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Speaker 1: Welcome to this country life.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trot

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Speaker 2: lining and just general country living.

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Speaker 1: I want you to stay.

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Speaker 2: Awhile as I share my experiences and life lessons. This

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Speaker 2: country life is presented by Case Knives on Meat Eaters

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Speaker 2: Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast.

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Speaker 1: The airwaves have to offer.

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Speaker 2: All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate.

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Speaker 2: I've got some stories to share, picking beans and sewing

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Speaker 2: up coons. The things we say and how we say

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Speaker 2: them speak a lot about who we are and from

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Speaker 2: where we come. Dialects and accents can sometimes be as

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Speaker 2: accurate as dropping the ONEX pen to our homes. Now,

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Speaker 2: what passes for everyday native speech to a particular group

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Speaker 2: of people can be misunderstood or completely undecipherable to those

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Speaker 2: living just a few hours away. Idioms are a prime example.

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Speaker 2: And if you don't know what an idiom is now,

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Speaker 2: you will before we're done.

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Speaker 1: Y'all get ready, We're gonna jump right into this one.

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Speaker 2: I was at an online meeting recently with two of

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Speaker 2: my colleagues that meet either.

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Speaker 1: They were in their offices in Bozeman. One is from

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Speaker 1: Iowa and one from New York. Now during the course

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Speaker 1: of the meeting, and actually throughout most of our conversations,

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Speaker 1: they snicker and sometimes laugh out loud at the analogies

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Speaker 1: and phrases I used during normal conversation. I used to

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Speaker 1: ask them what's so funny, and they would repeat something

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Speaker 1: I just said that I say or hear down here

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Speaker 1: on the daily. That's something that they've lived into their adulthood,

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Speaker 1: only to hear me say it for the first time.

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Speaker 1: I was sitting in the eye doctor's office the other day,

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Speaker 1: right after one of those meetings, and a John Prime

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Speaker 1: song came on the waiting room speakers that wasn't sung

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Speaker 1: by John Prime, but I recognized it as being written

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Speaker 1: by him. Y'all, hang on just for a minute, I promised,

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Speaker 1: This is going somewhere, and it may even give a

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Speaker 1: glimpse into how my brain works or doesn't work, depending

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Speaker 1: on how you look at it. Anyway, there I was

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Speaker 1: waiting for what seemed like forever. When Bonnie Rach started

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Speaker 1: singing John's song. I started thinking about another John Prime

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Speaker 1: song that was cleverly written using phrases that was, according

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Speaker 1: to him, inspired by a crossword puzzle and things he'd

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Speaker 1: heard his grandmother say, which in turn led me to

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Speaker 1: thinking about our meeting in Reva and Krinn laughing at

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Speaker 1: the idioms I was flippantly using during our conversation. Idioms

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Speaker 1: are phrases that say something that have absolutely nothing to

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Speaker 1: you and I were planning to go fishing and we

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Speaker 1: had yet to set a date and time to go,

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Speaker 1: and a third person asked when we were leaving, we

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Speaker 1: could say, it's still up in the air. Now immediately

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Speaker 1: That's an idiom just from the description that we said

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Speaker 1: it's still up in the air. It's got nothing to

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Speaker 2: An idiom, regardless, you get the idea. I started reviewing

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Speaker 2: they and others have found to be at least mildly entertaining, thought.

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Speaker 1: Provoking, and some of them just downright bizarre.

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Speaker 2: Now, I haven't lived a sheltered life by any means,

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Speaker 2: but the use of these things in the community in

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Speaker 2: which I live make them a permanent part of the vernacular,

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Speaker 2: or at least my party. Anyway, not until I got

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Speaker 2: been raised in a similar environment. Here's a prime example.

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Speaker 2: Got beat like a rented mule. Now, I have heard

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Speaker 2: value by someone not familiar with why you would rent

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Speaker 2: Drill sergeists looked for some to punish you for. Is

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Speaker 2: It was somewhere around push up one hundred when Marriott

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Speaker 2: sergeant is gonna kill us, I whispered back, if he

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Speaker 2: I am not sure what caused my friend from North

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Speaker 1: Elementary school was a tough time for me. But in

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Speaker 2: As drift Sergeant Franks ran toward us, stepping on the

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Speaker 2: Unbelievable delight, while the veins in his forehead bulged out

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Speaker 2: past his eyebrows. And what happened next is more like

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Speaker 2: thankful that I'd made Merrit laugh, bringing the whole of

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Speaker 2: original offender and the sole reason we were in that

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Speaker 2: predicament to begin with. You're welcome Smitty. Now that was

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Speaker 2: thirty eight years ago. Smitty probably retired at General. But

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Speaker 2: beat him like a red and mule. Allowed me to explain,

