March 9, 2024 • 51 mins
In today's episode, the guys welcome Peter Cohen into the Talon Studio. He has quite a work background of previously in law, law enforcement, as a crop dust pilot, and now flying in an entirely new capacity. He's a long time friend of Charlie, J.D., and Fred. Oh, and Captain Paul Tyre about made Fred puke. That was funny.
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And welcome to the town outdoors.Shut. I'm Charlie, i'd Fred and
I'm grand say hey Pete, HeyPete. Uh we have and and Captain
Paul's over there. We will he'llcome over here in a little bit.
We have got more people in studwe we had. This is a.
This is a. It was afortuitous opportunity for us today. I walked
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in the shop and I looked acrossthe shop and I saw a bald head.
And when I know that one,I know that one. Well,
he's part of the club. He'spart of the ball Headed mother Feller Club.
Thank you re record that that club. That club started one night when
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okay, so our guest Pete Cohen'sup in here, and oh he's going
to go home and tell his wifeand and he's going to go You did
what You're on the Oh my lord, you're on the radio. I've been
trying to keep a low profile.Can you do a few voiceovers or something
for her? Back in the daywhen she was doing radio stud I did.
I was the Sonny's guy. Sonny'sguy. Yeah, the pitmaster of
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sixty that was you. That wasme. It's funny what they can do
with all that editings. Yeah,they could even make you look good so
so well on on the radio,so on the So there was there was
a night when Pete Was. PeteWas had come over from the Highway Patrol
to be a deputy sheriff. Igot a deputy sheriff and they put him
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him in the car with me.Yeah, so that was. I remember
Roger Fields so my hey, uh, Sergeant Miller, and I need to
talk to you for a minute.And I remember Dusty Miller going, well,
have I got a deal for you? We need you to train somebody.
And I said this fellow by namedPete Cohen, and I went,
I think I know him. Uhone, Well he's a special case.
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That's that's But some some poor littlefello up bear off a highway twelve.
We had gone up to a calland somebody had got a chunk bit out
of their shoulder or something by oneof their relatives. Nobody wanted to press
charges, and then somebody rode byand instead, uh said uh oh no,
we're telling them, get gone.Yeah, And raising came and and
and rode off and called us ballheaded something somethings, and and that's where
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it was going from and I lookedat Charlie, did you defend that fellow,
Fred? Because they wanted to chaillthat night. It ended up that
way. That was a highway twentyno state road twelve. Oh, some
of the some of the I thinkit was some of the vicars or something.
OL's Hollow Crest, the stream road, the road, that's the street
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that's a stretch. Now you don'twant to walk down that road. You
have some banjos playing in the backgroundup there. You might hear a little
bass, but you know, butit wasn't a banjo. And they'll tell
you this. There they were.There are only a few places in Leon
County that that I would that thehair would stand up on the back of
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my bad when I had to gothere. That was that made the list
right down the road from Roosevelts fromI'm pretty sure that fellow that we rested
that night ended up with a veryextensive criminal record once he became an adult.
Oh, there's no doubt. Yeah, well, we don't say names
on here, but anyway you thinkI visited him in the Montocella jail this
week, You like that did havesome tear drops on tattooed on it lord,
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well not when he was what washe like, fifteen sixteen? Shal
Yeah, Yeah, we learned alesson that night. You can take somebody
in as juvenile, but they don'tstay very long. I think he was
out before we finished, but wefelt better about it. Oh yeah,
yeah, there's a but so Pete'sPete. You've spent your career doing all
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kinds of things, and you wereyou were a god help us. He's
a pilot now and we ain't toldmat. He don't even have to have
nobody to saw up the pulp woodbefore he can pilot. He's actually flying
everything. So you fly all overthe place. I do, I do.
You're talking about being in key Westtomorrow or something. Being Key West
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you're going to I am fantasy fist. What color scrunchy do you have on
your airplane? But I do weara skirt from time to time. You
should see my legs. They're they'reperfect. I don't I've seen them.
We're good. Yeah. I usedto have an office in Key West.
Well that doesn't surprise. Did youtake your payment? And well he was
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down there knowing everybody is lizard gotchoYeah, he was, he got his
cage cleaned out. This week.My son's in tawn spring break came up
clean, clean the lizard cage out. So he's pretty chill today. So
here's the here's the the weird dynamichere in the studio today, folks.
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So you to be a d uI got right, Yes, sir,
I Freid. You defend people forwhat? Well, so you prosecuted some
of his cases when I was aprosecutor, and you know, we met,
but he was found innocent, andthen we I switched over, switched
over to the dark side, andthen he was messing with me when I
was a prosecutor, and boy,when I got into the defense, it
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got worse. As one as oneafternoon, I had a motion hearing with
him and I was cross examining him, and uh, the client had asked
for a lawyer while he was inthe booking room and Pete wouldn't let him
talk to his lawyer. He wasn'tled a lawyer at that at that point,
he wasn't entitled to a lawyer.But I was pointing out that,
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well, you could have let himtalk to the lawyer. There's no harm
in that, and you know,he said, well, I guess I
could have let him talk to alawyer, but I didn't. And uh
so I was just trying to makea point, you know, mean,
old Pete over here, you know, you just want to do everything.
Yes, Three nights later, aboutfour in the morning, phone rings,
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and it's this woman who's obviously impaired. That's good that you recognize that,
mister defense attorney. I ain't drunk. A deaf guy could have recognized that,
I mean, and it sounded likeBiden last night on a He made
Biden look sober, I mean putthat way, and uh and I was
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like what what? I couldn't evenunderstand what she wanted. And I finally
said, who arrested you? PeteCohen. I'm like, that's the son
of them in the morning, fourin the morning. And you should have
seen her face, because she waslooking at me all smoke, like I'm
gonna get off on, get overon you, so on and so forth.
I'm talking to my lawyer now andso Fred. You know, I
could just tell the moment Fred askedher, because her face went from so
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you know, I'd give it Petemysell number. You know, then you
will do that the more because ohI got somebody for you to call here
here. I could hear him laughingin the background, my wife, if
you really wanted to get him toget one of them label printers with with
the little d U I here calledhis number. Well, you know what
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funny you say that A couple ofI guess what A year or two later,
Well, no, I mean thatwas on the bathroom lolls. But
he would have he didn't you havecoasters or something like? I've done some
Uh let's see, I did theI did a I did beach balls.
I did beads for like the ofcourse you did was a family show.
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Now that were the beads for likethe White Trash bash that they do every
year. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, and you know you can
earn the beads. And I figuredout, well, I can earn the
beat. I can have people earnthese beads and write the whole thing off.
And Lord worked out pretty good,man, it did. Then I
did the did the billboard over thejail, yep, the one that said
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don't blow it, Yeah, don'tdrink and drive, don't blow it,
don't blow it. Yeah. Thekit started taking him the other way around
the jail. Fred Wood didn't onthat call, so apparently he wants to
talk to me. It probably didn'twork in all honesty that that one above
the jail probably didn't work all thatwell because drunk people don't pay attention to
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signs. That's usually what gets thearrested for not paying attention to signs.
Yes, he raised some hackles,you know, Oh you made some cops
mad. I'm but I did itjust aggravated making that quicker. If I
don't have to do all that crap, then if they're not gonna blow,
that makes my job easier. Itmade the kitchen harder, but that was
not my problem. That was justget them on in there and get to
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the house right to report and domy thing. That used to be back
in the day when we had thepeople who were assigned to do nothing.
But DUIs and Pete was one ofthose guys that you, I mean,
do you did you make arrest?Did you make in your career? Pete
close to twenty years and about onehundred a year? So is that a
bunch two thousand thousand? That's aboutright. You got a Christmas card?
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They make you some money? Yeah, yeah, I mean I got a
nice boat out of here. Yeah. And that last year that I've worked
the UI specifically, it was betweenFebruary and August. I made one hundred
and twenty seven that year. Thatwas slow time. I remember that.
Well, that was that y'all wereabused to say, Hey, I think
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I got a drunk over here.This pete ten a. Yeah, tell
them to come over here, yougo, what do you What do y'all
have? I don't know. Youjust deal with I'm out of here,
but uh, all right, wellwe'll be back in that. Just have
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Such sound there, that's the pressurewasher from the car wash. Guys probably
at a local car wash, showedup this morning and the fellas walkehed in
and said, misters truckman, howyou doing? Is you looking for something
to do? Yeah? Said howabout that white truck and Jady great truck.
Now's three of them out there.I don't know what they planned on
doing today, you said, right, truck, And I thought, man,
Charlie, gonna get my truck washedfor I saw we can do that
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three hours. Dent in your backbumper. There's a dent in the back
bump right on the corner. Ithought, I hit that guy with my
trailer head. He didn't know.He didn't know. He was too drunk.
He can't see over the back levelthat's on the back. That's right,
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Oh man, that's awesome, damnit? All right? All right,
Pete? What else? So soyou're flying all over God's creation.
I am, and you know Iwas. I remember when you started you
were gonna go be a pilot,and I was like, back to being
a pilot. Yeah, well yeah, yeah, I think you started out
in the airline industry, didn't you. That guy he was a steward.
A steward, thank you very much. All that was, Oh yeahs I
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brought that up. He it was. It was Eastern Airline. That that
tells you how long ago, rightEastern Airlines it was. And I'm old
and yes, and I get it. But you know, there's no better
way to see the world and learnhow to be a man with responsibility eighteen
years old with all these lovely ladiesgoing around. Was the pantyho was uncomfortable?
