WEBVTT - Ep. 267: This Country Life - Gettin' Chilly Down South (Bonus!) 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.680 Welcome to this country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.719 From coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living. 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:14.720 I want you to stay a while as I share 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:19.280 my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.279 by Case Knives on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:28.280 the best outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right, friends, 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.880 grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I've got some 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:42.880 stories to share. Welcome to this country Life podcast, Deer 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:48.240 and Coon Camp Edition twenty twenty four. My name is 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.479 Brent Reeves, and my guest host. My guest co host 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:57.400 today is none other than Austin clever Rad, better known 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.440 as Chili to all of us who know I love him, 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.240 or Luke Grimes as the guy next door has accused 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.560 him of secretly being. Now, I have to say this 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.080 before you start talking Chile. I've never seen you and 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.759 Luke Grimes in the same room together, so the jury 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.080 may still be out on that. I can't testify it 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:17.200 either way. Anyway. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.800 Welcome brother, Thank you, thanks for having me. Pretty excited 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:22.440 to be here down in your home state. 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.480 First question, Yeah, what I mean, I've known you for 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.920 two years now, almost two years? Yeah, Well, Yeah, what 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.800 does a meat eater production coordinator do? 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.199 I handle all the camera equipment, uh, that we send 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:42.119 out on shoots for all of you guys and any 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.920 anything that we want to record or film. Most of 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.600 that gear is coming from me in a lot of 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.800 logistics that I go along with it. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.440 I've seen your office down there and it looks like 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.160 some kind of like a best buy best Buy, Yeah, 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.640 best buy store down there's gear and cases and stuff 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.320 stacked everywhere. You got to keep up with all that. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:03.720 I certainly try. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.600 Yeah, it's it's a lot, but it only took me 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:07.480 a couple of weeks. 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.480 To get well. I know that you and I hit 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.440 it all from the very beginning when I when we 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.760 first met, and uh, I've been trying to I was like, dude, 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.640 you got to come to Arkansas. I know you like 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.600 it because you are from. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.040 I'm from South Dakota. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.359 Yeah, so this is all very foreign to me down here, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.760 a little bit different, very different. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:26.160 Yeah. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.240 So white tail hunting as far did you grow up 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:31.799 doing a lot of that or any of it. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:38.840 As far as hunting goes, Yeah, white tail hunting, Uh, Yes, 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:40.680 and no, I would say the first year I ever 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.800 shot was a Black Hills white tail deer okay, and 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.160 predominantly white tail are just in the in the Black 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:49.560 Hills and the river bottoms is but. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:50.720 Like, so that was my first year. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:52.920 And uh then I kind of as I got older, 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.760 transition over the meal deer because I just I just 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:56.080 like doing that more. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:57.320 That's that's your gig. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:57.720 Yeah. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.840 So I shot a few white tail doze, never shot it, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.680 I tell buck, and then just focus. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:03.920 On how are you hunting them up there? How are 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.240 you hunting neil deer up there? 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.720 We didn't have any tree stands growing up, so it 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.480 was kind of like, you know, you're When I was 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.120 with my dad, he's we go out to the woods, 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:14.839 he'd be like, all right, sit down, shut up, and 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:16.080 just wait. 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:17.280 Hopefully a deer walks by. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:18.880 Okay, so you're hunting off the ground. 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:19.200 Yeah. 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:20.840 And then as I got older and started working like 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.200 hunting by myself, I started walking around and kind of 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:24.520 stocking and still hunting. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:29.160 Okay, Well, before we get into all all the differences 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.120 and stuff that we've been doing, let's talk about what 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.880 we've been doing for the last couple of weeks. For 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.880 the last fourteen days. As a matter of fact, you 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.320 left Bozeman. I left Arkansas. We met the same day 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.600 in New Orleans. Yep. Yeah. From there, we went to 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:51.000 the tip it toe of Louisiana down at Venice, Louisiana, did. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.880 A bunch of did a bunch of inshore and offshore fishing. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.520 Man that now you may have done that before. It's 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.720 a mosquito. We can talk about them in a minute. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.960 But have you ever done that kind of fishing before offshore? 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:03.360 Yes? 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.280 Similarly yes, in short no, Yeah. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:12.200 So speckle trout sheep's head, which looks like they got it. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.200 I mean they're beautiful fish, but when you look at 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.479 their teeth, they look like somebody's grandpa ordered some Roebuckers 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.680 from the out of the out of the catalog. I 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.200 mean that is the craziest looking teeth. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:24.360 Yeah, they're rounded off. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.320 Yeah, and it's like little spears almost like they look 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:29.360 like they're for grinding. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.760 Yeah. For it's weird, man, I don't know. They're probably 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:33.880 they're eating crabs and shrimp and stuff. They got to 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.960 have them kind of teeth. I don't know. But everything 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:41.479 down there, you know, at home here in Arkansas, just 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.080 about every fish if you're going to pull him up 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:45.720 out of the water. You can. You can put your 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.320 thumb in his mouth. You can do that, Louisiana. But 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.279 they ain't telling what you're able to get out of it. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:51.159 You probably lose thumb. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.719 Yeah, lose the thumb for it's all over with. Anyway, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.279 that was great people we met down there, the folks 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.920 we were fishing with and were we were staying. Mister 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.720 Renee and all those folks down there was just such 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.320 a great, great time. You couldn't want for more. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.520 Oh yeah, as far as being people like you never 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.640 met before, they were very hospitable and very welcoming and 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.240 just very much so. They were just a pleasant to 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:16.599 be around. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.920 Yeah, and they talk funny compared to me, didn't they. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.760 Uh Yeah, they're a little bit they have a little 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:22.719 bit more of an accent. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.200 I talked to Yannis the other on Monday before we 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.880 came down later that week. He said, Man, some of 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.920 these folks down here make you sound like a yank. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.000 The similar thing that you guys have, or some of 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:40.440 your counterparts local counterparts have was Miss Charlotte made me 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.960 get a picture with her, Yeah, because she's like, I 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.680 got to send this to my niece because. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.280 We think you're Luke Grimes. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.200 And for those of who don't know, Luke Grim's Casey 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:54.280 Dunner from Yellowstown. Not the first time I've gotten that compliment. 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.080 I don't even know if it's accusation. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:57.760 Yeah, there you go. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.040 But yeah, so I took a picture of this ar 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.559 and we sent it to her niece, and she actually 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:03.960 legitimately thought that I was. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.400 I haven't asked for his idea yet, so I mean, 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.680 who knows. We'll get to the bottom of this eventually. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:12.480 Sleeper agent. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.640 All right. From there, if that wasn't enough, we get 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.480 back on air and playing in New Orleans and fly 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.440 straight to Knoxville, Tennessee, or not straight. I don't think 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.279 you can go anywhere with that layover somewhere, But anyway, 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:31.640 we wound up in Knoxville, Tennessee eventually, yep. And that 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.840 was a meat eat or tailgate event right there by 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.440 Kneeland Stadium where the Tennessee Volunteers play. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.440 And good gosh, what a good time. Oh my god, 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.719 it was great. It was like a big show out 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.040 of fans. Yeah, a lot of people obviously there for 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.919 the game, but tons of people wearing bear grease shirts. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.960 Some even had your new logo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.320 which was just awesome to see. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.560 Yeah, it was good. I've said all the time. You know, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.440 Clay gets to go to all these interesting places and 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.360 do the stuff on this on the Wonderful podcast he does, 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.280 but he gets to interact and talk with people, and 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.720 I just stare at the screen and read a script. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.480 So it's really cool for me to get out and 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.520 be able to talk to the folks that listen and 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.400 hear what they like and the things that they want 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.320 to hear, and and just get some feedback one to 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.920 one or one on one. And man, I tell you, 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.280 it's just it's very rewarding. Especially the folks that bring 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.080 their kids up there. Oh yeah, Oh, I feel like 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.280 Santa Claus. Man. I was holding young and is everywhere 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:35.600 getting their picture made. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.360 Every time I looked over Bren had he had a 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.080 baby in his hands taking the picture. 