-- I take my dog Scout to the local woods, find all the materials for friction fire, cook up some eggs, and talk about how it was growing up without a dad, while being interested in the outdoors. Hope you all enjoy.
Well, good morning folks. Old Scooter and I are out in the woods today,
just making our way over to the actual forest proper,
just getting covered in burrs. Oh my goodness, covered in burrs.
The dog's covered too. I can smell this bergamot right here.
Very, oh, very pretty. It's a nice day. Go on big guy.
It's a nice day. I'm glad to be out here.
It's been a while since I've been to this spot specifically.
Look at this stuff. I don't know what this is.
is actually. What is that?
It's a different kind of plant.
I've been coming to this place
for years. Spring, winter, fall, summer for, I don't know, 10 years.
I've never seen that
plant. I've literally walked by that spot 100 times.
Crazy. Anyways, today I'm going
to attempt to light a fire with a bow drill.
I'm going to cook up some eggs. I'm going
to sit and have a little chat with you guys.
Unending. Don't go into the long grass. Not
Into the long grass!
Okay, this is a relief.
We're not into the actual proper forest yet,
but I need to get out of that grass, man.
Do you see this?
Do you see this?
Look
at this.
Two seconds, probably literally five minutes walking
in there, and I am just covered in burrs.
I can't imagine the dog.
Get over here, Scout.
Come here, big guy.
Come here, bud.
Oh my goodness, your tail.
Oh, look at this.
Look at this.
That's never gonna come out.
Oh no.
You're gonna be in for a good brushing
when we get home there, big guy.
Oh man, he can't handle it either,
look at him.
You'll
be all right,
on we go.
I'm really hoping that the ticks have slowed down
for the year, because if not, look what we're walking in.
Watch where you're going, big guy.
This is tick haven here, obviously, so yeah.
Hoping that they're done for the year.
Man, I'm covered in crap.
I'm finally out of that nonsense and into the woods.
My little oasis.
Oh man, Wonderwall.
All right, time to get rid of all this burrs and nonsense.
I actually worked up a pretty good sweat
walking through there.
It's nice and chilly this morning.
It feels like one of the actual first real mornings of fall,
but the sun's beating down out in the open there.
I'm trying to claw my way through the tall grass.
Okay, poor old Scout's gonna spend the rest of the day
picking
burrs out
of himself.
Well, I'm happy to be using my DayRock from Malcolm today.
I haven't been able to use this in quite a while.
I've just been doing, like, bigger trips where I need
a big backpack and stuff like that.
But now that I'm doing fall and I'm able to come to the woods
and spend days out with my buddy,
I'll start to pack this again.
So what I have in my bag today...
What do I have in my bag, Skate?
I've got a little eye gunk.
He's got a little eye gunk.
Go get that eye, eh?
What kind of accent is that?
It's like a bastardized accent.
All right, so I got my dog with burrs got
my heavy cover can't no heavy cover fry pan
I just messed up the handle on there. We go.
I have your titanium fry frying pan
I'm gonna use that in conjunction with
Some butter.
I'm gonna fry up two eggs
I just actually normally I wrap them up
and put them inside my cook kit and all that
But I just cut the the carton works fine. They didn't break.
I didn't walk in far maybe 20 minutes tops
Then I've got an English muffin, a whole grain English muffin.
So butter up my pan, butter up the English muffins.
I'll fry up the eggs, and then I'll toast
the English muffins on a fire.
I'm going to make a little sandwich.
I've got my old camera with my 35mm lens on there,
so I can take some nice bokeh shots.
That's not a bad picture.
