Speaker 1: What's up.
Speaker 2: You're off in God's Country with Reeds and Dan Isbel.
Speaker 1: Also known as the Brothers Hunt, when we take a
Speaker 1: weekly drive to the intersection of country music and the
Speaker 1: great outdoors, two things that go together, like riding into
Speaker 1: the deer woods and a good old Don william song,
Speaker 1: or a.
Speaker 2: Couple of beagle puppies name Cash and Credit, Salt and Pepper,
Speaker 2: Bonnie and Clyde.
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Speaker 3: iHeart Podcasts.
Speaker 1: Bringing y'all a special one today. A lot of people
Speaker 1: have been asking us about it.
Speaker 3: He's always want to know what he's up to.
Speaker 1: It's kind of become a figure of the show without
Speaker 1: you know, you haven't seen his face, you don't really
Speaker 1: know what he looks like, heard his voice. He just
Speaker 1: there's tons of stories about him. Obviously a very integral
Speaker 1: part of our life, as as the Brother's Hunt, and
Speaker 1: and as Dan and Red Isbel. We've got Grandie with us. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's actually sitting here right now while we're doing the interview.
Speaker 1: Just followed me into town this morning and hanging out
Speaker 1: with us with his deer shirt on.
Speaker 3: Granny. Who do you think came up with the name
Speaker 3: Grandy Courtney to horse.
Speaker 1: Thank you, No, it was me, thank you, man. We
Speaker 1: this is it's a it's a good one. You're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to listen to it, and you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna watch it too, just to put a face with
Speaker 1: the voice. A lot of good.
Speaker 2: Old sage hunting advice, dad and vice. That's right, husband advice.
Speaker 2: Just a good old sagey advicey episode.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Moen said.
Speaker 3: He cried in laughed through the reign of emotion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. He's like, this is my favorite episode
Speaker 1: we've ever had.
Speaker 2: Hey, I know, we dropped a bomb on y'all last
Speaker 2: week with the bonus episode about Hunters for the Hungry.
Speaker 2: He just wanted to reiterate it's the first of the fourteenth.
Speaker 2: Take some doze tag us hashtag deer drive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, post some pictures, posting pictures with your dos Let's
Speaker 1: show them off. Let's know they've got they've raised ten times.
Speaker 1: They'll take bucks too. I'm just saying, yeah, yeah, going
Speaker 1: for twenty pounds. There's only you can go to the website.
Speaker 1: There's only sixty participating processors, so you can't just take
Speaker 1: it to any processor. You're going to take it to
Speaker 1: a participating Hunters for the Hungry Processor online. A quick
Speaker 1: google will pull that up.
Speaker 2: I'll try to give you the the addressed as best
Speaker 2: I can, but a quick google of Hunters for the
Speaker 2: Hungry Processor, we'll pull that right up. But in case
Speaker 2: you are the typing type t nw F sorry TNWF
Speaker 2: dot org backslash hunters dash for dash, the dash hungry backslash.
Speaker 3: We'll get you there. You can find a list of
Speaker 3: processors where you can take your deer. Turn it in.
Speaker 2: They'll uh and and once again, real quick. Nobody's losing
Speaker 2: on this deal. They get paid, the processes. The people
Speaker 2: in Easton to see you get dear meet, So let's
Speaker 2: do it. Hashtag deer drive.
Speaker 1: You can also if you're if you're up for it,
Speaker 1: if you fill it up for it, feel called to
Speaker 1: do it, Let to do it. You can donate money, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can donate financially if you have you don't have
Speaker 1: to hunt or anything like that to take a dough.
Speaker 1: You can donate financially. That will also help the calls
Speaker 1: and domate dough. Donate either donate or donate seriously, what
Speaker 1: we do? I like it? How y'all gonna love this one. Grandy,
Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out with us. Time. We got Grandee Grandy,
Speaker 1: big deer killing, fish, frying dad of foreign gospel preaching,
Speaker 1: big fish catching the king of Facebook marketplace. The amount
Speaker 1: of d MS we got asking for this episode is crazy,
Speaker 1: but here we go. We got Grandee himself out in
Speaker 1: God's country, clap for your daddy, then clap for your daddy.
Speaker 3: And making sure there's not anything I forgot.
Speaker 1: They look at it though, too. Came in like get
Speaker 1: the Camo. But hey, dudes, on no doubt, got the
Speaker 1: big bucks on his shirt, Bucks on his shirt, and
Speaker 1: the d vest and the red cedar. Ye got the red.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but now there's a story behind the shirt.
Speaker 1: Hey, that's where we're staying next week.
Speaker 4: Well, you got to notice a shirt. This is public ground,
Speaker 4: this is private That makes sense. Yeah, that's the new
Speaker 4: joke he's got with that shirt.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 3: That's why I got that shirt.
Speaker 1: Where did you get that shirt?
Speaker 3: You don't want to know?
Speaker 1: Yes I do. I want everybody wants to know.
Speaker 4: Goodwill, how much you pay for it? It was it
Speaker 4: was the same. What is it when they run their
Speaker 4: blue ticket sale?
Speaker 3: Or whatever.
Speaker 4: I got it for half price I got. I gave
Speaker 4: three bucks for it, and I was proud of get.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have gave four for it. I guarantee you.
Speaker 1: If it wouldn't have been on sell, you would have.
Speaker 3: Got it exactly comfortable shirt. Hey, thanks for raising us.
Speaker 1: Thanks for raising us one. Thanks for also too. I
Speaker 1: was kind of reluctant to ask you to do this
Speaker 1: because I know it's like it is the middle of
Speaker 1: the rut right now, and it was twenty one degrees
Speaker 1: this month. Yeah, it was so thanks for sacrificing.
Speaker 2: There was an eight point chasing a doe in two
Speaker 2: fons in the middle in the front field. We just
Speaker 2: watched him out of the window this point. Really, we're there,
Speaker 2: I mean we're in it.
Speaker 1: Me and Dad spent all last week kind of going
Speaker 1: back and forth down to the farm and I probably
Speaker 1: I probably should have shot a beg seven point that
Speaker 1: I passed on the first first afternoon. Dad's awesome, good deer.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the story if Dad took our nephew
Speaker 1: and he harvested his first book.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we'll start this episode just like we started
Speaker 1: every other episode.
Speaker 5: Wa you mad just tell us what it is.
Speaker 1: But you're mad at is it? Your in lost kids,
Speaker 1: might be your boss man, know your neighbor's cat. Just
Speaker 1: tell us what.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, that's cool. I don't think Dad knew we
Speaker 3: were this official. No, I really didn't. Like he walked in.
Speaker 1: He's like, whoa, Yeah, yeah, it looks different in here
Speaker 1: than on Do you watch the YouTube?
Speaker 3: I watch the YouTube.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it probably looks little. Do you watch the YouTube?
Speaker 3: Wow? You know everything?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's always good to get a little first
Speaker 4: hand view from some of these guys.
Speaker 3: And I like to see them for.
Speaker 1: Some of what guys, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Well, the different guys that you guys have heard of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wants to put a face to the voice. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of people watch the YouTube. Well,
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of like listeners.
Speaker 1: Watch I think, I think, and I'm not telling everybody
Speaker 1: to go watch the YouTube, but it's probably just listening
Speaker 1: to us Tom like versus watching us is probably a
Speaker 1: different a little bit of a different experience.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt there is.
Speaker 4: I mean I can tell you that you listen to
Speaker 4: it on just the radio, the iHeart and you're hearing
Speaker 4: the voice. But when you watch it on YouTube, you're
Speaker 4: seeing the face, You're hearing the you're seeing the expression.
Speaker 1: See red drop his phone, the interaction.
Speaker 3: See if you were just listening to the radio, you
Speaker 3: just hear the noise, wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Picture of Grande right there? Hey go with griff.
Speaker 3: That was good?
Speaker 1: What's my back? But I'm just telling you though, Oh
Speaker 1: what's my background? Yourself?
Speaker 3: That's yours. It's all this.
Speaker 4: Remember the golf game, I remember that. That was a
Speaker 4: good I had a good day that I like to
Speaker 4: froze that day. Look that shirt, I'm worried it's black.
Speaker 4: Yeah remember that?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I gave it. Yep, yep.
Speaker 4: But anyway, when you put a face to the voice,
Speaker 4: it just more personalizes it.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you more people will go and watch this
Speaker 1: YouTube then they have like this one might get more
Speaker 1: just because you on it, just because.
Speaker 2: People like you're kind of famous on here, You're a
Speaker 2: character on here. Everybody wants to know what you're up
Speaker 2: to all the time.
Speaker 3: Well, that's cool. Usually Facebook deals, I appreciate, appreciate that
Speaker 3: very much.
Speaker 1: Hunting Facebook deals or doing something in the backyard, or
Speaker 1: preaching the gospel.
Speaker 2: Let's start off with what you're mad at or what
Speaker 2: you're glad at, And I will start it by saying,
Speaker 2: I am glad today. First off, I'm glad it took
Speaker 2: us twenty five minutes to get down, believe it, which
Speaker 2: is crazy.
Speaker 3: The second, the second thing that I'm second thing, the second.
Speaker 2: Thing that I'm extremely happy about is there is a
Speaker 2: boy in Michigan who saved his sister by hitting the
Speaker 2: would be kidnapper with slingshot.
Speaker 1: A come.
Speaker 2: A Michigan boy who recently channeled his inner and this
Speaker 2: is the Guardian. So a Michigan boy who recently channeled
Speaker 2: his inner David, which is David Yeah appropriate, yep yeah,
Speaker 2: and warded off his sister's hulking would be kidnapper by
Speaker 2: shooting him with a slingshot. Has said he grabbed the
Speaker 2: unconventional weapon because he was freaking out at the unfolding
Speaker 2: danger and it was the closest thing. It just felt
Speaker 2: like I was scared and I had to do something,
Speaker 2: thirteen year old Owens said, because if I didn't, she
Speaker 2: would have been taken her worse. Let me let me
Speaker 2: just I wouldn't stand hold on just second, let me
Speaker 2: get oh, here he goes here he goes. The team
Speaker 2: reached for his nearby slingshot, grabbed a marble and a rock,
Speaker 2: and opened the window. With both the marble and the rock,
Speaker 2: he loaded them into the slingshot's palch double shot, pulled
Speaker 2: it back in its bands, and fired the projectiles at
Speaker 2: his sister's attacker. Owens struck the seventeen year old a
Speaker 2: sailing in the head and chest, and his sister was
Speaker 2: able to writhe away out of the clutches and run
Speaker 2: back inside to her family's home. Police said the attacker
Speaker 2: ran into the woods. The officers arrested him after they
Speaker 2: found him check this out trying to hide at a
Speaker 2: nearby gas station with the injuries that matched having been
Speaker 2: hit with a rock arm fired from a slan Good
Speaker 2: for him, I was, I was just lucky he's a
Speaker 2: big target because it's not like one PEPSI can oh instead,
Speaker 2: referring to an autumn which which slingshot enthusiasts often used
Speaker 2: for target practice. If I wasn't out there and I
Speaker 2: didn't hear her scream, then she was gone, Man, pretty cool.
