WEBVTT - Ep. 160: BEAR GREASE [RENDER] - Songs & Bucks 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.080 My name is Clay nukelemb And. This is a production 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.720 of the bear Grease podcast called The bear Grease Render, 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:25.240 where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:30.160 scenes of the actual bear Grease podcast, presented by f 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:35.360 HF Gear, American Maid, purpose built hunting and fishing gear 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.559 that's designed to be as rugged as the place as 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:47.600 we explore. Welcome to the bear Grease Render, everybody. I've 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.320 got my wife, doctor Missy Nucomb here we're going to 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:53.920 We're gonna start off things a little different today, Dad 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.520 with a kind of a sentimental song about the woods. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.680 Usually we'd come in pretty hot and sing so Johnny 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.360 Cash or you know something. But this is a little 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:05.840 a little more laid back. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:14.280 Have you ever wondered lonely through the woods? Everything there 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:21.280 phil just as it should, part of life there, You're 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:26.400 part of something good. Have you ever wondered lonely through 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:40.040 those woods? If you've never wondered lonely through the woods. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:48.480 You never started into a starry sky lying on your 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:54.440 back and asking why, what's the purpose? 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:56.120 I wonder? 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:02.480 Who am I? You never stared into a starry sky? 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:12.480 Oo ah. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:33.440 Ah? Have you ever started into a sorry suy. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:38.240 Never been now walking in the snow, trying to. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.560 Get back where you were before. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:49.880 Always end up I'm knowing where to go. Have you 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.200 ever been out walking. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:52.800 In the show? 0:02:55.360 --> 0:03:29.680 Who you haven't been walking? You wouldn't know? 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.280 All right, all right, excellent, excellent. 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:40.040 We had Brent Reeves on the shaker. Brent, great to 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:40.400 see you. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.920 That's ah. This needs to be identified as a wooden 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.440 egg full of lead shot. I think wooden egg full 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:47.960 of lead shot. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.160 Great to see you, Brent, Thank you, Buddy to Brent's left, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.480 Ben La grown on foods. Good to see you, Good 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.760 to see it, Ben, thanks for coming. Man on the Render, 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.160 we used to sing. I bet we used to sing. 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.200 There was a time when my idea for the Render 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:09.560 was to have a live band here every single no no, 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.680 I mean not just me. I was gonna try to 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.280 have a live band here every single Render to play 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.440 and I did you know, it just didn't happen. But 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.000 it's been a while since we sang. If you if 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.960 you're new to The Beargrease Render, this is the Burgers 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.200 podcast is documentary style podcast. The Beargrease Render is where 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.880 we gather around every other week and talk about the 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.919 actual bear Grease podcast. Early on the first year, we 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.880 played music probably every two or three times, not because 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.960 we think we're good, but because we like to have fun. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:45.000 We like, as we said, you know, our kids. So 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.400 last night, my daughter, Missy, and I were practicing and 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.080 my daughter, who was in her room it's supposed to 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:52.800 be asleep, texted me and. 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:54.480 Said, uh, hey, y'all sound great. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.160 She said, yeah, y'all sounds great and I and there 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.720 was a delay in the next text, and I was like, man, 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.279 that's really nice. I was actually encouraged. I was I 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.640 need a little encouragement from time to time with my music. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.120 And then the next text was how long are y'all 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:14.359 going to be playing? And the next text said PTSD. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.960 Yeah, she's talking about you know. We started playing during 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.240 COVID and that song was one of the first songs 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.520 I ever learned to play on the banjo, and that 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.240 when Clay heard that song, he was like, I think 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.440 I can play the guitar, like it was so unimpressive. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:29.480 He's like, I could do that too. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.400 I forgot I could play guitar. 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.520 Y'all missed. The funniest thing I've said in years is 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.600 when I found this egg, I thought, man, can sit 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.120 on this. That's kind of like what he does. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.880 Ain't it good? 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.719 Hats this out while y'all are playing. 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.920 I used to play spoons, like you know, it's two 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.719 separate spoons. That's like luxurious stuff right there. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:53.880 Yeah, I kept waiting for you to do the old 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.560 Why how. 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.520 Are you a good spoon player? Ben trained spoon spoon players. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.440 It's in my percussion repertoire. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.880 Okay, okay, hey, Ben used to play for the Arkansas 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:10.000 Razorbacks marching band. 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.400 Oh yeah, that's right. That's why the percussion was coming 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:14.159 so easy to you. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.640 Sometimes I feel like we should just go around and 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.400 say the most astonishing facts about ourselves and our achievements 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.880 that no one knows about. You know, it seems really 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:24.520 important in high school, some of the things you did 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:26.320 and hasn't mad. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:27.159 Would you like to say? 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:34.560 I don't know, doctor, weirdly know, I was thinking more 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:39.159 about Yeah, I'm trying to think of obscure facts likes. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:43.279 To Brent's whole podcast is obscure facts about his life. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:48.760 So Brent Raves is here, render boy, Brent Raeves And 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.599 what I laughed out loud for real, this is no 0:06:54.760 --> 0:07:03.039 joke and there's there's big potential for bias in me 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.720 because you're my friend. I want you to succeed. You know, 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.840 This Country Life is on the bear Grease feet, so 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:15.880 there's like big, big question marks around whether my opinion 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.920 is legit. However, I'm gonna say it is because they're 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:25.840 just as big a biases about being critical about just 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:31.000 the work that we're doing. So like I'm like very 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.720 critical of you too, sure, And so I would feel 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:35.560 every morning. 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:40.920 Oh it's all the the phone ringing late Clayon. I like, well, 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.400 he's not asking me to go film him, so I 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:44.080 am in trouble. 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:44.560 Yeah. 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:49.560 Yeah, So I feel like those two things balance out, 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.360 like my love of you and want you to succeed, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:58.920 but also me scrutinizing your every word and uh, I 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.680 laugh out loud by myself almost every single time I 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.160 listened to This Country Life, I really do. I mean, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:12.520 Brent is an astounding writer because he and I've had 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.679 You know, you could listen to some of Brent's stories 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.640 and be like, how could have all this have happened 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:23.600 to one person, which is a legitimate question. But I've 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:27.080 been around Brent enough to know to have been to 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.320 hear him tell a story that even I was a 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.640 part of, and it was like, well, geez, I wouldn't 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.320 have told it near that entertaining. So, I mean, I 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.440 think Brent. It might seem like Brent has had like 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:44.240 an exceptionally wild life. I think he's probably had a 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:48.760 more wildlife than most people. Yeah, but he's a really 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:53.640 really good storyteller and remembers detail and remembers stuff that 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.480 other people don't. So I'm paying you a big compliment, 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.040 but I'm also drawing it. I'm also trying to make 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:05.679 sense of it. But no, you're your your last one 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.560 about three stories that didn't fit. Yeah, So the ethical 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:14.439 qualms that I wanted to bring up was cursing in church. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.000 Did y'all hear that? 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:18.840 That's the funniest stories? 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:25.920 Yeah, Hunter, your son hearing his father used foul language. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:30.000 Three days before that? I mean, you would think of 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.880 all the things that happened to a little fella in 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.800 three days. I mean, it's everything he looks at in 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.360 every direction. It's something new, you know. I mean, because 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.560 he's just learning to talk and learning to hear and 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.920 learn to pay attention to things that's going around him, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.800 you know, And of all the things of all the 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.840 things that happened in that span of time, that was 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.880 the one thing he keyed on, and in the one 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:59.560 place he remembered that he had a city wide audience. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.040 We were being broadcast on the radio that day. The 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:05.120 church service was. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:10.880 Mm hmm, and then uh and then your buddy who 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:11.760 shot Jesus. 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:16.280 Oh gosh, man. I have told that story so many times, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.640 and it is it's it always starts out some you know. 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.719 It's like you do. Sometimes you'll say, Brent, tell me 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.480 a story, and I'm like, I ain't got one, you know, 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:31.559 it's just things happened, and and that reminded me of something. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.440 You know, we're riding down the road. That's when the 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.680 best stories come out, when we're doing something else and 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.920 I'm like, oh gosh, I just saw a redbird. That 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:42.120 reminds me of something. But if somebody points a pistol 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.280 at me, it says, tell me a story. I'm like, okay, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.840 I got a buddy that shot Jesus. One time, I 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:48.880 can tell you that story. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.360 So it was a misfire, like he was. He didn't mean. 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.840 He didn't, Yes, exactly, he didn't. He thought he had 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.880 unloaded his gun. There's lots of story, lots of lessons 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:05.080 in that. Yeah, he wasn't he wasn't upset thinking he 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:09.400 had shot Jesus. He had shot his pistol in his house. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.520 a loaded firearm that he thought was unloaded. 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.480 Now was he being funny when he No, he was 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.520 very distraught. But why did he say I'm going to hell? 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.400 He took it. It was so a big burden on him. Now, 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.559 this guy had just gone to work as a police officer. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.280 He hadn't gone to the academy yet, so he had 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.560 a big burden. And in the state of Arkansas, I'm 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:36.240 not sure that rookies now are if it's the same 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.400 way or not. But you when we went to work, 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.439 you had a year from the time you were hired 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.679 by a department and be under a field training officer, 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.440 and then within that year span, sometime during that year, 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.960 you had to go to the academy and pass that 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.600 to go, you know, back to work on the street 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.319 and be a certified police officer. So he hadn't done 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.400 that yet. So everything that he's learning he's learning from 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:03.760 a you know, the officers above him. And he was 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:04.400 getting ready to go. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:09.080 To work that night, and he's quick drawn, Yeah, revolved. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:10.360 Was he pulling the trigger? 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:10.760 Well? 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:11.480 Apparently so? 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.560 Well, I mean, but but it was if it was 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.200 like if you I've got a story, But if a revolver, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.760 if you feel like it's unloaded and it's a double action, 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.720 you pull the trigger, the hammer drops back and then fires. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:23.199 Correct. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:24.719 So I mean he must have been doing that. 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:25.880 Absolutely it was. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.200 Yeah, okay, let me ask you a question. Okay, And 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.320 if you have any other comments on this country life, 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:36.160 now's now's the time. Have you ever accidentally discharged the firearm? 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:36.520 No? 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.480 Never, not once? Never? 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.400 I take that back, Yes, I have turkey hunting. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:47.000 Okay, yep, see I knew it. What happened me? 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.480 And do you feel like you're being unfairly interrogated right now? 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.480 No? Okay, because I could lie just a Tuesday. 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.000 I'm just watching the facial expressions here, trying to figure 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.760 out what clays. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:58.880 I could have. I could have lied and said no, 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.800 but I do recall all the time. Uh, And it 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:06.040 was a faulty. It was a brown and pump shotgun 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:10.280 had a broken safety. Me and another friend of mine 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.760 had left going turkey hunting in the afternoon. We were 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.520 walking down this road and he said you better. We 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.960 need to load up now because we as soon as 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.000 we step off in the woods, we got to sit down. Right, 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.080 there's a turkey. We knew where the turkeys at. So 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.800 when I'm standing, I've got my barrel away from everybody, 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.760 I went in, threw one in the magazine, in the 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.400 from the magazine into the barrel, and as soon as 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.080 it slide hit home, bam, it went off. Really yeah, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.559 and that's with my That wasn't my finger touching the 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.320 trigger and I didn't have a finger in the housing there. Wow, 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.160 that's it went off? Yeah, absolutely, did Ben? 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:51.280 Have you ever shot a firearm intentionally? 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:52.400 No? 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:59.920 I haven't, Dad, I shot holding my gris. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.240 You did, Yeah, I vaguely remember that. It was after 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.520 I was you know, it was in an area where 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.760 that peg board is and the backside of it's all rock, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.720 you know on the outside. Uh huh, and uh. It 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:21.040 was pretty revealing. You know how dangerous it is to 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:22.320 play with firearms. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.400 You know what were you doing? I was just cleaning 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:25.360 my gun or something. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:25.840 I don't know. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.240 It was probably at three fifties and I couldn't have 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:29.880 been a revolver. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.480 I don't know what it was, but I. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.600 So you intentionally pulled the trigger. You just didn't think 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.560 it was loaded. Yeah, you just thought you had cocked it. 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.400 And they're just gonna kind of yeah. Yeah, pretty stupid. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.880 Pull the trigger. Pull the trigger, man, Miss nukemb Have 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.040 you ever fired a gun on accident? 