And they're loading me on this stretcher to put me in the back of the ambulance.

And I looked up and the guy attended me I'd had in federal court before and I

remember looking at my boss I remember grabbing him by the by the shirt and

pulling him down and I said don't leave me. On this episode we'll be peeking behind the

veil of the sane world as we hear a wild story of attempted murder, a high-speed chase, illegal drugs, and steaming hot irony,

all on America's public lands.

The host of our story is an old Beargree's friend who spent his career as a special agent with the United States Forest Service.

He spent time undercover, and in a past life he was a bricklayer from Southeast Tennessee.

His name is Russ Arthur.

We first heard snippets from his career in our genuine outlaw series on Bear Grease,

which started at episode 52. In this, Russ described his memorable covert

interactions with Louis Dale Edwards in Polk County, Arkansas in the 1990s.

But in Russ's real life, he's a real turkey hunter and a good one, and he

told two Gobler chasing stories on our spring 2024 turkey stories series. You might remember him finding his father's journal

on the day of his dad's funeral. Russ has lived an adventurous, interesting, and rich life embedded in the hunting community of

Appalachia, bringing law and order to public lands. But he's also worked all across America, and in the latter years even into the far reaches of

Southeast Asia will learn where that passion came from on this podcast and hear the story of attempted murder on his life.

I really doubt that you're going to want to miss this one. And hey folks,

remember that you can watch the Bear Grease Render

our every other week roundtable discussion podcast on Meat Eater's new

podcast YouTube channel. Check it out.

And I said, why would you be telling me this?

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