WEBVTT - Ep. 13: Bear Grease [Render] - Cobras, Bulldozers, and Immortal Roosters 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:17.080 Yeah. My name is Clay Nukeleman. This is a production 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.680 of the bear Grease podcast called The bear Grease Render, 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.200 where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:30.040 scenes of the actual bear Grease podcast, presented by f 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:35.320 HF Gear, American made purpose built hunting and fishing gear 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.280 that's designed to be as rugged as the places we explore. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.600 It's pretty My poor pigs, My poor pigs. Forget your pigs. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.720 I don't have a c in my truck. Do you 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:56.639 really know you don't have doors on your doors? Welcome 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:02.840 to the bar Grease Surrender. Really, welcome to the Burger Surrender. Yeah, 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.559 Dan Rupe doesn't have doors on this truck. Doors. Yeah. 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.240 It's really hot here in Arkansas, over a hundred hundred 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.360 degrees today, That's what I hear. Hey, did you guys 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.199 know speaking of air conditioning, no doors on the truck. 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.120 Did you boys know that I've been driving a D 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:23.360 five caterpillar dozer for the last two days. I've spent 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:28.479 like ten hours one day, two hours one day, eight 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:32.840 hours to the store and back. It's like an everyday 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:37.679 driver for me. Now, yes, drive it into town. Did 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:42.880 y'all see did y'all know that I was doing that. Man, 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.279 I'll tell you what you appreciation. This outdoor media stuff 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:51.120 does not work out. I know exactly what I'm gonna 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:55.960 be doing with my life. Like bulldoz are driver. Yeah 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.960 we uh it's a little hard on the intestines though 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.920 not not this one. Man. Air conditioning so cold it 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:08.680 would absolutely freeze you out. Very comfortable seat. Yeah, this 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.200 is like a really nice posure. Uh. And my dad's 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.240 friend is the one who let us use it, like 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.800 just like let us you know, I guess man, yeah, 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.919 and so man. So over where we're doing this work 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.399 in the it's actually in the wash Tols. Wink wink, Yeah, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.440 I'm getting a wink from the land bridge for those 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.600 of us, for those for those people who aren't from 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.799 this part of the world. Like it's super thick regrowth 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.520 on this property, very thick, Like you couldn't shoot a 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:49.440 bow twenty yards in most places. And the topography is 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.120 up and down, you know, there's a big drawl that 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.880 comes through our property and some hills and valleys anyway, 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.640 but it's so thick there's no view. I deeply value 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:06.160 views like and basically, long story short, I'm not gonna 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.959 get in all the details. Me and Dad are building 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.000 a cabin. Me and Dad are building a cabin over 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.600 there at some point, and Dad wanted the cabin down 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.160 on the creek, okay, which is not much of a creek. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:25.160 It's a small creek. Dry, it didn't even I wanted 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.680 the cabin up on top of the ridge. But to 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.720 do that, we had to build a pretty long road, 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:34.880 about a quarter mile probably road. And I wanted a view, 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.400 and I did not know how good the view was 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:49.920 going to be until I borrowed a Cat five. Yeah, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.520 that would be awesome, give caterpillar. I jumped in that thing. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.640 And now I have driven big equipment for I'm good 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.920 on the track ho and a back hoe, and I've 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:03.840 never driven a doze and man, I got I picked 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.400 it up quick, and I'm like a professional does are operator? Now? 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.120 And we cleared about probably close to an acre of 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.920 stuff so thick you couldn't walk through it. And that 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.960 doz are will knock flatten, knock over a tree that's 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.880 about fourteen fifteen inches in diameter, just drive over it. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.640 I mean we I was pushing over pine trees that 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.159 you could have built a dose. Are operators out there 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.880 saying you shouldn't be doing that, they're saying, it's probably 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.320 they're pushing over big Anyway, that was a lot of fun. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.920 But what I appreciate about that story is how brazen 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.880 you are congratulating yourself for being a fantastic bulldozer driving. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:51.280 If I mean exactly. It's just a ton of fun 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:57.839 and I'm I'm steps ahead of everyone. Here we go again, share, 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:03.360 share knowledge and whizz. I don't know we can this man, 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:09.479 I said to say. That is why Gary Nucomb is 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.920 not here to say, because we've been working over there 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.560 and he had to go back down there today for 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.919 some other stuff that was going on. So Gary Nucomb 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:23.760 is not here. So now I would get into introductions, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.080 I won't. I won't tell who this voice is. That 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:32.760 is right, Brent Man. Brent home Run appearance on The 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.560 Bar Gerys podcast this week. What do you think we're 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:42.040 here about? Brands? Say hi to everybody? Hello everybody? Yeah right, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.920 Daniel Rupe, Dr d Rupe, good to see you man, 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.080 good to be here. The land Bridge Josh Spillmaker still 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:57.279 that straight up shout out on the bar. Yeah, you 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.520 didn't like coach him to say that, did you know? Yeah, 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.560 the actual land Bridge does come up in conversation with 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.040 a lot of people I run with, and they're not 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:14.520 talking about pretty pretty dang fast. One day I'll do 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:20.040 an entire Burger's podcast on the lent brilliant man, Get ready, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.039 that is that going to be my moment? Is that 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:31.120 going to be my moment? Probably? Probably don't count on it. Hey, listen, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.200 if you live in North America and you do not 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.680 know about the Baring land Bridge, then basically there's a 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.320 massive hole in your understanding of why you are here, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.279 the animals that are on this continitor here, and basically 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:50.240 you are sort of irresponsible. That's my take. Lots of 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.480 lots of generalized statements being thrown around. Really yeah, all 0:06:54.560 --> 0:07:00.240 positive direction that does. That's what happened to the land 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:08.960 Bridge yesterday. I felt intoxicated with power. I think it 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:16.280 may have shaped me like in an unhealthy way. Man. Okay, 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.640 people have complained that we're talking over each other. This 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.880 has been like one NonStop no no, we gotta keep 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.200 it up. Forget those people. We're gonna talk about reviews 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.760 here in a minute. Land Bridge, Josh, good to see 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:35.000 you back from wherever he was. Malachi Nichols, Dr Nichols. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.920 Good to see you, man, Good to see you. When 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.800 Malachi walked in the day, I was like, you've been 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:43.040 playing golf, got Brent? Will you describe what he's wearing. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.040 He's got some socks from they probably should have. I 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.880 don't know how you described it. Looks like a d 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.280 N A pattern or something. I'd say they come from school. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.920 Looks like I think Dolly Parton's mama made those like 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:01.640 that to go. Mali guy is known for his socks 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:07.800 and has been for years. Strong man carry on the 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.600 reason I'm not okay. He goes out, he goes up 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.840 from his decorative socks to a pair of non pleated 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:22.000 slacks comfortable anywhere from a night out on the town 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:28.040 to accompanying that. Finishing off his attire would be a 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:32.920 white polo literally obviously been pressed sometime in the last 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.319 five years. It looks good, but he's actually got a 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:40.800 polo poo. That's what that is. Yeah, I thought that 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.360 was self explainator. It can be generic, like you could 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:47.679 buy polo from Walmart. That's the style that is. Not 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:51.640 only is it a polo shirt, it is a polo exactly. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:56.080 Is that better? Yeah? Bulldozer Man Malo. Great to have 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.880 you back. We told we told everybody last time why 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.280 you weren't here. I wasn't not here Africa. It was 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.240 because you got asked it out by by the land Bridge. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:10.840 Yeah yeah, okay. And then our guest of honor, Miss 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:15.600 num my wife, Hello, Misty, how nice? So sorry, He's 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.880 so sorry for everybody else who did not get that introduction. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:25.040 Nod you guys, You guys should start to queue in 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:29.000 on non verbal things that are happening in this room. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.440 If you'll notice, Miss Nukem has a banjo in her 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.280 lap always. Well, I was just gonna say, just if 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.600 I I I got invited to play at my first 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.440 non Bear Grease gig. Pretty big deal. Don't tell them 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:48.760 it's true. Yeah, I'll be We're not invited. I'll keep 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:50.880 watching for the release of those tickets for the Arkansas 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:56.679 Music Pavilion. Right, she's playing with Willie Nelson. No, no, 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:02.400 not true. Hey. iTunes and reviews on iTunes are big 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.400 in the podcast world. None of us podcasters know why, 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.680 but we just all know that it is because podcasters 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:14.120 like continually beg people for ratings and reviews. None of 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.440 us know why. It's kind of like being a North 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.920 American and not knowing that, you know, humans first came 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.760 across a barren land bridge. You know, it's kind of 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:26.480 irresponsible that I don't really understand why iTunes ratings are important, 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.400 but they really are, and people have really come through 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:33.760 big time for us. We've we've got it. Well, I 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:37.360 was going to bring up that one reviews this is 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:43.240 the greatest podcast in history two stars. Yeah, so that's 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:49.240 why I wanted to bring this up. It's literally I 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.440 think it's aid instant hit love this like it's like 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:58.000 just glowed. Yeah, it was just like, this is awesome. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.440 Two stars. I would like to hear what a good 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.000 podcast was for that guy got a five star, Yeah, 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.240 I mean because I mean, I'd like to hear what 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.920 he would say about it, you know, but it was 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.000 it was pretty impressive. Hey, did you guys know that 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:18.200 the Beargrease podcast has a new official title sponsor? Did 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:23.960 y'all catch it? Y'all didn't catch it? Caterpillar? Caterpillar? No 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.480 f h F gear? Oh yeah, I did y'all hear that? 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.640 In the intro it was f h F gear. Yeah, 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.280 y'all know what f HF stands for? No Fish Hunt 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:38.480 Fight oh, fish Hunt fight Yeah, so fish Hunt Fight gear. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.079 I've got some some f H stuff right here. No, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.400 this is this is one of the meteor companies. This 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.160 is one a pretty cool bad this is a this 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.400 is uh yeah, this is there like accessories pouch. So 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:56.720 I used this basically f HFY. They became known probably 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:03.040 originally with their binocular harnesses, so it's a chest harness 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.960 but they're making all kinds of other stuff now and 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.920 so this is their their their pouch, like this is 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:13.080 my turkey pouch. That would be a great fly fishing 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:18.240 pack right there. Just they've got them. It looks perfect 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.520 for the very comfortable, like you quit if you wear 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.719 one of these. I mean, you know, you you might 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.120 need more storage if you really were trying to carry 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.760 a backpack. But man, everything's right here on your chest. 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:35.959 But yeah, this is just there. Okay, housekeeping items here okay. Um. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.920 First Light is having their season opener sale, which is 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.920 their biggest sale of the whole year, and it it 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:51.280 goes from August three August five. A bunch of stuff 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.080 is on sale. It's their best sell the year. So 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.480 if you're looking to get stuck out in some First 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.640 Light stuff and I'll tell you what I'm gonna talk about. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:05.200 So on on social media, they just said, hey, we 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.040 want you all to tell your top three pieces of gear, 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.800 like your must have pieces, because sometimes it's confusing just 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.880 with a clothing company that has all these different kind 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.880 of complex systems and different things. It's just like, what 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:23.080 do you get sawbuck pants? Man? I wear a sawbuck 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.920 It's to wonder I'm not wearing them today. I literally 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:30.199 almost wear them every day. Uh sawbuck pants that basically 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.600 have it's a synthetic material on the back but a 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:38.199 brush pant front. And uh so they're kind of tough 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.400 that that you know you can you can, You're kind 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:46.199 of tough, but they're they're also breathable, lightweight. Absolutely love them. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.880 Brush guard in the front, breathable in the back. It's 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:55.439 the first. It's the Union Suit of Hunting paints pant 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.400 right there. You really like. Number two is the brooks 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.240 Down sweater, which is they call it a sweater, but 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.800 I mean it's a Jacket's jealous of since you walked 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.400 in with it, I'm gonna be getting one of those. Well, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.240 it's a man. Once it gets October, I will wear 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:19.960 it every day from October through March. You're gonna wash it? No, No, 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:27.080 I'm not joking. No, I don't wash it. It's a jacket, Daniel, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.440 It's it's so it's a I can see why this 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.520 question would have been relevant. It's not really a sweater 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.560 that you wear that like touches your skin. It's a jacket. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.880 But they called the Brookstown sweater. Ever since Clay has 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.280 been on the dozer, he doesn't listen to any questions, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.840 writes us Off. Brooks Down sweater. Okay. And then the 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.920 third one is the core Get God pants. So you'll 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.200 hear me talking about that core Get God Pant's basically 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:05.080 there weather synthetic material pant, but it's it's awesome stretch yeah, 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:12.920 like yoga, Yeah yeah, I like them. Um. Hey, so 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.240 we usually kind of have like story time on the podcast, 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:23.000 and uh, Missy and I have a story. Yeah, and 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:27.400 it's it's a timely story. Will you be telling it together? No, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:36.160 he's gonna cut me off. Let me tell this part. Um, 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.160 Misty will help me because Misty is a big part 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.120 of the story. So Missy please feel free, feel free 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:47.720 to chime in, but feel free to do your story. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.880 We've had chickens for probably fifteen years, and we've had 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.920 an assortment, an assortment of roosters, and so all our 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.120 kids will have rooster stories, and people's kids that have 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.080 come over here. You know, for those of you wouldn't know, 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.200 roosters are honree and they will attack you. Some there's 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.720 a there's a variation. Some roosters are really bad about 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.680 wanting to attack people. Some roosters aren't that bad at 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:18.240 all exactly. And we've had a rooster that thought he 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.440 was human and kind of imprinted on clay and would 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.160 follow him around on the phone and crow behind. I 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.680 guess we gotta tell that story. I had a buddy 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.160 that gave me a rooster, like a single rooster, when 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.640 we had no chickens. They had to get rid of 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.640 this rooster because they had it in town and it 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:39.200 was crowing and the city made him. So you can't 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.320 have that rooster. It's making a racket. Your neighbors are 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.960 calling us. He brings it here, turns loose this barred 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.880 rock rooster in my house. And the rooster has no 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.280 other chickens, and so like I'm the one that's here, 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.200 like walking around the closest to the chicken. He's gone. 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:57.640 He follows me around every day and in this office, 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.000 I'm trying to make a living for Bare Hunting Magazine 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.440 and scrapping away as an entrepreneur, and I'm in here 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.840 by myself, and that rooster would stalk me, watching me 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.080 through the windows. And as soon as I would get 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.720 a phone call, and that rooster would hear me talking 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:21.199 in this building would look at me and literally I 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.879 would I would take myself if I if I was 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:25.959 on an important call, like someone I'm trying to like 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:30.639 do business with that doesn't know much about me, Like 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.040 I would like run out to try to get as 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.840 far away as I could from that rooster. But he 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.040 wouldn't crow until he heard me talk. So like people, 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.639 people have memories of being clay the first time I 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:47.159 called Baring a magazine. We would eat dinner with that 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.600 rooster and he would come up to that would be 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.720 eating dinner, and the rooster would be out all right, 0:17:53.920 --> 0:18:00.320 we took him on a date. Now we just sit 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.280 there as a family, and you'd come and look and stare, 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.160 and you'd kind of feel bad that you didn't invite 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.440 him in because he's kind of like, hey, guys, am, 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.119 I not part of the family. I mean, he really 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.280 was part of the family. The most recent rooster has 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.680 been a terrorist for the last three years, and he 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:23.679 is he's he's attacked me publicly. He has attacked pretty 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.359 much every one of our kids. He has a particular 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.960 thing with people in shorts, so if you go running, 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.000 if you go, he'll come and run after you wear shorts, 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:39.120 and you're a white guy, so you don't have any spurs. So, okay, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.159 we have this rooster and he's he's bad news. Okay, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.760 he's been alive for three or four years, and he's old. 