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October 8, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 4: I'm John Clark.
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  Speaker 1: Friday's Fearless Football Forecast Contest. It's brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: 24 hours to go online at chiphower.com to the contest
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  Speaker 1: page and make your picks. It's week number six. Georgia-Alabama
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  Speaker 1: is our tiebreaker. Rudder at Belton. Consolidated at Pflugerville-Weiss. A
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  Speaker 1: & M- Missouri. Texas-Oklahoma and Dallas. UCLA-Oregon. Houston-Kansas State. Florida State-Louisville.
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  Speaker 1: Boise State-Fresno State. And the Texans against the Titans. Those
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  Speaker 1: are the ten games we're picking this week. You can
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  Speaker 1: win valuable prizes doing this. And somebody's going to get
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  Speaker 1: their name engraved on the cup, which is why we
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  Speaker 1: all play. Friday's Fearless Football Forecast Contest, America's most loved
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  Speaker 1: football pick-em contest. It's a division of Sports Talk and
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  Speaker 1: presented by Chad Jones Law and Zwirneman Florey. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of things. Sam Adams will be the Texas A &
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  Speaker 1: M representative in the 2026 SEC Football Legends class. He's
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  Speaker 1: joining a couple of Heisman Trophy winners in this class.
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  Speaker 1: Billy Sims from Oklahoma, Ricky Williams from Texas, and the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame has announced their 26-27 class.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of administrators, Rick Baker, longtime CEO Bruce Gadd,
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  Speaker 1: longtime president and volunteer and former Richardson High School quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Mack Brown. Lance McElhaney, the Honey Badger Tyron Matthew, and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Taylor of Notre Dame will be part of the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl class inducted this spring. Okay, I promised you
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to deliver. Bucky Ball is just around the corner.
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  Speaker 6: I think we're talking to Jalen Shelley here in a
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  Speaker 6: few minutes. Just, you know, what really drew you guys
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  Speaker 6: to him out of the portal and just... How has
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  Speaker 6: he maybe lived up to what y'all envisioned him just
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  Speaker 6: through this summer as y'all get ready for the season?
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  Speaker 7: 6'9, went long, highly skilled. We had to get bigger
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  Speaker 7: and longer, but we still don't want to sacrifice our
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  Speaker 7: skill because skill at the end of the day is
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  Speaker 7: going to win. Our team last year had a pretty
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  Speaker 7: good season, and we were very undersized, but we had skill.
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  Speaker 7: So whenever you can find length with skill, you've got
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  Speaker 7: to grab that up. He can play a point guard.
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  Speaker 7: He can play a forward. in what we do, which
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  Speaker 7: is four guys on the perimeter. Really has developed a shooting,
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  Speaker 7: really sees the game well, and a really good defender.
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  Speaker 7: He's dealing with a little small injury right now, but
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  Speaker 7: he's been pretty dang good. I expect him to have
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  Speaker 7: a good season.
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  Speaker 8: How challenging is it to find a guy, kind of
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  Speaker 8: to what you were saying, who's that tall but can
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  Speaker 8: play the style of defense that y'all.
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  Speaker 9: Want to play?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. It's tough. That's why you see a lot of
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  Speaker 7: European players coming over. Because, like, when you have taller
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  Speaker 7: players in Europe, they don't just put them on the
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  Speaker 7: block at an early age. A lot of times here
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  Speaker 7: you have a tall player, they put them on the block.
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  Speaker 7: So that's why you don't see the skill with long
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  Speaker 7: players as much. But, you know, he's somebody that I'd
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  Speaker 7: heard about throughout the season. We're just watching players. And
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  Speaker 7: I knew my coach, assistant coach, Bill Armstrong, coached me
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  Speaker 7: in college. He's head coach at McNeese. Coached him in
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  Speaker 7: high school at Link, you know.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: When he went in, I asked him a lot about him,
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  Speaker 7: and he had a lot of good things to say
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  Speaker 7: about his potential. And so not many out there we
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  Speaker 7: had to get him. Texas kid, you know, right here
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  Speaker 7: from Dallas. You mentioned how you.
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  Speaker 6: Could play one through four just in an ideal setting.
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  Speaker 6: What maybe position would you all envision him being in, like, if.
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  Speaker 7: You had it your way? Our one through four is
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  Speaker 7: kind of interchangeable, but three position, pretty good. Like, he'll
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  Speaker 7: probably guard the other team's three, their biggest guard. So
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  Speaker 7: it probably will fit the most.
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  Speaker 10: How do you feel like his defensive rebounding has translated
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  Speaker 10: to the SEC? Obviously he was a great defensive rebounder
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  Speaker 10: in the WCC, but is that something you all needed
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  Speaker 10: here this year?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think he'll be good, and I think we'll
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  Speaker 7: be bigger at the four. So that's going to help
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  Speaker 7: him rebound because he'll be guarding those teams three more
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  Speaker 7: than the four. Like when you had Reuben at the
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  Speaker 7: four last year, which is hilarious that that's what we had,
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  Speaker 7: you know, and just size-wise, like I can't expect Reuben
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  Speaker 7: to get many rebounds. I just can expect him to
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  Speaker 7: try to do everything he can to stop his man
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  Speaker 7: from getting rebounds. But, like, when you've got a Mack
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  Speaker 7: and a Zach playing the four or a Cade, well,
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  Speaker 7: now it frees up those threes to come down there
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  Speaker 7: and get the ball.
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  Speaker 8: A couple weeks in now, what's your assessment of how
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  Speaker 8: the team's looked and just how you guys are coming together?
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  Speaker 7: You know, they're getting better. Our defense has got to
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  Speaker 7: get better in the half court particularly. They've got a
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  Speaker 7: good vibe for understanding people's player strengths and weaknesses. You know,
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  Speaker 7: if we have the whole roster together and all the players,
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  Speaker 7: I think we can space the floor really well. And
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  Speaker 7: I think the returners from last year improved a lot.
