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Ep. 215: I Miss My Friends · The MeatEater Podcast

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  Speaker 1: this is ah. This is something I never wanted to happen.
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  Speaker 1: This was never supposed to be part of the plan.
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  Speaker 1: This is a this is a live it's a live
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  Speaker 1: recorded show. It was meant to be that way all
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  Speaker 1: all ever? Did I mean? I did a couple of
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  Speaker 1: other things, But the primary thing I have done over
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  Speaker 1: the years is argue against people who have tried to
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  Speaker 1: convince me of all the benefits and ease that would
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  Speaker 1: come if you would just record the interviews over Skype
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  Speaker 1: and ship like that. And I've always said it just
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  Speaker 1: violated my artistic sensibility. I just resisted it against all comers.
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  Speaker 1: But but in the end, I in the end, I
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  Speaker 1: was defeated by COVID nineteen. So here we are recording
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  Speaker 1: the show, not live. I am so close to cal
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  Speaker 1: I can smell them but we can't be together. I
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  Speaker 1: can't silence our phones. Cats and dogs living together, anarchy,
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  Speaker 1: mass hysteria. Cal's so close. I could smell him, but
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  Speaker 1: I can I can't touch him. He's over in his
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  Speaker 1: his in his garage. Janice not as close, but I
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  Speaker 1: could still kind of smell him, locked up in his home,
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  Speaker 1: the big moose skull from Alaska looking down upon him. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: which makes you feel especially this and his cow is
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  Speaker 1: just robbed. Cal, can you tell everybody about getting robbed? Oh? Man? Um? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So folks broke into yes, thieves, not folks. Thieves bra
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  Speaker 1: broke into my truck, open my garage door about two
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  Speaker 1: ft with my garage door opener, and uh, I can
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  Speaker 1: I ask you real quick about that? So they did
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  Speaker 1: like they to look to reduce noise. They just open
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  Speaker 1: enough to crawl under. Yeah, reduced noise and and you
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  Speaker 1: know everything's very well lit here hours a day. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe it was to keep the uniformity from somebody driving
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  Speaker 1: down the street because the garage doors are so tall.
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  Speaker 1: But just to paint the picture. Cal lives in a
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  Speaker 1: Cal lives and a live work spots. So he's got
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  Speaker 1: a big, huge garage and on top of that sits
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  Speaker 1: his house, his home. Yeah, one bedroom apartment, so that
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  Speaker 1: maybe even giving these folks way too much credit. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my little sister's a detective now. I like
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  Speaker 1: to call her a dick uh down in Denver and
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  Speaker 1: I was asking her about dick in Denver. Uh what
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  Speaker 1: her thoughts were, and uh, you know, I have m all.
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  Speaker 1: I got fancy new steel gas power chainsaw, one of
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  Speaker 1: thes no no. So there is like this chainsaw right
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  Speaker 1: next to an eight hundred dollar chainsaw. And they took
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  Speaker 1: the two dollar like hedge trimmer. And I was asking
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  Speaker 1: my little sister about that, and she was very serious.
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  Speaker 1: She's kind of a serious kid. Hard to call her.
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  Speaker 1: She's a serious dick um. And she's like, well, did
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  Speaker 1: it have like a nice package or did it have
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  Speaker 1: like bright colors to it? I said, well, the lettering
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  Speaker 1: is was really bright. You know, it's brand new packaging.
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  Speaker 1: And she's like, yeah, right, and that's called math. It's
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  Speaker 1: like anything that's like shiny and good looking. And you
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  Speaker 1: started looking around the garage and and uh, yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was just like severe severe a d D where something
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  Speaker 1: would be picked up and moved and put on the
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  Speaker 1: floor and then in that spot. You'd look around and
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh, from here, they grabbed this and moved it,
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  Speaker 1: and they yeah, the So they piled up a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of guns. You know, I never got around to building
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  Speaker 1: the guns safe that I was going to build, or
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  Speaker 1: the safe room for the guns that I was going
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  Speaker 1: to build, um, but nothing was out. But they found
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  Speaker 1: where I have all the guns, and they just they
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  Speaker 1: brought him out and stacked them. And then I have
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  Speaker 1: a brand new weather be eighteen I UM in the
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  Speaker 1: box that I was gonna mount some turkey sights on,
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  Speaker 1: and that was laying on the couch next my desk
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  Speaker 1: down here in my garage office where I was doing
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  Speaker 1: all my taxes and trying to refinance my home, and
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  Speaker 1: where that shotgun was placed is where my whole file
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  Speaker 1: of all of my sensitive financial information had been resting.
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  Speaker 1: So they had picked up the brand new shotgun, saw
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  Speaker 1: that file, put the shotgun down, picked up the file
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  Speaker 1: through that in my bag um in order to use.
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  Speaker 1: So they used my YETI backpack and in this black
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  Speaker 1: hole Patagonia Duffle that I've had for fifteen years, and
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  Speaker 1: to like grab stuff and throw stuff in him, and
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  Speaker 1: that black hole Duffel bag. They dumped out several thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars worth of fly fishing gear in order to utilize
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  Speaker 1: the bag to put in uh maybe a hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: worth of pawnshop tools in that bag. So your your
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  Speaker 1: sister thinks it's math. I think it's I'm putting together
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  Speaker 1: a little profile. I like it. They gotta they gotta
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  Speaker 1: hedge at their house that looks rough. Um, they're handy
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  Speaker 1: man and they got a background in accounting. Uh, they
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  Speaker 1: got a sack full like many many. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: always talked about like what the hell do you do
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  Speaker 1: with all cavories? Well, I've just been cleaning them up
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  Speaker 1: and chucking them in. Uh it's not a Crown royal bag,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, like those little velvety booze bags. Um,
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  Speaker 1: for freaking ever, they stole those. They took those. Also
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  Speaker 1: a couple of arrow heads that I had sitting there,
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  Speaker 1: some buffalo teeth. And I felt really bad for the
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  Speaker 1: cop right because he's like, what's missing? And what he
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  Speaker 1: meant to say is tell me if any guns are missing,
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  Speaker 1: But he just said what's missing? And it's to am
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  Speaker 1: and I'm walking around my guard my garage, being like
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  Speaker 1: son of a batch, and he's like, okay, what like
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  Speaker 1: my buffalo teeth. He's like okay, And I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my arrowheads and my elk teeth and uh. And then
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  Speaker 1: I turned around and he's writing this stuff down like
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  Speaker 1: out of a sense of duty, not out of a
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  Speaker 1: sense of justice or anything, right, And I'm like, oh sorry,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like look around. I'm like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: they they got a couple of whether it be over
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  Speaker 1: and undershotguns that I had had that are like our
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  Speaker 1: office shotguns, you know. Uh. And I had had him
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  Speaker 1: here for one of our last hunts of the year
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  Speaker 1: and and clean them up and had him sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the garage or sitting in the gun room, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: they had taken those. Those are the only two shotguns
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  Speaker 1: that they made it out the door with. Um. But
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  Speaker 1: they stole my truck. They grabbed my spare set of keys.
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  Speaker 1: It was gone for all of five minutes. They drove
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  Speaker 1: it a tenth of a mile with the stuff, must
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  Speaker 1: have thrown it in wherever they had parked their car.
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  Speaker 1: And the you know, the the Bozeman p D had
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  Speaker 1: my truck. Like two officers show up and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? And then immediately one of the officers
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  Speaker 1: like grabs his like you see on TV, like grabs
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  Speaker 1: his radio and he's like run, runs out of here.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, fifteen packs later, they're like, yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: got your truck. I'm like, oh, gay, So go over
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  Speaker 1: to the truck and there's the two Weatherby shotguns in
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  Speaker 1: the back. But they got So here's here's the biggest,
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  Speaker 1: like the biggest takeaway from me um lock your guns up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh like that's things like the stuff that was locked up.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, in my mind it is locked up.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, Ratt, you need to better job of locking
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  Speaker 1: your stuff up. How many feet were you from the
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  Speaker 1: burglars while they were burglarizing you if you could bore
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  Speaker 1: a hole through the ceiling about eight ft? Uh. But
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  Speaker 1: so here's here's the crazy takeaway right home defense. A
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  Speaker 1: year ago, when I move into this place, I make
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  Speaker 1: the decision, no, I mean whatever, judge me Um, I
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  Speaker 1: already have to put a ten millimeter pistol and a
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  Speaker 1: three fifty seven pistol in in in cases but like
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  Speaker 1: carry cases right basic essentially right next to my bed.
