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Swimming with Sharks, Chicken Breeding and Homesteading with Eric

• Team T4 • Episode 31

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Brace yourselves for an enchanting journey as we wander through fascinating tales from the life of our guest, Eric Silus King. From chasing dreams and leaving jobs behind to embarking on exhilarating adventures like swimming with sharks off the Florida coast, Eric's life is an open book of remarkable stories. Discover the thrill of his first acting experience that earned him accolades at a mere age of 14, and the intriguing tales from his farm that reveal much about the realities of homestead living.

Eric's love for chickens takes center stage as we venture into the complex world of chicken breeding. Learn why understanding breeds is a key factor in this field, and the intricate procedures involved in line breeding. From the reality of inbreeding to the critical status of certain chicken breeds, Eric's tales unveil the seldom discussed aspects of chicken farming. Get ready to be enthralled by his account of a terrifying rooster attack and the grave consequences of getting caught in a fighting ring.

But that's not all! Eric's entrepreneurial journey, from baking his own treats to flipping items for profit, is bound to inspire the businessperson in you. Delve into the nuances of selling food, understanding different markets, and the importance of seizing opportunities. And for those who find solace in old recipes, Eric's ideas of creating a cookbook to honor his mother's culinary legacy is a heartwarming tale. Lastly, don't forget to follow Eric's content on Instagram, TickTock, and Patreon for more intriguing stories and exciting announcements. Trust us, you wouldn't want to miss out on this rollercoaster ride of life experiences!
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Dusty:

On your break Today, Eric silas King is in studio. He's talking about um trying to live out his life at homestead and really we just talk about um Cox the whole time. All right time to clock out for lunch. Welcome into a paid lunch and thanks for spending your break with us. I'm heavy D. With me, as always, is rhino, uh uh, joining us. Today we got um. Friend of the show, friend of the podcast, friend of me, friend of rhino Is he friend I?

Ryno:

guess he's your friend yeah.

Eric:

Eric, yeah, what's up.

Dusty:

How's it going?

Eric:

I'm all right.

Dusty:

Don't lie. Uh also uh, west and munn right.

Ryno:

We're here and they're sharing a mic because they're huddled over a mic with like one headset on, looking like they're like trying to stay warm over a fire. Because in the middle of january.

Dusty:

Munro is only going to say something if it's like we need to google something. And munro, I was like tells us the answer immediately.

Eric:

Oh yeah, oh, a jamie and. Jamie who's? Jamie rogan Looks everything up for him.

Dusty:

Oh, jamie, on rogan. Yeah, that's, yeah, that's what he is. West West, okay, yeah, me too. Everybody is yeah, two people to google shit. Um, eric is really good at quitting his job. Yeah, yeah quit your jobs, follow your dream shit.

Eric:

You that well, whatever makes money.

Dusty:

Yeah, I know that's. I get that, you know.

Ryno:

He actually brought up a good point. Like I was just joking around saying mild acquaintance and stuff. But the way I'm met Eric Twofold too incredibly disturbing ones, I kind of you know.

Eric:

Whatever the other ones.

Ryno:

Midnight shows is the one I'm fine with. All right, me and this man, probably linked up and like not even going together, but probably showed up at the same midnight viewing. What would you say?

Eric:

probably 50 movies or the question about three years. He was always there, oh yeah.

Ryno:

The other part. You're a wee little baby. West was I would love to have. I would love to see it one more time and then I have all copies, if there are still any copies burnt and like scattered the ashes somewhere.

Eric:

Oh, the jacktail video.

Ryno:

So I'm I'm glad that your brain remembers that I know.

Eric:

I'm not following. That was a fun time. I got filthy. They sold it to me like you used to play in the mud all day and I was like yeah, I'm not following you reject tools.

Dusty:

I don't know what you're talking about?

Eric:

I just see like, oh aren't they like southern Appalachian, like folklore tools, basically what they are and Emily was making a stlp video and we like made a movie, like a short movie From the yeah, I mean you're talking foreign language.

Ryno:

So I'll break it down for you. So basically it's for like a community school function type thing Is round mountain heritage which, for those that don't know or aren't familiar, we have like heritage festivals and things like that's festival season around here, so it was right around that time. Um, they had this one thing for a long time what was it called? Hills and hollers? That's still a, thing, I thought it was done through the college, so there was a competition. Basically, they wanted people to create Jack jacktail submissions.

Dusty:

Oh, this is, this is like, this is very apple shop yes, no, it took more, but like I kind of remember this Okay, yeah, like it took a while to kick it in, but I think I know what you're talking about now we made two of them.

Ryno:

I was only on the first one. Yeah, so we don't want about this little kid who's basically being sent out to town to go purchase soap, um, and he leaves from his mother's or grandmother's house or whatever. In along the way he's supposed to remember soap and then arbitrary things keep happening that causes him to forget what he's supposed to be doing.

Eric:

All while getting filthy.

Ryno:

Yeah, he's just covered in the mud. So this is our, our child that's supposed to be sent to the, you know, the local department you do be dirty.

Eric:

aspiring child actor yeah so what was awkward?

Ryno:

that work out is cozy.

Eric:

I'd have hated it. I'd have hated. That's another conversation.

Ryno:

Was it? Was you part of the project or was you just invited there as a guest to be on it?

Eric:

No, you know, they were just. They needed a little little boy to get filthy.

Ryno:

So that's what happened there. Well, unfortunately ended up happening is I was at her brother's house yeah Close. I was at her brother's house that evening and their father, who I'm mildly terrified of, yeah, he's a scary man comes out and he's like uh, so you guys are gonna be in a video. I'm like, hi, we're just here to play something. He's like you're gonna be in a video.

Ryno:

I was like you're doing okay, so we go up on the mountaintop. I'm like, all right, so what do I do? We're like, okay, we're gonna pitch in this old woman's dress, get up and bond it and everything.

Eric:

I'm like I'm a skull, can I pat?

Ryno:

Yes, I like it yes and I literally had to scold him and beat him down with an old woman's dialect and tone and this was apparently video tape. Do the voice? I can't remember what it was. I'm when I tell you this was what 20 to 25 years ago. I was a child like a he was like a literal child, young's kids, yeah. I would have been 14. So this is probably about 20 to 25 years ago, maybe 15 or 16.

Dusty:

I'm just interested in your like your grumpy mom voice.

Ryno:

It was pretty good back then, but my voice hadn't really fully changed yet, so I was really able to type in this.

Eric:

She got like a bunch of awards and Cleaned up nationals and such but here's what sucks.

Ryno:

So this is when I was still going to neon. I was like freshman year at neon.

Eric:

Yeah, right road.

Ryno:

I transferred junior year to white'sburg final boy. We go down there and start playing ball and stuff and this one guy walks up and he goes I know you. I'm like you came from hazard. I don't know you. He's like no, well, they had this festival down in hazard. When watched a video he's like you're that soap guy, what the fuck? My nickname for my whole turn to see you you're on our baseball team was soap soap Because of fucking Eric.

Eric:

I ate one. I was good, you know fuck.

Dusty:

I was good. I was good, you know I auditioned for a food.

Eric:

I auditioned for a few things, but you know you're I mean you're pretty dramatic.

Eric:

Not dramatic, I just like. I don't know you want to. I'm good at just like Getting my pappy just took me places. He shouldn't. And you got to like know how to hang out or it's not fun, so I just hang out, I'll be here. You want me to be adaptive, you know? So no, back to my original point though. So you, you don't like hip hop, right, they just. You should listen to these like new girl hip hop writers. Man, they're.

Dusty:

Hardest, hardest bars. He's been on this. He's been on this all day. This is pre show.

Ryno:

So pre show I got asked multiple times if I was into female Rap music. I thought he said rat music a couple times, like I don't even know what they look you're talking about. So then dusty just goes into the episode. So we're still on the back end of. I don't really understand what Eric's talking about.

Dusty:

Cardi B Nicky.

Eric:

Good, good bars, like I think it makes you, I think it changed change Ryan's life.

Dusty:

He listens to strictly foo fighters.

Eric:

Yeah.

Ryno:

I made you mid 90s, early 90s, grunge guy, you'd have a stroke.

Dusty:

I'd like to, I'd like to send you over, like over a Nicki Minaj.

Eric:

I want to send over that video I just showed you. Put it on the floor.

Dusty:

He'd be divorced. You see, you see him that video He'd be divorced. Jared fucking teed.

Eric:

No, dude, that's. There's some hard shit. She said tell me, or not, if you think this is hard, like in general like a po.

Dusty:

This is gonna get cut. I'm already gonna tell you no, no, no, no.

