1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:01,520 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 2: If you've listened to our show for any length of time, 3 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 2: you know that I love Jerry Klower. I love storytelling. 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 2: I think he's one of the best storytellers to ever 5 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 2: walk the earth. I think he could have been a 6 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 2: great pastor. Of course, he was a great comedian. He 7 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,240 Speaker 2: was a great salesman. Before that, he was a great 8 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 2: speaker at fertilizer conventions and the light, which is kind 9 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 2: of how he developed and fell into being a comedian. 10 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 2: And when when when a country comedian like him tells 11 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 2: a story, it's not about the punchline. It's about the journey. 12 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 2: It's about how he tells the story. In most cases, 13 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 2: the punchline itself is not set up, and then you 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 2: know this explosive punchline. It's the humor is in the journey, 15 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 2: It's in the telling. So this is one that I 16 00:00:55,480 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 2: don't think we've ever played from Jerry Clower, and it's 17 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 2: called why Can't Johnny Read? 18 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 3: Every now and then, I get aggravated, and most of 19 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 3: my albums I expressed myself about certain issues here. Lately, 20 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 3: I've been reading in the paper, I've been listening on 21 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 3: the radio, and I've been watching on television and everybody 22 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 3: is saying, at one time or another, why can't Johnny read? Yeah, 23 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 3: that's the topic of America right now. And I got 24 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 3: to thinking about this, and the other day I read 25 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 3: about a bunch a PhD learning folks what meant for 26 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 3: about three days at a seminar, And at the end 27 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 3: of the seminar they commenced to telling people why Johnny 28 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 3: can't read. And I got sick at some of the 29 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 3: reasons they gave. 30 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: And gentlemen, the. 31 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 3: Main reason Johnny can't read is Johnny don't. 32 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: Give a chair whether he can read or not. 33 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 3: Now, I ain't talking about them folks that's handicapped or 34 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 3: got bad eyes. 35 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: I'm talking about folks that are able bodied. 36 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 3: But yet the society we live in today tells them 37 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 3: how underprivileged they are and how awful it is that 38 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 3: they wasn't born into affluency. Listen, boys and girls, listen 39 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 3: to Jerry Clover when I tell you this is the 40 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 3: United States of America. 41 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: And if you want to. 42 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 3: Do it, and you got that bulldog, hang on foreverishness 43 00:02:48,760 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 3: in this country, you can be a winner. Why the 44 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 3: other day, one of them learning it, fella said, and 45 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 3: the reason Johnny can't read no better than he can. 46 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: Is due to the energy crisis. 47 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 3: Johnny didn't get. 48 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:14,399 Speaker 1: To go to school or nothing. 49 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 3: Woo. Another reason Johnny can't read, folks, is Johnny's mama 50 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 3: and daddy. 51 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: Don't give a care whether he can read or no. 52 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: They ain't interested in him. 53 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 3: They find out he can't read, then they go to 54 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 3: blaming the teacher of the schools. 55 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 1: I know some of them people. I've talked to him 56 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: about it. 57 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 3: And I'd say listen here, I'd ask him, I say, look, 58 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 3: what's your little boys teacher's name? 59 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: Said, we don't know, we never have meta. Yeah, that 60 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense, don't it. 61 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 3: They get to find it out he can't read, then 62 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 3: they get to looking for a patsy and they want 63 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 3: to blame it on somebody else when they ought to 64 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 3: be more concerned about their own child. 65 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: And folks who are guardians of children. 66 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 3: Parents are guardian need to be more concerned about whether they. 67 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: Can read or not. 68 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 3: But don't tell me it's an energy crisis. Let me 69 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 3: tell you about the energy crisis we had at Eastport Consolidated. 70 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: High School when I went to school. 71 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 3: Whoa, we didn't have no energy crisis cause we didn't 72 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 3: have no energy of no kind. We didn't have no 73 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 3: running water, we didn't have no natural gas, we didn't 74 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 3: have no electricity. We had a big wood heater. If 75 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: you got cold, you could put some wood in that 76 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 3: and build a fire. When you wanted to go to 77 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 3: the bathroom, you raised your hand and said, teacher, may 78 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 3: I go under the hill. You know what, those of 79 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 3: us in that underprivileged school that wanted to learn how 80 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 3: to read, learn how you you hear me, we learned how. 81 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 1: And talking about don't go to school. 82 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 3: We started in September, didn't go but a half a 83 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 3: day because we got out early to pick cotton. Then 84 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 3: when the spring would come along after Christmas, we'd get 85 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 3: out of half a day to go home early and 86 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 3: fly and plant crops. We didn't have an eight month 87 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 3: school all told, and we didn't go but half a 88 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 3: time then. But those of us who wanted to learn 89 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 3: how to read, who had mamas and daddies who told 90 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 3: us that we wasn't underprivileged. 