WEBVTT - Ep. 210: On The Road Again 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.639 And way off you can hear fire trucks coming and 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:11.119 I just remember when one of the firemen says and 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:15.040 he said, that's a great idea, but you're gonna need 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:16.000 to put that fire out. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.720 On this episode, we're going on tour, a meat Eater 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:24.400 live tour. That is, we're hitting ten cities in an 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:29.200 epic thirteen day bus tour. No, I'm not kidding, and 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.720 I want to give you a sampling of one of 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.000 our shows. On this one, you're gonna hear from Steve Vanella, 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.839 Giannis Putellis, and myself. You're gonna hear some music and 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.199 some great stories. Hop on the bus with us as 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:46.120 we hit the American West. I really doubt that you're 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:48.560 gonna want to miss this one. Who else is standing 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.280 up long hair, long haired California hippie. 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:57.160 Yeah, I know who you are. We talk about y'all 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:57.840 all the time. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.160 My name is Clay Knukem, and this is the Bear 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:15.200 Grease Podcast, where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant, search 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.959 for insight and unlikely places, and where we'll tell the 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.119 story of Americans who live their lives close to the land. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:28.839 Presented by f h F Gear, American made, purpose built 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.560 hunting and fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:33.319 as the place. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:43.759 As we explore, how are. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.000 They handling the knife situation tonight? 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.600 I think they're taking them, take them and label them. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.640 I think, so, okay, it's friendly. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:52.880 Maybe they'll have more than customer service. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:02:02.840 Good customer service. Gotta beat seventy five. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.279 Seventy five Sacramento, seventy five. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:07.360 Knives, one bear spray, and three guns. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.880 We're in Salt Lake City, Utah. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.800 We've been in California for three days and the security 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.079 is checking people at the door. A couple of nights 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:20.360 ago in Sacramento, people brought in a bunch of knives. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.359 I'm backstage with Steve Ranella and I ask him if 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.920 he gets nervous before he goes out in front of 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:27.680 a bunch of people. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.600 Steve, how do you feel before these shows? I feel 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.560 nervous for you, Clay. That's not what I wanted to hear. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.799 Do you get nervous at all when you do your monologue? 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:39.160 Yeah? 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.440 Man, you real nervous, do you? 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:45.080 Yeah? But it dissipates every time, you know. But like 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.520 when I'm thinking about kind of like how the material 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.680 is going to go, I can't decide until the day. Oh, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.840 like if I sat side a time aside, I can't 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:58.000 commit till the day. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:02:58.520 Oh, so it. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:02:59.840 Feels very last minute. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.120 But if I decided a month earlier, I wouldn't pay 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.240 attention to my decision anyways. Yeah, so I only get like, 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.359 I only get clarity about it at the end. Yeah, 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.240 and I'm real nervous because I hadn't even thought about 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:10.959 it till that day. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.320 I get nervous right before. I felt real solid until that. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.720 You know, I never really expected to be on tour. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.440 I always thought it would be the grand old Opry 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.000 call and hoping to get DIBs on my original guitar ballads. 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.560 But this ain't Nashville. This is the Meat Eater Live Tour. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.880 I'd like to invite you along to get a taste 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.680 of the show. I'm opening up with a song and 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:37.920 I hope you can't tell it, but I'm as nervous 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.400 as a cat, and I think it's important to note 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:44.160 that I'm wearing a pale yellow pearl snap button up 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.200 shirt with two embroidered roosters on the lapel. Misty would 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.920 call this a bold fashion move. This show is starting, 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:53.120 Let's go. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.600 Yeah, it's just a little nerve wracking. 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:57.920 Like this gun fighter. 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:36.960 Old Yeah, this is skilly. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.280 Good evening, everybody. My name's klay Ukelem. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:29.800 I'm from the great state of Arkansas. We're gonna have 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.839 a great time tonight. Very happy you guys are here. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:37.880 We're gonna invite Phil Taylor, the Southman out and Mark o'kill. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.960 You guys may know this song. It's called old Slufah. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.320 If you know what, you can sing along oak classic. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.839 Him on the mount, don't. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:56.680 Tell me what you see, fair tracks, fair tracks. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:57.640 Looking back at me. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.280 Don't get dropped the spot before it's too late. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.520 There's got a little big and he's painted boars. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:12.679 Okay, Oh he's big around the middle and he's gone 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.560 across the Frock, running ninety miles. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.320 Now we're taking thirty feet of jump. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.960 Hein never been come, he ain't never been treed. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:28.600 Con bull, save a second bird. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.200 I said up my money and I bought me some pease, 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.800 start amaging honey, way up in the trees. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.840 I cut down that tree, up my hunt. It's all 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.039 gone full soup foot. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:50.720 Done, eat himself at home. Oh he's sticking. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:51.799 Around the middle land. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:56.000 He's gone across the Frock running tiny miles an hour. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:57.760 We're taking thirty. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:58.359 Feet of jump. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:06.360 He never been da ever been three Sompule says about 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.719 like I'll tell you. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:52.600 Yelling, yell when else come out out of bloody be 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.640 river flows over, so where can go? 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.840 Well they step up the holler and would put him 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:03.840 then well. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.040 Shoot him in the bottom. 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.280 Just a listen to hill. 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:15.880 He's being around the minute, latystup front running ninety miles 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.120 an hour, were taken thirty feet of jumping. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.400 Never been calling, he hain't never been treated. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.440 Tom Bold say he's. 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:43.160 Like meat, Bill Taylor and marko'kill. Yes, we're opening with 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.920 music was a solid plan. I mean, who doesn't like 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.000 live music? And who knew that Phil could rock the 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.520 harmonica and sing like that. The heart and soul of 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.200 the show is to bring the crowd close to the 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.960 metaphorical campfire of the Meteor crew for the evening and 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:00.960 celebrate our way of life. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:02.480 The tour is also. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:06.760 About Steve's new outdoor cookbook. Soon after I finished my song, 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.960 Steve Vanella opens the show with some. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:11.720 Photos and stories from the cookbook. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.240 This one is about when Steve had to haul a 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.360 roasted pig in a new York Cab In. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.280 The book, I'm telling us a story of a particular 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:26.840 pig roast that I had in Brooklyn, New York. I 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.240 was living there with my wife and we had we 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.880 had an apartment, and we had all these people above us, 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:37.559 but we had access to this little garden area. And 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.400 one day me and my body, who was a chef, 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:44.520 we wanted to do a Hawaiian luile there, and we 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.719 went up to my buddy's dairy farm north of the 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.880 city at all kinds of wood and started building up 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.679 all our supplies, and we eventually built We dig a 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:56.079 pit seven feet long and three feet wide, and we 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:01.319 just chisel this pit into this little backyard area and dig, dig, dig, 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.240 And I would have thought someone would have called the 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.319 cops based on the hole, because I mean, I look 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:08.840 like you were going to bury a person in there. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:10.679 We were actually laughing about that. And we got the 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.480 hole down real deep, and then it came time for 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.360 the pig rolls. We had one hundred and fifty pounds 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.160 pigs standing by it with a bunch of sacks of 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:21.719 ice on it, and we started just burning all this 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.880 firewood we had. We're gonna burn it till we had, 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:29.080 you know, eighteen twenty inches of oak charcoal in that fire. Well, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.040 we kind of screwed up, and pretty soon it looked 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:37.959 like it looked like a scene from Bagdad Bagging the 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:42.320 early two thousands. I mean, just black smoke going up 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.720 through all these buildings, and way off you can hear 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.319 fire trucks coming. And at first we don't even mention 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:49.839 it to each other, you know, I'm like, man, I 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.040 don't sound good. And they kind of get more and 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.480 more around and more and more around, and pretty soon 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.040 not only are the sirens close, but we got lots 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.000 of firefighters coming through the apartment. 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.719 And we get in the back and I'm explaining to 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:09.719 the fireman what it is, you know, what's going on here. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.960 And I'll always remember when one of the firemen says, 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.920 during my explanation, and he seemed like honestly open to 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:22.120 the explanation, and he said, that's a great idea, but 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:23.559 you're gonna need to put that fire out. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.760 So we still have this pig. The next morning, we 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:30.600 get up and we put the pig in a cab. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.360 And take it to this other body of ours restaurant, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.679 and we think that his big old restaurant like he's 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.760 got a commercial restaurant. This pig will fit in the 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.640 it'll fit in the oven, but it doesn't fit in 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.440 the ovens. And then we gotta start cutting the pig up, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.959 and we're like cooking part of it till it's like 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.640 done enough, take it out, put another part in. Get 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.560 that done enough, because we're having we're still having all 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.959 these people over to have this big party. And we 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.920 eventually get it done, and we had ninety some people 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.720 come to our pig roast that wasn't really a pig rolls. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.240 It's just a regular in the oven pig rolls. And 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:08.040 my wife is real pregnant, real unhappy with me. And 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.280 at this point, I've been scrambling for days with a 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:15.120 stupid pig, including making that big fire and getting all smoky, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.480 then getting all greasy, and then like partying with all 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.319 the grease. And I remember climbing in bed that night, 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:28.640 and I remember her saying, please tell me you did 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.400 not just get in this bed without taking a shower. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.480 And I want to point out that the guys that 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.280 are coming out right now are showered and clean. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:42.080 Keep it going for Steve. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:49.280 After Steve's opening monologue, Spencer newharth Our mc calls the 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:50.880 whole team to the stage. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.600 We're going to have a little story time. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.839 Next, we have everybody's favorite hillbilly. He came all the 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:07.640 way from Arkansas. Makes some noise for Clay Newcombe. And 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.640 last we have the man of many nicknames. He's the 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:15.240 Latvian Eagle, the Latvian Lover. Long time, Yanni, give it 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:16.880 up for Yannis poo tell us. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.280 Steve asked us if we'd tell a story about cooking 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.600 wild game. Here's Yannis, who tell us with a story 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.599 about a recent family turkey hunt, what they ate and 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.599 how they cook their turkey. On the screen is a 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.120 picture of Yanni's daughter with a big gobbler. And by 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.480 the way, Yanni's wearing a coonskin cap. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.280 This is my oldest daughter Aine, And man, I was 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.520 really happy that this is just last week. I was 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.360 really happy that we had a couple successful hunts last 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.560 week because I knew how to give this presentation coming up, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.640 and I took a lot of pictures. My girls think 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.440 I'm professional photo taker when it comes to dead animals. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:12:59.880 They're right. 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.319 And I thought I chose just an absolutely beautiful picture 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.680 of my daughter, so I sent a photo of someone 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.760 had taken from the crowd back to my wife a 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.280 couple days ago, and then she showed it to fin know, well, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.200 let me tell you, I chose the wrong picture, dude. 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.120 I mean I got it. Oh my gosh, I got 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.880 the earfull like you've never at this point. It's if 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.000 you're gonna show anything of me, I need to look 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:24.679 at it first. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:25.400 Wow. 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:30.640 Okay, but no, I'm always gauging how much my girls 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.199 actually like hunting. What like the real reasons are like, 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.120 are they authentically into it? Are they into it just 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:40.120 because they want to make their dad proud? Or there's 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.400 a little bit of competition between the two sisters, So 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.160 are they just doing it because they want to better 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:49.040 their sister? And right after she shot this bird, it's 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:50.679 still flopping in front of us a little bit, and 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.640 she's looking at me and she's like, man, you really 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.559 just don't feel that recoil when you're shooting at a 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.679 real animal. And I thought, man, that's only something that 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.840 a hunter that's really excited about what just happens says. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.640 Right when, like you shoot a gun and you don't 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.280 even feel it go off, it's called recoil. Finally used 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.320 to be called kickback for a long time in our house, 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.840 Mabel's just about had enough. I has killed a bird now, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:15.480 so Mabel's kind of up on the gun. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:17.439 And what I like about this I love folks to 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.960 see it. But the array of footwear is a stylish yeah, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:26.480 oh yeah. Where you got one girl running chucks and 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.040 then over yonder Yanni's boots. Got Yanni's daughter's got like 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.000 three foot tall muck boots. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:34.840 Mike in Montana. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.560 I don't know, maybe it might be like that here too, 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.400 But in Montana, those kids wearing mutt boots ten months 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:39.920 out of the year. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:41.880 I mean, it's just it's just normal attire. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.800 But not long after this pictures taken, Mabel and I 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.760 were off by ourselves a little. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:48.920 Bit and she's she's fade. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:49.120 You know. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.920 It's been three days out there and short nights, long days, 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.800 lots of hiking, getting drug around by dad through the 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:56.600 Turkey woods. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.440 And she looks at me and she goes pop them. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.800 I really want a turkey, but I don't want to 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:10.000 walk anymore, and I want to go home, and I'm like, baby, no, 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:10.600 I don't know what. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.400 To tell you, but you just got to make a decision. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:13.600 On what's more important. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.560 You know, if you want to just you know, throw 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:16.920 the towel in, or if you want to try to 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.920 get a turkey. Now we had some turkeys later that 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.080 we knew where there were some. So I talked her 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:26.000 into going out for one more hunt, and here we go. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.520 She she got her She got herself for a first bird. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:37.280 And you know, turn your meat into food, and uh, 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.240 take your kids hunting, especially if they're girls. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:46.520 Right on, that was a good story, Jannis. The crowd 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:52.080 loved it. Now it's my turn. I decided to give 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.040 a full timeline of the newcom history of eating wild game. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.040 This is some deep history, Clay. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:15:59.920 You're ready to let her up? 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.480 Yeah, I think so. So the storyteller has to wear 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:08.240 the coonskin hat, all right. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.880 I'll see this photo up here. This is my family 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:16.160 around two thousand and three. This photo is one of 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.640 the best depictions in the nukemb photo album of our 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.720 socioeconomic status about that time in our life. That when 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.520 I told my wife that I was using this photo 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.880 all across the country as the entry point to tell 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.440 about our family and the way we've eaten wild game, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.360 I was promptly scolded as she said, this is like 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.760 the most embarrassing photo that we own. But this is 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.760 my lovely wife, Misty. These are my two daughters, Willow 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.080 and River. Misty's actually pregnant in this photo. And we're 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.600 going to have our fourth son, our third son, and 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.360 then we'd have another son. But I have a wonderful family, 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:54.400 truly do. And I want to I want to walk 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.520 you through kind of the the arc of wild game 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.000 in our house because I grew up in a hunting family. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.720 It was in the cold cultural background of the newcoms 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.479 to be hunters. But my dad was born in nineteen 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.399 forty eight and that was kind of the ascension of 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:14.720 America's economic status, so he didn't want to eat wild game, 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.200 like it wasn't cool to eat wild game and so, 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:20.480 but he still wanted to hunt, and he loved to hunt, 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.600 and he did hunt. He was a very serious hunter. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.720 I grew up just never knowing a life outside of hunting. 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.160 But there was a strange missing piece that we didn't 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.600 eat a lot of it. My dad was very diligent 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.680 to take care of all the meat and give it 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.359 away to people, which he did. But it's kind of weird, 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.239 you know, And I always thought it was weird too, 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.920 and so when Mistery and I got married, I was like, 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.760 we're gonna eat wild game. And as you can tell 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.000 by this photo, we didn't have much money. We needed 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.000 to eat wild game that I was killing and Phil 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.840 go to the next slide. The next lide bumps up 0:17:55.880 --> 0:18:00.359 about ten years. This is what people in our kinsas 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.120 do when you take before first day of school photos 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:08.320 for your kids. Grab up all your best animals, line 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.760 them up, bring the kids in, take a beautiful photo. 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:18.480 This is a Willow River bear and shepherd. The mule 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:22.640 is Elie May. It's a wonder that I'm here today. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.840 After riding that mule, Elie Mace tried to kill me 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.320 three times. Ran off worst. The worst thing that a 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.560 mule can do is run off. It's not bucking or 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.719 kicking you gotta worry about. It's when you're on them 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.040 and they like just out of control run off. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.760 That's what she did. That's eli Ma. The two dogs. 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.119 This dog in the front, this is newcom Zoe's Arc 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.000 Bluff Creek Fern, one of the finest hounds to ever 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.760 Treecoon and the Ozarks. The dog in the back, his 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:51.399 name's Jedi. I was once with a guy named Warner Glenn, 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.960 an old cowboy in southeast Arizona. 