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  Speaker 1: And I made that decision to where I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have kids, so go ahead, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: but still safe, you know, like not my nephew is
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  Speaker 1: not gonna come over here and have any way of
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  Speaker 1: accessing those things. So, um, ice, keep a pistol next
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  Speaker 1: to my bed. You can't do that when you got
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  Speaker 1: people running around your house. But myself, um but you know,
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm like, okay, home defense, and why
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  Speaker 1: would I just have all my guns downstairs when I'm upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: So I hear stuff going on outside and I'm like, God, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's nothing, but I have turkey stock going on on
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  Speaker 1: the stove, and my guy, but better talk check that
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  Speaker 1: turkey stock since I'm awake anyway. And then I get
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  Speaker 1: up and I hear this is at two forty am.
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  Speaker 1: You had let me get this straight. So it's two
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  Speaker 1: forty am, and you like wake up and realize that
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  Speaker 1: you want to check your turkey stock. Well, something wakes
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  Speaker 1: me up right, and I'll kind of listen. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this kind of a noisy area town anyway, and you
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  Speaker 1: kind of get used to some of the noises, but
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  Speaker 1: also there is something like that's not right. So I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I got a turkey stock on the stove. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go check the turkey stock and making about five ft
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, somebody per Son's or
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  Speaker 1: a person is downstairs in my home, like in my home,
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  Speaker 1: and right next to me are those two pistols. And
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  Speaker 1: I know as any turn in any scenario would know
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  Speaker 1: if I step out onto my deck, I will be
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  Speaker 1: looking at at least one of these people. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: it is at that moment that I'm like, do not
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  Speaker 1: grab that pistol because you will kill that person. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I would have thought something different, yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: but I just absolutely no, Like from thea jillion times
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  Speaker 1: I've been in the woods, at this point, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you're like, well, let me just look at it
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  Speaker 1: through the scope, like things die when you do that.
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  Speaker 1: And and at that point I was like, man, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to kill anybody tonight, right or wrong. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the process that went through my head. Now
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  Speaker 1: you is you didn't have um man, you were just
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  Speaker 1: overcome with just immediate feelings of just wanting vengeance for
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  Speaker 1: them violating your your your place, violating your sanc, your
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  Speaker 1: your sanctity. So like I said, like the door to
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  Speaker 1: the apartment part of this place is wide open, and
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  Speaker 1: so there's one door separating the garage from upstairs, and uh.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of going out on the deck, I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go down the stairs. And at this point,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the phone with the cops and just to
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  Speaker 1: let you know, like how fast this happened, I'm on
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  Speaker 1: the phone with dispatch for like thirty seconds and I
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  Speaker 1: can hear sirens in the background m hm and they
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, I gotta go downstairs, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pound my feet on the way down the
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  Speaker 1: stairs and get these folks out of my garage. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And then I make I don't even make it to
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  Speaker 1: my stairs, which is hard to do because it's such
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  Speaker 1: a small apartment, and I hear the unmistakable sound of
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  Speaker 1: my door, my vehicle door opening and closing, and my
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  Speaker 1: vehicle starting like everybody knows the sound of their truck.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh shit, yeah, You're like, how
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  Speaker 1: could that be because I'm up here exactly exactly and
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah. And then I was just like, oh ah,
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  Speaker 1: you lost this round? Ye would you have would you
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  Speaker 1: have gone in their guns? Ablaze? And Johnnie Well, I
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  Speaker 1: was just thinking maybe a couple of warning shots, maybe
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  Speaker 1: shot the tires out, you know as they're pulling away. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting um, warning shots in the middle of town
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  Speaker 1: probably aren't a good idea either. So no, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have gone in their guns ablazing. UM, I mean, what
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna You gonna murder some guys because they stole
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  Speaker 1: a chainsaw in your passport. So here's the thing. Like,
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  Speaker 1: when I came down Sunday morning, it wouldn't be it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be murder. Not that I slept at all, But
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  Speaker 1: Sunday I'm down in the garage like really taken stock
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  Speaker 1: of what is gone, and they have two of my
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  Speaker 1: other bags, like chocked full of stuff that they didn't
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  Speaker 1: make it out the door with. UM. So I'm going
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  Speaker 1: through that and seeing what what they grabbed. UM. And
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  Speaker 1: they grabbed uh A thing of rubber bands, UH, old
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  Speaker 1: set of first light suspenders, UH. A couple of head lamps,
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  Speaker 1: one of which does not work anymore. You know, things
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  Speaker 1: that I had in tended to return to the manufacturer
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  Speaker 1: for warranty purposes. UM. A saws all that is pushing
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  Speaker 1: twenty years old that I literally dug out of a
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  Speaker 1: dumpster and catch him A dull drill with batteries that
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  Speaker 1: don't hold the charge anymore. That I had finally been like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call those guys from Milwaukee and see if
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  Speaker 1: I can't get a discount on a new drill. And
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  Speaker 1: all I could think is, had I stood out on
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  Speaker 1: my deck and shot one of those dudes, and like
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, I know for a fact, like I would
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  Speaker 1: have stepped out there and been staring at those guys
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  Speaker 1: eight feet on the angle. Yeah, but you could have great,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of gray area between doing nothing and
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  Speaker 1: shooting us someone. You could have said, uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: uh maybe like stick them up, oh man, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: who knows who? That might have come to my mind
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  Speaker 1: had I shot one of those dudes and the cops like, okay, yeah, clear,
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  Speaker 1: you know, self defense, got it, you know, castle doctor
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But then you'd get to read
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  Speaker 1: the bottom online and you'd find out about his mom
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  Speaker 1: and uh yeah, and by the way, here's your uh
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  Speaker 1: saws all that you dug out of a dumpster and
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  Speaker 1: that in circular sawce uh that uh you got for
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  Speaker 1: twenty bucks at a pawn shop and uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work. Here's that drill. It doesn't work. Here's your
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  Speaker 1: elk T you know. Um, oh yeah, officer, I may
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  Speaker 1: have fibbed a little bit that wasn't an authentic Indian arrowhead.
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  Speaker 1: That's a reproduction. You know. Like I understand, man, I
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  Speaker 1: understand all that. But I also know that, UM, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that these into visuals had any It's
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  Speaker 1: not like you're dealing with children who don't understand right
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  Speaker 1: from wrong. You're dealing with people who have made a
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  Speaker 1: conscious decision two steal your stuff and and and then
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  Speaker 1: potentially put you in in at risk. Oh I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, and it had that. That's why I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of like stuck between a rock and hard place because, um,
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  Speaker 1: I like I was like, you know, somebody starts coming
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  Speaker 1: up the stairs to my apartment, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a very very different story very quick. Um. But you
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  Speaker 1: know that that didn't happen. And the other thing is
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  Speaker 1: like when I heard him start moving out of the
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  Speaker 1: garage is when I was like, shoot, I gotta get
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  Speaker 1: down there. Little did I know that they had the
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  Speaker 1: keys of my truck and they were jumping in my
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  Speaker 1: truck at the time. Um. But when I had at
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  Speaker 1: that point you know, I'm on the phone with the cops,
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  Speaker 1: and I actually had like a little more reassurance that
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  Speaker 1: they're in probably the only extended cab eight foot bed
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  Speaker 1: tundra in the state of Montana during quarantine. At two am.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, they stay in that truck. These guys are
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  Speaker 1: gonna get caught, you know. So, And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: do I drop my phone and so I can run
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  Speaker 1: out of here in my bare feet and chase my
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  Speaker 1: truck on foot? Like what are the better odds? You know?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure we'll get a ga jillion people
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  Speaker 1: telling me exactly what I should have done, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I did. You're you're more mature than I am. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I think because when I've had stuff stolen, I just
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  Speaker 1: fixate on I fixate for a long time on the
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  Speaker 1: vengeance and I and I, oh, these elaborate vengeance scenarios
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  Speaker 1: to play out in my mind. Dude, you've been in
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  Speaker 1: my place. I have hatchets and and hand forged hammers
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  Speaker 1: and all sorts of stuff laying on every surface upstairs.
