Episode 7. Solo episode with Robert Worley.

Robert talks about some unfinished topics, some recent reactions he's had, Shopping, the fig app, & more. He talks about his late season goose hunting.  Also his prep for turkey season. We are about to start talking turkey.

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Welcome to the Alpha Galdoorsman Podcast, where we talk all things Alpha Gal and all things outdoors. Everything from hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, canoeing, kayaking, jeeping, off-roading, even gardening. I'm your host, Robert Worley. Yeah, that's my turkey call. Hey, how y'all doing? Welcome back to another episode of Alpha Gal Doorsman. Um the I am your host, Robert Worley. Uh today's episode's gonna be just a little bit different. It's gonna be a solo episode. Uh, this is probably, I think this is episode seven. So I'm six deep right now. Uh, the reason for a solo episode is because I've had some things and talked about things that I didn't elaborate on. Uh I don't feel like enough, or um people's asked me a question about or something like that. So um, and I'm gonna try to touch on, I'm gonna be kind of all over the place with this episode here. I don't know how long it'll be, but uh so first off, uh, I just had in my head where I was at. I was kind of unorganized. I had some notes, but um first thing is you know, when I started this podcast, I you know, I wanted to keep this easy, I wanted to make this for the people, the Alpha Gal people outdoors, and I didn't want to have to spend a ton of time, you know, editing and doing all that. And I thought I'm just gonna record a zoom, put it up there just like it is, and um that's how it's gonna be. And uh I kind of didn't uh anticipate there being other issues like uh buffering and that sort of thing, and I got great internet. I've um, but um so I've had to kind of step back a little bit and um spend a little time you know learning how to edit. Um so the uh the episodes are definitely getting better. I have done that. I I guess I thought that uh editing was going to be this big long process and such a pain in the hind end and all that, and really when I kind of dug into it, it it wasn't bad, and I'm enjoying this, you know. So um I'm I'm love talking to the people. I love learning about Alpha Gal and the outdoor stuff that I've been learning about. So I'm enjoying this. So it's all worthwhile. It's all worthwhile to me. I hope it's worthwhile to the listeners. Um the uh the um the editing part is is definitely uh I'm getting better. Let's just say that. I'm getting better at it. So uh you heard my turkey call there messing around there. Little uh turkey season's coming. So I'm getting super excited. You know, winter's over. Well, I say it's over. Today is um March 9th here in southwest Ohio. It's blue skies and sunny. We've had so much rain though. Blue skies and sunny, and it's uh close to 60 degrees right now outside. It's it's beautiful. So um we're hoping winter's over, let's say that. So I'm getting real excited for turkey season. I am going to make um the month of April is gonna be all turkey talk. If everything goes the way I got planned with guests and whatnot, which I'll elaborate on in just a minute here. Um, if everything goes the way it will the way I'm hoping it does, um I we're gonna have all turkey talk. The I'm not sure about the April 15th episode. I I got a few little ideas, but I'm not sure which way we'll go. Um, so that leads me into the guests that I got coming up. So I'm gonna skip forward past April a little bit. I got three guests right now that I've been talking to about coming on. One of them is a through hiker that has hiked the Appalachian Trail uh with Alpha Gal. So I'm very excited on speaking with him, you know, and trying to get um uh you know, just just hearing about his experiences, you know, hiking. Uh I know you can't shower and stuff a lot on the Appalachian Trail. How did he keep ticks off? How did he manage ticks? How did uh he manage his food? And you know, when you get a little trail magic, do you how careful are you? I mean, you know, all the things. So um, so um yeah, he's uh he uh hopefully we get him on right after right after our our turkey, turkey bonanza, we'll call it. So um then I have another mountain climber coming on. Uh she is a owner of a mountain guide service in Red River Gorge. We're talking about the gorge again, one of my favorite spots, but uh she's a mountain guide down there. I talked to her a couple of weeks ago, and she needed a little time because uh it was right in her busy season of training up all of her guides, and um which actually works out pretty good because here we are getting close to April and turkey season and all that. So I think uh I'm hoping for May, I'm hoping our May episodes uh or or mid-May to June episodes, we get them two on, get them recorded, and we'll get them on here. That's what I'm thinking. My third guest coming on, if everything works the