Layne Leverette: HUGE Pro Sport Announcement, Moon Pies & Chicken Thighs

Co-Host, Steven Basham, recruited this week's guest Mr. Layne Leverette from the hills of Tennessee. The two recently went on a disaster relief trip together to western North Carolina to help with the hurricane clean up. During this trip the two were able to help hundreds of people by providing fresh hot meals. The duo is joined by host, Bryce Matthews, as they discuss this trip, a HUGE Pro Sport Announcement, and much more. This is a fun, lighthearted, and heartwarming podcast you will not want to miss!

Episode Transcript

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Canines are our passion.

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They are our addiction.
They are our way of life right down to the very core and without them we would be lost.
The canines of this world really are something to behold.
They assist us at work, they accompany us at home, and they perform for us in the field.
No matter where we go, they are by our side.

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Canines really are a ride or die and for that we are grateful.
This podcast will showcase working canines of various breeds and disciplines as we search
for those canines and their handlers who are always striving to be the best at what they
do.
Those who are always grinding.
Those who are always pushing the limits.

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Those who are always dogging.
Join us on our adventures as it is sure to be a wild ride.
I'm your host, Bryce Matthews.
And I'm your cohost, Stephen Basham.
And this, this is Semper Doggen.
No thank you.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome back to another episode of the Semper Doggen podcast.
Guys, I am your host, Bryce Matthews.
And as always, we are joined by the ever so ugly, Mr. Stephen Basham.
Good thing this is a podcast where you can't see him because, whoo, looking rough today,
buddy.
No, I'm looking good.
Got me a haircut looking all snazzy.

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Look at that, Bowie.
You need a little touch.
You need some just for men.
No, no, that's why I keep it so short so you can't see all the gray.
I don't know how that is.
Me too.
See, that's what I was going to say, if it was any better, I'd be like our guest we have
on today, Mr. Lane Leverett, and I would be bald.

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Mr. Lane, how are you today, brother?
Good, man.
How y'all?
Could not be any better.
The temperature's starting to cool down.
Crops are coming out of the fields.
It's a good time.
It's our time of year right now.
That's right.
That is right.
This time of year, yes.

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Now, you get about two and a half more months in and I cannot stand winter.
I hate winter.
I don't care how cold it gets.
I can cool off.
I mean, I can warm up, but I don't care how hot it is.
I can't get through it if I can't get out of the hot weather.
I don't like it.
I'd rather hunt in July than February.
Oh, hell no.
No, me and Lane are on the same page here.

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We're on the same page here.
I get to walk it.
I don't warm up.
That's right.
That's right.
If you quit driving that four wheeler around everywhere, he'd get warm too, wouldn't he?
Man, it's cold.
It's cold on that damn thing.
I said if you'd quit driving it around and start walking.
Yeah, but if you had dogs that went like a man, you'd ride a four wheeler too.

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Well guys, this is going to be a really fun and interesting podcast.
We're going to dive into a little bit more here about Lane.
Kind of talk a little bit about some of the success he's had and how he come up through
the Coonhound ranks.
Maybe what he does as a profession, which I find is very interesting.
I had to look it up the very first time that somebody told me what Lane did for a profession.
I had to look it up the videos.
I didn't know what it was.

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So I want to talk about that a little bit.
And then we're going to talk about the trip that Bashman Lane just got back from.
Those two just went on a multi-day adventure together.
So Lane, why don't you fill the listeners in a little bit about yourself, your background,
how you got into hunting?
Man, I'm 52.
I got into hunting.
I was about 15 years old.

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Me and some friends of mine that we grew up with as kids, we just started.
Mike Wales, good friend of ours.
And of course, James Love.
We all live right there around him.
They carried us hunting as kids.
It just something we never stopped.
It's just what we turned into.

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Coonhound has kind of been a way of life for us all through the year.
That's basically how we got started.
You know, I don't know if I got that thing.
There it is.
That's better.
You know, I guess first time I went to a 17 years old ASTJ hunt and fell in love with it.

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Been competition hunting ever since.
Yeah.
What kind of dogs did you start out running?
You're a walker man now, ain't you?
That's all it's ever been.
Okay.
I didn't know they made anything.
Now back then, were you, you know, I know whenever I was a kid, I was big into, you

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know, fur.
Man, I'd be 13, 14 years old and we'd go to a meat hunt and everybody that was too lazy
to skin their coons, threw their coons in the back of the truck.
And I'd go home and I'd skin them.
And then at the end of every season, I'd take them off.
And that was my money.
You know, that's, that's, man, we used to make 25, $30 a hide back then.

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You know, is that something you did too or not so much?
You know, we skinned a few of them, but in our country hides, I never, they never was
like there was, you know, North of here, but we never did.
I mean, we skinned a few out.
We never did really have any buyers around.
We didn't get into it.
We just, we just honey.
Cause we loved it.
You know,

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You're down there in Tennessee, right?
Yes, sir.
I'm about 40 miles south of Nashville here in Sheffield.
Okay.
Gotcha.
So you mean you're down here in them Hills.
We're down here in these Hills and Hollers.
Yep.
It takes a special man to coon hunt them Hills and Hollers.
Let me tell you, I appreciate where, when I go up North toward Illinois and stuff, I

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appreciate that hunting up there a lot.
I think it makes it hard to hear and hunt.
And speaking of that, we're going to talk about a hunt here in a little bit.
We're going to put on and I'll be in Tennessee Hills in November and we're going to find
out what everybody's made of.
No,
Hey,
Oh,
we'll talk about that towards, towards the end.

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We'll make these people stay on here and listen.
Exactly.
Hey guys, stay on here.
Pay attention.
There is a big announcement to be made.
Mr. Lane lever got with me.
We spent some time together and he got with me and asked me, uh, he said he was putting
together a special hunt and, uh, he is going, we were going to, uh, let the listeners know

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what that honey is, when it's going to be and how it's going to be ran at the end of
this podcast.
But Mr. Lane, uh, talk to us about what you do now and, uh, how you got into it.
Oh, I trained Tennessee walking horses and it was kind of like, it's a, my grandfather

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when I was a kid, I'm talking about six, seven years old, always had Mars and he was, he
was friends with a lot of, a lot of guys in the horse business.
And I would go with him to the barns and stuff on Saturday mornings.
And, and that's how I got started.
I just, I like, you know, I loved it.

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You know, I guess everything I've ever done in my life has been something with the animal,
you know, when,
uh, we started, I started working for different places and different barns and stuff over
the years.
And just kind of the built-in, as you got older, it's kind of like anything else you
do.
If you got anything else, I got to put this phone right, sit it down.