Eric:

She says Let me pop it off, pull me out the biggest slut and, baby girl, come top it off. That's hardest fuck. Sure, I don't feel like.

Dusty:

Did you write that?

Eric:

no, I'd fight somebody if, like if, I heard somebody say that I'd be like he'll be fighting can we play that loud and see if he goes outside and fight somebody? I don't, I woke up. I'm not trying to fight me.

Ryno:

We're pointing towards uh.

Eric:

No, dude, if I didn't fight you, that won, that would be a solid fight. Oh yeah, hey, how do you?

Ryno:

win that fight.

Eric:

I'm pretty, I'm pretty squirrely, but I don't know.

Dusty:

Yeah, he's got a flippy. You gotta remember, though he's swim with sharks.

Eric:

Yeah, I have swim with sharks. That does it really know life changing experience. I suggest everyone in the world do it. Like it really like recalibrate my brain Swim with sharks in swim with dude no.

Ryno:

I was. I don't know where we're going, but let's just go ahead and dive.

Eric:

We're getting there, Dude. I listen to this Bobby Lee's podcast. Probably shouldn't say that he got canceled a few times, but Bobby Lee's podcast. His girlfriend at the time was talking about how she went to Hawaii and swim with sharks and that she just it made her feel Like a like a feeling she'd never failed and like immediately looked where the clothes place I could swim with sharks and it was Jupiter Florida car fork. Yeah, mess shark.

Ryno:

It's actually just a car door.

Eric:

But I looked it up, dude, it's only like 200 bucks and you got a whole thing of videos and Yo you gonna pay for it. Yeah.

Dusty:

Bitch, I can take you to where we can swim with sharks.

Eric:

No, dude, go up and for hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me run this day back so I Wake up, right that was the cutest throat clear I've ever seen on earth. I wake up right and me and this dude, this dude.

Eric:

This dude the hostile was gonna drive me because I was worried about sea sickness and, like you know, like what's something bad happened or whatever. So we go to rent a car. I'm trying to get a cheap car. Oh, we're sold out of those. All we has a convert will be in W. So then I'm like all right, like I gotta be there in 45 minutes, I just give me whatever you have. So we get a BMW. Raise hell all the way to Jupiter. Then we get to Jupiter out of context.

Dusty:

This conversation is Very confusing. Well, we get in context. It's a little confusing.

Eric:

I don't know, I'm scared for the right. We get to Jupiter right and it's at this yacht club. All the boats are talking this yacht club and uh we, I go up. I don't remember. I remember captain John's name. I remember this girl's name, do she just walks up to me and hands me a piece of paper and I forget I'm in Florida all the time no one wears clothes in Florida and dude it like took me a back.

Eric:

Like like I gasped, like, clutched my pearls and then she just giggled and laughed and walked off. That was our second mate, right? So then I fill out. You have to sign a bunch of waivers. It's like if you get hurt and shit, you know you got your, you know so whatever. So we get on. Captain John, solid guy, bleach, blonde sun, bleached hair. Had to at least be like 46, like Salty looking, but like like Matthew McConaughey kind of guy, right? So then we ride the boat out. Like two hours you have to drive Okay, I don't have two hours out in the middle of the ocean. You set up flags and I told that girl drove.

Eric:

Yeah, on the boat, yeah but I told that girl right the first mate, whatever they call it I said the only thing that freaks me out is I can't see the bottom. And she went, oh, I've touched the bottom. And I was like, what? She's like? Yeah, I freedive. And I was like, oh. I was like, oh, your lungs get like the size of your fists. And she's like, yeah, she's like it feels like skydiving. But I've touched the bottom, don't worry. Well then, I've touched that.

Dusty:

She's a professional diver though it's like I've touched the bottom is like well no it just made me feel better.

Eric:

And everybody else on the boat was supposed to be in the cage, like me, and one other person was on one that's supposed to be outside of the cage. I paid extra for it and um, they uh, it was like hurricane season, so we like we probably shouldn't be out there anyway, so they were like we can't use the cell phone sketchy no dude I was swimming with sharks, like come hailing high water and um, so they were like if you're going out with us, you're like getting in the boat.

Eric:

These are all strangers. I don't know any of these people and uh, so me and the other two are like hyping them up. That girl's swimming around with a video camera, hand feeding sharks and then, like they're wild sharks, are migratory. Migratory sharks is like it's not legal to like have pet sharks, you know so, and they're bull sharks, reef sharks I just miss tiger shark season. Um, but um, she's like swim around and we get in dude, and I'm just you hold on to a rope and you float and watch her like swim around and feed sharks and take pictures. And then one of them like you have to kind of like they give you a rundown, like if you, if a shark's swimming out, you have to like look at it. You can't look off, you can't like splash around. You know like you got to act like Fairly.

Dusty:

I'll feel better. Yeah, I feel like a baby.

Eric:

I'm like not not like, not like Andrew Tate alpha, but just like Real life.

Dusty:

Andrew Tate alpha would work too.

Eric:

No, no, I don't know put in the sex ring or something. Oh, but uh hashtag. Release the names um, but uh, but anyway. Yeah, like one, swim at me, dude, they'd like rub up, bump onion stuff. If they get too close, captain John would smack the water. And uh, they'd like hit that and stuff.

Dusty:

And then we just can I be honest with you about something? I think you made all that up.

Eric:

No dude, I got pictures and videos.

Ryno:

I'm just kidding, he's got receipts.

Eric:

But I came out of the water and I immediately got seasick, like the boat was moving a different direction than we floated for like an hour and a half. It wasn't even like it was like you got in the water. I even you just like swim around with.

Dusty:

I'm zero desire to do that.

Eric:

I don't care.

Dusty:

I don't care if it'd make me out, I don't need to be alpha.

Ryno:

He's very thin. We're very rotund yeah.

Dusty:

I feel, like. I smell a lot more like meat than you do.

Eric:

It's not even that. It was just like when I got out, I was just like, whatever anxiety I had before it was done, I was like I legitimately could have died if I didn't act.

Dusty:

Right, you know, I'm saying you know I drove through, I drive through Kona doing like 85 Like it, like eight in the morning. That's, that's, that's close.

Eric:

Yeah, but you gotta close to dying. Just, I don't know it. Like I think that's the takeaway I've tried to put into words for me, it's just like you're there and you're like, ah, as long as I act right, I'm good, you know? And it was like dude, I walked out that the guy was waiting for me, he drove.

Dusty:

I just have a hard time acting right, wouldn't you Can't take you anywhere.

Eric:

Can.

Ryno:

I punch it.

Eric:

I'm punching it, he looked at me and he went, how do you feel? And I was like man, untouchable, like I really I felt like and it probably wasn't fighting.

Dusty:

Fight the first dude on the street.

Eric:

No, I swear to God, man, I was like if you smart out, to me, I'm gonna pop, even if he whoops your ass.

Ryno:

You'd be like you'd be like yeah, yeah, I'd be like Somebody lawn those lyrics that he said a minute ago he's ready to fight.

Eric:

No. When she said there's another song she's in, I woke up and it was on tick tock and she said she bought a chain, so I bought the same one, even bigger. I was like I hope we'll be catching a body. We'll be catching a body. I was like put up.

Dusty:

We were. We were gonna release a rap album.

Eric:

I'd love to. I I'd love to, but it'd be so corny It'd probably be good as a fucked up thing. You know, I love it like historically, like not not just like. You know. Some people are like oh my god, I love rap, but it's like not really like I, just I like I do like rap and like here, lately I've been listening to a Spanish music but that makes gonna drop to an album and I've been back on rap again.

Dusty:

She's pretty good. Actually it's not the shit you hear it like.

Eric:

No, I like it's like. It's like, uh well, it's, it's, that's I can't pronounce the word but it's like, so like reggaeton is more Caribbean, that kind of beat, but then the the it's like karate, or I'm saying it wrong. I'm literally the only thing, only Hispanic music that I've heard is bad bunny and I'll do reggaeton yeah my brother. I'm not well an LWO's entrance.

Ryno:

I'm gonna stab, but my son just blast.

Eric:

Well, he's got a song called Booker T.

Dusty:

Bigger son's more woke than you are.

Eric:

You might be bad, bunny's fucking good though. Dude, there's a song, it's. It's arguably one of the prettiest music videos ever seen, ever seen and it's got Rosalina in it. She's from Spain, but the beginning is beautiful, like it's just like. The lyrics are like so beautiful, and then you go from immediately to that what's it like just tripping all the time. No, you go from that. And the next lyric he says is you're so wet I could baptize you, or something like that. And it's like what.

