always a pleasure to speak to bill jordan with real tree bill good to talk to you again

we got to catch up a little bit here before i hit the hit the play button and i know you guys

have a lot of stuff

playing for next year, 40th anniversary of RealTree. You just told me a second ago.

The anniversary is cool, getting to connect a lot of people, but time's starting to get

by on you a little bit there, isn't it, Bill? You know, I'm only 37, so I hadn't figured

that about it. Or if you're anniversary so i i'm not exactly

sure no it's been it's been a wonderful ride you know we like a lot of people and uh young

entrepreneurs you know we didn't have any money to start with at all and just a dream come true

you just don't know what direction things are going to take off and go but uh the real tree ride for the last 40 years has been exceptional, been a lot of fun. And as you know,

we've met so many nice people and, you know, just not in the hunting community, but it's put us

close to baseball players, football, country singers, you know, become friends, NASCAR drivers. And

you know, my wildest dream was 40 years ago.

I never would have believed that.

And so it has been a great ride for 40 years.

I don't want to give away anything you guys have planned for next year.

But, you know, you have these in some ways arbitrary, but these five and 10 year

anniversaries and the chances to reminisce and reconnect with people.

I know you've had a little bit of that here recently.

How nice has it been to just kind of stop and see people and talk to people throughout the journey?

Because like you said, you know, day to day, we're all busy.

So any chance to actually go, hey, let's focus back on the past for a minute.

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