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September 25, 2025 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: we're going to jump out to the player's fund center
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Speaker 1: phone line and visit with Matt Johnson. Have capped my communications, Matt?
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Speaker 7: How are you great?
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Speaker 1: This is? This is your time of year right?
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Speaker 5: It is?
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Speaker 1: Indeed so whose idea eleven years ago was Fat Bear Week? Matt?
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Speaker 7: It was started by a park ranger in my position
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Speaker 7: eleven years ago. His name was Mike Fitz and uh,
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Speaker 7: he's noticed that people were watching bears and really enjoying
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Speaker 7: their their activities and playfulness, and you wanted to broadcast
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Speaker 7: that out to the greater world and through technology through
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Speaker 7: placing webcams and Catmi National Park. You brought that about.
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Speaker 1: How surprised are the people involved with all of this
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Speaker 1: This thing has become what it is worldwide.
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Speaker 7: It's amazing that it has really grown so quickly and
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Speaker 7: that people really love watching these bears. Over a million
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Speaker 7: people vote in this and it looks like we're going
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Speaker 7: to shatter the total the totals from last year. It's
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Speaker 7: just amazing, over a million votes from one hundred different countries.
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Speaker 7: People are tuning in. Eleven million people around the world
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Speaker 7: watch these bears and webcams annually, not just not just
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Speaker 7: during the contest, but but while the cameras are operational
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Speaker 7: during the summer.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, now when does that start every year? And
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Speaker 1: then I'm guessing after this is over, it will be
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Speaker 1: ending fairly soon because the bears will be going to hibernation,
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Speaker 1: will they not? That's right.
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Speaker 7: The factory Week itself started on the twenty third, yep,
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Speaker 7: and goes goes until the thirtieth. But the cameras are on.
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Speaker 7: We tune them on in June usually. Okay, so you
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Speaker 7: can watch the bears. You can watch it right now
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Speaker 7: and into the fall and winter, and yes, the bears
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Speaker 7: are fattening up for hibernation. They start going into hibernation
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Speaker 7: and later in October and in November.
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Speaker 1: What what is it in your mind about bears that
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Speaker 1: fascinates so many people?
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Speaker 7: Just the characters?
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Speaker 8: You know?
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Speaker 7: For me, that's why I'm in this career. Love watching wildlife.
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Speaker 7: You're constantly surprised. John Murror said that in national parks
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Speaker 7: there's an exuberance and color and strange motion and energy
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Speaker 7: that's admirably calculated, surprize, frightened, charm and shake up people
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Speaker 7: even the least sensitive out of apathy and into newness
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Speaker 7: of life. However, olderly their excursions are aimless again and again,
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Speaker 7: and the stillest and calmnest scenery they will be brought
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Speaker 7: to a standstill, hushed and awestricken before phenomena wholly new
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Speaker 7: to them. And that's so true for me in my career,
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Speaker 7: my life in the Park Service, that ten different national
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Speaker 7: parks across the country. I just love watching animals, and
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Speaker 7: I think people really are surprised by the antics of
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Speaker 7: the bears, and you gotta every day doing something different there.
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Speaker 7: They have different styles. There some bare of snorkel for fish,
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Speaker 7: and there's a dash and grab and there's it's just
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Speaker 7: so exciting to see them interact.
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Speaker 1: I read where this is an exceptional year for salmon.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it really is amazing and it's the ah you
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Speaker 7: people said that they had a term for it. I
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Speaker 7: forget the actual word, but it means the river is
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Speaker 7: literally boiling with salmon. It looks like that. You really
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Speaker 7: have to see it to believe it. It was just
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Speaker 7: so stuff with salmon this year and people haven't seen
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Speaker 7: that in their lifetimes. I haven't seen that something like that.
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Speaker 7: They could get barely, uh get enough room to jump
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Speaker 7: up over the falls because there was so many salmon
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Speaker 7: in the water beneath the falls.
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Speaker 1: So is there a theory as to why this year
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Speaker 1: has been so exceptional?
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Speaker 7: Yeah? Guess like five years ago was COVID and they
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Speaker 7: were less less fishing boats in the water that year. Yep,
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Speaker 7: and it's just a gas. Yeah, it may have something
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Speaker 7: to do with that. There's a like a four or
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Speaker 7: five year cycle of salmon where they go out into
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Speaker 7: the ocean and then come back and it takes them
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Speaker 7: about that amount of time. So maybe it's from that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know that it goes in cycles. I
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Speaker 1: know you've seen really good salmon years and really bad
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Speaker 1: salmon years over the years that you've been there, Right.
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Speaker 7: That's true.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but this one just I don't. Is this one
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Speaker 1: of those ones that no one's coming?
