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Ep. 286: Alaska's Shack of Love · The MeatEater Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is me eat podcast coming at you shirtless, severely,
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  Speaker 1: is a special UM love episode. It's like the love
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  Speaker 1: boat from We're in Southeast Alaska at our at our family,
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  Speaker 1: uh fish shack with a whole bunch of people, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are familiar with and uh Seth has
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  Speaker 1: tell everybody Seth's got big news. Went against my Um
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  Speaker 1: went against my suggestion. No, I didn't to do it
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  Speaker 1: at the waterfall. No, you had a couple of suggestions,
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  Speaker 1: one of them being at the lake and woman being
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  Speaker 1: at the waterfall. Tell what happened? Um, I proposed to
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey and I said, yeah, so the wild he com
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  Speaker 1: pulls the wildlife artist Kelsey Johnson. Is that fair? Wildlife
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  Speaker 1: artists just artists, artists, painter Um, Yeah, Western artists. Your
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  Speaker 1: Instagram things so they can look at yourself. U K
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  Speaker 1: if you've been running around your whole life telling people
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  Speaker 1: K Ray they're not finding Yeah, there's a demographic of
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  Speaker 1: people out there that have been looking for me this
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  Speaker 1: whole time, and they think it's r a y. Yeah right,
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  Speaker 1: but now that's tell everybody again. Um, k underscore Ray
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  Speaker 1: r a e artworks with its western wildlife. Very yeah,
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  Speaker 1: very beautiful stuff. And you have a you have a
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  Speaker 1: piece that you're donating to our we haven't launched yet,
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  Speaker 1: but are auction house of Oddities. Do oil painting of
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  Speaker 1: a big horn ram kind of portrait style that'll be
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  Speaker 1: in there. You should go check out her work and
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  Speaker 1: buy something. Anyways, you said yes, cried ugly cried? What
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  Speaker 1: three years? It was three years? What I told Seth
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  Speaker 1: to do? What we kicked around a handful of things.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't gonna stick the ring. Explain that ring again. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's a white buffalo, which is like a people aren't
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  Speaker 1: familiar with, like a white turquoise looking stone, which is
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  Speaker 1: my favorite. Um, and it's three rings. It's surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: a setting made by a dorn smith in Cooe Emerson Graves,
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  Speaker 1: just my favorite jeweler. Um, it's really pretty, one of
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  Speaker 1: a kind, custom made, custom made. You know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people when you're getting married, he'll come out and
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  Speaker 1: they'll play that here comes a bride. You should be
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  Speaker 1: playing great white Buffalo. Nugent's great white buffalo. Like it
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  Speaker 1: all that ring, pumping that ring in there. Uh. Seth
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  Speaker 1: was thinking about putting on putting that ring into a
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  Speaker 1: helimet stomach for a link cod stomach and then having
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  Speaker 1: you there and gutting it and then being like he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be like, let's see what it ate? Yea, what
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  Speaker 1: do we have here? Well? Well, well, or I told
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  Speaker 1: him take you up to the waterfall and have that
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  Speaker 1: ring just setting in the gravel there. Sounds dangerous. And
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  Speaker 1: then he'd come up and be like, well look that
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  Speaker 1: little shiny little nugget. Yeah. We yeah, we threw around
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of ideas, but you took her up to
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  Speaker 1: the lake. Took her up to the lake. It was
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  Speaker 1: pouring rain. We paddled across the cove on on in
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  Speaker 1: the canoe and chatting. Danielle came with us. Danielle is
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  Speaker 1: a wedding photographer. So you're hitting the bushes, she hitting
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  Speaker 1: the bushes. The timing on This is pretty amazing because um, uh, Jester,
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  Speaker 1: I understand the right at the moment. Uh, you found
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  Speaker 1: an old boat and under that boat was a fishing rod,
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  Speaker 1: and so he decided to take a poke. There are
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  Speaker 1: two of them, Yeah, And I knew they were going
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  Speaker 1: to propose. He was going to propose. You were getting bored.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, all right, buddy, let's let's get on with this.
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  Speaker 1: Chester pulled a Chester move and he took a cast
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  Speaker 1: right at that moment, made a cast and went and
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  Speaker 1: I look over and seth is on one knee and
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  Speaker 1: I quick reel then and ran over. Why the group deal?
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  Speaker 1: Most people do it privately? No, they don't. They don't
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  Speaker 1: do it privately. Do that like baseball stadiums? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: saw a news story the other day about a dude
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  Speaker 1: who got down on one knee in front of it,
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  Speaker 1: got out on the stadium. You see this. It's horrible. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow he gets his girlfriend or whatever out on the
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  Speaker 1: like the pitcher's mound or something like, out in front
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  Speaker 1: of the whole damn, what do you call it? At
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  Speaker 1: a baseball game stadium stadium? And there's all these cell
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  Speaker 1: phone videos of it. He gets down on one knee.
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  Speaker 1: She puts her hands over her face and runs away.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do that here because she was not not
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  Speaker 1: because she was nervous. She didn't want to marry that.
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  Speaker 1: Ye see, I I trapped her. She had nowhere to go,
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  Speaker 1: she said, no, She's like she's in an awkward spot. Guy.
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  Speaker 1: I seth boy, he was gonna do if you said no,
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  Speaker 1: and then here, you too are stuck up here. He said,
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  Speaker 1: he's just gonna fish. Yeah, which is what you did anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like kind of the same plan would being
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  Speaker 1: the exact same plan. No. I asked him about a
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  Speaker 1: hundred times if he was serious. That was my reaction.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you want to be married to cecil Man?
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  Speaker 1: Love him? Love? Guy? Uh? Oh? Why more stuff about love? Though?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can talk about this, I'll
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  Speaker 1: just talk about it. She gets Maddy. She was mad.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember Taylor thorn Right? She taught me and
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  Speaker 1: Janni how to do the Were you there cal and
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  Speaker 1: we did the three guns? You know you were out
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  Speaker 1: of town or something like that. I didn't built at
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  Speaker 1: the last minute, m Ammo shortage. Uh Taylor thorn tooss
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  Speaker 1: to do the three gun video or toss do three
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  Speaker 1: gun and we made a video. Like bazillion people watched
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  Speaker 1: the video us doing a three gun thing, including some
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  Speaker 1: fireman who took a shine to her. And they just eloped.
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  Speaker 1: Really and she said that, um, in some ways she
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  Speaker 1: has to give us credit. Huh, well that's great, she said.
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  Speaker 1: She does stuff fast, shoots fast, gets married fast. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that wasn't that long ago when you guys did that, right,
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  Speaker 1: they eloped by credit? She means the dowry that fireman
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  Speaker 1: owes us chunk, just a little little chuck of his pension,
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  Speaker 1: chunk of pension something. Oh there the thing so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the cabinet, the Shack of Love. Hm ah. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you want to get the details there, Andy, No,
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  Speaker 1: probably not what you have been on the showing forever.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew chef Andrew Radlowski comes up at the i P
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend. He may or may not have gotten
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  Speaker 1: lucky at the shack once many many years ago, decades ago. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: my brother Danny got married here. Uh my brother Matt
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  Speaker 1: realized he had to break up with one of his
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  Speaker 1: girlfriends up here, She says, offsets the love vibe. I
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  Speaker 1: was telling Matt my plan for up here, and he
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  Speaker 1: went on to tell me all about the times he
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  Speaker 1: broke up with women and had bad things with women
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  Speaker 1: happened to him up here. His current wife doesn't come
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  Speaker 1: up here, his only wife, not his current wife, the
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  Speaker 1: only one he's ever been married to that summer, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. And right there, like twenty ft away from here,
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  Speaker 1: we decided the year my brother Danny got married, me
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  Speaker 1: and my wife standing right there next to the boat.
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  Speaker 1: Uh decided to try having a baby right next to
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  Speaker 1: the boat, right there, No, like you know what it
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  Speaker 1: came to, the decision on the rocks next to came
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  Speaker 1: to the decision was the tide going out or coming in? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember. I could probably look back at the
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  Speaker 1: photography and look at the rocks and stuff and try
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  Speaker 1: to tell if they looked like it was coming or going.
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  Speaker 1: I think Andrew Chef Andrew Ragelowski's cooking prowess is something
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  Speaker 1: to note, but it goes far beyond just coming up
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  Speaker 1: here to the shack and cook guys out there marking
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  Speaker 1: halibut spots. He's got a jigging stroke that strike fear
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  Speaker 1: any halibut out there. Squares off to his fishing pole.
