In this episode, the guys talk about the UFC 246 post-fight brawl at UFC 246 and how they managed to survive it. They also talk about some of the crazier things they saw at the UFC Fight Night event and some of their favorite moments of the night. Also, the boys talk about what it's like to be at a rock concert and the craziness that goes on in the aftermath of a fight night and how to deal with the chaos that can go on at an event like UFC 246. We hope you enjoy this episode and don't forget to leave us a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms! Cheers, The Eaters! -Your Eaters and Eaters. -The Eaters Crew. Just pay the 2.95 postage. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and Subscribe to our channel! We'll be looking out for your favorite Eaters on the next Shoutout! Subscribe, Like, Share, and Shout out to the Eaters, too! Timestamps: 0:00 - Who's getting the most out of this episode? 5:30 - What's the worst dropkick in the history of public dropkicks? 6:20 - The worst public dropkick? 7:00 8:15 - What do you think of Fred Durst? 9:40 - What kind of dropkick would you like to see at a UFC fight? 10:00- What would you want to see in UFC 246? 11:15- What are you looking for? 16:30- What's your favorite part of the UFC fight night? 17: What are your favorite moment? 18:00 What would your favorite thing? 19:40- Who do you need to see? 21:00 How do you feel about it? 22:00 Do you think you're going to be next? 27:00 Is there a better than a rock band? 25:00 Canelo Alvarez's chances of winning the next round? 26:00 Should you have a better chance of winning at UFC fight day? 30:00 Who's your best friend? 31:00 Are you looking forward to the next one? 33:00 Would you be more likely to win the next UFC fight or not? 35:00 Will you be there next week?
00:00:13.000Oh, when the shit got squirrely at the UFC? The side that you guys were on, where you guys were in the crowd, did anybody jump towards you that way?
00:01:04.000I mean, obviously it seemed way worse over on your side, but I was more worried when they made us leave because the further up you got in the bleachers and once you got out into the concession area and in the bathrooms, that's where stuff was going down.
00:01:22.000You know guys with Irish flags all obviously were getting trash talk to them and there was a big brawl right yeah right next to me on the other side from where they were sitting oh that's right there was one just to our right I was looking left I believe it was the guy that jumped in in the red shirt on Khabib's team when they were trying to leave when they're getting them out mmm people in the crowd are like ah they start throwing shit at them first like that's how the that's where the first shit was getting thrown down and some people know that it was them We all saw them.
00:01:50.000The guy next to me was like, that's the guy.
00:02:20.000It seemed like it was way worse than it really was because...
00:02:26.000In any other situation, it would be way worse than it really was.
00:02:29.000Like, if it was a rock concert, and some dudes just from, you know, like, you know, if one band was the opening band, and then there was another band that was in a brawl with them, and they were the main event, and then the fans of one band threw down with the fans,
00:02:45.000the other band beat the shit out of each other.
00:02:47.000That would, for whatever reason, be way worse than when it's at a fight.
00:02:52.000Because if it's at a fight, it's just fighters.
00:03:43.000I think a lot of the thing that's going through people's minds, too, is when you're in a fight like that, there's a lot of people in the crowd that can throw down.
00:03:53.000It's not like, you know, you go to a, well, if you go to a hard rock concert of any kind, Clay Guida's going to be there somewhere, obviously.
00:04:02.000But as long as you can avoid clay, your opportunity of finding a guy that can really throw cuffs is going to be way smaller.
00:04:10.000When you're at the UFC and you look around, it's hard not to see cauliflower ear.
00:04:14.000Someone who's in the crowd that's just a shit talker, he knows if I just turn around and talk shit, I could get wrapped up and be dead quick.
00:04:25.000Yeah, that's a very high number of people that could fuck you up at one of those events.
00:05:06.000I'm going to ride this out for two minutes, and then these giraffe elk legs are getting ready to freaking start dancing on some people.
00:05:15.000I'm going to let some people spaz out for a little while, and then I'm good.
00:05:19.000When people were talking about Conor and his conditioning for this fight, one of the things that Cam Haynes said was he needs to start running.
00:05:35.000It would help some, but the thing is when someone's wrestling you and they're on top of you fucking you up like that, You're just getting drained.
00:05:45.000It's like a vampire just sucking blood out of you.
