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He Quit His Job to Live in the Woods... (w/ Shawn Trudel of Cabin River Outdoors)
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May 9, 2025
In this episode of the Outdoor Journal Radio podcast, we delve into the extraordinary journey of Shawn Trudel, the man behind the popular YouTube channel, Cabin River Outdoors. Shawn made the bold decision to leave his industrial carpentry career to pursue a dream of self-sufficiency and solitude in the remote wilderness of British Columbia. We discuss: The challenges of building an off-grid homestead from scratch The realities of living without modern conveniences The mental and physical demands of isolation The role of his YouTube channel in sustaining his lifestyle Join us as we explore the highs and lows of Shawn's off-grid adventure, and gain insights into the resilience and determination required to live in harmony with nature. To never miss an episode of Outdoor Journal Radio, be sure to like, subscribe, and leave a review on your favourite podcast app!
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[Applause] this episode of Outdoor Journal Radio is brought to you in part by the Invasive
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Species Center protecting Canada's land and water from invasive species freedom
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always scares me yeah he surprises me with it uh welcome to program Angela V Peter Bowman and the rest of the uh team
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team right we're a team when we're shooting TV stuff when we're doing the
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podcasting stuff I think we're all a team it's it's it's creeping in on us the the shooting stuff isn't it oh yeah
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we're weeks we're weeks away we're more Yeah we're closer to weeks
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away than we are months away for sure uh Dean Taylor uh the producer of the
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show joins us every once in a while he's got a new box he's been playing with give us give us a
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I love that i love that whoever came up with that riff that is such a good one it's iconic
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such a good one you know you talk about things that are forever ever representative of something
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that sound is representative of that whole environment that dueling banos was
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was Would that be considered bluegrass Dave yeah for sure yeah I like bluegrass it's
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cool it's fun especially when they get ripping and that Yeah it's good i was ripping a good
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one last night what about music well I was didn't want to get into music
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[Laughter] anyways on your guitar uh I had the I had
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haven't touched it in about five months I think oh wow how's the fingers today it was a little soft played it till my
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Brian Adams played it till my fingers bled right yeah pretty much
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uh wonderful show later on we'll be joined by a gentleman who um has been actually started his own YouTube channel
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uh recently and it's become a huge success among uh this particular genre
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which is uh wilderness survival his name is Sean Tredell and the channel is Cabin
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River Outdoors he's there building a homestead he's homesteading something that a lot
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of people in this part of the world have probably at some point or other fantasized about yeah we were talking
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about right yeah I could do that get away from it all i hate everybody i want
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to get away from it all and it sounds great it sounds romantic and sexy and all that great stuff right but after a
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couple days of uh no electricity no water no nothing i'm sure the bugs are
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out there soon yeah anyways uh Sean will join us here shortly and tell us all about it he's got 41 acres as the size
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of his homestead and it's deep in the mountains of British Columbia nice so um good place to be this might be the first
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one that we've had on the show that's homesteading in BC if I Dean yeah that's
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the first guy james says James is Ontario right yeah anyways
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uh before we get to that though I do have to remind you by the way I don't know whether you noticed or not oh damn
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right I did no you did not yeah you had Outdoor Journal podcast beautiful uh hoodie on there look at this i noticed
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that i haven't had this one out for a while love touching yourself don't you i like It's not the logo it's nothing the
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embroidery it's about you touching yourself like I can I know there's the excuse of all excuses what it's a
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beautiful logo what are you talking about Peter you sick some [ __ ] there's there's some nice logos right there
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speaking of logos yeah look at them babies yep number one the pickro if you
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don't have one of those right now hanging in your closet shame on you there's a nicknames the Prolau brookie
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is the nickname kind of right and what's the Chanook nickname king king king king
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spring spring spring king spring there you go maybe maybe we can make some new hoodies with those names on now i got
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something there's There's stuff already don't you worry there's stuff running i'm trying to help you out i know you you need a few more bucks to get in that
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you know retirement mode oh yeah that that's going to get me there quick for sure
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spring salmon oh god I made it on that one that's going to get me there for sure
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um where are we Dean oh the that's the store okay but let's get away from that
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by the way all that's available at fishingcanada.com in case or shop.fishingcanada.com
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that's correct that's correct uh listener feedback Mr bowman listener feedback comes to us from Jay Irving
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7167 we've had him before haven't we Dean he writes in a lot yeah yeah he's very very responsive i like that jay
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Irving i wonder where do we have the first name do we know his first name we can call him I don't know actually we got to find that out because we're at a
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point now we can be Jay his name might be Jay yeah it would be way that'd be good
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earn maybe he owns all the gas stations down east waving yeah hey you never know
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you never know buddy or the uh the clamps the hand clamps aren't they clamps yes those are Irving too there
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you go buddy look at us boy we know a lot of stuff don't we anyways Jay Irving on 7167 via YouTube in response to
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Pete's story about having rocks thrown at him while fishing a dock i remember telling that story a little while ago i
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guess those that's just exactly what happened says Pete commented "Pete I
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commend your reaction to the contankerous old rock throwing dock monster." That's a good one some anglers
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would have tied on the largest musky lure in their box and fired back with an emoji smiley face but not you well thank
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God I'm not a musky angler that's all because if I had that [ __ ] in my boat I was so angry that day an I would have I
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I swear if I had a big musky I would have attempted to I'd have threatened him with it somehow i would have I cast
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a jig right at his head and I stopped it right before I hit him he couldn't hit me with a rock 30 rocks and I just You
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didn't do that i did that i didn't give a [ __ ] i stopped it i literally did not
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want to hit him but I wanted to show him that he's farting with the wrong guy just back away and say "Yes sir gotcha
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have a nice day." I tried that he was very mean contankerous contanker old
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rockth throwing doc monster i called him a contankerous prick because that's what he was but this guy's James or Jay is
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nicer than me but uh so I hel I held back i did held by hold back until I called the cops on him then I got him
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good well calling the cops is the right thing to do right damn right buddy damn straight I did uh-huh go ahead you go
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ahead carry carry the program well you got to you got to talk about carp or something don't you like speaking of rocks rock corner uh brought to you by
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the invasive species center i don't know that's why I don't know man i don't know
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wow i know wow anyways you think with uh 28 different buttons he can push there
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he would have found one none of my buttons do that none of your buttons do that somebody needs to organize our
