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Hooked on the Grill with Stories to Spill

April 29, 2024 John Berry Episode 14
Hooked on the Grill with Stories to Spill
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Hooked on the Grill with Stories to Spill
Apr 29, 2024 Episode 14
John Berry

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They say the best stories come from the most unexpected places, and let me tell you, Dolores and I have tales from the kitchen to the tornado shelters that'll keep you hooked! Join us as we recount our escapades with the Camp Chef Explorer 14, the sizzle of Mediterranean pasta hitting the pan, and the aromatic bliss of fresh herbs from our own backyard. We're bringing the heart of our home into yours, sharing how we infuse love, laughter, and a little bit of cilantro into every dish – especially our homemade salsa that's about to become your new favorite.

Who doesn't enjoy a good poolside story with a twist of comedy? Our recent homeowners' adventures—think dropped screws and submerged smartphones—have us spinning stories you've just got to hear. Even as the whirlwind of work during bulk cleanup season tries to sweep us off our feet, we stay grounded in our passion for sharing our culinary chronicles. Whether it's the aroma of brisket on the smoker or the trials of digital devices taking an unexpected swim, we've got the juicy details and the lost footage to prove it.

Grab your fishing gear and appetite as we wrap up with tales from Lake Texoma, where stripers and catfish didn't stand a chance against our angling prowess. We're dishing out cooking tips for your next haul and inviting you to celebrate life's milestones with us—cheat days included. It's not just about the fish; it's about making memories, and we're eager to have you along for the ride, through every sizzle, sear, and storm. So, fire up your grill and tune in; Dolores and I can't wait to share our flavor-packed journey with you!

Mediterranean Diet: 43 Easy, Delicious and Heart Healthy Mediterranean Diet Recipes for Beginners on Audible: https://a.co/d/8yys4vJ

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Send John & Dolores a Text Message.

They say the best stories come from the most unexpected places, and let me tell you, Dolores and I have tales from the kitchen to the tornado shelters that'll keep you hooked! Join us as we recount our escapades with the Camp Chef Explorer 14, the sizzle of Mediterranean pasta hitting the pan, and the aromatic bliss of fresh herbs from our own backyard. We're bringing the heart of our home into yours, sharing how we infuse love, laughter, and a little bit of cilantro into every dish – especially our homemade salsa that's about to become your new favorite.

Who doesn't enjoy a good poolside story with a twist of comedy? Our recent homeowners' adventures—think dropped screws and submerged smartphones—have us spinning stories you've just got to hear. Even as the whirlwind of work during bulk cleanup season tries to sweep us off our feet, we stay grounded in our passion for sharing our culinary chronicles. Whether it's the aroma of brisket on the smoker or the trials of digital devices taking an unexpected swim, we've got the juicy details and the lost footage to prove it.

Grab your fishing gear and appetite as we wrap up with tales from Lake Texoma, where stripers and catfish didn't stand a chance against our angling prowess. We're dishing out cooking tips for your next haul and inviting you to celebrate life's milestones with us—cheat days included. It's not just about the fish; it's about making memories, and we're eager to have you along for the ride, through every sizzle, sear, and storm. So, fire up your grill and tune in; Dolores and I can't wait to share our flavor-packed journey with you!

Mediterranean Diet: 43 Easy, Delicious and Heart Healthy Mediterranean Diet Recipes for Beginners on Audible: https://a.co/d/8yys4vJ

Fanpage: Leave a voicemail for us and we might play it on a future episode!

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John:

So we're going to talk a little bit today about our pasta that I made. I made some pasta this last week for a book about Mediterranean eating with Dan Curtis, who narrated the book. I picked a recipe out of the book and made that this week, and other than that, we don't have a whole lot going on. This week had some storms we'll talk about and got the pool up and running for this upcoming pool season, but this is the Okie Smokin' Podcast.

Intro / Outro:

Time to fire up that grill. From smoked pork to smash burgers, outdoor cooking just tastes better. This is the Okie Smokin' Podcast, and here's your host, John Barry.

