Speaker 1: And way off you can hear fire trucks coming and
Speaker 1: I just remember when one of the firemen says and
Speaker 1: he said, that's a great idea, but you're gonna need
Speaker 1: to put that fire out.
Speaker 2: On this episode, we're going on tour, a meat Eater
Speaker 2: live tour. That is, we're hitting ten cities in an
Speaker 2: epic thirteen day bus tour. No, I'm not kidding, and
Speaker 2: I want to give you a sampling of one of
Speaker 2: our shows. On this one, you're gonna hear from Steve Vanella,
Speaker 2: Giannis Putellis, and myself. You're gonna hear some music and
Speaker 2: some great stories. Hop on the bus with us as
Speaker 2: we hit the American West. I really doubt that you're
Speaker 2: gonna want to miss this one. Who else is standing
Speaker 2: up long hair, long haired California hippie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know who you are. We talk about y'all
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 2: My name is Clay Knukem, and this is the Bear
Speaker 2: Grease Podcast, where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant, search
Speaker 2: for insight and unlikely places, and where we'll tell the
Speaker 2: story of Americans who live their lives close to the land.
Speaker 2: Presented by f h F Gear, American made, purpose built
Speaker 2: hunting and fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged
Speaker 2: as the place.
Speaker 4: As we explore, how are.
Speaker 3: They handling the knife situation tonight?
Speaker 5: I think they're taking them, take them and label them.
Speaker 5: I think, so, okay, it's friendly.
Speaker 3: Maybe they'll have more than customer service.
Speaker 5: Good customer service. Gotta beat seventy five.
Speaker 6: Seventy five Sacramento, seventy five.
Speaker 7: Knives, one bear spray, and three guns.
Speaker 3: We're in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Speaker 2: We've been in California for three days and the security
Speaker 2: is checking people at the door. A couple of nights
Speaker 2: ago in Sacramento, people brought in a bunch of knives.
Speaker 2: I'm backstage with Steve Ranella and I ask him if
Speaker 2: he gets nervous before he goes out in front of
Speaker 2: a bunch of people.
Speaker 3: Steve, how do you feel before these shows? I feel
Speaker 3: nervous for you, Clay. That's not what I wanted to hear.
Speaker 3: Do you get nervous at all when you do your monologue?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Man, you real nervous, do you?
Speaker 10: Yeah? But it dissipates every time, you know. But like
Speaker 10: when I'm thinking about kind of like how the material
Speaker 10: is going to go, I can't decide until the day. Oh,
Speaker 10: like if I sat side a time aside, I can't
Speaker 10: commit till the day.
Speaker 4: Oh, so it.
Speaker 3: Feels very last minute.
Speaker 10: But if I decided a month earlier, I wouldn't pay
Speaker 10: attention to my decision anyways. Yeah, so I only get like,
Speaker 10: I only get clarity about it at the end. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and I'm real nervous because I hadn't even thought about
Speaker 10: it till that day.
Speaker 3: I get nervous right before. I felt real solid until that.
Speaker 3: You know, I never really expected to be on tour.
Speaker 2: I always thought it would be the grand old Opry
Speaker 2: call and hoping to get DIBs on my original guitar ballads.
Speaker 3: But this ain't Nashville. This is the Meat Eater Live Tour.
Speaker 2: I'd like to invite you along to get a taste
Speaker 2: of the show. I'm opening up with a song and
Speaker 2: I hope you can't tell it, but I'm as nervous
Speaker 2: as a cat, and I think it's important to note
Speaker 2: that I'm wearing a pale yellow pearl snap button up
Speaker 2: shirt with two embroidered roosters on the lapel. Misty would
Speaker 2: call this a bold fashion move. This show is starting,
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a little nerve wracking.
Speaker 1: Like this gun fighter.
Speaker 5: Old Yeah, this is skilly.
Speaker 3: Good evening, everybody. My name's klay Ukelem.
