WEBVTT - Ep. 295: This Country Life - Picking Beans and Sewing Up Coons

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to this country life.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trot

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<v Speaker 2>lining and just general country living.

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<v Speaker 1>I want you to stay.

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<v Speaker 2>Awhile as I share my experiences and life lessons. This

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<v Speaker 2>country life is presented by Case Knives on Meat Eaters

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<v Speaker 2>Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>The airwaves have to offer.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate.

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<v Speaker 2>I've got some stories to share, picking beans and sewing

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<v Speaker 2>up coons. The things we say and how we say

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<v Speaker 2>them speak a lot about who we are and from

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<v Speaker 2>where we come. Dialects and accents can sometimes be as

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<v Speaker 2>accurate as dropping the ONEX pen to our homes. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>what passes for everyday native speech to a particular group

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<v Speaker 2>of people can be misunderstood or completely undecipherable to those

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<v Speaker 2>living just a few hours away. Idioms are a prime example.

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<v Speaker 2>And if you don't know what an idiom is now,

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<v Speaker 2>you will before we're done.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I was at an online meeting recently with two of

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<v Speaker 2>my colleagues that meet either.

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<v Speaker 1>They were in their offices in Bozeman. One is from

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<v Speaker 1>Iowa and one from New York. Now during the course

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<v Speaker 1>of the meeting, and actually throughout most of our conversations,

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<v Speaker 1>they snicker and sometimes laugh out loud at the analogies

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<v Speaker 1>and phrases I used during normal conversation. I used to

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<v Speaker 1>ask them what's so funny, and they would repeat something

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<v Speaker 1>I just said that I say or hear down here

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

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<v Speaker 1>only to hear me say it for the first time.

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<v Speaker 1>I was sitting in the eye doctor's office the other day,

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<v Speaker 1>right after one of those meetings, and a John Prime

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<v Speaker 1>song came on the waiting room speakers that wasn't sung

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<v Speaker 1>by John Prime, but I recognized it as being written

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

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<v Speaker 1>This is going somewhere, and it may even give a

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<v Speaker 1>glimpse into how my brain works or doesn't work, depending

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<v Speaker 1>on how you look at it. Anyway, there I was

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<v Speaker 1>waiting for what seemed like forever. When Bonnie Rach started

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<v Speaker 1>singing John's song. I started thinking about another John Prime

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<v Speaker 1>song that was cleverly written using phrases that was, according

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<v Speaker 1>to him, inspired by a crossword puzzle and things he'd

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<v Speaker 1>heard his grandmother say, which in turn led me to

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<v Speaker 1>thinking about our meeting in Reva and Krinn laughing at

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<v Speaker 1>the idioms I was flippantly using during our conversation. Idioms

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<v Speaker 1>are phrases that say something that have absolutely nothing to

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<v Speaker 1>do with the subject of your conversation, but having a

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<v Speaker 1>expressive or descriptive tie into your subject. For example, if

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<v Speaker 1>you and I were planning to go fishing and we

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<v Speaker 1>had yet to set a date and time to go,

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<v Speaker 1>and a third person asked when we were leaving, we

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

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<v Speaker 1>they would know that we haven't yet decided on the time.

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<v Speaker 1>That's an idiom just from the description that we said

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<v Speaker 1>it's still up in the air. It's got nothing to

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<v Speaker 1>do with fishing. We ain't fishing in the air. But

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<v Speaker 1>we could say that also if we didn't want them

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<v Speaker 1>to know, but that'd be a lie, not.

