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Speaker 1: From the fish filled Midwest lakes to the deep woods

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Speaker 1: of the North upland prairies filled with pheasants, to the

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Speaker 1: whistling wings of duck ponds. This is Saturday Morning Fan Outdoors,

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Speaker 1: your show for hunting and fishing tips, topics and conversations.

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Speaker 1: the Fans, Captain Billy Hildebrand.

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Speaker 2: See Good morning, Fan Outdoors, faithful. Yes, good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: It's dark.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if it could get more dark,

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Speaker 2: but this is a cabin cast, one of the final

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Speaker 2: ones of this season, and my executive producers smiling broadly

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Speaker 2: right now, but I am not. But it's okay. The

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Speaker 2: chuckling in the background, yeah, that is my co host,

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Speaker 2: mister Bob Saint Pierre.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, sir, Good morning. So you've got closing up

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Speaker 4: the cabin on your brain. Huh, Well I do.

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Speaker 2: I got here yesterday because I was in the Cities

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Speaker 2: for some family things and I got here. It was

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Speaker 2: forty degrees in here and just a bit nippily. It

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Speaker 2: was nippy, to say the very least. But we've got

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Speaker 2: the temperature corral that about seventy one degrees and it's

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Speaker 2: forty eight forty six outside right now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you have insulation in the cabin, I guess you have.

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Speaker 4: You don't have it in the walls, do you?

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Speaker 2: In the newer part of this old cabin there was

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Speaker 2: insulation at one time. It was blown in when my

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Speaker 2: aunt built it, and it seems to now all be

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Speaker 2: in the eaves.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's moved.

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Speaker 2: And I've thought, I've thought a lot about putting bad

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Speaker 2: insulation up there, but it sounds like a lot of work.

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Speaker 3: So that's essentially a three season.

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Speaker 2: Oh, very definitely, Yeah, very definitely, because the water pipes

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Speaker 2: are not that far underground. Although the septic is okay,

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Speaker 2: but I've got a couple issues with that and I'm

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Speaker 2: dealing with it. But yeah, the septic is good. That's

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Speaker 2: been there for quite a while too, But the water

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Speaker 2: pipes are that's a concern if I would try to

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Speaker 2: stay here, because I'd have to do something to keep

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Speaker 2: them from freezing. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I just I think about how much you love that place,

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Speaker 4: and it'd probably be a pretty significant investment to get

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Speaker 2: I think, so, I mean underneath the floor here is dirt.

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Speaker 2: It's honest to goodness. I'm not sure exactly how old

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Speaker 2: all accounts that I can deduct, it's about one hundred

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Speaker 2: years old on the small part. And a gentleman lived

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Speaker 2: here twelve months a year, and he liked to drink wine.

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Speaker 2: And when I'll never forget when my aunt bought it,

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Speaker 2: there's a trapdoor that I have to go in twice

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Speaker 2: a year, and I just really dread it, but I've

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Speaker 2: got to shut a valve off underneath there. I'm crawling.

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Speaker 2: But when she bought it, underneath that trap door, it

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Speaker 2: must have had well, it was filled with gallon bottles,

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Speaker 2: and I kept one in there for a long time,

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Speaker 2: just as something that I could talk about. But I

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Speaker 2: have since gotten rid of that when the mice invaded

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Speaker 2: the place and they filled it with acorns. So that's

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Speaker 4: When you say it was filled, are we talking a

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Speaker 4: So it drink a finish off the wine and just

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Speaker 4: open the trap door and drop the bottle in the basement.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But here's the interesting thing. He, like I said,

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Speaker 2: artesian well which runs, you know, twenty four to seven

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Speaker 2: all year long, and it has for years and years

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Speaker 2: and years. Well, he had the water that now runs

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Speaker 2: basically he just trickles into the lake, but he had

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Speaker 2: underground through an ice box in this little small basement,

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Speaker 2: which if a tornado came, I think I just soon

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Speaker 2: of time down there because it's real tiny and it's

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Speaker 2: the north side of the cabin, and then threw a

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Speaker 2: we used to see how long we could hold our

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Speaker 2: I never won Lands good Lands. It cold here easily.

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Speaker 4: What decades there are we talking about this guy living here?

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Speaker 3: When did you're on by the well?

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Speaker 2: She owned it for six sixty years, I believe, and

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Speaker 2: I have owned it for almost twenty. Okay, so it's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like the forties is when the other guy would

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Speaker 2: Could have been could have been maybe maybe it was

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Speaker 2: doing it during Prohibition too, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe there was some bootleg in a line going

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Speaker 4: on in your head.

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Speaker 3: There could have been Center Cabin.

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Speaker 2: There is. There's a history out here too, which is

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Speaker 2: kind of fascinating because there is if you go out

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Speaker 2: that would go to Diamond Point on the lake and

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Speaker 2: that's where some of the first settlers were. But then

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Speaker 2: there's a rock and Sock Center that marks the corner

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Speaker 2: of one stockade that they built and during the the

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Speaker 2: Sioux Uprising that protected settlers and out in one of

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Speaker 2: the favorite places you like to start your dogs out

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Speaker 3: I'm picking up what you're putting down.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, the story goes because my aunt Ivy did

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Speaker 2: the a history of Sock Center and that's in the

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Speaker 2: library in town. But you can so she said with

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Speaker 2: her research there's settlers out there at the beginning of

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Speaker 2: the Sioux Uprising. They said that no, they he was

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Speaker 2: okay out there and so, but they didn't hear from

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Speaker 2: him in town. And I've got all this documented and

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Speaker 2: some papers that she found at a library someplace. And

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Speaker 2: so local people went in a wagon horse drawn wagon

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Speaker 2: out that direction, pulled by horses, and it took them

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Speaker 2: a day to get out there. They were looking to

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Speaker 2: find him and bring him back. Well, what they found

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Speaker 2: out there was I believe a burned out building. Plus

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Speaker 2: they found his body in one place and this farmer's

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Speaker 2: head in another, and so that then they came back

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Speaker 2: to town and whatever. Yeah, there's quite a bit of history.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Sinclair Lewis is probably the most famous person from

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Speaker 4: Socks and a Day.

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Speaker 3: Your family have any connections there, Well, my aunt.

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Speaker 2: My mom's mother lived in the Saint Clair Lewis house

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Speaker 2: before it was a destination.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 2: So I've spent a lot of time in that house

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Speaker 2: as a kid and it was nothing special then. I mean,

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Speaker 2: but you know, small towns look for acclaim to fame too.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of a claim to fame, have you ever seen

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Speaker 4: a pig on a leash in Socks?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 4: On the opening Psident season, there was a ginormous hogs

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Speaker 4: also a famous spot.

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Speaker 2: For that's be busy come Halloween.

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Speaker 4: Do you do you have any background as to why

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Speaker 4: there was a pig on a leash in socks Center?

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding? No?

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Speaker 5: I was, and one of the one of the girls

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Speaker 5: with us, she wasn't amazed at all because they used

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Speaker 2: She was.

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Speaker 3: It's a sock center thing. You saw the pig.

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Speaker 6: Huh.

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Speaker 4: We're not too big into dogs around here. We just

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Speaker 4: like our pigs. I told the Great Pets, you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna pass. I'm gonna pass this one.

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Speaker 2: He was walking behind the person holding the lead, so

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Speaker 2: he was in no hurry to go anywhere. And I

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Speaker 2: almost ran into somebody ahead of me too. I was

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Speaker 2: rubber necking pretty hard. But how did they get him

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Speaker 4: Well, So I have one other pet pig connection, which

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Speaker 4: is I didn't have this on our bingo card this morning.

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Speaker 4: But Nick Hoffman, who we've had on the show multiple times,

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Speaker 4: in his home in Last none Less Face, Nashville. He

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Speaker 4: he lives in Nashville. He had a pet pig for

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Speaker 4: pheasant Fest I think two years ago, and I was

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Speaker 4: kind of, you know, joking around, like cause he's got

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Speaker 4: have a pig, and his pig had just passed, and

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Speaker 4: he's like that pig. I was closer to that pig

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Speaker 4: than any dog. I mean, he was. He was torn up.

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Speaker 4: He was I was asking sort of jokingly and he was.

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Speaker 4: He was coming to tears, like oh, I did not

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Speaker 4: know I was touching this chord. But apparently they are.

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Speaker 4: They have a tremendous amount of personality. I just don't

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Speaker 4: It seems a little bit a little much.

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Speaker 2: I've got some smoke pork chops out in the.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: I guess think that every time we have pork chops.

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Speaker 4: Now, in my previous job at the Saints, Saint Paul Saints,

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Speaker 4: you know, we have we had a pet pig mascot

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Speaker 4: with a saddle that would bring baseballs to the umpire

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Speaker 3: How did we get on this pig talk so much?

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Speaker 2: You started it?

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Speaker 3: I didn't, But we would get.

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Speaker 4: A certain person that would call every single morning after

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Speaker 4: a game and asked for proof that the pig was

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Speaker 4: still alive and that we had not roasted it that night.

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Speaker 3: Swear to God.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, So there's your pig story for the day,

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Speaker 4: or pig story.

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Speaker 2: You know how to call. You know how they call pigs.

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Speaker 2: Not me.

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Speaker 4: They I have no idea. Come on, really, I'm waiting

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Speaker 4: for you to demonstrate.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well we will. We have to go to break,

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Speaker 2: so we'll leave this as our is our final sun

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Speaker 7: Because what I have heard for future drops, what I

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Speaker 7: have heard is that when they do call pigs, it'll

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Speaker 7: go sue, sue.

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Speaker 2: So there you go.

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Speaker 3: We're off to a blazing start this morning.