Speaker 1: That's great. I saw that.
Speaker 2: I was like, yes, yeah, shoot assailants with sling shots.
Speaker 1: That I mean, yeah, he just grabbed whatever. Do you
Speaker 1: remember those sling shots he used to get us. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: you put a hurting on somebody with it had the
Speaker 1: yellow Oh that's the yellow forearm, and you had the
Speaker 1: forearm stock the wrist that you would sit it down
Speaker 1: on your forearm and you pull that. You could pull
Speaker 1: it back because you had that in the son. You
Speaker 1: could you could see.
Speaker 4: I I wanted to kill a turkey with one of
Speaker 4: those things. I practiced and practiced, but it never got confident. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I better, thank goodness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and be impressive.
Speaker 3: I would loath to smack a turkey upside the head
Speaker 3: with a slingshot.
Speaker 1: What you're happy? What's you glad at? I'm glad I forget. No,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I forgot. This morning when I got in
Speaker 1: my truck, it was freezing. My hands were freezing. Dude,
Speaker 1: something's going on my hands. Like I'm not I'm losing.
Speaker 1: I'm losing dexterity maybe, but like I cleaned a couple
Speaker 1: deer this weekend and then my sister in law asked
Speaker 1: me to cut up a flank steak and dude, I
Speaker 1: was cutting this thing against the grain because I say,
Speaker 1: you do it for faetas and over the past, over
Speaker 1: this weekend, and dude, my hands, I feel like I
Speaker 1: need like a like one of those taw squeezers tennis
Speaker 1: baw squeezer or one of those hand squeeze or squeezers
Speaker 1: to get my anyway. My hands were freezing this morning
Speaker 1: when I got my truck, and I was like, dag gone, man,
Speaker 1: I don't have any gloves. Looked over there and saw
Speaker 1: a little wheel on my steering wheel and I was like,
Speaker 1: it had some It's had these three like air things
Speaker 1: going up. And I was like, what is what's that?
Speaker 1: Hit it boom my steering wheel.
Speaker 3: Guy, it's real nice.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I drove. I never drive ten or two.
Speaker 3: I drove the those in the oath fo Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I have my I.
Speaker 1: Just held on like this the whole way to town
Speaker 1: this morning because it felt so good and got my hands.
Speaker 1: But my hands are weak. I got weak hands. What's
Speaker 1: what were you dead?
Speaker 4: I usually am glad every day I wake up, and
Speaker 4: but a little mor this morning, A little bit on
Speaker 4: the torque side.
Speaker 1: This race, this le this recent.
Speaker 4: Rate hike or price up in rate hike on the
Speaker 4: licenses that we're purchasing every year, it's not for sure
Speaker 4: yet for a vote, but the fact is it probably
Speaker 4: will go through when they show me a dollar deficit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the t w A is working at a million
Speaker 1: dollar deficit. And the only thing that funds the t
Speaker 1: w r A are hunters licenses and boat registration, So
Speaker 1: of course they're gonna you know, they're going to try
Speaker 1: to increase and it's a it's twenty eight percent, so
Speaker 1: even on lifetime licenses, they're going to try to increase
Speaker 1: them by like twelve to fifteen percent.
Speaker 3: Well, I was trying to find out why the deficit.
Speaker 2: I mean, is there a real because they're self funded
Speaker 2: and there's they're not doing anything to raise money for themself.
Speaker 4: But does that mean that there's less hunters buying license
Speaker 4: or what.
Speaker 1: Is that saying? The trend is?
Speaker 4: Is this something that is just a one year million
Speaker 4: dollar deficit or is it something that's been building on
Speaker 4: until it reached that point.
Speaker 3: I think they do that. That's why they do those
Speaker 3: rifles every year. I'm sure it is. But I didn't
Speaker 3: win anything.
Speaker 1: Do you owe anything and one every yeah?
Speaker 3: Never one. I don't know that they're giving anything, but
Speaker 3: I contribute, say.
Speaker 1: I do feel like like I was watching a thing
Speaker 1: where a bunch of guys they're like, yeah, they're like,
Speaker 1: I love hunting. I live in Tennessee. I love hunting
Speaker 1: and fishing Tennessee. They're like, but the prices, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I think of like a fishing license is
Speaker 1: thirty something dollars in Tennessee for an in state fishing license,
Speaker 1: and with this increase, it'll go like forty five. And
Speaker 1: he was like, man, I think i'll I think I
Speaker 1: might move to Mississippi because one, I think the fishing
Speaker 1: is better there too. The hunting fish combos ten bucks
Speaker 1: for residents for residents.
Speaker 4: We see to me, I would rather see the non
Speaker 4: resident aspect go up.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, of course you would. You're not a non
Speaker 3: resident exactly.
Speaker 1: You know. Well it is I mean that, and it
Speaker 1: probably will, I'm sure, but usually that's the case. Right
Speaker 1: Like anywhere you hunt, they raise a non resident compared
Speaker 1: to an in state tag versus out of state tag. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the out of state tags are that you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta pay for those. You have to see.
Speaker 2: I'll have to see how that, how that shakes out.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's a big it's big, it's
Speaker 1: worth you know, Here's here's another thing. Here's what I'm
Speaker 1: mad at. Here's a good mad at. I'm mad at
Speaker 1: dad for not buying our lifetime life. Yere we go
Speaker 1: thirty and forty years ago.
Speaker 4: Well again, if had I known we were staying in
Speaker 4: Tennesseee the rest.
Speaker 2: Of our life, I would have say, really, I don't
Speaker 2: feel like Grandy strikes out very much that he's struck
Speaker 2: out on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I.
Speaker 2: Love you, and on the day that you die, I'll
Speaker 2: be so sad, but I'll still be mad at you
Speaker 2: for not getting my I'm mad at me for not
Speaker 2: getting I'm just holding that forever. I'm never gonna let
Speaker 2: that go.
Speaker 1: It's probably worth us getting our all of us getting
Speaker 1: our lifetime licenses. Yeah, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3: You got to do it.
Speaker 1: Before Boon and Liza, I mean, Griffin and that Buck
Speaker 1: and you know.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying like, yeah, I know, but we might
Speaker 2: as well get all Yeah, get it for they before
Speaker 2: they them up.
Speaker 1: No doubt.
Speaker 3: Okay again, guys, just have a forgiving heart.
Speaker 1: What was it back then?
Speaker 3: I have no idea, Probably.
Speaker 1: Like fifty bucks.
Speaker 3: I think it's more like ninety seventy five.
Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry now we're about we pay one seventy a
Speaker 1: year now I know, about to pay two hundred and
Speaker 1: something a year.
Speaker 3: About to pay three thousand for a lifetime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Speaking of back then, give give the listeners just a
Speaker 1: little a little back ground of where you're from, how
Speaker 1: you grew up hunting, who taught you how to hunt,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: And look, Dad, we're fifteen minutes in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is about an hour episode, so we're gonna
Speaker 2: have to keep him kind of snug.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I don't get loose. Don't get loose over there.
Speaker 3: Don't preach.
Speaker 1: I mean you can preach, but yeah, well just save
Speaker 1: the preaching.
Speaker 3: Born in Ohio. Dad was in the army.
Speaker 4: Mom was living with him, of course, and so I
Speaker 4: happened to be born just off the military base in Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 4: Moved south after Dad finished his two year service there.
Speaker 1: Quick little story, quick little story. Sorry, I played in this.
Speaker 1: I played AAU basketball and Columbus Ohio my junior senior
Speaker 1: year in senior year high school. And Dad, we took
Speaker 1: you flew up, didn't you. Yeah?
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and me and you and Daddy, Spud and Dan
Speaker 1: and Dad was like, Hey, we're never in Ohio. I
Speaker 1: gotta go back and see where I was born. See
Speaker 1: the high first house I lived in. Yeah, So we
Speaker 1: over there and we were driving around. We found it.
Speaker 1: We found his He was saying, he's like, man, this
Speaker 1: is crazy.
Speaker 3: There's a duplexer on the corner.
Speaker 1: That's right, and he was like, this is crazy. By
Speaker 1: the time, there's a guy, like an older man, rode
Speaker 1: by on a bike and he went, Hi, there's Roddy.
Speaker 3: How long are you there? Like a year? Two years?
Speaker 1: Two years?
Speaker 3: A year now?
Speaker 1: So that was my best friend, Roddy there back in
Speaker 1: the day. Grew up right down the street.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you guys would what where?
Speaker 1: I said, right there, right down the road. There's running
Speaker 1: all right, going to go to Mississippi.
Speaker 4: So we moved to Mississippi where the family is. My
Speaker 4: My dad had, of course, uh six brothers and three sisters,
Speaker 4: large family, forty something cousins and uh I think about
Speaker 4: ninety percent of those were hunters. So we rabbit hunted.
Speaker 4: I kept a pack of beagle dogs. Old Diner was
Speaker 4: the best dog I've ever seen in my life. Dinner
Speaker 4: Diner d I n e R just like a Santa
Speaker 4: feed diner.
Speaker 1: It was cafe.
Speaker 4: The other one, yep, and restaurant was stood dog, but
Speaker 4: Diner was the big dog was big beagle. And I
Speaker 4: mean when Diner opened her mouth, meat was going on
Speaker 4: the table and rabbit hunted. One funny story My uncle Ernest,
Speaker 4: my daddy's twin brother likeness was Dad's dad.
Speaker 1: Ernest was his twin brother. His twin brother.
Speaker 3: My Daddy's name was furnished with an initial B.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do they always make fun of h? He
Speaker 2: used to say it was birtha well.
Speaker 3: Uh and Ernest had the initial V now on their
Speaker 3: birth certificates. Neither one of those had a name. It
Speaker 3: was just an initial B and V.
Speaker 4: So my uncle David Curry, David Curry, my cousin who
Speaker 4: loved to just totally antagonize my dad.
Speaker 1: He's one of the funniest people I know.
Speaker 3: He's a daddy and he was determined.
Speaker 4: He'd say, Uncle Ernest, I know that bee stands for something,
Speaker 4: and Dab would say, no, it doesn't understand for anything,
Speaker 4: and he said, yes it does.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna find out.
Speaker 4: So find out that my dad's mother had two sisters
Speaker 4: named Bertha and and Velma, like Big Bertha, Big Bertha,
Speaker 4: and she was a big lady. But it was Bertha
Speaker 4: and Velma. So David then said, Uncle Ernest, your name
Speaker 4: is vernished Bertha, because he said Ernest was venis Velma.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ernest Velma and Burnished Bertha.
Speaker 2: And he said, my middle birtha made a life.
Speaker 3: I remember that yell.
Speaker 4: So Dad's twin brother, Ernest's got this idea he's gonna
Speaker 4: really load.
