Semper Doggin: Fore Wins the Final Four...and a NEW TRUCK!!!

Shawn Fore joins your hosts Bryce Matthews & Steven Basham on this week's episode to recap his recent victory in the Pro Sport Truck Hunt Series! Shawn is not new to the competition coonhunting world by any means but you can hear just how much this win meant to him! A good ol boy from southern Kentucky, Fore has the heart and dedication that it takes to win at the highest level. You might even be surprised just how far he has to travel each night to hunt. Tune in to an episode you will not want to miss!

Episode Transcript

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Canines are our passion.

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They are our addiction.
They are our way of life right down to the very core and without them we would be lost.
The canines of this world really are something to behold.
They assist us at work, they accompany us at home, and they perform for us in the field.
No matter where we go, they are by our side.

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Canines really are a ride or die and for that we are grateful.
This podcast will showcase working canines of various breeds and disciplines as we search
for those canines and their handlers who are always striving to be the best at what they
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Those who are always grinding.
Those who are always pushing the limits.

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Those who are always dogging.
Join us on our adventures as it is sure to be a wild ride.
I'm your host, Bryce Matthews.
And I'm your co-host, Stephen Basham.
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I am here with my brother from another mother, Mr. Steven Basham.
What's up, buddy?
What's up, big dog?
How you doing?
Man, I am about beat.
I feel like a whooped dog at the end of Super Stakes who hunted early round and late round.
Yeah, whatever.
I can tell you a few stories about that.
Man, I tell you.

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How's the farm life coming?
Dude, it is so freaking busy.
I have been literally, that's all I work on outside of work is trying to get this website
going.
We just put a parking lot in.
Today, we got the parking lot done.
We got the first load of, well, it's not done.
We got the first load of number two is brought in for gravel.
Then tomorrow, they're bringing in 73s.
We sowed grass seed and straw on the embankment next to the road.

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We have a full parking lot ready to go here coming up.
Mainly, it's a two-fold reason, actually three-fold.
Number one, we have too many kids who are getting their licenses right now.
We have nowhere to park cars.
Absolutely nowhere.
I need more parking.
Number two, people are parking in the middle of the road almost daily, stopping and taking

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pictures of the longhorns and the goats and whatever else.
They just park in the middle of the road and take up the road.
We're going to give them a nice little place to pull off and park.
Number three-
You going to charge them per photo?
No, no, no, no, because we're going to get them whenever they stop in at our new farm
store here, hopefully in the next few months.
I'm wanting to do an in-person, an actual location farm store here.

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The online website's getting ready to launch here in the next couple of weeks.
I'll be able to order their goat and their beef and their chicken and eggs online and
be able to deliver it right to them up here in Miami County.
We're not doing anywhere else right now.
We have a couple of different drop-off locations, but literally that consumes all my time.
I'm just busy, busy, busy, busy.
We talk about time and we got a feller on here who he's going to talk to us a little

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bit, Mr. Sean Foer.
Congratulations on your win last weekend.
I appreciate it.
I appreciate you boys having the own.
Hey, no problem.
It's been a long time coming.
I know you've been knocking at the door, knocking at the door.
Guys, you're going to hear some stories from a dedicated coon hunter.
Bryce was talking about how his time is all wrapped up in dealing with a farm.

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You're going to hear a couple of stories from Sean about how far he has to go to even hunt.
The dedication that it takes for him to night in and night out, drive that far just to be
able to hunt, to get the dog ready, to be able to compete at the highest level.
Sean's been doing it for a while.
He's been, like I said, me and him ran against each other quite a bit, knocked heads.

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Usually he's on the winning end of it.
Tell us a little bit about yourself, Sean.
When did you get into coon hunting?
Whether it be pleasure hunting?
Also when did the whole competitive side come out of it?
Yeah, I probably, I don't know, three and four year old, I can remember my Papaw Johnny,

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he would take me down by my house all the time and he'd have to pack me because we were
worried up with copperheads and rattlesnakes and stuff.
I can remember, as long as I can ever remember him packing me around in an old jeep, it just
never end from there.
I loved it.

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Hold on a second, let's back up.
You're ate up with copperheads and rattlesnakes and all that.
What part of the country are you hunting in here?
Where are you from?
I'm from Williamsburg, Kentucky.
It's right on the Tennessee line, southeast from Kentucky.
Gotcha, gotcha.
All right, sorry, I don't mean to interrupt here, but guys, I'm learning just as much
about Sean as y'all are tonight, so I'm excited about this.
I want to know all the details.

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Real quick, I just want to cut in just for a second on that.
You said southeast Kentucky.
How far are you from all of the catastrophic weather failure they had down there?
I got to be pretty good north of there.
I think right around Dollywood and stuff.

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That got hit.
I'm about probably two hours north of there.
Okay, gotcha, gotcha.
So you guys didn't see none of that?
No, we got some of the wind, but nothing like they got.
Good to go, good to go.
But yeah, so your grandpa, all the way from age three, four, was kind of packing around
in a Jeep, and where'd it go from there?

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Yeah, then my Uncle Danny, which I hunted with my papaw all the time, and he started
taking me, him and my cousin Craig, and that kind of were getting into the competition
side.
They liked to go to hunt some, you know, UKC hunts and stuff.

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They let me take their dogs, and that was a, I went from just hunting to loving, or competition
hunting, and it just kind of went from there.
My cousin Craig, he would haul me wherever, and then went on years later.

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I got to hunting for my buddy Jeremy Wilson, and we had some luck.
And then Doug Miller, the one I hunt for now, he really hired me just to hunt, and man,
he's been amazing.
That's all, and he lets me go pretty much wherever, and he's just a super good dude

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to hunt for.
And he might have, like, we had that hunt that I just won, and they was going to have
another one up there in Ohio.
I had an entry to it, and they didn't end up filling it.
Yeah, and you know, it didn't matter, he was ready to row.

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So, you know, he's been super good to me.
Yeah.
So, you talk about going all the way back.
What was your first coon dog?
First coon dog?
Probably my papaw.
He gave me a female.
I don't even know if she was registered.
And probably not.

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Yeah, I'd say not.
And she wasn't much, but she was a triacone.
I was probably seven, eight at best.
And that's probably the one I remember being the first one I ever had.
He raised them, and I ended up giving her back to him.

