Ep. 49: Bonus - Facebook Marketplace, Fan Submissions, and Justice for Peanut

Published Nov 7, 2024, 10:00 AM

This week Reid and Dan are dropping a bonus episode that covers everything from Facebook marketplace finds to Justice for Peanut the Squirrel. They give some fan shoutouts to some hysterical “What Ya Mad At” submissions and Reid shares his favorite bro hunt story with Dan. It ends with some fall hunt tips and excitement for the rut in Tennessee. 

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M hm, coming to you live from God's Country Podcast Studios. Is this video okay? So might be video, might not. We don't even know. That's how bonus episode this is. I would say probably, I mean probably. We're gonna act like we are, like looking at the cameras. Man, no guest, just us. It's quiet in here up here. This bonus episode is a little different. You're not gonna hear any kids screaming unless no one starts screaming in the background or crying, which I don't think he will. Yeah. Kind of a kind of official official bonus today. Yeah, what are we calling it? We should? We should name these bonus episodes like probably later probably off camera, name them so we don't have to sit here and people watch us think what's in these watching mad as? Yeah, first of all, we're gonna do what man, that's too long? Uh, this is we got some put out a little story sending what you're mad at? What other people mad at? Being poor? Keep grinding, dog, you'll get there. This warm weather in November, Yeah, it's about to change though. So this is being recorded. Are you sure it's about to change? It's about to change for the this is coming next week for muzzletter. Opening weekend of muslater is this weekend. I'm excited about that. I think the weather's supposed to be supposed to get better North Wand anyway, the people are mad at daylight savings like that. I can't stand lights, which I thought they were going to do away with. Yeah, I thought they were like, like, I like, do some legislation and just not. I think Trump said he was going to get rid of it. Speaking of we're recording this. By the time this comes out, some stuff's gonna change. Maybe if it comes out, I mean, world made world mate. This is a day before the election of the ELECTUS tomorrow, so could get crazy. It's already gotten crazy. Yeah, we'll see, it's already getting crazy. Curbs somebody said they're mad at curbs. Probably got a wife in a car and scratch. Yeah. Why does Christmas music have to start the day after Halloween? Here's the truth.

It doesn't because I am a purist on not celebrating Christmas until Thanksgiving.

Yeah, I'm with that, because I'm with that. That's I mean to me, Look, man, do I like a Christmas tree? I love a Christmas tree? Do I want it up all the time? Kind of.

But if I had it up all the time, it wouldn't be as special to me as.

It's a little premature to put now. Listen, I'm fine with it if I go into your house, which I'm not going to because I don't go anywhere because I got two kids that are under the age of two. But and you've got a Christmas tree up right now, and you've got Christmas music rolling and like the Christmas candle's going whatever. That's fine, But yeah, I'm the same way. It's a little premature to put it up before. Just got trail camera pictures and it looks like there's a good deer somewhere, So I'll look at those of them just a second while we're still podcasting. Yes, I'm mad that God's Country doesn't release a new episode. I was about to say thank you, Cale Hoffman, thank you and not happening because thank you Cayle Hoffman. But that's it. Yeah, man, I appreciate that that Zach Top hasn't been on the GCP yet. We're trying z T Come on. I mean, whoever listened to this and has his number high sleep like a baby. I have a show to keep going. I don't drink weed. I said, I don't know how it feels. And I been dude since you said goodbye boomed on the same movement, wish I could see a miss you. Sorry, but you know, I'm a fan. I'm a big fan of. You know what I'm a fan of? Tell me what you're smoking a cigarette while smoking a telecaster. You know what I'm also a fan of is him just randomly going to pool halls around here and playing pool with us. What his cowboy hat on it? He doesn't? Yeah, cool, he's just like a It just feels like a blast from the past, and it is refreshing. Man, well, because we love that past, no doubt, and we're brought up in it makes a lot of sense and it's really good. It's a talent. Songs are really good. Have you seen the video where he's playing in the bluegrass band when he's like fourteen. It's like the first, the earliest video that got him super clean, shaven, got a little I think I have. Yeah, that's a young still smoking flat top. I don't know, man, I think he's really cool. Come on the show, dude trying. Yeah, we'll get him, we'll get him any more. Good Matt, what you're mad at poor is funny? I know. Can't find a mealie back to shoot? Yeah? Time change again. Toll ways already pay tax on fuel and vehicle registration. YU that. Yeah, we don't have those in Tennessee. Oh I thought you said you did. I was like, why did you do that? Mad? Dan hasn't taken me turkey hunting yet? Hey man, I ain't even taking myself turkey an yet. Dude, I don't have time for anything. This is a good one. When people don't put the shopping cart back in the cart return, you know, I'm I'm kind of mad at that when they, like, especially if they take up a parking spot with it, like if they just leave it in the corner of an actual parking spot.

That's you know, they said this the truest. That's like the truest test of are you a good human or not? Because there's no shopping cart, because the make up, there's no repercussions for not returning. I know, but you just make that.

