Garden State Outdoors Intro

SPEAKER_05 0:00

This is the Garden State Outdoors and Podcast. Built on early alarms, muddy boots, and stories that only the woods can write. New Jersey is one of the most underappreciated states in the outdoors. And little do they know what it really holds. From hard-earned public land deer to waterfowl, predators, and everything in between. This state produces more than people give it credit for. Now let's dial in with the men and women around the state of New Jersey who live this life every day. In New Jersey, excuses don't survive. Only the grinders do. Alright, everyone, we are back for another episode here. Guys, we just wrapped up our third annual wild game dinner, and it was an another blast. We have a lot of stories to share. I mean, honestly, it was it was absolutely incredible. I want to thank everyone for coming out. I I will say there were a lot of guys that were sick too as well. Um, dude, take like I called the I called Zach today because he was supposed to come, he was sick, and he was like, Yeah, dude, thank God you didn't come. He goes, I thought I was gonna pass out, and like, you know, he he goes, I thought it was hallucinating at one point. I guess he had such a bad stomach bug that everything was spinning for him. He couldn't sleep and everything like that. So I was like, Yeah, I was like, Thank God you didn't come. That's the one thing I don't want to get sick with is something like that. So, but for everyone else who showed up, thank you so much. Um, the food was phenomenal, yet again. Uh drinks, laughs, everything like that. The raffle, uh, we had the kids there, everything like that. So we we're pretty proud um and stay on the lookout for uh for next year's uh fourth annual wild game dinner. Um, and hopefully Zach will be able to make it up there uh next year.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, I'll post it up on in-bed rest with the post back procedure, so that was not fun, but I'm up and moving now, so I'm happy about that.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

But nice, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Next year I'll make sure I don't schedule it before I'll find out the dates of the dinner and then I'll post my stuff.

SPEAKER_05 2:15

Um Connor, how for for you, you know, and we'll get into the our whole wild story and everything like that. Um, but you know, for you, your first was that your first time in in Jersey.

SPEAKER_06 2:28

Uh no, I had actually um as a kid gone there a couple times. Um I'm trying to think. God, I would have been Jersey Jersey Shore with with Frank. Of course. I'm trying to remember the town when I was little. My uh my family, just my brothers and I and parents went to I think it's called Spring Lake, New Jersey.

SPEAKER_04 2:50

Yep, yep. Yep, yep, yep, that's all.

SPEAKER_06 2:54

Um, that was the only times I've ever been there, but uh this was hands down the best.

The Food Lineup And Traditions

SPEAKER_05 3:00

Yeah, yeah, no, it definitely was. Um, you know, and and before we get into the wild stories and everything, like the food yet again hit a hundred for a hundred. Um we had two different types of venison chili. We had Bianca's venison uh shepherd's pie. We had her baked macaroni and cheese, which there was nothing left of. Uh, we had Frank's venison parm, which there was nothing, there was nothing left of. Yep. Um we had a bunch of good. No, we had American Mike's turkey that was so moist and so good. Like it, it was absolutely phenomenal. Um what what else? Um, the dessert was yet again to to die for. Like, where there was so much good dessert and everything like that. I everyone was full, and that's what we want to have. Like, we we've said it hundreds and hundreds of times. Like, we want the quality of food to be good, but also you to get two or seconds and thirds and stuff like that, not like one little skimpy plate where the food is like eh, and you're you're still hungry and everything like that. So I I was pretty proud yet again of the food. Um, yeah, I need the venison parm oh recipe because that was so freaking good.

SPEAKER_06 4:18

Frank, I I had a couple bites, didn't I? On my plate.

SPEAKER_03 4:22

You sure did. Um I was like, shit, is that your second or third plate, Connor? He's like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 4:30

It was outstanding, everything, but yeah, that uh the shepherd's pie and the parm, and that was good. I wanted some of the dessert. I was asking Squatchy. Uh yeah, I think it was like that cannoli, whatever. And I'll be honest, I was so fucking full I couldn't get up.

SPEAKER_05 4:46

So that is another that's another problem, and I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you, we might have to change the timing next year of maybe like starting a little earlier and keeping it to like the you know what I mean, because with it or within that four hours, like by the time people get there, you know, you want to talk, you go have drinks, everyone's like you don't want to start really doing the food yet. Um I just think you you're stuffing yourself so much with food because when you see and Zach, when you go next year and you see like literally all the food, like you just it's just all venison or game meat and everything that's just lined up. Oh, I want that, oh I want that, oh I want that. Awesome, and then you you go eat, and when you especially when you find something you like, you're like, all right, I gotta go get uh you know more plate, or right you your plate wasn't big enough to carry everything else, so you go get other stuff that you didn't get to eat.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

So all I hear is is just a bunch of meat. Were there like any vegetables or anything? Because it sounded like Connor had the meat sweats, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 5:49

100% did well probably something a little in addition to the meat sweats from our pre-gaming, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Yeah, but you being around squat so much, you're getting all hot for them and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 6:05

Oh man, it was dude. I uh I think I had three full plates, and I was I was literally piling shit on top of each other, didn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 6:14

Oh, yeah, I that's what I do at Thanksgiving every year.

SPEAKER_05 6:17

Yeah, it's it's like a big Thanksgiving dinner. Like that's that's what it exactly reminds me. Yeah, and um, yeah, like I I think there was a salad there, right? But there was a salad there. I me personally, I didn't touch the salad, right?

SPEAKER_03 6:32

Me neither.

