The Paw Paw Buck

Enjoy this heartfelt episode as we share the hunt of 86 year old "Paw Paw" Monk, father of Darryl and Harold Monk of WiseEye Cameras, as he harvest the biggest buck of his lifetime with Alex Rutledge guiding him here in the Ozarks!

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When you pointed out the window, cause I didn't see him and there he was. Yeah. And I pointed out that window and Alex, I'm telling you, it was like a little giddy school girl.  He started, Pappy, Pappy, Pappy, you know, get the gun, get the gun, it's a big one, it's a big one. And I'm telling you, it just, I mean, it all happened so fast.

By the time Daddy got that gun out the window,  I had binoculars on the deer, Alex had the camera rolling. 

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You go to  WiseEyeSmartCam. com. I'm using them. You should too. Make your hunt easier. Use WiseEye. WiseEye Technologies presents.  Welcome to American Roots Outdoors segment one of our show. Welcome to the show. It is full force rut here in the Midwest, in the Ozarks, Missouri Ozarks. And I want to talk about this, we talk about current events, Redbone, the numbers are concerning right now.

The numbers are concerning. Yeah, let's talk about that. Yeah, very concerning. Well, and, and these numbers, I mean, this is for the opening weekend, all right, Saturday, Sunday. Uh, total opening weekend in Missouri. This is total bucks does  Everything button bucks everything. Matter of fact, this is numbers for every deer killed in November 68, 000 312.

Oh my that is somewhere around half of the number killed a Year ago on opening weekend. You sure that's not a typo. It wasn't a hundred and sixty eight. I'm sure that's not a typo I bet I thought that and I checked it twice  the number one county in the state was Franklin County with 2058  Texas County was 1707. 

Howell County had 1502. Wow. Oregon County, 1119. Wow. Shannon County 6 53. Pretty good for Shannon County though. Really? Carter Carter County. 5 28 Ripley at nine 50. Douglas County. 1,003. Dent County. 8 51 Butler County, 4 76. Uh, Cape Gerardo County 1132. That's really good for them. Wow. Ozark County at 8. 99, Stoddard County 6.

14, and Taney County 6. 32. Now folks, keep in mind, 68, 312. One year ago,  the entire season was 1. 93.  Well, hunters have got to kill 130,  000 deer between now and Monday, Tuesday, to be where we were a year ago.  I'll try and do my part. Okay.  But it went down for one.  It went down for one attempt.  Well, I know the deer are there.

What I am saying, guys, is That there's a mass acorn crop and it scattered the deer. You're not seeing deer bunched up like you normally would when there's no acorns.  I was reading an article put out by MDC and the deer biologist and the people that study deer, they said the full moon,  the warm temperatures.

And the massive acorn crop are the reason the deer just aren't having to move for food. No, they don't have to move hardly at all. They're just staying in there and they're staying in the woods. Yeah,  we're going to talk about that. We, we, uh, this past week, uh, man, what an eventful week at the Rutledge farm and, uh, the farms I hunt.

We had the patriarch.  Of Wise Eye, Mr. Harold Monk Sr., they call him Pawpaw, and I nicknamed him Pappy. Pappy Pawpaw.  And 86 years young, he come and hunted with us. We're going to talk about that. Daryl Monk is going to join us. I was hoping all of them could join us, but I don't know how many will be joining us, but they're going to call in the second segment.

It's kind of a family run business, so the rest of them probably got to work. Yeah, well, they got meetings. They had meetings and media meetings. But anyway, we're going to talk about how they created  Wise Eye. And, uh, the Patriarch, uh, talk about his love of hunting. And Daryl's going to share some stories with us.

that really touched me while we spent time in camp. And we're going to talk about the success that we had with Mr. Monk.  It was unbelievable. Great footage. He drops him in his tracks right there. Hornady heartache for sure.  What we do now, let's talk about current events. I'm going to interrupt you for one second.

I just pulled up the Arkansas numbers here. Okay. So for gun season, or for modern gun, they had 148, 716. Killed.  Yeah. In Arkansas. That would be right up to date right now. Yes. I just pulled, it says that's what they've killed right up to date right now. Yeah. 148. Of course, they start a week earlier than Missouri does.

Yeah, but still, you think about that, they're out doing Missouri. That's a really good number for Arkansas. That's 70. 70,000 total. 50 for half of it. Yeah. Total for the year of 1 93.  My gracious. That is outstanding for Arkansas. Mm-Hmm? . Yes. Usually their numbers are well below Missouri.  Have a good year.

