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Iowa Waterfowl Showdown: Delta, DNR & the Fight for Funding · DuckFellas Podcast

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You gotta see it all. Yes. I can't. I don't know if everybody else can.
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Yeah, we can hear you. I don't see any sound kind of blue or funny.
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No good. There it is. Welcome to the Doc Fellows Podcast, episode 20.
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This week, we're joined by Zachary again.
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Glad to be here. I wish I could say the same. Oh, damn, dude.
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Right off to it, Red. It just never stops. I'm here for it.
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Well, I don't... I didn't have anything exciting happened this past week.
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I don't know about you guys, but it's been a pretty tame week last week.
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Yeah. Yeah. Got a new motor. Yeah? That's a great car. Yeah. Yeah.
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Kind of need that to go racing now. Yeah, I know. Now I just need to get the other one back. Yeah.
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But one is better than none. Yes. You mean you guys don't Fred Flintstone those cars around?
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No, if I did, I'd be fucked. No, that was the backup plan. You were going to
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be in the front where the engine goes.
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That was unreversed, but it sounded like it was rehearsed.
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That was awesome, man. Especially, you know, when you're trying to get it going for the first time.
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Let's go fire this off, see if it runs. This thing's got a misfire.
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Hold on, give me another question, I'll be all right. Why is it puke in?
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It smells like shit in here. I'm trying to...
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Oh, well, we finally put the post up about the giveaway this week.
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So that is finally live.
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Sitting here, setting up for the Bob Castle. Like, you talked about like,
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we've seen the only thing, so. So, no, we definitely talked about it.
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We pulled those things out of the trailer.
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So that's live. It is on our Facebook and our Instagram pages,
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and it should be pinned to the top of the page.
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The rules for that are pretty easy. Just follow both our Facebook and our Instagram
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pages. And then you have to comment.
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What did I say? Comment, oh, what is your green duck or goose or bird you kill?
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And then one of the winners that we select out of the two will be 18 years for you.
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So the other blind could go to anyone. Could be your grandma. Don't matter.
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You just posted that, what, like five minutes here? Yeah. We just got our first
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column already on. Did we? Yeah. Perfect. I'm going to have a little ice cream coming on here.
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So that's exciting. I'm looking forward to that, seeing how that goes.
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I could be good. Yeah. I can't hurt. I was going to say, it can't be bad.
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I can't wait to get my grandma out in that blonde.
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They are comfortable. They are comfortable. They are.
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A little bit of news. I mean, there's not much news going on in the waterfall
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world. Because waterfall season, well, they can open up on the sleeping snake season.
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None of us can do that. No. Actively? No.
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In general. Well, I entered. I entered, yeah, but I mean, I actively hunt for them. Why not?
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Well, it seems to be, especially with IO lately, this time of year,
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it's kind of muddy in the fields.
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And I am definitely not walking my tummy, but back and forth to the trailer
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haul, not many deep woods.
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It's seeming pretty frozen out right now. Well, now this is on.
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Yeah. We got our, it's plenty of fruit.
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I think that was my next thing to go to is welcome back winter.
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I thought we were done with that for the time being, but for about the next,
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uh, what? 36 hours? 36. Yeah.
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I think, well, Saturday is going to be like 80 degrees.
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Friday is supposed to be like 77, and then Saturday is supposed to be like 75.
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Yeah. Oh, goodness. We'll get one more snuff going at least between now and
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Easter. Oh. Unfortunately.
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Friday is now supposed to be 81. Saturday is 75. Oh. Seven. You're not going to go to.
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I will be wearing them. It'll be a couple good days in Brunson.
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See if you saw it probably be out there in shorts and cowboy boots.
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My cutoff, of course.
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Not even a wifey here, just a cutoff. Yeah, I love it. It's an old flannel.
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I like that player, the table guy with him out there.
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Love to see it. Another thing that's been pop-up in my Facebook feed a lot is
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these net-colored snuggies.
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I mean, I've seen, I think that these three people that I've seen,
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and one that I kind of know, we all kind of know of them, the early diaries
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from our area here, we killed one within the past week, I believe.
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And supposedly these things were just done in Texas this year, this winter.
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Really? And they're not even making it back to the tundra. Their guys are just down and running away.
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So hopefully they did quite a few of them because, I mean, I'm pretty sure I
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know of at least three that have already been killed.
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Yeah. That would be sick, though. Wouldn't that? That would be sweet.
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If I ever kill any radio-colored bird, I would get them out.
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Oh, for sure. I mean, I know you've got to send those back, the transmitter,
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they'll send you a replica one.
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I don't care how good the bird looks, it'd probably get mine. No doubt.
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That's not even a question. Yeah. That'd be sick. Hoping for like an early season and blooming.
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Secreting of color in that way. The umpniest bird. That way I see.
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Really? Like September 1st? Really call your blah home a bug. He's pretty awesome.
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It would still happen on it that'd be my luck I would kill I'd kill like the
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worst looking shoveler in the world.
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Same fuck you yeah terrible hate it here,
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And it seems like we're kind of getting the precipitation here at the right
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times, really coming into the springtime of the year where these birds are moving north.
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I mean, they just started dropping our water last week, but they held it for
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pretty much as long as we can't get it for the spring floods.
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Long kind of precip in my eyes. I was going to say, I wasn't looking for the
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snow, but I thought you'd get some moisture on the ground.
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We got quite a bit of rain, though. Yeah, right. Prior to. Prior to the snow,
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like that morning, thunderstorms and there was tornado risk in the areas, too.
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I did see that. I mean, I didn't see any from my house like last year.
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That's literally only March. We're just getting into that time of year.
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It just feels like it's moving so much faster now. It does.
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Actually, my space time does go a lot faster. You get older. The time's not too long.
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It's not. Sorry.
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You're down. You're down. Take the mic off.
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But no, I mean, even the Dakotas, they got a bunch of snow. So that should really
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help out the drought problem they're having. I mean, our drought problem is
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not a good situation either, but it doesn't affect the waterfowl as much as
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it does. Right. So Dakota's in Canada. Right.
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South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, and the prairie potholes in Canada are
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what really we need to have a good year.
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I didn't see how much the coast got, as much as Minnesota, that same swath of stuff.
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I think in total in the past week they have because they had a snowstorm hit
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there before this last one, but I don't know how much they got.
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I did not look at the weather too closely or not. Dang.
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I don't know what you're active on this post. I was just telling you to tell
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them give a fuck about it, please punch. Dang.
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I'm scared if it's going to rain while I'm at work. Other than that. Yeah, same.
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Don't even put my rain cup to that? Or not? Hopefully. Even if I need it.
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I just don't work on my supervisor from the truck or not.
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Right? I wish that was a thing.
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Wish. It's always a thing. Just make it a thing.
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Say, amigo. I don't have any amigos. You spent your days in a cab.
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I wish. most of it.
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I'm from the office. All of you does is fly in a plane, drive in cars, and sit in the office.
