Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Ginny Jurech. I'm the founder of

1000 Hours Outside and I could not be more thrilled and truly more honored to have

Jim Shockey as a guest on today. Welcome.

Oh boy that's have Jim Schake as a guest on today. Welcome.

Oh, boy, that's quite an intro.

It's a real pleasure to be here.

I want to tell you, I got your book.

This is the coolest thing about doing podcast is that people send you books.

And sometimes they let you know in advance and sometimes they just show up in your mailbox.

So yours just showed up in my mailbox one day and it was back in the summer maybe July is and I got your book I got the advance copy I actually I got both this is a fantastic book call me Hunter your first fiction book and I got this book in the mail Fantastic book, Call Me Hunter, Your First Fiction Book.

And I got this book in the mail and it says right on the cover

that it doesn't come out into October.

And so it was a summer and I thought, well,

I probably should hold off on reading it until it's a little bit closer and we're going to get a chance to talk but I picked it up anyway and I was like I'll just you know I'll just give it a little go I'll give it a start what's this book about and then Jim I couldn't put it down my

brain kept saying put it down and wait put it down and wait and I could not it is

an absolute page turner call me hunter is how I read it in the summer and I

took notes and then I just then I ended up re-reading it in the past couple days to

get ready for talking with you but they just thoroughly enjoyed it it's

entertaining it's deep I love the lines of family and relationship that run through it and so

and from one reader's perspective well done amazing work on your first

fiction book. I'm I'm actually sitting here getting shivers because it's you know when you when you write a book like that you're putting and for me it was a lifetime I mean I waited I waited and waited and waited until I had an actual story to tell. So to hear it now means I didn't waste my entire life, you know, the accolades, you know, like I say, and I can also tell when I do podcast who's read it.

It's very interesting. I know you've read it. I know you've read it because that's the response for

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