WEBVTT - Ep. 16: Track Suits for Trout Chunkers 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.360 Let me tell you, ryding New Jersey transit with a 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.320 ten ft chunk and stick is a real pain in 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:09.520 the ask. And this guy could not have possibly made 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:13.160 me want to eat fish less? Have you ever knowingly 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:17.000 sabotaged someone else's rig all the time? You know, you 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.720 got the Mickey Finn and the bread ghost and the 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.720 half bass wooly Bugger and the head wraps would started 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:30.280 raveling within fifteen minutes of fishing them. Good morning, degenerate anglers, 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.919 and welcome to Bent, the fishing podcast that calls on 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.680 Friday looking to book a Saturday charter during peak season 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.879 and does not understand why you are not available. I'm 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.279 Joe Surmellie. I'm Miles Nolton. What the hell, man, are 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.040 you in business or what I'm I'm telling you don't 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.240 want to. I want to hire you to take me fishing, 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.760 and you're telling me you're too busy to take my money. Huh. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.320 So you heard this one a few times back in 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.720 the day, Moms, maybe once, maybe twice. I might have 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.960 been yelled at like that. One of the many things 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.120 that fuels the fire of professional fishing guides. Anyway, Listen, 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.160 we certainly hope that there was no family ire at 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:08.160 the Thanksgiving table yesterday, assuming you had a real live 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.240 loved ones around that table, not ten iPads with zoom 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.640 faces and a bucket of KFC. 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I also think they're the same pie. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.560 But anyway, head on over to Black Rifle Coffee dot 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.480 com backslash Mediator on this very black Friday, stock yourself up, 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.320 stock up on stocking stuffers for everyone you know, and 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.760 enter the promo code Mediator to score off your order. 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:01.240 So much stocking mm hmm yeah first, yeah, and we're 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:06.080 stock to come. We're getting in the stocking season. Anyway, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.799 moving on to the fishing stuff from what I understand, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.920 which is limited, but I know people and I talked 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.040 to you. I hear that Thanksgiving weekend is like kind 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.400 of a big deal for for the striper crowd. Like 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.400 that's not your way to really really get on that 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.400 sure is, man, if you're a coastal angler in in 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.320 New York, any Jersey stripers kind of go with Thanksgiving 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.760 like football goes with Thanksgiving. And it was it was 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:30.840 traditional for me for many years of my life to 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.480 chase them either on the beach or from my old 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.480 boat every Thanksgiving morning, and my buddies and I look 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.919 forward to that greatly. Um the tradeoff though, right because 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.000 then I'd be falling asleep with the table, and like 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.640 my mom wasn't happy about that. And then that just 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.240 kind of transferred over to my wife. And I've been 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.680 scolded a Thanksgiving or two for basically being completely unengaged 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.600 at dinner, you know what I mean, Just not interested 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:58.200 in family chatter or even being in the same room sometimes. Yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.040 It was a fun morning though, but you know, and 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.720 then we had a couple of kids and I stopped 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.680 fishing on Thanksgiving morning and the children just drained both 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.560 of us. Um, though I do I do have some 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.919 striper time set aside for this weekend, so we'll see good. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.280 I'm glad to hear that, man, And that is something 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.520 I can totally like, I can connect with that, not 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.760 the striper part, but the changing of the Thanksgiving like 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:21.960 I've had. I've had a few different Thanksgiving traditions. For 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.560 a while there, I was spending every single Thanksgiving over 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.280 on the Big Horn, Like I would just skip the 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.440 whole Thanksgiving things. I'd go to the Big Horn and 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.120 just catch a ton of brown trout and shoot some 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.600 pheasants or some geese or whatever. And and then there's 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.440 a while there was no time where I was always 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.720 I was floating rivers closer to home and deer hunting 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.800 and also catching trout at the same time. And like, yeah, 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.800 it was it was great. It was great. But you know, 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.040 priorities change, life changes. There's nothing wrong with that. Change 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.680 is good. And unless, of course, you happen to be 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.320 one of those people who chooses to don know, forego 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:58.080 certain comforts in order to to dodge responsibility for the 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.080 rest of your life. And if there's one person, and 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.960 we know who's a master of not having any responsibilities, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:09.400 it has to be legendary Striper Chunking expert Bob the 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.560 garbage Man. You said it. He is a man beholden 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.040 to no one but the tides and the stripers, and 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.840 the lung darts, and the lung darts. Beholding to the 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.680 lung darts. And if you've been with us from the 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.640 beginning here this legend provided our first ever regional report. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.640 And and you might recall he was in pretty good 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.920 spirits because he was talking about the spring and the 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.520 height of COVID quarantine was keeping everybody off the water, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.720 so he was thrilled. So all these months later, I'm 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.120 eager to see how he's fired. Calling as usual from 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.240 the pay phone at the corner of Baltic and mL 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.560 K in Atlantic City, New Jersey, here's the soothing voice 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:54.880 of Bob g. Hello out Dan Radio Land. This is 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.840 Striper Chunk and expert Bob the garbage Man, Briton and 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.680 Nana now Ski calling in your weak the East Coast 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.159 Stripeer Report. Just to cut to the chase. It's been 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.880 a real shifty week. Frankly, it's been a shifty few 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.520 months of I'm being honest, Ever since this whole COVID 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.400 bullshit blew over every place I try to fish, looks 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.200 like the t Jetty mook Fest Bulitz oh One. The 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.800 fall run of Momos is in full swing. Let me 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.120 tell you what I mean, Jesus, I walked out to 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.200 the drain pipe behind Port Authority the other night. It's 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.159 thirty eight degrees blown thirty out of the north and 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.839 there's three guys in track suits from South Philly thrown 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:34.000 rubber trout on catfish tackle. Like before this year, me 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.760 and Crazy Terry from the Pond Shop was the only 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.799 two people that fished out there. I'm losing my mind 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.320 just to scratch out five to six low fifties. I'm 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.240 taking the train up to Nork to hit some high 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.760 level sleep of ship in the meadow lands. And let 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.360 me tell you, riding New Jersey Transit with a ten 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.160 foot chunk and stick is a real pain in the ass. Anyway, 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.599 I ain't got any more uplifting news from the rest 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.120 of the coast. My old buddy Joey the Gut and 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.600 Montalk says the place is over run with kids from 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.920 Parks Slope dressed like Benetton ads casting fly rods had 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:07.080 taken sunset pictures at Chaguan, Tony, Bologna and Zuini up 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.279 in nauset Beach says, these firsty dipshits up there throwing 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.920 datas at Blitz and hobby seals because they can't tell 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.240 the difference between a large, hairy mamo and a stripe bass. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.159 Dear God, please return this country to full lockdown. I 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.839 can't take this ship anymore. That's what I got for 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:29.200 you is this week goodbye. Okay. First of all, First 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.840 of all, based on on this whole uptick in in 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.640 angler participation that we keep talking about so much on 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.679 the podcast and that we we support generally, uh nothing, 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.719 nothing at all about just heard surprises me. I think 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.480 I think anybody and everybody we we we saw that coming, right. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.719 It was inevitable. It was inevitable. And second, I have 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.160 this weird inkling now that you might be you might 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.080 be hopping on a bus and going over to Newark 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.480 this weekend. I yeah, I might be, man because that 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.400 wasn't completely uplifting news about the bite. And he's the 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.320 man on the ground. So I kind of I cap 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.000 off my travel time to catching my low fifty pounders 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.200 minutes any longer, any long we ever drive in that, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.960 I'll just settle for the thirty and forty pounders that night. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.680 You know rough life, You got a rough life, not Bob. Bob. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.400 He covers the ground and he knows that to cover water, 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.680 and so do we. Matter of fact, we are loading 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.400 a new segment into the chamber this week, one that's 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.600 designed to help you learn as much personal and maybe 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.880 not so personal information about notable, respected people in the 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.280 angling community in record time. Because you're busy, you don't 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.520 have time to sit through a whole interview, we condensed 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:51.720 it for you. We've got a new and I would 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.320 say special treat for you today where we are debuting 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:58.560 a fully unique segment we're calling Covering Water because we're 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.360 gonna be all over the place with this one, and fittingly, 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.440 I think to to be be with us for the 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.360 inaugural guest is our really good friend Oliver and I 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.520 what's up man, Oliver? What's up? Man? It's up? Boys? 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.040 Are you guys? Shure them the right choice of this? 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.800 I don't get out very much positive, no question at 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.679 all of our minds. Anybody, anybody who has UH checked 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.680 in with the Toss Boat series knows Oliver well and 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.120 UH and and knows the kind of fire and heat 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.000 he is going to bring and and besides, like he's 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.480 willing to put up with our our our crazy stupid 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.520 ideas like this, So he's the perfect guy really to 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.880 start this off. In my opinion, Yes, you're willing to 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.319 be a guinea pig, and we appreciate that. Absolutely. He 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.400 has no fear. So the way this is gonna work, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.600 we are gonna put two minutes on the clock and 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.440 Joe and I are going to rapid fire pepper you 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.960 with questions. Your job is not to think too much, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.520 just just react, and we're gonna get through as many 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.160 questions as we can in two minutes. When the buzzer 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.640 strikes at the end of those two minutes, then we 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.680 will give you a full minute to elaborate on something 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:05.800 you feel like we all should know better to understand 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.560 what you were saying. One that needs you think needs clarifications. 