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August 27, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 1: Check out the original DG Designs at David Gardner's Jewelers
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  Speaker 2: building just south of the bend on Texas Avenue in Bryan.
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  Speaker 3: You pay less, but you get much more.
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  Speaker 4: Great savings selection by Paymore.
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  Speaker 5: Shop at the Dollar Floor Store.
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  Speaker 6: I'm John Clark.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm Josh Eisenhower, Clark Eisenhower Real Estate Services.
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  Speaker 6: Josh and I and our seven associates have over 100
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  Speaker 6: years combined real estate experience in the Brazos Valley.
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  Speaker 8: We specialize in commercial, industrial, and land sales of all types.
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  Speaker 8: We also lease and manage retail, office, industrial, and warehouse
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  Speaker 8: properties throughout the Brazos Valley.
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  Speaker 6: And we are committed to professional service, honesty, and integrity.
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  Speaker 8: Call us at the office at 268-6840.
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  Speaker 6: Or find us online at ClarkEisenhower.com.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you wonder why I always dress in black. Why
• 1:14
  Speaker 9: you never see bright colors on my back. And why
• 1:20
  Speaker 9: does my appearance seem to have a somber tone?
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  Speaker 10: Well, there's a reason for the things.
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  Speaker 11: That I have on.
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  Speaker 4: I wear the black for.
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  Speaker 9: The poor and the beaten down. Hey, welcome back.
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  Speaker 4: Glad to have you with us.
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  Speaker 1: This portion of the program is brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: the Dollar Floor Store. It is the Clark Eisenhower Outdoor Edition,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to go out to the Polaris Fund
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  Speaker 1: Center phone line. Uh, we're going to visit with wildlife biologist,
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: Billy Lambert.
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  Speaker 4: We got him to stand. Billy, you with us?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, sir. Hey, did I get demoted? No, I used
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  Speaker 12: to be wildlife biologist extraordinaire.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man. You're still that.
• 2:17
  Speaker 12: Hello.
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  Speaker 4: You're still that. What are you with us? What happened?
• 2:23
  Speaker 4: What just happened? Did we lose him? No, he's still
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: on air. Hey, turn me on right there.
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  Speaker 12: Uh, Are you.
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  Speaker 4: With us, Billy? You're still there. Are you there?
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  Speaker 12: Are you with us? What happened? What just happened? Did
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  Speaker 12: we lose him? How about now? You got me now?
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  Speaker 4: I got you.
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  Speaker 12: Turn me on right there.
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  Speaker 4: Turn that on.
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  Speaker 12: How's this?
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  Speaker 13: You got me?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got you. I got you now.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I can't hardly hear you for some reason.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. We've got a wrong button pushed here somewhere, Billy.
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: Let me, we can hear you fine.
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  Speaker 12: Let me, I got you.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, is that any better? No, no better. It's just, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you're having a hard time hearing me.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I can just, I can just barely, it's really,
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  Speaker 12: really messed up. I just barely got you.
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  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 3:24
  Speaker 4: Let me, we're going to put you on hold and
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  Speaker 4: we're going to figure this out.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Let's do this.
• 3:31
  Speaker 6: Let's play.
• 3:33
  Speaker 4: Wow. Let's see.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: Let's play a spot and see if we can get
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  Speaker 1: Billy back on.
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  Speaker 14: Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: I'm John Clark.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm Josh Eisenhower, Clark Eisenhower Real Estate Services.
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  Speaker 6: Josh and I and our seven associates have over 100
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  Speaker 6: years of combined real estate experience in the Brazos Valley.
• 4:03
  Speaker 8: We specialize in commercial, industrial, and land sales of all types.
• 4:07
  Speaker 8: We also lease and manage retail, office, industrial, and warehouse
• 4:11
  Speaker 8: properties throughout the Brazos Valley.
• 4:13
  Speaker 6: And we are committed to professional service, honesty, and integrity.
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  Speaker 7: Call us at the office at 268-6840-4200.
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  Speaker 6: Or find us online at ClarkEisenhower.com.
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  Speaker 15: Nibbling on sponge cake Watching the sun bake All of
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  Speaker 15: those tourists covered with oil Strumming my six string On
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  Speaker 15: my front.
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  Speaker 4: Porch swing.
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  Speaker 5: Smell those shrimp, they're beginning.
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  Speaker 4: To boil.
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  Speaker 5: Wasting away again in margaritaville Searching for my lost sugar
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  Speaker 5: salt Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
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  Speaker 5: But I know.
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  Speaker 15: It's nobody's fault Don't know the reason I stayed here
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  Speaker 15: all season Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo.
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  Speaker 15: But it's a real beauty. Our Mexican cutie.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully, we're going to get this right. Let's go back
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  Speaker 4: to the phone line and see if we can get
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  Speaker 4: Billy on with us.
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  Speaker 14: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Billy, you got me?
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  Speaker 6: Best push.
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  Speaker 4: We're working on it.
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  Speaker 12: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 4: You got me?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a little better than it was.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, turn me up a little bit. How's that? Any better?
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  Speaker 12: I think we can make it work. It's still horrible,
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  Speaker 12: but I think I can understand you well enough.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll shout, and maybe we could get that done.
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  Speaker 4: It's gremlins in the phone line, Billy.
