#2070 - Evan Hafer

As far as like cage fighting commentators.

I would never. Are you serious?

If we were in Elkhonny camp, I'd fucking tell you that. But publicly, I would never say that.

give them enough vaccines, and the kid comes out a genius?

God, I hope so. I hope they got a little bit more than I do.

I mean, I would never understand who's... Like, one of the things that I've learned during COVID, this whole trust the experts thing, suck my dick. Okay, that's nonsense. There's a lot of these people that are fucking full of shit and bought and paid for. And I don't trust just the experts anymore.

I trust some experts. I trust. if I can understand what they're talking about, and I know where maybe their conflicts lie, I can see, well, why would they be ignoring certain studies but highlighting others? Oh, there's a conflict of interest. Oh, there's some money involved.

Oh, maybe there's a revolving door, and they can get into some nice agency or some corporation after they're done with the agency. I can kind of look at that, but it takes time. With this shit, what he's talking about, I have no idea who the experts are. I have no idea. He's literally talking about a theory of everything.

that debate when he... Yes. Douglas Murray.

shouldn't we just be discussing the data? Instead of trying to invoke an emotional response from someone. I understand why you would do that if you were fucking with someone, if you wanted to have an argument with someone, but what is this publicly for? Why is it public? Well, it's public because we're trying to understand who's right and who's wrong.

I want to know why you think, the way you think. Right. There's clearly many different schools of thought when it comes to many cultural things, and people are fiercely opposed to the other side. I want to know where you're coming from. If you're dunking on people, now, I do know where you're coming from.

I don't like that. First of all, it's not anything that funny. If you're going to do it, be good at it. Be fucking funny. Also, it's not necessary to this argument, this discussion.

You should really be talking about why you really believe what you believe, and what you think is wrong with this opposing opinion. Not just being silly.

if they stick to facts and they don't get personal. That's when it actually starts to get like, really now you're just kind of being personal. You're degrading the actual conversation. It's not a fight. From my perspective, you look at it, it's kind of like watching a match where you're watching two guys go back and forth, hit for hit.

Seeing guys like Jordan and Douglas Murray, or some of those guys really flex, it's pretty funny to me.

Because sometimes when people believe a thing so much, they haven't ever looked at the thing, the way someone who doesn't believe in the thing looks at it. When you get a guy like Sam, who's so eloquent and is not buying it, and he has a bunch of really logical reasons why he's not buying it, some of them are pretty funny. When he brings those up in front of you and then the audience is laughing, it's like, ooh, this is a tough spot to be in. Because they're trying to pull out all the stops and try to figure out why you're right.

But I think people genuinely want to know, like, did you ever see that movie, there's a documentary about,

God, what was it called? The one about Gore Vidal and,

what's that guy? Best of Venom. Yes, Best of Venom.

So Buckley's the conservative, and Gore Vidal is the, and they aired these, I think it was on NBC, is that what it was on? ABC or NBC?

And so they were on, moderated on ABC?

Yes. The people that are above, those fucking people want, they want to hear how interesting, intelligent people are discussing ideas. Yeah. And you don't see any of that shit on TV. No.

Except Bill Marshall. But even Bill Marshall, there's a lot of people talking over each other,

He's doing his own podcast now.

They're going to continue to kind of propagate out speaking points from either platform. And they're never going to go out and watch different things just based on a person's political view.

And I refuse. I refuse to be a part of this left versus right thing. I think it's stupid. I think it's bad for us. I think it's a trap.

Yeah. I think it's a really dumb trap in America. And Bill Maher says a lot of really wise shit. And he says a lot of shit about culture that goes against the ideology that he's a part of being. He's as deep in the Hollywood system as is humanly possible.

He's a political host on a show on HBO. I mean, that's, like, deep Hollywood. Right. You know, he knows where the sex parties are at.

I'm like, yo, Bill is going for it. That's because he never stopped being a comic. Bill Maher, out of all these guys that become hosts of talk shows, he never stopped just being a comic. He never stopped touring. He never stopped doing all of his live shows.

Never stopped being a comic. That's what separates Bill. Because there's a lot of these guys. Look, man, you get a job like the host of The Tonight Show or something along those lines. You are fucking set, baby.

You support immigration. You support, you know, racist – IDs are racist. They're, like, things. you have to say. You're with the vaccine, aren't you, Jimmy?

