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Catch & Release Gobbler - I Got His Beard!
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Ever plucked a beard from a turkey bird? Yep. We've done that. Here's the story of a catch and release gobbler from back in the day. Don't miss this one!
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Welcome back to the Hunting Roots Podcast. I'm Brody Swisher. This is episode 234. Across the desk from me is my boy Rimbo. How are you? Doing pretty good. We've taken a couple shots at getting this thing rolling today. The first time we uh right out of the gate here, we're rolling. Music's playing, intro going, and Remy's got his little knife out here. His little yellow peanut, yellow case knife, and he he uh points at the at the desk and at the equipment and it's like nothing happening. Yo SD card wasn't in. Blue light instead of red light for record, and we started over, and then from there it was just boom, boom, boom, doing what I do best, right, Rimo?
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. A little blooper in. In fact, you're like, hey, we need to do bloopers. We'd have lots of bloopers if we just went back and just picked out a blooper episode. Should we do that? We should do that. A blooper podcast. We need to do that for this podcast and just kind of pick out some of our yeah, we could just roll through a whole hornet's nest full of just junk that we started over. Might be kind of entertaining, but it's well uh same thing as well for for the YouTube. The YouTube's channel, that would be pretty good. We could do bloopers for days on that stuff. So guys, welcome back. We are glad to have you here. This podcast is brought to you by our good friends at Onex Hunt. OnexMaps.com is the website you'll find that. And again, as we say all the time, you need this. If you're a hunter, you need it. If you're a fisherman, you need it. If you are a uh a man that has a wife or girlfriend that struggles with uh directions and and just navigation-wise, just not up to snuff, get her this app. So I mean it's good for everybody, but it's also good. I mean, like I said, we we talk about all the ways we use it in the woods and different things, but uh just just this morning. I I use it when I run. I'm trying to get back into running. I don't want to say get back into running, trying to get back into shape, which which ultimately uh you know leads to you know some running or some exercise, whatever. Uh never been a runner, not real keen on running. I always feel like, man, it's probably gonna jack up my knees sooner than later, and all kinds of excuses. But bottom line is turkey season's coming, and I tried to get in shape before hunting season, so when I'm out there, it's not as painful humping it up and down the hills, and so I've been been running. And there was a time when running a mile, if I felt like I ran a mile, I was like, dang man, I ran a mile today. Feels pretty good to run a mile down at Remy. It does. You run a mile before?
SPEAKER_01I've run a lot a mile a lot of miles before, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, a lot of miles. I'm fear I'm sure you've you've run plenty of miles. Uh and then you get, you know, where you're like, okay, a mile, not a big deal anymore. How about two miles? You do two miles, and as I've said before, you if you've heard my story from the past, my little sister died of breast cancer uh back when she was 34. It's been 10 years, shoot, it's been like 12 years now, maybe. Um died of breast cancer. She was a fitness nut. Her and her husband, James. Jesse was her name, Jessica, and uh married to a dude named James, great guy. But they were both fitness instructors, and uh they were all about running. They got into running the races, and she was all about that. And when she died, I remember saying, I'm gonna run. One of these days I'm gonna run a race for you. I'm gonna run a 5K. I'm gonna do it in her honor and memory. And um, I I still hadn't run the race, but I've gotten to where I can run now, you know. I mean, I did a mile, then two, and then uh last couple weeks I've been I've been banging out three miles, which I know for a lot of y'all is like, oh it's not much, but dude, I'm I just got closer to 50. I'm 49 now, right, Remy? Is it 49?
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_0040? 49. 49. Man, knocking on the door 50. And uh, and I don't I but I mean I say that and I'm 49, but even back years ago, like I said, I just never ran. So I mean for me, running, you know, a 5K, running 3.2 or whatever it is, however many miles, uh, that that's a pretty pretty cool deal. And that's a big deal for me. And so that's what I've been trying to do. And all that to say that this little app, that's how I use it. That's how I used it this morning. Again, we use the Onyx app all the time. That's how today, that was the use of the day was mapping out my run. Hit that tracker mode on, boom, boom, boom, back and forth up and down the driveway. Uh I don't remember how many miles, how many times, is it four times uh back and forth, four times is a mile? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, for our driveway.