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  Speaker 12: I got you. I got you. I'm hearing you good enough,
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  Speaker 12: I think. I think we'll be okay.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Every time we visit, it's 100 outside because it's August.
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  Speaker 4: And we don't know what's coming.
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  Speaker 16: We know that we had a fairly good spring and
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  Speaker 16: then the spigots cut off at the end of June.
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  Speaker 16: How's that going to affect what we're going to see
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  Speaker 16: in this area for dove hunting on Tuesday, Billy?
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  Speaker 12: You know, it's hard to say. Most of the reports
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  Speaker 12: that we have, all the data that we have collected,
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  Speaker 12: is dove numbers are up again. And up pretty good again.
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  Speaker 12: So this is the third straight year, both in our area, statewide,
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  Speaker 12: South Texas, white wing numbers, morning dove numbers are all up.
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  Speaker 4: Is that because we had good rain in the spring?
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  Speaker 12: You know, potentially, probably. You know, it's hard to really
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  Speaker 12: nail it down because we've had other years where we've
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  Speaker 12: had good rain and we didn't see the sort of
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  Speaker 12: reproductive response that we got this year. So for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 12: we'll just be glad we got what we got. And,
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  Speaker 12: you know, like I say, it's going to be more doves.
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  Speaker 12: That's always a good thing. But you still have to
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  Speaker 12: be in the right spot. That's the tricky part with
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  Speaker 12: dove hunting is you've still got to be in the
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  Speaker 12: right area.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think you're in the right area, they
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  Speaker 1: can leave overnight, can they not?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, not so much early in the season, but later
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  Speaker 12: in the season, it's really weather dependent. As long as
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  Speaker 12: they're on a good food source, they're probably not going
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  Speaker 12: to leave it unless. You know, a big front comes
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  Speaker 12: by or a lot of rain or something like that.
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  Speaker 12: So if you're in an area, you know, around a crop,
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  Speaker 12: you know, something that's producing lots of seeds, it should
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  Speaker 12: hold up pretty good despite, you know, small weather changes.
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  Speaker 1: We were on a downward trend for dove, Billy, for
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  Speaker 1: quite a while for numbers, even though there were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's still tons of dove that come through this state.
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  Speaker 1: The graphs were a little bit problematic.
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  Speaker 4: And I... As you mentioned, this could be the third
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  Speaker 4: year in a row we're on a little upswing, right?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I know exactly. Like you say, for the last
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  Speaker 12: probably 30 years, we've been losing about a half a
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  Speaker 12: percent of doves per year. Looking at a trend graph line. Now,
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  Speaker 12: of course, individual years are going to be up and down,
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  Speaker 12: high or low. But this is three straight years that
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  Speaker 12: we're above the mean line, which is very good. So
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  Speaker 12: hopefully that's getting us back more in an upward trend
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  Speaker 12: and we see more doves. So, you know, most of
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  Speaker 12: the doves that are killed in the Central Flyway are
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  Speaker 12: killed in Texas. So the more doves that we can produce,
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  Speaker 12: the better.
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  Speaker 1: So is there an estimate of how many birds come
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  Speaker 1: through the state of Texas in a given year?
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  Speaker 12: You know, Chip, there is, but I'm not in a
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  Speaker 12: spot where I could give you that number.
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  Speaker 4: It's millions, right? I mean, we're talking millions.
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  Speaker 12: I want to say, don't hold me to this, but
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  Speaker 12: I want to say it's around 25 million that come through.
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  Speaker 4: Good gosh, then how come I have such a hard
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  Speaker 4: time getting my limits?
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  Speaker 12: See, you're not in the right spot.
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  Speaker 4: You got that right.
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  Speaker 12: You need to go 20 yards to your left.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Believe me, I've been on hunts like that, too.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't exactly the hot spot for dove in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Texas, is it?
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  Speaker 12: No, truly not, just because it's a lack of agriculture.
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  Speaker 12: There's not near as many crops and things like that
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  Speaker 12: being produced, not a lot of farming, tilling the ground,
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  Speaker 12: you know, which produces, not only does it produce a crop, obviously, but,
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  Speaker 12: you know, by that ground disturbance, you create a lot
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  Speaker 12: of plants, annual plants that produce lots of seeds. And,
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  Speaker 12: you know, to some degree, we have a lot of
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  Speaker 12: goat weed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: The difficulty with goat weed is, you know, the seeds
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  Speaker 12: aren't mature yet, and they're not going to be mature
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  Speaker 12: by the opener, so... You know, that's more of a
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  Speaker 12: late season, second season food source. Sunflowers are always good. So,
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  Speaker 12: you know, the food sources that we have are good
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  Speaker 12: for concentrating the birds that we have. But you're right.
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  Speaker 12: We're just not in an area that has enough agriculture
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  Speaker 12: to really hold and sustain a whole lot of birds.
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  Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on just overall agriculture? Because we've seen
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  Speaker 1: this with geese. Billy, you know, we used to drive
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  Speaker 1: down 290 and it was just wall to wall. And
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  Speaker 1: now all there are are apartment buildings, right, and office
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  Speaker 1: buildings and houses. And I get that part of it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of concerned with Dove and everything else in
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  Speaker 1: the state. We've seen it with Quail, too, have we not?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, well, quail is more of a habitat issue. It's
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  Speaker 12: not really so much of a food supply because we
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  Speaker 12: still have plenty of food for things like turkey and quail.