John:

And I do have Dolores here beside me. She is a co-host. My lovely wife, how are you doing today?

Dolores:

I'm doing good. How about yourself?

John:

Oh, I couldn't be better. Just coming up on here getting ready to talk to you for just a little while On another episode of the Okie Smokin' Podcast. I don't even know what episode we're on right now. This is 13 or 14, somewhere up there. Lost count. We don't have my notes out today, so we're just going to go ahead and use the phrase wing it. Come on here and just chat for just a little bit. I did go ahead and make some pasta this last week on my Thursday video, which is something that I've never done before. You weren't able to try it.

Dolores:

No.

John:

But as soon as you can, or as soon as you are doing your cheat day for keto, I think I'm going to make a batch of that. That was really fantastic and I cooked it out on my new Camp Chef, which is a Camp Chef Explorer 14. I've been wanting one of these for quite some time and I'm really getting it set up outside so that virtually anything I just I mean I have the or anything that has a recipe that involves an oven I can cook it on the Pit Boss. I now have a Camp Chef with two stoves. I did before have a little butane. It wasn't a butane, it was a smaller propane cylinders that you put in for a little stove. I have one of those that I've used a time or two, but now I have two stoves. That is just like a gas stove, basically, and I put a propane tank to it and I'm able to cook right outside with that and I think that's pretty cool, and what's nice about it is you could take it down and take it somewhere like camping or whatever.

John:

yes, and it has actually two different kind of sets of legs on this thing and it allows you to go ahead and attach four legs to it and all you do is unscrew it by hand and then retighten it by hand. You it's got a bag, it came with you, put those legs in and then the rest of the unit you could just take with you. You could take it to, like you said, camping or a park, you know, or something where it's allowed, of course, and take your propane tank with you and you could go ahead and start cooking. And we don't have, uh, gas for our stove here and we don't even have a hookup for it, and I've always wanted a gas stove. So we have an electric and I thought about installing the you know a line to to make it gas at some point, but I think this is the best way. Now we have our electric indoors and I always like cooking on a gas stove outdoors and so, yeah, we'll be able to use gas now or propane, so that kind of comes in real nice. But this unit, if you don't want to use the four legs, you could just go ahead and leave them at home and take it and put it on top of a picnic table or, you know, on top of a table or even just the ground, because the legs are suited for you to use portably, with or without the extensions.

John:

And, yeah, so that's what I cooked the pasta in. And this was cooked. I had agreed with. His YouTube channel is Cartoon Dad and I've mentioned him several times now. His actual name, as he's the narrator of this book, is Dan Curtis and it's by Jessica David and there's like 43 recipes in there. There's things from desserts and there's main dishes and then there's also, uh, a side dishes and I went ahead and chose this pasta to make and when you saw it, what did you? How do you think it looked? It looked good, yeah, and it was wheat uh, yes, a wheat pasta, and it had, uh, it's supposed to have what's those olives? Kamata.

Dolores:

I don't know, but we couldn't find them at.

John:

Yeah, we couldn't find the exact olives, so I subsed it for just some basic green olives.

Dolores:

I'm sure Crest has them, because I can guarantee you that they're in the like where the deli is.

John:

Yeah, we were at Winco, so I don't know. I went ahead and subbed it for these and we cooked the pasta up, added all the ingredients, which was some olives, I did garlic onion, I'm pretty sure I've seen them at Walmart before too, in the deli I could have found them, but I didn't do an exact copycat of it, but the recipe itself was inspired by the book and I'll put a link in the show notes to that audio book as well.

Dolores:

It smelled good like every other thing that you've cooked.

John:

Yeah, it had that onion, it had that garlic, it had all the basic salt, the pepper and there's just something the fresh basil. Yes, I grew that basil and we have some basil out back. You mentioned you like to get some cilantro out there? Uh-huh, yeah, I need to get me some cilantro, because cilantro can go on just. I love cilantro. You could add it to just about anything. Plus, I've got tomatoes and I've got jalapenos, which we're going to turn into some salsa if they do well, and cilantro. You need some cilantro for that, don't you?