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Was what? No? No,the heels were too id of got
used to them. No, notwhen they're standing in your back. So
yeah, but it's everybody else outthere, somebody sitting there with her kid
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listening to show him what did hemean by okay? So yeah, so
you you were fine, didn't you? You were into airplanes? Did you
fly crop dusters for a while?I went to school and school, yeah,
yeah, reize very quickly that atmy age, that was those guys
are crazy. I was not crazy. They're actually really really talented. It's
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really technical flying. It looks controlled, it looks crazy, but actually it's
guarantee of their talented pilot. It'svery I grew up watching them spray fields
and we would go there just tosee a figures. Yeah, and they're
always were friends of ours, andyou know, they'd get up there and
so many of them have lost theirlives doing that. It is truly truly
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scary to watch them. And Ithink, you know, and the ones
that we're trying to be really goodat it to really like get low enough
on the crops and it's a reallyunique. But now they have those those
big tall tractors that go out thereand spray just as much and they are
screaming across the field. Yeah,and it's uh but man, that was
that was always crazy to watch.And it was getting up there, turning
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around and coming back down. Ithink the ones who were trying to be
the most efficient and the best werethe ones that were most dangerous because catching
tree limbs and everything else. Yes, No, I mean it's when it
came to that, you know,the GPS now in the satellocks they make
it a little easier. Back inthe day when you were watching it,
they at all that, they didn'thave all that. I don't think they
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were satellited back now. It mightbe sputnick or something other than that.
You looked at it, right,you looked at a tree and did your
swaths that way. It's all stickingright, It is all sticking right.
Fred, you know how to flywhile I mean an airplane. So but
uh, yeah, it's it was, It's coordinated, it's very very methodical.
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It looks like they're being crazy,but actually being ten feet above the
ground doing one hundred and forty milesan hours really not anything different than than
driving a car down the trees atthe end of that field. See we
had them spreading fifteen acre field surroundedby pine trees, correct, And that's
kind of what you can do itwell you can, and so those planes
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are built for that. Now.You know, you talk about a lot
of people losing their lives. Threeof guys that I went through class with
are no longer on this earth throughit because you know, part of that
is those guys get paid. Youknow, there's the money levers, what
they call it. So as soonas they start spraying and turn it off,
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that's what they're getting paid on.And it's it's it's not a lot
of money. It's like two dollarsan acre sometimes, but you go through
and they work a season and such, so the goal is to get in
there. Do you go back andget another and come back and forth,
back and forth and get it constant? It's constant. It's constant flying.
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And you know, just like alot of things, sometimes people don't maintain
it. Well, you know,you work at the sheriff's office. You
know how the shop was with ourvehicles, no idea what you're talking about.
Hey, this check engine lights on? Yeah, we just put some
tape exactly exactly. Take it back. Too many times they didn't mask it
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off and spray it with there yougo, I'm not anymore. Hey the
brakes are fading. We don't hitthe brakes. Oh okay, you know
so but yeah, so that was, you know, sitting in those and
I you know, I came backfrom when I was learning how they put
you in this one airplane. You'reby yourself. Now after you've been through
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all this, go out and practice. So you're in this Piper Pawnee airplane
and you're coming in, You goin and come back, go to and
they fill you up with water.You go back to this farmer's field and
you continue doing all that stuff.Well, I came back and there was
pine needles in the landing gear andI'm like, hmmm, I might have
cut that one just a little close. That's a clue that was, And
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you know, I got looking atit. I'm like, you know,
and I got a call that anothergroup was looking for a pilot from the
gym I was coaching at, andI'm like, you know, I think
on the fly people around that that, you know, ten twenty thousand feet
that'll be that'll be better. Andso that's that's what led me to where
I'm at now. And I'm knockon wood. Things are going well and
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I'm very grateful for the opportunity thatI have. Uh and then wrong with
that? No, No, youknow you think you know the world now
here you're you said you were flyinga Honda. I do some part time
work. I haven't been type ratedon it yet, but I'm flying a
Honda jet with with the group.You know, you got to be type
rated anything certain airplanes, you actuallyhave to go to school to learn that
airplane. So as soon as theysend me to that, then I'll be
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able to be in the left seatand hang out and fly it all by
myself. But right now, I'mgrateful for the experiences that I'm getting with
them, and those are if you'regonna fly a private a private jet.
To me, it's like I tellpeople that they do it. I want
a motorcycle, Do I buy HarleyDavidson or do I buy a Honda gold
Wing. I was like, well, if Harley Davidson made an airplane,
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would you fly in it? No? Okay, that's nothing to that,
not that does anything wrong. Igot to pull over here and see what
this buttering is. You ever noticedthat anybody is if driving a holiday if
it's always working on them? Yeah, they have tool bag. They's a
place for a tool bag. Fine. I rode a BMW and I rode
a Harley work for a little bit, and I will take the BMW over
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a Harley any day, and threetimes I'll motorcycles for a while. I
did try to rip my leg offwith one of them. Yeah, he
got it, got hurt pretty good. That's why I was surprised when you
got into the weightlifting and the CrossFitand all that stuff later on, with
all the injuries you suffered, andI was amazed that you can do what
you do well if you put yourmind to it. Well, you know
me, if you tell me Ican't do something, you are stubborn some
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of the gun. But if youput you, if you put in,
I'll give you that. Yeah,if it's look, you know, no,
that's not me anymore, used tobe, not anymore. But yeah,
I mean, if you work hardenough and you want some hard enough,
you can you can always get Youcan always come back from anything.
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So we actually judged the contest togetheronce. We did just a family show
for it. Yeah, okay,all right, we know what kind of
we know what kind it is now, and that this is this is the
danger. We were getting ready forthe show and I looked at j D
and I said, hey, let'sget Pete to sit in, you know,
because it's the first time we seenyou in a while in person,
and all of us here together.And j D didn't give me the look
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I was expecting, because you know, it was the you know, and
and but I and I had itin my mind, this is this could
be a toxic mix right here,this is this might be this might be
the straw that breaks the camel's backgets us run out of here. But
I can't run us out of here. It's our our studio. Off the
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radio, you'll get you might betuning into something else on Saturday and Sunday.
We've never been monetized in the firstplace. There. I remember,
I remember somebody in the community Irespect one time say yeah, I really
appreciate your guys show. You know. I listened in. Me and my
granddaughter were in there listening to itto day, and I was and I
was, and I was. Iwas telling her, how honorable you guy.
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And this is a somebody in ourindustry that I that we have a
lot of respect and affection for.And I was like, yeah, well
I really appreciate it. Yeah,I'm sorry. I try to tell behave
it was just a matter of time. Ladies in my mama's Sunday school class
listen to this show, so keepit at that. Well, I had.
I had a couple we were teaching. We taught two of the UH
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two of the active shooter courses herefor Right to Bear this week, and
we had good, good sized classroomsfull both nights, and the first night
there was a really nice, I'ma little bit older couple in the front
row and and I think they listenedto the show and we were talking.
Yeah they do, because we weretalking and I said something about I was
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telling them a story or something.I said, I can't really tell the
whole story. It was the Lamastory. I said, I can't really,
I can't really tell it here withwith your wife here. And she
just laughed and said, no,it's okay. We listened to your show,
but apparently they missed that one.And so I told the story and
I'm and I'm I'm very cautiously tellingthe punchline. You remember the Loma story,
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don't you, Pete? Yes,I do. Okay, so I
wasn't there for it, but youwere jealous. But yeah, I didn't
know that part until just the otherday. And so anyway, and they're
laughing, and I'm like, youknow these And then they go, well,
we listened to it on the wayto church, and I'm like,
that's the reason to take some communionright there, and and and so I
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run into these people that are Godfearing Christians. People's people like count and
Paul over there, people who aredecent human beings, and they still listen
to this crap and they laugh becauseuallyknow our hearts and the right Charlie.
You know, people have to usecertain tools to feel better about themselves.
This would be one of those things. You know. I love you guys.
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You had to be scraping the bottomif you invited me in here.
So well, we we you know, we take an opportunity to capture moments
sometime and uh, you know,it's kind of cool to go back sometimes
and listen to some of the oldshows, and you know, we we
we try to get our friends inhere every now and then. You just
walked in the door today in thereyou were. I am. I'm proud
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out of that. To be knownas a friend to y'all. That that
makes me feel good. We saythat in public. But yeah, well
you have to now because it's onthe radio. I know there's probably some
folks over the years or listening tomine. You get on shown I didn't
get on a show. Well,happen to be here, happened to be
here in that location. Now welove us and Pete Cohen, so we
love you too, and then youknow you three guys that I've been around
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for a lot of my careers,and I'm probably know we'll be right back.
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and fixing, and I got flattires and broke stuff, and I can't
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seem to get nothing to run.I heard a buddy come down work on
one of the multa over there onthe farm, and I was going to
try to do some mowing for theshotgun tournament coming up. And it came
down and all the hydraulics fell outthe belly of it. You know how
much hydraulic flood costs nowadays, thatwas like forty gallons. And then when
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he came up and Ronnie came andfixed it, and then I cranked it
up and drove it for five minutesand it just shut off in the middle
of the field there. She says, is this a shocking tournament? In
Yeah, I want to talk aboutthe ski tournament a little bit. So
we've got on the Yes Sporting Class. It's at my farm in Marianna,
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so and and you really ought tocome shoot it. The when is it?
It is the twenty ninth. Itis a Friday that we would normally
be recording the show. We're gonnahave to record a day early, but
you're already off at that part ofthe day because you're gonna plan on being
here. So just the twenty ninthof March. Where do you win?
Uh? Well, the teams,there are team prizes. Uh one of
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the one of the prizes that's gonnabe giving away is a is a quail
hunt on our place with Joe Baxleyand me. You're gonna guide, uh
with with our dogs and some ofour birds next year and the next season.
And there are if the teams arefifteen hundred dollars for first prize,
one thousand for second prize, fivehundred for for what's going the third self,
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I'm gonna be the one setting thecourse. That probably wouldn't be fair.