Speaker 3: Up a some some rabbit shot. He loaded his own shelves.
Speaker 4: And we're out in front of my granddad's place rabbit hunting,
Speaker 4: and I mean the dogs are yelling. I mean they're
Speaker 4: a hall it. They're going there running a rabbit and
Speaker 4: my three or four uncles, everybody's trying to cut it
Speaker 4: off and keep the other one from kill it, killing it,
Speaker 4: and U Uncle Ernest comes running across the hill and
Speaker 4: here comes the rabbit toward him, and he stops and
Speaker 4: pulls up at dol barrel shotgun and pulls both barrels
Speaker 4: at the same time. And when it did, that shotgun
Speaker 4: whooped him all over the hillside. I mean blacked his eyes,
Speaker 4: blooded his nose, I mean.
Speaker 3: His pack shot, his pack shot. Did you kill a rabbit?
Speaker 4: He obliterated rabbit, nothing left but just pieces, and everybody
Speaker 4: yelling and laughing and hipping him up, and I mean
Speaker 4: it was hilarious. And so I grew up in that
Speaker 4: kind of an atmosphere of honey. And when it transferred
Speaker 4: the deer hunting, my uncle Roy, who's Gary's dad, Roy
Speaker 4: and my uncle Wayne were the dog handlers, and y'all ran.
Speaker 1: Y'all ran dogs in Mississippi.
Speaker 4: We ran dogs in Mississippi. I don't know that there
Speaker 4: wasn't a sea. I don't know that they had actually
Speaker 4: a no gun dog season. I think it was pretty
Speaker 4: much everybody was doing it. When it opened, it was
Speaker 4: it was dogging, and down in Mississippi, North Mississippi, the
Speaker 4: Corinth area there was Sharp's Bottom. We hunted in Holly Springs, Mississippi,
Speaker 4: and we carried the dogs everywhere we went, and it
Speaker 4: was wide open, turn them loose, cut them off. And
Speaker 4: the hard thing was it was fun with the family,
Speaker 4: but it wasn't really for me a lot of fun
Speaker 4: hunting that way. That was not my preferred style at all.
Speaker 4: Every deer that came by me was running no less
Speaker 4: than probably forty to fifty miles an hour.
Speaker 1: Tough shot and made for great ethics.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, and it's sad to say, you know,
Speaker 4: it's one of those situations where a lot of times,
Speaker 4: if it's brown is down, they call it ground check it.
Speaker 4: If it checks out right, you put it in the
Speaker 4: back of the truck, and if it doesn't check out right,
Speaker 4: you put it on the hood. And you know that's
Speaker 4: that's not good. But we had great family. I mean
Speaker 4: when we'd come, when we'd gather for lunch, and everybody
Speaker 4: start pulling stuff.
Speaker 3: Out of their trucks in their cars.
Speaker 4: And I had about as many uncles and cousins that
Speaker 4: went deer hunting in their cars as I did who
Speaker 4: went in their trucks. Yeah, and I never will forget.
Speaker 4: Roy had a you know, our dog. Roy handled a
Speaker 4: lot of the dogs.
Speaker 3: And he had a falcon a falcon Ford I think
Speaker 3: was the name of it, a little short car, and
Speaker 3: he he'd raise the trunk and they'd be seventeen dogs
Speaker 3: in there, and the hardest thing, and I mean, it's awful,
Speaker 3: but funny Roy would we'd get them all in and
Speaker 3: just as he get ready to slam a trunk, there'd
Speaker 3: be a tail stick out somewhere, and son get nailed.
Speaker 3: And it it caused that trunk lid to not it
Speaker 3: was springing it or sprung it or something. You couldn't
Speaker 3: get the trunk open. And you see a dog's tail
Speaker 3: just barely moving, and I mean just barely booth.
Speaker 4: And boy, when you created enough opening to get that
Speaker 4: dog son it went. And then when it cut, when
Speaker 4: you open the dog, opened the trunk, let them out,
Speaker 4: you'd see one dog whose tail just barren.
Speaker 3: You knew that was the one that got caught. I
Speaker 3: got I want to ask a couple. I got a
Speaker 3: couple of while we're on the you're on Paul talking
Speaker 3: about Paul. There's a million stories he told all the time,
Speaker 3: but there's two specifics that come to mind that pertained
Speaker 3: to the outdoors that he swore happened.
Speaker 1: Can you tell you tell the SLINKs? The the slinkshot
Speaker 1: on what we're talking about. No, and then, so which
Speaker 1: one do you want to tell? Yeah, I'll tell all right, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean he always yeah, right, he would tell these
Speaker 1: stories and we'd be like, there's no way. He'd be like,
Speaker 1: I promise, I promise these things.
Speaker 3: Hey, hand on the heart, I promise. But one in
Speaker 3: the sky one hand was hard as I promised, this
Speaker 3: is true.
Speaker 1: I don't know what age they were when he in
Speaker 1: this specific story that he would tell about ducks. But
Speaker 1: him and and his twin brother Ernest, were we're fishing
Speaker 1: one day, trying to catch dinner. And uh, they weren't
Speaker 1: having a good down the on the lake and weren't
Speaker 1: catching anything. And and uh, I think Ernest heard a
Speaker 1: couple of ducks coming over, just a couple of mallards.
Speaker 3: Alright.
Speaker 1: He looked up.
Speaker 3: And they were walking down a railroad track headed home.
Speaker 1: Oh were they?
Speaker 3: I thought they were in the boat and they said home.
Speaker 1: So anyway they were like they didn't they didn't. They
Speaker 1: were empty handy, going back home with nothing to eat.
Speaker 1: And uh, he said, man, he said, I wish I
Speaker 1: had a shotgun, and I'd reach up there and I'd
Speaker 1: shoot them ducks. And when he did, he took his
Speaker 1: fishing pole and he aimed it at him and was
Speaker 1: following him with his mouth went real loud. And when
Speaker 1: they did, them ducks looked up and and and like
Speaker 1: scared them enough to fly into each other. They butted
Speaker 1: heads and fell right in front of them, and don't
Speaker 1: skill the train track and took them hom andate them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they hit they they he said, it scared him
Speaker 3: so badly. They cut. When they cut, they hit.
Speaker 1: Each other and knocked him out.
Speaker 2: Okay, if a man walked in with a gun and
Speaker 2: he put it to Reed's head and he said, is
Speaker 2: that story true or not?
Speaker 1: Would you say yesterday? Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, that's why I see you.
Speaker 1: I think so too.
Speaker 3: I think it was true.
Speaker 1: I'll say truth. Yeah, I have no reason to believe
Speaker 1: is a lie.
Speaker 2: The other one that I'm thinking of is when he
Speaker 2: was in the woods, he shot that spike buck and
Speaker 2: it was like a bow and air or something. He hit,
Speaker 2: he missed it, and it ran over to the tree.
Speaker 2: And he was on the back side.
Speaker 1: Of the tree.
Speaker 3: That was Van Fleet, Mississippi. And he reached from the
Speaker 3: tree and grabbed by the horns.
Speaker 1: And cut his throat real fast, he did.
Speaker 4: And that thing kicked and jumped like and you were there, Yeah,
Speaker 4: all right, how to go down?
Speaker 1: Kick?
Speaker 3: Was it?
Speaker 1: Bow and arrow? Was it?
Speaker 3: It was bow and arrow? Shot?
Speaker 4: And he missed him, and the deer spooked and just
Speaker 4: ran to the tree, and and Dad was on one
Speaker 4: side and the deer was on the other and looking
Speaker 4: back because he didn't know what it happened. Sure, and Dad,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna tell you you were there. Being a
Speaker 4: meat cutter, I wasn't with him when that happened. I
Speaker 4: was in the car. But being the meat cutter that
Speaker 4: he was.
Speaker 1: In the car, he just leave you in the car
Speaker 1: while he went hunted.
Speaker 3: He left us in the car all the time. Well yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no big deal about it.
Speaker 1: All the time in the car while I go hunt
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I slid it. We did it all the time.
Speaker 4: And but anyway, being being the meat cutter processor that
Speaker 4: he was, he kept his knives razor sharp. And uh
Speaker 4: he so this deer, I mean, it runs up to
Speaker 4: the tree.
Speaker 1: It's looking the way it came back.
Speaker 3: It was a V. Sorry, it was a V. That's
Speaker 3: what he said.
Speaker 1: It was a V.
Speaker 2: Right, he saw it come up to the V. And
Speaker 2: did he reach through the V? He just reached.
Speaker 4: I don't know how if he reached through or reached around,
Speaker 4: but just the minute, the second, split second, the minute
Speaker 4: he just.
Speaker 3: Caught and cut. I mean it was all amatic.
Speaker 1: Chasing born dude had chasing Born in the woods deer.
Speaker 3: I mean, I was just interested. He drugged the deer
Speaker 3: out with it cutthroat.
Speaker 1: One one way to skim skin a deer.
Speaker 3: I guess all the meat is good when you do
Speaker 3: it that way, for sure. You can use every every part.
Speaker 1: It ain't no doubt. Man. When I think back to
Speaker 1: to like the first our first hunting experiences, it was
Speaker 1: it was rabbit hornting with with you and having dogs
Speaker 1: and and running them like crazy. And I was trying
Speaker 1: to think of some some great combo rabbit names. We had.
Speaker 1: We we in our backyard in Savannah, Tennessee, Dad had
Speaker 1: we had rabbit dog cages and and he would put
Speaker 1: radios back there and and keep them on all the
Speaker 1: time to keep those dogs from from barking all the time.
Speaker 1: But what were some of the great what were some
Speaker 1: of the great combos? We had Cash and.
Speaker 2: Credit, Rambow and Rebel, Roscoe and Reebot what those were?
Speaker 3: Those were the storytellers, the rabbits that he told stories about.
Speaker 1: That's right, That's right.
Speaker 2: I can't remember them all. There were always combos though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had Susie and uh yeah male dog's name. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I remember the red ones, but I can't.
Speaker 2: I'm and uh Rutherford had some names on dogs. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: combo names like that.
Speaker 1: Too.
Speaker 3: He did used to Yeah, salt and peppery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just born born And I mean the litters were
Speaker 1: how many? But he he just pare them up, just
Speaker 1: pull them and did you work them in pairs? Like
Speaker 1: how did how did they come up? Like that?
Speaker 3: It was sometimes just random dogs. Yeah, sometimes just random dogs.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: And if you did have a litter, uh, and you
Speaker 4: were going to keep a couple, that's when you usually
Speaker 4: named them your combo names. Uh, you know cash and credit, Uh,
Speaker 4: you know the ones like that. Yeah, but the dogs,
Speaker 4: you know, I grew up with beagles and I didn't
Speaker 4: when when Eda and I were married and started our family.
Speaker 4: I had beagles then because we lived in Ripley and
Speaker 4: I had rabbit hunters in the church and dog guys
Speaker 4: in the church, and we did.
Speaker 3: A lot of running, you know, a lot of rabbit
Speaker 3: hunting together.
