EP. 75 Thanksgiving Traditions or NOT

[@rodmackinnon8497]

Ben had an interesting, lively week . . . loved the line . . . the buck helped itself into my freezer. Cheers.

[@sarameitner6770]

Each visit with you guys is...just the best. I am so thankful that you decided to do these every week. Great stuff.

[@diannemiller4754]

Penelope did a great job! It was a great video. I have been enjoying each of your videos. I always look forward to Friday's podcast ❤ Thank you all for sharing your life and time with us.😊

[@deltorres2100]

Awesome Ben on the deer 🦌 🥘

[@brokenmeats5928]

I love ALL Homestead Shop Talk Podcast videos!

[@DrLarryAnderson]

100%!!!

[@LB-gr7gu]

Great hearing from you guys and all the extra skills you dive into .. there is nothing like deer skin moccasins! Al good for you do what works .. seems more and more nobody wants to leave their screens 😕 Jason I saw the video and you're daughter was amazing !! ❤

[@zoeshorthouse7913]

Hey Ben, when you do your rotisserie for a your pig, make sure you film it, 'cause I want to learn how to do that. Congratulations on the 2 deer.

[@TobyCatVA]

Excellent video this week guys! I would love to see Ren-fair pics, my family have been going for a couple of decades.

[@caryrhea3974]

They do a lot of stuff that would make great videos. Hand the boys a camera!

[@robertdeatherage2354]

Hey guys! Happy post Thanksgiving! Hope you all had a great holiday!!

[@cathykillion6544]

Enjoyed the video 😊

[@janicew6222]

I know it wasn't funny at the time but Ben's pig on fire story sure gave me a chuckle!

[@MarciPrice-cl6eq]

Happy thanksgiving everyone! I fried 1 turkey, roasted 1, 2 hams. Plus all the trimmings. Hosted 33 people this year.

[@cheriekreusel9453]

The kids are growing up fast. Love that they are learning all the skills. I have no doubt that y'all's homestead community's kids will lead very interesting lives when they are older.

[@DrtERotinBasstrd]

that's cool to hear about Al's new hens. My Isa's and Astro's started laying at the end of October and they are doing the same thing. 15 hens=15 to 16 eggs daily.

[@caryrhea3974]

I got my silver laced wyandottes within 2 weeks of Al's chicks mine haven't laid an egg yet. Freeloaders.😂 They make great pets.

[@DrtERotinBasstrd]

@@caryrhea3974 oh the Isa's and Astro's take a while to start laying, don't get me wrong. Both are very weather hardy birds, cold and hot. Sit on a bucket and they will hop on your lap as far as the pet like part of your comment, lol

[@margaretpervier8357]

My father was a jouster in the Low Country of South Carolina. He was quite good at it.😊

[@helengibbs3862]

Awesome as always ❤

[@vickyoakes4584]

You guys are too funny.

[@gretaknebel8495]

Ben, I have been in your situation regarding cooking pig for a large group. It was nerve wracking until it’s all done.

[@TeresaEdwards-kw3np]

Thanks for the video

[@melaniealison5889]

I love this unique Friendship!

[@shirleybewley6646]

Just my daughter and I, my grandson is in Seattle. Meg inspired us, we did our first time of canning pinto and black beans. Was fun. Cecily has never been a fan of turkey so we just had a potato with lots of stuff on it for dinner.

[@markpashia7067]

Jason in tights! Reminds me of the movie Men in Tights, a robin hood spin off.

[@bingo45373]

Jason you mentioned the McRib it’s back

[@jbbrown7907]

Buzz call bought many of my "roaster hogs" He had a cooker an a trailer, his big thing was whole hog pig roasts. I sometimes got to go help. Great food!

[@pathoward5721]

Thanks 🙏 AL…SOUNDS LIKE BEN WAS IN A PICKLE 🥒 WITH THAT FIRST PIG 🐷

[@margaretbedwell3211]

Ben, I had neighbors that were from Cuba. They were so glad they had become American citizens they dug a pit in their yard every roasted a pig overnight. Sure smelled good when it was cooking. Might look up to see how that is done. Thanks for sharing your week with us...be sure to take a look at the excavator Al got...what a great deal. Y'all have a Blessed week.

[@tammysarrazin-ux9tv]

being in Canada are thanksgiving is in October, but happy thanks giving to all in the states hugssssss

[@DanaFoster-vl5os]

Great information

[@nancywilson7476]

I love rotisserie. Growing up my dad was king at that, and roasting corn on the cob.

[@doylerabjohn3435]

I hope everybody's Thanksgiving was good. We went to a friend's house and had a 65 lb roasted hog.

[@kellygreen8255]

Ben, I hear ya about the McRib! My brother once told me that KFC was Kentucky Fried Rat, and I’ve not eaten it since. I was probably 7 years old. I’m in my sixties!

[@shirleybewley6646]

I would highly recommend Hog Father. It was on tv when it first came out. It is really fun!

[@clarencewiles963]

I need a rotisserie chicken video 24/7 good idea Jason.

[@margaretkerns4979]

So glad I could watch earlier today

[@PICARDY610]

BOBCAT SOUNDS FERAL

[@BethGrantDeRoos]

At the 51:35: mark where Jason mentions the McRib and Ben noted that at one time someone had told him it was rat meat, it reminded me of the 1983 Disney Movie Never Cry Wolf. It's based on a true story about a young and very naïve Canadian biologist, who is dropped off in the Canadian Arctic wilderness to research the caribou population. Two wolves befriend him and he sees that they eat mice not caribou so he gets the idea to see how long he can survive on eating only mice for protein sustenance. The movie is FREE on KZbin and is around 1 hr and 45 minutes long.

