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Ep. 672: MeatEater Radio Live! Clearing Trails, Getting Roasted, and Beaver Pillows · The MeatEater Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Smell us now, lady, Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia mea podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Radio Live. It's eleven am Mountain Time.
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  Speaker 2: That's seven pm Hungry time for those listeners in Hungary
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday, March sixth and we're live from Meet Eater
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  Speaker 2: HQ and Bozeman, Montana. I'm your host, Randall Williams, joined
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  Speaker 2: today by Maggie Hudlow and Brody Henderson. On today's show,
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  Speaker 2: we're kicking off a new segment called fake News. We'll
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  Speaker 2: call in with Rebecca Powell from the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna take you backstage for a look at Meat
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  Speaker 2: Eater's new culinary show, Meet Eater ROAs. We'll chat with
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  Speaker 2: Caitlin Lo Spinoso aka Old Trapper Kate, and we'll round
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  Speaker 2: out the show with another long awaited Meat Eater movie Club.
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  Speaker 2: Maggie and Brody, how are you guys doing?
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  Speaker 3: Doing great? Not so bad?
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  Speaker 2: Lovely?
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  Speaker 4: How are you doing, Randall?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well. I'm doing well. It's great to have
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  Speaker 2: you here at Bozeman HQ.
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  Speaker 4: It's good to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Well. First up, in a new segment we're calling fake News.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to share a selectively edited hunting or fishing
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  Speaker 2: related headline from the news, and Brody and Maggie need
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  Speaker 2: to fill in the blank with multiple choice options. Only
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  Speaker 2: one of these is true according to this news article.
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  Speaker 2: And here's where we'll add Phil's drop in later. Phil's
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  Speaker 2: just had.
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  Speaker 3: A really busy week.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of apologies to the listeners out there, Phil, what
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  Speaker 2: do you have to say.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need to disappoint anybody. It's been a crazy
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  Speaker 3: week here at Meat Eater HQ. We got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of new projects happening, and so I didn't have time
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  Speaker 3: to make a drop this week. I do have an idea,
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  Speaker 3: but then we thought we'd bring Chili in and then
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  Speaker 3: he whimped out, Chili, if you're watching, good job. So
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  Speaker 3: now we have nothing for you. And frankly, it's all
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  Speaker 3: Chili's fault.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Chilli's working on me roast right now. Phil.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the thing is is he he had agreed to
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  Speaker 2: do this, but then he said he couldn't figure out
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  Speaker 2: the chords, the chord progression, so he did WI. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So just imagine something. If you guys want to
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  Speaker 3: make some pitches in the live chat, I will read them,
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  Speaker 3: not necessarily take them into consideration, but if you have
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  Speaker 3: a really good one, you might break through the ceiling.
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  Speaker 2: And I know it sounds like we're just killing time here,
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  Speaker 2: but I really think that with the announcement, with the
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  Speaker 2: announcement of the new segment, folks were keyed up, they
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  Speaker 2: were ready to go. So just imagine in your head
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  Speaker 2: what this would sound.
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  Speaker 5: The live viewer counting that Phil's drops are the best
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  Speaker 5: part of the whole damn show.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I already feel like this show's
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  Speaker 2: a flop. On first head line, Phil.
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  Speaker 3: Sure thing, I'm using the slideshow for the very first time.
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  Speaker 2: They are a So this is our first headline. Rocky
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  Speaker 2: Mountain National Park has too many A trails, Rocky Mountain
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  Speaker 2: National Park has too many b elk Rocky Mountain National
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  Speaker 2: Park has too many C visitors, or Rocky Mountain National
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  Speaker 2: Park has too many D moose.
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  Speaker 5: So we're looking for the one that's that's fake, where.
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  Speaker 2: You're looking for the one that's true, for true, the
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  Speaker 2: actual headline.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna say b elk.
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  Speaker 2: Mag says b Elk.
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  Speaker 5: God, I think I just read an article about something else,
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  Speaker 5: Like I know they've had too many elk at one time,
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  Speaker 5: but I think the headline might be moose.
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  Speaker 4: That was my other thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Moose is your final answer? Brody gets it?
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  Speaker 6: Phil?
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  Speaker 2: Do we have like a ding ding ding?
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  Speaker 3: If I were a professional engineer, I would have one prepared.
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  Speaker 5: But oh gosh. Well, although I could find you a
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  Speaker 5: headline that says they have too many elk, I could.
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  Speaker 2: Find you a headline that says they have too many
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  Speaker 2: visitors as well. This one comes from our friends at
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  Speaker 2: Outdoor Life. While moose populations are down across much of
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  Speaker 2: their range in North America, Colorado is a noteworthy exception.
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  Speaker 2: In Rocky Mountain National Park, wildlife managers are concerned that
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  Speaker 2: a moose population growing at five percent year over year
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  Speaker 2: is having a deleterious effect on wetland habitats and willow growth.
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  Speaker 2: A single moose can consume up to forty five pounds
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  Speaker 2: of willows in a day. In some areas of the
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  Speaker 2: park have seen a decline of up to eighty percent
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  Speaker 2: of their willows since nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 5: The wolves will take care of that problem for too long,
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  Speaker 5: Just give it a little time.
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  Speaker 2: I almost added wolves in there as an option, but
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  Speaker 2: I thought it might be two on the nose and
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  Speaker 2: perhaps you know, traumatizing or triggering to some of our audience.
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  Speaker 2: Onto our second headline, here, philm can wildlife heal? Blank?
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  Speaker 2: The science behind nature's unexpected remedy? The first answer is
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  Speaker 2: a chronic pain. The second is PTSD post traumatic stress
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  Speaker 2: disorder c IS autoimmune disorder d IS hypertension. What are
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  Speaker 2: we think of here?
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  Speaker 7: Gang?
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  Speaker 2: What can nature heal? According to this article?
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Maggie, you pick yours?
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  Speaker 4: Ha I'm I'm gonna go B again PTSD.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go see hmmm, well it's one to one Gang.
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  Speaker 2: The correct answer is b PTSD. Thank you, Corey. Is
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  Speaker 2: this show's really taken off? This one comes from sie
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  Speaker 2: Tech Daily. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts studied nineteen
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  Speaker 2: veterans with PTSD and observed notable psychological benefit. It's particularly
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  Speaker 2: reduced levels of anxiety among those who engaged in visits
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  Speaker 2: to wildlife sanctuaries, participated in wildlife care at rehabilitation centers,
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  Speaker 2: and engaged in bird watching, according to doctor Donna Perry.
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  Speaker 2: While many studies involving interactions between humans and other species
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  Speaker 2: aimed at improving psychological or physical health have involved domestic animals.
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  Speaker 2: Few studies have focused on wildlife.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's great news, but I don't think it's
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  Speaker 5: new news. People have been doing, you know, like when
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  Speaker 5: I was a guide, we used to do h like
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  Speaker 5: wounded warrior things. Yeah, in the outdoors.
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  Speaker 2: And the news is that we have the study to
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  Speaker 2: back it up. Phil Once you read me the date
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  Speaker 2: on that article.
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  Speaker 3: It says March sixth, twenty five, Holy crap.
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  Speaker 2: That's today's news. Brody.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, like I said, don't think it's new news, boy.
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  Speaker 2: Rocky, start here onto our third headline. I kind of
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  Speaker 2: like this bit though.
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  Speaker 3: It's fun, and I would this is kind of a
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  Speaker 3: dry run. If people like it, we'll be back with
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  Speaker 3: bells and whistles and hopefully Brody will be more excited.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's not that I'm not excited. Like, I like
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  Speaker 5: it because I like arguing and you know, and trivia
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  Speaker 5: Spencer just doesn't put up with arguing about his questions.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I know the answer to this one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this one's been all over the.
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  Speaker 2: Place, but I thought my answers are so clever.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's let's read the headline for the audio listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Here blank for dinner California officials urge residents to eat
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  Speaker 2: invasive blank Your options are skate for dinner. California officials
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  Speaker 2: urge residents to eat invasive sting rays frog legs for dinner.
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  Speaker 2: California officials urge residents to eat invasive bullfrogs, rodent for dinner.
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  Speaker 2: California officials urge residents to eat invasive nutria or d
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  Speaker 2: cactus for dinner. California officials urge residents to eat invasive
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  Speaker 2: African prickly pair.
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  Speaker 4: It's z nutria.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've got a tie game, gang.
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  Speaker 3: There's a sound. I found one.
