My Cabin In The Woods (Transcript)

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You know, it doesn’t matter to me. So I appreciate you guys just at least tuning in and I must be getting a lot of tuning in

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because

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We got quite a bit of questions that came in. I’m gonna shoot the breeze here

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like I said just for a couple of minutes and then we’ll go ahead and I’ll answer some of your questions, but

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Well, actually one of the questions I actually got was was about the the cabin when they heard we got a cabin

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My wife and I actually bought this cabin. It was actually distressed property

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we had driven by it a bunch of times on the way up to our campground and

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we were going up to a campground quite often and we had driven by this place a bunch of times and

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Really? There was nothing special about it

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it was just a brick structure that I mean it’s I mean outside look like who did it and ran and

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we had never looked in the inside or any of that but

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It was distressed. So

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Those of you that don’t know if you ever see a distressed property people that start using it

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But are paying income taxes on it. You can reach out to those people

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I pulled up the tax records and found his mailing address and just sent him a letter and he you know

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He seemed like a really, you know, a really nice guy. He was he was in his 80s and he had bought it

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when he was still in the Navy back in probably the the 60s or 70s and he hadn’t used it about 22 years and

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You know, he was interested in you know, he wanted to get rid of it and he was really polite about it

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He said you here’s what I want for it. And it was very very reasonable very reasonable

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I didn’t even argue the price because it was such a reasonable deal

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He kind of just wanted to get out what he had paid for it 22 years ago

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So it was really a bargain for us needed a lot of work and he knew it

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Like I said, he hadn’t really touched it in 22 years

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But it was took us about three maybe four months to get it and fix it up

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And now we have our cabin away

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But those of you guys that are ever interested in distressed properties if you go through a property sees property somebody’s just not using

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You know

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As long as you can hit the address you can look it up on the tax records or at your court local courthouse and everything

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Opens up again and you can look it up and say hey look at that. Okay, so here’s that you won’t get a phone number

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You get a mailing address and then you can mail them a letter letting them know you’re interested in your property

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And you might want to have a realtor or somebody that knows about real estate, you know, find out roughly what it’s worth

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You know you reach out to them and say no don’t give my price just say I’m interested in your property reach out to me

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And if they reach out to you, you know

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You know you can get yourself a bargain like we did we did the same thing with our home. We live now on the farm

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I’m here, you know, we got this for me a bargain bottom price and we needed probably, you know

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Maybe maybe fifteen twenty thousand two before we can move in but it’s another example of you know

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If you don’t mind putting in the work and the time you can get yourself a deal my wife and I in our home

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When it was brand new ten years ago lady sold it for four two hundred thousand and you know

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We paid very you know, I mean not even a sixteenth of that

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So, I mean it’s but we had to put a lot of work in a lot of time

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We should have some there’s still some work in progress needs to be done the upstairs bathroom and a couple other things. But again

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You know, like I said, at least we you know

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You know, at least we actually you know, you get something and you know you actually you know

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It’s yours and those you might put in the putting the time and the money and your time your labor

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Can save you quite a bit of money if you’re handy if you’re not sometimes really it’s fixer-upper

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It might not be the way to go for you

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But if you are somebody like me who’s very handy

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Who isn’t who doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty and likes to do projects and stuff on the weekends?

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You know you yourself can you know can make yourself quite a bit of money and you can as well

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You know get yourself a good a good bargain. So

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For us it was good. It’s about maybe about 40 minutes away. It’s not far, but it’s about 40 minutes away

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It’s not on a tunnel and it’s on

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About an acre not as much like we have a little more land here at our property

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But it’s nice it’s away and it’s right by the lake or not by a leak with the well

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It is right by the lake. There’s also a river – it’s kind of like in between so I it’s more than walking

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Just to a river in a lake so I can go fishing a lot not really much hunting

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Hunting in the area obviously because it’s it’s in between places

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But the state game lands are only maybe less than maybe not even five minutes away

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So it’s it’s a nice little place

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And you know it’s pretty good pretty flat so we can even put some tents outside and camp if we want don’t want to stay

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The cabin wanted to say you know do some regular old-school roughing at camp and oh

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We could do that I got a by actually got a bird put a burn pit together back there

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And I’m Brenda we took down some trees split the wood and there are some seasons what already there

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So we did a couple of campfires

