WEBVTT - Ep. 104: Bear Grease [Render] - Confidence Men, Missouri Turkeys, and Fried Catfish 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.239 My name is Clay Nukleman. This is a production of 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.400 the bear Grease podcast called The bear Grease Render, where 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:25.760 we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:31.320 of the actual bear Grease podcast presented by FHF Gear, 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:36.520 American Maid, purpose built hunting and fishing gear that's designed 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.320 to be as rugged as the place as we explore. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.560 Welcome to the bear Grease Render Podcast, where we break 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:53.440 down the actual bear Grease podcast. Our documentary style audio 0:00:53.720 --> 0:01:02.600 podcast that is in depth, research polished, produced intriguing stories 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:07.720 about rural American life and on the bear Grease Render, 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:13.280 we gather around an eclectic group of people to discuss 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.520 the previous week's podcast. So welcome to all you knew 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:21.720 people I have with me today. Brent Reeves, Lauren Molton 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:28.320 of Meat Eater, longtime Meat Eater videographer, and Big Dirty 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:33.039 Dave Gardner also pretty long time videographer of meat Eater. 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:34.920 Great to have everybody. 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:36.240 Great to be here. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:37.680 How does it feel to be here? 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.520 It feels wonderful, especially when you have freshly killed the 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:42.840 big old Missouri turkey. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.240 Yes, yes, we're going to get into that. Brent was 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.440 telling me just a minute ago. He was singing a song, 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.840 And I asked him how many live concerts he's been 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.520 to in his life? Give me the top three best 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.200 concerts that you've ever been to? 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:03.559 Oh, my gosh, I would have to say Whaling Jennings 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.680 Win and where nineteen eighty two, Pine Bluff Convention Center, 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:15.440 Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Wow. Uh? Eagles really when the Eagles 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:20.160 came back ninety something? I don't remember, okay, but that 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:24.000 was at war Men Worial Stadium in Little Rocky Eagles. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.760 So Whaling Jennings Eagles number three. I'm going to ask 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.880 you guys this gosh on three. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:32.359 Maybe Tom Petty, Man. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:33.760 Tom Petty, When did you see Tom Petty? 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.360 Saw Tom Petty the last year he was touring. I 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.359 may be partly responsible for him dying, but. 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:45.400 Tom Petty's dead is a hammer, Okay, he is, Okay, 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.400 And now tell me about I asked Brent if he'd 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:54.280 ever been if he'd ever seen Elvis, and he said no. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.640 We had the chance to see him a year before 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.079 he died, and tickets were left dollars and mamas that 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.400 she couldn't afford tote all of us, so we didn't 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.919 get to go. But I'm thinking she could have left 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.680 everybody home with me and her. How old were you 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:10.720 I would have been, that would have been in I'd 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:15.280 have been eleven eleven? Okay, cool? 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:16.880 Lord, Yeah, that's cool. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:18.760 Live concerts do you go? Have you been to some 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:19.760 live concerts? 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:20.280 Yeah? 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.320 Uh top two. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.280 As I was a younger guy, I went to a 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.680 lot of concerts, and then I've worked the concerts scene 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:32.280 through the last fifteen years. Work at the venue venue 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.839 at the brewery that I worked at, so we had 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.720 tons of big names come through there. Crosby, Stills, nashuh, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.600 Widespread Panic. I don't know, millions of decembris, a ton 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.480 of concerts. But if you're asking me favorites, I don't know, Man, 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:49.960 this is gonna shed some light on me. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.000 Uh oh, I'll just. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.000 I don't know if I can pinpoint favorites. Ok, favorites, 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:57.760 That is hard. But the first show I ever saw 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.480 with Steve Miller band that was pretty cool. I think 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:00.720 I was about fourteen years old. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:01.160 Okay. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:06.320 Then saw Eric Clapton and Stevie ray Bond's last show 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:11.760 there at Elpine Valley, Wisconsin. That was pretty incredible. Went 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.800 to a bunch of Grateful Dead shows when I was 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:19.560 in high school. Okay, that was fun, Dave. So they say, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:21.919 I don't remember. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.400 It the best concert I've ever met, too, it was 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:30.680 probably I don't remember it much because I I think 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.880 I was only three years old, wow, three, and my 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:39.120 parents were real into country music and Garth Brooks came 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.039 to the state Fair. My parents had me decked out. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.560 I was reel into Garth at the time. Parents had 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.880 decked me out and you know, my little cowboy uniform, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.560 and we had like really good seats, like fifth or 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.800 sixth row. Some lady gave me a rose to give 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.760 to Garth, and my parents put me on the shoulders 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.960 some bodyguard that was about seven feet tall, and he 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.599 walked me up to the stage and everybody's like giving 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.040 Garth gifts and stuff. And I hand him this rose 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.240 and he waves to somebody on the side of the 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.200 stage and the guy brings out a guitar. He signed 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:15.800 it and gives it to me. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.279 No wow, yeah, yeah, that's still got it. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:24.640 This feels like a setup for Dave to tell. 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:26.760 You, man, my wife, if we kill for that guitar. Yeah, 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:33.120 well it's for sale some loans, you know, for the 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:33.679 right price. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.280 So when you were three years old, decked out in 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.719 your your western wear. Yeah, Garth Brooks gave you a 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:40.360 sign of guitar. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.600 Yes, sir, that's money. Yeah, still at my parents' house. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:45.760 Is it for real? 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:46.000 For so? 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.679 I'd sell it for the right price, right give ballpark. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.960 Garth's got to retire though, you know, I think he's 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.360 probably still giving out guitars, so I gotta make sure he's. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.640 Now we're looking at ten grand plus. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.560 Probably, yeah, whatever it is. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.279 I would you take nine? 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.480 I don't know, probably not, Probably wouldn't take. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.680 Okay, Well, would you sell it for twenty? 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:11.320 Probably? 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.440 So we're looking okay, folks between ten and twenty thousand dollars. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.000 There, specifically to my wife, So you might as well 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:19.200 say alexis. 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.520 Instead of okay, Oh highest better. 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:27.680 That's good. That's good. So later we're going to talk 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.440 about the new the new Burgers series called con Man. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.960 That's what we're that's the direction that we're going. But 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:41.760 before we get there, Brent Reeves, longtime longtime burg Grease 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.640 Render guy and friend of mine. You have a new 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.000 Meet Eater podcast out. 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:47.120 Is that crazy? 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:48.600 It is crazy? 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:50.240 What were they thinking? 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:51.440 Yeah? 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.839 Yeah, this country life with me? Brent Reeve, Brent Reeves. 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.840 Yeah, tell so tell us what this country life is 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:01.000 a Well. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:05.799 It's gonna be about just hunting, fishing, just general country living. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.960 Everything that goes on, if it can be thought of 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.640 or it's happened in rural America, it's on the list 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.480 and it's fair game and we're gonna be talking about 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.280 that and we're gonna be talking about things that will 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.640 air quotes help you beat the system. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.120 So tell me the structure of the podcast, because it's great. 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.040 I love the structure of it. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.000 It'll start out with like I'm gonna do a little 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.120 intro and talk about tell folks what we're going to 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.760 talk about in the main subject, and then I'm gonna 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.720 tell a story, like a five minute story, something happened 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.960 in my life to me or about me or someone 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.640 I know, and it may relate to the subject we're 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.440 talking about, it may not. It may just be a 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.360 story I like to tell, and then we'll get into 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.000 the main subject and get that covered. The whole thing's 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:54.840 gonna last about twenty minutes, so. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.080 It's a very short listen and it's a monologue monologue 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.800 with the Brent, and it's going to cover country skills. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.000 So when you listen to it, you're going to gain 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.920 a country skill, but you're also going to get a 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.560 lot of great stories. And it's funny. It's not a 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:16.240 comedy bit, but it's designed to be funny, entertaining stories 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.360 that teach you a country skill that will help you 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:20.120 beat the system. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.200 Yeah, and it's uh, and they're all true. I'm not 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.080 making up any of it. It all happened to me 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:27.600 or someone I know. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.360 I think we should go ahead and tell them what 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.240 some of the episodes are. I think we can leak 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:35.560 that information. What do you think? 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:36.600 Sure? 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:37.160 Uh? 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.920 Some of them be like how to train, how to 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.280 pick out a squirrel dog where you go to do that, 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.079 how to catch catfish on the troidline. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.400 So one episode is how to transcroll Dog. So that's 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.000 what you'll see, how to transcrod off. But when you 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.280 listen to it, you're gonna hear us some great couple 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:03.080 of unique story worries about Brent's life in the in 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.680 the squirrel dog world and his dad's stories. And then 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.160 he's going to go into how to find a squirrel 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:10.280 dog how to train it. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.160 You know, I've had a habit. I can remember everything 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.400 but math and anything time but that we're talking, you 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.720 and I are talking, I'll remember a story. I'll be 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.400 reminded of a story, and then we go off on 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.120 a tangent and I'll tell a five minutes story about 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.600 something that happened. That's more or less how that thing's 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.760 going to go. I'm going to start out with the story, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.000 and then we're going to start Then we're going to 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.200 start with the subject of what we're going to talk about, 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.760 Say it's finding a squirrel dog where you go to 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.400 do that, and I'm gonna give you tips on how 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.920 to do that, and then through there, I'm going to 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.960 throw in some anecdotal stuff that has happened to me 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.440 or my dad or my friends or something that will 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:46.120 relate to it. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.880 Yeah. So another episode is how to run a trot line, 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.280 so country skills. You need to know how to run 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.480 a trot line. There's a podcast on duck camp etiquette, 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:00.959 so how to handle you yourself if you're in a 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.959 duck camp because Brent was an outfitter for twenty six years. 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:05.360 Right. 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.640 There's a podcast on what a country man needs to 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.199 carry in his pockets and it's a whole podcast is 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:18.360 about what you have in your pockets. Very interesting. We 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:23.320 have a podcast about how to buy a pickup truck, Lauren, 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.360 your one day, your son is going to be like, 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.600 he's going to need a truck, and if he listens 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.920 to this podcast, he's going to have a leg up 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.960 on knowing the ins and outs, what the way people 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.800 treat their trucks, the way they handle selling a truck, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.200 and this is going to give him a skill that 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:48.080 he's going to need. Very valuable. Okay, So yeah, that's 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.440 the kind of stuff it is. But it's fun. It's 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:51.040 a lot of fun. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.880 And so and if you subscribe to beggar As, you're 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.040 automatically going to get it. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.040 Yeah, it's it's on this feed. So if you're listening 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:03.040 to this, you're subscribe most likely to the Bear Grease 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:04.520 podcast feed and it'll be on there. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:04.920 Yep. 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.319 So this is this is big news. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.079 It's been a lot of fun. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.160 Big news, big news. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.480 Soon it might be Bear Grease on the This Country 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:15.960 Life feed. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:22.960 Yeah, yeah, that's probably what's gonna happen. Probably what's gonna happen, Brent, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.120 how do we come up with the name of This 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:24.880 Country Life? 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:29.120 Do you remember we were sitting in a restaurant you're. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.160 Sitting at Herman's Steakhouse and Fville, So. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.120 You missed in in my wife tablecloths. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.720 This this place is a famous steakhouse. It's in Fayetville, Arkansas. 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.800 Fable is a nice town. You would drive past Herman's 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.120 and you would think that it was an abandoned building. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:46.760 Yeah, it looks like a bomb shelter. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.160 It's a it's an old house. Yeah, that sets in 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.960 a part of town that has now been developed. But 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.600 then there's just this old house sitting on the road 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.360 and they've actually fixed it up a lot from what 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.040 it was like, yeah, twenty years ago. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.599 Yeah, it's been on a staple for people going to 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:03.320 razorback games for years. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.280 You would think that you would drive past it and 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.000 it's clear that it was once a residential house and 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.080 now all this big stuff is growing up around it. 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.240 And they have, you know, this like neon sign that 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.839 says Hermans, and the parking lot will just be full 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.120 of cars. And it's a steakhouse. And you go in 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:23.000 there and there's these red table red checker tablecloths and 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.920 they give you salting crackers and salsa. Have you ever 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.199 heard that? Have you ever had that before? 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:27.640 No? 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.040 Sir, I never have either. Have you ever had it before? 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.079 Hermans is only place I've ever done. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.360 They give you a big bowl of fresh salsa and 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.680 salting crackers like a Mexican restaurant. We give you chips 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.280 and sausage, and then you order steaks and whatnot. And 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:42.640 Missy and I were eating dinner with Brent and his 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:46.080 wife at Herman's yep at Herman and then what happened Brent. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.920 Well, you looked up and said you ought to do 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:55.240 a podcast, and I thought, what in the world about? 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.640 And that's all I know is just country living is 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.440 all I know about? And you said, there it is 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.480 right there. It kind of evolved from that in that conversation, 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.240 and then we started putting some stuff together, getting some ideas, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.679 and it came together pretty pretty quick. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.600 Yeah, yeah, we we had we had an idea of 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.680 this country life and yeah it all. I bet the 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:24.319 podcast is pretty close. The finished version of it is 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.920 pretty close to what we developed at that table that night. 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:32.040 Oh and I can't take Misty and Alexis were. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.040 Very much, so, very much so. Yeah, it wasn't just 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.280 me and you. No, they had the ideas about just 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.440 like the format and the length and whether or not 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.240 I'd be talking to people or just talking, and it 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.360 just it grew from that. It didn't grow much from that. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:48.920 We just kind of refined it a little bit. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.880 Yeah. Yeah, So let us know what you think of 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.679 the podcast. It's going to come out every Friday, So 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.320 it's going to be weekly every Friday. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.280 We got a sneak peek on the boat yep, and 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.560 I thought it was all. It was great. You should 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:02.200 take a listen. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.000 Yeah, thank you, man. It's a lot of fun doing it. 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.880 Got a lot of good folks working on it. Yeah. 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:12.040 So we're in Missouri at Turkey Camp. We've come up 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.440 to a place that Brent has hunted for last twenty 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.000 five years, five plus years. 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:17.840 Yeah, a long time. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.120 You got some family, you got some friends up here 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.880 that's been kind of like family to you for a 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:23.440 long time. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:24.240 Long time. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:29.000 Yeah, And this morning you killed a turkey. You and 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.240 Big Dirty We did tell me about. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.720 It, man, Win. As you know, the wind was blowing 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:39.160 this morning as hard as it could blow, I think. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.720 And on our fourth setup, on the second turkey that 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.080 we sat down on, we finally got him to hear us. 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:53.280 We had we'd snuck into a place and in this 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.720 field where this turkey was, and he was just kind 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.680 of just over a terrace row from us. There's a 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.760 little bit of a little bit of topo up here, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.960 so it allowed us to get up to the edge 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.680 to where we thought this turkey was. And Dave actually 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:10.280 slipped up around some cedar trees and looked over that 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.440 ter stroke and see that turkey down in there. This 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:17.040 is nine twenty at that time, and he said he 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:18.960 was just gobbling his brains out. And he come back 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.760 and sit down and grabbed a camera and we started 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.160 calling it. We had a lull in the wind enough 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.960 that I could get some called out to him, and 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.760 he answered, and then it was just as fast as 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:31.760 he could struck coming to us. And of course he 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.760 seen the decoyd and he came right on in there 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.680 and went They had a little boxing match out there. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.640 And I told Dave when I shot him, you know, 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.120 he was boxing that Jake Decoy. The bad thing about 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.000 it is that he went to glory thinking that that 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.640 Jake killed him. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:48.400 Hmm. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:55.360 That's good. So Lauren and I this morning had a 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.080 we should have been in the same situation. We were 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.680 hunting the edge of a big cor cornfield and the 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:06.360 birds they roosted in the spot we didn't think they were, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.160 and so we were kind of set up in the timber. 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:09.520 They weren't in the timber. They were out on the 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.240 edge of this cornfield. So right at daylight, you know, 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.720 just about fly down time, we kind of got out 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.560 and put a decoy out about twenty yards in the 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:24.080 edge of this big field. Two adult gobblers and several 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.400 jakes go out into this cornfield and they're just around 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.760 a little hump from us. We can't see them, but 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.960 they're goblin. And I start and I've got decoys out 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.680 and we're on the edge of the timber and everything's good. Yeah, 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.480 and I start calling. They answered, They answer, the answer, 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.520 the answered. Just the harder I called, the more I called, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.840 I was calling my mouth calling a slate call, the 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.440 more they got fired up. And sure enough we just 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.320 hear him getting closer and closer, big gobbler, and finally 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.240 we see him strutting out there at probably two hundred 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.800 and fifty yards and he sees the decoy and here 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.280 he comes, just running, and I mean, we just think, well. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:16:59.600 Here we go. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.680 We've got a jake, a half struck jake, in a 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:07.280 sit down hen and he sees him and everything's good, 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.280 and he comes up over the hill and is running 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.639 and then but directly behind him are four jakes about 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:19.840 fifty yards behind him. That the closer he gets to us, 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:25.600 he comes into one hundred yards, and I think those 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:29.560 jakes spooked him because he stopped and he kind of 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.119 started looking behind him, and then he cut hard and 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.560 made a big loop and just kind of disappeared, and 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.600 those jakes ended up coming in. Uh, they didn't come 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.679 all the way in, but Uh, Anyway, the more I 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.480 think about Lauren, I think that it's possible that they 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.119 they saw us. What do you think, or just didn't 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.520 like we were head pretty good. We were by some 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.000 falling logs and whatnot. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.520 Yeah, I think we were concealed pretty well. I don't know. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.040 I mean, who knows. It could have been any but 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:01.800 this bird. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.560 So the big gobbler peels out and then the jakes 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.679 come in to probably one hundred yards and just and 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.600 I'm not really trying to call them in, and they 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.879 kind of fade off, and then we start calling again 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.400 and that same gobbler comes back. The jakes are gone, 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:20.360 and so now he's coming back alone, and I think, oh, good, well, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.480 he'll got him, got him. He comes back in to 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.040 one hundred and fifty yards and stands in the same 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.879 spot for no less than twenty five minutes and just 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:35.119 gobbles every time I call, every time a crow calls, 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.159 every time another turkey gobbles and just stands there and 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:42.000 watches our decoys for thirty I mean, for so long. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.119 I thought to myself, this is going to be this 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.080 is going to take a long time for him to 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:52.160 ever get here. And he finally skirted off and around 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.320 got onto this other field. We circle all the way 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.680 around him, like walk probably close to a half mile 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.240 to get complete the opposite side of him, and I'm 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.040 losing the jake. I think he's afraid of the Jake decoy, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.960 That's what I think. So I just stake out the 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:12.360 single hen and think, oh man, he'll come now, and uh, 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.240 because I'm on the opposite side of him the way 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.680 he kind of was wanting to go, it was great 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.600 called and uh he gobbled, gobbled, gobbled, gobbled, but never 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:23.760 would move an inch, just sat on the edge of 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.560 that field, just watching where we were, and we're just 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.200 gobble at us. And then he just walked away. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.879 I don't there's a hard to kill right there. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.440 Two year old turkey probably that's been roughed up by 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.919 Jake's I mean it's on private land, so it's not 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:40.879 like he's been messed with. We're the first part people 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:44.760 to hunt that place this year, right, So I can't 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:49.480 understand it, but uh yeah, these field turkeys to kill 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:50.600 him in the timber Man. 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.520 It's hard. It's really hard. It's fine to see him, 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.960 it isn't. And if you're calling, you know a lot 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.159 of times, you know, I'm not a fan of decoys, 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.560 but if you're hunting fields, got to have them. Yeah, 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.360 because when they get to where they can see where, 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.560 they know where that calling is, and they can tell 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.399 within you know, a turkey can tell within a foot 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.080 where that racket's coming from. And they don't see a 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:15.160 hen there. Yeah, they ain't coming. Lots of times they ain't. Yeah. 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.920 Yeah, So we got one more day here, we got 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:19.440 one more day. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:20.760 We'll get it done. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.080 Yeah, we're gonna talk about it. Wendy Tuesday. You don't 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:25.240 want to talk about Tuesday night. 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.040 I wasn't gonna embarrass you. 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:28.040 You ain't gonna embarrass me. 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:30.360 Go ahead, tell them. 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:34.320