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September 24, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 1: I swear I didn't see. Thanks for joining us. It
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  Speaker 1: is a Thursday afternoon, this portion of the program brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Dollar Floor Store. Sam Byrd, Scotty Scheffler
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  Speaker 1: just won their President's Cup match. The U.S. is up,
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  Speaker 1: is that 2-1 or 3-1 now? 3-1?
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  Speaker 9: 3-1.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. On the four-ball format. Got high school football here
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Brian Vikings, we've got NFL football here tonight.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to listen to the Astros and Ranger
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  Speaker 1: fans and Astro fans will be very interested. That will
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  Speaker 1: be on Willie. 8.40 Texas time start. Did I mention
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  Speaker 1: the Rangers are in first place in the AL West?
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  Speaker 1: They finally beat the Mets this afternoon, 3-1, their regular
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  Speaker 1: season finale in Arlington. Josh Young hit a home run,
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  Speaker 1: and Corey Seager hit a home run. And that was
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  Speaker 1: the difference in the game as they salvaged that three-game series.
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  Speaker 1: Kumar Rocker picked up his sixth win, five innings, three hits,
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  Speaker 1: two walks, four strikeouts. Jordan Montgomery gets the save. Josh
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  Speaker 1: Young fouled. finished a triple shy of the cycle. Three
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  Speaker 1: for three, home run, double, walk, single. Seager stopped an
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  Speaker 1: 0 for 15 slump. Ezekiel Duran, who has been the
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  Speaker 1: best player on this team all year long, is 0
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  Speaker 1: for his last 17. Going to Minnesota, Seager has to hit.
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  Speaker 1: Wyatt Lankford has to hit. Ezekiel Duran has to hit.
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  Speaker 1: The only one they have hitting right now is Josh Young.
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  Speaker 1: And that has to change if the Rangers are going
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  Speaker 1: to win at least two out of three. At least
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  Speaker 1: two out of three with Oakland and the Astros playing
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  Speaker 1: four out in Sacramento. All right. We're going to play
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  Speaker 1: part of a podcast. We've done this before. It's through
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Parks and Wildlife. It's called Better Outside. David
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  Speaker 1: Yaskiewicz is the executive director of the Texas Parks and
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  Speaker 1: Wildlife Department. Morgan O'Hanlon is his co-host. And today, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not kidding about this, we're going to talk about cactus
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  Speaker 1: sniffing trained dogs.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I know that dogs are used for all sorts
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  Speaker 10: of conservation purposes. In fact, I remember during the Deepwater
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  Speaker 10: Horizon oil spill out in the Gulf, dogs.
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  Speaker 1: Were used to detect oil in seafood.
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  Speaker 10: So I know some of our own staff at Texas
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  Speaker 10: Parks and Wildlife Department have trained them for all kinds
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  Speaker 10: of animal scat, scents, and poacher tracks. Earlier this season,
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  Speaker 10: I know we talked about Izzy, one of our canine
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  Speaker 10: dogs that works with our game wardens. But there are
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  Speaker 10: other detection dogs programs such as Gertie the bee dog
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  Speaker 10: and the handler Jacqueline Staub, searching for bumblebee nests, San
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  Speaker 10: Antonio Zoo's horned lizard detection dogs program, and Texas Tech's
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  Speaker 10: zebra muscle detection dogs. So there's a lot that's happening
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  Speaker 10: out there with conservation dogs.
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  Speaker 11: What if I told you that one of our biologists
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  Speaker 11: here at the department is using dogs to find cacti?
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  Speaker 10: I can't say I'd be surprised. I know detection dogs
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  Speaker 10: can sniff out just about anything, but Do cacti really
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  Speaker 10: have a smell?
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  Speaker 11: You know, surprisingly, or at least to me, they do.
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  Speaker 11: I thought that the only stinky type of flowers or
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  Speaker 11: beautiful smelling flowers would be roses or something like the
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  Speaker 11: corpse flower that you see in zoos and that sort
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  Speaker 11: of thing. But it turns out all plants have smells.
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  Speaker 11: And even the faintest waft of a cactus, dogs can
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  Speaker 11: pick up.
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  Speaker 10: I don't think I plan to go around sniffing plants out,
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  Speaker 10: especially cacti, but I'm excited to hear your report about
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  Speaker 10: what these dogs are doing for an incredibly important cactus
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  Speaker 10: species here in Texas.
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  Speaker 11: Well, David, if you're ready for it, I think it's
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  Speaker 11: time to go outside and start smelling some plants.
