EP 320: The Summer 2024 Epic Hunts Giveaway

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Hey everybody, Jason Carter and the entire Epic Outdoors crew. Bronson, Pollock, we got everybody. It's kind of fun. We've just drawn for the summer membership drive, drawn the winners. I'd like to thank everybody for participating in that, getting your friends in to the Epic Outdoors membership as well. And appreciate the support. It's always fun to give these hunts away, just world-class hunts. Yeah, hopefully Logan doesn't have too much editing to do of expletives that come out with these exuberant phone calls we're about to make. So we'll see. We'll see how hard they make your job. Logan the boar, he'll definitely fix it. So anyway, we've drawn the names and that was all videoed and everything. It's a lot of fun. Now we get to call the guys. And anyway, it's kind of fun. We'll start with some of the guys back east. We're going to call the Alberta Whitetail winner.

Let's get him on the phone. It'll be Nelson LaFrance. From Vermont. Yeah, here we go. East Coaster. He might be settling down to watch the news or something. I should do Star 6-7 and see if these guys would answer. They'd get blocked. That would be worse. I don't know. Here we go. All right, here we go.

Where's the Jeopardy music? Hi, this is Nelson. Not able to get to the phone right now. Please leave your name, phone number. Hit him again. Hit him again. He just might be on with his girlfriend. Let's get this going. Her call is not important right now. I think he's just out of service. Must be. You should answer a 435. I didn't know you could get out of service in Vermont. Might be putting some cams out for a moose or something in Vermont. Jason, he could be in. Hi, this is Nelson. Not able to get to the phone right now. Please leave your name, phone number, and a brief message, and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you. Bye.

At the tone, please record your message. When you've finished recording, you may hang up or press 1 for more options. Nelson, hey, Jason Carter and the Epic Outdoors crew here trying to get a hold of you this evening. Give us a holler back. Talk to you later. Bye. He's going to get that and be like, really? In 14 days, he's out on a shrimp boat right now. All right, who are we calling next? Well, was there another? We had Kansas. Who's going to call him? Might not. This could get interesting off your phone. Do you want to switch phones? I mean. We deal with so many. We're a very customer friendly company. We know our customers, Bronson. Okay. All right. So this next winner, we're going to call from Kansas, be Adam Garglietti. Dealt with him for years. You know, not a huge company here at Epic Outdoors, and some of these guys we've dealt with over the course of time.

He has a sports center out there, just a super good guy. And so anyway, it'll be interesting. He's never won anything before that I'm aware of. So see if he'll answer.

Yes, sir. Hey, I was just going to wonder if you were going to screen my call today. No, not at all. I was actually going to do a gun for what's happening. Hey, Jason here and the Epic Outdoors crew, if you can believe it. How's it going, Adam? This has got to be a good phone call. Well, it's interesting. We're doing some quality control here, just updating people's addresses. We need everybody on the call together.

Perfect. I'm always good at quality control for sure. How's things going in Kansas? Going all right? Good. It's hot, but we're watering the deer, so we're trying to grow some 200-inchers, and that way you guys got some place to come kill some. Yeah. That almost sounded like an invitation. Well, didn't it? We've never been invited before. Okay. It sounded like an invitation. It's a 188 envelope. I don't guarantee you, but 188 we can make happen. Okay. But, I mean, just the invitation part, I kind of liked what I heard. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. So, Adam, we did have our membership drive drawing, and you won the Nevada Mule Deer Hunt. No way. Yeah. Not possible. It did. We're inviting you on a deer hunt. Yeah. What do we get in return? We're definitely going to stack some white tails up. Let me go and fill the feeders here real quick and call you guys back and get that. Yeah.

That's freaking amazing. Yeah. It's this year. I told Wendy. I said, put one in there. I said, make it the lucky one. So, I said. Well, she did a good job. A lot of people tell Wendy that very thing. Yeah. Make this the lucky one. I'm sure. Adam, you're not special. Exactly. Exactly. Well, if I was, I would know for sure. Anyway, yeah. So, Unit 231 comes with the landowner tag, seven-day hunt with White Rock Outfitters. And then, of course, you can stay and hunt. You've got archery, muzzle, rifle. Those landowner tags are good for all seasons. You know. Awesome. So, basically, August 10 to the end of October, you have options. Awesome. Yeah. I'm beyond pumped. I needed this phone call like no tomorrow. Oh. We've been burning up all weekend trying to get stuff ready to go. So, you made my day, my week, and it sounds like probably a year here pretty soon. That's awesome.

Well, we appreciate your support, Epic Outdoors. And we'll put you in touch through an email with you and Sean and just make you guys touch base and decide which hunt you want to start on. That would be great. I appreciate it a whole bunch. I actually have one of your tripods out right now, and we're looking at some different Swarrow glass. So, I wish I had a pair of 52s to compare them out, but we'll get those from you guys pretty soon. Yeah. They're coming very soon. Yeah. Like, really soon. Awesome. There you go. Next week. All right. All right. Okay, man. Sure appreciate it. I appreciate you guys. Thank you very much. Talk to you later. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. All right. Who are we calling next, Wads? Oh. They're all kind of now. We're all getting into the- Yeah, we got Colorado. Westerners, huh? We're all at the same time. Nevada, probably. The Nevada fellow. What? Nevada?

