The Skinny on Multiple-Bearded Turkeys

Brodie killed a triple-bearded gobbler last week. How rare are multiple-bearded turkeys? And why do birds have multiple beards? Don't miss this week's Hunting Roots Podcast as we talk all about it. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Welcome back to the Hunting Roots Podcast. Brody Swisher here alongside me, my boy Rimbo. How about it, big dog?

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Doing pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 0:15

Doing pretty good. I know you probably don't want this, but I'm going to say it anyway. As we were getting ready to kick this podcast off, I had a text pop up. And of course, it does that when it's hooked up here to the to the system. The phone jumps in here, Bluetooth, and uh and also we hear this goofy, you know, tone that a text came through. And I pull it up, getting ready to turn my phone off. I pull it up, and it's our boy Jeff Pepper. Good friend, Pennsylvania man, turkey hunting buddy, deer hunting buddy, bear hunting buddy. And uh we're long overdue for a trip out there with the Pepper and the crew, but Jeff's a good, just a really good dude. And uh you may have heard other podcasts. We've done podcasts with him. We bear hunted with him. I've spoken at events out there, and uh Aiden, I went out several years ago, his senior year high school went out, snuck away in spring turkey hunted. Jeff's just an awesome guy. Like I said, long overdue for a trip out there, but he's a faithful listener to the podcast, and he sends his text and it says this. It says I'm listening to a podcast. Rimbo, his voice is getting deeper. He's growing up. So you got one of your faithful followers, uh, one of our faithful followers, and um one of our biggest fans, I would say. Jeff's an awesome guy. Uh, and he just noticed the the voice is changing. He said, Rimbo's voice is changing, he's getting deeper. He's growing up, and that is absolutely correct. Now you can be self-conscious, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so appreciate you, Jeff. Always do. Appreciate you listening. We love your crew. And uh, man, we need to sneak out there. Rambo, you need to get out there and chase turkey.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

And hang out at the J, see what the Jay is all about. That's a good time. And their season is just opening, I think, this next weekend in Pennsylvania. So it's crazy how we go and we go and places like Mississippi are are winding down. I think this is their last week. Uh we've got a lot of time ahead, but we've been going for a good while now, a few weeks into the season, what uh three weeks into it now. And after three weeks of going every day, all the time, whatever it is people do, I mean, it seems like when you find another state that's just opening up, it's like, holy smokes, you guys are just now starting up in the northeast. But uh wish those guys the best as they kick off their season. And uh looking forward to hearing from what Pepper and the crew get done out that way. Hey, this podcast is brought to you by the crew at On X Hunt. OnxMaps.com is the website. Go check it out. Look in your app store, find on X Hunt, and make sure you got that in your phone if you don't have it. And if you do have it and you're just not using it enough, man, you're missing out. Incredible tool for scouting, navigation, finding your way in, finding your way out. All the intel you can do is priceless before you ever put boots on the ground. And so, heck of a tool. Need to check it out. On xmaps.com. Go see it there or the app store on your phone. Also, big thanks to the crew at Mossyoke, Mossyoke.com. Uh, I was checking out some articles earlier there today. Lots of great turkey content up at mossyoke.com and a great place to get all your camo goods and apparel. Lots of sweet, sweet stuff. Always see stuff popping up, Rimbo. Just they're always having sales and different things going up, and it's uh different collections of spring collection and the you know the companion collection, Woodsman, you know, just all kind of stuff, great gear there at mossyoke.com to go check those guys out. Rimbo, we need to kind of make this a part two uh from last week, I would say, you know, because we got done with the podcast last week and wrapped up and we realized that we never did what? We never did mention what about a turkey.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

Last week we talked about you killing your turkey, right?

