November 6, 2025 • 57 mins
In this episode of In Pursuit, Rich Froning sits down with Trent Ellis, Marine, outdoorsman, and rising social media voice, whose mix of grit, humor, and authenticity has built him a loyal following. Trent opens up about his journey from small-town Mississippi dreams of football, to deployments overseas, to finding peace and purpose back in the woods. He shares how hunting with his brother shaped his early years, why fitness and preparation matter in the backcountry, and how storytelling on social media (and now stand-up comedy) has given him a new platform to inspire others.
From lessons learned in the Marines to the joy of making memories with his own kids in the outdoors, Trent reminds us that living authentically isn’t about chasing the spotlight—it’s about keeping your priorities rooted in family, faith, and the wild.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today, we're joined by Trent els X, marine Instagram influencer
and a guy who's out there inspiring folks to make
light of most situations. In this episode, we're talking to
Trend about how he built his following, his approach and
inspiration for hunting, and what it takes to live authentically.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
In today's world.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Out Here, the stakes are real. Effective preparation starts with fitness,
but it requires so much more. This show explores the tools, knowledge, resilience,
and skills needed to be ready when it matters the most.
Join me Rich Browning as we apply the decades of
wisdom I have gained through training and competition to hunting
(00:42):
in the back country. This is in Pursuit, brought to
you by Mouth Knocks in collaboration with Mayhem Hunt. All right,
in Pursuit, we got Bird. We established that was your
character name from Nolan Bird. We're not even gonna go
through full now do you think they call him bird?
(01:03):
His name is Josh.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Bergeron the eyes and the nose, you could have just
said the note.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So he's trying to be in fifth grade.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
At Recess.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
A lot to unpack here. We're going into the music.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You're gonna have recess. My friend said, hey, you look
like a bird, and ever since then I've been called
bird wife mom everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, and I mean he do you tell these guys?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
So he just call it follows me around.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So he just replanted, here, what year and a half ago?
I mean, I've known bird since twenty fourteen is probably
thirteen fourteen. But he could have like that.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Was that's a lot of time to that's plenty of
time to start over. That was the time and plenty
of this brands like, yeah, it was time, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
But he yeah, I don't need to rebrand. No, nobody
remembers Josh.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You remember Bird though, and we got a lot of
Josh's and Jake's around too.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So well, it does help that you're six four. If
you were five nine, five eight you want to rebrand, yeah,
you'd have a problem.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, awesome. Trent trent Ellis appreciate you coming. You're marine. Yep, yep,
learned you never say former marine. That's a marine, always
a marine, That's right, Mariene At what is it at
Trent Ellis? Is there a number in there?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Twenty one in there for Instagram?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeh, Instagram.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Everything else is just Trent Elis.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Somebody had it, somebody had your handle already.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Maybe is there're an underscoring there? There is?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You need to know that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, I think it's Trent underscore Elis twenty one. Okay, Yeah,
I think that's what it is, all right. Basically, if
you get on there and it looks like me redhead
with a blue check mark that I pay for you
pay for people? Don't do you pay for you?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
My Instagram one? I don't. I didn't. I got in
before that album Grandfathered in Long Time twenty dollars a month,
and then I had one on X for a while,
but I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm more I try not to watch porn, so I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Get on there, right, I on X only get on
there to like find the truth, you know, sure? Sure?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Around election time is the only time I ever really
get on X. I was like, you know what, I'm
not playing for this X.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, you know exactly?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah. Yeah, Twitter don't really. I don't really tweet much.
Bird said, you said, that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I just don't get Yeah, I don't get on it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That's where I get my news from though, you know,
like if I want to see if like what news,
some news, some.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
News not nude like this, yeah this news news news. No,
I do too. I literally only keep it for that
because I just get those, you know, those notifications exactly
what you.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Want to hear.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, the news.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You want to hear.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It definitely is. Uh, it's dividing us more than it's
bringing us together. At this point, you get fed what
you want to get fed.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's a whole nother rabbit hole. But we don't want
to go on that. We want to all right, so
give us your You're from Mississippi, you said you you
basically joined the Marines at seventeen. Huh. Yeah, what prompted
all that? What you know, well, other than want to
be a when I did full blooded American?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, when I didn't get a letter to go play
college football and my dreams of playing in the NFL
were shattered.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Keeping my position linebacker sometimes running back. And that's keep
in mind, that's five eleven, one hundred ninety pounds white
white emphasis and on a good day four eight ninety.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Is that I was. I was on the just that
was that was a.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Cousin with an iPhone that probably fell asleep the first
second that I shot.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
All that not terrible, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It well for college football, it in for yeah. Yeah,
but when you're five eleven, one hundred and ninety pounds,
you're gonna get eaten.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah. So when I when I didn't get a letter
to go play anywhere, I was just like, man, screw this.
I don't want to go to college. I don't want
to do anything. And then you know, it just hit me.
I was like, I just want to be Billy bad
A and I'm gonna join the Marine Corps and uh
and yeah. In boot camp that's when I learned how
bad a that I wasn't. And we got into the ring.
(05:42):
They put us in an octagon and gave us, gave
us ox and gloves, barring equipment. And I was seventeen
and I faced a grown man by the size of bird,
and I was doing some work. Get in there and
you just go to hitting, and I'm noticing he's not
(06:03):
as winded or as bothered by my punches as I
thought he would be. And then it's like he kicked
it in. You know, you know those those little red
and blue guys that you do that right there, That's
what he did to me. And guarantee he hit me
five times in my jjunum within like three seconds. And
(06:24):
I just been over and just started doing the whole
swing above the head, try to survive thingep And that's yeah,
that's when I realized I should have gone to college.
But uh, but yeah, no, I've turned eighteen in boot camp,
nineteen on my first deployment, nineteen on my second twenty
on my or now I went into my third twenty
(06:47):
and turned twenty one on my third, and then I
got out six months after that at twenty one years old.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Associate the service.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, thank you all. Where where old you go in
those deployments. My first one was Akaba, Jordan for a
couple of months, second one was the ball Rain, and
then my third I was on the thirteenth U and
we went all over We went all over Asia and
made a couple of stops in the desert in the
Middle East and came back. So I had a full run.
(07:13):
But I was I want to tell you, I was
glad to es. I was glad to see Mississippi and
get back out in the woods. I remember on my
second deployment, we had outgoing artillery and the first time
we heard it, me and my squad leader, we were
brushing our teeth and it just the whole ground just shook.
And then you know, yeah we didn't. We were like
(07:34):
running to go get our guns and everything, and you
know the guys that we were ripping with, that was
the people we were replacing. I want to say it
was three eleven an artillery unit. They were like, guys,
it's out going. Just it's not a big deal. And uh,
but I remember I remember being woken up by that
about two months later because I was having a vivid
(07:57):
dream that I had a my dad's thirty thirty when
I was behind my grandparents' house and I was just
mowing deer down one by I mean there was like
a big buck big buck dough dough.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Boom, two antler tests.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, I was not following the law and this dream,
I tell you, But I just remember being woken up
by that, and I was like, I wasn't even mad
or worried about the artillery. I was so pissed off
that I got woken up from that deer hunting dream
and I was like, I'm in time to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
(08:36):
like this is. But yeah, so when I got out, man,
I have done everything I could do to get back
in the woods and stay in the woods full time,
which is the whole reason I got into finance, the
whole reason I'm doing social media. Yeah, you know, just
whatever I could do to fund my hunting habit.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah. So what early age hunting with Dad, hunting with Grandpa,
hunting with We heard a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Of your grandpa's exploits, but yeah, he was a he
was a character. Now so my dad never really hunted
his brother though mine and my brother's uncle Sean. He's
the one that got my older brother into it, who
got me into it, So excuse me I got. I
got into hunting with my brother when I was nine.
(09:21):
I killed my first two deer with him and shout
out to him. Didn't even remember the story or the
instances that I killed my first two deer with my brother.
We were talking about this the other night in Texas
and I was like, you remember when I shot that spike,
thought it was a do It was my first time.
The next year I shot the four point, thought it
was a cal horn spike, and it was my first
two deer. We did it together, and he's like, no,
(09:41):
I don't really remember that. Yeah, that's a coore memory
for him.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, that was a pretty traumatic childhood. But anyway, it.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Must not have been a big body deer, big big
body spike.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It wasn't a big bodied spike.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
But my neighbor said he killed one here, big bodied spike.
It was needs to.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Be a T shirt deer and big body spike.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I'm telling you. I said, yeah, you kill anything, yeah,
big body spike. Sweet man, sweet.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But yeah, now it's age gap six years.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Oh okay, so yeah, good little So well.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
When I was nine and Trey was fifteen, I was
at that point to where I was a little brother
that was, you know, cramping his style. Yeah, yeah, you
know what I mean. But he was still a good
older brother that would take me and get me into it.
And man, I don't know what it was, but dude,
when I shot that first deer at nine years.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Old, it just like light bulb.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah. Of course, back then, I didn't think anything that
would come from it making a living. Wise didn't think
that was possible. But I just knew that whatever I
did for a living, it had to allow me to
be in the woods as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Heck you. So that's what we're doing too. Yeah, yeah, hecky,
that's awesome. So military get out finance doing insurance you
said life life insurance first, and then mutual funds that
type of stuff, and then when does the social media?
When does that happen?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
August twenty fourth, Actually it'll be twelve days, it'll be
two years.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Nice, there you go.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, let me August twenty fourth. Yep, August twenty fourth
of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I was sitting in a break room at I'm not
gonna say what school, but I was sitting around around
an area where I live in a school, and I
was waiting on teachers to come talk to me to do,
you know, investments for them and extra stuff and god
love with The only one that came and talked to
me was like, listen, we've been bankrupt twice now and
(11:49):
we would like to invest. And I'm like, no, you wouldn't.
That would not be smart. You need to rebuild, rebrand.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, So I just started. I had seen a couple
of things with Justin Nunley. I had seen it on
a couple of podcasts and he was talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, I met him. He's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah yeah, I was on I was watching some stuff
on him and he was talking about how he started,
and I was like, man, I'm definitely no nunly, will
never be. But I've got a few hair brained ideas
up here. I've told you about my grandfather. Okay, that
runs that run. That kind of stuff runs in my family.
So I'm like, I got some stories that I can tell.
(12:30):
I was like, why don't I just try it? And
I downloaded TikTok that day and I told my wife,
I said, look, I'm gonna do this for seven days
and if I don't hate it, I'm just going to
see where it goes, you know. And here we are
over here killing myself with Rich fronting and the group.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, Scott, Yeah, Austin Angelo, Angela no Ben Ben Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Angelo is thet white one, all white, but not in
a weird way. He's got the white on the edge right. Yeah,
what is it?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Uh? We forgot what that's called, but yeah, Angela's got it.
Yeah man. Uh. It's what's funny is how we got connected.
My wife used to send your videos all the time
and I'd see some of them, but man, she'd send
them all the time. There's you were there was one
you were talking about church and whereby sits. That was
a good one. Yeah, a bunch of them. There's a
bunch of them. But I just reached out. I was like, hey, man,
(13:23):
love your stuff. You know, I knew you were in
coming to Nashville for w t F, which we didn't
actually yeah, and we were actually at Western we missed, yeah,
and so we didn't connect there. But man, it's uh,
your stuff is hilarious. I think it's awesome. But you
know what, what is that once again that's given you
(13:45):
the opportunity to get out and.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
You were like, hey, are you gonna be at n
w t F And he was like w.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Tf just talking and actor.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
There you go. So now what what's uh? What do
you what does day to day look like? Then?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Day to day? We've been actually bombarded with travel, uh
here in the last i'd say six to eight months.
At the beginning of deer season last year, you know,
I traveled and deer hunting a few places. I was
deer hunting a lot. I was hunting a lot at
home and trying to gain a lot of content. And
now I'm stepped into I've stepped into the stand up world.