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Speaker 7: Yeah? People were shocked. I'm shocked. It's uh yeah, who
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Speaker 7: didn't expect as many salmon to come back? It's unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: So because there's so many salmon this year, what will
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Speaker 1: that mean going forward? For the bear population. Will we
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Speaker 1: see a spike in a few years to come.
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Speaker 7: Perhaps what we saw this summer is that they weren't
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Speaker 7: congregating at the falls as much. Huh, they didn't. They
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Speaker 7: didn't have to sit there and really work for it.
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Speaker 7: They could go anywhere in the river and just grab
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Speaker 7: a salmon whenever they wanted to, So they weren't at
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Speaker 7: the fall so much. People were going to the falls
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Speaker 7: and saying, where are the bears? They were there, Yeah,
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Speaker 7: they were there there all summer, but not in the
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Speaker 7: numbers like in years past. There have been four year
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Speaker 7: fifty of them at the fall at one time, and
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Speaker 7: this year they were less bears there. They were still
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Speaker 7: there to watch, but not in the groups that we've seen.
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Speaker 1: Well, they were spread out, right, they didn't have to Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 7: They're spread out along the river, and there was a
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Speaker 7: greater opportunity to watch them, you know, from different places,
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Speaker 7: and you know, and they're all over the place.
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Speaker 1: I think I've seen this before. But but did they
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Speaker 1: mostly eat the skin, Matt, Yeah.
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Speaker 7: They like the skin and they like the brains. They
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Speaker 7: like the most nutritional parts or their favorite part. We
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Speaker 7: don't know for sure, but yeah, Maney of the bears
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Speaker 7: just they'll eat a portion of it and let the
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Speaker 7: rest go. There's this time of year, there's a lot
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Speaker 7: of salmon that are on the bottom of the river
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Speaker 7: are keying in on.
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Speaker 1: So the the other thing I look at is I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing the bears are just as are maybe heavier than
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Speaker 1: ever because there's so many salmon to gorge on this
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Speaker 1: this this summer.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, they're they're definitely game shape this year. They are
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Speaker 7: are looking really big and healthy and successful. Like there's
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Speaker 7: there's They're gonna have a good sleep for sure.
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Speaker 1: So there's There's the other thing I think I've seen.
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Speaker 1: There's not as much fighting and scrapping among the bears
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Speaker 1: this year because there's no need to there's so many salmon.
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Speaker 7: That's true. Yeah, there have been so many confrontations with
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Speaker 7: each other and because they're spread out more and they
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Speaker 7: don't have to group together. Relieve, bears don't do that.
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Speaker 7: They're they're individuals and they don't come together like this.
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Speaker 7: But they do group together the falls and tolerate each
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Speaker 7: other for the most part. But let's fights this here
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Speaker 7: for sure, because of because they don't have to really
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Speaker 7: work at it.
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Speaker 1: I know that there are. Some bears have been named,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of them are numbered. Where where do
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Speaker 1: the numbers come from?
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Speaker 9: That?
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Speaker 7: We give them numbers? The National Park Service gives them
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Speaker 7: numbers when they show up at Brooks Falls. A rule
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Speaker 7: is you show up three times and at Brooks Falls
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Speaker 7: on camera, and we'll give you a number. And that
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Speaker 7: that's like the Wayne Gretzky saying, if you missed one
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Speaker 7: hundred percent of the shots you don't take. That's a
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Speaker 7: lot like the bears. They got to show up on
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Speaker 7: camera here, and in order to be counted and given
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Speaker 7: a name or given a number, we give them numbers.
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Speaker 1: What what's theill? What is the average lifespan of a
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Speaker 1: brown bear?
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Speaker 7: Little over twenty years? But many like Otis have lived
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Speaker 7: to he may be still alive, but she was twenty
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Speaker 7: eight wow or so. And many bears get to live
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Speaker 7: that age. But the average is.
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Speaker 1: How at what age will female bears not be able
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Speaker 1: to have cubs anymore?
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Speaker 7: Oh, that's a good question. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: The answer to that, Okay, As I look at the
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Speaker 1: bears in this bracket, and I haven't broken down the percentage.
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Speaker 1: But you've got some female bears, you've got some male bears.
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Speaker 7: Correct, Yeah, we mix it up a lot. But you're
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Speaker 7: older and younger and male and female, and so each
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Speaker 7: person has a one they can share, somebody they can
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Speaker 7: cheer for.
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Speaker 1: Are most of these female bears right now? Are they?
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Speaker 1: Are they pregnant?
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Speaker 7: So many of them have us. Typically comes to stay
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Speaker 7: with their mother for at least two years, yes, usually three,
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Speaker 7: and then she'll chase them away, so they're with their
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Speaker 7: counts for a while, and so they're not They don't
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Speaker 7: get pregnant every year.
