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Welcome to the Knife Junkie Podcast. Your weekly dose of knife

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news and information about knives and knife collecting. Here's your

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host, Bob The Knife Junkie DeMarco.

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Welcome to the Knife Junkie podcast. I'm Bob DeMarco. On

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this edition of the show, I'm speaking with knife tuber extraordinaire

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Scott Baldwin, or Scab, as he may more commonly

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be known from choir boys outdoors. As a knife

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tuber myself, my consumption of knife review videos has waned

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in recent years. Kind of like the cobbler's kids wear no

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shoes. The algorithm instead has me pegged as someone more

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readily taken in by cooking, wristwatch or

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other guys on camping trip videos. But Scott

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has remained one of my favorite youtubers, no matter what the subject.

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He is also one of those trusted voices in the knife world that I

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refer to from time to time in my own videos. He's

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real and his takes on knives are based on real world use. And

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as a bonus, he's incredibly likable. We'll catch up with

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Scott and get the skinny on his channel's direction, but first, be sure to like,

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BattleBox Scott, welcome back to the Knife Junkie

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podcast, sir. It's great to see you man. Thank you for having me. I, I

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don't know that I can live up to that introduction, but I, I appreciate it

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very much. Well, you've already lived up to it. That's. That's how come

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it got rich. It's good, it's good to see you.

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And last time I saw you was at Blade show and you were, we were

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showing off some of our, our purchases which

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was cool. Let's, let's start there. What was, what was.

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What do you love best about Blade Show? What are those highlights there?

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Honestly, Blade show, for me it's

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one of those weird things where you get to see everybody and

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nobody all at the same time. I think my favorite part

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is Just talking to folks in knife tube. I always

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enjoyed seeing you there. The knives are great. That's

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why we go, right. But I enjoy the interaction.

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I think that's my favorite part. I feel like

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those of us who make knife videos, probably all

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video makers on YouTube, we spend a lot of time in the virtual

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world making these things and then watching other people's videos, that

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kind of thing. That when you actually get to meet people in

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person, it's like you're being let loose. Yeah,

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yeah. And it's cool, man. It's, it's like you meet people that you know,

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you have something in common with. No matter

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your background, no matter your financial, no matter anything you

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have that. We have knives and we have steel and we have

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passion and really, truly, honestly, that's like

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one of those rare moments where we can share with like

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minded people, like really react. Cause everybody else

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thinks we're nuts, crazy, or you know,

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what do you got that many for, you know, or, or they expect you

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to, you know. So for me, blade shows just really,

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I'll tell you the truth, man. I

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have been treated insanely well at blade show

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both times by folks just walking and talking

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by knife makers. I always enjoy though

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speaking with, with other knife tubers and just getting that

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proof. I think it's a shared experience and

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for me that I, man, I can't, I can't really stress that

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enough. And if you're a new knife tuber, try to make it to one of

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the blade shows. Honestly, I think you'd enjoy.

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Yeah, definitely. I told people on the live show that we do

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here, if you're there, you know, I know your name from, from

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the screen, but I don't know what you look like, so come up and say

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hi. I love that. I mean, I, I, I've

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really realized I'm, I'm, I'm a social

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butterfly. And you know, especially

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when I'm around all those knife people, like, I just want to talk to everyone.

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Yeah, absolutely. And try to, I try.

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But you feel, you feel like you talk to everybody and nobody.

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You feel like a million people and miss everybody.

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That part's bizarre to me, you know. You know, you, well,

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you, you said, yeah, it, well, it is for sure. Because you also

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know you're going there, you want to, there are certain makers you want to catch

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up with. There are definitely certain people you want to see. And then you leave

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and you're like, oh, I never, you know, I missed that. But you

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were, you were saying, you know, we're, we're A bunch of nuts. Or at least

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people think we're nuts. And, and that's,

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to a degree, why I started doing this is because,

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you know, my wife likes knives, but only up until a

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certain extent, you know, there's only so much dialogue. She'll

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suffer, you know, around knives. So I figured, why not

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talk to like minded people? What was it that, that got you to start choir

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outdoors? Man, I, I don't know if we talked about

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this last time, but honestly. And it, it's, it's

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not as deep as it sounds, but I was just coming out

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of a heavy addiction

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and I. One of the things that kind of bounced with me or resonated

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with me, and people don't understand this, Bob and I, it's hard to

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explain it to somebody because you're not glorifying. But when you are

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in addiction, whether it's opioids, alcohol, whatever it

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is, you have to hustle to

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feed that addiction. So when I quit, man, I

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was relieved I quit. But I had also realized that, dude,

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I hadn't, I, I promise you, I hadn't sat down

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and watched TV for probably a

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decade. And so quitting, that's one thing,

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that's great, but it's the nervous energy. And

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I've watched a bunch of. I watch it, man. Knife bro,

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Donnie B. All day. I mentioned him a lot, but Donnie. It was

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Donnie's video on this knife, the

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cold steel, that really. I said,

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I'm doing it. And the reason that I

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said I'm doing it is anybody that doesn't follow Donnie, you

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should, because Donnie, he's passionate, man.

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And Lonnie is going to disagree with

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99% people on certain designs and things,

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but he did a review of this knife and I thought, and I really thought,

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I said, man, that guy, he loves it. And it

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resonated with me and we fired it up. And Donnie was one of the

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first guys to. To

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answer question, to help me with the channel so

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that, I mean, that's what it was. But it wasn't like,

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I've done this now for five years, five and a half. And I

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don't ever want to glorify that or do it. Oh, woe is me.

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Because this thing really, knife tube in general

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turned my whole thing around.

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And I had a lot of knives, Bob. And this is kind of scary.

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And it, but, but as a heavy drug user,

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man, I bought a ton of knives now. Not hurt

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anybody. No, no, I get it. But I mean, it's like.

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And it, it's not again, it's not some deep dark place.

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I think really what it did, it brought

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something to the surface that I didn't understand until I got

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clean. And so that's what fired it up. That's

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what started it. And it's a blast ever

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since was. Like, you've got, you know, in your, in

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your pre YouTube days when you were overindulging you, you've got a lot

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of late nights, you're up late, you're. You've got a lot of energy.

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You're scrolling, you do, you do those little

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thighs where you're like, oh, oh, I bought it. Oh no. Going back from that.

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We've all done that and I could see how you

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need to fill that void with, with something and

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why not fill it with talking about this other thing that you love, you

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know? Well, and I didn't know what I was doing and I still

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don't to a large degree. But that's why

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I am huge on encouraging people

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to start. And at some point, Bob, we need to talk about

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maybe doing a series, maybe having you on

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Blade Talk with Scavenger. We really, I think we need to

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do some kind of series where we help some of these younger, newer or

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newer, not younger, but newer creators start, you know,

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maybe give some tips to avoid the pitfalls.

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I think that would be cool, you know, and have different

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voices, you know. No, no one central voice have different

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voices because I see people get in

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and I see their heart and I see their passion and,

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and there's some folks, man, you watch it die

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and it's like there's. They don't really have any. And I'm not saying we can't

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build everybody to a certain level. Right?

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Yeah, but I don't want anybody's passion

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to get killed because of the Internet

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or because they just didn't. I'm too hard headed. I said

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I didn't know what I was doing. Um, I don't, I don't now

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but I'm too hard headed to quit, you know. But I, I

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really would like to get some guys, you, some other

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guys who, who have been around it and understand kind of the

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pitfalls and just. I don't. I won't call it a class,

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but maybe let's do, let's do a little series of things to look out

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for. Perhaps it's sort of, sort of like a roundtable. This is actually

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an idea very similar to an idea that Jim has had

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for a while. But it'd be, it would be like doing a round table and

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having someone there and they can, they can,

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you know, bounce ideas off you and everything. You know, there's something, you and

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I are the same age, and there's something to becoming a man

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of a certain age where you kind of just don't care so much about what

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people think. And it, there's a freedom to that that

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is. Oh, man, like, I wish I felt the way I feel

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now, you know, 30 years ago. So maybe

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instilling a little bit of that attitude in someone who's

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new, and it doesn't mean young in age. It could just be someone

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who's 65 years old who's starting, but just to

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get them. Get their feet wet. Yeah. Cause I see, I

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see I had help. And I mean, like, like I said,

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Donnie stepped up big for me. Another guy,

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Backyard Samurai, stepped up big for me. And, and,

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and some of these guys

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did it, you know, they, they, they may not still

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be on knife tube today, but they instilled certain

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things. Backyard Samurai instilled

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giving, you know, one channel to the other. And I,

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I don't know if you've experienced this. I'm, I'm sure you hadn't been on here

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so long, but, you know, if you gift another channel

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something, there's always the comment, well, you always give stuff to other

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channels because it helped

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me. Right. So. And we

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can't control what other people say. And, and honestly,

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Bob, I'm not even talking about, like, trying to help people with trolls

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because you, you got to ask yourself if

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you have thick skin, you know? You know, if you

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have thick skin and if you don't, don't get on you, because you won't.

