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Yeah, that'd be all right. Oh, hold on, how do I mute this? So I actually messaged PodTrack, the Zoom PodTrack, and they said that they're actually having issues. Really? They're connecting, so it's not just me, so they said they have a special cord that's supposed to go to the iPhone. They said Android's is fine because it's a C to a C, but because it's going from a C charger to an iPhone, that's where you're not transmitting the audio. Ah, I gotcha. I gotcha. Well, we're live, we're clear.
I'm loving it. This is making me excited. I was going to say, this is making you happy. It is, man. You don't know how long. Well, I guess you do. You've been on all of them. But we've been fighting this for a long time, so let's dive into it, man. It's Dog and Tuesday. We ain't seen each other in a while. We are back, guys. We are back. Me and Bryce have been on different endeavors. When we started this, we kind of said that it's just two buddies having fun, talking crap behind the scenes.
Dog and Tuesday is something that we definitely want to continue, but it's just with him and his whirlwind of a life. It's crazy. Tuesdays are not always going to work out, and when they don't, they don't. It's not a big deal. We'll skip on to the next one, and here we are. We're back at it, and we got some good news coming up. A lot of things have happened. A lot of hunts have happened, and me and Bryce are going to just kind of dive in. We got Mark Atkins online. I see Mark's on there.
Yeah, man. That last Dog and Tuesday, I got freaking sick with allergies. I couldn't even hardly breathe. I mean, you wouldn't have been able to hear me talk. Yeah, the last one was bad, man. My allergies were so bad, I couldn't breathe. It wouldn't be any harder to be able to talk. The goats have been causing me some heartache and distress. They have. Wow. Let's hear it. Here we go. Life 101. Life 101. Life of a goat farmer. Yeah. Here we go.
Well, you know, it does have to do with dogs, because it cuts into my dog time, because we've been spending so much time out there with the chickens. We built a chicken tractor for our meat birds so that we could move them to fresh pasture every day. They're getting fresh bugs, fresh grass, all the nice stuff to raise nice, big, healthy meat birds. I was like, man, I got the goat pasture over there. That'll work just fine, so I put it in the goat pasture. They didn't bother it for like a week.
Everything worked beautifully. Now the goats are tearing it up. Oh, buddy, they have torn it to high heaven. I mean, bad tore it up. Grabbing a hold of the wire, tearing it apart. Sure enough. Yeah. Mm hmm. And that didn't work out too well. No, no. So actually, I almost was late to this dog on Tuesday. Like I said, I know it's goat related, but it's affecting my dog stuff. I was almost late because I had to get on the skid steer and drag that chicken tractor out of the goat pasture.
And we are going to have to relocate it because we can't live like this. What if you what if you put it in the in the cow pasture? Well the cows are curious, right? They're not going to tear into it like the goats will. The goats want to rub on it. But the cows, they got those longhorn, you know, we raised Texas longhorns. And if them just getting curious, they just get a horn hooked in that fence. And they just go to turn and they don't even know they're doing it and they rip it apart.
So life of a farmer man yard. That's where it's at. Literally. That's where it's at. Front yard. Yeah. But it really takes some mosquitoes. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what's been going on over here. We're trying to expand the farm. We're getting ready to make some major moves. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What's the major move? Well hopefully by the end of this year, we will be in the full blown meat market game. We're going to be offering pasture raised Texas longhorn beef, which is the longest beef out there.
Pasture raised goats. We have an ethnic community around us that will appreciate the goat meat. And then also the pasture raised poultry. So we're going to have a full blown website and everything where people can be able to order online. If you have to be kind of local to us, but we have some drop off locations, home delivery, all kinds of stuff. Now my question is how fast can you raise and sell? Like from buy to raise to sell? Well we're raising everything ourselves.
So that's why we're waiting towards the end of the year here. I got some calves that are going to be growing and they should be ready for butcher about December, January timeframe. And then we have a steady cycle of the ones behind them that are going to be ready to go. So you know, the cows take the longest to grow and get ready for hanging weight. But I think we've got everything on a nice little cycle here.
So hopefully by the end of this year we'll be online and it'll be just like, it's like shopping from home on like on Amazon. You just get on the website and you're like, okay, I want two steaks, four pounds of ground beef, two boneless skinless chicken breast and a goat roast. And then we just put it in a box. And if you're local to us, we're going to have one delivery day a week. We'll be delivering, making home deliveries.
We're going to have a couple of drop off points, probably one down near Kokomo, one up near Rochester. One day a week. We'll take all the orders that come through. We'll meet people there. We'll drop it off and they'll be able to get their farm fresh meat right there from us. They ain't got to worry about where it's coming from. They don't have to worry about all this stuff being pumped into their food. You know, they're going to know their farmer.