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  Speaker 1: Knows his crabbing stick. Um any more you want to
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  Speaker 1: say about yourself, current situation or anything things new since
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  Speaker 1: you've been on Andy, Well, yeah it's been a little
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  Speaker 1: bit um still plug it away, glad to be here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Well, I mean on the love. No, let's
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  Speaker 1: at least say like the only person I have ever
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  Speaker 1: met that has taken a Pulaski and carved a trail
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  Speaker 1: between between his lady friend's house and his own. He's
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  Speaker 1: so in love that they moved into houses next to
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  Speaker 1: each other. Correct, keeps it, keeps it fresh. You know
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  Speaker 1: that we don't gotta worry about When you see something
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  Speaker 1: laying on the floor, you just know it's yours. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you think it's their third thing. Oh where we're sitting
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  Speaker 1: right now? So we're on Prince Wales Island. And this
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  Speaker 1: is interesting because this is a long this is a
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  Speaker 1: long burning debate. We're on Prince Wales Island right now.
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  Speaker 1: So if you if you're from the town to ketch
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  Speaker 1: A Can and went due west out of ketch A
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  Speaker 1: can um catch cans on Ravilla Island and you went
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  Speaker 1: due west of there, you'd wind up out at Prince
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  Speaker 1: Wales Island. If you went east to catch can you
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  Speaker 1: wind up kind of the in the panhandler, the like
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  Speaker 1: the sorry not the panel, you wind up in British Columbia.
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  Speaker 1: So we're down in that neck of the woods, southeast Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: The is out here have there's a wolf, the wolves
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  Speaker 1: of out here. Some people will just say they're regular wolves.
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  Speaker 1: Some people say they're a special wolf called the Alexander
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  Speaker 1: Archipelago wolf, and they are edging closer to Endangered Species
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  Speaker 1: Act protection. And it's been a contentious thing because you
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  Speaker 1: have wolves, a very healthy population of wolves. There aren't
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  Speaker 1: on this island twenty miles from here. Do you do
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  Speaker 1: they get to be separate? Like do they get to
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  Speaker 1: be regarded as their own thing? Because they're archipelago wolves.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're they're defining features. They a lot of salmon,
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  Speaker 1: and uh yeah, defining features and then defining habits that
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  Speaker 1: would separate them from mainland wolves. Put it simply, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: my brother, who's my brother, Danny, who's a biologist in Alaska,
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  Speaker 1: not referring to this, but he said, of taxonomy, he said,
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  Speaker 1: you have your lumbers, and you have your splitters, and
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  Speaker 1: they know who they are. Um splitting like this in
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  Speaker 1: this case splitting, in this case saying like, hey, these
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  Speaker 1: are different wolf splitting is always splitting is often used
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  Speaker 1: as an environmental tool in the old toolbox for environmental
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  Speaker 1: battles right where if you can point to anything and
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  Speaker 1: say that and make an argument that it's endemic or separate,
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  Speaker 1: you can usually get protections for landscapes. And you'll find
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  Speaker 1: the industry is usually trying to be like, nothing different
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  Speaker 1: about that wolf, same old wolf. As a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: them over here, who cares about those ones? It's like
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  Speaker 1: an ongoing There might be cases where industry wants to separate.
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  Speaker 1: By generally, industry and commercial interests like to lump and
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  Speaker 1: they want to be like, as long as there's a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of wolves somewhere, who cares? And I imagine out
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  Speaker 1: here this archipelago region, the issue would be uh habitat
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  Speaker 1: destruction like timber timber harvest, I would imagine would be
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  Speaker 1: the number one thing. I cannot imagine anybody's saying like
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  Speaker 1: all the wolves come in here and eat all the
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  Speaker 1: salmon um and there's no real dance like livestock type
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  Speaker 1: of agriculture for conflict, which is kind of like the
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  Speaker 1: main the main conflict is the main human conflict is
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  Speaker 1: competition for deer. Yeah, so they did, uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: they have around here, they have various seasons, and they
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  Speaker 1: loosened the wolf hunting season, and uh, people got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of wolves recently. Kind of shocked people how quickly
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  Speaker 1: they got so many wolves, which made people think there's
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  Speaker 1: more wolves than typical. But anyways, this has been a
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  Speaker 1: long simmering thing. But yeah, if you have an island
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  Speaker 1: in the Islands ten miles away from another island, and
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  Speaker 1: that islands ten miles away from the mainland or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: the hell, is it fair to say that the things
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  Speaker 1: that live there are their own species? Have these wolves
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  Speaker 1: always been on the island forever? Swam out here? How
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  Speaker 1: well they got here? Yeah? You know interesting? Do you
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  Speaker 1: know what people used to There used to be a
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  Speaker 1: theory about human migrations that that humans crossed the first humans,
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  Speaker 1: the first Americans, crossed the baring Land Bridge and then
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  Speaker 1: then approached what's now the Lower forty eight through the
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  Speaker 1: mid continent. They used to have this idea that there
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  Speaker 1: was an ice free corridor and the humans must have
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  Speaker 1: emerged down to the great plains like South Edmonton, Alberta.
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  Speaker 1: And that was like the hot idea for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: the currently fashionable ideas that people cross the baring Land
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  Speaker 1: Bridge and then island hopped in boats down because people
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  Speaker 1: now that we know how long ago people arrived in
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  Speaker 1: the New World, the ice freak corridor thing doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: Like they were there. They were down in like Chili,
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  Speaker 1: earlier than there would have been a ice free route,
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  Speaker 1: so they must have come down the coast. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of interest in these islands around here, meaning
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  Speaker 1: that you might find it's plausible that the oldest New
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  Speaker 1: World human occupation sites are on these islands, even though
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  Speaker 1: the shoreline that they were inhabiting is underwater by a lot,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a couple h ft underwater, but that
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  Speaker 1: what would have been mountaintops then or mountaintops now, and
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  Speaker 1: that you might find very old There could be like
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  Speaker 1: somewhere around here, very very old sites from like the
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  Speaker 1: real first It would be hard to find though everything
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  Speaker 1: just governed it is, but like tie you back to
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  Speaker 1: the wolves right where humans who leave things behind that
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  Speaker 1: that you can find other than just bones, you know,
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  Speaker 1: stone points, maybe smart work, maybe some structures here and there.
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  Speaker 1: And we still don't know how the hell they exactly
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  Speaker 1: ended up where they ended up, and then you have
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  Speaker 1: wolves that don't leave around the extra stuff. It's it
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  Speaker 1: would just be bones um it. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: we learned so much new every year, it seems about
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  Speaker 1: how things get around. It's like, is this archipelago wolf
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  Speaker 1: really different just because we don't know for sure how
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  Speaker 1: it got from point A to point B m hm.
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  Speaker 1: Is kind of the argument that that pops up to me.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we know, like how far Alaskan brown bears
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  Speaker 1: swim from. They'll swim to islands that they you cannot see,
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  Speaker 1: um jeez, and you know it's off of like a
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  Speaker 1: scent more than likely. But it blew people's minds when
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  Speaker 1: radio collar came out and they're like, oh, we had
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  Speaker 1: a bear swim from this island to this island. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think that was possible. Well back to that wool thing.
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  Speaker 1: So this is primarily being brought by petition from the
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  Speaker 1: Center for Biological Diversity and defenders of wildlife who don't
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  Speaker 1: self identify as anti hunting organizations. But my god, you'd
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  Speaker 1: get the impression they're they're tied into a lot of
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that would I think conservation minded
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  Speaker 1: hunters would enjoy and a lot of things that conservation
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  Speaker 1: hunt minded hunters would not like. You know how this
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  Speaker 1: is like the shack of love. Man, did I get
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  Speaker 1: a big fight out here one time with one of
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  Speaker 1: our co owners, with Dan Bulgan. Me and him got
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  Speaker 1: a huge fight when I said that when I was
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  Speaker 1: describing the Centers for Biological Diversity as an anti hunting organization.
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  Speaker 1: He got pissed because you can rattle off some good stuff. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: got pissed, all riled up, good guy. Um, okay, Ca'll
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  Speaker 1: explain the Senator Heinrich emailed me about this. They're getting
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  Speaker 1: closer explaining recovering America's Wildlife Act, which is getting close. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So Recovering America's Wildlife Act or RAWA is a big package.
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  Speaker 1: The what this kicked off at least four or five
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  Speaker 1: years ago, big chunk work done under the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 1: And basically it is a bunch of federal funding for
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  Speaker 1: state wildlife and given state wildlife managers the tools they
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  Speaker 1: need UH and tribal wildlife managers the tools they need
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  Speaker 1: to protect sensitive species every state. Um. The tribes were
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  Speaker 1: asked to come up with species of concern and that
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  Speaker 1: that could be plants, pollinators, to mammals. In total, twelve
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  Speaker 1: thousand species, twelve thousand species, and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: back and forth on like what should make the list,
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  Speaker 1: but basically states were asked to like give me your
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  Speaker 1: top ten, like give me the most important UM and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden we have the opportunity to try
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  Speaker 1: to get this thing past. It's seen a lot of
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  Speaker 1: bipartisan support. We need everyone to contact they're duly elected
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  Speaker 1: representatives and and uh tell them to get on board.