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  Speaker 1: It's all for vengeance. I haven't been sleeping since has happened,
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  Speaker 1: because all I'm thinking about is like I would love
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  Speaker 1: to take that hammer and find that guy. Yeah. How
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: that turkey stock? How that wind up turned out? Oh? Beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: nice and clear not cloudy? So I purposely because I
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  Speaker 1: always feel like wild game stock. Can you have to
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  Speaker 1: reduce it so much to get like a rich stock? Um,
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  Speaker 1: I purposely only strained the turkey stock, like with a
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  Speaker 1: rough strain. Mhm uh So it's like when you're unfiltered.
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  Speaker 1: I p a s. They're hazy, I p a are Johnnie. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so it's you speaking, but it's not. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: so it's it's a little bit cloudier than than you
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  Speaker 1: would think. But I did that on purpose to see
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  Speaker 1: how that runs. But can it works to decant it
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: now and then to get it clarified? And then there's
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: another trick they do, which is uh oh on that second,
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  Speaker 1: I told you someone to be crying on Matt, What
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  Speaker 1: are you crying about? Yea? Where was I? Oh? Clarifying stock? Yeah? Yeah,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you can to clarify that stuff. You can d can't it?
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  Speaker 1: Like just let it settle and then pour off the top.
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  Speaker 1: But there's this other thing I've done. It's an old
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  Speaker 1: timey method. Is um you'd use like like egg cracking
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  Speaker 1: egg in there to clarify it. I don't even I
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  Speaker 1: don't even remember the details. I remember doing it, I have.
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  Speaker 1: So my next step is, I I've been hoarding tongues
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: like you wouldn't believe, all sorts of tongues in every freezer. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do a couple of big corning batches
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  Speaker 1: of tongue. And I have this old timey uh you know,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: preserving book here in the garage miraculously didn't get stolen
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: um that I'm gonna They probably discussed it exactly. They're like,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, what do you guys think old
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: timey preserve? And should we grab it? Yeah? No, Um,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I don't want that new shotgun in the box. We'd
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: have to put it together. Nobody wants to deal with that. Um. Yeah,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: So I guess that's the next deal. So I I
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the turkey stock leaving it
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: a little little cloudy, I think is gonna work out good.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: And then I got I did a giant batch of
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: all my elk bones and a couple of mule de
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: your bones that I had in the freezer. Uh that
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: as soon as we're done, all run through the strainer
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and and can that today too, Well, that's good that
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: you're staying uh, you're you're being uh, you're staying active
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: over there. Uh like the quickly can I quickly add
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: about the clarifying stock of course? Yeah? Well the egg
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: thing is you you just added some beat some egg
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: whites and mix it in there and then let it
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: cook together. Remember doing that, and it like it buying
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: in the the the impurities like bind up in the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: albumen or something. Yeah, basically when when you then let
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: it settle and you take it off the heat, like
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: you're saying that the stiffened egg whites or what's called
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the egg raft um will so we'll grab that um
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: stuff and you just basically take that out um and
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: still run it through you know, sieve with a damp
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: cheese cloth. But I was gonna also say that I
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: always felt like that that one of the number one
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: rules for preventing cloudy stock is that you're you need
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: to be careful about not ripping stock too hard while
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: you're cooking it. Everything agitated and stirs it all up. Yeah,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: you just got it slow and low. But you know
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I used to I used to judge a man stock
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: by its clarity or cloudiness. But then I realized it
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: just doesn't matter. Man, it's I think it's aesthetics. Maybe
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: someone will counter that and tell me it's not aesthetics.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I think it's just aesthetics. Um, because it is gorgeous.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I mean it is. There's a bitterness that comes with
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the cloudiness. Um. I wanted to I'd like to explore this,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: but I I wind up not putting a whole lot
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of attention into it. I thought it just as looks
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: when people used to make gela and stuff. You want
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: to be nice and clear, not cloudy. Uh. In terms
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: of cow, In terms of COVID nineteen and Cal getting
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: robbed and Cal not taking any cracks at the burglars
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: with his pistol, it has been interesting for me to see, Um, well, one,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: this reaches across all, you know, all aspects of our
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: American existence and what we're gonna talk about a handful
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: of ways in which, like in the the outdoors world,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the world we deal in, there's impacts from COVID nineteen.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: But we're gonna explore some of this, but the implications
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: of the pandemic, I mean touch every aspect of of
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: American life UM. And that certainly isn't limited to America
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: every for for you know, every aspect of global life. UM.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: And it has felt in a lot of ways even
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: just in the world in which the world that we
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: deal with here on the show around the Outdoors that
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about some of the a little bit
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: of that coming up here and thinking about cal getting
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: robbed and whether or not you go out and take
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: a crack at the guy. UM. It's like illustrates some
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: kind of like interesting aspects of our own psychology and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the psychology of others around how you imagine a situation
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: like this playing out, and that so many people, especially
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: people that I view as being like peers of mine
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: and like minded individuals, sort of immediately go to this
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: place of go to this kind of last man standing
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: mentality where you're gonna get armed up UM in order
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to I don't know what, UM, repel your neighbors if
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: they come for food, like like, I don't really know,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: and I feel it like and I understand that you
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: want to have this sense of that you want to
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: hunker in in stockpile and defend, but I also wish
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: that there was more of a knee jerk reaction towards
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: just going towards being, um, getting prepared to be supportive
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: of your neighbors and community. I need to prepare to
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: support my neighbors in community. I mean a lot of
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: people feel that way. But it's also there's also this
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: pull that makes you want to get really insular man um,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: you know, to get maybe you're supportive of your neighbors
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: and community and family, of course, always your family, but
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: then you have in your mind too that there's like
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: this last ditch thing, you know, and that you'll have
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: plenty of food, you'll have water, you'll be able to
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: defend your home. Um, if that structure that you're trying
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to simultaneously simultaneously be supportive of were to collapse, it
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: all has jumbled around in my head right now. Um,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: it's not fun. It's not a fun thing to think about. No,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: it's it's weird and I've done you know, like so
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm yeah, it is. It's a jumbled around my
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: head right because I'm like, boy, all of my meat
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: is in the freezer. So you know, I went over
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: install your big gass Western dehydrator. May I haven't returned it. No, uh,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: may not that thing rips. You can do some cool
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: stuff with that thing. Um. But I took an unbelievable
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: amount of meat and reduced it to about eight pounds
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: of shelf stable meat. Yeah. Um, do you got a
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: generator over there? No, I don't. I got a generator
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: from my freezer, but my stockpile of gas. I need
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: to start stockpiling fuel, you which you can, right. It's
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: like unless it's a diesel, It's like that's just the
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: shelf stability of fuel so so bad, unless you get
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: a bunch of those steel uh shelf stable fuel deals
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: where they put the free on or something on top
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: of it. By I buy ethanol free gas and stabilize it.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, Um, but then, uh, you know, I've been
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: canning some stuff and then I have given away probably
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: two hundred pounds of meat since since the corn teening
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: talk started, you know, and my buddies pounds. Yeah yeah,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Wade on that hanging scale, how big are you? How
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: many freezers do you have and how big are they?
