"Corky" Bryan - Hawaii Cattlemens Council

CB: Old Baxter… he’s another buddy. I didn’t see him for about ten years. And I ran into… walked into afunction in Southern California… we were… all of us were half in the bag and there he was. I hadn’t seen himin ten years… hey Bax, how you doing. Oh, okay… how’s it? and he get… he always puts in his little pidgin…he’s an entertainer, you know, so he puts on pidgin English… Bax… are you still married to that miserablebitch you were married to? (Laughter.) ‘Cause when he came to work he had just gotten married and thiswoman… she was just miserable. She was just… bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch about everything. And he’s saysyou know… I finally got rid of her last year.LW:So but he grew up out here?CB:No, no. He grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico.LW:Oh, yeah.CB: And he went to Colorado State and then he became a veterinarian and then he… that’s why he wasworking at the feed yard. ‘Cause he was…LW:He was a vet.CB:He was a vet. He was training…LW:But that was a…CB:It was his summer internship while he was still in vet school.LW:But that was on…CB:That was in Honolulu.LW:Oh, in Honolulu. But when you were really young. When you met Bax.CB:Yeah… close to twenty-five… twenty-four.