8-10-25 - How to Share the Outdoor Experience and its Harvest with Others.

On tonight's show, our featured guests were Willie Robertson, CEO of Duck Dynasty, Steve Hornback of Operation Care, Inc, Terry Partin of Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry and Trey Webb of Webb's Butcher Block. The primary focus of the program was how to share the outdoor experience and its harvest with others.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (01:00):
Good evening, everybody, Jim Straight here, Welcome aboard the Jim
Straight Are Outdoors tonight and Scott Cronin, we have a
magnificent program put together for night for the folks out there.
It's one that you have been encouraging me to do
for some time now, and it's about giving back what
folks in the outdoor community need to think about about

(01:24):
folks perhaps that cannot participate anymore, youth helping those in need.
And in regard to those in need, we got some
special guests tonight, and I'll go ahead and say who
they are here real quick, Scott, and then let you
talk a little bit about what we're going to impart

(01:46):
throughout the program. Our first guest tonight is going to
be Terry Parton and he's with Kentucky Hunters for the
Hungry and he's going to be talking about the Hunters
for the Hungry organization, some great new concepts that they've
got going and explain how people can donate because we
got some big changes in the deer regulations this year

(02:08):
which have expanded some of the seasons and some of
these are falling early in the year when some of
the processors may or not be open. So in that regard,
I follow up to Terry is going to be Tray
Webb from Webb's Butcher Block. He's going to explain how
they process the deer four hunters for the Hungry, So

(02:31):
he's going to talk about the processors they network with
throughout the state, and we're going to talk about how
to make sure in these early season frameworks you can
handle the meat so it doesn't spoil and so that
you can utilize it or share it with others. And
we also have a special gift here with me. He's

(02:52):
Steve Hornback and he's with Operation Care. They've got a
new fundraiser this year. It's called the Faith, Love and
Duck Commander Gala. And the reason for that one part
of it is we have Willie Robertson on with us
this evening in the second half for a brief interview,

(03:13):
and he's really excited about coming to Kentucky and he's
very much inspired by this cause. So Steve Hornbach is
gonna explain what they do and the reason for it.
So we've got a really full soul here, Scott, and
I think this is going to be a really good,
heartfelt type of program tonight.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
It'll be a fantastic program.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
It's going to allow folks that may not have the
funds to give up or to manage in their budget,
but to let them hear some ways in which they
can donate their time and their services in order to
be a servant. And that's a big part of being
an all around sportsmen and outdoorsmen in my opinion, and

(03:57):
as you age and develop, there's so many rewards that
you get from being out in the field, no matter
if it's on the water in the woods, with sharing
your game or helping others out. And it's a very
important time as well for folks to start realizing that
where they live versus where they hunt, it's going to

(04:17):
be a little bit of a blending of new knowledge
and old knowledge because there's so many new regulations and
types of hunts that are coming, especially to Kentucky for
this coming season. Jim and we're hoping that we can
get some good weather, but even if we don't, we're
going to give folks some tips and techniques to manage
their venison during those hotter weather moments that September and

(04:41):
October can bring to us, because we're going to be
talking about how we may be seeing a little bit
more orange this year versus Chimo or a little more
interruption than the small game hunter or the bow hunter's
traditional season. So very controversial topics, but we want to
be positive about how we can get those deer harvested

(05:02):
and donated and kind of bring people to light Jim
of all these new changes and all the good things
that are going on in the Commonwealth.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Absolutely, and again the bulk of the show night, that's
what we're gonna cover. And you know, Scott never sees
has to amaze me. I never will forget during some
of the hurricane events, the armies of hunters and fishermen
that brought their duck boats, their fishing boats in to
save people. I think you remember that. I did a

(05:30):
Facebook post about it and I said, thank God for
the sportsman's army that always seems to step up. And
tonight's show is about, obviously some ways that they can
not only continue to do so, but do so in
some very special ways for some special organizations. So I'm
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SMI Marie. All right, folks, we got Terry Parton on
the line. He's with Kentucky Hunters from the Hungry and

(06:14):
Terry great to have you on, buddy, and I'm delighted
to give me an opportunity to talk about the organization.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
Thank you so much. I'm honored to be on the
show today and to have the opportunity to represent an
organization such as Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry. All of
the volunteers strictly are volunteers that make this program work.

(06:44):
We might be the only organization that I know of
that has an executive director and chairman of the board
that has no salary. We work hard, and we work
as an organization to form a partnership, a partnership that
involves processors across the state of Kentucky. Importantly, it also

(07:09):
involves hunters, the hunters that have a heart for hungry
people and will donate deer for the cause. Also very
important are the sponsors that help provide the money to
make the program work. So it's an intricate partnership that

(07:31):
really couldn't function without either partner. But the volunteers that
started this organization twenty five years ago have been able
to put together a formula that is accomplishing our goal
and as a result, deer hunters can donate deer in

(07:51):
Kentucky absolutely free at no cost. And that's something we
don't see very often in other states. I'm sure you
and I have too. I've donated deer in multiple states.
I've donated other game animals, and I've always paid the
cost of processing, but not in Kentucky. Due to the

(08:13):
sponsors that we have, we can operate this program and
accomplish our goal of feeding hungry people without charging the
hunter any fee. And that's really important to our program
because this year we actually had thirty three hundred and
eleven deer that were donated by hunters to feed the

(08:36):
hungry in Kentucky. Thirty three hundred and thirty deer. Excuse me,
thirty three hundred and eleven deer, and that produced one
hundred and forty thousand pounds of lean, nutritious protein that
would equate to five hundred and sixty thousand quarter pounds

(08:58):
servings to supplement meals for people who needed USDA. They
have determined that a one meal serving of meat should
consist of four ounces to meet the nutritional needs, and
that four ounce serving of five hundred and sixty thousand

(09:25):
meals that would be available as a result of what
hunters in Kentucky did during the past deer season. It's heartwarming.
It's a wonderful thing over here. That we took in
averaged forty two point three pounds per deer of lean meat,

(09:48):
d boned and off the bone. So each time one
hundred donated a deer, he provided one hundred and sixty
nine quarter pounds servings of meat. That was.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
That's an unbelievable perspective. I'm glad you shared those numbers.
As you're aware, I've been involved with Hunters for the
Hungry one way or another since its inception. I worked
closely with Mike Oleman and Ivan Schell and a bunch
there Safari Club International. That kind of helped it put
a little gasoline on the fire course of partnership with