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  Speaker 2: The correct is rodent for dinner. California officials urge residents
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  Speaker 2: to eat invasive nutria. According to an article in the Guardian,
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  Speaker 2: This call to action came during National Invasive Species Awareness
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  Speaker 2: Week in late February. Neutrio were believed to have been
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  Speaker 2: eradicated from the Golden State in the nineteen seventies, but
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  Speaker 2: a growing population was detected in the Sacramento San Joaquin
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  Speaker 2: River Delta in twenty seventeen. The California Department of Fish
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  Speaker 2: and Wildlife has removed some five thy five hundred nutria
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  Speaker 2: from these wetlands so far, and federal officials are trying
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  Speaker 2: to make the consumption of nutrias somewhat enticing by drawing
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  Speaker 2: similarities to the taste of rabbit or dark turkey meat. Resources,
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  Speaker 2: including recipes for nutrient dishes such as stews and chili,
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  Speaker 2: are available on nutria dot com.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the New York Times really didn't do a good
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  Speaker 4: job of selling it. Their headline. Their headline was keep
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  Speaker 4: invasive species in check. Eat a big rat like rodent.
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  Speaker 5: I think. I think the funny thing about this is
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  Speaker 5: that this is coming out of California, which is like
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  Speaker 5: one of the most anti hunting states in the country,
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  Speaker 5: and they're like, oh, yeah, go kill these things.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of dead things.
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  Speaker 5: I know. But they need to call uh, they need
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  Speaker 5: to call our old friend Mark Kendrick, who uh see
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  Speaker 5: the chessbeak. Hemanaged Operation Rolling Thunder in the Chesapeake Bay,
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  Speaker 5: which is like the only place they fully eradicated those things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta say, I wasn't California nutrier. We're not
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  Speaker 2: on my radar.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, they scattered those things all over the
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  Speaker 5: place to create, you know, a fur industry back in
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  Speaker 5: the day, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will point out that there is an invasive
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  Speaker 2: African prickly pair cactus called the Devil's cactus.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did a little bit of research. Uh no,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. We don't have a tie breaker yet.
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  Speaker 2: That's a little wrinkle we should add next time we
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  Speaker 2: do this.
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  Speaker 3: So let's hold on. Let I just want to make
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  Speaker 3: sure we have this all correct. There was no drop, yes,
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  Speaker 3: no sound effects. I'll take credit for that. Yes, no tiebreaker.
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  Speaker 3: How do we feel this segment went?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I like it. I think I like potential.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's got real potential. Brody observed to me
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  Speaker 2: yesterday when we're sort of going over this that this
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  Speaker 2: would be a segment best played with some of our
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  Speaker 2: less uh less news following crew members. Yes, sure, the
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  Speaker 2: online Yeah, the less online people would probably have more
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  Speaker 2: fun with this one. But I was pleased that you
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  Speaker 2: both didn't get all of them right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, So earn something new every day.
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  Speaker 2: Man, that's a start. Fantastic gang, Thank you. Joining us
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  Speaker 2: on the line first is Rebecca Powell, the program director
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  Speaker 2: for the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation. Rebecca, welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, thanks for having me. Happy to be here. Great show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, yeah, it can only go on from here.
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  Speaker 3: So I love honesty, Rebecca.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're glad that said that first segment didn't
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  Speaker 2: kill Huh. It's tough act to follow. First thing, can
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  Speaker 2: you tell us a little bit about the Bob Marshall
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  Speaker 2: Wilderness Foundation and maybe for folks that are not from
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  Speaker 2: this part of the world, what the Bob Marshall Wilderness is.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So I am the program director at the bon Marshall
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  Speaker 7: Wilderness Foundation. We're a nonprofit partner of the Forest Service
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  Speaker 7: and we help steward the one point six million acre
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  Speaker 7: Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.
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  Speaker 6: So the Bob Marsha Wilderness Complex.
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  Speaker 7: Is a northwest Montana kind of below Glacier National Park,
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  Speaker 7: above Yellowstone and Missoula area, and it makes three wilderness areas.
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  Speaker 7: So there's the Great Bear to the north, the Bob
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  Speaker 7: Marshall in the middle, and the Scapegoat Wilderness on the
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  Speaker 7: south end, and together that makes up the one point
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  Speaker 7: six Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex that we all just refer
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  Speaker 7: to as the Bob. So that is a little bit
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  Speaker 7: about the Bob Marshall Wilderness and us as a nonprofit organization,
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  Speaker 7: we're pretty small. We have seven full time, year round staff.
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  Speaker 7: We've been around for almost thirty years, and you know,
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  Speaker 7: the Bob Foundation started as a place for volunteers to
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  Speaker 7: get together and help clear those secondary trails and do
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  Speaker 7: some of the trail maintenance that wasn't getting done as
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  Speaker 7: Foreign Service was facing those budget cuts.
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  Speaker 6: As we've evolved, you know, we've gone.
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  Speaker 7: From more than just moving dirt and now as an organization,
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  Speaker 7: we do a lot of education about wilderness. We do
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  Speaker 7: have a pretty robust internship program. We have some traditional
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  Speaker 7: skills programs such as packing.
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  Speaker 6: We have Artists Wilderness.
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  Speaker 7: Connection program where we partner with the Hockaday Museum of
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  Speaker 7: Art in the Flathead National Forest and place a few
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  Speaker 7: artists in the back country each season to do some art.
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  Speaker 7: And then, of course the Bread and Butter is our
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  Speaker 7: volunteer program, so we have about forty projects usually each
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  Speaker 7: season that we take volunteers out.
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  Speaker 6: We have anything from you.
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  Speaker 7: Know, a day like National Trails Day doing a day
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  Speaker 7: of trail work, to ten day trips where you're in
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  Speaker 7: the back country for ten days.
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  Speaker 6: All of them are led by one of our crew leaders.
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  Speaker 7: We provide food and pack support, all the tools, and
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  Speaker 7: those opportunities are free for anybody who wants to join,
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  Speaker 7: given that it's within your physical limitations to do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: And a lot of our work with the volunteers is
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  Speaker 7: clearing trails, is brushing, you know that all they're off
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  Speaker 7: the trails, clearing drains and improving tread. We do some
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  Speaker 7: work on some of those admin cabins of the back country,
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  Speaker 7: you know, rebuilding corrals, that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And there's some there's some unique challenges to that type
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  Speaker 2: of work in a wilderness area. Can you tell us
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about what a what a day of
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  Speaker 2: trail maintenance looks like for a volunteer crew.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So I always tell our crew leaders that they have
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  Speaker 7: the hardest job within the complex because they're training new
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  Speaker 7: volunteers each each week, you know, so depending on their
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  Speaker 7: hitch schedule, volunteer show up at a trailhead. We have
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  Speaker 7: up to eight to ten volunteers each project that meet
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  Speaker 7: a crew leader at the trailhead. We have volunteer packers
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  Speaker 7: that use horses and mules that carry in all the
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  Speaker 7: food and tool and group gear into a backcountry site
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  Speaker 7: and we set up a base camp and work on
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  Speaker 7: that base camp for however many days the trip is
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  Speaker 7: and because it's a designation wilderness, you know, no mechanized
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  Speaker 7: use within the wilderness. So we're using cross cut saws, handsaws,
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  Speaker 7: pulaskis looppers, that kind of stuff. And all the stuff
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  Speaker 7: that we get is transported into the back country with
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  Speaker 7: horses and mules. So it's primitive. Uh, it's uh, just how.
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  Speaker 6: We like it.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of sweat.
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  Speaker 6: It is a lot of sut and you know, volers
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  Speaker 6: are they're they're into it.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 7: People like to work hard and it's impressive to see
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  Speaker 7: the amount of people that come out and want to
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  Speaker 7: do hard work with us.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. Recently, we've been covering a lot of the uh,
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  Speaker 2: the layoffs affecting our public land management agencies, the Forest
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  Speaker 2: Service included. Can you can you speak to how those
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  Speaker 2: cuts at the Forest Service are affecting your organization sort
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  Speaker 2: of how you interface with the Forest Service.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a lot of ways that that's affecting our organization.
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  Speaker 7: We are, like you know, we pride ourselves on the
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  Speaker 7: relationship that we have at the Forest Service, the folks
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  Speaker 7: at the district level within those others five districts that
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  Speaker 7: manage the Bam Martial Wilderness Complex, and we are.
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  Speaker 6: Are close with all of them.
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  Speaker 7: So each season around January or so, we meet with
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  Speaker 7: those trails and wilderness folks and ask them like, hey,
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  Speaker 7: where do you guys need help?