They're having a good year. Maybe all the Missouri hunters just got too loud and all the deer run down to Arkansas.  They may have, but that's bad. They went south. You know, I live, you know, close to the state line here at Thayer, and that's what we talk about. We're always glad the Arkansas hunters start a week before us because they run all the deer up into Missouri, and then we get to kill them.

There you go. And we're, now we're running them back to them running them back down there. Yeah.  All right, NFL. Chiefs got beat this week. Yeah, they did. Buffalo Bills. I suspected that. Man, when they come out, they come out, their defense was phenomenal and boy, they intercepted what the first pass. Second play of the game.

Second play of interception and then went down scored. Yep. Then the chief responded. I didn't think the chief played badly. Buffalo's just really good. They are. And until the chief get all their weapons back and they get Pacheco back maybe this week, but they got to get those two receivers back because the young guys just can't get open.

No. And with those young guys out there, they don't, they can double team Travis Kelce, triple team him if they want to, because the young guys just haven't learned to get open. And DeHop, I don't know what happened to DeAndre Hopkins. It's like he was off it. Yeah, he just disappeared, right? And you would think someone like him would help that the whole reason they bring him in is because  He's going to drive the attention to him which should open up these younger guys to say Hey, I may not be the best route runner, but at least i'm not being double teamed now, right? 

But anyway, they got carolina this week. So they get back in the win column. There you go But I was impressed with wayne stevers. Yeah, you know what got me about that whole thing Did you know you guys had to score three touchdowns to beat the ravens? We didn't have to score one That's right. We just scored six, six field goals. 

And then we got the, of course, we got the, the layup. Well, I shouldn't say that, you know, knock on wood though, I, I, it usually is, but a layup, uh, with the Browns this week on Thursday night. I don't know, Pittsburgh and Cleveland's never layup? No, no, they're always, uh, well, I mean, we, we, we pretty much, we, have owned Cleveland.

Uh, I think we got 29 out of the last 33 games. We beat them, but they're always close and it's like the Ravens games. I don't care how great the Ravens are, how great the Steelers are. It always comes down to less than seven points. Yeah. And, and as far as the, uh, Kansas City, I wasn't too surprised either myself or only because Kansas City just seems like they're just winning instead of like the last Last year or two.

They're just like hands down winning, but now it's like oh, thank goodness Right. Thank goodness. They they were able to they lucked out on that play or that play and it's like well they're nine and one and Five of the wins came by one score. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep.  Yes dealers are uh, now now that I think about it You just said that yeah that thing.

They're only one game out of uh,  Yeah, first place for our division, but we're one game out of, uh, uh, for home field advantage through the playoffs right now. Yeah, and so is Buffalo.  But look at the teams that we got there. We got some good teams. This is going to be a great playoff.  If it were to end today.

High school. High school. Tiger got beat. Liberty got beat. A lot of teams got beat. Yep. Uh. The only area team, and I'm talking in our immediate area, West Plains. West Plains. We got to quarterfinals. Yeah. Uh, they play, you'll hear this show on Saturday morning. They play Saturday afternoon at one at Zuzur Stadium. 

Man, that'd be cool to watch. A win, and they go to the state semifinals. Yeah. So you can hear the show and hurry up and get your go down there and watch the game. That's right. Now, basketball season's starting up. Yep. Uh,  we got a couple of minutes left here, about a minute and a half here in this segment.

Uh, it's peak rut.  Peak rut. The moon is full. The weather's been warm. It's cool this morning. A lot of Arons. We're gonna talk about that throughout the show. And again, we got our special guest, the Monk family. Darrel Monk is joining us talking about the monk roots and how they created Yazi. And we're gonna talk about their new mc two and their DC two.

They're action camps. These cameras you can actually in your tree stand,  uh, actually activate them to film anywhere from one minute to five minutes long.  So we set up a couple on one of our setups and we filmed turkeys. We filmed deer coming, everything, two different cameras. It's pretty cool. If you want to film your own hunt, you need to listen to the rest of the show.

We're going to talk about how to use these cameras to film your own hunts. It's going to be really good. Yeah, but also I was successful.  Yeah. Big old bro. Papa killed a good one. I killed a good one. And, uh, I can't wait to share the stories. We're going to go to a break. When we come back, we're going to be talking with the Monk family about their roots and their new DC2 and MC2 action cameras.

