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Oh, Dale and Bucky Asscraft are already going at it.
You feel better?
Refreshing.
Alright, I'm back in the game.
Breaking out the Pisswater Brewski.
I am back in the game.
Okay, man, it's been a minute since we've done a Dogging Tuesday.
I'm glad we got everybody on here.
Tim Smith, Nicky Matthews, she's watching from the back room back there.
She's just going to dog us one way or another.
So just be ready for her.
Oh, Cody Carter joined.
Haven't seen him on here before.
How about that?
Alright, Basham, what have you been up to?
Let's talk.
Man, I've been, today I've been burning Pala Wood.
Yeah, I had a long night last night.
Man, wore out.
Made 21 trees.
21 trees.
You're getting after it.
What'd you have?
Four dogs?
Yeah, four.
Spot went six for six.
Church went four for five.
Oh boy went three for four.
And then, man, I'm telling you, anybody out there that is looking for the best possum
dog in the United States, I think I've got him.
Here you go, Benji Koffin just said, how many slicktails?
How many did you have, Basham?
So old Buzz went three, he went six for six last night.
Three cooms, three possums.
In two nights, he's 13 for 13.
Seven cooms, six possums.
Wow.
Hey, we got TJ McCauley joined us, Brandon White, next level, Supreme and Pet Food joined
us.
Thanks for having you guys on here.
Next level, that is the feed for me.
Wheel's been looking good.
Yeah, that's a good feed.
No tribute to salute or tribute to whatever.
Yeah.
Hero salute.
Yeah, hero salute.
Yeah.
Man, I'm telling you, old Dale won't get off my bucky.
Dale and Bucky go back and forth like you wouldn't believe.
I tell you what, I do like the idea though, let Semper Dogg just film it and we'll just
let him go at it, you know?
Well, actually they were talking about Zach and Norm.
Oh, Zach Vaught, yeah, I saw that earlier.
You know, old Norman, he's a member of the Navy SEALs, I believe.
Is that what I read?
Yeah, it went through Buzz.
Yeah.
Yeah, don't you know he's a certified badass?
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess so.
But other than that, he's freaking hunting, doing some cleanup, got the bonfire going
today, a bunch of stuff.
But what have you been up to, doing any hunting?
I've been doing a little bit of it.
Yeah, we've been hunting wheels quite a bit last week.
I did not take him last night.
I ended up taking my little pup last night.
Trying to get her going, man.
She's starting to tree.
She's treed two coons in the last three times I've taken her.
So she's starting to look up.
She is a track running fool.
All she wants to do is run track.
But she's starting to look up.
So if I can get there, she's actually treed three more coons that I have not got to.
She hits up, hits up, hits up, hits up.
And before I can get there, she leaves.
So if I can just get in there and get a hold of her, we might make something.
So
Oh, Seth Reisner.
I stayed with Seth and Alan Carlson and Levi, Levi Swante up at, up at AKC World.
Stayed up there in the cabin with them.
Oh, Seth was there?
Yeah.
I didn't know he was there.
Was he hunting or just hanging out?
No, he was hunting.
He got fire in.
For who?
For, oh,
You mean Chad Reisner?
Yeah, Chad Reisner.
My bad.
My brain's, my brain's fried today.
It must be.
I was going to say Seth, the guy written the cabin off of me.
He's my buddy.
Chad Reisner.
Hey, I'm telling you, I've been at it today.
Cutting up trees, throwing stuff.
I got a dumpster out here, loading up the dumpster.
Yes, I know Seth laughs at me.
We all do.
It's okay.
Hey, we got Lane Leverett watching.
We just dropped a podcast with him Friday.
Mr. Lane, that was a great podcast.
We got a lot of good feedback on that big pro sport announcement.
Hey.
Seth said, I knew you was wrong when you said I got a dog in.
It was Chad Reisner.
He was hunting fire.
He hunted his pup the first night, but he hunted fire second night.
Got her in and then Alan got that dope female in.
Yeah.
Levi got a, actually all four of us staying there.
