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As the catfishing community grows, so does the importance of sharing great adventures with the public. That’s exactly what Chris Souders does on Catfish Crazy, the well-known TV show that is already on season 2! In this session at the Digital Catfish Conference 2021, Chris shares some fantastic insight on the TV Show, his personal story and shared a fantastic preview of what to expect. Expect the @Catfish Crazy show to be available on March 30th, 2021. Hosted by @Steve Douglas The Catfish Dude and Kevin Lakin @Palmetto Cats This episode was recorded at the @monsterrodholders studios in Lebanon Junction – KY on 02.27.2021 at 03:20 AM EST Make sure you post all of your questions and comments on this video to get answers to anything you can think about.

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all right welcome back we got reset what
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a great interview
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and paula’s trucking around here all
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excited she said she’s gonna get in the
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chat and talk to you guys
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uh thank you for everybody posting a
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youtube channel in there go check her
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out
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all right next up catfish crazy we’re
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gonna bring back on mr souters
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hey chris how you doing hey what’s up
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everybody
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i hope you got some uh some lunch there
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since the last time we saw again
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you got all your pigs taken care of
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yeah yeah they all they all went to the
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butcher so i’ve just been uh
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actually i’ve been in here in the garage
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just kind of taking it easy and
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and uh watching everybody’s everybody’s
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show and them guys a pipeline tackle
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they know how to take care of real don’t
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they
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don’t they yeah don’t they should we uh
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should we play uh a clip of catfish yeah
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so that’s what we’re going to read right
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into it so we had chris on earlier and
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he talked about
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his personal journey and uh how he takes
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notes and everything and
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the last part of his journey the journey
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he’s on now as far as his catfishing
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career
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is the cable television show catfish
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crazy imma play a short promo that we’ve
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been playing for two days
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and then uh we’ll hear from chris about
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that
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there we go
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oh
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there we go
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oh yeah oh yeah
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awesome little promo there that was the
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short one so you’re on the pursuit
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channel
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yeah so this year uh there’s going to be
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a few other channels as well i don’t
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know the exact details
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uh right here it’s uh but right as of
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right now we’re on the pursuit
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youtube and i think there’s some other
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networks that are going to be streaming
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it
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or sharing it as well um so
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if anybody’s interested in that they got
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to make sure to go over to catfish crazy
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on youtube
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social media all the all the platforms
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and just follow and keep up to date
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everything is getting ready to come come
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down and start coming out
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all the hard work we put into in 2020
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with fighting many many battles of
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as everybody has with covid and the
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restrictions and everything like that
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uh it was a it was
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something hard to come overcome but we
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was able to get it done and uh
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everybody is going to be able to see the
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hard work we put into it
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and i can’t wait the information we got
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to share this year was just
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absolutely awesome i got to fish with
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some amazing amazing people
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and uh man did we catch some good fish
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awesome what what did you have certain
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times
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or or anything that it plays like a
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schedule where can they find the
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schedule app
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so as of right now uh it’ll be march
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30th
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at 1 pm eastern is the time that it’s
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going to be starting
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on the pursuit channel now they’ll make
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sure
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we’re going to start posting all the
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dates who it was with
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a lot more information
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yeah cam did you forget to plug in the
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laptop again no
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hold on a second
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uh chris did say that if it’s technology
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it’s gonna mess up on him so
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yeah absolutely it doesn’t matter i’ve
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been sitting here watching it
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the entire time and nothing happened
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no way it happens
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[Laughter]
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well yeah so this catfish crazy we’ve
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been what we’ve been sharing this little
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um
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promo video and we do have a longer one
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to show but i was hoping we’d get into a
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little more
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but you know when we have technical
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difficulties you know what we do around
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the virtual cat con right we’re
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giving away we give away stuff so i’m
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gonna go ahead and get
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it away but chris is back up so go ahead
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and continue chris
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but yeah as of right now uh we’ll just