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  Speaker 1: Ideally co sign on UM recovering America's Wildlife Act because
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  Speaker 1: if we act fast prior to the end August here,
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  Speaker 1: which is a current session, this could get incorporated and
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  Speaker 1: and voted on as part of the big infrastructure package,
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  Speaker 1: which would be lightning fast and and fantastic. One super
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  Speaker 1: encouraging thing is a Senator Blunt out of Missouri. Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: if folks don't know, is like they have a wildlife
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  Speaker 1: program in that state. That's like the envy of every
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  Speaker 1: single state because when you register your car like car
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  Speaker 1: like driver, your license plate, right, it's like every chunk
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  Speaker 1: of it's like a point eight eight, it's like an
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  Speaker 1: eighth of a cent for goes directly to wildlife of
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  Speaker 1: all like state associated sales tax. It's all sales tax
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  Speaker 1: because he wants to be in a huge amount of money,
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  Speaker 1: and it'll I mean, it allows that agency to do
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  Speaker 1: all the things that all states want to do, like
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  Speaker 1: all the educational outreach the Missouri Conservation Magazine goes out
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  Speaker 1: to like everybody, and every couple of years, some greedy
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  Speaker 1: state politician wants to reach into that bucket and take
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  Speaker 1: money out of it for some other program, and the public,
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  Speaker 1: the citizens of Missouri always smack it down. It's really
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  Speaker 1: cool to see um but you know, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a Pittman Robertson type of deal where it's like
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  Speaker 1: if you brought it up today, would probably no way
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  Speaker 1: it would pass. But since it got put in place,
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  Speaker 1: people are really proud of it, and the um UH
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  Speaker 1: Wildlife Agency in Missouri does a does a great great
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  Speaker 1: job over there. So any funny the things that we're
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  Speaker 1: so proud of that would we would never pad that
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  Speaker 1: are overwhelmingly popular today, that would not have a prayer
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  Speaker 1: to pass today. Wilderness Act which had like vote in
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the Senate, you couldn't get that thing passed now. But
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: everybody's so like, oh, good, good, gracious, we did the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Wilderness Act. You ever get it? Because it's it's not
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: about the act itself, it's about what people can. Okay, Well,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: if I vote for this act that everybody knows is
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: a good idea, then I get something right and it
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: gets bogged down in the in the in the bs.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: But um, so yeah, almost a billion dollars for tribes. Um.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Every state has input and it really is supposed to
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: be giving the tools to the states that they need
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: to manage the wildlife. Um has a lot of bipartisan support,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: but we need need a lot more, folks. One point
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: three billion and dedicated annual funding for proactive on the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: ground efforts across the country point five million annually. Two
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: tribal nations. Mhm uh. This version introduced by Roy Blunt
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: from Missouri Senators Roy Blunt Missouri and Martin Hunder from
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: New Mexico. Martin comes on the show off and to
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: explain various things passionate gay. Yeah, um so yeah, really
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: really good deal. You know, we got a lot of
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: good stuff passed into the Trump administration by uh folks,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you know, right and in and and and playing the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: game you know, contact and you're you're duly elected, and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: we need to make sure it gets done under the
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Biden administration as well. And a lot of this stuff
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: got got built under the UH during the Trump years.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: So if you remember, we had with Fosburgh, the president
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: CEO of Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership on and he was
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: saying that, uh, paradoxically, you like that used that word,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I like how your lips are kind of swollen up
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: from their chapter from Jellyfish Bites. Paradoxically, when there is
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of discord and discontent and fractious argue in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: d C is a good time to come in and
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: get conservation work done because they can't get anything done.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: All the contentious ship they can't get taken care of
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and everybody and and so they're looking to be like
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: how we're doing something, Yes, exactly, And when it was
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a good conservation bill that has a lot of bipartisan support,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: the envirals like it, hunters and anglers like it. The
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: lets some sign stuff and do stuff, do feel good
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: stuff because if not everybody sitting back being like what
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: what do you people doing? That's that's the deal. It's
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: like you know, you're they are your representatives, so you
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you can always call in and be like, yeah, I
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: see you're not getting anything passed, like we've we voted
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you in there for a reason. What's going on? Yes,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: when they're all like fighting over the fighting over the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: culture wars and who plays what sports and whatnot, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: they're all fighting about that, then they say do some
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: conservation for Yeah. Yeah, so this this is a this
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: is a good one. This is a good one. I've
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: already been doing some writing in and some some phone
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: calling and you've covered us on Cal's we can review
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: blow by blow I have, Yeah, I started and then
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: working on an article um for the Mediator dot com.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: It's probably already out. Well, you know, did you come
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: up with that? I notice on your flame knife it
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: says cal and someone made it, say Kelly Ente you
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: is that your idea? That that was my idea? Solid man?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: You know that means seth uh Espaniel, Yeah, I know,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: but hot, Okay. That's a Casey Hawks original from first
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Light Casey Hawks. Kelly and I love that. Uh oh,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you know nor interesting news item. We covered this Arizona,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: which is the most trail cam and state on the
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: face of the planet recently, band trail cams for the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: purpose of taking or aiding in the taking of wildlife,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: or locating wildlife for the purpose of taking or aiding. Huh.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: That's so. I feel like someone could do a quick
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: editorial pass on some of this not our stuff, lost stuff,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: outlawing them, outlawing them quote for the purpose of taking
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: or aiding in the take of wildlife or locating wildlife
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: for the purpose of taking or aiding in the take
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: of wildlife. I like that not the same thing. Yeah,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I think what that boils down is you can have run. Meanwhile,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin is uh stepping up on the trail camp game.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin starting a thing called snapshot. They're d n R
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: So they're fishing Wildlife agency encouraging people to get the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: trail cams out and then you make them online. And
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: it has to do with monitoring wildlife and creating a
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: resulting database for management decisions. It's a citizen monitoring citizen
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: monitoring wildlife project. It's citizens science. There are all sorts
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: of awesome. Um you know bird plant bug down to
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you know constellation uh apps that you can get on
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: your phone, and folks have discovered species thought to be
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: extinct by you know, downloading these apps and being like, oh,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: what what is this? I wrote about a guy and
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I think Columbia who was going in to use the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: toilet and a weasel came out of his toilet and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: stood on it. Remember that it took a picture of it,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and it was like it was a reasonally thought he
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: had gone extinct. Yes, yeah, so you rediscovered a species
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: that they thought had been extinct, which is super cool. Um,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I always have your phone with you when you're going
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: to the john And then, uh, remember remember me and
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the guy that got the big fight about Center for
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Biological Diversity. Well, I had a trail camp stet up
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: on the trail up here and his uh wife used
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the rest and used it, went to pee and he
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: pulled my card. Never got that card back. Uh. Anyway, Yeah,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: these these cameras are fantastic tools. They're they're very inexpensive.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: A lot of people have them for a lot of
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: reasons now, uh, and and they definitely can add add
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to this. You can also like go and and we
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: saw like a lot of this come up during COVID
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: where people doing let's say, like a shark research but
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: don't have the funds to go out and do an actual, um,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: you know, a self assessment of fish stocks shark stocks.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: In this case, they actually like combed through. They got
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: like grad students combed through Twitter instead and like using
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: hashtags like pull up recent pictures and say like, well
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: through these ten thousand photos, taking the last x amount
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of time from these, you know, geo tagged areas, like
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: this is what we have. You know, so um it
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: is it is valuable. Current thinks everyone from Arizona who's
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: bummed should move to Wisconsin. Or she's not here right now,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: but I'm looking at what she wrote, or uh, if
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you're in Arizona, you're bummed about this whole thing, going
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: explain to your people about this stuff. Yeah, and say like,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: look at man, look at what we're missing out on.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I want to know Chef Ragilowski's take on moving a
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: bunch of Arizona folks up to Wisconsin and what that
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: would do to the palate up there. Yeah, that spice, Well,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: chet would be a good one to talk to. Least,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: that was concept data. But on a hard roll, hard roll, No,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: they don't like spice in Wisconsin. Some people do, but
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: pretty cheese and sausage. Remember how we were covering off
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: on that whether that dude should be allowed to name
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: his kid. His last name is Fisher and he want
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: us to name it Hunter Fisher. Someone sent us in
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: a newspaper clipping about a guy named Hunter, last name
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Hunter marrying a woman whose last name is Fisher. No
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Tyler Fisher, Audre Hunter. Dude named Fisher marrying a woman
