WEBVTT - Ep. 148: BEAR GREASE [RENDER] - World Champion Squirrel Cook Off 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.239 My name is Klay Nukleman. This is a production of 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.400 the bear Grease podcast called the bear Grease Render, where 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:25.760 we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:31.320 of the actual bear Grease podcast, presented by FHF Gear, 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:36.520 American Maid purpose built hunting and fishing gear that's designed 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.320 to be as rugged as the place as we explore. 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.440 Before we get rolling on this render, I want to 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:51.640 tell you about white Tail Week at Meat Eater from 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:56.640 September twenty ninth through October the eighth. 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It's gonna be awesome White Tail Week for 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:56.760 meat eater. Hope you enjoy this render Welcome to the 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.720 Bear Grease Render Podcast. I don't even know to say. 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.240 The group of people set before me is gonna blow 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.280 the minds of every Bear Grease listener in the world. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.600 Kind of a rock star cast, no doubt, no doubt. 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.480 To my left, I have Brent Reeves, who now is 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.000 known as Render Boy because you don't come anymore. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.200 Hey, I'm just glad that we're doing this Render now. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:23.480 I got my mileage paid for. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.239 That works, huh, it works great. Good to see you, 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.720 Brent Man. Man, I can't wait to hear. We're at 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:31.720 an event and I'm going to tell you what that 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.040 is in just a minute. I'm about to Brent's left 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:40.359 is Joe Wilson, Joe Wildman. Wilson Joe's ah regular now 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.320 on the Bear Grease Renders. Big day for Joe Wilson Man. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.639 Huge day, Yeah huge. I ain't gonna blow your cover 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.840 though one well, so to your left Kyle Veat of 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:55.560 the Ozark Podcast. Buddy of Ours lives here in northwest Arkansas. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.160 I was on You Guys podcast. Joe's been on Ozark podcast. 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.000 You've been doing something special today too. We want to 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:02.600 hear about that. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.760 We'll talk yep to your left. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.600 Tell me your This is Malcolm. What's your last name? 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.000 Malcolm? Read Malcolm? 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:09.840 Where are you from? 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.919 I'm from Hernando, Mississippi. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:15.799 And Mississippi and you tell me? Tell me what you do? 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:16.320 Well. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.240 So I got into barbecue cooking back a long time ago, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.720 you know, Memphis, and made the World Championship. Barbecue cook 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.520 Off's a big deal in Memphis. It's the world It's 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.280 the super Bowl of swine, you know, the big, big championship. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.800 So if you grew up around there you were into cooking, 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.880 you had to learn to cook barbecue to compete in 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.120 that or you're gonna get your teeth kicked in by all. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:34.560 These other folks. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.320 So I got into cooking barbecue, and then I just 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.640 kind of that was a long time. You know, newsletters 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.720 were hot, So I started doing a little barbecue newsletter. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.960 My wife taught me into it, and it is it 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.760 expanded into doing how to barbecue videos and trying to 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.880 help people cook and kind of preserve that barbecue lifestyle. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.080 That's kind of what we do. There's a lot of 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:53.600 people into it. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.600 And then I got into outdoor stuff, so we uh 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.920 because when I'm not barbecue and I'm hunting fishing, So 0:03:58.000 --> 0:03:59.920 that's kind of how that my ties to it all. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.760 And uh, I just love you know, competing in contests, 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.280 cook and barbecue, going out and being in the outdoors. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:06.480 Anything we could do outside. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.120 I'm trying to, you know, help support that and push 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.040 that through and get people interested in. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:12.640 Part of it. Yeah. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.200 Well, good to meet you, man. 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.120 Yes, sir, I'm a big, big fan of y'all. H 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:19.720 subscribe to the podcast and listen. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:21.680 I learned I found you through Meat Eater, okay, and 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.360 I was like, man, this is Arkansas boy, he's got 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.440 to be all right. Any hunts bears, you know, why 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.359 didn't I know about this? And then so I've just 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:28.839 been a fan. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.440 Well, good to meet you. To your to Malcolm's left, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.920 probably the most esteemed guests that's ever been on Bear 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.200 Grease period. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.560 Probably period. Man, I got to take another picture. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.600 You better take another picture. We have the world's greatest 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:43.839 small game hunter. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.719 Kevin Murphy's way too kind. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.119 Good buddy. So this is I know you through Steve Nella. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:51.960 Today is the first time you and I have met, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.040 and it's it's uh. I knew at one time, at 0:04:56.120 --> 0:05:00.560 one day that we would meet, but Kevin Murphy from Kentucky. 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.120 Great to have you, man, glad to be here. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.040 Had to be around all you guys and beating all 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.400 the great people of Arkansas here at the World Championship 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:09.760 Squirrels Skinning event. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.840 That's it, you know. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.360 Right off the bat. I had to help some fourteen 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.719 year old kid that had never handled a squirrel in 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.120 his entire life, Caden Blake, to skin a squirrel. I 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.160 went over there and showed him. I says, there's lots 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.839 of way to skin a squirrel, but there's only one 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.760 proper weight to skin a squirrel. Took me a long 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.880 time in my career to figure that out, but I 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.400 showed him how to do that. It says, I'm going 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.480 to do the one for you, and then you're going 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.200 to do the next one. And he did it exactly 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:36.240 like I told you. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.760 The tail method is that work given on a squirrel 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:40.520 that's been frozen. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.040 It did today. I don't know where those come from. Today, 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:48.000 they were tops of trees. About Thursday, I would say 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:49.840 they were frozen twenty two heads. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.839 Topsy. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.080 You you told us where Joe? Where are we at? 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.480 Man Clay. We are at the twenty twenty three Model 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.400 of the World Champions Squirrel Cookoff right here in Springdale, Arkansas. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.680 And I couldn't be happier with the showing that we 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:10.279 had today. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:14.000 Oh man, it's walled one, Jane. We have any idea 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:15.120 how many people were here? 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.680 I mean, I can make up something, but I think 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.279 the most esteemed squirrel man in the world should be 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:21.920 how many people did you see out there? 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:23.240 Man? 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:28.039 We probably gave away three hundred three fifty samples that 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.120 we cooked up. Plate stopped and got some plates for 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.920 us there. We were down to giving off sauce and 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.200 we had no we had no we had we had 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.880 no we had no eating utensil, I says, man, this 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.880 is Mongolian squirrel. Eat with your right hand and do 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:43.479 your other stuff. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:45.360 Lord. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:51.279 Hey, we we've had multiple, multiple, thousands of people, yes today, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:55.600 all to celebrate this little furry critter that gets overlooked 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:59.760 so much, you know, And I don't think if you 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.839 were trying to pick out one age or nationality you 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.400 couldn't find them out in this stial today I mean 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:11.160 there's everybody. When you talk about community event, we brought 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.600 them together today with squirrels. So it's it's awesome, Clay. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:19.160 No doubt. Hey, so we do this thing, Kevin, I 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:24.560 have Brent Reeves sometimes describe what someone's wearing. Why don't 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.080 you do that for mister Murphy here, including his friend. Well, 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.080 let me go ahead and say, I think this is 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.080 the first time that we've had a bona fide squirrel 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.240 dog on the podcast. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.280 So what's your dog's name, wings and things? His names, 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.280 that's her name, wings and things. Those butterfly wings on 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.720 her back. We are She's been on a mountain lion 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:50.360 hunt with me, swamp rabbit hunt, jack rabbit hunt. She 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.160 tree squirrels. I haven't really killed a squirrel with yet. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.920 She's just getting into it. She doesn't know whether the 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.840 point a squirrel or tree a squirrel. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.720 It's gonna say she looks like a pointer bird dogs. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.280 She's a half gsp a half English porner. What the 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.920 old bird dog people would call it a dropper they got. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:11.160 They get no credit for anything because people don't want 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.600 those dogs because they can't breed them and pass that 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.480 book bloodline on. But she's got two brothers at the 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.680 t Bone Pickets hunting ranch. So that's what calvert. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.680 So is she a bird dog or a scrowl dog? 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.840 She's both. You know, our old timmy dogs did everything 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:30.360 mm hmmm, from keeping us warm to hunting critters to 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.640 protecting the home place. And that's what I'm making out 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:33.520 of this dog right here. 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.280 Wow, how old is she? 