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Episode Transcript
[0:00:36 – 0:00:39] Adam: Welcome to my home, Eric.
[0:00:39 – 0:00:40] Adam: Eric.
[0:00:40 – 0:00:40] Adam: Woo.
[0:00:40 – 0:00:41] Adam: Are you excited?
[0:00:41 – 0:00:42] Adam: Mm-mm.
[0:00:42 – 0:00:44] Adam: A Boundary Waters podcast.
[0:00:45 – 0:00:46] Adam: My name is Adam.
[0:00:46 – 0:00:49] Adam: With me, as always, is Eric, live at Studio Library.
[0:00:49 – 0:00:50] Adam: Hello.
[0:00:51 – 0:00:52] Erik: Yeah, this is some true…
[0:00:52 – 0:00:57] Erik: I love that you just turned the microphone to me like you were interviewing a player who just skated off the ice.
[0:00:57 – 0:01:06] Adam: We’re in close quarters here, behind the boards, at the library, literally parked in front of the library in 15-minute parking.
[0:01:06 – 0:01:07] Adam: Come at us, Sheriff’s Office.
[0:01:08 – 0:01:09] Adam: Here comes a PT Cruiser.
[0:01:10 – 0:01:10] Adam: There it goes.
[0:01:11 – 0:01:11] Adam: Oh, wow.
[0:01:11 – 0:01:12] Adam: With a…
[0:01:13 – 0:01:34] Erik: garbage bag back window on that pt cruiser have you ever experienced driving in somebody else’s or your own you know you see those cars that have like the taped windshields or with like side windows no but like one that’s truly just like plastic no i’m just laughing because literally we’re sitting in my car and i had my my driver’s side window was it came out of the
[0:01:34 – 0:01:49] Adam: saddle or whatever uh the lift the harness yeah so i literally had to like jam it back in there and send it up and then i kind of i duct taped the window in place until i could fix the lift arm yes so that’s as close as i’ve come i’ve never had to have the garbage bag window
[0:01:52 – 0:01:59] Erik: The garbage bag window is like, there’s a certain level of lifestyle that I feel like, all right, fine.
[0:01:59 – 0:02:02] Erik: If somebody broke into your car last night and you’re on vacation, fine.
[0:02:02 – 0:02:07] Erik: But you can tell the ones that are like, that’s a permanent garbage bag windshield.
[0:02:07 – 0:02:08] Adam: That’s just my window.
[0:02:09 – 0:02:14] Adam: Now, I would say this driver’s side window in the Vibe has a long time been giving me a problem.
[0:02:14 – 0:02:18] Adam: Like, I just can’t get it to stay in the lift, no matter what kind of compound or glue I use on it.
[0:02:18 – 0:02:21] Adam: You got to pull the whole inside of that door apart because it slides out.
[0:02:21 – 0:02:25] Adam: You got to put it back in the little runners and try and glue it in there.
[0:02:25 – 0:02:30] Adam: And then sure enough, after a hot day, it just pops out when you’re rolling the window down.
[0:02:30 – 0:02:34] Erik: Or when you bring it in to get an oil change, the mechanics or whatever reason will roll it down.
[0:02:34 – 0:02:40] Adam: Those idiot youth getting in there and rolling your window down when you told them not to roll the window down, please.
[0:02:41 – 0:02:47] Erik: If you’re listening, any mechanic who works on Adam’s vehicle in the future, don’t hold on.
[0:02:47 – 0:02:51] Adam: Well, I’ve solved that because now I’ve got it in the up position and I just unhooked the little switch.
[0:02:52 – 0:02:53] Adam: It does nothing.
[0:02:53 – 0:02:54] Adam: It’s not going down anymore.
[0:02:55 – 0:02:55] Adam: It stops.
[0:02:55 – 0:02:57] Adam: Now I just have to open all the other windows when it’s hot.
[0:02:58 – 0:03:03] Adam: Luckily for us, we live way up north and it’s only hot like five days in the whole year.
[0:03:03 – 0:03:04] Adam: Yeah, so we…
[0:03:04 – 0:03:09] Adam: But at one time I did get it stuck down before I really understood the mechanics of the window lift.
[0:03:10 – 0:03:13] Adam: And it was stuck down and I wasn’t sure what to do.
[0:03:13 – 0:03:15] Adam: So I did like hang a garbage bag over the window.
[0:03:16 – 0:03:18] Adam: I just like kind of put it in the door when it was parked.
[0:03:18 – 0:03:19] Adam: Yeah.
[0:03:19 – 0:03:22] Adam: Just to keep it, you know, from getting rained on until I couldn’t figure it out.
[0:03:22 – 0:03:23] Adam: It was going to rain that night.
[0:03:23 – 0:03:27] Adam: This was before I had the internet and the YouTube to, you know, do my research.
[0:03:27 – 0:03:28] Erik: So…
[0:03:29 – 0:03:31] Adam: Anyways, I got some exciting news before we get to our sponsors.
[0:03:31 – 0:03:32] Adam: Go for it.
[0:03:32 – 0:03:43] Adam: We’re painting the living room up in Studio K, and I’ve got some paint swatch selections that Natalie has sent over.
[0:03:44 – 0:03:46] Adam: So she’s marked her top three.
[0:03:46 – 0:03:48] Adam: Listeners, we need your advice.
[0:03:48 – 0:03:54] Adam: I’m just going to read you the names, and you can tell me on social media which ones we should go with.
[0:03:56 – 0:03:58] SPEAKER_00: I don’t even know if I can read that top one, though.
[0:04:01 – 0:04:01] Erik: Dark brown?
[0:04:02 – 0:04:03] Adam: I don’t know what that one even says.
[0:04:03 – 0:04:05] Erik: All right, so yes.
[0:04:05 – 0:04:07] Adam: This is a great segment here.
[0:04:07 – 0:04:08] Adam: We’re going to have to cut this out.
[0:04:08 – 0:04:09] Erik: Can’t vote for that one.
[0:04:11 – 0:04:13] Erik: Can’t vote for the second one.
[0:04:13 – 0:04:14] Erik: Wheat toast.
[0:04:14 – 0:04:15] Erik: All right, so the first one.
[0:04:15 – 0:04:16] Erik: We got wheat toast.
[0:04:16 – 0:04:17] Erik: Wheat toast.
[0:04:20 – 0:04:20] Adam: Oh, boy.
[0:04:21 – 0:04:21] Adam: Wheat toast.
[0:04:21 – 0:04:22] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:04:22 – 0:04:23] Adam: I’m not sure about wheat toast.
[0:04:24 – 0:04:26] Adam: Then there is bales of brown.
[0:04:28 – 0:04:30] Adam: And we got two more good ones here.
[0:04:30 – 0:04:34] Adam: Hardy clay and caramelized peach.
[0:04:34 – 0:04:36] Adam: But my favorite, Eric.
[0:04:36 – 0:04:39] Adam: The one I really was voting for was Jazz Brass.
[0:04:40 – 0:04:41] Erik: Jazz Brass, yeah.
[0:04:41 – 0:04:42] Erik: I mean, just based on the name.
[0:04:43 – 0:04:50] Erik: Seems like maybe one of the stupidest things we’ve ever done is ask people to vote on a color just based on the name of it.
[0:04:50 – 0:04:52] Adam: You really have no say in it, honestly.
[0:04:52 – 0:04:53] Adam: I just like the funny names.
[0:04:53 – 0:04:54] Adam: Yeah, no, those are funny.
[0:04:54 – 0:04:59] Adam: Would it be better to work at the paint swatch company or working at the crayon factory and coming up with names?
[0:04:59 – 0:05:01] Adam: Same job, basically.
[0:05:01 – 0:05:02] Adam: Same guy, maybe?
[0:05:02 – 0:05:03] Adam: Same guy, yeah.
[0:05:03 – 0:05:04] Adam: Just one’s for kids and one’s for adults.