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  Speaker 1: It's pitch black outside as.
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  Speaker 11: I prepare to hike into Big Bend Ranch State Park
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  Speaker 11: with a dog, his trainer, and a botanist who studies
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  Speaker 11: rare plants.
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  Speaker 12: Are we running late already?
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  Speaker 13: We're probably okay.
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  Speaker 11: One of the women you just heard is Amy Hertz,
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  Speaker 11: a trainer with Working Dogs for Conservation.
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  Speaker 13: We're a nonprofit organization that trains detection dogs for conservation purposes.
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  Speaker 13: Their expertise is learning new targets fairly quickly or for
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  Speaker 13: a matter of weeks and then deploying to work on
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  Speaker 13: those targets.
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  Speaker 11: The dog she's working with today is named Fenton.
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  Speaker 12: Okay, Fenton.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, let's find it. Fenton is an eight-year-old, like border collie, Aussie,
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  Speaker 13: mini Aussie sort of mix. He's about 40 pounds, kind
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  Speaker 13: of tall for that weight, maybe taller than you'd expect.
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  Speaker 12: His legs are a little long.
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  Speaker 13: Some people describe him as brown and some people describe
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  Speaker 13: him as gray. And he's definitely spotted, but not like
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  Speaker 13: a Dalmatian spotted. And then his most notable feature is
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  Speaker 13: one of his eyes is half blue. So when he
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  Speaker 13: looks at you, it has that kind of piercing quality.
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  Speaker 13: He's really unique to look at.
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  Speaker 11: And right now he's learning to identify a rare cactus
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  Speaker 11: called the mariposa.
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  Speaker 13: Hey, nose down, please.
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  Speaker 11: The cactus is of special interest to the botanist who's
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  Speaker 11: out here with us today. Her name is Anna Strong.
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  Speaker 11: And here she is to tell us more.
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  Speaker 12: So its scientific name is Sclerocactus mariposensis. The Big Bend
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  Speaker 12: region is the only place you can find it in Texas.
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  Speaker 12: It's been estimated that there are upwards of a million.
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  Speaker 12: But when this plant was listed, we were looking at
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  Speaker 12: thousands at that particular time.
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  Speaker 11: She's studying the mariposa's distribution to get a better idea
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  Speaker 11: of its prevalence in the region. But the mariposa isn't
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  Speaker 11: easy to find. That's why Strong is collaborating with Working
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  Speaker 11: Dogs for Conservation. Dogs can find tiny targets like the
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  Speaker 11: mariposa cactus much easier than people thanks to their powerful noses.
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  Speaker 11: Strong hopes that Fenton's nose can help her sniff out
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  Speaker 11: the cacti.
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  Speaker 12: It's a small cactus. A general, an average cactus would
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  Speaker 12: be about a golf ball to softball size. It is
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  Speaker 12: completely covered in spines. So you don't see the green
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  Speaker 12: stem of the cactus at all. You see mostly this
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  Speaker 12: gray color of spines covering the entire cactus. It looks
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  Speaker 12: a lot like the gray limestone that it lives on.
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  Speaker 12: So it can be pretty hard to find. Sometimes in February,
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  Speaker 12: you'll find them with flowers on it. And the flowers
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  Speaker 12: don't necessarily make it easier to find because the flowers
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  Speaker 12: are white.
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  Speaker 11: Its small size and gray color easily blend into the
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  Speaker 11: desert floor. It doesn't help that there are about four
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  Speaker 11: or five other cacti in the Big Bend region that
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  Speaker 11: look similar.
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  Speaker 13: Not that one.
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  Speaker 11: Even so, Fenton is doing really well so far.
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  Speaker 13: I'm liking his speed. It's not too fast. He's zigzagging.
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  Speaker 13: It's just called quartering to the left and right of
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  Speaker 13: the trail. His nose is down a lot, so I
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  Speaker 13: like the search behavior.
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  Speaker 11: When Fenton finds a mariposa cactus, his trainer throws him
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  Speaker 11: a tennis ball for positive reinforcement.
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  Speaker 10: Easy.
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  Speaker 13: Show me.
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  Speaker 14: Sit.
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  Speaker 15: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Good job. Good job. Good job. I'll get some treats
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  Speaker 13: out and trade you.
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  Speaker 11: I don't think I've ever seen a dog this toy crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Fenty, bring it here.
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  Speaker 11: It turns out that's by design.