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  Speaker 12: The problem is nesting and brood-rearing habitat is what we're missing.
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  Speaker 12: Pretty much all the tame grasses, Bermuda grass, KR bluestem, buffalo,
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  Speaker 12: bahia grass, all of those sorts of plants have replaced
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  Speaker 12: the good native bunch grass habitat. that we need both
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  Speaker 12: for nesting habitat and then brood-rearing habitat. So food, with
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  Speaker 12: quail especially, food is not really the issue.
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  Speaker 4: So have you heard anything about the quail population?
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  Speaker 1: Because, again, I know, man, more than anything, it depends
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  Speaker 1: on getting rain at the right time for those little devils.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, it does. It does. And quail, it's always going
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  Speaker 12: to be a difficult proposition for quail because the entire population,
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  Speaker 12: their entire existence, is built on producing as many young
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  Speaker 12: as possible. So, you know, everything likes to eat baby quail.
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  Speaker 12: It's kind of like everything, anything from snakes to skunks
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  Speaker 12: to possums, you name it, everything likes eggs, and they
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  Speaker 12: like baby quail. So, you know, when the population gets
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  Speaker 12: as suppressed as what it is, even when you have
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  Speaker 12: a good reproduction year, you're still not really producing as
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  Speaker 12: many birds as you probably need to to help a
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  Speaker 12: population increase and grow. And that's the problem we have here,
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  Speaker 12: because there are You know, up around Corsicana in the
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  Speaker 12: post oak Savannah, there still are a few places that
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  Speaker 12: have quail, but getting those birds to expand, finding the
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  Speaker 12: right habitat, getting some good reproduction, all of that has
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  Speaker 12: to come into play at one time. And that's difficult
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  Speaker 12: to do, especially the habitat component part of it. Cause
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  Speaker 12: we just, it's really difficult to find large blocks of
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  Speaker 12: suitable habitat. There are lots of, You know, 10 acres here,
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  Speaker 12: 20 acres there that are great. You know, roadsides are good.
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  Speaker 12: Cemeteries are good. They have good habitat. But, you know,
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  Speaker 12: in the broad scheme of things, that's just a drop
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  Speaker 12: in the bucket as far as what the habitat needs are.
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  Speaker 12: Best guess right now is somewhere between 5,000 and 7,500
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  Speaker 12: acres is what it would take to sustain a breeding
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  Speaker 12: population of quails.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go back to the Dove, and they
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  Speaker 1: changed the season, Billy. Everybody's starting on Tuesday. What are
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts about that?
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  Speaker 12: You know, I think it's good. You know, the main
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  Speaker 12: reason we went to it is because the public wanted it. And,
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  Speaker 12: of course, any time you make changes like that, you know,
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  Speaker 12: half the people like it, half the people don't. So
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  Speaker 12: you get yelled at no matter what you do. I
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  Speaker 12: think overall it's a good thing. You know, getting rid
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  Speaker 12: of the– The white-wing days and just starting everybody from
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  Speaker 12: scratch on the first, I don't see it being a
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  Speaker 12: detriment to the population at all. It's just more of
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  Speaker 12: a hunter satisfaction and keeping hunters happy sort of thing.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: I really, truly, I think it's going to be a
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  Speaker 12: good thing. I haven't heard a whole lot of opposition
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  Speaker 12: to it. There are some, but I haven't heard a
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  Speaker 12: ton of opposition to it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my biggest issue with the changes they proposed,
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  Speaker 1: and they ended up not doing it, and I hope
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  Speaker 1: it's because they listened, is the second season.
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  Speaker 4: Because I love to hunt. in the south zone in
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  Speaker 4: the second season and i can do it i can
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  Speaker 4: do it without sweating you know what i'm saying right
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  Speaker 4: and i've had no exactly i've had some of my
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  Speaker 4: best dove hunts after the first of january in the
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  Speaker 4: in the south so oh i agree.
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  Speaker 12: With you 100 especially you know even up here where
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  Speaker 12: we are yeah if you can find fields where where
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  Speaker 12: the goat wheat has not been mowed You know, the
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  Speaker 12: late dove season is just phenomenal up here. And there's
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  Speaker 12: no pressure, Billy.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's hunting dove by that time. There's no pressure on them.
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  Speaker 12: No, no, there's really not. You know, it's more, it's more,
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  Speaker 12: everything's more related to deer hunting then. And of course
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  Speaker 12: you get into baiting issues, you know, hunting around feeders
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  Speaker 12: and that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 14: But.
• 15:29
  Speaker 12: You know, if you can find those concentrations of birds,
• 15:31
  Speaker 12: like you just said, you can get some really, really
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  Speaker 12: good dove hunts going in the second split. And it's cooler.
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  Speaker 12: It's more enjoyable. It's a lot more fun. And even
• 15:39
  Speaker 12: the first split, if you just hunt more towards the
• 15:41
  Speaker 12: back end, the reality is opening weekend in our part
• 15:46
  Speaker 12: of the world is not good. It's really hot. It's unpleasant.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: It's unpleasant.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, it's more of a social event and
• 15:55
  Speaker 12: things like that. But the actual hunting is better. The
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  Speaker 12: end of the first split and the second split.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no doubt about that. So let's go to deer.