They're going to know exactly where it's coming from, how it's been raised. And heck if they want to come out to the farm and hang out, they can do that too. So that's what we're working on right now. And that's what's been cutting into my dog time is putting all my eggs into one basket. Wink, wink. Wink, wink. You're not. You got goats, you got cows, you got chickens. So you're not putting them into all your eggs in a basket. You're putting them in a few different ones. We are.
But the meat market, that's where we're going. Farm to table, baby. Farm to table. So we haven't been on Dog on Tuesday in a while. Let's go over a few things. One of the episodes that we dropped was an episode with Next Level. And that was very informative. What did you take from that? Man, I got all kinds of good feedback on that. And even just myself just re-listening to it.
You know, learning how the product or the ingredients are procured for the dog food and how it goes through the life cycle of the plant, the steps and measures that they take to make sure that the quality is second to none. You know, knowing what goes into some of these feeds like the VX Advantage or prebiotics and probiotics and how that helps your dog. You know, the one that they just released, the Hero Salute, it's got the added glucosamine and chondroitins in it for supportive joint health.
You know, that's a big deal for us guys that are running hounds and people who are running agility dogs and anybody who has a working dog. You know, joint health is a big deal, just like in humans. So you know, our knees only got so many cycles. What's Nicky saying? We could do a funny farm reality show the way it has been going around here lately. I mean, you've got your own camera crew. I know. I know. It's been funny.
But yeah, so the next level thing, you know, I've got one dog on it right now. Yep, me too. And it's been looking good. So I have not switched everybody over to it yet. Just kind of giving it a trial, seeing what it does, seeing how they eat it. The waist looks good. The dog looked good to eat it well. So so far, so good. I'm impressed with it. What did you get out of it? About the same thing. I'm looking for more of the higher end, you know, because I do hunt quite a bit, especially right now.
I'm not working, so I'm really pushing dogs hard. So I put my most active dog that I'm hunting right now, which is spot, I put him on it alone and we're going to see where he goes with it. I'm looking to see what kind of energy level it gives him at that two, three, four o'clock in the morning. You know, how much energy he still has, you know, on that new food.
And then, you know, just what kind of coat, like you said, what kind of, you know, the coat, the the joint health, just looking for an all in one type of type of feed. And we'll see. Like I said, I started feeding it. I got that bag from you Saturday. So I started feeding spot that. So we'll see. We'll see where it takes it. Yeah. Oh, Billy Dwyer here. He just commented. He came on live. Billy's been a big supporter of the podcast since day one.
So we always appreciate him sharing stuff over to the page, you know, him and his little dog. They seem to hunt pretty hard. And I really like his morning thoughts whenever you can tell you sitting there having his morning coffee and, and it's going through his head about some old time hounds and how that affects today's hounds. So Billy, we appreciate everything you contribute to us. But he says, he says, that's awesome, but don't do like my old buddy.
He got longhorns years ago with every intent on doing what y'all are doing, Bryce. But his wife got attached and that ended his beef business, especially after she saw the calves. Yeah. There's a couple of people who, man, they do, they, they see him as pets and all that, but we've had the longhorns for a long time. My father-in-law's raised them for, oh, I don't know. It's 1996, I think, you know, going on 30 years. He's, he's one, Oh Tex. Yeah. Tex he's interesting, but he's our bottle baby.
So he follows you around everywhere. We're going to try and train him to ride him. We're going to have a saddle broke longhorn. That's the plan with him. So you're going to give hay rides. Are you going to have a goat riding contest? No, no, we're not doing the mutton busting like the sheep. No, no, no. No. So guys, what we're going to do is we're going to take the hot, we're going to, we're going to take bids. We're going to see if we can get enough bids on a video.
I'm going to go up there right before autumn oats and we're going to get a video to see who can ride the goat the longest, Colton or Bryce. I don't think a goat would support my fat butt. We're going to try. I'd crush that thing. Yeah. Now that'd be interesting, but yeah, the longhorns, the longhorns Billy, we've had them for a long time. They've been around my father-in-law. I think he's won like 44 world championships or something like that.
He raises a very prestigious class of show cattle and what doesn't make the cut for the show world. It's going to go to the freezer. So that's the plan, but that's really, yeah, he's big into it. Mark Adkins says goat racing. All right, Mark, I'm going to, I'm going to let you come race one. There we go. Hey Nikki, here, here, here is your, um, here is your task. Part of the wedding reception is going to be, you're going to give out prizes for who can ride the goat the longest. Oh man.
We got the, we got the little, uh, the little corral there at the, at the fairgrounds. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mark says they can pull carts. We'll just take, you know, like the, uh, the buggy racing horses, you know what I'm talking about? We'll just take the little cart, like out and strap it to a goat. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. We went down a rabbit hole. We did. That's what happens when you're on a live show and you got people commenting. Oh, it's, it's good time. We haven't done this in a while.
