WEBVTT - Ep. 419: Hot Legs and Burnin' Squirrel 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:13.320 This is the me Eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severely, 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:18.319 bug bitten, and in my case, underwear. Listening past, you 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:24.040 can't predict anything presented by First Light, creating proven versatile 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:28.040 hunting apparel from Marino bass layers to technical outerwear. For 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:35.760 every hunt, First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer. Kevin Murphy 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.120 tells what's in the oven? Man, Man, what we got 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.519 is rabbit hot wings and squirrel hot wings. Well not 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:48.760 just that. Three ways, three six ways, sorry, six ways. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:54.480 Six different sauces, starns barbecue sauce, a medium wing sauce, 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:58.200 a hot wing sauce. Guy's favorite. What is it? Guy? 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.480 You be? I don't know what a good man? It 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.880 wasn't nothing but like a spider, it's a bottom and 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.720 I almost had to add some water to it to 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.760 give it make it flow out of there. So it 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.800 must be the house specialty here. And then I wanted 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.000 to put the ghost pepper on, and Steve started talking 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.760 about a story and I wandered off, and he like, 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.800 give'd be the death glare to get back on. But yeah, 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.280 it's you know, people like different things different, something like 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.880 it hot, something like it mild. And we did a 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.600 prep that just and we we knocked it out and 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:33.640 what like ten minutes. Yeah, you two guys, y'all like 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.840 a production butcher shop cutting the squirrels up. The rabbit's up. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.000 We saved the tenderloins out of the rabbit. For we're 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.280 gonna fry some make some rabbit tinders. That man, any kid, 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:49.000 if they didn't like rabbit tenders, they just ain't a kid, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.480 because it's the next thing to a chicken nugget that 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.120 you would get, you know, at a restaur of whatever, 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.520 but much better, much better. For I'm gonna go, we're 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.760 gonna bread it up, and we're gonna Friday and seven 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.000 jard lard, which I have never seen before, but I 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.520 guess at Michigan that's what they man. Well, you see, 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.440 here's the deal. Man, I don't know enough about this 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.560 to tell you all about this, but there's a thing 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:17.520 I wish Jesse Griffiths was here. When you get I 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.480 used to think that large like, man, I got so 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:25.680 many balls in the air right now, Okay, If I 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:30.160 was making goose con fee long ago, and I didn't 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.600 want to and I didn't want to save enough fat 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.280 from geese to get enough fat to cook them in. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.480 And I didn't want to buy some little four ounce 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.600 tub of duck fat for three million dollars. I would 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:48.200 go down and buy the shelf. Stable man, techa man, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.800 take it. Whatever the hell that company is lard, the 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.040 square block of lard on a shelf, wrapped in wax 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.600 paper and cardboard. You follow me. We've got it back home, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.280 not that brand. We have a there's white, there's like 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.760 snow white. Mgee, I thinks what we have back home anyway? 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.320 Block a lard on the gross store shelf. Yes, okay, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:13.160 I don't fully know this, why it isn't. I wish 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:17.200 Jesse Griffiths was here. He doesn't like that stuff because 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:21.480 there's something done to that that's not done to the jarred, 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:28.200 sealed or refrigerated lard. He and he's not like a 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.120 fussy he's not a fussy man. He doesn't have all 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.920 these rules about things he doesn't understand, you know, like 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.040 rules for no reason, big good name of a book, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.440 rules for no reason. So he doesn't have a bunch 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.760 of rules that you ask him a bunch of questions about. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.440 It winds up being he doesn't know what he's talking about. 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.880 I just trust him. Generally, and he doesn't like that 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.760 kind of lard. He likes the stuff like in a 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.640 in a jar, the refrigerated or sealed lard. And it 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.760 has something to do with some treatment they do it. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.000 It makes that you can put it on your shelf 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.720 for eighteen years, not sealed, and nothing bad happens to it. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.960 He likes unstabilized. Lord, now you talking, I've got a question. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:13.360 So lard is from swine from a pig. It's rendered 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.960 fat from a pig, though right from generally they use 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.080 it because it's tallow as beef and lard as pork. 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.279 But I don't know how etched and stolen that is? 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:28.400 Gotch and grease is bear um, you know the pioneers, 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:33.080 they would make you. Have you ever eaten a crackling? Yes, okay, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:38.160 pork like pork skin right, No, you'd be bear cracklings 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.719 kind of yeah. They would render the lard and out 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.080 of the cracklings, they would cut them up in little 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.159 chunks and if you really got one special, have a 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.719 little bit of meat left on it. Though. That was 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.400 like from my my grandparents on my mother's side, they 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.160 would have a big hulk killing. You know, I told 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.360 you about the hull killing pole that had like eight 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.400 coons hanging from it. That my cousin Tim, he's got 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.520 the picture of that. Gotta get him. I gotta get 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.800 a copy of that thing. But I can remember as 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.520 a kid, they would be rendering lard out there from cracklings. 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.680 They have like a press two two boards together. Uh, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.680 they wrap it in cheesecloth, get the get the cracklings, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.080 and then they would squeeze it and squeeze all the 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.920 lard out and and jarred up or whatever. I don't 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.440 know what my grandma did there. And then they would 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.560 use the cracklings to make crackling corn bread. Um. Some 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.839 people would feed them to their dogs, but they would 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.120 get two products. You know, nothing was wasted from the hog, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.520 but the squeal. Everything else went to use somewhere down 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:37.920 the line. Do you know the old term for what 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.960 you might now call the pantry used to be called 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:47.720 a what m hmm? You scratch beard all day long? 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.679 The larder that's cract deal. Scratch your beard. Actually helped 0:05:53.120 --> 0:06:01.320 scratches beard. And the minute he did like two strokes, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.200 the answer came spitting out of him. The larger Because 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.719 you can create an anaerobic environment. This is what Confie is. 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:15.560 You can when you take meat cooked meats and put 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.960 him in lard, you create an anaerobic environment, right, the 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.039 oxygen and oxygen free environment when it's encased and large. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.920 So the larder was where you would store non refrigerated 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:34.800 foods encased and lard to prevent spoilage, to greatly delay spoilage. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.760 So why are people listening to this show man? Because 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.599 you learn about all this stuff with lard. I learned 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:46.039 that just right now, Steve two of us. Um uh yeah, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.240 a lot of stuff about larden every other week probably. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.760 I love Confie though. M so good. Now, so that's 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.240 what you're making. And then I want you to answer 0:06:56.279 --> 0:07:00.560 me this question, Kevin Murphy, you said something then yesterday 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:09.040 those very cocky sounding just once Kevin's dog, Kevin's squirrel dog, 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:14.400 Shorty super stout, Shorty super style short just prior to it, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:19.880 bite and dirt myth and leg. What you hear about this? No? Yeh, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.480 dirt got bit now he thinks he's got rabies. It 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.640 was just a little nip. It didn't break his skin. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.560 Woke him up though really a dog didn't like him anyhow, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.240 just prior to him trying to kill dirt. Kevin's dogs 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.040 track and a squirrel. We actually saw the squirrel, so 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:41.160 we saw, we saw, we saw a fox squirrel. No, no, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.200 those fox squirrels up a different tree. A black squirrel 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.440 went that direction, all right, we saw a black squirrel. Okay, 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:52.440 black phase. So two fox squirrels went up across the road. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.320 A black phase gray squirrel tore off through the woods. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:08:00.920 I think with gray. There was a black and gray gray. Okay, 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:09.680 super stout Shorty was on its trail and gets to 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.560 a little tree, the kind of tree where you know 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.640 that you're gonna find the squirrel in like a lot 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.600 of trees. It chased the squirreling the tree, and you're like, 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.640 you ever gonna find a squirrel in that tree? Full 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.040 of holes? Huge, you know, But this is just a 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.320 little tree, small tree with some grape vines and some vegetation, 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.480 a squirrel tree, you know. But you're like, if he's 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.240 in there, he's got a problems. Yes, yes, he has 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.560 no no where to hide, and the dog is going ballistic, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.679 and I thought, I don't know what I thought, but 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.199 then I was like, oh, there's something up in that tree. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.040 And the more I looked at it. I said, there's 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:44.480 a raccoon of the tree. And at first I was 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:49.079 I texted Matt Cook that they were eighteen inches apart, 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:55.440 but I was exaggerating, Yes you were. Well, okay, Zucker, 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.400 how many inches apart were there? And are you seven 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:05.080 and a half inches apart? Times take? No, no, times two. 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:13.520 Look here, they're closer now. He was spreading his arms apart. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.600 That's the only reason I know, because I've seen the footage. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.440 They were a lot closer, a lot closer, a lot closer. Yeah, 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.560 right there, I'm the one that climbed up in there. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:28.320 From Kevin's chest to one arm extended, yeah, from his brisket, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:35.000 the center of his brisket to his Yes, I'll go that. Yeah, 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.360 but that's twice eighteen. You know what, I'm gonna do 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:39.760 this because I'm gonna fill this out there just because 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.720 I'm gonna get you something. I'm gonna get you some action. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:46.960 I'm not even rubbing. From the center of Kevin's brisket 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:53.720 to his empty ring finger, very empty ladies to his 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:59.640 ring finger, look past his compass. This is where my 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.680 rain is right here in this as the Boys in 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.200 South Africa says, Murphy, What are you doing with those Bengals? 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:10.120 So I took my ring, something that my mom gave me, 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.720 and my senior ring what was left of it, and 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.760 made something really good out of it, a bangle. You 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.520 took your wedding ring and all that stuff and melted 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:22.680 it down. Yep, I had a friend winging man Raymond's son. 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:28.720 Uh yeah, look here's yeah, that's my wedding ring, my 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.000 high school ring and a piece of family jewelry that 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.400 that blowed to my mom. So I'm trying to get 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.760 you some ladies right now, Kevin. Well, I've got a 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:41.600 gold Bengal. Oh ladies like that? They look at that shiny? 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:43.920 You never tried anything like tender or anything? Have you? 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:49.080 Hadn't been on tender yet? No? Yeah, I'm open to 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.680 anything I hold. Are you real quick? I am twenty 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.600 one on the inside and worn in thirty sixty four 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.000 winners on the outside, so average that so twenty four 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.480 and sixty four, that's eighty eight. So I'm forty four. No, 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.079 that's good way to look at it. So younger than you. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.760 He's ready. Um and then you So this happened, and 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.920 I was quite I was quite surprised. Because I was 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:19.160 feeling that were he not it was a medium boer coon, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.559 and I wondered to myself, were he not so caught 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.839 by surprise of us coming through the woods, would he 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:31.600 have made a play on killing the squirrel that undoubtedly 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.920 didn't know he was there when he ran up that tree. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.520 So the coon's already in the tree, just resting for 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.040 the day, he's napping, he's got his nap, and all 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.160 of a sudden, the squirrel happens to pick a tree 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.679 or raccoons in books up the tree, passes the coon by, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.840 probably thinks of himself, holy shit, and then plasters himself 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.000 in the top of the tree right by the raccoon. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.200 Would the raccoon have said, I'm gonna catch that squirrel 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.360 or not? But we were coming, and he the raccoons 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.079 surely aware of us as well. He's probably like that 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:07.000 is well, first of all, that's one really unlucky raccoon 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.520 just taking a nap, and then all of a sudden, 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.520 here comes Steve Ranella's crew just right under his tree. 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:17.720 Because dogs, yeah, yeah, man, that's an unlike. So we 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.400 got the raccoon and got the squirrel, and then I 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:24.280 said something to the effect of um, bet you've never 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.400 seen a raccoon and a squirrel in the same tree, 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.240 or I bet you bet you never got a raccoon 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.880 and a squirrel out of the same tree before. And 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.520 then you said the cocky thing where you said that, 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.760 basically that's happened to you before. I'm sixty four winners, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.280 so a lot of things has happened to me before. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:46.240 I have seen it before. I've seen critters that uh. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:52.160 I was in Texarcana swamp rabbit hunting the middle of 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:57.280 of um December. We're out there. I've got Polly Puerpreche. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.959 She's a little bit on the trashy side. She actually 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.960 tree a coon in the daytime down there, but he 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.160 was going like slow slow up the side of a tree. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.040 And then we were hunting along. I called her off 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:12.840 that we were hunt along and I seen her hit 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.560 a trail of swamp rabb I think it was a 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.760 swamp rabbit, don't know that for sure, and she ran 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.839 it into a hollow log and then the swamp rabbit 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.360 ran out ramby me. I did one of those like 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.840 hail Mary shots, pulled the trigger and just watched the 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.760 swamp rabbit drift on off thinking that I probably missed it. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.480 There was some other hunters over there, and then poly 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.600 pure breds still up there, and the next thing I know, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.640 there's an armadilla that shoots out of that hollow log. 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.679 So I got a swamp rabbit armadilla out there. I 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.880 know I'm off the track, but I have seen coons 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:54.360 and squirrels in the same tree before. Not numerous times, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.800 but I have seen that before, not thirty seven and 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:01.400 a half inches apart. You're correct, and that's what you 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.280 want to hear that you're right. So well, is it 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.120 sae to say, oh, we're gonna move on. I got yeah, 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.440 we gotta stuff. I got stuff. Come on, Zucker, help me. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:15.320 I'm just I'm burning. I'm burning, so I need Let's 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:19.360 talk about single shot twenty twos and shooting rabbits and begging. 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.400 Can I bring by twenty two. I'm really good with 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.360 the twenty two. I can kill ship with my twenty two. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.080 So let's let's talk about twenty twos and the story 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:32.200 of the single shot. And I got other stuff I 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.760 gotta talk about. Took you guys ready, I'm gonna regale 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:39.920 you guys with interesting stuff. Do you hear about this Now. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.360 If you go to my Instagram at Stephen Ronella, you're 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.160 gonna see a pile. You do it right now, Kevin, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.640 You're gonna see a If you go back an image 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.240 or two, two, three, four images back, you're gonna see 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:57.120 a photo of a ton of schools. Okay, sort of 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:02.680 like floating in space. This is from I'm gonna pull 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:08.680 it up myself, pull it up myself. Okay, you're gonna 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.040 see a picture of a whole bunch of skulls Bison, antiquois, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:19.800 red deer, and rhinoceros skulls. This is from a paper 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.400 that just came out. You're gonna find this is gonna 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.520 this is gonna interest the dickens out of you. Okay, 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.600 I heard you talking about this. No you didn't. I 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.800 heard you talked about this. Somebody. Maybe I read the post. 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.280 I think I read the post from a paper titled 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:42.200 a symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania. I translate 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.920 that on Instagram into a Neanderthal cave stacked with a 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:50.880 big ass collection of European mounts. This is from Spain. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.960 A cave complex in Spain where Neanderthal hunters This is 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.200 my words, my synopsis of this thing from Okay, the 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.040 journal is Nature Human Behavior, so you know, like the 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:07.600 journal Nature, Nature Human Behavior Journal. The article again a 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:14.520 symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania my words, researchers 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:19.080 unearthed defined in a cave complex in Spain where Neanderthal 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:23.800 hunters stashed the skulls of large bison, deer, and rhinoceros, 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:30.000 all with large appendages, which is science speak for big 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:35.040 old horns and antlers. Here's what's here's the crazy thing 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:42.040 about it. No lower jaws in the stack. Okay, it 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:47.160 represents many many animals. No lower jaws in the stack, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.960 no other bones at all in the stash in this 0:16:52.000 --> 0:17:01.000 particular cave, and all the things had exemplary horns on 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:05.520 the bison and rhinoceros and on the red deer. A 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:10.119 little trophy collection. That's where they brought the toads. That 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:14.680 was European, right, Spain, euro Mounts I called Freedom Mounts. Yeah. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.040 When they had to remind the French fry, remember when 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.000 the French were giving us a bunch of shit and 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.880 we had to change French fries to Freedom fries. Yeah, 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.199 that's so, I'd like to call European mounts freedom mounts. Yeah, um, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.600 freedom Mountstan that the original freedom mounts in the cave. Okay, 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.440 I'm I'm digging you. The paper states this is in 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.200 the sum the sum up the conclusion of the paper. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:41.160 Quote today, the accumulation and display of large mammal skulls 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:45.800 in the form of hunting trophies is linked to sport hunting. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.120 Very careful word like, I applaud the words selection here. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.720 I applaud the words selection because, unlike all the not 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.520 all the Unlike so much of the garbage you read 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:59.840 about hunting in the media, careful word selection is linked 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:09.000 right to sport hunting. Similar practices, it's continuing on. Similar 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:14.359 practices for varying purposes have however, also been documented for 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:21.159 the most recent hunter gatherer societies. Indeed, cultures worldwide have 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:26.879 invested animal skulls with a strong symbolic content and have 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:36.720 protected or displayed them with due attention meaning meaning what 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:41.080 seth meaning people like to show off there the big 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.080 stuff they kill. There, you have it right from Seth 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:48.760 as we do today. Yeah, they're like, come to my cave. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.280 I want to show you this bison I got last week. 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:57.960 You know, Chester, if you come to my cave all right, now, 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.160 I've got a five gallon bucket that as somewhere between 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:09.639 twenty four and thirty swamp rabbit skulls cleaned up, not 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.920 cleaned up yet rotten. They're rotting. The flesh is coming 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.600 off of them. So I'm gonna let them. One of 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.040 the boys at work. I try to get him to 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:18.440 clean them for me. He said, Man, this is easiest 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.120 thing to do. Murphy said, go back there in the lab. 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.200 Get a five gallon bucket, put him in there, fill 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.760 it just over the top of water, punch a hole 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.480 in it, let it set to summertime whatever going there 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.120 and spray off. And then he said, you'll have your 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.600 swamp rabbit skulls. So you're gonna see twenty at least 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:39.200 twenty four swamp rabbit skulls that I collected this year. 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:43.639 And it wasn't for Chester. Your will and Kevin's willis 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.359 can say I bequeathed this bucket of rotten rabbit sculls 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.760 to Chester only if he comes down and picks him up. Yeah, Kevin, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:52.520 I don't know if you guys know this. Kevin has 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:58.119 bequeathed me his crazy cowboy hat, and I think sweet. 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.280 And if I go down to when I know something. 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:01.919 When I next visit him, I get my pick of 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.160 the litter out of the gun room. No. Twenty two 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.359 twenty tas you know. And I got no left headed 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:13.640 twenty tis in there. But they've got some nice pumps. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.119 But yes, yeah, yeah, I want my kids killed. Nothing 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.399 about the guns that I have or my hunting dogs. 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.000 My son's don't tell me, he says, I mean you die. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.520 I'm gonna give all your hunting dogs away. I'm gonna 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.480 sell your guns and buy get tars. I says, I 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.479 don't care, so I will be dead. You can do 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:30.280 what you want if that's gonna make you happy, that's 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.639 my mission. Did you say guitars. He's a he's a musician. 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.399 Oh yeah, he's gonna sell my guns and buy with 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.440 the money the proceeds and buy buy guitar. So I 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.480 would be looking at the obituary for Beduka, Kentucky. And 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.120 you might get a hell of a deal on a gun, 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:46.240 especially if you've got to get except for the one 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.000 I take out of that pile, you've got to come 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:49.560 and pick it up. You should tell him to hit 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.119 us up first before he puts them up for sale. 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:54.680 I should do what you should tell him, he should 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.920 hit us up first before he puts them up for sale, 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.879 because I'll give him your number. Yeah, well, we'll get 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.199 here today. I got another piece of news to report. 