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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 cohost, Stephen Basham.

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And this, this is Semper Doggen.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of the Semper Doggen podcast guys.

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I am your host, Bryce Matthews, and today I am joined by a multitude of guys.

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We are doing a Semper Doggen first here.

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We have five people on one podcast.

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Now this is not easy to do.

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So we are, we are pumped that we got everybody's schedules lined up, ready to go.

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As always, we got Stephen Basham joining us on the cohost.

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How are you today, Mr. Basham?

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I'm doing pretty good.

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How about yourself, bud?

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Buddy, I can't complain.

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It's a little chilly.

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I guess that would be the only complaint if I had one just a little cold out, but we're

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making do with what we got.

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You got all the farm.

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You got all the farm animals put up.

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I got the shelters built for all the goats.

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Chickens are good to go.

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So everybody's thriving on that front.

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I'm just going to go clockwise around the computer screen here next to Mr. Basham.

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We have the gentleman who is responsible for getting everybody together tonight.

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You guys have heard him once here on this podcast before, but we are glad to welcome

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back Mr. Brandon White with Next Level Premium Pet Food.

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How are you, brother?

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Man, I am living the dream.

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Living the dream and glad to be here.

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I say, shut up.

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You're giving me the round of applause.

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Yeah, I know.

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It's been a great day.

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I woke up this morning at 530 Bryce this time in Detroit, Michigan with about three inches

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of snow on the ground and it's 15 degrees with 32 mile an hour winds.

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So I'm glad to say I'm back home in Southwest Missouri where it's in the fifties and well,

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it wasn't.

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I got here, but no snow.

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So, man, we've been getting that wind the last few days, man.

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That wind just won't stop.

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It's just roaring here.

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I don't want to hear about wind until you come up here and live in the flattest ground

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The wind doesn't stop.

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That's my biggest complaint since I've lived here.

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The wind doesn't stop blowing.

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Peru and the end is a lot like Oklahoma where Mr. Eddie Green lives.

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Well, we're going to switch up the order then because we've already talked about our next

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guest, Mr. Eddie Green down in Oklahoma.

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Just come off a big weekend with his dog Zeke.

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Mr. Eddie, how are you?

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I'm doing fine.

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How are you guys?

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We are doing well and super glad to have you here.

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And we got your handler, Mr. Zach Boring joining us.

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Mr. Zach, glad to have you on the Semper Doggen podcast.

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I appreciate it, guys.

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Thank you.

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Well, Brandon, let's go.

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Let's do a little history of you, Zach, Mr. Eddie.

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Let's go into the blue tick stuff.

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You're the gentleman responsible for this.

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So I'm going to let you take the lead here.

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Tell us a little bit about the people who you've invited here on the Semper Doggen podcast.

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Man, I have been great friends with, blessed to be great friends with Eddie and Zach for

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I think the first time I met Eddie, Eddie correct me if I'm wrong, we drew each other

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in a hunt and he was something, a walker dog.

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just a super great guy through Richard and Eddie become friends.

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Some of you folks may or may not know Eddie.

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I hope I'm not wrong for saying this, but his son Brandon called him Moose played football

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at the University of Oklahoma when they beat Alabama in the sugar bowl in 2013.

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Become a great friend with Moose and my youngest son called him little Moose because of that

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met Zach back in the day with blue ticks and Zach had a blue tick that he got called Trashy.

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And there's a little story about Trashy that Zach got and showed him and whatnot.

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And Zach's handled some dogs for me and showed some dogs and just kind of went from there.

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But that's kind of how I know these guys, but two great, great men and great dog men,

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great houndsmen and they know what to do to win.

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So yeah, that's awesome.

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So Eddie, why don't you tell us, you know, that's kind of interesting here.

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Brandon said first time he met you, you were hunting a walker dog and now you're pushing

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this blue tick.

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How did you transition into the blue tick breed?

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probably the first real coon dog I ever owned and I don't even know what year that was,

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but I sold her at that time for what I thought was a ton of money.

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Well, I probably haven't replaced her to this day, but my uncle Richard's always hunted blue

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ticks and I just always go back to hunting a blue dog if I can.

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I mean, it's hard to get away from what you started with, you know, and I think like the

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only reason I'm a walker guys, that's the first dog that I ever had was a walker, you

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know, if it would have been a red bone, it probably would have been a red bone man.

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But Basham, we know he's a black and tan man at heart.

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He's a little bit of a leopard hound guy at heart.

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You know, Basham likes that kind of stuff.

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You said you've known Zach for a long time.

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Give us a little bit of background on that one.

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a few times and me and Zach have had our rounds and definitely, definitely seen him come up

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in the coon hunting world since he was a young kid.

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So it's definitely a proud moment to see everything that he's accomplished and not just the coon

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hunting world, but you know, his business side and stuff like that.

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I'm very proud of Zach and his coon hunting and you know, handling abilities and professionally

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in his business with his family and personally Zach is, he's first class.

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He's done a great job.

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Man, well let's hear it from the man himself.

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Zach, we're glad you're here, buddy.

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And first off, we just want to congratulate you on your big win here this last weekend

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down in Missouri.

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It looked like you guys had a heck of a time over there.

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So we're going to get into that in a little bit.

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Why don't you give us a little bit of background here on who Zach Boren is, where you come

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from and where you're headed.

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Well, not too far from Brandon, 25, Southwest Missouri.

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I've been coon hunting now for, I'll bet you I've been coon hunting now for about 14 years,

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We grew up in Texas, moved to Missouri, family farm.

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And ever since we've been up here, I've been coon hunting.

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I know Brandon basically ever since I've been up here, really, he's helped me a long ways

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into this coon hunting stuff, helped me meet a lot of new people.

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And he just showed me a lot of pointers on a lot of stuff, same as Basham and Eddie also.

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I've known Eddie now for, I'd say, four or five years and I've known Basham for, shoot,

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I've probably known Basham for nine, 10 years now, unfortunately.

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Yeah, that's a rough, rough run of ho.

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Here we go.

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That'd be a good cast to be on right there, I promise you.

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Well you've had to put up with Basham, so you've come out the other side of that.

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It has to make you a better person knowing him for that long and still being able to

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do what you do.

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You just learned a lot of hard lessons that way and what not to do whenever you hang out

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with Basham, you know what I mean?

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That's why he's hunting a blue dog now.

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I give Basham a hard time, but honestly, he has helped me a lot with dog knowledge and

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everything.

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He knows what it takes to win with a dog.

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He knows how to make a dog.

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Steven's helped me a lot in this coon hunting stuff.

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Yeah, he's an alright guy to have in your corner.

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He's an alright guy.

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Well, Zach, okay, so when did, I don't know anything about you, Zach.

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This is the first time you and I have talked, and that's what I love about this podcast,

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is getting to meet new people, getting to hear new stories.

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Give me the background.

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When did you, you said you've been hunting for 14 years now.

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How did you get into the coon hunting and when did you start taking the competition

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neighbors actually were hunting, got on our property, and dad grew up here.

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So, they called dad and said, hey, coon hunting dogs got over there.

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Do you care if we go get them?

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Dad said, no, go ahead and go get them.

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And he looked at me and said, you want to go down there?

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Because I mean, we grew up in Texas, so I had no idea what coon hunting was, where we

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were living at, just a little suburb of Dallas.

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I was like, sure, I'll go down there.

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Went down there and they had a coon tree.

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The next day I asked my buddy, I said, hey, do you care if I start going with you a little

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He said, yeah, that's fine.

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I started hunting, pleasure hunting with them for a little bit.

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I probably pleasure hunted with them for, I'd say a year, two years.

