What did your wife say? Like, you want to spend a million dollars on a pair of antlers? Well, I didn't tell her. Really? No. The first time I told her was after the sticker, you know, pictures came out. So basically, they'll summarize the conversation. Like, yeah, it was a million bucks I spent on those general antlers. And they got kicked out of the record book, you know, basically 40 days after I bought them is when the pictures came out. And that automatically takes them out of the North American Shetowners Club. Yeah. Because they've been altered. Manipulated. And she said to me, she goes, Josh, how's it going?

Good.

How you doing, man?

I'm doing great.

This is, I've been looking forward to this since we first chatted.

Jonathan York, I said, hey, do you think I get Josh's information?

And he sent it right away and I called you and you're like, yeah, man, I'd love to do a podcast.

So, Josh, you bought the general.

It's been making a lot of waves and it's made a lot of waves since you bought it. And we're at the Iowa Deer Classic right now. And I felt like it was about this time last year. There was a lot of stuff going on. But before we get into this, I have a lot. I want to ask you, sincerely. Tell us a little bit about how you bought the most expensive pair of antlers, still least known to man, this past year? Like, how did that transpire? Because I have so many questions. I usually don't have this many questions, but I have so many questions I want to answer. Yep. Oh, man, I'm happy to dive in. It's been a, it has been a wild ride for sure, Jake. What really brought me to want to buy the general, I read about the deer and when I was a

freshman in college in North American White Tail, but infatuated with, I mean, obviously because it was, would have been the world record if it was taken by a hunter. That was a lot of intrigue, but just the look of the antlers, the typical look, that right antler, when you look at the brow time, the two and the three and the four and the five,

it's just magical. I've loved the deer. I have loved the deer since 1996 when I read about it.

So fast forward to a lot of things, hunting got in the beginning, been successful in the self-storage

space, been blessed with, you know, a farm and a ranch in Kansas with a lodge. And we went to

look at the property, walked inside. The guy had taxidermy on the wall, a ton of like 170 to 200

inch Kansas white tails. And I'm like, man, this place feels magic. Closed on the property,

went back, and the deer are gone. Unfortunately, the guy took his deer with him, which obviously was part of the deal, but the room definitely felt empty. I was like, man, I don't have

enough taxidermy to bring into this space to make it feel magical again. How do I make this, put the

aura back to this lodge? There is a real estate for a living, and there is a very distinct feeling when you walk into a

cabin or something like that and you just see well that's why we do white tail cribs like there's

just so many memories you can see the excitement of whoever you know shared those stories or even

just unique pieces of art for example um yep and so are you leading to that you had to fill that

room up somehow and you didn't have enough time to kill 20 years for the big deer exactly i want i'm i'm an impatient you know christian businessman like

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