Pregame Drinks And Time Chaos

SPEAKER_05 6:34

Um, it was there, it was there, and my mom made and my mom made her lasagna, her regular, her regular, like uh beep, no, no game meat, everything like that, lasagna, because we did have people there that um don't eat, you know, while or you know, who are not hunters and stuff like that. So I wanted to give another option. Um that was top shelf too. I yeah, that as well. My mom's lasagna is phenomenal, right? So everything we're eating was meat, red sauce, or pasta pasta. So by the end of it, there's no like room for dessert. I think there was cupcakes, cookies, ice cream, like it, and it uh same thing. Like, I was like to the point where it's like oh, I don't like you've had drinks already, you've been drinking, you've been eating. It's like there's just no room for for any dessert. I had to take off the Frank's wife's cookies, took them home, had them at work the next day, which were phenomenal. I was so happy, I was like, damn, I was like, I wish I had a whole bunch more. Like, I ate them so quick, and I was like, I wish I I actually took the cannoli and the ice cream cannoli home and and everything like that. Like it was um food-wise, yeah. I mean, uh, I'm kind of hungry again, so let's stop talking about the food. Um, but we pick up I pick up Connor. And instantly, like, you know, Connor's been now hanging around us for almost a year now, or talking to us for about a year now. He's been on the team, you know, kind of like how it would be with Zach and everything like that. Like, you feel so connected to these guys, you know what I mean? Like, I met Frank once, and it was like, oh shit, and then you know, you're texting, you're texting all the time, and you it's like the minute you guys get together, it's like instant, like, all right, we've been friends now for forever. Like, you would have thought, like, go like when we went to the bar, and you wouldn't think this is our first time hanging out.

SPEAKER_00 8:29

We just start pounding drinking, watching drinking hockey.

SPEAKER_05 8:38

It was awesome. It yeah, it was great, and you know, probably what we probably shouldn't have started with. We started with hard alcohol. So we started, I had Captain Morgan, he had James, right? And we're like, all right, and we ordered food too before, like, oh let's get a little snack. We got a sampler. I I love their sampler there, it's so freaking good. We're we're stuffing our face, we're drinking. I think we did two rounds, and then uh Connor goes, Yeah, yeah, let's do one more, right? So Connor orders another one.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

We order another's on vacation, he's like, I have 100 drinking on the plane, too.

SPEAKER_06 9:12

I mean, it was fantastic. That's what I love about airports.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

You get to the airport, it could be 2 a.m., it could be 9 a.m. Give me a shot, give me a shot. Everyone looks at you awkwardly. Everyone's like, Yeah, you know, I want one too.

SPEAKER_05 9:26

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's it's so acceptable. You could listen, and I don't know if we should, but if there's anyone who's an alcoholic out there and you don't want to be judged for drinking at eight o'clock in the morning, all you gotta do is go you go to the airport, hang out with the air, and then there you go. It's acceptable to drink whatever somebody's life right now.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

They're going like, all I have to do is just buy a plane ticket, and I just go drink it. Yeah, you just bar hop.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

That would be awful.

SPEAKER_05 9:54

Oh my god, Dewey somebody would get so drunk that they would fly some complete other airport, like they'd be gone.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

Oh no, they end up in like end up in California, they're like, wait a second, yeah. This ain't Jersey. How did I even get on that plane?

SPEAKER_05 10:21

And well, that was that was almost us in the fact of Zach, we would have completely missed the dinner. If Connor didn't say he had to go to the bathroom and me go to check my phone to see what time it was, he's good. I'm like, oh I was like, we gotta go. I was honest to God, Zach.

SPEAKER_06 10:41

I was really ready to tell the guy we'll we'll get another. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 10:48

We would have been there all we would have been there all night. We would have been there all night.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Oh, I believe it. Maybe that's what we need to do instead of a team dinner. One time we do like a semi-annual, I don't know, bar hopping event for the team.

SPEAKER_06 10:59

Yeah, right. Let's do it at the Newark airport.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

We all get we all go to the Newark airport.

SPEAKER_05 11:07

There we go. Um, well, I I did bring that up and I I said, well, Connor, next year I was like, all the boys are gonna have to come down like a or come up or fly uh like a day early so we can actually get the festivities of us hanging out, catching up, drinks, eating, you know what I mean? Because to do it all in that one day, it we were so I mean, so behind. I mean so crazy behind. Where I'm like, oh shit, now I'm scrambling. I don't have my truck, so I don't have stuff to go put everything in the truck and drive it over. So, you know, I'm having to bring in my mom's car, I didn't bring Bianca's car, they're all small as vehicle. It was like, I'm like, Connor, I'm so sorry. Like, when the minute Connor got there, everything flew out the window. Everything flew out the window. I was like, All right, this is the game plan, this is what we're gonna do. You know, I'm on the couch watching hockey. Connor's flight was delayed before, so I'm like, Oh, like, okay, I got sitting, I'm like, all right, I got time. Connor then texts me, and I'm like, I'm still on the couch. Like, yeah, I'm like, all right, I'm coming. After that, scrambled nothing. Like, I drove around, I showed him a couple places, and and you know, in town and everything like that. I was like, Hey, do you want to go to the hotel or you want to go to the bar? We ended up in the bar. Of course, let's go.

SPEAKER_06 12:22

I didn't, I don't think what time was it? It was like uh, and God bless it, that time change, but it was like almost 11:30 by the time I checked in.

Uber Confessions And Newark Mornings

SPEAKER_05 12:31

Yeah, by the time you by the time you got there, and you know what? I think if it was if it wasn't for the time change, you having to take a flight early in the morning, and me having work, we would have gone to the bar because usually, like when Dave and Chris and all of them are there, like most events that we have, we usually end up going out, and we'll end up going to like a local bar or something like that, and be out till like two, three o'clock in the morning. I'll tell you, I was so tired from drinking early, eating all that food. I know Connor was from we were so dead, and then um, because I was gonna drive him and I was like, I was thinking, I was like, fuck, I don't have to go till 10. I was like, I'm losing an hour, I'm already gonna be miserable at work, and I was like, dude, I was like, is there gonna be any way you could Uber it the next day? Because I am going to be dead. I and I did I'd even fall asleep when I got back because we we were dog sitting, it was so hot, I was so uncomfortable. I was like, Oh my god, I just want to be in my bed in my cold ass room. Like, I just want, and it was it was a rough so I was like, Thank god Connor was able to get man.

