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Alright guys, we're officially starting Doggin Tuesday right now.
Get rid of all the other stuff we just said, now's when we're starting.
Miss Lauren, how are you today?
I'm good, how are y'all?
Wonderful, wonderful.
What's new since we talked to you?
Anything good?
Uh, I mean, life's always good, but there honestly not much is new.
Oh man.
Well, you were the featured guest on last Friday's podcast and I've got to tell you,
I really think that was probably one of our best ones yet.
We got so much good response from that podcast.
Did anybody reach out to you?
What have you heard from it?
I had several people reach out to me.
A lot of people say how they were able to really kind of relate to my words and you
know, one of my friends even messaged me from another state and said that she is suing me
for emotional damage.
Oh man.
Because she lost her good dog, but unfortunately to cancer, but he was also a coon hound.
Gotcha.
What were you saying, Basham?
I said, I think Bryce is on the same note.
He got a little, little teary eyed.
I did.
I mean, I'm telling you, I must just be getting weak or soft or something.
Cause I was, I always listen to every podcast when they drop, I listen just like a normal
listener would so that we can critique them and you know, hear how it sounds coming through
the truck audio where I know a lot of people listen and by golly, if I wasn't wailing up
in the truck, I'd be lying to you.
I mean, it was an emotional podcast, but I think that it brought a level to Semper dogging
that we really needed to capture.
I think you did a great job with that, Lauren.
I really do.
Thank you.
I really appreciate it.
And I really enjoyed being on your podcast.
Yeah.
And then like, so for those of you guys who didn't maybe pick up on what happened there
in the middle slash end of the podcast, whenever we ran our hometown hero of the week, that
was actually Lauren's husband, uh, Kane Brown that was featured as the hometown hero of the
week.
So Lauren, thank you also for sending that in.
We've been begging people to send us their hometown heroes so that we can spotlight them
in the podcast.
It's only fitting that we spotlighted your husband during your podcast.
Yeah.
And it was actually a big surprise to him and his family.
So definitely anyone out there who has anyone in service, um, submit their names, submit
just something short about them because I promise you, it'll probably mean a lot more
than you think it will to them.
Yeah, it absolutely will.
Well, uh, how's the baby's doing?
How's your dog's doing?
Everything going well?
Babies are wonderful.
My daughter's actually looking over my shoulder, looking at y'all.
She's a little confused.
Um, her, yes, yes.
But, uh, her, her dad just got back from a week in Washington state where he was visiting
his family and he actually brought back a, uh, Bobcat pelt door that she's been kind
of carrying around everywhere.
Oh, that's awesome.
That is awesome.
Have you, since the podcast, have you had a chance or since we recorded, I guess, have
you had a chance to go and talk to some of those deer clubs and deer leases that we talked
about to see if maybe you could get some permission to go hunting?
No.
So actually, do you remember when we first, before we officially started recording, I
told you all that I wasn't feeling very good.
Well, literally for the past month and a half, I have been nonstop sick.
I haven't really been able to do a lot of anything I've really wanted to do lately because
I can't go too far from home.
Oh man.
I hate to hear that.
Yeah.
So trying to figure out what's going on, but no answers yet.
Yeah.
Well, Hey, if you know anything about yourself, like you did about Rosie, you'll get them
doctors figured out.
They'll get you right back on the back track.
I intend to hopefully.
No, absolutely.
Well, thanks for joining us on here.
Impromptu we didn't have this planned.
We just saw you on here.
So thanks for joining us for a little bit.
And once again, thank you for a fantastic podcast.
I know that it was well received.
So thank you again.
Yeah.
Thanks y'all so much.
I hope you all have a good night.
All right.
Thank you.
Bash them.
So I think I have just a little bit figured out on our internet issues because when you
went live there, you were breaking up a lot.
And I think it's because whoever goes live, when you add somebody, they're streaming through
your internet.
And so I think when you bring other people on, I think it starts to break up and stuff
like that.
That's just something we're going to have to come up with.
But hey guys, we want to give a shout out kind of back to the dog and Tuesday thing.
We want to give a shout out to this week's last week's winners at Superstakes.
