Welcome to this country life. I'm your host Brent Reeves. From Coon hunting the

trot lining and just general country living, I want you to stay a while

as I share my stories and the country skills that will help you beat the system.

This country life is proudly presented as part of Meat Eater's Podcast Network,

bringing you the best outdoor podcast the Airways have to offer.

All right, friends, pull you up a chair or drop that tailgate.

I think I got a thing or two to teach you.

How to Cook a Coomb

You heard me right, we're cooking a coon this week. You know some folks eat them because they like them. Some folks eat them to support a cause one we'll talk about a little later.

Back in the day, at least down here where I live,

some folks ate them out of necessity.

They were making do with what they had,

which is a subject that covered a few episodes ago.

That inspired this country life listener Jason Campbell to send in the following story

about a time in his life when he was making do.

It might be a stretch to keep it on theme for an episode about cooking coons,

but there's some coon hunting in it, along with a good lesson.

Good lessons with their own thing with everything.

And Jason Campbell's words in my voice, here's the story called Hanging Back.

It all started about the time.

It all started about the time I thought it was all ending for me.

Like most high school freshmen, I thought I had the whole world figured out.

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