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Speaker 1: Fans from the fish filled Midwest lakes to the deep

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

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Speaker 1: the whistling wings of duck ponds. This is Saturday Morning

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Speaker 1: Fan Outdoors, your show for hunting and fishing tips, topics

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Speaker 1: and conversations. You can also send us a question or

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Speaker 1: opinion by emailing us booth at kfean dot com. Here's

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Speaker 1: your host, the Fans, Captain Billy Hildebrand.

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

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Speaker 2: And I am all alone. As you can tell. There's

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Speaker 2: no background noise going on. It's just me out in

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Speaker 2: the wilder. No, I'm lying to you. I am lying.

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Speaker 2: I would be much more comfortable that way. But that's okay.

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Speaker 2: It's all about the outdoors. And we are down at

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Speaker 2: Pheasant Fest at the Minneapolis Convention Center inviting you to

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Speaker 2: stop on by. But you've got to do it well

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Speaker 2: this afternoon, this evening or tomorrow. Yep. Lots of stuff

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Speaker 2: to do, Lots of things do we get excited about.

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Speaker 2: If you're a bird hunter, you want to be here.

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Speaker 2: If you are a dog owner, a gun dog owner,

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Speaker 2: you want to be here. If you're thinking about being

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Speaker 2: a gun dog owner. You'd always dreamed about being a

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Speaker 2: gun dog owner. You want to be here, and if

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Speaker 2: you've got nothing to do, you want to be here.

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Speaker 2: That's right. There's plenty of room and there's lots of

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Speaker 2: people down here, lots of things going on, and if

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Speaker 2: you're interested in pheasant hunting especially, want to be down here.

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Speaker 2: And joining me this afternoon, right after the golfer game,

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Speaker 2: which we just destroyed, just destroyed them. Is a man

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Speaker 2: that I've known for quite a while, the director of

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Speaker 2: communications for Pheasants Forever, mister Jared Wickland.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Bud, Hey captain, I'm great.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for coming down to the super Bowl of the Uplands.

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Speaker 3: Have they never heard that one?

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Speaker 2: Hi? Thank you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the next to the other Super Bowl? No, We're uh,

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Speaker 4: we're glad to have you here. For listeners out there,

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Speaker 4: this is this is our biggest event of the year.

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Speaker 3: It's our biggest fundraiser.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: We're expecting twenty five thousand here at the Minneapolis Convention

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Speaker 4: Center and it's been a great day. It started Thursday

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Speaker 4: night with the Concert for Conservation. We opened yesterday morning

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Speaker 4: with the largest bird dog parade we've ever had. We

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Speaker 4: think we had one hundred and twenty three dogs and

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Speaker 4: forty three breeds and went.

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Speaker 3: Right into the show and fundraisers last night. And uh,

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Speaker 4: We got Dennis Anderson telling the Origin story tonight at

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Speaker 4: our Saturday Night celebration banquet.

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Speaker 3: So really looking forward.

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Speaker 2: To that bird dog parade. Yes, sir, what's your favorite breed?

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Speaker 2: Do you order? You must own a dog? I do.

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Speaker 3: I'm down, I'm down one.

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Speaker 4: We had old Jacks who was sixteen, our pointer, passed

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Speaker 4: away at Christmas this year after a very successful hunt

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Speaker 4: a couple of days before.

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Speaker 3: But I've got a I've got a British lab.

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Speaker 4: At home named Luna Luna tic that's what we call her.

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Speaker 4: She's she's pretty nuts so on on the birds. But

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Speaker 4: I was, uh, I've been eyeing up for a while

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Speaker 4: at a duck Tonine retriever Nova Scoti toler. Yeah, a

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Speaker 4: lot of hair. I'm not as excited about that. People

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Speaker 4: keep asking me, like, what's your fondest memory of Jackson?

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Speaker 4: The bird dog got passed away? And I said, well,

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Speaker 4: he's pretty much still here is His dander is going to

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Speaker 4: be around the house for you know, another ten fifteen years.

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Speaker 3: But no, duck Duck.

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Speaker 4: Tolling Retriever is kind of what I'm looking at for

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Speaker 4: the next dog, and it's getting the family on board.

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Speaker 3: They're they're pretty pretty breed.

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Speaker 2: Well, I uh man, that used to work at the

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Speaker 2: They need their exercise too, Yes they do, Yes they do.

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Speaker 4: There's uh the amount of dogs that we have here.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's you guys talked about it this morning

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Speaker 3: How are you? How are you? How do you want

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Speaker 4: That's what that's what dogs are for our show and

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Speaker 4: the community aspect of pheasant Fest and Coil Classic.

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Speaker 3: Uh, it's because of dogs.

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Speaker 4: And you wouldn't You wouldn't believe throughout the year how

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Speaker 4: many stories I have like, Hey, this dog stole my

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Speaker 4: really I think you've had maybe Ken Ken Yang on

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Speaker 4: before on the show in the past, same thing with

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Speaker 4: him the Kaya if you've never seen it before, for

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Speaker 4: That's how a lot of people find us find us

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Speaker 2: I've had an awful bunch of dogs in my lifetime,

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Speaker 2: and I if I didn't have a dog to hunt behind, I.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't go probably wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 2: I would And I've seen people hunting pheasants, trying to

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Speaker 2: hunt pheasants during COVID and it's got to be an

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Speaker 5: Really.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can.

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Speaker 2: Walk the same place if you're walking let's say a

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Speaker 2: It don't work that way, yep.

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Speaker 4: And I'll go back again that that community, that community aspect.

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Speaker 3: Of having a dog, and I you know me, You

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Speaker 4: I've been out to your cabin before in the lake place,

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Speaker 4: but we've got I hunt a lot of different species.

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Speaker 4: as kind of my first love.

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Speaker 3: I hunt all sorts of different species.

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Speaker 4: But that that community aspect keeps bringing me back to

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Speaker 4: bird hunting as my my favorite thing to do, especially pheasants.

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Speaker 4: There's certain times of the year where you need to

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Speaker 4: But it's one of those activities where you can come

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Speaker 3: There's nothing quite like and.

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Speaker 2: A Jared I think too that the the addiction to

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Speaker 2: bird hunting. All you have to do is be there

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Speaker 2: It can be a mutt, yep, it doesn't make any difference.

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Speaker 2: But as long as you're behind a dog, their sense

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Speaker 2: a tail spin. I've hunted for sixty plus years and

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Speaker 4: And every beauty of every dog species out there, and

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Speaker 4: every dog you own, every single one of them, they

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Speaker 4: might be somewhat similar, somewhat similar tell you know when

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Speaker 4: And it's one of those things where you can tell

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Speaker 2: Can you cannot get a bird up as long as

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Speaker 2: And sometimes the dogs get they get after some other

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I keep keep Bob's skunk recipe on my

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Speaker 2: Now, he's the only guy that I know can be

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Speaker 2: dog is skunked, and to just pour everything in a

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Speaker 4: I smelled his last truck before he sold it off,

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Speaker 3: Was maybe a little just a tiny bit off.

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Speaker 2: people what? What if somebody hasn't been to Festive Fest.

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Speaker 4: It's really the world's biggest invest show for the uplands.

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Speaker 4: Whether you are a hunter, whether you're just a habitat

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Speaker 3: There's a little bit of something for everyone.

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Speaker 4: So I can just kind of rattle off a few

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Speaker 4: largest attraction. We've got over two hundred years of knowledge

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Speaker 4: a list of seminars throughout the weekend that you can

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Speaker 4: help you find pretty cool resources. So, for instance, I

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Speaker 4: what what programs are available? I hooked him up with

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Speaker 4: of our biologists here and help you help you find

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Speaker 4: the right recipe for your land. We've got the Habitat

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Speaker 4: We've got the public Land stage moderating one coming up

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Speaker 4: Sounds like an Italian cocktail, right. There're dogs down here,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a little bit of something for everyone.

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Speaker 4: And the dog's come in all shapes and sizes and

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Speaker 2: And it's a big decision because you're committing to that

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Speaker 2: And that's I think one of the things that make

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you bet you.

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Speaker 3: We got a lot of them here.

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Speaker 2: You're not available though, as far as hunting manion, I

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Speaker 3: I love the with people. It's the best part about it.

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Speaker 2: Excellent Jared Wickland, everybody, the director of communications for Phesants

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Speaker 3: Are we going to talk about coming birds again?

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Speaker 2: We could get the fan, you know, because they're migrating.

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Speaker 3: Yes, they have started their migration. They're not this far

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Speaker 2: the feeder is frozen. Yeah, it's solid ice, sugar water

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Speaker 3: Well, grouse are known to get a little bit intoxicated

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Speaker 2: Maybe we should try that with some of your grouse

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Speaker 3: We've taken a left turn on it.

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Speaker 2: But that way you could maybe hit them or lying.

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Speaker 2: Oh hey, joining us right now, very graciously and we

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Good afternoon. Wow, it's great to be here.

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Speaker 3: You have been here as much as I have, I think,

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Speaker 6: Right, I was here for the bird Dog Parade opening.

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Speaker 6: I was here for the concert for conservation. Yeah, back today.

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Speaker 5: For more fun.

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Speaker 3: So what's your review of a concert? Are you a

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Speaker 5: I am a Turnpike fan.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was it was a great show.

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Speaker 3: And the parade? Did you you have short hairs?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: Do you have one shorter or two shorter airs too? Too?

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Speaker 3: And the parade? Do you have a new breed in mind?

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Speaker 3: Are you gonna stick with short hair?

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Speaker 5: Oh? No, short hairs all the way?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Bob, I just I didn't know the answer.

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Speaker 6: No, no, no, no selling us on something.

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Speaker 3: How was your bird hunting season?

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Speaker 5: It was okay, it was a little slow.

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Speaker 6: Honestly, we got out, We got out. We left a

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Speaker 3: Making fun of me again?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just well, you're you're good at it.

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Speaker 3: I'll leaving birds in the field in the forests. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Last year about this time, you surveyed pheasant hunters asking them,

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Speaker 6: Know, I don't, honestly, I we we haven't had a

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Speaker 5: So we're still working through process.

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Speaker 6: But you know, thanks to folks who participate in those

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Speaker 2: Do you find that the participation is h is good?

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Speaker 2: Do you find people willing to give you their opinions

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Speaker 3: What is your what is your booth number here?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? You know, honestly, yes, people are always willing to

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Speaker 2: And when somebody is upset, it's always the dn r's fault,

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Speaker 6: And I always say sometimes passion manifests itself as enthusiasm

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Speaker 3: Like the DNR is flying helicopters over at night and

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Speaker 5: Seven years? Since my eighth year.

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Speaker 3: So what's the most absurd, preposterous No names are necessary,

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Speaker 6: Well, the helicopters is one, you know, I've heard it

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Speaker 6: Right that there there's all kinds of theories people have,

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Speaker 5: We don't have black helicopters flying, you know, messing up malaks.

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Speaker 6: We didn't plant c w D as you know, motivation

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Speaker 3: of times they tell me, Bob, the science on some

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Speaker 6: That's absolutely true, right, absolutely true. I mean the science

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Speaker 5: Part of what we have to do as a public agency.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was a little distracted by oldest son Eric. Oh,

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Speaker 3: We got more Hilo brands here.

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Speaker 2: Jack and Ava and Danielle and the one yet to come.

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Speaker 3: Do we know what the one yet to come is?

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Speaker 2: It's either one. They've either got one.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well.

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Speaker 5: There's the science.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there they go.

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Speaker 5: Straightforward.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's a great opportunity to interact with our staff.

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Speaker 6: We also are promoting a very special event a year long,

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Speaker 6: a series of events actually, but this year's the seventy

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Speaker 6: fifth anniversary of our Wildlife Management Area System in Minnesota,

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Speaker 6: and so we're promoting that and inviting people to celebrate

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Speaker 6: Wildlife Management Area US with us all year long. We've

447
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Speaker 6: got some some fun stickers and swag over there.

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Speaker 3: What's the acre count for WMA's do you know off

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Speaker 3: top of your head.

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Speaker 6: It's it's over thirteen one hundred acres of WMA's So.

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Speaker 2: You know, one of the things I don't think you

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Speaker 2: the DNR gets enough credit for.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, thirteen hundred I'm sorry.

