September 2, 2023 • 39 mins
Kyle began his career in television as a fitness consultant for a local medical show, quickly rising through the ranks to become the Vice President. While producing many of his own shows, Kyle was nominated for 3 Emmys! Wanting to use his experience to promote his passion for the outdoors, he left the show to produce his own.
Of the original creators of the show, Kyle has always been described as “The Passion”. His love for the outdoors developed while learning from his Dad on countless hunting and fishing trips. Gaining this appreciation of the outdoors, Kyle has a wealth of experience in both hunting and fishing, but still enjoys learning new tactics with the audience.
Of the original creators of the show, Kyle has always been described as “The Passion”. His love for the outdoors developed while learning from his Dad on countless hunting and fishing trips. Gaining this appreciation of the outdoors, Kyle has a wealth of experience in both hunting and fishing, but still enjoys learning new tactics with the audience.
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Here's Joe Betar, good morning,Welcome to Hunting Matters on KPRC nine fifty.
This is your host, Joe VitarI am ramone Rublish. We were
back at it against once more onHunting Matters. How's it going, man,
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It's still one hundred degrees outside?Is it? That hasn't changed.
I'm not going outside ever again.It's not a good idea. Don't do
that. How long has it beensince we have rain? Now? Three
months? Well, I think acouple like a week and a half of
that wasn't right. They promised rainsometimes like Wednesday the twenty third or something
like that, or Tuesday. Yeah, yeah, it's been a minute.
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It is. It's nuts. That'sThat's a good thing about being a homebody.
Is I never really experienced the heatbecause I never go outside. But
I can tell that it hasn't rained, and quite literally two months because everything
around me is dying. It's it'sbad. And I like to work outside
on the weekends because I'm in officeall day, right, so it's you
know, try to get I tryto get my honey do list, my
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own personally in forest honey. I'vealways got a list of projects I'm working
on, wood working, whatever,and I try to get them done by
noon because after noon, you know, when it's one hundred and eight degrees
at seven eight at seven pm atnight, you can't do it. You
can't do it. It's ridiculous.So alrighty folks, Let's see what's happening
with the Houston Fari Club Foundation.This week is always there's always something going
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the Houston Safari Club Foundations. Sowhat's the deal with our show landing in
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Michigan, I know repeatedly lately.That's a good question. Michigan is just
a hotspot for hunting, and myignorance, I never thought, Yeah,
hunting and fishing in Detroit, ofall places, is the mecca fishing.
Yeah, we've learned. We talkedto our guests earlier before the show started,
and he was telling us all thingsabout Lake Saint Clair and just how
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it's just haven for fishing. Sowe're gonna, We're gonna, I got
questions. Cool, cool, Well, folks, if you're joining us today
on hunting matters, our guest isKyle Green. Kyle is the host and
executive producer of The green Way Outdoorsthat we're going to learn about what that
is. So, Kyle, thanksso much for joining us. Absolutely.
You know, I think the reasonwhy you guys all keep talking to Michigan
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people because you're trying to cool offand we got plenty of rain. Yeah,
don't rub it in, Kyle.Yeah. I went up recently to
the north part of the United Stateswhere it wasn't as hot, and I
realized why people actually do enjoy summer, because it's pleasant. Yep, anywhere
but prisis it shade actually works.And you know, ninety five degrees certainly
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does not feel like ninety five degreesdown here, but it's very it's very
standard here. There's nothing better thanan up north Michigan summer when you've got
eighty degrees, a light breeze,the brook trout or swimming in the streams
the lakes. Everyone's out on thelakes and the boat you're you're you're warm
enough to swim, but you're nottoo hot. It's just perfect here.
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Well, yeah, you know,I have Buddy Mountain. There's a Canadian
he came and worked in the UnitedStates for a few years, but he
always used to talk about summers inCanada and going up to the cottage country
cayl Do you guys have what theycall cottage country there in Michigan as well?
Yeah, I mean anything. UhSo, we have something called the
Zilwaukee Bridge, which is like bysix Michigan. If you're falling in on
a map at nine seventy five,and as soon as you go over that
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bridge, basically everything becomes cottage country. And I'll tell you too for for
Michigan. For friend, you've gotthe people that come from here. You've
got Ted Nugent, who's incredible,You've got Fred Bear, and you've got
Steve Vanella. So this state justpumps out powerhouses for the outdoor industry.
Yeah, that's true. I'll shyindividuals, all three of them. Yeah,
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Kyle, we actually had I've knownTed for for a long time.
We actually had him on the showhere a while back, just coming out.
I was coming out of the afterthe pandemic, wasn't it going into
it? Yeah, And I gothim to talk about fred Bear and uh,
Barbara waltered him. He actually startedteared up on the air talking about
Fred Bear. We couldn't get himto stop. Yeah. Yeah, he's
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a He's a wonderful guy. I'vebeen blessed enough to have him in my
life for years now. And uh, you know, you see the Ran
city goes on, and he obviouslygets very political and stuff, and obviously
a lot of us are going tobe a green with what he says.
But there's like that other side ofhim that is like very soft and very
sincere and very caring, and hereally will go out of his way for
somebody. I've never seen somebody alwaysturned on the way that he is,
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you know what I mean, alwaysturned on. There's no there's no fake
there, total unrelated to anything we'retalking about. I'm just looking around the
maps of Michigan and I was justwondering, Yeah, from Michigan to Wisconsin,
is there any way over Lake Michigan. Is there a ferry? Fay?
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Okay, okay, yeah, there'sa there's a ferry. I've actually
never been on it. I havefamily that live in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.
If you can see that on amap, it's about an hour and a
half from Chicago, I'd say,okay, but most people just end up
going around and going through Chicago forit. But you can get flights even
on like Delta for like fifty blocksto jump over and it's like a thirty
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two minute flight. Okay, I'lltypically do that if I can bring out
the time I'm leaving from where it'sright Okay, Oh yeah, of course.
Okay, that's a fascinating It's justpart of the country. I've never
really paid attention to you here aboutChicago Green Bay, obviously being Furtball fans,
but looking at just Michigan, Imean, Michigan's got two parts to
it, you know, and nobodyever talks about the Upper Peninsula and it's
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one of the best kept secrets,and I hope Kyle will let me in
on some of those secrets as theshow develops. Yeah, we actually just
filmed an episode there for History Channelwhere we were we were kind of hitting
a lot of the landmarks there.We went to Kitchen and Kippy, which
is, uh, this beautiful it'sI guess they used to call it.
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It's basically a landmark where everyone goesit's this beautiful you want to call it
a pond, but the water comesup from the bottom and it's like this
peel green, just the most beautifulthing you've ever seen in your life,
and it's in the middle of nowhere, but everyone goes to visit it.
And we went to Pictured Rocks,which is right along the shores of the
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Great Lakes there where you can actuallysee these rocks that come out of the
water and they're all just gorgeous,different colors. The best was actually from
the water looking at them, butwe went and check those out and then
we did some cliff jumping up therein Black Rocks. But then we just
hit trout streams and the coolest thingabout the up is everywhere you go,
the water is cold enough, becauselike if you're trout fishing, you know,
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even in the Lower Peninsula Michigan,or you're bounced around or you're going
anywhere, you're always looking for coldwater. And you know, rivers walk
to eight throughout the seasons and sometimesthey're colder this time the year than they
are at that time, and soon and so forth. So trout will
move out or move in depending onthe time of year. And the up
it's like you could find a ditchand it's cold enough, it's probably trouting.
Everything. Everything's cold enough, andthere's trout just everywhere, and they're
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all just aggressive, and you canreally get away from the beef path and
cast the fish that have never beencasted too. And that's that's one of
the best parts. That's crazy.All right, folks, gonna take a
quick break here, be back withour guest Kyle Green of the Greenway Outdoors
Hunting Matters on KPRC nine fifty.Yeah, well, I come back to
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Hunting Matters on KPRC nine fifty.This is your host, Joe bat I'm
ramon Roeblist. I'm gonna grab afishing pole and when I'm in Detroit,
as soon as i walk out ofmy hotel. Yeah, I'm gonna play
this music. That's gonna be mywalk out to fish music. That would
be perfect, Yeah, perfectly.It's gonna set a tone. Just make
sure you take the cork off ofyour fishing line because they may make fun
of good figure hitting the trout streamswith a with a bobber, you know,
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and to each of their own Iuse a cork. Oh man,
I welcome back to Hunting Matters.Our guest today is Kyle Green, hosting,
an executive producer of The green WayOutdoors. Kyle, thanks so much
for joining us. Absolutely, I'vebeen having some with you guys. I'm
a little slow on the take.But when I saw The green Way Outdoors
of it, oh man, it'sgoing to be some tree hugging, compost
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pooping a bag recycle. But thenI realized, oh that's his name.