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: last name Hunter, and they made a little couzy to
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: like commemorate the wedding, says, part of your bass off
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: or get the buck out Fisher Hunter, Fisher Hunter. That's cute.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: That's more stuff on love This. Yeah, it's the podcast.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I love that. Just seems like you're setting yourself up
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: for something that you gotta explain every single time somebody
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: sees it down the road, Like if you want that
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: little memento from your wedding, what, oh, you know the
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Hunter Fisher in and people loved it at the time,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I swear, so I want to follow up and find
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: out she took his name or not. If I were her,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I would just combine and have kids name them Joe
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Joe Fisher Hunter, No Joe Hunter Fish. I wish my
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: name was that, Like angler. Yea forager for fisher. Start
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a little Instagram page. People your age. I thought you
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: guys think about all right? Speaking of love, um Chester,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: we've had Chester on many times, Daniel, Yes, you have
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: tell me about how little fish you beating in your life? Well,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: let's see, it's pretty ship up creek to them. And
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: who's the uncle? I can't give his name. I'm kidding.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: It's my uncle Dale. And does he listened to the show?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Does you know about it? I don't know. But the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: first time my eight fish was with him and I
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: was actually five and caught a salmon, cooked it up,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and but to give to give him a little salmon.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: But this is when you were five years old. How
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: do you remember? I have a good memory. Never forget,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: never forget to taste that's good. Anyway, it was not
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: a good taste. So when you're five, uncle Dale went
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: on a fishing trip. You don't know where you went.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know nothing work in the river mouths. What
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: was he doing? I don't know. All I know is
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: he had a fish and I had to clear my
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: plate and I was for like growing up you had
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a clear plate before you're sure man? Yep? So he
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: made me eat that whole thing, and I was like, clean,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: clean plate. I was clean, clean, clean plate, Club Uncle
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Dale salmon dish, and then took twenty years off. Well,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: so yeah, I ended up not eating salmon again after that,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: but I was I was also young. When you're like
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: a kid, you're so picky. Kids are so picky with
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: what they eat, So I could have just been like,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't like the taste. I don't know
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: what it was, but I just from then on I
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: was like, I'm not trying that again. Until it came
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: up here and had some vandy salmon. It was delicious,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: but that also ruined you on the Yeah, it did.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I think I had this like persona of like everything
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: is going to taste fishy, and I didn't like. That's
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the taste I didn't like was the fishy taste. So
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: but I've had fish sticks and I've tried, like, Wally,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: you never wrote a Long John Silvers or anything like that.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: This last night, I can't say that I've done that. Nope. Uh,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: do you know there's a place called Long John Silver's.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Did not know that? And explain how you could explain
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: how you cooked the salmon in order to win. Oh
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: not quick question? Why did they call you? Don you know?
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I got the nickname from a guy. It was that
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: we hung out with a lot of friend I don't
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: know how it's just more fun to say it's d
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: a h N. Really, it depends on, you know, the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: mood of the situation and Dan. Back to the fish
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: thing though, Danielle's my wife and she doesn't give things
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: a good shot sometimes when it comes to game or fish.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: But I feel like coming up here, I'm super proud
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: of you, so like giving it a shot? Is that
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a sentence? I like it? Though I knew that was
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: actually coming up here. Winchester, you know, told me about
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: this opportunity. I was really excited for, like, just to
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: see everything out here and be out of my comfort
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: zone because at home, I didn't grow up in the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: woods doing stuff. All I did was sports. Growing up.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: My mom worked a lot, so I didn't go camping
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: every weekend. When you started working you're nine years old, yeah,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: pretty much. My dad was never really in the picture,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: so I kind of just been, um, you know, I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: just worked and played sports, and that was my favorite
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: thing to do. I learned, I learned the you know
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: meaning of money at a young age, and if I
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: wanted something, I had to work for it. So if
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I wanted a hundred Paradolargians in high school, I had
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: to pay for it. Which why did I do that?
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: But I mean, I guess I never grew up eating
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: this stuff. And Chester, as everyone knows, he's allergic to it.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: We haven't covered off on that. Okay, Well he's my
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: My husband's an old fishing guy who could not eat fish,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and he's allergic to it, so we don't cook it
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: at home. He's been going gang bolsters on the shellfish.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: He's been going. Next, So Andie, explain your salmon cooking.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: So Andie lives on San Juan Island south of here.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: But you guys eat all kinds of fish. Yeah, yeah,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: it's rich and seafood over there. Um. But that Sam
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: and the other night actually had quite a bit of
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: a journey to get to to get to the dinner table.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: We uh well, we got on silvers up at Frank's
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and flayed them up, came back and uh oh, they
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: fired up the grill outside. Had all intentions to get
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: a nice little crispy skin on that on the on
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: the grill and as we threw it on with a
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: little propane malfunction, grill kind of went down to a
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: little whimper of a of a flame, so quick brought
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: it inside, threw it into hot pan, and then went
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: to finish it in the oven, and the pilotlight was
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: out in the oven, so we had a start back over.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: But all said and done, by the time I got there,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I put a little honeymuster glaze on. It was actually
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: pretty dang good. It was absolutely yeah. We we overcame
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the you like to do a skin side down? I well, actually,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: if the girl no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, not skin
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: if you have a ripping hot grill or what I
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: prefer what I have give say, cooking one on one,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Well I have. I have a couple of girls at
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: my house. But my favorite way to do is, I've
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: got a flat top girl, So a big cast iron,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: you don't flat top and get that things smoking hot,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: a little bit of oil and flesh side the season
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: you know, generously, and then flesh side down until that
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: thing just tells you when it's ready and just starts
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: to curl. And that cast irons, if it's seasoned right,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: you just get up under there and flip flip the
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: whole fla over and it's just got that perfect little
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: crust on there, and then finish it with skin down.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: You get a little bit of crisp on that skin
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: and it's money. And you can do that on a
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: on just a regular barbecue grill too, right, sure, sure
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: if if you're confident in your grill not sticking, you know,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: it's it's all about the heat. If you can get
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: that heat high enough and you have a good season
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: season grill um surface, it shouldn't be a problem. But
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: in the same note, you can do that kind of
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: stuff in a cast iron pain inside. You know what
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I was explaining about the flat top grill. The only
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: downfall is that is if you don't have a good
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: hood system, your house is sticking like fish for a
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: couple of days. Yeah that you know, if you're really
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: searing fish where it's like white hot with just that
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: oil starting to smoke, that's where you want it to
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: put that flesh side down. But then yeah, your house
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: is going to stick a little bit. My wife used
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: to get mad at me when the bath towels smelled
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: like fish. Yeah, you know, three days fish? Uh? Tell
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: us an I asked about cooking. Oh, talk about how
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: you fry fish. Well, there's a lot of just fish.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: So I prefer breading posed to a battered dip. I mean,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: batter dip is good for some applications, but I just
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: find it gets that some people get a little too
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: heavy with the batter. You've got a half inch battery
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: better breading, like when you get like traditional fish and chips,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: that's usually a beer battery like that. But a lot
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of restaurants are home cooks do it where
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: there's just like a half inch thick breading before you
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: get to the fish, and but it's not cooked probably
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: and by the time it gets into the center, you
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: kind of have that soggy breading in there and it
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: just kind of MUSHes the fish out of Oh yeah,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: you give that to your kids, and it winds up
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: being that they eat all that and then the middle
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: is like some little chunk of fish because they picked
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: all that garbage off the out side of it. So
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I prefer to more of a a breading on there,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: where I would take usually dry bread crumbs mixed with
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: a little bit of flour and some seasoning. Sometimes I
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: even throw a little bit of cornstarch in there because
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: or like a rice flower or something that's going to
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: give it that real nice Christmas. And I'll usually do
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the three um into the flour into the eggwash and
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: then press it hard into the into the bread crumbs.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: And the key that is is hot oil. You know,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: if your oil temperature is too low three below three
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: fifty below, you're gonna get soggy fish? Do you aim? I?