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Backyard Samurai, he gave me a. There's a battle axe over there.

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And he's given me several things, and he's given a lot of people things.

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And so I try to pay it forward. That was all he asked,

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pay it forward. And those things help

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build relationships and they actually

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help maybe somebody who's just starting out with a

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little credibility, if that makes sense. It

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does, actually. You talk about relationships. It.

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One of the, one of the things I love about your videos, I,

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you have a whole bunch of different kinds of videos. And

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you know, I know you've done a lot with shorts, and I also know you've

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done a lot with long form test videos, and those are the ones that first

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drew me in. But I love your. You have

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sort of, for lack of a better term, sort of philosophy videos.

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You'll be driving in your car, you'll just turn on the, the camera and

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something's been eaten at you. And, and you have at it

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you recently, without getting too specific on, on my end, you can get as

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specific as you want. But you recently did one kind of. On

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relationships and, and how, you

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know, whether it's other knife

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tubers or knife makers, upstart companies,

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you know, they're asking for some faith from

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those of us who invest money in them or time in them. And then when

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they don't, when they don't kind of

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produce, it can. It can be a problem. Especially if you put your

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own name to helping them. Can you talk about that?

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Yeah. Well, I was talking about heavyset, tactical.

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And the reason I'm bringing him up by name is

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Jonathan was with me at Blade show. And

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I don't know where he's at in his head right now,

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but I know this. I went to bat for that guy.

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And if he needed me, if he reached out, I would be there.

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But Bob, we put, you know, people watch these things, man.

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They've watched you for years now. They've watched me for a certain amount of time.

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People trust us, right? They trust you.

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I know they trust you. I know they do because I do. I trust what

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you say. So when we're out there, we tout someone

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because we're, we're. We're holding on to what they've

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made and then they screw somebody over.

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And, and let me, Let me just say this too. I'm not talking about a

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misunderstanding. I'm talking about when it's time. And we've seen it.

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We've seen it with Carnivora. I got ram there

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survived knives. And I did it big time. And

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listen, I don't mean any real will on these people, but dude,

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they screwed people over. They took

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their money. Yeah, yeah.

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And it. There's no like survive. And

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Guy never sent me a thing. I talked to him a couple times and

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I Distance. But

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people watch us and they're spending their money. You

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work, I work. We're not getting rich off

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this. So somebody goes out and they.

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They get a custom knob that I. Of course, I wouldn't have one.

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But if they purchase a knife. Well,

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you know what? We'll do this right here. I do have it.

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This is one of the most reputable guys I've ever come across.

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William Collins. That's the Gray man by

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William Collins. Fuel the fire. Right? William has

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an established business. That knife's between 3 and

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$400. So when somebody puts

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that kind of money up and I don't. Bob, I don't for what

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they have, dude, $400 is $400, bro.

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And somebody intentionally

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takes. That's wrong. It's theft,

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you know, and the whole addiction thing. And I mentioned this in that video,

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and I meant it, and I mean it now. Addiction. Addiction's not an

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excuse, man. Addiction is not an

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excuse. This ain't some old, poor, pitiful me or

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we're not heroes. The damage that we do.

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Again, I don't know where John's at. I'd like to see him right

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and ship. But here's what happened. And, and you know,

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you get so far behind, man, and then

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not only can he not catch up and maybe

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people don't feel this way. I've had people go, man, don't worry about it.

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It's hard not to worry about it. It's hard.

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I take that stuff personally, you know,

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especially when I've said, hey, this is a great knife, because it wants,

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you know, what he's doing.

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So I, it. And it puts me in a quandary,

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I think, like, it would put all of us in a quandary because there

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are. Dude, there, there are thousands of

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phenomenal knife makers out there, man,

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but every form, somebody new gets me up. I'm skeptical.

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I'm skeptical, and I never got into this

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skeptical, you know, or I didn't get

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this to. I don't know, man. I,

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I, that video meant a lot to me. I meant it. I don't say

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stuff I don't mean. And very

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protective of us, of knife tubers. And to me,

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knife tubers is not somebody. And this is a

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bashing and saying what knife tube is to me.

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Knife tube is to me, working folks.

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Folks who don't have huge teams, who don't have

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huge production companies, who don't aren't

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celebrities and nothing wrong with that. We need some of that to help perpetuate

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knife tube. But to me, knife tube is

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folks coming together and sharing their passion of knives

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and for knives. That's what it is. And if,

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if we don't have trust, then. Then all we are is one more

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community on YouTube that got tanked by law. It's.

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It's sitting around the coffee table with your friends

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BSing with, with knives. Just since

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you mentioned heavyset tactical, I'm rooting for that guy. I've followed him.

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You know, he had a channel and I, I loved his taste

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in edc and his knives looked great and from everything I heard,

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so hopefully he digs himself out of the morass and.

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But I, I think it takes someone maybe with your experience

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to say addiction is not an excuse use, you

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know, but it's not. It's not. And I,

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and let me to everybody watching Bob and I didn't talk about this

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beforehand. This is my, I'm saying, and I

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love John. I, I, we had a great time at Blake show.

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I'm pulling for, I'm pulling for anybody, but there comes

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a time when, you know,

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I can pull for people and I do, but

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gotta make up for what you've done. You know, I, I don't think

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he needs to be part of life for a while. I, I, I'm

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not a gatekeeper. I don't want to be. But I, dude,

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I had a lot of people reaching out. I mean, out of nowhere. That video

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didn't just appear because there was one instance

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and, and see when what happens, Bob, in this case

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is you do have white knights in the community. And, and

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again, this is me. This isn't Bob, this is me. You got

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gatekeepers and you got white knights who sit on go to wait and abash

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anybody they can. So you'll get people

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watching you. Well, you know, they did it. And so,

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you know, if it's what now I can tell you man to man,

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if it's one person, I'm not making a video about it because

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to me, it's a relationship that went sour.

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Now when it starts getting to 2 and 3 and 4 and 5,

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how long do you let it go? You know, how long then do you let

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it go before that? There's one more mark of you not

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being responsible and saying, hey. And so that's where I was at.

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I'd gotten to a point where I have to now say something. And that's

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came off a little angry because I was. Because now I've got to make this

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video that I don't make.

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Well, you seem, you seem the sort of angry someone is towards a good friend

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who, who messes up and you're like, look, man, yeah, I recommended you for this

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job and you kept falling asleep on the job and now it looks bad on

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me. Yeah, I get that. And I think, I think that

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that's really evident. Came through on the video.

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And I haven't heard from it. Heard from. I

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haven't. But, but honestly, man, Carnivore did the same thing.

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And because what would happen with

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Carnivore? Because I love the look of those knives. I don't have any.

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I think I held some at Blade Show. I'm pretty sure they've been to

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Blade Show. Right. And what

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did they disappear? It's a lot. It's a

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long, complicated story. But no, no, if we will make

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it long, I'll make it quick up

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front. Everything looked legit. But what, what

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I began to notice in what I started to fear

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and what came out, not this past blade show, but the one before that

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was, it was almost like the Ponzi scheme. You know,

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they were taking in money for knives,

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robbing Peter to pay. Paul got behind again.

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Except in their case, there were some major. And I don't want

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to say a whole lot about it because I think there's like some legal stuff

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going on, but dude, you talked about knife

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to the back. Because I touted them heavy. Because I

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loved what they did. I, I, that's part of my passion.

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I think I showed you some of their stuff last time. I love

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crazy stuff. And those lives weren't

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cheap. They weren't cheap. And so you're

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asking people to shell out money and I might even have it.

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I don't know the old saying of

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beating a dead horse. But again, it's one of those things where

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it started snowballing and before,

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before I realized it, I had to make a video. And I hate making them

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stupid videos. I like my riding with scabs where we're having

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fun. I like reviewing knives. I like seeing what other people have.

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Now I'm like you, and I'm glad you

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mentioned this because the longer you do this, the less life reviews

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you want. You just don't have,

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you don't have the time really.

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And I, I'm like you, man. The camping videos, the extreme camping

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videos, dude, who's those? That's

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my jam. I love that, love that.

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But, but I support knife tubers.

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I catch a lot of folks who shorts. I'll catch your podcast,

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I'll catch certain long form videos and I try to leave likes

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and comments and I try to send knives out

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to channels that may not get the opportunities that I have,

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but especially like with the work up and you know, it's just all part

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of it. It's fun. That part I like. It's fun.

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So something you do that I love. And I gotta say,

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this is like an early morning. I get up very early and I

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have a little time to myself and there's always a portion of the morning where

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I'm watching YouTube. We'll leave it there. But I

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love your videos. Lately they've been cold steel and

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for a long while, Rose Craft, where you take a knife

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and every day you put it to hard use. Whether it's

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10 cuts through a fire hose or.