way I want, I would like to have him for the April 1st episode, but I'm not sure he's got a family member that's not doing well, and he kind of needed uh uh he couldn't schedule anything right now because he didn't know what was going to be happening. So, but I was online searching for homemade turkey calls, and I found this old cat uh down in Georgia. Uh I won't say his name yet, um, but um I I I realized, hey man, this guy's got Alpha Gal, and I can't remember now how I that researched. I was looking for turkey calls and I stumbled on this, but I um we exchanged exchanged phone numbers. I gave him a call, and I would give $100 to go back in time and to have we talked on the phone for 25 or 30 minutes, and I'd give anything to have that conversation recorded. This old bird is one cool cat. He he takes Alpha Gal seriously, but he doesn't take it very serious. Now, I I say that because he knows his issues, he's learned his I've said this so many times, you've learned your allergy. He has learned his allergy, but he's old school, man. He um he just gets bit. He just like he's like, I already got it. He just he gets bit and he picks him off and he lives outdoors and deer hunts and turkey hunts and all the things. And I mean, just this conversation on the phone with this old cat, man, was awesome. I'm really looking forward to getting him on, except especially for our one-month maybe two, three episodes there of maybe some turkey bonanza. I'm hoping, really hoping for April the 1st for him. So uh that being said, you know, we're always looking for guests, we're always looking for people that have a love and passion of the outdoors, you know, hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, canoeing, kayaking, jeeping off-road, and you know the you know the saying, right? So uh if you're that person or you know that person, um give me a call or shoot me an email um at alpha gal outdoorsman at gmail.com. Excuse me. You shoot me an email, we'll talk. Uh we'll we'll we'll try to get you on as a guest, you know. I'm always looking for guests. I would like to have some guests, you know. I'm I'm really I've really kind of been uh I don't want to say pigeonholed, but a little bit kind of pigeonholed in my area right here, which Alpha Gal is definitely uh pretty condensed, you know. But um I'd like to have some Arkansas or some Missouri or you know, somewhere like that, or even you know, Pennsylvania or somewhere get out of a get out of my area right here. Um so if you know that person or you are that person, you know, pick up the pick up your email, give me an email. And and it is when it comes to email, uh, I just get online and give me an email. Let me know what you think. Let me know what guest you like, what you don't like, what you you know, let me know. Alpha Gal Outdoorsman at gmail.com. So next I want to move on here to um reactions. I've talked briefly on this on a couple episodes here recently. Um I've had two reactions. Um, I've had two reactions here in the past, just toward the end of summer, right here at the beginning of spring, a little bit. So I've had two reactions. One you've heard me talk about uh maybe a couple of times. I just wanted to get a little more extensive on it. You know, there's you've heard me talk, there's one Mexican restaurant that we feel comfortable and we eat at. Um, we usually get the same thing. Now, occasionally, if they're super busy, I will go in and I'll just order off the vegetarian menu and they know my issue. But if they're not busy, my wife and I will get the chicken fajitas, right? So yeah, they wasn't busy. We got the chicken fajitas, but we had a new waiter. He's new, period. Not just a new weed or dust, but he was new. I told him my situation, and I guess I just got too uncomfortable and I didn't elaborate enough. He went back, had the fajitas cooked, they brought them out. I had eight two and my wife found a little piece of steak on the skillet mixed in with everything, right? So I know for sure that I didn't eat none because this did happen one time before. So I really pay attention when I make my fajitas, and I know that I didn't eat any. I know that. But just that little piece being cooked on that skillet, and they're stirring it around and ricking it around. That that that beef juice, it mixed in, it didn't take very much, which you know, um, there's certain things that I'm not real sensitive to, you know, I can have some dairy and I can have some cheese. Um, so I looked at the size of that piece of steak and I'm like, it's gonna be okay. And I even felt so comfortable that I went ahead and had a third fajita. You know, they're not very big, so but I had a I had made a third one. Um, and um lo and behold, my wife found another small piece a minute later. But really, they were so small and so minute, it really stands out to how um how touchy this allergy is, how sensitive it is that you know when I came home, now I didn't have a bad reaction, but it was a couple hours