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We’re trying to clean up the outside of the property because the property gave me 22 years

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It’s 22 years of just neglecting leaves

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There was a lot that needed to be done. You know outside and inside as well a lot of cleaning really a lot of work

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It was just just a lot of hard. You know not really hard work. Just just just work and

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You know we put maybe you know we put maybe a few thousand into it now. We have a cabin

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No running water. I actually have an outhouse there. I actually paid like I said actually rent an outhouse for the thing but

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And I could get an outhouse put in but I don’t feel like spending the money

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It’s very simple she have to let do the number one of those

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So one of those outhouses if you actually have one and pay to get it dumped or if you rent one

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There’s only a few dollars cost difference. You’re supposed to you’re gonna leave it there all year round so

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In our case you know that’s what we did, but we just rented one, and then you know we’re letting them take care of it

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but um

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No running water, so that’s we got to bring some water with you there

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But you know has heat electric all that kind of stuff, so it’s we’re having a good time

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Like I said, I build a bonfire pit the kids wanted to do marshmallows and hot dogs

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So we built a little bonfire pit like I said we split some wood last week

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You know we did we did a new awning in the front because the the owner was oh it needed work

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But again, it’s a cabin

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And we didn’t pay much for it and now we can get away and go whenever the hell we want so it’s it’s

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Really a good time and like I said if you don’t want to put in the work in

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You can actually get yourself a really good bargain deal and these kind of things and that’s what’s really important

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When you’re looking at second property in this case it would not be if somebody had asked by the way

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How much do we pay for it?

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And you know what’s the going rates for second homes in this case?

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There’s not really mortgageable because there’s no step taken well, so there’s not really mortgageable so for us

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We actually had to do cash deal, but it was really I mean. I’m not lying to you folks

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You know it was I brought him a check. It was that little I’m not

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I really don’t want to say the cost but again it was

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It was very very small. That’s why we were able to write him a check if we would have needed financing

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We’d have to get in like a home equity line or something like that if it was a big money

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But it was such a minute amount so that’s why I you know in this case it was

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It was worth it

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I mean you couldn’t the thing is like my wife and I talked about the price wise you know you couldn’t even build it if

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You had gotten all the two by fours and all that and all the wood and put the footings in and the roof and I

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Mean you couldn’t have built it for what we bought bought it for so I’m not saying you know you got a really good deal

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And like I said it does still need a little more work, but it’s getting there

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There’s still some things need to be done. We actually put the DVD player there some of that no internet when I go there

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I really don’t care about internet so that I really I mean well

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I do enjoy what I do and I do really enjoy doing the podcast and all that when I kind of go to these things

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I kind of enjoy being

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Kind of plugging a little bit. I guess you know my job is primarily on the computer all day

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Which is fine. I really enjoy my job, and I really enjoy what I do. I have a good career and

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You know so I don’t mind. I love what I do and all that, but when I get away

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I kind of just want to tend to want to unplug

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You know I want to go fishing and hunting and do things that we do camping and spend time with the kids by the fire

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So you know it kind of have fun with things rather than just I don’t particularly care to

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You know I don’t really like going wrong

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I mean I understand you know like my wife and I we do use it we do bring our cell phones up there

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I’m not gonna lie, but I don’t bring a computer anything like that

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I will bring my iPad with me just so I can read the news on it and stuff like that

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And I hook it up to my phone

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Because I do like to read the news in the morning kind of see what’s going on in the world especially with everything going on

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but

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You know we had no cable up there and the kids we rent

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Uh actually we there is a there’s a local grocery store up there and last week the kids we have a DVD player on TV

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And the kids wanted to rent a movies or rented a movie from red box for a dollar so

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We do do some kind of low-tech stuff, but we try to really when we’re up there

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We try to really get back to nature a little bit

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And some other things to tricks we found by the way at the cabin

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I like to point out too

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And these are some things that really my wife really thought about and I say this guys because men

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sometimes we really don’t always know the little we don’t think of these kind of things because

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You know my wife really handles most of our meals and stuff that were up there, but

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My wife obviously when I need water so my wife brings a gallon of water, and we have a frying pan up there

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We have spatula we have a stove up there

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No gas all electric which is great because it’s another bill

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We don’t have to have up there, so it makes it really even lower cost to keep it

