Hunting Opener | Post Banquet | Charlie Kirk

🎙️ The Seek And Find Podcast Hunting Opener | Post Banquet | Charlie Kirk
 

In this episode, Reese and Amber dive into the incredible success of the Operation Freedom Beard Fundraising Banquet — their first annual event that came together in just two months. The banquet was filled with heartfelt moments, and they share how the event exceeded expectations, paving the way for an even greater impact in the years to come.

Next, they reflect on the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk, discussing how this devastating loss has deeply impacted their spiritual journeys and their understanding of faith, community, and purpose.

Finally, Reese gives us an update on his opening archery deer season in Florida. With the season in full swing, how do you think it went for him? Tune in to hear his experiences in the woods and what God has been teaching him through it all.

Thank You to everyone for the support during the banquet and for the connections made for the upcoming 2025-2026 hunting season. They express immense gratitude for God’s guidance, His words of life, and the truth that continues to lead them forward.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:26

What's up, guys? Welcome to another episode of the Seek and Find podcast. Fresh off the press from the Operation Freedom Beard first annual fundraising banquet. Today's the 15th. This happened on the 5th. We weren't able to get a episode out to you guys. Last week, we kind of enjoyed last week, got back into the rhythm. It was two months we prepared for the banquet, and it was every day focusing 100%, well, 99% on the banquet and uh the 1% on jobs for our businesses, I guess.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08

But uh so yeah, last week, or our last podcast episode, if you listened, we did it while we were driving from a job. So that last week, yeah, it's been crazy. Absolutely crazy. I think we needed a week of just kind of nothing. Um and it was nice. But it was a it was a rough week also with the death of Charlie Kirk. That's uh that that hit me and Reese harder than I don't know, it's hard to even explain that. I've never I've never really grieved um, I guess you'd say a celebrity death, and he wasn't like a celebrity. He's a famous guy. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00: 1:58

I used to randomly watch his reels.

SPEAKER_01: 2:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 2:00

And I guarantee everybody listening right now used to randomly see his reels pop up. And when you see something that happens, you start watching their reels, you start watching their videos, but then you realize like how amazing of a person this guy was. And he created a platform, one of the only platforms, and had a self-controlling heart and mind that he literally created a thing that you can come and openly talk about stuff, and some of it was his personal opinion, some of it was I don't know, it's just it's he was all the fruits of the spirit. Well, you guys, you guys know what that feeling is that's hard to explain, why it's hit everybody the way it is, even if you didn't even know the guy. And it's because of these debates and this love he showed for everybody, and we're seeing it, and it's almost like a how didn't I see this man before? How didn't I know this man before? The whole reason I believe Trump even got elected was because of the push that Charlie Kirk did in all of the colleges leading up to this. I mean, every podcast he was on, he was talking about it. And he even speaks on there's Trump stuff that I don't even believe Trump like believes in wholeheartedly with me, and it's not about it's not about that. We're not gonna talk about any of that stuff. But anyways, it was a weird, it was a weird thing. Uh I started getting thoughts like, man, you know, what am I doing? Am I leaving a legacy? Am I leaving, you know, I'm not I don't want to leave a last name legacy. I want to leave a you know biblical, heavenly bound legacy. Uh and you see that, and this dude was like, no cares. Like it didn't matter if you were liberal, not liberal, whatever, if you listen to the guy, it it's I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to get into it. I'm not a politic kind of guy, but I think you need to be to a certain extent, and he let people know that.

SPEAKER_01: 4:22

He's helped me see the importance of it, but he also has done a beautiful job of tying in the Bible with politics. And it's not really about politics, it's why the reasons we believe what we believe. It all stems from the Bible, and it's it's just his death. I'll tell you out to be completely honest with you. When Reese said Charlie Kirk was shot, he was on his phone and he said Charlie Kirk was shot, and my response was, Who is Charlie Kirk? I didn't know him by name. I I've seen his reels. He showed me a picture and I said, Oh, that guy. But I still didn't know exactly what he did for a living. And since that day, I spent countless hours probably scrolling his reels, watching the video. I had to unplug yesterday.

SPEAKER_00: 5:21

I literally just been, you get you listen to it, and then you sit here and and you think about certain things, and you think about the wife, and you think about the kids, and it's just really weird to see people that liberals that literally do not believe like are 100% against Charlie Kirk and what he says and his beliefs, that have literally made statements saying pray for his family and pray for some folks that don't even believe in God supporting this guy after his death.