Like, yeah, I'm with the vaccine. Like, you have to – they don't necessarily sit you down and do that. But you fucking know. You fucking know.

Because let me tell you something. As good as Tom Cruise is and he's a great actor, as good as Brad Pitt is, he's a great actor. There's some unknown 28-year-old that can do exactly what they can do right now. Exactly. It's not – it's a different kind of skill.

It's not like boxing. Like, we don't know who the best boxer is. We fucking know who the best boxers are. You know? We watch them.

Whatever. I mean,

look at those guys. They're running it as far as they can. I mean, how old is Tom Cruise? Like, 80??

Because I'm not saying if you're a really good actress, you have to be nuts. But, boy, it would help. Yeah. It would really help. Because they can lock into a role in some fucking insane way that, you know, like, they're crying.

Screaming and crying. And nothing happened. But they're pretending. But you would think their mom just died right in front of them.

being able to compartmentalize emotion and do the things that he's done. Those scenes from There Will Be. Do Every Blood. Yes.

Jesus Christ.

Just everything.

I mean, who knows? I looked at the individual scenes of the movie and I was like, this is fucking awesome.

I think being nutty helps.

It's like, you know, I don't play fantasy football. I like participate in these, like, you know, preparation games or whatever, because it's just an interesting thought exercise to walk yourself through. And, oh, by the way, if something happens, you also have kind of a group of contingencies that you can operate from. And he's like, OK. And it was like.

I passed the test because I was like, yeah, man, let's go. And then he started unpacking everything for me. Oh, yeah, I got a shipping container buried on the property. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's cool.

So do I. Yeah. I like that. I like it when I see that stuff.

I think.

He's fucking explaining to people how to repair in case things go sideways and they're like, you are a problematic individual. Yeah.

And they have to be what I would say is familiar with all aspects of America. They have to really understand, like, hey, there's a group of people out there that prepare for the worst, hope for the best. That's what they do. And they're really into it. And just because they're going to the range with a group of friends and they're preparing doesn't make them domestic terrorists.

It just makes them prepared.

Do you remember, during the riots? There was lines outside the gun stores. Listen to me, kids. Keep that energy. Keep that energy, because that didn't go away forever.

That was just a couple of years ago. And the weirdness of life, the weirdness of the way the world works, some shit could pop off anywhere and everywhere. That's real. That's a real possibility. We all saw what just happened in Israel.

It's a real possibility that some shit could pop off. And to bury your head in the sand and pretend that that's not possible, that doesn't help anybody. It doesn't help anybody. And to prepare? Why is preparing bad?

You don't want people to challenge you once you get into power. You don't want people to say, hey, that's against the law. Or, hey, this is not the way we're supposed to be operating. You want people to just comply. And when no one's armed, people comply.

And when everyone's armed, it's really hard to get people to comply, especially if they're kind of in agreement, if there's a large percentage of us that are in agreement. Like, no, you can't listen to all my phone calls. You're just a person. Whether you work for whatever fucking agency. If I'm a guy who works at a tire shop, who doesn't do anything wrong, and you want to listen to all my phone calls.

What? You're just a person. What you should be. Look, if you find a guy who you know is fucking wearing a suicide vest, is about to walk into a wall. You know something's going on.

Yeah. Listen to that guy's phone. And if you've got a chain of terrorists that you're studying and you need to listen to their phones. Fuck yeah. Listen to their phones.

But if a guy just likes to can peaches and he owns a couple of nine millimeters and an AR, you want to listen to his phone? Hey, man. Fuck you.

Have you seen this? What? Yeah. They were saying they don't have the resources over the Thanksgiving travel period to staff the security needs from the like airlines because they had people that were air marshals, I believe. I mean, I'm scrolling through this following people that were just in D.C.

They weren't even like implemented in anything. It was wild.

during that time period.

And everyone's going to jail and we're going to let you in. We're going to open up the barricades and we're going to have federal agents in the audience encouraging you. Right. To go into the house. And then, when we're under oath, we're going to say we can't answer whether or not federal agents were inciting people to go into the Capitol.

That's the other piece to this. It's like you and I love freedom. Like, to be fair, it's quite, quite literally, my favorite thing.