SPEAKER_06 13:35

It was bizarre when I got uh, you know, of course, like we all, you know, my wife booked the Uber because I don't have time for that. I need to go to sleep, whatever. Yeah, but I get in the car, and the the guy like does like a three-point turn like three times. So you know when you pull up to a hotel, it's got that little overhang, yeah. So he he drives past the thing, and then I'm like, okay, this this gotta be the Uber guy. So then he goes past it, turns right, and then does another three per three-point turn. I'm like, what the fuck is going on here? So then he turns around and then he kind of you know puts the foot on the gas a little bit, and then I hear a little bit of the tires, and then he comes up and he's like, You Mr. Sheen. And so I get in, and we're going down the road like a couple minutes, and honest to God, I thought the guy um was Russian. It turned out he's from Costa Rica, and then completely different. So he's in, and I think I texted you guys, you know, it's whatever time in the morning, it wasn't that bad, but with the time change, I was in no mood to be having any guy just talking on and on and on, and then the last five minutes, so he misses the exit, and so we go for like another joy ride, finally get there. But before that, he tells me just out of the blue, I don't even know how it came up, but he told me that he was here illegally. He's like, Yeah, I have to go back because my wife and my daughter are still there, and he's like, But I'm not supposed to be here.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

That's where you probably should not have told me that. I didn't know.

SPEAKER_06 15:23

Well, he was he was he started to say a couple things about Trump, and I I was just like, I shut that down real quick.

SPEAKER_05 15:32

Yeah, and he continued to tell you he was illegal.

SPEAKER_03 15:36

It's literally I would have been like, Mike, get your ass up.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

Oh, dude, I'm ruthless when people tell me stuff, and I'm just like, Oh, really? Yeah, um, well, yeah, I hate to break the news to you. I am an ice agent, I need you to pull over right now. I will let you go if you give me your car. Yeah, just driving to the airport.

SPEAKER_06 16:01

But you know what I mean? Like, when people just like have no self-awareness, it's like when I'm sitting in some of my hospitals waiting, you're kind of looking at your phone, and the person's trying to be nice and strike up a conversation. But you're like to Zach's point, you're like, Yeah, yeah, just one two-word answers, then they just keep going. And like, dude, I don't want to talk to you right now, dude.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

There, there's one time I will never forget, I'd got an Uber driver, it was me and my buddy, and the he had his the Uber driver had his buddy with him, and he wouldn't shut up. And I'm just like sitting there, my buddy just looks at me, he's like, Don't say a thing. Because I'm I'm too straightforward, and I was like, You talk a lot, and the guy was like, Yeah, I know I'm just really friendly. I was like, No, that's cue for shut the fuck up. He just got oh it was silent the rest of the ride. I was like, Thank god.

SPEAKER_05 16:55

I put my headphones in like they are now, so yeah, somebody could talk to me and I'd be oblivious to the freaking world, yeah. Absolutely oblivious. There's one time, so a couple years ago, I mean, we me and Bianca could have been captured. Honestly, this is how tired we were. And we flew to to Scotland and England and everything like that. We're there for you know, whatever. And we flew back, of course, you know, you know, drinking on the plane. Yaka's drunk next to me on the flight, pass out, wine drunk. Me, I'm just I'm literally every time the the what's face comes, the flight attendant comes, like, oh, can I get two more? They're freaking giving me like these little bottles, they're giving me like four or five, like, here you go. Like, I'm like stashing them in my bag. I'm like, oh, best trip ever. I'm like, all right, can I get some you know ginger ale, whatever? And I'm you know, you're getting drunk on on a plane. Kind of what Zach was doing. And we we get home and it's like it's like midnight, whatever, and you know, you're you're used to the time over there, and all you want to do is just go to bed. And we're we're at JF, like I think we're at JFK, and we get into this Uber, and I tell you, we both didn't last five minutes. I put my headphones in, and then all of a sudden I was just out laying up. And we we get home and I go to Bianca. I'm like, dude, I was like, we can never do that again because we could have we could have ended up somewhere with with our organs gone and like we're going.

SPEAKER_03 18:29

That's weird. I got a scar. Do you have one?

SPEAKER_01 18:32

Yeah, I do. I'm missing, I have a scar in the front, too. Squeezed on, but it was crazy.

SPEAKER_06 18:40

Like, honest to god, I'm not even being sarcastic because I really thought the guy was Russian, like it was that, and I asked him, um, because I was trying to be polite, like right before I left. So he's talking this whole time. I already know he's from Costa Rica now, but then right before I said, Hey, thanks a lot, appreciate it. Um, and he and I said, Oh, what's your name? He said, John, I would like you. You can't make this up. It's like John from Russia.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Oh shit, man.

SPEAKER_02 19:16

I love it.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

Oh god. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 19:20

Oh my god. Yeah. Um, what a wild. I mean, and everyone listening. We just that was the first time we heard that story. So, like, all I had I knew his ride was yeah, yeah, we didn't know it was that bad.

SPEAKER_06 19:36

Oh man, yeah. I mean, the it it was uh I mean it was only like 15-20 minutes, but I mean this guy like had no could care less about lane changes, anything. I mean, he was just like ripping. Um well that's that's just typical Jersey. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we we we got there in one piece. Um, but I'll tell you what, um, that early in the morning, Mike, when you were saying the night before about um, you know, going through security and in that time of the morning, that was the even going through like international, and my wife and I are you know have traveled like with the kids years ago. I had never seen that early in the morning a security line. It was literally like going through a freaking maze of you know, all the little like things they have set up. But I mean, I god, I think I still had 45 minutes before we boarded.

SPEAKER_05 20:34

So I the Newark airport, especially like you gotta look at all the businessmen, and you know, everyone's flying out, like it gets crowded in the morning during work weeks all those guys that work, you know, from here to sit that everyone is flying out and everything like that. Like, yeah, New York, uh Newark airport in the morning is is can be brutal, definitely.

SPEAKER_01 20:55

Yeah, so yeah, so I also never had an issue with airport security like that. Like, I have like if you have the uh American Express Platinum card, you can get like a super whatever pass. Yeah, I was like, Yep, take my money for that, so I can like sleep in. I'm like, Oh crap, I gotta be at the airport by now. Rush to the airport, walked right in, and it's just like, Oh, y'all have already been boarding. Yeah, we uh we closed the we're about to close the gate. Oh, sweet, made it. I was asleep 10 minutes ago.

