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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Thirty Crossing Paths With A Copperhead Snake · 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 Forest 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 raised 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. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the forest. It has been raining profusely for the.
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  Speaker 2: Past twenty four hours, and we're supposed to be centered
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  Speaker 2: right here in the center of one of the worst
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  Speaker 2: drafts of our time period. So nobody's complaining about the rain.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the copperhead snake might be complaining. We're on this
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  Speaker 2: path in this beautiful forest, and the ground is in
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  Speaker 2: a flooded state, and that means it might be too
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  Speaker 2: wet for the copperhead snake to get the proper heat
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  Speaker 2: that it requires to survive. So therefore it goes out
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  Speaker 2: onto a path such as the one that we're on.
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  Speaker 2: And whoever was here before us, I think, had a
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  Speaker 2: different idea of what this copperhead snake should be doing.
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  Speaker 2: We've all heard the stories of the copperhead. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: my very good friend here inside this forest get bit
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  Speaker 2: by a copperhead, and to this day the troubles that
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  Speaker 2: he continues to have. This is a large one. I'm
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  Speaker 2: so used to the ones that are just a little
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  Speaker 2: bit bigger than you know, like a good old nightcrawler.
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  Speaker 2: But this one, this one's got some inches on it,
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  Speaker 2: and it's got some thickness. And to sit here staring
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  Speaker 2: at it, yes, I got to get it off the path.
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  Speaker 2: But what I don't want to do is I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to take away from nature. There are vultures that
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  Speaker 2: want this, There are crow that want this. There are
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  Speaker 2: other animals that feed off what the human has decided
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  Speaker 2: to cut off, basically, but you got to be aware
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  Speaker 2: of what the copperhead is doing. But I'm not that
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  Speaker 2: guy that's going to kill a copperhead. I never did
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  Speaker 2: it before in the past, when we were putting this
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  Speaker 2: forest together. I won't do it today. So it breaks
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  Speaker 2: my heart profusely to see what's happened to this copperhead.
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  Speaker 2: It does not look like that it was damaged by
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  Speaker 2: a human being. I don't see any marks on his body.
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  Speaker 2: At all. In fact, I'm sitting here staring at it now,
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  Speaker 2: and it looks more like Man, it's possible that one
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  Speaker 2: of the hawks or the owls in the area kind
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  Speaker 2: of grabbed him, and then in midflight they somehow lost
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  Speaker 2: the luggage, if you know what I mean, And so
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  Speaker 2: then it fell to the earth and it just happens
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  Speaker 2: to be right here on this path. But you can't
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  Speaker 2: go on bare hands, you know. It's that fear of
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  Speaker 2: what happens to The poisons from the copper head get
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  Speaker 2: inside your skin somehow, some way. You know how the
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  Speaker 2: world works, these mysterious bugs that get in our brain
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  Speaker 2: and swipe our final breath. I don't want to be
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  Speaker 2: that guy that wants to remove a copperhead snake from
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  Speaker 2: a path when nature's other caretakers are ready to finish
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  Speaker 2: the job. No sense yet, so he's pretty pretty new.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to lean harder on it falling from the
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  Speaker 2: grip of a hawk in flight during a southern spring storm,
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  Speaker 2: where it's not about raining, it's about things pouring out
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  Speaker 2: of God's bathtub in heaven. Hey, thanks for being a
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  Speaker 2: part of the conversation.