Ep. 70: Report Card Time! Listener Call-Ins with Dirk
In Pursuit
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🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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With elk season 2023 in the tail lights, Dirk reflects on what his elk hunting report card looks like, and plays listener questions and comments about their season from our Call-In Hot Line as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Cutting the Distance Podcast. I'm Dirk Durham and guess what? |
| 0:17.4 | It is report card time. Last week I put a post out on Instagram asking for everybody's two cents on how they did in 2023. |
| 0:28.0 | It's a really great way to kind of self assess, look back, analyze, think about it. |
| 0:33.0 | I had to think about it a lot myself. |
| 0:35.0 | In fact, I'm probably harder on myself than anyone |
| 0:39.0 | punish myself for the next few months until we hit September again. |
| 0:44.0 | I ask everybody to call in to our super secret hotline. |
| 0:52.0 | I guess it's not that secret had him call in and |
| 0:56.2 | leave a message and let me know how did there's how did their season go did they |
| 1:01.4 | kick ass or did they suck ass? And we had a few people call in, leave messages, |
| 1:08.0 | so I'm going to play those in a little bit and kind of go over their thoughts and maybe put a couple of my two cents in as well. |
| 1:17.0 | But in the meantime, I'm going to kind of go over my season and let you know how I did if I kicked ass or if I sucked ass and I'm going to go ahead and just hey |
| 1:25.8 | I'm going to raise my head right now. I'm the first guy to admit I kind of sucked ass last year. |
| 1:31.5 | Man it was a tough tough September for me and you know, I was like, well, you know, |
| 1:38.9 | maybe it's not an elk year, maybe it'll be a deer, you know, maybe elk season wasn't very robust, but deer season would be would be awesome and I would make up for it. |
| 1:50.4 | Deer season a little bit soft too. |
| 1:52.6 | So, but anyway, I was gonna go ahead and kind of go over some of these |
| 1:56.7 | thoughts that I had on my on my report card from 2023 and I would probably give myself maybe maybe a C I've always been kind of a C student but |
| 2:17.7 | anyway did you guys kick ass or did you suck ass? I sucked ass and I'm just going to dive in on kind of some of my screw-ups here. My screw-up number one. I didn't do my research on the |
| 2:28.0 | unit to see how many hunters I could expect to see here in Idaho. This is a whole new unit for me. |
| 2:35.0 | It was a unit that was close to where my son could come and join me for the hunt, spend a few days. |
| 2:40.7 | It'd be easy with his work shift and I thought yeah this will work |
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