SPEAKER_05 21:27

Listen, he thinks that the next time when we all go on our first trip all together, we're all gonna be like, Hey, that guy right there, I think he's gonna brick a cocaine up his ass.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

Why does it have to be up the ass?

SPEAKER_00 21:40

Yeah, right, dude.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

No, when I I straight up when I did my odd dad hunt, I had the skull in my carry on and I had the horns like wrapped around it. And of course, like I'm waiting for my bag and I'm watching the security guard, like his eyes go straight from like looking at to. I looked around, he's like, waved his hand over at people, and I'm just like, It's a skull, dude. And he's like, Nuh-uh. I'm like, they bring it over, and the like the security RTSA like manager comes over and they're like doing an ultrasound. So I was like, Don't I just open it? Like, no, sir, no, do not open it. So I'm just like, Okay, it's a skull, but whatever. And she was like, doesn't look like it. And I was like, just open the bag, please. Like, hungry, it's early. They open it up and they're like, Oh, it's a skull. I'm like, Oh, you don't say like audible gas. And of course, like, well, you don't have to be a jerk about it. I was like, Okay, you're right. I don't have to be an ass about it. But yeah, I was just like, come on, people, whatever. But it was hilarious watching that guy on the screen just cracking out. I was like, Oh, I got his attention.

SPEAKER_05 23:04

But that's great, yeah. Good, good, good time. Um, yeah, I mean I wish we could do it over again. I I want to have another game dinner.

SPEAKER_04 23:14

Yeah, that that was that was a lot of fun. It was a game dinner.

Planning Trips And Bear Camp

SPEAKER_01 23:18

Let's just hell, let's just get together before the season starts.

SPEAKER_04 23:22

Hey, everyone, everyone, uh, everyone fly over here again. We'll go out to the devils game.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

I'm okay with that. Oh we've been we've been talking about that for a while.

SPEAKER_03 23:32

For a while, yep.

SPEAKER_05 23:33

That's something like we want to do, like we want to do an outing. We can go fishing and shit like that during the day and freaking go uh go to a hockey game or something like that. Um in the evening and have like a good, you know, we can do you know, we can do a shoot, like you know, we can make it like a weekend thing, you know. We can go do a shoot, you know, scout, show you guys around, you know, the woods, what it's like to be. If you guys are gonna come up for bear season, get some pre-bear scouting in and everything like that, and way of the land.

SPEAKER_06 24:01

Remember Kyle Kyle invited us out to his house, so yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_01 24:07

I wanted to meet that guy so bad.

SPEAKER_05 24:10

He's hilarious. Yeah, he's Kyle and he doesn't, he's very blunt and just doesn't he doesn't give a fuck. He's just like a regular, like he's just he's hilarious, he's hilarious. But yeah, all of us together at his house in his bar just drinking.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

Oh my god, you would hear some wild military stories coming from him and I that you guys would be like dying laughing on the floor. It's some of the weirdest shit happens when you're like deployed or you're in the field. It's just like people just have like the best ideas, and you're like, Yeah, that seems like a great idea, and then you get back, that was so stupid. Why did we do that? Like, I don't like hold up to be alive. It's like, yeah, we won't, but you know what's funny though? It's just like like that, man.

SPEAKER_06 24:54

That would be great. I would just sit there with a bottle of Jameson and listen to you guys tell the stories, that'd be great.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

Oh, just wait till we go to um Oklahoma, man. John, he's going as well. And everyone knows his background, like he got fucked up in Iraq and Afghanistan.

SPEAKER_06 25:12

So yeah, we're talking some of the shit he told me he was telling me about when he first um originally, I guess like his original thought, I guess, was to go to into the navy, and he said that he actually went to like the recruiting facility over lunch, and he walked up to the door and he said it was locked. And he's like, What the hell? So he drove down the street, whatever, and then there was an army recruiting. He walked in and he told me that when he sat down and the guy was asking him a couple questions. He's like, Well, why do you want to uh come into the army? And he said, I literally told the guy I want to shoot people in the fucking face. You're the man, you're the man for the job.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

I was like, Wow, he was prime time oif oef. I came in at right at OEF was in 2009, and that was that was a banger. But yeah, that was I was talking with him, and he and I were sharing some stories last night, so like we uh we we shared each other's numbers, so we're able to like stay in touch, just like if something's on our mind, just to chat. But it was just like I can't wait to just hear his funny ass stories. Like, he's like, Oh, do you know that I got some great stories for you? We like for me, I was like, Oh, dude, I can't wait to tell you about this time I kicked this kid in the canal, it was hilarious. Damn kid boom, like just dumb random shit.

SPEAKER_06 26:41

That's gonna be fun. I can't wait.

SPEAKER_05 26:44

Yeah, the boy, listen, the when the boys get together, it is it is a blast. Uh yeah, I want you guys out here as as often as possible. Uh, we we gotta plan our Wisconsin trip. I want to get to Wisconsin this year. Um, you know, and listen, I I think yeah, if you guys make it for bear season, Frank, you guys are gonna have to come stay at least a night or two at camp this year. Um, you know, even if you you know Frank's on his private land, so you know he's the bougie, he's the bougie, but uh I I could I could venture out every now and then. I told him a little bit in public land. Well, I told him he's gonna put in a little work this year. He can't just be riding around the four-wheel everywhere. You know, he got a little thicker around the waist.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

Yeah, I'm getting a little heavy now.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Hey, you can't bash that. We're around that age where we can do that stuff. That's right.

SPEAKER_05 27:40

That's right. Yeah, until until we're at until we're back to dragging out freaking deer, and you're like, oh shit. Frank Frank doesn't have to worry about that right now, but not right now. No, when I shoot my when I shoot my bear, I I hope Frank understands. That's the whole reason why I drove all the way to Frank to help him out.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

I already knew it.

SPEAKER_05 28:00

I already know it. It wasn't due that. Like, screw that. It was so he owed me a debt for when I shoot my freaking 600-pound bear, I have as many people as I possibly need to come somehow manage to drag that thing out.