It's an hour behind us. Let's just start right here. What is it? The New Mexico antelope in Greeley, Colorado. What? Oh. I didn't say that. I thought it was New Mexico. Yeah, but I mean, that's where he's from. Unit 3-3-0-1. Jared. All right. Here we go. Let's see. Who's going to talk?

Devin? Do you want to talk? We all going to have to talk a time or two. You know this, huh? See if this guy has a friend? Jared. Yes, exactly. Here we go.

People are working.

Keeping America moving. Yeah. Hello? Jared. Hey, this is Devin. And a couple of us from the Epic Outdoors crew. How are you? I'm good. Yourself? Pretty good. We drew some names today. I'd say I have a Philly. I was about to be a lot better.

Yeah. Do you have any friends?

Oh, I'm probably going to have a lot more after this. Yeah, you drew the antelope hunt. Yeah, you and a buddy. Not kidding you. Down there with Ty Gore. Awesome. Yep. New Mexico. Yeah, so choose your friends wisely over the next 24 to 48 hours because you get to take one and plan a trip.

Maybe I ought to choose them before they listen to podcasts. Yeah. Choose a true friend. That's in August. So that's coming right up. 2024. Yeah. Yeah, you're August 24th to the 26th. Three-day hunt. Tag included. Everything. Two guys should be awesome. Awesome. Awesome. That is amazing. That is amazing. Wow. No freaking way. Okay, well, we'll be in touch. We'll send an email out and put you in touch with the outfitter and get you guys squared away, but it should be just an incredible hunt for you. So awesome. Thank you, guys. Thanks for the opportunity. Okay. Congratulations. Thanks, Jared. All right. Bye. Bye. I wonder if he acted like he knew exactly what your friends meant. Like he went for the antelope. He did. He did.

That's good.

Okay, here we go. Who are we calling? Okay, we're going to call Jerry Campbell in California. He won the Alaskan Moose Hunt. Awesome. That Wyatt and Devin have been on, been with the outfitter. Just an incredible opportunity. 2025. Got a year to prepare. Should be. Should be awesome. This is Jerry. Hey, Jerry. It's Wyatt. Tapping Outdoors. How are you? Oh, a little under the weather, man. Oh, that's not good at all. Hopefully this will cheer you up a little bit. We got the entire crew here. We're wondering if you've ever been to Alaska moose hunting. No way, dude.

Feeling better already. Are you serious, man? Are you really sick? Could you just call in sick? I am sicker than heck. I'll tell you what, I'm feeling a whole lot better right now. Yeah, you want it. Oh, my gosh, man. I can't believe it. I can't either. I wanted that hunt so bad, it's not even funny, man. That's good. That's awesome to hear. Yeah, 2025. So you got a year to prepare. You got a year to get better. Oh, my gosh. I'm ready, dude. I'm ready. Well, it's a no joke. Thank God. It's a no joke hunt. Thank you. It's normally $41,000. So, anyway, September 10th there in 2025. And it's all yours, buddy. Oh, my gosh. Wow. Dream come true. Thank you, guys. I really appreciate it. Well, we appreciate the support here at Epic as well. We'll be in touch with an email to both of you. And it's all yours. And off you go. Thank you. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it, man. Get feeling better. Yep.

All right, man. You guys take care. Okay. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

Poor guy. He didn't sound very good, but he sounded a lot better. He did. Good. It's pretty crazy.

He sounds like Logie the Boar. He does. That was a boss boy. He's no joke. He's a 10-foot-5-inch. That guy could get paid to be the voiceover on Arby's. I was just going to say, I was going to be the voiceover. Do we have the meats guy? I wonder if he could get fake names and just do recordings for people to call in sick work. Hey, this is Dave. I'm so sick right now. I'm not going to make it into work, boss. Oh, yeah. Keep his number on speed dial. Yeah. Yep. When you need to get out of a church talk, get that voice. I'm going to the weather.

All right. All right. All right. Okay. Here we go. Let's do the New Mexico Acoma Elk hunt. Let's see. Who wants to? Bronson. You want to do this one? Sure. All right. What's his name? Jess Marithu. So, Jess. Gardnerville, Nevada. New Mexico Acoma Elk. Here we go. Hello, Jess. Hey, Jess. Adam Bronson here in the Epic Outdoors crew. How are you doing today? Good. How are you? Good. Sounds like you're driving. I am, yes. You in a good spot where you can have a quick conversation or we need to call you back at a better time? Nevada doesn't have good service in a lot of that country. And I know you don't have to be hands-free in Nevada. Probably not even supposed to answer at the phone. But we're calling you. Yeah, no, I'm pretty rural. Okay. Well, how about we will do all the talking and you just drive. Okay?

So, we just did our Epic Outdoors summer membership drive and you won the Acoma Indian Reservation elk hunt for 2024. How's that sound? Wow. No way. Yeah. You did. That's awesome. Yeah. Don't get in a wreck or anything. But we're going to sit. No, I'm going to pull over.

That's the legal thing to do. There we go. Yes. Good answer, Rossifer. Anyway, but we'll send you an email regarding the details of the hunt. But it's September 30th, October 4th. You get to choose your weapon. The bull should be going crazy. It's a five-day hunt, fully outfitted there in the Acoma Indian Reservation. So, you're going to have a great chance. It's a great moisture year in New Mexico, it's looking like, too. It's been great. Great winter. So, yeah, should be a great chance for you to kill a great bull. And appreciate your support of Epic Outdoors. And congratulations. Yeah, thanks. I don't know what to say. That's awesome. I want to know one thing. Where's Gardnerville? Where's that? It's just right down. It's just east of Lake Tahoe. Oh, there you go. Right on. Okay. All right. Well, appreciate it again. We'll send you the details. And, yeah, thanks a lot.