Eric:

She just said you told her that you would die for her and now you're talking about making her wet and baptize.

Dusty:

Get the fuck out what are you doing.

Ryno:

I was down for a minute, put me in the middle, make a sandwich out of me.

Eric:

Both are great, right, but just like why? Don't you keep talking sweet to me, like that 10 minute, you'll die for me and shit. You know that's why, oh god. So listen, that's that type of shit I'm looking for.

Ryno:

I don't even think we have a segue to get into the actual topic.

Dusty:

It's fine Like we're just gonna cut this first 20 minutes.

Eric:

This is because this is the kind of podcast shit I like to do this is the kind of podcast I had is kind of podcast I like to have again just fucking whatever bullshit around. We can have an agenda or whatever, but like I like to fuck off.

Ryno:

Well, you're in the right place.

Dusty:

Well, this is, you're in the right fucking place, because I don't know what we're talking about most of the time.

Eric:

Yeah, no, but at least in the more bad bunny.

Ryno:

I'm checking out. I mean I don't mind a protest song.

Eric:

Right, it's a protest song, it's. And the lyrics are Puerto Rico's, fucking great. And then he says How's it go? But it's the lyrics or I love Puerto Rican pussy, but it's a protest song. Make you still a chocha to Puerto Rico. Yeah, that's still there. He just chants it and it's like a club beat.

Ryno:

It's just like like Jersey shore type shit, you're not be live right now.

Eric:

But it's, it's a protest song. He's like talking shit about the governor and like Logan Paul and all that shit, but it's like Talking about how much.

Ryno:

I feel like I'm getting sexually assaulted by this fly.

Dusty:

Yes, there's a fucking fly that is just fucking us a couple times we can talk about work. Well, no, I was gonna say, speaking of bunnies, you have a farm.

Eric:

Got it.

Dusty:

Yeah. I do have you want to press the button and a little bit.

Eric:

I'm too far away, okay. Uh yeah, yeah, I uh. I mean I guess I form. I think I'm more of a baker.

Dusty:

You have literal farm animals.

Eric:

Yeah, but I make more money from bacon.

Dusty:

Well, I yeah, you do make good money from.

Eric:

Home stating. I'm a home stater.

Ryno:

What is a home stater? Well, you about to learn today. That's why I'm hoping.

Eric:

No, I am trying to be like more, like I don't want to buy meat and I don't want to buy like I ain't bought an egg and god knows how long, uh. But yeah, like I got lambs now and they'll turn into sheep and then they'll have babies and so that works. And eat those, and a year old that become a sheep.

Dusty:

Do you know the percentage of people that don't know a bull is a male Cow? Yeah, they literally don't fucking know that. Not a people you know, most people. It's wild.

Eric:

It's not a little creature, it's not their fault, it's just like.

Dusty:

I guess they just think there's male and female cows, and then there's bulls and they're like well, bulls are so much more aggressive than cows. I was like, yeah, they're the fucking males.

Eric:

Dude, and then you throw in steers and what is that? What's a steer, but not everyone's a farm nepotism. Baby dusty, you know everybody got that luxury you. I don't feel like I get to grow up anywhere on any sort of farm to know that you didn't grow up on a farm, but you're in like a rural part of the world.

Dusty:

I think I have a brain that I use.

Eric:

Yeah, but like David.

Dusty:

I went to Denner Insulting so many people. If you didn't know, if you didn't know, a bull is a male cow. Can't milk them, can you?

Eric:

can. You can milk.

Dusty:

Also, brown cows do not produce chocolate.

Eric:

You know the government doesn't want people to know let me tell you.

Dusty:

Let me tell you no, I'm ready. Let me tell you something about the fucking government. No, let me tell you all right, I ain't seen no birds in a week, only noises. Only heard bird noises there. What? No fucking birds, nothing. Ate my bird food? Munro was there, there was. There's no birds for like a week, with no honey birds, and then the, and then the fucking bird food starts going away and the birds are showing back up. I think I know who ate the bird food.

Eric:

Oh man whatever, birds aren't real.

Dusty:

Tell them, birds aren't real.

Eric:

If I didn't own them I would say that, but I own pigeons.

Dusty:

Yeah, you're fucking government.

Eric:

No, dude, not, not me, I'm you a cop. No, fuck no.

Ryno:

I'm not the same glasses can look or not. Some glass of actual glasses.

Eric:

It's just Jeffrey Dahmer shit. Yes, I don't know I'm gonna Not a cop.

Dusty:

We got a cop on the podcast soon. Do we just want to shout him out? So he has to come on yeah guilty man to it? Officer Holbrook.

Ryno:

Yeah, that's it. Did they tell you about that the other night? So we're at the football game, the lecture central game and their tailgate and eating what looks like the most exquisite taco bar I've ever seen at the football game. It's pretty epic. Now walk back there and Corey pulls me over. He's like dusty. Just message me and said you need to hurry up and come on. She's my the fucker. He didn't respond to me. And then I turn around and Holbrook stride next to me. He's like he's the same thing me.

Dusty:

Y'all catch me up in networking. Yeah, yes, I sent 15 people Also. It's not doesn't make it. I want you 15 people to come on the podcast.

Eric:

I think birds are real, though I own a bunch well. Government don't like some of my needy.

Dusty:

You probably catch rainwater and all kinds of other illegal shit. Yeah, I think it's illegal. I think it's a federal law.

Ryno:

You don't, fucking do you know legal to catch rainwater.

Dusty:

Yeah, most places. It is why? Because they can't tax rainwater, you catch. Oh yeah, that's, that's. I didn't know that was another reason they claim, because you can't tell what's in the water, right like you can test, you can't test your own water.

Eric:

Yeah, I don't think you should drink rainwater. You need to filter it.

Dusty:

Well, yeah, you need to filter any water.

Eric:

Yeah, but I mean not. I mean if you get a spring, not really spring around here.

Dusty:

I probably would. Oh for sure, it's probably just sewage. I probably gonna have some diseases from being a kid.

Ryno:

Yeah, that's all cold water.

Dusty:

Every bit of it's cold, hardo, hardo g andy P told me, any spring in let your county is just probably sewage. I believe that yeah rip.

Eric:

There's a spring on my mountain and the dogs drink it, so it has to be good then.

Dusty:

I don't know man dogs drink antifreeze.

Ryno:

My dogs drink my piss out of the toilet, so you know there's that your piss is probably really sweet from the dubbing. I'm probably yeah.

Eric:

That's fair. I'd like to be as far removed from like factory farming as I could be, but also sell shit.

Dusty:

We'll talk about selling shit.

Eric:

I mean, I sell muffins and shit to who?

Ryno:

So we were randomly coming out food.

Eric:

See you the other day and I always stop by cuz the pharmacy. People buy shit.

Ryno:

Yeah, briza, I bought some desserts I'm like from who she's like from Eric. I was like Eric, who she's like Eric, and I have something I'm saying just walking along. What you buy. She's like. I don't know they're like, but the boy can bite. We destroy the shit out of they. Didn't make them back to make Roberts.

Dusty:

You know it makes me special brownies.

Ryno:

I'm good, fuck up the sound. I made some of us other day they were good explosive.

Dusty:

No, you got it, handle it. Look at us.

Ryno:

Hop, a goblin's about to do a backflip those smores brownies are good.

Eric:

I used to have a pretty good rest of these.

Dusty:

The hopgoblin's about to do a backflip.

Eric:

But no, yeah, I like. I mean I Eventually want sell chickens. I got like rare breed chickens, you're fucking rare breed. That's true, see that's another thing.

Ryno:

It's like you talk about chickens. I just think of chickens as chickens.

Eric:

No.

Dusty:

I'm like breeds and yeah, see, only reason I do a different is cuz I had a neighbor that fought pre flood. No oh that knew all kinds of fucking shit about chickens and he made me always come down helping with chickens because yeah, so I come down.

Ryno:

Never around a chicken like, but then like arms grasp of a chicken. It was a dead chicken.

Eric:

Oh yeah. Chicken tenders no no, you should come over. I got some really nice chickens, but I've also got some chickens that need a little bit of Attitude readjustments. I have one about sleeping my wrist yesterday.

Ryno:

Well, these definitely had attitude. Read it was Travis Cantrell.

Dusty:

You ever took. Travis pulled me up like the head of a freaking holler and micro-words yeah.

Eric:

You must see something freaking cool I was like, yeah, percentage of stories.

Ryno:

Fucking chickens pop out with fucking razor blades and start with going mortal combat like they can't take each other.