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And then I'd say I was probably 17, 18, and I started hitting the competition hunts pretty

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hard.

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I was going to CHKC World hunt.

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I was going to Battle Breeze.

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I met Brandon down there at Battle Breeze a few times.

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I was starting to run up and down the road pretty hard then.

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Yeah, man, that's always a fun time.

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I wish I would have got into it seriously about that age.

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I didn't get into hunting until I was 20, so I'm right at 10 years now doing the coon

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hunting thing.

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But I probably didn't get serious into the competition until I was 23, 24.

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Man, if I had been 18 when I got into it, oh Lord, it could have been bad.

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It could have been out of control.

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I think for somebody, even Brandon can attest, and Mr. Ed can too, is coming from my perspective,

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I've got two guys here that I knew at a very, very young age in the coon hunting world with

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Zach and Bryce both.

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And being able to help mentor them, seeing where Bryce has come and all of his success

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and everything that he's won.

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And Zach, the same way.

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You look back on your coon hunting career and a lot of guys look at what they've won.

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And for the most part, that's some of the highest moments that they have.

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But I think some of my highest moments were seeing some of these young guys that I've

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helped teach and mentor and what they win.

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I feel like when they win, I win.

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And so that's pretty neat coming from my side of it.

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No, that's good.

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Brandon, so you said Zach used to show some dogs for you and stuff.

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Is that how you guys got hooked up with, like, was through the blue tick breed?

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We just met Zach through showing dogs and he was just a little, little, you know, podunk

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I'm like, here he is, you know, looking for a dog.

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Whitney Killow.

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And there was a puppy called Crashy.

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And Zach somehow ended up with this dog called Trashy.

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And the story was that the female that had had a C-section and that this pup was dead

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and the vet, you know, thought the puppy was dead, but it was not.

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And they'd already thrown the dog in the trash.

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So they called the dog named Trashy.

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Oh, wow.

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Zach got the dog and the dog started.

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Yeah.

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So the dog started winning some mid shows and Zach had it.

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And that's kind of how we met.

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And he just wanted to win.

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He wanted to compete and wanted to win, wanted to show something, want to do something with

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coon hounds.

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He was a coon hound guy.

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And we just go back.

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Zach, Zach, didn't you work for a while at a Fourth of July or a firecracker place over

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there around Seymour?

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What was that place?

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Yes.

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Dynamite Fireworks.

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Yeah, Dynamite Fireworks.

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And so I went over there and talked to Zach.

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You know, I've always peddled a little dog food and pushing something to him.

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And then I bought a dog during COVID.

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I bought a little female that probably shouldn't have hunted a few more times before I bought

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her.

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But I bought her and bought her and nothing else to do during COVID.

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Right.

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The world was shut down.

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So I bought the female and I said, man, I want Zach to hunt this female because she's

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a dynamite.

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Well, she was a dynamite on the first one or two coons.

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Better than that, she's going to go through on anything she can find.

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You know, give her a telephone pole.

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She's going to log up on it.

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And so it didn't quite work.

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But Zach knows what a coon dog is and Zach is his competitor.

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And I think that's why Eddie and Zach kind of hooked up.

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You know, Eddie calls Zach son from time to time.

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Eddie and I are, you know, we're up there in age and we don't want to go climb and fight

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all that trees and fences and stuff.

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So you need guys like Zach that can get out there and can hustle.

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And that's what they did with this dog Zeke.

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You know, Eddie, Eddie, how long have you had Zeke?

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I've had him four years.

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Four years.

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He was just turning two when I got him.

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Yeah.

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And that dog's come along a long ways.

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And that's just a natural fit with Zach and Zeke.

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You know, the two Z's go after it and go out and win 20 grand.

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That's an accomplishment, no matter what color the dog is.

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So he's a little bit older of a dog.

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How old is he?

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He's six.

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Six years old.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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If you would have done a little math there, two plus four is six.

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Just so you know, a little bit of math.

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Saying he's from Kentucky, man.

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They can't, don't hold that against him.

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They're saying, sorry, Mr. Eddie.

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Well, I gotta get my dog when I can.

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Yeah.

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Um, giant coming.

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You guys have all heard of him.

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He was, he was telling me about a blue dog that Ronnie Smith had just purchased from

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Illinois, he said, you need to get older and buy this dog.

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And I hadn't been staying at a casino there by Ronnie's house guiding the cast of, uh,

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for a big hunt at downstream.

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And I went over to Ronnie's house next morning, looked at him and I said, that's on the broadcast

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there down.

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I know people probably don't believe me, but about halfway that Kim, I looked at that dog

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and I said, I'm going to buy that dog.

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And I just, I don't, you guys haven't seen these good looking though, big dog door and

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then Ronnie Smith had him and he kept us, we got talking and I ended up buying the dog

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from him.

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He just had him about two weeks.

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He bought him from a young boy in Illinois.

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Yeah.

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Cheyenne's top notch, uh, been around him quite a bit, you know, different hunts and

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stuff like that.

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And he's definitely a pop notch guy.

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Yeah.

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You can't find anyone to say a bad word about Cheyenne Cummings.

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So here you bought Zeke and, uh, did you bring him home with the thoughts that you're going

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to just pleasure hunting or did you already know you were going to start pushing him in

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the hunts and how did that come about?

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Well, I didn't know much about the dog.

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You know, Ronnie had him for two weeks and he put him in one cast, then pleasure hunt

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him in and he, and he said he got beat by 25, the dog treated him like he got third

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strike or something.

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But I brought him home and the first night I hunted him, he went in there 400 yards and

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got treated on dentury.

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And I walked 30 yards and recast the dog and he wouldn't be looked at me.

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I walked in there yards and he looked at me and I thought, oh Lord.

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So I just, I just walked off and left him.

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I thought, well, he's going to go hunting.

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He followed me all the way back to the truck and this went on for about two months.

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And I called that kid who owned him an elephant 14 year old kid.

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And I said, what can you tell me about recasting this dog?

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And he said, Mr. Green said, what are you talking about?

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Recast and I told him that I've never recast that doggy trees.

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It came, we go the truck.

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So it took me a while to get him over that.

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And one night I was hunting and, and I walked back to the truck.

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He followed me to the truck and I moved my truck 10 feet.

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I lay him out of the box and he shot in there and got treated.

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I did it two or three more times the next week.

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And I'm talking to start my truck and backing it up and he'd leave.

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But it took me forever to get him to recast and you recast him now anywhere.

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But he was a long way from being ready for the hunt when I got him.

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So here, here we have a dog that you bought, you know, thinking that he was going to be

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ready to go to the hunts or that it was something that you wanted.

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And it took a little bit of time.

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It took a little bit of patience, you know, especially since you're hunting a blue dog.

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It took a little bit of patience to get him ready, you know, to go to these hunts.

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Yeah.

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Well, and anyone can tell you patience is one thing I don't have with a dog.

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But there was just something about this dog that I really liked.

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And for pleasure, I love to pleasure hunt.

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I like the competition hunt too.

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But my main deal is I like to go out and pleasure hunt by myself and see what I can get out

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of a dog.

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And you never put a lead on the dog pleasure hunt.

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I don't care where he's at.

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I don't care if he's treed across the river with the letter of Cain's.

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He's coming to you.

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He just is a pleasure to hunt.

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And and I just kept putting the boot leather into him and he turned out to be a pretty

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nice animal.

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Good deal.

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Good.

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Now.

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So when did when did you and Zach end up coming together on this dog and how did you know

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Zach from before or how did that happen?

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Yeah, I met that.

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He didn't remember.

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I met Zach when he's a little boy.

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He turned in a scholarship application to our BB stage.

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He was actually in.

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And I met he met a hunt, talked to him.