Speaker 2: So it really is nothing like a cold January morning,
Speaker 2: how buddy, when they are run, when the dogs are.
Speaker 3: Someone's just walking around.
Speaker 1: This even the anticipation of like getting out there, and
Speaker 1: you can hear the dogs anticipation because they know they're
Speaker 1: going to hunting.
Speaker 3: They're excited, they're eager.
Speaker 1: You load them like you you unlatched that gate on
Speaker 1: there and they take they are gone.
Speaker 2: I wonder if ground is available now like it was.
Speaker 2: I mean, did you think about that, that's twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: I mean, if ground is still available to.
Speaker 1: Twenty years ago, that's that's more than let's long that
Speaker 1: when we were going twenty eight years ago. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: crazy to think about.
Speaker 2: We would just open the boxes and they would just
Speaker 2: take off, and you had permission from the landowners.
Speaker 1: I remember that. That's my Those are literally my earliest
Speaker 1: memories of hunting, Like I remember doing that.
Speaker 3: Minor deer hunting.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I think minor deer hunting before. I mean I
Speaker 2: remember rabbit hunting for sure, but I think I remember
Speaker 2: me and Dad going on deer hunts on three wheelers.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, we had four even had four wheeler.
Speaker 3: I didn't have beagles the whole time.
Speaker 1: Big Red Big He flipped the Big Red on us.
Speaker 1: He's flipped about every four where we got we've ever had.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how did mom not kill on top of black
Speaker 3: in our eyes? She she threatened a lot about half
Speaker 3: of them. Shane would kill me if I flipped a
Speaker 3: four wheeler on men.
Speaker 1: But it runs on the blood man, the first the
Speaker 1: first time me and Jordan ever, is that the first
Speaker 1: time you've ever been to like we hung out?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but y'all are the saint.
Speaker 1: Y'all are flipped. I flipped a four other on me
Speaker 1: and Jordan the first time we ever hung out.
Speaker 3: That I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was literally trying to back up a hill
Speaker 1: and I reversed it and cut it and it flipped on.
Speaker 1: I had to push it just like us and and
Speaker 1: literally in that split second, I was like, this is
Speaker 1: what dad did.
Speaker 3: Overall are idiots?
Speaker 1: We are, man. We talked about it this past week.
Speaker 3: Let's don't talk about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I get it.
Speaker 2: I would say, I'm tendency wise, I'm probably more like
Speaker 2: mom uh and that y'all are like because the best
Speaker 2: way for me to ever get anything done that I
Speaker 2: didn't want to have to do was just to pit
Speaker 2: you guys against each other because it was just like,
Speaker 2: because they're the same person, I'm just gonna talk to
Speaker 2: Jordan about this because they're the same person. It was like, well,
Speaker 2: but he can do it faster than you can well
Speaker 2: do it. And then I would just chill eat a
Speaker 2: Snickers and watch them put together, which.
Speaker 1: Is still part of it's still a philosophy life. Let
Speaker 1: me and you figure out how to work it. You
Speaker 1: know it works, it still works.
Speaker 2: I'm telling them about it. I've told them about it.
Speaker 2: If we went to do something today, to put a
Speaker 2: ladder stand up, I.
Speaker 1: Think that's I just think that's your way of not
Speaker 1: knowing how to do anything.
Speaker 3: Getting have to. I don't have to. You guys will
Speaker 3: fight it out and then I'll just come back and
Speaker 3: clean it up.
Speaker 1: Tell us you'll are done, lawnmower won't crank you.
Speaker 3: Call me or Dad.
Speaker 4: Have you ever dumped a four wheeler out of the
Speaker 4: back of your truck or or a trailer?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, boy mate, what what are you saying?
Speaker 3: Have you read?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever thrown one of a trailer.
Speaker 1: I flipped plenty of them.
Speaker 2: I've seen plenty of y'all's four with us go flipping
Speaker 2: off of.
Speaker 1: Grab maybe when we're on them, but not when we're tired.
Speaker 3: I don't recall losing one off of let's do this game.
Speaker 3: I've been wanting to do this, so all right, it's
Speaker 3: called dad, and you got the You got the note up?
Speaker 1: Did you? Did you see see your text.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, close, I want you close your eyes
Speaker 2: and I'm this is just going to be a sentence,
Speaker 2: and at the end of the sentence you say, Dan
Speaker 2: or read okay, why are my eyes closed? Because I
Speaker 2: want you to see the person saying it. That is funny,
Speaker 2: though I don't know why. All right, ready, Hey Dad,
Speaker 2: it's me. Can I borrow twenty bucks that?
Speaker 3: Dan? Read? Read?
Speaker 1: Okay? All right, Hey Dad, it's me, am I faster?
Speaker 1: What what? What? Just say? What is it?
Speaker 3: Dad?
Speaker 2: You should have looked over it? All right, Hey Dad,
Speaker 2: it's me. I'm faster.
Speaker 3: Read. Hey Dad, it's me. I'm quicker.
Speaker 1: Okay, I see what you do. Because quicker and faster
Speaker 1: are two separate things. You know the answer? Go Dad,
Speaker 1: hurry up?
Speaker 3: Read?
Speaker 1: Okay, Hey Dad, it's me. I'm more reliable operating heavy
Speaker 1: machinery Dan. Hey Dad, I hit a baseball father, Dan.
Speaker 1: Hey Dad, it's read I hit a golf ball father.
Speaker 1: We all know that one.
Speaker 3: Read Hey Dad, I just killed a giant buck Dan.
Speaker 1: Yes, you should have let me just go go keep going,
Speaker 1: Hey Dad, I just got beat up in a fight.
Speaker 3: Read. Hey Dad, I just wrote a hit song.
Speaker 1: Said we weren't making these person.
Speaker 3: It's not personal. You're just getting short ended the stick.
Speaker 1: So you're just picking out the ones that what.
Speaker 3: You gotta remember he wrote them.
Speaker 1: Hey Dad, I'm in jail.
Speaker 3: Dan.
Speaker 2: Hey Dad, I'm a better turkey caller.
Speaker 3: Read what Dad is?
Speaker 1: Bush?
Speaker 3: Dude? You know, Hey Dad.
Speaker 1: I need help burying this body.
Speaker 3: Dan. Hey Dad, I got a flat tire and I
Speaker 3: need help. Read Dude.
Speaker 1: You know that's not true, Dad. You know he called
Speaker 1: I just I just put seven plugs in my four
Speaker 1: of the tire this past week.
Speaker 3: I know it. But he's you know, Hey Dad.
Speaker 1: Hush, hush, focus on the tire.
Speaker 5: Thing.
Speaker 1: That's bogus.
Speaker 2: That was Hey Dad, I'm lost in the woods and
Speaker 2: I don't know which way is north read No, what.
Speaker 1: Are you doing over here? I got competent and all
Speaker 1: of these things.
Speaker 4: You're the one that would be hold on, we're not
Speaker 4: talking about We're not done.
Speaker 3: I could explain.
Speaker 1: This is making me mad.
Speaker 2: Hey Dad, I just got elected president. Read Hey Dad,
Speaker 2: I just cut my arm off with a chainsaw.
Speaker 3: Dan.
Speaker 1: Hey Dad, I just cooked the best steak in the world.
Speaker 1: What I know?
Speaker 3: That's right? All right, You're done. That's good though. I
Speaker 3: come out on top.
Speaker 1: I'll take that. That's mess. That's bogus.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be mad the rest of the that's funny.
Speaker 3: Though, that's bogus. That's cool.
Speaker 4: The only reason you would get lost is you would
Speaker 4: be exploring more than he would.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I would know where I was.
Speaker 3: I would know I always know where I am. You
Speaker 3: don't get onyx. Come on well without onyx.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about uh let's talk about Grandy
Speaker 1: being grandy this past week and getting to getting to
Speaker 1: take Graham or nephew, your grandson, and him wanting to
Speaker 1: kill his first bucks, never killed a buck before, and
Speaker 1: wanting to do it with you awesome, and tell us
Speaker 1: the abbreviated story of that happening.
Speaker 4: As you said, Graham put the word out early before season.
Speaker 2: Pis we live out locations, specific locations.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want you know he wanted to kill a buck.
Speaker 3: He wanted to kill a buck. And so he also
Speaker 3: listens to this, by the way, so it's up on that.
Speaker 4: So when, uh, you know, when one of the grandchildren
Speaker 4: are you know, wants to do something good, something right,
Speaker 4: we're always going to have them. And uh so we
Speaker 4: determined early when Graham could hunt. I'm willing to hunt
Speaker 4: with him. You all were willing to hunt with him.
Speaker 4: And it just so happened that fell on our Thanksgiving
Speaker 4: time when we go to the camp and we hunt
Speaker 4: the two days after Thanksgiving, Friday and Saturday. So Graham
Speaker 4: came with us and we hunted Friday morning. I had
Speaker 4: a couple of spikes and a nice six point to
Speaker 4: come by, but Graham sized him up and he wanted
Speaker 4: to pass that six and wait on something else. So
Speaker 4: in the evening we see doze and a spike one
Speaker 4: decent I could have been an eight, but it moves
Speaker 4: so fast through and biased that he didn't get a
Speaker 4: shot at him. So Saturday morning rolls around and about
Speaker 4: eight fifty eight o'clock Graham gets really tired and exhausted
Speaker 4: and he says, Grandy, I'm exhausted.
Speaker 1: I said, Graham, make you a little bit so and
Speaker 1: go to sleep.
Speaker 3: I'm watching.
Speaker 4: So Graham pulls his chair shooting chair around and gets
Speaker 4: him a bag chair out, props his feet up in
Speaker 4: the back chair, and leans back in his shooting chair and.
Speaker 3: He is sawing locks.
Speaker 4: I mean, he is sound deep sleep and sure enough,
Speaker 4: about eight fifteen, I see a very decent, nice buck
Speaker 4: coming toward us, about two hundred yards out. And the
Speaker 4: minute I saw him, I saw his rack and I thought,
Speaker 4: then that'll be a shooter for Graham grabbed him. A
Speaker 4: Knox confirmed it reached over and I grabbed Graham by
Speaker 4: the leg and I said, Gram, Gram, shoot a buck
Speaker 4: coming down. Shoot a buck coming to us. And Old
Speaker 4: Graham jumps up and he's knocking chairs everywhere and tripping
Speaker 4: over hunting bags and trying to get his shooting chair
Speaker 4: around to his gun and gets on him. And the
Speaker 4: deer fortunately is not in a hurry. He moves, gives
Speaker 4: us plenty of time. Graham gets on him and.
Speaker 3: He says, Grant, Dawn, I want to shoot this one.
Speaker 3: I said, we're gonna get him body.
Speaker 1: That is funny.
Speaker 4: He said, will you hold your hand over my ears
Speaker 4: where it won't be so loud? And I said, Graham,
Speaker 4: it's not gonna be loud. I said, I can't hold
Speaker 4: the monoculars and cover your ears at the same time.
