ever felt one, Sam? Drew?
00:41:54
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Yeah, I have one in Jonesboro. I was in college and my recliner was rocking back and forth and it sounded like a truck. It hit, hit a brick wall and everything started shaking and then it just went away. Weird. That's up there. There's a fault up there. Uh, what's it? The new Madrid or new Madrid fault. Yeah. They're expecting that thing to go off anytime. They've been having earthquakes like crazy up there. Just have one story houses toppling over. Hmm.
00:42:26
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Hmm. I don't know. Meanwhile, at my house, my wife's preparing for the end. She's done bought us like, uh, what's that radioactive antibody pills or something protects your thyroid and stuff, buying us big bags of rice. I mean, everything that's going on right now, you, you look at it on the news and they're just shooting things down either one. And this is not me being a conspiracy theorist, but I'm changing subject real quick.
00:42:55
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Either one, we're shooting down random things to get us off this classified documents thing. Or two, our radars really sucked until just now. Now we're starting to see a bunch of stuff because we're looking and we're shooting them down. Like what's the panic about? Somebody said today they were calling some of these things air trash or air debris or something. Like you think we could tell what it is.
00:43:25
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Yeah, it's almost like the practicing for something bigger, you know, to come over here. So, I don't know.
00:43:32
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Well, and I bet it's really hard, you know, people release all them balloons all the time in groups. I just wonder how much they get that confused compared to something like that. You know, maybe we miss something. You talking about those little balloons? No, but you think about it though. Like a candle lit Virgil? No, but I mean, you think about it, people tie them things together and have a big, big release, you know, or whatever. I think it's pretty big. Let's lie on that here.
00:43:58
Speaker
They better watch out at weddings. I'd be releasing them turtledoves or whatever. Just getting a shot out of the sky. Here comes an F-22. Just knock them down. That's funny.
00:44:09
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Yeah. Drew say they got a little, little Jimmy's birthday. They just smoked every one of his balloons. Hey, I'm just saying when, when we had a kick out drugs week or whatever, they had the red ribbon week or whatever it's called. We slept balloons go about 250 of them all at once.
00:44:30
Speaker
Did you write a little message on them, Roy? It had like a card on it. If it got found in somebody's tree and they called it in about littering, you know, we got a prize for it. Your school was funner than mine. We didn't learn much when I was in school. I feel like those balloons, I mean, the ones that are supposed to be for surveillance and, and I guess they use it for weather. I need to do more research on it. I don't know for sure, but, um,
00:44:58
Speaker
Man, I feel like that's just, if I'm gonna pick something to spy with, it ain't gonna be a dug-up balloon. Well, here's my thing. I think the full moon gave that one away. Well, I was out there trying to run the dogs. I didn't know if it was what was up there in the sky.
00:45:16
Speaker
But I mean, do we not have satellites? I mean, they can zoom in and see everything from outer space or wherever satellites are almost outer space. Uh, I don't see why you need a balloon to be seeing all that. I feel like that's, you know, the right brothers probably had the same technology as that balloon. Now Drew's school did. Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:44
Speaker
Those might still be your balloons if they're floating around. It probably is. Probably hung up on some plane's wing or something. I wouldn't have inhaled that helium. That was good air back then. I think they're running a shortage on that for a bit. That's what happened to all them brain cells that some people lost. You know, I don't want this to be big time conspiracy theory, but I just think that
00:46:13
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You know, something that important, we start shooting things down over North America. You start getting over here in North America, it just kind of makes people feel vulnerable. Whereas, you know, those poor people right next door to you could just, in Europe or Asia, can just drive across the border with tanks one day and say, we're here. And we're about to square up. I mean, that scared the crap out of me right there, so.
00:46:43
Speaker
I'm glad I ain't a part of it. That's all I gotta say. And I hope I don't ever have to be a part of it. But you know, other things that happened in the meantime, we got on the UFC with the spy balloons. We finished out a little bit of goose hunting. We really don't have a great story from that. Drew didn't even go. He slept in that day. But we did have a Super Bowl. Did y'all make any money off that? Sam, do you bet? Nope.
00:47:16
Speaker
I'm pretty happy I didn't lose too much, so. Oh, halftime whistle. I got the Eagles this, the Eagles that, the Eagles this, the Eagles that, the Eagles this. I'm glad I had that over by a lot though. Yeah. Why don't we talk about that past interference call? What do y'all think of that? That was crucial. Man, it was a- I'll go first. They can call that every play, I think. You're not wrong.
00:47:45
Speaker
Yeah, when it comes down, you know, the last two minutes of the game, I just feel like they just need to let them play, you know. I agree. Players decide the outcome versus refs, you know. I think playing a D-back is probably the hardest position on the field. I'll start with that. But at the same time, the best D-backs in the league are the most handsiest. And like they hold and they grab.