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Or I'm going to use this D2 slip joint until it falls

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apart. And I love those. It's. They do a couple of

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things. First of all, I'm sure from your perspective, they, they. It's

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a series so it solidifies a viewing audience. They just kind of, oh, here he

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is again cutting this. Yeah. Oh, okay. What's he going to talk about this

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time? Because a lot of it has to do with just the human

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interact. Interaction. We're not actually interacting. But you're talking to the

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camera so familiar. Because it's something you do so often.

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Tell us a little bit about that. I mean, you know, how did you get

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into doing these daily testing videos and what have you

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learned from them? The, the. How I got

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into it was specifically through Ragecraft.

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I love Rosecraft. I love Andy and

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Swag Swags and all have a very, very different

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relationship. Almost familial, almost

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because we have a lot of commonalities. But man,

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I wanted to do something for him. We get, for folks that

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don't know when you get on YouTube or you get on knife tube,

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whatever you start off with, people put you in a box. Like I'm known

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for, for crazy fixed blades and big fixed blades. Bob's known

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for big fixed blades. I am not known for pocket knives.

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So as much as I love pocket knives and love reviewing pocket

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knives, they don't get the view. And so if a company

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seemingly knives like Rosecraft sends me all kinds of.

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If I can't get the views through a long form, I thought let's try this.

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And we're the same age, we grew up

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with uncles and grandfathers and great uncles.

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They carried slip joints. So I thought this will be

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cool. There's a lot of

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just falsehoods about slip joints. And I thought.

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And that started it and then I got a lot of

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views on you just to be real with you. They really did well.

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And I thought this is a way that I can say thank you to

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Rosecraft. I can show their stuff and,

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and make a really. So that. I mean that's how it started. And

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then I'm a cold steel freak. Talked about

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that before. All right, all right, let's talk about cold steel in a second because

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I can't get enough. Like literally I just ordered two

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things last night. I actually just happened.

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But the Rosecraft, those slip

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joint videos in particular, I don't remember what the Barlow is called, I don't have

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that one. But it, it really, first of

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all oftentimes, you're cutting, like,

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sandblasting pipes and all sorts of crazy stuff that,

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that I, I, I don't use those at work. I,

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you know, I don't. So I have an inkling

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that these knives can take that kind of use.

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But to see it over and over, day in, day out, day, and, and to

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see that you haven't stropped it or sharpened it in a while and all that

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really kind of sold me. I mean, I didn't need

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any more selling on the form. I love, I love

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slip joints. But to see the evidence is

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important. Yeah. In that

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you ask what I learned from it. What I learned from it

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was I learned a ton.

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Like, when you start cutting every day, one of the byproducts of

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it. One of the things I learned from. We don't use our knowledge

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as much as we hope we do. We really don't. It's

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easy being knife tubers. And for those of y' all don't know, it's

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just knife tube is a, Is a term.

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It's not knife reviewers. It's just knife tubers. We love knives.

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But it revealed to me how little.

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Even though I have a channel, I actually,

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like, really use a knife. So it showed me

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it takes effort to, I mean. Cause nobody's gonna use a knife that much

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unless you're a chef or a baker or something like that. That's the

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first thing. The second thing I learned from it was knife

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maintenance, believe it or not. It started to instill

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in me, okay, I don't want to run this thing all the way dull. So

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I need to strop it this amount of times or hone it this

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amount of times. It taught me a lot of knife safety,

463
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because y' all don't notice a lot. But when I fold something to cut it,

464
00:29:32.120 --> 00:29:33.760
I stab myself every

465
00:29:36.390 --> 00:29:39.990
so. And before somebody said, you haven't learned. Oh, I learned. I learned every time

466
00:29:39.990 --> 00:29:43.590
I dig it and I, I move it back. But, man, I've,

467
00:29:43.590 --> 00:29:47.230
I've really, It's really. I'm glad you brought that up, man, because

468
00:29:47.230 --> 00:29:50.230
it's really, really, really, really, really revived

469
00:29:50.870 --> 00:29:54.350
my love. Not for knowledge that'll always be there, but for, like,

470
00:29:54.350 --> 00:29:57.750
YouTube and, and social media and that kind of thing.

471
00:29:58.150 --> 00:30:01.880
And it, It's. I'll be honest with you, too. The other thing I learned is

472
00:30:01.880 --> 00:30:05.440
this. It is a constant source of content.

473
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:10.400
Cause as much as I love knives, I enjoy the, I enjoy

474
00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:14.520
the growth part, if that, you know, that

475
00:30:14.520 --> 00:30:18.240
ports. There are folks who don't care about growth at all.

476
00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:22.240
And I admire that. I really do. I'm not

477
00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:25.920
one of them. I like to push the boundaries and

478
00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:29.730
it's a challenge. So it really from

479
00:30:29.730 --> 00:30:32.010
that standpoint and I monitor

480
00:30:33.290 --> 00:30:36.770
really helped a ton. In fact,

481
00:30:36.850 --> 00:30:40.370
I'm glad you mentioned it too because I've got to do mine for tonight.

482
00:30:41.250 --> 00:30:43.490
So I'll porch when we're done,

483
00:30:45.330 --> 00:30:49.090
dudes that you just stroll by.

484
00:30:49.090 --> 00:30:52.770
My wife and I, Megan and I went kayaking Sunday,

485
00:30:53.600 --> 00:30:57.440
Saturday Ocklawaha. That

486
00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:01.080
little short I put up of that gator, it. It's kind of grainy but man,

487
00:31:01.080 --> 00:31:03.600
that was a nine or ten foot gator,

488
00:31:05.280 --> 00:31:08.920
dude. That thing looked. I'm. I'm blind and everybody

489
00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:12.360
knows my eye floats. You can see it on this. I'm sure you could see

490
00:31:12.360 --> 00:31:16.200
it. I can't help it. But Megan was in front of me and

491
00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:19.960
we're, we're going. It was just gorgeous. And I see her kayak kind

492
00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:23.160
of turn to the side and she reached down. So

493
00:31:23.560 --> 00:31:26.920
I immediately start looking. That's a sign something's over there

494
00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:31.640
and I can't. I'm like. She said, do you see it? And I lied.

495
00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:35.400
I said, yeah, but that thing was so big, man, it

496
00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:39.040
looked like a truck tire leaning up against that

497
00:31:39.040 --> 00:31:40.360
tree. Oh my.

498
00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:46.680
She said, it looks like a truck tire. So when she said, I said holy

499
00:31:46.760 --> 00:31:50.570
smokes it. That was the second largest gator and I

500
00:31:50.570 --> 00:31:54.210
live in Florida. If you live in Florida, gators are abundant.

501
00:31:54.210 --> 00:31:58.010
But some gators, but that was just cool.

502
00:31:58.010 --> 00:32:01.810
That had nothing to do with knives. I did have. I can. I

503
00:32:01.810 --> 00:32:05.490
took my trusty William Collins in

504
00:32:05.490 --> 00:32:09.250
AEB Dash shell because where we were at can be kind of

505
00:32:09.250 --> 00:32:12.970
brackish. But I thought this isn't going to do nothing to that gators for

506
00:32:12.970 --> 00:32:16.810
weeks. Turn around. He's gonna pick bits of you out of

507
00:32:16.810 --> 00:32:19.890
his teeth with that knife. Yeah, yeah, that,

508
00:32:20.290 --> 00:32:24.050
that's. That was a bad boy there and then we seen the little one. But

509
00:32:24.610 --> 00:32:28.370
that that's thing was big. But being on

510
00:32:28.370 --> 00:32:31.930
the ocklawaha and things like that, the

511
00:32:31.930 --> 00:32:35.570
cutting every day has really kind of honed in

512
00:32:35.810 --> 00:32:38.850
what I carry with me, if that makes sense.

513
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:43.720
The cutting materials you mentioned, the sandblast hose and the

514
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:46.920
ratchet strap, man, I really,

515
00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:51.000
really, really go back and forth with that.

516
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:56.040
I don't think many people use those things on

517
00:32:56.040 --> 00:32:59.480
YouTube. And so for me I'm going, well, this is an

518
00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:03.080
industrial material. But another part of me is like, dude, people

519
00:33:03.080 --> 00:33:06.490
have no clue what you're coming. So I kind of, I do

520
00:33:06.490 --> 00:33:08.130
waffle on it a little Bit,

521
00:33:11.250 --> 00:33:14.850
but I, you know, what else do you cut? You cut what you have around.