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Speaker 2: Well, right now, coming around the corner is a sock center, right,

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Speaker 2: and he will join us, and he's going to talk

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Speaker 2: to us a little bit about fishing, because there is

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Speaker 2: no shortage of boats. Ei, there's a boat across the lake.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday when I arrived here, he was in one place

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Speaker 2: for five hours, going back and forth. Oh, they must

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Speaker 2: have been on something, but maybe he's trying to get

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Speaker 2: his motor started. I'm not sure, but we'll take that

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Speaker 2: pause and we'll be back right away with mister Denny Fletcher,

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Speaker 2: a Fletcher's Mate and Tackle.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we're back and outdoors October twenty fifth, coming your way.

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Speaker 2: In fact, this is appropriate because I see green lights

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Speaker 2: and our guest is mister Denny Fletcher, the owner of

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Speaker 3: Buddy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, good morning, Bill. I was just amazed yesterday morning.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, before we got we went to break

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Speaker 2: He was in the same place for about five hours,

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Speaker 6: The while I bite on Sock Lake this fall has

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Speaker 6: that I mean this is this has been as good

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Speaker 6: from fifteen to twenty five thirty walleys to keep maybe

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Speaker 6: you know, three four five fish if you want to

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Speaker 2: Why do you think that is, Denny? Is it because

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Speaker 6: You know, I really don't know.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 6: I've been harvesting wild wild, wild wild mintals out out

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Speaker 6: and the Silver River signers can become a really popular

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Speaker 6: It's it's way early for that. So I think that

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Speaker 6: the temperature in the waters has has dictated what's going

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Speaker 4: What what percentage of anglers do you do you think

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Speaker 3: I mean, is it ten percent or is it even

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Speaker 6: Uh, it's probably less than ten percent. With the with

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Speaker 6: the exception of your dedicated Walley anglers, I'm seeing an

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Speaker 6: So with the avid walleye fishermen, they know how good

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Speaker 2: Well and Danny. Yesterday, right around it dark, I mean,

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Speaker 6: We have had the busiest fall, and I'm talking like

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Speaker 6: the month of October specifically of mental sales in my

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Speaker 6: shop that I've maybe ever experienced. And these guys know

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Speaker 6: They either want shiners and chubs, and the fish are biting,

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Speaker 6: and these guys are going fishing unless they're working for

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Speaker 6: a lot of them don't keep a lot of fish,

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Speaker 6: that just out there to enjoy the experience. So yeah,

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Speaker 6: it's been an awful lot of people fishing with a

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Speaker 6: furl awful lot of walleyes as well. It's been really

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Speaker 2: All right. Now, I've got to go this way before

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Speaker 2: we run out of time too, because have you got

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Speaker 2: ice season coming up? How do you have all those

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Speaker 2: minnows for people in stock? Where do you keep them?

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Speaker 2: What do you do with them?

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Speaker 6: Okay, Sean and his two boys, Noah and Hunter, just

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Speaker 6: finish up our twelve sucker pond harvest and they put

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Speaker 6: all those mintals in my north farm with a big

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Speaker 6: suckers for this winter and then next spring in summer.

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Speaker 6: They just started two days ago now on the golden

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Speaker 6: shiner harvest, and for us that's super important. And we

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Speaker 6: got about a dozen twelve thirteen golden shiner ponds to harvest.

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Speaker 6: Catch as many of them as we can out of

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Speaker 6: all of thems grow up ponds, and we'll put them

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Speaker 6: in two aerated man made ponds over on our east

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Speaker 6: farm with aeration. These are small ponds, one acre ponds

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Speaker 6: depending on how our harvest is in these two small ponds,

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Speaker 6: and to where in the wintertime when you need each

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Speaker 2: Well, what about the brass season those danny aren't they

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Speaker 6: Very I've got mother nature threw us a wrinkle this year,

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Speaker 6: which is not unusual in this business. If you farm,

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Speaker 6: mother nature kind of dictates what you do. And I've

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Speaker 6: got a humongous population of brassy shinings this year. But

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Speaker 6: got plenty, plenty of brassy shiners, they didn't get to

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Speaker 6: that three and a half to four inches we'd like.

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Speaker 6: They're more than that two and a half to three

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Speaker 6: does not seem to matter. You put a small brassi

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Speaker 6: on one of them, fine wired glow in the dark.

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Speaker 6: Winter hooks and these walleys just they just smacked the

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Speaker 6: with Brassy's the fathead middles statewide. Also, we didn't get

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Speaker 6: and everybody's kind of in the same boat. Whereas generally speaking,

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Speaker 6: all the mindals in the state of Minnesota aren't going

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Speaker 6: to the weather, and there's just nothing we can do

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Speaker 2: I can't remember who I talked to Denny, but somebody

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Speaker 2: said that they wanted they are crappie meadows, real tiny

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if there those are pin mindows. I'm

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Speaker 6: Then we see that a lot in the wintertime bill,

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Speaker 6: that's like three quarters of an inch or an inch long,

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Speaker 6: and we try to accommodate that whenever we can sometimes

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Speaker 6: With the exception of some of these avid walleye fishermen,

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Speaker 6: You know, we have that for those guys also. So

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Speaker 6: I don't know why person to want to use a

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Speaker 6: bring them in and we sold sell a fair amount

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Speaker 2: Interesting Now you were showing me a mineral that I

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Speaker 6: Yeah, because our rivers here are so flooded from all

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Speaker 6: I had to go south to a couple of small,

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Speaker 6: They named them appropriate because they are the fastest mental

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Speaker 6: I've ever tried to catch in my life. And here

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Speaker 6: my fishermen and friends have told me that they think

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Speaker 6: And some people this is, you know, it's funny and

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Speaker 6: different places that middles are called different things, but that

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Speaker 6: different names, but it's really a good mental. That is

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Speaker 6: something that hardly any of my cust must have ever

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Speaker 2: I've got to agree with it. I hadn't never seen

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Speaker 2: I mean they jump and yeah, they I think those

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Speaker 2: In the in the bait shop.

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Speaker 6: We don't, Yes, sir, If we don't keep a screen

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Speaker 6: over them, they'll all be on the floor in the morning.

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Speaker 2: They are.

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Speaker 6: They are the craziest jumping middle I have ever seen.

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Speaker 6: You definitely got to keep your lid on your mintal bucket.

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Speaker 6: I tell the guys that don't leave that lid in

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Speaker 2: I think that's awesome. Daddy, are you Are you seeing

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Speaker 2: lots of deer hunters coming into you know?

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Speaker 6: I don't. I don't sell any any deer hunting equipment

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Speaker 6: I decided we're just gonna have Fletcher's Bait being a

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Speaker 6: I don't see a lot of the hunting stuff because

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Speaker 6: we're not really in that game per se. So other

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Speaker 6: than talking to fisherman who happened to be out bull

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Speaker 6: a lot of that information here anymore.

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Speaker 2: All right, just to check and too, Denny, we're going

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Speaker 2: to be out of time, my friend, but I appreciate

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Speaker 2: your time, and we will talk again as the as

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Speaker 2: we get closer to hard water. And I'm going to

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Speaker 2: sob big tears in just a moment, but that's kind

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Speaker 2: of my issue. But anyway, Denny, thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for all that you've offered and all that you shared

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Speaker 2: with us and our listeners, my friend, and I'll see

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Speaker 2: you real soon.

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Speaker 6: You bet been my pleasure, my folks.

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Speaker 2: That's Denny Fletcher, Fletcher's Bait and Tackle. We'll take a

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Speaker 2: pause and we will be right back with the mister

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Speaker 2: Stan Tequila. Oh, by the way, he's got a new

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Speaker 2: book out, dude. We'll talk about that along with he's

448
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 2: got a new channel that you can watch.

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Speaker 3: It's so cool.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back with Stan after this. Welcome back

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Speaker 2: to Fan Outdoors, joined now by author, naturalist and.

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Speaker 3: Photographer Stan Tequila.

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Speaker 2: Whether it's in Minnesota, Alasko, or Africa, he's always in

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Speaker 2: search of all things.

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Speaker 3: Wild and natural.

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Speaker 2: He may even know more about animals than they do themselves.

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Speaker 3: And you thought the cat knew the outdoors.

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Speaker 2: Here's fan favorite Stan Tequila on fan Outdoors Stan, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Are flying squirrels at? Are flying squirrels active all night long?

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Speaker 4: Didn't even give him time to say hello, No, just thinking.

461
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Speaker 2: That I've gotta cover. I want to get that.

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Speaker 3: In good grief. Captain. Let the guy breath.

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Speaker 2: No, there's no breathing when I'm around, because I have questions.

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Speaker 3: Holy mackerel, Good morning, guys, good morning.

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Speaker 4: Stand Go ahead and ask it again, Captain, get it

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Speaker 4: out there.

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Speaker 2: Well, I gone it.

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Speaker 3: I want to forget.

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Speaker 2: Sorry if I have to ask it again. Are flying

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Speaker 2: squirrels active all night long?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely without a doubt, and we can prove it. I

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00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 3: feel like I've been set up here, so uh you

473
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Speaker 3: can what I started last week with a live stream

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Speaker 3: of my flying squirrels. So now people who've been hearing

475
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Speaker 3: me talk about them for years and years and hearing

476
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Speaker 3: Billy talk about for years and years can actually see

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Speaker 3: them because a lot of people don't see these flying squirrels.

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Speaker 3: They are you know, they come out at night obviously,

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Speaker 3: and they're you know, just hard to see. So what

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Speaker 3: I did was I've set up a camera that has

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Speaker 3: night vision on it and it's video and it's live,

482
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Speaker 3: and I just put it on my feeder and now

483
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Speaker 3: I stream it. So you can go to naturesmart dot

484
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Speaker 3: com and then scroll down at the bottom of the

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Speaker 3: first page, the homepage, and you'll see there's gonna be

486
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Speaker 3: a link for a live feed there. Or you can

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Speaker 3: go to YouTube directly and go to nature Smart Media

488
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Speaker 3: and you'll find the link there also. And I started, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I started right at sunset, so it's not running now.