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stuff too get a little better than or if they move our stuff they need to put it back right uh grass carp one of the four
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species of Asian carp uh could be a potential game changer in
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our fishing how's that you ask how is that you ask well I'll tell you well they eat a lot of the good
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stuff that's right they don't eat vegetation the fish you think we got they're wiping out our populations of
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fish but they're not they're wiping out the food source to our little fish which are eaten by the big fish and which
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ruins the whole ecosystem yeah nothing like we sometimes people must think the way we go on and on about this that
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we're we're trying to organize a vigilante group to go out and hunt hunt us down some cars yeah yeah pick me i'll
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start that sucker up no problem down these grass car but that's not the case that'd be fun all we're asking you to do
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is to arm yourself with the knowledge of uh of this critter and a crossbow
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arm yourself with a crossbow that's what I thought you were going with that did you do you take any responsibility for the
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stuff that comes out of your mouth at all like you know I would love to be him he could just throw he could throw [ __ ]
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out there it don't matter it just don't matter i bet you a lot of our audience
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would go bow fishing for those guys if they had the chance i think they would do that i think a lot of our audience
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would say "You know what that's a good idea we got to we got to wipe them out we got to get rid of them." But first you got to know what it is you're wiping
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out well is what I'm trying to tell you posters all over the boat i wrote them posters you got to know what you're
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after my friend so what do you do you arm yourself not with a bow and arrow
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with knowledge just kidding just kidding with knowledge and all that knowledge is available uh at the um where is it
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available center thank you that's where it's all available you see you got to know what you what you're going to go
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hunting for true enough if you're good it's like uh be be cognizant of your target and beyond in the hunting world
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so you're right come on now see you do know that one i know that one i line them up i shoot two at a time
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oh my uh in the news wildlife officials
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declare wild lake trout restored in Lake Champlain yeah that's a good I didn't even know by the way the segment brought
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to you by J&P and B that's what I said pete is his
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cousin you ever meet Peter he's got a cousin named Peter john Bill and Pete
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there's three of them involved in that j&b your outdoor supertore and uh J&B
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don't just sell the individual components but fully equipped packages i think you can you buy a print craft
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without a marker on it now or I guess you' be a special order great question that would be a special order yeah you
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would have to get approved by uh JP Jean Phipe jean Phipe Martan versus JB that's
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where JP came in okay so far ahead of yourself this is
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JMBB this is JMBB the other one is JP right right not to be confused with JMBB
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okay so anyways yeah if you do want a special uh uh uh engine delete
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transcribe you'd have to check with I don't know why you'd want to do that damn merch good motor on there damn
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straight you know it anyways uh all uh those things are available at JNB or
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JBcycle.com jbcycle.com getting to the news wildlife officials
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declare uh wild lake trout restored in Lake Champlain i'll be honest with you I
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did not even know that that was an issue well I don't know if I was ever aware of
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the fact that there were lake trout there at one point and there weren't after see to me Lake Champlain in in the
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US of Bay is the equivalent or sort of on a par with Lake of the Woods in
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Canada in that it has so many species so many opportunities it's such a big body
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of water that it sort of encompasses everything if you want to go fishing somewhere to catch something Lake
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Champlain in the US well it's a part of Quebec it's part of uh Vermont and New
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York right you say part of Canada and it's part of Quebec too is that what I thought you were going to say
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you watched that debate too did you so it's how could that happen oh my god
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oh my god let's not even get into Yeah don't get me started exactly um but yeah
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lake but they had been around for a long time back in the day and uh apparently the lampay problem um got bad in Lake
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Champlain and to the point of almost making these fish extinct or lake trout
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so they were getting all kinds of lake with the lampres or dying from it or whatever like that so they they did a u
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like a 10-year effort of getting rid of the lampay and in the same process doing a stocking program to start building
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back the lake trout population and by doing both of those um it's starting to come back in a big way where they might
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not even be stock they're going to stock up to a very soon right now Dean isn't there a Yeah this is the last year they're going to do this is the last
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year and then they're going to let it run for a bit and see how it works and if it if they need to restock later on they're going to start stocking again
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but it's a good story i mean when you hear all these Asian carp stories and everything negative and all that stuff
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that was a negative but now they're bringing them back that's good fish wild uh fish management and it's a bunch of dough too let me tell you oh yeah yeah
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you know fishing in most communities that are fishing communities people don't realize just how how much revenue
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is generated from fishing that right there in that in that area of that whole lake recreational fishing in Lake
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Champlain contributes approximately $474 million to the regional economy
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yeah and that was more than likely US dollars so that's a big one in our dollars right so that's a lot of money
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people 10 billion Canadian dollars I think you know it brother laughing at that it's a
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wonderful story we're obviously not doing it justice but you should go check it out it's uh Dean did you author this
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one as well i can't confirm or deny that but it is on the website it is on the website fishingcanada.com go there and
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check it out uh great story it's It's a nice success story we hear enough negatives about stocking programs this
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is one that uh is the uh feel-good story of the month i love it let's put it that way shows that it's possible right put a
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little bit of work little effort in there and uh good things happen uh Fang question of the week brought to you by
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our good friends at fishfindermounts.com give me a hell yeah new picture in there
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there's a rookie up there that's beautiful that's Angelo holding that fish isn't it it could be that is that
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old Coleman jacket with that one line I see on it i know that yes you're right you're right the blue looks like Damn
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you're good ridiculous that is the That is the Rock Lake Lodge 88 you could be
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you could be right uh brought to you by
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fishfindermounts.com if you haven't been there uh holy or if you were there if
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you were there like a while ago you need to go back because that website i just go there now just to entertain myself
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you need to refresh your page yeah for sure yeah they need to refresh i just entertain myself there i don't even go
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there for those wonderful pieces yeah I love the website so much just go there
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and check it out sometime navigate through it and see if I can stumble up wade's videos he's got thousands of