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.320 I have a story about a bow and arrow. Okay, 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.280 So when when we were all little, my brothers left 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.680 my two middle so I had three older brothers, and 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.280 then me and my parents left the two middle brothers 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.760 alone for the first time. And the oldest brother was 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.480 kind of law and order and he kept everything everything 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.160 going well. I remember as we were pulling off, all 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:07.800 of us felt a little bit nervous about the two 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.680 middle brothers being home alone. I was the youngest sister, 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.480 and I still knew this isn't a good idea. And 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.240 as we pulled. As we pull out, my dad yells 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.640 out the window, hey, don't play with bb guns while 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.400 I'm gone. Like we were just they were just you 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.240 could tell now as a parent, I know my parents 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:26.680 were just thinking through all the things they could do 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.360 to hurt themselves. So my brothers went back to their 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.360 bedroom and got a bow and arrow. Now it wasn't 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.480 like a professional bow and arrow. We weren't bow hunters 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.560 or anything. I don't even know what kind it was, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.600 but apparently it had a an arrow that could go 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.000 through a boot, through a leather boot. We learned that 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:46.520 because my second oldest brother shot my brother right above 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.240 me in the foot with this arrow while we were gone. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.120 And when we pull up, we just see being like 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.240 writhing in pain on the ground outside, Randy looking very 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:58.720 scared to see my dad pull. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:03.200 You know. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.880 They they were trying to get the boot off, but 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.800 it was I mean, it was in his skin, and 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.200 and so they were they were freaking out. And after 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.040 that I decided to never mess with with anything. And 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:15.760 so I was a good sister and always learned from 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.400 my brother's mistakes. And so no, I have never not 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:18.880 that I've. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.520 Ever discharged the fire ate my compliments to him for 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:23.480 not shooting Bob. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:24.960 Yeah. 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.320 Yeah, they were just trying to keep you real. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:28.400 Where are you going with this? 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.520 Well? Have you I've got a story one time, one time, 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:38.560 I remember Misty called me when I was away and 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.320 she she said, something's going on in the house. It 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:43.680 was late at night. Do you remember this? 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:43.880 Oh? 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:44.320 I remember? 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.080 And it was real, It was real scary. She thought 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:53.120 somebody was in our house and I wasn't there, and 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.800 and I don't remember the details at all, so I 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:00.880 won't elaborate on them. I just remember telling her, it's 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.080 totally fine if you just want to take that pistol 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.600 and just fire off around, just aim it right through 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.200 the roof, just shoot. I told her to do that, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.280 and she didn't, and it ended up like being you 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.240 know nothing. Do you remember that? 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.000 I vaguely I remember. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.080 I remember thinking what it would be. I put the 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:20.720 roof on my house when we built it, and I 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.760 remember thinking it won't be too hard. 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.320 I very clearly remember, but that's not I don't remember it. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.520 I missed and missed the part about the roof. I 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.560 remember you telling me just get the pistol and just 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.160 if anybody's in the house, just shoot. And I said, 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.399 what if I miss? And we just built the house. 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.800 And that was to shoot somebody. 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.320 Right, You weren't, but that's how I heard it. I 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:46.480 was like, miss, and you said, hey, just just you 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.880 told me just it's okay if you fire a bunch 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.639 of holes in the in the sheet rock, and I 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.119 just remember thinking it was really hard to put up. 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.680 I don't. Yeah, we take we take intruders pretty serious 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:03.520 around our place. Real on the door text first come over, 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:08.360 No Dad, I've told you this story. I'd be perhaps 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.840 you won't remember the details of it. But I got 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:17.280 a Ruger forty four magnum nine inch barrel super Red 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:23.240 Hawk for graduation. Graduation, a big, big pistol. I was 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.640 doing some hog hunting and I was gonna deer hunt 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:29.040 with it. And one day I was setting out on 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:34.720 public land hog hunting and just board sitting on a 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.680 log and it's a double action revolver and I was playing. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.320 I was fiddling with the double action double Do you 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.000 know what a double action is, Misty. It's a revolver. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.119 So you cocked the hammer, but if you but well, 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:49.840 if you pull the trigger, the gun goes off. 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.119 It way you talk down to the most highly educated person. 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:54.560 I like that. 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:56.240 That's my role in this, well. 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.439 A double action because I was I was in the 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:04.560 hammer with my thumb click click, and pulling the trigger 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.200 but having my thumb on the trigger and letting it 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.760 down softly, just kind of getting a feel for the trigger. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.359 And I had just done it so much I just 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:16.119 kind of got into like a comatose state. And I 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.959 had that barrel laid across my leg just like this 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:21.560 right here. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:23.119 And uh. 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.399 And at one point I didn't put my thumb on 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.720 the trigger and I just pulled the trigger and it 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.800 just forty four mag I mean it was like a 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.040 major thing, like it was. Yeah, and I probably never 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.760 I learned a lot from that. It left black marks 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:41.760 on my pants. 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.440 Sure on both ends. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.399 Do you remember that that? No, I don't you know. 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.600 I didn't tell you this story. 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:52.840 Never made it to my ears. 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.640 I didn't tell you for a long time. I did 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:57.800 tell you that eventually. 0:19:57.920 --> 0:19:59.960 Okay, I feel like this is sweet. 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.600 Remember he has drank that out of his mind. 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.000 It was not good, not good at all. How old 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:10.600 were you I would have been like in high school 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:16.520 that gun. Yeah, So firearm safety big theme in this 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.160 country life. Okay, the other the other. 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:21.440 Hey, I got a call one time when I was 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.600 the deputy share here's a law enforcement story. Got a 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.600 call one time this lady said, somebody shot my house. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.680 And so, man, we're beating feet over there. We'll see 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.639 what's going on. And we go into this lady. She 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.400 lives in a mobile home in the middle of nowhere 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:42.000 and she was in the laundry room ironing and the 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.280 deep freezes in there, and laying on top of the 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:48.320 deep freeze is a forty five round that's made a 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.840 dent in the deep freeze. But it came straight down 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.800 through the roof. Somebody shot the gun up in the 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:58.840 air and he came came through the roof, hit the 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:00.880 deep freeze right beside where she was ironing. 