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Speaker 5: One point three million acres. Okay, okay, a couple of

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Speaker 5: them that much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you can the agency gets enough

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Speaker 2: credit for the Wildlife Area program that we have Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: And I find I've had a lot, especially being retired,

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Speaker 2: I can hudd an awful lot, but I find all kinds

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Speaker 2: of people utilizing that because the lands are not available

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Speaker 2: the way they used to be or they're gone, and

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Speaker 2: the way we're saving it is through our WMA program.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, I mean having those lands available for the public

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Speaker 6: to access for hunting, for fishing, for wildlife viewing, even

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Speaker 6: just taking a walk.

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Speaker 5: It's it's so important.

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Speaker 6: And they're all across the state, you know, so you

469
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Speaker 6: can find an opportunity pretty much wherever you are, and

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Speaker 6: it's really important that we have those for today and

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Speaker 6: for the future.

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Speaker 3: Cool. Well, we are going to take a short pause.

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Speaker 3: Up next, we have Senator Amy Klobachar joining us, the

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Speaker 3: ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee. So Commissioner Stroman,

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Speaker 3: thank you for being with us. Talking short hairs, talking Turnpike, Troubadours,

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Speaker 3: all good things, black helicopters, mythology.

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Speaker 5: So thank you, thank you so much for having me pleasure. Welcome, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: enjoys and fast.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, and we'll be right back after

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Speaker 3: a moment pause.

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Speaker 2: Three minutes after the hour of two o'clock on a

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Speaker 2: fan outdoors, Saturday afternoon, live from pheasant Fest. And we

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Speaker 2: are back, but we are being joined by the senior

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Speaker 2: Senator from Washington, d c Amy Klobashar.

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Speaker 7: Well, thank you, Billy, Thank you for Bob, thank you

486
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Speaker 7: for stopping by.

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Speaker 5: It's great to be on. So I'm excited.

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Speaker 7: It's so cool here. It's like it's been a great

489
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Speaker 7: week for Minnesota. A bunch of medals in the Olympics.

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Speaker 7: We make up half the women's hockey team. We won

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Speaker 7: that curling mixed doubles and now pheasant Fest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and coil. Jesse Diggins did very well.

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Speaker 5: See I've gotten to know her. She's incredible. She's advocated

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Speaker 5: for the outdoors out in Washington.

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Speaker 3: Here's a trivia question, do you guys know what breed

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Speaker 3: a dog? Jesse Diggins family own.

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Speaker 5: Guys are now they stumped the senator first.

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Speaker 3: Well, This is really for the captain. She her family

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Speaker 3: grew up with Britney's wonderful. There you go, She's super cool.

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Speaker 2: That is very cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you said you came here and after you're

502
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Speaker 3: done with his interview, you're looking forward to walking around

503
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Speaker 3: what I am? Are you in the market for a

504
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Speaker 3: bird dog?

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Speaker 5: I know not right now.

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Speaker 7: My daughter has her own dog, which is a whole

507
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Speaker 7: another story for another day. But I mostly just love

508
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Speaker 7: talking to Minnesotan's about what's going on.

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Speaker 5: I have a long, as you know, a long history

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Speaker 5: with the outdoors. I wouldn't tell I.

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Speaker 7: I think I was eighteen before we took any trip

512
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Speaker 7: in our family that did not involve a tent or

513
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Speaker 7: a camp amper. My dad and I bicycled from Minneapolis

514
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Speaker 7: to Jackson hallwayoming from Plymouth.

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Speaker 3: Stop there for a moment, Yeah, eleven bicycle e.

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Speaker 2: Goodness, gracious, what two or three blocks?

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Speaker 7: And my mom always loved to fish, and my grandpa

518
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Speaker 7: was a big hunter, as was my dad's brother up

519
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Speaker 7: growing up in Ealy. And then, as you all know,

520
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Speaker 7: my dad just loved the outdoor. So that has been

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Speaker 7: my life. And then my husband and I mentioned this

522
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Speaker 7: before more than halfway done hiking the Superior Hiking Trail?

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Speaker 3: So did you? Did you for the Superior Hiking Trail,

524
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Speaker 3: which is one of the gems on the planet. I love.

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Speaker 3: I've hiked. I haven't hiked the whole thing, but I've

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Speaker 3: hiked a bunch of it. Are you starting at the top?

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Speaker 5: Like seventy overorganized?

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Speaker 7: In my weird life, I have where I'm in Washington,

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Speaker 7: Minnesota and forth. We have to kind of just take

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Speaker 7: what we can get. So I have these complex maps

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Speaker 7: like a lot of outdoors, but they are about the

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Speaker 7: parts we did, and I highlight them in when we

533
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Speaker 7: did it. I've got two sets in place, I lose one,

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Speaker 7: and then it's just random wherever because if we only

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Speaker 7: have four hours, we can only do a few miles.

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Speaker 5: You can't just keep doing it in order.

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Speaker 7: It also does allow me to always look at the

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Speaker 7: elevation and do that part from the top going down.

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Speaker 7: I have a lot of tips for people who want

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Speaker 7: to find the easiest way, which is not easy.

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Speaker 3: That's help.

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Speaker 7: But my dad and I would always hike, you know,

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Speaker 7: the te Toms a lot northern Minnesota. Oberg was my

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Speaker 7: mom's favorite hike. Of course, she loved it.

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Speaker 3: One of my coworkers proposed on very cool. It's almost

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Speaker 3: an undiscovered it is, how beautiful then and you.

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Speaker 7: Think you've seen one overlook, and then you keep going

548
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Speaker 7: and they're more beautiful as you've gone. And it's also

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Speaker 7: really a fun hike to do in the winter as

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Speaker 7: long as it's not icy, because you can just kind

551
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Speaker 7: of walk through in boots, and because there's a lot

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Speaker 7: of people that do, a lot of people with dogs

553
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Speaker 7: that actually pave the trail pretty well because.

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Speaker 5: They get it smacked down. This to know anyway, But

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Speaker 5: enough about me.

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Speaker 7: Have you seen about our great state in all of

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Speaker 7: our incredible outdoor investment, which is a lot of this

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Speaker 7: is about I think you know that we have twelve

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Speaker 7: what do we have?

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Speaker 5: We have six hundred.

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Speaker 7: Thousand license hunters, We've got plowing in about a billion

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Speaker 7: dollars a year.

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Speaker 5: Twelve thousand jobs. And of course it's a lot more.

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Speaker 7: Than economics, but economics helps to make the case in

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Speaker 7: Washington when you're looking for why you have to have

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Speaker 7: a farm bill that includes conservation and CRP and the like.

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Speaker 2: So with the farm bill, there's talk about a farm

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Speaker 2: bill maybe happening.

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Speaker 7: What's your thought, Well, we may need one just because

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Speaker 7: and I'm not going to spend my few glorious moments

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Speaker 7: talking about tariffs. But there have been issues that are

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Speaker 7: headwinds for the farmers, okay, and so it has made

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Speaker 7: it really hard. And so the farmers needing help might

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Speaker 7: lead to what we call a skinny farm bill, because

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Speaker 7: some of the work from the farm Bill, including some

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Speaker 7: good conservation funding, was in a bill this summer. So

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Speaker 7: now we look at what do we need when it

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Speaker 7: comes to conservation, and there are some great things we

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Speaker 7: could do with CRP, which is of course the program

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Speaker 7: that allows farmers to voluntarily take their land.

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Speaker 5: Out of production for a while. It's good for.

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Speaker 7: Them if they get the government helps to pay for that.

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Speaker 7: It's good for the hunters and habitat, but it is

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Speaker 7: also good for soil in the environment.

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Speaker 5: So what we'd like to do is get more acres

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Speaker 5: of CRP in there.

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Speaker 7: And that's a Thune, who's the Republican leader, and I

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Speaker 7: have paired up on these conservation measures many times. We'd

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Speaker 7: like to make sure that some I'm looking at the

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Speaker 7: prescribed burn aheadside, making sure that some of these wildlife

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Speaker 7: habitat and make seeds that and prescribe burns which are

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Speaker 7: good for birds. That those kinds of things would be

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Speaker 7: included as ways you can show you're making good practice

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Speaker 7: to get funded, and then just changing some of the

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Speaker 7: funding levels because they haven't.

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Speaker 5: Changed since the eighties.

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Speaker 7: So those are things that if we do a farm bill,

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Speaker 7: which it'll be impetus honestly, will probably be that the

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Speaker 7: farmers are in trouble, but okay, and then we make

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Speaker 7: sure and demand that some of these conservation measures which

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Speaker 7: we've done in the past are in there. One other

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Speaker 7: good sign was Bozeman, who's my counterpart in the Republican

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Speaker 7: side from Arkansas, where they have a lot of ducks.

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Speaker 7: You know, they start start, yeah, but those ducks helped

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Speaker 7: us because he and I added the most in decades

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Speaker 7: to public lands. We added one hundred thousand acres out

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Speaker 7: of the committee and that is now sitting on the

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Speaker 7: Senate floor. It's Democrat and Republican states. And you know,

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Speaker 7: there was this effort to sell off public lands, which

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Speaker 7: I strongly opposed, and we were able with pheasants Forever

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Speaker 7: and quills Forever help and ducks Unlimited, we were able

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Speaker 7: to push back on that. So the public land wasn't

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Speaker 7: sold as part of that budget bill this summer.

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Speaker 3: When I started working for Pheasants Forever previous life working

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Speaker 3: in baseball. Yeah, and I completely outside of politics. And

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Speaker 3: I sit down to work at a job with Pheasants

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Speaker 3: Forever in two thousand and three and they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: stuff we work on is nonpartisan. The farm bill is nonpartisan.

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Speaker 3: Is that still true today in twenty twenty six where

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Speaker 3: because you have mentioned, you know, Senator Bozman, Senator Soon

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Speaker 3: on the Republican side, that you're working together. You introduced legislation,

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Speaker 3: came out here.

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Speaker 5: To spend a day with me doing meeting all the leaders.

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Speaker 3: So what brings people together around the farm bill?

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Speaker 7: On the farm bill, it's just some common interest and

626
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Speaker 7: wanting to get things done for rural America.

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Speaker 5: And there's always three pillars of it.

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Speaker 7: There's always the farm programs, and then there is nutrition,

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Speaker 7: and then there is conservation. And the people in the

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Speaker 7: very farm oriented states, we're kind of a mixtape, but

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Speaker 7: we have a lot of farming.

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Speaker 5: We're fourth in the nation for farm exports.

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Speaker 7: They get that they can't pass a farm bill, and

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Speaker 7: this has traditionally been the way it's been without doing

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Speaker 7: something on conservation without making sure the school nutrition programs

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Speaker 7: or other nutrition programs are in there. And that's created

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Speaker 7: some support for farmers that maybe normally wouldn't be there

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Speaker 7: with some of my more urban democratic senators, honestly, and

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Speaker 7: the conservation piece of it is increasingly a big deal,

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Speaker 7: and there's so many other things we can do, like

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Speaker 7: precision agriculture that conserves water and you can have less

642
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Speaker 7: pesticide if you use modern technology to be able to

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Speaker 7: figure that out on your farms. That's another billfoon than

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Speaker 7: I have. We've done a bunch on prairie podles, bunch

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Speaker 7: of things on trying to get conservation as a priority

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Speaker 7: in the farm bill, and it should be our farmers.

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Speaker 5: A lot of them think of themselves a stewards of

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Speaker 5: the land.

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Speaker 7: But then we've got to have the guidelines to incentivize that.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned last summer there was a move to sell

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Speaker 3: off millions of acres of public lands in the country

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Speaker 3: and it was unlike anything I'd ever seen before. Social media, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and hunters and public hikers, campers rallied together to push back.

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Speaker 3: And so often we go to the outdoors to unplug

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Speaker 3: and get away, right.

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Speaker 7: And then you suddenly have to get on this. So

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Speaker 7: it's my question of the sesspool, which is many platforms

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Speaker 7: right now, right Like, I did not sign up for this,

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Speaker 7: but I think it made a huge difference that individual

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Speaker 7: hunters and people who believed in the outdoors got involved, because,

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Speaker 7: especially in a congressional district, you know, if they start

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Speaker 7: getting a bunch of because it's.

663
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 3: Not a bunch of what makes a difference.