We had sophomore, we had Jordan said for the juniors.
We had, oh darn it.
Daniel.
He's hunting.
He's hunting one of Kevin Purdy's females or Kevin Pupp off of Kevin Purdy's.
I can't think of his name.
Newsome, Daniel Newsome.
And then for the seniors, we had Mr. Billy Bell and Scarlett again.
Hey, can we just talk about this real quick?
I mean, I think that the Scarlett and Screamer matchups might be one of the most iconic stories
in coon hunting since I've been a part of it.
I agree.
So for those of those listeners who don't know, give a brief synopsis, not a Steven
Basham synopsis, a brief one.
Okay.
Keep it short of what Superstakes is.
And then we're going to try and explain to them real quick what, how, how cool it was
for the Scarlett and Screamer deal.
So real quick, Superstakes is basically a pup hunt.
And so they break it up based on a dog's birthday.
May 1st through October 31st is spring.
And then November 1st to April, April 31st is fall pups.
So we just had our spring Superstakes.
And so the pups that were born, you know, last year, they're what we would call freshmen.
The year before that would be sophomore.
The year before that would be junior.
And then the year before that, which are your three year olds would be your seniors.
And what's pretty amazing about what Bryce is talking about is we've had the same two
dogs match up all three years in Superstakes.
Yeah.
And in two of the years, they matched up in the finals.
In the finals.
And this year they matched up in the semi-finals.
So Scarlett, no, it was in the semis.
It was in the top six.
Yes, it was.
Top six.
They went heads up.
That's quarters.
No, because the winners out of that went to the finals.
That, yeah, you're wrong.
If you think so.
All right, guys, leave a comment, drop a comment.
The round before the finals, what's it called?
It's called the semis in case you didn't know.
Yes.
Okay, back to what I was saying.
So this is why Dog on Tuesdays is fun because this is so raw and uncut and unedited.
And as fresh, or excuse me, as sophomores, the one year old division, Scarlett was handled
by John Heineman, who has won the PKC world.
He has won the UKC world.
John has been around longer than I can begin to put a number on.
He is a dedicated coon hunter.
He has been his entire life.
And the Super Stakes is one that I don't think he'd won before.
So as a one year old, he took Scarlett, took her all the way down to the finals and ended
up winning this thing.
Hey, look at this.
The 16 face Basham is wrong this time, I believe.
Come from Benji Kaufman.
Oh, I love it.
Oh, keep the comments rolling guys.
Just keep telling him he's wrong.
Anyways, first time for everything.
Anyways, hey, Jason Bowen's watching.
Jason's not afraid to tell you you're wrong.
Cora, thanks for joining us.
Cora, you just missed it.
We had Lauren on here.
I know you and her pals.
So we just had had her on here live.
So thank you for joining us, Cora.
But anyways, back to what I was saying is Scarlett won it as a one year old and Screamer
handled by Sean Burden, place second.
Okay.
Now go forward a year to their juniors.
Scarlett gets sold.
Scarlett is now hunted by Billy Bell owned by Roger Schabel.
Screamer still handled by Sean Burden.
They meet up in the finals again.
Screamer wins this year and Scarlett gets second.
So they'd swap their roles.
Jennifer Basham commented and it looks like Jocelyn.
She said, Hey dad, it's me Jocelyn.
Little the champ is on here.
The kids.
Anyways, so they win.
They swap roles.
They both won a Superstakes senior year rolls around this year, 2024.
And I'm sitting here watching the matchups and watching what's going on all week.
I see Scarlett gets doubled up.
I see Screamer gets doubled up.
I'm like, Oh man, my gut says that this is going to be a barn burner and they are going
to meet in the finals again.
Well they ended up drawing in the heads up round.
It's called the semi finals and yes.
And Scarlett ends up pulling out the win over Screamer in the semi finals to advance to
the finals.
And Scarlett actually went on to win the entire thing.
So three years in a row, Scarlett wins as a one year old places second as a two year
old wins as a three year old.
You can't write a script any better than that in my opinion.
Yeah.
Roger Schavel ended up having two out of the three in the final cast of seniors.
He did.
He absolutely did.
And then, and then I made a purchase at Superstakes.