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Typically yeah, because your oil is gonna the temperature is
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: gonna plunge once you put all that old fish in there,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: So you aim for three seventy five. Yeah. I always
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: got a little hot and then it comes down. And
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: then another trick is if you're doing rounds, let that
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: let the oil recouping that get back up to temp
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: because a lot of times you're rushing and you throw
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: it right back in there, but that oil is plummeted
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: so far down that everything's gonna get soggy in there.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: For big groups like this, though, do you have, like
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: what's your trick when you're doing rounds, like multiple rounds
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: of fried fish? And this would be applicable at your
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: house too. Steve Um getting your first match and your
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: second match to like match up by the time it
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: hits the table in one round. Yeah, it's tricky. We're
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: running two friars the other night, which is nice. We
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: had actually electric fire that kind of you know, maintains
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: that temperature pretty well, and then we had and flirts
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: with like burning this whole place down, kind of flirtsh
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: with that. But I get, uh, I get a dutch
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: op in line up paper towels, take a load off,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: dump it in there, and don't put lit on all
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the way because I want steam to get away. That
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: keeps more and then you're just keeping that outside, you're
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: not throwing it back in the right next to that,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I think the other trick to good fried fish is well,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: there's a couple of a couple of things. Is the
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: thickness that you cut it. And I've been working on
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: this for for the last couple of years, just really
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: trying to dial it in too thin, and that fish
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: is overdone by time your your breadings, I'm gonna get
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: that nice color on it, too thick and you're not
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: gonna achieve You're gonna still have a little raw fish
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: before that breading starts to get too dark. So it's
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: it's you gotta hit right in that sweet spot. Um.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: You know I can see hits out the back of
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: my head when someone's got to hit on the rod,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: even on other boats. Um sho, dud. It's like a curse. Man,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: I see every hit. Did you see our heat? I could.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I could probably feel it. You can probably hear mine.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Anyways, um, frying fish somehow like the sound,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: like the vibe, like I just can tell when it's done. Oh,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: you need all your senses today. When it's done, I
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: really do. It's it's something like the bubbling. Do you
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. That's the other trick is to
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: pull it. It's a it. You almost have to lead it, right,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: You want to pull it? When you gotta lead it? Yeah,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: you gotta think when you think it's still a little
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: bit raw, that's when you pull it and let it
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: sit for two minutes and then it's movements. Right. There
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: should be that nice translucent like flaky because it's not
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the worst in overcooked fish. I was at a gun
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: range in Washington State one time. I got talking to
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: the dude next to me at the gun range, and
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: he learned where I was from, from Michigan and somehow
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: he felt basically that I was from Wisconsin. Um it
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: was telling me about when he lived in Wisconsin. Actually
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: from Yeah, you know, it didn't matter. It was very
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: much like the same region Wisconsin. N It's really if
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: you think someone's from Wisconsin, there's like an immediate like
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: bonding that you have. You're like, oh, you're from Wisconsin.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: So I can see why that he was from Washington.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Oh really met me. I told him I'm from Michigan,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: and he proceeded to talk to me, is from Wisconsin,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: like in his head, just no difference. Yeah, right. Anyhow,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: he was telling me how he almost he was in
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: the military. I can't remember what tell he was, but anyways,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: met a girl, almost got married, but then changed his
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: mind to last minute, moved back to Washington, and he
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: said the defining part of the decision, as he said,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: one night, I said to myself, do I really feel
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: like sitting around here eating fried fish every Friday? I
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: remember thinking, give me that lady's number. Well, we all
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: grew up the mid West. I mean that's uh, well
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: you myself a Chester, but that's that's a staple on
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: a Friday night. Love fried fish, man and people apologize
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: about it now, But I don't know why would you? Andy?
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: How did you do your sauce? The charter sauce was
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: so good? Oh yeah, that was just got What was that?
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I threw some pickles in there. I think a little
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: trick to that is I always spill a little pickle
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: juice into the into the male and give it a
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: little thing. But that had some chopped up capers and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: garlic and thinking man sauce. Yet you throw pickle juice
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: in there, Yeah, gives it that get a little lemon
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: juice too, kind of thins it down and it kind
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: of gives it that little little briany goodness. Mhm uh, Kelsey,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: tell me your biggest, like biggest impression, Southeast Alaska impression.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, the biggest three whatever? Faces looking better?
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you? Got a little puffy this morning? Yeah? You
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: thought I was all depressed this morning because I woke
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: up with a little congestion that I was crying about
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: my engagement if we'd broke it all right now, I've
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: just been here for five days and I'm puffy. Um,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: this has been the best trip ever. I mean, it's like,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: come on for me, never been to Alaska. I love
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: the scenery, the wildlife, fishing like just the experience. I
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: don't know if you want to call it an experience,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: but um, but like got engaged, had all my friends here,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: my dog. We had so much fun. Call your first
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: halibut caught my I mean caught my first halibut, caught
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: my first salmon, caught my first green ling, like kelt
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: green ling. What would you say your biggest strength and weakness?
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Biggest strength and weaknesses as a helibut fisherman are the
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: weaknesses reeling for sure? Really and that sucker up. I'm like,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: this is a hundred pounder, tough, get it up. I
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: don't know what was my biggest one pounds which is
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: so decent. We never weighed it, but it was tough
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: to get in the boat. Um, that's probably I don't know. Strength,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: my napping skills, Yeah, that's important. Fill that real line
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: click losing to drag, drag the line over your between
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: your toes or something. Pretty much. Yeah, there's a good
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: picture of us all pretty much laid out in the
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: boat napping. I pulled up. You guys all perked up.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Oh we couldn't let me blacken. But you're generally you
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: generally enjoyed it. Oh, I enjoyed the hell out of it. Yeah,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: it's a good time and the benefits will last. We
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: have a lot of fish. I spread the love. I
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: love food. So I'm going to be remembering this one
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: for a long time. So this means that Seth's slowed
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: down on wallete fishing, right, fish, That makes sense. Range
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: back there we were talking. We told you this morning,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: we're up. You know, we've been here for five days
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: and we've just been fishing our ass off and it's
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: been amazing and we're going home today. But Chester and Seth,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: you know, saying good night to everybody. Last night. The
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: last thing they said was Seth was like, hey, Jester,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: do you want to go fishing on Sunday? Did they
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: make a little date? Oh? Yeah, they made a date already.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: That's cute. Yeah, Because you guys have becoming tournament wallee fisherman.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Next year we're hitting the Montana circuit. We're gonna sponsor
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: you guys. Yep. We're going to try and do something
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: super cool with our winnings too when we take them all.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: If we win. Yeah, you guys, to explain what you're
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: gonna do with all your with your winnings. We don't
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: really know yet. We're gonna consult with uncle col over
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: there because he's good with that kind of stuff. Conservation um.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: We'd like to maybe do some fishing access um stuff.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Maybe some fish cleaning facilities. Yeah, we got we got
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: some access. Yeah for the lake that you if you
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: gave the purse money to the leading issue that the
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: lake you won, the person has around access enhancement, enhancement facilities,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: improving a boat ramp, fish cleaning stations, whatever, porter potties,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: who knows whatever. We'll figure out from someone who knows
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: what the what the area needs. We might not, we
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: might not win anything. That's a bad attitude. I'll tell
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: you what, buddy of mine, is there a ranger in
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: an area, pretty affluent area, and people are always looking
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: to make donations to get the trail heads up to
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: what they think is the shape they should be in
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: and things like that. Uh. But everybody wants like some
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: grand beautiful trailer or something with their name on it,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: but really what they need are outhouses and nobody wants
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: their name on a shitter. So man, if you guys
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: thet you can take off on a on a tear
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: on the Walleye circuit and have a shitter named after
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: you had every boat, I'd be all, go take a Chester. Yeah,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: I'd be down to donate a shitter. I'd probably use it.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: But he he'd cut the line all the time. You
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: could work in that quality control is part of the deal. Yeah,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: seth h move your biggest like like Southeast Alaska impressions.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, you've been here before, but still I've been
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: here before. Um man. The I was just I was
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: hooked on the halibut fishing this time around last time.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: It was just like cool to see everything, but um
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: especially because I struggled. I caught like one halbit the
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: first day and then when a couple of days struggling,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: so that just made me want to we broke your
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: fishing reel? Yeah, I broke. I broke my fishing reel
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: on the first day, brand spanking new, brand spanking new,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: and which made me struggle the rest of the trip
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: fishing with it broken reel. But um just man, everything