[0:05:05 – 0:05:08] Adam: You’re really just trying to sell a fancy name like jazz brass.
[0:05:08 – 0:05:09] Erik: Yeah, I wonder.
[0:05:09 – 0:05:20] Erik: It kind of reminds me of the last little blog that I wrote that in doing research for it, I watched a bunch of state-run tourism ads.
[0:05:21 – 0:05:27] Erik: And they’re all so, you can just tell they’re just like 15 guys and probably some women, I’m assuming.
[0:05:28 – 0:05:29] Erik: You would think so.
[0:05:29 – 0:05:32] Erik: In a boardroom, just marketing.
[0:05:32 – 0:05:35] Adam: What’s the best way to make Arkansas look appealing?
[0:05:36 – 0:05:43] Erik: Yeah, like, we just need a bunch of little one-line sum-ups that make you kind of feel, you know, that, like…
[0:05:43 – 0:05:44] Erik: It’s Ozark-sized.
[0:05:44 – 0:05:47] Adam: A little warm slash… Yeah.
[0:05:48 – 0:05:50] Adam: Like… What’s that even mean?
[0:05:50 – 0:05:53] Erik: One of the worst ones that I heard was, beyond your dreams.
[0:05:53 – 0:05:53] Erik: Ugh.
[0:05:54 – 0:05:57] Erik: Which is, like, basically, you could just say, like, literally impossible.
[0:05:57 – 0:05:58] Erik: Yeah.
[0:05:58 – 0:05:59] Erik: Okay.
[0:05:59 – 0:05:59] Erik: All right.
[0:05:59 – 0:06:01] Erik: I guess Arkansas.
[0:06:01 – 0:06:01] Erik: Go for it.
[0:06:02 – 0:06:02] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:03 – 0:06:04] Adam: All right.
[0:06:04 – 0:06:13] Adam: Well, Tumble Home, a Boundary Waters podcast, thank you for being with us on a Saturday night in beautiful Grand Marais, Minnesota.
[0:06:14 – 0:06:16] Erik: We are always, as always, sponsored.
[0:06:16 – 0:06:17] Erik: No, not this week.
[0:06:17 – 0:06:23] Erik: This week’s episode is only sponsored by Rolling Rock.
[0:06:25 – 0:06:32] Erik: This beer is commensurate with the level of content we are coming at you with this short episode.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:33] Erik: I can already tell it’s going to be short.
[0:06:35 – 0:06:37] Adam: It’s not going to be as long as the usual episodes.
[0:06:37 – 0:06:38] Adam: We’re just going to come at you.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:39] Adam: We’re going to be straight with you.
[0:06:39 – 0:06:40] Adam: We’re going to be straight with you.
[0:06:40 – 0:06:42] Adam: We just don’t have time this week.
[0:06:42 – 0:06:45] Adam: You would think it’s the middle of September now.
[0:06:45 – 0:06:50] Adam: We’ve made it all the way through summer and we’ve been coming at you strong with one hour, one and a half hour episodes.
[0:06:51 – 0:06:52] Adam: Well, you know what?
[0:06:53 – 0:06:54] Adam: It’s still really busy.
[0:06:54 – 0:06:56] Adam: We were just driving through town.
[0:06:56 – 0:06:57] Adam: There are people everywhere.
[0:06:57 – 0:06:59] Adam: How many people were at the Put-N-Pets?
[0:06:59 – 0:07:02] Adam: We were going to maybe stop in and play 18 at the Put-N-Pets.
[0:07:02 – 0:07:03] Adam: No dice.
[0:07:03 – 0:07:03] Adam: No.
[0:07:03 – 0:07:07] Adam: There’s literally a school bus and seven RVs somehow jammed in that lot.
[0:07:08 – 0:07:10] Adam: There was a line to get on the Put-N-Pets course.
[0:07:10 – 0:07:15] Erik: You know it’s busy at Put-N-Pets when you drive by and all the goats are up in the turret.
[0:07:15 – 0:07:17] Erik: Oh, the goats were all up in the turret.
[0:07:17 – 0:07:19] Erik: They were even scared.
[0:07:19 – 0:07:21] Adam: I’ve had enough corn for the day.
[0:07:21 – 0:07:22] Adam: I don’t want to eat any more pellets.
[0:07:22 – 0:07:24] Adam: I’m not hungry.
[0:07:24 – 0:07:26] Adam: Stop putting pellets in my bucket.
[0:07:27 – 0:07:30] Erik: So, yeah, we’re just checking in.
[0:07:30 – 0:07:36] Erik: We might just talk briefly about a couple of things that are somewhat timely and tease the question of the week.
[0:07:36 – 0:07:47] Erik: We will be coming back next week for sure with some in-depth talk on one of my favorite topics and aspects of paddling and camping in the Boundary Waters.
[0:07:48 – 0:07:49] Erik: But before we get to that…
[0:07:49 – 0:07:49] Erik: Absolutely.
[0:07:49 – 0:07:50] Adam: It’s a good fall topic.
[0:07:51 – 0:07:55] Adam: So, you know, if nothing else, we have a good question coming at you at the end of this episode.
[0:07:55 – 0:07:58] Erik: Yeah, and so we are in mid-September.
[0:07:58 – 0:08:01] Erik: You think September, and you just automatically assume.
[0:08:05 – 0:08:09] Erik: People driving by looking at two people sitting in a car with two microphones.
[0:08:09 – 0:08:12] Erik: This is just the most bizarre thing I think I’ve ever done.
[0:08:12 – 0:08:16] Adam: Sometimes it just doesn’t work out to meet at the home.
[0:08:16 – 0:08:19] Adam: We got some other stuff going on today.
[0:08:19 – 0:08:19] Adam: We’re not going to get into it.
[0:08:20 – 0:08:21] Adam: But we’re both in town.
[0:08:21 – 0:08:24] Adam: So this just made the most sense this week, folks.
[0:08:24 – 0:08:25] Adam: You just have to bear with us.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:29] Adam: But we are getting ogled by tourists in minivans right now at the library.
[0:08:29 – 0:08:29] Adam: Yes.
[0:08:29 – 0:08:31] Adam: I’m not going to put my microphone down.
[0:08:31 – 0:08:32] Adam: You want to look at me?
[0:08:32 – 0:08:34] Adam: You want to come over here and answer some questions, sir?
[0:08:34 – 0:08:37] Erik: Just stick the microphone and ask this lady what book she just finished reading?
[0:08:37 – 0:08:41] Adam: That guy in the old minivan there was wearing some camo, though.
[0:08:41 – 0:08:41] Adam: Yes.
[0:08:41 – 0:08:43] Adam: Maybe he would have been the perfect person to ask.
[0:08:43 – 0:08:44] Adam: That would have been a perfect segue.
[0:08:44 – 0:08:45] Adam: Hey.
[0:08:46 – 0:08:48] Adam: But yeah, we are talking hunting seasons.
[0:08:49 – 0:08:49] Erik: Somewhat.
[0:08:49 – 0:08:49] Erik: Yeah.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:50] Erik: A little bit.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:50] Erik: A little bit today.
[0:08:50 – 0:08:55] Erik: Because a lot of them open basically in the last two weeks or today.
[0:08:55 – 0:08:56] Erik: Literally today is grouse opener.
[0:08:56 – 0:08:58] Adam: So that’s an easy one.
[0:08:58 – 0:08:59] Adam: Like, what are we going to talk about today?
[0:08:59 – 0:08:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:59 – 0:09:02] Adam: We don’t have a real good topic at hand.
[0:09:03 – 0:09:05] Adam: No lake was calling to us that needed to be reviewed.
[0:09:06 – 0:09:08] Adam: Neither of us have done a trip lately.
[0:09:08 – 0:09:11] Adam: So it’s like, well, yeah, it’s hunting opener today for grouse.