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Speaker 3: I just turned it off. In fact, it runs. I

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Speaker 3: run it all night long. I'll probably change that in

492
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Speaker 3: the future to run maybe two three hours or something

493
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Speaker 3: like that. We'll see. And you can tune in the

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Speaker 3: main thing to do is to tune in right when

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Speaker 3: it's getting dark because they are just we get three four,

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Speaker 3: five at a time, who come, you know, zipping in

497
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Speaker 3: and there's always squabbles and they're always sitting together looking

498
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Speaker 3: adorable and you know, having a good time. So anyhow,

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Speaker 3: like I said, you can go to nature smart dot

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Speaker 3: com and take a look at that. Hey, and while

501
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 3: you're there. While you're there at nature smart dot com

502
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 3: you can sign up for my new newsletter. I just

503
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 3: started this a couple of weeks ago. Also, so now

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00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 3: every two weeks you get an email from me with

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Speaker 3: a of my blog posting, plus any kind of trips

506
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Speaker 3: and extra things that I'm you know, working on and

507
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 3: things like that. So people, and of course it's free,

508
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 3: and of course it's just me. I don't you know,

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Speaker 3: I don't work with anybody. I don't sell it to

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00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 3: anybody or anything like that. It's just me. So people

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00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 3: can go to nature smart dot com and then sign

512
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Speaker 3: up for the the newsletter. Also while they're checking out

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Speaker 3: the live feed for the flying squirrels and by the way,

514
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Speaker 3: and there's one, there's wait wait there's more, and then

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Speaker 3: uh wait if all goes yeah, it all goes well.

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Speaker 3: I'm setting up a second camera this weekend that we'll

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Speaker 3: also watch the flying squirrels, but it'll see them flying in,

518
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 3: so you'll actually see them gliding in because the current

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Speaker 3: one just has the feeder. It's real tight shot on

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Speaker 3: the on the feeder. This one will show this flying

521
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Speaker 3: squirrels flying in. Hopefully. I'm working on it right now.

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Speaker 3: I was building it yesterday and doing some testing on

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Speaker 3: the cameras and it's a newer four K camera that

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Speaker 3: hopefully is going to be able to do and it's

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Speaker 3: a what they call a PTC camera at pans it

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Speaker 3: tiltsid zooms and things like that, so we should be

527
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 3: able to have some fun with it too, and that'll

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Speaker 3: all be on the live feed also.

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Speaker 2: Well, I watched it. I watched it for a while

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Speaker 2: yesterday last night, Stan, And yeah, I watched them come in.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't see them come in, but I knew what

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Speaker 2: they were doing because all of a sudden they show

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Speaker 2: up on the side of the feeder and it's so cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, really see and that's what Yeah, and that's my

535
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Speaker 3: like it. I like what I have now, but it

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Speaker 3: does doesn't show the full story. It doesn't show them,

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Speaker 3: you know, gliding in or flying in. And this new

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Speaker 3: one is going to be a new feeder. I'll run

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Speaker 3: both of them at the same time, so you'll be

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Speaker 3: able to see the close up of the feeder and

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Speaker 3: then you'll see a wider view to be able to

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Speaker 3: see them coming in. And this will probably be at

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Speaker 3: two different locations, so which is kind of fine. By

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Speaker 3: the way, I'm doing this at my house, so I

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Speaker 3: got one feeder in my front yard, one feeder in

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Speaker 3: my backyard, and we'll see how this goes. I could

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Speaker 3: be in for trouble, who knows. But anyhow, for those

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Speaker 3: those interested in flying squirrels, you're gonna love it.

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Speaker 4: So do people see flying squirrels and they miss and

550
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Speaker 4: identify them as like red squirrels or anything, or they

551
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Speaker 4: just are not seen because they're so nocturnal, They're.

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Speaker 3: Just not seeing them unless you're like at a campfire.

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Speaker 3: And now I believe, Bob, you've said that before, where

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Speaker 3: you've been like standing and I can't fire someone saw

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Speaker 3: one fly by or something like that. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly,

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00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 3: but any rate, that's how most people see them. They

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00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 3: don't really get to see them see them. Some people

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Speaker 3: get lucky because they're at their bird feeder and they

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Speaker 3: turn on the light outside and then they can see

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Speaker 3: them briefly before they all take off. But generally speaking,

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Speaker 3: most people don't see them. So and to answer you know,

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Speaker 3: more specifically Bill's question, there's been many times where five

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Speaker 3: six o'clock in the morning, like right now, they're still

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Speaker 3: coming into the feeder. There's no more peanuts left, you know,

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Speaker 3: they've cleaned them out, but they still stop in the

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Speaker 3: chack just in case. So they are active right up

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Speaker 3: until the time gets dark or excuse me, until the

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Speaker 3: time gets light. And lately mine are coming out, I

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Speaker 3: don't know, twenty minutes a half hour before it's dark.

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Speaker 3: So they're really they're they're showing up at the feeder looking,

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Speaker 3: you know, early while it's still light out. So and

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00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 3: they get conditioned to these things too. They get conditioned

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Speaker 3: to the food.

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Speaker 2: So if the food isn't their stand for a few

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Speaker 2: days or something, do you lose them? Do they get

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Speaker 2: bored and look for other sources of food.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's not so much as they get bored, is

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Speaker 3: that they need to find food every day in order

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Speaker 3: to survive, and so they go out looking for it,

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Speaker 3: and they have many places in which they go to

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Speaker 3: find food, and they are they will store some of

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Speaker 3: the food for the winter time. So they do take

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Speaker 3: a bunch of the peanuts back to their nest and

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Speaker 3: then they'll store those in the wintertime. So there's you know,

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Speaker 3: it's like bird feeding. People say, well, I can't go

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Speaker 3: on vacation because you know my birds, It's like no,

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00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 3: they'll they you know, they have wings and they know

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Speaker 3: how to use them. You know, they will fly to

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00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 3: the next feeder or to the next area. And your

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00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 3: flying squirrels will have like a circuit in which they

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00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 3: move around from place to place to place where they

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Speaker 3: know where the food's at, and they just kind of

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00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 3: move around from place to place looking for this food.

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Speaker 3: And so it's it's generally not a problem because there

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Speaker 3: will be plenty of nights where I'm not feeding them, uh,

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Speaker 3: but generally almost every night, I'm pretty good about that.

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Speaker 3: And then I usually send out something on Instagram and

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00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 3: Facebook to say that hey, we're streaming live and for

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Speaker 3: people to check in.

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Speaker 4: So you have a lot of nice new updates on

601
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 4: your website. Another one that grabbed my attention is a

602
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Speaker 4: wanted poster that do you have a question? Do you

603
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 4: have any interesting wildlife in your backyard? Contact Stan and

604
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Speaker 4: you'll come photographic give us an idea of what your

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Speaker 4: what would trip your trigger?

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Speaker 2: Stan, I have another flying squirrel us. Before you change too.

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Speaker 4: Much, Okay, I will I guess back away from the microphone.

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Speaker 3: All right, I guess this is I guess this is

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Speaker 3: Bill Show.

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Speaker 2: So all right, good, all right, I just got a

611
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 2: text from Tommy George and who is listening. He always is,

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Speaker 2: and he wants to know if the full moon will

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Speaker 2: have any impact on the flying squirrel activity.

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Speaker 3: Uh, generally not. They they're active every single night, whether

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Speaker 3: they want to be or not. This is life or

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00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 3: death for them. They have to find food, especially when

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00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 3: we start headed into the winter. They're out there, you know,

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00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 3: specifically looking for food. And so they have to do this.

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Speaker 3: So following cycles of the moon is not something that

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Speaker 3: they have the luxury of doing. They have to get

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Speaker 3: out there every single you know night and be able

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00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 3: they're looking for food. Now, having said that, there are

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Speaker 3: times where the weather is so bad that the flying

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00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 3: squirrels don't come out and they'll stay, you know, hold

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Speaker 3: up for about you know, a day or a night,

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00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 3: i should say, and then come out the following night,

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Speaker 3: depending on how bad it is, depending on how much

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00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 3: food they have, depending on how far away your feeder

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Speaker 3: is from their home. Those types of things will all

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Speaker 3: determine whether or not they are, you know, how active

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Speaker 3: they are.

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Speaker 2: Do they store food like a chipmunk or some of

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Speaker 2: the other animals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they do a certain amount of it, not a

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Speaker 3: huge amount. Chipmunks will do a large, large amount and

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00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 3: where the flying squirrels do a smaller amount, and they

637
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 3: typically these flying squirrels for the winter, so coming up here,

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00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 3: the winter housing is usually always a tree cavity, so

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00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 3: it's inside of a tree, and they don't you know,

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00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 3: so those are limited and they're often very valuable places

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00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 3: for protection. And unlike gray squirrels that make a leaf

642
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 3: nest called a dre those dray nests they use as

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00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 3: temporary housing and they can use them. The flying squirrels

644
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 3: don't have that, so they have to get you know,

645
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 3: go to a very specific tree cavity and that's where

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Speaker 3: they live, which also, by the way, makes it vulnerable.

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00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 3: There's so many things going on here too. Because these

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Speaker 3: tree cavities are so highly sought after. Raccoons oftentimes will

649
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 3: utilize these same cavities, and the raccoons are not very

650
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 3: i don't know, clean, and they oftentimes defecate inside their cavity.

651
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Speaker 3: And then when the flying squirrels use these cavities, they

652
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 3: pick up something called raccoon roundworm, and it really affects

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Speaker 3: the flying squirrels. It affects their balance, it affects their

654
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 3: you know, they have a hard time sitting up. They

655
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 3: have a hard time. They tremble and think things like that,

656
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 3: so you have to be really and that's it just

657
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 3: goes to point out how valuable tree cave of these are.