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Okay.
Because I hunted with him all the time anyway.
I mean, I lived right next to my papaw, and heck, he'd done all the feeding and stuff.
So it wasn't like it was given to me, but it was still his.
When did you first start getting into the competition side of it?
I would say probably, yeah, I was probably more like 15, 16, about the time I got my

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driver's license.
I started going to some UKC hunts, and then just went on.
And I think in 2009, I went to my first ever PKC hunt, and it was the world hunt, actually.
First ever.

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That sounds like me throwing Bryce into the mix.
So a little backstory, Sean, you probably don't even know.
I found Bryce sitting at a 7-11 with half-leg, half-pant leg up, trying to hitchhike down
there now.
We got mixed up with, I was looking for somebody to handle a dog, and Johnny Hamilton said,

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I know this feller, he's not too likable, but he can call a dog.
And so he introduced me to Bryce, and Bryce started hunting dogs that I would get qualified
or whatever, and I just threw him into the mix.
I mean, all the way down to even Jed.
I called him up and said, hey, I got two dogs that are qualified for the world.

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You're handling one of them.
You see, Sean, the difference between Bashman and I is that I can actually close a game.
He gets him open, and he can go like the first six innings, but he can't finish the final
three.
That's the difference here.
Tell him to draw a longer straw next time.
Yeah, I know.
I know it.
Sean, when you were getting started there, you said 15 or 16, was there youth hunts or

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anything that you run around, or did you just jump in with the big timers and just get in
it?
Yeah, no.
I never went to a youth hunt ever.
And I mean, there's a lot of big-time hunters right around me.
I mean, just in my town, you got like Jerry Raines, Mike Begley, Cody Main, Darrell Main,

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several big-name hunters.
You said the last name Begley.
You know Steven Begley?
Not that I know of.
He's a hunter down there in Kentucky.
He'd come up here and hunt with me one weekend.
Good dude.
Been a Facebook friend to him for a long time, but I was just curious if you knew him or
not.
I was going to give him a shout out.
Anyways, we'll give him a shout out anyway, Steven.
Yeah, so you know, I've seen that trend a lot, especially down south.

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And I say down south, you know, southern Kentucky, northern Tennessee, and a little further south.
It doesn't seem like, from my perspective, the youth stuff is that big down there.
I mean, it's like just jump into the wolves and sink or swim.
Yeah, for sure.
I know Cody.
I know he run a few youth hunts, one in the youth world and stuff, but he's probably one

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of the only that I know around me that probably ever hunted a youth hunt.
That Cody Main?
Yeah.
That's because the way that we were raised, you know, me being from Kentucky myself, it
was more like a family event, right, Sean?
You know, you had your dad and your uncles and your cousins, and you'd go out there and

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waylay each other and shooting coons out.
And it was just more of a, it was a more of a, you know, I've talked about on this podcast
before.
Coon hunting back in the day was different than it was now.
You know, back in the day, it was camaraderie and it was fun.
I mean, we'd go out there in the middle of the winter and build a fire and we'd take
hot dogs and buns with us and we'd have a good old time.

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Now you get two people that hunt together and one dog's going one way and their dog's
going the other way and you never see each other until the end of the hunt.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
I can't even imagine doing that.
I seriously cannot imagine taking enough stuff with me and having a dog that took so long

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to tree a coon that I had time to build a fire and roast a hot dog.
I mean, that sucker ain't getting wooded right here right now.
Like I'm fed up with it already.
Yeah.
You need to come on down to the house then because it's still that way at my house.
If you tree a coon tonight at my house, you've done something.
I mean, we don't have no coons and it's straight up down mountains.

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I mean, I don't know that I would and I say this with all sincerity, I think I'd find
another hound sport legitimately.
I mean, you're probably down there in bear country, ain't you?
Yeah, those bears.
Yeah.
I mean, I'd probably take up bear hunting.
I love bear hunting.
I love it.
Love it.
And if I had to sit on a mountain and climb up and down that thing to look at a little

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13 pound ring-tailed creature, I don't know that I'd do it.
That's because you like the camaraderie of it.
We've talked about it multiple times with Heath Hyatt.
You like the camaraderie of when you bear hunt, you're not bear hunting by yourself.
You're bear hunting with five, six buddies and a bunch of dogs and you're communicating
and it's a camaraderie thing.

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Yeah, you're probably right.
That's what you're liking.
When me and Sean in our past time, whenever we were kids, that's the way it was.
Growing up with his pet ball and his uncle and his cousins, being able to go out there
and have a good time back then, everything treed together, didn't it?
Yeah.

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Oh yeah.
For sure.
So, go ahead.
You talked about how bad it is at your house and right before we started, right at the
beginning of this podcast, I kind of dove in a little bit to the dedication that it
takes for somebody like yourself, where you live at, to be able to hunt.

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What kind of timeframe we talk in as far as how far you drive, how long you hunt and what
time you get back home?
Yeah.
Well, from whenever it's summertime, you can't hunt at my house really because we're
freed up with rattlesnakes and copperheads.
So I drive to my Jake Glover's house.

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It's an hour and a half, hour and 45 minutes and I drive it five, six nights a week anyway.
I usually try to be done over there by three, so I'm usually rolling back into my house
about six.
Oh my God.
Grief.

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Now, I heard Jake ain't allowed to go to no more hunts.
Well, I told him there after that hunt, I took my buddy Scott Hayes, he hunts with me
a lot too, rides over here with me and his little boy Levi, that was the first hunt he
had ever been to and we won it.
I said, well, you're going to ever want them from now on.

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I mean, how about an introduction?
That kid's going to go to a $35 hunt one day and get a check for 72 bucks and be like,
what the heck?
That's all he can do?
How did that new truck?
Hold on, hold on.
You're getting ahead of yourself.
Pump the brakes.
I just had to jump in there and ask him.

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No, pump the brakes.
I mean, so Sean, you said earlier that you're, who'd you say you're hunting for now?
Doug Miller out of Richmond.
Doug Miller, gotcha.
So are you hunting for him full time?
Like that is your job, you're solely coon hunting.
Yeah.
Yeah, I am now.
Yep.
All right.
So explain what you do before.
Well, I worked at a school down here for a long time and it gave me enough freedom to

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hunt and then me and my wife got together and we had a couple of kids and the school
job really, you know, just wasn't enough.
So I went to drive in a truck and got to having a little bit of health issues and was off
and that's when Doug, he's like, I'd like to hire you, you know, full time, just, just

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to hunt for me, which, you know, he was just now getting into it and I was like, you know,
yeah, let's, let's try it.
And I guess it's probably been about a year, year and a half now and been hunting for him
full time.
So, so explain to the listeners like how this works.
And I know that, you know, you're one of several people who hunt full time for a living, like

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that is your job.
And I know that every case is different, but some people that I talk to, they just can't
fathom the fact that somebody is running coon hounds at night for a living.
So explain to them like the dedication, like, do you have, do you have a certain time where
you're like, okay, hey, I'm clocking in at 10 30 tonight and then I'm hunting till four
o'clock and like, do you have set hours?