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.840 Really yeah, just the bullets laying there, just the bullet. Yeah, 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.719 So it had lost enough velocity that it probably wouldn't 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:09.160 have killed somebody. 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.440 It would have hurt. Yeah. I mean it came through 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:15.119 and it made a big dent in that deep freeze. 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:16.680 It hit her on the top of the head. 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:20.680 This is this is like the side of the Unsolved 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:25.119 Mysteries where like eventually comes out like there's somebody listening 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.440 to this right now down around Warren, Arkansas. What county 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:33.320 was it, County? Union County, Arkansas. That's going, man, I 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:37.200 let one fly straight up in the air. 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:39.440 Yeah. 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:43.040 I've always felt like if you if you shot like 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.960 because like squirrel hunting, you're shooting twenty two rounds in 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:48.320 the air, and if you miss, like twenty two rounds 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.119 just going in the air. I've always felt like they 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.120 would lose enough velocity that it would be like dropping 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:57.240 a twenty two round like out of an airplane, like 0:21:57.320 --> 0:21:59.160 it would just hit on the ground. Do you think 0:21:59.200 --> 0:21:59.680 that's true. 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:01.600 I don't think any of that's even close. 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.400 You remember me telling the story about shooting the game 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:16.119 warden's house. That's one story that it's not quite as 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.800 dramatic as that introduction. But whoa, I've got a story. 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:23.720 I told you you got to want you hear it. 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:24.680 You'll remember it. 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:28.760 But uh the game warden lived right next door to me, 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:31.199 and his house burned. He moved mobile Homi in and 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.280 I was shooting my bow in the backyard and I 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:36.720 missed my target and it hit hit a rock and 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:42.399 flew right in the back of his and uh so 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.240 I went and knocked on his door, and I said, man, 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:47.920 I got some bad news for you. He was really 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:48.760 nice about it. 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:50.239 So anyway, I appreciated that. 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:54.960 Robert Ball really nice guy. And you just pulled the 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:57.280 air out, Yeah, did he do you have to repair it? 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:00.199 No, it was a little low, and you know, you 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:01.280 didn't notice it much. 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:05.560 His wife we had to call the amulus first wife, 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:11.480 not really so if you own somewhere around Hot Springs, Arkansas, 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:16.600 a nineteen sixty four double wide with a small arrow hole, 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:18.520 and it may have been that mobile. 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:19.240 That's right. 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:25.280 Uh, that's funny. That's funny. Okay. The other thing I 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:27.560 listened to the I got caught up on this country 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:31.879 life this week, and so your your story of chasing 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:33.040 the school bus in the truck? 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:34.160 How about that? 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:37.760 I mean, that's crazy, Brent. You must have been a 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:38.520 wild kid. 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:40.840 Man. I just have wild ideas and it didn't take 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:41.160 me long. 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:43.679 I'm not afraid that your dad would have. 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:45.680 I wasn't scared of nothing. 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:48.280 Did your dad not? 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:55.920 I told you I've been on h Spencer's Meat Eater 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:58.399 Trivia twice, and when I sit out in that chair, 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:00.439 I know I'm fixing to win. I have got a 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:04.560 total of four questions right out of twenty of the 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:05.639 two times I've been on there. 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:08.520 That's the usual amount of undeserved confidence. 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:10.840 But when I sit down there, I think, man, I 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:14.080 am fixed to kick everybody's butt in't here. I just 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:15.800 I never walked up to the plate. I didn't think 0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:17.360 I wasn't going to hit a home run. I hit 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:20.679 won and little I had no reason to think that. 0:24:21.600 --> 0:24:23.359 But I don't lack for self confidence. 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:26.600 But when you were nine years old taking your dad's 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:28.400 truck and chasing the school bus. 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:30.360 The only thing I could think of was me passing 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:34.520 that school bus and throwing them the deuces as I 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:37.760 went by, and barely looking over the steering wheel. 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:44.240 Wow, we don't my dream of mine. And I'm going 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:46.640 to cast this out there and this will hopefully get 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:49.879 back to who I wanted to get back to. I 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:52.760 want to have Tim Reeves on this podcast. 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:55.520 Ah, he's a good He's a better storyteller than I 0:24:55.560 --> 0:24:56.040 ever will. 0:24:55.960 --> 0:24:56.600 Will he do it? 0:24:57.320 --> 0:24:57.600 Nope? 0:24:58.200 --> 0:25:01.840 Yeah, will Tim eventually to the Bear Grease Render podcast. 0:25:01.920 --> 0:25:06.840 We want to embarrass you and just Isn's brother all 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:08.080 these stories. 0:25:07.680 --> 0:25:10.120 But you just yeah, you just talked about his dad, 0:25:10.200 --> 0:25:12.040 just making sure everybody knows it's brother and father. 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:16.320 Yeah, yeah, he will come. 0:25:16.400 --> 0:25:18.080 He's the best storyteller in the world. 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:19.720 And we get like, you know, I don't want to 0:25:19.720 --> 0:25:21.480 even tell. I don't want to even talk. I just wanted 0:25:21.520 --> 0:25:22.040 to sit there. 0:25:22.160 --> 0:25:26.200 When we would sit around at the duck camp and talk, 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:29.280 he was just spitting out one story after another. My 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:31.800 buddy that taught me how to that started me in 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:35.200 in outdoor video would grab a camera and set it up, 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:38.080 and Tim was like he forgot how to talk. He 0:25:38.119 --> 0:25:40.960 had a stroke or something. He's just like he just 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:41.960 freezes up. Man. 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:46.080 Yeah, this is not what I believe about Tim. Tim 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:49.360 would be great. Tim, You're invited, Please come there you go. 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:57.760 Hey, let me tell you my favorite story from this 0:25:57.840 --> 0:26:01.000 country life lately. Brin's retirement story. 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:02.880 Oh yeah, that was. 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:03.359 That was. 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:06.200 Shep is the one that told me to listen to it, really, 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:08.159 Shep new Coombe did. Yeah, he listened to it. He 0:26:08.200 --> 0:26:10.359 and Clay were on the way to ball practice and 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:12.399 they didn't finish it. He went to ball practice, he 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:14.040 came out and he said, Dad, can we can we 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:16.920 finish up that podcast? And so they came in and 0:26:16.920 --> 0:26:18.959 they said, you should really listen. Listen to this one. 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:22.439 Brent's going to retire. I guess did you read you 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:25.399 recorded it before you retired, like the week before you retired, 0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:28.280 so you weren't retired anyway. So I listened to it 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:30.120 that day and yeah, that was. It was a very 0:26:30.160 --> 0:26:30.760 touching Brent. 0:26:31.000 --> 0:26:33.680 That was Is that where he went over the fence? 0:26:34.359 --> 0:26:34.600 Yep? 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:37.520 Yeah, I would get the lady that was really good. 0:26:37.720 --> 0:26:38.760 That was really good. Man. 0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:41.080 I tell you what, I tell you what I would 0:26:41.119 --> 0:26:43.520 have done. I would have called in sick. 0:26:46.640 --> 0:26:47.760 Somebody had to go in there. 