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He was selling equipment for someone.

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But we really, you know, we got serious about him hunting a walker dog of mine, basically.

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And he took him over and he didn't work out.

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And I do.

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You know, it's hard to explain, but I just don't trust sending this dog with anybody,

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you know.

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I mean, I'm not back with my life, but he called me and said, hey, let's split this

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entry this twenty five hundred dollar hunt.

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And I said, well, I can't go.

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It's on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

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So I'm hunting.

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And that's how it kind of started up, you know, and and taking me where he wants to

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go.

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No.

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Good deal.

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Man, that's awesome.

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It's a thing.

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And I got two things here.

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Number one, I want to go back a minute here.

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You know, when Cheyenne called you and said, hey, there's a dog you need to go look at.

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And then you went and looked at the dog and he wasn't exactly what you were thinking.

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Like how did this dog get turned on to his radar and your radar?

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You know, saying that he just come from a kid like like, what are the odds that a dog

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that is this caliber now was turned on to the radar back then?

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If that makes any sense.

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Well, Ronnie Smith actually bought the dog from that young boy in Illinois and he lived

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by Ronnie's brother-in-law and and Ronnie Bodeman, as you all know, Ronnie Smith, a full-blooded

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Walker dog guy, and he bought the dog.

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And I'm sure he bought him to sell, you know, office looks, his mouth, his handle.

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And you know, when I go over Ronnie watches, he opened up the kennel door and he run about

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40 yards and jumped in on his on his tailgate and got the dog box.

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And he just said, I heard something like this dog, you know, and I'm sure he's like all

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of us.

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He bought him trying to make a dollar, you know.

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OK, that makes more sense.

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Or Cheyenne lives by Ronnie and their partners on the Stokie dog, things like that.

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So he knew about him and was I like boutiques and gotcha gotcha.

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That makes more sense.

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If you go back and you think about some of the the big name dogs in, you know, in the

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coon hunting world, some of your best dogs and your biggest winning dogs were dogs that

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were given up on at one time and two that come to mind real quick is Mr. Clean.

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So I was in the Marine Corps out at Camp Lejeune and no joke, Mr. Clean, the year that he

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won the world, the year that he won the world the first time he was in North Carolina, he

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was on the UK.

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This is back when the UKC boards used to be a big deal.

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He was on the UKC board for eighteen hundred dollars.

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He went and doubled up at the zones and then he couldn't be bought from then on.

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Another one, if you talk to Bill Stokes, oh, well, while Bill, he was he was a big coyote

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dog when he was younger and he didn't really turn on until he was probably like two, two

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and a half years old.

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And so a lot of the dogs, a lot of your big winners, you know, at an early age, somebody's

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given up on them and it's just taking that right pairing, that right dog man to be able

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to get the most out of them.

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Yeah.

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Go ahead.

435
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Yeah.

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And well, I just think talk about the right dog man.

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And that's where I think Getty's got it from his Uncle Richard.

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And those of you don't know, Uncle Richard, haven't been blessed with meeting him.

439
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He is a dog man.

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And talk about patience, man.

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That guy's got so much patience.

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But I'd like to know two things.

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I like the pedigree of Zeke.

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And then I'd like to talk about this twenty thousand dollar hunt.

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You know, I don't think we've ever really mentioned yet, you know, the hunt that he

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won.

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And so maybe Eddie and Zeke or Zach, if you could tell us, you know, tell us about Zeke's

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pedigree and then tell us about the hunt, you know, up there in La Plata, Missouri,

449
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that you won and all that kind of stuff.

450
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:40,000
Well, I'll tell you, you know, talk about giving up on dogs.

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I want to touch on that real quick.

452
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I bought that dog at a real good price.

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And and these guys know the story and everyone does.

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But would you take your money back today?

455
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No, no.

456
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:54,960
OK, no.

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I'll get out there.

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But I had started about a year and a half ago on trying to buy this dog.

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And he offered me a very large sum of money for him.

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And I said no.

461
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And he called back.

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Five thousand.

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No, one of the five thousand.

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This goes on for a month and a half.

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And I finally caved and I sold I sold the dog for a large sum of money, large sum of

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money.

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The guy calls me about a week or two later and says, hey, this deal is not going to work.

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This dog's not performing.

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And I said, deals off, bring him back.

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He said, Mr. Eddie, no one will do that.

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I said, I will.

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I didn't want to sell the dog again.

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I gave him his money back and I got the dog back.

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I took him to the vet and he was full of our like it, which I thank God every day I got

475
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him back in his brand and said, now I say that someone's going to call me tomorrow,

476
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,800
but money can't buy the dog.

477
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:59,600
I mean, he's not for sale or someone's not get real stupid buying.

478
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:05,200
But the dogs, he's not a dog called Lonesome Two that John Steber owned.

479
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:13,800
OK, which we all know, John Steber about his Lonesome Dogs and a nice, nice blue dogs.

480
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,360
Yeah, which Lonesome Two is a hammer and jet bread.

481
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:22,560
And he's have a theme on the bottom side called Blue Willow and she goes back to Smokey River's

482
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:29,280
Blue Chief, which is one of the best reproducers ever in the blue tick world.

483
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:30,280
He's bread.

484
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,280
He's bread.

485
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,280
Oh, yeah, he's not.

486
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,200
I mean, he's like all of them.

487
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,080
There's great dogs and pedigrees and they're just decent dogs and pedigree.

488
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:43,400
But, you know, we all get wrapped up on what they out of, you know, and all that.

489
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,720
And I'll tell you, Mr. Steber's put you talk about putting the effort into making the breed

490
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:48,840
better.

491
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,880
He's done it.

492
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:58,160
And I think last year on the PKC top 16 in the breed for five dollars and two.

493
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:06,320
Now real quick, Mr. Eddie, do you know, did John own Zeke when he was a young dog?

494
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:11,960
He sold him as a puppy to this poor, tenured boy, eight week old puppy.

495
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:12,960
OK, nevermind.

496
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,080
Yeah, he had another one.

497
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:21,240
I thought now that you started talking about it, he had another one, a buddy of mine, Dale

498
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:28,740
Shad right here by where I lived at, hunted a young dog for John.

499
00:26:28,740 --> 00:26:33,800
And I for some reason, I thought his name was Zeke, but he had him up until he was probably

500
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,080
15, 16 months old.

501
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:40,080
So I went up last winter and hunted over Christmas break with Dale and John.

502
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,080
Yeah.

503
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:42,080
OK.

504
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:47,200
So I've seen I've known Dale since I was five or six years old.

505
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,520
I mean, Dale, you Dale used to carry me on his back through the winters, through the

506
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,720
snows, through the creeks.

507
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,120
Mr. Dale Shad and me go way back.

508
00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:57,120
Yeah.

509
00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:58,120
Yeah.

510
00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:01,620
Zach, let's get into this 25 or this twenty thousand dollar win this weekend over at La

511
00:27:01,620 --> 00:27:02,620
Plata, Missouri.

512
00:27:02,620 --> 00:27:06,080
And Mr. Eddie said earlier that you called him and said, hey, like, let's split this

513
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,080
entry.

514
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:08,080
Let's go to this hunt.

515
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:12,360
Were you were you was it were you interested in something because it was close to home?

516
00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,360
It was in Missouri.

517
00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:15,560
Was it something that was on your radar for several months?

518
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,080
Like like let's walk through the very beginning whenever you decide to go to this hunt and

519
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,080
then take us through your weekend over there in Missouri.

520
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:28,880
There's a very few people that I mean, everybody knows, too, hunters and they can fit a little

521
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,600
bit live, stretch truth, stuff like that.

522
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,720
But there's very few people.