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Do you have set days?
Do you like, how does it work to hunt full time?
There's no set nothing, I mean, of course, you know, you turn it loose, you don't know
when you're getting back.
And I, I just try to hunt as much as I can, trying to get ready until I feel like they're

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ready and I'll give them a, you know, I may give them a night off here and there.
It's just different, you know, different all the time.
I usually hunt about all night.
Is it, now that it's a job, has it taken away from your passion for the sport of coon hunting?
It ain't made none, no.

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I love it.
I love the coon hunts, always have.
I mean, you can ask anybody in my town if there wasn't a coon hunt tomorrow, I'd be
coon hunting.
Right.
I mean, and then be hunting like this if I could, you know, if the Lord would let me
in, you know, I could afford it, I would hunt just the same.
Yeah.

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So, you know, and like Basham said, you know, you just come off of a really big win, which
we're going to get to.
We're not going to put the cart in front of the horse, even though he already foreshadowed
this a little bit.
Have there been, has there been moments in your life or in your career that have like
kind of brought you to where you are?
Is there anything that you can look back and be like, man, whenever I won this hunt, that
was big.

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And looking back at it now, it wasn't as big as what you thought it was back then.
I can remember back, you know, they had the houndsman hunt and Dick's River there and
I wanted a couple of years and I thought that was just a crazy win.
Looking back, I mean, all you won was a light and a dog box, you know, but to me it was

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so much more.
At that point in your career, that was a big deal.
Yeah.
And those are stepping stones to get you where you are today.
Oh yeah.
I mean, you just never know when stuff's going to fall into place for you.
You know, I'll say, you know, God definitely plays, you know, you got to look up to him
and when it's your time, it's your time.

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So a quick question from, you know, the listeners, you know, that kind of, I got a friend that
has a hard time of winning late rounds and he's wondering, you know, at any time in your
career, have you ever felt like, like the stars just aren't going to align?
Like, like what the heck am I doing wrong?

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Who's your friend there, are you sure you're not talking for yourself?
Easy, don't give it away.
It was a secret.
For sure.
I mean, I think that I've been in that truck hunt that made like six or seven of them that
I've got in the top 16.

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And then the one before this one, I got in the final four and my dog just give it away.
I was like, man, I'm just never going to win one.
Just getting down and then turn right around at the next one and win it.
And I was like, holy crap.
And even that one was suspenseful, which we, I won't put the cart in front of the horse,

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but that one was suspenseful.
I mean, I was up watching that one.
So we'll get to that in just a few minutes.
But yeah, it's, it's Evans and flows, Coon hunting, because the moment you think you
have your dog ready and you take him to a hunt, he's not ready.
And then the moment you think he's not ready and you take him to a hunt, he shines.

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So at what point, and I know every dog is different, but at what point do you feel comfortable
going to a hunt like this?
Oh Lord, I don't know.
I don't know if you ever are.
Cause I mean, I hunt all the time.
And the thing about it is Rocky had been hurt.
He had hurt his leg and he'd been out for three months and I didn't even money none

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for three months, jerked him out.
I took him to the super states, doubled him up and got beat.
And then I hunted him once or twice more and took him to that truck hunt.
So he was in no, no shape at all.
And it just fell into place.
Well congratulations on getting a late round wind at super stakes.

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We're glad that somebody on this podcast can make it in.
It says, it says the guy that don't even hunt it.
Hey, I've made, you don't even show up.
I've got it in the super stakes twice in the spring.
I just don't go to the fall and guess how many times I've entered it in the spring?
Twice, that and a thousand.

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All right.
So Sean, let's, let's, let's go ahead and dive into it a little bit.
Let's talk about, you know, you just said that the preparation getting ready for this
hunt was pretty well non-existent, right?
If yeah, not, not like what I would have wanted to be for sure.
Okay.
So that's, that's what I want to lead into here.
If you had, if you could paint the picture, you know, what's that song paint me a Birmingham?

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If you could paint me a coon hunt, how would it look leading up to a big hunt like is you
have an entry to a truck.
Yeah.
You've got an entry to a coon hunt and you're going to paint the perfect scenario.
What does it look like for you to get ready for that hunt?
Oh man, I'm a, I definitely, I hunt, like I said, I hunt it about every night and I

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like to keep one in really good shape.
So I hat that's for sure.
You have one of them to be in tip top shape.
Uh, like, do you, are you looking for like a percentage?
Like, okay, my dog's clicking right now.
You know, he's three, he's, he's nine for the last 10.

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Like he's ready and I'm going to give him a night, night or two off.
That way he's recouped and ready to go.
Just like an athlete.
I mean, is that kind of what you're looking for?
Are you just, just going to keep hunting consistent, consistent, consistent, and just go for it?
Well, I like to make, make sure he's consistent and I want, you know, that's, that's one strong
point about Rocky.

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He, he is really good about having his cones.
So I mean, even if you lay him up, when you pull him out, he's going to have his cones.
So you know, just knock the edge off of him.
Really?
What's he out of?
Give us a little bit about his pedigree.
Sorry.
I didn't mean to interrupt you there.
I apologize.
I'm just trying to get a little bit of communication there.
He's off of a dog called greasy creek cause and a, and a reason female, which cause the

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cause dog is off.
He's a litter mate to a lefty and ranger and that whole whole wine there.
My buddy Jake that I go hunting with all the time.
He, he raves them and he's the one started all of them.
Gotcha.
Basham, you got anything to chime in on that?

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You know anything about that, that lineage?
Well, yeah.
I mean, obviously ranger and lefty, you know, they're there, they speak for themselves and
what they've won, you know, and then obviously you go down to the bottom side of it.
I mean, pretty, I mean, there's so many winners that you can name off of all them dogs.
You said it's off a reason, right?

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Yeah.
My only reason.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sure did.
Sure did.
I always heard they were a bit touchy.
Those dogs off reason.
I don't know.
I don't have any personal experience, but that's what I've been told.
So tell us a little bit, tell us a little bit about him.

