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Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves

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Speaker 1: from coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living.

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Speaker 1: All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate.

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Speaker 1: I've got some stories to share. It's our first bonus

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Speaker 1: episode of This Country Life. And if you heard us

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Speaker 1: on the Bear Grease Render talking about the World Championship

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Speaker 1: Squirrel Cookoff, you may not have known that. Me and

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Speaker 1: Reva Hanson we're also walking around visiting with folks about

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Speaker 1: the squirrels they were cooking and the methods they were using.

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Speaker 1: And we're fixing to talk about it now. If you

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Speaker 1: over to the Meat Eater Podcast Network YouTube channel and

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Speaker 1: watch along.

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Speaker 2: Listen to you every week.

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Speaker 3: But hey, Paul, Yeah, yeah, we are here.

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Speaker 1: With Paul and they were the World Champion Squirrel Cookoff

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Now, where are you all from?

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Speaker 4: Northern Kentucky? He's from Litchfield, Kentucky and Paul's from Columbia, Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right now and Kentucky's represented Well here

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Speaker 1: tell me what you're fixing that.

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Speaker 4: We're making a It's a campfire Cumberland campfire pie. It's

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Speaker 4: made with a Cumberland sauce, been around since the seventeen hundreds,

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Speaker 4: wild game sauce. It's got currant jelly and stuff in it,

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Speaker 4: really good sauce. And I'm making cherry fritters with a

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Speaker 4: prey leaned squirrel and hickory nuts on the top of it,

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Speaker 4: and then little pepper's on the side just because man.

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Speaker 2: That makes me hungry just thinking about it.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: Is this different from what you cooked last year?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Last year we went with a called it to a squirrel,

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Speaker 4: Loretta I did. Uh yeah, I think you were one

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Speaker 4: of the judges. It was on the uh steak I

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Speaker 4: am sauce basically going the squirrel eggs. Yeah, with mince

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Speaker 4: meat tried pies.

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Speaker 2: That is incredible. How'd you go over with this?

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Speaker 1: And what's the process of trialing there to get it

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Speaker 1: going well?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 1: This year's recipe?

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Speaker 4: I was sitting in a deer stand, got bored, started

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Speaker 4: looking up wild game sauces and That's what I came

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Speaker 4: up with, was that that, And then I've been wanting

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Speaker 4: to do the pritters. We did the mince meat last year,

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Speaker 4: and just just researching old game recipes and stuff, something

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Speaker 4: a little bit different.

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Speaker 2: All right, this is something I'm asking everybody. Will you

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Speaker 2: set us some aside that we can come back and

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Speaker 2: try it a little bit?

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Speaker 4: We sure will.

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Speaker 2: Yes, all right, that's that's proof right there. We'll get

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Speaker 2: you something.

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Speaker 4: I actually, actually I've got a pot of groundhauled chili

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Speaker 2: Yeah, trail ballooney really.

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Speaker 4: Made from brown whistle pig chili.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, we got to try that too. What you

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Speaker 2: got there?

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Speaker 4: We're testing the fritters.

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Speaker 2: Is it hot?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to get my almond right, tell me what?

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Speaker 2: Tell me what all is in there?

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Speaker 4: Just a flour, sugar, bacon now I'm Michigan sour cherries,

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Speaker 4: a little almond to jazz it up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Now, my grandpa when he took a bite of something,

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Speaker 1: you know, he liked it.

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Speaker 2: If he said, you know what, this tastes like. It

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Speaker 2: tastes like more that that good.

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Speaker 1: We'll get you a full deal with everything going with

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Speaker 1: that's good man, Thank you, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Brand I'm the I'm the baker.

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Speaker 4: Was at a flea market. I thought of you, said,

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Speaker 4: I read verse they in. Now I know you know

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Speaker 4: this guy is about country boys, the old swimming holes

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Speaker 4: pull them in the last I'd like you to have

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Speaker 4: it and that it is. Yeah, every time when I

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Speaker 4: read it, I said, I God, give this to princip.

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Speaker 2: That is so fall for you.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 2: You know you can't believe anything it says. I don't

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Speaker 4: Anybody good, ugger we got we got two marines with

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Speaker 6: So Kennie Murphy, heygree what is happening?

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Speaker 1: We're trying to get her squirrel stuff ready.

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Speaker 2: I don't this fella needs no introduction.

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Speaker 1: He is an absolute whirlwind of small game killery. Name it,

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Speaker 1: he hunts it, squirrels, rabbits, whatever. What are y'all cooking today, Kevin?

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Speaker 9: We are cooking.

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Speaker 7: We've got rabbit gumbowl for the crowd to have, and

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Speaker 7: we have dirty rice.