Oh yeah, we can, we can, we can go into that in a minute.
I'm so excited about it.
So I was wrong.
It's James Newman.
Oh gotcha.
I said Daniel Newman, but James Newman and he was hunting men in loud mouth.
Miley gotcha.
Well, yeah.
Well congratulations to all of them.
Jason Bowen said is she the only one to make three finals?
No, I don't believe so.
Um, oh gosh darn it.
Uh, clean did clean.
No, no, it's not.
I see who's the male dog I'm thinking of.
Um, true.
There was a male dog that went on and made all three finals.
He's a stud dog.
No, I don't know.
It's going to evade me.
It's going to hit me here in a little bit.
Oh, why did bill was it wild bill?
Did he make the finals?
I'm on it.
Jason, I need you to do some research with Shane and Brian witted on that.
See if wild bill made the finals in Superstar.
I'm sure somebody comment.
I think, like I said, me and Bryce, when it comes to my first PKC hunt wasn't until 2015.
So I haven't even been hunting PKC, not even 10 years yet.
So before that I was just a straight UKC hunter, mainly because where I was everywhere, everywhere
I lived at, there was no PKC clubs.
So like even whenever, even whenever I, so I grew up in halls, real Kentucky and the
closest PKC club was Tennyson, Indiana, but that was about an hour away and my dad was
big into UKC hunting.
So that's all we ever did.
And then whenever I lived in North Carolina and the Marine Corps, they didn't have no
PKC clubs over there.
It was all UKC.
So I didn't actually get into PKC until I moved to Evansville, but I want to say Ashley
Guntheri strip dog.
I want to say he, uh, at least two out of the three years, I don't know if it was all
three.
I'd have to go back and look and then Jack Casey Maggard and Jack Maggard, the Lacey
female.
Gotcha.
I know she won it twice.
I don't, I don't, I don't know about her sophomore year.
I'm not sure.
I can't remember.
And I don't ever seem, it's just personal deal for me, but I don't ever seem to remember
the fall superstates as much as I do the spring.
For some reason, this doesn't feel like the fall is big of a deal.
It's not a lot of, let's see here.
Bill had two years, I believe is what Jason Bowling said.
Gotcha.
Um, no, the fall, a lot of times they hunt the finals on Friday night because there's
so few.
Um, I mean, there's been Mermur mail going around for the last few years and they were
going to go back back in the day.
It used to be one super state.
Yeah.
But your age gap in dogs is so wide if you do it that way.
But uh, just kind of going back over the week I hunted, uh, I, uh, one, I lost Monday night.
Uh, no, I won Monday night, lost Tuesday night, one Wednesday night, lost Thursday night, early's
and once again, the late round evaded me.
Didn't you tell me some crazy statistic?
Like you've made it to 15 late rounds and you're over 15 in the super stakes.
Yeah.
I hate to laugh at you, but I'm really laughing with you.
I want you to know that I'm laughing with you.
I'll give a big congrats to Rex Robinson jr.
He said me and him were hunting late round on Wednesday night and he said that he's been
hunting spring super stakes almost every year since he was 16 years old and this is the
first dog he's ever doubled up.
Man, that's crazy.
It does not seem that it doesn't seem that I don't know.
I don't say hard because it is hard, but it just seems wild that in all those years, like
it would take that long to do it.
Ben Roberts said the star fizzled out.
Alright, so your champ got on and looks like my little champs got on.
He said, good job.
This is Owen.
Hi little buddy.
Glad to have you joining us here, bud.
I don't know where they're their mom took them somewhere.
So they're watching from who knows where, but it's not here tonight.
Yeah, it was a rough week, but I mean we had we had thunderstorms rolling in.
We had a lot of water pushed everybody out of the good hunting.
But I mean we still we had a lot of a lot of Coons tree, especially on my cat.
I think Monday night we Monday night early round tree three and then late round a tree
two.
I think we scored on six early and five late.
Oh, I mean just on my two cast 11 11 scored and two cast on Monday.
So like I said, we had a couple we had a couple storms roll in and it kind of made things
a little nasty.
But other than that it was it was a successful week.