[0:09:11 – 0:09:15] Adam: I mean, it’s really the only kind of hunting I’ve ever had any success with.
[0:09:15 – 0:09:16] Adam: I’m a terrible hunter.
[0:09:17 – 0:09:23] Adam: But now when it comes to grouse hunting, those woods chickens, they’re delicious and they’re pretty easy to hunt.
[0:09:24 – 0:09:24] Erik: They are.
[0:09:25 – 0:09:29] Erik: I think that’s a good, like, if you’re going to get into hunting, I think that’s the one you should start with, really.
[0:09:30 – 0:09:32] Adam: You know, especially for somebody that doesn’t have a mentor.
[0:09:32 – 0:09:38] Adam: I feel like with canoeing, especially, and hunting, you really need a mentor.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:46] Adam: Whereas, like, any kid can go take a fishing rod and a bobber down to the local pond, and you can probably catch some bluegills and some guppies.
[0:09:47 – 0:09:49] Adam: But with hunting, you need a mentor.
[0:09:50 – 0:09:52] Adam: And if you don’t, then get into grouse.
[0:09:53 – 0:09:54] Erik: Yeah, and it’s fun.
[0:09:54 – 0:10:04] Erik: I mean, I’ve gone out with you just walking on the Border Rock Trail, the ski trails on the Mid-Gunflint Trail area, and I don’t even have a gun when I’m with you.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:07] Erik: It’s just like, hey, this is going to be a nice fall walk in the woods.
[0:10:07 – 0:10:15] Adam: Yeah, the Mid-Gunflint area, really all over this area of the state, there’s a lot of cross-country skiing trails, and that’s a really good spot to go.
[0:10:16 – 0:10:30] Erik: Yeah, so September 1st, there were a bunch of seasons that opened, and we don’t have to get completely into it, but I just thought one of the things that I saw, like bear opened, early Canada goose season opened, but the one that I saw in there…
[0:10:30 – 0:10:31] Erik: Morning dove.
[0:10:31 – 0:10:33] Erik: Yeah, all right, there’s two.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:36] Erik: Does anybody out there get in touch?
[0:10:36 – 0:10:38] Erik: Are you a morning dove or a crow hunter?
[0:10:39 – 0:10:43] Erik: Because there is a two-month morning dove and crow hunting season.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:44] Adam: Yeah.
[0:10:44 – 0:10:47] Adam: The crow hunting, this is the third season.
[0:10:47 – 0:10:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:10:47 – 0:10:48] Erik: One of the other seasons.
[0:10:48 – 0:10:54] Adam: Does that mean that’s the third season like ever or just the third season this year?
[0:10:54 – 0:10:54] Erik: Yeah.
[0:10:55 – 0:10:57] Erik: We were definitely not coming at you with answers.
[0:10:57 – 0:10:59] Erik: We’re coming at you this week with questions.
[0:10:59 – 0:10:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:10:59 – 0:11:02] Adam: We’re more in the curiosity mode right now.
[0:11:03 – 0:11:03] Adam: Yeah.
[0:11:04 – 0:11:07] Adam: I’ve heard crow are very intelligent and extremely difficult to hunt.
[0:11:08 – 0:11:13] Erik: Yeah, I’m just picturing, like, a hardcore, like, sniper scenario to get those crows.
[0:11:13 – 0:11:16] Adam: I’m not sure you’re allowed to use a high-powered rifle on a crow.
[0:11:16 – 0:11:18] Erik: I mean… Is it only birdshot?
[0:11:19 – 0:11:19] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:11:19 – 0:11:20] Erik: Wow.
[0:11:20 – 0:11:26] Adam: Yeah, no, when I worked back at the college paper, our outdoor editor was really into crow hunting.
[0:11:26 – 0:11:27] Adam: Wow.
[0:11:27 – 0:11:29] Adam: And he did an article on crow hunting.
[0:11:29 – 0:11:34] Adam: And, yeah, you got to, like, you got to call them in with the recordings of crows, but apparently they’re usually, like…
[0:11:36 – 0:11:37] Adam: Yeah, right.
[0:11:37 – 0:11:38] Adam: And they fly off.
[0:11:38 – 0:11:38] Adam: Yeah.
[0:11:38 – 0:11:41] Adam: Like the guy had, I don’t think he ever shot one.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:44] Adam: He had tried for years and years trying to get a crow.
[0:11:44 – 0:11:45] Erik: Hmm.
[0:11:45 – 0:11:46] Adam: Not that simple.
[0:11:46 – 0:11:46] Erik: What do you do with them?
[0:11:47 – 0:11:47] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:11:47 – 0:11:49] Erik: I mean, can you eat crow?
[0:11:49 – 0:11:50] Erik: They eat roadkill.
[0:11:51 – 0:11:51] Erik: Yeah.
[0:11:51 – 0:11:52] Erik: Right?
[0:11:52 – 0:11:53] Adam: Anybody can eat anything if you want.
[0:11:54 – 0:11:56] Adam: I’m not sure what the point of the crow hunt is.
[0:11:57 – 0:11:58] Adam: I mean, rough grouse are delicious.
[0:11:59 – 0:12:03] Adam: Rough grouse are like literally better than any poultry you can buy in this town.
[0:12:03 – 0:12:03] SPEAKER_00: Hmm.
[0:12:04 – 0:12:08] Erik: Yeah, there is later in the year prairie chicken season.
[0:12:08 – 0:12:11] Erik: The rough grouse, they are the wood chickens.
[0:12:11 – 0:12:12] Erik: Mm-hmm.
[0:12:12 – 0:12:13] Erik: And boy, are they dumb.
[0:12:13 – 0:12:16] Erik: Like, I’ve already killed two this year just driving around.
[0:12:16 – 0:12:17] Erik: Oh, gosh.
[0:12:17 – 0:12:21] Erik: I mean, I’m not going to swerve at 60 when there’s a grouse, like, just in the middle of the road.
[0:12:21 – 0:12:21] Erik: No.
[0:12:21 – 0:12:23] Erik: Just a cloud of feathers.
[0:12:23 – 0:12:23] Adam: No.
[0:12:23 – 0:12:24] Erik: Ugh.
[0:12:25 – 0:12:29] Adam: Yeah, no, I’m surprised the old pup hasn’t gotten one so far.
[0:12:29 – 0:12:30] Adam: They’re everywhere.
[0:12:30 – 0:12:32] Adam: Like, why are we in town?
[0:12:33 – 0:12:35] Adam: We should be up in the woods hunting grouse right now.
[0:12:36 – 0:12:38] Adam: Although, in my experience on opener, it’s usually like,
[0:12:39 – 0:12:43] Adam: The woods are festooned with guys wearing blaze orange driving around.
[0:12:43 – 0:12:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:12:43 – 0:12:46] Adam: It’s kind of, you want to wait until like Monday or Tuesday.
[0:12:47 – 0:12:49] Adam: That’s the real grouse opener for locals at least.
[0:12:50 – 0:12:50] Erik: Yep.
[0:12:50 – 0:12:51] Adam: Because it’s too busy.
[0:12:51 – 0:12:52] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:12:52 – 0:12:53] Adam: I just don’t want to fight the crowds.
[0:12:54 – 0:12:58] Adam: Grouse hunting is definitely, I think, the most popular of the fall hunts.
[0:12:59 – 0:12:59] Erik: Yes, by far.
[0:12:59 – 0:13:00] Erik: Up here, at least.
[0:13:00 – 0:13:03] Erik: Yeah, I mean, I would say- It’s good grouse country.
[0:13:03 – 0:13:04] Erik: Cook County, specifically.
[0:13:05 – 0:13:09] Erik: There’s a deer hunt archery season that opens today.
[0:13:09 – 0:13:11] Erik: I don’t know of anybody that’s getting in on that.
[0:13:11 – 0:13:18] Erik: I know there’s a few people that get in on the classic rifle season for deer, but that’s more west of here.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:23] Erik: Ely, I know, there’s definitely some pretty good-sized deer over near Vermilion and stuff.