SPEAKER_00For our driveway, yeah. Yeah, for the driveway. I think you go back and forth. I think it's three and a half times. You go, you go down and back three times.
SPEAKER_01I think it's four.
SPEAKER_00Well, I think here's the deal. I think you go back and forth, down and back three times, and then down that half, and that's your mile. You'll hit a mile on that half. Uh so basically, like you said, four is just over mile. Um, it's like a mile and a quarter.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I mean you do, you do about I think to get that 3.2, it's 11 or 12 laps up and down the driveway. And uh that's what I've been doing, and I know I'm doing that because of the tracker app on Onex. So I love it. Check it out, onxmaps.com. That was a long roundabout approach to to plug an onx, but again, we use it, we use it all the time. And um, obviously during the hunt season, but there's just so many practical ways like like that today in the fitness routine. And uh so good stuff. Check them out, and then a big thanks also, obviously, to the Mossy Oak crew, mossyoke.com. Uh I was wearing that little mossy oak jacket, green leaf, uh, that Aiden gave me. He gave me a sweet jacket. It's in Moss Yolk Green Leaf. And that's that's really just a such a cool pattern. And I we've said that before too. I remember when it went from bottom land and then they threw them green leaves in there. It was like, oh dang, a spring pattern. Uh that was back way back, early 90s, late 80s, whatever. And they threw the green leaves in there. And again, like I said, it was just like, ooh, spicing it up. That'll blend in even better with the green, you know. Uh it's a cool jacket. But I I think I think your mom kind of liked it though. When I put it on, I she was like, hey, you you look nice. When this woman ever said, You look cute. I think she I I think she kind of liked the fit. I think she was.
SPEAKER_01She was digging your jacket.
SPEAKER_00She was digging the jacket. She said, What kind of shoes you got? Maybe she was making fun, but she was like, you know, she could have been making fun. She's probably making fun. Well, I think what she was doing. You want to you want to go? Okay, you're good. We're gonna do that test before long. We'll keep that as a secret. Uh we got we got we got something we're gonna share with y'all later on, but it's just not right now. And I'm glad people can't see. That's why we don't do video. They can't see what's going on in here. Uh they can hear it. But anyway, I think what she was digging is she loved the jacket, but then I think I think she was wanting to make fun of the fact I was wearing a jacket with some Jordans. Huh? Jacket and the Jordans, Mossy Oak and some Jordans? I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I don't know if Jordans go great with Mossy Oak, but hey, I guess you do you.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna bring it. Yeah, I'm gonna bring it.
SPEAKER_01So it's gonna be a new style.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I don't know. But anyway, it's cool. Love the crit Mossy Oak. Go check them out. Lots of articles popping up there. We've got some content that I've done on there. Not that that's why you need to go, but that's just another reason and some stuff you'll find there. Uh turkey hunting content, fishing content. Check it out at mossyoak.com. Also, heck of a place to go buy your camo swag and apparel and get ready for a season. A lot of people already hunting.
SPEAKER_01I saw the lot of good stuff for youth. They'd have their youth turkey vest too.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the Jake's vest. I don't know if we talked about that last week, the Jake's vest. Um their season kicked off. They've had their youth hunt and now they're a week or a week and a half into their turkey season. I saw Lake Pickle post a that's hard to say Lake Pickle post uh a picture the other day and old Caleb Polk was in it. Keith Polk was in it, and then uh some other kid that had killed a turkey. Um got him a turkey kilt. And I think Caleb was wearing a hunting roots hoodie. So shout out to Caleb Polk. Uh I think he had that on, I'm pretty sure. Always good to see those guys. Like I said, I think that must have been a youth hunt or maybe not a youth hunt, but a um the week after the youth season hunt. Anyway, somebody got a turkey killed, and then I think we need to go watch the hunting public video because I feel like I saw it might have been on Thrash Boys. There were two kids that killed turkeys on the video that just went up, and I think it was our our dog, the thrash dog. Um so we need to go check that out. I may be wrong, but I thought it was him. I just saw it in a glance and passing by. Um, so anyway, lots of cool stuff happening there. I mean, we you know, this time year we get talking about gear. Sitting here looking at this catalog on my desk. Bass Pro Shops and the Cabellas, and this is their 2026 turkey hunting specialist catalog. You look through this, you see anything you like at all? Yay, nay.
