Welcome Kin!
The Mick & Pat Show - Whaling Adventures and Holiday Gift Giving
December 12, 2024

The Mick & Pat Show - Whaling Adventures and Holiday Gift Giving

Play Episode

Join us as we recount the gripping saga of the Essex, the whaling ship that inspired Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," and immerse yourself in a tale that blends history, survival, and moral complexity. We are thrilled to share our conversation with the inimitable Mike Rowe, who joined Joe Rogan to discuss the harrowing journey of the Essex. The story unfolds with dramatic intensity, from late-night musings induced by spicy food to the thunderous impact of a vengeful sperm whale, drawing out Joe's animated reactions and shared reflections on the immense challenges faced by sailors in the 1800s. 

The narrative deepens as we explore the ethical dilemmas and extreme survival tactics faced by the Essex crew, including the chilling decisions made when supplies ran desperately low. We delve into accounts from Owen Chase and the haunting choices that were made in the face of starvation. The psychological and physical strains of the ordeal echo through history, challenging us to consider not only the past but also the relevance of these human instincts in our modern, comfort-driven lives. The discussions around cannibalism and survival ethics prompt a reflection on humanity's resilience and moral boundaries.

Shifting to a lighter tone, we embrace the holiday spirit with inventive gift-giving strategies, ensuring that your festive season is filled with cheer and connection. From humorous tales of last year's quirky gift exchanges to practical tips for outdoor enthusiasts, our guide aims to inspire thoughtful and economical choices. Through stories of Thanksgiving traditions and family dynamics, we celebrate the joy of togetherness, offering heartfelt insights into the significance of shared moments and meaningful interactions. Whether exploring the art of duck calling or considering the ethical responsibilities of hunting, this episode promises to entertain, inform, and inspire.

Support the show

Chapters

00:51 - Whaling Ship Essex and Moby Dick

06:38 - Survival and Cannibalism at Sea

13:35 - Survival and Cannibalism Ethics

25:36 - Gift Giving Ideas and Strategies

29:51 - Thankful Thanksgiving Conversations

39:52 - Gift Exchange and Surprise Packages"

53:23 - Tactical Gear and Personalized Tools

01:03:48 - Tactical Gear and Gift Exchange

01:15:46 - Introduction to Duck Calling and Gear

01:19:34 - The Significance of Duck Hunting

01:29:28 - Stewardship and Hunting Ethical Responsibility

01:35:44 - Thoughtful Gift Giving Strategies

01:47:42 - Meaningful Gift Giving for Togetherness

Transcript
WEBVTT

00:00:03.487 --> 00:00:08.516
I think every conquistador had that after sailing across the sea.

00:00:08.516 --> 00:00:24.652
Oh my gosh, actually all right, speaking of that dude, guess what I was watching and listening to at till like 1 30 am last night night, before it could be anything, I had some spicy chicken that kept me up with gurgly tummy.

00:00:24.652 --> 00:00:32.841
I had bubble gut tummy and I was like there's no way I can go to sleep peacefully while this is going on yeah so I threw in a.

00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:40.003
I threw in another three poucher of zen to just get it, get things oiled up as in like a three milligram or a triple.

00:00:40.323 --> 00:00:41.887
No, a triple six, triple six, six.

00:00:41.887 --> 00:00:42.829
Yeah, the devil's sugar.

00:00:47.579 --> 00:00:49.582
I never even thought of it that way, but it is.

00:00:49.582 --> 00:00:53.566
But yeah, no, throw in three, six milligram pouches.

00:00:53.566 --> 00:01:04.076
That's what I do if I'm like I know I need a poo so I can get some sleep, and I am not going to be able to go to sleep until this gut passes, so I'll throw in one of those and just wait until it does its magic.

00:01:04.076 --> 00:01:09.941
You can't drink coffee.

00:01:09.941 --> 00:01:11.165
That's counterproductive to sleeping.

00:01:11.165 --> 00:01:12.248
Yeah, exactly, you can't drink coffee at 1 am.

00:01:12.248 --> 00:01:17.003
Um, so, anyways, though, I uh I threw those in and I was watching mike rowe oh, yeah, dirty jobs everybody and I was watching him.

00:01:17.003 --> 00:01:37.293
Uh, you know, as he does edumacate the masses while being a guest on the joe rogan show and it was like it was clear, in an episode where joe was just like easily, you know, pretty brutally on shrooms or something, man, because he just was breathing so hard and kept on interrupting mike rowe his veins in his head are sweating.

00:01:37.334 --> 00:01:43.728
He was just like oh my, oh my god, like he was literally like.

00:01:43.728 --> 00:01:48.096
He sounded like he sounded like he got kicked in the nuts.

00:01:48.096 --> 00:01:48.722
You know what I mean?

00:01:48.722 --> 00:01:59.641
Yeah, um, which don't get me wrong, it was a test subject, but micro was telling the true story, uh, which I watched a full, like longer, video on to get like, make sure I listen, watch the whole thing.

00:01:59.641 --> 00:02:01.304
But it's the story of the essex do.

00:02:01.304 --> 00:02:02.805
Do you know the Essex?

00:02:02.805 --> 00:02:04.849
The Essex Is it a ship?

00:02:04.849 --> 00:02:05.891
Was a ship?

00:02:05.891 --> 00:02:06.731
It was a ship.

00:02:06.731 --> 00:02:08.313
Did it explore the Arctic?

00:02:08.313 --> 00:02:11.486
No, no, this was not one of those ships.

00:02:13.300 --> 00:02:15.268
Was it an old, old ship?

00:02:17.301 --> 00:02:18.807
Give me how old is one old?

00:02:20.401 --> 00:02:23.790
One old would be, like you know, coal.

00:02:23.790 --> 00:02:26.383
Do they have sails?

00:02:26.383 --> 00:02:28.429
That's old, old, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's sails.

00:02:28.429 --> 00:02:29.632
Okay, it's sails, all right.

00:02:29.632 --> 00:02:31.387
So that's pretty old, old.

00:02:31.387 --> 00:02:35.211
So wooden and sails the Essex.

00:02:35.211 --> 00:02:36.801
Do you know?

00:02:36.801 --> 00:02:38.328
What country did it hail from?

00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:46.460
Technically the United Kingdom, but it was coming off of Suffolk Virginia, suffolk Massachusetts, suffolk Massachusetts.

00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:49.770
So this was before America.

00:02:49.930 --> 00:02:50.091
Yeah.

00:02:52.040 --> 00:02:53.706
This is during the colony times.

00:02:53.848 --> 00:02:58.729
Yeah, so the Essex was a whaling ship.

00:02:58.729 --> 00:02:59.772
Oh, man.

00:03:03.152 --> 00:03:23.865
Coming out of Nantucket, massachusetts, coming out of Nantucket, massachusetts, and the Essex is the ship that experienced the real life, moby Dick, and what they encountered out at the sea, and how the crew only a few survived.

00:03:23.865 --> 00:03:34.032
Uh, but essentially their experience is what you know, traveled across the globe at during that time and day of, like just crazy, insane news, and it is what led um.

00:03:34.032 --> 00:03:34.920
What's his name?

00:03:34.920 --> 00:03:36.623
Herbert melville.

00:03:36.623 --> 00:03:37.885
What's his name?

00:03:37.885 --> 00:03:41.913
The guy who wrote, uh, moby dick oh yeah, I have no idea.

00:03:43.783 --> 00:03:47.531
Okay, all right, you ever read that, or?

00:03:47.551 --> 00:03:48.860
like journey to the center of the earth.

00:03:49.001 --> 00:04:01.823
They're like all written by the same dude, I'm pretty sure I have watched the 1950s or whatever journey to the center of the earth and I was disturbed by it on a family pizza movie night as a child.

00:04:01.823 --> 00:04:07.137
But um the uh man whaling ships, I think it's.

00:04:07.137 --> 00:04:12.927
They're so, herman, melville, herman herbert, um, yeah, do you?

00:04:12.927 --> 00:04:13.849
Know much about whaling ships.

00:04:13.849 --> 00:04:19.569
I just I don't, but I just think there used to, it had to used to be so many whales all right.

00:04:19.588 --> 00:04:21.382
So let me tell you yeah, yeah, no, this is the crazy thing.

00:04:21.382 --> 00:04:30.096
So this was like back in, like the 1800s uh, it was 1820 so it wasn't so massachusetts wasn't a, wasn't a colony of england anymore.

00:04:30.137 --> 00:04:32.565
Okay, that was a different essex ship that was mentioning.

00:04:32.565 --> 00:04:51.199
This is a list of like, uh, various essex ships here that I'm looking at, um, but yeah, so this one, it was crewed by like a 21 22 dudes with like a captain and then like 21 crew, um and uh they were.

00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:57.101
They would go out on their whaling ships for, like, sometimes, this is, this is this is the thing that threw joe rogan over the edge.

00:04:57.101 --> 00:05:06.211
Micro would say they'd leave for two to three years long hunters, dude, two to three years, bro, before coming back from a whaling excursion.

00:05:06.339 --> 00:05:07.305
That's what Daniel Boone would do.

00:05:07.305 --> 00:05:08.682
Man Long hunters.

00:05:08.723 --> 00:05:12.803
Yeah, but these are dudes that got like wives and kids and family back in Nantucket.

00:05:13.105 --> 00:05:19.120
I know Back in the day, like if you were going after stuff like these guys meant business Long time I couldn't do it.

00:05:19.242 --> 00:05:20.663
I couldn't do it, bro, could you, could you?

00:05:20.663 --> 00:05:26.291
I mean, there's no way you could be away from your children for two to three years and feel like a good father.

00:05:26.291 --> 00:05:30.744
No, not by modern standards, by modern standards?

00:05:30.764 --> 00:05:31.326
certainly not.

00:05:32.141 --> 00:05:38.959
I think I maybe could have done this Back in the day Back in the day, like you could have gone on a Nantucket sleigh ride.

00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:40.980
I do get seasick, so that might have been a problem.

00:05:41.019 --> 00:05:42.262
Oh, you couldn't have done this, bro All.

00:05:42.262 --> 00:05:43.425
So that might have been a problem.

00:05:43.425 --> 00:05:45.870
Oh, you couldn't have done this, bro Alright.

00:05:45.870 --> 00:05:50.343
So they, but they go off to try to find these spawning areas right and do whaling the captain.

00:05:50.343 --> 00:05:51.350
I'm not gonna spend too much time on the names.

00:05:51.350 --> 00:05:55.286
I'm giving like a glossy overview here of the story, but everyone should go check it out.

00:05:55.286 --> 00:05:59.521
There's quite a few books written about it that are like the true ones the Heart of the Sea.

00:05:59.521 --> 00:06:03.406
And then there's another one called I think it's called beneath the heart of the sea.

00:06:03.406 --> 00:06:09.696
Both of them are based off of, like the firsthand accounts of survivors and like the letters they wrote about it.

00:06:09.696 --> 00:06:12.288
Just how freaking brutal this was.

00:06:12.288 --> 00:06:13.612
Uh, the heart of the sea.

00:06:13.612 --> 00:06:18.173
And then there was one more, oh, there was a movie called the heart of the sea, produced by ron howard.

00:06:18.173 --> 00:06:22.745
That was the one that chris hemsworth was in, um, but anyways, um.

00:06:22.785 --> 00:06:27.072
So the essex sails out of uh, nantucket.

00:06:27.372 --> 00:06:52.406
They're going for the excursion and they're not having a lot of good luck and they're getting hit by storms and it's just like sucking balls, um, and they're down like they know, like the best place to go is like the warm water in the uh, near the equator towards south america, and I'm pretty sure this is before there's the, the canal, the panama canal, of course, right, oh yeah, it's uh like I don't think there was anything at the time to get through, like you just got to sail down around.

00:06:52.425 --> 00:07:00.261
But they get told by some guys coming back and they're like, yeah, you got to go on the other side of south america and there's more whales than you can.

00:07:00.261 --> 00:07:09.713
You know, do like like you could throw a stone and it's gonna hit a whale in the water and there was just schools of them, like schools of these whales.

00:07:09.713 --> 00:07:13.766
Just, you know, you'd look out and it was just the, the ocean.

00:07:13.766 --> 00:07:36.653
You know, really did probably have that illusion of like a massive creature's tentacles or a long serpent, because of how many humpbacks and like tails there were and like you wouldn't always see a tail breach so it just looks like this roiling black slick creature, uh, but everyone was just like you know, it's just, it's uh unreal how many whales over there.

00:07:37.156 --> 00:07:40.747
And so they are sailing around and they got to do some repairs because of more storms and stuff.

00:07:40.747 --> 00:07:41.951
One dude abandoned ship.

00:07:41.951 --> 00:08:05.413
One dude at port is like I'm out of here, like this is not a very good hunt so far, but they get around, uh, from the south side of you know, south america, around the tip of, like chile and argentina, and then they're coming back up and as they come back, dude, they, they see it and it is just an insane, like unending pod of whales and they start harpooning them.

00:08:05.413 --> 00:08:12.891
And the way they do this, bro, they drop down like two or three sloops which don't have sails.

00:08:12.891 --> 00:08:22.745
They're just rowers, right, but the rowers, like you, only row to catch, get next to a whale and the whales aren't faster than what you can row like, they just really aren't right.

00:08:22.745 --> 00:08:33.405
And so you would harpoon them and tie the harpoon off to the sloop and you would do two sloops or something because the whale's not strong enough to pull two boats down against buoyancy.

00:08:33.405 --> 00:08:51.269
Okay, so the whale tuckers itself out while it's just thrashing and taking you for a swim and they called it a nantucket sleigh ride because they like, at that point the harpoon's good, it's not going to come loose, right, because you usually have your strongest dude just straight up.

00:08:51.269 --> 00:08:53.173
Yeet, that thing, it's barbed in there.

00:08:53.173 --> 00:08:53.833
Yeah, and it's barbed.

00:08:53.833 --> 00:09:00.179
And then everyone just holds on to the boat so they don't go overboard while they're harpooning.

00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:08.326
And so they get this whale and they've harpooned her and they begin rowing back to the ship.

00:09:08.326 --> 00:09:34.384
And when they get back they find out that the mate of this whale, this sperm whale mate, targeted the Essex and rammed it twice and on the second ramming it, like split open the port side of it and the essex is like sinking, like so the captain's coming back on the sloop with his other guys and everyone on is like dude, we cannot save the ship.

00:09:34.384 --> 00:09:40.464
So they pretty much hop off and like grab all the supplies they can, like tack and stuff for our eating.

00:09:40.464 --> 00:09:54.094
You know, rations, 50 gallons of water and they pretty much split the rest of the crew on these three sloops and they start, uh, trying to do makeshift, uh, makeshift, uh, sales and stuff.

00:09:54.094 --> 00:10:00.052
Because they end up realizing, you know, with their rations of tack and water, if they ration it.

00:10:00.052 --> 00:10:07.451
They got about 60 days, about two months of rations, um, and that they got of.

00:10:07.773 --> 00:10:23.962
They have to like, grow and sail on these little tiny dinghies for about I think it was something crazy like 2600 nautical miles, because everything out there near them, island wise, is totally abandoned, uninhabited islands.

00:10:23.962 --> 00:10:29.533
No one lives on them and and they have nothing really on them other than crabs and seagulls to survive off of.

00:10:29.533 --> 00:10:33.370
And so they start going and they're having a rough time.

00:10:33.370 --> 00:10:42.907
I think before they reach the first island, another dude dies of just dehydration and they throw him overboard, sew him up in his clothes, throw him overboard.

00:10:42.907 --> 00:10:47.465
They throw them overboard, sew them up in his clothes, throw them overboard.

00:10:47.485 --> 00:10:55.523
Uh the tack, because of the whale uh flooding the ship when it dried it was so salty attack being the, uh, the the hard, hard bread.

00:10:55.582 --> 00:10:59.712
Yeah, all right um, and so like that, that tack was like actually dehydrating them more.

00:10:59.712 --> 00:11:06.288
So they kind of were like they stopped eating a lot of it because they were just so starving and getting and it was like sorry they were.

00:11:06.288 --> 00:11:13.451
It was making them so thirsty that they they weren't hungry but they were like and going through the water too quick so they quit it.

00:11:13.451 --> 00:11:19.780
But then they become starving and they get in this island and there's like what's called some kind of I can't remember the weed.

00:11:19.780 --> 00:11:29.149
There's some kind of weed on this island that they can eat, but it's not like a very sustaining nutritious source but it is edible by humans.

