WEBVTT - Ep. 167: THIS COUNTRY LIFE - Old School (Part 1)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>pull you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I

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<v Speaker 1>think I got a thing or two. The teaching old school.

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<v Speaker 1>The term old school usually conjures up antiquated ideas and ways,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe even clothing from a bygone era that most consider outdated.

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<v Speaker 1>My wife will tell you quick that rumbingon through my

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<v Speaker 1>closet is like taking a trip back in time, and

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<v Speaker 1>according to her, it's a bat trial. But in my opinion,

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<v Speaker 1>there's lots to be said for those tried and true

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<v Speaker 1>staples of practicality and function that far surpassed fashion and style.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna talk about all kinds of old school today,

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<v Speaker 1>but first I'm going to tell you a story. It

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<v Speaker 1>was common old school practice where I grew up for

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<v Speaker 1>folks to occasionally take it upon themselves to burn the

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<v Speaker 1>woods off. Now back before timber companies put their force

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<v Speaker 1>into regular burn cycles and management plans other than harvest,

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<v Speaker 1>the locals would help them out and do it themselves. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>the old school term for that was burning off the woods.

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<v Speaker 1>The new, more acceptable and probably accurate term for that

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<v Speaker 1>is called arson, and it's greatly frowned upon, and for

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<v Speaker 1>good reason. Control burning has been an important forster to

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<v Speaker 1>for a long time. During certain times of the year,

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<v Speaker 1>a good burn helps control the amount of litter build up.

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<v Speaker 1>And by litter, i'm talking about leaves and limbs, dead timber,

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<v Speaker 1>anything else that will burn, not trash. But when all

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<v Speaker 1>that stuff is left to build up over the years,

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<v Speaker 1>it could burn out of control and to the point

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<v Speaker 1>of becoming a wildfire where timber damage and property loss

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<v Speaker 1>or higher risk. By staying ahead of those conditions, you

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<v Speaker 1>can avoid all those problems. There's plenty more advantages to burning,

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<v Speaker 1>like regenerating growth, shifting soil nutrients, and removal of undesired plants.

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<v Speaker 1>That's just to name a few. So with that in mind,

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<v Speaker 1>let me take you on a journey back in time

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<v Speaker 1>to what I was just a lad. It was late

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<v Speaker 1>February and had been unseasonably warm and my Dad and

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<v Speaker 1>I had slipped down to the Slain River bottoms to

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<v Speaker 1>see if we could catch a mess of fish. We

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<v Speaker 1>stopped on a bridge on the lower Potlatch Road to fish. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>there were two main roads that ran through that area,

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<v Speaker 1>the Lower and the Upper Road, with the upper road

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<v Speaker 1>being the major avenue for hauling out timber, as the

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<v Speaker 1>lower road was closer to the actual river bottoms and

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<v Speaker 1>could be flooded from the many sloughs and creeks and

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<v Speaker 1>boughs that criss crossed along the way. Potlatch was a

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<v Speaker 1>timber coming in South Arkansas that owned a huge portion

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<v Speaker 1>of the woods that we liked to hunt in, and

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<v Speaker 1>the roads were built for hauling out harvested timber. When

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<v Speaker 1>I was a kid, that was the biggest place on earth.

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<v Speaker 1>To me. That was my Yellowstone, my Bob Marshall Wilderness,

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<v Speaker 1>and it represented everything that was wild to me. The

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<v Speaker 1>Yellowstone might as well have been on Jupiter. And I

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<v Speaker 1>never even heard of the Bob as my friends and

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<v Speaker 1>Bozeman referred to it. For that matter, I never heard

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<v Speaker 1>of Bozeman either, But I thought there was no way

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<v Speaker 1>that they'd ever be able to cut all that timber

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<v Speaker 1>and we'd have that place to run around in forever. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>this was way before leasing, and folks honored deer camp

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<v Speaker 1>claims for deer season, but that was it. Every other

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<v Speaker 1>cretter that bumped around in the woods when it wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>deer season was fair game to everyone, and there was

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<v Speaker 1>no place that was all limits. Now that didn't apply

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<v Speaker 1>to wild hogs, however, But that's a whole other podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's the way it had always been, and as

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<v Speaker 1>far as I knew, that's the way it would always be.

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<v Speaker 1>I would eventually learn that I was wrong on both accounts.