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  Speaker 6: How can we help you get some volunteers in?
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  Speaker 7: And that's how we build our summer schedule and work
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  Speaker 7: through that, and then.
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  Speaker 6: Once the field season starts.
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  Speaker 7: You know, those folks that are on the ground for
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  Speaker 7: the Forest Service, those river rangers, those trail crews, those
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  Speaker 7: backcountry rangers, those are the people that we're communicating with
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  Speaker 7: on our trips. We're checking in on the radio every
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  Speaker 7: day with those folks where they're flagging out the work
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  Speaker 7: we need to do. Maybe they're out there a couple
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  Speaker 7: of days before that we show up and they're flagging
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  Speaker 7: out where to put a drain, you know, or to
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  Speaker 7: clean up a campsite.
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  Speaker 6: Or that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 7: And the complex has experienced significant workforce cuts over the
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  Speaker 7: over the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: You know, Rocky Mountain Ranger District had a back country
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  Speaker 7: crew of eleven and now they're down to three. Spotted
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  Speaker 7: Bear is similar. They had a back country crew of
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  Speaker 7: twenty something and now they're down to four or five people.
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  Speaker 7: So that's going to create significant barriers for the public
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  Speaker 7: and for us to be able to achieve the level
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  Speaker 7: of work that we hope to do.
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  Speaker 6: You know, as an example, we work with the Forest Service.
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  Speaker 7: We have our seasonal workforce that we ramp up to
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  Speaker 7: is about twenty six folks. That's crew leaders, that's interns,
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  Speaker 7: that's packer apprentices.
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  Speaker 6: Usually we hire.
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  Speaker 7: To two wilderness river rangers to go out with the
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  Speaker 7: with the river ranger out of Spotted Bear, and that
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  Speaker 7: that position no longer is there, and so we can't
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  Speaker 7: have those two.
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  Speaker 6: Interns go out on their own without it the supervisions.
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  Speaker 7: So we're we're readjusting, we're getting creative. We're trying to
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  Speaker 7: think of ways that we can still be effective and
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  Speaker 7: help out and be of service to to what's left
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  Speaker 7: out there.
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  Speaker 2: Gotcha. Do you have sort of concrete plans looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to the summer or are there still a lot of
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  Speaker 2: uncertainties at the moment.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean there's never any concrete plans right for
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  Speaker 7: Plan A, Plan B, Plan Plan D. You know, we're
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  Speaker 7: always adapting for weather and whatever, injuries.
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  Speaker 6: Illness, anything.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: This is definitely a big hitch in our in our
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: program because of i mean shortages aside, workforce cuts aside.
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: Our program budget was cut fifty percent because of.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: A lot of fun thing that we get is frozen currently.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: So the funding from you know, the Great American Outdoors
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: Act that helps fund our interns and our trail crews
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: and that kind of stuff. Some of the grants that
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: actually fund paying for the food for our volunteers, those
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: are all currently frozen.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: And heya, Rebecca, that's money that was already approved to
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: go to you guys, correct, correct.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: That's money that's approved to us.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: That's like, for instance, the the America the Beautiful Grant
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: that we get that that funds our invasives crew. So
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: we have an invasive Species coordinator that works for us,
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: and he has four interns and a crew leader that
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: go around the complex and uh spray and map invasive
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: weeds all summer long. That's funded from the America the
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: Beautiful Grant, which we're in year three of a five
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: year grant of that, and that has been has been frozen.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: So this is the time of year that we're hiring
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: all of our interns and placing all those folks, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: we kind of put a temporary pause on that because
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: we don't want to hire all these folks and then
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: be like, hey, guess what, we don't have the funding,
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: so you can't go.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: Out there and do the work.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: So we have decided to just keep moving on as
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: if we have that funding in place, and then we've
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: made a deadline that if we don't have you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: confirmation and that funding at a certain time, we'll call
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: it off and read re.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Group our summer schedule.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: I mean, there's like I said, there's seven of us
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: year round staff, and like five of us are are.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Ready to roll up our sleeves and get in the
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: back country.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: You know, it's folks that still spend quite a bit
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: of time doing work in the back country. So we
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: can still do some volunteer trips, we can still do
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: some packing, we can do some other things. It'll just
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: be quite abbreviated from what we had hopes and planned.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: So, folks, if folks are in just didn't supporting your work,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: how do they either go about volunteering and getting getting
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: out there with you guys this summer, or if they
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: maybe live remote or can't do trail work themselves house,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: can they support your mission?
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, we do a lot of fundraisers right now.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: We have We partner with the Telly Ride Mountain Film
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: Festival and do like a fundraiser and kind of circumnavigate
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: On Friday tomorrow, we have a show in Big FOURK.
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: We have a show in Showdow, Montana, in Helena and
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: Missoula and Whitefish, So anybody can go and buy tickets
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: to come see us at those events, and we have.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Raffles and fun stuff and a lot of great films
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: on that.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: We also have like business partners, So if you're a
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: business owner and you want to be part of the
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex and supporting that, you
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: can join our business become a business partner.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: A big fundraiser for us actually is our license plates.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: So we have like the Bob license plates.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: It's when you go to the DMV. It's the one
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: with like a pack string on it. Get those on
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: your car. That's super supportive of us. We have monthly donations,
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: all kinds of different donations, you know, Like I said,
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: really only twenty percent of our funding comes directly from
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: a forest service. The rest is all donations and fundraisers
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: and merchandise sales.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: And all that stuff, So good deal in that any
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: of that support, it was great.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: And as far as the volunteer side of things, if
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: you know, if I get in the weight room or
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: get in shape and I'm ready to grab a hold
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: of crosscutsaw, what's my next step there?
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, So traditionally we've launched our volunteer projects by March first.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: That's on pause for right now, so we get confirmation
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: that we have the funding to go ahead with that
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: and hire our crew leaders and you know, buy volunteer
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: food and all that stuff, and pay for the pack
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: support that joins us out there. Our trips are all
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: posted online on our website, on our social.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Media will promote that once we launch those, some of
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: our trips fill up really fast, some of them don't.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: We like to have a large variety of trips, so
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: we'll have, like I said, some like just one day
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: trips that are like lopping or pulling weeds or something,
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: and then we have like I think that our most
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: popular trip is like a five day trip. So you
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: hike in, you work for two days, you have a
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: day off, you work for two more days or one
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: more day, and then you hike out. And those you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: there's there's different variations of the fitness levels you need
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: for that, and we.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: Advertise that on our website.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: Some of them, you know, you're hiking fourteen miles into
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: the back huntry over a mountain pass, and that's more strenuous,
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: and the work you're doing is like clearing a trail
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: that's you know, had a significant blowdown and you're on.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: A cross put all day.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: Some of the trips that are even longer, are you
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: hike six miles into a backcountry site and you work
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: on campsite restoration and you know, getting rid of fire
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: rings and barry and poop and all that kind of stuff.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: That that's a little less strenuous. So we have.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Everyone what you're selling excellent.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Well, Rebecca, we I can I think I can speak
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: for everyone in the building that we love the Bob
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Marshall Wilderness as we love all of our public lands. Uh,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: and so we appreciate the work that you do and
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: hopefully we can maybe get a couple of us out
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: on a crew with you this summer the next.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that sounds great.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: We have partner trips too, so if you want to
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: just grab your friends and come join us. The whole
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: Meat Eater crew can come out and you can't tell
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: it because we're in wilderness.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: So I like that idea very much.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you can take some pictures.
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: I appreciate you guys taking the time to hear from
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: us and.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: Kind of shed some light onto the work that we're
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: doing and our and our passion for the public land
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: and the place.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: And thanks for having us.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, happy to do it, and good luck. We appreciate you.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: Thanks.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Thanks.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Now, here's a transition we didn't rework after a little
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: edit to our script.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Hold hold on here, I'll help you out. And I
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: guess that's why they called it fake news. There's an
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Elton John throwing something about like the pe tape or
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: pizza Gate, and then you know, you got yourself a
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: drop right there.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Oh that's good, Phil.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: That's how the magic happens right here in this chair.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: And you guys got to witness it live.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: That's great. That's that's a uh. That's an example of
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: someone adapting and and and you know, making it work
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: in the show. But I'm going to read a transition
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: that has not been reworked. Speaking of our new show,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Meat Eater, ros Corey, why don't you walk down the
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: hallway to the kitchen and see what's cooking. Oh great idea, Randall,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: are making me hungry with all that chatter about Meat
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Eater Roast walking down the hall.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: And I just want to I don't want to under
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: under state how how this is like a first time experience.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: People are getting to see the behind the scenes Meat
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Eater headquarters right now.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, who's that Yanni juggling.