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Legacy Farmland Specialist presents. Welcome back to American Roots. And as promised, we've got Daryl Monk on the phone, the Monk family roots. We're going to talk about how they created this company and the patriarch of the company, Mr. Harold Pawpaw. I call him Pappy. Monk senior came and hunted with Daryl.

Daryl, welcome to the show.  Thank you. Thank you for having me, Alex. Yes, sir. Brother. What a great time we had with your dad and you. At our place man, the food was great. The hunt was great. Uh, we made great memories together brother  Oh, absolutely. Absolutely film. I'm gonna carry for the rest of my life Me too, man  This is very special.

It's it's one of the top three hunts five hunts in my life probably And I want to say this before we kick off kick off  What a spirit holy spirit filled man That pawpaw is guys  I mean, he's so he's always offering to help do stuff. He's 86 years young.  Hey, can I get you a water or can I help you unload those?

Uh, we took gutted the deer. Can I go help you just constantly? I can see why the month was. Redbone are so good people. Well, I think that that's that generation. Yeah. Cause my dad passed away at 86, just a little over a year ago. Was the same way. Yeah. I mean, right. Until he got to where he, you know, couldn't get out of bed.

You're doing something he wanted to help. Oh yeah. The man helped build a house at 83 years of age. He built himself a new house. Yeah. Let's say my father in law is 85 and same way. He, there's a lot he can't do, but he just wants to participate because that's, that's how they were raised. That's how they were raised.

The last of the great generations. Yes it is. Brother Darrell,  tell us the story of how you and your dad and your brothers and your family come up with the quickly, uh, created Wise Eye and why.  Oh, yeah. Sure. Um, uh, we, you know, we were, we were sitting around one day and, and, and, uh, my, I had an uncle of mine that reached out to us and  he said he had heard about hogs, uh,  just devastating the country and, and, uh, wanted to know if there was anything we could do to, to,  a delivery system for hogs for, um, to help eradicate the hogs and control the population because it was literally costing the country billions of dollars in agricultural damage a year.

And, uh, so, you know, it's like, hey, we have a bunch of Southern Cajuns down here in Louisiana. Let's see if we can figure this out. And, and we started at it and we, uh, Lot of trial and error. We did it. We came up with a feeder that would only feed hogs. Of course, we were way out in front of the USDA at that time.

So  we had this technology that that we figured out and we had to do something with it. So fast forward to today, we put our technology and teamed it up with the best camera on the market because it's something that we built. That's something that we make sure we got the best quality parts in,  And, uh, and that's where we, that's where we grew from, uh, uh, just hard work, uh, something that, that was instilled in, instilled in us by, by my dad that, uh, don't ever give up.

And we didn't. We stayed at it, stayed at it until we, where we are today.  Yeah. I would like, I would like to know how much time passed by from this, from when you said All right, or was asked can you do something to help  till y'all put the first cameras out?  Well, probably I want to say before the first camera  That we actually physical trail camera was probably about  12 years after we started. 

Wow Before we actually got the first camera out because the you know, the feeder started out using sounds recognition Then we moved into an internal camera on the feeder On the feeder itself. And then from that camera, we started creating our own camera. And I want to say in 2019, something like that, 2020, 2019  is when we actually first came out with our own physical, uh, individual camera to start selling to the market.

Wild, wild. Now you are the fastest growing. Uh, I don't want to say trail camera,  smart camera, data cam company in the outdoor industry.  It is. They're the fastest growing.  It definitely feels that way. Yeah, and I want to add one thing. He said he he had, you know We've been bragging about the cameras and we think they're the you know, by far the best cameras he was talking about He was talking about the how they have the best parts best lenses the best components But to me hands down they've got the best customer service If you have any problem, and I don't care what it is, they will Take you through it.

On the app or on the, uh, not the app. Excuse me. The, uh, like Facebook messenger. And if they can't get it there, they'll say, call us. Yeah. Boom. You call 'em up, they pick up the phone. They, they want you to email, walk, and they'll message 'em first before they call and they'll walk you. 'cause I had trouble with my camera just last week.

Yeah. And here, come to find out it was a corrupt disc. Yeah. Uh, you know, SD card. And, uh, they walked me through it. Let's try this. Let's try that. And I'm standing right there in front of the camera. And then boom, next thing you know, put the new thing in and format it and camera worked great since. Yeah.

