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September 23, 2025 • 16 mins
I can't go to Google and tap in the letters required to send me to a Mountain Man bio. I just have to say. I honestly felt like I just talked to a damn good old friend.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Taro. Growing up in the state of Montana, we
and our fair share of unique people that lived on
the outskirts of billings on the ranches. But it wasn't
until I moved to the South that I realized there's
a lot of living going on in America.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Kind of like it squirrel, I got another squirrel. I
gonna put him aside, and would you take five for
I'll take five alrighty man has a distinct way of talking. Hey, Jay,
I thought I smelled some down there. Understanding mountain man

(00:41):
is kind of like Han Solo understanding Chumacca who telling
them for five dollars apiece, But I'll sell you three
of them for fifteen.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
After synergy symd, I know what that means. Well, it's
kind of like energy incorrect mountain Man, My man.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
It was all due to your hammering skills. Nothing doing boys,
What about mountain Man in the boat? Here we go,
Rick refall, Oh, well, it gonna lock it.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
We are unplugged and totally uncuts from Duck Dynasty.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Mountain Man, Hey man, that's a show.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
How are you doing today?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, I'm doing pretty good. If I woke up, I
can see myself in the mirror. I know I'm alive.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Listen to you. Yeah, but how do you know you're
not looking at just a picture on the wall.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Then, well, I don't hang no pictures in the bathroom,
nothing but the mayor. Long as I know I'm in
the bathroom room, I know it's some air. Yeah, you
know what's going on down yonder your old neck of
the woods to day.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, we were just getting ready for you to come
into town. When you're gonna be at the fin Feather
and Fur Expo.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Sir. That made me I can't wait to get there either.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Man, I'm firing. I'm ready to go whenever you are.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Man. Alrighty, sounds like you got up earlier in I
did this morning. Wait wait wait.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Wait wait, So you're out there in the country, you
should be getting up at the crack of dawn. I
got up at about four thirty this morning.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
I didn't go to bed until it was nearly cracking down. Okay,
I had a lot to do last night. Oh, I
had a lot today. Gush. They preferred grab your laugh
when you can in this line of work.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Isn't that the truth? Because I mean, you're you're like
cruising around everywhere and then how how is it that
you can keep yourself going like that?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Don't know. I just take a lot of item and
drink a lot of coffee.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, And in fact, that's what that's what my blog
was about today. What if God wouldn't have created coffee,
where would we be at today?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I know, I don't know what what would be doing?
That would be a tough one the side, that's for sure.
We had to drink ice tea or warm tea, I guess.
And uh yeah, but do a lot don't like in
the morning, do you do?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
You do your tea like we do here in the
Carolinas where we do the sun tea. You put the
bags in there and just let the sun take care
of it.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
No, it's too cloudy how there where I live. I
live in the woods. It's some people do that. But
I like sweet tea. And I know some places up
in north they don't have sweet tea. They don't have tea.
And if you want sweet tea, they'll bring you some sugar.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
That's the way Mom used to do it up there
in Montana. She would just give us the sugar bowl.
I said, man, that's not enough. Bring me some of
those sugar cubes too.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, you ain't had. Oh you're supposed to make a
sweet tea with a sugar already in it while it's hot,
But yeah, they do it differently up north.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
All the more reason not to visit up there anytime
too soon, because it's sweet tea season across the entire country.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
That for sure you might and buy sweet tea, and
some of those markets around their bottle sweet tea. But
I like the fresh may sweet tea myself.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
What do you guys do in the middle of the summer.
You're not walking around with all those TV cameras around
with you right now, are you.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now. We're hiding. We're hide until they bring out and
then well we gotta go do that, okay, and then
we go back and hide. We hide in the wood
as no water. We'll hide, you know, in our houses.

(05:30):
We hide a lot.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
And it's kind of funny that you can hide anywhere
you want to, but the dogs are still going to
find you.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
They will. They live by a car load from Ohio
to pull up some like our door. Shit, that's not
any time, you know, and knock on any door with
several kids smiling at you, And I always you know,

(05:57):
kids a lot to make happy.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Absolutely, And that's that's what's fun about having the dogs
is that the kids are out there just messing around
with them. But you know the dogs you look up
at you like going, really seriously, you're gonna put me
through this? Come on human.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Knowing a great party at the garbage man he is
won't get dr Yeah, he thinks he's something. They got
all the dashy show too. Yea in here where they
come inside. Jo who come over to my house to

(06:30):
buy hut old bunco ass sitting out there and k
I come out of the door. Buddy run out and
got on my blue halo and he's been bragging about
it ever since. They won't do nothing but drank toilet
water now bottle toilet water. That is I mean, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
It's great. Do people around the city or the town
that you live in, do they all want to be
a part of the show, and do they do odd things?
They try to make sure that cameras catch them too.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Go there at the house before it just look somebody's
head pop up, lock up, ground hog, stick your head
up out of them all or prairie dog or popper head.
And I'll say cut we got somebody looking over your fence.
I said, okay, so yeah they do, or they'll now