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videos hundreds of videos for sure i don't know maybe thousands i don't know they got so many up there anyways they bring you this week's uh uh question fan
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question of the week did you say uh submitted by Marcel Des from Quebec come
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on he's talking about Quebec with JP look at us we're on We're on a roll of Quebec
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what did you think of that debate i thought it was a bunch of [ __ ] i thought
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okay I'm not going to say another word cuz Jimmy Kund just answered it for me jimmy he just answered it for me it was
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a bunch of [ __ ] michelle the god forbid they'd answer a question that they asked him no you know they don't do
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that kind of like me right now just anyways she submitted this question at
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[email protected] or you can go to Facebook or Instagram or anywhere you kind of hang out we are there lingering
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like a bad smell yes all right yes and uh the question from Marcel is simply
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this hey guys I think now first of all does this qualify no he emailed us email
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require him to go to YouTube and subscribe oh and why and why did you put him on here then this was a nice one and
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the people on YouTube haven't been putting in very good ones oh oh there's a little uh shout out to you YouTubers
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there you want to put some good smart because then you get a shot at Angelo's gift it's a good idea to get 100
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buckaroos on nothing to laugh at store man holy moly all you do is ask an
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intelligent question surely to God somebody out there can do that mhm oh this week save you know what you know
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what Dean uh hats off to you for u hats off to you for not making up a
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question let's put it that way see because I know I know tendencies would you know most people most producers
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would have probably said "Oh boy I haven't got a question for the guys let me break one up." No my name is Frank he
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said "No I need a hundred bucks gift certificate." What Dean would have sent and he scored of emails still if these
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people would just make a YouTube account and go there they would they'd be better off there you go how How would they do that Dean very quickly how do they do
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that you go to YouTube i think there's a button in the top right that says make an account you make an account it's free
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yeah and you subscribe to the Fishing Canada show yeah and you don't have to put out any videos or anything you don't have to do anything else you now you can
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watch all the YouTube stuff but you're you're in there so then you get this $100 gift that Angel wants to give you yep it's a good idea i was throwing all
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kinds of accolades your way you know but it just dawned on me let me just verify before Let me just verify before I Lake
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Trout you're on Lake Trout there lake Trout J and P and J&B okay and uh then
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you're going back more i just want to check something out while I'm just making rocks okay yeah yeah yeah on the
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rocks yeah yeah oh I see what you're worried about Pete Bowman yeah yeah yeah yeah like listener
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feedback is about Pete just checking just checking this out and fan question
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uh is about Pete well it's not about me it's about I added the Pete part dean added that i'm sorry i added the Pete
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part to the bottom just for so you guys would have some info well would it have hurt you to put an hinge there instead
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of Pete he doesn't want to lie to the audience well this is also just for internal information he didn't he didn't
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write in a fake question he's not a liar he did no I would rather be honest now under the circumstance i would rather
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you have you know put a fraudulent question in to be honest with you you know Dan Pete I think you got to stop
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writing articles uh Marcel says "Hey guys I think I remember you
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talking a while back about um how some provinces don't have an official fish."
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Yeah I remember that yep sure uh looks like New Brunswick Newfoundland Nunibet
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Ontario PI Quebec and the Yukon still haven't picked one what species do you
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think best represents each of them pete wrote an article
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probably Pete Bowman i bet it's probably Pete Bowman that guy I would think i think I know that guy pretty good guy i
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like him pete wrote an article on this last year apparently well we Sorry are we boring you
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V is there is there a a fish for the Ukraine is there a country fish for the
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Ukraine yeah it's a good question good question
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maybe we'll have Bob on i got I have a good joke but I'm not going to say it but I have a a good one that used to be
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i'll just say Nester Pister if anybody ever listened to Nester Pister then you know the joke I was about to say okay uh
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provincial fish here's the categories and what some of the provinces fish are alberta uh claims the uh bull trout i
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did not know that as their official fish did you know that Dean i did before re before Pete wrote this article no I
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didn't know before no this this was I mean this is uh Come on and you said no
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i just asked you you said no you wrote that article no what i said did you know that Alberta didn't say a word i think
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if you play that back you're going to hear you no uh I think we're going to have a playback contest here i kind
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uh BC of course is the Pacific salmon manitoba walleye of course
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Saskatchewan walleye too oh double dip they're doubling up on the double dip on that one is that even
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legal big it's a big tug of war right there right i mean you got a Well arguably couldn't Ontario kind of make
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it pick we're the pick roll oh we're the pick roll good one god Ontario should be the pick roll
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actually I think I think Ontario should be the brook trout honestly of course
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you know what I mean considering Nova Scotia should be the blue fin tuna m yeah they shouldn't be the brook trout
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maybe they should swap them up eh and NWT Arctic Gring so let's go to the
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other one new Brunswick what do you think got to be got to be a striper now doesn't it oh 100% well of course
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they'll they'll say that's salmon right i'm surprised they haven't battled over that the two side because if you make it
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the na like the provincial fish it's probably protected or something well you got Newfoundland next and they they're
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Atlantic salmon heavy too right they have a lot of uh lodges still in in
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operation salmon mostly Labrador yeah I don't think the uh the Rock has Although
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I shouldn't say that i I shouldn't say that that's not true that's terrible i Nunovet i'd say lake trout and Nunovet
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well no char see I'd pick char somebody's got to pick Char don't you think yes I think Char is
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missing from that list what is the What is the Cambridge Bay Area what's all that up there is that uh It's char country but what province what are the
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nine it's all under nine they got char would be a perfect one for Yeah for sure
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ontario i'd say the brook trout only because of our beautiful along park area and all that or pickles i I don't mind
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the pickle idea quebec pike nobody's picked pike and they got lots of good pike in Quebec i'd say maybe northern
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got good dory too they got Dory the Dory and the and a
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great gray gray trout they have That's ler right laker gray yeah and they got
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the ashan the the petite boug ashan the grouch and the pike is the brocher brochet
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brocher something like that very good an bad multilinguist
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good we're good holy smokes pretty pretty good okay pretty good now our next guest our first guest and next
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guest this week well kind of sure i guess it'll be next got these guys here they're next to the guys out there uh we
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were first uh made aware of him uh from a previous episode that we had with James Olaf Alof it is of Wild Homestead
