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Canines are our passion.

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They are our addiction.

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They are our way of life right down to the very core and without them we would be lost.

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The canines of this world really are something to behold.

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They assist us at work, they accompany us at home, and they perform for us in the field.

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No matter where we go, they are by our side.

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Canines really are a ride or die, and for that we are grateful.

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This podcast will showcase working canines of various breeds and disciplines as we search

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for those canines and their handlers who are always striving to be the best at what they

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do.

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Those who are always grinding.

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Those who are always pushing the limits.

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Those who are always dogging.

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Join us on our adventures as it is sure to be a wild ride.

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I'm your host, Bryce Matthews.

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And I'm your co-host, Stephen Basham.

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And this, this is Semper Doggin.

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Welcome welcome welcome guys to another episode of the Semper Doggin podcast.

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I am by myself tonight.

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I am flying solo.

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Basham was not able to make it.

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He is at a big coon hunt right now.

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So best of luck to him by the time this airs that hunt will be long gone.

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But we want to send some good wishes to him and some good luck.

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While he's gone, I have replaced him with two people who might be better.

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You never know.

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You just never know.

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Guys we are sitting down today with two of the key members of Battlefront Outdoors.

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Mr. Eric Presley and Ms. Brianna Roth.

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And I am pumped to bring them to you guys for them to be able to tell their story to

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you, what they have going on, why they are doing it, where they have been, where they

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And kind of just a plug for Battlefront Outdoors.

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Brianna and Eric were two people that I met down at Grand American in South Carolina.

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Working the Semper Doggin booth, walking around, just trying to network, meet other people

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and stumbled across this duo here.

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And it has formed a friendship.

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We've kept in touch since Grand American in January.

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And I told them I needed to get them on the podcast.

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I owed it to them.

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So here we are.

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I'm paying my debts.

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You guys ready?

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Perfect.

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Alright guys.

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Well, Eric, let's start with you.

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Tell us a little bit.

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Just tell us about Eric Presley.

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Like where have you been?

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Where are you going?

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A little bit about your time in the service and maybe about what you did before Battlefront.

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Yeah, most definitely.

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So again, my name is Eric Presley.

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I live in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

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I've moved all over this world, not because of the military, but because of the air compressor

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So I joined in 2012 in the air reserves, then moved and ended up in Birmingham, Alabama

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with the Air National Guard out of there.

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Then moved to Savannah and joined the 165th Air Wing.

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I'm currently on drill right now.

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So I was a crew chief on KC135s and then I moved over to the C130s.

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There was an incident here at the base.

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We had an airplane go down and we lost eight members of the Puerto Rico Guard unit.

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to put something in the air.

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So I moved to more of an admin role and went to QA.

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So I was the bad guy on the flight line.

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I got everybody in trouble.

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And now I've taken the role of the first sergeant position.

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So I am everybody's friend and worst enemy at the same time.

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But whenever there's an issue, I'm the go-to guy for resources and help.

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I'm loving it and hoping it progresses further, hopefully heading up to the wing and then

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who knows, maybe even command chief one day.

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But civilian world, I work on air compressors and I hunt way too much.

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But that's why I started, me and Brianna and Patrick and Josh, we all founded Battlefront

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Outdoors.

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We were with another nonprofit for a while and we decided we want something in South

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Carolina.

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We want something natural to us.

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And we decided, hey, let's incorporate all of our friends, all of our friends' friends.

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We went over to the law enforcement side.

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We went over to EMS, firefighters, even dispatch.

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We all serve a different battlefront.

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And basically we take veterans, law enforcement, firefighters, hunting, fishing, golfing, NASCAR

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events, whatever makes that hero happy and gets them connected with others.

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That's what we do.

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That's so awesome.

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And when I met you two, you guys were actually with that other organization down at Grand

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American and met you guys at a coon hunt.

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So I was like, okay, Semper Doggen, that has a military tie.

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And we talked about that.

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And for those of you who might be new to the podcast, Semper Doggen was Basham's idea,

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the namesake.

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Semper comes from the Marine Corps, always faithful, Semper Fidelis.

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So Semper Doggen, always dogging.

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And then I met Brandon and Eric and to hear their mission and what they were doing, just

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to hear their heart, it was great.

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And to meet them in a coon hunt, I was like, all right, these are my people.

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So I was super pumped.

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Just so excited about this.

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Brandon, why don't you give us a little bit of background on yourself, where you've been,

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where you're going.

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So I joined the army and I did mental health.

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Can't say much more about that.

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I was stationed at Fort Jackson, Fort Benning, Fort Lewis, Fort Bliss, here at Shaw Air Force

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Base.

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And just before Fort Bliss, I went to Afghanistan and did combat stress control over there.

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So when a critical incident would happen over there, they lost a soldier, something happened.

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I got sent.

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So I lived out of the bag.

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So I got out in 2015.

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I wanted to go to 20, but they wanted to deploy me again.

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And it's a little bit different when mom leaves than when dad goes.

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So I got out in 2015 and I dedicated a ton of my time to battle for an outdoors.

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Like Eric, I hunt and fish way too much.

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And so if I'm not in the woods and I'm not on the water, I'm here at the house with my

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five children and trying to stay sane.

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Everybody who is in mental health for the Army is now trying to keep themselves sane.

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We are our own worst patients.

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I guarantee it.

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I'm always watching you guys and taking these people out on trips and even yourself, you

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know, going out, going fishing and going turkey hunting and running the dogs.

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And I'm like, man, you guys, you guys are doing it all right down there in South Carolina.

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How did you get into the coon dogs?

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It started with me.

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I had a buddy who ran dogs and I was like, man, what is this about?

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And then we said, hey, let's go to Grand American.

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It's 10 minutes from the house.

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Let's set up a booth.

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Let's see if we can sell some stuff.

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You know, get our mission out there.

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Well, when I was there, you know, I fell in love with the dogs and I ended up purchasing

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one off of a buddy.

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And then he said, hey, you know, I've got this other dog.

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He's almost a finished dog, but he'd be a great one for you to work for, you know, work

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with while you, you know, you can learn this dog while this other one's kind of growing

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up and still in his little puppy phase.

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help him along.

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And I was like, well, sure.

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So I took that dog Tank and man Tank.

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He's I hate using the term accurate, but he's like 60 something percent accurate.

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Who even knows how to calculate that really?

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good dog, man.

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Like the love I have for that dog is just amazing.

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Now the other one, he was on my nerves, but you know, he's, he's, he's still young, you

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know, we're still working with him.

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then we took others out and then I picked up some land and yeah, that, that was how

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we got into the coon dog world.

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Just kind of off of a free dog really.

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Now it has consumed me not right now because of how hot and nasty and snaky it is in South

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So we're taking a, um, and we're not charging through those swamps with those gators.

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Uh, you can eat, no, I'm good.

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bad on it again and continue to hunt again.

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Brandon, how'd you get roped into it?

