Latest / The MeatEater Podcast / Ep. 884: The Invention of Archery, Patagonia Sues a Drag Queen, and Will Oregon Ban Hunting?
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome to the news show, Ladies and gentlemen. Today we've
- 0:04Speaker 1: got news.
- 0:04Speaker 2: About a gang of rogue turkeys who beat up a
- 0:07Speaker 2: nice old lady. Oregon voters will get to consider a
- 0:12Speaker 2: bill to ban all hunting, fishing, ranching, and rodeoing, pushed
- 0:17Speaker 2: by a dude who looks like Moby on a diet.
- 0:21Speaker 1: We got an.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Interview of our archaeological findings around who invented the bow
- 0:26Speaker 2: and arrow? And when Spencer Newhart shatters a number of
- 0:30Speaker 2: fishing records set this slowly killing himself eating fish full
- 0:35Speaker 2: of pea, fast chemicals and Patagonia sues of all things
- 0:40Speaker 2: a drag queen.
- 0:42Speaker 1: But first I'm up. The mouse is gone.
- 0:47Speaker 3: Hmmm, oh what happened?
- 0:49Speaker 1: He got away?
- 0:50Speaker 2: But it's like a complicated story because first the mouse,
- 0:55Speaker 2: my boy comes in the room.
- 0:58Speaker 1: I don't know when that kid goes to bed.
- 1:00Speaker 2: The high school kid comes to the our room, wakes
- 1:02Speaker 2: me and my wife up at two in the morning
- 1:03Speaker 2: to say the mouse got away, but I found it,
- 1:07Speaker 2: and I said, did you put a lid on it
- 1:09Speaker 2: so it doesn't get out again?
- 1:10Speaker 1: He says yes.
- 1:10Speaker 2: The next day I wake up and there's no lid
- 1:12Speaker 2: on it, and I said, why did you say that
- 1:14Speaker 2: you put a lid on it?
- 1:15Speaker 1: He said, because what I meant was it doesn't need
- 1:16Speaker 1: a lid. Oh sure, he said. What he meant was
- 1:20Speaker 1: it doesn't need a lid, like you know.
- 1:25Speaker 2: And I'm like, Katie, do you remember him saying, like
- 1:28Speaker 2: in the middle of the night that he put a
- 1:29Speaker 2: lid on it? She says, he absolutely said he put
- 1:31Speaker 2: a lid on it. He says, it doesn't need a
- 1:33Speaker 2: lit is.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Why he said that. He says, it crawled out on
- 1:37Speaker 1: a stick, but he found it.
- 1:40Speaker 3: Wait, he woke you up in middle of the night
- 1:41Speaker 3: to tell you that it got away.
- 1:42Speaker 1: But that's what I'm so fishy about it.
- 1:45Speaker 2: But it was true because in the morning goes back like,
- 1:47Speaker 2: I don't get why, I don't know why he woke
- 1:51Speaker 2: us up and tell us that he woke up and
- 1:53Speaker 2: tells a non news item.
- 1:55Speaker 4: I very but still it made it sway to the
- 1:58Speaker 4: news show.
- 1:59Speaker 1: Very fishy.
- 2:01Speaker 2: So he says there was a stick in there, someone
- 2:06Speaker 2: put a stick in there that so it mimicked its
- 2:07Speaker 2: real environ like your real life environs.
- 2:11Speaker 3: You know.
- 2:13Speaker 1: And he said, well I took the stick out.
- 2:16Speaker 2: Then my wife goes and gets a basket full of
- 2:19Speaker 2: laundry in the laundry room, screams bloody murder because the
- 2:22Speaker 2: mouse has got out and found its way and is
- 2:24Speaker 2: living in the laundry basket. We find it again and
- 2:27Speaker 2: catch it. This little boy who was his mom a
- 2:33Speaker 2: neighbor boy. His mom was with my wife when they
- 2:36Speaker 2: found the mouse. He made a hardware cloth box with
- 2:41Speaker 2: a lid for the mouse. Nice since there's no aquarium lid.
- 2:48Speaker 2: We put it in the hardware cloth like made out
- 2:51Speaker 2: of like you know, mettwire mash to store it in there.
- 2:56Speaker 2: But my wife at this point is done with this
- 2:57Speaker 2: mouse getting away, so she's like, store the mouse out
- 3:00Speaker 2: side in the.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Box with the lid.
- 3:02Speaker 2: I had originally nixed this box because I said that
- 3:06Speaker 2: mouse will fit through the hardware cloth. But I said
- 3:10Speaker 2: put it in Eric, it's got a lid and put
- 3:12Speaker 2: it outside, and they're like, I thought you said it'd
- 3:14Speaker 2: crawl through the hardware cloth. I think it's big enough
- 3:17Speaker 2: now where it won't, but it did. But where it
- 3:21Speaker 2: gets complicated. My wife was mad that I brought that
- 3:23Speaker 2: thing down here because she's like, it's illegal to have wildlife,
- 3:32Speaker 2: so you're going to get in trouble for talking about
- 3:34Speaker 2: that stupid thing on the podcast, And I said, you're
- 3:36Speaker 2: gonna get in trouble because you brought it home. But
- 3:42Speaker 2: now it's gone anyway, And now it looks like I
- 3:44Speaker 2: let it go to avoid the law because if they
- 3:48Speaker 2: raid the house, like I listened to blood Trails, if
- 3:53Speaker 2: there's no body, it's very hard to prosecute. Sure, so
- 3:57Speaker 2: now there's no mouse anyways, So like when they raid
- 4:01Speaker 2: the house, I'm like, dude, there's no mouse here. Look
- 4:03Speaker 2: all you want, Well, it's here somewhere.
- 4:05Speaker 5: You had to have been secretly happy that that thing got.
- 4:08Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're both happy. Goat that way. But I
- 4:10Speaker 1: legit didn't let it go.
- 4:12Speaker 3: So is it in the house somewhere?
- 4:14Speaker 1: No, it's outside the house.
- 4:15Speaker 5: I wonder if he'll come back to visit you guys now,
- 4:17Speaker 5: And then, like that pigeon did, do.
- 4:18Speaker 6: You think he's like grown enough or she's grown enough
- 4:21Speaker 6: to make it.
- 4:22Speaker 2: I've told my kids, I think it's fine since it's
- 4:24Speaker 2: the right time of year.
- 4:25Speaker 7: And if it could escape on its own two or
- 4:27Speaker 7: three times.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got a bad desire.
- 4:30Speaker 5: You got any bad neighbors that let their house cats room.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Around there's one. There's one cat. I think his name's
- 4:37Speaker 1: Mitzi or something like that. No bell on that thing. Yeah,
- 4:46Speaker 1: seeing Mebel, Mebel's gone.
- 4:48Speaker 2: So if the cops are coming, don't even waste your time.
- 4:51Speaker 2: I can't find the mouse if.
- 4:52Speaker 1: I wanted corpus. There's nobody listen to blood trails. There's
- 4:58Speaker 1: no body. No, you can't do nothing about.
- 5:02Speaker 2: We got our oh oh yeah, our annual Turkey Hunt
- 5:04Speaker 2: giveaway sweep Steaks. We're I like it because when this
- 5:09Speaker 2: sweep Steaks goes live every year, it's just about the
- 5:11Speaker 2: time of year.
- 5:11Speaker 1: We just did it.
- 5:13Speaker 2: Last year's Turkey Hunt sweep Steaks giveaway winners, we just
- 5:17Speaker 2: hunted with them.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Both of them got their birds. They both got their
- 5:21Speaker 1: birds on day one.
- 5:22Speaker 2: Every year, Jannis and I team up with TRCP and
- 5:26Speaker 2: we do our turkey Hunt giveaway, all expense paid, three night,
- 5:30Speaker 2: two day turkey hunt. The web page says Colorado, but
- 5:34Speaker 2: we bounce around. We don't like to lock ourselves in
- 5:36Speaker 2: on where we hunt. This last year we hunted in
- 5:39Speaker 2: northern Illinois. Phenomenal hunt, So ignore that.
- 5:42Speaker 5: That'll change.
- 5:43Speaker 1: They have to put a value on it, and they
- 5:45Speaker 1: say it's worth nine thousand bucks. I think it's worth
- 5:47Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars.
- 5:50Speaker 2: All your expense paid, We pay your travel, we pay
- 5:53Speaker 2: your food. We had my buddy, chef Andy came and
- 5:56Speaker 2: cooked this year. He's cooked in the past, so we
- 5:59Speaker 2: bring in a chef. We take care of your lodging,
- 6:01Speaker 2: your airfare, your turkey tags. You hunt with me and
- 6:04Speaker 2: Yanni three nights, two days. All the money we cover personally,
- 6:09Speaker 2: we cover all the expenses, so the full raffles sweepstakes
- 6:13Speaker 2: money goes straight to TRCP. We don't pull expenses out.
- 6:17Speaker 2: That goes to TRCP. Okay, it's live now to go win.
- 6:24Speaker 2: We've been doing this for years. We've got a stack
- 6:27Speaker 2: of we've got a stack of happy customers.
- 6:31Speaker 5: Didn't it start out as an elk hunt and change
- 6:33Speaker 5: to a turkey It's that's funny.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Bring that up.
- 6:36Speaker 2: It started out as an elk hunt that was an auction,
- 6:40Speaker 2: so that meant that every year it'd be.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Like an orthodonist or some such.
- 6:46Speaker 2: Then we're like, let's switch it so that any kind
- 6:49Speaker 2: of guy can win, just so he'll billies and rednecks
- 6:52Speaker 2: can come. So that's what we did, and it raised
- 6:57Speaker 2: more money. We like tripled the amount the money we
- 7:00Speaker 2: raised by going raffle ye. So'll if you're sitting there
- 7:06Speaker 2: and you're thinking, man, I'm too much, but he'll abilly
- 7:08Speaker 2: to ever win something like that, think again.
- 7:11Speaker 7: And if you got a babydo in the spring and
- 7:14Speaker 7: you consider the like, well, maybe the timing doesn't work.
- 7:17Speaker 7: You can still do it anyway, and Steve will have
- 7:19Speaker 7: to make good for you.
- 7:20Speaker 2: Spencer, speaking from experience, we last year's winner didn't hunt,
- 7:24Speaker 2: last year's Winter wins and then gets his wife pregnant.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Like three months later.
- 7:30Speaker 4: Tale as old as time yep.
- 7:32Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, his wife's due date is
- 7:35Speaker 2: like Turkey season. So he sends his brother in law's
- 7:41Speaker 2: who tag out. Then I felt bad for him, so
- 7:45Speaker 2: then I had him and his dad come for dinner,
- 7:47Speaker 2: and Spencer came over to help entertain, so.
- 7:50Speaker 1: We flew them into town. This is we're not gonna
- 7:52Speaker 1: make a habit out of that.
- 7:54Speaker 8: If you.
- 7:58Speaker 2: Get a box of rophile active family plan Accordingly, if
- 8:02Speaker 2: you can get a family, if you win, get a
- 8:03Speaker 2: family planning plan together. I don't care how you do it. Yeah,
- 8:10Speaker 2: that's for another show. That's for calling him mommy.
- 8:17Speaker 5: So how did Spencer entertain them like.
- 8:22Speaker 1: Great entertaining.
- 8:23Speaker 2: Imagine, Spencer's my kind of Spencer's my kind of guy
- 8:27Speaker 2: for stuff like that.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Because what Spencer does do you want to know what?
- 8:31Speaker 3: You know?
- 8:31Speaker 1: What Spencer does?
- 8:31Speaker 4: Ask a lot of questions, Yeah.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Very thoughtful questions. He's not there to talk about himself.
- 8:37Speaker 2: Very he did asked a question about on the fly,
- 8:39Speaker 2: like if you thought for a week about what you
- 8:41Speaker 2: might ask.
- 8:42Speaker 7: Well, I thought for a week about what I did
- 8:45Speaker 7: you notice how I noticed that about you? Yeah?
- 8:47Speaker 1: Yeah, he asked great questions.
- 8:49Speaker 4: He's in natural host.
- 8:50Speaker 7: Thank you.
- 8:51Speaker 2: It just me Yeah, I can just like I could
- 8:52Speaker 2: sit there and when he has a question, I'm like,
- 8:54Speaker 2: that's such a good question.
- 8:54Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the answer.
- 8:55Speaker 4: And if you only listen to the podcast, you might
- 8:58Speaker 4: think that he just asks trivia questions, but in fact
- 9:01Speaker 4: he's very personable.
- 9:02Speaker 1: Yeah, ask people about themselves. It's a great characteristic.
- 9:05Speaker 2: TRCP dot org Summer metiat or summer sweep steaks again
- 9:11Speaker 2: all expense, three night, two day hunt with me and Yannie.
- 9:14Speaker 2: We have made some exceptions when we've had a hunt
- 9:16Speaker 2: or not get his bird.
- 9:18Speaker 1: We've done. I don't want to make a habit of that.
- 9:23Speaker 1: We already gotten next year's spot lined up. It's the
- 9:25Speaker 1: same spot from this year, and the place is sweet.
- 9:29Speaker 1: It's a good turkey hunt.
- 9:31Speaker 5: That's where they strut on the railroad tracks.
- 9:34Speaker 4: If you need some extra entertainers, he can ask some questions.
- 9:38Speaker 1: So it goes like.
- 9:39Speaker 2: You get like ten entries for twenty five dollars whatever,
- 9:43Speaker 2: Just do it. Yeah, get in there, win this son
- 9:46Speaker 2: of a bitch. We'll show you turkey hunt and some
- 9:50Speaker 2: good food.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Close we got is that it?
- 9:55Speaker 3: Oh?
- 9:55Speaker 1: You got t shirt?
- 9:57Speaker 2: Oh we got to you know, all this all this
- 9:59Speaker 2: hoopla America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, I get it.
- 10:04Speaker 2: I'm more of a one hundred, two hundred, three hundred guy.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Yeah here here, Like I was around, I was three
- 10:10Speaker 2: two something like that two at the bi centennial. But
- 10:15Speaker 2: the problem with only doing centennial celebrations is you're gonna
- 10:19Speaker 2: have people just flat out miss out.
- 10:21Speaker 5: Yeah, including our current president.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Yeah well no, like he hit the by centennial I know.
- 10:28Speaker 5: But he's like the two fifty is closely linked to him.
- 10:32Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 10:33Speaker 1: I don't want a dog on it.
- 10:34Speaker 2: I get it, But I just like I would never
- 10:36Speaker 2: if I was left to myself, I would never think
- 10:43Speaker 2: if I saw that the three hundred was coming up,
- 10:45Speaker 2: I would plan huge stuff. Yeah, I would never have
- 10:49Speaker 2: thought to myself, too fifty.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Is you know.
- 10:54Speaker 2: But the nice thing about splitting the fifties is most
- 10:59Speaker 2: people that live a normal life expectancy will hit a celebration.
- 11:03Speaker 2: You could, like, I hit one at two, I won't
- 11:06Speaker 2: hit the next one. M No, I mean we we right, so.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Maybe like you might not ever hit one.
- 11:17Speaker 4: No, probably not if they didn't do the fifty right right.
- 11:21Speaker 4: I was born in eighty six, so like.
- 11:24Speaker 1: You could live a fairly okay life.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like not gonna be great.
- 11:28Speaker 2: Yeah'd be a little bit disappointing, you're yeah, Sydney would
- 11:33Speaker 2: get remarried.
- 11:34Speaker 1: Yeah, well I was looking.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Forward to that day. She'd get a second chance. Now,
- 11:40Speaker 2: could you could feasibly without it being a tragedy?
- 11:43Speaker 4: Sure? Never get Yeah, a celebration perfectly. How everybody say
- 11:48Speaker 4: he lived till eighty nine, Oh that would be well ninety.
- 11:53Speaker 4: I could live till eighty nine and miss it, right, Okay.
- 11:57Speaker 2: So you're not gonna see one. No, that's why you
- 12:00Speaker 2: gotta do the fifties. I mean, I'm because a randall.
- 12:04Speaker 5: They don't have like the cool centennial name, though.
- 12:07Speaker 1: They do it.
- 12:09Speaker 4: I was gonna say, everybody knows that one hundred and
- 12:11Speaker 4: fifty is a sesqui centennial.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Well that's what that means.
- 12:14Speaker 4: Yeah, the term for a two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
- 12:18Speaker 4: is a semi quinn centennial.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Nice that sucks, which sounds like a y.
- 12:25Speaker 1: That's why I believe that's why they're going with two fifty.
- 12:29Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna that should have gone on a.
- 12:31Speaker 4: T shirt, man, semi Quinn centennial. Yeah, why is That's
- 12:35Speaker 4: a great shirt. That's a great trivia.
- 12:37Speaker 2: Anyways, we launched a shirt and randalls on her because
- 12:39Speaker 2: this is his best chance to see a centennial, the
- 12:42Speaker 2: only chance to have a good celebration.
- 12:44Speaker 1: It says America.
- 12:45Speaker 2: It's got a buffalo on It says Land of the
- 12:47Speaker 2: Free seventeen seventy six.
- 12:51Speaker 1: Get your own.