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<v Speaker 2>An idiom, regardless, you get the idea. I started reviewing

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<v Speaker 2>some of the ones in my head that I use

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<v Speaker 2>most often, and that seems second nature to me that

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

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<v Speaker 1>Provoking, and some of them just downright bizarre.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, I haven't lived a sheltered life by any means,

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<v Speaker 2>but the use of these things in the community in

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<v Speaker 2>which I live make them a permanent part of the vernacular,

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<v Speaker 2>or at least my party. Anyway, not until I got

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<v Speaker 2>out of my circle did I see how differently folks

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<v Speaker 2>interpreted my speech. Now, even those in my circle find

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<v Speaker 2>some of them humors, even if they've never heard it before,

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<v Speaker 2>because they have an instant identifier to the phrase, having

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<v Speaker 2>been raised in a similar environment. Here's a prime example.

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<v Speaker 2>Got beat like a rented mule. Now, I have heard

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<v Speaker 2>this say in all my life, but taking it face

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<v Speaker 2>value by someone not familiar with why you would rent

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<v Speaker 2>a mule in the first place, or be forced to

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<v Speaker 2>hit one, that idiom would make no sense. The first

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<v Speaker 2>time I used that phrase somewhere, it wasn't recognized. Was

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<v Speaker 2>it fort seal? It was during my Army advanced training

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<v Speaker 2>and my friend Merritt Bradshaw and I were side by

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<v Speaker 2>side doing endless pushups along with the rest of our

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<v Speaker 2>platoon because of another soldier's in fraction. Now that wasn't unusual.

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<v Speaker 2>Drill sergeists looked for some to punish you for. Is

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<v Speaker 2>a lesson, and they used negative reinforcement both as a

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<v Speaker 2>reminder and exercise.

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<v Speaker 1>But if the same guy.

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<v Speaker 2>Made the same mistake twice or did something someone else

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<v Speaker 2>had just previously done that caused us to get punished,

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<v Speaker 2>our feelings of empathy for the offender lessened dramatically with

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<v Speaker 2>each push up. It was during one of these sessions

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<v Speaker 2>that I mistakenly uttered that phrase, which only caused us

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<v Speaker 2>more pain by my friend's unfamiliarity with what I said.

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<v Speaker 2>It was somewhere around push up one hundred when Marriott

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<v Speaker 2>whispered to me, if Smith does that again, the drill

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<v Speaker 2>sergeant is gonna kill us, I whispered back, if he

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<v Speaker 2>does that again, I'm gonna beat him like a rended mule.

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<v Speaker 1>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I am not sure what caused my friend from North

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<v Speaker 2>Carolina to bust out laughing like he was anywhere but

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<v Speaker 2>where he was, but I knew immediately that we were doomed,

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<v Speaker 2>and I regretted saying it, even though I couldn't imagine

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<v Speaker 2>why he responded like he did to the most overused

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<v Speaker 2>Southeast Arkansas idiom ever quoted. I'd heard that nearly every

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<v Speaker 2>day of my life, usually in reference to what was

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<v Speaker 2>going to happen to me if my mama caught me

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<v Speaker 2>skipping school or chewing the back of again.

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<v Speaker 1>Elementary school was a tough time for me. But in

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<v Speaker 1>Private Bradshaw's defense, he was from North Carolina and we

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<v Speaker 1>were in Oklahoma under a ton of stress, which exacerbated

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<v Speaker 1>even the slightest crack and his ability not to laugh.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a pressure relief valve for him, and I

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<v Speaker 1>had triggered it.

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<v Speaker 2>My friend collapsed into a fiddle laughter and in a

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<v Speaker 2>pool of sweat that had dripped off his face onto

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<v Speaker 2>the concrete, I saw my life flash before my eyes

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<v Speaker 2>as I looked up to see that campaign had aimed

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<v Speaker 2>at the two of us and growing bigger with each step.

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<v Speaker 2>As drift Sergeant Franks ran toward us, stepping on the

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<v Speaker 2>backs of soldiers in his rush to kill us.

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<v Speaker 1>Both his eyes wide with.