523
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,160
And when they say something, I mean, you can take it to the bank.

524
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,160
Eddie's one of them.

525
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:46,360
I mean, when when Eddie's tell me he's got the dog power, I'm listening to him.

526
00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:51,680
And I've hunted Zeke before I had Zeke at the house probably two or three years ago.

527
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:56,120
And I told Eddie back then the dog was going to make a nice dog.

528
00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:57,120
I had him.

529
00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:00,120
I think I got him when Eddie just got the dog.

530
00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:02,760
He didn't have him very long.

531
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,160
And I was actually I was down there at his house for a different hunt.

532
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:08,680
I was hunting his walker dog.

533
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,440
I said, hey, there's this point five hundred dollars.

534
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:13,440
Let's go to it.

535
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,920
They said, I just don't know about it.

536
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:17,600
I said, I'll split the entry with you.

537
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:22,800
I mean, the Zeke dog is just he's one that you can count on.

538
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,840
He's going to give you a shot at it for sure.

539
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,720
And I told him, I'll split the entry with you if you want to go.

540
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:30,720
He said, yeah.

541
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,960
If you want to do that, we'll go up there.

542
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:33,960
I said, sweet.

543
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,400
And I was actually you guys.

544
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,160
I was talking to my wife about three or four days before the hunt.

545
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:45,040
I said, man, I almost called Eddie.

546
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:49,200
I just I don't know if I want to go right now.

547
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,080
And luckily we did.

548
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,360
It turned out good for us.

549
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,360
One twenty thousand dollars as a deal.

550
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,440
But I just the Zeke dog is going to give you a shot at it.

551
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,320
It was it was a good hunt to go to.

552
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,520
I was glad we went.

553
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:03,520
Yeah.

554
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:04,520
Well, let's let's walk us through it.

555
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:05,760
Like, did you get what night did you get in?

556
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,520
Because you had multiple nights to have a chance to get in.

557
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:08,520
What night did you get in?

558
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,520
Had your cast look.

559
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:16,320
So it was a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, not qualify Wednesday night.

560
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,640
We go up there first night of it and the dog looked good.

561
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,400
We treated a few kids, but it was just a rough night hunting.

562
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,840
Anybody knows North Missouri is cold already.

563
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,880
It was cold, very for him on our wins.

564
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:31,880
It was bad.

565
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:32,880
It was rough hunting.

566
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,840
And I got beat early, so I didn't get shot.

567
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,800
Hunt late and go on Thursday night.

568
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,640
Kind of the same deal is real cold night.

569
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:47,840
It was a I think it was twelve, thirteen degrees that night.

570
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:52,240
And Zeke didn't look the best, but he didn't look the worst either.

571
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:58,040
He'll he can tree log coons real fast and he can be a blue tick too.

572
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:02,800
I mean, he can take old track, work it up and it may take a minute, but he'll tree

573
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:03,800
it.

574
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,640
And that's what we did early Thursday night.

575
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:10,920
He treated one coon and that's what one of the cast and that's what guys do late round.

576
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,000
Then late round, he looked real good.

577
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,960
He treated three coons by himself.

578
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,160
They did one patch timber hunted out.

579
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:26,560
I mean, just I think Josh Kalis, he was our late round judge and me and Josh are talking.

580
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:31,760
I don't think Zeke got more than five, six hundred yards from the first tree he made

581
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,560
and just three down there and just stayed in the same patch.

582
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,040
And I mean, look good on it.

583
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:44,160
I was glad to get in Thursday, give him a little bit of a break Friday night, rest up

584
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,160
and everything.

585
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:50,320
And then Saturday, I'm going into this hunt.

586
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,320
This is the biggest amount I've heard for.

587
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:58,680
I've got some dogs in at some hunts before, but to be in the top 12 of a twenty thousand

588
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,400
dollar hunt, I'm one cast win away.

589
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:06,760
I'm sweating bullets a little bit because I mean, you go these hunts, you're not going

590
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:07,760
Joe Blow.

591
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:08,760
Right.

592
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:13,360
You got Bernd and I mean, Robert Burns, you got some, you got some big name dogs here

593
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:14,360
and anglers.

594
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:15,960
Twenty thousand dollars.

595
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:16,960
It's a lot.

596
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:17,960
Yeah.

597
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:22,080
And I'm pretty confident in the dog.

598
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:27,720
Like I said, I mean, the Zeke dog, he's a when he trees, he's a type he's going to make

599
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,480
you use the whole shine time.

600
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,680
I mean, he's usually pretty accurate.

601
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,760
Got to if he's slick.

602
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,200
I mean, it's as bad as slick as you can get.

603
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,480
It'll be a telephone pole flick.

604
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:45,800
But we're going into this cast and shooting.

605
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,520
He started out looking a little rough early Saturday night.

606
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,440
He he backed on a coon out of the truck.

607
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:54,440
Shoot this.

608
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:55,440
This ain't like him.

609
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,680
But I mean, you know, they're all dogs.

610
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,880
They went on to the two kids by himself.

611
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,880
He trees a coon.

612
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:10,160
It's a he was probably five, six hundred off that first coon he treed.

613
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,160
We recut him.

614
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,800
He gets in there about half a mile.

615
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:14,920
Sweet.

616
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,880
I'm feeling pretty good.

617
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:24,400
I drew Jack Bingham, Robert Burr and Mike Fields Saturday.

618
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:30,120
And Jack and Robert, they both take a little bit minus right out of the truck.

619
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,760
Jack actually trees no slick.

620
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:33,760
So he withdraws.

621
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,160
He's I think four, four fifty minus.

622
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,280
I say, OK, I'm I'm starting to feel a little bit better about myself.

623
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,840
Zeke's treated coon now.

624
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,640
So I've got Mike Fields beat by a quarter at the moment.

625
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,200
Robert Burns, he's still in the minus.

626
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,360
I'm feeling pretty good about myself.

627
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,700
And then Zeke kind of blows the country a little bit.

628
00:32:56,700 --> 00:32:58,440
They get treated again.

629
00:32:58,440 --> 00:32:59,520
Shoot.

630
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:04,480
We got an hour and twenty, hour and fifteen left probably.

631
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,920
And there's still a lot of time left to hunt this hunt.

632
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,280
We they go and handle their dogs.

633
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,520
I go and handle Zeke.

634
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:17,640
They come popping over this hill and I'm expecting to see three lights.

635
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,400
Robert Burns, Mike Fields and Josh McCallis.

636
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,120
I only see two lights.

637
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:24,120
Shoot.

638
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,200
That makes me feel a little bit better.

639
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,200
I go up there, Josh.

640
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,680
I said, what was it?

641
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:30,920
Slick or what?

642
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,560
Mike, he peeps up.

643
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:33,560
He said, it was slick.

644
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,200
If you got a coon, I'm withdrawing and you win.

645
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,320
I said, shoot, there's 42 minutes left.

646
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,000
But I put Mike, he's in negative now.

647
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,480
He's 200, I think, minus.

648
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:48,920
I'm sitting at 450 plus.

649
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,440
If I've got a coon here, OK.

650
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:57,080
We go and shine and I see my coon within a matter of seconds.

651
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,680
Josh and Mike, they both congratulate me.

652
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:05,400
Boys, I guess I've never seen it, but that's a twenty thousand dollar coon sitting up there

653
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:06,400
like that.

654
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,040
I can't ask the dog look better.

655
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,560
It was a lesson for sure.

656
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,800
What was the feeling looking up there knowing this is the biggest hunt you've ever hunted

657
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:22,760
in and seeing that coon, which I mean, we won't incriminate you here on the Simper Dog

658
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:27,640
and podcast, but we all knew you knew that coon was there before they got there.

