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Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. Well, I am your host, Brian Cawd, and I'm joined by my brother.

The Gritty Brom and how are you, Brent? Well, thank you. Today's podcast episode is with our friend Thor, but not like the Thor in the Avengers.

No, not like in the Thor in Norse mythology. No, it's a different Thor. It's some kind of like Egyptian translator or something name or I can't remember.

No, his dad went to school to learn Middle Eastern languages or something. Yeah, like in the 60s, which makes you wonder.

It's like, come on Thor, I think it's like Indiana Jones's, though to me in a way. Yeah, you know. Anyway, we have them on the podcast. Thor is a study. He's an awesome guy.

We talk about his mom. We talk about how they started Alpaca rafts. So for those don't know, he's the owner of Alpaca rafts, which is a very, very lightweight backpacking raft that Ryan and I used on our last meal to your hunt.

And we showed it in the film series, but you by the way, have killed it out there. So if you're one of those podcast listeners that haven't gone to our YouTube channel because you only listen.

You should take the time to go watch the films because they've done so well. I mean, we're just I mean thousands. I think we have between the three films. We have 6000 comments on YouTube videos.

I might be a little biased, but I think they're pretty great. Yeah, they're cool adventures. So if you're not actually watching that because you're mostly kind of just a listener, go check it out. It's worth your time.

People loved it. We share a lot about the gear that we're using. So it's informational. We tell we share a lot about where we're at in terms of country and our strategy and information about the species we're hunting.

And I really try to make the productions educational. So you're not just coming along on a hunt, but you're learning like how we did it and why we did it. And even the mistakes we make like Ryan used the raft backwards the entire trip.

Technically, we all used it backwards, but we did it because Ryan led the way we had never used with all the experience. Yeah, right. Ryan's rafting and been on the water far more than us. I've been my share.

But I'm not really a finesse person on the water. Like I really I take a paddle and I attack the water and I muscle the boat around. You get what you're going. Ryan is more like.

You know, he's like this dainty paddler with efficiency and reads the water reads water. Yeah, whatever dude just get across. You could see the evident difference between us when you watch the bearer series that we did.

Where we cross the river in a different raft and he did about half the strokes. Yeah, right. Who cares. It's not a contest.

If it is though, eventually I'll get better than Ryan. That's the goal.

No, we had a blast on that hunt and the alpaca raft was phenomenal. We expected it to sort of drag. I don't know. Just be like a rubber raft, but it's not it. It actually works a lot like a kayak.

Cuts the water really well.

My once I got my hands on it and I saw it only weighed seven pounds, but could carry five or six hundred pounds. The other ones eight pounds can carry six hundred pounds. I think.

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