Yeah, you know, I saw some pretty good scores come up from there and I know that that water
plays a big part in it every single year for spring, especially where they have it in Princeton.
Because if people don't know where Princeton is, it's in southern Indiana.
It's right at the tip of Indiana where Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky all come together.
So you actually have casts going to all three states.
You've got some of them guided out of Indiana, some guided out of Illinois, some guided out
of Kentucky and all the rain that usually happens up north, northern Indiana, northern
Illinois, northern Ohio, all that funnels down into the white and the Wabash rivers
and it all those two rivers come together in Princeton, Indiana.
That is where they meet and there's not enough space for the Wabash to drain into the Ohio
without stuff getting backed up.
So and it's the same time every year.
It's the same.
It's like clockwork.
And so if they could figure out a way to move that hunt up about even just a week, if they
could figure it out.
I know there's conflicts with tournament champions.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know the answer and I'm not going to pretend to have the answer, but I do know
it's like clockwork.
It'll be dry down there and then bam, super stakes rolls around flooded and you lose a
Martian March and April is just a bad time.
Sometimes February is.
I mean, it's just so about 85 percent of my hunting is down in the bottoms.
Some years I can hunt in February, some I can't.
Some years, I mean, just it's kind of like last year.
Give me an example of how it works.
Monday night we went down to Yankee Town and I hunted and it was I mean, it was fine, a
little bit of water, but nothing crazy.
And then Tuesday night we drove down there to go hunt in the same spot and I couldn't
even get within a mile.
They had opened up the dam on the river and the whole bottoms was flooded.
Yep.
So I mean, it literally happens overnight.
Yep.
It's wild.
But.
So speaking of super stakes week, Monday and Tuesday, a dog that you're fond of didn't
do so hot.
So you got a phone call.
I did.
You got a phone call.
I did.
This phone call.
Well, it went something along the lines of.
This dog can be bought.
Do you want to buy him?
It was pretty, pretty short and abrupt.
So for those of you guys who don't know, don't have me on my personal page on Facebook, I've
been hunting this little dog called wheels for a good majority of the last 12 months.
I'd say probably eight out of the last 12 months I hunted wheels and he went back to
his owner and kill season here up in November, December, January.
His owner hunting during kill season and he called me back and said after kill season
was over and he said, hey, you want to come get the dog back and keep hunting?
I said, absolutely.
So I got wheels back and been hunting him since about February again, I guess late January,
early February.
And I just, I really, really, really like this little dog.
There's something about him that he and I just clicked together.
We work and he doesn't just work for me.
He works for my family, which is a huge deal.
Nikki likes the dog and can call the dog.
Colton likes the dog.
He can call the dog.
Any three of us can take wheels and we feel like we have a chance at winning whenever
we unsnapping and it's not just the winning.
We enjoy hunting him.
He's easy to have around the house.
He's a little bit of a hard, hard keeper when it comes to eating habits.
He's a very, very picky dog.
He doesn't consume a lot of food.
And so whenever he doesn't eat as much as I think he should, he doesn't have the calories
to burn and when he doesn't have those calories, he doesn't have the fuel in the tank.
It's hard for him to be hunted night in night out all night long.
He just doesn't have anything to go.
And I've got a couple of things I'm getting ready to try to see if we can get him eating
a little bit better and just get some more calories in him.
But the point is wheels.
I tried to buy him before super stakes and I threw some cash on the tailgate one night.
I went hunting with his owner through some cash on the tailgate and said, hey, you know,
I'm serious about buying this dog like I want to get him bought.
And he's like, yeah, you know, just keep your money right now.
I'm not I'm not going to sell him.
He said right this second.
He said, I am going to sell him just not right now.
He said, but I want you to know, I do have another offer for a little bit more than what
you've offered.
I said, OK, I said, well, this is what I've got.
About three weeks later, I got a phone call.
Hey, need you to bring wheels back.
I've sold him.
OK, you know, it is what it is at that point.
When you're a handler and you don't own the dog, you don't get a say in where they go
or when they go.
And that's something that I understand.
I accept, but I don't always like.
Especially with wheels, something about with wheels, it hit it hit differently.