00:11:29.149 --> 00:11:34.105
And then there's like crabs and seagulls and three guys are like hey, you know what, go on, we'll stay here.

00:11:35.106 --> 00:12:08.434
Um, but you know, you guys can like, of course, have the water and rations and hopefully you'll survive, but they wasted like they literally wasted like 30 days on this island just like oh hopefully someone comes by and, um, so now they have far less time to make it to chile, and they keep going, and as they go, there's some storm occurs and it separates the three boats from each other, and after they get separated, uh, that's when it turns to all out like, just like drawing lots of matches.

00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:16.191
I'm reading some causes of death here and what happened to these people and it gets a little crazy at this point Shot and eaten.

00:12:16.191 --> 00:12:20.168
That's exactly the person I was referring to.

00:12:20.187 --> 00:12:21.952
So here's the brutal thing that's Owen Coffin.

00:12:21.952 --> 00:12:32.092
Owen Coffin was the cousin or nephew of the captain, and so the four of them were in the boat and they drew lots and Owen drew the shortest.

00:12:32.961 --> 00:12:36.788
It was essentially match heads At this point they had been eating the dead.

00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:40.129
They had been eating the dead and now no one was dying.

00:12:40.129 --> 00:12:43.950
Yeah, because they were like well, we need more to eat if we're going to make it.

00:12:43.950 --> 00:12:51.481
And the captain was like well, this is a conflict of interest and there's like actual, like rules.

00:12:51.481 --> 00:13:03.681
This is the thing that blew joe rogan's mind the most that, um, you know, um micro was getting into, and he's like this wasn't just like made up on the spot, like you have, you get trained in these rules.

00:13:03.681 --> 00:13:12.107
Like there are rules of how, like, if you're marooned or stranded, how to eat the eat everyone, and like you can't force the order of operations for eating it is it?

00:13:12.168 --> 00:13:19.470
is, and it's like you can't force brothers to kill and eat another brother, but like, cousins are okay and stuff like that, so like, but anyways.

00:13:19.470 --> 00:13:22.282
So the captain was like you know, this is not right, I can't do this.

00:13:22.282 --> 00:13:26.928
He's my, he's my nephew and owen, though, had was just like so done and fed up.

00:13:26.928 --> 00:13:29.392
He's a 16 year old kid, by the way.

00:13:29.392 --> 00:13:30.394
Yeah, he's like.

00:13:30.394 --> 00:13:40.306
He is reported of saying to his captain he says I actually quite like my lot, and so then they just had to draw sticks to see who would execute him.

00:13:40.306 --> 00:13:43.602
And then the captain ended up drawing and so he had to execute his own cousin.

00:13:43.602 --> 00:13:50.082
So he just had his cousin look off the one end of the ship, put a musket to the back of his head and pull the trigger and then they ate him.

00:13:50.082 --> 00:13:57.943
But then, just two days later, another one of them fell uh to like dysentery or something like that.

00:13:57.943 --> 00:13:58.907
So they didn't even have to.

00:13:58.907 --> 00:14:00.842
If they just waited two days they wouldn't have had to kill a kid.

00:14:01.244 --> 00:14:12.133
But then they ate that guy and, uh, one ship was found like one of the sloops was found washing up to shore about a month later and there was just bone, clean skeletons in it.

00:14:12.133 --> 00:14:12.541
No one.

00:14:12.541 --> 00:14:13.625
No one else was alive.

00:14:13.625 --> 00:14:29.370
Yeah, the captain and this other guy survived because they were eating, um, one of the one of the guys who had died, and another ship found them and came to help them and they were so insane they thought the ship of dudes was trying to eat, like get their food.

00:14:29.370 --> 00:14:32.866
So they fought them off and they're like what the hell are these guys doing?

00:14:32.866 --> 00:14:34.691
And like you know like what, how do we get them?

00:14:34.691 --> 00:14:35.653
How do we rescue them?

00:14:35.740 --> 00:14:51.429
Cause they're so feral they think we're taking away their food and by and like crazy thing about that would be like they didn't have the acronym PTSD, no Right, so they're like these guys just kind of lost it.

00:14:51.470 --> 00:14:52.029
Scurvy.

00:14:52.070 --> 00:14:56.592
Yeah, but it's like, oh my gosh, I mean, this is what happens when you don't eat oranges.

00:14:56.592 --> 00:15:03.758
Exactly so in for age perspective here those of you out there listening the captain, he was 29.

00:15:03.758 --> 00:15:07.682
His first mate, 21.

00:15:07.682 --> 00:15:09.063
He had a bunch of 20 year olds underneath him.

00:15:09.063 --> 00:15:10.648
I think the youngest kid was 14.

00:15:10.648 --> 00:15:11.951
He had 16 year olds.

00:15:11.951 --> 00:15:14.601
17 year olds, uh, 15 year olds, um.

00:15:14.621 --> 00:15:35.635
So I mean, I mean these young boys these are, these are young, young guys out there, um, in a crazy situation and, uh and, and, like I, as they got divided, there was some who there was, because, as you brought this up, I was thinking to myself well, how did anybody tell the story?

00:15:36.176 --> 00:15:38.586
Well, because Owen Chase gave the.

00:15:38.586 --> 00:15:46.985
That's what the heart of the sea was based on his account Because people survived Eating each other, yeah, from having to do the unthinkable.

00:15:46.985 --> 00:15:47.807
Well, well.

00:15:47.807 --> 00:15:52.263
And so here's the thing too I can't remember how owen chase and his group was saved.

00:15:52.263 --> 00:16:05.590
Uh, I can't remember if they got to shore or if another rescue ship found him, but after they were all recovered and could, like coherently inform their rescuers, they're like hey, there are three guys on this Island called Henderson Henderson Island.

00:16:05.899 --> 00:16:07.947
It's here on the map you got to go save.

00:16:07.947 --> 00:16:09.706
That was the first Island where they left the guys.

00:16:09.725 --> 00:16:09.947
Yeah.

00:16:10.268 --> 00:16:12.326
And they were trying to, so they left part of their group.

00:16:12.326 --> 00:16:13.764
Those guys volunteered.

00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:14.945
It wasn't like they left them.

00:16:15.024 --> 00:16:46.570
They, those guys, nominated themselves to stay behind Right, so go, and if the group that goes gets back, they're gonna come get them, yeah and so, uh, they tell them, in some chileans or argentinian ships come out and go to the island and, like, all three dudes are fine, they haven't eaten each other, they're like very thankful to be rescued, but they weren't about to like die and it was one of those things that was just like so brutal, right, but anyways, that went around and the thing that was just crazy is like there wasn't a documented account before this.

00:16:46.659 --> 00:17:19.203
This is like the first documented account of like whales having vengeance and like it being recorded and written and actual people surviving, and sure, of course, I'm sure this happened more than once, right, it's just no one lived, right, you know, those like sperm whales are massive and I'm sure there were many accounts of sperm whales, you know, turning and taking out a whaling vessel, but because that crew wasn't as fortunate, we just didn't hear about it, but anyway.

00:17:19.203 --> 00:17:21.307
So, yeah, this is what inspired Moby Dick to um.

00:17:21.307 --> 00:17:27.753
Yeah, an audio book of um, the heart of the sea, just because of like.

00:17:27.753 --> 00:17:36.000
You know, it's such a harrowing tale and it's not glorified by any means, right is that the comes from the first mates accounts?

00:17:36.020 --> 00:17:37.241
yeah, okay owens.

00:17:37.303 --> 00:17:39.766
Yep so, and was he on the?

00:17:39.766 --> 00:17:41.087
Was he with the captain?

00:17:41.288 --> 00:17:42.509
No he got separated.

00:17:42.730 --> 00:17:47.015
Okay, but I mean he still ate a couple dudes.

00:17:47.015 --> 00:18:04.487
Yeah, but it's just bonkers, because you like you read stuff like that and then you like read stuff too about just like the other instances of like real life cannibalism that occurred and like I don't know, it's ugly right, it's nasty, but it's also like one of those things that you're like, dude, this is a fact of life.

00:18:04.487 --> 00:18:14.208
Like this happens in every single one of these scenarios of like true, pure desperation and like there's something to be respected about.

00:18:14.208 --> 00:18:24.171
Like people, people only engage in this behavior in the most unreal, unimaginable, desperate conditions.

00:18:24.171 --> 00:18:30.107
Um, and so it like, when this occurs and it's documented, those guys live to tell the tale and they don't hide it.

00:18:30.107 --> 00:18:32.744
They're like, yeah, like you should know it's like.

00:18:32.744 --> 00:18:45.407
It's like because, like they also probably respect the dead and understand like this was an awful thing and you know I wouldn't be here today if, if it wasn't for that final gift they gave me.

00:18:45.407 --> 00:18:47.916
You know what I mean, but I don't know.

00:18:47.916 --> 00:18:48.839
I just have a lot of respect for it.

00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:50.365
I also really enjoyed that.

00:18:51.868 --> 00:18:52.351
Oh, what was it?

00:18:52.351 --> 00:19:03.531
It was a movie about the Argentinian team, I believe a Paraguay team that crashed in the Andes and they had to eat each other to survive.

00:19:03.531 --> 00:19:08.584
It was a soccer team.

00:19:08.584 --> 00:19:09.946
Have you never heard of this story, the soccer team?

00:19:09.946 --> 00:19:10.469
I've heard bits of it.

00:19:10.469 --> 00:19:11.892
Yeah, oh, dude, it's pretty crazy.

00:19:11.892 --> 00:19:17.662
And then you have cases like alfred packer where you're like I don't know, did he eat people to survive or did he eat people because he liked the taste?

00:19:17.982 --> 00:19:32.743
right, yeah, yeah, you got the, got the, the weirdos for sure, and then you do have, you know, these cases of just dire true, pure desperation, yeah and I don't know.

00:19:32.784 --> 00:19:45.093
I guess it's kind of like one of those things like I would if I died, bro, if you and I were like stranded, yeah, and I died, you're, you have 100 permission to eat me to live.

00:19:45.093 --> 00:19:47.395
And also, I would want you to tell people.

00:19:47.395 --> 00:19:53.840
I want you to tell people like, yeah, mick, mick died, he, he, he died not from me clubbing his brains in with the rock.

00:19:53.840 --> 00:20:04.502
He just was injured, fell sick and he told me, hey, no hard feelings, but put, put my leg on that spicig and survive.

00:20:04.502 --> 00:20:14.921
And I'd want you to tell people that, because I feel like that is still a very selfless thing to do and recognize in those scenarios, right, oh yeah.

00:20:16.203 --> 00:20:17.626
And how much do you pay penance to?

00:20:17.707 --> 00:20:17.748
it.

00:20:17.748 --> 00:20:19.592
It's an ethical gray area.

00:20:19.592 --> 00:20:25.086
I have no ethical gray area about it.

00:20:25.086 --> 00:20:26.692
I would eat people for sure In that case.

00:20:27.153 --> 00:20:33.625
In that scenario Without people for sure, like in that case, in that scenario, in that die or need case, especially if they looked at me and they're like I love you, I don't want you to die needlessly.

00:20:33.625 --> 00:20:34.608
Eat me, yeah.

00:20:35.040 --> 00:20:38.490
To quote the gingerbread man from Shrek Eat me.

00:20:38.490 --> 00:20:54.928
That's a good drop button, oh yeah, and so, oh, my god the uh it's uh could you do it, could I?

00:20:56.490 --> 00:20:57.452
what if, like you're just like.

00:20:57.452 --> 00:20:59.903
What if I was like here, I'll pull this shirt over?

00:20:59.943 --> 00:21:00.726
me so you don't have to see.

00:21:00.726 --> 00:21:02.211
It's me, I know, I know, would I?

00:21:02.211 --> 00:21:03.564
No, could I?

00:21:03.564 --> 00:21:05.980
Yes, you know you don't think you would.

00:21:05.980 --> 00:21:07.605
No, I mean I could, like I.

00:21:07.605 --> 00:21:08.608
I don't.

00:21:08.608 --> 00:21:12.000
It's like a, I'm taking the the cop out where it's like.

00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:18.320
I would never do that yeah but I've never been stranded for three months on a dinghy watch them like.

00:21:18.381 --> 00:21:23.861
Use this podcast as evidence against me in court when they're like we bet you killed those people to eat them.

00:21:23.861 --> 00:21:25.744
It's like no, it's truly desperation.

00:21:25.765 --> 00:21:40.829
They're like you said you were looking forward to it oh, my goodness, the uh, yeah, I mean, and I think, short of being in that something, some sort of situation like that, there's no room to dodge.

00:21:40.829 --> 00:22:03.328
And also, if you, if you actually want to get into some ethical, philosophical like type of like stuff and or like if you want to also get into and then add like spirituality into it, be like if you, if you believe that you're dead, dead's dead, there's nothing like, there's a if you, I'd say the in a case of like the souls left the body.

00:22:03.328 --> 00:22:05.313
Yeah, this is a vessel, you know, okay.

00:22:05.313 --> 00:22:16.227
But then there's also, there's also other areas where, for other people though, where it'd be like, let's say, for someone from like a muslim faith background, where it's like you kind of gotta be buried whole to make it out on the back side right

00:22:16.247 --> 00:22:25.079
so there are like it depends on where you come from and well, and like you, you can't, of course, eat people if if you're Jewish, that's a forbidden meat.

00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:35.432
But you know, christians, I think to Peter, or was it Peter, who did God reveal the blanket and say eat consume.

00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:36.986
Yeah, it was Peter, but it didn't have a.

00:22:36.986 --> 00:22:38.731
It said all creatures.

00:22:40.357 --> 00:22:41.243
Oh my goodness, Peter's looking out.

00:22:41.243 --> 00:22:44.247
There there's some man hams, oh my gosh.

00:22:44.307 --> 00:22:45.093
No, dude, I'm just kidding.

00:22:45.340 --> 00:22:57.153
No, but like I am one of those things like I would be like it's okay, it's all right, you're giving a new body, it's all good, you don't need this one, no more I mean I'd be doing some mental gymnastics for sure in the moment and crying about it.

00:22:57.153 --> 00:22:59.020
Yeah right, I'd be like I don't know if you cry.

00:22:59.020 --> 00:23:00.544
You'd be so hungry at that point.

00:23:00.564 --> 00:23:03.829
Oh my gosh thirsty so, yeah, no more tears in there.

00:23:03.829 --> 00:23:05.813
Um, I'd be like god.

00:23:05.813 --> 00:23:09.807
I wish that he had eaten healthier throughout his life, like all these freaking mcdoubles.

00:23:09.888 --> 00:23:13.223
Really no ass on this tainted the quality of this thing.

00:23:13.223 --> 00:23:15.128
Uh, that's funny.

00:23:15.128 --> 00:23:17.474
Um, yeah, no, I do think it's.

00:23:17.474 --> 00:23:19.862
It is fascinating, but I it's.

00:23:19.862 --> 00:23:24.952
It's a different thing to me, like, yeah, it can be morbid, but there's like a I don't know there's.

00:23:24.952 --> 00:23:51.284
I'll say it's not as fascinating to me when you read about, like um, the people who preyed upon the western expansion, um, kind of like pilgrimages, you know, trying to go over the rockies, and there's like legit groups, just like waiting in the winter to eat people in caves, right, like yeah like that stuff is not as like fascinating to me because I'm like, yeah, that's dark, like the dark, depraved stuff yeah, and like I

00:23:51.324 --> 00:23:51.525
do.

00:23:51.525 --> 00:24:02.807
I do want to know about it because like that's, that is a historical thing to show of, like how hard it was at one point and how much our you know ancestors came over and conquered to get out, get past that.

00:24:02.807 --> 00:24:42.532
But like when it's like this one or like you know the story of that soccer team, um, just scenarios where it's like true desperation and selflessness and like people are like, like every it's like, it's like it's not an individual choice but it's a group choice of like this makes sense and I want you to live and I know I'm not going to right and it's okay and like I think, like there's just something about that that there isn't, like there is a nobility in that, like there isn't, there is, like I think it in uh, a selflessness and honor and integrity sacrifice yeah, and you should be in like that should be told and people should know about it.

00:24:43.055 --> 00:24:55.044
So I do, I don't know, I don't want, I don't want to keep on being in a a point here, but like I think that's why it's so fascinating, to me and it's crazy because we live in a different world now where, like I can push a button on my watch, food shows up.

00:24:55.505 --> 00:24:59.452
Well, no, no, no, like like I can push a button on my watch and help shows up.

