In this episode, we take a detour from the usual heavy, hard hitting politics and focus instead on one of my pet projects, The Field Ethos Journal, a multimedia brand I started with a couple of friends. We talk about building our own, taking on the people who have gone woke, and just going for it, just like we did with our first project, Field Ethics Journal. And we're joined by my co-founder Jason Vincent and our Chief Operating Officer Mike Scobie to have some fun and have a lot of laughs along the way. I imagine I'm going to be sitting here embarrassed in the not-too-distant future, but we're going to have fun, right? So much so, that we can still appreciate that in 2024, you can still actually appreciate it in 2024. And remember, remember to take care of your personal health and wellness with The Wellness Company. You've heard me talk about their emergency medical kits and being prepared in a time of crisis, but now they've got a brand new product to ensure you also get a good night's rest. And while many think we're good to go, let's keep getting the message out there about the rising cost of living, and how we need to work even harder to make sure we don't get any more of the same. We can build the Patriot Economy and help save the country, and together, we can build a better, more freedom-loving companies who actually support you. I know it's hard to believe this day and age in corporate America, but it actually exists! on Public Square, Public Square is the marketplace for the patriot economy, where you can find businesses and consumers who actually share your values. You can put power behind your purchase and let your dollars actually reflect your values, and you can vote with your wallet, and help make the country a better place. Vote With Your Wallet, and Together, vote with Your Wallet and together we can help save The Patriarchy . I want to build the country and help build the Patriarchy economy and help fight for the country. - Don Jr., Patrick J.J.R. "Don Jr., 98 98- 98-98-99-99 . of the Birch Gold Group by Don J.D. Jr., Jr., Sr., 98-99, 98-01-01/99-02-03-04-05-07-07.
00:07:51.000As we all understand and know, stacked against us, so we have to work even harder to make sure we break through all of the noise and grow the movement.
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00:08:08.000Get it out there. A big theme of this episode is going to be about Building your own, taking on that establishment, and just going for it, just like we did with Field Ethos.
00:08:19.000And honestly, just like we did with Public Square, which is now an official sponsor of this show, guys.
00:08:26.000Public Square, it's the marketplace for the patriot economy where you can find businesses and consumers who actually share your values.
00:08:35.000I know! I know, that's hard to believe this day and age in corporate America, but it actually exists.
00:08:40.000On Public Square, you can put power behind your purchase and let your dollars actually reflect your values.
00:08:46.000Don't give your money to companies who hate your guts.
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00:08:57.000List your business on Public Square and move our country one step closer to defeating woke capital.
00:09:03.000reject DEI, reject ESG, all of the other nonsense that really emboils the madness of the far left.
00:09:13.000So just go to the Public Square app today.
00:09:16.000You can get the app on iTunes, you can get it on Google.
00:09:19.000Just download the app or go to publicsquare.com, vote with your wallet.
00:09:26.000And together, guys, we can build the Patriot economy and help save the country.
00:09:31.000And also, guys, remember to take care of your personal health and wellness
00:11:23.000I notice it. Honestly, if I notice it myself, and again, I understand where I'm from.
00:11:27.000I'm the son of a billionaire. But if I'm upset when I go to the grocery store with my kids or to a fast food place, you know, what's going on?
00:15:02.000Well, I mean, I guess with all that in mind, what makes gold a smart investment right now for people who are looking to diversify their portfolio to hedge against some of this insanity and the inflation?
00:15:30.000All of these problems are killers for those sitting in traditional assets, if you will, but they are very positive drivers for safe haven commodities like gold and silver.
00:15:42.000Central banks around the world, 22 and 23, were the single biggest years for gold buying by central banks ever in history, and it's for the same reasons.
00:15:52.000They're holding dollars, they're seeing a loss of purchasing power, and they're hedging that exposure with gold.
00:15:58.000What applies to them applies to us as individuals, of course, just at a smaller scale.
00:16:03.000I think the old saying is you follow the smart money, and if central banks are buying at levels never seen before in history, it's a sign that we should follow suit.
00:16:14.000Thank you. And guys, again, if you want to learn more, if you want to educate yourself, if you don't want to just sort of sit there, stick your head in the sand, text Don Jr., D-O-N-J-R, to the number 989898.
00:16:26.000That's the Birch Girl Group. You can learn about it, educate yourself, make an informed decision for yourself, and ultimately, learn more.
00:16:32.000Protect yourselves. Don't let this insanity swallow you whole.
00:16:37.000And I guess with that, guys, joining me now from Field Ethos, my outdoor sort of brand and publication, we got Jason Vincent and Mike Scobie.
00:17:09.000I just want to do a pre-recorded intro and I'll just let you take over the podcast.
00:17:12.000It's so much easier than actually putting in the work and the time.
00:17:14.000I gotta say, Scobie jumped onto this one with all this stuff in the background.
00:17:20.000And I thought he went somewhere really cool to record this episode.
00:17:24.000And he's actually just sitting in his living room.
00:17:27.000Scobie, is that the only corner of your house that's not just like piled up with guns and ammunition?
00:17:33.000Yeah. This house is either guns, ammo, or kids' toys, and it's hard finding a clean spot where there's not Tonka trucks and Barbie dolls and mixed in with all kinds of sporty gear.
00:17:43.000So it's the one clean corner of the house I could find.
00:17:45.000Yeah, I mean, I'm looking. I see Kipling in the background, Hemingway.
00:17:49.000It's almost as though, like, you're a sophisticant, which we all know to not be the case.
00:18:19.000But, you know, maybe a good place to start, actually.
00:18:23.000And your sponsors will, I'm sure, love this.
00:18:26.000But I would like to actually talk a little bit about the two sponsors you just mentioned.
00:18:31.000Because SCOBY and I first, we actually had a meeting with Wellness Company this week.
00:18:36.000They sent us a message to our Instagram, which...
00:18:39.000If you're not following our Instagram, we're very active there.
00:18:43.000But Scoby, I had actually seen the wellness company on your social media and just kind of took a glance at it and went, well, kind of seems cool.
00:18:51.000You know, you can get prescriptions for travel.
00:18:54.000And Scoby and I had a meeting with them this week.
00:18:57.000And basically, if you, you know, Scoby just got back from, where were you, Scoby, last week?
00:19:04.000Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Jungle of Mexico.
00:19:08.000Not like Cancun, Yucatan, like the actual jungle.
00:19:11.000I mean, it looked like you were hunting rodents along with oscillated turkeys.
00:19:15.000A little bit of whatever the jungle provided down there.
00:19:17.000But yeah, I mean, Jason and I were just talking about this.
00:19:20.000You know, we both are, we do a lot of international travel.
00:19:23.000We have friends that are doctors that, you know, you can get some preventative prescriptions, doxycycline and amoxicillin, things like that.