SPEAKER_01: 5:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 5:55

And the reasonings are truly, I don't understand the reasonings, but it's amazing to see. I truly feel that it's everybody was created by Christ, whether you believe in him or not, everybody was created by Christ. And this is truly your your birthly spirit that from your creator, it's kind of like a baby to its mom. They just know their mom. Well, if you're filling your life with a bunch of garbage your whole life, then you won't correct, you know, connect. If you have somebody that's feeding you a bottle every single second, you're not gonna call for your mommy. But once that bottle's removed, you call for your mommy. So I look at it like a lot of these folks are filling their minds and their bodies and their souls with garbage of this world because it keeps you so busy. But when you finally stop and think about it and you're like, why is this guy doing this? Why is this guy living his life every day to listen to people's opinions and speak about Jesus? Why? Like, what is the point? That is the whole reason Andrew lived this earth, the whole reason Peter lived this earth, the whole reason all the disciples and Jesus lived this earth was to tell people about God. And I'm not calling Charlie Kirk Jesus whatsoever. There's a lot of things that he would say to people that I don't agree with. But the guy truly, truly, if you watched his home videos, if you watch videos of his his uh person that um followed him around, chief of command or something like that, and you saw the personal videos without the crowds and all that, you saw him around his kids and wife away from public. It is truly like it's inspiring to see the calmness, the self-control, the willingness to listen and be patient. And I don't know, it's I don't really want to talk about this. I I it's just not this isn't the platform to talk about it. I think we're all feeling something that's crazy. And I just all right.

SPEAKER_01: 8:08

We'll move on to let's talk about the banquet.

SPEAKER_00: 8:12

So Operation Freedom Beard, let's recap that and recap the banquet. Um our vision, Operation Freedom Beard, is to restore purpose and vets through outdoor connections, like Iron Man Outdoor Ministries and Passionate Pursuit Ministries, and the 10 or 11 other places we know uh operations throughout the United States, um, our beard care products and devotionals. It's those are awesome and they're beneficial in those ways, but spiritually, um these connections in the outdoors, healing through creation, um, that is that is the main focus. Uh the beard care products and devotionals, honestly, it just gets us to these places. It gives us an excuse to go and talk about Christ. Um and you know, you can't just say, hey, I want to come out to your organization and hang out. You just you go because you have beard care products and devotionals. That's right. And because of that teen devotional, a lot of our a lot of the disabled kids hunts are around teens' age. So I think it would be great. Um but that's that vision and that um I don't know. It was it was never a thing. Uh, this is how God works. It was never a thing to serve veterans because we were never really, we never implemented our lives around veterans. We are always just uh, you know, serving in church and serving just in the community in general through needs. And veterans really weren't in our visual, it wasn't a need because truly we didn't realize how much the community um uses veterans uses military personnel and then just spits them out into society and ex just expects them to live a purposeful, boldly, confident life with a bunch of support because they don't. Um so after seeing that, meeting a couple folks, going out to the Iron Man fishing trip, filming that, meeting and talking with a bunch of guys and girls, there was a need to do more. And I feel with serving, that's with everything. If you go to disabled kid hunts, if you go to kid hunts in general, you go to a any kind of anything like that, and you see the need, you feel through your spirit that place for you to step in and serve. Uh but, anyways, that's that's a little gist. I think we don't talk about our mission and our reason for Operation Freedom Beard enough. So we're probably gonna mention our mission and our reason and our purpose for it probably every episode, just because um I mean it I might just create an ad to throw in there for it because it needs to be spoken of beneficial.

SPEAKER_01: 11:20

Um so the banquet itself was two Fridays ago. It was September the 5th in the evening, and it was all outdoors. We are we're all outdoor people. Um and it was a little nerve-wracking hosting something outdoors on September 5th in Florida, especially considering the last two years we've had massive hurricanes in September.

SPEAKER_00: 11:47

Um we're having a hurricane of love bugs right now.

SPEAKER_01: 11:50

It's so bad. We're sitting outside, again, outside on our porch, and there are thousands of love bugs flying around.

SPEAKER_00: 11:58

Like they this just happened.

SPEAKER_01: 12:00

It it did today.

SPEAKER_00: 12:02

No, like now.

SPEAKER_01: 12:03

Well, it was like this.

