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Speaker 1: My name is Clay Nucleman. I'm the host of the

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Speaker 1: Bear Hunting Magazine podcast. I'll also be your host into

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Speaker 1: the world of hunting icon of North American wilderness. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about tactics, gear, conservation, but will also bring you

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Speaker 1: into some of the wildest country on the planet. Chasing

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Speaker 1: the battery nationally, we're kind of thought of it's just

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Speaker 1: a bunch of hillbillys um so to retaliate that here

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Speaker 1: in Northwest Darts So we've got a billion dollars worth

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Speaker 1: of artwork at Crystal Bridges. We've got James Beard Award

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Speaker 1: winning chefs. I'm telling you. We are high for Luton,

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Speaker 1: so let me bring my squirrels and cook them on

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Speaker 1: your street. I like your style, man, I like it.

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Speaker 1: On this podcast, we're gonna go to a really special place.

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Speaker 1: We went to the World Championships Squirrel cook Off, and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna hear a lot of different things inside of this.

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Speaker 1: We went around and interviewed almost all the contestants that

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Speaker 1: cooked in this contest, So you're gonna hear from these

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Speaker 1: also met with the founder of this event, Joe Wilson.

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Speaker 1: We talked in depth with him about the history of

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Speaker 1: this contest, why did it, and what it's all about.

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Speaker 1: Western Bear Foundation. You've heard me say it over and over,

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Speaker 1: but these guys are fighting the good fight out west

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Speaker 1: great service out there. They're rescripting the narrative in that

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Speaker 1: region for what it means to be a conservation minded

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Speaker 1: and you'll support a great organization. Check them out. The

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Speaker 1: World Championship Squirrel cook Off was started in two thousand

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Speaker 1: founder of the event, Joe Wilson, that was done quite

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Speaker 1: The irony of that is is on a national level,

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Speaker 1: I'm known as the go to red neck here in Bentonville.

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Speaker 1: gonna need a little backstory. So Bobby Petrino became the

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Speaker 1: We figuratively ate some crow and our beloved Razorbacks still

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Speaker 1: Hey man, he gave me a week and I threw

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Speaker 1: I'm here with Jonathan Wilkins. We're at the World Championship

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Speaker 1: Squirrel cook Off. The best squirrel cooks from around the

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Speaker 1: world flock in to Bentonville, Arkansas once a year. Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Wilkins is one of those cooks. What did you cook today, man? Man?

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Speaker 1: I did a I did a kurt curried squirrel. I

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Speaker 1: served that on top of some duck fat French fries

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Speaker 1: and paired it with a squirrel and fuse duck fat vinigrette.

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Speaker 1: Uh that I put on top of just a cucumber

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Speaker 1: tomato salad kind of helped cut the heat from the curry.

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Speaker 1: Where'd you get your squirrels? Man? I shot about half

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Speaker 1: of them and my father in law shot the other

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Speaker 1: half of them down in the swamps of Arkansas, Southeast Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: Is that right? No? I think I think we killed

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Speaker 1: them all in central right around a little rock. You

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Speaker 1: double you double fried those, uh those fries too, right? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: brass a re style. So you cook him first for

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Speaker 1: like five minutes at to fifty. That'll get the inside

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Speaker 1: kind of creamy and soft, let them cool down, and

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Speaker 1: then fry him and get at three fifty now to

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Speaker 1: get your crispy right on. Man, Well, I wish you'd

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Speaker 1: saved something for me, but I didn't even get any Man,

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Speaker 1: we can we can work it out. I can make

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Speaker 1: it for you again something. Oh man, all right, well

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Speaker 1: we'll see good luck man. I'm standing here at the

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Speaker 1: back Country Hunters and Anglers Booth with Ryan Pettigrew, Kip Krueger,

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Speaker 1: and uh Man, you just turned in all your food.

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Speaker 1: How you feeling a little bit defeated right now? Especially

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Speaker 1: I'm generally optimistic, but we got a little focused on

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Speaker 1: feeding the public. They were excited about getting some squirrel meeting.

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Speaker 1: We kind of missed our timing on our turn in

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But tell us what you cooked. It

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Speaker 1: was awesome, man, I had some of the I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We did squirrel carneta's and a little bit of squirrel

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Speaker 1: stock black bean refried beans with it. Can you give us,

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Speaker 1: uh without giving away all your your secrets, can you

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about the process of cooking

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Speaker 1: these squirrels. Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you the whole process, man,

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Speaker 1: because it's uh, it's not that complicated. So we got

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Speaker 1: a limited timeframe to to get these squirrels tender, and

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Speaker 1: you gotta cook whole squirrels. So we're pressure cooking them

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Speaker 1: uh and uh some citrus heavy stock and then we're

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Speaker 1: picking them off the carcass. We're reducing that stock down,

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Speaker 1: tossing them back into that and then and getting the

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Speaker 1: skillet sere and hot with with butter and oil and

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Speaker 1: putting a crisp on them and then salting them up

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Speaker 1: and serving them. So you're serving them on like tortillas

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Speaker 1: and chips. You're making some nachos. Well, for for the public,

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Speaker 1: we did kind of nachos. We did a caso that

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Speaker 1: had a Venison burger in it that I had, and

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Speaker 1: then uh, that's we we did the case, so put

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Speaker 1: it on the chips, put the squirrel on top of that,

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Speaker 1: and that's kinda we served to the public. But we

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Speaker 1: did a little bit different, something different for the judges.

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Speaker 1: So what are you guys gonna do when if you

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Speaker 1: get the W I mean, what's gonna happen? Is your

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Speaker 1: life gonna change? I don't, I don't. I mean, I

479
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Speaker 1: don't even know what you win. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: you know. Honestly, we were out we were out here. Well,

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Speaker 1: you quit your day job, possibly where would you move? Okay,

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Speaker 1: if you win, you would, you would you would sell

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Speaker 1: what you got here and moved. Now, I don't think

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Speaker 1: i'd moved. I like it a lot right here. There's

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Speaker 1: lots of public land around. I've got private property to hunt.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just like we're loaded with outdoor opera tunities

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Speaker 1: here in North Arkansas. So you know, I'm fine taking

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Speaker 1: my trips out west or whatever and I'll just hang

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Speaker 1: out here. Now, what about you, Kip? For sure, if

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Speaker 1: you win, it's gonna change your life. I think we'd

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Speaker 1: at least get T shirts made, multiple T shirts because

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Speaker 1: its face faces. That'd be pretty good because I got

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Speaker 1: pretty good beards, big guys, y'all, I'll look good on

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Speaker 1: a T shirt. Yeah, one T shirt will probably wear

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Speaker 1: out pretty quick because I mean, i'd probably wear it

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Speaker 1: every day everywhere I went with your hats. Your hats.