Yeah, there really was, Likethe method behind it was the green Every
episode's about a specific tactic for aspecific species, being hunting or fishing,
so it's like a way to dosomething, and then conservation is green,
and then my last name is Green. So the green Way outdoors. I
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kind of regret putting outdoors at theend of it now, but we're too
far down the road to change it. But everything is always like, you
know, everything just adds outdoors again, everything hunting and fishing, and now
I kind of regret putting it therebecause then it kind of blanks this blend
in. But I'm not changing thelogo and we just got a new hats.
It's kind to call it, Yeah, it's not. It's never too
late to rebrand. Just drop thatoutdoors and you just started due to the
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Hunting show, and then you doa home renovation show the green Way with
Color, or just change your nameto outdoors. There you go. It'd
be like, yeah, it's namedthat for me. Oh man, it's
a Kyle. Tell us a littlebit about your background. You didn't you
weren't always involved with outdoor television andand conservation, were you? Well,
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it kind of. I mean Igrew up cut my keys into it.
You know. I learned a lotfrom my dad. He taught me how
to deer hunt and bluegill fishing.That was like his favorite thing to do.
And I remember it took me deerhunting my very first time. I
was just a kid, and Iremember sitting there that first morning, and
I had all these crazy experiences seeingdeer run around and finally got an opportunity
to shoot one. I happen tobe peeing when I out him. That's
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a middle picture we can all enjoy. Yeah, well, I'll let you
sit with it for a minute,but uh yeah. And I remember seeing
the deer drop, and I rememberthat, I remember buck fever, I
remember what it felt like. Andonce I finished pans it back up and
walked over, I was like,I am obsessed with this. And you
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know, it always something too,is like people always talk about like,
oh, they do it for thethrill of the kill and this and that,
But if you do it, youknow what I'm talking about, It's
not that it's some it's some crazyyou know feeling that you get that you
can tell your ancestors probably had thesame thing. It's like, man,
I cannot wait to take this home, and I couldn't wait to you know,
cook a meal up from my momand sister and dad. You know
what I mean. It's like justthat connection to your food. And ever
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since that day, I was like, this is what I'm doing. My
dad only only deer hunted bluegill fish. You know. He worked, you
know, fifty one weeks a yearand didn't have opportunity to do much more
than that. So my best friendand I, Jeff, from a time
we were sixteen and could drive,we were out figure and everything out,
whether it was duck hunting, whetherit was rabbit hunting. We just went
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out and completely sucked and we messedup. And they had every heart tip
you can imagine, because we knewhow a deer hunt and bluego fish.
But that ain't gonna help you whenyou're trying to call in duck, you
know. And we learned all thatand we really got into duck hunting.
That became our favorite. But wedid everything from rabbit to squirrel, to
rouse to timberdoodle, all the thingsMichigan has to offer. And that's a
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great thing. Having all four seasons. You can kind of do everything here.
Turkey here, I mean, everything'shere. We have bear although I've
never been drawn for a tag inthe state, even though we have too
many of them. But don't getme started doing the PNR. But yeah,
and that moment on I was takenoff and I was obsessed with it
my background. Actually, I actuallysold cars and worked at a dealership for
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like four or five years, savedup my money, and at the time
I heard about a local medical talkshow and I was I have a degree
in personal training because I'm really intofitness and stuff. And I went and
tried out for this part on thislocal TV show. And I was there
one day and I saw the lightsand the cameras and how everything worked.
I'm like, this is what Iwant to do. So I walked away
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from a six figure job and wentto work for free. Within within six
months, I worked my way upthrough that company the vice president, and
I was nominated for three Emmys andeveryone though then once I got yeah,
no, no, it's all right, Oprah sucks. You know what we're
gonna do. But once I onceI got done with that, I was
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like, you know what, youknow, I kind of lost my interest
in that. I was like,I want to do television, but I
want to do something I care about. And at the end of the day,
every spare second in my life wasgoing towards hunting and conservations. So
I looked at the I looked atthe market place. I said, all
right, well, sixty percent ofhunting and fishing licenses. They're sold the
white males of the age of fiftyfive. And if we don't replace that
demographic in about fifteen years, we'regonna lose sixty percent of our funding for
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species sustainability efforts, for conservation efforts, our national parks, our forests,
our clean water are everything. Fishstocking all gone if we don't replace that
demographic. And when I looked inthe marketplace and I saw the other shows,
I'm like, they're all go prokill shot, low quality production shows.
So the only thing that I canthink of to do is cover a
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specific tactic for a specific species.Each episode would go to really cool places,
but make national geographic level quality contentand then educate the audience on the
gear they need for the hunting orfishing trip, decriminalize the hunting or fishing
trip by teach them about the conservation, show them the conservation hunt in true
reality show set out format, whichwas the number one rated content with millennials
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and Generation Z at the time,and then show them how to cook it
at the end in a beautiful studiokitchen, but not just throwing it on
the grill with a little bit ofsalt, but five star recipes you get
at a really beautiful restaurant that peoplewould want to replicate, and we felt
that was actually number two rated contentwith millennials. Degeneration C was that cooking
contents. We're like, okay,there it is. There's a formula.
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So we tried that and we suckedat it, and I took all I
took all my money and dumped itin and so did the team. And
the team that's with me today isthe same team was with me eight years
ago when we started on this journey, and we woke up every single morning
trying to figure out how to getbetter. We woke up every single day
figuring out what we had to doto get the mainstream, to reach the
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new audience to replace that sixty percent. And after seven and a half years
of just grinding day in and dayout, sleepless night, losing everything,
falling off, I mean, justgetting beaten up by life the way businesses
do, especially when you've got gotinvolved in the devil's fighting as Bessy Ken,
and we fought through those. Theteams that with me is still here
since day one, and we finallyjust landed the big deal with History Channel.
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So it's a it's been a fight. That's very cool. I mean,
you got to give yourself pause tostop and think, man, and
now this is what I get todo. This is my job. That's
pretty neat. Yeah, that's probablythe best part of the whole thing is
because those guys, you can imaginethe bonding. You know, we're at
the office every day together, orwe're traveling somewhere in the world together,
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and we've gone to all these faraway places and experience these cultures and people
and done these extreme hunting and fishingtrips, from hunting pythons in the average
bades with our bare hands, tohunting moose off the brid in Maine to
access here, hunting with foes inHawaii, to hunting you know, Buffalo
and Oklahoma with a Native American tribe, and you know, all these different
things. But we're experiencing together asbest friends. So we kind of call
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it like a like a traveling frathouse because it's just a group of best
friends just constantly messing with each other. Yeah, I can imagine the Yeah,
some of the some of the contentthe general public doesn't get to see
that some of the background Shenanigans.But and you mentioned you, I want
to make sure that people know wherethey can see this. All this show,
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you guys just need to deal withHistory Channel. Yeah. Yeah,
and that's finally the mainstream network thatwe were looking for to reach that audience.
So we're in the outdoor block withMountain Men Swamp People Alone, and
we'll be the new show in thatblock. It's gonna be on Saturdays,
nine am. But check your locallistings because they it's kind of different depending
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on where you are. But it'llbe right next to Mountain Men on History
Channel starting September two. So eachweek in September, there's five Saturdays of
September, so all five Saturdays backto back, there's two brand new episodes,
so one at nine and one atnine thirty back to back. And
then as you miss it you forgotto set your DVR. You can go
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to History Streaming or History Channel dotcom and check them out there. Very
cool. We wish you guys thebest of luck on that mainstream network.
We're gonna take a quick break hereon Hunting Matters back with our guest Kyle
Green. Hunting Matters KPRC nine andfifty come on, come on, I
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give because I was going along aspin of fusing wheels and thrown. I
was going deep when I had to, I couldn't stick a rock. I
love again. What's you know?I ain't shadow looking girls and your nieces
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of love and you need a timeand wellcome back to Honeymatters on KPRC nine
fifty. This is your host JoeBeatar. Hi. I am Ramon Roebliss.
We're joining today our guest Kyle Green, who's the host and executive producer
of The Greenway Outdoors. Yeah.You're helping me with the marketing. I'll
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be back on when the time's right. Yeah, just make sure you're paying
attention. Uh, Kyle, thanksonce again for joining us. Up you.
