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We're sharing some wild camp stories from years of cooking at the chuck wagon — and the critters that showed up uninvited. From raccoons raiding the camp kitchen and snakes slithering too close to the fire, these are the real wildlife run-ins that happen when you cook outdoors in the backcountry. And the wildest critter of all? That one had two legs — and his name is Jeff Goldblum.
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I would like to talk about the strangest
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critter that you've had in camp.
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>> Strangest critter I ever had in camp.
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I'm going to tell you right now he
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wasn't four-legged.
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>> He was two-legged?
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>> He was two-legged.
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Howdy, my name is Kent Rollins. I've
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been a cowboy [music] and a chuck wagon
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cook for over 30 years cooking for
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ranches all across America. You might
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have seen me on the Food Network [music]
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or alongside my beautiful wife Shannon
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and on our YouTube show where we share
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cowboy cooking from the trail. But now
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we're [music] going to take you behind
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the scenes to real campfire
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conversations. Join us as we share
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humor, [music] cowboy wisdom, and
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stories full of history, heart, faith,
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and of course a little fire. [music] So
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grab you a cup of coffee, pull up a
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chair, and welcome to the podcast.
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>> [music]
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>> I'm going to thank y'all for joining us
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today.
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You know, being a chuck wagon cook I've
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been in some very remote
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isolated rough country.
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>> Mhm.
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>> Uh some that tested my faith, my
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patience, and my time. Uh mother nature
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always had something to throw at me.
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And sometimes there were guests that
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come to camp.
1:20
Some were invited, some were not. Some
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were two-legged,
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but there was a lot of four-legged
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things that come into camp
1:30
that
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not only maybe taught me something,
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but made me lose sleep also.
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>> And some of these guests I think even
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ended up on the menu, didn't they?
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>> Yes, they did at times. So you have to
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be careful when you show up, you know.
1:46
>> it's so much different than our cooking
1:48
style than the typical go in the
1:50
kitchen, flip on the lights, turn on the
1:52
oven, let's go controlled environment.
1:55
We have no control in our environment.
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>> No, I mean that's and I think that's one
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thing that really keeps it interesting
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all the time. You know, there's never a
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dull time when you're a chuck wagon
2:06
cook.
2:07
Something's going to happen.
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And it's probably ain't planned.
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>> I remember as you're just talking about
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critters in camp. So, I'm originally
2:17
from northern Nevada. I had not been to
2:20
the Southwest Great Plains at all. And I
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remember when I first came down to see
2:24
you.
2:25
And we were sitting in the backyard and
2:29
I saw this thing walk across the yard
2:32
and I thought, "Oh my gosh, what is
2:34
that?" And you said, "It's an
2:36
armadillo." I honest to God thought that
2:39
those were just like an extinct kind of
2:42
wives' tale like the jackalope. Like I
2:44
didn't think that they still existed.
2:46
Sure enough, and it's like this little
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prehistoric animal looking thing.
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>> Yeah. And and they uh
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they're very comical in a way. They
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don't have good eyesight.
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Uh they'd dig up a yard.
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>> So, you you've run into armadillos.
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Weird weird-looking little animal. Um I
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remember the the biggest critter, not
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the biggest one, but a very
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vivid memory
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of a critter in camp was an experience I
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had with a raccoon and our good old dog
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Frank.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Um what what
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If we were on a ranch in North Texas
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>> Yeah.
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>> near Seymour, Texas. We've been We were
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set up there for about a week, I think.
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And our dog Frank, he was a great
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critter
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magnet. Um he could spot something or
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sense something.
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>> And I remember we had the wagon and he
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kept just going crazy
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>> bark
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>> about
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>> bark
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>> barking and it he kept looking at the
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wagon and I'm thinking he's gone crazy
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because there's nothing at this wagon.
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Nothing going on. And I remember
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I said go over there and just see if
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there's something in the wagon.
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And I remember you reached your hand
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down in this
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pocket of the wagon and you can't see
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and you grabbed it and we had an old
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brush on the wagon that we could sweep
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out the teepee with and you're like it
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and there's nothing in there. Just grab
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the brush. Turns out it wasn't the
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>> Yeah, Frank was just keep he just keep
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on right there at the front of the wagon
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running from one side to the other just
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barking and barking barking. And I
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called him Frank the wonder dog cuz you
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I wondered about his intelligence at
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time but we loved that dog dearly.
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But he wouldn't give it up and I'm
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thinking there's got to be something. So
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when you're standing there at the front
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of the wagon it's
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probably
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little more about shoulder top high to
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try to see in there, you know.
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>> So you just started reaching around.
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>> Yeah, and I had this box built in the
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front
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>> Yeah.
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>> that had lantern bottles in it, you
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know,
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uh some tent stakes, that old broom that
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was in there part of it. So I keep
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reaching down in there and then I
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finally think
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I don't know what that is and I grab a
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hold of something like
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and I jerk my hand out of there
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and so I crawl up there where I can see
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and I said Shan, Frank was not lying.
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There is a raccoon that's hid down in
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here.
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>> And then so we waited and I have video
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of this. I hope I'm pretty sure I can
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find it. I will go back and look and
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push it put it up on screen. But he
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crawls up sure enough there's this big
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old raccoon. Whoop whoop. And then did
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Frank chase him for a little bit?
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>> Yeah, I got up there. I wanted cuz you
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never know about these raccoons, you
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know.
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>> They're fascinating creatures to me.
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>> They
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they could
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like I'm mad at the dog, I'm mad at you.
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Instead of just jumping out of this
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wagon and hitting the ground running,
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I'm going to jump on you. So, I had me a
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pry bars, which is a little old little
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lifter that I had to where I could sort
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of pry him up out of there.
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And when he hit the ground, I mean this
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was he was 9-0 going out and Frank
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was in hot pursuit. I remember giving
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Frank a half a steak that night for
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supper.
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>> He was a good boy finding that raccoon.
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I don't think he was a threat to camp,
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but he knew something was different
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there.
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>> He was a good hound for sure. He uh
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That's why I always say I always trusted
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dogs more than people, you know, cuz
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somebody would have told me said, "Hey,
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there's a raccoon in that wagon." I
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never would have believed them, you
6:27
know, but old Frank
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he finally got my attention.