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  Speaker 7: So freshmen probably a little ahead of where I thought
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  Speaker 7: they'd be at this time. So I like our group, but,
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  Speaker 7: you know, we'll see when the bullets start flying.
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  Speaker 11: Does the start of practice this year, does it feel
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  Speaker 11: different than last year as far as, you know, how
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  Speaker 11: far along you guys are?
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  Speaker 7: Or is it just because there are so many new guys,
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  Speaker 7: like a starting over? Yeah, I think we're way further ahead.
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  Speaker 7: The foreign tour helped, obviously. You know, Ryland couldn't go
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  Speaker 7: on the deal this summer, and neither was Pope. But
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  Speaker 7: Ryland's played here. Pope's been in the SEC. But everybody
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  Speaker 7: else has played some type of game together down there
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  Speaker 7: in the Bahamas. I think they know what I value,
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  Speaker 7: and so I don't think it will be like a
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  Speaker 7: three- or four-game deal to understand, like, hey, I've got
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  Speaker 7: to do this, and I'm going to play.
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  Speaker 11: Have you had to change sort of how you think
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  Speaker 11: about using personnel– before the bryson you know when you
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  Speaker 11: had bryson warren here now now not having him here
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  Speaker 11: how much has.
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  Speaker 7: That philosophy had to change yeah i mean you got
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  Speaker 7: to change throughout like even in the season with injury
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  Speaker 7: like you know mckenzie went down last year so you
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  Speaker 7: know we had to change all right we're going to
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  Speaker 7: play four guards and really just totally space it and
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  Speaker 7: live with shooting a lot of threes we can switch
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  Speaker 7: everything one through four because their size is the same
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  Speaker 7: right so like that's just coaching, everyone's going to do that.
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  Speaker 7: You lose players, you've got to change where your strengths
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  Speaker 7: and weaknesses are. Adding Pope and potentially Ryland, those players
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  Speaker 7: right there give you different dimensions, can space the floor.
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  Speaker 6: You had told us after the season ended up in
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  Speaker 6: Oklahoma City, positional length was going to be the priority
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  Speaker 6: in the transfer portal. Now that you've had the summer
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  Speaker 6: and you're in these preseason practices, like What's maybe the
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  Speaker 6: biggest way that getting some of those guys has helped y'all?
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  Speaker 7: Finishing around the rim. Like we were not good around
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  Speaker 7: the rim at all last year, particularly with our guards.
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  Speaker 7: We can finish and attack the basket. Like our guys
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  Speaker 7: can get to the paint. Last year, I mentioned this
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  Speaker 7: when I was in here last time, it's just like
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  Speaker 7: to score last year, it felt like we had to
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  Speaker 7: like drive, kick eight times to three more one mores
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  Speaker 7: with somebody like perfectly ready to catch it and shoot it.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Which was how they had to play, and they bought
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  Speaker 7: into that. But, like, you know, we didn't have enough
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  Speaker 7: guys that go racket. Like, we have some guys that
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  Speaker 7: can get to the line and racket. And then defensively
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  Speaker 7: around the basket, like, things are more of a challenge. Like,
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  Speaker 7: you don't have to pitch a perfect game.
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  Speaker 8: What have you seen from Zach? And has he kind
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  Speaker 8: of stepped into, like, a leadership role? How comfortable is he, you.
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  Speaker 7: Know, in year two? Yeah, his leadership's been awesome. Like,
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  Speaker 7: Zach's a tough kid. He's a team player. He's really
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  Speaker 7: shooting the ball well. You know, he wants to win.
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  Speaker 7: He's seen winning, right? But I think he needed just confidence,
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  Speaker 7: and I think last year helped him a lot because
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  Speaker 7: he went several years not getting that many minutes. So
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  Speaker 7: he's been the SEC. I think he'll have a really
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  Speaker 7: good year for us.
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  Speaker 5: How important is it to have returners like Zach who
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  Speaker 5: have played in the system before?
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  Speaker 7: It matters a lot. I think that the effort that
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  Speaker 7: we have to play with to make what we do work,
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  Speaker 7: if you don't have players who are constantly in the
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  Speaker 7: locker room demanding it the same way that I do,
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  Speaker 7: then it's really hard. We're going to get there always,
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  Speaker 7: but it's like how quick can we get there, right?
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  Speaker 7: So I think when you've got returners like that that
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  Speaker 7: are echoing the voice that you need, then you're just
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  Speaker 7: going to get to where you're trying to get to faster.
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  Speaker 7: And that's one of our goals. We don't want to
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  Speaker 7: start the season like three weeks before we're in game
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  Speaker 7: shape or three weeks before we know how hard you've
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  Speaker 7: got to play, take two losses, trick a game off
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  Speaker 7: the last ten minutes that we shouldn't have, come out
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  Speaker 7: on a road game and not know what planet we're
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  Speaker 7: on like when we played Oklahoma State last year. We
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  Speaker 7: want to try to get that stuff out the way
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  Speaker 7: in these scrimmages. And with returners, I think they can
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  Speaker 7: vouch for it when they've gone through it and seen
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  Speaker 7: the ebbs and flows of what it's like when you
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  Speaker 7: don't do it the right way.
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  Speaker 10: Sometimes you can have returners that you just bring back
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  Speaker 10: because they know the system, but you obviously had the
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  Speaker 10: chance to bring back some of your guards from last
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  Speaker 10: year and chose not to because.
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  Speaker 4: You felt you could upgrade in the portal.
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  Speaker 10: Why did you not get complacent with bringing back just
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  Speaker 10: because they knew the system?