(10:26):
the can tell your Department of Fish a while if
resource has been important, Department of Agriculture, if I recall
correctly donated some money and It's just a fantastic cause.
And I'm glad you pointed out because some people have
had the misperception that you had to pay to have

(10:47):
the dear process to donate, and you're right. I've donated
in Wisconsin, Georgia and other states and they don't work
that way, So hats off to you guys.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
Well, it's a bind effort from a lot of people.
Roger the Point works tirelessly throughout the year to make
sure that that money is available at the beginning of
each hunting season to see that this is accomplished. Something
that is amazing to me is that Feeding America recognizes

(11:24):
that we have seven hundred and fifty thousand food insecure
people in the state of Kentucky. Gym. That's sixteen point
five percent of our total population.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
It truly is. Luckily, we have a deer herd that's
estimated to number one million head, and that deer herd
needs management. It needs to be controlled. Richard Phelps, who
works with me here locally in a Dare County, he

(12:06):
and I attended South Central Kentucky Outdoorsman's Exposed two weeks
ago and we asked numerous numerous deer hunters if they
had an excess of those where they hunt, and everyone
indicated that they had an abundance of those over stopped.

(12:27):
So we can utilize this herd of deer to provide
the nutrition that people direly need.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Well, it's such a streamline program that fulfills the need.
And the thing about it is people love to hunt.
And I think the more we can raise awareness about
the organization and how well it's worked in the past.

(12:57):
You know, it's not like this is something new. This
has been around for a while, but it's a new
effort and I'm glad you brought those figures to light
because it's easy to see how much more we can
do because the need is there. And I would encourage
our fellow hunter, Scott. You and I preached dough harvest

(13:19):
almost every time we're on there talking about deer we do.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
This is a great way for the agriculture community. A
no Kentucky Farm Bureau, along with the Department, you know,
put together money and funds so these deer can.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Be paid for at the processors.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
And that voice is allowing for the hunting and the
non hunting community to come together in so many ways
between crop damage, increased vehicle collisions and accidents, along with
the changing of the seasons, with especially CWD coming on

(13:59):
to the presence of managing our deer herd.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
The health of the herd is really important.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
We have a lot of different people who can do
a lot of different things, and we have to listen
to a lot of different voices. Jim, as you know,
when farmers are complaining about loss of crops and we're
seeing increased urban sprawl or auto vehicle collision accidents. I
don't think there's anybody out there that wouldn't rather see

(14:27):
a deer legally harvest and utilized to help feed someone
a protein source and need. And we hope that we
can continue to have the collaboration that Roger and his
group has done so that hunters can continue to have
this service to them, because the hunters aren't just doing
a service with hunters for the hungry. There's a service

(14:50):
being provided to the hunters in Kentucky. Like our guests
has said, that.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
This comes up at no cost to us.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I want to give a shout out to the farmers
who are listening to broadcast tonight. I would encourage you
to require people that hunt on your property to harvest
a dough and donate it to this worthy organization. Now
I'm speaking from the heart here because it's an easy
thing to do and it's a right thing to do.

(15:23):
It ought to be part of our tradition and heritage
that we help the needy through our ability to go
to the woods. We are so blessed with opportunity and
this is a perfect, perfect way to give back.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Terry jim Wee, I've always, we have always appreciated your
contribution and your support. It means a lot to the
program and it's something that we can do that will
make a difference. When you think about the fact that

(15:57):
when you go out on the street tomorrow, of every
twenty five people you see, four of those people are
likely to go to bed hungry that night and not
know where their next meal is coming from and when
it will come. That's something that is an eye opener,

(16:18):
something that most Kentuckians are not aware of, and that
is enough to make you get involved and to make
you dedicate time to getting the service done. As you know,
we have largely for years been concentrating on food banks

(16:39):
and churches that distribute food, and of course our processor.
Once that deer arrives at the processor, it's already field dressed.
The hunter gives them the confirmation number from where the
deer was checked in. They pull it off the truck,
they skin it, they cut the meat off the bone,

(17:00):
they grind it into burger trees, it into tubes, and
then we deliver it to the processor and to those
others that distribute food to people who need it, who
are in need. And I had an eye opener. I
realized that when I started delivering frozen burger deer burger

(17:22):
to the food bank, that it's basically children and elderly
that suffer the most. We have a large number of
people locally and in our state that are on fixed incomes.
At this day and time, they have high prescription medicine

(17:47):
costs and they have to make a choice, Jim, between
their medicine that they need to maintain their health and
the food that they're able to buy. And we're seeing
many utilizing the food bank and they truly like deer
and they asked for it. So this is where we

(18:08):
as hunters can not only and you mentioned this to
me earlier when we talked, not only can we introduce
young people to hunting to donate deer. We can meet
that need while providing the deer heard management and the

(18:31):
food resources that are necessary to address this hunger issue.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yes, sir, and I think it's appropriate that we really
do give a shout out here to these processors that
have stepped up and helped make this program work. Like
you said, it's a team deal all the way, and
it's one that's shown tremendous benefits and God bless them
for all they've done to help with this. And Kerry,

(18:57):
coming back from break, I'm gonna let you talk about
your dear Stick program that I think is an absolutely
fantastic idea, and maybe give people some information about centers
that will be open during these early seasons. So stick
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Speaker 4 (19:30):
Carry Over the years, we've known that Spaghettis and Chili's
and Manwich have really been able to capitalize on a
way to utilize venison products. But I know with my
work with youth and doing outreach with adults that from
the Keto diet to the Caveman diet and the pace

(19:52):
in which America is running on now, especially families, it's
really easy to introduce.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Both the folks that go afield.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
To hunt deer and the non hunters to specialty products
like summer sausages and meat sticks. And there's been some
projects out there that you've been able to do with
Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry. Tell us a little bit
about the Venison Sticks program and some of the success
you've seen with it, as well as if a community

(20:23):
or someone wanted to try to get more involved with
Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry and bring this into their school,
district or community, how they would do so.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Yes, we became aware of the very fact that many
children come to school to eat, and again that's very unfortunate,
but it's reality, and we have We've had the opportunity
to talk to school administrators and teachers and we found

(20:57):
out that that was factual. We had children today that
don't look forward to fall break because that means they're
going to miss meals. We have summer school feeding programs,
they're prevel all over. Hunger is not with children. It's
not just an issue in large cities, it's in rural

(21:19):
areas as well. And three years ago Roger and I
think Tom attended a Hunger Initiative Task Force meeting and
came back and presented to the board a plan to
produce a smoke chef's table meat stick nay with venison

(21:42):
that could be packaged, could be kept at the schools
and churches that prepare backpacks, so that these meatsticks could
supplement the backpacks that go out with children on Friday
evenings to get a good source of protein in that backpack.

