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The team at Froggy Bottom Outdoors is excited to get to know you and will be glad to answer any questions you may have. Now hit the record button because now it sounds good. It does sound a lot better. What did you do different? Nothing. So on a serious note, I think it's the bandwidth of my internet and your internet can't handle two people on Facebook Live at the same time. I don't know what's going on. There we go. Jeremy Shaddy says both sound good now.
Hey, I want to just speak of Jeremy Shaddy. I want to say that, you know, I listened to that podcast that he was on here last week with him and Big Jude, Judas Bowling. And if you guys haven't had a chance to listen to that podcast, boys, you need to slide over there.
Even if you're not a coon hunter, Big Jude Bowling, I mean, he is the definition of a fighter and that podcast that all those guys did were, you know, Shaddy got on there, Kyle Short, Greg Manner, everybody that got on there, that was good. A big congratulations to Big Jude for being inducted in the peak of all of fame. Big shout out. Go on over if you're listening to this.
If you're on our Facebook page right now and you're a coon hunter, they are having a Big Jude Memorial Hunt PKC Pro Classic. I think it's like a $200 hunt this week, this Saturday up there at his house. Yeah. So and I believe that the winners get their entry fee back and the rest of the money goes back to Big Jude. So that's an awesome thing that people are doing. Also shout out to Michael Mitchell. He's got a pump. Jeremy Shaddy said this Friday. Oh, is it this Friday?
Sorry about that, Jeremy. But Michael Mitchell has got a raffle going all the proceeds go to Big Jude too. So just remember that. Remember Big Jude in your prayers. Make sure you say a prayer for him. We're all fighting for him. We're all praying that he just continues fighting and that he beats this. Yep. All right. Well, while we're on that, a big shout out to Mr. Eric Piot. Yes. I want to make sure that we send our condolences to him and our prayers that he keeps fighting what he's fighting.
I think the whole coon hunting world was kind of shocked when they heard it. So kind of down the same, you know, same rabbit hole. Here we go. You know, it's a shame and it's sad, but that this is the time where we all got to band together, whether you're a coon hunter, doesn't matter. Just band together, show them the love that they deserve and that they need and show them that we're here to support them. Yeah, absolutely. So Caleb McDonald just joined. He's watching guys.
We just had Caleb on the podcast last week. If you guys haven't heard it, you need to go back over and check it out after this is over on your ride to work tomorrow. Whenever that was a good podcast, I really enjoyed that one. You know, that was a good one. I actually listened to it twice. So what I like to do means that I'm here to work. As soon as I get off work, I go to the gym. And so I actually listen to our podcast while I'm at the gym.
I've actually listened to it twice and I thought it was a really good, really good description of somebody that just came into the coon hunting world and kind of kind of struck gold right off the bat. Absolutely. And then did I had to laugh, Caleb? So I saw your Snapchat. I don't know if it was today, yesterday, whenever it was and you're like summer hunting sucks. And I was like, yep, I 100% wholeheartedly agree. I know bash when I have different opinions on this. I hate summer hunting.
I'm over it already. And it's only May. Yeah. My thing about that is this, Bryce, you could go out in the middle of January and you could have the best dog in the world and walk to seven dens in a row and not see nothing. Whereas yes, summer hunting sucks. The bug sucks, but you're not, if you walk away from a tree, not knowing if your dog's got a coon, especially with the thermals nowadays, it's slick. Yeah. I mean, my thing is just like the heat, man. I am not built for the heat.
Yeah. I'm the opposite. I'm not built. It gets below freezing and I sit in the truck and watch the garment. Yeah. Man. So I went out Sunday, we hunted Thursday, Friday, Saturday this week. We went to that pro sport hunt Thursday. That was a mess. Uh, I mean an absolute mess. I've saved up my money for the first time to buy an entry fee. I was pumped. Speaking of which, how's, how's that owner pocket going? It sucks. It absolutely sucks. I finally got my dog pot.
I'm like, all right, I got my, got my little buddy back. And then this hunt comes up. I'm like, yeah, he's worth going to that. So I shell out 500 bucks. Now I have never in my life paid more than $150 for an entry fee. Not once. So I shot 500 bucks, go to this hunt and we got caught in a absolute just thunderstorm rain blowing sideways. We stood in the same spot for pert near two hours. That was it. I mean that was, that was it. That was the hunt. Like we didn't even have a winner.