[0:13:23 – 0:13:28] Adam: I think if you’re hunting the boundary waters for deer, you’re definitely over on the Ely side.
[0:13:28 – 0:13:29] Erik: Oh, most definitely.
[0:13:29 – 0:13:29] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:30 – 0:13:37] Erik: And I am also glad to see here that we were in season when Brother Andrew took that rabbit a couple years ago.
[0:13:37 – 0:13:38] Adam: Yeah, that counts in small game.
[0:13:38 – 0:13:38] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:39 – 0:13:42] Erik: Rabbits, comma, squirrels season.
[0:13:43 – 0:13:46] Erik: I’m also very surprised to see that there is a sandhill crane season.
[0:13:47 – 0:13:47] Erik: Northwest.
[0:13:47 – 0:13:48] Erik: Northwest.
[0:13:48 – 0:13:49] Erik: Probably not over here, but still.
[0:13:49 – 0:13:50] Adam: They don’t come up in this corridor.
[0:13:50 – 0:13:52] Erik: For like six weeks, you can shoot cranes?
[0:13:53 – 0:13:53] Erik: Yeah.
[0:13:53 – 0:13:55] Erik: What are you doing shooting a crane?
[0:13:55 – 0:13:56] Erik: Sky steak, baby.
[0:13:56 – 0:13:57] Erik: Sky steak.
[0:13:57 – 0:13:59] Erik: That’s what this episode is going to be called.
[0:13:59 – 0:14:00] Erik: Sky Steak.
[0:14:00 – 0:14:02] Erik: Sandhill Crane equals Sky Steak.
[0:14:04 – 0:14:06] Erik: I thought the Woodcock was the Sky Steak.
[0:14:06 – 0:14:13] Adam: I think the weirdest part about doing this podcast sitting in front of the library in town is that we are legally drinking a Rolling Rock in a car?
[0:14:13 – 0:14:14] Erik: Is that legal?
[0:14:14 – 0:14:15] Erik: No.
[0:14:15 – 0:14:17] Erik: The keys aren’t in the ignition.
[0:14:17 – 0:14:17] Adam: The keys aren’t in the ignition.
[0:14:17 – 0:14:18] Adam: That’s helpful.
[0:14:18 – 0:14:20] Adam: We are going to be walking for the rest of the night.
[0:14:20 – 0:14:21] Adam: Absolutely.
[0:14:21 – 0:14:22] Adam: This is a really good spot to park.
[0:14:22 – 0:14:25] Adam: It’s centrally located for our adventures in town tonight.
[0:14:25 – 0:14:28] Adam: But seriously, it’s odd because it’s still daylight out.
[0:14:29 – 0:14:31] Adam: At least the library is closed.
[0:14:31 – 0:14:34] Adam: Otherwise, we’d be in the library drinking the beer, obviously.
[0:14:34 – 0:14:36] Erik: Go into the back quiet room.
[0:14:36 – 0:14:36] Adam: The adult room.
[0:14:37 – 0:14:38] Erik: And just start recording.
[0:14:39 – 0:14:39] Erik: Put your headphones on.
[0:14:39 – 0:14:40] Erik: What do you mean?
[0:14:40 – 0:14:41] Erik: Come on.
[0:14:42 – 0:14:42] Erik: Shh.
[0:14:42 – 0:14:43] Erik: We’re recording here.
[0:14:45 – 0:14:46] Erik: Zip it.
[0:14:46 – 0:14:46] Erik: Shh.
[0:14:47 – 0:14:47] Adam: Hey.
[0:14:47 – 0:14:49] Erik: Hush.
[0:14:49 – 0:14:50] Erik: So, yeah.
[0:14:50 – 0:14:52] Erik: The fall is upon us.
[0:14:53 – 0:14:56] Erik: It’s just we are on the cusp.
[0:14:56 – 0:15:03] Erik: Some shore maples have definitely got some nice twinges of red.
[0:15:03 – 0:15:04] Adam: Yeah, I know.
[0:15:04 – 0:15:08] Adam: Up by Durfee Creek, I’ve seen a lot of nice maples starting to turn.
[0:15:08 – 0:15:11] Adam: The last couple days, it’s definitely making a move.
[0:15:11 – 0:15:19] Erik: The yellows of the big aspens and birch mid-trail, not so much.
[0:15:20 – 0:15:21] Erik: Still pretty much green.
[0:15:21 – 0:15:29] Erik: But your understory up there, your moose maples, kind of some of your little ferns and alders and stuff, they kind of start turning.
[0:15:29 – 0:15:29] Erik: Yeah.
[0:15:29 – 0:15:34] Erik: The understory is very colorful right now, but I think it’s going to be at least another week.
[0:15:35 – 0:15:39] Erik: Everybody’s always like, seems like it might be an early fall this year.
[0:15:39 – 0:15:43] Erik: And I think fall’s basically when the leaves change every year, it’s about the same time.
[0:15:44 – 0:15:45] Erik: It is, yeah.
[0:15:46 – 0:15:50] Erik: It definitely can last longer, but it always starts at about the same time.
[0:15:50 – 0:15:51] Adam: It starts at the same time.
[0:15:51 – 0:15:55] Adam: What really is in question is when are you going to get that first snowfall that sticks and doesn’t leave?
[0:15:55 – 0:15:55] Adam: Yeah.
[0:15:56 – 0:16:03] Erik: Or that big wind, you get like, oh, the leaves are just beautiful right now, and then you get like a big windstorm, and then it’s just barren like two weeks early.
[0:16:03 – 0:16:04] Erik: That’s always tough.
[0:16:04 – 0:16:07] Erik: But I think it seems like things are on pace.
[0:16:08 – 0:16:14] Erik: I mean, the trees, don’t they base their transition on the daylight more than anything else?
[0:16:15 – 0:16:16] Erik: Not temperatures?
[0:16:17 – 0:16:18] Adam: I believe that’s right, yes.
[0:16:18 – 0:16:19] Erik: Yeah, so…
[0:16:20 – 0:16:21] Erik: Looks like it’s going to be an early fall.
[0:16:21 – 0:16:29] Adam: I think there’s a reason the mini golf course is packed and that there’s not a parking spot in town other than in front of the library, which is closed.
[0:16:29 – 0:16:33] Adam: It’s because it’s pretty much the beginning of leaf peeper season here.
[0:16:33 – 0:16:33] Erik: Yes.
[0:16:34 – 0:16:35] Adam: The leafs need to be peeped.
[0:16:36 – 0:16:38] Adam: Got to get that peep on the leaf.
[0:16:38 – 0:16:49] Erik: Yeah, that was one of the other things that I was writing about, mostly as it pertained to the Boundary Waters and the expectations that probably are very easily assumed.
[0:16:50 – 0:17:04] Erik: You could have probably a whole episode on the perceptions that are purported via social media channels as to your experience in the Boundary Waters or just up here in general.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:07] Erik: I mean, nobody’s posting like the…
[0:17:08 – 0:17:27] Erik: struggles of traveling the boundary waters in the fall everybody’s always posting those like perfect placid calm lakes reflecting peak color yeah and you know i think after a certain point in time it’s pretty easy to just assume that that’s what’s going to happen but it’s not
[0:17:27 – 0:17:29] Erik: So the colors, yes, they are beautiful.
[0:17:29 – 0:17:45] Erik: The temperatures, they can be very pleasant, but I would say for the most part, more often than not, you’re going to run into cold wind and low water levels, which nobody talks about as much.
[0:17:45 – 0:17:50] Erik: That is a struggle in the fall is getting at those portages, especially if you’re going to be in some rivers.
[0:17:50 – 0:17:50] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:17:50 – 0:17:52] Adam: If you’re in a wild rice zone, watch out.
[0:17:52 – 0:17:57] Erik: That wild rice will obscure, obfuscate a portage on you real quick.