Like I said, guys, we've been super busy. I took a, I finally took a layoff, came home to hunt dogs and Bryce has been up there goat farming and chicken farming. So I've been getting star hunted up and getting, getting spot hunted up me and me and old Boudreaux. We I pulled old Boudreaux out and, and, uh, someone needs to get Bryce a lasso for wedding gifts. I needed one last night. I was trying to play cowboy with a rope. You got, Hey, we're going to send you to a cowboy school.
We only have to teach you how to rope. That's going to be wedding gifts. Oh boy. Let's get back to the dogs. Hold old Boudreaux out Saturday night. And for those of you that don't know, his medical condition just kind of baffles us and was kind of worried because you were down in South city and it was, whew. It was scorching. It was hot. It was bad. It was like dangerously hot. Yeah. It was dangerous.
I mean, um, unfortunately they had a couple of dogs that, uh, that had issues down there, but we won't go too far into that. And luckily me and old Boudreaux, we went down to crab orchard to a $300 pro classic and a man, he just not one single iota of effect of his issue. And he just put on a clinic, had a really good cast with Justin Brumlett, Brummet and hit that steel dog that he's got come down to last second. Come down to the last second.
Yeah. Oh, I got, I got a little man come running in the room, but, uh, yeah, come, come down to the last second. Nobody pulled in there and, uh, pulled a rabbit out of his hat and ended up having another one at the very end of the hunt, uh, which got us into the final three. And by that time it was a little too hot. Everybody was too hot. And, uh, so we just ended up splitting it, but, uh, uh, definitely had a good time, went out there and, uh, fellowship with those guys.
And it was good to meet a bunch of new guys that I hadn't hunted with before. Yeah. That's awesome, man. I'm glad buddy didn't have no issues because I know that's been affecting him a lot here lately. Yeah. Congratulations to a dual Murphy and, uh, Kevin cable and Jason dog tree. There was one more. There was one more. Yeah. I knew it. I thought you'd have it pulled up. Darn it. Oh, you're killing me. There's one more. I'll figure it out. That was the a hundred thousand to win Jarvis.
I'm from Memorial. Yeah. I split 43,000 now. I'm pulling it up. I'm going to try to. Yeah. I don't remember who the fourth one was. Jimmy Willis. Thanks. Thanks. Oh, she, she knew it. Perfect. Jeremy Willis, Jenny. Yes. Jimmy Willis, Jason, three dual Murphy and Kevin cable. So congratulations guys. It's a big accomplishment to be able to go to a big hunt like that and win it. I know Kevin just got that little Willie dog. Yeah. That's not, that's not the fame dog that Johnny Watkins had, is it?
I thought I think that fame was out of Frogger cause they spell it with a P H but yeah. But yeah, Kevin, he said he made a post saying that was the first dog he's ever or he is one with that was a hundred percent his owned since he was like 16. Really? I didn't see that. I didn't see that. Yeah. That's yeah. He made a post. I'm not for somebody, but yeah, I guess, I guess that was the first dog he's owned.
So him and old dual crash, I think dual made a post that crashes up over $222,000 lifetime earnings now. Yeah. That dog is just going to be something else. What do y'all think about hanging in this heat? You either have to be dumb or stupid. And I think I'm a little bit of both cause I just, you just keep going. Oh, so as many of y'all have seen, I had two dogs up that I was going to get rid of just mainly because I, I just overloaded myself.
I got a bunch of young dogs and I'm really, after scaling back and talking to Jeffrey, the guy that owns star and spot, I think we're really going to concentrate on pushing some of the bigger hunts. And so I was like, man, I'm just going to push these pups out of the way and just focus on hunting a few dogs for a couple other people and then competition, hunting these two.
And so I had a good friend of mine, long time, David Hall called me said they were looking for a young dog for his grandson, got to talking to him after a few days. And I was like, you know what? We're just going to, we're going to push old chief over to a 12 year old and let that 12 year old have fun with him. So I just, I told him to come pick him up. He could have him and me and him were sitting out in the driveway and we were talking and he's a canine cop, which he will be a good one.
We're going to get old David Hall. We're going to sit him down for a podcast because he's chief of police rock board, Indiana and was a canine cop for like 17 years. And for those of you that don't know, and this is going right into your comment, Mr. Billy, and that is hunting in the heat. If you're hunting in this heat and you're not carrying rubbing alcohol with you, you're wrong. What is rubbing alcohol do? It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter if it's the alcohol pads or the, you put it in a little bitty squirt bottle. What I do is I have two collapsible bowls that I put my first aid kit on my belt, which I showed you my new belt. Pretty nice. But I put two collapsible bows and one bowl. It's black and the other one's gray and the black bowl. I put rubbing alcohol and I dip their feet at every tree. I'll dip their feet in rubbing alcohol. It instantly cools down a dog's core temperature because it evaporates.