664
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 7: Oh, it can sometimes be twenty five, it can be

665
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 7: fifteen people. You just get your family to do it

666
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 7: and you put out It doesn't have to be rude,

667
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 7: but you're like, this is very important. You put out

668
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 7: things on the multiple platforms now it's X and threads

669
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 7: and all these places and Facebook, and you do this

670
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 7: and you put out there it matters.

671
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 5: Calling still matters people.

672
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,919
Speaker 7: You know, know what happens in this Scholch writing letter

673
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 7: emails usually emails, all those things matters because we get

674
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 7: reports on that what it is. I always approve letters back,

675
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:28,959
Speaker 7: not to each person.

676
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 5: Groups of them.

677
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 7: So I'm actually reading what we are putting out there

678
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 7: and approve at myself. Even if we get you know,

679
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 7: twenty thousand in a month or something. And so I

680
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 7: just think that that really does matter. And then of

681
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 7: course leadership comes out of your group and meets with

682
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 7: senators or their staffs or Congress members or staff, so

683
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 7: it really matters. And people shouldn't just give up on

684
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 7: our democracy right now.

685
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 5: I mean, Minnesota has.

686
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 7: A really big volunteer state, especially when it comes to outdoors.

687
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 7: That's why part of these reason these habitats have been

688
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 7: and people donating money to groups like Pheasants forever. But

689
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 7: we also have political involvement, and you can agree like

690
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 7: Fune and I do, or Bozeman and I do.

691
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:10,919
Speaker 5: You can agree on.

692
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 7: This piece of this even if you have other disagreement.

693
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 7: And that's been really the hallmark of my time in

694
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 7: the Senate. I'm like number one for bipartisan bills two

695
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 7: Congress ago number three for passing bills into law. And

696
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 7: you got to be able to find some common ground.

697
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 7: And I have found in our state, you know, working

698
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 7: with our Republican delegation as well as nationally, that outdoors

699
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 7: has always been a really big deal of trying to

700
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 7: get people to support conservation.

701
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 5: Going back to Teddy Roosevelt, right, is.

702
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 3: The public lands sell off so bad? It was so bad,

703
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 3: but it was at the end of the day, it

704
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 3: was a feel good of the community.

705
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 5: You got something.

706
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 3: It was startlingly different for me to witness. Did you

707
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 3: notice it being different. Was it a topic that was

708
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 3: different for you?

709
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 7: Yeah, mostly because you had people on both sides that

710
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 7: felt strongly about it and people were trying to get

711
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 7: something by in this bill. It ended up being a

712
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 7: more partisan bill anyway, but there were measures in it

713
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 7: that were both supported, like the conservation funding that I

714
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 7: support even though that bill wasn't mine, and then.

715
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 5: That we're opposed.

716
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 7: But I think it actually helped lead to Bozeman and

717
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 7: I getting all these public lands from about I think

718
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 7: it's like fifteen states or some you know, set aside

719
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 7: to have more public land. And that's where the one

720
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 7: hundred thousand acres the vote in the agg committee that

721
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 7: was unanimous came out of that.

722
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 5: And now that is sitting on the floor and we'll

723
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 5: get it, not literally on the floor, but in the center.

724
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 3: That was for Billy rather than be right.

725
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 5: I know, he's just sitting there going, Okay, when is.

726
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 3: This gonna happen.

727
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 7: But one other thing that Billy has been the captain

728
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 7: knows very well.

729
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 5: It's a legacy Amendment Minnesota.

730
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 7: It just was a treasure of amendment when it passed.

731
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 7: And twenty five years and it's made such a difference,

732
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 7: you know, six hundred thousand acres of land set aside

733
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 7: sixty thousand more wetlands, I mean, and keeping that as

734
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 7: a treasure, which there's no effort to change it right now,

735
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 7: but I mean, just it's got to be renewed though.

736
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,439
Speaker 7: Dang it does in like twenty thirty fours, twenty thirty

737
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 7: two two.

738
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 5: Okay, well there stumped us on the shop.

739
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 3: You know, we did this like Jesus, we'll get it here.

740
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:31,919
Speaker 7: But anyway, just the the that has been really key

741
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 7: to a lot of our efforts in Minnesota.

742
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, so what's the next trail you're going

743
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 3: to hike? You got one circle, but.

744
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 7: I mean I got like the worst legs of this superior.

745
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 7: Now when I've described this where I try to do

746
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 7: like four or five miles at a time, that leads

747
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 7: to some parts of the trail that are like ten

748
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 7: fifteen miles eleven where there's no way to get off

749
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 7: it unless I discover some snowmobile trail that allows me

750
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 7: to go down. So those long ones I've kind of

751
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 7: been putting off. There's about five of them, so I

752
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 7: have to get get those done. But I've got that

753
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 7: what is that track eleven or kind of there's no

754
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 7: section third section?

755
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 5: Oh thanks, yeah at all. He's like, it's just unbelievable. Okay,

756
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 5: section thirteen, yes, and that thing.

757
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 7: So I'm like, you know, I am the senator, so

758
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 7: you don't want to act like a whim.

759
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 5: But I'm like going up that thing. And my husband

760
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 5: is like, going, come on, I'm like, I just have

761
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,280
Speaker 5: to sit down again on this rock. But it is beautiful.

762
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 3: That would And then then you didn't know I knew

763
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 3: all these that thing I did.

764
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 2: You finally got to mention section thirteen.

765
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, especially like the rock hike on Lake Superior.

766
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:49,760
Speaker 5: That was flat.

767
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 3: It was fun.

768
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 7: There's oh there's about a mile or two anyway there.

769
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 3: That's about all.

770
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, yes, there's home the town of a small

771
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 7: town of Covil. And that was the guy you know

772
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 7: what Kukovil was. He was the general that or whatever

773
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 7: his title was. But he led our troops at the

774
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 7: Battle of Gettysburg. Yeah, it's a.

775
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 5: Very cool story.

776
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 7: And we and our Minnesota troops, ragtab group of farmers

777
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 7: and just regular workers. They didn't even have good uniforms.

778
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,760
Speaker 7: They had the highest rate of casualties at the Battle

779
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 7: of Gettysburg because they were asked to hold the line

780
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 7: and the majority of them died. And this story when

781
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 7: I went to Gettysburg with you know home, Maine had

782
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 7: that very famous thing there was Maine was like, this has.

783
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 5: A huge monument.

784
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 7: Everyone, the guys from the War college giving the tour

785
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 7: started to cry when they talked about Minnesota and what

786
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 7: we had done so the town will win. That guy

787
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 7: who didn't die but was very brave, he came back

788
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 7: and he was from southern Minnesota, but he decided to

789
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 7: go up to you know, I guess he was like

790
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 7: hiking the early Superior and he went up.

791
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 5: There to get away.

792
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 7: And so there is a near the Cadenz River, which

793
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 7: is a beautiful hike.

794
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 5: There's a whole thing, a little memorial to that guy.

795
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 7: So there you go I want up to Yeah, I

796
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 7: know with military history.

797
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 3: Going to be very happy with me.

798
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 5: Anyway. But it is our state.

799
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 7: I mean, just this whole when you think about it,

800
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 7: and this what's a Minnesota experience? Just this the outdoors

801
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 7: piece of this, whether it's hunting, whether it's fishing, hiking,

802
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 7: whether it's these bike trails. It's been really the defining

803
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 7: thing about Minnesota, and I think that we've got to

804
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 7: elevate that right now in a big way because our

805
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 7: state's been through a lot this year. I'm not going

806
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 7: to go through through all the difficulties, but it is

807
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 7: this moment like no other way. I think we can

808
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 7: really elevate Minnesota right now and encourage people to come.

809
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,760
Speaker 5: They will say, oh, how can we help Minnesota.

810
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 7: I'm like, Oh, why don't you come and go visit

811
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 7: Lake Superior. I've said this on TV. Why don't you

812
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 7: go to the Mall America? Are you just you know,

813
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 7: come here? And I'm hoping it's going to be a

814
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 7: real boost and more conventions coming In NFL draft, Oh

815
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 7: that was my.

816
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,320
Speaker 3: Do you have an opinion on who should be the quarterback?

817
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 3: You're throwing it out there.

818
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:22,719
Speaker 7: I was explaining, well, I mean, you know, we're not

819
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 7: going to go over the Darnald decision. And how that

820
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 7: felt the day of the Super Bowl, well that was hard.

821
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 7: I actually got to watch that Super Bowl at a

822
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 7: party with Rosen sitting next to me, and I kept saying, yeah, okay,

823
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 7: and I kept saying, it's going to be another field goal.

824
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 5: He's like, no, it isn't. I go it just feels

825
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 5: like a field goal. It's going to be a field goal.

826
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 7: But I that was kind of hard seeing him be

827
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 7: that winning quarterback. But I I was telling you earlier

828
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 7: one of my favorite JJ McCarthy's line in his good quarter,

829
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 7: one good quarter in the first half of the season,

830
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 7: and then he did better after we had of course

831
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 7: no longer its qualified. But when he was in the

832
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 7: huddle and they were down like seventeen to six and

833
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 7: there was not much time left, and he looked at

834
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 7: all and it got picked up in the sound. He

835
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,959
Speaker 7: looked at all the older players because he's so young

836
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 7: in the huddle and said something to the effect.

837
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 5: Of, is there somewhere else you'd rather be?

838
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 7: And I've tried to use that with the Senator sometimes

839
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 7: when they're complaining about stuff, really, is.

840
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 5: There somewhere else you'd rather be?

841
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 7: And you know, I don't know what they're going to do,

842
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 7: but I'm always I never give up. I have one

843
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 7: of those shirts that says always optimistic.

844
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:33,919
Speaker 5: Since nineteen what is it.

845
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 7: Sixteen, mister fact man nineteen sixty nineteen.

846
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 3: My dad, I'm a Lions fan, and we don't we

847
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:41,800
Speaker 3: don't even have a nineteen anything.

848
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 7: My dad covered them when they were an expansion went

849
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:45,760
Speaker 7: at the beginning.

850
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 5: He was covering the Vikings way way back.

851
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 7: So anyway, what else do you have any questions?

852
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 5: Captain of me, I'm just.

853
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 2: Staying out of the fray.

854
00:43:58,080 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 5: I don't know.

855
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 2: Is this yeah? I mean Prop thirteen.

856
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 3: Section thirteen.

857
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 7: It's a section in the kind of the backwoods of

858
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 7: the Severior hiking trail that's especially hard and has really

859
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 7: cool views and there's a lot of rock climbers that

860
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 7: go there.

861
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 3: And if you go the other direction, I think it's

862
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 3: the parking lot is County six heading up to wolf Ridge.

863
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 3: But if you go the other direction on Lake Superior,

864
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 3: go to the Sawmill Dome, that's the other section of

865
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 3: that trail. Yeah, that is absolutely beautiful as well.

866
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 7: And there's also urban hiking. Captain, I want to try

867
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 7: and told there's a good section of the trail that

868
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 7: you can you know, I take.

869
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 2: You to a lot of the public hunting areas.

870
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 5: Okay, good, and we want to have more. That's our

871
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 5: do we do?

872
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 7: So what is the what is like the predictions on

873
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 7: pheasants for this coming season and the coming year, and

874
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 7: what you think based on So.

875
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 3: It's a little or but I know it's it's well.

876
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 5: You know everything.

877
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 3: You are, you are enjoying this.

878
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 7: I'm trying to stump in what are you seeing because

879
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 7: I got to bring it back to Washington.

880
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 3: Get right. Well, winter started off a little aggressive, which

881
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 3: was a little troubling because.

882
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 5: That's a nice Minnesota youpham troubling. It was tubing.

883
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 3: Well, it's a long, hard winter is hard on the birds.

884
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 3: It was early, it was hard, and then very mild

885
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 3: until here, you know, the last I don't know, we

886
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 3: had a little bit of ice storm snowstorm the last week,

887
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 3: but by and large the winter has been overall pretty mild,

888
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 3: which is very good for bringing hens into springtime in

889
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 3: strong condition, which means reproduction is set up for a

890
00:45:55,920 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 3: good scenario. Okay, if we have crpe on the landscape

891
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:04,399
Speaker 3: to create nesting cover for hens to nest, and then

892
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 3: the birds reproduce, and then hunters and their dogs Britney's

893
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,280
Speaker 3: or short hairs get to go out in the field

894
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 3: and uh go find them.