We all four got in and got beat early Friday night.
So tag on it.
Tag on it.
Hey, let's talk about that podcast.
Let's dive into that for a second.
That was a good podcast, Mr. Lane.
Oh, chicken pie.
Moon pies and chicken thighs.
Yeah.
Let's talk about that hunt format.
Have you thought any more about it?
Is there anything you like, dislike about that hunt?
What's on the top of your mind now that we've had a couple of days to chew on it?
It's kind of like I told Lane during the podcast.
I think that, I don't know if they're going to do it for the female hunt, but I like the
idea of doing say 40 dogs and then putting the poll on Facebook and just letting Facebook,
you know, letting all the viewers kind of pick who they want to see in the top 24.
Yeah.
I like that idea.
Yeah.
It might be a little late in the game to do it now for this one, but yeah, because the
hunt's coming up.
I just think there's so many.
I mean, if you really dive into even the females, there's just, there's so many that you could,
that you could go back and grab because I don't really think you could, I don't think
there's 24 top females that are winning right now.
Like you've got to go back a little bit.
Right.
Hmm.
It's interesting.
What are you interested in?
I think I do think that's a good idea, but I also like what you and I talked about the
other day, um, making sure that it is based on the dog and not the handler.
So if you've got, you know, one handler who might have two nice females, but only one
of them really qualifies for that 24, you tell them which one they're hunting.
They don't get to choose which one they bring.
Exactly.
What about dogs?
One over a hundred K for male hunt.
I don't know.
You get 24 of them as they're even, is there even 24 of those lane?
I mean, cause I mean, if you're, if you're going to do that, there's a, I mean, there's
a lot of dogs.
It's one quite, I mean that are regular winners.
It probably like, I know lane lane and shot just hit the a hundred thousand.
Now you could go, you might be able to go a hundred thousand, a hundred thousand multi
registry.
I don't know that we'd inject would even be there yet.
No, but what I'm saying is you can go a hundred thousand all registries.
Yeah.
I mean, I mean, I still don't know that I don't know that we'd inject would even be
there yet.
No, but yeah, but okay.
So take, take like Jeff Rickliffe's and hobo, you know, they won 50 K at tournament champions
and I'm sure he's won 50,000 and PKC I would assume.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know.
It's an interesting thought that I mean, there's a lot of ways you can go with it.
Lane.
I still think the way we talked about it was in my opinion, the best, not because it's
my opinion, but because we all talked about it is come up with like 40 dogs and then see
who, you know, see who wants to, you know, who gets the most notes on it.
Bucky Ashcraft says he's a hundred thousand hobo Bucky.
You would know all about it.
You and old Jeffy, you two are butt buddies.
We know it.
You know exactly what he's doing and what he had for dinner last night.
It's okay, buddy.
But thanks for coming.
Would you have, I don't know, Lane, you would, you would, you would have to get with PKC
and get with Greg to figure out like what dogs would hit that criteria.
Yeah, he would.
I mean that, but that's like, I was talking to dual up at the AKC and he was telling me
that he's won 25 or 30 with cowboy and I would have never known it.
You know what I mean?
Just because I don't see, I see him hunting crash or, or fame more than I do cowboys.
I'd never would have known unless he would have told me that I never would have known
he won that much with him.
So yeah, he went on a little tear with him there last year.
Absolutely.
And that's what dogs out there, you know, if you're talking about the a hundred thousand
in both registries or in any registry combined, there's dogs out there that we're not even
thinking about.
Right.
Absolutely.
Well, there's a million ways to skin this cat.
So it'll be interesting to see what they come up with.
I like Benji Benji.
I have the dog.
I would, I got a dog in my kennel that I would put up against any dog out there for possums.
How are you going to break that?
Give us some training tips and advice.
Uh, but I have, I'm all out.
I'm not going to go through the things I've done to try to break that dog on air with
other people witnessing.
Yeah.
You don't want to self-incriminate.
That'd be bad.
It would definitely be self-incriminating if I even told what I did last night to him.