- 12:53Speaker 3: About free jerk either Yeah, I think you might give
- 12:56Speaker 3: free jerky with the T shirt or if you spend
- 12:58Speaker 3: over a certain amount or something.
- 13:00Speaker 5: Erica some two hundred and fifty year old jerky.
- 13:04Speaker 1: I don't see nothing about jerky. The top left.
- 13:07Speaker 3: This is just a screenshot from the website.
- 13:09Speaker 2: Oh huh, there could be something to do with free jerky.
- 13:13Speaker 4: I don't want to that's enticing.
- 13:15Speaker 3: Don't say anything.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Official guy has the etdequate question.
- 13:20Speaker 7: Hold on, hold on, Oh sorry, punt gunplain.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Exit.
- 13:31Speaker 7: Steve scolded me for not speaking up last week to
- 13:34Speaker 7: talk about the punt gun, and then he blew past
- 13:36Speaker 7: the punt gun exit again on this episode. We bought
- 13:39Speaker 7: a punk gun in twenty twenty two. We've been messing
- 13:42Speaker 7: around it for a while. We shot it earlier this year.
- 13:44Speaker 7: Now there's some important news to share around that. In
- 13:47Speaker 7: late June here we're gonna have the video that comes
- 13:50Speaker 7: out on our YouTube channel of me and Steve shooting
- 13:53Speaker 7: the punk gun. And then in early or mid July,
- 13:56Speaker 7: the Meat Eater auction House of Oddities is going to
- 13:59Speaker 7: go live and we are going to be selling some
- 14:01Speaker 7: hats that were shot by the punt gun at the
- 14:04Speaker 7: auction house. And then in late on.
- 14:06Speaker 1: Those hats say this hat was shot by a punt.
- 14:08Speaker 7: Gun and it was actually shot by a punt gun.
- 14:11Speaker 2: And there's gonna be three categories. There's barely shot, pretty shot,
- 14:18Speaker 2: and really shot.
- 14:19Speaker 1: Yes, so a barely shot higher the more holes. This
- 14:23Speaker 1: is the weird part.
- 14:25Speaker 2: You pay more for the more holes. Sure, but it
- 14:28Speaker 2: all goes to it all goes to conservations.
- 14:30Speaker 3: Like genes these days.
- 14:32Speaker 1: Yeah, exact where you go?
- 14:32Speaker 5: What'd you guys do with the shell casings?
- 14:35Speaker 7: We have some, They may go in the auction house
- 14:39Speaker 7: we sent one of them to. I'll explain this now.
- 14:43Speaker 7: In late August, we are selling the punt gun again.
- 14:46Speaker 7: It will be August twenty one, twenty two, or twenty three.
- 14:49Speaker 7: We don't know the exact day yet. This will be
- 14:51Speaker 7: done through Rock Island Auction at their summer premiere auction.
- 14:55Speaker 7: Rock Island Auction, they're like the world's leading auction house
- 14:59Speaker 7: for antique colle historic firearms. That's where we bought the
- 15:02Speaker 7: punt gun and.
- 15:04Speaker 2: The men we had Will Primo Son about selling that
- 15:07Speaker 2: that collection series of shotguns he has that was rock.
- 15:10Speaker 7: If a really valuable gun comes up for sale, say
- 15:13Speaker 7: it's like worth north of you know, twenty thousand dollars,
- 15:15Speaker 7: there's a good chance it's going through Rock Island. That's
- 15:18Speaker 7: where our punt gun came from. That's who it's now
- 15:20Speaker 7: going to be sold through. We paid twenty thousand dollars
- 15:23Speaker 7: for it. The folks at the auction house, Hope that
- 15:25Speaker 7: it goes for more than that this time around. Their
- 15:29Speaker 7: estimate is twenty to thirty thousand. Punt guns don't come
- 15:34Speaker 7: up for sale real often. We bought ours in twenty
- 15:36Speaker 7: twenty two that same auction. There was one other punt
- 15:38Speaker 7: gun prior to that. They had sold one in twenty
- 15:40Speaker 7: twenty one and then twenty sixteen, so less than one
- 15:43Speaker 7: a year for punt guns coming up for sale.
- 15:46Speaker 2: Ours is a Holland and Holland punt gun manufactured in London.
- 15:50Speaker 7: And it's from the late eighteen hundreds. It's four years
- 15:53Speaker 7: older than the very state we're sitting in right now.
- 15:55Speaker 7: That's how old that damn punk gun is.
- 15:57Speaker 1: And a nice thing about this.
- 15:58Speaker 2: When we got it, if someone said does it work,
- 16:01Speaker 2: we would have had to say, I don't know.
- 16:03Speaker 7: In fact, we asked that question and they said we
- 16:05Speaker 7: don't know.
- 16:05Speaker 2: Now, when you buy it and someone says does it work,
- 16:08Speaker 2: you'd be like, does it work?
- 16:10Speaker 3: Check out this hat?
- 16:11Speaker 5: It worked six times.
- 16:13Speaker 7: So we're gonna sell that through Rock Island Auction August
- 16:16Speaker 7: twenty one to twenty three. Every dollar that that punt
- 16:19Speaker 7: gun sells for is going into the Meat Eater Land
- 16:22Speaker 7: Access Initiative, so it's going to a good cause, and
- 16:25Speaker 7: Rock Island they're doing us a huge favor. They're waiving
- 16:28Speaker 7: all fees that are normally associated with selling a gun
- 16:31Speaker 7: through them, So we appreciate Rock Island for their help
- 16:34Speaker 7: and making this happen. We'll announce these dates when they
- 16:37Speaker 7: get closer, but late June video, mid July, auction house,
- 16:41Speaker 7: late August punk gun will be sold.
- 16:44Speaker 2: So those of you out there are the big pile
- 16:46Speaker 2: of scratch orthodontis yep, get that punt gun and if
- 16:54Speaker 2: you do buy it, you want the wall mount brackets.
- 16:56Speaker 2: Spencer was too lazy to take them off the wall.
- 16:58Speaker 2: Let me know, I'll send them over.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Martin Fabrication made them.
- 17:02Speaker 7: Rock Island Auction dot Com.
- 17:04Speaker 5: Uh.
- 17:04Speaker 2: A guy had a chettikut question. But you gotta rescend
- 17:09Speaker 2: the question because the way you have it, you're gonna
- 17:11Speaker 2: hurt people's feelings. Yes, like he way over described, way
- 17:17Speaker 2: over described, You don't have to find this is the.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Guy talking about the skull guy and the skull lady.
- 17:23Speaker 2: Resend. They're gonna know exactly who you're talking about. And
- 17:27Speaker 2: then you're gonna have no skull people, Leland, no skull people.
- 17:36Speaker 2: We got a thing that's gonna we're gonna have Yannia
- 17:38Speaker 2: dress where a guy's talking about basically he's saying, don't
- 17:41Speaker 2: throw out the baby with the bathwater. On drones, drone recovery,
- 17:45Speaker 2: drone recovery. He's got a spirited argument about why drone
- 17:50Speaker 2: recovery is great and you shouldn't make it so you
- 17:53Speaker 2: can't use drones to find wounded animals just because people
- 17:56Speaker 2: are gonna then also use.
- 17:57Speaker 7: It to poach.
- 17:59Speaker 1: But we'll let you talk about that.
- 18:02Speaker 2: A guy wrote in to say, we were we were
- 18:05Speaker 2: talking about data center on the north Slope. We're talking
- 18:07Speaker 2: about the oil fields around prude Obay. How they don't
- 18:10Speaker 2: they don't pipe out natural liquified natural gas off a
- 18:15Speaker 2: natural gas being a byproduct of oil extraction. He says
- 18:18Speaker 2: they truck it down daily down to Fairbanks and trucks.
- 18:21Speaker 2: So there is there is a commercial liquified natural gas
- 18:24Speaker 2: output coming off there.
- 18:26Speaker 1: That correction stands now.
- 18:30Speaker 2: An interview with our favorite archaeologists, Mett and Aaron. So
- 18:36Speaker 2: Mett's been on the show before. If you remember when
- 18:39Speaker 2: we did our thing, when when we did a research
- 18:43Speaker 2: we participated in a research project where we butchered a
- 18:46Speaker 2: bison using stone tools. Met has been on the show
- 18:49Speaker 2: talking about a live is archaeological work. When someone sends
- 18:54Speaker 2: me or anyone I know a photo of a rock
- 18:58Speaker 2: they found and they're wondering if it was if it's
- 19:01Speaker 2: a tool, a human made tool, we always send the
- 19:05Speaker 2: picture to Meton. Meton always says, it's not.
- 19:08Speaker 3: Yeah, I do this all the time. Is yep.
- 19:10Speaker 2: He's like a professional ball buster, like professional good times ruiner. Sorry,
- 19:21Speaker 2: I'll be like, look at this crazy axe I found.
- 19:23Speaker 1: He's like, that looks like a rock, not all it's.
- 19:26Speaker 4: The burden expertise.
- 19:28Speaker 3: Ye. Yeah.
- 19:29Speaker 2: Sometimes he will point out that he's this is what
- 19:32Speaker 2: makes him a great Sometimes you'll point out he can't
- 19:35Speaker 2: tell from that picture. And sometimes you'll point out that
- 19:38Speaker 2: that does look like worked stone. So it's not that
- 19:41Speaker 2: he just says no just to just to be mean,
- 19:44Speaker 2: but he puts people in their place. And I always
- 19:47Speaker 2: say when I get a picture of something someone found,
- 19:49Speaker 2: I always say, hang on a minute. So if I
- 19:51Speaker 2: ever say that to you and you're one of my friends,
- 19:52Speaker 2: what I'm doing is I'm sending the picture to Meton
- 19:56Speaker 2: for him to vet okay, uh, Meton, please tell us
- 20:00Speaker 2: about the paper it is published.
- 20:03Speaker 9: Yeah, so myself and some of my closest colleagues, a
- 20:07Speaker 9: guy named Briggs Buchanan at University of Tulsa, and Rob
- 20:10Speaker 9: Walker at Missouri and Marcus Hamilton down in Texas, we
- 20:14Speaker 9: wanted to know when the bow and arrow was adopted
- 20:19Speaker 9: in prehistoric North America. And this is the question that
- 20:24Speaker 9: a lot of archaeologists have struggled with for a pretty
- 20:26Speaker 9: long time. And it's a tricky question because usually, like
- 20:32Speaker 9: the components of a bow and arrow don't preserve right
- 20:35Speaker 9: because it's wood and sinew and stuff. So for a
- 20:38Speaker 9: really long time, archaeologists have been using stone points to
- 20:42Speaker 9: try to figure out the weapon that that stone point
- 20:45Speaker 9: went on to.
- 20:47Speaker 10: But that's really problematic because you can have little.
- 20:51Speaker 9: Tiny points on arrows at laddle darts, you can even
- 20:55Speaker 9: have tiny points on spears like thrusting spears, and you
- 20:59Speaker 9: can have large points on all of those different weapons systems.
- 21:02Speaker 9: So you can't use the stone point to figure out
- 21:07Speaker 9: the rest of the weapon. And so Dave Meltzer, who's
- 21:12Speaker 9: been on the podcast several times, he said to me
- 21:14Speaker 9: a couple of years ago, He's like, why don't you
- 21:16Speaker 9: figure this out?
- 21:18Speaker 10: So I start to think about it.
- 21:20Speaker 9: And there's a statistical technique called optimal linear estimation, and
- 21:27Speaker 9: we don't need to get into the details of that.
- 21:29Speaker 10: Technique because it's pretty boring.
- 21:31Speaker 9: But you know, if you like hit a baseball, and
- 21:36Speaker 9: if you only have like thirty percent of that baseball's
- 21:39Speaker 9: trajectory and you know the velocity of the baseball, you
- 21:42Speaker 9: can make a pretty good prediction of where that baseball.
- 21:46Speaker 7: Is going to land.
- 21:47Speaker 10: That's kind of.
- 21:48Speaker 9: What optimal linear estimation does, except we can do it
- 21:51Speaker 9: with data.
- 21:52Speaker 10: And radiocarbon dates.
- 21:54Speaker 9: And so what my colleagues and I did was we
- 21:56Speaker 9: actually went through the literature and we actually have something
- 22:01Speaker 9: like fifty preserved components of bows and arrows from really
- 22:07Speaker 9: dry caves and bows and arrows that like melt out
- 22:11Speaker 9: of the ice and stuff like that. And we have
- 22:14Speaker 9: eighty six preserved components from the at laddle or spear
- 22:18Speaker 9: thrower in dark also from dry caves and just random
- 22:22Speaker 9: occurrences where these things preserve. And because we can date
- 22:27Speaker 9: those wooden components, we have radiocarbon dates on all one
- 22:31Speaker 9: hundred and thirty six of those rare archaeological specimens. And
- 22:36Speaker 9: so what we did was we applied this technique, and
- 22:38Speaker 9: we went backwards in time with the bow and arrow,
- 22:42Speaker 9: and we went forwards in time with the at laddle
- 22:44Speaker 9: and dart, and we found that they crossed over exactly
- 22:49Speaker 9: at fourteen hundred years ago. So that's when the bow
- 22:53Speaker 9: and arrow transition from the atladdle and dart occurred in
- 22:57Speaker 9: western North America.
- 23:00Speaker 2: I've often said this. I should have checked with a
- 23:02Speaker 2: guy like you before I said it. I've often told people,
- 23:07Speaker 2: and I don't even know where I read this, that
- 23:09Speaker 2: that the bow and arrow was perhaps invented. I don't
- 23:14Speaker 2: know where I got this number seven times when I
- 23:19Speaker 2: say that, what am I saying?
- 23:21Speaker 9: So, what you're talking about is the principle of convergent evolution,
- 23:27Speaker 9: and we see that all the time in the biological world. Right, insects,
- 23:33Speaker 9: birds and bats all can fly, but they're not related
- 23:37Speaker 9: to each other. They independently evolved the ability to fly.
- 23:42Speaker 9: And so we see that with the bow and arrow. Right,
- 23:44Speaker 9: the bow and arrow was invented, we think, in South
- 23:46Speaker 9: Africa about seventy four thousand years ago. Who was invented
- 23:50Speaker 9: again in Central Europe about fifty four thousand years ago.
- 23:55Speaker 9: Sri Lanka forty eight thousand years ago, again in Europe
- 23:59Speaker 9: eleven thousand years years ago. And what we've shown in
- 24:01Speaker 9: this latest paper, who was reinvented once again in North
- 24:04Speaker 9: America at just fourteen hundred years ago.
- 24:07Speaker 7: Huh Yeah, so, like I mean, this is.
- 24:10Speaker 9: Because humans are smart and they have similar issues that
- 24:15Speaker 9: they need to solve, problems they need to solve, and
- 24:17Speaker 9: so they'll come up with similar solutions. And so at
- 24:21Speaker 9: various points in time, people invented the bow and arrow
- 24:24Speaker 9: to tackle whatever problem they were facing.
- 24:27Speaker 1: Now that you have that date.
- 24:31Speaker 2: And you look at the types of stone points that
- 24:35Speaker 2: you see from different dated sites, does it illuminate anything
- 24:40Speaker 2: that you didn't notice before? Meaning did you sort of
- 24:43Speaker 2: rediscover a correlation between an arrow like in what is
- 24:49Speaker 2: commonly called like an Indian arrowhead, between an arrowhead size
- 24:53Speaker 2: and what it might have been used for, Like, did
- 24:56Speaker 2: you see a shrinking of arrowhead size around four teen
- 25:00Speaker 2: hundred years ago? Now that you that you have an
- 25:02Speaker 2: identified point to look.
- 25:03Speaker 9: At, Yeah, there's general trends where points will get smaller
- 25:09Speaker 9: after that point, and then like you know, five or
- 25:11Speaker 9: six hundred years after that fourteen hundred year old marker,
- 25:16Speaker 9: like the points get real small so you can be
- 25:18Speaker 9: confident if you find like a really tiny point, you're
- 25:21Speaker 9: probably dealing with the bow and arrow.
- 25:24Speaker 10: But again probably right. I mean, the past.
- 25:28Speaker 9: Doesn't really preserve that well, and so archaeologist should always
- 25:31Speaker 9: kind of buffer what they say with you know, qualifiers.
- 25:36Speaker 2: Do you think there's any chance in identifying what part
- 25:40Speaker 2: of like where this thing sprung up geograph more specifically?
- 25:47Speaker 9: Oh, now, that's a really good question, right, because we
- 25:51Speaker 9: focus our analysis on this at laddle the boat transition
- 25:56Speaker 9: in western.
- 25:57Speaker 10: North America, and that's where stuff preserves.
- 26:00Speaker 9: They're in super dry caves like in the southwest, or
- 26:03Speaker 9: if it's melting out of like ice.
- 26:06Speaker 3: Right, yep.
- 26:07Speaker 9: Well, what our research doesn't speak to is was the
- 26:12Speaker 9: boat invented in western North America or was it invented
- 26:16Speaker 9: somewhere else, maybe somewhere in the east, and then it
- 26:19Speaker 9: into Western North America fourteen hundred years ago.