895
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 2: Good.

896
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 3: So right now things are looking pretty good.

897
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 2: Okay, An orange over there and his wife family. Yes,

898
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 2: they're all out here, Eric and Chad and Katie and there.

899
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 2: They all all of them, all two of them work

900
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 2: in natural resources.

901
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's great. But they're on the show.

902
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just coming over to check on box.

903
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 3: It's like a Hildebrand family reunion. You just be quiet,

904
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 3: believe me.

905
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 7: I like that hair. It's on the edge of red

906
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 7: hair there. It's kind of sticking up.

907
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 2: We know, kind of don't know where it came from, but.

908
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:02,720
Speaker 5: It's very cute.

909
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 7: But anyway, all right, I'm not sure what Yeah, yeah,

910
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 7: anymore questions here?

911
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 5: Well, let me see. I think we're.

912
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 2: I can't tell life. I can't tell.

913
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 3: Let's leave it with the Conservation Reserve Program. Yeah, because

914
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 3: it is the bread and butter of birds.

915
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 5: It is fortieth.

916
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, we haven't had a farm bill in two years

917
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:31,839
Speaker 3: to reauthorize CRP to improve soil rental rates. You and

918
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 3: Senator Thun introduced a CRP Improvement Act. What can hunters

919
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 3: listening do to help move this along?

920
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 7: I think just keep advocating for your member of Congress

921
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 7: for everyone to say, could we get some version of

922
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 7: a farm bill? Even though some of the conservation funding

923
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:51,959
Speaker 7: they're going to hear, well, some of it was done,

924
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,879
Speaker 7: that's true, but because of the way it happened, we

925
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 7: weren't able to make improvements to the program, which I

926
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,280
Speaker 7: mentioned some of them. The payment numbers have to increase,

927
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 7: and the way that some of the practices with soiled

928
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 7: that would be better for birds have to be done,

929
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 7: and that we could put in pretty simply, given that

930
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,919
Speaker 7: Fune is the majority leader and I'm like number three

931
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 7: whatever I'm we could get those things done. And so

932
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 7: their support for that, and I think that the Pheasants

933
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 7: Forever has done a really good job toward getting more

934
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 7: bipartisan support for it. I don't see it as but

935
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 7: the problem is that in the House version that was

936
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 7: the first one to come out.

937
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:32,919
Speaker 2: Gt.

938
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 7: Thompson's the leader there. I get along with him. Well,

939
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 7: Angie Craig's the ranking over there from Minnesota, and the

940
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 7: thing Gt put out did not include our conservation changes.

941
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 7: Now he might have done it that way, then we

942
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 7: put it in later. You know how it works in

943
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 7: the Senate, because we're more into it in the Senate.

944
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 7: But we've got to get that into this bill if

945
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 7: this bill starts rolling, because our farmers need help If

946
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 7: that's the reason, fine, But then we've got to get

947
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 7: our conservation measures in there, and that is primarily includes

948
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 7: some of these changes to conservation reserve program and getting

949
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 7: more acres. And Thune and I successfully in the last

950
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 7: farm bill got some more acres, but we'd like to

951
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 7: get even more. And after that great lobbing effort to

952
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 7: stop the sale of public lands that all you did.

953
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 7: That improves our chances because people go, oh wow, those

954
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,359
Speaker 7: guys are strong. They came and they did something. And

955
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 7: so that's why the reason it's relevant right now is

956
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,280
Speaker 7: that that bill just got introduced last week in the House.

957
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 5: It wasn't a Senate bill.

958
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 7: I really can't imagine us doing a bill without the

959
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 7: conservation measures in there. Cause tunes on the committee, and

960
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 7: so is Rounds, and so is Bozeman. That I mentioned,

961
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 7: there's a bunch of senators that tend to care about hunting.

962
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 3: And there's states, Jean coven states that have a lot

963
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 3: of hunters. Right, Senator, thank you for coming out to us.

964
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:57,240
Speaker 5: It was really fun.

965
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, sincerely appreciate it, and I will.

966
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 7: Keep you update hit it on that Superior Hiking.

967
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 3: Draft Section thirteen caption.

968
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 5: And I'm not doing that again. It was beautiful.

969
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 7: But the captain's going to go doing to bring all

970
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 7: his grandkids.

971
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 2: They're going to have to carry me off.

972
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 3: That's all.

973
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 2: Give me a big wheel and we'll just bush it.

974
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:19,240
Speaker 5: Okay.

975
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 2: They they frowned a little bit on motors and that's

976
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 2: the only way I would get up there. But anyway, senators,

977
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 2: thank you.

978
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 5: It was great. Thank you.

979
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:30,399
Speaker 2: Fascinating and yeah, your life.

980
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 5: That's okay, what do you mean it was?

981
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 7: It's something that people in Minnesota decide, and they decided

982
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 7: goes there.

983
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 5: So it's it's that's why we do the.

984
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 2: Job, is for the It's nice for hunters and sportsmen

985
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 2: to have a friend, and you are that front.

986
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 5: Appreciate it. I go way back to Bud Grant.

987
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:51,880
Speaker 7: Let me tell you that you do you know that

988
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 7: he used to call Okay, one last story. He used

989
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 7: to call our house when I was a little kid

990
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 7: and my dad was covering the vikings. And I would

991
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 7: always answer the phone back then, as a lot of

992
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 7: kids did.

993
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 5: Close our residents amy.

994
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 7: Speaking like that, so I would answer it and this

995
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 7: voice would be on after a game and it would

996
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 7: just say Jim and I go excuse me, Jim and

997
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 7: I go just a minute like this. Then he started

998
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 7: doing it right answer close, and he wouldn't say anything,

999
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:22,919
Speaker 7: and then I would know it was him.

1000
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 8: I'm my god, that coach Dad, because he was a

1001
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 8: man of so few words, but he was so great

1002
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 8: for conservation men, for hunting in our state, as you know,

1003
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 8: and fishing everything outdoor.

1004
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 7: So he is an old family friend. So okay, thank you,

1005
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:41,359
Speaker 7: thank you, see you later.

1006
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,760
Speaker 2: We will take a pause and be back with more

1007
00:51:45,200 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 2: right after this. We are back live at the Minnesota

1008
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 2: State Fair.

1009
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 3: Is that what it feels like? Are we gonna get

1010
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 3: some some cookies? Maybe?

1011
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 2: Yeah? Stop it wherever you get some uh sweet? Yeah,

1012
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 2: never mind the worst part?

1013
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:38,399
Speaker 3: How you doing?

1014
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1015
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 2: I told him I was frazzled. I just uh anyway,

1016
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 2: We're down at the pheasant Fest of Minneapolis Convention Center

1017
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 2: and Bob Saint Pierre, who was just dimied by the

1018
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 2: senator trampled trample.

1019
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:57,720
Speaker 3: We talked trampled by turtles.

1020
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 2: We did, we did. Tom Carpenter joins us right now.

1021
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 2: Carp is effectually known as car KRT. But first of all,

1022
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 2: thank you. I know you get preempted.

1023
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,880
Speaker 9: I got preempted by a d n R. Commissioner and

1024
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 9: a US senator. But that's the thing we're going with people.

1025
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1026
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 9: I walked over here and there's a big crowded like,

1027
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 9: oh wow, do people know I was going to be there?

1028
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 3: They tell you were coming over to talk spring turkeys.

1029
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:26,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, this is my friend Amy Klobashire. So I'm okay,

1030
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 9: I'm good, I'm glad, I'm glad.

1031
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,760
Speaker 2: We are. We could talk turkey very we could.

1032
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're but you said this morning on the show,

1033
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 3: tell me where he hunts anyway about?

1034
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 9: But you know the number one secret to turkey hunting success.

1035
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 9: What's that having a good place to hunt turkeys?

1036
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.

1037
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 3: But I'll get on.

1038
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 9: I'll get on towards forwards turkey season and we'll talk turkey.

1039
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 2: We will. We will talk turkey. One of the things

1040
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 2: Bobby asked me what I wanted to talk about. I said, well,

1041
00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 2: we'll talk dogs obviously, and my face favorite breed is

1042
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 2: a Brittany. Yeah. I don't care what his is because

1043
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,800
Speaker 2: he don't count. Then I know that's your favorite.

1044
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 3: All well, slightly slightly right now, Well, go ahead explain.

1045
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 2: Well you're going to.

1046
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:18,359
Speaker 9: Getsb No, we're talking there's different different brands of Brittany too,

1047
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 9: you know, and that's that's sort of what we're here

1048
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 9: to talk about. And I'm an American Brittany fan. I've

1049
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 9: had three American Brittanys and now have a French Brittany.

1050
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 3: Called the epin Britton Breton.

1051
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 9: Which means Spaniel of Brittany. And they are the original Brittany's.

1052
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 9: They are the Brittany's that came over and that were

1053
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 9: Americanized by us into the American Brittany. So the French

1054
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 9: Brittany's up in the Berton's are the original Brittany's from

1055
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 9: from the old country, the old countries.

1056
00:54:51,920 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 2: Interesting, yeah, okay, And I've had one, two, three, i

1057
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 2: think three American Brittanys and a litter of Brittany's. What's

1058
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 2: the difference between the American and.

1059
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 9: The front A couple things that I think the biggest

1060
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 9: difference is the size and the build of the dog.

1061
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 10: The personalities are much the same.

1062
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 9: Brittany's, of course, very bidable, very agreeable, very loving, very friendly,

1063
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 9: great house dogs, hunting machines. But physically the French Brittany's

1064
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 9: up in the Overtons, we'll call them French Brittany's are smaller.

1065
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 10: They're a little shorter legged.

1066
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,760
Speaker 9: They call it copier is sort of the dog word world,

1067
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:44,720
Speaker 9: the word in the dog world.

1068
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,279
Speaker 10: They're a little more muscular.

1069
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 9: When we americanize these French Brittanys into American Brittanys, we

1070
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 9: made them longer legged, We made them bigger running, we

1071
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 9: you know, just make them more. What's more American than

1072
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 9: bigger and faster and wider ranging. And these French Brittanys

1073
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 9: are smaller, they don't They naturally don't want to range

1074
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 9: as far. They want to stay a little closer. And

1075
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,400
Speaker 9: I hunt mine close. You know, you can hunt, just

1076
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 9: ask Bob. You can hunt appointing dog as big as

1077
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 9: you want. But I like to keep my dogs a

1078
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 9: little closer. And so not only do they hunt a

1079
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 9: little closer, but they are wonderful at adapting to what

1080
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 9: you're hunting. I hunt with my French Brittany sharp tail

1081
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 9: grouse and prairie chickens, pheasants, of course, and I also

1082
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 9: take them in the woods for rough grouse and especially woodcock,

1083
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 9: which Bob knows I love as well. And they are

1084
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:51,160
Speaker 9: very adapt at adapting to all these different situations. And

1085
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,720
Speaker 9: that's What I love about them is their adaptability.

1086
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 10: You can pretty much take.

1087
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 9: Them anywhere and they just like I'm snapping my fingers.

1088
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 10: They feel out pretty fast.

1089
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 9: What you want to do, and that that's what I

1090
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 9: love about them. And they're like any good dog. If

1091
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 9: you're thinking about dogs, the number one thing, no matter

1092
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 9: what your breed, and all bird dog breeds are great,

1093
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:15,760
Speaker 9: the number one.

1094
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 10: Thing is is it from a good breeder? Is it

1095
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 10: good breeding line?

1096
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 2: There?

1097
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 10: And they are not.

1098
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 9: These these French Brittanys are natural born hunters. It's it's

1099
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 9: in their nog and they know how to point. They

1100
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 9: know how to hunt, some retrieve, some don't, and you

1101
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 9: can of course teach them that, but they are natural

1102
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 9: pointing dog, close working hunters.

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00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:47,080
Speaker 2: What about trainability is and I don't know if you

1104
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 2: can compare with the American and the French. If it

1105
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 2: should be compared, yes, but there's got to be similarities.

1106
00:57:56,480 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 2: What my limited experience, what I found is my dogs

1107
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 2: are My dogs are good. And I had My first

1108
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 2: dog was great now, no thanks to me, that's just

1109
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 2: who she was and the but she would became great

1110
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 2: after about a year and a half maybe two, and

1111
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 2: then it was like somebody turned the light switch.

1112
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 3: On and.