later. I got this telltale sign that's on my forearm. When my forearm starts to itch, then I'm at the beginning stages of some sort of reaction, whether it be a face swell or hives or eye swell or you know, whatever that may be. I you know, yeah, I got I have several different kinds of uh reactions depending on what I ingest, whether it be beef, fork, lamb, deer, whatever. So um, so um when I notice my uh arms start itching, I had some some body itches and whatnot. I um I just went ahead and straight to the liquid Benadryl. I take the liquid Benadryl, the baby Benadryl. I had me a big old snort of that, and then um, you know, I waited a little bit and then off the bed I went and I slept it off, and it was not bad. But it just goes to show the sensitivity, you know. Um I can tolerate things like uh, you know, sometimes we eat stuff with cheese in it, and I know when I overdo it because cheese gives me the GI, some GI issues, you know, and cheese and dairy. And um, but it's not as severe. I I'll get them, but and I know what it is, but it's not as severe. You know, this was like I I was probably gonna be heading towards some hives that I had not, you know, uh throwed the roadblock up with the Benadryl, right? So then my wife does this uh cardio workout in the mornings, right? So she gets up, she has her coffee, and then before she showers and moves on with her day, she does this little cardio workout. It's probably 20 minutes, 25 minutes long cardio, right? So now I do physical labor. I um I work outside, I own my own business, so if I ain't doing the work, it ain't getting done. And my work consists of physical labor. Sometimes I get my heart rate way up, you know, breathing heavy. I mean, I work, I work. Um, I enjoy my job, enjoy my life. But I did this cardio. I said one morning I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna do this with you. It don't look that tough, you know. So I did this cardio workout with my wife. She made fun of me the whole time because uh I wasn't doing it right, but um, I did, I did this, I did this with her, you know, and um then I moved on with my day. So I am um, I think I might have been a few hours later. I just had such a feeling of gloom and doom come over me. Um, nothing in my life was working. It was my it was such a weight on my shoulders, and it was like, you know, um uh anybody that owns their own business knows that sometimes we go through these times when it's just like, man, we're you know, this and that, and I got so many things, it's overwhelming, right? And I kind of thought I was just, you know, thinking ahead of the stuff I have to do because spring's coming and spring is my busy time of year. But after this, it kept getting worse and worse and worse. And then I realized I am not, I mean, my life's fine right now, right? I was having a histamine dump. Doing that exercise and getting my cardio up like I did, it was different than the way I work, even though I work and I get my I get my old blood pumping, man, when I'm working, but this excuse me, this was different. This this cardio workout that I did with her got my blood pumping in a different way, and I was having a histamine dump. And um it I it lasted uh it lasted a big part of the day. Now, something with me and a histamine dump is I don't try to chase it down with Benadryl and or and or anything else, you know. I just kind of powered through. After I realized everything's fine, um then I then I then I was okay. I was able to power through. It was kind of a it was a it was a squat for day, you know, for sure. But when I understand is half the battle, and I think new people getting this, that's part of it. You gotta you gotta learn your allergy. And when I realize I'm having a histamine dump, it'll be over. You know, it ain't I'm not breaking out in the hives, I'm not nothing, I'm not having no physical reactions, it's just all mental and they're real. Some people make fun of me. Some people that don't have alpha gal, they say you're crazy. It's not, it don't happen that way. I've even had doctors tell me that, they don't know. They don't know. If you're new to Alpha Gal, it's real, it happens. Gloom and doom, it could be a histamine dump. Um, and I do take I do take a pep sit every morning to control my histamine. I take an antihistamine every morning. I used to take more, but I'm down to the point where I'm able to take um, you know, just just one uh pepsid AC every morning. So um uh anaphylactics. I want to speak a little on this because I was at the belief that, and I think a lot of people are like this, and I'm learning this with doing this podcast, that uh I was under the belief that going into anaphylactic shock meant you can't breathe. That's the only time you take an EpiPen. Nothing else. And I was never more wrong than that. Um and and learning that, looking back, I have I've had anaphylaxic one time. So um I've had some bad, I've had some bad reactions. I mean, I've been woke up in the knife covered in hives