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Anything else, if you got anything, anything to do something long enough, you're going
to learn to work for yourself and do it.
So, you know, I've been running my own business since I was probably 25.
We started break coats for a living.
We do the hard job, you know, we get them up and broke and safe, you know, for people

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to ride.
And we sell a good many horses, but that's, that's basically what we do.
And what's the, uh, what's the fancy prancing horses that you, that you, that you, that
we see on your Facebook call?
Come on, they ain't prancing.
They're walking.
Tennessee walking.
Oh, okay.
That's, um, you know, it's, we use a pad and a chain on these horses and it animates their,

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get a horse, a walking horse has naturally got a walking gate to it.
So for me, gate and, um, that full beat gate, you put that pad on and use a little weight
on her feet and it makes them a horse.
Unlike a lot of things goes away from weight, you know, or like a man, like we want to get
away from work.
They go to it.
So you put a little weight on their foot and it makes them step higher and stretch and

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you really want a nice walk and shake head, shake him for big gate too.
Okay.
So this is where I had to, I had to watch the videos.
And if I first heard what you did a couple of years ago, I drew out at a hunt with you,
I think we were over in Illinois somewhere.
They said that man right there trained some fancy horses.
So I started watching these videos.
Okay.
What, let's dive into the history of the Tennessee walking horse.

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Like where did this originate and is there a purpose for that gate?
The Tennessee walking horse originally, uh, developed from a saddle horse.
And when it come back in the early years, it was used to horses.
The walking horse is one of the most docile breeds it is in about anybody can fool with

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them.
And there are that four beat Walter gave is a real smooth ride.
And from that over the years, it developed into a show horse.
And then, you know, it's kind of like any kind of athletes, you know, it develops into
something more like you football players who used to be, it was big bulky run over, you
knock a taste of your mouth.

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Now they're speed and fast and quickness, you know, and same way with the horse, you
know, they just over the years animated into this gate.
So that's, you know, that's where they originated.
So people are not really using them for any more than the shows and the competitions.
It's not like you're not going to go somewhere and see somebody walking down the road on

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a Tennessee Walker.
Oh, no, sir.
No, sir.
Okay.
See, I'm wrong.
See, we've got to show horse, but a lot of people that just trail ride and just use their
horses for riding horses.
That's their preference of a cause, cause it's so smooth and the horse is so docile.
You'll see on any trail ride, you'll see them all over the country.

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This horse is a horse that you can put up six year old kids to 80 year old man on the
ride.
Okay.
And they, they're used for showing the use for trail riding, man, man, and patrol.
I've sold horses to the state trooper group in Nashville that use manned patrols at these

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concerts and all that.
They, they really want to walk in all for that because they're so gentle minded, you
know, they don't get stirred up in a crowd.
I mean, they're, they're, they're a real multi task kind of horse, you know?
Yeah.
I mean, I would see them anywhere doing anything.
It's interesting.
So the ones you sell to like the manned patrol and stuff like that.
Now those, their walk isn't as pronounced as your show horses, right?

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No, no, no, no, no.
It's more called a trail horse.
Yes.
Yes.
Okay.
Yeah.
The show horse and the trail horse is, is two different things.
The show horse is the pad horse with the pad.
We have the little pad on, okay.
And it shows strictly, you know, you go around, around the ring and showing the ring and into
major shows and that these others are just roped down the road, on the trails around

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homes, anything you want to use them for.
Now, okay.
I say Tyler Balkham trains the same horses.
Tyler Balkham does the same thing.
Tyler is one of the best in the business, especially for his age and come up his daddy,
man, his daddy was some kind of horse trainer and their whole family is, is real good.

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They, him and Kayla, his sister, grow up in it is, I mean, Tyler was just like when my,
my boy in there come in from time, he was old enough to sit between his daddy's arms
on the horse.
That's what he's been doing.
And you know, he, he just like I was, he's grown up into it.
Basically it's all the every year and over the years he's learned to do it himself.

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And you know, he'd come from a family that that's what they do him, his sister, his
sister is probably better.
She better look at the easy, which a real quick shout out to, to, uh, Tyler, you know,
and his new baby, new baby, just got, just got born.

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Congratulations.
Congratulations.
You know, Tyler come from a family, his mother, his mother's father was a horse trainer.
Tyler's granddaddy on both sides, his dad was, if dad was, daddy was a horse trainer,
his daddy was a horse trainer.
That family has come from generations and all they ever did.

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And one of that family there is always being no matter from his grandfather to his father,
plumbed down to Tyler and Kayla has been one of the most dominant crews in the horse industry.
I mean, they're great.
Not only are they great horse people, they're great folks too, man.
I'm telling you, that's a great family.
Yeah, Tyler's top notch, I've judged him in a few super stakes with Kane and, uh, you

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know, like I said, top notch, top notch guy.
He is, he's one of the best.
Yeah.
So, okay.
I got, I have a couple more questions for a move off the horses here.
What is the reason for the, like, where is the origin for the attire that is worn in
these shows?
Cause I look at Tyler's pictures.
I mean, they are decked out to the nines.
Like they're going somewhere fancy.

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A show in that's a, that's a hard kind of question to ask.
I had a region from the, from the time I started, they've always wore a suit and tie to show
me, but it just developed everybody in the show.
You know, I guess if you want to look like a show horse, you got to look like a showman.
I guess.
Yeah.

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That, you know, I really can't answer that because now where, where's the picture of
you?
Where's the picture of you in this, in this hat and suit and tie?
Hold on just a minute.
Oh, I got to see this.
There's one there back in the younger days.
Hold on.
All we see is the wall.
Oh, there it is.
Oh, there it is.
Oh man.

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Now them boys do more of the show and now more of the coat business.
You know, I get them up to do it.
Yes.
And then they take them and finish and train them.
Yeah.
The guy in that picture is way too skinny to be you.
Yeah.
That's been many moves ago, but I've got some different ones on the wall in there.
And if I carry my phone in there, it's going to die.
Yeah.

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Okay.
Moon pies ago.
Moon pies and chicken thighs.
That's the name of the podcast right there.
Moon pies and chicken thighs.
Oh my gosh.
If you keep coming up with sayings like it, we'll be like the Hawk to a girl.
We'll be fine.
Moon pies and chicken thighs.
So, okay.

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So we all know that the, you know, the Coonhound world is recently almost what I would say
hit its peak.
Like there are dogs selling for stupid amount of money.
And then the last year or so it's, it's kind of finding its way down a little bit, but
you know, it's nothing for a dog to go, you know, 70, $80,000.
Yeah, that's right.
In this show horse world, like what is a top notch horse?

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What are they selling for these days?
The highest yearling that I've ever told myself was 200, no, 350,000.
I've sold them from paying their, now there's some of them that's been 7, 800,000, 750.

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It's not uncommon for one to bring a hundred to 150,000.
They're used to over the years.
It's kind of like the dog business, you know, when you can buy one for three to 5,000.
Now that dogs 15, you know, them horses used to be 25 to 50.
Now they're 150, but you're great ones.

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You're above average horses.
Like some of the ones Tyler has in his barn, it's nothing from the brain, three, $400,000
doggy man.
There's been three or four, there's been a few over the years.
It's actually brought a million.
Yeah.
I was talking to, I was talking to somebody the other day and they said that a standard
bread went for a million or something last year.
Yeah, they're high.

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They're yearlings.
They're yearlings to bring that through the sales and never been roped.
But the thing about that though is everything to deal, everything to deal with a horse nowadays
is four times more expensive.
You know, you get, how much money do you spend on, on shoeing a horse?
Right.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.