0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:51.119 How's it feel to be U It's uh. 0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:53.560 It's kind of surreal. Yeah, you know, that's a big 0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:57.119 responsibility that I carried for a long time, thirty two years, 0:26:57.440 --> 0:27:03.080 and it feels good. It's uh, it's strange though, it's 0:27:03.160 --> 0:27:06.760 it's just a little weird, you know. And I told, 0:27:06.760 --> 0:27:11.119 I told Alexis, you know, Bailey, who's eleven, she's so 0:27:11.240 --> 0:27:14.240 much younger than my other two children, Amy and Hunter, 0:27:14.320 --> 0:27:17.720 who they were aware of the things that I was 0:27:17.760 --> 0:27:21.560 doing and the stuff I was going through, and and uh, 0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:25.280 it was hard. And uh, I told Alexis said, I 0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:28.720 don't want Bailey to ever even know anything about that 0:27:28.760 --> 0:27:30.679 stuff that I used to do. And she says, I 0:27:30.720 --> 0:27:33.680 think that's wrong. She needs to know about her daddy did, 0:27:33.920 --> 0:27:36.959 so when she gets older, you know, maybe maybe she 0:27:36.960 --> 0:27:40.040 can learn some of that kind of stuff. But she's 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:44.200 probably right. She probably doesn't need to know eventually, because 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:46.600 it gets kind of an excuse of why I'm so crazy. 0:27:48.280 --> 0:27:53.080 But yeah, it's been a lot of it's been pretty 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:53.760 pretty wild. 0:27:54.400 --> 0:27:58.720 Yeah, well cool, No, I'm I love it. 0:27:58.840 --> 0:28:01.119 I love it very much. 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:04.320 Yeah, Ben, what you got there on the floor is 0:28:04.359 --> 0:28:06.560 the deer. Let me see that thing. I hadn't even 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:10.840 touched it. He's got a good mass, So Ben, Ben 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:13.880 killed the biggest buck like you've ever killed? 0:28:13.960 --> 0:28:17.320 Yep, yep. On September twenty third, twenty twenty three. 0:28:17.840 --> 0:28:21.960 Well open, there's more impressive than what I saw on 0:28:22.240 --> 0:28:25.320 video or what the photo I saw. Just the mass. Yeah, 0:28:25.480 --> 0:28:28.640 like that that was. You know, you can tell a lot. 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:32.840 You can't. You can't judge a white tail entirely based 0:28:32.920 --> 0:28:37.560 upon mass, but you can tell quite a bit about 0:28:37.600 --> 0:28:41.480 their age, just maturity level. Maybe not fine tune in it, 0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:42.920 but I mean that's for sure a four and a 0:28:42.960 --> 0:28:46.880 half year old plus deer for around here. Yeah, it's 0:28:47.040 --> 0:28:48.640 it's a it's a ten point. 0:28:48.680 --> 0:28:51.120 Don't don't you know how much you score? If your score? 0:28:51.240 --> 0:28:54.920 No, I hadn't scored it. I mean, yeah, are you 0:28:54.920 --> 0:28:55.720 going to score it today? 0:28:56.880 --> 0:28:57.000 Uh? 0:28:58.280 --> 0:29:01.840 I don't know, might as well you could. 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:03.480 You always be disappointed. 0:29:07.080 --> 0:29:09.160 That's kind of where I've been, is like I don't 0:29:09.160 --> 0:29:11.000 want to taint my perspective. 0:29:11.320 --> 0:29:16.440 Scores, you know. So back in the day. I mean 0:29:16.680 --> 0:29:21.680 back when this American hunting television started in the in 0:29:21.720 --> 0:29:24.760 the in the nineties, late eighties. Man, if you saw 0:29:24.800 --> 0:29:27.440 the cover of a VHS tape at Walmart that said 0:29:27.800 --> 0:29:30.600 one hundred and forty inch buck by bo, you were 0:29:30.600 --> 0:29:32.960 just like, holy cow, I want to see that one 0:29:33.080 --> 0:29:35.680 fifty for sure they would be like man, I mean, 0:29:35.680 --> 0:29:40.240 and those were big numbers. I don't really understand what's happened. 0:29:40.440 --> 0:29:43.160 There are more one forties, one fifties and bigger deer, 0:29:43.480 --> 0:29:46.760 but more people have cameras, more people are filming, and 0:29:46.800 --> 0:29:49.440 in the outdoor industry, there's just a lot more one 0:29:49.520 --> 0:29:53.040 hundred and sixty seventy eighty ninety two hundred inch deer 0:29:53.080 --> 0:29:56.120 being killed on film. But a one hundred and forty 0:29:56.160 --> 0:29:58.560 inch buck is still just as hard to kill and 0:29:58.640 --> 0:30:02.240 still just as elusive. Like in my if my in 0:30:02.320 --> 0:30:04.800 my hunting locally, like I hunt one hundred and forty 0:30:04.840 --> 0:30:08.120 inch deer about once every eight years, just the truth, 0:30:08.640 --> 0:30:11.040 I mean, And I have hunted some good deer in 0:30:11.080 --> 0:30:14.360 the last several years. But but I say that, to 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:16.680 say a deer like that, I wouldn't even score because 0:30:16.720 --> 0:30:19.400 it won't it probably won't. It won't score one forty, 0:30:19.960 --> 0:30:22.960 so it might as well just just say you think 0:30:23.040 --> 0:30:26.680 it's one sixty. Yeah, I would just say probably it's 0:30:26.680 --> 0:30:28.920 probably in the ballpark of one sixty. 0:30:30.400 --> 0:30:32.800 But it was the story that meant so much to 0:30:32.840 --> 0:30:35.760 me and just how all the stars aligned. Yeah, well 0:30:35.800 --> 0:30:39.560 all that's well, even just this place I'm hunting is 0:30:39.640 --> 0:30:42.520 some private land that I was I've been picking up 0:30:42.520 --> 0:30:44.920 the phone and writing letters, trying hard to find a 0:30:44.960 --> 0:30:48.040 place to for me and my little girls to hunt. 0:30:48.600 --> 0:30:50.760 It was like winning the lottery, Like I couldn't believe 0:30:50.800 --> 0:30:53.880 that they called me after getting my letter. The summer, 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:57.000 I was scouting and put cameras up, and this is 0:30:57.000 --> 0:30:59.479 one of the first bucks on camera, really, and I 0:30:59.520 --> 0:31:02.640 and I just thought, and he was consistent, I mean 0:31:02.680 --> 0:31:05.160 almost daily, and it was just like is this too 0:31:05.200 --> 0:31:07.080 good to be true? Like I write this letter, I'm 0:31:07.160 --> 0:31:09.800 hunting this land, this does the first buck I see. 0:31:10.320 --> 0:31:12.479 I talked to Jessica and my wife, and I was like, listen, 0:31:12.760 --> 0:31:15.440 he's so consistent. If I stay out there all day 0:31:15.480 --> 0:31:17.880 on opening day, like he will die. There's no way 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:19.560 I'm not gonna see him. I stay all day. So 0:31:19.600 --> 0:31:23.000 I get out there opening day and it's like ninety degrees. 0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:24.600 I don't know if you remember how hot it was. 0:31:24.840 --> 0:31:29.360 It was so hot, and I stay, I saw doze 0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:32.959 just all day. I went came back out around four 0:31:33.000 --> 0:31:36.640 o'clock and thinking like, man, I can't believe this buck 0:31:36.680 --> 0:31:39.680 has it come. Just like so many of those hunts, 0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:42.840 it was right at dusk that these four to doho 0:31:42.920 --> 0:31:45.200 come out. And they come up and all of a sudden, 0:31:45.240 --> 0:31:48.280 it's like they just like I had a neon flashing 0:31:48.360 --> 0:31:51.280 light on me, and they just got so nervous and 0:31:51.320 --> 0:31:53.440 they all were working me and stomping their feet and 0:31:53.480 --> 0:31:57.840 all that jazz for probably about twenty minutes. Oh really, 0:31:58.040 --> 0:32:00.000 And I was just so nervous. I was like these 0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:02.320 I was like, I really hope the buck doesn't come 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:05.120 out right now when these dough are about to sure enough, 0:32:05.160 --> 0:32:08.479 I see three bucks coming from the thicket. And let 0:32:08.520 --> 0:32:10.640 me tell you this. I know where this buck sleeps, 0:32:10.720 --> 0:32:12.600 I know where he eats. I mean, I know his 0:32:12.680 --> 0:32:15.280 schedule and where this guy's at. He comes up from 0:32:15.320 --> 0:32:18.640 the thicket and I'm just thinking, golly, while he's dough 0:32:18.800 --> 0:32:19.920 on me and you. 0:32:19.920 --> 0:32:20.800 Can see him come. 0:32:20.920 --> 0:32:24.120 He's coming, He's coming, and he the doe start walking 0:32:24.160 --> 0:32:26.840 away they were spooked, like, not to the point of running, 0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:29.120 but they're just like, I don't like this guy. And 0:32:29.160 --> 0:32:32.120 he comes in to feed while she's still kind of 0:32:32.120 --> 0:32:34.640 spooked at me, and I just got nervous, like I 0:32:34.680 --> 0:32:37.000 didn't want to wait around too long. And it was dusk, 0:32:38.160 --> 0:32:41.320 and so he was. He was slightly quartered a quarter 0:32:41.440 --> 0:32:44.600 toward me, you know, not preferable. But I knew I 0:32:44.680 --> 0:32:47.200 just I needed to take a shot. Well, I shot, 0:32:47.280 --> 0:32:49.000 and I did hit him. I knew I hit him, 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:52.040 but the way he behaved, I thought, I don't know 0:32:52.040 --> 0:32:52.560 if I hit him. 0:32:52.600 --> 0:32:53.000 Real great. 0:32:53.360 --> 0:32:56.480 He ran twenty yards and looked around with his little 0:32:56.520 --> 0:32:59.840 buddies beside him, and then he just turned up the 0:33:00.160 --> 0:33:01.959 this mountain that I'm on and he just ran one 0:33:02.000 --> 0:33:04.640 hundred yards and I watched him run up the pill 0:33:04.840 --> 0:33:09.040 uphill pill I mean sprinted. I thought, oh no. Well, 0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:13.720 eight minutes later I hear him crash. Well, I got 0:33:13.800 --> 0:33:17.520 down and check my arrow and it was gut shot 0:33:17.680 --> 0:33:21.360 and I was like, golly. To make things crazier with 0:33:21.400 --> 0:33:25.360 it not only getting dark, is we've got a massive 0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:29.320 thunderstorm coming in in about thirty minutes. And me and 0:33:29.400 --> 0:33:31.600 my daughter, my oldest daughter, go out. I mean just 0:33:32.000 --> 0:33:34.880 ride at dawn and we searched high and low that 0:33:35.040 --> 0:33:37.640 area where he was at. We couldn't find blood, We 0:33:37.680 --> 0:33:41.360 couldn't find anything, and it had. 0:33:41.320 --> 0:33:43.960 Poor Yeah, was gone right. 0:33:44.480 --> 0:33:47.600 We searched for two hours up on that mountain and 0:33:47.640 --> 0:33:49.720 then I went down to the thicket where I know 0:33:49.760 --> 0:33:51.960 he beds. I thought that's not where he goes, and 0:33:52.000 --> 0:33:54.040 there'd be water flowing. Looked around a bit and I 0:33:54.080 --> 0:33:56.040 knew that'd be like a need on a haystack. And 0:33:56.120 --> 0:33:58.840 my friend Matt Taylor, he knows the guy with a dog, 0:33:59.520 --> 0:34:02.480 so he come out. He was actually confident about the rain. 0:34:02.560 --> 0:34:05.240 He said that when the deer dying, that there's a 0:34:05.240 --> 0:34:07.920 pharrenomb that released through their hoof, and the rain actually 0:34:08.000 --> 0:34:09.719 kind of spreads it out a bit. And he said 0:34:09.719 --> 0:34:12.680 his dog's tracked after rain all the time. I was like, okay, 0:34:13.320 --> 0:34:16.800 that's yeah exactly. Anyway, he got. 0:34:16.680 --> 0:34:17.560 Some comments on that here. 0:34:17.920 --> 0:34:18.080 Yeah. 0:34:18.120 --> 0:34:21.960 Yeah, he gets out there and the dog she picked up. 0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:24.759 She picked up his trail from where I shot all 0:34:24.760 --> 0:34:28.080 the way up the mountain, and then she got real confused, 0:34:28.960 --> 0:34:32.560 and he said it's it's probably because we were walking 0:34:32.560 --> 0:34:38.560 around so much. So they say, I was like, that's great, excuse. Well, 0:34:38.719 --> 0:34:41.240 he stayed out there. We searched for hours, We worked 0:34:41.239 --> 0:34:43.759 that mountain, and then I convinced him to go down 0:34:43.760 --> 0:34:47.600 to the thicket. We tried the thicket and uh couldn't 0:34:47.640 --> 0:34:50.319 find him, and I was pretty devastated. It was just like, 0:34:50.960 --> 0:34:53.080 I don't know what what to do next. You know, 0:34:53.239 --> 0:34:57.040 it meets gone and this there's just this thicket is bad. 0:34:57.080 --> 0:34:57.920 It's so thick. 0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:00.640 Well, anyway, I slept on it. We'll got Monday morning. 0:35:00.680 --> 0:35:02.600 I said, I'm gonna take a day off work and 0:35:02.640 --> 0:35:05.279 I'm gonna go search that thicket, every inch of it. 0:35:05.520 --> 0:35:07.879 He's got to be there, he's he's got to be dead. 0:35:07.920 --> 0:35:10.320 He's got to be on this eighty acres that I'm hunting. 