Speaker 2: I'm from the great state of Arkansas. We're gonna have
Speaker 2: a great time tonight. Very happy you guys are here.
Speaker 2: We're gonna invite Phil Taylor, the Southman out and Mark o'kill.
Speaker 3: You guys may know this song. It's called old Slufah.
Speaker 3: If you know what, you can sing along oak classic.
Speaker 8: Him on the mount, don't.
Speaker 11: Tell me what you see, fair tracks, fair tracks.
Speaker 3: Looking back at me.
Speaker 11: Don't get dropped the spot before it's too late.
Speaker 3: There's got a little big and he's painted boars.
Speaker 11: Okay, Oh he's big around the middle and he's gone
Speaker 11: across the Frock, running ninety miles.
Speaker 8: Now we're taking thirty feet of jump.
Speaker 11: Hein never been come, he ain't never been treed.
Speaker 8: Con bull, save a second bird.
Speaker 11: I said up my money and I bought me some pease,
Speaker 11: start amaging honey, way up in the trees.
Speaker 3: I cut down that tree, up my hunt. It's all
Speaker 3: gone full soup foot.
Speaker 8: Done, eat himself at home. Oh he's sticking.
Speaker 3: Around the middle land.
Speaker 8: He's gone across the Frock running tiny miles an hour.
Speaker 8: We're taking thirty.
Speaker 3: Feet of jump.
Speaker 11: He never been da ever been three Sompule says about
Speaker 11: like I'll tell you.
Speaker 8: Yelling, yell when else come out out of bloody be
Speaker 8: river flows over, so where can go?
Speaker 11: Well they step up the holler and would put him
Speaker 11: then well.
Speaker 3: Shoot him in the bottom.
Speaker 2: Just a listen to hill.
Speaker 11: He's being around the minute, latystup front running ninety miles
Speaker 11: an hour, were taken thirty feet of jumping.
Speaker 8: Never been calling, he hain't never been treated.
Speaker 7: Tom Bold say he's.
Speaker 2: Like meat, Bill Taylor and marko'kill. Yes, we're opening with
Speaker 2: music was a solid plan. I mean, who doesn't like
Speaker 2: live music? And who knew that Phil could rock the
Speaker 2: harmonica and sing like that. The heart and soul of
Speaker 2: the show is to bring the crowd close to the
Speaker 2: metaphorical campfire of the Meteor crew for the evening and
Speaker 2: celebrate our way of life.
Speaker 3: The tour is also.
Speaker 2: About Steve's new outdoor cookbook. Soon after I finished my song,
Speaker 2: Steve Vanella opens the show with some.
Speaker 3: Photos and stories from the cookbook.
Speaker 2: This one is about when Steve had to haul a
Speaker 2: roasted pig in a new York Cab In.
Speaker 1: The book, I'm telling us a story of a particular
Speaker 1: pig roast that I had in Brooklyn, New York. I
Speaker 1: was living there with my wife and we had we
Speaker 1: had an apartment, and we had all these people above us,
Speaker 1: but we had access to this little garden area. And
Speaker 1: one day me and my body, who was a chef,
Speaker 1: we wanted to do a Hawaiian luile there, and we
Speaker 1: went up to my buddy's dairy farm north of the
Speaker 1: city at all kinds of wood and started building up
Speaker 1: all our supplies, and we eventually built We dig a
Speaker 1: pit seven feet long and three feet wide, and we
Speaker 1: just chisel this pit into this little backyard area and dig, dig, dig,
Speaker 1: And I would have thought someone would have called the
Speaker 1: cops based on the hole, because I mean, I look
Speaker 1: like you were going to bury a person in there.