- 26:22Speaker 10: We have no idea. And that's a tough question because
- 26:25Speaker 10: just stuff does not preserve in the eastern woodlands that well,
- 26:29Speaker 10: it's too much seasonality, too much moisture, and just organic
- 26:34Speaker 10: materials just get estimated.
- 26:36Speaker 2: So you wouldn't be shocked if you if you heard
- 26:38Speaker 2: and I appreciate what you're saying, like, we don't know,
- 26:42Speaker 2: but you wouldn't be shocked if it would be that
- 26:45Speaker 2: that maybe a thousand years earlier it was being used.
- 26:51Speaker 1: On the Atlantic coast. Say that it might have like.
- 26:55Speaker 2: Who knows, it might have taken that long to get
- 26:57Speaker 2: to the western US the boat.
- 27:00Speaker 9: That is certainly a possibility. I think the other thing
- 27:03Speaker 9: to keep in mind, too, is it's also possible that
- 27:07Speaker 9: the bowl and arrow was used a lot earlier, say
- 27:11Speaker 9: by pale Indians, and then for some reason it was
- 27:14Speaker 9: lost but extinct, and then nine ten thousand years later
- 27:19Speaker 9: was reinvented fourteen hundred years ago. I think what this
- 27:23Speaker 9: research really speaks to is the fact that, like you know,
- 27:26Speaker 9: we often think that we're getting better and better and
- 27:29Speaker 9: better with our technology, and we often have this view
- 27:33Speaker 9: of whether it's biological or cultural or technological evolution, that
- 27:36Speaker 9: things are getting better and better and better. But species
- 27:41Speaker 9: and technologies come and go, they go extinct all the time,
- 27:44Speaker 9: and they get reinvented. There is no progression to evolution,
- 27:50Speaker 9: and so people will come up with the best solution
- 27:54Speaker 9: given the context that they're in.
- 27:56Speaker 1: God, what else you're working on?
- 27:58Speaker 2: What can we expect from your off us to your
- 28:00Speaker 2: lab next Yeah.
- 28:02Speaker 9: Well, we got some pretty big projects that should be
- 28:06Speaker 9: coming out next month. I think I can't talk about
- 28:09Speaker 9: those right now just because.
- 28:10Speaker 10: They're under embargo. But you guys will be the first
- 28:13Speaker 10: ones to know when I when they come out.
- 28:16Speaker 2: Give me a little teaser, like, tell me that, tell
- 28:18Speaker 2: me how many years ago we're talking about.
- 28:23Speaker 10: We have two big.
- 28:26Speaker 9: We got We got two big papers on Clovis hunting
- 28:30Speaker 9: and different aspects of Clovis hunting.
- 28:33Speaker 2: You better not be trying to come and give us
- 28:35Speaker 2: more of that hogwash about how they weren't killing mams
- 28:37Speaker 2: left and right. No, no, no, they didn't wake up
- 28:44Speaker 2: every day and killing mammoth.
- 28:45Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about it.
- 28:48Speaker 9: All right, we'll have a chat about that. Yeah, So
- 28:52Speaker 9: we got some clothes stuff coming out. We we were
- 28:55Speaker 9: in Oman in November. Oh really, Yeah, yeah, because we've
- 28:58Speaker 9: been working there for the last few years. We have
- 29:01Speaker 9: a hypothesis that we published. It was last year and
- 29:05Speaker 9: that got quite a bit of news on a new
- 29:07Speaker 9: hypothesis for the origin of well all technology and so
- 29:13Speaker 9: and that has to do with basically people using naturally
- 29:17Speaker 9: sharp rocks to process game and carcasses and so really
- 29:22Speaker 9: you can tie the origin of technology and the fact
- 29:26Speaker 9: that we're looking on iPhones in this screen right now
- 29:29Speaker 9: to the fact that people needed to cut meat got
- 29:32Speaker 9: them that started everything.
- 29:34Speaker 10: And so we were there in November. That was I
- 29:37Speaker 10: love going to Oman. It's an awesome place.
- 29:40Speaker 9: Yeah, we got projects in Kenya that will probably got
- 29:42Speaker 9: us go to next year and just lots of experiments
- 29:46Speaker 9: and shooting stuff.
- 29:47Speaker 2: And again, keep us posted on the new Clovis work again.
- 29:52Speaker 2: Matt and Aaron is a professor at Kent State University,
- 29:55Speaker 2: where he directs the Experimental Archaeology Department. He and his colleagues,
- 30:02Speaker 2: including our friend and former podcast guest David Meltzer, have
- 30:07Speaker 2: both uh what trying to.
- 30:08Speaker 1: Say, both been on. Yeah, whatever, you get the point.
- 30:13Speaker 2: Kent State University, Experimental Archaeology Department, thank you very much
- 30:17Speaker 2: for joining and we always look forward to anything you
- 30:19Speaker 2: can come and tell us about ancient hunters.
- 30:22Speaker 1: So appreciate you joining.
- 30:23Speaker 2: Hey, thanks, Okay, wild Turkey's ambush California Senior Citizen. But
- 30:31Speaker 2: they don't ambush. This story was sent to us. Brodie,
- 30:35Speaker 2: can you can you give the basic gist here or
- 30:38Speaker 2: are you that familiar.
- 30:39Speaker 5: Well, I mean I can give the basic gist. In California,
- 30:42Speaker 5: like recently, an elderly woman in the San Francisco area
- 30:48Speaker 5: was out walking and got attacked by a couple of
- 30:50Speaker 5: turkeys town turkeys, yeah, urban turk And that's like like
- 30:54Speaker 5: that segment of the wild turkey population has grown pretty fast,
- 30:59Speaker 5: Like they're they're pretty common in suburbia and and even
- 31:03Speaker 5: like urban areas. But she is bruised, and you got
- 31:07Speaker 5: those pictures of her, phil.
- 31:09Speaker 3: Oh, I'll pull them up here, Brode, I thought you
- 31:11Speaker 3: were talking about the other turkey graphic you sent me.
- 31:13Speaker 2: I'll pull you pull that up in a minute of
- 31:16Speaker 2: turkey graph.
- 31:20Speaker 5: Yeah, she she had some injuries to her face and
- 31:25Speaker 5: fell and and I did a little research while we
- 31:28Speaker 5: were getting this whole thing together this morning, and that's
- 31:31Speaker 5: actually one of the most common injuries when wild turkey's
- 31:35Speaker 5: ambush people.
- 31:36Speaker 2: Well, that's why I wanted to cover the story. But
- 31:39Speaker 2: then Brody did additional research. Can I cover my bit first?
- 31:43Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 31:43Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 31:45Speaker 2: If okay, there's two main Yeah, I was gonna complain
- 31:53Speaker 2: about another thing. God's gonna say two main complaints I
- 31:56Speaker 2: have in life. But I'm gonna skip the other one,
- 31:59Speaker 2: yourejournalists need to better understand what an ambush is. They
- 32:06Speaker 2: I was gonna find a hundred examples of journalists not
- 32:10Speaker 2: understanding an ambush.
- 32:12Speaker 1: They're like these turkey they use the word.
- 32:15Speaker 2: Here's the poor woman was beat up by the turkeys.
- 32:21Speaker 2: These turkeys came up behind her and attacked her, and
- 32:23Speaker 2: the journalist says, the ambush her. It's not an ambush.
- 32:26Speaker 2: Journalists never know what an ambush is. For the turkeys
- 32:31Speaker 2: to have ambushed her, they would have needed to gone
- 32:34Speaker 2: out ahead of her, laid in wait, or waiting outside
- 32:38Speaker 2: her door, concealed laying in wait. Like, my message to
- 32:43Speaker 2: America's journalists is, please try to understand what an ambush.
- 32:49Speaker 4: There has to be some element of concealment.
- 32:51Speaker 1: Yeah, I was reading, Sorry they ambushed.
- 32:54Speaker 2: So there's like some police parked in a car and
- 32:57Speaker 2: they're attacked by a person and they said he ambushed them.
- 32:59Speaker 2: It's like, did he walked up on him? She was
- 33:04Speaker 2: not ambushed, No, she was attacked. There's ambushing Bushwacken Brody
- 33:11Speaker 2: was pointing out a guy using the term shanghaiing.
- 33:14Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, but like.
- 33:15Speaker 2: You could shanghai a turkey, but like she's not she
- 33:20Speaker 2: was attacked.
- 33:20Speaker 1: She wasn't ambushed. You could ambush and then attack.
- 33:25Speaker 5: An attack is like there's levels of attack, right, there's
- 33:29Speaker 5: like grizzly bear attacks and there's turkey attacks.
- 33:32Speaker 2: If I like, I would be more comfortable saying that
- 33:35Speaker 2: these turkey's bushwhack, right, because to bushwack a turkey's to
- 33:40Speaker 2: kill it.
- 33:40Speaker 1: Without calling it in to ditch crawl.
- 33:43Speaker 2: On it, yeah, or he'll crawl whatever, to like put
- 33:47Speaker 2: the creep on a turkey is bushwhacken it.
- 33:50Speaker 1: So it'd be more like they came in blind on
- 33:52Speaker 1: her and bushwhack. They did an ambush her.
- 33:57Speaker 5: But her injuries were from falling, and that's typical of
- 34:02Speaker 5: wild turkey attacks where an elderly person ends up falling
- 34:06Speaker 5: while they're being attacked.
- 34:09Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a turkey that kept attacking the elderly
- 34:12Speaker 2: in a in a wildlife officer wanted to catch it.
- 34:15Speaker 1: They had to dress.
- 34:17Speaker 2: Up like an old lady and act like an old
- 34:19Speaker 2: lady to lure the attack that's ambushing the turkey.
- 34:23Speaker 5: Like they were profiling their victim.
- 34:24Speaker 1: No, that's trojan horse in it.
- 34:28Speaker 2: Then they stranglehold the wildlife official dressed up like an
- 34:33Speaker 2: old lady, pretended to be an old lady to lure
- 34:35Speaker 2: the attack, and then they threw it into a stranglehold.
- 34:40Speaker 5: It's not like holding on to a live wild turkey.
- 34:43Speaker 5: It's hard enough when they're wounded a bit after you
- 34:46Speaker 5: shoot them.
- 34:47Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta hold on their road, sure man.
- 34:49Speaker 5: Yeah, Phil, you got the how to survive a wild
- 34:53Speaker 5: turkey attack?
- 34:54Speaker 1: Yeah, Brody found this.
- 34:56Speaker 5: This is this is I got it. There's a quote
- 34:59Speaker 5: here about.
- 35:00Speaker 1: Someone actually made that this is better than Spencer's garden is umbrellas.
- 35:05Speaker 5: There's a blinking animation we saw tips like umbrellas carrying
- 35:10Speaker 5: a garbage bag around and unfolding that garbage bag and
- 35:13Speaker 5: like waving it at the turkeys. Huh So, don't back.
- 35:16Speaker 1: Down carrying a big garden holes with you can help yep,
- 35:20Speaker 1: if it's hooked up.
- 35:21Speaker 5: How to feed a bully turkey, don't back down?
- 35:24Speaker 1: Who put this? How to defeat a bully?
- 35:26Speaker 5: That's the funny thing. There are two different articles in
- 35:28Speaker 5: the Audubon Society.
- 35:29Speaker 1: Phil, What is it? What does it say?
- 35:32Speaker 4: There's umbrella question mark and there's two words above that like.
- 35:37Speaker 3: It's like like this umbrella.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Oh charge it's telling you not to wave your hands.
- 35:43Speaker 3: But it also looks mostly empty. But this is this
- 35:45Speaker 3: is what it looked like on the website, though, create stuff.
- 35:48Speaker 5: I think some stuff missing.
- 35:50Speaker 1: Did you get the Why is the turkey on the
- 35:52Speaker 1: bottom talking? I see that.
- 35:57Speaker 4: I feel like that box. I feel like that box
- 35:59Speaker 4: on the left side in the middle should say do
- 36:02Speaker 4: you have anything with you?
- 36:03Speaker 1: Right?
- 36:04Speaker 5: But it's some of our are it didn't.
- 36:08Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a bad job. But yeah, it's saying like
- 36:13Speaker 2: if you don't have a shotgun, it's saying, spray it
- 36:17Speaker 2: with water, hose it down, shake.
- 36:19Speaker 1: A bag at it.
- 36:20Speaker 5: But that's the thing.
- 36:21Speaker 1: Wave an umbrella at it.
- 36:22Speaker 5: You can only do so much of these things, right
- 36:24Speaker 5: because they're they're wild animals, so you can't. Your hands
- 36:28Speaker 5: are kind of tied as far as like what you
- 36:30Speaker 5: can do to fight them off.
- 36:32Speaker 1: Don't gobble at it.
- 36:33Speaker 6: Here's a question. What if you just like you're like
- 36:35Speaker 6: boo and you run at it.
- 36:37Speaker 1: I think that'd work. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't
- 36:40Speaker 1: gobble at it, wouldn't hand call at it.
- 36:42Speaker 3: If you go boo, it'll probably gobble at you.
- 36:44Speaker 2: Don't run up to it's a real problem is town turkeys.
- 36:51Speaker 5: Okay, we're going to Oregon.
- 36:52Speaker 1: Now.
- 36:54Speaker 5: In the news a lot lately has been this UH
- 36:57Speaker 5: Oregon Hunting Band petition. A lot of the UH headlines
- 37:01Speaker 5: that I feel like have been kind of misleading because
- 37:04Speaker 5: it's like saying they have they have enough signatures to
- 37:08Speaker 5: ban hunting and organ which is not that not the case.
- 37:12Speaker 5: So we're going to go through the whole thing. The
- 37:15Speaker 5: Organ Peace Act, which is People for the Elimination of
- 37:18Speaker 5: Animal Cruelty Exemptions UH.
- 37:22Speaker 2: I think they started with knowing what they wanted the
- 37:26Speaker 2: acronym to.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Be, yeah, and then.
- 37:30Speaker 2: Because you want to, you know, always tell when someone
- 37:32Speaker 2: does X, they wind up with something real clunky, People
- 37:35Speaker 2: for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions, because they wanted
- 37:39Speaker 2: to be able to call it peace.
- 37:40Speaker 4: I feel like if you're in the acronym business, that's
- 37:43Speaker 4: that's not a bad stress.
- 37:44Speaker 5: It's like when Congress came up with a genius Act,
- 37:46Speaker 5: which which is they.
- 37:49Speaker 2: Knew what they wanted to call it first, and then
- 37:51Speaker 2: they had to think of a bunch of words that.
- 37:52Speaker 1: Would make that.
- 37:54Speaker 5: Okay. So the Peace Act would remove many exemptions and
- 37:59Speaker 5: Organ's animal care laws currently allow hunting, fishing, trapping, livestock production,
- 38:04Speaker 5: and slaughter and other animal use practices.
- 38:08Speaker 3: So basically it.
- 38:09Speaker 5: Would it would outlaw all of that stuff, and supporters,
- 38:15Speaker 5: uh say, the proposal would extend the same legal protections
- 38:19Speaker 5: currently given to pets. You know, you can see where
- 38:24Speaker 5: this is going. It's it's it's very a very extreme thing,
- 38:28Speaker 5: and it was kind of engineered by this guy, David Michelson.
- 38:32Speaker 5: We got our photo of David.
- 38:36Speaker 2: Dude, would you like to that's an ad for vegan
- 38:38Speaker 2: diet right there.
- 38:39Speaker 1: Man.
- 38:39Speaker 5: Yeah, So David kind of kind of is that this
- 38:45Speaker 5: is spearheading this thing.
- 38:48Speaker 1: That's a that is a rugged lifestyle.
- 38:52Speaker 5: Yeah, it doesn't look like he's got a lot of
- 38:53Speaker 5: energy to run this thing. But but anyway, they got
- 38:56Speaker 5: the signatures. I think it was one twenty thousand signatures.
- 39:03Speaker 5: They needed one hundred and seventeen thousand to get this
- 39:05Speaker 5: thing on the ballot. Little background on Mickelson his background
- 39:11Speaker 5: in psychology public health. He said activism was in his
- 39:15Speaker 5: Actism was influenced by witnesses witnessing pigs being killed in slaughterhouses,
- 39:21Speaker 5: and he has tried earlier versions of this same thing
- 39:25Speaker 5: in Oregon. He acknowledges the initiative is unlikely to pass,
- 39:31Speaker 5: and has described it as part of a longer term
- 39:34Speaker 5: effort to change public attitudes around human use of animals.
- 39:40Speaker 5: They want to change the system. Killing animals is a choice,
- 39:44Speaker 5: he says. We can make one hundred percent of that
- 39:46Speaker 5: food from crops if we chose to do so. So, Obviously,
- 39:51Speaker 5: this is like very broad in scope. It's not just
- 39:54Speaker 5: a hunting issue.
- 39:56Speaker 1: It'll never pass.
- 39:57Speaker 5: No, we'll get to that. We'll see what the odds are. Obviously,
- 40:03Speaker 5: hunters like groups like the Hunt Organs, Hunters Association, Ducks Unlimited,
- 40:07Speaker 5: National Wild Turkey Foundation, on and on and on with
- 40:10Speaker 5: these hunting groups are opposed to this, but it's a
- 40:12Speaker 5: lot bigger than hunters. The Oregon Farm Bureau, ranching groups,
- 40:16Speaker 5: et cetera argue that you know, it would just completely
- 40:20Speaker 5: change fundamentally change their way of life for the worse.