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Shoe bills are high, feed haze through the roof.
It's a, you know, our industry right now, it's, it's really tough.
It's, you know, it's kind of like we've seen our, our better days when our horses were
higher and, and man, there's been times that during our 10 days of our celebration, which
is our world championship horse show, you know, I'd say 20, 25 coats, they'll have

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a million dollars worth of horses.
You know, now since then, I don't want to get political on y'all guys, but these days
these damn Democrats took it over.
It's like everything else.
It went down, it's went down to where our sales are about a quarter of what they've
been bringing about a quarter of what they're worth and all our expenses go up.
Right.

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And we have to deal with a lot of government overreach on our stuff.
It really, really puts a damper on our business.
So you know, about like anything else, it's just the way the ball bounces.
Yeah.
I heard something actually yesterday in this, like I said, rabbit holes, these are great.
I heard something yesterday that said, and maybe it's just in state of Indiana, but technically
you were supposed to have a CDL to pull a horse trailer.

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Is that correct?
Because it's not considered pleasure.
It's considered business.
I it's not here in Kentucky.
It's not either.
Yeah.
I've never heard.
I've never seen that.
Okay.
A semi rig, you'd have to have one, but just pull a truck trailer now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I heard that yesterday and that's what it caught me off guard and I was like, do what?
And I'm like, yeah, in Indiana, technically if you're pulling a, you know, a 40 foot horse

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trailer, that's a business use, which is, which requires a certain class of CDL.
And I don't, I didn't fact check that, but I've just, I heard that yesterday.
I don't think it, I don't think it's true.
Yeah.
That's not right.
It's not down around us.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, so off the horses.
So let's jump into, let's jump into the coon hunting world.

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And kind of the reason why listeners, the reason why I'm kind of letting lane get into
the weeds of where he came from and stuff like that is because we're going to tie it
all in together on a trip that me and lane made and how he was able to get so many people
together to go on this trip that we went.

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So let's dive into the tune hunting world.
Obviously, I think one of your biggest wins to date was probably the first ever a hundred
thousand dollar hunt held by pro sport.
Wasn't it?
Yeah, that was pretty special for me.
I'll tell you this.
That was something, probably something we'll never do again, but it was my biggest win.

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So talk about the checkers a little bit because that's the dog you want, want it with.
Yeah.
Checkers.
I got checkers kind of by accident.
A friend of mine in the horse business, Mike Young, owned her and she had had puppies and
gotten sick and gotten down.
He called me and said, hey, you want and she had one of the guys that had her before.
I can't remember that guy's name.

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Oh, there's a guy that hunted, hunted with Connor Morris and him.
So and they had one rice marty money with her that summer.
And Mike's like, man, we can't get her healthy.
I don't know what to do with it.
He said, you want to do something with her?
And I, oh yeah, bring her up here.
The same thing we say is wrong with 90% of them thyroid, thyroid at bottom down.

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And it's, it's, it's a real, I mean, people that don't think it's real.
It's real.
It's real.
And, and she had gotten that down and gotten a leaky and hadn't even been hunted.
So she had a double dose and we got her healthy.
And you know, she's a, she's a nice, nice dog.
She's a, she looked out on the ground and you put her.

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When she wants to operate, she's good as anybody's.
And when she don't, she just a dog, you know, but, but she is, she, she's a cone career.
She's crazy.
A lot of cones.
We've got some nice pups out of her now around.
Oh, actually we'd give her to Caden fan here a while back.
I was done with her.

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Thyroid was where we just couldn't keep it level.
And I didn't want to, I raised one litter of pups off drive line and no, actually I raised
two livers, not like, man, I don't, I don't do the pup things.
So Philip and Caden said they want to do it.
So we give her the lead.
So, you know, that's, that's, uh, that's the story with checkers.

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Y'all got to excuse me.
My beautiful wife walking in here with me.
Oh boy.
We're about to be in the presence of royalty.
Ain't we?
So, you know, the checkers dog, like, let's go back to that.
I want to talk a little bit into that.
And I know it's been a few years, but you're, you sign up for this hunt and you get there

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and you get a win.
Like you're locked in there.
You've won your first round there.
Walk us through that.
Like what kind of emotions do you have?
Are you like, man, I have a chance to win it.
Or did it, did that feeling not come until later in the hunt?
Man, I don't want to sound, I don't want to sound cocky, but I told Greg Maynard.
We won, I won early.

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And then when I got, let's see, it's early and late and I won late in Maynard judges.
And we got off that tree and he's got the old video of it.
I told him, I said, I'm thinking to win this hunt.
I said, I don't know why I'm telling you I'm thinking to win this hunt.
And we did.
I mean, I tell you part of the reason was I wasn't supposed to win that first cast.
And I looked through it and did.

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And the second cast I won, it was, it was just by luck too.
I don't even think being a, oh, man, my mind's, I can't remember as well as I
don't big boy.
Not, I can't help you out here.
We was, we was in there and we was in the heads up cast.

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And I mean, we didn't treat it.
I had to have a tree at the end to beat him and, and it's everything.
It just looked, just fell our way.
I told my, I said, I have one of these two guests.
I'm going to win this hunt.
And it did.
Yep.
It's just the way that, but then she didn't look good at all.
Neither one in first cast, but on that final cast, man, she put on a clean.

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Yeah.
She showed out that final cast.
Yeah.
They found the best.
She put on a clinic.
He trees three, just bam, bam, bam.
And has another net to end and the rest of them is just look like idiots.
You know, they treated them.
They just wallowed around it.
And she just, just turn loose.
She's back popping in the cove.
Yeah.
So you come off that final tree and you're like, man, I'm going to win this.

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Man, I've just won a hundred thousand dollars and you're the earth on the dog.
Right.
When that, when we got off that last tree, I know it's women, but when it got
down to them last three minutes and I realized it don't know me, they can't beat me.
I was calling my wife, man.
That's it.
Tell her, Hey, honey, we just want a hundred thousand dollars.

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You know, cause I tell you, I don't do this without her because man, she
stays here and takes care of these kids and backs me and when I told her, she's
like, Oh no, I'm on the phone.
I'm watching them.
I'm watching.
She's a cry.
It was swollen.
Everybody's happy.
Yeah.
You know, it's a, it's a highlight of your life that you just, you just, it's,

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it's unexplainable, but it's really lifetime achievement there.
That it's pretty fulfilling.
Cause at the time that was the highest pain hunt ever in history.
Yeah.
That was the first one.
And, you know, like that's just your name forever.
It's in the history books and to be an owner handler on the dog is something
special too, you know, it was a pretty good deal.

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Yeah.
You're not going to get very many owner handlers.
Oh, what's the one that's got the lightning dog down in Mississippi?
He won the PKC one.
Oh, the PKC a hundred thousand down there in.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can't think.
I can't he's an owner.
He's an owner handler.

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Yeah.
But other than that, I mean, there ain't many, and you know, that guy actually
trained that dog from a pup.
Yes, he did.
Train him, start him and it's one hundred thousand and didn't he get
in the finals of the other one?
Yes.
Yes.
He won 140,000 in two hunts.
Yeah.
They're right there.
Never go to where else.
Hey, that's not bad.