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That's it. That's it. You're bad at me.
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I did show you for a doctor.
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At least I'm driving. I didn't go on. Once we're outside, show us.
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Thankfully, they don't pay even
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what it's happening. I have gotten Snapchats to you in a rain, though.
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There are some days on that. that pop-up thunderstorms out in the south,
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man, he has a big poncho on. No?
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He's just raw-dogging. He didn't send you that one. It's fun when he's wearing
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a big poncho and dances on the rain, but... That's after I've been working.
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That's been a pleasure. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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But no, this rain and the snow that we're getting here, I mean,
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there's nothing really in the 10-day for us here.
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So whatever we got, just carry us through that, hopefully.
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But knock on wood, we have a solid year of water up there, and we're actually
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up there and match. Yeah.
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We need it. Numbers have been dog-shilled the past 10 years.
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It's terrible. I don't know how, I still don't know how we're on a 60-6 compared
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to a 30-3 or a 45. I think it's four.
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I think it's one of the descriptions. But I don't know. That's for people that are higher up than me.
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This week, I think we're going to touch... We'll talk about Delta a little bit here,
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kind of like what our local chapter has been up to, and then we're going to
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go into a little bit of the Iowa program here in Iowa that is kind of a sore
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topic for a lot of conservation people around the state that follow the politics side of it,
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and kind of pay attention to stuff that could help them in the long run. See, that'll be nice.
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Not that we're super much people. No. We can talk about it.
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You know, unfortunately, there's a lot of people that are uneducated about it
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just because they haven't been put in front of their faces, you know? Yeah.
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And it's definitely something that, yeah, the taxpayers pay a little more for
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up front, but in the long run, so much.
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It's worth every penny. Well, we'll get to that. Yep.
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I went to a Delta Water Club meeting with Mr. Zachary. Pookie.
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He's playing Pookie. Weird. Yeah.
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Anyways, so got to hear a little bit about what they had going on.
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And this weekend, they went out and put up some wood duck boxes for our area.
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Wood duck boxes and gained a goose nest. Goose nest infrastructure.
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Yeah. Do you know how many goose boxes and structures they have?
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I know they've got to keep track, but I don't know if you're... They do.
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I wasn't super involved with how many they put out last year.
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Um, so I was a P and I, but I wasn't even really involved with the,
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what they did then, but thanks. That's good.
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I think they did four and four this year. So, and I want to say it was either
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four or six with Duck Woutons last year.
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I know I talked to Colton Bradley, he's their vice president and he,
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I was talking with the Big Star the other day, they're out doing that.
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Oh, yup. So he said they were seeing some good utilization right out of those.
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So, I mean, that's always a help.
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Yeah, I think I've seen 85% live in the chat. Yeah. That's pretty good. I mean, really. Yeah.
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For where we're at, we don't have a lot of birds stay and live here.
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But that's pretty good for our area, I would say. It's good to see.
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Especially see them, you know, with those boat deck watches,
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not just set it and forget it, you know, a little bit back out.
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And that's a big thing. A lot of people will be like, oh, I want to put this
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out and I'll go do it on their own. and then nobody takes care of it and Doc's
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ain't going to use it again if the old stuff's in.
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So, I don't know, not that, I mean, I think it does, it helps out,
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doesn't hurt, not that it plays a major factor in it.
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It's, it's a very, it's a very minuscule amount compared to like what ducks
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are going to naturally do on it and what Mother Nature is going to allow them
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to do over a sense of a year. Absolutely.
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But, you know, you know, grand scheme saying every little bit helps,
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I guess. No, yes, I mean, like it's, it doesn't hurt at all.
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No, no, no, no. Yeah, definitely helps.
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So it's just cool to see that there's still people that are willing to go out
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and do that kind of stuff.
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I kind of wish I had more time where I could be more involved on that side of
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it. But No, you got nothing but that. I wish.
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Yeah, but haven't you just been sitting around like, who can I have?
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Yeah, for this past week, this week, I'm a busy as shit trying to buy a house.
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Hurry up. Yeah, there's rights to check. Yeah, I wish it was that easy.
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But, I mean, it helps out. I mean, there's a lot going on right now with the
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corruption in the government and the corruption with all kinds of organizations around the country.
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But I would say Delta is on the better side of that compared to,
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like, I'm not going to say Doxing is 100% corrupt, but they're on the better
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side of the spectrum than DU is right now.
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And that's, yeah, I would even say they're on the better side of the spectrum than DU and WTF.
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Like, there's a lot of these organizations that, you know, we can put more funds
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from Delta into our local habitat than a lot of these big organizations do and stuff.
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Well, and I don't, you know, when these big organizations started, they were small, right?
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Yep. And they had a good picture and a good view of how they wanted to go about things.
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But when you get too much money involved in anything, it goes sideways.
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And I think that's what we're starting to see with a lot of these bigger organizations
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is too much is going sideways. And greed is coming factored into it too much.
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Because there's so many different tax codes. I don't even know how that stuff
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works, but there are ways where
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you can profit off non-profit and not be a big like a nervous company.
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Absolutely. And it's, I mean, are you going to do this? I was doing this for free for a little while.
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You know, and it's like, shit, put the nine to five, do this,
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pay him a little bit, I'm just go.
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And then that just snowballs down and go, well, we are in one.
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I mean, I've got some words that Ducks Unlimited had a bad hearing not too recently
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or not too long ago, more recent than not, that some things said that didn't go well for themselves.
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We'll see what comes out of it. That's only from one person I've heard that from.
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But it'll be very interesting to see what they've actually said and how that's
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going to affect their program.
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I mean, they have a good thing in place. Their groundwork and their original
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deal is awesome. And just that and the amount of reach they have,
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they can do so much. 100%.
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I don't know. I was a supporter of Duxluna for growing up for a long time.
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I was a part of Duxluna for probably 10 years, like hands-on.
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And I have not, I don't think I've been a member. I think I can.
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So I'm not a little sure about this. But I have not been a member that I have
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paid for at least, and at least follow it.
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Well, you know, I think that's part of it too, again, was the reach thing.
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I've been, you know, growing up a deer hunter, it's like I was part of the local boat club.
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When I get involved with the Idaho boat hunting, you know, kind of stuff also from there.
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So naturally, when I take up duck hunting, I'm like, all right,
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what can I do to help with this?
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The first name that always pops in your head or the first name always on Facebook.
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So I was a member as well. Got my free cooler. I believe I still get the magazines too.
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Please fill this checkout with your donation. Yeah. It's crazy how much they'd
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probably give out in free magazines to people that aren't even members. Oh, yeah.
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I know for a fact I was still getting them up until about three or four months ago.
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And now they've moved. So I haven't seen one since then. Is that like a monthly magazine? Yeah.
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Monthly. That's funny.
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Yeah. Yeah. 12 magazines a year. I need some thousands a minute.
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How many people get those go? Nice.