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  Speaker 7: Well, in this day and age, it's a lot of
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  Speaker 7: business decisions going to it, right? And so it's like,
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  Speaker 7: you know, it's not more than just who you like,
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  Speaker 7: who you don't like. It's kind of what certain price
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  Speaker 7: points are, and it's got to make sense to what
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  Speaker 7: you're trying to do to construct an overall roster. You
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  Speaker 7: know what I mean? And I think that, like, every
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  Speaker 7: year you're trying to get better. We know that. Like
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  Speaker 7: every team out there has to get better. And, you know,
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  Speaker 7: you can't, let me say it like this, when it
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  Speaker 7: comes down to business side of things that I don't
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  Speaker 7: get super involved in, you can't be loose. And someone
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  Speaker 7: gave this example where, let's say that everybody in here
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  Speaker 7: was going to make $ 10, but everybody wants $ 11. Okay,
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  Speaker 7: and I do that with 10 people. and we're going
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  Speaker 7: to get 11 players. Now all of a sudden we
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  Speaker 7: don't have enough money for the 11th player. I just
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  Speaker 7: want this much more. At some point when it comes
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  Speaker 7: down to the business side of things, you've got to
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  Speaker 7: be responsible to build the roster the right way. Whatever
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  Speaker 7: that means is what you've got to do. When you
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  Speaker 7: evaluate it, it's got to make sense for everybody.
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  Speaker 6: How would you describe Jalen Shelley's personality and the guy.
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  Speaker 4: He is on your team?
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  Speaker 7: He's like a really smart kid, like very smart, high
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  Speaker 7: basketball IQ. Dad was a professional athlete. He, so he's
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  Speaker 7: been around it. You know, he's seen high major and
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  Speaker 7: then he's seen mid-major, now back to high major. He's
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  Speaker 7: easy to talk to, wants to be coached, gets down
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  Speaker 7: on himself more than anybody. So those are the kind
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  Speaker 7: of players that you want because like, you know, it
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  Speaker 7: means something to him to do right. I think that
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  Speaker 7: really like he's got a very, very bright future. Like,
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  Speaker 7: He can play at the highest level if he works
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  Speaker 7: and has a pro mindset. Dribble, pass, shoot. Enjoy to
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  Speaker 7: be around. Other players gravitate towards him. They all hang
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  Speaker 7: out together. He's a good dude. I think y'all love
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  Speaker 7: watching him play. Y'all can interview him, right, today? Y'all
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  Speaker 7: like talking to him.
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  Speaker 4: How has the cohesion of this team been?
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  Speaker 11: Obviously, a lot of new faces and Learning each other,
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  Speaker 11: how has it been kind of seeing them come.
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  Speaker 9: Together this offseason?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been good. I think I mentioned this last time,
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  Speaker 7: but they're more like our team last year was a
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  Speaker 7: bunch of older players. They were kind of a pro mindset.
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  Speaker 7: They liked each other, but they just kind of showed
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  Speaker 7: up to do business. You know what I mean? And
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  Speaker 7: they fought a total team on the floor. You can
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  Speaker 7: have it both ways. I mean, you watch the pros.
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  Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure when I watched the Golden State Warriors
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  Speaker 7: with Steph and all those guys when they were rolling,
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  Speaker 7: They were pros. They were a dang team out there.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying? You can say the same
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  Speaker 7: deal with whoever team you like in any sport. And
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  Speaker 7: that's one way of doing it. This group's like the
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  Speaker 7: kind of group that they all like to hang together.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I mean? Like they're that kind of team.
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  Speaker 7: Like if you go bowling, they're all going to be bowling.
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  Speaker 7: Like they're not too cool for school. Like it's, you know,
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  Speaker 7: so they're kind of a younger mindset with that, you know. But,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I've coached high school, so I've seen it
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  Speaker 7: both ways. So they're a fun group.
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  Speaker 6: Two Jalen's on your team. You come up with a
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  Speaker 6: couple of nicknames to distinguish the two guys?
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  Speaker 7: I just call them by their last name. You know,
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  Speaker 7: now some things I call them I can't say in here,
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  Speaker 7: just depending if they're getting back and blocking shots and
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  Speaker 7: playing defense.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's Bucky, the owner-operator of Bucky Ball. Game
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  Speaker 1: this month at SMU on October 25th, Sunday afternoon, 1 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: That's an exhibition game. But I'm planning on being there.
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  Speaker 1: Not kidding. All right. Clark Eisenhower, Outdoor Edition. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to one of my favorite places, the Everglades, with Captain
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  Speaker 1: Peter Lopez.
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  Speaker 12: We are at Flamingo in the Everglades in Florida with
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  Speaker 12: Captain Peter Lopez here on the Clark Eisenhower Outdoor Edition show.
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  Speaker 12: After a morning and a half in the Everglades, first
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  Speaker 12: of all, it was hot.
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  Speaker 13: It was scorching out there and not a lick of wind,
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  Speaker 13: which doesn't help.
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  Speaker 12: And that hardly ever happens with me. It's usually blowing 40.
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  Speaker 12: You know, we talked about that, right? It's never blowing
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  Speaker 12: just right. It's either too much or too little.
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  Speaker 13: Yep, it's never just right, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 14: Well, it is if you're on the water as long
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  Speaker 14: as you are. You fight just right days.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, you get those windows where it's just right, but...
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  Speaker 13: It's been slick here the past couple weeks, and it's
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  Speaker 13: been really hot.
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  Speaker 12: Hot with thundershowers, but we dodged all those today. It
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  Speaker 12: was just a great day in the Everglades. You were
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  Speaker 12: just visiting that. If it was up to you, you
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  Speaker 12: would probably fish here every day.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah. I could spend every day of the rest
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  Speaker 13: of my life here and still never be tired of it.
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  Speaker 13: Every time I go anywhere else to fish, all I
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  Speaker 13: could think about is being here.
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  Speaker 14: What's magical to you about it?
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  Speaker 13: Just the endless amount of water and every turn you make,
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  Speaker 13: something different could be going on around that next corner
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  Speaker 13: and just exploring and getting lost and that's what makes
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  Speaker 13: it special to me.