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Speaker 9: Squirrel Vinnet's pepper jelly mayo.

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Speaker 7: And we have squirrel gumbow. Is that right, Jeff?

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Speaker 9: For the judges?

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Speaker 2: Oh very nice? Now whose recipes.

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Speaker 1: Is mister chef?

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Speaker 2: Jeff Chef Jeff. Now are they from Kentucky too?

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Speaker 7: He's from all over.

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Speaker 1: He's obviously wanted by the law somewhere, so we're not

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Speaker 1: gonna narrow down where he's from.

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Speaker 2: Both of these boys are from all over.

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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna tell you where they.

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Speaker 9: But we know where they're at.

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Speaker 1: And that's the World Championship Squirrel cook Off.

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Speaker 2: Now did they did they compete last year?

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Speaker 4: Chef Jeff was the one man show last year, and

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Speaker 4: so we brought some kitchen help. I'm just an ornament.

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Speaker 2: I got you.

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Speaker 1: One thing I noticed right off when I've seen Kevin

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Speaker 2: How long is that gonna last? Well till it lasts.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome, man. We'll save us some gumbo. We want

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Speaker 1: to try something you start then, all right, brother, thank you.

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Speaker 1: What's the name of y'all's team.

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Speaker 10: Grand Prayer Grillers?

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Speaker 2: What's your name?

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Speaker 5: Nick?

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Speaker 6: Nick?

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Speaker 2: Law, Nick, and Matt? Where y'all from Central Organs? Okay?

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Speaker 1: All right, our in prairie, sir and pray?

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Speaker 2: All right, we're talking about squirrels now, but it won't

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Speaker 2: be long. Y'all be thinking about ducks right a little

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Speaker 2: bit first.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, all right, your equal opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Equal opportunity, y'all like you. If it's in the woods,

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Speaker 2: we'll try to you. That's all right. Tell me, uh,

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Speaker 2: is this y'all's first competition? We came here last year

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Speaker 2: the first time, got nine.

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Speaker 1: The nice yeah, yep, nice, okay, ninth place, that's pretty spoiled.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me what you cook today? We got like

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Speaker 2: a deep fried.

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Speaker 10: Squirrel burrito and crowning savi. It's the side squirrel chips

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Speaker 10: on the side, Yeah, squirrel tilla chips.

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Speaker 1: Spottilla chips.

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Speaker 2: Is this your first competent or the second competition?

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Speaker 10: Yes, sir, we did we did last year, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 10: scrappy sabch crappy Savicia.

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Speaker 2: It's been frozen parrisise ago. You're good to go. All right,

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Speaker 2: I love it. Let's go over and see what y'all doing. Now,

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Speaker 2: you all right, little in the wild game.

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Speaker 10: Since the pot takes no prisoners, so you can make

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Speaker 10: anything you cook, attendance.

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Speaker 6: Youe in here.

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Speaker 2: It's good stuff. So we're just browning these a little bit,

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Speaker 2: and that's the pot.

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Speaker 10: And then we're gonna pre shure to cook them and

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Speaker 10: debone all the meat and then we'll make our taco

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Speaker 10: burrito mixed from that.

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Speaker 2: Man, that is absolutely I wish you could smell.

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Speaker 1: You could smell what if that smells like right now,

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Speaker 1: you'd be crawling.

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Speaker 2: Through the all ingredients be prepared.

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Speaker 1: We'll just flash for those burritos real quick. They won't

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Speaker 1: they won't be in there. They're not gonna be drenched,

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just as quick flash.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: So we're just browning these little bit with some onions

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Speaker 10: and seasoning oil, and then we'll put them some plotles

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Speaker 10: of broth in there and debone it make burritos.

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Speaker 2: Did y'all come up with this this year? Or is

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Speaker 2: this an old recipe? We did? Uh, we did those

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Speaker 10: We did a similar recipe last year, but we've uh,

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Speaker 10: we've improved upon it since.

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Speaker 2: He's for our kids. Yeah, that's how we got to.

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Speaker 7: We do everything.

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Speaker 1: Dear taco, squirrel, rabbit whatever.

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Speaker 2: Now is this a secret recipe?

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Speaker 10: Oh man, we'll share this with anybody, all right, tell

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Speaker 10: me how you cook. We just we used some of

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Speaker 10: Malcolm's spg the killer hogs on here, little old little onions.

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Speaker 10: You can't mess up sorry that way, and then well, uh,

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Speaker 10: it's we're gonna cook her down and pressure cook it

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Speaker 10: and de bone it, and then we'll add a little

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Speaker 10: more season than after that.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Ring the dinner bell loud because I want to come

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Speaker 1: back down.