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Speaker 1: So they've got these like old school foam rubber top

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Speaker 1: high top looking ball caps with a squirrel playing a

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Speaker 1: banjo on top of it. That's pretty good stuff. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's fantastic. It's the Internet, man, it has changed the

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Speaker 1: way we live. Well, good luck, guys, thank you. I'm

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Speaker 1: here with Stan Krause stand it was a contestant in

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Speaker 1: the World Championship Squirrel cook Off. Where where are you from? Stand? Lincoln, Nebraska?

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Speaker 1: You came all the way here from Lincoln, Nebraska. I

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Speaker 1: have for seven years. Stand is in the seventies and

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Speaker 1: wearing a pair of faded overalls. I'll be darn, what

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Speaker 1: what did how did you hear about this? Well? I

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Speaker 1: came this way Andrew Zimmer Cooking Show. Really you saw

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Speaker 1: it on Andrew Zimmer? Yes? I did, when the very

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Speaker 1: first one. I'll be darn. Do you do you remember

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Speaker 1: the actual show that Zimmer did. They cooked bear on

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Speaker 1: that one. Do you remember that they also cook crew? Yes, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I was the guy that cooked bear on that show,

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Speaker 1: on that actual episode you remember that? Yeah? Yeah, that's wild.

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Speaker 1: That's where you said, well, hey, what did you what

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Speaker 1: did you guys cook? We made myself. I made squirrel

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Speaker 1: gravy soup, squirrel soup gravy, and my son in law

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Speaker 1: made a sandwich, a squirrel sandwich. Can you tell me

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Speaker 1: a little bit about making your squirrel gravy? I sure, ken,

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Speaker 1: I got the recipe out of a book and it's

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Speaker 1: it was I'm looking for something a lot simpler than

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Speaker 1: things I've done in the past, And this is so simple,

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Speaker 1: I just decided to give it a try. Well, what

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Speaker 1: do you think your chances are winning here today? Well?

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to put money on myself, but you

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Speaker 1: never know, you know, there's strange things have happened. Is

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Speaker 1: this gonna change your life? If you win? It ain't

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Speaker 1: gonna change my life, But you're gonna film my pocketbook

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Speaker 1: even I don't even know what you win if you

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Speaker 1: win this thing. I have no idea what there's I have.

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Speaker 1: I don't come here for the winning or losing. I

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Speaker 1: come to play the game, right. Uh, good luck to

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Speaker 1: you man standing here with with Bud from Buck Snort, Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: Have you been here before, Bud? Yes, we've only missed

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Speaker 1: one year on this cook off? Have you ever won?

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Speaker 1: We got third place eleven and last one time? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: One time. Well what did you cook this year? We

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Speaker 1: cooked a kind of like a Chick fil a sandwich

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Speaker 1: with a squirrel and uh budget buns, Uh sweet potato

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Speaker 1: waffle fries. What do you think it takes to get

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Speaker 1: the w here at the World Championship Squirrel cook Off?

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Speaker 1: You just have to have a good dish. There were

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Speaker 1: some wonderful dishes here. I mean, these people right next

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Speaker 1: to us, I think they ought to win, and the

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Speaker 1: ones right over there out to win too, because what

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Speaker 1: I tasted was fantastic. And it's all about fun and

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Speaker 1: sharing and just community. And there's just lines of people

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Speaker 1: lining up to eat free squirrel made. So if you

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Speaker 1: get the w how is it gonna change your life?

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Speaker 1: Bragging rights are gonna be awesome. Good luck to you,

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Speaker 1: good luck, thanks so much. So what's what's the name

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Speaker 1: of your team? It was General Squirrel, General Squirrel that

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Speaker 1: introduced yourself. I'm Ashley Jacobs, Denny Ross, Sarah Rize. So

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Speaker 1: how long have y'all been to this event before? Now?

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Speaker 1: We came last year just to see it. Actually moved

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Speaker 1: to Rogers and uh we heard about it when to

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Speaker 1: come see it, and then we decided to compete this.

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Speaker 1: So where are you guys from? Okay, Cartha drove a

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Speaker 1: couple of hours. Squirrels Missouri squirrels. Okay, they're better than

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Speaker 1: Arkansas squirrels. No, I won't say that, but they are better.

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Speaker 1: They're better. Um, so what did y'all cook? We made

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Speaker 1: General Squirrel General So Squirrel Oriental dish and then squirrel

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Speaker 1: egg rolls and squirrel free and goon. What what is

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Speaker 1: your hat? I'm looking at three bright red hats here?

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Speaker 1: What are those hats? Say? Oh, you know, we've been

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Speaker 1: living off the farm. We try to harvest and live

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Speaker 1: organically as we can, and we're still getting Make squirl

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Speaker 1: grade again. They cut you to the chase. Make squirrel

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Speaker 1: hunting great again. Yeah, those are sharp. So uh, what

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Speaker 1: are your chances of bringing home the W to the

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Speaker 1: World Championship Squirrel cook Off? Pretty much a hundred for

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Speaker 1: si chance? Okay, okay, I think we want it. I

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Speaker 1: like the confidence when you bring home the W. How

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Speaker 1: is this gonna change your life? But you gotta you

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Speaker 1: gotta sell out and moved to California, Big never California.

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Speaker 1: But I will be the squirrel Queen. You will be

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Speaker 1: the squirrel queen married to the squirrel king. Right, good luck,

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Speaker 1: good luck, thank you? All right? Tell me tell me

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Speaker 1: your name. I'm Ben Walsh, Hunter book out Jacob Fronz.