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Like what kind of dog is he?
Is he, you know, is he, you know, every dog's got their strong points and their weak points.
Is he more of a track dog or is he more of a run through the woods in the ambush one?
I mean, what kind of dog is he?
He's a little of all, I mean, he really, he can take tracks as it comes to him or if they

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ain't moving, he'll fly in there and get you one.
I mean, he typically stays alone for, you know, 99% of the time he's a dog, you know,
but got his cones.
I mean that and if dogs are honest, he's going to be a good strike dog, but you know, and

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today he's, he's all over the board.
He could strike for a quarter or could strike for a hundred.
Is there, is there certain terrain that you feel comfortable or you feel better taking
him to, like, are you looking for hunts in certain terrain or you just, you're just going
to the next one that's available?
For the most part, you know, I took him to South Carolina down there and it was in water,

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you know, all night long and he just did not look good.
That's the only play, you know, I don't, that I can say that he just wouldn't himself anywhere
else.
Like, I like big woods for sure.
We're like, instead of those field edges and stuff, but he does good in field edges too.
Now that big water, it seemed like he struggled a little bit more than that big water.

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He still treats him cones, but not, not like it was.
Right.
Yeah, absolutely.
So walk it, walk us through this truck hunt.
You got there and tell us about your first catch.
You remember who you drew and how it went?
For the, for the most part, Friday, Friday there, I hunted his brother early and got

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beat so I hunted rocket lake and drew a Logan ray, Van Cleek and I can't remember that other
boy's name.
I know his dog's name was Willie and uh, Logan was hunting Tonk and Van Cleek was hunting
a pup called Fatty.
Fatty from J.R. Wall.
Yeah.

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Hey, that Tonk dog is the real deal.
I've seen that sucker look good.
He's beat me right.
He looked good that night.
He took a bad break right out of the truck.
I strike.
It was after a minute.
I struck for a hundred Tonk strikes for 75.
They're different directions.
The Willie dog strikes for 50 and the fatty dog strikes for a quarter.

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Well Tonk and the Willie dog fly over here right handed and come to read and I don't,
I really don't know what happened.
Uh, Tonk trees for 125 and Willie trees for 75 and they just, they just up and leave it.
So you know that, that gave me a big break there and I come to read.
When it came to me, I got a cone and uh,

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You're sitting really good.
Yeah.
And uh, I think Tonk ends up, yeah.
Uh, Tonk ends up coming to read.
He's got a cone.
So that puts him, you know, back in it and then uh, Tonk trees another cone and we go

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to, uh, I think we had to go to fatty and uh, I can't remember.
Might've had a cone.
I can't remember and I'm still just that large and then you're nervous.
You're nervous at this point because you're struck back in for a quarter.

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Yeah.
And even though, even though Tonk took a chunk, Tonk's treated two now, so he's back in the
lead.
Yeah.
And uh, and then fatty comes treated again and mine's over pretty close to him and uh,
I don't know, fatty ends up leaving and then mine comes to trade and I treat him and we

(30:23):
go around there and he's got a cone and I was like, uh, so that puts me back in the
lead and they was just a little bit left and Logan had a chance there because he turned
loose with like four or five minutes left.
If he treated another county beats me on tiebreaker and uh, just he didn't come to read during

(30:45):
the hunt time.
He come trade after and I slid through that one.
Are those four or five minutes or them like gut wrenching for you?
Cause I know me in those situations, I am a nervous wreck.
I was nervous, I was waiting, you know, a quarter, I know you guys probably watched
that live and that was awful.
I didn't get a chance to watch it.

(31:06):
It was bad.
Oh, we'll get to it in a minute, Bryce.
We'll get to it.
All right.
All right.
We'll keep walk, walk us, walk us on through there.
So you've made it through the first round.
You're sitting pretty, you're in the top 16.
You get your picture taken in front of the truck.
Yeah and uh, I draw a, in the next round I draw weed hunting Jack.

(31:27):
Uh, I'm trying to think who all was it?
I, I Robert's hunting a tax dog and uh, and uh, Snooki's cookie with a Shane gross.
That's I mean, that's stiff right there.
We all know what cookie is capable of.
Ty Roberts can win with the gosh darn Yorkie and we all know Dustin weed, you know, he's

(31:51):
going to pack a good one and Jack, Jack's a good one.
So I mean, you're up there with the good one.
It's been on a roll.
Jack has been on a roll.
So goodness gracious.
Yeah, we, uh, we cut loose.
Uh, no Matt, when Jack strikes, no, I take that back tax strikes for a hundred Jack for

(32:12):
seventy five cookie for 50 and all under the minute and mine's not even been heard from
yet and uh, well, tax and cookie, they did, they blow out and uh, Jack, you know, he keeps
barking and uh, the cookie female and tax end up getting minus cause they struck under

(32:34):
the minute.
Who was the judge?
Uh, Levi.
Stevenson?
Yeah.
Put the pin to them that don't happen very often.
No.
And you know, the weather may have played a factor.
I don't know, you know, cause it was raining and stuff and then dogs just got out of there
and uh, I strike, I get 75 strike and uh, that's a break.

(32:58):
That's a break.
Oh, you ain't kidding.
But I mean, I guess it wouldn't really ever matter, but it, it did at that.
I thought at that point because uh, mine comes true right there where, where I strike him
and I find the cone in a dim and uh, there's a break.
But yeah, that and uh, that's the only thing we've seen in the whole cast.

(33:22):
Oh my.
So you're already starting to see that the stars are starting to move into formation
and the moon's lining up perfect with the stars and they're rolling out the red carpet
for Sean.
I mean, at this point in time, you know, when, when this is happening, does it feel like,
Hey, this might be this, this might be my time.

(33:44):
Well, not to me, but my little buddy that went with me, he's like, you've won this
truck and his dad called.
He said, that's your truck.
And I was like, man, I sure hope you're right.
That's all I could say.
So I mean, that's so wild.
Are you hunting 90 minute cast at this point or two hours?

(34:04):
Two hours.
So you've got a world champion.
You got a handler that can win with a Yorkie and you have the all time money winning handler
who is packing a darn good dog and y'all tree one cone in two hours and you're in Ohio.
Yeah.
It was that is great.
That just don't line up.
No, I mean we made, we might some more trees like, uh, I know Jack made a couple of the

(34:29):
entries and the cookie females.
You made a couple of trees, a dentry and a, and another circle tree.
And I don't think tax.
No, he never got treated.
But I mean like the chances of those dogs making trees and not seeing a coon, especially in
multiple trees is like slim to none.

