Ep. 993: An Outdoor Year in Review with Janis and Mark
Wired To Hunt Podcast
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4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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This week on the show Mark and Janis Putelis sit down for a "fireside chat" to review the past year outside and some of their top memories, experiences, and lessons learned, then turn their eyes toward planning for the new year.
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| 0:38.6 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First |
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| 0:53.8 | And now, your host, Mark Kenyon. |
| 0:56.9 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast this week on the show. |
| 1:01.4 | We're doing a little fireside chat of sorts with myself and Janus Patelis, |
| 1:07.1 | reviewing our year in the outdoors, the highs and the lows and the lessons learned. |
| 1:12.9 | I'm looking forward to 2026. |
| 1:19.5 | All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast and Merry Christmas. |
| 1:25.4 | You're listening to this on the day it airs. |
| 1:28.9 | I guess I don't know what to say. |
| 1:31.0 | It's Christmas Day. |
| 1:31.7 | I hope you're spending most of the day with your friends and family. |
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