SPEAKER_01Like two or three things.
SPEAKER_00What was it? Give me give me your two things you saw.
SPEAKER_01There was like a hunting public Woodhaven Crystal Call. Okay. Like the Hunting Public Special Edition or whatever.
SPEAKER_00Like a pot call, dude.
SPEAKER_01Like a pot call, crystal, pot call.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_01And then they had like uh the Hunting Public's Woodhaven box call, and it was pretty cool too.
SPEAKER_00Nice.
SPEAKER_01And then all the guns and stuff.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, the guns are always that's what I was just looking at. Some of the guns are sweet. Um Yeah. Yeah, it's got some sweet guns here. You know what I noticed about this though, just kind of glancing through it. This this catalog used to be when you got the the Bass Pro Shops catalog, the turkey, it was a spring turkey catalog. It was kind of like back in the day, years and decades ago, when you get the Sears catalog, and I know you don't know what that means, but it was a Sears catalog, a big old thick, monster thick three-inch catalog, and and we call it the wish book, and maybe it was a Sears Wish book, and it was just a catalog of everything you could want in life, from household stuff to game, whatever. It was everything. And that's kind of how it used to be with this catalog, you know, the Bass Pro catalog for turkeys, all the turkey stuff, and it was so cool. And it's still cool to get it, but now, man, I think everything they've got in here for the most part is Bass Pro brand stuff, which is cool for them. I mean, obviously they're gonna sell they want to sell their camo. I think it's called Strata Camo or maybe True Timber Camo. Strata must be the pattern, and that's cool. Uh, but everything is is their brand, and I hate that you can't find other brand stuff. I used to like when they did here's your page for the Bass Pro stuff, you know, the Bass Pro decoys, and then here's your you know, AVNX, here's your all the other DSD, and they still got Avian X in here. I do see Avian X decoys, but it is by and large everything Bass Pro brand, True Timber, or Cabela's brand. They got their own decoys now. And it's just crazy how they've tapped into everything. Like they've got um, you know, they've got their own push, uh push-pull, turkey call, friction call, they got pot calls, they got box calls, they got hoop flutes and uh turkey chairs, loungers, turkey vest, pot calls, mouth calls, decoys, um, strutter decoys, fanning decoys, butt cushions. They've got it all. And it's all their uh Redhead brand or their Cabela's brand stuff. And pretty impressive what they've done, how far they've come. They've got a whole turkey hunting catalog, and it's pretty much for the most part their stuff. Pop-up ground blinds, uh, I think they've got their own trail cameras now. Crazy. Crazy. I love it for them. Uh I hate it. I hate the fact that, like I said, that they don't have bottom land. Well, I mean, yeah, they don't have other options, you know. They're gonna do their own household name brand stuff, and that's cool for them, but I miss flipping it open and seeing all everything turkey hunting, like all the different brands and stuff. Um kind of miss those days. So maybe it's almost here though. We've got a few weeks out. I say it's almost here. We got a few weeks out yet. Seeing some turkeys, so we're finally seeing some birds. How many did you see the other day? Don't say where, but how many did you see the other day? Were you on were you there when the morning when we saw some?
SPEAKER_01I think I was probably there's I thought it was like seven.
SPEAKER_00See, now you're making up stuff. You're a good storyteller. I like that.
SPEAKER_01No, I really thought it was seven.
SPEAKER_00Well, you might have seen seven where you were. I don't know. I saw the most recent was four. Four Longbeards chasing around a hen. I saw that the other day. Uh four gobblers, longbearded birds chasing or just strutting around with one strutter, three hanging out, and uh one little hen. Bless her heart, she was just doing the thing. So that was cool.
SPEAKER_01I think we had two different times we saw turkeys.
SPEAKER_00Well, the week before was. You remember the week before it was like 11 or 12 jakes.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, there's actually like 12 jakes and like one Tom.