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: How many pounds that do you have? Total? You got
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: that big one right there, and just in sausage meat
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: that I ground up and mixed at Steve's house. There's
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: eighty pounds of grind in there. Yeah. I did a
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: batch of grind the r day that was forty pounds, man,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and that was like not a lot. Yeah. So um,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: and then there's a little chest freezer next to that one.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Then I got my freezer upstairs two so um freezer
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: attached to your ridge. Yeah. And so there's there's a
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: third of an elk in there. Um, almost done eating
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: through my two thousand seventeen mules here, and um some
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: cuz here and and uh getting getting through the last
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: of the fish right now too. So yeah, I mean
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I just I gave away a ton of meat. Um,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: you're playing both sides you're trying to do. You're doing
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: prepper stuff where you're making jerky and canny, but you're
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: also doing community oriented stuff where you're helping people out. Yeah,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and like the canning and the jerky making are all
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: things where I'm like, oh, I'm gonna get to that
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: one of these days. And so here's kind of a
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: good excuse. Um. But the reality is like, for me,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: if all this stuff went belly up, if I wasn't
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: such an invested friend to my friends, I can grab
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: my backpack and be just fine. Like I'm gonna be
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: able to get clean water, I'm gonna be able to
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: get food. I'm gonna be able to have shelter and
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and and and be just fine. You know. So, I
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: guess I'm probably not uh in the same mindset of
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: somebody who's like, right here, this particular spot, If all
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: this infrastructure that we rely on goes down, I gotta
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: stick it out right here right here, I'm gonna be
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you'd be more mobility mobility oriented. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: it's stunning. So at the at our website, the meat
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: eater dot com, we have up we have a tracker.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: It's updated constantly, right cal Yep, we have up a
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: tracker on our website where you can go to follow
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: and understand state by state rules and regulations and closures
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: that will impact UH hunting and fishing type folks and
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: outdoor recreation type folks. And it's getting to be like
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: a really um it's get to be a really complicated
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: atmosphere out there in our own state that we have
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: a we're under right now. Our governor has well, I'm
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: under two things. So today is the last day of
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: my fourteen day international travel quarantine. So I was down
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: on family trip in Baja and things really kind of
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: went to ship while there there. There was like the
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: whiff of going to ship was in the air when
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: we left. I think if it was twelve hours later,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: we probably wouldn't have gone. We got down to Baja
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: just in time to have this feeling of like, oh
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: my god, what's happening. Um. The day before we got home,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: our governor had uh put out a thing that I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: don't know what they call it, the mandate whatever, what's
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the word I'm looking for that anyone returning a directive
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: that's correct, thank you, honest, a directive that anyone returning
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: from international travel. Um, do us do a fourteen day quarantine.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: So we've been very strict about it, and I haven't. Um,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I haven't. Besides my home, I haven't walked into It's
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: it's kind of funny. Besides my home, I haven't walked
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: into a structure, not even a gas station for two weeks. Today. UM,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I left the airport when I landed in town, and
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I just I've been outside in my home, but again,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: outside it's been really important. It's a kind of a
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: somewhat lame time of year for some people might view
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: it as a aim time of year for outdoor activities,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: but just to keep out there and keep at it.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: We've been out um trapping beavers and doing stuff. We're
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: gonna fish this weekend, and there's and then before my
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: fourteen day quarantine ended, there's another directive of a stay
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: at home directive for the entire state. And there's a
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: lot of exceptions for the stay at home directive, and
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: one of those exceptions is outdoor activity. And you'll find
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: even places where people in some states are being an
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: encouraged to do outdoor activity but also being encouraged to
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: practice social distancing during outdoor activities. So I was trying
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: to determine what that meant for me specifically, and I've
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: made some phone calls and read and just read the
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: actual directive. UM, and yeah, you can you know, you
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: can travel to do outdoor activities on public lands here.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: That's not the case everywhere. Uh. One interesting thing we've
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: heard from a guy. So for instance, we've got a
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: guy in Maryland. He's I did. He wrote in and
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: was talking about just by listening to this show, he
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: got very interested in learning how to hunt so he
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: went out and bought a gun, but calls binos turkey decoys,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: boots all getting geared up to hunt turkeys this spring,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: did all his scouting, got some private land permissions, did
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: his hunter ed and all he had to do to
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: seal the deal was do his hunter ed field day,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: got his online course work done. But then the state
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: canceled all field days. So this guy is sitting in
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: this situation where ah, he's already he's geared up to go.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: He did his hunter's d but he can't fulfill his
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: field day, so his spring turkey season is now off.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: My buddy, Tony Coli Grassi in Washington State, was fishing
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: on the Queets River, an Olympic National Park, and he
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: was having a good day and getting some steel head,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, he's got a park ranger
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: yelling at him in a friendly way that the governor
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: has just declared that recreational fishing is done and that
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: whole state. And Tony was actually escorted out of the
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: park so that they could get a certain area of
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: the park. Him and his dog were escorted off. And
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: now in Washington you cannot fish. And this strikes me
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: as weird because if you lived on a private lake.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Let's say you live on a lake, you can walk
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: down and hit golf balls out into the lake, but
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: you can't cast a fishing pole out into the lake.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: So rather than putting some parameters around what kinds of fishing,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: what places, what group size, whatever, it's just you cannot fish.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: It'd be like saying no touching, Like not only did
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: you close the golf courses, which I'm sure they've done,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: but you would also have a directive that says no
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: one can touch their golf club and swing it. Yeah,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: it's interesting how the stark contrast between that and then
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of the how the a lot of other
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: states have changed their fishing REGs recently, um almost completely
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: hundred eighty degrees in the other direction. And I'm guessing
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: it's old. Maybe it's because Washington is such a hotbed
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: of COVID, and so that's why they're just shutting it
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: all down and telling people to stay inside. Yeah, it
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: will be in one of the main you know, the
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: initial explosion point for the virus and then remaining like
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: a real hotspot. Yeah, the main and Missouri. In Pennsylvania,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: there's a couple Yeah, well they they have all suspended
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: all fishing license requirements right now, and a couple other
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: states have opened fishing seasons a week early to encourage
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: people to go outside and fish and uh and you know,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: saying that it's you know, good for your health and
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: so that no one has to probably want go and
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: get fishing licenses and go in and out of you know, stores,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: gas stations or whatever and have human contact and that
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: that way that you know, no wardens have to have
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: human contact. Everybody can basically just go fish without a license.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: What states? What states is that happening in? Um, definitely Missouri, Uh, Connecticut.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Maine opened fishing on lakes one week earlier on all
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: all lakes, rivers, and streams earlier, opened it a week earlier. Yeah,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: and they're not the only ones. Uh. Wisconsin currently waving
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: off fees for state parks and trails. UM. Maine, Yeah,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: their inland fishing season was set to open. Uh or No,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: it usually opens April one, but they opened at March
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: for the same reason, just to get let people to
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: get out there. Uh. Pennsylvania trout openers now April eight,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: and that's across the whole state. There's not I guess
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: normal years, they have different days for different parts of
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the state when the opener is UM and now it's
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: just wide open. Uh. I think that about covers it.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: It fuels this this sort of suspicion or conspiracy theory.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: I almost hesitate to say this because I don't want
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: to traffic and missing formation and I know this isn't
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: the case, but I'll say but I've had friends in
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Washington who have expressed to me, and being baffled by
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: the severity of the directive, have expressed me this sense
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: that they feel that their state UM has UH. They
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: feel as though it has a sort of uneasy relationship
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: with its hunters and anglers. Anyways, that it sort of
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: feels that fuels this little bit of paranoia that is
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: not a supportive UM. You know that's not supportive in
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: some way. But again I shouldn't say that because I
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: don't know the full story there. But it does feel
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: really uh like there's a sort of a lack of
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: nuance and how it's being pushed forward. I know that
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: yesterday in Michigan, for instance, UM, they've been seeing with
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: so many people home from work in school, they've been
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: seeing an explosion in visitation at certain fishing access sites
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: and recreation areas, to the point that they have taken
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: to closing some because people are going to these fishing spots,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: like I like one like Tippy Dam, or used to
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: fish Steelhead and Walleye going to some of these fishing
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: spots um and not able to practice responsible social distancing
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: at the fishing spots, and they've had to close it
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: down because people are too crowded. I was talking to
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: a firefighter here in our own town and they closed
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: one of the local ski hills. But you can still
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: go there, you know, the the oftentimes ski hills around
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: public land, around national forest land, so the summertime you
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: can go wander around up there. Uh, they closed the lifts,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: like close the lodge, vending services, all that and shut
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: it down, but you can still just go up there
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: and sled or ski on the hill. And they had
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: put around some like guidelines about how to handle this,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: and that you'd go up and like skin up, ski down,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: don't linger, and that somehow turned into a hundred and
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: fifty people having a party on the balcony of the lodge,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: and so then they're forced to come in and consider, uh,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: how much are people able to just be smart and
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: how much you need to come in and institute a
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: nanny state because people are have a hard time understanding
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: sort of the spirit of what's trying to be accomplished.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Nebraska suspended new sales of nonresident turkey licenses. So if
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: you already hold a spring turkey license in Nebraska and
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: you're a nonresident, you can go hunt. But I believe
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: as of yesterday or the day before so uh, as
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: of like March thirty one or thirty or something in there,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: they weren't selling any more non resident turkey licenses. Uh,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Washington shut down resident and non resident canceled some of
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: the early bear hunts. Is that correct? That's correct? What
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: are some other examples you've got you guys are seeing here? Um? Well,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: I just buddy mine, who's one of the very accomplished,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: awesome anglers at the Big Horn Angler down there in