I mean, it's just the sad part is, is to be honest, he don't even know that he's training
him.
He thinks he's right.
As soon as it hits the ground, you can see it in his eyes and he's gone.
Interesting.
Yeah.
As soon as it hits the ground, he knows he's wrong.
Yeah.
Now if it hits the ground, he's on top of it.
He's crazy over it.
But as soon as he sees that possum with his eyes, he's like, Oh no, I screwed up.
Well, Dale said about after three possums in a row, not sure he's the one to ask how
to break one.
Hey, Dale, uh, it's not just three, two nights in a row.
First night he went four, four and three.
And then last night he went three and three.
So he's treats six possums in two nights.
Goodness gracious.
No, Nikki, it's not a blue tick.
It is.
It is a Walker dog.
Hey, we've got forest red on here.
One of our bear hunting buddies from down there in Virginia.
Glad to have you here, buddy.
Man, if you guys see me keep swatting and looking around, I've got a fly that is driving
me absolutely insane.
It is drove me nuts for about a week now.
I've got a big old fly trap hanging off my ceiling and I can't get it.
Dale.
Good grief.
He's sold it to Bucky.
Damn, them two.
I swear.
Yeah.
Hey, I got some, some exciting news.
It's happened since last time we talked a little bit more on the personal side of things,
but we got old wheels bread for the first time.
Oh yeah.
I see.
I've seen the, uh, I've seen your little flyer that you put out.
Yeah.
Old Tracy Thompson called me.
He called me after the world hunt, the UKC world hunt, about a week after that and said,
uh, he said, Hey buddy, he said, I need something from you.
And kind of threw me off cause Tracy doesn't call me.
And I said, what's that?
He said, I need your dog.
I said, do what?
And he said, yeah, I need your dog.
He said, I done made up my mind.
He said, I think I want to breed to him.
And he and I sat there and had a nice little 30, 40 minute conversation and, you know,
talked about a few things and we ultimately come down to the fact that that's what we're
going to do.
And he is a, he decided to breed ringtails forever Mandy to old chrome wheels.
Super nice.
Jip.
I think she's got about 19,001 and PKC, uh, grand night champion at UKC.
I think she's a bench show champion.
She's out of little money.
So that's right.
So dual purpose dog.
So yeah, man, I'm super excited.
I think we've got five pups spoke for already out of that litter.
Um, I think, um, Oh, my buddy, Mike Ream, he's going to be the one who's who's welping
these pups and taking the deposit list and stuff.
So I'm super excited to see what happens there.
Dale says, he said you're flyer about called to buy some rims for my truck.
Hey, but if you had some rims, it looked as good as that dog.
You'd be pulling all of them just about like old Bucky.
He, Dale, Dale's on a terror today.
He's on one.
I'll tell you what he's on one, but no, I'm super pumped.
I'm pumped about it.
You know, wheels, he just turned four in September.
So I don't want to be that guy that waits until he's six or seven years old to get
a litter of pups on the ground and see what he's got.
And if they turn out really nice and then you're almost, you know, you're behind the
eight ball.
So we're going to get that litter on the ground here.
Very pumped about it.
And obviously no, no plans on breeding him open to public or anything, but just for personal
use at this point.
And I'm going to be getting a mail out of that litter and see what we can do with it.
So pretty pumped for me.
That's my exciting news.
Last time we talked, we, we in the last two weeks, two weeks, we've gotten buddy bread
three times.
Wow.
So there will be three litters on the ground.
We, uh, we haven't, we haven't actually made any, any flyers I got with Hannah Maynard
and she's going to make me a couple of flyers for the litter.
But um, yeah, three different females.
So one's out at Kevin Purdy stock, uh, out of, uh, do, and then, uh, the other two females,
uh, one females, uh, off of, uh, Danny Perez's Mr. J stock.
And then I don't know the other female.
Yeah.
Well, Hey, let's talk about your exciting news.
It's happened here since the last time we've talked, we've got, we've got people watching.
They want to know, they want to hear you confess your sins right here on the simple dog and
podcast dogging Tuesday.
