Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.

What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, joined by country music artist, fiddler, player, extraordinary

host of the outdoor TV show, Nick's Wild Ride, which is a hunting show, but man, it's as much

hunting as it is travel as it is food, a really cool show. show and nick i am so pumped to have you here because

you are a world traveler you've you've hunted a good portion of the world and that's what we're

going to talk about today we're going to talk about international hunts that might be a little bit

more within reach than a person might think so

welcome nick it's always great to have you back here oh man thank you for having me it's so much

fun and and yeah it's funny because when as soon as you say that to me i you know the minnesota

boy and me who grew up on a farm just reading, using his allowance to go read

Field and Stream magazine and send away for hunting videos who didn't grow up in a hunting

family. Like I come by the idea that somehow I'm qualified to talk about this. It still blows my

mind. Like I can't get my head around the fact that I,

that I am, I'm certainly never an expert. Nobody's an expert, but did I, that I even have done

what you just said. I just wanted to hunt out one deer once in my life. That was my, that was my goal

as a teenager. Just once, maybe I'll get to kill a deer. You know what I mean? So the idea that I've been all over the world at this point, when you hear it put like that, you're like, dang, is this really my life? Is this really what I get to do? Yeah, man. I mean, you have to step, probably take a step back every night because your reality is

your reality and you're immersed in it. It's your day to day and you're doing this and you're,

maybe you're meeting these people or you're going on this trip and having this experience.

And then all of a sudden, like I said, you probably have to take a step back and go, wow,

that is truly incredible and amazing and, you know, be grateful for it,

all the things that that really you have to be intentional about doing, honestly.

Absolutely. But, you know, I think that's part of my mantra, too, is like, you know,

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