522
00:33:15.170 --> 00:33:18.610
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, but it's also obvious from the,

523
00:33:18.850 --> 00:33:22.250
the locations where you do these. You know, if it's not at home, it's at

524
00:33:22.250 --> 00:33:25.930
work it seems. And you can see the work environment. You know,

525
00:33:25.930 --> 00:33:29.770
you've got a lot of tools and heavy equipment and stuff

526
00:33:29.770 --> 00:33:33.400
around. People know that. You know, I, I've never held a sandblasting

527
00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:37.240
hose in my life, but I can, I can just tell from its use that

528
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:40.600
it's, it's a serious material that you're cutting through.

529
00:33:41.080 --> 00:33:44.840
Send you some. Next time we have one blow out, I'll send you some.

530
00:33:44.840 --> 00:33:48.520
It's, it's a cool material. Yeah, I'll add joint on.

531
00:33:49.560 --> 00:33:53.080
So cold steel. Cold steel. Recently

532
00:33:53.320 --> 00:33:56.920
I noticed, well, you started the series with the drop point,

533
00:33:57.410 --> 00:34:00.770
a large Voyager or XL Voyager. And then,

534
00:34:01.410 --> 00:34:05.170
and then you got the, the Spartan serrated

535
00:34:05.490 --> 00:34:09.290
and you've been going to town with these. What is it

536
00:34:09.290 --> 00:34:13.090
about cold steel? I mean, you don't have to sell me on them, but

537
00:34:13.169 --> 00:34:16.810
what do you love about cold steel? I love their

538
00:34:16.810 --> 00:34:20.490
knowledge. I, and I'm, it's. I've got a whole thing

539
00:34:20.490 --> 00:34:24.250
of them right here beside me. Cold steel, their number,

540
00:34:24.810 --> 00:34:28.570
not, not customer service, not anything in that manner.

541
00:34:28.570 --> 00:34:32.330
But their knowledge just resonate with me. And I'll tell you what

542
00:34:32.330 --> 00:34:35.730
started it is those old Lynn Thompson

543
00:34:35.730 --> 00:34:39.569
videos where they're cutting, right? And

544
00:34:39.569 --> 00:34:43.370
they showed again, showed it was cool, it was all right.

545
00:34:43.770 --> 00:34:47.290
Probably not cool people thinking crazy, but it's all right to cut

546
00:34:47.290 --> 00:34:50.940
stuff. And I got to sit and have dinner with

547
00:34:50.940 --> 00:34:54.380
Wayne this past Blade show and so man,

548
00:34:54.380 --> 00:34:58.140
talking to him kind of really, even though he doesn't own it

549
00:34:58.140 --> 00:35:00.740
anymore, like this vaquero,

550
00:35:01.860 --> 00:35:05.420
it's fully serrated. But having Lynn kind of

551
00:35:05.420 --> 00:35:09.020
explained, you know, the dynamics when you look at a

552
00:35:09.020 --> 00:35:12.820
cold steel and I, my channel, I, I think you focus some

553
00:35:12.820 --> 00:35:15.380
on, on the self defense and how to carry.

554
00:35:17.330 --> 00:35:20.970
My channel is typically not like that. But you can't

555
00:35:20.970 --> 00:35:24.610
have a cold steel and not think about some kind of

556
00:35:24.610 --> 00:35:28.370
self defense, self offense. You can't think of a cold

557
00:35:28.370 --> 00:35:32.010
steel and not think of it as not a weapon.

558
00:35:32.010 --> 00:35:35.810
And I probably didn't say that right. But it's not just

559
00:35:35.810 --> 00:35:38.370
that they're not scared to have fun.

560
00:35:40.130 --> 00:35:43.770
I just love their stuff. What is it for you? What,

561
00:35:43.770 --> 00:35:47.610
what's your big thing? Well, for me, you know, when I was in high

562
00:35:47.610 --> 00:35:51.330
school, a friend of mine was like, oh, there's this knife. A friend

563
00:35:51.330 --> 00:35:54.890
of mine was really into Knives when I was in high school and he introduced

564
00:35:54.890 --> 00:35:58.450
me to cold steel with the original tanto. And he's like, yeah, man,

565
00:35:58.450 --> 00:36:02.050
CIA operatives carry these and they can punch them through a car

566
00:36:02.050 --> 00:36:05.610
door. Oh my God. You know, I got obsessed with it and then I

567
00:36:05.610 --> 00:36:09.290
bought the. The Tonto from the Randall

568
00:36:09.290 --> 00:36:13.130
Park Mall outside of Cleveland. There was a knife store and they had

569
00:36:13.130 --> 00:36:16.450
this cold steel I saved up for it. That is still

570
00:36:16.770 --> 00:36:20.210
my bedside knife. I've had it for 40 whatever years.

571
00:36:20.450 --> 00:36:24.090
And yeah, I just 30 some odd years and

572
00:36:24.090 --> 00:36:27.930
I just love that knife. And to me, the thing that

573
00:36:27.930 --> 00:36:31.330
kept me coming back, I never thought Lynn. A lot of people like

574
00:36:31.810 --> 00:36:35.650
apologists. You know, I like Colt steel, but that Lynn Thompson, he's

575
00:36:35.650 --> 00:36:38.770
an unsavory character. I think he's one of the coolest guys I've ever met.

576
00:36:39.550 --> 00:36:43.390
No, he's also a badass, by the way. But what I

577
00:36:43.390 --> 00:36:47.230
love, especially about cold steel knives is

578
00:36:47.230 --> 00:36:51.070
that he's got and. And I believe that the company has carried this

579
00:36:51.070 --> 00:36:54.829
on in his absence. But he's got this insane

580
00:36:54.829 --> 00:36:58.670
wealth of knowledge when it comes to the history of knives. Swords,

581
00:36:58.830 --> 00:37:02.670
blades, axes, historically, how they were used,

582
00:37:03.470 --> 00:37:07.230
the historical periods they come from, why they're significant. And

583
00:37:07.230 --> 00:37:10.950
he's got a giant collection of knives that he would base his

584
00:37:10.950 --> 00:37:14.430
design on. And to me, all of that is just perfect.

585
00:37:15.150 --> 00:37:17.550
Yeah, the dude's amazing. He, he.

586
00:37:18.590 --> 00:37:21.470
Lynn is a bundle of energy and

587
00:37:22.270 --> 00:37:26.110
again, it's the passion and you know, for me, I'll tell you what it is

588
00:37:26.110 --> 00:37:29.750
for me too. He's not embarrassed by. He's

589
00:37:29.750 --> 00:37:33.560
unabashed about. He's not worried about what you think about it.

590
00:37:33.560 --> 00:37:37.360
I promise you that. And you got to interview him. Well,

591
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:41.040
God doesn't care and you'll hear big. So I don't care what anybody

592
00:37:41.040 --> 00:37:44.640
thinks. And they really do. Lynn really don't. I mean he

593
00:37:44.640 --> 00:37:48.080
really don't. I don't know there's another knife maker on the

594
00:37:48.080 --> 00:37:50.760
planet other than Andrew Dim because he likes.

595
00:37:51.240 --> 00:37:54.720
Honestly. But Lynn's just.

596
00:37:54.720 --> 00:37:58.480
Lynn, man. I was, I was looking and I think you got this

597
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:02.250
one. But Luke and

598
00:38:02.250 --> 00:38:05.490
that. That's the other thing. One of the things that's caused my biggest

599
00:38:05.490 --> 00:38:09.330
resurgence with Cold Spiel is not long ago I made a video

600
00:38:09.490 --> 00:38:13.010
short on these Securex sheets, right?

601
00:38:13.170 --> 00:38:16.970
How they dull the knives and no, they're not. And, and

602
00:38:16.970 --> 00:38:20.690
that there is some truth to

603
00:38:20.690 --> 00:38:24.410
that. They don't run them completely dull and

604
00:38:24.410 --> 00:38:28.150
that. But to me I thought, well, why not fix

605
00:38:28.150 --> 00:38:30.630
it? So I made the video the short

606
00:38:31.750 --> 00:38:35.550
and not knowing that Luke Who's

607
00:38:35.550 --> 00:38:39.310
a good friend of mine from calculating survival was the

608
00:38:39.310 --> 00:38:43.110
new face of Cold Steel. So I started

609
00:38:43.750 --> 00:38:47.510
noticing Luke from Calculator Survival showing up in Cold Steel.

610
00:38:48.390 --> 00:38:52.070
So I reached out to him, and that's how he came

611
00:38:52.070 --> 00:38:55.740
on Blade Talk with Scad and Judd, and we hung out

612
00:38:55.740 --> 00:38:59.340
at Blade Show. And Luke is passionate

613
00:38:59.340 --> 00:39:02.860
about knives. And, you know, because you do this

614
00:39:02.860 --> 00:39:06.700
podcast in which. I love the podcast, because you have

615
00:39:06.700 --> 00:39:09.620
people on that are passionate about knives.