(34:50):
Oh, it was, it was all I can say.
It bound to just been my time.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, cookie is speaks for herself, you know, with her accomplishments and then
both tax and Jack's been on a roll.
Tax went up to the, you know, him and Kai went up, they got on the front cover of the
free and pro hound.
One Labor Day classic.
Yep.

(35:11):
One winning Labor Day classics.
We'd been on a roll with Jack.
They won first place two out of the three nights over at the junction.
Now they pick up like 34,000 in two nights.
34,000 two nights.
So I mean, I know, I know when you got the draw, you looked at it and was like, are you
kidding me?
Oh, for sure.

(35:31):
I said, this is going to be a tough one because none of them three easy draws, but, but there
isn't a better feeling for a guy like yourself from small town USA drives an hour and a half
to go hunting every single night pound and pound and pound and to draw three guys like
that and then come out a winner.

(35:53):
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
It was, it was something else.
All right, so we're in the final four.
Let's let no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You better slow your roll buddy.
I got questions.
Okay.
I got questions.
All right, Sean.
So you, you, you won or you get made through the top 16.

(36:14):
You know, you're in the final four.
Does it, does it play on you?
Does it play mind games when you're trying to go to sleep that night?
You're like dad gone.
Like, I'm actually here.
That's how much he knows.
That's how much he knows.
I'm totally back to sleep.
I do roll.
Basher.
Have you ever met me?
No, you can't.
I'm over here yawning on camera on this dag on interview.

(36:34):
Cause I get it.
I get it.
Right now it's nine o'clock at this point in time, you would not be sleeping.
Did you, I got a question.
I got a question for you.
Friday night of the UKC world.
When you drew that short straw, did you go to sleep in between the two rounds?
Yes, absolutely.
You did not.
You liar.
Yes, I did.
All right, Sean, I'm sorry that he hijacked that.

(36:57):
So did it play on your nerves?
Like, did it bother you any, like were you nervous leading up to that day?
How does the print, the proceeding time up to this hunt look like for you?
Oh yeah.
I was nervous.
I mean, I usually don't get too nervous.
I wasn't nervous in the top 16, but once I won that cast, you know, you're nervous, they

(37:18):
definitely start playing a factor.
So driving back to the club, knowing that you're a winner, knowing that in an hour timeframe,
you're going to be right back into the woods hunting for a truck.
Oh, okay.
Gosh darn it.
I, guys, I have to right here on public national everything radio podcast.
I have to apologize.

(37:40):
Dude, I'm, I've, this is how tired I am.
This is how much I've been working lately.
I forgot that that was in the same night.
It's in the early round.
I just got back from the UKC world and what I was thinking was, you know, the final four
or the final three hunt the next day.
Man, y'all see what I deal with day in and day out.
I have to apologize.
I'm human.

(38:01):
I mean, but dude, I'm telling you.
Yeah.
So I apologize, Sean, because like I was sitting there thinking it was just like the UKC where
you go to the top 16, go to the top nine, and then you have a day off or at night and
the next day you hunt your finals.
But I stand corrected folks, take it right here.
You heard it first on the Semper Dogg and podcast.
Bryce Matthews is wrong.
So, okay.

(38:21):
So you just, you gotta go right into a late round.
So you're, okay.
Everything I said before him, we just need to edit this out, but we're not going to cause
it's Semper Dogg.
It's Semper Dogg and we just keep rolling.
But yeah.
So you, you leave the woods, you know, that within an hour, hour and a half, I know you're
making a phone call to your buddies.
You're talking to Doug while Doug's smoking a cigarette.

(38:42):
You know, I learned, I learned that from the live feed and uh, you get back.
And then what's the feeling like in the room between you and the other three guys?
See real quick, I know one of the other guys, I know the guy that you walked to at the very
end of the cast, which I'll let you get to that.

(39:03):
Great dude.
John Holland.
Great dude.
He comes up and hunts with me a little bit here and there.
He just purchased Hank and I know this was his first ever pro sport hunt.
So I know between you and him, both of you guys were probably on pins and needles.
What was the feeling in the room like?

(39:24):
I don't really, I don't know how to explain it.
It wasn't, you know, everybody just kind of, everybody was just talking.
It wasn't, you just want to get it over with.
Yeah, I think so.
I mean, you know, Nikki, he's been in everything.
So it was nothing new to him.
And hold on.
Let's lay it out.
Who's the, who's the final four?

(39:44):
It's a Nikki Hale with downtime.
Jonathan with Hank and Colton Dunlap with that Max female.
Okay.
So, you know, Colton's won a bunch too.

(40:05):
And then they wasn't probably near as nervous as me for sure.
And it was just pretty laid back really at the club waiting.
Okay.
Walkers through the cast.
I'm ready to hear it.
Bastion has been chomping at the bit for dag on 40 minutes now wanting to hear this part

(40:27):
of the story.
I watched, I watched it live.
All right.
Well then you can tell us your side of it too, but I haven't, I didn't watch it.
I didn't know nothing about it until I woke up the next morning and saw it.
So I'm ready to hear, I'm ready to hear all about it.
You're going to get excited listening to it because I know you.
All right, let's go.
Let's roll.
It was definitely nerve wracking.
I know we turned loose and down goes out through their urgent time.

(40:55):
I think, yeah, that's what he calls it.
He's a barker.
He goes out to their barking and mine right, right before the minutes up, mine makes one
big ball.
I thought, man, I should have struck him.
Man, I didn't.
And as quick as mine quit, quit his one or two barks there, Nicky strikes.

(41:16):
I thought, well, and then it's like probably a minute before mine barks again and I get
struck for 75.
The max female gets struck for 50 and Hank gets struck for a quarter.
But out of that, Hank comes treed and he trees him and Nicky trees in there with him for

(41:43):
a quarter.
Well, as we're walking in there to them, mine was treed, but I went ahead and treed him
way left handed, you know, left handed to them.
And then Colton trees his kind of in the same direction as Time and Hank.

(42:06):
But she's actually she split off to the right.
So we go in there to them.
It takes them forever.
I didn't think they'd find it, Coon.
That first tree, Nicky finds it.
Sitting down low, recut them.
Time gets struck back.
We go to go to me and I another one find the cone in a den.