SPEAKER_00: 12:04

Where'd this flood come from? It was like a birth of love bugs. They connected their butts and then they started flying everywhere.

SPEAKER_01: 12:10

Oh, if you don't know what a love bug is, Google it. Because I know they're not everywhere in the country. Um, but they're super annoying and they only come out they come out in September and what March or April, like early spring. They're annoying. Anyways. Um, so the banquet. How did you feel about the banquet? Uh, the energy, the atmosphere, the unity, unity, the support. Um, what was it like being in the banquet or at the banquet for the four hours that it lasted?

SPEAKER_00: 12:46

Overwhelming.

SPEAKER_01: 12:47

Overwhelming, yeah. It's a good one.

SPEAKER_00: 12:48

Well, because so beneficial fundraising and beneficial banquets, you have to think of the reasoning and the purpose behind it. It's to raise funds and awareness for your organization and what you do. So everybody that's coming there has some type of connection with you or wants to have some type of connection with you, wants to know your mission, wants the support, and wants to know what you're about. So it's basically it's kind of like if you've ever gotten married and like a wedding. Yeah. You go to a wedding, it's two, three hours long, but it feels like it takes, it feels like it takes about 20 minutes, and every like there's just everybody wants to stop you, everybody wants to talk to you, everybody, and it was amazing. I'm not saying overwhelming as in bad. No, but overwhelming as in would I want to do it every day? No, I wouldn't. But it was it it was crazy surreal.

SPEAKER_01: 13:49

Oh yeah, surreal.

SPEAKER_00: 13:50

To see that the community come together, everybody, and then finding out that a lot of folks knew each other, and they lived literally on the different, like had no idea. So these are people from a BI business uh group that I'm in that we meet. There was a few folks from there, there and their businesses, um, and different ministries and churches and people from different cities and you know, wanting to connect with you know this and that, people from Ocala that are going to another benefit and banquet that invited us to sit at their table as operation. Like, I think when people realize, okay, we we know Reese and Amber with Bearded Outdoors, we know that their hearts are good, we know that they have done a few charity things for the community, but now they're stepping in full-time, in a sense, with an actual legal 501c3 nonprofit for veterans. So everybody's like, it's almost like uh I think most are just sitting in the background and and seeing what's gonna happen to tell you the truth, and um but everything when it came down to planning, when it came down to all of that, when it came down to the actual event, I really, really, really want to thank Lewis Stokes a lot because definitely that dude is the most professional, just human being, heart, and professionalism, and like you know, the the food line took a little bit longer, so then our times, you know, when you schedule a banquet, you have times that are literally down to the five-minute mark of like, okay, let's do this, let's do that. But you think in your mind, you're like, oh, something, you know, it's either gonna a speech is gonna take too long or a speech is gonna go too short. Um, so you don't think of it, you don't expect it, but like I forget that the food line took a lot longer. Lewis came up to us, he's like, Man, we're running about five minutes behind. I'm just and he just told us. He didn't ask us questions. He said, I'm gonna wait for these people that are speaking to get done eating, and then I'm gonna call them up to speak. And we are just like, like, he made it to where we didn't have to even use our brains because I don't think my brain was working.

SPEAKER_01: 16:13

No.

SPEAKER_00: 16:14

Uh, but it was it was super awesome, super cool. That I mean, I remember I was Josh and John, both of them played awesome. Um I mean, shoot, Pickett weaponry came and just took over the guns. Like we, you know, I was told by many folks to do, like, you know, find the cheapest guns so that you can make, you know, the most profit for the uh, you know, for the funds and stuff. And we went to Pickett and we picked out guns, and I'm telling you, the stress that was not there. Completely was it was just like they brought the guns, they showed up, they asked the questions, they did all the paperwork, they did the transferring. I literally saw the guns when I picked them out a week before, saw them at the banquet, and that is it. And we named off the the raffle winners. And that was it was very um, it was very, you know, it wasn't stressful at all. So if you are close and you know picket weaponry and you want to do some gun raffles or auctions or something, holler at them. And um they were great. They're yeah, their auction Michelle is is oh yeah, they were great.

SPEAKER_01: 17:30

She's amazing, and Kimberly. Um so how do you think that people responded? Like, what if what was our response of the guests at our banquet and and the people involved after the banquet?

SPEAKER_00: 17:48

Like I could almost say word for word what everybody said.