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.960 I got a lot of news pieces of report. This 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:08.440 one's news piece that I picked up myself. Uh Seth 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:13.640 yesterday observed this is my favorite observation that he observed 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:17.400 that nothing has brought America together since nine to eleven 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:23.080 quite like the Chinese spy balloon. Let's get everybody agreed 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.000 for what. The whole country came together around the idea 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:30.080 that someone needs to shoot that spy balloon down. Yea, 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:32.080 and he says, it hasn't been since nine to eleven. 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:39.720 Everybody's been so united. Yeah, everybody when to shoot it down. 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.400 But everybody in the country wanted to shoot that balloon down. 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.600 It really did bring us together. My favorite thing that 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.199 I was telling you Steve the other day, my favorite 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:51.280 thing that came out of that spy balloon was a 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.720 like a meme photo. It said, Uh, so funny. I 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:57.879 haven't seen it with it's so funny, it said, Uh, 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.679 oh man, what what did the exact actually say? It's images. 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:08.720 A few images have been um collected of the well 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:12.840 how did it go? It was like a from the 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:16.760 spy balloon over Iowa. And it was like a picture 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:21.240 of this big, old sunburned dude in his pool throwing 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:23.560 a couple of beer bottles up in the air at it, 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:26.520 and his wife was right next to him kind of. 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:28.600 I don't know if she was like flipping them off 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:32.680 or doing the same thing, but it was great. There's 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:35.080 a lot of good memes that came out. I don't 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:38.439 traffic a memes. Didn't seeing him. I like hearing about him. 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:40.879 I don't want to look at him. Here's an interesting 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:44.440 thing I was recently. I had a whole conversation with 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:48.960 my friend Jason about this where I was all fired 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:55.760 up about reporting around this whole. If you go back 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:58.040 and listen to the episode we have called Screwed from 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:00.480 the Right Screwed from the Left a couple episodes ago, 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:07.119 I went on a real tear about some things that 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:13.359 the Obama administration had done to usurp Alaska's Management authority 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:18.040 of Wild Game or of wildlife, and then Trump undoing 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:21.439 the usurpation and the Biden administration threatening to redo the 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:25.199 usurpation and this whole thing. And I was talking with 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:30.320 my friend Jason about how when you read an article, 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:33.600 when you read, like a mainstream media article about a 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:40.120 subject you know, well, you realize all the ways that 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:44.920 the reporter doesn't understand the issue, or is obfuscating the issue, 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:50.880 or is screwing it up. Okay. But then you read 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:53.800 another article about something you know nothing about, and you 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:57.720 feel thankful that the article exists because here you just 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:01.760 learned all this stuff. But how do you reconcile the 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:03.960 feeling of reading an article that you know a lot about. 0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:05.640 Like if I read an article in the New York 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:10.400 Times about wild the wild horse issue, the whole article, 0:24:10.400 --> 0:24:14.840 I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, that's not right, 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:19.760 that's wrong. Okay. But then you know, you read an 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:21.600 article about something else, You're like, oh, what a great 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:25.040 piece of reporting. There's actually a thing. There's a word 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:33.359 gel gell gel Man amnesia. Okay, in a nutshell, gel 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:40.080 Man amnesia is here. I'm reading from a definition of 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:45.399 Gelman amnesia. Briefly, state of the Gelman amnesia effect is 0:24:45.400 --> 0:24:47.959 as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on 0:24:48.000 --> 0:24:52.080 some subject you know well, in Murray's case, physics, in 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:55.000 mind show business. You read the article and see the 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:58.399 journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or 0:24:58.440 --> 0:25:02.280 the issues. Often articles so wrong it actually presents the 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:07.320 story backward, reversing cause and effect. I call these wet 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:12.840 streets caused rain stories. Papers full of them. In any case, 0:25:12.880 --> 0:25:15.720 You read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:18.879 the story, and then turn the page to national international 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:21.960 affairs and read as if the rest of the newspaper 0:25:22.080 --> 0:25:25.560