SPEAKER_03 28:12

Listen, I told you I would, I'll be cursing you out the whole time, but I'll be there.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

Jeez, man. I I want to take a bear so bad. That's what I want to do.

SPEAKER_06 28:25

Like, likewise, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

Yeah, I'm gonna. If I could get that bison at the end of this month, I'm making a rug out of it. I just hope I get some good footage. That's all I can do.

SPEAKER_06 28:34

Where are you going for that, Zach?

SPEAKER_01 28:36

So I'm flying into Oklahoma, and then Jeff and I are driving down to Texas the day I fly in, and then we're gonna stay down there searching around 2,200 acres of land, or sorry, 22,000, 22,000 acres of land, hopefully, to find them. And uh, if we find them, man, like it's game on. I won't stop.

Kool-Aid Arrows And Bison Setup

SPEAKER_05 28:56

How heavy is the how heavy is your arrow setup for this? So for everyone, did we talk about the about Kool-Aid and everything like that already on here? I'll take it in. I think we might have mentioned Kool-Aid. We might have, but yeah. Well, why don't we why don't we start with that? Of course, one everyone, go shoot Kool-Aid arrows. Go check out. I'll I'll make sure I put in the link, but if you need your your arrows done and everything like that, hit up Zach. He'll get your arrows uh made for you, everything like that. Wraps, the whole, the whole nine. We fully support Kool-Aid arrows, that's what we use. We absolutely love them. Um I've been using them now for well be gone on year three. I've killed all my deer except for one with them. Um that was with a gun. Um, absolutely love them. And then also we have exciting news also to announce with a uh and I'll let Zach uh headline that right there.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

Yeah, so we teamed up with 4B outfitter. Jeff and Ashley run an outfitter out in Oklahoma. They also run business down in Florida, Texas, and Missouri, and they are set up for safari hunts as well. So we're very blessed to team up with them. Um, Jeff has become a staple in my household. He is made a killing um with his business. And I'll tell you what, like if you want an like an amazing hunt, call Jeff at 4B Outfitters. You could check out his website, 4B Outfitters.com, and he will get you hooked up with a hunt. So at the end of this month, he and I are going down to Texas, which is what we were talking about earlier. I'm going with a going for a bison. Um, it is gonna be a cow, um, which I'm perfectly fine with. I want the meat, and then I am using a 450-grain arrow on the dot. The new glue bay is the name for the Kool-Aid arrow, and then of course I have the boutique wrap on the end, which is like my favorite go-to wrap and the AAE max, uh stealth max. So going with the four fletched. Um, I also got a real like a poster of a full-size bison, and I have been practicing non-stop from 20 yards out to 70 yards, and I am just making sure I am perfectly dialed in for that. And of course, the broad head of choice, sever. Can't go wrong with sever, sever's great.

SPEAKER_07 31:22

So, you're sending you sending the hybrid. Are you sending the hybrid? Are you gonna try to send the hybrid throw?

SPEAKER_01 31:30

I might. I'm I'm really contemplating if I want to use the hybrid or if I want to use, I might go with a smaller cut just because yeah, just because I want to make sure I get max penetration. So I know I will. I gotta aim right behind that shoulder. So but I'm looking forward to it. It's gonna be a blast.

SPEAKER_07 31:49

Heck yeah. Well, we cannot wait for for all that.

SPEAKER_05 31:52

Um to to hear about that, to talk about, to see if you know if you kill a bison when you fly over, we'll bring enough some meat. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, it's phenomenal. You'll have so much that oh yeah. What's up? You'll have a lot of it. So oh, I know.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

I told I looked in my freezer and I'm like, it's still packed with stag and fallow and the deer from the season. I'm like, I need to start grinding up the stag meat so that way I can actually start stacking that lower and I can start making room for the bison meat. Because I am I am so looking forward to bison meat.

SPEAKER_06 32:31

So the stag and the fallow, have you like I know you said you have to grind it, but have you eaten any of it and like oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:37

So I have I have steaks, I do have like the back straps, which honestly, I think we've already crushed the back straps. Um I love fallow. Fallow deer just tastes like almost normal beef to me. Zero game taste, same with the stag, but we have a ton of steak cuts. We have cubed, we have um a lot of ground, we do a lot of ground type stuff, like meatloafs and stuff. And of course, I have all the roasts, tenderloins, so like we have everything that we can do, and then I have flanks as well, so it's just like a plethora of what we want to do with like I think we eat steak probably like three times out of the week. We're so yeah, we were supposed to have some tonight, but I was not hungry at all because I had a long day at work, and then um in the sun, dude. I when it's just hot out, I'm like not hungry, like, but I'll eat. But like I came home and I was like, huh, my wife got donuts. Like, there's dinner right there. Donuts, give me this thing. Yeah, no, I sound like a fat ass. Hey, can't go, can't go wrong with that, Dennis. Nope. Yeah, I sound like a fat ass. My kids are like, Dad, we won't want them like no, you're getting chicken nuggets and corn dogs. Welcome to your 90s kids era meal right here. Go away. Yep. No, I love my kids.

SPEAKER_00 33:58

They are like, yeah, nuggies and hot dogs. All right.

SPEAKER_05 34:05

Yep, they're great. Get fired up for the nuggets and hot dogs. Uh hey, listen, when but when you're a kid, that's what it was about. I mean, who didn't get fired?

SPEAKER_01 34:13

Yeah, do you remember the little uh boxes that had like the little ping one on it? It was like the cuisine meals, it's just you put it in the microwave.

SPEAKER_00 34:22

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

I was looking for those in the store the other day. My wife's like, What are you doing? I was like, I'm looking for like the meals that we got when we were kids, and she was like, dude, we don't they don't make them anymore. And I was like, What do you mean? Who let this guy in?

SPEAKER_02 34:39

Who let this guy in? What are you doing here? I got your F hat on, so be nice, dude.

SPEAKER_06 34:47

I remember in college, I used to get those uh when I was doing a lot of weightlifting, uh, the big hungry man things. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 34:57

I would destroy those, and I think there was like 3,000 calories that in oatmeal just dominate it.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

Yeah, not just that, it's like here's your two weeks worth of sodium, dude. All right, I'm gonna have a heart attack and high blood pressure. Let's go.

