Four-Year Anniversary Kickoff

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Hey everybody, welcome back to the Son of a Bleach Podcast. I'm your host, George Blitch, and guess what? Today is a very special day. It is the fourth anniversary of the Son of a Bleach podcast. I can't believe it. Four years, 140 plus episodes. It's pretty wild. I've recorded another five or so, and I've got a lot more coming out in year five here. So this is just a moment I kind of reflect every year on the what's happened in the year past and what's coming up. I won't go digging back too much in the in the past year. You can look through uh the show notes of all those podcasts, find out which one you want to listen to next. But in year five, we've got some really cool ones coming

Chief Orville Looking Horse Preview

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out. I've got some amazing interviews. Uh, one I just recorded the other day with Chief Orville Looking Horse. He is the 19th generation keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calfpipe, a spiritual leader of the Lakota people, uh, just an incredible man. I met him about 25 years ago when I was doing some work with Harvey Arden, uh former mentor of mine, and he is a former National Geographic writer himself of almost 25 years. Started doing some work with him, traveling around the world, interviewing Indigenous elders. Well, the first person that we kind of did some work with together was Chief Orville Looking Horse. And uh we had republished his book, White Buffalo Teachings, and a second printing through our publishing company, HYT Publishing, over at have you thought.com. And you uh that one is out of print now, but we've got some other books and spoken word projects we did together in our time. But Orville was someone who I really connected with and uh always wanted to have him on the podcast. We worked out of time to have him back on to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the World Peace and Prayer Day. It's an initiative he started in '96, where people gather around sacred sites all around the world, and he's traveled to different places around the world to pray on June 21st on these sacred sites. And we kind of talk about the history of that, the history of the White Buffalo teachings and some of those sacred sites uh that he's visited, as well as the spiritual practices of the Lakota, Nakota, Dakota people, the Great Sioux Nation. So we had a great conversation, really excited to kind of touch base with him again. I think you guys are going to enjoy that.

Conservation Talk With Pheasants Forever

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Uh, some other ones we recorded, uh, one was with Bob St. Pierre with Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, talking about the organization, how he got involved. Uh, we just had a phenomenal conversation, really great guy. And uh, those are both great organizations, doing some great stuff. So I highly encourage you to go check out pheasantsforever.com and quailforever.com to learn more about and join uh those organizations.

Stealth Vision And A Smarter Scope

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Um, let's see, another one was with Dr. John McCall with Stealth Vision. Uh you guys might know Stealth Vision from their optical line, rifle scopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, uh, making some accessories as well, too, or some of the supplements they've done uh for eye health. And, you know, we talk about kind of Dr. John's uh history is becoming an eye doctor and then a surgeon and some of the patents he did in that world, and then again in the optical world, uh creating a really cool thing that's an anti-cant uh level that's built into the rifle scope at the very bottom of the reticle that actually will illuminate green whenever you're fully uh level so that you can make those long distance shots and know you're not canting a rifle one way or another. Because as distance goes, uh if you're canting one way or another, you're going to send your shot off target. So we kind of talk about that and what his you know development was with that patent. Uh really cool rifle scopes there. So go check those out as well over at stealth division.com.

Boxmasters Tour And New Album

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And we got another really cool one coming up uh with the Boxmasters, an incredible band who's actually on tour promoting their 22nd album. Uh, and this tour is, man, those tickets are selling out real fast. So you got to go check out theboxmasters.com, find out where they're playing near you, and get your tickets. So I'll be talking to the two founding members there, JD Andrew and Billy Bob Thornton, uh, two incredible musicians who I'm very excited to chat about and talk about the history and their love of music and playing together and now, you know, celebrating their 22nd album, which is pretty cool, quite a feat. So um, yeah, go check out theboxmasters.com to learn more about that.

Author Updates And Gear Projects

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Um, and we'll also be having MP Woodward, who is a New York Times bestselling author. Uh, he just joined me recently uh to talk about his book that he did with Jack Carr, The Fourth Option. And uh he's gonna be coming back to talk about another book that he's got coming out in the fall and to talk about Motu truck caps, uh, some that he has helped to develop uh incredible truck caps. You guys, if you own a Togo Tacoma or a Jeep Gladiator, you gotta look into these. They are top of the notch, really cool. Uh, one of my buddies, Mike Irwin, a phenomenal guitarist out there in Boston, who also does guitar lessons and band lessons, uh, just an incredible gentleman all around. Uh, he's gonna be testing that out, and we're gonna be doing some promotion there together to let you know more about Motu truck caps. So stay tuned. You can go check out their website as well. Uh, but we'll be uh talking more about that with MP Woodward once he uh Mike joins us on the podcast. Some other really cool musicians, uh National Touring Acts are gonna be talking about their albums, their tours, as well as some books. Uh, I can't really speak too much more on that just yet, but really cool stuff coming down the pike. Uh, you know, I've been kind of having some really top-notch musicians on, uh, drummer from Foo Fighters, uh, Elon Rubin, uh, Nick

More Guests Plus Subscribe Request

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Hexum from 311, obviously the Boxmasters coming on, a lot of other great bands, Pendulum, guys from Trippin' Daisy. I mean, the polyphonic spree, really incredible folks. But I'm gonna be taking that up another level uh with some uh more top-notch musicians here coming out soon. And uh, you know, I'm always working with some great authors. So stay tuned for those and make sure you go over to Sonofablitch.com, check out the articles page, as I'll be doing a lot more articles and reviews, whether it's products or whether it's books, uh, some from some of my friends have written and we'll be promoting those as well on that. So look forward to those news and reviews through the articles section on that website. And if you haven't already subscribed to the podcast, please do so. I'd really appreciate you doing that. And that way you're notified when the next uh episodes drop. And whenever, you know, uh got some news to share, you'll be

Gratitude And Looking Ahead

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the first to know. So, once again, everyone, thank you for the support and all the shares and the likes and the subscriptions of the last four years of this podcast. I greatly appreciate it. Really looking forward to year five and all the amazing things that are coming out. Can't wait to announce some of these things that are going to be happening here. And so, again, thank you all for all your support. Uh, the utmost gratitude for all of you. And uh yeah, have yourself the rest of a wonderful day and week to come, and we'll talk to you soon. Take care.