Dolores:

It's funny. Every time I hear you talk I'm like you're so oaky.

John:

What did I say this time?

Dolores:

You're a soft cilantro, cilantro, jalapeno, yeah.

John:

It's all cilantro.

Dolores:

Cilantro Jalapeno.

John:

Yeah, and also we'll talk a little bit about this. But I have a pool YouTube channel and sometimes I talk about backwash. You say warsh, I say backwash Instead of wash. You say warsh, and they call me out in the comment sections all the time. They'll say back, wash, back, you know, and I get a lot of comments.

Dolores:

Yeah, me and your youngest. We always say it's wash.

John:

Yeah, but you know it's that southern Okie accent, I guess it's that. Yeah, wash, I throw that R in there, so I do get told that quite a bit on it. That's the Easy Clear Pool YouTube channel. If you're into swimming, I don't put as many. I haven't put any videos on it since last season and I've got one coming out where we installed a new ladder or new steps today for the pool, because it's an above-ground pool and our old steps kind of fell apart. It's over 15 years old. Yeah, it broke in half and so I went ahead and ordered a new one. It's a real nice setup. You put sand inside the ladder and that holds it down to the ground. We've got it kind of boated on the rails of the pool and eventually we'll add some better steps or something on the ground.

Dolores:

We've got it kind of boated on the rails of the pool and eventually we'll add some better steps or something on the outside. Yeah, we're going to try to attempt to build some steps on the outer side.

John:

Yeah, we're going to need some luck on that right there. So if you watch my channel, you see the pool frequently, because it's in the view of the channel of the video that I'm filming a lot of times. So that's the pool. We've got it up. I actually got in that thing today.

Dolores:

Yeah, crazy.

John:

It was 72 degrees in the water, which it was a bit cold, but while we were doing it I actually dropped a screw in the bottom and I had to go get it. I couldn't get it with the skimmer and so I went in there and actually was able to fetch it out. I had to go in there myself and it actually felt pretty good because after I was out there building that ladder for an hour or that steps.

Dolores:

It was actually sunny too.

John:

Yeah, and the sun had came out at that time, so it was hot, it was humid.

Dolores:

We had tornadoes last night, all through.

John:

Oklahoma yeah, we did, and had the sirens go off here a couple of times. Yeah, twice, never did we have a shelter? We have a shelter.

Dolores:

We never got in it, but it was pretty close to us, that one tornado.

John:

We lived in.

Dolores:

Midwest City and it was pretty close?

John:

Yeah, it was within a mile or two, yeah, but we never had to jump in the shelter or anything.

Dolores:

Oh no, I went in the shelter oh did you?

John:

Yes, I heard those winds.

Dolores:

I was like uh-uh.

John:

The winds were crazy, were they not? I mean, you looked out there and it looked like I didn't. I mean it was, they were going sideways and and everything in the rain and everything was just flowing down the road. So that's what you get here in oklahoma is, uh, you get the storms and and it's so windy all the time, but I, I enjoy them. It's, it's good, it's good. You, you go out back or out front, drink a beer and watch the storms come in, look at the beautiful clouds. Of course, you couldn't really see nothing, because the time it had came in last night, or was it last night when the storms came in? Yeah, the time it came in, it was so dark you could watch the TV and, of course, they had everything going on there telling you about it.

Dolores:

But yeah, and I feel bad for the ones that got hit by it.

John:

You know there was yes, yeah, so unfortunate for those.

Dolores:

Some people actually passed away and then it's dead.

John:

Yeah, but yeah, that's what happened here, and we're not doing much cooking this week really. Yeah, we had a busy schedule this week, with you working seven days a week yeah, so I got one more week to where I'll be working another uh, six straight days for hours on the end, and yeah, he's a sanitation driver and he had to do bulk cleanup yeah, so we pick up all the big trash, do it every six months months, so every April and sometimes into May.

Dolores:

We get into that and they work till like almost nine o'clock.

