Welcome to the Monday Minute of the Hunts Backcountry podcast. These are shorter and more informal episodes where we answer your listener questions and back by popular demand. Jake, how's it going, man?

Good man, yourself. Doing good. We were just chatting and I had no idea. It's been since we think or you think I had no idea January since

you think you're on yeah I think so because that's the last time I remember because every other time

like we've just been super busy like with the golf tournament and garage sale and like just

trips that you guys have talked about things that I've been doing but I just haven't't been able to jump on. We talked about you, but not with you. Yeah, yeah. So, no, I think the last time was January. How the heck has it been nine months? I don't know. Maybe I upset you. That's never happened. No, never. I don't know. I think we just get busy. I mean, we do our marketing

meetings every month. So I think that's kind of, yeah, my one way to step away from my office.

But other than that, I really can't. I got to be on in my office ready to take phone calls.

Well, shoot, I guess nine months. I mean, there has to be some new podcast listeners. Maybe they don't know who the heck you are, Jake. So it's for some, it's, I mean,

you've been around forever, but maybe some people you're new. So I don't know. What's your

made up job title and all the intro? Made up job title. So I've been working for XO for

almost nine years now. It's been my only job.

I started out just building packs and now I'm the community manager, self-dubbed community

manager. So I handle basically all of our day-to-day customer service, like social media

marketing, guiding outfit or discounts, military discounts.

Just, yeah, a whole lot of things.

But yeah, almost nine years.

I hit my eight year mark back in May, which is crazy.

That is wild.

Yeah, I was just, I was telling, I was talking to somebody about it.

I think I was talking to Pat because he started a year before me. And I was like, dude, it's just wild to think that like seven, eight years have just gone by like that. And it doesn't even feel real. Gosh, it's crazy that, especially for me, you and Pat, how long we've been around. That's weird. Yeah. Yeah, dude. Like lots of, lots of memories and definitely

memories at the old office too. It's weird. Like I was again, yeah, I think a customer told me like,

oh, you guys just moved in. I'm like, uh, yeah, last last year in August. So it's just crazy to

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