00:19:30.000But if you don't have that kind of friend network to say, okay, I'm going to Yucatan or I'm going to Africa, places where, you know, medical services are not widely available, it's a great idea to be able to prepack all this stuff, take it with you and have your own medical pharmacy with you.
00:19:45.000Yeah, Scobie sent me a picture from the cinder block shanty that he was staying in in the jungle because they actually took a, what is the Elon Musk's Wi-Fi thing?
00:20:00.000Starlink. You guys took Starlink down there so he could get pictures out.
00:20:04.000He was trying to get me pictures for Field Ethos.
00:20:06.000And it was this massive spider on his pillow in his bed.
00:20:10.000And I just thought, like, we were talking about the wellness company, and you can take all of these prescriptions and things with you, whether it's for some type of infection or a bite or burns or whatever else.
00:20:26.000There's all kinds of different medicines in there.
00:20:27.000And we're like, man, what a cool company.
00:20:29.000Well, yeah, I mean, we're going to Africa next month.
00:20:32.000You know, I know I was in Tanzania in the Messiah with Donnie, you know, last summer.
00:20:38.000We're going next month because of, you know, a thing we're working on with, you know, Rigby Gunmakers out of London.
00:20:43.000So, I mean, yeah, no, it makes a lot of sense.
00:20:46.000We're going to need you to get us some free kits, Don.
00:20:51.000I don't know if, you know, maybe they'll hook me up.
00:20:53.000Otherwise, you can get 15% using my promo code.
00:20:55.000So, you know, get after it, guys. Or you can buy them for us.
00:21:00.000Why don't you give everyone who's not, you know, who doesn't know, because again, I've talked about it on the show.
00:21:06.000If you follow me on social, you know, certainly on Instagram, you see me, you know, we'll put up, you know, I'll put up spearfishing videos where we're, you know, chasing after like 400-pound bluefin tuna with spear guns and, you know, sheep in Mongolia and, you know, eating sheep meat cooked over, you know, horse shit, you know, all over the world.
00:21:24.000But, you know, Jason, give a little bit of, you know, the audience, you know, a background on Field Ethos.
00:21:30.000I mean, sort of, you know, what it is, what it stands for, how it's even evolved in the last few years that we've been doing this.
00:21:40.000With us wanting to create something that actually spoke to us, right?
00:21:46.000Something that you and I would want to read.
00:21:47.000You and I were having a conversation on a hunt about how there was very little out there that even in the firearms and hunting industry and that side of our lifestyle, there's very little out there that actually spoke to me and you.
00:22:02.000And everything had just kind of gone...
00:22:08.000And we wanted something that was a little bit more inspirational, that was unapologetic, that kind of communicated the way that you and I like to communicate.
00:22:21.000We built a plan, figured out how this whole thing was going to look.
00:22:27.000One of the things I wanted to do was leverage mine and your friendship to get me access to cool hunts that I wouldn't get to go on unless I went with you.
00:22:42.000Then we brought on some other friends, Dave Edder, Colin Jones.
00:22:47.000We ended up in just kind of a random meeting with Scobie, and I had heard Scobie's name kind of thrown around before.
00:22:55.000And to describe Scobie very quickly, I was talking to an outfitter in Africa one time, and I said, I think Mike Scobie's going to come work with us.
00:23:06.000And this is a guy on the other side of the world, and he goes, Oh, man, that guy's a legend.
00:23:31.000About 30 minutes later, I called Dave and I was like, man, we've got to figure out a way to hire that guy.
00:23:36.000That guy is awesome. And Dave said, well, it's funny that you say that because Scobie actually called me after the call and said, man, keep me in mind for the growth of your company.
00:23:46.000And so anyways, we brought on Mike Scobie and things just really kind of started to take shape.
00:23:51.000Yeah, for people who don't know, you know, Mike basically was, you know, led one of the leading sort of publications in outdoor, you know, in sort of the outdoor space, guns, hunting, shooting, you know, for years and literally just liked what we were doing, you know, left to join a startup, you know, one of probably, I don't want to say an easy job, but, you know, a cush job with sort of recurring revenue that was just sort of, you know, you're the king in the space to go work at this sort of little, you know, rabble-rousy kind of startup job.
00:24:35.000So if you look at like hunting publications today, if you're interested just in whitetails, you know, there's a publication for you.
00:24:40.000If you're interested just in, you know, whatever it might be, waterfowl, upland bird hunting, elk hunting, there's some kind of dedicated, that's all they cover.
00:24:47.000And what really attracted to me about Field Ethos, the nature of the guys around, it was fun.
00:24:51.000That was always a draw, but we've created a brand that you can pick up any magazine, any one of our magazines, and it may have an African safari piece, It may have a piece on Rolex watches.
00:25:04.000It may have a piece of inside, you know, Guatemala, Central American prisons, trafficking AKs around the world or the underground gun culture of, you know, the Middle East.
00:25:17.000We're just doing another whitetail story or this is just purely a duck story.
00:25:20.000I always use the example that, you know, the article I've seen, you know, 9,476 ways to catch spring bass.
00:25:27.000I'm like, ugh. Or the stories, you know, we went on an elk hunt and we saved the hoof so that we could carve chess pieces out of it because, you know, I guess that had to be the justification for hunting as opposed to, you know, hey, the meat's going to be used, but we actually like to hunt and that's okay.
00:25:45.000Or adventure. Think about all of our conversations offline.
00:25:49.000It ranges from literally watches to motorcycles to guns to cheap guns to expensive guns.
00:25:55.000We have a broad breadth of interest, which I think is true of most of the sportsmen out there.
00:26:00.000Of course, our followers are into that.
00:26:03.000They like that broad breadth of things like we do, and it makes for a much more interesting conversation.
00:26:08.000Yeah, and I feel like we were just hungry for a brand that...
00:26:17.000That basically reflected how we speak to one another around a campfire, right?
00:26:22.000Those conversations, those personalities that show up when nobody else is looking, you know, that you can just be who you are and live the life that we want to live, regardless of what other people think about it.
00:26:37.000That was how we wanted to form this brand.
00:26:41.000You know, the... From the articles and our website, even our products, basically our personalities are involved in every aspect of our business.
00:26:53.000So it's an unapologetic brand that we're using to try to inspire others to live an iconic life and do it in a way that they don't have to guard their words or Change who they are just because people are watching.
00:27:22.000A reporter from the Times UK reach out wanting to do a piece on, she said she wanted to do a piece on Fioritas, but what she was really wanting to do was a piece on Don.
00:27:34.000And we were talking and she was like, how is it working with Don?
00:27:40.000And I said, well... I'm somewhat of the hot-headed one.
00:27:44.000I'm kind of the gas, and Don's a lot of times the brakes.
00:27:47.000He's just very contemplative, and she couldn't believe it.
00:27:51.000Hey, contrary to popular belief, folks, it's not just fire and brimstone, though I can do that pretty well myself.