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: Johnny? What's cooking? Well, I'm just tenderizing these avocados.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: In case they have to use these for a for
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a part of their meal today.
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: Uh what do you? May just explain what Media Roast
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: is doing here.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: It's Meat Eater's new competition cooking show where we have
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: two ordinary wild game cooks, which up to this point
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: have all been meet your employees, and not just the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: ones that you expect to be good wild game cooks.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: You've got folks like carin in here, Maggie. How well
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: maybe you would expect it.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, take that cool?
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: All right? Annie?
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: You know what I mean?
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: What do you mean you have the challenge or the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: mystery that makes their competition. Well, we have two people,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: which makes the competition. But every episode there's a protein
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: or a chunk of meat that is unknown to the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: contestants until the moment that I reveal it, and uh
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: like right here in this uh cast iron, mini Dutch
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: of and whatever they call these, just what meat is
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: for a episode we're gonna film today, So I'm gonna
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: reveal it to the contestants and then they're gonna have
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: ninety minutes to cook me and the two.
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: Judges that were here, which one of them is gonna
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: be Maggie Huddler.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: We also have the most famous butcher I know, and
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the foreman that you're judging today, and they're gonna have
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: ninety minutes to cook us up something delicious.
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: That means the.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Best part about this show, this is episode number four
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: with filming today, is that we've come to see that.
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: Wild game cooking is not that hard.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Everybody that's that's participates as far as we've ped up
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: some amazing stuff in an elimited amount of time, not
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: knowing what they had to work with when they started,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: So the energy level is high or digging producing it
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: with us, So I'm hoping that the viewers are going
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to like it too. Any questions Corey or from the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: next door I can just walk over there too, if
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you guys want to talk to me.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Johnest, I wonder if you're a little overconfident there
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: in your assessment that the show is demonstrating that wild
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: game cooking is not that hard. I will be joining
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: you there in about an hour, and I'll be taking
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: the helm at that stove, so I wouldn't really count
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: your chickens before they hatch, as the old proverb goes,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I think I might set a new standard for incompetence.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: A difficult chunk of game me for you too. You're
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: not going to have. I'm not giving you like an
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: ELF ten you're going to work with, So put your
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: thinking cap on.
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: Randall late, Oh you hear that from Max? No, you're
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: in an hour, You're late.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Oh geez, well we better wrap this sucker up then.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Anything you like to add Chili, Yeah, you know, really
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: rooting for you, Randall and the other contention as well.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: But h who should not.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: Be named Chilly, just wants to make sure you keep
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: the kitchen clean while you're working.
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Chili's going a great job remodeling this kitchen.
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: Check out some beautiful.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Artwork that's our new art gallery for those of you watching, Well,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: which way this way? Sam, there's the brains behind the
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: whole and the creative the creative engine behind it all.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Sam might just say hi to folks instead of hiding
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: behind the.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Lovely There's some real interesting stuff on that shelf behind
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Sam too.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, what are some interesting ingredients that these
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: folks have to work?
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: She's attracted to the craziest stuff that is available in
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the outdoors, and so she really wanted to use the
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: python oil. I can't remember who said this to Steve,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: but unfortunately or fortunately you look at it, it's rancid.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: So if you see this in an upcoming episode, you
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: will know that that's the person that used it.
• 30:43
  Speaker 9: Lost really wanted to use it, but it did.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Not smell good.
• 30:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, we got grizzly.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Bear fast, which we did use some grizzly bear grease
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the other day, and I wish I knew the story
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: on how they legally obtained it. Maybe they got it
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: from Alaska, I guess. But it was actually very delicious.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Oh then the Maggie anchorin the other day used bison
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: garum was It basically tasted like an extra rich soy sauce,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: like like mega umami.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm really curious how that was made. I would
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: love to learn how to make garum It was delicious.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: We also, if you've never seen this exotic pasta from
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Italy called Penny Penny.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I thought the e was silent, just pean.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's randall elbow macaroni, also from Italy.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Got any wonderbread any ketchup?
• 31:48
  Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, buddy, we have we have like a
• 31:51
  Speaker 10: crush shell.
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: We have a crush shell for those that that can't
• 31:55
  Speaker 11: get it done with, you know, from scratch. You can
• 31:59
  Speaker 11: use catch up, wonderbread, that sort of stuff, and I'll
• 32:03
  Speaker 11: be happy.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: To eat it, but it's probably gonna cost you a
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: little bit of in the creativity.
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: Uh point.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: You don't know what I'm gonna do with it yet.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, but I feel like that stuff's
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a crutch.
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: It's a little bit of an easy button.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Well, well, I'm gonna see what I get for my
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: uh mystery ingredient today and we'll just proceed from there.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: How's that sound.
• 32:26
  Speaker 9: We'll see it these folks.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, thank you, sir.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Now Randall has teased me with the prospect of a
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: meat smoothie.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I've been told there's a blender and if
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: all else fails can't nail the texture on the uh
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: on the hot pan, it's they're going in there take
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: it through a straw.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: I hope I'm not drinking my meal today.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: You very well might be.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Phil.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: What do we got for some listener feedback here?
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because this reminder now is a good time to
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: submit some questions for the crew to day Maggie, Brody
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: and Randall. Yeah, this one was just funny to me.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: When you were looking at the tv raandl someone said,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: why does Randal always look like he's trying to remember
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: his AOL password? Which that's just that's just a funny.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: That's just a funny joke.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's funny.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Ryan.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: I am really bad with passwords, so this is I
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: usually I don't know what I look like when I'm
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: trying to think of I think.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: You're just making sure you're saying what you're supposed to say.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, that's true. You know, just trying to
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: stick to the script.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: Speaking before you think and get you in trouble.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: We like to have a nice clean show here.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: On that note, and I'm trusting you guys right now.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: I'm putting a lot of faith in in in you
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: for not spoiling what's coming up next week. But Wang
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Gonzalez asks, if Randall wins the trivia tournament, are we
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: going to see some suck at Randall stickers to replace
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: the sucket Brody stickers.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: I we'll have to come up with something better and suck.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: It from the man himself.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: You heard it here that one's copyrighted to me.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: This is something that I'm curious about. Maybe it'll be
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: a short answer. But Brendan asks. He says, hey, guys,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: y'all have any issues with lower turkey numbers due to predation.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: My turkey flocks that I've hunted for years got decimated
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: by coyotes over the winter. I don't know where you are, Brendan,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: but if you're still in the chat, you want to
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: let us know.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's like very location dependent. I feel like I
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: would say out here, numbers are are more influenced by
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: the severity of winters and whether turkey flocks have access
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: to this Some people might not like hearing this, but
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: where turkey flocks out here have access to cattle pastures
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: in the winter, they're going to do a lot better.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: They like getting down in that cattle pasture and pecking
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: through the cow poop and where they can do that,
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: they do pretty good. But we had a old winter
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: well along stratch of cold, so it's yet to be
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: seen what's going on with turkey numbers in Montana. I
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: can't speak to anywhere.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Brent Brendan says he's in New Jersey by the way.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: M Yeah, I mean predation is certainly a problem, like
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: a net nest predation. I think you probably uh, raccoons
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: are doing as much damage as coyotes.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: This this might be a question to uh Caitlin for
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: share with our next guest.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, she knows a lot about Turkey's coyotes.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: She's smiling in the waiting room. I hope that's a
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: good sign. Good good in the woods, asks Maggie. What's
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: the crat craziest article you've written for me here? And
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: I'll extend to like maybe maybe your favorite or something
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: you're you're the most proud of that people should check
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: out to.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: I wrote one about seafood fraud a few years ago.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: I think it was titled something like hog bunk of
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: the sea because people will actually use hog bunk and
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: slice it up as calamari and sell it as calamari.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: And there's like other instances of you know, like Chile
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: and sea bass. It's I forget what it was actually called.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: It's like, uh something toothfish, and it's just like this
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: renaming rebranding. Selling seafood is something that it maybe isn't
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: just to market it to the consumer, which is really
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: interesting because people still consume it and buy it.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: And that name really took hold after it was served
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: for launch at Jurassic Park headquarters, just fictional island where
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Jurassic Park was. Philly got anything else from the check?
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Does Randall like skyline Chili?