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

And of course we were saying it had a nice long beard on it, but we didn't mention that it was a triple beard.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

Triple bearded bird, and I guess it's my first multiple beard bird. And I I really don't pay attention much to the beards, you know. I I think we mentioned that. I, you know, just somebody asked me, oh, what how long was the beard? And I was like, I don't know, nine inches. I'd say they're all about nine or ten inches, kinda. Um and he had decent spurs, probably was, you know, probably was beyond his second year, maybe a three-year-old bird, I guess is what I'm thinking. Uh decent spurs, and but then I didn't, like I said, I never even looked at the beard. I I, you know, you look and see it's a long beard. Okay, good. It's not a Jake, you know, and that's kind of all I gauge him by, is okay, he's got a he's got a long beard there. Full fan, long beard, good to go. And that's it. You know, of course I saw the birds cruising up the field, saw both of them are long beards, and so I never, you know, never looked again. He's laying on the ground flopping, you know. I usually look at the spurs just to see what what he's got for spurs. But I really never think about the beard. I haven't measured a beard probably in a long, long time, you know, an exact uh, you know, measurement or whatever. But anyway, we get back to the house, birds laying on the porch. Time to take some photos. You're gonna be my camera guy and snap a few photos for me, so that's nice. And uh you come out on the porch and you're you're you're kind to come out and you know and admire the bird as turkey hunters do. You know, we admire the bird, we look at the feathers, and we you know, just taking the time to look at it and just just once again realize how beautiful these birds are. And you're sitting there looking at the beard, messing with the beard, holding the beard up, and then you say, What? It's a double beard. You said, Is this a double beard? And I said, Do what? Never even crossed my mind. You said, Is this a double beard? And I get to looking, sure enough, bam, two beards. I had one that's probably nine, nine and a half inches, and then they had this little six or seven inch smaller, thinner beard. Yeah, six or seven, uh, smaller beard. And they were like, oh my gosh, I I killed my first double bearded bird. I've never killed one, never thought much of it. They didn't kill one back here close to the house. Uh a double bearded, one of his first birds, first few birds, uh, was a double bearded bird, and that was pretty cool. And same kind of thing. We're sitting there looking at it, like, oh my goodness, it's got two beards. Good for you. I've never killed one until that particular day. And we looking at it and we see, man, long beard, and then here's another beard, completely different beard. And um and then they get to looking closer and what? Three beards. Would you call that a third beard?

SPEAKER_00 6:57

I mean, I guess I would, but like it was just like it was just a tiny little inch of it.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

Yeah, it was a yeah, absolutely. It was just a little short deal, but I mean it was clearly a third beard started. And like I said, it's just a little nub of a thin, wispy, like eight whiskers in it, you know. It was very tiny. But it had started a third, and so triple bearded. I don't care what you say, you know. I don't think I don't know if there's any rules on it's gotta be a certain length to be considered a beard, like uh antlers, you know, it's gotta be three inches or what, you know, I don't know, baloney. It's three beards, three distinct beards. And now I did see somebody post the other day, like, oh, is this a sp is this a double beard or what? But it was just a split beard.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

It was like the beard had split and jacked and it was kind of just growing out a different direction, but it was from the same Yeah, I've killed one that was like that, like the beard was split and it was growing out a different way than the other one.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

Right. Yeah, it it was a separate deal. Um, and it had its own, you know, it was all one uh what do they say it? Papilla? Papillae? Papillae? I don't know how they pronounce it, but that's where that that that beard grows. We we kind of started wondering, how rare are these beards, these multiple bearded birds? Because like I said, I've I've been doing it a long time and I've never I've been a part of different people cat, you know, killing multiple beards. I've got buddies that did, obviously Aiden did, but I've never killed one for myself. I got this gotta be pretty rare. So we did a little digging, did a little looking, and we're gonna bring that this week, talking about the rarity of multiple beards. And we want to hear from you guys. Have y'all ever killed multiple beards? Have you killed a bird that had more than one beard, two, three, whatever? I mean, I've seen lots of them uh, you know, posted online. I mean, what have you seen? You what have you heard the most beards a bird's ever had?

SPEAKER_00 8:45

I remember like a couple years ago there was uh like on YouTube there there was this one guy killed like an eight-bearded turkey.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

Yeah, I've seen six um six or more beards. And I mean this picture I'm looking at right here has got one, two, three, four, five, five or six on that one. So you see that?