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But one of the things my wife actually does is she actually buys the Bisquick

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The throwaways and what she does she put water in it shake it up

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And then she’s able to pour it and make pancakes in the morning for the kids

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Or she’ll bring us see we don’t have a refrigerator up there just yet because it’s one of the things we haven’t gotten really around to

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doing yet

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But generally what she does she’ll bring pancakes, and then we’ll you know shake it up, and then she’ll do that

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We try to you know at the cabin

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I mean we try not to even go out to eat more up there just we try to kind of get one with kind of

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Get back to you know doing these we could go out to eat there

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I mean there are one or two restaurants close by, but we’re really up there. We really want to just kind of get away

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That’s why we go up there. There’s everything going on right now

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But like I said, I do enjoy like I said we do enjoy going up there. We have a good time with it and

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You know it’s just a lot of fun like I said for for meals

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I have a bar do have a barbecue there brought a barbecue there and my wife as well

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We do do campfires other there, but generally we’ve using the barbecue at grill hot dogs hamburgers. We did steak chicken

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Things like that like I said we could like we do we don’t have a stove

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We just have we have a stove in an oven

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But we but you know again when you’re up there you there to have a good time and all that so you know for us

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It’s it’s fine

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It’s more than enough for what we need for just the four of us and like I said the kids enjoy renting movies

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And we rented we’ve been doing red box a few times

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I’m actually getting the red box points and that’s an example to all our points and hang out folks not that I’m

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Not that I’m a huge you know we don’t run a ton of movies stuff like that

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But the kids like to see some new stuff especially not being able to go out as the movies

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But I like to point out to

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You should really be trying to get things with you with the current

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Things going on you should really try to use services that you get back stuff from on this cage red box gives you points and rewards

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Every time you rent a movie and since we have been running a movie it you know movies DVDs and all that

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with red box we’re kind of able to go ahead and and really kind of

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You know get reward point backs. We can get free DVD rentals and stuff like that

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I do want to point out as well and my wife and I were talking about this

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It’s not something you know they have to do, but it might be an option for you on

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Netflix still has their DVD by mail service for I think $7.99 a month

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My wife was actually talking about possibly getting that and I know you’re gonna think well

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Why well because again when I’ve entered at the cabin so my wife was thinking well, okay, we can come home

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We’re home on Monday

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You know the kids can pick the movies they want for next weekend and the mail them so else we can watch two movies at

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The cabin and the mail thing back so that was an idea my wife had had two for the Netflix by mail

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Again, not something you have to do

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But my wife had said that might be an idea chooses we haven’t going to the cabin quite a bit if we keep doing it

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Yeah, you know and you know it’s one of the things where we could do red box it

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Or we can net where we can do the Netflix by mail that was just another idea she had for DVD

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Rather than just going to red box every other time, but again

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We don’t again

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It’s not something you have to do

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But just you have to look at the numbers if we’re gonna be able up there every weekend

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It might be cheaper to do the Netflix thing, but again. It’s again

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I’m just just a little ideas as my wife throws around that are really good ideas

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One of the things I will say though when you do have the cabin

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You know little things like I said my wife has thought about

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Obviously you know we have one thing

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It’s nice since we have the outhouse and somebody else takes care of it a little toilet paper stuff like that

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But uh once you don’t have water my wife’s obviously it’s very difficult to get sand sanitizer stuff, but my wife

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You know she she’s very gonna baby wipes as we call wipe her hands especially me

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Not so much the kovay because we’re all there just us, but I don’t really go anywhere

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But the thing is just that you know how much I cut was around eating at theodernum for my hand so

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My wife brings baby wipes up stuff like that

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You know she brings you know we do have a little hand sanitizer

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But really don’t you guys we should stay for home around about generally up there. We just worry about the wipes

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My wife obviously soap

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You know other things choose to do no water up there my wife started bringing up dry shampoo

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So you know you know you you can boil we actually could boil water and take a short little bath, but they’re also to

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In the summertime I’m actually gonna have one of those outdoor showers

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Where you can actually get the the outdoor showers from field and stream and places like that where you can actually use it in all clean

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And you can use it like a shower if the water so that’s an idea

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Like it’s a dry shampoo my wife obviously your toothbrush

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We she does bring water with us so that we can we can use you know and then on to

