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Canines are our passion. They are our addiction.

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They are our way of life right down to the very

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core. And without them, we would be lost. The

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canines of this world really are something to

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behold. They assist us at work. They accompany

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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,

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we are grateful. This podcast will showcase working

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canines of various breeds and disciplines as

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we search for those canines and their handlers

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who are always striving to be the best at what

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they do. Those who are always grinding. Those

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who are always pushing the limits. Those who

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are always dogging. Join us on our adventures

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as it is sure to be a wild ride. I'm your host,

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Bryce Matthews. And I'm your co -host, Stephen

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Basham. And this, this is Semper Doggo. Welcome,

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welcome, welcome to another episode of the Simper

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Doggin' Podcast, guys. I am your host, Bryce

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Matthews, and tonight we are joined by Mr. Stephen

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Basham, and he has recruited a fine young gentleman

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here to join us on the podcast today, Mr. Braxton

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Wills. So, Mr. Basham, how are you, brother?

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Doing all right. Long time no hear, buddy. I

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know it's been a hot minute since we've been

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together here on the podcast. We have been slacking.

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Yeah. Like we told you guys, sometimes... Things

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just take precedence. We've got some things going

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on in our lives. Bryce taking on new endeavors

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and everything like that. We're going to get

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it figured out. I'm in the process of helping

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him out a little bit and downloading the program

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so that I can maybe launch some podcasts by myself

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if I have to to try to help out guys. Just stick

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with us. Bear with us. We'll get this figured

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out, and we'll get some more content to you guys.

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Yeah, for sure, man. It's been just absolutely

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busy with the daggone farm and work and hunting.

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And it's just a whirlwind right now. In other

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news, the farm. We finally got into a grocery

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store here in Kokomo. So we have a grocery store

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now carrying our beef and our goat products.

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Which one did you get? The Sunspot Natural Market.

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So they have a store there, like a holistic health

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food store. They've got a store here in Kokomo,

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and they've got one over in West Lafayette as

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well. We're in Kokomo right now. We're going

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to see how things go and see how well it's received

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by the public. If it all goes well, then we'll

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be expanding over to the West Lafayette store,

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servicing the Purdue area. Big things happening

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for After E, man. We're starting to see some

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work pay off. Good deal, buddy. Congratulations.

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Yeah, it's been fun. Picked up a new dog. Been

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hunting him for about a month now. And finally

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got somebody that wants to push a dog. So we've

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just been flying under the radar, trying to fly

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by night. And we'll break him out here in a few

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weeks. But I think I got a nice one to pack around

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here. Not that old wheels ain't nice, but finally

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got somebody else that wants to push one. So

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we'll see what we can do. Oh, yeah. You know,

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it's always good to have a nice one. you know,

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in your back pocket. But talking about nice ones,

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you know, we got a young fellow on here today

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that has kind of hit a lick at a hunt. And I'll

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let him kind of tell us about it. But if I'm

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not mistaken, he's the youngest person to ever

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get in the top three. Is that correct, Braxton?

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Yes, sir. Yes, he is. Look out, look out. So

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I'll let you take over, Bryce. Yeah, yeah. I

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mean, so we got Braxton Wills here. Most of y

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'all are going to know him from the 2024 UKC

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World Championship. Braxton, like I said, he

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was the youngest person to make the final three

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there. hunting, hunting a really nice dog there

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that he didn't have for too long before the hunt

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there. But let's just rewind it. Let's go back

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to it. And Braxton, why don't you tell us a little

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bit about how you come up, how you started hunting,

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what got you into it, where you're from. And

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then we'll kind of work into how Bashman and

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I met you. And we'll end on the world hunt. So

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yeah, that's a good story. That's a good story

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how we met you. But yeah, Braxton, why don't

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you give us a little bit of background on yourself,

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buddy? All right. Well, I was probably about

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eight years old. My mom and my stepdad, James

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Jones, they got, They got together, and they

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got married. My dad, he always came hunting,

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done his whole life, and he's the one that kind

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of got me into it. I walked along with him in

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the hunts forever, just kind of getting, you

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know, no grounds and all that. And I finally,

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I think I hunted my first calf when I was 10

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years old, and it just kind of kicked off from

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there. I'm from Wyandotte, Oklahoma. Where is

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that geographically located in the state? It

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is kind of in the northeast corner. I can be

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in Kansas in 20 minutes, and I'm in the four

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-state corner, really. I'm 20 minutes from Joplin.

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I'm sure most people know where that is. Yeah.

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Yep. Absolutely. So you started starting around

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eight years old, and how old are you now? 16.

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God bless him. Just got his truck. Just got his

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license. Watch out, folks. This kid's about to

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tear down the world. You know that's true. Dang

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it. Look out, boys. He'll be at every hunt. It

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ain't nowhere safe. No. No. No, absolutely not.

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So what kind of dogs did you start out running

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there whenever you first were getting into it?

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And has that changed any over the years? No,

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not really. My dad, he always hunted Walker dogs.

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It's just we kind of stuck with it. It's about

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the only thing I kind of like. No offense to

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off -color boys, but it's kind of something I've

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always stuck with. Now, I really want to give

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a big shout -out, and I will let you go into

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how you two met and what he has meant to you

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in your coon hunting career. But that is your

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little chauffeur that always takes you everywhere.

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Talk about him and what he's meant to you. All

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right. Oh, man, I'll tell you, Vic, he's a mess.

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I love him to death. I'd do anything for him.

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i've known him my whole life and we have a little

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club up here in seneca missouri and he's always

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hunting it and be truthfully honest he's kind

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of well when i was but i'll put it this way when

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i was 12 yeah i was 12 years old i was always

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out hunting and cast by myself and all that and

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i got in some trouble for hunting under a guardian

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or without a guardian or someone walking in the

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cast that's over 18 and pkc And as soon as that

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happened, Vic, he found out. And every time I

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needed somebody to welcome me on a cast, he had

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always been there. And it just kind of started

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off from there. So that's Vic Hurley we're talking

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about, correct? Yes, Vic Hurley. Now, aren't

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you guys partners on some dogs now? No, not no

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more. Really, the only dog we ever partnered

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on was Joe. Gotcha. We'll get into Joe in a little

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bit. But now, tell us here. You know, you're

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16, but you hunt harder than most people that

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I know. How in the world do you hunt as hard

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as you do and still maintain everything you got

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going on? Oh, man, I'll tell you, really, I just

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think it's me being young and dumb. To be truthfully

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honest, I mean, it gets dark, and I'm one of

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them persons that can't sit around for too long.

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It gets dark, I'm outside putting my boots on,

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getting ready to go. I can't stand staying in

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one spot for too long. Yeah, but coon hunting's

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not the only thing you do, right? Now, you're

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homeschooled, correct? Yes, sir. So how does

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that work? What's a day in the life of Braxton

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look like? Well, I work a full -time job. I work

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up in Fayetteville. It's between Bella Vista,

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Arkansas, and Fayetteville. I work a full -time

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job. I work for some boys that own an excavation

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company. We do septic tanks and clear a lot of

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lots. I do that, and I do most of my schoolwork

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when I get home in the evening. I usually finish

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that up around 6, 6 .30, and sometimes I take

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a nap, and most of the time, six, seven nights

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a week, I go hunting. Yeah, that's what I thought.

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I thought you had a few different irons in the

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fire there. Yes, sir. Go ahead. Yes, sir. I keep

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busy, that's for sure. Absolutely, absolutely.

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All right, so. You know, you started hunting

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when you were around eight years old. You got

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hooked up with Vic. And where has that led you

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here? Have you kind of just always been around

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the local hunts? Or, you know, how did you get

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to the point where you were making a name for

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yourself at events like Autumn Oaks and the World

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Hunt? Like, were you always just, like I said,

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toting around to these local hunts? Or let's

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just talk about that a little bit. Oh, man, yes.

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Yes, pretty much. I had that old, old Jif of

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mine, Neosho River Queen Bee. She's really what

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got me started. I just kind of pushed her around

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most of the little hunts and won quite a bit

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of state money the first couple years. I got

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her when I was probably 12, 13, and she was eight

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months old when I got her. I take that back.

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I was 10 years old when I got her. Bob Noble,

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an old boy that lives over here in Novo, He gave

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her to me, and she was good, well, and started.

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She was trading cone when I got her. And I kept

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her, and that's just up until the last two years.

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That's what I hunted just pretty much forever,

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just her. That's what she's the dog that really

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gave me the name I have today. Yep, absolutely.

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Now, is she still around? You still got her in

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the pleasure hunter? Yes, sir. Yeah, she's eight

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coming nine. She'll be nine, I want to say, October.

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I don't hunt her as much as I used to, but I

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still hunt her a couple times a month. And speak

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of the fact, Seneca, Missouri, had an RQE this

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past weekend, and a buddy of mine wanted something

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to hunt. He took her, and boy, she's foul. I

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bet she couldn't even probably fit in a 55 -gallon

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drum. He got her qualified. He got her qualified.

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Yeah. Isn't that how it works? Hey, did you go

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to it? No, sir. No, sir. I was up at a buddy

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of mine, Bo Kelly's house. I was going to say,

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you know how that normally works? You bust your

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tail hunting every single night. Your dog's looking

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good. You've got him in shape. You take that

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dog, you get your butt whooped, and the dog has

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been sitting in the kennel for three months,

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ain't been touched, goes out there and wins.

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Man, I'll tell you, you ought to see her. She

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couldn't fit in the dog box if she wanted to.

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She's probably been hunting. 10 times in the

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last year well i'll tell you what and we'll get

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on this a little bit later but uh that might

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actually bode well with her you know to stay

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out of them holes you know you won't be bad about

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her you won't have to pull her out with no cheeseburger

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no no that cheeseburger it won't push her out

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that's for sure well uh we've already went down

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the rabbit hole bash and you might as well just

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open this can of worms Not yet. Not yet. We'll

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get there in just a minute. But obviously, you

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know, we brought you on the Semper Doggin podcast.

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And one thing that we always like to do on the

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Semper Doggin podcast is talk about the evolution

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of us as dog men. And you got started as an early,

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early age. So would you just talk about, you

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know, obviously you're out there night in and

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night out in the work. What does a night? and

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Braxton Willis training look like? I mean, are

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you going out there? Do you have multiple dogs

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that you're cutting loose? What are some traits

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for a dog that Braxton just can't let go, meaning

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babbling or backing? Just talk to us about your

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training efforts. Oh, man, I'll be honest with

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you. Most of the time, I just have one dog. I'm

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hunting. I usually hunt just one dog about every

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night, but just like now, we bought another dog

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from us last Saturday, so I'll be hunting two.

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As far as what I like in a dog, I like them to

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get struck pretty quick, and I like more of a

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trailing type dog. As far as an ambush, I like

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them to move around good. That's one thing I

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can't stand is covering them. I like them to

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be both still. Now, what kind of territory are

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you hunting in over there? What's the topography

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look like? Man, it's one of them deals. Like

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right here, probably 10 miles around my house,

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around Wyandotte, it's straight up and down.

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It's big hill country, but I can drive 40 minutes

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into Kansas and be in just crop fields, and I

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can drive probably an hour from me and be in

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just river bottoms and pecan bottoms. So it's

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really one of them deals you can do. hunt whatever

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you want. It's kind of nice as far as depending

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where you're going way off to hunt, you can kind

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of get them prepared for whatever terrain is

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where you're going. Yeah, man, I feel that. Man,

00:13:48.649 --> 00:13:52.070
I bet you got some coons up there. Yes, sir.

00:13:52.090 --> 00:13:54.090
It just really depends on the time of year, but

00:13:54.090 --> 00:13:56.669
yeah, in certain spots, you can truly hit the

00:13:56.669 --> 00:13:58.730
fire out of them. Basham, ain't you ever heard

00:13:58.730 --> 00:14:00.529
Lane Denny talk about treeing them coons in the

00:14:00.529 --> 00:14:03.210
pecan orchards or pecan groves, whatever you

00:14:03.210 --> 00:14:06.039
want to call them? We hunt them all the time,

00:14:06.139 --> 00:14:09.039
that's for sure. How far do you live from laying

00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:14.279
in them? I'd say I probably live 25 minutes from

00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:17.360
laying. We don't live far at all. Oh, good Lord.