We've talking a little bit about theTV show, and I think you
brought out a point in the lastsegment that you know, you guys are
really striving and aiming to make itunique. I was involved in outdoor television
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for several years, and you know, I won't won't but labor the points
you made earlier. But sometimes you'rejust like, come on, guys,
we can do a better job ofrepresenting hunting and conservation and outdoors in this
and it's it's really cool that youguys are taking a different approach. I
mean, that's that's that is whateverybody needs and wants, especially the sponsors
and the viewers. I I completelyagree. Yeah, it's just the production
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quality of like these GoPro kill shotshows. There's definitely like a place for
it. Like, don't get mewrong, Like it's a duck hunting video
pops up on TikTok and you're seeingducks get kailed, Like I'm gonna watch
it, you know what I mean. But is the the person that's interested
possibly interested in hunting, or aperson who's not interested whatsoever? Are they
going to come across that video andbe like, all right, yeah,
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this is what we want to do. No, So you have to create
the content to create that bridge toget those people over on this side.
And that's that's what we've worked sohard to create. But and we wanted
it to be what we always said, national geographic quality. And like I
said, we sucked at it atfirst, but we just obsessed, obsessed,
obsessed, obsessed and always always,you know, put back into the
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company in order to have the bestequipment and train ourselves and to get better
because I refuse to work with anyoneelse than this team that I wanted to
keep the people around me, andthere is obsessed as I am with getting
better every day. At the endof the day, like, you give
it eight years, you can prettymuch figure out anything. So I think
when people see this show, Ithink they'll be shocked because there's never really
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been a national geographic level quality showthat was also truly truly hunting, fishing,
and conservation. Yeah, and it'sand it's needed. I mean,
it really is. All right.Off the subject just a little bit,
Kyle, if you had to cookfor a VIP coming into town, what
is the dish you're making? Thedish I'm making? Personally me, I'll
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tell you what. I'm gonna startwith an appetizer, and I'm gonna go
with deep fried turkey, wings orgrouse if I have it. But depending
on the VIP. Are we talkinga pretty girl? Are we talking you
know some guy I'm never going tosee again. If it's the pretty girl,
i might go with the grouse.If it's a guy I'm never going
to see again, I'd probably justgo with the turkey. Then I'm gonna
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chop those suckers up into cubes allthe same size, and I'm gonna put
them in milk or buttermilk. IfI happen to have it in the fridge,
I'm gonna put him in butter milk. I'm gonna soak him overnight.
I'm gonna let the lactoast and themilk break down the meat overnight and pull
out any any nission of game playerthat could possibly this. And then i'm
gonna take that out and i'm gonnacreate a mix, and it's gonna be
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three parts. One part pancake mix, one part bread from and one part
flour. I'm gonna mix all three, pull them right out of the milk.
I'm gonna sprinkle rufus tige chicken rubor poultry rub all over them,
and then i'm gonna dip them inthat breading mixture. And then i'm gonna
cook him in peanut oil. IfI got it in a pinch, I'll
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use corn oil. Everything else,no thank you, And I'm gonna beet
fry them for six minutes and i'mgonna pull that out, and then whoever
it is, they're gonna be sohappy they met me. It's gonna be
unbelievable. Man, that's intense.Man, you've thought of that, I
mean, or at least she thoughtthis through. We are currently editing our
Turkey episode and that is the recipewe used in it. Oh good,
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I'm glad you're paying attention because thatsounds marvelous. Yeah. Yeah, it
really is as good as I saywe I do that with grouse too.
I always say to people, haveyou never had grouse? Were in Michigan?
We have something called rough grouse,So look it up. Look up
rought grouse drumming if you want tobe entertained. Very very cool. How
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they do their mating calls, butit sounds like a lawnmower trying to start
in the distance. It's the bestway I can explain. It's the way
they do the beats and it's likea thunderous thing where they hit their chests.
Very cool. But that bird isthe greatest met on the planet.
I always say this, You knowhow turkey is gaming, like even even
farming is turkey. Like some peoplejust don't like turkey because they think it's
got that off gamey taste. Comparedto chicken. It's gaming well compared to
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grouse. Chicken is gaming. Imean, it's that clean. It's as
white as snow. When you cookit, it's so white it almost looks
like it's fake or it's glowing.And it is the cleanest, greatest,
most amazing meat on the face ofthe Earth's brout. You got me sold,
man. Now I'm just pulling upa video of rough grouse drumming.
I'm gonna trying to get it.Yeah I can. I can kind of
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st raise, like, oh yeah, I get dad, black boy.
I know this doesn't make good radio. I want to say, look at
that, but I mean, justlisten to that. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, it really sounds like aone more trying to start in the distance.
Matter of fact, one time Iwas archery hunting and I came in
from the hunt and you know,how guys do? They said, what
did you see? You know?How to go? I told my dad
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said, man, there was aguy in the distance. I'm just a
kid, And he was like hewas trying to get this one more started
all day. My dad got thatsmirk that dad get, you know,
and he goes describe it to meand I did the chest thing and then
he goes, that was a grouseand it was close to. I was
like, oh man, and Iactually I actually harvested my very first browse
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with a bow. I was inthat same tree stand, and then a
couple of weeks later I knew whatit was. It landed there. Took
me a second to register with mylittle brain as a kid what it was,
and I was like, that bigbrowse and then you lift up a
twenty nine dollars arrow, thinking thisis the dumbest thing I've ever done.
But I ended up shooting and gettingit, so it worked out. We've
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we've all all bow hundreds. We'vealways had that thought, I'm not going
to waste an air on this animal. It's whether it's a grouse or a
squirrel or whatever. We've all doneit though. Yeah, hey, you
mentioned your team earlier. You guyshave been together for eight years. Tell
us about it. Is it ourfamily members, guys you grew up with,
and what kind of compiles your team? Closer than family? I would
say at this point, but theother the other hosts of the show,
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his name's Jeff Hutchinson. He grewup across the street from me. Since
we were five years old, we'vedone every family vacation together. Every senior
year's spring break. In high school. We did swim team together all the
way through school. We did thegolf team together all the way through school.
We've literally done everything our whole livestogether. And we figured out young
that we could afford things quicker ifwe split it. So we shared everything.
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You know, We've got our firstduck vote for two hundred hours off
Craig Bliss. I'd paid a hundred, he paid a hundred. We got
our first motor. It was sixhundred US, and the guy kind of
scammed Jeff because he sprayed a bunchof starter fluid in it and convinced Jeff
that it ran fine. But weended up working it out anyhow. But
you know, we split everything.Our whole life always been best friends and
the other two guys, AJ andRyan. Ryan's only twenty three now,
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so you do the math. Andold he was when he came on,
and then Ryan's our producer his back. I mean, he just took silt
like filming and editing classes in highschool and he grew up in futons and
then Aj he's worked on a coupleof movie sets and stuff. He's thirty
four and he's a little bit moreexperienced with it, but he's just grown
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up kind of like directing things I'malways wanting to. But we all just
kind of met by happenstance a J. Ryan and I and it's just we
just have been together ever since.And so, like I said, they
came on eight years ago and we'vejust been grinding together ever since. And
that first year was kind of feelingeach other out and figuring out the company.
And like I said, we hadsome really really really hard times,
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you know, right around year threeand four, when things weren't working out
the way that we hoped and runningout of money and you know, we
could we got kicked out of thebuilding at one point. I mean,
that was the lowest that we've everbeen. We had one sponsor and nothing,
and then we just kept grinding,waking up every day, taking one
more step. And now we've gotseventeen sponsors and landed a deal on History
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Channel. But without them, I'mnothing. I mean, it's just the
their their work, ethics, theirdedication. You know, it's remarkable and
every day it inspires me. Well, the history the History Channel get is
to be applauded because you know,having been in that industry for several years.
I mean, you know, there'sOutdoor and there's Sportsman, there's all
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these other networks. And to getsomething that's uh, you know, that's
something that lands on mainstream television ofthe mainstream networks is really really cool.
And you guys, you guys willdefinitely stand out on that and and it'd
be very interesting to see what theresponse is. And this year going to
be on your running your first seasonin September on History. That's right,
Okay, okay, yeah, you'reright, and it will be interesting.
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My mom's pretty nervous. Well,all the hard stuff is done, I
mean now yeah, to just sitback and say what happens. Yeah,
yeah, we're although I will saywe're learning a lot too because like,
for instance, that you wouldn't realizeit on because we've been on Sports and
Channel, we've been on Protude Channel, we've been on those smaller networks.
You just send the episode in andit's done. But with these guys,
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there was two pixels out in oneminute, sixteen seconds and thirty two things.