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Also to what I also do too. We have a well here, so it really would be safe to drink anyway

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But my wife and I also bring

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Also bring a five we have a five gallon drum up there

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What we call what’s kind of what they call slop water so not so much for brushing your teeth or stuff like that

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But if we you know

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She needs to you know wash something down or something like that she can use that but again

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You know mostly like I said we we don’t really use much water we use

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Like I said my wife does bring you know dry shampoo up

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She does bring a baby wipe and and you know bar soap up so the kids can wash up and stuff like that

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Baby wipes those kind of things you know things you can clean up and you know deodorant obviously stuff like that

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But the things you don’t think of especially the dry shampoo

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I didn’t think about that my wife thought about that one and

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You know just just things you can do that can kind of you know help you freshen up

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We don’t stay there more than usually a night. Maybe two of the most

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Generally a night, and we all come home. We don’t think it showers

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That’s the only thing kind of stinks, but like I said in the summer

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I like to actually get one of those outdoor showers where you hang the curtain

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And then you have the the water at the top and then you can unscrew the nozzle and it

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Use like a study stream where you can wash up and and things like that so that is something

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That I am gonna get in the summertime

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You can get those off the field stream or even off of the internet for next to nothing

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I try to go to the local field and stream when it can if it’s affordable

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Or I try to use my local sports shop over here down the road

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As well because you know I try to keep you know I try to keep it local try to help you know try to help

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The local business out especially with everything going on right now, but but over the weekend like I said

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I’m actually going fishing over the weekend. I actually went out

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I got I got a new fishing pole and I indulge a little bit my old fishing pole was having problems

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so I just decided to just

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It’s got a lot of years on it, so I just said to my wife

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I said you know what for 40 bucks is gonna do pole. I got my license

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I got the you know some some tackle and some bait and all that and it’s gonna be a good time

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I’m looking forward we’re gonna get out the kids my oldest daughter can be 13

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She really wants to go fishing for those of you that live in, Pennsylvania by the way

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I like to point out to you. I did not know this

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I just found this out looking on the internet the other day the age now to fish without a license is 16

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And when we were younger or not, but I’m not old guy. I maybe I’m in my mid 30s, but

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We were kids growing up if you remember it was 12, then it went to 14 now

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It’s 16, but you still need to be 14 to get a hunting license, so you gotta you gotta watch

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You know when you make sure you know the rules I have the book right here

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You know if anybody

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Maybe has any questions, and you live in the state of Pennsylvania. I have the book right in front of me

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I’m holding it my hand right now, so I have or you can google it obviously but

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What age I remember being a kid it was 12

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But I didn’t know this so they actually dropped the age now if you were actually an ex you change

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And I should have looking through this any of you older guys that are listening I

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Want to point this out too, so you were actually kidded you can get a senior citizen license

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But you pay 55 and then you’re good for for life

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but they also have now if you’re actually on disability you can actually get a

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If you’re on permanent disability you actually get a lifetime

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Fishing license now you never used to be able to get that it was only actually 65 or older

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But now they changed to 65 or 65 or older or permanently disabled, so I

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Do want to point that out to you by the way folks those of you that are listening if you’re on the older side

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Or on or on disabled you can actually 55 bucks. You never get a fishing license again, so

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Go ahead and check that out

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You can save yourself some money rather than paying the $45 a year and then plus to you got to pay for the trout stamp

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So that bumps you right up to like 55 bucks it for you know for just the year we can get it for a lifetime

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I think if I’m not mistaken though guys I want to point out one thing you have to double check this

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But I don’t see it right now flipping through the book, but I do I do believe you get a lifetime fishing

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License, but I don’t like believe I don’t believe the trout stamp is you have to get the trout stamp every year

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It’s like 10 bucks if you want to trout fish in Pennsylvania. I want to point that out as well

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I didn’t I was thinking I was looking through it, and I was thinking about that like yeah, you know

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Somebody did ask me when I said I was going fishing on Twitter the other day

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I just kind of get into some of your questions here between other things

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Somebody asked what I was going fishing for whatever gets on my line

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You know I’m not one of those people that ever really go out

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I’m once in a blue moon my cup of my see you want to go trout fishing or you want to go in a bass fishing

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I’ll go

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But but generally when I go fishing I go for whatever gets on the end of the hook

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I’m not one of those kinds of people that you know