You know, I connect with him on a different level than I've connected on other dogs and.
I've checked a lot of boxes in my list.
Actually, here's a list right here.
Here it is.
We talked about this in a podcast one time, and this is going to zoom me in way too close
for people to see this.
But this list is all about what I wanted to accomplish in my competition, coon hunting.
And wheels has been the dog that I've got to check a lot of those boxes with, so it
hurt whenever he sold.
But what do you do?
There's nothing you can do about it.
And I had a feeling that where he was going and the people who are going to be hunting
him, they would like him, but he wouldn't fit what they're trying to do, which is make
a living coon hunting.
I just knew the dog too well.
And so they took him down and I guess he looked great for the first week or so they had him.
Absolutely loved him.
You know, treat coons left and right.
Well, he ended up getting hunted a little too hard for like I said, he doesn't have
enough fuel in the tank.
And so come super stakes when it was time to time to go to the big show.
He ran out of fuel.
He ran out of he ran out of gas.
And little dog just didn't perform Monday and Tuesday.
And so I knew that like that part.
That doesn't make him a bad dog for me seeing those scores, because he didn't look good.
But I knew what happened.
I knew the dog.
And so whenever I got that text, actually, he sent it to me in the middle of the night
and I was asleep and I woke up the next morning and you know, there's that text like, hey,
do you want to buy this dog?
He can be bought.
That's when Nikki and I jumped all over him.
Like, yep, we want our we want to get our little buddy back.
So I ended up getting him bought, you know, for the original price that I had offered
the original owner.
The only thing that changed it was different was I didn't get to take him to super stakes.
So if that's the price that I had to pay to get my buddy back and get him getting back
home in the kennel for good where nobody can take him again, if he leaves, if he leaves
this kennel again, it's going to be on Nikki and I's terms.
And I don't foresee that happening.
But but at least now we have we have control over that.
So I got him home.
I let him rest for a couple of days.
He needed some groceries.
I knew what he needed.
I got him a little bit more in the tank and I took him out last night just as buddies.
And by golly, if he didn't go three for three in short order last night and look dag on
good doing it.
So I'm glad to have my little buddy back.
I actually just bought a entry tonight to the pro sport hunt down in Brazil.
So May 16th.
Yeah, May 16th.
We'll be down there.
A lot of firsts.
Do what?
I'm really fortunate, really fortunate.
You know, I've got buddy buddy ain't going nowhere.
I've got an amazing, amazing owner that owns him and Bruce Bart's.
He's not going anywhere.
And then I'm partnered up with Jeffrey and Tiffany Davis on spot ought to be here until
the day I tell the day he dies because you already know he he don't just hunt for anybody.
So me, me and spot we click me and buddy we click.
So I understand where you're coming from.
I mean, I had Axel and I had B and I mean, I've had multiple dogs handling and it does
suck whenever you get when you start to click with a dog and then all of a sudden they're
gone, you know, especially for me and you because it's a little different.
We're out there not just we're not really out there to make a living coon hunting.
We're out there to enjoy it.
We don't get to go to a hunt every single weekend.
So for us, it's about enjoying pleasure hunting them and being able to compete at the same
time.
So we form a little bit of a bond with our dogs.
And so I see where you're coming from.
Or as you know, it's just when he got sold, it just felt like something that you had to
go get back.
Yeah, absolutely.
And you know, Jason Bowen said I got the happy text when it happened.
He did.
I text him and him and Shane and told him that I got I got wheels back and I was pretty
pumped about it.
So like I said, wheels and I have had a lot of firsts together and we got a couple more
firsts.
So I've been hunting for going on 10 years now and this is the first dog I've ever bought
myself that wasn't a pup.
I've always hunted a dog for somebody, whether that be, you know, trying to run it up and
down the roads or somebody's like, hey, I have an extra dog at the kennel if you want
a pleasure on it.
I have never bought a dog for myself.
I've never spent money to buy a dog myself.
But wheels, I felt like I needed to just the connection that we had with him and Nikki
and Colton.
And then now the sad realization is by golly, I own the dog now.
I have to pay the entry fees.
I don't like that either.
