Welcome to this Country Life. I'm your host Brent Reaves. From Conehutton to

Trotline and in just general country living I want you to stay a while as I share

my stories and country skills that will help you beat the system. This Country

Life is proudly presented as part of Meet Eaters podcast network bringing

you the best outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. Alright friends, pull

you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I think I got a thing or two to teach you.

Watermelon. It's watermelon time and I live in watermelon country judging by

little research that I did a whole bunch of us do. Now where I live you can't

chunk a yard dart in the air this time of year and not have it come down and

stab a watermelon or somebody eating one. So this week as we continue to

celebrate the 247th year of our nation telling England to kiss our behind we're

gonna talk about three different varieties. How to pick a ripe one. Salt or no

salt, why is that even a question? And seedless watermelon. What kind of

witchcraft is that? Hang on to the end and you're gonna get some bonus footage.

First I'm gonna tell you a story. I think about some things and I pondered about

others. The difference in my thinking in pondering is when I think about algebra

which has sailed them. I'm forced to ponder about who decided their fractions

weren't hard enough without adding letters to them. Adding letters together is

called spelling, not math. Now what in the world does algebra have to do with

watermelons? Not one thing. It's the issue of pondering. So in the grand scheme

of things is stealing a watermelon to crime? Well the answer is an obvious yes of

course it is. But to a couple of high school boys that looked a whole lot like

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