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Speaker 1: So have y'all ever done the World Championship Squirrel cook

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Speaker 1: Off before? Hund and I did it two years ago,

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Speaker 1: but we didn't do it last year? And then This

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Speaker 1: is Jacob's first year. Where y'all from. We are from Favor, Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: So what did y'all cook? We made a squirrel bond

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Speaker 1: me with a scallion biscuit, Uh, sarata, mayon, mayonnaise, chili

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Speaker 1: cole sau and and a Vietnamese caramel sauce. Gang man,

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Speaker 1: that sounds pretty ligit. It was good, It was good,

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Speaker 1: It was good. It was really good. Where the squirrels

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Speaker 1: we hunted them? Um, we got a in which we

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Speaker 1: all hunted. It killed not all. Did you did you

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Speaker 1: use a dog or just hunt them? Still? Hunt them? Dog?

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Speaker 1: No dog? Dog? Okay? So what are your chances of

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Speaker 1: bringing home the w today? Um? We actually died d

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Speaker 1: Q because we got disqualified. Yeah, how do you get

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Speaker 1: disqualified from the World Championship Squirrel cook Off? The detail

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Speaker 1: we prepped beforehand? We didn't know. We weren't supposed to

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Speaker 1: do that. You're to bring either squirrels or just hind quarters.

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Speaker 1: And we had pre cooked and breaded our squirrels. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: I'm really sorry, but I have to disqualify you. But

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Speaker 1: we think that we did. Even if we didn't, if

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Speaker 1: we hadn't gotten disqualified, we would have done really well,

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Speaker 1: I'm certain with that. Well, that's not as good as

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Speaker 1: story as I thought you were gonna say. I thought

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Speaker 1: you were gonna say it like you like you know,

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Speaker 1: like I don't know, cheated in some like major way

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Speaker 1: to get the W because you wanted it so bad. Hey,

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Speaker 1: don't tell anyone or a secret. It's all bear meat.

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Speaker 1: Let's say you didn't get disqualified and you won. How

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Speaker 1: would this change your life? Ay, I'm one of the

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Speaker 1: best people on the planet cooking squirrels. That would be

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Speaker 1: a game changer. Yeah, just bragging rights on that one.

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Speaker 1: The youngest people. How old are you? Guys are? Okay? Okay,

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Speaker 1: right off? So y'all are all in high school? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's cool man. Well, good job guys for for cooking

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Speaker 1: some squirrel. Are you're gonna be back at it next year?

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Speaker 1: Um mate? Probably? Yeah? Come on, yeah after the d

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Speaker 1: Q you gotta come back. Ye. Yeah, I want to

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Speaker 1: get that W. Alright, good job guys. All right, tell

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Speaker 1: me your name Vale. Where are you from? Kind, I'm

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Speaker 1: from Kansas City. So have you ever competed in the

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Speaker 1: World Championship Squirrel cook Off before? No? I never have time.

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Speaker 1: First time? Yes, you got a big team here we

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Speaker 1: do we have your family and friends. Yes, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: want to pay special attention to this team. Is this

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Speaker 1: your husband? This is my boyfriend's boyfriend. Okay, what's your name? Man? Okay,

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Speaker 1: so where did you get your squirrels? My stepdad hunted

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Speaker 1: them and shot them themselves. Are they Kansas squirrels or

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Speaker 1: Missouri squirrels? Lives in Paris, Texas and he shot all

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Speaker 1: the squirrels and sexes squirrels. I've talked to people. We've

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00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: had Florida squirrels, Missouri squirrels, Arkansas squirrels, squirrels from all over.

631
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 1: So soon as your first year in the contest, what

632
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,760
Speaker 1: did you cook? So we cooked squirrel in chili roja

633
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: sauce with dirty fried rice and squirreled balls. Oh you're

634
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: not kidding. This wasn't like a meatballs squirrel nuts. Okay,

635
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: we'll tell me the name of your team. Here. We

636
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: are the raw Hide Nut Pirates. Man. I see I

637
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: missed this. I should have got in on summer days.

638
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: So okay, so you turned in your your flight to

639
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: the judges. We haven't heard back. Who's gonna win? Who's

640
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: one yet? What are your chances of bringing home the W.

641
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: I don't know. Everyone's we feel good that everyone did

642
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: a really good job. Every team is pretty serious, so

643
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay, So let's say you bring home

644
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: the W. How is this going to change your life?

645
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: We'll come back, okay, and I'm sure it will become

646
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: You think this with you increase your street cred back

647
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: in Kansas City like big time. You guys would be

648
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: legends in Kansas City. I've been to Kansas City. You'd

649
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: be legends in Kansas City if you won the World Championship. Sure, yeah,

650
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: well good luck to you. All right, tell me your name,

651
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: Spada Mercedes, Doug Crouch now you guys family? Nope, okay,

652
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: well pretty much pretty much. Okay, So there, yeah, okay

653
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: from and I'm from Springfield, Missouri. Okay, y'all came up

654
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: from Texas to Antonio, Texas. So if y'all done squirrel

655
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: Contest before very first one, first cook off, we haven't

656
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: done nothing. We had no idea what we were. How

657
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 1: did you hear about this thing? Well? We camp here

658
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: last year, right, yeah, last year we were here vacationing

659
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: and we heard some people the restaurant next to us

660
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,399
Speaker 1: talking about this because it was happened to be that day,

661
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: and I'm an average squirrel hunter and I'm like, oh,

662
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: we still got to do this. So here we are

663
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: right on. So, uh, you got your squirrels from Missouri? Then? Yes,

664
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 1: sir with a dog? Oh no, sir, still out of

665
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: my canoe? Do you really? Yes, sir, you can shoot

666
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: it while you're floating down the river, Yes, sir, really

667
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: works on your marksmanship. Yeah. So what did y'all cook today?

668
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: We cooked squirreling chiladas and we had anaheim peppers with

669
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: squirrel sausage and homy squirrel neck in it. What are

670
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: your what are your chances of bringing home the w

671
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: I'm really hoping for eight teenth place because I really

672
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: want to go trout fishing with those guys from the

673
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: naughties squirrel on the river. If you win nineteenth place,

674
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: you get to go with him for real for the

675
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 1: first through fifth place gets surprised. And that's what I

676
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: really want to go trout fishing on the White River. Okay, Well,

677
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: let's say you don't get nineteenth place and you win

678
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: and you bring home the World Championship Squirrel cook Off.

679
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: W How's this going to change your life? Well, I'm

680
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: getting a new tattoo, perfect perfect. Yeah yeah, World champions Squirrel.