Anyways, some nice F1.8 shots, just B-roll.
and then i've got my small tripod that i'll use
that on not much really i got my gonboy my silky
gonboy a piece of paracord for my bow
for the bow drill little lens cloth for my um camera sit pad
original blue foam pad uh what else i got
on the side here
my heavy cover canteen with and my lid
really like to use this when i can what up chris
shout out chris heavy cover all right so that's
that side and then on this side got
my little well specialized pouch with extra batteries for
my dslr and a pretty cool little bow drill
um bearing block from the lone woodsman and it's
it's leather and this guy's just got a little hole with a bearing
and he's got his pretty cool
uh lone woodsman logo on there
but that bearing it's like a cheater thing right so it spins super
quick there's gonna be no friction on the top
when i'm when i'm bowing so yeah pretty cool if
you are going to bring any parts of the bow drill
with you might as well make it useful right like
i can bring an antler but what's the difference than bringing
this rather than finding something
on the ground i can find something on the ground too
and i've done that multiple times but i haven't
used this thought i'd like to use
this so Lone Woodsman bearing block socket dealy that's it
i actually took the straps off the bottom
because i don't want them flopping around
i didn't want to roll them up either
so they're removable i'll put those back on i plan on using
this backpack with the wool blanket soon go to an overnighter
or maybe a 48 hour bushcraft camp
kind of thing but um yeah
so that'll be the the bag at its most capacity this is probably at its
least capacity i haven't put you need to bring
this bag really i could have got away with a
smaller backpack but here we are so what we need
to do now what i want to go do is find some
trembling aspen or find some cottonwood
the trembling aspen is good to use because it's about
wrist thick and it's straight
and i can just saw it down real easy there's a lot of dead standing over
here i know exactly where they are the cottonwood works better
as a friction fire wood but it's
denser and it's harder to find dead
and it might not be a straight grain but none of that matters
we'll go out we'll look for aspen
or cottonwood whatever one looks better we'll get a bearing
sorry we'll get a oh two blue jays um we'll get
a uh tinder bundle we'll get some firewood bow
all the fun stuff we'll get that bow drill fire going i'm
not going to go too too uh deep into it
you guys see me do that a hundred times
but uh yeah we'll go do that seems like that kind of day
i haven't done that in a long time
so this goat's still picking
the burrs out of himself and before
i forget i do have my knife on me as well i always forget
to say that because it's on my belt and um
I do have fire steel but bow drill,
bow drill time. This is good.
This could potentially be
part of my tinder bundle.
The only downfall is it's on the ground but do you see how fluffy that
is? How fibrous that is? So very very fibrous
and that will go well in the tinder bundle. So that's
going to go right in my pocket
while we're walking around looking for good materials. That can even
be added. That can't be a tinder bundle by itself
but it can be added to things like fluffed up
cedar bark or a phragmites head
or something like that on we go here you can see the stand of
trembling aspen i was talking about all very white
all very straight grain and i see a dead one right
in the middle there's
that dead one i was talking about
but i see a couple behind it that are even
smaller i guess i'm taking this one anyway came
down pretty easy that's just all those leaves up
there is just a vine
that's wrapped around
it go back scout nice
and solid anyway
that should do
pretty good. Watch out, buddy.
I'm going to cut
off a big chunk of it right now.
Watch out, scout.
Son of a gun.
Get out of here, buddy.
He picked up that stick.
Something bumped me in the nose. Okay, yeah, I'm here.
I'm here again. Here's
my plane.
My nose. My big old nose. You know, if it
wasn't so big, I probably could have avoided that.
Take another big length off of here, so I'll
Take two big lengths back with me.
This should be more than enough.
This is actually hung up in the tree, too,
which is better than laying on the ground,
so I can come back for it if I need it.
But these two chunks should be enough for my bow drill kit.
Oh, my goodness, Scout.
And my fuel.
Dude, you want to take this one?
Here. Good boy.
Don't hit my camera.
Oh, don't hit my camera.
There you go.
Crazy, crazy dog.
Go on. Get your stick. I'm coming.