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:54.919 Y'all know Warner. 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.520 One time mister Warner, I was with him, was talking 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.240 to him about his dogs. He says, I asked a 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.320 very pointy question, how is that dog? 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:03.280 What does it do? 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.159 And he said he said, well, he said clad, I 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.280 wouldn't say it in front of him, but that dog 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.639 is not very good, son, And I wouldn't say it 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.560 in front of Jed, but Jed's not very good. So 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.840 that's Jed, the not very good coon dog. Sad story 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.000 started to bring the house down. Ferns dead. 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:22.720 She passed away last fall. 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.640 But these are my children. We raised them on wild game, 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:33.040 truly did. I told them from the time of their birth. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.720 I preached to them that wild game was the rocket 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.240 fuel of planet Earth. The healthiest, most sustainable, most most 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.520 intelligent way to live your life was to eat wild game. 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.760 I preached this to him, like literally, just on the 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.320 pulput at my home for a. 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.600 Decade, and they didn't know any better. 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:55.560 They would go to people's houses and smell beef cooking 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.359 and be like, what smells so gross? 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:57.600 You know? 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:59.639 They like embarrass us and stuff like this. 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:01.320 Tell them about your repertoire. 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.200 Well, the Big Five. Yeah, so we raised them on 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:08.040 the Big Five. The Big Five was all ground meat, 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:13.120 and it was chili, tacos, burgers, spaghetti, and meat loaf. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.719 Those kids, if you stretch those out, man, you can 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:20.640 get like a month's worth of meals. And we ground everything. 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.200 I mean, I ain't scared to grind a backstrap. 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:24.360 I mean I did it so much. 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.760 We were young, We had careers, jobs, families, My wife work. 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.720 My wife has a PhD to this day. She was 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.760 in college back on that last photo, but so she 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.560 was a working woman. We needed to grind, We needed 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:41.840 easy food. But so the arc of the story kind 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.760 of kind of peaks about right here in this photo. 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:48.520 About twenty thirteen. 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.000 I think you, guys, of all people, will identify with 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.360 what I'm about to say about twenty thirteen. This guy 0:20:55.480 --> 0:21:00.280 right here, Steve Ranella, came in to my world because 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:02.440 he was a friend, because I just I watched him, 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:04.680 I listened to him, was influenced by him. 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.440 And and this this is not like supposed to be 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:08.359 cute or funny, It's. 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:08.840 Just the truth. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.399 He told the world that eating wild game was cool 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:16.200 and that and that we were actually the smart people, 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:18.600 and it kind of kind of goes back to like 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:21.159 what I had heard my whole life, that like, this 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:24.760 is not what the cool kids are eating. I stood 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:26.399 on the pulpit of my home and was like, this 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.400 is what we're gonna do. This is how we're gonna live. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:32.760 And then meat Eater came along and validated the whole thing, 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:34.879 and I was like, I told you guys, we were 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:36.000 cool this whole time. 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:37.080 You know. 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:39.280 I really give a lot of credit to Steve. He 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.680 changed the game. He changed, he changed the narrative on 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:46.760 hunting and it and it it won't. I mean it 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:48.440 truly was. 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.240 It truly was something remarkable and now we're all a 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:53.359 part of that story. Go ahead and flipped to the 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:55.760 next live Okay these Yeah, we've been showing some pictures 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.040 of the kids. This is Shepherd. This is my youngest son, 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:00.600 a great kid. Go to the go to the one 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.240 before this is River my daughter. She killed that bear 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:05.840 with her bow. And then the picture before this this 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:07.920 is bear John Newcombe, my son. 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:10.200 But uh, is that the neighbors fence? 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:11.880 Yeah? 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:15.080 It was real close to the neighbor's fence. That's right. 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:17.480 Thank you guys. 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.680 The next section of the show is probably the highlight 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:26.000 of the evening, at least for me. 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:29.080 We're gonna have a barred ol hooton contest. 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:32.680 The winner gets the genuine coonskin hat that Giannis and 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.440 I have been wearing. This hat was made from a 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.040 combination of Steve and my coon hides. 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:41.120