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  Speaker 14: For me, it's just the amount of life.
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  Speaker 12: You know, we just saw manatees coming in, all kinds
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  Speaker 12: of species of sharks. We caught snook, trout, redfish. Saw ray,
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  Speaker 12: saw turtle, and bird life is just off the charts here.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah, it's incredible the amount of life that's here.
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  Speaker 13: I think that's really what makes it really special, definitely.
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  Speaker 12: And we saw, when we were back there, we saw
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  Speaker 12: two boats, I think, most.
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  Speaker 14: Of the morning.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah, it's only a couple boats out today, which
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  Speaker 13: is surprising considering the weather.
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  Speaker 14: It's a big area.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, it is a big area, so everybody kind of
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  Speaker 13: spreads out. But with today's weather, you'd think there'd be
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  Speaker 13: a lot more people out.
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  Speaker 12: So you took us right into the middle of fish.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, first thing, you had been there, I think, recently,
• 17:11
  Speaker 12: I guess. Mullet everywhere, snook everywhere, sharks everywhere. And, man,
• 17:20
  Speaker 12: they were spooky today.
• 17:23
  Speaker 13: Yeah, they were really, really finicky. I think it was
• 17:26
  Speaker 13: mainly because they were in clean water. And then on
• 17:28
  Speaker 13: top of that, it was slicked out. So they were
• 17:31
  Speaker 13: very aware of everything going on anywhere around them.
• 17:34
  Speaker 12: We needed just a little breeze, right, to cut part
• 17:38
  Speaker 12: of that because they were spooking at the movement of
• 17:43
  Speaker 12: my rod.
• 17:44
  Speaker 14: And I wasn't even on the platform, right?
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: No.
• 17:46
  Speaker 14: Whether it was shadows or the movement.
• 17:48
  Speaker 12: Of the rod or the lure hitting the water, they
• 17:52
  Speaker 12: were just spooky.
• 17:54
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah. Some of those fish were spooking while the...
• 17:57
  Speaker 13: plastic was in the air before it even hit the water.
• 18:00
  Speaker 14: Yeah that's really unusual let's be honest about that.
• 18:03
  Speaker 13: Isn't it yeah it is crazy but i definitely think
• 18:05
  Speaker 13: it has a lot to do with just birds ospreys
• 18:08
  Speaker 13: trying to catch them and messing with them all the
• 18:10
  Speaker 13: time and so i feel like they're constantly.
• 18:12
  Speaker 14: Looking up yeah they're in survival.
• 18:15
  Speaker 13: Mode yeah they are they have to be they got
• 18:17
  Speaker 13: all those sharks and ospreys and bald eagles and everything
• 18:21
  Speaker 13: after them.
• 18:22
  Speaker 14: So everything is after them including fishermen.
• 18:25
  Speaker 13: Including us yeah.
• 18:27
  Speaker 12: And you told me there's a big tournament tomorrow so
• 18:30
  Speaker 12: there's going to be a lot of boats probably.
• 18:32
  Speaker 13: In that area oh yeah i think that zone will
• 18:35
  Speaker 13: this whole zone here will be pretty loaded up with
• 18:37
  Speaker 13: people i think there's probably 50 something boats fishing.
• 18:40
  Speaker 11: It so wow Yeah.
• 18:43
  Speaker 14: Good luck, by the way.
• 18:44
  Speaker 13: Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm going to need.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: It.
• 18:48
  Speaker 14: Will you come to this area?
• 18:50
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm going to definitely be somewhere in this zone,
• 18:52
  Speaker 13: bouncing around maybe a little bit to try and get
• 18:55
  Speaker 13: all the species because this is the one place where
• 18:57
  Speaker 13: I have to come to get the redfish and the
• 19:00
  Speaker 13: snook and the trout and everything. Probably the black drum.
• 19:05
  Speaker 14: You did see a tarpon from the polling platform.
• 19:09
  Speaker 13: I did. I saw that one tarpon.
• 19:11
  Speaker 14: Nothing rolling this morning.
• 19:12
  Speaker 13: No rollers, and it was glassed out. It was a
• 19:14
  Speaker 13: perfect morning. I thought they would be.
• 19:16
  Speaker 12: They must have been somewhere else because in a morning
• 19:19
  Speaker 12: like this.
• 19:20
  Speaker 14: Early, and we were there pretty early.
• 19:21
  Speaker 13: Yeah, definitely. Once the sun pokes up, a lot of
• 19:24
  Speaker 13: times they lay down. Sure. But we did get out
• 19:27
  Speaker 13: there early enough to where the sun was low enough
• 19:29
  Speaker 13: to where they should have still been rolling and doing something.
• 19:32
  Speaker 14: So that's the other thing.
• 19:33
  Speaker 12: I don't know how many species you just mentioned, six
• 19:36
  Speaker 12: or seven, but they could all be caught.
• 19:38
  Speaker 14: In the area where we were today.
• 19:39
  Speaker 13: Yeah, pretty much all of them except for the bonefish.
• 19:42
  Speaker 14: Yeah, sure.
• 19:43
  Speaker 13: So, yeah, the bonefish will have to catch a little
• 19:47
  Speaker 13: in a different zone.
• 19:48
  Speaker 14: And you've been on bonefish.
• 19:50
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah, the bonefishing has been really good.
• 19:52
  Speaker 12: You mentioned that, that they're everywhere along the Keys right now.
• 19:56
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah, everywhere I've been and I've spoken to buddies
• 19:59
  Speaker 13: from Key West all the way to Biscayne Bay and
• 20:02
  Speaker 13: bonefish just about everywhere you go.
• 20:04
  Speaker 14: Why do you think that is?
• 20:06
  Speaker 13: Honestly, I've been thinking about it a lot lately, and
• 20:08
  Speaker 13: I just can't figure it out, honestly.