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and uh the audience uh really to us and said yeah they like it reach out to us
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hey you want to see something really good go to this guy and it's yeah you think James is good he's nothing you see
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this guy Sean Tredell joins us from Cabin River Outdoors which started in
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2023 in October on YouTube and uh how are you buddy welcome to the program
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yeah awesome uh Angelo Peter great uh to be here and uh as previously mentioned
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uh yeah I do recall uh growing up watching you guys on TV so uh I guess it
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feels like I've arrived the YouTube channel's finally paid that's right hey thank you for the uh for the uh for
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being a fan for all those years we can certainly use it we used to young and I Sean we used to
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really get kind of internally angry when guys uh 10 years younger than us used to
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say they watched us since they were kids we were saying "What the hell how old are we damn it." But now we get it now
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we are of age where pretty much every adult has watched us pretty much as a kid I guess now so we appreciate it
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trust us yeah it's definitely uh full circle um I
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was going through your library the other day it looks like you guys get uh quite a few hockey players on that's kind of cool yeah i'm a I'm a He's a nut hockey
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nut hockey nut and fortunate enough to have some buddies who are as well and we we uh we have no shortage of NHL players
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that fish and hunt and all that good stuff there's there seems to be a lot of the hockey guys I guess they grow up
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fishing i I don't know what it is even if they're from Sweden or even the American players they all seem to Dustin
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Bufflin he's a big fisherman that guy yeah yeah i know kinger was saying the Russians used to remember when they used
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to all the Russians would come over and they go fishing it was our pastime instead of golfing so it's a it's a
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great sounds about right yeah yeah so so you've got 41 acres
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um that you are now homesteading we need to know about that first of all
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where are you whereabouts is it i'm uh in sort of north central British
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Columbia in uh area called the Rocky Mountain Trench um it's the only inland
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temperate rainforest in the world uh so for whatever that means I'm not sure
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exactly but it is a kind of a gnarly area that the growth is pretty
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unbelievable here um to walk through uh some parts of the forest here it's
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almost impenetrable and it's it's tough to move around so um great fishing a lot
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of rivers not a lot of lakes like you'd get in in northern
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loops hey boy we're having some technical difficulties for sure she's
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probably going to say in northern BC like where we were with with Earth and all that there's all kinds of lakes and and a few rivers and all that stuff
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right so it's probably exactly the opposite of that in especially if it's a trench sounds to me like it's a valley
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or something so I wanted to ask Hopefully we'll get him back there he is there he is you back i'm back i I'm on
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Starlink fellas and usually um 99 times out of 100 I have pretty darn good
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signal so it's a bit bit of an oddball to not have good signal right now so
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we'll try how did you decide that you wanted to do this in as you put it the
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gnarliest piece of woods on the planet so why there
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it's funny it's funny because a lot of the local literature uh talks quite a bit about just how how tough this
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country is and uh muddy slippery tangled bush and beautiful at the same time uh I
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don't know i was kind of just you know I was working uh all over Western Canada and and I was based out of Squamish uh
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near Whistler Vancouver but I would always travel you know six or seven months out of the year and I'd be up in
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Fort McMurray uh Brandon Manitoba somewhere in Saskatchewan and and uh
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made good money and you know it was a lot of industrial construction and I
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think I just sort of got burnt out and it just I didn't feel like I was challenging myself but I do recall like
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growing up in northern Ontario there was a lot of uh trappers around the Madawa area and that was still very much a part
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of the culture there so uh I those stories and just reading some books as a
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as a youngster it always stayed with me and then I guess I don't know if it was a midlife crisis or what but uh one day
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I I just thought man I I I have to try something new and and really just go for it and uh u so I kind of searched around
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and I eventually found this property it was about as remote as you you can get a
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uh a private property and uh I don't know if you guys can see this but it's
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snowing right now yeah yeah and you're on both sides of a river is that correct you have the
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propert the property spans both sides of a river and then quite a large freshwater creek flows into it so I also
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have both sides of that so it was a bit of a a gem and you know what i I had never even been to the property uh
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hello Starlink an ordeal to Yeah go ahead go ahead yeah i guess it might be
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this weather that's kind of Starlink probably um I've got a question for you
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James uh from Wild oh yeah i think it's passing over i can see it opening up here okay hopefully i was going to say
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Sean I've got a question uh James that was on the program um prior to you from
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uh Wild Homestead he was telling us about uh he he he had neighbors he has
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neighbors in this property albeit the neighbors like half a day away but he has neighbors is that the same as in
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your case do you have other people in the area at all or are you just you and the bears and that's it
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yeah there's there's a one family down river so this is a long valley it's about a 90 km valley and then you have
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multiple layers of valleys beyond and uh uh the near there's only one one
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neighbor in there about 7 km down river and uh beyond to the north of me it's
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there's like uh just endless wilderness it's like multiple algangquin parks uh
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of just mountains and valleys wow so it it's pretty much just uh nothing but
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crown land for for what feels like eternity wow was this like a childhood
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dream of yours to homestead out in the in the wild to get away from it all or what would drive you
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it's funny because uh like I do well in urban environments and cities and and on
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my own uh I do well socially so it wasn't like getting away from everything but it was the the one the man against
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nature sort of aspect that drew me into it and it just stuck with me all these
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things that I grew up with um uh in Madawa Ontario being very outdoor
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oriented community uh uh there was a lot of people that were involved with uh
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kind of remote lifestyles and uh and then when I moved to to Squamish British Columbia very much outdoor community as
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well and then um yeah I just couldn't let go of it so when the opportunity uh
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to buy remote property as remote as this came up I I just jumped on it and I
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thought just go for it i was single too it's not like I have kids or anything that kind of makes it right easy to do
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uh you know be kind of selfish in that regard so now did the uh the
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homesteading or the YouTube channel come up first which or they both happen at the same time
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oh that's funny um great question because uh I over time I didn't know