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  Speaker 1: We're not that far away from bow season in October,
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  Speaker 1: the youth weekend at the end of October. What are
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: we looking at here in the Post Oak Savannah and
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  Speaker 1: around the Brazos Valley right now?
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  Speaker 12: You know, I probably shouldn't expect any major changes. Things
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  Speaker 12: are pretty much status quo, staying the same. Just as
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  Speaker 12: a general statement, a lot of what the deer herd
• 16:28
  Speaker 12: looks like depends on exactly where you're standing. But just
• 16:31
  Speaker 12: as a general point, our sex ratios are not good,
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  Speaker 12: so we've got lots of does out there. Our densities
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  Speaker 12: are pretty high, so it's not hard to find a deer.
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  Speaker 12: There's plenty of deer out there. And then the buck
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  Speaker 12: age structure is off a little bit. It's a little low.
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  Speaker 12: So most of our bucks tend to be yearlings, twos, three-year-olds,
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  Speaker 12: that sort of thing. But all of that can be
• 16:52
  Speaker 12: fixed if you get into an area where folks are
• 16:54
  Speaker 12: managing a little bit. Now, if you get into one
• 16:55
  Speaker 12: of those areas, the situation is entirely different and much better.
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  Speaker 1: I know we talk about this every year, but I
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: feel like maybe hunters have become more educated in terms
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: of allowing hunters deer to grow if they if they
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: if that's what they're trying to do oh i think i.
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  Speaker 12: Think you're 100 right you know from the buck aspect
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  Speaker 12: that that has improved drastically the problem that we're always
• 17:21
  Speaker 12: going to have is we just can't get people to
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  Speaker 12: shoot more does yes can't do it doesn't matter doesn't
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  Speaker 12: matter how long we open the season you know when
• 17:29
  Speaker 12: we increase the doe days it didn't change they'll harvest
• 17:31
  Speaker 12: a bit no kidding basically what it boils what it
• 17:34
  Speaker 12: boils down to is Once somebody shoots one or two
• 17:37
  Speaker 12: deer to put in their freezer, they're done. You just
• 17:39
  Speaker 12: can't get them to shoot more deer than that. So
• 17:42
  Speaker 12: that's the biggest difference between, like, our part of the
• 17:45
  Speaker 12: world and South Texas is they take management to a
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  Speaker 12: different level. They're a lot more serious about managing their
• 17:50
  Speaker 12: deer herd down there. And up here, you know, we
• 17:54
  Speaker 12: just can't get folks to shoot enough deer, which would
• 17:57
  Speaker 12: help both the density, you know, elevate nutrition. even up
• 18:01
  Speaker 12: your sex ratio to maximize your buck population. And then
• 18:04
  Speaker 12: if you just harvest the right bucks, you can increase
• 18:07
  Speaker 12: your eggs.
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  Speaker 1: I think that I have read that obviously we can shoot,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: and you mentioned the increased doe days, but do you
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: feel like for people who are concerned about managing property,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe they want to take does earlier because I know
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: everybody wants to get a buck, but would it help
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: to harvest does earlier than waiting toward the end of
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the season?
• 18:34
  Speaker 12: Oh, it is. A lot of folks make the incorrect assumption.
• 18:37
  Speaker 12: A lot of folks will say, well, I don't want
• 18:38
  Speaker 12: to shoot a doe because they're going to bring in
• 18:41
  Speaker 12: the bucks, and that's 100% opposite in our part of
• 18:44
  Speaker 12: the world. In our part of the world, the sex
• 18:46
  Speaker 12: ratio is so bad. The bucks don't have to look
• 18:49
  Speaker 12: for does. They don't have to compete for does. They
• 18:51
  Speaker 12: don't have to fight for does. Just around every tree
• 18:54
  Speaker 12: is another does. So actually, the way to increase buck
• 18:59
  Speaker 12: activity is to harvest some of these does, especially before
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: the rut. Yes. So they have to look more. And
• 19:06
  Speaker 12: anybody that's ever hunted a property that has a really
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: tight sex ratio sees that. Bucks are just bouncing off
• 19:13
  Speaker 12: the walls when the rut's going on because they're trying
• 19:15
  Speaker 12: to find those limited breeding opportunities. But when you have
• 19:19
  Speaker 12: three or four does per buck, you don't see that
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: at all. You don't see buck activity. So bucks just
• 19:25
  Speaker 12: lay up with their doe, and then when he's through
• 19:28
  Speaker 12: with that doe, he goes finds another one and lays
• 19:30
  Speaker 12: up with her, and you just don't have to move
• 19:32
  Speaker 12: around all that much. So from a nutritional standpoint and
• 19:36
  Speaker 12: from a buck hunting standpoint, the earlier you can shoot
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: the does, the better. Plus, right now when they're on
• 19:41
  Speaker 12: a food pattern, it's a lot easier to find them
• 19:44
  Speaker 12: once the rut gets going. And everybody that hunts deer
• 19:47
  Speaker 12: in this part of the world knows it. Once you
• 19:48
  Speaker 12: get into the season, those get home to the pond.