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Like it kind of seems from what I can tell is like you and Eric are kind of hooked at

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the hip when it comes to this kind of stuff.

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Did he drag you into this?

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We're kind of hooked to the hip with everything.

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That's why we hit, that's why we co-founded Battlefronts together.

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For some reason we get along well.

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People question why I chose him as a friend, but I love him.

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He's a great guy.

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But basically, um, like he said, they had taken kids out and I had never been coon hunting

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before.

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I'd never seen it done.

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And he called me and he said, Hey, why don't you bring your kids?

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You know, we're going to take all these kids out.

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It was with a youth hunt group.

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And so once the kids got their coon, I sent my children home and the adults decided to

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do some adult coon hunting.

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And so I really got to see more of the fast paced part of it.

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Um, Eric can tell you, my eyes got real big.

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I was very interested in it.

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Obviously, like I'm a dog lover.

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So for me, um, like a lot of people, it's not about the hunt, it's about the dog.

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I fell in love and I told Eric, I was like, Eric, I want to go back.

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I want to go back.

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And he was like, well, I'm going to go out.

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I said, okay.

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I was like, I want to go.

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And that was it for me.

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That was it.

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I've been hooked ever since.

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I mean, I know exactly what you mean.

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I, I didn't find coon hunting until I was in college and love, love dogs had been around

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dogs my whole life.

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My granddaddy, he ran deer dogs down in North Carolina.

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Like I was exposed to it, but coon hunting was something new.

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And when my buddy Quentin took me out, it, I didn't know how to explain it.

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Like when his dog, Kate come treading and that's the first time I heard a tree dog just

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locked down on the wood.

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And I'm like, oh gosh, like this is music to my ears, you know?

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And then walk in there and she's got a coon and then you recut her and she does it again

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and you recut her and she does it again.

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And the fire just got bigger and bigger and bigger.

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It's like somebody took a leaf blower, you know, at the base of a little bonfire and

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they just held it on full blast and just got bigger until it was out of control and everything

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around it was on fire.

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And you're like, oh boy, what have I done?

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Like there's no, there's no way to bring this back.

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Right, especially when you want the newest, latest and greatest gadgets and lights and

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chat and then it just gets out of hand.

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And then you're like, well, I want that dog.

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Well, I can take another dog.

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And then you're like, wait a minute.

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I can't, I can't do no more.

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Before you know it, you got, you're in over your head.

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You got too many dogs.

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You don't have enough time to hunt them all.

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And then you're like, oh boy, how do I, how do I back down?

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Not back out, but back down.

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And how do I consolidate?

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And how do I get down to the dog that really suits me?

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And I think we all go through that at one point in time when Colton, my buddy Colton

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and I were living together, I think we had like six dogs out behind the house that we

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were trying to hunt.

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And that, you know, with two dogs, it's manageable, right?

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You know, for, you know, having work, air force duty, the nonprofit, and then your personal

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time.

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Cause you still have to keep that personal time.

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You can't just give that up, you know?

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And it's like, you got to limit yourself and you got to plan out when you're going.

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And man, it's so addicting.

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I'm lucky enough where I've got some land about two miles away from me.

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It's like 300 acres and my buddy lets me hunt.

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And it's some nasty swamp and it's some ag field, but it's perfect, you know?

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And it's quick for a, you know, get the kids to bed, load the dog up.

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You're there in five minutes and then you're back home two to three hours and you've

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treated three to four times.

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And it's a good time, you know?

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A lot of people and a lot of, actually a lot of veterans, you know, they're misplaced

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because they're born somewhere, they live somewhere, they join and they go halfway around

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the world, right?

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And they're like, man, I really like this place.

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I'm going to settle down.

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Well, they don't know anything about that area.

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And then next thing you know, you're taking them out on a trip.

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Like, well, I don't never been coon hunting before.

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I've never ran deer dogs.

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You know, some of these guys are from say Iowa or Illinois or somewhere where they don't

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do, you know, deer dogs.

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And they're like, y'all do this out here?

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I'm like, yeah, this is what we do on the weekends.

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And it's, you know, getting those people that have never experienced it out, seeing their

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faces then they get hooked.

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And it's just, you know, so much more enjoyable seeing others come to know and come to love

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what you do.

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Yeah, man, that's it.

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It's awesome.

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And I kind of want to dive into that.

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You know, you talked about taking the vets out on trips, like let's break it down.

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Let's go from the very beginning of Battlefront because this is a fairly new organization.

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You were involved in a couple other organizations before this.

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And I want to, I want to maybe walk through how you came about starting this organization

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because I know there's other people in other parts of the country who are in the same boat.

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Like, man, I want to do something.

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I want to make a difference.

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There's obviously there's some really, really big organizations out there and there's a

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bunch of small ones.

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But sometimes people just want to want to go out and do their own thing and they have

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an idea and and maybe that idea is something that nobody else has done or nobody else has

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tried.

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They just don't know where to start.

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Walk us through kind of what you guys learned in your other organizations and what you wanted

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to do differently with Battlefront and how you got that ball rolling.

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I know that's a lot to bite off.

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No, no, it's cool.

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You know, and not to to downplay the other organization we're with.

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You know, much love to them.

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They were amazing.

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We just had a little difference of opinion and we wanted to focus on, you know, our people

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in South Carolina and bordering states and just have a tight knit community.

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You know, so again, nothing against them.

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For us, what we wanted to do was one, we had a really good connection with a lot of the

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veterans and law enforcement.

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And that was kind of my big thing, right?

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We would go on these trips and our friends would see us like, well, I can't go on those

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trips because I'm a nurse or I'm a, you know, an EMT or firefighter.

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I'm like, yeah, well, this is a veterans group.

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That's it.

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Man, I really want to go with you.

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I'm like, well, so they got our wheels turning, right?

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And we're like, you know what, let's open this up to more, more people.

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Because like I mentioned earlier, right?

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We all deal with things.

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Myself, personally, I've never been in, I'll, I'll censor it for you.

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I've never been in the crap before, right?

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I've never been in the firefight or anything like that.

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So I can't connect with some other people.

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But what I can do is put person A with person B who has been there before, and I'm using

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them as a resource.

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I'm like, okay, I know you and you connect.

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And that helps them through.

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Well, firefighters, EMS, dispatch, they, they see, and sometimes some more horrible stuff

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than veterans saw, right?

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It could be a child case.

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It could be, you know, the car crash or whatnot.

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And I did not know this up until the other day.

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Like in certain states, dispatch is not considered a first responder.

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Well, why not?

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Because they're the ones taking the phone call.

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And a lot of times if that dispatcher is experienced with their job, sometimes they can mitigate

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the situation before it even escalates further.

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Right?

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They are a first responder in our book.

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And that needs to be changed.

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Now I have, do you have a friend who's on that board in Virginia who's pushing that

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through legislation, but that's neither here nor there.

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So you know, we, we said, all right, so we'll start this.