• 20:10
  Speaker 14: One of those years?
• 20:12
  Speaker 13: Just one of those years, I guess, where they're just
• 20:14
  Speaker 13: really happy for some reason.
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: I'd like to think that maybe some efforts that people
• 20:20
  Speaker 12: have taken around here is beginning to pay off, because
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: they pretty much disappeared for a while, didn't they?
• 20:27
  Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, they did. They were scarce for a little
• 20:30
  Speaker 13: while there, but... Last couple of years, I feel like myself,
• 20:34
  Speaker 13: I personally think it's been getting better. A lot more
• 20:37
  Speaker 13: fish around.
• 20:37
  Speaker 14: Yeah, so you've seen it.
• 20:38
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I've been starting to see more and more fish. Obviously,
• 20:42
  Speaker 13: with the right conditions and everything, when the stars align,
• 20:46
  Speaker 13: there can be some really good bonefishing.
• 20:49
  Speaker 12: And one of the things that I've seen of this
• 20:53
  Speaker 12: area over the years is, generally speaking, Isla Morada area,
• 20:58
  Speaker 12: the size of those bonefish have traditionally been pretty good,
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: haven't they?
• 21:02
  Speaker 13: Yeah. Back in the day, recently, a lot of smaller fish.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 21:06
  Speaker 14: Well, you know, there's pluses and minuses for that. Oh, absolutely.
• 21:10
  Speaker 13: I'd rather have small fish than no fish.
• 21:12
  Speaker 14: Absolutely.
• 21:13
  Speaker 13: A lot of, like, fish from, like, one to four-pound range.
• 21:17
  Speaker 12: You had a really good day on the water with bonefish.
• 21:20
  Speaker 12: Was it yesterday you were telling me about? When did
• 21:22
  Speaker 12: you catch 13 bonefish?
• 21:23
  Speaker 13: This was, I think, three weeks ago.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 21:26
  Speaker 12: I mean, that's a day for people who don't understand that.
• 21:30
  Speaker 12: That's a career for some people.
• 21:31
  Speaker 13: Yeah, that was a very special day. Those are few
• 21:34
  Speaker 13: and far between.
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 21:36
  Speaker 13: But we had the right conditions, tons of fish around
• 21:38
  Speaker 13: the boat, and it just worked out.
• 21:42
  Speaker 14: Do you ever fish for permit?
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 21:45
  Speaker 14: Speaking of frustrating.
• 21:46
  Speaker 15: I do.
• 21:47
  Speaker 13: I do frustrate myself every now and then. Not recently.
• 21:52
  Speaker 13: I haven't been too much.
• 21:53
  Speaker 14: We're talking about on the fly.
• 21:55
  Speaker 13: Oh, on the fly, yeah. No, I haven't. Recently, I
• 21:58
  Speaker 13: have not been. I haven't been trying.
• 21:59
  Speaker 14: I mean, that's a whole other issue.
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 22:02
  Speaker 13: Usually, while you're bone fishing, you'll see permit.
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 22:04
  Speaker 13: In between, but recently, I haven't been seeing a lot.
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 13: Just mainly bone fish, so I've been sticking with them.
• 22:11
  Speaker 13: They're a lot more cooperative.
• 22:13
  Speaker 14: How would you describe the health of the fishery overall,
• 22:17
  Speaker 14: the water? You're on the water every day. Where are
• 22:20
  Speaker 14: we right now?
• 22:22
  Speaker 16: Um.
• 22:24
  Speaker 13: I think there's definitely zones that are healthy, and then
• 22:27
  Speaker 13: there's zones that aren't due to lack of fresh water,
• 22:31
  Speaker 13: and they need that. So this year, compared to other years,
• 22:37
  Speaker 13: I haven't been seeing as many algae blooms, which is good.
• 22:39
  Speaker 14: That is good. Yeah, I haven't read a lot.
• 22:41
  Speaker 12: You know, usually every summer we're reading about that, and again,
• 22:46
  Speaker 12: maybe a few of the steps that have been taken
• 22:49
  Speaker 12: is beginning to pay off, and we're hopeful for that.
• 22:52
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I think so for sure. Um, but yeah, it's
• 22:56
  Speaker 13: definitely a plus that I haven't had to deal with
• 22:58
  Speaker 13: that because usually, you know, you'll lose tons of area
• 23:02
  Speaker 13: to fish because the water's pea green, you know, it's
• 23:05
  Speaker 13: nasty and nothing wants to be there. But thankfully this year,
• 23:10
  Speaker 13: I haven't really seen much of that going on.
• 23:13
  Speaker 12: You told me a python story and I, I was
• 23:15
  Speaker 12: ready to crawl back in the car and lock the door.
• 23:17
  Speaker 12: So you're, you're grabbing pythons. How long ago was that
• 23:21
  Speaker 12: here in the park?
• 23:22
  Speaker 13: Um that one that I told you about that one
• 23:25
  Speaker 13: was probably five.
• 23:27
  Speaker 12: Years ago now okay 17 feet oh that one yeah
• 23:31
  Speaker 12: that one yeah that one that bit you that one was.
• 23:33
  Speaker 13: Probably oh yeah yeah that big one was nine years
• 23:38
  Speaker 13: ago I'd say yeah eight eight nine years ago and
• 23:41
  Speaker 13: it bit you that one didn't The smaller one did,
• 23:45
  Speaker 13: the six-footer.
• 23:46
  Speaker 14: Oh, it was only six feet.
• 23:47
  Speaker 13: That big one would have, if that thing bit me,
• 23:50
  Speaker 13: it would have been bad.
• 23:50
  Speaker 14: You would have known about it.
• 23:51
  Speaker 13: His head was like probably nine inches long.
• 23:55
  Speaker 14: Why do you pick these things up? That's my biggest question.
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: Well, I just think about everything they're killing, you know,
• 24:03
  Speaker 13: being out here. They're killing everything in their path, all
• 24:05
  Speaker 13: the wading birds, anything that moves.