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Fort Smith, Montana, just took a picture of some concrete
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: barricades that Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks boat ramps there
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: on the on the Big Horn. No, seriously, as well
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: as we're talking, um, so, I imagine we're gonna hear
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: some news on that here pretty quick. The here's the
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: here's the thing that's been irking me. And it came
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: to light again yesterday when I was looking at the
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Nebraska executive order. UM, and everybody who's listening to this,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: follow the link and read the actual executive orders for
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: all of this stuff, because it is just too easy
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: to sensationalize these orders, uh in whatever media. UM. There's
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: a lot of passion involved. But the in the list
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: of executive orders for the state of Nebraska, there's also
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: an executive order to allow drive up mixed drinks. And
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: how we can determine the drive up mixed drinks is
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: a stronger benefit to the health of the population of
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Nebraska then running around hunting turkeys. I'm and we were
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: talking about non residents, right, But it's like, we're gonna
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: lay this thing on health. Let's get real healthy. And
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I apologize to the business owners on this. I used
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: to sling a lot of drinks down at Red at
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the bar in Missoula, Montana. I believe they're doing mixed
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: drink cocktails to go now too. So yeah and so
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: so if you go to our website they got you'll
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: you'll find a banner this COVID Night team changes the
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: hunting and fishing regulations, and it's kind of like it's
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: it's amazing to look at what this sort of I'd
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: love to understand it better. The different approaches. Yeah, New Jersey,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Like do we talk about New Jersey's trout season ahead
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: of schedule? Like in in Wyoming, if you want to
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: register your bear a black bear baiting site, you're supposed
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: to be able to go in tomorrow and start registering it.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: And you normally would go into an office fishing game
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: office to register your bait site. They're trying to work
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: out a way to some new siezures that they'll they'll
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: delay by two weeks, some new procedures where you can
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: register your sites online and not have to come into
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: an office. Yeah, I believe the State of Idaho, Um,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: you know the same deal. You gotta you gotta have
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: a permit for your bait. Um they had it set up.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: I feel like earlier this week or end of last
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: week where it was you had to set an appointment
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: um to come in and and do that. I would
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: assume they're going to switch to online. Um, you know
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the at the point like I'm sure we're gonna get
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: into a lot of this. But I don't think any
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: angler outdoors person can have the mindset that this isn't
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: gonna happen, because it's it hasn't happened yet. Uh, just
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: like we self police for poachers pretty darn well and
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: people who throw trash out like we gotta we gotta
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: self police for social distancing. And if that means going
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: to the next fishing access site down the road because
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: the one that you want to go to is to
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: too crowded, you better move on down the road, because
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: you know, it's these examples, these bad examples that are
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: set in the precedent for the entire state. Um, it's
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: a it's a tough I mean, it's a really tough
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: spot for our community because you have um people who
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: just by the fact of what they're engaged in, just
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: people who are like, don't do well being cooped up
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: and confined. And when you look at being outdoors, is
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: this place where you can kind of find some space
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: for yourself, right and just get away from it all.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: And then people start pointing out ways in which, um,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: it's not safe because the overcrowding. It just gets like
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: it gets intimidating, and you don you want to be
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: a good player, right and and be supportive, and like
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: I said, we got had a quarantine to travel quarantine
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: UM and and have just stuck our immediate families, spent
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: the last two weeks engaging with no one besides me
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: and my wife and our three kids. So you're a
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: good player. But then you look at some of this
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: stuff and it winds up being uh, yeah, it winds
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: There's there's aspects of this to drive at home for everybody,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: and there's a there's a risk here of sounding callous. Uh,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: there's immense amounts of suffering happening. UM. People are dying,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: people are losing family members, and I'm not losing sight
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: of that. But as we stayed to pass around political
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: conversations and otherwise this we try to in this show
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: stick to UM the ways in which world events and
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: political events and national events impact a like segment of
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: our existence. And this segment of our existence we're talking
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: about here is um hunting and fishing and other outdoor activities.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: So that's why our focus is there rather than talking
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: about you know, lack of ventilators that a state might
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: be experiencing or overcrowding in hospitals. Like that's us real
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: and that's what's going on, and that's the news you
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: can get. But we're trying, you know, we haven't admittedly
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: limited focus. Um, South Carolina, is it too early to
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like the tie in for like conservation
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: minded folks is like, we're we're dealing with people on
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: a population level, not you as an individual. And it's
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: going to be unfair for all of us at certain
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: times because we're What's happening, whether you want to believe
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: it or not in some cases, is we're talking about
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: people as a as one giant entity, not you as
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: an individual who, um, you know has all your turkey
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: hunting stuff ready to go, and um your governor says
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: you can't go turkey hunting. You know it's it sucks.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: I hate it, but man, you gotta find some some ways,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: some positive ways to focus that energy. Yeah. I had
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: been personally, I had been for nine months planning a
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: trip up to an area called the high Line, which
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: is some of the lowest human population densities that can
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: be found in the lower forty eight AH and just
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: kind of a couple of days ago realized it wasn't
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: gonna happen, but officially pulled the plug on it this morning.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: And you know, I could load my truck up in
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: my camping gear up, and my kids up here with
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: food that we already have in the house, grab a
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: box of latex gloves, and do nothing but pump gas
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: with a latex glove on and be up there camping.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: But just something about the fact that it's a four
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: or five hour drive made it feel like I was
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: sort of not within the spirit of that. I was
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: not within the spirit of what it is we're trying
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: to accomplish here. I think your spot on. But then
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: you can think about it. It's like I will have
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: interaction with no one. I'll buy a tank of gas.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: You'll put the effort into having interaction with no one
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: as well. Oh but I think no, I think. I
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: think the reason not to do that, though, is that
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: you know, as limited as the risk is, and the
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: risk might be higher that someone's gonna get hurt just
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: throwing snowballs at each other at your house or get
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: cut with a knife, but just getting on the road
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: and traveling that far away from your house and getting
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: away from your community, like you just sort of opening
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: your yourself up to a little bit more unknown own
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: and that unknown could turn into something bad, and then
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: you know, you could be stressing the system that we're
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: trying not to stress right now. Yeah, I got it.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: South Carolina, Um, all the lottery hunts on the w
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: m as have been canceled. North Carolina, some state parks
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: and then boat launches and game lands on some state
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: parks closed to public access. National parks are shutting down.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Arches and canyon Land National Parks closed until further notice.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Glacier National Park closed until further notice. You know, this
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: makes me think of it's something that a really interesting
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: experience that happened to me my brother years ago, is
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: we had a horrible fire season. This is twenty year
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: as ago. Maybe we had this horrible fire season and
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: there are huge areas of big areas of national forest
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: that had been shut down and you couldn't get into them,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: and they had been closed for In some cases they've
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: been closed for upwards of a month weeks or a month,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: and the closures on these national forests extended into archery
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: elk season, and we were actually heard some rumors that
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: they might be removing some of the barriers and opened
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: some of these things back up. And we'd sort of
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: driven down to hunt on spec based on rumors we heard,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: and we were driving up. We were driving up of
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: access road to a chunk of National forest and actually
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: shot the ship with the uh forest ranger who's taken
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: down the barricade like we're the first truck through as
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: he's opening up this thing. They've been opened forever. And
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not joking, man, this is a place
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: we had hunted pretty heavily. I'm not joking. We got
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: to the there's a big meadow at the trailhead. There's
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: a big meadow there where um, guys will like when
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: they guys will put up hot wire lines to crawl
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: their horses and stuff when they're packing in. There's elk
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: in the trailhead, right, So you imagine the impact of like, uh,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: you know, Glacier National Park being closed, and um, you
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: imagine the impact of some of these stretches of river
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: and stuff that just like wouldn't get hit and maybe
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: these are places that just get fish three sixty five
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: days a year, right, And what that's gonna look like
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: later if all of a sudden, let's say it's stuff
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: stays closed. What what it would be to have it
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: closed for a month and then get back in there
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: um down the line, just like some more interesting stuff,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: is it? Uh yeah? West Virginia suspended fishing license blows
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: my mind. Fishing open to the public with or without license,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: You still gotta follow bag limits. Michigan suspends all charter
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: fishing and guide operations at least until April. I got
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: a buddy here who's a guide, uh not close here
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: here in Montana, and he's all this trips are canceled.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: He's scraping up odd jobs, painting houses, doing yardwork for
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: people right now. Just immediately felt the crush. Oh yeah.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: In Oregon, as of midnight, Columbia River closed to all
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: salmon and steelhead fishing. They did it to maintain solidarity
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: with the state of Washington, as two states shared this fishery.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: So you picture there, right, You can't fish in while Shehington,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: but you just go over the bridge whatever, buy an
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: Oregon license and start fishing the same river mains closing
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: state park certain state parks Washington. You can't pick clams either,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: so they're not just picking on rod and reel fisherman,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Yellowstone closed, Grand te Town National Park closed. Miss suspended
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: all fishing license requirements. So Missouri is pretty funny. The
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: fine print says you have to be in good standing
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: with the Missouri Department of Conservation, as in, if you
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: have a previously revoked fishing license, that's great. You can't
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: you can't legally fish even when nobody has a fishing license.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: So if your privileges are suspended, you're like, that's really interesting.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: I love it what people think of they're good stuff.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Where some guy I was like, yeah, but what about
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: people who aren't supposed to buy a license? Can they fish?