No. It is a show off character, I think for sure. And it's like you have you can leave it and you're not gonna get in trouble. Who were you and no one's looking. Shout out John Wiggins, be a good one. It beat somebody good. Somebody just replied with a truck camera pick, which is cool. Yeah, of a buck making us great. That's love that. I'm not mad at that at all. No, not mad at that. And if you are, you're mad at the wrong things. Political commercials. Yeah, it's over now. Somebody's president. Somebody knew was president.

The wind not doing what it's supposed to do when I rattled in eleven point tonight, Kentucky Traveler, that's our boy.

Sorry, maybe by the time it's coming out, you have travel and again, I hope you get them. Let me tell you what I'm mad at real quick. Just we're doing it. I guess sure. I'm kind of mad over this squirrel situation. Have you seen this? What squirrel situation?

Okay, let me let me light you. So a fell out of New York and I don't know. I don't know a whole lot about this. I don't know if it's New York City or if it's upstate. I really don't know.

I'm listening. I'm just looking a drug. A guy out of New York sees a mama squirrel get hit by a car. Okay, when he goes to like, as you know, it's a mama squirrel, well because it has a baby, okay, or it's I've never seen, or it's the dad with I don't know anyway, have you ever seen a mama squirrel with a baby squirrel behind it?

No, neither sus already what I'm saying, well, I look, I'm just putting it out there.

I'm just putting this out there. So so this guy is driving. You want to tell a story now, I'm just trying to. I'm trying to. I don't know what.

I don't know the ends, and I don't know how long it's toendail S world. Dude, I'm just saying. This is how he says he acquired the squirrel. A mama squirrel gets smacked. He picked he there's a baby squirrel there. Maybe it fell out the tree, maybe still in the tree.

I don't know.

I don't maybe he traced the lineage. He takes the baby squirrel home. He says he's going to nurse it back to health, right, and then release him too the wall. He gets to be eight months old, he's like feeding milk and stuff, looking like this, dude, this is serious. This is I can't believe you haven't seen that. I mean, well, actually, I can totally believe you have sent it. So he takes the squirrel home. You really have no idea about the story? Yeah, I see social media it's gonna be it makes it even better. So, uh, he takes the squirrel home, eight months, raises the squirrel, and at the end of eight months, he's like, Okay.

How big is this squrel? In eight months, the full.

Size squirrel, and it's like black, kind of cool looking, like a darkool looking bock square.

No, I think they just have like black squirrels there for real? Where is it for New York? Yeah? Okay, so I remember seeing him when I was in New York actually at Central PARTI I remember seeing black squirrels. I feel like we saw him in Boston too. So when eight nuts out of my hand, so he, uh, for real, I saw that. There's a picture of it.

I remember that kind of So he lets the squirrel go off his back patio.

I'm assuming and I already know where this is going.

Squirrel shows back up a day later, half his tail going this is He's saying this on a I've done a little bit of research on this, not a lot, but a little bit.

Oka says.

It shows back up, it's got half his tail. He's like, I can't release, I can't.

I gotta keep this thing, right, is my pet squirrel out?

So he starts a nonprofit rescue animal situation. Got like thirteen horses, three mini ponies.

From this squirrel.

Some goats names the squirrel Peanut, right, MoMA Peanut.

How does MoMA know? Because everybody knows but you.

So they call it like the Peanut Palace or something. And the whole thing is around this squirrel. So he also has a raccoon. I think the raccoon's name is Fred. Not sure, boy that it's great raccoon. So he has so Peanut.

The squirrel becomes Instagram famous, has his own account and amasses over five hundred thousand followers, just like the Daily in the Life of Peanut.

Yeah, he's like the Star table. I mean, I never noticed tafa tail in the videos. I saw sus sus so he uh so, I don't know. I want to say three years out on that moment.

Three years.

So three years he has this squirrel. Me and Mow and have not talked about this, by the way, we just so he uh yeah, it's just I'm just glad that he knows read a.

Book or something. Dude, God talk about instead of going deep diving on Peanut, the squirrels everywhere, So he uh apparently not Just shut.

Up for five seconds, dude, get over the story. So he has these things for three years, right, all the animals. All of a sudden there's like a knock the door. One day he comes to the door. I don't know what this stands for. If you do, momen you can say, but de c right, Department of Summer. Yeah, the way I envision envision it. Men in black or like we animals. We need to speak to you for sake. He comes out cuffing, see him on the sidewalk. Go in, confiscate Peanut and Fred. Take them, just those two, not all the other.

It wasn't all.

It wasn't everything else, was it. Yeah, the squirrel and record, Like I said, Pen and Fred, they take they take him right and he and so the guy goes on the on the internet. It's like, I can't believe it just happened to me, Like they just they just stole them. Well they euthanize both of.

Them straight up. Dang.

Yeah, So everybody's really hot about it. I think maybe, I mean, I'm assuming proper permit, you know what I mean, because like you can't just have a squirrel. I know, we had like uncles and stuff. I don't go record down and had a squirrel. But it's not like you can't really like have a squirrel.