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>> You've got another
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pretty intense raccoon story.
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>> Oh.
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I was cooking uh on a ranch in North
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Texas when that one is South Wichita
6:39
Falls or just a little
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And another one of them times where all
6:43
the cowboys wouldn't stay and weren't
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nobody in camp but me, you know, and I'd
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fed this crew before and they were some
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big old boys in there, Scott and Jeff
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and all them. They could eat.
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And they loved a cake and they'd been
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around the wagon long enough to where
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when it was cake day
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I would make them cakes early so they
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could cool and then you could ice them.
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And these were double-decker cakes. One
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was a chocolate and one was red velvet.
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>> Ooh.
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>> And I would
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turn a bean pot over them, put a rock on
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top.
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Now,
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Scott and Jeff Hand
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who loved to eat and loved cake
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when they'd be walking up to the wagon,
7:21
they knew what that bean pot was about.
7:24
They was a cake under there and I'd hear
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Scott telling
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don't eat the chicken fried, let's just
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go for the cake, you know.
7:32
But I could always fill them up. They'd
7:34
usually be enough cake left, maybe one
7:36
slice big enough of red velvet and one
7:39
of chocolate that I could have me a
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little night drink there, some coffee
7:43
and some cake before I went to bed, you
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know.
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>> When everybody's out of camp, you can
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sneak a bite.
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>> And this was one of them nights where it
7:51
was going to be perfect sleeping
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weather.
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>> Mhm.
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>> 50-something degrees, you know, not a
7:57
breath of wind anywhere. I could hear
7:59
hear them old hoot owls way back down
8:01
there in the trees.
8:06
And I'm thinking,
8:07
nature's going to be good to me tonight.
8:10
Went in there, went off to sleep at
8:11
8:00. I mean, like got in a coma, passed
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out.
8:16
1:15, World War 17 and 18 is going on at
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the wagon.
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>> So, you have another situation, you're
8:23
in the TP.
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>> Yeah.
8:24
>> Let's Let's paint the picture. You're
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sleeping naked.
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>> [laughter]
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>> And you've [clears throat] got this
8:30
calamity going on at the wagon. So, do
8:32
you slip on the old house shoes again?
8:34
>> Yep.
8:34
>> What's your weapon of choice?
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>> I had my little .410 shotgun.
8:40
Get the flashlight, house shoes,
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go to wandering over.
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And when I get there, because the table
8:46
that sits out in front by the wagon that
8:47
you serve off of is always the one in,
8:50
you know.
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And I knew them pieces of cake were
8:54
still under that bean pot, and they had
8:56
them rocks on them. Big rocks, cuz the
8:58
wind can blow.
9:00
First thing I hit the light on, and
9:02
these eyes glowing in the dark running
9:04
back and forth across this table. You
9:06
know what I'm thinking?
9:08
We have got company again tonight. And I
9:11
look, and it's two raccoons.
9:14
And they are fighting over this cake.
9:17
And they have
9:19
white cream cheese icing all over their
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face. And I mean, they're just going
9:23
after it tooth and nail. They ain't even
9:25
paying me no attention, you know. So, I
9:27
just bang an old piece of firewood up
9:29
against Bertha, that old wood stove,
9:31
where it'll go to clanging, you know,
9:32
and they finally look up, and they take
9:33
off.
9:35
There's no cake for me to have for from
9:38
any kind of snack when I get up. I mean,
9:40
it's scattered everywhere.
9:42
Things is a mess and I'm thinking, I'm
9:44
going back to bed. I don't care. I'll
9:47
set the alarm at 2:00 and clean this up,
9:50
you know.
9:51
I get
9:52
back in the teepee, just laid down,
9:55
fixing to get after it, and I hear
9:56
something again.
9:58
And I go over there and I'm thinking,
10:00
I just got through running off two
10:01
raccoons, you know, if they done come
10:04
back
10:05
and they're starting trouble again,
10:07
this will be their demise.
10:09
>> Uh-oh.
10:09
>> We will have raccoon stew for breakfast.
10:13
And I look and I can't see it. Can't see
10:15
nothing, but I can still hear it.
10:18
And I had two big lanterns set up on top
10:20
of the chuck box to where they wouldn't
10:21
blow off in the night.
10:24
And I hear something up there scattering
10:25
around and one of them lantern falls off
10:27
on the ground, and I look and there is a
10:29
big old fat possum.
10:31
>> A possum now is coming to camp?
10:33
>> I think he was maybe had found the cake
10:36
before the raccoons did and raccoons
10:38
running him off, so he was up there
10:40
because he had chocolate icing on his
10:43
face. No,
10:45
you know how possums got that little
10:46
grin?
10:46
>> Yes.
10:47
>> He was just sort of looking at me like,
10:49
"Hold up there." You know.
10:50
>> Did he play dead?
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>> No, he didn't play dead. He He just He
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didn't even get out.
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>> He was just like, "I'm going for it."
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>> He was just standing there, you know.
10:59
And I told him, I said, "Just clean up
11:01
after yourself."
11:03
I So, I thought, "Ain't no sense going
11:05
back to bed." Well, I lit a lantern,
11:08
went built fire,
11:10
uh I got the coffee going, and I look
11:13
over there
11:14
and he's coming down the side of the
11:15
wagon and he just
11:17
wanders You ever seen how they sort of
11:18
waddle and that little tail go?
11:20
He just walks right on by, turns around,
11:23
gives me a look like, "We'll be back
11:24
again tonight."
11:25
>> Did they clear you out?
11:27
>> There was no dessert left.
11:28
>> Hm.
11:29
>> You know, they had a sweet tooth. I
11:30
remember Jeff and Scott both when they
11:32
come back into camp that next morning
11:34
they said, "Ken, I don't think we're
11:36
going to have no eggs. We're just going
11:37
to have some hot cake and coffee." I
11:39
said,
11:39
>> What a disappointment.
11:40
>> No, I had people show up in the night.
11:42
They had already ate the cake, you know.
11:44
But, I got to thinking, maybe I should
11:47
just bring like some Little Debbie snack
11:49
cakes and stuff and lay them out. Put
11:51
them out. Put some coffee out, you know.