(14:24):
Oh really doing I did my first one a couple
of months ago was Zach rushing open for him, and
I'm doing my second one August twenty third. Well, this
is not going to release by them anyway, you know,
we can.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Still push it. We'll clip this up.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
But yeah, August August twenty third. This month, I'll be
in Philadelphia, where Hearty's from, and then in Tempe, Arizona
and Flagstaff the twenty fifth and twenty sixth of September.
So but it's I mean, that didn't answer your question
at all. Huge plug though, Yeah, shameless plug. Yeah. Now,
(14:59):
day to day man, and it's it's it's very busy.
There's no time to sit around or do anything. It's
I've got to put out six videos a week for
shorts for my reels, and I try to do too
long form on YouTube a week as well.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So what does the long form look like? I haven't
even I didn't even know you had a long form
on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, so thanks.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I do all them on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I try to I try to post everything, like all
my comedy stuff, all my comedy shorts I post on
every platform, but on YouTube, I also do like shooting videos,
outdoor videos. I might cook a steak. I mean, it's
more of a vlog channel. Yeah, it's more of like
you know, if I have those true followers that are like, hey,
(15:45):
I want to know who more about who Trent really
is non exaggerated. You go to YouTube and look up
my yeah data exactly. So that's it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, So shooting videos, somebody goes there. And for shooting
videos you just said normal like hunting videos, long forms
hunting stuff. Yeah, what what hunts you got coming up
this year?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Only one? I got a little girl coming in out. Yeah, No,
I'm gonna be I'm gonna be around the house mostly,
so it's going to be a lot of you know,
hunting either behind the house or on public really close
And the only one that I have that I know
of right now is an Oklahoma trip in January that
I'll be going with a buddy of mine, and other
(16:31):
than that it will just be you know, me hunting Mississippi.
You know, whether that, like I said, that's at the
house or that's on public close by. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
So how was stand up for the first time the
night before.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
First of all, I thought guys that said they had
anxiety were just on their way to transitioning until that
night and I was like full blown panic attack. I
was like good the whole way up and that night
I'd gone over my stuff and I was just like
I was actually contemplating Colin Zach and being like, dude,
I'm sick, you know, coming up with excuse and I
(17:11):
was like, Nope, not doing that. I'm gonna bomb. If
I bomb, I'm gonna bomb like a man. And dude,
I went and I just prayed beforehand, and I was like, Lord,
give me a piece, you know. Whatever happens happens, but
I'm gonna go up there. I'm gonna do my best.
And I ended up. He was like before and he's like,
if you can do ten to fifteen minutes, that'd be great.
(17:31):
End up doing thirty three minutes. So because he he
now there was a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
There off the crowd.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Though. Yes, I didn't account for laugh breaks and stuff
like that, which is great, but I also had a
lot of fat that needed to be trimmed. You know.
I was able to get nineteen minutes of it, and
there were a lot of a lot of things from
my first one that I was able to learn, you know,
like I said, trimming a lot of fat and stuff
and it went. I was pleas with it. You know,
(18:01):
I'm not gonna say I killed it or anything like that,
but I definitely made some folks laugh. I think there
was about three hundred or three hundred and fifty people there,
so it wasn't like a real small, small club, and
but it made me. I got a buddy of mine,
Dylan Reese, Dalan and Shelby. They have a you know,
they do social media. They're ten times bigger than I am.
(18:23):
He's the guy that loves mustard. You know, she'll be
you know, he does that. Anyway, I called him and
was telling him about it, and he wanted me to,
you know, let him know what it was like. And
he's like, dude, what did it feel like? And I said,
you know how when you have a video go like
ten million views? So yeah, I said, it ten times
better than that with that entire room. Yeah, because like
(18:45):
the video, you you edit that, you look at something
you're like, ah, that's not good. I'm gonna reshoot that.
You get one chance when you're on that stage and
those people are just sitting there, especially if they don't
know you, you know, and a lot of folks in
the out did not know me. I asked, I was like,
does anybody know what I do online? And I had
like one person like sure, and I was like, good deal, gotcha.
(19:08):
It's like, well, I'm doing only fans and they like that,
but but no, it's it's it was. It was good.
It was good, and it was one of those things
that you know, I really hope and pray that the
Lord will allow me to make that a big part
with my career. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
That sounds a lot like competing. I've had those nights
before where you're like, why am I doing this? God,
just if you could take this away, please just do it?
Like you know, there's there's those times of right, but
it's usually only right before competition. Then once you settle in.
I'm sure it's very similar where you're like, all right,
I'm inute and we're doing this. But that lead up
to it, Man, you put so much into it and
(19:47):
then you're like, oh, here we go. Yeah that's awesome.
I'll have to have to try to get to one
of those. I'm saying if he was in Arizona, but
you won't be there that that's not that same week
guys are heading out there. Yeah, so next steps you're
kind of leaning more into that, into the you know,
(20:08):
getting on stage, doing some of that, continue with what
you're what you're doing social media wise, that type of stuff,
and then you got other big plans, anything else that
you're other than being a dad dude.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
So, like I always tell everybody on every podcast when
they asked me, like what are your future goals? You know,
what do you want to do? What do you want
to where do you want to get to? My favorite
quote is by Alex Rmosy. I don't know if y'all
know him. He's like the yeah, I've seen him, Okay,
all right, And I don't know in y'all's world if
he's like, you know, Doucebag, oh Locker loves him, Okay, okay,
(20:45):
what of our guys loves him? He he said when
I was coming back from Kansas two years ago, I
was listening to some of his stuff and there was
a quote from him that that I just fell in
love with and it made so much sense to me.
And he was like, if you make the work your
goal and just focus on the work. Whatever your goal
(21:06):
is in the future happened, you will attain it or
get a lot closer to attaining it. And I don't
really have like, look, I would love to have, you know,
five hundred to one thousand acres that I live on
one day. I love I would love that. That would
be I'm all about hunting them, all about land, all
that kind of stuff. But if all I can do
is kind of sit back and like look at that
(21:26):
calendar and say, I'm I'm I'm getting closer, but I'm
still so far away from man, all I'm focused on
is six videos a week and two long forms.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And trying to be the best, the best husband I
can be, you know. That's and trying to do all
of that without having to leave the house. You know that.
That's one thing that in the last I would say
year that I've been very blessed to do, which is
travel and meet new people. That's that's been the best
thing is to meet good quality people. But it's definitely
(22:02):
opened my eyes being a family man that traveling. Like
That's the thing with stand up Too, is like I'm
not I'm probably never gonna be that stand up comedian
that travels six months out of the year. The way
I could do it, i'd probably be because.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You can't travel, or you're just actually not that funny.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Okay, Bird rebrand, rebrand, that's right, that's.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Bird's new name.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But yeah, I would. I would not mind if it
was something where I could have a like a bus
and and yeah and say, hey, five days a month,
we're gonna go, and I'm gonna do three shows a month,
have one day on each end, whatever the case. And
you can still and stand up, make nobody know who
you are, and you make good money doing that and
(22:51):
work hard for five years and invest and save up
and do whatever. But uh, but yeah, man, traveling like
being away from home, away from.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
The family family.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't see how a lot of guys do it.
That's my big.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Thing with what we're trying to do with hunting, and
everybody's like, what's then going. I'm like to get better
at it to when my kids get older that I
can actually take them with us and it not be
miserable for them. You know, Like we've gotten out, gotten
out of the way of all the public land over
the countertag Colorado Trips and learned enough that hey we
can you know, we know what we're doing now instead
(23:28):
of just shot in the dark to where when the
kids want to go, man, I want to take them.
I want them to be a part of that. You know,
talking about Trice my son, he's in Jai bird son.
They they could fish all day and love fishing, and
so I'm like, all right, let's get them. You know
they they will hunt, I guess, but you know at
that age, at eight, you know, with the bow it's
(23:52):
not powerful enough to really kill anything at this point.
And we're not doing a crossbow. Bird's a big crossbow guy.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I don't know if you are, but it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Shoulder problems.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Shoulder problems. Since he moved here, he doesn't use the
crossbow anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
So ji Ji has a crossbow.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So but yeah, I mean, my goal is to make
it a family thing, is to make it something where
we can share it with the kids. You know, we
talked similar like my background, I didn't my dad didn't
take us hunting. That just wasn't you know. It wasn't
what he did and wasn't what I did. I was.
I'm not getting up early. I got to get ready
for whatever sport I was doing. And but my kids
seem to have that where they're like, oh, yeah, I
(24:31):
want to go. They want to be a part of
whatever I'm doing. So I want to be able to
have that and share that. So, I mean, there's a
lot of parallels with what you're talking about. Man, I
don't I hate traveling or leaving them. If they can go,
then cool, let's do it. But I hate. I hate
leaving them. So I understand that completely.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Well, I'm gonna tell you, like when you have kids
that can't be steel, you know, and and well and
it was me too.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I didn't get to where I would sit in a
tree for like three hours plus at a time until
I was a teenager. And by that time I was
I had a goal. I was like, I have got
to kill a rat buck, I have got to do
all this kind of stuff. And that drives kept me
in the tree. But until then, I was walking around.
I was sitting in the stand for an hour and
a half getting down, I was duck hunting. You know.
(25:17):
I think it's good for kids, if you know, especially
from my father's standpoint, is to be good enough at
all that kind of stuff. To where you can show them.
And like, for me, I love the deer hunt. It's
like deer turkey, duck arlon may be duck fishing, duck
deer turkey, whatever the case. But I mean kids, especially,
(25:39):
I think that's fishing.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Their constant, constantly cast.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And another thing is like public. If y'all got public
close by, that is a perfect way to carry a gun,
you know, or whatever and say hey, Bud, hey Trice,
we're gonna walk, you know, two miles today. We're just
gonna slip. This is not this is not a race.
We're trying to get in there. Sneak around, ye, and
we're gonna you know, we're gonna get on the map,
(26:04):
do this and then come back. And you never can tell. Man,
you may bump a little basket rack six point and
if you're on public, you don't care who cares. Bust it. Yeah,
you know, let that boy bust it. And he's gonna
be like, dude, this is the greatest thing. Yeah, awesome,
you know. Ye, So guys we're there. That's one thing
I mean with kids, it's uh, it'd be very difficult
(26:24):
for a eight year old toy. All right, sit there
and that stand and watching and be quiet, be still
and be quiet.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It ain't happening. Yeah, we've taken him turkey out. In
a couple of times, we killed one. I had to
low crawl out to a jake. I was like, I'd
had enough, I hadn't killed anything, and I'm like, screw it.
I low crawled probably three hundred and four hundred yards
out to this jake and killed it. And he thought
it was the coolest thing ever. But it's like, what
took you so long? You know, like because I left
him in a ditch, you know, just watching with Ben
(26:51):
or camera guy, and uh, it was funny. I killed it,
and then the other jake that was with it just
kind of stood there and stared at me, like what
are you doing here. I'm like, taken him too, but
I didn't, you know, and so but yeah, it's you know,
having those moments. I killed a dough with him last
year in the stand and you know, all morning he's
loud and not quiet whatsoever. And then finally this doe
(27:12):
walks out and I'm like, screw it. It's early archery. Yeah,
I was like, I'm taking it, and so I shot
and he goes. I hit it and he goes, good
shot dad, and you're just like, man, the like memory
of that, like I'll always really just as soon as
I hit it. And it wasn't even a great shape.
She died at where she was, but it was a
little high and whatever. But he was just like, good
shot dad, and I was like, yeah, it was, you know,
(27:33):
and be able to share that, yeah, and have that memory.
And he has that memory, you know, like we That's
one of the things too, is hell. I was thirty
six before ever cleaned a deer by myself, you know,
like I'd done it with buddies, but never by myself
out there. And I'm like, I don't want that for
my kids. So anytime any any of the neighbors kill anything,
(27:54):
we all meet up and the kids come out, and
my kids now will hop in there and like they
love it, and man, they want the whole heart of everything.
They want to eat the heart. I'm like, all right,
let's get it. That's good, like the turkey and everything.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Get the heart. And I'm like, what do you mean
get the heart?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
You know, like it.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Doesn't even have it like.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
This big yeah, but we cooked it and ate it.
