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

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

I've got some stories to share.

Did it really happen that way it's human nature to sometimes make events better or worse than they really were we fit the narrative of what we're telling to benefit the desired

outcome of what we're trying to say revision is history misremember misremembering, or just flat-out line.

I don't know.

You'll just have to judge for yourself, but I'm taking my own memory to task today.

But first, I'm going to tell you a story.

This story comes from this country life listener, Jerry Barker.

Jerry resides in Nancy, Kentucky, about five miles from where this story took place 70 years ago.

An earlier time when the art of swapping was more than a pastime in rural america and borderline on community entertainment so in jerry's words in my voice here we go

when i was a child the old men in our community would gather and swap not only stories

but various other items such

as pocket knives and livestock and pretty much anything. I remember stories of pride and

victory from some who gained the advantage of no more than a dollar by outdoing their opponent

on a pocket knife trade. The object of swapping was always to get the better end of the deal,

to out-swap the other guy.

Story I'm sharing took place in the late 40s

and was told to me by one of the principal swappers' relatives,

and his name was Charlie.

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