Yep. If you take, if you take the white and you rub down their ears and rub down their neck, it instantly will cool down their core temperature. So I carry rubbing alcohol everywhere I go, especially coon hunting out in the heat, helps them out a lot. Also, I carry a bottle of Pedialyte in my bag and if the dog was really getting down, I'll give them Pedialyte. Yeah. Some of those dogs, like every dog that I have is trained to drink out of a water bottle.
That way I can carry it and I can mix up, bounce back, Pedialyte, whatever you got, whatever works for you. Yep. And then after every tree, I always give them a drink. And it was funny. Every time I give Wills a drink now, I think about this in my head. I was up there at the summer, Michigan Madness summer hunt last year and I drew out with Grant Whitmer and I was hunting Wills and it was the late round and Wills just got done putting it on him. He looked good.
At the end of the hunt, I gave Wills a drink out of a water bottle and it blew Grant Whitmer's mind. He looks at me, he goes, what an athlete. I can't believe what I'm witnessing. This is the greatest thing I've ever seen in hound hunting. I was like, Grant, he's just drinking out of a water bottle. He said, no, no, no, that takes an athlete to understand what to do right there. And if you know Grant, he is just over the top. He's exuberant. He's a good dude.
I'm like, oh my gosh, every time I give Wills a drink now, I'm like, what an athlete. Yeah. Word of advice for anybody that's out hunting this heat, get you some rubbing alcohol. It can potentially save your dog's life. I'm telling you. Yeah. I know. I know I've been laying off a lot, you know, between trying to get this farm going and how hot it's been. I've been going about one night a week. I have not been hunting hard and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It's just, it ain't for me. Do what?
I said, me and you had flip flop now. Yeah. You like the summer. You're a weirdo. I love the summer. You just, you get better. You bet you get better tracks. I don't know. I took a, I took high point tram stamp out last night by herself. Yeah. Yeah. I had a, had a guy that I work with. He had me deliver some stuff to his house the other day. And I got to looking around and I was like, huh, who owns a lot down there? Just a strip of woods down by the river. He goes, Oh, I do.
I was like, huh, you have any coon problems? He was like, yeah, absolutely. I do. I said, well, I happen to know a guy. You should let me hunt it. And he's like, well, go ahead. So I took her out there last night. It's literally, it ain't a strip of woods 30 yards wide, but it runs almost a half mile down the river. And I was like, Oh, perfect puppy training spot. I took her down there last night. I saw three coons sitting up. We didn't tree the first one. Does she know what one is?
She just got out of the pen. She just, she just got out of the pen. She spent a month in the pen and got some videos of her train doing a good job train. But as far as training a wild live coon that we don't know how old the track was, you know, not sure. But she did make about four loops back and forth to it. And she, she sniffed a tree, but she never got up on it. She never even whimpered at it.
If she would have given me the slightest bark, like Heath Hyde always says, when they're training, you do it in increments and you start, if they're training for odor detection, one bark, you give them the reward. And the next time you wait till three barks and you give them the reward. So if she would have given me the slightest clue of a whimper and a bark, she would have been rewarded, but nothing. So but yeah, I don't know. Summer hunting, man. I had to make myself go last night. It was hot.
Well, it wasn't hot last night was cool. Not, not. It was like 56 degrees. Yeah. 56 degrees, which is why I went last night. I felt like I needed a long sleeve shirt. Yeah, it was cool. Yeah. That's why I went last night. So it was cool. I heard there's, I heard there's some exciting news in the coon hunting world. So I got a call this morning from a good friend of ours, a good supporter of ours, Mr. Travis Shelton up at Santa Claus Optics.
For those of you that don't know, Travis was one of the first on the scene as far as providing thermal optics for the coon hunting world back whenever it was the ASP 1925 and 35. We originated from that in the AGM line. We went to the Taipan, which was the 15, the 19 and the 25. Now they've got the side winders. A lot of guys were using the side winder. The picture quality is a lot. It's really clear. It's really nice.
But what are some things that you're hearing about the problems that people have with side winders? So I've used a side one. I don't own one. I currently own the Taipan 15. So that's been my thermal choice. I like it. It's small. It's compact. It's user friendly, minimal settings. Once you get the settings where they need to be, then you're good to go.
And I'm just gonna throw it out there for anybody who might be using one and they don't have their settings dialed in where I'm at is I run the fusion color palette. I've got my contrast at five, my brightness at one, and I'm in jungle mode for the scene. So that is those are the four settings I have in mind, which have worked well for a couple years now. So that's what I'm running. That's what I like. I don't switch between red hot, white hot, black hot. Don't care. I'm a fusion guy.