[0:17:57 – 0:17:58] Erik: Nice.
[0:17:58 – 0:18:02] Adam: You have to stand up in the boat and kind of do an old sandhill crane look.
[0:18:03 – 0:18:04] Adam: Oh, there it is.
[0:18:05 – 0:18:06] Adam: That was my sandhill crane.
[0:18:06 – 0:18:06] Adam: Thank you.
[0:18:07 – 0:18:12] Erik: Yeah, like going down the Royal River and trying to find the portage from Royal Lake to South Fowl.
[0:18:13 – 0:18:14] Adam: That’s just choked.
[0:18:14 – 0:18:15] Adam: Or South Fowl to North Fowl.
[0:18:15 – 0:18:18] Adam: That whole section is just two feet deep.
[0:18:18 – 0:18:21] Erik: Yeah, so you get low water and like maxed out vegetation.
[0:18:22 – 0:18:23] Erik: That can add to a struggle.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:31] Erik: So you got it like I’m looking at, you know, our fall, which me and the geologist wife are sticking around.
[0:18:31 – 0:18:33] Erik: We’re not going anywhere this fall like we typically do.
[0:18:33 – 0:18:41] Erik: And we’re spending some time just exploring kind of just more along the lines of like the back backyard.
[0:18:41 – 0:18:45] Erik: So like Ely west of where we typically get to paddle regularly.
[0:18:45 – 0:19:00] Erik: And I think we’re going to have to adjust some of our trip plans to a certain extent and maybe try to avoid some of those rivers, access entry points that are down creeks and rivers and stuff.
[0:19:00 – 0:19:03] Erik: Because I’ve already heard from people that some of those areas are already low.
[0:19:04 – 0:19:07] Erik: And we’re not going to be getting out for like another month into some of those areas.
[0:19:07 – 0:19:09] Erik: So we’re going to stick to big lakes.
[0:19:10 – 0:19:19] Erik: We do have a plan to paddle a heart of the park trip, Gunflint Trail to Fernberg Road, hopefully at the end of October.
[0:19:19 – 0:19:20] Adam: Oh, wee.
[0:19:20 – 0:19:21] Erik: Just teasing that for now.
[0:19:21 – 0:19:22] Adam: Yeah, yeah.
[0:19:22 – 0:19:28] Adam: Now, I think we’re going to go over for like a weekend just to the Ely side.
[0:19:28 – 0:19:30] Adam: Undisclosed location.
[0:19:30 – 0:19:31] Erik: Don’t want to spoil it.
[0:19:31 – 0:19:37] Adam: We’re looking at early October once we get into the land of no permits.
[0:19:37 – 0:19:39] Adam: Well, you know, self-permitting.
[0:19:39 – 0:19:39] Erik: Yes.
[0:19:39 – 0:19:41] Adam: We’ll rephrase that.
[0:19:41 – 0:19:44] Adam: We’re going for an early October trip, land of the self-permitting.
[0:19:45 – 0:19:45] Erik: Yeah.
[0:19:46 – 0:19:48] Adam: I love self-permitting in October.
[0:19:48 – 0:19:50] Adam: It’s really a nice thing.
[0:19:51 – 0:19:54] Adam: A lot of people just kind of forget about the Boundary Waters once you hit October, but we don’t.
[0:19:54 – 0:19:58] Adam: We certainly – it’s no secret to anybody who’s listened through 34 episodes that –
[0:19:59 – 0:20:06] Adam: We love October travel, and it’s free, and you don’t really have to fight for campsites.
[0:20:06 – 0:20:07] Erik: Nope.
[0:20:07 – 0:20:09] Adam: Yeah, you know, maybe you got to battle some low water.
[0:20:09 – 0:20:15] Adam: You might have to battle some occasional flurries and really cold nights, but I’m okay with that.
[0:20:16 – 0:20:16] Adam: You can have a nice fire.
[0:20:17 – 0:20:22] Erik: Yeah, it’s right on the edge of summer and winter.
[0:20:23 – 0:20:28] Erik: And the later you go, that tips closer to winter, obviously, but there is the potential.
[0:20:28 – 0:20:33] Erik: I’ve had plenty of October paddling trips where it’s 65, 70 degrees and sunny.
[0:20:34 – 0:20:35] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:20:35 – 0:20:36] Adam: We’ve been swimming in October.
[0:20:36 – 0:20:37] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[0:20:37 – 0:20:39] Adam: That happens on the regular.
[0:20:39 – 0:20:39] Adam: Yeah.
[0:20:39 – 0:20:42] Adam: But, shh, don’t tell anybody.
[0:20:42 – 0:20:42] Adam: No.
[0:20:42 – 0:20:43] Adam: October’s nasty.
[0:20:43 – 0:20:45] Adam: Don’t tell the people at the putting beds, at least.
[0:20:45 – 0:20:45] SPEAKER_00: Mm-mm.
[0:20:46 – 0:20:48] Erik: I’m sure they’ll be shut down along the donut stand.
[0:20:48 – 0:20:50] Adam: Don’t tell the guy with the PT Cruiser with the blown-out back windshield.
[0:20:51 – 0:20:52] Erik: He better get that fixed.
[0:20:52 – 0:20:53] Erik: Winter is coming.
[0:20:54 – 0:20:54] Erik: Yeah.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:57] Erik: Just one other thing I think we should for sure mention.
[0:20:57 – 0:20:59] Erik: Is Woodcock season.
[0:20:59 – 0:20:59] Adam: Yes.
[0:20:59 – 0:21:02] Adam: November, I’m sorry, September 22nd.
[0:21:02 – 0:21:04] Adam: Have you ever seen the Woodcock mating dance?
[0:21:05 – 0:21:05] Erik: Those are fun.
[0:21:05 – 0:21:06] Erik: Hilarious.
[0:21:06 – 0:21:16] Erik: I was shown by a good friend who’s really into birds that when they are, yeah, they’re doing their mating dance, they’ll kind of dance.
[0:21:16 – 0:21:39] Erik: bop around on the ground for a little while but then they shoot straight up in the air and when they’re up doing that you can like get close and kind of like hide in the woods right outside where they’re going to shoot and drop right down in the same exact spot you know the best part it’s that long beak deep fry that thing oh yeah deep fry a little uh sriracha mayo for dipping
[0:21:41 – 0:21:41] Erik: Mm-mm.
[0:21:41 – 0:21:41] Erik: Wow.
[0:21:42 – 0:21:44] Adam: You know, you fry the beak in sriracha mayo.
[0:21:45 – 0:21:45] Erik: There you go.
[0:21:45 – 0:21:47] Erik: Well, yeah, we didn’t actually mention that.
[0:21:47 – 0:21:51] Erik: We did discover on the PMA trip the joys and wonders of frying in mayo.
[0:21:51 – 0:21:53] SPEAKER_00: I don’t know how they didn’t make that.
[0:21:53 – 0:21:57] Adam: Yeah, I thought we definitely recorded a culinary track on that one, but we didn’t.
[0:21:58 – 0:22:00] Erik: Yeah, there was a lot of tracks that we recorded that didn’t make the cut.
[0:22:00 – 0:22:09] Erik: But, yeah, if you’re ever at a pinch and you need to fry up a quesadilla or anything and you don’t have any oil or butter or woodcock beak…
[0:22:10 – 0:22:11] Erik: Or a wood’s grouse.
[0:22:11 – 0:22:15] Erik: Just squirt a little mayo into a skillet and that will suffice.
[0:22:15 – 0:22:17] Erik: It actually turned those tortillas nice and crispy.
[0:22:17 – 0:22:18] Adam: I don’t know how that happened.
[0:22:18 – 0:22:19] Adam: Just amazing.
[0:22:19 – 0:22:20] Erik: Beautiful.