And folks, if you don't think we're telling the truth, go over and like their Facebook page. Yeah. And then just kind of follow along because you'll get the idea how good the customer service is. Yeah.  It's really good. Go ahead. We got a couple minutes left. We don't call it customer service, guys. We call it customer success.

There you go. I like that.  And the reason for that is,  is if the customer's not successful, we're not successful in the moment that matters to the customers when his camera's not working  and if it ain't working, that's a problem for us  and we're going to fix it and we want the customer to be successful.

If he ain't successful, he's not going to kill a deer. If that camera's not working like it's supposed to, we're going to fix it.  We're going to fix it.  Yeah. And you do fix it.  I don't want to say this. I have a testimony, uh, this past week. Season started Saturday. We shot pop off, pop off, shot his buck on film.

We filmed it at about 70 yards and he dropped him in his tracks. We took a chance to go hunt in a spot where wise either night that night before the hunt showed us, uh, We need to be over there. So the wise, I told him we need to be over there and that's what we did. We took a chance with the wind, not in our favor.

We went in there and that deer come in upwind from us because the wind was blowing from the right to left. He come out the front window and Papa laid him down. We're going to talk about that. And when we come back from a break, we're going to take a break. When we come back, we're talking with Darrell Monk about the Monk roots and about the new MC2 and DC2 action cameras don't go away.

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Hornady Presents. One of the ammunition, if you're not shooting horned ammunition, you're missing out and welcome back to the show. Again, on the phone with us is Daryl Monk. We just talked about the creation of Y Zion, how they got in the industry. We talked a little bit about Papa Monk, Harold Monk. It's 86 years young.

Uh, he shot the buck of his lifetime. Let's talk about that. Uh, Daryl, what was going through his mind and you and I've been talking about this for months, bringing him up here. And my Wise Eye was capturing all these photos and videos, uh, Wise Eyes was capturing this, of these bucks. What was going through his mind?

Let's talk about the trip when you left and until, up until we shoot the deer. Talk about that.  Oh yeah. Well, I, you know, every day, Alex, he would, you would send me pictures and of course I'd show him. And, uh, getting him really pumped up, you know, my dad's a very,  He's the type of person to where, um, he would tell you, I don't, I don't, I don't care.

I'm not mad at them deer anymore, right? At his age. I don't, I don't need to kill one like that. I'm good. He'd rather his grandkids and stuff, you know, kill, kill them deer than him.  I've been pumping him up. I said, hey, I said, this deer is for  me,  not you.  And once he realized that, then he started getting excited.

Yes.  Yeah. So, Hey, can I interrupt you? I need you to share the story before you go any further. You shared with me and it absolutely touched my heart.  Tell our listeners about what your daddy would do when you was a little boy. Uh, deer hunting, just going to blow your mind. Listen to this and  listen. Oh yeah, I was, I was raised hunting me and my brother.

My dad would drag us all over the swamp back in the day. And, uh, these guys were hard hunters back then. And we're talking in the.  The early 70s and, you know, it didn't have all this technology and didn't have all these fancy deer stands and stuff. And my dad used homemade tree spurs that he made himself.

And, uh, he would strap them on his feet and he would tree spur up a tree and pull, uh, pull up a homemade lock on stand that he chained in the tree.  Then he would climb in that stand  and then he would lower a rope down to me with a loop in it. And I would put my foot in that loop.  And he would pull me up in that stand and put me between his legs and tie me in to the stand and his feet so I wouldn't move.

He would sit on the platform. You would sit on the platform, would you?  Yes, I'd sit on the platform. And you'd cuddle up and sleep. He would tie a rope around my, around my waist and around the stand so I wouldn't fall out. That is beautiful. We did, we did that many a times and that's how I, that's how I started hunting with him. 

And he said if my momma knew that,  she probably wouldn't, she wouldn't allow it. Some things you just don't tell her, you know? Boy, that says something about the strength of his dad. Oh, he's I mean, you think about that drawing. Pulling up, pulling up. I mean, I, look at my boys. I'm like, man, for me to try and do that now?

I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, man. Boy, your dad's a boy. He was a tough man. My dad was a strong man. Tough man. A strong man. Oh yeah. He is like six three, ain't he? Six three  probably. Yeah. He's, he's pretty tall and he's, and he's, he's two 20. Uh, he's strong. Always been a strong man. Mm-Hmm. . Oh yeah. And not just strong, physically strong, but mentally, physically, and spiritually strong.