681
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,879
Speaker 1: So will you be back? I mean, oh hell yeah.

682
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: We're bringing our a game next year. We learned a

683
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: lot good well, hey, good luck. We'll see who. We'll

684
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: see who wins. It brings that nineteenth Yeah that's right,

685
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: all right. Tell me your name? Name is Greg Cockroom,

686
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: Austin Bond, Natalie Morrison. So have you guys been to

687
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: this before? Yes, sir? Uh four years for me, seven

688
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: for Natalie and three for Austin. Oh man, you are veterans.

689
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: Where are you'all from? Uh, not here originally, but from

690
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: here here now? So have have you one before? I

691
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,439
Speaker 1: mean you've been here a lot of years? We play

692
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: six slash year as a team. What's it take to

693
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: bring home the W at the World Championship Squirrel cook

694
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: Off that changes every year? Has to be something creative,

695
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: out of the box, out of the ordinary. Um, and

696
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: it's gotta be good. I mean, it's gotta tastes good,

697
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: it's gotta look good, and it's really just you know, yeah,

698
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: complete boxes. Do you think the presentation means a lot? Absolutely? So?

699
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: What did y'all cook? So? This year we did a

700
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: Chimmy chonga with a Casa blanco and Pico de guy

701
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: over the top of it. We did a Scotch egg,

702
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: which is a soft oiled egg. It's covered with squirrel

703
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: sausage and then fried to perfect golden brown. Then we

704
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: also did a bania not a banana bread pudding that

705
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: we did candy squirrel over the top of it. But

706
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: it's good there showing me a picture of what they've

707
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: done here that looks incredible nice. I'm really happy with

708
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: their box this year. I think it's the best one

709
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 1: that we put together yet, and I think we're gonna

710
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,880
Speaker 1: do really well today. So right on, Well, good luck

711
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 1: to you guys. Thank you appreciate you. Tell me your

712
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:20,800
Speaker 1: name Natalie, and I'm presuming by all the purple beads

713
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: and everything that you guys are from Louisiana. I went

714
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: to college in Louisiana and lived there for about seven

715
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: or eight years. So yes, love the food and the culture.

716
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: One to bring in here, you should tell him the

717
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: story of Oh yes, so our team name is two

718
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: Squirrels vien Venue. So there was a sweet family down

719
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: there that kind of took me under their wing while

720
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: I was in college and loved on me, and he

721
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: died and his funeral was Friday, so we were kind

722
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: of im wanting to win this one for him. Oh yeah,

723
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: y'all live in Louisiana now, No, we live here now? Okay?

724
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: So have you competed in this contest before first year?

725
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: What pushed you over the edge to just put all

726
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:07,399
Speaker 1: your eggs in the in this basket and compete? My husband, yeah,

727
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: he told me that he didn't think I could do

728
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: it challenge. I was risky, brother, yep. So are you?

729
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: Did you eat squirrel your whole life? Never eating a squirrel,

730
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: never killed a squirrel, never cooked a squirrel? Yes, sir,

731
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 1: So how did you get your squirrels? My sweet nephew

732
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: shot all of them for me. That was so. So

733
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: did you test out your recipe before you came here?

734
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: I did? Yeah? So what did you could? Tell me?

735
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: What you could? And we had a squirrel and cream

736
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 1: cheese stuff talapino wrapped in bacon and that was our appetizer.

737
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: We had a squirrel jumbalia and with also a squirrel

738
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: shrimp in sausage jumbalia I'm sorry, and a squirrel in

739
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: sausage dirty rice our side Atem was a cream cheese

740
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: problem cheese squirrels, stuffed fridge bread, and then a dessert

741
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: was a bread pudding with a caramel glaze, bourbon squirrel

742
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: and pecan. Are you did you like to cook? Are

743
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: you like a chif? I like to cook? Yes? Yeah,

744
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: Well how did it taste? It's everything I got to

745
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: taste was amazing. I didn't get to try a whole lot,

746
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 1: too busy trying to cook. But okay, so what's your

747
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: chances of bringing home the W one out of the

748
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: same thing one? Okay, I've been asking everybody else's too,

749
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: So let's say you bring home the W. How's this

750
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: going to change your life? My husband's gonna have to

751
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: sleep next to the trophy tonight. Well, good, good, well,

752
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 1: good luck to you guys. Tell me your name, Ben Brainerd,

753
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: Chris McMillan, and so what's the what's your team name? Here?

754
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: The Spice Squirrels Squirrels. Now, you guys run a restaurant

755
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: and Rogers we have We have a couple of restaurants

756
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 1: in Roger's in a few more down in and it

757
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,280
Speaker 1: kind of like like the pros playing in the amateur

758
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 1: league for you guys being like real chefts. It depends

759
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: on the day. Pros a big word. What you look

760
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: at it? Because, uh, I think these folks these squirrels

761
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 1: way more frequently than we did. Okay, maybe you guys,

762
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:21,919
Speaker 1: maybe we're the amateurs spoiler alert. Ironically, these guys would

763
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: place nineteenth place, and when the fishing trip to the

764
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: White River, remember when that tattoo guy said that he

765
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 1: was shooting for nineteenth place. These guys were great sports

766
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: and gave the trip away to a kid that would

767
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: end up singing the national anthem. Yeah you'll hear in

768
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: a minute. So have you all ever competed in this before? No? No,

769
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 1: I've actually never cooked squirrel until he and I tested

770
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: some two weeks ago. Then growing up, we ate quite

771
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,320
Speaker 1: a bit of it, you know, so, but it was

772
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 1: pretty standard Reddit prid. So where'd you get your squirrels?

773
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: We killed? We killed three of them, and we we

774
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: had some friends killed five more for us. Where they

775
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: do you know if these were dog tree squirrels or

776
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: if these were still hunted squirrels? These these were organic

777
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: squirrels harvested ethically from a tree. That's all you're gonna say,

778
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: exactly right, right, So what y'all cook today. We did.

779
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 1: We did squirrel carneta. So we braised. We braised the

780
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: whole squirrel bone bone in uh in a in a

781
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: bunch of chilies and garlic and Mexican reagan o little

782
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: bay leaf and uh in a pressure cooker because we

783
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,879
Speaker 1: had a great finite amount of time and uh thanks

784
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: to this. You know, man, I was gonna cooking a

785
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: big pot and he's called, he's reminded me that I'm

786
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: an idiot, which use a pressure cooker, which cut our

787
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: time and a half. And uh and it turned out

788
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: incredibly well. We we pulled pulled the meat off the

789
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: bone when it was done that we fried it on

790
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 1: that little So y'all, y'all submitted everything. What's your chances

791
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: of bringing home the w today? I think they're pretty good, everybody.