I'm going to be responsible for my actions. I'm not going to mess with other people. I'm not going to impede on their ability to pursue happiness because I'm responsible. But I think, you know, that's me. That's you.

I think there's a whole other side of the country. They're like, hey, I don't want any responsibility for this. It's just, it's too much for me.

And accountability and responsibility, and, like, having things that you have to do, is what we need more of. That's what we need more of. You want to have more freedom? We definitely should have more freedom. But we should also have more people that are taking care of their life.

They have their shit together. So what we should be doing? instead of trying to take away freedom, try giving people the tools that they need to be more accountable and to do better in their life and to get their fucking shit together. Like, that should be the number one emphasis, not taking away your rights, because some people can't handle it. Right.

You know, there's just...

I think we can, we collectively can be trusted with that responsibility. But then you have that other piece that's saying, I don't want to have anything to do with that. I'd rather have a safe, secure existence without any accountability or responsibility. Yeah. I 100% agree.

That's why I, and this isn't like, it's not meant to be like over complimentary, but I think that's so. this show and other people like you and Jocko and Cam and Jordan, whomever else, that it's kind of out there in the ecosystem. You guys are putting really good information out into the world. I was, I was, uh, to reference your podcast with Lex that he did, maybe like a year ago. He was asking you straight up advice.

Like, how do you, how do you make yourself better? How do you be a better person? You're answering saying, Hey, this is what worked for me. Well, you're obviously successful. You should be propagating that out into the, into the country, into the world, having men and women, everybody else saying, fuck, yeah, I'm going to take more accountability.

I'm going to be more responsible for my life. I'm going to live radically free, because that's fucking cool.

Oh, we have dinner at the Italian restaurant at seven 30.. Great. You go over there, you, you eat food that someone else prepared. You get a glass of wine that someone else grew the grapes. You're not doing shit other than consuming.

And this is what you enjoy. We're going to go to the play. We're going to go to the opera. We're going to go see a film. Oppenheimer's out.

We're going to go home. Oh, this person is at the fucking comedy club. Let's go see that. Let's go, you know, let's constantly consume. And those people, like people, say, no, you need to get in shape and you need to start eating.

Well, like, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, I'm not interested in this at all. I want someone to wipe my ass. I have a, I have a seat on the toilet that sprays water up my ass, so I barely have to wipe anymore. It just hoses my ass down. I press buttons.

I go to sleep. I take an ambient. I go to sleep. I wake up in the morning. I go to Starbucks.

It's very lockstep conformity all the way through. Dude, I have zero interest in doing that. That sounds like a prison to me, to be honest with you. That sounds like a fucking prison.

I'm just guessing. I'm just guessing. But I know a lot of people that live in urban cities that are on SSRIs. Right. I know a lot of them.

I would like, you know, like there's that 15% of the people that have 85 or below IQ. What percentage of the people that live in cities that live like that are on antidepressants or some sort of psychoactive medication?

Right.

Right. Don't you feel better when you're doing well? Like when you have a good relationship, you got a good group of friends, you got to, why don't we think of that as medicine?

And there's this eudaimonia. Have you ever heard of this? No. It's like this old Greek term that they would use to define happiness and fulfillment through hard work and accomplishing your goals and objectives. So it's essentially being happy in establishing very difficult criteria for yourself and then adhering to it.

And it's, it's older than the stoics. And I realized I was like, oh, that's, that's kind of what makes me tick. I love just grinding myself into moon dust. Like we were talking earlier. I was like, I'm running this whole machine in the red all the time.

Right. It's like I'm five, seven, 160 pounds. So it's like I got to work, to put out physical energy, to even keep up, you know, in a special operations team or, or whatever previous profession that I've had. I've got to push this thing to the red, carry weight, to carry enough energy that I can accomplish a task. And then, when you're floating just above maybe an average IQ, you also have to run this thing in the red.

There's no like plus or minus 5%, dude. Like. I have to get in and grind myself into moon dust every day. And I got to wring the sponge out of it. If I don't, well, I'm going to be just average, because I'm, I'm average.

I think the despair comes from not having a real purpose, like not having anything you really built or anything that you really feel proud of, or anything that you really feel like. Like your company, like Black Rifle is creative, as well as like really great coffee and cool people. And it's all veteran owned. It's like something to be proud of. It's like a real thing.