Yeah. Good staff. Very spiritually strong. Now what about the boat ride? Talk about going duck hunting. You was telling me about the, what'd you call it, Pedro, or. The boat you was in or something, you said  how low it was in the water. Oh, no. Yeah, no, no, we were, um,  we hunted on the Mississippi river when I was growing up and, uh,  and, and, and, and in order to get to the, to, to the camp, we had to, uh, put a bad toe in, I mean, back then, you know, we couldn't afford these big, fancy boats and stuff.

So we had a 14 foot bad toe with an 18 Evinrude on it. We would put a three wheeler  and strap it down on the front of that boat.  The boat was probably just sitting off the water, maybe about two inches.  And we would, Daddy would put me in a sleeping bag and put a life jacket on me. I would crawl in the sleeping bag, curl up on the bottom of that bateau boat at his feet, and he told me not to move.

And we traveled three miles down that Mississippi River to get to our deer camp.  Wow. We did that all the time.  your mama, she still doesn't know, does she? Oh, she'll now. Yeah. It, it, it wasn't, you know, no, I, I, I wouldn't have gotta go if, if my dad told her the truth. That is true love. That is love Red Bone.

That is daddy and his son. Well, and just the memories are priceless.  Something like that. And, and, you know.  Go ahead, Darryl.  It's those hunting roots he was killing. That's right. Y'all would say they run deep. They do. They run deep and strong. We don't fear the wind. We're going to take a break, everybody.

When we come back, we're going to talk more with Darryl Monk about the Monk roots and their new MC2 and DC2 live action cameras. Don't go away. We'll be right back with more right after this. Hey guys, this is the Macklemore boys here with masterbuilt. You're listening to our buddy, Alex Rutledge with the American roots outdoors right now.

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Eagle seed presents. Welcome back to American roots outdoors. Even though you've got those Eagle seed food plots planted in the ground, the deer are still hitting mine. They're hitting yours. Wayne, the deer love the Eagle seed. Again, we've got Daryl Muck on the, on the phone with us. He's calling from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, owner of. 

Technologies, the fastest growing data cam trail camera company in the nation. And the customer service is second to none. He's been talking about his roots and his daddy, Papa and his brothers. And what we'll talk about now, let's talk about your hunt. Uh,  Papa's hunt. I interrupted you. Let's talk about that. 

Yeah. Okay. Well, um, you know, we showed up on a Friday night, Friday afternoon and, uh, we, we unloaded and, uh, Alex met us there. We had a great supper and we talked about a game plan and all these bucks that's been coming out at this stand. Um, so we were pretty pumped up and excited about it. So the first morning we went and, uh, Oh, we went and set up the camera so we could actually get the action shot, which we'll talk about, I'm sure in a few minutes.

Um,  get my dad's, uh, uh, kill on the action shot on the camera. Well, we hunted that morning, didn't see nothing, but, uh, a bunch of does.  Evening, didn't see nothing but a bunch of does. And then Alex tells us, this is guys. We got to make a move. Um, why is that is telling us we've got to make a move. And he's showing us these pictures of, uh, these bucks just constantly showing up in different locations.

Yeah. Um,  so  we got up the next morning and, uh, we headed off to that location and, uh, we, we felt pretty confident. We felt, we felt pretty excited about it. We got up in the stand, uh, uh, for daylight, got everything situated, got my dad situated where we thought the deer would be the best spot, camera set up. 

And, uh, I don't think we were there five, 10 minutes. It started breaking daylight and here comes the dough.  She, we watched her a little bit and then here comes another dough. And, uh, she looked very, very nervous and Alex looked at me and he whispered, he says, I think a buck's going to be behind her.  And no more, no more.

He said that  Alex was about these excited.  Well, you touched me. No, you didn't. You touched me. You pointed out the window cause I didn't see him. And there it was. Yeah.  Yeah. And I, I pointed out that Wenda and Alex, I'm telling you, it was like a little giddy school girl. I guarantee you it was. He started, Papi, Papi, Papi, you know, get the gun, get the gun, it's a big one, it's a big one, and I'm telling you, it just, I mean, it all happened so fast, by the time Daddy got that gun out the window, I, I had binoculars on the deer, Alex had the camera rolling, and it happened so fast, Daddy finally got, and the deer started walking, and Alex started talking, Shooting papi, shooting papi, shooting papi, shooting papi, shooting papi.