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<v Speaker 2>Unbelievable delight, while the veins in his forehead bulged out

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<v Speaker 2>past his eyebrows. And what happened next is more like

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<v Speaker 2>a foggy night mary of push ups, grass, drill, sweat,

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<v Speaker 2>and an endless tirade of profanity driven insults that encouraged

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<v Speaker 2>the both of us to reconsider the directions of our

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<v Speaker 2>lives should he choose at that moment to allow us

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<v Speaker 2>to keep one. There was one person, though, that was

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<v Speaker 2>thankful that I'd made Merrit laugh, bringing the whole of

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<v Speaker 2>our drill sergeant's attention upon the two of us and

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<v Speaker 2>away from him. That was Private Smith from Illinois, the

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<v Speaker 2>original offender and the sole reason we were in that

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<v Speaker 2>predicament to begin with. You're welcome Smitty. Now that was

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<v Speaker 2>thirty eight years ago. Smitty probably retired at General. But

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<v Speaker 2>beat him like a red and mule. Allowed me to explain,

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<v Speaker 2>the phrase gives the idea that someone would treat a

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<v Speaker 2>rented mule rougher than one you owned. Beat could be

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<v Speaker 2>replaced with worked road, or any descriptor that aligned with

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<v Speaker 2>what you were talking about. Like I said, I've heard

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<v Speaker 2>that phrase all my life and used in a jillion

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<v Speaker 2>different ways. Way before I used it in the most

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<v Speaker 2>inopportune time imaginable in the fall of nineteen eighty seven.

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<v Speaker 2>But when I hear it now, I always think about

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<v Speaker 2>the day when I thought saying it was going to

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<v Speaker 2>turn me into the mute. Now, for another example, check

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<v Speaker 2>this out. Clay and I were talking a few years

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<v Speaker 2>ago about someone in regard to their perceived intelligence. I

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<v Speaker 2>have no idea who it was we were talking about now,

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<v Speaker 2>but we were both in agreement that they were smart.

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<v Speaker 2>Clay said that dude as sharp as attack on an

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

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<v Speaker 2>on television, everywhere, including.

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<v Speaker 1>On this channel. From March of twenty twenty two, Reva's

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<v Speaker 1>going to reach way back in the Bear Grease vault

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<v Speaker 1>for a sound bite right now. When Clay was talking

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<v Speaker 1>to Steve, who, among others, was guests hosting on a

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<v Speaker 1>Render episode number forty seven entitled Steve Ranella on Jerry

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<v Speaker 1>Klower from the first season of Bear Grease, Clay was

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<v Speaker 1>telling Steve and the others who were setting in for

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<v Speaker 1>the regulars to do their best because the regular Render

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<v Speaker 1>crew would be judging their performance when it aired the

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<v Speaker 1>following week. Steve had the following to say, play the drop, Reva.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm going to tell you guys, though, I've got to

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<v Speaker 3>warn you that you will be scrutinized heavily by the

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<v Speaker 3>original Bear Grease crew. Okay, so my wife, Misty Nukem,

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<v Speaker 3>Brent Reeves, Josh Lambridge, spilmmaker Gary Believer, Nukelem.

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<v Speaker 1>That Brent Reeves is sharp. Yeah, man, he's sharp. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that speaks for itself. The term sharp isn't

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<v Speaker 1>defined by borders or relegated to a specific area or

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<v Speaker 1>people due to its context like the rented mule line.

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<v Speaker 1>Everyone knows that sharp is an immediate positive reference in

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<v Speaker 1>recognizing someone's intelligence when used in that in that reference. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>during Mina Clay's conversation, after he had made his bid

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<v Speaker 1>about the person's intelligence being sharp, I made the statement

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<v Speaker 1>that I'd go a step further and say he's sharp

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<v Speaker 1>as a rat pill. That drew a slightly confused look

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

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<v Speaker 1>I said rat pill? He said, like like rat droppings. Yep.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, I don't get it. I said, you ever

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<v Speaker 2>seen one? He said yeah. I told him a rat

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<v Speaker 2>pill idly sharp on both ends. That makes it twice