Speaker 1: We were actually laughing about that. And we got the
Speaker 1: hole down real deep, and then it came time for
Speaker 1: the pig rolls. We had one hundred and fifty pounds
Speaker 1: pigs standing by it with a bunch of sacks of
Speaker 1: ice on it, and we started just burning all this
Speaker 1: firewood we had. We're gonna burn it till we had,
Speaker 1: you know, eighteen twenty inches of oak charcoal in that fire. Well,
Speaker 1: we kind of screwed up, and pretty soon it looked
Speaker 1: like it looked like a scene from Bagdad Bagging the
Speaker 1: early two thousands. I mean, just black smoke going up
Speaker 1: through all these buildings, and way off you can hear
Speaker 1: fire trucks coming. And at first we don't even mention
Speaker 1: it to each other, you know, I'm like, man, I
Speaker 1: don't sound good. And they kind of get more and
Speaker 1: more around and more and more around, and pretty soon
Speaker 1: not only are the sirens close, but we got lots
Speaker 1: of firefighters coming through the apartment.
Speaker 9: And we get in the back and I'm explaining to
Speaker 9: the fireman what it is, you know, what's going on here.
Speaker 1: And I'll always remember when one of the firemen says,
Speaker 1: during my explanation, and he seemed like honestly open to
Speaker 1: the explanation, and he said, that's a great idea, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to put that fire out.
Speaker 9: So we still have this pig. The next morning, we
Speaker 9: get up and we put the pig in a cab.
Speaker 1: And take it to this other body of ours restaurant,
Speaker 1: and we think that his big old restaurant like he's
Speaker 1: got a commercial restaurant. This pig will fit in the
Speaker 1: it'll fit in the oven, but it doesn't fit in
Speaker 1: the ovens. And then we gotta start cutting the pig up,
Speaker 1: and we're like cooking part of it till it's like
Speaker 1: done enough, take it out, put another part in. Get
Speaker 1: that done enough, because we're having we're still having all
Speaker 1: these people over to have this big party. And we
Speaker 1: eventually get it done, and we had ninety some people
Speaker 1: come to our pig roast that wasn't really a pig rolls.
Speaker 1: It's just a regular in the oven pig rolls. And
Speaker 1: my wife is real pregnant, real unhappy with me. And
Speaker 1: at this point, I've been scrambling for days with a
Speaker 1: stupid pig, including making that big fire and getting all smoky,
Speaker 1: then getting all greasy, and then like partying with all
Speaker 1: the grease. And I remember climbing in bed that night,
Speaker 1: and I remember her saying, please tell me you did
Speaker 1: not just get in this bed without taking a shower.
Speaker 1: And I want to point out that the guys that
Speaker 1: are coming out right now are showered and clean.
Speaker 6: Keep it going for Steve.
Speaker 2: After Steve's opening monologue, Spencer newharth Our mc calls the
Speaker 2: whole team to the stage.
Speaker 3: We're going to have a little story time.
Speaker 12: Next, we have everybody's favorite hillbilly. He came all the
Speaker 12: way from Arkansas. Makes some noise for Clay Newcombe. And
Speaker 12: last we have the man of many nicknames. He's the
Speaker 12: Latvian Eagle, the Latvian Lover. Long time, Yanni, give it
Speaker 12: up for Yannis poo tell us.
Speaker 2: Steve asked us if we'd tell a story about cooking
Speaker 2: wild game. Here's Yannis, who tell us with a story
Speaker 2: about a recent family turkey hunt, what they ate and
Speaker 2: how they cook their turkey. On the screen is a
Speaker 2: picture of Yanni's daughter with a big gobbler. And by
Speaker 2: the way, Yanni's wearing a coonskin cap.
Speaker 7: This is my oldest daughter Aine, And man, I was
Speaker 7: really happy that this is just last week. I was
Speaker 7: really happy that we had a couple successful hunts last
Speaker 7: week because I knew how to give this presentation coming up,
Speaker 7: and I took a lot of pictures. My girls think
Speaker 7: I'm professional photo taker when it comes to dead animals.
Speaker 6: They're right.
Speaker 7: And I thought I chose just an absolutely beautiful picture
Speaker 7: of my daughter, so I sent a photo of someone
Speaker 7: had taken from the crowd back to my wife a
Speaker 7: couple days ago, and then she showed it to fin know, well,
Speaker 7: let me tell you, I chose the wrong picture, dude.