John:

Yeah, I didn't get home till 10 on Friday, so I mean, how can you cook? It's all eaten out, yeah. So, uh, that that's what I do. I enjoy uh really, uh like doing the podcast, uh and the YouTube channels and everything else, but right now my time is limited. I do have I think I got some footage, I hope, because my phone dropped in the pool and I think I had some footage on it. It's supposed to be water resistant and it was out there. Water resistant does not mean waterproof, of course, but I couldn't find it.

Dolores:

Well, he didn't have his outer box on it either.

John:

No, I didn't have my outer box on it. I didn't have, I just had it. It was bare boned and I couldn't find it. And I started calling it and I could hear it faintly ringing and I was walking around the pool because I had installed a new filter. I was walking around it and I could hear it ringing, but it was real low and I realized I think it's coming out of the water. You could hear the ring in the water and it was actually in the skimmer, so it wasn't four foot below, it was only I don't know eight inches in the skimmer. But the pump was running so it was suctioning water through it or no. Yeah, I guess it was because we just installed the pump, so you had that probably running that water through it. It was suctioning it through it, which probably didn't help the casing. If it would have been in calm water I might have been okay, but it's sitting in there in a skimmer for maybe 15 minutes or more.

Dolores:

I don't know. Yeah, the rice method did not help.

John:

I tried the rice method and could not get that thing back up and I just tried it today, two weeks later, and it still don't work. But I think I did have some footage of the brisket on that phone that I cooked. But I think most of it. Most of it, I think we did with the GoPro that brisket was so good.

John:

I think we did most of it with the GoPro, isn't that right? I'm hoping. I haven't looked yet and I'm hoping because, if, if I have the footage or enough of the footage, I basically was recording myself doing it and I was going to put that together this week. Do a little, you know, edit it together.

Dolores:

I feel like it was on your phone, but I could be wrong.

John:

I sure hope it was, and if it was, I'm going to have to do another brisket and refilm it all, which won't be a problem. I loved it, it was great. I would love to do another brisket. It's a little pricey, but when one goes on sale I would go ahead and make another one. But I want to go ahead and try to put that together.

Dolores:

I just feel myself doing it this time when you do the brisket, I want you to like us to chop it up and put some barbecue sauce that I could eat with it.

John:

Yes, and we could make sandwiches. Make some sandwiches.

Dolores:

You do your stuff, and you do your stuff.

John:

Yeah, we're going to do another one for sure. But if I do have the footage, I'm going to have that come out this next week and maybe we can make some pizza with it. Brisket pizza. Yeah, you know. Speaking of brisket, I saw this video. It was brisket smashburger or something which looked fantastic. I'd say that would be something to do. You don't like that idea, not really. You just want the brisket on a.

Dolores:

You know, just a standard, or you guys do like a loaded potato now, that's great potato after we get done, cooking it on the beer. I could cook it on the pit boss yeah, and let me cut it open and de-gut it, yeah, and then I'll smash it up and then we could fill it and de-gut it, yeah, and then I'll smash it up, and then we can fill it.

John:

That would be real good, like I de-gut the potato.

Dolores:

And then I could add like cream cheese cheese, all sorts of stuff in it. Jalapenos brisket and then we just put it back in the potato, top it with some cheese and put it back on there for a minute and then yeah.

Intro / Outro:

I can't eat it, but we need to get a brisket and I'll cook the brisket and you will load the potato up.

John:

Yeah, and I gotta tell you potatoes cooked on the smoker just fantastic. I mean, I'll you throw it on that pit balls for two, three hours, just let it slow cook it doesn't.

Dolores:

It's not burnt either. People always say look at that potato, it's burnt, but it's not burnt either.

John:

People always say look at that potato it's burnt, but it's not, yeah, we did a I don't know, like a, I don't know. It just turns really brown and it's crunchy. Had some people over a few years ago and we cooked some potatoes and at this time I cooked them on a. I don't know what I cooked them on, I smoked them. I may have had just a wood smoker, a tall thing, or yeah.

Dolores:

I'm not sure.