So but you shouldn't if you haven't, at least you can't in New York. It is illegal to have a squirrel on New Okay. So and what's the what's the how do they want? How do they euthanize them? Why they killed? Why do they just not let them go out to the wild and Survival of the fitest exactly? That's what I'm mad at. It's kind of messed up. You just cut them loose. If it's true, the whole thing sounds us but I mean I know that.

I mean they killed the squirrel because I mean there's this huge revolt going. I hope you like where your tax dollars are going instead of you know, deporting illegals there.

I will say, if there's squirrels and killing them, if there's one thing that then look there's a lot of sure. But if there's one thing the Internet is good for, it is bringing to light some yeah that like people have been getting away with in the past, you know what I'm saying, Like that for instance, like whoever those guys are that showed up that if all this is true, took Peanut and Fred and euthanize them and that they should they should be held to the fire. Dude, Yeah, because that's not right. Doesn't feel if that's the law in New York, that law needs to be changed. That doesn't feel right. Doesn't feel right, you know, especially I'm mad at that now. Yeah, yeah, we'll do some Actually, no, you probably won't have to do any more research on.

It because it's so exposed at this point that it's just like, but you know what, it's about to be an election, so all that will go away tomorrow.

But anyway, it's kind of checked up. I thought, man, who are you voting for? Hey, let's talk about let's do some dear story stuff, all right, Yeah, because I think tell me if I'm wrong. I think we posted a thing that's like we're doing a bonus episode. Let us know what you want to hear about. And there was somebody mentioned. I want to hear if somebody asked, what's Grandy up to? Just grand do you know what? I just buying the stuff at the state sales is what's granted? This is what Grandy's up to. This is pretty cool.

So the other day I found some Timmy sausage in my freezer, a big.

Bag of it. Yeah, he's told me all about this, he did, and I just gave him, like a so you gave him Timmy sausage and then a giant piece of ham off of a deer. Yeah that was thawed already, so he had to cook all of it. Yeah. Yeah.

So what I did, though, was I remember it was a Kentucky dough that I didn't have time to process, so I just cut whole muscles off and I would wrap the whole muscle and freeze whole muscles and like I can get back And that's a pretty.

Common thing for me if it's warm, especially if you're hunting out of state trying to get back on.

I'll just uh, I'll just debone and then I'll de muscle and I I had it cleaned up real good, but something happened I couldn't cook for like the next two days. So I just kind of package dealed it to him without him knowing it, and uh.

He said, what do we doing this, muscle man? I was like, whatever you want to, I don't care.

So he started cut Dude, I'm telling you this is for all those listeners out there like deer that her own ag are significantly better tasting.

Of course they are. Man. Yeah, So he calls, He's like, you're gonna come over and eat some of this stuff. I'm like, dude, no, I want to. I wish I could. I wish I could come over there right now, But if you need bringing it to my doorstep, I'm not gonna eat any of that deer unless it's a couple of days old.

He's like, cool, I'm gonna cook a whole bunch. So I do have plans to go back by there and murder somebody.

Yeah, I might do it today. I might do it after this podcast. There is some fried deer steak and when dad cooks, like dad, don't Dad? Yeah, Grandy, sorry, he was up to you. When Grandy cooks, My dad's name is Randy, my our kids and his grandparents granddad name is Grandy, which is one of I would put it up, not his granddad, but his name as a granddad. That's what I said. No, you kind of mess it up. He's one of the greatest granddad names of all time. Right, It's like if your name is Randy and then you go by Grandy, it's great. Somebody might say that you did not make that up. You did not make that up. But when when Grandy cooks, man, he just whether it's a fish fry, whether it's steak, whether it's deer ten or one, whether it's minute steak, fried deer steak. He cooks batches dude like I mean, just table fools, and then calls everybody and expects everybody to come over and eat all of it with him, or he'll take it to the guys at the dunk. He'll take him fresh biscuits and gravy. And we're at the estate sales. Yeah, because they give him free stuff. I shouldn't say that. They do not give him, so they don't don't stuff over. They don't know that he wants they're buy the book, don't.

It's right, Yeah, I gotta tell this story because he's helping.

Me build my little girl or her playhouse. My little girl turns three in May. So she turned two this past May, and for her birthday present, I was going to build her a playhouse in the backyard, like a nice one, a frame, porch, slid steps, the whole thing. Well, I've got zero time in the world, so I didn't get it up in time, and so it's we just got the post. I just I just set the post six four by fours and just set it so far away from your house, because I want my backyard like I've got a huge backyard, but I want the the initial backyard to like be yours, like my area the garden. No, I'm just, and we've got enough room to put it back where it's at. It gets great. You have plenty of room, plenty of room. It gets great. Shade back there, shade. She can have her own. It's not like in the backyard. She can have her own little escape to her own little playhouse. Right now. She is cool. Why was there a rule that you have to put a playhouse, mowan. Is there a rule? I don't know about it. You have to put a playhouse right right behind your house. It seems significantly far to me, dude, there's a garden in the backyard. There's the flower patch, there's the fire pit, there's another little shit. There's too much in the back yard already. It's pretty open back there. Farther back. I think it's a great spot for a playhouse. Back I can just see her running for a minute to get back there.

