WEBVTT - Ep. 169: THIS COUNTRY LIFE - Old School (Part 2)

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to This Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Rieves

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<v Speaker 1>from coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living.

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<v Speaker 1>I want you to stay a while as I share

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<v Speaker 1>my stories and the country skills that will help you

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<v Speaker 1>beat the system. This Country Life is proudly presented as

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<v Speaker 1>part of Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best

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<v Speaker 1>outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right, friends,

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<v Speaker 1>pull you up a chair or drop that tail gate.

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<v Speaker 1>I think I got a thing or two. The Teaching

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<v Speaker 1>Old School Part two Old School Part two Old School,

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<v Speaker 1>also Old School. Here we go again, whatever you want

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<v Speaker 1>to call it, that's what we're talking about this week.

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<v Speaker 1>A continued conversation on things I found value in that

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<v Speaker 1>the world has generally passed on by I like innovation

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<v Speaker 1>and progress, but not just for the sake of change.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a big fan of tradition and legacy and paying

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<v Speaker 1>respect to the folks that got us here by keeping

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<v Speaker 1>their customs and practices alive. Round two of Old School

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<v Speaker 1>is up next, But first I'm going to tell you

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<v Speaker 1>a story. In nineteen seventy five, I was nine years

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<v Speaker 1>old and had narrowed down the path my life would

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<v Speaker 1>take to either being a policeman, a cowboy, or a stuntman. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>looking back forty eight years later, I have to say

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<v Speaker 1>I pretty well called that career from the get go.

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<v Speaker 1>What little TV I watched that time was Adam twelve Gun,

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<v Speaker 1>Smoke Bonanza, A six Million Dollar Man, and Swat. Now

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of you probably never heard of those shows,

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<v Speaker 1>but I'm sure some will recall them anyway. We also

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<v Speaker 1>had a barn and a hay loft. Dad kept everything

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<v Speaker 1>that you associate with that barn in there, and it

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<v Speaker 1>was also a playground for us kids. Now, y all

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<v Speaker 1>hang on, because I'm going somewhere with all this. The

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<v Speaker 1>hay in the loft was used to build hideouts and

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<v Speaker 1>for playing hide and seek, and it was the headquarters

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<v Speaker 1>for a lot of the adventures we'd conjured up. It

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<v Speaker 1>was an army base, a frontier for it, placed to

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<v Speaker 1>hide chew in the back of cigarettes. It was anything

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<v Speaker 1>we needed it to be, and it was full of

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<v Speaker 1>tools hatchets, axes, hammers, anything a group of well intended

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<v Speaker 1>but poorly supervised kids could think of to use for

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<v Speaker 1>any activity other than their intended purpose. A hatchet turned

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<v Speaker 1>into a tomahawk, and trying to master the art of

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<v Speaker 1>chunk of one to stick in a tree. A claw

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<v Speaker 1>hammer made for a good pistol, and the many gunfights

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<v Speaker 1>said break out at a moment's notice. And there were

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<v Speaker 1>ropes cold and hung around, but they were big and rough,

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<v Speaker 1>except for the ones that hung with the plow harness

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<v Speaker 1>that belonged to my great grandfather. He passed away before

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<v Speaker 1>I was born, but he was my dad and my

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<v Speaker 1>uncle's father figure growing up because their father, my grandfather,

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<v Speaker 1>was killed in an industrial accident in a Navy shipyard

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<v Speaker 1>in San Francisco, California. He'd taking a job there during

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<v Speaker 1>World War Two. Like a lot of men with families

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<v Speaker 1>from our area, work was where you found it, and

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<v Speaker 1>supporting the war effort was number one on the list,

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<v Speaker 1>regardless of how far you had to travel to do it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'd seen Dad use those harness and our horse buck

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<v Speaker 1>many times to plow a garden or to skid logs

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<v Speaker 1>out of the woods that we'd cut for firewood. He'd

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<v Speaker 1>also used it to pull a ground slide that he'd

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<v Speaker 1>built out of rough cut lumber. Ground slide is a

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<v Speaker 1>decked platform of two to twelve is about ten feet

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<v Speaker 1>long and six feet wide that sat above the ground

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<v Speaker 1>on wooden skids. It's more or less a big sad

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<v Speaker 1>that had a single tree attached to the front and

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<v Speaker 1>without going plumb off the rails. Here, a single tree

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<v Speaker 1>is a wooden shaft, a little smaller and diameter of

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<v Speaker 1>a baseball bat, reinforced with a strap of metal running

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<v Speaker 1>from one end to the other. And in the middle