We'll be in touch on email. Okay. Thank you. All right. You betcha. Talk to you later. All right. Bye. Bye. Might have got that guy a ticket. I don't know. Well, I mean, he deserves one. You should not be talking on the phone and driving. I think you can if it's on Bluetooth. He also, yeah, has to be hands-free. Can you answer? Hands-free. Can you answer? Hands-free. Or is it just? Hands-free. You can't reach out to touch anything? Can you? Just don't reach up to touch anything. Just on your steering wheel, those buttons on there. Just pick it up. But also, he could have been. And I never text and drive. He could have been in Idaho, Utah. He could have been in any state right now. He's from Nevada, Jason. Doesn't know that. We didn't verify that's where he was at the place of call. He's from a place in Nevada that Jason hadn't heard of. That's right. Well, I mean. Yeah.

Who wants to hunt next to Reno? That's probably very few places. Chris Lacey, our buddy. And he's always got a few big old deer. That's true. But they're lurking around in backyards, you know? Yeah. Well, you got big bears. Speaking of big boars, Logan. They got them big boars raiding cabins around Tottle. Logie the big boar. Hey, that's the Instagram handle. What? Logie the big boar.

All right. We love teasing Logan. Good grief. What's next? If we didn't tease you, we wouldn't like you. It means we don't like you. All right. Let's do this Colorado mule deer hunt. Should we? Jeff Thompson? Who's going to do that? Who's next? Who's next? John. Yeah, I can do that one. Colorado mule deer, unit 61, includes a landowner tag with Garvey Brothers. Jeff Thompson. This year. Where's Jeff from? He's from Placerville. Is that how you say it? Placerville? From Placerville? Placerville. Placerville. California. Isn't there a Colorado? All right. Jeff, let's see if he answers. All right.

All right.

You've reached voicemail as Jeff Thompson. I'm not able to take your call. Hit him again. Yes, exactly. Hit him again. Robo call.

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How many skull quill did you bag? You've reached voicemail as Jeff Thompson. I'm not able to take your call at this time, but if you leave me a message, I'll get back to you as soon as you get a chance. Thanks for calling. Thanks for calling. Jeff, hey, Jason Carter and the Epic Outdoors crew just trying to get a hold of you. Just call us when you can. Sure. Appreciate it. Talk to you later. Bye. All right. Who's next? Why? Should we do the muskars? Where's the check marks? Yeah. Chris Denton. Yeah. This is all you. Well, what do you mean? 7086. I'm not going to use those glasses. Let's bring up. Whoa. Whoa. The hat. Who are you calling? Somebody's calling back. That's Jeff Thompson. This is him. He stiffed us. Thompson Auto. Which one? Is this the Colorado? Yeah. Jeff, you there? How are you doing, Jason? Good. How are you doing? On my way to San Francisco to fly to Italy. Oh. Oh.

That's the only reason to go to San Francisco. It's the only one. To fly out. Yeah, exactly. I don't come up unless I'm going to the airport. I don't blame you. Hey, do you have any idea why we might be giving you a call today?

Oh. Is my marriage? Oh, shoot. Is it raffle? Yeah. What was your first thing that he said? What did he say? Oh, my gosh. You're kidding me. Is it my marriage anniversary? I don't know. Yeah, you missed your anniversary, but we have ideas for you. Let's send her. Hey, you're going to Italy. Let's send her hunting to Colorado.

All right, John. Take it away. All right. We've done our drawing, and you're going to Colorado. Unit 61, third season, rifle, mule deer hunt. You've got to be kidding me. No. I'm dead serious. Oh, my God. I cannot freaking believe it. That is unreal. That's a hunt we all want. That's a guaranteed landowner tag, third season with Garvey Brothers. They kill some absolute great bucks every single year, it seems like. Just an awesome opportunity. So, anyway. Every time I enter, I think, well, it's probably going to a good cause, you know. Well, of course it is. Of course it is. That is the right answer. Everybody's getting a turn. This time it's your turn. So, you're not staying in Italy for like four months, are you? You're going to be back by November 9th? Oh, yeah. Okay. I go to, yeah, my next trip, so I go to Alberta archery hunting for September. September. Okay.

Just a quick trip to Italy. All right. So, well, just making sure. Is that just vacation? Are you work, doing work duty, or what is it? My son's finishing up a semester over there, and so me and my wife and my daughter are going over to spend a couple weeks over there. That's cool. Just got to cruise around. That's awesome. Check out the scene. That's awesome. Not much to shoot, but. No, that's all right. So, probably good you're doing family projects right now, because you're going to be headed to Colorado. Sounds like it. Sounds like it. Outstanding. Well, thanks very much, guys. So, I just wait for a couple months. Yeah. We'll shoot you an email here in the next couple of days, just introducing you with the outfitter and exchanging your emails and whatnot, and then you guys can kind of take it from there. So, look for that, and yep, it'll be pretty simple.

They'll be able to get you to land on their voucher, or they might retain it there and redeem it on your behalf there in Colorado. But you guys can work out the details. Yeah. Cracker Jack. Sounds great. Nice. Woo-hoo. Yeah, it's awesome. We're excited for you. Thanks very much, guys. You really made my day. Have a great trip. Safe trip. All right. All right. Talk to you. Thanks. Talk to you later. All right. Bye-bye.