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Speaker 1: Sure, Okay, How would you describe the and you mentioned
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Speaker 1: this year's crop being so healthy and fat, how would
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Speaker 1: you describe the overall health of the brown bear population
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Speaker 1: in Catmi and in that area.
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Speaker 7: It's one of the healthiest and largest populations the brown
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Speaker 7: bears in the world. And it's all due to the
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Speaker 7: healthy ecosystem that we have here, the clean water, strong
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Speaker 7: standing runs, and it's one of the largest brown bear
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Speaker 7: populations left on the planet because of that run. We
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Speaker 7: estimate over two thousand bears at least literally in this park.
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Speaker 7: And park's huge. It's the size of Yellowstone in Yosemite combined.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Well, I I was in Yellowstone this summer and brown
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Speaker 1: bear sidings are I mean, I don't want to say
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Speaker 1: they're rare. I didn't. I've seen more black bears, certainly
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Speaker 1: in Yellowstone than I have that brown bears.
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Speaker 7: Well, yeah, it's interesting. I worked there. I worked in
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Speaker 7: Yellowstone at Olt Faithful and Yellowstone Lake for eight years
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Speaker 7: and really a lot of my bear knowledge comes from
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Speaker 7: over there, I say a lot. There's a quote from
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Speaker 7: a bear scientist in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. His name
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Speaker 7: is Craig Summern. He said that the future of bears
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Speaker 7: will be based is based on the hearts and minds
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Speaker 7: of people that live with the bears, and that that
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Speaker 7: I talked about bears when I was in Yellowstone. And yeah,
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Speaker 7: there's you don't get much of a chance to see
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Speaker 7: the the grizzlies.
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Speaker 1: So you know, we read I just had a story
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Speaker 1: of a of a hiker surprising, it turns out a
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Speaker 1: brown bear in Yellowstone here in the last week or so,
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Speaker 1: you you hardly ever hear of confrontations in Catmi. Is
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Speaker 1: that because of the precautions that you take that are
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Speaker 1: already in place?
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Speaker 7: Uh?
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Speaker 1: Is it just because they're not as nearly as many
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Speaker 1: people pole coming through there as there are Yellowstone. What
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Speaker 1: what's the reason for that?
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Speaker 7: A lot of things, and you keep in on two
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Speaker 7: of them. Yes, we take greater precautions here. Everybody that
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Speaker 7: comes to Catmi, they'll get an orientation from us at
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Speaker 7: the or everybody that comes to Brooks Brooks Camp area
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Speaker 7: gets an orientation, safety orientation about bears, so that that
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Speaker 7: really helps our safety record. And also there's lots of
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Speaker 7: people coming here than the Yellowstone. And one other thing
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Speaker 7: about Yellowstone is it's it's people hike off trail a lot.
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Speaker 7: That's one thing you don't want to do is surprise
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Speaker 7: and barely they don't like surprises. Yes, and a lot
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Speaker 7: of people are hiking off trail on their own and
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Speaker 7: in Yellowstone, and there's lots of a chance here and
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Speaker 7: people are usually in groups. They're making a little bit
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Speaker 7: of noise, they're doing what we tell them, they're following regulations,
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Speaker 7: and there's less there seems to be less of a problem.
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Speaker 1: Well, the first time I came to Alaska was to fish,
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Speaker 1: and the guides wore bells around their neck. I mean
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Speaker 1: they had bear spray and they also carried side arms,
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Speaker 1: but they had bells around their neck to warn the bears.
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Speaker 1: You know that we're coming.
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Speaker 7: Yes, that's a good thing to do. Talk or make
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Speaker 7: some noise, stick to the trail. You don't want to
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Speaker 7: surprise a bear, do you do? You have something you
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Speaker 7: don't want to do?
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Speaker 1: Do you have favorite bears? This year?
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Speaker 7: I had a favorite. He was bounced from the competition early.
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Speaker 7: Oh no, the twelve candidates in the contest that are
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Speaker 7: contestants and the bear I picked or wanted to win,
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Speaker 7: number five O three, he was out of there in
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Speaker 7: the first round unfortunately.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, five five five o three got taken down by
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Speaker 1: nine one.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, right, oh yeah, don't remind me.
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Speaker 5: Why?
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Speaker 1: Why? Why did you like five oh three?
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Speaker 7: But I liked him because he has a strength and presence,
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Speaker 7: not so much in force, but he's very friendly and
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Speaker 7: he's a big bear, right but you know he's he's
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Speaker 7: also he finds a way to get along with other
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Speaker 7: bears for the most part. Yeah, he gets some fights.
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Speaker 7: But but it goes to a Melbowe quote, I say
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Speaker 7: a lot real strength never impairs beauty, and.
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Speaker 8: And he does.
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Speaker 7: He's really good at that. That's why I liked him.
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Speaker 7: I saw a bit of.