[0:22:21 – 0:22:34] Erik: The only thing that I do want to play before we continue our night in town off the mic is a couple weeks ago we were talking about Gojubek.
[0:22:35 – 0:22:36] Adam: Go, go, geez, you’re big.
[0:22:36 – 0:22:47] Erik: And the pronunciation, and I don’t know if, you know, at some point we’re just going to have to put the hammer in the, hammer the nail into the coffin and start pronouncing it a certain way.
[0:22:47 – 0:22:48] Adam: Right, we got to pick one.
[0:22:48 – 0:22:48] Adam: Come on.
[0:22:49 – 0:22:51] Erik: And we did get somebody that sent us a link.
[0:22:53 – 0:22:56] Erik: Sorry that I don’t have that name right in front of me.
[0:22:56 – 0:23:06] Erik: But it’s from northern Wisconsin, and it’s a gentleman talking about a tour of his model railroad based on the Iron Range of northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan.
[0:23:07 – 0:23:10] Erik: And should we just play this and see how he pronounces it?
[0:23:10 – 0:23:11] Adam: Yeah, let’s do it.
[0:23:21 – 0:23:25] SPEAKER_00: iron range of northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula.
[0:23:28 – 0:23:29] Adam: All right, so go-gee-bick.
[0:23:29 – 0:23:30] Adam: Hans.
[0:23:30 – 0:23:31] Adam: Hans.
[0:23:31 – 0:23:32] Adam: Coming in hot with that take.
[0:23:32 – 0:23:33] Adam: That’s a go-gee-bick.
[0:23:34 – 0:23:36] Adam: Yeah, that was one of the ones I’ve heard.
[0:23:37 – 0:23:38] Adam: So double hard Gs.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:39] Adam: Go-gee-bick.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:40] Adam: Go-gee-bick.
[0:23:41 – 0:23:42] Adam: I still don’t know.
[0:23:42 – 0:23:45] Adam: I’m not sure, but we’ll have to go with it.
[0:23:45 – 0:23:46] Erik: Go-gee-bick?
[0:23:46 – 0:23:47] Erik: Go-gee-bick.
[0:23:47 – 0:23:49] Adam: See, I always thought it was go-gee-bick.
[0:23:50 – 0:23:52] Adam: You got one hard G and one soft G.
[0:23:53 – 0:23:56] Adam: You balance out the force of the Gs.
[0:23:56 – 0:23:57] Erik: Let’s say it for…
[0:23:57 – 0:23:58] Erik: I’m going go-gee-bick.
[0:23:58 – 0:23:58] Erik: Go-gee-bick?
[0:23:59 – 0:24:00] Adam: From now on, that’s how I’m saying it.
[0:24:00 – 0:24:02] Adam: Because of Hans’ railroads.
[0:24:03 – 0:24:03] Adam: For Hans.
[0:24:04 – 0:24:04] Erik: For Hans.
[0:24:05 – 0:24:06] Adam: Go-gee-gee-bick.
[0:24:06 – 0:24:07] Adam: I screwed it up.
[0:24:07 – 0:24:08] Adam: Go-gee-gee-bick.
[0:24:08 – 0:24:09] Adam: Go-gee-bee-bick.
[0:24:11 – 0:24:11] Erik: Oh, man.
[0:24:11 – 0:24:12] Adam: That’s a tricky word.
[0:24:12 – 0:24:13] Erik: Yeah.
[0:24:13 – 0:24:14] Adam: Anyways, thanks, Hans.
[0:24:14 – 0:24:14] Erik: Thanks, Hans.
[0:24:15 – 0:24:19] Erik: And we’ll get back to shouting out whoever sent that to us.
[0:24:19 – 0:24:19] Erik: Sorry.
[0:24:20 – 0:24:23] Erik: We’re really working with limited resources here.
[0:24:24 – 0:24:29] Erik: We’re recording in a vehicle outside of a public library in a small town in northern Minnesota.
[0:24:30 – 0:24:30] Erik: So…
[0:24:31 – 0:24:33] Erik: That’s that.
[0:24:33 – 0:24:33] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:24:33 – 0:24:34] Erik: I’m sorry.
[0:24:34 – 0:24:36] Erik: No, we’re not apologizing.
[0:24:36 – 0:24:36] Erik: We’re not sorry.
[0:24:36 – 0:24:37] Erik: We’re not sorry.
[0:24:37 – 0:24:38] Erik: We’re having a good time here.
[0:24:38 – 0:24:39] Adam: We’re having a good time.
[0:24:39 – 0:24:41] Adam: We want to quickly go over the rules.
[0:24:41 – 0:24:47] Adam: If you want to go hunt rabbits with Brother Andrew or hunt the old wood chicken, Bonassa Umbeles.
[0:24:48 – 0:24:50] Adam: That should be the name of the episode.
[0:24:50 – 0:24:52] Adam: Bonassa Umbeles.
[0:24:52 – 0:24:52] Erik: Nice.
[0:24:52 – 0:24:53] Erik: All right.
[0:24:53 – 0:24:55] Adam: Well, we got the show title.
[0:24:55 – 0:24:59] Adam: That’s what you call when you’re driving around town with a window that’s just a piece of plastic.
[0:25:00 – 0:25:07] Erik: Yeah, you can have five rough grouse daily.
[0:25:07 – 0:25:08] Erik: If I have a day.
[0:25:08 – 0:25:09] Adam: And ten in possession.
[0:25:09 – 0:25:11] Adam: Sheesh, good luck with that one.
[0:25:11 – 0:25:12] Adam: Yeah, right.
[0:25:12 – 0:25:13] Adam: What’s the most you’ve ever shot in a day?
[0:25:13 – 0:25:16] Adam: I don’t have a spaniel, so, I don’t know, like three?
[0:25:17 – 0:25:36] Adam: i’ve maybe gotten three in a day it’s like and that’s a hell of a day of grouse hunting for me yep that’s plenty of grouse i don’t know eat one right away and clean them clean the other two up and uh save them for the you know you can have them every other day yeah it’s not like there’s mercury poisoning in a rough grouse you can eat as many as you want even if you’re pregnant
[0:25:36 – 0:25:43] Adam: I don’t know if we should endorse that, but I’m pretty sure there’s no like warnings on, hey, take it easy on eating the rough grouse.
[0:25:44 – 0:25:45] Adam: If you want to eat five a day, go right ahead.
[0:25:45 – 0:25:46] Erik: Yeah.
[0:25:46 – 0:25:47] Erik: I mean, they just, what do they eat?
[0:25:47 – 0:25:49] Erik: Like, uh, berries and berries.
[0:25:49 – 0:25:50] Adam: Yeah.
[0:25:50 – 0:25:51] Adam: That’s wholesome.
[0:25:51 – 0:25:52] Adam: Twigs and berries.
[0:25:52 – 0:25:55] Adam: They really are the most wholesome of the forest creature.
[0:25:55 – 0:25:56] Erik: Yeah.
[0:25:56 – 0:26:01] Erik: I mean, I’m kind of surprised you don’t see like rough grouse on menus places.
[0:26:02 – 0:26:02] Adam: Yeah.
[0:26:02 – 0:26:05] Adam: I’m not sure what the rules are on that because you really can’t farm them probably.
[0:26:06 – 0:26:07] Adam: Probably.
[0:26:07 – 0:26:08] Adam: They don’t take well to farming.
[0:26:09 – 0:26:09] Erik: Probably not.
[0:26:09 – 0:26:10] Adam: They’re too wild.
[0:26:10 – 0:26:13] Adam: They’re just a little dumb but a little too wild.
[0:26:13 – 0:26:18] Erik: They take really well to overproducing because half of them get run over by vehicles on the highway.
[0:26:18 – 0:26:18] SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
[0:26:19 – 0:26:23] Adam: I love the noises they make when they’re, like, communicating in their covey.
[0:26:24 – 0:26:24] Adam: Covey.