Dusty:

I'm like, oh yeah, daddy kept fighting chickens on the on the hillside up there.

Eric:

No, I remember when his little brother was always in class and you remember. I'm gonna shoot. I mean I'll do that.

Dusty:

You remember who lived at the head of the holler up there?

Ryno:

And he's legal back then though.

Dusty:

Oh yeah, I think it was remember who lives the head of my holler up there and he and Mary got in trouble drugs all in time.

Ryno:

Yeah, it's his house. Yeah, it's fucking.

Eric:

It was his house yeah he had all kinds of fighting chickens back behind his house. Yeah, the last state to make illegal was, oh hey, in that wild Louisiana held out.

Dusty:

Oh, they're just now, like they're just that people still fighting Louisiana like it's legal, though in the cops.

Eric:

Oh, they still fight here like it's legal.

Ryno:

Yeah, one back, then we're going completely off topic. No, this is farming.

Eric:

I got. I don't wait right, oh wait Louisiana.

Ryno:

So that makes sense because I so I graduated. No, for Somewhere around 0607 I started working at Walmart in Virginia, made really good friends with gov there who like had chickens everywhere, like he was showing pictures stuff all time. He's like this one's my prized one. I was like, well, he's like it's never lost a fight. I was like, oh, you fight him? He's like, yeah, we go down the. He basically caught it like the Super Bowl. Yeah, I was like what are you talking about? He's like they have big, huge, massive competitions.

Dusty:

It's like literally like 15,000 people show up and it's not like you think, it's not like a bunch of people like no. It's not a bunch of people like it's not in a nasty place and a bunch of Super Bowl of chicken Countries where it's legal and shit.

Eric:

There's like billboards, it's like come to the Park Boys Kentucky expo, watch the chicken.

Dusty:

I don't think it's any more violent than UFC.

Eric:

I'm not into it. I think we're past it as a.

Dusty:

Yeah, I'm not into it.

Eric:

It's one of the oldest sports in existence.

Dusty:

I'm not into it, but isn't it like it's not? It's. It's barely as violent as UFC.

Eric:

I mean something dies.

Dusty:

Not all the time.

Eric:

But now a lot of people don't fuck with the knives a lot of it. They're like no, they say that like ruined it. But I don't know anything about it, I just think they're pretty. I collect the Fed he, he's just worried Pokemon. Talking to the my quiz.

Dusty:

I'm sorry with your chicken. Do you have one name? Little Jerry, little Jerry.

Eric:

No, I've got cinnamon named after Canelo. I've got my name after Mike Tyson.

Dusty:

There's a Seinfeld episode. It's what he's referring to. There's a Seinfeld episode where he gets like he is a fucking chicken, like he gets a Petsha. I don't remember the circumstances.

Ryno:

Hot take don't you fucking do it, don't you do it sorry, I'd be wrong.

Eric:

No, but she doesn't call you dude, I've got. I've got.

Dusty:

American game fell, I've got favorite shows probably out magic mother.

Eric:

I've got it's up there.

Ryno:

Yeah, I fucking know it called that shit Too long.

Eric:

It should have been four seasons.

Ryno:

Yeah, I should cut that long time ago.

Eric:

Ted's a dick.

Dusty:

He is. I've never seen it. Ted's an ass. It's hot. Take it's garbage.

Eric:

Ted's a dick. Jim from the office is a dick Fuck him.

Dusty:

He is a dick. No way, he's not getting that. Look, he's an ass, oh you know he is.

Eric:

He's the fucking shittiest person on that show.

Ryno:

He's so mean to everybody.

Eric:

Yeah, but that's like.

Dusty:

That's his character, though.

Eric:

Yeah, smart, but no, I've got American Game Fail, I got a holly.

Ryno:

What are we talking about? We're talking about his.

Eric:

Pokemon 1 through 151. I got Old English Game Bay you got.

Dusty:

Easter Sheings.

Eric:

I got a couple Hens, I got Wind Ops, I got Ostrilorps, I got Appenzellers, spits and Hobbins.

Dusty:

Fucking cock. Gotta catch them all.

Eric:

It's a crit yeah.

Ryno:

Appenzellers. Is that the second or third evolution?

Eric:

Dude, they look wild they really do look like Pokemon. A lot of my chickens look like Pokemon especially. No, I'm serious that one.

Dusty:

No, like Pokemon, because they don't fly away. I'd say Pokemon has a lot to do with chickens.

Eric:

No those games can fly away. They won my little pool. It's Bruce in the top of a tree.

Dusty:

No, I don't believe you about that.

Eric:

But yeah, the other day, dude, I've been tying on my own in classic Redneck.

Dusty:

Fades. What's that mean?

Eric:

You get a cord and a pole and you put it in the ground, you tie their leg to the cord and they got all this space. Oh, this is basically like a chicken leash, yeah, and.

Ryno:

Cockleash.

Eric:

I went to pull him out the cage is too small and it's fun to put him in a new spot of grass every day. But, dude, I went to grab his leg because I picked cage up. I was gonna grab him. I didn't go to grab his leg, I went to grab his body and he turned around and flustered up and I was like Bum, come on, I'm trying to give him more room. And I went into it Get him. He jumped up and started going. His spur hit the fat of my hand and it left it, like you know when you get cut, but not really. Yeah, it was like that.

Ryno:

That confused me.

Dusty:

I don't know what he's saying.

Eric:

And I just looked at it and I was like no one.

Dusty:

You get fucked up, but you don't.

Eric:

I was like what the fuck man? And I bought him off this old man and this old man probably sharpened his spurs and it fucking hurt and I was pissed about it. I'm getting my buddy to saw him off.

Dusty:

So he said what'd you say about if you knew the other one was a roaster? What you said if you knew the baby was a roaster? Oh, dude.

Eric:

if I knew the dead was running around a hatch that him and that hen had was a rooster out of fucking feet, He'd already killed that I was so goddamn pissed and I was like dude, no one's home. An ambulance is like 30 minutes away. How the fuck am I going to drive with a fucking?

Dusty:

suit wrist If you die from a chicken cutting your wrist and you bleed out on your foot, people are going to think I'm fighting them.

Eric:

That's what it is. How the heck die a chicken. Just send me one last snap while you're dying.

Dusty:

I've been like hey, save this, I'm not fighting chickens.

Eric:

No, dude, I was mad. I was like I'd fucking eat you if I knew like I could replace you. And then I was like, but I'm just going to get my buddy to saw the spurs off, because it's better for the hens anyway. But yeah, he jumped up and kicked me. Well then I was like all right, that's how we're playing it. I walked inside and put my thickest hood on and I walked outside like fucking stone cold and I pick that cage up and I see it flying and I just grabbed him, flipped him upside down, I put that thing around his leg, I threw him on the ground. I said I'll feed you to the fucking dogs. When I went to put him up in the evening, he just stood as still as possible.

Eric:

Like I took it off and put him in his cage and I was like I'm not, like I'm not dying, trying to take care. I like I love it. It's a great chicken, like he's beautiful too. But I've got he's a blue pile and piles. I bought this book about him.

Dusty:

My dad, my dad's got some. You know that shit. You talk to my dad more than I do.

Eric:

Your dad don't know what he has.

Dusty:

No, you don't have a fucking clue, because Harold's keeping him.

Eric:

No, he don't edit that out. You know I ain't I ain't pillow talking. I don't agree with him, I ain't pillow talking, but we don't cut shit, no. No, your dad's got a historic breed, it's.

Eric:

He's got doms, but yeah, now I pull in the gas, I pull in the gas station and they run and I get out of the car and, man, I just had too many chickens for a minute. So if I seen you and you asked me what I was doing, I'd be like why don't you come and buy some chickens, bud? Well, I got out of the car and they went what you doing? I was like nothing, buddy, I so much come over and buy some chickens. He went I'm looking for fighting chickens. And I was like, well, I got some blue face and some blue piles and some coal miner blues and he went what are those?

Eric:

What are those? I was like well, and this guy beside him went. I was just good fighting chickens.

Dusty:

I was like well, I don't see his name.

Eric:

But I told you I don't pillow talk. I don't agree with it. All right, but I ain't pillow talking Because if they get caught they just kill them all and I don't agree with that Really. You know, up the road got busted. You know what they did with all the roosters. Bulled them, throw them in a furnace alive.

Eric:

Yeah, and some of them in a garbage bag and smothered them and it's like dude. The cop told me that. I looked at him. I said, buddy, I got $200 pick which everyone's got to greenest legs out and put 200 on it and he went it's animal abuse. I went what the fuck did you just do?

Dusty:

Yeah, if it's animal abuse, you go we're trying to stop animal abuse, we're going to kill them all.