1113
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 2: My god, she was unbelievable.

1114
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 9: And well, that comes back to what I said, and

1115
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 9: that's absolutely right about if you get it from a

1116
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 9: good hunting line and mom and dad dog hunt, your

1117
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 9: dog has that bred into them. And then I have

1118
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:48,120
Speaker 9: to do is give them the opportunity. I do a

1119
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 9: presentation here at Pheasant Fest. I've done it for the

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00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 9: last several years called beer Dog Family Dog, and my

1121
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 9: message is that you can have a dog that can.

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00:58:57,480 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 10: Be a wonderful pet, a wonderful.

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00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 9: Family dog, love the kids live with you in the house,

1124
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 9: but also hunt because they have that it's in their nature.

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00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 9: And basically you talk about training teach I teach a

1126
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 9: dog basic obedience.

1127
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 10: I teach them to come.

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00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,720
Speaker 9: I teach them to hup or redirect, and I teach

1129
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:20,800
Speaker 9: them to do to heal when I want them to.

1130
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 10: And you know what I do. Then I take them hunting.

1131
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 9: And I don't care if I spend a year or two,

1132
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 9: a season or two, and it's usually only half a

1133
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 9: season with a pup, a young dog.

1134
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 10: They figure it out. You take them out, you work.

1135
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 9: You know, you can do some summer work at the

1136
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 9: with planted birds, and stuff. But I think the best

1137
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 9: thing is teach them some basic obedience so you know,

1138
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 9: you have that control, and then go hunting and figure

1139
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:47,920
Speaker 9: it out together.

1140
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 2: And each dog I've owned, I introduce them to water.

1141
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 2: They love water. I mean they'll go out and swim

1142
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 2: just for the sake of swimming. It's your Brits. Yes, yeah,

1143
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 2: they're supposed to swim. They're supposed to like water. But

1144
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 2: my gosh, they go across the lake. If I'd let them,

1145
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 2: they'll be down five hundred yards and they just keep colding.

1146
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 9: Now do you ever take your Brits and let them

1147
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 9: and take them duck hunting retree?

1148
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:21,640
Speaker 10: That's that's pretty cool.

1149
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 9: Like I've never had a natural water brittany, either my

1150
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 9: Americans or my French Brittany. They come up to a

1151
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 9: puddle and she's like, okay, okay, let's go around this.

1152
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 3: They you know, but apple didn't far far far from

1153
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 3: the tree.

1154
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 10: That's right, that's right.

1155
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 2: But my other one who I just lost, she was

1156
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 2: twelve and she was fantastic. I dropped three mallards out

1157
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:51,960
Speaker 2: in this puddle. They wear leather boots on and I

1158
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 2: would have to get right down to my skivvies to

1159
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 2: go again, they said.

1160
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:56,960
Speaker 3: Snip back.

1161
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,479
Speaker 2: She went out and picked up each one, one of them,

1162
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 2: one at a time. I brought up the hand.

1163
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 9: That's the difference between and that's individual dogs and just

1164
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 9: what their preference are. But here's the difference between you

1165
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 9: and me. A couple of years ago, it was a blizzard.

1166
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 9: It was southwestern Minnesota. I was hunting. We found some

1167
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 9: fresh tracks, put the dog on, we trailed, trailed the rooster.

1168
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 9: She went on point and I'm not going to say

1169
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 9: the word I'm gonna I should say, but I said.

1170
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 10: Oh shoot, because I was good.

1171
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 9: I walked and I walked in for the flush, knowing

1172
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 9: what was going to happen. Three roosters went out. I

1173
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 9: shot one and I heard splash. And this was with

1174
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 9: my current dog, Lark, and we walked over to the

1175
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 9: edge of the slough and I looked out there and

1176
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:47,720
Speaker 9: there's the pheasant belly up. And I looked at Lark

1177
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 9: and I said, you wait here.

1178
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:50,439
Speaker 2: And I had to wait.

1179
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 3: Now you wait here.

1180
01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:00,919
Speaker 10: Now that's said, that's I will.

1181
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:01,600
Speaker 2: I will.

1182
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 9: I would pit her against any dog for running down

1183
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 9: a cripple or finding a lost bird. And we all

1184
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:10,000
Speaker 9: know we all know that we're here Pheasant Fest, we're

1185
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 9: pheasant hunters. We all know that happens, and she can

1186
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 9: do it, but she she has a red pen and

1187
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 9: she scratched retrieving from her contract. But that brings us back.

1188
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 9: That brings us back to you have your own contract

1189
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 9: with your own dog. You become happy, and I say,

1190
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 9: who cares about what anyone else thinks?

1191
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 10: You do?

1192
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 9: You and you do your dog. You figure out that

1193
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:33,400
Speaker 9: relationship and you just hunt.

1194
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:36,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with you. I just I've been

1195
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 2: fortunate and I spend a fair amount of time with

1196
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:45,880
Speaker 2: retrieving with my dog. Yeah, my my other dog and

1197
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:49,200
Speaker 2: the dog I have right now. She's just turned four.

1198
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 2: The light came on this year, and up until this year,

1199
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 2: I didn't know if it was gonna light or not.

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01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 2: But and she stays close, works really really really well together.

1201
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 2: And in spite of what Bob thinks about Brittany's, I

1202
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 2: love them. I love him too.

1203
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:08,440
Speaker 3: Bob knows that I grew up with them.

1204
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:10,640
Speaker 2: I love them. Yeah, well you've got one of the

1205
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:15,320
Speaker 2: pups here folks do. Yeah. Yeah, But anyway, carp I

1206
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 2: thank you man.

1207
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 9: Yeah, this is fun and glad come down to pheasant

1208
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:21,120
Speaker 9: fest tomorrow if you haven't been here yet today, it's great.

1209
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 9: We're having a great time. Yeah obviously, yes, all right,

1210
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 9: thank you guys.

1211
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:31,240
Speaker 2: You're welcome. Tom Carpenter and a pheasant Pheasants forever. What's

1212
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 2: your title.

1213
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 10: I'm the editor.

1214
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 2: You are the editor of the Magazi.

1215
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 10: You have the print magazine and I do.

1216
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:40,360
Speaker 9: I do podcasts with Bob, I do our pheasant minute videos.

1217
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 10: Watch those.

1218
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:43,560
Speaker 9: I get out in the field and do some baby

1219
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 9: some irreverent things. But I tell pheasant hunting like it

1220
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 9: is blue collar, hard public land pheasant hunting.

1221
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:50,920
Speaker 10: That's what we are.

1222
01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 2: You hit that, Neil right on the head, buddy, all

1223
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,120
Speaker 2: right on the head. Thanks you guys, Tom Carpenter, and

1224
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 2: we thank him for coming by. We'll take a pause

1225
01:03:58,560 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 2: and be back with.

1226
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 3: To be determined.

1227
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 9: Okay, you know here, it's empty here, the center is gone,

1228
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 9: the commissioner's gone.

1229
01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 10: We're here by ourselves.

1230
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 2: Like I said, it's like State Fair because don virul

1231
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 2: can be on the fan and they have the big audience.

1232
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 2: Fan out tours comes on, everybody leaves.

1233
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:24,600
Speaker 9: Like the may tagg repair guy.

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01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 3: Time to make the donuts.

1235
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:28,400
Speaker 10: You're right back, all right, Thanks you.

1236
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 11: Guys, we're back pheasant Fest twenty twenty six.

1237
01:04:55,920 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 2: Come on down to Minneapolis Autoitor Minneapolis Convention Center today.

1238
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 2: It's remaining of today. We should be a great time

1239
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,120
Speaker 2: to come down because there aren't a whole lot of

1240
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 2: people here right now, and you get your first choice

1241
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 2: to talk with whoever you'd like, but also tomorrow and

1242
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:19,920
Speaker 2: stop on down because it's pretty special time with me

1243
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 2: right now. Is an old friend of mine, mister Bob West.

1244
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,640
Speaker 2: How do you do? Billy good Man? Carl Guns are

1245
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:31,400
Speaker 2: from Furina. Both of them are actually but Bob Moore retired.

1246
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 5: One still employed, hanging on.

1247
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 2: Gainfully employee like that. So talk to us, Purina. It

1248
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 2: seems whenever I look about at Sportsman and talk about

1249
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:51,640
Speaker 2: things like that, Purina, the pro plan always comes into being.

1250
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:52,760
Speaker 2: Is that accurate?

1251
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 12: Well, we try, you know, we try to be every

1252
01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 12: you know, in all all places, sponsoring different events, organizations,

1253
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 12: great events like this as Fast and Quail Classic. So

1254
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:08,280
Speaker 12: you know, pro plan is a good fuel for hunting

1255
01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:10,800
Speaker 12: dogs and hard working dogs, and that's that's why we're here.

1256
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:14,479
Speaker 2: Well and also feed it, feed it all year long.

1257
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 2: I do. I found my one of my dogs is

1258
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 2: getting a little chubby. Well, I need to cut down

1259
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 2: a little bit of the food. That's right, that's my doing,

1260
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:28,240
Speaker 2: it's not his or hers.

1261
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,960
Speaker 13: No, we, like you say, we've had dogs from puppy

1262
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 13: hood on through on pro Plan performance good and bounds

1263
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 13: for all live stages.

1264
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I start with mine. I started feeding pro

1265
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:47,280
Speaker 2: Plan right off the bat puppy stuff. No, I they got,

1266
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:51,439
Speaker 2: that's what they got. And my kids do the same thing.

1267
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,080
Speaker 2: I funny, I've got to go down and pick up

1268
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 2: their dogs next week because Grandpa's gonna be dog sitting.

1269
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 2: But we all feed the same thing, which makes it

1270
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 2: easy for me to take their dogs and they never

1271
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 2: take mine.

1272
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 12: But yeah, it's the one way door.

1273
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's okay, kind of how Grandpa's duties are.

1274
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 2: Yeah. That and fest thoughts.

1275
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,800
Speaker 12: By you know, two hours ago it was packed. You know,

1276
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 12: you couldn't move in here. Like you said, now is

1277
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:25,720
Speaker 12: probably a good time. It's you know, slowed down a

1278
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 12: little bit. But I think the numbers have been good

1279
01:07:27,920 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 12: yesterday and today, so I know there were some people

1280
01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 12: concerned about things, but it's it's been great.

1281
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 2: Good.

1282
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:37,200
Speaker 13: When I talked Carl about that, what I liked about

1283
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:40,440
Speaker 13: it was a good crowd. But it wasn't like pushing

1284
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 13: each other through the aisle. There was time to talk Billy.

1285
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:47,480
Speaker 2: And and I think that when when people are coming here,

1286
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:52,840
Speaker 2: they're dog oriented, they're bird oriented, and everybody is I

1287
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 2: said it right from the beginning. Everybody's like minded. Yep,

1288
01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:58,880
Speaker 2: And that makes a big difference, especially in this day

1289
01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 2: and age. Pretty hard to find like minded people.

1290
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:05,360
Speaker 12: Right, Yeah, it's an easy place to come. It's been

1291
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:07,120
Speaker 12: four or six hours. If you want to listen to

1292
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 12: seminars and stages and do some shopping for dogs or

1293
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:10,880
Speaker 12: hunting gear.

1294
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:13,640
Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's plenty to do. Well. Talk to

1295
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:17,639
Speaker 2: me about pro Plan itself. I know that it's based

1296
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 2: on science, but people when they're coming down, they're they're

1297
01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 2: bombarded with advertisements and if it's especially if it's a

1298
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:31,720
Speaker 2: first time dog. Right, what does pro plan have as

1299
01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 2: and as an advantage research and development?

1300
01:08:36,200 --> 01:08:38,559
Speaker 13: At one time when I was working, I know we

1301
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:45,800
Speaker 13: had eleven nutritionists board certified nutritionists who were also veterinarians

1302
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:50,839
Speaker 13: on staff in the development areas and then the science

1303
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 13: and in two huge research centers. And some of these

1304
01:08:57,120 --> 01:09:00,320
Speaker 13: products haven't even been af CO tested. So I mean,

1305
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:03,800
Speaker 13: we don't talk about the negative side. We talk about

1306
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 13: our product because we understand our product and it.

1307
01:09:07,360 --> 01:09:13,120
Speaker 2: Works with the what's the difference between the high performance

1308
01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:15,400
Speaker 2: and a different period.