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: And someone's like, yeah, good catch, let's write down. Can
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: you imagine being the conservation officer trying to track those
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: folks down. Yeah, so dude that you know, it's like,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: it's like, dude, you can't fish. It's like, what, there's
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: no license requirement right now. I know I can't buy
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: a license, but I don't need it right now. Wisconsin,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: here's interesting. Wisconsin waves all fees for state parks and trails.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Though the state is under a shelter in place order,
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: the order recognizes outdoor activity is essential, so come one,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: come all, No fees at state parks. Florida all state
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: parks are closed. Oregon all state parks closed. So I
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: wonder if I'm sure this has to play in somehow.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: It's like the impact of people on those individual park systems. Right,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: It's like we've all seen I haven't been Yellowstone in years,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: but so many pictures and so many stories at Yellowstone,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: and people are so packed in around everything and wildlife
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: spottings and bear jams and all that stuff. Um, And
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: maybe some of these state parks like they just don't
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: have that many visitors or don't have a density of
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: visitors in some of these areas, and that's why they
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: get to stay open. The um. Well, you know, like Florida,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: that's a crowded ass place with a lot of boats.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: You know how Florida we're talking earlier that Washington says
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: that k no fishing in Florida. The governor issued an
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: executive order requiring all recreational boats to remain at least
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: fifty ft apart. Wow. So there you're sort of you're
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: you're in that case, you're sort of trying to work
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: with people, but you're also putting um, you're also giving
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: people a lot of room to to screw up or not.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: You're treating people like grown ups, and they don't always
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: do well. They don't I mean when they get treated
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: like grown ups unfortunately. But I but I love it's
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: a great I love it. I mean, if it works,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: it's like it's it's you know, it's it's opening up.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: It's opening up to give people some room to still
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: operate and and and and try to find some mental
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: health um while still following through on the objectives of
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: the state to keep people apart. Yeah, it man, it's
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: it's just so like you know, working outside Glacier National
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: Park for a long time, the the park is there
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: and it's beautiful and awesome, but you get to see
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: firsthand how reliant people are on the services provided by
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: the National Park Service or provided by the vendors approved
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: by the National Park Service. What you mean trash cans?
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: Like you're staring at this unbelievable mountain ranch up on
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: McDonald Pass going to the Sun Road, and it is
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: absolutely breathtaking, gorgeous, and there's mountain goats and stuff like that,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: and then you drop your gaze a little bit and
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: instead of people seeing a very full trash can, and
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: being like, oh, I better doing something else responsible with
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: my trash. My refuse like hanging on to it a
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: little bit longer until we find an empty trash can,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: uh down the road maybe or down the sidewalk. They
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: just chuck it there next to the gas can or
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: gas or sorry to the trash can, or pile it
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: up on top and the wind blows up and takes
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: it away. And it's like, I just see, like people
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: are so reliant on those services clean bathrooms, you know,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: all this infrastructure that has to be manned by people,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: and we get to this spot where it's like, okay, well,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: why do these uh, these folks have to be you know,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: potentially in harm's way, um to provide those services that
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: we know people expect when they go to a national
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: park and a lot of state parks, a lot of
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: fishing access sites, um. And so I do wonder if
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: there's some park superintendents that are weighing in on this
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: to the governor and they're like, you know, we we
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: don't have problems with people here, so we'd like to
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: remain open. I wonder if they're making a decision or
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: if it's like, you know, we are so understaffed and
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: so under budget under the best of circumstances here because
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: the crowds that show up behave like such pigs that
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: we'd prefer to close. It's funny you mentioned the garbage thing,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: because like in raising kids, we try really hard to
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: make them aware of that kind of thing, you know,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: like how you handle your personal refuse, and that when
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: we eat in a restaurant, we make them get down
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: on the ground and clean up, and to police their
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: area around their plane sea before they get off the plane,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: and not just be that. Ah. Someone will get it,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: like I make him get down and crawl around under
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: the table at restaurants. I love that picking their mess up, dude,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: because if you don't pound it into him now though,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: it's like they'll never get it. It's so funny you
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: bring that up, like the overflowed trash can, and people
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: are like, I can't just throw it on the ground.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: I'll set it down there and my piece of trash
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: will displace some other piece of trash that will land
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: on the ground. But no one can say I didn't try, Yeah, man,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: did I? I Man? I'm probably just complaining for the
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: sake of complaining, lamenting, but man, I've been thinking about
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: that a lot for some reason, Like, I mean, are
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: we bringing some of these closures upon ourselves because as
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: a group, we have been behaving so poorly in some
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: of these places. Hey, did we hit it? Uh? Yeah,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: we already hit New Jersey ten days ahead of scheduled
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: trout season. Trotty're gonna be feeling the pressure. Uh, ca'l
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: tell everybody about Well, first off, let me let me
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: start with this. Um oh, you know what I want
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: to tell you guys about real quick, A little update
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: non COVID update is, Uh, after eleven months of waiting,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: eleven months of incubation, I got my suppressors, my silence,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: so I had two silencers suppressors. It's funny because ever
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: used to call them silencers. But it's like, you know
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: how you have the death tax in the estate tax,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: and it's the same thing, and the word you use
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: depends on your viewpoint about said tax. Uh, if you
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: support the tax, She's like, let's call it him in
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: the state tax because that makes it seem like you're
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: just hitting rich people and that's cool. And then dudes
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: with enough assets that they're going to be hit by
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: such attacks called a death tax, because that makes it
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: seem like, well, dude, you can't tax the man upon
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: it is death. That's not fair. So you use different
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: words to sell your viewpoint. What had historically been silencers, um,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: which is a miss I'll admit is a misnomer. UM.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Silencer doesn't make your gun silenced. Uh, it suppresses the
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: sound and you still have the sonic crack, you know,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: if you're using most most ammunitions faster than the speed
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: of sound, and so you still have a sonic crack,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: a loud noise bre either way. Suppressors, so what you're
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: supposed to call him? A year ago, I got two
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: suppressors of twenty two caliber in the parlance like you'd
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: say it can. I got a twenty two caliber can
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: and a thirty cow can UM. But you can't bring
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: them home with you. Like you can go down to
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: the to the you can go down to the sporting story.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: You can go to Walmart right and buy a rifle
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: and take it home with you. But if you want
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: a device to make it not so damn loud, you
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: have to get a special a T A T F
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: permit for it. Um, And you go down to like
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: an FFL and they receive your cans, they receive your suppressors,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: and then you fill out all these forms and you
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: send it off in the apparent. I don't know if
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: it's just I don't know what it is that the
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: story goes that the a t F is so backlogged
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: and suppressor forms that it's taking them that long to
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: do their end of the deal and get your form back.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: So I dropped off my two suppressors and waited eleven months.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, I get a call from
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: the sporting goods store that I can come down and
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: take possession of my suppressors. People, and there's a lot
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: of countries in Europe where it's super hard to get
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: a gun, but you can go down to the equivalent
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: of your local Walmart and buy yourself a suppressor. So
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: it's just like they can't believe. Some people can't believe
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: that in Americas, like I can't believe you can hunt.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Were one of those. And then I remember talking to
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: a guy in Scotland and him saying to me, I
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: can't believe you can hunt without a suppressor. So I
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: haven't done any hunt with mine yet, but I now
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: am the proud owner of two suppressors, which Yanni. In
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: your situation of gunshots downtown when trying to scare off looters,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: are trying to scare off burglars, you could have had
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: a probably a much more intimidating sound were they aware
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: that you were up there with a suppressor shooting warning shots.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: That scare me more. I'd be more scared because I'd