11:54
>> For your midnight guests.
11:55
>> I want to be obliging.
11:56
>> I want to say that
12:01
one of the critters that I have an
12:03
absolute fear of, especially when we go
12:05
into new camp, and especially when
12:07
there's a big old wood pile that's been
12:09
there for a while,
12:10
are snakes.
12:11
>> Yeah.
12:12
>> Snakes were and and they're nearly
12:15
everywhere. You always have to worry
12:17
about a snake. It doesn't really matter
12:18
what region of the country we've got the
12:20
wagon set up as.
12:22
Um
12:23
What do you think was the
12:26
What camp were you at and what was the
12:28
most rattlesnakes you killed in one
12:31
camp?
12:32
>> Well, there's been several places that
12:35
I've killed a lot of snakes, but uh
12:37
one at Palo Duro Canyon, you know.
12:40
I was cooking for old Rex Glover.
12:42
They wood pile was always there by the
12:45
wagon.
12:45
>> And they love a wood pile.
12:47
>> Oh, yeah. And this wood pile might have
12:48
been drug up there like in February
12:51
January and now these it's warming up
12:54
enough in the spring, but the nights is
12:56
still a little cold. So, rattlesnake
12:59
want to have somewhere that seems sort
13:00
of be seclusive and hide.
13:03
And uh
13:05
Old Chris Morton,
13:06
he's the only one that I'd ever let come
13:08
to the wagon early and have coffee with
13:09
me. We turned out the lantern and just
13:11
sit there and drink coffee about 2:00.
13:13
And uh
13:14
weren't a breath of wind, just quiet as
13:16
it can be.
13:17
And
13:18
I told him I got up, I poured us both a
13:21
cup of coffee and we was just leaning
13:22
back in them chairs and I said,
13:25
"Do you hear that?"
13:27
He said, "Yeah."
13:28
I said, "That's rattlesnake."
13:30
He said, "Yeah."
13:32
I said,
13:34
"Where is he at?"
13:35
"I don't know."
13:37
I said, "Well, why don't you get up get
13:38
your flashlight show me where he's at?"
13:40
He said, "Why don't you get up get your
13:42
flashlight show me where he's at?" So,
13:44
we decided that we would just sit there
13:46
and not move.
13:47
>> Yeah.
13:48
>> And maybe he would evacuate.
13:50
>> Mhm.
13:51
>> Well, you could hear him, you know, the
13:53
He wasn't rattling, but you could hear
13:54
the rattles
13:56
as he's
13:57
going through.
13:58
>> Easy motion of them.
13:59
>> And I don't count with Sandy.
14:01
When we thought maybe he was gone,
14:04
we turned that lantern on full blast
14:07
and you could see that snake track. He
14:08
come between my chair
14:10
>> Oh, he's a Chris. He's a
14:12
>> I killed five more snakes
14:14
in that camp that week that had crawled
14:17
out that wood pile. I mean, they've been
14:18
there a long time. Some of them old
14:20
snakes great big.
14:22
I remember we killed a great old big un
14:23
out there at the Bell Ranch. You know,
14:25
that was after
14:26
He was in a [music] wood pile. And uh he
14:29
was after that cottontail rabbit. I
14:30
don't ever worry about them until I
14:32
nearly step on one. Then I think about
14:34
them, you know.
14:43
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But one that I think got our attention
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really good when we were shooting a
16:22
video down there south hollows along the
16:24
banks of the river.
16:26
And this was in December, and you don't
16:28
[music] think about
16:30
a snake.
16:30
>> No, and it's it was cool. We were doing
16:33
a Christmas cookie episode.
16:36
And I remember we were both standing
16:38
there we were both on camera for this
16:40
one. And so of course not paying
16:42
attention to our surroundings.
16:44
And I just want to preface this saying
16:46
we had three dogs there. We had Bonehead
16:49
the beagle, we had
16:51
your old mom's mom's dog.
16:53
>> I think there was
16:53
>> Was that just the two of them? So we
16:55
have an alert system in place in theory.
16:58
>> Yeah, for a biscuit.
16:59
>> And I remember we were putting together
17:02
these cookies and I was looking at you.
17:05
And then all of a sudden I said, "Oh my
17:09
god, Ken, there's a snake." And it was a
17:10
decent sized snake.
17:12
And we do have this one on video as
17:15
well.
17:16
>> Yeah. And the thing about it is to
17:19
we'd been cold, but then it warmed up.
17:21
You know, and them old snakes crawl out
17:23
down there out of them old holes in them
17:25
bluffs.
17:26
And I was worried sure I didn't want me
17:28
and you to get bit. But old grass was
17:30
tall.
17:32
A bonehead or old dog come by there and
17:34
get bit, too, you know.
17:36
He ended up on the uh recipe that day as
17:38
well.
17:39
>> A snake has significantly injured you.
17:43
>> Yes.
17:44
>> Do you remember this story? I don't
17:45
think you knew I was going to talk about
17:46
this story. But a snake is the reason
17:50
that you tore your bicep?
17:54
>> Yes.
17:55
>> Like completely.
17:56
>> Yeah, this one up here.
17:58
>> And we were hosting a cooking school in
18:01
Oklahoma.
18:03
And it was Was it warm?
18:06
>> Yeah, it was in March, but it warmed up.
18:08
>> And super tall grass. And I remember we
18:11
had everybody around, and again, we're
18:12
going to go back to Frank the Wonder Dog
18:15
was in camp. He was also an amazing
18:18
snake dog. He would spot them out.
18:21
>> Um and bark and and really alert. So
18:24
>> And it was a different bark.
18:25
>> It was a different bark, so you knew
18:27
something else was was was going on. And
18:29
he started barking.
18:30
And I remember
18:32
you and one of the other students, you
18:35
got a shovel.
18:36
And I said, Kent, do not get the shovel,
18:39
get the shotgun.
18:41
And you guys were being all tough.
18:43
You're like, no, we're going to get the
18:44
shovel. And And so you We had to hike up
18:47
the side of the mountain, and I think
18:48
I'm screaming at you the entire time.
18:52
And
18:52
>> Wind was blowing, I couldn't hear you.