Well, what's interesting. Just becauseyou set it up don't mean I
do not I do not shoot shoottournaments here or anywhere where I'm involved in
the That's yeah, I'm not participatingfour or five. We're gonna count the
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top four scores. So you canbe on a four person team and they
can put you on a team ifyou know somebody else's individuals, that's fine.
But we're there's a five man teamand gonna drop the lowest score,
and that gives people opportunity to bringsomebody that wants to participate that might not
be you know, at the peakof their performance level and then still have
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a chance to win this thing.And keep in mind it's a fundraiser for
the Marianna ff A, so allthis money is going to a nonprofit.
And there are you know it's there. We've got a title sponsor. It's
Crosshairs. It's a gun store inMarianna, Bud Baggett on Crosshairs and you
know, we don't we don't geta lot of spill over from over there,
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so he's not a direct competitor ofours, but you know, Bud's
a good guy and they've they've gota store downtown and they are the title
sponsor. Obviously, Talon Range isa is a name sponsor of this thing
because we are bringing in uh wehave found all of the resources put it
that way, and we're donating aswell, and so there are some other
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businesses. I think we're up toabout nine or ten teams right now.
We have room for twenty teams andwe're going to do a morning session in
an afternoon session. Good Friday,and we gonna be a good Friday Friday
in my world. I just noticedit. Well, are you going you
off that day? Oh? Ithink am. What you need to do
is to gather you up a fewof your friends or get with JD and
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find some of these better shooters overhere, and you'll form a team and
go over there. And I thinkthe team entry fees like five hundred bucks,
five hundred something dollars for a teamof five people. I forget it's
the exact numbers. I can showit to you. But here's the thing
is, if you're interested in it, then go to our Facebook page Talent
Range or Talent Taxle Outfitters or theTalent Range of Dothan, since you know
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you're listening to this in Dothan too, in that whole area. Just just
a quick drive. We're I'm anhour from Dothan. Where my place is.
It's on Highway seventy three south ofMariana, about ten miles. The
address is on the flyer and it'son Facebook, which my wife truly hates
that I have put all that outthere. And just to alleviate some of
the phone calls, we're getting tothe store. No, we're not putting
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in a permanent sporting clean trail atCharlie's farm south of Marianna. This is
a one time or annual or takeit down and then nobody gets to come
back on a property a kid.Yeah, we got this is gonna become
This is gonna become an annual eventafter However, many of you grant how
many years you have to do somethingfor we can call it annual three years
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and then it becomes annual. Soin three years it will be an annual
event. So the first annual isjust that's just somebody inaugural inaugural, and
it can't be what's the second annual? Second, you're right back. Are
you looking for a place to buyquality shoes but want to work with a
local small business that greets you likea friend and still knows what they're doing.
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I'm J. D. Johnson.Both Charlie and I use the Shoe
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Jeff Wilder runs a great store thatcarries men's, women's, and children's shoes
and a number of major brands.They know how to fit shoes properly and
can even fit you in orthotics tomake great shoes fit even better. If
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and shoes from there. Well.They're located at twenty eight twenty South and
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Road Street, just north of thefairgrounds. Tell them we said hello,
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We're back on the break. Ohmy god, forgotten about that. On
the break, Pete's over there,sitting in the couch in what we I
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guess would be a blue room ora green room or whatever it is.
It's a tan room. And he'sover there. And for the little Lily,
she's sitting over there curled up,enjoyed him. Pett she went over
there during the first taff Paul wentover and sat in a chair and he's
like, why is this dog upall of them? And she's all up
in my face and meld the coopbecause because because that's her spote, and
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so Paul moved. She laid downover there. Now Pete's over there,
love and own her. And shestands up on the break and stretches and
farts right in his face. Anduh, she was doing that earlier.
I thought it was Pete. Idon't want to say that. I thought
it was Keen. Then Fred broughtbrought up the fact that the first time
he was ever on the show,and I think it was you. You
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think it was Dolly that did that. That did was rested her soul.
That was she could. That's whenwe first knew there was something wrong with
her belly, something wrong with her. That was that stuff that killed her
ultimately. But yeah, that wasI remember going home my wife said,
well, did you enjoy your timeon the radio. I was like,
dog farted, No, No,it's stunk. It was bad. That
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was as bad as I have everbeen around. It was horrible. Oh,
you were. Oh you were tellingus something about your hat. Yeah,
I got like you got a littlesomething on it. I was.
I was hoping I was gonna gethere on time. I'm glad I did.
I was out with some folks fromsouth of Atlanta today and we were
running down the lake and went backinto some backwater area up there in Lake
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Seminole, and I saw some cootsup there, and I'm like, well,
they'll get out of the way.And you know, a bashboat with
a two fifty run a little bitfaster than that pond team boat with six
and one hit the front of theI guess the troller motor and hit off
the depth fight on a console andI stopped and it was all over my
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glasses, all over the people onthat and the people are just a laughing.
I've never had that happen before.And I about threw up, and
I think something gott shirt before Icome. But this hat. It never
even I'm leaving out on there.Ford. That was wrong, Fred,
I got a week stomach. Ohyou are told to saund but you know
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talking about them cooks now hold onthat all y'all ever ate a coop.
I think you had a little bitof it. Then hold on bred you're
excused, leave the room if youneed to. That kind of stuff.
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Just I better not tell what Iwas gonna say about that you still taste
it, wor claining it up inhere, that kind of stuff. Just
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I tell you, don't don't youhere, you can't get out of my
jad telling me all right? Ithink I'm good? Are you sure?
Yeah? You ain't done yet?Yeah, I'll just got tears in your
eyes, that kind of stuff.Just get him a bucket, an now
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we got a bucket. You getit on my shoes, all right?
You know, work part about it, you know, is the color fluorescent
green? Yeah, the color ofthat radio grass, radioactive green. I'm
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gonna make it. I'm gonna makeit. He done found a barf bag
though, I mean, man,I mean it's just that that kind of
Yeah. You ever, they makethis stuff called like liquid fence or or
something that that you spray to keepthe Yeah, you smell it does the
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same thing to bold eggs. Man, I wish I got a little some
of the house fredmans. Take awhee. You know when you do it,
you know, when you do askull mount, just you dip it
under the water and let it justright. I got a bucket full of
that water that and I'm afraid.I'm afraid to pour it out because the
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dogs would go in. Look,I don't I don't really have a week's
stomach. But you know how toget to me. But that don't now.
But now, if he pukes,just know that I'm going to join
him. I am sympathetic, andyou are directly in between us, so
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it's just down hill. I wouldI would as gross as that would be,
if I could capture that for theworld to see, it would be
worth every every morsel of that onmy mouth. Okay, see, Paul,
See this is what happens when youcome up here with these stories.
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That's the true story. This isall your fault right here. And we
didn't do anything at all them Uhshowed up. I got one question for
he, Paul. Did the cootsurvive the ordeal? Well? He was
flying around for around in the battlethe boat and it went up underneath the
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gas pedal on them, and theman went to grab him and he grabbed
He's like I said, he ain'tgonna buy you. He ain't gonna buy
you. And he grabbed him outof there, and I'll toss him back
with his beak. I can handlethe coo don't have no web foot.
That's why they run across the water. I guess they have toes like that
the chicken. But they got littlepaddles, little they got a little Yeah,
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I'll get this stuff on my face. But about eating coots, yes,
I have eat the gizzard. Theythey're they're mostly gizzard. They their
gizzards are proportionate, disproportionately large.Yeah, you're ready to get you're ready
to do gizzard. No, Well, let me tell you. I had
a man I was taking I ain'ttrying a couple of years ago, and
he was from Louisiana, Okay,And he said they killed up. They
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got a bunch of ducks and cootsand mixed all together. And the people
that they couldn't tell no difference.They said they was just as good as
the rest of the ducks. Whenyou clean the quill, one of the
first things you find in there's thegizzard. I tell you this. I
tell you this all. Me andNick was up on the up on face
fell landing and we were catching somehybrids and strippers and we we we caught
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some and we had it was thetime of year you could hunt. We
shot a few coots and kind ofleft them laying, and we got up
to the land and as a manfishing off the off the bank, he
said, y'all want these hybrids andstrappers, he said, now, but
I'll take them coots y'all left outthere. I said, really, you
eat them things, said man.Let me tell you something. You take
them things home and you pluck them. He said, pluck them. Now,
you pluck them and you put themin the oven at two hundred and
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fifty degrees for four hours with someonion. He said, it's the best
taste in green meat you ever hadin your life. I said, really,
he said yeah. So we wentdown. He called his wife and
said, baby, don't cook thenight. We can coop the light.
He said, that's what he said. I couldn't believe it. He left
out of there, gone with himcoots. I'm thinking of a pristine beach
in the Virgin I still blue water, still blue water, palm tree swaming
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in the breathe and coot cool.I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ruin
that for you. But did youcatch any fished this morning. Yes they
man, I tell you it isthe spring time of the year and the
fish are biting. The bashard movedup on the beds on Talquin and on
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Seminole, and I tell you weI had some fellows. They got a
little term this weekends, kind ofshowing them around. I was running around
different places. But we made aboutten casts and we caught one about four
and a half pounds, and theysaid, I know what to do.
Now. We took off and Imade it down here, y'all fish Florida
side at all or just now.We stayed on the flint arm, going
down towards River Junction that area,and came back around Spring Creek. The
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water is really cleared up in SpringCreek. Actually the flint is starting to
clear up some two. But youknow today we have some some bad coming
this weekend. Yeah chance mon well, I mean ninety four chance all over
to the other day too. SoI mean, now, this cyclical thing
every time it starts to get alittle bit. I tried to burn some
stuff yesterday. I got to burnpermit and everything went out there and I
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couldn't light nothing flame thrower. Ineed a new it needs a new battery,
and I got to order a newbattery for it. Or I think
I'm on hot wire to the twelvethe tyde beside and then run me a
tube to the back and put itin one of the big tubs. You
get five gallons, and I justride around and just light everything. Get
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you a can, get you amarine boat tank and plumb it into a
boat. Exactly. I got it, Yeah, the one from the boat
that I think I'm gonna sell,that little John boat of mine. I
hadn't done anything with it in solong. I think I'm on I'm trying
to divest of all the stuff thatI don't use. Why don't you get
one of those things like that guyyou had on that too long ago with
the Facebook boat. Oh that hesold that apparently? How much you get
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for it, I don't know itjust if we was shoving sold on Facebook,
I don't know. Hey, we'llbe right back in just a minute.