91 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: And we had the right to learn how to read if. 92 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 3: We wanted to listen, huh, I studied by a kolaid lamp. 93 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 3: If some of the people of today had known the 94 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 3: situation I was, then they'd have told me of how 95 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 3: bad off I was, and I'd. 96 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: Have probably growed up not being able to read. Yeah, 97 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: but nobody had told me. 98 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,119 Speaker 3: While I was flying to Nashville to do the grand 99 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 3: old opery here, I got to thinking about them eight 100 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 3: folks that finished Eastport Consolidated High School in the year 101 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 3: nineteen hundred and forty four. Whatever happened to that underprivileged 102 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 3: bunch that went to that school without energy crisis? And 103 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 3: I got to thinking about where they were. The first 104 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 3: one I could think of, he's. 105 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: A retired Army colonel. 106 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 3: The next one he's a retired commander served in the 107 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 3: United States Navy. The next one is very wealthy in 108 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 3: real estate. The next one he's a top chemist for 109 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 3: a petrochemical company in America. The next one he's a 110 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 3: top geologist for a top all company in America. The 111 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 3: other two they were girls and they married well. And last, 112 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 3: but not least, those people who vote on these such 113 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 3: matters say, for the last five years in a row, 114 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 3: he is the number one country comic in all the world. 115 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,679 Speaker 2: I know. I said he's a comedian, and that story 116 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 2: wasn't funny, but I knew that going in it was 117 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 2: his message I wanted you to hear. With that said, 118 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 2: here is one that's funny. It's one that my brother 119 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 2: could do word for word. It's one that number of 120 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 2: friends of mine and I we will often say, shoot 121 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 2: up up, shoot up here amongst us, one of us 122 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 2: got to have some relief. But John, this is one 123 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 2: of my all time favorite stories, not just comedy stories, 124 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:52,679 Speaker 2: not just Jerry Clare's. One of my all time favorite 125 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 2: stories ever. 126 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: Enjoy. 127 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 2: This is called a coon Hunting Story by Jerry Klower. 128 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 3: First of all, I want you to that I come 129 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 3: from Route four Liberty, Mississippi. Now that's twelve miles west 130 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 3: of McComb, Mississippi, sixty five miles due northeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 131 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 3: and one hundred and sixteen miles due north of New Orleans, Louisiana. 132 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: It was there that I first saw the light of day. 133 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,239 Speaker 3: Out of Amitt County, September the twenty eighth, nineteen hundred 134 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 3: and twenty six. 135 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: I was born there. Now, as I. 136 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 3: Grew up in that community, the only extracurricular activities that 137 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 3: we engaged in was to go coon hunting or go 138 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 3: to revival meeting if we had. 139 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: A crop laid by, and that's all we did except work. 140 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 3: And this particular day that I want to tell you 141 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 3: about is one evening when we were. 142 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: Going coon hunt. 143 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,839 Speaker 3: We had a pack of hounds. When we went to 144 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 3: mill with our corn to get it ground up. We'd 145 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 3: get some ground for dog bread, we'd get some ground 146 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 3: for just regular corn meal for human consumption. 147 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: This particular day, we wasn't too busy. 148 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 3: All we had done is just cut down a few 149 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 3: fence rolls shutting shells from corn, and went to mill, 150 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 3: drew up some water because that was wash day. Helped 151 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 3: get this side back what rooted out from under the 152 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 3: net wire fence sharp and two sticks of store would 153 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 3: real sharp and peg them down over the bottom wire 154 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 3: of the fence where the hog couldn't root out no more, 155 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 3: and had a rat killing. If I'm lying, I'm dying. 156 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 3: We had rat killings in those days. Well, this particular day, 157 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 3: after we got through the rat killing, I walked out 158 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 3: on the front porch and I hollered, and them dogs 159 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,559 Speaker 3: come out of mother's house barking. They knew he was 160 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 3: going to cook hunt. And I hollered again in my 161 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 3: neighbor way across the sage patch, hollered back, and that 162 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 3: meant I'll meet you halfway. We met in the middle 163 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 3: of that sage patch and he had his dogs over, 164 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 3: Brumming and Queenn and Spot, and I had Tory and 165 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 3: Little Red and old Trailer. And we went out into 166 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 3: the swamps and we started hunting. Oh, we was having 167 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 3: such a fine time. Caught four gret biggins. I heard 168 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 3: a racket and it scared me, and I whooked my 169 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 3: car by light what I had wired to my cap 170 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 3: around now, and I was looking in the vicinity of 171 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 3: where I heard the racket coming from, and the beam 172 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 3: of light hit a man right in the face, and 173 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 3: it lacking to have scared me slapped to death because 174 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 3: we was hunting on this man's place. I said, mister Baron, 175 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 3: is at you? He said, yes, jemy, what are y'all doing? 176 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: We hunting? How many have you caught? Four gret diggings? 