Well, I think what works out for you, I think what works out for you is, you know, there
for a while you were looking for a dog for Colton and then, you know, Nikki's into it.
So going to, you know, the pink or the women's AKC world, you're always looking, you know,
hey, what can I put her behind?
It'll give her every time, you know, a shooting chance.
You know, you're you're looking at you're looking at it saying, hey, you know, what
dog can I borrow?
What can I do this?
What can I do that?
So I think I think wheels check a lot of box, like you said, for your family, because it's
not just you hunting or you handling.
Yeah, exactly.
Because like in that you had a perfect point there.
I'm always trying to find something for them to go to youth nationals with or go to the
AKC ladies world.
Something that I can put behind them and it sucks having to, you know, always put a feeler
out.
Hey, does somebody have a dog I can borrow?
Does somebody have a dog I can borrow?
I hate that.
So now that we have wheels, he's something that the whole family can enjoy.
And I'm I'm pretty pumped about that.
So like I said, I did just buy an entry tonight for that, that hunt pro sport hunt in Brazil.
Five hundred dollar entry to hunt at twenty five thousand.
I'm hoping it'll pay off.
That'd be cool.
Man, Shane, Shane must be rolling out that bankroll.
You know, I mean, here you find a dog paying entries.
No, no.
Hey, I need a job, too, buddy.
No, here's what happened is Bryce sold his Ranger.
I finally sold my Ranger.
So in order to buy my dog, I had to sell my Ranger and that left just enough money for
an entry fee.
You don't use it anymore.
Since you left down here, you don't use it up there anymore.
No, no, I don't.
And that's that's the whole reason I sold it was I had so much more space and opportunity
to use it whenever I lived in southern Indiana that once I moved up here to northern Indiana,
everything up here is public ground that I hunt the reservoirs.
We're not allowed to drive the Rangers on the reservoirs.
So I had this super nice Ranger custom dog box, everything in it.
And it was just sitting in the garage like we didn't ride it.
There's no gravel roads up here like there are in southern Indiana.
There's just nothing.
There's just nothing about it up here that I was getting a lot of practical use out of.
So I've been trying to sell it for a while.
And the timing just worked out where I just sold it.
Wheels came up for sale.
I got him bought.
And by golly, we're going to go try and win twenty five thousand in a couple of weeks.
Well not only that, it doesn't hurt when you live in Princeton, Indiana, and your grandfather's
got keys to the city and you can just drive down the, you know, town roads and nobody
says anything to you.
I was 100 percent legal and I only did that whenever there was a snow storm.
There was nobody else on the roads.
Yeah, well, yeah, I think so.
Is there a time I don't remember?
How many times do we load up in that Ranger at your dad's house and drive down the road
to go coon hunting?
Oh yeah, well that's fine.
You can do that in the county because they live on the county road.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
And it was registered as a county vehicle.
I had to pay the BNV to register it as a county vehicle.
And at that point you can drive it on the county roads.
Now the city limits is different.
That's what I'm saying.
I only drove it in the city limits one time and that was during a snow storm.
That's how I got to work that day.
So but yes, no, that was 100 percent legal.
It has the off road vehicle stickers on it and you register them for three years at a
time.
So that's how that works.
Never had a side by side.
So I wouldn't know.
Yeah, no.
Well, that's it.
You can do that with a four wheeler too.
Your four wheeler could be registered the same exact way.
If you've ever seen my four wheeler, I don't think it's something you want on the road.
Yeah.
Well, hey, Ben Roberts commented on here and said you and spot are the same.
I think he's referring to it doesn't get along with everybody.
Yeah.
I mean, when we were talking about it, he goes, man, you and spot, y'all click because
you're doing the same.
You just don't get along with everybody.
And I was like, yeah, but me and spot, we we get along like I can love on that dog and
he just loves me back.
And like I said, it's it's a good time.
Hey, we've got a real quick.
I know we're making this kind of a long dog on Tuesday, but we've got a couple big hunts
coming up.
You've already mentioned one in the pro sport, but we have the PKC Nationals coming up the
eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh.
I'll be up there with Buddy.
It is actually going to hunt our up there.
So a couple big hunts coming up.
Or is that qualifying?