- 40:25Speaker 5: Senator Christine Drizanne, Organ Republican gubernatorial candidate, says it's an
- 40:32Speaker 5: all out assault on Oregonian's way of life that would
- 40:36Speaker 5: expose farmers, ranchers, veterinarians, breeders, and animal owners to criminal liability.
- 40:43Speaker 5: So if the measure reaches the voters, which is likely
- 40:50Speaker 5: to happen. It's likely to get on the ballot, it's
- 40:54Speaker 5: unlikely to be voted into law. Oregon has more than
- 40:59Speaker 5: three hundred thirty thousand license hunters, five hundred thousand licensed anglers,
- 41:03Speaker 5: seventy thousand farms and ranches involved in livestock production cattle, sheep,
- 41:10Speaker 5: dairy goats, poultry, hogs, roughly one point two five million
- 41:14Speaker 5: cattle and calves uh and five hundred and twenty five
- 41:18Speaker 5: thousand beef cows. This is where it gets good. Three
- 41:23Speaker 5: point four million registered voters in Oregon. One hundred and
- 41:28Speaker 5: seventy thousand to maybe two hundred and seventy thousand of
- 41:32Speaker 5: those voters identify as either vegetarian or vegan five to
- 41:37Speaker 5: eight percent of the state's voting age population. So not
- 41:42Speaker 5: looking good for it to pass. I asked AI what
- 41:47Speaker 5: the odds are of making the ballot eighty five to
- 41:51Speaker 5: ninety five percent at the ballot eighty percent chance that fails,
- 41:56Speaker 5: twenty percent it passes. Now that's AI.
- 41:58Speaker 1: So, but that's like pulling from like polymarket data.
- 42:01Speaker 5: Yeah, political betting market, and twenty is you know, it's
- 42:07Speaker 5: not nothing.
- 42:08Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, this brings up a question I've always pondered,
- 42:12Speaker 2: is I'm a law and order guy, right, I'm not.
- 42:15Speaker 2: I'm not like a lawbreaker and I was raised up
- 42:19Speaker 2: lawbreaking but gave up on it. If this happened in
- 42:24Speaker 2: my state, I feel like I would become a vigilane hunter.
- 42:27Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for sure.
- 42:28Speaker 1: Like I wouldn't flat out right, I wouldn't flat out quit.
- 42:32Speaker 1: I would become a vigilante angler.
- 42:34Speaker 3: Yep.
- 42:36Speaker 2: J I mean I wouldn't like, I'm not gonna quit. Yeah,
- 42:39Speaker 2: do you know what I'm saying. I'd just be like, well,
- 42:40Speaker 2: I guess I'm a poacher now.
- 42:42Speaker 5: Yep, exactly.
- 42:43Speaker 3: It would be like if you were if you were
- 42:45Speaker 3: a hunter, instead of like getting all your stuff in
- 42:47Speaker 3: during the season, you'd be like, I'm getting low. It's
- 42:50Speaker 3: time to go get a don.
- 42:51Speaker 1: Just because I'm just like I'm not going to abide.
- 42:53Speaker 1: I'm like, it's gone too far.
- 42:55Speaker 2: I don't trust this system anymore, and now I'm just
- 42:58Speaker 2: going on my own.
- 43:00Speaker 6: Where would you leave the state?
- 43:02Speaker 1: No, because I'm I'm not gonna say it.
- 43:04Speaker 2: Because these these people from this neck of the woods,
- 43:06Speaker 2: they're always hunting.
- 43:09Speaker 1: They don't stick close to home.
- 43:11Speaker 2: Like Washington Minnesota dudes. One goes one direction, one goes
- 43:17Speaker 2: the other direction.
- 43:19Speaker 5: Leaving the state is like when someone from Hollywood is like,
- 43:21Speaker 5: I'm moving to France. You know you're giving up. The
- 43:26Speaker 5: weird thing about this, though, is how broad it is
- 43:29Speaker 5: compared to a lot of these ballot measures that pop up,
- 43:32Speaker 5: like the cat hunting thing in Colorado, which is like
- 43:36Speaker 5: they usually like it's really specific, which I think gives
- 43:41Speaker 5: these things a better chance of passing.
- 43:43Speaker 1: But yes, this is like.
- 43:46Speaker 5: Being done for an Yeah.
- 43:48Speaker 1: He's doing the PEDA thing, Peter.
- 43:53Speaker 2: The point for PETA is not to have, not to
- 43:56Speaker 2: make progress. The point for PETA is to perpetuate petat
- 44:00Speaker 2: making the news. Yeah, so they propose things they know
- 44:03Speaker 2: we're a dead end because then the press like, how
- 44:06Speaker 2: we're doing right now, we'll talk about it, and then
- 44:10Speaker 2: they'll be like the news story, like anytype Peter makes
- 44:12Speaker 2: the news.
- 44:13Speaker 1: It's the news.
- 44:13Speaker 2: Saying what will they think of next? Yeah, this is ridiculous,
- 44:17Speaker 2: and they're like, hah, sweet, we did it.
- 44:19Speaker 1: We're in the news. So we're falling for that little
- 44:22Speaker 1: moby looking dude.
- 44:23Speaker 2: We're falling for his We're playing right.
- 44:26Speaker 4: Into his hands. And the other thing too, about these
- 44:29Speaker 4: these stunts. Is like they're gathering signatures so they could
- 44:34Speaker 4: go to a farmer's market and just tell people, would
- 44:39Speaker 4: you like to sign this to put the ballot measure
- 44:41Speaker 4: and play there.
- 44:41Speaker 5: They're gonna be very vague about what.
- 44:42Speaker 4: Yeah, Like you can say, you can say it's the
- 44:44Speaker 4: end like lab testing on animals, or you could say
- 44:48Speaker 4: it's this or that, you know, but.
- 44:49Speaker 2: If they're at the farmers market, the farmers are gonna
- 44:52Speaker 2: kick their ass.
- 44:53Speaker 4: Well I'm just thinking of.
- 44:54Speaker 1: Like where do you go when there's probably.
- 44:57Speaker 4: For a baseball game. But I don't think they've had
- 44:59Speaker 4: much luck outside.
- 45:00Speaker 5: Of But did what Randall's saying did get me thinking,
- 45:06Speaker 5: like we should do some like man on the street
- 45:09Speaker 5: reporting at Whole Foods or wherever when we find out
- 45:11Speaker 5: one of these things is going on, like sending someone
- 45:16Speaker 5: you know, like ask some people some questions.
- 45:19Speaker 3: Anyway, Spencer asked good questions.
- 45:21Speaker 5: That's what's going on.
- 45:24Speaker 1: It'll be real thoughtful.
- 45:25Speaker 3: I I I unanimated that flow chart so it filled
- 45:29Speaker 3: standard flow.
- 45:31Speaker 5: Guys, I'm over it. Tag it.
- 45:40Speaker 2: But the point one thing I was bringing up is
- 45:41Speaker 2: you better make sure it's attacking you, because it's not.
- 45:43Speaker 1: You'd be harassing. Well, that's what I'm saying wildlife when I.
- 45:47Speaker 5: Said, there's only so much you can do, Like, you
- 45:49Speaker 5: can't kill him, right unless like.
- 45:51Speaker 2: If it's risk like I get if that poor old
- 45:54Speaker 2: lady had killed that turkey, no one's going to prosecute.
- 45:57Speaker 1: Sure, it's not like she like stole them out from
- 46:00Speaker 1: the wild.
- 46:06Speaker 6: Okay, speaking of bands, here's some news from my home
- 46:10Speaker 6: state of New York. Senate Bill S ninety four seventy
- 46:14Speaker 6: three was recently proposed. So we're not sure if it's
- 46:18Speaker 6: going to go through or not, but it's called the
- 46:21Speaker 6: Lead Free Game Donation Act, and if it gets if
- 46:27Speaker 6: it goes through, then it would be a prohibition on
- 46:31Speaker 6: donating lead shot while gave meat to food pantries. So
- 46:36Speaker 6: actually this surprised me New York if this, if this
- 46:39Speaker 6: were to go through, New York would be the second
- 46:42Speaker 6: state after only Minnesota, to ensure that lead potentially contaminated
- 46:49Speaker 6: meat wouldn't be donated to food banks and pantries. So
- 46:55Speaker 6: that's my little game. How much while game do you
- 46:57Speaker 6: think is donated per year to food banks across the country.
- 47:02Speaker 1: Across the country? Oh no, idea pounds? No, No, a million, million, yeah.
- 47:09Speaker 7: What is it?
- 47:10Speaker 6: So apparently recently last year it was one thousand, one
- 47:15Speaker 6: hundred tons of wild harvested gay meat.
- 47:19Speaker 5: So there's the zeros on that.
- 47:21Speaker 6: Yeah, one thousand one one.
- 47:23Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 47:25Speaker 2: What what they're missing here is no one's been able
- 47:27Speaker 2: to demonstrate no one's been able to demonstrate a correlation
- 47:32Speaker 2: between lead poisoning and consumption of wild game.
- 47:34Speaker 1: It's a completely open question.
- 47:35Speaker 6: I thought they have. There was there was one. There
- 47:38Speaker 6: was one study that I saw. It was like some
- 47:41Speaker 6: individuals were consuming lead shot while game meat and their
- 47:47Speaker 6: lead the blood the lead levels and their blood were X.
- 47:51Speaker 6: And then they transitioned to to consuming non lead shot
- 47:55Speaker 6: game meat and the blood level levels decreased.
- 48:00Speaker 1: I want to see that well.
- 48:00Speaker 2: I mean I remember the one they did where they
- 48:02Speaker 2: like took hunters and urban dwellers, and the urban dwellers
- 48:05Speaker 2: had higher lead from environmental lead condamination than the hunters.
- 48:08Speaker 2: So I think, are you supposed to do fill out
- 48:10Speaker 2: a question like you're going to ask people what'd you
- 48:12Speaker 2: shoot it with?
- 48:13Speaker 6: So so we'll go, I'm gonna just let me see.
- 48:18Speaker 6: So for example, in Minnesota, you if if you are
- 48:24Speaker 6: a hunter who's donating meat, you actually have to get
- 48:28Speaker 6: your meat processed by a Minnesota Department of Ag registered
- 48:33Speaker 6: meat processing plant, and they will in fact X ray
- 48:37Speaker 6: the meat for lead fragments. So in New York I
- 48:41Speaker 6: think that they would probably transition to something similar. And
- 48:46Speaker 6: then but these are that Minnesota is the only state
- 48:49Speaker 6: that has this. So in California, for example, for hunting
- 48:54Speaker 6: of any kind, you can't use lead AMMO, so there
- 48:57Speaker 6: isn't a worry there. And then there are two others
- 49:00Speaker 6: that have rules around warning labels, so that would be
- 49:06Speaker 6: Iowa and South Dakota. At at food banks, if they're
- 49:12Speaker 6: distributing meat while gay meat on the bag it says
- 49:16Speaker 6: not tested for lead, and there's a lead warning to
- 49:20Speaker 6: pregnant women and children. All other states, it's just there's
- 49:26Speaker 6: there's nothing in place against this. So in any case,
- 49:29Speaker 6: this bill, lawmakers expect it to be reintroduced and pursued
- 49:35Speaker 6: in twenty twenty seven. It's gone through a couple of committees.
- 49:38Speaker 6: They don't think it'll come up again this year, but
- 49:41Speaker 6: next year we'll look out for it.
- 49:44Speaker 2: And man, well, the thing I don't get about it
- 49:47Speaker 2: a little bit is how am I still alive?
- 49:51Speaker 6: Have we ever tested your Have we tested your blood
- 49:54Speaker 6: led levels. Has anyone I have I feel.
- 49:57Speaker 1: Like I have had that done. Yeah, ask my kids
- 50:00Speaker 1: to dead.
- 50:05Speaker 6: One more quick bit out of New York. This is
- 50:07Speaker 6: positive news for the hunting community. We we almost reported
- 50:10Speaker 6: about this the other week and then and then a
- 50:14Speaker 6: veto got overturned. So uh in the county in Erie County,
- 50:22Speaker 6: which is western New York where the capital Buffalo is UH,
- 50:30Speaker 6: there was a there was a proposal to veto a
- 50:36Speaker 6: youth hunting law that exists in the state, which is
- 50:39Speaker 6: that youth teenagers can use a crossbow, a rifle, a shotgun,
- 50:46Speaker 6: or a mule muzzle loading firearm to hunt if supervised,
- 50:51Speaker 6: and a county executive went against this. So last week
- 50:57Speaker 6: it was like, oh my gosh, you know teens and
- 51:00Speaker 6: youth and Erie County can't hunt supervise with these means.
- 51:06Speaker 6: But then the county legislator actually over rode the county
- 51:11Speaker 6: executive's veto and adopted the youth hunting law. So it
- 51:15Speaker 6: was eight to three. There were three Democrats who upheld
- 51:18Speaker 6: the veto and two Democrats joined uh, six Republicans to
- 51:24Speaker 6: override the veto, so.
- 51:26Speaker 1: To hear Man splitting them doms off.
- 51:28Speaker 6: YEP they're split, and so now youth twelve and twelve
- 51:34Speaker 6: and up. I think it's twelve to fifteen or twelve
- 51:36Speaker 6: to sixteen can use those those crossbow, rifle, shotgun and
- 51:44Speaker 6: muzzle loader to hunt.
- 51:46Speaker 5: Here, it's a how how can a county like decide
- 51:49Speaker 5: they're not going to follow a statewide hunting How's.
- 51:52Speaker 1: That the county issue?
- 51:54Speaker 5: Very strange.
- 51:55Speaker 2: Imagine they did that and you're like lived in that
- 51:58Speaker 2: county and all the other as you can do it
- 52:00Speaker 2: from your county.
- 52:01Speaker 1: You can't do it.
- 52:03Speaker 4: It's just weird.
- 52:04Speaker 1: Man. I don't want to get into this vision.
- 52:05Speaker 2: I want to push this vigilat. I wouldn't vigil any
- 52:09Speaker 2: that the legislati.
- 52:11Speaker 4: Quote from the guy, the legislature has an opportunity to
- 52:14Speaker 4: override my veto and they may do that, and if
- 52:16Speaker 4: they do it, that's their constitutional right. But if they
- 52:19Speaker 4: do that and a child dies in the future, my
- 52:22Speaker 4: conscience will be clean.
- 52:23Speaker 3: Oh god, yeah, God, he.
- 52:25Speaker 1: Knows he's in the wrong.
- 52:27Speaker 2: He regretted it probably pretty quick, and then he had
- 52:30Speaker 2: to do like a little deal like that to try
- 52:32Speaker 2: to make.
- 52:32Speaker 1: It smooth it over.
- 52:33Speaker 6: And this laws existed since twenty twenty one, and there
- 52:37Speaker 6: have been no reported hunting related shooting incidents, violations or
- 52:43Speaker 6: license fe vacations. But I think this county exec and
- 52:47Speaker 6: others will will will look at incidents across the country
- 52:51Speaker 6: and say what if.
- 52:52Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so I see here to the question of
- 52:56Speaker 4: the county. It looks like they the state Department of
- 53:02Speaker 4: Environmental blah blah blah. They they said twelve to thirteen
- 53:08Speaker 4: year olds can hunt with firearm or crossbow in counties
- 53:11Speaker 4: that have passed local legislation. So they sort of like
- 53:14Speaker 4: empowered counties to rapped into this pilot program.
- 53:18Speaker 2: Wow, they're making a county by county issue. That's some
- 53:22Speaker 2: confusing game laws. Man, county by county because you already
- 53:27Speaker 2: thinking about.
- 53:27Speaker 6: To be a region, do you have to be a
- 53:29Speaker 6: resident of the county?
- 53:31Speaker 1: Would be where?
- 53:31Speaker 2: I'm sure it be where you are, But I mean,
- 53:34Speaker 2: come on, man, you go to locate.
- 53:35Speaker 1: Hey, what county you in? Buddy? I don't, Dad, what if?
- 53:39Speaker 4: What if you have a property that spans county lines?
- 53:43Speaker 1: Can you shoot? Don't? That's what I'm saying. That's where
- 53:44Speaker 1: it gets. That's where it gets.
- 53:46Speaker 4: Such horseship, your stand is in County X. There are
- 53:49Speaker 4: many many one hundred yards away in county.
- 53:52Speaker 1: Why that's stupid.
- 53:53Speaker 2: You should really not do game laws by the county
- 53:55Speaker 2: by county. I mean something that is fundamental is like
- 53:59Speaker 2: what age can you with?
- 54:00Speaker 1: What weapons?
- 54:01Speaker 2: Should not be a county by county issue. Anyhow, Spencer's
- 54:06Speaker 2: been out fishing.
- 54:07Speaker 7: All right, some fishing news. West Virginia has produced five
- 54:11Speaker 7: new state record fish in the last two months. Let's
- 54:14Speaker 7: talk about them. Good first one April. Second, good Lord,
- 54:18Speaker 7: fifteen year old hunter Roar catches a twenty eight inch
- 54:22Speaker 7: eleven point eighty four pound golden rainbow trout on the south.