SPEAKER_01: 17:53

What was that? I forget. I don't forget. It was I want to see if you say the same thing, I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_00: 18:04

Well, uh they use words like amazing and I don't know how you guys did it, and it was well together. It was very nice and neat, and the venue is beautiful. We got a numerous venue viewful the venue is beautiful.

SPEAKER_01: 18:22

It was Rustic Oaks Ranch in High Springs.

SPEAKER_00: 18:25

But it was it was 93 degrees. We had a couple fans, it was just it was sticky and that part stunk.

SPEAKER_01: 18:32

That was it.

SPEAKER_00: 18:33

I couldn't imagine if it was you know 75 degrees or something like that, like it would be great. But yeah, that the reactions of everybody, and is it I mean, is it the truth? I hope it is. I felt it is. I felt it was it was great uh for our first banquet.

SPEAKER_01: 18:53

There was really there was no mishaps that I can think of. Like we learned some things. We we made a list, we wrote down after the banquet, like what went well, what we could do differently, like next time to make it better, run a little bit smoother. There was a few things on that side, but overall, like I will say before the banquet, like as in the day before, two days before, I was questioning why are we even doing this? Like, this is too much.

SPEAKER_00: 19:24

I never once I know that you didn't, but I did.

SPEAKER_01: 19:27

It it was too much in my mind. But then the day Because I knew why we were doing this, the evening of it's not the why we're doing this, it's the why did we I'm thinking in my mind, why did we get ourselves uh in so much stress? And that is a woman perspective. And because I know why we're doing this.

SPEAKER_00: 19:53

I know you didn't and you helped anything you're saying.

SPEAKER_01: 19:56

Your lack of stress helped keep me calm. But after the banquet, it all came together, and I was like, we are definitely going to do that again, because before I was like, I don't ever want to do this again. It's kind of like you know, you're standing in line for a crazy ride at an amusement park, and you're like scared and you don't want to do it, but your friend pushes you on and you do the ride, and after the ride, you're like, that was the most fun I ever had, I want to do it again. That's how I felt with the banquet.

SPEAKER_00: 20:32

But you just said the opposite, you don't want to do it again.

SPEAKER_01: 20:34

No, I said I did want to do it again. I was saying that two days prior, like the day before. I don't ever want to do this again. But after the banquet happened, I was like, I definitely want to do this again. So it was great.

SPEAKER_00: 20:47

Well, it doesn't help that Amber and I did it all on our own, and that's not boasting. Do not ever plan an event all on your own.

SPEAKER_01: 20:56

Ask for help.

SPEAKER_00: 20:57

And delegate things you don't enjoy doing, delegate things that you don't have time to do. Do not fill every single second of your life with this aspect of planning because it's a very there's just there's too many things that need to be um put into place.

SPEAKER_01: 21:24

Oh yeah, it's a lot. And it's not every a person is not made to do every single job. That's uh how any business and company and corporation and nonprofit and event and a single person cannot do every single job.

SPEAKER_00: 21:42

But we're not a single person.

SPEAKER_01: 21:44

We're not.

SPEAKER_00: 21:44

But we are, and that's the that's the problem. Well, it's not the problem, it's that's how a creator made us. Um when you get married, you come together and become one. But we the problem is is Amber and I look at each other as two when in reality our decisions, our opinions, and everything end up being one. We end up being one person, and it really feels like we're one person doing all of it. Uh, we've asked, people have asked for help if we needed help, and people stepped in in ways that we really uh were not expecting. Um so that was awesome that we had folks that stepped in at the last second and made things possible and and kind of gave us some breaths, and it was great. We appreciate everybody that was there and supported and uh can't wait for you guys to see all of um what God has planned for this organization and and everything involved in our life, and um we're just the vessels, we're just the messengers, we're excited also. And what are we excited for? We don't know what we're excited for, but we're along for the ride, and uh we know God's plan's bigger, and we are just going to persevere with patience and just push through and take our steps, and it's gonna be exciting.

SPEAKER_01: 23:14

Oh yeah, I'm ready for it. So, vision going forward. We've had our banquet, we raised some money. Now what? What is next? We're Operation Freedom Beard. What is our next event? Um we're planning to attend, there's a local um 5K here in town. And it's a 5K and it's a like a little event, and it's called um oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00: 23:46

Let your light in.

SPEAKER_01: 23:47

Let your light in. Maybe let your light shine.