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So we came up with a name and honestly, that was a Google search.

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We all spit ball names and we Googled them and we're like, what's this a name?

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Is this a name?

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Is this a name?

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And we're like, no, that sucks as a name.

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Don't even, don't even put that, you know what?

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Just sit down.

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You know, don't even bring that back up.

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So we finally came up with a name, right?

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And then we're like, all right, we need a logo.

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That was worse than coming up with a name.

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So we finally found us a logo, right?

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We finally did something.

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And then what a lot of people don't realize is how hard it is on the paperwork side and

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how much money it costs on the paperwork side.

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And we came out of pocket for all those legal costs.

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We started with zero in our account.

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It all came from our accounts.

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Bree, Josh, Pat, me, all of us.

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And Bree took a lot of that hit, you know, and whatnot.

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And we're still, you know, fighting for every little piece and then finding grants and everything

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like that.

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It's tough to start a nonprofit.

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And where we see change can be is there's a lot of nonprofits that do what we do, but

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a lot of these nonprofits don't want to partner with others.

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Well, if you can partner with others, you can grow together.

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Right?

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We're supposed to bring each other together and help us grow.

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Why would you ostracize each other and not grow together?

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I don't understand that.

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Right?

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Like you can keep things separate and funding and stuff.

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And that's great.

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But build, grow together, help each other, work off each other's strengths.

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You know, Bree got to go out with Patriot Hunts.

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Great organization.

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They do a lot.

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Their mission is a little different than ours.

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I've dealt with, you know, some veteran coalitions and stuff like that.

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And they're just like, hey, we got these grants open.

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We got this open.

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There you go.

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Let's grow together.

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If it means us having to go to a VFW hall, that's what we'll do.

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If it means that we've got to go to the firehouses, that's what we'll do.

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You know, it takes a lot.

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It's a full-time job.

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And nobody in Battlefront takes a dollar.

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We're hoping to gain a whole lot of sponsors.

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And maybe one day we'll be able to add a full-time person to run this thing.

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And then us just be a sounding board and the board to be able to make decisions and basically

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watch it run and just kind of help build it.

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We're wanting to expand into Georgia, North Carolina.

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And you know, I talked to a guy the other day up in your area.

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So that's a possibility too.

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So it takes a lot.

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I would, if I was somebody who wanted to be a part of a nonprofit, I would first start,

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I would volunteer with one, see if that's something you want to dedicate your time to

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because it's time consuming.

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You know, you're going to have those talks of, hey, you've been gone three weeks out

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of the month.

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I need you here.

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I mean, you love it, right?

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And you don't feel like you've overworked yourself or you've done so much.

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So it takes a toll on the others around you too, because you are being selfless.

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You know, sometimes you have to be a little selfish and take back that personal time.

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And that's why I brought up that personal time hunting earlier.

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You know, I still have to take time to hunt for myself, for my dog.

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I don't need to be teaching someone all the time.

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So limit yourself and take the time and grow it and keep it fun.

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Like with any hobby, job, anything, you can get burnt out.

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So you've got to know when to step back, hand it to someone and say, hey, can you run this

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for a minute?

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I got to take some time to myself.

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So that would be my advice there.

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And yeah.

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No, that's awesome, man.

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So like, Brie, you're very integral in this whole thing.

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Walk us through like a day for you.

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Like this is very hands on right now.

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You guys are in the trenches, you know, pun intended, trying to get things done.

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You're trying to make this thing go.

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You are trying to spread awareness and let people know.

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And I see you doing a bunch of that on social media.

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So like, you know, as somebody like yourself who is, who's retired out of the military

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and this is now your baby, like what's a typical day for somebody like you who is, who's putting

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everything they have into this?

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It's chaotic between this and you're absolutely right.

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This is this is my baby.

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And and taking care of five kids and my house because I'm a single mom, you know, so it's

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pretty chaotic.

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But like right now, I'm needing the IRS to respond to me.

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OK, me and the IRS, we don't get along.

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And I call every day I start my morning eight o'clock in the morning calling the IRS.

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Hey, well, then even Eric does it.

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We start fielding phone calls.

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People are calling.

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Oh, hey, you know, I talked to so and so and so and so.

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Well, what do you think about oh, hey, I meant to talk to you.

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And I think he gets the blow of the blow of it to be honest with you.

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Or I get a lot of it, too, and we stay on the phone.

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We absolutely stay on phone.

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But throughout my day, like when my kids are in school, I'm working on flyers or I'm working

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on continuing paperwork because I've been the one that's put together all the paperwork

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to make this a legit nonprofit.

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I'm working on like I actually make a lot of the merchandise that we use with our logo

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and stuff on it.

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So especially before an event that week before, I stay up till like three in the morning and

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a lot of coffee and my house smells like burnt leather.

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You know, I've got so I'm making hats and I'm making cups and stuff like that.

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But I mean, the most joyful part of my day, honestly, is when someone says, hey, I would

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love to plan this hunt or I would love to take five people out on the water.

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My boat just came back.

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Those are the phone calls I really enjoy because at that point now we're we're working on what

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we're the core of our mission.

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So that's a pretty typical day for me.

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But honestly, just planning those trips and executing those trips.

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And that can make for some long weekends and some good distance driving my truck tires

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are feeling it.

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So those those trips and those hunts is just that's the good stuff.

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Yeah, you know, and it takes so much to do that.

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And you know, even down at Grand America, you know, you had a few of your kids with

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you down there.

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Eric's wife showed up, brought his kids like this is a full blown family deal.

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Like everybody is committed to what you guys are doing and they believe in your mission.

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And you brought some some people with you to battlefront from your other organization.

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How do you guys go about convincing people that, hey, we're going we see a need and we

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need help.

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Will you guys join us?

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How do you guys go about that?

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I'll be honest with you, Bryce.

477
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,120
We don't have to convince them.

478
00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:49,720
That's what I was wondering.

479
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:54,080
These are people that we've known for, you know, a long time.

480
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:59,440
And for them, they're not connected to a certain organization.

481
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:07,240
And like that's not necessarily I don't want to say not necessarily what you want to be,

482
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:08,840
but they it's the people.

483
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:09,840
Right.

484
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:16,080
So Eric, myself, Josh, Pat, a lot of our other staffers.

485
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:21,320
When we decided we wanted to go a different direction and it's the four original co-founders,

486
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,480
Eric, myself, Pat and Josh.

487
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:31,880
When we left to start our own thing here, everybody just kind of went behind us and

488
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:32,960
we didn't even ask.

489
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,000
We said, you know, we support you guys no matter what.

490
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,400
We're still here for you.

491
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,800
You know, just work all the way.

492
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:43,800
Right.

493
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,800
And they said, no, we're coming.

494
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:46,800
Yeah.

495
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:52,400
They said, you look, if you guys are leaving, you know, some of them decided, hey, I'm going

496
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:53,760
to stick it out.

497
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:54,760
I made a commitment.