00:24:59.452 --> 00:25:00.923
That's true too.

00:25:00.923 --> 00:25:07.083
You know what I mean like, and so, versus, I mean there, there was, there's no one coming, no one knows what's happening.

00:25:07.083 --> 00:25:10.191
It's just a crazy like world back then in a wild place.

00:25:10.191 --> 00:25:27.278
And so you know, yeah, we do, we have these resources now and things, and where it's, yes, people can still get into really bad, sticky situations, like, but so, like, the next time something wild like this happens, it's gonna have to be on, like you know, spaceship headed to, like this happens, it's going to have to be on, like you know, spaceship.

00:25:27.298 --> 00:25:27.618
Headed to Mars.

00:25:27.659 --> 00:25:37.564
Exactly Like where it's, like they find you know one guy still sitting there, but there was a lot more who came with them.

00:25:37.564 --> 00:25:41.090
I've seen that movie, yeah, exactly.

00:25:42.192 --> 00:25:46.932
Yeah, no, like where Houston just starts like hey, hey, where's a couple of the other crew?

00:25:46.932 --> 00:25:48.622
Huh, oh, they're sleeping.

00:25:49.344 --> 00:26:17.454
Yeah, um, yeah, anyways, um, welcome again to the make it past show and, as of course you could probably tell by the music, this is our holiday episode of gift giving that we do now Third year, third year of gift exchanging, giving, and I think we could probably go over just a couple of things that we think are of value to you know, a little bit of a gift guide for him.

00:26:17.454 --> 00:26:51.222
I just feel like it's not like it's not going to be, like, you know, mind blowing or a revelation of what you could get, but it is going to give you at least some ideas and especially for anyone who's listening, who's just not in the know of how to save money and things like this for buying gifts for him, there's a lot of ways to do it and do it wisely and money and like what you're purchasing and stuff like that, and not just like get taken advantage of by like the quickest, like online offer or highest ad paid stuff.

00:26:51.263 --> 00:27:13.026
So I think a big one is like of course I'm looking forward to talking about this, but bullets, bullets is something that I hear so many miss like, construe of like how expensive it is to order them or buy them for people as gifts or something, and like it's just because people don't know where to go to get them, like bulk, for cheap and have free shipping.

00:27:13.026 --> 00:27:13.788
You know what I mean.

00:27:13.788 --> 00:27:26.480
So, and we're also not sponsored by, like, I think, anyone we're talking about here um, you can certainly go through our amazon links to, uh, you know, give back to the show for any gifts you get for anyone.

00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:32.153
Um, but I figured we'd just do a little bit of that, so for sure.

00:27:32.153 --> 00:27:42.946
Anyways, before we uh do that, you know, pat, I just wanted to hear how your thankful Thanksgiving was and things like that.

00:27:44.807 --> 00:27:48.510
Yeah, no, the uh uh.

00:27:48.510 --> 00:27:50.833
I just Googled gifts for him.

00:27:50.833 --> 00:27:51.713
I need to back out.

00:27:52.034 --> 00:27:53.335
Yeah, I bet.

00:27:53.335 --> 00:27:54.536
Oh my God, it's lingerie.

00:27:54.916 --> 00:28:08.105
Yeah, my God, anyways, thanksgiving, no, we uh, great Thanksgiving this year, just uh hanging out with, uh, my family, my wife's side of the family, um, and we uh, is that?

00:28:08.125 --> 00:28:10.951
the traditional like always with them for.

00:28:10.990 --> 00:28:14.005
Thanksgiving we do the flip-flop each year, same Typically.

00:28:14.005 --> 00:28:16.309
We flip-flop it and, uh, it was good.

00:28:16.309 --> 00:28:25.993
My uh, uh, brother-in-law and sister-in-law came in from out of town and uh, they uh, which is good, is good because, you know, he used to live with us.

00:28:25.993 --> 00:28:38.346
He was in town, you know, and she was in town, they and then, even like before he's married, lived with us, like super close with him, and been gone for a couple years now and so it's just awesome they're back for a week just hanging out, like it's fun.

00:28:38.346 --> 00:29:04.907
Like there is like we were talking about it last podcast or last time we recorded, but off the podcast, which was like how there can be, like uh, people like just um, tend to regress isn't like necessarily the right word because it sounds uh negative but like when you get back in your family dynamic, you kind of go oh yeah, we did, we did talk about that, like people can return.

00:29:05.068 --> 00:29:35.175
Like you know, you're dating someone for like two years and then, for the first time ever, you go with them back home and you see them become like a teenager, just because they're like in their parents house with their siblings with their siblings and like there's like it's just, it's just immediately like reset, like family dynamic you're're like oh wow, Like I've never seen you behave this way, yeah, and so it's, which is fun too, cause then, like me and him, we just like we're making, we just make jokes, we just go back to college.

00:29:35.276 --> 00:29:37.567
Oh yeah, we just we just mess around and it's great fun.

00:29:37.567 --> 00:29:55.275
And so, uh, it was a good time Uhgiving this year lots of little kids running around the house, wild time and definitely thankful too, they got any yep one and one on the way and so, um, yeah, it's a lots of.

00:29:55.780 --> 00:29:59.750
it's funny because their little boy, is it a little fudge or a little fudgetta um?

00:29:59.750 --> 00:30:05.569
I don't know yet well, what's about the one that's here?

00:30:05.569 --> 00:30:07.863
The one that's here is a little it's a little little fudge.

00:30:08.063 --> 00:30:12.090
Little fudge also looks like middle pat.

00:30:12.090 --> 00:30:12.893
They're like.

00:30:12.893 --> 00:30:18.961
They're like nine months apart and they just run around toeheaded like a little pat yeah, like very, pretty simple.

00:30:18.961 --> 00:30:22.451
Well, yeah, pretty similar, like look, it's like from behind.

00:30:22.451 --> 00:30:24.464
You're like, which one is that?

00:30:24.506 --> 00:30:30.076
like all week we were like yelling one's name and it was the other one, and they was tons of fun together.

00:30:30.076 --> 00:30:35.729
The big fudge marry a blonde haired woman no, isn't big fudge burnett?

00:30:36.150 --> 00:30:37.532
yeah, but he was toeheaded as a kid.

00:30:37.653 --> 00:30:44.268
Oh, he was, yeah, just yeah, and it's and it's not, yeah, not full, not the full blonde either, like both of them.

00:30:44.268 --> 00:30:48.093
Both of them now kind of have like a little bit of dust, a little sandy blonde in there.

00:30:48.093 --> 00:30:50.075
So, yep, yep.

00:30:50.075 --> 00:30:54.328
So it was a good time and uh, it was nice to.

00:30:54.328 --> 00:31:00.803
I mean, I was thankful too, for, like, my work being a business owner comes with ups and downs.

00:31:00.803 --> 00:31:08.492
But the nice thing is too is like when you want to take time off, like you don't have to like request time off, you just you can kind of do it.

00:31:08.492 --> 00:31:11.040
That's sick, so that's, that's still nice.

00:31:11.040 --> 00:31:22.771
And like, as the company grows, I got more like responsibilities, my employees, all that stuff like, but I'm able to also like I don't have to put it like write a request, you know, or anything whatever.

00:31:22.771 --> 00:31:23.653
So yeah.

00:31:24.453 --> 00:31:25.075
That's pretty dope.

00:31:25.075 --> 00:31:29.751
Yeah, you did some traveling or did you just keep it local.

00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:40.807
We just went down to the in-laws but my grandfather came out from Michigan and brought the hunting rifles I purchased and as well as the one he was giving to me.

00:31:40.807 --> 00:31:41.670
Oh nice.

00:31:41.670 --> 00:31:48.381
So I just got three new guns Well, quote, unquote new.

00:31:48.480 --> 00:32:09.720
Two of them are from like the 50s and they're like primo high value man, liquor stock, uh stare and ruger um, and the other one is a hunting rifle that he uh was to me, so I didn't have to pay for that one and I was just very blessed and privileged to have those.

00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:39.193
But also he was there to have Thanksgiving with my in-laws, and my mom joined as well, since she's in the Denver area down there, and it was just great that all of us got to be together and my mom really gets along with uh, my mother-in-law and my father-in-law and my grandfather and my father-in-law probably have more in common than they don't oh yeah you know, I mean, they're both big guys.

00:32:40.276 --> 00:32:49.726
Uh, in their careers, like they both have, you know, worked an insane amount of years in a corporate environment for one company.

00:32:49.726 --> 00:32:53.953
Um, they're both super big ham radio guys.

00:32:53.953 --> 00:32:55.182
You know what I mean.

00:32:55.182 --> 00:33:19.747
Like it's just like, it's just the overlap there of like what they can talk about is endless, um so, um, it was just really cool to just see them and my grandfather just enjoying his time and having so much uh like engagement, you know, and not feeling like there was never really much of a time where I just saw him just sitting and just waiting for excuse me someone to talk to him, right so and I just love him.

00:33:19.988 --> 00:33:24.722
you know I feel like I just don't get to see him as much because he lives in Michigan and stuff.

00:33:24.722 --> 00:33:30.048
But it was just a huge privilege and blessing and everyone gets along.

00:33:30.048 --> 00:33:35.935
Everyone was, like, you know, a couple beers deep and there was just laughter.

00:33:35.935 --> 00:33:38.223
You know what I mean.

00:33:38.223 --> 00:33:40.431
There was no trauma drama drama or tension.

00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:42.866
So, yeah, it was a blessing.

00:33:42.866 --> 00:33:43.784
I was very thankful for it.

00:33:43.784 --> 00:33:45.301
Man, I just looked around at that table.

00:33:45.301 --> 00:33:55.868
I'm like I'm thankful that I love my in-laws, I'm thankful that they love me and my family, and like that this is not a a burden yeah, it's.

00:33:56.028 --> 00:34:28.695
It's helpful when you have like good inter-in-law relations, you know, and you can just have a fun time and and also and I love, I love, like big family events, especially when I was like little into, like, just like to me, thanksgiving should be as many people as possible yeah it's a big like christmas, like a little bit, you can like you can like shrink it down, like have that christmas morning, but like I think that the best Thanksgivings are when it's like full bore.

00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:33.592
See, I think my in-law family, my wife's side, I think it's the opposite.

00:34:33.592 --> 00:34:38.693
I think their Christmases are always bigger because people view it as more significant.

00:34:38.693 --> 00:34:41.369
So they travel out to visit, right.

00:34:41.559 --> 00:35:00.021
So Christmas is like a whole house full of like the Billie jeans, right, and Thanksgiving is like less so like they're they're more okay with doing Thanksgiving apart and like you know very where the different different Billie Jean families, uh, uh, you know, are spread across the country and stuff.

00:35:00.021 --> 00:35:00.722
It's a.

00:35:00.722 --> 00:35:04.581
It's just one of those things where, like, I agree with you, but their christmases are massive.

00:35:04.581 --> 00:35:05.605
Yeah, you know what I mean.

00:35:05.844 --> 00:35:07.376
yep, yep, no for sure.

00:35:07.376 --> 00:35:09.661
That's good, that's good.

00:35:09.661 --> 00:35:12.967
The holiday season is upon us and I'm I'm enjoying it.

00:35:12.967 --> 00:35:15.579
So far it's a spent.

00:35:15.579 --> 00:35:15.880
Uh.

00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:22.302
We're just in full swing for a little while here, which is nice as winter kicks in to just uh.

00:35:22.302 --> 00:35:22.922
It's funny too.

00:35:23.003 --> 00:35:29.208
Every this this time of year comes faster every year it does, man, and I'm starting to freak out a little bit.

00:35:29.208 --> 00:35:33.244
Oh yeah, like I'm trying to comprehend that it's december.

00:35:33.244 --> 00:35:35.648
November felt long to me.

00:35:35.648 --> 00:35:44.925
I think it just felt long because of, like you know, things to do with work and the season changes, and november was like the first time it got actually kind of cold enough that I didn't want to go outside.

00:35:44.925 --> 00:35:54.206
I also got a dog, yeah, um and uh, but December, just being here feels like crazy fast.

00:35:54.206 --> 00:35:56.039
Oh yeah, I still think it's 2023.

00:35:56.340 --> 00:36:07.871
Yeah, no shit, we did lose a whole year, um, but anyways, all that said, we did lose a whole year, but anyways, all that said, things are great, thankful for a lot.

00:36:08.072 --> 00:36:38.034
Thanksgiving was good, and you know what, Pat, even though sometimes when I text you, you don't respond for days, it makes me feel like there's nails scratching at the back of my brain and I'm trying, I'm just trying not to, I'm just trying not to lose my shit, um, and even though you know, I don't know what else I'm trying.

00:36:38.034 --> 00:36:46.726
I'm trying to find another reason to complain about you, um, all, despite all that, um, I'm trying to find another reason to complain about you.

00:36:46.726 --> 00:37:00.809
Despite all that, I'm thankful for you, buddy, and I got you some gifts and I hope this holiday season you feel appreciated because I did ball out a little bit, oh man.

00:37:00.809 --> 00:37:03.914
I did ball out a little bit, oh man.

00:37:03.914 --> 00:37:15.577
Now, within there's not a new 6R 320 Legion to fix your broken one, which, honestly, I was thinking about that today.

00:37:15.577 --> 00:37:21.083
I was like I should have just bought him a new trigger, oh yeah, I get that thing looked at Dude.

00:37:21.123 --> 00:37:29.431
I literally have like five magazines waiting for you to fix that gun so I can give them to you and you can actually shoot.

00:37:30.331 --> 00:37:30.831
That's true.

00:37:32.795 --> 00:37:33.416
I got to get it up and running.

00:37:33.416 --> 00:37:47.168
Our buddy, rice-a-roni, has technically acquired them for us, but anyways, did I purchase your gifts because they were such good deals on these items that I also bought them for myself?

00:37:47.168 --> 00:37:48.490
Yes, yes, I did.

00:37:48.490 --> 00:37:54.527
Did I go through this box and hand select what was mine and what was yours?

00:37:54.527 --> 00:37:59.282
Yes, but still within this box is likely.

00:37:59.282 --> 00:38:18.474
I'm going to say in the ballpark of and this is not to put any pressure, because I also know that you got me a gift too- it's not about the monetary value it's crazy how we cancelled each other out last year, literally got each other just like gun props we got.

00:38:18.596 --> 00:38:24.061
We ordered from the same website if you haven't heard the episode.

00:38:24.061 --> 00:38:27.666
It's these prop guns, but these historical.

00:38:27.686 --> 00:38:28.047
It's funny.

00:38:30.135 --> 00:38:33.585
It's these fake guns, but they look real, they feel real, you can play with them, you can pull the trigger.

00:38:34.056 --> 00:38:37.826
You can put them on the wall and stuff and not worry about someone breaking in and stealing a gun.

00:38:37.945 --> 00:38:40.521
Yep, which is why we got them for the studio.

00:38:40.521 --> 00:38:52.427
Yep, and we, uh, which is why we got them for the studio, and we, um which a side note, since I do lease this place um, they had to come in to like do an inspection the other day just like you know, and I was like, oh my God, we have.

00:38:52.427 --> 00:38:55.418
Like it looks like we have an arsenal in the office.

00:38:55.418 --> 00:38:56.521
I was like I gotta put these away.

00:38:56.561 --> 00:39:09.775
That's when you just grab this little mat prop and you just keep on like thumbing it and letting the hammer down slowly and you just keep doing it over and over until they like, and they're like, oh, okay, like well, uh, I'm just kidding, don't do that.

00:39:09.775 --> 00:39:10.097
Don't.

00:39:10.777 --> 00:39:22.077
Don't harass people with fake guns, don't harass the sweet like lady realtor property manager, it's honestly how you go to jail, um, but, uh, but, yeah, it's funny because we pulled them out and it was the same shaped box, right?

00:39:22.077 --> 00:39:22.458
Yeah, that was hilarious.

00:39:22.458 --> 00:39:23.135
Uh-huh, it was funny because we pulled them out and it was the same shaped box.

00:39:23.135 --> 00:39:24.755
Yeah, that was hilarious.

00:39:26.019 --> 00:39:29.244
It was like I think you opened yours first, didn't you?

00:39:29.244 --> 00:39:31.880
Or did we, because I had it wrapped up.

00:39:33.077 --> 00:39:33.699
They were both wrapped.

00:39:33.699 --> 00:39:41.983
I think we might have gone same time, oh that was so funny we had Billy, our guest.