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  Speaker 13: The dogs are all these toy crazy dogs and they
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  Speaker 13: learn that if you smell this thing that you don't necessarily,
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  Speaker 13: you're not bred to care about. In this case, we're
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  Speaker 13: looking for a cactus and there's no dog that inherently
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  Speaker 13: cares about finding a cactus. Then you get food or
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  Speaker 13: a toy reward and then that's really meaningful for them.
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  Speaker 11: After Fenty found his fair share of cacti, I sat
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  Speaker 11: down with Amy to learn more about conservation dogs.
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  Speaker 16: What type of species does Working Dogs for Conservation normally
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  Speaker 16: work with?
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  Speaker 13: We work with threatened and endangered species, invasive species, trafficked species.
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  Speaker 13: We have anti-trafficking work in Africa, mostly. There's about 100
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  Speaker 13: different targets that we've trained dogs to find. It can
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  Speaker 13: be anything. Everything has an odor. So it's, you know,
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  Speaker 13: what's your question? What do you need to find? You
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  Speaker 13: can't do anything. You can't manage a population. You can't
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  Speaker 13: know how many animals are in a population. You can't
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  Speaker 13: know if you have an invasive species in the area
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  Speaker 13: until you can find it. All of that work is
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  Speaker 13: kind of a needle in a haystack search. If people
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  Speaker 13: are searching for something that they can find easily, visually,
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  Speaker 13: they don't usually call us.
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  Speaker 11: Is it new or unusual for you guys to be
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  Speaker 11: working with plants?
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  Speaker 13: This is somewhere like the 12th or 13th or 14th
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  Speaker 13: plant that we found. It's been going to be 20
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  Speaker 13: years ago that we worked with our first plant. Working
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  Speaker 13: with this cactus, there's a visual component to it because
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  Speaker 13: a cactus does look different than rocks and other things
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  Speaker 13: on the landscape. The dog is still primarily using scent,
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  Speaker 13: but we can see the dogs sometimes catch sight of
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  Speaker 13: a cactus and go, oh, I better go sniff that closely.
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  Speaker 12: I see a cactus.
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  Speaker 13: And so that's different than some other plants we've worked
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  Speaker 13: on that are just, you know, green leafy plants growing
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  Speaker 13: among green leafy plants. And there's no visual component. So
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  Speaker 13: they just respond entirely by scent.
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  Speaker 11: When I think of plants, I guess I think about
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  Speaker 11: a flower as having smell. But I don't really think
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  Speaker 11: about what if the plant doesn't have a flower?
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  Speaker 12: Do the other parts of.
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  Speaker 17: The plant have smells as well?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, all the parts have scent and that's really cool.
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  Speaker 13: For me, I think plant work is my favorite because
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  Speaker 13: of that, especially in a world of plants. Now in
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  Speaker 13: the desert, you have some non-planty areas in between plants,
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  Speaker 13: but mostly like our world is so full of plants
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  Speaker 13: and so many when we smell them just smell green.
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  Speaker 13: I always would say like, you know, just like a
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  Speaker 13: general like grassy smell. But yesterday Anna said green and
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  Speaker 13: I was like, that's better. So they do, yeah, the plants,
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  Speaker 13: all plants smell distinct. They're different parts like the root
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  Speaker 13: and the stems and the leaves. And if it's flowering,
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  Speaker 13: those can all smell kind of different.
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  Speaker 11: So I've heard of cadaver dogs.
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  Speaker 16: I've heard of Frida, the dog in Mexico City that
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  Speaker 16: sniffed out people after the earthquakes a few years ago.
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  Speaker 16: I am familiar with the fact that dogs have way
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  Speaker 16: better senses of smell than people. Why are dogs so
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  Speaker 16: well suited to this and how well suited are they?
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  Speaker 13: They have really different physical anatomy. So, you know, their noses,
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  Speaker 13: their snouts being longer, that's actually, you know, it's coated
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  Speaker 13: with cells meant for scenting, for sniffing. They have more
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  Speaker 13: scent receptor cells than we do. And then they can actually, breathing,
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  Speaker 13: you know, for the sake of living, can be discoupled
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  Speaker 13: from scenting, right? So they can keep sniffing while they're breathing.
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  Speaker 13: That said, when they get really close to something, they
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  Speaker 13: have to, they close their mouth so they can give
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  Speaker 13: it a good sniff to actually get right to the source.
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  Speaker 13: And then their brain is also, they have a huge
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  Speaker 13: component of their brain that's dedicated to processing olfactory inputs.