(22:06):
The foods that are usually available are not rich in protein,
and we know it's a staple for the diet, especially
in children. So we went about developing a stick that
is largely venison, has a slight barbecue taste. It's a
delicious stick. They come packaged too. Per package. You will

(22:30):
see in convenience stores many meat sticks of different kinds,
So it's a stick similar to that. But the key
is that it doesn't have to be refrigerated. So we
have people like here in the Dare County has been
an exceptional demonstration of what can be done. Our Family

(22:52):
Use Resource Center personnel. They take these sticks and they
place it in the backpacks children that they know need
this additional help. They also and this is heartwarming, they
know if they have little brothers, little sisters at home
that also need nutrition, and they'll put in extra sticks

(23:14):
for them. We started working with Showalter's Country Meats, the
processor in Casey County, and they developed a meat stick
that really suited our needs for this program. And as
a result, in less than three years, we have twenty

(23:34):
one counties in central Kentucky where the school districts are
able to provide these venison meat sticks to go home
with children and to supplement children who come to school
needing additional nutrition. And that is a factual situation. The

(24:01):
program has been amazing. In three years to twenty one
different counties. Our efforts have been very successful there and
that is still in addition to the frozen venison that
goes to the food banks in the counties. So our

(24:22):
hunters have made this all possible, and we've advertised the
need for additional venison and people are stepping up. People
who don't normally hunt, who have an abundance of deer
are harvesting a deer to donate to meet this need
for the foodsticks and terry for those.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
That are in these counties that are not taking part
in such programs. If we have somebody that's listening that
is engaged with some type of nutritional food program with
either the US Farm Bill or a church or a
school district, do they just reach out to you all,
Kentucky Hunters from the Hungary or who or what is

(25:04):
the process if folks do want to get more engaged
and get these protein sticks, these venison sticks and frozen
venicon in their community.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Excellent, excellent question. We can use donations. It costs to
produce the meat stick in addition to processing the deer.
And when we have a county that can help us
through a grant or through another program, through donations, whatever

(25:36):
the case might be, just to help with the process
and cost. It helps us to expand and to reach
out to more counties. We also reach out to those
counties and encourage additional deer donations to support that need
as well. So yes, we have on our website, which

(25:57):
by the way is Ky Hunters for the Hungry dot
i n FO where you can go on our website
and learn about these programs. There's actually a donation link
on that website and I think I mentioned I'm not sure,

(26:19):
but we receive businesses, organizations, churches, individuals to contribute to
the program. Every year. The local church that I tend,
which is a very small church, makes a monthly contribution
to Hunters for the Hungry for processing of deer to

(26:41):
feed the hungry. It's a way that the church can
reach out and satisfy the need to provide feed for
hungry people. That was a good point. We do need
additional financial assistance, and by reaching out to Kentucky Hunters
for the High we can help hopefully to organize and

(27:03):
make that a reality.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
I want to give another shout out to the hunters
out there. This year we have an expanded youth season.
Think about what it will do to help a child
know that through hunting they're able to help a child
in need of food. You talking about a win win, buddy,
That is a win win. So folks step up. It's

(27:33):
time to step up, and there's no better way to
let the public know that hunting again is not only
a heritage, it's a tradition that helps everyone if everyone
does their part. A Terrrian closing, give us again how
folks can get with you, and do you all have
a list of sites that hopefully we'll be able to

(27:55):
take dear on your website or will it be there
before these seasons open? Archery right around the corner obviously, so.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
Yes, most certainly at that website Ky Hunters for the
Hungary dot info. You will also find on there a
very usable program where that you can enter your zip
code and pull up the processors that are nearest to

(28:25):
your location, and also noted on there along with the
address and telephone number, will be those that have indicated
that they will take early season there, which generally means
that they will take there before the normal a gun season,
And actually seventy five percent of the processors in Kentucky

(28:48):
are planning to take the early season there. It's always
a good, a good thing to contact the processor and
make sure that they will be of because some processors,
like every other business, have obligations and sometimes those obligations

(29:09):
might restrict the intake of deer. But it's good to know.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Well, thank you so much, Terry On behalf of all
us for everything you all do, you and Rodger and everybody.
It's a yeoman's work, and as you pointed out early on,
you all are strictly volunteer and that's God's work. So
God bless you for doing it. We appreciate you being
with us tonight.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
Thank you so much. It's been an honor. And I
look for even a greater number of donations in this
upcoming season.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Yes, sir, that's the goal, certainly. All right, folks got
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Speaker 3 (29:56):
Jim.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
I just wanted to take am in it and remind
folks of some dates that they may or may not
be aware of, and that is in those CWD zones
in the state of Kentucky this year, we will be
having a September twenty seventh and twenty eight dough only
I'll say that again, antlerless deer only, modern firearm hunt

(30:21):
archery hunters will need to make note of they will
not be able in those counties and we'll go through
them later in the program. Harvest a buck with a
modern farm or archery equipment those two days, and then
we've got a nine day U season this year, which
traditionally used to be a two day U season, which

(30:41):
will be October the eleventh through the nineteenth, which should
put a lot more deer into the possession of processors
to be not only utilized for folks at their own table,
but for these programs such as Kentucky Hunters for the
hunterd we just talked about, and then even to twist
it up more, the U season will intertwine be going

(31:06):
on at the same time as the Kentucky Muzzleloader season
in October October the eighteenth and nineteenth. And Jim, I
know we're gonna dive into this in another program a
little bit later and in just a few weeks actually,
but folks really do need to understand right now that

