Hey, I'm Janice Patelis.

And I'm Jordan Bud.

Jordan and I have spent our lives in the outdoors, both as hunters and professional guys.

And on Meet Eaters newest podcast, Gear Talk, we're taking the ultimate deep dive into the tools and gear we rely on in the field,

seeing the natural season.

We're talking classic, don't leave home without it,

staples, to the cutting edge and outdoor equipment.

Listen to Gear Talk on the iHeart Radio app on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

I love the fact that something like that is possible.

If everything in deer hunting had to be by the books, predictable,

do only to those who put in the work who had this plan or who did all the homework, whatever it was,

if that was the only way that you could have these storybook endings, to be a little bit boring.

On this episode of the Bear Geese podcast, we're talking about two giant public land white

tales killed by the same man on the same year, all the while exploring a universal and ancient idea.

It's one that has not escaped any culture.

It's homogenous across time, oceans and peoples.

It's the idea of a streak of luck.

All can agree that beneficial things do happen that are far beyond human control,

but the catalyst or origin of this favor are where the ideologies diverge.

I want to introduce you posthumously to an incredible man by the name of Aura Lee Provence,

or, as they called him, Auri, who I interviewed in 2019 just a month prior to his passing at the age of 91.

Mr. Auri killed two non-typical deer in the fall of 1965 on public land in the Ozark Mountains of

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