I've learned how to use it. It works well for me. I did look through. Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. I say I did look through a sidewinder at the very beginning of spring. End of end of winter. So leaves were not on all the way yet. Nice and cool. What I did like with the sidewinder is the the depth of which it shined through the trees.
I found a coon with my eyes, me and a buddy and my 15 would like you had to get it the right just the right angle to pick it up is, you know, you could barely pull out the heat. Me since I've used it for a couple of years, I've got it figured out. I knew that was a coon. The sidewinder cut right through that first layer of leaves and bam, there was the coon. And once we got out in the open, you could count the whiskers on the nose of that thing. I mean, it is the clarity is unreal.
Yep. The things that I have heard that people are not liking are the size. It is considerably larger. And the base magnification. It zooms in so far that unless you're in a field, if you're right up on the tree, you really got to search because you're so zoomed in on one area that the base magnification on those side winders are a little bit more. Yeah. So the size of the sidewinder, the base magnification, those are really the two things I've heard that people are not liking.
As far as clarity goes and finding the coon, it did a nice job. So I don't own one. I have not used one extensively. That's as far as I can talk on it. Yeah, that's me too. I've not really used this sidewinder. What I try to tell people, people that come to me and ask me, hey, if you had to buy one, what would you buy? And I tell them all the time, my favorite is still my ASP 25, the original one that came out. It's still my favorite.
The reason why though is because my pouch that I use to carry mine in is a big pouch. So I drop it in and then pull the drawstring. So I don't have to worry about how big around it is. A lot of people don't like the 25 because it is kind of considerably big around. And for a lot of pouches, it don't fit real well. The Taipan 15 for me, I've got one of those too. That's what I've been using for the price point. I don't think you can get any better. There's still a learning curve.
This is what people don't understand. Unless you're willing to go out there and pay 10 grand for a Trijicon, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, that'll, as soon as you look up there, no matter what it pops, unless you're looking to spend that kind of money. There is, especially in the summertime, there's the learning curve. Now nine months out of the year, eight, nine months out of the year, I would say it does its job perfectly.
But there's a few months and a few nights out of the year, it might be raining, which you know, it might be real foggy, something like that where your experience in using that thermal really does hinder what you can find in it. Yeah. You've got to know what it is. You've got to know what you're looking for.
And I honestly, I don't think, and this is one of my personal complaints when it comes to thermals is I don't think they're all built the same because I'll say this because I've had my 15 standing right next to somebody else with a 15 and you go to look at the same coon and they do not appear the same in the screen. It's close, but it's not perfect. So I really do think you have to learn your thermal. And then not only that, but if you don't have one in these hunts, you're in a disadvantage.
Absolutely. It is just another tool. I mean, I think having a thermal is equally, if not more important anymore than having a squalor. I think it's almost more important. I mean, you tell me just in the last few months, how many coons have you found with a thermal that you never would have found before? Oh, a bunch of them because I don't. Yeah. I mean, it's so thick and half the time I don't even squall anymore.
Like I'm finding the thermal and when I'm pleasure hunting, put it this way, when I'm pleasure hunting, I don't even break out a squalor because I know the coons there. Now in a hunt, you do got to see the eyes for everybody to see it. It saves so much time. Like eight minutes you might think is a long time to try and find a coon, but you get in a big thick patch and eight minutes goes by pretty quick. Yeah, it does. So what's this big news? Drum roll please.
I'm not just going to come out and say it just yet. God dang man. I got a question. What? Your Taipan 15, if you was to change anything about it, what would it be? Where the power button is located. Why? Because when I put it in my hunting pouch and then I shove stuff in a bag to go to a hunt on more than one occasion, that power button has found a way to get turned on and I go to pull it out at the hunt and the sucker's dead. I disagree. You know what I think's happening?
I think Bryce Matthews ain't actually shutting it off. He's just hitting the power save. You want to know how I know that's not a true statement? Because two different times I have charged it overnight, get ready to go to a hunt, go down the road and I'll get to a gas station and I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to check that thermal. On two occasions I've pulled it out and it's been turned on halfway down the road. So that's what I would change is the power button position.
So here's the new news coming from Santa Claus Optics, Mr. Travis Shelton. Guys, please go over, support his business. He's been a big supporter of ours. Me and Bryce, Bryce, when you get a second after this, under this post, can you post that you remember that video we did? If I can find it, I've got it. I mean, I've got it saved on my videos somewhere, but me and Bryce did extensive back in the day when they first started coming out, me and Bryce did an extensive video.