498
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:55,760
I'm going to honor that.

499
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,440
I'm like, hey, I can't ask for any more than that.

500
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,600
You know, if I was another organization, that's what I would hope my people did.

501
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:03,600
Right.

502
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,800
You know, for us, it was like, you know, we saw something we just didn't we didn't like.

503
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:08,800
And that's OK.

504
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,200
We have that with everything.

505
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,800
And we said, hey, you know, let's take a step back.

506
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:15,800
And we did.

507
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,800
And we took some time.

508
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:23,720
And then a group chat started and then names started popping up.

509
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,000
And people are like, hey, I want to do something.

510
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,000
I want to do something.

511
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,000
I want to do something.

512
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,000
And we're like, all right.

513
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,800
You know, these these people decided, hey, we're going to follow you guys because we're

514
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:34,800
family.

515
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,600
I mean, we spent years and years together.

516
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,880
They didn't want to leave that.

517
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:43,120
You know, they knew they could call you at nine o'clock at night and just talk.

518
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:48,040
They knew they could come over and hang out with kids or whatever.

519
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,040
And that's how it happened.

520
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,800
And then you start growing.

521
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,840
And then these people are like, hey, what are you what are you all doing?

522
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,400
Like, you know, why do you all do this?

523
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,700
We tell them and like, you know, I want to do that.

524
00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:05,280
You know, I don't think we have anybody on our team who joins just so they could go on

525
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:06,900
free hunting trips.

526
00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:09,260
We make that very obvious.

527
00:30:09,260 --> 00:30:13,000
You don't join for yourself with this organization.

528
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:18,200
And all of our our folks say, no, that's not what I had done.

529
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,200
That's awesome.

530
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,280
So we all have the same mindset of getting people in the outdoors.

531
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:28,240
Now we do get bombarded with all the extra stuff of what's so this sure.

532
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,720
And let's do this and let's do that.

533
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,760
And then, you know, if you come to a disagreement, you're like, you know what?

534
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:40,760
Let's take a step back and just focus on our mission of getting people in the outdoors.

535
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,120
And it resets itself.

536
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,560
And you go from there.

537
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:51,000
So and then you start posting on Facebook and LinkedIn and all those.

538
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,380
And it's like, people see the mission.

539
00:30:54,380 --> 00:30:57,640
They want to be a part of it.

540
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:03,880
And you build friendships, you build connections, relationships, and and sometimes business

541
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:04,880
partners to.

542
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:05,880
Yeah.

543
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:06,880
Yep.

544
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:07,880
I'll be honest with you, Bryce.

545
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:13,720
The other thing another the other people we didn't have to convince are a lot of the people

546
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,480
that would host our trips.

547
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,360
So we would have catfish club, you know, catfish clubs.

548
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,280
We had a plantation down in Jackson.

549
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:28,320
We had Titan Farms, you know, all these different places.

550
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:35,080
And they were in a way tied to our previous organization because they did them for us

551
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,280
year after year after year.

552
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,480
And when we went our own separate way, they're like, hold up.

553
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:42,600
Like Eric said, what what's going on?

554
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,440
And we explained to them, we just want to do something different.

555
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,920
We want to add in the first responders and stuff.

556
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,040
And they're like, you know, that's really commendable because those people aren't thought

557
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,400
of enough.

558
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:56,160
And so we're going to, you know, we want to work with you.

559
00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:01,920
And it also goes back to the fact that these people are not necessarily tied to that organization.

560
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,520
They said, like, for example, one of the presidents of the catfish club, he said, I know you,

561
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:07,840
I know Eric.

562
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,200
And he said, it's you guys.

563
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,320
And I know you guys are doing a good job.

564
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:18,080
So we don't know, Bryce, we don't have to convince anybody.

565
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:19,640
Yeah, I kind of felt that way.

566
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:24,480
But I was just curious, you know, because I said, there's other people out there who

567
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,240
are maybe have the same mindset and they're they're caught in maybe the same boat.

568
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,080
And, you know, just hearing some some reassurance from other people who've been there, done

569
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,600
that, you know, it might help somebody out.

570
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:39,120
So one thing that Nikki tells me all the time, and this is going to come full circle, I promise

571
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,800
one thing she tells me all the time, she's like, I get so tired of waking up and trying

572
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,920
to figure out what we're going to have for dinner tonight.

573
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,720
She's like, that's one of her hardest jobs is trying to figure out how to feed nine people

574
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,040
every single night.

575
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:56,600
OK, now where I'm going with this is how do you guys figure out where your trips are going

576
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,720
to be all the time?

577
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,280
Because you're constantly trying to put people in the outdoors.

578
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:05,880
Like, is that something that the the veteran first responder, whoever it may be, whoever's

579
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:10,200
going to be positively affected, are they coming to you and saying, hey, like, I really

580
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,200
want to go catfishing or I really want to go on a deer hunt or I really want to go to

581
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,800
a NASCAR race and you guys make that happen?

582
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:21,560
Or are you guys planning the event and saying, hey, this is what's going on.

583
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,520
If anybody wants to join, let's go.

584
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:25,520
How does that work for you guys?

585
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,800
Like, is that something that is a task for you?

586
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:29,880
It's both, right?

587
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,760
So we have a group of volunteer staff members.

588
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:39,040
I mean, I started as a volunteer staff member and I took people out hunting on my land,

589
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:44,440
my little eight acres that butts up to a cotton field, you know, in my buddy's land.

590
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,720
And they say, hey, I'm going hunting in two weeks.

591
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,000
I got some time set aside.

592
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000
I can take one person.

593
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,040
I can take two person.

594
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,320
And they say, hey, I'm going to post up a trip on the Battlefront Outdoors members only

595
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:57,320
page.

596
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:01,280
They'll say the who, what, when, where, why, blah, blah, blah, tell you what's needed,

597
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,280
license, camo, whatever.

598
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:09,200
And they'll say, hey, enter this drawing, you know, Bryce is awesome to enter.

599
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,800
And they'll exactly they'll comment on it.

600
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,160
Then you got a hundred people saying Bryce is awesome.

601
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,880
You know, your, your head expands a little bit.

602
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,160
And then we do a random drawing selection.

603
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:26,600
And like, I'll take a lot of, you know, a lot of these older vets and, you know, these

604
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,080
older heroes, they're not on Facebook.

605
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:34,400
Have we found the perfect means to engage everybody?

606
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,560
No, because you've got generational gaps here.

607
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,840
You got the older generation, they're not on Facebook.

608
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,600
So they don't see the trips being posted.

609
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:49,440
So what we do is like, I took one the other day, an old Navy vet, he was on a ship and

610
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:53,680
he never got to work with firearms, but he inherited a ton of firearms.

611
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,240
He's like, man, I don't know the first thing about them.

612
00:34:56,240 --> 00:34:58,320
Can somebody teach me about them?