00:27:57.000Yeah, but you represent kind of the unfiltered, unapologetic male in this country, and you're very, very kind of out front with that stuff.
00:28:11.000And you also have this whole other life, I think, that people are shocked to find out about.
00:28:18.000I mean, you started shooting and hunting when you were like 12, and you're a few years older than me.
00:28:24.000So, I mean, we've been, we've both been at this forever.
00:28:28.000Scoby's been, been hunting and shooting since he was a little kid.
00:28:32.000You know, you, you have been on some of the most difficult hunts in the world, sheep hunts
00:28:38.000Scoby has been on just about every hunt in the world.
00:28:41.000He's probably the most traveled, traveled friend I have.
00:28:45.000But really, it was an opportunity for us to go, alright, let's take this side of our lives that we love a lot and turn it into a business for all of us that we have fun doing.
00:28:58.000I mean, the three of us are going to meet up in, what, three weeks to hunt in Africa with Rigby Rifles, one of the most legendary rifle companies of all time.
00:29:09.000And we get to go over there and hunt with these guys and hunt together and just goof off.
00:29:14.000Yeah, you know, I don't know if we're allowed to even talk about it yet, but even doing a collab with a 200-year-old British company as a four-year-old brand, their first sort of like, you know, let's call it co-brand collab in its history.
00:29:27.000I'm like, man, it feels like we're doing something right because of that.
00:29:30.000Yeah, and Scobie will tell you they approached us about that, which when Scobie told me about it, He said, man, what an honor to have this company want to put our name associated with their brand.
00:29:45.000I mean, honestly, I'm shocked that they have watched some of the things that we've done and agreed to even work with us.
00:29:51.000I agree. I'm like, wait, I thought it was like, wait, is it like...
00:29:56.000April 1st, like, are you fucking with me?
00:29:59.000Like, that's just gotta be a joke, but it isn't.
00:30:03.000I mean, we're also onto something, because I think one of the sort of statistics when I'm looking at Field Ethos is, like, where we are actually with female following.
00:30:11.000And, like, in the hunting space, Mike, you can talk about this more, but, you know, if you had a hunting magazine that has 3% female following 5% female following.
00:30:47.000And kind of harking back to what Jason was saying about getting called by London Times, we've been profiled as a men's adventure lifestyle magazine by Slate, by Politico, by London Times.
00:31:00.000And all of them, I think, went into that conversation or that interview with a gotcha moment, a gotcha against Field Ethos, a gotcha against Don, you personally.
00:31:09.000And at the end of the day, they all wrote Yeah, we honestly, both of those articles were very fair representations of who we are and what we're doing.
00:31:46.000Yeah, like, you know, that's obviously left-leaning, but, like, I'm fine with anything in here.
00:31:52.000Well, both of the articles were written by liberal females, and if you read the articles, you know, one of them, the writer for Slate, you could tell she actually likes us.
00:32:02.000She didn't come out and say that, but she was like, you know, I like what these guys are doing.
00:32:10.000Rosie wrote an awesome article that I thought was very fair.
00:32:14.000So to have Those two writers look at our brand and not absolutely trash us.
00:32:22.000We felt like, alright, well, at least they get what we're doing.
00:32:25.000They might not agree with it, but they don't hate it.
00:32:27.000And I think that's because It's just an accurate portrayal of who we are.
00:32:33.000You know, Scobie will tell you that our female demographic following is largely there because we are putting ourselves out there as a masculine lifestyle brand.
00:32:53.000We love it when they participate in our brand.
00:32:55.000We have female writers and things like that.
00:32:58.000Things have gotten so bad in our country and in the world that it's becoming popular again just to not pander.
00:33:09.000I mean, it doesn't even really matter what side you're on as long as it's obvious that you're just being true and not pandering to a group.
00:33:17.000I think we've gone so far the other direction where, you know, oh, she's a female hunter or it's a black hunter.
00:33:24.000You know, there's the entire organizations about black outdoorsmen and female outdoorsmen shoot like a woman.
00:33:37.000We've just said you're part of the tribe, regardless if you're a woman, black, somebody of color, don't care.
00:33:42.000You're a hunter, adventurer, fisherman, don't care.
00:33:45.000And that's, I think, a major difference between Field Ethos and many other organizations today.
00:33:51.000Yeah, no, I feel like so many of the other, you know, when they have females, it's like, here's a female in a bikini exercising terrible trigger discipline, holding a gun that she's clearly never shot before.
00:34:04.000That's their female following. Whereas ours are, you know, it's Rachel Carey, who's like a world, literally a world-class shooter.
00:34:10.000You know, Kristen Oteo, who's a taxidermist, like does that for a living.
00:34:14.000You know, they're not like, you know, Here, you're going to be in the outdoors for the first time.
00:34:18.000There are people that actually live the similar, you know, lifestyle to us.
00:34:22.000I mean, the Slate article was sort of interesting because, I mean, it actually called us, Field Ethos was strangely captivating.
00:34:28.000And this was coming from, you know, obviously a liberal woman that writes for Slate magazine.
00:34:32.000What do you think? Whether it was Politico or Slate, that it would have been different had it been a liberal man writing the article?
00:34:40.000Is it the woman thing, because they're like, you know what, maybe a little bit of that masculinity is actually what's missing in our lives right now, that they're all of a sudden fascinated?
00:34:49.000I definitely think it would have been different.
00:34:52.000I definitely would have been different.
00:34:54.000But, you know, we've reached a point where Whatever you're doing, as long as it's the truth, is refreshing and different.
00:35:07.000As long as you're actually honest with how you're putting yourself out there, that's what's different.
00:35:22.000And You know, I hate the word ambassador, but we're bringing all these people into our, kind of our brand, into our community or whatever you would want to call it.
00:35:35.000I mean, SCOBY is even, we even have a midget demographic because of SCOBY. True.
00:35:43.000Large midget, well, kind of a pun intended, large midget demographic, yeah.
00:35:47.000Yeah, Scobie really has been an ambassador to the midget community, and he's kind of pioneering a midget voice within our brand, and so we're throwing out a pretty broad net these days.
00:36:01.000But on this Africa trip, it's the first time the three of us have gotten a chance to hang out in Quite a while.
00:36:11.000We see each other briefly at trade shows and things like that.
00:36:16.000But it is the first time the three of us in maybe a year have gotten to hang out where it wasn't like, all right, we're on a mission to get business done.
00:36:27.000So we actually get to spend some time goofing off and hanging out.
00:36:33.000What are you hoping to get out of this trip, since you obviously don't get this many breaks right now?
00:36:43.000The campfire time is everything for me.
00:36:46.000It's actually much less about the hunt these days.
00:36:49.000I'll put myself through the ringer maybe later in the summer before on a sheep hunt, but that's literally by yourself.
00:36:56.000You know, in a tent, you know, no base camp, no nothing camp.