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If I could walk out my back door and win 140 K sign me up.
Yeah.
You know, a lot of these hunts, I tell people all the time and I
fashion, I'm sure you'll agree with this.
Got to have a really good dog.
You do, but it don't, sometimes it don't matter how good your dog is or how
good of a handler he is or how good you know, you still, if you don't have that

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look, you got to have that horseshoe around your neck to win, win, or you just,
it just, things have got to go your way.
So you got to have more luck than you do anything.
I got to find my horseshoe.
Cause good Lord, if you can lose it, I asked, asked Bryce, I have, I have lost
in more ways than, than you could even imagine.

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Let me tell you the luckiest, why I tell you about the horseshoe.
I won the truck hunt.
I won one of the truck hunts down there with fireproof clones.
She, she dominates the first two rounds.
We go back out on the finals.
I'm on a leash for an hour.
She treats it.

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She gets green, has a cane.
The rest of them, they all tree and have a cane and I tree her.
I'm struck for a hundred.
I'm told 200 plus the rest of them.
I'm on the lead leash lot for an hour with Stallard's dog.
He goes back to a tree.
I forget the other, I can't remember names, but I'm on the leash for an hour

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and all dogs are treated.
They never treat another cane.
And I, and you win a truck like that.
That's how it looks.
Got to be.
You got to have it.
So wild.
That's so wild.
I learned that bad.
I hate leash law.
Instead, I get all the bad luck and Bryce draws a short end of a straw.
I hate leash law.

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I hate leash law.
Bryce draws a short end of a straw card.
It was a card.
I drew the short card.
Oh, that's what it is.
Yeah.
That's what it was.
Yeah.
It's just, I mean, I'm telling you, I've, I've been in a late round of super
stakes and dog get treated on an Island and I get, there's no way they can

(27:45):
beat me and I get scratched.
Uh, I've had a guy pull my dog off the tree and put it in a shed because it
was treed behind his house.
I mean, you name it.
I've had it and it's just, I know the feeling here.
Like, I hate that feeling where you're treated at the end.
If you got a cone, you win.
Seemed like I don't ever have that code.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
So what have you, what have you been hunting recently?
Uh, I've got a female that we bought from Maynard and then back last year,
right before the world hunt called Juliet.
And, um, we've, uh, we've carried that pro sport race, led it all year.
Um, I don't know.
I've won 25, 30,000 weather, you know, when, uh, pro sport and we've been

(28:30):
hunting her and then we bought a young dog off racquet and Willie here.
I don't know a month or so ago.
That's, um, it's don't nothing happened to him.
I think he's going to be a real hound to deal with, you know,
Which one's that one?
He's, um, off racquet Willie.
He's a buddy of mine here.
Troy frame raised him here and started.

(28:52):
We bought it from him, the names wax.
Which one did I hunt with you up at the, the, the muddy, what, what
dog did you hunt at the muddy?
That was the white dog.
Remember that was him.
Wack young dog.
He just, he has whack.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, that's it.
So I've noticed a little something here.

(29:13):
You said earlier that right now you're in the cult breaking business.
So you're, you're dealing with the cults, the male young males, but in the
dog world, you're usually packing a female.
What, what drives you either way there?
Now, coach that's my feelings on studs.
We do both on the horse business.
Okay.
But I've always, I don't know.

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I've always had good luck with females.
I've just, my better hands.
I've always had just been a female.
I like them better.
I think they're smarter.
Oh, I don't know.
It's just been the way it's running for me.
You know, I've had good luck with them.
Yeah.
Cause you know, you talk to most people and like most of them, like either
a female guy or a male guy, not very many people go back and

(29:54):
forth between the two of them.
Yeah.
I've been a female guy for years.
Matter of fact, but this, this is the first male dog I've really had that
I'm going to push in a long time.
And I mean, I've had a few for Bob, you know, he's bought over the years.
Me and Darryl flopped around or something, but far as just pushing,
I'm going to have a female on my league.
Yeah, absolutely.

(30:15):
Well, Basher, why don't we talk about that?
Well, Basher, why don't we dive into this, this trip you guys just went into.
Cause this was something special and this shows, you know, it's not
just the Coon Hunters, there's a lot of groups of people that they were helping
out in some way, shape or form here, but this was really nice to see a bunch
of Coon Hunters get together and do something.
So I'm going to stay out of this one.
Cause this was y'all strip and you got the juicy information.

(30:36):
Yeah.
So, um, I w I just happened to be online one day and, uh, seeing, um, a, uh,
Facebook video that, uh, Lane had posted and, uh, I'll kind of let Lane go
into how it all came about, but like I said before, guys, the reason why I
kind of wanted to go over everything is because, you know, with Lane, kind of

(30:57):
with all the connections that he has in the, in the horse work business.
And then, you know, being where he's from and being a staple in his community.
And then in the Coon hunting world, Lane was able to pull strings and pull
people from all different walks of lives, uh, to really go do something that
was, um, a bit humbling, um, uh, a blessing.

(31:19):
It was, uh, it was something a little different.
So Lane, I'll let you take it away and kind of, uh, tell, tell the listeners
kind of what happened and, uh, we'll jump into it.
You know, it started here at home.
I told my wife one that I said, man, I just feel like I, I want to help out.
There was some other folks from our, from our walk life.

(31:41):
There was a lot of walking horse people.
We helped them that night.
They, they started getting good just stuff together and they was carrying
horse feed and non-perishable items and supplies up there.
Now, this was for the hurricane victims of Haley.
Yes.
Okay.
And I, I really didn't, I didn't get involved in it right away.
I told my wife, I said, I'm gonna wait till later and then I'll try to

(32:03):
get involved in something.
Well, that night, um, a bunch of our friends in the horse, but they was
loading stuff up and Clay Sanderson, a good friend of mine called me and
said, Hey man, we need extra trailer and a hand.
Can you come out?
I said, yeah, I'll be right there.
So we loaded everything up and, um, they headed out and they carried like three
crates been a lot of trailers go for the, from the horse business.

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Well, I come home that night and I told my wife, I said, I, I feel guilty.
I said, I feel like I need to do something to try to help somebody.
I said, it just, it's been on my mind.
And she says, well, whatever you want to do, let, you know, what, what?
Tell me.
I said, I don't know.
So I walked out of the house that morning and I thought, all right, here we go.

(32:48):
I'm going to, I said, the horse industry has done all this.
I said, I'm going to call on my cone hunting buddies to see what we can stir up.
And, uh, I put my video on there and.
And man, it just flew.
And I mean, you couldn't imagine, but I want to tell you a little bit of the

(33:09):
story before we get into how, how it did grow.
So I put that first video on Facebook, what I was planning on doing, getting
together and I called on the cone hunters.
Well, Basham was one of the first to call Patrick Stewart called Jackson Marlowe
call, man, we want to do this.
We're going to do this.
I said, okay.
I didn't have any other color, let's call about it right then.