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<v Speaker 1>But on this day, all the old school rules still applied,

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<v Speaker 1>and Dad and I had stopped on the Lake Slough

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<v Speaker 1>Bridge on the lower Potlatch Road and went fishing. We

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<v Speaker 1>walked up and down the bank and fishing beside cypress

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<v Speaker 1>needs and had caught enough fish to fry up a

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<v Speaker 1>mess for the two of us. We scrouned around the

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<v Speaker 1>barn and duck some worms to fish with, because no

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<v Speaker 1>one had crickets yet and we had a bad hankering

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<v Speaker 1>for some fried fish. The plan was to catch some

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<v Speaker 1>fish and fry them up wherever we caught them, if

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<v Speaker 1>it was at our first stop or our last one

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<v Speaker 1>fish was on the menu, and we didn't take the boat,

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<v Speaker 1>but we did take a coal bucket, some charcoal, corn meal,

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<v Speaker 1>a skillet onion, taters, oil, and a jug of sweet tea.

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<v Speaker 1>We were on a mission to eat fish, not go fishing.

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<v Speaker 1>The slew was up and running water, and it didn't

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<v Speaker 1>take long for us to catch them. As a fish.

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<v Speaker 1>We cleaned them pretty quick, and Dad had me to

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<v Speaker 1>build in the fire while he cut the taters up

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<v Speaker 1>and got the fish mealed and ready to fry. Now

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<v Speaker 1>I was working at a fevered pitch and could taste

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<v Speaker 1>those fish we were about to cook already. Man, it's

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<v Speaker 1>going to be good. I'd cleared off a small spot

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<v Speaker 1>beside the bridge and off the road on a dim

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<v Speaker 1>logging road, a trail, really, and I'd kicked away the leaves,

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<v Speaker 1>sitting the coal bucket down and getting the charcoal doused

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<v Speaker 1>with lighter flood and lid. Dad was sitting on the

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<v Speaker 1>bank of the slough cutting up to taters when I

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<v Speaker 1>lit the fluid soaked charcoal that blazed up like a volcano.

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<v Speaker 1>I backed up and stared at how high it was burning,

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<v Speaker 1>and I didn't pay attention to the lighter flood that

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<v Speaker 1>had run out on the vents at the bottom of

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<v Speaker 1>the bucket and had caught the leaves on fire that

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<v Speaker 1>I hadn't kicked away. Augusta wind later, and the fire

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<v Speaker 1>had crossed that old dim trail and was lighting the

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<v Speaker 1>fuse on a huge cane thicket. For anyone not familiar

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<v Speaker 1>with switch cane thicket, play on me to pontificate they

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<v Speaker 1>grow tall and thick, and when they're green, he came't

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<v Speaker 1>burning with napalm. But when they're dead and dried out

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<v Speaker 1>like these were, they burned like Daffy Duck in a

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<v Speaker 1>Buck's Bunny cartoon. Strike a match and poof ashes and smoke,

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<v Speaker 1>They're gone. I took off my jacket and I commenced

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<v Speaker 1>a whooping the flames that were burning around that charcoal bucket.

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<v Speaker 1>When I saw Dad jump up from the bank of

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<v Speaker 1>the slough and see that cane thicket explode in a

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<v Speaker 1>wall of flame, his eyes were big and bugging out

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<v Speaker 1>of his head in horror. I'd only seen him that

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<v Speaker 1>big once before, when a few years earlier I nearly

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<v Speaker 1>killed him with a truck. But that's a story for

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<v Speaker 1>another day. Dad Dad broke off a big pine limb

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<v Speaker 1>and started thrashing that fire in a feudal attempt to

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<v Speaker 1>stop it. It was no use, and he and I

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<v Speaker 1>both knew it. He kicked the coal bucket over toward

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<v Speaker 1>the area that had already been scorched to bald earth

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<v Speaker 1>and chunk the bucket in the back of the truck,

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<v Speaker 1>along with every shred of evidence that we'd been there.

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<v Speaker 1>The fire had traveled so far away from where it

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<v Speaker 1>started that you could really feel the heat from it.

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<v Speaker 1>But man, you could see it and you could hear it.

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<v Speaker 1>That cane was the head of a huge cane and

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<v Speaker 1>briar thicket that went on for quite a ways and

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<v Speaker 1>had grown up that thick as a result of the

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<v Speaker 1>timber being cut many years before. It's probably five acres

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<v Speaker 1>or so. And by now it was roaring pretty good,

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<v Speaker 1>and the dried cane stalks popping with when they built

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<v Speaker 1>up with gas, and the holi sections like somebody was

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<v Speaker 1>shooting a gun. It was a pie pole, pile pile.