You know. That's that's their thing. So I'm all for it, man.
I think that, Yeah, make it a family thing, make it,
you know, something that they just do right. So yeah,
it's a good idea is finding some public around here
taking the boys.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
What's your uh? If you make that much content a week?
Is that just usually like past experiences like how do
you come up with some new stuff?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Honestly, chat GPT just no. I have used that for
some titles. Yeah, honestly, if I if I sit there,
just I am lucky enough, and I think it's you
got to be a certain amount of crazy and hair
brained enough that I can just come up with stuff,
(28:57):
you know, just on the fly. And once you do it.
It wasn't always that easy to come up with good stuff.
But I mean I backed off content where I was
when I started, I was doing roughly two videos a day,
two to three, and then after January of twenty four,
(29:19):
I've been doing about six months roughly. I backed off
to one video a day, seven days a week, and
then another six months to a year goes by it,
and I'm like, all right, I'm gonna get more into
loan form and I'm going to work on try to
work on that when I can and I'm going to
back off to six shorts a week. But I mean,
(29:40):
if you're making one minute long videos primarily, you know,
one video takes me thirty minutes tops, and that's from
start filming to stop, and then it takes no time
to put an on screen text plus captions. So you're
(30:01):
not really talking about a lot of work. But I
just got lucky with, you know, just being able to
come up with stuff. And now I'm in my own rhythm,
so I'm my brain's kind of geared.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
To Oh that was funny that work yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And and you know, it's just I'm
always thinking about stuff, always think it's just like when
we were, you know, going out there and working out,
Like I had no I had no intentions of filming
that I'm going to film the US shooting the bows,
but I was like, man, this would be a great
opportunity for just to show people my fat gut and
me set here dying while these guys is just another
(30:36):
day in the office, and people that that would be
funny to watch me suffer.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
How was the workout?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
It sucked? Yeah, I hated it. I want you to
know that not any part of it you liked. No, no,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
From the push ups.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
No, no, I do think that you have to be
a certain amount of psychopath, so not only do that,
but be four times the greatest at it formally, Yeah,
because I mean I was like just getting a good
sweat and you were already done sweating.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Like, man, I sweat and this humidity. I mean, I'm
sure it is the same way at your place. It's humid.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Well, and Bird made me feel great before we started.
He's like, keep in mind, and I know what you
did there. He's like, I'm fifteen years older than you.
I'm like, yeah, thanks, Bud. That was really him saying,
hey watch me smoke you. No, fifteen years Yeah, I
would say, so you held your own dude, I would say,
so I was dying. I was dying.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You played it off well, we were all dying a
little bit, you know, like that's that's kind of the point, right,
you got to get to that point as you got
to kind of accept that we're all we were all dying.
It all. It hurt every person in there, probably the same.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I had two sausage of biscuits this morning before I
got here. That felt good to me. I will say
I enjoyed that.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
After round three, bird looked at me and he goes three.
I told you, I thought we were going thirty minutes. Oh,
I thought we're going thirty minutes. After room three, he
put his hands on his knees. I thought he was
going to throw up there. Yeah a minute.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Now, gas station chicken biscuit or homemade, Oh, gas station?
Which one it was?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
It was? It was gas station typical sausage biscuit. Yeah.
Well this was in Alabama, but it was close. Yeah,
it's over a little. I crossed over. It was nine dollars.
I tell you, I didn't enjoy that nine dollars. I didn't,
but I'd pay it again before I do what we
just did, all right, And that was a beginner workout.
That was that was beginner. I haven't worked out and
(32:49):
that like that.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You said, you've been doing some push ups to get ready.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
For five days, and that's one hundred push ups over
like a twelve hour period.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I tried to get him to scale the push up.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, I did. I did fifteen my first, and then
I saw a bird over here doing more than I said, Hey,
are you doing fifteen or twenty? He's like twenty five.
I'm like, all right, well I'm doing twenty five. So man,
I did twenty five my last four. But that's the
only thing that I felt good about. It was the
twenty five push ups.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
It was one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, but each set got progressively worse. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We did a little two hundred meters run one hundred
foot farmers carry with one hundred pounds, twenty five push ups,
hundred foot farmers carried two hundred meters and you that
full round back and forth with a partner for five
live sets.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
And we did one hundred and fifty meter run.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Because rich you you did.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Bird nobody likes you. Hey, this is it right here.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
It wasn't a it was just it was.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
One of those things like here, we'll just you know,
you do one hundred and fifty eight fifteen and we
were trying to give you. Even asked me, it's like,
you want to do seventy or one hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
And I said, he said he did one challenges manhood,
which I respect.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
I have kids now, but I also look like, to me, we.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Got to meet you where you're at. We can't get
you hurt. On the first time.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
My shoulder's gone. My right shoulder for whatever reason, is done.
So like you said, well ago about shoot or like
I said to you about shooting the bowl, like I'm
probably gonna lose some mars. I brought him to lose.
I brought him to lose. I am glad that I'm
able to have a conversation right now, you know, preface
it and well and not pass out. Yeah it pass Yeah,
(34:41):
but I got a dyck Coke, got dyck coche that
hey game, that was worth the drag. Right, that's the
Lord's chicken.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Old Jesus chicken. What do you What chicken do you
get on Sunday? If Chick fil As closed? What's your
back up? Go to? I know what birds is.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
You know, it doesn't have to be chicken. It could
be deer mate steak. Yeah, but you're coming home from
a trip and you want to stop fast food, right
Donald McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Crispy's Chicken from the gas station.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
He's going to he saw the pink stretch marks over here.
That's yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
I said, you were wearing a belt that was.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Just there in Mississippi. If you're going to stop, that's
where you stop.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Birds is canes canes No, I'm oh, you're a Popeyes. Oh,
Popeyes is good.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
I love some red beans beans from Popeyes.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Scott is Canes Eyes is good.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I'm not racist. That is really good?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Is both?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Both are Louisiana? Okay, places God.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Is one hundred percent. He says Cane's chicken is better
than Chick fil A's chicken.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Sauces.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
No, it's got that's Scott.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
She's from Scott still from Michigan.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
You're you're Scott. Who was I talking to?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Ill?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Him? Scott? Three till you did say nothing? You didn't
say nothing either.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I did.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Why I tried to? I said, that's Austin, you did Yeah, alright,
I got this here is bad, so dad, Scott, Austin,
I apologize. You have great hair and great posture. So sorry, Scott.
I thought you were No.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Scott's all right, You're good. You got thrown into the fire.
You like you walked in contract from leaving. We started
to work out as soon as you got in here.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Everybody's shirts off when I get here, and I'm like,
this is not good.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
He can't even think straight from the workout.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
I can't know he's got that coke. But yeah, Scott
Scott says Canes chickens better, so sauces sauce is good
homemade sauce? Was that?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
What about Zaxby's.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
I like Zaxby's. I don't mind zaxby.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
The first Canes was at the North Kates Fellowship.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Are you a You're an LSU fan? That make sense? Now,
it all makes sense.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Are you Are you a rebel or.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Christians?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Are you a rebel or a bulldog?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Okay, well, technically I am a bulldog because that's where
I went to college.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
But I think you didn't have to go to college.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, well that's that's the thing. You know. You you
go after it because you get paid to do it
and you get an interdisciplinary studies degree. What is that
good for? Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Neither is an exercise science degree? Comedy.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah, but my whole family was Old Miss fans. Are
are Old Miss fans. I've got two aunts that are
pharmacists that have pharmacy degrees from Old Miss and I've
got a sister in law that did the same thing.
And uh so I grew up as an Old Miss fan.
The only time that I cheer against them is when
they play Missippi State and other than that. Let's you know,
(38:05):
I'm going for.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Him so I can understand hate. Now that's shoot, I.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Don't hate lsu Yo.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
I just wanted to pick at you of one, what
two of the last ten years? Maybe what? Oh Miss?
When like two of the last ten.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Years, I think, Okay, let's not get carried away by
one good season, all right. Joe Burrow was there, you know,
and then after he left, everybody quit and got head
coaching jobs.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
And I was at the Old Miss game last year
when also lost.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Okay, Like I said, I'm a State fan, all right,
all right, his nose keeps getting bigger and bigger this
whole podcast. I'm telling you, I swear it's gonna be
Pinocchio before it's.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Y'all really thought y'all had a shot last year, you know.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
As a State fan, I'm an old Old Miss fan.
I was a fan of Old Miss before they got good,
before it was cool, all right, yeah, before the twenty
fourteen era, before Lane came.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah, it's like Eli Manning days, yes, well, and that
was iffy.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Yeah. And then of course when I became a State fan, guy.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
From blindside Michael or Michael.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, back in those days, thought you were gonna say
Tim mcgrawl, he's a good singer, bullet.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Good movie.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
But yeah, so it's you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
A miss I'm a Dame fan, so I can't say no,
you're not, are you grandpoint another dame?
Speaker 2 (39:33):
I mean, Rudy was awesome.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Rudy was awesome, but he's a fraud.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
What about man? Tell you his girlfriend she was a fraud? Man?
You heard me? Old many God.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Coach O was also their coach.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Oh was he?
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Go tuggers. Ye Now, I love coach. I love coach.
When they fired him, he said.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
You know, miss ely Lsu Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yeah, they said, we're coach, We're prepared to give you.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
I think it was like seventeen.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, seventeen million dollars, you know. And he's like, which
door you want me to go out of? And when
you want me to go? And that is the most
honest answer for anybody.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
I wish Facebook would call me and say that I'd
never post another video a day in my life.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Seventeen million to walk away?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Oh, I'd run away?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, so good. It's like we were just watching Moneyball
when he's talking to David Justice and he's like the
Yankees are paying me to keep you because you're that bad, you.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Know, you know which he just came out and said,
all that's totally.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
A lot of it was fake. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Oh Moneyball with Brad Pitt.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah, there's thak just they just somebody had just interviewed
David Justice. He was like, that's not happened.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, well he's probably not gonna admit being so bad
that he was paid by another team of State.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
That's a great movie though, Oh.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I love it. Rad Pitt and Jonah Hill, they killed it.
He gets on base, Yes, I thought you were going Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
No, No, it was pointing and he's supposed to get
on base.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah, messed it.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
All right.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
So fitness wise, I know, we talked about you working
out too.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
You saw me with my shirt off, you know, the
answer to whatever question from Marine Corps.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
You've done a lot before that. Yeah, but you're a
young guy. So Marine Corps is only like three years ago.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
No, that was like seven right now now.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Actually it was a little bit and a little bit
of CrossFit stuff, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
I did beforehand? I did? I think I did CrossFit
and Mantatchi in my hometown twice before the Marines, and
I was like, I'm not doing this, and.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
So that doing it twice going in the marine, that
was you getting ready, just like you did push ups
for five days before you came here.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Exactly got it and I passed with flying colors. So
and now, yeah, this is just a bunch of massochists.
That's how you are. You just love to hurt yourselves,
you know. I mean, but hey, I mean I did
the bear. I would say bare minimum in the Marine
(42:22):
Corps when it comes to fitness outside of lifting weights,
any kind of cardio or anything, because we were always running,
We're always hiking, you know, putting a pack on my back.
I feel like, right now I could still put a
pack on forty to sixty pounds and walk ten miles.
(42:42):
You know, I'm not gonna walk at a fast twelve
to fifteen mile an hour pace.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
But next day, how are you gonna feel? Oh?
Speaker 2 (42:51):
If I did it right now, crap like crap. I'm
gonna feel like crap tomorrow. But I could do it.
And that's what I was geared more towards. I was
never the that was never the three hundred PF tier.
I would never Yeah, but I was never running a
sub eighteen minute three mile, But I was I never
had I never fell out of a hike. I was
always good with, you know, putting a lot of weight
(43:13):
on my back and walking with the rest of the
guys and doing that that it's stunk, but I could.