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I love it so much. I love so much, Austin,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Do you have any send it to me? I just
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: made some. I just made some fake skyline a couple
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: of weeks ago.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Maybe you'll be making some in half an hour I could, Yeah, yeah,
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: in a blender.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: We'll see.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Do you put beans in skyline Chili?
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: No, you can add you can add beans.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: Beans and noodles. Seems weird.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So so, typically it's served in a number of ways.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: You have a three way, which is chili. It's it's spaghetti,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: chili and cheese. And then you can have a four
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: way where you either add chopped onions or beans chopped
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: five way where you add both, or you serve them
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: on a coney hot dog, little mini.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Hot dog, hot dog with noodles.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, you could, but that's typically not the traditional way.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Bee Dawson. I could go on for hours about Skyline Chili.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I love it. Also a gold Star man, but Skyline
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: really is probably my number one.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: A question from mogor Uh. He says he finished the
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: new audiobook this week, the one that you made with Steve.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: He really enjoyed it. Congratulations. His question is how much
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: research was needed for the project. And I guess, like
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: you could say that in terms of months, or books
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: or hours.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I'll just say that that's my full time job. Trivia
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: and podcasts and radio live are just sort of the
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: icing on top, but none of that is in my
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: job description. It's a full time job. I don't really
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: know where to start with number of books, but yeah,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: we probably worked on that for oh, I guess maybe
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: seven months for the first draft, and then rewrote a
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: bit and then recorded it probably nine months out from
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: when we started, So it's like a year long life
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: cycle basically between getting it started and then the launch
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: and promotion and everything.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: You're already researching the next one, aren't.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: You, in the spare time that I have. Yes, we've
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: got another one coming out on the Buffalo Hide Hunters,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: which is kind of a subject near and dear to
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Steve's heart. So that's that's been a fun one to
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: get started.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: There was a question regarding your crossword puzzle scores, Rano
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: that we haven't gotten an update in a while, but
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: then Spencer, our very own Spencer new Heart, responded that
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Randall scores are posted at the top of every crossword puzzle.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: If you go look at any of them, you'll see
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: his score in the first sentence. Do you know what
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: that means?
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Probably in the little lead in instructions thing. Yeah, So
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: when Spencer puts together a crossword every week, he and
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Logan who plugs it into the website, give me that
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: link in advance. You take it first, and I take
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: it first, so then everybody can. And this week, let
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: me just point out here that this week I scored
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: a three ninety five with a record time of a
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: minute and thirty four seconds. Pretty proud of that one,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Thanks Spencer.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: That's great.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Crosswords are an part of my job that aren't in
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: my job description.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Curious that is because you have a superhuman ability to
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: get them done in that amount of time.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: I just don't have much else.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Let's do one more on the heels. Let's do one
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: more on the heels of the Meat Eater behind the
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: scenes HQ. Yeah, this is kind of a big question
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: for everyone, but Michael asks, what's your favorite part of
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: working at Meat Eater? That could be anything from crossword
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: puzzles to researching mountain men for months.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Who wants to start?
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: My favorite part is turning in a finished manuscript. The
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: rest of it is isn't necessarily that fun, but man,
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: when you're like, holy shit, we're done, like that's a
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: good feeling.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: That's got to be satisfying.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Yep, Maggie, I would.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: Say, just like the content that we get to work
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: with day in and day out is really great and fun,
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: and we like everyone that we work with is a
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: fantastic person Like, it's just a really great community here.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: I didn't think about that.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, interrupted, I just couldn't help myself.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: No, every and every time I come into the office,
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: I'm reminded of like all the good folks that work here.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: So that's it's nice, you don't You don't always get that,
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: so I try not to take it for granted.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would probably echo some variation of that. I
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: enjoy coming into the office and just having fun all
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: day long.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: Like today, all you're doing is having fun all day long.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just make a couple of stupid jokes and act
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: like a buffoon. You know, A lot of jobs require
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: you to maintain some level of professionalism, and I like
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: that I can just be a weirdo.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: I'll second that.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let it, let it shine, just let it fly.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: Cool. Well, let's keep sending those questions in. We'll do
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: one more round of those at the end of the seas.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Those are some good ones. Thank you. Joining us on
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: the line is Wild Turkey researcher and fur trapper Caitlin
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: lo Spinoso, or as some of you may know her
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: better on social media as old Trapper Kate. Caitlin. Welcome
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: to the show.
• 42:20
  Speaker 10: Hi, how are you.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: We're doing great? How are you?
• 42:24
  Speaker 10: I'm good mentally? Oh no, but you know we'll get there.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Good, good, Well, Caitlin tell us a little bit. Uh,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: you are a wildlife researcher and a fur trapper, and
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: anybody who's following along on social media knows that you've
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: been rather busy lately with your trapping season. Can you
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: just give us a quick overview of of your trapping season,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: kind of what when that starts, when that ends, and
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: how hard you go?
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: Yes, So it's been a crazy season. Land trapping wrapped
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: up here. The season closed on Friday, so I've been
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: taken this week for some R and R, just kind
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: of relaxing before I start setting for Biaber.
• 43:10
  Speaker 10: We have another month of water trapping coming up here.
• 43:13
  Speaker 8: So I had a great land trapping season, targeting bobcats
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: and coyotes. I'm trapping all on public land, so I
• 43:21
  Speaker 8: can't run a huge line. I probably average about twelve
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: sets at any given time and just run those as
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: I can while I'm working. And I did fantastic on bobcats.
• 43:33
  Speaker 8: There was a record year. I doubled my goal. I
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: was hoping I would get four. I got a nice,
• 43:41
  Speaker 8: amazingly spotted, just beautiful cats. Yeah, that was actually my
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: my last hurrah. Last week on them, I I doubled
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: up and that spotted one was just a beautiful tom.
• 43:54
  Speaker 10: But yeah, I got nine.
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: Coyotes as well, and it was it was a grind
• 43:59
  Speaker 8: this season.
• 43:59
  Speaker 10: I really really enjoyed it, had a great time.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Very cool. How did you get into trapping, if you
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: don't mind us asking.
• 44:07
  Speaker 10: Yeah, very non traditionally.
• 44:10
  Speaker 8: I didn't have any history of trapping in my family.
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: I didn't know any trappers. I just it was totally
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: not on my radar. But I love the grind. I
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: taught myself how to hunt in public land. I taught
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: myself how to bass fish like a pro. I just
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: always loved having some kind of really complex problem to
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: solve in the outdoors. And I found myself in that
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: kind of dead space between deer season and Turkey season,
• 44:37
  Speaker 8: just really trying to find something I could go hard
• 44:40
  Speaker 8: on and really get into. And I had the hardest
• 44:43
  Speaker 8: time figuring out what that could be until I went
• 44:45
  Speaker 8: into undergrad and I had a wildlife management course where
• 44:49
  Speaker 8: trapping was discussed as a method for both research and harvest,
• 44:53
  Speaker 8: and it kind of got my wheels turning. And I
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: actually remembered the Wyoming beaver trapping episode that that was
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: in I think season six of Meat Eater where Steve
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: snared one and it just clicked like instantly.
• 45:06
  Speaker 10: I was like, that's the next step, that's it.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: I can do that.
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: And I had tons of beaver in the creek bottom
• 45:13
  Speaker 8: that I was hunting on public, so I went in there.
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: It took me two days, got my first beaver, and
• 45:19
  Speaker 8: it just snowballed from there.
• 45:20
  Speaker 10: I was. I was hooked, and now now I'm I'm doing.
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: Everything that I possibly can coyote, bobcat, raccoon, possum, skunk, beaver,
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: hopefully otter I'll get back into.
• 45:35
  Speaker 10: There's not many here where I'm at here in Kansas now.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: But these pillows here that are on the screen, those
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: you set those in for the auction house of otities,
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: if I recall.
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: So, not those ones in the picture there's there's a
• 45:50
  Speaker 8: photo of me holding to those are the ones that
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: I sent in. But yeah, I started so when I
• 45:55
  Speaker 8: started trapping and I started out with beaver, I was
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: getting all these you know, beautiful pelts and looking at
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: the fur market obviously dried fur. It's been talked about
• 46:05
  Speaker 8: a lot like the fur market was just in the tank.
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: Beaver's come up a little bit with the with the.
• 46:11
  Speaker 10: Western hat craze.