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this YouTube thing could make money so but I was thinking of ways like how can I make money out there like and I would
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be away working in Fort McMurray or something and I was thinking how what can I do start a sawmill do this do that
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like trapping there's no money in trapping anymore but I I kind of then I heard kept hearing about YouTube and I
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was like "Holy gez people make money off this stuff." And then um I bought a
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couple cameras and then I just went for it and I think when I decided to go for it big time was around 10 months ago
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last uh sometime last May and I titled that one video that was probably video
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number 10 it was like I hate my job and quit uh which is partially true cuz I
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work with some incredible people and and it's not to downplay uh my past jobs i've learned a lot from them but it was
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just time to challenge myself and and really go for it and uh uh yeah so I decided to and the
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the YouTube thing unbelievably paid off uh I just sort of got lucky with some of
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the videos early on that they did really well like a guy like James Alof um that
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dude came out swinging like his first video I was very amateur my first 10 or 20 videos if you watch them they're
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they're quite terrible but um James like that dude man he had some serious
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production value on that first video and it skyrocketed him right away but it's it is I kind of think it is a little bit
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like a modern-day trapper cuz trapping was quite lucrative if you go back a ways and they weren't necessarily
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homesteading they were they were uh making all their money with furs they weren't really gardening or anything
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like that or clearing land it was like you had your cabins and your kind of wild game and fishing and that was about
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it and and I thought well this YouTube thing is kind of like being the modern-day trapper in some ways how do
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you I can't even imagine how you you run
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the operation i'm talking about the YouTube channel stuck way out there in the middle of nowhere hell we have a
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hard time doing it here with a team of people and in uh in uh urbanized Canada
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how in the hell Sean's got about six people in that cabin behind him back there setting it all up for us
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it's It's Oh hang on folks a little glitch
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here he'll come back starlink is the cloud covered mixing together
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there you start again sean just say how you do that uh it was it was glitched out there
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um no problem yeah i I it was honestly nuts i had to uh before I had Starlink I
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had there was no uh service whatsoever out here i had to drive about 100 km to
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get to Wi-Fi and I I'd already kind of put together my video on my not so great
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laptop and uh uh so then I drive 100 k and when I say drive 100 km I had to
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cross the river go down the river about 13 km in my boat or take a really gnarly
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trail get to the forest service road drive on some terrible terrain up to the
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highway drive another 100 km so it was quite an ordeal and then you know I didn't have much I was trying to save my
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money as much as I could at the time so I'd go park out in front of uh the only hotel in that town and like use the
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Wi-Fi and just wait in my vehicle for a couple hours until the video would upload and then and then I might camp
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out in my vehicle that night or come back the next morning or or that night as well and it was and then when I
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finally got on to the the Starlink thing uh that made a world of difference it meant uh uh not risking my life to get a
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video out yeah yeah and how often do you put a video out once a week uh and I
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took this week off uh and yeah I I think if I had better technology I could
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probably edit quicker uh so I'm looking to upgrade with a a better laptop soon
35:58
um but yeah you're you're in it for because this thing keeps freezing sometimes it's like 20 or 30 hours to do
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a video but probably with a a good laptop you're looking at maybe 10 or 15 hours to do a quality video for sure no
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kidding for sure and that's a lot of footage you shoot a lot of footage though don't you like constantly going
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yeah yeah i I love it and but it's funny cuz it takes up a lot of time and then
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you're trying to build on top of that and you'll get people so much of the the comments are so positive and and the
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following I have is like unbelievably uh passionate and but every once in a
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while there's that person like "Hey I see you didn't get much work done on the property last week." But they don't think they don't think of the 20 hours
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on the video so I can live and uh fathom that you know it's bad it's not bad it's
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hard enough to do the homesteading right every day getting up and and you need to
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survive so you need to do stuff to survive let alone let alone running a
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YouTube channel which is also another very timeconsuming occupation how how you
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guys do it together is just it blows my mind just absolutely blows my mind
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especially when you have to put a roof over your head like that's survival he's got he's got to at least get somewhere
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where he can sleep at night for he's got to eat exactly now I'm assuming you you
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do um don't ruin my my thoughts here but I'm assuming like you go out and you
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forge for food and you you hunt and you fish and you bare hands and you know I'm
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slow you know I'm I'm slowly getting there uh yes and no well I I I think I
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was so tied up with building early on that you're just going to the uh the
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nearest town which in my case is is far no matter what direction I go to um and
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you'll stock up for a week or two and then uh bit by bit though as the building winds down it's it's going to
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be much more about get a root seller uh start pickling uh vegetables get the
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garden going but you just become so uh focused on building in the early stages
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and also like I think maybe for like people like our grandparents uh back in
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the day it was a lot easier for them because they grew up with a lot of that knowledge already right and I thought I
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kind of was pretty good compared to the average person when I got out here but kind of looking back on it now I'm like
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"Oh man could have been a lot better about a lot of things." Yeah are there uh you
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see you have a creek and a river are there is there a good fish population right there if you want to catch fish to eat uh yeah um this this fish or this
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river and this creek have virtually zero fishing pressure so I kind of have it to myself the headwaters are about of the
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the river the headwaters are about uh 70 or 90 kilometers to the to the west and
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it's just this uninhibited river of uh a lot of mountain white fish bull trout
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the the shinook come up here um they're kind of at the end of their the shinook
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are pretty beat up when they do get up here and they haven't been uh so great lately um because this is a tributary
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that runs into the Fraser River and how they get through that Fraser River i have no idea because if you look at the
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Hello Boy going to say there oh go ahead is he back i thought he's back look at the
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Fraser there's I was gonna say Hell's Gate gate that's what he's got to be talking about that's what he's talking about yeah hell's Gate and then Yeah how
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does anything thousands of sturgeon want to eat you too oh my god yeah there's also Dolly yeah sorry about
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the Starlink boys i don't know this thing has been It's been a gem most of the time
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um Yeah so uh also Dolly Varden uh do you guys ever come out to BC and fish uh