792
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: All the feedback I got said it was amazing. I

793
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,879
Speaker 1: I'm I like our chances. I like a chance. I'm

794
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: shocked at the people that stand in like lines of

795
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: fifty people to get squirrel made here. You know where

796
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: else in the world, I'm not. I don't know where

797
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: that place is. Yeah, I don't. I just assume to

798
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: stay here. Man, This is great. Okay, So, so let's

799
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: say you get the w How is this gonna change

800
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 1: your life? It's it's gonna, mate, it's you know what.

801
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:26,879
Speaker 1: It's I'm gonna feel very, very vindicated if we win.

802
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: To say, because uh, one of my partners, I'm not

803
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: gonna mention Scott McGee's name said that we're crazy for

804
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: doing this, but uh, but I would love to win

805
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: just despite him. Yeah, we're good luck guys. So yeah,

806
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: tell me your name, Damon Brown, Carrie, Forton, Mary and so. Uh.

807
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: I assume you guys are from Louisiana because your shirts

808
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: say l a Tree rat Killers, Lower Arkansas, Lower Arkansas.

809
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: I should have known it. I should have known it.

810
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,359
Speaker 1: So where y'all from? I live in Fable, but grew

811
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: up in Southeast Arkansas. And I live in Hot Springs.

812
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 1: But my husband grew up with him in South Arkansas. Okay, okay,

813
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: I was born in Hot Springs. Yes, I know each other.

814
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: So have y'all done this before? You've done it since

815
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: the first year, so seven years. So have you ever

816
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: won before? Came in third the first year really, so

817
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 1: since then it's been a little tougher. Yeah, more teams.

818
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: How many squirrels did y'all bring up here probably how

819
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: did you did you hunt these squirrels? So did you

820
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 1: kill him over a dog in a tree or did

821
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: you still hunt? Still hunting him? I keep I keep

822
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: waiting for somebody to say they treat a bunch of

823
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,399
Speaker 1: a dog, because that's that's why I like to hunt.

824
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: My husband had several with the dogs, so a few

825
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: were dog tree squirrels. Okay, So so what did y'all cook?

826
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: We had Philly cheese, squirrel stuff fell peppers. We had

827
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: not your average slaw and then for what is not

828
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 1: your average slaw like thing? Well, it's like regular small

829
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: and Asian smaw together with almonds, sesame seeds and Raymond

830
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 1: noodles crunched up raymond noodles. Your average saw very good.

831
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: And then we had porkin squirreled jammalia. So what what's

832
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: your what's your chances are bringing home the W today?

833
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: I think one hand, I think it's one hondo. It's good.

834
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: It was really good. Okay, you feel you're feeling strong? Okay,

835
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: So he actually gave me a compliment. I've known him

836
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 1: for twenty five years. Never I was like, are you

837
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 1: saying you'd like it? You bring home the de w.

838
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: How has this change your life? How has it changes?

839
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 1: It's not going to move ye, and we'll have to

840
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: get rid of it. I have to sleep outside to night.

841
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: That's all I'm won't be able to hear is heard

842
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 1: giggling like that all night long. Hey, good luck to

843
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 1: you guys. Good luck all right? Tell me who you are,

844
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: Adam Steele and Leslie Bell. Okay, spoiler alert, this is

845
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:18,240
Speaker 1: my team. Okay, so I've been on a team, but Adam,

846
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,760
Speaker 1: Adam has for sure been the mastermind of this team.

847
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: All I did was like, what did I do? I

848
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: shredded some squirrel? He shredded squirrel? We made your roll?

849
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: I did? I did probably summer rolls. You guys drove

850
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: from where Orlando, Florida area, all the way from Orlando, Florida.

851
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 1: Why why did you do that? Adam? Well, Uh, it

852
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: means a lot to me to be here. Uh. Small

853
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: game hunting, um, I think is a big step into

854
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: being a confident woodsman. And uh it's a good introduction

855
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: for people that have never hunted. I want to learn

856
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: how to hunt and wanted to be able to eat

857
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: what they Deer hunting can be really tough, but small game.

858
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: The the return on it, it can be pretty immediate,

859
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: pretty quick. So you can, you know, you can go

860
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: out there have a good time. You don't have to

861
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: worry about being super quiet or being in you know,

862
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: an expert what's been. But you can get out there,

863
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: hunts a small game, put some food on the table,

864
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,919
Speaker 1: and have a good time in the outdoors. Now you're

865
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: a wild game chef though you like, Yes, I do.

866
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: We try to. We hunt a lot um. It needs

867
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: a lot to us to be able to get out

868
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: and enjoy the land and have a great harvest and

869
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 1: share that with others too. So tell me about what

870
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: we cook. Okay, we uh So, Clay hunted some squirrels

871
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 1: and Art saw our m I a teammate Mr Hazley

872
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,840
Speaker 1: hunted some squirrels in Georgia, and I brought some squirrels

873
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: from Florida, And uh I bet we're the only team

874
00:53:56,640 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: that had squirrels representing three different states. Very well, could be,

875
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 1: definitely could be. And you could tell by looking at

876
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:09,360
Speaker 1: them and just just the general you get. You know,

877
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: they were very different. They were very different. So Pressure

878
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: cooked the squirrels in pork and beef stock with lemon,

879
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: grass and ginger. So that's ten minutes at ten p

880
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 1: s I and that'll get you to where you can

881
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: pull the meat off the bone really easily. And then

882
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: that was tossed with duck fat and peanut sauce and

883
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 1: a little rice wine vinegar um. And then after that

884
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 1: summer roll um just purple basel carrot sticks, which I've

885
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: flowers glass noodles and rolled up in a von Tring

886
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: rice rapper. And it's it's very first of all, you

887
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:56,320
Speaker 1: can do with any small game, any wild game. What

888
00:54:56,520 --> 00:55:01,280
Speaker 1: are our chances of get in the w I'd day about.

889
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: I think we're going to go away with the win.