659
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,640
Yes.

660
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,960
Yes.

661
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:38,760
If you went back to my text messages with my wife, she's probably got a 10 paragraph

662
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:45,040
text message from me saying, I think I've just won twenty thousand dollars, but there's

663
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,880
a lot of time left in this.

664
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:54,800
My redneck, my redneck would want to mount that twenty thousand dollar coon.

665
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,760
So it's just, you know, that's just how I am.

666
00:34:58,760 --> 00:34:59,760
That's over.

667
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:00,760
OK, good.

668
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:01,760
Boom.

669
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,000
You know, I don't want to mount that.

670
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000
I agree with you.

671
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,000
I agree with you, Brandon.

672
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,960
Now, yeah, with the twenty thousand was split for the final three, was there an option to

673
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,720
hunt it off and everybody decided to split or was it a mandatory split?

674
00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:14,720
I wasn't sure on the rules.

675
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:16,960
No, it was an option.

676
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:22,440
We could have hunted off the bear creek, though the payout.

677
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:27,880
It was kind of, in my opinion, a little bit dumb to hunt it off because it went from twenty

678
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,560
five because it was a final three.

679
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,120
So you had your top twelve.

680
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:38,000
It went from twenty five thousand to first, twenty thousand to second and fifteen thousand

681
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,000
to third.

682
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Hmm.

683
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:46,200
So Chad Dunn, he got in and he was pretty we were all pretty open.

684
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,000
Nobody really just peeped up, said they want to hunt it off.

685
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,200
But Jason Daugherty and Zach Burden, they got in.

686
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:58,560
I text Jason, so you guys want to hunt it off or you guys want to split it?

687
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,760
He said, man, I'm eight hours from the house.

688
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:01,760
I'd like to head home.

689
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,840
But I got to talk to Zach.

690
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,040
Well, he talked to Zach Burden.

691
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,320
He said, we'll split that sucker.

692
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:09,320
Shoot.

693
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,160
Yeah, let's let's take the twenty thousand head to the house.

694
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:17,520
And he was eight hours and I was four hours and said, I'll be home for daylight with twenty

695
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,000
thousand in my pocket.

696
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,520
Man, like what's the feeling like that?

697
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:25,120
You know, you've you've worked hard and I want to get to Mr. Eddie after this, too.

698
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,240
So don't interrupt me here, Basham.

699
00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:28,760
But what's the feeling like that?

700
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,080
You just won that kind of money.

701
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,920
You're going home and you're like you're on cloud nine.

702
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:33,920
You're driving home.

703
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,320
Like what are we what are we jamming to on the radio going home at, you know, two in

704
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,320
the morning with twenty twenty G's in our pocket?

705
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,840
Man, I was speechless.

706
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,280
You could even ask Eddie out.

707
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,720
I mean, I was just all over that phone call.

708
00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:51,000
I just I couldn't believe myself.

709
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,840
You know, you're jamming a kid rock.

710
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,160
I've got to give Eddie credit.

711
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,800
I mean, I don't with my work.

712
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,600
I don't hardly have time to pleasure.

713
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,240
Eddie's done all the training on this dog and made the dog.

714
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:05,240
He is.

715
00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:08,280
I was just able to get the opportunity to take him up there.

716
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,280
And I'm glad he let me do it.

717
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,000
But I mean, I was.

718
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,000
Shoot.

719
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,760
I don't think Eddie believed me when I called him.

720
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,480
Yeah, that's what I want to know.

721
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,520
Mr. Eddie is like, what's going through your head as an owner?

722
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:21,920
And Brandon, we'll get right back to you here.

723
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,760
But what's going through your head as an owner?

724
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,080
You've got a hired gun out here.

725
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:31,040
You've got somebody else with your pride and joy, your your the dog of your dreams.

726
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,800
And then everything rides in their hands like what's going through your head?

727
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:35,800
Yeah.

728
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:40,640
Well, you know, it's kind of like Brandon said earlier, I still love to go to competition

729
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,920
as an honest competitive as anyone in the world.

730
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:49,400
But, you know, as I get older, you draw 24 year old, 25 year old.

731
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,520
It's easier to send him to someone else.

732
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,080
But I'd like to have been there.

733
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:54,560
But I'll tell you, I'm tickled.

734
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,440
That's Zach stepped up and took him and he called me.

735
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:58,440
I don't know.

736
00:37:58,440 --> 00:37:59,440
I'm going to say it was seven forty.

737
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,960
I was pleasure hunting.

738
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,560
And I didn't want to go early.

739
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,960
I thought, oh, man, something's happened, you know.

740
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:12,280
And and I was afraid Zach was going to mess with me anyhow and text me or call me and

741
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:13,800
say, well, we got beaten.

742
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:14,800
We won it.

743
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,360
But anyhow, he said Pops, he said, we're twenty thousand dollars richer.

744
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,560
And I just sat down and tell gay to my side by side.

745
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:22,560
I was about to pass out.

746
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:23,560
Yeah, it's good.

747
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:24,560
Yeah.

748
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,560
Brandon, what do you got to add to that, buddy?

749
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,360
I don't remember where I wanted to add to it.

750
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:34,400
But talking about competitive Eddie, we haven't talked about Eddie.

751
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:38,160
Eddie is a, you know, retired and still doing high school.

752
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,880
He's a teacher, coach, coach, high school football and his son.

753
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,280
I've talked about her play football and played at University of Oklahoma.

754
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,160
So he's competitive, very competitive.

755
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:49,480
And we do have our limits.

756
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:56,480
But I watched that hunt going on and I was in touch with Zach and Eddie.

757
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:00,480
And when they when they wanted, you know, twenty grand, man, that is that is huge.

758
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:01,480
Twenty grand.

759
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,480
And then also to be a blue tick.

760
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,120
I mean, Lord have mercy.

761
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,680
I have twenty five acres with a blue tick.

762
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,880
I had it all night long with my blue tick.

763
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,880
So to go do that blue tick, that's huge.

764
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:19,720
And just very blessed that, you know, I hate you kind of a shameless plug here.

765
00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:24,680
But I got Eddie talking to feed next level dog food and that he's feeding the food.

766
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,640
It worked great for him.

767
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,600
But Eddie's worked his butt off for several years.

768
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,480
And he just he just he just he pounds it out.

769
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,760
You know, one time, Eddie, I think, you know, I went hunting over there in Kansas.

770
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:41,560
And wasn't there a an ammo dump or an ammo thing or something over there used to live

771
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:42,560
and army?

772
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,920
And yeah, we were unfortunately beyond it, but we kind of ended up on it.

773
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:47,920
Yeah.

774
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:48,920
Eddie, Eddie hunts.

775
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,000
Eddie's a hunter, you know, five nights a week, six nights a week.

776
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,880
He's going to hunt in the Zach same way going to hunt.

777
00:39:54,880 --> 00:40:02,520
And I'm just I feel blessed to have Eddie and Zach as friends, number one, and then

778
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:09,840
to have those guys trust me enough to to feed our dog food, number two.

779
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,300
But even if they didn't, we're always going to be friends, number one.

780
00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:15,600
But those guys, man, they're they're houndsmen.

781
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:16,600
They're going to go pound it out.

782
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,680
They're going to grind it out and to win 20 grand for a blue tick breed, which I'm a blue

783
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:21,680
tick guy.

784
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,320
Man, that is awesome.

785
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,320
You know, hands, hats off to those guys is perfect.

786
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,520
That's what you got, Mr. Eddie.

787
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:34,560
Well, I want to add something when Brandon's talking about that feed, you know, I've known

788
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:40,440
Brandon for a long time and there used to be a feed that they called native and Brandon

789
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:41,960
was pushing the native feed.