613
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:07,760
Well, we just happen to have people who are, you know, FFLs and people who, you know, that's

614
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,160
their passion is firearms.

615
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:16,080
I can link them two together separate from that Facebook group and build them up and

616
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,160
do that.

617
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:23,760
We get a lot of requests for mainly down here is hog trips and deer trips.

618
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:29,300
Typically still hunting or thermal night vision stuff.

619
00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:36,680
When I introduced the coon dog thing, I had like two people sign up, they're like, what?

620
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,160
And now I'm getting more and more and more.

621
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:43,640
And I'd have met some really good close friends who like we took them out and now they're

622
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:44,640
like, hey, where are we going again?

623
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:49,600
I'm like, well, I need to take other people out, but you can definitely go.

624
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,100
Right.

625
00:35:51,100 --> 00:35:53,340
So you know, it's both.

626
00:35:53,340 --> 00:36:00,340
We ask a lot of our staffers, I mean, we ask them to do, you know, three trips a year or

627
00:36:00,340 --> 00:36:05,360
four trips a year and attend one or two fundraising events a year.

628
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:09,200
Now if you think about it, that sounds not a lot, but I mean, it takes time.

629
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,160
You got to plan these things.

630
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:18,240
You've got to sometimes there's money involved and our staffers, they, they do amazing work

631
00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:20,320
and they're like, you know, I'll, I'll cover everything.

632
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,160
I got to feed them.

633
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:28,360
I'll put the corn down for the deer, you know, whatever they typically do it.

634
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:33,300
Where I want to get with the organization is I want to have enough funds to, you know,

635
00:36:33,300 --> 00:36:38,760
all they do is send me a request of funds, you know, tell me why you need it, what this

636
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,920
trip is, you know, the supplies needed for the trip.

637
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,840
And I want to be able to fund that.

638
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:50,240
I want to be able to go and purchase offshore trips and just say, Hey, staffer, you know,

639
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:56,560
ABC, you guys are taking six people out Charleston, you know, in two weeks on a deep sea trip

640
00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,240
all day, you know, go catch a tuna for me, whatever.

641
00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:01,240
Right.

642
00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:03,520
I want to get with this organization.

643
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:11,500
I don't want us to worry about having to go to the VFW or to, you know, the trade show

644
00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:18,640
and, and trying to sell and, you know, give this, I want to be able to show up there relaxed

645
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:23,000
and, you know, hand merch out.

646
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,200
That's really what I want to get.

647
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,240
I want to be able to just to hand t-shirts away.

648
00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:34,920
Now I get in trouble a lot because when we go to these trips, I mean, these shows, you

649
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,920
know, I'm a sucker for kids.

650
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:43,000
Like these kids will come up to me with sob stories and I cannot please.

651
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,320
I'm like, yeah, just take it, you know, and I get in trouble for that.

652
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:56,920
I had one, we did a concert at the Orangeburg drag strip and this kid come up to me, probably

653
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,520
six, maybe four years old.

654
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,000
And he looks at me and he goes, oh, that's a soldier.

655
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,160
I'm like, yeah, that's a soldier on a shirt.

656
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,840
He's like, yeah, my daddy was a soldier.

657
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:07,840
Oh, that's cool.

658
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:11,760
You know, and he goes, yeah, he died overseas.

659
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:17,840
I was like, you know, the fact that that kid just said it, like it was nonchalant, you

660
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:18,840
know?

661
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,920
And then he showed me, he was, you know, he was sad.

662
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,720
And I looked at the mom and I was like, she's like, yeah, yeah.

663
00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:25,880
And I was like, you know what?

664
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:27,200
I don't even care.

665
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:28,200
Take it.

666
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,920
Take what you want, you know?

667
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:36,120
It was like a smaller size I had was a medium, but that kid wore that shirt around that concert

668
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,480
the whole time looking, you know, like wearing a dress or something.

669
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:44,840
But they were so proud of that shirt because it symbolized their daddy.

670
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:51,720
So that stuff touches, you know, and then you see the Vietnam vets, you know, a lot

671
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:55,320
of people, they overlook the Vietnam vets, but when they came back, you know, they were

672
00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:03,040
spat on and people, you know, custom and everything, and they didn't even get a welcome home.

673
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:07,720
So being able to take them out on a trip is something really cool.

674
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:12,040
And it shows them that you care.

675
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:18,000
And you know, some of these folks that they kind of don't think they serve because they

676
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,400
never went overseas or something like that.

677
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:24,560
Now, don't get me wrong, we're going to joke about that with them, right?

678
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:30,620
But in the end, we all did serve in some capacity and that's to be rewarded, right?

679
00:39:30,620 --> 00:39:31,620
We all need to cook.

680
00:39:31,620 --> 00:39:37,760
We all need the supply guy and supply gal and the person who does your, you know, ID

681
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:38,760
cards and stuff.

682
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:47,800
So, you know, they're welcome as long as they were honorably discharged, still serving,

683
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,720
and even in volunteer firefighter versus paid firefighter.

684
00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,620
It does not matter.

685
00:39:52,620 --> 00:39:58,680
You still decided to make a decision to go into that burning building.

686
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:04,960
So yeah, that, I mean, every day it's look for more trips and our staffers are trying

687
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,080
to think outside the box on what we can do for trips.

688
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,400
I mean, shoot, I've even gotten into the golf trips now.

689
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:14,000
We're looking to do a tournament and it's like, you know, some people are like, I don't

690
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,000
play golf.

691
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,000
Okay, that's fine.

692
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,000
Drive the beer cart around.

693
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,000
That's me.

694
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,080
I'll be your designated beer cart driver.

695
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:21,080
There you go.

696
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,080
Together.

697
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,080
Okay.

698
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,080
Yeah.

699
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,080
Perfect.

700
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,600
You know, we, we've went, we've went to racetracks to set up some for Speedway has been great

701
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,840
to us.

702
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,160
Just to enjoy a night of watching race cars go around and around in circles and make another

703
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,840
left turn.

704
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:41,200
It's really whatever the hero wants to do.

705
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:47,560
I mean, I mean, I'll, I will do mountain top yoga if they asked me to.

706
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:53,440
I was, I was going to say like, I can see you doing that a hundred percent.

707
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,320
The nice, nice a sunset in the background and yeah, yeah.

708
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,640
I can see you participating in that.

709
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:00,640
Absolutely.

710
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:05,240
I would know it's, it's awesome.

711
00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:09,280
And you know, you guys aren't, you said there, there can be a generational gap where people

712
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:10,280
aren't on Facebook.

713
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:11,360
They're not on the social medias.

714
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,940
But another thing that you guys do in it, which is exactly how I met you is you guys

715
00:41:14,940 --> 00:41:19,040
are involved in the local events that are going on.

716
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:23,080
You guys are going to these, you're going to the hunts, you know, grand American Coon

717
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:24,080
hunt.

718
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:25,080
You guys are there.

