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waterfowl hunting joining me this week as he does pretty much every time.

Dan, Minnie Van Dan Hirschka.

What's up, man?

Not too much.

You know, it's...

I always think about what I'm going to talk about in the intro and something that's been bothering me really bad lately like you know I'm going on a hunt Colorado here coming up. It's a like a 10 day backpack hunt so really trying to get in shape.

Let my beard grow a little bit and it's getting pretty red and long and seeing a lot of

a lot of white hair in there too I feel you know semi old but

every time my wife talks to me she doesn't look me in the eye she just looks at my face like at my beard with a disgust of how red it is and it's kind of hurtful to be honest.

That's what's when you know you're getting to the good point. You're just getting it's just getting right, you know?

When it's a distraction, like when it's an issue, that's when you know you've made it.

Like that's when it gets good.

That's when you just, you know, I just put my head down and, you know, just keep on, keeping on, you know, Joe Dirt style.

But it's, yeah, she, I'm not joking, like she'll sit there and just stare at my chin and she's

like are you gonna shave that and I was like well I just trimmed it so it's all the

same length but yeah it's pretty long I understand that that's what I'm going for and it's

kind of an issue in the household. Welcome to the Brotherhood. That's right

where you need to be so I'm glad to hear.

I'm glad to hear that you got it going like that but

This week we got it going because we're pretty much gearing up here. I know that you're an elk hunter now and a deer hunter now and pretty much everything but ducks, but we're getting ready to start some September goose season here in our neck of the woods so you know it's

that time of year where it's like the longest hottest month of the year and you can't you know you can't get by quick enough but we got that going on so we're going to chat a little

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