00:14:18.659 --> 00:14:23.980
He lives in the next town over south of me. That's

00:14:23.980 --> 00:14:25.759
nice to have that caliber of dog that you can

00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:27.779
get a hold of somebody and go hunting and make

00:14:27.779 --> 00:14:31.059
sure that whatever you're packing around is towing

00:14:31.059 --> 00:14:33.360
up to the line and can hang with the dogs that

00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.399
are winning. Yes, sir. It sure is. It's nice

00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:38.360
to, as far as using it for a measuring stick,

00:14:38.460 --> 00:14:42.080
it's nice to have. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.

00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:46.700
It is. So, um, do you like that Basham? Absolutely.

00:14:46.820 --> 00:14:49.059
Three times. It's like I was on stuck on repeat.

00:14:51.139 --> 00:14:53.659
It was a glitch. We'll blame it on the internet.

00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:00.019
Dude, I'm telling you, Hey, this is, this is,

00:15:00.019 --> 00:15:01.340
I know this is a side note. This is a rabbit

00:15:01.340 --> 00:15:03.809
hole, but. So, you know, this new job, I spend

00:15:03.809 --> 00:15:05.730
a lot of time on the phone talking with people

00:15:05.730 --> 00:15:08.830
and I have found myself getting to the point

00:15:08.830 --> 00:15:10.649
where I will just be sitting there talking and

00:15:10.649 --> 00:15:13.269
it's like my brain shuts up and my mouth just

00:15:13.269 --> 00:15:15.549
keeps going. And I'm like, what is what are these

00:15:15.549 --> 00:15:17.590
words coming out that are not even forming a

00:15:17.590 --> 00:15:20.870
sentence on the other end of this phone? And

00:15:20.870 --> 00:15:22.450
I'll have to sit there and take a deep breath

00:15:22.450 --> 00:15:23.750
and tell the customer on the other end of the

00:15:23.750 --> 00:15:25.710
line. I'm like, hey, I apologize about that.

00:15:25.789 --> 00:15:29.730
Like, let me regroup and retry here. Don't turn

00:15:29.730 --> 00:15:34.159
into a salesman on it. It's something else. Braxton,

00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:40.120
that's always been Bryce. If his eyes are open,

00:15:40.179 --> 00:15:47.000
his mouth is moving. That's true. All you got

00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:49.039
to do is bat them baby blue eyes. Most of the

00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:51.220
time, it gets you what you want. It worked up

00:15:51.220 --> 00:15:52.799
until I got married. Now, it doesn't work as

00:15:52.799 --> 00:16:00.210
well anymore. That's about the truth. But let's

00:16:00.210 --> 00:16:05.610
roll right into it. You know, me and Bryce and

00:16:05.610 --> 00:16:09.629
Braxton kind of have a unique way that we all

00:16:09.629 --> 00:16:17.490
met. So I drew Braxton. Oh, what year was it,

00:16:17.490 --> 00:16:20.429
Bryce? It should have been about 2022, I think.

00:16:21.929 --> 00:16:27.389
2022. Yeah, it was either 21 or 22. I drew Braxton

00:16:27.389 --> 00:16:33.250
at the duel Thursday night at Autumn Oaks. And,

00:16:33.269 --> 00:16:37.850
um, you know, we, we drew out and, uh, we went,

00:16:37.850 --> 00:16:41.070
I guided to a spot over by Brookville Lake and,

00:16:41.149 --> 00:16:46.490
uh, Oh, uh, Oh, Boudreaux put on a clinic and,

00:16:46.549 --> 00:16:49.629
uh, Oh, Braxton's dog. We couldn't find her.

00:16:50.230 --> 00:16:55.009
And we walked around these woods for, ever in

00:16:55.009 --> 00:16:58.409
a day trying to find this dog. He kept saying,

00:16:58.590 --> 00:17:04.089
man, she's right here. I said, man, she must

00:17:04.089 --> 00:17:06.269
have got in that darn lake and swam across the

00:17:06.269 --> 00:17:10.849
lake because there's nowhere around here that

00:17:10.849 --> 00:17:14.369
she could be. Braxton, why don't you fill us

00:17:14.369 --> 00:17:19.789
in on where we found this dog? Well, man, that's

00:17:19.789 --> 00:17:23.119
just a nightmare even thinking about it. Well,

00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:25.440
she was on the side of whatever lake that was,

00:17:25.460 --> 00:17:28.160
Brookville Lake. She's in a big old, what do

00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:29.880
y 'all call them down there? Drain towels or

00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:32.920
towels or whatever. It was a big old hole. That

00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:35.960
was just a straight up creek bank hole. It was

00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:37.799
a big old creek bank hole. When I'm telling you,

00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:39.400
you could fit a semi in it. You could probably

00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:41.559
fit two of them in it. This thing was massive.

00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:44.900
It was probably, I'll ever bid a 20 -foot long

00:17:44.900 --> 00:17:47.039
on this dumb son of a buck I was hunting. Her

00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:50.119
dumb butt had to go to the very end of it. And,

00:17:50.220 --> 00:17:53.960
boy, we dug and dug and dug. That phrase they

00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:56.619
use, you can dig to China. I bet if you could,

00:17:56.700 --> 00:18:01.220
we tried. Yeah. So I'm sitting here at Autumn

00:18:01.220 --> 00:18:06.299
Oaks. I won my cast, and I'm sitting there, and

00:18:06.299 --> 00:18:08.480
I'm waiting on – With no Jed. Yeah, I was hunting

00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:10.240
Jed. With no Jed. Yeah, that's your Jed and I

00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.240
made a run at the world. It all started right

00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.400
there at Autumn Oaks. Well, no, so that would

00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:20.339
have been – yeah, 2022. I'm sitting here waiting

00:18:20.339 --> 00:18:22.160
on a call from Bash. I'm like trying to figure

00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:24.119
out how his cast went or what, what went down

00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:26.000
or whatever. And I just wasn't getting nothing

00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:27.779
from him. Like what in the world is going on?

00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:30.039
Like I should have heard from him by now. And

00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:32.599
he finally calls me and he's like, Hey, are you

00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:35.000
in bed yet? And I'm like, no, not yet. I've been

00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:36.220
waiting around to figure out what happened to

00:18:36.220 --> 00:18:38.579
you. And at this point it's gotta be what it's

00:18:38.579 --> 00:18:40.059
gotta be pushing one in the morning. Something

00:18:40.059 --> 00:18:44.079
like that. One or two. No, it was every, yeah,

00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:46.220
it was every bit to almost three probably at

00:18:46.220 --> 00:18:48.460
that point. So Basham calls me and he's like,

00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:50.940
Hey, I got this young kid down here. I think,

00:18:50.940 --> 00:18:53.019
Braxton, you were probably, what, 13 at the time.

00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:55.740
If you're 16 now, you're probably 13. Yeah, I've

00:18:55.740 --> 00:18:58.480
been 13. Yeah. And he's a bachelor. He's like,

00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:00.940
I got this young kid down here. He said, and

00:19:00.940 --> 00:19:02.740
his dog's in a hole. He's like, can you bring

00:19:02.740 --> 00:19:06.180
me a shovel? I'm like, yeah, yeah, I can probably

00:19:06.180 --> 00:19:10.519
scrounge one up and do that. And so I'm like,

00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:14.900
well, send me a pen. They were 40 minutes from

00:19:14.900 --> 00:19:18.200
me. A mile. A mile from the road. It was every

00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:21.059
bit of 30, 40 -minute drive to get there. And

00:19:21.059 --> 00:19:24.240
then they're a mile from the road. And I'm like,

00:19:24.299 --> 00:19:27.640
oh, Lord, here we go. So, you know, being the

00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:30.259
good friend that I am, strapped up my boots that

00:19:30.259 --> 00:19:32.559
I'd already took off. And if you all know me,

00:19:32.619 --> 00:19:36.000
I don't like to do that. Once I'm comfortable,

00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:38.240
I don't want to get uncomfortable. Strapped up

00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:40.500
them boots, and I hike across this daggone bean

00:19:40.500 --> 00:19:43.180
field, down the edge, through a woods, finally

00:19:43.180 --> 00:19:46.730
get to them. Or a cut over. Oh, my God. It was

00:19:46.730 --> 00:19:48.789
just miserable. And when I tell y 'all, Braxton

00:19:48.789 --> 00:19:51.529
is not exaggerating. This dog was on the absolute

00:19:51.529 --> 00:19:56.509
side of the lake up in this hole. And you could

00:19:56.509 --> 00:19:58.869
fit your whole body. I mean, at one point, Basham's

00:19:58.869 --> 00:20:01.289
whole body was in this hole trying to find this

00:20:01.289 --> 00:20:05.690
dog and hear this dog. And you could see her

00:20:05.690 --> 00:20:08.069
right there at the very end of it. But she would

00:20:08.069 --> 00:20:13.150
not come out of there. I mean, we did everything.

00:20:13.230 --> 00:20:15.170
Like Braxton said, we tried to dig to China twice.

00:20:15.509 --> 00:20:17.730
We come from the top. We come from the side.

00:20:17.869 --> 00:20:20.410
We come from every daggone which angle you could

00:20:20.410 --> 00:20:23.750
think of and could not get that dog out of that

00:20:23.750 --> 00:20:29.509
hole. And then Basham had a great idea. Well,

00:20:29.609 --> 00:20:32.910
I think this whole thing is how Bryce explains

00:20:32.910 --> 00:20:36.890
this next part and how we flag some people down.

00:20:37.829 --> 00:20:41.109
Yeah. So, like I said, y 'all, at this point,

00:20:41.190 --> 00:20:46.230
it's 3 o 'clock in the morning at least. At this

00:20:46.230 --> 00:20:48.910
point, it's every bit 4 or 5 probably. I don't

00:20:48.910 --> 00:20:50.750
know. Yeah, it's probably closer to 4 or 5 this

00:20:50.750 --> 00:20:52.950
time. It's close enough that old boy was fishing.

00:20:53.230 --> 00:20:55.450
Yeah. Yeah, these old boys, they come out there.

00:20:55.509 --> 00:20:57.170
They got their boat, and they're just trolling

00:20:57.170 --> 00:20:59.450
around real slow. I'm assuming, like Braxton

00:20:59.450 --> 00:21:01.769
said, trying to get on that morning bite. And

00:21:01.769 --> 00:21:06.259
by golly, if we don't freaking. Basham's like,

00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:07.539
well, let's see if they have anything in that

00:21:07.539 --> 00:21:09.460
boat. So we take our coon mites and we start

00:21:09.460 --> 00:21:11.160
flicking them on and off and on and off and on

00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:13.380
and off, trying to get their attention until

00:21:13.380 --> 00:21:16.259
finally this boat kind of trolls over to us.

00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:18.660
And we kind of explain to them what's going on.

00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:21.099
We're like, hey, y 'all got any hot dogs or any

00:21:21.099 --> 00:21:22.940
bait or anything on there that we can use to

00:21:22.940 --> 00:21:28.119
get this dog out of this hole? And this old boy,

00:21:28.220 --> 00:21:30.759
he looks at us and he goes, buddy, the only thing

00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:32.700
I got left here is about a half -eaten Wendy's

00:21:32.700 --> 00:21:37.890
cheeseburger. And Basham said, great, I'll take

00:21:37.890 --> 00:21:42.730
it. Basham finds a stick that's got a fork on

00:21:42.730 --> 00:21:44.690
the end of it, and he stabs it through this half

00:21:44.690 --> 00:21:47.569
-eaten Wendy's cheeseburger, and he crawls up

00:21:47.569 --> 00:21:50.509
in this hole, and he's trying to get this dog

00:21:50.509 --> 00:21:52.609
to come out and lure her out with a cheeseburger,

00:21:52.829 --> 00:21:58.589
and she was not having it, dude. She was done.

00:21:58.849 --> 00:22:00.930
She was laying right there at the end of the

00:22:00.930 --> 00:22:04.240
hole, and I tell you, I think it would have made

00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:07.759
us feel better if she was stuck. Yeah, it would

00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:09.420
have made me feel better. That's for dang sure.