and uh, you know, that sort of stuff, but I have had one um one episode that potentially could have been life-threatening. And you've heard me talk about it on here, but I'll I'll try to make it brief. So I I ingested something I absolutely shouldn't have, and it had to do with beef and pork. It had a little touch of both. Um I had knew it happened, um, you know, and it was a little bit of a test for me. Let's see where I'm at, you know, right? So we had we got done eating dinner that night. Uh, it was we ate kind of late. Um, you know, I went in and kicked back on the couch a little bit, was watching some TV uh before I went to bed. My wife was already laying down. And when I went to get up to go to bed, I just kind of throwed my feet up, kicked up, and jumped up real fast. And, you know, I forgot all about dinner. That's been, you know, uh uh two hours ago, right? So I jump out of bed or jump off the couch, and when I did, my head went into the spins. I it was the worst equilibrium, or you know, it was just it was just absolutely terrible. I cannot explain it. Um I think a lot of people that have alpha gal understand what I'm talking about, but it I could not catch my senses at all. I I immediately went down to the floor. I um I hollered for my wife. She came in there and she knew I was in pretty bad distress right there, you know. So I just couldn't get my bearing. Couldn't my it was all it was in my head and it spun and I couldn't focus and so many things. And um, her question was, can you breathe? I can breathe fine. I just I'm I'm out of it, you know. So I laid in the floor right there, and it was the worst. That I you can I I'll take anything else over that one right there. I'll take any other reaction over that one. It was absolutely horrible. But so this went on. She got her bug out bag, sit there. She got our epi pens, set them out there, and she sat right there. I laid in the floor maybe 45 minutes or an hour. It slowed down enough. I'm I got I was able to get up, I make it to the bathroom, uh, and it it started to switch from that to GI and um there from there I was able to make it to bed and I ended up sleeping it off. Was that the right thing to do? Absolutely not. So doing the research on it now, what was happening was my blood pressure was dropping. I've never had a blood pressure problem in my life. I got really good blood pressure. What was happening was my blood pressure was dropping. It was dropping to the point where I was getting loopy. I could have passed out. Um, you know, I powered through, but that could have happened. My wife was there, which was a good thing. She had the phone ready for 911, the whole nine yards. What I should have done when this happened to me. Well, I I should have maybe gave it a minute or two, make sure that this is, you know, but I should have stabbed myself with that epi pen, you know. Um, and um, then I should have made a trip to the hospital so they could monitor my heart rate, monitor my blood pressure, all of the things. So the moral of this story is anaphylaxic shock is just not when you can't breathe. It is extreme uh allergic reactions of almost any kind. Now, if you don't believe me, just Google it and do your research and then know your allergy. Know what reactions that you have. I'm not a doctor, I'm not telling you to do one thing more than the other. I am not a doctor, I've said that many, many times. But you Google anaphylactic shock uh um and and that sort of thing, and it's gonna tell you because I done it. I that's what first thing I did when I started realizing you know that I was wrong on this. Um so looking back, I have been an anaphylactic. I was been an anaphylactic one time, and I didn't use an epi pen. I powered through, and every minute of it sucked really bad. So keep that in mind. Um, so this podcast, you know, I'm I'm seven episodes in. I I I'm catering to outdoors people and a lot of hunting, uh, you which you've really caught on to by now, probably, because that's what I am. I want find I want to find jeepers and hikers and climbers and uh campers everything I can find I I'd like to talk to everybody that has to do with the outdoors but my world is hunting so it's a little easier for me to find the hunters but that's what I that's what I you know cater to that's that's what keeps me going that's what I love to do but you know um there's a couple gals out there uh the two alpha gals they got a podcast called in the tall grass I've listened to it of lots of them and they're way more informative of this podcast they have so a few weeks ago they had a um they was doing a webinar every Monday with Dr. Paige Freeman um and I listened to the first one and then on Mondays man I am just so slammed on Mondays ain't I haven't um I haven't been able to dial back in but I think they're all recorded and they're on there but regardless go check out go check out their uh podcast very informative go check out that webinar with Dr. Paige Freeman um you know that