18:53
>> No, that's not true.
18:55
And so you get up to this hill.
18:58
Frank has got the snake. Luckily, Frank
19:00
doesn't try to do anything. He's just
19:01
alerting.
19:02
And you take the shovel, and you just
19:05
start wailing on its head.
19:08
>> Mhm.
19:09
>> And did you hear it, snap, a break, uh
19:13
>> Yeah, I'm
19:16
hear hear the pain more than anything
19:18
else.
19:19
>> Was it just like an instant?
19:20
>> one of them deals to where you could
19:22
just hit him with the shovel. I mean,
19:25
the grass was 4-ft high, and you had to
19:27
get enough force to get through there.
19:29
I didn't want him to get back cuz he was
19:31
headed down toward the wagon.
19:33
>> Yeah.
19:33
>> And I didn't want nobody get bit, you
19:35
know, somebody having a wreck. So, it
19:38
was
19:38
all out you going to do the snake in,
19:41
but when I had
19:43
overextended really with everything I
19:45
had on that right shoulder, and then I
19:47
hear this
19:49
>> Like a pop?
19:50
>> Yeah.
19:52
>> Completely guys, like ripped the bicep
19:55
in two.
19:56
>> And same same day it all happened, too.
19:59
I was trying to grab a tarp that the
20:00
wind had a hold of.
20:02
And this was a little bit after that,
20:04
thinking that I could keep it from
20:05
ripping the tarp. And that's It's it's a
20:08
distal tendon. There's two of them that
20:10
come down there.
20:12
This one, first one out here, it broke
20:14
when I was wrestling the snake. This
20:17
second one busted
20:18
>> The last string just snapped when you
20:21
tried you thought it would be a good
20:23
idea to grab this tarp and pull it down.
20:26
>> Well, you know
20:27
>> So, a snake can hurt you other than just
20:29
a bite.
20:30
>> Yeah, I've seen people run over people
20:31
get out of where a snake
20:32
>> You even had looked into like we went to
20:34
the doctor, we talked about
20:35
reconstruction and everything, and they
20:37
finally said it's not worth it, right?
20:39
>> Yeah, he kept telling me, he said, "You
20:40
know, the
20:42
the reason that's tore is you have bad
20:43
rotator cuff, you got a spur on it." So,
20:47
I I've been a lot of horse sales, been a
20:48
lot trade cars, Chandler I like to go in
20:51
and we trade pickups cuz
20:52
I'll end up just tell them, "Hey, we
20:54
ain't going to do this cuz I'm going to
20:55
take $25,000 off if you say another
20:57
word, you know." So, I told this doctor,
20:59
I said, "I ain't got no rotator cuff
21:00
problem." He said, "Are you a orthopedic
21:02
surgeon?"
21:03
I said, "No, but I can still I can still
21:05
swing
21:05
>> a lot of cowboy cures.
21:06
>> I can swing a rope. I can still rope. If
21:09
that rotator cuff was bad, you couldn't
21:11
do that.
21:11
>> That's a good point.
21:12
>> I said, "I'll tell you what I'll do.
21:15
I said, "You can go in there and we'll
21:16
x-ray it.
21:17
If it's a rotator cuff,
21:19
I'll pay for the x-rays."
21:21
He was really proud of himself. Walked
21:23
out there, we did the x-rays. I sitting
21:25
in there just waiting.
21:27
You could tell when he come back in the
21:28
room.
21:29
>> He was paying for the x-rays?
21:31
>> He was pale.
21:32
>> [laughter]
21:35
>> You know, they still charged me for them
21:37
x-rays.
21:37
>> Well, that's the medical business.
21:39
>> But he said, "You know, you you you
21:41
could fix that cosmetically, but the
21:43
only reason is you said you'll still
21:45
have 60, 70%."
21:47
>> So, functionally it wasn't even worth
21:48
it.
21:48
>> No, I got popping my muscle now. You
21:50
know.
21:50
>> That changed snake.
21:52
>> It happens.
21:53
>> Well, you know what's a great way to get
21:54
revenge with a snake is to cook him up.
21:57
>> Yeah.
21:58
>> We you know, that's a big interest and
22:00
novelty that we run across with people
22:02
asking questions about, "Well, do you
22:04
cook snake? Did Cookie on the Trail cook
22:06
snake?" Um yes. Yes uh to both of those.
22:10
Um we I had never had snake and we were
22:12
again on this this ranch cooking in
22:14
North Texas and one of the cowboys was
22:17
hunting and and getting snakes because
22:19
then does he sell them?
22:21
>> Sell the hide. First they use the venom,
22:23
you know, to make anti-venom.
22:25
>> Yeah.
22:25
>> Then there's the meat and the hide. You
22:27
know, the rattlesnake roundups is big in
22:29
Texas.
22:30
>> And and Oklahoma.
22:31
>> Yeah.
22:31
>> Yeah, so I was like, "Let's cook up some
22:32
snake. I never had any." And Kent was
22:34
not happy about it. I'm like, "Why? It's
22:37
cool."
22:38
And I realized, well, because it's a lot
22:40
of work and there's not much meat on it.
22:42
>> Not unless you got a big snake.
22:44
>> And they smell.
22:45
>> Yeah.
22:46
>> Uh what what is what is your preferred
22:48
method on how you prepare and cook the
22:49
snake?
22:50
>> Well, first you need clean him quick
22:52
quickly as possible, you know. Rinse him
22:55
really good cold water three or four
22:57
times. Then soak him in buttermilk
22:59
overnight.
23:00
>> Because and this is you use buttermilk a
23:02
lot in wild game, too, because it takes
23:04
away all that like wild
23:06
>> Yeah, it's got lactic acid in it, going
23:08
to break it down, you know, but it's
23:09
going to get rid of some of that
23:10
gaminess. But
23:12
old cooking and going down the trails so
23:14
many years ago, if you killed great big
23:15
old snake or killed three or four of
23:17
them, they made rattlesnake chili. You
23:19
know,
23:19
but you're looking at
23:21
the loin, which is right down the middle
23:23
of the back of the snake. That's the
23:25
biggest part of meat, and this might be
23:28
on some snakes as big as a pencil.
