Ep. 103: THIS COUNTRY LIFE - Freight Trains and Hurricanes
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode one of This Country Life! Today, we meet your host Brent Reaves: a family man and life long outdoorsman whose familial roots in rural Arkansas can be traced back over 150 years. As a way of introduction, Brent shares two of his favorite stories, taking us from schoolyard hi-jinx to riding out a lightning storm in a washed-out muskrat burrow. You're not gonna want to miss this addition to the Bear Grease lineup.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Country Life. I'm your host Brent Reaves. From Conehutton to |
| 0:10.8 | Trotline and in just general country living I want you to stay a while as I share |
| 0:15.9 | my stories and country skills that will help you beat the system. This Country |
| 0:20.4 | Life is proudly presented as part of Meet Eaters podcast network bringing |
| 0:25.2 | you the best outdoor podcast the airways have done. Alright friends, pull you up |
| 0:30.6 | a chair or drop that tailgate. I think I got a thing or two to teach you. |
| 0:39.1 | Welcome to Meet Eaters this Country Life podcast with me Brent Reaves. Some of |
| 0:45.4 | you may know me from my shenanigans on the Bear Grease Render with my buddy Clay |
| 0:49.1 | Newcombe. But most of you are probably saying who is this cat and why should I be |
| 0:53.8 | listening to him? Well I'm gonna tell you because I know stuff about living in |
| 0:58.9 | the country and on this podcast I'm gonna tell you the stories you need to |
| 1:02.8 | hear and teach you the country skills that will help you beat the system. Folks |
| 1:07.9 | at KnowMeers saying Brent you've been a police officer for over 30 years. What |
| 1:12.4 | do you mean beat the system? Maybe non-conformity is a better way to approach it. |
| 1:17.8 | Miss Roberts my 11th grade English teacher called me a walkin example of a |
| 1:23.3 | non-conformist. I'm not talking about dodging the draft not having good manners |
| 1:28.3 | or cheating on your taxes. I'm talking about that good old country common sense |
| 1:32.8 | that goes against all what I call corporate thinking. I like doing my own |
| 1:38.3 | thing that nests the best results for everyone. This show could be a weekly |
| 1:42.9 | focus of one sad story after another relating to my job after all folks don't |
| 1:48.4 | call 911 to spread good news. It's a daily grind of seeing even the best |
| 1:53.5 | people at their worst times day after day. But we ain't gonna do that. We're |
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