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I would I will say there is years where I wish I
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would have kept those because coming like in the future as
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we get older like this would be kind of cool to look back on the things that
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we were fighting now compared to what in 30
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years we can be facing this for even a lot of the hunting 30 years might not
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be you know that's that's a whole last possible like 95 and I hope you drown
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on that bush like I mean look look at your for example wasn't that long ago
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everybody got one tag yeah there was no five made You get two bucks. It was one tag.
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Well, I feel like the disease is going around right now in the past recent years.
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It's a possibility to come again. I know there's definitely talks about limiting
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some real numbers for sure.
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And obviously talks of, again, not citing, you know, attack us on this podcast,
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but talks of going to... Attack him.
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...but stay, you know.
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And I just... Obviously, other people are making those decisions too.
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It's like one buck per person? Yep.
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Yep. So now you can do your article. Oh, yeah. And a buck, and a gun tag.
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Yep. Well, I forgot about that. I didn't think about that. And then if you're
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a landowner, you get a third of it.
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That's a floating tag. So, you know, no, the percentage of them guys floating
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three bucks is like half a cent or whatever. That's great.
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Even two bucks is pretty low, but just kind of helps incentivize those guys that are landowners.
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Screw it. I'll shoot this 6.8. Well, for me, like the way you guys deer hunt
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in Iowa is a lot different than how we did in Illinois. Like we never pushed deer in Illinois.
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Like even shotgun season, you just go sit your tree stand and you play or
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ground blind everyone done right yeah but we didn't not that
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i remember or can recall i think it will never have
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been and never will be in the deer hunting but i don't
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ever remember them pushing deer like you guys do and you guys like when you
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guys push it's in bigger groups like and then you can mow down some deer oh
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yeah wait so it's crazy how many deer that do get killed in a short what is
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it like meet two weeks two weeks yeah two weeks from a weekend and And then
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like a week, it'll be 10. Yeah.
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So it's crazy how many deer get killed and not 10 days, give or take,
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just by people pushing what's.
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I've been trying to deer hunt out of a tree and there comes 20 people walking
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the woods. That happened to me a couple years ago. Okay.
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Really mown down if you don't pay taxes and write horses.
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I know exactly. You can talk shit. They can't hear this. They don't have electricity or something.
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That's okay. Isn't that wild? God.
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I won't stop. Yeah. Back to kind of sidetracked there on deer hunting.
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I do want to have an episode here coming up because like we got to talk about
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right so like I want I do want to get Living Legends together they did a podcast
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with us this winter if you guys haven't listened to that go check them out they're
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pretty good dudes they're from our area too,
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oh no damn,
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but they're pretty good dudes they had us on this winter we did a kind of a
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waterfowl podcast it was,
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wild it was mainly a shit yeah that was all
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but it would be cool to have them guys come
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on or me and do kind of a
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deer podcast talk to them and have them come here and
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talk about their shit to people that don't care about their shit
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yeah or even if like even if we
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went to them i mean a lot of the questions were for
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us because it was their podcast you know we still
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asked a couple of our questions but i feel like swinging that the
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other way would go just as well as it meant for them yeah yeah
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no it'd be fun and i'm we'll have a few topic or a few weeks this summer where
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we talk about some deer stuff like news about that stuff because he got it the
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first five a little bit there's not enough stuff that goes on with ducks i mean
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there's gonna be some in the coming year within the next 12 months there's gonna
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be a lot of big stuff come out oh i know it's juicy too.
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Like what fart juicy juice here you ever had that gum with a yellow bag,
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That's how we see a woman. Jason Root? Yes, that one.
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Couldn't think of a name. I don't know. I made the main part there.
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It's not really that hard of a name.
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I don't know. Neither is Cade, but I forget about you all the time. Oh, dog.
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It's all over his garage. Coonsies, stickers, everywhere. That's true.
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They'll shoot another acorn, gal.
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Hey, turkey season's coming out, boys. We're starting to get really rolling.
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We're going to see if I know chickens. Oh, yeah. Aren't you taking Nuki on a turkey hunt? Yep.
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Yep. We're going to try to get in with his first gobbler. Make sure you take
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his choke collar with him, because he's got a hand. I'm going to tell him that that hand is eagle.
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Oh, I'm going to... Oh, I'm going to... Oh, I'm going to... Oh,
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I'm going to... Oh, I'm going to... Oh, I'm going to... Oh, I'm going to...
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Oh, I'm going to... Oh, I'm going to... Surely he is. I doubt it.
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I'm busy doing work stuff. Will it be sort of fun? No. But yeah,
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back to like Delta and DU and all these guys.
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You know, if you're looking to support an organization that's going to have the best bank group up.
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As of right now, the way it sits is Delta in the state.
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As of right now, but I know we've talked about it in the past about ISC and
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us doing something with them.
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They're working on, and Zach can talk more about this, but they're working on
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getting some stuff going for Waterfowl to help out with the DNR and funding
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because we're, we're laughing 20 in the eye of it big time. And that goes for every state.
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But that's also because these big organizations don't keep money in states where
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they have these chapters.
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Delta's got some money producing chapters in here in Iowa.
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Oh, yeah. And very well, what is it? 20, let's say 25% or something like that.
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I'll say it's 30. I don't, I don't think it's 30. It could be.
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But either way it less less than it should be it's way less than it should be yeah now the ifc,
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is yeah it's four things part so all of their money for the most part yeah stays
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in iowa other than the part they have to pay to the whatever yeah as a we're
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a part of uh dallas morning club,
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so we do pay like your membership if you will but yeah 90 will be 95 of of what
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we make stays right here.
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So we get to delegate anywhere that things go. And that's where coming in,
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trying to be more involved with Delta, seeing where we can allocate some of
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those funds and all, you know, see what we can go about too.
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So I know Taylor, our president's been talking to Colin, I think, of Brecker.
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Yeah. Delta, I'll do some things. So, yeah, and obviously us helping out,
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trying to figure out what we can do around locally, around Red Rock and things like that.
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I'll go over with me now and get some funds. But I think, I do think it's something
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that we're able to tag team a couple projects that will make a difference on I mean, maybe not.
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I mean, $250,000 pumps, but, you know. $196,000.
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Oh, my bad. My bad. Oh, shit. Donate a month to your wages, and we can get there. Oh, damn.
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Yeah, you're going to need a lot more than that. A lot more pumps?
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You're going to need more than that?
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We're going to need like four pumps a year. Yeah, all of them.
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One month. No, but for real, though, I mean, that there's this a lot of states
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don't have that stuff where I grew up we started one and they did really well
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and they do really well for the area my biggest pet feed was a lot of these places is,
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They talk to the wrong people or they don't ask the right people what funds should go to.
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I'm not saying that us three in
25:43
this room know where every penny should go to and the best way to do it.
25:47
What I'm saying is too many people that think they know what they're talking
25:51
about will get involved.
25:52
And then money goes to shit that doesn't help out, period. Or it's not going to help the hunter out.
25:57
No, but it'll look good on your policy and what you've done for the state.
