We're Back!!

A quick recap of our summer, some new gear, and some of the guests we're hoping to have on the podcast this season.

Transcript

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Hello and good day. Welcome to the Super Good Camping podcast. My name is Pamela.

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I'm Tim.

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And we are from supergoodcamping.com.

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We're here because we're on a mission to inspire other people to enjoy camping adventures such

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as we have as a family.

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And today, we just it's just Tim and I, and we're just gonna talk a little bit about what we've been

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doing. Yeah. It's a basically, it's a a kind of a a catch up. We're back. Ketchup.

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And, and and we'll we'll preview some of the some of the guests we're gonna have on this year.

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So what did we do this year?

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Well, I have not done any camping yet this year, but that's gonna change soon.

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It is.

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And we did go to a cottage for a week, up in the Muskokas, which is really beautiful.

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We love it up there for camping or for cottaging.

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And we did some boating, and we did some fishing, and somebody caught fish, somebody didn't catch any fish. And,

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We did some swimming. We did some,

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some hanging out and chilling stuff.

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Chilling, sitting in the Muskoka chairs, looking at the lake.

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Yep. Yep. And then reading.

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What else did we play? Board games?

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A little bit of board game.

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Went to farmer's market.

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Oh, we went over to so, we managed to when Thomas and I so okay.

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Well, one of the other things we did was, Thomas and I went and did the, what's it called, lift lift and paddle? No. Paddle and lift?

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Lock and paddle.

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Lock and paddle. That's it in Peterborough, which is a very cool thing.

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You should check it out.

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And we managed to hook up with Corey from, Halliburton Paddle Shop because I have I'm sure I've talked about it before.

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I I've got a paddle I made back when I was young enough to be in scouts.

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And it was getting pretty binged up around the edges, and it was starting to get some water penetration in.

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So I thought I was gonna end up having to, to strip it down and stuff, and it wasn't particularly interested in doing that.

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So, Corey said he could fix it up for me.

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I so we we met up with them, there and handed off the paddle, and and we because we were already

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up in Muskoka, it wasn't that big of a deal to get over to his shop.

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So an hour, hour and change, something like that. So we did. We went over.

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It's my paddle is beautiful. It's no longer gloss.

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It's it's a the satin finish to it looks fantastic.

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It's just just and all the edges aren't beat to crap anymore. So that was cool. Smooth. Anyone else?

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Oh, Thomas and I did a went with some 2 other people and did a a 8, 7, 7 night, 8 day in, in

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Killarney, a sort of a sort of a loop around the the mountain that the the crack, is on.

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That was, was an interesting experience.

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That's that's all I will say.

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It's always good to get outside, so that's that's it for that.

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I've seen some beautiful photos from it.

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Yeah. It was a mix of weather, though. Wow.

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We had we had some downpours.

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We had there was one point where it was raining so hard that in very short order, 15 minutes

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maybe, there was more more water than I'd ever seen in a canoe that hadn't capsized.

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I couldn't bail as fast as the water was coming down.

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It was it was insane.

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On the Halliburton Peddle Shop trip, we, went to the Wolf Center, which was, at Halliburton Forest, is it?

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I think it's called Halliburton Forest.

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Forest yeah. Reserve or preserver or something like that.

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Right. And so, wolf center is really cool.

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So if you get a chance to go there, it's it's pretty neat.

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We, there's lots of, like, displays about wolves, and then there's a enclosure where you can,

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through glass, you can see the wolves.

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And we were fortunate enough that they were

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hanging around yeah.

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Hanging around outside the enclosure as we were as we were there.

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So it was pretty neat to be able to see them up close like that.

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Yeah. It's got a it's got a nice little center inside too where, you know, it describes whether

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it's whether it's different types of birds, other types of, you know, like, rodents, other small

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animals, what have you, in the that they would would find in their natural habitat. It was pretty cool.

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Did you know that wolves can consume £20 of meat in one sitting?

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I was just we went to the keg for Brenda's birthday recently, and I was looking at that and going, how?

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Like, do you even force that much food into your because they can sometimes go long, long stretches

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without eating, so they have to kind of gorge at once.

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But Not our kids.

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But but, yeah, £20 of meat all at once.

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Yeah. And they don't I I so I happened to ask.

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I didn't see any bowls of water or any, you know, natural

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Springs or Yeah.

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Or anything like that. And, apparently, they they really don't drink in between.

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They get they get enough moisture from their eating to keep them going.

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That's which is pretty wild.

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Pretty neat.

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There you go. I think that's pretty much all we've did this summer. We've did. We've did. We've did.

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To use your words, Tim, good English.

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We did, we are panelist panelist is actually gonna go go camping with me. He's dragging

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me into the backcountry again.

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We're gonna we're gonna take another shot at just a just a light duty one.

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We're gonna go, I actually literally just booked it, today.

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We're gonna do the, the Massasauga, 3 nights.

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I think that's what I booked. Yeah. I don't care. Just go. Yeah. 3 nights easy.

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You know, there's a it's a single portage, 300 some odd, meters, so pretty easy. Yeah.

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Just hang out in our new tent.

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And we hope it's going to be nice weather and not downpours And

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And we don't care. We are happy to just be out there.

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Somebody else might hope hope it's gonna be nice. Yeah.

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And we'll see we'll see if we get lucky. Falls.

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Fall's looking like it might be a little bit weird. It's kinda already started.

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It's today today being Sunday, the what is it? 15th today? September 15th?

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Something like that.

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Something like that. Yeah. It's, like, 20 I think we're in a high of 26 degrees or 27 degrees

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Celsius, which is pretty nuts for the middle of September. Yeah.