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have to make sure
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everybody goes to catfish crazy on
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facebook that’s where we’re gonna be
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sharing a lot of our information from
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and uh you know schedules who he was
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with
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uh kind of some teaser stuff some teaser
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information
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and uh yeah just keep everybody hyped up
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but march 30th
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that date is coming around it’s coming
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around quick yeah
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well that’s a good thing though that the
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weather’s gonna start getting nice with
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that
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yeah yeah yeah everything’s gonna get
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nice
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everybody be able to watch your show get
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pumped up cheers talk about some of the
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locations that you’re
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you’re in and season three yeah
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absolutely so
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uh went out to this was probably one of
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my
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favorite uh trips somebody i looked up
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to
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and has been around catfishing for
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before i was in diapers and
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that was jason big cat or uh james
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peterson big cat and
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mississippi yeah james patterson big cat
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and went out on the uh in memphis with
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him on the mississippi river
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uh to sit there and listen to the
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stories that that man has to tell
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the information um he’s probably forgot
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more information than i’ll ever know
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and he’s such a nice guy too he uh
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he’s followed me come to the catfish
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conference i mean he
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he’s just in it for the the love of the
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sport yes
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yeah he truly is is a great great person
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another another one that was kind of on
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my bucket list
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of places to go was the missouri river
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and and i got to hit that with jason big
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cat and athena
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for anybody out there that doesn’t know
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jason he is a monster of a dude
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i mean he’s got hands a size a
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uh just humongous man and
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but he is one of the kindest hardest
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people
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you will ever meet uh share
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information with you no matter who you
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are
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or what what you’ve got going on he’s
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with his mother
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doesn’t he yes vicky vicky yeah yeah
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a lot of people know her by mom that
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fish tournaments
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she loves to go and take people’s money
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at tournaments
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yeah yeah
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so that was a really good one um caught
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my first sturgeon
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out there and that’s going to be on that
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show uh
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for anybody that’s never caught a
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sturgeon let me recommend it
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let me ask you i bet you was below the
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rocks
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the dam though what is that uh the chain
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of rocks during the rocks
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uh so we was actually in the missouri
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river oh okay
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yeah now um i did fish
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around the chain of rocks this year with
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another uh superstar of a catfisherman
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that’s ryan casey
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well that’s what i say i went with ryan
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casey a few years and shot a video with
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him and right below the chain of rocks i
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caught about a six-foot sturgeon
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oh really yeah is that not the heart one
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of the hardest fighting fish you’ve ever
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had a hold of
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it was and i was really surprised
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because he did a tail walk way out there
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and i thought
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what is this i never seen such a thing i
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thought it was a catfish at first and
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then it come up so yeah it was
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it i didn’t know they was that big in
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the mississippi river
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but i had no clue i think they’re
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getting urgent is what they call them
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really yeah now see i never caught the
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one i caught was probably maybe five
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foot but it didn’t come up it stayed
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down
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it fought it fought like a ginormous
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flathead wood oh yeah
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yeah it was really uh it was just a
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spectacular fight i had no clue what i
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had on
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did you get that on film yeah is it
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going to be part of the show
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absolutely that that that fish put up
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such a fight and such a show
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it just could not be on there you know
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what i mean
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right it was phenomenal uh but a couple
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of the other places we went to
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um got the first lady angler on the show
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this year
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really excited about that uh that’s
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something i want to move into
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as catfish crazy evolves is getting more
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uh women you know involved in the show
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and also
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some children some vets uh things like