(31:27):
this is going to be a prime opportunity to really
put a lot of deer into the processor's disposals to
be donated for such causes of these protein minison programs
Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry's got going on.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, And like we said, when Terry was on, my
eyes really got opened when I got to thinking about
how important it is during this expanded youth season for
these parents, mentors whoever it is it takes these kids
out there to give the child an opportunity to know

(32:06):
that they're going to get to kill a deer to
help feed someone in need. And the cool thing about
it is, and this is what we need to repeat
at every breath, it's f r ee free. There's no
charge to the youth or the adult that donates these deer.
And that I don't know why there's been a misperception

(32:28):
about that that's gone on for years, and I'm really
glad that Terry cleared that up tonight. Of course you
and I know it, but that's part of what we're
trying to do, is get the word out and clarify
these things.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Yeah, there's no doubt a lot of people have gone
to BAT to help make this program grow. And where
a lot of those misconceptions come in the early stages
and I know myself just going down and donating deer
at multiple processors. It used to be that if a
hunter wanted to donate their deer, they were either having
to pay for the full cost or sometimes even a

(33:04):
discounted cost to have that product not only going through
the normal butcher process and being broken down and distributed,
but they would have to pay a fee, and a
lot of young people especially, and a lot of families
they didn't have that in their budget. And that was

(33:25):
just something through the work and the collaboration from different
organizations like I know, for example, Kentucky and a sci
is a major supporter like we talked about, and they
do a great job, Kentucky Farm Bureau, the Department Official Wildlife,
all these funds that have come together where we started
with just pennies and dollars being scrapped together, we're into

(33:49):
hundreds of thousands of dollars now, Jim that are being
utilized to feed these people on need. And that can't
be complemented and talked about enough.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
And that that dear stick program man, what a home
run that is. That came out of left field for me.
And when Terry told me about it off air of
the other day, I was like, Oh, my goodness, I
don't think anybody understands how big that could get. I mean,
that's a fantastic idea. And Scott, being a school teacher,

(34:22):
I know this is something that will resonate with you.
For them to be able to distribute that to these
kids in these schools, that's the only good meal they
get all day is through the school, and now they're
getting venison. It'll create new hunters, it'll create good will
towards honey. I mean, it's all the above.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
I've seen it firsthand. And what happens is you have
you just think about this for a minute. If you
have a child that's being neglected, and that's what this is.
It's neglect that they're not getting to meet their nutritional needs.
Sometimes not always, but sometimes that neglect comes from e
and having someone of age to be able to safely

(35:03):
use a stove or cook.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Their own meal.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
And so when you can take a young child in
a very bad situation and they can take and eat
something that doesn't have to be refrigerated, that allows them
to eat if the adults in their life, the guardians
in their life, are not being good citizens. The other
thing that this brings to tuition and brings so forward

(35:27):
to so many people. You know, and I know people
that had a horrible experience with their first time experiencing
taste in venison. There's not specially products out there hardly
that will give folks that and they get a good
out of the gate experience with venison and they become
a fan at an early age.

Speaker 5 (35:45):
Gym.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yes, sir, it's just such a fantastic program. And hopefully
Hunters will take this to heart and run with it
because it'll explode. That is a fantastic new program. It
hats off to them for good it All right, folks,
got to go to right here, but I want to
remind everybody coming back from break, we got Willie Robinson
coming on with us, Duck Commander himself and uh Duck

(36:10):
Dynasty and he's gonna talk about the Operation for Care,
Faith Love and Duck Commander Gala in Shelbyville, Kentucky. And
uh we'll be talking about that. All right, gotta go break.
It's presented by Paul Thomas. Check him out mo O
p H A R T Realt dot com. All right, everybody,

(36:31):
welcome back to Demonstrator Outdoors. As promised, we've gotten mister
Willie robertson on with us. He's going to be appearing
in a Faith Love and Duck Commander Gala and Cheltonville,
Kentucky here momentarily, Willie, welcome my board, sir, appreciate you
spending some time with us. What's going on, buddy? Uh?

(36:51):
Well we're doing a little shaking and bacon. You know,
it's a fishing season, hunt season around the corner. I
want to give you an opportunity willing to talk about
what's going on with the business, particularly your new television series.
Would you like to share a little bit of that.

Speaker 6 (37:08):
Yeah, man, we started up Doug Nasty the Revival, and
I kind of like that name.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
They came out with that, and.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
Yeah, it's kind of follows kind of me and my family,
my wife and my kids and grandkids. And then but
there's always some some old guards that show up.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Uncle Sia.

Speaker 6 (37:28):
You can't get rid of Ham for sure. And uh, mom's.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
On that a little bit.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
Jas is Jason b season two, He's in some episodes.
So yeah, we just wrapped up Season one just ended
and then I think season two will start in January.
But uh, and we're filming that now. And yeah, it's
a lot of fun, kind of back in the saddle again.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Fantastic. Do you have anything perhaps you'd like to chat
about a little bit for a minute or two before
we uh tell folks a little about the gala.

Speaker 6 (38:03):
Well, you know, we lost uh, we lost Phil my
father actually, uh, he passed away right Uh, right as
that news show was coming out, and uh and we
were so glad I got one little scene with him,
uh before he got too bad, but uh I kind
of told him about it and we got one little
phil thumbs up.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
So we were.

Speaker 6 (38:24):
Excited to see that. And then uh, yeah he had
Alzheimer's and so uh it's just a it was sad,
you know, but we had a lot of joy too, because, uh,
that man talked about where he was going. Uh every
day he was alive, and he talked about what happened
upon physical death, he would say, and so he.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
He knew where he was going.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
And we were happy to uh to see him just
live the life he lived and the message he preached.
And uh yeah, it was just.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Just a great guy.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
And uh I was proud to be his son and
watching him watch him live his life.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Well, the nice thing is this legacy part of this.
I think a lot of people realize. Of course, your
daddy was an icon that never has been I don't
think ever will be anyone quite liking. But on the
other hand, you are an industry leader and a very
astute businessman. You've driven the business really in many regards

(39:21):
and ways that most people perhaps don't understand, so tickle
to death. You're you're carrying us forward because we would
have missed it. You know, if you hadn't carried it forward,
that would leave a big hole. So hats off to you, brother.

