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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kel's we Can review with Ryan cal Kell in now

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Speaker 1: Here's cal If you happen to be a quote selfie seeker,

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Speaker 1: stay out of London's Richmond Park at least during the

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Speaker 1: red deer rut. Amateur photographers and iPhone fanatics alike are

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Speaker 1: finding themselves helplessly drawn to the roar of the red stag.

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Speaker 1: Six hundred red deer live inside the walls of the park,

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Speaker 1: which was built in fifteen twenty nine by Edward the First.

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Speaker 1: Red deer are native to Europe and the fourth largest

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Speaker 1: of the deer species, second only to moose. Males called

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Speaker 1: stags can weigh upwards of five hundred pounds, and females

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Speaker 1: called hinds just under four hundred pounds. The red deer

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Speaker 1: in Richmond Park go into rut, or mating season, between

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Speaker 1: sept Member and November and behave basically like elk do

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Speaker 1: here in the United States. The stags get all puffed

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Speaker 1: up on testosterone and parade around their large, sharp antlers,

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Speaker 1: trying to collect groups of hinds into harems. The stags

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Speaker 1: get highly competitive, posturing and fighting. Several looky lose drawn

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Speaker 1: to the spectacle have been injured, including a London hat

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Speaker 1: maker who was gored in two thousand and eighteen. According

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Speaker 1: to the Wall Street Journal, park rangers are complaining that

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Speaker 1: the tourists and photography crowd are not only putting themselves

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Speaker 1: in danger, but also inhibiting the natural rut behavior. One

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Speaker 1: officer reported a group of sixty photographers surrounding one stag.

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Speaker 1: You mean to tell me that sixty people standing twenty

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Speaker 1: ft from you while you're trying out your courtship behavior

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Speaker 1: could potentially kill the mood. Another photographer reported having seen

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Speaker 1: parents attempt to place their children on top of deer

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Speaker 1: for pictures, including a three year old girl. The photographer

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Speaker 1: says and quote, I had to explain why it was

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Speaker 1: not good idea for their daughter to approach a stag

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Speaker 1: that has pumped up full of testosterone and wants to mate.

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Speaker 1: That's actually good life advice right there. The camera crowd

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Speaker 1: loves this urban spectacle of wildness. One frequent photographer said, quote,

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Speaker 1: it's like being on safari. Last week. There was a

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Speaker 1: massive rush to get behind the cafeteria because there were

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Speaker 1: so many deer there. Sounds just like a proper Safari.

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Speaker 1: I bring this story up so all of our hard

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Speaker 1: working park rangers in places like Yellowstone Glacier in Yosemite

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Speaker 1: know that they aren't alone. Yellowstone Bison haven't cornered the

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Speaker 1: market on straightening out bad tourist behavior. There may be

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Speaker 1: a support group in the making, and you can say

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Speaker 1: it started right here at the Habituated Animal Desk of

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Speaker 1: Cal's weekend Review. This week, we've got the Land and

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Speaker 1: Water Conservation Fund outlaws, pigs, and a few things to

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Speaker 1: set straight. But first I'm gonna tell you about my week.

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Speaker 1: I packed as much into a week as you could

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Speaker 1: possibly try to do. Lots of time on the road

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Speaker 1: the river. I tried out a new spot for deer

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Speaker 1: that included a bit of canoeing. After learning a lesson

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Speaker 1: from the last river trip, I threw my battery powered

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Speaker 1: steel chainsaw on the canoe in case of down trees.

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Speaker 1: The best part, aside from the fact that there were

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Speaker 1: no trees, was that I could PLoP that clean saw

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Speaker 1: right on top of my hunting gear without any worry

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Speaker 1: about it leaking two stroke fuel and oil all over

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Speaker 1: the place because it's battery powered. If you would like

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Speaker 1: I even cut a bunch of firewood into seek outside

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Speaker 1: titanium stove lengths inside my closed urban garage this weekend.

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Speaker 1: I was warm and the neighbors had no idea what

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Speaker 1: was happening. Uh. You can see the video of that

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Speaker 1: on my Instagram feed at old Cal four oh six. Now,

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Speaker 1: one quick note on the transportation of fire would. You

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Speaker 1: have got to pay attention to what the regulations are

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Speaker 1: in your area. In some areas where you're dealing with

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Speaker 1: moths and beetles and worms and all sorts of critters

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Speaker 1: that live in wood, it is not a good idea

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Speaker 1: to transport would anywhere other areas. You have got to

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Speaker 1: keep your cut firewood within your county, certainly almost always

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Speaker 1: within your state, and it has got to be kiln

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Speaker 1: dried and approved to take it across international borders. All right,

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Speaker 1: Moving on, we got a big, huge announcement here. As

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Speaker 1: you may recall, I found some abnormally heavy bison teeth

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Speaker 1: while out fishing with the folks on a family friends ranch.