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.520 I tell you, man, I ain't worth fifteen cents by myself, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.720 but I feel like a millionaire when I got We 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.160 got it young and of any kind in my hand. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.000 But we we did some squirrel hunting up there, killed 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.920 a few squirrels. A guy Ah did some with Rich frowning. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:57.760 Rich Froning. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.720 Yep, the fittest guy in America or the fittest guy 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.240 in the world at one time or not a. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:02.800 Couple of times. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.080 Yeah, good fella, nice guy. Good place to kill some squirrels. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:12.160 We cooked some squirrels up and shared that. But from there, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.440 once we got that, we went to the ball game. 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.880 I'm sure everybody's heard the how the if you're interested, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.920 how the the Tennessee and Alabama football game went. There 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.040 came barn Burner. Man. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.600 I will admit I'm not a football guy right at all, 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.320 but as far as being interested in a game like 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.960 that was like I had to have close game. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.520 The entire the first half was like watching paint dry. 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.880 It wasn't a whole lot going on, but in the 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:46.440 second half, but it was a totally different feeling. You 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.120 could just feel a different vibe in there, and leave 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.480 was back and forth and back and forth and making 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:52.800 big plays. 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:56.120 And yeah, oh it was like it was for me 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.400 to be actually interested in a football game and stayed 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.000 for the whole thing. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:00.000 I was like, Okay, this is. 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:06.160 Game and a hundred and two thousand people in. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:11.400 There, Yeah, that was that was I didn't I didn't 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:16.680 conceptualize how many people were actually there. Obviously, every time 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.400 the crowd roared, it was so loud, and my first 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.680 thought was, man, getting out of here is gonna suck. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.640 Yeah. I think I had a loose tooth when I 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.359 left out of there. Man, it was loud, but everybody 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.800 was just so nice. Uh. It was just a very 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:36.800 accommodating place. Hunter Spencer, our graphic artist for for Meat 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.800 Eater that designed the the A lot of the stuff 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.600 that you see, uh, and the this country Life logo 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.480 for sure, but a lot of the Meat Eater stuff 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.439 that you see, the T shirts and stuff. Hunters the 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.600 guy does that and he is a Tennessee alung o. Man, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.600 he was hard to handle there at the end. He 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:54.720 wanted to rush the field. 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.800 Yeah, I think he did. I think he did. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.520 And now, for those of you who also don't know this, uh, 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.720 mister over here decided to show up to the Tennessee 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.760 game with his Razorbacks T shirt on. Because if you 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.600 want to tell them, Wellesse has the only loss this 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:10.079 year too. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.400 It just happen to be. It's just a coincidence that 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.240 it was the University of Arkansas. Now, I wasn't trying 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.240 to start any trouble or anything. It was just the 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.200 only clean T shirt I had, so I just for it. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:32.160 Wasn't no purpose, it was just a coincidence, great environment, 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.840 a lot of fun. Was glad to be there, but 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.839 I was glad when we hit the plane again. Two 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.760 stops later, we're in a little rock. An hour and 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:47.000 a half later, we're at the twenty twenty four Coon 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:52.600 and Deer Camp in Augusta, Arkansas. My friend Randall Whitmore's camp, 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:57.440 the famous Coon Club, that coon camp that his father, 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.840 mister Dick Whitmore owned free years and it's been featured 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.319 in a couple of films that Clay and I shot 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.480 down here. We were coon hunting and squirrel hunting, so 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.600 there's some there's some history and stuff that in some 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.320 of the films that we did that's available on the 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.920 Meat Either YouTube channel. You can see those films there 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.040 and hear a little bit more about this place. But 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.720 it's iconic place. It's an iconic structure. Has been a 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.320 lot of just for for the people down here that 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.640 appreciate this kind of stuff. It's just a great place 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.600 to be. Oh yeah, and we hit the ground running 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:35.400 man public Ground, public Land, Deer hunting with Michael's. Michael 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.440 got us the muzzle loaders. We hit the ground and 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.120 we we took off. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.680 Oh yeah, it was we just I mean we came 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.960 in in there, we cooked some dinner, yep uh, and 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.520 went to bed, woke up, started hunting and it was great. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.960 I mean, I and what else was it? 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:58.200 It was hot, very it was hot, incrementally hotter every day. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.000 And we've got some cameras out on public land. We 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.440 know other folks that are hunting. There's a guy next 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:07.040 door to us that's hunting here, a boat hunter from 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.640 out of state, and he's got running cameras everywhere. And 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.160 no deer moving during the day, hardly at all. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:20.199 No, no, and uh, which that's to be expected, yeah, obviously, 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.679 but uh yeah, I mean I guess I wouldn't say 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.800 that I'm disheartened at it, Like you gotta, you know, 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.200 work with the what you don't yeah, and so but 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.480 there is the the cool thing for me, or the 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.720 the most reassuring thing was like just the amount of 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.760 sign yeah on this public plan that we were on. 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.680 And just when you see that minute much sign on 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.880 public You're like, okay, well this is not like this 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.160 is not a total bust. I'm not like coming down 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:48.160 here wasting my time. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.200 Yeah, it's not a gar hole, you know, you know, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.520 it's not a gar hole. And we would you know, 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.760 it wasn't like we were the only two folks here, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.600 but everybody that we were around that were hunting and 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.240 it was hunting around us. They were very respectful of 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.920 each other's place where they were, and just it was 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.160 just not to be that the game just wasn't stirn. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:08.840 Yeah, that was the biggest thing. 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.800 You know, Like up in Montana, you will run into 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.640 people and people will go out of their way to 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.079 come talk to you, but like down here, what I've 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.640 noticed is like you're hunting on a smaller chunk of 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.240 land and you might run into somebody or see someone 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:26.640 park there, but people aren't encroaching on one another, which 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.600 is again like so reassuring and like makes me actually 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:31.920 want to hunt down here again. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.160 Yeah. Well, I mean it's just a lot of fun 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.080 and everybody gets you know, we got to share this 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.160 place totally. If we're going to keep access to it, 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.120 We're going to have to do that. But two day 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:50.160 or three hunts actually morning afternoon morning, not one deer 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.760 scene we got pick cameras at We're seeing a few 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.440 deer moving at night. They're just not moving. But what 0:13:55.760 --> 0:14:00.880 was moving? Mosquitoes? Y'all ever have sperienced with skis like 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.840 this in South Dakota or Montana? 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.560 Man, I cannot Montana. Yeah, I'd say, you get on 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.560 the rivers. You're floating on the rivers and during a 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.440 certain time of year, like they'll they'll be out. I 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.640 can't stay grown up in South Dakota that like I've 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:18.480 ever been. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.560 Attacked that way by mosquitoes. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.320 Yeah, but you know in October, in October. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:30.000 Yeah, and so it's like I was sitting there, I think, yeah, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.800 you and I had separated and then we were doing our 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.360 own thing and I'm pretty much covered head to toe, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.560 just you know, trying to hide all my skin tone, 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.160 and but my hands are exposed, and yeah, they're they 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:46.720 are tore up, and I'm yeah, I texted, I think 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.360 we were texting, and we were like, we're done. 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.040 We had talked about this part. Yeah, but it was 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.160 like an hour before dark. He was like, how's it 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.760 going over there? And I'm like, mosquitoes and you said yeah, 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.600 me too, and I was wait and I was just 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:02.320 like please, please, say, let's got the truck. Yeah, I 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.320 think it's what you were probably waiting on me to say. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:04.760 I was. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:06.720 I don't know. Yeah, I was kind of. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.280 Going to be the first one to punk out, but 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.520 I was sitting over there swatting the squitters. I wouldn't 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:11.520 even hunting deer at that point. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.560 Yeah, no, it was pretty much done deal. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.840 So we talked to Michael. Michael checks as Michael rose, 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.040 he checks on us. What'd y'all see nothing? He's all right, 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:24.600 let's go coon hunt tonight. So what do you think? 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:30.520 Oh my god, that was so foreign but just kind 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.040 of the coolest thing to be a part of. And 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:38.280 like I've never felt so like useless in a way, 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.440 because like it's like I'm just sitting there and like, 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.840 obviously we have dogs. We had whaling and heck, heck 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.560 is Ah is Mikey's dog. Yeah, and Whalen's obviously are 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:54.880 both just dang good dogs. And uh, they're just going 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.280 to work and doing all this and then finding these 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.560 cones and training them and like that was so cool 0:15:59.560 --> 0:15:59.960 to witness. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.120 But again, like I'm just like sitting there. 