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: have a different vision of who it was that was
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: wielding the firearm. I'd be more like, Huh, this isn't
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: gonna work out well for me. I can't wait till
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: the day that we can just when you buy a rifle,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: you can just buy the suppressor with it. I'm gonna
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: have it on all of my guns. It's funny because
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: let's say guns like the people that resisted like and
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: I understand the arguments against it. There's an argument against
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: it that it makes the that you could commit a
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: crime without that lot as loud of that telltale crack right,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: and burglars, murderers, what have you are gonna be like
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: less inclined to shoot because the guns damn loud. It
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: will alert people to the right. That's a reasonable argument.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: Then there's a really reasonable argument that poachers will be
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: emboldened because there's not that telltale gun shot often the
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: you know, often the night that a game warden might hear.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: And in fact, we were talking to a game order
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: on him as the game warden in Missouri one time,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: and he was saying he personally didn't like suppressors because
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: he gets a lot of work done based off you know,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: towards dusk, there's that one rifle shot off in the
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: distance and he's like, huh, something about that seems fishy,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: and he heads over there to investigate, and he was saying,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: without the report, um, he feels that his ability to
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: do his job would be compromised. So there are those arguments.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: But I wonder, let's say that for whatever reason, guns
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: just weren't loud, right, that somehow the mechanics of of
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: a gun going off wasn't loud. Would there be people
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: pushing for regulations that you need to put a thing
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: on your gun to make it louder. No, probably not.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: So the fact that someone might want their gun to
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: not be so loud seems reasonable if we could achieve
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: it with different powders. Somehow, some scientists developed a gunpowder
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: uh that just for whatever reason, I'll understand the mechanics
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: of it made it so. It just didn't so damn
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: loud when it went off and people started using it,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: would they be bummed out? Would they say, now, no, no no, no, no,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: you gotta stick with the super noisy gun powder. It's interesting, like, hey,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: I noticed that when you shoot your muskeet there's not
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: a blinding cloud of smoke. Uh what you got there?
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: That's called smokeless powder. That's some regulator wo be Like,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: you know, I want you guys to go back to
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: the real smokey guy. I liked it better when you
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: couldn't see ship after your shot. I had a fella
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: right in the other day. He was kind of getting
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: spicy with me because he was wondering why I hadn't
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: brought up talked about the fact that, uh, everybody should
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: have suppressors and your on your on your conservation show. Yeah,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: And I'm just like, how I don't have one. I
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: don't even apply for big game tags. That set me
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: up for that much disappointment of waiting for eleven months. Um,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm like, when it becomes easier, I'll have one.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: But right now, I'm like, I just got I don't
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: like filling out forms that set me up for a
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: lot of waiting. So oh, to be honest with you,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: I did it as much as just because I wanted
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: to explore the processes anything else. It was a learning experience.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, because you hear so much complaining. I mean,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: I'm here like I haven't even tried because I've talked
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: so many people that have complained so much about it.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: I'm like, man, that doesn't seem like it's worth my time.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: So there's this still there's an ill fated bill out
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: there called the Hearing Protection Act, and that's like a
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: name for an act where you'd be like, oh, who
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: the hell could argue against that? But it would be Um,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: it would remove a lot of the red tape and
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: and remove a lot of the red tape around suppressors.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: Uh do they want to touch on? Everyone knows me
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: and you're honest, are running for president, which is going
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: pretty well, um, Ronella tells. And we launched our campaign.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: There's the issue of where we stand on campaign finance reform,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: and we had always said that, you know, our campaign
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: finances were reformed because you know, how you can go
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: and buy a Maga hat you can buy and make
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: America grade again. Hat. I saw recently that you could
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: enter a drawing to win a Maga hat signed by
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: President Trump, right, and they sell the mega hats um
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: and it raises money for Trump's reelection. Bid. I don't
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: know if you can buy a Biden hat. I haven't
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: seen anybody running around. I never seen one guy yet
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: wearing a Biden hat. But let's just let's just assume
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: maybe you can buy yourself a Biden hat. Um. What
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: that money does is it goes to support the campaign.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: But Ronella tells is different because when you buy our stickers, hats,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: t shirts, yard signs, what have you, we take all
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: the profits from those sales and don't line you know,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: don't use it to to stock our own campaign coffers,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: but we use it to plow our profits into our
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: Land Access Initiative and cal tell them all about it, alright.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: So the Ranella who tell us campaign merchandise, any purchase
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: of that merchandise, the profits from those sales will go
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: into our Land Access Initiative fund. That fund will be
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: utilized when we can find that opportunity that fulfills the
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: campaign promise, which is giving you us we all more
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: or better access to hunting and fishing. So if you
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: know of a property or a landowner or an area
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: that could benefit from let's say, an easement or a
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: boat ramp or a trail or something that accomplishes this goal,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: then let us know. And you can do that by
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: going to uh the Rinella who tell us website and
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: filling out a very simple form um and uh and
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: and yeah hopefully we can we can keep this thing
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: going so that that's that's the program. But we're all
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: really excited about it, and we've got a bunch of
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: submissions um already what kind of submissions are coming in? Um, Well,
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: because of the design of the form we have, UM,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it gets to be pretty pointed.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: You know, we're we're asking for um, pretty pretty good
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: details of of the peace or pieces uh that that
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: folks are submitting. So, UM, you can't just write in
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: and say, boy, I'd really like to get to this place,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: and I can't right now. You have to write in
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: and say, hey, here's the name of this landowner. This
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: is that they would be amicable to talking about and
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: easement or this property is for sale or this property
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: will be coming up for sale, and it backs up
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: to those types of situations. We need a hot lead,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: is what you're saying, Really need a hot lead. Yeah.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: And because the nature of this and what everybody else
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: deals with two is I can't really be like, well,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: this one particular property that's up for sale right now
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: is just a real jam. And if we were to
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: get a hold of that, we'd provide access to twenty
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: acres for the low, low price of because I don't
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: want some you know, real self centered son of a
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: gun to move in there and scoop you, scoop all
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: of us, Steve, scoop all of us. Yeah, got it.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: So the way to support the land access initiative go
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: again if you go to the to the metator dot com,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: the meat eater dot com all one word uh go there.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: In addition to COVID nineteen changes the hunting and fishing regulations,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: which includes park access and all that kind of stuff
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: we've been talking about. You can go there and find
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: our runella potels things support us Better Hunting and Fishing
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: for America Sports campaign. Sorry for the interruption, Steve, but
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: it's under the conservation tab. If you click on that,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: and then and and then there's a drop down menu
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: and the bottom uh option is Land Access Initiative, And
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: that'll take you to the page where you can all
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: your answers about what we're talking about will be answered. Sorry,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: all your questions will be answered. Yeah, pull really well
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: across the country. Um, better hunting and access or better
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: hunting and fishing for America with our Land Access initiative.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: Uh oh, you know one last thing I want to
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: talk about, and then I just want to make sure
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: he's got a chance to chime in with he's got
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: A guy pointed out that all the talk we used
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: to have about the Michigan hello, um, which is the practice,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: and it's it's a national practice of giving people the bird.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: I gave you guys one today when I said, as
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: a way of saying what's up, you flip someone off.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: They were talking about this guy wrote in saying it's um,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: that's a very uh zeitgeisty way to say hi, because
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: it eliminates, it eliminates contact. You shake someone when you
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: say hi. By shaking someone's hand, you're exchanging a massive