We didn't make it back in time. We were in floodwaters, couldn't get the dogs rounded up in time. Missed deadline standing in two foot of water. It just, it was a mess. Anyways, what I was getting at with the summer hunt was we hunted Thursday at the pro sport hunted Friday, went to a local hunt or an RQE, one RQE. So got wheels qualified for the world. Went to another local hunt Saturday. We're just trying to get his five wins for TOC picked up a win there.
So Sunday I wake up, I got home at like four o'clock Sunday morning, woke up, I don't know, 10 o'clock or 11 or something like that. Went outside, went to go do some chores, do a little choreing. I was like, no, no, not today. Nope. Too hot. It was like 88 degrees or something like that. I was like, I'm not doing it. And I didn't. The summer man, summer kills me. The summer don't bother me at all.
Just because at least there, I feel like I'm being, I feel like I can, I can push something, you know, whether it's training on dogs or what in the winter time, I just don't feel, yeah, I just don't feel like it's always productive. And so it's just hard. I get the whole point now, we'll say, because I'm on Eastern time zone with you, that I get the point of the whole, it don't get dark until like 10 o'clock, but you know, me, I don't need much sleep anyway.
Last night, I think I turned loose at nine 30. And I think back to the, I got 103 hours, two and a half, something like that. Yeah. Man, speaking of hunts, I want to go back a couple of weeks. I got a call from Chad McCoyn asked me if I wanted to handle a dog for him at black and tan days. His partner, Brad was going to be planting big farm and you know, I was like, yeah, I can go down there and handle. So he let me handle lefty man. I was impressed by what I saw out of that black dog.
That's the first time I've ever hunted a black dog. That son of a gun is the real deal now. Yeah. I mean, he's legit lefties one everywhere. I mean, from what I hear, I've never been in the woods with him. From what I hear you put him in, you put him in coons and he can fly around and ambush them real quick. I mean, that's exactly what he did. He flew around just whacking those coons. I mean, I think we had like six 75 one night, seven 75 another night.
And that dog just really, I mean, he did a good, good job. So shout out to Chad McCoyn and those black river black and tans. We're going to have to get him on a podcast here soon because he's got another. Yeah. I mean, he's always got good black dogs, but you know, he's got another dog named Gaucho that literally is missing like 80% of his guts. They call him no guts Gaucho and the work that it takes to keep that dog alive and hunt him on a daily basis is mind boggling.
And you know, that's the definition of a houndsman to me. Like, dude, there is no quit in this dog. There's no quitting Chad and Brad. They are doing whatever they can at all expense to make sure that hound gets a fighting chance to stay health as healthy as he can and go hunting. Like it's a pretty cool story. I'm excited to get them on the podcast. Probably one of the better ones that I ever wanted was a poncho. Yeah. And so, so Gaucho and left, you're both out of poncho.
Yeah. I kind of figured they were. Yeah. So that'd be. I hunted with rapper before, but I really, I really liked poncho. Poncho was more of a, and I may be a hundred percent wrong because I only dream a few times in a hunt, but me, it felt like poncho was more of a everything, meaning he could, he could run a good, he could run a track and trail one up or he could, you know, sink in there and ambush one either way. Yeah. I said, I was just, I was just very impressed with lefty.
It was the first time I'd been to a black and tan hunt, hunting a black and tan. And he just did a good job. So just want to give a little shout out, a little kudos there to the black river kennels. Speaking, speaking of hunts, we'll go backwards since our audio was kind of messed up. I did, I entered a $200, well it was a hundred dollars each ticket. I entered a raffle for a Brandon Costleman and that $2,500 hunt at Dell, Illinois.
So me and O Spitter Spot are going to travel to Illinois and try our luck and see if we can't win a little gas money. Yeah. I mean, that's an awesome deal. Like, I mean, I love the raffles. Yes. Especially for those, especially for those. And I'm not saying, you know, I hunt for a guy that, I mean, if I want to go to a $2,500 hunt, I can call him up and say, Hey, I want to go. But you and me are kind of two in the same in that I, I don't, I don't know what I, I've never hunted once.
I don't know what I would tell them if I lost. Right, dude. I'm telling you, I mean, it, it'd be a kick in the gut. It'd take the wind right out of me. I don't know what I would tell them. I've only hunted one big hunt like that ever. And that was a hundred thousand dollar hunt. And I won my, I won my cast. A quick story. Yeah. Tell the story about when we went down there for that hunt. So we go down there and we draw out and I, here I am hunting a dog that's got $54 lifetime earnings.