890
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: Also the Raining Indian River Lagoon Mullet Toss Champion, So

891
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,479
Speaker 1: I'm really working on my resume here. Wow wow, wow,

892
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 1: Mullet Toss Champions Champion. What game is that thrown mullet

893
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: in a whole? The fish? I'm thinking the hair dude. Oh,

894
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: there were plenty of the hair dues there as well.

895
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:35,839
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a lot of vegetarian friends. And since

896
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 1: I've started dating Adam, I've gotten a lot of crap

897
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: for as much hunting and foraging and stuff that we do,

898
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 1: so it's really rewarding to be here. I never in

899
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: a million years I thought that I would be in

900
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: a squirrel competition, but a squirrel cooking competition. But it's

901
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 1: been quite an experience. I love seeing him do what

902
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 1: he does because he's really good at it, and it's

903
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: just been really cool to see everybody. And I think

904
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: also it's great because a lot of people don't know

905
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: that squirrel is as can be as good as it is,

906
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: and it also introduces people and lets them know that, hey,

907
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 1: squirrel is not just something that's running around in our yard.

908
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 1: It can also be something that we can sustain ourselves from.

909
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: So it's great. Right on, Well, good luck to us,

910
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 1: good luck to uh tell me your name and your

911
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 1: team name. James Whirley of the Limb Baking All Stars

912
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 1: and Baking All Stars. Where are you from, jam Kan's

913
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: the city, Missouri? And you how long you've been doing this?

914
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 1: This is our fourth year here, fourth year now on

915
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: your sign back here that says Limb Baking All Stars.

916
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:38,439
Speaker 1: I see that you were the world champions Squirrel cook

917
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: Off Champions in seventeen. Yep, my my buddy Brett and

918
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:45,160
Speaker 1: I we won in twenty seventeen, We stuff to squirrel

919
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: inside of a pickle and deep friday. No, yes, yes, sir.

920
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: How the heck did you find a pickle that big? Well,

921
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 1: it wasn't that big a pickle. We drilled it out

922
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: and uh put some homemade pimento cheese with some squirrel meat,

923
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,879
Speaker 1: piped it in They're dipped it into empura batter, deep

924
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: fried it and served it on a bed of arugula

925
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: with some crispy youngions and honey mustard on top. We

926
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 1: did an eight cheese mac and cheese on the side

927
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 1: with a squirrel trezo and then uh we did a

928
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: chocolate covered squirrel bene for dessert. Man, that is legit.

929
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: So okay. So I've been asking all the other contestants.

930
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: I've been saying, if you win, how is this going

931
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: to change your life? You've already won, How did it

932
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 1: change your life? Uh? Well, our heads can't get too

933
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 1: much bigger. We're we're pretty proud of ourselves. But we

934
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: just love it because it promotes um, eating a renewable

935
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: resource and and conserving nature. Uh. Squirrels are one of

936
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: the great resources in this country that need to be used,

937
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: and we just like to showcase that could beautiful and delicious.

938
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: So winning is just a bonus and gives us bragging rights.

939
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: But uh, we're just happy to be here and have

940
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 1: a good time. Right on. Uh, So what did you

941
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: cook this year? We did squirrel three ways. We did

942
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 1: a squirrel wrapped in chicken skin, deep fried with buffalo

943
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: of sauce. We did a squirrel to have a pino popper,

944
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: and we did a purshuto wrap squirreled air and cheeni

945
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: with with rice. And then we did uh a cherry

946
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: pepper stuffed with squashed blossoms and cream cheese, topped with

947
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: a moral mushroom stuffed with squirrel and some parmesan cheese

948
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: on top. And for dessert, we did a pecan ice

949
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:28,120
Speaker 1: cream with candied squirrel thata gum man man. After we

950
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: got the contest done, we had people lined up all

951
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: the way across the lawn here feed them ice cream

952
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 1: and buffalo squirrel and they were just eating up. We

953
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 1: eat every beating. I cooked twenty six squirrels for this event,

954
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 1: and there's not a piece of it. Last twenty six squirrels. Now, Okay,

955
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: where those squirrels treated by dogs or were they just

956
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: still hunting? Just still hunting all gray squirrels from Missouri. Um,

957
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 1: I just like to shoot him in the head, get

958
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: him up close, shot in the head. On Now are

959
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 1: you are you like a chef, a cook or I'm

960
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: just I'm just a foodie and I've been eating squirrels

961
00:58:57,760 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: my whole lot. My buddy Brett is the chef, and

962
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: he brings all the creativity and talent. I just bring

963
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: the squirrels and the good looks too. You know, he

964
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: was wearing a full squirrel costume earlier. He gets into it.

965
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 1: He's he has no shame, yeah, or pride or brain. Okay,

966
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:19,959
Speaker 1: So what are your chances of bringing home the w today? Well,

967
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: I made a mistake, Um, that may cost us to win.

968
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: I forgot to toss my uh chicken fried squirrel in

969
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 1: the buffalo sauce, and we turned it in and forgot

970
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 1: that we forgot to put sauce on it. But the

971
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: rest of the box was a solid as could be.

972
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 1: So I think we've got a good chance to be

973
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 1: in the top ten for sure, if not top three.

974
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, so what do you what are the prizes?

975
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: What do you win? Thousand dollars and bragging rights for

976
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: first place and five second. You're gonna have to get

977
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: a new banner if you win. Well, we took second

978
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: place last year. Well, you need a new banner anyway too.

979
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: We just need to get some little post it's on

980
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: there and add to it. So yeah, so eventually we

981
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: get two more banners, we can have a surrounded the

982
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 1: whole thing. It wind break in here. So okay, so

983
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: you led the squirrel squirrel skinning competition. Tell me about that.

984
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 1: That was the Well, I think that sportsmen take pride

985
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: and and be able to take care of the game

986
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: and fish that they get, and taking it from the

987
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: field to the table is a major step. So I

988
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 1: came up with this idea for a squirrel skinning competition.

989
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: So we had eight folks step up and we went

990
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: head to head um, and it was a mess the squirrels. Uh,

991
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: when you try to skin a squirrel fast, you make mistakes.

992
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: So there was a lot of mistakes made, but they

993
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 1: finally got him skinned and uh uh it was a

994
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: good time. We had a whole crowd of people. Why

995
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 1: aren't around botching and um the winter came from Georgia.

