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Slack.com slash DHQ. Alright, we're on. So you're right-handed. Yes, I'm right-handed.

And are you as well? Right-handed. So do you do the grabbing with your right-hand?

I do. I grab my right hand, placing it in my left, the majority of them.

That's Jimmy Nick's and Willie Easter, talking to uncertain hours senior producer, Caitlin

Cash. Caitlin and I went down to Mississippi before the pandemic hit, to talk to them about

the work they used to do. So you're carrying like 12 chickens on one hand? Yes.

And were they a lie or dead? They lie.

Jimmy and Willie used to catch chickens for a living. They'd go out to farms where the

chickens are raised, and they'd round them up, put them in cages, and the cages would

go on trucks, and the trucks would go to the slaughterhouse. Catching chickens that don't

want to be caught is harder than you might think. Catchers have to move quickly, so some

of them actually grab two birds at a time. Some of the guys catch about two, and some

of the guys catch about one. I know you'll be over, call about two, two, three. Yeah, I know

you call about two, and three. Jimmy can hold up to seven big birds at a time, or 12 small

ones, a bird or two between each free finger. In one night, each catcher scoops up thousands

of birds, and they have the scars and calluses to prove it. The callus is going to come right

in here, and right between there, all on the come right between your knuckles.

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