Campfire Stories for Kids A Story Collection of Scary and Humorous Camp Fire Tales

we have an audio we have an audio original book coming out with Random House and in this cause in this project we hear a very elaborate story

this very podcast told that story ultimately that experience inspired this immersive audio book with Random House by immersive we mean I hesitate to say this because you might get the wrong idea there's a soundscape there's like supporting sound and there's music and stuff but there's supporting sound it kind of like it's immersive I don't think everybody's shocked at how good it turned out I didn't know it was gonna be this good yeah it was when we started because we found the most craziest people with the craziest stories it's six hours long includes sixteen tales of harrowing close calls in the wild told by the people themselves a game warden almost gunned down by an oozy wielding sociopathic elk poacher a spear fisherman trapped in an underwater cave, a pheasant hunter shot by a dog a peacock bass fisherman who inadvertently gets tangled up with a drug cartel a fishing guide who saves the life of a boy whose father had written him off for dead that being none other than Brody Henderson Brody Henderson walking around all the time sitting on this very traumatic story about a boy he saved we got Seth in there too Seth's in there I get to him in a minute a fishing guide who saves the life of a boy whose father had written him off for dead and a wild land firefighter who's forced to reckon with the idea of his last day on earth spoiler alert we're sitting among giants flip flop flasher what's the spoiler alert? it wasn't his last day on earth since he's sitting here I said forced to reckon with you trying to sell the book or not dude? no I'd be like that's how Seth died long time ago to go on along the way I explore the unique aspects of human psychology and physiology that emerged during these brushes with death and seek to answer the question of why close calls in the wild have a way of haunting us for the rest of our lives I've always been a big fan of paradoxical undressing which happens to you during hypothermia or like haunt it's an unnerving idea but in this one in the hypothermia story in this book of a caribou guide we explore terminal burrowing it's kind of a nasty little description of it some people when they're suffering hypothermia get the idea that they're gonna dig a hole and climb into the hole to warm up often digging their own grave it's good it's very good we were going through and just doing final listens and I was driving down the road listening to edits with my wife and there were four times including during Brody's story where she did one of these noises she went um I can't quite do it be like uh huh no do one like a shocked noise Corinne no more than that way more it was like it was like Tim Allen whatever that is I should get her to come down she did a noise like conveyed this message oh my god oh my god do that again basically just like my wife like an oh my god without the words it's good this is one of the proudest things we don't celebrate a lot of stuff around here but I'm setting up a dinner for the bazillion people involved in that project it's one of the great I think it's one of the coolest things we've ever made I think it will very much appeal to people it's not just for hunters and fishermen no dude there's a skier there's a skier in it who rode an avalanche for 1800 feet mountaineer mountaineering game warden all kinds my wife really likes the show Hoarders are you familiar with that? I know there's a show called Hoarders yeah it's like where these people have an extreme hoarding problem. Are you going to bring this back to this audio? no it's coming there. I'm looking forward to this I do know about this show I haven't seen any episodes. If you're not familiar these folks fill their house with just trash, literal trash from floor to ceiling and then they bring in these experts to help them clean up their house. Experts? Yeah there's hoarding experts to help them clean up their house there's a dude with a dumpster? there's a dude with a dumpster and then there's also the expert that helps them psychologically I can't watch this show. There's too much dread and too much anxiety with that show and there's just no payoff I need to walk out of the room if my wife is watching Hoarders you get a little bit of that with these interviews. It approaches that line of giving you some anxiety and some dread but it's still wildly entertaining there's still a payoff it's one of the most fun things to listen to oh there's also a story not all hunting and fishing. There's a story about going to the old hot springs just a nice day having a warm dip what could possibly go wrong having a warm dip at the hot spring it's good it's coming out but you can just get it now. Here's the thing it's an audio book so you don't need to wait for it to come in the mail but it's good for us if we just go and preorder the damn thing you can go to audible or amazon yeah you can go to amazon.com and go to audible I think audible is owned by amazon and find it. It's called Meat Eaters Campfire Stories Close Calls it's all close calls should we point out that we're hoping there's going to be a volume 2 if everything goes well and then that'll give everybody that's listening a chance to let us know about their close calls they'll get casted cast into it