658
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 3: So for people who have any kind of property and

659
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 3: have you know, large dying trees with cavities in them,

660
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 3: they shouldn't be cutting them down. These are really extremely

661
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,839
Speaker 3: important for any kind of habitat. All sorts of things

662
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 3: use them. And you know, you'll probably never know how

663
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 3: how many will use it, but they really do. And

664
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 3: there should be something you should should consider because I

665
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 3: know a lot of people just routinely just cut down

666
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 3: everything instead, and really you should leave some of the

667
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 3: things standing so that you got you know, not just

668
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 3: woodpeckers either. I'm talking lots of different things that can

669
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 3: use these.

670
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 2: Well. With the emerald ash war out here anyway, there's

671
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 2: going to be a lot of dead trees, just what

672
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 2: I'm saying.

673
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, However, you know with the ash trees, ash

674
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 3: trees typically don't get big cavities in them. Well, having

675
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 3: said that that, let me take that back, because I've

676
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 3: got a fairly decent ash tree that's got a couple

677
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 3: of small cavities in it. But typically we're talking about

678
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 3: maples and oaks that not even so much as elms,

679
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 3: but the bass woods can have some nice cavities in

680
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 3: them too, So you know, you know, be mindful when

681
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 3: you're out there looking at these things.

682
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 2: Okay, Bob, you got two minutes, Kay.

683
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 3: Wanted poster.

684
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:32,800
Speaker 4: What sort of backyard wildlife would peak your interest?

685
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 3: Well, you'd be surprised, because I would be interested in

686
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 3: just about anything. Uh, this is Bob's referring to on

687
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 3: my website again, nature smart dot com. You can I

688
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 3: have a wanted poster there, and so I'm always looking

689
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 3: for opportunities in which to capture wildlife and it could

690
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 3: be something as basic as a you know, a Robin

691
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 3: nest on up to fox Stends and things like that,

692
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 3: and people oftentimes contact me about that. I come by,

693
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 3: we set up a time and if I'm able to

694
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 3: capture images, what I do is I make a really

695
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 3: nice print for them, and you know, leave a print

696
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 3: with them of the wildlife that they had in their

697
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 3: backyard from my adventure there trying to get things. So

698
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 3: it's really kind of a fun thing to do and

699
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 3: people get to learn about the wildlife that they do have,

700
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 3: and they get to get a nice print to put

701
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 3: on the wall afterwards too.

702
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 2: Go ahead, probably time.

703
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 3: Thirty seven seconds.

704
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 4: I saw a spotted salamander, well a couple about a

705
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 4: week ago on my dog walk. It was it was

706
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 4: rainy out and you know, temperatures were cooling. It was

707
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:51,240
Speaker 4: moving as fast as the salamander would move. I'm assuming

708
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 4: it was looking for a place to hibernate. We're amphibious

709
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 4: like that. Where do they hibernate? Are they looking for

710
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 4: water to go to the bottom of a you know,

711
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:05,240
Speaker 4: some silt, or where's a salamon going to hibernate?

712
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 3: That is exactly where salabators are going to hibernate. But

713
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 3: at this time of year, they're moving. They're they're migrating

714
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 3: from their summering areas to their wintering areas. And these

715
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 3: migration areas are kind of well traveled, but they're only

716
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,240
Speaker 3: traveled in you know, in the fall, in the spring,

717
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 3: and uh, this is the time you can see them

718
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 3: the most. Now, would you say spotted salamon or do

719
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 3: you mean a tiger?

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00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 8: Yeah?

721
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, yellow spot, so black body, yellow spots, yep, yellow spot. Okay,

722
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 3: so tiger salamanic because there is a spotted salamoner. It's

723
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 3: got blue dots on it. So I was just trying

724
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:50,399
Speaker 3: to classify clarify there. But yeah, these tiger salamanners used

725
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 3: to be found everywhere. You can find them all over

726
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 3: the place. People had them in their window wells, in

727
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,240
Speaker 3: their house, all over the place, and they are truly

728
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 3: an indicator species, so the health of the environment. And uh,

729
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 3: typically what happens though, is that you've got these ephemeral ponds,

730
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 3: these ponds where the salamoners go to and they kind

731
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 3: of migrate to and from, and then you know, somebody

732
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 3: builds a house and boom right in the middle of

733
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 3: their migratory path, and then all of a sudden, you

734
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 3: have all these salamanders showing up and you're you're trying

735
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 3: to figure out why. It's because they've been using it,

736
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 3: that these are historic routes that are that are used

737
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 3: for generation after generation really and yeah, so yeah, there's

738
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 3: so much going on out there, you guys that I

739
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 3: don't think as we people kind of quite grasp the

740
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 3: magnitude of it all. But we hardly see salamanders anymore.

741
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 3: They just the numbers of them are going down so much.

742
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 3: They reminder that these animals kind of absorb water through

743
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 3: their skin from the environment, and so therefore they're absorbing

744
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 3: the chemicals that are in the environment, and this is

745
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:57,760
Speaker 3: what their downfall is. So they don't they don't actually

746
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,439
Speaker 3: drink per se. They bring in the moisture through their skin,

747
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 3: and then when they bring in that moisture, they're also

748
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 3: bringing in the chemicals, which causes all sorts of problems

749
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 3: for them.

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Speaker 2: Stan I think that the whatever the common frog is,

751
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 2: I've only seen a couple of them this summer, and

752
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 2: now when I do notice them, I never used to

753
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 2: pay much attention, but they they strike a chord and

754
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 2: it's a memory cord that that's pretty cool. I haven't

755
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 2: seen a frog for a long time. I've seen lots

756
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 2: of toads out here because they seem to hatch and

757
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 2: they're just eighty beaty things in the summer, just micers

758
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 2: almost well just a little because the grandkids they're picking

759
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 2: them up all the time and calling them frog. So

760
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:42,720
Speaker 2: I've got to correct things.

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00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 3: But I can help you with that one. Yeah, So

762
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 3: those are American toads. We have two species of toad.

763
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 3: We have the American toad and then we have a

764
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 3: Canadian toad. And this Canadian toad is a species. It's

765
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 3: only found in the far northwestern portion of Minnesota and

766
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 3: then up into Canada. And uh, they look almost identical,

767
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 3: but they sound very different from each other. And the

768
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 3: h just to help out with with the grandkids. And

769
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 3: when they're calling it a frog, they're technically, uh, not wrong,

770
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 3: because are you ready for this? I gotta get I

771
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 3: gotta get this right. All toads are frogs, but not

772
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 3: all frogs are toads. I'll give you a second and

773
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 3: think about that. So, yeah, so all all toads are frogs,

774
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 3: but not all frogs are toads. Yeah, I know. So

775
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 3: the way this works is is that a toad is

776
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 3: a type of frog. It's just that we as people,

777
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 3: we try to, you know, categorize things. That's what we

778
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 3: like to do. And and so these toads are a

779
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 3: type of frog, but they they're terrestrial. They have usually

780
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 3: bumpy skin, usually ry skin, and they live on the

781
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 3: ground except for when they're mating, because they mate in

782
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 3: the water. And whereas frogs tend to have wet skin,

783
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:11,800
Speaker 3: smooth skin, not bumpy, and they live in the water.

784
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 3: But they're all basically doing the same type of thing.

785
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 3: It's all a type of amphibian.

786
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,240
Speaker 2: And they don't give you toba warts.

787
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 3: No, they do not. I still get that question asked

788
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 3: all the time, and it's like, no, they do not

789
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 3: give you words. Now, what they do do, which is

790
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 3: kind of cool, is that they have these little do do.

791
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 3: They've got glands that they secrete a toxin that when

792
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 3: toad is you know, like picked up by a dog

793
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 3: for example, it releases these It's called a paranoid gland.

794
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 3: This paranoid gland emits this kind of oh, I don't know,

795
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 3: it's like a yellowish, viscous substance and it really tastes

796
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 3: and the dogs don't like it and it causes him

797
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 3: to folment the mouth and it's a real problem. So

798
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 3: don't let your dogs pick up the toads.

799
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, Stan, we have to take a pause. You're okay, Stan,

800
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 2: Let's do it wonderful. Before we do, I've got to

801
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 2: wish a very happy birthday to Ann from Alec to

802
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 2: day happy And yeah we will sing later, but right now.

803
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 2: And and she wasn't gonna want me to use her

804
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 2: last name, but I'm going to anyway. And Logan happy birthday.

805
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 2: So we'll take a pause and we'll be right back

806
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:57,720
Speaker 2: with more Stan after this five minutes past the hour

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00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:03,359
Speaker 2: of seven a m. This Saturday morning edition of Fan Outdoors.

808
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 2: Bob Saint Pierre in studio in the big chair, and

809
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 2: our guest is the mister Stan Tequila, and you can

810
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 2: find him and lots of new things that he's told

811
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 2: us about on naturesmart dot com. Stan, you have a

812
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 2: new book out too, do you not?

813
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,959
Speaker 3: Well, I've got I'm working on a bunch of new books.

814
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 3: I've got six new books coming out in spring of

815
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:36,240
Speaker 3: twenty six, so not for another couple of months yet,

816
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 3: but they are they're on their way. I don't have

817
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 3: the list in front of me, but there's a several

818
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 3: new books for the Midwest. I have a redo of

819
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 3: a book I did close to forty years ago called

820
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 3: Nature Smart. It's the name of my company, and kind

821
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 3: of redone that book from a long, long time ago,

822
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 3: and it's it's what an adventure this has been. So

823
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 3: this is a book I wrote, like I said, forty

824
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:11,280
Speaker 3: some years ago, and so I'm working on it now.

825
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 3: The publishers wanting me to to redo it and kind

826
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 3: of update everything and then make it more regionalized and

827
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 3: make it for the Midwest. And so I'm like, okay,

828
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 3: this is great. So they said send me the send

829
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 3: me the file. So they sent me the file and

830
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 3: I'm going through it and I'm thinking, why are there

831
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 3: so many typos and errors in here? And I just couldn't.