And the second channel sound was it'ssupposed to be three sound files under
one channel, and this one's supposedto be you know, it's like all
these complicated things, and really theydon't realize this. They might if they
hear this, but it's still justfour of us, so they think we
have a team of like thirty peoplelike the other guys, and we've just
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I never lied, but I nevercorrected them. It's really us for Yeah,
that's just that's like Google and stuff. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
That's a big time more efficient though. Sure, I'm gonna take a quick
break here Hunting Matters, KPRC ninefifty. The music is a world within
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itself with a language me on understandwith a egle. I've wrought zo n
or the same d about that headbecau record fast group. Don't make it
in the group, but you cantail right away when the people start to
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move. Welcome back to Huntymatters onKPRC nine fifty. This is your host,
Joe Btur. I am ramone roebulist. I'm so upset right now.
How's that I stopped down on theway over here to the studio to pick
up some electrolytes because it's melting inTexas. Yep, I guess some sugars
in this bottle electro It's oh uh, tell me the stuff I drink at
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home, Pedia Light and Liquid IV. No, no endorsements, but either
of you companies would be welcome tocall us up a sponsor the show eighteen
grams of sugar. Oh wow,that's might as well. Just should have
just gotten a coke. Okay,I mean that's crazy. And then it
says including added sugar is another eighteengrams. What we're talking thirty six electro
It's called electroc Now I'm not goingto mention the name, but it's electro
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lights solution. Grandpa's grumpy, No, I'm not hem me is one of
those breakfast docks. Off in myyard, kid, and go get the
golf cart and rode the neighborhood.Where are we gonna say? I'm currently
drinking. Uh, they are asponsor, but only because I reached out
to them, an obsessed over themfor so long that that's why they became
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it. But we're doing an athlete. They have this hydrate. They have
hydrate and recover and it's I thinkit's four grams of sugar but that's not
perfect, but it's incredible, incredibleelectrolyte. And you just put that in
a bottle and you're good to go. But they just came out with something
new called Hero. That is theirenergy and focus and that mix. And
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that's literally what I'm drinking right now. It's called Hero and I if you
want to feel good, that's whatyou drink because it's got the caffeine,
it's got the focus, it's gotthe hydration, the electrolytes. It's everything
you need. One thing. It'scalled the Hero. Highly reckon. I'm
forty six years old, Kyle.So I'm looking at the website and I
see Fiber Plus and I'm thinking that'sfor me. You are like faster than
(32:34):
Jamie with how quick you get onwebsites. I love it. No thanks.
Is there any kind of Kyle greencode? We can enter here and you
want to help promotion? Actually greenWeight twenty and you'll get twenty percent Greenwight
twenty. Yeah, yeah, youneed you need that one leader Colon blow.
Yeah. You know what, perhaps, folks, if you're just shoining,
(32:58):
is Kyle Green, the host,executive produce of The Greenway Outdoors is
joining us. Kyle. I foundsomething that was very interesting about you guys.
Most people have TV shows or mediamedia groups that are I mean you're
not just starting up, you've beenaround eight years now. But you've got
a mission statement, and something stuckout to me. I'm going to read
your mission statement here on the air. To promote and protect outdoor heritage and
conservation through educating, inspiring, entertaining, and simplifying outdoor activities to increase participation
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for both novice and experienced style outdoorsman, while demonstrating respect and wholesome values for
the blessing and beauty of the naturalworld. I'm sure you've got that.
I'm sure you've got that tattoo tattooedon your arm. But the thing that
jumped out of me is yeah,increasing Yeah, increased participation. Those are
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the two words that jump out atme. Right, what are we going
to do? I mean, youknow, the numbers jumped up a little
bit as far as licenses for huntingand fishing during the pandemic, and they're
starting to decline. We're seeing urbansprawl, We're seeing most of people introduced
through the outdoors. I always askus of our guests who are involved in
the outdoors, what can we dobetter as people to be more inviting to
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others to the outdoors. Well,I got about a three three points I'd
like to make on that. Thefirst one is, and you can probably
telling you guys are known for this, which is why I wanted to do
this interview, is don't take yourselftoo seriously. Don't be in know at
all. It's terrible. You gointo an archery shop and you go to
talk to somebody and they make youfeel like a piece of scums. If
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you don't know this, know thatyou go into a gun range and they're
yelling at people and it's just demoralizingand the ego that comes with so many
people. And you hear me,I'll tell you where our faults are.
I mean, I'll be the firstone to tell you what I'm not good
at. I'll be the first oneto do that. There is no reason,
and I blame the fact that there'sno braiding scale, Like you can't
get an A minus in hunting andthen be like that's better than a B.
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There is no brain. If thatduck flew by me, it will
never fly by you exactly the same. You'll never be in the same situations
I'm in. You'll never have thesame opportunities I do, and I won't
have the same opportunities you do.There's no grading scale. So I think
we could all do ourselves a bigfavor if we got rid of this industry
ego. And I go to theseshows and I need these people, and
I'm like, what are you soproud of? Like it's you're going out
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to get food everyone, Like you'rereally good at nature, grocery shopping,
chill out, you know, helpsomebody. So I think the ego has
got to be checked. And it'sthat's something big in this industry that I
just honestly, it's why I don'treally interact with that much of the industry
specifically. Number two, we workvery hard to give the information that would
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be needed in our show where it'svery practical, where they're like, Okay,
if I want to go on agoose hunt, here's the gear I
need. This is why I shoulddo it, because I'm actually helping the
goose population by hunting. Okay,here's the gear I need. This is
how they did it, this ishow I'll do it, and then here's
how i'll cook it. Okay,it's practical. I can understand that I
can get behind that, and that'sreally why we built a show that way.
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So that it's it's the ultimate starterkit, you know, for somebody
to get into it. But it'sthese high adventure places to inspire people to
go out and do that. Anduh, but I guess that's two points.
I had a third one, butit's it's escapes me now. But
that that's that's that. I thinkeveryone needs to check the egos and the
more we can do to inspire peopleby by delivering content that they actually want
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to see and that goes for everyone, not just our show, but on
socials and things like that. Verywell said good points. And you guys
offer I mean you've got a prettyrobust website. I mean, you guys
do a podcast as well. Youdo how to videos, which is kind
of a key element of your showsas well as the recipes and the cooking.
Is this something that you know overthe past eight years you guys said
we need to add this componity toadd that or was the vision always there?
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The vision is always there. It'sjust the man power, time and
money. With our biggest sales pointsbefore. But now as we're expanding so
much, we're able to really rampup. But yeah, we have a
weekly video podcast that that's the studioI'm sitting in right now hopefully and helping
my downt here, so I don'tsound too bad for you guys, but
that is the team of four andwe talk about all the current events and
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things going on, as well asthe outdoor industry stuff as well as our
recent hunting and fishing trips and thenadvice and we obviously have guests on and
things like that, so we kindof cover that. We do it every
week. We do it in videoforms so if people can see it on
YouTube and CARB and TV, butthen they can also go on everywhere podcasts
are phoned and just listen to itif they be said, I mean,
we got faces for radio, sothat'll you know. That's that get it?
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And then the how to video serieswas simply because every time, like
you gotta do something, you gottalook about how to video, you get
like a bunch of bad, badlyfilms, low production, hard to understand
videos. So we're doing our bestto build up like an encyclopedia videos to
answer all those questions and concerns thatpeople have when they're in the field when
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they need help. So we wantto be the people that they can count
on when they see our name andour logo on it, they're like,
Okay, this is actually going tobe what I need. Yeah, I
think you you alluded it it toit earlier, you know, and you
guys, your approach to to thatsort of thing, and you approach to
you know, leaving the ego atthe door and admitting when you don't know
something and having the not only thewillingness and desire to learn, but the
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capacity to learn. That's that's prettyevident. And you guys having those how
to videos and saying, look,we've learned this really cool trick. Let's
share it with the world, youknow, and somebody, you know,
may please look at that. God, I never thought of that. I've
been hunting twenty years, or somebodylike you said earlier, somebody who's like
I always I always wanted to go, you know, fishing for walleye and
I don't. And then they seeone of your videos, ago, that's
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cool, I can do that.So I mean, that's great, Kyle.
We like to finish up, folks. If you're just joining us,
you join us way too late.We've had a great conversation with our guest
Kyle Green, hosting executive producer ofThe Greenway at Doors Kyle. Typically,
we like to do a lightning aroundif we have a couple of seconds here
and we've got about a minute leftor less, So let's you up for
a quick lightning round. Yeah,you gotta hunt one animal tomorrow and that's
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it. What's it going to be? I'm saying it again. One animal?
