WEBVTT - Ep. 157: Bottle to Throttle 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:13.320 This is the me Eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severely, 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.120 bug bitten, and in my case, underwear. Listening to Hunt 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:23.560 don't meet Eater podcast, you can't predict anything presented by 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.240 on X Hunt, creators of the most comprehensive digital mapping 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.360 system for hunters. Download the Hunt app from the iTunes 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.919 or Google play store. Nor where you stand with on X. 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:57.720 How's it going? Guys? All right? Everybody joined Reno, we 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.600 are we ain't at the Purple pair. It has there 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.759 been been to the purple parrot, ben Uh, Ben O'Brien, 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.240 he thought the smoke ribs. They got a guy back 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.960 there in the pack of camel lights smoke ribs. It 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.200 had a taste of like nicotine to it, which I enjoyed. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.000 Let's just a bit of Ductor's real quick start down 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:27.800 at the Eagle Honest producer of Meat Eater, Thanky Remy Warren. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.200 Just the guy they picked up off Virginia Street this morning. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:37.760 I like it. Ben O'Brien, the host of Hunty Collected podcast. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.800 Great Thornton, President CEO of the Wild Chief Foundation, on 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:53.320 a work released program from sold Out in Prison, Ryan Callahan. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:57.120 I'm the director of Conservation and meat eater. All right, 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.400 you know, uh, a long time ago on the show, 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.040 I talked about getting a gun pulled on me in 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.120 Nevada and a lot and I meant to tell the story, 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:10.680 but never told the story. And then I just started 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.640 saving because I thought I'd tell it here because this 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.320 is uh. I had a gun kind of pulled on me, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.000 but never like really pulled on me until the very 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.640 first time I came to your state. And I was 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.520 doing a magazine article about a guy who goes by 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.720 the name He's a denim detective. And this guy goes 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:37.000 down into old mine shafts and mining towns and looks 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.960 for old clothing, uh. And he sells vintage clothing, like 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:43.960 you know, like jeans that have to buckle back, like 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.600 the old style from there will be blow out the 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.280 movie and stuff. He sells these the film designers and 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.000 clothing designers. And I was doing his profile piece on 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.280 this guy, and shortly before I went out with him, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.160 someone had been to a mining town here in Nevada 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.560 and found a pair of Levi's that he sold to 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.520 Levi Strauss for what was it, a forty six thousand 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:10.560 two bucks Because leave like Levi's when when San Francisco 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:15.400 burnt down, Levi's lost their library. So Levi's has closed. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.000 They know they made but they have no examples of it. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.520 And when someone can find an example of a missing 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:22.400 thing from their library, they'll pay a lot of money 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.160 for it. So we're out doing this looking for all 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.600 these clothes, and we wind up where some guys had 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.960 to were working these small claims, and we get to 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.920 this guy's place. He's got like a trailer he's living in. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.760 He's got some dogs. There's a truck park there, and 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.440 it's just a little dinky trailer. I mean, the trailer 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.360 is not for me, the honest long. So I go 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.880 out and bang on the door because we're gonna ask 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.640 me if we could have a gander around, and no 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.160 one answers the door. Some of a couple of idiots 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.760 were just standing around in his yard, and pretty soon 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:57.720 this door comes open like like hard, you know, and 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.920 he and my piece I talked about. This guy had 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:01.800 a voice like to make it like John Wayne shipped 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.000 his pants. You know, it's like bamn. It comes out 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.000 and just levels of shotgun at us. It turns out 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:08.640 and he's yelling at us, and I can tell when 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.560 he's yelling at he's deaf, so the whole time we're 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.280 banging on his door, he didn't know it. Also looks 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.320 out the window and a couple of hosiers standing out 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.200 in his yard and like detains us at gunpoint, and 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.640 we're just trying to scream real lit like whatever. Come back. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.279 Eventually get the car and drive and we drove two hours. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.200 I can't here what time we want to do. Drove 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.360 two hours. Remember ordering a vodka tonic man, and two 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.000 hours later I reached out in my hand was still 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.040 shaking so much. I could barely grab that barely grab 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:36.760 that trink. So whenever I think about this place, I 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:44.400 think about getting the gun pulled. Yeah, my uncle tells 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.440 that story a lot different. Steve. He's like, there's these 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.000 two guys trying to steal my pants from the trail. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.800 We are just to return to that, to return to that, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.360 I don't want to dwell on it. But the coolest 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.760 clothing eye of my fie with this guy. It was 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.279 in this old cabin and someone had they had moved 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.440 a woodstoves because there's like two chimneys in this old 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.360 cabin and someone had to plug up one of the 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:13.159 stove pipes. Had shoved a pair of blue jeans watted 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.080 up into a stove pipe, and these are J. C. Panty, 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.760 old J C. Penny blue jeans. And you picture, like 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.560 with a cylinder, how much sun actually makes it down, 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.360 Like in the course of the day, how often sun 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.520 like shoots down a cylinder. The part of those pants 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:34.320 that was up was bleached pure white. The rest of 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.040 the pants were still dark. And when you opened the 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.719 pants up, it was like a tidy shirt with that 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.840 one bleach partners, a really old pair of J. C. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:46.839 Penny stuffed into a stove pipe. Uh, graty bear with 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:51.720 us comfortable. Okay, we gotta run through a little like 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:53.120 it's a thing we do like to do where I 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:58.559 gotta run through some listener notes and feedback and whatnot. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.160 And they're gonna we're gonna have you lay and you're 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:06.359 gonna have you set the scene for sheep show, cheap show. Um, okay. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.960 We talked not long. A guy wrote and he had 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.839 an interesting word that I wanted to share. Where often 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.040 times when we're talking about like ethical issues like who 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.560 who all in here? Familiar with Jack O'Connor, the outdoor 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:24.440 writer Jack O'Connor. Yeah, we call Yanni. Yanni's thirteenth nickname 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.920 is Yanni O'Connor because Yanni likes the writings of Jack O'Connor. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.240 And if you read Jack O'Connor's sheep hunting stories, they 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.159 tended to kind of get up on a group of 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.320 sheep and everybody's just starts to shooting, and uh, they'll 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.000 be like lo and behold we got six, you know, 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:46.120 after a hundred rounds are fired. And when we're talk 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.640 about this, I'm always trying to like present that at 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.880 the time, right, I Am like, well, you know, at 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.480 the time, what was normal. And Jack O'Connor was actually 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.599 probably like sort of a progressive minded person for his 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.880 his time. And we spent a lot time explaining like 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:03.400 what things that used to happen and how we look 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.760 at it now and it seems like not a great idea, 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.600 but at the time maybe was. And this guy rode 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.760 into propose that we start using the word present is um, 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:21.640 meaning applying today's moral standards to bygone times. So from 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.960 now on, when someone does that, I'm gonna accuse them 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.800 of present m um. We got had a big talk 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:33.400 reason had a past episode about party hunting in some station, 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.000 a lot of party hunt. One dude has a tag, 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:36.920 but other dudes can hunt the tag. And that led 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:42.360 to talk about partying and uh, A pilot rode in 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.040 to say, like, you know, I appreciate you guys take 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.040 so much time to talk about gun safety in the 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.000 In the aviation world, in my circle, we have a 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:53.760 rule of thumb called twelve hour bottle to throttle rule, 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.120 meaning you do not touch the throttle. If you had 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.360 touched the bottle in the last twelve hours, this would 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.560 make it impossible for Ronnie Beam to hunt. But it's 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.320 like it's an interesting thing. I also shared a story 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.960 that long ago we were talking about on the subject 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.640 gun safety, that like when you check a rifle, you know, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.760 emptier full, you kind of like gander up in there, 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.400 or I'll saying, I like I was fingering my rifle, right, 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.040 I'll put my pinky in there. So we got a 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.880 lot of guys right and in about fingering your rifle. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.760 And the guy was right said this apposude was buddy. 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.480 His buddy gets himself a Marlin Lever action and he's 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:40.800 watched TV fingering his rifle, gets his pinky stuck in 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.280 the loading ram where he cannot get it out. He's 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.200 trying with one hand to see if he can somehow 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.960 dissemble the rifle and eventually realized that he's gonna have 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.599 to go to the emergency room to extract his pinky. 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.760 But he needs now he needs to walk into the 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:02.760 emergency room with a rifle. So this dude calls the 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.600 Sheriff's department to say, I'm about to call the hospital, 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.120 but I'd like you to know that I'm coming in armed. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.120 So he gets down there and they send it off. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.760 They send a sheriff's officer to meet the guy at 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:21.319 the thing, and the nurses prying him about is he's suicidal, 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:26.160 and another person is asking him, um, if his gun 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:32.000 is loaded, and they eventually get some lube poured down. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.480 They get some lube poured down the muzzle and he 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.840 gets his finger free and he's This guy remarks that 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.240 it was odd that his friend then went and traded 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:46.120 that rifle in. Uh quickly, I gotta touch on two. 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.079 We talked about to Molly's not long ago, and people 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:53.120 were really dismayed by our lack of understanding of to 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.280 Molly's and Tommy making process. It's to Molly's, like are 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.360 you enough where? Like is it regional? Oh? Yeah, I 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.960 make Tomali's all the time. You grew up eating Tamali's. Yeah, 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.240 see like being northern tier dudes, how can we be 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.760 expected to know about is there a Tomali line? Like 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.720 where the Tomali's start? And stop the tradition because I 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.280 was above it wherever it was. I think your corn 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.000 comes down here for the Tamali's, but the Tomalies never 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:21.920 go back. You don't send you guys, don't send Tomali's. Yeah. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:23.960 A lot of people are like dismayed how little we 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.760 knew about tomal He's. And and a guy wrote didn't say. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.920 There's a process nix. Do you know this word nix 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:36.240 to malization. I'm pronouncing it wrong. I'm sure nix tomalization, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.560 which is the process of soaking corn or any other 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.640 grain in an alkaline solution. They used to use it 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.240 the lye in wood ash to make an alkaline solution 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.360 that you would soak corn in. And this is what 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:56.800 gives you the the what's the word I'm looking for here? 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.120 You don't know this, remy big tom Molly guy. I 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:06.199 don't make my own mesa though, you know not like masa, right, Okay, 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.240 So that's why it's the pro because we didn't we 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.000 didn't know this that every rolled into correct, so I 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.360 want to share it the correction. It's the process and 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:17.200 then you get homily and you grind that and that 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.360 gives you the masa or corn flower. And a lot 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.120 of guys rolled in about the best all. Everybody has 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.719 their own best way to reheat it to Molly. One 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.400 guy said he was an oil guy in Texas rolled 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.160 in that he started working on a crew that was 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.160 all guys from Mexico and they taught him to heat 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.920 up bacon grease and char that to Molly in a 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:42.280 pan until the husk is blackened. And that is the 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.320 only way to reheat it to Molly. In his estimation, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.440 you feeling it. Other guys like I put him in 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:51.560 my microwave. Once the Tomali is hot, it's a hot 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.160 to Molly. Like that's that's the goal. You get hot 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.000 to Molly and you eat it tomally. It doesn't matter 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:58.600 how it got hot. You can use that little hot 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.480 pocket sleeve, you know, but then put it in there 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:01.760 and put in the microware. But you don't want to 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:06.040 crispy to Molly, you want to like a hot, non 