is a doctor I'm not uh so but but uh I I've never met these gals I've never talked to these gals but um I like what they're doing so go check them out um as far as you know the Facebooks um the Facebooks and all your social media sites man there are so many sites out there so if you haven't been on them go check them out go check them out there's so many just dial in alpha gal on any of your social media sites and then start looking for them there's ones for different states and whatnot so go check them out um there's one now I had her on Jenny Falush last episode uh she's an author I I I did talk about her book a little bit but I didn't talk that much about it um um I want to just touch on it a little bit more today to promote a little bit now she had written a couple books leading up to this last book okay she had and she's been published in a couple places Chicken Soup for the Soul and other places you know she is a uh she's a grief counselor um and if you listen to the if you haven't heard the last episode stop this right here go back and listen to the last episode and then turn back in you'll be caught back up but um this book right here she wrote wrote uh Grief and Alpha Gal the Mind and Body Connection um this book she started she's a writer so her thing is when she started right when she got alpha gal this book's almost written in real time I hope we get I hope with her in a year or two I would love to see a part two because she's still learning we're all still learning you can be two years or five years in and you're still learning your allergy plain and simple but I just wanted to give her another shout out her book um I don't remember where I got this probably Amazon but um you can go to her you can go to her uh page which is Alpha Gal Grief Girl on Facebook and just send her a message she she responds to everybody send her a message on where to get it and grab that book um you you won't regret it you won't regret it so uh so something I had talked about I'm gonna move on here something I had talked about with uh one of my guests and I don't remember who and we didn't go into a lot of detail and it's come up on the podcast a few times is shopping and label reading and apps and stuff like that. So when I contracted Alpha Gauss syndrome it wasn't until I got reconnected with my friend Lori that I started getting better. And I remember this comment that she made to me like it was yesterday. She says Wheedle you are going to become a chemist you are going to be able to look at labels and understand them and when she said that to me it was incredibly overwhelming. I was like you know I made it through I barely made it through high school and then when I went to college I studied music I I don't I don't read and I don't it's not my thing you know and it's like science and and you know it just wasn't my thing. But she could not have been more right when she told me that it was very intimidating to me but for any new listeners I assure you that if I can do it you can do it. And now I can pick up a label bam scroll through that dude I can have it. I can't have it that's a little touchy I don't know I can look at them and see. Now when it comes to apps on your phone now there's lots of them you can find what works for you I'm not endorsing the fig app I'm that is just what I use but there's lots of go in there and do your research but I downloaded the fig app in the fig app there's at there's actually a spot when it has you to list your allergies that alpha gal is one of them I put in alpha gal then I put in I did this pretty early on maybe six months into my uh diagnosis so obviously I had milk and cheese and stuff in there which now you know that I can tolerate a little bit right so but I put all that I've still left it in there because I want that warning sign but I um the Fig app I can take it I can go shopping I can grab something off the shelf use my phone open that app scan uh the the the barcode and it bam gives me a list of ingredients it's either color codes in green yellow or red you can see I'm uh I'm having right now a simply truth lemon lime right now if I was to scan that it comes up all green which is a beautiful thing my daughter says that tastes like TV static but uh the first my first grocery ship my first grocery store trip after the fig app was three hours was three hours long I went in there up and down every aisle and it was um it was uh deflating when I learned how when I learned what I had but this it was at three hours but it was the three hours in there was not a bad three hours because I was learning the whole time you know I got one of them rainy days away I went uh with the fig app I was in there for three hours I didn't have hardly anything in the bottom of my cart when I left out of there but I knew I was safe I knew that I was safe after that so if you haven't got a if you haven't got an app on your phone go good go go do your research and download one I think fig app cost me like 50 bucks