26:03
Yeah, exactly. And that's a big thing. Like, oh, I have this in my resume.
26:07
Like, I did this and this.
26:08
Like, what the fuck did it actually accomplish? Or who did it help? Right.
26:12
Damn, man. You're like a smallie daycare out here. Right, man. Yeah.
26:18
Right.
26:22
Tosted, Tosted.
26:24
But you really gotta, I mean, when you're looking at an organization to help
26:28
or to join or to help fund or get involved with,
26:32
it's hard to find one right now that is putting money into stuff that's actually
26:36
going to make a fucking difference for hunting here or the future.
26:40
The ones that aren't, even if you start with DU,
26:43
that's a great stepping stone because then you start learning other things a
26:46
long way and then you go, all right, well, maybe I'll still get my 15 bucks
26:50
here, whatever DU is, but now I'm going to go with our local Delta chapter or
26:53
ISC or whoever that may be.
26:57
So I've seen a real I'm going to call somebody out here. It's kind of funny.
27:02
Midway's Flyway's podcast. Everybody knows them. They're a good podcast to listen
27:05
to. They're great talkers and they have some great points.
27:08
But when they talked about Ducks London their $25 membership can make whatever,
27:16
say $25. I can't remember what he said to share word to word.
27:19
He's like, why would you do that? It's not one of those words.
27:23
That's not even how you host that place, but I mean, it's great thought.
27:27
Yeah. The theory is fantastic. And that's how Duxlander was started. Yep.
27:31
But they'll look at how they started versus what they do now.
27:34
I mean, I know of instances where Delta, or not Delta, DU selling wetlands and
27:39
areas back to Canadian farmers, they're just going to drain tiling. Yep.
27:43
I was like, Carl, we bought it, we did our write-off. Now, you can have that.
27:47
So how's that helping? Almost negative.
27:50
Then when they started, when they had negative help. But I mean,
27:54
it's a stepping stone, like you said.
27:56
It doesn't hurt. If you got, I mean, most of us, not everybody,
28:00
but a lot of us can work out $15 or $20 to be a member for a year and support
28:06
something that's in one way, shape, or form.
28:08
Maybe not for the way you want to, but it's going to help out in the long run a little bit.
28:14
But you get that magazine that starts talking about the wetland or, you know, flooded.
28:18
I don't know if I bring it up, but, you know, if they start talking about it
28:21
in that magazine and all of a sudden you're like, oh, now I'm doing some research
28:24
and see what we're doing locally. I didn't know what to do about that. Yada, yada, yada.
28:28
This opens up opportunities, too. Yeah, no, it does. I mean,
28:31
well, me and Kate aren't active Delta Thunderbird right now, but we will be.
28:35
You're short, mate. May 30th. Yeah, you will. That's one thing I was going to
28:39
bring up, too, is our local Delta banquet is having their banquet,
28:42
May 30th, here in Knoxville, Iowa.
28:45
It's called the Red Rock. The street chapter. Yep. Right in my backyard.
28:50
Literally. I can literally see where it's at right now. That's going to be so
28:54
great if we get panicked and just stumble right back over it. What do you mean, Tiff?
28:57
I don't drink very often. Wait.
29:01
It's supposed to be a cup of water in a few of the animals. He actually just
29:06
dumped out the bush, like restored water.
29:10
Everybody all five people in here know damn how did you like that it's a boy
29:17
thank god 100 that far along yeah can you not tell.
29:25
No, but banquet should be a pillar time. I mean, obviously, it's always hard
29:29
on my checkbook and my liver, but. I think there's tickets still available, right?
29:34
30, 33. So, yeah, if you're listening to this and you're looking for something
29:38
to do May 30th, reach out to Fulton, probably? Yeah.
29:44
Yeah, Fulton Bradley. Or you can reach out to any of us and we can point you in the direction.
29:48
Technically, I'm on the community, so if you want to get a hold of me, I don't want you down.
29:51
Yeah, do not do It's not much floating around, but between the ears,
29:56
you know, we've noticed.
29:57
Yeah, well, anyway, anyways, Colton Bradley or reach out to any one of us.
30:04
That goes for even Zach here too. He's going to be joining us more often here
30:07
as we go for the podcast, unfortunately.
30:10
But he brings a different element that he's somewhat fun.
30:13
I'm going to be twisting your arm back here. Oh, it hurts.
30:19
It hurts. It's not good. But no, we can get you in the direction if you're interested
30:23
in going to a banquet that we can. You might as well support a local chapter.
30:28
Yeah. I mean, we all know Colton and, you know, Pookie's on the committee for
30:36
there and you're on the committee for there.
30:38
We all kind of know each other. So we kind of, it helps, we can help point the
30:43
right direction for if we need some money and they can see what they can put.
30:46
I mean, it's a small chapter. They just started at what, two, three, three years ago?
30:51
So they don't have a lot of money to spend right now but it'll get bigger.
30:54
I will say as much as I hate to give them guy props Bradley took that chapter
30:58
last year and he doubled or doubled or two and a half times our income or profit off of our banquet.
31:06
You know, he's done some good work there and I think he's set to do even higher
31:10
this year if everything goes right you know, get some guys that want to come
31:13
out, support a good cause, spend some money I know we've got 17 guns in the
31:18
room that night That's it? You guys need to be better.
31:22
God damn, Lou. I was like, I bought a ticket. I bought one with every ticket purchase.
31:28
The chapter we're talking about here is the Red Rock, Peachtree chapter here.
31:33
Red Rock, Peachtree chapter, Delta, Waterfowl.
31:36
Is it Pella? I think that's technically there. Yeah, I think that's the home base.
31:40
Yeah, but obviously Red Rock, Knopfo and Pella touch each other. We're sworn enemies.
31:45
But Delta supports both. Yeah. Weird.
31:49
But no, that is May 30th. So if you're interested in going to that bank,
31:52
you're looking for something to do.
31:54
I know Cade's not racing that night, so they didn't go. So yeah, we slutter in.
31:58
A good time. I looked at the schedule. As soon as I talked about when the banquet
32:01
was, pulled the race schedule, and I said, Kate, do you want to go to this?
32:05
Good. Was it? Do you know that one's worse?
32:07
I know you're not busy. They do have a table open still, I believe.
32:12
Do they? Okay. Are you available?
32:15
We can find out, but at the meeting the other night, they still had...
32:19
They did. They wouldn't have Bradley just stuck.
32:22
But they might. What did you just say? Like 33 tickets left?
32:25
So Bradley says 33 seats left.
32:28
Wow. So, I know that in theory... They've added as many tables as they can add.
32:31
As big as they can go. We're up to 22 tables. This year, we sold 25.
32:36
Or, sorry, we sold 20. We sold 19 when we were there. Or, what's the meeting there, 19?
32:44
Just text us 22. Either way, he did send us a text Sunday last night at 6 p.m. 33 seats left.