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<v Speaker 2>as sharp. Now he knew exactly what I was talking

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<v Speaker 2>about once he pictured it in his mind and was

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<v Speaker 2>more than amused at the thought. Now I have to

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<v Speaker 2>confess that that variation of sharp is attributed to my father,

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<v Speaker 2>as I have never heard it anywhere else other than

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<v Speaker 2>from him. I have a good feeling that had it

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<v Speaker 2>been more popular in the lexicon of Michigan, that Steve

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<v Speaker 2>would have used that one instead of repeating Brent Reeves

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<v Speaker 2>as sharp, he's sharp, when he could have just said

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<v Speaker 2>Brent Reeves as sharp as a red hill. Now, whether

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

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<v Speaker 2>you know the origin of that one, or have ever

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

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<v Speaker 1>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the one that

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<v Speaker 2>Steve himself came up with that wound up being on

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<v Speaker 2>the meat eater T shirt. And that one is A

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<v Speaker 2>fresh set of eyes finds more beans I met.

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<v Speaker 1>When I first heard it, I didn't give it much thought.

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<v Speaker 1>It didn't sing to me.

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<v Speaker 2>But like rabbits soaking in buttermilk, the longer it marinated,

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<v Speaker 2>the better I liked it. A fresh set of eyes

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<v Speaker 2>will find more beans. It's the reason there are editors

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<v Speaker 2>who read books and make the stories better. There's so

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<v Speaker 2>many of these things that as I sat in the

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<v Speaker 2>waiting room and started making a list of the ones

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<v Speaker 2>I've used and heard that when the nurse walked out

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<v Speaker 2>and called my name, she had to call it twice

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<v Speaker 2>because I was busy as a one armed paperhanger making

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<v Speaker 2>notes for this episode.

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<v Speaker 1>You see what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>There's one for everything. There are endless numbers of idioms.

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<v Speaker 2>You can search up a list up on the Google

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<v Speaker 2>machine and have a list of one hundred before Catkin

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<v Speaker 2>lickers behind. I read them all and that last one

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't known there. So that's one hundred and one and

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<v Speaker 2>one of my all time favorites. That was so funny

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<v Speaker 2>to me when I was a kid and still is.

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<v Speaker 2>Is also attributed to my dad. There's quite a visual

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<v Speaker 2>reference in your head when you hear it, and after

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<v Speaker 2>you do, you may never get it out of there.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>Going on, and there are several levels of understanding that

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<v Speaker 2>go into getting the mental picture and the humor of

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<v Speaker 2>the phrase. But one time he bought an old disc

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<v Speaker 2>to use with our tractor and breaking ground for the garden.

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<v Speaker 2>He bought it from one of the farms he traveled

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<v Speaker 2>to and his job as a poultry industry serviceman, a

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<v Speaker 2>job I've described in great detail on several episodes. The

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<v Speaker 2>diskey bought was an old six foot massive ferguson that

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<v Speaker 2>had it been listed in a for sale ad. As

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<v Speaker 2>used it would have been misleading. A better description would

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<v Speaker 2>have been well used. It was pretty rough now.

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<v Speaker 1>My dad offered the man a fair price and he

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<v Speaker 1>gladly accepted.

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<v Speaker 2>I think the farmer would have let Dad have it

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<v Speaker 2>just to get it off his farm, since he recently

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<v Speaker 2>got himself a new one. It was a good deal

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<v Speaker 2>for both parties, and there were several issues that required

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<v Speaker 2>some welding, and we had a welder, and my dad,

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<v Speaker 2>who I've described on here before, is frugal about anything

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<v Speaker 2>that didn't pertain to hunt dogs, horses and ground and shotguns.

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<v Speaker 2>I was going to give this disc the old fixer

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<v Speaker 2>upper treatment that I was going to be as health.

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<v Speaker 1>The farmer loaded it on our trailer and home it went.