SPEAKER_00 9:04

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

Those are all long beards, too. That's crazy. So I don't know. They they continue to grow. But listen, here's here's kind of the skinny on multiple beards. This is your uh insight from the turkey biology of the day. Listen to what it says about this. Turkeys have multiple beards when they possess more than one I don't know how you say this, papilla, P-A-P-I-L-L-A. Papilla? Papilla. The specialized skin structure from which these fibers, uh, these fiber-like feathers grow on the chest. Okay? So turkeys have multiple beards when they possess more than one papilla, the specialized skin structure from which these fiber-like feathers grow on the chest. Interesting, they call them consider them a feather or or a you know feather fiber-like feather.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

Because that's just it's not even like a feather. No, it's not. I would consider it. It's like a long piece of I don't even know what it'd be called. Beard.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

I mean, it's yeah, that's why they call it a beard, because it's more like a beard than a feather. Um grows right there on the chest. While most gobblers have one papilla, I'm gonna say it different every time, just so I'm covered one way or another. While most gobblers have one papilla, some develop extra, leading to multiple distinct beards. These rare, typically shorter additional beards usually grow stacked vertically above the main longer beard. Okay? So the additional ones grow above. You got the main one, and then the extras grow above the main longer beard. Uh rarity-wise, multiple beards are not common, occurring in only a low percentage, roughly two to four percent of wild turkey gobblers. That's very rare. I would have figured it was more than that, just since we've seen, personally seen a few here and there. Uh but only 2-4% of wild turkeys would have this rarity, this multiple beard situation going on. Cause of growth. Uh, the precise reason some turkeys develop multiple papillae rather than just one is not fully understood, though it is not linked to specific genetic or population dynamics. When a turkey has multiple beards, they are usually positioned one on top of the other, with the longest and thickest one located at the bottom. That's what we saw. Causes for multiples, uh while usually while usually just an apt anatomical quirk, sometimes a physical injury to the chest can scar the tissue, potentially splitting the papilla and causing multiple, often side-by-side beards to grow. Okay, side by sides would be maybe a sign of some damage, something happened, an injury. Although multiple beards are rare, they are highly prized by hunters. Turkeys typically begin growing their first permanent beard when they are young, and it grows for their entire life. So I guess if he got really big, really old.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

His beard would be dragging.

SPEAKER_01 11:51

He'd be dragging the ground. Well, actually, um You hear that all the time, don't you?

SPEAKER_00 11:54

I hear that all the time, but like I've actually seen a turkey uh like on the trail camera on one of the places we hunt. There was a turkey and his beard was just so long, it was actually dragging on the ground.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

But here's the thing. When you say, oh man, because you hear that, that's kind of the thing. Like when deer hunters said, man, he was a monster. His antlers were out to here, you know, and holding their hands out like goalposts. And he was huge. And you hear turkey hunters do the same thing, man, his beard was dragging the ground. I saw turkey, he was so big his beard was dragging the ground. I hear that all the time, but but it kind of depends on what the turkey's doing.

unknown 12:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

Because if he's leaning over, feeding and pecking, sure, his beard's dragging the ground.

SPEAKER_00 12:36

But this one, it was actually just walking and it was just dragging.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

Standing upright, walking. Okay. I'm I'm with you on that. I can buy that.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

You saw the video of it.

SPEAKER_01 12:45

Is that the one we just showed the other day?