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I you know running a family business and and running my personal business and with anything else like going on right now

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Just crazy busy right now. I’m running almost three businesses. We have a family member

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That’s ill and I’m kind of running their business – so I am just jam-packed with

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With things I have to do and so I don’t really get to go out as much as I’d like over the last year or so

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so

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When I go out I go out for whatever

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If I’m in javam on shore fishing or even if I’m in a boat fishing as long as I’m fishing

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That’s all I really care about as long as I’m out in the outdoors. That’s all I care about so that’s just that’s just me

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I just enjoy the outdoors. I don’t particularly care what as long as I’m outside. I’m enjoying myself, so

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That’s just me. I know some people go out for specific things. I don’t I just want to go out and have a good time so

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Like I said that is that’s just me, but yeah

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I’m fishing free bridge anything that gets on the end of the hook so I

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Do a you know do a breeze that I’m just gonna take a take a swig of soda here for the working man

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So I used to say joking around you just swing a beer, but I actually don’t drink I

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Haven’t never I don’t really I’m just not a one for alcohol

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but

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You know I know some guys that do actually you know they joke around and say swig a beer for the working man

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Me I don’t particularly drink. I don’t partake. I don’t partake any alcohol not that I’ve ever had a problem with alcohol

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It’s just not for me. I just don’t like the effects of the way

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I feel absolutely nothing wrong with as long as it’s not in excess and obviously as long as you’re not driving

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I have no problem with it, but it’s just not for me

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Just like by the way

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I want to point out to somebody asked me the way talking about you know things you do when you’re out fishing for me

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You know I got my I put my hat on and I just hang out and I enjoy myself

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I maybe once in a while. I’ll pop in my earbuds to listen to music

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But to be honest with you most of the time. I’m just sitting there listening to the sounds of the world relaxing

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You know I’m one of those kinds of people

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I don’t really know a lot of people bring their earbuds and stuff like that to hang out and listen to music while they’re sitting

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And I I do I’m not gonna. I do I do a pair of earbuds, and I do pop in my earbuds

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and so I’ll listen while I’m you know

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sitting there relaxing but

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Generally, I will not

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Generally, I really just isn’t the sounds of the world. I know some guys bring TVs with them some guys bring magazines

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Books of that I don’t I just want to sit there and enjoy that I want to enjoy the sounds of the world generally

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But I do I’m not gonna. I will pop in my earbuds and listen to

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You know music or if there’s something good on the radio

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You know I have Sirius XM on my phone

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You know if you know if there’s something I’m not a big sports guy, but there’s a sporting event or something or a podcast or

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Something I want to hear on the radio. I’ll turn it on never the news not when I’m relaxing

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Well, I’m not fishing or hunting the last thing on here about the news, but I will listen to things

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but generally I just kind of relax so

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Somebody had brought up to me to talking about the time a chew the other day

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I guess I you see guys ever did chew would spit in the water

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They spit when they’re hunting which is two things you’re supposed to never do because the scent

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But you know I never was one for chewing or anything like that

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I never was one for smoking any of those sort of thing drugs. Nothing like that. That wasn’t me

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I was I was really always just just a big I was into my what I was into

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You know I was into you know

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computers obviously I

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Computer consultant for a living I was into you know trucks sports cars four-wheelers motorcycles

00:22:24.140 –> 00:22:29.080
Those guys you know into that kind of stuff. I never was really into the I was in him

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I’m really into music. I play guitar. I play a lot of different instruments up with that

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I was not really into the sports cars too much. I was always into the big trucks that really was my thing

00:22:37.160 –> 00:22:41.080
I had a little bit of time where I was really into it into the hot rods for a while

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I was fixing up all the cars for a while, but I kind of got out of that really quickly

00:22:44.680 –> 00:22:48.640
I was into bike riding. I really like four-wheeler. I’ve had a four-wheeler

00:22:48.640 –> 00:22:52.440
For a long time. I just sold my most recent one

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I have Kawasaki mule right now that I drive around with the pickup in the back to work on the property some of that

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But I’m not really like I said, I’m really big in the music scene. I play a lot of instruments

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I listen to a lot of music I

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Have I do actually one thing I will say I do partake and I bought a couple pairs expensive headphones

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Stuff like that. I’m really into the music stuff like that, but um I