I love those old-fashioned exuberations. Cracker Jack. He said it. Yeah. I think that was before my time, and I'm awesome. Yeah, I know. I generally think that when you say that's a good thing. No, like Cracker Jack. What does that mean? Woo-hoo. I don't know. I get it. I don't Google it. Pretty awesome. Pretty awesome. You're looking at me? No, I just assume it's a good expression of joy. I would say that's a Cracker Jack song. You know, I don't know. I just, I don't think of what he did, but, you know. Well. Like Cracker A, you know what I mean?

Okay. All right. All right. We need to call this Muscox winner. We got to do that. We got to do, I think, a sheepy and a bonus. Hey, Cracker Jack means exceptionally good. Wow. A Cracker Jack eye surgeon. Talk about your past. Wow. Good to know. Cracker Jack. No. Yeah, we can. Yes, we can, Wyatt. What did Wyatt ask? Should we talk about Jason's past with this hunt winner? Wyatt wants to talk to my past with this guy. Yeah, let's call this guy Jason. He's all yours. Why would, I mean. Did he send you a gift or something? Didn't he send you a gift? It was a hat. Oh, that's awesome. Okay, let's bring that up right in the cup. It was a hat. That's why I can't believe he won. You could talk about, hey, there's no hard feelings. This proves there's no hard feelings. That's a good point. Yeah. Anybody that sends me a Biden hat shouldn't win one of these hunts. That's right.

But it shows that there's integrity to this draw. I wouldn't even wear that hat on the sweatiest hike ever. Okay. I don't even know where it is. Where is that hat today? He's got to be a pretty good-natured guy to send that. He is. I'm sure he is. It was an interesting gift. Honestly, for a split second. That was a gift I never used. For a split second, I thought he might have sent me the donation packet that I got the other day from both Biden and Harris. But it ended up being my wife. What a wonderful wife you have. Yeah. Wasted $13 good dollars. And she's spent more. Her life has been spent in politics. It probably went towards the campaign. And not on that side. Huh? I don't know. The $13 probably went towards the campaign. No, it doesn't. No, it went to somebody's pocket. Oh, yeah. That's an entrepreneur right there. It looked like a red-blooded Republican dude, wasn't it?

Just making money. I like it. He's doing good. I like it. I might order a couple just because you said that. That's capitalism in America that's fine. All right. So let's call Chris Denton. He won the muskox hunt. Let's see. Devin, you want to do this one or Cash? Cash, you're up, buddy. All righty. You're quiet over there. Of course you can't get a word in edgewise. Oh, yeah. We can find out if this guy likes the cold. All right, Chris. Well, I do have to talk to him a little bit. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Maybe we let him do the last one. You take that one. I'll take the next one. I'll do the bonus package. Bonus package. All right. There you go. This is good. Where does he live, Jason? Remind me. State.

Arizona. Okay. In a very warm place. Probably 110, 150 today.

It's 109. Here in southern Utah last night.

Your call has been forwarded to voicemail. The person you're trying to reach is not available. Of course he's not. Okay. Let's give him a call back. You know, it's a Washington number. Is it? Which makes sense. It makes total sense. In Arizona, similar?

You're screening me. Tell me. Call you back. I don't want to talk politics a little bit.

Your call has been forwarded to voicemail. The person you're trying to reach is not available. At the tone, please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up. Chris, hey. Jason Carter and the entire Epic Outdoors crew just trying to get a hold of you. Want to talk some politics for a minute. Give us a holler back. Looking forward to it. Talk to you later. Bye.

Good natured people. It's fun. We got good people in Epic Outdoors membership. All right. Let's call George Law Alaska Sheep. What do you think, Bronson? Sure. Yep. Sounds great. We're going to.

Okay. Here we go.

Up in Idaho.

That's George. George, Adam Bronson and the Epic Outdoors crew. How are you doing today? Hey, pretty good, Adam. How about yourself? Great. How's things up in Idaho? Summer hit you? Oh, it's a little warm. They're doing a whole bunch of fishing. Yeah. You know, I'm actually sitting here reading. Everybody's complaining about the Idaho draw being out. That they should be whether to go to a point system or not. And I'm just fighting a lot of humor in it. And now people are complaining and don't know what they're talking about. Yeah. George, this is Jason. What's your opinion? My opinion for our state right now, I'd hate to see them go to a point system. Just leave it as is. Random. Leave it as is. You know, it gives everybody a shot. And, you know, if you want to apply for the good zones, you do. But right now, it's a good deal. It just is.

Have you drawn your fair share of tags over the course of your life? I have. In the random draw, I've drawn both sheep tags here. Geez. Wow. You know, also, the states that play the point game, I made it a point to be in with them right from the get-go. Yeah. Well, I know you drew another one here in Utah a few years ago, Rocky Tag. I drew that. So, that's three sheep tags. Any other sheep tags you've drawn? Oh, yeah. I've drawn Wyoming. I've drawn Nevada. And I've drawn Arizona. So, there's proof right there. Naming the hats. Do stuff. I don't blame you for wanting no change. That's right. Up here, I just think that's the way it is. And it still gives everybody a chance. And if you don't get in, and I made it a point to get in right from the get-go, I got pretty daggone lucky through the years. And, yeah, I'm still, I drew a pretty good coos deer tag down in Arizona this year.