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Speaker 2: In a minute. So with it me.

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Speaker 10: We're making our chips perfect, We're make a loose we'll

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Speaker 2: I'm on, Matt, thank you. That's gonna be good. All

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Speaker 2: right now? If I remember right, hear me? You guys

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Speaker 2: were part of the team in the Warned the World

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Speaker 2: Championship last.

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Speaker 1: Year, Is that right?

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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I was with these guys behind me last year.

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Speaker 7: We decided we break it up this year, trying to

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Speaker 7: get first and second in the state of Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: Somebody I talked to send me the recipe is that you.

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Speaker 2: No, I wasn't here last year.

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Speaker 9: This is my first time he invited me out this year.

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Speaker 2: So all right, where are y'all from? Horny, Kentucky, Worthy Kentucky.

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Speaker 6: Yees? Sir?

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Speaker 2: Tell me about these squirrels.

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Speaker 7: Here, Well, most of them are killed by my son.

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Speaker 7: Them were killed by day his son, Little Eddie Squirrels

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Speaker 7: Killer Simmons.

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Speaker 2: He busted quite a few.

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Speaker 1: Love of course, it's a recipe, a new recipe or

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Speaker 1: something old that y'all had for river.

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Speaker 2: Now, so we're gonna do it, just likely to have

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Speaker 2: it go to my house.

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Speaker 7: Fry up squirrel some ash tag squirrel gravy traditional.

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Speaker 2: I like it. Well, nothing one you eat them? Yes, sir,

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Speaker 2: that's a last job.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the recipe that y'all been using. That

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Speaker 1: you've been using ad hole? Is this from you, grandpa?

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Speaker 1: How you learned to do it when you were young

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Speaker 1: or what? What's what's your history? Who's eating squirrels with cooking?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's pretty much how we've always done it, Cry

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Speaker 7: them up, have it a little gravy.

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Speaker 1: Let's tell me what's your process of getting the perfair

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Speaker 1: and in front?

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Speaker 7: Well, for right now we're trying to pick sure and

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Speaker 7: find the best little pieces of leg and everything like

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Speaker 2: Do it the old electric skilling, just like mom.

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Speaker 1: Used to do. Ah, I got we all save us

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Speaker 1: some Yes, sir, let me son back.

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Speaker 2: We went back to eat the same Absolutely, we sure will.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Hey, we're here with the squirrel mafia.

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Buck snort, squirrel ma buck snort, the squirrel mafia. What

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Speaker 2: are you cooking today, Curtis, I guess we can tell it.

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Speaker 2: It's too late.

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Speaker 9: Now we're cooking squirrel gumbo, and then we're also going

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Speaker 9: to do squirrel boot and balls.

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Speaker 2: Come on with it. Where are you boys from?

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Speaker 9: Uh in northwest Arkansas? We're from uh Rogers Faetteville area.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got this. You got the home field,

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Speaker 2: advanced fields manage, got local squirrels, taste rights. Everybody tell

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Speaker 2: me what this guy's doing back your line.

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Speaker 9: He's prepping some of the you know, we get eighty

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Speaker 9: percent squirrel, you can have twenty percent something else in

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Speaker 9: that ought to be sausage.

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Speaker 2: So well, it's gumbo. It's gotta bere. Can we come

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Speaker 2: around there kind and see what's going on? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You can you see inside these pot walk me through

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Speaker 1: the process.

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Speaker 2: This is gonna come out after this to It's not

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Speaker 2: a secret in this life. No, it's not a secret.

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Speaker 2: It's a regular gumbo.

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Speaker 9: We're gonna start with a butter and make a roof,

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Speaker 9: and then we've got all fresh vegetables, you know, all

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Speaker 9: and uh, and then we've got squirrel. We're gonna pressure

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Speaker 1: So is this a recipe that y'all came up for

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Speaker 1: this or is this what you've been cooking forever?

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Speaker 2: It's just it's just what you cook.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, when you make gumbo, it's not really a recipe.

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Speaker 9: Cook it in the path.

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Speaker 2: So, man, it's a and gumbo. I always tell people.

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Speaker 2: They say, what you put in the gumbo?

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Speaker 10: And I said, whatever I got in my eyespots.

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Speaker 9: Whatever's left over. Yeah, it's whatever we got. Well, so

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Speaker 9: we're serving. We're making a big batch for the crowd too.

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Speaker 9: So it's gonna have squirrel chicken sausage, you know, whole

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Speaker 9: whole deal.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna ask you the same thing we've

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Speaker 2: Y'all put us some back so we can come back

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Speaker 2: and have it sounthing.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah you bet, yeah you heard it here, folks, Thank.