00:05:50.000You're carrying all their weight, and you're getting beat up, and you're stressed, and you're trying to move, and you can't breathe well because the person's weight is on top of you, so you're not getting real breaths, and you're constantly resisting their weight, and it's way easier for them than it is for you.
00:06:07.000It's way easier to stay on top than it is to be on the bottom.
00:06:32.000Like, they were guys that were real athletic at one time.
00:06:35.000You know, I remember one of the first things my dad taught me, you know, when I was younger in school, he's like, you know, I think it was after the first guy, you know, wanted to fight me on the playground.
00:06:46.000He's like, you know, if you don't know if the guy's good at fighting, don't worry about it unless he's a wrestler.
00:06:51.000He's like, just if it's a wrestler, try to back down because he's like, you don't know what to do.
00:10:45.000And as much as we're talking about wrestling, he impressed me stand-up.
00:10:51.000Oh yeah, he cracked Connor with that big right hand.
00:10:53.000He stood up enough to just say, you know, I'm going to sit here and take a few, and I'm going to give a few, but then he went to probably what his game plan was, I would assume.
00:11:04.000Well, you have to stand for a little while, because if he just shoots in, he'll get caught with a knee or caught with a punch rushing in.
00:11:11.000But he, I mean, he landed the bigger shot.
00:11:15.000There was one big, giant shot that was landed in that fight, and it was by hand.
00:11:19.000I mean, Conor hit him with some pretty good front kicks to the body and some other things, but didn't really get much off on the feet.
00:11:25.000Not like classic left jabs that just break people down.
00:11:28.000Yeah, and on the ground, he just got mauled.
00:11:32.000And it's one of those things where you see that guy, in the beginning, guys fight him off a little bit, and then as the fight wears on, he just gets more and more dominant.
00:12:57.000When someone gets their arm around your head like that and then what they do is they grab it like this and they pinch the elbow They put the forearm on his back, like this.
00:13:10.000So as the arm is across the neck, and then they grip it like this, and the forearm goes into the back, and as you're pulling like this, you're pushing with your forearm and yanking with your hand.
00:16:03.000There's very there's parallels in archery for sure because archery it's What's really important is your technique your technique is almost everything like doing everything correctly and that's the same thing with jujitsu same thing with Muay Thai Taekwondo anything it's just technique and doing it over and over again correctly until it's ingrained in your system and Yeah,
00:16:42.000And several people have told me they're like, there comes a point where all of a sudden it just...
00:16:48.000Something clicks and you start to comprehend everything, but until that moment happens, you're going to struggle to remember what you talked about last time or how to do it exactly right, but eventually there comes a time when it clicks and you do start to soak in stuff,
00:17:06.000and I'm definitely not to that point yet.
00:17:11.000The one thing I do understand that they were impressed by It's just leverage on joints, you know, because they were talking about some of the different arm bars and stuff.
00:17:22.000You know, they were like, well, if the elbow's like this, and I said, yeah, that won't work.
00:17:27.000And I remember Damien looked at me like, how do you know that?
00:17:29.000And I'm like, you know how many arms I've dissected off animals?
00:17:32.000You know, if you have to knock four hooves off an elk quarter to pack it out, if you don't know where the joint is and how to bend it and hit it just right to crack that off.
00:17:49.000I think that, too, but also your understanding of, like, the proper positioning of your shoulders and your elbow and everything in archery.
00:19:31.000Most people, even if they have like a strong left arm, like if I go, flex your arm, you see a good left bicep, you know, you look like you got good shoulders in your left hand.
00:19:39.000And then I bring you to a heavy bag and I say, throw a left hook.
00:19:43.000Most people's left hooks are fucking dog shit.
00:19:58.000I think you might be able to throw, because the concept of throwing seems normal, but the concept of digging in with your toes and turning your body into a hook, and then if you do it and you just do it slowly, just bang and hit a bag, they're like, how are you doing that?
00:20:37.000Like if I flex the two of them together, my left bicep looked larger.
00:20:40.000And that's a normal thing with boxers.
00:20:43.000If you're not a person who switches stances and you keep yourself in an orthodox stance with your left leg forward, you'll have a stronger left hand.
00:20:51.000I would be able to open things better with my left hand than my right hand.
00:22:23.000And then six months later, he's not just healed up, he's got Anthony Pettis kicking that leg.