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so we're back now real quick.This week I put it on Facebook
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and I asked, I wanted everybody. I said, I want to see
how well you know me? AndI put posted a picture. So you
know, I got got a littleside gig with some security companies. We
got to Solar Project and when Ineeded to drive around on this thing a
side beside, but you got todrive four miles down the roads from one
end to the other. So it'sgot to be something to tag and license
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and stuff like that, or elseI'd have to call Fred to defend us.
And so yeah, so so I'mlike, you know, I can't
put I got a little mini truck. Can't put that on the road.
It can't, says, well,I'm gonna shop around find the most fuel
assient efficient hybrid that I can find. Put on this job site, and
so I found on a Toyota Priustwenty fourteen Sea version that's the city version,
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gets fifty three miles from the gallonin the city, okay. And
it's a gas motor with a hybridyou know motor in it too. It's
got the battery, you know,will the battery gets bad, it's like
fifteen hundred bucks to replace it.But you know, gas motors any more
than that replace. So anyway,you know, these things are pretty reliable.
I talked with this kid out inCalifornia that builds parks for him and
he's like, man, we takeit out in the deserts. I mean
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the front wheel drive. But they'retough if you build them right. So
I put it on there and Isaid, so, what's the first thing
I bought for this thing? Knowingme? And I got all these responses,
and I got everything franchised rent froma grill guard to steer horns on
the front from Peak Travis Parkman Petegot it in three point two seconds.
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Yeah, and all terrain tires,leg extensions so you can fit in there,
tended windows so nobody will see youdriving. And that was the first
response from Leef Fuller and Pete.You remember leaving he fights up and goes
up tending witness and nobody will see. And that's pretty pretty good. Somebody
got actually got it more right thananybody else, said insurance, And that
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is, in fact the first thingthat I called about. But ultimate then
my wife's kind of spoiled it becauseshe goes, no, you're not thinking
high enough. And so the answersays, I was out here the other
night and we were teaching this rightto bear class and which we do that
every month. By the way,y'all y'all need to come in for that.
And then I said something to Matt, our manager here at the store,
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and you know, Matt can't findanything, and I said, man,
you know that thing just sits tothe loading the ground on the bottom
mount and the job site. Andhe goes, you didn't get a lift
kit for it? And I said, if they made a lift kit for
a priss, if some idiot somewheremade a lift kit for a prius,
I'd bite. And he goes,hang on a minute, and sent me
a link to a dad gun inchand a half lift kit for a press.
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See, and it'll be here liketomorrow the next day, and I'm
already I've already made the appointment overat Mary and attired to get it put
on over there house, and Ibought mud flaps, liberal cars and a
bar light and all the graphics andeverything. So what that thing slack?
You're something now, everybody? Oh, you can load that thing up in
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the back of my pickup truck andtake it home. But you know I'm
not gonna drive it and put peopleon it, and they're gonna drive it
around at job site. You want, you get it like an eyebreak for
butterflies sticker and put it all backaround. No, no, no,
no, no. Listen. WhenI bought I bought it. I bought
a card I shot round and boughtit, and they delivered it to me
with a tag already on it.But I'm taking it right straight to the
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tag office and getting the Gadsden flagtag to go on the back up.
It's gonna be. Don't tread onme on the back of that little ole
friz. Don't think it. Iain't doing it. Rainbow Unicorn Hunter,
Yeah, what what kind of tires'regonna put on you? Upside? Well?
I know what size I know whatsize tirebile fit on it, because
I called the guy in California thatsells the lift kits seventy five twelve fifties
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and he told me it's just aa little bit bigger, and they can.
And I'm trying to find an allterrain and hit the tire shop up
and see if that. I mean, it's not gonna be crazy. I
mean, it's not like it's thered Neck press. It's not like a
six inch lift or anything. SoI couldn't find that. Well, remember
the Suzuki samurais right, you know, everybody bought us. You'd buy a
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Suzuki Samurai. You still buy thosefor a premium today. It's got a
little sewing machine motor in it.And but man, they they now you
have an They couldn't think in themud. They were like they would.
They would turn over on you.The things to get on two wheels so
fast you're gonna take it to thelike the next monster truck pull and rider.
So this thing's gonna be. I'mgonna post pictures of it. This
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thing's gonna be. My wife's justshaking her head and she knows what she
married. So that thing lifted up. The girl I went to high school
with had a Suzuki Samurai and shewanted to go go riding in the woods
with it. One time. Weall had, you know, Toyota trucks
and stuff, and she, Iwant to go to I want to go
to. I'm like, we'll comeon and a little four wheel drives Auzuki
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Samurai said that thing to go throughthe woods. Now it will go.
I said, let me drive thisthing, and she said okay, and
I went to go going around thecorner. That thing got up on two
wheels on me, I mean rightright then and making them on it.
That's exactly why they quit making them, because they would tump over. Yeah,
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oh, y'all got remember we talkedin the last show how my stepdad
Robert bought got him to get anew four wheel drive, got him in
the Son Frontier over there, anduh so he got the truck. And
of course me being me, andwe run those in our security fleet.
We put these two and a halfinch lifts, an inch lift in the
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back, two and a half inchlevel in the front, and they looked
so much better. They looked morelike a Toyota. And yeah, I
mean you know, the poor man'sToyota and and he went he bought this
used one, loved it, andI said, I went ahead and ordered
to kit for him and really giveRobert a lot of choice. I went
down to the tire store ordered thekit for it. And so yesterday I
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called. I was waiting on thekit to come in. He goes and
they called me and said, hey, uh, you're a Roberts. We
don't have his phone number, buthis truck's ready to go. And I
said, well, he got soexcited about it. He went and found
out that it was in and gotit put in. So he got his
truck delivered or went up there andpicked it up with the lift kit on
it. So now not only doeshe have this nice truck that's beautiful,
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by the way, now he's gota lift kit and that's it. And
right now it's in Panama City rightnow. Getting he went down there to
get the undercoat and put on it. When he first told me that,
I'm like, man, Well,the last two vehicles he's arms have rusted
out because he goes down to Tyndalland puts in the salt water down there,
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and and apparently he's had issues forrustless. So he took it down
there. He's getting it sprayed withsome stuff. And because he's because he's
going to be in the salt waterwith it. I told him, I
said, supposed to back all theI know, I know for a fact
that's not a good idea. Thatthat's I floated enough two fifty. It
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did not float. I saw picturesit floated for a minute. As long
as that pontoon boat was still hookedto it. It floated. Correct,
that was the boat that was floating, not the f two fifty. Sorry.
Once that that did that at thewash sus the river, and they
charged him with boating under the influencebecause he backed his truck in all the
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way in. Yeah, I stormColts. It almost killed me. The
the truck almost ran over me.I was trying to recover it. Yeah,
he was. I told that storyabout uh. I saw. I
saw a truck all the way underwaterwith a light still working on, like
Mikasookie, way before daylight. Onemorning, I went to put in at
Cypress Landing and I got there reallyearly. Is anybody in it? No?
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I pulled up the Cypress Landing,MAKASSOOKI and there's a guy standing there
and there ain't no vehicles around.There's just this guy standing there at four
o'clock in the morning, opening dayof duck season at the boat landing.
And I'm thinking I'm the first onethere, and I'm all kind of excited.
I come around the corner. There'sthe dude standing there. And if
you've ever put in at Cyprus Landing, you were in the middle of nowhere.
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And I'm like, guys standing thereand he had you just looked like
somebody had just whooped him. Imean, he just was just had that
whole body expression of sadness. AndUh. I kind of pull up there
and I'm being real cautious because I'mby myself, and I said, uh,
what's going on? He goes,you're getting ready to put in?
I said, yeah, he goes, Uh, you might want to stay
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way over to the right. AndI look and I'm looking at the little
skinny landing there going high. AmI gonna stay away over the right?
And I look down there and Isee these two glowing orbs down in the
water, and yeah, he waslaunching by himself and left it in reverse
or left it in put it neutraland not Park or whatever and his brand
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new Ford or this was back whenFord Explorers had just come out with the
foil drive Eddie Bower, YadA YadA, Ford or Explorer, and it was
the headlights were four feet underwater.You know, Dad, I will tell
you when a boat when when youpull a truck out of the water,
the horn's gonna blow a lot andyou can't turn it off. Really,
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you can't make it stop. It'sthe there's a relay or something that gets
wet, and that just absolutely willnot quit blowing. And so if everybody
at the boat land and hadn't alreadyfigured out how big a dufless you are,
the horn tails on it. Thingis is it's blowing the whole time
it's underwater, and as it getscloser to the surface, you can start
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to hear it and it's yeah,yeah, exactly. And so as as
as it's it's being pulled out,all of a sudden, you see this
thing emerging out of the water likeone of those big whales coming up at
the fish show down at the aquarium, and it comes up like it jumps
out of the water. You seethe hood coming through the water, and
then you hear that noise. You'relike, what is that noise? And
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all say, and everybody's looking,and everybody's going, oh man, I
feel so bad for this guy.What what kind of idiot did that?
You know this kind of stuff,And I feel sorry for him. That
sure is a nice truck blah blahblah blah blah. And you're standing there
and you got to walk up thereand claim it. And then they're all
like, oh, I don't knowit was him. I'm just telling you.
