Ep75 - Jeff Stanfield and Andy Shaver: Big Honker Stories & Shenanigans
Dive Bomb Squadcast
Ashur Tolliver
4.9 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 75, Matt Judy sits down with Jeff Stanfield and Andy Shaver of the Big Honker Podcast for a wide-ranging—and often hilarious—conversation about life behind the mic, in the field, and at home. From balancing family life and podcasting during the off-season to managing daily guide routines and unpredictable clients, no topic is off limits. The guys share wild stories from the field, the highs and lows of dog handling, and the occasional chaos that comes with running a waterfowl operation. They also dive into the evolution of their podcast, what makes a guest great (or not), and how keeping things real has helped them connect with their audience. It’s equal parts insightful and ridiculous—in the best way possible.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? Welcome back to episode 75 of the dive bomb squadcast. I'm your host, Matt |
| 0:13.9 | Judy, and today's guests, you've probably heard them. If you're bored in the off season |
| 0:19.0 | or sitting in the blind blind you've probably heard them |
| 0:21.3 | cutting it up on a microphone we got jeff stanfield and andy shaver from the big honker podcast |
| 0:27.0 | on today how we doing guys good doing great matt thank you for having us on yeah no problem |
| 0:32.2 | appreciate it man thanks for coming on i i'm in crunch time of having a baby right now. So I'm trying to |
| 0:38.3 | squeeze an episode out before my life changes forever, pretty much. Yeah, you have no idea |
| 0:45.1 | what you're in for. It's a great ride. It goes by extremely, extremely fast, but life does |
| 0:51.1 | get pretty hectic. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, her due date was yesterday, and by the time this episode releases, I'll have a little baby girl out. Congratulations. Looking forward to that, man. What you've been up to in this off season so far, just recording a ton? Yeah, yeah, it's podcast season. We go from one season to the next. It's either hunting season or podcast season. And we really don't even stop podcast season during hunting season, but just trying to line out some interesting guests. |
| 1:16.5 | And we have two new series that we do. We have a did you know series. It drops weekly. We have one episode a week. |
| 1:21.9 | And then we also have our today series that we do. So we just, we look at interesting things that happened on that day |
| 1:27.7 | in history and that that releases Monday to Friday. So we went from recording three episodes |
| 1:32.8 | when we first started the podcast and now we are all the way up to nine episodes a week. So |
| 1:38.3 | it's hectic. Dude, that is insane. I felt good that it was nine, but I wasn't willing to step out there. It's nine. And he's got that Knox City education that Texas Tech honored. Texas Tech math. There you go. Yeah, no kidding. I remember about, I think it was about 2022. You guys had me on your podcast and I got you on mine. It's kind of like a full circle moment. Yeah. We've moved full circle. |
| 2:01.7 | For real, man. Move full circle here. That's crazy. Y'all are doing a lot of wild things at die bomb, a lot of cool things. And you're ready for squad fest, I'm assuming then. Yeah, totally getting ready for it. That's like the, I'm ready for it, but I'm not because squad fest is like the kickoff to our, you know, season again, pretty much go squad fest into a couple |
| 2:19.9 | trades show game fair and then after. I'm not because squad fest is like the kickoff to our, you know, season again, pretty much go squad |
| 2:18.7 | fest into a couple trades show game fair. And then after that, it's just like hunting and it's a blur |
| 2:23.9 | until February pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. And then like it's crazy how much your life changes once you have |
| 2:29.7 | kids. Like I used to just count down the days. February would get here and it'd be like, okay, when's waterfow season? And then you get kids and you get busy with them. And then you start like enjoying your kids, which I hope all parents enjoy their kids. And I enjoy my summers now a whole lot more than I used to whenever I was in a teenager. And then in my early 20s and starting out as a guide and everything else, I just kept waiting for |
| 2:51.9 | November to get back here, even September, you know, just get this thing rolling again. And I cherish |
| 2:57.5 | my summers with my kids more and more. Yeah, yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to that because right |
| 3:02.0 | now I'm just like, man, I like bass fishing until about June. And then after that, I'm just like, |
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