00:22:30.000We were very concerned in the beginning of the fight.
00:22:32.000It looked like he got hurt on that leg, because Pettis hit that leg twice really hard, and it looked like he was wobbly a little bit on that leg.
00:22:42.000Yeah, I was going to say, he survived a catastrophic flurry.
00:25:45.000They won't know for another day or so.
00:25:47.000But I think it's the most important fight of all time because Conor being such a huge superstar and then being out of MMA for two solid years and then Khabib just being so dominant.
00:26:29.000Well, what's awesome is, if there isn't, and kind of the counter-politics are out of that weight class, now some of the fights we'd get to see, like, I'd love to see him in Ferguson would be...
00:28:41.000And when I stepped away for two or three years, even though I contemplated coming back, I'm like, this commitment is going to take a year, two years of really fine-tuning.
00:28:53.000Because, I mean, at those levels, people don't miss.
00:28:57.000You know, so missing one or two still means it's a burnt weekend.
00:30:15.000Even if you're on the game, which there's been times like this past summer, I had an event that I did for a Cabela's experience where some of the Cabela's black signature card members kind of, I guess, bought an experience.
00:30:31.000Some training at the Easton Center with them, and then we went and shot the Total Archery Challenge in Utah.
00:30:38.000I talked through the technicalities of what you would do on each shot.
00:30:42.000Explain what the Total Archery Challenge is for people.
00:30:44.000Total Archery Challenge is a tournament that—or it's not even a tournament.
00:30:47.000It's more of a fun event where they set—it's in Snowbird, and they set archery targets like in real— Hunting situations, but with very, very technical shots.
00:30:57.000Extreme angles, longer distances, you got crosswinds and canyons.
00:31:03.000And Snowbird, for people who don't know, is a ski course.
00:31:41.000There are all these foam deer and foam sheep and all these different game animals.
00:31:47.000And they're at extreme distances and with weird angles.
00:31:52.000You take the tram all the way to the top of the mountain and then you literally shoot down.
00:31:58.000I think it was about six miles for us to get down.
00:32:01.000I think our total walk one day was about six miles.
00:32:05.000But I shot it with this group and taught them the technicalities of it.
00:32:09.000And because of that, I really wanted to be prepared.
00:32:12.000I knew that there was going to be people there watching.
00:32:15.000I knew that because I stepped into an actual event where there were a few thousand archers there, I knew that there was going to be a lot of people watching me because I haven't gone out into that realm in a while.
00:32:26.000It would be no different than if all of a sudden, you know...
00:32:29.000You were out of MMA for a while and then went in there.
00:33:02.000But once you go there, even if you're totally on your game, if you have to shoot with other guys that are elite-level athletes, there's still a lot that goes into it.
00:33:15.000I mean, especially if you're shooting for score, you're Those pressure factors, if you're not acclimated to them, those aren't things that you can just step back into.
00:33:25.000When I was my best as a competitor My practice was almost at tournaments every weekend.
00:33:34.000It was, I mean, 40-something events a year.
00:33:38.000Every three days, you're at a tournament in the heat of the moment with the best five or six people in the world.
00:33:45.000And then you go home for a few days, you repack, you retune, and then you're right back in the grind again.
00:33:51.000Somebody got stripped of a title because they tested positive for THC and beta block.
00:34:00.000When I competed, so, I mean, yeah, you're, depending on what level you're at, there was, because I shot with the U.S. team, certain tournaments didn't have doping, and then, but when you shot anything that was on a world level,
00:34:42.000The ability for your brain to dump adrenaline.
00:34:45.000The number one thing in archery or any type of finesse sport is low heart rate, keeping your heart rate down, because that's obviously keeping your mind in the game, and stability, very minimal movements.
00:35:01.000So, yeah, I remember I had a coach a long time ago.
00:35:06.000He talked about alcohol and how alcohol could help shooters.
00:35:11.000Because we were talking about a guy that had done well at tournaments several times.
00:35:15.000And I said, yeah, he always does good.
00:35:53.000It wasn't an archery range where they have to buy insurance or whatever.
00:35:57.000But yeah, that was part of it because at the time, this was in the mid-90s, Another archer that had won a bunch of titles also tested positive for beta blockers and had some titles stripped.