Speaker 7: I mean I got it. Oh my gosh, I got
Speaker 7: the earfull like you've never at this point. It's if
Speaker 7: you're gonna show anything of me, I need to look
Speaker 7: at it first.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 7: Okay, but no, I'm always gauging how much my girls
Speaker 7: actually like hunting. What like the real reasons are like,
Speaker 7: are they authentically into it? Are they into it just
Speaker 7: because they want to make their dad proud? Or there's
Speaker 7: a little bit of competition between the two sisters, So
Speaker 7: are they just doing it because they want to better
Speaker 7: their sister? And right after she shot this bird, it's
Speaker 7: still flopping in front of us a little bit, and
Speaker 7: she's looking at me and she's like, man, you really
Speaker 7: just don't feel that recoil when you're shooting at a
Speaker 7: real animal. And I thought, man, that's only something that
Speaker 7: a hunter that's really excited about what just happens says.
Speaker 7: Right when, like you shoot a gun and you don't
Speaker 7: even feel it go off, it's called recoil. Finally used
Speaker 7: to be called kickback for a long time in our house,
Speaker 7: Mabel's just about had enough. I has killed a bird now,
Speaker 7: so Mabel's kind of up on the gun.
Speaker 1: And what I like about this I love folks to
Speaker 1: see it. But the array of footwear is a stylish yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah. Where you got one girl running chucks and
Speaker 1: then over yonder Yanni's boots. Got Yanni's daughter's got like
Speaker 1: three foot tall muck boots.
Speaker 6: Mike in Montana.
Speaker 7: I don't know, maybe it might be like that here too,
Speaker 7: But in Montana, those kids wearing mutt boots ten months
Speaker 7: out of the year.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's just it's just normal attire.
Speaker 7: But not long after this pictures taken, Mabel and I
Speaker 7: were off by ourselves a little.
Speaker 6: Bit and she's she's fade.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: It's been three days out there and short nights, long days,
Speaker 7: lots of hiking, getting drug around by dad through the
Speaker 7: Turkey woods.
Speaker 6: And she looks at me and she goes pop them.
Speaker 7: I really want a turkey, but I don't want to
Speaker 7: walk anymore, and I want to go home, and I'm like, baby, no,
Speaker 7: I don't know what.
Speaker 6: To tell you, but you just got to make a decision.
Speaker 6: On what's more important.
Speaker 7: You know, if you want to just you know, throw
Speaker 7: the towel in, or if you want to try to
Speaker 7: get a turkey. Now we had some turkeys later that
Speaker 7: we knew where there were some. So I talked her
Speaker 7: into going out for one more hunt, and here we go.
Speaker 6: She she got her She got herself for a first bird.
Speaker 7: And you know, turn your meat into food, and uh,
Speaker 7: take your kids hunting, especially if they're girls.
Speaker 2: Right on, that was a good story, Jannis. The crowd
Speaker 2: loved it. Now it's my turn. I decided to give
Speaker 2: a full timeline of the newcom history of eating wild game.
Speaker 3: This is some deep history, Clay.
Speaker 6: You're ready to let her up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. So the storyteller has to wear
Speaker 3: the coonskin hat, all right.
Speaker 2: I'll see this photo up here. This is my family
Speaker 2: around two thousand and three. This photo is one of
Speaker 2: the best depictions in the nukemb photo album of our
Speaker 2: socioeconomic status about that time in our life. That when
Speaker 2: I told my wife that I was using this photo
Speaker 2: all across the country as the entry point to tell
Speaker 2: about our family and the way we've eaten wild game,
Speaker 2: I was promptly scolded as she said, this is like
Speaker 2: the most embarrassing photo that we own. But this is
Speaker 2: my lovely wife, Misty. These are my two daughters, Willow
Speaker 2: and River. Misty's actually pregnant in this photo. And we're
Speaker 2: going to have our fourth son, our third son, and
Speaker 2: then we'd have another son. But I have a wonderful family,
Speaker 2: truly do. And I want to I want to walk
Speaker 2: you through kind of the the arc of wild game
Speaker 2: in our house because I grew up in a hunting family.