32:53
Anyways, if you're for real interested in the table, just tell me and we'll
32:57
reach out to him. He responds real quick.
33:00
And we can get you once. Kind of surprised you're not watching this commenting right now.
33:05
Honestly, same. I don't know, he's been on here. You know what else he's been on here? Freaking fuck.
33:12
He's probably out just shifting gears. Like he just gave up on typing.
33:16
Probably. Yeah, he's like, fuck you up. Good.
33:23
My headphones, everything went silent for a second. Next thing you know,
33:26
start calling him. Instead of putting the phone on the mic.
33:31
Call Colton real quick. He said, this guy, Acts 1013 is out of e-mail.
33:36
So he said, call Colton. We'll do it live real quick for you here. Stick around.
33:42
Should we sit on the streamer or something? What are you doing?
33:48
Oh, sitting on a podcast and I've got you on the microphone.
33:52
How many tables do we have left for the banquet?
33:56
Four tables right now. Four tables left? There you go, Axe. He's got four tables left.
34:02
So give him a call. He said he'll call him. Yeah.
34:05
And if you need me to, I'll put Bradley's phone number on the Facebook Live.
34:09
Yeah. That'd be perfect. What, uh, want to give him a preview?
34:14
What do we got at that banquet? You want to hype it up a little bit?
34:16
No. No, save that. Hold on. We'll save that. We'll have him on.
34:20
Ask him if he's got time. We'll have him on.
34:21
Discuss that more coming up. There you go. You got time to the next,
34:24
before the banquet to discuss this? You got to talk about it a little bit?
34:28
It's actually a safe one, dude. Is that a safe one? He's jerking off.
34:35
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
34:38
All right. Well, there you heard it. Radley, you got to come on,
34:40
pipe it up a little bit. And if anybody's watching me, Radley's not ready to
34:43
hold me. Please don't be jerking off when you get on.
34:50
But yeah, no, we had, thanks. We had somebody asking, Colton, so here we call you.
34:57
Also, we have plenty of alcohol. If, if he, if we don't have plenty of alcohol,
35:01
I know we will look at the store right next door. There is.
35:05
Let's see. We'll see. All right. We'll be in touch. I'm getting you on, buddy. Later.
35:12
Well, there you have it. They never know if that golden session and all.
35:16
You know what? I can just hear. I can see his face.
35:21
It's what I want. It's what I want. I think it's time to work. Just been cranked.
35:28
Actually, is his girlfriend still in town? Oh, she might be.
35:31
She might be. Yeah, she was here last night.
35:33
Not cranky, though. So he might have started. He might have been.
35:36
She might have been doing it while we were on the phone I would have been yeah
35:41
there you go more of a time,
35:44
anyways so yeah definitely looking forward to that and you can imagine it's
35:48
going to be good to how he is there he is,
35:54
cool if anybody knows Colton Bradley he counted here and he's one of our good
35:59
buddies in the area and helps run the local Delta chapter he's good stuff it's
36:04
a blast to hang out with absolute riot so if you have nothing going on May 30th
36:08
it'll be it'll be a good time absolutely riot is spot on.
36:16
What do you say he suddenly needed an intermission,
36:20
I need you some Gatorade,
36:26
Oh.
36:28
Anyways, I think that about Desert Park, we got all that stuff.
36:33
The fork is too out of hand here. Sure, that will be even deeper when Bradley's on gear. Oh, yeah.
36:38
That'll be a hoot. Good.
36:41
Well, I think we'll move into the Iowa stuff. Yeah, absolutely.
36:44
I feel like you know a little more than each of us about it,
36:48
because you've been part of the ISC for years, and I kind of know some of it about it.
36:53
Like, a lot of people in Iowa don't. there's a lot of people that
36:55
don't don't know about it or don't understand what it is so
36:58
i will i was water and land legacy
37:01
program essentially and it's wild that it was created in 2010 i knew it had
37:06
been out a while i didn't know it was that long isn't that crazy it's seen week
37:09
26 now 16 come up on 16 years it's been approved and passed and i've only heard
37:15
about it past three years has been brought to you know our attention and my attention.
37:20
Yeah, essentially, you're supposed to take it with such a minimal amount of
37:23
the dollar. Like, some percent of a cent. It's on here.
37:28
Three-eighths of a cent. Yeah,
37:30
but that's three-eighths of a cent and you can't get this thing rolling.
37:33
Wait, how come this is sad? I mean, don't get me wrong. I hate taxes.
37:40
Taxes eat us all a lot. But if you're telling me, it's the same thing with hunting mice.
37:45
If you were to tell me to help out for waterfall hunting, we had to raise the migratory bird fee,
37:50
in iowa five bucks a license
37:53
okay i don't know 10 bucks 15 bucks i mean
37:56
literally raise it fucking 20 bucks nobody's gonna bitch about it because they know where
37:59
it's going i'm still gonna do it as long as we can see where that money
38:02
goes straight to helping right waterfall hunting because
38:04
it's on the migratory bird feed you could do that and i i don't know of really
38:09
many waterfellers i mean obviously it's gonna it's gonna affect some people
38:12
to a small small extent it's gonna affect the people that literally go duck
38:18
hunting one day yeah yep But people that do it every weekend,
38:23
the weekend warriors, as I like to call them.
38:25
They're talking about, I mean, I would.
38:28
I don't know anybody that has told me that they would buy one.
38:31
I don't think you'd see that percentage of people that wouldn't do it because of that region.
38:36
It's so miniscutely small and it's like, well, you're probably running for the
38:40
wrong reasons anyway, so that's fine.
38:42
Tell you right now even like when i'm too old the duck hunt i'll still
38:45
buy a license and a duck stand absolutely i've been
38:48
buying two duck stands oh one though originally because
38:51
we had to put it on a license oh so we did that i
38:54
would buy a second one just keep it at the house yeah i wish i'd
38:57
kept mine through the years there's a lot of stuff i wish i'd done through
38:59
the years like in like my grandpa used to do and his friends
39:02
and my guests and now look back up like oh we're gonna
39:05
quit like that stuff see like i've kept all my since we
39:08
started doing hard cards i kept all those with the same song and stuff like
39:11
that also didn't realize with when we started the
39:14
east dam that's a pretty cool thing that
39:17
they have started it's fantastic right but i
39:20
also didn't realize they'd send you a duck stamp at the end of season so you
39:23
went and bought one one that sent me on yeah no i didn't realize that even sir
39:30
i never got back you never got here no circles right back to i was obviously
39:35
willing to pitch 25 for another sticky piece of paper so up you know up the
39:39
license charge and I'm still going to do it.
39:41
You can call your boy DT. See if he can send you one.
39:44
I'm not going to go that way. I'll be able to text him right now.
39:47
Really not that way. I might have a spare action, which you're missing.
39:52
I don't know. But yeah, it's, you know, and it's wild that we can't take that
39:57
and tack it on to, even when you look at, you know, the deer hunters.