SPEAKER_06 35:15

Squatch, you got any of that stew left you could send me?

SPEAKER_02 35:19

I already mailed it out. Perfect. I mailed it out and I put it in a ziploc bag, so it should be good by the time it gets there. He didn't even freeze it, he's just like, this will work. Then I threw a turd, I threw a turd in next to it just so the algae would stay to that and not go to this oh stuff. Oh perfect. I was walking, I started walking again. I found a shed out in the back, six point.

SPEAKER_03 35:50

Oh, nice. Oh, nice, dude.

unknown 35:52

Good.

SPEAKER_03 35:54

This year, I did two miles either, dude.

SPEAKER_05 35:57

I'm terrible at shed hunting. I don't know what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

Some deep stole mine, and then when I put your finger up on the camera, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

Connor, I did you just say you're bad at shed hunting? Did you say that? Yeah, that was Connor. Connor, yeah. That's because the last time we saw you, you were at Home Depot looking for one. Oh man, squat. He says to his buddy, uh uh. Oh yeah. He says, uh, he says to his buddy, he says to his buddy, I want a 12 by 12. Guys, like, that's not what we're looking for. It's the other kind of shit. You know what I want to know, Connor? You came all the way to FL here and didn't bring any cheese from Wisconsin, you turd.

SPEAKER_03 36:46

Oh, that's true. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 36:49

It's in the it's in the mail, squatch.

SPEAKER_02 36:51

Oh, oh, oh, all right.

SPEAKER_03 36:53

Okay in a zip rock bag.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

I mean, I go all out tonight. Look, I wear addiction. And then you know, where's my where's my stew? Where's my this? Where's my that? So what I get.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_02 37:10

I'd expect that shit from Frank.

SPEAKER_05 37:17

Listen, and not only that, Connor threw everything upside down. We didn't do our we didn't do our start-up uh damn.

SPEAKER_06 37:30

Dude, how about Mike when we walked into the hotel at 1 30 and the the girl at the front counter was looking at us both like, what the who the hell are these guys? Exactly. That's exactly what her face looked like.

SPEAKER_02 37:47

You know what she was thinking? She was like, This is the strangest couple I've seen come through here in a while.

SPEAKER_05 37:54

I mean, we got a black guy and this Irish dude who's half lit, and as red as he is now, that's how red he was uh the other day. It was like 107 in the room.

SPEAKER_03 38:09

Oh, yeah, he's like, I'm so fucking high. Every time I turned around, he was opening the door. He's like, dude, I'm dying.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

Yeah, my wife's like, Who's the asshole that keeps opening the door? I'm freezing.

SPEAKER_05 38:20

Yeah, every everyone else was fine and cold, and I was dying for the first time. The years before, I've been I've actually been warm and everything like that, but I was actually comfortable. But I went with this a simple t-shirt, you know. Last year, I think I wore like something with a sweatshirt, and now you gotta keep it simple, yeah. You know, especially when you're up there doing the raffle and you're talking and everything like that. Yeah, you gotta keep it simple because that's when Connor was really good was going to the door. Every time we made him talk and say off the number, he would go he'd go open the door and he'd be outside.

SPEAKER_06 38:55

I don't know if people thought I was having a quick heater or but I thought he was going to menopause, like you know, half flash.

SPEAKER_01 39:05

I told you that in comedy, I can see somebody's wife going like, What's wrong with that guy? Oh, he's a retard. Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_02 39:13

It's a barat when he's like, Oh, I think it's nice when you let the uh retard eat with you at the table.

SPEAKER_00 39:20

It's if you're told physical, everybody got too sensitive, dude.

SPEAKER_01 39:25

Squatch, you missed uh oh man, everyone's frozen.

SPEAKER_05 39:29

What what who's frozen? You're frozen. Yep, oh he's frozen. Hold on, we lost Zach. We'll talk without him until he's gonna be back. That was all right. There we go.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

Yeah, I was trying to be like, yo, Squatch, you missed Connor's epic ride to the airport with a guy who's here letting him know everything about his life. He's there, he's here illegally.

SPEAKER_06 39:53

God, dude. Like, I thought he was roughly. It turns out he was from Costa Rica, and his name is John.

SPEAKER_01 40:03

And he he's here illegally.

SPEAKER_06 40:06

Oh, really? Yeah, that was the best part. Yeah, it was uh he's like, Yeah, I'm not supposed to be here. But I I I was expecting him to say his name was like Boris or something, and it's John, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:21

So, anyway, that's just what they told him to say, yeah. Just say your name's John. It's like when we go places, right? We go to like a diner or we go somewhere like in a store. I'm with Frank. I'm like, say your name is Dave. Don't say your name's Frank. Because you know, people are gonna like start wondering what the hell's going on because they see you on the internet and they'd be like, Oh, you're the you're the guy off. No, no, I'm Dave. No, no, Dave.

SPEAKER_01 40:52

All right, well, this is kind of a a really random story. I my mind was blown today. I I didn't realize how fucked we were with in society when it came to math. So I went to Burger King, I was hungry. It was$22.59. I was like, sweet. I hand her four fives, two one dollar bills, uh, two quarters, a nickel, and four pennies.$22.59. I hand it to this chick. She looks at it, looks right back at me, and gives me like this face like I offended her. And I'm watching her inside, like counting it out, and I'm like, she has no idea what she's doing right now. She's counting it. She opens the thing back up and she's like, Did you how many coins did you give me? I was like, 59 cents. She like goes to like slowly close it, opens it back up, and just goes and then closes it and goes back to counting, and then she opens it again, and the manager comes, like, what seems to be the problem? And she's like, He's saying he gave me 59 cents, but I'm not getting 59 cents. The manager looks down and goes, like, sir, I'm gonna give you two additional apple pies for free. Thank you for your patience, and she shut your thing and start showing her how to count nickels and pennies and stuff. And I'm like, This is really happening, dude.