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  Speaker 13: as opposed to ours, it's much smaller.
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  Speaker 11: Do you and the dogs have a personal relationship?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, we have a personal relationship.
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  Speaker 12: It doesn't work if you don't.
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  Speaker 13: I think the motivation for the dog and the person
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  Speaker 13: would be really minimal if it wasn't.
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  Speaker 18: About a relationship.
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  Speaker 13: The dogs are working to get their toy and get
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  Speaker 13: a reward, but it is also about they can't only
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  Speaker 13: like that. They have to like the search, they have
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  Speaker 13: to like the engagement with their person. And so it
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  Speaker 13: is about the teamwork and the bond you develop together.
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  Speaker 13: And it's especially, you know, when things are tricky, difficult
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  Speaker 13: to learn. And frankly, most of what conservation dogs work
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  Speaker 13: on is difficult to learn because like I said, it's
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  Speaker 13: a needle in the haystack and there's just inherent challenges
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  Speaker 13: to all of the targets. And so it's part of
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  Speaker 13: that relationship and being able to read each other and
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  Speaker 13: enjoy each other and like persevere together. That helps get
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  Speaker 13: through some of that challenge and the monotony when they're
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  Speaker 13: initially learning the game. It's a lot of repetitions in
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  Speaker 13: order to understand that odor and differentiate it from other odors.
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  Speaker 13: And so the relationship is all part of it.
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  Speaker 11: After spending a couple of long mornings out in the desert,
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  Speaker 11: I wanted to learn more about the cactus that brought
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  Speaker 11: us out there. I sat down with Anna Strong.
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  Speaker 12: I am Anna Strong. I am a botanist for Texas
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  Speaker 12: Parks and Wildlife, and I work at the Non-Game and
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  Speaker 12: Rare Species Program.
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  Speaker 11: So you mentioned that you only work with rare species.
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  Speaker 11: So we know right off the bat that this is
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  Speaker 11: a pretty unique, uncommon cactus. But what is special about it?
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  Speaker 11: Why are you studying it?
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  Speaker 12: Well, first off, it's a federally listed cactus. So yeah,
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  Speaker 12: since I work on rare species, but I don't, I
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  Speaker 12: kind of don't like questions like why is a species
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  Speaker 12: special or what is it good for? Because it presupposes
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  Speaker 12: that there are unspecial or useless species in general. I mean,
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  Speaker 12: there's certainly species that we humans haven't found a use
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  Speaker 12: for yet or that we find annoying, like mosquitoes. Maybe
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  Speaker 12: we fear them or we have some sort of, I mean, no,
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  Speaker 12: not interested at all. But I guess, you know, from
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  Speaker 12: the plant's perspective, I find it kind of offensive. Like what?
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, well, what's so special about humans?
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  Speaker 5: Why are we so amazing?
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  Speaker 11: I think that's a great point.
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  Speaker 12: You know, it's like nothing else could be as important
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  Speaker 12: as we are. Yeah. So anyway, it's beyond that. I mean,
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  Speaker 12: you know, generally speaking, the more species in a particular area.
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  Speaker 12: the healthier the ecosystem is in that area. The more
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  Speaker 12: resilient it is to change in the environment, different species
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  Speaker 12: have different roles. So if one gets taken out, maybe
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  Speaker 12: another can fill its place. So if you're a species
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  Speaker 12: that's really good at consuming dead things, it's good for
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  Speaker 12: the ecosystem to have another thing that can consume dead
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  Speaker 12: things if that particular organism gets taken out.
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  Speaker 18: For example, with.
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  Speaker 12: Mariposa cactus, In particular, though, it's one of the only
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  Speaker 12: species that's blooming in February. It blooms really early. And
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  Speaker 12: so it's providing nutrients for those early pollinators that are
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  Speaker 12: also out at that time. So without that nutrient source
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  Speaker 12: for those pollinators, there obviously would be fewer options for
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  Speaker 12: the pollinators. to obtain the nutrients. And if there are
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  Speaker 12: fewer bees because they don't have nutrients, then there might
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  Speaker 12: be fewer whatever is eating the bees. Bears, for example,
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  Speaker 12: eat bees. So it's basically a cascading effect on the
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  Speaker 12: whole system.
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  Speaker 11: So like we were saying earlier, this is a rare plant.
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  Speaker 11: Was it not rare at one time? Is there anything
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  Speaker 11: that caused it to become an endangered or threatened species?
