Welcome to my voice Flyways podcast. I am your host, Joey Basayo. And to my left, we have Cal J.

Ness. Say hello. Hello. Hello. Welcome. We got a special guest on with us here today. We've got

Graham Graseth of Maxed Out guides. Say hi. How you doing guys? Good man. Thanks for coming on the podcast

today. We're super pumped. Joey wrote down like he's been studying.

He's got some really cool questions. Okay. Sounds good. So get ready.

Let's get a good one. Let for being here, man.

Is this a crazy time of year for you?

So crazy time, no, like we're winding down now.

I mean, snow geese, when we're guiding snows, it's always a little bit crazy.

But for me, as the owner, my guide season kind of ends.

Basically, when we wrap up those late season duck hunts in January in Kansas,

that's where I start to kind of dial back a little bit on the guiding.

I'll do a stretch out in Kansas in February. But really, once we're into February, my eyes

start going towards next year and what we're going to do differently and what we're going to do

better and what we're going to change and what leases we're renewing and not renewing and just,

you know, getting clients out, all the business stuff. So that, that's really where I

transitioned to this time of year. Yeah. And you are just straight maxed out guides. Like,

that's your full-time job, right? That's all I do. That's all you do. Yep. How long has it been

all you do? So this is year, let's see, so we started in 17. This was year 16. I've been full time since, I think this was

year eight of full time just doing this. This is year 17 of owning maxed out. Yep. And this is year

eight of being full time. Correct. Okay. Damn. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. It wasn't a,

it wasn't a part of the plan. It just kind of happened. So, crazy. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't a, it wasn't a part of the plan.

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