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Speaker 1: Myself what and I know it's just totally estimation. Uh,
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Speaker 1: what's the largest bear that you've seen so far this season?
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Speaker 7: Oh? I was able to see Chunk. He's always been He's.
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Speaker 1: Wow, Chunk, Chunk is a favorite.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's his favorite this year. He's gone up against
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Speaker 7: Grazier in the past two years and yep, final round. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: and some people, many people are saying that this is
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Speaker 7: his year. But when you see him, wow, he's he's
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Speaker 7: a presence.
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Speaker 1: He is.
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Speaker 7: Oh, he's definitely. You notice right away he's a big bear.
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Speaker 1: So on the website it said one of the uh
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Speaker 1: little observations of Chunk, he was observed devouring forty two
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Speaker 1: salmon in ten hours.
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Speaker 7: What is your favorite? Who? You?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I I look, I've I don't know if
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Speaker 1: I have a favorite yet because I haven't studied them
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Speaker 1: quite enough. But I know that today right now, the
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Speaker 1: voting is between one twenty eight yearling and six oh
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Speaker 1: two and nine oh one, as you mentioned, and Chunk,
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Speaker 1: So we we do expect Chunk to come out of
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Speaker 1: that side of the bracket, right.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely, he's one of the favorites to win, if
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Speaker 7: not the favorite.
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Speaker 1: And how much how much of that is because as
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Speaker 1: I mentioned, I know you guys probably give names and
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Speaker 1: tough some of them are just numbers. I mean, Chunk
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Speaker 1: is a great name. That's got to catch people's attention.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, so is the Flotato that's number six oh two.
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Speaker 1: Oh I like that. Yeah, it's the first. This says
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Speaker 1: that that's the first. Uh, his first appearance ever in
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Speaker 1: Fat Bear Week.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and uh, it's funny. I mean he really floats
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Speaker 7: in the water like that. It's so weird.
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Speaker 1: Reminds reminds visitors of Homer Simpson relaxing in a pool
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Speaker 1: when lounging.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. So there's a new thing every day there. They're
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Speaker 7: still charming.
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Speaker 1: So Chunk we've established as one of the favorites. Grazer
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Speaker 1: was a it is a past champion, right, I mean
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Speaker 1: two years ago Grazer was a champion.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. Not only does does she put on weigh every year,
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Speaker 7: but she also is very protective of her cubs. It's amazing.
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Speaker 7: She's a ragning champ and she has to protect her cubs. Well,
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Speaker 7: she's got one this year that that it used to
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Speaker 7: be two.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I read uh. In July of last year. Last summer,
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Speaker 1: one of those cubs died after being injured by Chunk.
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Speaker 7: That's right. Yeah, so how does how.
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Speaker 1: Does that happen? Because I've seen I've seen before that
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Speaker 1: these brown bears will go after cubs.
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Speaker 7: Correct, Yeah, it's it's the males, it's the bars. They
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Speaker 7: they don't we don't know for sure, but they don't
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Speaker 7: like u competition. They and once once they are, once
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Speaker 7: they have made it for the year that they they
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Speaker 7: don't take any part in raising the young correct, not
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Speaker 7: like eagles or or other animals. Yes, the birds, they're
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Speaker 7: the four will just just leave. Yes, they're they're off
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Speaker 7: on their own. They don't take any part and and
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Speaker 7: helping the young ones, and are even a threat as
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Speaker 7: we saw with Chunk.
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Speaker 1: So we mentioned I'm thinking that when you see these,
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Speaker 1: especially these female bears, if the female bears do not
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Speaker 1: have cubs with them, and I know you you observed
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Speaker 1: them quite regularly, you probably have a good idea of
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Speaker 1: which ones are pregnant this time of year. Correct.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, One that maybe do is uh.
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Speaker 1: Nine nine oh one okay.
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Speaker 7: Or nine ten. Sorry, she's she's really big this year. Okay,
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Speaker 7: she's she didn't have coups this year, maybe next year likely.
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Speaker 1: I like the way these things are handed down. Nine
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Speaker 1: oh nine is the daughter of the twenty eighteen February
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Speaker 1: Week champion bead Nos nine to ten is the sister
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Speaker 1: of Bear nine oh nine.
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Speaker 7: That's amazing. Yeah, two princesses who were daughters of Royalty.
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Speaker 7: Twenty six is a daughter of Holly, a former champion,
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Speaker 7: and nine o nine, as he said, is you're good
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Speaker 7: with these bears, good job. Nine to nine is a
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Speaker 7: daughter of Beads.