00:39:41.983 --> 00:39:43.768
Billy, I had to look at the board was he here?

00:39:43.768 --> 00:39:55.360
Billy was here for that, talking rock climbing, yep, yep, and so, uh, he was here for that well, anyways, um, I do think it's about probably two hundo ish all right now.

00:39:55.800 --> 00:40:07.219
I don't know that for the most part, but it's just because I know the order was like they, like it's going to be one and done and gone, like super utility gift.

00:40:07.940 --> 00:40:13.119
A five-gallon can of gasoline yes, but that's not really.

00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:24.005
That's not a bad gift, but that's not really what you're after, sure, and that might not feel sentimental, but I'll tell you what, bro, if someone got me a five-gallon can like a jerry can, I'd be stoked.

00:40:24.527 --> 00:40:24.768
Oh yeah.

00:40:24.914 --> 00:40:26.061
Those things are so expensive.

00:40:26.061 --> 00:40:27.661
Like I got you this can and it's full.

00:40:28.596 --> 00:40:29.657
Oh, that would be insane.

00:40:31.280 --> 00:41:03.795
That's what I was saying, just like, honestly yeah, first gift idea Buy the man in your life a like true aluminum jerry can that can stack and has two carry handles on it and fill it up with gas and give it to them and be like oh yeah, by the way, here's some stabilizers and put it underneath the tree next to the fire, next to like those old, old, vintage leds not leds so here's the thing.

00:41:03.795 --> 00:41:07.641
Also, though, billie Jean put something in here, and I don't know what it is.

00:41:08.175 --> 00:41:10.023
And it was a gift for the Mick and Pat show.

00:41:10.023 --> 00:41:11.018
Oh my goodness.

00:41:11.018 --> 00:41:18.478
So no pressure on Mace Windu to, like you know, give us a gift too, but I guess we'll see what it is.

00:41:18.478 --> 00:41:19.101
It might suck.

00:41:19.101 --> 00:41:20.197
What if it's?

00:41:20.217 --> 00:41:20.478
like just.

00:41:20.518 --> 00:41:27.585
Billie Jean, and it's just like literally a receipt for like how in the red, this podcast is like congratulations.

00:41:27.987 --> 00:41:31.300
Like a picture of her face and it's like I expect this to be like on the table.

00:41:31.481 --> 00:41:33.835
Yeah, I'd be fine that's true, it could be great.

00:41:33.835 --> 00:41:35.699
It's not like we film this, live we.

00:41:35.699 --> 00:41:37.563
Everything is anonymized, but all right.

00:41:37.563 --> 00:41:38.987
So I want you.

00:41:38.987 --> 00:41:40.076
What do you want?

00:41:40.096 --> 00:41:40.195
to do.

00:41:40.195 --> 00:41:43.306
You want me to open yours now, as Now that you've set it up, I'll get it going.

00:41:43.306 --> 00:41:52.706
Grab the knife out of the case here, here, here, take my caribbit Just do not cut yourself, because it is super easy to cut yourself.

00:41:52.706 --> 00:41:55.242
The old wild knife.

00:41:55.242 --> 00:41:59.625
It looks like the gas station special, but it's not.

00:42:00.135 --> 00:42:01.300
No, dude, that's the cricket.

00:42:01.601 --> 00:42:02.023
I know dude.

00:42:02.235 --> 00:42:03.242
I love cricket gas station special, but it's not no dude, that's the cricket I know dude.

00:42:03.175 --> 00:42:03.945
Yeah, that's a good one.

00:42:03.965 --> 00:42:11.159
Cricket is actually my favorite knife company I think spider co is my favorite just because it's also in colorado headquartered.

00:42:11.159 --> 00:42:17.599
Oh yeah, I get that good asmr package opening excuse me, shake it.

00:42:17.619 --> 00:42:23.916
It could be breakable, all right, so most everything in here came from commando store, which is spelled with a k.

00:42:23.916 --> 00:42:31.275
So if you're looking to get your significant other, the man in your life, um, some cool surplus stuff.

00:42:31.275 --> 00:42:37.655
You know, things that are cheap, but military surplus and not going to break the bank, but cool products.

00:42:37.655 --> 00:42:39.501
Uh, this is where to start.

00:42:39.501 --> 00:42:44.259
So, okay, you got to put, you got to put the box over here, so that way I can see because I don't, I don't know, right right.

00:42:44.298 --> 00:42:44.840
So here we go.

00:42:44.860 --> 00:42:49.356
So I'm pulling out, this is okay, whoa, I don't know what that is.

00:42:49.356 --> 00:42:49.577
That's.

00:42:49.577 --> 00:42:50.681
That's the billy jean gift.

00:42:50.681 --> 00:42:52.346
All right, this is a wrapped package.

00:42:52.606 --> 00:42:53.737
I'm gonna save it for a second.

00:42:53.737 --> 00:42:58.775
Okay, all right, all right, all right, so we've got this envelope came from commando store.

00:42:58.795 --> 00:42:59.978
They said sick order.

00:42:59.978 --> 00:43:01.880
Smiley face, was this you or this is something?

00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:09.800
They wrote that, so somebody took the time to handwrite yeah with a marker commando store does that most of the time they will like handwrite in their packages.

00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:13.054
So we got two stickers here, two vinyl stickers.

00:43:13.715 --> 00:43:24.831
One is go ahead, tell them pat we've got um this uh, this is a it says commando Store and this is a C4 bomb.

00:43:24.831 --> 00:43:26.195
What all you got going on here?

00:43:26.762 --> 00:43:44.822
it's a translucent Semtex plastic explosive with a keyboard timer and it's like a great vinyl to go over just about anything go over a locker, go over a car, go over a case and you'll see why I wanted you to have that one later on.

00:43:44.974 --> 00:43:49.909
And then what's this other holy one here, saint gosling, yeah, the driver.

00:43:49.909 --> 00:43:56.088
So it's ryan gosling, sanctified like, and he's got like a.

00:43:56.088 --> 00:44:10.025
You know, I don't know exactly what everything is, because I'm not catholic or russian orthodox, but like, written all around the perimeter of it is just his best movies, uh, the Gosselin, and um, I'm a big Gosselin fan and I think you'll also see it.

00:44:10.025 --> 00:44:10.367
Why, too?

00:44:10.367 --> 00:44:26.277
Cause you know, I see those stickers like that and I think, like, those are like the most, like, perfect, um, you know, joke of, like the beautiful girl that is a picture and you keep it in your cap in the trenches, you know.

00:44:26.277 --> 00:44:33.161
Or like, people would literally like have artistic depictions of saints and they would like, uh, tape them to their gun.

00:44:33.161 --> 00:44:35.445
Yeah, you know what I mean, or something like that.

00:44:35.445 --> 00:44:41.577
So I just felt like that was a good meme one, because you know we're not catholic and I, I think you appreciate ryan gosling, don't you?

00:44:41.657 --> 00:44:47.983
I do, I, I think my favorite character he ever was, because I don't know his name but was in Remember the Titans.

00:44:47.983 --> 00:44:49.487
He was a good one in that.

00:44:49.487 --> 00:44:52.483
That's my Gosling.

00:44:52.543 --> 00:44:53.545
He was so young.

00:44:53.545 --> 00:44:54.086
He was so young.

00:44:54.086 --> 00:44:56.260
Yeah, he was like 19 or 20.

00:44:56.382 --> 00:44:57.505
For sure, for sure.

00:44:57.505 --> 00:44:59.978
All right, we got some patches, we got.

00:44:59.978 --> 00:45:01.001
This.

00:45:01.001 --> 00:45:07.536
First one says some patches.

00:45:07.556 --> 00:45:07.858
We got the uh.

00:45:07.858 --> 00:45:08.822
This first one says lol said the scorpion lmao.

00:45:08.842 --> 00:45:09.847
Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog?

00:45:09.847 --> 00:45:10.108
I don't know.

00:45:10.108 --> 00:45:11.574
Okay, so I also got you this one because it's from drive.

00:45:12.277 --> 00:45:17.336
Okay, so the story of the scorpion frog, it's, you know, older than the movie, but it's mentioned in the movie, its significance.

00:45:17.336 --> 00:45:27.065
Um, scorpions on one side of the river and a frog is in the river and the scorpion, of course, can't get in the water or else it'll drown.

00:45:27.065 --> 00:45:29.121
The frog says hey, come on in, swim over.

00:45:29.121 --> 00:45:31.003
And the scorpion says no, I will surely drown.

00:45:31.003 --> 00:45:39.476
And the frog says well, I'll let you get on my back, but you have to promise not to sting me, because if you sting me we'll both drown.

00:45:39.476 --> 00:45:44.041
The scorpion says of course, I would never sing you because we would both drown.

00:45:44.041 --> 00:45:47.903
So the frog says all right, hop on Halfway across swimming.

00:45:47.903 --> 00:45:49.545
What does the scorpion do?

00:45:49.764 --> 00:45:51.646
Can't help himself Stings the frog.

00:45:51.646 --> 00:45:53.248
The frog says why?

00:45:53.248 --> 00:45:54.168
Why have you done this?

00:45:54.168 --> 00:45:55.710
Now we will both die and drown.

00:45:55.710 --> 00:45:59.313
And the scorpion says to the frog it's in my nature.

00:46:00.576 --> 00:46:00.735
What did?

00:46:00.757 --> 00:46:01.056
you expect.

00:46:01.056 --> 00:46:06.179
And this story, of course, is a story to say, like, be careful in what you expect.

00:46:06.179 --> 00:46:09.795
If you bring a wolf into your house, you cannot be mad at the wolf if it bites you.

00:46:09.795 --> 00:46:12.603
Right, it's like you got to respect what the nature of things are.

00:46:12.603 --> 00:46:19.161
Oh yeah, it's so overblown and like badass bad boy.

00:46:19.161 --> 00:46:21.143
You know culture.

00:46:21.143 --> 00:46:25.530
Uh yes, and it's quoted on so many things that it's become cringe.

00:46:25.530 --> 00:46:28.019
So now they're making so now this was better.

00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:33.619
Yeah, it just shows a scorpion on the back of a frog and it's lol, said the scorpion, laughing my ass off.

00:46:33.619 --> 00:46:45.001
I just, I just think, like I think that's a great patch and it's like there's also nothing more cringe than like a motto patch on someone that like has never done anything.

00:46:45.061 --> 00:46:46.295
Motto you know what I mean.

00:46:46.295 --> 00:46:47.438
So that's a good one.

00:46:47.458 --> 00:46:50.081
I feel like you could go on your plate, carry, you don't have to worry about looking cringy.

00:46:50.295 --> 00:46:50.697
I agree.

00:46:50.697 --> 00:46:56.818
Like this next one, it's just fact checker yeah, like, why have a?

00:46:56.918 --> 00:47:05.875
why have a stupid call sign, like you know, punisher, when you could just have a like identifier in the back of on the back of your plate carrier?

00:47:05.875 --> 00:47:23.286
So everyone looking at the back of you knows what to call you and your title is fact checker or like saying like law enforcement yeah, nothing's, nothing's cringier than like when you're on the range and you got your vest and like someone sees that you have a law enforcement patch no, for sure, so it's yeah, I like it, I like it, so it's yeah, I like it.

00:47:23.306 --> 00:47:26.847
I like it, yeah, it's good Cause then it just it takes the wind out of the sails those people.

00:47:26.847 --> 00:47:30.181
It makes it's going to make people reevaluate their decision-making.

00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:31.384
I think I've told you mine.

00:47:31.384 --> 00:47:33.096
I have one that's just called silly goose.

00:47:33.096 --> 00:47:36.300
Yeah, and I'm like no better way to dislike.

00:47:36.300 --> 00:47:40.065
You know, even if I'm doing something bad-ass, people will appreciate it.

00:47:40.065 --> 00:47:45.391
If I'm doing something where it's not badass and I look like a dork, yeah, well, of course I look like a dork.

00:47:45.411 --> 00:47:48.277
I'm a silly goose because you got to make a little fun of yourself.

00:47:48.277 --> 00:47:52.403
Yeah, the amount of money we spend.

00:47:52.403 --> 00:47:56.797
There's no room for ego at the amount of the amount of accessories we buy.

00:47:56.797 --> 00:48:00.063
Yeah, the amount of time we spend talking about the what ifs.

00:48:00.063 --> 00:48:10.085
For real, if you can't also take a second to be like I'm not a mac v sog operator, I never will be.

00:48:10.244 --> 00:48:11.007
I never was.

00:48:11.007 --> 00:48:15.961
You can't admit that you're an enthusiast, then like you got some ego stuff exactly for sure.

00:48:16.503 --> 00:48:21.681
Next one classic catchphrase I'd rather be fishing, bro.

00:48:21.701 --> 00:48:22.483
Do you recognize the?

00:48:22.802 --> 00:48:28.666
the hat on that little guy I I recognize the height of the hat yeah yeah, I felt like.

00:48:29.027 --> 00:48:32.057
I felt like I don't know if pat would really wear this hat ever.

00:48:32.057 --> 00:48:42.987
Uh-huh, pat, pat, I haven't really seen you wearing meme stuff other than hockey jerseys to church this is a trucker's hat that is three times the size of the height.

00:48:43.168 --> 00:48:45.280
I wear it out it's like a 10-gallon hat.

00:48:45.494 --> 00:48:46.579
I wear it to the range.

00:48:46.579 --> 00:48:51.704
Yeah, but I figured you would wear the patch of a little guy fishing with the hat on.

00:48:51.764 --> 00:48:53.527
Oh, definitely I like it.

00:48:53.527 --> 00:48:55.201
I would rather be fishing.

00:48:55.315 --> 00:48:58.864
And you could throw it on like I think there's Velcro stuff on fly rod cases, isn't there?

00:48:59.025 --> 00:49:04.217
Oh yeah, like cases isn't there?

00:49:04.217 --> 00:49:07.126
Oh yeah, like this is like this might like this might go on the on the gear, on the old fishing gear.

00:49:07.126 --> 00:49:08.068
All right, we've got some.

00:49:08.068 --> 00:49:10.235
Uh, no, no, pick up that mask, pick up the fucking mask.

00:49:10.235 --> 00:49:22.692
So so this, this, this, will get you jail time bro, so I saw this available at commando store, did you?

00:49:22.731 --> 00:49:43.335
see the new batman with robert pattinson yes, yeah, so this is this is the green mask at the riddler war in that movie which is actually a soviet, issued um anti-freeze, like it's a cold weather mask, so that way you can wear and be warm but still see and still talk and breathe without fogging anything up.

00:49:43.596 --> 00:49:52.206
Oh my gosh this is hilarious now the only thing you can unbutton it to blow your nose, yeah yeah, or unbutton it to like kiss each other we could kiss right now you can open the mouth.

00:49:52.206 --> 00:49:54.298
Maybe that's for eating more than kissing, can you do?

00:49:54.338 --> 00:49:54.900
me a favor, though.

00:49:54.900 --> 00:49:57.907
My melon is so big, can you put it on?

00:49:57.907 --> 00:50:07.690
Can you put it on, bro, because I I could not put it on my my head is too big, okay for for some more, uh, if you if you took soviet cold weather, if you took.

00:50:07.811 --> 00:50:16.572
Russian mask meets luchador and bdsm like the gimp for real, oh it's so I gotta take the headphones off.

00:50:16.572 --> 00:50:17.414
Here we go, all right, here we go.

00:50:17.414 --> 00:50:18.518
Dude, this is awesome.

00:50:18.657 --> 00:50:26.416
Oh my gosh, I don't know bro billy gene can definitely sew and extend those straps if need be.

00:50:26.416 --> 00:50:28.862
I think it's gonna fit over you, oh my gosh dude.

00:50:28.882 --> 00:50:30.626
That looks like a like a glove.

00:50:30.626 --> 00:50:34.802
It smells like the army navy surplus.

00:50:34.802 --> 00:50:35.925
Is that kind of muted.

00:50:35.925 --> 00:50:36.487
Do I need to?

00:50:36.547 --> 00:50:37.389
uh no you sound great.

00:50:37.389 --> 00:50:39.798
Oh yeah, yeah, I think I think you should open the flap.

00:50:39.798 --> 00:50:42.844
It opens the flap when it talks to me.

00:50:43.085 --> 00:50:43.947
It opens the flap.

00:50:44.708 --> 00:50:46.094
Wow, look at the.

00:50:46.094 --> 00:50:52.143
It's unsettling because it really is just your red lips puckering through the box.