SPEAKER_00One long beard, yeah. And that was pretty cool. Um But they just passed through. They just passed through this place, and so anyway, it was cool, but I I did see I saw these four times, and you know, they're on our place, and then and then when I was leaving, I see them like they're getting ready to cross the road, to go across the road, and I'm like, No, no, no, no, don't do that. Stay here, stay with us. And so I kind of you know see them coming up like they're gonna cross roads. I sit there and honk, and hey, you holler out the window. I go to town, do my stuff. I'm coming back down the highway, and as I'm coming back, I'm like, oh one of them birds ever went across the road. Come around the curve, look up in the middle of the road, what do I see?
SPEAKER_01Turkey in the road.
SPEAKER_00Long beard standing yellow line, middle of the road.
SPEAKER_01Why did the turkey cross the road?
SPEAKER_00Why did the turkey cross the road? Why did he cross the road?
SPEAKER_01Why do you have to get to get to the neighbor's side and dang it? Where all the hens are.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, chasing them ladies. But again, coming back, the same four gobblers, and they're trying, they're still trying to cross the road, and they're standing one long to post a picture, standing in the middle of the road, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I grabbed my, you know, when you're trying to find your phone, you're scrambling, wanting to catch something on camera, and you got just a brief second and you can't do nothing. Like you're sitting there trying to flip the screen to get it to come to life, nothing's working, and finally get my camera on and videoed it and chased it. And I didn't chase him, I just, as I go up, he runs, he goes from the middle of the road, trying to leave us, goes back to our side of the road where he needed to be. And I pull up there and I honk, and I don't I don't not harassing, not in a harassing manner, but just in a manner of, you know, hey, get back over there and then blah, blah, blah. You know, just holler at him, yell at him, get back over there. And anyway, I think we've lost him because we haven't seen him since then. But we got time. There'll be some more through. Seeming like we always see a few come through this place.
SPEAKER_01I just want to hear one gobble.
SPEAKER_00I know. I did get up. I did get up and get out on the back porch uh before daybreak the last couple days and just listen and um and we need to get out, get out some farms and hear some. We've not heard the first bird of the year. We've not messed with any of the farms yet, as of yet. I mean, just uh trying to leave them alone. Let the turkeys do their thing, get in there, get comfortable.
SPEAKER_01But uh I don't know if the turkeys like your owl hoot.
SPEAKER_00Like my owl hoot? What about your owl hoot?
SPEAKER_01My hut uh my owl hoot sounds pretty good.
SPEAKER_00You think so? You don't think that you think mine's not good and they don't like it? Do you can you scree? I can't remember if you can scream like a girl. Can you do that?
SPEAKER_01I can because I got a pretty high pitched voice as of right now.
SPEAKER_00You're go you're going through a stage.
SPEAKER_01How long do you think that stage will last when you're going through Mm, probably till I'm like fourteen or fifteen. No, it won't be that long.
SPEAKER_00It won't be that long. Probably like 14 and just a quick phase and you're gonna come out on the other side and be hey, I'm Remy.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00And I don't know, man. That's what I see a lot of people when they're younger, they can do stuff like you all used to be able to scream on an elk bugle tube and just sound just like a cow or a bull screaming or a a cow, you know, and you were just so perfect when you were little. Yeah, and then when you when you get older and your voice changes, it's like you know, and say, Oh like right now uh I feel like Aiden, he's trying to do like a good owl screech, like you know, Aaron Warburton's his is really good. They can do that high.
SPEAKER_01And Aiden was trying to do it, and uh it wasn't the best, but it wasn't the worst.
SPEAKER_00He had it a little bit. I have to hear it. Y'all been working on some. I'll have to I'll have to hear that. I've not ever been able to do that, and I just say it's because I'm too manly and I can't do that high squealing, screaming stuff, but I mean I don't know it's probably just I can't figure it out. But I do think that yeah, I just don't have that that high note I can get to that I've figured out yet. But um mine comes out more like an elk bugle. You know what I'm saying? But anyway, we're not gonna do it because I keep wanting to try it on the on the line here, but we're not gonna do that. Maybe we'll do that on the bloopers, bloopers take. But anyway, it is cool, and I do like seeing turkeys crossing the road, especially when they're crossing to our side of the road. And uh, you know, I I I love getting out this time of year with my camera and going shooting some some picks. And uh I thought about that. You know, that's kind of what we're just gonna have to do since Tennessee's gone to such a you know two-week delay, or not a delay, but our season now opens two weeks later than it used to these last few years. I got to think we just need to get permission to and on people's property, even if they don't allow hunting, and just say, hey, look, all I want to do is go take my camera. I say that every year, and just go start shooting photos and just do everything you would do normally, hunt them, chase them, but shoot them with a camera. And you could do this early season stuff. Not on our place, 'cause I don't want to I don't want to get our places jacked up or anything, but places that like I said, people don't don't hunt. Just say, hey, can we can we go just come shoot some photos?