00:36:12.000But then for the longest time, that was one of my complaints, was once I was shooting at a level with the teams and we had to go through testing or be, like, if, for example, at an event when I medaled,
00:36:50.000There was clearly guys there that were shooting that were kind of just out of it.
00:36:55.000There could be $50,000 on the line, and there was just not a sweat cracked.
00:37:01.000Because some of that stuff, obviously, it is a performance enhancer because of the fact they're not having to deal with adrenaline spikes and accelerated heart rate.
00:37:11.000For people who don't know what we're talking about, 3D shoots are a type of tournament where they have those realistic-looking targets.
00:37:19.000So foam elks or foam bear, and they have areas that you're supposed to hit.
00:37:24.000Yeah, and the other thing was, I didn't like the fact that at that time, when you scored, it was just based off, if there's four guys in a group, whatever the majority voted, that's how it scored.
00:37:37.000And when there's a lot of money on the line...
00:37:39.000So, like, say you shot and I shot, Jamie shot, and Sharon shot.
00:37:44.000We'd walk up and, you know, they're foam rings, so the arrow could look like it's in, it could look like it's out, but it's not a clear line.
00:37:52.000And we would just, if me, you, and Jamie said that's out, then even if Sharon's was close, it'd be out.
00:37:59.000So I was in some groups where things got a little shady.
00:38:04.000And it got apparent that it wasn't, you know, there wasn't a judge there calling every score, which on a world level, there's judges there.
00:38:14.000Oh, so if you guys were all competing against each other, you would call for each other?
00:39:32.000And I thought, have I just not been on one of these for that long to where this feels like it could possibly shake off and we could launch onto, like...
00:39:41.000When was the last time a roller coaster did break loose?
00:39:45.000Like, when was the last time someone...
00:39:46.000There was something last year, I believe, that happened.
00:42:23.000But there's something about that kind of experience.
00:42:27.000Like, that's one of the weirder things about Texas is that they have these enormous fenced-in properties where they have all these African animals running around.
00:43:36.000So, you know, there's certain scoring clubs that don't recognize anything with a high fence, but then at the same time, there's like members within those organizations that are like, well, wait a minute, you know, if a ranch is 15,000 acres...
00:43:51.000They kind of have this same argument, and they said, well, is that?
00:43:54.000And it's like, well, yeah, I mean, if there is.
00:43:57.000And as a hunter, it's one of the things that there's kind of a continual debate.
00:44:03.000Some hunters absolutely refuse to hunt anything that has any sort of containment.
00:44:09.000Other people have their own threshold of, well, if it's 5,000 or more, then I'm kind of okay with it.
00:44:22.000I mean, it's no different than some people in the hunting community.
00:44:26.000Some people only want to hunt animals that are on public land.
00:44:30.000And then some people like to hunt animals.
00:44:34.000Areas where it's, you know, it's managed properties, it's privately owned properties that have really good management and you know that, you know, you're shooting, you know, a certain age limit, you're kind of culling out, you know, the older animals maybe that aren't breeding anymore.
00:44:51.000So yeah, there's continual differences of what people feel like, you know, they want to accept.
00:44:58.000Some people Some people just like hunting like Nugent.
00:45:03.000He just loves hunting his ranch, right?
00:45:41.000Look, if you're a meat eater and you want to get meat from a free-range cattle ranch, you only want grass-fed, grass-finished beef that's free-range, that roams around.
00:45:57.000There's a lot of people that feel that way.
00:46:17.000Some people feel like the only kind of hunting they want to do is backpacking public land, go into the wilderness, and they don't want to have anything to do with raising those animals, helping those animals.
00:46:31.000They want those animals to be straight up wild.
00:46:35.000And they feel like that is the most ethical way.
00:46:39.000There's a lot of weird debates about public land, too.
00:46:43.000There's a lot of people that are really into public land, and public land is super important to them.
00:46:49.000They only want to hunt public land, but they have secret spots on public land, and they don't want anybody to know about them.
00:46:56.000And if you tell someone about their spot on public land, they'll get mad at you.
00:47:00.000Like if you take someone to a spot, I've heard Ranella talk about this on his show, like he's a big public land guy, but he'll talk on his show about what A betrayal it is, if you tell a person about a spot and they tell someone else about that spot,
00:47:17.000or they go to that spot without you, like, what the fuck are you talking about?