John:

I've had so many smokers come in and out and some of them are no longer here because they've rusted out and stuff. I've smoked for years and I cooked the potatoes and we had some kids that said I burn them, they wouldn't eat them, they said they're burnt. They said, yeah, they're burnt and it's like, no, it's not burnt. You guys, the potato is completely dark and it looks like a burnt steak, but it's a potato. But once you cut into it it's not burnt and it tastes good. It's got that good smoke flavor and if you just keep cooking them longer, you're just going to basically burn more on the outer part. So, yeah, you may get to where you have to cut through a little bit more to get to the potato, but once you get through it and you're not going to cut through much, you know could be an eighth of an inch, but it's not burnt though. But it's not burnt. The potato's not burnt, it doesn't taste burnt. No, the potato won't taste burnt.

Dolores:

But the kids were like, no, I don't want any. But we showed them like we cut it open and we were showing them like, look, look at the inside, it's not burnt and the outer part even tastes good. It doesn't taste burnt.

John:

Yeah, did you eat the outer part? You know I did. I know Because it may have been too burnt for some to eat the outer part.

Dolores:

Oh, my God, I love it that way, like the crunch and stuff.

John:

What do you like? Burnt? That's like that. What do you mean? Like hot dogs? Hot dogs, hot links, hot links, yes, hot links, hot dogs burnt. That's about it. That's about all you like Burnt potato yeah. Well, the potato's not burnt, potato's not really burnt. And tonight we actually had some potatoes, but you cooked them in the oven and you went ahead and sliced those up. What did you put on those? Those were real good.

Dolores:

I. I put salt and pepper, I put the chicken, I don't know what it's called, but it has different seasoning in it. I put garlic salt on it, garlic powder and also Parmesan cheese and olive oil.

John:

Olive oil, okay, and you just put them in the oven. Why did you cook them that?

Dolores:

Well, first I set the oven to 500 degrees 500 degrees. And I cut the potatoes up and then I washed them and then put the olive oil on it and then put all the seasoning.

John:

It shouldn't have took long at 500 degrees. What 30 minutes. It didn't 15 minutes.

Dolores:

That's why I said everything was done. I turned off the oven so it would just sit in there.

John:

And I had to go cook some steaks. Yeah, had some sirloins, yeah, and I threw those on the pit boss and seared those. I set it to 450.

Dolores:

Those are good, and your youngest found one that was medium, I mean like rare.

John:

Did he eat it?

Dolores:

No, it's in the fridge for Boudinara. Yeah, we had several or Middleson.

John:

Yeah, it was done. It may have been a little rare for you. Yes, it was done.

Dolores:

I was like I should have gave this to your dad instead of I don't know.

John:

Yeah, mine had some good pink to it, but that's what we had for dinner tonight. Dolores made the potatoes. She likes to cut them up in little chunks. I Dolores made the potatoes. She likes to cut them up in little chunks. I can't have them.

Dolores:

Yeah, she don't eat the potatoes. This one we had HelloFresh. That's what taught us those potatoes.

John:

Yeah, we had tried some of these subscription services.

Dolores:

Yeah, HelloFresh was really good and it's really good it honestly is.

John:

It's pricey though. We'd gotten a special and we tried it and got discounts and everything, and we actually kept it for a little while and they send you everything in a box. All the ingredients were always fresh. I think one time we may have had a rotten item or something and we told them and they gave us a credit or something. So I thought the company was fantastic. Uh, I just think it's a little pricey. You know and and it it, but it learns you cool recipes yeah, it did.

John:

I kept like the, the recipe things that they came yes, they give you little recipe cards and it also teaches you that you, you don't need a whole lot.

Dolores:

Yeah, it was weird. Like you know, I always, I always cook and like I'm feeding the army.

John:

That's what you know yeah, you, you think you need this like like so much, eight potatoes or you think you need you know all this stuff and you'd get it and it'd be like three or four potatoes and it'd be like two items here and one item here and you're like this don't look like much. And then once you cut it up, it was enough to serve everybody. It had it portioned out. So that's where that come in real handy. Is it just portioned everything out for you?

Dolores:

learned your recipes.

John:

We've tried so many, I forgot the other ones, we did Green Chef because they had keto.