Are those qualifying nights?
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are qualifying nights.
Saturday and Sunday.
It's the only hunt that is hunted on Sunday last year because I've already talked to Shane
about it last year.
They pushed it back and they only had two qualifying nights and they had the quarters,
semis and finals on Friday and Saturday.
But this year they're going back to their original way.
And that is Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are qualifying nights.
That's over in Salem, right?
Yes, Salem is Saturday is your quarters and semis and then Sunday night is your.
I got a Nationals take it on wheels last year.
I should go try and get him in.
You need to be there.
Shane Smith, this is my formal plea to go hunt PKC Nationals with wheels.
If I could get that approved, that'd be great.
I mean, you could take the dog up there.
Oh man, absolutely.
So we got those hunts coming up.
Speaking of other hunts that are coming up.
So this was just finalized today.
Froggy Bottom Outdoors, our title sponsor here, is going to be the official sponsor
of the National Redbone Coonhound Association hunt.
Yes, so that's going to be in Tell City this year in July.
So Froggy Bottom Outdoors will be down there sponsoring that redbone hunt.
We have the.
Do what?
It was there last year.
Yep, so we're going to be there this year.
Looking forward to that.
On other news, not Coonhunting.
There is a Borble Expo coming up here at the end of May, and those are South African Borbles.
They're huge dogs.
They're members of the Mastiff family, and there is a giant expo where they showcase
these dogs from all over the world in Green Town, Indiana.
That's coming up May 31st, June 1st, and June 2nd, I think.
And Froggy Bottom Outdoors will be set up there with Next Level.
So we will be there with Next Level Premium Pet Nutrition.
I got a got a hold of them today.
We are going to be sharing a booth down there.
So yes, that's going to be something cool.
I didn't even tell you about that yet.
So see, we're telling telling stuff right here.
The Bastion doesn't even know right here live on camera.
Yeah, so I finalized that with Brandon White today.
We're going to be set up with them down there at Green Town, sharing a booth with them.
If you guys haven't tried out that Next Level Premium Superior Pet Food, it's good stuff.
Really, it's from the old owners of Victor.
It's a brand new plant down in Texas.
They've got several different blends.
It's good stuff.
People are liking it, hearing good things on it so far.
So we're going to be set up with them at the Borble Expo.
What else do we got going on?
Anything good?
Oh, I've got some.
I need to tell you.
Let me get your thoughts on this.
Actually, I know your thoughts, but I'm just going to rant for a second.
So I hunted last night in my one private spot that I have up here.
It's big, it's safe.
I can drive my truck through the trails.
I tell you, it's big.
And I pulled in and my gut immediately went into my boots.
I saw big orange marks around a bunch of trees in there.
That's the only spot I have to hunt that's private up here.
The only spot.
And by golly, I think they were numbering the trees, I think.
I think 341 was the highest number that I saw.
Oh, man, I'm not a logger.
I don't know if those numbers mean something other than the number of trees that are coming
out of there.
But yeah, yeah, there was a bunch of them in there.
So it looks as if my best spot that I have will not be great anymore.
Sounds to me like you need to use your cells, skills and go out there and try to find someone
out there.
Man, I will try.
But it's hard to get hunting ground up here.
I'll tell you, I have one spot.
That's all I have.
And I hunt the reservoir 98% of the time because I have tried to get some permission up here
and people are just not as willing up here to give everything's broke up into small sections.
It's not like down south where it's big timber.
Everything here is like literally five to 10 acres and they're in the middle of a field
and everybody owns it.
And if you don't own it, then somebody is already hunting it.
So it's hard to get permission up here.
But yeah, my one woods that I've been hunting for since I moved up here, it's getting logged.
I was a little sad last night.
Hey, I see Alan Holden is on here though.
Big congratulations to Alan.
Him and Jason Cooper and Jace Cooper had Jason Smith behind their dog Gunner this weekend
at train Walker days and they won one of the pro slams up there at train Walker days.
So brought home $7,500.
So congratulations to a holding Cooper and Smith this weekend.
The John Strickland and lady they won Friday nights.
Yep, they sure did.
And then Nick Emil ended up winning the whole thing with Johnson Creek Gabby.