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So that next morning, I got two or three people in the horse business called.
We won't send you stuff.
So we get in there and my wife actually put the pictures on Facebook.
We, uh, we didn't have, I could have carried most items up there in the

(33:52):
back seat of my truck we had, and I, and we was in the barn at morning and
my wife and my daughter comes in there and I said, Hey y'all, y'all come here.
And she's, of course, my wife, you don't have your wife.
What do you want?
You don't come here.
I said, y'all prayed with me for just a minute.
I said, I said, I really want to do this, but it ain't going, it ain't suit me.

(34:14):
So we prayed and y'all, I promise you, I'm not exaggerating.
I'm telling you just like this within an hour, our prayer to the good Lord, all
three of us joined hands in there in the cross time and I told in my prayer, I
said, Lord, I said, I want to be like the basket with the bread and the fishes.

(34:35):
I said, as long as I can get my hand in and it comes, I'll keep carrying it.
30 minutes after that phone, after that prayer, I can't remember who called first.
People started calling cone hunting buddies, horse people.
Next thing I know, my barn is full of supplies and it just keeps
coming and keeps coming.

(34:57):
So the next morning that was on Saturday by Saturday afternoon, we had more
stuff than we knew what to do with.
And the whole project when it started was that I wanted to go cook and
serve people hot meals.
I had no plans to carry none of the stuff with us that we carried.
I just wanted to go cook and serve hot meals.

(35:18):
What I call my cousin, Ryan Purdle.
I told him what I want to do.
He said, yes, sir.
We'll go.
I said, I said, it's big baby.
I said, we already get a lot of stuff.
He said, we're going to do it.
Jacob Massey cooks barbecue.
Jacob, I said, you go.
Yep.
We're going to go.
I asked Ethan Graves and Josh Scrubs.

(35:38):
Hey, let's, let's do this.
I ever want to, yeah, let's go.
So next thing we know,
we were having to call people in, we'd leave with two tractor crates,
two refrigerated trucks.
How many trucks and trailers did we have with us, Basher?
I think there was a eight or nine total.
We had two ladies that nobody had ever met.

(36:01):
All of us and say, Hey, can we come help?
They come here to barn on Saturdays on Sunday and Monday pack boxes.
And my wife, she was a big fan of mine.
We had so many people that I bet we had 50 or 60 people in here, mostly women,
by the way, and they went through every piece of clothing, every box.
They sorted out.

(36:22):
They did everything.
We packed them trailers full.
Well, we've said, I think, you know, I don't know if we're going to have enough
food to do what we're going to do.
Well, next thing I know with barbecue calls, Tyson chicken calls,
I don't know, Steve, if you realize this, but when we got home, me and Ryan and
Jacob got to figured we don't, we served, we didn't serve.

(36:45):
We provided about 4,000 meals.
Oh my goodness.
That is awesome.
And let me tell you, when we went and Steve and tell you them to
refrigerator trucks was packed.
We had, when we went, we had a little over, we had around 600,000 people.
We had a lot of people.
We had, when we went, we had a little over, we had around 600 bucks, about

(37:08):
400 of them pre-packaged sides.
We had 3000 chicken course.
And this is funny to tell you about this, but on Thursday morning, the
guys on the grills, on the cookers, they quit.
I said, we're done.
We're going home.
And we loaded up the rest of the bachelor.
We loaded up rest of the food and carried it and give it to the churches

(37:28):
and other people, but it wouldn't much left.
I mean, it really wouldn't enough to set up a cook all day.
Yeah.
No, we re we rode up on Tuesday and we, we got inside that high school and got
set up and from that point, we really didn't have a liaison, you know, to
really, we were kind of outside of the affected area.

(37:49):
And so me and Lane both was like, man, this, this just ain't, this
ain't what we envisioned.
This ain't what we, you know, we wanted to help some people.
So, you know, me being me, I just started going out, you know, and I went down.
We delivered some stuff down to the cowboy church right there in Greenville.
I started making some contacts, started getting numbers to people out in the

(38:12):
community, and then next thing I know, you know, I'm starting to make contacts
with different people and we got orders coming in for 400 meals, 500 meals, 300
meals, and then for the next two days, we set up camp right there in Greenville
at the South Green high school.
And, you know, all we did, we had two ladies, Ashley and what was it?

(38:37):
What was the other, the lady at Leslie Ashley and Leslie.
Yep.
So they were actually teachers at the high school and man, they came out
and helped us tremendously.
And like I said, we, what we ended up doing was just, we'd put a team together
and we'd run over to Jonesboro.

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We put another team together and we were under black mountain, you know, then we
reconvene and we'd send two or three trucks, you know, to Burnsville and then
we'd send two or three trucks to Irwin, Tennessee, and we just did that for a
couple of days.
You know, we got up there and we pulled in, we almost left there.

(39:21):
Well, we, when we started on this, of course, you don't never know what's
going to happen till you get there.
We're shooting from the hill, you know?
So we pulled in and they want to set up this school.
And I'm like, man, this ain't what we want.
You know, we envisioned pulling up somewhere where it looked like a bomb
and went off and you're going to help this family and that family.
And when we got there, we realized that ain't the way it works.

(39:43):
Yeah, it's not the way it's working down there.
No way you can get enough to it.
And me and Bachel were sitting there talking and we've got other people with
us and Steve's like, man, how are we going to do this?
I said, I'll tell you what he said.
What about if we do this?
I said, take it, man, take it, run with it.
You go do that.
I'm going to get the food going, the grills.
We're going to, we're going to get all everybody in where we're going to go.

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And man, Steve just took control next.
I know he was gone because they like, we got to sit here such such and for, we
went there with a day and a half, we were prepared to stay a week.
And all the food, everything we had was gone.
I mean, we just sent so much, so many places, but we couldn't have done it
without all the help we had, man.

(40:27):
We had such good people there.
I mean, it really was amazing.
Oh, you know, it was a blessing.
I tell you, that's something that I was curious like how that works.
You know, when you have a situation arise like this in a natural disaster, you've
got so many people that want to help.
And you've got people coming from all walks of life, from every corner of

(40:48):
the compass that are going there.
And it's like, I was curious how that works.
Like when you show up, it's like, okay, is there somebody directing you?
Like, okay, we need you to go here.
Or like, I just didn't know how that worked whenever people got down there.
So the biggest thing with that and people that are listening to this podcast come
Friday, don't just load up trailers and send them down there.

(41:10):
They are overloaded.
Wait a month.
Let them go through what you got.
We, you know, we even sent a truck to mountain city and somebody called and
told us they needed stuff and we sent the truck up there and the guy had our driver
had turned around, bring it back.
They wouldn't take it.

(41:30):
Yeah.
They are.
So, no, I haven't talked to Lane about this.
They don't need hot meals and hands on is what they need.
Yep.
So I haven't even talked to Lane since, but I ended up staying until Saturday.
I went up to burns Ville and I stayed until Saturday.
I stayed at the fire department right there and just going out.

(41:53):
I hooked up with another Marine and we went out and cut trees and just kind of
help families because that area was hit pretty hard.
And so the biggest thing is, is the way it works.
Bryce is people think that let's just, let's just throw out a couple, a couple
names, um, uh, Shannon Noah and chimney rock.