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<v Speaker 1>would be a ring that you would attach to the sled,

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<v Speaker 1>and on each end would be rings that would be

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<v Speaker 1>attached to the harness that was on the horse. The

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<v Speaker 1>harness on the horse had straps around the horse's chest,

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<v Speaker 1>along his back, and round his hindquarters that helped distribute

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<v Speaker 1>the load when he was pulling. On the horse's head

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<v Speaker 1>was a headstall and a bit that worked just like

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<v Speaker 1>a bridle on a saddle horse. Connected to the headstall

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<v Speaker 1>and bit was it plow lines or reins, and that

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<v Speaker 1>was the steering wheel, the brakes, and the gas to

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<v Speaker 1>drive the whole kitten kvoodle down the road. Those plow

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<v Speaker 1>lines were tightly woven cotton ropes. There were strong but

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<v Speaker 1>soft on the hands and easy to grip. Now where's

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<v Speaker 1>Brent going with this story? Well, I had to explain

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<v Speaker 1>all of that to explain this. That whole harness was

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<v Speaker 1>precious to my dad. My great grandfather had used its

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<v Speaker 1>skinning logs with mules for a living when my grandfather

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<v Speaker 1>was just a boy. He'd used it hauling out hogs

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<v Speaker 1>and deer they'd killed in the woods and plowing in

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<v Speaker 1>the garden for the food they grew outside of flour

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<v Speaker 1>meal and a few other things that they didn't grow,

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<v Speaker 1>raise or hunt. That harness that hung in our barn

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<v Speaker 1>had been an integral part of my father's very existence,

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<v Speaker 1>growing up in a tangible item that he could reach

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<v Speaker 1>out and touch, that connected him and the rest of

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<v Speaker 1>us to our past. My great grandfather and grandfather had

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<v Speaker 1>told and sweated holding those plow lines to survive, and

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<v Speaker 1>my father had kept the legacy alive by doing it,

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<v Speaker 1>not so much out of necessity, but more out of

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<v Speaker 1>the nostalgia and legacy and and the love that he

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<v Speaker 1>had for those two men. And that's about as old

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<v Speaker 1>school as he gets. So what does that have to

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<v Speaker 1>do with TV shows I was watching growing up or

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<v Speaker 1>the career path I chose at the tender age of nine. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll tell you. In the opening credits of the SWAT

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<v Speaker 1>TV show, they introduced the actors in different action sequences.

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<v Speaker 1>Steve Forrest runs up to the corner of a building,

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<v Speaker 1>Robert Urick hurdles a picket fence like he was shot

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<v Speaker 1>out of a cannon. Rod Perry jumps head first through

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<v Speaker 1>a closed glass window into a tool shed. Mark Sheer

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<v Speaker 1>repelled down the side of a three story building, and

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<v Speaker 1>James Coleman jumped from one rooftop to another. Now I

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<v Speaker 1>was going to be one of those guys when I

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<v Speaker 1>grew up. I was gonna wear fatigues and a big

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<v Speaker 1>ballistic vest and tote a rifle, hunting bad guys and

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<v Speaker 1>making the world safer. But it was going to be

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<v Speaker 1>a long long time before I could be old enough

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<v Speaker 1>to do that for real. So now all I could

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<v Speaker 1>do was pretend I could run up to the corner

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<v Speaker 1>of a barn with my tomatoes stick M sixteen and

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<v Speaker 1>peek around to see if the coast was clear with

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<v Speaker 1>no issues. The only fence we had to hurdle was

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<v Speaker 1>either electric or barbed wire, and I wasn't built to

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<v Speaker 1>safely jump over either. According to my maternal grandfather, my

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<v Speaker 1>legs were barely long enough to reach from behind to

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<v Speaker 1>the ground. When I stood up, so that was out,

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<v Speaker 1>and jumping through a closed glass windows seemed dangerous to me,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was still at the age where I thought

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<v Speaker 1>comming deer in the family farm truck and passing the

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<v Speaker 1>school bus was a good idea. Y'all remember how that

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<v Speaker 1>worked out. If you don't know what I'm talking about,

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<v Speaker 1>skip back to episode one fifty seven. But I wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>about to jump through no glass window. The only roofs

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<v Speaker 1>around was the house in the barn, and they were

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<v Speaker 1>two hundred yards apart, and Spider Man couldn't jump that far.