719
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,540
You're going, I talked to you on the phone the other day and you said, you just got back

720
00:41:27,540 --> 00:41:33,200
from a dinner of some sort, you know, out in the community, everywhere that you guys

721
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,020
can be and be present.

722
00:41:36,020 --> 00:41:40,760
You guys are trying to be there and having that one-on-one interaction.

723
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:41,760
Excuse me.

724
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:42,760
Yeah.

725
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:48,200
I mean, the people is what drives America, right?

726
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:54,600
The small town farmer, the guy who's built the classic car in his garage over there.

727
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,520
You don't realize it, but he could probably buy the town.

728
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,040
I mean, you just never know.

729
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:06,720
It's to be honest, when we try not to even go to the big trade shows because you're competing

730
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:12,420
with vendors of big name brand things, they're there to buy merchandise.

731
00:42:12,420 --> 00:42:21,680
They're not there to, you know, give back per se, you know, 90% of them, I would say.

732
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:27,240
But it's the small town, like we're going to the Gilbert or Lexington Peach Festival.

733
00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:30,720
There's thousands of people there on 4th of July.

734
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:35,760
The road is just lined with people and it's hotter than sand out there, but they're still

735
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:40,120
going to show up eating the peach ice cream and looking at all this and it's 4th of July.

736
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,720
They see an American flag, they're like, ah, I'm going over there.

737
00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:47,240
And you're able to sell them a water for a dollar a piece and then you start mentioning

738
00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:51,320
your mission and they're like, you know, I happen to have 300 acres.

739
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,320
And you're like, huh?

740
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,480
Yeah, we can take people out.

741
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:56,480
Absolutely.

742
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:57,480
Let's do that.

743
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,000
It's free to do that.

744
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:06,560
It doesn't cost them a dime to let us come on their place, you know, potentially harvest

745
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,960
an animal and get off their place.

746
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,280
They felt like they made an impact and they did.

747
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:18,560
And they see the joy that it brought, you know, myself, the hero, and they're able

748
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,960
to reach out in their local community.

749
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,720
To gain the support, you're going to have to get in the community.

750
00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:31,480
You're going to have to go to the hunts, the VFWs, the legions, the little small town

751
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:32,480
shows.

752
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:38,720
I mean, I'll take people over to the local axe throwing place.

753
00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:47,200
Now with partnership with the South Carolina Veterans Coalition, we are now going to be

754
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:48,200
on their website.

755
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:53,240
You know, they'll have a resource and say, hey, call this person at Battlefront.

756
00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:59,960
And then when these folks are getting out of the military, they go through a TAPS program.

757
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:02,040
Three will know the term.

758
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,320
I'm still in a TAPS, transition assistance or something.

759
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,320
Transition Assistance Program, yeah.

760
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:08,320
Yeah.

761
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,800
And they'll do this thing, you know, basically saying, hey, when you get out, this is what

762
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,560
you need to do.

763
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,760
And they will be a resource that they tell people about.

764
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:21,280
And all it took was going to the VFW, setting up a booth and talking to a lady.

765
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,520
So we have to be, we have to be involved in the hunts.

766
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:29,600
Myself, I'll go down to the local hunt clubs and then I'll say, hey, you know, I got some

767
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:30,600
acreage too.

768
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,320
Let's have our own hunt.

769
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:37,800
You know, eventually, maybe one day we'll be able to have a armed forces or, you know,

770
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:42,960
a birch responders hunt where, you know, I bring a few dogs, my homie brings a few dogs

771
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:49,960
and we take, you know, one, one representative from each thing and have a competition hunt.

772
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:50,960
I think that'd be cool.

773
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:51,960
Yeah.

774
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,680
And then whenever you do that, you're going to do it around Grand American so the bash

775
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:58,280
man I can come down and we can bring dogs to help out with that.

776
00:44:58,280 --> 00:44:59,280
Yes.

777
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:00,280
Right.

778
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:07,240
So, I mean, and you know, we've, when we go to these shows, we meet people.

779
00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:11,480
We met a guy named Mr. Brandon.

780
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,640
Dude's got acreage, a lot of it.

781
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,320
He'll let us go coon hunting.

782
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:21,240
And then he was like, hey, I need predators gone and I'll pay you to take them off my

783
00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:22,240
land.

784
00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:23,240
$50 a head.

785
00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:24,240
Nice.

786
00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:25,240
Right.

787
00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:30,120
You know, not that, you know, in case anybody from PETA's listen to this or anything like

788
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:34,320
that, it's not that we're just going out and, you know, wiping and populating.

789
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,400
No, we're trying to control his land.

790
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:37,400
Correct.

791
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:38,400
You're helping him.

792
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:39,840
You are a resource to him.

793
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:40,840
Absolutely.

794
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:42,880
And it's right beside the interstate.

795
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:47,400
So we're actually saving state funds from money here too.

796
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,920
You know, absolutely.

797
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:54,160
It's a whole circle, you know, he's helping you, you're helping him.

798
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,880
And in turn, both of you are helping the person driving down the road who really doesn't want

799
00:45:57,880 --> 00:45:59,880
to smash a coyote at one in the morning.

800
00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:00,880
Right.

801
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,680
And then the insurance doesn't want to pay that out.

802
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,960
And then, and then the hero who went on the trip is having a blast doing it.

803
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:06,960
Yeah.

804
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:08,640
I don't see a negative anywhere involved.

805
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:09,640
There is.

806
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:10,640
No, there's not.

807
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:15,880
And in a way, it kind of like, you know, so he's paying $50 a head per predator.

808
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:22,000
So you take a bunch of veterans out there and you have, you know, predators being taken

809
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,640
down in a way, it kind of turns into a fundraiser.

810
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,520
And we tried to send Mr. Brandon, Mr. Brandon, we don't know.

811
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:30,520
We just, we want to give these guys the experience.

812
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,080
We just want to go out and have fun.

813
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:35,920
He said, no, I want, this is what I want to do.

814
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:36,920
No, no.

815
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:37,920
Okay.

816
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:38,920
Okay, sir.

817
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:43,040
So it's kind of, we've turned it kind of into a fundraiser as well.

818
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:44,400
You know, it's pretty cool.

819
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:45,520
Yeah, that's awesome.

820
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:51,560
So you know, Bri, correct me if I'm wrong, but you made a post the other day on Facebook

821
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,560
and you shared a memory.

822
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:59,240
And in that memory, it said like on, on this day, X and X years ago, this person literally

823
00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:01,280
saved my life.

824
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:05,840
You made that post and I was like, I was reading into it a little bit and I was like, man,

825
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:07,000
that's real.

826
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:12,880
You know, there are people who, who one day they think, they think it might all be coming

827
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:19,960
to an end and something happens and their, their perspective has changed and it's changed

828
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,840
in a very meaningful way.

829
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:29,280
You guys are, are being that voice for those people, you know, battlefront outdoors is

830
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:35,760
trying to be that group for people and, and change those people, make a positive impact

831
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:41,440
where, you know, maybe that day that they go out and go fishing is a day that they needed.

