serving that role as a firebreak really well, but it's also a plant that's super attractive

and nutritious for deer and turkeys. And it can serve that attraction purpose and sneak around

and find a gobbler coming to it to strut in or something like that.

I would guess that the majority of the turkeys that I've killed, I have

used a firebreak at some point in that hunt.

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Yeah, you kidding this counted by about 12 seconds.

Oh, I was early?

Yeah, you, uh, you know, all those really crazy good ideas you just had.

Yeah.

Completely lost to the world.

I'll never, I'll never remember him again either.

Yeah, so that one, like, grandiose point that would save turkeys completely that you just made. Can you repeat that?

You know, that didn't come from my head. You know, I did have a listener tell me recently that we

talked too much at the start of these episodes. Well, I've had two listeners that told me that we

didn't talk enough. Well, that's what I told him, too. I have heard two listeners that told me that we didn't talk enough well that's what I told him too

I have heard people say that they enjoy the back and forth

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