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very often yeah the time i seem to I seem to recall some older episodes like that not super old episodes but you guys
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do get out here and Yeah it's nice it's awesome out there great fishery outstanding we've done all of the above
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everything you've mentioned I think we've tried we've caught or tried to catch whatever dean's a Dean's our bull trout specialist he's uh he's the man
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for the answer so yeah I know what that means but he's our bully [ __ ] specialist yeah
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that's about See he's not pushing those buttons now right but but if it was me I'm making that comment about me or you
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Yeah yeah yeah um All right now how big is this uh this cabin you you've built
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cabins i've Yeah a couple uh um I got carried away here like the first one was
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a 8x10 and uh I went kind of tall on the ceiling on the on the walls and uh it's
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a cute little thing but it was just a starter cabin and uh then I went much bigger on a second cabin uh which which
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I didn't think the design process out too well and I call it the Frankenstein cabin because it's kind of uh taken on
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so many different changes and it's it's I think it'll look good when it's done but right now I'm like what the heck did
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I do here it's it's kind of Well it's not like the neighbors are going to complain and say "Man you ruined the the
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neighborhood." You know the bears the bears don't give a [ __ ] say "Hey there might be some food in there." And and
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and Sean did you mill all of the wood yourself right there on the property well lately yes I finally got a sawmill
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in here uh a lot of folks were urging me to get a sawmill and uh but um I you
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know I did something silly i ended up cuz it's quicker to build with plywood and lumber i thought I'm just going to
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build as quick as I can and then I can get on to this this gardening and this root seller and build a sauna
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[Music] or come on here we go three two one
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and he was I saw him in his in his videos he was milling with the chainsaw
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he's a he's he's he's a handy guy I can tell you because he cuz he was laying
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2x4 or planks across the top of these big logs and he was chainsawing straight down and milling nice pieces like that
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for B oh he's back now okay there he is yeah I hope you guys can splice this all
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together with the editing uh we'll get her we'll figure if you can build cabins out there in the middle of nowhere
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surely to God we can take a little bit of video and tape it together somehow i don't know oh god
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i'll I'll try to uh pick up where I I left off but I was saying um the sawmill yeah I I was definitely a lot of people
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were uh in the comments were urging me to get a sawmill anyway uh I ended up
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boating up a lot of uh uh plywood and and lumber and it got quite expensive
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and then the building got bigger than I thought it would and then it turned out to be probably a slower process than
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just building with logs or I probably if I could do it again I would have just got a lumber mill up here right away
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right right i think that's kind of the norm in those situations there's a there's a
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a piece Sean you'll know exactly what I'm talking about it was a while for you go was episode I watched four episodes
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this morning just checking things out and Sean is putting the one of the walls up on that four uh that small cabinet
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he's got and you going through putting that wall up had to be the funniest [ __ ] I've seen in a long time my god but I I
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will say you you must have carpentry experience or something cuz from the word go you were smashing those nails in
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those big arox nails in like you were a pro are you like are you a carpenter by trade or anything like that or lots of
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experience yeah car carpentry background not so much residential but more uh what
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I call industrial carpentry so a lot of uh working around a lot of concrete civil civil uh carpentry as well
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concrete forming it shows for sure um but um yeah I mean it's good i think
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if I didn't have that experience uh that it would be a lot tougher to be out here
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yeah for sure oh for sure i'd be I'd be lost i How often are you sitting there
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in the middle of the night and it hits you between the eyes
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that you are just you might as well be a million miles away from the next human being how often does that hit you or or
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is it completely behind you now you don't even look at or think about that um uh it was quite difficult because uh
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it was quite I'm quite a social person and and I have a lot of great friends and great fa family uh so it was a major
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trade-off to to come out here and do this and yeah I would say difficult for sure
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um you're kind of wondering what the heck you're doing sometimes but uh I just stick to the plan and stay focused
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and try not to get uh too high or too low and and cuz your ups and downs are
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so uh you know it' be crazy that's just crazy yeah for sure uh and it's far like
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none of my family lives out this way uh a lot of my friends are are in northern Ontario or around Squamish Whistler area
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and uh uh but you know I just had to give it a go and uh I think it's easier now than it was uh I mean I think
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through May June July I really mentally it was like it was it was a struggle cuz also it's a career change and you don't
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know if it's going to pay off um I came in with a lot of debt at the time and I and I was barely keeping up with
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payments on uh a lot of the debt was from buying the property um right but I
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you know I couldn't I could barely just get by and uh um I think around November
45:41
there was a turning point where suddenly it's like okay I I think this is going
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to work and winter was moving in and I was getting nervous about that so yeah it was the career change aspect was was
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pretty tough too the social change um but I ultimately I knew I wasn't
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challenging myself in my other life so uh I think it'll just get a little better a little more comfortable out
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here as time goes on and you know I've learned more in the last year than I have in the last 10 years combined so
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you put yourself in all these uncomfortable situations this river is a killer i don't know if you guys know I
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bought a brand new johnboat last year with a jet drive on it and then sank it in the first
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The river sank it in the first week oh no and uh this river is a killer like it's
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just so fast so swift it can be up and down to several feet in a day and uh I
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realized after John boats are great cuz as you guys might know you need kind of jet drive uh propulsion for these types
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of rivers cuz you can get down to to just a couple inches um in some places
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in through July and August and September and uh so that was a that was a tough
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bullet to bite there when I sank that and it uh long story anyway I got caught
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up in a sweeper those John boats are great but they have those kees on the bottom and if you go broadside in fast
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water it just takes that boat and rolls it over and that's what happened exactly yeah that makes sense uh you obviously
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didn't hurt yourself i'm assuming it's funny because it hit so there was a
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snag like a sweeper a birch tree that was growing perfectly horizontal out from a bank uh level with the water
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about 2 ft above and I had the motor had stalled and I I figured I could start it
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again before I hit it and I thought okay if if I hit this this sweeper nothing's going to happen anyway i'll just bounce
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off of it wrong it got caught under the gunnel and it just flipped it within probably three three seconds and uh holy
