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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Forty One Hundred Percent Completely Natural · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, when it comes to podcasts listening, are you like me?
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  Speaker 1: Arrooe dot net. The searching is over. It's all in
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  Speaker 1: one place. Enjoy the exploration. Hey, thanks for being a
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  Speaker 1: part of the conversation. Welcome to foest Stories, a series
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  Speaker 1: of short winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping trees,
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  Speaker 1: stuck feet First and Georgia Clay right here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a huge part of my daily journey for
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  Speaker 1: over thirty three years. I Am the Poet in the Forest,
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  Speaker 1: a children's series written and recorded in the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 1: It's grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world,
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  Speaker 1: and none of it would be possible without this forest
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  Speaker 1: right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina, at the base
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  Speaker 1: of Heartbreak Hills. It's a sign that reads Rainbow Forest. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations
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  Speaker 1: long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized
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  Speaker 1: around this beautiful lake, slow moving stream, flatland swamps and
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  Speaker 1: array of natural animals. There were families and business owners
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  Speaker 1: who are said to have raised into this area for
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and
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  Speaker 1: wild grapevines. Those before me either forgot to write about
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  Speaker 1: it or it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the forest. Those moments that you know
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  Speaker 2: are completely one hundred percent natural, And yet when one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent completely natural takes place right there in front
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  Speaker 2: of you, you want to fight the rule book. You
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  Speaker 2: want to take it on. You want to be able
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  Speaker 2: to say no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. That happens
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  Speaker 2: on TV on the Animal Channel's that's what happens inside
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  Speaker 2: movies when you have that kind of one percent natural.
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  Speaker 2: I'm some who recycles their bird food. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: with my doves and even with Ernie, my blue crown conyer,
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  Speaker 2: never once did any of those seeds make it into
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  Speaker 2: the trash can of stuff that you know. They just
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  Speaker 2: go through it and they pick out whatever they want.
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  Speaker 2: They're very choosy people, people, very choosy birds. So I
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  Speaker 2: would take everything that they didn't eat, and I would
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  Speaker 2: incorporate it into nature to give to the squirrels, to
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  Speaker 2: the chipmunks, to the birds such as the cardinals, even
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  Speaker 2: the little eaty bitty sparrows or the wren They always
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  Speaker 2: loved it when Ernie and my doves didn't need all
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  Speaker 2: their food. And you developed this great relationship with these
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable animals, especially the squirrels. And we've got squirrels here
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  Speaker 2: that are jet black. I mean, the only thing I've
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  Speaker 2: ever read about this jet black squirrel is that it's
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  Speaker 2: not native to this part of the world, and somebody
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  Speaker 2: probably just brought it in. So it's very interesting that
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  Speaker 2: you build up this relationship with these squirrels and with
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  Speaker 2: these birds, and then today something one percent natural takes place.
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  Speaker 2: The squirrel was enjoying the bird seed, the recycled bird seed,
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  Speaker 2: and within one split second, one very very quick swoop,
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  Speaker 2: the owl took the squirrel from this place of storytelling.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was not even one two three, it
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  Speaker 2: was What the hell was that? One completely natural broke
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  Speaker 2: my heart shattered what I thought was going to be
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  Speaker 2: the essence of a great day. It's like I put
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  Speaker 2: this animal in harm's way, in the way of developing
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  Speaker 2: a relationship that I knew was it's so important, but
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  Speaker 2: to whom it's one hundred percent completely natural. And as
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  Speaker 2: I saw that owl do what owls do because it's
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent completely natural, I looked for the healing,
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  Speaker 2: and the healing is to remind you and myself that
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to nature, everything is one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: completely natural. He thanks for being a part of the conversation.