00:50:52.143 --> 00:50:53.525
All right, I got to take a picture.

00:50:53.525 --> 00:50:55.369
Oh my gosh, this is a.

00:50:55.369 --> 00:51:00.041
This is great, though no one will know who you are even if we post this, it's so hard to get on.

00:51:00.235 --> 00:51:01.938
It truly does fit.

00:51:01.938 --> 00:51:03.782
Uh, fits perfectly.

00:51:03.782 --> 00:51:08.336
Um, will I be wearing this to lead worship next sunday?

00:51:08.878 --> 00:51:12.744
only if it's like, probably not like, as I lay dying songs.

00:51:12.744 --> 00:51:15.936
Oh my gosh, this is a bro.

00:51:15.936 --> 00:51:17.838
You look gnarly what does?

00:51:17.838 --> 00:51:18.980
It feel too tight.

00:51:20.181 --> 00:51:29.820
Once you get it on, it feels it, feels right it feels snuggy I think I should wear this skiing that's his thing, yeah, yeah, like it's.

00:51:29.981 --> 00:51:33.518
It's designed for cold weather and like you can wear goggles without fogging up.

00:51:33.518 --> 00:51:38.894
But oh yeah, just so you know what you look like oh my gosh and there you go.

00:51:38.894 --> 00:51:39.998
There's a.

00:51:39.998 --> 00:51:41.963
I look like the riddler.

00:51:41.963 --> 00:51:43.967
It's honestly like I would not recognize you.

00:51:43.967 --> 00:51:44.757
Bro, you put that on.

00:51:44.757 --> 00:51:46.764
You don't look like yourself at all.

00:51:47.978 --> 00:51:48.882
That is disturbing.

00:51:48.882 --> 00:51:51.802
That is a rowdy mask.

00:51:51.954 --> 00:51:53.561
I think you should wear that for the next hunt, bro.

00:51:53.561 --> 00:51:58.896
I think that will let everyone know how serious you are and how long you're willing to wait out there in the sticks, hey.

00:51:59.137 --> 00:52:01.360
I'm willing to wait, and this I like it.

00:52:04.157 --> 00:52:04.418
I like it.

00:52:04.418 --> 00:52:04.659
I like it.

00:52:04.659 --> 00:52:05.623
Okay, all right, cool, you get.

00:52:05.623 --> 00:52:06.387
I give you permission to take it off.

00:52:06.387 --> 00:52:14.226
Thank you, you're, yeah, as your master um uh-oh, there you go.

00:52:14.726 --> 00:52:16.108
It's barbed under my I don't.

00:52:17.737 --> 00:52:22.143
Wow, that is unreal how much it changes, like what I perceive your face to be.

00:52:22.143 --> 00:52:24.628
You know, there's a button, yeah, yeah, there's buttons on the buckles.

00:52:24.628 --> 00:52:25.047
Oh, that makes it way.

00:52:25.047 --> 00:52:25.969
That is unreal how much it changes what.

00:52:25.989 --> 00:52:27.952
I perceive your face to be oh, there's a button, yeah, there's buttons on the buckles.

00:52:27.972 --> 00:52:29.235
Oh, that makes it way easier to get it on your head.

00:52:29.235 --> 00:52:30.916
Yeah, I just wanted to watch you struggle.

00:52:30.916 --> 00:52:34.623
I couldn't get it on my head, dude, my head is too big.

00:52:35.324 --> 00:52:36.967
There's a button that makes it easier.

00:52:36.967 --> 00:52:42.407
Oh my gosh, I started to panic that it wasn't coming off.

00:52:42.407 --> 00:52:45.911
All right, we got the mask, it's like the actual Jim Carrey the mask.

00:52:45.911 --> 00:52:51.456
Oh yeah, all right, we've got some what appears to be tape Now.

00:52:51.456 --> 00:52:56.842
But look at it, it's got it's fancy tape it's non-adhesive tape.

00:52:57.956 --> 00:53:02.226
It adheres to itself and it's what's known as Kybar Pass Tape.

00:53:02.226 --> 00:53:04.556
It adheres to itself and it's what's known as Kyber Pass Tape.

00:53:04.556 --> 00:53:19.126
If you look this up, look up in your Googles real quick Kyber K-Y-B-A-R Pass, which is a mountain pass in, I believe, iraq that became famous during iraqi freedom.

00:53:19.126 --> 00:53:39.601
But this tape is used often to tape significant uh firearms to have a certain flair and flavor, flavor and recognition and personal personalization to it, without actually damaging the, the firearms, yeah, uh furnishing and a lot of people.

00:53:40.402 --> 00:53:51.791
What was very common is like Iraqi troops would tape pictures of Saddam Hussein on the stocks of their firearms Okay, it taped us over.

00:53:51.791 --> 00:54:04.215
But also the troops that were supported by the US would be taping things like pinup girls and US stickers and things like that and collected in memorabilia and you would.

00:54:04.215 --> 00:54:08.565
You could see, if you look up kyber pass taped ak's and oh, yeah, firearms.

00:54:08.565 --> 00:54:27.706
You can see like they're legitimately like a, a story of this person, like what they believe, what they find funny, what they hold dear, because the tape is see-through it's different colors, but it's translucent and so stuff shows through it and it's very grippy and it adds a grip to it, which also like there's also people using it on their tools.

00:54:27.967 --> 00:54:30.420
Yeah, they're throwing it on their hammers on their drill bits.

00:54:30.420 --> 00:54:32.106
Yeah, this is cool stuff.

00:54:32.106 --> 00:54:55.371
So I bought that one as a five-pack of different colors and I also got myself a St Gosling sticker, self a saint gosling sticker, and I think we should just pick, like you know, the janky deus or like you know whatever guns we want, and just tape our saint goslings on the stocks you know what I mean, or something yeah, and I just, I don't know it's cool.

00:54:55.471 --> 00:54:57.358
I haven't used it at all, but I thought it would.

00:54:57.358 --> 00:54:59.309
It'd be fun and it allows that flair.

00:54:59.309 --> 00:55:02.317
And I mean and you and I, I think, have been we've talked about our firearms.

00:55:02.317 --> 00:55:12.210
Like we have, have our firearms that we're like hey, this is a queen and this will not be, you know, there will not be a speck of mud that gets on this gun.

00:55:12.210 --> 00:55:20.532
And then we have our other firearms where we're like this thing is a meme and it's okay for this thing to have goofy stuff on it.

00:55:21.052 --> 00:55:21.855
Definitely, definitely.

00:55:21.855 --> 00:55:39.695
And this tape is sweet also, like I'd say too, like for the queen also, if you want to protect if you're willing well, I'd say willing, but it'll protect it too, like it probably will, I mean, I bet if you put it over like a wood foregrip, like if you put it over the wood stock, or foregrip of a hunting rifle.

00:55:40.496 --> 00:55:45.297
I bet it would leave like a weird looking wear it could leave some wear Like a sunning.

00:55:45.539 --> 00:55:46.503
You know what I mean For sure.

00:55:46.503 --> 00:55:50.885
But this is like a seven mil thick, like tape.

00:55:50.885 --> 00:55:52.820
Yeah, that's some serious business.

00:55:52.954 --> 00:56:04.307
So I thought that'd be cool and I also thought, just because you're more of a blue collar handyman than I, you could also personalize some stuff to make sure sure new guys aren't freaking grabbing your tools.

00:56:04.307 --> 00:56:06.242
That is a rule in my shop.

00:56:06.242 --> 00:56:15.748
You can grab those hammers, not the hammer that has a picture of Saddam Hussein taped around the handle.

00:56:16.610 --> 00:56:32.126
Exactly, and what I do here at the shop is I make guys say like you have to tape your tools, Because I provide tools and so I'm like, if it's your tool, you tape it, and by your tool I mean it's still my tool.

00:56:32.755 --> 00:56:33.920
Yeah, it's like you bought it.

00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:34.943
It's the company's.

00:56:35.916 --> 00:56:38.978
But if it's the one that you want to keep to you, you better tape it.

00:56:38.978 --> 00:56:42.300
And especially if it really is your personal, like you bought it tool, you got to tape it.

00:56:42.300 --> 00:56:45.242
And especially if it really is your personal, like you bought it tool, you got to tape it up Because it'll get mixed in.

00:56:45.242 --> 00:56:47.385
Well, because here's the rule, just straight up.

00:56:47.385 --> 00:56:49.586
This is like blackjack the house always wins.

00:56:49.586 --> 00:56:53.710
If there's no tape and it's not labeled, it's mine.

00:56:53.710 --> 00:56:54.291
It's mine.

00:56:54.291 --> 00:56:55.572
Exactly that's what I tell my guys.

00:57:03.675 --> 00:57:05.882
It's like tape measures, whatever, especially like little things that always are walking off.

00:57:05.882 --> 00:57:06.143
So I like it.

00:57:06.143 --> 00:57:07.387
The kyber tape all right, here we go next, going with this one.

00:57:07.387 --> 00:57:08.369
All right, open that up, there's a big one.

00:57:08.369 --> 00:57:09.994
We've got a uh, it's, it's a flag, but it's packaged up and folded.

00:57:09.994 --> 00:57:23.864
This is this is something I really thought you'd appreciate and would love to hang up here or down in the warehouse it appears to be some uh, is this uh chap japanese?

00:57:23.864 --> 00:57:26.108
That's a little racist.

00:57:26.108 --> 00:57:27.456
How about you turn the flag around?

00:57:29.141 --> 00:57:30.684
all right do you know whose flag?

00:57:30.684 --> 00:57:33.737
The blue, yellow, the blue and the blue and red pepsi sign.

00:57:33.737 --> 00:57:37.565
Pepsi is korean, it's korean, it is south korean.

00:57:37.565 --> 00:57:39.648
Yeah, now, let me hand it to me.

00:57:39.648 --> 00:57:48.125
Hand it to me and I'll hold it up, you can tell me if you recognize the silhouette, make sure it rubs against your microphone as much as possible.

00:57:54.563 --> 00:57:58.610
It's a man holding a weapon Silhouette.

00:57:59.856 --> 00:58:01.300
I want you to look up.

00:58:01.380 --> 00:58:14.858
Rodney king writes rooftop korean okay, yeah, yeah, all right, it's the silhouette, it's him the rooftop korean and in korean it essentially says something like along the lines I can't remember exactly, I'd have to look up the product description, but it has.

00:58:14.858 --> 00:58:36.762
For those of you at home of course don't know what we're talking about, it's a flag with the south korean colors behind it and the silhouette of the famous, infamous rooftop Korean photograph, and then the Korean on it literally says something along the lines of like you know, fuck around and find out which, for those who don't know, roof Koreans.

00:58:36.762 --> 00:59:22.217
Rodney King Koreatown was essentially abandoned in Los Angeles during the Rodney King race riots and police stopped responding to a ton of calls and because their businesses were being looted and people were being hurt, the Koreans of Koreatown banded together, grabbed their firearms and they started hanging out on their rooftops and they would just shoot at any car that started coming in too quick, essentially just creating, like you know, a checkpoint right that we have on our modern military bases right, and they would give warning shots and if that car kept on coming, it was free game and the police didn't even go in there to like charge anyone or traffic anyone, because the police knew one.

00:59:22.217 --> 00:59:33.827
They were outmanned, didn't have the manpower and the gangs the gangs themselves said, hey, leave korea town alone because they will kill us, right, and it's like we cannot stand up like they.

00:59:33.827 --> 00:59:35.559
They are squared away, yep.

00:59:35.740 --> 00:59:53.043
And so the rooftop koreans are a classic example of like the second amendment for immigrants, yep and locals in a situation where law enforcement was not coming to help them, law enforcement actively abandoned them and they were able to take that and protect their community.

00:59:53.043 --> 00:59:56.659
I don't think there was a report of like an actual like killing.

00:59:56.659 --> 01:00:12.246
They got into some insane shootouts you can see these videos on youtube of like the rodney king riots and the roof koreans and some insane, insane, uh, gunfire exchanges with some gangs, but I think all the gang members just kept on running away and no one was actually killed.

01:00:12.246 --> 01:00:25.119
Um, yeah, I'm not sure about it's been years since I've read the actual like documentary reports on it, but all I said, just an excellent example of the second minute going to good use, and it's a beautiful flag, ain't it?

01:00:25.641 --> 01:00:26.884
It's sweet, I like it.

01:00:26.884 --> 01:00:41.440
It's sweet looking and what I like too about it is just like you said, the biggest things about it were like whenever it comes to those, whenever I see pictures of those guys on the rooftops protecting their stuff, cigarettes hanging out of their mouth.

01:00:41.440 --> 01:00:42.364
Yeah, it's just like.

01:00:42.364 --> 01:00:50.117
They look like such peaceful people.

01:00:50.117 --> 01:00:50.478
Yeah, they don't.

01:00:50.498 --> 01:00:53.931
They're not like they're, they're men who've been pushed to do what they have to they don't want to do this, but they've.

01:00:54.893 --> 01:00:55.556
It's happened.

01:00:55.556 --> 01:01:00.797
Now they're gone down into the basement, they got their stuff out of the drawer and it's time to do what they have to do.

01:01:00.797 --> 01:01:06.061
Um, they don't want to do it, but they're gonna do it and they're gonna protect their stuff.

01:01:06.061 --> 01:01:21.123
They're gonna protect their well within their rights, and it's just um, yeah, the wherever you stand on, you know the riots or whatever you know, but uh, listen, you don't get to just take people's stuff and ruin their livelihood.

01:01:21.164 --> 01:01:23.628
You don't just get to make victims out of the whole community.

01:01:24.027 --> 01:01:25.289
Yeah, no, for sure.

01:01:26.396 --> 01:01:27.360
Anyways, next.

01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:27.643
Thing.

01:01:29.753 --> 01:01:33.342
All right, I think, is this the Might be the final.

01:01:33.342 --> 01:01:36.605
There might be another thing, but I think this is the final piece of the puzzle.

01:01:37.474 --> 01:01:39.322
Now you're looking at it.

01:01:39.322 --> 01:01:44.237
It's a multi-cam Yep Rectangular shape with some buckles.

01:01:44.237 --> 01:01:47.943
Yes, Do you know what it is Already?

01:01:48.684 --> 01:01:50.166
I was trying to see if it does it open.

01:01:51.148 --> 01:01:53.981
It does a little bit it does, but it's supposed to open, is it?

01:01:53.981 --> 01:01:54.402
Supposed to be open.

01:01:54.402 --> 01:01:55.344
You can open it and look in there.

01:01:55.344 --> 01:01:55.827
What's in there?

01:01:57.717 --> 01:01:59.682
It feels like there's some foam.

01:01:59.682 --> 01:02:02.239
Some dense foam yeah some foam, some dense foam, yeah yeah, dense foam.

01:02:02.239 --> 01:02:05.333
Is this dense foam supposed to be replaced with a different piece of something?

01:02:05.353 --> 01:02:09.661
Nope, that is not body armor, all right, okay, I want you to stand up, all right?

01:02:09.661 --> 01:02:15.684
All right, look at the buckle going across it horizontally.

01:02:16.527 --> 01:02:16.768
Oh yeah.

01:02:17.255 --> 01:02:27.297
And unbuckle that one it's a crotch pad and then now put it behind you on your keister.

01:02:27.358 --> 01:02:28.541
Oh is this a and wrap that buckle around to the front.

01:02:28.541 --> 01:02:29.525
Oh, this keeps you warm.

01:02:29.545 --> 01:02:36.351
It's a butt pad yeah, dude, it's a butt pad so that way you can sit your ass on a rock and hold position for a long time.

01:02:36.351 --> 01:02:37.215
Yeah, dude, this is sweet.

01:02:37.215 --> 01:02:42.318
And then the vertical buckles buckle into whatever backpack or plate carrier you got yeah on the back end.

01:02:42.719 --> 01:02:43.322
That'll keep you.

01:02:43.322 --> 01:02:43.903
Here's the deal.

01:02:44.396 --> 01:02:47.465
Tell me that that's not all like actually a very cushiony pad.

01:02:47.614 --> 01:03:04.170
No, it's great, because the first of all, you want to be dry, like the first issue is dryness, and so this covers that, and then you know then you want to be comfy, and then you want to be dry, and then warm, and then comfy.

01:03:04.394 --> 01:03:08.706
These are apparently like the surplus ones coming out of the Ukraine-Russia war.

01:03:08.706 --> 01:03:18.389
Oh, yeah, because Eastern Comblock vehicles are renowned for being so uncomfortable to ride in and breaking tailbones when they hit bumps.