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crap the funny thing is I was up on top of that birch tree i never got a drop of
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water on me and I just walked off the birch tree onto the bank were you able to get the uh the boat re Did you
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recover the boat [Music]
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yeah perfect place to pause e yeah what happened i wonder if the motor the boat
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would be okay but well maybe not if we get rocks the boat am I back yeah you're back am I back okay um gosh the Starlink
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the only time it's acting up as now so my apologies no worries so boat recovery
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on the accident did you get it back yeah one of the local uh uh hunting guides
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uh like an incredible hunting guide I think for this area um he donated his
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own time uh my neighbors helped out and uh we took his inboard jetboat up the
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river and Lynn looked for it but you couldn't find it it was under just a pile of logs and uh as you guys probably
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know those those jet drive outboards are uh the motor himself are are quite expensive so
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you know there's a lot of money just down the the drain all of a sudden and uh such a fast river I thought it would
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chew the outboard up and uh chew the boat up uh but there was a big rainstorm and the river swelled up about 3 or 4
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feet overnight and it all of a sudden that boat ended up about 7 km down river
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right at the neighbor's prop property the only neighbor on this river wow and uh they called in the hunting guide
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again because I I had kind of been quite stressed out i I'd left for a week to take a week off and then uh they rescued
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it for me while I was away so thanks to them for that and the boat that brand
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new John boat looks about 25 years old now it's got character now right you
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can't be out there with brand new boat you're going to look like those kids who go to a hockey school with brand new
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equipment you know they don't play right so it's like ours at Lumberjack Lodge last year brand new okay we fixed that
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up though didn't we yeah we did how about the motor was the motor okay the
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motor was not okay uh I lost the cowling and it the top of it was shredded it had a couple thousand dollar of damage and
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uh um so that did get repaired uh and I ended up buying a
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actually more of a powerful larger Evanrooude for uh that can handle this river a little better um that's been
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it's an older one so and you know it has that jet dry foot on there and that thing that thing took a beating and and
50:26
I had some issues with that as well but I've just come to realize that there's a reason a lot of people don't live up
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here cuz the river is an absolute killer it's
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a killer but it's also essential right it's got it's got to be
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so important in in the whole homesteading concept that you have this running water somewhere close by that
50:49
you can utilize for I'm sure a number of things um obviously it was important
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enough to you to buy the property that had two pieces of moving water in it
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yeah I mean the potential here if you could get some sort of submersible uh water turbine or a floating turbine or
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something you could have endless hydro power yeah for sure that would be that would be key speaking of hydro power
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what are you doing uh for hydro a generator or solar um so solar for now
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and uh I teamed up with Blue Eddie uh portable solar power company um they've
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been really good uh with me and so I'm kind of promoting their product through some of the videos and uh uh so they've
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sent me all kinds of battery storage and I just I just need to get a few more solar panels to really uh get adequate
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amount of power but uh at the end of the day I'm not using all that much power but they're great for power tools um you
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know I guess I'll have some cute LED lights set up and that kind of thing in the future but uh maybe a a chest
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freezer would be good for fish and wild game yeah yeah for sure i got a question for you you're Northern
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Ontario boy and Vulva you'll love this question are the bugs worse in Northern Ontario or are they worse where you're
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sitting right now um the mosquitoes cuz I I spent 5 years as a student working in the north end of
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Alangquin Park uh and and I do remember getting chewed up real bad um you know
52:19
you're covered in uh blood spots and everything uh and up around Madawan that
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northern boundary of Alangquin was just on another level but uh the mosquitoes are probably more aggressive they're a
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little bit more docile
52:41
dean's writing all these time codes down be a bit of editing on this one dino
52:49
is that Yeah one second it's coming back there we are we're We're just advised for you
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to move closer to the router is that a try that yeah let's try that
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um so the uh should I wait to talk or should I keep going here yeah we'll we'll pick it
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up on you just go ahead and start here let's go right down to the water
53:20
here um I I overall I think Northern Ontario the bugs are probably worse cuz you have the blackflies there and
53:26
there's no blackflies out here ah that's a bonus right yeah yeah so just mosquitoes what about deer flies and
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horse flies do they have those out there or no yes in some some places yes
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uh and other places no but uh overall there was one year here about 5 years
53:46
ago uh I had a previous property that wasn't nearly as cool as this one um
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uh uh the bugs the mosquitoes were were so insane but uh the locals say they'd
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never seen anything like it uh the old-timers said in it's probably the worst they've seen it in 50 years but
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other than that uh I've only seen the deer flies and horse flies in a few other parts of the province okay so
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lucky in that one anyways you're imagine when you're living out there like that that's it's got to be part of it right
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gez you know huge yeah yeah i'd say northern Ontario is worse um I can't speak for the uh
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southern Ontario part but yeah up up around the Madawa uh Tiskmang region for sure not good so Sean what's the end
54:31
goal here what What are you uh building towards oh uh that's another great question oh
54:39
I'm full of them buddy i am full of them i I don't know to be honest
54:45
um maybe to to uh get super famous on YouTube and attract like a 10 out of 10
54:50
model and uh get married i guess raise some youngans right there on the homestead yeah that would be great let
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us know how that works out for you and we might and I might build a double apartment out there too beside you
55:06
i think uh but in all seriousness um I don't know uh I I'd like to just give it
55:12
a go for take it year by year and uh I think the main goal was can I make a
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living uh on YouTube uh when I discovered yeah you can make some money
55:22
on this YouTube thing and then um uh so I also just to test myself and uh
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I'm going to keep at it and I'm enjoying it and uh I'm enjoying the YouTube process uh it's and then there's the
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building process as well and uh um lots to learn i've never been a hardcore
55:44
hunter uh but I have to wrap my head around that a little bit more um for
55:49
sure so there's there's that aspect of uh getting your own wild game not depending on the grocery store
55:57
um yeah so and then the fishing i haven't got a chance to do a lot of fishing last year but this year with the
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building aspect of things winding down I'll be able to really uh slay some of the bull trout here uh because there's a
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lot of bull trout in this river nice catch and release for the bull trout i could see Dean being doing this right
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here i could see Dino doing this homesteading and and all that no you don't think so yes yes if anybody we
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know it could be Dean I could just hear Dean just saying piss on and I'm gone everybody i'm gone i don't know i think
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so especially we found out you get a hot model living with you out there then I could totally see it then yeah now we're
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talking uh biggest challenge so far what's been the one thing that you said "Oh my god."