a year um so and my wife and I we both have it on our phones so all right so uh next thing is uh Bill 578 I don't go too deep into this um I've talked about it on almost every episode for the last couple three um but Bill 578 is just about to pass the house um it's had its last reading um I it excuse me I don't understand the politics of it that much so one person says okay we've had a vote we had 11 yes and the 12th uh person was not there so it looks like it's gonna be unanimous but then I see it on the agenda list from my congressman and it only had its last reading and hasn't been to a vote yet so maybe they're not showing it I'm not sure but it does look like uh next reading hopefully this week or next week Bill 578 uh which will make uh Alpha Gal Syndrome mandatory reporting in the state of Ohio looks like it's going to pass the House as soon as it does we get to start this process all over again we get to go through the Senate so for there you guys that hasn't seen go to our Facebook page which is AlphaGal Dorsman and you'll be able to scroll down through there it's just my smiling face on there I'm talking uh about a few things and the the big the one of them's the podcast and one of them is uh Bill 578 and it shows the clip of when I went before Congress and um uh testified uh in favor of Bill 578 so uh real quick on the last you know we had uh the six guests that we had in I I just want to you know I want to say thank you to all of them for sure um but one thing every single one of them has said excuse me this is how I learned you know about the anaphlax is what made me do more research every single one of them says the same thing don't be afraid of that epi pen if you get in trouble don't be afraid of that epiph epi pen use it use it so just wanted to throw that in there all right so let's move on to some hunting stuff here some outdoor stuff that I've been doing so everybody knows if you've listened to this podcast at all that since Alpha Gauss syndrome I haven't stopped deer hunting but I have definitely slowed down and I have taken up goose hunting and um goose hunting has filled that void and man is it a blast so I want to tell you some some stories about you know getting into it learning and what I'm doing. So I live right beside a private lake when I say private it's a private community they have a lake that is 250 acres you know go in there go water ski and do your thing right but it's a home to geese like you wouldn't believe okay so we all lived through that cold snap that we recently had here what I don't even remember when that was if that was January or whenever it was but when that cold snap happened up north it pushed a million birds down all them birds was migrating now we went into early season early season you're hunting you know a lot of local birds a lot of resident birds you know um we have a few cornfields just outside of that lake so them birds will get up off of that lake at nine o'clock in the morning they'll fly out to a cornfield land they'll spend a few hours eating and then they go back in they float around on a lake and then evening time they'll do the same thing um so just around the lake I have landed a few cornfields to hunt in now we're hunting in layout blinds so it kind of looks a little bit like a canvas coffin uh that's camoed up like corn and then you stuck corn stalks all down in it you know and and you got a little screen you can look out of when you see them coming you can pop up and shoot. So we're hunting in layout blinds. So early season we put our decoys out you know uh we call now I've just I'm only a couple years in so I'm just learning how to call um good or halfway good or enough to call a bird in um so uh something that I learned this year that I should have known from turkey hunting right so um I found there was a when all that got cold up north and all them birds got pushed down I started seeing all the birds from my house come up off the water and fly due west so one day me and Nikki my wife got in a jeep took off go find them we found a field about a mile from the lake that every bird a thousand miles was coming to and when I say there was 10,000 birds in this field it sure seems like there was 10 000 there might not have been 10 000 but I bet there was a thousand there was so many birds landing in this field and this cornfield was ginormous but um we sat on this old back road and if I can find the video I'll put the video up on um I'll put the video up on the YouTube page if I can find if I haven't deleted it we sat there for half an hour watching group after group after group of birds coming into this field. So I got my on X out found out who owned the field the next day I went and knocked on her door this this little old lady that lived not far from there and she said absolutely not we don't allow no hunting the birds know it right so but there's a field just back about a quarter of a mile and nine I don't about 90% but let's say 50% about 50% or 60% of the