00:36:59.000Like, it's more of an endurance challenge than anything.
00:37:01.000But like, you know, in Africa stuff, when you can, you know, have a little bit more of a collective, it's a little less, you know, myopically focused on a single thing.
00:37:09.000And, you know, it's just, it's so much fun.
00:37:11.000So I'm just, honestly, I'm looking forward to the stories around a campfire.
00:37:14.000I'm looking forward to that time because, you know...
00:37:19.000I know my world's going to be pretty insane this year.
00:37:22.000Obviously, there's going to be a lot less of the outdoor stuff that, you know, I got to do because, you know, I'm hunting something very different.
00:37:30.000And it's, you know, it's going to be nuts.
00:37:33.000Just like kind of downtime with friends and...
00:37:38.000Yeah, that's the stuff that's sort of gone missing from it.
00:37:40.000You know, these days, you know, I feel like somebody in the public, you know, everything's about, well, you know, if you shot a 169 whitetail, but it wasn't 170, it's like you didn't really shoot a whitetail.
00:37:51.000You're chasing, you know, every quarter inch, and it's unrealistic for most people, you know, whether it's geographically or cost-wise or anything.
00:37:57.000So, you know, the reality for me is, you know, I will say, you know, the hunting, fishing, outdoor shooting, all that stuff kept me out of so much other trouble growing up as a kid from New York City, because it was sort of hard to get in trouble if you're going to meet a duck blind at 4.30 in the morning.
00:38:09.000I was certainly no angel, but these things are there.
00:38:15.000And that's the part that's not conveyed these days.
00:38:17.000It's the camaraderie, the stories, the bullshitting, the ball-breaking.
00:38:21.000I mean, the ball-breaking will be epic.
00:38:24.000That may even get to be too much for this show, especially once you incorporate, let's call it, SCOBY levels of booze to the mix, etc., etc.
00:38:32.000It's going to... Actually, or Jason, you know, there's some good stories there, too.
00:38:38.000Yeah, I'm no stranger to the imbibing.
00:38:41.000No, you usually get, like, thrown out of the trade shows after the first day, so, you know, it's solid.
00:38:46.000Then it's like, I gotta do all this shit here?
00:38:48.000Like, this is, yeah. So on our last safari that Scobie and I did together, he tells me that he gets in the Land Cruiser and he's like, hey, I brought a flask for us.
00:39:01.000And I was like, oh, great. You know, we'll open the flask a little bit later and have a good time.
00:39:06.000I turn around and Scobie has a flask that is about 12 inches tall and 10 inches wide.
00:39:50.000Therefore, it could very easily be three ounces, Mike.
00:39:52.000I like this. So we need a whole section of SCOBY travel hacks.
00:39:59.000And when we had that meeting with the wellness company this week, I told them we basically needed a flask of whiskey and some hangover remedies in our wellness kit.
00:40:11.000And I don't think she took that very seriously.
00:40:15.000Yeah, you can probably drink through malaria and kill that stuff if you go hard enough.
00:41:23.000You know, professionally or otherwise, sending in an article that's just an absolute, you know, some incredible veterans articles.
00:41:28.000That's how they got into fly fishing after flying like F-18s and to, you know, just get out of the fog of war and stuff like that.
00:41:34.000So it's become this sort of just organic, you know, participation.
00:41:38.000But, you know, talk a little bit about the Sunday stories for those, you know, you want to get a little taste of Field Ethos, you know, before you subscribe to the magazine or anything like that, you know, you can follow us along on Instagram there and we have some fun with it.
00:41:50.000Yeah, our Sunday Q&As are a time to answer questions from our followers and our readers, and nobody is safe.
00:41:59.000If you ask a stupid question, you're going to get a stupid answer.
00:42:05.000There's travel tips, there's gun tips, things like that.
00:42:55.000So I was just, and what I said was you're rolling the dice if you marry a white woman under 40 is how I phrased it.
00:43:01.000So that gave you just enough leeway to get out of trouble, right?
00:43:05.000Rolling the dice, which means I'm not talking about all of them.
00:43:09.000So we get this long email from this female follower and subscriber, like, I'm canceling my subscription because of the way you guys talk about white women and blah blah blah.
00:43:18.000And I was like... First of all, I said you're rolling the dice.
00:43:58.000And honestly, there have been times where I've had a few drinks, maybe on a flight, and I fire up the old Q&A. And the next day I look at them and I'm just thankful we still have sponsors.
00:44:10.000Some of the times I look at them and I'm like, oh, man.
00:44:14.000And again, it's not like I'm exactly known for restraint or being reserved.
00:44:19.000So if I'm like... It would basically be if you got drunk Don to answer a bunch of questions.
00:44:29.000The rental car thing, it actually, you know, promoting our unapologetic use of rental cars started when we were throwing dead coyotes in the back of a Tahoe in Kansas in the middle of winter.
00:44:42.000And I tagged Enterprise Rental Car in it.
00:44:46.000And we just we kept showing clips of us piling up this Tahoe with dead coyotes and and I had somebody from rental car reach out on our Sunday Q&A and he was like high level person with enterprise and he's like this is great.
00:45:01.000I want to set you guys up with with a national account because you guys are obviously traveling a lot and you do You do work-related things.
00:45:11.000But he's like, man, a couple of us have sent these around to each other at Enterprise, and we love this stuff.
00:45:16.000And then you guys kind of one-upped it with Chess McDowell.
00:45:19.000Oh, yeah. We've got some really big, you know, Black Bear in North Carolina in the back of really small cars.
00:45:25.000And we've all, you know, I think we had like three mule deer or like two whitetails and a mule deer in a, you know, in a midsize SUV just last year with, you know, with Spencer out there.
00:46:22.000We've sort of taken the opposite approach.
00:46:24.000Let's just do what's actually happening.
00:46:26.000Let's say the things that people are actually thinking.
00:46:28.000Ask the questions or make the inappropriate comment that everyone's probably thinking about doing.
00:46:32.000And when you do that, everyone, it's sort of, you know, we enjoy it.
00:46:35.000And I guess we're also not beholden to that advertiser model because, like, one of the funniest things for this one is as, like, a business guy, you know, the amount of guys that are like, we want to advertise with you.
00:46:56.000You know, bombard everyone with all that crap that you see in so much of the other advertising magazine where there's 65 pages of, like, you know, ads for trinkets that are garbage.
00:47:05.000Yes, Scopey turns down six-figure deals for us that don't represent who we are and our brand, and it would feel like we were just selling out to do these things.
00:47:18.000Well, I think one of the biggest differences with us, and we kind of come full circle on the brand, Being involved in professional media for 30 years, you're sitting around campfires with very known outdoor writers or television people or personalities, and they've got great stories around a campfire.
00:47:36.000I mean, things you go, man, that is a fantastic story.