00:47:23.000And if it's not, if it is public land, if you're telling someone about a spot, you're telling me that this public land spot you don't want them going to without you?
00:48:06.000Yeah, but if someone takes you to a sweet little spot where they just rip lips constantly on a lake, and then next thing you know, they go out there on a weekend and you're sitting there in your boat with a bunch of buddies.
00:49:44.000Well, could you imagine if you, say you were going elk hunting, you left camp an hour and a half before daylight, and you pack all the way out there, and there's someone sitting on your glassing rock in that basin.
00:50:38.000So if someone takes you to a place, and it's this really good mule deer spot, and you hike in seven miles, and it's this beautiful basin, and you go there, and it's just always deer there.
00:50:50.000You don't go there without that person's permission?
00:50:52.000I would say, are you going to be there?
00:50:54.000And if he said no, and I'd say, can I go?
00:51:30.000The other argument, though, too, is just from a hunting situation.
00:51:33.000Jamie, as a person who doesn't hunt at all, does this seem ridiculous?
00:51:36.000I mean, I've heard it, so it's not a new concept to me, but I'm trying to compare it to something else.
00:51:41.000Like if it was a basketball hoop I found somewhere, and I don't tell somebody to go to that playground because it's my hoop, and I show up and people are there playing.
00:51:55.000It's silly, but I'm just trying to think, yeah.
00:51:56.000That you have, especially in today's day and age, because today people use like Onyx Maps and they use Google Earth and you could find these beautiful spots and you just go out to them.
00:52:10.000Like if you find a beautiful spot on Google Earth and you go out to it and you go, hey man, this is a spot I found.
00:52:25.000But I think there's a legitimate code to it.
00:52:28.000It seems ridiculous, but it seems understandable that someone would be upset if they're looking forward to going to a place, and they told you about it a year ago, and they go to that place, they hike in, takes them nine miles, and then you're there.
00:54:24.000One of the questions, or I guess arguments, too, is I don't understand it when people, they don't have any tolerance for hunting private land, so to speak, or they don't have tolerance for...
00:54:40.000I don't mind people that hunt exotic ranches or hunt hindfence.
00:54:45.000That's just not what I personally like.
00:55:35.000But it's a private ranch, and you kind of know that there wasn't a lot of pressure there, so they probably knew where this deer was, and people that worked in this ranch told people about this deer, and they kind of kept their eye on it, and they knew where to go to find him.
00:56:23.000But what I'm saying is, like, hunters versus non-hunters, people that are non-hunting that really look down on, like, what we're talking about as hunters, but yet they'll raise a goat to slaughter.
00:56:36.000But they're not pretending that it's some sort of pursuit, man versus ant.
00:56:40.000See, the thing about the hunting thing is you're looking at it like it's a difficult pursuit, like you're out there trying to outwit this animal.
00:56:51.000But if you're in a 400-acre fenced-in property with a bunch of exotics running around, you're sitting in a tree stand, there's a pile of corn down there, and you're waiting for an animal to walk over to that corn and you whack it, that is very different than, say, what you did this year in Alberta when you were telling me that you were hiking hundreds of...
00:57:12.000I mean, how many days did you guys go?
00:57:41.000That anybody would compare what you did to that.
00:57:45.000And then there's like the intermediary, which is like a really nice ranch that's not a high fence, but it's a private ranch like the place we went to in Utah.
00:58:27.000I really like the balance of having really tough hunts, especially because I knew my Utah hunt wouldn't quite be the same.
00:58:36.000That was kind of a very different experience for me.
00:58:39.000I haven't ever had an opportunity like that, so that was quite a difference for me, whereas Between the other states that I hunted, I think I was right at just over 200 miles before we got our first bull.
00:58:56.000Between there and then hunting some private land, but also some public land in Montana before finally getting that first elk.
00:59:05.000Can you talk about what happened with Montana with the bear?
01:00:48.000They don't want prey birds, like crows and stuff, to be able to see it because they'll start talking and then other predators in the area listen for those birds and then it's kind of a magnet.
01:01:00.000It starts to draw, so they like to conceal it.
01:01:02.000So they'll literally kind of pivot on a circle around that kill and actually claw the ground and bury them.
01:01:12.000I've seen where grizzlies bury a full moose and it is...
01:01:21.000I'm talking, it looks like a skid loader came in there and buried these things and they can do, they can do that kind of work fairly quick.