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: there's so much life up here, like everything that you
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: can do. We're out at Frank's trying to catch salmon,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: and Chester discovered you could vertical jig spinners for for
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: flounder and and uh um sculpts. Makes you feel like
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: you're fishing wallete and you can look down, you can
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: like five five whatever fift however, you know, until you
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: can't see anymore. Yeah, just vertical jake and it looks
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: like nothing's down there, but all of a sudden you
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: put that spinner on the bottom and jig it up
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: and down a little bit and like these little flounder
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: just come out of nowhere. That was cool. All shrimp
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: crab bears everywhere, deer make running around. Out of all
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: the meteor trips we've ever done, this is still my favorite.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Like the meteor trip we did up here was my
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: favorite one out of everything. Yeah, I just like this area.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: You know, there's all the we're largely surrounded by Tongas
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: National Forest, and there's always a lot of back and forth.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: But right they were gonna do uh here a lot
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: about the Tongas rolled less rule m. Therove was debating
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: whether to cut a bunch of more road up here
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: to access more old growth September, and it seems like
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be off again, at least till the next
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: presidential election. Right, because what what was your like personal
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: experience with the effects of like some of the logging practices,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: not necessarily like logging in general, but the logging practices
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: here out in your area. Well, historically there was effects
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: to the land and effects of the water, um they would.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: So out here it's there's a lot of what's called
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: marine based logging where you're coming in on small islands
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: or in areas so there's no road system and it's
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: like you have to establish a beachhead, like they blasted
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: one in over not far from us four or five
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: years ago. That was on tribal land. Um. They still
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: they're quitting now. But the tribal corporations up here, so
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: see Alaska's a tribal corporation here that represents coastal tribes.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: They own their very expansive land holdings, and they up
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: until very recently have been extremely aggressive around old growth
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: old growth logging, old growth rainforest logging. UM. And they
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: did a monster cut not far from us, and they're
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: wrapping that cut up earlier than expected. I guess they
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: weren't getting the yield off that they thought they would.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: But they come in and dynamite in a landing and
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: then they're pulling all that timber out and they raft
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: the timber and yeah, they floated. They create these massive
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: I mean we're talking about many, you know, hundreds of
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: acres of raft logs when it's all said done. Uh.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: The weirdest thing about that and these cuts up here
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: is a lot of that incentive. The log comes from
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the death of the milltowns and that industry. This logging
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: project when they do it here, that stuff goes from
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the woods into the water, It goes on barges, and
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: it is shipped in the round directly to Asia. It
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: never sets foot in an American town, no way. That
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: all goes in the round to Asia to be milled
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: in Asia. It goes on ships out there out to
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: the sea, not milled here. Yeah, they make ship with
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: it over there and then we bring it. So the
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: land effects are obvious and and they're not all negative. Right,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Like the clear cuts are amazing deer if you if
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: you like to hunt deer. Yeah, the fresh growth that
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: comes in there, because this is true rainforest. Right. So
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: like when you're sitting here and you look, I was
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: looking at like possibly some trees to cut, and then
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: trying to imagine what kind of headaches that would cause,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: like you have this dark undergrowth that that is really open.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: But if you were to cut trees out and allow
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: a lot more direct sunlight in, it's not like that
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: would just remain open with more sunlight. That would then
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: get a bunch of uh growth responding to that direct
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: sunlight like a jungle, and all of a sudden, the
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: kids wouldn't be able to run back and forth down there, right,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: So you gotta think about that stuff. But that's it
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: gives a job to the kids, very clear that out. Yeah,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: there's nothing worse than like, it's nothing worse than looking
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: at a fresh clear cut. To me, it's just ugly.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: It's just I'm not even like I'm not even getting
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: into the I know, the economic stuff and all that.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Like it's jobs. Just saying like very personally, very subjectively,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: to look at a clear cut of old growth hemlock
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: and cedar and sick of spruce is is ugly to me.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: But man, you get that stuff a few years and
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: it loads up with deer uh and then and then
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: it kind of enters along like not very productive cycle.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: In fact, when we first started coming up here, we
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: used to hunt a clear cut at the time was
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: like seven or eight years old, was spectacular. And then
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: now it's got to the point where it's just nothing.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: It gets too high, too too high, too thick to hunt.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Uh so does that advantage. But one of the unforeseen things,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: and when we had that clear cut coming in where
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: we're at now this is a big debate, is when
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: you raft those logs they shed their bark and there
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: was a cove near here, I mean very cold, you
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: can see it from here that they rafted lumbering when
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: they did the cut I was talking about. And it
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: turned that it's a large cove network. It is a
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: completely sterile environment. Now you used to be able to
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: crab it like nothing lives there, all the crab pots
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: in the world, and that cove, nothing lives there, and
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: it winds up being many many feet of bark that
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: just suffocates the sea floor. When they put the clear
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: cut in near here, they had to determine an area
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: where they can't remember what they determined, an area they
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: felt was nonsensitive um and some local people pushed back
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: on it. But in the end, uh they rafted logs
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: in an area they felt it was a viable place.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: The raft logs and completely anecdotally, like completely anecdotally. UM.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: And and take for Graham, I'm not here that much, right,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: We're in and out over a month every year. UM.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: I can't point to like we shrimped near there and stuff.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: I can't point to any obvious impact from that. But
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's not there. But they might
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: be more careful about the selection now. But it's a
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: strange process. And there's other thing to do here is
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: helicopter logging, um, which is great because then you just
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: select caught from a from a hunting perspective of anything
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: that does is when the helicopter log an area, Man,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: you cannot get through it. It's tough navigating. It's horrible.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Steve dropped me off there one day and it's like,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, just walk up here. It'll be some deer
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: in there. I think it just got logged. Should be
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: easy walking. And it's like you are crawling underneath trees
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: to then get up on top of trees to then
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: go underneath trees, and the topography is so broken you'd
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: be like climbing on some dead log and you jump
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: out into our dead log. And also you look down
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: you realize you're off the you're on like a soap
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: slippery log. You know that's like rotten, right, and you're like,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: oh that that's not good. Nobody's gonna find me in
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: here ever. Yeah, this is my first time diving up here, um,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: doing a little little snorkeling and free diving, and it's
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: absolutely mind blowing how much life there is when you're
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: looking just looking at the sea floor here like it is.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: It is a living sea floor. It's not like sand
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: and in some turtle grass and the occasional crab. Every
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: it's like every square inch of the ground out here
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: in these bays is alive. Yeah, that's a good point.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: You can put your hand down anywhere and you'd be
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: laying your hand on a living organism absolutely, not not
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: like silica, not just like sand or rock whatever you
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: put your hand down, it's like your hand is laying
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: on living organisms with without doubts, So that it would
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: be like another great example of Steve's like lumpers and
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: splitters thing, and like how uh the s A can
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: be used to protect areas. Um, you know, you you
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: could very well go in like if you really want
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: to do a survey of one of these bays that
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: they're going to potentially raft a bunch of logs. And
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you could go through there with the right
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: people and really cover it well and find some you know,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: tiny sea star or something where you're like, oh, not
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of these left, yeah out here, but here
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: often you're dealing with in this area, you're often dealing
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: with sort of the most effective tool against environmental degradation
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: is the subsistence community. Um, And you it's very if
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: you're impacting subsistence hunters and fishermen who say that you know,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: not say who's who's food and sustenance comes from those resources,
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: that is a that's a force to be reckoned with.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: And and so for there it's like like you know,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: they'll push like that shrimp ground, that's crab ground to
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: select stuff. But recently this corporation here, this tribal corporation
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: that owns most of the coastline here, Um, they're gonna
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: do a ninety there. They're gonna fade it out right
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: now and they're gonna take a year break from old
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: growth law sugging. Wow. Well, I wonder which is a
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: like major decision. Oh yeah, I mean it's it's an
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: entire lifetime of work off for a lot of people,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: right hiatus No, I guess they'll reassess the ninety nine years. Incredible.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: The thinking about the subsistence living up here too. It's
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: like the week at the fish Shack is like a
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: crash course in logistics. I'm like, you see those cup
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: of sugar, Where did this cup of sugar come from?
