Episode 70: Jason Ringenberg (Part 2)

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

Society & Culture, Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Personal Journals

5 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Jason And The Scorchers’ frontman talks about eating barbecue with Bob Dylan, touring with Dylan, Perry Baggs stories, being heckled by Survivor fans, playing Conan O’Brien’s show, touring on British trains, avoiding The Tube at all cost, the birth of… Continue Reading →

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0:00.0	I mentioned last week that Jason Ringenberg was nice enough to give me a dozen eggs from his chicken coop.
0:17.0	And I have to say, it's unbelievable how good they taste. And when you compare them to what you get from a store, there's just no comparison at all.
0:24.6	I guess it has something to do with their scrounging around and just getting a way more diverse diet.
0:29.6	I don't really know. They're not from some factory farm.
0:32.6	Man, they taste so good.
0:34.6	As I was eating the first couple eggs from that batch, it reminded me of the
0:40.3	eggs that we used to get when I was a kid. I lived in Wanamaker, Indiana, and there was a farmer
0:45.0	that lived down the street. And he had a big long fields of corn, but he had a lot of chickens
0:50.6	also, and he would sell the eggs that he would get from his chickens. And he would always be busy working in his field so he didn't have time to be there to sell them to people.
1:00.0	So he had a shack set up in his front yard. And you would walk inside this shack and there was a big refrigerator full of eggs.
1:08.0	And you would go ahead and take out whatever you wanted and then there was a cigar box
1:12.3	on this little counter you open up this cigar box and you make change you go ahead and put in
1:17.5	money for whatever you bought you know and you take out what your change was it was an honor system
1:22.7	he trusted that his neighbors would do the right thing and they would be honest. And up until the early
1:28.4	90s, he was still doing this. And he claimed that he'd never been ripped off. Not one of his
1:33.8	neighbors had ever taken advantage of it. And it was one of our little things that we were proud of
1:38.7	in the neighborhood. But sadly, his farm has been long since paved over, and there's a housing addition sitting there.
1:47.3	I realize that's not a very happy ending to this story, but it's amazing the memories that a few eggs can kick up.
1:53.9	So thanks for those, Jason.
1:55.0	Music I'm going to be. I'm going to be. Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.
2:25.4	I'm sitting here in my living room in East Nashville.
2:28.6	This is a personal journal.
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