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:10.520 saggy tomor. We had a conversation now long ago about 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.080 cheese kurds. But you guys don't eat down here, not 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.360 very often, okay. And in the North a lot of 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.920 fellas eat cheese kurds, and what people call cheese kurds 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:25.280 is squeaky cheese. And it's like, when it's good, if 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:30.080 a discerning Wisconsinite, we'll bite a cheese curd and get 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:34.240 a good squeak. It squeaks on your teeth. If it 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.760 doesn't squeak, that's a sign that that cheese kurd has 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:41.280 been sitting too long. And a buddy of mine was 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:45.880 saying that to to re squeak a cheese kurd, he 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.280 likes to put it in his on his dashboard to 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.959 soak up the sun and somehow this will re squeak 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:57.120 a cheese kurd. Another buddy of mine from Wisconsin was 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.000 very incredulous of this, and he's like, I don't think 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.360 that was a guy from Wisconsin, because no guy from 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.959 Wisconsin would let a cheese kurt sit so long that 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:10.720 it lost squeak in the first place. The last quick 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.160 uh list of feedback, I think we had a conversation 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.680 about what is it about when you're eating the apple 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:20.520 in the woods that you want to huck the apple 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.600 court even though you're leaving. You're not gonna stay there. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.840 You don't eat an apple and go like this, no 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.920 matter where you are, it's better if the apple core 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:37.240 was somewhere else. Um, And I was wondering why that's 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.520 the case, because we're all sitting there, we all eat 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.760 apples and we go, and if you were over there, 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.559 you'd throw it so that it was here when you left. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.600 And there's a guy wrote in he's got a spot 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.120 where he hunts. This is another guy in Wisconsin and 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.559 he's got a shooting lane. It's his favorite shooting lane, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.280 and he's got his second favorite shooting lane. And he 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.800 points out that he likes to throw his core into 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.600 his second favorite shoot lane because he's not sure if 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.320 the smell of human would impact anything. So he says, 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.720 maybe it'll help the second lane, and I know that 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.080 it won't ruin the first lane. So he's like a 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:18.120 targeted core thrower. With all that said, great, he tells 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:23.000 about sheep show, like how many how told people? You know? 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.600 I was gonna I think a better segue would have 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:31.520 been a Tomali story. You got one, of course. So November, 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:35.200 I'm down in Sonora, Mexico. We're gonna do a sheep release. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.120 We're gonna release twenty one desert big horn sheep from 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.000 a from a high fenced area into a complete free 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.960 range hundred thousand acres of free range. So you know, 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.280 Mayby you'd know this. I mean, or Tomali is usually 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.960 something that you would find, something that could crack a 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.880 tooth in he should not. So here, I am minding 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.520 my own business on the back of a truck up 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.160 two Mexican friends up front. We're driving along. They said, 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.640 would you like a desert big horn sheep Tomali? I mean, 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.520 that's pretty special. So I get this desert big horn 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.360 sheep to Molly, and I'm munching away on the tomorrow 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:09.880 and pretty soon that sound must be a little bit 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:16.680 of bone. It's a olive pit. And olive pit an 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.440 olive pit in my Tomali long and short of it. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.120 I thought, okay, well, let's fine. I put the pit away. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.520 Pretty soon I realized I just cracked my ba and 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:29.040 I've swallowed it. So I'm messing around on this and 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.720 finally my Coregen got back into something wrong. Go, yeah, 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:36.080 I cracked my molar on this tomorrow. Oh green olive pit, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.000 you're telling me, so now I've got I've got three 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.680 or four days in Sonora with a cracked tooth. But 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:50.200 you know, the hospitalities of the Mexican is just kind 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.120 of second to none. So we have a nice dinner 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.640 that night, we eat steaks, go to sleep, get up 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.640 the next morning and it breakfast. They had brought me 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.400 a crown that they had found out underneath the table 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:08.200 somebody's tooth. They said, Gray, we found your tooth. I said, no, no, no, 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.440 I swallowed my tooth. No, no no, this is your tooth. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.560 But anyway, that's my Tomali story. But it wasn't your tooth. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:19.920 It wasn't my tooth. So there are ways of fellow 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:24.000 could go. The followed, but they followed you off into 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:29.240 the bushes the tooth back into the sheep she So well, 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.600 it's all about the desert. Big Born Sheep, which is 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.800 one of the four North Americans. For Cheap is what 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.600 we concentrate here with the Wild Cheap Foundation, least in 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.800 North America, but we do work all over the world. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.800 But we're here at the Sheep Show. It was our 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:46.680 forty second Sheep Foundation Convention. We we call Reno our 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:51.000 second home. We've been here thirty six some odd times. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.480 We'll have about ten thousand people coming through the door 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.040 over the next three days. You all are a part 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.520 of it. Um what this is our celebration of the hunt, 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.399 our celebration of conservation, our celebration of the restoration of 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.680 of wild sheep, certainly in North America but now worldwide. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:12.240 UM bighorn sheep back in the nineteen sixties nineteen seventies 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.880 worth their all time low about twenty five thousand bighorn 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.520 sheep and then included desert in North America. Through the 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.639 efforts of people that are out there in this audience, 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.520 the Sheep Foundation, our partners in the agencies UH and 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.960 then our chapters and affiliates, we've increased those numbers threefold, 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.639 five thousand bighorn sheep in North America. So it's a 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:39.840 fantastic conservation success. The Wild Chief Foundation's purposes to put 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.040 and keep wild sheep on the mountain. So that's what 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.280 we do. We do it by raising money and having 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.080 a damn good time. I mean, what what other show 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.040 can you come and listen to Steve Ronnella podcast and 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:56.160 then go right outside and get a tattoo of either 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.800 a skull or we've got some petroglyph art or even 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.120 a you. So it's just just a great time, um, 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:04.880 And you can win a sheep hunt. You can win 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.680 a sheep hunt right here. Tomorrow we'll have the less 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.840 than one Club reception. Callahan won the lesson one club. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:14.840 He sure did. He won the lesson one eye club 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.560 for international. There's two people sitting up here that have 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.600 won sheep hunts from this organization. Who's the other one? 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.600 May Well? Actually, I'm going for my third win this year, 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.400 so watch out. Yeah, Ben said he you could win 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.120 a sheep show. Is going into the bathroom to take 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.560 a leak? Here sheep hunt anywhere in this building. I 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.120 was telling you right now. There was a guy two 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.560 years ago that had gone to his room to take 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.440 a leak, and he's watching the live stream and we 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.640 drew his name, and you have to be present to win. 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:54.520 No sucks to be that guy, really, So he ran down, 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.240 but it was too late. He came down and he 0:18:56.280 --> 0:19:00.320 goes we drew again, I said, didn't one? Oh this 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.800 guy we drew again and he goes, Damn, that was 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.040 a bad move. I go, wolf, that was a bad move. 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.600 So why do you go to his room take a leak? 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:15.160 He's got like shy bladder, I think so. Um fun 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:20.080 quick fact for everybody, big guy running around here, Ryan Thompson. Uh, 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.040 he and I met on one of my first guiding gigs. 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:28.119 Uh gotten white water and fly fishing outside Glacier National 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.280 Park and he just welcome to do baby into the 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:37.919 world and uh maybe thanks to everybody here tonight, that 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:39.840 baby will live in the world that has more sheep 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:46.480 than uh us, than conception than we have. Uh anything 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.520 else you want to throw in? What about? What do people? 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.639 Any else? People? You know? We've got you going banquet's 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.520 that we kicked off last night Wednesday night grand opening. 