Speaker 6 (39:35):
Oh well, yeah, I thought about that a lot, you know,
and it takes everybody, you know, especially with the family business.
I think Phil did so much heavy lifting just to
get the thing off the ground, and really it was
his passion and dream. And then I.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Was able to connect some dots after.

Speaker 6 (39:52):
That, and uh, and I was so glad that if
I got to know feel and the family through the stuff.
And then obviously when the TV show comes out, that's
a a lot of help too. That helped get business
scooting along.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
So it was a lot of fun doing that. But yeah,
I was. I was glad to be able.

Speaker 6 (40:07):
To highlight that and highlight really what how his life
changed and he and moms and how it all came
together giving glory to God and we're all the better
for it.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yes, sir, absolutely, I know you're on a short time
frame here, but we're looking forward to seeing you at
this faith Love and duck Commander Gala, can you give
folks just a little short maybe sneak peek at some
of the things you'll be talking about sharing with folks
at the event.

Speaker 7 (40:35):
Yeah, it's coming up, and I'm excited about it. I
think it's August twenty fifth there and Shelbyville. I'll be
happy to be back in that area. And I'm gonna
tell a lot of stories. I tell you what, you
might not learn a whole lot, but hopefully.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
We'll laugh a little bit.

Speaker 6 (40:47):
And I'm gonna tell a bunch of stories just about
life and kind of the way I've I see it,
a little bit of business, and obviously we'll talk about
faith as well. And yeah, it sounds like great organization
and doing a lot of a lot of kind stuff
and being bright lights in that area. And so I
love being up there anytime I'm up in Kentucky. That

(41:08):
area just a lot of good people and love to
love to hear their stories and catch up with every body.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Well, we're certainly looking forward to seeing you there and
appreciate you taking time out tonight. Wially, Oh my pleasure, buddy, Yes, sir,
all right, folks going to break here. This break is
presented by SMI Marine. They are eleven four hundred Westport Road,
got all kind of boats on sale now. The twenty
twenty five has got a lot of year in incentives

(41:36):
and discounts available. The twenty six is are on the way,
so they're gonna make room. They've got some used boats
for sale. And remember you never get sold by my
friends at SMI. All right, folks, we're gonna talk here

(41:56):
with Steve Hornback. He's with the Operation of Care is
having their big Faith Love and Duck Commander gala with
Willie Robertson that we just talked with Willie about and Steve.
Glad to have you here and here again. This is
a fantastic opportunity for people to help those in need.

(42:16):
I'd like you to tell us about Operation Care, what
you all stand for, and why you're so excited about
teaming up with willing to do this gala event and fundraiser.

Speaker 8 (42:27):
All right, well, thank you, Jim, thank you for having us,
having me on this evening. Operation Care is a Christian organization,
the charitable organization that was started approximately thirty seven years
ago by lady but the name of Teresa Harden just
started in her basement in her garage. She felt the
calling God's calling to help people that were in need,

(42:50):
and so she started out collecting clothes and food and
it's grown now to where we have a three prong service.
We have a women's shelter for women and children. We
have a medical clinic for those who can't afford to
go to a doctor. We have a free medical clinic.

(43:11):
And then we have a helps program where we have
a thrift store and we have home furnishings in their clothing,
we have food things like that. For those who can't
afford to buy anything like that, they can come into
our store and get that. You know, there's things that
they need if they have got burned out or something

(43:31):
like that. The greatest thing is we get the witness
to people about you know, help and hope and healing
through Jesus Christ. Yes, so it's a wonderful thing.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
I know you were telling me some of the figures
about homelessness and the devastation that's caused. And there's some
great backstores if you will, about folks that you all
helped in the past. We've actually come back and are
working there now. I'd like you to share that I will.

Speaker 8 (44:00):
Well, this year we have seen the need. Last summer
we saw several women came by our shelter seeking shelter,
and we did not have room for them, and we
sought to find them other places and we could not
find them places. Women and children that were living in

(44:21):
their cars during the heat of the summer last year.
We thought God's calling to and him showing us the
need out there.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
And so.

Speaker 8 (44:32):
The homelessness right now in the state of Kentucky has
grown within the last four or five years by over
thirteen percent. Huge growth and homelessness, and that's due to
just the cost of housing. We have housed over since
nineteen eighty eight, we've housed and sheltered over twenty four

(44:55):
hundred women and just within the last decade over two
hundred children. And ours is a program where the women
have to go through a program and then they become independent.
We take them from dependence to independence. We've had a
young lady who is now director of our women's ministry,
Angelica Helton, who came through our program, graduated from our program,

(45:18):
went on to college, got her degree, and has come
back and is now in charge of our women's ministry. Oh,
it's great. We also have a young lady who is
Jennifer Decker. Jennifer Decker is our executive director, and we
have a young lady who is her assistant that actually

(45:40):
was born in our program and came through our program
with her family and is now working back with Operation
Care this year, because of the calling, because of the
need that guys showed us, we went out and purchased
a building last year. It's going to give us the
opportunity we get it remodeled to go from seven women

(46:03):
with their children to seven women with their children plus
an additional eleven women single women, so it'll go from
seven to nineteen. That building last year cost us almost
a half a million dollars and the cost remodel is
going to be somewhere between one and a half and
one and three quarter million dollars. So the gala this

(46:25):
year is to raise money for that purpose.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
And there is a really neat story backstory about the
Christian aspect of this in terms of the people that
are going to do the construction work on a new building.

Speaker 8 (46:42):
We've got a company that we work with and actually
Jennifer and her husband Bill just happen to run into them.
It's Crossroads Ministries and they are a non profit construction company.
That does struction for nonprofits and so they're able to

(47:03):
do things at a lower cost because of some of
the relationships they have that then other just general commercial
contractors can So it's enabling us to do what God
has directed us.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
To donkelona dollars so to speak, nickelona dollar, yes, sir, yes, sir,
Well that's fantastic. Now talk a little bit about the
infirmary of stuff. Flush that out a little bit for me.
What all is available there if someone's in need.