00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:12.359
Yeah, that's the thing. She wasn't stuck. She

00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:14.819
was sitting there just staring at us. And she

00:22:14.819 --> 00:22:18.299
could look at us. I mean, she was probably 18

00:22:18.299 --> 00:22:20.440
inches from the end of Basham's arm, probably

00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:22.920
another 18 inches where we needed to get to to

00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:25.920
get our hands on her and just could not do it.

00:22:26.509 --> 00:22:29.410
And there were some big roots because we were

00:22:29.410 --> 00:22:32.650
in the side of the bank and there's some huge

00:22:32.650 --> 00:22:36.210
roots and we just could not get to her. No, you

00:22:36.210 --> 00:22:38.309
just couldn't. And she's sitting there staring

00:22:38.309 --> 00:22:39.769
at us and we're looking at Braxton and we're

00:22:39.769 --> 00:22:42.410
like, can, what can you do here? And he's like,

00:22:42.509 --> 00:22:43.990
man, I don't know. I've tried everything. And

00:22:43.990 --> 00:22:46.009
he's like, I mean, he's sitting there being nice

00:22:46.009 --> 00:22:47.869
to her and then he's yelling at her and then

00:22:47.869 --> 00:22:49.809
we're doing everything we can think of to get

00:22:49.809 --> 00:22:52.750
this dog to crawl to us 18 inches. And she just

00:22:52.750 --> 00:22:55.849
won't do it. So. Braxton, why don't you take

00:22:55.849 --> 00:23:00.490
it from there? Yeah, Braxton makes an adult decision

00:23:00.490 --> 00:23:03.230
at this point being 13 years old. Absolutely.

00:23:03.230 --> 00:23:06.690
Go ahead, Bra. Well, first, I'll start off. I'll

00:23:06.690 --> 00:23:08.910
tell you what made me the maddest. We got that

00:23:08.910 --> 00:23:11.130
cheeseburger. We put it on a stick. Boy, we jacked

00:23:11.130 --> 00:23:12.950
her and jacked her. We couldn't get her to budge.

00:23:13.069 --> 00:23:15.630
But, boy, man, as soon as that cheeseburger fell

00:23:15.630 --> 00:23:17.509
off the stick about halfway through that hole,

00:23:17.650 --> 00:23:19.869
that son of a buck came and ate that cheeseburger.

00:23:19.910 --> 00:23:22.029
She went right back to the end of it. Boy, talk

00:23:22.029 --> 00:23:25.269
about make a fella mad. But, no, we jacked around.

00:23:25.329 --> 00:23:27.490
We tried getting her out. I mean, she wasn't

00:23:27.490 --> 00:23:29.490
budging one bit. I don't know if she was just

00:23:29.490 --> 00:23:32.569
stupid, dumb, or what, but she wouldn't come

00:23:32.569 --> 00:23:35.390
one foot. That's all she had to come. It was

00:23:35.390 --> 00:23:39.470
12, like Bryce said, probably 18 inches. But

00:23:39.470 --> 00:23:43.730
it got to about daybreak when we finally quit

00:23:43.730 --> 00:23:46.450
trying, and I finally just decided, said, ah,

00:23:46.490 --> 00:23:48.210
just screw her. She'll either come out or she'll

00:23:48.210 --> 00:23:52.170
die in that hole. So me and Vic, let's see who

00:23:52.170 --> 00:23:54.950
went with her. With me and Vic that year. Me

00:23:54.950 --> 00:23:57.990
and Vic and Connor Dury. Oh, was there someone

00:23:57.990 --> 00:24:01.309
else in the truck? Yes or yeah. Me, Vic, and

00:24:01.309 --> 00:24:04.029
Connor Dury went that year. We went out there

00:24:04.029 --> 00:24:08.329
about noon that next day. And Vic has one of

00:24:08.329 --> 00:24:10.329
them big antennas you can hook a garment up to.

00:24:10.450 --> 00:24:12.950
We're just driving around all the back roads

00:24:12.950 --> 00:24:16.309
on that public ground, you know. And we pick

00:24:16.309 --> 00:24:19.589
her up. She is, when I say she's ever been, probably

00:24:19.589 --> 00:24:22.670
five miles from where that hole was. She finally

00:24:22.670 --> 00:24:26.029
got hot, boys, when she got. She went to get

00:24:26.029 --> 00:24:27.849
out of that hole. She punched her ticket. Now

00:24:27.849 --> 00:24:29.450
she's just running down the side of that lake,

00:24:29.529 --> 00:24:33.609
you know. And we pull up. We finally get close

00:24:33.609 --> 00:24:35.849
to her. We had her picked up. She's probably

00:24:35.849 --> 00:24:39.549
500 yards off the closest road. And we pull up

00:24:39.549 --> 00:24:43.809
to this old man's house. And me and that Connor

00:24:43.809 --> 00:24:45.650
boy, we hop out of the truck, and we're going

00:24:45.650 --> 00:24:47.769
to go get her. Well, we're walking down this

00:24:47.769 --> 00:24:50.410
road to go get her. Talk about creepy. this old

00:24:50.410 --> 00:24:52.809
man has baby dolls and just all kinds of stuff

00:24:52.809 --> 00:24:55.170
hanging from trees just on this road we're walking

00:24:55.170 --> 00:24:59.970
down and we walk we get down the lake and there

00:24:59.970 --> 00:25:01.990
she is just boy she's just sitting down there

00:25:01.990 --> 00:25:04.569
sitting all pretty and thinking welcome boy it's

00:25:04.569 --> 00:25:07.589
about finally time i seen you and i we got back

00:25:07.589 --> 00:25:10.509
to the truck and i guess that old boy that we

00:25:10.509 --> 00:25:14.250
stopped this house and vic was talking to boy

00:25:14.250 --> 00:25:17.170
i guess he gave old vic earful he said boy this

00:25:17.170 --> 00:25:19.170
place is a dangerous place he's telling us and

00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:22.279
All kinds of stuff. So let's get her in here

00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:26.180
and get the heck out of Dodge. Baby dolls hanging

00:25:26.180 --> 00:25:28.940
from the tree. Oh, I'm telling you. I bet in

00:25:28.940 --> 00:25:31.940
probably a 500 -yard walk on that road, I bet

00:25:31.940 --> 00:25:34.160
we've seen every bit of just old, creepy baby

00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:38.680
dolls. It's crazy. If it is not, you just see

00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:44.549
me on the way out of there. Yeah, but that's

00:25:44.549 --> 00:25:47.109
how Bash and Braxton and I all got to kind of

00:25:47.109 --> 00:25:49.230
know each other real well. We spent several hours

00:25:49.230 --> 00:25:52.289
with each other taking turns inside this hole

00:25:52.289 --> 00:25:54.789
trying to get this dog out that eventually just

00:25:54.789 --> 00:25:57.289
told us all to kick rocks and pound sand. She

00:25:57.289 --> 00:25:58.809
wasn't coming out of that hole while we were

00:25:58.809 --> 00:26:01.910
standing there. That's for dang sure. We did

00:26:01.910 --> 00:26:04.809
get good quality time. Hey, I tell you what.

00:26:04.930 --> 00:26:08.450
Hey, at least I can say this. We seen a dog put

00:26:08.450 --> 00:26:10.809
on one hell of a clinic that night, didn't we,

00:26:10.829 --> 00:26:15.779
Braxton? Yeah, we did. At that point, I was just

00:26:15.779 --> 00:26:18.480
along for the ride. I think everybody was. They

00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:21.559
just wanted to see what he could put up. Yeah,

00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:24.740
he put on a clinic that night. Remember, we was

00:26:24.740 --> 00:26:28.039
just along for the ride. There wasn't no coming

00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:31.440
back, that's for sure. If I was smart enough,

00:26:31.700 --> 00:26:33.480
I'd have just kept mine on leave when I knew

00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:38.279
I was beat. Yeah, but, man, you get in those

00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:42.990
hunts and... especially ukc you know this ukc

00:26:42.990 --> 00:26:46.309
it's harder it's harder to get out in those big

00:26:46.309 --> 00:26:51.109
hunts because i mean all it takes it takes one

00:26:51.109 --> 00:26:55.329
bad tree where everybody else is on that tree

00:26:55.329 --> 00:26:58.950
and it's old slick tail and boom you're the winner

00:26:58.950 --> 00:27:02.970
and so and it's hard it's hard to get out of

00:27:02.970 --> 00:27:07.029
the way it really is yes it is that's for dang

00:27:07.029 --> 00:27:11.599
sure it just takes one tree Nope. But that rolls

00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:16.339
us right into, obviously, the big win that you

00:27:16.339 --> 00:27:21.559
had. Obviously, it starts out, for those of you

00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:24.440
that don't know, to even get qualified to go

00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:26.819
to the UKC World, you have to go to a regional

00:27:26.819 --> 00:27:31.220
qualifying event. Tell us about the dog. Let's

00:27:31.220 --> 00:27:34.339
start off back at the beginning. Tell us what

00:27:34.339 --> 00:27:38.410
dog you hunted at the World Hunt. And where you

00:27:38.410 --> 00:27:42.289
got him qualified at? Well, it was a dog called

00:27:42.289 --> 00:27:45.269
Spring River Joe that we mentioned about taking

00:27:45.269 --> 00:27:48.769
me to Autumn Oaks, Vic Hurley. I got him. Me

00:27:48.769 --> 00:27:52.369
and Vic was going player hunting one night. Vic

00:27:52.369 --> 00:27:54.569
bought Joe when he was about 18 months old, and,

00:27:54.569 --> 00:27:57.769
you know, I kind of handled him for him just

00:27:57.769 --> 00:28:00.390
throughout some hunts. He always owned him. Man,

00:28:00.470 --> 00:28:05.640
I've always liked that dog. It was about... At

00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:08.859
the beginning of June, me and Vic was going pleasure

00:28:08.859 --> 00:28:12.259
hunting. And Vic, that old fart, he getting up

00:28:12.259 --> 00:28:17.059
there in age. You got to love Vic. He couldn't

00:28:17.059 --> 00:28:20.460
ask for a better guy. Guys, you cannot beat Mr.

00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:23.700
Vic. Mr. Vic is top notch. If you've never met

00:28:23.700 --> 00:28:26.259
him, you're missing out. Mr. Vic's a top notch

00:28:26.259 --> 00:28:30.779
guy. Yes, sir. But we was going pleasure hunting

00:28:30.779 --> 00:28:34.519
one night in June. I was looking at my female,

00:28:34.700 --> 00:28:37.240
my queen female. She was in heat, and I was wanting

00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:39.420
to go with PKC Youth Nationals. I didn't have

00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:44.359
nothing to hunt, so I asked Vic if I could hunt

00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:49.839
Joe up at Youth Nationals, and we kind of worked

00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:52.500
the deal out, and he pretty much just gave me

00:28:52.500 --> 00:28:55.420
half that dog if I just hunt him, you know, and

00:28:55.420 --> 00:28:58.349
put him in hunts. I went to youth nationals,

00:28:58.369 --> 00:29:00.890
and we won a couple early rounds, but we didn't

00:29:00.890 --> 00:29:04.210
just do a whole lot of good. Then we went, let's

00:29:04.210 --> 00:29:09.269
see, where did I get him qualified at? It was

00:29:09.269 --> 00:29:12.809
Clint, Missouri. It was actually the last RQE

00:29:12.809 --> 00:29:15.130
of the year. That's the God's honest truth. We

00:29:15.130 --> 00:29:17.990
went to Clint, Missouri, the last RQE of the

00:29:17.990 --> 00:29:22.609
year, and that's where I got him qualified at,

00:29:22.750 --> 00:29:26.450
Clint, Missouri. I was high -scoring dog. 675

00:29:26.450 --> 00:29:29.609
plus. That sounds like old Jed. I got him qualified

00:29:29.609 --> 00:29:34.569
the very last RQE. Yep. That year that you took

00:29:34.569 --> 00:29:36.710
him. Yep. Sometimes you just got to get in there.

00:29:37.549 --> 00:29:44.670
Oh, yeah. Go ahead. 625? 75. 675. Oh, 675. Okay.