40:01
Hack on a dollar, two dollars, three dollars, whatever amount you decide,
40:06
onto whether it's your, because we have like their TIT program,
40:10
so you can donate $2 a TIT, or your Habitat fee that you buy,
40:14
you know, and there's $2.
40:15
Put your Habitat fee to $10, and then, you know, you've got a little room to
40:19
play with on a couple different areas.
40:21
Yeah, but like if you want to like, if you want to like pick on certain people,
40:24
like groups, like waterfowl hunters, deer hunters, that stuff,
40:28
like waterfowl and deer hunters are really easy to like raise the fee on something,
40:32
that would go straight to what they enjoy doing.
40:34
Yep. and that they can see an impact on where their money's going because like the migratory perk fee,
40:39
only for waterfront. Yep. And I think you have to have it for death hunting?
40:43
Yes. No. Sure. It's a water... Well, you have to... Sorry. Yeah,
40:47
I think you do. You do. I was thinking of just your endorsement.
40:50
But... When you say you're going to death hunt, that doesn't... Yeah.
40:53
But like you... And then like deer tags. You didn't raise the price of deer
40:56
tags. And that is strictly for...
40:59
So, I mean, there's different ways that you can do it. I mean,
41:01
obviously, there's a lot of ways you can do it, but I think that'd be the best
41:05
ways you can do it where you track where that extra money is going.
41:08
Yeah, I mean, it's general knowledge, right? You can look up how many public
41:11
licenses or bird fees were sold in the state of Iowa for what year,
41:16
take that dollar amount, obviously, try to go to that and go, okay, well,
41:20
obviously, we have some allocations for other stuff, but you should have the
41:22
bulk of this money going towards these projects or any project.
41:26
Again i will water quality soil improvement what fish and wildlife habitat and
41:33
then obviously public parks we see level courts all right ax here confidence that there was 28 000,
41:40
migratory bird fees sold last year and i believe out of those 28 000 i think
41:44
it was like roughly over 22 000 were residents and then the other whatever was
41:49
non-resident and and what's funny they should be even higher they're not i know
41:53
that's which is crazy to me that is great we're
41:56
I think we're one of the only few states that does it. Missouri does a cool thing, though.
41:59
If you go to Waterfall, Missouri, after December 10, your license is good for the whole next year.
42:05
That's kind of neat. Yeah. But I wanted to point that out there.
42:09
You just commented that it's a minimum.
42:11
That number's smaller than I thought it was. It is. And I remember I looked into it.
42:16
I found it when we were at the meeting last week or two weeks ago,
42:20
and it was less than what I thought it would have been.
42:23
But i i'd like to see what our updated numbers
42:26
are moving forward and kind of like what like i'd like
42:29
to see our past 10 years of numbers because i searched it but all i could find
42:32
was 24 couldn't find 25 obviously we just finished that and i couldn't find
42:36
previously i think 23 i've seen i'd like to see like if we go back 10 years
42:40
if we're improving like we're seeing more non-residents and residents pick up
42:44
the sport of waterfowl hunting or if we're seeing less,
42:47
everybody claims there's less you got to take a youth don't take a youth do
42:51
this get people into hunting which I get I'm all about taking people and getting them into hunting but.
42:57
It's either A, there's just that much less usable public area,
43:01
which is, that is a fact. There is way less area than there used to be.
43:05
Or also B, there's more waterfowl than there used to be.
43:09
I don't, I personally think there's more waterfowl than there used to be.
43:12
Growing up as a kid, I grew up with nobody that waterfowl hunted.
43:17
I think, you know, I remember COVID, right?
43:20
COVID happened and it seemed like I could like that at that's the point where
43:26
I quit on public and switched over to private because it's like a year of COVID
43:29
happened and and I don't know if it was just just happened to be a year just
43:33
or if that's the reason but it seemed like everybody had,
43:36
extra money you're not at work what are we gonna do oh let's go talk to them you know.
43:41
I would agree 100% on that. And even like on the deer side of things, I mean.
43:45
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was nothing else for people to do.
43:48
So they were like, fuck it. Like even the spring turkey numbers,
43:51
I got to turkey hunt for my first time that year.
43:53
And I was like, holy shit, is this always how it is? Like you couldn't go anywhere
43:58
on public without having somebody right up your ass. Oh, no.
44:01
You know, and is that new hunters or is that guys that got too busy with pork and life?
44:06
And you're like, oh shit, I don't got a time. I'm going to take this up again,
44:08
you know? Well, one thing that I've wanted to see happen on our state,
44:13
but we've talked about it a lot, is the harvest information for waterfowl.
44:17
We do not have any way to track harvest in Iowa, period.
44:22
I mean, you get your head, but you put down, I killed 10 more.
44:25
Yeah, it's a very small. It's a very small. Yeah.
44:27
I mean, I get it. It's Sumta. It's a baseline of Sumta, but for one.
44:32
It's a baseline, but that's how many people kill 11 and how many people kill 110.
44:38
Right. You know, it's like, that's such a wide range of... It is.
44:42
And it doesn't break down the species at all. I'd like to see a...
44:46
I'd like to see this Iowa program funded. Like, all that is requiring is the
44:50
government to implement the tax, is what I've been told.
44:53
Yep. All the governor has to do is whenever they bring out their new tax plan,
44:58
every year they do, or whatever, they just add that onto it.
45:02
But nobody wants to do it because it's more taxing. Right. Obviously,
45:05
we all bitch all the time about taxes.
45:08
We do, but I bitch about... road tax and syntax. Why don't you pick tax on books
45:12
like take that type of tax? Yeah, property tax.
45:17
Taxes on the money I make and the money I spend. Yep.
45:21
And if you drive a car, you get to do that every frickin year.
45:24
It was a little expensive. Yeah, it's terrible.
45:28
Trains aren't bad, but vehicles are terrible. I just got money in the middle
45:32
of the day. I was like, are you fucking serious?
45:35
At least they warned you it can double do. Yeah. You know it's coming.
45:41
Fight the pill of it, yeah.
45:46
But going back to the Iowa thing, I mean, it doesn't just all the water fowlers.
45:53
It helps everybody because it's also improving the water quality in Iowa.
45:56
The water quality, and then we just had the, the bill that got shut down not
46:01
that long ago was the buffer strips, right?
46:05
So it's a buffer strips so you can't plant all the way up against a rock source
46:10
or something like that you know it could be literally helping fun stuff like that where,
46:14
I don't think it's a secret with what's been sprayed on our crops and why Iowa
46:18
is a number one cancer you know rising state in the country dog they say that
46:22
doesn't hurt anything okay,
46:24
but if I work in cornfields every day and then when the crop duster sprays we'd
46:29
have to leave the area for 24 to 72 hours generally on anything they spread
46:32
like we can't go back to work Oh, yeah. We don't want to talk about wind drift.
46:35
And, you know, again, you know, it goes right back to soil quality,
46:40
which helps everything.
46:42
That helps your native grasses. So that's your upland birds.