No, get yours. Get yours.
he knows exactly where to go
and he's gone good boy he's all
the way in the woods already oh what
a good dog what are you doing where's
your stick go go get it get your stick and bring it here
go on can't be doing
your job halfway there bud thank
you drop it thank you good boy nope
good dog
and he's up okay you know how i've told you wood
before gets this like decay on the outside
sometimes but it still means it's good
on the inside that's usually only with harder wood
but this aspen seems to be no leave it Skye
this one's mine seems to be very old and it's done that
and on the inside back up back up thank you
on the inside it's super dense
and it's dry dry dry
i can tell it's super dry so leave me buddy
so i got my my workings for a bow you can't have that
i got my pieces for my kit no but i still haven't got
my tinder bundle man i can't keep them off this
go get your own stick go get your stick go get
your stick go get your stick he's all amped up
good boy anyways i'm gonna cut this i'm gonna get my my spindle
and my uh my hearth board out of
this and we'll worry about
the tinder bundle later this log
is old and spongy not the greatest to
baton on top of but it'll work fine very clean
wood very white wood yeah this should work very
well smells like a aspen all right so i need
to keep one of these as my hearth one of these make
into my spindle. I'm going to keep the thicker one.
I'm going to keep this one for my hearth.
Then I'll make this one into my spindle.
I'm going to get rid of the rotty little decayed
part on the outside. I don't want to carve down
my spindle from this size. It's a very big size
to carve from. So I'm going to take off.
I'm going to leave the middle because it'll be the driest.
I'm going to take off each side. There's the middle,
that line going up in the middle of the
dark that's the middle of the piece of wood
so you can see it's kind of broken
off not not very straight but that's fine
so I'm gonna take off another side
on this side of it keep that that'll be
good kindling and then take off some of
the back so the tops not the work
not the biggest anymore it's pretty good but
the bottom
because I've been toning like this and it's not been splitting
straight down has stayed fat
so we're gonna take off some of the bottom and
some of the back you don't want
to get it too skinny now obviously because you
once it's too skinny you're not putting wood back onto it
to make your your spindle but we got lots
of room to play with here yeah
that's good and dry when you
when you see me doing that putting
the wood to my lips there i'm not really smelling it all
the time i'm feeling for moisture so you
just kind of touch it to your lip
and when the wood is wet you'll feel it in your lip the moisture
in your lip it'll kind of just stay with you a little bit
but anyway so got a decent size piece
of wood i have to shave down to my spindle now
but before i do that i want to make this part
into a hearth what i want to do to make this into a hearth is make
or baseboard whatever you want to
call it is make this about i don't know half an inch wide
or thick so what i'm going to do is
baton off some of that side again
and that came up pretty decent i might even be able to leave it
that thick there decent i'm gonna carve
this into a spindle i'll
be right back with you damn you
hear my stomach super hungry i cook
these eggs up okay what i ended up doing with my spindle
is i kept it super fat but i carved down
the ends really uh fine so you don't need to have your
whole spindle skinny going all the way down
if if the end of it is skinny man i really don't know
how to work this thing i see people doing this all
the time block my face so the other thing
comes in focus just look like a fool going like
this all the time now um anyways anyways the
whole skin spindle is not skinny just the the tip is which is fine
and then the top fits perfectly
fits perfectly in the bearing so that's good i
think this will work i have high hopes on this
one oh man i'm starving it's always
a gamble right especially i haven't done it forever
last time i did try it i failed anyway
so this baseboard is basically done my foot there yeah
i don't have to worry about this baseboard too much just make
a little divot what i do what i
do need to do now
is make my bow
with my paracord
and get a tinder
bundle she's
on there locked on
there pretty good with the uh the burnt end
of the paracord holding it on as the bow is a bit
on the short side i normally like them to be to the end
of my hand from my armpit but it's close
enough so then this side's just got to be cut
and spliced in there like
that you want to line them
up to i'm gonna make sure that the end like down here
is lined up straight with how this would be
i'll be right there so get a rough idea right
there this is dangerous be careful doing this
i've cut my my thumb very badly doing this before
these silkies are you want to pull to cut on the
pull so there's no sense in pushing
especially doing this once it's
in there you don't want to
go too deep and you don't want to run off
to the side either you want to try and keep
relatively straight in the middle
and deep enough that you can slide the paracord in
twice once on top
of each other you know it
just comes to tightening it
then i'm gonna go in that
silky saw makes a small slit
when i'm testing how wide it needs
