as it turned out because i needed more time to clean the rest of the house for our guests as well as get some pigs in blankets in the oven. by the time i was supposed to take it out and pull it apart, the juices from the pork had almost filled the crock pot. when i went to take it out with a pair of tongs, it was already mostly falling apart, so i got what i could with the tongs and used a slotted spoon to get the rest into a bowl.
i dumped the largest pieces of fat as well as the remaining liquid down the garbage disposal 