That's all you can hunt tomorrow.What's it going to be? In
seasons? On? Ryson? Nice? What's the one thing we're always going
to find in your backpack? Nice? Nice? And last, but not
least, what is the current firstsong on your road trip playlist? Gold
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Flack by postmlone. Oh there yougo, folks. We'll see you guys
next week. Here we've been joinedby Kyle Green of the green Way Outdoors
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This is your host, Joe VitarI am ramone Rublish. We were
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It's still one hundred degrees outside?Is it? That hasn't changed.
I'm not going outside ever again.It's not a good idea. Don't do
that. How long has it beensince we have rain? Now? Three
months? Well, I think acouple like a week and a half of
that wasn't right. They promised rainsometimes like Wednesday the twenty third or something
like that, or Tuesday. Yeah, yeah, it's been a minute.
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It is. It's nuts. That'sThat's a good thing about being a homebody.
Is I never really experienced the heatbecause I never go outside. But
I can tell that it hasn't rained, and quite literally two months because everything
around me is dying. It's it'sbad. And I like to work outside
on the weekends because I'm in officeall day, right, so it's you
know, try to get I tryto get my honey do list, my
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own personally in forest honey. I'vealways got a list of projects I'm working
on, wood working, whatever,and I try to get them done by
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at seven eight at seven pm atnight, you can't do it. You
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Michigan, I know repeatedly lately.That's a good question. Michigan is just
a hotspot for hunting, and myignorance, I never thought, Yeah,
hunting and fishing in Detroit, ofall places, is the mecca fishing.
Yeah, we've learned. We talkedto our guests earlier before the show started,
and he was telling us all thingsabout Lake Saint Clair and just how
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it's just haven for fishing. Sowe're gonna, We're gonna, I got
questions. Cool, cool, Well, folks, if you're joining us today
on hunting matters, our guest isKyle Green. Kyle is the host and
executive producer of The green Way Outdoorsthat we're going to learn about what that
is. So, Kyle, thanksso much for joining us. Absolutely.
You know, I think the reasonwhy you guys all keep talking to Michigan
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people because you're trying to cool offand we got plenty of rain. Yeah,
don't rub it in, Kyle.Yeah. I went up recently to
the north part of the United Stateswhere it wasn't as hot, and I
realized why people actually do enjoy summer, because it's pleasant. Yep, anywhere
but prisis it shade actually works.And you know, ninety five degrees certainly
(04:08):
does not feel like ninety five degreesdown here, but it's very it's very
standard here. There's nothing better thanan up north Michigan summer when you've got
eighty degrees, a light breeze,the brook trout or swimming in the streams
the lakes. Everyone's out on thelakes and the boat you're you're you're warm
enough to swim, but you're nottoo hot. It's just perfect here.
(04:30):
Well, yeah, you know,I have Buddy Mountain. There's a Canadian
he came and worked in the UnitedStates for a few years, but he
always used to talk about summers inCanada and going up to the cottage country
cayl Do you guys have what theycall cottage country there in Michigan as well?
Yeah, I mean anything. UhSo, we have something called the
Zilwaukee Bridge, which is like bysix Michigan. If you're falling in on
a map at nine seventy five,and as soon as you go over that
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bridge, basically everything becomes cottage country. And I'll tell you too for for
Michigan. For friend, you've gotthe people that come from here. You've
got Ted Nugent, who's incredible,You've got Fred Bear, and you've got
Steve Vanella. So this state justpumps out powerhouses for the outdoor industry.
Yeah, that's true. I'll shyindividuals, all three of them. Yeah,
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Kyle, we actually had I've knownTed for for a long time.
We actually had him on the showhere a while back, just coming out.
I was coming out of the afterthe pandemic, wasn't it going into
it? Yeah, And I gothim to talk about fred Bear and uh,
Barbara waltered him. He actually startedteared up on the air talking about
Fred Bear. We couldn't get himto stop. Yeah. Yeah, he's
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a He's a wonderful guy. I'vebeen blessed enough to have him in my
life for years now. And uh, you know, you see the Ran
city goes on, and he obviouslygets very political and stuff, and obviously
a lot of us are going tobe a green with what he says.
But there's like that other side ofhim that is like very soft and very
sincere and very caring, and hereally will go out of his way for
somebody. I've never seen somebody alwaysturned on the way that he is,
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you know what I mean, alwaysturned on. There's no there's no fake
there, total unrelated to anything we'retalking about. I'm just looking around the
maps of Michigan and I was justwondering, Yeah, from Michigan to Wisconsin,
is there any way over Lake Michigan. Is there a ferry? Fay?
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Okay, okay, yeah, there'sa there's a ferry. I've actually
never been on it. I havefamily that live in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.
If you can see that on amap, it's about an hour and a
half from Chicago, I'd say,okay, but most people just end up
going around and going through Chicago forit. But you can get flights even
on like Delta for like fifty blocksto jump over and it's like a thirty
(06:46):
two minute flight. Okay, I'lltypically do that if I can bring out
the time I'm leaving from where it'sright Okay, Oh yeah, of course.
Okay, that's a fascinating It's justpart of the country. I've never
really paid attention to you here aboutChicago Green Bay, obviously being Furtball fans,
but looking at just Michigan, Imean, Michigan's got two parts to
it, you know, and nobodyever talks about the Upper Peninsula and it's
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one of the best kept secrets,and I hope Kyle will let me in
on some of those secrets as theshow develops. Yeah, we actually just
filmed an episode there for History Channelwhere we were we were kind of hitting
a lot of the landmarks there.We went to Kitchen and Kippy, which
is, uh, this beautiful it'sI guess they used to call it.
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It's basically a landmark where everyone goesit's this beautiful you want to call it
a pond, but the water comesup from the bottom and it's like this
peel green, just the most beautifulthing you've ever seen in your life,
and it's in the middle of nowhere, but everyone goes to visit it.
And we went to Pictured Rocks,which is right along the shores of the
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Great Lakes there where you can actuallysee these rocks that come out of the
water and they're all just gorgeous,different colors. The best was actually from
the water looking at them, butwe went and check those out and then
we did some cliff jumping up therein Black Rocks. But then we just
hit trout streams and the coolest thingabout the up is everywhere you go,
the water is cold enough, becauselike if you're trout fishing, you know,
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even in the Lower Peninsula Michigan,or you're bounced around or you're going
anywhere, you're always looking for coldwater. And you know, rivers walk
to eight throughout the seasons and sometimesthey're colder this time the year than they
are at that time, and soon and so forth. So trout will
move out or move in depending onthe time of year. And the up
it's like you could find a ditchand it's cold enough, it's probably trouting.
Everything. Everything's cold enough, andthere's trout just everywhere, and they're
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all just aggressive, and you canreally get away from the beef path and
cast the fish that have never beencasted too. And that's that's one of
the best parts. That's crazy.All right, folks, gonna take a
quick break here, be back withour guest Kyle Green of the Greenway Outdoors
Hunting Matters on KPRC nine fifty.Yeah, well, I come back to
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Hunting Matters on KPRC nine fifty.This is your host, Joe bat I'm
ramon Roeblist. I'm gonna grab afishing pole and when I'm in Detroit,
as soon as i walk out ofmy hotel. Yeah, I'm gonna play
this music. That's gonna be mywalk out to fish music. That would
be perfect, Yeah, perfectly.It's gonna set a tone. Just make
sure you take the cork off ofyour fishing line because they may make fun
of good figure hitting the trout streamswith a with a bobber, you know,
(10:09):
and to each of their own Iuse a cork. Oh man,
I welcome back to Hunting Matters.Our guest today is Kyle Green, hosting,
an executive producer of The green WayOutdoors. Kyle, thanks so much
for joining us. Absolutely, I'vebeen having some with you guys. I'm
a little slow on the take.But when I saw The green Way Outdoors
of it, oh man, it'sgoing to be some tree hugging, compost
(10:31):
pooping a bag recycle. But thenI realized, oh that's his name.
Yeah, there really was, Likethe method behind it was the green Every
episode's about a specific tactic for aspecific species, being hunting or fishing,
so it's like a way to dosomething, and then conservation is green,
and then my last name is Green. So the green Way outdoors. I
(10:54):
kind of regret putting outdoors at theend of it now, but we're too
far down the road to change it. But everything is always like, you
know, everything just adds outdoors again, everything hunting and fishing, and now
I kind of regret putting it therebecause then it kind of blanks this blend
in. But I'm not changing thelogo and we just got a new hats.
