WEBVTT - Ep. 11: Bear Grease [Render] - Moonshiners and the Land Bridge 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:17.080 Yeah. My name is Claim Nukeleman. This is a production 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.680 of the bear Grease podcast called The bear Grease Render, 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.200 where we render down, dive deeper, and looked behind the 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:36.400 scenes of the actual bear Grease podcast. All right, welcome 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:42.800 to the bear Grease Render. Before I get into introductions, 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.360 which I am going to do, I uh, I've got 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.720 to I've got to admit we've got some major problems. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:57.000 Major problems. I still have grown men almost every day 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:04.240 sending me pictures of panthers, of large black cats. I 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.360 don't see what the problem is. When are you gonna 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:18.800 stop ignoring the evidence? Listen, listen, listen. They send me 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.040 pictures and like, don't say anything. It's like a picture 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:27.360 and it's like clearly a real black large cat. And 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:31.160 it's as if they're saying, Clay, do you not get 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.080 it that there are such things as black panthers? Okay? 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.640 What my point is I am I am highly aware 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:46.919 that there are large black cats in the world. Okay. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:51.200 And if what I am saying is that there is 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.520 no such thing as a black mountain line, you're saying, 0:01:54.520 --> 0:02:02.600 please stop. For the love of human No, I did. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.240 I actually did get a really good uh guy now 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.639 this this I appreciate. A guy sent me a video 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.720 yesterday and he gave no explanation. Was just a video 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:16.160 on Instagram. It was his grandmother And I didn't, I 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.960 didn't it was someone I didn't know. It was this picture. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:23.880 It was this video of this like perfect southern grandmother. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.800 And she's sweeping in her little kitchen and you know 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.240 the decor in the house. You could have just walked 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:31.800 in there, any one of us, and which has been like, 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:38.920 this is my grandmother's house. Yeah, And and she is 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.360 telling a story and clearly doesn't know she's being videoed, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.480 and she's telling a story about a black panther. I mean, 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.760 just like, I mean, just giving this guy the what for, 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:53.320 Just like your grandfather was he was hunting over here, 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.160 and she's sweeping, She's got her back to the camp. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.880 She's sweeping and and a black panther walked out and 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.920 she saw it. And I saw the tale of a 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.240 black panther one time. And I mean she's just like, 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.960 I mean, there's no room for like was it true? 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:10.040 Was it not? It was just like this is the truth. No, 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.280 no explanation from the guy. He just sent me to 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.680 pick this video of his grandmother as if to say, 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:21.600 you wrong, Clayton calling my grandmother. And then I went 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.320 to the guy's profile and shout out to him. Uh, 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.000 he was from he was from East Tennessee. Appreciate I 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.640 appreciated that a lot. No. Welcome to the burglary surrender. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.840 I've got uh, I've got to my left, Brent Reeves, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.400 who is going to give I'm gonna ask him to 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.440 do something here in a minute. To his directory. To 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:52.080 his left, Joshua Spillmaker. Josh Um there was the land 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:59.000 Bridge is catching on shirt my own hat. Many people 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:06.760 start hashtag can land Bridge. I'm I'm going to put 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.240 a picture of Josh Spillmaker on my Instagram just to 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:15.280 show you guys what I'm talking about. I'm getting a tattoo. Yeah. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:21.479 Josh's left is doctor Daniel Rupe. Welcome, Dr Rupe, good 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.680 to be here, Good to see you. And hey back 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.480 from where he was My dad, Gary newcom Good to 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:32.159 see dad. Yeah. Dad has been known to almost daily 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.840 send me videos of black feline. I think he understands 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.480 what I'm talking about. Hey, we got a new we 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.400 got a new guest on the render. This is exciting, 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.839 This is exciting. News especially we have a new a 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.159 new guest, and I want all of you to feel 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:52.400 the pressure of this. Okay, man, this is becoming like chopped. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:05:00.680 There are don't see you know, you know where they 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.800 lined up the chefs and like like they critiqued them 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.839 and they and it's like chopped. Okay, and we're not 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.560 gonna say you know who's not here today? Um, but 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.440 no pressure whatsoever, you know what? This is really sad. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.640 The reason we have to limit the number of people 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.360 in this room is because of technical issues. I've got 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:24.880 six headsets. No I here's what exactly what I did. 