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.040 I'm like I don't know what I should be doing 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:05.960 right now, and I'm just I'm kind of just waiting. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.000 Then you two are like, let's go, and so we go. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.000 Well, I was you know, I've been talking to you 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.960 about it, and you've been asking me questions about coon 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.440 hunting for well two years almost two years. And how 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.760 was it anything? Was it just what you expected like 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.960 I had described to you? Was it different? Was it? Well, 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:24.880 how'd you take it? 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.080 I think I think like the cool the biggest like 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.320 catalyst that I got, like I finally came to realize, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.960 was when we actually got here and we were sitting 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.160 down and I turned to you and I go like, Brent. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.960 Like, what is the deal with coon hunting? 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.560 Because obviously when people go hunting, they're looking for like 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:47.720 that specific buck, elk, bear or whatever. And I'm just 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.880 like having a hard time trying to find the appeal 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.160 of a raccoon because at the tail size is the 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:56.240 amount of rings on it, and and You're like, oh, man, 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:57.880 it has nothing to do with the coon. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:59.600 Yeah, it has everything to do with. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.280 A dog, and like watching him work in that relationship 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:08.120 and just like having a solid trainwalker and h and 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.679 like Mikey attested to this as well, and that was 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.920 just like, oh, okay, this it doesn't matter about the coon. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.560 It doesn't matter if we filled the buggy up with 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.679 him or not. And that was I think the coolest 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.119 part for me. It was just kind of really just 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.560 like ego checking myself, Like it's not about shooting something. 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:30.280 Oh absolutely. You know my friends Jason doubIe, Buddy Woodbury 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:34.199 up in northwest part of the United States, they like 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.880 to chase cats links and you know, and treat them 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.400 the same, using the same methods that we do down here. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.439 So it's it's not the it's not the the species 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.159 you're after. It's just that relationship with that hand and 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.719 you you I mean we stopped by my house, you know, 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.240 to get all kind of rearranged or stuff, and pick 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.119 whaling up and bring him up to the camp. And 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.159 you saw how my family interacts with that dog and 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.280 treats that dog. I mean, he's just he's not a hammer, 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.600 a tool to put out of a drawer when you 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.320 want to go try to trercoon. He's part of our family. 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:07.399 Yeah, he certainly is. 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.720 And that whole relationship is just what is it's what's 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:12.879 it's what's so special and so much fun. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.800 Yeah, And to see that, like being carried over into 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:20.879 different like roles, like whether he is out there hunting 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.600 with you or at home with the family laying on 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:28.560 the couch. Yeah, but like, yeah, it's it's like it's 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:32.440 the same mentality. It's like it's all about the interaction 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.080 and the relationship that you guys are building with. 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.000 It's just it's just so rewarding to me. And there's 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.919 there's good to be found in anything if you just 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.080 pay attention to the to the details and and the 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.600 the that that's where the goodness is is in the details. 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.800 And that's that's that's what I like. That's what I 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.199 I like the little things. You know, when when I 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.720 was training that dog, or he's more or less trained 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:58.960 his self, I just give him the opportunity. But to 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.159 see when he figured out out what his purpose in 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.400 life was, the reason he was on this planet, it 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.159 was to be there and witness he's, oh my gosh, 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.720 this is so much fun. And you pit me when 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.040 I'm barking at this coon up a trip. You know, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.560 That's that is his reward, is me praising him. And 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.399 to see that turn on, it's just a it's just 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:19.280 a special deal. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.679 Oh and this is the way he responds to you, Like, 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.920 the very last run that we did yesterday was cool 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.600 to see because I think he was probably on a 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.399 trail and but he was going kind of a direction 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:32.080 that you didn't want him to go, and he was 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:33.800 about to cross the river that you didn't want him 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.440 to cross. I think we what mapped out like almost 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:37.840 three quarters or a quarter of a mile? 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.920 Oh how far he was? Yeah, and over there. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.960 And then yeah, Brent just starts like doing his recall 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:46.639 and like that. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:47.840