790
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,240
And at that time, it was forty dollars a bag.

791
00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:48,600
Well, there is no way any of us houndsmen was going to pay forty dollars a bag for native

792
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:49,600
dog food.

793
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:53,440
And he could not get us convinced, you know, to try it.

794
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:59,360
And I've just I've stuck with him in every single time I've had a dog food question.

795
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:05,320
I call Brandon and I had Zeke on a feed that he wasn't doing great on.

796
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:06,800
He was getting real hot on.

797
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,980
And I told asked Brandon, I said, what do I need to feed this dog?

798
00:41:10,980 --> 00:41:15,600
And I truly believe Brandon would if it's some other brand, he would have told me, and

799
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,260
he told me about this this feed, the next level made.

800
00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:21,880
And I am sold 100 percent.

801
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,120
It's the best feed I've ever put in the hound.

802
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:28,880
So which blender you find out which blender you feed that hero salute.

803
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,600
Oh, gotcha.

804
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:32,600
It's a fish base.

805
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:37,320
And I think, you know, it's if I could go on and on and on.

806
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:43,040
And it's a deal you just have to try to believe it, you know, but he's just been so good to

807
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,080
us on the feed and brand knows I've had other brands of feed.

808
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:47,240
He wasn't pushed to the time.

809
00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:48,240
We feel friends.

810
00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:51,520
And that's, you know, that's what makes it so good.

811
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:56,700
But I think that that feed, that blend is really raised to the top.

812
00:41:56,700 --> 00:42:03,720
You know, Brandon, for you guys, you know, obviously coming from that side of it, the,

813
00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:11,920
you know, the business side of it, I believe you're getting a very well received from all

814
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:16,120
of the dog men and women out there on that blend.

815
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:17,120
Right.

816
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:18,120
Yes, it is.

817
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:22,380
Yes, it's the formula we all feed, you know, in the company.

818
00:42:22,380 --> 00:42:23,380
We all feed here.

819
00:42:23,380 --> 00:42:26,920
And I think that's the thing about the hero salute and there's a little bit something

820
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:27,920
about the hero salute.

821
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:34,040
It was made Scott and Scott and Antoine, the owners, Scott is very patriotic, but he wanted

822
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:35,600
to do something a little different.

823
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:36,600
Right.

824
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,080
You know, let's do something for the heroes.

825
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:39,800
You know, the hero salute.

826
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,000
What can we do for that?

827
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:46,400
So for every bag that we sell, two dollars, that goes to an organization called Tunnels

828
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:47,400
to Towers.

829
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,320
If you don't know what that is, I suggest you look it up.

830
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:58,640
Let's just say that, Bryce, you are a first responder there in Peru or National Guard,

831
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:02,800
something whatever you're working your first responder, police officer, National Guard.

832
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,520
And something happened to you and you passed away tomorrow.

833
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:11,360
They would go pay off your wife's mortgage or let's say Shane was coming to become a

834
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:12,360
homeless veteran.

835
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:13,360
He's a veteran.

836
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:17,100
Let's say he became homeless, wandered around the streets of Kentucky.

837
00:43:17,100 --> 00:43:20,160
They would go put him up in a hotel and they would pay for that.

838
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,240
So how do they fund that?

839
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:26,120
They fund it from donations and we are so happy to be a part of that organization.

840
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:30,720
So every bag of heroes that we sell, two bucks go towards that organization.

841
00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:36,360
And that's just a side note for us hounds, guys, that product is amazing.

842
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:43,380
It's a 26 protein, 18 fat, 850 milligrams of glucose for hips and joint.

843
00:43:43,380 --> 00:43:44,840
It just hits all the buttons.

844
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:50,440
And when Eddie called me and goes, man, the food on feeds is not working.

845
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:51,440
What do you recommend?

846
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,600
I said, I'm trying with my old dog Spot.

847
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,520
With Spot, we all know Spot.

848
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:56,520
He's not a coon hound.

849
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:01,440
I mean, he's a coon hound, but he won at Orlando and New York.

850
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,080
He's not a coon dog, coon hunter.

851
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:05,560
He don't go hunt.

852
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,840
And I said, man, it really works for me.

853
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:12,120
He's 16 years old and he gets long good, he looks good.

854
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,480
And so Eddie tried it and Eddie's like, man, this stuff works.

855
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,480
And I'm like, okay, well, here's a free hat.

856
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,720
But he's like, no, it really works.

857
00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:27,120
And I couldn't be prouder to be a part of the $20,000 hunt.

858
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:28,640
Lucky for us, right?

859
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,640
So it worked really well.

860
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:31,640
That's awesome.

861
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:32,840
And I can attest to it too.

862
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,800
And this isn't a next level podcast because if you guys want to hear more about it, you

863
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:37,640
can go back to our episode that we did with Brandon.

864
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:41,080
But this is just a happy customer talking to you.

865
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:45,200
I can attest to what Mr. Eddie and what Brandon are saying is that the next level feed is

866
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,180
what I've got wheels on.

867
00:44:47,180 --> 00:44:54,520
And I'm feeding the high energy 2420 because I tried the hero salute.

868
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,440
Wheels is not, he will not eat anything with fish in it, whatever it is.

869
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,300
I've tried a couple of different blends of feed.

870
00:44:59,300 --> 00:45:00,700
He will not eat fish.

871
00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:06,480
So the 2420 is where I've landed with him and man, Basham, you know, you know, and people

872
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:10,260
who've listened to this podcast for a long time, they know the struggle that I went through

873
00:45:10,260 --> 00:45:13,640
with wheels trying to get that dog to eat food.

874
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:18,280
There was a, there was a period of time where Nikki cooked for him every night because he

875
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:19,280
would not eat dog food.

876
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:20,360
He wouldn't touch it.

877
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:21,960
It didn't matter what you threw at him.

878
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,320
You know, he was looking poor and now we found out part of that was, was a health issue.

879
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,560
You know, um, he had some, uh, ulcers and stuff in his stomach and his esophagus.

880
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,800
We got that taken care of, but even once that was taken care of, finding a dog food he would

881
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:39,400
eat was like pulling teeth until we found this high energy 2420 next level feed.

882
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,840
And I put that food in the bowl now and I mean, he is knocking you out of the way to

883
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,060
get into that stuff.

884
00:45:44,060 --> 00:45:45,060
He looks good.

885
00:45:45,060 --> 00:45:46,060
He's filled out.

886
00:45:46,060 --> 00:45:47,060
He's only a 49 pound dog.

887
00:45:47,060 --> 00:45:50,160
He's a small frame, but man, he looks filled out.

888
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:51,160
He looks good.

889
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,640
His energy level is, it's crazy right now.

890
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,120
I almost wish he didn't have as much right now.

891
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:58,960
Cause if I don't hunt him for two or three nights, he's going driving me crazy.

892
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,120
But you know, I'm, I'm a very satisfied customer.

893
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:05,880
Nikki actually just last week, Brandon, she put both of her big show dogs on the next

894
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:06,880
level.

895
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:11,280
And we've now got, we've got four dogs in the kennel that are, we're being fed the next

896
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:12,280
level.

897
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:13,280
Those are the four that we're hunting.

898
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,200
I got two that I'm hunting and two that we're pushing to show.

899
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:19,320
So those jobs that have jobs and are actively competing now, we're all, we're on the next

900
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:24,120
level train right now and hopefully we'll be making some noise.

901
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:25,120
That is an excess.

902
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,120
Get those Elbring girls on a dog food that you're doing something.

903
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,080
But that's a fee.

904
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,520
What'd you got to say, Zach?