Like you go there, people are smiling. It feels good. You've created this amazing business. Like that's, that's a very different feeling than someone who's in some corporate structure and you know, there's fucking all these weird rules and laws and, and social things you have to do in the office in order to get ahead. Right.

And you have to, you know, you have to learn how to play golf.

I have to look at something from a bigger purpose, look at the mission, the goals and objectives, be somewhat altruistic, and then just fucking dive in. Then you can be, you can be selfless in some of what you're doing and you can kind of behave as a cog in the wheel, which I think is actually a really important piece to development is how many people have ever worked as just a number, just a number in a machine. Right.

They're, they're, they're striving to accomplish a big goal and objective. that takes complete intellectual and physical capitulation. And when they get out, they're like, now we have all this freedom, 360 degrees. Well, you have to lay your own life out. You have to redefine your purpose and then drive in as deep as you can.

I think they go through a significant existential crisis.

They're an ex-con, you know.

And I'd do that. But I was in hell thinking, like, imagine having to do this for life. Like all the, I had a bunch of, my dad was an architect. So I had a bunch of construction jobs growing up and those fucking taught me that I don't want to do that. Right.

Like I had a whole summer, I worked with my friend Jimmy Lawless and we, I carried cement bags and pressure treated lumber all summer. It was like, I only worked there for like a couple of months. I'm saying all summer. I don't even, might not have been a couple of months, might have been a couple of weeks. I was 19 and I remember really clearly going, I am never going to be able to do this because I would leave at the end of the day.

I was toast. I was done, man. I'd try, I'd go to the gym to work out. I had nothing. I was just so tired.

There was not, and I realized, like, okay, I can't do this. I don't, I admire people who can do it. You can just show up for work every day. I feel like I'm in hell. I got to find a thing, but I got lucky that there's things.

And you got lucky that there's things. But in school, they don't tell you that there's things. They don't say, hey, Joe, I see how you can't pay attention in class. You're always cracking jokes. Like, maybe you should be a comedian.

Like, no, never.

It's just a matter of. I didn't find a thing that was interesting to me until this.

Like, I never saw my dad inebriated. I always saw him with a lunchbox. He worked in the woods my entire life. But I wasn't good at shit. Like, which is also good.

Like, you know, I like to, you know, fuck around with my buddies. And I like to do interesting things, I guess, for that. Like, try to jump motorcycles or whatever kind of random shit you'd come up with. But, you know, as I got into the military, I was like, oh, I'm good at this. Like, I'm really good at this for some reason.

You know, I can run fast. I can shoot. well. You know, I can put together semi-coherent sentences. So, shit, I can be good at this.

And this is something I can, you know, steal the phrase accelerate your life, or whatever. I can accelerate my life. And it was fun, dude. I could jump out of planes and learn different languages and spend most of my life out of the country. But it was the same kind of evolution.

It's like I found this thing that I was really good at. I loved it. And I could just go chips in on it. And it built layers of confidence and allowed me to just build the confidence to say, well, you know what? If I was good at this, I could probably apply this to other things in life.

It was how do I define happiness? How do I define fulfillment? And then, as we grew the company after about the first year, it became really evident that I could not only do something, because I had this beautiful family that I loved, like my kids and my wife, and they're giving me so much power and endurance. What if I built this really cool company where you could leave the family that you love and go to work in a company that you love? And then it would become a flywheel.

It would just get faster and faster and faster in your life and create more happiness, more fulfillment. What if I could scale that and give that to other people?

And so far, I mean, it's fucking worked. I feel like I feel so happy and, you know, I feel so like I'm so grateful. I'm just so grateful for the things that I've I've been able to do over the last 10 years. And, you know, I, I tell this to people all the time or go to my refrigerator, pulled milk out for my kids. There's not a morning or a day that doesn't go by where I don't thank my customers, for they've given me this opportunity.

They've given me this opportunity to make crazy are amazing coffee and build this culture of people that I love. Fuck that. That is cool, man.

Yeah, man. Evan brought me a mug. This is how thoughtful he is. It's white on the inside. So I could see how dark the coffee is.

That's a real coffee, nerd, folks.

How dark is it? How light is it? You can kind of. I built it for the perfect mug. based on how many fingers can you get in through the handle?

What's the weight of it? I also build things that if you have to hit somebody in the fucking face with it, it's got some. It's got some half. Yeah.