SPEAKER_00 12:47

That you showed me like yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

Well, yeah, he was uh I've got it right here. I'm gonna watch it and see. Maybe I won't. Yeah, I'll watch it later. I won't hold it up because I have to find it. Dig back. But yeah. Yeah, that one there, he was a he's got a pretty long beard, and he's in the spot he needs to be for getting shot by me. Me. You okay. You're in the back. Am I back of the list now that I killed a bird? Yeah. Back to high and tid again, I guess. Well, we shall see. Um anyway, y'all comment, holler at us when we post this picture later on social media. Chime in, we want to hear from you. Shoot us a message and let us know. Hey, I've I've shot a bird with multiple beards, two, three, four, five, whatever. Let us know. And uh how many beards you killed and and how long those were. I'm curious too how long those were. And I'm I'm really curious now, Remy, after we've talked, this little nub. I'll have to post that video because it's just you would never even know it. You had to dig around for it. When I dug down to the skin, I found it, that other papilla, papillae.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

Papaleo.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

Papaleo. And found that other little little nub of a nub of a beard. So do your due diligence and uh dig down deep because they will hide. You get a little jakster sized beard, you don't ever know it. And fortunately, remember, you found that, and that was pretty cool that the dude had multiples. So, check that one off list. Bucket list. I know I wouldn't even call that a bucket list. I mean, that's not a bucket list. Yeah, it's not a bucket list.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

That's just kind of a that's just kind of a cool thing, though. Cool thing.

SPEAKER_01 14:18

Check it off list, though, as far as things we've got going on. Remy, what about some posted segments? Shall we jump into a couple posted things we found this week? Let's do that right now. Here's your posted segment of the week. And I say of the week, we haven't done a posted segment in a while. It's gotten been quiet out there. You know, sometimes things roll around and they pop up, they pop up again, and and we have sometimes we get into the posted segment, sometimes we don't. We just talk about life happenings. But here's one, and this is actually resurfaced. Uh Outdoor Life has has brought this one back up again. I think this happened several years ago. Hopefully it's not happened again. And this one hits a little close to home because, and I I don't know if we've talked about this on the podcast or not, um, but I know this guy. I know this guy, and I've actually hunted with this guy. Uh this is an outfitter, a Florida turkey hunting guide, an outfitter. And I think they do all kinds of stuff. They they bowfish, they do the fishing, they do the hog hunting, and and we've we've done that years ago. I'll just I'm gonna just share the story. I'm not gonna share the guy's name because uh it's just not necessary, and you can dig around and find it out, and then honestly, off the top of my head, I don't I don't even remember. I think his name was David. I'll give you that. Maybe. Um But me and the Double Bull guys went years ago when I first started working, uh not with them, you know, officially, but just pro staffing, kind of doing the deal, shooting some videos, and uh I got invited with uh Keith Beam to go down there and video him shooting. I think it was the year he was gonna do his Turkey guillotine. He wanted to guillotine the Grand Slam. He wanted to lop the heads off of Turkey from every you know, he'd done all the different Grand Slams, bow hunting Grand Slams. You kill the birds in Florida and Rios, the Miriams and Easterns and Oceola. He'd done all that, you know, probably multiple times. Because back in those, what was that, the late 90s, early 2000s, that they were they were the deal. They were burning it up, killing turkeys. That's kind of how they did their thing. Shooting turkeys with a bow from the blind. That's kind of how they landed on the market. All these cool videos just shooting stuff from the blind. Well, Keith had this idea that he wanted to shoot the gobbler guillotine that come out, the broadhead that was designed to lop a turkey's head off. He decided I want to shoot the Grand Slam with the guillotine. I want to I want heads flying off for the Grand Slam with this particular, you know, a Gobbler Guillotine Grand Slam. I was like, okay, whatever, you know, and so anyway, I got the call to go down and film him and uh filmed him shoot his bird. Next day I shot a bird and we just had a big time. Got to watch several birds get killed down there with bows, and that was just a cool thing. But we hunted with this guy, and great dude, um good guy, great guy, you know. I enjoyed time with him, whatever, but um, and that's been 20 years, 23 years ago. I don't know. It's been 20 to 25, probably. Gosh, I don't even know how long ago. 20 plus years ago. And anyway, in this last couple years, I saw this I feel like a couple years ago, and it's resurfaced again. Again, I don't know if it's just uh outdoor life reposted. It's it's still one of the craziest turkey hunting scams we've ever covered. They did the story. And the caption is Florida Guides passed off pen raised turkeys as wild osceolas to unsuspecting hunters. And there's the guy right there in the picture. You see it, Rimbo. That's the guy we stayed at his little lodge or his little house or whatever it was. And uh, of course, I got the client's face blacked up because I'd want my face blacked out too if somebody had sold me a pen raised turkey and I paid big bucks for it. Because it is, I mean, you're paying some big bucks now to go down to Osceola country with a guy. It used to be pretty cheap. Somebody used to go down there for a thousand bucks or so, nine hundred dollars, and go down there and hunt for a couple days, get your turkey. Nobody cared. Now it's got to be the hot thing, and it's probably two or three thousand dollars, I'm guessing. And so these guys get this idea of, hey, we can we can get these birds that look kind of like uh osseola. And osseolas are so different because their wings are different, they, you know, bars, no bars, they black, you know, a lot more black color in them. And and so I could see where you could, you know, even this turkey here, you could just say, man, that's a rare bird, you know. He's just dark, you know, he's really dark all over, it doesn't have any white on him, and and and again, that's a lot of those osceolas are got a lot of darker colors in them, a lot more black. But these guys are raising pen raised turkeys and they're just getting these birds that are kind of like kind of close. And I guess they're getting these guys that are coming down that just don't know a whole lot about them. Never really done any research on osceolas or really don't know. They're just knowing, hey, I I gotta get down there to Florida, South Florida, and kill one of these osceolas because that's the thing to do to get my grand slam. And they're selling these guys pen raised turkeys, and they're out there, I mean, right here posing with the bird and fired up. I mean, I'm kind of surprised the guide's in there, and maybe he thought it looked close enough, just figured it was close enough to the osceola, but posing with the dude and his turkey, and he's selling them right out of the pen. You get a pen raised bird, throw them out there on the property, come back the next morning with your client, like, hey man, we got one gobbling. Oh, he's slamming. He's you know let's see, I'm gonna see if I make him gobble. You know how it is, Remy. Your pet turkeys we've had out here, are they hard to make gobble?