00:29:47.329 --> 00:29:49.029
So what happened after that? So you get him in

00:29:49.029 --> 00:29:51.869
there at the RQE, and then you got to go to the

00:29:51.869 --> 00:29:56.259
zones. Which zone did you go to? I went to, what

00:29:56.259 --> 00:29:59.720
zone was that? It was Sedalia. I couldn't remember

00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:01.400
if it was at Kirksville or Sedalia. They had

00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:04.200
it at Sedalia that year. Friday night, I didn't

00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:06.079
do no good. Boy, he looked good. It was just

00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:08.660
one of those deals that came down. If I could

00:30:08.660 --> 00:30:10.619
have caught a break or not, and the break's just

00:30:10.619 --> 00:30:13.500
what my look wasn't on my side. Saturday night,

00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:16.819
he was one of them dogs. He liked to field edge.

00:30:16.940 --> 00:30:20.119
He was a hot -nosed dog. He had a field edge.

00:30:20.180 --> 00:30:21.759
He was usually going to look pretty good. And

00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:23.319
that's just about all we was hunting on Saturday

00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:29.279
night. And I treated a cone for 225 right out

00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:33.799
of the truck. And I treated, I think, four singles

00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:37.519
that cast. I made it in with a single high score

00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:40.880
of, I want to say, 850 that night. And that's

00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:44.559
just kind of how I got to the top 100. Or a single

00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:47.359
cast win. Heck yeah, you can't ask much more

00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:49.920
for that. So before we get into the top 100 in

00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:51.539
your big run there, fill us in a little bit more

00:30:51.539 --> 00:30:53.259
about Joe. What was his pedigree? What was his

00:30:53.259 --> 00:30:55.019
age? Where did he come from? Let's learn a little

00:30:55.019 --> 00:31:02.599
bit more about the dog. All right. Well, Joe

00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:07.859
was out of Cheyenne Cummings' Redneck Backwoods

00:31:07.859 --> 00:31:11.140
Shack dog. And to be the God's honest truth,

00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:14.460
I couldn't tell you what the female was. I know

00:31:14.460 --> 00:31:17.480
she was bone collector bred. But Vic bought Joe

00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:21.259
when he was 18 months old from a guy that lived

00:31:21.259 --> 00:31:23.440
about an hour and a half south of me in a little

00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:25.799
town called Little Kansas named Eric Stanley.

00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:30.700
He raised him from a puppy. And Vic had him.

00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:33.579
And between me and that Connor Dury boy I mentioned

00:31:33.579 --> 00:31:35.400
earlier, we just kind of swapped hunting for

00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:37.920
Vic and just, you know, a couple of little UKC

00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:40.900
hunts and go to Winter Classic and Autumn Oaks

00:31:40.900 --> 00:31:45.029
and just stuff like that. And then nobody really

00:31:45.029 --> 00:31:49.609
hunted him for about a year. And he was four

00:31:49.609 --> 00:31:52.769
when I got him. Yeah, it had been four come of

00:31:52.769 --> 00:31:57.210
five. And, you know, Joe was a coon treer. He

00:31:57.210 --> 00:31:59.170
was one of them you had to stay on top of. But

00:31:59.170 --> 00:32:02.069
he was a hot -nosed dog. He liked just wanting

00:32:02.069 --> 00:32:05.309
one certain coon. He liked treering. And he was

00:32:05.309 --> 00:32:07.750
good about staying by himself. And he was just

00:32:07.750 --> 00:32:10.569
one of those dogs he made. Look like crap pleasure

00:32:10.569 --> 00:32:12.069
hunting, but boy, as soon as you put him in a

00:32:12.069 --> 00:32:14.869
cast, it's like if it came down to it, he found

00:32:14.869 --> 00:32:18.890
a way to win. You can't beat that. Yes, sir.

00:32:19.529 --> 00:32:21.509
I'll tell you what that dog was. He's just one

00:32:21.509 --> 00:32:23.769
of the dogs that knew he was in a cast and just

00:32:23.769 --> 00:32:28.069
got real competitive. Yeah, Buddy, I'm going

00:32:28.069 --> 00:32:30.369
to be honest. Buddy's that way. You take him

00:32:30.369 --> 00:32:34.250
pleasure hunting, he's just typical. He's about

00:32:34.250 --> 00:32:36.950
average. He'll go out, tree a coon, nothing special.

00:32:37.789 --> 00:32:39.549
A lot of times, heck, he'll meet you at the truck.

00:32:39.950 --> 00:32:42.269
But you put that damn dog in a freaking competition

00:32:42.269 --> 00:32:45.630
hunt and it's just like something clicks in his

00:32:45.630 --> 00:32:47.670
head and he knows what he's doing. You know,

00:32:47.710 --> 00:32:53.589
he just seems to bring out the best in him. Yeah,

00:32:53.670 --> 00:32:56.930
Joe's the same way. He was a country just all

00:32:56.930 --> 00:32:59.289
around, but he was just mediocre pleasure hunting.

00:32:59.369 --> 00:33:01.930
But, boy, that dog knew as soon as you tied him

00:33:01.930 --> 00:33:07.250
up at a hunt. As soon as you caught him up at

00:33:07.250 --> 00:33:09.170
a hunt, you could tell that dog boy, he got where

00:33:09.170 --> 00:33:11.390
he was wired. 440 is acting like a one -year

00:33:11.390 --> 00:33:14.250
-old again. Absolutely, man. Those are fun ones

00:33:14.250 --> 00:33:16.009
to hunt. Whenever you can just see it come out,

00:33:16.130 --> 00:33:18.009
and they just get that competitive edge, and

00:33:18.009 --> 00:33:20.549
you can see it in their eyes. Those are fun for

00:33:20.549 --> 00:33:23.769
me. I like those dogs that they know when to

00:33:23.769 --> 00:33:28.890
shine. Let's see here. The top 100 this year

00:33:28.890 --> 00:33:32.630
was over in Illinois. What town was that even

00:33:32.630 --> 00:33:36.579
in this year? Marshall. Right? Yes. Marshall,

00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:39.460
Illinois. Marshall, Illinois. So walk us through

00:33:39.460 --> 00:33:41.160
your run there at the top 100 there. How did

00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:47.400
you make it to the top 20? Was it top 28? I think

00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:51.680
that's what it is. I think that's how it worked.

00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:53.400
I'd be honest with you. I couldn't even remember.

00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:58.039
So how did your cast go the first night? Well,

00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:00.480
the first night, what would that have been? On

00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:05.099
Thursday? Yeah, Thursday night. We cut loose.

00:34:05.859 --> 00:34:08.400
And the bad thing is, about two nights before

00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:10.639
we was going to the top 100, I was pleasure hunting

00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:13.320
Joe. Boy, he ran probably the biggest locust

00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:15.099
thorn I've ever seen right up his front right

00:34:15.099 --> 00:34:17.699
foot. He's about half crippled going out there.

00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:20.860
It's just one of them things. Already in for

00:34:20.860 --> 00:34:24.599
it. You might as well go try it. Yep. Thursday

00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:29.639
night, let's see. I couldn't even tell you who

00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:33.110
I drew. It's been so long ago. I have the world's

00:34:33.110 --> 00:34:36.170
worst memory. You're young. You're supposed to

00:34:36.170 --> 00:34:39.710
have a good memory. I don't know about that saying.

00:34:39.789 --> 00:34:41.889
I'm the world's worst, I'm telling you. I forget

00:34:41.889 --> 00:34:48.829
my name half the time. But I want to say I treated

00:34:48.829 --> 00:34:52.110
Cone right out of the truck. Joe was pretty good

00:34:52.110 --> 00:34:54.610
about getting struck. He was an honest strike

00:34:54.610 --> 00:34:56.489
dog, but he was just one of them deals. He's

00:34:56.489 --> 00:34:59.400
pretty good. about getting struck, but I treated

00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:05.139
a cone right out of the truck for 225. Boy, I

00:35:05.139 --> 00:35:07.179
can't remember one person I drew that night.

00:35:09.940 --> 00:35:13.300
Boy, who did I draw? But besides the point, I

00:35:13.300 --> 00:35:17.579
want to say I treated a cone and treated a den,

00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:21.340
and I think that's all I got done come Thursday

00:35:21.340 --> 00:35:25.179
night. But it got you through. Sure. Yeah, it

00:35:25.179 --> 00:35:28.489
got me through. Yes, sir. Not a lot of action.

00:35:29.349 --> 00:35:33.010
No, no. I think we made three trees that whole

00:35:33.010 --> 00:35:37.690
two -hour cast. Yeah. It may have been 90 minutes

00:35:37.690 --> 00:35:39.889
or two hours, whatever one it was. Yeah, it's

00:35:39.889 --> 00:35:41.650
two hours. We had a pretty eventful night that

00:35:41.650 --> 00:35:43.610
night. Wheels looked pretty good. Wheels jammed

00:35:43.610 --> 00:35:45.730
three of them on them and punished his ticket

00:35:45.730 --> 00:35:47.170
to the top. I think it was top 28. Isn't that

00:35:47.170 --> 00:35:50.090
what it is, Basham? Yeah, it was. Yeah, that's

00:35:50.090 --> 00:35:52.550
what it was, top 28. Yeah, so wheels punched

00:35:52.550 --> 00:35:54.409
his ticket. So Braxton and I are sitting there.

00:35:55.130 --> 00:35:57.510
We got the handlers meeting the next day. And

00:35:57.510 --> 00:36:00.030
what's that feeling like, you know, knowing that

00:36:00.030 --> 00:36:01.449
you're the youngest guy there? You're sitting.

00:36:01.690 --> 00:36:03.869
They got everybody put together in a little square.

00:36:04.070 --> 00:36:06.070
And you got Alan Gingrich and Trevor Wade kind

00:36:06.070 --> 00:36:07.750
of going over the rules and the formalities.

00:36:07.769 --> 00:36:09.969
And they give you your new light. And what kind

00:36:09.969 --> 00:36:11.309
of emotions are going through your head there?

00:36:12.789 --> 00:36:16.369
Man, I'll tell you. I mean, I was real excited.

00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:20.380
I don't know if I was just more nervous or excited.

00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:22.699
It's just one of them deals. It's kind of a combination

00:36:22.699 --> 00:36:25.219
of both, but I can tell you I was nervous. Get

00:36:25.219 --> 00:36:30.699
dark, I was pretty dang nervous. I can promise

00:36:30.699 --> 00:36:34.559
you, Braxton, that you are not more nervous than

00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:38.500
Mr. Bryce Matthews. Shoot, come on now. Man,

00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:42.340
I'm going to tell you how this man gets before

00:36:42.340 --> 00:36:45.599
a competition hunt. I mean, he gets to shaking

00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:50.800
and nervous in his boots. And, I mean, he almost

00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:53.440
needs a little prescription medicine just to

00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:57.519
kind of calm him down. No, I ain't that bad.

00:36:57.860 --> 00:37:00.599
Yeah, I mean, I knew as soon as I got to the

00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:02.980
top 28, it was just one of those deals. Win,

00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:05.900
lose, or draw, I was just glad to have a chance

00:37:05.900 --> 00:37:09.000
to get that far. Yep, absolutely. Hey, let me

00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:11.099
go in a rabbit hole right here. This is funny

00:37:11.099 --> 00:37:13.730
how you talk about that, Basham. I get like that

00:37:13.730 --> 00:37:15.769
way. Anything competitive, right? I mean, anything

00:37:15.769 --> 00:37:18.130
competitive, like when it comes down to the brass

00:37:18.130 --> 00:37:21.010
tacks and gets to the finals, I'm like just wound

00:37:21.010 --> 00:37:25.090
up, wound for sound. So this new job, every day

00:37:25.090 --> 00:37:27.409
is a competition, right? I mean, we don't get

00:37:27.409 --> 00:37:30.130
paid unless we're selling campers. It's a commission

00:37:30.130 --> 00:37:33.309
-based job. Every day is a competition. And we

00:37:33.309 --> 00:37:36.070
got six salesmen in the room, and every one of

00:37:36.070 --> 00:37:38.710
us wants to be top dog in that room, right? And,

00:37:38.750 --> 00:37:40.690
of course, me, I come in there, and I like to

00:37:40.690 --> 00:37:42.550
have fun, and I'm just a little exuberant and

00:37:42.550 --> 00:37:45.010
over the top. And I've been giving this one guy

00:37:45.010 --> 00:37:47.170
a lot of crap. His name's Cam. He's been there

00:37:47.170 --> 00:37:48.210
for three years. I keep telling him, I said,

00:37:48.230 --> 00:37:51.030
Cam, I'm coming for you. So last month, he beat

00:37:51.030 --> 00:37:53.309
me by one half of the camper. And I know you

00:37:53.309 --> 00:37:55.429
ask, how can you sell half a camper, split deals,

00:37:55.530 --> 00:37:57.389
blah, blah, blah. He beats me by one half, right?