46:45
It helps water quality. So there's all your fishing and your ducks, right?
46:49
Fishing is a big one. Fishing. Yeah.
46:52
I mean, how do you guys, I don't know how much fish you guys can get off time,
46:56
but you'll fish a farm pond that's been like stable for 15 years.
47:02
And I you know you get black specks on catfish and I've never done a DNA sample
47:07
on catfish so I can't tell you if it's true but I got told that was from you
47:11
know the runoff of some of these chemicals or certain things we're putting on
47:13
the ground I wouldn't doubt it oh it's that'd be terrible,
47:17
it's designed to kill everything around it so only that crop grows and you can't
47:21
tell me it's not affecting you know ducks in a cornfield or deer in a cornfield
47:25
or greenfield when they can take a seed put it in the ground don't say that
47:29
but a lot of these are going to get mad well.
47:31
But you can take the city to the top of it. Now you just opened up the plant gate.
47:35
And it can last for two months and still be a viable seed and kill everything
47:39
that touches it from bugs. Correct.
47:41
That's definitely affecting our wildlife.
47:44
I mean, I've read reports of it affecting the fertility of ducks.
47:49
Yeah. And going back to like the prairie potholes and that stuff.
47:54
I mean, droughts are killing us, but who's to say that's not a part of it?
47:58
And there are people that are bringing it up, which is not the right people yet. Yep.
48:02
And that's the other problem is, I don't know if you'll ever have the right
48:05
person to bring it up because with that, you're fighting a big red and black
48:08
logo company FB that has more money than anybody can to sell these things. Yeah.
48:17
No matter what you do, you're fighting a losing battle and this stuff.
48:21
But eventually, you can't go after him and go for the throat chop right away.
48:27
You got to go for the ankles and then the knees and shins or shins and then
48:31
knees. you know, whoever you're supposed to. Small size. Yeah.
48:34
Sacrifice in the ass. Get the boat. Whoa.
48:38
Damn, dude. Quit selling those videos. Is it going to help raise fun for I. Willard?
48:49
I'm out. Yeah, don't make sense. Yeah.
48:56
Good stuff. So we need to, somebody started my life from the stream,
48:59
guaranteed. Oh, you bet. Yeah. if this leads you to who's going to start one.
49:06
I can't get much that's the Delta with my $10.35 a month.
49:11
Where'd the 35 cents go from? Us, I don't know. Taxes.
49:17
And not upon I will.
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But I mean, I don't get, I don't get how that's been a thing for 15, 16 years now.
49:24
And it's just not even, I mean, you can't tell me you couldn't have like started
49:28
the funding, like raise it an eighth of a cent.
49:30
Oh, I know. And it's, it's why, like, again, it goes straight back to you not
49:36
getting in front of the right people and talking to the people,
49:39
the right people that can have an influence on those decisions.
49:41
Well, I think, well, I don't think a lot of the state, I don't think there's
49:44
enough of the state, just the residents that know about it, that enjoy the outdoors in general.
49:48
I'm not talking just waterfowl up here. I'm talking deer hunting, fishing.
49:52
And if you're into riding bikes and walking park trails, it goes to that too. Yeah.
49:56
I mean, it goes in so many different avenues. But I think I've seen,
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I'm talking to a buddy of mine, Craig Hoffman, about it after the meetings last week, week four.
50:07
And he said that if we initiated it, it would bring like roughly $400 million
50:12
a year in the first year to go towards everything. Like that's an absurd amount of money.
50:19
Yeah. And here we are talking about trying to fight and claw to get $200K to
50:24
replace some fucking pump. Yeah.
50:26
And we have $400 million sitting in reserves that we can tap into if we just raise the sales tax.
50:33
I mean, you'll see a little bit of an increase, but not nothing that they don't
50:38
employ and stuff that doesn't go anywhere anyway. It's just blinds and pockets.
50:41
So, I mean, if you're listening to this and you've never heard of iWill,
50:46
it is definitely something to look into and research because it took a while
50:50
to think that this was approved and passed the house and everything.
50:54
And then just stopped. Yeah.
50:57
It sits on the governor's desk that all this has got to be done is applied to the sales steps.
51:02
And for those that obviously are listening and don't know what I will is,
51:06
you're going to look at it, you're going to read it, and you're going to go,
51:08
oh yeah let me just do that.
51:11
Especially for the low-ass tax of the day. That's right. Yeah,
51:14
I mean, we pay more for stupid shit all the time.
51:16
And nobody raises a fucking eyebrow. Come on.
51:21
It's just wild. The day that we're in, you know, looking back at how this country started over tax.
51:29
And how much of a freaking, we threw tea into the ocean over a 2% tax.
51:35
And now we're just getting here.
51:37
We're getting railed every year.
51:40
Every fucking day. Yeah, what do you mean? You don't go to work every day?
51:44
And the only people protesting are not the ones that care about taxes.
51:48
And people that don't fucking work, usually.
51:51
They're the ones living off of the government. Tuesdays and Wednesdays off the
51:55
world and by your hair. Very.
51:58
I mean, don't get me wrong. There's
51:59
been things that people have protested about that have been for go.
52:04
Absolutely. But the things that we protest about nowadays and that we fight
52:07
over are fucking detarded.
52:08
But the wild thing is, if you look back at the protests that happened for things
52:12
that were for the good, they were not planned.
52:15
They were very, like, not planned out, very fordial.
52:20
Nobody was fucking lighting buildings on fire. Well, yeah. What?
52:24
You want to make that back then? Are you sure?
52:26
I'm not even saying back then, But like, all that shit gets kind of pushed off
52:34
the news scene nowadays. Yeah.
52:38
All about division. That's why everybody needs to be. Yep. E-H-E.
52:45
Say, I'll show you a cool podcast. Okay. It's a text on the Scott and say,
52:48
oh, gosh, it's interesting.
52:51
But no, I mean, they're just, it's wild to me. The things that we fought,
52:54
our ancestors fought, but we didn't play shit.
52:57
In our generation hasn't done a fucking thing. But you know what?
53:00
I'm going to give you a full circle a little bit.
53:02
Full circle. Talked about how DU started its basis, right? With the right...
53:08
No, I mean, I know where you're going with this. Yep.
53:10
The government's the same way. It is. Started out as a volunteer position.
53:13
Now, all of a sudden, you got Nancy Oldbag Pelosi in there and started trading
53:18
and worse how many million of the dollars.
53:20
That's all politicians. There's too much money in it. It wasn't made...
53:25
To be a politician wasn't supposed to be a career. No.
53:28
And that's what it is nowadays, and I think we're paying for it now.
53:34
Quite literally. We're literally going to be paying for it for the rest of our
53:37
lives. There's nothing we can do to stop it, but there's things we can do to help.
53:41
Eric Trump, if you're listening, help I will.
53:45
Help me, please. Doesn't have a fucking thing to do with that. It's how I want.
53:50
Well, I know. He has Iowa. I mean, to be honest, though, Kim Reynolds has been
53:54
a pretty decent governor for all around.
