00:00:09 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's reading Dan here from the God's Country Podcast. We've just got a little quick segment for you today December first of the fourteenth, the Hunters for the Hungry. Every year that's that's turned in to to a processor, processor that's participating along with them. It's gonna be sending their meat to East Tennessee for the hurricane relief Hurricane Hurricane Helene Relief Deer Drive. So, uh, we're just gonna shine a light. We're we're gonna call a guy, Matt that that works for Hunting for the Hungary and kind of runs that program, and he's gonna give us a little insight on it. But we're gonna do our part. You can do your part December first through the fourteenth, you know, if you if you do anything. And I think it's kind of cool too. Let's try to do this, like social media is is a big part of our life now about his life in twenty twenty four and you know, most of the time you see people they post their big deer, they post big buck pictures and all that stuff. Like let's see if we can't change the narrative a little bit these two weeks and let's let's post some dope pictures. Let's let's post some pictures and use hunters for the Hungry hashtag Hunters for the Hungry hashtag deer dry hashtag deer dry boys and CP. 00:01:22 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:01:22 Speaker 1: Man, let's make these next two weeks, you know, let's let's do our part and try to get some deer to the people who needed in East Tennessee. 00:01:31 Speaker 3: Yeah, let's feed some folks like once again, that's hashtag deer drive. 00:01:35 Speaker 2: Uh. 00:01:35 Speaker 3: And then of course at God's Country, at the brothers. 00:01:38 Speaker 1: That's right, thanks for listening. 00:01:40 Speaker 3: Ten thousand pounds so far, Let's go for twenty. They want twenty thousand pounds. Let's let's sens help. 00:01:45 Speaker 1: Let's help them out. 00:01:46 Speaker 2: They need us. 00:01:46 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to God's Country. 00:01:53 Speaker 2: Hello, this is Matt. 00:01:54 Speaker 3: What's up, Matt? How you doing man? This is Dan Dan Isbel Dan Reid Isbel. 00:01:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing good. 00:02:00 Speaker 4: Oh business, some deer frosts, sisters. It's been a busy couple of weeks. 00:02:04 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, y'all getting some meat coming in, getting a whole lot. 00:02:08 Speaker 2: It's uh. I've talked to several this year. 00:02:14 Speaker 4: They've already gotten more in now than they had all last year. 00:02:18 Speaker 2: Or so it's oh wow, they're coming in good Man. 00:02:21 Speaker 3: That's great. Where are you from? 00:02:23 Speaker 4: I live in the Cookville area. 00:02:25 Speaker 3: Oh nice, Nice, You are you from up there? 00:02:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm from born and raised there. 00:02:30 Speaker 4: I lived in Nashville for about ten years and had to get back home. 00:02:35 Speaker 3: I hear that. I don't blame you. Traffic's getting weird over here, dude. 00:02:40 Speaker 2: Oh, and we moved it. 00:02:41 Speaker 4: It wasn't that bad, but I think we moved there in twenty twelve and it just it got I mean it just got crazy. 00:02:49 Speaker 3: So well, before before we get into business, you've got any big deer on camera? 00:02:55 Speaker 2: Uh? No, I actually don't run cameras. 00:02:57 Speaker 3: Oh he's like a purists. 00:03:00 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:03:01 Speaker 4: I go out and, like Opening Day, I had no idea what I was gonna see, and I just waited for one bigger than the next. 00:03:08 Speaker 3: Nice nice, I like it. Well, Hey, taught me through the Hunters for the Hungry and what's going on with the East to see Hurricane relief. 00:03:19 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, this program started in nineteen ninety eight and Tennessee we've been at it for twenty seven years now. Anytime there's a natural disaster that hits Tennessee, you. 00:03:32 Speaker 2: Know, normally all of our meat stays local. What I mean is it. 00:03:38 Speaker 4: Goes out to the county where it's donated. So if it's donated in Davidson County, it goes to Davidson County charities. If it's you know, you can mirror that all over the state. We've got around seventy processors. But I think it was back when there when the wildfires hit Gallenburg area. 00:03:56 Speaker 2: I mean it, it was devastating. 00:03:59 Speaker 4: I reached out to some locals and we were able to send some meat up there, and you know, they they people that lost everything, and especially the rescue workers and stuff, they appreciated it. And so ever since then, anytime there's a tornado that hits, if it's deer and deer season or you know, right after and we still have a stockpile of meat, we'll try to collect all of our resources and insince to that area. So when this hurricane hit, which is crazy hurricane in Tennessee, like it made no sense. But I was actually in Tennessee that Friday before opening day archery as the hurricane was moving in and I started seeing. 00:04:39 Speaker 2: Flooding like it was. 00:04:41 Speaker 4: I was like I'm on a mountain and. 00:04:42 Speaker 2: It's flooding up here. This is going to be bad. 00:04:44 Speaker 4: So I looked it back home, and I believe it was Sunday afternoon. I called to chick in on all the processors that we have in East Tennessee, and fortunately none of them had like significant damage. But that's when I I was like, hey, you know, I hate that this happened to your communities up there. 00:05:03 Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and. 00:05:07 Speaker 4: Everything that you get for all of archery, let's just let's send it to relief work. You know, we've got agencies up there that they've worked with. 00:05:16 Speaker 2: But most of the agencies that. 00:05:18 Speaker 4: Were getting the meat, I mean they were destroyed. I mean some places lost everything. So we started sending all the meat to local it. 00:05:28 Speaker 2: I guess the media. 