Hey folks, Randy Newberg here with another episode of Loop Holds Hunt Talk Radio from Snowy Blizzardy Boseman Montana this morning.

May 17th I believe we're supposed to be bear hunting but it's a complete whiteout so I have the production crew here and I said if we're going to do something today it looks like it's going to be indoors and so we're doing a podcast.

We've been talking about this podcast for quite a while. We've made a call for questions and ideas from the audience on Facebook, on YouTube, on our Hunt Talk Forum, on Instagram, all of our platforms and Marcus has went through and went through all these comments and he's got sheets of questions people have for us so I think we're we got a lot.

We got a lot so I don't know how long this is going to take but I don't think we're going to get through all of them.

And also with us in the podcast in the past you have heard that we put out a call last winter for a WPA wilderness production assistant and Michael got the I guess you were either would we say selected or you were the last man standing or the misfortune at all.

Or the misfortune at one who wasn't smart enough to decline.

I'd say I'm just the lucky one who got it.

So Michael joined us earlier this month and he is the WPA man of many languages world traveler are our local hockey player, all kinds of things.

His background is white tail hunting so it's an interesting mix.

It is the whole hiking thing has been kind of kicking my butt but I'm starting to get I'm starting to get my mountain legs.

Actually it was it was really the mountain lungs that have needed the most developing but yeah you just can't replace altitude.

I don't know how you can do it. I guess there's some machines you can train on that are altitude machines or whatever.

I felt bad for you looking back and he's saying where is the oxygen out here.

Yeah coming from I think you was 600 feet above sea level in Columbus Ohio where it's flat as a pancake to you know 6000 and above.

It's been quite the adventure.

Well we're glad to have you.

Anyhow folks what we're going to do we're going to go through this list of questions and it is I don't know how we could tie any common thread through it all other than these are viewer listener questions.

Yeah I think it's going to be pretty random I didn't put them in the any specific order and this kind of questions.

But before we get started we want to thank Lou pulled for being the title sponsor of this podcast and our TV show and everything else we do.

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You guys hear me say it all the time I wouldn't leave home without it the hunts that we do even this bare hunt this week has been you know kind of this boundary area of some public and private and I XMAPs just makes that so much easier.

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