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<v Speaker 1>You could just hear it out there. The good thing was,

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<v Speaker 1>after about thirty acres or so, that fire had nowhere

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<v Speaker 1>to go. It was surrounded by Lake Slough on one side,

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<v Speaker 1>which was wider than the road we'd driven in on,

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<v Speaker 1>and another fork of Lake Slough that joined a quarter

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<v Speaker 1>of a mile or so in the direction of where

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<v Speaker 1>the fire was headed. There was nothing we could do

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<v Speaker 1>but leave, and we did that with the reckless abandon

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<v Speaker 1>Now that may sound terrible, but my dad knew that

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<v Speaker 1>far wasn't going anywhere. But he also didn't want his

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<v Speaker 1>son to be branded an arsonists at such a young age.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a moniker you should earn on purpose, not on accident. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>we scadadled and went to the house, which wasn't that

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<v Speaker 1>far away, and I watched that smoke. As we got

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<v Speaker 1>further and further away, it was like the whole world

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<v Speaker 1>was on fire. I fretted about that fire, and for

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<v Speaker 1>good reason. I'd made a mistake, and I was inattentive

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<v Speaker 1>to everything that I was supposed to be doing. Building

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<v Speaker 1>a fire was only half of my job. I was

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<v Speaker 1>also responsible for making sure it didn't burn where it

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't supposed to. Attention to detail is what wrecks just

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<v Speaker 1>about everything, or the lack of it, I should say.

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<v Speaker 1>I kept pestering Dad for us to go check it,

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<v Speaker 1>and not long after we got home we went back

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<v Speaker 1>just like every criminal returned to the scene of crime.

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<v Speaker 1>We did take time to get the charcoal bucket and

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<v Speaker 1>everything else is out of the truck before we went,

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<v Speaker 1>just in case we ran into somebody. But it was

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<v Speaker 1>in the middle of nowhere, and there was no logging

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<v Speaker 1>going on, and there was no hunting season going on,

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<v Speaker 1>so the chances of us running into anybody was very remote.

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<v Speaker 1>The smoke had decreased from what had been an hour ago,

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<v Speaker 1>and we could see that it was running out of field.

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<v Speaker 1>Dad said, it'll be on the bank of Lake Slough

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<v Speaker 1>before long, and that'll be the end of it. You

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<v Speaker 1>learned a valuable lesson today, son, And it could have

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<v Speaker 1>been costly, maybe even deadly, but it wasn't, and that's

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<v Speaker 1>a good lesson to learn. I felt better about it.

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<v Speaker 1>The main thing I felt better about was my dad

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't mad at me, and I hadn't destroyed someone's home

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<v Speaker 1>or hurt anybody. He said, let's go home and eat

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<v Speaker 1>some fish. Well. Dad pulled down in that old logging

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<v Speaker 1>trail where it all started, and even the charcoal had

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<v Speaker 1>burnt to the point of blowing away in the wind.

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<v Speaker 1>He backed out in the road and stopped abruptly, causing

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<v Speaker 1>me to turn away from that big flume of smoke

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<v Speaker 1>and see mister Junior Williams's truck pulling across the lake

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<v Speaker 1>slow bridge and ride up beside us. Mister Junior was

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<v Speaker 1>a family friend, and he had some running dogs and

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<v Speaker 1>would hunt with Dad a lot, and I'd known him

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<v Speaker 1>all my life. Mister Junior was a good man. Mister

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<v Speaker 1>Junior raised chickens, and my dad was his serviceman for years.

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<v Speaker 1>But raising chickens wasn't mister Junior's only job. He was

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<v Speaker 1>also the Arkansas Forestry Commission's county forest ranger for Cleveland County.

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<v Speaker 1>In other words, he was the wildfire police. And he

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<v Speaker 1>was pulling up beside my Dad's truck and rolling down

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<v Speaker 1>his window. I was going to prison and would never

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<v Speaker 1>again see the light of day. I would never make

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<v Speaker 1>it to junior High school, and I would never taste

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<v Speaker 1>a fried bluegilt brim again. My life was over. Hey, buddy,

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<v Speaker 1>how are you, Junior. I'm good. Looks like we got

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<v Speaker 1>a little smoke going. My dad said, yeah, it looks

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<v Speaker 1>like it. I was mortified. I knew it any minute

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<v Speaker 1>that our very own Columbo of the Woods was going

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<v Speaker 1>to slap the cuffs on me and haul me off

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<v Speaker 1>to comings prison farm, the state penitentiary, where I'd be

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<v Speaker 1>sentenced to life in the electric chair for burning up

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<v Speaker 1>thirty five acres of pot lash's cane thicket. I was doomed.