00:47:38.000Yeah, I wish I could ever write that somewhere.
00:47:40.000You know, I never could talk about that.
00:47:41.000You're like, yeah, you can. You know, we've created a brand that we do talk about that.
00:47:45.000We do talk about all the good, the bad, the ugly, the funny, the off-colored, you know, the things, you know, Don, to your point, sitting around a campfire in Africa, that's where the best stories come out of.
00:47:55.000And those are the stories that traditional media has tamped down, would never publish, you know, I'm not a fan of sharing that.
00:48:03.000They've got to always show hunting or fishing or adventuring up in this holier-than-thou light, and they're missing the real story.
00:48:10.000And that's where I think we're very different in that.
00:48:12.000It's the honesty. Yeah, I think one of the best articles I see, I won't get into the details of it because I don't know if he wants us talking about it per se, but, you know, sort of this legacy, you know, outdoor writer, you know, written books and books and sort of, and, you know, you've heard the story, you know, greatest hunter, yada, yada, whatever it was, it's like, no, no, no, like, give us the article about, like, when you shat your pants and, like, couldn't hunt, and it was like, Oh, I got that story, actually.
00:48:37.000Like, let's see what it was. And even for him, you get the article, it's like, wow, this is cool.
00:48:43.000It's amazing. And even for him, it's like, wow, it was actually so refreshing, you know, writing the article that isn't like, I'm the greatest hunter in the world, and this is what it is, and whatever.
00:48:58.000I thought that was such a cool article and probably one of the only interesting articles I'd probably read in recent time from that group of guys who've just been recycling the same story for decades.
00:49:12.000That Scobie has worked with or that I've worked with before Field Ethos that we basically said, look, this is your opportunity to say whatever you want, right?
00:49:20.000To tell the story the way you wanted to tell it without having to worry about ad dollars or pissing somebody off.
00:49:27.000Now you can tell the real version of these stories and these guys, they love it.
00:49:32.000And I would say maybe 10% or actually probably less than 10% of our articles are written by professional writers and guys that are from our industry or that make a living writing.
00:49:46.000When we started Field Ethos, you and I talked about how we wanted to give everybody an opportunity to tell great stories.
00:49:54.000We didn't care if you were a great writer, but if you had a great story to tell, we were like, okay, we'll work with these people to publish their stories.
00:50:01.000So I would say 9 out of 10 of our writers are guys like, Like Josh Kwong, who's an English teacher in Mississippi, half Chinese, half American, English teacher in Mississippi.
00:50:12.000The guy's amazing. Jimmy Ewing, born and raised in Georgia, homeschooled, just amazing writer.
00:51:33.000And they just have these amazing stories about whether it's a trip they took or a story that their dad had from when he went on a hunt out west.
00:51:54.000We published it. And unfortunately, his dad had passed away before it went to print.
00:52:01.000But several of that guy's friends reached out to say, man, this is so cool that you published this story.
00:52:06.000This is my buddy. It means a lot to him, and it would have meant a ton to his dad.
00:52:11.000So just... Just cool stuff like that where we're making our audience the storyteller and nobody really seems to do that.
00:52:19.000It's a much heavier lift on the edit side, but we're producing, we've built kind of this culture around our brand of, hey, this isn't just a representation of us, it's a representation of you and your lifestyle as well.
00:52:34.000And people have latched onto it because of that.
00:52:36.000Well, I mean, it sort of started off as, I mean, it's a pretty eclectic crew when you talk about, you know, the guys and the partners in this.
00:52:42.000I mean, it started off, obviously, you and I having a conversation, and then, you know, you had another friend, you know, who was a former SEAL sniper.
00:52:49.000You were, you know, a game warden and federal law enforcement officer.
00:52:54.000The best looking waspy guy in New York City, of all places, that runs a bow hunting company out of Park Avenue.
00:53:03.000And then it sort of just grew from there.
00:53:04.000If you look at some of the team, we can't even talk about what some of them do, but it is sort of an interesting mix that you get all sorts of perspectives, all sorts of different backgrounds, all sorts of experience that I think, in the aggregate, really makes a big difference in terms of being able to tell that story.
00:53:20.000Scobia, you can talk about You know, working in even the outdoor space, like how few people, at least that I've met, actually have like much outdoor experience in outdoor publishing.
00:53:29.000I know Dave, you know, he was one of the only guys when he worked at one of the publications that you eventually were running, like as his first job out of school, was shocked that he was the only guy that had ever killed a deer that worked at a hunting publication.
00:53:42.000It's shocking. I mean, there's exceptions to that, right?
00:53:45.000I mean, you've got the bodies in the world that are Very experienced hunters.
00:53:48.000They've done everything. And then I've seen the absolute bulk majority on the other side where it's like never have gutted a deer.
00:53:55.000Might have killed a deer on a guided hunt out of a tree stand and, you know, with a rifle and then had somebody else take care of it for them.
00:54:02.000Probably did not know how to set up a tree stand, you know, for that matter.
00:54:19.000It's still the reason to existence, but it's that shared camaraderie.
00:54:23.000It's the family time. It's the spending time with guys you like and hearing these types of stories firsthand that really is the draw and the attraction.
00:54:32.000But on the flip side of that, I just got back from Mexico, as Jason was saying.
00:54:37.000That is an absolute one-percenter, lonely hunt, kind of like you were talking about sheep hunting.
00:54:43.000The guys that were in camp there all have shot multiple grand slams of sheep.
00:54:47.000They're worldly, worldly, whether it be contestant-level, whether it be award-winning contestant-level hunters.
00:54:53.000And they all compared trying to get a brocken deer, which is what we were really ultimately looking for in Mexico, to getting sheep.
00:54:59.000It was that difficult. And it's I thought about how miserable, not miserable, the hunt.
00:55:04.000It was an amazing hunt with really cool, you know, experiences in the jungle.
00:55:09.000But as far as that camaraderie, it was non-existence because you were up three hours before daylight.
00:55:14.000You were climbing up into Machan, their version of a wood tree stand.
00:55:17.000And you would sit there all day and eat, you know, rolled up tacos, you know, in your stand.
00:55:21.000And you would come out at dark and ride back to camp two hours.
00:55:24.000You know, not talk to anybody all day.
00:55:25.000Ride back two hours. You'd get back into camp and have dinner at 11 o'clock at night.
00:55:30.000And you'd roll in to get bit by bugs all night, as Jason was saying, spiders, ticks, fleas, whatever.
00:55:36.000And then you'd get up and do this again.
00:55:37.000And I did it for eight days, never saw a brocadeer, never had much of a conversation.
00:55:42.000And you talk to some of these Weatherby guys that are trying to get this Weatherby award.
00:55:47.000They'd been there six, seven, eight times.
00:55:49.000The guy before me had been there for 25 days straight and never saw a brocadeer.