- 54:29Speaker 1: Fish's tail.
- 54:31Speaker 3: They love. We call them Palomina calls back there.
- 54:35Speaker 5: People love the I don't get it, but they're very
- 54:39Speaker 5: easy to find in a stream.
- 54:40Speaker 3: Oh I just spent I spend hours trying to catch
- 54:44Speaker 3: those things.
- 54:44Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a high is it? Is it fertile
- 54:46Speaker 1: or not fertile? Let me tell you about it. Okay,
- 54:49Speaker 1: So every spring, are you going to include what's wrong
- 54:52Speaker 1: with that fish? It's sick?
- 54:54Speaker 7: Well, I don't know what's up with its tail. My
- 54:56Speaker 7: guess it the raceway and up against cement.
- 55:00Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, that's that's what we call broodstock.
- 55:05Speaker 5: So that fish sad what everybody calls broodstock.
- 55:07Speaker 2: Oh, let Spencer do his little news reportment. But I
- 55:09Speaker 2: think that he's embarrassed. He didn't realize that that something's
- 55:12Speaker 2: wrong with that fish.
- 55:13Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 55:15Speaker 7: Every spring, during an event called the West that the
- 55:18Speaker 7: West Virginia Department of Natural Resources refers to as gold Rush,
- 55:22Speaker 7: they released golden rainbow trout across the state. This year,
- 55:26Speaker 7: they stalked fifty thousand of them in sixty nine different
- 55:29Speaker 7: lakes and streams.
- 55:30Speaker 5: Now.
- 55:30Speaker 7: These are not to be confused with the California golden trout,
- 55:34Speaker 7: which is a native species to the Sierra Nevadas. Some
- 55:38Speaker 7: consider those California golden trout to be their own species.
- 55:41Speaker 7: Some say it's the subspecies of the coastal rainbow. Either way,
- 55:45Speaker 7: that is not this fish. These are West Virginia golden
- 55:49Speaker 7: rainbow trout, also known as Palomino trout or banana trout.
- 55:53Speaker 7: They were made at a West Virginia hat trie do
- 55:55Speaker 7: you zoom in on my fingers back in the nineteen
- 55:59Speaker 7: fifties camera the first stocking being in nineteen sixty two,
- 56:05Speaker 7: and they were created after a regular rainbow trout was
- 56:08Speaker 7: born with a mutation that gave it gold coloring. They
- 56:12Speaker 7: then took that trout's offspring and produced and continued to
- 56:16Speaker 7: breathe them to create the founding population of Palomino trout
- 56:19Speaker 7: that we know today now. This angler caught this fish
- 56:21Speaker 7: on day three of gold rush. He was using eggs
- 56:25Speaker 7: from a steelhead that he caught out of a stream
- 56:27Speaker 7: near Lake Erie. The fifteen year old said the fight
- 56:30Speaker 7: lasted two minutes and that the fish was quote too
- 56:33Speaker 7: fat to jump. It broke the old record. Broke the
- 56:36Speaker 7: old record by more than two pounds. The angler said
- 56:41Speaker 7: that they filleted the fish after the record was.
- 56:46Speaker 4: Missing.
- 56:46Speaker 1: It seems like fish pellets.
- 56:48Speaker 4: It was he missing half its motor there too.
- 56:50Speaker 7: Here's the weirdest part of the whole story that we've
- 56:52Speaker 7: already addressed. Gold trout. They don't reproduce after their stocked.
- 56:56Speaker 7: The bright color makes them an easy target for predators,
- 56:59Speaker 7: and they also very very rarely survive the hottest parts
- 57:03Speaker 7: of the summer in West Virginia. Here's a quote from
- 57:05Speaker 7: a fish biologist about palomino trout that are stocked in
- 57:08Speaker 7: West Virginia's northern neighbor, Pennsylvania. Quote, it would be highly
- 57:12Speaker 7: unexpected to find a golden rainbow trout surviving as a
- 57:16Speaker 7: holdover into the next year. So this state record was
- 57:20Speaker 7: most likely stocked three days prior by West Virginia.
- 57:25Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. That's why you're even talking about.
- 57:27Speaker 7: It, because it's good fodder to talk about West Virginia
- 57:30Speaker 7: stocking a state record that some fifteen year old catches
- 57:33Speaker 7: three days.
- 57:34Speaker 2: I got kill that hog or something, and the dude's like,
- 57:38Speaker 2: I just sold them that hog's I.
- 57:41Speaker 1: Got pictures of it in my truck.
- 57:42Speaker 5: I'll tell you what these things were good for. Is
- 57:44Speaker 5: fine in the other fish because they think so you
- 57:48Speaker 5: find one, you're the.
- 57:49Speaker 2: Only interesting thing about this image is that man has
- 57:52Speaker 2: a very good belt.
- 57:55Speaker 1: Okay, I used to wear that belt.
- 57:57Speaker 2: You can you could wrapple off that belt the way
- 57:59Speaker 2: that can work. You can clip a caraban around to
- 58:01Speaker 2: that point. I have that belt. It wears mine.
- 58:05Speaker 7: I reached out to the West Virginia DNR for their take.
- 58:08Speaker 7: Did this fish defy the odds and survive a previous
- 58:10Speaker 7: stocking or did they release two days prior? I know,
- 58:14Speaker 7: but I want to hear them say it. I want
- 58:15Speaker 7: to hear the West Virginia DNR like, yeah, we just
- 58:19Speaker 7: let it off of a truck three days prior. That
- 58:21Speaker 7: would satisfy me. So I reached out to them. Have
- 58:23Speaker 7: not heard back yet.
- 58:24Speaker 1: Oh God, got excited for a minute.
- 58:26Speaker 5: I don't think you're going to hear back from him.
- 58:27Speaker 7: That was state record number one. Here's state record number two,
- 58:31Speaker 7: Donnie Workman, there we go another man County sets a
- 58:37Speaker 7: new state record for a tiger trout at Summit Late.
- 58:41Speaker 1: You got believe.
- 58:45Speaker 5: Pound fish. Let me tell you about it. Believe Donnie
- 58:48Speaker 5: was using meal.
- 58:49Speaker 7: Worms and orange salmon eggs. He caught the fish on
- 58:53Speaker 7: eight pound tests. West Virginia keeps records for length and weight,
- 58:57Speaker 7: and Donnie's fish now holds both of those. Weighed half
- 59:00Speaker 7: a pound more than the old record, which was caught
- 59:03Speaker 7: in twenty twenty five. It measured half an inch longer
- 59:06Speaker 7: than the old record, which was caught less than a
- 59:08Speaker 7: month earlier. All three of those state records tiger trout
- 59:12Speaker 7: were caught from three different bodies of water, which is
- 59:14Speaker 7: pretty unique, but similar to the banana trout. The tiger
- 59:17Speaker 7: trout is largely a synthetic fish that's made by crossing
- 59:21Speaker 7: a female brown with a male brook.
- 59:23Speaker 1: There is some I like how he's got tied up
- 59:25Speaker 1: with his bootlegs though.
- 59:26Speaker 5: Man, Yeah, yeah, I like that.
- 59:32Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 59:32Speaker 5: I figured out that Spencer loves these man made fish
- 59:35Speaker 5: because he used to work in fish hatchery.
- 59:38Speaker 7: Now, there is some natural reproduction in the wild, but
- 59:41Speaker 7: the vast majority of tiger trout come from a hatchery.
- 59:45Speaker 7: West Virginia did some stocking in the nineteen sixties and eighties,
- 59:48Speaker 7: and then they restarted the program in twenty nineteen. So
- 59:51Speaker 7: this rush of tiger trout records is not really surprised.
- 59:54Speaker 2: So the next one's gonna be a new record. Chuck
- 59:56Speaker 2: e cheese ber trout?
- 59:58Speaker 5: Did Donnie eat that?
- 1:00:03Speaker 7: We're looking at pictures of the state record fish now,
- 1:00:06Speaker 7: and Donnie is someone who I refer to as a
- 1:00:08Speaker 7: paid actor because he looks like a fellow who would
- 1:00:11Speaker 7: be catching the state record tiger trout in West Virginia.
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: Because the next thing, a real fish, State record number
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: three was a chain pickerel.
- 1:00:21Speaker 3: Fish.
- 1:00:21Speaker 7: It gets a little fake here in a second. Matt
- 1:00:25Speaker 7: Bourne caught a twenty eight incher on April twenty first.
- 1:00:29Speaker 4: Uh.
- 1:00:29Speaker 7: He was fishing a private pond in Preston County. The
- 1:00:33Speaker 7: fish beat the old record by less than a quarter
- 1:00:35Speaker 7: of an inch, which was a record that he set
- 1:00:38Speaker 7: in twenty nineteen.
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: Let's speak about that.
- 1:00:40Speaker 7: The previous record came from the same pond, same as
- 1:00:43Speaker 7: a private pond that's obviously growing giant chain pickerel, So
- 1:00:47Speaker 7: it's not fake.
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: But you know that's better than other fish.
- 1:00:51Speaker 7: It's you know, the native, same private pond chain pickerel
- 1:00:56Speaker 7: in twenty nineteen, freaking big.
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a disappointing fish to fish for because you
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: never get a big one.
- 1:01:06Speaker 7: No, And Matt was using a homemade spinner that he
- 1:01:09Speaker 7: created the night before, so that's way cool.
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: That's cool.
- 1:01:11Speaker 7: He's fishing from a kayak. And he said the battle
- 1:01:14Speaker 7: lasted ten minutes with the pickerel towing him around the pond,
- 1:01:16Speaker 7: which again pickerel don't grow all that big, so that
- 1:01:19Speaker 7: is a wow minutes.
- 1:01:21Speaker 3: What's he using for tackle?
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: He had a ten minute tussle. He had a tussle
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: with that fish that pulled him around a pond.
- 1:01:27Speaker 7: I imagine he was using some ultra light.
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: Tackle pulled him around the pot.
- 1:01:31Speaker 7: That's what he said.
- 1:01:32Speaker 3: Say, if I got that thing, it would be about
- 1:01:34Speaker 3: three seconds.
- 1:01:35Speaker 7: Both he plans to get the round the pond, plans
- 1:01:39Speaker 7: to get the fish mounted and will display it with
- 1:01:41Speaker 7: this previous record that is also mounted.
- 1:01:44Speaker 2: Oh so he killed the previous record, so that's not
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: the previous record a year later.
- 1:01:49Speaker 7: No, he well the previous records from twenty nineteen. So
- 1:01:51Speaker 7: I don't think this is the twenty nineteen.
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: For a minute, I thought you were suggesting that he
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: keeps catching this fish now keeps breaking its own.
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: But I bet the next state record is also swimming
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: around that point. I don't think you can blame the
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: dude because it's a private pond.
- 1:02:05Speaker 7: I'm not blaming him. I'm just saying, if you were
- 1:02:07Speaker 7: disappointed those guys with the fish hatchery fish, you're not
- 1:02:12Speaker 7: going to love the private pond.
- 1:02:13Speaker 3: Ponds the wrong people.
- 1:02:17Speaker 4: But I also think if the DNR is dumping fish
- 1:02:21Speaker 4: somewhere and you go out and catch one, and you're
- 1:02:24Speaker 4: like a public access guy, you're just showing up to
- 1:02:27Speaker 4: the river.
- 1:02:28Speaker 5: You you hating Brody and seth.
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you're mixing up what I hate.
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: I don't.
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: I don't think if the state has a hatchery and
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: they have broodstock and they take some diseased tailless fish
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: and like throw it out into a creek and the
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: dude catches it.
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: That's fine. I just don't think it's news.
- 1:02:50Speaker 7: I think state record, man, it's a state record, I
- 1:02:52Speaker 7: think if it's record in West Virginia angling history. Fourth
- 1:02:59Speaker 7: state record was a red horse sucker caught by the
- 1:03:02Speaker 7: Roch in Fayette County. It weighed six and a half
- 1:03:06Speaker 7: pounds measured twenty five and a half inches. He caught
- 1:03:09Speaker 7: that on May seventh. Just like the tiger trout. This
- 1:03:12Speaker 7: fish now holds the length and weight record in West Virginia,
- 1:03:16Speaker 7: one pound heavier and one inch longer than the old record,
- 1:03:19Speaker 7: which was caught in twenty twenty five. The angler was
- 1:03:22Speaker 7: using corn when he caught that.
- 1:03:24Speaker 4: Ye, the guys in the background taking pictures the wrong thing.
- 1:03:27Speaker 5: Something else.
- 1:03:28Speaker 4: I have a state record sucker right there.
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: Talking about like hiding and plain sight.
- 1:03:33Speaker 2: Yeah, they're taking scenics, not realizing that what they're actually
- 1:03:36Speaker 2: looking at out the corner of their left eye.
- 1:03:38Speaker 5: Uh huh.
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: This is a state right state rough fish.
- 1:03:40Speaker 7: And he was fishing at Canawa Fall. So maybe that's
- 1:03:43Speaker 7: what that that fella in the red.
- 1:03:44Speaker 2: Shi because that's a legit fish in a legit location.
- 1:03:51Speaker 2: That's a fish that's a that's a fish of.
- 1:03:53Speaker 7: A lifetime, although they often get lumped in with carp
- 1:03:56Speaker 7: red horse or a sucker that's native to central and
- 1:03:58Speaker 7: eastern North America. As the name implies, they have red fins.
- 1:04:02Speaker 7: They could especially colorful during the spawn. Now here's the
- 1:04:04Speaker 7: most interesting thing about red horse. They're actually the fish
- 1:04:07Speaker 7: on the trivia logo that we have that is a red.
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: Press fish right there.
- 1:04:11Speaker 5: Grind them up into.
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: Zach roper. Congratulate Mountain.
- 1:04:17Speaker 7: Didn't get those details.
- 1:04:18Speaker 4: Yeah, everything was record red.
- 1:04:20Speaker 7: Never see stuff suckers, all right. Fifth state record, and
- 1:04:24Speaker 7: this is the biggest one, is for blue catfish.
- 1:04:27Speaker 3: There you go.
- 1:04:27Speaker 7: It was set on by Michael Raimie. It weighed seventy
- 1:04:34Speaker 7: one pounds and made measured fifty inches long. Man Michael
- 1:04:38Speaker 7: was on the Ohio River in Jackson County. He was
- 1:04:41Speaker 7: using cut bait on one hundred pound tests. He was
- 1:04:44Speaker 7: targeting giant cat It beat the old record by one
- 1:04:48Speaker 7: and a half pounds, but it was an inch short
- 1:04:51Speaker 7: of the length record. So this fish just holds the
- 1:04:53Speaker 7: weight record. Length record was set in twenty twenty five
- 1:04:56Speaker 7: and the weight record in twenty twenty three, so both
- 1:04:59Speaker 7: of those were modern records. That he was competing for.
- 1:05:02Speaker 7: Michael was fishing in a catfish tournament that day. It
- 1:05:05Speaker 7: was a five fish limit, and this was the only
- 1:05:08Speaker 7: fish that Michael's boat caught and it gave them second place.
- 1:05:12Speaker 7: So that one singular fish got them second place in
- 1:05:15Speaker 7: a fish out.
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: Dude, I mean, he's he's throwing in one hundred you know,
- 1:05:19Speaker 2: he's he's targeting big boys and that's it.
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: He's not dropping crawlers off the back of that boat.
- 1:05:24Speaker 4: Florida just certified a new record blue catfish too, like
- 1:05:28Speaker 4: a week or two ago.
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: Man. That is a that is a that is a
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: twenty pounds.
- 1:05:33Speaker 5: Its good time to be twenty pounds heavier than the
- 1:05:37Speaker 5: inches long. It's crazy.
- 1:05:39Speaker 7: Oh yeah, that's true. This blue cat was caught on
- 1:05:42Speaker 7: May ninth. It's the second heaviest fish ever caught in
- 1:05:45Speaker 7: West Virginia, second only to the state record grasscarp which
- 1:05:49Speaker 7: was caught in two thousand and five. That weigh seventy
- 1:05:52Speaker 7: one pounds seventy one point six nine pounds, so just
- 1:05:56Speaker 7: half a pound bigger than West Virginia's new record blue cat.
- 1:06:00Speaker 7: Michael's fish was released, So we're still out there somewhere
- 1:06:03Speaker 7: in the Ohio River. Now, why West Virginia is like
- 1:06:07Speaker 7: suddenly producing all these records. The DNR had some statements
- 1:06:11Speaker 7: about you know what these factors are. One is they
- 1:06:14Speaker 7: say the state's water quality is the best it's been
- 1:06:16Speaker 7: in decades thanks to actions by the West Virginia Department
- 1:06:19Speaker 7: of Environmental Protection. Technology also playing a role, like Seth
- 1:06:24Speaker 7: talked about last week with bill fish, it's never been
- 1:06:26Speaker 7: easier to locate big fish with sonar. And then finally,
- 1:06:29Speaker 7: and this is probably the biggest one of them, except
- 1:06:32Speaker 7: this fish stocking programs.
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: None of those fish were none of those fish were
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: located with electronics. This one was, yeah, you've found out electronics.