00:05:29 Speaker 4: Got wind of it. It went viral, and my definition of viral. You know, it went all over the state, and we had processors in Middle Tennessee reaching out wanting to do it. 00:05:38 Speaker 2: We had hunters reaching out. 00:05:40 Speaker 4: So we had five processors in East Tennessee and we ended up with nineteen total out of the seventy that we're willing to do this, and those nineteen collected through I guess two weeks. We sent over ten thousand pounds up there. 00:05:59 Speaker 3: Wow, that's amazing. That's great, man. I mean, are you are you guys still needing more deer? Are you not needing more deer? How can we help? 00:06:07 Speaker 2: Oh? 00:06:07 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the the East Tennessee thing is going to be a long time coming. 00:06:12 Speaker 2: For the. 00:06:14 Speaker 4: I mean, these people are going to need help for a long time. So actually, yesterday December first, through the fourteenth, we're doing it again. So any processor or hunter in Middle Tennessee We've got on our website. We've got a full list of processors and then if you scroll down, it'll say hurricane relief processors, the ones that. 00:06:35 Speaker 2: Are participating in that. 00:06:37 Speaker 4: They'll be taking deer for hurricane relief through the fourteenth. 00:06:41 Speaker 3: Gotcha. 00:06:41 Speaker 4: And I mean when I first started all this this year, my goal was to send ten thousand pounds total up there between the two periods. Sure, and I was blown away. So I'm like, hey, go big or go home. 00:06:53 Speaker 2: Let's go for twenty thousand. 00:06:54 Speaker 3: Let's go, man, We'll do We want to help you out with that. We're going to promote this thing and try to get as as much dear meat as we can to you. 00:07:02 Speaker 4: Well that's great. I know, uh, the people are gonna love it. The I mean when you're able to see when we when we sent the first ship, man, people have been eating canned food or uh prepackaged food for two weeks. 00:07:21 Speaker 3: Yeah that's tough. I mean that's tough. For two weeks straight of. 00:07:23 Speaker 4: That stuff and now they're able to actually cook or or we were, man, we were giving food to rest we were giving Vincent restaurants. 00:07:33 Speaker 2: They were cooking. 00:07:34 Speaker 4: Soups, burgers, you know, you name it and actually delivering it to people. 00:07:39 Speaker 2: So awesome. 00:07:41 Speaker 3: Well, we're gonna we're gonna take a dough and walk through the process and make sure that they gets on our our socials and and we'll be sure and and hashtag and tag and Facebook and all the all the things. 00:07:53 Speaker 2: You guys. 00:07:53 Speaker 3: All right, man, and keep up the good work and we'll uh, we'll pound it out for you. 00:07:58 Speaker 2: Brother. That sounds good. 00:07:59 Speaker 4: I you know, this week every year, after the week after Thanksgiving, I call and check in with every process or to see where they're at. 00:08:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And I'm not. 00:08:08 Speaker 4: Asking you to ask people for financial donation, but I'm just saying we might have to borrow some money to pay this year off. 00:08:19 Speaker 2: Because I mean, it has been it's been unreal. 00:08:22 Speaker 4: The hunters coming out of nowhere saying, hey, I want to help. 00:08:25 Speaker 2: Here's too dear. 00:08:26 Speaker 3: You know, yeah, sure, sure, well man, you let us know any way we can. 00:08:31 Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I appreciate it. 00:08:32 Speaker 4: I think I appreciate what y'all are doing getting the word out. 00:08:36 Speaker 2: It's gonna be awesome. 00:08:37 Speaker 1: Awesome, man, Hey, Matt, we appreciate you, buddy. Thanks for thanks for the work. Thanks for the work you're doing. 00:08:43 Speaker 3: Thank you, Yes, sir, all right, that is uh, that is how we're going to try to donate some meat to these people in Easton. To see that need it, you can go to t n w F dot org backslash Hunters for the Hungry. Let me spell that a for you. T n w F dot o RG backslash Hunters. Is that slash? Is that the middle thing? Slash dash Sorry t NWF dot o RG backslash Hunters, Dash for dash the dash hungry backslash To find a processor near you. 00:09:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, not not every processor is going to be involved with this, this this movement. But there it says they're the they partner with over sixty participating processors across the state. So who receive payment for their work from the Federation due to the generosity of funding from individuals and organizations. 00:09:44 Speaker 3: So what they're saying is that at no charge to the hunter, they're receiving deer, processing the deer, and making sure that that process so nobody's losing this deal. The processor is getting paid, and uh, the people are getting fed from the deer. 00:09:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think this, this is amazing. One deer turns into roughly one hundred and sixty eight servings of lean ground vendis and protein. That's obviously now this year, more than ever, helping you know, tons of people that have have been struggling from from that lost everything. 00:10:15 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:10:15 Speaker 1: I mean they lost all their all, their their house, their food, their everything, and there's restaurants aren't open, and these people are are, you know, like, like he just said, eating canned food and. 00:10:27 Speaker 3: Not that there's anything wrong with that, but two weeks to three weeks or a month of that stuff and eventually you're like, man, I could sure go for some tender one. 00:10:33 Speaker 1: Ain't no doubt. And this is a way to get you know, to get get these people some some food, man, And what a better way to do it? 00:10:41 Speaker 3: So if you do, if you do take a deer and you do get it processed. Man, let us know how it goes. Tag us with hashtag deer drive and uh, hey man, let's feed some folks. 00:10:51 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:10:51 Speaker 1: Now, first through the fourteenth is this next push to get deer out to these people. So we're gonna do our part. We're gonna kill some doze and take them to a participation processor and uh and we'll show you at work. Get them, get them to the people over there that need it. 00:11:05 Speaker 3: Hashtag dear Drave. Thanks for listening. 00:11:13 Speaker 2: Mm hmm