[@Raikkza]

Sounds like a Hank Williams jr song lol pig in the ground deer on ice ...

[@nancys.100]

I had good success with australorp & black star chickens for eggs.

[@isnoo1]

Love these podcasts guys!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@brendajessup9722]

Hey Guys, love watching your videos !!! Jason, I actually loved the McRib too… Until I learned how to eat healthy & eating in Restaurants actually made me Feel Sick !!! Learning what the food has in it & how it’s made is enough to turn you against Restaurants 😬 You guys keep these Videos coming… Hope everyone had a Wonderful Thanksgiving… Until the next one 😉💞🇺🇸

[@rebekahmccaul]

Saturday morning done right! 🦘 I love listening to Ben, and the men of all trades.

[@janeapesos9612]

McRib is back here in Tennessee lol

[@Flowers4Bees.Veggies4Me]

💚💚💚

[@jillyd2807]

Ben with his pig story! 😂

[@virggg]

The Renaissance Fair issue... yes...... we are down on the Gulf Coast and have a huge Ren fair. It has been so classic and fun and family friendly forever. Tons of local characters and actors and activities and everything super wholesome. We even filmed a music video there years back, so we have the evidence of how many fun things they had haha. It was so so so fun!!! This year it felt like a kink/fetish festival. A ton of half naked college kids and inappropriate vendors. In the past they had one mead tent, but this year that was gone and they had a huge bar tent. Everything seemed totally different, as if it was put on by a comicon type group instead of fair organizers. If our children were older, we would have left, due to the sexual nature of the college kids and the booths. It used to be something to reeeeally look forward to, but we will absolutely not be going back. It was gross....

[@markpashia7067]

Ben, check out some north Texas guys they rotisserie baby goats a bunch up that way and probably have a good design. Jason, that idea of looping a rotisserie is great but it needs to come up with Smell a Vision so the aroma is there.

[@conniea9201]

❤

[@evalinawarne1337]

75 hi guys. It's cold , was 17° now 14°windy snowy. Less than an inch. SE MICHIGAN 🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏☕️☕️☕️☕️

[@judithsmith9319]

My children, your guys ages, loved Renaissance stuff, my two daughters sewed clothes for a reenactor for years. One thing the vendor/sutler told us early on, there is a family day and stick to it if you want a healthy, safe event to go be part of. This is a college draw in every way possible. The reenactors are mostly this age group and debauchery is not beyond them. Drinking is s big deal and so one day during every festival is family day so it's safe for everyone... no surprises. 😢

[@annamschnetzer4036]

I only bought one McRibb, never again!

[@kathycrook1913]

Hi guys!

[@ivanrosa5346]

What's happening with Ben's videos is he still making them. ??ll

[@sharper6577]

Ben. Justin R has this recipe too. He named his cooking show from it. So brining doesn’t matter I guess. The fat does pretty well with flavor and juiciness. Did you trim more fat off the second one?

[@ginnysulya9805]

Ben sounds like you were able to save some canned deviled ham! I used to enjoy going to a restaurant in California called Medieval Times, you sat in stands with tables in sections and each section was represented by a knight and they would joust in the arena in front of you while you ate everything with your hands! Also everyone got paper crowns! My boys loved it and it was fun taking family from out of town there! I think it was in Anaheim or Buena Park! Would have loved to see your costumes! I sure the ladies all looked lovely! I was attacked by a Turkey in a petting zoo at the Renaissance Fair in Thousand Oaks! Whenever you mix alcohol and dressing up, people take on crazy personalities definitely not family friendly!

[@Detmold1965]

What do you do with the deer skin?

[@peterwild9459]

Chicken...point of lay 22 weeks, maximum production 1 egg each 27 hours, key to winter is lights on in the coop...darkness is your enemy...basic rule of thumb is each chicken will lay 360 eggs. The tastiest chicken is end of lay boilers, slow roasted. Most people have forgotten what chicken tastes like due to meat chicken breeds.

[@jbbrown7907]

76 through 80 i bet i went to 30 whole pig roasts. Buzzy Call usually killed the pig soon after sun up and we ate at dusk.

[@lindabishop2929]

Mc rib is out right now. Lol 😅

[@joannmahaffey1068]

All you need to see T he Lord Of the Rings before you compare any part of it to the satanic German goat character.. Great podcast guys. When I lived there, I participated in Rennaisance fairs too. Recorder consort. See you next week.

[@donclay3511]

The McRib is good. How're ya gonna live a long time if'n you don't eat perversatives every now and then???? :) Enjoyed this podcast as is usual.

[@hollyslaughter5505]

Hate to see the 24th hour of the live stream of rotisserie chicken. 😮

[@jillyd2807]

You guys might want to watch Gold Shaw Farm about selling trees - $500 per hour side hustle, I think it’s called! 🤔

[@inadollard6672]

❤😊💪👍🦃🦃🦃🐖🐖😀

[@Terry-t7m]

What if you get a tractor

[@lindabishop2929]

I'm just wondering your ages?

[@patriciadesserud9402]

Jason, it’s called ‘function creep’ one improvement after another until the project has no relation to the original concept.

[@kathleenpayne1991]

I bit into a Mc Rib once . Spit it out. It really tasted like you would expect dog meat to taste. Mow that Ben said it yes rat meat . It was Gross. Threw it away uck

[@jbbrown7907]

Buzz Call always fresh killed his pigs. No brine.

[@jbbrown7907]

Lard pig!

[@helen-r8l5d]

you probably have enough food in the freezer without having to shoot all the deer? I'm going to stop listening to your pod now. not fun anymore.

[@lilyivers3489]

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