I'm not trusting this handle. No. I put my fingers through the handle. I'm looking at this end right here. Right.

Being the most durable spot to hit somebody with. It's got a good edge. This is what I'm looking at. Yeah. You don't hit them with up there.

No. You get them with this. This is what I'm looking at. I'm looking at a nice angle.

I got a pinky in the bottom to brace.

We ran out of coffee filters and someone, was it Cody? I think Cody said, oh, we can use a paper towel. You just turned him. We're not using a fucking paper towel.

I'll get filters. We're not doing that.

I look forward to going there every year. Dude. We have so much fun together too. That's such a fun week.

But then all I heard, like I saw him tear ass up the hill and then tumble down. He was dead in five seconds, three and a half, five seconds at the most. And I heard it from across the Canyon. You yelled so loud. We were, and we started laughing, cause you're like, yeah.

And it echoed all the way down through the Canyon. I was like, well, bull down, let's go.

I mean, I've deer hunted, I've bear hunted, I've hunted axis deer. I've hunted a lot of different animals, but elk to me are like the most majestic. They're the coolest looking. Yeah. They're, they're fucking smart as shit.

When they smell you, their senses are so good. They're, they're always tuned in to what the fuck is going on. And the only time you catch them slipping is when they're hungry, they're tired or they want to fuck.

I was moving so slow cause his head was kind of turned sideways. Right. And I could never tell if he was looking at me. So I had to make no movement. I was inching towards that motherfucker.

And every time you turn away, I get a couple of slow steps and I'd have to stop. And then I'd have to wonder. I wonder if he remembers what he saw when he turned before. And if that fucking tree is closer. I'm wondering if he's going to perk up.

It's so exciting. Your fucking heart's pounding and I'm breathing. I'm doing all these breathing exercises to slow my heart rate down. So much fun, man.

He stops the truck and he goes, look at that cat. He goes, look at that fucking lion under the tree. I look and I see his eyes glowing and I'm like, oh my God, he's huge. And then I get the binos out. So I'm inside the truck and I'm looking in his fucking face.

Like, like, right. It was terrifying. He was so big. He had these massive forearms, dude, just jacked forearms and his big old pumpkin head. I mean, it was a big male cat.

And I was like, I've never seen one that big. I'd seen little ones before. I saw like a one that looked like it was about like 60 pounds and the other one was pretty much the same size. Those are the only two cats I've ever seen before. And I saw them like very briefly.

This motherfucker was just sitting there under a tree at dusk with the big fucking head, man. And I, it just, the feeling of helplessness was overwhelming that like if that thing decided to jump me, it's over.

I think he's out of Stanford. Uh, psychologist, brilliant guy. Um, he's done a lot of work on toxoplasmosis and toxoplasmosis is the reason why they tell people not to touch women's, uh, women that are pregnant, not to touch their cat's litter box, because it can really fuck the kid up and it can really fuck you up too. But what it does with people is wild. What it does with people is it makes them more reckless, and a disproportionate number of motorcycle victims have tested positive for toxoplasmosis.

Um, some countries. at one point in time, France was as high as 50% of the population was infected by it.

It also completely removes any fear that the rat would have of cats. So the, the rat goes towards the cat, the cat kills the rat and eats the rat. The only way the parasite can reproduce is inside the cat's gut. So the cat, which is seemingly unaffected by this parasite, is just making it inside of its body. And then, when it gets out, it affects all the creatures around it.

It probably does affect cats too, but cats are so crazy anyway. How would you know? It just makes them slightly crazier. But with people, it makes them wilder. It makes them more reckless.

He was so nuts that I, when I had to fix him, he was like, uh, I guess he's like. when I got him, a friend of mine, um, had, uh, these cats under her apartment and her and her boyfriend captured these cats, these little kittens. And they, she goes, you want, you want a kitten? And I had a cat already. I'm like, oh, I'll get my cat a friend.

And so I get this fucking cat. And the, the moment I see it, it hisses, it's a tiny little thing, tiny thing. It's hissing at you like it's a demon. And I pick it up and it instantly starts purring, purring loud. Like you've met, like a foster kid who's finally been hugged.

Right. You know what I mean? Just purring.