So, I'm stoked about that. And you're getting even luckier today. Yeah. Yeah. I am. Am I? You are. Well, we've talked a lot. He did not miss that. No, I didn't. When I asked him about all the sheep tags he's drawn, he just kind of rattled them off. Like, yeah, thanks for asking. And when there's 10 guys on the line, we're not here to just talk about the state draw system. That's right. But, hey, we do have official business that we're calling you on today. And it has to do with yet another sheep tag for George Law. Oh, you're kidding me. Good grief. Yeah. I feel the same way. You're kidding me. That's another sheep tag. Don't change a thing. Don't change a thing. Oh, yes. Seriously. Yeah. You're not talking to my team now, are you? Yeah. Well, I mean, maybe. You. I don't think so. Yeah. So, congratulations. You've drawn our doll sheep hunt in our epic summer membership drive for 2025.

Oh, geez. I love it. Yeah. This is why I like collar dogs like this. This is how everybody should react. Yeah. Is anybody there with you? Are you alone right now? No. I'm here by myself. There's nobody here. I wish there was. Yeah. Do a dance for us or something. I mean, let's go crazy. Yeah. I can't do a dance, man. It's, you know, the Cracker Jack. I'm looking at the boys singing, here I am. I get to go again. Yeah. Well, you do. You get to go with Alaska Wild Wind Adventures. Cabot Pits has got a great operation in the Wrangell Mountains. Again, this is in August of 2025. So, you know, we usually give these sheep hunts away in the summer. They're a year away. It gives you a little bit of time to prepare and all that. But you're no stranger to sheep hunting. You'll know the routine. We'll put you in touch with him.

I'll send an email to you in the next few days introducing you and him as the winner. And congratulations. Oh, guys. Thank you, guys. You have no idea. Okay. Okay. I'm so shocked. Well, I don't want the next call to be 911. Yeah. That's exactly. I know there's going to be a whole bunch of people I've called. So, hey, do you remember how many tickets you put in for the sheep hunt? You know, I spread them out. And I think, don't hold me this, but I don't think I put two in for the sheep hunt. But I had some in everything. It was really closer to one. Was it? Yeah, it was. So, yeah. Pretty random chance. Just like the Idaho draw. Oh, man. Just like the Idaho. Don't name a thing. Don't name a thing. Give me one thing. I love it. Okay. Okay. Go fishing. Gentlemen, thank you so much. I'll be attached also. All right. All right. Thanks, George. Talk soon. Talk soon. Okay. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

Bye-bye. Yeah. Somebody needs to keep an eye on him the rest of the night.

I have a feeling he's not going to bed early. He needs no more caffeine. He's got three monsters. I mean, geez. But that, hey. That was awesome. You need people like that to react that way. That's what made this really, really fun. That was fun. That is awesome. And it was fun that he took the bait, hook, line, and sinker and rattled off every sheep tag you'd ever drawn. That's that, that. Arizona, Nevada. I don't know. Both in Idaho. I don't know how old he is, but he's definitely played the game a while. We'll just say the word season. Very season. Yeah. But you have to. He probably, like you said, he was on probably the ground floor of Arizona. Probably had a ton in Nevada. I had drawn a Rocky and a Cali in Idaho. I don't want to. It's worked for me. I don't think you should change either. That's right. You know what I mean? And then he.

But then there's other guys that aren't so lucky that are thinking, hey, give me a point or two. But it also, if he's, you know, lived there his whole life and he's, you know, I don't know, George is, you know, 60, 70, whatever. He's played the game a long time before, you know, people really played the sheep draws the way they did. So anyway, that's awesome. It's good. It's fun. I kind of made my day. Yeah. Yeah. That was good. That was good. We should be more expressionist. We should be a little more free with our feelings. Use the word cracker jack. I love you guys. No, just teasing. We're not going down those roads. But it is fun to be real. Yeah, it is. Authentic. It's pretty awesome. I like it. Don't hold back. It's going to keep him young, you know? He's got a positive outlook on life. I think some of these other guys we've called want to react like George did. But they don't.

But they feel like they have, oh, I've got to be holding myself together. Oh, my God. Thank you. You just let her loose. Cut it loose. Well, we're calling from my personal cell phone, so these guys have it. And I did get a text message from one of them. Holy, you know. Really? Stop hitting me like a two-ton heavy thing. Well, I'm shaking like a dog.

So, I mean, there is. Okay. So, that's what I mean. They know they're being recorded. It's probably a little bit of shock, too. Yeah. Yeah. I don't blame them. Yeah. I want to think. Where are we at here? Cash? So, let's do the bonus. Let's do the bonus ticket. It'll be Mark Malott. Mark Malott. And, yeah, he won the gear package. Sweet. Let's give him a holler, huh, Cash? Sounds good. Here we go. There's nothing to really ask him here. We've got it all. Oh. I'm going to see if he's much of a gear junkie. Angled or straight. Yep. That's the only thing we've got to ask him. Your call has been forwarded to voicemail. Okay. We don't put up with that, do we? Well, it's like a spam blocker right there. That was a very formal. Dude. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

At least the series and the, you know, feminine voicemail things are a little bit soft. Those guys are hard hitting. Not the gruff. I mean, who are you trying to kill? Your call has been forwarded to voicemail. Listen to that. The person you're trying to reach is not available. At the tone. AI. Please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up. Mark. Hey, Jason Carter here. The entire Epic Outdoors crew getting on hold of you. Just want to visit for a minute. Give us a holler. Talk to you later, bud. Have you had Denton hit you about politics, man? Are we good? We're done. No, we're going to crush these guys again. How many have we missed? So, we've got one, two, three. It's been pretty good for an afternoon. Not too bad, actually. Let's hit, I wonder if, Denton again. Hit the one that went to voicemail. Who was that? That very first one. Vermont guy.