177 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: He said, well, boys, glad to see you. Y'all want 178 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,959 Speaker 1: to spend the rest of the evening hunting with me? 179 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: And John? Well, I looked and Lord and the whole 180 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 1: there was John U Bans, a man that lived on 181 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: mister Baron's place. John U. 182 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 3: Banns was a great American. He was a profession no 183 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 3: tree climber. 184 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: He didn't believe. 185 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 3: I'm telling you the truth. He didn't believe in shooting 186 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 3: no coon out of no tree. It was against his upbringing. 187 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:12,319 Speaker 1: He taught us. 188 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 3: From birth, from the day we were born till the 189 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 3: age we could keep listening to it. Give everything a 190 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 3: sporting chance. Whatever you do, give it a sporting chance. 191 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 3: He'd have been a great conservationist today if he'd be here. 192 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 3: And John said, take a crosscut salt coon hunting with me. 193 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 3: When you treat a coon, hold the dogs and cut 194 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 3: the tree down, or either climb the tree and make 195 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 3: the coon jump. 196 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: In amongst the dogs. Give him a sporting chance. 197 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 3: A lot of times we'd climb a tree and make 198 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 3: a coon jump in amongst twenty dogs. But at least 199 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 3: he had the option of whooping all them dogs and 200 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 3: walking off if he wanted to. 201 00:11:55,440 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: This is strictly left up to the coon. So I said, 202 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: mister Baron, we'd be glad to go hunting with you. You know, 203 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: he was a rich man. He he had sold a. 204 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 3: Lot of cotton during the First World war for a 205 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 3: dollar a pound. He had some world renowned dogs, and 206 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 3: we hollered three or four times, and they started hunting, 207 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 3: and we listened and directly old brummy. 208 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: Old Brummy didn't bark it, nothing butter coon. 209 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 3: They had a deep boys bad and when he cut 210 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 3: down on him, it was a coon. 211 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:27,959 Speaker 1: Don't worry about no possum on no bobcats. 212 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 3: Brummy was running a coon and an old trailer, and 213 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,839 Speaker 3: ohigh ball and them famous dogs and mister Baron's got 214 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 3: in there with them, and old John new Banks and holler, 215 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 3: hey speak to it, and my brother son and ha 216 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 3: hou look furth and oh it was beautiful. Now y'all 217 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:50,439 Speaker 3: get this picture bout that time they tree we rushed 218 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 3: down into the swamps and that the dogs were treed 219 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 3: up the biggest sweet gum tree and all of ame 220 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 3: at river swamps. 221 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: It was huge. You couldn't reach around this tree. 222 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 3: There wasn't a limb on it for a while, way 223 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 3: up the huge tree. And I looked around at John 224 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 3: and I said, John, I don't believe you can climb 225 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 3: that tree. And it hurt John's feelings. He posed his 226 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 3: lips out, got fighting mad. He said, there ain't a 227 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 3: tree in all these swamps that I can't climb. 228 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: And he got his broken. 229 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 3: Shoes off, and he eased up to that sweet gum 230 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 3: tree and he hung his toenails in that bark, and 231 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 3: he got his fingernails in there, and he kept easing 232 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,559 Speaker 3: up the tree, working his way toward that bottom limb, 233 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 3: and he finally got to it and he started on 234 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 3: up into this big tree. Knock him out, John, It 235 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 3: won't be long. And John worked his way on up 236 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 3: to the top of the tree, and who what a 237 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 3: big one? And he reached around in his overhauls and 238 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 3: got that sharp stick and he drawed back and. 239 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: He punched the coon. But it wasn't a coon. It 240 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:04,440 Speaker 1: was a lynx. We call them soup up wildcats. And the. 241 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 3: And that thing had red big tushes coming out of 242 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 3: its mouth and red big claws on the end of 243 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 3: its feet, and people, that thing attacked John up in 244 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 3: the top of that tree. 245 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: WHOA, you can hear John squawd? What's the matter with John? 246 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 3: I don't have no idea what in the world's happening 247 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 3: to John? 248 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: Knock him out? 249 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 3: John? WHOA? 250 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: This thing's killing me. The whole top of the tree 251 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: was shaking. The dogs got. 252 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 3: To bite in the bark of the tree and fighting 253 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 3: one another underneath the tree, and I was kicking them 254 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 3: like you dogs, get away. 255 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: What's the matter with John? Knock him out, John, this 256 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: thing's killing me. And John knew that. 257 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 3: Mister Barron told the pistol in his belt to shoot 258 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 3: snakes with and he kept holling, WHOA. 259 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: Shoot this thing? Have mercy? This thing killing me? 260 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 3: Shoot this thing, and mister barras at John, I can't shoot. 261 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: Up in that I might hit you. 262 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 3: John said, well, just shoot up in here amongst us. 263 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: One of us got to have some relief. 264 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 2: If you like the Michael Berry Show and Podcast, please 265 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 2: tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a 266 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 2: nice review of our podcast. 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