• 46:13
  Speaker 8: But at the time, I was trying to figure out,
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: how can I use this fur in in kind of
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: a unique way that I'm going to be able to
• 46:21
  Speaker 8: turn more of a profit than I would if I
• 46:24
  Speaker 8: just sold the dried pelts to a fur buyer. And
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: I started thinking about, like, how can I make it
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: a novelty? And the first thing I thought it was like, man,
• 46:33
  Speaker 8: these are these would make like a.
• 46:34
  Speaker 10: Really awesome throw pillow.
• 46:36
  Speaker 8: So I just took, you know, I took the beaver
• 46:38
  Speaker 8: that I got that first season, I tandemed myself and
• 46:42
  Speaker 8: and I just got to making them into into pillows
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: and selling them on just through Facebook, and they were
• 46:48
  Speaker 8: selling really well. So then I thought, you know what
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: about Etsy if I really got a store going and
• 46:54
  Speaker 8: sold you know, Wallhannger pelts and you know, different fur
• 46:58
  Speaker 8: items that I could make myself. And yeah, just kind
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: of went from there. And those the ones that I
• 47:03
  Speaker 8: donated when I made them. I really loved that pair
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: was this beautiful, dark kind of chocolate beaver pelts and
• 47:12
  Speaker 8: they matched perfectly, and and I was just sitting there
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: like fixing them up, and I was going to the
• 47:17
  Speaker 8: Meat Eater Live show that night actually when I finished them,
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: and I was.
• 47:20
  Speaker 10: Like, I wonder, I wonder if they would take.
• 47:23
  Speaker 8: This for the auction house because I was like, that
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: would be a really cool thing to see. You know
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: how much these could get for the for the cause?
• 47:31
  Speaker 8: And yeah, message Spencer and he was like, yeah, we'll
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: take them. Heck yeah, And I was. I was super
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: worried that they weren't gonna do much in the in
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: the auction but they they actually did really well, so
• 47:42
  Speaker 8: that was awesome.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: Do you remember what they sold for you got that?
• 47:46
  Speaker 8: I think it was eight hundred and five if I remember,
• 47:49
  Speaker 8: Oh nice, yeah, And I mean they were a beautiful set,
• 47:53
  Speaker 8: and I like, I I was going to keep them
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: for myself. I was like, oh, like if this can
• 47:56
  Speaker 8: go to to raising some money for the cause, and
• 47:59
  Speaker 8: obviously that's just like a super cool thing.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: To do, so very cool. We appreciate it very much.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: What do you typically sell a beaver throw pillow for?
• 48:10
  Speaker 8: So I had been selling them, uh for depending on
• 48:13
  Speaker 8: the size, probably eighty two one hundred eighty depending because
• 48:18
  Speaker 8: I would make some like really little tiny ones that
• 48:20
  Speaker 8: are like like just a cute little thing to have,
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: and then I had some that were like eighteen twenty
• 48:27
  Speaker 8: inches that would be and depending on the backing that
• 48:31
  Speaker 8: I put on them, Like if I just did a
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: basic kind of corduroy backing, obviously that's much cheaper. Some
• 48:36
  Speaker 8: of them I did swayed, which is which is a lot. Yeah,
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: Spencer does confirmed eight hundred five.
• 48:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah I did.
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: I did swayed on those, so it was really those
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: were a really nice set. But yeah, I've done I've
• 48:51
  Speaker 8: done double sided for which is going to be the
• 48:53
  Speaker 8: most expensive. But yeah, the backing material adds adds a
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: that's a big variation.
• 48:59
  Speaker 10: The value and then the side.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: Sure did you already know how to sew or did
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: you learn that as well?
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: As same question if that's another thing you just figured
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: out for something to do.
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: I learned to make the pillows, you know. I was like,
• 49:13
  Speaker 8: the idea for a pillow came into my head.
• 49:15
  Speaker 10: And I was like, I don't know how.
• 49:17
  Speaker 8: To stitch like a pillow cover, and so I, yeah,
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: I learned that on the fly, and uh, it's it's
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: so much fun. It's just you know, another another thing
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: to keep me engaged with it and do something more
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: with that with that fur. It really it it makes
• 49:34
  Speaker 8: me very happy to you know, make as much back
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: on that harvest, like make that harvest as meaningful as
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: possible and get as much use as it out of
• 49:44
  Speaker 8: it as I can.
• 49:45
  Speaker 10: So yeah, I really enjoy that part.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Very cool.
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: It's impressive.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: So how are the critters in your neck the woods
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: doing this year? What are your takeaways from the season
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: as far as hair and hides and the health of
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: the health of the populations.
• 50:02
  Speaker 10: Yeah, so they've been They were really really healthy. Started
• 50:06
  Speaker 10: the year.
• 50:07
  Speaker 8: The coyotes were as about as fatty as I've seen
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: them and super primed up.
• 50:12
  Speaker 10: They stayed prime all the way through the end of
• 50:15
  Speaker 10: the season.
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: On Friday, I think, you know, obviously it was just
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: talked about we had a really hard winner. The last
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: couple winners have been kind of mild to where getting
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: into February they would already have some rubs and and
• 50:29
  Speaker 8: just losing.
• 50:30
  Speaker 10: Those guard hairs.
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: But this season they were they were primed like I
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: have not seen since I've been here. This is my
• 50:37
  Speaker 8: third season trapping here, so they're they were just fantastic.
• 50:42
  Speaker 10: I was. I was over the moon with it, especially like.
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: Friday, I picked up my last coyote of the season
• 50:49
  Speaker 8: and she I was expecting her to have rubs and stuff,
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: but she was still super prime. So this this is
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: not a I mean, Kansas, it's not you know, a
• 50:58
  Speaker 8: top tier first date usually. But the animals that I
• 51:02
  Speaker 8: pulled this year were very very well, doing very well,
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: very cool. Yeah, they had some I saw some crazy injuries,
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: which I sent in a picture of one that that
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: coyote that I pulled on Friday, she was super big, healthy.
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: You wouldn't have thought that anything was wrong with her.
• 51:19
  Speaker 8: And when I got to skinning her got down to
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: her face and I hit metal and I was like,
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: oh gosh, right around her eye, I hit metal, So
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: I like pull the skin back and there's a broadhead
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: sticking out of her eye socket. Wow.
• 51:32
  Speaker 10: She was just gnarly.
• 51:34
  Speaker 8: It was just when I got in there and started
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: digging around, it was just sitting under her eyeball Like.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you could not tell that anything was wrong. She
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: had like a little lump under her eye that was
• 51:49
  Speaker 8: healed over, scabbed over, And when I got to skinning,
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: I hit metal and I could not figure out what
• 51:54
  Speaker 8: it was and had to clean it up before I
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: could see that it was a broadhead. But yeah, you
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: wouldn't have known her. Her one eye was like up
• 52:01
  Speaker 8: a little higher than the other because it was resting
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: on the broad head. But the eye wasn't punctured like
• 52:07
  Speaker 8: she was. She was doing great. So yeah, pretty crazy stuff.
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: They're they're tough and they they made it through very
• 52:15
  Speaker 8: well this year despite the harch weather.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: So oh yeah, that's incredible.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you for joining us. I know you've got
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: to rest up before you kick off your your spring
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: beaver trapping, so appreciate the update and we will check
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: in with you again here soon.