SPEAKER_00 20:06

No. You could just really make any weird noise and they'd gobble.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

Yeah. And so I'm wondering how much that was going on, like, were they gobbling just a ridiculous amount? You know, and then you think about too, how did that hunt look? How did that hunt go down? Did they, you know, you know the the guide's probably like, okay, we can't walk right up there, because if we walk right up to the turkey and he comes running to us while we're walking up at the giveaway that this is the pet bird or whatever, you know, he's probably like, we gotta sneak in here and then call a little bit or whatever, maybe a decoy, and here comes a goofball pet turkey running across the pasture to him, doing the deal. It's just crazy. But you guys go check that article out, it's all an outdoor life from a while back. But I just saw it pop up the other day, and I'm like, I feel like Buddy the Elf when he saw Santa. He's like, I I know him. And I saw this guy the picture pop up, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I know him. Hunted with him, crashed at his place, great dude. But even great dudes fall and fail, don't they, Remy? Mm-hmm. You look about that, you look throughout the Bible, look at King David, awesome dude, godly dude, and he fell. He failed. The woman got him. I mean, this situation here. Oh boy named David, he uh he failed. A turkey turkey got him. The love of money got him, something. I don't know. He he had him a system, and I I don't know. I guess it was just a way to turn those turkeys loose and that way you're not having to because I guess if you think about it, like you have a farm, you get to hunt. If you buy a piece of property, you only got so many turkeys you can kill on it. But if you take you know, wild turkeys, but if you go in there and you're just chunking out pet turkeys, farm raised turkeys, you can kill all you want to. You know what I'm saying? You can kill all you want to. You don't have to worry about shooting up all your your stock. And so crazy stuff there. Crazy situation. Check it out on Outdoor Life. I'm going to go pull up another one. Another one from Outdoor Life here. Let me get to that one because this is kind of a sad deal. We've talked about this. We see this seems like it's happening more and more all the time. End of the Mystery. Body of missing Colorado Turk Hunter, Caden Sites, found after 11-day search. Says intensive recovery efforts for a missing Colorado man ended Saturday when volunteers research volunteer searchers located the body of Caden Sites in the rugged San Isabel National Forest. The Chaffee or Coffey County Sheriff's Office has not yet released a cause of death, citing the need for further investigation. Foul play is not suspected. Sites, a twenty-seven-year-old from Salida, was last heard from on April 15th. He had gone out alone for a short afternoon turkey hunt and did not return in time for a doctor's appointment. His body was discovered 1.5 miles from the abandoned truck, according to the sheriff's office, which had been parked at the Blank's Cabin trailhead on Shivano Mountain Sites. The cell phone was discovered inside the truck. It's battery, battery completely drained. Eleven days. That seems like a long time when you think about it. Like he was a mile and a half from the truck. And they looked for him for eleven days. You would think in eleven days you'd gone.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

