Welcome to the J. Scott Outdoors podcast. Today we have my friend Joe Derego on the phone and Joe is with the hope effect.

Joe, how you doing?

I'm doing great and I'm sitting in my car and

Woonfield, New Mexico all my way to Chama.

Oh cool beautiful part of the country for sure.

We love it there.

We've got some hunts that uh... you're giving away as well from

other great prizes

that you're gonna raffle off why don't you tell my listeners

uh... exactly what's on your heart and what you're trying to

accomplish at the Hope Effect. Well Jay thanks for that. I'm a big outdoors

man found my love for the outdoors.

After high school, got in college with some buddies and they taught me how to

archery hunt and I was hooked.

So I've had the privilege of hunting lots of different places and we moved here to Arizona. I was blown away with all the big game you could hunt in the southwest and it's just been a great 14 years for us down here in Arizona.

Learning how to hunt these great animals, including the coos deer.

And of course I became a big fan of the podcast and learned a ton about elk hunting and white-tail hunting and even meildare hunting and just, you know, I'm an avid listener.

I also have another passion in my life and that is helping orphans. My wife and I have

adopted a couple of kids from overseas and we really have had our eyes open to the plight of orphans

around the world. Less than 1% of orphans will be

adopted here in the next year and so we're trying to do something to improve the

lives of the other 99% while they wait to get adopted or hopefully

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