832
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:48,260
You know, all it took was one person to care, one person to say, Hey, I want to give back

833
00:47:48,260 --> 00:47:50,320
to you and I want to say thank you.

834
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,380
And you mean something to me.

835
00:47:52,380 --> 00:47:53,520
That's what it takes.

836
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:57,040
You know, and that's what happened to me.

837
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,480
I read that post, I'm telling you, and I sat there, I looked at it and I thought about

838
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,160
it and I looked at it and I thought about it and I was like, you know, what if, how

839
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,200
did that impact me?

840
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:07,360
What if that day wouldn't have come?

841
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,360
What if you wouldn't have went on that trip or met that person?

842
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,520
And then I didn't get to meet Brianna.

843
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:13,520
Right.

844
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:19,280
And then, and then I don't get to form a friendship with Brianna and with Eric and then, and then

845
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:26,880
battlefront outdoors doesn't happen because you know, all these circumstances like, like

846
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,420
that one instance changed everything.

847
00:48:29,420 --> 00:48:34,840
That one instance helped create all of this.

848
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:39,200
You know, whoever helped you has helped me.

849
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,720
And when they helped you, you're now would help help other people.

850
00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:44,120
And it's a snowball effect.

851
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:45,120
Right.

852
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:50,760
And in fact, the person that helped me, he's one of our, he's one of the four co-founders

853
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:55,840
and him and another staffer that it's, he's still with us.

854
00:48:55,840 --> 00:49:01,200
And so when you see me on Facebook posting, you know, oh, I went down fishing in Edgefield

855
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,960
County or I'm most of the time I'm with them.

856
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:09,920
So in fact, even this last weekend was my birthday weekend and it was on that day.

857
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,800
Like I went that day, he, they saved my life.

858
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,380
It was a day after my birthday.

859
00:49:16,380 --> 00:49:20,300
And so now my birthday weekend turns into an anniversary weekend as well.

860
00:49:20,300 --> 00:49:25,200
And we all go back out and do the same type of fishing that we did that day.

861
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:29,320
And it's, I mean, it's super, it's super cool.

862
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:33,800
And these guys can tell you and they tell everybody, like, I don't hide my story from

863
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,000
anyone.

864
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:41,680
But they'll tell you, I am a 100% completely different person from the day that they met

865
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:42,680
me.

866
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:44,480
They turn my life around.

867
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:51,080
You know, the other organization and everybody in that this right here, it has saved my life.

868
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:52,440
Yeah, that's awesome.

869
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:58,040
So if anybody is out there and they're in there in that spot or, you know, they know

870
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,800
somebody who they want to get out on a trip.

871
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:04,240
If they're in the South Carolina region, where can they find you guys?

872
00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:06,180
Where can they get ahold of you?

873
00:50:06,180 --> 00:50:07,240
How does that process look?

874
00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:12,680
I want to land this plane here and just have a plug for where people can find Battlefront

875
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:17,120
and also where people who like myself work a few states away, but we want to help and

876
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:18,220
we want to contribute.

877
00:50:18,220 --> 00:50:20,800
How can we best do that to serve your organization?

878
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:24,360
Yeah, you can go on Battlefront Outdoors.

879
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,320
There's a public page on Facebook.

880
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,080
Then there's Battlefront Members Only.

881
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:34,400
That's where we have a few questions there to kind of quote unquote that you to make

882
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:39,720
sure that you were in one of those services.

883
00:50:39,720 --> 00:50:41,960
And that's where we'll post our trips.

884
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:46,800
Right now we are currently developing our website.

885
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:50,600
As we speak, the bones should be being built this week.

886
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:55,520
So within the next month, it should be fully operational with all of our emails, phone

887
00:50:55,520 --> 00:51:00,320
numbers, how to donate pictures of trips, where we're going to be going in the next

888
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:08,140
few months, trade shows to come and buy merchandise or just, you know, talk with us.

889
00:51:08,140 --> 00:51:10,720
And then, you know, they can always email us.

890
00:51:10,720 --> 00:51:15,420
We do have a general email account open.

891
00:51:15,420 --> 00:51:16,840
Tell me if I'm wrong.

892
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:20,400
It's inquiries at Battlefront Outdoors dot org.

893
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:21,400
Yes.

894
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,200
And that is dot org, not dot com.

895
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:28,040
Inquiries at Battlefront Outdoors dot org.

896
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:29,140
And I'm always available.

897
00:51:29,140 --> 00:51:32,660
You know, Eric dot Presley at Battlefront Outdoors.

898
00:51:32,660 --> 00:51:40,240
If you just add me on Facebook, you know, there's a good way you can call me anything.

899
00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:45,080
Facebook is going to be our lifeline until we get that website up and running.

900
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:48,480
And then we're just going to be bouncing off of both.

901
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:55,040
I'm probably going to put a section in there for the folks who don't have Facebook.

902
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:59,400
They can send in like a little form that says, hey, this is who I am.

903
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:00,400
This is what I did.

904
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:01,880
And this is what I want to do.

905
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:03,880
I'm not on Facebook.

906
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,080
How can I, you know, go on one of these trips?

907
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:11,940
And then what I want to do is start a separate little little pot, right, of all those people.

908
00:52:11,940 --> 00:52:15,320
So when a trip does come available, I'll say, you know what, I've got the perfect guy for

909
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,200
this or the perfect gal for this.

910
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:23,000
And not even post it on the page and just go straight to the, you know, that pool and

911
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:24,960
pick from them.

912
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,240
So that's where I want to get with it as well.

913
00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:29,680
That way we're, you know, double teaming it.

914
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:30,680
Right.

915
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:34,680
And I know that I don't have to say this, but I'm going to anyways, you know, guys,

916
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:40,280
don't think that, oh, I didn't do enough that I shouldn't be worthy of a trip like this.

917
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,680
You know, I'm just not going to put my name in the hat.

918
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:48,720
If you guys were involved in anything, you know, first responder, EMS, military, you

919
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:52,440
know, even your dispatchers, I went to college with a gal who ended up being a dispatcher

920
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:56,200
for several years and the stories that she told me, like I couldn't handle it.

921
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,000
You know, you guys are included.

922
00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,640
You have done enough.

923
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:00,840
Don't think that you haven't.

924
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:05,040
Don't think that, you know, there's somebody else who's more deserving than me.

925
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,160
Put your name in the hat and, and meet people.

926
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:12,080
Network networking is one of the things that I'm big on.

927
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,520
And even if you don't fall into those categories, right.

928
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:20,640
So like you, you never did this, this, this, and this, but you have a few acres to hunt

929
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,240
on week, whoop, come out.

930
00:53:23,240 --> 00:53:26,760
You know, our staffer does not have to participate.