Speaker 2: It was in the cold cultural background of the newcoms
Speaker 2: to be hunters. But my dad was born in nineteen
Speaker 2: forty eight and that was kind of the ascension of
Speaker 2: America's economic status, so he didn't want to eat wild game,
Speaker 2: like it wasn't cool to eat wild game and so,
Speaker 2: but he still wanted to hunt, and he loved to hunt,
Speaker 2: and he did hunt. He was a very serious hunter.
Speaker 2: I grew up just never knowing a life outside of hunting.
Speaker 2: But there was a strange missing piece that we didn't
Speaker 2: eat a lot of it. My dad was very diligent
Speaker 2: to take care of all the meat and give it
Speaker 2: away to people, which he did. But it's kind of weird,
Speaker 2: you know, And I always thought it was weird too,
Speaker 2: and so when Mistery and I got married, I was like,
Speaker 2: we're gonna eat wild game. And as you can tell
Speaker 2: by this photo, we didn't have much money. We needed
Speaker 2: to eat wild game that I was killing and Phil
Speaker 2: go to the next slide. The next lide bumps up
Speaker 2: about ten years. This is what people in our kinsas
Speaker 2: do when you take before first day of school photos
Speaker 2: for your kids. Grab up all your best animals, line
Speaker 2: them up, bring the kids in, take a beautiful photo.
Speaker 2: This is a Willow River bear and shepherd. The mule
Speaker 2: is Elie May. It's a wonder that I'm here today.
Speaker 2: After riding that mule, Elie Mace tried to kill me
Speaker 2: three times. Ran off worst. The worst thing that a
Speaker 2: mule can do is run off. It's not bucking or
Speaker 2: kicking you gotta worry about. It's when you're on them
Speaker 2: and they like just out of control run off.
Speaker 3: That's what she did. That's eli Ma. The two dogs.
Speaker 2: This dog in the front, this is newcom Zoe's Arc
Speaker 2: Bluff Creek Fern, one of the finest hounds to ever
Speaker 2: Treecoon and the Ozarks. The dog in the back, his
Speaker 2: name's Jedi. I was once with a guy named Warner Glenn,
Speaker 2: an old cowboy in southeast Arizona.
Speaker 3: Y'all know Warner.
Speaker 2: One time mister Warner, I was with him, was talking
Speaker 2: to him about his dogs. He says, I asked a
Speaker 2: very pointy question, how is that dog?
Speaker 6: What does it do?
Speaker 2: And he said he said, well, he said clad, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say it in front of him, but that dog
Speaker 2: is not very good, son, And I wouldn't say it
Speaker 2: in front of Jed, but Jed's not very good. So
Speaker 2: that's Jed, the not very good coon dog. Sad story
Speaker 2: started to bring the house down. Ferns dead.
Speaker 3: She passed away last fall.
Speaker 2: But these are my children. We raised them on wild game,
Speaker 2: truly did. I told them from the time of their birth.
Speaker 2: I preached to them that wild game was the rocket
Speaker 2: fuel of planet Earth. The healthiest, most sustainable, most most
Speaker 2: intelligent way to live your life was to eat wild game.
Speaker 2: I preached this to him, like literally, just on the
Speaker 2: pulput at my home for a.
Speaker 3: Decade, and they didn't know any better.
Speaker 2: They would go to people's houses and smell beef cooking
Speaker 2: and be like, what smells so gross?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 3: They like embarrass us and stuff like this.
Speaker 9: Tell them about your repertoire.
Speaker 2: Well, the Big Five. Yeah, so we raised them on
Speaker 2: the Big Five. The Big Five was all ground meat,
Speaker 2: and it was chili, tacos, burgers, spaghetti, and meat loaf.
