The Colonel and the Kid Podcast, Chapter 52: The Knives

Gregory Heitmann marks the one year anniversary of the podcast with a reflective chapter about knives, memory, and his grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Edwin P. Hagen Junior. This episode is part memoir, part personal inventory, and part field report, with Gregory connecting family history to the tools he carries, the hunts he remembers, and the stories he wants to preserve.

In this episode, Gregory shares how a pocket knife became a symbol of character, inheritance, and remembrance, while also weaving in hunting memories, custom Buck knives, and a few updates from his ongoing life and sports commentary.

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Gregory opens by noting this is the one year anniversary of the first podcast and frames the episode as a commemorative edition.

He explains that the  ...