Lots of Listener Questions and Tom Interviews Orvis Chairman Leigh Perkins

Published: Jan. 18, 2013, 2:40 p.m.

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He\\u2019s the Everready Bunny\\u2014at 85 years old, and a recently replaced hip, Leigh Perkins still fishes and hunts 300 days a year.\\xa0 Although he retired as CEO of the Orvis Company in 1992, he\\u2019s still chairman of the board and one of our best field testers.\\xa0 He\\u2019s always the first one up in the morning and the last one to go to bed, and he lives his life surrounded by a bunch of hunting dogs.\\xa0 I was recently in Florida hunting wild quail and ducks with Leigh and got a chance to get some wisdom from him for a podcast.\\xa0 You\\u2019ll note by his answers that he\\u2019s one of the most optimistic people you\\u2019ll ever meet.

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