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<v Speaker 1>We backed it into the barn, and the following morning

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<v Speaker 1>we were up bright and early, him ready to weld

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<v Speaker 1>and me ready to be in the way. It was

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<v Speaker 1>how we worked best.

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<v Speaker 2>My job was to take a wire brush and remove

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<v Speaker 2>the rust and if there was any paint left where

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<v Speaker 2>he was going to weld. I spent a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>elbow grease on that project, scrubbing away the years of

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<v Speaker 2>neglecting rush so my dad could fix it, fusing the

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<v Speaker 2>pieces back together with a weld of molten steel.

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<v Speaker 1>I scrubbed and he welded, and before it was all over,

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<v Speaker 1>I got the burner rod, myself wearing the hood and

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<v Speaker 1>his big old leather gloves.

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<v Speaker 2>Now once completed, we stood back and looked at the

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<v Speaker 2>wells he'd made, returning the pieces back to one that

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<v Speaker 2>had been given up as too far gone to fix.

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<v Speaker 2>To me, it looked as good as a Picasso or Rembrandt,

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<v Speaker 2>having watched and helped to a certain degree in the

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<v Speaker 2>monumental task of making it whole again. I was feeling

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<v Speaker 2>good about it, and someone snapped a picture of the

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<v Speaker 2>two of us standing side by side admiring our handiwork.

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<v Speaker 2>You'd have seen an expression of confidence and satisfaction on

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<v Speaker 2>my face and one of slightly less than enthusiastic on

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<v Speaker 2>my father's.

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<v Speaker 1>What you think, Dad, what do you think? I said? Look?

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<v Speaker 2>He stared at that disk, his eyes going from well

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<v Speaker 2>to well, checking his work inch by inch, never looking

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<v Speaker 2>at me. Only the repairs we've done in an already

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<v Speaker 2>I sore piece of farming equipment.

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<v Speaker 1>Hated breath. I waited for his answer, ever so slightly.

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<v Speaker 1>He shook his head and, with a voice bordering on disgust.

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<v Speaker 1>He said, it looks like a coon's butt that's been

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<v Speaker 1>sown shut with a grape vine. Yeah, in the NATO second.

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<v Speaker 2>It took me to process the image of a coon's

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<v Speaker 2>exhaust flight that I'd seen countless times as we skinned them,

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<v Speaker 2>and to picture it sown shut like a hole in

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<v Speaker 2>the toe of a sock with a grapevine.

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<v Speaker 1>Of all things.

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<v Speaker 2>I went into convulsions of laughter, the kind of infectious

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<v Speaker 2>laughter that makes everyone else laugh within here it even

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<v Speaker 2>though they have no idea what's so funny? And for

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<v Speaker 2>days and weeks, and I guess decades, I still laughed

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<v Speaker 2>at his description of our consulted efforts to fix that disc.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh Man.

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<v Speaker 2>On a side note, for anyone that's interested, that disc

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<v Speaker 2>is still churning dirt every spring and fall. When my

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<v Speaker 2>brother Tim fires up Dad's tractor and gets his garden

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<v Speaker 2>and food plaut Treddy. Now there's an idiom somewhere in

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<v Speaker 2>that story. And don't judge a book by its cover,

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<v Speaker 2>it quickly comes to mind. But I just didn't sing

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<v Speaker 2>for me. How about a coon's butt? So on is

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<v Speaker 2>a garden grown?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that sins I'm gone.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna put it to a vote on my Instagram

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<v Speaker 2>page as a which one you like the best, mine

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<v Speaker 2>or Steve's and let y'all be the judge.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you so much for listening.

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<v Speaker 2>Y'all, get over to the media or YouTube channel and

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<v Speaker 2>check out my buddy Clay and his mountain goat hunt

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<v Speaker 2>in Alaska and the History channel for Steve's newest episode

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<v Speaker 2>of Hunting History until next week.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Brent Reeves signing off. Y'all be careful

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<v Speaker 3>In