• 24:08
  Speaker 14: Yeah, that doesn't answer my question why you picked them.
• 24:11
  Speaker 13: So I feel like I need to definitely.
• 24:13
  Speaker 14: You're doing your part.
• 24:14
  Speaker 13: When I see one, I have to pick it up. Otherwise,
• 24:16
  Speaker 13: I feel guilty.
• 24:18
  Speaker 14: I mean, that's fair.
• 24:18
  Speaker 13: Just driving away from it. That's fair.
• 24:21
  Speaker 12: Again, you grew up in the area. Have you seen
• 24:24
  Speaker 12: a decrease in the number of wildlife here as you
• 24:28
  Speaker 12: drive down this road to get here?
• 24:30
  Speaker 14: Over the years, I mean.
• 24:32
  Speaker 13: Definitely. I mean, you don't see any rabbits or any rodents, really.
• 24:37
  Speaker 13: I mean, you see birds, but that's about it, really.
• 24:41
  Speaker 14: And I'm told they eat a lot of deer, too.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 24:46
  Speaker 13: I've seen out of the hundreds of times I've driven
• 24:48
  Speaker 13: this road, I've probably seen five, six deer.
• 24:51
  Speaker 12: And this is a guy that drives this road a lot.
• 24:53
  Speaker 12: So that means there aren't many deer left around.
• 24:56
  Speaker 13: They also have a lot of area, too.
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 24:59
  Speaker 14: I mean, that's fair.
• 25:00
  Speaker 13: I feel like there's definitely more than we think, but
• 25:02
  Speaker 13: I don't think there's as much as there used to
• 25:05
  Speaker 13: be due to... Probably pythons, water. A lot of reasons.
• 25:11
  Speaker 13: I don't think it's specifically the pythons, but I think
• 25:14
  Speaker 13: they definitely do take a toll on the wildlife.
• 25:19
  Speaker 12: You're fairly optimistic in terms of, I mean, you make
• 25:21
  Speaker 12: your living doing this, in terms of the amount of
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: fish that are still around to be caught?
• 25:27
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's definitely a lot of fish, considering,
• 25:30
  Speaker 13: you know, everything this place has been put through.
• 25:32
  Speaker 14: A lot of fishermen.
• 25:33
  Speaker 13: Yeah, a lot of fishermen, a lot of pressure. And
• 25:37
  Speaker 13: water issues, but there's still really good fishing. There's a
• 25:41
  Speaker 13: lot of fish around. I always like to hear that.
• 25:45
  Speaker 12: So how can folks get in touch with you, Pete,
• 25:47
  Speaker 12: if they want to come down here? And again, this place,
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: I'm like him. I would fish here every time. I
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: love this place. We didn't catch a ton of fish today.
• 25:58
  Speaker 14: It didn't matter.
• 26:01
  Speaker 12: As he mentioned before, you can come out here and
• 26:03
  Speaker 12: not catch a fish today. And you'll have a tremendous
• 26:06
  Speaker 12: day just because you're on the water every day.
• 26:08
  Speaker 14: You never know what you're going to see from day
• 26:11
  Speaker 14: to day, do you?
• 26:12
  Speaker 13: No, you never know, honestly. Every day is different. So
• 26:15
  Speaker 13: that's what makes it special, you know.
• 26:17
  Speaker 14: So tell me how folks get in touch with you.
• 26:20
  Speaker 13: I don't have a website. I don't really have anything
• 26:23
  Speaker 13: I don't advertise. But usually everybody just gets, you know.
• 26:27
  Speaker 13: through text or phone call okay.
• 26:29
  Speaker 14: I think you're on twitter are you not on twitter.
• 26:31
  Speaker 13: I have an instagram page yeah i have i have
• 26:33
  Speaker 13: an instagram page um but that's about it yeah through
• 26:37
  Speaker 13: instagram or phone.
• 26:38
  Speaker 14: Call okay uh give your phone number.
• 26:43
  Speaker 13: Real quick uh 305-492-3031.
• 26:47
  Speaker 12: And we'll put that up i'll have that available but
• 26:49
  Speaker 12: but how long have you been doing this now I've been.
• 26:52
  Speaker 13: Guiding full-time now for probably nine years, I would say.
• 26:56
  Speaker 14: Good gosh.
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 26:58
  Speaker 14: I think we were with you the first year, I believe.
• 27:00
  Speaker 13: It's been a while, yeah, for sure.
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 27:03
  Speaker 13: But before that, fishing a ton on my own. Before
• 27:07
  Speaker 13: I was doing it for work, I never knew it
• 27:08
  Speaker 13: was possible to do this for work. But as soon
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: as I realized that it was possible, I was like, man,
• 27:13
  Speaker 13: that's what I'm going to do.
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: Well, but you do get to fish some, but as
• 27:19
  Speaker 12: we've talked many times... Guides don't– you're not fishing for
• 27:23
  Speaker 12: a living. You're helping other people fish for a living.
• 27:26
  Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
• 27:26
  Speaker 13: Most of the time, you're work fishing.
• 27:28
  Speaker 14: You're doing this so you can fish every now and then.
• 27:31
  Speaker 13: Exactly, yeah. And between my days of work, I have
• 27:34
  Speaker 13: a day off. I'm probably out fishing. Yeah, I'm probably fishing.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 27:38
  Speaker 12: I mean, that's a guy who loves what he does,
• 27:40
  Speaker 12: and it pays off. Thank you so much, man. It's
• 27:43
  Speaker 12: great to be back with you. We had a great
• 27:45
  Speaker 12: time today. I appreciate it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 13: Yeah, it's always a good time to have you and
• 27:48
  Speaker 13: hope to do it again soon.
• 27:49
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• 34:02
  Speaker 1: may have been injured, but then it began moving toward him.