SPEAKER_01Does uh Kentucky I think they open after Tennessee, right?
SPEAKER_00No, we're I think we're on the same time frame now. Uh oh um you know, I think we're on the same time frame. You know, it used to be that they did. We opened like the first part of April now, and then they opened mid-April, and now it's the same. So I don't know. We gotta get on the road trip somewhere. We say that every year. We want to go to Florida, so yeah, I know. It's it's Florida's already happening, so by the time Florida's done, it's done. Um we waited too long on that, but um Texas is happening. I saw some local guys went to Texas. Uh old Taz, I think they just got back, and uh man, it looked like they had I don't know how many turkeys lined up in their picture. I mean, there's a bunch of guys, but I mean it was fifteen or twenty birds, crazy. I'll show you that picture.
SPEAKER_01It'd be fun to go to Texas. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Choosing Texas. Choosing Texas, I can tell. Isn't that your song you like?
SPEAKER_01It's choosing Texas. Not I can tell, but it's just choosing Texas.
SPEAKER_00Who sings that song?
SPEAKER_01Ella Langley.
SPEAKER_00Who?
SPEAKER_01Ella Langley.
SPEAKER_00Ella Langley, okay. I thought that was Jelly Roll or something, but the girl. I got you. All right. Um well, while we're talking about these crazy turkeys in the road, I I you say I've told the story before, but I don't know if we've told it officially on the podcast. The story of the catch and release, the story of the beard I ripped off a bird. Did you hear that?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you've said that like You've done that story like three times on the podcast.
SPEAKER_00Alright, well, we're gonna tell it today because I don't know. And listen, y'all, if you from uh listeners, if you hear it and you're like, dude, you told that story last year. I don't I don't remember. I'm gonna tell it again because I thought about that the other day when I saw this turkey standing in the road, I thought, I'm gonna I'm gonna rip this beard off this bird. And then he'll look like a Jake, and then nobody shoot him because he looks like a Jake. Unless he's strutting.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Or whatever. But anyway, the thought crossed my mind, and then it took me back twenty twenty years, twenty-three years ago. Probably twenty-three, it's twenty twenty-six, dude. Took me back about twenty twenty-three, twenty twenty-three years ago, and I was going down the road.
SPEAKER_01Did I tell the story already? I'm telling you, you did.
SPEAKER_00I bet like everybody's freaking out, like, dude.
SPEAKER_01Whoever is listening to this, they just need to like comment and be like, if they think we they've already heard it, they just need to like comment and be like, yeah, you've already told that story.