Speaker 4: I might knock you off your shot. Don't want to
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 3: Deer turns.
Speaker 4: I said, We're gonna wait till it's a broadside he's
Speaker 4: giving us a good target. And sure enough the deer
Speaker 4: is you guys know, was going up, starting toward a
Speaker 4: logging road going from east to west, and he stops
Speaker 4: and I said, Graham, whenever you're ready, Well, I'm watching
Speaker 4: with binoculars and nod.
Speaker 1: Graham, just bow, and when he does, you end up
Speaker 1: covering one of his ease.
Speaker 4: I coover he his left ear with my left hand,
Speaker 4: binoculars in my right hand, and he deer jumps. He
Speaker 4: comes down into the I call it a bulldog run
Speaker 4: where it's all fours at the same time pulling and
Speaker 4: Graham he just immediately he's out of our sight, gone
Speaker 4: in the woods, up that logging road.
Speaker 3: Graham looks around at me and he says, I said,
Speaker 3: what do you think, Graham? He said, Grandy, I feel
Speaker 3: good about the shot. I think I made a good shot.
Speaker 3: Said that's what I want to hear.
Speaker 4: So we call read call and let him know he shot,
Speaker 4: and we're looking and going to be looking in thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: Give the deer that much time. Get up there. I
Speaker 3: can't I didn't spot anything. I mean, I looked.
Speaker 4: I walked that logging road and came around to the
Speaker 4: left and hit a ditch coming back at an angle
Speaker 4: across it, across to the south of the road, and
Speaker 4: if the deer went that way, he had to cross
Speaker 4: that ditch or we could find him laying there. But
Speaker 4: I found no evidence where he crossed that ditch. About
Speaker 4: that time, Graham yells at.
Speaker 3: Me and says, Grandy, I found blood.
Speaker 1: I hit him.
Speaker 3: I said, go back to where that you found that.
Speaker 3: I'm coming to you. So I go up there and
Speaker 3: we start.
Speaker 4: Finding little bebe size specks of little blood drippings enough
Speaker 4: to work him about maybe thirty forty yards up the
Speaker 4: logging road, and then it just goes away. We go
Speaker 4: all the way to the logging road.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 4: Graham turns around, goes back, and I go probably one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty yards up the logging road, still looking
Speaker 4: because I want to see leaves. I got a lot
Speaker 4: of pine needles. I want leaves to look for the trail.
Speaker 4: Found nothing, so I make a swing. I make a decision.
Speaker 4: I've already looked the left side, so I'm going to
Speaker 4: swing out to the right, thinking the deer may have
Speaker 4: turned to the north, which is the direction he came from.
Speaker 4: Maybe he just left the logging road and went started
Speaker 4: through the woods, and if he did, there's leaves. I
Speaker 4: should find some blood. And so in the same time,
Speaker 4: I'm a praying man. So I just said, Lord, I'm
Speaker 4: asking for help. If he killed this deer, if he
Speaker 4: hit this deer, good, and there's a trail wee can work.
Speaker 4: I'm just asking you to help us find it. And
Speaker 4: if he's not, we'll accept that that he wounded him
Speaker 4: into deer's good.
Speaker 3: So I'm easing my way back through there. And lo
Speaker 3: and behold, I walk right up on that deer where
Speaker 3: he fell among some logs, and there lays Grahams deer.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: So I get my phone out and thinking I'm going
Speaker 4: to video it, and I yell at Graham that I
Speaker 4: have found blood.
Speaker 3: I want it in Grahams, what what you found blood?
Speaker 1: I said, yes, come on, I won't you to help
Speaker 1: me tracking?
Speaker 3: And I said, start good feeling when that happened, started
Speaker 3: started looking at us, are looking for blood? Graham on
Speaker 3: your way to me.
Speaker 1: I want us to track.
Speaker 3: I want you to track him.
Speaker 4: Here comes Graham and I mean he's just he's so excited.
Speaker 4: He's pumped, steps off the logging road and starts him
Speaker 4: and he says.
Speaker 3: Granty, I see it. I see blood trail, and he's coming.
Speaker 3: He looked at me and he.
Speaker 4: Said, there's a spot about that big, you know, showing
Speaker 4: me a leaf size. And he keeps coming and I
Speaker 4: think I'm videoing. Unfortunately I didn't punch the button.
Speaker 3: Oh video it. I didn't get it.
Speaker 1: And which is like I told Dad, I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, man that he was beating himself up
Speaker 1: over that. I was like, dude, that's You're in Graham's
Speaker 1: moment forever and everybody could take you take that.
Speaker 3: From video in here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't worry about that thing.
Speaker 3: So he's coming, getting closer to me, and he gets
Speaker 3: about ten yards out and he's looking at me and
Speaker 3: I'm saying, you still trailing.
Speaker 4: He said, I'm still trailing. I said, trail him up
Speaker 4: to me. And he's just coming. And when he gets
Speaker 4: the ears right there, right to my left, about five
Speaker 4: yards behind me or in front of me, out to
Speaker 4: the left, and Graham's about ten yards this way and
Speaker 4: he gets into clearing enough, he said, what's you find,
Speaker 4: grand In And I said, I just pointed, and o'
Speaker 4: Graham saw that deer and when he did, he just
Speaker 4: grabbed his head and he just stood there and he
Speaker 4: looked at the deer and he just went over to
Speaker 4: him and stood there with his hand on a limb,
Speaker 4: looking at his deer, and he just knelt down by him.
Speaker 3: And that was a perfect moment.
Speaker 4: And I said, Graham, congratulations, buddy, there's your buck.
Speaker 3: And the rest is history. We call.
Speaker 4: He wanted to call his mama and his daddy and
Speaker 4: then Read and then Dan, and he's calling everybody. He's
Speaker 4: ready to talk to somebody about that deer. And so
Speaker 4: he gets on the phone with his dad and he
Speaker 4: shows him the deer and all this stuff, and his mom, Courtney,
Speaker 4: went nuts, you know. She he facetimed her and when
Speaker 4: she answered, he he had the deer.
Speaker 3: In the photo. You know, that's what it was. And
Speaker 3: she and Dean were just waking up, you know, and damn,
Speaker 3: Graham's killed it, dear, And here it went.
Speaker 4: So it was a and I'm gonna tell you with
Speaker 4: Graham and me and us pulling him out and wrestling
Speaker 4: him up on the four wheeler, and Read call and said, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm at the top of the hill. Bring her up
Speaker 4: and bring that deer up here, if you Willness we're
Speaker 4: on our way. So it just and Graham, I bet
Speaker 4: he told me ten times, Grandy, I love you, I love.
Speaker 3: You, thank you, thank you so much. I love you,
Speaker 3: thank you. And it was just an awesome moment that.
Speaker 4: I wish every granddaddy could have those very special bonding
Speaker 4: moments and memories with their grandsons and with their sons
Speaker 4: and sons in law, be granddaughters and granddaughters and daughter
Speaker 4: in laws and daughters whoever wants to hunt, just the
Speaker 4: opportunity to spend those kind of bonding moments that are
Speaker 4: memory makers for a lifetime.
Speaker 1: All has hunting changed for you from when you were
Speaker 1: pursuing the deer, the trophy bucks in the woods, and
Speaker 1: and and and going all the time by yourself, to
Speaker 1: having sons that love it as much, and now having
Speaker 1: grandkids getting into it, Like what's that what's that scope
Speaker 1: look like? From what it meant to you then to
Speaker 1: what it means to you what hunt is to you now?
Speaker 4: Well, when you guys were smaller, I just I just
Speaker 4: waited for the time to get.
Speaker 1: Put pull up Mike in a little bit closer. Uh.
Speaker 4: When you guys were younger, I just waited for the
Speaker 4: time for you to get old enough, uh and quiet
Speaker 4: enough to take your deer hunt with me. I mean
Speaker 4: I was solo hunting, uh, basically now hunting with day.
Speaker 4: I had two friends when we moved to Tennessee, David
Speaker 4: and Donnie, members.
Speaker 1: Of our church, and some of those stories are.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I love them and had great, great times of hunting
Speaker 4: with David and Donnie. Donnie was more serious hunter as
Speaker 4: I was, and David was a born workaholic guy, and
Speaker 4: he just kind of sponged off me and Donny. Wherever
Speaker 4: Donnie and I set up to hunt, David used the
Speaker 4: guy right in the middle between us, just to try
Speaker 4: to cut us off.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that, dear, I think Donnie killed. Donny
Speaker 2: killed a mask, the big Yeah.
Speaker 1: He had it in his living room.
Speaker 3: No, he never mounted.
Speaker 2: No, it was just super heavy and had this like.
Speaker 1: Paul made it. Yeah, I remember, Yeah, I remember Paul
Speaker 1: made it.
Speaker 3: Just a man crazy, yeah. And I mean Donnie never
Speaker 3: put He just didn't.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Donny said he didn't want to waste his money on
Speaker 4: getting them out for the while. He just hunted him
Speaker 4: and he put the he got the rack, and he
Speaker 4: let everybody borrow it. Everybody see it, yeah, and I
Speaker 4: think it ended up. I don't know that he knows
Speaker 4: where it is today. It was at our house for
Speaker 4: a long time. Beautiful, beautiful big rack. So hunted with him,
Speaker 4: and you asked me about changed when Lisa started. We
Speaker 4: just kind of split up. They went different ways because
Speaker 4: I got in and I became a lease manager or whatever.
Speaker 4: I leased ground myself, and they were still of the
Speaker 4: set of mine. They weren't really wanting to pay to
Speaker 4: get in the lease. They wanted just public land hunt,
Speaker 4: which is fine. So I did a lot of hunting
Speaker 4: by myself till you guys came along. And then my
Speaker 4: focus became helping you guys kill deer till you got
Speaker 4: to where you were pretty quickly functioning on your own.
Speaker 4: And then lo and behold when the grandchildren comes along
Speaker 4: and they want to hunt. I told Graham the other day,
Speaker 4: I said, Grandma, won't you know something? He said, Grandy,
Speaker 4: thank you for taking your time with me. I said, Graham,
Speaker 4: I would rather be with you when you kill a
Speaker 4: deer than for me to be hunting the biggest buck
Speaker 4: in these woods and kill it myself. I get a
Speaker 4: greater joy out of seeing your joy. Then I do
Speaker 4: the thrill of me taking an animal out of these woods.
Speaker 2: Okay, would you rather shot a one ninety or been
Speaker 2: with a Graham when he killed this?
Speaker 4: That's not a good question. No, I'm asking I've just
Speaker 4: been with Grim. Okay two ten, Graham can hunt.
Speaker 3: With Reed.
Speaker 1: Two o five.
Speaker 3: Uh, Graham can hunt with Rich. I'm just wondering where
Speaker 3: the line's at.
Speaker 1: It seems like undred two hundred is the line. That's awesome.
Speaker 3: We don't have it.
