Welcome to this country life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves.

From coon hunting to trotlining and just general country living, I want you to stay a while

as I share my experiences and life lessons.

This country life is presented by Case Knives on Meat Eat Eater's Podcast Network, bringing

you the best outdoor podcast the airways have to offer.

All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate.

I've got some stories to share.

The Helpers We get by in this life never on our own.

All of us at one time or another need a little help, sometimes a lot of help, but help just the same.

And I'm going to talk to you today about the ones that give it, but first, I'm going to tell you a story.

It may have been January or February, regardless of the particular month, it was cold,

raining, and nasty outside when I was awoken from a nice,

warm slumber to the telephone in the middle of the night.

Such is the life of a deputy on call in a rural county for an undermanned sheriff's department.

You were really never off, even when you were off work. But sometime after midnight,

you know when the good calls come in, I answered the phone trying to be coherent enough to

decipher what the dispatcher was telling me from the other end of the line. Brent, are you awake?

Yes. I usually am when I answer the phone. That was my normal smart

ellic response to being woke up in the middle of the night, knowing I was fixing to have to go

somewhere I didn't want to go, which was anywhere that wasn't under the warm covers where I was

currently positioned.

She said, I'm waking another deputy.

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