birds was flying right across that field to get to the field they wanted to go to so me and my buddy Mark thought uh we're gonna set up in this field and we'll put every decoy we got out so we'll make it look like this is where the party's at and um we'll we'll we'll we'll bring them right in here. Man what a great idea right they literally had to fly over us so we set up and um just like clockwork man 9 915 here they come they start coming some of these birds fly over us so low that we probably could have shot you know but the goal is to get them birds to come in you get them to commit to come in to land right so we didn't take this the silly pop shots uh we started working them we started to work birds we laid in this field for an hour and it was nonstop birds flying over top of us and not one bird circled looked down looked back nothing they wanted absolutely nothing to do with us every single one of them birds flew right straight over us and went right back to that field and we just kind of sat in amazement like what what do they see how how do they know what you know what is it and from turkey hunting I should have knew the answer to this right so excuse me so the next day we thought we have another field that's farther south and um we're like let's go try that other field maybe it'll be a little different right so so we go down and we set up so when the birds come up off the water when we're on this field they come up down to the south of us a little bit um so we got got all our decoys out got a black flag it looks like a bird flying so first group gets up we hit our calls and we get that flag out and they fly in and we're calling and they turn oh here they come here they come so we get down we get ready but we're still calling they flew right on past us wanted nothing to do with us had another second little group come up and it was a group of like four and um when they come up off the water we hit them calls one time hit that flag and they turned to come at us and when they got about halfway mark hit the call again and we watched them as soon as he hit that call they turned they turned and was gone and we was like whoa so these birds had been educated these birds was coming down from who knows where up north in Canada and had migrated down. How many times have they been shot at how many times have they heard a silly human goose call they knew the difference so we was like did you see that yeah okay here's the deal we get their attention and we get them coming don't touch the call and I should have knew this from turkey hunting right so turkey hunting you get a gobbler that hits the ground you want to hit your call and you want to hear him gobble bam bam bam that's what you're after that's when it's exciting but it's not always like that. Some of them Tom turkeys they hit the ground you hit the call you'll get a gobble or two out of them and then they shut up that's when you got to shut up they know where you're at put the call away and sit down be quiet and be ready. Well I'm really surprised at myself that I didn't know this from turkey hunting but the geese was exactly the same so the rest of that day that's exactly what we dump they get up they get up off the water we would get their attention whether it be with the call and the flag or a call but when we had them coming at us when they when their curiosity was enough to come and look at us you know because when them birds come in you got your decoys out before they land they're gonna circle a few times and they're gonna land coming in downwind they're gonna land with the wind in their face and um things got better. So I just wanted to throw that out there that um that um uh yeah that's just an update on my goose hunting this fall uh I ended up with them with some geese in the freezer definitely not as many as I'd like um I'm hoping that I get a little better each year and each year um but um so next is turkey season I am excited I'm as excited as excited could get for turkey season so um I had every intentions on uh hunting Alabama Kentucky and Ohio this year well the thing the way things are working out the way the weather is and with work picking up uh Alabama could be out but that's okay it's all right it's just the way it is my busy time but um if you've watched the YouTube videos and seen our deer camp uh turkey season for a Kentucky opener is uh I think it's April the 18th we're going right back to Hemlock Hill um uh we're going down opening I think is the 18th which is a Saturday we're going down Friday night or Friday early enough to roost some birds Friday we're gonna hunt Saturday Sunday Monday and Tuesday and you never know maybe Wednesday morning then we've got to get back and then the Ohio opener is the weekend after that so uh the same crew so I think what I'm gonna try to do is um I'm gonna have some turkey talk and can't and I'm gonna try to make it in a podcast form I don't know if me and the boys are going to sit down on the porch uh in the evening