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Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This

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Speaker 1: is Cow's Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here's

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Speaker 1: cal We're all familiar with the trashy shorelines, old monophilamon,

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Speaker 1: nightcrawler containers, beer cans, balloons, But what do we do

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Speaker 1: when someone leaves an entire boat on a beach. That's

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Speaker 1: what officials in Wisconsin are wrestling with, as two abandoned

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Speaker 1: boats have become minor celebrities after their owners ran them

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Speaker 1: a ground. Back in October, a boat christened Deep Thought

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Speaker 1: was abandoned on the shore of Lake Michigan, just outside

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee after it ran out of gas in a storm.

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Speaker 1: It's still there on the beach between McKinley Marina and

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Speaker 1: Bradford Beach, but now it's frozen into the ice. Its

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Speaker 1: owners say a local salvage company is committed to getting

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Speaker 1: it out after the spring thaws, but Milwaukeeans have already

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Speaker 1: made a virtual marker on Google Maps where you can

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Speaker 1: see its unofficial name the Minno daytime TV watchers will

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Speaker 1: recall that's the name of the boat in the show

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Speaker 1: Gilligan's Island A three. It's currently listed as a tourist

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Speaker 1: attraction on Google and has a very respectable four point

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Speaker 1: nine stars with ninety one reviews. The perfect option for

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Speaker 1: people who want the Great Lakes boating experience but prefer

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Speaker 1: to stay on shore, one of them reads, Another calls

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Speaker 1: it Milwaukee's finest and newest art installation, while another says

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Speaker 1: she couldn't get enough of the waterfront view. Images show

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Speaker 1: that local graffiti artists have been hard at work to

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Speaker 1: give the shipwreck an authentic touch, with thoughtful messages like

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Speaker 1: love yourself and these nuts, which, oddly enough is a

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Speaker 1: good buddy of mine's hot mail account name to this day.

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Speaker 1: Very adult, you know who you are. Milwaukeeans are making

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Speaker 1: the most out of this giant piece of litter, but

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Speaker 1: some Wisconsin officials say this is no laughing matter. After

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Speaker 1: another boat turned up abandon on the Saint Croix River

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Speaker 1: near Hudson, the mayor of that city wants to pass

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Speaker 1: state legislation making it a crime to abandon your boat.

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Speaker 1: Hudson passed an ordnance that finds boat owners hundreds per

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Speaker 1: day for abandoning their vessels, and the owners of the ship,

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Speaker 1: dubbed Sweet Destiny, owed the town a whopping fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: That's part of the reason they recently sold it to

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Speaker 1: someone named Bill Warren, who the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel describes

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Speaker 1: as a quote treasure hunter and lounge singer. I'm not

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Speaker 1: exactly sure what a lounge singer is, but Warren, who

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Speaker 1: claims to have found the body of Osama bin Laden

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Speaker 1: in the Arabian Sea, wants to sail Sweet Destiny down

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Speaker 1: to the Gulf of Mexico for an undersea treasure hunt.

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Speaker 1: You can't make this stuff up, folks. Just remember, if

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Speaker 1: you plan to take your ship on a three hour tour,

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Speaker 1: be sure you aim for an uncharted isle and not

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Speaker 1: the town of Hudson, Wisconsin. You'll end up owing a

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Speaker 1: good chunk of change. And it's still litter. This week,

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Speaker 1: we've got duck hunters state legislation, a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the federal action, and so much more. But first I'm

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Speaker 1: going to tell you about my week. And my week

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Speaker 1: well everybody knows if you're paying attention to meet Eater Live.

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Speaker 1: We all just got back from Mexico with our buddies

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Speaker 1: from Sig Sour. Had a great time down there. It

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Speaker 1: was cold and windy, we got snowed on and by windy,

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Speaker 1: I mean like thirty mile an hour sustained winds, which

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Speaker 1: it's hard to stare into the wind and glass for

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Speaker 1: little tiny deer on faraway mountains. But man, I love Sonora.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible, great plays, full of great people. And we

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Speaker 1: did pretty good, did pretty good on the deer, especially

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Speaker 1: those people that is like, oh, I got to get

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Speaker 1: stick on targets. Please don't. It's just trash. Wherever you go.

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Speaker 1: You're buying pre made trash. One of my many personal vendettas. Okay, now,

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Speaker 1: there's so much to cover. Legislative sessions are happening all

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Speaker 1: which would add the option to raffle two tags, two

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Speaker 1: statewide tags, one for moose, one for big worn sheep.

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Speaker 1: This would just be an option to raffle as opposed

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Speaker 1: to how it's written right now, where those are purely

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Speaker 1: over the age of seventy five to use their general

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Speaker 1: add an auction antelope and swan tag. HB three fifty

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Speaker 1: penalties for criminal trespass, specifically to shed hunting. HB fifty

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Speaker 1: in my opinion. HB ninety five damage based muskrat and

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Speaker 1: preference for elk tags. This is a cute industry one.

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Speaker 1: There's currently a loophole in the state of Montana where

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Speaker 1: you can be under contract to purchase six hundred and

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Speaker 1: eliminate that loophole, which should not exist. And there's some

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Speaker 1: a bunch of people. I'm not going to say your names,

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Speaker 1: but you know, hate the player, not the game. Hate

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Speaker 1: the game, not the player. I don't know how you'd

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Speaker 1: is a big one. Montana State lands are considered public

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Speaker 1: it's written right now, where state land, in order to

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Speaker 1: Montana is a good example as to why we should

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Speaker 1: push back against state ownership of federal lands because they're

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Speaker 1: going to fricking sell it. HB seventy one second lion

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Speaker 1: rather with lion hunters. Most lion tags go unfilled in

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Speaker 1: folks who do it well are the ones that fill

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Speaker 1: This is an interesting one. I threw it in here

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Speaker 1: because it's egg based, which is the Right to Repair Act.

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Speaker 1: This one for all you farmers out there who keep

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Speaker 1: updating equipment in the Great agricultural arms race. You kind

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Speaker 1: This is something I believe all hunters should be in

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Speaker 1: support of. The more onerous the egg game becomes, the

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Speaker 1: HB one oh five. Revise laws related to game bird

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Speaker 1: by Fish, Wildlife and Parks HB four oh one. This

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Speaker 1: is another fun one for you. Prohibit the sale of

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Speaker 1: old argument of if folks get hooked on lab grown meat,

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Speaker 1: what about all those private acres that are growing food

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Speaker 1: Moving on to the state legislative desk, HB zero two

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Speaker 1: eighty six prohibits the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission from

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Speaker 1: If this sounds familiar, that's because Utah passed a near

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Speaker 1: Wyoming are not happy. Mule, deer and elk hunters and

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Speaker 1: Mountain Lion hunters as well as a lot of not

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Speaker 1: traditional hook and bullet NGOs and groups to say this

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Speaker 1: You'll hear more about that with Old Luke Worthington, founder

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Speaker 1: and President of the Wyoming Houndsman Association, on a special

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Speaker 1: drop next week. In a similar vein, the Kansas state

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Speaker 1: legislature is considering a bill that would eliminate the authority

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Speaker 1: of the Secretary of Wildlife and Parks to issue non

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