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It's not a good experience somebody gettingme my pistol in theory, not
that this has ever happened to me. Oh man, As it goes under
water and all the pressure will pushyour windows in it, this is a
mess anyway. Just word of wise, y'all, y'all have a time.
We'll see, honest thing.
And welcome to the town outdoors.Shut. I'm Charlie, i'd Fred and
I'm grand say hey Pete, HeyPete. Uh we have and and Captain
Paul's over there. We will he'llcome over here in a little bit.
We have got more people in studwe we had. This is a.
This is a. It was afortuitous opportunity for us today. I walked
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in the shop and I looked acrossthe shop and I saw a bald head.
And when I know that one,I know that one. Well,
he's part of the club. He'spart of the ball Headed mother Feller Club.
Thank you re record that that club. That club started one night when
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okay, so our guest Pete Cohen'sup in here, and oh he's going
to go home and tell his wifeand and he's going to go You did
what You're on the Oh my lord, you're on the radio. I've been
trying to keep a low profile.Can you do a few voiceovers or something
for her? Back in the daywhen she was doing radio stud I did.
I was the Sonny's guy. Sonny'sguy. Yeah, the pitmaster of
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sixty that was you. That wasme. It's funny what they can do
with all that editings. Yeah,they could even make you look good so
so well on on the radio,so on the So there was there was
a night when Pete Was. PeteWas had come over from the Highway Patrol
to be a deputy sheriff. Igot a deputy sheriff and they put him
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him in the car with me.Yeah, so that was. I remember
Roger Fields so my hey, uh, Sergeant Miller, and I need to
talk to you for a minute.And I remember Dusty Miller going, well,
have I got a deal for you? We need you to train somebody.
And I said this fellow by namedPete Cohen, and I went,
I think I know him. Uhone, Well he's a special case.
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That's that's But some some poor littlefello up bear off a highway twelve.
We had gone up to a calland somebody had got a chunk bit out
of their shoulder or something by oneof their relatives. Nobody wanted to press
charges, and then somebody rode byand instead, uh said uh oh no,
we're telling them, get gone.Yeah, And raising came and and
and rode off and called us ballheaded something somethings, and and that's where
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it was going from and I lookedat Charlie, did you defend that fellow,
Fred? Because they wanted to chaillthat night. It ended up that
way. That was a highway twentyno state road twelve. Oh, some
of the some of the I thinkit was some of the vicars or something.
OL's Hollow Crest, the stream road, the road, that's the street
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that's a stretch. Now you don'twant to walk down that road. You
have some banjos playing in the backgroundup there. You might hear a little
bass, but you know, butit wasn't a banjo. And they'll tell
you this. There they were.There are only a few places in Leon
County that that I would that thehair would stand up on the back of
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my bad when I had to gothere. That was that made the list
right down the road from Roosevelts fromI'm pretty sure that fellow that we rested
that night ended up with a veryextensive criminal record once he became an adult.
Oh, there's no doubt. Yeah, well, we don't say names
on here, but anyway you thinkI visited him in the Montocella jail this
week, You like that did havesome tear drops on tattooed on it lord,
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well not when he was what washe like, fifteen sixteen? Shal
Yeah, Yeah, we learned alesson that night. You can take somebody
in as juvenile, but they don'tstay very long. I think he was
out before we finished, but wefelt better about it. Oh yeah,
yeah, there's a but so Pete'sPete. You've spent your career doing all
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kinds of things, and you wereyou were a god help us. He's
a pilot now and we ain't toldmat. He don't even have to have
nobody to saw up the pulp woodbefore he can pilot. He's actually flying
everything. So you fly all overthe place. I do, I do.
You're talking about being in key Westtomorrow or something. Being Key West
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you're going to I am fantasy fist. What color scrunchy do you have on
your airplane? But I do weara skirt from time to time. You
should see my legs. They're they'reperfect. I don't I've seen them.
We're good. Yeah. I usedto have an office in Key West.
Well that doesn't surprise. Did youtake your payment? And well he was
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down there knowing everybody is lizard gotchoYeah, he was, he got his
cage cleaned out. This week.My son's in tawn spring break came up
clean, clean the lizard cage out. So he's pretty chill today. So
here's the here's the the weird dynamichere in the studio today, folks.
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So you to be a d uI got right, Yes, sir,
I Freid. You defend people forwhat? Well, so you prosecuted some
of his cases when I was aprosecutor, and you know, we met,
but he was found innocent, andthen we I switched over, switched
over to the dark side, andthen he was messing with me when I
was a prosecutor, and boy,when I got into the defense, it
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got worse. As one as oneafternoon, I had a motion hearing with
him and I was cross examining him, and uh, the client had asked
for a lawyer while he was inthe booking room and Pete wouldn't let him
talk to his lawyer. He wasn'tled a lawyer at that at that point,
he wasn't entitled to a lawyer.But I was pointing out that,
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well, you could have let himtalk to the lawyer. There's no harm
in that, and you know,he said, well, I guess I
could have let him talk to alawyer, but I didn't. And uh
so I was just trying to makea point, you know, mean,
old Pete over here, you know, you just want to do everything.
Yes, Three nights later, aboutfour in the morning, phone rings,
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and it's this woman who's obviously impaired. That's good that you recognize that,
mister defense attorney. I ain't drunk. A deaf guy could have recognized that,
I mean, and it sounded likeBiden last night on a He made
Biden look sober, I mean putthat way, and uh and I was
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like what what? I couldn't evenunderstand what she wanted. And I finally
said, who arrested you? PeteCohen. I'm like, that's the son
of them in the morning, fourin the morning. And you should have
seen her face, because she waslooking at me all smoke, like I'm
gonna get off on, get overon you, so on and so forth.
I'm talking to my lawyer now andso Fred. You know, I
could just tell the moment Fred askedher, because her face went from so
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you know, I'd give it Petemysell number. You know, then you
will do that the more because ohI got somebody for you to call here
here. I could hear him laughingin the background, my wife, if
you really wanted to get him toget one of them label printers with with
the little d U I here calledhis number. Well, you know what
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funny you say that A couple ofI guess what A year or two later,
Well, no, I mean thatwas on the bathroom lolls. But
he would have he didn't you havecoasters or something like? I've done some
Uh let's see, I did theI did a I did beach balls.
I did beads for like the ofcourse you did was a family show.
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Now that were the beads for likethe White Trash bash that they do every
year. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, and you know you can
earn the beads. And I figuredout, well, I can earn the
beat. I can have people earnthese beads and write the whole thing off.
And Lord worked out pretty good,man, it did. Then I
did the did the billboard over thejail, yep, the one that said
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don't blow it, Yeah, don'tdrink and drive, don't blow it,
don't blow it. Yeah. Thekit started taking him the other way around
the jail. Fred Wood didn't onthat call, so apparently he wants to
talk to me. It probably didn'twork in all honesty that that one above
the jail probably didn't work all thatwell because drunk people don't pay attention to
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signs. That's usually what gets thearrested for not paying attention to signs.
Yes, he raised some hackles,you know, Oh you made some cops
mad. I'm but I did itjust aggravated making that quicker. If I
don't have to do all that crap, then if they're not gonna blow,
that makes my job easier. Itmade the kitchen harder, but that was
not my problem. That was justget them on in there and get to
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the house right to report and domy thing. That used to be back
in the day when we had thepeople who were assigned to do nothing.
But DUIs and Pete was one ofthose guys that you, I mean,
do you did you make arrest?Did you make in your career? Pete
close to twenty years and about onehundred a year? So is that a
bunch two thousand thousand? That's aboutright. You got a Christmas card?
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They make you some money? Yeah, yeah, I mean I got a
nice boat out of here. Yeah. And that last year that I've worked
the UI specifically, it was betweenFebruary and August. I made one hundred
and twenty seven that year. Thatwas slow time. I remember that.
Well, that was that y'all wereabused to say, Hey, I think
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I got a drunk over here.This pete ten a. Yeah, tell
them to come over here, yougo, what do you What do y'all
have? I don't know. Youjust deal with I'm out of here,
but uh, all right, wellwe'll be back in that. Just have
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Such sound there, that's the pressurewasher from the car wash. Guys probably
at a local car wash, showedup this morning and the fellas walkehed in
and said, misters truckman, howyou doing? Is you looking for something
to do? Yeah? Said howabout that white truck and Jady great truck.
Now's three of them out there.I don't know what they planned on
doing today, you said, right, truck, And I thought, man,
Charlie, gonna get my truck washedfor I saw we can do that
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three hours. Dent in your backbumper. There's a dent in the back
bump right on the corner. Ithought, I hit that guy with my
trailer head. He didn't know.He didn't know. He was too drunk.
He can't see over the back levelthat's on the back. That's right,
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Oh man, that's awesome, damnit? All right? All right,
Pete? What else? So soyou're flying all over God's creation.
I am, and you know Iwas. I remember when you started you
were gonna go be a pilot,and I was like, back to being
a pilot. Yeah, well yeah, yeah, I think you started out
in the airline industry, didn't you. That guy he was a steward.
A steward, thank you very much. All that was, Oh yeahs I
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brought that up. He it was. It was Eastern Airline. That that
tells you how long ago, rightEastern Airlines it was. And I'm old
and yes, and I get it. But you know, there's no better
way to see the world and learnhow to be a man with responsibility eighteen
years old with all these lovely ladiesgoing around. Was the pantyho was uncomfortable?