SPEAKER_00I mean, if we were, yeah, that would work out if we were on like a Facebook Live or YouTube or whatever. But let me just tell it again because i i I don't know, maybe I have, maybe I haven't. Going down the road though, uh, for a work call one afternoon, that's back when I was running, I was working as a behavior counselor for foster kids, and going to meet a kid or something, family, and I go down the road, and I can't remember, it had to been turkey season pretty close, right after season, whatever, and I guess it was maybe slam right up in the middle of turkey season, maybe it was four, I can't remember. Right around before, during, or you know, whatever of turkey season. Because I had a mouth call right there in the console of my truck going down the road, and dude, I look out there in this field, and this is this is well, I'm not even gonna say where it was, but it was you know close to home uh in this county, not close to home, but in this county, home county. And uh look out in this field, there's a lone turkey standing out there, and so I turn around and go back up there and turn around again and get where my driver's side's on him and uh get off the road uh just across from this ditch. There's a ditch right there, it drops down, it rises back up in this field. And of course I got that mouth call, and it's not my property, so I'm just like, hey, I can harass this bird, not gonna mess things up for me. It's all good. So I get the mouth call, throw it in there, and start yelping that sucker's out there. I like, ooh, he liked that. Goblin, gobbling, just ripping it. Well then I look up and here he comes, coming across that field, and I mean marching. So I'm just sitting there giving some more he just gobbling and marching, and here he comes to the car, comes up across the field, comes to the ditch across, you know, from me, across the ditch from me, and I'm like, this dude's crazy. He's crazy. He's gobbling, he's coming, strutting, in and out of strutting. And of course, this is back before uh smartphones, way before smartphones. I guess uh I guess the phone, I think I had a little Nokia phone at that time, Nokia cell phone, but there was no video, there was no camera on those phones, and it was just a cell phone. I think you could text maybe at that time, maybe not. Anyway, there's no video and of nothing, and I'm just sitting here thinking, oh my gosh, this is crazy. I'm hoping and wishing all my buddies could see it. He gets across the ditch, comes to the other side, and then he comes down across the ditch. He climbs, walks into the ditch, comes up the other side, dude walks right up next to my. I think I was driving that old Jeep Grand Cherokee at the time. Comes up right outside my door, and I'm like, oh my gosh. And he kind of puts his head up and he's bowing up and like, you want some of this? And He comes up to the car and I mean he just gobbling. I'm like And it was the craziest thing and he goes to the tires. You I don't know what it is about the tires if the tires are the black roundness of the tire looks like a strutter or whatever. They always go to a tire and starts pecking at the tire. And I stick my hand out the door and he comes up, tries to peck my hand. He's mad. Crazy. And he's strutting back and forth. And I'd I'd stick my head out the, you know, and he'd come up there and like he want to peck and flog, and he'd flog the door and hit the tires. I rolled up in the truck one point and he'd just start you know and just running with me and staying with me and pecking at the tires. Man, this went on for a little bit. I opened my door and he'd flog at me, you know, just crazy. He's like a mad, mad man, just crazy, crazy turkey. Well, this went on for a little bit. And I remember calling John Paul, my buddy, and just being like, because I didn't have it, there was no way to document this. There was no phone cameras, and I just didn't have anything in my truck at the time. I used to carry a camera all the time. Uh just didn't have it that day. And so I called John Paul. I'm like, dude, you ain't gonna believe this. I'm I'm like, listen. And I go, pop, pop, pop, pop, pow. And he's like, what is that? What are you doing? And I said, Man, there's a turkey outside my window. He's like, No, I ain't no real turkey. No, I'm like, listen. And he wouldn't believe me, you know. He's like, uh-uh, what are you doing? What's going on? You at somebody's at somebody's farm, you know. And I'm telling about all the stuff. Anyway, nothing. Well, the birds out there outside my door, and like I said, he I'd played around with him for a while, and then I finally, I'm thinking, man, this is crazy. I want to touch him. I want to pluck a feather from him or something, you know. And I'd reach a hand out there and he'd try to peck at me, you know, and just just violent, violent. He was choosing violence on that particular day. And anyway, I kept putting my hand, every time I'd put my hand, you know, I could kind of walk him back and forth. I put my hand to the right and he walked to the right. I put my hand back to the left and he walked back to the left. Well, then I finally thought, I'm gonna open the door. I was kind of worried to open it too much because every time I'd open it or get my hand out, he'd try to jump up and flog me or whatever. But one point I led him back and forth on the window, and I led him back to the left outside my window, and I had the door open. So when he went and strutted past the window to my left, I had the door open, and I walked him back that way to the left a little bit, kind of led him with my hand, you know, trying to get him to come over that way. He turned toward my hand. He walked in. Again, I had the door cracked open just enough I could get my hand out. And when he walked back to the left, he was strutting past there and had his chest, his breasts there, and and he walked out there, and I stuck my hand out and just grabbed, thinking I'm gonna grab a handful of feathers or whatever. I stuck my hand out and I felt the beard on his chest, and I just grabbed a handful, I just clenched my fist, and I had the beard, and my fingers just kind of went up, and the beard just wadded up in my hand, and I grabbed it, and when I did, he of course just jumped back, like, oh my gosh, what is that? Just jumped back away. And when I did, that whole beard popped off in my hand, just like clean, just like that, popped off. There you go, in my hand, and I'm sitting there thinking, oh my gosh, I got I got a I got his beard, you know, it's like catch and release. And uh he jumped back away, like, what in the heck was that? Now I mean just like what in the w what's going on? And it's like he'd been, you know, just violated, I guess. And I guess that probably goes um, you know, I I think we were far enough away from the incident now that I could probably say that was probably harassment. Why you can get in trouble for harassing wild animals, you know what I'm saying? You ever heard that before? Like you can't go out and just mess or abuse I wouldn't call that abuse, but I mean ripping his beard off. I don't know what you consider that.