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.680 We've got a Conservation Night banquet tonight over at the 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.560 pepper Mill. Uh ramble wards tomorrow morning at the pepper 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:06.320 Mill and a Ladies ram Awards ram Awards, and we 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.199 have a Ladies lunch that will be here in the 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:15.080 Mount Rose Ballroom. Our Legacy Night, Ben You're gonna go 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.560 to that, Yeah, I'll be there. You'll be a server. 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.040 We got a Legacy Night banquet Steve and then our 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.439 grand finale Saturday night after a life member breakfast on 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:29.160 Saturday morning. So um, last year we directed five point 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.959 six million dollars into wild sheep restoration, conservation and advocacy 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.960 and we do it from what we raise here. So 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:44.480 pretty pretty impressive deal. Can you can? You guys real quick? Like, uh, 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:47.520 less than one is less than obvious? Keeps playing what 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:51.560 that means? You have less than one sheep? You hunted? 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:56.359 You hunted zero sheep? So it's kind of funny. You have. 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.679 Have a guy named Justin Phillips was sitting there with 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.800 some friends and I think they had a few cocktails 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:03.679 in them, and we had just finished up one of 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.439 our banquets is late night, and they're lamenting on the 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:10.040 fact they're young guys and gals, and they thought, you know, 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:14.679 they've got all these programs of one more for four 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.560 because you needed just one more sheep to get your four. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:19.760 And he goes, what about the folks like us that 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:23.760 have less than one sheep? That makes sense? You know 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:25.680 you haven't hunted a sheep yet, or hadn't at least 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.040 taken a sheep. So he came to me and he goes, hey, 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.080 what about a less than one club that I like 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:33.720 it great graphic designers, So he came up a real 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:38.040 cool logo, Steve. That was our greatest ever membership program 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:42.040 because the idea was, you joined that less than one 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:44.920 club for bucks, you need to be a member of 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:47.560 the Wild Sheep Foundation, and we'll put you into drawing 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:50.800 for some free sheep months and get you kicked out 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:53.720 of the club. So some of us then when we 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.440 got our first ram, we'd put red uh tape over 0:21:57.480 --> 0:21:59.560 our less than one Club shirt and the big deal 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:01.199 was you got to get kicked out. So now we 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:04.520 celebrate the only club that you join and want to 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:07.280 be kicked out of. Yeah, so that's the less one 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:11.080 one club. We will be in here tomorrow in the afternoon. 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:15.560 We'll have probably about people in here. Um you see 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:19.080 the beer trucks on the side. Last year, twenty five 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:23.200 kegs in two hours. No s really. So, as I said, 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:24.960 you know, I said this from the podium last night, 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:27.680 I think the Wild Sheep Foundations, you know, great conservation organization, 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:31.600 but we're basically a drinking club with sheep hunting problem. 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:33.679 And so it was cal it was last year that 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:40.760 you and your buddy, yes, yeah. So I actually right 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:44.879 at you know, kind of the eleventh hour, I signed 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:48.720 up everybody, uh that I came down here with that 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:54.800 first light and got everybody signed up paid. We all 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:59.000 came in here, uh obviously not expecting to win anything. 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:02.040 But you get a T shirt and you get uh 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:06.280 mug for unlimbided to refills and so it's a good 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.280 time and it's kind of fun. It's really an amazing 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:15.119 thing to win in this situation because everybody is ecstatic 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:19.359 for you, and uh I would I wouldn't be Oh yeah, 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:22.600 I'd be like sulking in the corner. Randy Newberg's like, cow, 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:25.240 when I win this thing, you're gonna come help me 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:27.760 pack this sheep out. I'm getting a little old. And 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:29.320 I was like, yeah, I man have no problem. That's 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:34.399 like Ryan Callahan, huh so, and uh yeah, so I 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.400 highly highly encourage folks to come in. It's twenty five 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:43.960 bucks and um it's a really fun crowd. If nothing else, Yeah, Ryan, 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:45.960 And you can get our membership booth right over there. 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:47.560 You can sign up the less than One club, get 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:49.919 a cool T shirt and that's another twenty bucks. For 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:53.159 the beer reception, you get a nice yettie mug and 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:55.680