00:37:57.469 --> 00:37:59.929
So I told him this month, I'm like, May. May

00:37:59.929 --> 00:38:03.369
is my month. Today, I got this lady. I've been

00:38:03.369 --> 00:38:06.130
working with her for a month and a half, darn

00:38:06.130 --> 00:38:08.329
near since I started there, on trying to find

00:38:08.329 --> 00:38:10.409
the right camper for her and get it down. And

00:38:10.409 --> 00:38:12.429
it comes down to the brass tacks today. And I'm

00:38:12.429 --> 00:38:14.969
waiting on her to send her deposit. And I am

00:38:14.969 --> 00:38:16.610
not joking when I tell you, I'm sitting there

00:38:16.610 --> 00:38:18.210
in the chair and my leg's going about a million

00:38:18.210 --> 00:38:20.969
miles an hour. And I start sweating almost a

00:38:20.969 --> 00:38:23.269
little bit. And I got all jittery. And I was

00:38:23.269 --> 00:38:24.769
right in the middle of trying to eat lunch. And

00:38:24.769 --> 00:38:26.469
I got where I couldn't even eat. I couldn't eat

00:38:26.469 --> 00:38:29.309
one more bite. I just had to put it away. Dude,

00:38:29.389 --> 00:38:31.289
I'm telling you, until that lady, and it was

00:38:31.289 --> 00:38:33.150
taking her forever. It took her like 40 minutes

00:38:33.150 --> 00:38:35.150
to send over that deposit. Until she sent that

00:38:35.150 --> 00:38:37.750
deposit over, dude, I was a daggone nervous wreck.

00:38:39.070 --> 00:38:41.449
I bet you was up in that room just pacing back

00:38:41.449 --> 00:38:44.429
and forth, man. Oh, my gosh. It's like, I'm telling

00:38:44.429 --> 00:38:46.070
you, anything that has to do with a competition.

00:38:47.070 --> 00:38:50.269
You get me down to the finals, and I just fall

00:38:50.269 --> 00:38:54.150
apart, man. It's bad. but it ain't even just

00:38:54.150 --> 00:38:56.690
the finals you know since we're already down

00:38:56.690 --> 00:38:58.730
this rabbit hole i remember a certain legacy

00:38:58.730 --> 00:39:01.730
hunt down at freaking morgantown where me and

00:39:01.730 --> 00:39:03.730
bryce were on the road for like two or three

00:39:03.730 --> 00:39:06.230
days all the way down to arkansas and we had

00:39:06.230 --> 00:39:08.070
this thing where we were going to make it all

00:39:08.070 --> 00:39:10.690
the way back for this legacy hunt and we're in

00:39:10.690 --> 00:39:13.510
the first round of the legacy hunt And he's hunting

00:39:13.510 --> 00:39:17.610
old Rebel. And Braxton, we walk up this little

00:39:17.610 --> 00:39:21.409
road and we cut the dogs. And old Rebel goes

00:39:21.409 --> 00:39:28.409
in there and he barks nothing. He barks nothing.

00:39:28.969 --> 00:39:32.170
He barks again. And the judge is like, is somebody

00:39:32.170 --> 00:39:34.690
going to make a call? And Bryce is just sitting

00:39:34.690 --> 00:39:37.829
there not doing nothing. And he barks again.

00:39:38.590 --> 00:39:41.110
He barks again, and finally Bryce strikes him.

00:39:41.349 --> 00:39:43.510
I go, Bryce, what the heck are you doing? He

00:39:43.510 --> 00:39:49.769
goes, be quiet. I'm nervous. I was too. Hey,

00:39:49.789 --> 00:39:51.110
we ended up winning that whole daggone thing.

00:39:52.449 --> 00:39:54.630
Yes, you did. Yes, you did. But he was like,

00:39:54.710 --> 00:39:57.090
I'm nervous. I couldn't even get the words out

00:39:57.090 --> 00:40:00.989
of my mouth. That's when I first started hunting

00:40:00.989 --> 00:40:04.289
PKC, man. It was a $100 entry fee, man. I was

00:40:04.289 --> 00:40:07.860
like, oh, you're sweating bullets. Yeah, it was

00:40:07.860 --> 00:40:11.179
those $100 legacy hunts. Yep. Oh, man. All right,

00:40:11.179 --> 00:40:14.099
back out of the rabbit hole. So, top 22, we're

00:40:14.099 --> 00:40:17.760
going into Friday night. 28. Yeah, top 28. You're

00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:20.340
right. We're going into Friday night here. Can

00:40:20.340 --> 00:40:26.440
you recall your Friday night events? Nah, same

00:40:26.440 --> 00:40:28.900
thing. I couldn't tell you who I drew. I may

00:40:28.900 --> 00:40:30.599
be able to go and look real quick. Just give

00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:35.000
me one second. Oh, Lord. I'm telling you, I'm

00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:38.739
terrible at it. now you're good go just kind

00:40:38.739 --> 00:40:40.940
of give us a little synopsis you know if you

00:40:40.940 --> 00:40:43.340
can remember what the you know what the dog did

00:40:43.340 --> 00:40:44.900
because we got to hunt an early round in the

00:40:44.900 --> 00:40:49.480
late round friday night it'd been early round

00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:55.019
uh well i remember i drew it would did it go

00:40:55.019 --> 00:41:00.099
top 28 then top nine yep all right yeah early

00:41:00.099 --> 00:41:08.989
round it was me nikki hale downtime Who else

00:41:08.989 --> 00:41:15.170
was in that cast? I mean, there's a lot. Yeah.

00:41:15.690 --> 00:41:20.610
But anyway, well, we cut loose. Joe and down

00:41:20.610 --> 00:41:24.070
are down. Yeah, does he call him down or down

00:41:24.070 --> 00:41:26.409
Tom? He calls him Tom, don't he? I think it's

00:41:26.409 --> 00:41:29.630
Tom, yeah. Tom. Yeah, it's Tom. Anyway, Joe and

00:41:29.630 --> 00:41:33.190
Tom, they scorched a cone across his bean field.

00:41:33.789 --> 00:41:37.650
Tom strikes for 100. I strike for 75. I couldn't

00:41:37.650 --> 00:41:40.469
tell you how the mother boy struck. But anyway,

00:41:40.869 --> 00:41:44.210
then Joe and Tom slam the cone right out of the

00:41:44.210 --> 00:41:49.710
truck, probably five minutes in the cast. Tom

00:41:49.710 --> 00:41:54.210
has 200 plus. I have 175. No, I had 150. I take

00:41:54.210 --> 00:41:57.530
that back. I covered on it. I had 150. And we

00:41:57.530 --> 00:42:01.630
recut off that. Joe and Tom, they get split up.

00:42:02.779 --> 00:42:05.880
I treated Joe, and boy, he was way left -handed.

00:42:06.500 --> 00:42:10.099
Joe gets treated on another cone for 150. And

00:42:10.099 --> 00:42:12.360
I want to say it was a black dog in the cast.

00:42:13.420 --> 00:42:17.000
That black dog gets treated, has a cone. And

00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:20.019
then Ty gets treated and has a den. And then

00:42:20.019 --> 00:42:23.059
we got to where we crossed a major highway down

00:42:23.059 --> 00:42:24.619
there. I can't remember what highway it was,

00:42:24.699 --> 00:42:27.260
but we ended up calling timeout. We went to another

00:42:27.260 --> 00:42:31.039
spot, and I think there's 10 minutes left. And

00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:35.380
it come down to if, I can't remember the God's

00:42:35.380 --> 00:42:40.039
honest score, but if Tom had a cone, if I didn't

00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:43.719
get treed, Tom had a cone, he won. But we cut

00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:47.460
loose. Joe trees a cone, another cone about 300

00:42:47.460 --> 00:42:50.500
yards in front of us. And after that, it was

00:42:50.500 --> 00:42:52.119
just one of them deals that kind of just sewed

00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:56.159
up the cast. Heck, yeah. So, I mean, you just

00:42:56.159 --> 00:42:58.800
beat Nicky Hale with downtime. And another dog

00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:00.119
who ain't no slouch. You know, obviously, they've

00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.360
made it to the, you know, let's see, it'd be

00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:05.800
the semifinals at that point. So, I mean, like,

00:43:05.820 --> 00:43:07.920
downtime this weekend, he just won $35 ,000.

00:43:08.139 --> 00:43:10.559
You know, this weekend. You know, that dog is

00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:15.340
a nice dog. But, man, like, what kind of emotions

00:43:15.340 --> 00:43:17.860
are you feeling at this point? Like, top nine's

00:43:17.860 --> 00:43:20.539
a big deal. Man, I'll tell you, as soon as I

00:43:20.539 --> 00:43:22.739
got in that truck with Vic, talk about a nervous

00:43:22.739 --> 00:43:25.280
breakdown. I got so nervous, I pulled one of

00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:27.400
them Bryce Matthews moments. I started shaking,

00:43:27.539 --> 00:43:29.780
pacing. You would have thought I was trying to

00:43:29.780 --> 00:43:35.440
sell a camper. I tell you what, Braxton, you

00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:38.480
want to see it done right, go back and look at

00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:41.380
Bryce. I believe it's on Bryce's Facebook page,

00:43:41.539 --> 00:43:46.880
the year that me and him got in with Spot. And

00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:48.900
we're coming out of the woods. You know, we had

00:43:48.900 --> 00:43:54.860
drawn – Kurt Aaron. No, that was early round.

00:43:54.940 --> 00:43:57.420
I'm talking about whenever we drew Henry Kidd

00:43:57.420 --> 00:44:03.539
in the final 28. And, man, the hype man was on

00:44:03.539 --> 00:44:07.239
point. I mean, he was hitting those rap tunes

00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:11.119
and going Facebook Live. And he was all – there

00:44:11.119 --> 00:44:14.320
was some pep in his step. Yeah, man. I get amped

00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:16.719
up, like one way or the other. It's highs and

00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:20.079
lows. There's just no middle ground. He says

00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:23.579
we got to get hyped up now. That's right. Yeah.

00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:28.280
So here we are. You're headed back. You know,

00:44:28.300 --> 00:44:32.699
you win your cast. Who was the first phone call

00:44:32.699 --> 00:44:36.239
that you made to tell them that you were in the

00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:41.300
final nine of the UKC World? Man, it was my mom

00:44:41.300 --> 00:44:45.329
and dad. Just me and Vic went out there, and

00:44:45.329 --> 00:44:47.489
they was up waiting on me. I think they was as

00:44:47.489 --> 00:44:50.150
nervous as I was just waiting. They didn't have

00:44:50.150 --> 00:44:53.130
no play -by -play or anything yet on the top

00:44:53.130 --> 00:44:56.809
28, you know. So I made that phone call, and

00:44:56.809 --> 00:44:58.889
you'd have thought somebody got shot. They all

00:44:58.889 --> 00:45:00.929
started jumping, hollering, screaming. I think

00:45:00.929 --> 00:45:04.829
they was just as excited as I was. That's awesome,

00:45:04.869 --> 00:45:06.550
man. You got a nice support system, you know.

00:45:06.769 --> 00:45:08.769
I mean, you got people pulling for you in your

00:45:08.769 --> 00:45:13.269
corner. So we go to the top. Absolutely. Absolutely.