Loose lips think shit.
Let's talk about it.
All right.
So first and foremost, before I go too far into it, uh, there is a handful of people
that I want to really, uh, you know, I don't really get into the sentimental, emotional
side of things, but, uh, really wholeheartedly want to, uh, thank, um, appreciate, uh, for
their time, for their efforts and everything.
And that is Scott Engel, John Strickland, uh, Mr. Jamie step, Brandon Scaff, um, yourself.
Um, let's see here, Jeffrey Davis, Bruce Bartz and his wife, uh, Levi's font.
Let's see here, I know there's a few, there's a few of this and, uh, Mr. Alan holding definitely
amazing.
Um, so hold on one second.
I got somebody doing dishes in the kitchen.
I'm about to blow my eardrums out.
Lydia, can you comment down there please?
Kids doing dishes.
Oh, we've lost Basham.
Looks like it's just me hanging on here for a second.
He must've got off his phone there to, uh, look at a list, whatever he's got going on.
But guys, we are super pumped.
Hey, he's back.
Yes, I was looking at my list, uh, Mr. Vic out in Oklahoma.
I think that's about it, but really a big shout out to Scott and to John Strickland.
So after the world hunt, I figured that, uh, it was, it had been enough time.
I had served enough time, uh, being barred from United Kennel Club that I submitted a
letter, uh, requesting an appeal, uh, based on just past precedents, uh, and everything
else.
So I reached out to a bunch of people and asked for letters of recommendation.
Uh, Scott and John kind of took it one step forward and send it straight, send it straight
to UKC and called them and talked to them.
And, uh, as of Monday of last week, Stephen Basham has been reinstated with a three year
probation.
Hit the drum roll.
We need to play like that Slim Shetty song.
Guess who's back, back, back, back again, again, again, back, back, back, back, tell
a friend, friend, friend, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back.
Yeah, it's, um, yeah, for me, honestly, it was a humbling experience as far as asking
all these people to write recommendations and how people were willing to jump up and
help, um, help me get back in.
It was kind of, you know, just reading, reading some of the recommendations that were wrote
was honestly really humbling.
Uh, JR Gray, JR Gray wrote an amazing one for me.
Appreciate it.
Alan Holden wrote a good one.
Yeah.
You got to read.
Alan's so that you could see it.
Um, Alan was another one.
Um, so like I said, just all the guys that was willing to jump up and help me, uh, get
reinstated really appreciate it.
Couldn't do it without you.
Um, it says a lot, you know, um, I can't, can't always say that I'm one that has never
let my emotions or, you know, my hot head in this show, but I think for the most part,
people that have drawn me in the hunts and who I've judged can honestly say that I'm
there to see the best dog win.
It don't matter.
Don't matter who's behind the leash, uh, whether it's mine, whether it's somebody else, I try
to do what's right.
So, you know, just being able to see, um, other people see me as the way that I try
to be with other people would just, it was really a humbling experience.
Dale, Dale Huff commented.
I'm telling you, he's on when he says, damn, now we got to know why you got barred that
we don't have enough time to go through this one.
Why I got barred.
And then you're already behind the yard behind a, he's just over there stirring the pot.
He's like, Oh yeah, here we go.
But he also knows why I got barred.
Oh, Jeremy Shaddy.
That's a very true statement.
He said, coon dogs will bring out the worst in it.
Sometimes, you know, no matter how much you try to, you know, one or you want to think
that, you know, in every situation you'd be calm, cool, level headed.
It's just, it's probably not reality, you know, there are certain situations in which
you're just going to boil over.
Well, I'm not going to get into all the specifics.
Um, I will just say that, um, and I don't want to put all their, their personal information
out there, but I will just say that, you know, this as well as I do that.
Um, when we run these dogs, especially when you're hunting for somebody else, it's not
always about just what you have going on.
Uh, you know, it's also about what's going on behind the scenes.
So what a lot of people don't know is, is, uh, during that run with Buddy, you know,
this, sorry, Nikki said you want my version of it.