616
00:39:10.420 --> 00:39:14.100
I cannot stand people who get into that. There are people who

617
00:39:14.100 --> 00:39:17.540
get into this, and they get into it, and they don't want to do nothing

618
00:39:17.540 --> 00:39:21.390
but bash them. Whiny bitch. Use my language. But that. That

619
00:39:21.710 --> 00:39:25.310
I want to be around people who love not. You know,

620
00:39:25.790 --> 00:39:29.550
Luke's one of those guys, whether you like him or you don't. The guys

621
00:39:29.550 --> 00:39:31.550
he. And he has phenomenal hair.

622
00:39:33.150 --> 00:39:36.350
Talking to Luke. Huh?

623
00:39:36.910 --> 00:39:40.270
I said, who doesn't like Luke? He's. He seems like such a nice guy.

624
00:39:40.990 --> 00:39:44.830
He is. He's a great guy. But, you know, here's the thing, too.

625
00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:49.080
You go from having a channel and I think he talked about it on.

626
00:39:49.080 --> 00:39:52.880
On our thing. You go from having a channel and everybody loves what you

627
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:56.440
do, then as soon as you. You accept a position like that,

628
00:39:56.760 --> 00:40:00.560
you know, then people just look at you as a salesman. And I'll

629
00:40:00.560 --> 00:40:03.920
say this for Luke, he's far from just a

630
00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:07.560
salesman. The guy is knowledgeable. And

631
00:40:07.560 --> 00:40:11.080
so to get back to Cold Steel, he has a fire for it.

632
00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:15.040
And. And I got to meet Stick, and he has the

633
00:40:15.040 --> 00:40:18.720
fire for it. So, man, it's just the passion that

634
00:40:18.720 --> 00:40:22.440
goes with Cold Steel. You lit up about them when people

635
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:26.000
either love them or hate them. And that's my favorite way to be in the

636
00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:29.840
world. My. My dad is

637
00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:33.400
a pastor, and I don't do a lot of the politics, religion, or anything down

638
00:40:33.400 --> 00:40:37.210
on channel, but the. The whole, you know, I. I would rather

639
00:40:37.210 --> 00:40:40.930
you be hot or cold, not lukewarm. And that.

640
00:40:40.930 --> 00:40:44.690
That, to me, that resonates me. And people. You'll find people

641
00:40:44.690 --> 00:40:47.970
either love me or hate me. They. You'll never in your life hear somebody say,

642
00:40:47.970 --> 00:40:51.490
my scab's all right. And that's the way I want it to be. That's the

643
00:40:51.490 --> 00:40:54.610
way it should be. You know, I'm not. I'm out to make enemies.

644
00:40:55.090 --> 00:40:58.370
But like Lynn, the guy.

645
00:40:58.690 --> 00:41:02.050
We went to dinner, Bob, and I'm telling you,

646
00:41:02.700 --> 00:41:06.300
I'm telling you, when we got done with air, I went.

647
00:41:06.620 --> 00:41:10.380
I could have cut up a force. I mean, he was just. You could.

648
00:41:10.380 --> 00:41:14.020
You're passionate now. He did hit me. Have you ever seen the

649
00:41:14.020 --> 00:41:17.260
clip? And I'm, I think you have. With Chell Sonnen

650
00:41:17.900 --> 00:41:21.500
and Silva with Von

651
00:41:21.500 --> 00:41:24.940
Delight. Is a fight. A, a fight?

652
00:41:25.580 --> 00:41:29.350
Well, it's, they were coaching, and Chell's

653
00:41:29.430 --> 00:41:32.990
talking to Vondelay and Von delay's cussing him out.

654
00:41:32.990 --> 00:41:36.710
Chell's like, come on, Vondelay, come over.

655
00:41:36.710 --> 00:41:40.510
And Vondelay gets close and Chill pushes him. And he says, I

656
00:41:40.510 --> 00:41:44.110
can't let you get close to me. If you check it

657
00:41:44.110 --> 00:41:47.750
out. Because I had one of moments with Lynn Thompson. That's why I'm

658
00:41:47.750 --> 00:41:51.110
bringing it up. We were talking about chopping something.

659
00:41:51.830 --> 00:41:55.160
I'm sitting like, I'm sitting here. Lynn's sitting

660
00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:59.120
here. So I showed him a video and, and some

661
00:41:59.120 --> 00:42:02.880
of it, man, is just being beat up in 54 years. The dynamics. And

662
00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:06.200
I was getting pointers on chopping from Lynn, you know,

663
00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:10.720
So I turned to him and I said, well, part of the problem, Lyn, is

664
00:42:10.720 --> 00:42:14.440
when I do like this. Well, when I did, he threw one of those.

665
00:42:14.600 --> 00:42:18.320
He come up with like a, a backhand and hit my arm. And

666
00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:22.060
he can't let you get close to me. That house I

667
00:42:22.060 --> 00:42:25.820
started, I'm not going. I won't do that again. But I mean, it was

668
00:42:25.820 --> 00:42:29.380
just one of those. Cool. He's wide open. And

669
00:42:29.380 --> 00:42:33.100
I'll just too. And this means a lot to me. Lynn

670
00:42:33.100 --> 00:42:36.580
is a good tipper. Lynn Thompson's a good tipper. Oh, good doing

671
00:42:36.580 --> 00:42:40.180
that. Yep. And I was going to say, if, you know, you know,

672
00:42:40.740 --> 00:42:44.380
and, and if anybody has anything to say, that's what I'd say. Lynn

673
00:42:44.380 --> 00:42:47.740
Thompson is a good Tim. That is great. Yep.

674
00:42:47.980 --> 00:42:51.580
I'm an Italian and I'm a former waiter, so I,

675
00:42:51.580 --> 00:42:55.260
I, I respect a good tipper, but it also means

676
00:42:55.260 --> 00:42:59.060
that you haven't forgotten where you come from. And, and I think that

677
00:42:59.060 --> 00:43:02.620
that's really important. Some people get too big for their britches, right?

678
00:43:03.420 --> 00:43:06.620
Yeah. Well, I don't think that's, you know, I don't know.

679
00:43:07.580 --> 00:43:11.300
He just loves knobs, man. Well, so let's talk a

680
00:43:11.300 --> 00:43:14.850
little bit about Blade Talk with Scab and Joe. You've had

681
00:43:14.850 --> 00:43:18.490
some serious talk about passion for knives.

682
00:43:18.490 --> 00:43:21.810
You've had some serious heavy hitters on your show.

683
00:43:22.370 --> 00:43:25.890
What's your favorite part about that? First of all, I think Joe's a pretty cool

684
00:43:25.890 --> 00:43:29.450
dude. And, and I follow

685
00:43:29.450 --> 00:43:33.290
him as well, and I love his collection and his approach. But

686
00:43:33.290 --> 00:43:36.930
what have you gotten from Blade Talk? What's, what's your favorite part of that?

687
00:43:37.810 --> 00:43:41.480
First of all, without Joe, there's No blade talk that I've

688
00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:44.880
got to say that. And Joe from the Steel mindset,

689
00:43:45.120 --> 00:43:48.920
I'll give him a shout out because Joe reaches out to all

690
00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:52.640
these folks and you know, you know, nobody knows better than you,

691
00:43:52.640 --> 00:43:56.160
Bob. You reach out to folks, you wait on replies.

692
00:43:56.640 --> 00:44:00.440
You know, some people do say no. You know what

693
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:03.920
I've gotten from it, man, Blessed

694
00:44:04.160 --> 00:44:07.880
beyond. I mean you've had a lot of big folks too.

695
00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:11.470
And you know, it's not being enamored with anybody but it's

696
00:44:11.470 --> 00:44:14.670
actually getting to pick people's brains. Whether it's Ernie

697
00:44:14.670 --> 00:44:17.750
Emerson or Lynn Thompson or Curtis

698
00:44:17.750 --> 00:44:20.630
Iviedo or on down the line

699
00:44:21.430 --> 00:44:25.270
John Stitt from K Bar. And you get to ask

700
00:44:25.350 --> 00:44:29.110
questions and you get to, to get to know

701
00:44:29.110 --> 00:44:32.630
folks a little bit. Right. More than just

702
00:44:32.870 --> 00:44:36.670
the person. I enjoy having Greg Medford

703
00:44:36.670 --> 00:44:40.390
on. Right, Greg, intelligent guy. He's controversial

704
00:44:40.390 --> 00:44:43.830
guy. But the biggest thing I get from it

705
00:44:45.030 --> 00:44:48.710
is just, I don't want to say just

706
00:44:48.710 --> 00:44:52.390
knowledge because people are like, oh, it's the knowledge that

707
00:44:52.390 --> 00:44:55.830
comes from it. It's about learning about people. It's about

708
00:44:56.310 --> 00:44:59.710
visiting with folks before, it's about the show and

709
00:44:59.710 --> 00:45:03.130
investing with after. I can tell you we've never,

710
00:45:03.360 --> 00:45:06.960
never had anyone, anyone that I was like

711
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:10.800
how will this ever end? We've had

712
00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:14.800
that again, credit to Joe and you learn about

713
00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:18.360
people's backgrounds. You know, I talked to Ernie

714
00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:21.920
Emerson, he has a monster love

715
00:45:23.120 --> 00:45:26.640
for ancient weapons. Right. And

716
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:31.680
you nailed it with Lynn. Lynn is a just wealth

717
00:45:31.680 --> 00:45:35.080
of knowledge. So man, it's not about being

718
00:45:35.080 --> 00:45:38.600
enamored with people, it's about getting to know them on a different

719
00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:42.480
level. And it's also

720
00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:46.279
about seeing what you can get out of them from an information

721
00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:51.720
standpoint. Joe and I, as a general

722
00:45:51.720 --> 00:45:55.560
rule and we both been pretty solid on this, we don't it

723
00:45:55.700 --> 00:45:57.940
if we invite you on, we're not going to hit you up for the.