56:46
Um definitely the uh the boat sinking was one of them but but you kind of come
56:51
out stronger and you know it was a lesson well learned uh it was avoidable
56:57
uh preventable kind of situation but it it did happen very quickly um yeah and I think that has to
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rank up there for sure the uh the change of social life was a tough one still is sometimes u but uh like I say it's a
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tradeoff and the winter I thought would be grueling but it was actually kind of
57:19
comfortable i sort of enjoyed it and when things freeze over you can kind of travel a little better as well that's a
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good point too is it that's interesting as long as you keep warm i guess that's uh traveling traveling on hard surfaces
57:33
rather than mud and trees and limbs and all that stuff would be much better yeah
57:38
learned a lot about um cuz I was never much of a mechanic the carpentry background was pretty good but the
57:44
mechanic side of things was never great so learned a lot on uh internal combustion engines outboards chainsaws
57:51
uh you name it so uh snowmobiles and uh um bit by bit learning more and uh like
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I say just the amount of uh knowledge I've been able to learn in the last year
58:03
and on not only that just like the editing of the videos and you're kind of pushing a creative endeavor uh each time
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you're getting a little better with each new video it's you're learning something new so especially when you do it in the
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van in front of the cafe there are people that's right yeah
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excuse me sir what are you up to oh I've got to get a room here in a minute i just got to get organized here i got to be done in about 3 4 days i'm I'm good
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anyways uh tell folks how they can uh join you and watch and follow you
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yeah uh one second here guys and I'm just going to Oh there we go okay i'm getting low
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on battery here so um uh yeah they can check me out on if
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anyone wants to check out the channel go to Cabin River Outdoors on on YouTube uh I've just started uh Instagram i don't
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really even understand how that Instagram thing works so I'm just starting to uh put photos on there and
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whatnot it It didn't take you long to figure out YouTube that's for sure you got 72,000 subscribers which is fantastic
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and 7.5 million views i think you got it figured out buddy all right doing all
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right yeah i'm I'm glad you guys have been able to tap into uh uh this sort of
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content for your own podcast uh cuz there's a lot of great channels out there for sure um with everyone has a
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really interesting story uh for anyone who's been doing this for any amount of time it to the audience listening right
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now and watching right now you even if you're not interested at all about this stuff once you watch one or two videos
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it's like a good series you just got to watch the next one and you got to watch you got to follow these guys because they're doing a lifechanging you know
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move and it's to build to live and it's it's pretty cool it's actually neat to watch and the commonality uh with all of
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them is that they are wonderful characters cuz you have to be in order to do what you do you have to have a lot
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of character Yeah yeah for sure hat hats off to you brother um we'll keep uh checking up
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with you see how you're making out and uh get you back on the program here uh
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in a few months and see where where we're at yeah I would love that guys um
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appreciate everything you do and uh love listening to your podcast so uh I'd be glad to join you guys again i'll you
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know where to find me i'll be out here all right brother okay buddy take care thanks John wow you know that's cool we
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all have those moments in life where you you say "Yes
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I want to grasp that ring i want to go out there and I want to be the dude who
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lives off the land totally independent you know and then and then you listen to this and you
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watch this maybe not i don't mind my house right in the middle of the city right now." Exactly and it's not so bad
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i'll pay that mortgage just as long as I can get by you have to be a very special individual and all of them are that that
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do this and it's it's just an incredible life experience that very few
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people certainly in this century um will ever get a chance to really experience
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what it's like to immerse yourself in total wilderness total and be dependent
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just on you you you'd be better at building the cabin than I would i know that for a fact you're pretty handy with
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the woodworking and stuff like that not I'm not really [ __ ] at all that stuff i think if you and I got caught out in
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those conditions we'd survive it we put the booth together pretty well at the sportsman yes yes Dean there is that too
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you know we Good one Dean yeah I'm pretty good you forget i'm pretty good at that stuff we forget that's a prefab
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bud i don't think there's prefabs out there to be honest with you anyways that's Sean Tredell uh check him out
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great channel uh some interesting videos and more to come obviously he's putting them up every week there's going to be
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just an incredible amount of uh Yeah stimulating entertainment there for all
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well that was uh that was great um do we have Dean have I got some oh here it is here it is thank you
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uh this week's special code for the contest for on
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fishingcanada.com by the way uh the muchly anticipated bonus code is cabin
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imagine that cabin that works there's a lot of imagination went in there i'll tell you i know i like that c A B I N
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all capital letters uh you just take that baby and you put it into the special bonus section on the contest
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page and you will get yourself 10 free bonus entries that's a good deal i like
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that that's a great deal cost you nothing just put in the word cabin and uh you're good to go come on now uh if
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you haven't entered then uh Woohoo boy oh boy oh boy boy I don't know i think I heard the boys talking about yet another
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Garmin unit going up right now yeah we just put a Garmin up another Garmin fish finder wow yeah we're like we're like
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radio world here only we give it away okay a lot less money a lot less money
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like none anyways head on over to fishingcan.com go to the uh contest section of the site
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and uh enter often enter every day you can enter every 24-hour period I believe
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right i believe so that's right yep that's right uh and of course the more entries you have the better your chances
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of winning going home now that's it i'm done i'm burned out yep you going home that guy
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got me all I'm I'm fatigued you watch him lifting that wall when you watch him lift Oh buddy it's the
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funniest thing and you want to talk about fatigued and frustrated and determined he's good at that it was It
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was very interesting on behalf of the entire crew uh Boba uh Nick is not here
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dean he's not feeling well come on now Nick you going He seemed looked good this morning i thought he seemed a bit
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off did he yeah him and he's he said last night he got into He came in to spread it and then left yeah exactly
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well that's brilliant that's pretty smart well that's typical of a 22-year-old you know i see he was the first one in today actually I forgot i
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wanted to give him a I was going to get one of those red stars you know those red stars from from school that used to
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get in the I don't know that I never got many of them i saw a lot of them i saw a lot of you and I remember those guys i
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saw everybody else getting them the hell's that [ __ ] wow so I give him a nice red star and put around his desk
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cuz I saw he was the first one in this one so wow congratulations Nikki wow nikki even if you're not here got you
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got a good three hours in today good man exactly good man they took that story right off your desk right there he's
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Dean Taylor who's going to be doing a lot of editing moment he's in for some work on this one yeah uh Peter Bowman
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