• 19:52
  Speaker 12: So way to your advantage to shoot them early if
• 19:55
  Speaker 12: you can.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: The rut around here, I guess you could start even
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: east of us and just kind of guess, but it's different.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, the rut here in the Brazos Valley is
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: going to be earlier I think, than the rut in
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the hill country, is it not?
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: You know, it's not so much that it's earlier, it's
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: that it's longer. We have, out of all the regions
• 20:21
  Speaker 12: in Texas, the post-Oak Savannah has the widest breeding season
• 20:25
  Speaker 12: and fawning season. Really? That's directly because of how bad
• 20:30
  Speaker 12: the sex ratio is. We have the worst sex ratio
• 20:32
  Speaker 12: in the state. So what happens... is a buck can
• 20:36
  Speaker 12: breed a lot of does. The problem is he can't
• 20:39
  Speaker 12: do it in the time that's allotted because he just
• 20:42
  Speaker 12: can't run up and breed a doe. You know, there's
• 20:44
  Speaker 12: a whole tending thing that goes on. So if he
• 20:47
  Speaker 12: comes across a hot doe, he's got to spend a
• 20:49
  Speaker 12: day or two with her. And then what happens is
• 20:52
  Speaker 12: there's so many does and so few bucks, some of
• 20:55
  Speaker 12: those does don't get bred their first estrus and they'll
• 20:57
  Speaker 12: go into their second estrus. And then by the end,
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: a lot of our bucks are dead, you know, because
• 21:02
  Speaker 12: of the hunting season. Yes. So now some of those
• 21:04
  Speaker 12: does will even go into their third, maybe even their
• 21:07
  Speaker 12: fourth ester. Wow. Now gestation on a doe, on a fawn,
• 21:11
  Speaker 12: is a little over 200 days. It doesn't matter when
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: the doe is bred.
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: Yes, yes.
• 21:15
  Speaker 12: So now you've got fawns. I've seen wet fawns as
• 21:19
  Speaker 12: early as April, and I've seen wet fawns as late
• 21:22
  Speaker 12: as October.
• 21:23
  Speaker 14: Wow.
• 21:24
  Speaker 12: And that's a horribly long breeding season. What you want
• 21:27
  Speaker 12: is you want a really tight, concise breeding season when
• 21:29
  Speaker 12: all the fawns are born early in the spring. You know,
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: when everything's flush and green, there's good nutrition for the
• 21:35
  Speaker 12: dough and the pot, depending upon the cup. You know,
• 21:39
  Speaker 12: farms that are hitting the ground now, you know, this
• 21:41
  Speaker 12: late in the year, they have very little chance of
• 21:45
  Speaker 12: being in a population.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: How much does the weather and the temperature play a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: factor in rutting season?
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Or is it more just by the calendar date?
• 21:58
  Speaker 12: Yeah, no, it's more of a calendar day. You know,
• 21:59
  Speaker 12: all that's controlled by photo period, which is day length.
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: So the doe and the buck, you know, for buck
• 22:05
  Speaker 12: it's testosterone, for doe it's estrogen, of course, and it
• 22:08
  Speaker 12: controls the whole antler cycle and the breeding cycle. So,
• 22:11
  Speaker 12: you know, what you will see is you will see
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: weather maybe increase deer activity, but the rut goes on dark,
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: so you're seeing it, if that makes any sense. Because
• 22:23
  Speaker 12: it's controlled by photo period. So whether it's hot or
• 22:25
  Speaker 12: cold on November 12th, that doe is going to come
• 22:28
  Speaker 12: into estrus. And, you know, if it's cool and sunny,
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: you know, bucks might be out chasing her. But if
• 22:35
  Speaker 12: it's windy, cold, too hot, that sort of thing, you know,
• 22:39
  Speaker 12: he's probably going to, they're still going to be, your
• 22:41
  Speaker 12: breeding just reduced activity so you don't see as much activity.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Any guess on horn development?
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Is it going to be about average this year around here,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: do you think?
• 22:53
  Speaker 12: Yeah, no, I'd say average. If you had to put
• 22:55
  Speaker 12: a number on it, maybe slightly below because the best months,
• 22:59
  Speaker 12: the most important months for antler growth is going to be,
• 23:02
  Speaker 12: you know, probably March, you know, late February, March and April.
• 23:06
  Speaker 12: We still weren't doing good with rain at that point.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Right. We were dry. We were dry. You're right.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: You're right.
• 23:11
  Speaker 12: Rain everywhere.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: You're right.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, we'll take rain anytime we get it, obviously,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: but it needs to be at the right time for
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: some of these animals.
• 23:22
  Speaker 17: Does it not?
• 23:23
  Speaker 12: Yeah, no, exactly. And, you know, even though that sounds bad,
• 23:26
  Speaker 12: like we didn't get the rain early in the season,
• 23:28
  Speaker 12: they're still going to grow antlers. And, you know, it's
• 23:29
  Speaker 12: probably going to be an average-looking season. And in an
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: average season, you know, the deer that have some age
• 23:36
  Speaker 12: on them are going to produce good antlers. They're going
• 23:37
  Speaker 12: to do it. They might not be as big as
• 23:39
  Speaker 12: they would have been if the weather had cooperated. But,
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: you know, if you can find truly mature deer, which
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: are rare in our part of the world, you know,
• 23:47
  Speaker 12: they're going to have some decent antlers on their head.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: We're talking age, nutrition, and genetics. Isn't that the three factors?