(42:30):
Our judge does.
And I was like, oh, you know, here we go.
And the one that was struck for 100 ends up, you know, pre-pre-quarter.
So that was a big break for me, too.
Me struck for 75.
I recut him and we head to Max and she's got a circle tree.
Well, my Garmin, I can tell mine's done trees, I just can't hear him good.

(42:54):
And Time comes treed in between where Max was and where mine's at.
So we go to Time and he's got a circle tree.
And I finally get mine.
No, Colton strikes and trees hidden and I strike and tree mine the other way.

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But Colton, we go to Max first, she's got a cone.
And come back to me, I got another cone.
So we were both recut and Nicky's trees, Time again, way through there.
And so does Jonathan.
He strikes and trees his way through there.

(43:35):
Well, we go in there and Nicky's is off running.
So he takes a pump and go on in to Jonathan and he's got another cone.
So that gives him 300.
Max has got 150.
I've got 350.

(43:56):
So mine's still at large and Max, yeah, Max has struck and mine's over there, gets over
toward her and gets struck and they're screaming a track down through here.
And mine comes treed and I set there and Max comes treed and I set there.

(44:22):
And Basher, what are you laughing at?
Because as he's playing this, I'm replaying in my head Greg Maynard's comments on this
live feed.
And Greg's saying, what is he doing?
What is this boy doing?
And so he finally, Colton actually ends up getting first tree on him.

(44:44):
He takes second and Greg looks over at him.
Oh yeah, you took 50.
Greg turned around, looked over at him and said, you just gave it away, boy.
And so I've worked on the dog so hard for being around anything that that's what had
me scared.
And I feel like I could have easily treated him for first.

(45:06):
And I was like, man, where that female was right there with him, I was like, as quick
as I do, he'll leave and this is going to cost me no matter what.
So I treat for 50 thinking, well, as long as Jonathan don't come treed again, I'm still
in first.
And going there, we got another cone that gives me 425 and we're leading off of it and

(45:29):
Jonathan gets his truck and treat way things are.
And I thought, man, I just give his truck away.
I said, that's a walk.
I don't, he had to be over a mile.
He was a long way.
Yeah.
So here you are, you're sitting at 425 knowing, knowing that if you would have took first

(45:54):
on that tree, you sowed it up.
Nobody can touch you.
So he ends up taking third.
But what if you, but what if you would have took second here?
Does that, does that get you tied?
Does third tie you like, where does third put you guys right now?
If Jonathan has a coon.
He would have beat me because by quarter, three, no, no, no, you would have beat, you would

(46:17):
have beat him on.
Yeah.
You would have beat him on.
He would have beat me on most plus three points.
Okay.
So, so he beat you on tiebreaker.
Yes.
Yeah.
If you go in for 50, no, if he goes in for 75, you had to have first three.
Yeah.

(46:37):
Yeah.
Or like, you know, the only reason I've done trade for 50 was to, you know, to protect
yourself.
Yes.
Yep.
Yep.
He was playing defense.
Hey, sometimes the best offense is a good defense.
Hey.
So like I said, the reason why I laugh about it is because Greg Maynard's comments, you
know, the whole time he's looking at Sean saying, boy, you just gave away that truck.

(46:59):
And so here, here, let's paint a picture for you, Bryce.
He said that for 25 plus, he pulls off of history.
He said that for 25 plus he's got Hank setting it 300 plus max is sitting at 300 plus.
Oh, it gets even better.
We're about to even paint you a better picture, Bryce.
Paint me a coon hunt.

(47:20):
So John strikes and trees Hank through the country over a mile.
They said they cut max and they cut his dog loose and tell Mr. Bryce Matthews what those
two did.
Well, yeah, we, I thought we had plenty enough time to tree another cone and we did.

(47:42):
We had probably, I don't know, 15, 20 minutes and they suck back and go to that same tree.
Come on.
And I was like, Oh no, you know, of course we didn't, we ain't going to tree them now.
And so we got to walk that mile, you know, or I do mile, mile and a half or whatever
it was in there sick thinking, I just, it's over because if Hank, because if Hank's got

(48:07):
a cone, Hank's got four 50 and Mr. Sean for has got 425.
What is the rules in pro sport?
And I've only hunted a handful of pro sports, so I'm not up to date.
What's the rules on going back to the same tree there?
If we had to treat them, or one of us would have treated, we'd have both took 125 minus
piece.

(48:28):
Gotcha.
But because John got treated in so far away, they were never going to run stationary or
anything because by the time they get to John's, the hunt's going to be over.
Correct.
Yeah.
I'm following.
I was just doing that for my own personal knowledge.
It all boils down to a mile walk.
Sean, every step's got to think all I had to do was take first tree and this dog can't

(48:56):
beat me.
But now I'm walking a mile to a dog and if he's got a cone, I would.
Yeah.
And I've hunted with Hank quite a bit too.
And what I've seen, that dude's got him.
I was like, oh man, here we go.
So the whole, I bet it's a good 30 minutes on the live feed where they're just walking

(49:21):
to this dog, Creed.
And I mean, the whole time, you can just feel the tension on Sean's part knowing, and Greg,
it didn't help that Greg had to mention it at least 15 to 20 times.
Is Maynard judging this thing or is he just walking around commentating?
Play by play.
Okay.
I think he would have been just play by play panel stuff.

(49:45):
Who's judging?
Kenny Hunt.
Okay.
All right.
So, so you're walking and you're a nervous wreck.
Yeah.
We finally get in there and first thing you walk up this little bank right to him and
there's a possum just sitting down low.

(50:07):
And man, it relieved me in a way, but literally the week before that, me and my buddy was
out hunting and we treated a cone and a possum in the same tree.
I mean, that week leading up to that hunt, me and him treated a possum and a cone in
the same tree.
I was like, oh man, I just hope he ain't got a cone, which I mean, he may have had a cone

(50:29):
in there because it was a den and it was a mess all around him.
But we looked and looked and then at one point the guide, I think he found something, a dark
spot sitting in the top of this other tree.
His heart sunk.
Oh man.
I was like, oh no, here it is.

(50:51):
But I got over and I looked too and you could easily tell it was part of the tree.
And I was like, whew, there we go.
And at that time there was just like a minute left, so I finally started getting a little
relief and heard that watch go off and I'd wanted it was amazing.

