"Corky" Bryan - Hawaii Cattlemens Council

CB: So that’s what Jack was like. He was tremendous… and when I was working for him… and I went backto work for him after Hawaiian Meat Company. And they were shooting that film the Hawaiians. And they putout a call for a stand-in. I thought shoot… you know… maybe I can go… fool around, jump in the movies for awhile, right. So I walked into the place after work one day and the guy went… I was the only tall haole in thewhole island right? So… he said well, we’d like you to stand in for Charleton Heston. But we want to take youto Maui and Honolulu and through the whole time we’re shooting this picture, it should be up to six or eightweeks. So you think you can do that? And I said I can ask. I’m sure I knew the answer but any way… Iwalked in… he had a little office there. And it was just two rooms, a little office right at the corral there. Iwalked in, I said hey Jack… the guys that are shooting this movie want me to go and stand in and be in themovies for the next six weeks. You think I can get off? And he just started laughing. I said… well that’s theend of my movie career.LW:But you caught up to him, though. You’re both entering the Hall of Fame together.CB:Oh yeah, that was pretty special. That was pretty neat.LW:So… what do you think was the most valuable thing you learned from him?CB:From Jack?LW:Yeah.CB: Probably two things. Two things was pasture management… the beginnings of what we call intensivegrazing, ‘cause he did that already in the ‘60’s.LW:No kidding.CB: Yeah. And not as intense as we do it now but he still had that rotation and that kind of rest andrecovery and moving cows around. That and also the fact that we could run twenty-five hundred cows withthree guys. Or one part-time guy…four guys. And part of it because of that… getting the cows to moving andstuff so that three or four guys could handle that. I mean we’d just have four of us branding, you know. And …so we got… you got pretty good with a rope, you also got pretty good knocking and of course, I was twenty-fiveyears… twenty-six years old so it was a lot different. I mean I was in different kind of shape than I am now.Surf all afternoon and get up at five and go to work in the morning. Hanalei was that way, right?