Like I said, guys, great. If you want actual like you can ask Bryce when it comes to thermals, Mr. Travis Shelton can tell you he is a geek when it comes to thermals. He can tell you the number. He can tell you the base magnet. He just rattle it off of his head like he is a geek scientist when it comes to thermals. So if you have any questions, call Santa Claus Optics, hit him up. He'll be more than glad to help you out.
Not just for monoculars and coon hunting, but anything coyotes, whatever, whatever your need is. Santa Claus Optics is good. So the big news is AGM is discontinuing the Taipan. What? Yes. You know, this is how it goes. But it works so well. And they have continued the Taipan series as of when it when is this effective? Oh, I'm sure it's I mean, I'm sure it's effective. Like, OK, but they are discontinuing the Taipan series. So now you have the ASP series went away. Taipan series went away.
Now you're going to have the Sidewinder series and you are going to have the Seeker series. Oh, do you have one in your hand? Where did you snag that from? So I didn't even know about this until you called me an hour before we got on here and you've got one in your hand. You've got you've been holding stuff out on me. So I just picked it up today. I drove all the way to Santa Claus to pick it up. So here's the difference. You ready for this?
The biggest difference, I went outside and played around with it. The picture is a lot more clear than with the Taipan. Right. The picture is. But you ready for the biggest? Oh, it's battery. It's battery. I don't know how I feel about that. I love it. Why? Well, I can't read it backwards. So it's a 9900mah 3.7 volt rechargeable battery. You can buy these at low. You can buy them anywhere. And they're rechargeable. So you take three or four of these, put them in your pouch.
If you're thermal, because if you're like me, I am. I'm horrible at charging my thermal. Yeah. Yeah. And I just complained about mine always being dead when I get somewhere. You throw three or four of these because if you remember the charger for these, you can buy one that holds like four. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's what it runs off of. Okay. But what does that do for like, oh, this is where my skepticism comes in. What does that do for like the weatherproofness of it?
Oh, I mean, if you look, you can't see it. But if you look at this, I mean, you can see. Okay. I mean, it's going to be the same. I mean, if you think about it, what's keeping the water out of charging port on your type in right now? A rubber little flat. There is a rubber flat, but it is a very tight rubber flap. I have to use a knife to open it. This right here is not only a tight flap. Hold on. I'll show you. Let me figure out how to do this upside down. Yeah. And then make sure.
Yeah, there you go. So it sits in there. It sits seats. And then this right here locks it. So basically, the way he explained it to me is there's a few upgrades to obviously that the LED screen. So you can see, push down on it. Okay. So there are upgrades to the LED screen. There's upgrades to stuff that we're not going to use, like the microphone and how to transfer it over to your computer and microphone. There's a microphone in that thing. Record. Well, I didn't even know that.
Yeah. So you're telling me you can turn that on and in a cast, you can hit record. And when somebody's giving you the what for the how come you can have audio evidence. Right. Good. But stupid hillbillies would have to try to figure it out. Figure out how. Oh yeah. But anyways, so we pop that battery in there. So that is the biggest difference with the seekers. As far as the price points, they are going to be the same as the Taipan.
So everything's going to be identical as the Taipan series with these. They just changed. Like I said, they upgraded. It's been a few years. The Taipan has been out what? Probably two years. Two years. Yeah. That's how old mine is. Yeah. So you know how it goes. It's just it's time to update the LED screen in it. It's time to update the resolution in it. Do you have your Taipan with you next to you? No it's out. I can get it in like.
Hey you chit chat with somebody real quick and I'll go grab it. Yeah. Because I want to put that Taipan side by side next to that seeker where we can compare it side by side. And Jason, I'm with you. I want to know what the base magnification is on it as well. Because I really like the way my Taipan 15 is set up with a nice wide angle view. Jared Wilgis, he said that the 3560 or 35640 sidewinder is super nice and super clear. So I'm curious to see where this new seeker comes in.
Tracy Thompson, I know you just hopped on here, but Basham is getting ready to come right back. Just debuted a new thermal from AGM. It's called the seeker series. They are discontinuing the Taipan series. So stick around Tracy, you'll see this new seeker compared to the Taipan. Going back to Jared Wilgis, he said that you do get used to where you need to be in accordance to the tree. And the more that you use it, the more you get used to it in different scenarios.
However, he did buy back his original ASP25 and it is very hard to beat. So sounds like some guys are still looking for those ASP25s. Jason Bowen says he still likes his ASP25, but he does like the new removable battery. Bucky Ashcraft, what's up guy? Alright, so let's see this sidewinder. Or not, sorry, sorry, the Taipan compared to the seeker. So as I'm looking at it, they are identical. Okay. However, this one is a little bit better. The seeker? It's a little bit more tactical.