(51:13):
What's that feeling like that comes over you and you hear that timer just start beeping?
Oh man, it was just all kinds of emotion for me because that's every cone hunter, that
hunted hunts, that's a lifelong dream to win something big and I finally done it.
You did it, man.
You're there.

(51:33):
A truck winner.
What kind of truck did you win?
One of those Colorado Trail Boss.
All right.
2025 Colorado Trail Boss, huh?
And I think Greg said it perfectly during his interview.
He said, this is why we do, why Pro Sport keeps doing what they do.
And not to throw shade at you at all because it's actually the complete opposite.

(51:58):
But in his interview, Sean got emotional as any of us would.
You're out here day in and day night just driving and driving and driving and get so
close and get so close and you lose and you lose and you lose until finally you break
through and you get that win that you've been trying for.

(52:18):
And it's like you said, it's so many.
I mean, I've never got there so I can't tell you what it would feel like.
But I can only imagine just watching your face and your reaction.
You know, I remember you probably do too when Greg finally broke his slump and he won that
truck and he was an absolute wreck on his interview because it's just, like I said,

(52:41):
you push so hard and you put so much effort and time and heart and blood, sweat and tears
into this thing and to finally break through, it don't matter what kind of man you are,
there's just no holding back.
Yeah, definitely not.
I'm not and I'm not one to get on camera at all.
If you've ever seen me, I'll go in the clubhouse, sign up and I'll go back to my truck.

(53:06):
I mean, I try to it ain't that I don't I just get nervous and there was, you know,
I just all that emotion as I go, man.
So like when you're driving back to the clubhouse and you get all the pictures taken, everything
said and done, how does it work?
I mean, I've actually wondered this and I've never asked anybody like what is the process

(53:27):
after that?
Do you actually take do they have the keys and the title and everything right there?
Like you take the truck home or do you have to like wait like a gun whenever you buy it?
You have to wait five days for you can get your prize.
Like how does that work?
Now you take you take it straight home like you got to call and get your title and stuff.
But you get the truck right then.

(53:48):
Did you drive it home?
Yeah.
That's a good feeling, wasn't it?
Oh man, you ain't kidding.
Did the dog ride in the front seat?
No, because I knew it.
You know, me and him, we had done talked about it.
We was going to sell it.
I didn't I didn't want to get it all nasty because he was he was a muddy mess.

(54:09):
So OK, so that's you've already kind of opened the door there.
Like when you're hunting for somebody full time, obviously you have to split winnings
and earnings somehow some way and everybody has their own way of doing that.
But like when you're going to a truck hunt, you go in there knowing fully your full understanding
that if you win the truck, you're probably not going to keep the truck.

(54:32):
Yeah, yeah.
Which I mean, like, you know, Doug, he gave me the option I could have bought him or or
whatever if I wanted to keep it.
But me, you know, I've always been a poor guy.
I want the money.
So, you know, I and I, you know, I got a decent truck.

(54:52):
So this made more sense to sell it.
And Doug got a nice truck.
Yeah.
And so he didn't need it.
I got you.
I was just curious.
I was like, you know, it's so cool to say you're a truck winner, but I want to know
how many times the guys actually keep the trucks.
Very few, actually.
I know that's not very many.
I mean, if you really think about it, Logan Ray kept his even though it don't look like

(55:18):
it's a brand new truck anymore.
It's his hunting truck.
So Logan Ray kept his, you know, I think Ward kept one of his.
Yeah, you know, he's only one five of them.
So yeah, might as well keep one.
Yeah, I know Strickland ain't keeping none of his.
I don't think I think duals one, two of them.
I don't think duals kept one of his.

(55:38):
I think he kept one for a couple of weeks, but I don't think he's kept either of the
two.
He's one.
I think it's just financially.
I think it just makes more sense to get rid of them just because like you said, there ain't
very many, there ain't very many people going to these hunts that are owner handlers now,
like John Holland, he would have won it.

(55:59):
He would have kept it because that is his dog.
That is his entry.
That is his money.
That is he is the owner handler trainer, everything.
So he yeah.
So if he would have won it, John would have kept it.
But like I said, it's just financially it just it really doesn't in most cases, it don't

(56:20):
really make sense.
I wonder if Engel kept the black widow.
He did.
I've seen him drive.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're right.
I saw him pull up.
Heck, it was at winter classic down in Bayfield, Mississippi.
And I saw him driving that black widow truck.
Yeah, that's a hundred thousand dollars.
That was that was the same time that they had the Jarvis Umphers a hundred thousand

(56:42):
hunt going on right there close to Batesville.
And I saw Engel at a gas station down there driving that truck.
So all right, Sean, you see you've won the truck.
And does life just go on after that?
Or do you take a four or five day vacation and think about what you've done?
Are you right back in the woods after it?
I think I took Sunday off and then I went to hunt Monday.

(57:04):
Good grief.
God bless it.
I went a little bit.
I went to UKC hunt and I take three days off just for myself.
So what's next?
Just whatever.
You know, really to say what's next, I don't I don't know.
But we'll we'll definitely be up and whatever the next one is, we'll be there.

(57:33):
That's awesome, man.
Well, hey, I've had a blast learning about this.
Like you did.
You were nervous about coming on here, but I think you did a great job, man.
I appreciate it.
I thought you had.
I'm definitely not a speaker.
No, you did great.
I've learned a ton.
It's whenever he was on the phone call, whenever I was getting him on here, he said, hey, you're
going to carry me through this.

(57:53):
He said, I'm not good at talking.
We have to carry nothing.
I said me and Bryce are good at good at asking open ended questions that make you answer.
And the only thing Sean and I got to carry is the weight of a late round win.
See that picture right there?
You see that picture right there, Basham?
That's a super stakes late round win right there.
I mean, if you really want to put our wins against each other, I mean, any day, buddy,

(58:17):
I'm just having fun picking on you right now because I can.
Any day you want to put your wins against mine.
But anyways, one quick last thing, Sean, anybody, anybody particular that you want to give thanks
to shout out to because I know I know that you're a lot like me and that it's a family

(58:38):
tradition and you know, you wouldn't be where you're at if it weren't for the people behind
you.
So go ahead and take a few minutes and give those that, you know, deserve recognition,
a little bit of recognition.
Yeah, I definitely, you know, the Lord for sure.
I mean, like I said, you know, you can't do nothing without him.

(58:59):
And my wife and kids, they spent a lot of, you know, nights at home without me there.
And my wife does a really good job of keeping everything going at home.
I mean, for sure.
And Doug Miller, he's he's been the number one to it all.