23:30
>> Yeah.
23:31
>> Big around.
23:32
>> It's a lot of work.
23:32
>> Like a toothpick.
23:33
>> Yeah.
23:34
>> But
23:35
cut them up, batter them, fry them, you
23:37
know.
23:37
>> them just like you would like a chicken
23:39
fried steak or
23:40
>> And people say
23:42
does that taste like chicken? I said,
23:44
"No, it tastes like snake."
23:45
>> You know, honestly though, it tastes
23:47
more just like the batter to me. I mean,
23:49
I guess it depends on how thick that
23:51
batter is and and what you've got going
23:52
on, but I mean, yeah, it's it's fine. I
23:55
mean, it doesn't taste horrible.
23:57
>> No, I'm I I've eaten it growing up. Um
24:00
it's one of the deals that
24:02
I mean, I don't I don't go look for
24:03
them. It's like, "Well, I'm craving me
24:05
some rattlesnake today, you know, for
24:07
dinner." Uh I've never hunted them in my
24:09
life. And uh they were something that I
24:13
respected, something that I never did
24:15
just go out there and think, "Hell, I'll
24:16
kill all the rattlesnakes I can." You
24:18
know, they
24:20
they was always wanting to barn most of
24:22
the time, you know. Eat a lot of mice,
24:24
eat a lot of rats, you know, and we had
24:26
bull snakes, too. But if one ever nearly
24:29
bit me or scared me bad
24:32
you know, that was different.
24:33
>> Well, and we have to remember like we're
24:35
in their house. We're in Mother Nature's
24:38
kitchen. So, there has to be a little
24:40
bit of of grace there. Um I remember the
24:46
probably one of the most scared times
24:49
I've been with a critter was when we
24:52
were cooking on the Bell Ranch north of
24:55
Tucumcari, New Mexico. I think this was
24:58
maybe the third week we were on there.
25:01
It was a five-week five five and a half
25:03
week cooking.
25:05
And we'd move camp every three to four
25:07
days. And we finally got up into this
25:09
kind of more elevated rocky camp. And it
25:14
was really interesting. So, the way it
25:15
works is we tear down camp and camp is
25:18
consists of the chuck wagon, the
25:20
teepees, all the cowboys are staying in
25:23
camp, too, so they're in teepees.
25:25
And every time we go to a new camp, we
25:28
set the wagon first and then everybody
25:30
sets their teepees. And it is a unspoken
25:33
camp rule
25:35
that cowboys usually set their teepees
25:38
up pretty far away from the wagon
25:40
because the wagon is the cook's
25:42
territory. So, we would set our wagon
25:45
close to camp uh because we were waking
25:47
up at like 2:30 in the morning to cook
25:49
breakfast. And and also so the cowboys
25:52
can sleep. They can be off a little bit.
25:54
Um but I remember at this particular
25:56
camp, it was really weird. So, we go
25:58
there, we set the wagon, and then all
25:59
the cowboys start setting up their
26:02
teepees, and they're really close to
26:05
camp. And then I remember Rem, who was
26:08
the assistant manager out there, he was
26:10
doing this like really wide swoop around
26:12
camp and kind of like bowed up walking
26:14
around.
26:16
Really strange, didn't know what was
26:17
going on. And I don't think anything of
26:18
it cuz I'm still kind of a newbie to the
26:21
the ranch cooking world at this point.
26:23
And luckily, you didn't say anything to
26:26
me until we were in that camp, I think
26:29
three days.
26:31
We pack up and we start heading up again
26:33
on the mountain, and that's when you
26:35
tell me.
26:37
>> We were coming into that camp, and it
26:38
was Mule Creek's what they called it.
26:40
>> Oh, I didn't remember that.
26:41
>> And uh
26:42
it was pretty that year, too. Remember
26:43
it was green and a windmill pumping
26:45
over, but it was sandy that road going
26:48
in.
26:49
And I mean, I'm driving the wagon and uh
26:52
always looking around.
26:53
You know.
26:54
>> That's the thing you cowboys are always
26:56
really aware of your surroundings and
26:58
like nature signs.
27:00
>> And I look down there right off the left
27:02
side of that front wheel and I see these
27:04
tracks.
27:05
So I just keep watching them and
27:08
see these tracks sort of like this
27:10
coming across, you know.
27:12
And I'm thinking, "Oso is here."
27:15
Which is Spanish for Mexican for bear.
27:18
>> Bear.
27:20
>> And we got up there and Rimmel he had
27:22
made a circle.
27:24
And I love old Rimmel. I do. He's good
27:25
people. And you know how he was he came
27:27
over and he said, "Hey Chet."
27:29
He said, "You might not want to tell
27:30
these younger fellows." But he said,
27:33
"You probably done seen it." I said,
27:34
"You talking about them bear tracks
27:35
Rimmel?" He said, "Yeah."
27:37
He said uh
27:39
"They they fresh."
27:41
>> Oh no.
27:42
>> And I said,
27:43
"Yeah. I said don't pay no mind to them.
27:45
I said I'll put stuff up
27:47
uh
27:48
out of sight really good tonight, you
27:49
know." But
27:50
goes, "Bear loves to get in camp tear
27:52
stuff up." You know. So I
27:54
>> I didn't I wasn't even paying attention.
27:56
Did you really like fortify the food and
27:58
>> Oh yeah. Most of it went in the in the
28:00
in the pickup and you know.
28:01
>> And the the trash?
28:02
>> Yeah.
28:03
>> See I didn't even I wasn't even paying
28:04
attention.
28:04
>> And I but
28:06
them cowboys had gathered up closer
28:09
for neighborhood support.
28:11
>> Cuz they thought like
28:12
>> But you never heard one of them mention
28:13
anything about
28:14
>> like neighborhood watch. Like there was
28:15
strength in numbers if a bear came. I I
28:18
don't know. But they I mean we had I
28:19
remember Rimmel had a pistol.
28:21
>> Yeah.
28:22
>> I mean that like there was that still I
28:23
just
28:25
there's something about a bear. I just
28:27
mm-mm.
28:28
>> Well, you know I've had some when I was
28:29
packing hunters and stuff like that that
28:31
you'd see or they'd come in camp. But uh
28:35
one thing I've never run on the one in
28:37
the night. Like always sort of feared
28:39
them in some of that country.