It was always something I could push through.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
But when I start losing my breath or whatever and
it starts getting sharp to breathe, that's like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
So you you know, you said you had the you
would go through phases where you powerlift a little bit,
you said you'd go back to you did some cardio stint,
you said, yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
So when I got out of the Marines, I quit run,
I quit doing cardio, just ate whatever I wanted to,
and I lift weights five six days a week and
tried to get as strong as possible. And as soon
as I got to my strongest, I was deadlifting six hundred.
I benched, I failed three eighty five, and I passed
with flying colors three sixty five. I want to say
(44:00):
I was right there at that three seventy three seventy five,
squatted five twenty five, which I have videos of all this,
So yeah, anybody want to call me out, I can
provide evidence. But I was at that point, I was
two hundred and twenty pounds, and to compete at two
hundred and twenty pounds, those numbers each on each one
(44:20):
of those need to be about two hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
So but twenty nineteen came around. I had been out
of the Marines for two years, and I was just
I was like, man, screw civilian life. I hate this,
I hate these people. I'm trying to get back in.
At the time, the Marine Corps still had their old
tattoo policy and this one. I didn't have this, but
(44:45):
this one disqualified me really, which is nuts because now
you can get tattoos everywhere with your eyelids pretty much.
And so I was like, all right, I want to
try to do special forces with the Army. Do that
through the National Guard, train up, finish out my I
was already two years into college, and train up as
soon as I graduate, start doing the that's a a
(45:10):
guy that I was in a union with right there.
As soon as I graduate college, try to go to selection,
and if I get selected, go from there. And I had.
I went from lifting weights and trying to get as
strong as possible to literally like not touching another weight
for two to three years and just running body weight,
(45:33):
you know, doing doing hikes. I mean I got in
really good shape where I was two hundred and right
at two twenty. But I want to say my two
mile was thirteen twenty seven. You know, do do seventy
push ups? I sucked at sit ups really, yeah, sit
ups like I was only doing like sixty. But yeah,
(45:57):
I want to say it was it was, yeah, something
like that. But but I was doing real and my
rucks were really good. I was rocking all the way
up to six to eight miles and getting ready. I
had schools. I had Airborne School in twenty twenty. That summer,
I had Sergeant's course because they didn't take the one
in the Marines, and then I had an MOS school
(46:18):
all lined up for the summer of twenty twenty, and
y'all know what happened. In twenty twenty COVID hit. They
canked all that, and in twenty twenty of March is
when I started in finance. So while they canked all
of the schools, canceled all of the drills, all I
had time to do. I was already going to school online,
and then I was starting in finance, starting to make
(46:41):
a little money, picked up into deer season, I got
a little cash in my pocket. I'm starting to think
about family, I'm starting to think about freedom, all this
kind of stuff. So yeah, I was like, you know what,
I think, I'm gonna go this route. Let my contract
run out the next year, and that's when I went,
you know, I made this decision to go full time
(47:01):
and finance. And then shortly after we started social media.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
So no more fitness, No, no.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
I definitely I'm gonna get back into doing good.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
You got the good base though. You know, you've got
the strength background so you can do the movements technique obviously,
if you're doing that heavy a weight, you got the
techniques out of it, and then you've built the I mean,
here's the deal is when I hear all that you've
done CrossFit, Like, you know, all CrossFit did was take
the good things about all different types of working out
and blend them into one. So yeah, you know, you've
got that background, so it wouldn't take long. You know.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
While I have jokingly and seriously talked a lot of
crap about CrossFit today, but I respect anybody that does
CrossFit on a weekly basis right, because literally to go
out there and do that stuff, you're not only you're
not only doing a hit workout, but you're adding like
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those farmers carries. If you took those farmers carries, that
we out of the workout much easier workout. And it
goes from what I would consider probably a moderate workout
too for somebody like me, an excruciating workout and you're
only moving a you know, yeah, sept but it's I
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think I think you know, it's definitely very functional. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
That's the point is, you know, we want and what
we're trying to do is get guys and girls ready
to go out west and not ever question, hey can
I go that far? You have any aspirations to go
out west and hunt?
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Or oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, and I've been. I've
been out west. My wife's from Washington and Oregon, and
I've been in both places in Turkey hunting and been
up the mountains.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
She's from both places. She is like, yeah, how's that happening.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
I know it's hard for somebody from Louisianna understand this bird,
but she was born in Oregon and raised in Washington,
so she lived the first, I want to say, like
five or six years in Agon and then the rest
of her time before she moved to California.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
Uh, watching she also from California.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Well, because she's my wife and I don't want her
to be so, you know, Washington and Oregon is good
enough for me.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Yeah, dude, we need to make that happen.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
We need go out west.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
It'd be a fun be fun camp, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
There's nothing like killing a turkey in the snow. That
is dude, when they when you're leaning on a four
foot high snow bank and you call a rio or
a miriam up, oh ten feet from you.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
We can go in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yeah, in turkey hunt, Yeah, for sure, Colorado's Miriams.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
Miriams are rios.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
I'm not sure. Yeah, I think it's well, yeah, I'm
not even gonna guess because it's definitely one of the two.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
But yeah, yeah, I need to I don't know.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
Yeah, that was in season two, right, Turkey hunting in
the snow.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
You need to edit that out.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
There's nothing like it. You'll never experience.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
There's nothing like turkey hunting in December, you know, right
after Christmas.
Speaker 1 (50:08):
Yeah, man, I've said this for a long time.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
Put out in season. I'll take it on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
So yeah, don't put the state, don't put the date.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
You're all right, that's right. Yeah, they can't prove anything,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Yeah. I've always said, like the week before Thanksgiving, you
should be able to kill a turkey.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
You know you can out there. Literally a lot of
places on the side of the South have a fall
turkey seat.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
We do tall turkey one here, but it's just so
hard to kill them in the fall unless you're you know, well, you're.
Speaker 2 (50:38):
Deer hunting them. You're trying to get in front of them.
There's no calling, and it's like, I hate deer hunting turkeys.
I love deer hunting. I love turkey hunting, but I
hate when you try to do the other with Yeah,
yeah I would. I would turkey hunt style, dear, I
would like that.
Speaker 3 (50:57):
Can't in like Kansas?
Speaker 2 (50:58):
Yeah, yeah, not here.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
Not here, not here. I've tried it with the bow
with a gun Mayby.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Yeah, what about you bird? Do you hunt out here? Now?
I mean you said you cross Bode, but we shut two.
Speaker 3 (51:13):
We shut two deer from front ports.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
Oh, so you do it, socials, So you can like
just talk about it. Yeah, he's like, yeah, I killed
a deer. Yeah, it's a big body spike. Are you
that he's talking about?
Speaker 3 (51:26):
You know that one was two eighths Actually, there you go.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Your wife killed one though, right now she killed one.
Speaker 3 (51:33):
I killed one.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Okay, it's easier here, both with easier here than Louisiana.
That's for sure, one.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Thousand percent easier than Louisiana. There's nothing but swamp deer.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
Dude, I looked at especially where I live, talking about like,
I don't know what the deer statistics are, but I
looked it up on chat GPT a week ago. And
I want to say, in twenty twenty five, this past
spring season, there were thirty three hundred birds reportedly killed
in Louisiana, and in twenty twenty four they hadn't done
it Mississippi yet in twenty five, but in twenty twenty
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four and twenty twenty three from Mississippi it was over
thirty thousand. And So when people ask me, like, what
do you think the hardest place is to hunt, Louisiana
is always the number.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
Turkey hunt is way easier here, yeah for sure. Yeah, yeah,
it's not even still it's not even fun.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
Yeah, yeah, and even those we can hear three a day,
we can kill three dos a day.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Wow, is it one buck a day or no, that's
something two a year, two a year. Okay, Hey, I
know some states are two or three at total, but
you can kill all of them in the same day.
I need to look. I've never had that problem, but
I could have just lied. I think there is a
I check here there. You definitely don't take my word
for it, but I think there is one or two
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states that you can like their overall bag limit for
the season can be harvested in one day. They don't
care as long as you don't go over them over there.
Speaker 3 (52:59):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
I know it's that way.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
Turnacy might be that way, but I'm not one hundred
percent sure. I'll have to check it this year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:05):
So let me ask y'all something. When did you figure
out that you were going to get into CrossFit? I
know you said you were going to get into hunting back,
you know.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
Yeah, But I honestly, when I was a firefighter, I
was getting my degree in exercise science.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
My whole.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Well, I basically was just getting a degree that I
could promote. You know, it looks good on paper that
you have a college degree when you want to promote
at the fire department. Even though it was an exercise
science degree, and so I was doing that. They were
paying my tuition. So I was full time firefighting and
going to school.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
And one of my.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
Professors, who was the head strength and conditioning coach. You know,
usually when you get a coach for a professor, you're
watching videos, and so we were watching a CrossFit dot
com video and he was like after class, he was like, hey,
should you like working out in your firefighters? A lot
of military, police fire do CrossFit. You should check it out.
Now we sit here.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
That's the rest is dream and bird. You said, y'all
met twenty fourteen or sixteen.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
Yeah, we have like a mutual friend who's also a
financial advisor.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
You gotta watch out for them.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
Yeah, don't trust him.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
Yeah, yeah, I do trust him, but with something with
some things money, yeah, would not.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
I want to my money, not mine?
Speaker 1 (54:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
Yeah, So y'all made it a game or something games
or something like that, or.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
Spoke at their church. Yeah, he came, spoke at church
and then we would beach one.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
Time to the beach.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
So there was alcohol involved. No, oh you said, never
mind Catholic church.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Oh not a wasn't masked. I I was raised Catholic,
but it didn't drink. Like what yeah, I got not
been to the Catholic church in years. Oh that's co
other than weddings.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
How long have you been out here now?
Speaker 3 (54:48):
I moved here February of twenty four.
Speaker 2 (54:51):
Oh okay, getting almost two.
Speaker 1 (54:54):
Almost two years. Yeah, he came out to run. We
were like, man, I really enjoy hunting. I see an
need for fitness in the hunting space.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
And there was and there was nobody fitter and me
and bird. It's not true.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
At all, I know.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Yeah, yes, the bird's been here ever since, does a
lot of stuff with us and wears many hats now.
But yeah, started out there and now our kids our
friends and hang out all the time, and so birds
one of us now. Same with Scott Scott. Me and
Scott started hunting together.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
That's Scott.
Speaker 1 (55:30):
That's Scott.
Speaker 2 (55:31):
There we go, I got your brother.
Speaker 1 (55:33):
Me and Scott hunted together, and he's filmed pretty much
all of our hunts minus like what three probably and uh,
axis you didn't get the axis this year with me yeah,
two el CONTs.
Speaker 2 (55:46):
Right, you'all got a Texas for axes. Dude, Texas has
everything everything. You can kill a rhino and a white tail,
a rattlesnake, a goose of every access everything. I didn't
realize and Texas all you have to do is have
that general hunting license that's nine hundred and fifteen dollars a.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
Non native five day hunt, non native species thirty eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (56:16):
Thirty Caxes is like, all we don't care, just come
kill it, like that's it. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (56:22):
An access deer they dropped four faunds every three years,
so some deer is always in cycle, so they're always
you could kill them. They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
Yeah, it's awesome. How do they taste awesome? Better?
Speaker 1 (56:37):
Better than whitetail? Yeah? Really, they're good. They're really good.
I've got something you can go home with. Maple sausage.
It's not regular sausage. It is maple sausage.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
But that's totally fine. Make a sausage biscuit tomorrow, you
dang right, but some bread in that thing. Now there
we go.
Speaker 1 (56:54):
There we go. Awesome, man, Appreciate you coming on. Appreciate
you hanging out. We're gonna go shoot a little bit too.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
Yeah, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (57:00):
I appreciate it having Trent Ellis Underscore twenty one, twenty one.
Speaker 2 (57:06):
Underscore Elis twenty one, I think is what it is. Basically,
if you type in Trent Ellison, it looks like me.
You probably a little longer hair, I think in your no,
I've changed that.