No, no, cause you will say things that are not nice.
So we, what was going on was buddy, buddy had a medical condition.
Uh, first and foremost, he had battle paralysis and, uh, no, we don't Dale.
Trust me.
You do not want Nikki's version.
And Mark Nikki's version would be a whole lot better because it would be nonbiased.
Oh God.
Tiffany says she has a version too.
All the ladies got a version.
Oh Lord.
There's watching.
There's a version.
All right.
Hey, keep it on track.
Let's not derail this one.
We can't afford for this train to jump the tracks.
We'd be, we'd be tearing stuff up.
Anyways.
So, uh, buddy, buddy came down with laryngeal paralysis.
So he was really hitter.
Dale Huff said Simper doggone after dark.
We have to repeat these comments on the mic because there's some people who don't listen
or don't watch these Facebook lives and they only listen to the audio.
So we've got to fill people in on what's happening here when they're just listening on their,
their listening platform and God Dale Huff, we're just have to hire you for comedic relief
on the rest of our episodes.
So anyways, buddy, buddy came down with laryngeal paralysis and it was really affecting him.
Um, he was, he was wheezing.
Sometimes he would shut up.
So we had already had it in our minds.
And after that year we were going to shut him down until we figured out what was going
on.
So, um, that was first and foremost was he was making a run and we just basically were
going to shut him down after.
Yeah.
My face got red.
We were going to shut down after the year.
So knowing that we, that he was going to be shut down, that was one thing.
And then we had kind of a fan, not mine, but Bruce's family, just some medical issues that
happened.
Um, the person that actually ended up raising buddy, uh, came down, um, with a medical issue.
I won't get into the details.
And so that person, you know, right before the world hunt, she just looked at me and
she said, the only thing that I want is for you to go in the world.
And so when all of this came about and all of it came down, it wasn't, it wasn't just,
it wasn't about me winning the world.
It was about buddy being shut down and winning it for her and just, just all the emotions,
not only that, but you know, I've said it many a times with my dad, not being a great
health, you know, it was, it was winning a world championship, you know, being able to,
while he's alive and being able to celebrate it with him.
So, I mean, when you get that close, there's a lot of emotions.
I mean, we night in and night out, we're out there pounding the woods, you know, just hoping
to see the confetti rain, you know, not just for us, but to share it with those people
that have pushed us and, and motivated us and toward us.
And then when you feel like it's ripped out for Monday, you just, like I said, it's not
just at that point in time, you're not just fighting for you.
You're fighting for everybody that motivated you into who you are.
You're fighting for everybody that molded the dog that you're hunting into where it
is.
It's just, it's, it really is a team, team effort.
Yep.
It sure is.
There's a lot that goes on in those big events.
You know, like you said, there's just so much that it's going through your head and I know
what you mean.
I know exactly what you mean.
And I'm trying not to, I can't say any better than what you just did.
So I'm not even going to try to.
Yeah.
It's just like I said, there's a lot going on during that hunt.
Now one, one, you know, obviously, and me and him have talked since me and Justin and
I couldn't be more, I couldn't be more happier that, that, that he was able to experience
something that I'm trying to experience.
And so I couldn't be upset one bit.
And that's, you know, being able to share a world championship with his dad before he
passed.
And I mean, that's, that's in essence, what we're trying to do is share it with those,
with those that we love and just be able to share in those moments.
And so, you know, part of the letter that I wrote was to UKC.
And I just basically told them that, you know, a hundred percent I own up to my actions and
what I did, you know, something that I always try to preach to my kids is, is don't let
other people's actions affect you or be an excuse for your actions.
So just because somebody else does you wrong or somebody else does something, it doesn't
give you the excuse for your actions to act up or for your actions to be, you know, other
than what you are morally and what your morals and values are.
So that's kind of the gist of what I wrote, you know, UKC in the fact of, you know, I've
had a lot of time to, you know, for a whole year to sit back.
Not only did it affect me, it affected everybody around me.
It affected you.
It affected Mark.