Yeah, I mean I don't think a mile and a half would be too terribly far. I think you could find him in a few days.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

You would think so. And I I don't know how, I mean, they've got a picture of all the guys just spread out in a chain and just kind of sweeping the landscape, but you would think you would think, you know, eleven days. I mean, look at that right there. They're they're all spread out like you would think they could sweep an area within a mile and a half.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

Are they just doing it by foot or are they having like drones?

SPEAKER_01 23:50

I'm sure they're drones and choppers too, I'm guessing. I don't know. But that's pretty wild. Pretty wild. I um I hate to he hear that, I hate to see that. Um just out missing. I I heard another podcast the other day too. Same thing a bow hunter was out and about and just doing out for the afternoon, kind of routine deal. And never came back, never showed back up and they say like what was the cause of death? This one here, you're gonna have to listen to it. It's on Park Predators and uh they think he probably stumbled into some Wolves? No, stumbled into like a drug ring. Because it was down like in the um Arizona, down closer to the border, they were thinking some drug drug trafficking kind of stuff. They know there's an area through that part of the forest that a lot of drug trafficking, some secret, shady, sketchy stuff goes through there on the trail. And they think that the guy probably got his camp set up a little too tight on that stuff and ran into some bad dudes at the wrong time and got him. So um but man, you just you just never know. That was it, that was a bow hunter, never came back. Um here this turkey hunter, eleven days gone and sad, sad stuff. So um anyway. Here's another one. More than half of Colorado's reintroduced wolves are dead. Can the program survive another year? Uh the losses kept keep at keep adding up for Colorado's controversial wolf reintroduction program. Thirteen of the twenty five gray wolves that have been translocated into the state since twenty twenty-three have now died, and the release that was planned for the winter was canceled amid pushback from the federal government. Two high-ranking officials at the state agency overseeing the wolf program have also left or announced plans to leave in recent months. Meanwhile, the cost of reintroduction has surged from an estimated 800,000 per year to an average of two million per year. Oh my gosh. At least sixty-five domestic animals have been killed by wolves in Colorado as of August 2025, according to a study by the Common Sense Institute. This growing list includes mostly cows and sheep, but also a few working dogs, and it's the main reason why Colorado's wolf reintroduction has cost millions more than what voters were told to expect when they approved reintroduction of the ballot in the ballot box at the ballot box in 2020. Um crazy, crazy stuff. Don't you know them ranchers are just sniping them?

SPEAKER_00 26:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

You know, they're like, oh, you want to come eat my sheep? Wham, you know.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

I mean, I'd probably do the same thing. Like, like if a bear was attacking my like cows and my horses, I'd be like, I'm gonna just shoot it because like it's pretty much fair game, then you know.