00:45:13.409 --> 00:45:15.329
And you got to say that way. So you're going

00:45:15.329 --> 00:45:18.130
into the top nine at this point. I mean, we're

00:45:18.130 --> 00:45:20.429
racking up the dollar signs, you know, house

00:45:20.429 --> 00:45:22.869
money, house money at this point. That's right.

00:45:22.989 --> 00:45:25.329
Yes. Do you remember, do you remember your late

00:45:25.329 --> 00:45:32.170
round on Friday night? Oh, no, not really. Oh,

00:45:32.349 --> 00:45:35.750
it's been so long. I've been in pride. I've been

00:45:35.750 --> 00:45:38.090
in so many casts since then. I couldn't even

00:45:38.090 --> 00:45:40.360
tell you what my. I was in two or three hunts

00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:41.760
this past week, and I couldn't even tell you

00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:48.739
what happened to them. But I couldn't even tell

00:45:48.739 --> 00:45:54.639
you who I drew. Did the dog look good? Did what?

00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:57.639
Did the dog look good? No, he looked horrible.

00:45:57.659 --> 00:46:00.059
I do remember that. He looked like straight dog

00:46:00.059 --> 00:46:02.679
crap, that cast. He looked horrible. So how did

00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:07.250
you pull off a win? Dang it. uh he still treat

00:46:07.250 --> 00:46:12.329
a cone i want to say i treat a cone i just i

00:46:12.329 --> 00:46:16.050
think i made one tree that whole cast that yeah

00:46:16.050 --> 00:46:18.750
i made one tree that whole cast i remember that

00:46:18.750 --> 00:46:21.170
one old boy the boy from louisiana i don't remember

00:46:21.170 --> 00:46:24.349
his name or what he was hunting but he he treated

00:46:24.349 --> 00:46:26.949
a cone and then he ended up training a slick

00:46:26.949 --> 00:46:29.289
i mean it was one of the deals i treated a cone

00:46:29.289 --> 00:46:32.070
about 15 minutes that left in the hunt And that

00:46:32.070 --> 00:46:34.690
boy was winning. I had 200 -plus. I do remember

00:46:34.690 --> 00:46:37.630
that. And that boy treated Cameron for 225. And

00:46:37.630 --> 00:46:42.150
I think probably eight minutes left, his dog

00:46:42.150 --> 00:46:44.309
came to read. And they started the stationary

00:46:44.309 --> 00:46:46.550
on him. And it was one of them deals. If he had

00:46:46.550 --> 00:46:48.969
a cone, it didn't really matter. If he had a

00:46:48.969 --> 00:46:50.750
slick, that's really the only way I could have

00:46:50.750 --> 00:46:52.670
won. I was so far out of pocket at the time.

00:46:53.389 --> 00:46:55.769
And we got in there. Boy, I was talking about

00:46:55.769 --> 00:46:59.190
lucky. That tree was slicker than a gut. That's

00:46:59.190 --> 00:47:03.090
what made me advance to the top three. Oh, man.

00:47:04.090 --> 00:47:07.309
That is luck at that time of year. That's called

00:47:07.309 --> 00:47:09.510
catching the breaks because the leaves are still

00:47:09.510 --> 00:47:14.730
on the trees. Leaves still on. Yeah, that's called

00:47:14.730 --> 00:47:16.389
catching the breaks, and that's what it takes

00:47:16.389 --> 00:47:18.690
to. I don't care what anybody says. You can have

00:47:18.690 --> 00:47:20.269
the best dog in the world. You can have the best

00:47:20.269 --> 00:47:21.670
handler backing them, but if you don't catch

00:47:21.670 --> 00:47:23.789
a break now and then in these big hunts, you

00:47:23.789 --> 00:47:25.070
ain't going to win it. It's just not going to

00:47:25.070 --> 00:47:27.869
happen. There's too many rounds to go through.

00:47:28.489 --> 00:47:35.090
to not catch a break somewhere. Yep. So, Friday

00:47:35.090 --> 00:47:37.409
night, you just advanced to the top three. Did

00:47:37.409 --> 00:47:40.090
you sleep at all going into Saturday? I don't

00:47:40.090 --> 00:47:44.550
think I slept five minutes between Friday night

00:47:44.550 --> 00:47:46.769
and come Saturday. I don't think I slept one

00:47:46.769 --> 00:47:49.510
time. And poor old big boy, I kept him up. I

00:47:49.510 --> 00:47:51.769
don't think he slept at all either. Eyes bouncing

00:47:51.769 --> 00:47:55.530
off the walls. I was so excited. What do you

00:47:55.530 --> 00:48:00.070
do? What do you do in the downtime? So you hunt

00:48:00.070 --> 00:48:02.070
Friday night, late round, and you've got to wait

00:48:02.070 --> 00:48:04.869
around until all day Saturday until they come

00:48:04.869 --> 00:48:06.369
in and they kind of do a little press conference

00:48:06.369 --> 00:48:08.130
type deal with you guys in the top three, sit

00:48:08.130 --> 00:48:09.829
you down, do a little recording in the podcast

00:48:09.829 --> 00:48:13.010
with UKC and Allen and all them. How do you kill

00:48:13.010 --> 00:48:16.269
the time? How do you stay calm in that time?

00:48:17.269 --> 00:48:19.309
Man, I'll tell you, I wasn't staying calm. It

00:48:19.309 --> 00:48:21.070
was just one of them deals. I laid down crying.

00:48:21.530 --> 00:48:23.690
It was real late that morning. I don't think

00:48:23.690 --> 00:48:25.769
me and Vic made it back to the motel room until

00:48:25.769 --> 00:48:30.110
like 7 .30 that morning. It was real late. And

00:48:30.110 --> 00:48:33.150
we got back, and it was just kind of one of them

00:48:33.150 --> 00:48:34.849
deals. You're so tired, you want to go to bed,

00:48:34.909 --> 00:48:37.150
but in the same chance, you're so excited. I

00:48:37.150 --> 00:48:40.190
laid down, and boy, I kept on Vic up all day.

00:48:40.230 --> 00:48:42.289
I was just laying there talking, talking, talking,

00:48:42.289 --> 00:48:45.789
talking. And that's hard for you to do because

00:48:45.789 --> 00:48:51.059
you're not a man of very many words. Nope. Definitely

00:48:51.059 --> 00:48:55.340
not. So, that's what I'm saying. For you to keep

00:48:55.340 --> 00:48:57.320
him up talking, I mean, you must have been jacked

00:48:57.320 --> 00:49:00.659
up. Oh, I'm telling you. Yeah, I was pretty jacked

00:49:00.659 --> 00:49:03.119
up. It was just like you said. I ain't wanting

00:49:03.119 --> 00:49:08.079
to talk a whole bunch. I was like an old babbling

00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:13.880
dog. I didn't shut up that whole day. You know,

00:49:13.980 --> 00:49:17.840
here you are. That's for sure. Here you are.

00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:22.679
You're what? at this time, 15? Yes, sir, that's

00:49:22.679 --> 00:49:28.519
15. 15. Going into the final three of the UKC

00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:33.539
world. You know, I think we've been very vocal,

00:49:33.699 --> 00:49:37.000
Bryce and I, about just wanting to win that big

00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:40.280
one. You know, just that one, that one big one

00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:43.320
to basically kind of hang your hat on and say,

00:49:43.380 --> 00:49:49.619
hey, I did it. And Braxton's 15 years old. And

00:49:49.619 --> 00:49:55.800
he's one cast away from being crowned. And this

00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:59.159
is just my opinion, especially if you're talking

00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:05.000
about breeding rights. The UKC world is the crown

00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:09.539
jewel of all this coon hunting. It's a big one.

00:50:09.559 --> 00:50:15.679
It's the biggest. There's more prestige with

00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:18.880
that than anything else. And that's what I'm

00:50:18.880 --> 00:50:20.760
getting at. You know, if you talk to some of

00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:22.980
the bigger guys, you know, J .R. Gray, you know,

00:50:22.980 --> 00:50:25.820
ask him where he got his big start. It was winning

00:50:25.820 --> 00:50:29.639
the world with Willie. And so, you know, I think

00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:32.059
when you're talking about the prestige of it,

00:50:32.059 --> 00:50:33.960
yes, there's hunts out there, you know, Tournament

00:50:33.960 --> 00:50:37.780
of Champions, PKC World that pay more. But I

00:50:37.780 --> 00:50:41.239
think the prestige of the UKC World, there's

00:50:41.239 --> 00:50:45.539
none of them that hold that weight. Just because

00:50:45.539 --> 00:50:49.480
the amount of people afterwards that want that

00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:55.019
world championship title on that pedigree. Yep,

00:50:55.039 --> 00:51:01.239
I agree. I agree. So you're going in there. You're

00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:03.460
already locked in. The worst you can finish is

00:51:03.460 --> 00:51:06.059
third. Man, I got the pleasure of walking along

00:51:06.059 --> 00:51:09.360
on that cast. Unfortunately, Trevor Wade, his

00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:11.099
grandmother had passed away there earlier in

00:51:11.099 --> 00:51:12.719
the week, and he had to go attend her funeral.

00:51:12.860 --> 00:51:15.460
So I was very honored when Trevor came up to

00:51:15.460 --> 00:51:17.559
me whenever he had to leave and asked me to go

00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:20.400
up there and kind of fill in as the infield reporter

00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:23.719
back there for the live show. So I got the pleasure

00:51:23.719 --> 00:51:26.380
of going out there on the cast and getting to

00:51:26.380 --> 00:51:29.119
hang out with yourself. You know, just watch

00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:32.500
those dogs work and see what it's like and what

00:51:32.500 --> 00:51:35.139
it feels like to be on a final cast. And Casey

00:51:35.139 --> 00:51:38.559
Maggard, and I forget the other gentleman's name,

00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:41.559
but super nice guy. Randy Fickens. That's it.

00:51:41.639 --> 00:51:44.219
That's it, Randy Fickens. Randy Fickens. Yep,

00:51:44.260 --> 00:51:45.980
because he used to be a Redbone man, I think,

00:51:45.980 --> 00:51:47.860
if everybody was telling me about it. Yeah, he

00:51:47.860 --> 00:51:49.679
used to be a diehard Redbone guy. Yeah, and he

00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:51.239
was hunting a walker dog. Yep, that's right.

00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:54.699
So, it was just really cool to go out there on

00:51:54.699 --> 00:51:58.789
that cast. And I will say that, you know, For

00:51:58.789 --> 00:52:01.730
as big of a hunt as it was and a big moment,

00:52:01.889 --> 00:52:06.230
all three of you guys conducted yourselves just

00:52:06.230 --> 00:52:11.210
in an utmost top -tier fashion way. I mean, y

00:52:11.210 --> 00:52:13.269
'all called your dogs for what they were doing.

00:52:13.809 --> 00:52:15.690
There wasn't arguing. There wasn't no griping.

00:52:15.809 --> 00:52:17.389
There wasn't no questioning the judge on anything.

00:52:17.530 --> 00:52:19.650
It was just call your dog for what you do and

00:52:19.650 --> 00:52:24.309
let the cards fall where they may. Yes, sir.

00:52:24.670 --> 00:52:26.510
You get to that point, it's just kind of one

00:52:26.510 --> 00:52:28.429
of them deals. You just kind of let the cards

00:52:28.429 --> 00:52:30.010
fall, and you just kind of go with the flow.

00:52:30.050 --> 00:52:32.530
What happens at that point happens. Yeah, and,

00:52:32.630 --> 00:52:35.670
you know, old Joe, I mean, he, at one point,

00:52:35.710 --> 00:52:38.630
you know, he got out of, almost out of pocket,

00:52:38.730 --> 00:52:40.869
you know, and I was a little worried for the,

00:52:40.869 --> 00:52:42.090
you weren't going to get him. I was lucky to

00:52:42.090 --> 00:52:44.070
hear that. Yeah, I was a little worried that

00:52:44.070 --> 00:52:45.190
you weren't going to get him treed in there,

00:52:45.269 --> 00:52:47.369
because he, like you said earlier, he likes to

00:52:47.369 --> 00:52:49.289
run them edges, and boy, did he find one, and

00:52:49.289 --> 00:52:51.730
he took her on. He packed his bags and hit the

00:52:51.730 --> 00:52:54.889
road. Yeah, I think when I treat him in, he's

00:52:54.889 --> 00:52:58.329
a good mile and a half when I treat him in. I

00:52:58.329 --> 00:53:00.309
don't think we ever heard him when I got on top

00:53:00.309 --> 00:53:03.750
of that hill. Yeah, it was interesting. So, I

00:53:03.750 --> 00:53:07.590
mean, now let's see here. Him and that Randy's

00:53:07.590 --> 00:53:09.670
dog, they were together right out of the truck,

00:53:09.769 --> 00:53:13.949
if I remember right. Because Casey's dog treated

00:53:13.949 --> 00:53:17.210
Coon by herself. Casey was split about 100 yards.