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Speaker 1: I was hoping that they may be from something a

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Speaker 1: bit more special than just bison, bison or modern bison,

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Speaker 1: you know, something like an ancient horse or a camel. Well,

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Speaker 1: I just got the official results back and I have

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Speaker 1: in my hand at genuine bison antiquist tooth. That's ice

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Speaker 1: a age bison. These large herbivores roamed North America from

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Speaker 1: eighteen thousand to ten thousand years ago. Wade an estimated

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Speaker 1: from tip to tip, and early humans hunted them on foot.

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Speaker 1: We know this is spear and projectile points have been

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Speaker 1: discovered alongside the remains of bison antiquis. Now for what

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Speaker 1: folks really care about, Jeremiah are Owens or jaire Owens

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Speaker 1: and c M Beta Custom Knives those two Instagram handles.

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Speaker 1: You were the first, as far as I could tell,

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Speaker 1: to guess the correct origin of the tooth on the

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Speaker 1: Instagram post I put up seventeen weeks ago. So right

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Speaker 1: mediator dot com. As I wrote on the website, conservation

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Speaker 1: work never stops, and neither will this bag. You can

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Speaker 1: use it to ditch plastic crap at the grocery store,

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Speaker 1: those multi day float trips. You know, lunch one day

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Speaker 1: bit about a lot of stuff. You'll get invited to

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Speaker 1: pub trivia nights, maybe get asked out on a date,

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Speaker 1: trivia night, people will fear you. Congrats you two on

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Speaker 1: the big win. Moving on to a few fun housekeeping items.

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Speaker 1: I need to set the record straight on the topic

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Speaker 1: of mining and the possibility of reforming the seventy two

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Speaker 1: Mining Act introduced by Senator Grialva of Arizona. The simple

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Speaker 1: fact is I want us, the American people, to get

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Speaker 1: Being a consumer of many, many things that are dug

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Speaker 1: makes my life so much easier, and I have several

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Speaker 1: something we haven't done a long time. You've got mail

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Speaker 1: Jackson rode In about filling a white tailed dough tag.

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Speaker 1: While listening to the podcast, he writes, while most deer

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Speaker 1: I'll let you know if this violates any electronic game

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Speaker 1: I'm a Pennsylvania hunter in p A we have a

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Speaker 1: one week October muzzleloader season, which means hunters can use

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Speaker 1: flintlock muzzleloader season. Doing some brief research on the topic

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Speaker 1: in the past, an interesting article said the Pennsylvania flintlock

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Speaker 1: season began the year after the movie Jeremiah Johnson came

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Speaker 1: out because everyone in Pennsylvania wanted to go hunting with

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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Johnson, the fifty caliber Hawking was a percussion cap

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Speaker 1: flintlocks or the thing Marty wrote in a minor correction

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Speaker 1: is needed. In a recent Cal's Weekend review, a statement

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Speaker 1: was made stating in African cheetah will never meet an

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Speaker 1: In Texas, Sir, except in Texas. You got me there, Marty.

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Speaker 1: And finally, hot tip from Brian went in the great

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the day. Somebody should try that one out.

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Speaker 1: Moving on back to Michigan, the Michigan House voted to

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Speaker 1: deer biologists hitting all time high. Only one of those

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Speaker 1: jumping over to our European desk. You know that old

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Speaker 1: saying happy as a pig in mud, Well, now in

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Speaker 1: you've noticed unusually high feral hog activity in Europe, that's

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Speaker 1: Calda rette Brandini, the president of Italy's Farming Association, if

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Speaker 1: that's a good thing. But if you're an Italian farmer,

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Speaker 1: presence of farrell hogs and their destructive tendencies. In a

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Speaker 1: The dealers a game comprised of three Albanians and one Italian,

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Speaker 1: buried about twenty one thousand, nine hundred and sixty two

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Speaker 1: we're taking two kilow's at a time into the cities

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Speaker 1: call discussing the fact that wild boars had dug up

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Speaker 1: their cocaine eaten what they could and then distributed the

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Speaker 1: rest of the white powder around the Valdichiana Valley for free.

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Speaker 1: I assume ingesting cocaine, which is derived from the coca plant,

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Speaker 1: a match made in hog Heaven. Moving on and sticking

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Speaker 1: with our criminal activity desk, Detroit lakes Man was sentenced

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Speaker 1: Officers found in possession of Joshua David Moltson forty eight

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Speaker 1: three point six grams of cocaine, fentinyl patches, marijuana plants,

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Speaker 1: and forty eight snapping turtles. I know what you're thinking,

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Speaker 1: typical now. I don't know a lot about drugs, but

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Speaker 1: those amounts sound like a lot to me. I do, however,

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Speaker 1: a lot of snapping turtles. The legal possession limit is

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