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Cut & Retie

Short Cuts: Bill Dance, Take The Wheel

Cut & Retie

Joe Cermele

Wilderness, Sports

5649 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

MLF tournament champion Adrian Avena breaks down the cosmic twist of fate that could have easily ended in a life-altering, career-changing disaster.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to another installment of shortcuts brought to you by CRKT. Back with me here,

0:17.7

Mr. Adrian Avena, Bass Pro MLF, right? Commercial fishermen, offshore charter captain,

0:23.5

if you guys did not listen to our full episode last Friday, shame on you, because the amount of badassery packed into one man, one fellow Jersey boy here, is incredible.

0:34.8

But, you know, it's so rare to get a touring bass pro in the studio that

0:40.4

I thought to myself, there's got to be a nugget here because I always harp so much on how

0:45.8

people don't think about the road life and the back end of doing what you do. They just see

0:50.7

the glory, the wins, you know, the social media. And Adrian and I got to talk.

0:55.6

And we have a good one here, man.

0:58.2

We have a good story from the road of a pro.

1:01.6

I'm going to let you take it away because this one really sells the drama.

1:05.8

People don't hear about too often.

1:08.9

I mean, the sad part is anymore, you know, the general persona is like, oh, man,

1:13.6

it's, it's got to be a rich man sport.

1:15.6

Yeah.

1:15.8

We're driving around these beautiful, glittery bass boats.

1:19.4

All wrapped up, yeah.

1:21.1

All wrapped up.

1:22.1

We got five graphs on, on power poles.

1:25.0

You know, I mean, people are like, man, you got a $100,000 boat there.

1:28.5

Yeah. So clearly, you know, you're just, you're made. You got a money train or lucky sperm

1:33.5

club. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know, you know, but, um, no, I mean, I've got,

1:38.1

I've got something we were talking about a little bit, you know, and I got a little story to share what you guys, you know, so. It's a good one.

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