to be or how how taut it needs to
be like to take the spindle set it in there for like
a practice run and that's really tight that's
too tight she's in there that thing
is tensioned like crazy i'm gonna loosen it up a bit and call
it good actually i might even leave it in there now like
that i might even just leave it like that
and get it in no problem so i just kind of wrap the extra around
and then usually i tuck it back
in the slit but i don't know if that's gonna
be possible on this one yeah okay it's in there so
there we're good to go we're almost uh ready you
just need actually i can even burn in before i go
get my tinder bundle that's what i'll do i'll burn
in burn my hole in and go get my tinder bundle
while i'm waiting i'll give my arm a break
but bam son why do you want my stuff so bad bro
here let me get let me hook you up let me hook you up
with a little deburring action he hates
me brushing his tail and his tail is like
a rat tail right now do this hold on hold on burn in
all right so
again we're just
burning in here
not trying to go
for the coal
yet nice it's
a perfect
burning very charred not glazed just want
to cut the notch now it's gonna be
really easy it's kind of
make a little pie looking
thing and go to town you
don't really want to ever
do this on your lap slip through and cut yourself
pretty good it's the first instinct to do it that way
because you get so much
leverage away from your body is definitely maybe the way to be doing it
there you go
alright so I
just want to
grab some dead
grass pretty fine stuff pretty dead stuff we'll use
that as the outer part
of my bundle I'm going to use that stuff remember
that stuff we grabbed earlier
off the ground well you can tell it's
pretty dry it's dusting from like in my
pocket so now the fact
that it's like giving off dust tells me it's pretty dry
I'm gonna fluff that up as much
as possible very very very fibrous and now
that's gonna go inside the bundle there
and I've got shavings from making the
spindle and stuff those are gonna like hold
on the outside so that when I blow
put it down and start blowing on it if I
am blowing on it still those are gonna
catch so anyways that's that's
a good bundle I have no no worries about this
bundle not working
so all we got to do now is produce a good coal actually and
all we got to do now is produce a good coal
and get some kindling ready because
we don't want to have this fire going
with nothing to put on it because once
it starts
going it's
going right
right even
those super
ugly big
curls will
help things like this will help batten down this piece
and use this I wonder if
I can just that's
not bottom pieces of wood
but working on it's too soft I
don't know if I
could split it with
this wood wedge all
right let's batten it
like normal batten down the hatches Baton Rouge
Louisiana so you
can have that one
okay we're going
for the coal
now I've got my
leaf underneath my burn hole I think I'll
be able to get it right on this
try it's
good it's
real good
see how
it's still
smoking
it's a super
good sign
all the
camera's
still on nice okay notice how i'm not rushing i need
to be able to breathe i need to be able to
blow into the tinder bundle
as well i'm going to transfer this
into my tinder bundle carefully
nice pretty
good guys
pretty
happy with
that one
okay now i
can breathe
that was
my first
successful bow drill firing quite some time i might have
to give this some air here she didn't
look like she's going too good i really should
have put a platform down first but i didn't i
didn't this is this is gonna
go i'm not worried about
that well i'm gonna let
that burn down to
coals now i only have the trembling aspen on there
and a little bit of some oak twigs but thin oak
twigs they'll burn down pretty quick
then i'm gonna cook up my eggs my eggs for mr scooter like
i said so how'd you guys enjoy that canoe trip video i had
a really good time doing it there's a
a lot of fun i'm trying to uh trying
to break up these these trips like next trip
i go on this is just in in between like
an in-between trip video here the next trip i go
on i'm not going to do the whole canoe tripping thing even
if i use my canoe to get into a certain
spot like a wilderness area i'm not going to focus on canoeing
and moving every day and stuff like
that i'm going to focus on like a bushcraft style hangout
in a specific spot for for a night or two
or whatever and maybe even fish for my dinner
or whatever but not make that a huge focus
of the video excuse me just to kind
of break it up like i said i've been doing canoe trip videos
i only really did two real big ones this year
but anyways that's my plan that's my plan for
the next video will be like in a remote setting
not around my house i'm going to drive like seven
hours to get there um probably canoe in and then
not even show the canoe really much the coals are
are almost getting there i gotta prepare my stuff
so i've got like i said i've gotta melt my butter
can you back up i'll give you an egg i promise just back up
for now let's go dude that's the
problem with spoiling your dog man he never used
to be like this he never even would care about
food at all but now he does because he's spoiled
spoiled little shepherdy guy holding up for my
butter is actually hard it's been a while since
that all right melt up this butter i gotta actually
Before I even start doing that,
I gotta try to toast this at the same time.
