Ep. 455: This Country Life - A Father’s Gift
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.9 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Brent’s taking a break from turkey tales this week to highlight a listener’s story. There’s a good lesson within the narrative that spoke to Brent and he’s hoping for you to feel the same. A simple story with a simple lesson that can impact generations.
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, the Meat Eater Spring Reload Sale is on right now at the Meat Eater store. |
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| 0:35.5 | Welcome to this country life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves. From coon hunting to tr country life. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm your host, Brent Reeves, from coon hunting to trotlining and just general country living. |
| 0:43.3 | I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences and life lessons. |
| 0:48.0 | This country life is presented by Case Knives from the Storemore Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor |
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| 1:00.0 | All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. |
| 1:04.0 | I've got some stories to share. |
| 1:09.0 | A Father's Gift. |
| 1:12.3 | Riva had some world world famous meat eater sound engineer and the brains behind the sound of this country life podcast told me if I tell one more turkey story, she's going to drive down here and beat me up. |
| 1:24.6 | But what she don't know is, I got another one coming. |
| 1:29.5 | It's going to put the bow on Brentley's 2026 turkey season, but first I got to get to Pennsylvania to do it. So until then, |
| 1:36.8 | we're going to talk about this. I read a story the other day that was sent in by a listener, and even though it's good, |
| 1:51.0 | nothing really set it dramatically apart from the others that you folks in me. |
| 1:56.0 | There were no death-defined descriptions of outdoor adventure or world record trophies. |
| 2:01.9 | Just a simple story that gave me pause and a desire to share it with you in the hopes that you'd get out of it what I did. |
| 2:13.0 | Mike Ramos, a lifelong resident of Colorado, sent this one. |
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