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  Speaker 12: So when it was listed in 1979, it was only
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  Speaker 12: known from more or less three locations north of Black
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  Speaker 12: Gap Wildlife Management Area and within Big Bend National Park.
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  Speaker 12: So at the time it was listed, it was only
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  Speaker 12: known from those three locations. And on top of that,
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  Speaker 12: cactus lovers of the day had observed that there were
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  Speaker 12: cactus diggers, cactus collectors that were heavily collecting and impacting
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  Speaker 12: the cactus, probably all the species, not just Mariposa cactus
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  Speaker 12: in the area. And so they were finding literally piles
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  Speaker 12: of thousands of cacti that had been left on the ground,
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  Speaker 12: probably accidentally, but it was a picture, probably a small
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  Speaker 12: representation of what may have been happening throughout the whole
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  Speaker 12: region at the time where people would come and collect
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  Speaker 12: them and then sell them. So sort of with those
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  Speaker 12: two factors I'm just guessing, but with the known populations
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  Speaker 12: at the time and the threat of collection, the Fish
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  Speaker 12: and Wildlife Service felt like it was important enough to list.
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  Speaker 1: A quick tangent.
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  Speaker 11: After I talked with Anna, I called up someone who's
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  Speaker 11: sort of an expert in poaching.
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  Speaker 19: My name's Kevin Winters. assistant commander, game warden. Poaching, we
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  Speaker 19: think of it and we think of wildlife, right? Where
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  Speaker 19: people illegally take those resources from us. But a lot
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  Speaker 19: of times we forget that that also includes a lot
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  Speaker 19: of our native plants that we have here in the
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  Speaker 19: state of Texas.
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  Speaker 11: As for the poachers themselves?
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  Speaker 19: They're mainly motivated by convenience, right?
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  Speaker 1: They're very small.
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  Speaker 5: They're easy to dig.
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  Speaker 19: They're easy to conceal and transport. And a lot of
• 20:35
  Speaker 19: times people don't know what they're looking at. And there's
• 20:37
  Speaker 19: the ability to make profit off these cactus. You know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 19: it's very sparse country out there. And there has been
• 20:43
  Speaker 19: multiple cases where there has been significant amount of cactus
• 20:46
  Speaker 19: that has been taken without permission from the state and
• 20:50
  Speaker 19: or federal property that had been taken to be sold
• 20:53
  Speaker 19: in the black market. You know, we had one a
• 20:56
  Speaker 19: few years back that we worked in conjunction with U.S.
• 20:58
  Speaker 19: Fish and Wildlife. And I think the individual within a
• 21:00
  Speaker 19: short period of time was able to sell some living
• 21:02
  Speaker 19: rock cactus and make close to almost $ 300, 000 in a
• 21:04
  Speaker 19: few months.
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  Speaker 1: It's a rarity, right?
• 21:08
  Speaker 19: And when there's a rarity of an item that there's
• 21:10
  Speaker 19: not a lot of, it creates this market. It's very
• 21:13
  Speaker 19: rare when we do run into these situations and we
• 21:16
  Speaker 19: have these encounters.
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  Speaker 11: Tell me more about why you ended up wanting to
• 21:21
  Speaker 11: bring the dogs into working with you on this research.
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: How did the dogs help out?
• 21:26
  Speaker 12: Pacti are not really known to have much of an
• 21:29
  Speaker 12: odor to humans. So it was kind of a test
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: for detection dogs and their abilities to look for rare plants.
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: but also help me find more sites of the cactus.
• 21:40
  Speaker 12: But it requires a lot of time and effort walking
• 21:45
  Speaker 12: up and down steep talus limestone slope. And it can
• 21:50
  Speaker 12: be very tiresome and it can be somewhat dangerous because
• 21:54
  Speaker 12: the slope is pretty steep in some areas. And so
• 21:57
  Speaker 12: I was just looking for another way to decrease the
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: wear and tear on my own body. And knowing that
• 22:07
  Speaker 12: I'm not going to have my knees all my life
• 22:09
  Speaker 12: at this rate, I decided that using any other tool
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: in the toolbox was a good one. I mean, you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 12: with plants, you have to go to them. You can't
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: trap them and come back and find them in a trap.