996
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, he won, had a really good hero. You

997
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: do the tail method, the tail metho. We had a

998
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: couple of people trying to cut him in the back

999
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 1: and pull him that way, and they pulled their squirrels

1000
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: in half trying to go too fast. Cold squirrels a

1001
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 1: lot different than what's the best what's the best way

1002
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: to skin a cold squirrel? Not? The tail method is

1003
01:00:57,640 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 1: probably the best way, but you gotta go slow to

1004
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 1: to know. Let let that skin and get off there

1005
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: little leasure when they're frozen. But afterwards, the fun part

1006
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: is a lot of people that didn't wanted to learn

1007
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: how to skin a squirrel stepped up and I sat

1008
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: down and taught four different people how to skin a squirrel.

1009
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: They set their own squirrel and they gotta take the meat.

1010
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:15,200
Speaker 1: And let's your fact. What how do you teach them?

1011
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: What method? The tail? Yeah? I do a two person

1012
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: or one person holds the legs. To describe that to me.

1013
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 1: So you grab ahold of the legs, and I grab

1014
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 1: ahold of the tail, and I cut, you know, just

1015
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 1: right behind the the anus and then peel them on

1016
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: the back. Take his little squirrel sweater off and cut

1017
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: his head off and uh, and then I take a

1018
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: little squirrel riches off and gut him, and and I

1019
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: liked a quarter might like to break up into pieces

1020
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: because the back legs are different than the front legs,

1021
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: and the back strap is a little different than the rest.

1022
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 1: And then the rib cage is really good to make

1023
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:42,960
Speaker 1: squirrel stock out of to make soup like dumplings and

1024
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:44,920
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Okay, I've got a question for you.

1025
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: There was a there was a question that came up

1026
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: on another podcast I was on the other day about

1027
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 1: what to call the section between the ribs and the

1028
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 1: hind quarters. You know the kind of back strap, man,

1029
01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 1: that's the backstrap squirrel backscrap, Yes, sir, Okay, you ever

1030
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: heard of call the saddle saddle? Well, the saddle is

1031
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 1: actually if the legs are still attached, So the saddle

1032
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,680
Speaker 1: is like frog saddles. You get frog legs that have

1033
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 1: the they're attached together. So that's your saddle. So once

1034
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: you break it down, you got your two back of

1035
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 1: your hind quarters, and you got the backstrap, the tenderloin

1036
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 1: if you want to call it that. But you just

1037
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:20,480
Speaker 1: cut that little section out, leave it home, well, leave

1038
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 1: that chunkle, leave it on the ribs. No, no, no,

1039
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:25,640
Speaker 1: take the ribs and separate that so from the ribs

1040
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 1: to the tailbone, that's your backstrap, and then the ribs.

1041
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 1: There's not much meat on the ribs and the bones

1042
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 1: are real small, so I just use that for stock

1043
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: and strain it so you don't get the bones in there. Uh,

1044
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: And then the front legs are good. We made a

1045
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Speaker 1: little buffalo chicken wings with it. Today. We had a

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01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 1: hot sauce heating contest to today with squirrel front legs,

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01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: and we did the front legs with hat um. But

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01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 1: the back legs where all the meat is, that's that's

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01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 1: where the good squirrel meat is. Well. Hey, good luck

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01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 1: today man. Fingers crossed. As I walked through the crowd,

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01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 1: I saw multiple people sporting full on squirrel costumes, complete

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01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 1: eat with four foot plus tails, pointy ears, and completely

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01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 1: furred garments and true squirrel color. None of these people

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01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 1: worked for the cookoff. It appeared to be completely voluntary.

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01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: I'm standing here and I've met a lady that has

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01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 1: a full scale squirrel outfit on can you? Can you

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01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:22,960
Speaker 1: tell me your name? Kristen? So are you from Bentonville?

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01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:25,439
Speaker 1: I am, yeah. I lived in Bentville for the last

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01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,439
Speaker 1: four or five years. So have you been here before? Yeah?

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01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: This is my second year in a row, so tell

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01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 1: me about the outfit here. First of all of me say,

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01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: you're not the only person that I've seen wearing a

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01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 1: full scale squirrel outfit, so this is like not that

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01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:41,440
Speaker 1: unusual here, but yeah, so tell me about it. Well,

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01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:43,560
Speaker 1: last year is my first year coming and I don't know,

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01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: I just had a win. I said I'm going to

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01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:47,920
Speaker 1: make an outfit, and I decided to come, and um,

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01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 1: I wore the same outfit last year, and I don't

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01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:53,400
Speaker 1: think I saw anybody with an outfit last year, But um,

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01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 1: I get stopped by a lot of people and have

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01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:57,040
Speaker 1: people take my picture with them and stuff. So you

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01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: made this yeah, right on, right on. At the it's yeah,

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01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 1: these are those squirrel outfits for the kids. Yet not

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01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: this year. Next year we're hoping to do squirrel outfits

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01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 1: for the girls and maybe cama for the boys. Perfect. Perfect.

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01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 1: At three thirty, the winners were announced, the crowd gathered.

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01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:18,880
Speaker 1: The national anthem was sung by volunteer, a young boy

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01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:22,440
Speaker 1: probably eleven years old. At one point he forgets the

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01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 1: words and the crowd chimes in to help him along.

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01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 1: Old things, We're gonna get down to the nitty gritty

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01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 1: right now. I appreciate you coming up with yours. We're

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01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: gonna give out third place. I'm pretty sure this is

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01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:55,640
Speaker 1: a first time winner, and this would this would be

1084
01:04:55,720 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 1: the old Nutty Cheek. Come on up, Nutty Cheek plays

1085
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 1: squirrels from in the wound. Congratulations. Nutty Cheeks told the

1086
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: crowd what they made, sage. We then moved to second

1087
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 1: place in the world. Place is gonna get a trophy.

1088
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 1: They're gonna get five hundred American dollars. Second place goes

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01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:35,480
Speaker 1: to Big Time Barbecue. Shane, tell us what you could.