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Speaker 1: So these are well, these are well bred bears. They
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Speaker 1: come from good stock, is what you're saying, Royalty. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so probably that the percentage of bears that come from
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Speaker 1: past champions is pretty high that maybe one day they'll
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Speaker 1: be a champion.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Also a Bear ninety nine was in there. We have
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Speaker 7: four percent of our followers on Fat Bear Week or
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Speaker 7: from Canada. Okay, so I'm sure Canada has to be
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Speaker 7: disappointed when ninety nine went out.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm told that that's not ninety nine. That was
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Speaker 1: their first appearance at Fat Bear Week, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 7: They got drummed, really got badly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me see, I've got the voting here, I
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Speaker 1: thought somewhere, but I don't think I have the initial
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Speaker 1: voting for ninety nine. So apparently ninety nine went out
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Speaker 1: early in the tournament, right, yep, Okay, the way I
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Speaker 1: have it figured, there's only about five or six bears
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Speaker 1: left after today's voting. Am I right about that?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I have I have nine one, nine oh nine, eight
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Speaker 1: fifty six. Uh chunk is being voted on today. We
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Speaker 1: expect him to move on and then uh yearling one,
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Speaker 1: eight yearly and six oh two are being voted on today.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you're zeno against will see the flotato.
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Speaker 1: I love that. Uh all right, well, I tell you
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Speaker 1: I really enjoy it. And uh, this is it's crazy
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Speaker 1: how this thing. I want to tell people. There's all
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Speaker 1: kinds of ways. You can go to Fatbearweek dot org, right,
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Speaker 1: and you can vote that way. The live cams are
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Speaker 1: on explore dot org and you can watch these bears
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Speaker 1: all day if you want to.
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Speaker 7: Wow, you're doing my job for me. That's great.
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Speaker 1: Did I get that right?
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Speaker 10: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: You did.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm kind of I don't need anything else to
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Speaker 1: distract me, so I could one of those people that
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Speaker 1: could turn on explore dot orgon probably watch for about
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Speaker 1: twelve hours.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, hooked, It's amazing. That's why I love this.
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Speaker 1: Job here, Matt. I really appreciate you spending some time
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Speaker 1: with us today. How's hey, how's the weather up there today.
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Speaker 7: Little Chili? Okay, it's in the forties.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's not bad.
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Speaker 7: Yeah bad.
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Speaker 1: I bet the sun's not out today.
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Speaker 7: No, it's it's cloudy. Trees are starting to turn color.
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Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, that was just a wild guest by me
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Speaker 1: that with the sun not being out. Hey, I appreciate
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Speaker 1: the time, Matt, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 7: Thanks for having me on here.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's Matt Johnson cat my communications. It is fat
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Speaker 1: So hopefully this will help a little bit. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: there'll be odd ad huggers that are out there protesting,
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Speaker 1: but that's a long way to go to protest. You
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Speaker 1: got to be committed. This is a cool story about
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Speaker 1: different markings showing up on redfish. You know, redfish are prized.
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Speaker 1: Everybody knows redfish in Texas by the spots on their tail.
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Speaker 1: Forty five year old Pincacle of Florida angler Andrew Brown
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Speaker 1: started catching redfish and eight years ago began noticing odd
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Speaker 1: spot patterns on redfish tails. He caught one that appeared
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Speaker 1: to have an uppercase a spotted a clear letter E
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Speaker 1: some fish with no spots. That's rather rare. After five years,
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Speaker 1: between his own catches and online reports, he had accounted
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Speaker 1: for the entire alphabet and the number zero through nine.
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Speaker 1: He posted the fines on the website and Instagram. Hearts
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Speaker 1: are the most common spots that appear. He says. It's
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Speaker 1: like they want us to be happy. They do want
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Speaker 1: us to be happy. Some say anglers simply seeing what
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Speaker 1: they want to see. My opinion. Ron Ratliffe said he's
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Speaker 1: caught fish with most of the letters of the alphabet
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Speaker 1: and a spot shaped like the state of Louisiana. It's
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Speaker 1: weird genetics going on, says Stephen Crowder, who operates a
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Speaker 1: charter out of Jacksonville, Florida. Bobby Warren, out of Venice, Louisiana,
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Speaker 1: said citing odd redfish spots on redfish are a subjective pursuit,
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Speaker 1: like looking up at clouds and seeing a dog and
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Speaker 1: a cat. Again, that's my opinion as well. Mike Eilik
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Speaker 1: says he caught a redfish with a tail spot resembling
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Speaker 1: Edgar Allan Poe. Now that's stretching it a little bit. God.
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Speaker 1: John Fuss in South Carolina said, they're all different, like
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Speaker 1: a fingerprint. It's like a Russhok test. What do you see?