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Was what? No? No,the heels were too id of got
used to them. No, notwhen they're standing in your back. So
yeah, but it's everybody else outthere, somebody sitting there with her kid
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listening to show him what did hemean by okay? So yeah, so
you you were fine, didn't you? You were into airplanes? Did you
fly crop dusters for a while?I went to school and school, yeah,
yeah, reize very quickly that atmy age, that was those guys
are crazy. I was not crazy. They're actually really really talented. It's
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really technical flying. It looks controlled, it looks crazy, but actually it's
guarantee of their talented pilot. It'svery I grew up watching them spray fields
and we would go there just tosee a figures. Yeah, and they're
always were friends of ours, andyou know, they'd get up there and
so many of them have lost theirlives doing that. It is truly truly
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scary to watch them. And Ithink, you know, and the ones
that we're trying to be really goodat it to really like get low enough
on the crops and it's a reallyunique. But now they have those those
big tall tractors that go out thereand spray just as much and they are
screaming across the field. Yeah,and it's uh but man, that was
that was always crazy to watch.And it was getting up there, turning
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around and coming back down. Ithink the ones who were trying to be
the most efficient and the best werethe ones that were most dangerous because catching
tree limbs and everything else. Yes, No, I mean it's when it
came to that, you know,the GPS now in the satellocks they make
it a little easier. Back inthe day when you were watching it,
they at all that, they didn'thave all that. I don't think they
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were satellited back now. It mightbe sputnick or something other than that.
You looked at it, right,you looked at a tree and did your
swaths that way. It's all stickingright, It is all sticking right.
Fred, you know how to flywhile I mean an airplane. So but
uh, yeah, it's it was, It's coordinated, it's very very methodical.
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It looks like they're being crazy,but actually being ten feet above the
ground doing one hundred and forty milesan hours really not anything different than than
driving a car down the trees atthe end of that field. See we
had them spreading fifteen acre field surroundedby pine trees, correct, And that's
kind of what you can do itwell you can, and so those planes
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are built for that. Now.You know, you talk about a lot
of people losing their lives. Threeof guys that I went through class with
are no longer on this earth throughit because you know, part of that
is those guys get paid. Youknow, there's the money levers, what
they call it. So as soonas they start spraying and turn it off,
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that's what they're getting paid on.And it's it's it's not a lot
of money. It's like two dollarsan acre sometimes, but you go through
and they work a season and such, so the goal is to get in
there. Do you go back andget another and come back and forth,
back and forth and get it constant? It's constant. It's constant flying.
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And you know, just like alot of things, sometimes people don't maintain
it. Well, you know,you work at the sheriff's office. You
know how the shop was with ourvehicles, no idea what you're talking about.
Hey, this check engine lights on? Yeah, we just put some
tape exactly exactly. Take it back. Too many times they didn't mask it
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off and spray it with there yougo, I'm not anymore. Hey the
brakes are fading. We don't hitthe brakes. Oh okay, you know
so but yeah, so that was, you know, sitting in those and
I you know, I came backfrom when I was learning how they put
you in this one airplane. You'reby yourself. Now after you've been through
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all this, go out and practice. So you're in this Piper Pawnee airplane
and you're coming in, You goin and come back, go to and
they fill you up with water.You go back to this farmer's field and
you continue doing all that stuff.Well, I came back and there was
pine needles in the landing gear andI'm like, hmmm, I might have
cut that one just a little close. That's a clue that was, And
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you know, I got looking atit. I'm like, you know,
and I got a call that anothergroup was looking for a pilot from the
gym I was coaching at, andI'm like, you know, I think
on the fly people around that that, you know, ten twenty thousand feet
that'll be that'll be better. Andso that's that's what led me to where
I'm at now. And I'm knockon wood. Things are going well and
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I'm very grateful for the opportunity thatI have. Uh and then wrong with
that? No, No, youknow you think you know the world now
here you're you said you were flyinga Honda. I do some part time
work. I haven't been type ratedon it yet, but I'm flying a
Honda jet with with the group.You know, you got to be type
rated anything certain airplanes, you actuallyhave to go to school to learn that
airplane. So as soon as theysend me to that, then I'll be
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able to be in the left seatand hang out and fly it all by
myself. But right now, I'mgrateful for the experiences that I'm getting with
them, and those are if you'regonna fly a private a private jet.
To me, it's like I tellpeople that they do it. I want
a motorcycle, Do I buy HarleyDavidson or do I buy a Honda gold
Wing. I was like, well, if Harley Davidson made an airplane,
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would you fly in it? No? Okay, that's nothing to that,
not that does anything wrong. Igot to pull over here and see what
this buttering is. You ever noticedthat anybody is if driving a holiday if
it's always working on them? Yeah, they have tool bag. They's a
place for a tool bag. Fine. I rode a BMW and I rode
a Harley work for a little bit, and I will take the BMW over
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a Harley any day, and threetimes I'll motorcycles for a while. I
did try to rip my leg offwith one of them. Yeah, he
got it, got hurt pretty good. That's why I was surprised when you
got into the weightlifting and the CrossFitand all that stuff later on, with
all the injuries you suffered, andI was amazed that you can do what
you do well if you put yourmind to it. Well, you know
me, if you tell me Ican't do something, you are stubborn some
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of the gun. But if youput you, if you put in,
I'll give you that. Yeah,if it's look, you know, no,
that's not me anymore, used tobe, not anymore. But yeah,
I mean, if you work hardenough and you want some hard enough,
you can you can always get Youcan always come back from anything.
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So we actually judged the contest togetheronce. We did just a family show
for it. Yeah, okay,all right, we know what kind of
we know what kind it is now, and that this is this is the
danger. We were getting ready forthe show and I looked at j D
and I said, hey, let'sget Pete to sit in, you know,
because it's the first time we seenyou in a while in person,
and all of us here together.And j D didn't give me the look
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I was expecting, because you know, it was the you know, and
and but I and I had itin my mind, this is this could
be a toxic mix right here,this is this might be this might be
the straw that breaks the camel's backgets us run out of here. But
I can't run us out of here. It's our our studio. Off the
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radio, you'll get you might betuning into something else on Saturday and Sunday.
We've never been monetized in the firstplace. There. I remember,
I remember somebody in the community Irespect one time say yeah, I really
appreciate your guys show. You know. I listened in. Me and my
granddaughter were in there listening to itto day, and I was and I
was, and I was. Iwas telling her, how honorable you guy.
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And this is a somebody in ourindustry that I that we have a
lot of respect and affection for.And I was like, yeah, well
I really appreciate it. Yeah,I'm sorry. I try to tell behave
it was just a matter of time. Ladies in my mama's Sunday school class
listen to this show, so keepit at that. Well, I had.
I had a couple we were teaching. We taught two of the UH
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two of the active shooter courses herefor Right to Bear this week, and
we had good, good sized classroomsfull both nights, and the first night
there was a really nice, I'ma little bit older couple in the front
row and and I think they listenedto the show and we were talking.
Yeah they do, because we weretalking and I said something about I was
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telling them a story or something.I said, I can't really tell the
whole story. It was the Lamastory. I said, I can't really,
I can't really tell it here withwith your wife here. And she
just laughed and said, no,it's okay. We listened to your show,
but apparently they missed that one.And so I told the story and
I'm and I'm I'm very cautiously tellingthe punchline. You remember the Loma story,
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don't you, Pete? Yes,I do. Okay, so I
wasn't there for it, but youwere jealous. But yeah, I didn't
know that part until just the otherday. And so anyway, and they're
laughing, and I'm like, youknow these And then they go, well,
we listened to it on the wayto church, and I'm like,
that's the reason to take some communionright there, and and and so I
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run into these people that are Godfearing Christians. People's people like count and
Paul over there, people who aredecent human beings, and they still listen
to this crap and they laugh becauseuallyknow our hearts and the right Charlie.
You know, people have to usecertain tools to feel better about themselves.
This would be one of those things. You know. I love you guys.
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You had to be scraping the bottomif you invited me in here.
So well, we we you know, we take an opportunity to capture moments
sometime and uh, you know,it's kind of cool to go back sometimes
and listen to some of the oldshows, and you know, we we
we try to get our friends inhere every now and then. You just
walked in the door today in thereyou were. I am. I'm proud
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out of that. To be knownas a friend to y'all. That that
makes me feel good. We saythat in public. But yeah, well
you have to now because it's onthe radio. I know there's probably some
folks over the years or listening tomine. You get on shown I didn't
get on a show. Well,happen to be here, happened to be
here in that location. Now welove us and Pete Cohen, so we
love you too, and then youknow you three guys that I've been around
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for a lot of my careers,and I'm probably know we'll be right back.
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anyway, I'm in the breaking stuffall week and working on stuff all week
and fixing, and I got flattires and broke stuff, and I can't
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seem to get nothing to run.I heard a buddy come down work on
one of the multa over there onthe farm, and I was going to
try to do some mowing for theshotgun tournament coming up. And it came
down and all the hydraulics fell outthe belly of it. You know how
much hydraulic flood costs nowadays, thatwas like forty gallons. And then when
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he came up and Ronnie came andfixed it, and then I cranked it
up and drove it for five minutesand it just shut off in the middle
of the field there. She says, is this a shocking tournament? In
Yeah, I want to talk aboutthe ski tournament a little bit. So
we've got on the Yes Sporting Class. It's at my farm in Marianna,
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so and and you really ought tocome shoot it. The when is it?
It is the twenty ninth. Itis a Friday that we would normally
be recording the show. We're gonnahave to record a day early, but
you're already off at that part ofthe day because you're gonna plan on being
here. So just the twenty ninthof March. Where do you win?
Uh? Well, the teams,there are team prizes. Uh one of
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the one of the prizes that's gonnabe giving away is a is a quail
hunt on our place with Joe Baxleyand me. You're gonna guide, uh
with with our dogs and some ofour birds next year and the next season.
And there are if the teams arefifteen hundred dollars for first prize,
one thousand for second prize, fivehundred for for what's going the third self,
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I'm gonna be the one setting thecourse. That probably wouldn't be fair.
Well, what's interesting. Just becauseyou set it up don't mean I
do not I do not shoot shoottournaments here or anywhere where I'm involved in
the That's yeah, I'm not participatingfour or five. We're gonna count the
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top four scores. So you canbe on a four person team and they
can put you on a team ifyou know somebody else's individuals, that's fine.