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  Speaker 1: According to Fish and Game, the raccoon grabbed, bit, scratched
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  Speaker 1: his legs and forearm. Another person who went to help
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: him was also scratched. Both people sought medical treatment following
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  Speaker 1: the encounter. Fishing Game dispatched the raccoon, sent it to
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  Speaker 1: the Southeastern Idaho Public Health for testing, and wonder of wonders,
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  Speaker 1: the animal tested negative for rabies. Other tests still pending.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: The incident comes after Fish and Game received several reports
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  Speaker 1: in June of raccoons displaying unusual behavior, including appearing sick
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: or injured, acting lethargic, remaining in plain view during daylight hours.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: That's not normal. Fish and Game submitted one of those
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: for testing. It tested negative for rabies, but positive for
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: canine distemper, a widespread disease that primarily affects canids, raccoons, skunks.
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  Speaker 1: It's not transmissible to humans, but it can be transmitted
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  Speaker 1: to dogs. And I always love these reports. Fishing Game
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: reminds residents that unusual raccoon behavior does not necessarily mean
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: an animal has rabies or distemper. People and pets should
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: maintain a safe distance from raccoon and other wildlife. Look,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: this is Idaho, where there's still a culture of hunting
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  Speaker 1: and outdoors. You know, I'm not saying it's bad to
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: contact fishing game because the proper thing happened. They killed
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: the raccoon. But, and like a lot of animals, they
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  Speaker 1: like to pick on the older and the weaker. This
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: man was 86 and Get them before they get you, people.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot stress that enough. Get them before they get you.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: And here is another cute animal that we talk about
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: a lot attacking people. An otter may have been looking
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: for a fight with a group of young surfers in
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  Speaker 1: Santa Cruz. The critter approached the group, climbed on top
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  Speaker 1: of one of the surfers' boards a week ago. A
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  Speaker 1: witness that caught the interaction on video told ABC7 the
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  Speaker 1: otter appeared as though it wanted to attack the surfers.
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  Speaker 1: Before things took a turn, one of the surfers charged
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  Speaker 1: toward the otter to scare it away, created a little distance.
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  Speaker 1: No injuries reported, but it is among a growing list
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  Speaker 1: of encounters involving these kinds of animals. I call them attacks,
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  Speaker 1: not encounters. Heather Gray, a woman paddleboarding off the coast
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  Speaker 1: of Santa Cruz, we talked about her, suffered a nightmare
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: encounter with an overzealous sea lion that sent her straight
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  Speaker 1: into the water. She was attacked while paddleboarding. It was
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: like a horror movie. She was bitten on the arm, hand,
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  Speaker 1: feet before she fought off the sea lion. And you
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: know these things have some serious chompers. Video of the
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: incident captured by the website showed the moment Gray was
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: knocked off her board. The thing that was most bizarre
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: is it grabbed my hair. She managed to get back
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  Speaker 1: on the board, headed straight for shore. The sea lion
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: followed her. a friend took her to urgent care. She
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  Speaker 1: received tetanus and rabies shots. Gray told the station, I
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  Speaker 1: know there are a lot of sea lions that are
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: sick right now. My first thought was, oh my gosh,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: this is one of the sick sea lions. Look, I
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: can put them out of their misery for cheap. This year,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: the Marine Mammal Center said sea lions and fur seals
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: around Monterey Bay have been suffering from from domoic acid poisoning.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: They don't know why there's been an increase. The center
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: says the toxin caused animals to behave unpredictably. You mean
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: more unpredictably than normal animals behave? More than that? Caused
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: by algae blooms. The neurotoxin accumulates in small fish or
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: eaten by marine animals, including the seals. Come on, people.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: They're not cute. They're vicious. Given the chance, they will
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: kill you. A training dive off Quebec's Gaspé region turned
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  Speaker 1: into a rare shark attack that left a student injured.
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  Speaker 1: The male diver in the water with another student and
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  Speaker 1: the dive shop's general manager were when a great white struck.
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  Speaker 1: The diver suffered injuries to his chest, shoulders, and back,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: received first aid at the site, was taken to a hospital.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: His injuries are not life-threatening. It happened in a flash,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: said the shop manager, Steve Melanson. who described the shark
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: as so big, good description, so big, and said it
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: was his first shark encounter in roughly 2,000 dives in
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: over 15 years. All dives with the center are now
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: halted for the rest of the season. That seems like
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: an overreaction. While shark attacks in the Gulf of St.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Lawrence remain uncommon, experts say great white numbers have increased.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: The St. Lawrence Shark Observatory cites climate change, which keeps
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: seals and sharks in warmer waters longer, and protections for
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the endangered species as factors. Protections for the endangered species.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of them now. The group stresses
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: that the overall risk to the public hasn't changed, urges
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: the Basic precautions like avoiding swimming near seal colonies. That's always,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: this is our lesson of the day, people. We always
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: have to try to have a lesson for the day.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Don't swim near the seals. Not only will the seals
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: attack you, the sharks who are eating the seals will
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: attack you. A 2020 study cited a rise in, quote,
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• 41:27
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  Speaker 1: the Clark Eisenhower Outdoor Edition for a Thursday afternoon. Botswana's government, uh-oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a problem, authorized the killing
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  Speaker 1: of 23 elephants for its Independence Day celebrations this week,
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  Speaker 1: drawing criticism from conservationists and one of its former presidents.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to the story. The licenses to hunt the elephants
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  Speaker 1: were issued in districts across the country, with each receiving
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: a portion of the overall quota. The elephants would provide
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  Speaker 1: meat for needy rural communities. We wouldn't want to kill
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: an animal so people who are starving can eat it.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: The license to hunt the elephants, African savannah elephants, listed
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  Speaker 1: as endangered, but the Southern African nation of Botswana has
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: a large elephant population, listen to me, estimated at around 130,000.