SPEAKER_05 42:16

You're fired. We are in it, we're in a society. First of all, your first mistake that you gave cash, no one gives cash in it anymore. That's crazy, and then you gave coins too. We are throwing the younger generation into mindfucking. I went to McDonald's yesterday. Went to McDonald's yesterday. We wanted to get my nephew ice cream. I walk over, I go, Wait, do you no longer go up to the counter and order? And they're like, No, you have to go to the to the kiosk shit. Yeah, and you gotta go, you know, tap it in and press it everything. And you gotta either take a number, and I was like, This is how do I pay cash?

SPEAKER_01 42:56

That's really how do I pay cash?

SPEAKER_05 42:58

I don't I don't, I don't, I didn't look, I haven't paid cash in forever.

SPEAKER_01 43:02

You know, I'm you know there's a problem.

SPEAKER_05 43:07

Hey, it's not my fault. That's how jerk, like honestly, most places now are like they prefer freaking you to pay on taxless. There's a lot of places that popped up cashless, and it's it's just a huge, huge pain in the butt here in Jersey sometimes. Like it will literally say no no cash. That's wild. I'm telling you, there will be no like registers and it's all gonna be you you don't need people anymore. Like most of the places I go, they have maybe one person behind, and everything else you just go, you you scan it yourself and you and you tap. You know, so I'm gonna tell you in five years, I can easily see where, especially at least in a place like Jersey or something like that, there isn't gonna really be a need for, you know. Yeah, well the which is a shame, but you know.

SPEAKER_01 43:55

The best part was is when that whole happened, I looked back in there at the girl. And the manager literally peeks around, goes, just says. And I just start laughing. I'm like, I was like, oh my God.

SPEAKER_06 44:10

And of course, get back to laughing her performance review.

SPEAKER_01 44:13

Dude, it's just like, hey, if you want to get free money, just go to this McDonald's. The girl can't count at the register. Give you your money back. God help us. I told my Marines, and they just started dying laughing. And they're like, So which Burger King is this? Well I was like, one over there.

SPEAKER_05 44:31

They just like you're also your other mistake is you want the Burger King. Listen, no way, underlooking Burger King.

SPEAKER_01 44:39

Burger King. They have the best fries. They have Herschel Hershey chocolate shakes. You can't need them. Brother.

SPEAKER_06 44:48

Flame bro burger. Oh man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:50

And on top of that, their apple pies are, as the kids say, fire or gas or riz, whatever the fuck riz means. Oh no, that's not riz. That's not riz. No, no.

SPEAKER_05 45:01

I know what Riz is now. I might still don't see it. You're still the problem. Hey, I have no choice. I still have no choice. Like, I gotta listen to this crap.

SPEAKER_02 45:12

That's right, is what Mike runs around. Mike runs around going, six seven, six seven, six seven. That's what's going on.

SPEAKER_06 45:22

My youngest daughter says, like, she'll be a smart aleck and ask me a question. And so she's 13 now. And like, I can't even believe you guys have heard so makes me feel a little bit better, like Riz and all that. But she has this thing where um if she asks me a question and it's not what she wants to hear, she'll just say that she clocked me. And I'm like, What? And she says I clocked. And I'm like, Yeah, I what the hell does that mean? Oh, I thought like I just clocked I'm gonna start doing that.

SPEAKER_02 45:56

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this this is what's gonna happen. Look, clock your tea, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 46:09

We're all at a bar with clock it, Mr. Mike, clock it. So then at the end I'd be like, clock it, girl, clock it.

SPEAKER_01 46:19

I just whatever's in my hand is getting thrown at you if someone does that to me.

SPEAKER_02 46:23

You can see this, right? Here we are, here we are out in the blind out in the woods, and we're calling a turkey. And I'm like, Frank, shut the hell up, man. You're scaring them away, and he'd be like, I clocked you, man. I clocked you know, and then he goes flying out in a blind on his head and just clock your teeth.

SPEAKER_01 46:41

I just clocked you, I literally just clocked you. Yeah, some of the stuff that I hear at work, I'm just like, I'm I just I literally will walk over to my door and shut my door, or when I'm really grumpy, I'll just yell, shut the fuck up, and like everyone just gets really quiet.

SPEAKER_05 46:58

Yeah, do you do your do your guys are are they doing like you because well, I imagine you're with 21 year olds, 22, and 20, like the young older little older, okay? Little, so they're not really doing all the TikTok dances and everything like that. I've seen it.

SPEAKER_01 47:11

No, so we have entry-level students, and then we have guys who are seniors, so like I work with the senior guys, but we have entry-level students that work inside that building when they're like you know, doing their height and weight, they're doing other paperwork and stuff, and we're trying to input grades, we're trying to go downrange to shoot, like all this stuff, and then they'll just start saying some random, dumb shit. And I'm just like, and it's right in front of my door, too. So I'll walk over to my door and I'm just like, Hey, shut the fuck up, and I'll just slam my door, and I'm just like, God, like, it's just so like mind-nubbing. I literally will lose time at work because I just sit there and listen to them, and I have no idea what they're saying. Uh I mean, I'm sure we have in our generation, you know, we had like you know, oh, that's tight word or whatever, like and people that can't count less than three dollars. 59 cents was hard for her. All right, one I wonder what like in scratches time.

SPEAKER_02 48:18

Oh, back when we had oyster shells and and clams, they couldn't even count back the clams the right way when I was a kid. What the hell are you doing? We didn't even we just bartered, we didn't even use money, we just bartered, you know. That's what we need to do nowadays. It's gonna come down to that.

SPEAKER_01 48:44

It will, yeah, because I think it's just so damn expensive. Yeah, I don't blame you.

SPEAKER_05 48:50

Told you, I told Bianca the other day, I'm beyond only fans spreading it soon.

SPEAKER_01 48:57

Spreading your toes or spreading something else, all right.

SPEAKER_05 49:00

So whatever whatever makes the millions.

SPEAKER_02 49:02

That's true. What is his fans? Look, we gotta come up with a name like sexual chocolate or something, like for that, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:13

Yeah, what is it?

SPEAKER_06 49:15

I believe in all the people in I said Bianca the video, he's good, and my name is sexual chocolate.