Eric:

And he went. Well, they can't go back to normal farm life.

Dusty:

I said where the fuck you think they were living before, a farm Before the Vic thing. They did that to dogs too. When they found dog fighting rings, they just killed them. But the Vic thing was in the public eye, so they were like they can't just kill a bunch of fucking dogs.

Eric:

That's the thing that people don't understand about, and I say Vic, because it probably wasn't Michael. But like the different chicken breeds, is.

Dusty:

Marcus, yeah, I think he took the fall for it. I always thought that, but you know, like chicken, breeds.

Eric:

They say that those chicken breeds are trained to be mean, but let me tell you something they aren't. It's just an extra step in keeping them. That's the way people need to look at it, but where it's- like a pit. Yeah, it's like you're keeping a Rottweiler pit or Cavalda, so you have extra steps. If the roosters get around each other, they're going to murder one another, it may take three hours but they're going to fuck up.

Eric:

Dude, I hatched some off in two days after I put them in the brooder. They's fighting. I didn't do anything. You know what I'm saying? I ain't one, I ain't got fucking time to their two days old. They was grabbing a hold to each other and fucking kicking and it's like it's just an extra step, Like I had to separate them you know, that's like.

Eric:

I'm a responsible owner All my shit separated in big cages. That's how you have to keep them. But they look at it as like they can't rehabilitate them and I'm like dude fucking, at least make them into dog food, so you kill them.

Dusty:

You basically just self sustain yourself with the, with the farm shit, like that's where you're at, like eventually, right, but then you really make. I mean you make decent money selling bait goods.

Eric:

Yeah, and then I have rare chickens, like some of it, like the Tobit Polish they'll check self for $25. If I did want to sell the games. I have a buddy. That well, I've paid a lot for games, but I have a buddy that's going to be all fucked.

Dusty:

All these words, I don't know what they are.

Eric:

Yeah, but yeah, I know like I have those app and sell spits and hobbins.

Dusty:

They're egg layers, you're just making shit up now. No, he's just saying shit Like he's, like you know the fruited chicken chickstibbits.

Eric:

People pay a lot for the game banies too.

Dusty:

You know, they're just they're like they're the size of your hand.

Eric:

I can't hold the fuck up the size of your hand, hold up. Can someone get a Pokédex out? What do people what?

Dusty:

do people pay a lot for?

Eric:

Game banies, game banies, game banies.

Ryno:

I know what it sounds like.

Eric:

Those those usually don't cost much. Old English game banies they. Yeah, do you a good payer? You're paying like $150, $125.

Eric:

If you would have told me in high school that I could have a living breeding and selling chickens. That's what I'd done most of my life. I would have never quit. And that's kind of like I want to sell hatching eggs. I don't really want to sell chicks, yeah, which I do most of my stuff just for breed preservation, like the games. When that dude told me they killed all of them, I was like I'm getting a trio of my favorite color and that way I'm never going to get in trouble for anything, so they're never going to be at risk of being like put in a furnace. You know what I mean. And then that way cause dude, you be shocked a lot of chickens that's almost when extinct, because there's like six different game breeds, like fighting breeds. Asia's got their own style of.

Dusty:

Asian cock Western hemisphere has like Western cock.

Eric:

you know their own version of it so no, you know fun fact you know how bald eagles the country's eagle Eagle cock.

Dusty:

That was like a last minute. I can't do it. I'm eight now. That was like a last minute change.

Eric:

It was going to be an American game fail because all the presidents fought chickens in this overlord.

Ryno:

I didn't know that. There you go, shit.

Eric:

Yeah, it was like, if you know if you went to school like elementary school we should get that in, like the 1800s you got to sign the rooster to raise and you'd fight it.

Dusty:

We should get that as a button. We should get the more you know I'm trying to learn about chickens, but you just will not, yeah.

Eric:

Yeah, I mean, it's just less work. And chicks died. Dude, I hatched 57 off the other day. For three weeks, man, I mean it's four weeks now. I've cleaned the brooder every day new bedding, new water, the right kind of medicine in the water, right kind of food. All 57 of them live. For three weeks, one day fucking. Eight of them died. Don't know why Don't know why I saw my buddy come over and I've been letting them out, you know, in the daytime and stuff. They've been loving it.

Ryno:

Temperature change Anything?

Eric:

you think they fucking rained one day and they just didn't get out of the rain. So I was in my yard, man, no, I didn't. They didn't kill them. I had to like put them under like heat and stuff, but the rain came out of nowhere. I didn't know it was supposed to rain or I probably wouldn't have let them out. It's like a lottery. But, dude, yeah, like chicks are just so flimsy. I don't want to like hatch them and raise them. I mean, next year I'm just going to let a lot of hens do the raising because it's easier, they're stronger, they know more. But yeah, I'd like to sell hatch eggs. I have an incubator, but you have to hatch quail. They won't hatch their own eggs, usually, normally, oh, yeah, you told me that before yeah, the Catornix really won't.

Dusty:

They still like their kids.

Eric:

Well, they've been in like farm style living for the last two to 3000 years and you can't Well, like egg laying chickens don't really go broody. Some of them do. I mean I'm not going to say none of them do, but well I can get you.

Dusty:

You can probably break that out of them. I mean you can breathe it. Well, it has been. You want to know? I mean bring it back into them. I mean, yeah, you cross it to the game.

Eric:

Yeah, game chicken, sit on anything, they'll hatch anything. All they want to do is hatch. But like you want an egg layer and just lay eggs, you don't want them to go sit because then they're not going to lay an egg for 21 days. Oh and then they're not going to lay an egg after that for like six weeks because they're raising babies. So you're losing like three months of egg laying if you have. So yeah, like some. So it's similar with the quail. It was kind of just like bred out of them.

Ryno:

So this is going to sound stupid, but I would consider like a lot of this like private sector type work, like income generation and stuff like that. Like obviously, at one point you was in public sector doing traditional nine to five.

Eric:

Yeah, what was like the fuck this.

Ryno:

I'm done with this shit. Dude, I never want to be so sustainable.

Eric:

I've never wanted a permanent job Every job Nobody does.

Eric:

No, no, no, no, no, no no no, no, no, you can ask those you like throughout my entire life. I'm just like oh yeah, I'm only here till I figure something else out, and it's like I never get in the mindset of being like, like you know something like. Oh my God, I love my job. I just started. I've never had that. I'm always just like when can I leave? Yeah, because this is. I got walking. I was working on the podcast. I'm a trailer and working on the podcast.

Dusty:

Yeah.

Eric:

You know, now I have chickens. I'd much rather work with the chickens and the sheep and the garden and shit and you love that shit.

Dusty:

Yeah, I'm an appetite as a baby for farming you know, trust fund baby, but like white, you know.

Ryno:

I love, like I mean, the content that comes with it too, Like you do the tick tock.

Eric:

You know I need to do more, but it's just kind of hard. I need to pay somebody to just follow me around. If I did that, I'd have way better.

Dusty:

To pay somebody to follow your industry. Record everything you did.

Eric:

I'd live stream all day Just where go pro.

Dusty:

Yeah, yeah, out from your body on like a fucking extension yeah.

Eric:

Well, the problem with that, though? Like I think a lot of the content I do put out is very curated Not that I'm doing anything wrong but like I don't want to have like a dirty water just because I didn't clean it that day and like somebody like me a champion or whatever. So I am kind of like yeah.

Eric:

But my plan and my goal for right now is to do what I kind of just said a minute ago. I would like to make. Like you know, get on YouTube or TikTok, and it's like beginner chickens, you should get. It's like no one's doing, like intermediate chickens, you should get.

Ryno:

I feel like that's an incredibly like untapped yeah, so I'd like to do that.

Eric:

Like all the fucking game chicken YouTube channel sub dude, other than the ones that are just like they go on farm tours but no one talks or gives information. But man, those, these people, that is like it pop up and it's like clear they fight chickens right With peace and love. You do, you? I don't care, but like I try, whatever or they're at least insinuating.

Dusty:

they do Even, they're even. They're completely fake, they're fully open, fully open.

Eric:

They find chickens on YouTube. But I'm like, okay, cool, you'll teach me how to breed. Like for the color blue is weird to breed. If you got two blue chickens, you can get black splash or blue babies. So what's splash? It's white and blue, like splashes, so like, so it's cool, like learning about genetics and like the right kind of inbreeding stuff, like that.