Speaker 1: That's awesome moment now we getting to. We took hero
Speaker 1: pictures of it and did the.
Speaker 3: Yeah pictures of great love. He was fired. I called
Speaker 3: him yesterday, you know, and I said, look, man, I
Speaker 3: got sick. I had sick kids. I couldn't be down
Speaker 3: there with them. And you feel me on that sick kids. Uh,
Speaker 3: don't get the honeymore.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so I called him and I just said, hey,
Speaker 2: walked me through the story.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 2: And he was telling me the whole thing, you know,
Speaker 2: and he said, I said, we're gonna do it him. Man,
Speaker 2: You're gonna Man's gonna go. Man, he goes, I think
Speaker 2: I'm mount.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, Dad said, I could, Oh really yeah,
Speaker 1: shoulder million that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's a good deer too, a good
Speaker 3: deer to shoot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy, for him didn't have brow tis big.
Speaker 3: I think his sprow times went into his main beams.
Speaker 1: He had longer, had one little kicker on his on
Speaker 1: his right coming off his base. Great deal. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: an awesome dear, It's awesome. It's start even fifty minutes.
Speaker 2: Probably we got to get into it. That's uh, you
Speaker 2: got something.
Speaker 1: Well, just let's let's let's just do this music thing
Speaker 1: right quick. Just talk about talk about because like I
Speaker 1: want you to kind of give some advice to to
Speaker 1: other parents of children who are are chasing dreams. And
Speaker 1: and you've always been so supportive, and you and Mom
Speaker 1: both have been Our whole family has been very supportive
Speaker 1: of of watching us try to do this national thing,
Speaker 1: from moving your house boat up here and us living
Speaker 1: on it, you know, and paying the slip rent, and
Speaker 1: to obviously you know, to day come and coming to
Speaker 1: all our our things that we have in national.
Speaker 3: Paid the slip run.
Speaker 1: No, we did, didn't pay my half of this. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, just just move, just get giving us a
Speaker 1: place to live too. Now literally today sitting in a
Speaker 1: chair with us on our podcast and hanging out. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: what what advice would you give for parents and and
Speaker 1: and people who kind of their children are wanting to
Speaker 1: chase a dream that they're not.
Speaker 3: Sure at all unorthodox path?
Speaker 1: Yeah, personally, has it been tough watching us do this thing?
Speaker 1: Has it been?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: Well, there's been you know, we didn't we didn't try
Speaker 4: to tell you what to do. Ever, we always try
Speaker 4: to support you in what you wanted to do as
Speaker 4: long as what did you what you wanted to do
Speaker 4: was honorable, right and worthwhile. And when you guys, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, starting with Dan kind of setting the pace
Speaker 4: and direction and he was going.
Speaker 1: With his life and with you his punk rock bands.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know all throughout. First of all, we prayed
Speaker 4: earnestly for you guys. And I had this conversation with
Speaker 4: with Neda that not long ago. I said, it ought
Speaker 4: not surprise us that Courtney and Dan and Red and lindsay,
Speaker 4: have you done well and are doing well? And God's
Speaker 4: blessing because we've been praying for you for ever, since
Speaker 4: before you were born. And the answers to prayer coupled
Speaker 4: with the wisdom that God gives us to know how
Speaker 4: to encourage and support and have your back, which we've
Speaker 4: always tried to do, is just to help you to
Speaker 4: do what you want to do as long again as
Speaker 4: what you're wanting to do is right and reasonable and
Speaker 4: honest and good and worthwhile. So the fact that we
Speaker 4: didn't have to spend a lot of money getting you
Speaker 4: out of jail and hiring.
Speaker 3: Lawyers to keep you out of prison and all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. I mean, you guys have been.
Speaker 4: And girls too, has been a pain in the butt
Speaker 4: at times, but at other times you've been a pleasure.
Speaker 4: And watching you guys grow and become more professional in
Speaker 4: what you were doing and using good judgment and making
Speaker 4: good calls, then we would do whatever we could do
Speaker 4: to help accommodate you, help support you, and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: help be there for you. So there were a lot
Speaker 4: of times that you know, we wanted to be more involved,
Speaker 4: but we wouldn't. We gave you the rope, gave you
Speaker 4: the room to sharpen your skills, to choose your direction.
Speaker 4: And you know, I know, we don't know all you
Speaker 4: ever did and don't really want to know. With you know,
Speaker 4: some of the details, you guys had to live through
Speaker 4: and live with and work out and work through.
Speaker 3: But you knew where we were. We knew where you.
Speaker 4: Were, and as a result of it, we just wanted
Speaker 4: to see you do well. And and we're seeing you
Speaker 4: do well and coming from you know, working three jobs,
Speaker 4: you know, moving and calling ball games and writing songs
Speaker 4: and trying.
Speaker 1: To make ends meet. You know.
Speaker 4: Uh, we saw the effort you were putting, end of
Speaker 4: what you were doing, and so therefore, if.
Speaker 3: You believed it was that worthwhile, so did we.
Speaker 2: I feel like there was a time where I was
Speaker 2: really close to being locked into something in Savannah, right,
Speaker 2: hot dog dinner. I mean, that's what I always talked about,
Speaker 2: the hot dog, the infamous hot dog dinner in the basement.
Speaker 1: Where what is the copter and the little helicopter?
Speaker 3: I thought it was on this building.
Speaker 1: I thought it.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I remember you on you saying to me, Hey,
Speaker 2: are you sure this is what you want to do?
Speaker 2: And I was like, I mean, I guess I have
Speaker 2: to do it, and you were like, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: this is what.
Speaker 1: You were built for.
Speaker 2: What gave you the that I'm not looking for some
Speaker 2: I know credit here, I'm just saying, what gave you
Speaker 2: the ability to kind of or or what cleared it
Speaker 2: up to go like, Okay, maybe my son isn't an
Speaker 2: insurance salesman. Not that there's anything wrong with selling insurance.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, what made you think, what made you
Speaker 2: give the encouragement to not necessarily pursue take the safe
Speaker 2: out the safe rout?
Speaker 4: Well, I knew more of your ability, and I had
Speaker 4: seen more of your love for music that I knew anything.
Speaker 4: A career outside of.
Speaker 3: Music was not going to be fulfilling to you. Correct,
Speaker 3: Something else.
Speaker 4: Had to be in line for you other than that
Speaker 4: particular opportunity that you had. It was a good opportunity, uh,
Speaker 4: And it would have made you a fair living, and
Speaker 4: I don't have a doubt that you wouldn't have done well.
Speaker 3: At it, But it wasn't your gifting like music was.
Speaker 4: You were a natural musician, and you were you were
Speaker 4: a good songwriter, even at that time and stage of
Speaker 4: your life. You'd already it already been proven. And once
Speaker 4: you've had the taste of the satisfaction of doing what
Speaker 4: you love to do, you're not going to be happy
Speaker 4: to do anything else. That becomes stiltrue, that becomes the
Speaker 4: standard for sure. I mean and anything less than that is.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Yeah, that's very true.
Speaker 4: You can get through it, you can draw your breath
Speaker 4: and draw your salary, but you're not going to be
Speaker 4: happy and you're not going to be fulfilled as if
Speaker 4: when you do what you're gifted and enabled of God
Speaker 4: to be able to do. Good word right there, those
Speaker 4: of you guys are well, I'm just telling you. That's
Speaker 4: what to me a parent, it's for that's what you're
Speaker 4: looking you.
Speaker 1: Know that child.
Speaker 2: Well that was very instrumental, No, pun intended, because it
Speaker 2: was like I was to a point, I was probably
Speaker 2: what mid twenties at the time and just kind of
Speaker 2: floundering and trying, didn't have a lot going, didn't have
Speaker 2: nothing going.
Speaker 1: Filed that insurance test a few times.
Speaker 3: No, I passed three of the four tests on the
Speaker 3: first try. I just had to go back and past
Speaker 3: the fourth one.
Speaker 2: And I was scheduling it and Dad was like, man,
Speaker 2: I don't know about this. Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you even need to do that. He's like, what are
Speaker 2: you doing, Man, go chase it for a minute. You're
Speaker 2: still young. You're still young. And if I hadn't, there's
Speaker 2: no way we would be sitting here. There's no way
Speaker 2: that I would have moved and met Shyanne and and
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So this is where Dan was.
Speaker 4: Dan was at that critical stage where his age and
Speaker 4: his maturity was beyond what he was experiencing at the time. Uh,
Speaker 4: he wasn't able to do what he really wanted to do.
Speaker 4: Opportunities were just not opening.
Speaker 3: It's hard, yeah, real hard, and it's easier.
Speaker 1: And I mean, you don't have the money to move
Speaker 1: up here.
Speaker 2: Also, there's this burden that you carry, right like exactly,
Speaker 2: you put your stuff under a lot of pressure. Dad
Speaker 2: giving you a hundred bucks for the week you to
Speaker 2: drive up here and just like try to figure it out.
Speaker 3: And your mom, you know, your mom.
Speaker 2: Cooking you stuff for you to bring back up here
Speaker 2: so you have food.
Speaker 3: You're ready to be on your own. Yeah, it's tough,
Speaker 3: you know. And and your buddy's getting married and having
Speaker 3: kids and moving on with their nothing. And my point
Speaker 3: to Dan was, you know, while you're at this age,
Speaker 3: you don't have you know, a lot of financial responsibility
Speaker 3: possibilities period period. So hey, let's chase You can always
Speaker 3: come back to this, So let's chase the dream. Let's
Speaker 3: go for the dream. Let's see if the doors are
Speaker 3: going to open. Let's see if you're going to find
Speaker 3: what that is you're looking for before you settle down
Speaker 3: to just for something else, something less than what you're
Speaker 3: cut out to really be. I saw that. I saw
Speaker 3: it in him, sought in you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so you know, there's there's just what you
Speaker 4: see in your kids as a parent.
Speaker 3: You know, you guys can.
Speaker 4: Right now start to see direction that your children are
Speaker 4: going to be going. I mean, you see what they're
Speaker 4: sharp at, you see what they love, You see what
Speaker 4: they're good at, and that's only going to get stronger, clearer,
Speaker 4: more obvious as they get older. And a wise parent
Speaker 4: that can see that and then help to kind of
Speaker 4: build on it and encourage it. I had no idea
Speaker 4: when we got when he requested a guitar for Christmas,
Speaker 4: what that would lead to, But that's what he wanted.
Speaker 4: And I told Anita, I said, I when I gonna
Speaker 4: spend a whole lot of money on this, you don't know,
Speaker 4: you know, we get a little bitty amplifier, not a
Speaker 4: big one, but he gets strung.
Speaker 3: Let's let's let's see what he wants to do.
Speaker 4: With it, and shoot, the guy's picking out Christmas carols
Speaker 4: by noon on his on the first time, first day
Speaker 4: he's ever owned the guitar so badly.
