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Realtree Rebels - Episode 5: Tom Smith from Wildrose Kennels

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Chase Parham sits down with Tom Smith, who is the owner and president of Wildrose Mississippi. Wildrose Labradors are the industry leader in sporting dogs, and they discuss Tom's path to Wildrose, some of their work on a day-to-day level and the origin story of their most notable dog, Juice Kiffin. Tom, who can typically be seen near Juice when he's out in public, details how Juice became Lane Kiffin's best friend and the unofficial mascot of Ole Miss football. New episodes of Realtree Rebels publish each week. Wildrose: https://www.uklabs.com/ Website: https://realtree.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/realtreeoutdoors Twitter: https://twitter.com/Realtree?s=20 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Realtree/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome in to another episode of Real Tree Rebels. I'm Chase Farm. And we've got a great episode for you today. Tom Smith, the owner and president of Wild Rose, Mississippi, Wild Rose Kennels here in Oxford, Mississippi. I spent some time with Tom on Thursday morning touring the facility, the beautiful facility, all the great dogs, their projects, their operation out there at Wild Rose again, just outside of Oxford here.

0:42.1

And we discussed Tom's story, how he got into Labradors, how he got into training, into Wild Rose.

0:49.0

And then his most prominent, most notable pup to date, Juice Kiffin, how Juice became almost football

0:55.0

coach Lane Kiffin's best friend, what that process has been like. Tom said he's the most

1:00.2

popular pants model in a wide, a wide path there, Mississippi, maybe the country, because

1:07.2

you get tons of pictures of juice. Tom typically buy juice's side. So great stuff today.

1:12.3

Really fun episode about the unofficial mascot of Oleman's football and where he came from, Tom,

1:18.9

a gracious host, a great man. And I think you'll really enjoy it today. Before we get into that,

1:24.5

tell you as always, go to realtree.com. I put up a picture, put up a couple of thoughts on that chili recipe from realtree.com.

1:32.7

Again, tons of game meat recipes, tons of desserts, a lot of stuff there.

1:36.9

So try them.

1:37.3

Not even just for purchasing your clothing, your hunting gear, your realtree supplies, but also for us, some recipes as well.

1:43.2

But RealTree, great products, great patterns on their products there with realtree and realtree.com. So again, head to the website, help us out with that. As you know, all of the Real Tree Rebels podcast on MPW Digital, all MPW Digital podcast presented by Twisted Tea as well. A little more on that in a little while.

2:01.1

But let's go ahead.

2:02.2

Let's jump into it.

2:03.2

Again, really appreciate the hospitality yesterday from Wild Rose and Tom Smith.

2:08.4

And here is that interview now as I sit down with Tom and talk Juice Kiffin and Wild Rose Kinnels.

2:14.2

Tom really appreciate the time today, a beautiful place, showed me around a little bit,

2:18.3

all the dogs and amenities you guys got going.

2:21.8

I got tons of questions, but I'm going to start here.

2:24.3

How many photos over the last two years do you think you're in where you're not at all

2:28.5

the main person they are trying to take a photo of here around this place these days?

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