Eric:

But then you like get on to watch a video and you're like, okay, cool video starting and you're sitting there and you get preached at for like 45 minutes and you're like, okay, that's cool, like I'm not into that, but like whatever. And you just keep fast forward and it's like when you gonna teach me how to breed these chickens and then do one day I was watching one and it was like how to line breed a certain breed Do. The first 45 minutes they were just like so hateful about like all kinds of shit and I was like, bro, I don't want to listen to shit and it's the only resource for like game chickens and then any other videos you find about like fucking do it then you know I'm just like a planning for it.

Eric:

But, like you know, the there's a lot of chicken breeds that are critically endangered because no one knows about them and then, like they are harder to keep, like these happens ever spits and hobbins, meaner and fuck. I'm telling you, say that and they're kind of wild like a game chicken, so you kind of need a little free range or give them a big cage. But they lay like 250 white eggs a year. But they're harder to keep than above Orfington because above Orfington can't really fly.

Dusty:

They'll hatch and they'll make a buff, or you know they're easier to keep.

Eric:

But a lot of people don't know there's like levels to like dogs Right, like, I have cattle dogs. Right, cattle dogs are not a dog that I would suggest somebody to get for their first dog. Nope, it's just, it's a reality. I have 70 acres and sheep and chickens and we're working all day and we get three hours of scheduled like hard training every day. And he's still probably pissed off that I'm not home right now. Right, chickens are the same way. Like, if you ask me about chicken, I don't know, I'd tell you a game chicken first. They're really people friendly. You want a nice chicken for you and your kid? Like, if your kid wants a chicken that you can hold, I tell you get a little game Bainy love all my game Bainy's ain't. They're nice things in the world, but a game chicken. They were bred to be nice to people and mean to animals like the pit. So you're going to get nice but they're harder to keep. Like.

Eric:

I said you like, with buff warfington's right, you can just turn them loose. They'll breed a bunch of roosters. Show up together, buff car.

Dusty:

Whatever man Buff, warfington sounds like a pro wrestler's name. It does.

Eric:

They might have an occasional spat, but it's fine, you can just turn them loose or whatever. But you got a bunch of games are in loose. You're going to have a bunch of fucking dead roosters, you know. So it's just like in the same, with like. Keeping Polish is a little bit harder because their feathers are a little bit different.

Dusty:

How are you from Mac Roberts and you know less about fighting. That's wild to me.

Eric:

I just read a few books in the last couple months about game chickens because I really know how sheltered my upbringing.

Ryno:

Yeah, I know.

Dusty:

I guess I don't think about it. I just feel like like it's like three houses down from you. I didn't leave my house.

Eric:

I also think, too, like information. Not everybody is like can keep all kinds of animals, you know, so if you can't have them, it's like, why would you learn about them?

Ryno:

Yeah, I mean. Plus every place that I've ever lived at is like house on top of house on top of house.

Eric:

So it's kind of hard to keep stuff like that. They keep game chickens like that up the road.

Ryno:

I mean I believe that, but like, what you're talking about is more expansive. You know what I'm saying.

Dusty:

Yeah, on the roof. This might breach doves in town.

Eric:

Yeah, yeah, they're on the black snake. I ate my doves. That happens you have to deal with a whole lot of that like snakes and stuff, so I tried to get into house birds and I would still like to, but when I'm in, like my house, car model house, not the garage that I live in. But yeah, I killed one of my pigeons and couldn't eat it and then it pigeon. I didn't know that's what killed the pigeon. I was just confused why pigeon was dead and kind of wet.

Dusty:

Oh yeah, remember that shit.

Eric:

I woke up the next day in this black snake and ate all three of my diamond doves and I paid like fucking $200 for them. Really, yeah, I traded some stuff for them. So it wasn't like I lost cash, but it was still, like you know, they were getting ready to start laying eggs. I was like opening up a whole new market, you know, like Finches and Diamond Doves and shit like that.

Dusty:

Never financially recovered from this.

Eric:

Yeah, in the old English games there's like 48 accepted color variations. American Gamefell aren't recognized by any organizations, but they're, you know, they're a breed.

Dusty:

Why.

Eric:

So in order to, if you, if you and I want to start a breed, right, we'd have to do it and we'd have to have five people, raise them for like five years or longer and keep like detailed notes, right, game chicken people, nobody can agree what looks the same. If you bred Blueface Hatch and I bred Blueface Hatch, we're going to breed them kind of different, but not because we're breeding them for color confirmation, we're breeding them to like fuck each other, yeah, so no one could agree.

Dusty:

That's why they're not, I mean.

Eric:

No this book I read that said if you breed for color, you lose on. You lose on something. But then they broke down how to breed for color. That was why I bought the book, because I'm not very smart. Well, no, it's just like you're going to. You're going to compromise, maybe a better fighter over a spot on its tail, right, you know what I mean? Tweres for me.

Dusty:

Yeah, I guess that's something to do with the genealogy.

Ryno:

It doesn't seem like it would matter that much. Genealogy is not the one I'm looking for, but you know what I'm saying.

Eric:

No, no, it's all, it's all in. They don't breed for color at all. I mean, those chickens are beautiful and that's why I have them, but those people don't breed them for color. They breed them. They probably breed with color in the back of their mind, but they're breeding for fight capability.

Ryno:

It's more for a fact than it is for love.

Eric:

Dude, did you see how many people was fucking at this one they busted a few years ago. How many people you think a night on Saturday was up?

Ryno:

at On Saturday night Every week, every week here in this county, every week 150.

Eric:

200 to 400. I believe it Full concession stands Full bar.

Dusty:

Yeah, I was going to say it was legit. I love how the Mexico showed up.

Eric:

Philippines people showed up, alabama, mississippi, big players, dude, I believe it Like the big names, dude. They said each fight went 15 grand, you like.

Dusty:

I believe it In that fucking crazy.

Eric:

No, I met a dude. The guy bought him diamond dubs off of. He wanted to buy some game hens off of me to like they'll incubate your eggs Right, you want something to make big eggs find a game here in some variety and that you got incubator. They'll hatch about 10 to 12 eggs and raise them. And I was talking to me. He said, yeah, my buddy was going to sell me some. He went, these dudes from out West came over and bought every one of them $2,000 a piece and I was like what the?

Eric:

fuck. And he said they came out and bought one, went out for a couple of weeks and came back and he said dude didn't want to sell them, kept telling them no. And he said they just kept up in the price till he got $2,000. And that dude went run it up. He had like six of them and he said why are you giving me this much money for this? He went that one. He said that one rooster we took out Western we won half a million dollars Wow.

Eric:

You know, corner in that market, then I've been reading those books and those articles. Some of those old dudes make like 90 grand a night. That's insane. And then you're selling the birds and each bird goes for like $6,700. Like the trio I bought was like I paid 300, but on the internet it's a thousand.

Dusty:

Yeah, man, wild money involved in that. That's crazy to me, yeah.

Eric:

It's sketchy. It's sketchy but, like a lot of people got in trouble for mailing them out of the country, they don't let them do that anymore Cause, like dude, there's people here. You probably know several people here. They've made six figures a year sitting and fighting chickens in the Philippines and Mexico.

Ryno:

I believe it, I believe it.

Dusty:

It's like flagged shut down for this episode. Oh no, now you can now you.

Eric:

Now, if you take a full grown chicken to the post office, you're on a list somewhere. Oh, I believe it.

Dusty:

Oh yeah, you probably ship any livestock. You're probably on a list somewhere.

Eric:

Probably, but not as strict, I don't think.

Dusty:

Well, when I worked for the company where we opened pearls and shit from oysters, I had a ton of trouble with fish and wild life.

Eric:

Over vacuum-sealed oysters.

Dusty:

Yeah, Shipping them. They would go fucking missing, Like they would. They'd like have to inspect the whole thing I had 80s. They lost, like multiple shipments of them, they paid for.

Eric:

I had 80s, some quail eggs shipped to my house and they almost all hatched. Isn't that crazy, ain't that some shit.

Dusty:

They hatched like on while they were shipping. No, like I brought them on for the baby, they'd be the worst, or me I've been eating crazy.

Eric:

You can just mail eggs. It's birds Dude. They mailed me chicks. It took a week for them to get to my house and everyone of them was alive.

Dusty:

Are they like in dry ice or anything? I guess it doesn't make any sense with eggs. Dry ice, that's how you ship food.

Eric:

You tell them about the eggs. No but like no so, like real eggs, you don't have to refrigerate.

Dusty:

I know, I know that I'm talking about, but does that just ship them? Like I'm just confused how they ship them.

Eric:

You just put them in like stuff so they don't break, and put them in the mail. I'm confused about what eggs are real and what aren't.

Dusty:

Well, farm eggs you don't like?