Speaker 2: Those kids, if you stretch those out, man, you can
Speaker 2: get like a month's worth of meals. And we ground everything.
Speaker 2: I mean, I ain't scared to grind a backstrap.
Speaker 3: I mean I did it so much.
Speaker 2: We were young, We had careers, jobs, families, My wife work.
Speaker 2: My wife has a PhD to this day. She was
Speaker 2: in college back on that last photo, but so she
Speaker 2: was a working woman. We needed to grind, We needed
Speaker 2: easy food. But so the arc of the story kind
Speaker 2: of kind of peaks about right here in this photo.
Speaker 3: About twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: I think you, guys, of all people, will identify with
Speaker 2: what I'm about to say about twenty thirteen. This guy
Speaker 2: right here, Steve Ranella, came in to my world because
Speaker 2: he was a friend, because I just I watched him,
Speaker 2: I listened to him, was influenced by him.
Speaker 3: And and this this is not like supposed to be
Speaker 3: cute or funny, It's.
Speaker 6: Just the truth.
Speaker 2: He told the world that eating wild game was cool
Speaker 2: and that and that we were actually the smart people,
Speaker 2: and it kind of kind of goes back to like
Speaker 2: what I had heard my whole life, that like, this
Speaker 2: is not what the cool kids are eating. I stood
Speaker 2: on the pulpit of my home and was like, this
Speaker 2: is what we're gonna do. This is how we're gonna live.
Speaker 2: And then meat Eater came along and validated the whole thing,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I told you guys, we were
Speaker 2: cool this whole time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I really give a lot of credit to Steve. He
Speaker 3: changed the game. He changed, he changed the narrative on
Speaker 3: hunting and it and it it won't. I mean it
Speaker 3: truly was.
Speaker 2: It truly was something remarkable and now we're all a
Speaker 2: part of that story. Go ahead and flipped to the
Speaker 2: next live Okay these Yeah, we've been showing some pictures
Speaker 2: of the kids. This is Shepherd. This is my youngest son,
Speaker 2: a great kid. Go to the go to the one
Speaker 2: before this is River my daughter. She killed that bear
Speaker 2: with her bow. And then the picture before this this
Speaker 2: is bear John Newcombe, my son.
Speaker 9: But uh, is that the neighbors fence?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was real close to the neighbor's fence. That's right.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: The next section of the show is probably the highlight
Speaker 2: of the evening, at least for me.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have a barred ol hooton contest.
Speaker 2: The winner gets the genuine coonskin hat that Giannis and
Speaker 2: I have been wearing. This hat was made from a
Speaker 2: combination of Steve and my coon hides.
Speaker 3: And we're out.
Speaker 2: West, and you know, these are great people, but my
Speaker 2: expectations for great al hooters are low, very low. If
Speaker 2: we were in Mississippi, it'd be different. Let's see what
Speaker 2: these folks have got. The winter gets the coonskin hat.
Speaker 2: All right, everybody, have a good intermission. All right, we're
Speaker 2: going to We're gonna have our out hooting contest. Now
Speaker 2: that I know that this is the native range of
Speaker 2: the barred out, I'm expecting a lot.
Speaker 6: It's not.
Speaker 3: It's expanding its range, expanding its range.
Speaker 2: So the way this is gonna work is if you
Speaker 2: are a bona fide barred out hooter.
Speaker 4: I want you.
Speaker 3: I want you to stand up.
Speaker 2: I mean, like if you'd like to compete, but don't
Speaker 2: stand up. If you're just trying to be cute. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's like nine hundred of us in here. You know,
Speaker 2: and I would love to just go through and hear
Speaker 2: every one of y'all barred out.
Speaker 4: Hoot.
Speaker 3: But so what we're gonna do?
Speaker 2: Surely you guys knew this was gonna happen if we
Speaker 2: could just turn the lights up just a little bit
Speaker 2: so that I could see everybody.