• 23:54
  Speaker 12: Yep, that's the three stools. That's the three-legged stool that
• 23:57
  Speaker 12: you talk about in deer management.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: And one of the things that I've learned that I
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: never thought possible, Billy, even around here, for people who
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: have land and maybe their neighbors as well, it is
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: possible to grow big bucks in this part of the country,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: is it not?
• 24:18
  Speaker 12: Oh, without question. You know, I score deer up into
• 24:20
  Speaker 12: the 200. It happens. It's just rare. A lot of
• 24:24
  Speaker 12: things need to come together. You know, you need, you know,
• 24:28
  Speaker 12: just as many bucks as possible reaching a mature age class.
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: Because if you take, like, a six-year-old deer, you care
• 24:34
  Speaker 12: nothing about getting a deer to six because he might
• 24:37
  Speaker 12: not be a very good deer.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:38
  Speaker 12: You need to get several deer to six so that
• 24:42
  Speaker 12: some of those, the top, you know, 15% are going
• 24:45
  Speaker 12: to be really big deer. So that's the problem we have.
• 24:48
  Speaker 12: We have enough trouble trying to get deer to four,
• 24:50
  Speaker 12: and we know antler size isn't maximized until at least six,
• 24:54
  Speaker 12: maybe seven years of age. No, you really can't blame people,
• 25:00
  Speaker 12: because if you get a deer up to three or four,
• 25:02
  Speaker 12: and it's the biggest deer they've ever seen, you know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: it's hard to blame somebody for shooting it. But that
• 25:08
  Speaker 12: is ultimately what's keeping us from producing more big deer
• 25:12
  Speaker 12: than what we're growing now. But we do. Every now
• 25:14
  Speaker 12: and then some sneak through, and we grow some really
• 25:17
  Speaker 12: big deer. There was a 220 over in Madison County
• 25:19
  Speaker 12: a few years ago.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, good gosh.
• 25:22
  Speaker 12: I've scored them up in the 180s, 190s in Brazos County. So,
• 25:27
  Speaker 12: you know, that pretty much happens in areas where people
• 25:30
  Speaker 12: are good about, you know, maybe not necessarily getting them
• 25:34
  Speaker 12: to six years old, but getting them at least to
• 25:36
  Speaker 12: four and five years old.
• 25:38
  Speaker 14: Yes, yes.
• 25:39
  Speaker 12: And, you know, it's hard to do, but if you
• 25:41
  Speaker 12: can do it, if you can show that much restraint...
• 25:44
  Speaker 12: you'll get some pretty good rewards out of it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Where are you going to be Tuesday, Billy?
• 25:50
  Speaker 12: In my office. I haven't found a big enough concentration
• 25:56
  Speaker 12: of birds to really pique my interest yet. Like you say,
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: it's going to be hot.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: It is going to be hot.
• 26:02
  Speaker 12: It does look like it's going to be less than
• 26:04
  Speaker 12: 100 now, but still, it's going to be hot. There's
• 26:06
  Speaker 12: not going to be many birds. The folks that are
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: hunting close to town, they're going to get into some birds.
• 26:11
  Speaker 12: They're going to do some good in You know, there
• 26:14
  Speaker 12: might be some ag fields that are holding lots of birds.
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: So I really, truly, I hope folks do well. But
• 26:19
  Speaker 12: you really and truly got to be in the right
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: spot to do some good.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: On that note, we're going to let him go. He
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: is the wildlife biologist extraordinaire. Billy, I always appreciate the time.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: We'll talk soon.
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: All righty, Chip.
• 26:36
  Speaker 12: You take care.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Yep, that's Billy Lambert. And that will give you a
• 26:42
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• 26:48
  Speaker 1: maybe that's a key for me as well. You know,
• 26:53
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. A Massachusetts charter fishing crew may have reeled
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: in a piece of East Coast history after landing a 1,260-pound
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: blue marlin.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: The largest ever brought ashore on the U.S. East Coast.
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  Speaker 4: Over 11 feet long.
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  Speaker 1: This was last week, 100 miles off of Cape Cod
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: by Charter Captain Damon Sacco and his client Walter Chapman.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: According to the IGFA, the Marlin was 142 pounds short
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: of the all-tackle world record, which was set off the
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: coast of Brazil in 1992. Routine offshore trip turned into
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: a three-hour battle. Sacco said he thought the fin cutting
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: through the water was a shark. He said, I got
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: a better look at it and thought, dang, that's pointed.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: That's too big for a marlin, though. The fish was
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: hooked in the Atlantis Canyon on the edge of the
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: continental shelf where blue marlin will migrate during warmer months.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: But.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: In New England, the region's waters are only warm enough
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: to attract blue marlin for a brief period. Walt Golett,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: director of University of Maine's Pelagic Fisheries Lab, said researchers
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: expect to study the fish's head to determine its age,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: estimating it's somewhere between.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: 25 and 30 years old.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: The billfish punched holes in the back of the boat.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Sacco described it as war marks.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: After returning to Falmouth, the crew was met by a
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: big crowd because word had gotten out. Katie Curran, who
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: watched the weigh-in, said people fished their entire lives and
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: never come close to catching a fish like that. Chapman
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: later shared the meet with about a dozen people. Joked
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: that some of it may eventually end up in fish
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: chowder because, as he said, I wasn't going to eat
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: a 1,200-pound fish all by myself. Now, I don't know
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the full story. I don't know why this fish was
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: not released and was brought to scale.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Could have been.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: They thought a world record could have happened, and, you know,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: that was close.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: A 1260 pound marlin. Sometimes. This fight. They said was
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: three hours. The fish will.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Fight till it dies. And releasing it. Doesn't accomplish anything.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Or if it's too tired. It will be eaten like.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: By sharks.