01:01:29.000But they'll pile up everything around it and then they kind of normally will create one small little hole at the end of that mound where they'll kind of crawl in there and they literally like eat.
01:01:40.000From one side to the other side, you know, and it's normally the back end first.
01:01:50.000So yeah, I felt like we had just got there when this bear had just discovered the carcass and had just started the burial process because, you know, he hadn't pulled anything out of the trees.
01:02:05.000He had only started to cover the carcass, which normally they'll cover that seal first, then they'll clean up the scraps around, and then they go to their pile and kind of consume that last.
01:02:16.000But I was certain that we had seen one.
01:02:19.000We ended up seeing a wildlife biologist later on, and I told him, you know, I thought I saw a grizz, and he told me, he said, well, It's pretty important if you did because there hasn't been one naturally on this hill in,
01:04:15.000So, you know, and keep in mind, you know, mountain grizzlies look a little bit different than, like, a coastal bear or, you know, an inland grizzly, but...
01:04:23.000Either way, it was a bear that came in and covered the whole carcass and went to eat it.
01:04:30.000Now, when you were in Alberta, you went back to that place that you were talking about on the first podcast we ever did, where you had that encounter where you shot that elk that was just outside of that wolf den, and the wolves tried to claim the elk.
01:04:42.000You guys had to shoot your way out of there.
01:07:03.000It's funny how many people are like, that is not porcupine quills.
01:07:08.000It's like, listen, people, I'm in the outdoors 200 days, probably a year, and if there's porcupine quills coming out of a pile of shit, I'm pretty sure I know what it is.
01:08:39.000Maybe making a slight mistake, slipping up a little bit, almost getting jacked by another grizzly, and then you're like, oh, yep, I know not to do this, I know not to do that.
01:08:48.000I mean, their intelligence level and their ability to function is extremely high.
01:08:54.000And wolves are, I mean, arguably wolves probably get shot less than probably any of the other animals.
01:09:05.000So, yeah, I wouldn't doubt it, you know.
01:09:09.000And they were very, after that, they were very intent in that area for people to, they put up some pretty big bounties on the wolves, and they really went after them and knocked those herds down quite a bit because there was very few mule deer,
01:09:31.000They had to cut the number of tags way down.
01:09:34.000So elk, as soon as wolves like howl at night, if a pack moves into an area and they howl, like calling elk is just non-existent.
01:09:43.000They just, everything's just like, don't say nothing because, you know, they're here.
01:09:48.000So yeah, I think them thinning them down was very rewarding.
01:09:54.000And since then, which was quite a while ago, the numbers of like elk and moose, like this past year, I saw way more moose than I've seen.
01:10:04.000I think they're really hard on moose fawns.
01:10:08.000And yeah, I mean, moose, muleys, whitetails, I saw way more animals this year than in the past up there.
01:10:16.000And I think it's just because that The wolf number was just much lower.
01:10:22.000But there was, like I said, there was still sign that there was some in the area, just nothing like several years ago when I was there.
01:10:30.000It was, you know, it was, even I would say as much as I appreciate balance in nature, it was excessive.
01:10:39.000And it's getting that way now, like even in Wisconsin.
01:10:42.000I remember I was talking to a friend of mine up in an area I used to live up by, kind of in the La Crosse area, actually lived a little northeast of La Crosse by a small town called Cataract.
01:10:55.000A few times where there were some wolf spottings, there's a big military base there called Fort McCoy, and I lived up on the northern side of the base, what was called the impact area.
01:11:05.000They kind of shot test rounds over and they kind of went off there or whatever, but There was an incredible number of like deer and things that were in there so you know kind of the rumor was that they had introduced wolves into their timber wolves to let to kind of thin down some of those numbers well now it's to the point where the amount of people I know in Wisconsin that see wolves It's just rapidly increasing and obviously when that happens,
01:11:56.000Overpopulating, and you do want some sort of a balance between predator and prey, but the real problem becomes when people don't want to manage the predators.
01:12:14.000People need to understand, like, if you do like deer and you like moose and you like all these other animals, you can't have too many wolves.
01:12:22.000You can't have too many grizzlies because if you do, you're going to have very few of those other animals.
01:17:16.000The pot was so massive, but I put in about six cups of bone broth and then covered it with a cast iron lid, wrapped it all up in foil, and then cooked it at 225, I think for about 18 hours because of how big it was.