Speaker 8 (47:30):
We've got our medical clinic is one last year we
treated I think we had about between six and seven
thousand patients come through their last year good grief. They
come in there and we have a nominal fee that
they can pay if they can pay it, but if not,
we can still treat them. We have thirty's either thirty

(47:53):
five or thirty six volunteer medical professionals that assist us
with that program, anywhere from nurses and dental assistants all
the way up to neurosurgeons and cardiologists all the way
up and down the line, and they come out and
volunteer their time. We also have a pharmacy in there,

(48:13):
so we we have a volunteer pharmacist that helps us
with that as well. You know, we have dentists that
come in once or twice a month, and it's just
an amazing program.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
That we have, you know.

Speaker 8 (48:27):
And we actually have gone so far that our local
hospital there in Chobbyville, Jewish Hospital in Chobyville, for the
indigen to come into their emergency room that can't afford
follow up care, we are their referral bases, so they
referm from the emergency room over to us for follow
up care.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
That's fantastic. Let's talk a little bit about the gala
and what people can expect. Yeah, I give the date
and location here, we'll repeat it.

Speaker 8 (48:57):
The date is going to be August to twenty fifth
and it's going to be at the Convention Center there
in Chobbyville on seventh Street. For more information about that,
you can go to operationcare ky dot org. On there,
you'll see it says donate now, and you'll see an
orange notice and that'll point you down to twenty twenty

(49:18):
five Faith Love and Duck Commander Gala and on there
it'll give you a place where if you want to donate,
you can donate. If you want to purchase tickets, you
can purchase tickets there. If you can't work through the
internet on that, then you can just call down at
our office. That number is five oh two sixty three

(49:41):
three one nine sixty five. You can call there and
order your tickets and do that type of thing.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Cool. Well, I'm looking forward to it in many regards
because was Willy there. I expect the Sportsman turn out
to be fantastic. You couldn't have picked a better speaker,
I don't think for an event like this because their
Christian beliefs, yes, and what they do is outreach. So
Steve tell us about the event itself. What can people expect, Well, you.

Speaker 8 (50:12):
Know, it's a dinner event, so you'll have a nice meal.
Willie is going to be Actually he wanted to find
out if he wanted him to speak or give a sermon,
and we said, well give a sermon. So he's going
to be speaking about, you know, his faith and what
it has done for them and what it can do
for other people. We will be having also an auction.

(50:36):
It's going to be a little bit different type of auction.
Most of the time when you go to a charitable event,
you're auctioning off things that most people really don't need
or want, but they're paying for because they're helping the organization.
We're auctioning off needs. As an example of say an
electric bill. You know, let's say the electric bill for

(50:57):
one of our facilities is twelve thousand dollars a year.
Then we would auction off a month, or if you
wanted to buy a month, you could buy a month,
or if you want to buy a year, you could
buy a year. But you become a part of the organization.
That way, you're you can see where your money's going.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Okay, And uh, well, it's donating an item for the
auction item.

Speaker 8 (51:18):
Will it is donating. Uh it's a holder for duck calls,
and uh it has four duck calls, autographed duck calls
on it. Uh his dad autographed one of them, Willie
Jason and uh side, So we've got uh that that's

(51:38):
going to be auctioned off that night.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
That's gonna that's gonna be fun to watch.

Speaker 8 (51:43):
It's going to be it's going to be I.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Don't mind telling you. So in terms of the building
funded what have you, I know that's a huge task
to say the least. So obviously you are seeking donations
and where do folks go to now if they need

(52:08):
the care, Well, what's the physical address?

Speaker 8 (52:11):
Well, the physical address is H seven to eight Main Street.
Is our is our office where our main office is,
right and that's there in Shelbyville, Kentucky. We have just
a couple of blocks away where our women's shelter is,
and then our medical clinic is just also a couple
of blocks away. So everything is in downtown in Shelbyville.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Okay, everything someone is in need, they would office.

Speaker 8 (52:36):
They can come to our office there on Main Street. Yes,
and we can we can get them the proper care
that they need.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Yes, sir. Okay again, the event is August twenty.

Speaker 8 (52:48):
Twenty fifth at the Convention Center. They're in Chbbyville on
North seventh Street.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Yes, sir, Now to purchase tickets ahead of time. I
know you said you already have funding. We get stuff
coming in already.

Speaker 8 (53:02):
Yes, we'ves It's amazing with saying that Willie Robertson's coming
to town, how many people are interested in coming to
our gala, And it's just it it has all been
a god thing. I mean, it's it's been Jennifer's ability
to and we've got a wonderful director. Jennifer Decker is

(53:25):
our executive director of Operation Care and her being coming
to our organization approximately ten years ago was a God send,
a miracle in itself, and she has been great for
our organization.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Well, a lot of people probably recognize Jennifer Chris, who's
a member of the legislature, yes, and has been very
effective there, so I'm not surprised she brought the same
passion to this organization. So all right, so give the
contacts of yennif you will, before we close.

Speaker 8 (53:56):
Out Operation care ky dot org. On that website, you
can go to a tab that takes you to twenty
twenty five Faith Love and Duck Commander Gala, or you
can call Operation Care and the phone number is five
zero two six three three one nine sixty five.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Steve, thanks so much for sharing it, and I'll obviously
be there, folks. Hope you come. I want us to
see you and greet you. All right, you got to
go to Break Care. This break is presented by Massill
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(54:36):
we're talking now with Trey Webb with Webb's butcher block.
Whereas we all like to say, the spice is right. Trey.
Welcome a boy, buddy, Glad you could join us tonight.
Glad to be here. Pray got a lot of new
seasonal changes with the deer seasons. This time we got

(54:58):
the expanded use season. There a special rifles dole only
seasoned down in the CWD zone. So there's gonna be
a lot of deer hitting the ground early. Of course
we always have that happen with the early archery. But
wanted to have you on tonight to talk about what
you're hearing from all the processors that send you meet

(55:23):
for their specialty products and get your ideas about how
people can make sure their meets in good condition for
their consumption. Are for Hunters for the Hungry, We had
Terry Pardon with Hunters for the Hungry on earlier tonight
and talking about some of their exciting new stuff, their
deer sticks that they've started to pass out in the

(55:46):
schools and what have you. So just like you to
talk generally about that and how you all will be
able to handle that and what's going to go down
with all that.