(07:29):
this tank they can walk up, or they might even
come by water. I turn the boat behind my house
and you know, and try to get on there. And
oh lord, yeah, everybody wants to be on TABA, that's
for sure.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Is it is it still fun for you to be
on TV? Or is it something that is like, oh, okay,
if you guys have to be here, let's do it.
Then No.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I enjoy it. I enjoy it because I've traveled all
around the country here and all the little kids they
love Mountain Man. They they think he's kind of funny.
And I had a principal out of school come up
to me and say, Mountain Man, I'm mad at you,

(08:18):
I said, work forward said. All my kids in the
school are going around and always class rate, some of
them getting sent to my office for it. I said, well,
I never meant no harm, just last said, oh that's fine,

(08:38):
that's fine. But I enjoy bringing smiles people's faces. And
to be able to deliver a good be a part
of a shows, you know, clean, fun and godly. There's
not a better failing in the world to me.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
I've heard that a lot from people across the country
that Duck Dynasty is probably the most clean cut show
on television and it's about family values. That you guys
are that way just naturally, aren't you. That's that's not
Hollywood messing around with scripts.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Alright, Where I want to be all go so ime church,
we come out of church, where recharge, ready to go
ra spread message any way we can. Being on the show,
I get, you know, it's been a really a reward

(09:42):
from God, you know, and I feel like I ort
to be doing something giving back, you know. And I
like to go to schools and spake, you know, kids
about the booze and downs and being able to go
to churches and give testimonies here and there. It's just

(10:03):
a blessing to me. It gives us a kind of
platform to be able to speak out now, and I
think that's what America is starving for. And I think
other people are just deciding what America needs to be
right now. But America is the land of the free.

(10:27):
I believe everybody or bell to choose what they want
to and if we want to spread the message, hey,
you know, or let us do that, you know, I
could go on and on, but I shouldn't get into politics.
I suppose to not right now. I want to get

(10:49):
do a feel this early in the morning for me
over here.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
But see, that's what we up there on the farms
in Montana and Wyoming. That's what we did at at
six o'clock right now, we go out there and take
care of the cattle. We just all sit around and
just just talks like man, it's just not gonna be
a good day until they start doing this over there
with those lawmakers. And that's all you do.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
I know I can. I can turn on the news
there and you can get what's going on right there
on your TV said across America and the world. And
if I'm afraid, if you watch too much of it,
you're gonna start getting mad. You know, I won't get

(11:36):
too mad, so I'll turn it over the gun smoke,
watch Old Matt treat somebody or something, you know for
Bnanza's next after gun smoke or yeah, I thank you.
A lot of people are are watching too much news
nowadays and finding out that's putting them in bad moods.

(12:02):
I don't know how to do anything about all that.
What's going on I mean, it clearly states in the
Bible it's gonna get pretty bad before the end of time.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
But we have people like you, though that help us
connect and reconnect as well as have a great time
and while showing family values as well as helping to
spread the word of God.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
That is exactly right. Iin if we can be that
messenger to turn someone's life around toward God, and it's
just a warm, good failing. You know, I don't take
none of the credit. I give all the credit to God.
But I'm just that messenger. You know. I'm just out

(12:49):
there to deliver a message and plan a seed and
go home, kind of like old Johnny apple Seed. You know.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
How many little eight and twelve year old boys are
looking in that mirror every morning wondering why they're not
getting whiskers on their chins like those guys on Duck Dynasty.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
I know it earned a bunch of them. I talk
about that when I say them kids, I says about
raised star shaving, Are you gonna grow a beard? And
they looking gray? Segon I says, now, you know, you
gotta eat a lot of jello, a lot of jello,

(13:30):
it'll start growing. Yeah, that's what I tell him a
lot of Yello. He is at lay something else, so
I get up laughing and I give him a good
show wherever I go, you know, trying to make everybody life.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
How does someone get in touch with you to book
you for to come over and do something for their
school or their university or church? Do you get you
guys have a website?

Speaker 2 (14:05):
I got an assistant, I sure do, and you could
call her or emailer. I'll give your email address. It's

(14:27):
Camella c A M I L A two thousand and
fourteen at I Cloud just I whether i cloud dot com.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
That's awesome because I would love to see you on
the road, and plusure you're gonna be in the Carolinas anyway,
so I'd love to bring iHeartRadio over there and and
and have a great conversation with you when you come
to the fin feather in for expo.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
That'll be fine. Yeah, we could get get and do
something like I Reckon we squeeze your in there. I've
always ready to do something like that or or go fishing.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Well. You know they're gonna have a lot of good
country music and bluegrass there, so you know you're gonna
have to break out in some dance.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh yeah, I don't. I don't mind that at towel,
I can do it. Yeah, I'm a real good dancer,
used to be. But there I can spell shake a
leg a little bit, at least one of them. Keep

(15:53):
gather in the balance while I shake this.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Papa, you are such a brilliant man. Oh I thank
God every day for you. I'm telling you, man, you're
just great.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
I appreciate you. Say you man, I tried. I just
try to make boak flaugh as all have a good
time and enjoy life while here is short here on
earth compared to eternity.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Oh yeah, absolutely well, we're looking forward to seeing you
here in the Carolina's mister mountain man.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, sir, I'll be there. I'm on the saddle up
my mule and get them good and ted and hook
a wagon up and i'll start out here in a
day or two and i'll be there.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
You have yourself a brilliant day today, okay, sir, you too, sir?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Is then the pleasure talking with you
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