And I was like, oh, that's a poor little dude. So to get him accustomed to me, I had to stay in one of the bedrooms in this house that I was renting just with him. So I brought some books in there. I brought his litter box and I brought cat food and I just hung out with this fucking cat for like days in this room. And I had to do it that way because every time I would leave, when I'd come back in, he would literally climb the walls, just hissing and jumping and clawing at the drapes.

It was wild. And then I would corner him and I'd touch him and he would start purring it. And then I'd pick him up and I'd start petting him. And then I'd just sit there like reading a book. And I did it for days to get this cat comfortable with me.

And it worked. I was the only one he was comfortable with, though. Anybody else came over that, you could not pick him up. You try to pick him up, he would fuck you up. He'd bite you, he'd claw at you.

But with me, he was cool. It was weird. But he was only cool, like I had to like slowly approach him. His name was Jack Dempsey, because Jack Dempsey was a hobo. So I thought it was a good name for him.

Yeah, yeah. So I'd pet him and then he'd immediately start purring and then I could pick him up. And he's like, you're the only one. I'm like, it's okay. As long as it's just me.

You and me, buddy. We're good. So I had to get him fixed. And he must have known that my intentions were different than before. And so he wouldn't let me pick him up.

And I had to get him into a laundry hamper. It was the only way I was going to be able to carry him. So I cornered him in the bathroom and he's hissing. He's jumping from the tub to the sink. And I'm like, dude, calm the fuck down.

It's just me. Calm down. So then I get a blanket and I throw the blanket over him. And I wrestle him. And I stuff him into this fucking hamper.

And I bring him to this guy, Dr. Craig, who was an amazing guy. Who wound up dying later in a car accident. It was one of the saddest fucking things. He was the coolest vet ever.

He was the coolest. And I brought him in and I go, hey, man. I don't even know if you can do this. But he's spraying in my house now. He needs to get fixed.

But he's wild. And he's like, how wild? I go, look how I have him. I got him in a hamper.

So they had to hold this cat down somehow or another and anesthetize him. Put him out. And then they had to fix him. And then brought him back, and he was cool. He was fine.

Yeah, he was cool with me. He was always cool with me. Like we got over whatever that was that. I fucking kidnapped him. We got over it and he would let me pick him up again.

But only me. Like. no, my friends, no one. Even people that were over the house all the time. No one could pet him.

They're just like fluffy. They live on the couch. basically. There's like no wolf left in them.

Cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds. And between 6.9 billion and 20.7 billion small mammals. Such as meadow voles and chipmunks. So that's 20 billion mammals and somewhere between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds.

Because these things are living in our house.

Because they keep fucking. And the wild ones. Wild cats. They're fucking unbelievable murderers.

They're great. They're great at doing that. If you want to have a wild cat, that's the place to have them. They fucking keep everything away. There's this hunting lease that my friend Tyler from Archery Country has.

And we went there and there's this cool, fucking wild cat that hangs out there. But he's like domesticated. He comes up to you and rubs up against you. And you're like, what's up, little buddy? And that cat just kills everything.

All he does is. I mean, he's. I don't think anybody feeds him. I think he just wanders around that ranch killing everything he needs to eat.

he's not a wild cat in the sense that he's not domesticated. Because he does come right up to you and rubs up against you. And you pet him and he rubs over. You can rub his belly. He's not worried about people at all.

Everybody treats him really nice. So he's like a sweet, sweet cat. Right. But no one's feeding him. He's just a little murderer.

Just running around eating rats and mice and fucking birds.

That's amazing.

And he's got two cats cruising around in there. Just like.

Yeah. And my wife's alerted to them, too. But I prefer dogs. But my dog is an amazing dog. But he's dumb as shit, too.

Well, that's the golden. And so I just got him back from the hospital. I'm going to send this to you, Jamie. So you can see these pictures. I just got him back.

So we came home the other night. And Marshall had eaten chicken food that was outside on gravel. But he didn't bother to differentiate between the gravel and the chicken food. So he ate about two pounds of gravel. And I'm not exaggerating.

That's my foot for reference.

I just sent you another one.

That one. So that we found out.

So that's once he threw up like six times in the house. And then the seventh time. It looks like he threw up several different times there. So I took him to the emergency vet. And they do an X-ray.

