I can't go.

I can't. I'm going to see. Welcome to the J. Scott Outdoors Podcast. Today's going to be a fun episode with the co-owner of

DSD decoys. I've got Brad Cochran on the line Brad how you doing?

I'm doing well Jay thanks for having me. Yeah I'm excited to have you on I've been Pester and Dave for a while now and he says oh I'm too

shy I can't come on I can't come on Brad would be much better than me I'm like

you're such a turkey Dave and and he just laughs and says Brad will come on so I'm glad to have you Brad.

Well thank you.

Dave always acts like he gets a stage fright and every time we shoot a video he does.

Yeah, I know the videos I really enjoy watching the videos and stuff on your website

Brad I want to start out by let's talk a little bit about how Dave Smith decoys, DSD decoys, started and get a little bit of history

and kind of, you know, how everything shaped together from, you you know kind of start from the beginning

uh... to where we're at now and i think it makes an interesting story because i think a

lot of people don't really know

and they're curious how dSD decoys got their start.

Sure. So actually Dave Smith decoys started long before I was actually involved with Dave as his business partner.

It was back in 1998.

Dave actually decided to create an ultra realistic

taverners, Canada Goose Decoy, which is more or less a lesser Canada for anybody not from the northwest.

But yeah, there were no realistic, ultra-realistic goose decoys on the market and what was available just wasn't really cutting it at that time.

And so Dave decided that he would you know take a take a stab at it and he basically kind of threw all his chips in a, you know, one basket, decided to quit his day job and cashed in his 401k and bought a rotational casting machine and a bunch of molds and the way he went and

he didn't...

At that point in time that's when all his family and friends are going you're going to do what?

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