00:53:17.269 --> 00:53:19.750
He had a cone. Yep. And me and Randy's dog was

00:53:19.750 --> 00:53:22.880
split left -handed on a big old oak tree. Big

00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:25.440
dentry. Yep. Yep. So Casey's up and I think he

00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:26.920
took first tracks. I think he's up two and a

00:53:26.920 --> 00:53:31.579
quarter. Yes. I threw up for 75. I had 220 or

00:53:31.579 --> 00:53:35.599
200 on a den and Randy had 150. I had 200 circle.

00:53:35.679 --> 00:53:39.119
He had 150 circle. Yep. And then didn't she go

00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:43.320
missing after that? No. Oh. Randy's dog did.

00:53:43.940 --> 00:53:46.380
What? No, no, no. No, Casey. She didn't really

00:53:46.380 --> 00:53:49.719
go missing. Lacey did. Yeah. Lacey. She did.

00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:52.550
Lacey went to MIA. She did. She kind of pulled

00:53:52.550 --> 00:53:54.809
a deal like Braxton's dog pulled at Autumn Oaks.

00:53:55.690 --> 00:54:00.150
Yeah. But it wasn't really the dog's fault. Casey

00:54:00.150 --> 00:54:03.210
was having a garment antenna issue. Oh, gotcha,

00:54:03.210 --> 00:54:06.070
gotcha. I knew there was something. Casey didn't

00:54:06.070 --> 00:54:09.650
have her on his garment whatsoever. Yeah, he

00:54:09.650 --> 00:54:13.530
was having an antenna and a collar issue. It's

00:54:13.530 --> 00:54:16.789
not that she blew out a pocket. So what had happened

00:54:16.789 --> 00:54:19.190
kind of is Braxton, like you said, Joe got treed

00:54:19.190 --> 00:54:20.750
in. And I don't want to be stealing your thunder

00:54:20.750 --> 00:54:22.670
here, Braxton, so you can cut me off at any time.

00:54:23.150 --> 00:54:25.670
But, you know, Joe got treed in, like Braxton

00:54:25.670 --> 00:54:28.110
said, over a mile and a quarter in one direction.

00:54:28.150 --> 00:54:31.110
And Lacey went the opposite direction. So by

00:54:31.110 --> 00:54:34.409
the time we get to Joe, she's over two miles

00:54:34.409 --> 00:54:37.070
away. So she didn't really get out of pocket

00:54:37.070 --> 00:54:39.510
from where she was at. It's just we took the

00:54:39.510 --> 00:54:42.929
cast away from her. We just walked her out of

00:54:42.929 --> 00:54:45.679
here. Correct, correct. And we go in there, and

00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:47.599
Braxton, why don't you tell us about that tree

00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:50.860
we walked all the way in there to? Well, we got

00:54:50.860 --> 00:54:53.139
in there. He was treed on a big old tree. It

00:54:53.139 --> 00:54:55.960
had vines going everywhere. We shined and shined

00:54:55.960 --> 00:54:58.780
and shined. I think that when I found that cone,

00:54:59.619 --> 00:55:01.539
it was probably, I bet we didn't have probably

00:55:01.539 --> 00:55:03.820
30 seconds left on shine time. It was actually,

00:55:03.900 --> 00:55:06.480
Braxton found it in his thermal. He found him.

00:55:06.860 --> 00:55:08.760
Boy, as soon as everybody got over there and

00:55:08.760 --> 00:55:11.280
seen him, I bet there's probably 10 seconds left

00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:13.460
on shine time. It was right there. It was a nail

00:55:13.460 --> 00:55:17.519
biter. It wasn't much time left. No. It was either

00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:19.880
do or die. That's for sure. And that was one

00:55:19.880 --> 00:55:22.500
of those situations where had UKC not passed

00:55:22.500 --> 00:55:24.119
the rule where you could use a thermal, you weren't

00:55:24.119 --> 00:55:27.519
finding that coon. Uh -uh. I mean, he was tucked

00:55:27.519 --> 00:55:30.760
away and he wasn't looking for nothing. Dang

00:55:30.760 --> 00:55:35.840
it. Dang it. Yeah, it was tough. So we pull off

00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:37.960
there, and then at that point, I believe, we

00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:39.699
had to go back to the last place that we heard

00:55:39.699 --> 00:55:41.599
dogs because we walked out of here. Am I right

00:55:41.599 --> 00:55:43.579
there, Braxton, or am I missing something? No.

00:55:44.260 --> 00:55:49.019
If I remember right, didn't Randy just tree his

00:55:49.019 --> 00:55:52.679
dog? Didn't Randy tree what was her name? Yes.

00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:55.840
Yes. You're right. He tree his female walking

00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:57.719
into Joe's because I remember she was up that

00:55:57.719 --> 00:56:01.780
creek bank about 500 behind Joe. Yep. Fergie.

00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:06.519
Fergie dog. The dog was called Fergie. Yeah,

00:56:06.539 --> 00:56:09.639
Fergie. Yeah, so that's right. So he got treed

00:56:09.639 --> 00:56:11.920
in on the way to Joe. We pull off Joe. We got

00:56:11.920 --> 00:56:15.139
to go to Fergie. And Fergie, I believe, took

00:56:15.139 --> 00:56:19.340
a minus there. I think. Yes, sir. Yeah, she was.

00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:24.320
No. She may have. I can't. No, she didn't. Was

00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:26.659
it? It was. She didn't tree a coon. It was either

00:56:26.659 --> 00:56:29.480
a circle or a minus. No, she was on a big old

00:56:29.480 --> 00:56:32.159
sycamore tree. I remember shining it in that

00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:35.699
bottom. She was in a big old sycamore tree. Gotcha.

00:56:36.579 --> 00:56:40.760
Gotcha. Yeah, and then... That's when Casey heard

00:56:40.760 --> 00:56:43.480
Lacey way through yonder. As soon as we pulled

00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:45.619
off that tree. Yeah, because... Okay, yeah, yeah.

00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:47.539
You're right. You're right. So, Fergie was up

00:56:47.539 --> 00:56:49.280
on a hill. We had to climb a big old hill to

00:56:49.280 --> 00:56:51.829
get up to her. And that's where we kind of did

00:56:51.829 --> 00:56:55.809
a live update. We pulled off that tree, and as

00:56:55.809 --> 00:56:58.269
soon as Fergie shut up, we were on top of the

00:56:58.269 --> 00:57:02.949
hill. That's when Casey could hear Lacey treed

00:57:02.949 --> 00:57:07.530
in there. And that was right. Lacey. But Joe

00:57:07.530 --> 00:57:09.130
was treed again, too, whenever we got to the

00:57:09.130 --> 00:57:12.090
top of that hill, wasn't he, Braxton? Yeah, Casey

00:57:12.090 --> 00:57:14.510
treed Lacey, and as soon as he treed Lacey, Joe

00:57:14.510 --> 00:57:17.460
was only about 100 yards. deeper where he treated

00:57:17.460 --> 00:57:21.400
that first cone i treated him back in so this

00:57:21.400 --> 00:57:25.139
this is where and braxton we haven't had a chance

00:57:25.139 --> 00:57:28.099
to talk about this and and don't anything that

00:57:28.099 --> 00:57:30.280
i say here don't take it wrong but i was questioning

00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:35.519
what you did in this in this situation oh boy

00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:38.820
here we go well because when we're shining fergie's

00:57:38.820 --> 00:57:41.179
tree you could not hear lacy very well but you

00:57:41.179 --> 00:57:44.309
could hear joe hammering in there. He's got a

00:57:44.309 --> 00:57:46.670
big booming mouth. So you know that dog is treed.

00:57:47.070 --> 00:57:50.449
Now Braxton is down because Lacey treated Coon

00:57:50.449 --> 00:57:53.690
right out of the truck at 225. He treated, you

00:57:53.690 --> 00:57:56.070
know, Joe wasted his strike points on the circle

00:57:56.070 --> 00:57:58.530
tree at the very beginning of the hunt. So he's

00:57:58.530 --> 00:58:03.210
struck back in for what, a quarter? Yes. I think

00:58:03.210 --> 00:58:06.610
struck back in for a quarter and a Coon. So he's

00:58:06.610 --> 00:58:11.679
at 150 plus. And Braxton, you can tell me if

00:58:11.679 --> 00:58:13.440
I'm thinking wrong here and why you did what

00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:15.800
you did. But you can hear Joe in there treeing.

00:58:16.079 --> 00:58:18.619
So what I thought was going to play out was we

00:58:18.619 --> 00:58:22.500
pull off the tree. Braxton trees Joe. We go to

00:58:22.500 --> 00:58:25.639
Joe. And then if Lacey is heard, then Casey trees

00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:28.920
her. But that's not what happened. Yeah. We pull

00:58:28.920 --> 00:58:31.840
off and you can hear Joe and you can hear Lacey.

00:58:32.380 --> 00:58:35.559
And this is where I believe, in my opinion. Just

00:58:35.559 --> 00:58:37.639
a little bit of experience got Casey. He was

00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:39.900
two steps ahead of you. He was already playing

00:58:39.900 --> 00:58:41.940
out in his head exactly what had to happen. He

00:58:41.940 --> 00:58:45.179
knew he had to get to his dog and get treated

00:58:45.179 --> 00:58:49.059
in there or run the risk of walking away from

00:58:49.059 --> 00:58:50.800
her again. Because if we walk away from her and

00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:53.780
you've got a coon, you're going up. Yes, sir.

00:58:53.880 --> 00:58:55.900
Yes, sir. That was just one of those moments.

00:58:55.980 --> 00:58:58.679
I was kind of like you. I was so nervous. I really

00:58:58.679 --> 00:59:00.679
didn't know what was going on. I wasn't using

00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:04.210
my head. Yep. As soon as we pull off. Old freaking

00:59:04.210 --> 00:59:07.510
Casey Maggard, trees are in. And it wasn't 20

00:59:07.510 --> 00:59:10.289
seconds after that, Braxton trees Joe. So now

00:59:10.289 --> 00:59:12.590
we've got to go to Casey first, Casey and Lacey.

00:59:13.230 --> 00:59:16.150
We've got to go to them. And yet Braxton took

00:59:16.150 --> 00:59:18.929
off to Joe. So it's all – well, it doesn't really

00:59:18.929 --> 00:59:22.510
all depend on Casey's tree because if she's got

00:59:22.510 --> 00:59:24.150
a circle and he's got a circle, then she still

00:59:24.150 --> 00:59:25.949
wins. But we've got to go to Casey's tree. And

00:59:25.949 --> 00:59:27.590
I walk in there with him. And, boy, you talk

00:59:27.590 --> 00:59:29.829
about nervous wreck too. Casey was – he was huffing.

00:59:30.199 --> 00:59:31.820
And Puffin getting in there, I mean, we were

00:59:31.820 --> 00:59:34.760
moving. We were cutting brush trying to get in

00:59:34.760 --> 00:59:38.059
there to that tree. And we get in there, and

00:59:38.059 --> 00:59:40.119
we start the shine time, and it didn't take 10

00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:42.159
seconds. We got out into a field edge, and we

00:59:42.159 --> 00:59:43.820
looked up there, and that coon looked at us double

00:59:43.820 --> 00:59:45.579
-barreled, buddy. I mean, he's just looking at

00:59:45.579 --> 00:59:48.719
us two eyes down. And Casey, you know, he just,

00:59:48.719 --> 00:59:50.900
I mean, come apart. You know, he just won the

00:59:50.900 --> 00:59:53.079
world hunt. At that point, it didn't matter.