It affected Bruce.
It affected Buddy.
It affected my dad, you know, Redbone Days was right there in Tell City and dad really
wanted somebody to show his two little show dogs because he can't do it, you know, not
that he would have wanted or anything, but just to have his dogs entered and didn't have
nobody to do it because, you know, I was a bard.
So you know, me getting barred, not only it didn't just affect me, it affected a lot of
people around me.
Yeah.
And, and you know, that's another thing though that you let's look at the flip side of the
coin is yes, it affected other people, you know, but what you just said is there's so
much that goes onto this and there's so much more to these dogs.
It really shows, you know, how much people care about you and about the dogs, you know,
it's like, uh, Mark, you know, he's taken the reign on Buddy and most of the UKC events
this last year.
He's taken him where he needs to go.
You get to Autumn Oaks this year and it's like, okay, I can have Nikki hunt wheels.
I can hunt spot for you.
Mark can hunt Buddy.
And we made it work to give the dogs the chance.
It literally is a family, family event, meaning, you know, between your friends, you know,
just picking up the flag between everybody and helping each other out and Hey, I got
you here.
You got me there or whatever.
And it, it really just comes down to just being there for each other.
Really a team effort.
It is.
And the dogs, they don't know what's happened.
You know, they don't deserve.
Anything.
They don't deserve to sit out because the handler spot knows that I'm not there and
he's going to bite you.
He had dogs three for three.
He's bit me three times since I've hunted him.
But that's kind of like, I mean, if you remember back when I won duals with Buddy, how many
people was in that picture?
A bunch.
That's because that's, that's how I am.
That's who I am.
You know, even anybody, anybody that had anything to do, you know, anybody that was there with
us, like when I win, we all win.
You know what I mean?
That's it's, it's a big team effort.
So that's just the way that I am.
And like I said, that's kind of why that's kind of why not throwing excuses out.
But that's honestly why when I lost it, I lost it because it wasn't about me.
It was about the circumstances behind it.
Yep.
Absolutely.
So what we're glad to have you back back in action.
Ready to take on the world.
Now I got to get my five for spot.
So we're probably going to start off this weekend and start, uh, start, start getting
our five so that we can hunt and tournament champions.
And then I'm sure that Buddy will end up back down here.
I still got to get two on him.
And then he never know, he never know from there how many more I'll get qualified by
the end of the year.
I mean, you, you better get on it.
You're getting into crunch time here.
Oh, spots go spot to get it with ease.
God blessed.
Can we get him back?
Bart again here.
I don't want to listen to this anymore.
It was a lot easier and he was quiet.
What's what's what's the one hunt you're having?
You've had issues with tournament champions.
It's the one I cannot get in.
I have knocked on the door and knocked on the door and knocked on the door and I can't
break in the fricking top 100.
Yeah.
Jeremy shatty said, Hey, it definitely takes a team.
He said Kyle short helped him tremendously with his old rock dog.
Without him, I probably wouldn't have been able to win the hunts that we did.
So you know, it's a lot going on there.
People as as coon hunters stick together and it's the same with the bear hunters, same
with the coyote guys, hounds men in general are known for being a brotherhood, you know,
helping each other out where you can and getting things, getting things lined out and making
sure that the dog gets the best opportunity that they can get.
So definitely.
Well, that's, that's the big news.
You've confessed your sins.
You said, you said you're sorry.
You're back in.
I'm back in.
I just got to watch my Ps and Qs for three years.
Yeah.
Bill's has been bred, buddy's been bred.
Y'all are looking for some pups.
Get a hold of me or bash them.
We'll get you hooked up one way or another.
Next weekend, I'm headed to the $25,000 hunt in Tennessee.
Oh, how about that?
They can old spot.
What is that?
A PKZ hunt pro sport hunt?
What is that?
I don't even know about it.
Yeah.
I'm telling you, I've been, I've been out of it for a minute.
Yeah.
Lane Lever said it's not what we do.
It's who we are.
So very true.
Very.
Yeah.
