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Wendy Corr:

Well, Hey folks, welcome to The Roundup. We are a Cowboy State Daily podcast, and we feature interesting people from the Cowboy State. And I'm telling you, when you're talking about a family legacy of interesting people, the Eastman family IS hunting legend. And this is Guy Eastman, who is going to be our podcast guest today. And Guy has graciously agreed to be on here and tell us about his family, and tell us about hunting and about publishing. I mean, there's so many different ways that the Eastman family has really transformed the hunting genre in that way. And so hello, Guy, and welcome to the roundup.

Guy Eastman:

Hi, Wendy. Thanks for having me on today.

Wendy Corr:

I'm so glad we could make this work. We had a few technical difficulties getting started but you know, that's the way that it works on podcasts and technology - and I'm telling you, when it comes to technology and videos and things like that, Guy, you kind of know your stuff there.

Guy Eastman:

Well, I thought I did until I tried to come on the podcast, but I'm not as technical as some people. I'm kind of in that age group, or I'm in between the real techy kids and the old school guys like my dad, so I'm in between.

Wendy Corr:

But you have had the benefit of your dad's experience and your grandfather's experience, to tell us about the Eastman family legacy, when it comes to outdoor films and outdoor hunting adventures. Tell us about that.

Guy Eastman:

Sure. My grandfather started the outdoor filming industry, basically. He was a pioneer. He started filming hunts back in 1957 in Alaska, and just carried it through. He went on to work for Disney, in Hollywood for quite a few years, and just built a lifetime of hunting.

But his true passion was hunting, and cinema photography, it was called back then. And it was all on film, old school film. And when I was a kid I used to help him. We still filmed with that 16 millimeter film that had to be developed, and was basically more of a Hollywood quality, not digital to what we have now. So I've kind of gone from that transition, all the way through to what we have now, where I was out filming. My dad has a YouTube channel. For an old guy he loves - he's really a techie, more than me. And I was filming him doing some fishing stuff. And he's doing some history of fishing in Wyoming, from when he was a kid, growing up at Jackson Hole. And I was filming him doing some fishing here locally, and with my phone. He was completely blown away by what I could do just with my phone. And he looked over to me and said, 'You know, your grandfather would kill us if he saw what we could do with a telephone now, or a phone versus what he had to pack around back in the 1950s and 60s.'

But anyway, that's how it started. He started way back in the '50s and '60s, traveled all over North America. You know, back then people hadn't seen the natural world, or a lot of people to that level. So he would come back from the North Country, which was Alaska, Canada, with all these animals. People hadn't really seen footage of them hunting and having adventures.

It wasn't all just about hunting, it was about outdoor adventure, seeing caribou, Dall Sheep, grizzly bears, brown bears, polar bears, you know, all these things people hadn't really seen. And we've traveled around to schools all over, to schools and auditoriums all over the country. I run into a lot of people still to this day - they're even in our industry - who, their passion was ignited for hunting in the outdoors by my grandfather traveling to their local auditorium, selling a ticket for 50 cents or $1 to come in, bring the whole family and watch a video or film, and he would liv