Eric:

So an egg has a bloom, right when you wash that bloom off, bacteria can get in. But as long as you don't wash the bloom off, I don't keep my eggs in the refrigerator.

Dusty:

So are we eating real eggs?

Eric:

Yeah, I just made a joke.

Dusty:

But it's a funny, but it's like not real, like I mean like it's not totally untrue.

Eric:

No, it's like that's you don't have to.

Dusty:

You also don't have to refrigerate milk if you milk the cow.

Eric:

Yeah, but I'm not. I'm not advocating for not pasteurizing your milk.

Dusty:

No, I know that, but I'm just saying but God damn, you know what I love.

Eric:

And the last time I had, I was on a camp and we just kind of came to this farm man and I was the only person that was from like a farm when all this came to his in college and this dude brought out a jar. Dude, it was steaming, you could see the fucking shit floating around it and I was like is that what I think it is? Yeah dude, I just it was freshly squeezed milk. It's like it was just honestly.

Dusty:

I love milk, right, but when he said that I was, I was, I gagged a little bit.

Ryno:

Like I can do, like chocolate, milk and.

Eric:

I'd suck on. Those are some chocolate cereal I'd suck on the other that I can't drink just like white milk.

Dusty:

I suck on the other quoting it's.

Eric:

That's how good it is. I love it, but a lot of people don't. And it is warm.

Dusty:

I bet my dad fucking loves it.

Eric:

No, you're dad would pretend like he did the like get cloud. No, no, my dad would fucking. Love it.

Dusty:

I'd have a drink. Gallons of it. Yeah, you know how my dad drinks like a gallon of milk a fucking day those chickens he got were pretty he drinks a gallon of milk a day, like he gets a heat's a pack of cookies and drinks a gallon of milk.

Eric:

I'm not saying that, I'm just saying so he would drink.

Dusty:

I think he would just drink straight.

Eric:

I don't, even if he didn't like it, though I think.

Dusty:

I feel like you ain't seeing this motherfucker eat or drink anything. It's gone before you even know it happens.

Eric:

Yeah, no, I've been here, he don't taste anything.

Ryno:

Quick question before we go to closure because I know we've talked a whole about the farming aspect of it a little bit.

Eric:

We bullshit it most of time.

Ryno:

The bakery side of it.

Eric:

Oh, what are you?

Ryno:

cooking, what are you making, what are you selling?

Eric:

whatever pays. Answer my question what's your?

Ryno:

hot items. Well, you move, pushing more than anything butter fingers lately.

Eric:

But people really like the muffins, people really like my brownies. I've been testing this pecan candy and a lot of people like it. But yeah, the bacon man. If you told me somebody give me eight dollars for a brownie, I Wouldn't have went to college.

Dusty:

That's fucking true. Really like could have been doing that like and build up the business, cuz I do imagine, if I'd have never quit showing chickens, how many awards I'd have. People ask for your shit too. Yeah, people, people want the shit you make, which makes me worried that you just won't do it anymore.

Ryno:

Well, that's one thing I've been talking about.

Dusty:

No, that is yeah, but you'll be like, no, that's too much pressure.

Eric:

No, it's not that it's just like once I get it, I'm just like what can I do now?

Dusty:

Yeah, yeah, no butter fingers. No, I'm astered those.

Ryno:

They're good. I had a couple. My mom used to make wedding cakes instead.

Ryno:

Oh, so she's yeah, she done in cakes, like she's done a lot of baking over the years. I've never had any pumpkin roll that I will prefer over my mother's pumpkin roll, like when my dad passed, like a year and a half two years ago. She just started talking randomly one day. She's like everyone loves like all these recipes and stuff. But what would I do, excuse me if all of a sudden, like I died tomorrow and y'all didn't have all these recipes.

Ryno:

So that's when they, when we start working on with her, is that something that she's one do for Christmas is not just writing down, but we're making it that whole damn cookbook for a mess, which is kind of awesome because we kind of went back to like the conversation we had with Jeremy right when he came in Talk about how you buying the book and how you done everything through Amazon, everything like there's not a whole podcast episode about this and I we could find a way to make this, because she was like I don't want to go through that process of punching holes and yeah, we can literally make this.

Dusty:

She's so old school, that's so old school, that's the way her mom was going.

Ryno:

She's on.

Eric:

I would like to make a cookbook and I would do like the marketing for my whole farm. She is, like you know, my marketing for my life. Like I'm vintage everything I drink, 92 s-t-n. All the clothes I'm wearing fucking clean as s-t-n.

Dusty:

I don't mean like clean cuz it's nasty.

Ryno:

I saw where Nick got a hope the other day shot. I saw where he detailed it for you.

Dusty:

Yo, it is the cleanest. Like is one of the nicest s-t-n's ever.

Eric:

I think the egg cartons I use to sell our vintage style egg cartons or navy green and I'm do. I only do Mammal recipes. Like I'll never make cake pops for you, I'm never gonna make your wedding cake, but if you want a caramel cake, I'll make that, cuz no one else makes us. That's what she does. Um, if you want butterfingers old-fashioned I'll make them. Yeah, I just want to make like, oh, that's my niche, I'm niching down and I would love to. That's a good thought. I want to do like a, like a Mamaw church cookbook, but mine see, I think that would be phenomenal.

Dusty:

Mamaw Eric's church cookbook.

Ryno:

Well, she's got one.

Dusty:

Fucking, I'm all about it pumpkin roll recipe, like like.

Ryno:

The story behind them too is crazy too, because, like years ago before she, even when made school Became a nurse. Everything she used to clean houses for doctors. I can remember who the doctor was, but she went in their house. Well, they and they had pumpkin roast in there and they're like oh here, get you by that. She's like that's phenomenal. Yeah, they're like oh well, here's my recipe. Like it came from another country. Yeah, she's like here's my recipe. So she's got that wrote down from like it's still in their original 1993.

Dusty:

Your mom like it's a pumpkin.

Eric:

Yeah, dude, everybody asks me. They're like what's your recipe? I bet you won't give it away. I'm like the first fucking thing on Google.

Dusty:

Yes, yeah, so I guess we didn't share the memo and maybe we should have about how guests usually bring things.

Eric:

I was out of things. I sold out Saturday, thankfully next time you're on we yeah, I'll bring some shit. The bacon's paying my pecan pie.

Dusty:

I think the quail you make a pecan pie.

Eric:

I've never made one. I would make a good sweet potato pie. I'm all about some sweet potato.

Dusty:

I want pecan.

Eric:

No, you want my sweet potato pie.

Dusty:

I don't.

Eric:

I took my ticket, mama can you wrong you want that man's pie?

Dusty:

The pie, eat my pie.

Eric:

No, I make a good pie, I make a mean pie, I make good scones. I Don't know what the best thing I make is, though that's a hard love.

Ryno:

What type of?

Dusty:

No, he said no.

Eric:

A lot of people's favorite muffins are the blueberry white chocolate chip with lemon zest Holy shit. A lot of people like the banana chocolate chip too. Banana, chocolate, strawberry with candy lemons on top, and that was a big hit. You're such a tease.

Ryno:

How much you make a muffin blue balls off four dozens of muffins.

Eric:

I get 20 boxes and I sell each box for $8.

Dusty:

That didn't help me at all. How much do you make? $160 off there we go.

Eric:

He just didn't go quantity that's like an hour and a half of work.

Ryno:

I'm just worth of work to get you how much well, it's more than Aaron.

Eric:

I have to like go set up for driving around selling shit. But 200, about $200, that's not bad, because I've been making more than that.

Dusty:

I've been taking like what are you making now? I'll tell you now and a half.

Eric:

Well, see, that's a little. That's the good thing about it. I don't work that much. I work real hard, like a couple days a week, like I moved my sheep's enclosure today and I regret it because I should have cut the grass. But then I was like, well, I don't know, it'll be fine, and now it's not shocked don't let him fuck with you.

Dusty:

His real passion is fine. The best Mexican restaurants me.

Eric:

Yeah, you know that one. I love clothes in Kingsport. They get turned into a truck.

Dusty:

Yeah, but that one and that one of that, that low key, secret one in Pockelton clothes. Oh no that place is legit.

Eric:

I love enchilada rich areas that place.

Dusty:

There's, there's a, there's a, hidden, but it's. Oh, it's not hidden, it's it's been business for years.

Eric:

It's right beside the holiday in there and they ever opened a part. Well, yeah, yeah, man shows.

Dusty:

I'm telling you, dude, it is nuts.

Ryno:

It's, nobody goes there. I'm a bunch of people from a bunch of people.