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: You know? Uh? And he's doing the the food spreadsheets
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: for this place, and you know, uh, you're talking this
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: morning about the kids grabbing random packs of oatmeal. Yeah, like, hey,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: that's somebody's breakfast. Yeah, you just eight Thursday's breakfast on Tuesday. Yeah,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: that's that's That's Actually one of my favorite parts of
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: this coming up here is the logistics of getting everything
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: out here and making it all work. It's it's it's
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: definitely has to be fairly fine tuned to make it
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: all work, or else you're you give stuff in a
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: little trouble. Well, it's so funny because we're not in
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere. Like really, if you zoomed out
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: a little bit, there are people everywhere. There's you know,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: a commercial planes flying into a place not very far
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: from here, as the Coral flies, and it's still like
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: you got to really have your thinking cap on if
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: you're going to have your fuel, your groceries, you're all
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: your stuff dialed for a week, you know, yeah, yeah,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: hardware stuff big time. I'm gonna skip ahead. I was
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: gonna I wanted to hit everybody's primary impression, but no, no,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: I'm skipping ahead to me because you just brought up
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: one of the things I was gonna mention first. One
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: thing I like the most is the way when a
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: good hal of it shows up in town, he never
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: gets caught the first time. Like how bad at aiming
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: they are? Yeah, I mean we will be like bump
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: head a bump, bump heading on our bump. Someone else's
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: like just had a bump. Like you just imagine him
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: down there. Oh, he's going around to everybody and sometimes
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: five or six times before someone buttons into him. And like,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: when one shows up, he's generally gonna get caught, you know,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: when you start getting like and sometimes you'll you'll hit
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: three times before he gets himself hooked. It makes you
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: wonder how they get by. I was thinking, I would
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: love to just have like a bird's eye view of
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: what's going on ice fishing camera down because we're up
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: there for you know, some of these days we're up
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: there for eight hours and not knowing what's going on
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: down there, and then one shows up and like or
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: you're a you're just quiet and just see him over
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: and yeah, Andy, I think that was your biggest one,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: right that you were so like had him on for
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: like three or four and then he got off and
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: you sent it back down and then you called him again. Yeah.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: He I had him on for a minute and then
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: just like Steve was saying, then all of a sudden
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: he came back around and I was going to miss
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: that second time. Yeah, but the whole time you were
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: just cool as a cute cover. In our boat, the
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: late twenties boat, when we were something up, it was
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: just chaos. Sounded like childbirth going on. Look at me. Yeah,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: we had Kelsey made this comment and uh we were like, okay,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: like how much longer should we be here? Like, oh,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: I'll give it twenty minutes. And I hear Kelsey go,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: we've been here six hours, and I was like, we have,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: but with that, who got the last minute fish? Oh yeah,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: And nineteen minutes into that twenty minutes, I gotta fish.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: It's calculated. Uh. The other impression I was gonna mention
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: that was based on the one you did is is annoying.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: It's it's like, I have my three kids up here
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: right now. It's hard to have. I mean it's just hard.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: It's like a lot of people to manage all their coals,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: all wet, stealing, frustrate me, Like I want to strangle them.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: But um I do like them too. I think it's
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: value for them to see, like what goes into utilities.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, liked, do you get a bed, understanding of stuff,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: how stuff functions, water, how to fix everything right, I'll
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: be all moldy and everything, be all wet, moldy all
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: the time. Your kids, I'm probably to get, like how
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: to get your feet? So they got trench foot man.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: Those kids, they're out there in the pouring rain, play
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: in with like one didn't have a raincoat on. It's
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: just it's like cold and they're just going like nothing phases.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: It's interesting. I don't know when people turned into babies,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: but nothing phases. They went out there by themselves in
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: a canoe and came back with three fish, and we
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: were like, what was good? Yeah, yeah, they drive me nuts,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: but I do like them to be exposed and stuff
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: because they got it. I mean, look at our normal house.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: They got it. Gravy, gravy. Their mom like, oh, you
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: need their extra snack, you know, like just all the time. Man,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: that's not what she sounds like, but you get what
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, like totally made. Yeah, and here it's like
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: you have to rash in those pretzels and you're not
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: gonna get anything. Life has just served them on like
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: a planet. I don't think Rosie liked our boat. She
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: went to Jimmy when we switched kids, and Jimmy was like, yeah.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: She was telling me how many rules you guys have
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: on your boat because we're all like every time, like
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: it was, we get out there and about nine fifteen,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: she's like, can I have a snack? And were like,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: we have the whole day to save this this food.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: And next next thing you know that it's open and
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: she's in there. You had the late twenties boat, but
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: all we have experience with is dogs, so we were like,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: we're talking my dog to shut up. Alright, Chester, hit
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: me with your impression. Southeast Alaska in a nutshell. Oh
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: man in a chestnutshell. That's going to be difficult, but
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: first I just want to paint a picture. I'm like
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: sitting here next to my wife in a little tiny
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: shack and it's a shack. Yeah, we just called a cabin.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: My wife's like, it's not a cabin. Yeah, but it's
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: there's something less of the there's fish posters hanging on
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: the wall. Books, I got coffee sitting next to me.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: I'm looking through a window. And whoever painted that window
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: didn't know how to cut very well when they were
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: painting painting the frame, so they were drunk in a way.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: I like it. So there's paint on the window. I'm
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: looking into like a mid tide, not a low tide.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: Cal's mother was out on the beach picking rocks and
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: digging around for shells, and not thirty now, probably a
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: hundred yards past that. The kids were catching salmon not
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: too long ago. And there's boats parked out on a
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: little floating dock that we take out every morning into
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: the into the ocean basically into other coves and fish
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: for hall a bit. And there's call and Steve did
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: diving like there's just dope for scallops, and there's just
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: so much life and it's hard for me to put
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: it in a chestnut shell. But I'm the kind of
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: guy that likes to experience, Like I want to fish
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: for salmon, I want to dive, I want to do
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: all this stuff. And I wish we had more time.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: But you never got to dive, never got to dive. Um.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: So I mean it's an amazing place. I could see
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: myself like spending some serious time up up here and
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: not getting bored. Um. And yeah, I just wish I
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: wish we didn't have to leave. We gotta go to
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: a wedding, which it'll be good, but I wish we
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: had more time. But I mean, I appreciate you having
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: us up here. I was almost like bummed yesterday a
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: little bit that it was winded down. Yeah, and I
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: ran out of chew starting to shake ut. Yeah it's good.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: What's up is that where you're smacking that gum right
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: now because you just bodies like your body so bad?
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Not really, But the second piece, since we've done try
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: it down impressions, all right, Um, I've already been thinking
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: about this. First of all, I will say I'm so
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: excited to try the food, Like finally, I came up here,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: like I said earlier, Chester warn We're like, hey, you
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: have to try this food. That's all we're gonna eat.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: And I at home, you know, I don't really practice
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: the palette of different foods, and so coming up here
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: I already knew. I mentally I was like, Okay, I'm
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: gonna try some food. But not only just trying it.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: It's like we literally caught it just this afternoon and
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: we're packing it. We're you know, I just love the
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: working I like, I love waking up the way we
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: got I finally getting into rhythm, packing the boats, what
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: needs to go in the coolers, and getting everyone assembled,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: getting all the kids dressed and you know who's going
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: what boat. It finally felt like really good to have
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: an order and like go out and really fish and
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: going to that stupid wedding. Catching my first fish was
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: really cool and obviously I think you might have heard it,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: I did, but yards away, I get really excited even
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: catching like a little, you know, this big of a fish.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: So out here I knew it was going to be
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: a different experience. So the fishing was great. The hellib
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: it was incredible. Um I will say another one actually,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed was when you took Julie, Kelsey and
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: I to shrimp for the first time. It was just
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: a perfect setting. It was cool that you taught us
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: like what to do, like you didn't just like you
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: really just told us what to do. And I felt
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: like it was cool because sometimes people will show you physically,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: but you like literally just told us you need to
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: do this and need to do that, go for it.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: And obviously we looked Kelsey and I looked each other like,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: oh ship, we got to pull it together. And it
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: was really cool to watch the process. And then on
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: our way back seeing that killer whale, that was one
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: thing I really wanted to see on this trip. I
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: was like, just the marine by you know, the wildlife
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: is just so different than what I've seen because also,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm scared of everything, and out here I
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: feel like I got some acclamation and I'm not scared
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: of bears anymore. I saw a lot of bart bears,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: not scared of killer whales. I know. I literally was
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: so excited about the profilely influenced by free Willie. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: I guess when I watched that a lot when I
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: was a kid, and I just loved that whale, and
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: I just think that they're just like a boss of
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: the ocean. I don't know, they're just something different. I mean,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: you see, I feel like you would see I see.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: I've seen different types of whales in California, like the
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: pump back. I just never really seen a killer whale
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: unless you know, unfortunately to see world once. But I
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: will say Danielle approached this trip with the way that
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: she approaches everything in her life, which is like feverish
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: enthusiasm and fun. And it was really cool to watch
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: you do that. It was pretty excited. You guys were