1309
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 10: A lot of it's calories.

1310
01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 12: I mean, there's different formulas for different life stages, whether

1311
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 12: it's puppy, adult or senior. But a lot of it

1312
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:27,080
Speaker 12: comes to activity level and life stage. So feeding the

1313
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 12: right amount of calories for that dog what he's doing,

1314
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:31,920
Speaker 12: I mean, the worst thing that we can do that.

1315
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Speaker 12: One of the biggest problems we have is pet obesity,

1316
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 12: with sixty percent of dogs being obese. You know, people

1317
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 12: need to feed them the right amount for what they do.

1318
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:39,840
Speaker 2: Now.

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01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:42,000
Speaker 12: A lot of our hunting dogs need a lot of

1320
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 12: calories and high performance, but you know a lot of

1321
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:46,479
Speaker 12: dogs that they're sitting on the couch, they can either

1322
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:48,920
Speaker 12: do an adult maintenance or just feed them less.

1323
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 2: With not being the season right now, a lot of

1324
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 2: these dogs are not doing a whole lot right Unfortunately

1325
01:09:57,439 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 2: mine is not. It's there and I'm picking up after

1326
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 2: it outside. But by cutting back on the food, I

1327
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 2: can get her back to correct fighting weight, and that's

1328
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 2: the key.

1329
01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 13: We don't recommend switching product to product, just cut back

1330
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 13: feed according to the activity and the needs of your dog,

1331
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 13: and watch the body condition, you know, the hour glass,

1332
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:24,559
Speaker 13: look from above and tuck up in the flank. You

1333
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:26,799
Speaker 13: know they're you know they're went in good shape.

1334
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:28,639
Speaker 2: But it when you.

1335
01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 13: Switch overnight, you're You can't say that the product you

1336
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:36,000
Speaker 13: switch to really affecting a dog for six weeks. It

1337
01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 13: doesn't happen that fast.

1338
01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:40,839
Speaker 2: Okay, when you're talking about let's say I'm feeding something

1339
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 2: else and I'm going to switch it to proplant, okay,

1340
01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 2: from maybe the regular dog child that should take How

1341
01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:52,960
Speaker 2: do you go about doing that?

1342
01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 12: Maybe the most simple way to think of it is

1343
01:10:56,880 --> 01:11:00,000
Speaker 12: in twenty five percent increments. So the first two days,

1344
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 12: do twenty five percent new and seventy five percent old

1345
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:05,240
Speaker 12: for two days, and then fifty to fifty for two days,

1346
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 12: and then seventy twenty five for two days, and then

1347
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:09,440
Speaker 12: by day seven.

1348
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:11,320
Speaker 5: Just one hundred percent of one.

1349
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 12: Now, if you're going from a low fat to a

1350
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:15,760
Speaker 12: higher fat food, you may want to take a little longer.

1351
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 10: But if it's another Purina.

1352
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:20,760
Speaker 12: Product, typically six or seven days is plenty of good.

1353
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:22,680
Speaker 2: It's not going to bother the right you won't have.

1354
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:25,519
Speaker 12: Any digestive upset, okay, and that's all I mean, if

1355
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:28,599
Speaker 12: you switch to abruptly, that's the main concern is that

1356
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 12: just loose tools digestive upset.

1357
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 2: Okay with them. With feeding a dog, they should they

1358
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:42,360
Speaker 2: have food twice a day, once a day.

1359
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 13: They have what we recommend recently even as once a

1360
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:52,240
Speaker 13: day in the afternoon, so that your dog can you know,

1361
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 13: evacuate that stool through the evening, and not to not

1362
01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:58,920
Speaker 13: to feed in the morning. I think most hunters who

1363
01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:01,599
Speaker 13: have fed in the morning, and we'll see the dog

1364
01:12:01,720 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 13: about in mid morning, they'll be squatting and trying to go,

1365
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:09,120
Speaker 13: and you might see a little mucus, maybe a little blood.

1366
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:14,040
Speaker 13: That's because of that product actually banging around in the

1367
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 13: small intestine and causing a little leading. Even more so

1368
01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:24,680
Speaker 13: here recently is recommended not only to feed once a

1369
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:28,920
Speaker 13: day in the afternoon or evening, but to feed float

1370
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 13: your dog food on water, not let it soak. Put

1371
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:35,800
Speaker 13: the water, a couple cups of water in and then

1372
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:38,720
Speaker 13: your two or three cups of the pro plant, and

1373
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:41,679
Speaker 13: once it's in there, just let your dog eat them.

1374
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 13: And it takes care of kind of gluttonous to dogs

1375
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:49,200
Speaker 13: that try to eat too fast. It also helps to

1376
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 13: chew the dog food up and break it down because

1377
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:54,840
Speaker 13: that's where the digestion starts.

1378
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:58,160
Speaker 2: That's one of my son's problems. The dog gobbles so

1379
01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 2: fast that'll slow it down. Interesting, that's worth mentioning hey

1380
01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:04,559
Speaker 2: down here to someplace.

1381
01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:07,200
Speaker 12: Has it helps with hydration to make sure they have

1382
01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:08,919
Speaker 12: water to help digest.

1383
01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:12,160
Speaker 2: And then final question guys, when when hunting season guys

1384
01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:15,639
Speaker 2: come around again, water is important for the dog. Correct

1385
01:13:16,439 --> 01:13:18,400
Speaker 2: give it to them on demand if you're in the

1386
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:22,240
Speaker 2: field or something, or do you decide you should go

1387
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:22,840
Speaker 2: offer him?

1388
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:24,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think sort of.

1389
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 12: You decide, like every fifteen minutes, if let's say your

1390
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:29,599
Speaker 12: pheasant hunting, you know, every fifteen minutes, try to get

1391
01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 12: him to come in and drink a little bit.

1392
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:33,479
Speaker 5: I mean, if if you know, some dogs don't like

1393
01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 5: to drink that much.

1394
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 12: They're busy chasing birds and their heads and other places.

1395
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 12: You know, you can bait it with a little four

1396
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:41,680
Speaker 12: to floor or low sodium chicken broth or something like that.

1397
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:44,280
Speaker 12: But if you can get them to keep drinking throughout

1398
01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:47,040
Speaker 12: the day, they will do a better job of staying hydrated.

1399
01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:53,080
Speaker 2: And dehydrated dogs trouble is it.

1400
01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:54,679
Speaker 12: They don't smell as well, they get hotter, they don't,

1401
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,160
Speaker 12: you know. I mean it giving them a little water

1402
01:13:57,200 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 12: throughout the day helps kind of cool their radiator, you know,

1403
01:13:59,439 --> 01:14:02,759
Speaker 12: cleans off the mucus off of their tongue and tongue

1404
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:04,680
Speaker 12: and throat and it just really helps us.

1405
01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 2: Some days. Some dogs they just don't want to drink.

1406
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:10,559
Speaker 2: I know, it's like they're too busy to do it.

1407
01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 13: Yeah, you can take those like well, if they won't drink,

1408
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 13: just call them in and you have a little squirt battle.

1409
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 3: Just squirt it right in their mouth. They'll drink it.

1410
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:20,960
Speaker 3: And then if.

1411
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:23,479
Speaker 13: They deliver a bird to you get the feathers out

1412
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 13: of the way and like Carl says, that mucus, flush

1413
01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:28,840
Speaker 13: it out of there. And if they won't drink, squirt

1414
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:32,400
Speaker 13: it in there, clean it out. That's their radiator.

1415
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:35,479
Speaker 2: Guys, we have to take a pause. I know it

1416
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:37,400
Speaker 2: was going to be a short segment, but okay, I

1417
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:40,280
Speaker 2: do appreciate you coming by, man, thanks to be here

1418
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:43,960
Speaker 2: again to see you say save your Carl. Thank you, sir,

1419
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:46,600
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. We'll take that pause and be

1420
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 2: back with another segment right after this live from the

1421
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 2: pheasant Fest down at the Minneapolis Convention center. I forgot

1422
01:14:56,560 --> 01:15:21,439
Speaker 2: where we were. Human, I get started the way our

1423
01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 2: producer gives me grief about and just begin with well

1424
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:28,559
Speaker 2: it's the last segment. I don't give you. I enjoy it.

1425
01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 3: I know you do. That's important to me too, buddy,

1426
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:34,960
Speaker 3: Thank you for hanging with us for a long day.

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01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 2: Brett, Yeah, ship, no problem anything for you two. Anyway,

1428
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:44,640
Speaker 2: we are back. We're at pheasant Fest out the Minneapolis

1429
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 2: Convention Center. And a young lady going by with a

1430
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:54,439
Speaker 2: big smile on her face and her purse around her shoulder.

1431
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:59,240
Speaker 3: In a butterfly peanut butterfly. Yeah, probably probably get that

1432
01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 3: at the hollinator area. It's shaking her head.

1433
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, joining us right now. My oldest son,

1434
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:11,520
Speaker 2: Eric Hildebrand. He works for the Department of Natural Resources

1435
01:16:11,560 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 2: and as we talked with Sarah Straman earlier mentioned that

1436
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:21,760
Speaker 2: the DNR usually catches heck for anything that people don't like.

1437
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 2: They can't catch fish at your fault. What are you

1438
01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 2: thinking so far? We got the whole family down here.

1439
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:32,280
Speaker 3: It's busy with the kids.

1440
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that is it. Really.

1441
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:35,720
Speaker 14: I want to keep my eyes looking at all the

1442
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 14: vendors and everything going on. I'm like, oh, I got

1443
01:16:38,040 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 14: kids here, watch the ground and see.

1444
01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:43,960
Speaker 3: Where Ava's going? How old? How older Jacket? Eva?

1445
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:44,120
Speaker 7: Now?

1446
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:48,080
Speaker 14: Yeah, my oldest Jack, he is six, Ava is three.

1447
01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 14: We got another one on the way doing June June.

1448
01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,920
Speaker 14: And then my brother's here with his two kids three

1449
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 14: and one and a half, Kendall and Callen.

1450
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:06,240
Speaker 3: So tomorrow his family day at pheasant Fest. We were

1451
01:17:06,400 --> 01:17:09,920
Speaker 3: very deliberate about trying to make this family friendly with

1452
01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:15,920
Speaker 3: attractions for families. But on Sunday tomorrow, anyone sixteen and

1453
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:19,559
Speaker 3: under and if you're seventeen, we're not checking IDs, but

1454
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:23,519
Speaker 3: anyone sixteen under is free, Like, come on out. So,

1455
01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:27,680
Speaker 3: as a father with two young kids, what are you

1456
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:30,040
Speaker 3: finding that occupying their attention?

1457
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:30,760
Speaker 2: Oh?

1458
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 14: The I've noticed a lot of the pheasant and quail

1459
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:38,400
Speaker 14: blow up whatever you call those, the big blow.

1460
01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 3: Ups, the big blow ups. Oh yeah, Burner Bob, Yeah,

1461
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 3: a little mascot of the giant one outside of the gate.

1462
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 3: They gravitated it right to that right really, and I

1463
01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:49,920
Speaker 3: didn't hardly even notice them. Did you.

1464
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 14: Gotta get your kid eyes on it? Also, kid corner,

1465
01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:58,639
Speaker 14: that's where they're at right now. I just walked away

1466
01:17:58,640 --> 01:18:01,760
Speaker 14: from that to see you guys, kid corner is pretty cool.

1467
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:07,360
Speaker 14: They got tattoos, coloring, uh, headband, rooster headbands that they

1468
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:10,720
Speaker 14: can wear like a crown. They can shoot a bow

1469
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:13,560
Speaker 14: and arrow, a kid's bow and arrow. Six years and

1470
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:17,439
Speaker 14: older could shoot a BB gun. And Jack being six

1471
01:18:17,520 --> 01:18:20,400
Speaker 14: years old, he jumped all over that right away.

1472
01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 3: And uh because pop pop bottom of bb gun he

1473
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:28,080
Speaker 3: did right and so he's a pretty good marksman yet.

1474
01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 3: And he's first shot.

1475
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:31,560
Speaker 14: He was in the Three Ringers, so it was it

1476
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:32,080
Speaker 14: was good to.

1477
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:36,360
Speaker 2: Take after his dad. Yeah, that his grandpa, his dad. No,

1478
01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:37,519
Speaker 2: that was fun.