Which I was like, come on papi. Yeah, close to the right. It happened so, daddy touched  that trigger that sucker folded like a sack of potatoes.  I'm telling you that moment was unbelievable. You  had tears in your eyes.  You did and so did I. It's so emotional. We're looking at each other. Oh, I do too. It's emotional.

And I said, Pap, you killed a giant. He goes, I did.  Didn't he? He goes, I did. The funny  thing is, he did not, he, he, at this point, he's, he'd never seen the antlers on his ears. He didn't look for the antlers. He went to the body. He knew, he knew. He knew it was a buck. We were telling him to shoot it. Um, he knew that was  the one to shoot. 

And it was obvious it was the one to shoot. And he said he never saw the antlers. He said, I concentrated with the scope. I put the crosshairs where they needed to be and touched the trigger. He did not see the antlers.  Until he picked up the binoculars.  So what was his reaction when you got to the deer in the recovery and he saw the antlers? 

Yeah. It's good. Wow. All he said was wow. Yeah. And Daryl was like off in la la land and teary eyed and  so was I.  We filmed the recovery and he walks up to him and he touches him.  And he looks at Daryl, I remember that, he looks at Daryl and he just goes, wow.  That's pretty special. Get me goosebumps just hearing the story.

The love, now think about this whole story. Daryl's told us how they created the company.  They talked about his daddy's love for him, taking him to the woods and fishing and stuff. Very precarious situations. And look where they are now. This is a American dream story right here. And you're teared up right now.

Your eyes are glancing, Mike. I am. These stories, I mean, and that's what hunting's all about.  That's why we do it. I'm glad y'all can't see me. But the father's love, and Daryl's giving back to his daddy. Yeah.  He's returning the favor. He's returning the favor. Yeah. And I know you lost your daddy and that's why you're tearing up too.

And I guarantee you there are people listening right now that have had that same kind of experience with their dad and they're teared up right now listening to that story. Because this is going to go on for generations. This is a story that will be told to their grandkids, to the great grandkids. You know, and it's just going to keep being passed on to that moment that, and as you think about it, in the life of a person, it only took, what would you say Alex, 30  minutes?

No more than 30 minutes. To make a story that will last generations. And the wise eye is why? Right.  Because it told us to move. Told you where to go. Yep. Alright, we got the story, I gotta wipe tears out of my eyes. We got just a few minutes left here. Let's talk about the MC2 and DC2. Okay, well first I'd just like to get a real quick reaction from the rest of the family when they saw the footage and saw the deer. 

Yeah, they're not in the room with him. No, no, when they  got home. Yeah, when y'all got home. What was their reaction when they got a chance to see that butt? They started pouring in. It was unbelievable.  I can believe that. Y'all see, they're all shaking their heads. They got smiles ear to ear. Let's talk about the MC2 and DC2. 

We got three minutes. 

Yeah, the DC two, um, that's our flagship camera. Um, and you know, that's the one me and Alex went, you know, Friday night late, so we could get out there without  we went and set them up. And.  Yeah, and we went and got them set up. And what they are, they got what we call an action shot. That's our patent technology in there.

So, basically what it does, if you, if a deer comes out and it's going to be a shooter, you just pick up the, you just pick up your app and you touch, uh, record. And it'll start recording up to a five minute video and capture the kill. And we were pretty pumped up about Uh huh. Uh, cap, capturing, you know, my dad's kill, um,  uh, with the action shot.

We did it. On that food plot, but you know, uh, things happened and, and the deer didn't come out there, which is fine, but why is that toast goes somewhere else when we were still able to capture it on film, but not just with the DC two, but we were able to film some turkeys and, uh, I videoed some turkeys for five minutes out there.

But  that's what, that's what the DC two that, that it's an awesome camera. It's, it's, uh, it's our top of the line model comes with lithium power packs. Uh, You can purchase as an accessory and and the mc2 is just a it's a little little camera. It's a little versatile camera I know alex's got one and it's just it's just uh killing it out there on that food plot In fact, that's all most of the intel we got from that little mc2.

It doesn't have a uh lcd screen That's where the cost savings come in keep the cost down on this little camera And it's just a phenomenal camera. It just takes beautiful pictures and videos for it to be a, you know, a less expensive camera. And we're really proud of our last two model cameras. Oh, yeah.

You guys are innovators for sure. And I'm glad to have those in my access.  Go ahead, Redbone. You know, I was going to ask you, Alex, would you have thought after the first Day of hunting would you have thought to go somewhere else without that data from that camera? I would have thought of it, but I would be chance in it.