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.200 He's an old rooster because we got stories that rooster 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.440 years pretty far back. Well, there came a point. There 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.399 came a point when we decided years ago that this 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.960 rooster was a liability to our place. Now he needed 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.080 to go, you know, the door, defeat it and it 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.840 just come out and attack you. Okay. And so, being 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.879 the good dad that I am, I delegated off the 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:17.120 task of disposing of this rooster to shepherd my youngest son, 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.920 who at the time would have been under ten years old, 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.560 pretty good shot. And so, being also a responsible father, 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.120 I didn't give him a gun. What did I give 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:31.359 him to go dispatch. The rooster was bo gave shepherd 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.360 nook and my bow. He's pretty good with a bow. 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:38.399 And we just said, shepherd, dispatch, take care of the rooster. Okay, 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:43.040 the rooster wink. Shepherd goes out, but he shoots this 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.400 rooster and he he comes back in and he's all 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.199 excited and he's like, I got him, Dad, And I 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.800 was like, really good, and I said, I mean he's dead, huh, 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.280 And he said, well, he ran off into the woods. 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.400 And before I go any further, let me say that 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.720 anybody who's ever eaten a chicken nugget or any kind 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:06.760 of chicken that was raised in confinement agriculture has zero 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:12.480 position to be able to judge the caretaking of our rooster. 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:17.600 Okay about it? Yeah, yeah, I want somebody being like, oh, 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:21.320 you abused a rooster. No, shepherd shoots the rooster with 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:26.640 a bowl. The rooster runs off, and I just think 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:28.879 it's gone out in the woods and died. To be honest, 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.159 that was your first mistake. And I just thought, okay, 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:37.600 never underestimate a rooster. Well man ride it dark. When 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.639 all the chickens start coming into the coupe from way 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:44.040 across the pasture. I look out there and I see 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:51.200 the captain. That was his name, General Custer, his name 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:59.200 is the captain. I see him limping across the limping 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:03.720 across the and I go, dad, Gum, that sucker still alive. 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.040 And he limps all the way back into the coupe. 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:11.440 And we had so much respect for him. After this 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:15.600 humbled him. He was a little bit easier to handle, 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:17.199 Like he would open the door and he'd just be like, 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:20.720 I'm just gonna walk, I'm gonna lit by him. A 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:24.240 pattern began to establish itself. Is this a way that 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:31.280 Clay could be humbled? Everything him? So we kind of 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:34.040 had empathy for him after this. We're like, well we 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:37.520 maybe shot him, Well, maybe we'll let him lift. Because 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:41.040 the next day he was nicer, and for months he 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:46.639 didn't attack anyone. Years okay, and he kind of dialed back. 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:54.800 So the rooster gradually builds up whatever he lost and 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:59.040 he starts getting real honree again. Okay. One day, Missy 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.000 and I are going somewhere and it was hot. I 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.480 remember I was dressed up in like the nicest clothes 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:09.200 eye own. I remember that I needed something way out 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:12.399 by the mule pasture, I go dog on it and 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:16.560 I run. I jump out of the truck and run 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:20.679 over to the mule pasture running and they're all the 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:25.760 chickens and bisect the chicken flock and they just go 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:28.280 The chickens just go flying and eat a direction. You know, 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:30.680 I'm running right through the middle of this flock of chickens. 