00:55:53.000That's a totally different focus part of the hunting community that is not very enjoyable, honestly, you know.
00:55:59.000Yeah, I think the guys that go, you know, they're chasing like the tiny 10 in Africa.
00:56:03.000They've spent 67 days, you know, in Uganda, in the jungles, like looking for, you know, a deer that's literally this big.
00:56:09.000And I'm like, I don't know, man. That's how these brocadeers were.
00:56:13.000Like, if you told like my in-laws, you know, I came back from this hunt and told them, like, what's a brocadeer?
00:56:17.000I'm like, you know, they're expecting like this 400 pound, 200 inch deer.
00:56:21.000I'm like, no, no, they're about, you know, Brittany size and a good one's got, you know, spikes on it this tall.
00:56:47.000So like, you know, he got to see the jungle from a dirt bike for a week and got to see people setting up roadblocks because they couldn't get water in a Mexican city and they blocked every section of roadway.
00:57:00.000So Scobie didn't even know if he was going to be able to get back to the airport on time.
00:57:04.000And all these adventurous things that happened because he was hunting rocket deer and in this weird place.
00:57:12.000I've tried to impart that into non-hungers or people that don't understand our lifestyle.
00:57:17.000It's not the fact of killing a brocadeer.
00:57:21.000It's the fact you were looking for a brocadeer or a tiny ten or whatever you were going for brought you to these really weird places in the world that if you were just a tourist, and I've done the tourist thing in Costa Rica, which we were...
00:57:30.000Real close to Costa Rica slash Belize, Guatemala there.
00:57:34.000And you would take a tour bus into a pretty much paved path and you'd walk through the jungle and you'd see parrots and you'd see monkeys and howler monkeys.
00:57:41.000And then you'd come back to a five-star resort at night and have a phenomenal meal.
00:57:46.000You're staying with the locals in a cinderblock hut, getting bit up by bugs, riding on the back of horribly dangerous motorcycles or the backs of trucks that aren't roadworthy.
00:57:58.000If you weren't doing something stupid, like looking for a broccoli dude, you would never subjugate yourself to this, whether that's Africa or Asia.
00:58:05.000It's the excuse to put yourself in an uncomfortable position.
00:58:08.000I mean, Jason, you had that with me last summer in Mongolia.
00:58:22.000It's like when one road gets worn out, they just move to the grass on the side of that for, you know, 27 hours.
00:58:28.000And I put it in, you know, in one of the GPS apps and we're driving at night.
00:58:33.000I'm like, how do they know where we're going? And I literally looked and we did a 100-mile off-road loop only to cross our path.
00:58:40.000And I'm like... We just drove for four hours, 100 miles off-road.
00:58:46.000We were here four hours ago, and now we're going.
00:58:50.000I'm actually shocked we ever found our camp.
00:58:51.000You and I were standing there at 3 o'clock in the morning.
00:58:55.000Crossing a river. Laughing because we had just pushed a minivan out of a riverbed so that we could get across to the other side of the river.
00:59:03.000We're standing there in knee-deep water.
00:59:06.000Pushing a white minivan out of the mud, and we're just like, how the hell did we end up here?
00:59:10.000You know, in the middle of nowhere Uganda.
00:59:14.000But, man. That was Mongolia, but yeah.
00:59:40.000And it's interesting. The only, like, law enforcement I saw in all of Mongolia was, like, every, like, couple hundred miles, you'd cross, like, a town where, like, when I say town, I mean, like, a stop at a gas station, maybe, or barely.
00:59:52.000And they'd have, like, law enforcement checkpoints there.
00:59:54.000And they're literally searching for contraband marmot.
00:59:58.000Because it's like the national delicacy and they smuggle them into the cities, but they also carry the bubonic plague.
01:00:05.000So every year, like people die from their national dish.
01:00:09.000And so these guys got one and we're in camp.
01:00:11.000We're, I mean, hundreds of miles from the nearest town in the middle of nowhere at 14,000 feet.
01:00:17.000There's no tree line where, you know, they literally have to cook on horse shit because it's the only thing that that will burn that you can collect.
01:00:24.000And they got one of these marmots, and it was like a celebration in camp, and they literally skin it, but they leave it whole, so it's almost like a muff.
01:00:32.000And they get like a fire of horseshit going and they put hot rocks in the horseshit.
01:00:37.000They take the meat out of the marmot while keeping the skin whole.
01:00:40.000Then they sew back up any holes in the marmot skin.
01:00:44.000And then they take hot rocks and the chopped up meat and stick it back into the marmot skin, sew it together, put it on the fire, singe off all the hair of the marmot and...
01:01:14.000But, like, apparently that's a real problem.
01:01:17.000And so... It was just fascinating to see that kind of culture that you wouldn't get going into the cities, and the cities are surprisingly urban in this.
01:01:24.000So to actually see that culture, to spend time with true, legitimate, still 365-day-a-year nomads living in portable yurts following their sheep herd through the great Mongolian steeps, it's just absolutely incredible.
01:01:42.000Scobie, will you make a note that Don and I are not allowed to go back to Mongolia after he just told that story?
01:01:48.000I was already detained in the basement of the airport.
01:01:52.000You had like one more round of ammo than you were allowed to have.
01:03:05.000But, like, you're already... Taking your children to do these far out things and they're getting latched on to the adventure side of it.
01:03:14.000I tell Donny, I was like, I want to come back as my son because like you're doing so much cool shit like that, you know, I didn't have anyone that was really 100 in my family.
01:03:22.000I got sort of my grandfather, you know, who escaped from communist Czechoslovakia, you know, brought me over there in the summers and like, You know, taught me the basics and woodsmanship and time around a campfire.
01:03:32.000That's where I learned to appreciate it at a really young age.
01:04:34.000If I was wearing a helmet and a side-by-side, I'd have to cut off my own dick.
01:04:37.000Well, I told the guy from Yamaha, who is awesome, by the way, I told Scott, I said, look, if you send Donna side-by-side, he is going to post videos of he and his five kids hanging off the sides of that thing while they're riding around, goofing off, and we're not going to be able to show any of it.
01:04:56.000And so you're probably still getting a side-by-side, but we're going to kindly ask that you show none of that.
01:05:02.000So, you know, your sense of self-preservation, and at least Donny's by this point, is non-existent.
01:05:08.000Highly underdeveloped sense of self-preservation.
01:05:10.000But, you know, Donnie's getting into the moto stuff, so it's perfect.
01:05:13.000I used to do a lot of that growing up.
01:05:15.000I think that, you know, that was awesome.
01:05:17.000It's sort of become something we're actually doing with the journal.
01:05:20.000So now, you know, we got the places to ride and some, you know, awesome guys down here that are, you know, frankly, far better than will ever be.
01:05:27.000So it's always great to ride with people who are better because you actually...
01:05:55.000But Scobie's going to do our helmet side-by-side content in Montana with a beer helmet.