0:35:11.160 --> 0:35:15.120 So I literally get to that thicket and zig zag 0:35:15.120 --> 0:35:19.000 it in a perfect systematic way. I'll show you my 0:35:19.040 --> 0:35:22.080 on X trail later, Brent and Gary of where I was. 0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:23.960 I was gonna ask if you used on X to 0:35:24.880 --> 0:35:27.200 I'll show you. It'll make a real grid. 0:35:27.320 --> 0:35:30.080 I mean it was crazy. Yeah, But anyway, it's now 0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:33.719 like almost evening and I thought, you know what, I'm 0:35:33.760 --> 0:35:36.000 gonna go walk to the total opposite end of the property. 0:35:36.200 --> 0:35:38.920 I'm gonna make a big circle. I'll go over the 0:35:38.960 --> 0:35:41.080 mountain again, and then I'll go to this fence line 0:35:41.080 --> 0:35:43.799 I know of, And this fence line it splits the 0:35:43.800 --> 0:35:46.399 woods up where this farmer lets his cattle sometimes go, 0:35:46.480 --> 0:35:49.360 and so it's real wide open woods. And then on 0:35:49.440 --> 0:35:51.359 my left will be my thick woods that I think 0:35:51.360 --> 0:35:54.719 he's in. Well, on those rare looks to the right, 0:35:54.880 --> 0:35:57.080 about one hundred and fifty yards, I see a giant 0:35:57.600 --> 0:36:02.320 vulture and I thought, I think I just spook that vulture, 0:36:02.760 --> 0:36:06.160 and so I turned started walking in another one. I 0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:09.839 was like, they're eating something big. I start running and 0:36:09.840 --> 0:36:12.720 there's another vulture, and sure enough that was him. Whoa 0:36:12.960 --> 0:36:17.280 and he he ran from where I shot about four 0:36:17.400 --> 0:36:20.440 hundred and fifty yards. Based on the route he took 0:36:20.520 --> 0:36:22.759 by the crow flies, it was two fifty three hundred 0:36:22.840 --> 0:36:26.200 yards right, and so that's where I got him. It's 0:36:26.880 --> 0:36:29.840 I it was a story of perseverance because I'm the 0:36:29.920 --> 0:36:32.080 kind of person that's like, I don't like taking note 0:36:32.080 --> 0:36:34.640 for an answer, And when I woke up Monday, I 0:36:34.719 --> 0:36:36.360 was like, why do I really need to spend a 0:36:36.440 --> 0:36:38.680 day doing that? It's like, that's just what I've got 0:36:38.680 --> 0:36:39.919 to do. I know he's there. 0:36:40.440 --> 0:36:43.200 You know what. The thing about a gut shot animal 0:36:43.320 --> 0:36:45.920 is that that's a mortal wound, so that that animal 0:36:46.000 --> 0:36:48.080 is gonna be gonna be dead. 0:36:48.400 --> 0:36:48.600 You know. 0:36:49.400 --> 0:36:52.120 Yeah, that's a bummer. You couldn't couldn't find it. 0:36:52.160 --> 0:36:54.040 But yeah, because he had a lot of meat, it 0:36:54.080 --> 0:36:57.319 was it was huge. Yeah, definitely the biggest here. 0:36:57.719 --> 0:36:59.760 I've talked to a guy. I've talked to two people 0:36:59.840 --> 0:37:02.200 and the last couple of weeks that have used drones 0:37:02.239 --> 0:37:03.080 to recover deer. 0:37:04.800 --> 0:37:05.560 Yeah. 0:37:05.680 --> 0:37:09.240 It was actually a guy in Missouri that had shot 0:37:09.280 --> 0:37:11.440 a deer and he told me and I said, and 0:37:11.840 --> 0:37:14.080 he talked to me about what happened, and it was like, 0:37:14.080 --> 0:37:15.440 how'd you find it? And he said, well, I had 0:37:15.480 --> 0:37:18.680 trouble finding it. He used a drone. And I actually 0:37:19.160 --> 0:37:21.200 was like, in the back of my mind was wondering 0:37:21.239 --> 0:37:25.480 if that was legal. Yeah, and because you can't use 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:30.720 drones for hunting, but it's totally one hundred percent legal 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:35.400 in Missouri. I don't know every state, but they're actually companies. 0:37:35.520 --> 0:37:39.200 They are people that are licensed drone operators that have businesses. 0:37:39.200 --> 0:37:44.560 And he called a you know, like drone operator company 0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:48.640 to come and they charged like four hundred dollars just 0:37:48.680 --> 0:37:50.600 to show up and one hundred dollars if they find 0:37:50.600 --> 0:37:53.800 the deer. I read on their Facebook page. So he 0:37:53.840 --> 0:37:55.680 paid them five hundred bucks and they found that deer 0:37:55.760 --> 0:37:58.399 just like that. It really his deer had run nine 0:37:58.480 --> 0:38:02.800 hundred and fifty yards from where he'd shot. Recovery really quickly. 0:38:03.880 --> 0:38:08.520 This is my on X route. That that's my ladder stand. 0:38:09.000 --> 0:38:11.600 That's that thicket, and he was way over here. 0:38:13.880 --> 0:38:22.080 Nice, that's pretty nowhere nowhere. 0:38:21.719 --> 0:38:25.360 Near and and that that all that blue is that thicket. 0:38:25.800 --> 0:38:27.239 Oh we care how you covered it. 0:38:34.680 --> 0:38:37.719 I'm gonna say something here, and it's it's everybody knows 0:38:37.760 --> 0:38:41.160 how pro I am of hound hunters and hounds love hounds, 0:38:41.400 --> 0:38:45.600 grew up running dogs. I'm gonna throw this out there 0:38:45.600 --> 0:38:49.560 for the the dog tracking community. 0:38:49.680 --> 0:38:49.839 Two. 0:38:50.080 --> 0:38:56.400 Uh, I don't know just a charge. I've rarely I 0:38:56.560 --> 0:38:58.399 I when people tell me they're gonna call a dog, 0:38:58.560 --> 0:39:05.000 I'm just like, good luck it it I And it's 0:39:05.000 --> 0:39:07.240 not the dog's fault. It's not the handler's fault. 0:39:07.600 --> 0:39:08.120 And uh. 0:39:08.239 --> 0:39:10.280 And and if some of my friends that have dogs 0:39:10.280 --> 0:39:12.840 and have attracted ear for me, hear this, brothers know 0:39:12.920 --> 0:39:15.480 that I love you every dog handler. I know is 0:39:15.520 --> 0:39:18.520 training a pup? Was your guy training a pup? 0:39:18.840 --> 0:39:18.960 No? 0:39:19.480 --> 0:39:22.279 Are you sure? Well not with us, but it was 0:39:22.320 --> 0:39:24.840 a younger dog that he hadn't run or something. 0:39:24.880 --> 0:39:28.080 Well, no, he it was a veteran dog. He told me. 0:39:28.200 --> 0:39:30.839 He told me a story that's like identical circumstance. 0:39:31.840 --> 0:39:35.839 But everybody, I'm always going to training and uh and 0:39:35.880 --> 0:39:38.760 then uh and then they want you to get out 0:39:39.160 --> 0:39:41.640 and see. This is where the story gets. This is 0:39:41.640 --> 0:39:44.359 where it's tough. You call a dog guy and he's like, well, 0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:48.439 stop looking, and you got to stop looking and wait 0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:50.879 till he gets there. And that's where I think most 0:39:50.920 --> 0:39:53.240 people mess up because you should have just kept looking. 0:39:53.880 --> 0:39:57.759 Do you see what I'm saying? I mean anyway, so 0:39:57.840 --> 0:39:59.879 I've got a little bit of a qualm with dog 0:40:00.280 --> 0:40:03.399 dog trailing, not that there's anything wrong with it, but. 0:40:03.600 --> 0:40:06.200 Just Britain and I am very nervous. 0:40:06.480 --> 0:40:08.799 I mean, I love them, I love love I know 0:40:08.960 --> 0:40:12.200 lots of good dog trailing guys, but I just I 0:40:12.280 --> 0:40:18.000 just haven't seen them. Yeah, and yeah, I've used them before. 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:19.400 I've used them before. 0:40:19.920 --> 0:40:23.160 But yeah, I think what you're trying to say is 0:40:23.160 --> 0:40:24.080 it's not like the. 0:40:24.120 --> 0:40:27.320 Perfect it's not. It's not. I'm not. Yeah, that's the 0:40:27.360 --> 0:40:27.600 good thing. 0:40:27.680 --> 0:40:29.759 I got my hopes of I got my hopes way 0:40:29.760 --> 0:40:30.239 too high. 0:40:30.320 --> 0:40:34.279 Yeah. Most if you've never been around the recovery, and 0:40:34.440 --> 0:40:36.480 people are gonna right me and they're gonna be upset 0:40:36.520 --> 0:40:39.600 with me. I'm just telling you, I've hunted my whole life. 0:40:39.719 --> 0:40:42.680 And when they say you're calling the dog, you're in trouble. 0:40:43.840 --> 0:40:45.880 It's what you should do. You know, what do you do? 0:40:45.880 --> 0:40:46.520 You know what I'm saying. 0:40:46.640 --> 0:40:50.800 I know, here's what you should say. Practice shooting better. 0:40:51.280 --> 0:40:55.560 Yeah yeah, amen, Yeah, put the dog trailers out of business, 0:40:55.640 --> 0:40:56.960 make good shots. Yeah. 0:40:57.000 --> 0:41:00.000 Well, and I think too if if you're referring to people, 0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:02.640 we'll call it a dog almost as a last resort. 0:41:03.120 --> 0:41:06.000 And it is causation or correlation, you know, like these 0:41:06.080 --> 0:41:09.279 things are correlating, but the dog doesn't. But the deer 0:41:09.360 --> 0:41:13.359 is pretty good and lost. Something's wrong. Yes, that's people 0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:16.320 dogs in bad circumstances. 0:41:16.840 --> 0:41:19.560 Exactly, That's exactly PhD. 0:41:19.800 --> 0:41:19.960 Right. 0:41:21.640 --> 0:41:25.040 Yeah, it's just not a guaranteed thing. It's just not 0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:28.399 a guarantee. You walk and now you want a dog 0:41:28.480 --> 0:41:30.560 to find it. Yeah, and he's going to end up 0:41:30.600 --> 0:41:32.880 at Walmart and the grocery section. 0:41:33.120 --> 0:41:35.400 I'm kind of mad at the hunters and I'm so 0:41:35.520 --> 0:41:37.719 pro dog right now that I'm kinda mad. 0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:43.240 No, I mean my father gutshot. It wasn't his, that's true. 0:41:43.560 --> 0:41:47.480 Yeah, well, uh, brand, what was your favorite deer story 0:41:47.920 --> 0:41:49.280 of this one? This episode? 0:41:49.960 --> 0:41:52.560 K C story was good and I've heard him tell 0:41:52.600 --> 0:41:55.320 that one before. You know that that was good. 0:41:55.640 --> 0:41:58.719 Uh And when rattled that buck in you can watch 0:41:58.760 --> 0:42:00.960 that on their YouTube channel. Yeah, it's a good and 0:42:01.600 --> 0:42:02.920 saw the med Eater YouTube channel. 0:42:03.880 --> 0:42:06.799 It's it's a good it's a good story and he 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:10.799 tells it so well. I mean, he's very enthusiastic about it. 0:42:12.239 --> 0:42:17.400 But my as far as my absolute one hundred percent favorite, 0:42:17.440 --> 0:42:21.479 I like yours was great. Come on, I really liked that. 0:42:21.480 --> 0:42:23.640 That was a good story. 0:42:24.520 --> 0:42:26.040 Killing the deer in the coyoke. 0:42:26.280 --> 0:42:27.560 And the deer was good. 0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:29.160 Which one is it? 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:33.560 It's which it's that double white throat patch up there right? 0:42:33.920 --> 0:42:36.560 Yeah, that is pretty in it. 0:42:37.440 --> 0:42:39.480 That's uh. That was a good. 0:42:39.239 --> 0:42:42.000 Story, better than mister Henry's story. 0:42:42.160 --> 0:42:45.160 Mister Henry is great, and I don't know that I 0:42:45.160 --> 0:42:46.960 could pick a favorite of him because there's there was 0:42:46.960 --> 0:42:49.120 a lot of differences in him. You know and that 0:42:49.280 --> 0:42:52.400 even the dog hunting story, you know, yeah, I identify 0:42:52.600 --> 0:42:56.680 that we used to have dogs, running dogs and deer dogs, 0:42:56.719 --> 0:42:59.279 but we didn't have walkers. We had beagles. I was 0:42:59.320 --> 0:43:02.120 telling somebody that other day about there was like, man, 0:43:02.440 --> 0:43:06.440 you know them walker dogs or throat pushing those dear 0:43:06.520 --> 0:43:08.600 bodyes so fast. You know, it's like a quick drawl. 0:43:09.400 --> 0:43:12.000 You know, it's like a shooting gallery out there. And 0:43:12.040 --> 0:43:14.680 I was like, man, we had beagles and we sat 0:43:14.760 --> 0:43:16.680 on the I remember sitting on the stand one time. 0:43:16.800 --> 0:43:18.799 These beagles. Can hear them coming out there and they 0:43:18.840 --> 0:43:22.759 sound like, you know, miniature hound dogs. And they was 0:43:23.239 --> 0:43:25.680 and they had logged in this in this place where 0:43:25.680 --> 0:43:28.560 I was. Where I was, we were hunting the year before, 0:43:28.600 --> 0:43:32.120 the winter before, so there was and it had been wet, 0:43:32.200 --> 0:43:34.719 so there was some deep skinner ruts in there, and 0:43:34.760 --> 0:43:36.959 you could hear you could hear them, the beagles coming, 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:43.480 but they was oh oh, And then you hear them. 