But we're there's a five man teamand gonna drop the lowest score,
and that gives people opportunity to bringsomebody that wants to participate that might not
be you know, at the peakof their performance level and then still have
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a chance to win this thing.And keep in mind it's a fundraiser for
the Marianna ff A, so allthis money is going to a nonprofit.
And there are you know it's there. We've got a title sponsor. It's
Crosshairs. It's a gun store inMarianna, Bud Baggett on Crosshairs and you
know, we don't we don't geta lot of spill over from over there,
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so he's not a direct competitor ofours, but you know, Bud's
a good guy and they've they've gota store downtown and they are the title
sponsor. Obviously, Talon Range isa is a name sponsor of this thing
because we are bringing in uh wehave found all of the resources put it
that way, and we're donating aswell, and so there are some other
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businesses. I think we're up toabout nine or ten teams right now.
We have room for twenty teams andwe're going to do a morning session in
an afternoon session. Good Friday,and we gonna be a good Friday Friday
in my world. I just noticedit. Well, are you going you
off that day? Oh? Ithink am. What you need to do
is to gather you up a fewof your friends or get with JD and
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find some of these better shooters overhere, and you'll form a team and
go over there. And I thinkthe team entry fees like five hundred bucks,
five hundred something dollars for a teamof five people. I forget it's
the exact numbers. I can showit to you. But here's the thing
is, if you're interested in it, then go to our Facebook page Talent
Range or Talent Taxle Outfitters or theTalent Range of Dothan, since you know
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you're listening to this in Dothan too, in that whole area. Just just
a quick drive. We're I'm anhour from Dothan. Where my place is.
It's on Highway seventy three south ofMariana, about ten miles. The
address is on the flyer and it'son Facebook, which my wife truly hates
that I have put all that outthere. And just to alleviate some of
the phone calls, we're getting tothe store. No, we're not putting
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in a permanent sporting clean trail atCharlie's farm south of Marianna. This is
a one time or annual or takeit down and then nobody gets to come
back on a property a kid.Yeah, we got this is gonna become
This is gonna become an annual eventafter However, many of you grant how
many years you have to do somethingfor we can call it annual three years
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We're back on the break. Ohmy god, forgotten about that. On
the break, Pete's over there,sitting in the couch in what we I
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guess would be a blue room ora green room or whatever it is.
It's a tan room. And he'sover there. And for the little Lily,
she's sitting over there curled up,enjoyed him. Pett she went over
there during the first taff Paul wentover and sat in a chair and he's
like, why is this dog upall of them? And she's all up
in my face and meld the coopbecause because because that's her spote, and
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so Paul moved. She laid downover there. Now Pete's over there,
love and own her. And shestands up on the break and stretches and
farts right in his face. Anduh, she was doing that earlier.
I thought it was Pete. Idon't want to say that. I thought
it was Keen. Then Fred broughtbrought up the fact that the first time
he was ever on the show,and I think it was you. You
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think it was Dolly that did that. That did was rested her soul.
That was she could. That's whenwe first knew there was something wrong with
her belly, something wrong with her. That was that stuff that killed her
ultimately. But yeah, that wasI remember going home my wife said,
well, did you enjoy your timeon the radio. I was like,
dog farted, No, No,it's stunk. It was bad. That
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was as bad as I have everbeen around. It was horrible. Oh,
you were. Oh you were tellingus something about your hat. Yeah,
I got like you got a littlesomething on it. I was.
I was hoping I was gonna gethere on time. I'm glad I did.
I was out with some folks fromsouth of Atlanta today and we were
running down the lake and went backinto some backwater area up there in Lake
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Seminole, and I saw some cootsup there, and I'm like, well,
they'll get out of the way.And you know, a bashboat with
a two fifty run a little bitfaster than that pond team boat with six
and one hit the front of theI guess the troller motor and hit off
the depth fight on a console andI stopped and it was all over my
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glasses, all over the people onthat and the people are just a laughing.
I've never had that happen before.And I about threw up, and
I think something gott shirt before Icome. But this hat. It never
even I'm leaving out on there.Ford. That was wrong, Fred,
I got a week stomach. Ohyou are told to saund but you know
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talking about them cooks now hold onthat all y'all ever ate a coop.
I think you had a little bitof it. Then hold on bred you're
excused, leave the room if youneed to. That kind of stuff.
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Just I better not tell what Iwas gonna say about that you still taste
it, wor claining it up inhere, that kind of stuff. Just
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I tell you, don't don't youhere, you can't get out of my
jad telling me all right? Ithink I'm good? Are you sure?
Yeah? You ain't done yet?Yeah, I'll just got tears in your
eyes, that kind of stuff.Just get him a bucket, an now
(33:16):
we got a bucket. You getit on my shoes, all right?
You know, work part about it, you know, is the color fluorescent
green? Yeah, the color ofthat radio grass, radioactive green. I'm
(33:36):
gonna make it. I'm gonna makeit. He done found a barf bag
though, I mean, man,I mean it's just that that kind of
Yeah. You ever, they makethis stuff called like liquid fence or or
something that that you spray to keepthe Yeah, you smell it does the
(34:00):
same thing to bold eggs. Man, I wish I got a little some
of the house fredmans. Take awhee. You know when you do it,
you know, when you do askull mount, just you dip it
under the water and let it justright. I got a bucket full of
that water that and I'm afraid.I'm afraid to pour it out because the
(34:22):
dogs would go in. Look,I don't I don't really have a week's
stomach. But you know how toget to me. But that don't now.
But now, if he pukes,just know that I'm going to join
him. I am sympathetic, andyou are directly in between us, so
(34:49):
it's just down hill. I wouldI would as gross as that would be,
if I could capture that for theworld to see, it would be
worth every every morsel of that onmy mouth. Okay, see, Paul,
See this is what happens when youcome up here with these stories.
(35:09):
That's the true story. This isall your fault right here. And we
didn't do anything at all them Uhshowed up. I got one question for
he, Paul. Did the cootsurvive the ordeal? Well? He was
flying around for around in the battlethe boat and it went up underneath the
(35:30):
gas pedal on them, and theman went to grab him and he grabbed
He's like I said, he ain'tgonna buy you. He ain't gonna buy
you. And he grabbed him outof there, and I'll toss him back
with his beak. I can handlethe coo don't have no web foot.
That's why they run across the water. I guess they have toes like that
the chicken. But they got littlepaddles, little they got a little Yeah,
(35:55):
I'll get this stuff on my face. But about eating coots, yes,
I have eat the gizzard. Theythey're they're mostly gizzard. They their
gizzards are proportionate, disproportionately large.Yeah, you're ready to get you're ready
to do gizzard. No, Well, let me tell you. I had
a man I was taking I ain'ttrying a couple of years ago, and
he was from Louisiana, Okay,And he said they killed up. They
(36:21):
got a bunch of ducks and cootsand mixed all together. And the people
that they couldn't tell no difference.They said they was just as good as
the rest of the ducks. Whenyou clean the quill, one of the
first things you find in there's thegizzard. I tell you this. I
tell you this all. Me andNick was up on the up on face
fell landing and we were catching somehybrids and strippers and we we we caught
(36:42):
some and we had it was thetime of year you could hunt. We
shot a few coots and kind ofleft them laying, and we got up
to the land and as a manfishing off the off the bank, he
said, y'all want these hybrids andstrappers, he said, now, but
I'll take them coots y'all left outthere. I said, really, you
eat them things, said man.Let me tell you something. You take
them things home and you pluck them. He said, pluck them. Now,
you pluck them and you put themin the oven at two hundred and
(37:04):
fifty degrees for four hours with someonion. He said, it's the best
taste in green meat you ever hadin your life. I said, really,
he said yeah. So we wentdown. He called his wife and
said, baby, don't cook thenight. We can coop the light.
He said, that's what he said. I couldn't believe it. He left
out of there, gone with himcoots. I'm thinking of a pristine beach
in the Virgin I still blue water, still blue water, palm tree swaming
(37:30):
in the breathe and coot cool.I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ruin
that for you. But did youcatch any fished this morning. Yes they
man, I tell you it isthe spring time of the year and the
fish are biting. The bashard movedup on the beds on Talquin and on
(37:53):
Seminole, and I tell you weI had some fellows. They got a
little term this weekends, kind ofshowing them around. I was running around
different places. But we made aboutten casts and we caught one about four
and a half pounds, and theysaid, I know what to do.
Now. We took off and Imade it down here, y'all fish Florida
side at all or just now.We stayed on the flint arm, going
down towards River Junction that area,and came back around Spring Creek. The
(38:16):
water is really cleared up in SpringCreek. Actually the flint is starting to
clear up some two. But youknow today we have some some bad coming
this weekend. Yeah chance mon well, I mean ninety four chance all over
to the other day too. SoI mean, now, this cyclical thing
every time it starts to get alittle bit. I tried to burn some
stuff yesterday. I got to burnpermit and everything went out there and I
(38:37):
couldn't light nothing flame thrower. Ineed a new it needs a new battery,
and I got to order a newbattery for it. Or I think
I'm on hot wire to the twelvethe tyde beside and then run me a
tube to the back and put itin one of the big tubs. You
get five gallons, and I justride around and just light everything. Get
(38:58):
you a can, get you amarine boat tank and plumb it into a
boat. Exactly. I got it, Yeah, the one from the boat
that I think I'm gonna sell,that little John boat of mine. I
hadn't done anything with it in solong. I think I'm on I'm trying
to divest of all the stuff thatI don't use. Why don't you get
one of those things like that guyyou had on that too long ago with
the Facebook boat. Oh that hesold that apparently? How much you get
(39:22):
for it, I don't know itjust if we was shoving sold on Facebook,
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so we're back now real quick.This week I put it on Facebook
(41:20):
and I asked, I wanted everybody. I said, I want to see
how well you know me? AndI put posted a picture. So you
know, I got got a littleside gig with some security companies. We
got to Solar Project and when Ineeded to drive around on this thing a
side beside, but you got todrive four miles down the roads from one
end to the other. So it'sgot to be something to tag and license
(41:40):
and stuff like that, or elseI'd have to call Fred to defend us.
