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== Fire Spotter Edition ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. And it's great. It's really good. 13 is an edition that I think has gotten completely lost in the shuffle. And that's the Fire Spotter edition.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is one of my favorites. And it's the one... I think it might be the one that hurts me the most that I don't have. I have one of the red stock editions. Right. Which they don't do anymore. Were they red-blooded?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Red-blooded, yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I never had a Fire Spotter. And I really, really have always wanted one. And I scoured the internet. But they're really hard to find.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So it's weird that, number one, they don't get talked about that much. Because they got usurped by the red-blooded edition. That's very similar. Like the debossed cover. Which looks great. That's one of my favorite styles. And the Fire Spotter was one of the first ones where the video really blew up. You know, all of their videos have been wonderful. Field Notes and Brian and Jim do a great job on all their videos. And the Fire Spotter one really took off and, you know, kind of crossed boundaries on the internet. And in the Fire Spotter edition, it came with a tattoo. Like a... Like a... What are those? Tatly? You know, like transfer tattoo. Temporary tattoos. Temporary tattoo. Thank you. And you don't hear a lot of people ever talking about the Fire Spotter. But it's a beautiful edition that if you ever came across, you would be all over it. Number 12. And this is probably where we're going to fight, Myke. That's the Traveling Salesman. The green ledger with the brown and gold cover. This is a cool edition.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This would also be really low down for me on my list.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. We've talked about it before on yours. This one's funny because they actually had a little bit of a printing issue with this one. And they got out into the wild. What happens is when you use the thicker paper, this has the 70-pound paper in it. And it changes the binding of the dimensions, like the centering of the print on the front page. So some of them are a little bit off because it kind of widened the cover, if you will. And it threw it off a little bit. And I didn't know that for probably a year after it. It's really, really close. But it was kind of funny because they usually, like, nail all the details like this. This next one is going to be some people's number one. And I could argue it could go way up the charts as we go through this. And that's the Night Sky edition.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Might be my favorite. Might be my favorite. Yeah. I think I would struggle, actually, to put an edition higher than Night Sky.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. This is one I would actually listen to arguments on for a ranking higher. The holographic parts on the back. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There are so many special things about Night Sky. The holographic probably being the most. But the pattern on the inside, which they've now used in other editions. Like the little crosshairs. Reticle. Reticle, yes. That's it. Oh, I love them. And I will always love Thomas Hall for sending me 6,000 editions of them. Because I will have these forever now. Just superb. And also, they hold a nice memory for me as well. When the email came for this edition, I was standing on Alcatraz Island waiting for the boat to come pick me up. Nice. And the first time that I went to San Francisco. So, I remember getting it. And I remember me, Stephen, and Sean Blanc all frantically purchasing. Even though I'd already had mine. I was a subscriber by then. But I went and bought another set. Loved that. Loved, loved, loved that edition.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's a great edition. And, I mean, not a bad word to say about it. And it ranks at number 11 on my list. It's kind of amazing. But I've never, I don't recall since Field Notes became really popular, I've never seen an edition sell out faster than Night Sky Edition. It was amazing.