832
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 3: I couldn't figure the darn thing out. And I got

833
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 3: halfway through the manuscript. As I'm going through this thing,

834
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 3: and it finally dawned on me, I was like, oh,

835
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 3: I know why this is all got so many typos.

836
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 3: I wrote this on a typewriter. There was no computers

837
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 3: back then, you know, to spell check and all that stuff.

838
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 3: And so looking scratching my head, going why is this terrible?

839
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 3: Look at it? And I'm like, oh my gosh. So anyhow,

840
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 3: so that's uh, computers really help, they really do. And

841
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 3: uh that I'm that smart to notice that. It's just

842
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 3: that there's a bunch of red squiggly lines underneath everything

843
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 3: saying that it's all wild.

844
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 2: I remember stand in college, I'd have to type my papers.

845
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 2: But I'm trying to type on something like that to

846
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 2: turn in it looked like it snowed in my room.

847
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 2: I mean there's a ripped mountain, crumple them up and

848
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 2: throw them on the floor. And it took me a

849
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 2: long time, and I usually had to somebody to do them.

850
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 3: Somebody type it up. I use a lot of white

851
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,360
Speaker 3: out on those things. But then it's really hard to

852
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 3: type over. You had to really wait till it's try

853
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 3: and then you can type over it. And in fact,

854
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 3: I think the first four books, five books I did,

855
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 3: were all on a typewriter, and I turned in paper manuscripts.

856
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,359
Speaker 3: So that was literally what I turned in, just like

857
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 3: you know, the full book, just here you go, title

858
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 3: page and all. So things have changed dramatically, I bet.

859
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,280
Speaker 2: They have, but I'll bet there's lots of other things.

860
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 2: Did you find anything on the on the book that

861
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,280
Speaker 2: was that old stand that was you had to change

862
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:17,919
Speaker 2: because it's no longer act?

863
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, absolutely, yeah, there was. There was. I was

864
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 3: reading through it and going, oh, this got change, you know,

865
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Speaker 3: and lots of lots of things. Here's a good example

866
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 3: of it. Throughout my career, we've always said that birds

867
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 3: have very little or no ability to smell, and now

868
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,280
Speaker 3: the latest research is showing that, in fact, they probably

869
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 3: do have a fairly decent olfactory system, and they're basing

870
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 3: this on some uh you know, because you can't just

871
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 3: ask them, here, smell this, Do you smell it?

872
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 7: You know?

873
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 3: Uh, So you end up having to look at the

874
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 3: brain of these birds and the olfactory lobe. There's just

875
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 3: this bulb, this little projection off the brain that is

876
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:07,240
Speaker 3: really where all the scents are registered at, and they

877
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 3: look at that and see how large it is in

878
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 3: comparison to the bird, kind of like a comparison of size,

879
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 3: and then they're making their judgments from there. And then

880
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 3: there's been a researcher who did some great work on

881
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,760
Speaker 3: dark eyed junkos. Dark eyed junkos are a small sparrow

882
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 3: type bird. They show up here in the wintertime, so

883
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 3: we don't have them in the summer, but they show

884
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 3: up in the Twin Cities area for the wintertime. They're

885
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 3: the ones that are just shown up now. They're kind

886
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 3: of gray and they come to your feeders and they're

887
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 3: probably one of the most common feederbirds in the wintertime.

888
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,959
Speaker 3: And anyhow, they were doing studies with this with these

889
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:46,720
Speaker 3: birds and discovered that they have the ability to differentiate

890
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 3: between different members of the family by their scent, by

891
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,319
Speaker 3: how they smell. But what's more interesting about it is

892
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:58,439
Speaker 3: that the smell that emanates from the birds comes from

893
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,919
Speaker 3: the fact that they have a lot of birds, not all.

894
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 3: A lot of birds have an oil gland, as U

895
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 3: patrol gland that they squeeze and they can oil their

896
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 3: feathers with it, which, by the way, we always thought

897
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 3: was for waterproofing. Turns out it's not anyhow. Bacteria, which

898
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:20,839
Speaker 3: our microscopic feed on the oil, and as the bacteria

899
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 3: are feeding on the oil that's on the bird's feathers,

900
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 3: the bacteria gives off a smell and that's what the

901
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 3: birds are smelling, and that's in each one of them

902
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 3: is a little bit different because their oil is slightly different,

903
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 3: and that's how the birds are telling the difference between them.

904
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 3: So it's going back to what I said earlier. There's

905
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 3: so much going on in nature that we just have

906
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 3: no clue about. We just it's right there under our

907
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 3: noses pun intended. You know that it's right there and

908
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 3: we don't even know it.

909
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 2: Well. I always wonder too, because when a field is harvested,

910
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,760
Speaker 2: you might see one or two either ducks or geese

911
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 2: or just a small number. But the next day they

912
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 2: are just hordes of them coming in. That is, they'll

913
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 2: come in by the hundreds, and they've got to either

914
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 2: communicate in my eyes or they they rely on their

915
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 2: eyes and see it. But I don't understand how one

916
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 2: or two birds can impact a number so large in

917
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 2: twenty four hours.

918
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they communication between individuals of bird individuals is

919
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 3: well documented and it's something that and they share this

920
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:43,879
Speaker 3: information which is amazing, and they're able to communicate that

921
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 3: you know, where the food sources are at. In addition

922
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 3: to that, they follow, like right now, what I see

923
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 3: a lot of In fact, I always stop the other night,

924
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 3: and I kind of kicked myself for not doing it,

925
00:54:54,360 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 3: is that when they're farmers are their fields. What they're

926
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 3: doing is they're turning over the soil and it's exposing

927
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 3: all the grubs. And then you get these gulls behind them,

928
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 3: hundreds of them. Who has the you know, the tractors

929
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:15,839
Speaker 3: going along the gulls. The ones in the back are

930
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 3: moving to the front and the ones you know, and

931
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 3: then it kind of keeps they keep rotating over each other.

932
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 3: And I was driving along and I was watching this

933
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 3: and I thought, oh, and the sun was on it

934
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 3: and it was. It was like late day. It was

935
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 3: absolutely perfect. I thought I need to stop and do

936
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 3: some video of that because it's such a remarkable thing.

937
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,319
Speaker 3: I didn't, and now I kicked myself for it, But

938
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 3: it's it's very common for them to do that, and

939
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 3: they find these grubs in the fields. So really those

940
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:45,720
Speaker 3: birds as they're doing that, are helping the farmers a lot,

941
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 3: uh and any kind of spilled grain. Also they're they're grabbing,

942
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:53,240
Speaker 3: so it's a you know, it's kind of a reliable

943
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 3: food source for them and they're taking advantage of it.

944
00:55:56,239 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 2: Interesting. Yeah, and I'm it's always just amazing, is me.

945
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 2: Some of the things we don't know that now we

946
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 2: do after listening to you and and some of the

947
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 2: stories and some of the wisdom that you impart on. Bob,

948
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 2: not me, but I'm Bob.

949
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 3: Am I am I allowed to talk again, Captain.

950
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 2: I don't know, it depends what you're going to say.

951
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 4: I was gonna correct stand and say seagulls, but I

952
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 4: probably get I was wondering, though, why is it just

953
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 4: the goals that are you know, Johnny on the spot

954
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 4: to get those grubs, because there's an awful lot of

955
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 4: different birds that you know, would take that meal if

956
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 4: they could, just they're used to it. They've they've been

957
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 4: conditioned to look for the tractor and be ready to roll.

958
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 4: I mean, what why why gulls for that, you know,

959
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:54,800
Speaker 4: food source.

960
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 3: It's something that they've they've learned and they're taking advantage of.

961
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 3: And they're the ones who are in the flocks. I

962
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 3: mean other birds take advantage of it. They're just not

963
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 3: in flocks. I know. San hill cranes take advantage of

964
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 3: it too. They move in after the you know, the

965
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 3: equipment's gone and they'll go around and feed that way also,

966
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 3: So that's very common. So it's a it's just a

967
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 3: matter of that's the species that happens to, you know,

968
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 3: be well suited to do that. And they're moving through

969
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 3: right now in very large numbers, migrating through. We have

970
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 3: two species that are migrating through right now. We have

971
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 3: the ring built gull. The ring bill is probably our

972
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 3: most common gull. But then we have Franklin's skulls. And

973
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 3: the Franklin skulls are this prairie gull from north Dakota

974
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 3: and northwest Minnesota up into Canada. Who are they? They

975
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 3: don't go to the shore Basically, they go to lakes

976
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 3: and they're moving through. Also, this is in the springtime.

977
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 3: When you see the Franklin skulls, they're a black headed gull,

978
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 3: so you can notice that at this time of the

979
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:01,439
Speaker 3: year they're no longer in breeding condition, so they don't

980
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 3: have that black heads. They have a partial black head,

981
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 3: which unless you get a really good look at them,

982
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 3: you're not going to see. So take a little closer

983
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 3: look at your goals next time you see them. You'll

984
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 3: notice some differences between the two.

985
00:58:15,480 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 2: Stand Normally we'd have to go, but are you willing

986
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 2: to give us a little bonus segment?

987
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 3: I'd love to. Let's do it, all right, as long

988
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 3: as we can talk about flying squirrels, we can do that.

989
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:33,439
Speaker 2: We can do that, and okay, coming right up, we're

990
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 2: going to take a pause. But coming up and from Alec,

991
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 2: this is for you, Happy birthday. We're gonna have a

992
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 2: bonus segment for Stan Tequila and only if you promise

993
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 2: to go to nature Smart and check out the flying

994
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 2: squirrel camera tonight. Okay, everybody, put your hands in the air.

995
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 2: If you're all willing to do that, we'll take a

996
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 2: pause and be right back with a bonus segment a

997
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 2: fan or stand Tequila Man, we're back Fan Outdoors that

998
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 2: is until the eight o'clock hour, but keep it right

999
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 2: here in the zone follows us and it's it's always

1000
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 2: really really fun to listen to. That would be with

1001
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 2: Trent Tucker and Davey Sinecon, Bob Saint Pierre is with

1002
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 2: me and Fan Outdoors this week. Stan Tequila is. It's

1003
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 2: a bonus stand tequila by the way, and we're delighted

1004
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 2: he's agreed to stay with us too. Bob, do you

1005
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 2: want to kick things off? I'll ask you this first

1006
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 2: before I shut you off.

