Welcome to the Monday Minute. Steve's not with us this week, but I have Josh Kirchner from Bound and Hunter. How's it going Josh?

Oh it's up man. Just sitting here drinking some coffee. Right. It's the perfect way to kick off the morning, kick off the week.

Man I'm excited to get you on. We've had you on the podcast before

you've written some articles for us before you've done pack videos like

in a lot of ways even before exo we kind of go back right and yeah it's pretty cool man. Just for listeners who might

might not have caught previous episodes if you want to go back we talked all about solo hunting with you

in episode 135 and then back in episode 149 we talked kind of about a story that you had and

basically this whole ideal that you know failure is not final. You know hunting doesn't always go your way

and how you bounce back from that and do what it's important and we kind of pulled from one of your stories from that.

So yeah well listeners want to go back and check out older episodes 135 and 149 is what we had in the past.

But man we are on here today to talk about some cool exciting news on year we have which I'm excited to share with

guys and that is the fact that you wrote a freaking book man you're in like yeah you've you've written articles

everywhere not only for us and go hunting a million places like you've been crushing it in the writing

game but like the fact that you have a book now that's next level dude. Yeah I kind of have to pinch myself

that it's actually done because it's been I took on the project like a year and a half ago you know

and it's it was so freaking hard like trying to balance that along with writing articles for all the

other places you know what I mean so it felt like it was never gonna get get done I was doing like

I'll do a paragraph here and then a paragraph there you know like um but yeah I'm just elated

that it's finally out and like the cover is done and people can get it and I'm just yeah it's

pretty awesome yeah that's super cool man so the title of the book is and please correct me if

I get this wrong becoming a backpack hunter with a subtitle of a beginner's guide hunting the

backcountry that's it yeah nice so it's uh man yeah let's talk about the book I got questions first

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