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<v Speaker 1>Time slowed down to a crawl as I prayed for

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<v Speaker 1>my dad to take his foot off that clutch and

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<v Speaker 1>get us out of there. That fire ain't going nowhere,

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<v Speaker 1>is it, buddy, now Junior? It ought to be about

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<v Speaker 1>burnt out, but now lake slough goes all the way

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<v Speaker 1>around it. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Probably a good thing

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<v Speaker 1>at burnt now, mister Junior said, it's rather than this summer.

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<v Speaker 1>When lake slough's drying, it could get out. It wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>stop until it got to the river. Man, it wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>be a camp left down there. When he said that,

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to die. It made me sick at my stomach.

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<v Speaker 1>I knew all the folks that had camps down there,

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<v Speaker 1>and I had been a guest, and most of them.

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<v Speaker 1>I glanced back at that smoking. When I looked back,

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<v Speaker 1>mister Junior was looking at me dead in the eyes,

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<v Speaker 1>and he said, Brent, did you burn them woods up? Sweet? Jesus,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm called. I just sat there, looking back at him

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<v Speaker 1>and waiting for him to pull his pistol on me.

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<v Speaker 1>Dad turned his head towards me and said, well, answer

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<v Speaker 1>the man. Now I'm betrayed by my father. I'm going down.

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<v Speaker 1>I gathered up all the gumption I had and I said,

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<v Speaker 1>I cannot tell a lie, mister Junior. I did it.

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<v Speaker 1>He started laughing and hitting his hand on the steering wheel.

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<v Speaker 1>Dad started laughing, and I wanted to cry, and just

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<v Speaker 1>about to when mister Junior said, Buddy, that boy is

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<v Speaker 1>as crazy as you are. Dad said, its sure is, Junior.

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<v Speaker 1>We're late for dinner. I'll see you, and with that

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<v Speaker 1>we took off. I barely heard mister Junior say bye

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<v Speaker 1>before we were making tracks toward the ponderosa. Now I've

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<v Speaker 1>always thought that he knew we'd done it. After all,

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<v Speaker 1>I did confess to him. I didn't lie about it.

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<v Speaker 1>But there was a lesson learned and one I will

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<v Speaker 1>never forget. And that's just how that happened. Old school.

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<v Speaker 1>It can describe a lot of things, but the main

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<v Speaker 1>message I get from it is it's a if it

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<v Speaker 1>ain't broke, don't fix it kind of vibe. There may

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<v Speaker 1>be a better way to do things that are better

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<v Speaker 1>and more time efficient, but time to me these days

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<v Speaker 1>is measured in joy. I can sit down with a

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<v Speaker 1>wet rock and a case pocketknife and sharpen it all evening,

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<v Speaker 1>just slowly back and forth, honing that blade to a

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<v Speaker 1>razor's edge, and I could use any number of sharpening

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<v Speaker 1>tools and have it done in a matter of minutes,

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<v Speaker 1>which is more efficient, but not nearly as satisfying or relaxing.

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<v Speaker 1>I used to sit and watch my dad sitting in

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<v Speaker 1>his recliner doing the same thing with the very Arkansas

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<v Speaker 1>stone that I use. I couldn't wait to learn how

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<v Speaker 1>to do it, and when I did, it's something I enjoy.

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<v Speaker 1>There's something therapeutic about it. Maybe it's the sound or

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<v Speaker 1>the motion that connects me with the past and those

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<v Speaker 1>memories of watching my dad do it. It's a cheap

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<v Speaker 1>and harmless pastime and it serves a purpose because a

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<v Speaker 1>dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp one. I

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<v Speaker 1>gonna say that again so the folks in the back

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<v Speaker 1>can hear me. A dull knife is more dangerous than

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<v Speaker 1>a sharp one. You don't agree, well, hear me out.

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<v Speaker 1>My brother Tim and I were rabbit hunting one Saturday

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<v Speaker 1>afternoon when I was fourteen. We were walking up some

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<v Speaker 1>old ditches and briers tickets on a friend's farm a

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<v Speaker 1>couple miles from Eys that was covered up in cottontails.

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<v Speaker 1>We shot two or three when another one busted out

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<v Speaker 1>on my side of the ditch and I shot him,

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<v Speaker 1>but I didn't make a killing shot on him. It

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<v Speaker 1>was in the middle of a soy being filled, and

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<v Speaker 1>there wasn't a tree or a fence post within a

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<v Speaker 1>quarter of a mile to knock his head on. So

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<v Speaker 1>I pulled out my pocket knife and I was gonna

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<v Speaker 1>quickly give him the old coop of grad to the throat.