SPEAKER_01 26:41

That's right. That's right. Yeah, you just think about that a million dollar wolf reintroduction program. And I remember we did an article at bowhunting.com uh you know, back when they did it, when they released them. We did I remember the article. And uh same kind of deal. Some of them are excited. Anytime you reintroduce wolves, it's highly controversial. When we lived in Montana, they were releasing wolves and stuff. Everybody was up in arms about it, you know, people for it, people against it. I bought a wolf tag that year just to say I could, and I did. Uh, the non, uh the anti-hunters were all, you know, hating on it. Don't do it, stop it. They went to great lengths to shut it down. Um, but wolves are always going to be a hot topic, and man, you think about that. Million dollar program to reintroduce them in Colorado and half of them are gone, and at this rate it's showing no signs of stopping, and the guys that are part of the program are bailing, it just looks like a mess from top to bottom. I mean, a big, big mess.

SPEAKER_00 27:41

It's kind of like there's a reason they were gone in the first place. And it's like let them come back on their own, you know?

SPEAKER_01 27:47

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Well, Rimbo, we've had some nasty weather this week. We've had tornado-ish kind of stuff, thunderstorms, nasty stuff all night long, raining. Uh, we've been busy on some other things. Did a little fishing the other day, caught some fish, ate fish tacos the other night. That was good. Bluegill time is here, but it's time to get back on these turkeys, and like we talked about, that that little trail camera picture showed us a spot where uh one long beard standing there, and then when I did the moultry, that's what I like about this moultry. You can you can request a video, it's a pretty slick deal. You like you see the picture of a long beard standing there, well then I clicked a request, and so it makes a video, you can request that video and it'll turn it in, you know, from your photo to a video, and then you can walk out because I've been wanting so bad for a turkey to walk in front of the camera and just you know, right in front of the camera, strutting, gobbling, anything right there caught on camera. He didn't do that, but he walked from the right side of the frame all the way across, and then right as the 15 second of video ends, you see another gobbler head pop into the frame, and so it's like, ooh.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

So that's definitely Longbeard.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Yeah. So one for me and you, I guess, maybe. At least one for me.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

I'll I'll shoot the long uh bearded one.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

All right. I think they're probably. I'm just guessing, but I bet they're both I bet they're both long beards. I just feel like it is because if I feel like the it always seems like the Jake's the first one to walk, you know what I'm saying? It's almost like the Longbeard's out walking around, but he's kind of just bringing up the rear. Like the Jake's the first one to get into the scene. They're the first one to lead. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 29:25

I feel like the Jake's are just The Jakes are always the dumb ones. They're just kind of like, go ahead, do your thing, just walk out. They don't they don't have a care.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

Not a care in the world. They're kind of goofballs, but that's the way they roll. So yeah, we're gonna get back out. Uh, like I said, today was still stormy and high winds, but I think these next couple days, man, we get the cool weather coming and be some sunshine again. So we're getting back out on the turkeys. I hope you guys are as well. Here is your word from the word before we go. This is Matthew 5, 14. It says this, you are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. You're the light of the world. We're supposed to be that light too, aren't we? Yeah. Where we go? We're the light of the world. And man, we're supposed to be the light, salt, and light in a dark, dark world all around us. And it says, hey, you know, you guys, you need to go be the light of the world, and that means to light up the darkness. That's what light does. It brings um light into darkness. It brightens the place. You look where junk happens, where bad stuff happens, it's always in the dark, right? People do bad stuff and they wait until the cover of darkness, because that's where their evil, their sin can be um hidden. You look at when people go in a bar or uh some kind of dance club or them bad places, people hang out. It's always dark in those places. Why? Because you can go in there and not be seen. You can just kind of hide out, let your sins be hidden. And that's what we're supposed to do. God's called us to be light in the world around us, light to the darkness all around us, and so uh we need to be doing that, be busy about doing that, bringing light to a dark, dark world. It's all around us. We see the darkness, and um you can either cower down and just be like, man, I don't want nothing to do with this world. I'm giving up, I'm throwing a towel, uh, tapping out. But no, we're not supposed to be that. We're supposed to be light. We've got the answers. We know how the story ends. We have victory in the end because of our faith in Jesus Christ, and so we need to make sure we're doing that, bringing the light to the dark world around us. Hope you guys are doing that this week. I want to encourage you to chase him with all your heart, soul, and strength. And we'll see you right back here on the next one. Shoot straight and God bless.