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Speaker 2: the phrase gives the idea that someone would treat a

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Speaker 2: what you were talking about. Like I said, I've heard

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Speaker 2: that phrase all my life and used in a jillion

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Speaker 2: But when I hear it now, I always think about

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Speaker 2: the day when I thought saying it was going to

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Speaker 2: this out. Clay and I were talking a few years

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Speaker 2: Clay said that dude as sharp as attack on an

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Speaker 2: idiom that I've heard all over in every form of media, print, radio,

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Speaker 1: On this channel. From March of twenty twenty two, Reva's

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Speaker 1: going to reach way back in the Bear Grease vault

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Speaker 1: for a sound bite right now. When Clay was talking

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Speaker 1: to Steve, who, among others, was guests hosting on a

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Speaker 1: Render episode number forty seven entitled Steve Ranella on Jerry

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Speaker 1: Klower from the first season of Bear Grease, Clay was

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Speaker 1: telling Steve and the others who were setting in for

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Speaker 1: the regulars to do their best because the regular Render

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Speaker 1: crew would be judging their performance when it aired the

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Speaker 1: following week. Steve had the following to say, play the drop, Reva.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you guys, though, I've got to

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Speaker 3: warn you that you will be scrutinized heavily by the

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Speaker 3: original Bear Grease crew. Okay, so my wife, Misty Nukem,

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Speaker 3: Brent Reeves, Josh Lambridge, spilmmaker Gary Believer, Nukelem.

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Speaker 1: That Brent Reeves is sharp. Yeah, man, he's sharp. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think that speaks for itself. The term sharp isn't

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Speaker 1: Everyone knows that sharp is an immediate positive reference in

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Speaker 1: recognizing someone's intelligence when used in that in that reference. Now,

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Speaker 1: during Mina Clay's conversation, after he had made his bid

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Speaker 1: about the person's intelligence being sharp, I made the statement

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Speaker 1: as a rat pill. That drew a slightly confused look

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Speaker 1: from Clay Bow and he said, did you say rat pill? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I said rat pill? He said, like like rat droppings. Yep.

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Speaker 2: I said, I don't get it. I said, you ever

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Speaker 2: seen one? He said yeah. I told him a rat

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Speaker 2: pill idly sharp on both ends. That makes it twice

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Speaker 2: been more popular in the lexicon of Michigan, that Steve

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Speaker 2: as sharp, he's sharp, when he could have just said

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Speaker 2: Brent Reeves as sharp as a red hill. Now, whether

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Speaker 2: my dad said it first, I don't know. But if

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Speaker 2: you know the origin of that one, or have ever

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Speaker 2: been described in such a manner, congratulations, you're in good company.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the one that

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Speaker 2: Steve himself came up with that wound up being on

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Speaker 2: the meat eater T shirt. And that one is A

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Speaker 2: fresh set of eyes finds more beans I met.

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Speaker 1: When I first heard it, I didn't give it much thought.

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Speaker 1: It didn't sing to me.

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Speaker 2: But like rabbits soaking in buttermilk, the longer it marinated,

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Speaker 2: will find more beans. It's the reason there are editors

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Speaker 2: who read books and make the stories better. There's so

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Speaker 2: many of these things that as I sat in the

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Speaker 2: I've used and heard that when the nurse walked out

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Speaker 1: You see what I mean.

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Speaker 2: There's one for everything. There are endless numbers of idioms.

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Speaker 2: You can search up a list up on the Google

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Speaker 2: machine and have a list of one hundred before Catkin

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Speaker 2: lickers behind. I read them all and that last one

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Speaker 2: To me, it looked as good as a Picasso or Rembrandt,

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Speaker 1: What you think, Dad, what do you think? I said? Look?

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Speaker 2: He stared at that disk, his eyes going from well

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Speaker 2: It took me to process the image of a coon's

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Speaker 2: I went into convulsions of laughter, the kind of infectious

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Speaker 2: though they have no idea what's so funny? And for

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Speaker 1: Oh Man.

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Speaker 2: On a side note, for anyone that's interested, that disc

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Speaker 2: is still churning dirt every spring and fall. When my

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Speaker 2: and food plaut Treddy. Now there's an idiom somewhere in

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Speaker 2: it quickly comes to mind. But I just didn't sing

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that sins I'm gone.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna put it to a vote on my Instagram

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Speaker 2: page as a which one you like the best, mine

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Speaker 2: or Steve's and let y'all be the judge.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening.

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Speaker 2: Y'all, get over to the media or YouTube channel and

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Speaker 2: check out my buddy Clay and his mountain goat hunt

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Speaker 2: in Alaska and the History channel for Steve's newest episode

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Speaker 2: of Hunting History until next week.

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Speaker 1: This is Brent Reeves signing off. Y'all be careful

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