He don't even, if he was a super steak dog, he didn't even have money to go to super stakes. This dog literally was hunted in one cast and it was the buddy dog that I hunt. He had been hunted in one cast, one CKC cast. And so I draw out with John Strickland and Apollo. I draw out with Mr. Joe Manning and he was hunting dominator and Patrick Birch was hunting storm.
And I think, and I might be wrong on the numbers, but Apollo had something like 40 and, and Dom had something like 30,000 and storm had like 20,000 and Oh Strickland looked at me and he goes, bash them. What the heck are you hunting? I said, Oh, just the dog from behind the barn. Now, this was a $4,000 entry fee to get in. Yes. Or sounds of four grand was put up on a dog that had $54 lifetime earnings. So we laughed about it, laughed about it, laughed about it.
And so at the very end of the hunt, I looked at John, I said, Hey John, I know, I know for sure I at least got $5,000 and $54 one now and he just busted out last. Oh my gosh. Went from nothing to a silver champion in a matter of 90 minutes. Yep. Yep. But it was, it was a good time. Some guys are good to draw a Apollo tree to den through the world. Literally. I think he was like 1.82 when John treated him in. Yeah. It was a hike to get over there.
It was ridiculous, which I mean, buddy had the chance to put it away, but he treated, he treated Coon right out the gate and then treat a dentery. And if Paul had a Coon, he would have won, but he had a dentery. So I looked up and got the cast win, but a, Hey, big shout out to Michael Ward winning the first ever national cup pro sport. Yeah. Big congrats with a new dog. I know he's won a little bit with her, but it's a new one, you know, for all intents and purposes that Jojo dog.
Absolutely, man. That was, that was a hunt that I was very much excited to see how it went and how it played out. I will say the one thing I didn't like, um, like on the ad, it didn't tell you like what the second, third and fourth place breakdowns were. Wasn't a big fan of that. You kind of didn't know until you got there. I tell you what though, and I mean this with all seriousness, Scott Engel, Levi Stevenson and Greg Maynard, big shout out. They're doing a good job.
No, you, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They are there on Friday night. So if anybody knows how these big hunter put on the payout are based, the reason why they didn't put second, third on there is based on how many entries they get, right.
So it's based on 128 entries each night. Yes. So they had already deemed that if they got full entries, that it was going to be, what was it? What was first place? Twenty five thousand. Twenty five thousand. And then second place was, I think, fifteen. Third place was ten and fourth place was five. And so I think they had a hundred and two on Friday and a hundred and three on Saturday or on Thursday and a hundred and three on Friday.
And would you know they didn't cut a single dollar from the winnings? Really? So I see I didn't know that they ate. They ate the whole. I mean, did pro sports doing a good job? I'm big shout out. Big shout out to them. And Greg even mentioned it. It was kind of an appreciation to the hunters, you know, for us, for there being a hundred and two and hundred and three on a Thursday and a Friday night when you still got all these other hunts going on.
Like you mentioned, Archie, we hunt UKC hunt, PKS still going on. So big shout out to everybody that was able to show up in the tent. Yeah. And they said Thursday night that that was their biggest entry to date. So they're doing something right. People are showing up there and join it. And they broke it Friday. Yeah. By like what? One dog. What? Yeah. So shout out to pro sport. Like I said, I just wish on the ad I wish I know it's hard to do and it's based on stuff.
But I wish I wish you could have seen that breakdown. But no, we went, we tried our luck. We stood in the pouring rain for two hours. Yeah. And that was it. I mean, that's just the breaks, buddy. That's breaks. What is your thoughts? I don't know if you got to watch it. What is your thoughts on the finals of nationals? So I didn't I didn't watch much of it. Being very honest, I think I tuned in for five or six minutes.
And when I tuned in, it looked like that dog that one was absolutely throttling them. There was no chance anybody was catching up. And I was like, okay, I'm going to bed. So you tell me. I think I think we were about it up at the pro sport hunt. I think a few of us was talking about it just it's been a long time since we've seen somebody probably goose when goose won the world, when you seen one dog dominate a final cast.