01:17:33.000And then we knew it was about ready to be done, so we grilled some peppers and Is that all we put in there?
01:19:11.000Well, those Traeger grills, any sort of pellet grill is such a great way to cook something like that, too, because you can maintain the exact temperature for long periods of time.
01:19:22.000And the thing about, if you've never used a pellet grill, folks, they use these pellets that are made out of wood.
01:19:27.000So like this table, if you're going to make this table, they would use a saw to make the table, and they would take the actual sawdust and compress it.
01:19:35.000And the natural sugars in the wood make this compressed pellet.
01:19:39.000So they don't add any chemicals or anything.
01:19:42.000And then they have this element that heats it up, and then they have this little worm drive that feeds pellets down into the heated up area.
01:19:54.000The heated up area turns into fire, and you've got this little fire going on in this hopper, where this hopper feeds down into this cup, rather.
01:20:05.000So the fire's in the cup, and it keeps dropping pellets in there, so it's a natural fire.
01:20:09.000It's just fire and wood, and it gives us great flavor to the food that you're cooking, whatever.
01:20:15.000We're cooking vegetables or anything you're cooking, meat.
01:20:18.000And those things maintain temperature so well.
01:20:21.000So you could keep it on 190 degrees and just keep it at 190 for a fucking day.
01:20:28.000And they're so efficient that you never have to add pellets.
01:20:32.000You could do the entire 16, 18 hours worth of cooking just on one hopper full of pellets.
01:21:03.000So it's basically the rib and where the rib goes up to the top of the back and the back that meat that goes along the top of the spine is what most people like best out of elk.
01:21:14.000Yeah, I gotta find that picture of the two of us.
01:21:16.000So he cooked it like that with the bones attached just for novelty.
01:22:25.000One of the things I always do is I'll always take a Traeger with me, or, you know, honestly, it sounds weird, but it's an investment to, even if it's one of the portable ones, just to get one there.
01:22:36.000Well, that new one that they have is awesome.
01:23:56.000You know, if you lived in the city, like I've got a...
01:23:58.000I bring him up a lot just because I think what he does is cool, but I've got a buddy that lives in New York, and I found him on Instagram working out in Central Park all the time.
01:25:41.000If you're cooking for two, it would be perfect.
01:25:44.000Yeah, you could easily cook for two on that thing.
01:25:46.000You can cook for more than two on that thing.
01:25:48.000And the cleanup is the most important thing with any pellet grill, if anyone's ever going to get one.
01:25:53.000The two things I can tell you are most important is one, Just recognize that it runs off a wooden pellet.
01:26:00.000So treat the pellets like you would campfire wood.
01:26:05.000If you leave campfire wood out where it's getting rained on all the time, it's going to be a pain to start it or it's not going to burn that great.
01:26:13.000So if you keep those dry, I always put my pellets after I pour the bag in, whatever's left.
01:26:18.000I actually put in one of my Yeti buckets and put that, you know, that kind of it's, I don't know, it's like a sealable lid that I push down.
01:27:11.000So, you know, if you get to the point where you're not able to get to your higher temperatures, it's probably because you have too much ash in your pot.
01:27:21.000Yeah, clean it out, and then it'll, pretty much from there, be as easy as flipping it to on and turning it to the temperature that you want, and it's done.
01:27:31.000Yeah, I was telling you that I tried cooking on a regular grill, a propane grill, the other day, and it just sucked.
01:27:36.000It was flaring up, just, you know, fire and smoke because the fat was dripping down into the fire.
01:28:01.000Well, it's definitely a better way to do it if you're using propane.
01:28:04.000I remember once I bought some ribeyes, and this was back when I didn't have the money to buy good steaks, but I had some people over and I thought, I'm going to buy some good steaks.
01:28:15.000Went out and spit quite a bit, getting some good ribeyes and everything.
01:28:20.000And because there's so much marbling, I remember I came inside.
01:28:51.000One of the things that I'm really learning from getting into hunting and getting into cooking my own food is learning how to do it correctly.
01:29:11.000I shot that whitetail in South Dakota, and I took both of the front quarters and then did slow cooks with those, and they're awesome.