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<v Speaker 1>But my knife was so dull that when I tried

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<v Speaker 1>to force it into the spot where I needed it

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<v Speaker 1>to end it quickly, I had to push extra hard,

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<v Speaker 1>and it slipped from where I had it intended and

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<v Speaker 1>jobbed it into the palm of my hand that I

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<v Speaker 1>was holding that wiggling rabbit with, and it sunk into

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<v Speaker 1>my hand about two inches. I laid my shotgun on

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<v Speaker 1>the ground, swapped hands, and gave the stock a love

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<v Speaker 1>tab with that rabbits knogging and ended that portion of

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<v Speaker 1>the suffering. But I was now bleeding like crazy, and

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<v Speaker 1>rightfully so, seeing as I had just stabbed myself. It

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<v Speaker 1>was a common phrase of my mother's every time you

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<v Speaker 1>or your brother opens a pocket knife, you cut yourself

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<v Speaker 1>about one more time, and I'm going to hide it

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<v Speaker 1>from you. She wasn't wrong, although this time I had

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<v Speaker 1>stabbed myself instead of cutting myself, which could be considered

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<v Speaker 1>a technicality. Tim said, Mama's gonna be mad at you. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>we ain't gonna tell mama. I looked across that field

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<v Speaker 1>and there was Clement's Grocery half a mile away, a

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<v Speaker 1>country store that friends of our family owned, and where

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<v Speaker 1>Miss Billy Ruth Clemens would be working. I'd get her

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<v Speaker 1>the doctor on me and that'd be the end of that.

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<v Speaker 1>Take me to the store, Tim, Miss Billyruth will fix

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<v Speaker 1>it up. So that's what we did, and that's what

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<v Speaker 1>she did. She boiled it out with some proxy. I'd

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<v Speaker 1>dabbed some kind of ointment on it and bandaged it

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<v Speaker 1>up with galls and tape. I swore her to secrecy,

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<v Speaker 1>and we went back hunting and killed some more rabbits.

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<v Speaker 1>Now here's the lesson. If my knife had been sharp,

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<v Speaker 1>i'd finished that rabbit off in short order. Never hurt myself,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was my fault that it had all happened anyway.

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<v Speaker 1>From the poor shot to the dull knife, two creatures

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<v Speaker 1>had suffered. Needlessly shoot straight and keep your knife sharp.

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<v Speaker 1>Some would say that even toting a knife is old school,

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<v Speaker 1>and I've talked about it before, and y'all know the

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<v Speaker 1>regular listeners anyway, But for the new folks, I carried

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<v Speaker 1>two knives, and one of them used to be a loner,

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<v Speaker 1>for that sad sack that I would run into that

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<v Speaker 1>asked to borrow a knife instead of being a man

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<v Speaker 1>to begin with and having one of his own. I

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't loan out my case knife because someone that doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>care enough to tote one ain't gonna use my good one.

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<v Speaker 1>So I carried a loaner. There was anything but a

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<v Speaker 1>case Now. I got tired of toting the loaner, so

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<v Speaker 1>I stopped. Now. I didn't stop carrying two pocket knives.

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<v Speaker 1>That'd be weird. No, I carry a case knife in

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<v Speaker 1>both pockets now, and I don't loan either one of them.

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<v Speaker 1>That's old school and may be a little selfish, but

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<v Speaker 1>I'm drawing the line in the dirt and it stops

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<v Speaker 1>right there. What doesn't stop is my affinity for most

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<v Speaker 1>things old school. And we've just scratched the surface here today.

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<v Speaker 1>So how about we continue this next week. Well, Brin,

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's a great idea. Now, this is my

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<v Speaker 1>favorite time of the year. With the holidays and hunting

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<v Speaker 1>season and full swing, I'm spending lots of time in

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<v Speaker 1>the outdoors with folks I'm partial to, and that makes

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<v Speaker 1>all the difference in the world. Take the opportunity to

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<v Speaker 1>invite someone who may not normally have the opportunity to

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<v Speaker 1>get a chance to do something in the wild, and

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<v Speaker 1>opportunity maybe all that person needs to shine. I promise

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<v Speaker 1>you'll get more out of it than they will. I

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<v Speaker 1>thank y'all for listening and would appreciate it if you

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<v Speaker 1>shared our show with other folks you think might like

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<v Speaker 1>it to Until next week, this is Brent Reeves signing off.

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<v Speaker 1>Y'all be careful