Speaker 1: But we're talking about Dan, say something about me was
Speaker 1: seeing special exactly? Yeah, uh yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, that's awesome. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I think obviously, you know, we wouldn't have
Speaker 1: gotten to do any of the things that we have
Speaker 1: gotten to do without yours and mom support and being
Speaker 1: there for us, and would have been very easy push up,
Speaker 1: pushing us along the road. Man, it would have been
Speaker 1: very easy.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It was still weighing on us to give up.
Speaker 3: He was very close to giving up, more so than
Speaker 3: at any time.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean there's no there. You're pouring yourself
Speaker 2: into something and there's no results.
Speaker 3: For years and years and years.
Speaker 2: I mean it's yeah, it gets, it gets. Yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard. Yeah, all right, right, quick before we get
Speaker 1: into our last the last segments of the of the
Speaker 1: of the show, Your Baptist Minister have been for what
Speaker 1: the majority of years as well, No, how many.
Speaker 4: Years actually at sixteen, so I've been at it for
Speaker 4: fifty three years.
Speaker 1: Give us, give us, give us your gospel. Just preach
Speaker 1: for a minute to these people.
Speaker 3: Literally one minute.
Speaker 4: Well, I was not raised in a church home. I
Speaker 4: was not raised in a Christian family. At the age
Speaker 4: of fourteen, I began We moved to a new location
Speaker 4: in our town, and I had a group of friends
Speaker 4: that lived in that location that invited me to their
Speaker 4: youth group at their church. I started going with them.
Speaker 4: They were picking me up and bringing me home.
Speaker 3: I was fourteen, and.
Speaker 4: At fifteen I made it. I became aware that I
Speaker 4: was lost, that I was without God. I knew of him,
Speaker 4: but I didn't know him, and I had a fear
Speaker 4: of hell. I had a sense of guilt, and I
Speaker 4: had an awareness of lostness. And one Wednesday night I
Speaker 4: talked to our pastor. I stayed after a youth meeting
Speaker 4: and met with our pastor at that point, and I
Speaker 4: just said, brother Ron, I need to talk to you
Speaker 4: about joining the church. And he said, Randy, you don't
Speaker 4: need to join the church. What you need is to
Speaker 4: receive Jesus.
Speaker 3: As your savior and Lord.
Speaker 4: And I said, well, that's what I want to do.
Speaker 4: And so he shared with me how to be saved,
Speaker 4: and I prayed a very serious and prayer for the
Speaker 4: first time in my life. Now, I'd prayed a lot
Speaker 4: of prayers, you know, helped me get out of this trouble,
Speaker 4: help me pass this test, that kind of stuff, but
Speaker 4: a serious time, first time prayer where I repented and
Speaker 4: asked God to forgive me of all my sin and
Speaker 4: to save my soul. I believed he loved me, and
Speaker 4: he died for me, and he would save me, as
Speaker 4: he was raised from the dead for that purpose, and
Speaker 4: I trusted him to save me. And I'll just tell you,
Speaker 4: in that moment, the lights didn't flash on and off.
Speaker 4: I didn't jump pews or swing from chandeliers, but I
Speaker 4: knew that fear of hell, that fear of death, and
Speaker 4: that guilt of sin was lifted off of my life,
Speaker 4: and my life changed. I mean, I was fifteen, but
Speaker 4: it's still the peace that came into my life was
Speaker 4: very real. And at sixteen, my dad was a semipro
Speaker 4: baseball coach. Baseball was our life on weekends and week days.
Speaker 4: Grew up playing baseball, football, basketball, everything. Loved to compete
Speaker 4: with anybody about him anything. But that was the direction
Speaker 4: that I was going, literally until God began. I began
Speaker 4: to sense a call to ministry to preach, to be
Speaker 4: a part of a ministry work, and couldn't get rid
Speaker 4: of it, and couldn't get it off my mind my heart,
Speaker 4: And that's all I began to see myself doing. So
Speaker 4: at sixteen, I answered the call to my heart from
Speaker 4: God to be a minister. Now started pastoring when I
Speaker 4: was nineteen and met Juanita at the first pastor pastor
Speaker 4: at church, first church ever pastored, and met her and
Speaker 4: led her to the Lord and her several of her
Speaker 4: family members baptized them and waited order to get old
Speaker 4: enough married, And so we married when she graduated high school.
Speaker 4: And then a few years later, Long came court me,
Speaker 4: and long came down, Long came reading, Long came Lindsey.
Speaker 3: That's us.
Speaker 2: There was one thing I wanna say, Man, what was it?
Speaker 3: I can't remember?
Speaker 1: All right? Yeah, which that is the most important thing
Speaker 1: that's ever we'll ever say on this show. So it's
Speaker 1: tough to sing the song after that. But thank you
Speaker 1: for for bringing us in that lifestyle and setting our
Speaker 1: path along the same path.
Speaker 3: That that I remember I remember.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, you don't know, go uh?
Speaker 3: So after after being married, I'll only been married. What
Speaker 3: a question like one hundred years. Uh yeah, forty Okay.
Speaker 3: What's the best way for a person who has children
Speaker 3: with a significant other to be able to go hunt
Speaker 3: during the rut? What's the what's the plan of action?
Speaker 1: What's the best still an't figure it out.
Speaker 2: I'm saying the best plan of action that you've seen
Speaker 2: work over the years, what's the best way to do it?
Speaker 3: Two minutes?
Speaker 1: Well, that mc closer just a little bit. Are you
Speaker 1: talking about that, honey?
Speaker 3: In the rut? Are I'm talking about? If you want
Speaker 3: to go?
Speaker 2: You know that this it's November fifteenth. Oh yeah, it's
Speaker 2: going to be. Let me tell you the front coming
Speaker 2: through on Friday.
Speaker 3: You've got Friday, Saturday basically, yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe Thursday night if you're real lucky. Two minutes, the
Speaker 2: biggest two minutes.
Speaker 4: The thing you got to do is you got to
Speaker 4: start preparing your wife and family way before the run.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm asking. What is the process? What do
Speaker 2: you start? What's the first thing you do? Literally, you
Speaker 2: wash the dishes? You what do you do?
Speaker 4: What's the plan? I start ahead of time with my
Speaker 4: honeydew list. The worst thing you can do is have
Speaker 4: things that your wife wants to get done, and has
Speaker 4: asked you to do all summer long, and it still
Speaker 4: is not done. And you are putting your person no
Speaker 4: pleasure above her personal desire.
Speaker 3: Here's the point.
Speaker 4: Anything you do for your wife, anything you do for
Speaker 4: her for the house, if it's painting, if it's hanging
Speaker 4: a picture on the wall, anything you do to improve
Speaker 4: the house, you're doing it as unto her because she
Speaker 4: sees the house as an extension of herself. That's why
Speaker 4: when you change a light bub she's going to say
Speaker 4: thank you. Now it's your light bulb too, So why
Speaker 4: do you have to be thanked for changing a light bulb?
Speaker 3: It's because she sees the house.
Speaker 4: As an extension of herself, where you see your job
Speaker 4: thirty seconds and your hunt as an extension of yourself.
Speaker 4: So if you will reward her wishes early, she will
Speaker 4: more likely reward your desire more like more likely she'll
Speaker 4: desire she' will reward your desires later. So do your
Speaker 4: homework first before you want to go to recess.
Speaker 1: Put up the put up the Christmas decorations. Thanksgiving, that's
Speaker 1: what it is.
Speaker 3: Yesterday all afternoon saying my lights are up to they
Speaker 3: look good though, yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: That thing you.
Speaker 5: Had say as what it was, but it's star of
Speaker 5: show for the one.
Speaker 3: That got.
Speaker 1: The one that got away. I think I already know
Speaker 1: what we're going to talk about here.
Speaker 3: What the giant fish that you knocked off?
Speaker 1: We always referenced that this story that we're about to
Speaker 1: all tell together is the reason that this segment kind
Speaker 1: of kind of exists, because this is the one we
Speaker 1: always reference when we say, what's the one that got
Speaker 1: away from people? And I say, like the time we
Speaker 1: were in Gunnersville, Alabama, and we remember it well, and
Speaker 1: we took up We took three days of our lives.
Speaker 1: Dad took us down there, took the boat, stayed in
Speaker 1: the hotel, We park the boat next to an outlet
Speaker 1: so we could charge the battery at night, fished hard
Speaker 1: for three days, didn't catch nothing, and then on the
Speaker 1: last on the last morning, we were going over a
Speaker 1: pea gravel bank. I remember Dad finding this pea gravel
Speaker 1: bank rock bank.
Speaker 2: I remember it was tucked in amongst some boat houses.
Speaker 1: That's right, grabbed grabbed a little shallow crank, little square
Speaker 1: bill and threw it up on the bank and was
Speaker 1: just running it down that pea gravel back toward the
Speaker 1: down the depth and Son stuck a fish, nailed a
Speaker 1: hammer and immediately knew it was a giant, big fish.
Speaker 1: Immediately knew. Reid grabbed the net. Read grabbing net, and
Speaker 1: and the fact that you trusted me with the net
Speaker 1: when I was eight years old says a lot about Dan.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm curious as to why.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: I was probably in the back of the boat you were,
Speaker 3: he was in the middle. Yeah, I was fishing too, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but the net was closest to you, and in your aggression,
Speaker 3: you wanted and at that fish Dan was watching. You
Speaker 3: wanted to be a part.
Speaker 1: Dad reels the fish up it it starts to jump
Speaker 1: out of the water. And I'm talking about when I say, like, if.
Speaker 2: The fish has a neck, it make it past the
Speaker 2: neck out of the water.
Speaker 1: It's just the head. And I just remember the mouth
Speaker 1: on it, like the mouth and that fish would probably
Speaker 1: be in here. The mouth on it was so big.
Speaker 1: I just remember how small that crank bait looked in
Speaker 1: the mouth of that fish. It almost looked like a fly,
Speaker 1: like a fly bait like it was. That fish was
Speaker 1: so big.
Speaker 2: I remember thinking when that fish's head came out of
Speaker 2: the water, you know how you see something shocking, you're.
Speaker 3: Like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: When that fish came out of the water, I didn't
Speaker 2: say anything. I was almost shocked, Like I remind my
Speaker 2: brain was trying to process like I had never seen
Speaker 2: I had never seen anything like that.
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, this is gonna make this whole weekend
Speaker 1: worth it. This one fish. Oh, it is gonna make
Speaker 1: this whole trip coming to Gunnersville. Dad, get the net, Red,
Speaker 1: get the net. I got the net. I'm sitting there.
Speaker 1: I'm excited.
Speaker 3: Dad. Let's pass it to that and let him fish.
Speaker 3: All right, So how do you remember the rest of
Speaker 3: the story going now? I don't rememb remember saying Reid
Speaker 3: get to Ned. I remember Reid saying I got to it.
Speaker 3: I got to bed. I got to that. I got
Speaker 3: him dead. I said, all right, read make it. I
Speaker 3: just I'm just.
Speaker 4: I'm fighting him. The fish is strong, he's pulling. We
Speaker 4: see him come.