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.560 She's turning for this year? Okay, And like I said, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.760 she's been. She made three trips to Michigan last year. 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.800 She's a pretty good walleye fisherman. You know, I'm buying 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.439 her license this year. She's identifying as a walleye fisherman, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.560 so I get the extra eight eight walleye that she's 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:51.800 got into krill. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.160 I think she sees orbs as well. 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:58.520 Yeah, she s sketchy people. 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.880 Now you gotta you got a yard full of squirrel 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.440 dogs back in Kentucky, though, I've got a few, and 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.719 rabbit dogs, rabbit dog. There's a there's an episode of 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.440 you on Meteor season twelve. You and Ronella hunted up 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.760 in Michigan. Is that right, yes, sir, y'all squirrel hunted, rabbit, 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.480 rabbit hunted. Yeah, I heard that was a big time. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.520 Very good, very good friends, you know, hunting with Steve 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.200 and then whoever brings on the camera. Guys, you know 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.440 it's been eight years. Come this December our first. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.800 You know, he got so Ranella just met Kevin somewhere 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.640 in Kentucky twenty twelve. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.960 Steve was at the NRA convention in Saint Louis, Missouri. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.800 I come up to him. He just had like five 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.560 or six episodes or three or four were out, and 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.280 he was hunting antelope and bear and this and that. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.800 I says, Steve, you need to do a small game, 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.760 a squirrel, rabbit or something, because kids can go out 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.400 their back door or down the you know, somebody's farm 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.000 or public land or wherever, and they can hunt small game. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.720 And we become friends over that. And Steve told me 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.160 this year we were ride around the pickup truck in 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.920 between our hunting. He says. You know why I liked 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.160 you when we first met. I says, because I knew 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.840 about squirrels. He says, no, he says, because you told 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.440 me you were thinking that this fall was going to 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.679 be a really really good squirrel year, because we had 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.600 a good mask crop. He said, you were able in 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.200 your mind to predict what kind of hunting season where 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:21.760 we were going to have. And you know, I'd hunted 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.000 squirrels since I was probably seven eight years old, and 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.840 just you know, it used to be I mean that 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.959 was my life, his hunting squirrels. But you know, having 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:32.880 fun now is my life. 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.640 How many how many squirrels did you bring today? 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:36.840 Uh? 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:37.800 None? 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:39.160 Oh? 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.200 I'm here with chef Jeff out of Illinois. He's a 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.720 young dude that stalked me on Instagram. I took him 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.720 hunting one time. He comes to the top of the line. 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.760 I'm sorry, we just linked that out. My mom's going 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.439 to get mad at me and clean my glasses now. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.280 But he went hunting with me, and he would listen 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.440 to me, and we become instant friends, like three years ago. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.480 So he asked me, said, hey, I got invited to 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.560 the Squirrel Championship cook Off. Do you want to go? 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.640 I says yeah. So I've already put in Monday through 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.280 Thursday forty six hours working up down Tornado Alley, putting 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.600 in a high mask, lighting one hundred and twenty foot 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:17.320 poles with a sketchy contractor. But you know, I like 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.960 to work. I work to a die and hunt and 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.840 meet people that like dogs and being outside cooking good food. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.160 And you know what was the description, got to beat 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.880 a dead squirrel hunting horse. But tell us what Kevin's wearing. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.800 Kevin is wearing I would say circa nineteen seventy one 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.679 Gi Joe style coveralls. I had a Gi Joe that 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.240 had a set of coverrolls just like that inside that 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.280 and it's his T shirt. He's got a blaze orange 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.080 camo with what. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.440 That Okay, it's a blaze orange camel. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.520 He's wearing a Browning high power on a cross. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.800 Drove that nine milimeter, Yes, flipping shot. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.320 You're also probably the first known bear grease render. This 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.840 is kind of a shame that was armed. 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.280 Well that you know about right exactly. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.960 Continuing on, he's got a nice military style watch with 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:18.440 a compass and complimenting and rounding out this ensemble would 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.680 be his Fred Flintstone shoes. If he's wearing he is 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:26.600 barefooted as a goose, and I believe he could run 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:27.480 down the gravel road. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:35.800 So so today Brent and Kyle and Malcolm were judges 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:41.559 the World Championship Squirrel Cookoff. Malcolm, what you can't? Can 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:42.319 you tell me who won. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.719 I know, we don't know who one but me, and 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.040 I am going to tell you I was blown away 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.000 by the dishes that these squirrel chefs have turned in today. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:54.720 I mean there were you know, you think a squirrel, 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.520 I think of squirreling dompla, just squirreling gravy or something 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:57.960 like that. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.439 We saw all kinds. 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:07.040 Of just Kyle be thinking of some examples. What what 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:07.920 was what were. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.439 Well, we had some squirrel and panadas, We had squirrel tamales. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.439 We had you did have some like roasted quarters of 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.720 squirrel that were just fantastic, melting your mouth. Some of 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.600 them that did like a buffalo wings style. I saw 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.000 on their table. It was like a ramen. I mean, 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.320 I'm talking the squirrel bone broth, the whole nine yards whole. 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:29.640 Things we had. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.319 We had some of these they're called what they call them, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.679 it's like a little wrap. It's not a what was 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:42.640 that called the little basket, little poor purse, the beggar's purse. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.720 The ooze and aws that come off of their judging tables. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.120 When a particular dish and I'm trying to see what 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.079 the name of that team is, I can't find it 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:54.360 right now. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.720 That was the hands down, Joe, the best thing I've had. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.400 The scorecard in my pocket said, yes, I believe it. Okay, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.719 So this team made Malcolm, you ate it. But they 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.920 made a uh was it a meat pie? 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.480 It was a squirrel mince meat pie. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.480 Squirrel mince meat pie. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:11.280 Hm. 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.160 They made uh vanilla bean honey, little glaze on it. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.040 They did a Minnesota. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.680 Got the biggest reaction of all of the clay. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.880 Dude, this thing when it hit the table, you opened 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.800 up the box and you've seen the glorious dish that 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.920 would serve. But when all the judges are telling me 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.920 and I'm just like the referee, you got to buy 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.960 it into this and it was. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.320 Man, it's pretty bold going for a squirrel mince meat pile. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.040 And it doesn't necessarily sound like like if you're like squirrel, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:47.720 Tomale squirrel and Panadas squirreled this squirrel mince meat pie. 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.400 It bold, fantastic. And the sauce that they had over 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:52.840 this quarter. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.280 No, it was so they called it. I took a 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:56.480 picture of it. It was that good. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.440 They called it a state u squirrel Loretta. Not to 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.800 be confused with the Steak Dan sauce. Because they made 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:07.800 it with bourbon whiskey, not kanyak. They said anybody, any 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.960 respective hillbilly would would drink, would not drink or cook 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:12.640 with koonyak. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.600 They so did they do? They give you some like yeah, written. 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.680 Well you got this, you gotta you gotta plate. 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.360 It's covered, you know, a fold over to go plate 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:25.720 and had the number you know, the team that you 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.440 would score, not the name, just the number whatever it was. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.080 So and you open it up and inside like in 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.280 the lid right here. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.560 In one we got a little little car dish. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.200 What everything was in there? 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:41.280 So fried squirrel al pasto or tacos with salcea verde sauce, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.560 side dish, fried Mexican street corn with squirrel chariso. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.360 Let me tell you, son, that was on the money. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:48.360 That was good. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.120 That's the one I took a little bit give. 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:51.960 That was money. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.680 And the reason we had the teams put that little 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.280 index inside there was because we didn't know what this 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.040 stuff was. Like what Malcolm just read. We open up 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.320 that box and unless it has that description, there ain't 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.360 no way we've described lost that dish and it just like. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.840 What you just sure would have had no clue. 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.760 And they hit every country, I mean Filipino, tie, Italian, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.120 all kinds of stuff all over the world that you 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.440 would never expect a squirrel to be in. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.000 What was your What was your favorite? You can tell 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.280 me that, like, it's not gonna spoil anything. No, it 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:26.200 was your favorite, Kyle. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.720 I I like the tie the noodle soup. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.960 It was a squirrel cow soy with a squirrel rangoon 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.880 and then they had the cream cheese and the rangoon 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.000 dipped in the sweet and sour sauce. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.880 That's that might be the best bite I had because 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.120 someone passed me. They said, you gotta try this rangoon. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.800 It would squirrel unreal. It was unreal. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.600 Now rangoon is that folded little fried triangle. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.720 With the cream cheese. 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.600 Because it had cream cheesey. I don't know if y'all 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.080 ever watched his YouTube. It's how to Barbecue, right. 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.120 Okay, And that's the name of your YouTube channel and 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:01.120 how the Barbecue Ride. 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.639 And he's got millions upon millions of followers. And Malcolm 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.600 will sit out there on the back porch and take 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.960 the biggest clump of cream cheese you ever seen and 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.800 mix it with blue packed plate mayonnaise and throw something 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.480 in it and people love it. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.000 Yeah, and so I don't know why. I don't know why. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.240 I mean, it's the simple stuff. Man, this does he 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.080 kills it. I'm not a che I Cooke. Stuff folks 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:27.359 want to eat, he kills it. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.840 But those all those dishes that you guys just read, 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.320 you know that started in year one, like our first 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.119 year of doing this. I thought it was going to 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.600 be dumplings, gravy, traditional. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:40.600 Expecting today. 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.040 I was expecting today when you said that we're going 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.680 to get eighteen plates and the other table had seventeen, 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.440 I thought eighteen. Okay, that's going to be six place 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:55.040 of fried squirrel, six bowls of squirrel mulligan, and six places. 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.920 Spreads, Like this is just going to be like a Tuesday. 0:17:58.119 --> 0:17:59.840 Was there anybody? Was there a dumpling? 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.280 In the closest we had was a ravioli. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.840 Yeah. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:07.919 I didn't eat none of it. It was, but I 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.920 mean not one of those traditional things that I would 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:11.480 thought about. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.480 I didn't eat. I didn't see any. 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.119 And you know, Clay, tradition is real important to guys, 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.560 like all of us, like everybody in this room is 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.040 a traditionalist. We take a lot of pride in the 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:27.600 old ways and all of that. There is a one 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:32.000 hundred percent chance if someone turned in a solid squirrel 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.960 and dumplings that they could have killed it and won today. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.760 You know, the pride squirrel that we had. You know, 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:40.760 in my mind, I'm like, I gotta give this one 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.679 just another bit of an edge, right because it is 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:44.480 more traditional. 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.399 Oh, that counted something for you. For me, that was 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:47.840 like that. 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.080 They're really honing in on the roots of squirrel eating, you. 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:51.440 Know what I mean. 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.919 Yeah, it's it's a unique deal because I think people, 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.680 you know, Clay Nucom's a flashy guy, got some flashy 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:05.159 mule all of this, and so I mean, he's just 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.439 a flashy guy. So these cooking teams think they got 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.919 to be really really flashy to win. Now, I'll go 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.160 ahead and tell you the dish that won was dang 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.000 sure flashy it was. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:17.960 It was. It was good. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:20.720 If that's the winner. If I had the winner, that 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.960 was amazing, Like, I would you pay for that dish? 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.080 Oh? I want the restaurant saw that on them menu? 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:28.600 I would pay good money. 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:34.080 Now would you say, like Chef Malcolm's of Pro are there? Well, 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.720 you weren't cooking today? How many pro like pro? 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:44.199 So we had probably three or four restaurant owners or 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:51.120 restaurant quality white tablecloth chefs out there, and yeah, and 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.560 so what they're competing against is what is it? The 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:59.440 backwoods guys? Right, they're competing against There's a couple of 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.320 old boys that run a croppy guide service up Nors. 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:04.800 You know, they come down to cook it. We had 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.480 croppy savice today, hmm. 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:09.920 With a squirrel or is that just I didn't have 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.639 that squirrel. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.680