724
00:45:59.540 --> 00:46:03.060
So I'm not saying that but what I am saying is

725
00:46:03.140 --> 00:46:06.700
the, the, the tidbits and some of the, some of the

726
00:46:06.700 --> 00:46:10.020
backdrop, the things that you get And I like

727
00:46:10.020 --> 00:46:13.860
seeing, I like when somebody starts off

728
00:46:13.860 --> 00:46:17.620
a little stiff and I, my favorite part is at the

729
00:46:17.620 --> 00:46:21.060
end when it's free flowing and you could have went another hour

730
00:46:24.380 --> 00:46:27.740
because we do a lot like you do it. So Fireside Chat, it's

731
00:46:27.740 --> 00:46:31.100
enjoying the moment and so

732
00:46:31.340 --> 00:46:35.140
to put one word on it, I will say knowledge but

733
00:46:35.140 --> 00:46:38.660
that is, dude, that's just such a mega definition under

734
00:46:38.660 --> 00:46:42.340
it. It's, it's like sometimes

735
00:46:42.340 --> 00:46:46.100
I've gotten the feeling like wow, Bob, you Think you're

736
00:46:46.100 --> 00:46:49.150
passionate about knives? Here's a guy who started

737
00:46:49.470 --> 00:46:52.670
Emerson knives or cold steel or. Or what have you

738
00:46:53.230 --> 00:46:56.990
in a time before it was cool and before it was accepted. Like, that's

739
00:46:56.990 --> 00:47:00.670
passion. Holy mackerel. And yeah. Yeah, you can. It's

740
00:47:00.990 --> 00:47:04.830
just hope some of that rubs off on you, you know, in a way. Well,

741
00:47:04.830 --> 00:47:08.270
and it's. It's. There have been guys I had.

742
00:47:09.950 --> 00:47:13.350
I had. Man, I. I do want to mention this real quick. I had Wingman

743
00:47:13.350 --> 00:47:16.720
115 on several years ago,

744
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:20.560
and John and I, we. We did the thing,

745
00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:25.280
and he is the designer of the Mount Laguna from work. Tough

746
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:29.000
year, dude. We had. The

747
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:32.480
show went off and it was just. He and I, and we talked for about

748
00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:36.040
30 or 40 minutes. And man taught John Heffron. And

749
00:47:36.040 --> 00:47:39.600
talking to that gal, man, it lit an absolute

750
00:47:39.680 --> 00:47:43.320
fire under me because

751
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:46.880
he. He was. It's not a. There's passion. There's fake

752
00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:50.600
passion. There's faking it until you make it. There's a Persona

753
00:47:50.600 --> 00:47:54.240
when you come on, and then there's that real underneath.

754
00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:58.080
Deep down, whether it's designing, using,

755
00:47:58.640 --> 00:48:02.160
making. And talking to John,

756
00:48:02.160 --> 00:48:05.120
he. John Heffron is a huge reason

757
00:48:06.160 --> 00:48:09.880
while we just kind of triple old and triple down on putting in work

758
00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:13.400
and starting to grow. And really, it was just being

759
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:17.200
excited from talking to him. So while it wasn't

760
00:48:17.200 --> 00:48:21.000
part of Blade Talk, it's kind of the same

761
00:48:21.240 --> 00:48:25.000
thing. You know, Joe's taking Blade Talk to the next level.

762
00:48:25.400 --> 00:48:29.240
But. But that instance talking to John just came

763
00:48:29.240 --> 00:48:33.000
to mind. And I've got a picture of John. I'll show y' all

764
00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:36.570
this. I need to get a picture of you, Bob. Oh, happily.

765
00:48:37.210 --> 00:48:40.770
This is my. My glossy 8 by 10 wall of

766
00:48:40.770 --> 00:48:44.570
phone from knife. I

767
00:48:44.570 --> 00:48:47.290
love. Dude. I've got all kind. I. I love that.

768
00:48:48.170 --> 00:48:51.210
And it shows the camaraderie that we. That we help.

769
00:48:51.770 --> 00:48:54.810
But just the dude just emanate. He's just.

770
00:48:56.170 --> 00:48:59.890
He's just like us, man. And that's. Let me ask you

771
00:48:59.890 --> 00:49:03.680
this with. With all the passion you have for knives. Obviously, you've got a

772
00:49:03.680 --> 00:49:07.520
large collection. You've been into it a long time. You've met a lot of

773
00:49:07.520 --> 00:49:11.320
very interesting people. And you also seem like a

774
00:49:11.320 --> 00:49:14.160
handy guy. Do you ever think of making knives yourself?

775
00:49:15.040 --> 00:49:18.880
No. No. And I'm glad you asked

776
00:49:18.880 --> 00:49:22.080
that. Not make. I. I would like to.

777
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:25.840
Okay, let me back up part of me. Yes.

778
00:49:26.400 --> 00:49:29.760
To learn how to have that knowledge,

779
00:49:30.510 --> 00:49:34.150
to have a base knowledge of it. But, Bob, I love

780
00:49:34.150 --> 00:49:36.990
doing what I'm doing, man. I love the

781
00:49:37.230 --> 00:49:40.990
demonstrations or reviews I love knife tube.

782
00:49:43.150 --> 00:49:46.710
I just. I don't want to get into that

783
00:49:46.710 --> 00:49:50.430
because I know me and I know my attention and I know my

784
00:49:50.430 --> 00:49:54.030
drive, and I wouldn't be able to enjoy or appreciate

785
00:49:54.190 --> 00:49:57.960
other people's stuff. Yeah. So I love what we do.

786
00:49:57.960 --> 00:50:01.720
I love what you do. I've thought about. People ask

787
00:50:01.720 --> 00:50:05.400
all the time what I design, Mike, and I'm like, no, no,

788
00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:09.000
I'll collab. I've got several collabs. I love doing that.

789
00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:13.200
And basically that's people going, scab. What do you like? Like Jed

790
00:50:13.200 --> 00:50:16.920
Hornby. And I'll tell them, Jed will make me a knife. You know

791
00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:21.160
that dude can make a knife I love. I have one of his knives. I

792
00:50:21.160 --> 00:50:24.820
have a necromance. I think he only made like four of them or something.

793
00:50:25.220 --> 00:50:28.660
And I can't believe I. I scored one of them. It. It is

794
00:50:29.060 --> 00:50:32.740
one of the finest knives in my collection. And he's such a cool guy, too.

795
00:50:33.700 --> 00:50:37.340
Yeah. That guy. I can't. I don't

796
00:50:37.340 --> 00:50:40.900
know. I can't remember who it was. I honestly can't. But they got a knife

797
00:50:41.140 --> 00:50:44.900
from Chicken, and it was one of mine. It was one of

798
00:50:44.900 --> 00:50:48.500
my far boy camps. When I say one of mine, I

799
00:50:48.500 --> 00:50:52.180
literally just. Jed asked me like eight questions. I

800
00:50:52.180 --> 00:50:54.220
answered them. He made the knives.

801
00:50:55.660 --> 00:50:58.060
You read it real quick. But somebody

802
00:50:59.740 --> 00:51:02.780
actually bought one who

803
00:51:03.660 --> 00:51:07.260
got it. And they hit me up on video chat

804
00:51:08.140 --> 00:51:11.860
and they were all like, I could tell they love the

805
00:51:11.860 --> 00:51:14.860
knife, right? They love the knife. And it's

806
00:51:15.670 --> 00:51:18.310
the choir boys outdoors camp night or

807
00:51:19.270 --> 00:51:23.110
for short. We didn't really think too well. That

808
00:51:23.110 --> 00:51:26.910
marketing probably is not great on that, but this look

809
00:51:26.910 --> 00:51:30.150
on his face, and I'm like, dude, what. I mean,

810
00:51:30.870 --> 00:51:34.710
do you know? He said, I love the knife. I said, what's wrong? He said,

811
00:51:36.550 --> 00:51:39.590
scam. I paid $400 in this. And he,

812
00:51:40.880 --> 00:51:44.720
He. Jed had literally made the knife, took

813
00:51:44.720 --> 00:51:48.480
the time, did the whole deal. I think did him a custom sheet

814
00:51:48.560 --> 00:51:52.080
and wrapped it all in newspaper with rubber bands and sent it to him.