01:03:18.389 --> 01:03:21.402
Oh my God that everyone is wearing these over there.

01:03:21.402 --> 01:03:27.262
Okay, but now of course, of course, yeah, are we going to be in eastern comblock uncomfortable vehicles and technicals?

01:03:27.262 --> 01:03:28.025
No, of course not.

01:03:28.025 --> 01:03:33.166
But I put mine on and I did like sit for quite a while.

01:03:33.166 --> 01:03:50.686
Um, and I I recognize immediate difference in like, my ability to be in a like, essentially like a, a still reconnaissance position or just a hunting position that's what I was gonna say, because when you're elk hunting out there in the snow yeah bro, I do.

01:03:50.775 --> 01:03:53.800
I bring a butt pad with me, but it's in my bag.

01:03:53.800 --> 01:03:55.485
I gotta pull it out if you have something.

01:03:55.505 --> 01:03:59.737
That's kind of like dude you don't have to do anything easy to flop down it's buckled to your bag.

01:03:59.757 --> 01:04:01.880
Yeah, you just sit down and you're protected.

01:04:01.880 --> 01:04:04.025
You could hang out for a lot longer.

01:04:04.025 --> 01:04:05.427
Yeah, I like it.

01:04:05.427 --> 01:04:06.268
That's awesome.

01:04:06.268 --> 01:04:08.079
All right let's open the Billie Jean one.

01:04:08.079 --> 01:04:09.043
All right, here we go.

01:04:09.043 --> 01:04:13.565
This says this is about a three by three square.

01:04:13.565 --> 01:04:22.003
Yeah, says to Mick and Pat from Billie Jean, and I've got to be careful with it because I don't want to.

01:04:22.003 --> 01:04:23.885
I don't know what it is.

01:04:24.387 --> 01:04:24.987
I don't know what it is.

01:04:24.987 --> 01:04:26.509
She, of course, talked it down.

01:04:26.509 --> 01:04:36.373
She's like is that crazy or anything, and I was like, okay, whatever, all right, oh, what is this?

01:04:36.393 --> 01:04:36.454
Wow.

01:04:36.454 --> 01:04:45.041
On first take, it appears to be some kind of bandana or flag or like a I think I know where she got it from.

01:04:45.643 --> 01:04:46.105
Let's see.

01:04:46.105 --> 01:04:51.748
All right, it says sound of a good time.

01:04:51.748 --> 01:04:53.434
Sendero Provisions oh yeah, okay, all right.

01:04:53.434 --> 01:04:56.172
So Sendero is a company we found.

01:04:56.172 --> 01:04:58.722
Oh, look at it, it's like cracking a beer open, yep.

01:04:59.554 --> 01:04:59.795
And it's.

01:05:00.097 --> 01:05:01.983
Skeleton Cowboys Wow, that's sick.

01:05:01.983 --> 01:05:05.764
Spirit of the west, soul of the wild, uh.

01:05:05.764 --> 01:05:08.344
So yeah, sendero is this company we found it's who makes this hat.

01:05:08.344 --> 01:05:26.068
Actually it's triceratops wrangler, and they just make a lot of sick graphic design, uh, two-tone, three-tone, uh, illustrations for I don't know, just like kind of modern western, and we've just been loving it and buying stuff from them a lot.

01:05:26.068 --> 01:05:27.280
You should check them out, senderocom.

01:05:27.280 --> 01:05:33.800
They're not a sponsor, but we love their stuff and the designs they make and it's pretty high quality and that is.

01:05:34.362 --> 01:05:39.219
That's cool, it's a cool bandana, yeah, and it fits the vibe of the Make and Pass show.

01:05:39.260 --> 01:05:43.887
Well, especially because it's got like those bolts that are, of course, like radio waves, yep.

01:05:43.887 --> 01:05:50.976
And then there's the crack Yep, that's kind of radio waves, yep, that's pretty sick, that's pretty sick I like it, dude, we got two things to hang up.

01:05:50.976 --> 01:05:52.320
Now it's a fit Two more things to add.

01:05:52.320 --> 01:05:57.068
It's a fit Wow dude, Pretty dope.

01:06:03.094 --> 01:06:03.275
Overall.

01:06:03.275 --> 01:06:03.978
Pat, how do you feel?

01:06:03.978 --> 01:06:04.719
Do you feel like I?

01:06:04.719 --> 01:06:05.101
Do you feel known?

01:06:05.101 --> 01:06:05.402
I feel good.

01:06:05.402 --> 01:06:06.565
No, I feel like I got some sweet stuff.

01:06:06.565 --> 01:06:16.237
I'm excited to uh also, cause I feel like some of these things I got like with, like the patches, now it's like now I gotta like I feel like I gotta go get my crap together, yeah, but like, yeah, but in a good way.

01:06:16.237 --> 01:06:18.804
It's like I gotta like I gotta figure out where these patches go.

01:06:18.804 --> 01:06:26.300
Yeah, these patches go, yeah, exactly, you gotta like gotta get it all going.

01:06:26.300 --> 01:06:33.257
It's sweet, always love surplus stuff and uh, um, I don't know how often I'll wear the mask, but I will well that one was more of like a.

01:06:33.858 --> 01:06:35.822
You know that one was more.

01:06:35.822 --> 01:06:36.704
I mean, I don't I.

01:06:36.704 --> 01:06:48.878
I respect the privacy of and intimacy of marriages, right, and I have no need to know, but it is one of those things of like you never know when you're going to be car broken down freezing your ass off.

01:06:48.878 --> 01:06:49.782
I got to walk.

01:06:50.036 --> 01:06:54.081
I got to have 30 miles and you're like oh my God, that mask.

01:06:54.195 --> 01:06:55.753
That's a total meme.

01:06:55.753 --> 01:06:56.898
It's in my trunk.

01:06:57.481 --> 01:06:59.701
Here's one time I definitely will use it.

01:06:59.701 --> 01:07:01.137
I've been waiting for this moment.

01:07:01.137 --> 01:07:17.481
I still have to wait years and years, but when my boys get into airsoft someday, oh yeah, I've decided I'm going to just go all out on all this stuff you're gonna traumatize them yeah, because I'm just gonna have all the nice cool stuff they'll tell their friends at school.

01:07:17.501 --> 01:07:22.623
They're like yeah, my dad was like normal dad and then he bought us airsoft guns and then he changed.

01:07:22.965 --> 01:07:23.385
Exactly.

01:07:23.385 --> 01:07:30.460
And so like when we go out with their friends, you know, like in Timmy's out there, and then all of a sudden Timmy like especially, like you know, the kids who don't follow the rules.

01:07:30.782 --> 01:07:32.184
Oh yeah, yeah, they call their hits.

01:07:32.324 --> 01:07:44.336
Yeah, exactly so, like, yeah, so, anyways, like I've seen this kid get hit four times and he hasn't responded, yeah, he hasn't responded.

01:07:44.336 --> 01:07:45.420
Yeah, guess who's coming out of the woods now?

01:07:45.420 --> 01:07:46.485
Exactly me and this freaking mask.

01:07:46.485 --> 01:07:47.407
Yeah, you know, and I'm gonna get after him.

01:07:47.447 --> 01:07:48.753
So no, but I think all this stuff's sweet.

01:07:48.753 --> 01:07:52.061
I'm looking forward to putting it to some use, because there's some.

01:07:52.061 --> 01:07:54.085
There's practical use and fun use.

01:07:54.085 --> 01:08:04.528
So I like, I like to be able to like also like as a adult now, like it's good to get gifts that encourage you to have fun yeah, yeah, and I mean I think that's the kind of the whole whole thing.

01:08:04.548 --> 01:08:13.637
When you reach kind of a certain age, you recognize it's like not everything needs a purpose, but it's awesome if it has a purpose and it's fun for sure.

01:08:13.637 --> 01:08:17.143
But all right, man, I'm reaching in here into this bag.

01:08:17.143 --> 01:08:20.569
So what, what am I, do I?

01:08:20.569 --> 01:08:21.250
What do I do?

01:08:21.250 --> 01:08:21.958
Do I reach in?

01:08:21.958 --> 01:08:23.246
Do I look in first?

01:08:23.507 --> 01:08:24.311
I think you can.

01:08:24.311 --> 01:08:34.961
There's a little bit, there's one piece of tissue paper so you can just pull the tissue paper and then you can for this gift, just then, just should I like, feel around first so I can take a guess.

01:08:37.984 --> 01:08:38.805
feels ropey.

01:08:38.805 --> 01:08:47.023
What is that Kind of a hollow barrel?

01:08:47.335 --> 01:08:49.583
If you can't guess, I'm glad.

01:08:49.583 --> 01:08:53.382
Do you want to guess before you pull it out?

01:08:54.177 --> 01:08:59.145
I feel smooth, smooth, like softer fabric strap of some kind.

01:08:59.145 --> 01:09:01.837
I'm kind of worried.

01:09:01.837 --> 01:09:15.899
Something more metallic in a round knob this is really funny to you, bro.

01:09:15.899 --> 01:09:25.208
Maybe not metallic hard plastic in a round knobbish, round, knobbish, then a barrel and a rope and a loop.

01:09:25.208 --> 01:09:28.032
All right, I'm pulling it out.

01:09:28.032 --> 01:09:29.840
All right, what if I don't know what it is?

01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:30.521
Will you be hurt?

01:09:30.521 --> 01:09:31.305
Will your feelings be hurt?

01:09:31.305 --> 01:09:44.752
If I actually have no idea what this is, I'll be even more excited that's fine okay, okay, okay all right, he's unveiling it.

01:09:44.872 --> 01:09:54.527
Hold on, hold on my yeah, all right, so it's definitely threaded paracord, some kind of harness thing.

01:09:54.527 --> 01:09:56.229
Oh, wait, okay, wait, wait, hold on, hold on.

01:09:56.229 --> 01:09:58.417
Is this a duck call?

01:09:58.417 --> 01:10:01.560
Yeah, oh, because we're going duck hunting.

01:10:01.560 --> 01:10:03.844
There you go.

01:10:03.844 --> 01:10:08.750
Okay, all right, sick bro, oh Okay, what do I do?

01:10:09.010 --> 01:10:09.551
What did I do?

01:10:09.551 --> 01:10:15.182
Okay, don't lose the top part, don't lose that thing, don't lose the reed, just grab that and put it back on.

01:10:15.182 --> 01:10:18.645
He folded down and immediately took it all the way apart.

01:10:19.287 --> 01:10:21.207
Bro, how was I supposed to know what it is?

01:10:21.207 --> 01:10:22.389
Just by feeling it blindly.

01:10:23.170 --> 01:10:25.292
Because I've never been duck hunting, that's fine.

01:10:25.292 --> 01:10:26.719
Am I good?

01:10:26.719 --> 01:10:27.261
You're good now.

01:10:28.296 --> 01:10:29.220
How do I give it the call?

01:10:29.220 --> 01:10:29.962
Do I put this on?

01:10:30.175 --> 01:10:33.260
Alright, so I'll show you.

01:10:33.260 --> 01:10:34.182
So you put it around your neck.

01:10:34.182 --> 01:10:36.942
There you go.

01:10:36.942 --> 01:10:40.878
So it's a neoprene neck brace with the lanyard for you.

01:10:40.878 --> 01:10:41.922
You got your duck calls.

01:10:41.922 --> 01:10:56.323
You got a duck call on there, and then you also have a pintail whistle or a six in one whistle six in one because you can do a lot of stuff with the little whistle this one yep, and then the other the duck call.

01:10:56.342 --> 01:11:00.405
So I'm going to like so yeah, give it a little toot.

01:11:00.405 --> 01:11:08.204
That's actually not bad right there A little, a little a ducky marshy sounds.

01:11:08.555 --> 01:11:09.578
Hey, I got a.

01:11:09.578 --> 01:11:14.228
I got a turkey call and I realized it's all in the subtlety of the turkey.

01:11:14.228 --> 01:11:15.921
Call that I inherited from a box.

01:11:15.921 --> 01:11:18.780
So what else do you do with this, do you like?

01:11:19.042 --> 01:11:20.085
tap it, do you thumb it?

01:11:20.085 --> 01:11:20.716
What do you do?

01:11:20.716 --> 01:11:22.559
There's a bunch of different noises you can make with that.

01:11:22.559 --> 01:11:25.304
Yep, yep.

01:11:25.304 --> 01:11:31.503
So that's a drake whistle or a six and one whistle, or a pintail whistle hell yeah um, you can make a couple different sounds.

01:11:31.503 --> 01:11:34.539
That, and then the the other call is just a classic.

01:11:34.600 --> 01:11:37.104
Is this what made duck dynasty this um?

01:11:37.525 --> 01:11:39.095
nope, not that one, but it is.

01:11:39.095 --> 01:11:48.224
Uh, it's a, it's a good beginner call, because here's the deal, I'll tell you this too you don't get to use this for like a year.

01:11:48.224 --> 01:11:49.391
You have to practice.

01:11:49.391 --> 01:11:51.096
I have to practice for a year.

01:11:51.096 --> 01:11:55.247
It's a practice a lot before you're allowed to use it when we're live, and this one's the duck call.

01:11:56.516 --> 01:11:57.801
Which end do I put my mouth in that side?

01:11:58.021 --> 01:12:02.420
That side, yep, and so give it your first instinctual.

01:12:02.600 --> 01:12:04.625
Am I lipping it like a cigar or am?

01:12:04.625 --> 01:12:07.997
I like blowing on it like a trumpet, do lips go?

01:12:08.157 --> 01:12:10.904
in or around, around Around.

01:12:10.904 --> 01:12:12.587
I bet A little bit, well, yeah.

01:12:16.878 --> 01:12:17.360
Is that right?

01:12:17.461 --> 01:12:21.779
Yeah, yeah, you're looking at me like I'm a dork, I thought you were about to give it a little natural.

01:12:21.779 --> 01:12:25.247
All right, a little bit more, a little more.

01:12:25.247 --> 01:12:30.068
Now say woot, woot, all right, getting closer.

01:12:30.068 --> 01:12:34.716
So that's a hen mallard, call, that's the.

01:12:34.716 --> 01:12:36.162
Hey sexy, come over here, call.

01:12:36.162 --> 01:12:39.760
So do you want me to show you the?

01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:44.076
So here me see, and I'll, and I'll see, I'll give you the call.

01:12:44.076 --> 01:12:46.180
So, so, um, show me.

01:12:46.180 --> 01:12:47.601
Mr mixon, want to get into the?

01:12:47.622 --> 01:12:58.402
water master jedi and so we'll try to not so that drake whistle he was on, so you know you can do little like teal, like dude paul's gonna Dude Paul's going to love this.

01:12:58.402 --> 01:13:05.529
You can also, is that?

01:13:05.548 --> 01:13:06.689
like a humming while you blow.

01:13:07.190 --> 01:13:12.198
Yeah, and so that's like you've probably kind of heard that.

01:13:12.198 --> 01:13:14.184
Maybe you've heard that in like a marsh before, like in a movie before.

01:13:14.184 --> 01:13:14.826
You've kind of heard that.

01:13:14.826 --> 01:13:18.819
What bird is that?

01:13:18.819 --> 01:13:21.554
It's actually a Drake Mallard, drake, mallard, so Mallard.

01:13:21.554 --> 01:13:23.922
Okay, so like a green head duck makes that noise.

01:13:23.922 --> 01:13:28.802
Then you have your duck call.

01:13:28.802 --> 01:13:31.822
Try not to blow out the mics, but you got.

01:13:34.396 --> 01:13:42.065
Oh wow, whoa dude.

01:13:42.065 --> 01:13:45.770
That's crazy.

01:13:45.770 --> 01:13:46.791
People are not going to think that's real.

01:13:46.791 --> 01:13:48.220
People are going to think you put in sound effects.

01:13:48.555 --> 01:13:49.761
Yeah, so that's the duck call.

01:13:50.716 --> 01:13:55.528
How much of that is the method of blowing versus the way it farts on your hand?

01:13:58.198 --> 01:14:00.060
The hand is just accent, but it's like the.

01:14:04.185 --> 01:14:07.708
See, all right, you're not putting your lips around it, though You're putting your lips against it like a trumpet.

01:14:07.708 --> 01:14:24.957
Well, it's your bottom lip so you're not going all the way in the mouth, so you let me just mouth that thing like a cigar and you were just like, yeah, all right, whatever, I just want to see your first natural thing, but your bottom lip is under, your top lips over, and so you have these.