1007
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 3: Great, thank you.

1008
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 4: Well, we've covered we've covered amphibians, and it got me wondering,

1009
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 4: am already lizards?

1010
00:59:58,840 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1011
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 4: You know snakes will stay away from snakes because but

1012
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:11,480
Speaker 4: I was thinking about reptiles and are there any lizards

1013
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:13,200
Speaker 4: in the state of Minnesota.

1014
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, there is. We have a couple of different

1015
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 3: prairie skinks. Skinks are type of lizard that are typically smaller,

1016
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 3: not as thin as what we might think of a

1017
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 3: you know, like a lizard. But excuse me. There can

1018
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 3: be very common in some areas that have hillsides and

1019
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 3: with good sunning areas and they they're kind of brownish

1020
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 3: with thin tan stripes running down them. But yeah, we

1021
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 3: have a couple of different types of skinks, and then

1022
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 3: we have a seven lined race runner, which is really

1023
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 3: hard to find. Generally, they're found more in the southern

1024
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 3: part of the state and then more or so into Iowa,

1025
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 3: and then you've prefer the south from there. But yeah,

1026
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 3: we do have several lizard species excluding the snakes, reptile

1027
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 3: species excluding the snakes.

1028
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1029
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, also, and I have not seen one in quite

1030
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 3: a while, but the glass lizard. Glass lizards are a

1031
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:26,959
Speaker 3: legless lizard. They look just like a snake, but they

1032
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 3: are not a snake. They are a lizard that they

1033
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 3: have eyes, eyes that blink. It's just if they don't

1034
01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 3: have any legs, so they look like a snake, but

1035
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 3: they're not.

1036
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 4: What So if it's a lizard that looks like a

1037
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:44,600
Speaker 4: snake without.

1038
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 3: Any legs, what makes it a lizard? Like I said,

1039
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 3: blinks Snakes can't blink. There's yeah, there's a lot of

1040
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 3: anatomy differences between them. Did you know that Captain snakesky?

1041
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 2: I did not. Probably if I've seen one, I've mistaken

1042
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 2: it for a snake. And I don't go there.

1043
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 3: You never got kind of steering contest with a snake.

1044
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 2: No, no, you don't want to do that.

1045
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 3: Yeah. So snakes have a have a scale over their eye,

1046
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 3: so they they have no eye lids and they can't blink. Uh,

1047
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 3: so they obviously they sleep with their eyes open and

1048
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 3: they have a single scale that goes across their eye.

1049
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 3: Then when they are shedding their skin, you know, to

1050
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:34,439
Speaker 3: grow larger, and they have to shed their outer skin

1051
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:36,320
Speaker 3: to be able to come larger because they've got this

1052
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:40,160
Speaker 3: you know, constricting skin on them, the eye turns blue,

1053
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 3: so you get this milky bluish color across their eye.

1054
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 3: Then you know that the scale is coming off of

1055
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 3: the eye surface. And at that point the snake is

1056
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 3: basically going around not being you know, like with bad cataracts,

1057
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 3: is what it's like. And so it goes around for

1058
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 3: a while for a day or two even or sometimes

1059
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:03,120
Speaker 3: three days where it really can't see very well. And

1060
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 3: then when it sheds the skin, the skin comes off,

1061
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 3: the scale across the eye comes off with it, and boom,

1062
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 3: they've got this clear vision again and they can continue on.

1063
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 2: So interesting can they go quite a while? Can a

1064
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 2: snake go quite a while stand without food.

1065
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, Yes, snakes can go many months sometimes without eating.

1066
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 3: Well they first of all, they do that in the

1067
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 3: winter time, but that's not voluntary. But then voluntarily speaking,

1068
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 3: they can go many many months without eating. At the

1069
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,120
Speaker 3: nature Center, I remember we had a redtail boa who

1070
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 3: just refused to eat for Oh, I was better part

1071
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 3: of eight months or so for eight months nothing, didn't

1072
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 3: need to think. But what was so crazy about it

1073
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 3: was that it's still defecated on a regular basis, So

1074
01:03:56,760 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 3: all this was still in there. The digestive system ease

1075
01:04:00,680 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 3: reptiles is so slow that things take forever to get

1076
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 3: through its system and it extracts every bit of nutrients

1077
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 3: out of it or whatever they ate, and they're so

1078
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 3: they're highly efficient and they do really well. So yes,

1079
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:18,840
Speaker 3: they can go long, long periods without eating.

1080
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 2: Interesting, I didn't realize that is the migration winding down yet.

1081
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 3: Some of them migration is Yeah, most of the migration

1082
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 3: is winding down. I hesitate because if I want to

1083
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:38,320
Speaker 3: jump back in just a second to the reptiles aphibians

1084
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:42,400
Speaker 3: coming up this spring in twenty six I've got a

1085
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 3: new field guide for the reptiles and Amphibians of the

1086
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 3: Midwest coming out. So that's another one of those six

1087
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:50,640
Speaker 3: books that I couldn't remember all of them, and it

1088
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 3: just reminded me, Oh yeah, I haven't new reptil amphibian

1089
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:55,960
Speaker 3: but coming out in the springtime. But so back to

1090
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 3: the migration. So yeah, there's still plenty of birds who

1091
01:04:59,880 --> 01:05:02,240
Speaker 3: are migrating through. I don't know if you guys have

1092
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:04,919
Speaker 3: had a chance to check out the birdcast dot org,

1093
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 3: but there's still plenty of birds moving through. I'll try

1094
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 3: to do it while we're talking here to see what

1095
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 3: what we had for you know, migration over hanging on

1096
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 3: one second, here we go and one and forty five

1097
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,919
Speaker 3: million birds last night. What you know what you got?

1098
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the entire country.

1099
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:35,400
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, because I'm looking at Carver County, which is

1100
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 3: where I'm at right now, and uh, they're showing very

1101
01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 3: very few, if if any. So a lot of the

1102
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 3: nighttime migrators are you know, are moving through and now

1103
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:47,840
Speaker 3: what we're seeing the daytime migrators. These tend to be

1104
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 3: the bigger birds like sandhill cranes, hawks, eagles. Uh, these

1105
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 3: birds are later migrators and the whereas the smaller birds

1106
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 3: who migrate at night. Oh yeah, I'm looking at the

1107
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 3: nationwide map and it's mostly to the east and down

1108
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 3: to the south through Texas. So we're so most a lot.

1109
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 3: Looks like a lot of our nighttime migration with our

1110
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:16,360
Speaker 3: small birds are done, at least for now. I'm sure

1111
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 3: there'll be some stragglers coming through, but they've they've really

1112
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 3: shifted over to the daytime migrators like the hawks and

1113
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 3: eagles in the in the cranes swapens. One's another big

1114
01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:33,919
Speaker 3: one too. Yeah, I'm still seeing a few, but most

1115
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 3: of them are gone.

1116
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:38,920
Speaker 2: Okay. Now, they don't fly straight down, do they. I

1117
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:43,959
Speaker 2: mean they don't. They don't head that way by themselves individually. Don't.

1118
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 2: They hit the currents and kind of circle when they're moving. Yeah.

1119
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:51,320
Speaker 3: They are a flock migrator, so they'll go together in

1120
01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 3: big flocks, and they use these thermals, these rising columns

1121
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 3: of warm air, to circle around up and up to

1122
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 3: get a free ride. Basically, so they ride these thermals

1123
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:05,919
Speaker 3: up high. As the thermals rise up, the warm air

1124
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 3: cools off, and as it cools off, it loses its lyft,

1125
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 3: loses its ability to go up, so then it peters out,

1126
01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 3: and then they kind of peel off of that one

1127
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:18,640
Speaker 3: thermal and they go and find another thermal, ride that

1128
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 3: one up, and then they'll just keep on riding one

1129
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:25,920
Speaker 3: thermal after another as they move continually further south. These again,

1130
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:29,680
Speaker 3: are daytime migrating birds because they need those thermals in

1131
01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:32,600
Speaker 3: which to fly on. Now you've got some birds like

1132
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:36,080
Speaker 3: cranes and swans who they can take advantage, and they

1133
01:07:36,080 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 3: do take advantage of these thermals, but they also migrate

1134
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 3: at night. So there's no steadfast you know rule that says, oh,

1135
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 3: they only do this or they only do that. That's

1136
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 3: simply not true. There's lots of these you know depends

1137
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:52,720
Speaker 3: and maybes and you know type of migrators in there too.

1138
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 4: I'll throw one more topic out before we run out

1139
01:07:56,280 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 4: of time. There's a lot of folk keenly interested and

1140
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:04,680
Speaker 4: when the white tail deer rut is going to kick in,

1141
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 4: what will influence that?

1142
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:10,400
Speaker 3: Is it light? Is a wind? Is a temperature? Is

1143
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:14,920
Speaker 3: it all? Okay? I have not been out yet. I

1144
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 3: was supposed to go out this past week to for

1145
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:20,720
Speaker 3: the white tail rut and start checking things out, but

1146
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 3: I was too busy putting together the flying squirrel camp,

1147
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:29,760
Speaker 3: the sea priorities. Yeah, so I didn't make it out,

1148
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:31,960
Speaker 3: Otherwise I could have had a good report for you.

1149
01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:34,320
Speaker 3: I'm gonna guess I'm gonna go on a limb here

1150
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:38,280
Speaker 3: that some of the males are already running only because

1151
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:43,600
Speaker 3: they're males and that's what they do. And but you

1152
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,559
Speaker 3: know it's going to be more into you know, into November.