00:59:53.119 --> 00:59:55.679
We didn't need to walk to Braxton, you know,

00:59:55.679 --> 00:59:58.610
because he couldn't catch him. But Braxton, looking

00:59:58.610 --> 01:00:01.409
back at it, would you have done anything different

01:00:01.409 --> 01:00:05.130
there? Yeah, I'd have done exactly what you said.

01:00:05.289 --> 01:00:07.829
I'd have treated Joe while we were shining that

01:00:07.829 --> 01:00:09.570
tree and just hoping we'd have pulled off that

01:00:09.570 --> 01:00:11.710
tree. I could have started walking towards Joe

01:00:11.710 --> 01:00:14.150
quick enough and just kept Casey out of here

01:00:14.150 --> 01:00:17.610
in a lacy. Yep, that's how it played out in my

01:00:17.610 --> 01:00:19.949
head too. But I wasn't a handler in there. I

01:00:19.949 --> 01:00:21.329
was just a fly on the wall. Bashamukha, you've

01:00:21.329 --> 01:00:22.869
got a confused look on your face. What's going

01:00:22.869 --> 01:00:26.400
through your head here? So what place did Braxton

01:00:26.400 --> 01:00:30.760
place? Second. Oh, he placed second. Oh, so he

01:00:30.760 --> 01:00:33.099
did get reserved. Yeah. See, this whole time,

01:00:33.199 --> 01:00:37.159
I started off by saying he got third. No, I didn't.

01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:40.179
I think you said he was in the top three. I said

01:00:40.179 --> 01:00:42.840
that he got third at the UKC World. Yeah, I was

01:00:42.840 --> 01:00:45.619
wrong. He got reserved world champion. I got

01:00:45.619 --> 01:00:52.440
second world champion now. Yep. Yep. Wow. But

01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:55.219
like I said, had the cards played out just a

01:00:55.219 --> 01:00:58.179
smidge bit differently, we might have a different

01:00:58.179 --> 01:01:00.079
tone to this podcast. But I was just curious.

01:01:00.159 --> 01:01:01.480
Like I said, I haven't got a chance to talk to

01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:03.059
you since all that went down. I was just curious

01:01:03.059 --> 01:01:04.820
what was going through your brain. Because I

01:01:04.820 --> 01:01:07.119
know the cards that I had in my head, and they

01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:08.559
just didn't go the way that I would have done

01:01:08.559 --> 01:01:11.300
it. Now, had I been in your shoes, I might have

01:01:11.300 --> 01:01:15.280
done something different. Yeah, it's one of them

01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:17.179
deals you would have cut it. But now that I look

01:01:17.179 --> 01:01:19.730
at it. Just one of them deals. I would have done

01:01:19.730 --> 01:01:21.769
exactly how you played it out. I would have got

01:01:21.769 --> 01:01:25.750
Joe treated while we were shining Randy's tree

01:01:25.750 --> 01:01:28.670
and just tried to walk Lacey out of here. Got

01:01:28.670 --> 01:01:31.250
recut. Or at least just kept him out of here.

01:01:31.329 --> 01:01:32.590
And I don't remember if there was enough time

01:01:32.590 --> 01:01:35.110
for me to get recut or not. Yeah, it would have

01:01:35.110 --> 01:01:37.269
been close. It would have been close for sure.

01:01:37.449 --> 01:01:39.929
But, man, nonetheless, I mean, you go out there

01:01:39.929 --> 01:01:42.070
with you and your old partner, Vic. You guys

01:01:42.070 --> 01:01:45.289
make the trip up from your home state all the

01:01:45.289 --> 01:01:49.099
way up to Illinois. 15 years old, reserve world

01:01:49.099 --> 01:01:51.719
champion, world champion male. I mean, what an

01:01:51.719 --> 01:01:54.599
accomplishment. Like, what an accomplishment.

01:01:55.420 --> 01:01:59.559
Definitely. I think we're all striving to even

01:01:59.559 --> 01:02:07.480
hit a lick like that. Now, I don't want to. Yes,

01:02:08.179 --> 01:02:11.280
sir. Yes, sir, it is. I don't want to end this

01:02:11.280 --> 01:02:13.440
podcast on a sad note, but there's just something

01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:17.320
I just got to talk about because. It seems to

01:02:17.320 --> 01:02:20.179
be a curse to go back. You'll know what I'm talking

01:02:20.179 --> 01:02:24.519
about with this. It seems to be a curse to win

01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:28.039
the world hunt or come daggone close to winning

01:02:28.039 --> 01:02:30.880
the world hunt. A lot of these dogs, there's

01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:33.239
a high percentage of them that once they win

01:02:33.239 --> 01:02:36.420
that world, for some reason, they get, they hit

01:02:36.420 --> 01:02:39.519
a streak of bad luck after that. And a lot of

01:02:39.519 --> 01:02:41.639
times they don't live much longer after that

01:02:41.639 --> 01:02:45.739
for whatever reason it is. Joe, he struck up.

01:02:46.119 --> 01:02:48.300
Pretty bad dose of bad luck. I think he died

01:02:48.300 --> 01:02:50.460
probably two months later of the world hunt.

01:02:50.679 --> 01:02:53.099
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, it wasn't

01:02:53.099 --> 01:02:54.900
very long afterwards, and I see you posting,

01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:57.340
you know, rest in peace to Joe. So, what happened?

01:02:59.380 --> 01:03:02.340
Well, it's just one of them deals. I truly don't

01:03:02.340 --> 01:03:04.760
know what happened. I laid him up for a little

01:03:04.760 --> 01:03:06.960
bit. I did hunt him for probably about two months

01:03:06.960 --> 01:03:10.940
after the world hunt, and then I got him out.

01:03:11.019 --> 01:03:13.869
I hunted him three or four nights. I went to

01:03:13.869 --> 01:03:16.849
just a PKC $30 hunt in Girard, Kansas. That's

01:03:16.849 --> 01:03:19.050
right when I got my license. It was December

01:03:19.050 --> 01:03:20.730
when I went up there. I think I didn't have my

01:03:20.730 --> 01:03:24.010
license for a week. And I drove up to Girard,

01:03:24.010 --> 01:03:27.650
Kansas. It's about an hour from me. And I hunted

01:03:27.650 --> 01:03:30.170
him in that hunt. I bet there's every bit of

01:03:30.170 --> 01:03:33.010
it. Snow was on the ground. It was in the negatives.

01:03:33.190 --> 01:03:38.679
It was every bit of negative eight or nine. We

01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:41.119
hunted. Joe never made a tree. I don't even think

01:03:41.119 --> 01:03:44.480
I got struck in that whole cast. I took him back

01:03:44.480 --> 01:03:48.260
to Vic's. Well, Vic, he leaves for work about

01:03:48.260 --> 01:03:50.420
every morning, about 5, 6 o 'clock that morning.

01:03:50.719 --> 01:03:53.280
Vic went out there, and Joe was perfectly fine.

01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:56.159
The pen just wired 440 like he is every day,

01:03:56.199 --> 01:03:58.780
you know. And Vic called me as soon as he got

01:03:58.780 --> 01:04:00.599
home from work, and he said, Braxton, this dog

01:04:00.599 --> 01:04:03.000
ain't going to make it very long. He was laying

01:04:03.000 --> 01:04:06.980
in his pen just coughing up blood. Vic made that

01:04:06.980 --> 01:04:09.500
call, and Joe, he died before I even got off

01:04:09.500 --> 01:04:12.260
the phone. Really? That's just one of them deals.

01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:16.360
I really don't know what happened, but... I just

01:04:16.360 --> 01:04:20.099
don't get it, because you can go back through

01:04:20.099 --> 01:04:23.260
the history books, and I've only been around

01:04:23.260 --> 01:04:25.599
this sport for about 10 years, and just in my

01:04:25.599 --> 01:04:28.579
time of being around, it just seems like, man,

01:04:28.599 --> 01:04:31.119
if you win the World Hunter, you get real close.

01:04:32.159 --> 01:04:33.900
there's a lightning bolt getting ready to strike

01:04:33.900 --> 01:04:36.539
somewhere, and I don't know why that is. It's

01:04:36.539 --> 01:04:41.099
like it's a curse. Yes, it is. You know, it's

01:04:41.099 --> 01:04:44.000
just, I don't know what it is, but I hated to

01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:47.780
hear that. So, man, we sure appreciate you taking

01:04:47.780 --> 01:04:50.480
the time here to join us today, and we just want

01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:54.340
to congratulate you again on your run. Thank

01:04:54.340 --> 01:04:56.400
you, sir. And I appreciate y 'all giving me the

01:04:56.400 --> 01:04:59.739
chance to come on. Absolutely. Absolutely. Bastion,

01:04:59.739 --> 01:05:01.639
you got any closing thoughts here for Mr. Braxton?

01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:08.059
Just, you know, obviously, always, always a pleasure

01:05:08.059 --> 01:05:14.030
to talk to Mr. Braxton and Mr. Vic. We won't

01:05:14.030 --> 01:05:16.949
go into details, but Mr. Vick definitely helped

01:05:16.949 --> 01:05:20.989
me out in a big way and a top -notch guy. And

01:05:20.989 --> 01:05:24.730
always a pleasure to see Mr. Braxton definitely

01:05:24.730 --> 01:05:29.989
raised right, as respectful as a young man as

01:05:29.989 --> 01:05:33.820
you'd ever hope to meet. And that's in the woods

01:05:33.820 --> 01:05:39.500
and out of the woods and definitely a pleasure

01:05:39.500 --> 01:05:42.900
to call you a friend. And congratulations on

01:05:42.900 --> 01:05:46.320
your big win, buddy. Thank you, sir. I dang sure

01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:49.500
appreciate it. Yep. All right, guys. Well, I

01:05:49.500 --> 01:05:51.539
think we're getting ready to sign off here. Once

01:05:51.539 --> 01:05:53.239
again, just thanks to Braxton for joining us

01:05:53.239 --> 01:05:54.920
here on the Semper Dogum podcast. And thank you

01:05:54.920 --> 01:05:57.019
to you guys for bearing with us while Basham

01:05:57.019 --> 01:05:58.579
and I navigate through this crazy thing called

01:05:58.579 --> 01:06:00.400
life. And, you know, we do this just to have

01:06:00.400 --> 01:06:02.440
fun. We've said it a hundred times. But we sure

01:06:02.440 --> 01:06:03.980
do appreciate you guys supporting the podcast

01:06:03.980 --> 01:06:06.760
any way that you can. And we appreciate you guys

01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:08.940
listening to us. So, Basham, Braxton, if you

01:06:08.940 --> 01:06:10.380
all ain't got nothing else, I'm going to sign

01:06:10.380 --> 01:06:15.079
off here tonight. If you need a camper, see Bryce

01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:18.519
Matthews. That's right. RVDynasty .com. We can

01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:22.139
get you hooked up. Wait a minute. I think we

01:06:22.139 --> 01:06:25.519
need a little singing jingle from Bryce. No,

01:06:25.639 --> 01:06:29.079
I ain't got one of them. Nope. Nope. Give me

01:06:29.079 --> 01:06:31.420
a holler. We ship them nationwide, coast to coast,

01:06:31.480 --> 01:06:33.300
north to south, east to west. You're never too

01:06:33.300 --> 01:06:37.039
far from a good deal. How do you like that? Oh,

01:06:37.099 --> 01:06:42.280
yeah. We can. $2 .85 a loaded mile. That's the

01:06:42.280 --> 01:06:45.639
delivery fee. So, all right, guys. Hey, we're

01:06:45.639 --> 01:06:47.039
going to sign off here. So, once again, thanks

01:06:47.039 --> 01:06:48.599
for listening to the Semper Dog podcast. Thanks

01:06:48.599 --> 01:06:50.559
again to Braxton for joining us. Basham, it's

01:06:50.559 --> 01:06:52.280
always a pleasure, brother. And we'll see you

01:06:52.280 --> 01:06:54.739
guys on the next one. All right. Thanks, boys.

01:06:55.440 --> 01:06:57.099
Yeah, take it easy. See ya.