• 35:06
  Speaker 12: Um.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: So that is a big fish.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a driver spotted a 10-foot
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: python in a South Carolina neighborhood Monday night. Tracy Stout
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: said she was driving home around 9 o'clock when she
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: saw something in the road.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: When I saw it, I was like, was that a snake?
• 35:34
  Speaker 12: Snake?
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: But I've seen plenty of snakes, but nothing like that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: So I U-turned because it was big.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: It was huge.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Stout didn't know if it was a pet. She called
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a snake wrangler. I would not have done that.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: When I looked at him, it was like, that's a python.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: So I didn't call the police, but I didn't want
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: anything to happen to him. Again, this snake is very
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: lucky it wasn't me. I figured he was somebody's pet.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I called a snake chaser. She was instructed to stay
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: with the snake until help arrived.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. He said two of his workers, the.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Snake was really open, no, really mellow up until that
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: point until they wanted to grab him. Handlers secured the
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: snake in a bucket.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: I hope it's a big bucket.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: The lead technician says, yeah, it was pretty big for
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: this area. We've had several calls about pythons and boas,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: but nothing that big. Sergeant says pythons can't survive winters
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: in that area.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: They can't do it here.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: They already proved that they would die over the winter,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: so we don't have to worry about them because becoming invasive.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: But it's still not good to be dumping animals out.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: And of course... This woman felt bad for the snake.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Pythons, of course, not native to South Carolina or any
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: wells in the United States. And state law makes it
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: illegal to release any non-native species. Of course, that hasn't
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: stopped people in Florida. Sargent says the owner of the
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: snake has not been found. But we'll be taken care of. Again,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I would volunteer to take care of that. I give
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• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Results are in from Florida's annual Python Challenge. And one
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  Speaker 1: hunter put together a performance like anything ever before. Held
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: July 10th through the 19th, a 10-day event. drew more
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  Speaker 1: than 900 participants from across the U.S. and beyond to
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  Speaker 1: get as many pythons as possible. Veteran python hunter Tom
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  Speaker 1: Rahill captured 96 pythons, a new single competitor record that
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  Speaker 1: accounted for more than a third of the 280 that
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  Speaker 1: were removed during this year's challenge. And he caught them
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  Speaker 1: all in one day. He outscored the next contestant by 60.
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  Speaker 1: He attributed his success to copious amounts of planning and his, quote,
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  Speaker 1: granny bike. Because of a bad back and recent hip replacement,
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  Speaker 1: the 69-year-old Floridian used an e-bike to get away from
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  Speaker 1: the crowds and target lesser-known areas.
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  Speaker 4: That gamble paid off.
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  Speaker 1: Rahel and his partner came across a 17-foot female, scanned
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  Speaker 1: the area for her nest, and found 98 eggs, only
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  Speaker 1: two of which had not hatched. Rules say only live
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  Speaker 1: pythons count for the total. That one was enough to
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  Speaker 1: win the challenge. See, this is the problem, people.
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  Speaker 4: You have one snake and 98 eggs.
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  Speaker 1: Eggs this was started in 2013 the floor Python Challenge,
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  Speaker 1: hosted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Participants
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  Speaker 1: compete to remove pythons from South Florida for a chance
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  Speaker 1: to win cash prizes. There's a novice, professional, or military division.
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  Speaker 1: Cash prizes are awarded across all three divisions, including $ 10, 000
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  Speaker 1: for the professional division winner. The competition exists. Well, we
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  Speaker 1: know why it exists. These things have invaded the Everglades.
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  Speaker 1: And it has been brutal. Estimates are tens of thousands
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  Speaker 1: of pythons in the Everglades.
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  Speaker 4: They love South Florida because of the climate.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have any natural enemies, as we've talked about.
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  Speaker 1: They consume dozens of different species, rabbits, raccoons, possums, birds, deer, bobcats,
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  Speaker 1: even alligators. Researchers have linked the spread to dramatic declines
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  Speaker 1: in native mammal populations throughout the Everglades.
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  Speaker 4: Removing 280 of them, a drop in the bucket.
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  Speaker 1: Contractors work for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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  Speaker 4: They've removed more than 19,000 of them since 2017. Again,
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  Speaker 4: drop in the bucket. 19,000 since 2017.
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  Speaker 1: My Richardson high math tells me that's less than 2,000
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  Speaker 1: a year. Hunters, outdoorsmen, military, wildlife enthusiasts from across the
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  Speaker 1: country take part in the competition, not me. They don't
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: let you use a gun. You have to capture these things.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have to capture them alive, and then they, quote,
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  Speaker 1: humanely put them to death.