And like I said, there's probably been dogs do it maybe at like a truck hunt or something like that. But something that's that is a play by play like that, where everybody's tuning in the nationals or world hunt, something like that. I can't remember the last time a dog put on on a clinic like he did. And a big shout out to Jason Hines and them guys down there, you know, putting in the hunt. I mean, Jason's gotten in, you know, top 100 tournament champions and UKC world with Trigger.
I mean, Trigger, for for those that never heard of Jason Hines and Trigger, that's just because you not paid attention because he's been he's won quite a bit before he ever got to this side of it. Yeah. Like I said, I tuned in and it was just an absolute throttling. And I was like, yeah, OK, this one's wrapped up. Seal the deal. But yeah, congratulations to them, man.
One day, one day I'd like to be I want you know, I know when you join here on these lives, you can't it zooms in on my pretty face. And I don't know why. But man, you can see these there's I got some plaques and stuff behind me, some pictures like I want a big national champion plaque hanging up there.
We all do, you know, it's kind of the same thing that everybody talks about, you know, you know, being myself, you know, I know I put in that, you know, as far as out there and pushing dogs and stuff like that. My problem is that I don't keep them long enough to win anything with them. Maybe one day, maybe one day we we've got some oh, we got some buddy puppies on the list, do what? Yeah, this is the first time hearing about it. I know it breaking news. It should be his second litter.
Yeah, we had an unfortunate deal. All right. Well, tell me about this. I want to know that this is the first time hearing about it off of a bone collector female. Yeah, it's a I don't really know too much about the female country. I don't know. But I'd have to get her pedigree from him, but she's off mo. Like dirt. So Mark had her up there and hit a little bit and hunted her. I've never personally been in the woods with her. But from what Mark and Bruce tell me that she's a good little condo.
So he bought her from a guy from Iowa who bought her Bruce. Yeah. Gotcha. Man, that's exciting. I mean, buddy is the buddy is the definition of just a coon dog. Like if you were to put coon dog in the dictionary, like buddy's face would probably pop up next to it. Yeah. And it's so I got a lot of messages, people asking me what was wrong because I posted that picture of hey, probably his last one for a while.
For those of you that don't know, and I don't like to get on here and talk too much about our personal business. But buddy has a condition called laryngeal phallus and we've sent him to every vet all over everywhere. To everywhere. I want to give a shout out to Mr. Bronte McDaniel. He has really taken my phone calls because if you ever have a dog that's really close to you like buddy is to me, I can show you guys videos of me pulling up. You can ask Mark Atkins.
I'll pull up in the parking lot and before my truck will even come to a stop, buddy is just back flips and bark and just sees my truck. Like this dog is attached to me and I'm attached to him. So anything to do with buddy is kind of close and near and dear to my heart. And you know, Bryce, I don't get attached to too many. No you don't. But when it comes to summertime, he's done. When he can't breathe, his esophagus goes paralyzed and he sounds like a hog. Literally. It's a terrible sound.
It's terrifying to listen to. He can't catch his breath. It ends up making him really coarse to where you can't even hear 100 or 200 words. Thorough conversations with Bronte. Bronte says what happens is he said it could either be a blunt force trauma that caused something to his throat or he says you see it a lot in labs. He said if you ever, the reason why is because labs are always hitting that nasty stack of water and they get a bacterial infection in their throat.
He said a lot of times it will cause their throat when they're older, like 10, 11, 12 years old, to get laryngal paralysis. He said the only fix is a tie back procedure where they go in and they tie that flap in their throat up so that they can constantly get air. So the problem with that is it allows cold air. It allows all the bacteria to come up and go down. Nothing stops it. It's just bad. So I asked Bronte, I said what would you do if it was your dog? He said do you like the dog?
I said we love the dog. He said hunt the dog through a four month year and put him up the rest of the time. So we had big plans for Buddy this year, just pulling him back out and pushing. But all that's going to come to an end. We are still going to roll the dice at Autumn Oaks in the world hunt, gamble a little bit, shall we say, and see if he can pull out a win because we had this issue last year. He was not hunted for three weeks prior to Autumn Oaks.
And then we didn't get all from Autumn Oaks to the world hunt. He went on that run up there at the world hunt, put on a show. So we're just hoping that he can put on a clinic this winter. We'll really push him in the bigger PKC hunts. But I mean, you're right. To me, he's the definition of a coon dog. Every time I go to a hunt, Zach Burden asks me, he'll say, man, where's that dog at? And he'll say, man, I think that's my favorite dog that I've ever hunted with you with. He said that dog's nice.