- 1:06:39Speaker 7: So the best example of all three of these, the
- 1:06:42Speaker 7: water quality, technology and stocking programs is the blue catfish.
- 1:06:47Speaker 7: The Ohio River is significantly significantly cleaner now than it
- 1:06:50Speaker 7: was fifty years ago. The species was reintroduced to portions
- 1:06:54Speaker 7: of the Ohio River in the mid two thousands. So
- 1:06:56Speaker 7: this onslaught of blue cat records in West Virginia is
- 1:06:59Speaker 7: because a stockfish are now reaching like record book sizes.
- 1:07:03Speaker 7: And also this catfish was found with sonarcause it said
- 1:07:08Speaker 7: that in the outdoor life just didn't give specifics, but
- 1:07:13Speaker 7: it said that they were going by this zone and
- 1:07:15Speaker 7: marked this spot and then fish for this fish.
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: Really so technology, that's almost more impressive weirdly what finding
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: them on Like, Yeah, that.
- 1:07:27Speaker 2: You'd find a big that you'd find a big record
- 1:07:29Speaker 2: cat and then target it. I think I hear that,
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: and I'm like that demonstrates angling prowess in a way
- 1:07:39Speaker 2: to me personally, it does him shiplucking into it would not.
- 1:07:42Speaker 5: But it also is kind of like having a live
- 1:07:45Speaker 5: update on a trail camera and.
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: Go, but he let it go.
- 1:07:49Speaker 7: Anyway.
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: Yeah, catch that sucker next year with the big red horse.
- 1:07:52Speaker 3: And it's like it's like finding the white tail and
- 1:07:55Speaker 3: then targeting it. You'd be impressed.
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a help fish man five new records.
- 1:08:03Speaker 5: You worked your way up to the good ones.
- 1:08:04Speaker 2: Yeah, he did.
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: He put him in order. He put him in order.
- 1:08:08Speaker 7: This guy, he's also he's a paid actor as well.
- 1:08:10Speaker 7: For a dude who would catch a.
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: Big, huge character.
- 1:08:13Speaker 4: That guy looks like a blast.
- 1:08:15Speaker 7: The guy who's trying to do the organ anti hunting legislation.
- 1:08:18Speaker 7: He's a paid actor. He looks just like a Bagan
- 1:08:21Speaker 7: activist Matt and Aaron. He's a paid actor. He looks
- 1:08:25Speaker 7: just like a really cool anthropologist.
- 1:08:27Speaker 2: This dude looks like Bill Burr. If Bill Burr ate
- 1:08:29Speaker 2: that catfish, Yeah, that's good.
- 1:08:36Speaker 3: Unfortunately, all those fish are filled with fast chemicals.
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: Real buzz kill, real buzzkill from seth.
- 1:08:45Speaker 3: A recent study released by the Montana Department Environmental Quality
- 1:08:49Speaker 3: shows high levels of p fast chemicals in fish flesh
- 1:08:53Speaker 3: across the state of Montana. Huh so, some of you
- 1:08:59Speaker 3: might know what you know. A lot of people know
- 1:09:02Speaker 3: what p fast chemicals are, but some of you might
- 1:09:03Speaker 3: not know. If you're living under a rock these days.
- 1:09:07Speaker 3: P fasts are large group of man made forever chemicals
- 1:09:11Speaker 3: used since the nineteen forties to make products resistant to heat, water, grease,
- 1:09:18Speaker 3: and stains. Be Fast are often referred to as forever
- 1:09:22Speaker 3: chemicals because they do not readily break down in the
- 1:09:28Speaker 3: environment or the human body. They have been widely used
- 1:09:33Speaker 3: in nonstick cookwaar stained resistant fabrics, firefighting foams, and numerous
- 1:09:40Speaker 3: industrial products. Research say p fast exposure has been linked
- 1:09:46Speaker 3: to health is used such as several different types of
- 1:09:51Speaker 3: cancers like kidney and testicular cancer, immune system dysfunction, developmental
- 1:09:58Speaker 3: effects in children, and a ton of other health problems.
- 1:10:02Speaker 3: So the study the so the Department of Environmental Quality
- 1:10:09Speaker 3: in Montana. They looked at several different bodies of water
- 1:10:15Speaker 3: across Montana, thirteen different ones. In fact, the study found
- 1:10:19Speaker 3: that fish tissue samples collected in twenty twenty three contained
- 1:10:24Speaker 3: significant concentrations of P fast chemicals. At least one type
- 1:10:29Speaker 3: of P fast was presented, was present in seventy percent
- 1:10:35Speaker 3: of samples submitted. Man of forty p fast chemicals. The
- 1:10:42Speaker 3: lab tested for. The type of or the type that
- 1:10:47Speaker 3: appeared most frequently was bear with me here per fluoro.
- 1:10:55Speaker 8: Because yeah, yeah, commonly found where am I here?
- 1:11:08Speaker 3: Yeah, so that that chemical is commonly found in the
- 1:11:11Speaker 3: firefighting foam used at airports and military bases, which is
- 1:11:14Speaker 3: interesting because what they've done blot of fire retardant around
- 1:11:18Speaker 3: these parts during the summer.
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: Yeah, because these are fish out of the Yellowstone So,
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: which is an undamned river and doesn't flow through any
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: kind of industrial landscape. Yep, it's just it's like purely
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: like atmospheric contamination.
- 1:11:34Speaker 3: So in late twenty twenty four, scientists at the.
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: Oh no no, because I guess if you if Pennsley
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: caught them below Billings or not.
- 1:11:40Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll get to that here. Okay. In twenty twenty four,
- 1:11:46Speaker 3: signs at MONTANDIQU had completed their analysis and drafted fish
- 1:11:52Speaker 3: consumption advisory warnings for residents to limit or avoid eating
- 1:11:58Speaker 3: fish from several popular waterways. However, for some weird reason,
- 1:12:03Speaker 3: those advisories didn't make it to the public until recently
- 1:12:07Speaker 3: in twenty twenty seven.
- 1:12:08Speaker 5: Those that's completely separate from like existing consumption advices that
- 1:12:12Speaker 5: you can find on the fvp's website for anybody along.
- 1:12:16Speaker 3: So let's get into the details here. An acceptable p
- 1:12:21Speaker 3: fast level in drinking water is four parts per trillion. Okay, okay,
- 1:12:25Speaker 3: that's what's acceptable for drinking water. Four parts per trillion. Now, Phil,
- 1:12:29Speaker 3: go back to number one there. Sure, So this is
- 1:12:33Speaker 3: this is I'm looking. This is a chart for four
- 1:12:35Speaker 3: peck if you look all the way to the right. Yep,
- 1:12:38Speaker 3: what what that so like? For example, the Northern Pike
- 1:12:41Speaker 3: for twenty six to thirty inches that they they tested,
- 1:12:45Speaker 3: they found three point five that that boils down to
- 1:12:49Speaker 3: three thousand, five hundred parts per trillion. Ooh really yeah?
- 1:12:53Speaker 5: Thousand times? God, yeah, thousand times. Except if you look.
- 1:12:57Speaker 3: At a walleye twenty two to twenty six inches five thousand,
- 1:13:01Speaker 3: four hundred parts per trillion. So if you eat one
- 1:13:03Speaker 3: walleye that size out of four peck, you're.
- 1:13:07Speaker 5: Feeding a lot of them that size out of fort peck.
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: Number two thought I was already dead from the leg.
- 1:13:13Speaker 3: Yeah you think that's crazy. Look this one East Gallaton River.
- 1:13:18Speaker 3: Whoa attend to fourteen inch rainbow trout eighteen one hundred
- 1:13:23Speaker 3: parts per trillion.
- 1:13:25Speaker 4: But that's fluoro telomere kerboxilic acid.
- 1:13:28Speaker 3: Yeah, it's still bad. My goodness, go the next one, Phil.
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: I'm just looking.
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: Forward to all humans being gone and then millions of
- 1:13:41Speaker 2: years to go buy and the planet's cool again.
- 1:13:43Speaker 1: Man, this is the this is the forever chemicals. That's
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: the whole problem.
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: Though, they'll still be there like dinosaurs running back around again,
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: and it'll be like that'll be all contaminated.
- 1:13:55Speaker 3: So as you can see with these numbers, it's like
- 1:13:57Speaker 3: off the charts.
- 1:13:58Speaker 7: In imagine this is an exclusive to Montana.
- 1:14:01Speaker 5: No Montana is dealing with it.
- 1:14:03Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll get to that, but you're you're correct.
- 1:14:07Speaker 1: It's an inciting incident to the story.
- 1:14:10Speaker 3: D d Q scientists recommends stringent interim fish consumption advisories
- 1:14:15Speaker 3: based on updated guidance from the the US Environmental protect
- 1:14:21Speaker 3: Protection Agency. The proposed advisories included avoid recommendations for several
- 1:14:28Speaker 3: fish species for most of them, yeah.
- 1:14:31Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that's like just.
- 1:14:34Speaker 3: Yeah, the most severe recommendations of all four Peck reservoir.
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: So depending on the waterway. Just for listeners, we got like,
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: I'm looking at avoids. Avoids on northeast, Avoids on wally dogs,
- 1:14:49Speaker 2: Avoids on blue sockers, these are voids on browns Avoids
- 1:14:55Speaker 2: on mountain whities yea.
- 1:14:57Speaker 3: And these are for different bodies of water.
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: Avoids on small MoU.
- 1:15:00Speaker 2: I'm just going to give it a general there's an
- 1:15:02Speaker 2: avoid on yellow perch channel cats.
- 1:15:04Speaker 5: And it's interesting that that Peck has all those avoids
- 1:15:08Speaker 5: and like, because that's like the downstream terminus of.
- 1:15:11Speaker 3: Well, if you look at like, everything ends up there.
- 1:15:13Speaker 3: If you look at Canne Fairy, it's not that bad,
- 1:15:16Speaker 3: but as you go down the line, it's worse.
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: Like that whole vigilantie deal. I was telling you this
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: when you first brought this up to me, I said,
- 1:15:24Speaker 2: ignore it.
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: I'm not stopping.
- 1:15:30Speaker 2: I don't care if you told me that those fish
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: had hand grenades in them.
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: I'm not stopping eating them.
- 1:15:36Speaker 5: So you have a different attitude about this than you
- 1:15:38Speaker 5: do CWD.
- 1:15:40Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I know that that won't be what kills me.
- 1:15:47Speaker 3: I know that CWD won't be the thing that kills
- 1:15:49Speaker 3: you either.
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: No. No, I'll die have a heart attack later that
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: was caused by p FACT.
- 1:15:56Speaker 4: Tree branch will fall on you.
- 1:15:58Speaker 3: Oh yeah. The risks of p fas chemical are still
- 1:16:00Speaker 3: very abstract compared to CWT.
- 1:16:02Speaker 5: Sure says got more, but like this stuff is like
- 1:16:05Speaker 5: there's been game agencies around the country that are saying, like,
- 1:16:09Speaker 5: don't eat ducks from this area. Don't eat dear friend, listen,
- 1:16:12Speaker 5: I know.
- 1:16:12Speaker 2: You're wrong, don't you know what. I hope no one
- 1:16:15Speaker 2: eats it, just me personally. I'm not gonna stop eating
- 1:16:19Speaker 2: fish because of this, because there's like a quality of
- 1:16:22Speaker 2: life issue.
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: I'm not looking like that guy. The guy from earlier
- 1:16:26Speaker 1: the moment will sickly and pale and yeah eating potatoes.
- 1:16:30Speaker 4: If if I end up looking like that guy, people
- 1:16:33Speaker 4: are gonna come to me and say, man, you've really
- 1:16:35Speaker 4: done some lifestyle changes that you look great.
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: You could use them. Channel catfish disciplined.
- 1:16:45Speaker 3: So Montana's final recommendations are significantly less restrictive, Steve, you'll
- 1:16:49Speaker 3: like to hear this good the nose proposed by d
- 1:16:52Speaker 3: q uh go to. I can't stop fro this is
- 1:16:58Speaker 3: this is just a snapshot of Montana's current recommendations.
- 1:17:03Speaker 4: And it's easy to understand.
- 1:17:07Speaker 3: Well, there's there's a key here. Yeah, there's a key
- 1:17:10Speaker 3: here to look. But anyway, like the obviously that circles
- 1:17:14Speaker 3: with the exes are the do not consider.
- 1:17:16Speaker 1: So give me an example of what they're saying don't eat?
- 1:17:19Speaker 3: All right, So let's for fort Peck. They're saying a
- 1:17:24Speaker 3: walleye for women and children that's twenty two to twenty
- 1:17:28Speaker 3: six inches. Women and children should eat that.
- 1:17:32Speaker 7: Huh what does the two mean for like a twenty o?
- 1:17:34Speaker 1: My wife are the final I think that?
- 1:17:37Speaker 3: Yeah? Feels per month? Yeah yeah yeah. And then the
- 1:17:43Speaker 3: little fish the fish icon is a safe to eat god.
- 1:17:48Speaker 5: I mean generally it's like the bigger the fish, the
- 1:17:50Speaker 5: less you eat of them.
- 1:17:52Speaker 3: Saying like.
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: The takeaway is is that that that that the takeaway
- 1:17:58Speaker 2: is that we're ruining the planet.
- 1:18:01Speaker 6: Yep, Yeah, there's plastic and everything.
- 1:18:04Speaker 3: Yeah, Montana is not alone when it comes to p
- 1:18:07Speaker 3: fast chemicals.
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: Not ruining it. But degrading it significantly.
- 1:18:12Speaker 3: This is a nationwide issue.
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: We're not even in the hot zone.
- 1:18:16Speaker 3: Research indicates, yeah, this is.
- 1:18:20Speaker 5: Great Lakes.
- 1:18:21Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, p p A has found P fast and
- 1:18:24Speaker 3: freshwater fish on these three m along.
- 1:18:28Speaker 2: Its wild In Nevada, they've found no P fast and
- 1:18:32Speaker 2: fresh water because they found no fresh water in Nevada.
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: Not joking in Nevada. In Nevada is the only state
- 1:18:38Speaker 2: I'm looking at it doesn't have a p fast.
- 1:18:40Speaker 1: Dot on it.
- 1:18:41Speaker 5: So I wonder if that because they haven't tested for it.
- 1:18:44Speaker 3: Yeah, there's even in the South. There's even stuff in Alaska.
- 1:18:49Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:18:50Speaker 2: But then just for people that they're listening and not looking,
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: there's just just like dots kind of parts per billion
- 1:18:56Speaker 2: and composite samples and real you know, most of the
- 1:19:01Speaker 2: country is very sporadic. The Mississippi's got Boku dots, and
- 1:19:07Speaker 2: the Great Lakes all the way out the Saint Lawrence
- 1:19:10Speaker 2: Seaway has Boku dots.
- 1:19:12Speaker 3: Yep.
- 1:19:13Speaker 5: I mean.
- 1:19:13Speaker 4: The other the other part of this story too, is
- 1:19:15Speaker 4: that the Montana research was all done, that report was
- 1:19:20Speaker 4: finalized three years ago and they just released it to
- 1:19:25Speaker 4: the public.
- 1:19:26Speaker 3: Big Well.
- 1:19:27Speaker 2: They also just had you know, like P fast stuff
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: because California bandits all companies are moving away from P
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: fast because because everybody's just moving away from P fast.
- 1:19:35Speaker 2: So waterproofing on jackets is going to go downhill and
- 1:19:37Speaker 2: hopefully fish quality will go up. But they're forever chemicals,
- 1:19:40Speaker 2: so they're never going to go away.
- 1:19:42Speaker 9: M h.
- 1:19:43Speaker 1: It's got to keep eating them fish. That's not my recommendation.
- 1:19:46Speaker 6: Attention to what you cook in. If you have a
- 1:19:48Speaker 6: nonstick pan that's.
- 1:19:49Speaker 3: Coated, yeah, tough one.
- 1:19:52Speaker 6: Licking P fast up.
- 1:19:54Speaker 5: I think that hot grease just fries it right out
- 1:19:56Speaker 5: of those.
- 1:19:58Speaker 2: That's just saying yeah, tell that'd be like that guy
- 1:20:01Speaker 2: that remember that remember that legislator that said about c
- 1:20:05Speaker 2: w D.
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: He's like, just cook it to done, and someone's like,
- 1:20:08Speaker 1: you have to cook it to un temperature.
- 1:20:11Speaker 2: No, it was like like one three hundred degrees or
- 1:20:14Speaker 2: something like that.
- 1:20:15Speaker 3: Damn One thing I read when doing this research on
- 1:20:18Speaker 3: this is the that data centers are the water cycling
- 1:20:22Speaker 3: through data centers is releasing a shipload of pfast chemicals.
- 1:20:26Speaker 1: Really, m.
- 1:20:28Speaker 8: No.
- 1:20:29Speaker 4: I had a lot of I had a lot of
- 1:20:31Speaker 4: people reach out to me about data centers because they
- 1:20:33Speaker 4: love them. No, people that are are building building them,
- 1:20:38Speaker 4: working them things of that nature.
- 1:20:39Speaker 6: We got a ton of emails, Thank you everybody. I
- 1:20:41Speaker 6: got to go through them.