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Speaker 1: Marine biologist Eric Latimer spent forty years studying redfish. He
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Speaker 1: likens him to freckles that run in the family. If
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Speaker 1: you look hard enough, he said, you can see anything
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Speaker 1: that you imagine. So yeah, pretty cool article the Wall
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Speaker 1: Street Journal. Though, let's see, I'm not quite ready for
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Speaker 1: that yet. I'm not quite ready for that yet. Mountain
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Speaker 1: lion attack. Let's do this. This is this is a
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Speaker 1: heads up, okay for those of you who hunt in
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Speaker 1: the mountains. For those of you heck Wu hunting Texas.
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Speaker 1: Two men hunting in southern Colorado bodies found last week
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Speaker 1: were killed by a lightning strike, according to the Caneos
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Speaker 1: County Corner's Office, which launched an extensive search for the
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Speaker 1: out of state hunters after their vehicles were found with
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Speaker 1: most of their gear inside the corner. Confirmed to a
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Speaker 1: CBS station in Colorado Springs, a preliminary report shows lightning
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Speaker 1: killed Andrew Porter from Asheville, North Carolina, in ian Stasco
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Speaker 1: from Salt Lake City. Both were twenty five years old.
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Speaker 1: The men had been elk hunting near the Rio de
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Speaker 1: los Pinos trailhead in the San Juan Wilderness went missing
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Speaker 1: September eleventh, their bodies found approximately one week later. Person
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Speaker 1: claiming to be a fiance one of the men said
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Speaker 1: in a post on social media told the victims didn't
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Speaker 1: fear or pain and died instantly. The National Lightning Safety
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Speaker 1: avoid summits, ridgelines, open fields and isolated trees, and stay
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Speaker 1: away from water and metal and fences. I mean, life
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Speaker 1: thing I can tell you. And be aware in the mountains.
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Speaker 1: You know that things like that come up rather quickly.
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Speaker 1: Let's see, I got bear attacks again. My thanks to Matt.
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Speaker 1: I hope you go online and vote for your favorite
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Speaker 1: fat bear. The finals coming up this weekend again and
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Speaker 1: if you don't vote, you can't complain, so always vote. Um.
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Speaker 1: That happens all the time. We'll get to that, we will.
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Speaker 1: This is continues to be interesting to me. A third
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Speaker 1: boat off the coast of Portugal last Saturday has been
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Speaker 1: attacked by a pot of orcas. We have talked about
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Speaker 1: this before. The Coast Guard was called into action. To
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Speaker 1: rescue four people on a sailboat and coast to Kaprika
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Speaker 1: after successive collisions with the bow caused by orcas. The
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Speaker 1: boat ten miles off the coast near to Lisbon. When
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Speaker 1: it was hit, the crew called for help they were
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Speaker 1: taken away to safety. Footage shows the moment at least
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Speaker 1: three killer whales launched an attack on the sailboat. One
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Speaker 1: of the orcas began repeatedly striking the boat, which belonged
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Speaker 1: to the Nautic Squad Club. After several blows, the vessel
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Speaker 1: could be seen tilting dangerously from side to side, slowly
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Speaker 1: submerging and sinking to the bottom. The five people on
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Speaker 1: board were rescued by nearby vessels. The boat completely sank.
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Speaker 1: A second vessel was immobilized in the same area. One
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Speaker 1: week after that, the National Maritime Authority said the boat
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Speaker 1: with five people aboard had to be towed its rudder
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Speaker 1: was broken. ORCA tracker Ruy Alvis working with the skipper
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Speaker 1: of the vessel after noticing a new pot of killer
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Speaker 1: whales had recently arrived. Mister Alvis relayed this information along
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Speaker 1: with a warning to the team to consider if it
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Speaker 1: was the right time to head out on the water.
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Speaker 1: A longtime researcher, says he was in contact with the
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Speaker 1: vessel during the altercation so he could be on hand
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Speaker 1: to help telling the newspaper. The sailors on board decided
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Speaker 1: to take the risk and ignored a key safety measures.
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Speaker 1: He said, I was involved in this situation. I was
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Speaker 1: permanently in contact with the skipper and the guys. We
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Speaker 1: had seen two days before the orcas around the area,
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Speaker 1: but the sailors were thinking they can take the risk.
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Speaker 1: They were more than sixty five feet of water. We
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Speaker 1: advised him to go less than sixty feet deep. Alvias
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Speaker 1: says the footage showed a routine orca attack routine. He
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Speaker 1: said they had a problem with the orcas when they
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Speaker 1: touched the rudder, as the first push of the rudder
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Speaker 1: was very strong. By this point, they couldn't react very
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Speaker 1: much to the situation. The strikes follow a number of
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Speaker 1: incidents we've talked about. This last week, a pot of
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Speaker 1: killer whales attacked two boats off the coast of Spain.
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Speaker 1: Crew Members who are on the water every day described
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Speaker 1: it as very scary. In July, packer killer whales struck
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Speaker 1: in the Atlanta nearly capsized a yacht. The reason behind
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Speaker 1: these near fatal encounters is often attributed to the killer
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Speaker 1: whales simply playing around, rather than any twisted attack plot.
