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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Twenty Two The Ancient Art Of Dog Sniffing · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, when it comes to podcasts listening, are you like me?
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  Speaker 1: one place. Enjoy the exploration. Hey, thanks for being a
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  Speaker 1: part of the conversation. Welcome to foest Stories, a series
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  Speaker 1: of short winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping trees,
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  Speaker 1: stuck feet First and Georgia Clay right here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a huge part of my daily journey for
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  Speaker 1: over thirty three years. I Am the Poet in the Forest,
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  Speaker 1: a children's series written and recorded in the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 1: It's grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world,
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  Speaker 1: and none of it would be possible without this forest
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  Speaker 1: right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina, at the base
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  Speaker 1: of Heartbreak Hills. It's a sign that reads Rainbow Forest. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations
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  Speaker 1: long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized
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  Speaker 1: around this beautiful lake, slow moving stream, flatland, swamps and
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  Speaker 1: array of natural animals. There were families and business owners
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  Speaker 1: who are said to have raced into this area for
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and
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  Speaker 1: wild grapevines. Those before me either forgot to write about
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  Speaker 1: it or it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the forest. One of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty much jealous of in being a human being
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  Speaker 2: is the art of dog sniffing. How is it that
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  Speaker 2: one dog can sniff in one section of the forest
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  Speaker 2: for what fifteen twenty minutes and not do anything? What
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  Speaker 2: is in that sniff that keeps them so glued to
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  Speaker 2: the soil below? You know, people will tell you that
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  Speaker 2: a dog can smell several hundred years right there in
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  Speaker 2: that soil. But the human being, instead of smelling the ground,
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  Speaker 2: we run to Google, or we go to chat GPT,
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  Speaker 2: and what we do is we build our lives around
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  Speaker 2: the information that's available to that digital device without really
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  Speaker 2: knowing the lay of the land. But I am jealous
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  Speaker 2: of the dog sniff because when I'm out here in
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  Speaker 2: this forest with Jazzy, Yeah, the beauty of the birds
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  Speaker 2: around me, the sunshine, the Carolina blue sky, the peacefulness
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  Speaker 2: of the lake as I look at it right here
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  Speaker 2: with any bitty ripples in it, because that's what lakes do.
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  Speaker 2: They're speaking to the passerbys. But then the dog comes
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  Speaker 2: by and sniffs, and it's like, no, look at all
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  Speaker 2: this beauty around us, Jazzy, look at the trees in
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  Speaker 2: full blossom, the bumblebees from the beekeeper are out. Everything
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  Speaker 2: is being put in a situation of personal growth where
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be fruit. But not Jazzy and the dogs.
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  Speaker 2: She would rather sniff out history on the ground. And
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  Speaker 2: what do you think that history is to a dog?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a rain drop? Is it a passer by dog?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a deer that could have been here? Is
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  Speaker 2: it an animal that maybe have transitioned several years or
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  Speaker 2: decades ago? What is in this soil that they can sniff?
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  Speaker 2: But if a human being were to lean down there,
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  Speaker 2: get our face dirty, and nestle up to the dirt
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  Speaker 2: and a leaf from last fall, what would we sniff?
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  Speaker 2: What would that smell be like? Well, my father would
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  Speaker 2: probably look at you and say, it's just dirt. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: it's just dirt. There's nothing in that soil. And yet
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  Speaker 2: my Jazzy would like to argue with my father and
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  Speaker 2: let him know that, Oh dude, you have no idea
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  Speaker 2: who put this hamburger here? Maybe a week ago to
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  Speaker 2: four hundred years ago, but somebody put a burger in
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  Speaker 2: this soil, and I smell it. Now. If you don't
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  Speaker 2: adopt this flavor and put it on the grill, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna be mad. Really, what does a dog sniff? Is
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  Speaker 2: it the history? Is it the start of a brand
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  Speaker 2: new beginning? Because this being spring, with all of the
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  Speaker 2: seeds flying through the air, with these passing storms, what
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  Speaker 2: is it that we're missing as human beings? Oh? I know,
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  Speaker 2: let's go to chat GPT, go to Google, let's go
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  Speaker 2: to Yahoo. No, let's listen to the dogs and let's
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  Speaker 2: find out what they're saying by sniffing the ground. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for being a part of the conversation.