53:57
Like, decent governor. Like, I can't.
53:59
I've owned up here for eight, nine years now-ish. But to me,
54:03
she seemed like Iowa's on the bad spot.
54:06
No. And, you know, you got to give a lot of credit, too. I mean,
54:09
not just political-wise, but you got to give a lot of credit,
54:12
too, for RV and RV on the management, the way they have been to take those up
54:16
there and introduce the bills they need to introduce.
54:18
So, help keep it great. So yes, no, just when you look, let me rephrase that with a white tail.
54:24
When you look at other states, we can be really fucking bad for you.
54:27
Yeah. That's not what's not right. White tails.
54:29
I see. Yeah. And now we just, we need to broaden the focus to all of it.
54:34
Not just, I think our state's been, because anybody that lives in Iowa or hunts
54:39
Iowa or has hunted Iowa has always been told Iowa is a flyover state.
54:44
I, I personally think that Iowa could be way better than a flyover state if things were managed.
54:50
I mean, look how much areas we've lost. But you're close to every state.
54:53
I mean, we've lost a ton of areas, just like deer hunting has.
54:58
But there's ways we can improve it. And our first step would be to get Iowa
55:02
funded, and that would make, like, it would make our arguments way easier to
55:08
get that into some people's stands, right? Yeah.
55:11
Though, you know, right now, it's hard for us to go and ask for $200,000.
55:14
But like you said, if you have $4 million sitting there, like 400,
55:18
400 million sitting there.
55:19
Then all of a sudden they're like, oh yeah, yeah. We can do that, huh?
55:23
Or yeah, we can, we can make sure we do all that, Rocky.
55:27
Well, I mean, we got, we got a problem here in a local lake.
55:29
It's been here for over 50 years now, I believe. Nope.
55:33
And it's a federal lake, though. It's a poor engineer's lake.
55:36
But the siltation, I mean, it was built for flood control for the mall. Yeah.
55:41
And it will become a problem here, soon, if we don't do some kind of dredging project.
55:46
I've seen it at home when these lakes silt, which they're going to silt no matter
55:50
what. There's nothing you can do to prevent that.
55:51
But when they start silting out at the mouth, like that's where we hunt,
55:55
these mottal lakes. It's just where the best hunting is, generally,
55:57
which is where the marsh areas are.
55:59
When that stuff starts silting in and starts allowing water to back up in the
56:02
river faster, and there are floods quicker.
56:04
So then the whole reason the lake was built was null and void,
56:08
and then you're back to square one.
56:10
Yeah. Well, I mean, that's a huge fight. I mean, you're talking...
56:15
The 400 million scale thing that's not that big to talk like 2 million
56:18
and you can fix that problem help fix it
56:20
right it's not it's never there is no permanent fix that obviously
56:23
but no but it's all preventative preventative maintenance
56:26
yeah yeah and you know me and you had the argument last week
56:29
for whatever not argument but the discussion on recreational lake
56:33
and and flood control it absolutely was low for flood control but yep by the
56:38
lake being there it's turned into a recreational normal which all these lines
56:42
do yeah you know but i'm saying like so you're helping everybody because they're
56:47
continuing to boat in it and spend money in knoxville pella during the summertime so,
56:52
you know that's it's kind of a a good double-edged sword where you can argue
56:56
both sides like yeah it's good for that it's good for the hunters good for the
56:59
habitat but look it's also good for great people here that don't want to jam
57:02
their boats and other boats at rathbun or sailor you know Yeah,
57:07
well, and you get the man, that goes to the dredging project. Yep.
57:09
You get rid of some of that silk, you clean it up.
57:12
Gives you a recreational area bigger. Gives you more area for the boaters to
57:16
go and not get stuck. Like, one got stuck running. Like, how's it going to be? That's awesome.
57:21
Did you ever see that boat up there? No. Wait, wait, we hunted,
57:24
like, probably 300 yards from it, probably. If that, yeah.
57:27
And it was just opening day of duck season. What was that, like, three, four years ago?
57:31
It would have been, I think it's three years ago. No, it had to be longer than
57:35
that. Because I was in Texas.
57:36
And before pot it looks that long I don't know I haven't uh no it was the day
57:44
we shaker lower unit out I don't want to talk about that,
57:47
that wasn't that long ago that was three years ago I'm pretty sure it was three,
57:51
but we we set up and they got light on I'm like is there a fucking boat over
57:54
there they're like yeah he got stuck I'm like what,
57:57
dude got homie got stuck running from the cops was like a big boat yeah yeah it was a ski boat,
58:03
geez where did you think you were going guy He apparently didn't know.
58:08
From the police and going to jail for too many of these. Fuck it,
58:12
I'm going that way. Don't ever catch me here.
58:17
But I mean, if you have any questions or comments about this iWill program,
58:20
before we end this podcast, which we're coming up to pretty quick here,
58:24
definitely comment them and get those out there as we kind of wrap things up here tonight.
58:28
It's been a fucking blast tonight. I feel like we came into this not knowing
58:32
a whole lot about iWill, but I didn't know how long this was going to go.
58:36
And I was like, shit, we're going to have this podcast. Let's go.
58:38
Just rest us a little bit. But I feel like we had some good talking points here
58:41
tonight. I mean, really brought up some good things that people that may listen
58:45
to this podcast would be like, the fuck's that?
58:49
And that's the cool thing. Like, that's honestly one of the biggest things that
58:52
I've noticed about our podcast.
58:53
Like, we can have something that we think will go on for half an hour,
58:57
and somebody always brews up a new good idea of something to talk about.
59:03
That's, like, the coolest shit for them.
59:06
Do good at stretching the topic out and going into it actually though
59:08
like not just like yeah it's not in a bad way yeah but but then
59:11
even along the way we'll find all those little rabbit holes that we've been doing down
59:14
some good some part of
59:18
it you know yeah i mean i look forward to this podcast
59:21
because our numbers on this
59:24
podcast have gone down since hunting season but when you're
59:27
strictly like main focus is watercowl hunting
59:30
when you're doing a podcast like that your numbers are going to go down right
59:33
yeah in the middle of the year but as we get into things we get into some broader
59:38
topics like this and we talk about deer hunting and stuff like that we can really
59:41
brought our eyes with it and reach people that don't or not just reach people
59:45
but explain stuff to people.
59:49
Or you know turkey season deer season all of it will talk
59:51
about fishing in the summer and hopefully reaches people that are not focused
59:55
on that hunting but once they're like oh i'm not gonna of
59:58
list of that and you know we're doing deltas one four we're
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1:00:08
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1:00:11
dude this dude here he has worked with the dnr in
1:00:15
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1:00:17
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1:00:20
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1:00:23
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1:00:26
uh if you have any questions also usually bill's
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1:00:34
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1:00:37
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1:00:42
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1:00:45
yeah straight he's a straight up dude awesome dude.
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Bill we appreciate that by the way he said
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