It's kind to call it, Yeah, it's not. It's never too
late to rebrand. Just drop thatoutdoors and you just started due to the
(11:16):
Hunting show, and then you doa home renovation show the green Way with
Color, or just change your nameto outdoors. There you go. It'd
be like, yeah, it's namedthat for me. Oh man, it's
a Kyle. Tell us a littlebit about your background. You didn't you
weren't always involved with outdoor television andand conservation, were you? Well,
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it kind of. I mean Igrew up cut my keys into it.
You know. I learned a lotfrom my dad. He taught me how
to deer hunt and bluegill fishing.That was like his favorite thing to do.
And I remember it took me deerhunting my very first time. I
was just a kid, and Iremember sitting there that first morning, and
I had all these crazy experiences seeingdeer run around and finally got an opportunity
to shoot one. I happen tobe peeing when I out him. That's
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a middle picture we can all enjoy. Yeah, well, I'll let you
sit with it for a minute,but uh yeah. And I remember seeing
the deer drop, and I rememberthat, I remember buck fever, I
remember what it felt like. Andonce I finished pans it back up and
walked over, I was like,I am obsessed with this. And you
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know, it always something too,is like people always talk about like,
oh, they do it for thethrill of the kill and this and that,
But if you do it, youknow what I'm talking about, It's
not that it's some it's some crazyyou know feeling that you get that you
can tell your ancestors probably had thesame thing. It's like, man,
I cannot wait to take this home, and I couldn't wait to you know,
cook a meal up from my momand sister and dad. You know
what I mean. It's like justthat connection to your food. And ever
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since that day, I was like, this is what I'm doing. My
dad only only deer hunted bluegill fish. You know. He worked, you
know, fifty one weeks a yearand didn't have opportunity to do much more
than that. So my best friendand I, Jeff, from a time
we were sixteen and could drive,we were out figure and everything out,
whether it was duck hunting, whetherit was rabbit hunting. We just went
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out and completely sucked and we messedup. And they had every heart tip
you can imagine, because we knewhow a deer hunt and bluego fish.
But that ain't gonna help you whenyou're trying to call in duck, you
know. And we learned all thatand we really got into duck hunting.
That became our favorite. But wedid everything from rabbit to squirrel, to
rouse to timberdoodle, all the thingsMichigan has to offer. And that's a
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great thing. Having all four seasons. You can kind of do everything here.
Turkey here, I mean, everything'shere. We have bear although I've
never been drawn for a tag inthe state, even though we have too
many of them. But don't getme started doing the PNR. But yeah,
and that moment on I was takenoff and I was obsessed with it
my background. Actually, I actuallysold cars and worked at a dealership for
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like four or five years, savedup my money, and at the time
I heard about a local medical talkshow and I was I have a degree
in personal training because I'm really intofitness and stuff. And I went and
tried out for this part on thislocal TV show. And I was there
one day and I saw the lightsand the cameras and how everything worked.
I'm like, this is what Iwant to do. So I walked away
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from a six figure job and wentto work for free. Within within six
months, I worked my way upthrough that company the vice president, and
I was nominated for three Emmys andeveryone though then once I got yeah,
no, no, it's all right, Oprah sucks. You know what we're
gonna do. But once I onceI got done with that, I was
(14:31):
like, you know what, youknow, I kind of lost my interest
in that. I was like,I want to do television, but I
want to do something I care about. And at the end of the day,
every spare second in my life wasgoing towards hunting and conservations. So
I looked at the I looked atthe market place. I said, all
right, well, sixty percent ofhunting and fishing licenses. They're sold the
white males of the age of fiftyfive. And if we don't replace that
demographic in about fifteen years, we'regonna lose sixty percent of our funding for
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species sustainability efforts, for conservation efforts, our national parks, our forests,
our clean water are everything. Fishstocking all gone if we don't replace that
demographic. And when I looked inthe marketplace and I saw the other shows,
I'm like, they're all go prokill shot, low quality production shows.
So the only thing that I canthink of to do is cover a
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specific tactic for a specific species.Each episode would go to really cool places,
but make national geographic level quality contentand then educate the audience on the
gear they need for the hunting orfishing trip, decriminalize the hunting or fishing
trip by teach them about the conservation, show them the conservation hunt in true
reality show set out format, whichwas the number one rated content with millennials
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and Generation Z at the time,and then show them how to cook it
at the end in a beautiful studiokitchen, but not just throwing it on
the grill with a little bit ofsalt, but five star recipes you get
at a really beautiful restaurant that peoplewould want to replicate, and we felt
that was actually number two rated contentwith millennials. Degeneration C was that cooking
contents. We're like, okay,there it is. There's a formula.
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So we tried that and we suckedat it, and I took all I
took all my money and dumped itin and so did the team. And
the team that's with me today isthe same team was with me eight years
ago when we started on this journey, and we woke up every single morning
trying to figure out how to getbetter. We woke up every single day
figuring out what we had to doto get the mainstream, to reach the
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new audience to replace that sixty percent. And after seven and a half years
of just grinding day in and dayout, sleepless night, losing everything,
falling off, I mean, justgetting beaten up by life the way businesses
do, especially when you've got gotinvolved in the devil's fighting as Bessy Ken,
and we fought through those. Theteams that with me is still here
since day one, and we finallyjust landed the big deal with History Channel.
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So it's a it's been a fight. That's very cool. I mean,
you got to give yourself pause tostop and think, man, and
now this is what I get todo. This is my job. That's
pretty neat. Yeah, that's probablythe best part of the whole thing is
because those guys, you can imaginethe bonding. You know, we're at
the office every day together, orwe're traveling somewhere in the world together,
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and we've gone to all these faraway places and experience these cultures and people
and done these extreme hunting and fishingtrips, from hunting pythons in the average
bades with our bare hands, tohunting moose off the brid in Maine to
access here, hunting with foes inHawaii, to hunting you know, Buffalo
and Oklahoma with a Native American tribe, and you know, all these different
things. But we're experiencing together asbest friends. So we kind of call
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it like a like a traveling frathouse because it's just a group of best
friends just constantly messing with each other. Yeah, I can imagine the Yeah,
some of the some of the contentthe general public doesn't get to see
that some of the background Shenanigans.But and you mentioned you, I want
to make sure that people know wherethey can see this. All this show,
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you guys just need to deal withHistory Channel. Yeah. Yeah,
and that's finally the mainstream network thatwe were looking for to reach that audience.
So we're in the outdoor block withMountain Men Swamp People Alone, and
we'll be the new show in thatblock. It's gonna be on Saturdays,
nine am. But check your locallistings because they it's kind of different depending
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on where you are. But it'llbe right next to Mountain Men on History
Channel starting September two. So eachweek in September, there's five Saturdays of
September, so all five Saturdays backto back, there's two brand new episodes,
so one at nine and one atnine thirty back to back. And
then as you miss it you forgotto set your DVR. You can go
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to History Streaming or History Channel dotcom and check them out there. Very
cool. We wish you guys thebest of luck on that mainstream network.
We're gonna take a quick break hereon Hunting Matters back with our guest Kyle
Green. Hunting Matters KPRC nine andfifty come on, come on, I
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give because I was going along aspin of fusing wheels and thrown. I
was going deep when I had to, I couldn't stick a rock. I
love again. What's you know?I ain't shadow looking girls and your nieces
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of love and you need a timeand wellcome back to Honeymatters on KPRC nine
fifty. This is your host JoeBeatar. Hi. I am Ramon Roebliss.
We're joining today our guest Kyle Green, who's the host and executive producer
of The Greenway Outdoors. Yeah.You're helping me with the marketing. I'll
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be back on when the time's right. Yeah, just make sure you're paying
attention. Uh, Kyle, thanksonce again for joining us. Up you.
We've talking a little bit about theTV show, and I think you
brought out a point in the lastsegment that you know, you guys are
really striving and aiming to make itunique. I was involved in outdoor television
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for several years, and you know, I won't won't but labor the points
you made earlier. But sometimes you'rejust like, come on, guys,
we can do a better job ofrepresenting hunting and conservation and outdoors in this
and it's it's really cool that youguys are taking a different approach. I
mean, that's that's that is whateverybody needs and wants, especially the sponsors
and the viewers. I I completelyagree. Yeah, it's just the production
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quality of like these GoPro kill shotshows. There's definitely like a place for
it. Like, don't get mewrong, Like it's a duck hunting video
pops up on TikTok and you're seeingducks get kailed, Like I'm gonna watch
it, you know what I mean. But is the the person that's interested
possibly interested in hunting, or aperson who's not interested whatsoever? Are they
going to come across that video andbe like, all right, yeah,
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this is what we want to do. No, So you have to create
the content to create that bridge toget those people over on this side.