• 22:22
  Speaker 12: I mean, I can tell you that for me directly,
• 22:25
  Speaker 12: the dogs provide me joy when I'm out in the
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: field with them. So I was thinking in terms of
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: other people that are maybe less interested in plants, that
• 22:39
  Speaker 12: they might really love dogs. It's a sort of maybe
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: a gateway drug to learning about other organisms that are
• 22:48
  Speaker 12: maybe less showy and charismatic than a dog is. I
• 22:53
  Speaker 12: think a lot of people can see the joy that
• 22:57
  Speaker 12: plants bring me. And so if it's a person to person,
• 23:01
  Speaker 12: that sometimes.
• 23:02
  Speaker 19: That can be infectious.
• 23:04
  Speaker 12: And so maybe there's something there, too, that the combination of, hey,
• 23:09
  Speaker 12: this is a really cool project. Look at how crazy
• 23:13
  Speaker 12: fun those dogs are. But look at the tiny, cute cactus,
• 23:17
  Speaker 12: you know, that maybe you can get people to say, hey, wow,
• 23:21
  Speaker 12: maybe I should learn more about the cactus.
• 23:23
  Speaker 11: When I think of the word wildlife, I tend to
• 23:25
  Speaker 11: think about big fauna like ocelots and bears and snakes
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: and not so much about cacti and bushes. Do you
• 23:34
  Speaker 11: think that's a pretty common perception?
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: I think that can get lost in the conversation, right? That,
• 23:40
  Speaker 10: you know, we're talking about parks, we're talking about wildlife,
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: we're talking about the things that are on two or
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: four feet. But What's critical to all that is the
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: habitats that that wildlife lives in. So it could be grasses, trees, cacti, shrubs. And,
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: you know, a really important part of the work that
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: the department does is to not only steward the wildlife,
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: the fauna, but also to steward the flora of Texas.
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: Those are public trust resources. And we have with our
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: partners around the state, the expertise to make sure that
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: we're protecting it, that we're conserving, that we're making it
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: available to all the critters that rely on that habitat.
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: So the cacti included, and really it's great to hear
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: that we have dogs out there, such as in this
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: episode of the podcast, to search out those critically important
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: species of cacti.
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: So tell me more about what TPWD does for plants
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: in particular.
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: First off, what's really critically important is working with private landowners.
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: I mean, a majority of the land in the state
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: is held in private hands, and they are working with
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: the department and other partners are critically important stewards of
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: that habitat. And so being of service to those landowners
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: is really important in the and the wildlife team and
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: the inland fisheries team, coastal fisheries team, and our game
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: wardens themselves, continually interacting with those private landowners to be
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: of service to them. What the department also does is
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: bring great expertise in habitat restoration. We have a native
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: species database that we have available to individuals to look at,
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: our Texas Natural Diversity Database, and there's just a lot
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: of education and outreach, not only to those that are
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: stewards of the lands, but those that live in large
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: cities and really should know about the importance of protecting
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: our natural habitats.
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: And all this work, do you think this is just
• 25:46
  Speaker 11: as important as all of the work we do for wildlife?
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: Morgan, just as important as the large fauna species, the
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: large animals and the small animals that we steward is
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: the habitats that they live in. It's important that We
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: recognize the place of those grasses and those flowers and
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: those shrubs and forbs and cacti as part of the landscape,
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: as part of what makes Texas, Texas. I mean, we're
• 26:14
  Speaker 10: fortunate right now to be recording this as the wildflowers
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: are really coming out after some much needed rains. And
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: that's what makes Texas so special as well, is to
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: drive up and down these roads, see those wildflowers. But
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: those wildflowers serve a purpose too.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Too.
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: They're beautiful to look at, but they're also critically important
• 26:35
  Speaker 10: for the pollinators as they're starting to move through the countryside, right?
• 26:39
  Speaker 10: They're important for species to browse on as well. You know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 10: all of this comes together as part of an ecosystem
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: and we humans are as critical part of that ecosystem
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: as all the animals and the habitats that they live in.
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: And we have the opportunity to steward those habitats.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, pretty amazing story. That's from Texas Parks and Wildlife,
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  Speaker 1: David Yaskowitz, the executive director, Margaret O'Halloran. Cactus sniffing dogs.
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  Speaker 1: There's a new state record in Maryland for false albacore.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: We call them bonito. In Ocean City, 28.2 pounds. Surpassed
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the existing record by over two pounds. Man, Cooper Clark, 19,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: were trolling for bluefin tuna on his uncle's boat. They
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: were fishing the jack spot 25 miles out of Ocean
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  Speaker 1: City when the fish picked off a skirted ballyhoo. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: DNR's Keith Lockwood says it's kind of a funny story.