And so yeah, so so I'mlike, you know, I can't
put I got a little mini truck. Can't put that on the road.
It can't, says, well,I'm gonna shop around find the most fuel
assient efficient hybrid that I can find. Put on this job site, and
so I found on a Toyota Priustwenty fourteen Sea version that's the city version,
(42:05):
gets fifty three miles from the gallonin the city, okay. And
it's a gas motor with a hybridyou know motor in it too. It's
got the battery, you know,will the battery gets bad, it's like
fifteen hundred bucks to replace it.But you know, gas motors any more
than that replace. So anyway,you know, these things are pretty reliable.
I talked with this kid out inCalifornia that builds parks for him and
he's like, man, we takeit out in the deserts. I mean
(42:25):
the front wheel drive. But they'retough if you build them right. So
I put it on there and Isaid, so, what's the first thing
I bought for this thing? Knowingme? And I got all these responses,
and I got everything franchised rent froma grill guard to steer horns on
the front from Peak Travis Parkman Petegot it in three point two seconds.
(42:46):
Yeah, and all terrain tires,leg extensions so you can fit in there,
tended windows so nobody will see youdriving. And that was the first
response from Leef Fuller and Pete.You remember leaving he fights up and goes
up tending witness and nobody will see. And that's pretty pretty good. Somebody
got actually got it more right thananybody else, said insurance, And that
(43:07):
is, in fact the first thingthat I called about. But ultimate then
my wife's kind of spoiled it becauseshe goes, no, you're not thinking
high enough. And so the answersays, I was out here the other
night and we were teaching this rightto bear class and which we do that
every month. By the way,y'all y'all need to come in for that.
And then I said something to Matt, our manager here at the store,
(43:28):
and you know, Matt can't findanything, and I said, man,
you know that thing just sits tothe loading the ground on the bottom
mount and the job site. Andhe goes, you didn't get a lift
kit for it? And I said, if they made a lift kit for
a priss, if some idiot somewheremade a lift kit for a prius,
I'd bite. And he goes,hang on a minute, and sent me
a link to a dad gun inchand a half lift kit for a press.
(43:50):
See, and it'll be here liketomorrow the next day, and I'm
already I've already made the appointment overat Mary and attired to get it put
on over there house, and Ibought mud flaps, liberal cars and a
bar light and all the graphics andeverything. So what that thing slack?
You're something now, everybody? Oh, you can load that thing up in
(44:13):
the back of my pickup truck andtake it home. But you know I'm
not gonna drive it and put peopleon it, and they're gonna drive it
around at job site. You want, you get it like an eyebreak for
butterflies sticker and put it all backaround. No, no, no,
no, no. Listen. WhenI bought I bought it. I bought
a card I shot round and boughtit, and they delivered it to me
with a tag already on it.But I'm taking it right straight to the
(44:36):
tag office and getting the Gadsden flagtag to go on the back up.
It's gonna be. Don't tread onme on the back of that little ole
friz. Don't think it. Iain't doing it. Rainbow Unicorn Hunter,
Yeah, what what kind of tires'regonna put on you? Upside? Well?
I know what size I know whatsize tirebile fit on it, because
I called the guy in California thatsells the lift kits seventy five twelve fifties
(44:58):
and he told me it's just aa little bit bigger, and they can.
And I'm trying to find an allterrain and hit the tire shop up
and see if that. I mean, it's not gonna be crazy. I
mean, it's not like it's thered Neck press. It's not like a
six inch lift or anything. SoI couldn't find that. Well, remember
the Suzuki samurais right, you know, everybody bought us. You'd buy a
(45:20):
Suzuki Samurai. You still buy thosefor a premium today. It's got a
little sewing machine motor in it.And but man, they they now you
have an They couldn't think in themud. They were like they would.
They would turn over on you.The things to get on two wheels so
fast you're gonna take it to thelike the next monster truck pull and rider.
So this thing's gonna be. I'mgonna post pictures of it. This
(45:40):
thing's gonna be. My wife's justshaking her head and she knows what she
married. So that thing lifted up. The girl I went to high school
with had a Suzuki Samurai and shewanted to go go riding in the woods
with it. One time. Weall had, you know, Toyota trucks
and stuff, and she, Iwant to go to I want to go
to. I'm like, we'll comeon and a little four wheel drives Auzuki
(46:01):
Samurai said that thing to go throughthe woods. Now it will go.
I said, let me drive thisthing, and she said okay, and
I went to go going around thecorner. That thing got up on two
wheels on me, I mean rightright then and making them on it.
That's exactly why they quit making them, because they would tump over. Yeah,
(46:22):
oh, y'all got remember we talkedin the last show how my stepdad
Robert bought got him to get anew four wheel drive, got him in
the Son Frontier over there, anduh so he got the truck. And
of course me being me, andwe run those in our security fleet.
We put these two and a halfinch lifts, an inch lift in the
(46:42):
back, two and a half inchlevel in the front, and they looked
so much better. They looked morelike a Toyota. And yeah, I
mean you know, the poor man'sToyota and and he went he bought this
used one, loved it, andI said, I went ahead and ordered
to kit for him and really giveRobert a lot of choice. I went
down to the tire store ordered thekit for it. And so yesterday I
(47:05):
called. I was waiting on thekit to come in. He goes and
they called me and said, hey, uh, you're a Roberts. We
don't have his phone number, buthis truck's ready to go. And I
said, well, he got soexcited about it. He went and found
out that it was in and gotit put in. So he got his
truck delivered or went up there andpicked it up with the lift kit on
it. So now not only doeshe have this nice truck that's beautiful,
(47:27):
by the way, now he's gota lift kit and that's it. And
right now it's in Panama City rightnow. Getting he went down there to
get the undercoat and put on it. When he first told me that,
I'm like, man, Well,the last two vehicles he's arms have rusted
out because he goes down to Tyndalland puts in the salt water down there,
(47:49):
and and apparently he's had issues forrustless. So he took it down
there. He's getting it sprayed withsome stuff. And because he's because he's
going to be in the salt waterwith it. I told him, I
said, supposed to back all theI know, I know for a fact
that's not a good idea. Thatthat's I floated enough two fifty. It
(48:14):
did not float. I saw picturesit floated for a minute. As long
as that pontoon boat was still hookedto it. It floated. Correct,
that was the boat that was floating, not the f two fifty. Sorry.
Once that that did that at thewash sus the river, and they
charged him with boating under the influencebecause he backed his truck in all the
(48:37):
way in. Yeah, I stormColts. It almost killed me. The
the truck almost ran over me.I was trying to recover it. Yeah,
he was. I told that storyabout uh. I saw. I
saw a truck all the way underwaterwith a light still working on, like
Mikasookie, way before daylight. Onemorning, I went to put in at
Cypress Landing and I got there reallyearly. Is anybody in it? No?
(48:58):
I pulled up the Cypress Landing,MAKASSOOKI and there's a guy standing there
and there ain't no vehicles around.There's just this guy standing there at four
o'clock in the morning, opening dayof duck season at the boat landing.
And I'm thinking I'm the first onethere, and I'm all kind of excited.
I come around the corner. There'sthe dude standing there. And if
you've ever put in at Cyprus Landing, you were in the middle of nowhere.
(49:19):
And I'm like, guys standing thereand he had you just looked like
somebody had just whooped him. Imean, he just was just had that
whole body expression of sadness. AndUh. I kind of pull up there
and I'm being real cautious because I'mby myself, and I said, uh,
what's going on? He goes,you're getting ready to put in?
I said, yeah, he goes, Uh, you might want to stay
(49:43):
way over to the right. AndI look and I'm looking at the little
skinny landing there going high. AmI gonna stay away over the right?
And I look down there and Isee these two glowing orbs down in the
water, and yeah, he waslaunching by himself and left it in reverse
or left it in put it neutraland not Park or whatever and his brand
(50:06):
new Ford or this was back whenFord Explorers had just come out with the
foil drive Eddie Bower, YadA YadA, Ford or Explorer, and it was
the headlights were four feet underwater.You know, Dad, I will tell
you when a boat when when youpull a truck out of the water,
the horn's gonna blow a lot andyou can't turn it off. Really,
(50:30):
you can't make it stop. It'sthe there's a relay or something that gets
wet, and that just absolutely willnot quit blowing. And so if everybody
at the boat land and hadn't alreadyfigured out how big a dufless you are,
the horn tails on it. Thingis is it's blowing the whole time
it's underwater, and as it getscloser to the surface, you can start
(50:52):
to hear it and it's yeah,yeah, exactly. And so as as
as it's it's being pulled out,all of a sudden, you see this
thing emerging out of the water likeone of those big whales coming up at
the fish show down at the aquarium, and it comes up like it jumps
out of the water. You seethe hood coming through the water, and
then you hear that noise. You'relike, what is that noise? And
(51:13):
all say, and everybody's looking,and everybody's going, oh man, I
feel so bad for this guy.What what kind of idiot did that?
You know this kind of stuff,And I feel sorry for him. That
sure is a nice truck blah blahblah blah blah. And you're standing there
and you got to walk up thereand claim it. And then they're all
like, oh, I don't knowit was him. I'm just telling you.
(51:36):
It's not a good experience somebody gettingme my pistol in theory, not
that this has ever happened to me. Oh man, As it goes under
water and all the pressure will pushyour windows in it, this is a
mess anyway. Just word of wise, y'all, y'all have a time.
We'll see, honest thing.
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