(42:16):
People think, oh, well that's a hard hit area.
I'm just going to run up there and they're going to use my help.
That's not how it works.
So black mountain was the hub.
Uh, it's kind of like a war zone.
So, you know, you get your forward operating bases, which is
you know, your small little bitty fire departments, you know, your, your
volunteer fire departments and they're running operations out of there.

(42:38):
There's not a lot of places for supplies.
So a place like Greenville, who is like an hour and a half, two hours from
the affected area is a perfect place because they can hold supplies.
And as these small little communities need things, they can send requests
back to these bigger logistical areas.
Who then can send those supplies in because the problem that you have is

(43:03):
you have every redneck in the world coming with their souped up side by side
and razors thinking that it's fun to run up and down these mountains and
they're going to get to, you know, be Mr.
Hero and that's not how it works.
That's not what these people need.
They need people to, and they kind of got to vet people because you got to think

(43:23):
people's houses were swept away.
So imagine if your house was swept away right now, what would you be out there
looking for?
You'd be out there looking for memorabilia from your house.
Right.
So you don't need, you don't need somebody from Nevada coming up there,

(43:44):
helping you clean up, picking stuff up, putting it in their pockets.
You get what I'm saying?
So a lot of the locals, people think that it's the government, the
FEMA or whatever, keeping people out.
It's more of your locals.
Your locals are keeping people out.
Yeah.
They, you know, everywhere you go, you'd see people just out in the fields and

(44:05):
the road to walking and looking and getting their stuff.
And sometimes we can do too much and get in the way.
Yes.
But, but any, anywhere you went there, every fire department, every civic center,
every church was packed.
I mean, running over with supplies.

(44:26):
I just couldn't get no more person.
Couldn't take no more.
I mean, they couldn't take it.
And, um, I talked to a sheriff up there, uh, on the phone one day.
I was, we was going to go to, uh, it's, but on the way up there, I talked to,
I think I'd have to look back on my phone, but he told me, I asked you
about the FEMA deal, you know, where FEMA cutting people out.

(44:48):
He said, man, that's a good deal.
FEMA cutting people out and he said, man, that's not true at all.
And nowhere we went, did I see any problems with that stuff?
But he says, you know, what people don't realize is reason FEMA places
won't let you in somewhere is they're still finding bodies.
They're still finding stuff wrong.
And it's not, they don't you in there, but they don't you in there

(45:09):
carrying up the sites, you know, they got people with them dogs, you know,
looking for people and they're crawling through the rubble and they don't need
extra people in there on top of what they're doing, you know?
So you hear a lot of stories that are, that I'm sure it proved.
You hear a lot that's not.
Yeah.
And you want to, you want to really help.
You got to go there with the mind of it's not going to be glorious.

(45:31):
Like it's kind of what I was talking to the fire department about, uh, probably
like Friday or Saturday was, you know, I'm not going to say the whole
rescue phase is over, but it is.
I mean, they're still going to find people, but the whole rescue idea
of running in and rescuing someone that is losing their life or that is down,

(45:51):
whatever that's over.
Now it's the hardest part.
Now it's they're still in shock.
So if you really want to help you go there with, you know, some gloves,
you know, some work boots.
And how do you get steer up there?
That's how you.
You want to not only that, but you got to have an open mind and you got to be a go

(46:14):
getter because you're not just going to pull in and go, all right, guys, where
do you need me?
And someone's going to just guide you.
You got to drive down the road and you, you got to see, and it's not
going to be a glorious job.
It's not going to be like, Oh, I saved this person's house.
Like, like I think Friday we spent almost all day just cutting trees up in somebody's

(46:34):
backyard, the same as trees fell down in my yard during a storm, you know, and
you're thinking, well, these people really, I mean, uh, Friday afternoon,
there was this, uh, mansion, literally mansion up on the heel and he had probably
15, 20 trees over his freaking driveway.
And we got in there and cut them up.

(46:55):
And I had one of the guys go, well, why'd you help him?
He's got plenty of resources to be able to help themselves.
That's not the point.
You know, you know, we went in there, he's got all these trees over his, over his
driveway and we cut them up and got them out of his way, you know, now obviously
it's up to them because at the time we, we just riding around and, you know,

(47:17):
cyber sides and stuff like that.
Like we don't have the means to, but if you've got a dump truck, if you've got a
dump trailer, you know, Hey, and you want to help, there's plenty of work there.
There's going to be work there forever.
You just got to be willing to go find it and be willing to do whatever it takes.
I mean, we, we created a Saturday morning, we created a chain from a woman's

(47:40):
basement and for two and a half hours, we just, we just bucketed out mud out of her
basement, you know, so you just got to be willing to go up there and do whatever it
takes to be able to help whatever they need.
Yeah.
I was talking to Keith and Andy about it.
You know, they live right there in Lake Lure, my brother and sister-in-law.
And you know, they would just, the stories they were telling me about how, when that

(48:02):
storm come through, like it was just devastating.
So they were looking at their windows and the trees on the whole side of their
mountain was just snapping like toothpicks.
And they said the next day it took them like 11 hours to clear out their
driveway, just so they could get to a road.
They lived up on a big mountain.
You can't imagine, you know, you drive down in roads there and you know, it's

(48:22):
oak timber that all three of us together couldn't reach around and it's snapped in
half, snapped in half.
It looks like the ground and where we went to Jonesboro, they got a lot of
tomato farms and hayfield stuff down there and where that flood come through, it just
peels the tops all up.
I mean, there's no vegetation.
It just looks like sift.

(48:42):
It looks like a rock.
It's all sand.
It looks like a beach now.
Yeah.
Literally.
Like gravel, sandbar all the way across.
And I don't know that that ever comes back.
So I got to go to Burnsville and I think it was Thursday afternoon or Friday
morning, I met up with a guy and we went out to his farm and he took us down by

(49:02):
the river and he showed me, he was like, this used to be a hunter and farmer.
And 50 acre pasture.
He said, this is what he said.
I had about 50 head of cattle and I had about 40 head of horses.
Guess what?
There wasn't a blade of grass.
It looked like it looked like the freaking river, the bottom of a river,

(49:26):
of a Creek bank, like it was, I'm, I bet you every bit 12, 14, 18, maybe even
deeper of rock.
I mean, there was, there wasn't a blade of grass in the whole field.
The whole field was rock and sand.
And so he's like, I don't even know what I'm going to do because I'll never
get this rock and sand out to where grass or grow back here again, ever.

(49:51):
Yeah.
It's it ruined a lot of places.
The farmers that live there now and their day, you never see it back like
it, like it was, I mean, it's, it's unreal to damage it was.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Well, boys, I want to say thank you for going down there.
Legitimately.
I just want to say thank you from the rest of the Coon hunters, for those
people who are down there.
It takes people like you and everybody else that went down there and helped.

(50:13):
So let's, let's switch this topic.
Let's go to something a little more positive lane.
Why don't we talk about this hunt you're getting ready to put on.
All right, man.
I'm proud of this one, guys.
Oh, I come up with idea.
Do you have the list?
I do.
I've got the list.
All right.
All right.
So this is a, don't put this list out on Facebook.
This, they're going to have to find this list out through our podcast.

