Former Rep. Trey Radels (R-Fla.) political downfall may have been due to his 2013 purchase of cocaine from an undercover federal agent . But it was a legislative spat over sheepshearing that ultimately doomed his future in the House of Representatives.

Yes, sheepshearing.

In the latest episode of the Candidate Confessional podcast, Radel explains how his departure from Congress was actually sealed months prior when he successfully pushed an amendment to a farm bill that would end an appropriation of $50 million to, as Radel puts it, teach people how to shear sheep.

Radel assumed his amendment would not be controversial. But when he got down to the floor of the House, a fellow Republican, Rep. Mike Conaway of Texas, quickly started whipping against it, admonishing the Floridian for thinking that sheepshearing was beneath him.

Radel got the votes. Conaway got revenge.