905
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:37,560
I was going to say when he was talking about picky eaters, that almost sounds like Duke

906
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:38,560
Basham.

907
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:46,600
I remember when I was on the road with Duke, I would, I messaged Basham.

908
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,800
We that's more my fault.

909
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:55,040
Me and Terry bought a dog off of Basham and his name is Stylus Duke.

910
00:46:55,040 --> 00:47:00,200
We did a lot of winning with and Steven did a lot of winning with him also, but that sucker,

911
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,480
I could not get him to eat on the road.

912
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:07,000
I just started texting Basham like, what do I need to do to the sucker?

913
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,680
He was a pig.

914
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,680
Feed him Big Macs.

915
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,320
And chicken tenders.

916
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:21,200
Hey, there's, you know, everybody knows that I've sold a couple of different dog foods

917
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:26,120
in the world and I've been blessed to be a part of Scott and Lover and Antoine Alvin.

918
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:31,960
Those guys are geniuses in pet nutrition, but they're just rednecks like the five of

919
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:33,360
us, right?

920
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:38,760
And man, it doesn't always work for everybody and for every dog.

921
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:44,160
I remember being at a CHKC world hunt there in the Lambertuna Lakes with a guy and I don't

922
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,540
remember his name, but he's like, my dog won't eat.

923
00:47:47,540 --> 00:47:49,480
So we stopped at a convenience store.

924
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:54,040
He just bought some canned dog food, just like tuna or whatever, and the dog ate it.

925
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,280
He's like, I just, I just need the dog to eat.

926
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,560
So, dogs are like humans.

927
00:47:58,560 --> 00:47:59,560
We're all different.

928
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:04,760
It does not always work for everybody, but most of the time it will.

929
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:11,120
But anyways, fun times and fun groups and couldn't be after to be a part of it.

930
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:12,440
So, yeah, absolutely.

931
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,640
Well, you know, we appreciate Brandon, you setting this up.

932
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,120
Zach, Eddie, I know you guys have been busy after you win.

933
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,000
You guys have done a couple other podcasts too.

934
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:24,440
So we appreciate you taking time to join us here on Semper Doggin.

935
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:30,120
One thing that we do want to do here though, is we want to give away a bag of hero salute

936
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:31,240
here to one of you listeners.

937
00:48:31,240 --> 00:48:34,560
And I personally did not mention this at the beginning of the podcast because I don't,

938
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:35,880
I want people to listen to this stuff.

939
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,320
So all right, I'm going to let Brandon choose the question.

940
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:40,320
Okay.

941
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:45,320
Brandon's going to choose the question and whoever is the first person to email the correct

942
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:53,240
answer to SemperDoggin at gmail.com is going to get a free bag of next level hero salute

943
00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:55,520
and Brandon's going to toss in a hat with it.

944
00:48:55,520 --> 00:49:00,640
So yeah, we're going to toss in a hat and a t-shirt with the free bag of dog food.

945
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:04,120
So I have one question.

946
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:11,600
Who is Mr. Eddie's uncle that is the foundation of Eddie's honey in the blue tick breed?

947
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:14,080
Who is Eddie's uncle?

948
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:15,080
All right.

949
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:16,080
So I hope you guys have it.

950
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:19,200
That is the question to receive a one bag hero salute.

951
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,120
Basham, what do you got buddy?

952
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaking on that something, and it's kind of the foundation and me and if you've listened

953
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:33,160
to this podcast, it's something that me and Bryce really hang our hat on and something

954
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,920
that I think in the future, we're really going to push even more.

955
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:38,760
We got Mr. Eddie on here today.

956
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:45,280
And one of the biggest things that I like doing is telling the stories that are not

957
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,600
told, getting them recorded.

958
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:53,200
I tell Bryce all the time, people's kind of heard my story as far as my dad and I haven't

959
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:57,780
done it and I keep kicking myself in the butt, but I need to get over there one day and just

960
00:49:57,780 --> 00:50:02,640
get some of his stories down recorded so that I have them for the future.

961
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:09,600
And so Mr. Eddie, if you would just grace us with a good story, either from when you

962
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:16,920
were a kid or whenever your uncle and how he inspired you, just give us a good story

963
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,480
to kind of end this podcast with.

964
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,400
Well, man, I don't start on stories.

965
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:29,680
I tell stories all day long, but the greatest thing for me about Kuhnhund and my Uncle Richard

966
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:33,720
is brand new to that, he's my hero, just like the dog food.

967
00:50:33,720 --> 00:50:40,640
I salute him with everything, but just going to hunt with him and we can drive, I don't

968
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:47,760
care if it's Batesville, Mississippi or Peru, Indiana or where it might be, he tells Kuhnhund

969
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:53,080
stories the whole way and rattles pedigrees off the whole way and the whole way home.

970
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:57,760
And he's the first one waiting on me when I get back in, sitting over there sipping

971
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:05,200
a cup of coffee and I'm telling you, the knowledge that that man has in the blue tick world is

972
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:06,360
unbelievable.

973
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,240
You could write a book on it.

974
00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:15,000
And you know, I think one of the biggest things that hurts the blue tick guys is we don't

975
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:16,760
listen to enough of those guys.

976
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,360
We want to do it our way.

977
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:24,240
And he's never told me how to handle a dog and he's never told me how to train a dog,

978
00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:26,680
but he has told me in his way.

979
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,160
And I listened to everything he says.

980
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:33,720
And you know, it's kind of like you said, Steven, it's, I need to sit down and record

981
00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:39,920
the stories, but I love pleasure hunting with him.

982
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:43,520
And you know, I hope I can continue to get plenty more hunts in with him.

983
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:48,540
He's turned, I believe he's 80 now he's slowed down some, he's still Kuhnhunds, but not like

984
00:51:48,540 --> 00:51:54,480
he used to, but it's, but I could, I mean, I could tell Kuhnhund the stories.

985
00:51:54,480 --> 00:52:00,480
Well, let's get a, let's get a good story, a good story of you and him Kuhnhunting.

986
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,600
Tell us one Eddie.

987
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:09,600
Well, not so much Kuhnhunt, but we were going to hunt blue tick days in Michigan one year.

988
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:15,800
And I just bought a brand new truck and it's an old five Nissan Titan and it had the arm

989
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:16,800
in it.

990
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:21,640
I always pick up Richard up in Little Town called Chautauqua, Kansas.

991
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:25,840
And we no more get going down the road and he flips that Atlas open.

992
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,520
And I made it be 10 miles from town.

993
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:35,280
He's got that looking for our exit, you know, and about day two into this trip, he said,

994
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:40,160
Eddie, I hate to ask you this, but he said, is that the same gal that was talking to you

995
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,480
yesterday on your radio?

996
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:48,840
I had my garment on and he could believe it's the same lady giving me directions.

997
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:55,160
But I mean, I'll just buy a cell phone a year or two ago, but any, I'll never forget him

998
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,480
saying, is that the same lady who just talked to you?

999
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,480
You're on the directions.

1000
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,480
Oh boy.

1001
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,480
That's over Richard.

1002
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:08,560
Yeah, he's just as calm as they get.

1003
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:13,480
And I just, I just hope one day I can feel half of his boots.

1004
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,400
Well, I'll tell you what.

1005
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:16,400
Me too.

1006
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:24,160
We'll get together with you and maybe, maybe me and Bryce can, and Brandon can take a trip

1007
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:30,080
out there and we can sit down with Mr. Richard and we can, we can get some of it.

1008
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:33,720
We can get some of these stories, uh, recorded.

1009
00:53:33,720 --> 00:53:36,800
I'm telling you, it'd be a blessing for you.