SPEAKER_00: 23:51

Wow.

SPEAKER_01: 23:52

I need to pull that up. So while I'm pulling that up, um we're planning to go to that, we're planning to run in that and have a little booth. But the whole purpose behind that is to is suicide awareness to prevent suicide. And with us being a veteran nonprofit or focus on focusing on veterans a lot, um, we felt that was very relevant to stand in and represent the veterans that the veteran side of suicide. Yeah. And how we can do a job of the job of um standing in for veterans and representing veterans that uh commit suicide. So basically, if we could do the job of helping at least one veteran who might be in that place, that's giving that connection, that opportunity. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00: 24:50

Hey man, you're struggling, give us a call, we can connect you through our organization, or we can connect you through all the other connections that we have through the outdoors, and we'll get you out in the woods, we'll get you, you know, connected to brothers and sisters that are on call, that are, you know, ready to serve, ready to love, ready to just hang out. And you know, we want vets to feel purposeful. We don't want them to come back and feel like, what do I do now? Like I I just I want to be, hey, you're gonna call Operation Freedom Beard, they'll they'll hook you up. Like I want to be that that difference, that in-between. And um, I got I believe God gave us a platform, he gave us those connections years ago before we even started Operation Freedom Beard with all these connections, and silly to us we thinking that they're all for us when we're sitting here like we never even took advantage of 80% of those connections, and now those connections are coming forward and seeing these things, and it just it's all full s full circle of the spirit and the way spirit moves, but you have to be obedient and you have to, you know how many times we've said no to things that we've felt on our hearts to do or not do because of it it just standing in the way in our minds of what we think should be done. And it's like, how many things have we we're watching a scroll curl.

SPEAKER_01: 26:21

You too?

SPEAKER_00: 26:22

Oh scroll, I don't know how it made it.

SPEAKER_01: 26:24

I don't know that's funny.

SPEAKER_00: 26:25

We don't love watching so yeah, that's how many times we've denied certain things or didn't go do certain things, and it's like, man, did we miss out? I don't know. I don't believe so. I believe everything's gonna happen now, and those misconnections are gonna come back in full circle. And I mean it's already been happening. We've been seeing people that oh, I had no idea that this and this and this, and then yeah, so it's it's um it's very cool to see. So the banquet went awesome, everything was good.

SPEAKER_01: 26:57

Um the name of the I I pulled it up, the name of the 5K is Let the Light In. So I think that's what you said at first. Um after Let the Light in 5K, that is on September 27th. We have scheduled the super hunt. That is the Southern Outdoors Unlimited Super Hunt. And we're gonna go to um all over the U.S. It is, but we're gonna go to Mississippi for that.

SPEAKER_00: 27:24

Yeah, so it's that's in uh October 31st, passionate pursuit ministries. Scott's uh, our best friend Scott's nonprofit. They get involved in that super hunt every single year, and we do some stuff at the cabin, and um so we're just gonna go out there and just wherever we're needed, we're gonna be thrown in and uh obviously take a bunch of goodies with us and um order a lot of devotionals or get a bunch of beer care products created and made. Um maybe bring a gun or two to give away. Um I you know that is when you guys think, oh, where does our money go if we donate? Where do you know what are we supporting? That is what you're supporting. You're supporting folks that want to love on folks, want to serve, want to be in those uncomfortable situations sometimes that not many people get themselves into. We want to be those vessels, we want to be those messengers, and we have resources, and those resources cost money. And you know, the first year and a half, two years of Operation Freedom Beard was out of pocket or out of bearded outdoors through selling beard care products, and now we just want to be so available, and because we homeschool our kids, it makes us even more available, and that is why we had our banquet, and that's why we're gonna have little benefits, little uh, you know, auctions online and little raffles uh just all the time, once a month or so. We're gonna have them on our website and different things, and you know, all of our beard care products that we sell now, you know, we want all of those. You're now supporting Operation Freedom Beard because that money is going to go towards gas and going towards the hotel stay and going towards food and the travel and all of that. So we are vessels, we are saying, Here we are, God, use us. And we want to give you guys an opportunity to be with us, whether that's physically or through finances or whatever, just know that you know your donations, your gifts, your prayers, and your love is um is going with us wherever we go. So we really appreciate you.

SPEAKER_01: 29:43

That was going to be my next question. How can listeners get involved? So prayer, financial support, volunteering, spreading the word? Basically, what you just said.