Dusty:

from what? From Los Pena's work, yeah, it's location.

Eric:

Yeah, I used to get so drunk. Okay, from my physics lab.

Dusty:

Well, somebody goes there. They've been business forever.

Eric:

Yeah, yeah, no, it's a hit. I think it's a.

Dusty:

China garden Mexican restaurant. So like it's like it's kind of nasty, it's like you know it's like it's like it's like nasty, but you know it's gonna say it's run down.

Ryno:

It's all hardies, man. I got a lot of people. Don't talk about cheercoats.

Dusty:

Yo.

Ryno:

I mean.

Dusty:

Monro, you never had cheercoats never had cheer.

Eric:

I mean it's like a homemade Italian place. Have you been to the one in Clintwood?

Dusty:

No.

Eric:

That's how you're pretty good.

Dusty:

Let's say he's high from the mom, me, my wife and we would date and and when we were the first years we were marriage, we would cheercoats like every year.

Ryno:

Yeah, cheercoats is one of my favorite restaurants all time, so used to be in the hotel pincin in downtown Pavel and we can close with this, cuz it's fucked up and where it kind of reminds the hotel, remind you of the shining.

Dusty:

Oh yeah.

Ryno:

So you go up, the first second floor is like old-ass carpet, like the doors are fucked up and shit. You go up to the third floor and the doors like the basis door starts halfway up the wall and goes through the ceiling. You're like why the fuck is this here? Why is it like that? Plus, you would get on the elevator. And if you went up to the third floor and the elevator door open up, it's just a brick wall and there would be like like carvings and shit in it. It was wild, but they finally tore down the hotel, they moved it. It's out Literally right across from the house.

Ryno:

What's the movie theater called Riverfield?

Dusty:

Riverfield. It's right across from Riverfield. I've stood in so many, so many lines there to watch order the rings movies.

Ryno:

I'm gonna tour of Italy.

Eric:

Homework before I come back. Yes, I'm gonna send you.

Ryno:

I've never done any home. I'm gonna never had he might give us home. No, I'm not here for it.

Eric:

I'm gonna send you two things a playlist and all kinds of goddamn rap they.

Dusty:

Yo, let me tell you what's gonna happen to you. Though You're gonna be listening to the white working, you're gonna be into it.

Ryno:

You're gonna be like you know what this?

Eric:

fucking ready to fight, yeah, and then you're gonna, and they're gonna, call me I need to be ready to fight tomorrow. So you say she says. She says rip me out the plastic. I've been acting brand new.

Dusty:

I don't know, I don't know you gotta stay with it.

Eric:

It's like kind of trashy, but that makes it hotter, you know.

Dusty:

That's your favorite. It's just trashy, that is. Let me tell you a secret.

Eric:

I told you on the porch I want to pay my Anderson or Logan.

Dusty:

That's what Wes likes to.

Eric:

We love to have you, man, yeah no, next time We'll actually talk about farming. I'm getting a high tunnel. Next year I got grants like I'm I'm talking about, like real life.

Dusty:

I told you we want, that's what we wanted you to talk about. What you wanted to talk about yeah, you had a bad thing.

Eric:

I like I'll talk about fucking Glow, real, all night or something.

Dusty:

That's good. Well, I'm gonna talk about whatever.

Ryno:

I was fucking entertaining, I get grants and like Shit, you know yeah, we didn't get into the hole like how you.

Dusty:

I mean you make more of a living than just selling by goods like yeah, I got well.

Eric:

I'm well far in a different way. Yeah you know, they just gave me five grand to Expand my you're not buying for the grounds. No, I'm buying two buffers and chicken wire and incubators, but it's still like, well, I don't got a bunch of chickens out. This is gonna be a to be continued, yeah for sure, yeah, oh, in the second part of the homework, yeah, I'll see you. All kinds of chickens I have, you have to come to the house check my.

Dusty:

I'm gonna send you pictures. He's gonna send you rap music and cock pictures. Yeah.

Eric:

Yeah, it's cocked because the rosers are genuinely pretty.

Dusty:

Look at all these pictures of cocks. I got some freezled chickens.

Eric:

Man, they're feathers, turn out.

Ryno:

Go ahead and plug your socials and stuff that way, if anyone's check that you.

Eric:

I'm a exhaust king on tick tock or Instagram. I saw two places you should follow me.

Dusty:

That is but this. Come to the farmers market and buy your yeah, come in the farmers market. If I want to know if you're local.

Eric:

Well, no, I had some of the farmers markets like mail and bread. I want to learn how to mail muffins or like.

Dusty:

Oh yeah, you know well, just to find Eric's Alice King.

Eric:

Yeah, and I'm gonna Instagram, and I'm gonna Instagram and tick tock.

Dusty:

Mess you and be like mail me some fucking muffins. Yeah, I mail me your cock.

Eric:

I just got to learn yeah, no, no, I just have a panic attack.

Dusty:

Mail me a cock $700 god damn, it's a lot.

Eric:

Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I don't really want to sell them, but money does talk, you know, and you ain't got tell me what you do. Just lay it down, walk off. I ain't got room. I ain't got room. I'm out of room. I've given away. Right now, maybe I'll just come over and get them abundance of cock.

Dusty:

Eric, I love you man. I appreciate you coming on the show.

Eric:

No problem.

Ryno:

Anybody wants to follow obviously can hit us up on at unpaid lunch at any of the social media platforms. One thing we got a new concept coming up here in the next couple weeks so definitely want to spot a lot any of our patreon followers. New segment one try to start launching on Wednesdays. We'll try to get some type of information out to patreon followers and try to plug that a little bit more coming forward on Instagram and a couple other social media platforms. As always, you can subscribe a professional when you're plugging, I love you like it.

Ryno:

I did back in the day they gave me, my. Brain goes in, because I love the process at all going, but I'm not you fuck me up now. You got to finish it. It's on you now, oh.

Eric:

You got me on my what, what y'all put on tick tock. This guy gets lost in it Um no, I could talk to hours, I mean tick tocks.

Dusty:

Usually If you follow some tick tock you get a lot of content of just random. You get, like our random thoughts after work too. We have a lot of fucking just random thoughts after work. I mean, I follow you on tick tock and and then repost, and then we usually share clips from the episode every week Is the ones that's.

Ryno:

Yeah, I love to go out and appreciate as well like other people's good with their job stories and stuff like that, yeah, so a lot of it's.

Dusty:

You know, yeah, we're on there to like people's. We like a shit ton of just quit your job stories.

Eric:

I technically didn't quit my last job. Yeah, you just didn't go back, yeah they, they tried to bluff and they were like if you take 12 weeks off, you have to take 12 weeks. I was like my fuck, I'm at $600 a week, all right.

Dusty:

And then we live for that.

Eric:

Yeah, and then I Got addicted to flipping channels and, like I Ethically flip things, I didn't rip people off, I just like if I found a 50-dollar t-shirt, I'd sell it for like 25 or something.

Ryno:

I think there's an episode in there. We're gonna do a whole vintage episode, vintage is no, that's yeah.

Eric:

That could be a whole thing, but yeah, I started doing that and then they called me back at week 8. We actually need you to come back and I was like I said I had to go 12 weeks. To buy we need you back and I went well. But I just made five grand from Goodwill and they went what? And I went.

Dusty:

I I'm good.

Eric:

I think I'm staying home.

Dusty:

Uh, I Think you said false and Instagram.

Ryno:

Yes, I was transitioning into follow some snapchat and only friends.

Dusty:

Yeah, um.

Ryno:

Joll fucked up my flow.

Dusty:

Sorry.

Ryno:

I was.

Dusty:

I want to shout out the patrons because we've not done that. Travis Sturgill, chris Hammons, charlie poop West, cam'n Vance, mike Adams. Appreciate you guys For, you know, sticking with us in some beginning y'all got any merch? And hanging. We got a little bit. We're we're working on some of that. That's that. Shit's coming out soon, it's my other fucker loves.

Eric:

And no ask, no, it's just. I used to make merch for nonprofits and I know what's cheap and what's good.

Dusty:

You're right, I've had anything I've had like 80 hundred jobs.

Eric:

What's y'all got anything else I'm good cozy, get. Don't follow me, but follow me, and you know I Mean I do a lot of shit, like if you want to look at my stuff, that's cool, but I mean like a horror podcast.

Dusty:

Nobody understands what you're saying. Yeah, follow me, but don't follow me.

Eric:

It's just like mysterious. Look for it.

Ryno:

I'm so confused.

Dusty:

I'm like I remember y'all, nobody stopped you quitting your job, but you, you.