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<v Speaker 1>But I did have a two story barn. All I

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<v Speaker 1>needed was some rope, and there was a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>it hanging up in there. That repelling scene was my

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<v Speaker 1>favorite anyway, even though I didn't know what it was called.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's what I was gonna do. I just had

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<v Speaker 1>to figure out how to do it. I went through

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<v Speaker 1>the barn, stuck a pair of slick palmed white mule

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<v Speaker 1>gloves and the bib of my overalls. I grabbed a

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<v Speaker 1>big cold rope that was hanging on the wall, through

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<v Speaker 1>it over my shoulder and headed up the ladder to

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<v Speaker 1>the hayloft. The rope was thick, heavy, and rough, and

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<v Speaker 1>it scratched the fire out of my neck. That was

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<v Speaker 1>a deal breaking kind the world? Was I supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>zip down the side of the bill didn't Looking like

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<v Speaker 1>a hero on a rope that was so rough Tarzan

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<v Speaker 1>would rather walk than swing on it. There had to

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<v Speaker 1>be something better, and I looked all around, and hanging

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<v Speaker 1>in the back corner, and hidden in the shadows, was

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<v Speaker 1>a coal of pretty gray rope my great grandfather's plow lines.

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<v Speaker 1>I crawled over an anvil and a box of used

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<v Speaker 1>horseshoes and stood before the harness the trace chains, and

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<v Speaker 1>I ran my hands across the smooth cotton braids of

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<v Speaker 1>strong rope, and my eyes got wide with excitement. That

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<v Speaker 1>was it. I had found the perfect rope. This mightn't

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<v Speaker 1>be what that swat man on TV was using. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>his daddy had a harness in his barn. I unhooked

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<v Speaker 1>each end from the bit, I threw it over my

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<v Speaker 1>shoulder and smiled as it lay perfectly without feeling like

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<v Speaker 1>I had a bobcat and a headlock. I climbed the

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<v Speaker 1>ladder to the loft, anchored one end of the rope

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<v Speaker 1>by tying a square knot on the flour or four post,

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<v Speaker 1>and I chunked the other end out the loft door,

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<v Speaker 1>where we pitched the hay bells in. I put on

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<v Speaker 1>that pair of slick, white mass gloves, I grabbed the

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<v Speaker 1>rope and bailed out of the door like I knew

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<v Speaker 1>what I was doing. I did not. Swinging out into

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<v Speaker 1>space and squeezing that rope with all my strength did

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<v Speaker 1>nothing to counteract the force of gravity that was pulling

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<v Speaker 1>meat down that rope like a falling yard dark. I

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<v Speaker 1>repelled the last four or five feet freestyle after turning

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<v Speaker 1>that rope loose. When my gloves heated up hot enough

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<v Speaker 1>to bake biscuits in slamming into the ground went unnoticed

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<v Speaker 1>as I contended my concentration on the smolding pair of

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<v Speaker 1>gloves that was still adorning my twice baked hands. I

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<v Speaker 1>let my hands cool off as I pondered on how

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<v Speaker 1>that went sideways and what I could do to fix it.

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<v Speaker 1>In the days before Google, you had to use your

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<v Speaker 1>own nogging and not somebody else's to scope the correct

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<v Speaker 1>procedure out through in my case, at least a series

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<v Speaker 1>of bad decisions. That's called trial and error, or is

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<v Speaker 1>it applied to me? Trial and injury. Back up to

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<v Speaker 1>the loft I went. But this time it was going

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<v Speaker 1>to be different. Now I had to figure out how

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<v Speaker 1>to stand on the side of that building like that

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<v Speaker 1>cat on TV did. Must have had a knot in

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<v Speaker 1>his rope. I measured out what I thought would be

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<v Speaker 1>long enough to have me about halfway down the barn

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<v Speaker 1>wall and tied me a loop that I could sit in,

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<v Speaker 1>and in it I sat. I stepped up to the

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<v Speaker 1>edge of the loft door, made a wrap of rope

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<v Speaker 1>around my arm, and with all the strength I could muster,

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<v Speaker 1>I squeezed it tight. I backed up to the edge

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<v Speaker 1>and walked down the side of that barn, holding that

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<v Speaker 1>rope as tight as I could until I got to

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<v Speaker 1>the end of the slack. Now in my mind I

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<v Speaker 1>had just repelled. What I'd actually done was sat down

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<v Speaker 1>in the loop of my great grandfather's plow line and

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<v Speaker 1>hung myself on the side of the barn like a

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<v Speaker 1>Christmas decoration. I just sitting there, looking around, feeling accomplished,

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<v Speaker 1>and eventually wondering I was going to get down going

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<v Speaker 1>to be real easy. But at that time I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>know how easy it was going to be. But I

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<v Speaker 1>was more or less, just stuck above Mother Earth at

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<v Speaker 1>an altitude of about six feet it might as well

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<v Speaker 1>have been six hundred. The loop I tied in that

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<v Speaker 1>road wasn't big enough for me to slide through feet first,

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<v Speaker 1>so I was just dangling in the sun on the

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<v Speaker 1>side of our barn like an idiot. After some time,

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<v Speaker 1>I heard the dogs barking across the road in the pen.