931
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:31,720
That's one thing our, you know, we, we like our staffers to participate in it, but really

932
00:53:31,720 --> 00:53:36,280
they're there for insurance reasons and to take pictures and videos or whatever, and

933
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:41,100
just make sure everything runs smoothly.

934
00:53:41,100 --> 00:53:47,080
So if you're not one of those services, but still want to be involved in it, volunteer

935
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:52,880
with us and get, you know, bring us out.

936
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:57,120
You know, if you got a boat, Hey, we'll, we'll fill up your tank with gas.

937
00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:03,800
If we have to, we'll bring bait, you know, I mean, I'll probably not bait some people's

938
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:04,800
hooks.

939
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,160
So I catch more, but you know, that's beside the point.

940
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:13,720
Yeah, I mean, I've got a, I got a staffer right now in the upstate of South Carolina,

941
00:54:13,720 --> 00:54:17,680
who's like, Hey, I want to do some offshore stuff, you know?

942
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,040
And I'm like, he's like, I have no experience with it.

943
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:21,760
I'm like, well, let's go.

944
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:25,920
You know, I have another buddy in the Charleston area who does know those waterways very well.

945
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:30,280
I'm like, y'all linked up and y'all go, you learn, and then you can host more trips.

946
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:31,280
Right.

947
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:32,780
Done deal.

948
00:54:32,780 --> 00:54:34,200
So yes.

949
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,120
In inquiries at that are front outdoors.com.

950
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:38,120
Nope.

951
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:39,120
Dot org.

952
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:40,120
Dot org.

953
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:43,240
See, even I'm messing it up.

954
00:54:43,240 --> 00:54:47,960
So or Facebook, Facebook's going to be our lifeline for awhile.

955
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,480
I do have to post our newest shirt up.

956
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:56,480
And once we hit 500 members, I will give that one away to a random winner.

957
00:54:56,480 --> 00:55:02,920
I will do a live number thingamajig and we'll give that away.

958
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:08,240
We're going to try to start doing more giveaways and stuff at different levels, 500, 750,000,

959
00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:10,240
blah, blah, blah.

960
00:55:10,240 --> 00:55:12,720
So, you know, look for that one here tonight.

961
00:55:12,720 --> 00:55:17,760
I'll post that up and then we'll just keep growing and growing and growing.

962
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:25,440
And if you're in another state, call me, get in contact with me, and then we'll talk about

963
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:29,640
our next steps and how we want to grow.

964
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:34,920
You know, what it's going to take for you to grow.

965
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:38,120
A lot of it comes down to, unfortunately, money.

966
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:41,480
I mean, all these states require so many different things.

967
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:47,880
They require the fees to even have a name in the state, to have an organization, blah,

968
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:48,920
blah, blah.

969
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,760
So get with me and we'll figure it out.

970
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:52,760
Right.

971
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,040
I mean, I'll say yes, and then we'll just figure it out.

972
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:56,040
You know?

973
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:57,040
Yeah.

974
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:59,000
So I got a couple things for you to wrap this thing up.

975
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:07,400
Number one, every time you hit 500, 750, and a thousand, 500, 750,000.

976
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:11,640
So your next three landmarks on your Facebook page, you're giving away about a Front Outdoors

977
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:15,000
shirt or something different.

978
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,000
Okay.

979
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:21,800
And then, and then one of you two are going to get a hold of me and Semper Doggin is going

980
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:25,320
to give away a hat to that same person.

981
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,520
You're going to get a piece of Battlefront Outdoors merchandise and you're going to get

982
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:29,520
a Semper Doggin hat.

983
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:30,960
Now they're going to come from two different places.

984
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:34,640
We got to mail them separately, but Semper Doggin wants to help.

985
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:36,400
We want to be in on this.

986
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:41,800
The other thing, the other thing that I want to do is if you guys have somebody in Indiana,

987
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:45,400
I know it's local, but if you have somebody listening to this in Indiana and they want

988
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:51,600
to go on a hunt with Battlefront Outdoors, a Coon Hunt, let me know.

989
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:55,040
I would be glad to take them anywhere in the state.

990
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,300
I can cover the North, Basham covers the South.

991
00:56:58,300 --> 00:56:59,680
We can figure this out.

992
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,000
We will help out.

993
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,880
So don't think just because you're not in South Carolina that you can't be a part of

994
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:05,880
this.

995
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:07,080
If you're in Indiana, let me know.

996
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:08,320
Let Eric, let Brianna know.

997
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:09,320
Let us know.

998
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:13,960
We will take you guys on a Battlefront Outdoors slash Semper Doggin Coon Hunt.

999
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:14,960
Right.

1000
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:16,000
That's amazing.

1001
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:21,640
And then in return at the end of the year, like we had talked about at Grand American,

1002
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:25,080
we'll make that donation to y'all to help get that dog.

1003
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:26,080
Yep.

1004
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:29,920
Yeah, because we need to mention that again, you know, for those of you who are new to

1005
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:33,800
Semper Doggin, I haven't talked about this in a long time, but one thing that Basham

1006
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:38,800
and I said that we wanted to do whenever we founded this was we wanted to help give back.

1007
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,420
And in a way to do that, the only way that we know how to do that with being the dog

1008
00:57:42,420 --> 00:57:51,400
lovers that we are is to, you know, hopefully one day be able to yearly the main goal and

1009
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:54,400
I got, I don't want to speak out of turn, but the main goal is at the end of the year,

1010
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:58,400
every year be able to provide a service dog to somebody in need.

1011
00:57:58,400 --> 00:57:59,400
They're not cheap.

1012
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:05,000
They're expensive, but that service dog aids in so many aspects of people's lives.

1013
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:09,560
You know, whether it's emotional, whether it's physical, you know, whatever it is, those

1014
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:15,520
service dogs, they provide us a service to that hero and Semper Doggin wants to be a

1015
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:16,520
part of that.

1016
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:19,240
Now, right now, you know, obviously we're trying to get this ball rolling and we're

1017
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:21,760
not going to be able to purchase a whole dog, but what we do want to do at the end of the

1018
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:27,240
year is cut a check to somebody and say, or an organization say, here, we want this money

1019
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:31,040
to go towards the purchase of a dog for a hero.

1020
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:32,640
You know, that's what we're wanting to do.

1021
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:35,920
So for those of you who are new to Semper Doggin, you haven't heard that before.

1022
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:39,960
That was laid out in the very beginning of our, of our podcast and, and we still hold

1023
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:43,800
true to that and we still, you know, we're still looking for people to help us make that

1024
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:44,800
happen.

1025
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:45,800
We're still looking for sponsors for this podcast.

1026
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:49,320
So a shameless plug, if you, if you have a company that you'd like to get some advertising

1027
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:52,400
on, we're not super expensive, you know, get ahold of us.

1028
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:54,120
We can, we can plug your company.

1029
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:57,040
We can do anything to help raise some money to give back.

1030
00:58:57,040 --> 00:59:07,560
So Battlefront Outdoors, Semper Doggin, all we're trying to do here.

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