28:41
Uh
28:42
going to the wagon, you know, from the
28:44
teepee and you get over there. I mean
28:47
they didn't even a light. You just sort
28:48
of know the place.
28:49
>> what you're getting into.
28:49
>> And uh brush that lantern off and
28:53
there's old fat bear sitting in your
28:54
chair waiting for breakfast, you know,
28:56
so
28:56
>> So, you've never had a direct run-in.
28:59
>> No, not uh not in camp with the wagon.
29:02
Uh when we guided hunters, I'd run into
29:03
some, you know, but
29:05
not not anytime on the wagon. Uh no.
29:08
>> I just I Some people have a fascination
29:10
with bears. I like to see them on TV and
29:13
that's about it.
29:14
>> Jellystone Park.
29:16
>> Yogi was my favorite bear and we'll
29:17
leave it at that.
29:18
>> Smokey's mine.
29:19
>> Oh, Smokey, yeah. Um
29:22
fun fact we live in Lincoln County, New
29:25
Mexico, which is the home of Smokey the
29:27
Bear. He was actually found after a
29:29
forest fire not too far from us near
29:31
Capitan, New Mexico. And I think we will
29:33
do a full story on that because it's a
29:35
really fascinating
29:36
>> It is.
29:36
>> smoke story on Smokey Bear. Also, it's
29:39
Smokey Bear, not Smokey the Bear.
29:41
>> Yeah, I've been in trouble for that.
29:43
>> But, um
29:45
all right. I would like to talk about
29:49
the strangest critter that you've had in
29:51
camp.
29:52
>> Strangest critter I ever had in camp.
29:54
I'm going to tell you right now he
29:55
wasn't four-legged.
29:57
>> He was two-legged?
29:58
>> He was two-legged.
29:59
Uh
30:00
you know, I've
30:02
I've seen a lot of things and uh
30:05
I'm amazed by most of them.
30:07
>> Mhm.
30:08
>> But, uh
30:09
I remember getting this phone call about
30:11
6:00 in the morning and had
30:13
three or four too many numbers on it.
30:15
>> Like a plus sign and then yeah, then you
30:17
know it's international.
30:18
>> Yeah. So, finally I answered it.
30:20
And there's this gal from London.
30:23
And uh she was with Nat Geo.
30:26
And uh just loved to listen to her talk.
30:29
>> Mhm.
30:29
>> I couldn't really understand all she was
30:31
saying and she couldn't understand half
30:32
of what I was saying.
30:33
>> I'm sure.
30:34
>> but there was this new show that they
30:36
were working on
30:38
and they needed to be on a ranch
30:39
environment, you know.
30:41
>> So, the show was actually for Disney
30:43
Plus. Nat Geo's part of that.
30:45
And it was Was it called like one
30:49
>> This weird rock, something like that.
30:50
>> rock. Yeah, it was a And
30:52
Okay, yeah. So, so they go to different
30:54
places kind of highlighting
30:57
culture?
30:58
>> Yeah, and the host is, you know, trying
31:00
to stuff out.
31:01
>> Okay.
31:02
>> So,
31:03
she begins telling me what all they want
31:05
to do and this needs to be on this
31:07
working ranch. So, I call our good
31:09
friend Rob Stuart, who's down Seymour,
31:11
you know, who we talked about earlier.
31:12
And he said, "Yeah." He said, "We got to
31:14
move some cows next week anyway, you
31:16
know."
31:17
>> Oh, perfect.
31:17
>> So, this will be all right.
31:19
>> And this particular episode was about
31:21
cowboy coffee.
31:22
>> Yes. You know, I know a lot about cowboy
31:24
coffee.
31:24
>> You were the expert.
31:25
>> Uh-huh.
31:26
And uh this lady kept on talking to me
31:28
and she said um
31:29
"And the host of our show is
31:32
Jeff Goldblum. Do you know him?" I said,
31:35
"No, ma'am. I can't place him."
31:37
>> I'm like, "You don't know Jeff Goldblum?
31:39
Like, The Fly and Jurassic Park?"
31:42
>> And I said uh
31:44
"No, ma'am." I said, "I might have seen
31:45
him, you know, but I said I I I don't
31:47
know who he is." And she said, "Well,
31:50
we're going to do a deal on cowboy
31:52
coffee.
31:54
And I'm going to tell you right now, Mr.
31:55
Goldblum doesn't drink coffee." And I
31:58
said, "Well, he can that day, ma'am. He
31:59
can drink all he wants, you know." So, I
32:03
>> You were busy working on cookbook stuff.
32:05
>> Yeah, I couldn't go on this one.
32:07
>> So, I drive down there hot, as usual, in
32:09
June.
32:10
Down there South Seymour, set the wagon
32:12
up. And bless his old heart, old
32:14
Richard, that always took care of stuff
32:16
for us, for Rob, you know, he'd come out
32:18
there. And he had mowed this grass.
32:20
I mean, it looked like a golf course,
32:22
right to where I was going to set the
32:23
wagon. And we did that for one reason.
32:26
There is a wood pile. What lives in the
32:29
wood pile? What lives in the
32:30
>> Have you Have you all been paying
32:31
attention?
32:33
>> So, Richard told me, he said, "I got her
32:34
skimmed off so I can He said, "You'll be
32:37
able to see them snakes half mile away.
32:40
So,
32:41
I'm really really looking forward to
32:42
just meeting the crew. I don't I don't
32:44
know this gold bloom fella, you know,
32:47
but I I like to visit with these people
32:49
from London or wherever they're at.
32:51
There was some from Australia, you know.
32:52
>> Wow.
32:53
>> And uh we get up there and the first guy
32:55
that comes over there, he's from Chicago
32:57
and I'm thinking
32:58
I just wanted to meet the other people,
33:00
you know. And he is the safety
33:02
coordinator for the show.
33:05
>> Oh, they have a safety coordinator.
33:07
Interesting, okay.
33:08
>> And he said he
33:09
>> Well, he probably took one look at your
33:11
setup and thinking this is a violation.