It felt like he was in Canada. He's on a boat somewhere. Yeah. He has Starlink. He's trying to relay messages to him. Mm-hmm. Okay.

It's Starlink. It's pretty darn cool. Yeah. I mean, you've been using it, Jason? No. But, I mean, John, you guys know about it. Chris uses it. Chris has got one, yeah. Works. And our accountant has one. It's just awesome. It works. I used a little bit last weekend.

All right. Sometimes you don't want to be contacted, though. Here we go. Alberta Whitetail.

No. See? Alberta Whitetail's Josh. It's hitting Starlink right now. It's shooting back to Earth. Hi, this is Nelson. Not able to get to the phone right now. Logging his locations. Hunter Biden. Okay. It's the him. Check. Him. The bonus. And what was the third one we were missing? Muskox. Bonus. Dent. And then this. Chris Dent. Let's try him again. 7-0-8-6.

Wow. We're done. 3-30. 3-30. What does that say, John? 3-3 attempts. Okay. Yeah, I mean, we're not going to be that in hours. We could be.

I don't know why. I wonder if it's my phone of some sort.

Right. There's no service. He might need to call from someone. What's that app, Wyatt, that you can, like, call from someone else? And I'm going to call from Joe Biden. No, it's like RoboDialer. What was it? It used to be called Evil Dialer. Evil Dialer. Wyatt. Pretty sure the fact shut that up. Why don't you tell us an Evil Dial story? I don't remember it. I do not recall. I do not recall. Hillary, that's not going to work. Yeah, I do not recall. Wyatt, try again. Did you guys do an Evil Dialer on somebody? I may have in my past. I'll bet you he'd get an answer. It was a DNC, Democrat, you know, National Committee, something like that. I mean, something. Hey, see, here we go. What could this guy be doing? I don't know what he's doing. It's more important than this. Some elections are out. I don't know. Working? I don't know.

Your call has been forwarded to voicemail. The person you're trying to reach is not available. At the tone, please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up. You already left him a message. Chris, hey, Jason Carter again, just trying you. Give me a holler when you can. Talk to you later, buddy. Yeah, but that gal means business. Yeah, and I have a pet peeve. I don't like the ones that are like, I'm from America, so I have nothing against British people, but I don't like the ones here that are British. You want the Western accent? Just American. Something normal. I don't want somebody from Great Britain. You think a Southern accent's American? No. Because sometimes I wonder, too. When you're British and they're my Siri, I don't like it. Our accent is the right accent. Our accent. I'm with you, brother. It's just where I live. It's just where I live.

If I lived in, if, hey, it would be like me, if my voice was on there for somebody in London, they wouldn't like it. That Yankee. No, they probably would. That's what they'd say. I agree with you. Just as a pet peeve. I just like people like me. Americans. I like people like me. Here in Southern Utah. On my voicemail. Southern Utah. I don't think I'm too growly. This is Mark, right? Yeah. Okay.

I'm going to need to plug in the power. Hello? Hey, this is Mark. Yes. Hey, Mark. This is Cash and the entire Epic Outdoors crew. How are you? Good. Who is this again? Sorry. My name's Cash, and I have the exact, or all of the Epic Outdoors crew with me. Jason Carter. Yep. Adam Bronson. Yep. The crew. Great. Yes. How's it going? How much of a gear junkie are you? Oh, did I draw out?

Well, did you buy a $500 ticket package? I did. Well, it sounds like you are the lucky winner of the gear package. Son of a gun. Yeah. Pretty awesome. That is awesome. Yep. Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, you probably read what's in it. A fierce rifle with a Zyscope, a Hoyt RX-8 set up for Swarro. Holy crap. We just need to know if you're an angled or a straight eyepiece guy. Good save. Ooh, that's a good question.

I mean, I'd go straight. I'll make it easy. Straight.

Let's go around the table here real quick. Devin, angled or straight? Angled. John? Straight, baby. Straight. Angled. Angled. Angled. Straight. There's a direct correlation to age. Oh, geez Louise. How old are you? That determines. Pirates haven't been around for a long time. They're using their telescopes. Sorry. The Hershey blows. Hey, hey. Straight's where it's at. It's target acquisitions. That's right. Quicker. Mark, you can do what you want. Don't feel pressure. You can even think about it for a couple days. Yeah, we literally don't care. Yeah, we've got them both in the same. But that is your only decision you have to make that's as hard as it's going to get. And then we're going to send a couple, two or three or four big boxes to you. Dude, that's awesome. That rifle's already on that scope, mounded by Jason and Devin themselves. Is it really? That rifle is legit. It is legit.

Hey, can you guys get it, can you get it sited in for me? Do we have his credit card on file?