• 52:33
  Speaker 10: Yeah, sounds good. Thank you, Thank you for having me.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Our next segment is Meat Eater Movie Club. Thank you.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: Phil Jean Jacques Anoud's nineteen eighty eight feature The Bear
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: offers a mesmerizing glimpse into the wilderness through the eyes
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: of its ersine protagonists. This largely dialogue free film follows
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: an orphaned cub who forms an unlikely dare I say,
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: unnatural bond with an adult male grizzly while fleeing human
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: hunters in the Canadian wilderness. The arc of the film,
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: though simple, carries surprising emotional weight. We witness terror, playfulness, curiosity,
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: and tenderness through the bear's experiences. In my own reading
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: of the film, the human hunters or portrayed not as
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: unredeemable killers, but as yet another species on the landscape,
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: prisoners of their own nature, which adds a layer of
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: moral complexity to the tale. But all else, the Bear
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: is a noteworthy technical achievement in the underappreciated genre of
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: animal movies, anod somehow elicits authentic performances from real bears,
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: only rivaled in my mind by the profound work of
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Sam the orangutan in as the title character in the
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six comedy Dunstan checks In. The Bear manages
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: to create moments of genuine emotion without excessively anthropomorphizing its subjects,
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: although I think we might have some discussion on that later.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: I did add the qualifier excessively. The film stunning cinematography
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: captures both the brutal reality and sublime grandeur of nature
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: as it is red in Tooth and Claw. Most remarkable
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: is the film's successful execution of what can only be
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: described as the peculiar artistic vision of its French director.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Ant had long been fascinated by nonverbal communication and specifically
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: sought to make an animal the lead character in a
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: psychological drama, a revolutionary concept that challenged conventional Hollywood wisdom.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: He boldly inverts the traditional literary conflict type of man
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: versus beast, placing humans as the antagonists rather than the protagonist.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Whereas films like The Gray Parentheses Media to Radio Live
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Episode two position large conivores as an existential threat to
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: human survival, and those like The Edge Fanentheses Media to
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Radio Live Episode fifteen employ them to heighten familiar conflicts
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: rooted in the human experience, The Bear elevates animal consciousness
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: to the narrative center. This radical perspective shift forces viewers
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: to confront uncomfortable questions about our fundamental relationship with wildlife
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: and our place within nature's hierarchy. The Bear is a
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: unique cinematic experience, particularly after a few glasses of wine.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: It's a testament to the power of filmmaking that transcends
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: language barriers to speak directly to our primal understanding of survival, family,
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: and the wilderness. Phil I appreciate your screen grab there. Now,
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: what do the critics say? Roger Ebert gave this film
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: three out of four stars and had this to say
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: about the dialogue of the hunters quote. Their words are
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: not meant to be language, but simply the sounds made
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: by the animal named man. And I have a couple
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: of quick facts for you here. It's based on a
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: nineteen sixteen called The Grizzly King. Brody characterized it as
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: a book written by a repentant French.
• 56:06
  Speaker 5: Guilman guil Frenchman.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: It was filmed over nineteen weeks in the Dolomites in
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: Italy with three actors, twenty three bears, and lots of
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: other critters. They had to teach this bear how to
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: fish because he had been living in captivity in Utah
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: and didn't have experience with fishing, so they hired a
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: guy to come on set every day and release a
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: fish into the pond. But the bear was initially afraid
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: of the fish. And then this is my final note here.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: This one might go on a little bit. One day
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: during production, Bart the bear injured a nod while the
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: two posed for photographers. A Nod's wounds, which included claw
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: marks on his back, had to be drained with a
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: shunt for two months. Then I happened to find this
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: quote from an interview. I believe it's translated from the
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: original French. So I'll do my best. I was a
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: very good friend of Zibert. One days, the photographer had
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: to make the use you a picture of the director
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: and z star this film. I had to show that
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: my star was huge, so I stood on a little mound.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Of course, all that protected me was a flimsy fence.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: So I went into his part his domain. I was standing,
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: but he was so high I could not see his head.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: To make it even more apparent, I decided to squat.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: I always carry my viewfinder, you know, I took it
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: like this. He had never seen my viewfinder. I immediately
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: understood that I did something wrong. Ooh la la. He
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: didn't add that I did. He leaned down with his
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: mouth open. That means you're not my friend. I knew
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: what to do. I decided to go limp bin.
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: A great German accent.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: I really tried not to make this German brand.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: It's really good. You're you're kind of towing the line.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: I'd say it's more French than German, though I'm giving
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: you credit.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: He stroked me on the shoulder and I went six
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: seven meters down. I heard his mouth go ek ek
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: ek eck. His trainer says okay, good boy, good boy.
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: Clearly he too wanted to kill the director. The stench
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: was incredible. I felt he missed an opportunity and crab.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: I felt that this was my mistake. Very Fortunately, I
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: had read the book called Bear Attacks, and they explains
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: that the only survivors.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: Of a bear attack now it's very German, were.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: Those who were playing dead. Apparently that was the only
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: time I was a good actor that's German, when I
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: was playing dead, so I trusted that I was dead.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: The last two months of shooting. I had to go
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: to the hospital every morning and evening after the shoot,
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: as I was seriously wounded. Otherwise I should be in
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: a wheelchair today. The very touching thing is that for
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: the z rest of the shoot, Bear never met my
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: eyes again. Each time I was moving on Z set,
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: he looked away like a dog feeling guilty.
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: Well done, Randall.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: So I just thought that was too good not to share.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: And we couldn't play the video because it's in French, so.
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: Well you could have translated in that voice.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: What do you guys think of the movie?
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: Here? Big Picture to have a hard time calling it
• 59:10
  Speaker 5: a movie. I think it's propaganda at best.
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: Answer, finest sleep.
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: It's like it's like nature good Man, bad, Hunting worse
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: and uh. Like we were talking about Roger Ebert's Uh.
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: Roger Ebert's review, that man, who was a very respected
• 59:34
  Speaker 5: movie critic when he was still alive, said like part
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: of his review is like it gives you a glimpse
• 59:42
  Speaker 5: into how bears live, which tells you, like how much
• 59:45
  Speaker 5: that guy knows about like how bears live. Like, I
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: would add more respect for this movie if it was
• 59:53
  Speaker 5: a Disney channel or a Disney movie where the bears
• 59:56
  Speaker 5: talked and they had the funny raccoon sidekick that followed
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: him around, Like it would have been better if it
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: was done that.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: Way, right, I would have more respect for this movie
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: if they didn't use a monkey and a child the
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: noises that the cub makes, because if you haven't watched
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: the bear the entire time, the cub is just.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: Like making these So that.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: I looked it up, it was either a monkey or
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: a child making those noises.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: In my notes here, right between the note that says, oh,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: this is too sad and the note that says steep
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: ass country, I have a note that says this bear
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: is giving off strong monkey vibes.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: So monkey or child, so they.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: Couldn't just set the noises were bad.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: The noises were bad. I think it like the cinematography
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: in the movie is beautiful.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: And it's it's really striking.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like this movie looks looks incredible, like the Dolomites.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: It's it's really cool. And I think if they just
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: had like music, like a good score, I think it
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: would be a lot more powerful than these horrid whimpering.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: It's something else. The bear either that. The fully work
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: overall is kind of rough. There's the very beginning when
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: the mom is cleaning off her cub with her tongue
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: and it sounds like a human being slurping jelly.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, Phil, For for those of us who aren't
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: in showbiz, folly is a.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, fully. A fully artist is someone who records
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: sounds after the movie is shot, basically fake sounds. Not
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: I mean the sounds aren't fake, but.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: Something you have a lot of experience with.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 9: I do.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I not just at meat Eater, but for for
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: TV shows I worked. I worked on Mountain Men on
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: the History Channel and all those footsteps you hear through
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: the snow are my footsteps walking through snow. That's fully
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: something after the fact, and then plug it in in
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: the I.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: Think the moments like that are my favorite part of it.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: I think this movie should have ended with the folly
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: of that male grizzly crunching that cub skull. That's like,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: that's how it would have ended in real life.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: Yet not the cub licking the bullet wound.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that was.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: My least favorite part of it. Was just the dynamic
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: between the cub and the bore. But otherwise there were
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of times where if I wasn't paying attention
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: to what was coming out of the speakers, I was
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: just like, man, I'm looking at some bears doing bear
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: stuff in beautiful country.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: But the bear acting was really impressive, and apparently Bart
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: the bear almost got an oscar for not killing the
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: cub like that specifically.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I there's also a there's a whole
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: book about how they made this, and there's also a
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: fifty minute documentary on YouTube of behind the scenes footage
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: and it's ship I skimmed through it, and you get
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: to see the trainers trying to stimulate the bears into
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: making different faces and then sort of leading them around,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: through their through their steps on the scene, you get
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: to see the lion.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 5: I think Bart the bear was better in Legends of
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 5: the Fall when he rips up. Brad Pitt agreed.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Totally, totally. But I think one of the things that
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: bothered me the most. I mean, my notes are just chaos.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 10: Same.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 5: Were you just watching a movie with a coldie in
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: your hand writing stuff down? Yeah?