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  Speaker 1: They threw this thing in the icebox thinking they would
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: use it for bait. It wasn't until later when they
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  Speaker 1: were sitting at home and looking at their phones that
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: they decided to have it weighed. They didn't weigh it
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: until the next day. Lockwood said potential records should be
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: weighed as soon as possible. After the catch, they lose
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: substantial weight sitting on ice. Even weighed fresh, this one
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  Speaker 1: would have vied for the all-tackle world record, which is
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: a hair shy of 37 pounds caught off of Spain
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: six years ago. But bad. Big enough. A 28-pound little toonie.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Researchers say there could be a lot more amberjack in
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the Gulf than fisheries managers thought. Imagine that. The Greater
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Amberjack Count, which began in 2021, and we've had stories
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: about that and talked to people about that, have released
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: preliminary stats. According to the numbers, there could be as
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: many as 4.3 million amberjacks in the Gulf of Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: three times as many as federal estimates. The most recent
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  Speaker 1: federal assessment based on 2018 numbers said there was 1.39 million.
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  Speaker 1: Under that figure, extrapolated from catch data, the stock is
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: considered overfished. This year's recreational season, from September 1st to
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: October 14th, another heavily restricted one with one fish, 34-inch minimum.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. The Greater Amberjack Count, led by Sean Powers,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the University of South Alabama's brought together 20 scientists from
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: 16 institutions. Look, let's not use science to confuse the
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: federal government because some 30-something is sitting in his office
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: in Washington, D.C., arbitrarily making these studies. The study received
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: $ 12 million in funding, similar to the Great Red Snapper count.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: How'd that work out for everybody? There could be as
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: many as $ 4 million, as we mentioned, $ 4. 3 million. The
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: study does have a margin of error, but it's still
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: substantially more than the government said there was. I know
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: you find that hard to believe. I find that shocking.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: We had this story earlier. The Florida mom who lost
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: a piece of her arm in an alligator attack has
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: revealed the extent of the injuries. The gator got a
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: piece of me, but it didn't get the best of me,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: says Dina Spann, who's 58, suffering injuries on her right
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: arm and left hand during a family boating trip in
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Marion County, Florida, August 8th. Recovery isn't always pretty. I'm
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: learning to laugh through the hard parts, she said on Facebook,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: and celebrate every little showing her right arm amputated below
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: the elbow and half of a ring finger on her
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: left hand missing. She posted the video last Friday. Her son, Zach,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: had told the Post how Spann's arm was left hanging
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: by a thread. He said how she fought back with
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: her hands and lost part of her left finger in
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the process. She wasn't just letting it happen. She was
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: trying to hold its mouth shut, swimming at the top
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: to get a breath of air, keep it from biting
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: her legs. It had her, but she said she was
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: trying to make sure it didn't get her legs. Trapper's
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: contracted by Florida Fish and Wildlife, removed the 9-foot-8-inch gator
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: the day after the attack. Zach Carina, the son and
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: a dad of five children, works as a carpenter, said
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: he left his mom floating in the river with two
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: teenage relatives and his brother's girlfriend minutes before the gator pounced.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Bystanders came to the rescue, used part of her bathing
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: suit as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. They tied
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: up the arm with an anchor rope. He said she
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: was as calm as a cucumber. It was a crazy situation.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: She was the calmest one there with her arm hanging
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: by a thread. Swimmers in the river, swimming in the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: river is bad. He blamed the attack on tourists getting
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: too close to gators, petting and feeding them. You think?
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: The attack came weeks after hiker Brittany Clark was killed
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: by a 13-foot gator swimming in another river. I've said
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: this before. I'll say it again. There are too many
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: alligators in Florida. They need to take some of them out.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: They need to take a lot of them out. Get
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: them before they get you. And there's this. An out-of-place
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: gangster-ass crab, their words, not mine, wielding a blade was
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: caught on camera trying to attack a Florida man. Florida
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: resident Eduardo Alvarez shared the footage to Instagram along with
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the caption, Florida is getting out of hand. Florida is
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: definitely like Australia. It's this nation's version of the nation
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: of Australia. Alvarez's dog Summer appears to be sniffing out
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the predator moments before the armed crustacean attempts to swipe
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: towards the dog. The Florida man jumps in to save
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: the pooch, struggles to get a hold of the crab. Summer,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: where the heck did you get a crab with a
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: freaking shank, he asks on camera. Alvarez scrambles to grab
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: the crab before finally getting a hold of the nippy
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: critter and moving it further into his yard. Summer, I
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: don't recommend messing with this. The crustacean appears to be
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: a blue land crab. Blue land crabs have a leg
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: span width of up to 12 inches wide, way around
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: a pound. It's large. The predator's blade appears to be
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: from a pocket knife. It's unclear how he got a
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: hold of the weapon. I'll tell you how he got
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: a hold of it. He stole it from somebody, some
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: knife-wielding man who was trying to use it on the crab.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: He stole it from the crab. He stabbed the man.