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:48.360 No going down, And I thought, what the world is that? 0:43:48.440 --> 0:43:49.920 And I got to look it out there and I 0:43:49.920 --> 0:43:52.399 could see like a hundred yards you can see them 0:43:52.480 --> 0:43:54.920 all together coming across the top of the ground and 0:43:54.960 --> 0:43:57.520 put the disappeared barely. 0:43:58.239 --> 0:43:59.760 That's great falling in the sky. 0:44:01.320 --> 0:44:05.200 But anything with dogs, man, you know, I'm am about that. 0:44:06.080 --> 0:44:11.080 But mister Henry, mister Henry, is that guy's a legend. 0:44:12.120 --> 0:44:14.399 I'm surprised I hadn't already heard about him. 0:44:14.680 --> 0:44:17.080 Yeah. Yeah, But then which one stood out to you? 0:44:17.120 --> 0:44:17.279 Well? 0:44:17.320 --> 0:44:19.719 The dog one was my favorite. And I'll tell you yeah, 0:44:20.200 --> 0:44:23.440 because saw my granddad deer hunted in the nineteen thirties 0:44:23.440 --> 0:44:27.719 and forties on horseback when there's hardly any deer in Arkansas, 0:44:28.360 --> 0:44:30.480 and that was the way they hunted. And so I've 0:44:30.520 --> 0:44:34.480 just grown up hearing those legends. And then that's how 0:44:34.520 --> 0:44:38.319 my dad started out hunting too, and so I've never 0:44:38.400 --> 0:44:42.040 got to experience that. So when I hear those stories 0:44:42.360 --> 0:44:44.520 and relate them to what I hear my granddad talking 0:44:44.520 --> 0:44:48.239 about growing up, it's it's like it helps me experience that. 0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:51.200 And when they talked about killing those three bucks, yeah, 0:44:51.360 --> 0:44:53.640 it's like I could just feel like how epic that 0:44:53.640 --> 0:44:57.680 would have been. How the camaraderie, Like it's like, wow, 0:44:57.880 --> 0:45:00.480 like all these guys bringing all these I mean, I 0:45:00.520 --> 0:45:02.799 had to have been just such a huge day for 0:45:02.880 --> 0:45:07.560 all of them. Yeah, involved, So I really enjoyed that 0:45:07.600 --> 0:45:08.520 story of all of them were good. 0:45:08.800 --> 0:45:11.200 There were so many unwritten rules about that too. You like, 0:45:11.280 --> 0:45:14.879 the camp next door had dogs, and they run their 0:45:14.920 --> 0:45:17.399 dogs run a deer in front of us, And if 0:45:17.440 --> 0:45:19.399 we killed a dog or killed a deer in front 0:45:19.400 --> 0:45:22.719 of their dogs, we gave them half the deer. I 0:45:22.840 --> 0:45:26.240 was just might as like one of the eleventh Commandment. 0:45:27.040 --> 0:45:29.799 Everybody did that. Lots of stuff like that, and they 0:45:29.840 --> 0:45:32.160 would just make for good neighbors. 0:45:32.440 --> 0:45:35.640 Yeah, Dad, which one stood out to you? 0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:35.879 Well? 0:45:35.960 --> 0:45:38.840 Obviously I liked yours the best, but if I hadn't 0:45:39.640 --> 0:45:43.440 raised you, I would probably you know, I liked the 0:45:43.440 --> 0:45:46.080 two hundred inch buck because it's so unusual. I mean, 0:45:46.120 --> 0:45:48.520 that's just like a freak story. I mean, how many 0:45:48.520 --> 0:45:51.799 guys in America has killed a two hundred inch buck? Yeah, so, 0:45:51.840 --> 0:45:55.120 I mean that's that's in a category all by itself. 0:45:55.680 --> 0:45:59.920 But mister Henry, mister Henry smokes. I saw that picture 0:46:00.080 --> 0:46:03.399 of his room, Yeah, that I've never seen a room 0:46:03.560 --> 0:46:04.320 like that before. 0:46:04.560 --> 0:46:04.759 Yeah. 0:46:04.800 --> 0:46:07.200 I mean, this guy's killed more bucks than I've ever 0:46:07.280 --> 0:46:11.640 even thought about. Yeah, and uh, you know for him 0:46:11.680 --> 0:46:15.120 to still be going at age eighty, I mean, like, 0:46:16.600 --> 0:46:19.560 you know, we we tracked some of the same periods. 0:46:19.600 --> 0:46:22.920 You know, I'm seventy five, he's eighty. Uh he could hunt. 0:46:22.960 --> 0:46:23.560 I couldn't. 0:46:24.320 --> 0:46:24.680 Uh. 0:46:25.040 --> 0:46:28.640 And so I see what he did and and I 0:46:28.680 --> 0:46:31.239 mean I'm like in awe, this guy. Yeah, I mean 0:46:31.280 --> 0:46:34.279 he's like did you say he was a legend? Should 0:46:34.320 --> 0:46:36.239 have been a legend we should have known about. I mean, 0:46:36.280 --> 0:46:38.400 you know, he's I don't think there's many people in 0:46:38.440 --> 0:46:41.759 the whole country that can match what him and his 0:46:41.840 --> 0:46:45.680 son did. Yeah, yeah, I was shocked. Like so my 0:46:46.000 --> 0:46:48.560 one of my one of my friends, Tracy Jones, over 0:46:48.560 --> 0:46:52.040 in East Tennessee, had said, Hey, there's a guy you 0:46:52.120 --> 0:46:55.000 got to meet over here in the mountains, and uh 0:46:55.719 --> 0:46:58.799 and and I knew nothing of this guy other than 0:46:58.840 --> 0:47:02.120 just what my friend told me. And uh so I 0:47:02.160 --> 0:47:05.600 went over there, and I didn't know what I was expecting. 0:47:05.680 --> 0:47:08.040 But that's not what I was expecting. Henry let us 0:47:08.080 --> 0:47:11.440 in his house. And and that video actually did not 0:47:11.600 --> 0:47:16.120 show the entire room. There were walls behind me that 0:47:16.200 --> 0:47:19.520 were full of big deer on Instagram. 0:47:19.560 --> 0:47:21.319 Yeah, yeah, I love I loved it. 0:47:22.040 --> 0:47:25.000 You probably told it the story better than the story 0:47:25.080 --> 0:47:28.760 really was about the guy's accusing him and his son. 0:47:29.000 --> 0:47:32.200 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you said, well, and then they're 0:47:32.200 --> 0:47:36.239 hard enough to kill in the day. There are enough 0:47:36.239 --> 0:47:38.120 to kill in the daytime. I can't imagine trying to 0:47:38.200 --> 0:47:44.359 kill them the night. Yeah, no, they The other thing 0:47:44.440 --> 0:47:48.319 is is that they those are all I didn't say it, 0:47:48.480 --> 0:47:50.759 but those are almost all public land deer. 0:47:51.160 --> 0:47:51.319 Now. 0:47:51.719 --> 0:47:54.719 A lot of the biggest ones came from Illinois, you know. 0:47:54.800 --> 0:47:58.319 They They have gone to Illinois for thirty years and 0:47:58.360 --> 0:48:04.600 have and have They were never outfitted hunts. And he's 0:48:04.640 --> 0:48:06.080 just done it. He's just done a lot. But a 0:48:06.120 --> 0:48:10.160 neat guy. He just vibrated with excitement talking to him 0:48:10.160 --> 0:48:13.080 for real. Eve know, most older people you talk to 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:16.600 their deer story is I've killed so. 0:48:16.600 --> 0:48:18.840 Many deer, I don't care about doing it anymore. 0:48:19.280 --> 0:48:23.359 Right, So when you find a guy like that, is 0:48:24.200 --> 0:48:27.480 that is so unique in itself that he's still fired 0:48:27.560 --> 0:48:30.200 up in seventy Now I'm sunenty five and I'm still 0:48:30.239 --> 0:48:33.680 fired up. Yeah, just as much as I was when 0:48:33.680 --> 0:48:36.120 I was thirty five. I dream about getting out, But 0:48:36.200 --> 0:48:40.160 after this knee surgery, I found other hobbies. Yeah that 0:48:40.280 --> 0:48:40.640 I like. 0:48:41.280 --> 0:48:42.040 It's easier. 0:48:42.600 --> 0:48:44.680 Yeah. I found hobbies that I don't have to climb 0:48:44.760 --> 0:48:46.680 moundas that I want to climb trees. I don't have 0:48:46.719 --> 0:48:49.440 to worry about older. I just go out and enjoy 0:48:49.520 --> 0:48:51.959 my hobby. So but I can't help it. I'm gonna 0:48:52.000 --> 0:48:54.840 be back in the woods at some time. Yeah yeah, 0:48:55.560 --> 0:48:59.319 Well the other thing, and I captured some of this 0:48:59.400 --> 0:49:02.960 on video that it doesn't really translate into putting it 0:49:03.000 --> 0:49:07.520 on social media that easy. But mister Henry has designed 0:49:07.560 --> 0:49:10.440 a tree stand that he's used for thirty years. He 0:49:10.480 --> 0:49:14.320 has a unique tree stand that's all his own design really, 0:49:14.440 --> 0:49:19.640 that's real lightweight and compact and that he uses. He 0:49:19.719 --> 0:49:25.040 has a he built an electronic deer cart for hauling deer. 0:49:25.320 --> 0:49:27.000 You know, once he got older and was hunting that 0:49:27.080 --> 0:49:31.040 far back in the mountains, he needed a cart. And man, 0:49:31.120 --> 0:49:35.359 that part of the world is it is incredible. They 0:49:35.400 --> 0:49:37.760 got big mountains too. I mean he was talking about 0:49:37.920 --> 0:49:42.040 those boomer little boomer chipmunk squirrels being over five thousand feet. 0:49:42.320 --> 0:49:45.319 I mean that's a high mountain with big relief. Like 0:49:45.480 --> 0:49:47.480 you know, if you're in Denver, Colorado, and you talking 0:49:47.480 --> 0:49:49.600 about a five thousand foot mountain, it might be flat. 0:49:50.000 --> 0:49:53.080 I mean, you know, the relief means how much mountain 0:49:53.120 --> 0:49:56.760 is actually there, but out there five thousand foot mountain 0:49:56.840 --> 0:50:01.160 might have four thousand feet of Really that's a big mountain. 0:50:01.719 --> 0:50:01.920 You know. 0:50:02.000 --> 0:50:02.600 One thing he. 0:50:02.719 --> 0:50:04.680 Said that that caught my attention. 0:50:05.400 --> 0:50:07.879 You're talking about five thousand feet, you're talking about going 0:50:07.920 --> 0:50:11.440 deep into wilderness. But he at least once said he 0:50:11.520 --> 0:50:15.240 went back, you know an hour. Yeah, I'm thinking about 0:50:15.320 --> 0:50:18.320 places that you and I've hunted. 0:50:18.360 --> 0:50:21.040 I mean it's an hour and a half, two hours. 0:50:21.360 --> 0:50:24.000 Yeah, So I mean I don't know, maybe the road 0:50:24.239 --> 0:50:27.000 I don't know, but I don't question this guy at all. 0:50:27.200 --> 0:50:29.400 I mean any way, I mean he is like my 0:50:29.560 --> 0:50:30.240 new hero. 0:50:31.239 --> 0:50:36.160 Yeah. What did you think about Aaron Stanfol's confession? 0:50:37.000 --> 0:50:38.799 That was the funny story? You know what I thought 0:50:38.800 --> 0:50:40.799 about with that. I was like, you know when you're 0:50:40.800 --> 0:50:44.000 watching a sitcom and you're like kind of chuckling and laughing, 0:50:44.080 --> 0:50:45.600 and you kind of if you ever stopped and be like, 0:50:45.880 --> 0:50:48.840 if somebody did that in real life like that. 0:50:48.680 --> 0:50:50.520 It wouldn't be funny, it wouldn't be funny. 0:50:50.320 --> 0:50:54.880 And you wouldn't Yeah, You're like, nobody would actually do that. 0:50:54.880 --> 0:50:57.880 That's how it felt. Like, listen to the story, it's like, 0:50:57.920 --> 0:50:59.520 oh my gosh, you really did that. 0:51:02.400 --> 0:51:06.320 Well, I would say the best thing that he did. 0:51:07.160 --> 0:51:09.839 Was he told the story? Yeah, I mean if he 0:51:10.600 --> 0:51:15.600 and I think he really was, like he was paying 0:51:15.640 --> 0:51:17.440 penance by just like telling the story. 0:51:17.680 --> 0:51:21.160 Well, I just I'll tell this story just because it's funny. 0:51:21.440 --> 0:51:25.680 I don't because I don't feel guilty about it at all. 0:51:26.040 --> 0:51:31.239 But you mentioned my brother earlier. Tim, we did. We 0:51:31.320 --> 0:51:34.279 have shared everything together. He's eight years older than me. 0:51:34.719 --> 0:51:38.719 He is absolutely next week. He is absolutely my hero 0:51:38.960 --> 0:51:41.360 to this very second, always has been. He took me 0:51:41.480 --> 0:51:43.600 hunting when he should have been left me at home 0:51:43.640 --> 0:51:46.080 because I was more in the way than the help. 0:51:46.719 --> 0:51:47.319 But he took me. 0:51:47.480 --> 0:51:48.560 And him I have a lot in common. 0:51:49.960 --> 0:51:54.960 He took me with him, and we shared everything except turkeys. 0:51:55.800 --> 0:51:58.880 You know. He would go listen and I would go listen. 0:51:59.560 --> 0:52:02.080 I call and that night you hear turkey. This morning, nope, 0:52:02.160 --> 0:52:05.640 you hear one. I heard three, Nope, I didn't hear anything, 0:52:06.320 --> 0:52:08.799 and gone so far as to He's like, I'm not 0:52:08.840 --> 0:52:11.520 hearing anything down here at the river. I'm going to 0:52:11.600 --> 0:52:13.799 go somewhere else. I would go so far as to 0:52:13.880 --> 0:52:16.680 taking the turkey foot I had dried out and make 0:52:16.760 --> 0:52:18.680 tracks where I knew he was going to see him. 0:52:19.920 --> 0:52:22.680 He's like, man I got some sign down here and 0:52:22.840 --> 0:52:26.279 I cannot hear this turkey. I'm like, bro, just hanging there. 