01:14:25.137 --> 01:14:29.047
Uh, anyways, these are two like most basic like duck calls.

01:14:29.047 --> 01:14:40.777
You can do a lot with them, you know, and you can see if you can get the ducks to come, and what's awesome is like ducks are a very responsive animal to calls, and so it's super fun.

01:14:40.917 --> 01:14:41.158
I can.

01:14:41.158 --> 01:14:43.221
I can go to like just the park and practice this.

01:14:43.722 --> 01:14:44.444
That's what, that's how.

01:14:44.503 --> 01:14:45.164
I, is that legal?

01:14:45.926 --> 01:14:46.587
It's totally legal.

01:14:46.587 --> 01:14:51.600
You can just sit there, and what I do is I sit there and listen to the ducks and then try to make the same noises as them.

01:14:51.600 --> 01:15:06.212
And then just yeah, just that Dude that's like uncanny how accurate that is and so, and, and, like, I'm a average caller, right.

01:15:06.255 --> 01:15:19.677
so there's some guys who really like get the, the whispers, the full the whispers, and there's, then there's competition calling, which is like, like the, so like, so I'd say this it's like the, because this hen mallard call that I was just doing that.

01:15:19.677 --> 01:15:24.908
That's like you're trying to call in the ducks, like, hey, big boy, so are you?

01:15:25.047 --> 01:15:29.622
Hey, come over here, I'm a female duck yeah, so I like.

01:15:29.622 --> 01:15:31.318
I just, is there a word for female ducks?

01:15:31.699 --> 01:15:53.154
Hen, hens, yeah, hens and girls, and I kind of do, I do the like um, like hey, potential missionary you know, and then the competition callers are like, are like I don't think ducks can do missionary.

01:15:53.154 --> 01:15:56.961
But then the competition callers are like porn hub screaming.

01:15:56.961 --> 01:15:58.684
Oh, I get what you're saying.

01:15:58.684 --> 01:16:00.467
Like you know, so like anyways you.

01:16:00.648 --> 01:16:04.864
You were like a yeah, good, tried and true over here nothing.

01:16:04.864 --> 01:16:10.445
This is what it is, yeah and then, like the competition callers are like this is a fantasy yeah, it's like this will.

01:16:10.806 --> 01:16:11.990
This is not real.

01:16:11.990 --> 01:16:13.578
If you get, if you come over here.

01:16:13.578 --> 01:16:15.988
You're an idiot for believing in it in the first place.

01:16:15.988 --> 01:16:16.813
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

01:16:16.813 --> 01:16:20.350
The competition, all these noises and things you know, coming out, coming out.

01:16:20.371 --> 01:16:21.255
That's sick as hell, bro.

01:16:21.255 --> 01:16:21.595
So anyway.

01:16:21.615 --> 01:16:22.637
So this is like your.

01:16:22.637 --> 01:16:25.384
You know your intro to.

01:16:25.384 --> 01:16:31.765
You know waterfowling, the duck world Wanted to get you your first duck hole and a lanyard to go with it.

01:16:32.876 --> 01:17:06.604
I genuinely think like this right here was nothing I have ever given any thought to, was nothing I have ever given any thought to, and I recognize now that this is probably more likely to get me to go do it than even getting like a new gun right you know what I mean like like it's all of a sudden, like I just feel, like I realized, now it's in my grasp and everything else like as long as grasp and everything else, like as long as I mean, everything else is secondary, but like I don't know, it's pretty sick dude.

01:17:06.625 --> 01:17:07.106
Thank you, man.

01:17:07.106 --> 01:17:09.041
So there's some hunting gear.

01:17:09.842 --> 01:17:15.779
It's a and I love about waterfowl and duck hunting with the in the call in particular I wanted to get you cause there's a couple other pieces of gear.

01:17:15.779 --> 01:17:16.381
I thought about.

01:17:16.381 --> 01:17:26.038
The cool thought about the cool thing about the call is how it's such a, uh, um.

01:17:26.038 --> 01:17:27.400
What I love about duck hunting is it's such an interactive.

01:17:27.400 --> 01:17:38.184
You know sport and hunt and so talking to the ducks, getting them to come in, um, and so that's where you know a duck call is, you know it's just cool, it's wild.

01:17:38.184 --> 01:17:49.215
The first time you know you do the ducks flying by they're going away from you and you toot that call the right way and they turn around and come back to you.

01:17:49.215 --> 01:17:53.403
You're like, oh my god I just made.

01:17:53.663 --> 01:17:55.707
This wild animal just came back to me.

01:17:55.707 --> 01:18:00.307
Yeah, doesn't work every time, sure, but when it does it's awesome.

01:18:00.307 --> 01:18:05.847
And uh, whether it's your first time or your 50th time, it's just you're excited when the ducks turn.

01:18:05.847 --> 01:18:08.777
So, um, you've talked, I want to get into it.

01:18:08.777 --> 01:18:10.140
I thought that'd be a fun, you know.

01:18:10.981 --> 01:18:11.783
Piece of hunting gear.

01:18:11.783 --> 01:18:22.449
Yeah, no, I mean, and that is like the thing, though, too is like immediately when I recognized what it was, I just had like a that triggering thought in my brain.

01:18:22.515 --> 01:19:00.765
I was like wow, like this is like a cool new experience, because, like I haven't, I didn't even put like two thoughts into getting this, you know what I mean Like cause I guess, like every time I've gone hunting with someone for like coyotes, or even shadowed um, like what they were doing, um, they've always had all the calls and I'm just there to kind of either be in support, you know, or whatever, and so I just think that's pretty sick dude and it feels, I don't know, it feels purposeful, like it feels like, like I said, it feels like now I'm really motivated to go do it and like I feel like I could contribute.

01:19:04.095 --> 01:19:05.399
motivated to go do it and like I feel like I could contribute.

01:19:05.399 --> 01:19:16.520
Now, like you said, though, I I recognize it takes practice to build that skill and and that's and it's probably not helpful for me to come out and just start blowing on it right, and and that's actually also why I got it for you, because it's a cool, like rite of passage.

01:19:16.539 --> 01:19:23.390
The duck calls a rite of passage and the blind, so it's like like you like, hey, you fudge.

01:19:23.390 --> 01:19:30.828
Give them the duck call exactly like that's a big thing when you finally are like the guy who's like in charge, like there's a hierarchy in the duck blind.

01:19:30.828 --> 01:19:31.671
There's a guy in charge.

01:19:31.671 --> 01:19:41.405
Usually, depending on your friends, you know there's someone who's like okay, like it's making the call on the shots or calling the ducks and like so it's a you ever biff it like you ever get like someone's like?

01:19:41.546 --> 01:19:43.168
hey, pat, give him the call.

01:19:43.456 --> 01:19:58.064
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh, for sure, all the time that's so funny whether either like what's that feel like operator error, yeah, just like totally messing it up, or like you've been sitting too long and there's like like spit in there and so it's like frozen and you'll be like, oh, wow.

01:19:58.064 --> 01:20:04.485
And so then the call, instead of being that duck call, like, and then there they all go, and so you mess it up.

01:20:04.485 --> 01:20:08.479
Um, but it's funny, it's a but what the cool feel.

01:20:08.479 --> 01:20:24.845
So what I think too is and like every time, all the new guys, we all have duck calls, and it's funny too, because, like whenever I start calling, somebody else wants to toot on it and it's like not time yet you know, like you haven't, you haven't like done the thing and I think you're called down boy exactly.

01:20:25.426 --> 01:20:43.595
And so then that's, I think that people in the world we live in there's like this thing that'd be like, oh, like in in in all areas of the world we live in, not just like ducking or something people are like everybody gets to play, all inclusive, everybody, all the time, same level playing field.

01:20:43.655 --> 01:20:59.682
It's like it's okay to actually be like there's a cast not not, not in, not in like big, big areas of life, but in certain places it's okay to be like listen, there's a hierarchy, there's a chain of command and you get to earn your way into that spot.

01:20:59.682 --> 01:21:04.018
And if you'd get given that spot day one, it'd be worth nothing.

01:21:04.018 --> 01:21:13.564
But when it's year two of duck hunting and you're like getting to do it now, that's way more special yeah, for sure, without a doubt.

01:21:13.666 --> 01:21:17.259
And it's like, I think, like the equivalent for like people who aren't hunters and stuff it.

01:21:17.259 --> 01:21:29.136
It's like who's carving the turkey at Thanksgiving, who's wearing the Santa hat on Christmas Day, who is saying the prayer before dinner Exactly Like I will.

01:21:29.136 --> 01:21:56.155
You know, I know for a fact that like those are things that like in my family and other families I've seen are steeped in tradition and like it's a rite of passage to be given that opportunity I remember for I I still remember the first time I really felt like my grandfather trusted me with, like praying for, like the big family thanksgiving and I was like, oh, okay, and it was his right, yeah.

01:21:56.296 --> 01:21:59.663
But then he said, hey, mick, can you bless the food?

01:21:59.663 --> 01:22:02.269
And it's like, oh, that's special right.

01:22:02.269 --> 01:22:09.389
Instead of just like, all of a sudden he was like, hey, people, this year it's up to me.

01:22:09.389 --> 01:22:12.926
Hey, old man, how about you handle it Exactly?

01:22:12.926 --> 01:22:23.519
No, it's a rite of passage, it's a thing, it's a way to show somebody that I trust you, you've done what you need to do, you've got this, you know, and so that's a.

01:22:23.519 --> 01:22:31.886
That's what I love about the duck call, too is like it's a great piece of hunting gear, super cool, something you can work on, something you can practice.

01:22:31.886 --> 01:22:42.429
But also it's a little bit of a, and being given your first duck calls right at passage, as well as like the first time you get to be like all right, like call with us, let's call them in, you know yeah, well, I mean, I do.

01:22:42.569 --> 01:23:07.024
I mean, like you know, and I'm saying this, man, in all sincerity like not blown smoke, but I do feel I don't know what's the word maybe not privilege, but I just feel, considered, like this takes forethought, like and especially hearing you explain it like recognizing, like okay, like, yeah, like this is going to take time and investment on my end to practice with it.

01:23:07.024 --> 01:23:20.742
And this is a symbolic investment of you saying, hey, here it is, practice with it, because one day I'm going to tell you to use it when we're, when you know, when you, when you're coming on a, on a hunt.

01:23:20.742 --> 01:23:25.189
So I just, I think I appreciate that a lot, dude, um, and I look forward to it.

01:23:25.189 --> 01:23:43.190
Now I'll say this too I was thinking about this more and more because so many of our friends have had such successful hunting outings this year that I'm just like bro, I just I don't even care about bringing my gun or having the ticket for it Right, the tag for it.

01:23:43.230 --> 01:23:52.046
I mean I just want to go, yeah, like I didn't just keep like shadow people Right, cause I'm, I'm just like everyone had such success this year.

01:23:52.046 --> 01:23:53.779
I feel like of, like our circle.

01:23:53.779 --> 01:23:55.666
Oh yeah, like you know I was.

01:23:55.666 --> 01:24:07.953
I was so envious of like some of those picks and I was like, wow, man, some guys really like got away with like the deer and the elk in one year and they're getting ducks and they're getting feds.

01:24:07.953 --> 01:24:14.948
And then Paul's in here just like freaking sleeping beauty, snow white.

01:24:14.948 --> 01:24:24.158
Every animal comes to his beck and call whatever he wants, but anyways no for sure, for sure, and I think it's a.

01:24:25.523 --> 01:24:30.216
Hunting is a sport that's been growing and growing the last handful of years too, and uh, it's a.

01:24:30.216 --> 01:24:31.618
It's a cool thing.

01:24:31.618 --> 01:24:56.561
It's a good way to connect with the way we subsisted for a very long time and nowadays we get to do it in gore-tex with incredible firearms and apps apps on your phone that help you and stuff but at the same time, it's still like it's one of those ways that you really connect with.

01:24:56.561 --> 01:25:05.362
You know, um, the how we got around, how we did stuff, and you know not to take away from like other outdoors things.

01:25:05.362 --> 01:25:20.561
You know, like people love to hike and camp and backpack, but like part of me is always like that's cool, bro, but you know why people used to do that to get to their next place or to next meal or their meal.

01:25:20.561 --> 01:25:32.295
It's just like to me like backpacking is fine, but I'd rather backpack to hunt you know, hiking is fine, but I'd rather hike to hunt or, you know, like that sort of stuff.

01:25:32.395 --> 01:26:09.869
So I think that hunting and I think hunting is the pinnacle of outdoorsmanship and other people would disagree maybe but at the same time, like it is the like in back to our conversation about like animals and and man's relationship to them, like we take their life, we subsist off of it, we've, you know, and people have problems with that, but at the same time, like hunting is a way that you can um show an animal ultimate respect for their existence.

01:26:09.869 --> 01:26:41.583
I think there's certain animals that exist to be eaten because, like they taste so good, but, you know, and so it's like, it's like the they're just, I do believe that man has dominion over uh creatures, yeah, and with that comes responsibility, and so we're responsible for how we take care of them, how we um manage them, and they are ours to um to have and to take care of, and part of that having is eating them sometimes, you know.

01:26:41.984 --> 01:26:43.980
Yeah, no, I mean that kind of almost.

01:26:43.980 --> 01:26:49.567
You know I'm making a little bit of a leap in connection here, right, Mm-hmm.

01:26:49.567 --> 01:26:55.020
But that goes full circle to like what we opened up about, right, the whaling industry.

01:26:55.322 --> 01:26:55.483
Mm-hmm.

01:26:56.515 --> 01:27:04.783
And you know that was before crude oil had been pulled up from the earth, mm-hmm, and when countries ran off of whale.

01:27:04.783 --> 01:27:08.743
Yeah, and a lot of people just don't recognize that.

01:27:08.743 --> 01:27:15.509
And what we do know today, though, is that there's less whales and that it requires stewardship.

01:27:15.509 --> 01:27:19.662
I over did it Well, and there's no reason to hunt them.

01:27:19.662 --> 01:27:20.777
Like there's.

01:27:20.777 --> 01:27:24.247
There wasn't much sport in it in the first place, probably.

01:27:24.247 --> 01:27:43.384
Like it's not, like it's not fishing, like a lot of people from, like what I understand about looking into whaling and all that, there was at times, yeah, of course, in human history, right, where people hunted whales to subsist and provide.

01:27:43.384 --> 01:27:52.287
Yeah, um, but can you imagine how you'd feel about duck hunting if it was industrialized?

01:27:52.287 --> 01:27:54.135
Oh right, you know what I mean.

01:27:54.135 --> 01:28:02.588
Like it would, it would take all essence of what the meaning is and outdoorsmanship out of it, and, like we, we see that today.

01:28:02.588 --> 01:28:09.729
Like it requires stewardship, you know it requires responsibility, um, so I guess I don't know.

01:28:09.729 --> 01:28:12.242
I hear what you're saying, man, and I'm excited.

01:28:12.242 --> 01:28:13.364
I'm really excited.

01:28:13.926 --> 01:28:32.615
Um, I guess billy jean's gonna hate this, but I just I'm gonna have to buy another shotgun hey, just might have to, because I've said this before on the show we talk about all these dope ass guns oh yeah, but I'll tell you what.

01:28:32.615 --> 01:28:46.886
I've used one gun more and killed more things with one gun more than any of the other ones, and that's a Remington 870 shotgun that cost me $350.

01:28:47.027 --> 01:28:50.105
Yeah, I mean, it's like cheaper than Xbox sometimes.

01:28:50.105 --> 01:28:52.194
Yeah, you get a good sale, yeah Right.

01:28:52.194 --> 01:29:22.409
And I think, like a lot of that too is like there's this idea of you know, whatever people hear about hunting or the depiction of it, but it's, it is like a part of stewardship, you know, and it's one of those things that I think is like necessary for sure, and for some people, I mean, you look at like that one tribe in Africa Gosh, I'm forgetting the name, I'm blanking on it, okay.

01:29:25.475 --> 01:29:27.082
Those ones, the ones that run them down.

01:29:27.614 --> 01:29:29.458
Well, they run them down and they hunt and they like.

01:29:29.578 --> 01:29:55.028
their whole lifestyle is based on like moving and like hunting, and it's like a part of a necessity in their life and so, like there's a place for it, but even them, like you know, like they have this like operandus of, like it's about a balance and stewardship and it's also, like you know, we have to sometimes hunt down other things to keep the balance.