That's here a minute. You're trying to wear her out for naptime. I'm just trying let her have her own spot.

But anyway, so all summer we've been jumping on the trampoline and swinging close to where Griffin's playhouse, and we'll ride the forther and every time we pass it, I'd be like, that's Griffin's playhouse, which granted it's only it's four six four by fours in the ground, and she'd be like, Yep, that's Griffin's playhouse. So the other day we were on the trampoline back there and we were jumping and she turned around looked at it, and I was like, that's good. I said, that's Griffin's playhouse, and she goes, Yep, Griffin's playhouse. She kind of like shook her head and then she looked at me. She goes, when is Griffin's playhouse? And I was like soon, babe, soon. So I told Dad that, and he has been on a mission to get that thing. Like he's like, she said that she We're gonna get that up for her. So now it's gonna be your Christmas present. And we framed it, we put the floors in. We just gotta Yeah. So he's been grand. He's been on a he's been on a tear. That's what Grandy's up to. That's the Grandy update. Yeah. These He went to an estate sale last weekend. There, he goes to estate sales every weekend.

We did get a good buy on some two for dB the other day. He told you about that. No, I mean, we rolled up to this one place that didn't have much nothing, and we're walking through there and they had the big gallon jug of two four dB, which is one hundred dollars.

Now a hundred dollars a big shocker, doesn't surprise me at all. There had been maybe two ounces poured out of it. I gave two bucks for the whole two dollars. That's what I'm talking about. That's the that's the beauty of in a state cell any yard. Yeah, a lot of it's like a lot of the times you're gonna waste your kid lot of kid clothes, a lot of books and CDs and vinyls and stuff. Yeah, but uh, every every now and then you can stumble across, you know, a couple of brand new box fans. That's what I got at the Zua. I got two brand new box fans. I found a giant box like cardboard box of brand new steel wrap Bungee cords. I bet there were seventy five in there. I gave five bucks for the whole thing. Yeah, and they're fifteen dollars. That's pretty good topic. Honestly, we can kind of touch on since we're not sure what we're doing today. What do you feel like is your best find at a sale like that? Or you know what I mean, like or maybe even marketplace or something like, what's something you look at and you're like, man, I still did I'll go first. It's the I got that primo grill. You remember that bro I was gonna say, my green ad, my extra large green ex. Well, you go first because mine's better than yours. Well, you help me. And that's the thing about marketplace is like we are I'm an avid marketplace and I don't buy a ton of stuff on Marketplace. But I'm on there constantly because you gotta you know, these days, man, everybody's on it.

They' ain't a deer stand in the wood our woods that we didn't buy on Marketplace.

I just bought one two days ago, and so I got a great deal on it. So I'm saying, we both have millennium fold out benches that we both got on Marketplace for way under. We gotta tell that story. That's a good one. That's a good one. See, I knew just such a good one that I went and bought. Remember, yeah, yeah, so we're looking on let me tell you've talked about So we're looking online. Me, Dan and Dad are all every night. Would you say you go on Facebook Marketplace every night at multiples, like one of the last things I look at before I go to bed, just to make sure and if I see something, I message them go to sleep. They'll So I'm on Marketplace and I see a millennium bench, a fold out double two seater bench, and these things are nice, man, which, by the way, if you had ever sat or hunting out one of those around just makes a good product. Their stands are awesome. There are sponsor US. Uh yeah, but they're like quality, just quality stuff. The seats are awesome, super comfortable. I get on there, I see a Millennium bench fifty bucks hunder and I'm like, oh, you know immediately was it fifty bucks? Yes, fifty dollars literally fifty dollars, and I actually think it was like one hundred dollars, That's what I thought. Yeah, I think it was one hundred dollars. And I messaged the guy. I was like, hey, I can come pick it up in the morning. You let me know where. He was like oh, He's like, well, he said, there's one guy in front of you, and if he doesn't if he's supposed to come look at it in the morning, if he doesn't buy it, I'll let you know and you come pick it up. I was like, perfect, So I don't think anything else about it.

The next morning, I'm headed to get this bench right because I messaged the guy before Reid did. And you may be asking, well, did he not see that the last names are both I Isbel, Well, mine's not.

Mine's not isbel.

My name on Facebook is Daniel low Key because I'm trying to keep it low key, and read's name on there is read this, so because that's really this is the truth. The only reason I have Facebook is Mark. I don't check anything. So if I ain't accepted your friend request, it's because I'm not.

I don't I'm not on there anymore.

So I messaged the guy and I'm like, hey, man, I'll bring you a hundred.

I don't think I brought him a hundred dollars. No, you offered him fifty bucks, and I'll bring you fifty dollars cash.

Eight am in the morning. He's like, bet, come on over. So I'm headed headed to this place to get it. And I call Read and I said, hey, man, what were you doing? He's like, nothing, were you doing waiting around for this guy? You ain't gonna believe this man, He's like what. I was like, I'm headed to get a millennium beach right now.