Dolores:

Yes, and the keto was too high on carbs.

John:

Yeah, she's real strict on hers. I was like no, I was like we can't do that.

Dolores:

It's like I'd just be able to eat one meal a day if I went to the. Green Chef.

John:

But we don't have any of those now. We've tried them, we've messed with them, because on times when we're working and everything and you just get a package delivered to your door and it would come with like three meals or something for the week, you throw it in the fridge and you just sort it out and do it. It was just super easy and almost everything you you could cook in an hour but then we and then we did some other one and we decided to just quit all together because we altogether, because we have a picky eater.

John:

Yeah, yeah, but no, if you haven't ever tried any, I'm not sponsoring them at all.

Dolores:

I like HelloFresh 100%.

John:

Yeah, but HelloFresh was a really good service and the products they sent was always nice and fresh.

Dolores:

There was one that we used, and I can't remember it. I did not like it because nothing was packaged or very good. I forgot.

John:

Yeah, I can't remember what name that was. And again, it was one of them where we had some promo code. We always have, like you know, you get a promo code or something, you get a free box or half off or something. We'll try it out and see how it is. If we ever do another and should do a video on it, just kind of unbox it and yeah, and just kind of show it and maybe cook it on the pit boss or something. Because this is all stuff you do enough, because you kind of go in there and pick some of the items you want, but no, we don't do that much anymore. We pretty much cook here. Yeah, we cook outside, basically Cook outside.

John:

Like I said, sometimes I do my stuff in here, yes, and in a couple of weeks I am going on a fishing trip, yes, me and some friends, and we're going to go ahead and take that camp shift and cook some fried fish on it.

Dolores:

Women aren't allowed on his fishing trip. That's what his friends say.

John:

Well, you're going to go get your hair done, nails done. Yeah, yeah, you're going to go pamper yourself.

Dolores:

Well, hopefully I can make a schedule if I'm not watching our grandson.

John:

Yeah, she's going to get all that and we're going to come back With a bunch of fish, because we're actually Getting a guide and we did this last year and we caught 60 fish. Yeah, I think we still have some. Hey, I have to check the freezer. We need to eat it. It's been about a year. It was a year ago, so we need to Probably need to toss it then. Eh, it should still be good, are you sure?

Dolores:

Yeah.

John:

I need to toss it, then it should still be good, are you sure? Yeah, I'll check it out. I don't know if I trust that there shouldn't be much left. I may have ate it all. I think I vacuum sealed it. Yeah, I know, but there's still some. Yeah, it may not be fresh fresh, but it's vacuum sealed. I think it'll be all right. It's been in the freezer.

Dolores:

Man, I have a cheat day. I want it like fried.

John:

Oh, fried fish, yeah yeah. So we expect, or hopefully we expect, to catch a decent amount. So we caught 60 fish in like what? Two hours, I think.

Dolores:

How'd you make it last time? You grilled it or something, didn't you?

John:

It tasted really good. Yes, what did you do? I can't remember. I've cooked it in the grease. I've cooked it on the oven. Have I cooked it? I smoked some, didn't I? Yeah, yeah, that is really good. Put it on a pan. Threw some olive oil on it.

Dolores:

And then we had like butter and stuff you put it.

John:

Yeah, I might have did it on the Blackstone. That's probably where you did it, I think, yeah, the blackstone went ahead and cooked it on there. That was really good. Oh, it's fantastic.

Dolores:

It didn't taste fishy.

John:

And we're doing striper. It was mostly striper because we go striper fishing and we catch all the stripers. The guide takes us out there. He's got a boat that we all about six of us go out there and he can find the location of the fish.

Dolores:

So do you guys throw some back in?

John:

Yes, well, there's some strategy with it. First of all, you're only allowed a certain number of fish per person on the boat. If you go over that and a ranger were to catch you, of course you'd get fined or get in trouble. We're with the guide, so they allow six of us to go and then the guide is on there. Uh, so you can have, say, 70 fish or 70 strappers, I don't know exactly. We're going to Lake Texoma, right here, where it's in Oklahoma and Texas is the lake that we're in, and I don't know the exact numbers. But whatever it is, it may only be like eight stripers or whatever it is. The guide will know, and he the last time allowed his to be included.