I think those coals, like I said, aren't going to last for long.
And it's very, very, very windy right now.
They're going to burn out even quicker.
Better to burn out than fade away, right?
Foodstuffs.
Don't want no leaf litter.
No leaf litter.
English muffin.
I was watching Bushcraft Heroes live stream
and he said leaf litter.
It was just so funny to me.
leaf litter not making fun of him
at all i just i like i like the way he said it so i
i even messaged him in the in the chat say
leaf litter again he's like leaf litter
those guys are cool guys i like them a lot bow
and matt bow and matt i believe matt and bow
and ruben ruben the canadian all right she's hot
as you can see ridiculously hot
Nope, Scout,
you can have
a broken yoke,
broken yolk dog.
Oh yeah, I definitely didn't bring a spatula
to flip these with, so we're gonna try
and do the old fliparoo, hopefully,
the old
precarious
flip.
There is a decent amount
of butter in there.
I don't think my English muffins
are getting toasted up too good.
Okay, we had some technical difficulties.
I broke Scout's and then I broke mine.
So Scout's is here on this plastic baggie,
almost fully cooked, but he's fine with that, I'm sure.
And I have waited too long to do this and messed my own up too now.
So, yeah, just, you know, the follies of being Joe, but whatever.
Got to get this flipped over, put together in some sort of thing,
and put on my sandwich.
I might make scrambled eggs now, I guess.
Oh, Joe.
Okay, anyways, let that solidify.
Put that on my English muffin and color sandwich.
That's for you.
Good boy.
Is that good?
Here, get too hot.
Oh the big boy here eat it eat it
She's done. I got a little little char
on my English muffin, too
He's got a scoop this in somehow. It's not so bad
Been using this knife for everything since I got it
probably have to sharpen it up today after scraping
on this titanium so much
But whatever why not have why have tools if you're not gonna use them
Why bring a spatula when you could use your knife in the woods, right?
Okay, you don't have to bring a spatula, I could use a freaking piece of wood
but there we go, little messy fried egg sandwich slide around
in there buttery eggy goodness oh
i forgot to have butter too
extra butter for it, that right
in there and on the back of it
extra greasy perfect cheers
guys very good very very good
that's
not for you buddy you already
had yours go lay down buddy come
on lay down good boy so i was just
thinking normally i burn this
burn my bow drill sets the ones i make out here
but maybe somebody would like it you know what
i'll even send them the bearing block too i think
that if you are a person who who wants to learn
the bow drill and you haven't been able to you haven't
been able to get it you don't know what
kind of wood to use or whatever maybe
who cares whoever even if you do know how to do the bow
drill but maybe maybe if you do know how already don't enter i'm
not gonna tell you you can't no
big deal um yeah maybe if you can't find the right wood
or just almost there or whatever if you
think that you can get it with just this a proven set
then throw a little thing in the comments that
i'm in for the bow drill kit
and i'll pick a winner in in a week and i'll send it to you i'm
not gonna make a full video
or anything maybe i'll do an update on the next video maybe but i'm
definitely not going to do a specific response video like Timmy
from out west won the bow drill
kit video you know what i'm saying
so i'll send the hearth board with the notch and the hole already in
with this already matched up you literally wouldn't have
to do anything to the to anything
except for put that in there and spin it
and that hole will last another two or three burns maybe
but you know this is a proven set you saw it
collected you saw it work right anyways i'll
send the hearth the spindle the bearing block i won't send the bow
because you can make your own
bow obviously but i'll send you the paracord i'll send you
the paracord and uh to make the bow the
way that i do it you can make the bow however you want
but if again if this is for somebody who
needs a little bit of help
cut a stick with a Y branch
you only have to tie a knot
literally you can slide this
loop over something that fits on it
or something that fits over
like a Y branch
then you just cut the bottom of the bow
do exactly what I showed you earlier on
in the video, I would really like this
to go to somebody who needs
just a little push, who's almost there
you know what I mean, who just needs that
proven set or whatever, anyways
so i'll send you a paracord
the whole kit again just put like i'm in for the bow drill kit
oh this is good good day
a little chilly i've been
getting lots of emails