He's like the one at Franklin. I was like yeah. He's like, dang, I just messaged that guy. He said he had one guy coming to look at it. So we figured out. He said, he said, I think I offered him fifty bucks and he said, yes, yeah I did. I was like, man, I was gonna paying full price. Yeah, So I go get it and I'm leaving and he said, well, I guess I got a message guy and tell him that it's sold.

And I was like, oh yeah, I said. The crazy thing is my brother was the one that messaged you about that. And he was like Randy And I was like, uh no, how do you know who that is. He was like Randy is, well, that's the one that messaged me about So the list from one, two, three was me read and then Dad on the on the waiting list to get that bitch, which was pretty funny. Anyway, the algorithms got us exactly what redneck things we want.

I bought a I bought a might as well been brand new ex green Egg big green Egg Excel like the giant one for three hundred bucks and those are twenty five hundred bucks. That's probably my best one. And I'm glad you went and got. Yeah, Jordan was going to go with me to loave that thing heavy. That thing was it was a beast. Yeah, mine is actually a grill too. Ah. This is the weird. This is weird. So I had been looking for a green Egg.

Jason Golesy, our brother in law, shout out red rage you may hear hears referred him as many nicknames.

He said, many have you heard of this? Red Rage was his Halo tag. He was online Halo tag user name was red Rage. And when we call him Red Rouse because we were playing one night and me is me, Dan, Jason, and this other kid that's random that we were playing with. This is a squad. You get four people and uh man, that game was fun and we're probably playing snipers or something. That was the last real video game I ever played. And this guy was like. I was like, hey, me and Dan are gonna go this way? He was like, okay, I'm sticking with this way with Red Rowse.

She's like, Red Rowse, take the hill, tear your little down, Red Rowse.

She's like, it's rage. He was like, cool, Rouch, take them throwing me the sword. Did you remember how good we were smoking some heads? This scare good borderline pro.

I think at one point in time I was ranked in the thirties. Remember you had that little ranking. Yeah, I was. I was twenty highest I ever got was twenty eight. And then dad made me bring somebody home from church that lived far away and he came over. He came over and I took an app and he logged on to my my, uh, what did you what was it called? It's like like or no, yeah, but it like snippers, but it was like competitive snippers or something like tournament snippers or whatever.

And he while I was sleeping, he went on there and got on it was playing competitive snoppers. Stud got me up to like a fifty. Yeah. Oh he was good. No, I was ranked twenty eight. I was like, well, I didn't go down. Was like a golf score trying one was the best in the world. I think maybe I'm wrong. I mean I don't think it was like, I don't think you were number twenty eight in the world. Anyway, he got he got me like. I woke up and it was like, oh man, anyway, red rawsh grillgo oh.

So he says, have you ever heard of a Primo And I said, no, I've never heard of a Primo Grace that's kind of the same thing, which in fact, it is the exact same thing. It's just shaped like an oval. So I that night I got home and I opened it up and there was a Primo x L with a table at metal remember, brand new rolling unbelievable table for thirty dollars.

It's crazy, man, and I gave her twenty. I messaged her immediately, was like, dude, I can't give you what you're asking on there. For some reason, I can't do it. Always got to ask for you can't do it. Yeah, all well, I don't think I've ever done it, but anyway, I'm gonna come at you with it.

So we loaded it with a tractor into the back of my truck and it rolled straight off my tailgate right onto my deck. And I'm telling you I cook on that thing. Yeah, no, less than sixteen times a month. Yeah, probably more than that, yeah, honest.

Yeah, half the week, yeah, half three week, three four days and night.

I mean I cooked on the last night. I did too, So I'm just saying, like we smoked. I don't even have a gas grill anymore. I only use And I'm telling you the table alone is like eight hundred bucks.

Can I tell you how I'm cooking my steaks now? I'm gonna bet that entire set up.

New from home depot twenty three hundred dollars.

I gave twenty dollars for try this next time you cook a ribby. All Right, we gotta get some deer stuff. Yeah, try this next time you cook a ribb. I got one more green egg. Story, that's great, and then we'll get into the door. Hurry, get a thick rubbi. If you got a Costco membership, go get theirs and get the thick ones because they are jammed up. Dude, it's great cuts anyway, thick. Put it in the oven. Get your get your oven three seventy five. Put it in the oven. If you've got a meter or some type of thermometer, put it in there. Cook it to one ten internal, get your grill ready outside, take it off, flash, seer each side till one twenty five internal. Dude. That's it's how I cook roobu's for the rest of my life.

Do you do you feel like you you lose the smoke taste?

No, cause it's on the grill long enough to get that, because your grill's already going. So if you throw it on there, flash because you're leaving it on there, probably two minutes maybe minute minute and a half to get it up to one twenty five one thirty and get it hot enough to where it's gonna crust it instead of just like slow like try to not. Don't try to slow cook it. Get it to seven hundred. Ye man, I'm telling you. It is stupid, dude, it is stupid. They're really good. One more green egg story. Uh, this has to do with hunting too, so it works. Uh. I was dating a girl in Nashville one time, and it was the first weekend of both season September, so football had just started. Huge huge football fan. Uh she was. She was living with another roommate who they went to the same college. Big game coming up. They saved their money and bought a green Egg together, and we're having it gonna. I was gonna pick it up and deliver it to their their condo that same day. I was leaving to go on a hunting trip for like three or four days. So they're all excited. I show up that morning pick them up. They're, you know, highly hopped into the truck. We rolled at the big green Egg store or whatever over here. Hearth and Home I think is what it was or something. Maybe that's that. Uh it's Hearth and Home. Actually is that the target brand?