I need to, I just had a conversation with the gentleman this week about, I'd like to
start pushing wheels a little bit more.
So I think we're going to try and start finding some, some hunts to put him in.
He deserves it.
He's been looking good.
Well, I don't see you go down to that one.
I honestly, I didn't know anything about it till you just said it.
I've kind of been out of it looking at the hunts and stuff.
So go to, we can ride down to get this.
So it's Thursday and Friday are your qualifying rounds.
It's 500 each night.
Oh, that's why it's cause I got to work.
I'm working man.
I'll just get with Shane.
It'll be fine.
That's not exactly how that works.
Hey, just take the froggy bottoms down there.
I'll hit to ride and we'll just make Shane pay for it all.
Yeah.
Hey, Leon Marny said, entries available.
Go get them.
See, see, you can go up there and set a booth up.
When it, when is, let's see here.
Let me look at a calendar.
Let me pull up a calendar.
It's Thursday and Friday and then the final, it's just like Roshanir Classic almost.
It's Thursday and Friday and then there's 16 and four hunts Saturday.
So Thursday and Friday.
So the 30th, 31st and the first.
Yep.
Interesting.
I might, I'll look into the ad.
I'll see what goes on.
I'm telling you getting them vacation days off is what's rough, man.
It's just like the national cup.
The setup is just like what we ended up at the national cup.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know Dale.
That's the reason Shane's got so much money.
He's got me on his team over here bringing it in for him left and right.
They don't even give me a day off.
I'm just kidding.
He's pretty good to me.
But man, I'm telling you the vacation days, that's, I struggle with that.
I wish there, I don't know.
I'd take that back.
Some days I'm like, man, I wish I could just hit the roads hard and I could just hunt all
the time and that was my job.
And then there's other days I'm like, thank goodness hunting is not my job.
And yeah, me and Jared Wilgis, Jared Wilgis said we talked about the vacation days today.
We sure did.
Me and old Wilgis had a good conversation talking about how, you know, there's all these
hunts that we want to go to, but you just can't take off the time for work to go to
all of them.
It's just hard, man.
And there's so many hunts.
That's why you either got to work for yourself or like in my case, I'm a union electrician.
And so in essence, I work for myself because if I want to go, I go.
And if they get rid of me, I go to the hall and get another job the next day.
So they either let me go or they let me go.
But really it's more about me knowing what I can afford.
So if I can afford to be off, I go.
I can't afford to be off, then I don't go.
Yep.
Yeah.
Well, trying to get this farm off the ground and trying to keep braces on these kids'
mouths and food in their stomachs and everything else.
Tough, man.
This farm, Rafter E family farmstead.
Hey, I'm just saying everybody that's watching right here needs to go over to our Facebook
page, the Rafter E family farmstead, give it a like and a follow here in about two or
three weeks, we're going to have all the fresh Longhorn beef on our website.
You'll be able to shop just like you're sitting at home.
You'll be able to get your ground beef, your steaks, your roasts, everything right there.
You just ordered online.
Now, the only the only downfall is not a lot of you guys watching here are close to me.
So we're only going to be within the three counties around us right now.
But one day we're going to have some shipping available.
So just keep in mind, why can't you put it in dry ice and ship it?
It's not the fact that we can't ship it.
It's just there's a lot of paperwork when dealing with food, with how it transports.
We got to get licenses and stuff and it's got to be inspected a certain way and you
got to ship it a certain way.
And well, I knew you had to ship it a certain way.
I just didn't know.
I mean, just like everything else, license and insurance, all that crap.
Yeah.
When it comes to food, you know, the government's real weird about it.
So even though we're raising the healthiest, healthiest food out there, all antibiotic free,
hormone free, they still want to have their fingers in it somehow.
So it's all the legalities are shipping it.
Nikki says you're not allowed to have time off.
I know me and her just had the discussion this weekend.
I said, Dagon, I said, we just go, go, go every weekend.
I said, I got to stay home and get some stuff done.
Well, I mean, you can't go to Nashville, Indiana all the time.
