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All right, here we go. Welcome in, everyone, to this week's edition of the Deer Hunter podcast Friday, January 16th, and you are in the studio.

I am joined this week by one of the more reasonable voices, a very well-spoken individual, very thoughtful, my good friend,

Jake Hofer from the White Tail podcast. Jake and I have had a friendship and a business relationship

together for going on a decade now, And I've just always respected and appreciated

Jake. I think he's just a really well thought out, balanced guy. And I wanted to have him on to

talk about the current culture and trends in whitetail deer hunting throughout the country in the different states, age demographic-wise,

whatever. The whole thing, we kind of cover the whole gambit if you've followed me on social

media. You know, I've been kind of vocal here over the course of this past week as I suspect there's going to be some

regulation changes coming here in my home state people are a group of people are eager for it

and those voices are getting louder and louder and I just just, I'm not, I don't have a rigid position.

It might look like that if you follow me, but part of what I have been doing is a social experiment,

just to see how people treat my opinion and where the conversation goes. I've just kind of been

light, I just kind of been ducking in and out of Facebook, lighten little fires and running away and see what happens with them. And it's kind of been, it has me optimistic, honestly. One thing I want to say to our direct listening audience, our community, the people that tune in week out, week in, week

out for the show and the people that follow along and engage with us on social media, just

hands down the most respectable group of deer hunters that exist at least online.

The forums and the threads and the posts that I've spent any time diving into the comments and reading and seeing where the arguments go, people get nasty so quick.

It's the insecurity flourishes on social media.

Facebook seems to be the worst place.

And, you know, it's just, it's refreshing to me that I can post controversial things.

And really, I posted quite a bit this week.

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