1479
01:18:37,520 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 14: And yeah, Ava the coloring really stuck with her. There's

1480
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:48,800
Speaker 14: all sorts of pheasant coloring books and the tattoos shoots.

1481
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:50,760
Speaker 3: Hat two of them on her arms now so I

1482
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:53,599
Speaker 3: haven't seen the they fezant quail tattoos.

1483
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 14: Yeah they got they got a butterflies, they got the butterfly,

1484
01:18:57,160 --> 01:19:01,280
Speaker 14: they got a pheasant. They have a rooster longtail. Oh

1485
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:04,160
Speaker 14: so she got one long tail on her arm.

1486
01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 3: And we did a social media post not long ago,

1487
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 3: show us, show us your ink. And it's like the

1488
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:16,719
Speaker 3: biggest engagement on social media of all time for us

1489
01:19:17,320 --> 01:19:21,800
Speaker 3: where people honestly, Billy, I'm serious, where people was a PG.

1490
01:19:23,080 --> 01:19:26,559
Speaker 3: Yeah for the well for the most part, but it

1491
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:33,600
Speaker 3: was you know, tattoo photos of pheasants, quail, grouse, bird dogs,

1492
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:38,559
Speaker 3: bird dogs, names. It was I don't know. There was

1493
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 3: like something like thirteen people sending in photos of their

1494
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:51,640
Speaker 3: ink connected to pheasant hunting? Did you show yours my butterfly?

1495
01:19:56,320 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 3: We'll just leave it at that.

1496
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 2: I don't want to see your.

1497
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:07,559
Speaker 3: You just keep that all to yourself. Different audience at

1498
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:09,400
Speaker 3: three o'clock in the afternoon, isn't it.

1499
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole rest of the family is here too,

1500
01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:18,679
Speaker 2: and Callan's running around. Ava is there, Katie? Mom is there?

1501
01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:22,479
Speaker 14: I don't know where mom, Katie got a bloody mary.

1502
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:25,920
Speaker 14: So they even have choice of drinks around here too.

1503
01:20:27,080 --> 01:20:28,880
Speaker 3: What are you? Are you in the market for anything?

1504
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 3: Are you looking for anything?

1505
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:34,760
Speaker 14: I'm I'm intrigued about the GPS collars. When we go

1506
01:20:34,840 --> 01:20:37,960
Speaker 14: hunting with you, I'm always over your shoulder like holy smokes,

1507
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:39,080
Speaker 14: like you always know.

1508
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:39,760
Speaker 2: Where your dog is.

1509
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:43,280
Speaker 14: And for me, I run a Golden Retriever, a flushing dog.

1510
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:46,960
Speaker 14: We're in the cattails a lot and then hunting by

1511
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:50,000
Speaker 14: standing corn, especially on a windy day. I'm always scared

1512
01:20:50,080 --> 01:20:52,559
Speaker 14: flat out scared to even hunt by there.

1513
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:55,200
Speaker 2: But that's where the birds are, right by the edge.

1514
01:20:55,040 --> 01:20:57,320
Speaker 14: Of the corn, you know, And it would be one

1515
01:20:57,360 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 14: more peace of mind for me to have that technology,

1516
01:21:00,479 --> 01:21:02,360
Speaker 14: so I actually know where the dog is.

1517
01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:06,920
Speaker 3: It's not one more piece, it's it's it. It'll settle

1518
01:21:06,960 --> 01:21:10,400
Speaker 3: your peace of mind for good, honest to goodness. I

1519
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:13,439
Speaker 3: you know, you drop a bird in standing corn early

1520
01:21:13,479 --> 01:21:15,760
Speaker 3: in the season, and that you know, you wing it

1521
01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 3: and it runs off and your dog because obviously I've

1522
01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:23,600
Speaker 3: hunted long enough before GPS and you're like, oh, and

1523
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:26,200
Speaker 3: you just break out into a sweat because you don't

1524
01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:29,720
Speaker 3: really want to call your dog off a crippled bird anyway,

1525
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:34,360
Speaker 3: right you start in, they're gone, but I can watch

1526
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:38,240
Speaker 3: the little dot on my GPS screen on their collar

1527
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:41,639
Speaker 3: and you see that dog running, you know, three hundred,

1528
01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 3: four hundred, five hundred yards and then it stops and

1529
01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 3: then you're looking at hmmm, and then they start coming.

1530
01:21:48,760 --> 01:21:51,799
Speaker 3: That little dot starts coming back a little bit slower.

1531
01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:55,559
Speaker 3: You're like, I think she might have this, you know,

1532
01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 3: And they come over the hill and that wing is

1533
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:02,200
Speaker 3: flapping and the you know, and you're looking at and

1534
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:06,080
Speaker 3: you know, however long they're gone three minutes or thirteen minutes.

1535
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:12,480
Speaker 3: If you don't see that little dot, your heart is palpated, palpitating,

1536
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:17,040
Speaker 3: you're sweating. Oh my gosh, is my best buddy guy.

1537
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 3: But you have that GPS collar. They're proud of them.

1538
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 3: You know they're they're pretty expensive, but you know, at

1539
01:22:26,760 --> 01:22:28,880
Speaker 3: Billy's age, it prevents a heart attack.

1540
01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 14: I told my buddy Pat Music, I was looking around

1541
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:34,080
Speaker 14: for GPS callors.

1542
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:35,360
Speaker 3: He goes, what to put one on?

1543
01:22:35,400 --> 01:22:35,800
Speaker 2: Your dad?

1544
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:42,280
Speaker 3: I like this better, so we can gang up on

1545
01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:45,599
Speaker 3: you rather than have the senator and you ganging up

1546
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:53,240
Speaker 3: on me. But GPS collar is worth every penny, particularly

1547
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:57,240
Speaker 3: hunting rough grouse in the woods, you know, because it's

1548
01:22:57,280 --> 01:22:59,920
Speaker 3: not even just a moment that you're in the cornfield,

1549
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:04,719
Speaker 3: it's it's in the woods. You can't see your dog

1550
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 3: for you know, a lot of the time, and you

1551
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:10,799
Speaker 3: can look at that little dot on the GPS screen

1552
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:16,400
Speaker 3: and have comfort knowing, oh, she's over there on those alders.

1553
01:23:17,040 --> 01:23:20,680
Speaker 3: Everything's totally fine. You know. It makes them. And then

1554
01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:24,280
Speaker 3: you add some complexity of traveling to other states where

1555
01:23:24,920 --> 01:23:28,320
Speaker 3: you know, grizzly country or in the north woods, going

1556
01:23:28,360 --> 01:23:31,479
Speaker 3: into the boundary waters and you know around Wolf Country

1557
01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:35,600
Speaker 3: and you have that GPS and it absolutely gives you

1558
01:23:35,800 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 3: some peace of mind, so you know it's worth every penny.

1559
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:42,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, what else? What else are you looking for?

1560
01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:45,639
Speaker 14: Well, I was listening this morning and Dad, you mentioned

1561
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:48,720
Speaker 14: you're probably gonna look at some boots, you know, And

1562
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:51,799
Speaker 14: I'm in the same boat, same camp, like I'm running

1563
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:54,840
Speaker 14: gosh I about five probably six years now on the

1564
01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:57,800
Speaker 14: set and stitching's coming out.

1565
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 2: Do I invest to have them stitched? Do I do

1566
01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:01,439
Speaker 2: all that?

1567
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 14: Or do I look at something new? What what do

1568
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:08,040
Speaker 14: they got? So I'll be looking at boots, let's see

1569
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:10,480
Speaker 14: what's going on. And well he pulled.

1570
01:24:10,120 --> 01:24:12,639
Speaker 2: One this morning. You probably heard that too. They've got

1571
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:14,000
Speaker 2: some new stuff coming out.

1572
01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:15,880
Speaker 3: You can look at it.

1573
01:24:15,960 --> 01:24:18,240
Speaker 2: Look at that. You can't touch it, but you could

1574
01:24:18,280 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 2: look at it.

1575
01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:23,000
Speaker 3: The Irish ctter let's got some embroidery. Let's just call

1576
01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 3: it a collaboration that's on the horizon with Irish citter.

1577
01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:31,759
Speaker 3: That's nice. Irish cetter wingshooters look for them this fall.

1578
01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:34,320
Speaker 2: Well you wouldn't say that this morning.

1579
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:36,479
Speaker 3: I haven't said exactly what they are.

1580
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:40,320
Speaker 2: But they're brown in color, dark brown.

1581
01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:41,760
Speaker 3: You lace them up.

1582
01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:43,679
Speaker 2: They haven't seen grass or mud.

1583
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:47,120
Speaker 3: You know, they're one of they're one of fifteen pairs

1584
01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:51,639
Speaker 3: and eventually out of every step that takes it helps

1585
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:56,360
Speaker 3: create habitat cool. Yeah, so on the horizon they're coming.

1586
01:24:56,439 --> 01:24:58,880
Speaker 14: How do I gotta wait? Because if I'm in the

1587
01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:01,160
Speaker 14: market now a little bit, I can wait.

1588
01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:04,000
Speaker 3: They have some with that don't look just like this,

1589
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:07,840
Speaker 3: that are awfully good. They're a few months off there,

1590
01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:08,639
Speaker 3: a few months off.

1591
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 5: Cool.

1592
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:13,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, cool, very cool. Well, it's I think she's peaked today.

1593
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a when I got here after the morning,

1594
01:25:18,400 --> 01:25:22,439
Speaker 3: there was a line already really ready to come in today. Obviously,

1595
01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 3: for a show like this, Saturday mid days by far

1596
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:31,559
Speaker 3: the biggest day. Sure, the Sundays can be relatively dead,

1597
01:25:31,640 --> 01:25:34,680
Speaker 3: which is why we make, you know, free admission for

1598
01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:38,680
Speaker 3: anybody under sixteen. You know, there's it's so many of

1599
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 3: these booths from out of state. They'll mark down the

1600
01:25:42,439 --> 01:25:46,040
Speaker 3: prices for their things, so you get that garage sale

1601
01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 3: element because they don't want to pack it all up

1602
01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:51,760
Speaker 3: and bring it back to Idaho or Iowa, no matter

1603
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 3: where they're from. And there's good opportunities to fight some deals.

1604
01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:57,160
Speaker 14: Question for you, Bob, So I've never been to a

1605
01:25:57,200 --> 01:26:01,200
Speaker 14: pheasant fest outside of Minnesota. Okay, when this takes place

1606
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:05,679
Speaker 14: in those other states, do you still see big crowds

1607
01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:10,240
Speaker 14: like this? Do you see people traveling from across the

1608
01:26:10,360 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 14: nation to us.

1609
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:16,799
Speaker 3: It's a really interesting question because other organizations like Pheasants

1610
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 3: Forever have events like this. The National Wild Turkey Federation,

1611
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:25,360
Speaker 3: for instance, had their event last weekend in Nashville at Opperland.

1612
01:26:26,040 --> 01:26:31,880
Speaker 3: Every single year it's in Opperland, Elk Foundation, you name it.

1613
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:34,760
Speaker 3: They have different events, and most of them hold it

1614
01:26:34,800 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 3: in the same venue, same market every year. Philosophically, we

1615
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:43,360
Speaker 3: do move it around the country to try to spread

1616
01:26:43,439 --> 01:26:48,800
Speaker 3: our name in different markets and then cultivate membership and

1617
01:26:48,880 --> 01:26:54,040
Speaker 3: volunteerism and relationships with companies in different markets. So we've

1618
01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:59,160
Speaker 3: been to Milwaukee and Schomberg and Madison and Des Moines

1619
01:26:59,240 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 3: and Omaha, Kansas City, Sioux Falls. So the only market

1620
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 3: that rivals the number of attendees so far to Minneapolis

1621
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:14,040
Speaker 3: is Soue Falls. Swux Falls and Mini in Minneapolis are

1622
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 3: two biggest kind of conventions. Sioux Falls broke the record

1623
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:21,920
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, and then in twenty twenty three,

1624
01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 3: Minneapolis set a new record for attendance.

1625
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:27,800
Speaker 2: So, Sooux Falls was not a that's not one of

1626
01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:29,320
Speaker 2: the initial stops.

1627
01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:33,799
Speaker 3: That's right. They didn't have a convention center of any note.