time uh have have us have us a cocktail and talk turkey or I'm not sure how I'm gonna go about it or if I'll try to you know uh record a little here and a little there but I'm gonna try to make um the whole month of April we're gonna talk turkey or the whole time I do got a date I do got a date with a big old Tom Turkey down there in Kentucky he gave me the slip last year I sat down on this ridge me and my me and my dad was down he was about 200 yards from me I could I could barely hear him calling over there but I sat down on this ridge um and I sat too close to the ridge where I could see over I should have either gone over a little bit where I could look down or I should have backed way up from the edge this was another lesson learned right here. But um I was calling and there was I had we had between dad and I calling a couple hundred yards apart we had two or three birds working they was gobbling but this old bruiser came in there he must have been six foot tall he had a bandan on his head and scars on his cheek from fighting he had spurs that was like five inches long he came up over the hill and as soon as he stepped over the hill he seen me same time as him and he's gone so I still got my I still got my date with that six foot bruiser down there. So I'm coming after you Brutus I'm gonna call him Brutus I'm going back after Brutus at the farm this year. So um he was a dandy he was a nice bird uh I don't know about six foot tall and five inch spurs but that's what I'm saying I'm gonna stick to it so but I got me a date with Brutus down there. I I hope that uh I hope they're gobbling I know last year on opening day they just didn't gobble very much on the opening day and um no I'm sorry take that back dad and I went down the weekend the third weekend and we went down for two days and the first day down we we shoe leather man we wore it out and um wore our slate calls out and every other call and they just wasn't gobbling on the first day that him and I was down and a second day you couldn't shut them up you couldn't shut them up but uh that'll be uh that'll be our Kentucky I usually make opening weekend down there and then we try to sneak back down at least a day or two if I it depend on work here if I can slide out you know um the Ohio opener I will hunt right here in southwest ohio pretty close to home but the second weekend I'm I'm hoping my son and my son-in-law are are gonna have the time to get off and we are going to eastern Ohio to do um to hunt around we're gonna be around MacArthur Ohio or Zillesky or Zilleski State Forest there's there's some Wayne National right there very close and um so I hope to keep you updated very well that's gonna be about like April 23rd or something like that. So before hopefully before the May 1st episode, we we got some updates on how that'll be rolling. So that's about getting me caught up for today. Today's going to be a little bit of a short episode, but I I just wanted to um I I think I'll end up probably doing a few of these solo episodes. We was going to do a bi-weekly, but I'm afraid that we got two weeks between episodes, which I understand it does seem like a little bit of a long time, but I'm just one person. I'm just one person. And I do got a I do got a full-time job. I help my wife with her business. Um, you know, so but I do think that these these solo episodes with just me coming on, I don't know, maybe every four or five episodes, clear up some details from guests, you know, and um, you know, just talk about where at where I'm at, what I'm doing in my outdoor life, you know, how my alpha gals going, you know, that sort of stuff. So before I close, before I close, I would like to encourage everybody to, you know, if if you're enjoying this podcast, get on wherever you get it from and write us a review. Write us a review. I know that that helps with the algorithms and brings us to the surface when somebody you know gets on there and searches Alpha Gal or Outdoors and you know that sort of stuff. So uh write us a review and uh the last send me an email. Send me an email. Tell me what you think. Um, if you're if you think you might be a good guest, I don't care if you just go to the woods and crochet or you garden. I'd love to get a gardener on here. Um, my wife would especially like that. Um, so um I think that's about it. Quick recap here, you know, uh turkey season. So April, month of April. Uh probably hopefully we get the old boy from George on first, uh April 1st, and 15th is, you know, I guess maybe 15th is gonna be tough because the opening season is gonna be so we might have a month of turkey hunting, might start April 15th through um May 15th or something like that. However, we're getting ready to talk turkey here on Alpha Gal Dorsman. So uh thanks everybody for tuning in. Uh episode seven, down Alpha Gal Dorsman. Thank y'all. Thanks for tuning in to Alpha Gal Dorsman. Make sure to hit that follow button. And until we meet again, we're your ticker, fellas.