0:52:28.200 --> 0:52:30.719 He's in there. You got this, you just got You 0:52:30.800 --> 0:52:33.279 got to lay with it just to keep him off 0:52:33.280 --> 0:52:33.960 of my spot. 0:52:35.200 --> 0:52:39.120 So okay, so this is this is no different than what. 0:52:39.239 --> 0:52:42.160 It is, exactly the same thing, even more links that 0:52:42.239 --> 0:52:45.759 you're going. There was no when it came to turkeys. Now, 0:52:46.120 --> 0:52:48.480 deer wasn't that big a deal for me and him, 0:52:48.520 --> 0:52:51.439 So we were actually scared. We was going to kill 0:52:51.440 --> 0:52:53.319 a deer. Didn't have to mess with it while we 0:52:53.320 --> 0:52:55.880 were So we just did the deer hunting to keep 0:52:55.960 --> 0:52:59.680 us busy till duck season started. So I get it. 0:52:59.719 --> 0:53:02.160 I know where they're coming from. I don't know why 0:53:02.160 --> 0:53:05.600 Fest up to it, but because you can go to 0:53:05.600 --> 0:53:12.640 heaven with that on your conscious, surely, I hope people 0:53:12.719 --> 0:53:14.319 a turkey hunter, I am good to go. 0:53:17.239 --> 0:53:21.040 Uh. I thought his story of killing the two bucks 0:53:21.040 --> 0:53:22.680 in Kansas was really good too. 0:53:23.719 --> 0:53:24.880 They stay apart. 0:53:25.719 --> 0:53:27.080 It just sounds so easy. 0:53:27.760 --> 0:53:29.960 All those were very very good stories. 0:53:30.040 --> 0:53:30.719 Every one of. 0:53:30.680 --> 0:53:35.640 Them just unbelievable. Most of them, well, we've done so 0:53:35.680 --> 0:53:41.560 We've done three deer Stories podcasts and just a full disclosure. 0:53:41.719 --> 0:53:45.040 Part of the Deer Stories thing is a function of 0:53:45.680 --> 0:53:47.640 the amount of work that it takes to do a 0:53:47.719 --> 0:53:52.800 documentary style podcast. And in the fall, we're we're hunting, 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:57.799 we're traveling, we're doing stuff, And so the Deer Stories 0:53:58.000 --> 0:54:01.200 is a way for me to collect stories. And I 0:54:01.560 --> 0:54:04.280 love him just as much as his documentary style podcast. Honestly, 0:54:04.560 --> 0:54:07.280 I think it's a good change of pace for people, 0:54:07.760 --> 0:54:11.960 and and I I really, I really enjoy it. But 0:54:12.040 --> 0:54:15.880 we're about to We're about to start learning stuff again. Sorry, guys, you' 0:54:15.920 --> 0:54:19.160 are gonna actually have to listen and pay attention and 0:54:19.200 --> 0:54:22.240 not have any more fun. We're just like, it's gonna 0:54:22.239 --> 0:54:27.319 be like a militant journey through American history culture, deep 0:54:27.400 --> 0:54:30.319 dives into yourself. We're gonna be digging up our own 0:54:30.760 --> 0:54:34.200 our own issues, looking at the world. You ready, Missy. 0:54:34.360 --> 0:54:36.239 Hey, I'm just saying I know about a couple of these. 0:54:36.280 --> 0:54:38.480 It's gonna be a good It's gonna be a good 0:54:38.480 --> 0:54:39.000 little run. 0:54:39.520 --> 0:54:41.560 Yeah. Oh gosh, I wish I could. I wish I 0:54:41.560 --> 0:54:43.680 could tell you what I'm working on. I've got three 0:54:43.760 --> 0:54:47.160 things I'm working on. Your shadow. 0:54:48.400 --> 0:54:51.719 I have a funny story about about Bear, our son 0:54:52.000 --> 0:54:56.000 who's had an incredible dear season so far. Yeah, he's 0:54:56.320 --> 0:54:59.280 gone out and and and sought a lot of land 0:54:59.360 --> 0:55:02.040 and done a lot of scouting and has good public 0:55:02.120 --> 0:55:06.560 land options and uh. He he's good at recruiting people 0:55:06.600 --> 0:55:09.000 to come with him. So there's there's a little crew 0:55:09.040 --> 0:55:11.840 of guys that goes out and they go out and hunt, 0:55:12.080 --> 0:55:14.560 and then he's also good at bringing them back to 0:55:14.640 --> 0:55:18.040 help him process his his deer. He does a great 0:55:18.080 --> 0:55:19.799 job of that. And he was telling us about one 0:55:19.800 --> 0:55:23.920 of his friends. One of his friends has a romantic interest. 0:55:24.960 --> 0:55:27.320 I think I think this is this is an okay 0:55:27.320 --> 0:55:29.839 story to tell. I don't think I'm disclosing anything, and 0:55:30.120 --> 0:55:37.239 has been less interested in helping Bear process venison this 0:55:39.600 --> 0:55:42.920 the he Bear said, they have a group chat all 0:55:42.920 --> 0:55:45.960 these guys, and Bear texted and said, hey, you've not 0:55:46.080 --> 0:55:49.799 been as a as as in the deer hunting this year. 0:55:49.840 --> 0:55:53.160 What's going on? I think you your priorities are are 0:55:53.200 --> 0:55:56.200 a little a little skewed this year. And the guy 0:55:56.200 --> 0:55:59.040 writes back on the thread to all the guys and 0:55:59.080 --> 0:56:02.560 he said, bear into your You'll understand when your priorities change. 0:56:03.800 --> 0:56:07.200 And bear bear in front of all of us. We're 0:56:07.200 --> 0:56:10.000 all processing. We had like a little meat processing party, 0:56:10.160 --> 0:56:16.479 and Bear very adamantly and boldly said, my priorities will 0:56:16.520 --> 0:56:23.560 never change. I told my mom, and she said, you 0:56:23.560 --> 0:56:27.680 need to record that somewhere. 0:56:27.840 --> 0:56:31.360 The same thing, the same reason y'all got your processing 0:56:31.360 --> 0:56:33.120 the deer is the same thing that's going to happen 0:56:33.200 --> 0:56:33.480 to Bear. 0:56:33.520 --> 0:56:34.160 One. 0:56:36.160 --> 0:56:37.200 I haven't heard that one. 0:56:37.440 --> 0:56:39.359 Yeah, he said. We had a good way. 0:56:39.440 --> 0:56:43.600 Strangely, I think Bear will have his life management skills 0:56:43.640 --> 0:56:48.200 down enough that he will be able to maintain high 0:56:48.280 --> 0:56:50.440 levels of integrity in both categories. 0:56:50.480 --> 0:56:52.640 Well, I looked at him. I said, Bear, I'm pretty 0:56:52.680 --> 0:56:54.839 sure your priorities are going to change. And he said, well, 0:56:54.920 --> 0:56:57.200 what I'm saying and he started back pund a little bit. 0:56:57.920 --> 0:57:00.480 I'm just saying that I think that my I alreadies 0:57:00.480 --> 0:57:03.000 will be such that it can accommodate both. I will 0:57:03.040 --> 0:57:05.560 not have to cut back on any deer hunting. I'm 0:57:05.600 --> 0:57:07.239 telling you right now, Bear needs to cut back on 0:57:07.280 --> 0:57:12.520 his deer hunting, working to school. His priorities are not 0:57:12.600 --> 0:57:17.200 quite what they should be right now. But he's had 0:57:17.240 --> 0:57:21.840 a very successful hunting Season's funny. 0:57:22.000 --> 0:57:22.800 That's good. That's good. 0:57:23.000 --> 0:57:26.120 That's good. Well, Hey, thank you guys so much. Ben, 0:57:26.200 --> 0:57:30.080 congratulations on the big buck. Thanks Brent. This country life man, 0:57:30.280 --> 0:57:31.120 it's going awesome. 0:57:31.320 --> 0:57:31.600 Thank you. 0:57:31.960 --> 0:57:35.680 Hey, I will tell you this, I will foreshadow touch here. 0:57:35.880 --> 0:57:38.040 Here we go, Brent Raves and I are fixing to 0:57:38.040 --> 0:57:39.840 do a Mississippi River expedition. 0:57:40.480 --> 0:57:42.800 Oh, the cats out, the catfish is out of the 0:57:43.360 --> 0:57:43.880 Look at what I. 0:57:43.880 --> 0:57:44.240 Kind of had. 0:57:44.280 --> 0:57:45.880 I'm wearing right here all that if you want to 0:57:45.920 --> 0:57:49.400 read that, Ben, what's it say? Boats arc man, Me 0:57:49.440 --> 0:57:53.120 and Brent have a I love it so much. Me 0:57:53.160 --> 0:57:55.920 and Brent have a twenty six foot sea arc boat 0:57:56.160 --> 0:58:00.480 with a three hundred horsepower Suzuki fully covered. I mean, 0:58:00.520 --> 0:58:05.720 it's it's just shy of Noah's Arc. And uh, we 0:58:05.800 --> 0:58:09.600 are we are going on a two hundred, two hundred 0:58:09.720 --> 0:58:15.120 plus mile expedition down the Mississippi River like our forefathers, 0:58:15.200 --> 0:58:19.560 Davy Crockett, Whole Collier. Just starting to list of names. 0:58:19.600 --> 0:58:25.440 They've been there, Twains, Daniel Boone, They've been there. And uh, 0:58:25.840 --> 0:58:31.640 We're going on a deer hunt, cat fishing trip, duck 0:58:31.720 --> 0:58:35.920 hunting trip on the Mississippi River. And at some point 0:58:35.960 --> 0:58:40.760 in the years to come, perhaps this will be people 0:58:40.760 --> 0:58:44.200 could see this through digital imagery. 0:58:46.280 --> 0:58:46.520 Be good. 0:58:46.760 --> 0:58:50.320 Yeah, I'm looking forward to Are they up here now? 0:58:50.440 --> 0:58:53.320 They're at We're SEC. Yeah, they're in Monticello. 0:58:53.440 --> 0:58:55.320 Ar good folks. 0:58:55.840 --> 0:58:58.600 I was telling Steve Arnello about our Sea Arc boat 0:58:58.960 --> 0:59:01.400 and Steve was like, I have a Sea Arc boat 0:59:01.920 --> 0:59:06.040 and I said, well, they're from Arkansas, and uh yeah, Steve, 0:59:06.160 --> 0:59:07.120 Steve has a Sea Arc. 0:59:07.960 --> 0:59:10.840 You eat a lot of boat companies in Arkansas. Yeah, yeah, 0:59:10.920 --> 0:59:11.520 what happens. 0:59:11.560 --> 0:59:14.320 These guys work for like Ranger, and they learned the 0:59:14.360 --> 0:59:17.000 business and then they moved down here and start their own. 0:59:17.360 --> 0:59:19.680 That might not be how all this works, but you 0:59:19.760 --> 0:59:23.960 see it in a lot in different areas. Yeah. A 0:59:23.960 --> 0:59:26.080 good friend of mine, a college friend of mine that's 0:59:26.120 --> 0:59:30.120 got the Express boat in Hot Springs in Ranger boats 0:59:30.120 --> 0:59:32.280 in that boat and there's probably one or two that 0:59:32.320 --> 0:59:35.000 I'm forgetting. This War Eagle made in Arkansas. 0:59:35.320 --> 0:59:38.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's one of the best duck boats there. 0:59:38.680 --> 0:59:44.040 Used to be Arc. Sea Arc is there. They're good stuff. 0:59:44.160 --> 0:59:46.000 Get a lot of good folks down there. I've been 0:59:46.040 --> 0:59:48.360 down there several times and I've gotten real close with 0:59:48.400 --> 0:59:51.560 the folks that are building our boat, and man they 0:59:51.600 --> 0:59:58.960 are they are absolutely focused on making boats and stuff. 0:59:58.960 --> 1:00:00.360 That we can use and a lot of folks can 1:00:00.480 --> 1:00:01.600 use out there on the big water. 1:00:01.840 --> 1:00:05.760 It's twenty six foot. That's you wouldn't much smaller, would you. 1:00:06.080 --> 1:00:09.080 Well, you wouldn't want much bigger really on for a 1:00:09.680 --> 1:00:12.040 like a pleasure craft, just because it would be too big. 1:00:12.080 --> 1:00:14.880 That's a big boat. Yeah, Yeah, that's a big boat. 1:00:15.120 --> 1:00:17.560 I mean it's it's made for the Mississippi River. I 1:00:17.560 --> 1:00:20.400 mean that's what that am I right, Bren, Absolutely, I 1:00:20.440 --> 1:00:21.919 mean that that's a river boat. 1:00:22.000 --> 1:00:23.760 That's the Mississippi river boat. 1:00:23.800 --> 1:00:27.400 I mean that's longer than this room we're in. Your 1:00:27.440 --> 1:00:32.360 cousin has had a twenty three foot and he had 1:00:32.440 --> 1:00:35.960 plans to go down the Mississippi. I don't remember if 1:00:36.000 --> 1:00:38.080 he ever did it, but twenty three I think would 1:00:38.080 --> 1:00:41.240 be a minimum. Yeah, I mean he can get dangerous 1:00:41.280 --> 1:00:44.400 out there. The river's super low right now. The river 1:00:44.520 --> 1:00:47.840 that's the only bummer about it. For the next little 1:00:47.840 --> 1:00:49.880 wild River's gonna be really low, which I mean won't 1:00:49.880 --> 1:00:53.840 make any difference. It's big enough for us to get down. 1:00:54.680 --> 1:00:59.240 But Mississippi River she's going dry, pretty preacher man says 1:00:59.240 --> 1:01:03.600 the end of time, Mississippi River she's a going dry. Yeah, yeah, 1:01:03.640 --> 1:01:04.400 what's the rest of the. 1:01:04.320 --> 1:01:08.800 Song, Hank, country Boy can't Survive. 1:01:09.640 --> 1:01:12.280 That was the class song for the senior class, right 1:01:12.280 --> 1:01:12.720 ahead of me. 1:01:13.320 --> 1:01:14.520 Is that right cool? 1:01:14.560 --> 1:01:19.440 Well, guys, thanks for coming. Good to see Ben, Dad, Misty. 1:01:20.280 --> 1:01:21.120 Great to see everyone. 1:01:21.400 --> 1:01:22.400 Good to see you play. 1:01:23.000 --> 1:01:24.120 Have a great week. Everybody's