And he still has gravel in his stomach and gravel in his colon. And they're not as concerned about the gravel in his colon. But they were concerned about the gravel in his stomach. So I had to take him to a hospital where he stayed overnight for two days. And they gave him liquid therapy.

They put an IV to him. And they monitored him. And they made sure that he was okay. And he eventually shit out all the gravel. And they didn't have to do surgery.

But there was a concern that there could be an obstruction. But they finally let him out today. And he's fine.

That's the kind of shit you have to deal with if you have pets. He ate gravel. He ate two pounds of gravel.

And then that was it.

Beans.

Yeah. Like I come home. I could talk to him. He listens to me. He kind of knows what I'm saying.

You know, like there's little things that we do. Like, you want to get the ball? He just pops up. I'm like, let's fucking go. These videos of me with him with the ball.

I've never been more excited in my life about anything. Maybe, other than elk hunting. Right. This dog is fucking bouncing around. He's going.

And every day I'm like, is he going to be bored? We could do this ball. Yeah, every day. There's not a fucking day where he's bored. He's like, the ball's out.

I had to hope that there was a window where I could draw. Where he wasn't going to be, once he gets up, what if he's getting up facing me and I can't draw? And I'm trying to figure out, when do I draw? There's a lot going on. I know I ranged him at 50, but I took two steps.

What is this right here? Is he at 48?? Is he at 47?? Where do I aim? There's so much going on that, when it's successful, that's what's so exciting.

That it's hard to do. The ball's fucking, he knows that ball's coming every day. Yeah. But he's so excited.

See, if you can find it. The Keep Hammer Edition. I think it's the VXM 33..

You draw it back, it's just so easy. I just use that one for practicing my form, because it's just nice to have a bow at the studio. And then there's the 80 that I shot. Elon Musk's Cybertruck with, that I just happened to be laying around with. That thing just bounced right off of it.

And it's a fucking heavy-ass arrow from an 80-pound bow, and it didn't do shit to that door.

Bows, somehow or another, through engineering and these fucking wizards, they make them better incrementally every year. They really do. Like, I noticed the difference between last year's bow and the year before. Like, the moment I shot it, I was like, wow, this is smoother. And one day, just for the fuck of it, I picked up the previous year's bow, and I was noticing a difference.

I was like, oh, this doesn't feel as good. The draw cycle's not as good. The release doesn't feel as smooth. But it was better than the year before. Right.

And so last year's bow, I was like, how are they going to top this? This bow is amazing. It's so accurate. It's so smooth. Boom.

They did it. They topped it. They keep making them better. They're more efficient. They pull back smoother.

They're more dead in the hand. This bow feels like nothing when it goes off. Nothing. It goes off. There's, like, zero vibration.

It's incredible. Whatever they're doing in terms of, like, there's a particular design of their riser that the vibration, even if it goes through the bow on the shot, almost none of it is going through your hand. Right. It's incredibly, like, dead in the hand, which, you know, leads you to be more accurate. Everything is about accuracy and efficiency, and smoothness and comfort.

It makes your draw length one quarter inch longer, because it's one quarter inch longer than the head of the Noctuit, which I'm so accustomed to. Yeah. So all my anchor points are slightly different. So, with the stand, the string is just a quarter inch further forward, and there's something about that that maybe I have to get used to. Maybe if I pull harder on the wall, I maintain the same stability.

Or maybe if I extend my arm out a little bit more, I maintain the same stability. I'd have to transition and try it, because I've been using Dudley's archery releases for so long. Between the two smooth, the hinge, which I really like, and then his other one, the Noctuit, which is the thumb button that I really like. I'm just so used to those.

I'm the most accurate, hands down, with the Noctuit. I think it's just because I've got so many reps. It feels so natural. Now that I've got that thing dialed to super hot.

because I'm pulling so much weight. Wherever I like it, I crank it a little bit stiffer now. Just a little bit stiffer.

Let's fucking go, and it's off. And I feel like that, to me, is the most accurate. And there's a lot of different schools. A lot of people like it very heavy. And what they do is they hook the button in here, in the crook of their thumb, and then they pinch their finger around it.

And they can get a good grip, and then they're just all pulling with their back muscles, and that makes it go off. And you can do that too. But I think that's because they want an absolute surprise shot. Because they're concerned they're going to punch the trigger in that moment. But I think the real thing is about controlling that moment.