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  Speaker 4: That's stupid. Stupid.
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  Speaker 6: Stupid.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there are lots of snakes left in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: A North Carolina triathlon coach used his head and his
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  Speaker 1: I put my hand on the snout, reached up and
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  Speaker 1: pushed my thumb into his eyeball and he released. He
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  Speaker 4: The attack happened between 10 and 10.30.
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  Speaker 1: In the morning. Bruni is a former resident of Augusta,
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  Speaker 1: said he was about 60 yards offshore when the alligator
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  Speaker 1: struck his right side and bit his triceps and upper arm. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere, it hit me, he told the TV station.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty big impact on my right side. I
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  Speaker 1: felt as if my elbow had made a hard impact,
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  Speaker 1: maybe like diving on a gym basketball court. Swam toward
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  Speaker 1: a nearby homeowner's dock, yelling for his athletes to get
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  Speaker 1: out of the water. Bruni was in shock and bleeding
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  Speaker 1: heavily from a deep gash that required quite a few stitches.
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  Speaker 1: Triathlete Matthew Davis, a wilderness first responder, was swimming behind him,
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  Speaker 1: ripped the cord off his swim buoy, used it as
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  Speaker 1: a tourniquet. I told him it's going to hurt. I
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  Speaker 1: squeezed as hard as I could, and I watched the
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: bleeding stop. Brittany was transported by private vehicle to an
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  Speaker 1: area hospital. Doctors told him the bite mainly damaged skin
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  Speaker 1: and fat rather than the muscle. He says it could
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: have been a lot worse. I guess I won the
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: alligator lottery. He's got to remain out of the water
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  Speaker 1: for up to four weeks, but says he will compete
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  Speaker 1: on September 27th.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how many times I have to say it.
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  Speaker 1: Get them before they get you.
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  Speaker 4: There's too many alligators in this country. I will say
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  Speaker 4: that again.
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  Speaker 1: The Florida sighting was dramatic because of how close a
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  Speaker 1: huge hammerhead shark appeared to the shore.
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  Speaker 4: A giant hammerhead.
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  Speaker 1: And Florida's Shallow waters created a major spectacle, spotted just
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  Speaker 1: yards from the beach. Reported the sighting in a image
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  Speaker 1: for anyone at the shoreline because it was so close.
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  Speaker 1: It's a reminder that the near shore zone belongs to
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  Speaker 1: wildlife as well as swimmers.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, Great Hammerhead's
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  Speaker 1: Can reach a maximum of 18 to 20 feet.
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  Speaker 12: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: You can go online and see this. It's. It's just
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: a big shark. A big dang shark. So let's. Let's
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: be careful. Out there. Can we? And then there's this.
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  Speaker 4: In California of course. Sugar.
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  Speaker 3: Sugar.
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  Speaker 1: Has apparently decided that one mailman beat down is no
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  Speaker 1: reason to cancel the rest of his day. The beloved,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who wrote this story, beloved white peacock
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  Speaker 1: is recovering after an encounter with a postman. The Pasadena
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  Speaker 1: Humane Society says the bird is back on his feet, eating, drinking,
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  Speaker 1: carrying on like the king of the neighborhood. Don't say
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  Speaker 1: anything about the postman yet because, again.
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  Speaker 4: This is California.
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  Speaker 1: All animals, including peafowl, are much more important than people
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  Speaker 1: in California. Sugar continues to recover and is doing well.
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  Speaker 1: We know many people in the community are concerned about him.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking about Peacock people.
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  Speaker 1: The bizarre confrontation that happened last week was caught on
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  Speaker 1: a resident's home security camera. appears to show a USPS
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  Speaker 1: worker hitting Sugar with a rock at least twice before
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  Speaker 1: grabbing what looked like a stick and taking some swings.
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  Speaker 1: Sugar appears to flee as the worker chasing after him.
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  Speaker 1: Sugar is seen flopping on the ground. Investigators are trying
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  Speaker 1: to piece together what happened. I'm afraid this postman is
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: probably going to get the death penalty. Again, it's California.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: They don't believe in the death penalty. But if you
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: kill an animal, you can kill a person and not
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: go to jail. You kill a peafowl, you're in deep trouble.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Some sad and angry news about our neighborhood white peacock,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Facebook report says. Our mailman threw a rock and hit
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  Speaker 1: it with a stick. My kids love seeing this peacock.
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  Speaker 1: He's not vicious. I'm sure he was trying to protect himself. Again,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: it's all the mailman's fault. All the mailman's fault. If
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: you're in California, you better not touch an animal. You
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: better just let it kill you. You'll be better off. Thankfully,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: says the article, sugar appears to have avoided any broken bones.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: The bird has been mobile and responsive and is eating
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: and drinking normally.
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank God. What would have happened?
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Pasadena's Humane Animal Control Division is seeking additional footage.
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  Speaker 4: And the U.S.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Postal Service is conducting its own investigations. Investigators say they
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: know who the mailman is. They say they can't give
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: all the details. The animal control investigation remains open.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, good gosh. Just be glad you don't live in California.
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