01:06:02.000And we'll be able to check that box off.
01:06:05.000It counts as a helmet. I'm sure, I'm sure they're all, well, by the way, speaking of advertisers, that's sort of a funny one.
01:06:11.000Like we have had these stuff where it's like, you know, the guys that actually know what they're doing with certain brands, like call us and they're like, Hey guys, like we love what you did, but like people on our board who know nothing about what you're actually doing, they're not exactly thrilled.
01:06:26.000So we're going to send you a letter, uh, But we don't actually want you to change anything.
01:06:31.000It's just the note to file that we actually did something about it for either insurance reasons or otherwise.
01:06:36.000But we want you to change absolutely nothing with what you're doing, even if it's grossly inappropriate.
01:06:41.000We're on constant probation with our partnerships.
01:07:10.000You know, in all seriousness, I'm just thinking, I've got good moto helmets, you know, good.3 helmets.
01:07:15.000I think I could epoxy our Field Ethos koozies on either side of them and rig a siphon system, and that should count as a helmet.
01:07:23.000That should. You know, hard hat helmets, but a real helmet with, you know, drink holders on the side.
01:07:28.000That's a perfect summer project for you.
01:07:30.000For you and the kids. Listen, if you're on private land or something like that, I don't know that there's any rules governing those things.
01:08:06.000Sensei. Okay, because it went from director of diversity and inclusion to czar of diversity and inclusion to sultan of diversity and inclusion.
01:08:15.000And he's the only one also with a picture in the masthead so that we get full credit for actually taking diversity and inclusion quite seriously.
01:08:23.000Yeah, so we put, you know, Ron's black, so we put him out front and center, obviously.
01:08:27.000By the way, today is Brett Voorhees' birthday.
01:08:46.000He identifies. Send him a culturally proper birthday greeting today.
01:08:54.000I will do that. We have built a cast of characters for Field Ethos.
01:09:03.000We end up becoming friends with Our sponsors and the people we work with and our writers.
01:09:11.000Even the companies that probably have us on probation, when they get out there and hunt with us, they're like, man, this is a lot of fun.
01:09:20.000The message is a bit controversial because it's different.
01:09:26.000Not because we're doing anything wrong, but because it's just different.
01:09:29.000But it's attracting people, though, because, like, you know, I always talk about, you know, when we do the trade show parties, like, we'll literally take, like, a suite at a hotel.
01:09:36.000Like, you know, there's these guys that, and some of them are advertising, you know, they're spending, you know, $2 million on their shot show party in Vegas, and it's like, we literally were there being like, holy shit, we're out of natural light.
01:09:46.000Like, we gotta do a beer run to 7-Eleven, because it was, like, literally...
01:09:50.000An iPhone hooked up to a speaker and natural light beer.
01:09:55.000It was basically a low-budget, like, college fraternity party, and yet, like, you had, like, senators and congressmen and some of the biggest guys in outdoors, and you had MMA fighters, and, like, I guess the guitars for, like, Nirvana and Soundgarden, like, these people from, you know, Dan Henderson, a couple of MMA fighters and MLB players, like, literally by far the coolest and most eclectic group ever In all of Las Vegas during SHOT Show, which is a lot of people, literally end up in a small hotel suite drinking natural light.
01:10:31.000And it wasn't like they showed up and were disappointed and left in five minutes because there was no entertainment or anything really going on.
01:10:36.000They stayed till 5.30 in the morning because it was that much fun.
01:10:40.000There's a difference between just putting on a show, spending arbitrary money, and just hanging out with badass people doing cool shit.
01:10:49.000And if you're lucky, you get Scobie's invite for the next morning where Scobie will pay for you to have a full IV and an IV cart that you can roll around in the suite with Scobie.
01:11:00.000That's always a fun after-party event.
01:11:03.000But if you recall that Natty Beer light run, we commanded the 60-year-old, I don't know how he's 60, 59, 60, CEO of a major sponsor to go on the beer run for us.
01:11:20.000For the record, I went with him as his underling to carry beer.
01:11:25.000He pretty much just smoked cigarettes and made sure we got to the beer store in the right place of Las Vegas.
01:11:31.000But, you know, what we do that's different is we underproduce everything.
01:11:39.000And it makes it, it gives you that authentic feel.
01:11:43.000A lot of our content, especially the video side, like when Scobie was in Mexico, he was able to send me videos that he was just taking on his iPhone.
01:11:52.000And so it's not that overproduced, you know, refined hunting look that everybody is putting out there these days.
01:12:01.000It's more of like, all right, you're looking at this through our lens.
01:12:11.000I mean, in this world where everything's like, you know, keeping up with the Joneses and, you know, it's, you know, you look at people's lives on Instagram and then you actually know them and you're like, ah, these two things are not the same.
01:12:20.000Like, ours kind of are because they're low budget across the board.
01:12:25.000I got to our Dallas Safari Club party this year, and I walk in, and Scobie's already in there with a bunch of people who are having a good time, and we've got a bar set up with really good bourbon.
01:12:35.000We've got chicken cock bourbon up there, and we've got Lazy K bourbon and some other really good whiskeys and liquor sitting in a stocked bar.
01:12:41.000And I said, and after my behavior at the Dallas Safari Club before that, I stopped drinking liquor altogether.
01:12:48.000So I walked up to Scobie, and I said, Scobie, where's the beer?
01:12:52.000And he goes... Oh, just go into one of the bathrooms and the sinks are full of ice and beer.
01:12:58.000So our party guests, some of these CEOs of big corporations, when they wanted a beer, they had to go into the bathroom and dig a beer out of the sink.
01:13:06.000And they love that, you know, because it kind of reminds them of what they were doing before they became the CEO of a big company.
01:13:15.000They were... They were just hanging out with the guys, and so that's kind of how we throw our parties, and it just works.
01:13:21.000This is not ever part of our background.
01:13:28.000Yeah, I mean, part of what we've got to keep doing as a company, and we have...
01:13:39.000We walk a fine line, and Scobie and I, he's had to have several talking to's with me about the fine line of, okay, like, We can do these things, but we have to also be conscious that we are representing other companies and representing the people that work with us and support us.
01:14:02.000So we figured out a way to do all of that with still being very honest with how we operate.
01:14:08.000You had a couple talking to's with me as well, Don.
01:14:11.000I think it was, what was it, DSC last year?
01:14:15.000Yep. You may or may not have gotten punched at the bar.
01:14:19.000And the excuse was, you were defending the honor of some gay guy at the bar.
01:14:22.000What was really great about the story is that's not even remotely accurate.
01:14:25.000We actually ran into the guy this year.
01:14:26.000He's like, well, I'm the gay guy that Jason thought he was defending.
01:14:29.000And he's like, I'm married with two kids and not even remotely gay.
01:14:32.000So the excuse you came up with was kind of woke and whatever.