Speaker 1 (57:16):
Oh you changed it.
Speaker 2 (57:16):
I changed that. I went and now it's me and
my son on there. Oh okay, yeah he's on my
back and I'm like, yeah, so love it, love it
all right?
Speaker 1 (57:24):
We shall one piece of we give, give somebody a takeaway.
What do you got?
Speaker 2 (57:29):
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but don't get up, give up. Know what? Just subscribe
Today, we're joined by Trent els X, marine Instagram influencer
and a guy who's out there inspiring folks to make
light of most situations. In this episode, we're talking to
Trend about how he built his following, his approach and
inspiration for hunting, and what it takes to live authentically.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
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but it requires so much more. This show explores the tools, knowledge, resilience,
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in Pursuit, we got Bird. We established that was your
character name from Nolan Bird. We're not even gonna go
through full now do you think they call him bird?
(01:03):
His name is Josh.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Bergeron the eyes and the nose, you could have just
said the note.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So he's trying to be in fifth grade.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
At Recess.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
A lot to unpack here. We're going into the music.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You're gonna have recess. My friend said, hey, you look
like a bird, and ever since then I've been called
bird wife mom everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, and I mean he do you tell these guys?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
So he just call it follows me around.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So he just replanted, here, what year and a half ago?
I mean, I've known bird since twenty fourteen is probably
thirteen fourteen. But he could have like that.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Was that's a lot of time to that's plenty of
time to start over. That was the time and plenty
of this brands like, yeah, it was time, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
But he yeah, I don't need to rebrand. No, nobody
remembers Josh.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
You remember Bird though, and we got a lot of
Josh's and Jake's around too.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So well, it does help that you're six four. If
you were five nine, five eight you want to rebrand, yeah,
you'd have a problem.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, awesome. Trent trent Ellis appreciate you coming. You're marine. Yep, yep,
learned you never say former marine. That's a marine, always
a marine, That's right, Mariene At what is it at
Trent Ellis? Is there a number in there?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Twenty one in there for Instagram?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeh, Instagram.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Everything else is just Trent Elis.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Somebody had it, somebody had your handle already.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Maybe is there're an underscoring there? There is?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You need to know that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, I think it's Trent underscore Elis twenty one. Okay, Yeah,
I think that's what it is, all right. Basically, if
you get on there and it looks like me redhead
with a blue check mark that I pay for you
pay for people? Don't do you pay for you?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
My Instagram one? I don't. I didn't. I got in
before that album Grandfathered in Long Time twenty dollars a month,
and then I had one on X for a while,
but I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm more I try not to watch porn, so I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Get on there, right, I on X only get on
there to like find the truth, you know, sure? Sure?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Around election time is the only time I ever really
get on X. I was like, you know what, I'm
not playing for this X.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, you know exactly?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah. Yeah, Twitter don't really. I don't really tweet much.
Bird said, you said, that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I just don't get Yeah, I don't get on it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That's where I get my news from though, you know,
like if I want to see if like what news,
some news, some.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
News not nude like this, yeah this news news news. No,
I do too. I literally only keep it for that
because I just get those, you know, those notifications exactly
what you.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Want to hear.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, the news.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You want to hear.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It definitely is. Uh, it's dividing us more than it's
bringing us together. At this point, you get fed what
you want to get fed.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's a whole nother rabbit hole. But we don't want
to go on that. We want to all right, so
give us your You're from Mississippi, you said you you
basically joined the Marines at seventeen. Huh. Yeah, what prompted
all that? What you know, well, other than want to
be a when I did full blooded American?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, when I didn't get a letter to go play
college football and my dreams of playing in the NFL
were shattered.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Keeping my position linebacker sometimes running back. And that's keep
in mind, that's five eleven, one hundred ninety pounds white
white emphasis and on a good day four eight ninety.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Is that I was. I was on the just that
was that was a.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Cousin with an iPhone that probably fell asleep the first
second that I shot.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
All that not terrible, terrible, terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It well for college football, it in for yeah. Yeah,
but when you're five eleven, one hundred and ninety pounds,
you're gonna get eaten.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah. So when I when I didn't get a letter
to go play anywhere, I was just like, man, screw this.
I don't want to go to college. I don't want
to do anything. And then you know, it just hit me.
I was like, I just want to be Billy bad
A and I'm gonna join the Marine Corps and uh
and yeah. In boot camp that's when I learned how
bad a that I wasn't. And we got into the ring.
(05:42):
They put us in an octagon and gave us, gave
us ox and gloves, barring equipment. And I was seventeen
and I faced a grown man by the size of bird,
and I was doing some work. Get in there and
you just go to hitting, and I'm noticing he's not
(06:03):
as winded or as bothered by my punches as I
thought he would be. And then it's like he kicked
it in. You know, you know those those little red
and blue guys that you do that right there, That's
what he did to me. And guarantee he hit me
five times in my jjunum within like three seconds. And
(06:24):
I just been over and just started doing the whole
swing above the head, try to survive thingep And that's yeah,
that's when I realized I should have gone to college.
But uh, but yeah, no, I've turned eighteen in boot camp,
nineteen on my first deployment, nineteen on my second twenty
on my or now I went into my third twenty
(06:47):
and turned twenty one on my third, and then I
got out six months after that at twenty one years old.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Associate the service.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, thank you all. Where where old you go in
those deployments. My first one was Akaba, Jordan for a
couple of months, second one was the ball Rain, and
then my third I was on the thirteenth U and
we went all over We went all over Asia and
made a couple of stops in the desert in the
Middle East and came back. So I had a full run.
(07:13):
But I was I want to tell you, I was
glad to es. I was glad to see Mississippi and
get back out in the woods. I remember on my
second deployment, we had outgoing artillery and the first time
we heard it, me and my squad leader, we were
brushing our teeth and it just the whole ground just shook.
And then you know, yeah we didn't. We were like
(07:34):
running to go get our guns and everything, and you
know the guys that we were ripping with, that was
the people we were replacing. I want to say it
was three eleven an artillery unit. They were like, guys,
it's out going. Just it's not a big deal. And uh,
but I remember I remember being woken up by that
about two months later because I was having a vivid
(07:57):
dream that I had a my dad's thirty thirty when
I was behind my grandparents' house and I was just
mowing deer down one by I mean there was like
a big buck big buck dough dough.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Boom, two antler tests.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, I was not following the law and this dream,
I tell you, But I just remember being woken up
by that, and I was like, I wasn't even mad
or worried about the artillery. I was so pissed off
that I got woken up from that deer hunting dream
and I was like, I'm in time to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
(08:36):
like this is. But yeah, so when I got out, man,
I have done everything I could do to get back
in the woods and stay in the woods full time,
which is the whole reason I got into finance, the
whole reason I'm doing social media. Yeah, you know, just
whatever I could do to fund my hunting habit.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah. So what early age hunting with Dad, hunting with Grandpa,
hunting with We heard a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Of your grandpa's exploits, but yeah, he was a he
was a character. Now so my dad never really hunted
his brother though mine and my brother's uncle Sean. He's
the one that got my older brother into it, who
got me into it, So excuse me I got. I
got into hunting with my brother when I was nine.
(09:21):
I killed my first two deer with him and shout
out to him. Didn't even remember the story or the
instances that I killed my first two deer with my brother.
We were talking about this the other night in Texas
and I was like, you remember when I shot that spike,
thought it was a do It was my first time.
The next year I shot the four point, thought it
was a cal horn spike, and it was my first
two deer. We did it together, and he's like, no,
(09:41):
I don't really remember that. Yeah, that's a coore memory
for him.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, that was a pretty traumatic childhood. But anyway, it.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Must not have been a big body deer, big big
body spike.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It wasn't a big bodied spike.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
But my neighbor said he killed one here, big bodied spike.
It was needs to.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Be a T shirt deer and big body spike.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I'm telling you. I said, yeah, you kill anything, yeah,
big body spike. Sweet man, sweet.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But yeah, now it's age gap six years.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Oh okay, so yeah, good little So well.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
When I was nine and Trey was fifteen, I was
at that point to where I was a little brother
that was, you know, cramping his style. Yeah, yeah, you
know what I mean. But he was still a good
older brother that would take me and get me into it.
And man, I don't know what it was, but dude,
when I shot that first deer at nine years.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Old, it just like light bulb.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah. Of course, back then, I didn't think anything that
would come from it making a living. Wise didn't think
that was possible. But I just knew that whatever I
did for a living, it had to allow me to
be in the woods as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Heck you. So that's what we're doing too. Yeah, yeah, hecky,
that's awesome. So military get out finance doing insurance you
said life life insurance first, and then mutual funds that
type of stuff, and then when does the social media?
When does that happen?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
August twenty fourth, Actually it'll be twelve days, it'll be
two years.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Nice, there you go.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, let me August twenty fourth. Yep, August twenty fourth
of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I was sitting in a break room at I'm not
gonna say what school, but I was sitting around around
an area where I live in a school, and I
was waiting on teachers to come talk to me to do,
you know, investments for them and extra stuff and god
love with The only one that came and talked to
me was like, listen, we've been bankrupt twice now and
(11:49):
we would like to invest. And I'm like, no, you wouldn't.
That would not be smart. You need to rebuild, rebrand.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yeah, So I just started. I had seen a couple
of things with Justin Nunley. I had seen it on
a couple of podcasts and he was talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, I met him. He's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah yeah, I was on I was watching some stuff
on him and he was talking about how he started,
and I was like, man, I'm definitely no nunly, will
never be. But I've got a few hair brained ideas
up here. I've told you about my grandfather. Okay, that
runs that run. That kind of stuff runs in my family.
So I'm like, I got some stories that I can tell.
(12:30):
I was like, why don't I just try it? And
I downloaded TikTok that day and I told my wife,
I said, look, I'm gonna do this for seven days
and if I don't hate it, I'm just going to
see where it goes, you know. And here we are
over here killing myself with Rich fronting and the group.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, Scott, Yeah, Austin Angelo, Angela no Ben Ben Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Angelo is thet white one, all white, but not in
a weird way. He's got the white on the edge right. Yeah,
what is it?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Uh? We forgot what that's called, but yeah, Angela's got it.
Yeah man. Uh. It's what's funny is how we got connected.
My wife used to send your videos all the time
and I'd see some of them, but man, she'd send
them all the time. There's you were there was one
you were talking about church and whereby sits. That was
a good one. Yeah, a bunch of them. There's a
bunch of them. But I just reached out. I was like, hey, man,
(13:23):
love your stuff. You know, I knew you were in
coming to Nashville for w t F, which we didn't
actually yeah, and we were actually at Western we missed, yeah,
and so we didn't connect there. But man, it's uh,
your stuff is hilarious. I think it's awesome. But you
know what, what is that once again that's given you
(13:45):
the opportunity to get out and.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
You were like, hey, are you gonna be at n
w t F And he was like w.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Tf just talking and actor.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
There you go. So now what what's uh? What do
you what does day to day look like? Then?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Day to day? We've been actually bombarded with travel, uh
here in the last i'd say six to eight months.
At the beginning of deer season last year, you know,
I traveled and deer hunting a few places. I was
deer hunting a lot. I was hunting a lot at
home and trying to gain a lot of content. And
now I'm stepped into I've stepped into the stand up world.
(14:24):
Oh really doing I did my first one a couple
of months ago was Zach rushing open for him, and
I'm doing my second one August twenty third. Well, this
is not going to release by them anyway, you know,
we can.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Still push it. We'll clip this up.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
But yeah, August August twenty third. This month, I'll be
in Philadelphia, where Hearty's from, and then in Tempe, Arizona
and Flagstaff the twenty fifth and twenty sixth of September.
So but it's I mean, that didn't answer your question
at all. Huge plug though, Yeah, shameless plug. Yeah. Now,
(14:59):
day to day man, and it's it's it's very busy.