You're chance in it  You don't chance it when you have proof from the wise eye data cam You know when you got five six different bucks showing up and some of them shooters You know where you need to go and that's what was I does. There's no more guessing guys  You know it saves time every hunter that I've taken on that farm the last five years We've killed deer in two days  every hunter.

We kill mature bucks.  No more guessing. That's why you everybody needs Why is that I want to say this we got about a minute left a minute about a minute  I want to thank you again Darrell  for bringing your daddy. Oh, yeah to our place Oh, yeah, Linda Byrd Mallory. Love you guys like family, and I know you love us and oh, yeah, this is priceless  We've got it on film.

You'll have it forever. I know that big bus is going to be hanging on the wall. Is that inside of the wise eye office? Thank you for a wonderful memory. We're going to wrap it up here. Daryl monk. We're signing off right here. Remember teach your boys to become men.  Teach your girls to become ladies, Wayne,  and always remember, when your roots run deep and strong, there is no reason to fear the wind.

So you never gotta worry, hey, what the wind might do, American Roots. Thank you for joining us for today's American Roots Outdoors Radio with Alex Rutledge. You can find us on Facebook. Look us up on the World Wide Web at AmericanRootsOutdoors.  com. We'll be back again next week on This Girl. Great radio station. 

Wise eye technologies presents. Welcome back to America roots outdoors. This is the bonus segment. Again, I let Wayne and red bone. Do most of the talking here, but again, we got Daryl Monk, man. What a great show. It's been Wayne Redbone Well, it was the radio show folks if you haven't listened to it go back and listen starting with the segment one and hear the whole wise eye story and then the story of Uh pawpaw monks deer and then the way the the whole hunt unfolded And then we've still got Daryl Monk on the line with us here for the bonus segment and Wayne  this company I don't think they mind me saying, it's kind of the American dream.

It is. Yeah. I mean, you're talking somebody that can just have an idea  in their head because somebody said, Hey, you know, I've got this problem. You think you can do anything and,  and to take it for where that little idea of, well, let me see what I can do. I think they said one other time we had them on one other episode.

They said, who would have thought? Get a couple of Louisiana guys together and they would come up with something that would just revolutionize the entire  industry viral. And here's the cool thing. I think about all of it. I may add lip, their family and they all get along. 

Y'all work together. See me and my family, we, we bump heads a lot, but, but we love one another.  And we talked about the, you know, your, your data was showing that,  Hey, this, this particular spot is a hot spot. That's why you, Hey, maybe we need to move because all of a sudden things are dinging like crazy over there.

Um, and I, I jokingly have said over the last two years, That you know that that data cam that you got or the data that you guys produce I always tease and say you know never let your wives know about it because they're gonna take away the excuse of well Why are you sitting out all day if the deer ain't showing up till 10 o'clock? 

Well I made the mistake and I did not listen to my own advice and I showed my daughter how to use a  or not the app, but the, um, the, uh, the hunt control on the computer. So here I go out Sunday and, uh, she's like, well, what'd you do? And I said, well, I'm getting ready to go. She said, why don't you go make us breakfast?

I said, no, I gotta get out. I said that, you know, I'm gonna get out there before the lights up. And then she's like, why?  I said, what do you mean? Why? So I'm trying to get out there, you know, so I can sit as much as I can. She goes, but dad, The, the deer ain't showing up till 1030  and I'm like, Oh, don't you tell mom that, don't you tell mom that you just took three hours of my enjoyment away from that piece of quality away from everything.

That's right. That's right.  Yeah. Well, and Daryl, we've talked about on previous shows when you've been with us, these cameras are good for more than just deer hunting.  I mean, you can use them for home security. I know y'all have sold them to law enforcement. Uh, agencies and different things. Talk about some of the things, other things that people are using the cameras for.

Hey, I, I want to say something. I know guys that, farmers that use them to monitor a cow that's calving or a horse. Oh sure. That's foaling. Oh yeah. Or hogs. Yep. To watch their, their animals at their farm. Their chicken pen. You know, whatever. So think about it. Go ahead, Darryl.  Yeah. We got a new slogan, uh, now it's called, uh, you know, uh, Wise Eye Datacam, conserve every detail.

That's awesome. And there was a lot of thought going into that because conservation is something that's really, really getting big in this country and our cameras are being used more and more for conservation. In fact, that's one of the meetings we have today is with some conservationists in the United States.