1153
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 3: But I mean, after all, we are what this twenty

1154
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:52,360
Speaker 3: twenty fifth of October it's getting. We're right in the custom.

1155
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 3: I would be shocked if they're not running. I will,

1156
01:08:55,240 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 3: hopefully in a couple weeks when we talk again, I'll

1157
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:00,320
Speaker 3: have some reports for you. But my whole plan was

1158
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:02,880
Speaker 3: to get out this past week, but I have been

1159
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 3: obsessed with trying to get this whole live is live

1160
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 3: streaming going. And now I got one more camera I'm

1161
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 3: want to put up here, probably later today, depending on

1162
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 3: how the wed it is out there, and then then

1163
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:19,400
Speaker 3: there'll be a matter of running the waters for it.

1164
01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:24,080
Speaker 3: There's so much involved, and by the way I make

1165
01:09:24,120 --> 01:09:25,960
Speaker 3: it sound like it's just me out there doing it.

1166
01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 3: I'm working with a good friend of mine, Tom Lawrence,

1167
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 3: who is kind of my computer guru and my daughter Abby,

1168
01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:37,679
Speaker 3: who runs my website and does all my stuff. Without them,

1169
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:40,240
Speaker 3: none of this would be possible. They are just absolutely

1170
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:43,760
Speaker 3: amazing and do such a great job at helping me out.

1171
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 3: I got these hair brain ideas, and they try to

1172
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:49,880
Speaker 3: make it happen for me. So it's good to have

1173
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:51,760
Speaker 3: family who knows things. It's really great.

1174
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,639
Speaker 2: Yes, it is, Stan. I'm looking out the window. We've

1175
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:57,439
Speaker 2: got a little bit of light now now on the lake,

1176
01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 2: I can see a bunch of probably one hundred to

1177
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 2: two hundred coots and they kind of common goal they

1178
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:09,000
Speaker 2: should be. I can't believe there's many more left because

1179
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:11,280
Speaker 2: they the big flocks out there, and all of a

1180
01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 2: sudden in the morning they're gone. But they suld move

1181
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:15,879
Speaker 2: up and down the lake feeding.

1182
01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:21,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, they are a later migrator too, and they will

1183
01:10:21,720 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 3: come through in big flocks like that. They'll rest overnight

1184
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:26,320
Speaker 3: on the lake and then you know, get moving again

1185
01:10:26,400 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 3: during the daytime. So we'd expect to see that at

1186
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 3: this time of year too. I have not checked the

1187
01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:34,920
Speaker 3: numbers up at hawk Ridge lately, but I would imagine

1188
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 3: they're doing pretty good up there too, because we've had

1189
01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 3: some pretty favorable weather to push the birds along. And

1190
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:44,760
Speaker 3: we are moving into November here, so we're going to

1191
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:49,519
Speaker 3: be seeing the eagles will be moving next so I'm.

1192
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 2: And as a waterfowler, you always kind of hope that

1193
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 2: there's going to be a storm up north to push

1194
01:10:57,439 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 2: waterfowl down. And sometimes they stay a while, sometimes they

1195
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:07,439
Speaker 2: just maybe they don't keep going and then they're gone.

1196
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. There's there's a lots you could do

1197
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:14,680
Speaker 3: at this time of year too, if you're not out

1198
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:16,800
Speaker 3: hunting there. I was out repairing all my wood dot

1199
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 3: boxes yesterday and uh, just because they kind of beat

1200
01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 3: up over the summertime, and so you can get out there.

1201
01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:25,400
Speaker 3: If you're talking about waterfowl, you want to, you know,

1202
01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:27,360
Speaker 3: try to do some things. It's good to repair the

1203
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:29,920
Speaker 3: existing ones you have right now. I would wait to

1204
01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:32,600
Speaker 3: put up new ones till the spring or uh, you know,

1205
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 3: depending on where you're going to put them, if you

1206
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 3: can get them in the ground. But you get the

1207
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 3: pole on the ground now and then maybe put the

1208
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:41,160
Speaker 3: box up come up to springtime. But this is a

1209
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:42,720
Speaker 3: time year to be out there doing that type of

1210
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 3: stuff too.

1211
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 2: Stan, thank you for bonus time that you've given us

1212
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:50,719
Speaker 2: this morning. It's much appreciated. But we will chat again

1213
01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:52,679
Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks. Thank you, sir.

1214
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 3: All right, guys, talk to you next time. Thanks Stan,

1215
01:11:56,360 --> 01:11:57,640
Speaker 3: have a great Saturday.

1216
01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:02,400
Speaker 2: Yes, that is Stan to one of our favorite guests

1217
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 2: ever Fan Outdoors, and he is a wealth of information

1218
01:12:07,479 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 2: something I have learned a great deal from somebody. But

1219
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:16,040
Speaker 2: I have also learned a brighter and a greater appreciation

1220
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:20,400
Speaker 2: for the wild outdoors than I had as a younger man.

1221
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:23,640
Speaker 2: And now I find a lot of things pretty fascinating

1222
01:12:23,680 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 2: as I'm wandering around the fields in search of the

1223
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:31,720
Speaker 2: wiley pheasant or just going for a walk, which I

1224
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:33,920
Speaker 2: seldom do. There's usually a gun in my hand when

1225
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:37,639
Speaker 2: I'm walking. But we'll take a pause our final one

1226
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:42,479
Speaker 2: and be back with yours truly and Bob Saint Pierre

1227
01:12:43,080 --> 01:13:12,839
Speaker 2: after this. Well, it's the final segment of Fan Outdoors today.

1228
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 2: It's been really fun coming to you this morning. But

1229
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:21,760
Speaker 2: let's ask Bob Saint Pierre your plans for the weekend

1230
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 2: and coming up.

1231
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:28,200
Speaker 3: My friend, I am gonna go to the woods.

1232
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:32,240
Speaker 4: I think this weekend I'm gonna go chase rough grouse

1233
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:38,240
Speaker 4: and timberdoodles around Woodcock season ends. If you can believe

1234
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:41,200
Speaker 4: that we're starting to talk about the end of hunting

1235
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 4: seasons already, but Woodcock season ends on November third, So

1236
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:50,639
Speaker 4: this is my last opportunity this weekend to get out

1237
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:53,280
Speaker 4: because I'm going to Missouri. I will not be with

1238
01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 4: you next weekend. I'm gonna film episode three of the

1239
01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:02,880
Speaker 4: Opening Day series next weekend in Missouri for the Bob

1240
01:14:02,920 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 4: Boite Quail opener in the state of Missouri with a

1241
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 4: biologist that works for us and his dad worked for

1242
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:13,760
Speaker 4: the Missouri Department of Conservation.

1243
01:14:14,479 --> 01:14:17,719
Speaker 3: Kind of the appled in Far Fall, Far from.

1244
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:22,480
Speaker 4: The Tree, sort of story about Bob Boy Quail and biologists.

1245
01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:24,320
Speaker 4: So I'm pretty excited to go do that. And there's

1246
01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:28,479
Speaker 4: a chance that I might see some timberdoodles and maybe

1247
01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:31,799
Speaker 4: even a rooster in Missouri. I've never hunted in Missouri before,

1248
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:35,880
Speaker 4: so lots of news, lots of firsts next weekend, you know.

1249
01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:37,959
Speaker 2: And most of the time what you hear from Missouri

1250
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 2: is the or are the turkey hunting down there? And

1251
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:48,880
Speaker 2: I know when I've fished down there on oh Truman Reservoir.

1252
01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 2: From time to time, I'll see in the bays, the

1253
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:54,960
Speaker 2: number of bays that are down there, I'll see turkeys

1254
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 2: flying from one side to the other, and it's it's

1255
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:02,760
Speaker 2: really an interesting and interesting place to it. It's just

1256
01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:06,040
Speaker 2: far enough south that things really don't freeze up down

1257
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:06,679
Speaker 2: there either.

1258
01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:11,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a really a growth state for our organization.

1259
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:16,879
Speaker 4: It's kind of what to Quail Forever, Missouri has become

1260
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:20,880
Speaker 4: what Pheasants Forever is in Minnesota in terms of number

1261
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:25,120
Speaker 4: of members and the active habitat projects. So there's a

1262
01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:28,680
Speaker 4: good quail story to tell in Missouri. It's not a

1263
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 4: state on a lot of people's radar, but yeah, I'm

1264
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 4: excited to get first hand experience down there.

1265
01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:40,679
Speaker 2: Excellent. I know that yours truly will be out chasing

1266
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 2: the Wili rooster today. I'm doing some walking. I walked

1267
01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 2: yesterday for a while, but I haven't seen much. Of course,

1268
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 2: I haven't really gone to the back ends of some

1269
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 2: of the units that I need to get to and

1270
01:15:56,720 --> 01:15:59,760
Speaker 2: because well, because my legs were.

1271
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:05,439
Speaker 4: Well, the birds are definitely getting chased around. Uh. There's

1272
01:16:05,479 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 4: there's a lot a lot of folks out pheasant hunting

1273
01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:13,519
Speaker 4: largely pretty good success. But it's one of those things

1274
01:16:13,520 --> 01:16:18,440
Speaker 4: when the forecasts this year was very positive. It generates

1275
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of license sales, which is

1276
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:25,760
Speaker 4: overall a good thing, and people are getting out and

1277
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 4: enjoying the outdoors, the fields and the forests. But the

1278
01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:34,479
Speaker 4: birds are they're sharpening up their survival skills right now.

1279
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:38,559
Speaker 2: Yeah. What what I am seeing though, Bob, is I

1280
01:16:38,680 --> 01:16:42,200
Speaker 2: drove fair amount of miles yesterday and there's a lot

1281
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:45,679
Speaker 2: of hunters out. Yeah, and I'm thinking, don't these guys work?

1282
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 4: I wonder I wonder that about you. You get to

1283
01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:56,760
Speaker 4: you get to hunt all week log. What are you

1284
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:58,719
Speaker 4: seeing in terms of corn coming out?