1010
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:41,220
These are, you can't, you can't find a man in the United States of America say a bad

1011
00:53:41,220 --> 00:53:42,720
word about Richard Green.

1012
00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:46,320
No, not going to happen.

1013
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:47,760
Just don't get lost.

1014
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:53,240
Cause I remember the last time he showed up in a Missouri bathroom and I spent 30 minutes

1015
00:53:53,240 --> 00:53:54,240
on a floor.

1016
00:53:54,240 --> 00:53:55,240
They're trying to find you.

1017
00:53:55,240 --> 00:54:02,000
Hey, that's that Kentucky math, man.

1018
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,760
They didn't give directions.

1019
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:09,760
They did a pin drop and this was back when Samsung and iPhone first started doing the

1020
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:10,760
pin drop stuff.

1021
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:15,760
And I think they had a Samsung and I had an iPhone and they did the old pin drop and

1022
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:19,080
I at that time, I didn't know anything about electronics.

1023
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:23,920
So here I am trying to figure it out and I'm going around the hillside trying to find them.

1024
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,560
And yeah, it was, it was, it was a crap shoot.

1025
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:29,040
Don't make me sound like I'm old.

1026
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:30,040
I'm not very old.

1027
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,040
I'm not like you guys.

1028
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:37,040
No, it's exactly just a baby, but I just kind of wrap it up.

1029
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:42,600
If we could ever get, get a, you know, trip out with you guys, come out here to, uh, to

1030
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,480
God's country where Zach, Eddie and I live.

1031
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:52,160
And, uh, but going to, you know, go on a little hunt with, with Uncle Richard and, uh, maybe,

1032
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:56,680
maybe even throwing a couple of old legends like Dennis Albrecht or Jim Combs, man, that

1033
00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:00,960
would be an amazing hunt and a podcast.

1034
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:06,440
Uh, you talk about three legends, Jim Combs, Dennis Albrecht and Uncle Richard.

1035
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:08,280
Lord have mercy.

1036
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:10,440
That'd be a great time.

1037
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,440
And I'm all in and I'll pay for every bit of it.

1038
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:13,440
Just let me know.

1039
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:18,200
All right guys, well, we should go ahead and Mr. Eddie, go ahead.

1040
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:19,960
No, I said, there you go.

1041
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:20,960
Yep.

1042
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:23,840
It's cheeseburgers and biscuit and gravy Eddie.

1043
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:24,840
Come on.

1044
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:25,840
Yeah, bingo.

1045
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:26,840
I'm in.

1046
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:27,840
You know, I'm in.

1047
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:28,840
Yeah.

1048
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:29,840
All right guys.

1049
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:30,840
Well, this has been super fun.

1050
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:34,400
Once again, we appreciate everybody tuning in here to the Semper Dog and podcast.

1051
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:38,440
You know, we, we have never had this many people on one before, and I think it was a

1052
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:42,800
lot of fun to get this many perspectives on different stories, the hunts.

1053
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,760
Um, you know, we appreciate Mr. Eddie telling us a good story there.

1054
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:49,280
Zach, congratulations once again, man, for your, your big win out there in Missouri this

1055
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:50,280
last weekend.

1056
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:52,760
Brandon, thanks for, for getting everybody together here.

1057
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,840
We know we've been a good friend of mine and you've helped us out a lot here.

1058
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:59,240
Uh, you know, with froggy bottom outdoors and pushing this feed, uh, you got Mr. Eddie

1059
00:55:59,240 --> 00:56:00,320
straightened out on feed.

1060
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:01,960
You've got wheels straightened out on feed.

1061
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:04,960
We appreciate, you know, what you do just from a friend standpoint, not just from a

1062
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:06,440
business standpoint.

1063
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:13,640
Um, everybody has had a chance now about 20 times to hear the correct answer for the free

1064
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:15,680
bag of dog food since we announced it.

1065
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,900
You know, if you guys don't get this, then we're never going to be able to help you.

1066
00:56:18,900 --> 00:56:25,500
So first person to email Semper dogging at gmail.com, the correct answer to who was Mr.

1067
00:56:25,500 --> 00:56:26,760
Eddie Green's uncle.

1068
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:31,040
Um, you're going to get a free hat, a free t-shirt and a free bag of hero salute.

1069
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:35,200
So guys, with that, we appreciate you guys joining us gentlemen.

1070
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,440
Thanks again for having us, uh, or for letting us have you on our podcast.

1071
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:39,760
Basham, are you good?

1072
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:41,560
You got anything else you want to close us out with?

1073
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:45,560
Hey, I just want to say a big thank you to Brandon.

1074
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:50,560
I mean, he's kind of, he's kind of, um, helped us, promoted us.

1075
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:54,560
I mean, you know, every time we turn around, he's jumping on there.

1076
00:56:54,560 --> 00:57:02,320
Uh, I remember a few months ago, the Virginia state youth hunt was looking for, um, was

1077
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:06,000
looking for somebody to help with some prizes.

1078
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:07,440
And all I did was tag mr.

1079
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:08,440
Brandon.

1080
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:12,680
And next thing I know, I see the big flyer that said Virginia state youth hunt sponsored

1081
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:14,040
by next level.

1082
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:20,800
And so I can't, I can't even begin to tell Brandon how much it means to the coon hunters,

1083
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:26,360
to the, to the people out there to see next level, putting interest back into the coon

1084
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:30,940
hound world and how much we appreciate it, how much me and Bryce appreciate his friendship

1085
00:57:30,940 --> 00:57:35,400
here on simple dog and podcasts and, you know, going forward.

1086
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:36,400
Yep.

1087
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:37,800
Go ahead, Zach.

1088
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:38,800
Yeah.

1089
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:40,680
I'm going off of what bash and said.

1090
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:44,280
I mean, I, I heard a percent agree with everything that you said.

1091
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,280
I mean, Brandon's been a, a standup guy.

1092
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:49,680
He's helped me with a lot of different deals.

1093
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:56,120
And, uh, when he told me about this next level food, I mean, my dogs are looking better than

1094
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:57,120
they ever have.

1095
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:01,320
Uh, Brandon has been the type of guy, he tells me something.

1096
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:03,760
I mean, he's going to shoot me straight on it.

1097
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:08,800
He's helped me out since day one when he didn't know me and he's helped me out now since I've

1098
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:11,360
known him for 10 plus years.

1099
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,440
He's been a standup guy on everything that he's done.

1100
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:15,440
Yep.

1101
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:16,440
All right guys.

1102
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,680
Well, like I said, appreciate you guys for tuning in here at simple dog and podcasts.

1103
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:22,400
We've kept you late enough tonight where everybody's got to work in the morning except for bash

1104
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:23,400
them.

1105
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:24,680
You know, that guy doesn't work.

1106
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:26,480
So get you to do whatever.

1107
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:27,520
I work every night.

1108
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,680
I work every night while y'all are sleeping.

1109
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:30,680
Hey, I'm out there.

1110
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:32,240
We're in the corners.

1111
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:33,240
Don't count.

1112
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:34,240
Okay.

1113
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:35,240
That don't count.

1114
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:44,520
Hey guys, make sure you join us Tuesday for the next episode of simple dog and for dog

1115
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:45,600
and Tuesday.

1116
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:48,640
So make sure you join us next Tuesday for dog and Tuesday.

1117
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:49,640
Yep.

1118
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:50,640
That's over on the Facebook group.

1119
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:51,640
So, all right guys, I'm done rambling.

1120
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:52,640
I'm signing off here.

1121
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:53,640
We'll see you guys.

1122
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:54,640
Thank you.

1123
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:56,640
I'm out of here.

1124
00:58:56,640 --> 00:59:25,640
I'm out of here.