Um, uh, they're, they're being used in Colorado right now. They're being used by TFT.  Um, uh, turkeys for tomorrow, they're being used, uh, to study some, uh, ducks, migration of ducks with Ducks Unlimited. Um, they're starting to get on board with this conservation thing and basically it's a monitoring system, right?

So they can monitor and, and, and help protect, uh, conservation for us. So, so we can have the freedoms to hunt. And, and keep regulations and, you know, and intel. It, it's very important to capture all this intel and, and, uh, the wildlife and fisheries and, and conservationists are starting to use our cameras more and more.

Uh, so not just for security. They're great for that. They're great for, they're great for so many other things. Ski resorts, using 'em to watch their trails. Uh, once, uh, the lifts close to find, to see the last person off the mountain. I mean, it just, the, the list goes on and on with these cameras are starting to just go out there and being used for it.

It's eyes where you can't be and, um, it, it, it is just awesome to see. They're so, they're not just for honey. Mm-Hmm. , you know, you can use them for, for anything. Well, I was just thinking how great it would have been and this was years ago had this technology been available with your your company back when in Ohio we had a big project that when I worked with the conservation department on woodland ducks and What was going on with their nesting sites and where the problems were in that to be able to put these cameras?

on a nesting site, a nesting box for the woodland ducks to find out what's going on, how are they behaving, you know, what's getting in, you know, what's causing their, their destruction and stuff like that. That would have changed everything. You probably would have saved 10 years of research within one season.

Oh yeah.  Yeah. And, and Wayne and,  you know, Daryl mentioned turkeys for tomorrow and we've had those folks on the, on the radio show before. And they talk about the fact that they are putting these wise eye cameras on nesting sites for turkeys. To determine what, what is messing with the turkeys. Why is the turkey population on the decline and, and like you just mentioned, you can find out so much more with the video in a short period of time than if you have to go out there and glass them and try and do it day after day after day, you can do the research a lot faster.

Yeah. I always say the wise eye collects the data for you and does the scouting for you. You're sitting at your office desk or at your job. They  can be doing the scouting for you. That's why I strategically moved cameras. Throughout the rut. There's certain areas you need to move these cameras to and we're going to talk about that in the next week's show.

Strategically placing your wise eyes to help you find the right places to set up to close the deal like we did with Pawpaw Pappy. I'm curious, have you guys talked to Elon yet about maybe getting a monitor  on his rockets? Hey, put it on the right! Get him on those rockets, man! We can't talk about that!  I can't talk about that, but let's just, we'll just leave it at that.

I can't talk about that.  All right.  We need to get ready to wrap it up here. And, uh, uh,  I lost my train of thought. That's okay. I was going to say, we did not get a chance to talk about Alex's book. But we'll get it next week. It's going to be like teaser killed him while I helped me kill him. I remember that one.

Now I forgot again, what I was going to ask. Oh, where are wise? I cameras available. If people want one, how can they go about getting them?  If you want to support a local dealer, you just go to wise, I tech. com and Logan, uh, our locator button there and locate a dealer near you. Um, uh, we love to support all our dealers out there.

Uh, I mean, that's what America's made up, but you just can't get out and want to find one, don't have one near you. You can just go to wise. tech. com and you can order them straight from our website. There you have it, www. WiseEyeTech. com, what a great show, what great memories again, thank you for being a great friend and letting me share the special moment with your Papa. 

It is heart touching. So we thank you. Go ahead. Yeah, we thank you Alex and your family and all you guys there in Southern Missouri and Ozark. Yeah. We love you guys dearly, and we couldn't have done this without you. WISA is strong in the Ozarks, Arkansas, Missouri, I promise you. So, with this closing, what about those cheesy potatoes, that pork alone, and them big drumsticks, did you enjoy them? 

Well, Ms. Linda Byrd needs about once a month. She needs to cook it, box it up, and send it down. Alright, brother, there we have it. We're wrapping it up. Yeah, well, I'm just glad we got through one episode with, uh, with the monks and not ask, Are you related to Mr. Monk from TV? Well, there it is. There it is, everybody.

Remember, teach your boys to become men.  Teach your girls to become ladies and always remember when your roots run deep and strong. There's no reason To fear the wind. Take you to a fair. Across the creek. Got my big ol hay. Year after year. 

Passed on down plenty deep in the ground. Around your heart. So you never gotta worry. What the wind might do.  American Roots.