Speaker 3: There, we go, there, we go? All right, So what
Speaker 3: we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have like probably like eight or ten of
Speaker 2: you stand up, you're gonna out, hoot. I'm gonna pick
Speaker 2: two of you to come up to the stage, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna have a grand finale up here. I want
Speaker 2: you to give a sequence of a barred owl, you know,
Speaker 2: but so barred out, hooters?
Speaker 3: Stand up? Who wants? Who's ready? We got a guy
Speaker 3: right here?
Speaker 2: Who's ready? We've got a guy right here, right here.
Speaker 2: We got a guy right here, orange hat. I'm having
Speaker 2: a hard time seeing up top. We got somebody right here.
Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Hey, guys, y'all gotta help
Speaker 2: me keep track.
Speaker 3: Of who's good.
Speaker 9: I like the guy out in front because he waved
Speaker 9: his hands down his pants when he's still.
Speaker 3: He's ready to go. All right, we're gonna start right here.
Speaker 3: Give me your best. Start us off loud as you
Speaker 3: can go. It's really hard to hear, but these people
Speaker 3: are making their best owl hoots.
Speaker 2: I teeter on embarrassing them, but I have to uphold
Speaker 2: the integrity of America's greatest turkey shock gobble mechanism.
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest. Okay, okay, that was cute. You
Speaker 3: can sit down, oh right here, right here. Remain standing though,
Speaker 3: unless I tell you to sit down. Sorry, buddy, Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: good volume, good passion.
Speaker 6: I like it right here?
Speaker 2: Mm hm, oh trill are meat eater on your back?
Speaker 2: Oh dude, he's like a plant. Okay, Oh here, big guys,
Speaker 2: that's the restaurant dude, I think, Yeah, that's the pokey guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah right here. Mm that's pretty that's pretty good.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 3: Stay standing, stay standing? Who else, orange hat?
Speaker 6: Go for it?
Speaker 8: Mmmm?
Speaker 3: Here's some real talent down in there. Deep didn't quite
Speaker 3: show up today, but it was. It's good. Right over here.
Speaker 2: That's that's pretty good. That's pretty good. Who else is
Speaker 2: standing up? Long hair, long haired California hippie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know who you are. We talk about y'all
Speaker 3: all the time. The guy rips a terrible alhu but
Speaker 3: Steve liked it just what I thought.
Speaker 6: All right, that was not bad.
Speaker 3: It was good.
Speaker 9: That was good.
Speaker 3: That was good.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 2: Now we chiseled down to the final two and the
Speaker 2: audience will choose who's best.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 3: So the way the way this works now is this
Speaker 3: will be like an applause O meter. We're gonna hear
Speaker 3: them both individually.
Speaker 6: Hoot.
Speaker 2: Okay, And this is when you bring out the big guns.
Speaker 2: You got big guns. Now's the time you get one chance.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is like you got one chance. What's
Speaker 2: the eminem song? You know, like one shot, one opportunity
Speaker 2: sees everything you wanted, mom spaghetti. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right, you're we're on the same level.
Speaker 3: Come on up here, man, what's your name? Sharp?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: What's your name? Shar and Nick?
Speaker 2: So hit me with your best hold your plause until
Speaker 2: we hear both of them. You got one shot, did
Speaker 2: not miss your chance?
Speaker 13: You know your opportunity comes once in a lifetime, Steely.
Speaker 3: I'd all right, m M, it's pretty good.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 3: Who's voting for mister King's here? It's applause? That don't
Speaker 3: look good? All right?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 3: How about for Nick?
Speaker 4: Nick.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, overwhelming, overwhelming sounds like Nick wanted.
Speaker 3: Good job, man, It was good Nick.
Speaker 2: Congratulations you get at the rest of the night.
Speaker 3: Good job, guys, Thank you, Thanks. I'm really proud of
Speaker 3: all of you. If you're out hooting. Wow, that was
Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: A little embarrassing for the hunting community, but a hat
Speaker 2: tip to the bold souls that hooted. As we close
Speaker 2: down the evening, we do a Q and A from
Speaker 2: the audience, and Spencer has a question for me.