Speaker 1: Up like that.
Speaker 3: You remember what he caught? You caught him on?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it wasn't a crankbait. It's spinner back. It
Speaker 4: was a white, white and shar true spinner bake. I
Speaker 4: hung right there on the right side of his mouth
Speaker 4: and he he you know.
Speaker 3: I've got it.
Speaker 1: And probably because I was so young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember exrectly.
Speaker 4: The minute that I saw him, I knew that we're
Speaker 4: talking better than twelve. I mean I've caught ten pounds, one,
Speaker 4: ten pounds, several eights and nines. I mean he's big.
Speaker 4: His head is bigger than ay fish.
Speaker 1: It was her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hit the head on that fish was bigger than
Speaker 4: any fish I've ever seen pull out of the water.
Speaker 3: Agreed.
Speaker 4: And you know, and I've been with the basqu clubs
Speaker 4: and tournament fishing, and I've seen some good fish caught
Speaker 4: big smallies as well, But this was going to be
Speaker 4: a twelve plus fifteen pounds somewhere, my guess in that bracket.
Speaker 1: She was a hoss, Yes she was.
Speaker 4: And I remember working it up, working it up, reeling
Speaker 4: it in, getting it in and get it up to
Speaker 4: where Reid can get the net under it.
Speaker 3: And instead of going down.
Speaker 4: Under it, he goes straight for the head and that
Speaker 4: and he hits that that spinner bait with his the
Speaker 4: end of the net and when he starts pulling back,
Speaker 4: he that pulled that hook right out fish right, that
Speaker 4: spinner bake right out of that fish. The fish cut
Speaker 4: one way when he was pulling the other way, and
Speaker 4: it just popped right out.
Speaker 2: Okay, now I'll tell you the story. So I go,
Speaker 2: we go, re just knocked that fish off, and you go, no,
Speaker 2: he didn't, And I was like.
Speaker 1: Yeah he did.
Speaker 2: I saw the end of the thing hit the spinner
Speaker 2: bait and pulled the hook in, and you were like, no,
Speaker 2: he slung it off.
Speaker 1: Yeah. How long did you adopt that line til you
Speaker 1: foll I think I cried you did in the boat
Speaker 1: knowing had just happened. Yeah, because I mean I was
Speaker 1: just as about it then, not as I am now.
Speaker 4: It did not matter to me at that point that
Speaker 4: we had lost that fish. What mattered to me was
Speaker 4: you just beating yourself up about something that you didn't
Speaker 4: need to.
Speaker 3: I don't know that you've beat yourself up enough about it.
Speaker 1: I promise you I have. I don't know. But here's
Speaker 1: the deal. I don't know if that happens. I don't
Speaker 1: know that we tell that story as much as we
Speaker 1: get to we get to think about and talk about that.
Speaker 2: No, we'd be talking about some giant fish that was
Speaker 2: on our wall.
Speaker 1: That all right, Well, let me on the record, sorry
Speaker 1: for knocking that fish off. No problem, All right, let's
Speaker 1: do your gravorite. We do a gavorite song. It's greatest
Speaker 1: slash favorite tune that and I think I know what
Speaker 1: it is because every time, I mean, if you, if
Speaker 1: you think about, if I think about driving to the
Speaker 1: Deer Woods back in the day, that like leaving at
Speaker 1: noon at our house one o'clock, and that twenty minute
Speaker 1: ride back Don will was playing.
Speaker 4: Don Williams was, in my opinion, one of the greatest
Speaker 4: country artists that's been out.
Speaker 1: And I just remember looking across the driver's seat and
Speaker 1: Dad doing his headlight setting to this right here.
Speaker 3: Now we're talking. Now we're talking.
Speaker 1: You got singing, singing to or I wish no singing.
Speaker 1: I left Oklahoma driving in a pony. I just about
Speaker 1: to lose my mind. I was going to every zone,
Speaker 1: baby on the California where the people all live some fine.
Speaker 1: My baby said crazy, My mama call me lazy. I
Speaker 1: was gonna show him all this time, cause you ain't
Speaker 1: not nor fooling. I don't need no more schooling.
Speaker 3: I was born to just.
Speaker 1: Walk the line. Come on, somebody living on to the time,
Speaker 1: living on tools the time. Well, you know, I've been
Speaker 1: through it. Will sending my watch back to you. Just
Speaker 1: living on tolls the time.
Speaker 3: Man that said, JA, and what about this when? Lord,
Speaker 3: I know this day is good. I love it.
Speaker 1: I feeling Lord, I.
Speaker 5: Hope this day is good. I'm feeling empty and listen newstoo.
Speaker 5: I know just should be thankful Lord.
Speaker 1: I know, Lord, I hope this things.
Speaker 3: That's great and it always is. It's a great day.
Speaker 3: Every day, A great day, great day, Granny, thanks for
Speaker 3: coming on. Man, today is a great day.
Speaker 1: Grin.
Speaker 3: Listen. I got some other stories that we just didn't
Speaker 3: get to. Wait, just real quick rattles, some moth let's
Speaker 3: look at your notes. Let me tell you. Maybe not stories,
Speaker 3: but just say the titles. Uh, when you got to go,
Speaker 3: you better be careful.
Speaker 4: That was about Robert Luther when he had to go
Speaker 4: while he was deer hunting, and every time he started
Speaker 4: to get down to go, here come a doe and
Speaker 4: he'd stay a little longer until he finally had to
Speaker 4: hurry down and he didn't get his coveralls all the
Speaker 4: way down. And bad news was some of the stuff
Speaker 4: that he had to go with ended up in his
Speaker 4: hood of his coveralls, and when he pulled that hood
Speaker 4: back up, then down now that tree he came and
Speaker 4: his friend saw him washing his head in the creek,
Speaker 4: and he made the mistake of telling them what happened.
Speaker 4: If they'd promised not to tell anybody what happened, what's
Speaker 4: next and everybody knows it.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's a great story.
Speaker 4: Fairley's Turkey Sandwiches with Donny Keel out at the old
Speaker 4: grocery store. If you talk to fairly while he's making
Speaker 4: you a turkey sandwich, you sandwich would be thicker. So
Speaker 4: one day my turn to talk to fairly, and I'm
Speaker 4: talking fairly and he's making me a big old turkey sandwich.
Speaker 4: And then then when he's making Donny one, I go
Speaker 4: get our drinks and I forget to talk to fairly.
Speaker 4: So Donny's got a little slim one. I got a
Speaker 4: big thick Donnie's mad. So I reached down in the bag.
Speaker 4: We were driving down the road in my jeep, and
Speaker 4: I said, Donny, I got my hand on a sandwich.
Speaker 4: You tell me whether you want it or you want
Speaker 4: me to have it. He said, it's mine. I handed
Speaker 4: it to him. Is that little thin one? So I
Speaker 4: reached laughing, getting that big one. And while I'm holding
Speaker 4: the steering wheel with my left hand sandwich in my
Speaker 4: right A bee flies up my short sleeve shirt and
Speaker 4: stings me on the arm. When it does, I sling
Speaker 4: at Turkey all over that jeep. Donnie says, Yep, that's
Speaker 4: God's way of punishing you for stealing that big sandwich.
Speaker 4: It was the other one was game Wharten confiscated my
Speaker 4: rattlesnake at church on Wednesday night. I carried that rattlesnake,
Speaker 4: that the one we ate or different one, No, a
Speaker 4: different one I carried. I thought I killed this one
Speaker 4: on Wednesday evening Turkey and put him in a garbage bag,
Speaker 4: plastic bag, set him in a five gallon bucket, and
Speaker 4: carried him to church with me, because I drove straight
Speaker 4: from the woods to.
Speaker 1: You know, to church.
Speaker 4: And a game warden friend who two game wardens, went
Speaker 4: to our church and I carried him out there to
Speaker 4: show him Matt Ratler and it was alive in the
Speaker 4: back in that five gallon bucket. And that game warden
Speaker 4: confiscated my rattlesnake at night.
Speaker 1: You're a live rattlesnake.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And he took his he uh prayer meeting hadn't
Speaker 4: started yet. It is just a few minutes before it did.
Speaker 4: And I heard a bam bam out of a three
Speaker 4: fifty seven magnum pistol.
Speaker 3: And game warden came back in and he said, Rattlesnake
Speaker 3: is no more. And I said, if you're supposed.
Speaker 1: To kill, I said, two shots, and he's killing them.
Speaker 3: He said, I had to make sure, he said, he said, preacher,
Speaker 3: don't ever bring an endangered species. Oh Jesus, the.
Speaker 1: Church with you and me have to deal with it.
Speaker 3: And I said, I will never do it again. Yeah,
Speaker 3: don't say the name of it. No, that was a
Speaker 3: long time ago, and I don't even know then if
Speaker 3: they were that endangered. But was that it? You anything else? Oh?
Speaker 3: I got others, But that's good enough. We'll stop there.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on my pleasure, guys, it's fun.
Speaker 3: Let me say this. I'm proud of you. What you've
Speaker 3: accomplished and what you're doing is awesome. The opportunities that.
Speaker 4: God is showing you, guys, for you and your family
Speaker 4: and for the impact and influence that you too are
Speaker 4: having across the world is awesome. You're touching the world
Speaker 4: with your songs. You're touching the world with your personalities.
Speaker 4: You're touching the world with your gifts, and I'm just
Speaker 4: thrilled to see the way that God is using you
Speaker 4: to be an impact in your circle that He's created
Speaker 4: for you. And as a father and as a friend,
Speaker 4: can be more proud appreciate that.
Speaker 1: And I love you both, Love you both, Love you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out with us.
Speaker 2: Thanks for introducing us to the woods as kids.
Speaker 3: No doubt early on. Yeah, well that's hard to do, honestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you have, You've instilled I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know of anything else that that
Speaker 1: brings me joy besides my family and things like that,
Speaker 1: and makes me feel closer to God than being out there.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't think there's anything else. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't either, And that's because you. I'm thankful for it
Speaker 1: all the time, you instilling in us the love of
Speaker 1: outdoors when we were young and giving us the opportunity
Speaker 1: to love it in our own way.
Speaker 3: And yeah, but we'll also like, we'll take that with
Speaker 3: us and our kids will take that with us with them,
Speaker 3: and it's that important to us. I think it's a
Speaker 3: thread in the fabric of our DNA. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, well we'll do our best to pass it
Speaker 2: down as well.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm thrilled and I appreciate it so very much.
Speaker 4: I've I've loved investing that in you and then seeing
Speaker 4: the dividend of it coming back in the friendship and
Speaker 4: the trips sometimes we've had, and what you're preparing ahead
Speaker 4: for your family to enjoy, for you guys to enjoy together.
Speaker 4: It's worth the investment with the long term benefit of
Speaker 4: dividends that it breaks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: We love y'all. Thank you for having Granny, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on, appreciate your Ammy, Thanks for hanging out with
Speaker 1: in God's Country. See you next time.