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Never was one to get a tank out of trouble or a hole or anything like that. It’s not really my bag

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There’s nothing wrong with it as long. You know, I mean drugs

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Legal there’s a problem with it

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But I never really was one that was into any of the chew or any of the tobacco smoking or anything like that

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That just was not my thing. I do know guys that will dip when they go out and go hunting

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I don’t but I do know guys that will actually do a lot of guys

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I noticed will take a dip when they’re hunting but they don’t do any other time

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like it’s one of the things they do in their hunting or when they’re

00:23:39.220 –> 00:23:42.500
When they’re fishing or when they’re out and about the guy friends, they’ll do it. But

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Generally

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You know, I never partake that’s just me but like I said, so that was one question somebody had and then somebody else said

00:23:52.480 –> 00:23:59.460
Let’s ask a question. What kind of fishing pole I’m using. Um, you know, I don’t really

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Obviously, I’m actually using a bat. I’m actually I mean I did have a bass master, but it’s been so many years

00:24:05.940 –> 00:24:11.920
I actually went with the what with the with the Wakeman the one I put up on Twitter and Facebook the other day

00:24:11.920 –> 00:24:14.900
I’m not an expensive pole about a forty fifty dollar pole

00:24:14.900 –> 00:24:19.860
With the real not very expensive just to kind of get me out and just get me enjoying myself right now

00:24:19.860 –> 00:24:22.000
I like I said was using a bass master for a lot of years

00:24:22.000 –> 00:24:24.360
That raw has a lot of pressure factors

00:24:24.360 –> 00:24:28.720
No that I’ve done I’ve probably put probably ten years on that pole and it was just time to be retired

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But you know, like I said, I’m not I’m using a Wakeman right now and and and again

00:24:34.140 –> 00:24:38.000
They’re not expensive poles, but they’re good quality poles for the price you pay and to be honest with you

00:24:38.000 –> 00:24:40.800
I’ll probably be leaving it up in the cabin anyway, and I don’t wanna lose something. They’re too expensive

00:24:41.800 –> 00:24:47.120
So I do use like I said, I’m not like I said, I do use I will be using store-made flies

00:24:47.120 –> 00:24:49.880
And I haven’t had my own flies in a while. I just don’t the time I

00:24:49.880 –> 00:24:53.040
Usually I used to go fly fit

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I used to when I used to go fly fishing as a kid I would do and I’d had no money

00:24:56.040 –> 00:25:00.060
I would do my own flies but and anymore than I just buy I’m done

00:25:00.060 –> 00:25:03.980
I’m getting to be that guy but years ago flies were a lot more mind they are now

00:25:03.980 –> 00:25:07.640
But you know, it’s still it’s you know, it’s one of those kinds of things

00:25:08.440 –> 00:25:15.020
I’m at somebody had asked me a question about that. Um, and look we’re just a bit personal questions this week

00:25:15.020 –> 00:25:18.120
somebody had asked about

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I guess I had taken a picture of me my kids what kind of truck I was driving

00:25:22.040 –> 00:25:25.800
The I actually I’m on Instagram as well, by the way

00:25:25.800 –> 00:25:30.240
You can see it like I said up on up on the Facebook page from my website survival info org

00:25:30.240 –> 00:25:37.520
I’m actually driving a ram to the 2016 Ram 1500 right now. I used to drive a

00:25:38.400 –> 00:25:42.360
Used to drive for years for ten years. I drove a GMC Sierra. I

00:25:42.360 –> 00:25:46.920
Don’t have any more. I sold it that a lot of miles on it had some issues

00:25:46.920 –> 00:25:51.880
So I like I said, I don’t have any more. Like I said, I do like I said, then I have a I

00:25:51.880 –> 00:25:56.800
Also have a like I said, I’m doing the ramp thing and I also have a jeep

00:25:56.800 –> 00:26:02.080
Jeep compass right now I’m doing I did have a Wrangler for a while. I’ve guys have seen that in old pictures

00:26:02.080 –> 00:26:04.080
I got rid of that had a lot of miles on it and

00:26:04.480 –> 00:26:07.680
Just was time and needed a lot of work and it just somebody I gave it I actually

00:26:07.680 –> 00:26:14.620
Actually sold something relatively cheap because he is he wanted he wanted it and and I just didn’t have a time or the effort to