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:29.000 Because Josh and Malachi are like, uh, such good friends 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.760 of mine. I even I messaged them both Daniel. I 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.760 messaged them both on a on a on a message 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.040 and said, hey, boys, I really want my my friend 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.800 I'm not gonna say his name yet to come to 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.320 the render. Would one of you guys be willing to 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.640 not come to graciously out? Do you know? The first 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.160 test text message I got was Josh filmmakers saying it 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:56.080 ain't gonna be me. I'm dead serious, he was like, 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.640 and so actually sent him a meme of of h 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:07.040 Dana Carvey doing doing the George Bush not gonna do it, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.440 and so Malick I picked up his phone like an 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:15.560 hour later. It was like, well, okay, I guess I 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:20.280 won't up. Yeah he was. Oh no, so our new 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:27.120 guest is Forest Teeter name, what a name? Appreciate it? Yeah, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.360 no doubt my country singer, country singer. I'm glad you 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.680 still have a mustache for us, because I have some 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.720 serious I would if I could grow one. This is like, 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.600 I feel kind of oppressed by this room right now. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.599 He and I. You know, I got something in common here, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.480 but the only clean shaving ones. I ain't got much 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.080 to show here. Really, you're the only two that actually 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:53.560 held real jobs in your life. Dude into it. Hey, okay, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.280 me and Forest have a very complicated web of relationship. Okay, 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:05.920 because no, how old are you for us? I told 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.320 him you were thirty? Really? Yeah? So we uh we 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.720 met after I killed my first black bear. I sent 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.840 him in bear from Uh. It was it was during 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.760 the time when I was recruiting stories for for Arkansas 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.480 Black Bear Association and this kid killed the spar and 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.480 so I was like, hey, dude, would you like to 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.440 write a story for you? I was in eleventh grade, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:28.960 and that was like I was like, man, I'm gonna 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:35.840 be famous. That's almost ten years ago, probably years ago. Okay, 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.000 the story continues. So we become buddies because he writes 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.640 this story, you know, just like kind of like social 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:47.280 media buddies. And then you killed a big deer. He 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.720 killed a hundred sixty in deer a pan of where 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.640 that was, he killed a hundred sixty inches dear. I said, hey, 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.280 how about we do a story on this deer? Now 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.320 did you write this story? I did the story. Okay, 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.160 So he comes up here and he brings his dad 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.240 and we we have a great time and hit it off. 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.200 About that time, I needed somebody to go with me 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.360 to Idaho to film a mountain lion hunt. And so 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.320 I didn't know you went on that trip I did. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.960 It was just it was just like the right moment. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.360 It was like, man, I bet, I bet Forest would 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.080 like to go with me to film that mountaine. I was, 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.800 I think a sophomore in college, so it it had 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.120 been a while, uh so probably twenty years old something 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.280 like that. I think I was more excited than you remember. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.520 I was like, for this, man, you read it. For this, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.360 like I'm so I'm so excited. He's like, and he 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.120 remember he told me at one point he was like, man, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.800 I need you to weigh your expectations. Just a very 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.199 you know, level headed thing to say, but I need 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.160 you to weigh your expectations. A lot of factors, the 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.120 snow and everything. It's like, all right, reel back, real 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.360 it in, real it in, you know, but it was 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.360 it was cool. It was so cool. Okay, we're moving 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.560 forward now. So we go to Idaho and have a 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.439 great time, and I killed a mountain line with a 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.240 traditional bow. We made a film that's got like six 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.839 hundred thousand views on Bear Hunting Magazine YouTube channel. You 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.440 can check it out. So Forest filmed all that and 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.000 it was a tough hunt. It was cold, and it 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:14.640 was really neat. Okay, the story continues. He well, I'll 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.760 come back to the tripod. Did you know I don't 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.000 I bet you don't even remember this, or maybe you 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.320 probably remember it. When I first had the idea of 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.480 starting a podcast, I talked to you being on the 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.240 podcast with me. He is the only person that's ever 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.520 straight up stiff armed me on wanting to be a 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.120 podcast partner. He didn't ask you to read a book. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.679 I wanted to believe me. I want to I had 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:48.400 before I knew what podcasts were. Yeah, this would have 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.440 been like it was years before. I was just like 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.199 brainstorm and we talked about on the way to Idaho too. 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.199 We talked yes, and so I was like, hey, let's 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:02.800 let's start a podcast. Forest is like nope. I said, 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.960 it was just like Malichi Nichols when I asked him 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.559 if he wanted to be a partner in a boat 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:13.280 and he was like nope. I remember when I actually 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:18.200 started the Bear Hunting Magazine podcast. I was talking to 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.520 just randomly talking to you about it on the phone, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.120 and you asked me what I was going to call it, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.760 and I said I wanted to call it the Bear 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:32.920 Grease podcast years ago. Forest goes, now, you don't want 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:37.520 to do that. Yeah you didn't know. I mean yes, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:42.680 but I really okay, you either just totally agreed with me. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.440 I vividly remember you going, you don't want to have 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.840 to remark it yourself. I may have presented to you 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:53.440 Bear Hunting Magazine or Bear Grease, and I vividly remember 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.120 you going, now, you don't want to do that. But 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.319 perhaps you were agreeing maybe something I had said, because 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.280 and I went with Bear Hunting Magazine podcast. Hold just 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.480 hold on, this is going somewhere, okay, because Bear Honey 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.679 Magazine podcast was such direct branding. I remember you saying, now, 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.400 you don't want to have to like convince people or 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:17.079 tell them what bear Grease is if you're trying to 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.720 promote a magazine. So it's like, let's just go straightforward marketing. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.000 This is the Bear Honey magazine podcast. We produced Bear 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.240 Honey magazine. Okay. Because of that from this guy right here, 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:33.480 the bear Grease name was preserved for such a time 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:42.280 as this one time. The best dog name my family 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.360 ever had. Okay, you know, I've got kids, family, wife, 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.760 and like we talked about dogs. The best dog name 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.520 that we ever had was we had the idea to 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.400 name a dog Scout. Okay, we almost named our kids Scout, 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:03.240 but we didn't. So I go drive fifteen hours to 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.240 go get a plothhound and my family is like, we're 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.680 naming this dog Scout, and I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.200 whoa whoa. We don't want to use the best name 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.080 on a dog we know nothing about. Like, you can't 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.240 name the dog until you see it. You understand it, 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.559 And I was like, I don't want to use that 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.280 name on a dog that is going to be an 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:29.880 ill repute. Okay, we get the dog and the dog 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:34.120 doesn't work out, the dog is no longer on Newcomb Farm, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:38.320 and he got the name Scout ruined. It are you 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:42.679 with me? The dog the dog name is ruined. We 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.079 can never go back and get that. That would have 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.920 happened if Forest Teeter hadn't told me to not name 0:12:48.960 --> 0:13:00.200 my podcast Burgrease. Don't you see what I'm Okay, your 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.040 best dog name is Cheater. What happened to Cheater? Well, 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:07.400 I mean Cheater got stolen by some construction workers down Yeah. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.960 Well yeah, so so you you helped preserve the name 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.360 Bargrease for such a time as this. You see, I'm 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.640 so absolutely okay, all right, Forrest is in the navy. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.640 So Forest has now made something of himself. He doesn't 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:28.200 just like follow around like people filming them. Forest. Uh, dude, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.880 you just went to tell us about being in the navy. Okay. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.960 So uh, I've relatively new to the Navy. I've been 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.880 in two and a half years. I guess. I went 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:40.400 to officer candidate school in July of September and uh 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.400 native Arkansan is most y'all probably suspected. But when Tarkansas Tech, 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.360 and uh yeah, I just kind of decided about halfway 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.640 through college. Had had a good job, honestly, but it 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.800 was kind of a Remember I was catching birds and 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.480 just kind of all over the place. Not I'm like, 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.160 where does this trajectory go? There definitely was a future there, 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:57.880 but it's like I needed to look at something else 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.560 and you know, explore my options, and uh always been 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.120 interested in aviation, but decided I was just gonna send 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.000 it on trying to be a pilot in the military. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.480 The Navy kind of had the lowest standards at the time, 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.240 which is what I need, what I needed for myself, 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.800 So I explored my options there got picked up in 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.079 uh yeah, okay for you three over here, I'm pointing 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.840 it Dan, Josh, and Brent. He's in the Navy and 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:25.960 that's boats and stuff, but he flies the airplane. It's 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.120 taking me a while to figure that out. And Clay 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:29.800 still hasn't seen top Gun. By the way, I just 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.680 want to throw that out there. So true story. So anyway, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.440 thanks to Gary Nuclem, he protected you from he detected 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:44.720 you from scientology standards in the bank vault. So you 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.840 fly like an incredible plane for the Navy, which is 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.400 not a small thing. They don't just let anybody fly 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.440 that thing, Dan, So tell us what you fly. So 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.240 I played the six Mercury. It's a big seven h seven, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.520 big white plane. And basically the most pilots just when 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.120 they're describing their plane till the color. Uh, it's it's 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.520 unique in that most military aircraft are gray, I'll say that. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.760 So it's uh, basically a relay aircraft who talk to 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.160 the nuclear submarines that are under the water in case 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.520 we have missiles inbound. We can kind of provide that 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.560 last line of defense for the United States. So we're 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.560 not operating over anywhere outside of the United States. Really, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.960 how many pilots fly that one plane? I think we have. Well, no, 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.240 like like in a plane like anywhere, to walk out 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:30.760 on the airstrip and take it up in the air, 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.360 would you have to have another pilot with you? Yeah, 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.600 So yeah, it's multipilot aircraft, so generally have three on 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.720 board and uh, that's gonna be pilot Copott and then 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.320 one who can kind of change out. That's pretty impressive. Hey, 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.200 and the other thing, this guy's a heck of a hunter, Like, 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.320 no doubt, good Hunter. Thank good Hunter. We're gonna have 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.200 Forest play some music later. Okay. We got a lot 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:57.240 of very generous comments about the rendition, most slow Foot 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.080 last Dad, you weren't here saying, oh, man, I to 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.920 you it was impressive. Yeah, yeah, especially the guy on 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:09.040 the cowbell that cow bell I had. I actually had 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.120 one the only like musical correction that I had was 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.240 on the cowbell. Somebody was like, the dude on the 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:20.080 cowbell needs to get on and then I started listening 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:26.560 to it and I was like, yeah, he's right. At 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.360 one point in the song, I realized I was daydreaming. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:36.120 I had to bring it back. Oh wow. Okay, So 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.800 what we're gonna do on this podcast is we're gonna 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:44.600 talk about moonshine, NASCAR, and bear hunting the Bear Grease 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.920 podcast that just came out. But before we do that, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:52.600 I totally skipped over every time I introduced all you guys, 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.840 I want to like give just like a little nugget 0:16:56.080 --> 0:17:00.800 of information, and so Brent I got there's a couple 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.080 of stories that I had to order, okay, just like 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:08.479 special order stories. Okay, so Brent Reeves, tell me about 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.760 tell me about your dad. Then, uh, the coon dog 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:17.000 they used to borrow, you borrow in air quotes. Um, 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.120 when my dad and my uncle. My dad passed away, 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.440 and now my uncle's still here, so I had to 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.760 reassure him, and I tell this story that the Statute 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:29.679 of Limitations is out on dog mapping. But this is 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:34.680 my dad. This This would have been in the mid fifties. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:40.280 My dad was probably twelve or thirteen years old, and 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.000 my uncle, Jimmy Ray would would have been he's a 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.960 few years younger. And they loved the coon hunt. And 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.360 there was a man lived down the road who had 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.160 a good coon dog. He also had a good job 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.639 and so instead of coon hunting all night, he would work, 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.480 you know, he were he he go to bed early 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.720 here Colliday and go to bed early, and he'd hunts 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.480 some on the weekends. But he had a real good dog, 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.560 and apparently my dad and uncle thought that dog was 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.480 going to waste just laying out laying out there in 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:14.760 the yard. Coon hads were pretty valuable during that time too, 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.320 and they would go hunting with this man. But they 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.920 treat a coon and killed a coon that man gets 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.560 it's his dog. You know, he's shooting it there just 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.399 the little boys going with him. So you couldn't expect 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.040 him to give him a coon ads and you probably 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.120 wouldn't have expected him steal a dog during the week, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.280 but that's what they started doing. They would slip up 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.920 there after after he went to bed, and old dog 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:41.919 was tied up on the chain in the backyard. And 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.040 you said there was a night light, you could see him, said, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:45.920 the old dog had to sit up. He would look 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.080 at them. They'd slip up there and they'd hide the 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.000 edge of the woods and they take turns. One of 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.160 them would go up there and take the collar off 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.119 the dog put the collar back just the way it 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.000 was like the dog has slipped the collar. The dog 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.560 would follow him. They go out in the woods, they tree, 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.520 they go coon hunting. They got tired, they go back 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:05.960 home and they just let the dog go and he 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:07.960 would go back and get in that and get in 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.840 the dog house. The next morning, man wake up, go 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.520 out there and feed his dog. He's laying in the 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.879 house and there's the collar he is hooked back just 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:18.840 like it was. He's slipping that collar. You know this 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.600 dad come dog. He said they did that for a week, 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:25.119 but every other night they did that. The last night 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.800 they went up there to do it, probably the third 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:31.920 or fourth time, he said, I send my little brother 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.760 up there. My uncle listen Dad telling the story, saying, 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.040 little brother goes up there, and he crawls up there 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.480 to cut the dog loose, and he comes crawling back 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:44.160 real fast. And that's I thought. Maybe the man who 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.320 woke up was coming outside, and he said, what's wrong. 