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Speaker 1: Alvas says. Scientists will always explain that if an orca
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Speaker 1: is busy, or if they're hunting or something, they will
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Speaker 1: not care about the sailing boat. But if there's no activity,
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Speaker 1: they will see a sailing boat passing and approach it
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Speaker 1: and try to force the rudder from one side to
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Speaker 1: the other. They play with the rudder because it's a
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Speaker 1: moving part of the boat. They approach the boat to
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Speaker 1: play with the rudder, but they are heavy, sometimes six tons,
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Speaker 1: so they break it. I accept this explanation, he says,
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Speaker 1: but I always think they will never really know one
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Speaker 1: hundred percent because we can't talk to the orcis. That's wild.
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Speaker 1: do not. A little girl nabbed a massive alligator while
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Speaker 1: for a cool opportunity and adventure, says Trey. First five
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Speaker 1: big it was for a second, but I wasn't that scared.
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Speaker 1: Her older brother took over as the angry reptile thrashed around.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be a little smaller
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Speaker 1: than that, and then we started pulling it and the
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Speaker 1: tree started yanking and almost yanked it out of the ground.
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Speaker 1: Trey said, I had twin nine year olds with me.
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Speaker 1: They were yelling in the background with excitement. The whole
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Speaker 1: family enjoying the attention as far as her doing it,
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Speaker 1: I'm stoked. I'm appreciative that is being amped up a
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Speaker 1: little bit and making it a better experience for her,
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Speaker 1: said Trey. The meat from the alligator will feed the
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Speaker 1: family for a while. We're appreciative of having a couple
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Speaker 1: of good meals out of it. It's her favorite meal.
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Speaker 1: The hide will be used to create leather goods. Trey
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Speaker 1: caught another gator last season, but not as big as
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Speaker 1: the one Joshlyn caught. That is awesome, says she can't
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Speaker 1: wait to go deer hunting. This is a girl and
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Speaker 1: a family that's being raised right in my America. Let's
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Speaker 1: see Florida woman taking her dog for a walk. How
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Speaker 1: many stories start like this? If I tell you Florida,
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Speaker 1: what do you think's gonna happen? You know what's gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: Florida woman taking her dog for a walk near a
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Speaker 1: creek ended up punching an alligator in the face to
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Speaker 1: rescue the dog from the gator's jaws. Landa Lake's resident
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Speaker 1: Danny Rait said she and her four month old Shitsu
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Speaker 1: Dacks were walking. That's just barely a snack for alligator
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Speaker 1: walking along a creek behind her house when the five
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Speaker 1: foot gator struck. I turned and looked in. The gator
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Speaker 1: had him. The alligator's front teeth were through the collar
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Speaker 1: of my dog. The alligator started dragging Dacks into the water.
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Speaker 1: She said. I punched him and punched and punched. I
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Speaker 1: punched him in the eye enough that he let go.
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Speaker 1: He unclamped a little, and I pulled off, but his
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Speaker 1: teeth dragged down My arm. Right was able to flip
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Speaker 1: the gator on its back. I like that. She's got spunk,
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Speaker 1: as Lou told Mary, I hate spunk. Some of you
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Speaker 1: will get that, allowing her and Dacks to flee the house.
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Speaker 1: To the house, she recorded video of the gator lurking
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Speaker 1: behind the home. The gator was removed from the property
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Speaker 1: by trappers. Look why do you remove the gator? Shoot it?
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Speaker 1: Scheot it. Right urged other pet owners to be cautious
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Speaker 1: in areas where gators can camouflage. Just be careful with
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Speaker 1: your dogs. I mean fifteen feet he came out to
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Speaker 1: get him, and I didn't see him. Look, lady, you
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Speaker 1: live in Florida. Quit walking your dog by a lake.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what else to tell you. It's all
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Speaker 1: your fault. Because you're stupid, and people in Florida start
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Speaker 1: demanding they kill more gators down there. There's too many.
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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you how many gators. How about a
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Speaker 1: four foot alligator swimming through the marina in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 1: Phoenix Norwood said, at first I heard about it, then
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Speaker 1: I started looking for it, and then I saw it twice.
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Speaker 1: Twenty three year old resident there in the area thought
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Speaker 1: the gator was a fake. Then it started swimming. He
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Speaker 1: grabbed a dip net. I do not condone this, people.
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Speaker 1: I don't condone you taking a dip net to catch
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Speaker 1: a four foot alligator. If I just let it on
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Speaker 1: its own, it would have probably swam away, and authorities
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Speaker 1: were like ten fifteen minutes away. I had to get it.
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Speaker 1: I probably should have had shoes on the Oh good gosh.