There's no time to sit around or do anything. It's
I've got to put out six videos a week for
shorts for my reels, and I try to do too
long form on YouTube a week as well.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So what does the long form look like? I haven't
even I didn't even know you had a long form
on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, so thanks.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I do all them on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I try to I try to post everything, like all
my comedy stuff, all my comedy shorts I post on
every platform, but on YouTube, I also do like shooting videos,
outdoor videos. I might cook a steak. I mean, it's
more of a vlog channel. Yeah, it's more of like
you know, if I have those true followers that are like, hey,
(15:45):
I want to know who more about who Trent really
is non exaggerated. You go to YouTube and look up
my yeah data exactly. So that's it.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, So shooting videos, somebody goes there. And for shooting
videos you just said normal like hunting videos, long forms
hunting stuff. Yeah, what what hunts you got coming up
this year?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Only one? I got a little girl coming in out. Yeah, No,
I'm gonna be I'm gonna be around the house mostly,
so it's going to be a lot of you know,
hunting either behind the house or on public really close
And the only one that I have that I know
of right now is an Oklahoma trip in January that
I'll be going with a buddy of mine, and other
(16:31):
than that it will just be you know, me hunting Mississippi.
You know, whether that, like I said, that's at the
house or that's on public close by. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
So how was stand up for the first time the
night before.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
First of all, I thought guys that said they had
anxiety were just on their way to transitioning until that
night and I was like full blown panic attack. I
was like good the whole way up and that night
I'd gone over my stuff and I was just like
I was actually contemplating Colin Zach and being like, dude,
I'm sick, you know, coming up with excuse and I
(17:11):
was like, Nope, not doing that. I'm gonna bomb. If
I bomb, I'm gonna bomb like a man. And dude,
I went and I just prayed beforehand, and I was like, Lord,
give me a piece, you know. Whatever happens happens, but
I'm gonna go up there. I'm gonna do my best.
And I ended up. He was like before and he's like,
if you can do ten to fifteen minutes, that'd be great.
(17:31):
End up doing thirty three minutes. So because he he
now there was a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
There off the crowd.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Though. Yes, I didn't account for laugh breaks and stuff
like that, which is great, but I also had a
lot of fat that needed to be trimmed. You know.
I was able to get nineteen minutes of it, and
there were a lot of a lot of things from
my first one that I was able to learn, you know,
like I said, trimming a lot of fat and stuff
and it went. I was pleas with it. You know,
(18:01):
I'm not gonna say I killed it or anything like that,
but I definitely made some folks laugh. I think there
was about three hundred or three hundred and fifty people there,
so it wasn't like a real small, small club, and
but it made me. I got a buddy of mine,
Dylan Reese, Dalan and Shelby. They have a you know,
they do social media. They're ten times bigger than I am.
(18:23):
He's the guy that loves mustard. You know, she'll be
you know, he does that. Anyway, I called him and
was telling him about it, and he wanted me to,
you know, let him know what it was like. And
he's like, dude, what did it feel like? And I said,
you know how when you have a video go like
ten million views? So yeah, I said, it ten times
better than that with that entire room. Yeah, because like
(18:45):
the video, you you edit that, you look at something
you're like, ah, that's not good. I'm gonna reshoot that.
You get one chance when you're on that stage and
those people are just sitting there, especially if they don't
know you, you know, and a lot of folks in
the out did not know me. I asked, I was like,
does anybody know what I do online? And I had
like one person like sure, and I was like, good deal, gotcha.
(19:08):
It's like, well, I'm doing only fans and they like that,
but but no, it's it's it was. It was good.
It was good, and it was one of those things
that you know, I really hope and pray that the
Lord will allow me to make that a big part
with my career. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
That sounds a lot like competing. I've had those nights
before where you're like, why am I doing this? God,
just if you could take this away, please just do it?
Like you know, there's there's those times of right, but
it's usually only right before competition. Then once you settle in.
I'm sure it's very similar where you're like, all right,
I'm inute and we're doing this. But that lead up
to it, Man, you put so much into it and
(19:47):
then you're like, oh, here we go. Yeah that's awesome.
I'll have to have to try to get to one
of those. I'm saying if he was in Arizona, but
you won't be there that that's not that same week
guys are heading out there. Yeah, so next steps you're
kind of leaning more into that, into the you know,
(20:08):
getting on stage, doing some of that, continue with what
you're what you're doing social media wise, that type of stuff,
and then you got other big plans, anything else that
you're other than being a dad dude.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
So, like I always tell everybody on every podcast when
they asked me, like what are your future goals? You know,
what do you want to do? What do you want
to where do you want to get to? My favorite
quote is by Alex Rmosy. I don't know if y'all
know him. He's like the yeah, I've seen him, Okay,
all right, And I don't know in y'all's world if
he's like, you know, Doucebag, oh Locker loves him, Okay, okay,
(20:45):
what of our guys loves him? He he said when
I was coming back from Kansas two years ago, I
was listening to some of his stuff and there was
a quote from him that that I just fell in
love with and it made so much sense to me.
And he was like, if you make the work your
goal and just focus on the work. Whatever your goal
(21:06):
is in the future happened, you will attain it or
get a lot closer to attaining it. And I don't
really have like, look, I would love to have, you know,
five hundred to one thousand acres that I live on
one day. I love I would love that. That would
be I'm all about hunting them, all about land, all
that kind of stuff. But if all I can do
is kind of sit back and like look at that
(21:26):
calendar and say, I'm I'm I'm getting closer, but I'm
still so far away from man, all I'm focused on
is six videos a week and two long forms.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And trying to be the best, the best husband I
can be, you know. That's and trying to do all
of that without having to leave the house. You know that.
That's one thing that in the last I would say
year that I've been very blessed to do, which is
travel and meet new people. That's that's been the best
thing is to meet good quality people. But it's definitely
(22:02):
opened my eyes being a family man that traveling. Like
That's the thing with stand up Too, is like I'm
not I'm probably never gonna be that stand up comedian
that travels six months out of the year. The way
I could do it, i'd probably be because.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You can't travel, or you're just actually not that funny.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Okay, Bird rebrand, rebrand, that's right, that's.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Bird's new name.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But yeah, I would. I would not mind if it
was something where I could have a like a bus
and and yeah and say, hey, five days a month,
we're gonna go, and I'm gonna do three shows a month,
have one day on each end, whatever the case. And
you can still and stand up, make nobody know who
you are, and you make good money doing that and
(22:51):
work hard for five years and invest and save up
and do whatever. But uh, but yeah, man, traveling like
being away from home, away from.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
The family family.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't see how a lot of guys do it.
That's my big.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Thing with what we're trying to do with hunting, and
everybody's like, what's then going. I'm like to get better
at it to when my kids get older that I
can actually take them with us and it not be
miserable for them. You know, Like we've gotten out, gotten
out of the way of all the public land over
the countertag Colorado Trips and learned enough that hey we
can you know, we know what we're doing now instead
(23:28):
of just shot in the dark to where when the
kids want to go, man, I want to take them.
I want them to be a part of that. You know,
talking about Trice my son, he's in Jai bird son.
They they could fish all day and love fishing, and
so I'm like, all right, let's get them. You know
they they will hunt, I guess, but you know at
that age, at eight, you know, with the bow it's
(23:52):
not powerful enough to really kill anything at this point.
And we're not doing a crossbow. Bird's a big crossbow guy.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I don't know if you are, but it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Shoulder problems.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Shoulder problems. Since he moved here, he doesn't use the
crossbow anymore.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
So ji Ji has a crossbow.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So but yeah, I mean, my goal is to make
it a family thing, is to make it something where
we can share it with the kids. You know, we
talked similar like my background, I didn't my dad didn't
take us hunting. That just wasn't you know. It wasn't
what he did and wasn't what I did. I was.
I'm not getting up early. I got to get ready
for whatever sport I was doing. And but my kids
seem to have that where they're like, oh, yeah, I
(24:31):
want to go. They want to be a part of
whatever I'm doing. So I want to be able to
have that and share that. So, I mean, there's a
lot of parallels with what you're talking about. Man, I
don't I hate traveling or leaving them. If they can go,
then cool, let's do it. But I hate. I hate
leaving them. So I understand that completely.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Well, I'm gonna tell you, like when you have kids
that can't be steel, you know, and and well and
it was me too.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I didn't get to where I would sit in a
tree for like three hours plus at a time until
I was a teenager. And by that time I was
I had a goal. I was like, I have got
to kill a rat buck, I have got to do
all this kind of stuff. And that drives kept me
in the tree. But until then, I was walking around.
I was sitting in the stand for an hour and
a half getting down, I was duck hunting. You know.
(25:17):
I think it's good for kids, if you know, especially
from my father's standpoint, is to be good enough at
all that kind of stuff. To where you can show them.
And like, for me, I love the deer hunt. It's
like deer turkey, duck arlon may be duck fishing, duck
deer turkey, whatever the case. But I mean kids, especially,
(25:39):
I think that's fishing.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Their constant, constantly cast.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And another thing is like public. If y'all got public
close by, that is a perfect way to carry a gun,
you know, or whatever and say hey, Bud, hey Trice,
we're gonna walk, you know, two miles today. We're just
gonna slip. This is not this is not a race.
We're trying to get in there. Sneak around, ye, and
we're gonna you know, we're gonna get on the map,
(26:04):
do this and then come back. And you never can tell. Man,
you may bump a little basket rack six point and
if you're on public, you don't care who cares. Bust it. Yeah,
you know, let that boy bust it. And he's gonna
be like, dude, this is the greatest thing. Yeah, awesome,
you know. Ye, So guys we're there. That's one thing
I mean with kids, it's uh, it'd be very difficult
(26:24):
for a eight year old toy. All right, sit there
and that stand and watching and be quiet, be still
and be quiet.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It ain't happening. Yeah, we've taken him turkey out. In
a couple of times, we killed one. I had to
low crawl out to a jake. I was like, I'd
had enough, I hadn't killed anything, and I'm like, screw it.
I low crawled probably three hundred and four hundred yards
out to this jake and killed it. And he thought
it was the coolest thing ever. But it's like, what
took you so long? You know, like because I left
him in a ditch, you know, just watching with Ben
(26:51):
or camera guy, and uh, it was funny. I killed it,
and then the other jake that was with it just
kind of stood there and stared at me, like what
are you doing here. I'm like, taken him too, but
I didn't, you know, and so but yeah, it's you know,
having those moments. I killed a dough with him last
year in the stand and you know, all morning he's
loud and not quiet whatsoever. And then finally this doe
(27:12):
walks out and I'm like, screw it. It's early archery. Yeah,
I was like, I'm taking it, and so I shot
and he goes. I hit it and he goes, good
shot dad, and you're just like, man, the like memory
of that, like I'll always really just as soon as
I hit it. And it wasn't even a great shape.
She died at where she was, but it was a
little high and whatever. But he was just like, good
shot dad, and I was like, yeah, it was, you know,
(27:33):
and be able to share that, yeah, and have that memory.
And he has that memory, you know, like we That's
one of the things too, is hell. I was thirty
six before ever cleaned a deer by myself, you know,
like I'd done it with buddies, but never by myself
out there. And I'm like, I don't want that for
my kids. So anytime any any of the neighbors kill anything,
(27:54):
we all meet up and the kids come out, and
my kids now will hop in there and like they
love it, and man, they want the whole heart of everything.
They want to eat the heart. I'm like, all right,
let's get it. That's good, like the turkey and everything.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Get the heart. And I'm like, what do you mean
get the heart?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
You know, like it.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Doesn't even have it like.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
This big yeah, but we cooked it and ate it.
You know. That's that's their thing. So I'm all for it, man.
I think that, Yeah, make it a family thing, make it,
you know, something that they just do right. So yeah,
it's a good idea is finding some public around here
taking the boys.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
What's your uh? If you make that much content a week?
Is that just usually like past experiences like how do
you come up with some new stuff?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Honestly, chat GPT just no. I have used that for
some titles. Yeah, honestly, if I if I sit there,
just I am lucky enough, and I think it's you
got to be a certain amount of crazy and hair
brained enough that I can just come up with stuff,
(28:57):
you know, just on the fly. And once you do it.