That?

What's her face does? Anyway? Bought a green Egg. It was like the medium sized one. They gave us. The roller so we took it back. They lettered it. We brought it back to her apartment condo. Thing. Take it off the truck. I mean like, I'm like, do it like this, and barely they're helping me. I put it on the roller and start to roll it and instead of pulling it, I'm pushing it. We get it all the way, get it up off the curb. I mean, dude, they've got football already rolling and you can hear it outside and I'm gonna roll this thing in there. They bought the we got the charcoal and everything. Dude. On the last turn that one of the sidewalk cracks was like the lip of it was up a little bit and I was pushing and I went and I hit that thing power break. It went started going and I was holding on to the thing that was tipping over. Why do you strap it to the doll? And I was going on, I didn't have a doll. It was on the egg like roller. I was pushing the the yeah, where the wooden handle that you lift and the start I was pushing. I went to it and I was like, no, those things are seramic. Shattered. It shattered and I was like and they were like, and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. I gotta go hunting. And I left for three days. So what happened with the grill? Did they get a new one? It was an under warranty, it was yeah, so, but they obviously didn't get they didn't have smoking hot dogs that they were going to cook on that thing. Hot dogs. I mean, I'm probably cooking hot dogs on it. Okay, smoking Stuff's awesome. Yeah, smoke moment in your life, it's great. Hugh mac eighty seven wants to hear the best like our deer story together, and I don't know that lunch of those. I don't know what I think of one. So I think we just do like a quick bounce back recap of some of some great hunts we've had together, or store terrible hunts or terrible I will say this, we just got to sit in the deer stand together. We put up we put on a double set behind dance House a long time ago to hunt this big deer and ended up scaring it off because we got in the stand late. But we just together all the time, and especially when we were doing like the Brothers shunt filming thing and we had cameras up there and all they did have kids, and then we had kids and far wives. Yeah and uh and now we have kids and wives and houses and jobs and other stuff and we but we did get to sit together and us stand the other night for the first time and probably three or four years, and oh my god, it was awesome. Yeah, it was just it probably would have been awesome, just just even if you weren't there, if I was just sitting other by myself, or we didn't see any deer or see the biggest deer on your property. But all those things happened.

And yeah, we saw the biggest deer with my property and uh, just absolute zero.

Desire to kill it. And that was part of the reason for going at seeing if this deer was was a shooter or not.

The cool thing, the cool thing that happened is we're like, all right, we're gonna go take some dos. We need to take some does off this property. I mean reality, I could stand to lose eight to ten dose.

Grab the boats, take some does.

Yeah, so we're popping up and uh, it gets to be five o'clock. Well not five o'clock now that time has changed, but at the time it was five o'clock deer coming out.

We see this dough.

I'm like, all right, bro, like smoker, man, smoker, let's get her out of here.

I grabbed my bow about that time. Yearling runs out of the two years two yearlings one though, flies out of the woods, and I am like, mid drawl on this dough. You were that far into it. I was about to, I mean I was. I had released song drawing back, and this yearling came bolting out from the woods. Michael Bolton went directly under her and started suckling, and she was like trying to kick it off. Couldn't do it. No, that was over at that point. I couldn't. I'm not shooting MoMA. Dear dude, you know they probably happened. I mean, it's like a daycare at my place.

There's so many yearlings, good things still with those not old those yeah Siren kids, Syron kids, and so we were watching them and you see one of them kind of lock in on the corner that I can't see to the reeds.

Right directly down win too, actually.

Directly down when and what you say earlier, like I took my hat off and read was like you smell like trust me.