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.720 He said, we don't. We don't hunted this dog to death. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.160 And he said, well, you means he can't. We don't 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.200 made him sick, he can't breathe. He said, he's just hot, 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:59.080 he's got pneumonia, he's coughing. And that's how I go 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.000 up there and fix it, you know. So he crawls 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:02.679 up there and said closer he got, the more we 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:08.560 could hear that dog. He was struggling to breathe, and're like, 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.560 what in the world we have towards this DOGA we 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:14.600 have broke this dog. But but he crawled up there 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.360 to get a better look. And that collar was so 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:21.879 tight on that dog. He said, if they would have 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.000 took him that night, he don't think he would have 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.240 been able to swallow and get a drag of water 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.080 the next the next night, so that the guy, the 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.240 man was tighten in that collar up every night that 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.920 dog was sleeping and senting it down one and after 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:38.000 the sent down, so they if I recall, it was 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.760 a blue tick, it was a shocker. It was a 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:46.520 blue tick. Man. That's great. Perfect, Hey, now for the 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:50.560 uh y'all, y'all like these introductory stories. Yes, this is great. 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:52.840 And I didn't even tell the real story about Forest 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.360 losing my tripod on the side of the mountain of Odaho. 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:59.160 That's the main thing that I've ribbed Forest about since 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:05.119 twenty for half a decade. So okay, listen, here's a 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.000 treasure hunt for you. If somebody can go bring me 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.720 back my tripod, they get a spot on the Bear 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:17.600 Grease Friender, no doubt right there. If you if you 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.720 can find and I would identify it and I would 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:23.400 just be honest about it. If you can tell me 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:27.560 on a map where that was. And this excludes everybody 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:30.200 who was involved in the hunt because there was a 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:34.159 houndsman involved. I will fly you to Arkansas to be 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:36.919 on the Bear Grease podcast. If you can return that 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.119 tripod to me. We we treat this lyon and we 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.320 come off the mountain. There was a terrible hike up, 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:45.240 took two hours to hike up, and we come out 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.879 well after dark. We're like walking in the dark. We 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.879 didn't have flashlights. When we get back down to the truck. 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.879 And the next day I'm like forces my cameraman, I'm like, 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.720 where's the tripod And he's like, you had it and 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:58.479 I'm like, no, I didn't have it for us. This 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:02.960 is your job. So the tripod is still probably standing 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:05.560 up on three loves so at the base of a 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:07.840 big old fir tree that at one time had a 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:11.880 line on it. Um. Yeahs got fired. He never amatted 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.080 to anything. Yet does he still paid? Melay took a 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:18.680 net loss on that me a check like a d 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:24.280 all right, yep, yep, um, I do have to Uh. 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:29.359 Meat Eater just came out with a Campfire Stories audio book. 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:32.920 If you like stories like you just heard man, they 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:36.240 went all out. It's a six hour audio book called 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:39.800 Campfire Stories from Meat Eater. You can buy it anywhere 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:42.600 you buy audio books. Random House is the one that 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:47.560 officially published it, but basically, in all the Travels of 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:51.600 Meat Eater. They gathered up lots of stories. I mean, 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.480 I don't know if it's like ten or fifteen or 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:58.720 twenty stories. They have the person that the story happened 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:03.119 to eld the story. People are like super excited about it. 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:09.880 So as of July, you can buy that book anywhere 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:12.000 you buy audio books. You know, it's an audio books, 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:14.320 So check that out met your camp fire Stories and 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:17.520 you can also find that on the meat eator dot 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:21.440 com where they have their books. It's pretty cool. There's 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:24.600 one story. I'll give you a teaser for one story, 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:28.000 and I heard this story directly from uh what it 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:31.640 is from Steve Ronella. He's the one that recruited the story. 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:34.760 But this is the way that it went is somewhere 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:38.760 out west in one of the southwestern states, there was 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:42.280 a poaching deal where a bunch of elk we're getting 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:44.960 killed and they were being shot with small caliber rifles 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:48.920 and not recovered, just like just like shooting an elk 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:51.760 and just leaving it. This happened a lot, and so 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:54.280 they called in the New Mexico Game and Fish to 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:59.880 come in and they did all this investigation and finally 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:02.920 they felt like they had a pin on the guy 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:04.960 who was doing it. They didn't know who he was. 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:06.760 They just knew like what kind of truck he drove 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:10.119 and stuff. This game warden is out one night and 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:13.359 he encounters the poacher and they get in a road race, 0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:18.520