- 1:20:42Speaker 2: I got a good Uh, I got a good I
- 1:20:45Speaker 2: got a good guest.
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: I'm flirting with on that subject matter. Not flirt, that's
- 1:20:50Speaker 1: a terrible word. No, it's chatting. Chatting a journalist. She's
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: doing a book on the whole subject. Oh are you done?
- 1:21:04Speaker 1: That was a great segment.
- 1:21:05Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: Are you gonna curtail? You're fish eating?
- 1:21:07Speaker 5: That's what I was gonna ask I have.
- 1:21:08Speaker 3: I haven't honestly eaten a lot of fish in Montana
- 1:21:11Speaker 3: in the last ever since I got mercury poisoning. A
- 1:21:14Speaker 3: lot of these fish are a lot of it like that.
- 1:21:16Speaker 3: Stuffy showed a lot of stuff. You're real high mercury
- 1:21:18Speaker 3: as well.
- 1:21:20Speaker 1: You're not eating the fish because of the mercury.
- 1:21:22Speaker 3: I just eat all the fat, all my fish consumptions,
- 1:21:25Speaker 3: just to Alaska stuff for the most part.
- 1:21:28Speaker 7: Huh.
- 1:21:29Speaker 4: Didn't you also poison yourself with Alaska fish at some point?
- 1:21:32Speaker 3: No, white fish, Hawaii fish, golf goldfish.
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: They should be you know, people gotta they'll put a
- 1:21:41Speaker 2: map up and put a thumbtack everywhere that thumbtack everywhere
- 1:21:45Speaker 2: has been poisoned by You know what d Q should do.
- 1:21:48Speaker 5: They should be saying, don't worry about the fish. They
- 1:21:50Speaker 5: should be sampling the anglers.
- 1:21:53Speaker 1: For pea fast. Yeah.
- 1:21:56Speaker 2: But I always tell my favorite story about my dad's
- 1:21:58Speaker 2: buddy that I grew up with one my fishing mentors,
- 1:22:02Speaker 2: Ron Spring, because he had eaten so much Great Lakes
- 1:22:05Speaker 2: fishes whole life. He was a commercial bait fisherman, so
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: for a living he caught bait and then.
- 1:22:10Speaker 1: Lived off fish. My dad fished them all the time.
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: They used to. He used to go for these routine.
- 1:22:18Speaker 2: Cognitive tests to test him for all of his exposure
- 1:22:23Speaker 2: to Great Lakes fish. And the punchline of the joke,
- 1:22:26Speaker 2: and I always tell this punchline. The punchline of the
- 1:22:28Speaker 2: joke is he was telling me about he would go
- 1:22:31Speaker 2: to MSU in Lansing, Michigan periodicly, that can't mem for
- 1:22:34Speaker 2: his every six months or every year, and they would
- 1:22:37Speaker 2: give him a list of stuff to remember. He's telling me.
- 1:22:41Speaker 2: He'd say, they're like, Ron, you need to go to
- 1:22:46Speaker 2: the store and get milk, eggs, mountain dew, right whatever.
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: Tell him a bunch of things He's supposed to get
- 1:22:54Speaker 1: at the store.
- 1:22:55Speaker 2: Then he said they'd wait a minute and they'd go,
- 1:22:57Speaker 2: what are you supposed to get at the store. And
- 1:23:00Speaker 2: I remember he said to me, Steve, I wouldn't remembered
- 1:23:03Speaker 2: that list if I never ate a piece of fish in.
- 1:23:05Speaker 1: My whole life. And uh, you know, so they were
- 1:23:11Speaker 1: looking into this back then. Yeah, he loved to be
- 1:23:15Speaker 1: a very old man.
- 1:23:18Speaker 5: There you go.
- 1:23:18Speaker 2: I sold him a huge snapper turtle one time and
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: he knew this other.
- 1:23:24Speaker 5: Dude back in your days of illegal stuff.
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: Well no, no, because no, because you could get a commercial,
- 1:23:34Speaker 2: commercial turtle back then.
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: Uh.
- 1:23:41Speaker 2: I later went to profile him. He was he was old,
- 1:23:46Speaker 2: He's an old man, and I was communicating with him
- 1:23:49Speaker 2: and that because I wanted to profile him. I wanted
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: to go out and spend time with him. I was
- 1:23:52Speaker 2: pitching it when I was this is when I was
- 1:23:53Speaker 2: writing for Outside magazine, and I was like, I want
- 1:23:56Speaker 2: to do a profile of like a bait fisherman. So
- 1:23:59Speaker 2: he like claps he would go out himself and collect leeches, wigglers, crawlers, shiners, suckermentos,
- 1:24:08Speaker 2: like he would be the guy.
- 1:24:09Speaker 1: That sold all the live bait.
- 1:24:11Speaker 2: Honest, Yeah, a buddy has even started a live bait
- 1:24:14Speaker 2: vending thing.
- 1:24:15Speaker 1: That didn't take off a vending machine to buy live bait.
- 1:24:18Speaker 5: Did he sell himself or sell to bait chops.
- 1:24:20Speaker 2: He had springs outdoors, so he had springs sorry spring
- 1:24:24Speaker 2: sporting goods. But even after spring sporting goods ended, he
- 1:24:29Speaker 2: still supplied bait. That was just his business. His whole life, leeches, wigglers, everything.
- 1:24:36Speaker 2: And I wanted to profile him in his eighties. I
- 1:24:39Speaker 2: think it was in his late seventies or eighties, because
- 1:24:41Speaker 2: I'm like, at this point, you know, And he said,
- 1:24:44Speaker 2: I have spent my life developing my methods. I view
- 1:24:51Speaker 2: it as proprietary, and I don't want to show anybody.
- 1:24:54Speaker 4: Dang that he was not worried about dude put him
- 1:25:01Speaker 4: out of business in his I've been I was at
- 1:25:04Speaker 4: his place and he had women that would tie He
- 1:25:07Speaker 4: had women that would do piece work.
- 1:25:09Speaker 1: Tie in spawn sacks.
- 1:25:11Speaker 2: Where you take that mesh to use that weddings to
- 1:25:13Speaker 2: put mints and peanuts in.
- 1:25:14Speaker 5: That's what they caught, that golden, beautiful golden trout. On
- 1:25:17Speaker 5: the spawns.
- 1:25:19Speaker 2: You put like three three salmon eggs, like three chinook eggs,
- 1:25:23Speaker 2: a couple of little foam balls.
- 1:25:25Speaker 1: So it's buoyant and tie it off.
- 1:25:28Speaker 2: He would have women doing piece work tie in spawn
- 1:25:30Speaker 2: sacks and then he put those in those little plastic
- 1:25:32Speaker 2: tubs they sell flies in nowadays when you buy flies,
- 1:25:36Speaker 2: and you could go and buy like six spawn sacks
- 1:25:40Speaker 2: tied by Ron Spring. Yep, I just the last story
- 1:25:44Speaker 2: about last story about Rond Spring. When I was a
- 1:25:48Speaker 2: little kid, this is terrible. I was fishing with mile Man.
- 1:25:51Speaker 2: I was a little kid, and we found on the
- 1:25:53Speaker 2: ice a big northern pike someone had just left laying
- 1:25:55Speaker 2: outside the hole, just fro you know.
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: Fish looks and it's been laying there for and stiff.
- 1:26:00Speaker 1: It was frozen stiff.
- 1:26:02Speaker 2: My dad picks it up and throws it to me
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: because it's frozen rock solid.
- 1:26:08Speaker 1: He throws it to me and I catch it. He goes,
- 1:26:10Speaker 1: you caught that pike?
- 1:26:12Speaker 2: Now, I told Ron Spring. I was probably like five
- 1:26:16Speaker 2: or six. I told Ron Spring, I caught a twenty
- 1:26:19Speaker 2: eight inch pike.
- 1:26:20Speaker 1: You felt felt so bad. I called him back and told.
- 1:26:23Speaker 2: My lie, wow, I felt so crooked.
- 1:26:28Speaker 3: He's an honest man.
- 1:26:31Speaker 2: Paddygonia is suing a drag queen named Paddy Gonya. Does
- 1:26:37Speaker 2: this individual go by him or heard.
- 1:26:38Speaker 1: You know, did you read this? No?
- 1:26:41Speaker 5: I thought I saw that.
- 1:26:43Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, Paddy going you, this is a dragon.
- 1:26:45Speaker 2: I can't believe you could say drag queen and not
- 1:26:48Speaker 2: get in trouble. Doesn't that seem like a thing you
- 1:26:50Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to say anymore? But they use it
- 1:26:52Speaker 2: drag queen.
- 1:26:52Speaker 3: That's totally fine.
- 1:26:54Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's some things that you this drag queen
- 1:26:59Speaker 1: is Paddy going you?
- 1:27:00Speaker 6: Now?
- 1:27:00Speaker 7: According to Patty, she heard when in Drag in Drag
- 1:27:06Speaker 7: she goes by she, and when not in Drag, when
- 1:27:10Speaker 7: Wiley identifies as a gay man who uses he him,
- 1:27:13Speaker 7: there you go.
- 1:27:14Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick. I'm gonna stick to the character in
- 1:27:18Speaker 1: in Drag. There's a there's a there's a drag.
- 1:27:21Speaker 2: There's a climate activist nature environmental activist.
- 1:27:28Speaker 1: Right here, Patty Gona Patty goes.
- 1:27:33Speaker 2: She claims that the whole thing started when she was
- 1:27:35Speaker 2: out hiking and brought some high heels and.
- 1:27:40Speaker 1: Uh, you know the craziest part is that she has
- 1:27:44Speaker 1: Seth's mustache. Look at this.
- 1:27:50Speaker 2: Yeah, she was out hiking in high heels. Put out
- 1:27:53Speaker 2: the high heels for a photograph, not Seth's hare no,
- 1:27:56Speaker 2: I wish I said, I should have never cut my hair.
- 1:27:59Speaker 1: So she was out on a hike. She was out
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: on a hike and.
- 1:28:02Speaker 2: Took a picture of brought high heels, got to the
- 1:28:05Speaker 2: top of some hill, took a picture of her and
- 1:28:06Speaker 2: high heels and dubbed and created a persona a drag
- 1:28:10Speaker 2: queen persona Patty Gonia. She claims that it was not
- 1:28:15Speaker 2: in reference to the clothing company Patagonia. She claims it
- 1:28:20Speaker 2: was in reference to the Argentinian and Chilean the region,
- 1:28:27Speaker 2: which is the southern portions of Argentina, Argentina in Chile,
- 1:28:32Speaker 2: Chilean Patagonia, Argentinian Patagonia.
- 1:28:34Speaker 1: The south tip of South America.
- 1:28:36Speaker 2: I just saw today where Patty Gonia made a video
- 1:28:40Speaker 2: saying that was the inspiration the region. But she has
- 1:28:47Speaker 2: a she sells clothing under Paddygonia, So pat Tugonia or Patagucci,
- 1:28:55Speaker 2: pat Tugonia, she should just call herself Patty Gucci.
- 1:29:00Speaker 1: And it had been like a double joke.
- 1:29:02Speaker 5: They would have gone at Gucci.
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: Yeah, they true money.
- 1:29:06Speaker 3: You think a mustache is fake?
- 1:29:08Speaker 1: No, No, I think it's yeah.
- 1:29:11Speaker 2: Anyways, in a real bind, here's a I call this
- 1:29:15Speaker 2: a feel good story because it makes me. It makes
- 1:29:17Speaker 2: me laugh, and I called a heartwarming story because it
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: heart warms my heart. I just think it's very funny.
- 1:29:21Speaker 2: I've been enjoying the story for two days since it
- 1:29:23Speaker 2: came out. It puts Padigon in a real bind. But
- 1:29:28Speaker 2: it hearkens back to if you remember the dispute between
- 1:29:32Speaker 2: north Face. There was a dispute a long time ago
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: between north Face and South by Phil can you pull
- 1:29:40Speaker 2: up north Face and south But okay, not familiar. So
- 1:29:44Speaker 2: this is twenty years ago. North Face came out. A
- 1:29:47Speaker 2: guy inverted the north Face logo and came out with
- 1:29:50Speaker 2: a clothing line called the South Butt.
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: A kid from Missouri and his dad did this. He
- 1:29:57Speaker 1: was like a student.
- 1:29:58Speaker 2: They come up with South Butt. North Face is like, hey,
- 1:30:01Speaker 2: South Butt, you gotta quit. He says, give me a
- 1:30:03Speaker 2: million bucks and I'll quit. Well, then South Butt took
- 1:30:07Speaker 2: off and I'll say, say it's not for sale anymore.
- 1:30:10Speaker 2: So then they come to some kind of undisclosed settlement
- 1:30:12Speaker 2: where he'll stop selling South butt, close signs the settlement
- 1:30:18Speaker 2: and then quickly launches the butt face.
- 1:30:22Speaker 1: Do you got that one?
- 1:30:24Speaker 3: Oh?
- 1:30:24Speaker 2: No, quickly launches the butt face as like as like
- 1:30:28Speaker 2: a total fu to the north face.
- 1:30:31Speaker 1: And then he's found in violation of the deal.
- 1:30:35Speaker 2: Then they're like, okay, ns enough. So he's like, okay,
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: I'll quit the south butt. I'm switching to the butt face.
- 1:30:41Speaker 4: He had to pay sixty five grand yeah for butt face.
- 1:30:44Speaker 1: And then yeah, there it is.
- 1:30:45Speaker 2: So then he's like, okay, I'll call it the butt
- 1:30:47Speaker 2: face because they had never stopped climbing. So he's like,
- 1:30:50Speaker 2: never stop smiling the butt face. Totally funny. He loses
- 1:30:54Speaker 2: and he's done. So here we are now Patagonia is
- 1:30:58Speaker 2: is toe to toe with Patauh Patty.
- 1:31:06Speaker 1: All Right.
- 1:31:07Speaker 2: The first thing I thought when I heard this, and
- 1:31:10Speaker 2: I've been around, I've been around this this issue, the copyright.
- 1:31:13Speaker 1: Thing, I've been around a fair bit over the years.
- 1:31:16Speaker 2: The first thing I thought was, how is it applicable
- 1:31:18Speaker 2: when there is a place called PATAGONI like, why can't
- 1:31:20Speaker 2: you say no, I mean the place?
- 1:31:24Speaker 1: It doesn't work.
- 1:31:25Speaker 2: And if you want to think about why that doesn't work,
- 1:31:28Speaker 2: it's like, let's say I start a online I started
- 1:31:32Speaker 2: a website that sells everything you could ever possibly want,
- 1:31:35Speaker 2: and I say I'm gonna call it Amazon, And you're like,
- 1:31:38Speaker 2: well you can't because it's already one of those called Amazon.
- 1:31:40Speaker 2: I'd be like, no, no, no, I mean the Jungle and
- 1:31:42Speaker 2: like it for all the reasons you can imagine.
- 1:31:44Speaker 1: Doesn't work to do that, all right.
- 1:31:46Speaker 2: What Paddigonia is pressing is like that to stop. They
- 1:31:50Speaker 2: want Patty Gonia to stop selling merch. But there's a
- 1:31:56Speaker 2: lot of fan art. So Patty Gonio go on and
- 1:32:00Speaker 2: show fan arc that uses the not just the name,
- 1:32:04Speaker 2: but the Padagonia logo. And this has been done before.
- 1:32:07Speaker 2: There was a gun company that took like an ar
- 1:32:10Speaker 2: and made it look like with the multi colored iconic
- 1:32:13Speaker 2: mountainscape thing. So Patty is saying, Okay, I'll stop using
- 1:32:21Speaker 2: or showing the Patagonia logo, but you gotta lay off
- 1:32:26Speaker 2: on me calling myself Paddy Gonia. That's the deal they're
- 1:32:30Speaker 2: trying to strike. Okay, Paddygonia claims that pat Tugonia has
- 1:32:39Speaker 2: known about her for eight years, but they're cherry picking
- 1:32:44Speaker 2: this political moment, this particular political moment, to make their attack.
- 1:32:50Speaker 1: H Okay.
- 1:32:53Speaker 2: The question when you get into this kind of stuff
- 1:32:55Speaker 2: is does it cause to a layman? Does it cause
- 1:33:01Speaker 2: brand confusion? I watched one lawyer speaking about it, and
- 1:33:07Speaker 2: the lawyer was saying, brand confusion would be you tell
- 1:33:11Speaker 2: your baby boomer grandma, I want a Patagonia T shirt. Now,
- 1:33:19Speaker 2: could this hypothetical baby boomer grandma search that up and
- 1:33:25Speaker 2: wind up accidentally getting a Paddy Gonia T shirt? That
- 1:33:31Speaker 2: would be like you've caused brand confusion. In the comment
- 1:33:36Speaker 2: section to this lawyer breaking this down, there's one person
- 1:33:40Speaker 2: that said, and I think they're lying. He said, my
- 1:33:43Speaker 2: parents are boomers. They've never heard of the clothing company Patagonia,
- 1:33:48Speaker 2: but they know about Paddygonia. Come on, yeah, another person said.
- 1:33:55Speaker 2: Another person said, I am a boomer, and I can
- 1:33:58Speaker 2: tell the difference between the clothing brand and a drag queen.
