I pulled in and he was there at the store and I got out and as I got out there was an arrest team took him and he said what's going on I, I don't know when I'm getting out of here. I got my car. I left.

Dro on down the road the next one. They said, hey, what happened? Oh, so and so. I said, he didn't show. They'd come out and arrest him.

So we went all the way down the line and I'd make an excuse at each stop of why nobody was with me.

Welcome to Bear Greece's first bonus episode.

We interview so many people each year

and aren't able to tell all the stories

in our regular episodes, so we're trying to remedy that.

And as many of our regular listeners know,

the Bear Gries podcast has two kinds of shows.

We have our premium documentary-style

like true Beargries episodes where we dive deep to uncover some of those wild gritty American stories that we love

But we also have our bear grease render podcast which comes out every other week where we gather up a group of five or six folks

and sit around and have a conversation about the last Bear Grease.

It's a lot of fun, it's a lot more informal. Well, what you're listening to today is different. It's bonus

content. It's shorter, but highly relevant. We've spent the last two Beggarice episodes

listening to two stories from United States Forest

Service Special Agent Russ Arthur from Tennessee. In the first episode called Runt Over,

he told of citing a man for illegal squirrel hunting and how later in retribution

the man tried to kill him and ended up in prison.

Later Russ would work in unrelated marijuana grow case in the National Forest and sent the man to prison for the second time.

Truly a wild story with every type of twist and turn.

In the last episode about Yellowstone,

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