And what I mean by that, guys, is if you look at this, it's kind of squared off. So it's a little bit more tactical built. Or a little bit more smooth around. Yeah, hey, so alright, keep rolling, nope, put it back up there. Rotate, rotate, rotate, stop. Okay, you see the power button? You see how it sticks up above? You see how it's not flush? Okay, now show me that seeker. It looked like it had a raised rib. No, it's got a guard. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, so it's flush.
See, when you hold it level like that, it's darn near flush. The power button is protected. Yes! And these aren't. Yeah. Nicky Elburn, I need a new AGM seeker, please. Thank you. Yup, yeah, you're right. This right here, the power button is flush. And these aren't. Yeah, so I must not be the only person with that problem if they changed it. If you look at it, what is it also? It's protected.
Yeah. So if anybody's coming to Autumn Oaks and would like to buy yours truly a wedding gift, I'll take a lasso and a new seeker. Well, let me give me a couple weeks. Let's let's look at it. Let's see here is set up exactly like the seeker. Batteries are rechargeable. Battery port is the same. You're correct, Jared. The only issue that a lot of people are not liking with the Sidewinder is just different internally. And then I will share the picture that Travis Shelton. Oh, I buy you two.
Do you see that? Oh, Bucky. I see it. Bucky Ashcraft talking big game. We'll see if he comes through. I'll be waiting for you Tuesday at the wedding, not this Tuesday. Back to my original eyes. So if you get with Travis, the Sidewinder is four inches longer than the seeker. A four inches is a big deal. Look out. And it's a lot bigger around. So the guys that are having issues that don't they don't like the Sidewinder that wants something a little bit more compact, basically get with somebody.
Like I said, I don't know about the internals. I just got it today. But we're going to see. I do know that whenever I walked outside, it's a lot clearer as far as the residual. And I messed around with the settings. And Bryce, you will you will love this when it comes to brightness. I can turn it down. You can turn it down to where it's literally all the way black in the screen. Dude, I'm Tony. OK, so you might call me crazy, but I'm dead serious.
I really do think that looking through my Taipan 15 has affected the vision in my right eye a little bit. You might laugh at me. I'm being dead serious. Like because it's so bright. This hurts my eyes anyways. In general, I wear sunglasses everywhere I go. You'll never see me without a hat. Like I do everything I can because my eyes are so sensitive and the brightness, even on like the number one setting is so bright.
When I pull that thermal away from my eye in the middle of the night, I it's like I can't see out of my right eye for a while. My left and then takes my eyes time to like get adjusted. So if I can turn that down, Nicky, Nicky will buy me one tomorrow. That's what she told me. She bought me a she bought me a mower this week, so maybe she'll buy me a new thermal. We're already into this. Let me show you. Oh gosh, he's getting up and moving. That's a nice ceiling thing you got there.
Oh gosh, he's walking outside. I know it. Well, you can't use these ins. Hey, have you ever heard of a just for men? Your beard is getting your beard is getting a little gray there, pal. Oh, OK, we're looking we're looking through a thermal. For those of you who are listening on the podcast form, we're looking through a thermal. He has a screen pulled up. And let's see if we can turn the brightness down. OK, we're going to our settings menu. Now if I can figure out how to do this backwards.
All right, here we go. Ready? Yep, let's go. Oh, oh, oh, don't stop. You slid off. I didn't. There's no there's no way it's that. Oh my goodness. Yeah, there's go back down to one. Five. Hold on. We're gonna go all the way through. Six, seven. And there we go. Get back up there. Eight. I. Ten. One. Oh, yeah, baby. That's what I'm talking about. Man, that brightness is way low. I like that. Hey, I'm with you. Do what? You want to see the chickens in the yard? Yeah, show me your chickens.
Oh, that's number two brightness. Yeah. OK, so I'm with Bucky here. He asked how much are they? What's the price point on these? Exactly the same. Guys, you can if you're on podcast form, listen to this. He's got this side or this new secret pulled up and he can see his chickens flying in the yard. That's awesome. Yeah, red hot doesn't impress me. Black hot. Yeah, OK. Nikki said she's just here for the chickens.
Well, maybe if you sell enough chicken eggs, Nikki, you can buy me a new sidewinder or a new secret. Kyle short hopped on Kyle. What you're watching here, we got a brand new thermal from AGM called the Seeker series. So you have to go back and re listen to this and get all the details on it. Bastion just went through all the details. Like I said, that's what the kind of dark. Yeah, OK. I like it. You know what I mean? All right. You're making me sick. Motion sickness. Pull it off there.
Yeah, so. OK, with that being said, like I said before, Cooper, Cooper just missed it. Cooper just missed the new thermal reveal. Cooper, you're going to have to go back and watch it. You're going to have to go back and listen, go back and watch it. Yeah, so the price point is going to be identical to what the type fans are. So as anybody that has followed the AGM series, there is three different ones you can get.