815
00:51:52.560 --> 00:51:56.000
He said. I said, dude, that's Jed. He's in

816
00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:59.840
Hornby, Tennessee, out in the middle of nowhere.

817
00:51:59.840 --> 00:52:03.680
You're not getting a fancy box. You're not. You are getting a knife.

818
00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:07.290
But he is uber talented, man. Hoover

819
00:52:07.290 --> 00:52:11.130
cat. Yeah, like crazy, crazy

820
00:52:11.130 --> 00:52:14.690
talented. I think probably the most comfortable knife in

821
00:52:14.690 --> 00:52:18.530
hand that I have. Is that necromance also? It's just a totally.

822
00:52:18.530 --> 00:52:21.810
It's like right up my alley. I'm not. I'm not going out and getting in

823
00:52:21.810 --> 00:52:25.410
fights, but it is the. The quintessential fighting Knife.

824
00:52:25.570 --> 00:52:29.090
And I feel like probably your knife is quintessential camp

825
00:52:29.090 --> 00:52:32.770
knife. And, and whatever he's doing, he's making like

826
00:52:33.380 --> 00:52:36.820
the top, top version of it. It's the quintessential

827
00:52:36.820 --> 00:52:40.620
hornbeat. It really is. I. I call it the

828
00:52:40.620 --> 00:52:43.140
camp. I mean, I couldn't think of what else to call it,

829
00:52:44.740 --> 00:52:48.580
but Jed just. And I'll tell you what I love about

830
00:52:48.580 --> 00:52:52.340
it. He did this and he did a sheep trick. The. The

831
00:52:52.580 --> 00:52:56.420
ergos on that handle. His handles,

832
00:52:56.420 --> 00:53:00.150
man, are insane. He did this one. He

833
00:53:00.150 --> 00:53:02.990
did the scabber stabber, which is basically.

834
00:53:04.910 --> 00:53:07.470
It looks like a gladius, but it's a dagger.

835
00:53:09.230 --> 00:53:12.950
Did the full leather. But his handles, his craftsman,

836
00:53:12.950 --> 00:53:16.310
Jed Hornbeek is a guy I will shout from the

837
00:53:16.310 --> 00:53:20.110
mountaintops because if you buy a knife from Jed, you will get your knife

838
00:53:20.670 --> 00:53:24.150
and that. He's a man of great

839
00:53:24.150 --> 00:53:27.390
integrity, great intake.

840
00:53:27.950 --> 00:53:31.350
So I'm. I'm afraid to ask this just in light of kind of our

841
00:53:31.350 --> 00:53:35.150
conversation earlier, but besides Jed

842
00:53:35.150 --> 00:53:38.750
and, and other like, who. And I know you love work tough.

843
00:53:40.190 --> 00:53:43.790
Who are some of your other makers that you're really into right now,

844
00:53:44.830 --> 00:53:48.510
Brother. I just did a review on a

845
00:53:48.510 --> 00:53:52.240
trc. I haven't done a lot of their

846
00:53:52.240 --> 00:53:56.040
stuff, but dude, I'm digging them. William Collins is just my

847
00:53:56.040 --> 00:53:59.560
guy. I love everything he does.

848
00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:03.720
This little junior field board, that was it. This is my little

849
00:54:03.880 --> 00:54:07.320
kayaking knife. Oh yeah, with the. That's a, that's a really

850
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:11.120
interesting shaped blade. Well, here's, here's the thing with

851
00:54:11.120 --> 00:54:14.280
William and I know we're running long, but

852
00:54:15.480 --> 00:54:19.170
he, he blends grinds like this

853
00:54:19.170 --> 00:54:23.010
is a scandi and a high saber. The beauty

854
00:54:23.010 --> 00:54:26.450
of Williams knives is when you go to sharpen this,

855
00:54:26.690 --> 00:54:30.330
he's already done the work for you. The bevel's the same,

856
00:54:30.330 --> 00:54:34.130
although the grind's different. So all you do is you find the

857
00:54:34.130 --> 00:54:37.890
angle and you can sharpen the scandi and you can sharpen the saber

858
00:54:38.050 --> 00:54:41.890
at the same time all at once. And it is

859
00:54:41.890 --> 00:54:45.610
not complicated. He. I'm

860
00:54:45.610 --> 00:54:49.330
really into his stuff. Tkl, of course. Big

861
00:54:49.890 --> 00:54:53.490
fan. Huge Fisher blades fan.

862
00:54:54.050 --> 00:54:57.730
I'm sitting here looking at half breed blades. Have you got any

863
00:54:58.130 --> 00:55:01.970
stuff? I do not have any half breed blades. Nope. I love the

864
00:55:01.970 --> 00:55:05.730
way their combat knives look. They look so good.

865
00:55:05.970 --> 00:55:08.530
Well, when I get them back, I'll send them your way.

866
00:55:09.980 --> 00:55:12.620
Love to check out their takes. Dude,

867
00:55:13.660 --> 00:55:17.460
I'll put a couple back here. This is

868
00:55:17.460 --> 00:55:20.780
a Lon Humphrey.

869
00:55:21.660 --> 00:55:25.500
Oh, that's the gunfighter Bowie. Right, Lee,

870
00:55:25.900 --> 00:55:29.700
that's beautiful. Now Junior just sent me this One to check

871
00:55:29.700 --> 00:55:33.340
out. And Junior is actually a real person.

872
00:55:33.340 --> 00:55:35.660
He's not somebody I make up to. What? No,

873
00:55:37.460 --> 00:55:40.940
dude, I just met Junior a couple weeks ago at

874
00:55:40.940 --> 00:55:44.660
Blackie Thomas's camp out for the first

875
00:55:44.660 --> 00:55:48.420
time. I never even talked to the man on the phone, and he

876
00:55:48.420 --> 00:55:52.060
sent me thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars of

877
00:55:52.060 --> 00:55:55.060
knives to review. Send the bank.

878
00:55:55.700 --> 00:55:59.460
But this is one. Bob,

879
00:55:59.540 --> 00:56:02.590
do you recognize that one? Oh, is that. Is that.

880
00:56:04.590 --> 00:56:07.630
What's his name? Yeah, I do.

881
00:56:08.430 --> 00:56:08.910
Sorry.

882
00:56:12.110 --> 00:56:14.830
Dark. Dark. Timber. That's him.

883
00:56:16.510 --> 00:56:20.030
This is the Honey Badger. This is one of his production runs.

884
00:56:20.270 --> 00:56:23.950
Oh, this is a great man. I would love to have a Bowie by

885
00:56:23.950 --> 00:56:27.740
that guy. Oh, my God. He. He has

886
00:56:27.740 --> 00:56:31.340
Peter on. Peter Cole

887
00:56:31.420 --> 00:56:35.220
with Scavenge O and Bro.

888
00:56:35.220 --> 00:56:37.980
He awesome guy, but

889
00:56:38.700 --> 00:56:41.260
scoring something from him. Oh, yeah, yeah.

890
00:56:42.460 --> 00:56:45.180
Impossible, man, but great guy.

891
00:56:47.180 --> 00:56:50.540
He's one of those guys who stays within himself, you know,

892
00:56:51.020 --> 00:56:54.810
not arrogant, hyper, but not arrogant. Love him. I. I

893
00:56:54.810 --> 00:56:58.370
could go on and on, man. I. I'm into a lot of stuff. Right.

894
00:56:58.370 --> 00:57:01.970
Oh, here's one last one I did want to show y'. All. I met

895
00:57:02.530 --> 00:57:06.210
Dave Canterbury. Oh, I love. He's one of

896
00:57:06.210 --> 00:57:10.050
the guys whose videos I love to watch. I. I met Dave.

897
00:57:10.050 --> 00:57:13.650
I actually did an interview with Dave a couple weeks ago at

898
00:57:14.610 --> 00:57:17.730
Rewild Outdoors Camp out, and I bought this.

899
00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:22.960
This is a kept part. This is the PKS

900
00:57:23.200 --> 00:57:26.640
Pathfinder Knife Series or Pathfinder Knife

901
00:57:26.640 --> 00:57:28.320
Shop kept part

902
00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:34.160
1095 steel. The curling maple.