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that
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that i kind of have that i want to do or
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plans i guess
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would like to do but uh miss paula says
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she’d love to jump on the boat with
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you yeah actually uh paula is uh her and
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i have been talking a little bit and
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i haven’t been able to finalize you know
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when to be able to get out there with
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everything that’s going on this year but
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uh definitely somebody i would like to
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go fish with
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cool so if you’re still there in the
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shop i don’t know if she sure
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she heard you okay
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so what about i saw you in that promo
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you had
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at least one hog in there can you tell i
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mean i know you don’t want to give too
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much away because then you won’t miss
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joe
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but was he over 50 oh yeah
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okay good yeah so uh this year
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uh we caught several fish over 50 pounds
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nice for the show now for anybody that
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has been involved
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with some sort of show like this our
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show is a little different i mean
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it’s more informational based i don’t i
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try not to worry so much about the
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and there it went again
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my goodness well how’s that one look
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looks great
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okay so we’re just gonna go with that
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one for right now how about that sounds
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good
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so uh you know
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it’s like i said it’s more of an
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informational based
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style of fishing but
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we do concentrate you know try to catch
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some bigger fish as well you know you
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gotta
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everybody wants to see that right so we
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this year
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we was blessed to be able to catch
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more fish over 50 pounds than i thought
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we was going to
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with everything that we’ve had to fight
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against uh the short amount of time that
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we’ve been able to film and do
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everything
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um it’s just been it’s been really good
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and
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we that fish that you’re talking about
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is definitely over 50 pounds
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awesome did you have any uh bloopers
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are you gonna have a bloopers reel or
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anything with the cameraman falling off
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the board
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like we said the the um what’s called
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the build dance
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yeah so you guys have seen how uh
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how my technical abilities are going
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here could you imagine how it’s
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how it goes on the boat well i think i
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feel better because the other guys are
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running the cameras
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but i’m involved it doesn’t matter who’s
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running the camera
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it’s if i’m involved and electronics are
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involved
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we’re going to have bloopers i guarantee
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you
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awesome well maybe maybe you’ll get
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nominated for some blooper of the year
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awards for the
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golden brisket that’d be great
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that’d be great all right and you know
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hey i want to give you props on that
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that was something that that was uh
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that was cool i didn’t really know much
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about but but it was it really turned
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out really good you put a lot of hard
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work into that
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and i’m glad you did it was a good thing
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and something
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i think you should be proud of oh thank
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you i appreciate it yeah
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i had a lot of help doing it and uh
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hopefully it’s gonna be bigger and
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better next year
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but but back to back to you man so tell
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us
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um like what what is the what episode
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should we be looking for
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that is your favorite episode you have
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to tell us what happened
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but can you think can you think about it
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and tell us
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uh i don’t know if i got a favorite
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episode um
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i honestly um
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they all were really good i mean that’s
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good that you can’t pick one
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we went from we went from the james
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river to the mississippi river
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from lake erie down into pickwick you
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know anytime i get to go down
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and talk to mike mitchell or jump in the
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boat with mike
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on the tennessee river chain anybody
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that watches that show
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they’re gonna learn something and i
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learned something
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while i was there you know i give i give
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all that credit to mike mitchell i mean
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you know where we fished that day how we
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fished
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was something i wouldn’t have dreamed
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about uh
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so i give him props for it and we caught
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some really good fish had an