And he is. He can do a little bit of everything and not bragging on him. Anybody that's hunted with him, he's not a world leader, but he's just consistent. Yep. Speaking of nice dogs, next Friday we have a podcast dropping with Michael Mitchell and Lee Wade. And those two are packing around a pretty nice little English dog, old Hatchi River Hook. And they got a Walker dog as well. Oh, Ben, I think you know a little bit about Ben. Straight from Semper Dog and Kennels. That's right.
So yeah, next Friday, guys, tune in. It's going to be another good podcast with Michael Mitchell, Lee Wade. Excited to get those guys on here. Those are those are guys that man, they hunt hard. They hunt real hard. Yeah, they do. Yeah, they do. Shout out to Lee Wade.
And that's why once he, you know, won the PKC state championship and the UKC state championship, those were the first ones that I wanted to get on here on here and just kind of talk about their dog, you know, brag on him a little bit because you know what he did was very, you know, noteworthy. So yeah, absolutely. I mean, not many people can say they went out and won two state championships back to back in the same year. Very true. So how's how's goat farming going? Oh, it's going well.
I'm looking out the window at him right now. I'm a big fan of the goats, man. I think we're up to 11. I mean, you don't try to get. I'd like to have about 50 of them. So just go buy more. I'm going to. I'm working on it. I what's your plan with them? So they're they're Bora meat goats. And the research that I've done, the United States only this is getting off a dog in, but this is a dog on Tuesday. We can do whatever we want.
And so anyway, the United States only or only produces like anywhere between 30 to 40 percent of the goat meat that's consumed here in the U.S. We all know there's a large, large population of migrants coming in and the majority of them go is a staple meat in their diet. So we are importing 60 to 70 percent of the goat meat that's being consumed here in the U.S. And so we had an extra pasture sitting out over here, a little two acre pasture right across the house.
And I've talked to Nikki, I think we need to do something to try and make some money on this thing. And we ended up fencing it in. I just ran an eight strand hot wire fence. We decided we're going to go the goat route. Just try to make a little money on that, because like I said, there's there's a lot of migrants up here around us. There's there's a bunch of them. And from talking from Nikki working in the hospital and talking to them, they don't have anywhere to buy their goat meat.
So we're hoping to just kind of be their one stop shop and capitalize on an opportunity that is there. We already have the Longhorns. We already have the chickens. We have a little homestead going on here. We got the Texas Longhorns, the meat goats, chickens, a garden, all the dogs, the kids. There's a lot. So let's throw a little bit of knowledge out there then from baby goat to butcher goat. Yeah. How long looking?
So if your if your goat is born like in January and you get them ready for the Orthodox Easter, you're like three months, 65 pounds and you can sell. Oh yeah. That's what they're one. So three months. Yeah. And how much feed are you feeding? Right now they're all on pasture. So we're not going to eventually 11 goats is going to tear that two acres apart and you're going to be. Yeah. I mean, so we would supplemental feed right now and I got to figure all that out. I mean, we're new to this.
Oh yeah. So I don't have that. I haven't went through a winter yet where we're actually graining the whole time. But yeah. So like I said, they want to about 60 to 65 pounds for their Orthodox Easter. That's their celebration. And on the hoof right now, goats going for like six to seven dollars a pound on the hoof. So yeah. So how long have you had good? I think we're like three months into it. Maybe I just got him out of the pasture the other day. So you see you ready to butcher some?
No, I always. So we have a bunch of a bunch of does. There are breeding stock and then I'm picking up my buck tomorrow. So the plan here is to buy a bunch of does for breeding stock. July through August will breed them. Then they have a five month gestation period that puts them right around the December, January, February timeframe to be kidding. Hopefully they have some does and we'll keep replenishing our breeding stock and then the bucks that they have will turn into weathers.
We'll sell those and then I'm probably going to go and buy a few weathers from a couple other local farms, people that are trying to get rid of stuff. And then I'll grain them out myself, almost like a feedlot for cattle. You know, we'll just buy them cheap and sell them, sell them for more. So it just takes the ground to put them in. So so is this something you're looking at like only butchering around Easter or are you looking at trying to butcher once a month?
Yeah. So I mean, I won't be doing any of the butchering, but yeah, I'd like to sell year round here eventually because goats they do breed year round if you let them. They are their prime though kind of just between July and August or July and September. So yes, they will breed year round. And if you can get enough kids on the ground, there is a there's a meat or a goat meat slaughterhouse down in North Vernon, Indiana.