01:29:24.000The key for any of that stuff that normally has a lot of tendons and stuff that's a tougher section of the meat, a lot of people try to cook them too fast and you don't break down that cartilage.
01:29:35.000You need that cartilage to really cook slow to the point where it gels and it breaks down and it almost turns into marbling and then it'll turn into flavoring, which is kind of what happened with the neck.
01:29:48.000Once it cooks slow enough, even all those harder tendons that are in there, they just slowly start decomposing.
01:29:54.000They become like more of a marbling that's mixed in.
01:31:08.000When you do it, do you get it to a certain temperature?
01:31:10.000Say if you want your meat to hit an internal temperature like 130. Do you get it to like 120 and then put it in the cooler and then let it rise to like 130 while it's in there?
01:31:30.000Normally, it depends how long you're going to rest it.
01:31:33.000Normally, I plan on about six degrees it'll go up.
01:31:36.000But as you're resting it in the cooler, you can still check it.
01:31:40.000You can let it sit for 10 or 15 minutes and then check it.
01:31:44.000Normally, for me, five degrees is a really good number.
01:31:47.000I'll stop five degrees less than where I want to eat it.
01:31:50.000Because when I put it in there and wrap it up, most vegetables for me take 20 minutes.
01:31:55.000Like as soon as I pull that off my Traeger, I'll turn it up to high.
01:32:00.000And then take vegetables that I just like toss in olive oil and I'll season with a basic rub, put them in there.
01:32:07.000But anything like broccoli, asparagus, peppers, cauliflower, anything like that that I cook on there is going to take 20 minutes roughly on high.
01:32:15.000And the meat is just resting at that point.
01:32:18.000And then I can literally pull the meat off.
01:32:20.000If I want to do reverse here, I can do it just long enough to where that temperature hits the exact number if it hadn't reached that yet.
01:32:28.000Otherwise, I can just slice it and according to, you know, the color throughout that, I'll serve it out to everybody according to whether they want it.
01:32:36.000If you want something a little more done, you give them one of the end pieces.
01:32:39.000If people want it less done, you give them the piece in the middle.
01:32:41.000But typically, if I'm going to let it rest for 20 minutes, I'll pull it at about, you know, 129 degrees.
01:32:47.000Because I like mine at like 135 or so.
01:32:50.000You like yours a little less, you like yours a little, you know, redder than me.
01:32:53.000I think you like yours at more like 130 finish, don't you?
01:32:59.000Besides keeping, you know, the basics for seasoning is those thermopens, right?
01:33:05.000I mean, if you have a probe, that's the one thing that I learned from our buddy Chad Ward is, you know, when he travels, he travels with a good knife and he travels with a probe.
01:33:20.000It's one I got as a gift someone gave me, and I can tell you that that was one of the best things to get.
01:33:26.000Yeah, I have a regular internal thermometer that's really cool because I can keep it in the kitchen, and it's got one probe, and then it registers to a second unit, which you can keep as a remote.
01:33:42.000You can keep it far away from the grill.
01:34:03.000Yeah, if you want to take things to the next level.
01:34:05.000I mean, he's one of those rare guys that has a television show, a hunting television show, where literally most of the episodes he's cooking something.
01:34:23.000I already have it Sorry folks, but it's really good though.
01:34:27.000It's excellent He sent me a you know publishers version that had like just black and white photos But I just got the full version a couple of days ago and it's it's really excellent and but he's got really really cool recipes and Interesting stuff.
01:34:41.000And if you don't have any wild game, you could always buy bison from supermarkets.
01:34:46.000Some supermarkets have that and you could cook that and cook it in the same way.
01:35:24.000Andy and I kind of, I don't know, through some just talk at a hunting camp, kind of started this thing that we call Free Range American, right?
01:35:32.000And it's literally a brand that's not really about us.
01:36:17.000But yeah, the entire brand or, you know, like the social media stuff is all just, it's based around people that, you know, just tag us with the hashtag DoAwesomeShit and they show us what they're doing as free-ranging Americans.
01:36:34.000I mean, you know, some guys are, you know, firemen that just do crazy stuff.
01:36:42.000There's people that have some, you know, there's been some motor, some MX guys that just post some crazy-ass pictures, like Shane Dorian, some of the waves he's on.
01:36:52.000That's just crazy shit that he's doing, right?
01:36:54.000And what are you going to do with the meat from the Bisons?