SPEAKER_00: 29:53

Right now, everything is on beardedoutdoorsusa.com. Um, if you guys stay up with us on Social and stay up with us on our website and emails. Anytime we get a new gun on a raffle or do any kind of online auctions or anything, we're going to post about it, and that will be done through BeardedOutdoors USA.com. We already have the website, we already have everything lined up, so them love bugs are destroying your water. I know. But um it's already set up there, so we're not going to make our own, you know, a separate website or anything like that. But that is how you guys can connect and help and support. And if you below in the description, you'll see text us. Um if not crosstyneministries at gmail.com. If you guys, you know, minus the finances, if you guys have any other questions or any other um ways you can get involved or help support, uh, where it doesn't matter where you're at in the United States. We have a lot of followers from outside, more followers, I think, than outside of Florida. Um anything could be beneficial. And if it's not beneficial for our organization at the moment, I guarantee we can delegate it to some others that are in desperate need of whatever you have to offer. Um, these operations take time, they take energy, and they take resources. And we are just, when we say donate, we are just looking for more resources to help us do our jobs and our missions um easily er, if that's a word. Easily er. More easily.

SPEAKER_01: 31:46

All right. Um man. Yep, that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_00: 31:55

Well, um, let's see. Opening opening of hunting season.

SPEAKER_01: 32:02

Oh, let's talk about hunting season.

SPEAKER_00: 32:04

That happened this weekend. It's Monday right now.

SPEAKER_01: 32:07

I can't drink this water anymore.

SPEAKER_00: 32:08

This happened the uh, I don't have private in Florida locally, so I went to a public land on Saturday evening and sweating my butt off, got tore up by gnats. Uh just so you know, early season in Florida, thermocells are amazing. You don't get hit by mosquitoes, but I can tell you you get hit by sand gnats, and then it's kind of pointless. You're getting swarmed and you're swatting, and it's like, why am I even out here dripping sweat and getting tore up by sand gnats?

SPEAKER_01: 32:47

I have to ask you a question. Yeah, we made a mosquito or a bug repellent beard product to try yesterday. How did that go?

SPEAKER_00: 32:58

Yesterday, so Sunday, which was yesterday, I went to a different public land and it wasn't as swampy. And I only heard gnats in my ears, but I wasn't getting them on my nose and on my face and on my eyeballs. So I believe it was beneficial. Um, but yeah, we did a lemongrass citronella beard oil, and I tried it. Uh I'll do more testing of that and kind of put it on maybe like before I go out. I hunt the wind, so I don't really I do care what I smell like, I do my due diligence and I do wash and scent-free and and still spray with you know pine and you know, still wear beard care, you know, our deer-approved beard care products, and I do all my due diligence, but I I always try and hunt the wind, anyways. But I went Sunday to another public land, ended up because of the hurricanes the past year, these public lands look way different now. And I'm walking on the trail following my maps, and I'm off the trail. Next thing you know, I just I'm zigzagging. I'm zigzagging through the woods, trying to avoid trees that are falling down, and it was just it took me, it said I walked 1.3 miles to get there, and when you do a straight line, it was only 0.8 miles.

SPEAKER_01: 34:29

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00: 34:30

So it took almost a half a mile or more extra just to get to this area, to then find out that the area that was full of rub lines and scrapes and all that in this awesome oak hammock was basically the washing machine center of all of the flood and all of the fallen trees. So where the rub line was was now not a rub line, it was just full of fallen dead trees. Um, but this new public land that I haven't hunted a lot of, I saw deer my first hit ever. And I could tell you this other public land I used to hunt for the past 10 years. I have seen deer in person maybe 10 times. So if that tells you anything, um I'm on to something, but it's going to take a little more work. So I'm gonna turn the transition from focusing on me to I'm gonna go out to this spot, find some rubs close to the truck, set up a camera, set up a blind, hope for the best so nobody steals it. But you can hunt this public land on one day during the week, and I'm gonna take advantage of that with homeschooling, and that's gonna be what some of our homeschooling is is uh hunting. But um I think I'm gonna do that and just focus, you know, when I go out to Mississippi with Scott and all that stuff, and and we go hard at it for those three, four days. Um hopefully it don't take another four years to kill a deer. But um, but yeah, anyways, it it's it's a slow start. Not having private. This is the first year in four years that we haven't had a private honey hole that's set up that we just go out to and know that there's deer coming to it. So um I know we're gonna probably dominate some deer in Mississippi with Jace now behind the gun this year, and we're really gonna be focused on um rifle season for him, but we are gonna focus on bow season in the next few weeks. Gonna go out to Mississippi uh October 1st, I believe is season starts there. Uh we were supposed to go out for Velvet weekend this past weekend, and Scott's just trying to get some work in and trying to get get all his jobs kind of finished, and I'm trying to get some jobs wound up and you know completed and finished too, so that you know we can go a week without without bringing in income. Um, because obviously those type of trips we don't use uh our nonprofit for. So those personal hunting trips will be out of pocket stuff. So we're gonna be I'm gonna be racking up jobs and just trying to get that going. Anyways. Uh we're gonna release this tomorrow. Um yeah. Beautiful day, neighborhood. Now there's no love bugs anywhere. They all came to your cup.