And they go through more goats than you can shake a stick at goats and lambs. There are halal butcher market or there's a whole deal that goes into that. But they will actually send a guy around with the truck and trailer kind of like a route almost like a dog hauler. He's a goat hauler. And they'll swing by and they'll just buy him right off of you. So they do that year round. Yeah. So we can produce enough to just kind of supply that market and that demand. I think it'd be interesting.
It's they're fun. They're cool to watch. I like I enjoy they're calming. I don't know. I'm a nerd. I really enjoy a real milk for goat milk. See, I have no desire for a milk goat. No desire. I am not going out there every day. I'm not going out there every day milking a goat. I'm not doing it. I mean, so we have a bottle calf right now. So we had so the pro sport hunt, right? You and I both had situations. Nikki calls me and she's like, hey, we have a problem. I'm like, what's that?
She's like, one of the cows is having a calf, the calf stuck. I can't get it out. I'm like, are you pulling? And she's like, yes, dummy. She's like, it's in the it's in the shoot and we're pulling, but we can't get it out. I'm like, well, I don't know what you want me to do. Like I'm two and a half hours away. And then Jen calls you, you know, and says that Jocelyn isn't feeling well. No, that's a whole nother Jocelyn went to the ER.
Yeah. So we're both we're both down here at a hunt away from family and we both have our significant others calling us like, uh, it's hitting the fan and sorry. What do you want me to do? Anyways, so go ahead, go ahead. Cause I want you to finish yours. I'm going to tell you about the champ. Yeah. So, so anyways, long story short, Nikki can't get this calf out. She's working on it.
Becky, um, father-in-law's girlfriend, she's working on, they can't get this thing out of there, um, father-in-law's tied up at work. He can't get out. So they ended up getting a vet out at like midnight or something like that with a calf jack and ended up pulling this calf. Okay. Get him out and yeah, I know money, money, money. Anyways, long story short, mama never comes into milk four days later. She's still not milking. She has nothing to do with the calf.
So I just kicked her butt out back out to pasture and we're, uh, we're bottle feeding this calf. So I've, uh, I've officially named him the Texas two step because he was so weak trying to stand up the first three days. Every time he tried to stand up his little, his little feet were dancing all over the place. He couldn't hardly get his legs under him. Uh, so Texas two step he's out in the barn, um, calling him Tex. I don't know. I, Shane had a good idea.
Shane was, you know, he's like, Hey, I might be interested in that calf. He said, uh, you know, I might just halter break him and then end up saddle breaking him and ride him around. And I was like, I mean, that'd be hilarious. You know, when he's big longhorns and if so, I mean, we're in the frog outfit now. We'll see him on a freaking, uh, riding a goat. Yeah. A ride in a big old steer. So that might be what I do.
I might, I might just steer this bull calf and, and it'd be a novelty, you know, it'd be hilarious. You're just out walking, riding your long horn. Yeah. So we have bottle goats or we have a bottle calf right now. All the goats. It's a, it's a mess, man. I'm sicker than a dog. I can't get nothing done. Tell me about the gym. How many chickens you got now? Oh, like 60. Yeah. We, I seen the chicken house. Holy smokes. It's still sitting on the trailer.
I haven't had the skid steer here to get it, to get it off. So the father-in-law, he had a water line bust under his driveway. So he had the skid steer and the mini excavator tied up last weekend getting that fixed. So this chicken coop is massive. It took an act of God to get it onto the trailer and get it pulled to hour and a half home. But now I had to try to figure out how to get it off the trailer. So I don't want you to bull in a China shop method. That's how you roll.
Not too bad, but I know the champ. Let's see. So we're talking Thursday, right? So Thursday morning, she was up to school and her thumb was hurting her. It was kind of a little bit swollen and they thought, you know, maybe she bit the skin off of it or something, you know? Well, by the time she got home, she told me that her thumb was swollen. You know, being, you know, being me, being dad, I'm like, ah, suck it up.
So I'm working and as soon as she gets home, she says, no, something's not right. And so took her to urgent care. Urgent care said immediately go to the ER. So they got to the ER, six o'clock. I called my dad, shout out to my dad. They went and the joke. Could you imagine Joel in emergency room? Nope. Hours? Nope. Yeah. Yeah. Nightmare. So they went and picked him up and they did not get seen until midnight. Her whole thumb was swollen.
