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

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Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel. Steel products are available

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal Callahan. Drivers

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Speaker 1: along Highway three seventy one in Minnesota noticed something strange

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Speaker 1: earlier this month near mile marker thirty six. Smiling down

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Speaker 1: from an electronic billboard, the face of a forty something

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Speaker 1: white man appeared next to the words this is Troy.

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Speaker 1: He sucks at fishing. Troy is part of a group

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Speaker 1: of anglers that takes a big ice fishing trip every year.

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Speaker 1: According to one member of the group, David V. Troy

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Speaker 1: has been quote less than successful. Apparently, Troy can go

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Speaker 1: entire days without catching a fish, and his fishing buddies

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Speaker 1: haven't been shy about giving him a hard time. But

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Speaker 1: the constant trash talk didn't Troy from upping the antie.

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Speaker 1: He commissioned a personalized message from actor Christopher McDonald, who

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Speaker 1: you may remember as Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore. You're

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Speaker 1: Big Trouble Dold Pal. I eat pieces like you for breakfast.

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Speaker 1: You eat pieces for breakfast. No in that video, McDonald

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Speaker 1: taunts the rest of the group, asking whether they really

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna beat Troy on their annual trip. That's

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Speaker 1: when V and his friends decided to let the world

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Speaker 1: know that Troy sucks at fishing. They bought the billboard

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Speaker 1: ad for just under three hundred bucks and it ran

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Speaker 1: for five days. It also included an email address, Troy

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Speaker 1: sucks too at gmail dot com, where folks could send

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Speaker 1: even more trash talk Troy's way. V admitted that Troy

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Speaker 1: is a fine fisherman, but their stunt sets a high bar.

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Speaker 1: If you think you and your crew are good smack talkers,

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Speaker 1: you have to ask yourself are you good enough to

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Speaker 1: show the world via a three hundred dollar billboard on

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Speaker 1: Minnesota three. This week we've got moose stream access and

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Speaker 1: our first snort reported the fall. But first, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you about my week. In my week, well man,

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Speaker 1: a ton has happened to start off. Thanks to everyone

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Speaker 1: for the dozens of responses to our Margarita query, more

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Speaker 1: emails about that than almost any other topic as of

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Speaker 1: recent Now, let's channel that passion and enthusiasm towards conservation,

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Speaker 1: shall we, And let's not forget that we are moving

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Speaker 1: into autumn, so it's time to sunset the marks and

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Speaker 1: move into old fashioned time frames. And when I say

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Speaker 1: old fashions, I mean the real stuff that doesn't contain

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Speaker 1: any sort of club soda or bubbles and isn't too sweet.

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Speaker 1: I'm sweet enough, see you know what. Anyway, I have

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Speaker 1: returned from the land of enchantment, New Mexico, and as

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Speaker 1: I was reminded, the enchantment in New Mexico is in

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Speaker 1: the form of chiggers. Chiggers or trombicular day, are an

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Speaker 1: evil creation. When in the larval form anyway, they're a

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Speaker 1: six legged mite. After crawling onto their hosts, in this

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Speaker 1: case me, they inject digestive enzymes into the skin that

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Speaker 1: break down the skin cells. They don't actually bite, but

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Speaker 1: instead form a hole in the skin called the style

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Speaker 1: thus causing severe irritation and swelling. The severe itching is

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Speaker 1: accompanied by red pimple like bumps or papules that are

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Speaker 1: type of enchantment. We found a lot of the elk

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Speaker 1: type of enchantment as well. Had some great opportunities on

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Speaker 1: we are only three days into our Montana bird season.

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Speaker 1: start dropping, so goodbye snakes. Moving on to the moose desk.

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Speaker 1: Climate change is a bad thing, there's no question about that.

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Speaker 1: a great example. Thanks to listener John Hanson for sending

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Speaker 1: this one. In Shrubs are expanding across the tundra and

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Speaker 1: making this up. Shrubbification. I would have loved to have

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Speaker 1: Shrubification is visible from space, and while moose don't have spaceships,

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Speaker 1: loving the additional forage, and their numbers on the Togiak

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Speaker 1: as moose numbers increase. Rural Alaskans have historically survived on

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Speaker 1: caribou meat turned to moose this fall, and winter bag

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Speaker 1: limits for local hunters are more liberal than usual in

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Speaker 1: Moving on to the rewilding desk, Warmer weather is great

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Speaker 1: the elephants. Giraffes and i Paula's in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean officials

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Speaker 1: which is causing quote incessant conflict. Of course, wildlife officials

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Speaker 1: Rewilding is a conservation strategy that assumes humans should play

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Speaker 1: a limited role in managing wild landscapes. Rewilding advocates say

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Speaker 1: In Zimbabwe, elephants and zebras aren't just being moved to

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Speaker 1: has approved an application to store carbon dioxide underground. Ex

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