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: amount of germs. But when you give him the Michigan hello,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: there's no exchange of germs, and it's also it's a
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: twofold message. You're saying hello, Oh, but there's also a
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: little bit of it don't come near me mixed in.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: So when you when I see you and I throw
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: you the bird, I'm saying like, hello, keep your distance. Yeah,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: you're eliminating the confusion of all those extra fingers in
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: the air of a traditional high exactly. Yeah. So this
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: guy was saying that the Michigan hello is really like
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: a thing that we should all be paying attention to
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: and using right now. And I've been up in my
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: usage considerably, Johnnie, what else you got. Have you taught
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: your kids about what the middle finger means? Yeah, well
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: I didn't tell them, like they know that they're not
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: supposed to do it, and then if one of them
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: they know you're not supposed to do it, they don't.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't like put it. I didn't verbalize it. They
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: know it's an insult, and they know that to watch
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: each other, and if they catch one another inadvertently with
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: their middle finger out for whatever reason, like for whatever,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: they're holding their cup in such a way that makes
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: their middle finger appear to be out, they will then
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: tattletale on that person for putting their middle finger up.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: They feel that it's like, regardless of intent, regardless of scenario,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: keep your middle finger in line with its neighbors. Got it? Uh? Sorry,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: what were you gonna ask me? Just what if you
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: got any final things? I missed you? Sudamn bad? Ye? Honest,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: this almost brings a tear to my eye. Man, this
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: is the longest we've This isn't many years. This is
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: the most we've been apart. Oh, has has to be.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: Here's something that comes to mind. Man. We have some
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: neighbors that simply just can't seem to live without deliveries
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: every day. And uh, I feel bad for the FedEx
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: and ups folks that have to uh come to people's
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: houses and possibly come in contact with people for bullshit
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: that they probably don't need. Limit your buying, you don't
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: need nothing right now. But but but let me let
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: me counter that for a minute, because, um, you might
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: want to ask these people if they want to continue,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: if they like having their job right now, and that
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: we want to continue some economic activity in this country. Um,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: and if we determine that there are certain ways in
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: which there can be some economic engagement that minimizes risk. Sure,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I want to tell the guy
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: from fed Ex or a guy from UPS that, uh,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: it's too bad you're working, and that you should be
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: like people that work in restaurants who have no income
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, No, I just feel only I only
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: feel bad for him if he's thinking, like, man, I'm
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: getting put into a situation I don't want to be
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: in because of what's going on. Yeah, but I hope
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: that they have I hope that they have some practices
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: they do too, you know, they have some practices they
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: were able to use to stay as safe as possible. Sure,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: hopefully they're heating them. Um, hopefully everybody's heating them. Um.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. You know, we did the other night.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh it was from butcher box. I
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: had like, uh, maybe forty chicken wings in my freezer. Uh,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: you know, because everybody's been finding these little gems in
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: their freezers, uh during these times and everybody's got more
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: time to go digging around, and I haven't had forty
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: chicken wings. My girls are six and eight, and they
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: had they had no idea what a chicken wing was,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: and so we I made barbecue sauce. I made karaoke sauce,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: and then a classic just you know, hot sauce and butter,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: you know, spicy chicken wing sauces just for your family. Well,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: the barbecue sauce was already in the fridge, so still ambitious.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: That's ambitious. But Matt, I tell you, we had such
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: a fun evening of frying and eating chicken wings and
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: talking through the whole chicken wing thing. I had to
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: tell them about there's whole restaurants out there that will
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: go to when hopefully the world goes back to normal
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: where all you can eat is chicken wings. And uh,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: they're really blown away with a nice fun evening, uh
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: with chicken wings. So next time you go grocery shop
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: and see if Costco has probably got a giant bag
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: of frozen wings you can get. Did you try to
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: tackle buffalo wings? Buffalo? No? No, I did not. I
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: did not. I should have. If you've got kids, UM,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: I think it's helpful right now to imagine how you're
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: approaching this whole thing with them. We kind of went
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: to a two weeks ago. We had to go to
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: a UM information on a need to know basis with
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: our kids, because we started to feel that it was
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: getting a little it was getting a little much in
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: a little chaotic. Um. I'm not one. I'm not inclined to.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: I don't like the sugarcoat stuff for my kids. My
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: kids understand, um. You know, we talked very openly about
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: sex and drugs and rock and roll, you know, as
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: much as we can around home. Like we don't have
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of we don't create a lot of blind
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: spots for him. But it's it's I'm trying, We're trying
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: to try to, you know, have this be not the
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: least not traumatic. Um, a lot of big changes in
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: lot of things going on, but we try to keep
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: a pretty positive spin on it. And I think that
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: one good way to to help do that is just
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: around evening meal time, we've been working, um, cooking together
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: a lot. I had the kids last night make They
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: did everything to make venice and meatballs, you know, like
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: from taking bread, putting the food processor, making the bread crumbs.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: They did the whole process. So we've been doing a
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: lot of that. Just some good education there and uh
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: so I think you've got kids try hard, to try hard,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: to to take advantage and in the best way possible
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: to take advantage of the situation to maybe do some
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: things you don't normally have time to do with your youngsters,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: and hopefully they'll not come out of this, uh you know,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: any more scarred than you need to be from being
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: removed from their friends and their schools for so long. Yeah,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: it's overwhelming for him too. We we I think we
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: roughly did that at the same time because we uh
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: I had mentioned to you that we had quit listening
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: to the morning news while everybody was having breakfast because
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: the kids are just having too many sort of scary
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and asking questions about their elders and uh, the
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  Speaker 1: longevity of their elders lives, etcetera. So that's funny because
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  Speaker 1: that's where we want up getting hund up. We want
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  Speaker 1: up getting hung up on grandma's and grandpa's. Yeah, now
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  Speaker 1: I think you go, it's worth mentioning to that. The
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  Speaker 1: whole reason that you're work, you're kind of beat by
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  Speaker 1: the COVID and you're forced to do this podcast is
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  Speaker 1: because we're taking it seriously the sole social distancing thing
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, locked up in our houses and
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  Speaker 1: trying to you know, do be doing our civic duty.
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  Speaker 1: To hopefully help this thing uh get better soon, and
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  Speaker 1: uh hopefully everybody else has taken it as seriously. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, um, you know, when you guys first
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  Speaker 1: got back to Mexico and and uh I brought over
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  Speaker 1: a grocery run for you guys, uh, and and maintaining
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  Speaker 1: the social distance, and and my little buddy, your youngest
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  Speaker 1: you know, easily eight out of ten times I come
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  Speaker 1: to your house, I you know, pick the little guy
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  Speaker 1: up and give him a big hug, and having to
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  Speaker 1: stop him short and the three of us yelling at
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  Speaker 1: him not to come any closer, like wait, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 1: wait wait, Yeah, what a horrible I mean, damn near
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  Speaker 1: cried on the way home, like that is just it's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: So I really do feel for you parents out there,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm seeckeningly independent and selfish over here in my
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  Speaker 1: in my garage. So yeah, it's hard on everybody. Man, um,
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  Speaker 1: I really you can't even tell you it's I think
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: that if it was happening for natural reasons, like if
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: I was just up at my fish shack for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks with my family, I wouldn't be like, man,
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  Speaker 1: do I miss my friends? But just knowing that you can't,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: um carry on the way you carry on, and that I,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: you know, not able to hang out with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, uh yeah, it's like it's it's it's hurtful.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's hurt I don't like it. I miss everybody. Um.
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  Speaker 1: When this is over, I think we'll all probably look
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: at each other differently. Um, But yeah, we're gonna wrap
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  Speaker 1: it up for now and take care of your take
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: care of your family, take care of your friends, take
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: care of your community, take care of your country, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of in that order. Be respectful when you get outside,
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  Speaker 1: but get outside. Yeah, we'll all get through this. Talk
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  Speaker 1: to you guys soon to