And that's that's what we've worked sohard to create. But and we wanted
it to be what we always said, national geographic quality. And like I
said, we sucked at it atfirst, but we just obsessed, obsessed,
obsessed, obsessed and always always,you know, put back into the
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company in order to have the bestequipment and train ourselves and to get better
because I refuse to work with anyoneelse than this team that I wanted to
keep the people around me, andthere is obsessed as I am with getting
better every day. At the endof the day, like, you give
it eight years, you can prettymuch figure out anything. So I think
when people see this show, Ithink they'll be shocked because there's never really
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been a national geographic level quality showthat was also truly truly hunting, fishing,
and conservation. Yeah, and it'sand it's needed. I mean,
it really is. All right.Off the subject just a little bit,
Kyle, if you had to cookfor a VIP coming into town, what
is the dish you're making? Thedish I'm making? Personally me, I'll
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tell you what. I'm gonna startwith an appetizer, and I'm gonna go
with deep fried turkey, wings orgrouse if I have it. But depending
on the VIP. Are we talkinga pretty girl? Are we talking you
know some guy I'm never going tosee again. If it's the pretty girl,
i might go with the grouse.If it's a guy I'm never going
to see again, I'd probably justgo with the turkey. Then I'm gonna
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chop those suckers up into cubes allthe same size, and I'm gonna put
them in milk or buttermilk. IfI happen to have it in the fridge,
I'm gonna put him in butter milk. I'm gonna soak him overnight.
I'm gonna let the lactoast and themilk break down the meat overnight and pull
out any any nission of game playerthat could possibly this. And then i'm
gonna take that out and i'm gonnacreate a mix, and it's gonna be
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three parts. One part pancake mix, one part bread from and one part
flour. I'm gonna mix all three, pull them right out of the milk.
I'm gonna sprinkle rufus tige chicken rubor poultry rub all over them,
and then i'm gonna dip them inthat breading mixture. And then i'm gonna
cook him in peanut oil. IfI got it in a pinch, I'll
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use corn oil. Everything else,no thank you, And I'm gonna beet
fry them for six minutes and i'mgonna pull that out, and then whoever
it is, they're gonna be sohappy they met me. It's gonna be
unbelievable. Man, that's intense.Man, you've thought of that, I
mean, or at least she thoughtthis through. We are currently editing our
Turkey episode and that is the recipewe used in it. Oh good,
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I'm glad you're paying attention because thatsounds marvelous. Yeah. Yeah, it
really is as good as I saywe I do that with grouse too.
I always say to people, haveyou never had grouse? Were in Michigan?
We have something called rough grouse,So look it up. Look up
rought grouse drumming if you want tobe entertained. Very very cool. How
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they do their mating calls, butit sounds like a lawnmower trying to start
in the distance. It's the bestway I can explain. It's the way
they do the beats and it's likea thunderous thing where they hit their chests.
Very cool. But that bird isthe greatest met on the planet.
I always say this, You knowhow turkey is gaming, like even even
farming is turkey. Like some peoplejust don't like turkey because they think it's
got that off gamey taste. Comparedto chicken. It's gaming well compared to
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grouse. Chicken is gaming. Imean, it's that clean. It's as
white as snow. When you cookit, it's so white it almost looks
like it's fake or it's glowing.And it is the cleanest, greatest,
most amazing meat on the face ofthe Earth's brout. You got me sold,
man. Now I'm just pulling upa video of rough grouse drumming.
I'm gonna trying to get it.Yeah I can. I can kind of
(24:57):
st raise, like, oh yeah, I get dad, black boy.
I know this doesn't make good radio. I want to say, look at
that, but I mean, justlisten to that. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, it really sounds like aone more trying to start in the distance.
Matter of fact, one time Iwas archery hunting and I came in
from the hunt and you know,how guys do? They said, what
did you see? You know?How to go? I told my dad
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said, man, there was aguy in the distance. I'm just a
kid, And he was like hewas trying to get this one more started
all day. My dad got thatsmirk that dad get, you know,
and he goes describe it to meand I did the chest thing and then
he goes, that was a grouseand it was close to. I was
like, oh man, and Iactually I actually harvested my very first browse
(25:38):
with a bow. I was inthat same tree stand, and then a
couple of weeks later I knew whatit was. It landed there. Took
me a second to register with mylittle brain as a kid what it was,
and I was like, that bigbrowse and then you lift up a
twenty nine dollars arrow, thinking thisis the dumbest thing I've ever done.
But I ended up shooting and gettingit, so it worked out. We've
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we've all all bow hundreds. We'vealways had that thought, I'm not going
to waste an air on this animal. It's whether it's a grouse or a
squirrel or whatever. We've all doneit though. Yeah, hey, you
mentioned your team earlier. You guyshave been together for eight years. Tell
us about it. Is it ourfamily members, guys you grew up with,
and what kind of compiles your team? Closer than family? I would
say at this point, but theother the other hosts of the show,
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his name's Jeff Hutchinson. He grewup across the street from me. Since
we were five years old, we'vedone every family vacation together. Every senior
year's spring break. In high school. We did swim team together all the
way through school. We did thegolf team together all the way through school.
We've literally done everything our whole livestogether. And we figured out young
that we could afford things quicker ifwe split it. So we shared everything.
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You know, We've got our firstduck vote for two hundred hours off
Craig Bliss. I'd paid a hundred, he paid a hundred. We got
our first motor. It was sixhundred US, and the guy kind of
scammed Jeff because he sprayed a bunchof starter fluid in it and convinced Jeff
that it ran fine. But weended up working it out anyhow. But
you know, we split everything.Our whole life always been best friends and
the other two guys, AJ andRyan. Ryan's only twenty three now,
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so you do the math. Andold he was when he came on,
and then Ryan's our producer his back. I mean, he just took silt
like filming and editing classes in highschool and he grew up in futons and
then Aj he's worked on a coupleof movie sets and stuff. He's thirty
four and he's a little bit moreexperienced with it, but he's just grown
(27:27):
up kind of like directing things I'malways wanting to. But we all just
kind of met by happenstance a J. Ryan and I and it's just we
just have been together ever since.And so, like I said, they
came on eight years ago and we'vejust been grinding together ever since. And
that first year was kind of feelingeach other out and figuring out the company.
And like I said, we hadsome really really really hard times,
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you know, right around year threeand four, when things weren't working out
the way that we hoped and runningout of money and you know, we
could we got kicked out of thebuilding at one point. I mean,
that was the lowest that we've everbeen. We had one sponsor and nothing,
and then we just kept grinding,waking up every day, taking one
more step. And now we've gotseventeen sponsors and landed a deal on History
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Channel. But without them, I'mnothing. I mean, it's just the
their their work, ethics, theirdedication. You know, it's remarkable and
every day it inspires me. Well, the history the History Channel get is
to be applauded because you know,having been in that industry for several years.
I mean, you know, there'sOutdoor and there's Sportsman, there's all
(28:30):
these other networks. And to getsomething that's uh, you know, that's
something that lands on mainstream television ofthe mainstream networks is really really cool.
And you guys, you guys willdefinitely stand out on that and and it'd
be very interesting to see what theresponse is. And this year going to
be on your running your first seasonin September on History. That's right,
Okay, okay, yeah, you'reright, and it will be interesting.
(28:52):
My mom's pretty nervous. Well,all the hard stuff is done, I
mean now yeah, to just sitback and say what happens. Yeah,
yeah, we're although I will saywe're learning a lot too because like,
for instance, that you wouldn't realizeit on because we've been on Sports and
Channel, we've been on Protude Channel, we've been on those smaller networks.
You just send the episode in andit's done. But with these guys,
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there was two pixels out in oneminute, sixteen seconds and thirty two things.
And the second channel sound was it'ssupposed to be three sound files under
one channel, and this one's supposedto be you know, it's like all
these complicated things, and really theydon't realize this. They might if they
hear this, but it's still justfour of us, so they think we
have a team of like thirty peoplelike the other guys, and we've just
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I never lied, but I nevercorrected them. It's really us for Yeah,
that's just that's like Google and stuff. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
That's a big time more efficient though. Sure, I'm gonna take a quick
break here Hunting Matters, KPRC ninefifty. The music is a world within
(30:18):
itself with a language me on understandwith a egle. I've wrought zo n
or the same d about that headbecau record fast group. Don't make it
in the group, but you cantail right away when the people start to
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move. Welcome back to Huntymatters onKPRC nine fifty. This is your host,
Joe Btur. I am ramone roebulist. I'm so upset right now.