They ended up, it ended up being a infected hangnails and they had to take out the under the thumb fingernail from one side all the way together and cut her. Cut what you broke up. Cut what? Cut her finger open. Dang. Under the fingernail. So at midnight on Thursday, my old lady, she's elbows deep in a cow trying to pull a calf and yours is in the ER with her kid getting the thumb split open and we're both outstanding in the fricking rain hunting the dog. Getting poured on.
The life of a coon hunter. About stupid. I asked her, I was like, I mean, I can come home, but what am I going to do? Oh boy. Runs it in. You know, I'm not Dr. Basham. Yeah. All right. Well, let's land this plane. Is there anything else you want to discuss here? It's been a while since we've done a dog on Tuesday. I'm glad to have you back. Oh yeah. Yeah. Good to be back.
Like I said, guys, you know, with us got a lot going on this summertime, you know, Bryce Hannigan's and me being at work and, uh, you know, I was, I was, I was not to, not to prolong it, but just real quick, I was couldn't hunt last night and I called Bryce and asking him about dog and Tuesday. Yeah. Like you guys heard this. He was like, Oh, I don't know if it's even worth it for dog and Tuesday.
And so I kind of just reminded him and reminded myself that, uh, for me, this isn't about the, this isn't about the outside world. This isn't about get rich quick. This isn't about even making any kind of money. This is about two buddies that became friends. It became brothers and I enjoy it. Yeah. Getting on shooting, shooting this shit. I enjoy, uh, you know, talking to the other people that they get on here and chime in. I don't care if it's perfect. I don't care. Nobody else likes it.
You know, I enjoy it. I enjoy, you know, shooting the shit with you. And you know, it's like me and you being on the phone, just catching up, you know, once every two weeks because we used to ride or die everywhere together. I know. We used to always be on the road. Now it'd be hard to see each other. I mean, it was so bad. My family called him Bryce, either wifey. Oh God, you just started something and everybody can hop off now.
But yeah, my family, I see the wifey because I spent more time with Bryce and I did my own family. And so me and him became brothers and now, you know, he lives five hours away. So this is a good opportunity for, you know, us to stay connected and be the brothers that we are and then, you know, let everybody else join in and, and us sharing the camaraderie of all this. So it is. That's what it's about. But man, I like stuff to be right. I am such a, I'm so anal about that. I want to be right.
Guess what? Ever since I up and came back on. Huh? It's been good. Yeah, it's been OK. I mean, you're, you're kind of just a little bit, but not near as bad as what it was at the beginning. Yeah. You're clear. And once I get a response from this zoom people, because nobody can seem to figure out how a pod track for goes to an iPhone because it's nothing like your Android.
As soon as, as soon as they get back to me on email, just figured out because I literally have about three hundred dollars in freaking chargers and none of them work. Yeah. All right. Well, let's sign this tree. Let's wrap it up. I have got to get some medicine into me. I'm feeling rough. Real quick, just because we do record these big shout outs and probably bottom out door. Absolutely. Go, go to them. They're really kicking it off. Shout out.
Really pushing their product becoming bigger and bigger. You know, that's a big testament to work and pushing it. Also, Joey go forth. You know, he's getting, he's getting pretty big down there cleaning up them, them shiters. Oh yeah. He's, he's into a lot, a lot of little bitty things, but the biggest thing and big shout out to is never satisfied. Make sure you go to him for all your needs for any kind of parts for your four wheeler, for your side by side. See, Joey go forward.
We appreciate the sponsorship from him and Shane and we appreciate all you got. Yep. Absolutely. Like I said, we couldn't do it without them. If you guys ever need any hunting supplies, get a hold of me. 765-499-8577. That is my work phone. I will get you guys hooked up at Froggy Bottom Outdoors. We've got everything. Garmin, Briarproof, clothing, lights, leads, collars. We've got it all. So let me know if there's anything I can do for you guys. That's my direct telephone number.
If you guys ever need anything, froggybottomoutdoors.com is open 24 seven. My phone is usually on me from eight to five. He takes personal phone calls from eight to four. Yeah. Whatever. All right guys, well we're going to wrap this up. I'm going to get some medicine pumped into me here. I'm going to go back to bed. I'm going. Yeah, I'm not hunting tonight. I'm done. So all right, Mashem, see you later, brother.
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