SPEAKER_01Is it I guess he would take that as offense?
SPEAKER_00He'd be offended by that, probably so.
SPEAKER_01Like you grab somebody's beard and just rip it off. That'd be sad. He worked hard for that.
SPEAKER_00He worked hard for that. He was three years in on that beard, and dude, I popped the whole sucker off sitting there in the front seat and driver's seat of that Jeep Cherokee and had it in my hand. I'm thinking, what a trophy. This is awesome. This is awesome.
SPEAKER_01Do you even have that beard?
SPEAKER_00I think it's in that cigar box right up there, the Swish or Sweets box, one of those, I think. Um I think it's still there. And I always remember it because it was just the cleanest, it just popped off so clean. Uh that's kind of how I pop my beards off now. I don't cut them off like I used to and have all the skin and stuff. I just twist and pop, just kind of twist and whoop. And they come off clean. But nobody believes me. Okay. I like I said, I'd call John Paul and then I'd tell him, I go home that day and have this beard. He's like, man, no, dude, you're you're you're full of it. No, that didn't happen. I'm like, I got the beard. You know, that's not proof because anybody could show up with a beard, you know, from whatever. Well, like I said before, if I've told this story before, you you've heard it before, but listen, a little while later, nobody wanted to believe my story. I'm telling it. Everybody's like, oh, you're lying, dude. You're telling stories, making up stories. Well, a little while later, time goes by. John Paul calls up one day and says, Hey, dude, I believe you now. And I'm like, What? He said, I believe you. I I I I believe your story. And I'm like, What what what's changed? What why do you believe me now? What's going on? Some time has passed. And he said, dude, he said, you need to look at the paper. You know our newspaper? Paris P.I. Paris Post Intelligence or newspaper. He said, dude, there's a turkey on the front page of the newspaper. It's your turkey. And I'm saying, what do you mean it's my turkey? He said, Brody, it's on the front page. He's right there on the front page. And I'm like, Well, what do you mean? He said, It's your turkey. And I was like, How do you know? And he said, He ain't got no beard. And um, I remember pulling the paper up, grabbing the paper, and there it was on the front page of the paper a story about this crazy turkey that was a wild turkey. Everybody's like, Oh, somebody's pet turkey. No, it was a wild turkey that'd just been hanging out a little too close to houses and uh kind of gotten domesticated a little bit or whatever. Um, and it kind of became a watchdog of sorts for this particular farm. And it was attacking the UPS man. They were saying that you know that was kind of the big thing. UPS man pull up to the yard and he he couldn't get out of the truck with the packages because this this wild turkey was attacking him. Every time he'd come up and just flog in the truck, and then the UPS man gets out, flogging the UPS man, he'd have to run to the house and run back. And um, crazy deal. Well, John Paul and I did go back out there. I'd said, You got come on, I'll take you out there. And that's when we did have our little video camera. I took the old Sony handy cam, I think it's a little digital eight camera, and we're gonna post this because I found this video a while back. It's uh I I had it in my archives. I found the old tape and it said the mad turkey. We drive out there, same deal. I think we had a camera this time. Go up in the driveway, there he is, here he comes. We pull up, the turkey comes chasing, running out there to meet us. Comes out there and he's just the same thing. We're driving up, he's just mad, flogging, all tore up, head color changing, you know, just he's mad, you know. And anyway, we messed around with him for a little bit, just making him gobble and different stuff, and it was kind of fun. And there he was. And he is it now, he had a a beard growing back out at that time. Gotta have been a little while, but we finally went back out there, and he had like a little Jake beard, short beard, and then he had these other extra pieces that I guess were part of that original beard, like a little thin couple pieces that it I didn't get in my fist when I popped the other rest of it off. And there it was, and um and now he's a believer. And now, I mean, we got the video documenting the bird, but that's been twenty years ago plus, and so I bet that bird is dead and gone.