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  Speaker 1: The most of any country is controlled annual elephant hunting quotas,
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  Speaker 1: meaning they have been doing this a while because they're
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: trying to manage the numbers. which is what hunting is
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: partially about, keeping nature in balance. Botswana lifted a ban
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: on hunting in 2019 because of the growing numbers. They
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: issued annual quotas to hunt between 200 and 400 elephants.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: The government authorized this week the killing of dozens of
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: antelope as part of the initiative. coinciding with their 60th
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of their independence from Britain. Of course, the Elephant
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  Speaker 1: Protection Society is involved. Of course, elephants can be extremely
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: destructive and dangerous. Several African countries has to confront the
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: problem of growing herds, destroying farmers' crops and infrastructure. Human-wildlife
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  Speaker 1: conflict is a major issue for many African countries. There
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: are other nations that have annual quotas to control the population.
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  Speaker 1: Botswana attracts international tourists for its rich wildlife. The elephant
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: numbers were an international talking point two years ago. when
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: then-President Massisi and his government responded to criticism of trophy
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: hunting from the UK and Germany. I love the quote.
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  Speaker 1: It's very easy to sit in Berlin and have an
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: opinion on our affairs in Botswana. Adding that managing elephants was, quote,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: no joke. The deputy director of the government's Department of Wildlife,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Demacazo Nishibi said wildlife conservation must deliver meaningful benefits to
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: the communities that live alongside the wildlife and contribute to
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: its protection. I mean, this is what hunting does, people.
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  Speaker 1: It is a conservation one way to help conservation is
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: by quotas and removing animals. If there's too many, they
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: starve to death and the people living off the land
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: starve to death. But the elephant huggers don't want to
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  Speaker 1: hear that. A woman was on her lunch break in Brisbane, Australia,
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  Speaker 1: when an unexpected guest crashed through the ceiling of her apartment. Tiana,
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  Speaker 1: no last name, 23-year-old, lives and works from home in Brisbane,
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  Speaker 1: began hearing noise. As the sound grew louder, she grabbed
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  Speaker 1: her phone, hit record, like you do. Don't grab a gun,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: grab your phone. That'll help you. Seconds later, possums, plural,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: came crashing through her ceiling and landed at her feet.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Possums have become an increasingly common presence in Australia's urban areas.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier this year, a study published in the Journal of
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  Speaker 1: People and Nature examined 2,400 wildlife rescue reports involving animals
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  Speaker 1: found in and around buildings across Australia. Australia is growing.
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  Speaker 1: The findings showed that brushtail and ringtail possums accounted for
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: half of all cases. By far the most common native
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: animals occupying human-made structures discovered in roof cavities, wall spaces, garages.
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  Speaker 1: Tiana said her and her roommate have been dealing with
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: possums for two years. Constant noise in the ceiling. Why
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: have you let it go two years? We brought it
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: up to the real estate agency and nothing really happened.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: They sent someone out to remove the possums, but it
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: didn't work. Tiana, call me up. Pay my airfare. I
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: will get rid of your possum problems in probably about
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: three to four minutes. Tiana jumped at the chance to
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: capture footage of what was causing the commotion. She never
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: expected to see possums crashing through her ceiling in her kitchen.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: She said the section of roof had been previously damaged
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: during a cyclone, creating the opportunity for the possums to
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  Speaker 1: move in. She suspects two possums in the roof space
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: had been fighting and the altercation spilled into her home.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: For now, the hole has been covered with a board
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: bolted over the area. She's waiting further repairs, renewed efforts
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: to remove the possums. It's gone viral, 1.7 million views, 83,000
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: likes since she posted it. Tiana hopes the attention that
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: it's generated will lead to swift action. Don't hold your breath, Tiana.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: We're talking about the government. Don't hold your breath. You
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: need to do it yourself, sweetheart. You need to do
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: it yourself. Or get somebody to do it for you
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  Speaker 1: and get them before they get you. They've already gotten
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: you once. I can't help you if they do it
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  Speaker 1: a second time. You know what I'm saying? Don't be stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Shoot the possums and the noise will be gone. Does
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  Speaker 1: somebody really have to tell her that? She's put up
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow on the show on Monday. Post game overreaction Monday
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  Speaker 1: fun by Saturday evening. I'm sure. And this from a
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  Speaker 1: concerned listener. This is in Miami. A man accused of
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  Speaker 1: trying to smuggle live birds through the Miami International Airport
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  Speaker 1: in his underwear. Federal authorities said Alberto Hernandez Castillo, a
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  Speaker 1: into his underwear. Authorities say the containers held 10 live birds.
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  Speaker 1: Hernandez Castillo allegedly said the birds were for his, quote,
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  Speaker 1: personal use. I mean, man, I'd like to know what
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  Speaker 1: that personal use is with the live birds. Is it,
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  Speaker 1: is he eating them? They don't say what kind of
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: birds they are. Okay. Tropical birds, my guess, from Cuba.
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  Speaker 1: Could be parakeets.
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  Speaker 15: Parrots.
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  Speaker 1: Had to be fairly small. Mr. Castillo is charged with
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  Speaker 1: smuggling goods and released on a $ 25, 000 bond. I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: remember the show? They had the show based on Miami Airport.
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  Speaker 1: I really like that. I don't know if it's History, Discovery,
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  Speaker 1: Because you never know what's coming through there. You know
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of contraband flowing through Miami. You know that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't the first time, even close. It
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: won't be the last time.
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  Speaker 9: Snakes.
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  Speaker 1: Monkeys, cocaine, uh, all kinds of animals, weird animals tried
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  Speaker 1: trying to be smuggled through. If this one guy was
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: caught with the 10 birds, how many animals do you
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: think are, are actually successfully smuggled through the Miami international airport?
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's got to be substantial, doesn't it? Um,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: I just, I wish I could talk to Alberto and
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: let him explain what he's doing with those smuggled tin
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  Speaker 1: birds from Cuba for his personal use. Love.
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