SPEAKER_01: 37:43

They are all in my cup.

SPEAKER_00: 37:46

But, anyways, guys, uh, these past few episodes, some of them have been, none of them have been, I don't believe, super, super solid. Um most have been what's on our heart, what's going on in our life. Now, they're going to be recaps of events we go to and some deeper, deeper, more of studies and talk, you know, scripture talk and and biblical talk.

SPEAKER_01: 38:18

He is living his life.

SPEAKER_00: 38:20

Motorcycle.

SPEAKER_01: 38:24

But we need to get some of our special guests on here.

SPEAKER_00: 38:28

We're we're we're pretty special.

SPEAKER_01: 38:32

We are special, but we need specialer people.

SPEAKER_00: 38:35

I'm just kidding. I meant special. We need not good special, yeah. But no, we we do have some folks that we've already we've connected with since Operation Freedom Beard. We have some vets that we want to do podcasts with, and a lot of our um Seekinfind YouTube channel, Seekinfind TV, you're gonna start seeing a lot more veterans hunting and footage from there and more podcasts from veterans and different things. I mean, it's it's we want to transition it to it's not about us anymore. Um we've we've started the started these platforms on our life and our lifestyle and our and and our beliefs, and now we want to, you know, we've been giving glory to Christ, but we want to give glory to Christ through serving and through uh these benefits and and operations and missions.

SPEAKER_01: 39:36

100% well would you like to close us with a prayer?

SPEAKER_00: 39:49

Yeah. Dear Lord, thank you so much for your love and your grace and your mercies that are new every morning. Thank you for the breath in our lungs. Thank you for the sleep last night. Lord, thank you for forgiving us of our sins, Lord. Thank you for allowing us to get into these trials that through perseverance, through faith, through hope, you show yourself. You show the perseverance that can happen through believing in you and having hope in you. Lord, thank you so much for your visions and your provisions that are you you show us through our spirit, Lord. Thank you for the guidance because we can't do this on our own. Thank you for my children and my wife and our health. Because there's folks right now that are living life without those people, without their health, with their failing health. But Lord, you see that purpose and you see that that vision behind it. Lord, just guide those folks to understand that vision and to see the purpose uh behind it. Lord, thank you for another fall season. Thank you for another year of fellowship and guidance through your creation and uh allowing this weather to just be perfect for us to be able to get out and enjoy you and um enjoy your natural your natural creation and um just thank you for everything you do in our life. Continue to guide us. Allow us to continue to read your word and to implement that in our lives and to use those important words that you've created purposely for us. Lord, thank you for guiding and guiding and guiding. Give us the stubbornness, uh remove the stubbornness and the pridefulness and allow us to obey. Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_01: 42:15

Amen.

SPEAKER_00: 42:17

Put me on the spot, bro.

SPEAKER_01: 42:20

That was the most beautiful prayer you ever said. What it was beautiful? It was very beautiful. And I want to kiss you now.

SPEAKER_00: 42:31

That's weird. Put me on the spot.

SPEAKER_01: 42:36

It was great.

SPEAKER_00: 42:38

Well because I said something good about you.

SPEAKER_01: 42:43

No. It was already beautiful. Well, I don't know what the rest of this day holds, but getting out of out of these love bugs.

SPEAKER_00: 43:02

All right.

SPEAKER_01: 43:02

I gotta go wash my cup now.

SPEAKER_00: 43:04

Love you guys. Thank you for tuning in and listening. Um reach out. Reach out. See you in the next one.