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And and we what else do we so we got some new gear this year, not not a ton, not because we already own a ton. We I.

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But we got had to get a new tent.

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Thomas and I did a, I don't know if that was before we went into hiatus or or what.

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We did so we did Thomas and I went and did a ORCA course, got our level 4, with, with Greg from the organic boat shop.

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And then we went and did a a wilderness first aid.

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It was like a 40 hours, 2 2 solid weekends, up in, oh, Albion Hills conservation area.

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We took we took our our our trusty orange, black diamond tent, and I had resealed the seams

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in it because I had noticed that they were peeling last year.

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That's about the only place it didn't leak from.

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So, we ended up having to buy a new tent.

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I figured, you know what?

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We'll get we'll get one that's that's lighter and, you know, we'll upscale a little bit.

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So we bought a I couldn't tell you what model it is.

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It's a 3 man, Nemo tent.

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Ridiculous amount of money, just for the record.

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But, man, it weighs nothing.

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It's it's it's incredibly, incredibly light. Feels feels pretty durable.

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I'll do a review on it at some point, but we're gonna we'll take that on our backcountry trip.

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And and I literally just bought

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Eureka Eureka No Bug Zone, through Amazon.

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They had them on sale.

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And, Dennis Canoe Hounds, Dennis Rogers, he he had, I don't know what you call it, an associate

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link or something like that.

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But he he gets he makes a couple of nickels off of it, and it doesn't cost me anymore. So there you go.

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I use that as totally as an excuse to go and buy the bug no bugs on.

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Also, more reason to get the young lady out with me because she's a bit of a bug magnet.

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Not that I expected to see any in in October.

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And then we've got some of our returning guests that we that we love, and we've got some new people coming.

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Yeah. We do. We've got, so the next episode that will air is, Woody Ellis. Pretty cool dude.

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He's got a a thing called Woody Walks.

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He's doing a trek 2,000 plus miles, in order to raise awareness and and and money for charities

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related to mental health, which is a fabulous thing.

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We it's close close to certainly close to our our hearts.

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Man, we oh, you know what?

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We might we might even try to do a, a live stream at some point or or maybe 2 if it's successful. I don't know.

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Any any if you have any suggestions along that because I don't know when we would we try to

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not interfere with other people's livestreams, so I don't know what day we try to do it.

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But if you have any suggestions, shoot us an email, hi at supergoodcamping.com. That's hi@supergoodcamping.com. That's my wife.

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You're here at your job now.

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Or you can, if you happen to be listening to us on Spotify, I don't know exactly how the deal

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works, but you can text us and we can actually respond to that one.

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Or you can send us a text on Buzzsprout as well, but we can only respond to it by taping it into the next episode.

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I still haven't I'm still not loving that, but whatever. Yeah.

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We're gonna talk to we've I've loose we've loosely set up a lot of things. We haven't booked them.

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We've only got well, camper Christina, we've got her booked.

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She's we're gonna tape her episode, this coming week.

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She'll air in 2 or 3 weeks probably.

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And, Dennis, Dennis Rogers, is gonna come have a yak with us.

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And then and then, you know, we're I'm hoping to do a bunch of we we talked to Tory Baird, Paddle like a girl. Oh, man.

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I can't even I think Rob from in the outside, we were talking about some other activities, not

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just necessarily backcountry camping, that you might do.

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Oh, I'm hoping we can get couple of campers or, yeah, couple of campers, Nate and Jen on. Tyler from Kamp Kitch.

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I spoke to Cliff Jacobson, who's who's kind of I I always liken him to, like, the Americans

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version of Kevin Callen or or or, you know, like, some some sort of thing like that. He's extremely knowledgeable.

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What else we're gonna do?

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Oh, I also am hoping we're gonna we can have a have a yak with so we've done we do the Toronto, Outdoor Adventure Show.

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We do an episode with Fred every year, and I'm hoping there's a there's a new show coming, the Hamilton Adventure Expo.

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It's it looks like it's probably a little more specialized in in that sort of backcountry or adventure sort of thing.

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So I'm hoping we can have a yak with them at some point.

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And maybe we'll end up going to some of these.

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What? Maybe. That's I've already booked my time off work to go, man. Yeah. I don't know.

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That's that's probably about it for me.

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Yeah. I think that's it for us for today.

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Alright. Cool. So there you go.

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We're back and, We're back. Yeah.

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New episodes coming out shortly.

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For the after our record breaking 1st season in terms of duration, endurance. Yeah.

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This one may not be quite as long.

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It won't be 3 and a half years long.

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I can I can guarantee that?

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They I I will be completely honest.

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I was getting pretty burnt out.

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Just life in general, between work, the podcast is quite a bit of work.

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And and because I had so many guest episodes sitting in the bank, they're they're they're they

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take a lot more work, a lot more time, to edit and and publish and whatnot.

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So we're not gonna do that this this time.

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This is probably gonna be I would hazard it's gonna be a 9 or 10 months run for this one and

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we'll take probably take the summer off again.

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And I won't be yeah.

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We I I will try be trying to put out 2 or 3 weeks tops from the time we record somebody, like

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a guest episode, to the time that we air that episode.

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So it's be I'm gonna gonna pace myself a little bit this year.

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We'll see if I may I may not. I'm I'm an idiot.

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I may just go, ah, it's fine. It's fine.

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Alright. On that note, that's it for us for today.

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We'll talk to you again soon.

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Please do reach out to us.

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If you ever want to talk to us, we are at hi@supergoodcamping.com.

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And on Instagram, we are at super_good_camping,

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and we are on YouTube and we are on Facebook, And we'd be happy to talk to you anywhere you wanna talk to us.

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And we'll talk to you again soon. Bye.

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Bye.