I know it.
Dale Huff said he said later boys time and hit the woods.
Good episode.
We're going to call simple dog and fight night, simple dog and after dark and simple dog and
possum break.
And that'd be a tough one to beat.
He ain't kidding.
We covered the bases.
We're going to call that the simple dog and grand slam.
That's going to be the name of this episode.
The simple dog and grand slam.
I'm about to hit the woods myself.
Little Rex gave me a call and asked if I wanted to go hunting.
Did he?
You going with him?
Hey, we sit here saying we're getting ready to sign off and you got three new peoples
just signed on watching.
You boys are late to the party.
41 minutes late.
Cover late.
Get eight.
James Ashley is always late.
Hey, look at this.
James Ashley made these hats I'm wearing right here.
Old book and designs.
These suckers are slick, man.
Let me show you these things.
I don't mind my hairdo.
I know I look good.
Huh?
What do you think about that?
Them hand, them hand sewn leather patch caps right there.
They're the real deal boys.
They're sewn right on the inside.
That ain't no glue and stick on stuff.
That's the real deal.
James Ashley, James Ashley is the younger version of Bobby Burton.
You think so?
Yeah.
You need any hats.
You give old James Ashley a buzz.
They'll hook you up with book and designs, man.
We're super pumped with these things.
Leon Marner said, Denny Meredith will be late to his own funeral.
Denny, Denny, come up with the late crew.
I don't have time my day.
I don't have time my day to have a late crew.
Oh, Matthew Johnson's watching.
He's late too, buddy.
42 minutes late.
We're going to start marking tardies and absences for those people who keep showing
up late here.
Basham, you got anything else?
No, sir.
I'm good to go.
Going to go load up.
I'm just going to take two tonight.
Going to take Spot and Buzz.
Take old possum, dog.
There you go.
I went last night.
I don't think I'm going to go tonight.
Some of us have to do the back end of this podcast and get it all edited and uploaded.
Then I got to do some farm paperwork and maybe if I get lucky, Nick, you want a cuddle or
something?
You know, once she says I do, it means I don't know.
Yeah.
We already had this conversation.
What was it that you told me three days after your wedding?
Just go ahead and air it out there.
Nah, we're just going to end that one.
Hey, remember what you said at the beginning of this podcast?
Loose lip, sink ships.
All right, guys, well, we're going to head off here.
Thank you guys so much for joining us.
These dog and Tuesdays are turned into a riot, man.
These things are fun.
We really appreciate all the commentary and everybody chiming in here.
The rid and back and forth.
It's all in good fun.
It's on good camaraderie.
But God, we have a blast doing this, so Bassem, I'm glad you're back in, buddy.
Oh yeah, that's the name of this podcast.
Loose lips, sink ships.
Is it going to be that or is it going to be, you know, the simple dog and simple dog and
grand slam or is it shady back?
God bless it.
I don't know.
See, these are things that I, these are things that I have to worry about whenever we hang
up here and you just get to go her simple dog and after dark.
That's not a bad one.
In memory of Dale Huff.
AKA Bucky Ashcraft.
That's right.
Old Bucky's baby.
All right guys, we're hanging off or hanging up, signing off.
We're out of here.
Y'all have a good week.
Be sure to join us next Friday for another episode.
I've got a, I got one in my pocket here ready to record on Monday.
So I'm going to have a, have a good episode coming up with you.
I'm not going to, I'm not going to reveal it, but it's going to be a good one.
It's going to be a little off color if you know what I mean.
Wink wink.
There's a little foreshadowing.
So uh, Albert Ashcraft said, could you guys borrow him for this podcast?
No, we can't borrow him from the podcast at Bucky.
We can't bar anybody.
We like it over here.
We like everybody.
Well, he wants to know if we can borrow him from the no, see bar, see there's the next
comment.
And that's all I read that before he even typed it.
Cause I knew what he meant.
See this is more than a hat rack.
All right.
I've said it 20 times.
I can't handle it no more.
Sign off this son of a gun.
Later bud.
All right.
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