Yeah, dude, I got there's like a little breeze came through and you smell like you had just jumped like a flower or flower bed. Dude. You know anyway, my wife owns a salon, so I get good champoo. That's why you think I'm not saying I don't know, I'm just happened. Yeah, but dude, we're gonna go sit to try to kill a deer though it could have been a buck if he had been So he comes out, reads like something to the right, something to the right, and sure enough, outsteps one hundred and thirty five inches tend point. That's beautiful. Yeah, four year old, I think, And he's awesome. Man. I hope he lives. And that's till Dan. I was like, dude, I hope that we have the same experience two years from now and he's one hundred and sixty years three, your whole daddy walking around back there. Anyway, it was a lot, It was a lot of fun. That was a great time, great one of the first like big mature buck bucks that Dan I think either of us had killed off that property. When me and Dan got into like when he could drive and I could go with him, and Dad had stuff to do. We started just like we would walk in together and Dan would drop me and then walk to his stand like or I would. I would walk in with Dan, he'd go to his stand, and I'd keep going on. So this particular day, it was November ruddy going on in West Tennessee, and we got in there afternoon hunt Dan. I had a climber. Dan, Uh this year, yeah, this year, this was not afternoon, this was morning. Okay, we got in. I had a climber, I knew the tree I wanted to be in. It was kind of we were hunting this one same ridge system kind of just like a horseshoe ridge, a lot of saddles, a lot of a lot of benches, some like great funnels and stuff in there. It's just a big deer like like it's a great r rut set. I'm gonna sit it this weekend, actually, I think. But uh, we go in. We're walking on this bench. I peel off, go to this tree, start putting my climber on. Dan make sure I'm good, and he walks on. Well, I had just gotten up, like climb myself up with a climber, which is a job if you know what you're if you're if you're hunting with a climber. I get to the top, get it all set, just sit down, and I hear maybe ten fifteen minutes goes by, and I hear just in the direction Dan walked, and I stopped, and I was like, what, what in the world? And then I was like, we were close enough that I felt like at that point I could just scream your name and see if you answered. And do you remember I went no, I went Dan, and you went, oh really And I was like what and you went, come on, yeah, And I was like huh. I was like, down in hindsight looking at that, we're probably twohundred and fifty hours away. Yeah, we were for hour and I remember, I remember sneaky walking. I remember jumping out of the I got down far enough, like ten feet maybe seven eight feet from the ground. I remember grabbing my gun, jumping out of the tree stand, doing a ninja roll onto the leaves, and I remember sprinting because at this point we still alread eat up with it. But at this point big deer is what we lived for. I mean like we were doing the brand and we were trying to kill big deer. To do the thing. And I remember sprinting as fast as I could and getting back there, like with all those insulated clothes on, and I run up and sure enough that deer is laying.

I was sneaky, sneaky, sneaking through the woods because it was actually I think it was like the morning after a rain, and it was real quiet, and.

I was just perfect, like big deal it was. It was.

And as I got to where kind of my stand was, a doe popped over the top.

Of the hill and she just she was fifty yards in front. She just ran and stopped at like twenty yards. She was twenty yards from me on a logging road because I was walking along road and turned and looked at me and was just looking at me and went down to eating acorns, and I was like, what is happening? And then she turned around and looked over her shoulder and I was like, oh, snap, there's a buck on her. And he was like, man, yeah, yeah, coming through the woods.

I was like, is this happening to me? Like is this really happening? Because that never happens, dude. It feels like it never happens anyway, at least at that point in time. It never happened.

Always happened to dad, dad, or everybody else in the world, but just not us. And sure enough, the buck topped the hill and stopped. And where he stopped there was an embankment above me, and all I could see was this white throat patch in his head, and he was doing like this. He was looking at me, looking at her, looking at me, looking at her. She was eating acorns like I wasn't even there. It was the craziest, craziest thing, dude. And so he wouldn't leave. And one time he turned and it was just breaking. It was still really dark.

He was looking at her, and I pulled my gun up free handed, and I put it on him, like twenty five yards and when he turned back, I was like, oh, that's he's a donkey, you know, he's a big deer. And when he turned back to look at me, I shot him right in that white throat patch. And I didn't know if I hit him or not. And so I go running up there and he's laying there, and that's when you were like. I was like, come on, and so because I was wanting you to get there, and so when you got there, I mean, it was like chaos.

Maybe two minutes after I had shot the deer. I mean it was super fast, and uh is that when I was like, yeah, he's still kind of kicking. Was like, he's kind of kicking a little bit. I don't know what to do. I don't want HI run off. He said, what I do? What should I do? On? Shoot his ass again? So he's the shot is that, you know whatever? He put him out. But that's a great deer. Up until I was that was awesome ago. That was my biggest deer never killed. I'll never forget that. That was a lot of fun. One hundred and twenty nine inches and three eighths. It's an awesome deer. There's not one white tail that he's got this like blade brow time that looks like a dagger. Yeah, great deer. His two's kind of like go back, like okay, one of my favorites.

I think about all the time that I almost told you about this morning, but I decided not to because I think it. I think it's funnier if it's a surprise. It's when.

We were really.

Getting into filming, Like we did not go to the woods without the other one. Somebody was filming either it was your turn film or my turn Filmily, we'd alternate, alternate. We did that for a while, even when we had no deer on camera at all, it was still hunted like that, you know. So it's just a hassle, dude. And so we got into the point where you could tell, oh, I remember, that's coming back to me now like that Selendon songs.

To little flashes of light and yeah, and I so something happened. Okay, the flat do you already know? You know?

You know the flap at the end of the flap when we put that stand up. You remember we put the sticks and then the flop down millennium and then you couldn't go with me, or I couldn't go with you or something.

I couldn't go with you. That's what it was.

I was running camera this day. You came down a week prior and put the camera stand up above the shooting stand.

Is this coming back? I remember? So? Or vice versa. For some reason, I felt like it was me that put the kit that came down. No, it was it's always me putting the stands there. So no, dude, this was me. This was And so I came down.