33:13
>> He is walking over there and he said,
33:15
uh you Mr. Rollins? And I said, yeah. He
33:18
said, you need to come over here to this
33:21
uh suburban.
33:22
Uh we have something that you're going
33:24
to you have to wear this while you're
33:26
here.
33:27
>> Oh, what?
33:28
>> And I'm thinking
33:29
oh, they're like a name tag or
33:31
something, you know.
33:32
And it was these snake proof leggings.
33:36
>> Uh-huh.
33:37
>> They wanted me to put them on, you know,
33:38
and they strap on them.
33:39
>> Uh-huh.
33:40
>> And I had some white top boots on and
33:41
have a bridge leg stuffed in them.
33:43
>> Yeah.
33:43
>> I said, I'm wearing them.
33:44
I said, I never wore none in my life. I
33:46
said, I'm going to start today.
33:49
Well, when we were talking to this older
33:51
guy, I said, Richard? Yeah.
33:53
He said there's a lot of snakes.
33:54
>> Rich, he's probably had him all stressed
33:56
out.
33:56
>> I said, there is a lot of snakes. He
33:58
said, well, our camera crew and everyone
34:00
that's here will be wearing these snake
34:03
proof leg And they're fluorescent
34:05
orange. You can see these guys coming 30
34:07
miles away, you know.
34:09
W- First of all, we never seen no snake
34:11
the whole time we was there.
34:13
There is one guy that is uh
34:17
running the drone on it. And this
34:18
biggest drone ever seen in my life.
34:21
I mean, this thing looked like
34:22
a spacecraft. It was so big. Then
34:25
there's four cameramen,
34:28
three sound guys, and the lady producer.
34:31
>> And they're all wearing snake boots?
34:33
>> Yes.
34:33
>> Wow.
34:34
>> And they're telling me cuz I set up this
34:35
is the day before, okay?
34:37
>> Okay.
34:39
>> Mr. Rollins, she says, tell you what
34:41
we're going to do.
34:43
We are going to start in the morning at
34:45
6:00 because
34:47
Richard I put a lot of stock in Richard.
34:50
He said it would get light at 6:00. I
34:52
said, "Yes, ma'am, be about 6:00."
34:54
I said,
34:55
"Do you want to have coffee at 6:00?"
34:59
"No, we don't we that's when we're going
35:00
to start cuz remember Mr. Goldblum is
35:03
going to go with them together cattle.
35:05
And this is another discussion that we'd
35:07
had. We had to have a really gentle
35:09
horse.
35:10
>> Good.
35:10
>> And we had to have somebody lead the
35:12
horse.
35:13
>> Okay.
35:13
>> Because
35:14
he couldn't they didn't want the horse
35:16
to be free.
35:18
You know,
35:18
they were afraid that the horse would
35:20
run off and it would be an accident.
35:22
Something would happen, you know.
35:24
>> So, I talked to a friend of mine down
35:25
there and he had gentlest horse on
35:27
string that every grandkid in the world
35:28
had ever rode and grew up on, you know.
35:32
And we going to start at 6:00, right?
35:35
6:00 didn't happen. 7:00 didn't happen.
35:38
8:00 I see this dirt road I see dust
35:40
coming.
35:41
And it's a suburban.
35:43
Pull up.
35:45
A great big tall guy gets out.
35:48
Nobody had told me how tall this guy
35:50
was.
35:51
>> Oh.
35:51
>> You know, he is tall.
35:53
>> Is he?
35:53
>> Yeah.
35:54
>> I mean, I know he's tall, but like even
35:55
more so in person?
35:57
>> But he comes up there and he introduces
35:58
himself, you know. "My name is Jeff
36:00
Goldblum." He said, "Such an honor to be
36:02
here." And he said, "And we're going to
36:04
talk about
36:06
cowboy coffee."
36:07
And I said, "Yes, sir, brother. I said,
36:09
"We ready to go?"
36:10
I said,
36:11
"The first thing we're going to do is we
36:12
got to know, you know, this cowboy
36:14
coffee been around forever. This just
36:17
water, fire, coffee."
36:20
I said, "We're going to grind these
36:21
beans."
36:23
Got that old Parker grinder out, poured
36:25
them beans and I said, "All you got to
36:26
do is turn this handle.
36:27
It'll make coffee.
36:29
He makes about four cranks.
36:32
And it's got this sound that old coffee
36:34
grinder, you know, the sounds and smell
36:35
of them fresh coffee beans. So,
36:37
and he just quits. And he stands up and
36:40
he looks at me and he's got these
36:41
glasses, you know.
36:43
And
36:44
he might be a really odd fellow, but he
36:46
just nice as he could be.
36:48
He looked at me and he said, "You know,
36:49
Kent,
36:50
that reminds me of a song."
36:52
>> A song?
36:53
>> Song.
36:55
And I look around. Camera people are
36:57
just setting their cameras down on the
36:59
ground.
37:01
People are beginning to sit in chairs.
37:03
>> No.
37:04
>> And he goes into song.
37:07
Just It ain't like just a few bars and a
37:09
little melody. This is like a full-blown
37:11
opera presentation, you know.
37:13
>> So, this must be something that he does
37:15
frequently if everybody knows.
37:16
>> Yeah, I think they'd done been through
37:18
this time or two.
37:19
>> You just let Jeff do his thing.
37:21
>> And uh
37:22
so, after the song, I finally when he
37:24
got about halfway through it, I said,
37:27
"Brother, we ain't here to to sing.
37:29
We're here to make coffee." And I said,
37:30
"It's going to be 106 if for long I
37:32
wouldn't stand up by that fire." So,
37:34
when I finally got him up there to where
37:36
he could feel the love of old Bertha in
37:39
100° weather.
37:40
>> Bertha's the old wood stove. She's hot,
37:43
heavy, and in June she's firing it up.
37:46
>> Oh, yeah. And she was loving every
37:47
moment.
37:48
And
37:49
we made the coffee, you know, and you
37:51
pour the cold water down the spout to
37:53
let the grounds settle, and then you let
37:55
it sit for a minute. And I poured him a
37:57
cup.
37:58
And he said, "You know, I haven't drank
38:00
I don't think I've drank coffee in 4 or
38:01
5 years." And he
38:03
had a drink and he said,
38:05
"Oh my gosh."