Dolores:

So you guys just go one day out there.

John:

Yes, it's just a couple hours. We do that, and then we'll go back out in the boat and maybe do some fishing on our own, and we couldn't catch nothing. But when you had a guide, he takes us out there and we're just popping fish left and right, but we do throw some back because you're allowed a certain number and when they were, they were biting. So well, okay, I remember there was actually you're allowed so many small fish and so many large fish. So I I don't know the number, but say you're allowed four fish that are over 10 pounds and you're allowed four fish that are under five pounds. You see, so you had to throw some back. So everything was in a certain realm of the rules that they have. And then who did you get it in the guide?

Dolores:

So that's the. Did you have to pay?

John:

extra. No, Well, you pay for the guide and that comes with the cleaning of the fish.

Dolores:

So he took airways and just.

John:

Right, did you?

Dolores:

guys get to watch it.

John:

Yes.

Dolores:

Ew.

John:

Yeah, you get to sit there and watch the whole thing. They just take it and they do it right off the boat, like you get off the boat, and it's right outside Like your boat. You could see your boat where you're at. They had this platform. If you saw the photo of where all our fish were laying, then that is exactly where the gutting, where the cleaning, the cleaning sounds better, where they clean the fish right there. And then he went ahead and split it up evenly, fairly evenly amongst all of the people that were there. Yeah, and you may not got the same fish that you caught, but where it got interesting was we had one guy that kept catching catfish we're striper fishing and I think he caught three or four catfish.

Dolores:

Well, that's like they probably were big huh they were.

John:

Did he get to keep it or did he have to throw it back in? No, this guy, let us keep it, my favorite is catfish.

Dolores:

I love the taste of catfish.

John:

So our limit was, say, 60 fish, but we come back with 64 because those catfish didn't go toward the limit of the striper. So we got to have extra fish. And I don't know what his did, but it was like his catfishing and we're striper fishing and he caught like two or three catfish in a row which one of?

Dolores:

them was that? Which one of your friends was that? That was Danny.

John:

Yeah, he did like four of them, yeah, and just kept catching catfish. So that was pretty cool and the guide will tell you like it goes down and he'll say go ahead and do three reels up, like he'll tell you where to how high off the ground you need to be to catch the fish, because he's got like a little radar down there and he's got the box going ahead and hitting the boat. So that's real cool and I expect to catch some more and if we do, we'll have some fish videos uh upcoming in the next month or so and you can put your. I want to film some of that and I'm up, uh of the fishing trip and stuff and have that also uh yeah, and then film your fried fish and stuff with your pals and then that week you can put it out.

John:

Yeah, so that'll be pretty cool. So fishing trip Lake Texoma with a guide.

Dolores:

And then our anniversary is coming up 29 years 29 years, yeah.

John:

And then what are we doing that day? Remember, we're going to Logan's right, I thought it was Texas Roadhouse. Texas Roadhouse, yeah, that's a real good restaurant, texas Roadhouse, it's a cheat?

Dolores:

Oh my God.

John:

I can't wait yeah, because I love their bread. No keto. You got to get a mashed potato or a baked potato. Right on, right on.

Dolores:

That Right on, right on that and my drink that I always get.

John:

Yeah, well, we didn't have a whole lot of barbecue for you this week, but we come on here just to chat with you a little bit and talk a little bit about what we've been up to for the past week. The weather, I don't know. I like talking about the weather.

Dolores:

Well, not tornadoes, though that's sad. Yeah, I like talking about the weather Well, not tornadoes though that's sad.

John:

Yeah, I like the weather and you know things that go on around here in the pool are getting set up, so we'll be back next week. Do you have anything else that you anything on your mind that you needed to share with the audience today?

Dolores:

No, that's about it.

John:

All right. Well, thanks for tuning in to another episode of the okie a smoking podcast, and we'll be back next week listening to the okie smoking podcast.

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