00:48:10
Speaker
and they touch people and they're physical and they, and that's, they get away with a lot more than that right there. That poor guy just touched him at the wrong time. That's all that happened. Yep. Yeah. And the ball wasn't even catchable too. So I don't know if they could review that or what it is, what it is. That's why they called it that holding. I mean, that's all they had.
00:48:33
Speaker
I'll tell you what I've seen earlier, somebody posted a video said, I can't remember who it was on the Chiefs that ran that ball down to the one and slid down to burn the time up. And somebody had them to score a touchdown. It cost them $200,000. It's like whenever you needed a so-and-so to score and then he slides down at the one yard line. Man. That'd break your heart, wouldn't it? That's a parlay of a parlay right there.
00:49:03
Speaker
I don't, you know, I've never really understated all those understated. I never understood all those different prop bets. I haven't got into it that much, which I'm glad I haven't. Saved me some money, I guess. I mean, I think you can bet on how many times they blow the whistle on a first down first quarter. You know what I mean? That's ridiculous.
00:49:26
Speaker
It's my kind of stuff though. Like a striker, can you bet on like a striker being out there at two minutes left and a half or something like that? Oh yeah. They bet on the Gatorade color. But to some point, you don't think that those players are, they might be involved a little bit on this whole bed and stuff. I mean, after seeing that call, I don't know who's involved with what. I, and I, in the moment,
00:49:55
Speaker
I had money on the Eagles and in the moment and still to this day, I do agree that that was probably not a defensive holding, but the Eagles just outright lost that. I mean, he fumbles the ball before that second half. They look like crap.
00:50:10
Speaker
They gave it away. And then Patrick, my homes, his ankle ain't hurt. He run all over that field. And the only time he'd be limping was when he'd like, have something happen that didn't look good. I'm like, God, he's out there walking fine until he does something wrong. Like, how does that make sense? It's like LeBron James running down there. He just flop for no reason. He's like, you know, six, eight to 80. And he's just out here just getting knocked down by somebody my size. That ain't right.
00:50:43
Speaker
That's the like, maybe that's the little guy in me. I don't want to be knocked down because I've been knocked down a bunch. I don't know. That ankle sure looked good. I don't know when he, he, he made that little run there towards the end. And I mean, he wasn't breaking those speed records. It looked like he was on the treadmill right beside Sam just finishing off the new year's resolution, baby.
00:51:11
Speaker
But no, I, I've enjoyed it. I, Jacob, we're so glad for you, man. You got a happy, healthy baby. Oh yeah. Big Boone Everett. I liked that middle name. That's mine too. I love that. I'm glad to have you back on here. Hopefully we can get another podcast in real soon. Drew, Sam, thanks for sitting in.
00:51:37
Speaker
I know you get a lot more stories, Sam, but thank you for not cussing all night like you did that last time. We could actually let grandma listen to this episode and be all right with it. So, Drew, glad to have you the whole time. Anybody got any final words? Anything y'all want to leave the people with for this week? I mean, this is a big week. It's Valentine's Day. Drew's probably got something inspirational to share with everybody.
00:52:05
Speaker
No, not really, not this time. Don't text and drive. That's about the only thing I can say, and I can't go into too detail. Well, what's happened this week, I think I'll just leave it at that, but yeah, don't take some drive, kids. One thing I got, I'm ready to get back to chasing these hounds. The coons have been moving, so hopefully they move back into your area.
00:52:34
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I hope so, but I just been living, I just been living through everybody on Facebook, you know, hunting them a hundred thousand dollar hunt last weekend.
00:52:43
Speaker
Hey, and I was going to say real quick too, uh, you know, Turkey season's coming up. I'm going to try to see if I can convince wit to let me use his new, uh, camera he got for his wife, maybe do a video. We got some editing, uh, programs that I want to try and maybe we can do a little video for y'all and let y'all put a name to a face to a couple of us. So stay tuned for that. I'm gonna try to get that going. Hmm. Well, you're setting some lofty goals here for this new year. Might as well go bigger, go home.
00:53:13
Speaker
Last time I took her with me to videotape, I told her to get back and hide. And the next thing I know she's out there just video. And if I'd have seen her back there, I'd have been, ooh, I'd have been hot, but I still got it done. I got it. He come in and run and screaming his head off, but yeah, Turkey season's firing up. That's what a lot of these next few pods going to be back. Jake's going to take me out there too to Kansas. He said, we're going to shoot some turkeys, but, uh, Oh yeah. Uh,
00:53:42
Speaker
You don't want me guiding turkeys, but I'll go. We're going to go. Sam, you're going to go to Nebraska this year, shoot one. I'm going to try to. I think the private land that we have is swapped hands. So I don't know if we'll be able to go back there, you know, on private, but we may try the public land. I'm trying to hit a different state. Well,
00:54:08
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