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: fishing off the boat and I was like, there's a
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: will I got really close to her and I was like, well,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: that's really there. It was I don't know, I just
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: felt like I really want yeah. And then my last
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: impression is for photography. I just visually like, so I
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: obviously photographed weddings and people a lot, and I knew
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: I really wanted to grow my visual um artistic abilities
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: out here and I really wanted to, you know, look
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: at life in a different way and versus just when
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: you photograph people. It's such a different it's so different
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: than photographing stuff like this and to be able to
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: go home and show my experience, like through documenting it
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: and like not just like oh here's a pretty picture,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: like really documenting what like how we fished, not like
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: the pretty picture. And anyway, it was really exciting. What's
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: your range? Like like plug your wedding photography business? Oh yeah,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: my name is Danielle. My wedding photography business is Danielle
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: Lopez Photo UM on Instagram. What do you mean what's
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: my range? How far you travel? Photograph of wedding Um,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: I'm actually wanting to travel, Like that's my whole goal
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: is to get out and travel because I, I guess
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: because I love being a visual learner and visual artist.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: I would say Bozeman is getting saturated, like I'm in
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: the same venue, same areas, and I really flourish when
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: I'm in new places and I see different because I
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: feel like I see things differently than others. Hard to
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: explain it, but that's also why I feel like I'm
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: meant to do this job, because I see things differently
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: than others. So being out here, I was like, oh,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: you know constantly and so and so people if they
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: want to see your wedding, do you post your wedding
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: photography on that Yeah it's on Instagram. Yeah, so it's
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: Danielle Lopez photo. Um on Instagram, people can hire you
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: to come photograph the writing, but you kind of filled
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: up now, Um, next year is getting there? Um? This year,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: I've I'm at twenty one weddings. Um, and next next
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: year it's not even like I'm already at like ten
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: so and I have like eight emails to answer, So
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: it's exciting. Um, I think I'm capping it at twenty.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: But I really wanted to trigger more of like the intimate,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: like smaller weddings, because I feel like that's just where
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: it is. It's not about like all the glamour and
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: like the details. I just love the capturing connections and
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: actually genuine photographs and cut some people off the list.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: You don't everybody called down. I'm here, I'm moment. The
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: one thing, the one thing I'll add about this trip
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: that I mean, the only downfall is we ran out
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: of boobe. Yeah we had no We're cutting up fish, Like,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: how can we make a cocktail around here? That when
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: I drank a lot, we used to buy cases of
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: vodka leave it up here, cases of handles. Well there's
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: some crazy with the liquor, but we ran out of beer. Yeah,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me up here in
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: Chest just the invite was incredibly special. Yeah, thank you,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: great chef Andy impressions. Well plug your business? Are you
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: still doing catering? Yeah? Plug away down creative little table
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: full of people. Well, obviously I've been fortunate enough to come.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: This is my thirteenth straight year coming up here. So years. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: thirteen straight years. Um, So I feel very very lucky
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: to be a part of this. And obviously that being said,
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: have made a lifetime of memories over those thirteen years.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: And that's kind of the obvious is the company up
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: here is just a great group of people. And over
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: the years we've I've got to beat so many different
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: people because like here it is like table full of
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: people I've never met before. And over the years it's
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: been it's been that way. There's always you guys are
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: always bringing in quality people here. So it's it's been
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure getting to know so many different
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: people through the course of the last decade plus up here. Um.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: And then that being said, being able to be a
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: big part of this and and put my culinary spin
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: on things, and and be able to cook for people,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: which tends to bring some sort of joy to people.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: I guess when you when you have good food in
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: a setting like this. My wife, uh is, like when
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: she's planning on coming here, she's very interested in overlapping.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: She checks. She wants to know what andy schedules bring
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: it up. I mean, said I. I And one of
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: the biggest things for me is I catch myself a
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: lot just kind of laughing, just like the pure like
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: spoils of this place. Like any given night, I'll be
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: staring down the barrel literally hundreds and hundreds of dollars
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: of of seafood like on the market, like and I've
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: got just all of it at my disposal to to
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: play with it. Sometimes it's just mind blogging, like when
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at all this fresh dungeoness and and prawns
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: and and helmet, and I mean, it just it's sometimess
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: like overwhelming, and the fact that it's it's so direct,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: because I mean, you go to the grocery store and
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: you're seeing that nice little packet of cellphone salmon, and
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: you think about the the fisherman, the deck hands the
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: processing ship. Then it goes to the you know, to
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: the cannies, to the truck driver, to the do you
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: think about how many and then to the grocery store handler,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: like how many people have their hands in that we're here.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: It's like you're waking up in the morning. You're going
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: to get that personally, processing and taking great care of
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: that product, only to then turn around and like be
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: able to share it with people not only right now,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: but then down the line. We take the care to
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  Speaker 1: package it, you know, rent everything really well. Get home
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  Speaker 1: on that snowy you know, December night when you're cracking
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  Speaker 1: that pack of how but open and it's like, you
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  Speaker 1: guys are right there. That's one of my favorite parts
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  Speaker 1: of this whole place is like and then I take
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  Speaker 1: that and then share it. I mean I could you know,
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  Speaker 1: dozens and dozens and dozens of people have experienced this
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  Speaker 1: fish from this cabin through the years that I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just give the step away a lot, just like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you guys need Albert for your dinner night here? Yo,
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  Speaker 1: Like I love being able to take this a experience
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  Speaker 1: and then pass along. So this place is Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: place keeps on giving all year around this place keeps
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  Speaker 1: on giving. Yeah, yeah, that's great, man, I know I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to anymore. Do you hit your impressions yet?
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  Speaker 1: Let me wrap it up, because that's gotta get on
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  Speaker 1: the old airplane to go to that stupid wedding. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be a fun wedding. Chester. Do you get your speech done? Oh? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Can you want previewer speech for everybody? Chester? Yeah? Chester
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  Speaker 1: is the best man. That's like we have to go. Yeah, No,
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  Speaker 1: I hope this guy's I hope this wedding is great.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna say some nice stuff about her, give me
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  Speaker 1: an idea about her? Oh, beautiful, beautiful Ashley. You're too
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  Speaker 1: good for Bill. Since I'm the best man here at
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  Speaker 1: this wedding, I don't know why you're not marrying me. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to talk about it. No, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna have some talking points that I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to write down and just kind of wing it in
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  Speaker 1: a way, but have some structure to it. Throws some
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  Speaker 1: jokes in. Yeah, probably they'll be bad. It'll be bad jokes.
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  Speaker 1: Why not? So you're gonna say something nice about her,
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  Speaker 1: say something nice about him, Tell a little story in
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  Speaker 1: there about how he was so drunk. Yep yep um.
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  Speaker 1: And you know mentioned the chicken political petition. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good one. Oh yeah, they started a petition, chicken petition
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  Speaker 1: that they started, so that'll be something. Well, they're chicken
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  Speaker 1: crusaders to try to be allowed to have chickens in
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  Speaker 1: their yards and they're going hard on it. When you
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  Speaker 1: see Seth, he's got his shirt buttoned unbuttoned down to
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  Speaker 1: his belt. He's got a tie tight around his head.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see that? Pictures? Send them home. That's my
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  Speaker 1: favorite set Send them on the minute. He ties the
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  Speaker 1: neck tie around his head as a headband. Didn't do
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  Speaker 1: that wedding because we wore bolo ties, so he's got
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  Speaker 1: a bolo tie around his head like a headband. Send
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  Speaker 1: him on. Alright, Cal, Oh did you have to do yours? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: lots of life. Can we give a shout out to
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  Speaker 1: Cal's mom. Yeah, Cal's mom crushed really is awesome. We
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  Speaker 1: got to meet Cali. That was his date. Yeah, Jack
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  Speaker 1: of Love. So, I mean, that's that's the coolest thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I'm I'm thirty eight these days, and and
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  Speaker 1: that's the first trip that my mom's or my mom
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  Speaker 1: and I have ever done. Um yeah, yeah, and she,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she loves this this stuff, and I knew
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  Speaker 1: she'd take off out here and she's she's very comfortable working,
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable not working, so she loves little jobs and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. So, um, it was It's nice just being
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  Speaker 1: when the first float plane takes off and it's got
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  Speaker 1: your mom on it and Steve Ronnella, like, you know
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to get along just fine because they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have plenty of things to work on at the
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  Speaker 1: Fish and yeah, so that was a really really cool deal.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I know she'll be talking about this forever.
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  Speaker 1: She's she's in heaven out here, and um oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: I I haven't been up here. I came up a
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  Speaker 1: lot after my first stay because we did and ended
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  Speaker 1: up coming back here for a show and and something else.
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  Speaker 1: So I got like a lot in the first year
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  Speaker 1: or two years, and then I haven't been up here
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  Speaker 1: in like five years. And yeah, it's just like it's
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  Speaker 1: just like another spot on that list of place is
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: that you're just like aching to come back to before
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  Speaker 1: you actually leave, which makes it hard. I hope you
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: just want every day to be like the best day
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  Speaker 1: we've been putting in big days. This this is a
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  Speaker 1: killer crew. It takes takes seventy two hours up here
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  Speaker 1: for folks to settle in, getting a rhythm from from
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  Speaker 1: what I saw this trip, and how to dry their socks. Yeah,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: you know all the things, and yeah we're breaking up
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  Speaker 1: the band too soon. Oh where's that? All right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: there you have, Ladies and gentleman, Special edition Shack of Love.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, not live from the fish shack, Shack of Love.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go catch some fish, Let's go tune in next week.
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  Speaker 1: One