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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Fifty One The Snakes Aren't Hiding · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: the exploration. Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Four Stories.
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  Speaker 2: A series of short-winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping
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  Speaker 2: trees stuck feet first in Georgia clay right here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a huge part of my daily journey for
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  Speaker 2: over 33 years. I am the poet in the forest,
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  Speaker 2: a children's series written and recorded in the 1990s. It's
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  Speaker 2: grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world,
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  Speaker 2: and none of it would be possible without this forest
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  Speaker 2: right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. At the base
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  Speaker 2: of Heartbreak Hill sits a sign that reads, Rainbow Forest. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations.
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  Speaker 2: Long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized
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  Speaker 2: around this beautiful lake, slow-moving stream, flatland swamps, and array
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  Speaker 2: of natural animals, there were families and business owners who
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  Speaker 2: are said to have raced into this area for the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and wild grapevines.
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  Speaker 2: Those before me either forgot to write about it or
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  Speaker 2: it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the forest. My God, there are so
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  Speaker 3: many dead snakes on this path. It's the changing of
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  Speaker 3: the season. The temperatures at night are getting below 70 degrees.
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  Speaker 3: The snakes have to keep warm. All reptiles have to
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  Speaker 3: keep warm. But I'm not seeing dead turtles. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: seeing dead lizards. I'm seeing a lot of dead snakes.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what's really interesting about this? And this
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  Speaker 3: might be the inner Montanan coming out in me. Because
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  Speaker 3: when we would go fishing up there at Lake Gertrude,
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  Speaker 3: up there on the Timberline part of the world, up
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  Speaker 3: by Red Lodge, Montana, is that you'd go to Gertrude
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  Speaker 3: and the fish had humongous heads, but their bodies were small.
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  Speaker 3: And for some reason, I'm getting this vibration here because
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  Speaker 3: these snakes that I'm seeing on this path, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's up to like seven now. seven of these, these
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  Speaker 3: copperhead snakes. And, and the thing is, is that I
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  Speaker 3: don't see anybody finding them in their yards, killing them
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  Speaker 3: and bringing them out here. And the reason why I
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  Speaker 3: say that is because these snakes on this path have heads.
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  Speaker 3: They're not cutting them off. They're coming out here for
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  Speaker 3: warmth and then they're getting their butts run over early
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  Speaker 3: in the morning or late, late, late at night. Um,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not even seeing the birds of prey, the hawks
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  Speaker 3: or the owls coming by and saying, Hey, look, I
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  Speaker 3: need myself some frog legs here. That snake is a
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  Speaker 3: little bit too skinny for my appetite.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. But it's just very interesting to see
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  Speaker 3: so many in my multiple years of being in this forest,
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  Speaker 3: over three decades, seeing so many snakes this time of
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  Speaker 3: year on this path. And what they're doing, once again,
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  Speaker 3: they're coming out here, obviously, for the warmth of it.
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  Speaker 3: And for the human being, we're still going, it's still hot.
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  Speaker 3: We're still living in a drought. What is the snake doing?
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  Speaker 3: actually signaling to the rest of us. If it is
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  Speaker 3: leaving its warm, heavily protected areas of growth to come
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  Speaker 3: out here into this plain area where the human is walking,
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  Speaker 3: why are they sacrificing their life? And it all points to,
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  Speaker 3: because they're trying to survive, they're not ready to go
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  Speaker 3: beneath the surface of the planet, or their parents are gone,
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  Speaker 3: and they forgot to show them There's the indoor to
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  Speaker 3: the underground world. Ooh, now we're playing Stranger Things. Where's
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  Speaker 3: me some Millie Bobby Brown? But really, that's something to
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  Speaker 3: think about. When you start seeing the carcass of a
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  Speaker 3: lot of dead animals in the areas that you are
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  Speaker 3: walking or playing, take a deeper look into what is
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  Speaker 3: going on inside that particular part of the universe. Is
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  Speaker 3: there a story to be shared there? And as a
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  Speaker 3: human being that is just crazily wandering through all walks
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  Speaker 3: of life, forests, city streets, malls, even your job, you're
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  Speaker 3: walking around and your eyes catch on to something that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't fit. And it was once living. Think about it.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for being a part of the conversation.