01:14:36.000But I see you the next morning with a black guy.
01:14:54.000I had been drinking chicken cock bourbon non-stop since I showed up because we were trying to represent chicken cock bourbon and introduce it to the masses.
01:15:06.000So every time I introduced it to somebody, I poured myself one.
01:15:11.000And by the time I get to the Circle Bar, there's this...
01:15:16.000It's kind of a funny story, and we figured it out this year.
01:15:19.000So there's this guy from Namibia picking on this little guy, just really running him down at the bar.
01:15:23.000And I was like, dude, why don't you leave the guy the fuck alone?
01:15:28.000And he said something to me, and I turned, and I get hit.
01:15:33.000And he was calling this little guy a very, you know, something you don't say, a name for gay people.
01:15:42.000You just don't say. And he was calling the guy that.
01:15:44.000And I was like, you know, leave the guy the fuck alone.
01:16:07.000So I told Scooby, I said, he was like, what happened to you?
01:16:10.000And I said, some Namibian guy just was being a dick to this kid at the bar.
01:16:16.000And then he punched me in the face and took off.
01:16:19.000So that was my version of what happened.
01:16:22.000Those guys came to us this year at Dallas Safari Club, like moments after we get thrown out for serving booze, I guess without a license, at the Field Ethos tent there.
01:16:32.000So there's a recurring theme here, folks.
01:16:35.000And those guys are like, hey man, I'm really sorry.
01:17:44.000So I still have a bone to pick with a Namibian, but the guy that hit me, no, we're good.
01:17:50.000But yeah, so our behavior, my behavior has certainly taken a different direction after the next morning you called me and you said, hey, is everything okay with you?
01:18:28.000That was pretty fun. Just so you guys know, Christian Craighead is...
01:18:31.000Remember when, like, toxic masculinity was, like, a big deal?
01:18:34.000And you had the British SAS guy, like, that's, like, their Delta Force, who went into a school in Nairobi, Kenya, with either an AK or an AR, and, like, it was taken over by Boko Haram, and he went in there and killed, like, 30 bad guys, and then they tried to make him as, like, a bad guy because he literally saved the lives of all these schoolchildren, but, like, broke protocol by, like...
01:18:54.000Just acting and doing the right thing at the right time.
01:18:57.000So Kim was pretty sure that she could take Christian Craighead and that ended up in an interesting wrestling match at the party.
01:19:06.000Kim parties. And Kim keeps it pretty buttoned up until it's time to have a good time and then she turns into one of the guys and can absolutely hang.
01:19:17.000I think that may have actually been one of the greatest fights Christian's ever been in.
01:19:20.000I think he was greatly enjoying it at the time.
01:19:22.000That's become a theme of the DSC parties.
01:19:24.000When it finally winds down and nobody wants to go home, two years now it's turned into a wrestling, a physical wrestling match.
01:19:31.000Well, you got banged up pretty badly wrestling Brett this year.
01:20:54.000He's basically drunk enough that he hung around and he threw the DJ out of the DJ booth, took over the DJ booth, and then put on a two-hour piano performance.
01:21:03.000One of my neighbors, an elderly woman, is a Juilliard-trained pianist.
01:21:09.000And she was like, oh my god, he's incredible, because it's not like this boy band marketing shit.
01:21:13.000There's a reason he's been around for 30 years.
01:21:23.000I don't need this shit. That's just the random stuff that happens when we all get together.
01:21:30.000Yeah. That wrestling match last year at DSC, that turned into a chicken cock, you know, match or a cockfighter match where I got beat by him.
01:21:38.000So he stayed up kind of in a round robin scenario.
01:21:40.000And we were all betting, I don't know, hundreds of dollars, just throwing cash into a ring, watching dudes wrestle.
01:21:47.000No, but wait, but didn't Joe beat him?
01:22:18.000Yeah, for $5. I risked cuts all over me from the brush and the thorns, and I... You know, the Masai is as good as needed people as they are.
01:22:27.000They have about a 50% AIDS rate, I think.
01:22:29.000And I thought it was a good idea to wrestle around with one in the sand for $5.
01:22:58.000Well, you got thrown in jail at a checkpoint in Africa?
01:23:00.000Like, I mean, you know how many times I've bribed my way across the border there?
01:23:03.000I'm not allowed to say that now, obviously, because of our immigration policies.
01:23:06.000But, like, back in the day before immigration was a thing, like, I've been held at gunpoint at the border of Zimbabwe, like, at least three times.
01:23:13.000No, I got actually arrested and thrown in jail in South Africa one time.
01:23:16.000That was legitimate. The other one, I was driving through Botswana.
01:23:18.000And as you know, you get to those border posts in the middle of the night by myself, and they close them down at like 10 o'clock at night, you know?
01:23:24.000And so I'm just sleeping in the Land Rover.
01:23:28.000Freezing. As you know, it gets down to 28, 29 degrees.
01:23:32.000I'm shivering and all of a sudden there's a little knock on my window and I roll it down and there's a little short bushman border crossing guy sitting there.
01:23:38.000He's like, are you spending the night? I go, yeah, until it opens at 6 in the morning.
01:25:20.000We also have Field Ethos Waterman, which is more of like...
01:25:25.000Spear fishing, saltwater fishing, a lot of that lifestyle that you live in Florida, by the way, we need to come down and get on your boat soon and go fishing.
01:25:43.000We also have FieldEthos Outrider where you can book a trip to go with us into the field on a hunting trip or a spearfishing trip or whatever we're up to.
01:25:51.000You can come along with us by booking through there.
01:25:53.000Or, by the way, just the guys that we've hunted with and sort of verify are good.
01:25:57.000So that's everything from the most extreme sort of sheep-type adventure or Africa adventure to your first hunt or waterfowl or fishing.
01:26:06.000So a little bit of everything at FieldEthos Outrider.
01:26:08.000We have fielded a lot of people on their first hunt or their first international adventure.
01:26:13.000We've put those guys in the field through that area of our company.
01:26:25.000$60 for the year for four print issues.
01:26:29.000Mike has done a really good job of Spearheading our print journal, which is, in our opinion, the best product out there in our lifestyle category.
01:26:40.000So yeah, we've got several ways people can show up and support the brand.
01:26:44.000Sign up for the email list as well, just at fieldethos.com, right?
01:26:47.000Yep. Those are pretty fun, good short stories that may not be for the print journal or something like that, but always sort of a good couple minute read.
01:26:57.000I think we've got 270,000 subscribers there now with a crazy high open rate because the content on our email is just fun.
01:27:07.000We don't send emails too often and it's just kind of a break in the day that you read some short articles that come through in your email.
01:27:14.000So yeah, that's the best way to kind of support Field Ethos and where we are right now.
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01:27:49.000I'm going to have to sign up these guys because of the Africa trip we got going next month.
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