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I don't even know, episode three.

Is this episode three of the spring session or four of the spring? We might be on four,

I think. And time flies when you're having fun. Mr. Pearson Ellis, how are we doing, dude?

Excellent, man. Happy to be back here. Yes. Okay. Week, week recap. How was your last week? Tell me what you've been doing. Oh, dude. It's been,

it's been good. I got almost no sleep. Still trying to fill my last couple of, well, my last

Iowa turkey tag and then my last Wisconsin turkey tag. I filled the Iowa tag on a very dumb Jake and struggled in Wisconsin yesterday.

I'm recording this Monday at the 18th.

So on Sunday, we got in them.

We had birds all over the place, roosted right above us, and rolled the dice on setting up in the bottom, and they all went

up to the top. And that was that. Love it. Yep. It's funny how, you know, so I also host the How to Hunt

Turkey podcast, right? And so you got these guys out there who are like, dude, I'm going to go all day.

I'm going to do whatever it takes to get these birds. And then you got these guys out there who are like, dude, I'm going to go all day. I'm going to do whatever it takes to get these birds.

And then you got other guys who are just like, dude, if they start walking away from me in the mornings and they go the opposite direction, I'm just not good enough to go.

And A, I don't have the patience to wait them out. And B, I'm not good enough to go flank them or sit there and wait until the, the Tom's get, you know, know that they're not going to breed any of these hens. And then they kind of come off the hens and then they go look for something out. Like, I go looking for other birds. And if I don't find other birds, then I go eat some breakfast somewhere. And then that's the day, really. Yeah, dude, absolutely. I saw that clip you posted on how to hunt turkey about the guy mentioned in that comment of like, I don't like deer hunting for turkeys. And that's, that is a phrase that lives rent free in my head all spring long. because I'm like, you know what? It's been 15 minutes. These birds ain't common. Screw it. And then I get up and I bump them as they're skirting down the field edge towards me or something. Oh, I don't know. But that was, I will say patience is what killed my, my turkey in Iowa on Friday. I slowed the whole thing down because I'd bumped so many dang birds in Wisconsin leading up to that point that I was like, you know what, dude, you need to chill out and just listen to the birds, develop a thoughtful game plan.

Don't just start running in there and end up paying off.

And what did that, what did that Jake tell you when you started listening?

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