It wasn't always that easy to come up with good stuff.
But I mean I backed off content where I was
when I started, I was doing roughly two videos a day,
two to three, and then after January of twenty four,
(29:19):
I've been doing about six months roughly. I backed off
to one video a day, seven days a week, and
then another six months to a year goes by it,
and I'm like, all right, I'm gonna get more into
loan form and I'm going to work on try to
work on that when I can and I'm going to
back off to six shorts a week. But I mean,
(29:40):
if you're making one minute long videos primarily, you know,
one video takes me thirty minutes tops, and that's from
start filming to stop, and then it takes no time
to put an on screen text plus captions. So you're
(30:01):
not really talking about a lot of work. But I
just got lucky with, you know, just being able to
come up with stuff. And now I'm in my own rhythm,
so I'm my brain's kind of geared.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
To Oh that was funny that work yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And and you know, it's just I'm
always thinking about stuff, always think it's just like when
we were, you know, going out there and working out,
Like I had no I had no intentions of filming
that I'm going to film the US shooting the bows,
but I was like, man, this would be a great
opportunity for just to show people my fat gut and
me set here dying while these guys is just another
(30:36):
day in the office, and people that that would be
funny to watch me suffer.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
How was the workout?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
It sucked? Yeah, I hated it. I want you to
know that not any part of it you liked. No, no,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
From the push ups.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
No, no, I do think that you have to be
a certain amount of psychopath, so not only do that,
but be four times the greatest at it formally, Yeah,
because I mean I was like just getting a good
sweat and you were already done sweating.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Like, man, I sweat and this humidity. I mean, I'm
sure it is the same way at your place. It's humid.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Well, and Bird made me feel great before we started.
He's like, keep in mind, and I know what you
did there. He's like, I'm fifteen years older than you.
I'm like, yeah, thanks, Bud. That was really him saying,
hey watch me smoke you. No, fifteen years Yeah, I
would say, so you held your own dude, I would say,
so I was dying. I was dying.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
You played it off well, we were all dying a
little bit, you know, like that's that's kind of the point, right,
you got to get to that point as you got
to kind of accept that we're all we were all dying.
It all. It hurt every person in there, probably the same.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I had two sausage of biscuits this morning before I
got here. That felt good to me. I will say
I enjoyed that.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
After round three, bird looked at me and he goes three.
I told you, I thought we were going thirty minutes. Oh,
I thought we're going thirty minutes. After room three, he
put his hands on his knees. I thought he was
going to throw up there. Yeah a minute.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Now, gas station chicken biscuit or homemade, Oh, gas station?
Which one it was?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
It was? It was gas station typical sausage biscuit. Yeah.
Well this was in Alabama, but it was close. Yeah,
it's over a little. I crossed over. It was nine dollars.
I tell you, I didn't enjoy that nine dollars. I didn't,
but I'd pay it again before I do what we
just did, all right, And that was a beginner workout.
That was that was beginner. I haven't worked out and
(32:49):
that like that.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You said, you've been doing some push ups to get ready.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
For five days, and that's one hundred push ups over
like a twelve hour period.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
I tried to get him to scale the push up.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, I did. I did fifteen my first, and then
I saw a bird over here doing more than I said, Hey,
are you doing fifteen or twenty? He's like twenty five.
I'm like, all right, well I'm doing twenty five. So man,
I did twenty five my last four. But that's the
only thing that I felt good about. It was the
twenty five push ups.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
It was one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, but each set got progressively worse. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We did a little two hundred meters run one hundred
foot farmers carry with one hundred pounds, twenty five push ups,
hundred foot farmers carried two hundred meters and you that
full round back and forth with a partner for five
live sets.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
And we did one hundred and fifty meter run.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Because rich you you did.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Bird nobody likes you. Hey, this is it right here.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
It wasn't a it was just it was.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
One of those things like here, we'll just you know,
you do one hundred and fifty eight fifteen and we
were trying to give you. Even asked me, it's like,
you want to do seventy or one hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
And I said, he said he did one challenges manhood,
which I respect.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
I have kids now, but I also look like, to me, we.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Got to meet you where you're at. We can't get
you hurt. On the first time.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
My shoulder's gone. My right shoulder for whatever reason, is done.
So like you said, well ago about shoot or like
I said to you about shooting the bowl, like I'm
probably gonna lose some mars. I brought him to lose.
I brought him to lose. I am glad that I'm
able to have a conversation right now, you know, preface
it and well and not pass out. Yeah it pass Yeah,
(34:41):
but I got a dyck Coke, got dyck coche that
hey game, that was worth the drag. Right, that's the
Lord's chicken.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Old Jesus chicken. What do you What chicken do you
get on Sunday? If Chick fil As closed? What's your
back up? Go to? I know what birds is.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
You know, it doesn't have to be chicken. It could
be deer mate steak. Yeah, but you're coming home from
a trip and you want to stop fast food, right
Donald McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Crispy's Chicken from the gas station.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
He's going to he saw the pink stretch marks over here.
That's yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
I said, you were wearing a belt that was.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Just there in Mississippi. If you're going to stop, that's
where you stop.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Birds is canes canes No, I'm oh, you're a Popeyes. Oh,
Popeyes is good.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
I love some red beans beans from Popeyes.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Scott is Canes Eyes is good.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I'm not racist. That is really good?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Is both?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Both are Louisiana? Okay, places God.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Is one hundred percent. He says Cane's chicken is better
than Chick fil A's chicken.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Sauces.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
No, it's got that's Scott.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
She's from Scott still from Michigan.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
You're you're Scott. Who was I talking to?
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Ill?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Him? Scott? Three till you did say nothing? You didn't
say nothing either.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I did.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Why I tried to? I said, that's Austin, you did Yeah, alright,
I got this here is bad, so dad, Scott, Austin,
I apologize. You have great hair and great posture. So sorry, Scott.
I thought you were No.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Scott's all right, You're good. You got thrown into the fire.
You like you walked in contract from leaving. We started
to work out as soon as you got in here.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Everybody's shirts off when I get here, and I'm like,
this is not good.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
He can't even think straight from the workout.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
I can't know he's got that coke. But yeah, Scott
Scott says Canes chickens better, so sauces sauce is good
homemade sauce? Was that?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
What about Zaxby's.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
I like Zaxby's. I don't mind zaxby.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
The first Canes was at the North Kates Fellowship.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Are you a You're an LSU fan? That make sense? Now,
it all makes sense.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Are you Are you a rebel or.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Christians?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Are you a rebel or a bulldog?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Okay, well, technically I am a bulldog because that's where
I went to college.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
But I think you didn't have to go to college.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, well that's that's the thing. You know. You you
go after it because you get paid to do it
and you get an interdisciplinary studies degree. What is that
good for? Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Neither is an exercise science degree? Comedy.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah, but my whole family was Old Miss fans. Are
are Old Miss fans. I've got two aunts that are
pharmacists that have pharmacy degrees from Old Miss and I've
got a sister in law that did the same thing.
And uh so I grew up as an Old Miss fan.
The only time that I cheer against them is when
they play Missippi State and other than that. Let's you know,
(38:05):
I'm going for.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Him so I can understand hate. Now that's shoot, I.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Don't hate lsu Yo.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
I just wanted to pick at you of one, what
two of the last ten years? Maybe what? Oh Miss?
When like two of the last ten.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Years, I think, Okay, let's not get carried away by
one good season, all right. Joe Burrow was there, you know,
and then after he left, everybody quit and got head
coaching jobs.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
And I was at the Old Miss game last year
when also lost.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Okay, Like I said, I'm a State fan, all right,
all right, his nose keeps getting bigger and bigger this
whole podcast. I'm telling you, I swear it's gonna be
Pinocchio before it's.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Y'all really thought y'all had a shot last year, you know.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
As a State fan, I'm an old Old Miss fan.
I was a fan of Old Miss before they got good,
before it was cool, all right, yeah, before the twenty
fourteen era, before Lane came.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah, it's like Eli Manning days, yes, well, and that
was iffy.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Yeah. And then of course when I became a State fan, guy.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
From blindside Michael or Michael.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, back in those days, thought you were gonna say
Tim mcgrawl, he's a good singer, bullet.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Good movie.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
But yeah, so it's you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
A miss I'm a Dame fan, so I can't say no,
you're not, are you grandpoint another dame?
Speaker 2 (39:33):
I mean, Rudy was awesome.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Rudy was awesome, but he's a fraud.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
What about man? Tell you his girlfriend she was a fraud? Man?
You heard me? Old many God.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Coach O was also their coach.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Oh was he?
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Go tuggers. Ye Now, I love coach. I love coach.
When they fired him, he said.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
You know, miss ely Lsu Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yeah, they said, we're coach, We're prepared to give you.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
I think it was like seventeen.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, seventeen million dollars, you know. And he's like, which
door you want me to go out of? And when
you want me to go? And that is the most
honest answer for anybody.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
I wish Facebook would call me and say that I'd
never post another video a day in my life.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Seventeen million to walk away?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Oh, I'd run away?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, so good. It's like we were just watching Moneyball
when he's talking to David Justice and he's like the
Yankees are paying me to keep you because you're that bad, you.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Know, you know which he just came out and said,
all that's totally.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
A lot of it was fake. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Oh Moneyball with Brad Pitt.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah, there's thak just they just somebody had just interviewed
David Justice. He was like, that's not happened.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, well he's probably not gonna admit being so bad
that he was paid by another team of State.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
That's a great movie though, Oh.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
I love it. Rad Pitt and Jonah Hill, they killed it.
He gets on base, Yes, I thought you were going Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
No, No, it was pointing and he's supposed to get
on base.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah, messed it.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
All right.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
So fitness wise, I know, we talked about you working
out too.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
You saw me with my shirt off, you know, the
answer to whatever question from Marine Corps.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
You've done a lot before that. Yeah, but you're a
young guy. So Marine Corps is only like three years ago.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
No, that was like seven right now now.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Actually it was a little bit and a little bit
of CrossFit stuff, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
I did beforehand? I did? I think I did CrossFit
and Mantatchi in my hometown twice before the Marines, and
I was like, I'm not doing this, and.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
So that doing it twice going in the marine, that
was you getting ready, just like you did push ups
for five days before you came here.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Exactly got it and I passed with flying colors. So
and now, yeah, this is just a bunch of massochists.
That's how you are. You just love to hurt yourselves,
you know. I mean, but hey, I mean I did
the bear. I would say bare minimum in the Marine
(42:22):
Corps when it comes to fitness outside of lifting weights,
any kind of cardio or anything, because we were always running,
We're always hiking, you know, putting a pack on my back.
I feel like, right now I could still put a
pack on forty to sixty pounds and walk ten miles.
(42:42):
You know, I'm not gonna walk at a fast twelve
to fifteen mile an hour pace.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
But next day, how are you gonna feel? Oh?
Speaker 2 (42:51):
If I did it right now, crap like crap. I'm
gonna feel like crap tomorrow. But I could do it.
And that's what I was geared more towards. I was
never the that was never the three hundred PF tier.
I would never Yeah, but I was never running a
sub eighteen minute three mile, But I was I never
had I never fell out of a hike. I was
always good with, you know, putting a lot of weight
(43:13):
on my back and walking with the rest of the
guys and doing that that it's stunk, but I could.
It was always something I could push through.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
But when I start losing my breath or whatever and
it starts getting sharp to breathe, that's like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
So you you know, you said you had the you
would go through phases where you powerlift a little bit,
you said you'd go back to you did some cardio stint,
you said, yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
So when I got out of the Marines, I quit run,
I quit doing cardio, just ate whatever I wanted to,
and I lift weights five six days a week and
tried to get as strong as possible. And as soon
as I got to my strongest, I was deadlifting six hundred.