lately messages and
stuff saying how my videos have helped people
or brought people closer together helped them
through a hard time and stuff
and i just want to i don't want to single anyone out but i want to
thank you all for those emails it's cool it's cool hearing
that this has become more than just
a hobby it's like a passion for people you know it's becoming more
and more popular not just
watching my videos but going i don't even mean watching
my videos i mean going out and doing
these things and people who can't physically go out
and do these things who are watching
yeah it's it's very cool it's very cool to hear
so it's um it's uplifting it's it's giving me
it's rejuvenating me as well you know i've
been doing this for a long time a whole long time
This is still but I'm super lucky you guys like it.
I don't even realize it how lucky I am
I don't have to go to work. I don't have
to go to the nine-to-five job every day
It's crazy, and I'm thankful for that.
I'm thankful that people are taking this seriously now
I used to be ashamed
I used to be embarrassed when I'd say I had a YouTube channel
I had a job you know I mean back
in the day working nine-to-five every day
But had a YouTube channel on the side
and it was embarrassing. It was weird. What do you do?
Oh, I'm a grown-ass man, and I run around in the woods. I film myself
solve you know what I mean but now it's like it's
a profession it's become it's become something so
I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't
for you guys I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't for
YouTube this is this is something else
but I am happy
that it's changing people I'm happy that
it's giving people a new perspective as well
as as well as me getting a new perspective when people
are emailing me and telling me these things very cool I keep saying
so at the end of whatever
whatever i'm saying so like
doug so they rubbed off doug
so i grew up without
a dad my father's
name is jerry my biological dad's name is jerry him
and my mom were together when they were younger
they used to party and whatnot my mom got pregnant
and that was it she nipped it in the bud she
became a christian she stopped partying i never heard
my mom swear smoke drink none of that stuff
my whole life but jerry my father he uh he couldn't quit drinking
so that was it he uh he was out of
my life. I never knew him. I think I got
a couple presents from him when I was a kid,
like young, two years old, but I never knew him.
I never remembered him. I never knew
him. I had one picture of me and him together
when I was like maybe four or something like
that, dressed up as cowboys, maybe three.
But yeah, it sucked, man. I always felt like
I was missing out on something big in my life.
I really had like a void, like this emptiness
I felt a lot. My mom would take me camping and things like that.
She married a guy, a
good guy Ron when I was six
and Ron was became my dad I called him dad and I had
a brother and sister after they got married
so my brother and sister were
Ron's and so we're only half brother
and sister but we never say that or anything
we're just brothers brothers
and sisters it's what we are they're young my
brother's ten years younger than me
my sister's eight years younger than me so
I never really was close to them growing up I
was more you know how it is just
put off annoyed by them i had to babysit all the time
and stuff that's what it was but but ron was
a good guy he uh he just wasn't very vocal he was very very quiet
and my mom couldn't they didn't
get along after a while so they split up maybe
when my brother and sister were older i don't
know how i was in high school
so they must have been together for 10 years or something like that
but getting into this you know a lot of the guys
that i hang out with a lot of the guys that i
watch whatever they think
their dad taught them you know i mean they shoot they hunt they're men
they know how to clean a deer i don't know how
to do any of that stuff i was never shown i was never
taught still uh and now yeah we're in this we're
in this genre i'm in this genre i'm one of the
top in this genre on youtube at least
and um i never had a dad i never had anyone to show me
this stuff so i always growing up i always like latched on to even
when i was older even even
when i was on bushcraft usa like maybe eight years
ago six years ago i i just like thrived and craved
the like adult male role model attention
and like the attaboys you know what i mean like it's the
truth i'm being completely honest with you guys
when terry barney iowa woodsman on there would
give me like a thumbs up or that strong work
or whatever i was just like oh man this is great you
know what I mean? Like I felt good.
