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- Hey Bob, when did you first discover your hog calling ability?
- How long have you been calling the hogs now?
- Do you raise hogs?
- Do the hogs come when you call them?
- Why do you imitate a hog?
- How did you win the 1999 World Hog Calling Championship?
- Tell us about some of the funny things that have happened while you were calling the hogs.
Hey Bob, when did you first discover your hog calling ability?
I discovered it quite by accident many years ago when I was about 17 years old & going to High School. Some of my teenage friends and I were just goofing off and making funny noises one day. When I first made this unusual sound with my mouth, my friends laughed and said that I sounded just like a hog. After that I have had great fun making noises like a hog just to get a reaction out of people!
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How long have you been calling the hogs now?
Off and on for the past 40 years or so. But I have been doing a lot more of it ever since I won my first Hog Calling Contest in 1987. Since I won the 1999 World Championship, I get numerous requests almost every day to do it for people who have never heard it, or for those who simply want to hear it again.
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Do you raise hogs?
My parents raised a few hogs when they lived out in the country, while I was growing up. But I haven't had any hogs for many years now.
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Do the hogs come when you call them?
Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. It all depends on the mood they are in at the time I try to call them.
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Why do you imitate a hog?
Because it makes people laugh, and I have so much fun doing it! Some of the reactions I get to my hog call are really hilarious!
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How did you win the 1999 World Hog Calling Championship?
I combined the usual and best-known hog calling sound: "Soooey" with my own unique sounds resembling those made by a hog.
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Tell us about some of the funny things that have happened while you were calling the hogs.
One day, while a farmer was waiting for his car at a Chevrolet Dealership, I ducked down behind a car and let out one of my pig squeals. Then I acted as if I was looking for a hog that was running around loose in the garage. The farmer was more than glad to help me look for the pig. Every so often when the farmer couldn't see me, I'd let out another pig squeal. We both searched for the pig for a while. The farmer was so sure that he had seen the pig a time or two during our hunt, that I just didn't have the nerve to tell him that I was the one making those pig noises. When I left to go back to work after lunch, the farmer was still searching for the runaway pig.
Once I hid out in a janitor's closet with the door closed, and let out some real loud pig squeals. Then I made a lot of noise that sounded as if the pig was knocking down brooms and dust pans, etc., while trying to get away from me inside the closet. One of the witnesses, who was outside of the closet during all of this commotion, told me afterwards that this hog sounded so real that he was sure that he actually smelled a pig, while I was squealing inside the closet. That's how real my pig squeals sounded to him!
I had so much fun during the filming of my hog calling segment for OETA Channel 11 in Tulsa! While I was hiding, the reporter, Kim Jackson, asked different customers at the Meat Counter in Carter's Market in Vinita, if they could tell how fresh the bacon was by squeezing it. Just as the customer would squeeze the package of bacon, I would squeal like a pig. Some of the customer's reactions to my squealing were absolutely hilarious! One person we pulled a similar prank on that same day wanted to know if she was on Candid Camera!
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