There's the AGM 15384, the 19384, and then the Seeker is coming out with a special one. It is the 25484. It's OK. So it's called the AGM Seeker 25484. 25484. So the resolution is going to be even better than what the 15 and 19 are. OK, what's, let's go with like a base magnification. What is that? Is it the same as the type fan? So I am going to, I'm going to swipe off of here real quick so I can look at his text message. These should still keep you live and I'll come right back.
OK, I'd be curious to see what that is. Bucky Ashcraft Cooper get Big Daddy Al to buy you one. Oh, Big Daddy Al. That'd be hilarious. He's a good guy, Bucky. OK, come back. You're muted. You're still muted. OK, now. All right. So right now, the Sidewinders, the reason why people are having issues, the Sidewinders start out at a 2.9 magnification. OK, with the Seeker, they start out with the 15384 is a 1.5 magnification. I like that. Barely. That's barely zoomed in more than your eye is. OK.
Yeah. That's barely zoomed in more than your eye. The 19 is going to be at a 1.9. So just a hair bit more. And then the 25484 is going to be at a 2.5. Gotcha. Hey, just FYI, whenever you swiped off there, I was curious how that was going to work. Mark Adkins says we froze up. It took me off too, because you're the one running the live here.
Yes, which is exactly which exactly says what we thought was a problem with our Facebook Live Internet connection was your modem doesn't carry enough bandwidth to carry both of us. Yep. Yep. And the one I had in E-Town wasn't either. But the one that I have here at my house is. Yep. OK. Well, that's good to know. So I can expect Albert Ashcraft to be buying two of these, he said. You guys, you saw it. You heard it right here.
He's buying two of these and he'll be bringing them to the wedding in Autumn Oaks. And then we'll be able to test them. So that's exciting. Well, I definitely like I said, I'm going to be out tonight. I'm going to make a follow me on my Facebook Facebook page, guys. I'll do a couple of videos tonight. Just kind of introductory. But like I said, these seekers, the one I have is just a demo. They're not out yet. So you're not going to be able to call any any hunting supply store and get them yet.
They have not dropped. The one I have is a demo. So the difference real quick, for those of you that we're not watching, the biggest difference is the seekers, they do have a little bit better resolution and they come with a rechargeable battery. It's not a rechargeable battery only for the AGM. You can go to any department store. It's the three point seven volt battery that you get for these thermals. So you can carry three or four or five or however many you want to carry in your pouch.
They're the same size as the type and the type and is getting discontinued, just like the ASP did. They do this all the time. They make a little upgrade. Bryce likes the fact that you can take the brightness all the way down to where it's literally almost black. So go back and watch the video. For those of you that are listening to us on podcasts, go to our Facebook page, Semper Dog and podcast group. Watch the video.
You'll see the chickens in the yard and be able to see the brightness go up and down. I'm going to mess with the contrast. Right now I've got it on jungle, but with this one, there's 10 levels of contrast and 10 levels of brightness. So it's a little different. Yeah. Yeah. It'll take some getting used to to get that figured out exactly what works best. But here's the secret. You've got one before everybody, so you're going to be able to formulate a cheat sheet on how to set them. I am jealous.
The guys I didn't even know about this. My own business partner here didn't even clue me in until an hour before the podcast. Which by the way, when is your youth? Oh yeah. The youth hunts coming up next Saturday, July 13th in Peru, Indiana. We got $2,000 being given away cash money to the youth. So it's going to be there. It's going to be great. We have $2,000 cash, a full prize package. Everybody's going to leave with the prize and a meal free meal for all the kids.
We've got a heck of a prize package put together. We've got some good guides and judges lined up. It's going to be an all right time. Indiana State youth UKC event. It is a licensed event. So yeah, it'll be fun. Can't wait. Awesome. Awesome. Good deal. Good deal. Well, anything else? Big guy? I don't think so. We're going to fix a chicken tractor here before it gets dark. I've still got some work to do. So yeah, this has been one of our longest, man. It's a, it's been a good one.
Yeah. We've been closing in on an hour. I mean, heck, we've talked about everything from goat farming to longhorns to what to do in the heat with your dogs and new sidewinder or new thermals. And by God, it's been solid. We have good internet connection. It's amazing what we can do whenever we're not freezing up every two seconds. Yeah. So just continue watching guys. I'm going to demo this seeker, um, reach out to Santa Claus optics.
Also let's talk, let's give a big shout out to our sponsors, froggy bottom outdoors and never saw it. I just found off road. Um, thank them for everything. They were sponsoring us, believing in us. We couldn't do this. Absolutely. All right, man. Well, I've got things to do. I'm hopping off here. I'm going to get this podcast edited so that it will be released in the morning for those who were not able to watch it live here and we'll get it going.
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