I met my biological father.
Can you hear that? You
understand why I need to get out of the city
to shoot a wilderness video? I met my biological
father when I had emeralds.
Emeralds six-ish, so six-ish years ago. I moved into my house
a while back and ended up meeting my cousins
who lived around the corner, my biological
cousins, and we got talking and stuff.
They set up a meeting with my dad and he came over.
no i went over to meet visit him at noon
and he was already drunk and it was kind of still
still an alcoholic it was just such a turn off such
a such a put off i needed closure a like it
i needed closure and i thought i thought i was i
was ready to have this guy in my life i was ready
to have have a dad you know what i mean
um but yeah drunk right off the hop at 12 o'clock noon
just man just a shell of a man honestly nothing
that i i wanted to to be associated with really
but then we had emerald
and we invited him over for he's a grandpa you know i mean biologically
but even just him holding her on the couch i
was so scared man he's drunk you know i mean so it's
just kind of got rid of that now too haven't haven't talked
to him in five years maybe i don't
have any desire to anymore it's just not something i'm looking
for it's not something that i feel i
need anymore but i do want to say to the people
who who don't have fathers or to to the guys who
are raising kids now who didn't have a father
and stuff you know what it's like um i'm never
gonna leave my kid ever even if i divorce my wife
which i highly doubt that's gonna happen
i got a freaking i got a good one
but um i'll never be out of her life i'll never be out of
emerald's life i'll fight for you know it wouldn't even come
to that we would have we would have
50 50 you know i mean that's just how it would be i know it
but man don't leave your kids don't
leave your kids and on a plus
side look at me look how good I
turned out you can you can I felt
like I needed a dad to be able to be an outdoors
and I felt like I needed to be shown the way by
that but I learned I learned a lot on my own I learned
a lot through mentors like Terry Barney
from Turley my buddy Ken Doug Sean later on even just
not even about how to how to be in the woods
about how to conduct yourself as a man that's the most important thing
and my mom my mom was great
my mom was just a saint and she still is and i love her to death
and she's she's done everything
for me and my brother my sister
and she's got a new husband not a new husband they've been married
10 10 years at least now joe and he's a good guy
and i'm glad they're together yeah i don't know
why i started talking about that or where i went
with that i hope somebody got something out of it
though it's funny man you come to the woods
for a little bit just to get a little a little little
refresher you know what I mean
and you get all these epiphanies and all these
these things you should talk about
or think about okay I think I'm done I
think I'm done for today I think
I'm gonna take Scout back home work on this video
a bit and yeah it's Saturday
so my wife is my wife and kid are at a birthday
party they won't
be there too long we have supper together tonight it's a good
day I feel good planning
and planning my next trip I expect to see that soon
expect expect to see lots from me I'm
on my grind back on my grind you know I
I gotta get back on the ball.
My last video, I put up that video last night,
the second part to my canoe trip video,
and it got 35,000 views overnight.
And listen, don't tell me to relax about the views
and that I should be happy with 35,000 views
and all this nonsense.
I'm not happy with 35,000 views overnight.
I wanna be back to 100,000 views overnight.
I wanna be back on top.
I wanna be back making the greatest videos on YouTube
in the outdoor community.
want to have tons of subscriptions and tons of views
and tons of likes so that's my goal i'm
getting back on there it was a lot of the the season timing
and the seasons and me losing a
little bit of lackluster there
but uh yeah real talk real talk all right i've said goodbye like
five times 15 times goodbye thanks
for watching i'll see you in the next one i appreciate it
from my family to yours
who's that who's that guy we haven't talked about that guy i've never
talked about that guy that guy's not really much now
is he anymore all right guys thanks