- 1:34:02Speaker 2: So you have conflicting things about boomers. We should have
- 1:34:05Speaker 2: brought one in and said, how confused.
- 1:34:09Speaker 1: Are you by all?
- 1:34:09Speaker 2: This an interesting little wrinkle here about trademark use, And
- 1:34:14Speaker 2: this is the part that I've had.
- 1:34:15Speaker 1: A lot of exposure to.
- 1:34:17Speaker 2: When you trademark something, you're trademarking the use of the
- 1:34:21Speaker 2: name for a purpose. And I thought, I was trying
- 1:34:23Speaker 2: to think this morning of an example, and I thought
- 1:34:25Speaker 2: of an example. But first I'll say that for thirty
- 1:34:27Speaker 2: three years Patagonia is held they have they held, have
- 1:34:32Speaker 2: held for thirty three years that they have exclusive on
- 1:34:35Speaker 2: selling clothes under Patagonia. Let's say there's a prominent you know,
- 1:34:39Speaker 2: like down on the Madison River. There's blacks Ford. Okay,
- 1:34:43Speaker 2: there's a well known ford from historic times like that
- 1:34:46Speaker 2: was a reliable, good, safe place to cross the Madison.
- 1:34:49Speaker 2: Blacks Ford, that's where you would cross. Let's say I
- 1:34:52Speaker 2: opened a restaurant at blacks Ford and I called the Ford. Okay,
- 1:34:56Speaker 2: And I'm saying I'm opening a restaurant at the Ford
- 1:34:59Speaker 2: called the Ford. Ford Motor Company that's not there. Probably
- 1:35:04Speaker 2: I'm using example, but probably not their business because I'm
- 1:35:07Speaker 2: opening a restaurant.
- 1:35:09Speaker 1: Called the Ford at the Ford.
- 1:35:11Speaker 2: But let's say I later go, man, I've developed a
- 1:35:13Speaker 2: truck which is great for crossing the Ford.
- 1:35:19Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna call it the Ford.
- 1:35:22Speaker 2: All of a sudden, now you are in Ford is
- 1:35:26Speaker 2: coming after you now because now you're causing brand confusion.
- 1:35:30Speaker 1: Your truck the Ford.
- 1:35:32Speaker 2: Which you claim has nothing to do with Ford, it
- 1:35:35Speaker 2: has to do with the Ford at the River.
- 1:35:37Speaker 1: A judge is gonna be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, Yeah.
- 1:35:39Speaker 2: You're creating brand confusion about Ford as a motor vehicle.
- 1:35:44Speaker 4: If you're if you're a person who can create a
- 1:35:47Speaker 4: successful restaurant venture in and around Bozeman, and you can
- 1:35:50Speaker 4: invent a motor vehicle, you'll be just fine without that name. Yes,
- 1:35:55Speaker 4: an impressive enough, an impressive impressive person, bridge your motors.
- 1:35:59Speaker 2: Yes, you go and get so if you're establishing a brand.
- 1:36:03Speaker 2: If you're establishing a brand, you don't know where the
- 1:36:06Speaker 2: brand is going. That's why it's always a good idea
- 1:36:09Speaker 2: to not use a word that's blocked up. Like let's
- 1:36:11Speaker 2: say you're looking at a brand name and that happens
- 1:36:13Speaker 2: to be there's a kayak company with that name, and
- 1:36:16Speaker 2: you're like, well, I want to call my restaurant that,
- 1:36:18Speaker 2: But then you realize that they have secured apparel, they've
- 1:36:23Speaker 2: secured a multitude of water sports, and you're later like, well,
- 1:36:27Speaker 2: I'm just going to be a restaurant. Well, what if
- 1:36:29Speaker 2: you decide you're gonna sell hoodies, like you always gotta
- 1:36:32Speaker 2: be careful you're gonna be I'm gonna sell my favorite knife, Well,
- 1:36:35Speaker 2: there's already a knife company using that name, So you
- 1:36:37Speaker 2: always gotta be careful about like where all it's been
- 1:36:41Speaker 2: used in Patagoni situation. This puts them because their audience,
- 1:36:44Speaker 2: Patagonia's audience is bifurcated. Finance dudes like those vests a lot,
- 1:36:51Speaker 2: and they like those black fleeces a lot. There's a
- 1:36:55Speaker 2: there's an understandable story about why finance guys love.
- 1:36:59Speaker 4: Padda go.
- 1:37:01Speaker 2: Because there used to be some very exclusive event and
- 1:37:03Speaker 2: they'd give out like a like a vest. But if
- 1:37:06Speaker 2: you didn't get invited to the vest to the event,
- 1:37:09Speaker 2: you just go get it anyways, because then it looked
- 1:37:10Speaker 2: like you'd been to the event. And now it just
- 1:37:13Speaker 2: is that they wear Patagonia vests.
- 1:37:15Speaker 7: They don't know why they're wearing them.
- 1:37:17Speaker 2: No, but there's a history too that you can understand,
- 1:37:19Speaker 2: and it's bifurcated to so they have this kind of
- 1:37:21Speaker 2: like right ish right leaning thing, like how many investors
- 1:37:25Speaker 2: have you ever met with a Patagonia jacket?
- 1:37:27Speaker 1: They all have one. And then there's like a left
- 1:37:30Speaker 1: leaning element like a real like an Arbor Madison Patagonia
- 1:37:37Speaker 1: type that are diametrically opposed.
- 1:37:39Speaker 5: Hiker, biker, yeah, flyfisher.
- 1:37:42Speaker 2: So here, Patagonia is kind of like in this position
- 1:37:47Speaker 2: of going after what would almost be sort of like
- 1:37:50Speaker 2: a symbolic height of the left leaning aspect of tolerance
- 1:37:55Speaker 2: and things that would come from their community.
- 1:37:58Speaker 5: Yeah, and Patagonia's ethos is not right wing finance guys.
- 1:38:02Speaker 5: Patagonians kind of et those is.
- 1:38:05Speaker 2: Yeah, they take that money. Yeah, they take that money
- 1:38:08Speaker 2: and use it for environmental causes that would ultimately be
- 1:38:11Speaker 2: at odds with the people make giving them all the
- 1:38:14Speaker 2: money by buying all the vests. This is very unscientific.
- 1:38:16Speaker 2: It's just like observation if.
- 1:38:18Speaker 7: There was like a woke business spectrum that range from
- 1:38:21Speaker 7: like Trump Mobile to Starbucks. Like Patagonia is in the
- 1:38:26Speaker 7: Starbucks catch very very Starbucks is always.
- 1:38:29Speaker 2: Duke, get it out with unions. Now they've kind of
- 1:38:31Speaker 2: lost their like leftiness.
- 1:38:33Speaker 7: Point is they're like on this spectrum, they're very far left.
- 1:38:36Speaker 1: Yeah, way woke, that's a good way of putting it.
- 1:38:39Speaker 1: Way woke.
- 1:38:40Speaker 2: And now they're attacking like the fringe woke side of woke.
- 1:38:44Speaker 2: But here's why they're in a pickle. If you don't
- 1:38:48Speaker 2: enforce your copyright, it counts against you in future copyright
- 1:38:53Speaker 2: infringement things. Part of having a copyright is it is
- 1:38:55Speaker 2: enforced because if someone goes if I say i'm gonna
- 1:38:59Speaker 2: name something. I'm gonna come up and say, I'm gonna
- 1:39:02Speaker 2: name an aftershave, and I'm calling it Burma shave. Well,
- 1:39:05Speaker 2: in the twenties there was Burma shave. It's not around anymore.
- 1:39:09Speaker 2: So if Burmashave has gone lax and has not enforced
- 1:39:12Speaker 2: burmashave for two hundred years.
- 1:39:15Speaker 4: Right, is that with an e oru b you are
- 1:39:19Speaker 4: m a.
- 1:39:21Speaker 1: Shave.
- 1:39:21Speaker 2: And they became famous because they would put these sequential
- 1:39:23Speaker 2: billboards up that would have a message, a rhyming message.
- 1:39:27Speaker 2: So I was reminded of this recently because the tourism
- 1:39:30Speaker 2: board in Arizona is putting out burmashave posters even though
- 1:39:35Speaker 2: the product isn't around anymore, just like a nostalgia thing.
- 1:39:38Speaker 1: Poor example. But what I'm.
- 1:39:39Speaker 2: Saying is if Padigonia doesn't go after Paddy Gonia.
- 1:39:46Speaker 1: And then an ar company.
- 1:39:48Speaker 2: Uses it, it's hard for them to go after the
- 1:39:51Speaker 2: ar company because it'd be like, but you don't enforce
- 1:39:53Speaker 2: your trademark. You allow all these other people to do it.
- 1:39:58Speaker 2: But now you're started to saying you're gonna all of
- 1:40:00Speaker 2: a sudden enforced it with this person. So you have
- 1:40:03Speaker 2: to be diligent that's why they're in a bind. And
- 1:40:07Speaker 2: now Paddy Gonya has made a video saying.
- 1:40:13Speaker 1: Stop the suit. She's very articulate.
- 1:40:18Speaker 2: She says, don't take this out on the employees at Patagonia.
- 1:40:21Speaker 2: It's not their problem. Don't be hostile, be respectful. I'll
- 1:40:29Speaker 2: stop using the logo, but they need to stop the
- 1:40:32Speaker 2: lawsuit about me using Paddy.
- 1:40:37Speaker 1: I don't know where I stand on the whole thing Patagonia.
- 1:40:40Speaker 7: Patagonia is suing for one dollar plus legal fees, and
- 1:40:44Speaker 7: then the quote is we wish we didn't have to
- 1:40:46Speaker 7: do this. It says, I.
- 1:40:48Speaker 1: Wish you didn't have to do everything at work.
- 1:40:50Speaker 5: The company companies said. The settlement will require Patagonia to
- 1:40:55Speaker 5: withdraw all trademark applications, stop using Patagona's your logo, stop
- 1:41:01Speaker 5: selling and promoting apparel and other products as Patty gone.
- 1:41:06Speaker 2: I don't know who I'm rooting for. I think like
- 1:41:08Speaker 2: I feel like I'm rooting. I feel like I'm rooting
- 1:41:11Speaker 2: for Patty. Who are you rooting for?
- 1:41:14Speaker 1: Spencer?
- 1:41:15Speaker 2: Uh?
- 1:41:16Speaker 7: I hope let's go Patty.
- 1:41:18Speaker 4: Yeah, Rand, I wish I didn't have to do this.
- 1:41:21Speaker 1: But you have to here. You are.
- 1:41:24Speaker 2: Right who you're rooting for now. I don't want like,
- 1:41:27Speaker 2: don't give me some lawyer bs. Just give me, like
- 1:41:29Speaker 2: like in your deep down heart of hearts, who you're rooting.
- 1:41:31Speaker 1: For, all right, come on, Randall, who you're rooting for?
- 1:41:41Speaker 1: Patty Krinn Patty.
- 1:41:45Speaker 6: But I understand the trademark.
- 1:41:47Speaker 1: Thing, dude, I totally understand it. I totallystand. I'm just saying,
- 1:41:50Speaker 1: like for the future, I know, but at a point, you've.
- 1:41:53Speaker 2: Been around so long that you just become like the
- 1:41:57Speaker 2: cultural It's like you're you're like the cultural fabric, and
- 1:42:01Speaker 2: there's gonna be around so long and have been like
- 1:42:07Speaker 2: so ubiquitous and like in such a part of the
- 1:42:09Speaker 2: American dialogue that someone would be able to not like
- 1:42:13Speaker 2: goof on it a little bit.
- 1:42:14Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:42:14Speaker 4: I always stand up for parody, you know.
- 1:42:18Speaker 1: It's like you're kind of like goofing on it.
- 1:42:20Speaker 2: You're goofing on a thing that's just very main Like,
- 1:42:23Speaker 2: I don't think this is going to hurt their business.
- 1:42:25Speaker 5: That's the thing is like, is Patagonia the company really
- 1:42:29Speaker 5: gonna like take a financial hit here?
- 1:42:31Speaker 1: But that's not what it's about.
- 1:42:32Speaker 5: I know. But I also feel like they've demonstrated their
- 1:42:35Speaker 5: looking out for their own trademark.
- 1:42:38Speaker 2: I know they're right. I know they're right, but I'm
- 1:42:42Speaker 2: rooting for the other person. I wouldn't do anything different
- 1:42:46Speaker 2: if I was in their shoes.
- 1:42:49Speaker 7: They probably need to punt and just make Patty like
- 1:42:52Speaker 7: a spokesperson.
- 1:42:53Speaker 1: Because what they've done. Because what they've done.
- 1:42:56Speaker 2: Now, that's why in my notes I have up top
- 1:42:58Speaker 2: puts them in a real by which I mean a
- 1:43:01Speaker 2: real pickle. And part of the pickle is that this
- 1:43:05Speaker 2: went from being, Oh, I went to look and see
- 1:43:07Speaker 2: if I could get some, not that I want some,
- 1:43:09Speaker 2: just see if I could get Patty going your merch.
- 1:43:11Speaker 1: Guess what sold out? Do you know what I'm saying.
- 1:43:15Speaker 2: It's like one of those deals where careful what you
- 1:43:19Speaker 2: talk about.
- 1:43:20Speaker 1: Yeah, careful what you talk.
- 1:43:21Speaker 2: About, because they all of a sudden, I've never heard
- 1:43:24Speaker 2: of this thing that like, I've never heard of the
- 1:43:28Speaker 2: brand Pattygonia or the individual Pattygonia, and now.
- 1:43:33Speaker 1: Streisand the whole world knows about it.
- 1:43:35Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got to be a little bit careful
- 1:43:37Speaker 2: of what you yappen about.
- 1:43:38Speaker 4: And my understanding was that they had somewhat of a
- 1:43:42Speaker 4: friendly relationship until.
- 1:43:45Speaker 2: I know it was like it was very loosey goosey,
- 1:43:48Speaker 2: and this lawyer I was looking at was dismissive.
- 1:43:50Speaker 1: It was something to do with like hydroflask.
- 1:43:52Speaker 4: And yeah, I'll admit I didn't dig into this one
- 1:43:55Speaker 4: as deeply as I would if I were doing a.
- 1:43:58Speaker 7: Real hard hitting Can we get Patty on the show?
- 1:44:00Speaker 7: Investigation asked Patty some of these questions.
- 1:44:04Speaker 2: Yeah, we should have Patty go on, you come on
- 1:44:06Speaker 2: the show. She meant to go by a different name
- 1:44:08Speaker 2: while she's here. Depending on how the lawsuit.
- 1:44:11Speaker 1: We had avonchard on before, we should have U Paddy
- 1:44:15Speaker 1: like fair and balanced.
- 1:44:17Speaker 3: Should have them all together a debate. I guess he's
- 1:44:20Speaker 3: not involve.
- 1:44:21Speaker 7: That'd be an ambush set ambushed he didn't tell depends
- 1:44:27Speaker 7: if we're hiding.
- 1:44:28Speaker 2: I wish that it was a long time ago and
- 1:44:31Speaker 2: we could have done our story about north Face and South.
- 1:44:34Speaker 1: But that's flat out funny. This is different.
- 1:44:39Speaker 2: The thing that impressed me the most is when I
- 1:44:42Speaker 2: went and watched Patty's video explaining the whole situation. I
- 1:44:47Speaker 2: was impressed by the clarity and articulation of the issue.
- 1:44:53Speaker 1: I was impressed. I was oppressed as a presenter. I
- 1:44:58Speaker 1: was impressed, Like speaking of trademarks. How do we do
- 1:45:01Speaker 1: the Bambi thing without getting in trouble?
- 1:45:04Speaker 2: Because because because certain things after seventy five years ago public.
- 1:45:09Speaker 7: I didn't know if that, like Mickey Mouse, I feel like,
- 1:45:10Speaker 7: came up in public domain.
- 1:45:12Speaker 3: There's a little bit of there's a roll of dice,
- 1:45:14Speaker 3: the steamboat Willie version of Nick. Yeah.
- 1:45:18Speaker 2: When we did our Bamby, we did our Bambi shirt,
- 1:45:22Speaker 2: and I think that it had gone public Sometimes you
- 1:45:25Speaker 2: roll the dice. Yes, we did a we did a
- 1:45:28Speaker 2: Metallica thing. Did the lawyers warned us against? We did
- 1:45:31Speaker 2: a guns and roses thing? The lawyers warned us against.
- 1:45:35Speaker 2: Bambi is I think Bambie is now public domain. We
- 1:45:40Speaker 2: did an Elmer Fudd. Maybe we rolled the dice on that.
- 1:45:42Speaker 2: Maybe we'll get like a get yelled at by Disney.
- 1:45:44Speaker 2: I don't know who owns Brothers. Seems like he'd be
- 1:45:48Speaker 2: his own man, don't it.
- 1:45:49Speaker 1: Yeah, Elmer Fudd, I'll never sell out.
- 1:45:53Speaker 4: He's catching he's catching tiger trout in West Virginia.
- 1:45:58Speaker 1: It's like, you'll never buy me, you know, ask all
- 1:46:01Speaker 1: these people anyhow.
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