[0:26:25 – 0:26:28] Adam: Running just willy-nilly through the underbrush.
[0:26:28 – 0:26:32] Adam: It’s kind of a squeaky chirp meow.
[0:26:37 – 0:26:37] Adam: This way.
[0:26:38 – 0:26:39] Erik: That’s right.
[0:26:40 – 0:26:41] Erik: That’s right.
[0:26:41 – 0:26:42] Adam: That’s right.
[0:26:42 – 0:26:43] Erik: Let’s tease next week’s question.
[0:26:43 – 0:26:49] Erik: We’re going to get back at it with some hard-hitting content and questions of the week.
[0:26:50 – 0:26:54] Erik: We got another few weeks before we call this first season a wrap.
[0:26:57 – 0:27:01] Adam: This is really just the prelude to the season finale run here.
[0:27:01 – 0:27:08] Adam: We’re just kind of setting the stage, getting all our ducks in a row, all our grouse in a bush.
[0:27:10 – 0:27:14] Adam: We’re getting it all lined up for the final push for season one here.
[0:27:14 – 0:27:16] Adam: We’ve got a lot coming up.
[0:27:16 – 0:27:17] Adam: You’ve got some trips coming up.
[0:27:18 – 0:27:19] Adam: A big one, it sounds like.
[0:27:19 – 0:27:20] Adam: We’ve got a possible trip going.
[0:27:20 – 0:27:22] Adam: Yeah.
[0:27:22 – 0:27:25] Adam: You know, maybe we get out and grow something in the field coming up here.
[0:27:25 – 0:27:27] Adam: We got a lot of great things coming up this fall.
[0:27:29 – 0:27:31] Erik: I’d love to get some field ideas of a grouse hunt.
[0:27:31 – 0:27:32] Erik: That would be fun.
[0:27:33 – 0:27:34] Adam: Be incredible.
[0:27:34 – 0:27:34] Adam: Yeah.
[0:27:34 – 0:27:36] Adam: Trace it incredibly.
[0:27:36 – 0:27:40] Erik: There is definitely a few trips on the books.
[0:27:41 – 0:27:49] Erik: I would say by the end of October, I would borderline pencil in the season finale, like the first week of November.
[0:27:50 – 0:27:50] Adam: Yeah, yeah.
[0:27:50 – 0:27:52] Adam: We can’t keep recording into November.
[0:27:52 – 0:27:53] Erik: No.
[0:27:53 – 0:27:54] Erik: I got places to be.
[0:27:54 – 0:27:55] Erik: I got stuff to do.
[0:27:55 – 0:27:59] Adam: We’re going to get an off season, and there’s nothing going on in the park in November, honestly.
[0:27:59 – 0:27:59] Adam: Yeah.
[0:28:00 – 0:28:01] Adam: That’s time to get your house in order.
[0:28:01 – 0:28:02] Adam: Chop wood.
[0:28:02 – 0:28:02] Adam: Yeah.
[0:28:03 – 0:28:03] Adam: Do trips.
[0:28:03 – 0:28:05] Adam: Got a ween concert to go to.
[0:28:05 – 0:28:06] Adam: Boundary Waters related, so…
[0:28:08 – 0:28:08] Adam: Just keep that in mind.
[0:28:09 – 0:28:14] Adam: So, yeah, I think the question next week is we kind of hinted at it.
[0:28:14 – 0:28:17] Adam: Before we get to that, though, have you fired up the little sweetie?
[0:28:17 – 0:28:18] Adam: No, not yet.
[0:28:18 – 0:28:19] Adam: Wow.
[0:28:19 – 0:28:21] Erik: Yesterday it was 75 degrees and humid.
[0:28:21 – 0:28:25] Erik: Well, yeah, yesterday it was, but last week there was a couple nights where it was frosting.
[0:28:26 – 0:28:26] Adam: Yeah, not enough.
[0:28:26 – 0:28:29] Adam: You didn’t get it going on even a one-log fire, Eric?
[0:28:29 – 0:28:29] Adam: No.
[0:28:30 – 0:28:30] Adam: We did.
[0:28:30 – 0:28:31] Adam: We did.
[0:28:31 – 0:28:33] Adam: I think it was last Sunday.
[0:28:34 – 0:28:35] Adam: Sunday at football.
[0:28:35 – 0:28:40] Adam: It was watching the Packers and old one-legged Aaron Rodgers coming back for old money.
[0:28:41 – 0:28:41] Adam: Money.
[0:28:41 – 0:28:41] Adam: Money.
[0:28:42 – 0:28:42] Erik: Money.
[0:28:42 – 0:28:43] Erik: Money.
[0:28:45 – 0:28:46] Adam: Poor bears.
[0:28:46 – 0:28:46] Adam: Poor bears.
[0:28:47 – 0:28:47] Adam: Oh, man.
[0:28:47 – 0:28:50] Adam: But we had a little two-log fire going last Sunday.
[0:28:50 – 0:28:52] Adam: It was pretty chilly, and it felt nice.
[0:28:52 – 0:29:00] Adam: I don’t really condone burning up firewood resources this early in the season, but that first fire of the season always feels nice.
[0:29:00 – 0:29:02] Erik: Yeah, no, the little sweetie has not been fired up.
[0:29:02 – 0:29:03] Erik: I do foresee it, though.
[0:29:03 – 0:29:13] Erik: This week looks like there’s a little blip tomorrow where we get back into the 70s and then basically dropping every day this week back down 50s for highs, 30s for lows.
[0:29:13 – 0:29:21] Adam: Yeah, you know, got to take it easy on that, but it’s pretty nice to put on the slippers and kind of kick back by the old wood stove.
[0:29:21 – 0:29:21] Adam: It’s sweet.
[0:29:21 – 0:29:22] Adam: It is sweet stuff.
[0:29:23 – 0:29:23] Erik: No doubt.
[0:29:23 – 0:29:31] Erik: So speaking of wood fires inside, that’s one of the beautiful aspects of the fall time in the Boundary Waters.
[0:29:32 – 0:29:43] Erik: Not having to sit up until 10 o’clock at night before you feel comfortable getting a fire going in mid-July because it’s 90 degrees and the sun’s beating down on your redneck.
[0:29:44 – 0:29:47] Erik: you can get a fire going at like 7, 630.
[0:29:47 – 0:29:49] Erik: And it’s cold and it’s actually needed.
[0:29:50 – 0:29:53] Erik: It’s not just one of those things where, eh, I got nothing better to do.
[0:29:53 – 0:29:54] Erik: Let’s just burn some wood.
[0:29:54 – 0:29:59] Erik: I don’t want to get too close because I’m already so hot and my sun is burned from the sun.
[0:29:59 – 0:30:01] Erik: You know, my skin’s all hot and red.
[0:30:01 – 0:30:08] Erik: The best thing about fall camping, I think, is the ability to sit around a campfire for a couple hours without staying up until midnight.
[0:30:08 – 0:30:13] Erik: So we’re talking campfires, firewood, firewood strategies.
[0:30:13 – 0:30:14] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:14 – 0:30:19] Adam: So episode 35 will be on firewood strategies and firewood.
[0:30:20 – 0:30:20] Erik: And firewood.
[0:30:20 – 0:30:22] Erik: What is your favorite firewood to burn?
[0:30:22 – 0:30:24] Erik: Do you pack your own firewood in?
[0:30:25 – 0:30:25] Erik: I have.
[0:30:26 – 0:30:27] Erik: I’m not proud of it, but I have.
[0:30:27 – 0:30:28] Adam: No portage trip.
[0:30:28 – 0:30:29] Adam: There’s nothing wrong with that.
[0:30:31 – 0:30:31] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:31 – 0:30:35] Adam: What do you like to, what do you pack for tools for firewood gathering?
[0:30:36 – 0:30:36] Erik: Yeah.
[0:30:37 – 0:30:37] Erik: Saw?