38:07
He said, "This is probably the smoothest
38:09
coffee I've ever drank."
38:10
>> No.
38:11
>> And uh
38:12
he drank four cups that in about an hour
38:15
and a half.
38:16
>> Oh. Oh. Jeff.
38:18
>> Yeah. And he
38:21
that much caffeine in somebody that
38:22
ain't had no caffeine.
38:23
>> Did he start to
38:24
>> He's He's beginning to look at things
38:26
different.
38:27
>> seeing visions?
38:28
>> I think so, but I was just worried he
38:30
going to go into another song. I
38:31
remember one of them cabin people
38:33
telling me,
38:34
you know,
38:35
he I've never seen him drink coffee,
38:37
especially not this much.
38:39
She said, "It really lightens his mood."
38:42
>> Oh.
38:43
>> I said, "Well, that is good." But he did
38:44
tell me later, he said,
38:47
"You know, I
38:48
things were fuzzy."
38:50
That was his word. They were Things were
38:51
just fuzzy as I looked at them after I
38:54
drank that coffee.
38:54
>> After the coffee?
38:55
>> Yeah. I don't know.
38:56
>> Did he sing anymore?
38:57
>> No, he didn't sing anymore. You know, we
39:00
got some pictures, visited a little
39:01
while, and truly
39:02
>> a good guy?
39:03
>> Truly a good guy, just a really a odd
39:05
fellow.
39:05
>> Yeah, as I think we all know, anybody
39:07
who's who's seen Jeff, he he's a little
39:10
different, but that's what he plays up
39:11
to. Like he knows it and he's
39:13
>> It's
39:14
>> He's fun and whimsical and I know he's
39:16
never seen a chuck wagon before.
39:18
>> No, he said that was the first.
39:19
>> So he was the the oddest critter you've
39:22
ever had in camp.
39:23
>> probably the weirdest oddest critter
39:24
that's ever been through camp, you know.
39:27
And that might get topped before we pass
39:29
on.
39:29
>> Hey, we never want to cap ourselves.
39:31
This may Yeah, but
39:32
>> But he truly
39:34
I mean, I'm I mean, after it was over
39:36
and we got through,
39:38
uh
39:38
we actually took time to sit down 30, 40
39:41
minutes and visit, you know, just visit
39:43
back and forth.
39:43
>> And just like a normal guy and
39:44
>> I mean, he good people.
39:45
>> Yeah. To leave y'all out, we are going
39:48
to
39:50
introduce a new segment called One More
39:52
Cup and it's where Kent and I talk about
39:55
the topics or interests that we've been
39:58
rabbit holing this week. And for this
40:01
week, I'm going to talk about what I've
40:04
been reading.
40:05
>> Oh.
40:05
>> Um I actually had finished this one, but
40:08
there's a little fun fact that you may
40:10
not know about me. I have a very bizarre
40:12
interest in books that are about high
40:16
altitude mountaineering like climbing
40:18
Everest, which I have absolutely no
40:20
interest in doing myself,
40:21
and like 1,800 shipwrecks. It's very
40:25
bizarre.
40:26
But, I've read a few in this category,
40:29
and my absolute favorite one in the
40:31
shipwreck category is called Fatal North
40:35
by Bruce Henderson. If you guys have any
40:38
interest in this, check this one out. Um
40:41
it's about an 1871
40:44
North Pole expedition by the USS
40:46
Polaris. It was the first American
40:49
government-sponsored
40:51
expedition.
40:52
And guys, it gets wild because
40:56
Hall, who is the captain,
40:59
gets mysteriously sick,
41:01
and they think it's poisoning, and they
41:04
don't know what's going on. And then it
41:06
goes into the ice covers the ship, and
41:10
they get shipwrecked, and then the crew
41:12
now has to
41:13
live on an iceberg. They make this
41:16
little town on an iceberg. It's crazy.
41:19
It goes through all of this. Um 19 crew
41:22
members were stranded.
41:25
It tells their story.
41:27
Then what's super interesting is that
41:31
this mer- this
41:33
this mystery surrounding Hall's death
41:36
is one of the most like
41:39
mysterious murder cases of the the polar
41:43
exploration history.
41:45
And so, if that sounds intriguing to
41:47
you, I highly recommend it. They
41:49
actually do an autopsy of his body 100
41:53
years later.
41:53
>> Don't give them all the secrets.
41:54
>> going to tell you what happens, but
41:57
anyway, so given that, I've I've really
41:59
gotten into reading like the last year.
42:02
Um it took me a while to figure out even
42:04
like what I like to read or how to read.
42:07
I wasn't a reader. So, if you guys have
42:09
any tips, comment below. Also, what are
42:12
you reading? Or can you also let me know
42:15
what was your five-star read? Then I can
42:18
check it out and add it to my my TBR
42:20
list.
42:21
>> Whoa, to be read.
42:22
>> To be read list for those in the know.
42:26
And so, thank you all so much for
42:28
joining us, entertaining us. We're going
42:29
to do that every week just as a fun
42:30
little
42:32
side note. But, um anyway, we hope that
42:34
no critters accidentally crawl into your
42:37
camp, only the invited ones. But,
42:39
regardless, make sure you have something
42:41
for them to eat and be hospitable.
42:43
>> That's right. Leave out the Little
42:44
Debbie snack cakes. You never know who's
42:46
going to show up. Well, Shannon, I had a
42:48
good time talking about critters.
42:50
We got this one little critter down here
42:51
that stayed asleep through another
42:52
episode. This is probably 16 or 17 he's
42:55
slept through.
42:56
>> This is uh
42:57
for you Most of y'all know, that's
42:58
Major, our schnauzer, and he's here
43:00
every episode, holding down the dog bed.
43:03
>> Yeah, he enjoys it, so.
43:05
We, as we always say,
43:07
y'all are not fans to us, you're family.
43:09
We appreciate you so much taking time
43:11
out of your busy day to listen [music]
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43:18
just know that you're Whatever you're
43:21
going through in life, not alone. We're
43:22
here with you. God is with you.
43:24
But, Shannon, as always, it is with
43:26
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43:30
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