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Bill Thompson says he learned a military acronym, STAB, standing for steady position, trigger squeeze, aiming and breathing, which he repeats at full draw when bowhunting.
“I had this acronym I learned in the military, which was stab, steady position, trigger squeeze, aiming, and breathing.”
Bill Thompson says his alcoholic mother took him to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings as a young child, where he learned the Serenity Prayer.
“My mother was a alcoholic and, um, would go to AA meetings and drag me along, like when I was really young.”
Bill Thompson says Spartan Forge's upcoming thermal feature lets hunters enter temperature and wind speed to model how scent moves across a mountainside.
“you can map the thermals for an area, you can put in the temperature, you can put in the wind speed, and this engine beautifully maps exactly how the scent is gonna move around on this mountainside.”
Bill Thompson says Spartan Forge's thermal model needed a high-resolution topographic layer and tree canopy data to work accurately.
“what we had to build into this was an extremely high resolution topographic layer. We had to, um, have this engine, but then we also had to put, like, canopy cover into this.”
Bill Thompson says basic SERE (survive, evade, resist, escape) training, aimed mainly at pilots and aircrew, teaches survival in the wild and how to evade capture.
“in the initial one, which is kind of more for pilots and aircraft crew members, they teach you how to survive in the wild, how to evade capture”
Bill Thompson says he searched YouTube for chaos theory to impress his future wife, found a Jordan Peterson video instead, and then began reading Carl Jung.
“I actually saw a Jordan Peterson video, but it was not about chaos theory, it was about order”
Bill Thompson says he turned $100 into about $6,000 betting on Justin Gaethje and used the winnings for his house's flooring.
“I turned from 100 into, like, 6K, and then I took it out and used it to rebuild my house.”
Bill Thompson says that as a child he lived in Plum Coulee, Manitoba, a town of about 300 people, where he learned to play hockey with donated gear.
“This was, like, in a little town called Plum Coulee, Manitoba, like, east of Winkler. Small town, 300 people”
Bill Thompson says the film Obsession, made by a YouTube creator, was the biggest movie relative to its budget last year.
“the biggest movie per dollar spent was Obsession, which was made by a YouTube creator, um, who was doing stuff out of his basement a few years earlier”