SPEAKER_05 49:31

Uh I said this video the other day, right? And it's of these two like youtubers, whatever, and he goes to his woman, he goes, Yeah, he goes, You need to start selling your feet tip feet feet pictures or you know, your your your pussy pictures. He goes, Nah, you gotta sell your feet pictures, that's better, right? And he goes, We can get it, we're gonna get a million off of that, right? And then he goes, the gay guys, the gay guys love me. I'm just starting stroking my shit, and that's another million. Now we now we got two million, Jesus man.

SPEAKER_02 50:11

Frank, don't even get any ideas, Frank.

SPEAKER_05 50:13

No, you're gonna be in the uh in the blind pretty soon together.

SPEAKER_03 50:19

Absolutely, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 50:23

I can't mean to get into the idea.

SPEAKER_02 50:25

Can you see it? I mean, can you see it literally? Because Frank has broadside in his name, yeah, and Connor has inches in his name, so it's gonna be broadside and inches addiction because that's what they're gonna be comparing, and like I'm gonna be sitting there going, I just want to fucking shoot a bird, guys. He's gonna bring he's gonna, he's not gonna bring any fucking cheese from Wisconsin because he's he's just fucking you know, and then we're gonna be sitting in the blind, and then that music's gonna start. Chicken chicken pamper. Welcome to the broadside inches addictions. Our cameraman Squatch is here, and he's got his 360 camera, but I don't know if it's big enough to catch everything my line. You're just gonna hear Squatch.

SPEAKER_05 51:25

I ain't no damn camera. You've given this a lot of thought, Val.

SPEAKER_03 51:29

You are man, you've literally gotten it.

SPEAKER_05 51:31

Cameraman, you're producing.

SPEAKER_02 51:34

I'm booking out of that blind. Um I ain't no playing.

SPEAKER_05 51:41

Oh back to back to to serious seriousness. Was this a hunting program? Is this a terrible is there anything that has to do with hunting in this? Because I'm wondering honestly. This was this was not meant to be our hunting show, but it also wasn't supposed to be our rated show either.

SPEAKER_01 51:58

Yeah, well, I mean, your your name is BD hunting, big dick hunting or something.

SPEAKER_05 52:05

Like I said, whatever makes the millions at this point.

SPEAKER_02 52:08

That's not what I thought BD stood for, but I won't say it. Yeah, might have something to do with color, but yeah, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 52:16

Yeah, we're all on the same page.

SPEAKER_05 52:20

Yeah, that's gonna be our new logo, a big black wing. We're gonna have someone design it so it looks like it's coming at you, and it's gonna have names and everything like that.

SPEAKER_02 52:38

Mike's gonna be like hauling everybody three goggles, right? Yeah, yeah. Here guys, here's your official garden state outdoors with 3D glasses. Look, it's coming right at you. Oh god, I even got the guy to edit it so it spits too. Look, classic. Did this did this whole podcast kind of go downhill as soon as I tuned on? Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 53:06

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 53:09

We were doing decent, we were doing decent, yeah, you know, yeah, we were talking about the event and stuff like that, having fun, and then you came on, and then you know, like you do on this show in the Whitetail Advantage, you just turn it upside down.

SPEAKER_00 53:22

Yep.

Final Laughs And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_05 53:23

Yeah. Um, but yeah, I mean, boys, uh, it was an it was an absolute great, great time. Uh, like I said before, great food, great raffles. We'll we'll be doing again, of course, next year. We cannot wait. Um, you know, we'll we'll make sure we have the rest of the guys here too, make sure people aren't sick, you know, and and and things like that. And um yeah, really, really looking forward to it. Um and yeah, Connor, thank you, thank you so much for for flying out. I mean, it's a pleasure. Oh, well, Squats, the one thing you did miss is that we're we're probably already get together. The boys are probably gonna fly back out at some point. We'll we'll we'll make it a little weekend thing, and you know, they'll come and go grab some drinks, go grab some food, go scout, go shoot, maybe go to the devil's game or something like that, and have a such a little boondocks weekend. Maybe uh is Connor doing this? Is Connor gonna be there? Connor is gonna be there, which might throw everything into chaos, but he oh, it definitely will. I don't think it'll get past the bar once he gets off the flight. But yeah, buddy, and then you throw Zach into the equation, and then if you know if any of the other guys make it, like I just uh it's gonna be a mess.

SPEAKER_06 54:42

See, they wouldn't be that's what that's what all our cash is gonna be for bail money.

SPEAKER_02 54:48

Yeah, what did they say on the plane when you had a jack and coke? Did they look at you? Did they look at you funny that early asking for a jack and coke on the plane?

SPEAKER_01 54:57

Um we had this discussion about how alcoholism is fine at airports at any point in time. Yes, we did.

SPEAKER_03 55:04

Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_06 55:06

They they didn't. This is a weird thing. Um I couldn't believe it. Now, granted, it was you know new work to Milwaukee, but um I I swear to god, half the plane was empty. I had the seat open next to me, the guy across the aisle had it open. I had my feet up. I mean, it was cocktail, it was beautiful. I was fine. Wow, nice. Yeah, a little turbulence. I didn't give a shit. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 55:30

Yeah, except for it's filled to drink a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 55:33

God damn it.

SPEAKER_06 55:35

Hey, how are you gonna drink here? But here, I I have my wallet out on the little table, got off the plane, street continues. You know, you know, you walk off, and they're all like, Oh, thank you, thank you. I'm like, No, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 55:54

This flight was awesome.

SPEAKER_05 55:57

He gets off the plane, his wife picks him up, he's absolutely hammered. We're not going back to Jersey ever again.

SPEAKER_02 56:06

Connor's the only one to try to exit the plane through the tail section, though.

SPEAKER_05 56:16

Listen, we'll we'll we'll talk more, boys. Let's let's end this real quick and then we'll we'll talk outside of here. Um, everyone, I know this wasn't our usual episode, it got really wacky. We're just you know busting each other's chops and everything like that. But I do hope you guys enjoyed this episode. If you did make it to our wild game dinner, thank you so much. Stay tuned for for when we have another one, and we'll see you guys next time.