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh, it was not a movie that I
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: felt I had to pay particularly close attention to. But
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: when he's cleaning the gun and there's not it's like
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: this beautiful gun and he's got the action open and
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: there's not like a drop of grease.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 9: On it anywhere.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: There's no grime or grid anywhere. That was the thing
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: that just jumped out to me the most.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 5: You appreciated that, or you felt it was it.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Was unrealistic for that guy, the way that guy looked.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: I don't think his gun was as clean as it was.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: I don't think you would have had that pretty of
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: a gun either. I think this was like French director
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 4: wanting to have this like, yeah, he's a bear hunter,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: he has a bear gun. As this pile of dead
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: bears that the cub lays on, you know, like, but
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: I did think it was a really cool gun. Yeah,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: And I looked it up and apparently it's Tom. Is
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: this man's name Tom? I'm assuming you didn't pick that
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: up in.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: The no French reading the Wikipedia.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: Same, So this is Tom and that's a Winchester eighteen
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: sixty six Yellow Boy rifle, which is a very cool
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: name for a very cool gun. I believe it was
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: forty four rim fire.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 5: Not one you'd want to be shooting a grizzly with.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: Well, clearly when you know the one. The other note
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: I have.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: When he cuts the tips of the bullets.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: When he shoots, No, when he shoots the bear and
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: he goes, the guy goes, oh, you spooked him, And
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: I was just saying that you usually don't. If someone
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: shoots something in the front half and there's a big,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: gaping wound, you usually don't call it spooked. Right You
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: hit it, Yeah, you hit it, and probably greenviously wounded it.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: But spooked was the the word choice of the the
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: screenwriter there.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: So, and then the bear goes on to kill a mule, yeah,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: like seriously, and you're a horse and then leave.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: I wrote here.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: Also like how the guy said my gun jam after.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know how that affected it.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: I wrote, uh, I wrote horse wounds are wild because
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: they did have a lot of animal blood in this film.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: On the dog guts.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what about the sex scene?
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, there was there speaking of animal noises.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: There did not need to be that level of grunting.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: It was unnecessary.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 5: It's like a regular old movie with a sex scene.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the kid just watching with a.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 5: Kid watching, Yeah, that that.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: You can't do that if humans are your protagonists.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 5: No, you can't. You can't.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: So would you recommend this film?
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 5: It's so hard for me. Like when Mike boys were younger,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 5: they would have watched it and probably enjoyed it, but
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't have been able to watch it with them
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 5: because I'd just been like, that's not right, that's not yeah,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 5: that's not right. That would never So, I mean, it's
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 5: a it like has its moments, I guess, but no.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 4: Look when I was like ten years old, when I
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: was a child, I watched Old Yeller on repeat. That
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 4: was like my go to movie.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 5: That's some real shit there.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: That is some real shit. But I also enjoyed, Like
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: do you guys ever see Wild America.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Marky Stove, Yeah was that his name?
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: I think, Yeah, with really really awful animatronic bears. But
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: like I loved that as a kid.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: Isn't that the guy had got in trouble for like
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: for Raisin Bears.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for like staging Wildlife.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if this movie is ninety seven minutes long, there's
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: probably fifty minutes of it that I could clip out
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: and just play on repeat with a different sound. And
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: I just glance over at the monitor every now and
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: then when I'm watching an NBA game and they go
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: to a TV timeout and I could just watch the
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: bears kind of moving across the landscape.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: I would have been this would have been my jam.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Randall, you said that you watched a little behind
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: the scenes documentary and saw some kind of wild stuff. Yes,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: like what, I'm sorry, Well, I just suggest you, like
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: like there's some scenes where they use puppets or how
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: they were kind of like they had the bears chained up,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: so they did use.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: Like puppet or animatronic bears for some of the fighting scenes,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: but otherwise it's just real bears.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: And yeah, they were in the dream scenes.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: In the dream scenes, Yeah, when he eats, the Mario mushrooms,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: the Super Mario mushrooms and just goes wild. That reminded
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: me of the time that I went to Chuck E Chee.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: When I went to Chuck E Cheese and I was
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: much too old to go to Chuck E Cheese and
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: the animatronic animals kind of pop out of the wall
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: and there's purple lights flashing around.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 5: Age uncomfortable, horrible.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: Flashbacks to that, But yeah, they they I mean to
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: move the animals around. They had chains on them, and
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: they would kind of like walk them on the rocks,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: like across the river, and like you could see them
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: sort of setting the bear on that piece of wood
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: that he floats down on. It was pretty weird stuff,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: pretty weird stuff, but also interesting. I think that brings
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: us the end of Meat Eater Movie Club. Another flawlessly
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: executed segment until I dropped Phil's little prompt there at
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: the end. But I think it turned out all right. Phil,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: what's the chat saying?
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: Well, there was a funny little conversation that happened. Canadian
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: Hunter asked us, now that you no longer have an internate,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: are you looking for a new Internnate? I'm assuming Canadian
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: hunter's name is Nate. And then our very own internate
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: Pipe piped in and said, intern isn't a title, it's
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: a way of life. Wants an internate, always an internate,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: and then Spencer said, get back to work, Nate. I
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: just thought that was funny. Jack's fishing asks that his
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: kids or her kids love Meat Eater trivia? Is there
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: any more coming up soon? There will be more Meat
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: Eater Kids episodes this summer. We are currently in pre
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: production on those sighting, so stay tuned. And honestly, that
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: was pretty much the only question we got between the.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 5: Last No reactions to the movie.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: A lot of a lot of reactions. I don't know.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know if a lot of people watched watch
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: the movie, so they didn't have a lot to say,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: but they had a lot of a lot of comments,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: mostly suggesting new movies like Leland suggested the legacy of
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: a White til Yeah, there's been a lot of hundreds
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: of beavers suggestions and that's a that's a newer movie,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: so that might be kind of fun to do.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is one that's on the list. Corey has
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: been helping us curate our selections.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: So jess A cow Guys said that Brody was the
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: only one old enough to see it by himself. It
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: isn't true. This movie came out in nineteen eighty eight.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: I Randall was alive. I believe, I.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: Bet I was two years old.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's just like ben like it's people are
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: still wi like it's been around.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: It's on Amazon, yeah right.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very accessible for those of you with an
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Internet connection.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 5: Like people think they can hit me with those age
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 5: jokes and I'm telling you it doesn't. Just like it
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: just doesn't matter. Give up, Brody.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: Also, Spencer pulled a guy and another good one and
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: wished you a very happy birthday today, Brody, Happy birthday, Brody?
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: Spencer wished you a happy birthday in the chat? You
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: have a lot of happy birthday messages from people, so
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: I just thought i'd extend that to hear.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: I didn't fall for it this time, Spencer.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 5: I'm not following Spencer.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: Spencer everything about once every once a month, Spencer wishes
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: happy birthday to someone in the chat, and it's when
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  Speaker 3: it's not their birthday, and he gets a kick out
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm glad he.
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  Speaker 3: Brody doesn't I'm glad.
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  Speaker 2: Well gang. Before we go, Brody's got a special call
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  Speaker 2: to action for you folks out there.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Surrey, for the twenty twenty six calendar, we are
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  Speaker 5: doing another e fed Up Old calendar this year. It
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  Speaker 5: is going to be efed up old trucks, which you
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  Speaker 5: should interpret as e fed up old hunting rigs. So
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  Speaker 5: we'll be taking submissions kids, if you're listening, close your ears.
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  Speaker 5: The email to submit photos of your fucked up old
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  Speaker 5: hunting truck is fucked Up Old Trucks at the meat
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  Speaker 5: eater dot com. We are this year the calendar, we're
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  Speaker 5: going to donate a portion of the sales to back
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  Speaker 5: huntry hunters and anglers so they can keep on fighting
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  Speaker 5: these attacks on public lands. So that that's like, that
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  Speaker 5: reason alone is why you should buy the calendar. But
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  Speaker 5: they'll be they'll end up being some really cool photos
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  Speaker 5: of old trucks and and we'll sort through them. We'll
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  Speaker 5: get a bunch of them, hopefully. Then we're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: run a little contest for the fans where they can
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  Speaker 5: hop on the website and choose, will narrow down the
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  Speaker 5: selection to whatever fifty or one hundred that we like,
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  Speaker 5: and then then our fans can hop on the web
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  Speaker 5: page and vote, and those the ones that that get
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  Speaker 5: the most votes will end up in the calendar.
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  Speaker 3: And this is an example of a fucked up old truck,
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  Speaker 3: and you can tell that it's actually in pretty good shape,
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  Speaker 3: but it's got a lot of character.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it's yea an example to chop down suburban I
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  Speaker 5: believe if you would like an insane conversation about the
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: parameters of this prompt, please listen to Monday's Oh Yeah. Next,
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  Speaker 5: we're telling Steve and I how to make the calendar
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  Speaker 5: that Steve and I are making that great.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't telling you make the calendar. Well, gang, it's
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  Speaker 2: been fun and we're running a little over time, So
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  Speaker 2: with that, I think we will bid you ado. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for tuning in, and we'll see you here next week
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  Speaker 2: live for media to HQ. Signing off,