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<v Speaker 1>I knew Dad was over there feeding them, and it

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<v Speaker 1>was only then did I started calculating my folly. I

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<v Speaker 1>watched him from one hundred and fifty yards away, just

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<v Speaker 1>doing his chores, walking back and forth, pouring out feed,

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<v Speaker 1>changing out the water, just doing dad stuff, and I

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<v Speaker 1>saw him start looking around. I figured he was looking

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<v Speaker 1>for me, and I got the feeling I should not

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<v Speaker 1>be hanging on the side of the barn when he

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<v Speaker 1>found me in Grandpa's plow lines. But alas, there was

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<v Speaker 1>nothing I could do but literally just hang around until

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<v Speaker 1>he saw me and got me down by his measured

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<v Speaker 1>and purposeful walk. I realized the moment he saw me.

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<v Speaker 1>As he got closer, I can see the confusion on

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<v Speaker 1>his face of how I had gotten where I was,

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<v Speaker 1>and when he got close enough to realize I was

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<v Speaker 1>hanging on the side of the barn, holding onto a

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<v Speaker 1>knot the sides of an orange that I tied in

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<v Speaker 1>Grandpa's plow lines. I saw that look of confusion turned

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<v Speaker 1>to fission, as a nuclear fission, as in how an

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<v Speaker 1>atomic bomb goes about being an atomic bomb. His face

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<v Speaker 1>flushed red, his jaw tightened up, and I could feel

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<v Speaker 1>his eyes burning me hotter than the rope head earlier.

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<v Speaker 1>When I slid down it like a zip line? Is

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<v Speaker 1>that Grandpa's plow lines? Not what are you doing hanging

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<v Speaker 1>on the side of the barn, Not are you stuck?

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<v Speaker 1>Not do you need help? No, it wasn't none of that.

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<v Speaker 1>But he was now standing under me. And when I

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<v Speaker 1>answered him, I don't think I got to the pronunciation

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<v Speaker 1>of the letter R in yes, sir. When he grabbed

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<v Speaker 1>me by the collar of my shirt and snatched me

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<v Speaker 1>out of that loop I tied in the lines. He

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<v Speaker 1>didn't say a word, he didn't whoop me. He never won,

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<v Speaker 1>not once. So if y'all are thinking, one of these days,

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<v Speaker 1>Brent's gonna tell a story about how his dad finally

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<v Speaker 1>reached his limit and beat the ever loving pudding out

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<v Speaker 1>of him, You'll still be waiting when Jesus comes back,

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<v Speaker 1>because there ain't gonna be one of them stories. There

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<v Speaker 1>should have been, but there wasn't. And I don't want

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<v Speaker 1>you to get the idea that my father wasn't strict,

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<v Speaker 1>or that he just let me run wild. You'd be

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<v Speaker 1>wrong thinking that had I done anything remotely to anyone

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<v Speaker 1>else like the things I did to him or his things,

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<v Speaker 1>i'd be telling you this story from Reeve's cemetery. What

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<v Speaker 1>he did do was give me stern les and what

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<v Speaker 1>it was to be a man, to stand up for

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<v Speaker 1>what I believed in, to respect others, to be courteous,

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<v Speaker 1>to defend the weak, and to stand up to the strong,

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<v Speaker 1>even though I might be scared when I did it.

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<v Speaker 1>He also taught me to deal with what life dealt

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<v Speaker 1>me and go on. Maybe that's why I ain't never

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<v Speaker 1>tried to get that knot out. He just cooled the

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<v Speaker 1>lines back up and hung them in their place on

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<v Speaker 1>the wall with the rest of the harness. Now, I

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<v Speaker 1>certainly deserved a whooping, and I got my share of

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<v Speaker 1>him from my mama, but never from him. The disappointment

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<v Speaker 1>that I could see in his face when I had

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<v Speaker 1>done something out of line was way worse than any

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<v Speaker 1>other punishment that I could have ever received. Now, first

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<v Speaker 1>of all, I wasn't a malicious child. I didn't do

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<v Speaker 1>things out of meanness or with harmful intent. And I

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<v Speaker 1>guess he knew that I was bumbling my way through life,