(50:35):
I ain't going to put it out yet.
Matter of fact, I'm going to tell Maynard, we was getting together about putting
the advertisement out of, about this hunt.
And I'll tell him to wait until after y'all announce it.
Okay.
But anyway, I'm sitting around bored one night and I thought, man, I've
got a pretty good bitch, I said.
And I tell you, I kind of got it from these guys put this elite hunt zone.

(50:58):
You know, there's top 10 or 12 that's elite, lead hunters and handlers.
And, and I'm like, man, I'm not on that list.
I mean, either.
I think I'm doing pretty good.
I'm not elite.
Maybe you just have to go hunt one-on-one and put it on the podcast.
We'll wait on Bryce.
Now go ahead.
All right.
See, anyway, I called Maynard and Scott Engel.

(51:20):
I said, I got an idea.
I see.
I won't call it battle of the bitches.
Of course we can't call it that when we announced it on Facebook.
I don't guess.
Yeah.
No, I said, what if we have 16 of the best females across the country.
That's winning hunts.
And I said, requirements going to be, you got to at least be a gold champion or

(51:46):
you've got to one over 10,000 in pro sport and find six.
And so then we get to thank you, man, it's hard to do it with just 16.
So we come up with 24.
We're going to have a 24 dog hunt.
Now this is what I've seen you about hunting in Tennessee this time of year.
Cause we got some flat and creep ball, but in Tennessee in November, you'll

(52:10):
find that what kind of hands you get.
So we're doing it November 22nd and 23rd.
Astros springs, Tennessee.
24 dogs, all females.
Have these dogs already been invited and accepted?
Oh, they're already been invited.
Now everybody, everybody I talked to is like, yeah, we want to be a part of this.

(52:31):
We're going to do this pretty neat deal.
Everybody, Scott Eagle got tore up over it, you know, and, uh, uh, Ryan
Krosan, he's like, hell yeah.
I mean, I'll be there for that.
So anyway, top 24, you want me to tell you these 24?
I hold up, but I'm not going to tell you.
All right, all right, hold up, Bryce.
Hit the drum row.

(52:52):
You actually got the button, bud.
I don't know which one it is.
Let's try it.
That wasn't it.
Nope.
We can't hear it.
I'm already.
All right, go ahead.
Hit it one more time.
Go ahead.
Lane.
All right, first on the list first number uno is late leverage.

(53:19):
It Juliet.
All right.
Then we got, uh, Zach Reese and Venus.
Ooh, yes.
Greg Banner's got two powder and Molly outer John Strickland's got two and embed.

(53:41):
Okay.
All right.
We got a.
Hold up for one second.
They got powder back.
Yeah, they got powder back.
I didn't know that.
Okay, go ahead.
By the fact they just got, they got puppies off over.
That is correct.
That is correct.
I'm all right.
Then we got, oh, Strickland's got two and embed now, and there's some guys, it's

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got multiple geeks, it fits criteria.
So whichever one they decide to hunt, you know, and I'm sure somebody
I have something coming, he will have to find another one or two, but
Scott angles got buckle bunny.
Yeah.
Now here's one we could not leave out.
Casey Maggard and Lacey.
No, you cannot.

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All right.
Ashley Hopkins has got Lou or the other female they got Billy bill.
They got a lift.
Scarlet.
That vault was star star Cliff Clifford rivers with acts.
Doug Hebner's got to hook her and Ruby.
Yeah.
All right.

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Don't burden with screamer.
Can't leave screamer.
You can't leave screamer out.
Good Lord.
I like screamer.
She's a condo.
James Ashley's got the tootsie female.
Nice.
Nice female.
Tony Smith's got the English female thrill.
Yeah.
Ryan Croason's got Liz.

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Or spice or spice, whichever one they like the sad Zach McBee, Bonnie.
Bonnie's nice.
Oh, Doug Douglas has got tears.
He's got two or three that fits that criteria.
So probably a hundred years.
And then Cole now and with the Jennings female that's a wiring them out out

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West, you know, and stuff.
And then I'll tell you, I'll tell you one to put on the side.
If somebody calls and can't get one is Bailey gave secrets.
Yeah, Bailey.
Also the cookie female, the Davenport.
I can't leave her out either.
Oh, she she's on there.
So that's, that's my 24.

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And of course, if, if somebody don't, you know, take Tom comes in
heat or something, we'll be searching for something else.
But boys, that's a pretty good list of how many people are out there.
That is a good one.
The one dog there that stands out to me that I didn't hear.
And maybe you said it and I missed it was the Scarlet dog, Scarlet thread.

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The Billy bell one super stakes with no, he, he mentioned them.
He said Billy, okay.
Billy Bell's not a few different ones.
He's got lift kit or Scarlet.
Okay.
Gotcha.
Gotcha.
I must've missed it.
Yeah.
Oh yes.
You'll be tough, but you know, I was doing this list.
I got to 16.
I said, oh no, I forgot.
Screamer.
I said, you can't have a hug without screamer.

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Yeah.
She wants best, best alive, you know?
Yeah.
Oh, but that's, that's a pretty good lead.
That's awesome.
And my goal is we're going to do this through pro sport.
Oh, so this will be a sanctioned event.
It'll be a sanctioned event through pro sport.
Uh, first to pay around.

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I've gotten, we've pointed numbers a bit, but, uh, 12,000, 16,000.
6,000 and 3000.
What's the entry fee?
Uh, thousand dollars.
I've known that's not, that's nice.
That's not bad.
So, uh, that's not very four dogs, bad little bitches.
And then my goal is, is when I get done with this one to do one for the mail

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dogs, that one's going to be hard.
Yes.
I had to ask them to implement that.
And that one to narrow, I mean, cause if you just sit here and go off the top of
your head, you're going to go way over 24.
Yeah.
You're going to go away.
I mean, cause you can go all the way back.
And of course we're going to get some slack or, or why didn't you get, didn't

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you get by man, you know, you can't get them all, but to me, I, I, 24 of the
top ones, it comes to mind right there.
You know, right?
Yeah.
The mail dogs is going to be even harder.
Might have to bump them up the platinum champion for the criteria on that one.
You know, that's a good idea.
I mean, criteria.
Yeah.
Cause the mail dogs is going to be reading.

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I mean, cause I mean, you just throw in Dustin and Ward and hell, both of them's
got two or three that they could hunt.
Yeah.
See, I invited a Ward Jojo female to this, but she'll be having puppies,
be with puppies at times.
So he said, you know, I can't go, but I was going to do one for the mails.
And I'm really going to need some input from some guys.

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I mean, we want to pick 20.
You can't get them all, but 24.
With 24 still, you know, here you go.
Here's, here's an idea for you, lane.
Here's an idea for you.
Pick in your head, pick 40.
Right.
And then on Facebook, you can create a poll and have everybody vote for the top 24.