00:26:14.620 –> 00:26:18.840
Put in anyone put a lot of my he needed about thousands whether working brakes shocks struts

00:26:18.840 –> 00:26:23.180
He just need a lot a lot of tender loving care and he was happy to do it

00:26:23.180 –> 00:26:25.920
He said he had he had the parts and he had all that stuff. So I said well here, you know

00:26:25.920 –> 00:26:27.920
Give me cut me a deal. So we did it

00:26:27.920 –> 00:26:29.240
but

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So somebody asked me to we’re talking about hunting you they they asked me what kind of

00:26:33.840 –> 00:26:36.140
Hunting equipment I generally use. Um

00:26:36.140 –> 00:26:38.760
It’s kind of scattered

00:26:38.760 –> 00:26:44.820
I do use we all know I’m a big fan of PSE and Hoyt bows PSE mostly for hunting Hoyt for competition shooting

00:26:44.820 –> 00:26:50.880
For bows, I don’t I do use a field of stream jacket. That’s kind of my go-to jacket to keep me warm

00:26:50.880 –> 00:26:52.880
That’s something I’ve been doing for a long time

00:26:52.880 –> 00:26:55.320
as far as the

00:26:55.320 –> 00:26:59.980
Some of the other stuff I do use a lot of the Under Armour stuff just because I like the way it feels and I like

00:26:59.980 –> 00:27:01.220
I just like it

00:27:01.220 –> 00:27:04.500
So I do use a lot of the Under Armour stuff. It’s very it’s not cheap equipment

00:27:04.500 –> 00:27:06.360
But I actually do like the Under Armour stuff

00:27:06.360 –> 00:27:09.960
But like I said, I’ve been sporting a field and stream stuff for a while

00:27:09.960 –> 00:27:13.480
My boots are under Armour all that kind of stuff is always under Armour

00:27:13.480 –> 00:27:17.160
But my jacket is a field and stream mostly just because that’s what I’ve had for long years

00:27:17.160 –> 00:27:22.560
And it was a couple hundred dollars when I bought it and it’s probably the warmest jacket I’ve ever had and it bundles you all

00:27:22.560 –> 00:27:27.040
up I do like the jackets from field stream better than and the the hunting pants are actually

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Actually, those might be feeling stream that too because I think under our pants I got rid of they the Under Armour pants are

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Really springtime pants and most my fields are stream stuff or mostly winter stuff. It’s the heavier stuff. So

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That’s usually the equipment I use

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Obviously, you know anything get you out in the woods is good, but thing that’s gonna keep you warm

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I try to try to try to I like the Under Armour stuff

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I don’t really go out as much in the cold as they used to but the Under Armour stuff I use for springtime

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You know fall bow and stuff like that. So it’s a good time

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But like I said folks, I did get a lot of questions somebody asked me about when they talk about camping

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They had said what kind of tents and stuff I’m using. I don’t really have I

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Don’t really have a preference. I don’t really rough it as much as I used to anymore

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I think it’s just I have a bad back just from years and I just I don’t I don’t really go

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I don’t really rough it that much anymore. Like I used to it’s hard to rough it with two kids

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I mean I could but I

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Really don’t anymore. I just don’t I

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It’s been so long as I camped it since I’ve actually tented it and with the sleeping bag and all that

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I know people now bring blowout mattresses and stuff like that and you could do that

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I used to actually use the I guess I could do that and help my back. But I used to actually

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You know do the sleeping bag and all that and I just I don’t have a really roughed it in a while

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I know that sounds kind of crappy, but I don’t really rough it anymore and with the way things are

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Especially in the where we go camping is always campsites. You can get for really cheap and any wonder and I’m again

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I’m not one of those people. I’m not you know el cheapo or anything, but

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You know

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It’s gonna cost me 150 dollars 200 dollars to buy the equipment and I can rent the place with heat water and

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Bathroom and all that for 100 bucks. Is it really worth me spending all that money? So that’s one of those kinds of things

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Somebody had asked by the way, how I got I got will be back. He’s all trained when everything’s all set and done

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I’ll do a whole podcast about that, but I’m still kind of working him out a little bit

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So I’ll do a thing about that next time. Like I said, I’m gonna wrap it up

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I want to thank you for listening and we’ll see you on the next show. Thank you very much