And we do anything for money. All right. Oh, dude, that's awesome. Yeah, we'll be in touch with you. We will have to, Devin or one of us will contact you. We need to get a place to ship the gun, an FFL dealer and stuff like that up there from you. But the rest of it, once we get your angle to straight spotting scope by piece choice from you, we'll get it shipped up to you. Appreciate your support. Hey, that's great news, man. Mark, we've got one personal question before we let you go here. Are you related to Ted? No, you know what? Is this Adam? It's Jason, but Jason and Adam. We were wondering. Okay. I talked to Adam, so I drew out the super tag for Idaho. I talked to Adam about two weeks ago, and he asked me the same question. I was related to Ted or Tim. There you go. We couldn't remember. Oh, God. Yeah. No relation, but I'd love to meet the guy. He's from Washington, too.

Might as well be related. Yeah, he's from Washington, same last name, and an extreme hardcore hunter like yourself. So, anyway, just wondering. That's awesome. Yeah. You're going to have some gear here to maybe put to use in Idaho. Dude. Yeah. Hey, I'm excited. No, I'm at sports ones right now looking at a scope, so I was like, I don't need to buy that. No. Walk out. Walk out. Turn around. Just walk out. Maybe look for some bullets.

Get a candy bar on the way out and call it a day. Get a salted nut roll and just smile at him. Me? I'm doing fine. All right. Yeah. You're just sending me some major bucks right now. Yeah. Yeah. About 15 grand worth. So, we'll be in touch with you soon. Yeah, dude. Oh, that's so awesome. So. All right. Okay. Appreciate it. Hey, thank you, guys. Thanks, Mark. Hey, thank you very much. Thanks a lot. All right. Bye. Bye. See you guys. Bye.

Well, you tall guys. That's awesome. Yeah. He was busy at sports. So, let's see. I was left a voicemail. Really? Yeah. Let's just play it. I don't know if it's fit. Hey, Jason. It's Chris calling you back. Enjoyed the podcast earlier today you guys posted. Fighting 2024. Oh, jeez. Yay. I mean, this guy won't let up. Oh, he's awesome. That is awesome. I'm sorry, Chris. I've never worn your hat. Nor would anybody. I would not even. I wouldn't let anybody wear that hat. All right. Let's call him. We've got some things. Logan, what did we say real quick on the last podcast? I still love him. What did we say? Remind me. He referenced the last podcast. What did we talk about? Did we talk about? We talked a little bit. We said we'd support Trump. Oh, it was about my wife. Yeah. And then we talked about Trump being a little abrasive, which everybody agrees, but still.

We talked about my wife's spoof gift or something. I love it. That's why. He's ready to spar. Oh, he's so funny. Let's all be quiet. I want to hear Jason again. And then have a conversation. Everyone just hear your breath. I want to be respectful. Hi, this is Chris. Chris, Jason Carter. How are you? Jason, I'm doing great. How are you? Good. I didn't get to your voicemail yet. What did it say?

It was something about calling me to talk politics. The one you left me. Oh, no, no. I've said something like Biden 2024 or something like that. Why would you say that? I don't know. We need to spar a little bit. Yeah. You guys need to laugh, right? We do. We appreciate you, actually. By the way, I've never worn the hat.

It's a beautiful hat. It's camouflaged. Imagine all the crap you guys wear. The little rainbow colors in it. No, not a fact. Exactly.

All right. So, besides that, we did draw the winners of our summer membership drive. You won a hunt. You won a hunt. Do you happen to remember which hunts you applied for? I only did, well, I did a bunch. First off, I'm blown away. I bought a bunch earlier in the year. The first one, I didn't win. This time, I did loss, but I did just one hunt, which is the muskox. Oh, well, that makes it easy. It always makes me nervous. That makes it easy. Because if you think you did one hunt and you won another, well, I just, okay. We're going to have to go back to the ticket. But, yes, you got the muskox hunt. Can you believe it? That is awesome, guys. Thank you so much. Yeah. Absolutely. It is awesome. That's fun. You get your choice to go this fall with Canadian High Arctic Adventures this fall, you know, August or September.

Or if you want to put it off until March, April and get the real North Country experience, you can do that next day. You can't call it spring. You can't call it spring. What I don't like about the fall hunt is it's competing with everything else in life. But I also like a warm weather. I'm a warm weather guy. What's that? Yeah. It's a spring deal for me because I'm booked this fall, so. Okay. Well, you're going to get some awesome pictures. You can see, you guys are so open-minded letting me win this thing. Yeah. Well, awesome. Yeah. I mean. This proof is fair. That's right. That's all I know. You're men of the people. That's right. Yeah. We the people of the United States of America. Now we're going to drive right into politics. A hunter. A hunter. Sending another fellow hunter. We're going to have to edit this. Exactly. No, we're not.

We're showing that we can all have differences of opinions, still be really respectful. We do appreciate your support here at Epic. And it has been fun. Like, to get a, I guess you could call it a gift, like you sent me, was fun. Now, you know, not necessarily as appreciated as much as you wanted, but it was fun. This is probably going to be, this is probably a far better gift for him. You're getting the better end of the deal. I am absolutely getting the better end of the deal. I think I'm going to send you a Make America Great Again hat, and you'll wear it on the hunt. And we'll call it a hair with a knife.

Hey. By then, we'll know the election results. And so, hey, we'll see how that goes. Yeah. Good luck to you guys. You're going to need it. Yep.