Speaker 6: All right, we're moving on. This question just came in.
Speaker 6: It's for Clay. What wild animal would you like to
Speaker 6: domesticate to keep as a pet.
Speaker 2: Well, I've domesticated and had in hand many of the animals.
Speaker 3: That live in my state.
Speaker 4: Give me some exciting all right.
Speaker 2: The best animal story that I've got is we had
Speaker 2: a deer. We raised multiple white tailed deer. There was
Speaker 2: a time in Arkansas when it was legal to have
Speaker 2: up to.
Speaker 3: Six hand caught animals from the wild in the rags.
Speaker 3: Each family could have six. We raised several. We had
Speaker 3: one named road Runner.
Speaker 6: It was a little buck.
Speaker 2: I've got four kids. All my kids were probably between
Speaker 2: five and twelve when we had road Runner. He lived
Speaker 2: in our home. I mean literally was like a dog.
Speaker 2: He would come in and out. The older he got,
Speaker 2: the further he would range from the house. He had
Speaker 2: a green collar on his neck. There came a time
Speaker 2: when he would be gone for hours at a time
Speaker 2: and then come back and all this one afternoon fall
Speaker 2: afternoon was musloader season. I went deer hunting about two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty yards from my house. I sat on
Speaker 2: the ground, nestled up by a big white oak tree,
Speaker 2: had my musload over my knee. There's a deer trail
Speaker 2: running down in front of me, and you know, right
Speaker 2: at prime time, I see two deer coming and you know,
Speaker 2: I go, here we go. And as they get closer,
Speaker 2: I look and it's road runner leading a wild buck
Speaker 2: that he had.
Speaker 3: Picked up somewhere. It was a small buck. It was
Speaker 3: like a forked horn.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if the wind shifted, but the
Speaker 2: wind was hitting me right in the back of the neck,
Speaker 2: just parallel on this trail. And I just laid there,
Speaker 2: dead still with a muzzlot across my knee. I wanted
Speaker 2: to see what was gonna happen in my wind is
Speaker 2: cutting this trail. Roadrunner hits my wind. I mean this,
Speaker 2: this animal is like lived in my home.
Speaker 3: It knows me. It literally, this sounds crazy. It happened
Speaker 3: just like this.
Speaker 2: He literally turned up when started bleating and walked straight
Speaker 2: to me. And I never moved and he started licking
Speaker 2: my face.
Speaker 3: And I never moved. In the wild buck, he hits.
Speaker 2: My wind and just freaks out, you know, stomping his
Speaker 2: feet and bobbing his head, and he took a couple
Speaker 2: of steps towards.
Speaker 3: Me, and you know, you could just see what he
Speaker 3: was saying. He was like, don't do it, man, And.
Speaker 2: Finally only the buck, the wild buck flags and runs off,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, dad, gummut.
Speaker 3: Roadrunner and we just walked back to the house. You know,
Speaker 3: hunts over.
Speaker 6: You know, it's like, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 3: We walked back to the house, Me and Roadrunner.
Speaker 6: Now Clay, the question was what wild animal would you like?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 12: I have.
Speaker 9: I have.
Speaker 2: I have big plans, big plans to uh to to
Speaker 2: have a pet timber rattlesnake, Like not a joke. We
Speaker 2: just did a big Snake podcast on bear Grease and
Speaker 2: I met a guy and uh, anyway, I need a
Speaker 2: timber Rattlesnake, don't tell my wife. Thanks to everyone who
Speaker 2: came to the live shows, I really hope that you
Speaker 2: had a great time. And thanks to everyone who bought
Speaker 2: Steve's new outdoor cookbook. I'm still waiting on that call
Speaker 2: from Nashville, but until then, we'll see you on the
Speaker 2: Bear Grease Render next week. I can't thank you in
Speaker 2: a for listening to bear Grease in this country life.