1285
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:01,000
Speaker 2: There's a lot of standing corn.

1286
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:04,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, which is gonna make for a very good

1287
01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 4: late season, I think, because that's my experience too. Everywhere

1288
01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 4: I drive the beans have come out pretty quickly. But

1289
01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 4: I think I saw a report only twenty five percent

1290
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 4: of the corn is out, which means seventy five percent

1291
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 4: of the corn is in. And there's a lot of

1292
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:21,080
Speaker 4: places for those birds to hide.

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01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, there really are, and they come out. Well, we

1294
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:28,160
Speaker 2: call it a golden hour for me. I usually call

1295
01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 2: it I'm really tired.

1296
01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:34,559
Speaker 3: You call it happy hour.

1297
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 2: But yeah, and we've had the Antalyst season. I think

1298
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:49,800
Speaker 2: that's wrapped up now, the special season. But that being said,

1299
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:52,400
Speaker 2: that's one of the topics I wanted to chat just

1300
01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 2: a moment about. And I'm disappointed in people because so

1301
01:17:56,600 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 2: many hunters are just out for antlers, and I remind

1302
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 2: them that this is the tool. Shooting on hunters are

1303
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 2: the tool the DNR has to manage the resource and

1304
01:18:14,400 --> 01:18:17,840
Speaker 2: people that pass on dose because all they're doing is

1305
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 2: hunting for antlers or hunting for horns and so to speak,

1306
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:25,760
Speaker 2: which is not accurate as Stan would tell me, but

1307
01:18:26,479 --> 01:18:32,240
Speaker 2: it's they're doing the whole population a bit of a disservice,

1308
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:37,040
Speaker 2: and that doesn't include yours truly at all, because I

1309
01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:40,679
Speaker 2: have I am not hunting for antlers. I am hunting

1310
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:45,639
Speaker 2: for meat to put in my freezer, and I really

1311
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:48,839
Speaker 2: I will enjoy it and I will take multiple dose

1312
01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:51,880
Speaker 2: if the season and tags allow it to.

1313
01:18:53,560 --> 01:18:56,680
Speaker 4: Well, clearly, you know where my heart resides when it

1314
01:18:56,680 --> 01:19:01,800
Speaker 4: comes to vedicon. I love Venicey above pretty much all

1315
01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:06,080
Speaker 4: on their meat. And I was wondering with the skyrocketing

1316
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 4: beef prices, I wonder if that will influence either the

1317
01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:17,320
Speaker 4: number of people out deer hunting or their willingness to

1318
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:23,839
Speaker 4: harvested dough because you know, the expensive a hunting license

1319
01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:29,040
Speaker 4: and a you know, you know, one piece of ammo

1320
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:33,800
Speaker 4: is a heck of a lot more affordable than you know,

1321
01:19:33,880 --> 01:19:35,240
Speaker 4: what beef is right now.

1322
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:40,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, And also people have to realize that a lot

1323
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 2: of guys, a lot of people will just take their

1324
01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 2: animal to someplace else a meat market or someplace, drop

1325
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 2: it off and be done with it. And that's not

1326
01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:53,479
Speaker 2: the case in this family whatsoever. I mean, usually it

1327
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:56,719
Speaker 2: ends up in my garage and we end up cutting

1328
01:19:56,760 --> 01:19:57,080
Speaker 2: it up.

1329
01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 3: And unless you make unless you make sticks bacon.

1330
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 2: Out of it.

1331
01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:06,080
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you do take some of it to processor?

1332
01:20:06,880 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I do. We take trim and I don't

1333
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:13,040
Speaker 2: take any of the good stuff, but we take trim

1334
01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 2: in and I'll have that made. Last year we made

1335
01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:22,719
Speaker 2: it into cheddar summer sausage, and we had about thirty

1336
01:20:22,760 --> 01:20:25,679
Speaker 2: pounds of that maid it's gone.

1337
01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:29,040
Speaker 4: So I got one of the last bites at the

1338
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:31,760
Speaker 4: tailgate of the pheasant opener. Huh, you did.

1339
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:33,599
Speaker 3: It's very good.

1340
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:40,240
Speaker 2: It is really good. Everybody has got their own favorite processor.

1341
01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:45,679
Speaker 2: And we found ours to the Garfield smokehouses where we take.

1342
01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:46,439
Speaker 3: Oh I didn't know that.

1343
01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:51,879
Speaker 4: So you go that past Alexandria, then yeah, it's.

1344
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:55,599
Speaker 2: Not too far past, but a lot of the trim

1345
01:20:55,720 --> 01:20:58,200
Speaker 2: is made into different things there and they do a

1346
01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:02,639
Speaker 2: really nice job. And far as the bacon goes, Von

1347
01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 2: Hanson's is really hard to beat. I mean it really

1348
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:10,640
Speaker 2: really is. That's awesome bacon. But it's expensive when you

1349
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:15,840
Speaker 2: have trim process. It's spending and maybe that dissuades some

1350
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:18,240
Speaker 2: people too. But if you've got trim that you don't want,

1351
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 2: I'll take it.

1352
01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:20,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1353
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:24,120
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say that I'll take any trim

1354
01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:26,040
Speaker 4: you don't want.

1355
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:33,639
Speaker 2: And you know, both Eric and Chad we will. We shoot,

1356
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:37,880
Speaker 2: we shoot bucks. But recently there's a guy out in

1357
01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:39,439
Speaker 2: front of my place with a net out.

1358
01:21:39,760 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 4: I got it. It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

1359
01:21:44,479 --> 01:21:46,759
Speaker 3: What's he get? Can you see what he's catching?

1360
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:51,559
Speaker 2: Both standing up? I saw the net come out, and

1361
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:54,840
Speaker 2: it had to be a good one. I'm guessing. Oh,

1362
01:21:55,640 --> 01:22:01,480
Speaker 2: I can't tell. I haven't got my binoculars out, my my,

1363
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 2: my long eyes. I forgot what I was saying. Anyway,

1364
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:09,559
Speaker 2: But we do, we do, the three of us. Our

1365
01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 2: family does shoot anteles deer.

1366
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:11,599
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1367
01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:15,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you know, because you get some of that

1368
01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 2: time to time.

1369
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 4: Quite quite grateful for any antler list deer or or

1370
01:22:21,280 --> 01:22:24,559
Speaker 4: antler deer that comes with venice in my direction.

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01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:28,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree as stan is too. I mean, people

1372
01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:35,320
Speaker 2: don't misunderstand that man because he loves wild game and

1373
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 2: he just has he said he doesn't have the killing

1374
01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:41,080
Speaker 2: gene in him and when we'll ask him, but he

1375
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:47,120
Speaker 2: is not against hunting whatsoever. He really really is enjoys it.

1376
01:22:47,160 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 2: And some of the stuff that he has been gifted

1377
01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:52,439
Speaker 2: he will keep until Thanksgiving and that will be his meal.

1378
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:54,200
Speaker 2: So that's pretty cool.

1379
01:22:54,439 --> 01:22:57,080
Speaker 3: You said you're going pheasant hunting today. I am.

1380
01:22:57,360 --> 01:22:57,599
Speaker 6: I am.

1381
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:00,120
Speaker 2: Chat is actually coming up this evening, and he and

1382
01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:03,360
Speaker 2: I are going to hunt tomorrow for the day and

1383
01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 2: but I'll go out by myself and and just kind

1384
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:11,040
Speaker 2: of wander around and see if we can put something up.

1385
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:13,920
Speaker 2: I've only I have only shot four shells, and that

1386
01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:17,000
Speaker 2: was on opening day. But I haven't missed yet, so

1387
01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:18,599
Speaker 2: I guess my record is intact.

1388
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 3: How about you, Bob, I've shot.

1389
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:30,720
Speaker 4: My shooting percentage is not four for four. Yeah, I

1390
01:23:31,360 --> 01:23:35,599
Speaker 4: think I'm one for four maybe right now, but we'll

1391
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:38,240
Speaker 4: increase that percentage as the season goes.

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01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:42,960
Speaker 2: Do you do you think, Bob by changing species as

1393
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:45,719
Speaker 2: often as you do, does that impact that you're shooting

1394
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 2: at all?

1395
01:23:49,120 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 3: I think probably a little bit.

1396
01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 4: I think there's I think I'm slow right now catching

1397
01:23:55,479 --> 01:23:58,760
Speaker 4: up to pheasants. You know, if you just look at

1398
01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:03,000
Speaker 4: the flights of a woodcock or a grouse compared to

1399
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:05,439
Speaker 4: a pheasant, a pheasant can reach sixty miles an hour,

1400
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:08,920
Speaker 4: and if it's windy, which it often is, uh, they

1401
01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:12,960
Speaker 4: go a lot faster. So yeah, that's my excuse, do it, Archie.

1402
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:16,080
Speaker 4: I've been swinging at softballs and when I go pheasant

1403
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:18,480
Speaker 4: and it's hard to catch up to those fastballs.

1404
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:21,519
Speaker 2: Well, we do appreciate you coming in today, my friend. Hey,

1405
01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:23,559
Speaker 2: I want to say thank you also to mister Danny

1406
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:26,640
Speaker 2: Fletcher of Fletcher's Peyton Tackle, and a huge thank you

1407
01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:29,639
Speaker 2: to Stan Tequila for giving us some extra time today.

1408
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:33,360
Speaker 2: But thank you for allowing Bob and I and my

1409
01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:39,400
Speaker 2: executive producer Brett Blakemore to come to accompany us and

1410
01:24:39,600 --> 01:24:43,840
Speaker 2: us on this journey we have so for Brett, for Bob,

1411
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:47,720
Speaker 2: Saint Pierre, I am Billy Hildebrand, wishing you a fantastic

1412
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:50,840
Speaker 2: weekend and God we can't go Fishent. It's not bad

1413
01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:52,720
Speaker 2: it's everybody's out there, dot