Well. No cheating. My wife just walked up. My wife just walked up. She's like, what are you doing? Yeah. I'm excited. Yeah. It's fun. If you can't have a little fun in life, good grief. Well, we appreciate it, Chris, in all seriousness, the sport, epic outdoors, the, you know. Anyway, going to be fun sending you out there. It'll be a great adventure for you. Not a whole lot like hunting, you know, NWT. I can't wait, guys. It's just awesome. Well, it's one of those things. Yeah, it's one of those things you don't do very often in life, so it's just going to be a very unique experience. Yeah, man, I am stoked. This is awesome. Thank you so much. We're trying to get Wyatt to go up there with you. He's been one of us. He has? They're on the bucket list. Come on. They're one of the... They sell these hunts every day, Wyatt. Let's do this. You see how cold and snowy it looks? It looks amazing.

I'm coming from Utah. Imagine going from Arizona. Hey, Wyatt, it's summertime right now, though. Summertime, we long for cold. This kind of is where I want to be right now. If Chris can do it and he lives in Arizona, you surely can do it. What is it, 110 down there today, Chris? It's about that. Yeah, Wyatt, it's brutal, man. It is brutal. It's just getting started? Yeah, I did. It's only June, so... Well, Wyatt seems like a great guy to share at camp. I think so. Devin, would you say that, Devin? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Denton, do you want to throw in a few bucks for a while?

Well, we'll work on it. He knows how to cape. I'll guarantee you he could do a good caping job. What else? Can you cape? I'm a fair-weather guy. He's an excellent tax-deductible. Hey, Wyatt, we're going to get into taxes. Can you cape something with your fingers frozen and frostbit? That, I don't know. I question my abilities. Okay. Well... Oh, Wyatt's getting cold feet already. All right. Well, we appreciate it. Thanks, Chris. Congratulations. We'll be in touch. Send you the details. Thank you guys so much. Y'all have a great day. You too. Talk to you later. Bye. Okay. Bye. Bye. Bye. Great sport. Oh, my. That voicemail. How about that voicemail? Biden 2021. I mean, do you even feel good about that? I mean, Biden doesn't even know what you're saying. If you were to say it to his face, he wouldn't know what you're saying. Okay. Who are we missing? Nelson. Nelson of France. Alberta White.

Should we do one more time? Yeah. Sure. I mean, he's in the back 40 somewhere. Setting a trail cam over bait. I don't even know if it's legal to bait. So, I'm not... No, I don't think so. I mean, I don't want law enforcement. I don't think so. How do you know? Because we were told. Vermont? Oh, Vermont. I thought we were talking about Alberta. Oh, yeah. No. Geez. You were told what? Can't you throw cameras in Alberta? Don't... Don't implicate yourself. Bait. Oh, yeah. You can't bait. I wanted my steak season. Nelson, not able to get to the phone right now. Please leave your name, phone number, and a brief message. That one we're not getting. Okay. All right, guys. Should we wrap this up real quick? We should. How are we going to do that? How are we going to wrap it up, John? Should we give away some more stuff? Why? I don't know. Well... I'm in the giveaway mood.

If we find the Biden hat, we'll send it to the first caller. I was like, oh, geez. Wow. I've seen it somewhere. I've seen it around. It's around. Didn't we take it to the expo or something? Or something? Might have. Might have been the expo. I think it's in one of those drawers in the cabinet or something. All right. Well, I guess in all seriousness, I want to thank everybody who supported the Epic Outdoors membership drive and summer hunt giveaway. It's always fun to do this. Obviously, as a business, you're looking for ways to grow your business and things like that and create excitement and things like this as a mechanism to maybe, you know, somebody to attract them to join your service, refer somebody or whatever. And then when you actually get to give these hunts away, it's fun. It's really fun. It's awesome. Like George Law and people like that.

It's pretty dang fun to give hunts away like that. So, anyway, we appreciate everybody and your support. We'll keep doing them as long as people keep getting excited when they win them. If you don't get excited, just don't. You should be done hunting, huh? That's right. Wyatt? That's true. It's still exciting to slow roll the pines. It is. I love it. Favorite pastime. It is. It is. It's awesome. You and Case. Hey, speaking of Case, you guys had some good father-son time this last weekend. Yeah. We spent all weekend together. Is it the first time you've changed a dirty diaper? No. Definitely not the first time. Well, I don't know. These are valid questions, right, Jenna? It's true.

I've changed a lot of them, I'm sure. How many? Five. Maybe. Jeff. There's a reason she doesn't have a mic. Put the headset on. Yeah. No. She's good. Yeah. She's good. That's picking up her voice right there. Well. So, anyway. Either way, Wyatt, you're a good dad. We appreciate it. You're an example of what a father should be. Yep. Let your wife head out with her mother and friends and have a good girls weekend. And so, when's he going to be old enough to slow roll the pines? Ooh. This summer, Wyatt. He's good. Oh, yeah. Same thing your old man told you, probably.

As soon as you can wipe your own butt. Exactly.

I didn't know how to edit that down for this podcast, but thank you for... Well, we pretty much tuned Logan out a long time ago. He's got to cut a lot of stuff.

Jason. Whatever. Some of it can stay. What? One of the first times I was with you in the field. Oh, jeez. Cut this. You came back with one sleeve gone. Oh, my God. And it wasn't me that needed it, John. It wasn't me that needed it. You donated a sleeve? I didn't have choices. Who? A kid? I'm a little kid. No. No, but I was with you. No, this was not that long ago. Well, I've donated sleeves to my old man before.

So that's where you get the toilet paper.

All right. Well, okay. Some family stories. Come or go.

Let's thank people once again and just end this thing. All right. Thanks, everybody. We got it.

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