01:29:55.028 --> 01:30:03.590
And that is going back to what you said, like animals are under the dominion of man and require responsibility.

01:30:03.590 --> 01:30:24.115
So I'm excited, man, I'm excited to partake in that responsibility and stewardship and I'm looking forward to it, man, I'm stoked for going on duck hunts and, you know, shadowing you guys, and then I don't know, a couple, a couple, maybe a year, year or two get to make my call.

01:30:24.195 --> 01:30:26.442
Get the toot on the call for sure, and they're?

01:30:26.442 --> 01:30:28.856
They're called the head zombie, tribe head zombie.

01:30:28.856 --> 01:30:30.338
They run them down in tanzania.

01:30:30.338 --> 01:30:31.841
Um for sure, man.

01:30:31.841 --> 01:30:35.408
So yeah, the left in the, basically that.

01:30:35.408 --> 01:30:36.198
So the hunt it's a.

01:30:36.198 --> 01:30:38.284
You know what I got here was it's a lanyard and there's room for calls on it, which is fun too.

01:30:38.284 --> 01:30:41.295
So yeah, if you saw, there's like a space soanyard and there's room for calls on it, which is fun too.

01:30:41.815 --> 01:30:47.466
So if you saw there's space, so there's all sorts of other calls you get to get over the years and put on there.

01:30:47.466 --> 01:30:58.618
But what you do is hang it on your rearview mirror and for a year in your car, whenever you're thinking about it, throw it on practice calling and then throw it back up.

01:30:58.618 --> 01:31:00.542
And so you keep it in your car Practice calling a lot.

01:31:00.542 --> 01:31:09.947
Go sit by a pond with some city ducks, Listen to them and try to mimic them, and then someday you get to do the real thing.

01:31:10.228 --> 01:31:17.668
Yeah, well, before we sign off, we should give a shout out to our gift giving guide.

01:31:17.668 --> 01:31:25.341
So if you skip to the end, here it's our gift giving guide, right, and to the end, here it's our gift giving guide, right, and um, we'll time stamp it and all that.

01:31:25.341 --> 01:32:18.756
But my gift giving guide for the man in your life, whether that's a son, a husband, a father, it's, it's simple, because I think about it in like, most men have some kind of depreciation, right, whether that is toilet paper, dude wipes, whether that's fishing line, and so my first suggestion is to get, uh, someone like dude wipes, because dude wipes, especially for you know, that young man in your life who's starting to want to step out and like, do more camping or more outdoorsmanship um, he's gonna have a moment where he's gonna be like, okay, now, what?

01:32:18.836 --> 01:32:19.516
now what I do?

01:32:19.516 --> 01:32:30.608
Because I'm in the woods and I got to clean up Dude wipes, man, they're so usable and they break down.

01:32:30.954 --> 01:32:38.125
I think they're actually flushable, like don't do a lot of them, but like they deteriorate way faster than all the other wipes I've ever seen.

01:32:38.295 --> 01:32:43.104
And if you read them, dude wipesipes tells you one flushable.

01:32:43.827 --> 01:32:44.608
Yeah, flush one.

01:32:45.114 --> 01:32:46.761
You use one and flush it.

01:32:46.881 --> 01:32:51.484
Yeah, and it can break down, and in the outdoors it does break down too.

01:32:51.484 --> 01:32:54.344
So it's a great thing to just have in the car.

01:32:54.344 --> 01:33:07.194
Add it to the car kit, right, for your son who's just got his car and you're like, hey, you may find yourself needing to go potty on a road trip.

01:33:07.194 --> 01:33:09.682
You're going to be very thankful for these.

01:33:09.682 --> 01:33:11.979
So check out Dude Wipes.

01:33:11.979 --> 01:33:12.402
They have them.

01:33:12.402 --> 01:33:14.622
They have, like the gentle skin ones.

01:33:14.622 --> 01:33:24.949
They have them in different scents and the feeling is refreshing, um, and so those are a great one.

01:33:25.270 --> 01:33:40.533
The next one I would say is um, I don't have a specific brand, but if you know that person who loves to fish, right, get them fishing line, like good fishing line, because they might have old, broken one from a rod they inherited.

01:33:40.533 --> 01:33:43.819
Right, that's cracked and yellowed from the sun.

01:33:43.819 --> 01:33:46.923
Um, they can always use more.

01:33:46.923 --> 01:33:54.480
Um, or check out some like, specifically, if they like to fly fish, get them a, a few flies.

01:33:54.480 --> 01:34:08.244
Or, even better, give them the kit that provides them the means to build their own and then make it a hobby of twining their own fishing lines I'm sorry, not fishing lines, fishing lures.

01:34:08.244 --> 01:34:10.555
I think that's a great gift.

01:34:10.555 --> 01:34:23.716
Um, I don't fish, but I know a lot of people who do, yeah, and they're always looking for a new lure or a new one to like craft them their own for their own like use and purpose.

01:34:23.716 --> 01:34:26.242
Um, the last one.

01:34:26.242 --> 01:34:32.318
I'm going to kind of put it on here and this is specific, but check out freedom munitions.

01:34:33.118 --> 01:34:38.805
Freedom munitions they make ammo and they remanufacture ammo from brass.

01:34:38.805 --> 01:34:49.310
That's like sent into them and they have because of shipping on ammo, it has to be shipped via ground, it has to be labeled as ammo.

01:34:49.310 --> 01:35:33.000
It can be expensive, but freedom munitions has a policy where if you order 200 worth of ammo, no matter the caliber, it's free shipping, which is excellent because that's just enough ammo for them to go out and practice and have some leftover for, you know, whatever purpose they're going to use it for, like hunting, and the free shipping is a godsend, because I was looking around, I was buying my father-in-law ammo for christmas and a lot of places had good deals on ammo but the shipping was like 96 bucks, oh dang, because of the weight and the labeling and all that and, uh, the insurance on it.

01:35:33.000 --> 01:35:41.448
And so freedom munitions, two hundred dollars, no shipping you, I mean free shipping.

01:35:41.448 --> 01:35:47.363
You know that that's a steal and they have tons and tons and tons of calibers.

01:35:47.363 --> 01:35:56.561
They also have a lot of commercial stuff from like winchester, remington, hornady, um, barnes.

01:35:56.561 --> 01:36:09.895
Barnes is like the best hunting round for rifles that you can get, and you can get a good amount of that and get free shipping on it and that is a steal compared to a lot of other places.

01:36:09.895 --> 01:36:14.305
Um, oh, actually that's not the last one.

01:36:14.527 --> 01:36:17.332
The other one I'm gonna say is audiobooks.

01:36:17.332 --> 01:36:36.087
Oh yeah, you probably know that person who doesn't like to read, or they like to read a lot, um, and they unfortunately, like the truth is like audio books are a depreciating thing, like you listen to it once and it's done and then you got to get another one.

01:36:36.087 --> 01:36:48.416
If you get an audible account for someone and give them a few credits that's 45 bucks, they get three credits, they get three books and then with that membership, every month they get another book.

01:36:48.416 --> 01:37:00.399
Um, and we're huge fans here, of course, from dog ear dialogues and such like that, where we're breaking down books that we love and you can give someone that gift to spurn that.

01:37:00.399 --> 01:37:42.529
You know, I would say educational aspect of one listening to a good story, the creativity that comes with that, the drive and how that like really impacted me to do, to like live out life as a man who, you know, has his creed and morals and adhere to those, and just like the impact you can have living life as a person who upholds their values.

01:37:42.529 --> 01:37:45.340
And that book was great.

01:37:45.340 --> 01:37:51.734
It was, you know, for one credit, quote unquote $15.99 a month.

01:37:52.274 --> 01:37:55.257
That book was like 32, 34 hours.

01:37:55.278 --> 01:37:56.519
That's a lot of time and a lot of like.

01:37:56.519 --> 01:38:07.707
You know that's a lot of time and a lot of like you know, a value in a car, drive, a commute, um, working, and you get to listen to something.

01:38:07.707 --> 01:38:12.212
That's a beautiful story, um, and so, east of Eden as well.

01:38:12.212 --> 01:38:28.603
You know another book that is great and excellent for understanding the uh, I would say like, moral values of conflict and resolution and blessing someone with peace or forgiveness.

01:38:28.603 --> 01:38:30.747
It's a very impactful story.

01:38:30.747 --> 01:38:37.605
And, you know, one of those things is again like one credit and you get a gosh.

01:38:37.605 --> 01:38:43.106
I can't remember that book was, I want to say, like an upward side of 30 hours as well, for sure.

01:38:43.106 --> 01:39:07.020
And so like those things like that, like those are easy ways to provide someone something that is depreciating and needs to be sustained and it's a blessing to them to provide those items to them for whatever kind of need or purpose they have especially for, like people who are non-readers, like I've got lots of friends who are like, if you talk about books, they're like I don't read.

01:39:07.481 --> 01:39:16.733
Like, anytime you bring up a book like I don't read, you're like what, like which is fine, kind of, because they're missing out.

01:39:17.113 --> 01:39:26.536
And you can tell when they kind of say that they like wish they could or would, but they just don't or won't or I think they can't, and the audio book piece makes it so easy.

01:39:26.536 --> 01:39:33.497
So it's like it's an easy way where I've had people where I'm like hey, like, just listen to the audio book version.

01:39:33.497 --> 01:39:35.479
You know it's going to take.

01:39:35.479 --> 01:39:51.686
You know, yeah, listen to 30 minutes a day on your drives, you'll be done, especially with like shorter things or shorter books or things like you'll be done in two weeks, you'll be done in three weeks with this, where they'd be like it would take me a year to read that it's like hey, here, have this.

01:39:51.686 --> 01:39:59.157
And so it's kind of a way to let people who especially like there's like, oh, I'm not a reader, you can this gift.

01:39:59.157 --> 01:40:14.909
I think it's an awesome gift for people because they're missing out on some really cool stories, awesome perspective, good history, just, you know, even especially, or just American literature, whatever, like it's stuff they're missing out on.

01:40:14.909 --> 01:40:16.761
So you give them a chance to listen to that.

01:40:26.375 --> 01:40:28.337
Well, and I think too, like one thing that I find myself thinking about when.

01:40:28.358 --> 01:40:29.340
I'm listening to audible, I listen to it.

01:40:29.340 --> 01:40:29.640
You know.

01:40:29.640 --> 01:40:51.643
I listen to a book probably I don't know on average an hour a day, and I think if I had had this in high school, this could have made it so easy to read the books that were required, um, and listen to them while I was working on other things or doing other things, and like still pick up on, quote unquote, what the test was going to be on or what you know the summary I was going to have to write was going to be on.

01:40:52.385 --> 01:40:55.819
And to gain the actual like, knowledge and point of the book.

01:40:55.819 --> 01:41:04.140
You know, dude, I don't know if I read a single book all the way through for school period yeah like no shot.

01:41:04.783 --> 01:41:18.184
But if you have that too, one thing you can do, especially like if you have someone who's like, if you have a kid or someone who's struggles with this in school, if they listen and read along, you like they will start crushing their class.

01:41:18.184 --> 01:41:19.085
Yeah, yeah, like.

01:41:19.085 --> 01:41:30.002
You buy them the book, buy them the audible, and then they, if they read along while they listen, it could be a huge game changer the comprehension, I think would be pretty, pretty high.

01:41:30.738 --> 01:41:31.400
I wish I had it.

01:41:31.480 --> 01:41:40.037
Yeah, comprehension goes through the roof and just depends on, like the type of learner you are, cause we know that schools aren't geared towards every individual and how you learn.

01:41:40.037 --> 01:41:43.335
They're geared for the masses and for particular types of learners.

01:41:43.335 --> 01:41:57.453
So, if you can like, change that, um, that style and change their chances of you know, taking that kid who's completely uninterested, and then you know, I think there's so many people out there who are just like.

01:41:57.453 --> 01:42:00.722
I hear so many stories of people who are like you know.

01:42:00.722 --> 01:42:08.387
They were bad students in high school but once they finally found what they wanted to do in life or how they were interested in things later in life, they could crush it.

01:42:08.387 --> 01:42:11.851
That was mostly like a learning style issue.

01:42:12.054 --> 01:42:12.154
Yeah.

01:42:12.595 --> 01:42:23.878
So like just get, I think that I really wish I had something like the audio you know option, because I think I would have got it done.

01:42:24.440 --> 01:42:24.721
For sure.

01:42:24.721 --> 01:42:25.664
What else, pat?

01:42:25.664 --> 01:42:30.425
What else is on like your list of gift-giving guide kind of recommendations?

01:42:31.487 --> 01:42:31.787
For sure.

01:42:31.787 --> 01:42:51.988
I think I'm thinking of less like particulars and more like strategy, and more like strategy, which would be, you know um, it can be hard getting gifts for people who have a lot of big hobbies, because the next thing they want it's a thousand dollars or it's $5,000.

01:42:52.007 --> 01:42:53.015
Right, so it's like it's really hard.

01:42:53.015 --> 01:43:16.368
So it's like, um, if you take a little bit of time to research the, the things they're into there are, there are always small items that, um, that that can, uh, really be kind of like heartfelt gift and like intentional.

01:43:16.788 --> 01:43:16.929
Yeah.

01:43:16.988 --> 01:43:31.403
It's just even like, for instance, like okay, so like take your, take your gift, for instance, a duck call and some things like lots of duck hunters spend thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars on gear yeah right and so this was not that much like.

01:43:31.502 --> 01:44:10.703
This was not in that range, but it was like, for instance, getting like let's say you were an experienced duck hunter getting you a personalized duck call is still like way, way cheaper than getting you a new duck hunting boat it's 30 grand right so so, um, just like, if it feels like you can't reach the price tag of what people are after like I think so many people like gifts that feel like they speak to them and stuff they like to do and if you can't, you know, get them the whole kit and caboodle, you know, get them something that's like, you know, uh, in the, in the realm you know, that knows.

01:44:10.703 --> 01:44:12.226
If it says I know.

01:44:12.226 --> 01:44:18.283
If your gift says I know who you are and I know what you care about, that goes beyond you know know?

01:44:18.302 --> 01:44:19.904
Yeah, well, I mean on the note.

01:44:19.904 --> 01:44:26.203
Like all of my gifts on my gift list this year, I put an Excel spreadsheet together.

01:44:26.463 --> 01:44:26.784
Oh yeah.

01:44:27.136 --> 01:44:29.885
And I put the prices and the links to them.

01:44:29.885 --> 01:44:34.805
All of them are just D and D stuff Dungeons and dragons and it's just like.

01:44:34.805 --> 01:44:45.270
Hey, like anything here will be put to good use at a table with a bunch of people having fun and laughing and bonding together.

01:44:46.475 --> 01:44:53.969
And there's, you know the price range, I think goes from like 150 bucks down to like 20 bucks.

01:44:53.969 --> 01:45:06.247
Right, those would mean you know something to me, and not only just to me, but they're going to mean something to the other people who I put on it.

01:45:06.247 --> 01:45:21.929
Uh, an event for a session for right, um, and so it's like, yeah, you don't need to get someone the one thousand dollar kit of whatever it is they're looking into, because if you get them, just like the twenty dollar thing or whatever, it can be applied and utilized.

01:45:22.595 --> 01:45:23.917
And I think that was kind of like.

01:45:23.917 --> 01:45:47.465
My next strategy in peace was also we're losing our ability to have conversation, to engage with other people, to be present with others and so get people something that forces people to be together, like even like going old school board games, you know, or whatever, like going with things.

01:45:47.465 --> 01:45:56.440
Going with things that, um, force togetherness is like socialization exactly that like.

01:45:56.542 --> 01:46:08.962
That's a gift that um will be valuable, you know yeah well, hey, ken, hope you uh enjoyed this show, hope it was a value to you.

01:46:08.962 --> 01:46:26.608
We talked about a lot of things, but it all comes full circle around to these times and during the holidays, um, and just being considerate and thinking of others, um, and just knowing who your uh audience is and making sure that you're getting something that means something to them.

01:46:26.608 --> 01:46:31.243
It's personal, and you heard that here.

01:46:31.243 --> 01:46:33.844
I mean, we just had our gifts, pat, I don't know.

01:46:33.844 --> 01:46:36.923
I hope you feel personally recognized.

01:46:37.265 --> 01:46:55.704
Oh yeah, I feel recognized and we hope that that blesses you guys going into this holiday season, um, and you know you can apply that going forward, but with that pat anything else till next time.