River Klass
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170 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Well, so here's something that people need to think about is we think of beef as, you know, the ribeyes and the fillets as being the best ones. Anything that gets the most blood, so you got your cheeks, your tail, your shanks, the more blood the muscle gets, the more flavor it has. The problem is you ain't going to get it medium rare. Right. Yeah, those are all slow-cooked, long-cooked.
So tongue, cheeks, shanks, oh, these are my favorite. That's my favorite, favorite thing. And, you know, people are like, oh, but I don't like to roast in the summer. I'm like, that's why we make tacos, buddy. Throw them in the crock pot, let it go all day, come home at night, taco.
My most favorite of all cuts, the one I keep, it used to actually call the butcher cut, is the hanger steak. It's unbelievable. And it's really funny. That's another thing I want to show in this show, and I really made this come up. We've gone to several custom butcher shops because that's going away.
That's another art form that is a guy that can really butcher, can really break down an animal into I mean, if you take it to someone who does a schlock, you know, you're going to lose a lot of weight. And that's meat going out his door, out on the floor, going away and not into your pocket. But you get an artist, man, they are going to cut that animal so well.
I mean, and I think there's a lot – I mean, like, you know, that's where, like, flat iron and flank steaks, those were – no one used to cut those because the butchers used to take those home. Yeah. You know? you know, the top sirloin and, and, you know, the chin, the big roasts were what, you know, Mr. And Mrs. We're buying to bring home.
Uh, yeah. Oh God. Yeah. I was, uh, I was in L.A. I did spend about a year or two down in L.A. when I first got California way and I was like oh this is a terrible place to live and And I knew that there was no way that I was going to be an actor. That was not going to be in my way.
I don't think anyone – I'm not shy about being famous. I don't have any problem wanting to be that. But I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to go right to the movie star, and that wasn't going to happen. And I just couldn't I just didn't like L.A. at all. So that that didn't work out at all.
I I really when I got to Los Angeles and no sorry to everybody that sees this and talks or listens in L.A. I'm sure you got one or two people.
That's a that's a tough town down there. And when I when I found this little town of Murphy's in Calaveras County with its one little road, it had three wineries at the time were about 20 now.
um i i was like this is heaven there was no good place to eat a hotel great place lovely place mark twain usually ulysses s grant uh susan b anthony they'd all stayed there i was like this is home i'm staying right here and i was like well the only thing i know i can do is i get with for you know for a very few dollars i can throw a grill down and espresso machine and i can put a keg of beer up and i can start just you know slinging food and
It was it was easy. I've never been a nine to five or I just like your show. One of the shows I just made was on June 10th or the one of them, you know, guys like us, you know, that nine to five things never really worked. I get up and I'm going to either go this way or I'm going to go this way or this one. The problem is going to happen here and I'm going to go there and then I'll go over here.
So that all worked out, and the TV show was a complete fluke. A producer out of Sacramento, there's one producer in Sacramento and his partner is in Huntsville, Alabama. They have Dead Meat, which is a TV show where he goes and kills the most bizarre animals like iguanas in Florida and parrots in South America, and then they cook it. it's pretty, it's not for the faint.
And he then made another show. They made another show called fishmonger that did really well. That said how tough it is to fish these days on both coasts. You know, fishermen have a, they really get their butts kicked trying to get fish to market.
Right.
And he was like, and the producers were thinking, gotta be something about this. And he happened to be up here on vacation and he heard me ranting and raving about it. And he's like, this is our guy. And we did a screen test. That was probably my favorite thing. We did a little screen test where I just rode around, went up and did some roping in my arena, went out and fed my cattle.
And then he interviewed me a little bit and he, they put it all together. It looked pretty good. A little sizzle reel. And he said, okay, we're going to, we're going to put this into the outdoor channel. You know, it's going to take a couple of months. They're going to take a look at it and find out if there's a place for it. So settle down. Don't worry about it. You know, no news is good news.
And this was a Thursday afternoon. And he said, so let's go take a bit. And sure as enough, Friday morning, the next morning, he called up and said, I've never seen it. But they just took us on for eight shows. We're ready to go. They sent us the money. We're ready to go. And the neat thing was they said, the Outdoor Channel, we cook enough. We want action.
We want this guy riding, talking, branding. We want to see exactly how this happens. Just like that calf comes out of a first-year heifer. It's got scours. He's got an $85,000 new Ford, and he's sticking that calf in the back. It's shitting and belching and throwing up all over the place. That's fine. That's what it'll do. That's what a rancher will do.
That's actually my favorite part and probably the reason why I'm a little bit jaded is Outdoor Channel, there's very few, and I know it's less than probably five, shows that they actually own and produce, and we're one of them. I am sponsored by Carhartt and Camp Chef. And there's a couple of some spice companies. But we are not... They are not sending... They're sending us...
barbecues for me to use if I'm barbecuing. They've sent me Carhartt shirts to wear when I'm being riding. But I don't have to say a word about it. We get a budget. The budget's here. We go out and we shoot the shows. And it really takes a lot of pressure. We don't have to spend all day going, boy, look at my gun and look at my scope and look at my shirt.
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