How's that I stopped down on theway over here to the studio to pick
up some electrolytes because it's melting inTexas. Yep, I guess some sugars
in this bottle electro It's oh uh, tell me the stuff I drink at
(31:03):
home, Pedia Light and Liquid IV. No, no endorsements, but either
of you companies would be welcome tocall us up a sponsor the show eighteen
grams of sugar. Oh wow,that's might as well. Just should have
just gotten a coke. Okay,I mean that's crazy. And then it
says including added sugar is another eighteengrams. What we're talking thirty six electro
It's called electroc Now I'm not goingto mention the name, but it's electro
(31:26):
lights solution. Grandpa's grumpy, No, I'm not hem me is one of
those breakfast docks. Off in myyard, kid, and go get the
golf cart and rode the neighborhood.Where are we gonna say? I'm currently
drinking. Uh, they are asponsor, but only because I reached out
to them, an obsessed over themfor so long that that's why they became
(31:48):
it. But we're doing an athlete. They have this hydrate. They have
hydrate and recover and it's I thinkit's four grams of sugar but that's not
perfect, but it's incredible, incredibleelectrolyte. And you just put that in
a bottle and you're good to go. But they just came out with something
new called Hero. That is theirenergy and focus and that mix. And
(32:08):
that's literally what I'm drinking right now. It's called Hero and I if you
want to feel good, that's whatyou drink because it's got the caffeine,
it's got the focus, it's gotthe hydration, the electrolytes. It's everything
you need. One thing. It'scalled the Hero. Highly reckon. I'm
forty six years old, Kyle.So I'm looking at the website and I
see Fiber Plus and I'm thinking that'sfor me. You are like faster than
(32:34):
Jamie with how quick you get onwebsites. I love it. No thanks.
Is there any kind of Kyle greencode? We can enter here and you
want to help promotion? Actually greenWeight twenty and you'll get twenty percent Greenwight
twenty. Yeah, yeah, youneed you need that one leader Colon blow.
Yeah. You know what, perhaps, folks, if you're just shoining,
(32:58):
is Kyle Green, the host,executive produce of The Greenway Outdoors is
joining us. Kyle. I foundsomething that was very interesting about you guys.
Most people have TV shows or mediamedia groups that are I mean you're
not just starting up, you've beenaround eight years now. But you've got
a mission statement, and something stuckout to me. I'm going to read
your mission statement here on the air. To promote and protect outdoor heritage and
conservation through educating, inspiring, entertaining, and simplifying outdoor activities to increase participation
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for both novice and experienced style outdoorsman, while demonstrating respect and wholesome values for
the blessing and beauty of the naturalworld. I'm sure you've got that.
I'm sure you've got that tattoo tattooedon your arm. But the thing that
jumped out of me is yeah,increasing Yeah, increased participation. Those are
(33:44):
the two words that jump out atme. Right, what are we going
to do? I mean, youknow, the numbers jumped up a little
bit as far as licenses for huntingand fishing during the pandemic, and they're
starting to decline. We're seeing urbansprawl, We're seeing most of people introduced
through the outdoors. I always askus of our guests who are involved in
the outdoors, what can we dobetter as people to be more inviting to
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others to the outdoors. Well,I got about a three three points I'd
like to make on that. Thefirst one is, and you can probably
telling you guys are known for this, which is why I wanted to do
this interview, is don't take yourselftoo seriously. Don't be in know at
all. It's terrible. You gointo an archery shop and you go to
talk to somebody and they make youfeel like a piece of scums. If
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you don't know this, know thatyou go into a gun range and they're
yelling at people and it's just demoralizingand the ego that comes with so many
people. And you hear me,I'll tell you where our faults are.
I mean, I'll be the firstone to tell you what I'm not good
at. I'll be the first oneto do that. There is no reason,
and I blame the fact that there'sno braiding scale, Like you can't
get an A minus in hunting andthen be like that's better than a B.
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There is no brain. If thatduck flew by me, it will
never fly by you exactly the same. You'll never be in the same situations
I'm in. You'll never have thesame opportunities I do, and I won't
have the same opportunities you do.There's no grading scale. So I think
we could all do ourselves a bigfavor if we got rid of this industry
ego. And I go to theseshows and I need these people, and
I'm like, what are you soproud of? Like it's you're going out
(35:14):
to get food everyone, Like you'rereally good at nature, grocery shopping,
chill out, you know, helpsomebody. So I think the ego has
got to be checked. And it'sthat's something big in this industry that I
just honestly, it's why I don'treally interact with that much of the industry
specifically. Number two, we workvery hard to give the information that would
(35:34):
be needed in our show where it'svery practical, where they're like, Okay,
if I want to go on agoose hunt, here's the gear I
need. This is why I shoulddo it, because I'm actually helping the
goose population by hunting. Okay,here's the gear I need. This is
how they did it, this ishow I'll do it, and then here's
how i'll cook it. Okay,it's practical. I can understand that I
can get behind that, and that'sreally why we built a show that way.
(35:57):
So that it's it's the ultimate starterkit, you know, for somebody
to get into it. But it'sthese high adventure places to inspire people to
go out and do that. Anduh, but I guess that's two points.
I had a third one, butit's it's escapes me now. But
that that's that's that. I thinkeveryone needs to check the egos and the
more we can do to inspire peopleby by delivering content that they actually want
(36:19):
to see and that goes for everyone, not just our show, but on
socials and things like that. Verywell said good points. And you guys
offer I mean you've got a prettyrobust website. I mean, you guys
do a podcast as well. Youdo how to videos, which is kind
of a key element of your showsas well as the recipes and the cooking.
Is this something that you know overthe past eight years you guys said
we need to add this componity toadd that or was the vision always there?
(36:43):
The vision is always there. It'sjust the man power, time and
money. With our biggest sales pointsbefore. But now as we're expanding so
much, we're able to really rampup. But yeah, we have a
weekly video podcast that that's the studioI'm sitting in right now hopefully and helping
my downt here, so I don'tsound too bad for you guys, but
that is the team of four andwe talk about all the current events and
(37:07):
things going on, as well asthe outdoor industry stuff as well as our
recent hunting and fishing trips and thenadvice and we obviously have guests on and
things like that, so we kindof cover that. We do it every
week. We do it in videoforms so if people can see it on
YouTube and CARB and TV, butthen they can also go on everywhere podcasts
are phoned and just listen to itif they be said, I mean,
we got faces for radio, sothat'll you know. That's that get it?
(37:30):
And then the how to video serieswas simply because every time, like
you gotta do something, you gottalook about how to video, you get
like a bunch of bad, badlyfilms, low production, hard to understand
videos. So we're doing our bestto build up like an encyclopedia videos to
answer all those questions and concerns thatpeople have when they're in the field when
(37:51):
they need help. So we wantto be the people that they can count
on when they see our name andour logo on it, they're like,
Okay, this is actually going tobe what I need. Yeah, I
think you you alluded it it toit earlier, you know, and you
guys, your approach to to thatsort of thing, and you approach to
you know, leaving the ego atthe door and admitting when you don't know
something and having the not only thewillingness and desire to learn, but the
(38:14):
capacity to learn. That's that's prettyevident. And you guys having those how
to videos and saying, look,we've learned this really cool trick. Let's
share it with the world, youknow, and somebody, you know,
may please look at that. God, I never thought of that. I've
been hunting twenty years, or somebodylike you said earlier, somebody who's like
I always I always wanted to go, you know, fishing for walleye and
I don't. And then they seeone of your videos, ago, that's
(38:35):
cool, I can do that.So I mean, that's great, Kyle.
We like to finish up, folks. If you're just joining us,
you join us way too late.We've had a great conversation with our guest
Kyle Green, hosting executive producer ofThe Greenway at Doors Kyle. Typically,
we like to do a lightning aroundif we have a couple of seconds here
and we've got about a minute leftor less, So let's you up for
a quick lightning round. Yeah,you gotta hunt one animal tomorrow and that's
(38:57):
it. What's it going to be? I'm saying it again. One animal?
That's all you can hunt tomorrow.What's it going to be? In
seasons? On? Ryson? Nice? What's the one thing we're always going
to find in your backpack? Nice? Nice? And last, but not
least, what is the current firstsong on your road trip playlist? Gold
(39:20):
Flack by postmlone. Oh there yougo, folks. We'll see you guys
next week. Here we've been joinedby Kyle Green of the green Way Outdoors
Hunting Matters KPRC nine fifty. Andthe stock markets down and you're only getting
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