So awesome job.
Congratulations to all of them.
Nikki said agreed.
Why do you think I'm marrying a salesman?
I tell you what, right now, I mean, if your quality of hunting relied on Bryce Matthews,
it would be terrible.
You're falling short, Nikki.
It would be.
Hey, ask Jason Bowlin when we go.
We don't get to hunt very often, but by golly, when we do, we'd go to the reservoir.
It's over an hour for him and it's 45 minutes for me to get there because the hunting up
here, I don't care what anybody says, the hunting up here is not, there's coons to be
had, but private ground is hard to come by.
Man, I don't know what your problem is.
I come to Elizabeth town, Kentucky.
I started knocking on farmers doors and they were like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
I got more permission here than I do at home.
Hey, I tell you what, I got a hundred bucks for you.
If you can come up here and get three pieces of permission out of six that you knock on,
come on up here.
If you have a 50% success rate, I'll give you a hundred dollar bill.
There you go.
That's it.
Y'all can see our competitive nature.
Yeah, it's bad.
But other than that, like I said, we got those hunts coming up.
Congratulations to everybody this weekend.
It was a big weekend for super stakes for Walker days.
I got wheels bought.
That's my exciting deal for this dog and Tuesday.
I'm pumped about it to have my little dog back.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
I don't know.
I think I'm good on this one.
Are you good?
I think I think we're good until next time.
We got a few lined up that we're going to try to get recorded and other than that, nothing
big.
Uh, just now back to the grind, you know, I've got that young pup that I'm working on.
I come liking what I'm seeing, but we'll see where that goes.
Just keep dogging, buddy.
That's right.
Hey, I do want to, at the end of this podcast though, I want to do, I do want to put a shameless
plug out here.
If anybody is a Facebook expert and can help us out with this live and internet stuff,
please get ahold of us because it seems like it takes us five minutes or so every single
time we do this to get it to where Facebook will let one of us go live and accept the
other person on here.
We like doing this stuff.
We like being able to have a platform where we can interact with you guys, but Facebook
is shooting us in the foot every single week.
If we can figure out how to do it on my computer.
Yeah.
We're trying to do this on our phones because our computers don't work and they're brand
new computers.
I don't understand.
I just don't understand it.
So if anybody is a technical guru, Semper doggon would love your assistance and probably
compensate you for it.
Shameless plug, absolute shameless plug.
We need some help over here.
Thanks again to Lauren Brown for joining us earlier on this Semper or this dog in Tuesday.
If you guys haven't checked out that podcast yet, be sure to go over and listen to the
written houndsman with Lauren Brown.
Have you a box of tissues next to wherever you're listening to it.
Cause it's a good one.
It's a good one.
I think it really embodies everything that houndsman are as far as you know, just the
love they have for the dogs and the, the depths and the, the, the links that they'll go to
for their buddy.
You know, these dogs are not just tools in a tool belt.
They are, they are part of who we are.
So great podcast by Lauren Brown.
Um, Basham, I'm going to get off here, buddy.
I'm going to try and get this thing edited so we can get it uploaded for these listeners
who are not joining us on dog and Tuesdays for whatever reason.
If you guys are listening to this podcast on an audio platform, every other Tuesday,
you join us over on our Semper doggon podcast, Facebook group.
And this is where we go live.
This is where you guys can comment.
You can interact.
Heck, we brought Lauren on today.
We can bring people on here.
Um, this is the behind the scenes version of Semper doggon.
So if you guys are listening on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you're listening,
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Once we find us a tech savvy person who can help us out and we can get it dialed in.
I'm good.
You good?
Good.
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Yep.
Absolutely.
Hey, we got one before I get off here.
I gotta say, I got Diana ball on here watching.
Uh, Diana also works for Shane so she can attest to everything I say on here is 110
percent true.
Um, no fibbing going on over here.
So Diana, thank you for being my witness during this dog and Tuesday.
We're not even going to bring you on here to talk about it.
We just need you to be here and that's all we need.
So thank you, Ms. Diane.
All right, guys, we're getting off here.
We'll catch you guys the next dog on Tuesday and until then keep doggy.
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