(59:19):
And Jake Glover for raising these pups and, you know, heck, me and him, like I said, we
hunt five, six nights a week all night.
And he's always right there for me.
And little Levi coming with me as my luck that I want to thank him as daddy for letting

(59:40):
him go.
Scott, he he he haunts with me a lot.
And just everybody's called, text, Facebook message, everything.
I really appreciate it.
That's been awesome.
Bastion, before we get off here, though, I got a couple of things I want to add in unless
you got something else you're ready to go ahead.
But Chompette.

(01:00:01):
Yeah, guys.
So obviously, there's a couple of things we just need to touch base on here.
And I think somewhere that you know, something that is unique that we get to do this platform
is, you know, we can spread the good and we can spread we can spread the bad, we can spread
the wealth, we can spread the knowledge.
But the best thing we can do is spread the camaraderie with everybody.
And there's a lot of people right now who need some support out there.

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Obviously, we know what's going on down there in North Carolina and down south, you know,
with that hurricane come through and just absolutely wiped out towns.
You know, we the Coonhuntin family.
Goodness gracious, what happened in my kitchen?
Sorry about that.
The the Coonhuntin family here, you know, we lost we lost one of our own this weekend
down there in all that.

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You know, I saw several posts.
Yes, sir.
Boone.
What was what was Boone's last name?
McCreary, I believe.
Yep.
Yeah, Boone McCreary.
So you know, we lost him.
He was out there trying to help others, you know, being selfless, a selfless act, taking
his boat out, trying to find some of those victims.
And unfortunately, unfortunately, you know, Boone, Boone, we he left us earth this weekend.

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And that's just it's just terrible.
There's just a lot of stuff going on that people need some prayers for right now.
I know right before we got here on this podcast, I heard that Chirpy Birdsaw passed away.
Those that know Doc and Chirpy, they're big, big, big into the show world.
There's Doc was supposed to judge the world this year and didn't make it due to COVID

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him and him and Chirpy both come down with it.
And unfortunately, Chirpy passed.
So there's just a lot going on right now.
A lot of people need some prayer requests right now.
So if you all just take a chance, throw those up there.
You know, there's a lot of people who should appreciate it.
Definitely.
And anything that we can do, guys, this podcast to be going out, I'll just in a couple of
days.
And so anything that Simper Doggin can do, I know that me and Bryce, anything that we

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can do to help anybody down there, just a hit us up on Facebook or hit us up on messenger.
If you got our numbers, just hit us up and let us know if there's any way, shape or form
that we can help.
We'd love to help out.
And if like I said, guys, just keep them up in your prayers.
I can't even imagine.
I think everybody's seen the videos and stuff.

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And you know, a big shout out to Keith, your brother-in-law, you know, dealing with what
they're dealing with down there.
So yeah, just heart prayers, thoughts, just everything for those guys down there.
And man, then pictures and stuff.
Keith sent me some videos.
It's just wild.
They live right there on the side of the mountain and like every tree on their mountain is uprooted

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and laid over.
I mean, it just you can see the whole next range.
Like I said, it took him 10 and a half hours to clear like a quarter mile down the road
to chainsaw just to get to the stop sign.
Like it's just, it's wild.
They got no service.
I actually texted him today, you know, just to check on them, see how they're doing.
And I still don't think they got no phone service.
The only time they get it, whenever they go into a major city, which is a long ways away
because all the roads are torn up.

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So just got to keep, keep up in our prayers.
So absolutely.
Well, Sean, thank you so much for joining us here on the Semper Dog and podcast, buddy.
We sure appreciate you joining us and taking time out of your, out of your evening.
I know you're getting ready to go hunting.
Basham's got dogs already loaded.
I guess I'll get my butt out of this chair and put some clothes on and I'm going to go
myself.
But, uh, it's, it's going to be, it's going to be fun, Sean.

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I look forward, I look forward to, uh, you know, seeing how you're doing these next times,
but it will be rooting on for you.
And I always feel like I get a new friend at the end of these podcasts and if I meet
somebody I didn't know.
So that's exciting for me.
Yes, sir.
I appreciate y'all for having me.
Hey, no problem.
Thank you.
Thank you for getting on here and telling your story, bud.
Congratulations on your win and, uh, you know, good luck on your next one.

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Thank you.
All right, bash them.
I'm good if you're good.
We're good buddy.
Till next time.
Hi guys.
Join us on them dog in Tuesdays.
Those are getting hot and heavy now that you're getting fun.
We got a lot of people that join us over on the simple dog and podcast Facebook group.
They're interacting, commenting, going back and forth.
The dog and Tuesdays are fun.
Uh, this next one.

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No, hold on.
What do you got?
Uh, I think I recall about a month ago, I got a certain phone call from a certain in
individual that said, man, I just, I just don't know if dog and Tuesdays are really
worth it.
The hard part for me is dog and Tuesdays are obviously on Tuesdays and that's my boys have

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football games.
Like it's hard for me to get home.
So this next Tuesday is going to be at one of them deals as well.
Their games like an hour away.
So I'll be struggling to make it home on time, but I'm going to be there one way or the other.
So you were wrong.
I already did that once this podcast.
I ain't doing it twice.
All right.
Well, we're done guys.
We're signing off here.
If you guys want to join us on the simple dog and podcast, make sure to, uh, uh, join

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us over there on the simple dog and podcast Facebook group.
We have a lot of fun over there.
We sure appreciate you guys hanging out with two guys who like to have fun.
We'd like to share the comradery and we always bring somebody in here with us and like to
tell their story too.
So, uh, if you guys have anybody that you'd like to hear on the podcast, let us know we'd
like to reach out to them.
I know the Coon hunting world is swamped.
This is probably the second podcast that Sean's already been on for his truck hunting.

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When, even though we were the first ones to reach out to him, I'll have you know, Mason
Bush.
I'm having a little fun with you buddy.
Uh, he got to Sean before we did.
So, uh, you know, the Coon hunting world is swamped.
People love the competition, but we want to talk to some of you guys who maybe just some
pleasure hunters, bear hunters, coyote guys, you know, we, we've had people on here for
the agility and the fly ball.
We've had all kinds of people on here, but if there's anybody that you guys want to hear,

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let us know.
Uh, we'll try to get in contact with them and give the listeners what they want.
So with that being said, we're signing off in three, two, one.
See you guys.
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