Speaker 9 (55:56):
Yeah, we're we're prepared and ready and ready for the
uh you know, like the early rifle season for the
doze only as we are in a CWD zone. Uh
you know, but it all comes back to any or
any early season or when these seasons are warm on

(56:17):
uh you know, just handling those of those animals properly,
whether it's for your own consumption or donat on the
hunters for the hundred you know, we owe it to
not only the deer, but the other people who we
can consuming this to make sure it's it's clean and
and and and safety to eat.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
So you know, the the.

Speaker 9 (56:34):
Big thing is is you know, getting getting the guts
out of those animals in a timely manner. Uh you know,
and if you you know, if you do make a
poor shot, you know, because it happens, everybody does it
at some point, you know, getting the guts out of
it as fast as possible and getting that animal rents
out you know, a little a little bit of water

(56:55):
goes a long.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
Ways, Yes, sir, you mainly just want to make sure
you flush into that fecal matter out for sure. That's
that's always the start of the bacterial invasions.

Speaker 6 (57:07):
As they say, yeah, yeah, oh you take a five
gallon bucket of water and a half a cap of
chlorox bleach in there.

Speaker 9 (57:15):
It's about fifty parts per million. That'll kill pretty much
any microbial growth on the exterior of that of that
meat exposed there, and it'll keep that bacteria from growing
and keep that animal that microbial count down real low.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Yes, sir, by intense, Are you familiar with I refer
to as Cajun dressing a deer.

Speaker 5 (57:39):
You know out there?

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Well, it's I learned it in the Deep South hunting
down there years ago, where it's you know, hot so often,
and it's a process. And then where I utilize it
nowadays is with a gut shot deer or when the
entrants were penetrated, say you know, had a quarter or
two and it bursts through the entils or you know,

(58:04):
something like that. With an archery shot. It's where you
hang the deer upside down and you basically slit the
skin in half down the spine area and start skinning
it from there. And you don't gut the deer, so
you're not getting the inner portions. In fact, in what

(58:27):
you do, you split it down the back. You of
course slit the legs, peel it off that way, and
that enables you, with those two pieces that came off
the backside, to pretty easily strip down over the belly
portion of the deer and then down into the hams,
and then you can take the hams off independently, you

(58:50):
can take the shoulders off, cut the back straps out,
and you basically got a bag of guts there. In
other words, you know, the deer still intact. And I
wanted to mention that.

Speaker 9 (59:05):
We'd never done it with a deer, but eighteen or
so years ago on the mountainside in Colorado, that's how
we processed all the elk.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
We didn't gut them at all.

Speaker 9 (59:16):
We you know, we had a me and Dad at
an assembly line disassembling these elk and deep boning them
right there on the mountain side, so we didn't have
to pack out any anything extra, Yes, sir, Well.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
The cool thing about it is, if you've got a
gut shot deer, doing it that way, you're working around
all the contamination. And I'm sure there's YouTube videos out
there about how to clean an animal like that without
having to gut it if the need be. And again,
where I see it coming to play as in these
warm weather hunts, where you know that bacteria just takes

(59:51):
off and it goes like crazy. But to your point,
the best thing is to get the guts out and
cleanse them good if you possibly can't, so I didn't
want to better.

Speaker 9 (01:00:04):
You know, cleanliness is next to godliness.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
No question, in terms of once you've you've cleaned the deer,
quartered it and perhaps the the uh processing facility and
open you know, as late as you've taken it or
what have you. What are tips you'd like to pass
along about keeping the meat till you can get it
to a process or what what are your methodologists you recommend?

Speaker 9 (01:00:31):
You know, if you you know, ideally is you know,
is getting into a getting into a cooler, you know,
like our cooler, our drop cooler. You know it's about
thirty two thirty four degrees when we got it up
and running. You know that way we can we can
pull that heat out as fast as possible, which is hard,
you know, because you know a deer's got a fur

(01:00:52):
coat on him, so you know he don't he don't
get rid of his heat real easy at all. But
you know, if you're taking care of it yourself, you know,
and you you're gonna put bags of ice in it.
Most people they just want to throw back of ice
down in that chest cavity.

Speaker 5 (01:01:07):
Because it's it's easy, you know.

Speaker 9 (01:01:09):
But there's not a whole lot of meat in that
chest cavity, you know, and it's some of the thinner
areas on that meat carcass to chill. You know, you
gotta get those eight those those bags of ice, you know,
open up them hands laid in between those hands and
even maybe tie's ankles shut to hold that back ice
down against that meat. Because you know there's you know,

(01:01:30):
seventy percent of your meats in those hams, so you
got to protect those if you want good yield, uh
you know, or if you quarter it and debone it yourself.
You know, you put it in a cooler, you know,
ice it down, you know, pull the plug on the
on the cooler so that that water drains out.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Yes, sir, yeah, you know you can get it.

Speaker 9 (01:01:53):
You get it, you know you get you don't want,
you know, because if you don't get worseh real good
in that bacteria off in that water, you don't want
that need that meats it in there marinating in that
back here. You allow that water to drain out and
get away from it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Yes, sir Scott, I know you harvest a lot of
early season warm weather there through the years. You got
some tips or questions for Trey about.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
That, well, definitely, I mean I come ind Trey and
his family for what they've done to work with not
just their processing facility, but other processors.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
Over the years.

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
There's been a lot more storage available for hunters after
hours to utilize, which is very key.

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
And I know Tray and.

Speaker 4 (01:02:42):
Other processors that collaborate together, they work a lot with
extending their hours. And one of the big words that
stood out about the Trey's message there was yield and
that loss of good and meat is so important as
we go into these U see and we go into
these CWD seasons, I'm sure Trey would advocate to you know,

(01:03:06):
be careful of where your shot placement is, especially on
these antlerless control seasons. Try to make shots that aren't
getting into areas where you're going to have bullet and
bone impact and destroying mead in and around, especially the
shoulder area. And take the time to prepare, whether it's

(01:03:28):
Tray or someone else, call your process or ahead of
time to see if they do have some type of
drop off or storage cooler and have your knives and
your folks readily available. There's nothing wrong with utilizing techniques
of putting a deer on a tarp and deboning in
the field. And the thing that I want to brag

(01:03:50):
about is, for years now, and I mean several years,
Trey's family has been able to create recipes of snacks
and summer sausages that is really helping with the consumption
of game. And it's amazing on deer in Venison, how
many people will eat the summer sausage and the deer stick,

(01:04:12):
but not necessarily eat your traditional butcher cuts, like your
roast and your ground. But it's good because as we
see these seasons get more liberal and we see longer.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Gun seasons, it's going to be important.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
And I'm sure Trey would agree that folks find a
way to utilize whether it's donating the hunters for the hungry,
or given these snacksticks and summer sausages away for gifts,
or just use them in their family household. But there's
a whole lot of kids that aren't in need, they're
not in poverty, that enjoy putting some snacksticks in their

(01:04:47):
lunch box or folks going to work having a deer
stick here and there versus a Jack Lynx or a
slim gem.