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absolutely amazing time and that’s
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definitely one that people should watch
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mike is a sleeper that’s what i’m going
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to call a sleeper you got to watch out
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he don’t say much he’s he’s just kind of
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standoffish but at the weigh-in line
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is where he shows his yeah
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he’s a he’s a quiet person yeah but boy
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i tell you
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what he knows what he’s doing and
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uh he will help you i mean
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i’ve seen guys walk up to him that he
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fished against
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and he would help them just as well he
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would help anybody
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a super good guy yeah he sure is he’s
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really good on an anchor
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yes yes um another show
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that i really enjoyed we actually went
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out there twice
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uh this year and that was uh ker lake
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out in virginia and
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went out there with alan thomson and uh
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that’s a guy that a lot of people don’t
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know of um he’s
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he’s a guide for catfish uh striper
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crappie
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and perch on kerr lake and
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had an absolutely phenomenal time um
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super good guy
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highly recommend him if you guys go out
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to or want to go out to kerr lake
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look him up he does he does a really
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good job
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and i believe it’s a prime time uh guide
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service
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prime time geysers cool i’m going to
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play this next promo
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and then after it’s done you can kind of
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tell us about the promo and what we’re
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seeing in it okay
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yeah i’ll switch my camera too all right
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cool
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here’s the promo nobody’s seen this one
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yet this is the
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uh long one that we haven’t played
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i love that boat oh yeah
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oh whack them like that all day any day
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whoa
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[Music]
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there we go
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river blue
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boom baby he’s ours now
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man did you have some feisty blue cats
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oh yeah
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oh yeah and uh man it was
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it was a really good year uh you know a
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lot of stuff we don’t we share
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on our social media sites as we as we go
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and i’ll share
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little pictures here and there but it
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was it was a good year i’m excited about
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it
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um you know just learning
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uh this is just a whole new learning
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curve for me and
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and uh it pushes me to be a different
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per you know different
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style of angler and and uh as like i
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said the people i’ve been with this year
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the friendships i’ve gained the
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information these guys have given for
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everybody to learn and you know take in
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is just phenomenal
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and i can’t thank everybody that has
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been a part of this or
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and is a part of this uh this journey i
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mean it’s just not me
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it’s every single person that’s a part
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of it if it wasn’t for everybody else
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uh this wouldn’t be what it is and and
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we wouldn’t be able to share
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all this information with everybody well
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i did see
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a 30-pounder disagree with you while ago
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[Laughter]
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this year was the year of learning
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how tough your hands really can be and
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and like his dad always told me boy if
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you’re going to be dumb you better be
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tough
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and i bought a good pair of gloves well
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you you brought up something
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uh you know that i think we need to do
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it
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you’re not the only person for catfish
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crazy you want to talk about some of the
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guys behind the scenes producers things
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like that
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yeah yeah i mean first and foremost joe
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uh
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the guy that films um he
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he doesn’t like to get much credit he
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kind of you know is uh
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in low-key but joe the camera guy that’s
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how we’re gonna call him uh he is
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phenomenal
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i mean he edits he produces he films he
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does it all
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all the show that you guys see from
17:51
start to finish
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basically you know it’s him and what he
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does
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he throughout the day he’s keeping track
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of everything he knows
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what we’ve got what we don’t have and is
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is phenomenal
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on that part but uh you know nkt in a
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whole
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you know that whole group of people that
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have taken this on and given
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you know given us the opportunity to to
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do this show
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you know those guys are are super and i
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can’t thank