1628
01:27:34,439 --> 01:27:38,360
Speaker 3: And they, the mayor and the community built a convention

1629
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:44,240
Speaker 3: center to lure Pheasant Fest to Sioux Falls. I mean,

1630
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:47,880
Speaker 3: they built it specifically to get this event, and it succeeded.

1631
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 3: We brought this event there and now it's not. Their

1632
01:27:52,479 --> 01:27:56,320
Speaker 3: convention center is not large enough for what this has

1633
01:27:56,360 --> 01:28:00,000
Speaker 3: grown into. So you know, we'll definitely be coming back

1634
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:02,479
Speaker 3: to Sioux Falls. But they're talking about how they can.

1635
01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:06,320
Speaker 3: They need some updates to their hotels in town and

1636
01:28:06,360 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 3: they need the Sioux Falls is actually three convention centers

1637
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:14,360
Speaker 3: connected to each other. It's a convention center than an

1638
01:28:14,360 --> 01:28:18,080
Speaker 3: old auditorium and then a hockey arena, and we take

1639
01:28:18,160 --> 01:28:19,240
Speaker 3: up all three of them.

1640
01:28:19,280 --> 01:28:19,600
Speaker 2: Oh my.

1641
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,640
Speaker 3: But it doesn't compare to the footprint that the Minneapolis

1642
01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:27,360
Speaker 3: Convention Center has. So it's kind of a unique experience

1643
01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 3: to move it around the country and see the different places.

1644
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:35,439
Speaker 3: And I love one component about moving it around is

1645
01:28:35,800 --> 01:28:39,000
Speaker 3: the different the You'll like this comes back to food.

1646
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:41,800
Speaker 3: I love eating the different food in some of the

1647
01:28:41,880 --> 01:28:45,799
Speaker 3: places that we've held the event. You know Kansas City,

1648
01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:48,920
Speaker 3: you know, trying the different barbecue and and things like

1649
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:51,759
Speaker 3: that are just is part of the charm.

1650
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 2: Well, the music is playing difficult to hear, but.

1651
01:28:55,479 --> 01:28:59,160
Speaker 3: I didn't hear it. No, there's no music. You said,

1652
01:28:59,160 --> 01:28:59,519
Speaker 3: we're good.

1653
01:28:59,640 --> 01:29:01,439
Speaker 2: Oh I heard music in the background.

1654
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 3: We get a few more minutes.

1655
01:29:03,080 --> 01:29:03,599
Speaker 2: Oh good.

1656
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 3: You just wanted to see top Jack?

1657
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:11,639
Speaker 2: You want to talk? Come on, let's say hi. My

1658
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:15,519
Speaker 2: grandson Jack Hildebrand is right here.

1659
01:29:15,920 --> 01:29:16,200
Speaker 3: Jack.

1660
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:23,360
Speaker 2: What do you think a pheasant fest? What were you doing?

1661
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:29,160
Speaker 15: Just going and some like vehicles all day?

1662
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:31,679
Speaker 2: Did you shoot a gun?

1663
01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:32,639
Speaker 3: Yes?

1664
01:29:32,960 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 2: What did you shoot.

1665
01:29:34,080 --> 01:29:34,920
Speaker 15: A BB gun?

1666
01:29:35,160 --> 01:29:35,960
Speaker 13: Oh?

1667
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:41,040
Speaker 2: What were you shooting at? Uh?

1668
01:29:41,479 --> 01:29:44,160
Speaker 15: I don't a target?

1669
01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:46,400
Speaker 2: Oh? Did you hit the target?

1670
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:49,280
Speaker 15: Three scores?

1671
01:29:49,840 --> 01:29:50,160
Speaker 2: Wow?

1672
01:29:50,520 --> 01:29:50,840
Speaker 10: Cool?

1673
01:29:51,240 --> 01:29:54,559
Speaker 2: And can you tell us a story about catching the

1674
01:29:54,600 --> 01:30:04,400
Speaker 2: sunfish last summer from the pontoon? Do you remember that now? Yeah? Yeah?

1675
01:30:04,560 --> 01:30:07,880
Speaker 2: What did you say when you had the sunfish coming in?

1676
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:10,760
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, baby?

1677
01:30:12,120 --> 01:30:14,400
Speaker 2: And what did you want somebody to get for you?

1678
01:30:15,760 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 3: A net?

1679
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:22,280
Speaker 15: And and when and I hit the boat? When I when?

1680
01:30:22,960 --> 01:30:25,920
Speaker 15: When I go to Papa and my mom was laughing

1681
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:26,519
Speaker 15: so much.

1682
01:30:28,400 --> 01:30:31,920
Speaker 2: Yep. And on the video on the video that we

1683
01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:33,840
Speaker 2: have of you, it was.

1684
01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:35,719
Speaker 3: Get the net.

1685
01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:44,280
Speaker 2: Oh, baby, yeah, that was and it was a It

1686
01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:45,840
Speaker 2: was a nice fish too, wasn't it?

1687
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:48,320
Speaker 3: Yes? Cool? Who?

1688
01:30:48,360 --> 01:30:49,960
Speaker 2: How did you what did you catch it on?

1689
01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:55,080
Speaker 15: Waxworms?

1690
01:30:55,280 --> 01:30:58,759
Speaker 2: Oh? Yep? Will you go fishing with us again this summer?

1691
01:30:59,080 --> 01:30:59,280
Speaker 3: Yes?

1692
01:30:59,680 --> 01:31:02,559
Speaker 2: One her fall? That's so cool? Now? Do you go

1693
01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:06,080
Speaker 2: hunting with your dad too? Didn't you? Well? You and

1694
01:31:06,160 --> 01:31:10,960
Speaker 2: I walked together? What did breed? Did she? Did she

1695
01:31:11,200 --> 01:31:16,880
Speaker 2: keep running or did she stop? Stop? Yeah? And what

1696
01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:20,720
Speaker 2: did Papa tell you that she was doing? Remember? Did

1697
01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:22,559
Speaker 2: I say that she was on point?

1698
01:31:23,240 --> 01:31:23,599
Speaker 15: Yes?

1699
01:31:23,960 --> 01:31:26,040
Speaker 2: Uh? Huh? Did we get a pheasant up?

1700
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:27,679
Speaker 15: Yes?

1701
01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:29,639
Speaker 2: Yep, we did. Yes.

1702
01:31:30,160 --> 01:31:31,840
Speaker 3: It's like you're interrogating him.

1703
01:31:35,200 --> 01:31:37,760
Speaker 2: But your daddy and you you caught so you got

1704
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:39,280
Speaker 2: some pheasants too, didn't you?

1705
01:31:39,479 --> 01:31:39,799
Speaker 15: Yes?

1706
01:31:39,880 --> 01:31:44,080
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah? Well how did you walk quite a bit too?

1707
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 2: You have to walk quite a bit, didn't you?

1708
01:31:46,200 --> 01:31:46,479
Speaker 15: Yes?

1709
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:46,880
Speaker 2: Yes?

1710
01:31:47,040 --> 01:31:48,879
Speaker 3: Or did we have to wear orange?

1711
01:31:49,360 --> 01:31:51,400
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes?

1712
01:31:52,640 --> 01:31:54,640
Speaker 14: And then when we cleaned the birds, what do you

1713
01:31:54,720 --> 01:31:55,200
Speaker 14: do to help?

1714
01:31:55,280 --> 01:31:55,400
Speaker 15: Oh?

1715
01:31:55,479 --> 01:31:58,360
Speaker 2: Yeah? What do you clean? What do you hold when

1716
01:31:58,400 --> 01:32:07,600
Speaker 2: you're when you and daddy ares on the meat? What

1717
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:09,439
Speaker 2: is it the magna?

1718
01:32:10,160 --> 01:32:11,400
Speaker 15: The magnet?

1719
01:32:11,160 --> 01:32:12,559
Speaker 2: Oh? What are you looking for?

1720
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:15,080
Speaker 5: Huh?

1721
01:32:15,120 --> 01:32:16,360
Speaker 2: Are you looking for bebies?

1722
01:32:17,960 --> 01:32:18,200
Speaker 3: Yes?

1723
01:32:18,439 --> 01:32:20,479
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, cool.

1724
01:32:22,360 --> 01:32:25,200
Speaker 3: Did you find did you pet some puppies? Did you

1725
01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:26,840
Speaker 3: see some puppies on the floor today?

1726
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:29,280
Speaker 2: Did you find a favorite one?

1727
01:32:30,160 --> 01:32:30,240
Speaker 15: No?

1728
01:32:31,160 --> 01:32:37,759
Speaker 2: Really? Who's your favorite puppy right now? Yes? She is? Yeah,

1729
01:32:37,920 --> 01:32:39,000
Speaker 2: she's a nice puppy.

1730
01:32:39,160 --> 01:32:45,200
Speaker 3: Cala is a Golden Retriever. Yes. How old is Cala nine?

1731
01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:46,080
Speaker 5: Oh?

1732
01:32:46,479 --> 01:32:46,639
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1733
01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:46,800
Speaker 13: Huh?

1734
01:32:48,200 --> 01:32:53,240
Speaker 2: Yeah? And Papa has one too, doesn't he? What's her name?

1735
01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:53,960
Speaker 2: What's her name?

1736
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:55,160
Speaker 15: Bri?

1737
01:32:55,920 --> 01:33:01,519
Speaker 2: Yuh? She's Brie. She's a barker? Or sometimes isn't she?

1738
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:02,400
Speaker 15: Yes?

1739
01:33:02,920 --> 01:33:06,280
Speaker 3: Sometimes when grandpa's doing the radio in the early morning,

1740
01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:15,120
Speaker 3: isn't he Yes, it's happened. Or Thursday night when Denny

1741
01:33:15,160 --> 01:33:16,479
Speaker 3: Fletcher knocks on the door.

1742
01:33:16,840 --> 01:33:23,519
Speaker 2: Well, it goes, it gets nuts, Yes, it really does.

1743
01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:26,160
Speaker 2: So what did you do? Did you do anything at

1744
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:27,000
Speaker 2: the kids corner?

1745
01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 15: I shoot a baby gun? Yeah, and it was real.

1746
01:33:33,439 --> 01:33:34,080
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

1747
01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:38,719
Speaker 15: And I sho a bow and arrow at some balls,

1748
01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:41,839
Speaker 15: but I didn't they keep falling on the ground.

1749
01:33:42,200 --> 01:33:46,919
Speaker 2: Oh did you color anything? Did you get a tattoo?

1750
01:33:47,479 --> 01:33:50,760
Speaker 3: No? Do they have tattoos? Yes?

1751
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:53,520
Speaker 2: Did Dave get one? Your sister get anything?

1752
01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:55,200
Speaker 5: I don't.

1753
01:33:55,439 --> 01:33:56,160
Speaker 15: I'm not sure.

1754
01:33:56,400 --> 01:33:59,639
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, Well can you hear the music playing now?

1755
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:00,280
Speaker 3: Yes?

1756
01:34:01,360 --> 01:34:04,200
Speaker 2: Probably can too. And you know what that means. That

1757
01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:08,519
Speaker 2: means it's we're almost done. So we've got to say goodbye. Okay, okay,

1758
01:34:08,720 --> 01:34:10,640
Speaker 2: do you want to say goodbye to everybody?

1759
01:34:10,680 --> 01:34:11,280
Speaker 15: Goodbye?

1760
01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:18,479
Speaker 2: That's my son Jack and Jack Hildebrand, your grandson, my

1761
01:34:18,840 --> 01:34:22,680
Speaker 2: grand your son's actually sitting my grandson.

1762
01:34:22,720 --> 01:34:23,759
Speaker 3: I'll keep you straight.

1763
01:34:25,600 --> 01:34:27,559
Speaker 2: But the music is playing, so we got to like

1764
01:34:27,600 --> 01:34:30,080
Speaker 2: to say thank you to our guests for joining us.

1765
01:34:30,439 --> 01:34:38,240
Speaker 16: Tom Carpenter, Commissioner Strowman, Senator Cloba Sharp, Parina is Bob West,

1766
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:41,280
Speaker 16: and Parina's Carl Guns And they.

1767
01:34:41,320 --> 01:34:47,840
Speaker 2: Want to know thank you everyone. So that being said,

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01:34:47,880 --> 01:34:49,920
Speaker 2: I'll leave you with it, Tata