You were running camera and you said, And so that morning we get to the stand, I had come down me make sure I'm telling this clear. So i'd come down a week before and put up the camera stand above the Millennium step. And so as we get to the tree, we're late and it was too high, right like it was, and you were like, why did you put that camera stand so high? I was like, well, what's wrong with it? And you were like, well, the limbs hang so far over that I'm just up there and I can't film anything anyway. And I said, well, if you hadn't been in Nashville with your girlfriend ixapt, I said something, yeah, now I can't say on this podcast, then it.

Would be in the right spot. So don't blame me for doing it when you were two bits. Well, so we get in this huge shouting whisper shouting match at the bottom of the stand and we go up and you get in the camera stand and I get in there rare shooting stand and I'm passing you something and you're and you pass it back, and when you did, you just shoved it into my chest and I didn't have my harness on yet, and like I kind of like lost my balance on the stand as we're thirty foot high and it's like six thirty of them were word of late late, and we were both so mad.

And when you did that, I got so mad that I was like, yeah, when we get out, I sat down, I sat down in my stand, few me.

I mean so mad. This happened way more this one time. So I was so mad, and we were at this point.

I'm probably twenty five twenty six, when you're probably twenty one twenty two. We're not kids, right, And I turned around and I was so mad. I said, hey, man, I said, here's what's about happen. I'm about to hang it boa. I'm going to get on the ladder and I'm going to the base of the tree, and then I want you to get out of your stand, come down the ladder, and when you get to the bottom that ladder, I'm fixed on beat your ass.

And I ain't coming down there. I'm just stay up here. Because I was so mad.

I think I we rarely ever fisted. We didn't ever fist fight, honestly, but I was so mad that you had almost killed me by slamming that that backpack into my chest or that bow or whatever it was. I was like, I was mad enough to physically fight you, and you were like, okay, fine, I'm not coming down there. Not like not that you were scared of it or whatever. You're like, cool, man, Yeah, I have fun down there. Due, I'm so glad we don't do that anymore. Man, So much pressure and just like for.

Self inflicted pressure for what we do. That was I mean, yes, I do remember that time, but I mean there was that time on the power line we did the same thing where like I couldn't get the base, rider forgot the bass or you forgot the base and we were like, what are we doing this for? What are we sacrificing all this thing? And it is just like it was so goy. Yeah, I hope we never do that again. It does sound fun though, actually we might be doing that. Yeah, that's true, that's true. But that was a funny. Man.

We've had some great we've had. I mean, okay, let's do a quick hitter. We're of my favorites. Mulier in Montana. That was every one of them? Yeah, which one that was so fun? The first one where we all no, no, no, The next one mine?

Oh yeah, yeah, that was awesome. That was good every Antelope hunt. Uh. I mean we've just we've had so blessed man, honestly, just to do it together and for all these years. And now we're in a position where we're getting all these great opportunities to go on these once in a lifetime hunt with your brother, my best friend, my brother.

Man, it's pretty cool. Yeah, a lot more to go. I ain't gonna be behind the camera.

I don't know. I've actually thought about taking like on these years, we're like, sounds like neither of us gonna behind the camera.

Dog, Oh I'm talking about this one. We're like the other night I thought about taking it. Oh yeah, just for fun.

Well if now it's like palatifying man likes me, I kill.

The big stir Imber killed my life, so I might as well totally not take that it anyway.

Yeah, A bonus episode is that it got any music? You got any music? H updates or anything I do? But I can't tell it at this moment, really really that I don't know about. Dang what else did Jumps put anything else on there? We need to talk about. I do too, but I can't tell that that's moment either. Yeah, right, is anything else on no. I think that's it. Any music updates, new song I've written, or just one of your We're not playing nothing. Hey, man, if you got people still alive in your family that you hunted with, go hunting with them. That's really all that matters to us now at this point. It's just doing it together with nephews and dads and friends kids. It's great. Yeah, hunting's great. Hunting's great with your family. So get out there and do it. Uh, Yeah, that's it.

I would say Mussloader is a week from now when you hear this, it will be a couple of days. Tennessee Musloater has always been very good to me.

I think, uh, I think Tennessee Musloader is a sleeper, at least in our portion of the state. I think deer are ready or are putting scrapes down. I think by the time we get to like rut and in like late November early December, they're off. They're off the scrape. So I think right now till the last week in November is a great time to get in the woods because you're gonna be making scrapes. They're gonna be frequenting those scrapes, checking out kind of they're gonna get their inventory before they start chasing seeking. If you're gonna hunt in hot weather, I would say, don't kill yourself to be at the stand at lunch because honestly, those daring it moving until the last ten minutes before dark anyway. Yeah, hunt high pressures when that cold front rolls on, when that first front, the front, when it rolls in, and then when it rolls out, pressure is gonna be on the rise. Hunt hunt the whole time. Yeah, hunt high pressure on the front and on the back of of fronts. Yep, there's your tip. Enjoyed it. Enjoyed the the bonus episode. We gotta come up with the name bonus pod be pod, nope, b EP, bonus episode pod podcast, bonus episode ropods see all everythink he's out if you pick y'all,

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