SPEAKER_01And I wonder if anybody ever got him.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I bet somebody got him. After that story was in the paper, and after I told everybody about it, and all the commotion that stirred up. I bet somebody went up there and snuffed him out and got him a a bird with a Jake beard and some wispies of a long beard, what was left of a long beard. So crazy stuff, but that's one of the stories that came to mind the other day when I was sitting there. I was thinking, you know what, man? This is uh this is this is doable. Pretty crazy stuff. Rimbo, we have got a posted segment. We've not done one in a while, but I've got one, and this is uh just a little sound we're gonna share. We've shared some of these crazy sounds before, but I saw this the other day. We're gonna be delicate in how we deal with this, but this is your posted segment of the week. Alright, this one uh, like I said, it's gonna be a little bit delicate in how we how we present this, but uh this is uh I saw this pop up the other day. Fierce Focus Outdoors posted this, and uh, you know, we talked, I think we've done on the Bobcat or uh uh on the podcast, we've done Bobcat sounds. We've talked about how spooky they are and how um it just makes you want to run back to the house. You hear a bobcat screaming, what does it sound like, Remy? Yeah, you can't even do it because you're super you're too manly, but it sounds like a woman screaming.
SPEAKER_01It reminds you of kind of like a dinosaur kind of like growl or whatever. Velociraptor growl or whatever.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it it's it's nasty, it's scary. And that's what this one is, but uh we're gonna play the sound, but you got it's what the caption caught my attention the other day, and I love it. It was just funny. But it says this is the sound men make when they catch their we're just gonna say their their package uh in their pants zipper. All right. This is when they when they when they if you if and when you ever get tangled up in your zipper and you're not paying attention, it'll change your life, it'll scare you to death that the pain is enough to make you sound like this right here. Here's what they said. All right, if you ever have the misfortune of getting tangled up in your zipper, man, that just might be the sound you make. The old bobcat screaming. Still gets me. When I hear that, I'm like, my word, man. I've heard that one, I think one time that I know of. And it did. It just did that. It made me want to run back to the truck. I thought, nope, not hunting down there today. Ain't having that, ain't going there. Sound of a bobcat screaming in the wild. Not good. It'll make you change your mind, and uh just it it's scary. Give you the heebie jeebies to say the least. Hey, here's a quick word from the word as we wrap up this week. This is 1 John 4 4, and it said, You are from God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. Okay? You are from God, little children. I don't know if they're talking about you or me or all of us. Little children, that's us. God's children, we are his God's children, and it says, uh, you've overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world, and that's the good stuff. We're God's children, we're his chosen people. And greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world, man. The stuff that's in us, God, and the goodness, the good stuff that he's built into us because of him in our lives is so much greater. Greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world, man. And that's the hope, that's the promise, that's the assurance we have as as children of God is to know that he's he's in us and um living in us, and it's good, and it's great. Far greater than the stuff of this world and the ones that are being led by this world. So I hope you know him, I hope you got him in your life so you can say that same thing this week and in your life as you go about your day-to-day routine. Rimbo, been a good one to talk about these turkeys. Just hanging on to your tier, ducks, ducks, turkey season, we'll get it right here in a minute. Duck season behind us, deer season behind us, turkey season is right around the corner. So we got some scouting to do, new farms, new places we're checking out this year. Looking forward to it. And I guess since you're the last of the youngins, you're up to bat first, huh? I got us locked in on one place for a youth weekend. I think it'd be good. I think we're dialed for that. And so won't be long. We look forward to hearing from some of you guys, those that are already started hunting, you listeners, uh, as you're um getting your seasons underway. Send us some photos. I always love to see what's happening out there and see what's going on in your neck of the woods. So keep in touch, let us know what's going on. As always, chasing with all your heart, soul, and strength, and we look forward to seeing you right back here next time. Shoot straight. God bless.