RMEF Co-Founder Charlie Decker, American Treasure | Episode 125

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Corey and Randy share the mic with Charlie Decker, one of four co-founders of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Recorded at the 40th Anniversary of RMEF, the topics covered include how it all started, the early failures, rough times, near bankruptcy, strain on marriages, perseverance, doing what you say you'll do, amazing volunteers, seeing a dream come to fruition, all told in Charlie's hilarious manner and sense of humor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Elk Podcast Podcast is brought to you by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation,
0:04.5	ensuring the future of elk, other wildlife, their habitat, and our hunting heritage
0:10.4	to become a member go to RMEF
0:13.4	O-R-G.
0:15.0	Everybody welcome to this episode of the Elk Talk Podcast.
0:18.4	Normally we do not do an introduction,
0:21.8	but today we felt that we should for two reasons. One, our
0:25.4	guest deserves it. Charlie Decker, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Rock
0:30.0	Foundation. He's going to join Corey and I today and you'll see when he joins us, he just
0:39.4	starts talking and so I had to hurry and hit the record button so you might wonder, man that was pretty abrupt.
0:48.0	How did that happen? Why didn't they have the record button going?
0:51.0	Well, we thought that we were going to talk about the
0:54.5	logistics of this and how it all works and Charlie just starts talking I'm like I
0:58.7	better hit the record button so that's one reason why.
1:03.2	And then the other reason is when Charlie laughed,
1:08.3	someone was texting him, Charlie,
1:09.7	you gotta be at the next event,
1:11.3	you gotta be at the next event. So he just took his headset off and he laid it on the
1:15.9	the table and he pointed to me and the mouth I got to go and out the door he went.
1:21.7	So we didn't get a formal open and we didn't get a formal close.
1:29.0	So that's what you get with this one.
1:32.0	But I can assure you it's going to be worth your lesson.
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