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Speaker 1: This Phoenix Norwood sounds like he'd be a perfect fit
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Speaker 1: Louisiana or Florida. Norwood is a reptile enthusiast and avid
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Speaker 1: fossil collector. I got me from crocodile tea. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if this is what he sounds like. I'm just
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Speaker 1: doing in presion. I got me some crocodile teeth and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, But I don't really have experience with
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Speaker 1: life gaiters. There's definitely first for me. Norwood held the
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Speaker 1: reptile until officials with DC Animal Control arrived. Now, this
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Speaker 1: being Washington d C. It says they will work with
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Speaker 1: a group to relocate the animal to a more appropriate environment.
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Speaker 1: How about right outside the nation's capital. No, I'm just kidding,
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Speaker 1: just kidding, gators in Washington, d C. Oh, my, uh,
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Speaker 1: tiger king associate. It's been a while since we've talked
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Speaker 1: about Joe Exotic, isn't it. A tiger handler associate of
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Speaker 1: Joe Exotic fatally mauled by a big cat under his
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Speaker 1: care at an oklahre home of preserve over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Easley died after a tiger attacked him during quote
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Speaker 1: an accident Saturday at Growler Pines Tiger Preserve in Hugo, Oklahoma.
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Speaker 1: The tragedy is a painful reminder of both the beauty
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Speaker 1: and unpredictability of the natural world. Ryan understood those risks
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Speaker 1: not out of recklessness, but out of love, said the
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Speaker 1: press release. The animals under his care were just not
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Speaker 1: animals to him, but beings. He formed a connection with
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Speaker 1: one rooted in respect, daily care, and love. Apparently not.
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Speaker 1: Apparently there wasn't a lot of respect and daily love.
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Speaker 1: Easley's colleagues remembered him as a passionate advocate for wildlife conservation.
53:45
Speaker 1: He loved animals, especially big cats. Easily acquired some of
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Speaker 1: those tigers from the Tiger King when Joe Exotic was
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Speaker 1: put in prison. Of course, Peter doesn't like that. They
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Speaker 1: called for the wild animal exhibitors to get out of
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Speaker 1: the business and send the animals to accredited sanctuaries. Joe Exotic,
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Speaker 1: of course didn't like Peta get involved associated press as
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Speaker 1: Easily was already dead when deputies arrived on the scene.
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Speaker 1: The tiger unexpectedly bit and shook him while they were
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Speaker 1: both in the cage, and unfortunately his wife and daughter
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Speaker 1: were there. Peta of course reached their statement and talking
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Speaker 1: about easily hauling them around the country. Joe Exotic calls
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Speaker 1: it bull bleep. I cleaned that up just a little bit.
54:42
Speaker 1: Of course, he had to comment from prison. But it's
54:47
Speaker 1: been a while since we had a Joe Exotic story.
54:52
Speaker 1: Let's see. A solo hiker suffered significant injuries after being
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Speaker 1: mauled by a bear in Yellowstone National Park, causing officials
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Speaker 1: to shut down the trail where he was. Twenty nine
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Speaker 1: year old man had quote a surprise encounter while hiking
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Speaker 1: alone near Turbid Lake. The man had bear spray, but
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Speaker 1: the bear still attacked him, causing significant but non life
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Speaker 1: threatening injuries to his chest and left arm. National Park
55:20
Speaker 1: Service transported the hiker in an ambulance to a local
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Speaker 1: clinic airlifted to a nearby hospital. Because this incident was
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Speaker 1: a defensive reaction by the bear during a surprise encounter,
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Speaker 1: the park will not be taking any management action against
55:35
Speaker 1: the bear. The hiker thought it was a black bear,
55:38
Speaker 1: but authorities say it behaved like a grizzly based on
55:42
Speaker 1: size and behavior. Turbid Lake Trail has been closed until
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Speaker 1: further notice. His bear management staff sweeped the area. The
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Speaker 1: incident the first involving a bear injuring anyone in Yellowstone
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Speaker 1: since twenty twenty one. At that time, Karl Mock, not
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Speaker 1: the oiler Center, suffered a massive stroke and died two
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Speaker 1: days after a bear mauled him while he was fishing
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Speaker 1: near the Baker's Whole campground at Yellowstone. There have been
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Speaker 1: other bear incidents, of course, over the years. Twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 1: Amy Adamson mauled by a grizz just west of Yellowstone.
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Speaker 1: Officials that confirmed she had encountered the grizz based on
56:26
Speaker 1: the tracks the animal left in the area where her
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Speaker 1: body was found. The latest attack remains under investigation. So
56:37
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, let's be careful out there people, Let's
56:42
Speaker 1: get them before they get you. Please. No pictures with bison, elk, moose, bear, lions, deer, badgers,
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