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You know, I don't know.
Whoever that top 24 is.
Then it's the people's choice.
What do people want to see?
Do what?
I said, then it's the people's choice.
Like, what do they want to see?
Who are they going to vote in there?
Yeah.
Because I mean, I mean, you could go all the way down the list to, I mean, you've
got dogs that we've had on here.
You got trigger, you know, uh, with Chad Spradlin, you might as well stop

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weakening to get them all.
Do what?
I said, you might as well stop naming them.
You ain't going to get them all.
No, no, no, no.
I'm just saying dogs that aren't as, as say popular, you know what I'm saying?
Right.
But have made, made their mark.
You know, you can even talk about the lightning dog that we
were just talking about.
Yep.
Yeah.
You can.
I mean, and something I wanted to do, uh, along the way too, is, is trying to

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find some of the dogs from other breeds.
So it's not just all Walker dogs, you know, that, and give, you know, that's
going to be a hard, hard, it was real hard doing, I got the English dog and
when I, oh, Kyle Roberts, Oh, on that little red, the red dog, the red dog.
I invited the red dog.
He said, but he said, I might have hunt this up.
What was her name?

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Oh, maybe a fine.
He's been over, over, over.
Nova.
Yep.
The one Adam Lowry.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
But the male dogs, I want to try to do that.
That one's going to be hard.
That's like I said, I think you put say 50, you're going to have to put a cap on

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it because you could go down a rabbit hole.
So, you know, say put 40, $40, like you say, and have a poll or just
rare back and find 24, she really thinks the top of it.
And you know, and I'm not, and I'm not after a dog that's one that's
Mesa criteria that hadn't been hunted in hunts in three, four or five years.

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I want what's winning today.
Right.
Right. Yeah. What's winning today?
What we're going to drop with today?
I want to be a dog's dogs.
Like dogs, like Z wouldn't be there just because he kind of in the last year,
he's not, you know, you'd have, you'd take like, we got out and Jack, you know,
you'd have dual cowboy there.

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Yeah.
Oh, there's a lot of outstanding dogs, you know, Bobby Bird and stuff.
Oh, hell, and, and legs, three of them, you know, uh, uh, of course, Bobby and
nine, wherever you put him, it's going to be a tough one.
Mm hmm.
Oh, but I would like, I want to do that one.

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And then I got a third hunt.
I want to do after first of the year.
And this is y'all.
We'll get y'all.
We'll get a kick out of 24 top handles.
Okay.
What are they bringing?
Oh, best of the best hunters.
I had an idea, but it wouldn't nobody ever agree to this.

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I thought about 24 handlers.
You bring the dog of your choice, but we've put the dogs all in a pot.
They channeled draw from what you hunt.
I don't think nobody would agree to that.
No, nobody would, because I mean, and Bryce will attest to this.
I've got a dog down here in my kennel that Bryce tries to hunting and

(01:02:07):
Bryce can honey, but he gets bit every time he hunts him.
Three for three.
But you know, 24 top handlers and put it on that beer, you know,
criteria, you got to have won over a hundred thousand dollars into two

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associations, right?
Yeah.
You know, you're going to have Nikki Hale.
You're going to have Jeff, Jeff Rickliff's.
I mean, those are two you can't leave out.
You know what I mean?
Bobby Burton, John Strickland, Dustin Weed, Michael Ward.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
It's a slew of man.

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Yeah.
So for the listeners guys, let's go over it one more time.
When, when is this hunt going to be?
The female hunt.
November 22nd and 23rd in Estill Springs, Tennessee.
So mark it on your calendar.
Calendars guys, November 22nd and 23rd, we are going to have the battle of the

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females will cause we'll keep the PGs here.
That'll be males.
It is going to be hosted by pro sport and lane leverage.
Mr.
Lane, are you going to get the Coonhound Calcutta involved in this?
If you want to do it, we will.
Man, I hold on.
I talked to Wes Hamilton about that.

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He said that they are, they're trying to fire that back up.
They had some technical difficulties on their end and there was some shakeups
there, so Coonhound Calcutta is not, they're not even running right now.
But, but why are we doing this?
So you're not.
Yeah, we could, we could, we could do it.
What about you guys coming down for that hunt and setting up and interview folks
and talk people for your podcast?

(01:03:53):
I don't know, Bryce.
That's the, that's literally right before Thanksgiving.
I got family and Thanksgiving is like that day, the next day, the 24th.
No, not this year.
I don't think.
No, not this year.
No, it's the Friday, Saturday before Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is on Thursday.
Oh, okay.
Yep.
Thanksgiving is the 28th this year.

(01:04:13):
You're right.
22nd, 23rd.
Hey, we might have to make a Semper dogging podcast trip down there.
Then I'll put it in my calendar right now.
Bryce has you, one thing you got to know about Bryce.
Bryce can't give you a definite answer.
He's got it.
He's got to go through the proper channels and submit his request for
leave of absence from the family farm and he's got to wait for it to get to

(01:04:35):
the commanding officer to get signed off on.
Oh, let me know Friday night on Friday night.
We're going to feed everybody.
We're going to have a good state supper.
We're going to feed everybody dinner.
Oh, we're going to fix states for everybody and really have a good
turnout and cooking and then, you know, Saturday night we'll have a final three.
And, uh, and we'll, we're, I want to do it up really good.

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So if you guys want to come down and do it, we'd be, we'd be glad to have you.
Yeah.
Let me, so are you going to, so you're going to hunt two rounds
Friday and one around Saturday?
Round Saturday.
Okay.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Let me run it past the commander in chief and see what she says.
Yeah.
We can go down there and, uh, do the final three interview and all that.
Heck yeah.
We can have good time.
All right, Mr.

(01:05:18):
Bryce Matthews, anything else?
Buddy, I think I'm good.
I'd really just want to say thank you to Lane for taking the time out of his
busy schedule to sit down here with us and thank you to both of you all again
for going down there and doing what you did, helping out where you could, uh,
you know, it's nice to have buddies who, you know, represent us in our sport.
Well, so thank you very much.
I appreciate y'all having me.

(01:05:38):
I really do.
It's, uh, it's honored to do it.
We, uh, I'm going to give you one, one food for thought before we leave.
Moon pies and chicken thighs.
Go vote, go vote.
It's the only way we save our sport.
It's the only way we save our lives as we know it.
Go, go vote.
Everybody needs to go vote.

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Go Trump.
That's my father.
That'll work.
Mike, that'll work.
That'll work.
I appreciate it, Lane.
It's been a privilege to, uh, uh, you know, me and you have, we've
hunted against each other, but I think this, this trip here really kind of
brought us together as friends, as family in the coon hunting world.

(01:06:23):
And, uh, definitely there isn't anything I wouldn't do for your brother.
A lot of things they go to maybe come up hunt.
We all want a night or two or something.
Yes, sir.
We can make it happen.
All right, guys.
Well, we are going to sign off on here.
Like once again, thanks to Lane Leverett.
Always a pleasure to have the ever so ugly, Mr.
Steven Bastian join me on the other end of the mic.

(01:06:44):
Couldn't do without you, buddy.
Appreciate you setting these people up for us.
Uh, if you guys are going to be interested in watching that hunt, I'm sure
pro sport will tell if I is that a female hunt.
So that will be on the pro sport Facebook page.
I'm sure of it.
Y'all make sure you stay tuned for the 22nd, 23rd of November.
Other than that, buddy, I think I'm good to go.
You good moon pies and chicken thighs.

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There we go.
Thank y'all.
See you guys later.