Speaker 9 (01:04:55):
Yeah, and you know, and to expand on that because
you know, you know, Hunters for Hungry has done a
great job at you know, having a.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Use for these excess dear.

Speaker 9 (01:05:07):
But you know questions that we get all the time
from these hunters is uh, you know, well I want soon,
my dear, but I don't want.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
All of my dear.

Speaker 9 (01:05:19):
So, you know, not just us, but other processors out there.
You know, we're equipped and we're set up that you know,
that's fine. So you you know, everybody, especially in the
day's economy, you know, budgets are are tighter than they
have ever been. So you know, if your budget is
a certain dollar amount, then you know, you let us
know or the other processors know, Hey, I got X

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amount of dollars to spend, you know, so I want
this much. You know this standard cuts, I need some
burger I want this type of summer sausage or snack
sticks because they said my kid takes them for lunch
whatever it may be, and then donate the rest. So
you know, we we can keep a running talent and

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you know, of all the donated meat. That way, we
make sure hunters for the hunger, you know, gets all
the excess that that is that is donated to them.
You know, you don't have to donate a whole deer.
You know, you can donate a portion of a deer.
You know, we're we're equipped and set up that way.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Now, Trey, uh, do you ever handle on this c
w D zone hunt and processes will be open because
one of the things that we learned when they announced
that hunt was that there's several counties down in that
region that don't currently have a processor. Do you have

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a uh an idea or answer for those folks about
what you know they could do?

Speaker 9 (01:06:49):
Yeah, and you know not to get on the fish
and wildlife tangent here, you.

Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
Know, because I had that argument with them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
You know what hurts you know.

Speaker 9 (01:06:58):
That I'm gonna use the new zone because at the
time the new zone, unless somebody.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Is upstarted since then, does not.

Speaker 9 (01:07:06):
Have a processor inside the new zone down there around
Henderson those three counties was it Henderson, Webster and Union
maybe Yes, Now they don't have a processor at all.
So those people they're going.

Speaker 8 (01:07:21):
To struggle, They're going.

Speaker 9 (01:07:23):
To have to process this deer on their tailgate in
the hot and the heat of everything to be able
to do something with it. I've made the argument that, well,
if they killed it in the CWD zone, I understand
they got across a CWD free zone to get to me,

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which is a CWD zone.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
Can we not make that an option?

Speaker 9 (01:07:48):
And they said no, And I understand the reasonings behind
saying no, But those people in that three county zone
are going to struggle.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
They're going to.

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
Be in a hindrance.

Speaker 9 (01:07:59):
I don't you know because of that, I don't know
if they're going to achieve much of a dope kill
for their you know, population reduction that they're going forward
with that day or that two days season like they
are for our our our zone or the western zones.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
I totally agree with you. I'm very, very concerned that
it's not going to work out the way they envision
because of that. Uh, Trey, can you hang home with us?
I got to go to a quick break here because
coming back I want to get have you get some
tips to how those folks can process those deer on
the tailgate, because that's a whole different animal. So this

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break is presented by SMI Marine. Go see them all
kind of boats available incentives on the twenty twenty fives
and they got some used boats for sale. Remember you
never get soaked at SMI pray. We got about three
minutes left here. But there's some special considerations that people

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have to take when they process that those deer in
those counties, if they do want to transport them, is
that correct? And what do they have to do?

Speaker 9 (01:09:12):
Yeah, I mean you have to either by ficial wildlife
definition or standard. You know, that animal has to be
completely I don't want to say completely, but realistically completely deboned,
so that there is no spinal or brain attached to anything.
So you know, you kill that dough you got to

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break your hind quarters off through the hip socket and
pull them off, pull the backstraps off cleanly, and pull
the front shoulders off. You know, you cannot transport You
can't just saw it right in front of the hips
and take the hind quarters off because you left the
part of the spinal cord on the hips there. You
got to get those removed so you know, being able

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to pull those hands off, you know, without you without
going through the spine. There's a lot of you two
videos out there that described that, you.

Speaker 8 (01:10:03):
Know, but.

Speaker 9 (01:10:06):
Scott mentioned earlier a blue tart man. They're cheap and
they're clean. You know, keep keep a couple of them
in your truck, especially if you're hunting that time of
the year. That way, you can lay that tarpei there
on the ground or on your tailgate and now you've
got a clean surface to work on. You're not you know,
you're not cutting this deer up on your tailgate. That's

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that dirt and straw and rock and whatever else on
it that we got to clean up later, you know.
And so it's three dollars blue tarp and and throw
it away when you're done.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
And it's also my understanding on these special season CWD
hunts that don't hunt, they have to have a head
simple also, Is that correct?

Speaker 9 (01:10:51):
Yeah, I believe it is set up that it is
a mandatory uh sample donate uh to to do that,
and you know that's probably gonna hurt them some. They
feel that the reason they got so many samples out
of my CWD zone is that it was voluntary. You know,
most people do not like the government saying you have

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to do something, you know, so they get some pushback,
and they may they may get pushed back on that.
You know, I'm looking forward to the dose season just
so I can get back at some of these old
girls eating eventually beans.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
But all right, brother, well thanks so much for being
on with us tonight. I know you all be ready
and hopefully all this will come together the right way.
All right, folks, really enjoyed sharing all these ways that
we can share the outdoors with other folks that need. Tonight,

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there's a different type of program. I hope you enjoyed it.
So we'll see you next week, same place, same time.
God bless everybody.