I benched, I failed three eighty five, and I passed
with flying colors three sixty five. I want to say
(44:00):
I was right there at that three seventy three seventy five,
squatted five twenty five, which I have videos of all this,
So yeah, anybody want to call me out, I can
provide evidence. But I was at that point, I was
two hundred and twenty pounds, and to compete at two
hundred and twenty pounds, those numbers each on each one
(44:20):
of those need to be about two hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
So but twenty nineteen came around. I had been out
of the Marines for two years, and I was just
I was like, man, screw civilian life. I hate this,
I hate these people. I'm trying to get back in.
At the time, the Marine Corps still had their old
tattoo policy and this one. I didn't have this, but
(44:45):
this one disqualified me really, which is nuts because now
you can get tattoos everywhere with your eyelids pretty much.
And so I was like, all right, I want to
try to do special forces with the Army. Do that
through the National Guard, train up, finish out my I
was already two years into college, and train up as
soon as I graduate, start doing the that's a a
(45:10):
guy that I was in a union with right there.
As soon as I graduate college, try to go to selection,
and if I get selected, go from there. And I had.
I went from lifting weights and trying to get as
strong as possible to literally like not touching another weight
for two to three years and just running body weight,
(45:33):
you know, doing doing hikes. I mean I got in
really good shape where I was two hundred and right
at two twenty. But I want to say my two
mile was thirteen twenty seven. You know, do do seventy
push ups? I sucked at sit ups really, yeah, sit
ups like I was only doing like sixty. But yeah,
(45:57):
I want to say it was it was, yeah, something
like that. But but I was doing real and my
rucks were really good. I was rocking all the way
up to six to eight miles and getting ready. I
had schools. I had Airborne School in twenty twenty. That summer,
I had Sergeant's course because they didn't take the one
in the Marines, and then I had an MOS school
(46:18):
all lined up for the summer of twenty twenty, and
y'all know what happened. In twenty twenty COVID hit. They
canked all that, and in twenty twenty of March is
when I started in finance. So while they canked all
of the schools, canceled all of the drills, all I
had time to do. I was already going to school online,
and then I was starting in finance, starting to make
(46:41):
a little money, picked up into deer season, I got
a little cash in my pocket. I'm starting to think
about family, I'm starting to think about freedom, all this
kind of stuff. So yeah, I was like, you know what,
I think, I'm gonna go this route. Let my contract
run out the next year, and that's when I went,
you know, I made this decision to go full time
(47:01):
and finance. And then shortly after we started social media.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
So no more fitness, No, no.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
I definitely I'm gonna get back into doing good.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
You got the good base though. You know, you've got
the strength background so you can do the movements technique obviously,
if you're doing that heavy a weight, you got the
techniques out of it, and then you've built the I mean,
here's the deal is when I hear all that you've
done CrossFit, Like, you know, all CrossFit did was take
the good things about all different types of working out
and blend them into one. So yeah, you know, you've
got that background, so it wouldn't take long. You know.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
While I have jokingly and seriously talked a lot of
crap about CrossFit today, but I respect anybody that does
CrossFit on a weekly basis right, because literally to go
out there and do that stuff, you're not only you're
not only doing a hit workout, but you're adding like
(47:56):
those farmers carries. If you took those farmers carries, that
we out of the workout much easier workout. And it
goes from what I would consider probably a moderate workout
too for somebody like me, an excruciating workout and you're
only moving a you know, yeah, sept but it's I
(48:19):
think I think you know, it's definitely very functional. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
That's the point is, you know, we want and what
we're trying to do is get guys and girls ready
to go out west and not ever question, hey can
I go that far? You have any aspirations to go
out west and hunt?
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Or oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, and I've been. I've
been out west. My wife's from Washington and Oregon, and
I've been in both places in Turkey hunting and been
up the mountains.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
She's from both places. She is like, yeah, how's that happening.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
I know it's hard for somebody from Louisianna understand this bird,
but she was born in Oregon and raised in Washington,
so she lived the first, I want to say, like
five or six years in Agon and then the rest
of her time before she moved to California.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
Uh, watching she also from California.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Well, because she's my wife and I don't want her
to be so, you know, Washington and Oregon is good
enough for me.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Yeah, dude, we need to make that happen.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
We need go out west.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
It'd be a fun be fun camp, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
There's nothing like killing a turkey in the snow. That
is dude, when they when you're leaning on a four
foot high snow bank and you call a rio or
a miriam up, oh ten feet from you.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
We can go in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yeah, in turkey hunt, Yeah, for sure, Colorado's Miriams.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
Miriams are rios.
Speaker 2 (49:44):
I'm not sure. Yeah, I think it's well, yeah, I'm
not even gonna guess because it's definitely one of the two.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
But yeah, yeah, I need to I don't know.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
Yeah, that was in season two, right, Turkey hunting in
the snow.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
You need to edit that out.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
There's nothing like it. You'll never experience.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
There's nothing like turkey hunting in December, you know, right
after Christmas.
Speaker 1 (50:08):
Yeah, man, I've said this for a long time.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
Put out in season. I'll take it on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
So yeah, don't put the state, don't put the date.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
You're all right, that's right. Yeah, they can't prove anything,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Yeah. I've always said, like the week before Thanksgiving, you
should be able to kill a turkey.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
You know you can out there. Literally a lot of
places on the side of the South have a fall
turkey seat.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
We do tall turkey one here, but it's just so
hard to kill them in the fall unless you're you know, well, you're.
Speaker 2 (50:38):
Deer hunting them. You're trying to get in front of them.
There's no calling, and it's like, I hate deer hunting turkeys.
I love deer hunting. I love turkey hunting, but I
hate when you try to do the other with Yeah,
yeah I would. I would turkey hunt style, dear, I
would like that.
Speaker 3 (50:57):
Can't in like Kansas?
Speaker 2 (50:58):
Yeah, yeah, not here.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
Not here, not here. I've tried it with the bow
with a gun Mayby.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Yeah, what about you bird? Do you hunt out here? Now?
I mean you said you cross Bode, but we shut two.
Speaker 3 (51:13):
We shut two deer from front ports.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
Oh, so you do it, socials, So you can like
just talk about it. Yeah, he's like, yeah, I killed
a deer. Yeah, it's a big body spike. Are you
that he's talking about?
Speaker 3 (51:26):
You know that one was two eighths Actually, there you go.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
Your wife killed one though, right now she killed one.
Speaker 3 (51:33):
I killed one.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Okay, it's easier here, both with easier here than Louisiana.
That's for sure, one.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Thousand percent easier than Louisiana. There's nothing but swamp deer.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
Dude, I looked at especially where I live, talking about like,
I don't know what the deer statistics are, but I
looked it up on chat GPT a week ago. And
I want to say, in twenty twenty five, this past
spring season, there were thirty three hundred birds reportedly killed
in Louisiana, and in twenty twenty four they hadn't done
it Mississippi yet in twenty five, but in twenty twenty
(52:04):
four and twenty twenty three from Mississippi it was over
thirty thousand. And So when people ask me, like, what
do you think the hardest place is to hunt, Louisiana
is always the number.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
Turkey hunt is way easier here, yeah for sure. Yeah, yeah,
it's not even still it's not even fun.
Speaker 1 (52:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
Yeah, yeah, and even those we can hear three a day,
we can kill three dos a day.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Wow, is it one buck a day or no, that's
something two a year, two a year. Okay, Hey, I
know some states are two or three at total, but
you can kill all of them in the same day.
I need to look. I've never had that problem, but
I could have just lied. I think there is a
I check here there. You definitely don't take my word
for it, but I think there is one or two
(52:49):
states that you can like their overall bag limit for
the season can be harvested in one day. They don't
care as long as you don't go over them over there.
Speaker 3 (52:59):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
I know it's that way.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
Turnacy might be that way, but I'm not one hundred
percent sure. I'll have to check it this year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:05):
So let me ask y'all something. When did you figure
out that you were going to get into CrossFit? I
know you said you were going to get into hunting back,
you know.
Speaker 1 (53:14):
Yeah, But I honestly, when I was a firefighter, I
was getting my degree in exercise science.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
My whole.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Well, I basically was just getting a degree that I
could promote. You know, it looks good on paper that
you have a college degree when you want to promote
at the fire department. Even though it was an exercise
science degree, and so I was doing that. They were
paying my tuition. So I was full time firefighting and
going to school.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
And one of my.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
Professors, who was the head strength and conditioning coach. You know,
usually when you get a coach for a professor, you're
watching videos, and so we were watching a CrossFit dot
com video and he was like after class, he was like, hey,
should you like working out in your firefighters? A lot
of military, police fire do CrossFit. You should check it out.
Now we sit here.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
That's the rest is dream and bird. You said, y'all
met twenty fourteen or sixteen.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
Yeah, we have like a mutual friend who's also a
financial advisor.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
You gotta watch out for them.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
Yeah, don't trust him.
Speaker 1 (54:12):
Yeah, yeah, I do trust him, but with something with
some things money, yeah, would not.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
I want to my money, not mine?
Speaker 1 (54:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
Yeah, So y'all made it a game or something games
or something like that, or.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
Spoke at their church. Yeah, he came, spoke at church
and then we would beach one.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
Time to the beach.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
So there was alcohol involved. No, oh you said, never
mind Catholic church.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Oh not a wasn't masked. I I was raised Catholic,
but it didn't drink. Like what yeah, I got not
been to the Catholic church in years. Oh that's co
other than weddings.
Speaker 2 (54:46):
How long have you been out here now?
Speaker 3 (54:48):
I moved here February of twenty four.
Speaker 2 (54:51):
Oh okay, getting almost two.
Speaker 1 (54:54):
Almost two years. Yeah, he came out to run. We
were like, man, I really enjoy hunting. I see an
need for fitness in the hunting space.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
And there was and there was nobody fitter and me
and bird. It's not true.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
At all, I know.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Yeah, yes, the bird's been here ever since, does a
lot of stuff with us and wears many hats now.
But yeah, started out there and now our kids our
friends and hang out all the time, and so birds
one of us now. Same with Scott Scott. Me and
Scott started hunting together.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
That's Scott.
Speaker 1 (55:30):
That's Scott.
Speaker 2 (55:31):
There we go, I got your brother.
Speaker 1 (55:33):
Me and Scott hunted together, and he's filmed pretty much
all of our hunts minus like what three probably and uh,
axis you didn't get the axis this year with me yeah,
two el CONTs.
Speaker 2 (55:46):
Right, you'all got a Texas for axes. Dude, Texas has
everything everything. You can kill a rhino and a white tail,
a rattlesnake, a goose of every access everything. I didn't
realize and Texas all you have to do is have
that general hunting license that's nine hundred and fifteen dollars a.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
Non native five day hunt, non native species thirty eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (56:16):
Thirty Caxes is like, all we don't care, just come
kill it, like that's it. It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (56:22):
An access deer they dropped four faunds every three years,
so some deer is always in cycle, so they're always
you could kill them. They're awesome.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
Yeah, it's awesome. How do they taste awesome? Better?
Speaker 1 (56:37):
Better than whitetail? Yeah? Really, they're good. They're really good.
I've got something you can go home with. Maple sausage.
It's not regular sausage. It is maple sausage.
Speaker 2 (56:47):
But that's totally fine. Make a sausage biscuit tomorrow, you
dang right, but some bread in that thing. Now there
we go.
Speaker 1 (56:54):
There we go. Awesome, man, Appreciate you coming on. Appreciate
you hanging out. We're gonna go shoot a little bit too.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
Yeah, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (57:00):
I appreciate it having Trent Ellis Underscore twenty one, twenty one.
Speaker 2 (57:06):
Underscore Elis twenty one, I think is what it is. Basically,
if you type in Trent Ellison, it looks like me.
You probably a little longer hair, I think in your no,
I've changed that.
Speaker 1 (57:16):
Oh you changed it.
Speaker 2 (57:16):
I changed that. I went and now it's me and
my son on there. Oh okay, yeah he's on my
back and I'm like, yeah, so love it, love it
all right?
Speaker 1 (57:24):
We shall one piece of we give, give somebody a takeaway.
What do you got?
Speaker 2 (57:29):
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