903
00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:38.440
Now he gets his sheaths from. I think it's Badger

904
00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:41.960
Claw, which I love them, but,

905
00:57:41.960 --> 00:57:45.610
man, Dave was a good guy, really good guy to talk

906
00:57:45.610 --> 00:57:48.490
to. But I'll say this real quick

907
00:57:49.450 --> 00:57:52.650
for everybody. You know, a lot of times people want to buy American,

908
00:57:53.770 --> 00:57:57.610
but they're super expensive. I paid for the knife

909
00:57:57.610 --> 00:58:01.050
and the sheath. I think a buck 56. No

910
00:58:01.130 --> 00:58:04.490
way. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And

911
00:58:04.730 --> 00:58:08.490
you can actually, if you go like the Self Reliance outfitters, I

912
00:58:08.490 --> 00:58:12.220
believe that's their. They. They don't have

913
00:58:12.220 --> 00:58:15.580
anything over like a buck 70. And, and

914
00:58:15.580 --> 00:58:18.980
typically when you get like a buck 50 to a buck 70,

915
00:58:19.780 --> 00:58:23.180
they include the sheath. The. The knives, I think, are like a buck

916
00:58:23.180 --> 00:58:26.500
25 or 130 without the sheath.

917
00:58:28.100 --> 00:58:31.220
But I, I, he two things real quick.

918
00:58:31.860 --> 00:58:35.500
Lifetime warranty. Lifetime warranty. And

919
00:58:35.500 --> 00:58:39.340
he warranties it against Batani. He's one of the few people on

920
00:58:39.340 --> 00:58:42.910
the plumb that'll do that. Oh, that's

921
00:58:42.910 --> 00:58:46.510
cool. And. And this is coming from a guy, obviously, who knows. He's

922
00:58:46.590 --> 00:58:50.350
Dave Canterbury has been around the block more than once when it

923
00:58:50.350 --> 00:58:54.190
comes to wilderness. Wilderness Adventures and stuff. So if you can,

924
00:58:54.190 --> 00:58:57.630
if you can score a handmade USA night

925
00:58:58.110 --> 00:59:01.830
that's endorsed by someone like that, it just goes to

926
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show that it's, you know, it's possible. Yeah, oh,

927
00:59:05.310 --> 00:59:09.130
absolutely. And, and I've, I've carried their stuff every day and

928
00:59:09.130 --> 00:59:12.770
that's something I'm working on. It's a little more long form type review

929
00:59:13.250 --> 00:59:17.010
and I've Loved it, man. Love it. Love what they're doing. All right, last

930
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up before I let you go, Scab. I, I, I feel like I'd be remiss

931
00:59:20.170 --> 00:59:22.970
if I didn't ask this, and I'm sure people want to know, what do you

932
00:59:22.970 --> 00:59:25.810
carry on a daily basis? Really?

933
00:59:27.330 --> 00:59:31.010
Oh, okay. So I actually this time came

934
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prepared. I always have some kind

935
00:59:34.700 --> 00:59:38.340
of pocket fixed blade. Now this one's on long from the

936
00:59:38.340 --> 00:59:42.060
outdoor analyst. But this is a very good knife company.

937
00:59:42.300 --> 00:59:45.980
It's in that pops pro cut. But I'm showing you this, this

938
00:59:45.980 --> 00:59:48.940
is something, a knife this size daily.

939
00:59:52.300 --> 00:59:55.820
I just got this not long ago. This is my default 7

940
00:59:55.820 --> 00:59:59.620
Talos. This is one I actually carry daily. It's

941
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in Magnacut. Les George

942
01:00:03.170 --> 01:00:06.770
is the maker. And then I carry

943
01:00:07.890 --> 01:00:11.530
a cold steel and I'm just using

944
01:00:11.530 --> 01:00:15.050
this one, but so I carry a cold steel. I carry my

945
01:00:15.050 --> 01:00:18.770
Defiant 7. Typically I'll have an Emerson

946
01:00:19.570 --> 01:00:22.610
and of course it's up there on the table, but a bulldog.

947
01:00:23.970 --> 01:00:27.250
The bulldog, yeah. I retired my Vindicator.

948
01:00:28.620 --> 01:00:32.140
Typically, Bob, I carry three pocket knives and a

949
01:00:32.940 --> 01:00:36.780
pocket fixed blade. That's what I carry. Okay.

950
01:00:37.020 --> 01:00:40.540
Actually one last thing. Sell the concept of a pocket

951
01:00:40.540 --> 01:00:43.900
fixed blade to people who think they can't carry a fixed blade every day.

952
01:00:44.300 --> 01:00:48.060
Okay. So the whole point behind the pocket fixed blade. And we'll

953
01:00:48.060 --> 01:00:51.500
use this one from Tekal. This is the

954
01:00:51.500 --> 01:00:54.940
exact way I carry it. And you'll notice

955
01:00:54.940 --> 01:00:58.580
there's nothing on it to hang me up. You can put a lanyard on it

956
01:00:58.580 --> 01:01:02.420
to make it easier. But a pocket fixed blade, guys, is a pocket

957
01:01:02.420 --> 01:01:05.700
knife or it's a fixed blade literally

958
01:01:06.820 --> 01:01:10.100
close to the size of a pocket knife.

959
01:01:11.700 --> 01:01:15.300
The reason that I do that and that that Defiant

960
01:01:15.300 --> 01:01:18.980
seven Talos is, is pretty average size.

961
01:01:19.380 --> 01:01:22.980
The reason that I do that and I encourage people to do that is this.

962
01:01:22.980 --> 01:01:26.460
You get the stick strength of a fixed blade with the

963
01:01:26.460 --> 01:01:29.380
size of a pocket knife. So if you are in an environment

964
01:01:30.340 --> 01:01:34.180
where you need a staller knife but you don't want to

965
01:01:34.180 --> 01:01:37.860
scare old lady and kids, this, if you work at a company

966
01:01:38.420 --> 01:01:42.180
corporate that, that are big on, on weapons and things

967
01:01:42.180 --> 01:01:44.660
like that, this is easy to carry

968
01:01:45.620 --> 01:01:49.420
slim. So for me, a pocket. But for me, a pocket. Fixed

969
01:01:49.420 --> 01:01:52.900
blade is the strength of a fixed blade. The size of a pocket knife.

970
01:01:53.510 --> 01:01:57.270
It's really, truly, honestly, there are days where

971
01:01:58.070 --> 01:02:01.630
that's all I. I have on. If we're kayaking. It's.

972
01:02:01.630 --> 01:02:05.430
It's this junior field war that I showed you. I

973
01:02:05.430 --> 01:02:09.190
carry that. That a lot because it's an aebhl. I

974
01:02:09.190 --> 01:02:12.950
encourage everybody to carry one. The. The strength, the

975
01:02:12.950 --> 01:02:16.790
size. That for me. That for me

976
01:02:17.110 --> 01:02:20.530
is. Is the two biggest selling points right there.

977
01:02:20.930 --> 01:02:24.730
And I'm a huge proponent of it. Outstanding. Me

978
01:02:24.730 --> 01:02:28.290
too. I think we all need to carry fixed blades. Absolutely.

979
01:02:28.770 --> 01:02:31.930
Scott, thank you so much for coming back on the Knife Junkie podcast. It's been

980
01:02:31.930 --> 01:02:35.649
a pleasure, sir. I could talk all night about knives. You for

981
01:02:35.649 --> 01:02:39.450
having me. I'm really honored. I really tell you

982
01:02:39.450 --> 01:02:43.090
how much I appreciate that. The honor is mine. The honor is mine.

983
01:02:43.090 --> 01:02:46.930
And we will continue this conversation for another 10 minutes or so for the patrons.

984
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:50.360
So definitely check that out. And of course, I'll be seeing you

985
01:02:51.160 --> 01:02:54.360
at doing the rounds at Blade show. Absolutely,

986
01:02:54.920 --> 01:02:58.600
Scott. Thank you, man. Yeah, man. Appreciate you. Ever

987
01:02:58.600 --> 01:03:01.880
strap a knife again. Even though it gets no real use.

988
01:03:02.280 --> 01:03:05.800
Face up to what you are. You're a knife junkie.

989
01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:09.680
There he goes. Ladies and gentlemen, Scott Baldwin, or Scab as you may know

990
01:03:09.680 --> 01:03:13.520
him from choir boys outdoors. Always a pleasure to see and talk with

991
01:03:13.520 --> 01:03:17.220
him. Um, I'm sure you're not living under a rock, but

992
01:03:17.220 --> 01:03:20.620
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995
01:03:29.500 --> 01:03:32.980
So that does it. All right for Jim working his magic behind the

996
01:03:32.980 --> 01:03:36.660
switcher. I'm Bob DiMarco, saying until next time, don't take dull

997
01:03:36.660 --> 01:03:40.500
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