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<v Speaker 1>and he was giving me enough slacking my own range

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<v Speaker 1>to just go about my business and make my own

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<v Speaker 1>decisions about things and learn from myself. A tried and

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<v Speaker 1>true old school concept that is not popular in a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of places today. Helicopter parents. They're called just hovering

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<v Speaker 1>around waiting for junior to come up against some kind

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<v Speaker 1>of adversity so they can come in and fix it

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<v Speaker 1>for them and make it easier. You know the saying

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<v Speaker 1>about glasshouse as well. I ain't gonna start chunking rocks

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<v Speaker 1>because I'm as guilty of it as anyone, But I

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<v Speaker 1>try not to be Alexis. And I want Bailey to

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<v Speaker 1>grow up and be a responsible adult who makes informed

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<v Speaker 1>decisions based on our faith, teachings, and her knowledge and

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<v Speaker 1>belief in what we've taught her to be true. We

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<v Speaker 1>also want her to face adversity, and as hard as

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<v Speaker 1>it is to witness, she has to lose sometimes, and

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<v Speaker 1>she has to feel rejection and disappointment because life, real

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<v Speaker 1>life is full of that, and that's where the good

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<v Speaker 1>folks come from, the ones that get knocked down and

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<v Speaker 1>get back up with the risk of getting knocked down again.

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<v Speaker 1>Intestinal fortitude, guts, gumption, whatever you want to call it,

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<v Speaker 1>you got to have it to make it, especially in

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<v Speaker 1>a world where everyone's an expert and has an opinion

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<v Speaker 1>that they can hide behind the user name when they

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<v Speaker 1>give it. I was talking to Pat Dirkin the other

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<v Speaker 1>day about a recent article he wrote. Pat's one of

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<v Speaker 1>my favorite contributors of the written word and has a

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<v Speaker 1>ton of interesting articles on the media to website. We

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<v Speaker 1>were talking about how people were reacting to a guy

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<v Speaker 1>killing a mountain lion that had approached him. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>care what your opinion of it is, and I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>going to belabor you with mine because it's been adjudicated

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<v Speaker 1>and it's over. Plus, I wasn't there. What we were

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<v Speaker 1>discussing was the ration the fertilizer that guy was getting

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<v Speaker 1>pumbled with online. That was the topic of our conversation.

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<v Speaker 1>I told Pat that so called social media should have

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<v Speaker 1>a rule that when you run your mouth about something,

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<v Speaker 1>especially something that you don't know anything about you should

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<v Speaker 1>have to post your address with it as well. We

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<v Speaker 1>both figured there'll be a lot less of it if

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<v Speaker 1>that was the case. Regardless the practice of not saying

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<v Speaker 1>anything if you didn't have something good to say, it's

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<v Speaker 1>an old school lesson we should all get behind, except

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<v Speaker 1>when it comes to possums and rats. I don't care

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<v Speaker 1>if you're in church, on the radio, or both. Let

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<v Speaker 1>it rip and give them no quarter. Now. I talked

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<v Speaker 1>about how my father had taught me to be a man,

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<v Speaker 1>how to be strong, how to learn from adverse conditions

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<v Speaker 1>and do the right thing. Well, those attributes ain't confined

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<v Speaker 1>to boys. And while a lot of what he was

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<v Speaker 1>teaching me was the building blocks of manhood, that the

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<v Speaker 1>same lessons I'm teaching Bailey. Some of the strongest people

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<v Speaker 1>I know and look up to a women and it's

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<v Speaker 1>my nightly prayer that we're raising the other one. Great

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<v Speaker 1>a quote the other day that said, adversity shakes the

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<v Speaker 1>foundation of our character to see if what we believe

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<v Speaker 1>in value is really worth standing for man. I like that.

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<v Speaker 1>I find a lot of truth in it, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm reminded of a portion of my father's adversity every day.

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<v Speaker 1>When I look at a coil of rope hanging in

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<v Speaker 1>my garage, it's smooth and gray rope that you can

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<v Speaker 1>tell a strong when you run your hands over. On

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<v Speaker 1>each end. There is a set of snaps that were

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<v Speaker 1>used long before eye or my father was born, to

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<v Speaker 1>attach the ends to a horse's bit. Somewhere between those

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<v Speaker 1>two lines is the not about the size of an

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<v Speaker 1>orange of a nine year old boy tied. Y'all keep

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<v Speaker 1>your outline straight, and thank you so much for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>I look forward to visiting with you next week. And

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<v Speaker 1>until then, this is Brent Reeves signing off. Y'all be

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<v Speaker 1>careful