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:35.040 Chickens going right, chickens going left. The captain does not 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:46.440 like that at all, and he absolutely just goes full tilt, spurring, flying, kicking, 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:48.960 I mean on me. And if you've never had that 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:52.680 happen to you, I've been pretty darn there charged by 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:57.520 black bears, and this is scarier. Okay. I mean he's 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:00.720 spurring me, and I mean I've holler and I get 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:02.840 out of here. Yeah, And I kick him just as 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:05.720 hard as I am kicking. He goes across the yard, 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:12.639 hits the ground, comes back at me again about roosters. Relentless. 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:15.040 He is attacking me like if it had been a 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:17.320 small kid, I'd been afraid to kill them. While I 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:20.119 was standing in our orchard and then our orchard, I 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:22.879 trimmed some limbs, and there was a limb that was 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:25.240 about five inches long and about as big around as 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:29.320 a coke can that was laying on the ground. I 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:34.160 pick it up and just sling it sideways, just like 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:36.480 that at him. I mean, I'm not trying to kill him. 0:23:36.920 --> 0:23:40.439 M and I mean it just hits him right in 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:46.000 the head. That sucker goes down on his back, wings 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:49.920 start flopping, feet are sticking straight up in the air, 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:59.720 and I mean in his feet kick kick kick limp. 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:05.159 Mrs Captain, there's been an accident. The rooster is dead 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:09.439 as a hammer, and I God gone it. I was like, 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:14.760 I wasn't trying to kill him. What please don't try 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:21.800 to kill me as a hammer. And so I walk 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:25.679 over there and I'm up, I'm upset. I know what 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:27.919 it looks like when something dies, and this rooster just 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:31.800 died right here, and I know Misty is gonna be upset. 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:35.240 I go back to the truck and I'm actually nervous 0:24:35.320 --> 0:24:40.000 about telling Misty. I get in the truck and I go, Misty, 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:51.000 something's really sad. Just I said, I just killed the captain. 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:57.119 If I lost my brother into tears, I'm not kidding. 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:00.000 He always, I think, exaggerates his part of a little, 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:03.679 but I mean there were sniffles breaking into tears. Sounds 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:06.720 like I'm wailing and dashing of teeth. I mean, I 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:09.760 mean like tears came out of your eyes and you said, 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:13.080 oh my gosh, what happened? And I tell her and 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:15.960 she says, where's the at And I say, he's laying 0:25:16.040 --> 0:25:19.120 right out there in the mule pasture dead. Misty says, 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:24.520 I want to see him. Misty said, I want to 0:25:24.520 --> 0:25:26.800 see him. And we're dressed up in like the best 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:28.679 clothes we've got, like I said, and I go, you 0:25:28.680 --> 0:25:31.560 want to see him? I said, I don't think. I 0:25:31.600 --> 0:25:39.400 don't thank you, I don't want the mule. A lot 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:46.280 of unanswered questions. So finally she convinces me she wants 0:25:46.320 --> 0:25:48.760 to go see the dead cap. She just wants this, 0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:53.400 you know, part of So I go, okay, well let's 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:56.119 go over there. And so we walk over there, and 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:59.119 we come around the chicken coop. I'll never forget it. 0:25:59.200 --> 0:26:02.560 I'll never forge get it. Misty comes around the chicken 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:05.959 coop and gains vista of the mule pasture and she 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:13.720 goes there is well, he is running through the mule 0:26:13.760 --> 0:26:19.800 pasture going after his girl. He's ever been in history. 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:25.240 That's number two. That's twice. It humbled him though. Okay, 0:26:25.480 --> 0:26:28.000 we have a squirrel dog named Tim. Tim is one 0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:31.840 of the smartest animals we've ever interacted with. Incredibly smart. 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:34.920 He's a feist, He's a squirrel dog. Anywhere there's drama, 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:39.760 Tim is involved in. He loves drama. When the mules fight, like, 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:42.800 he'll go out and start baying him sure for real. 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:45.680 When when the pigs get out, like he's the one 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:47.919 telling us that the pigs are out, like he's running 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:52.399 Tim and the captain. The captain attacks Tim. Tim will 0:26:52.440 --> 0:26:54.720 be eating his dog food. The captain will come over 0:26:54.760 --> 0:26:57.200 and run Tim off his dog food and eat Tim's 0:26:57.240 --> 0:27:00.960 dog food. So Tim likes drama, but he's a little 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:05.560 bit well, so Tim has gotten where he where. He 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:08.159 runs after the captain and they'll kind of get in 0:27:08.160 --> 0:27:10.480 a little fight, but Tim will ever touch him, won't 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:14.600 ever hurt him, and captain runs Tim off. Well, one day, 0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:18.000 Misty is out in the garden, Tim and the captain 0:27:18.320 --> 0:27:23.280 getting a fight and the captain is winning. So they're fighting, 0:27:23.760 --> 0:27:26.200 and captain keeps coming after Tim and scared him off, 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:29.719