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the whole gang from marcus to preston
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joe
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andy you know all the all the people at
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nkt
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that help us do what we do awesome and i
18:27
noticed that you
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had two different boats in that promo
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yeah
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yeah so one of them was the one the only
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thing i’d probably get other than my
18:36
pontoon is that
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cr was that easy cat with the couches up
18:39
front
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yeah yeah so i mean is that as luxurious
18:43
as it looks
18:45
well i tell you what after you go out
18:47
with ryan casey
18:49
in st louis on the mississippi river
18:51
that couch up front
18:52
is a nice place to catch your breath is
18:54
that the boat he got
18:56
yes okay that easy cat okay yeah
18:59
lots of room uh you know it’s just a
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super
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smooth ride you know what sea ark is
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known for
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and you know this year was you know it
19:08
was one of those challenges that we had
19:10
to
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overcome with covet you know i wasn’t
19:12
able to get a boat until later in the
19:14
year
19:15
so we was able to jump on people’s boats
19:19
that had sea orcs
19:20
showcase the boat that they had and how
19:23
it
19:24
fished for them in their area and why it
19:27
worked for him in that area
19:28
and then also once we got the new
19:30
dynasty he was able to put it right in
19:33
and get it to work and so you got the
19:35
new dynasty now
19:36
yeah well no i pulled i pulled a chris
19:40
outers
19:41
that’s right he pulled chris yeah go
19:43
ahead and tell
19:44
that story we got about three minutes
19:46
left go ahead and tell the story man
19:48
i’ll tell you i’ll tell the short story
19:50
of it okay i was headed
19:51
i was headed down the road to pre-fish
19:54
an area here at home
19:56
for a catfish crazy show in late
19:59
fall here at home west virginia has
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started
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building their blue cat population and
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it is really really getting good
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that late fall that november time frame
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here at home in west virginia
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waters i’m from ohio but west virginia
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waters on ohio river
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gets really really good for blue cats
20:16
and i was headed down to a little
20:17
pre-fishing little scouting and
20:21
man that one you know uh just ended up
20:24
in a bad situation got ran off the road
20:27
and thankfully man you know there’s a
20:29
song out there says jesus takes will
20:32
but i’m telling you brother it god took
20:34
the wheel that day
20:35
and and saved me because i was headed
20:37
dead on for a concrete box culvert
20:40
and i was able to miss that box culvert
20:42
by literally
20:44
two inches with my driver’s side tire
20:46
but unfortunately the boat
20:48
uh didn’t miss it the boat hit it head
20:50
on got ripped off the truck
20:53
and actually the boat got ejected off
20:55
the trailer
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uh thankfully everything came
20:58
unconnected and
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broke loose from me and the truck
21:02
because
21:03
where the trailer landed about 70 feet
21:06
75 feet from where the culvert was
21:08
the boat landed another 50 feet from the
21:11
trailer
21:11
and then my truck stopped about another
21:13
75 feet from it
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goodness gracious man yeah yeah listen
21:19
you had a
21:20
my mom says a guardian angel or a travel
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angel with you
21:24
definitely that day i there’s no i mean
21:26
you know everybody that knows me knows
21:28
my faith and
21:29
there’s no doubt in my mind that god was
21:31
watching over me it wasn’t my day
21:32
you know uh it was an unfortunate
21:35
accident but
21:36
uh thankful to be here thankful to be
21:38
alive and and uh be able to go out and
21:40
chase him fish again yeah and he left
21:43
you here because you’re not done
21:46
we need we need many more years of
21:47
catfish crazy so he’s like i can’t take
21:50
chris now
21:51
i’ll just sacrifice this boat
21:54
i mean you know before we leave uh if
21:58
if we can i’d like to thank everybody
22:00
that is also involved
22:02
that pays you know pays the way
22:03
basically um
22:05
sea arc boats monster rod holders uh
22:08
smooth move seats
22:09
marine master trailers tackle bandit
22:12
demon dragons slime line fishing
22:16
catch the fever offshore tackle company
22:19
catfish clothing
22:20
phi tech cast nets extreme bait tanks
22:24
and cylinder cat outdoors in nkt
22:26
productions
22:27
uh if it wasn’t if if you guys are out
22:29
there
22:30
and you like the show do me a favor
22:34
go check out these companies especially
22:36
this weekend where they got all the
22:38
promotions
22:39
and uh you know help support them i mean
22:41
it helps support the whole industry but
22:43
if you like this they’re the ones that
22:45
are making the ability for me to go out
22:48
and and get these people and share this
22:49
much information if it wasn’t for them
22:52
we wouldn’t be able to do what we do so
22:54
uh do me a solid and
22:55
and make sure you say thank you to them
22:57
for allowing me to do what i do
22:59
and we will run through all those promos
23:01
again at the end
23:03
of the last presentation so those of you
23:05
who may not have been here all day
23:07
you’re just getting off
23:08
work we will run through those
23:09
promotional codes again and
23:11
they’re on the catfishconference.com
23:13
website right
23:15
man chris i i’m just going to say first
23:18
and he’ll he’ll
23:19
give you the the same thing but man i
23:21
really appreciate your time
23:22
you’re always a very giving of your time
23:24
whether it’s a phone call or a text
23:27
or or or just giving of yourself and i
23:29
thank you for that and i think everybody
23:31
sees that
23:32
so uh thank you for that you’re a true
23:33
blessing to the catfish community
23:36
and the industry yeah we appreciate you
23:38
coming here spending your time with us
23:40
and uh
23:41
yeah how’s the little youngin oh man
23:45
yeah you know there’s uh if you see bags
23:49
under these eyes
23:52
uh for for a lot of people that don’t
23:55
know
23:55
um my little girl is adopted uh we’ve
23:59
got a little girl
24:00
she’s seven years old and i’m gonna take
24:03
a few more
24:04
minutes here but uh we
24:07
we’ve had this little girl my wife and i
24:09
were not able to adopt
24:11
and or was we’re not able to have kids
24:13
ourselves so we went through the
24:15
adoption process and we ended up with
24:17
this blessing of a little girl
24:19
she’s now seven she’s with us we adopted
24:22
her
24:23
uh five years ago and
24:27
you know we go to church my little girl
24:30
praise herself every night whenever she
24:32
goes to bed
24:34
for the last few years she has prayed
24:36
and she’s always
24:37
asked us whenever we’re going to have
24:39
she’s going to have another baby boy or
24:40
another
24:41
baby brother or sister to play with
24:44
and unfortunately you know we
24:48
it was hard for us to say that we
24:49
couldn’t you know
24:51
she’s seven she doesn’t understand that
24:53
but she would pray
24:54
every night uh for specifically a baby
24:58
brother and and i don’t want to
25:00
tear up on this but but uh
25:03
two months ago we got a phone call
25:06
from the children’s services that said
25:10
that
25:11
our little girl’s biological mother
25:14
has had another baby and wanted to know
25:17
if we wanted to come
25:18
and pick it up and possibly adopt
25:22
again so we went and picked up a
25:25
beautiful baby boy um
25:27
and uh with the hopes and prayers that
25:30
that
25:31
soon we’ll be able to adopt him and and
25:33
uh give him our last name and
25:35
and raise him and and uh just be blessed
25:38
by everything he does
25:39
that is awesome so she’s got a blood
25:41
blood brother then right
25:43
yes that’s her biological brother uh uh
25:46
folks i mean i know i don’t want to get
25:48
too uh biblical here or anything but
25:51
if you’re if you’re not a believer and
25:54
that’s fine
25:56
um but if you ever need somebody to talk
25:58
to
25:59
if you ever want somebody to talk to uh
26:02
to turn to
26:03
uh somebody to pray for you please give
26:05
me a call talk to me call me
26:07
i’ll be there i’ll do everything i can
26:09
for you
26:11
well that’s an awesome story chris and
26:12
i’m i hope it turns out to be
26:14
the best for you guys uh and and
26:18
look you just got a couple little
26:20
fishing partners that’s all you got
26:21
yeah yeah that’s right
26:25
i can’t i can’t i love it i love it well
26:28
that’s awesome chris chris again thank
26:29
you for your time thank you for
26:31
being involved with the catfish
26:32
conference you’ve been a big part of it
26:34
for
26:35
for many years and we look forward to
26:37
having you back
26:38
oh man it’s been great thank you guys
26:40
for having me on here and hey
26:42
we will talk to you all later take care
26:44
man all right

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