1090
01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 1: This is twice I've come in checond The first time

1091
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 1: went by one point. I'll get better, but I'm I'm

1092
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:51,560
Speaker 1: peering up a little bit because they young young hand

1093
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:57,400
Speaker 1: singing the national and when to me for not the

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01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: words the crowd. I'm proud to be your second today,

1095
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 1: but cool for me to talk about. I'm sorry this

1096
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 1: guy was so choked up by the kids singing the

1097
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 1: national anthem that it didn't even tell what he cooked.

1098
01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 1: He cooked old fashioned squirrel and dump breach. That time

1099
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:25,960
Speaker 1: that we've all been waiting for. We had some stuff

1100
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: that was just up there, and we had some other

1101
01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 1: stuff that struggled. So when you're cooking in this event,

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01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 1: a couple of things to remember, put squirrel in your

1103
01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 1: side dish. Okay, if you didn't do that, you're not

1104
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 1: gonna be the one I'm calling right now. Second, just

1105
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 1: relax a little bit, don't get too cute, try to

1106
01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 1: make it right, and try to make it just as good,

1107
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 1: if not just a little bit better. In these guys

1108
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 1: right here, the raw hide nut pirates, that's right, he said,

1109
01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 1: the raw hide and pirates. Holy ca, let's hear what

1110
01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: you guys could from Texas? Can you tell? Can you

1111
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:09,760
Speaker 1: need to be talk right now? So we made General

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01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:18,160
Speaker 1: whole braves squirrel, which is my grandmother's rice brother. And

1113
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 1: it was just a taco with moul mold black beans,

1114
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 1: with guess of Presco and Cilantro and cocodyas with the

1115
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: sign was dirty rice with squirrel, that's right, he said,

1116
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 1: dirty rice the squo testables. I guess that would make

1117
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 1: it dirty. Afterwards, I caught up with a raw hot

1118
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 1: on that power. Yeah. Okay, So we talked earlier about well,

1119
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:53,480
Speaker 1: I was just gonna change your life. Yeah, for sure.

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01:07:54,720 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: We're so surprised. Right, We'll cook squirrel for sure, for people.

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01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:07,320
Speaker 1: What was your grandmother's rustling? Yeah, it was actually so Yeah.

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01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: Joe ended by talking about the hunting experience in contrast

1123
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:19,720
Speaker 1: with other activities that often fill our lives, and specifically

1124
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: kids lives. Oh, you're gonna focus breathing a little, pull

1125
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:27,760
Speaker 1: the trigger. Watch it hit the ground. Then they come home,

1126
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:31,840
Speaker 1: they clean it. Um, they go to school the next day.

1127
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:35,559
Speaker 1: They're not talking about Fortnite. They're talking about the squirrel

1128
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 1: they they hunted. You could remember every single dear animal

1129
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 1: that you ever harvested. Matter of fact, you could look

1130
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:49,599
Speaker 1: at a river and know which rocks you caught fish

1131
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:54,840
Speaker 1: behind right for years and years, there's something in our

1132
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:59,040
Speaker 1: brain that said that's where you get food. It sticks

1133
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:03,560
Speaker 1: with you forever. Yeah. These video games and check and

1134
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:06,680
Speaker 1: cheese and David Busters, you just throw money in that

1135
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: deal and you don't remember it a week from now.

1136
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:13,640
Speaker 1: I promise you you remember every little riffle and the

1137
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:17,639
Speaker 1: creek and you could take your kids there and say

1138
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 1: you cast right there, you'll catch one. Right. Um. That's

1139
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:26,200
Speaker 1: that's the part. I could talk about it every day

1140
01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:30,880
Speaker 1: of the week. I could honestly tell people that if

1141
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:34,760
Speaker 1: you got PTSD, don't go to the v A. Right,

1142
01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 1: come with me, Um, if your mind needs to get

1143
01:09:39,320 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: cluttered with stuff, we'll clutter it with them rocks that

1144
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: got fish behind them, right, we'll we'll we'll give you

1145
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 1: something totally different to focus on. Um. If kids have

1146
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:56,040
Speaker 1: these new problems that half the kids have, well we

1147
01:09:56,160 --> 01:09:59,360
Speaker 1: didn't have that. You could blame it on what they're eating,

1148
01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:03,280
Speaker 1: or you could blame it on what they're doing. We

1149
01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:05,519
Speaker 1: can fix both of those with hunting. We could fix

1150
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 1: both of them, right, I mean, honestly, if you're telling

1151
01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: me it's because they're putting something in the food, I

1152
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:14,719
Speaker 1: can guarantee you we don't have it in our food.

1153
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:18,440
Speaker 1: And that goes from the berries to the to the mushrooms,

1154
01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 1: to the fish, to the flesh, all of it. It's

1155
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:25,679
Speaker 1: right here for the taking. Man. It's just like God

1156
01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:28,840
Speaker 1: gave it to us, um, and the ain't no big

1157
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 1: business that owns it. Hey, awesome, man, I really appreciate it,

1158
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:37,000
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, we'll have you back on here sometime

1159
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 1: for sure. Appreciate it. I know you've never listened to

1160
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 1: the Barony Magazine podcast. When we close, always say keep

1161
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:46,040
Speaker 1: the wild places wild, because that's where the bears live

1162
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 1: and the squirrels. That's right. Appreciate it had the squirrels

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01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:59,360
Speaker 1: on today, Thank you, Yeah, thanks Joe. The World Championship

1164
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: Squirrel look Off will be held next year on September

1165
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 1: nineteen in Bentonville, Arkansas. Joe said, the best thing that

1166
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 1: we could do for him would be to come and compete.

1167
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 1: So start storing up some squirrels, start testing out some recipes,

1168
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 1: and make plans to attend next year's World Championship Squirrel

1169
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 1: cook Off. Who knows, who knows? You might be the

1170
01:11:26,600 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 1: world's best squirrel cook but you'll have to come here

1171
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:33,400
Speaker 1: to find out. You can keep up with the World

1172
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: Championship Squirrel cook Off on their Facebook page. Hey, you

1173
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:41,759
Speaker 1: can do me a favor to tell all your buddies

1174
01:11:42,040 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 1: about all the fun we're having over here at the

1175
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:49,760
Speaker 1: Bear Hunting Magazine podcast. Subscribe to this podcast, leave us

1176
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:53,840
Speaker 1: a review, and hey, check out all our other stuff

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1178
01:12:00,920 --> 01:12:04,679
Speaker 1: Actual print Bear Hunting Magazine. Check us out at bear

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