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  Speaker 1: He took his blade. Yeah, I'm not sure that happened,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: but it's as good a story as any. 20 million
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: views on the social media. I don't know what's more surprising,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: a crab with a shank or you just lifting it
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: up like it's an everyday occurrence. You can tell it's
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Florida because he picked it up while he was laughing,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: said somebody on the Facebook. While some people said this
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: would only happen in Florida, others questioned if it was
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: AI generated. They have reached out to Alvarez. It's not
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: the first time. that prehistoric creatures have been found wielding
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: dangerous weapons. A Michigan man who now lives in Japan
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: shared a harrowing video of a killer crab wielding a
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: steak knife in 2022. I remember that. He was awakened
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: at 2 a.m. to scratching on his tent and stunned
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: to see a giant coconut crab brandishing a knife in
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: its claw. People, what do I tell you? They want
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: to kill you. Get them before they get you. A
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: 37-year-old woman from Austria reportedly suffered injuries after being attacked
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: by a shark while swimming off the coast in the
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Bahamas off Bimini. The woman was attacked three and a
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: half miles off the coast of Bimini while swimming during
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: a dolphin excursion. She reportedly suffered serious injuries to her
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: right ankle, airlifted to New Providence, the most populous island.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Based on preliminary information, the woman was initially transported to
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Bimini Community Hospital last week following the attack. Authorities are investigating.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're investigating. Honestly, what are they investigating?
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  Speaker 1: A woman got bit by a shark. It's the Bahamas.
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  Speaker 1: What is there to investigate? Just say it. Two new
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  Speaker 1: bear attacks under investigation in Colorado. This is the second
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  Speaker 1: time a bear has wandered into somebody's room. A 17-year-old
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  Speaker 1: girl was asleep. In a separate incident, a bear attacked
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  Speaker 1: second black bear attack took place Sunday morning. 17-year-old girl
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  Speaker 1: in Durango, asleep. When a bear approached her bedroom window,
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  Speaker 1: which had been cracked open, the bear ripped open the
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  Speaker 1: The girl said after she pulled up her blankets and hid,
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  Speaker 1: the bear swiped at her stomach. Why wouldn't she curl
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  Speaker 1: The bear then ran to the foot of the bed
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  Speaker 1: and left the same way it came in through the window.
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  Speaker 1: But it came back. The girl said the bear left
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  Speaker 1: attacks in three days. The teen suffered scratch marks and bruising,
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  Speaker 1: adding she was very lucky she had multiple blankets covering
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  Speaker 1: her when the bear took the swipe. A record high
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  Speaker 1: 10 bear attacks have been reported this year in Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: The agency cites drought conditions, draining food services. That puts
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  Speaker 1: bears on the move. Adrian Archuleta of the Colorado Parks
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  Speaker 1: and Wildlife said, we want residents to make sure they
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  Speaker 1: are closing and locking their doors and windows during this
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  Speaker 1: human-bear conflict year, in addition to securing all outside attractants. People, again,
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  Speaker 1: get them before they get you. They are out to
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  Speaker 1: The state belongs to the animals. But by gosh, we're
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  Speaker 18: I'm Jett Nelson with your Texas Rangers report. The Rangers
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  Speaker 18: continue adding to the loss column as they look to
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  Speaker 18: The Texas Rangers have now lost three straight games after
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  Speaker 18: Then Texas would tie it up with a pair of
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  Speaker 18: Pitching for the Rangers was another fiasco as Texas used
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  Speaker 1: Is this a quick fix?
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  Speaker 21: It's between the ears. So I think it's like a
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  Speaker 21: the shanks. At some point, it's got to click. And
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  Speaker 21: shock the world a little bit, right? Go out there
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  Speaker 21: and play as good football. Something about that back against
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  Speaker 21: the wall mentality, at least for me, I like that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if he can do that.
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  Speaker 21: And, you know, I sit on some other places here,
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  Speaker 21: and maybe it's hyperbolic, but this feels like a career-defining game,
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