Welcome back to Kaffarokas, everyone. Frank here and Aaron is back from Texas and also from his recent stint with AIDS.

It was a tough battle.

We have a special guest today, the one and only Mike Duplan.

Hello, sir.

Good morning, all. You haven't had AIDS, have you? No, not yet. I got a cold, but no AIDS. I don't know what I had. AIDS might have been better. Magic Johnson figured it out. Well, you can take a pill for that. There's plenty of stuff you can't take a pill for, so. I don't know what I had. Just need millions. I had chronic too much time in the tree stand, what I had. Because I was going to hunt for two weeks. I was gone hunting, and then I came back and didn't come to work for a week after that, because I was in bed all week around the couch. Well, you'll know how many people listen when you go to ATA and nobody wants to shake your hand down. No kidding. I may have to opt out of ATA this year, but... Bummer. Not a big show fan. So much for all the group photos. I know, and the bedazzled jeans. There is some pretty people down there, I must say. Yeah. I forgot that was a thing that shows the selfies and the, oh yeah. Hey, I'm at the trophy.

I'm at the, yeah, I'm at the show.

Yeah.

So the first, it's funny, everybody wants to get a picture with somebody with some degree higher

of celebrity than them, you know.

That is true.

When I first went to the ATA, as green as grass.

And it was truly about, you know, going to meet your, you know, somebody cool and talking

to them for a minute and seeing all the new gear.

You mean it was like a trade show?

It was what a show was.

I thought a show would be.

And, you know, you go and you get your deals. You know, you can place your massive orders for if you're would be and I you know you go and you get your deals you

know you can place your massive orders for if you're a shop and and see new bows and then fast

forward 10 12 years I went and it was a fashion show I was amazed because it was um literally more

about the Instagram update as at the shot show, what do you want, you know,

and it was, I'm not bitching about it, I guess.

It was just different than what I think the original idea of the ATA was supposed to be.

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