[0:30:37 – 0:30:39] Adam: What kind of saw do you prefer?
[0:30:39 – 0:30:40] Erik: Yes.
[0:30:40 – 0:30:41] Erik: What is your preferred saw?
[0:30:41 – 0:30:43] Erik: What is your preferred axe?
[0:30:43 – 0:30:44] Erik: Do you have a splitter?
[0:30:44 – 0:30:45] Adam: Hatchet?
[0:30:45 – 0:30:46] Erik: Do you even split the wood?
[0:30:46 – 0:30:47] Erik: Do you even split the wood?
[0:30:47 – 0:30:49] Erik: Do you even mess around with it?
[0:30:49 – 0:30:54] Erik: Those little hatchets, sometimes they’re just little shin gougers.
[0:30:55 – 0:30:57] Erik: If you’re going to bring something like that in, bring the whole axe in.
[0:30:57 – 0:30:57] Adam: I’ve seen that.
[0:30:58 – 0:31:00] Adam: I’ve seen somebody put a hatchet right in their foot before.
[0:31:00 – 0:31:02] Adam: It’s unpleasant, to say the least.
[0:31:03 – 0:31:06] Adam: And we were only one portage away from transport.
[0:31:06 – 0:31:08] Adam: So that was nice.
[0:31:08 – 0:31:09] Adam: But, you know.
[0:31:11 – 0:31:12] Adam: Got to be careful out there.
[0:31:12 – 0:31:13] Erik: Yeah.
[0:31:14 – 0:31:14] Erik: Talking firewood.
[0:31:15 – 0:31:16] Erik: All things fire.
[0:31:16 – 0:31:17] Erik: This could turn into a big one.
[0:31:17 – 0:31:21] Adam: But that’s why we’re making up for it next week with the big one and the question of the week.
[0:31:21 – 0:31:23] Adam: And we want to hear what you have to say on it, more importantly.
[0:31:23 – 0:31:23] Erik: Yeah.
[0:31:24 – 0:31:28] Adam: So hopefully- Enough of listening to these two guys just jabber on.
[0:31:28 – 0:31:31] Erik: Just jabbering on the hillside in Grand Marais.
[0:31:31 – 0:31:33] Erik: Hanging out by the library.
[0:31:33 – 0:31:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:31:34 – 0:31:38] Erik: I think the most difficult thing is going to be boiling down the question into something that’s like-
[0:31:39 – 0:31:40] Adam: What is the actual question?
[0:31:40 – 0:31:41] Adam: I think everybody’s got the idea.
[0:31:41 – 0:31:46] Adam: We want to have a big discussion, but I think the question should be like, what’s your favorite firewood?
[0:31:46 – 0:31:48] Erik: Favorite firewood and yeah.
[0:31:48 – 0:31:50] Erik: That’s open-ended enough where you can venture out.
[0:31:50 – 0:32:00] Adam: Like I like cedar with a Baco saw in October with a slight Northwest breeze.
[0:32:00 – 0:32:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:32:01 – 0:32:02] Erik: Split with a grand for his brux.
[0:32:02 – 0:32:03] Erik: Yeah.
[0:32:04 – 0:32:06] Erik: Sharpened after every split.
[0:32:06 – 0:32:07] Erik: Looking at you, Paige.
[0:32:07 – 0:32:08] Erik: That thing was a razor.
[0:32:08 – 0:32:17] Erik: I remember one time I was using that thing and I nicked it off of a rock and I think I saw a tear gather in his eye.
[0:32:17 – 0:32:22] Adam: Slowly pan onto his face as he weeps.
[0:32:23 – 0:32:31] Erik: So either we’ll have to be sitting next to a fire, which I think will be the preferred method, or we’ll just synthetically plug in.
[0:32:31 – 0:32:35] Adam: No, we’re not doing like a Yuletide video on YouTube.
[0:32:35 – 0:32:35] Adam: Yeah.
[0:32:36 – 0:32:40] Adam: It would be pretty easy, but we should… No, we’re going to have a fire for this episode.
[0:32:40 – 0:32:43] Erik: We should probably… Do you have a fire pit outside?
[0:32:43 – 0:32:44] Adam: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[0:32:44 – 0:32:49] Adam: I got a bunch of old dried up alder that needs to get burned up, and I got some other crap we can burn for sure.
[0:32:50 – 0:32:51] Adam: All right.
[0:32:51 – 0:32:53] Erik: What’s your favorite crap to burn?
[0:32:53 – 0:32:54] Adam: Yeah, what’s your favorite crap to burn?
[0:32:54 – 0:32:55] Adam: Pallets?
[0:32:56 – 0:32:59] Adam: We can burn up some crap, but we can also have some nice things too.
[0:32:59 – 0:32:59] Erik: Yeah.
[0:32:59 – 0:33:05] Adam: Maybe we should bring an assortment and get a lot of variety of audio of like, this is what it sounds like when you’re burning an old pallet.
[0:33:05 – 0:33:09] Adam: This is what it sounds like when you’re burning some alder you yanked out of the swamp in June.
[0:33:09 – 0:33:09] Adam: Yeah.
[0:33:10 – 0:33:12] Adam: It’s been laying out in the yard for three months.
[0:33:12 – 0:33:16] Adam: This is what it sounds like when you hear a perfectly split piece of cedar.
[0:33:16 – 0:33:18] Adam: Audio profiles of a bunch of different wood.
[0:33:18 – 0:33:19] Adam: I think so.
[0:33:19 – 0:33:23] Adam: It’d be neat to see the little spikies, jib jabs on the garage band.
[0:33:23 – 0:33:52] Erik: jib jabs yeah yeah all right i’m i’m shocked that we were able to even put down 33 minutes for this i’m never shocked we could sit here and talk for another half hour if i don’t have to pee so bad we gotta go yeah you’re you’re you’re uh what’s the saying your uh teeth are floating i’ve never really fully understood does that mean there’s literally urine in your mouth or i don’t know that’s gross you’ve heard people say that though right um like in a cowboy movie yeah
[0:33:53 – 0:34:15] Erik: movie yeehaw my teeth are floating there we gotta go on and get all right and with that we will be back next week with some in-depth hard-hitting reporting on firewood firewood and campfire gathering firewood yeah campfire ambiance proper ambiance
[0:34:16 – 0:34:45] Adam: proper ambiance next time so look for the question of the week and then get back to us on the social media in the meantime you know stay warm out there and stay safe if you’re getting in the field for the hunting and of course since we obviously didn’t know what we were talking about on most of the hunting stuff including the woodcock mating dance feel free to call us up on our fact checker hotline on the tumble home answering machine the number is in the show notes
[0:34:46 – 0:34:49] Adam: Check that out and give us a ring and let us know how it really is.
[0:34:49 – 0:34:58] Erik: Or you can always send us an email at tumblehomecast.gmail.com with your Woodcock beak frying recipes, mayo, oil, or otherwise.
[0:34:58 – 0:35:02] Adam: That reminds me, usually we put this at the beginning of the episode, but I got one for the end of you, a little brain teaser.
[0:35:03 – 0:35:05] Adam: Do you know how to say bon appetit in Italian?
[0:35:07 – 0:35:08] Adam: Bon appetit?
[0:35:08 – 0:35:09] Adam: No, it’s bueno appetito.
[0:35:10 – 0:35:11] Adam: All right.
[0:35:12 – 0:35:12] Adam: Ding, ding, ding.
[0:35:13 – 0:35:15] Adam: So, yeah, send us your beak recipes.
[0:35:16 – 0:35:21] Adam: And until next time, happy paddling and bueno appetito.
[0:35:21 – 0:35:22] Adam: Good night.
[0:35:22 – 0:35:23] Adam: Bye.
[0:35:23 – 0:35:23] Adam: Bye.
[0:35:34 – 0:35:34] UNKNOWN: THE END
[0:36:09 – 0:36:10] UNKNOWN: Thank you.