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Speaker 2: For that homemade ribulogue that I make too. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: how long you've been making that? I don't know, thirty years.

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Speaker 2: We all have the King's work out.

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Speaker 1: I got the Kings work out, all right, good deal,

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Speaker 1: squirrel buck, but snore.

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Speaker 2: And squirrel I like. And then comes squirrel Camp this year.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, squirrel Camp cut that part out.

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Speaker 2: But we don't want nobody else, say Curtis, I've been.

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Speaker 3: Doing this a while, right, yes, yes, uh, I think

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Speaker 3: we started cooking in this after we met Joe Wilson,

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Speaker 3: maybe the third or fourth year that he been having.

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Speaker 2: This opposition, and uh, we cook.

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Speaker 9: In it every year since that. What the whole life started?

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Speaker 9: About the World Championship.

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Speaker 2: I knew about to lie.

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Speaker 9: I was not into the first one and when we

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Speaker 9: lied on national television.

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Speaker 2: But I jumped in after that because I liked the life.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. I can't make a lie, I'm true. We

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Speaker 2: had to make Joe Wilson legiting it again. You know,

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Speaker 2: that's good.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back.

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Speaker 2: That's good. That's good. That's gonna be real dark before

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Speaker 2: you get right. Yeah, this is gonna take about thirty

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Speaker 2: minutes to get this right. Tell me what I'm meaning

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Speaker 2: here man.

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Speaker 7: All right, that's a squirrel gumbo.

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Speaker 2: Uh, you know, rabbit gumbo for you know forever, buddy.

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Speaker 2: Try uh dirty rice with mercy livers, a little bit

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Speaker 2: of homemade hot sauce.

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Speaker 3: Uh, some scallions sliced up nice that way they curl and.

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Speaker 2: Get a little extra pop. Ho leak out. This is good?

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Speaker 5: Good?

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Speaker 2: Why'd you like it?

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Speaker 1: I've been on a cave man died for about four weeks.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm on leave here like i've been on a

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Speaker 9: fat man.

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Speaker 7: That you should.

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Speaker 2: This is good. Yeah, this is a really good Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much, sir, Yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, curly, sir, tell me about what this is here.

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Speaker 1: I know it's left over and then there's not a

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Speaker 1: whole lot left good.

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Speaker 8: So I have candy bacon that I made with my

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Speaker 8: smoked sugar maple tubernano smoked grass sugar and then spicy

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Speaker 8: squirrel and acolate chips.

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Speaker 5: In the cookie.

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Speaker 2: Spicy squirrel and chocolate chips.

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Speaker 8: Yes, sir, you gotta have some bacon.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you always gotta have a break to have bacon.

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Speaker 2: If I could get that lid, I would smoke it,

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Speaker 2: that is absolutely so.

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Speaker 8: I make the smoke sugar by hand process that I

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Speaker 8: could smoke it for twenty four hours.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you keep dogging. I'm gonna keep eating.

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Speaker 5: You can keep eating.

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Speaker 8: I have seven flavors of salt, cherrywood.

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Speaker 5: Hickory, apple wood, mesquite, pecan, oak, and whiskey barrel. I

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Speaker 5: have a maple turbern on, a smoked raw sugar, yeah,

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Speaker 5: a bourbon barrels smoked Corse grown pepper which I actually

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Speaker 5: used on the bacon, and a trio which is a

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Speaker 5: fine salt pepper and garlic glint.

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Speaker 1: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: This is awesome, man. What's your prize? The How long

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Speaker 2: is you're taking to cook this bacon, y'all? Guess you're

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Speaker 2: slow cooking it over.

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Speaker 8: I put it on the grill.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what tim whatever? Five hundred degrees?

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Speaker 8: I can't tell you.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea.

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Speaker 8: I just cooked on the grill. Okay, everything was cooked

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Speaker 8: on the grill.

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Speaker 2: This is absolutely wonderful. I appreciate y'all being here.

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Speaker 1: Y'all, well, when you came in twenty fourth and it's

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Speaker 1: the absolute best position to be in because you get

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Speaker 1: a truck load of goodies.

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Speaker 2: Joe Wilson and them.

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Speaker 1: This is the absolutely the greatest thing ever appreciate y'all.

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Speaker 8: This is so much fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, thank you for Branny Sez. Yes, Bailey,

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Speaker 1: you ready for some bacon?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe was here.

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Speaker 10: I'm sorry about Joe.

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Speaker 1: Joe wasn't here when when the bacon was here? So

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Speaker 1: Joe's Joe's and like a shark feeding the friends, you

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