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:10.920 There's gonna be many, so you're gonna but you're gonna 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.319 have to pick one. Yep, yep, all right, man, did 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.720 you ready play? Yeah? That sounds like a terrible game show. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.440 I'm down. That's exactly what it is. It is a 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:24.280 terrible game show. All right, you boys? Ready clock starts? Now, 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:31.000 who's the greatest angler? Of all time, Jordan Kobe or 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:37.520 Lebron Have you ever knowingly sabotaged someone else's rig all 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:49.600 the time? At least favorite fish to target bill fish, 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:55.720 m spring bite or fall bite. Most revolutionary lore ever invented? 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:03.840 Mega bass one tender. Okay, okay, nas are little nas x? 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:12.040 Come on, man, nasty nas. Yes, most sensitive area you've 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:18.959 ever been hooked in, Oh boy, back in my head? Okay. Yeah, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.120 the species you've never caught that's highest on your list. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:28.760 The dumbest way you've ever broken a rod, letting my 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:33.760 girlfriend take my rod, sock off my Mega bass hedgehog destroyer. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:41.640 That was pretty dumb. Rank the following fish from from 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:48.280 worst to best. Rock bass crappy perch readier. Oh that's 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:57.120 brutal rock bass perch by a readier. Did I miss one? 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:05.560 All right? Okay? The Magne rebought catapultar Nike pumps. Oh Nikes, 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:11.439 you gotta have the pumps. Man excellent choice. Cheetos or 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:16.040 kale chips. Cheetos. One piece of tackle you cannot live 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:26.120 without a hook. That's it, buzzer done. That hook could 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:35.560 be like a family feud, like boom survey says, so okay, man, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.000 so of all those, there's gotta be one that you 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.680 want to expand on a little bit. Do you have 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.400 it locked in? Yeah, let's go with Alner. First question, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.480 your clocks running. You got a minute to explain yourself, 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.600 all right. As a youngster from California, I watched this 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:56.440 man from a whole another world, catching everything and doing 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:01.720 it in a very scientifically minded approach, and you broke 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.760 things down in a way that I could understand, even 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.160 though half the time the fish that he was targeting 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.880 we didn't even have in l A. Yeah, but it 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.199 was a mindset and that approach that I could take 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.560 from an adapt to my fishing styles. Because I was 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.600 watching this man like doing it, his body of works 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.079 spoke for itself in my mind, and that stuff is 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:27.720 transcended generations. It's transcended the onset of this social media 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.880 age where anybody and everybody has a platform and there's 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.120 no filter for the content that's being put out there anymore. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.240 And Alan, there is still a G. He was on 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.240 my boat last year writing these big swells on Relax 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.439 like a gangster and like just smacking big walleye and 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:52.480 small mouth. Alan, there's a G. So we've got a 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.200 few more hot seaters lined up for covering water going forward. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.880 But listen, we want to hear about it from you guys. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.840 Did you like the segment? Did you hate it so 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.120 once you've been turned off of fishing for life? Who 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.440 would you love to see us grill on high heat? 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.079 What questions would you ask him or her? Let us 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.439 know by sending an email to bent at the meter 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.880 dot com. We love giving you things to think about. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.120 We want to spark your creativity and your thoughts, like 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.840 what is Hank Parker's favorite Beastie Boys song? Or is 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.360 it possible for Larry Dhlberg to make a lure that 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.880 doesn't catch a shipload of fish? I don't think so 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.959 for the record, But now we're gonna give you lots 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.200 more to think about, uh in the realm of current events, 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:42.160 because it is time for fish news. Fish news that 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:46.240 escalated quickly, So before we get all newsy on you guys, 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.199 this is where we like to do a little housekeeping 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.679 time to time, throw out some fans shoutouts, and I 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.880 just have to throw one out very quickly to at 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:59.839 Zach underscore salon life. I don't know Zack's full and 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.400 the aim was not provided, but he sent us a 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.880 joint message on the instagrams just to let us know that, um, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.080 he saw Pantera in a packed house in Atlanta many 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:15.000 years ago and apparently are very brief. Pantera verse Slayer 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:19.320 pit debate has resonated with a ton of y'all. Yeah, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.400 it seems like it really, it really hit a chord there. Yeah, 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.160 like we should probably do a music podcast instead of fishing, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.960 because that's like, that's like the thing, all the fish stuff, 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.600 not that you guys don't write in about that, but 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.680 like the Pantera Slayer thing anyway, um Zach wrote, and 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.440 I'm quoting here amash pit, the size of the venue erupts, 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:42.080 and my skinny ass in parentheses at the time closed 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.640 parentheses tries to get to the side of the pit 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.560 and I get literally stabbed in the gut. So, yeah, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:53.400 Pantera is wilder than Slayer, and I needed clarifications. So 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.560 I just wrote back stabbed question mark like with a shiv, 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.280 and he says, yep, shank with a four inch boot knife. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.920 Great show until the stabbing. I love that we we 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.000 did the exact same thing because I essentially responded to 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.040 him in precisely the same enter and said, like, you 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.600 mean literally stabbed, like when you say stabbing, stabby stabbed right, 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.760 And he's like, oh yeah, no, I got stabbed. So dude, 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.520 you win. Craziest pit story I've ever heard. Um And 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.680 I just wanted to say thanks for that. So that's 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.800 my my shout out of the week right there. Yeah, 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.480 and I gotta I gotta come in with a little correction. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:31.920 A couple weeks ago, I did an end of line 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.800 segment on the SUK which I totally stand by, but 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:40.640 apparently I butchered the name of the town where Frank 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.760 Suek came from anonymous mistake, though I've done the same. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.400 So the town is spelled a N T I g 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.920 O and I pronounced it antigo with a hard t. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.000 And and quite a few of you wrote to tell 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.880 me how very wrong I was about that. Apparently the 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.520 t is silent, which I've never heard of before. Um, 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.200 so it's an ego, an ego, I don't know, something 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:05.960 like that. But but no tea in there, even though 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.720 it looks like there's so people throw us a bone 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.800 on that one, like that's not fair. No, no, no, 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.320 no no, But I mean that's not an obvious like 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.320 we should have known how to say that one is 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:21.880 the t ever silent. But I do appreciate you guys 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:23.960 keeping me honest and keeping us honest and letting us 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.360 know I hold no ill will towards you. Please continue 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.160 doing that, let us know when we screw something up, 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.880 because we want to know, we want to learn. Yes, 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.520 we do, we do, all right, So that concludes housekeeping. Um, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.160 we're gonna get to uh to the real news this week. Remember, 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.360 Miles and I do not know which news stories the 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:40.920 other is bringing to the table. And at the end 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.880 of this our audio engineer Phil will weigh in and 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.440 declare a news victor. And I'll just go ahead and say, 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.840 right now, you're gonna win this week because both of 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.120 my stories are dumb, and I aired on the side 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:55.200 of humor more than hard news because you know what, 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.680 my God, do we all need to laugh right now? Absolutely? 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.080 You know I can't even this world and laughter cure 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.399 is all. So I am airing. I am herring on 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.840 the side of humorous this week. I just couldn't help myself. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:15.119 So here we go, thank you. So anyway, um it 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.840 it is largely believed I would say that the coronavirus 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.720 originated in bats over in China. Now some of you 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.280 are going, no, hell it did, It's a conspiracy. Now, 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.800 we're not going to go off on all the conspiracy theories, 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.080 all that noise for the sake of this new story. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.639 We're just gonna go with the narrative that because the 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.480 Chinese kind of eat some weird ship, this whole problem 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:37.760 started with an infected bat that someone picked up for brunch. Okay, uh. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.119 We also know that the virus went nutty around the 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.639 wet markets in Wuhan where said bat was supposedly sold, 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.080 and all these months later, what you don't see is 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.760 a Chinese official on live TV pulling an Ozzy Osbourne 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.919 and showing a bat to let the masses know that 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.320 see the bats are okay now, in an attempt to 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.679 reboost bat sales and help all the poor bat farmers 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.520 or hunter gatherers or whoever these people are that that 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.080 supplied the bats. But um, the people of Sri Lanka 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:13.080 did see this exact thing happened recently, but with a fish. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.200 And this is from the New York Post. The headline 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:20.120 here x Sri Lankan official chumps on a raw fish 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:24.840 during news conference. Okay, now from the story, a former 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.639 Sri Lankan fisheries minister chomped on a raw fish on 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:31.399 a Tuesday press conference as seafood sales in the nation 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:36.040 have plummeted over coronavirus concerns. And here's a quote. I 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.440 am making an appeal to the people of this country 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.320 to eat fish. Don't be afraid you will not get 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:48.000 infected by the coronavirus dilip what a Racchi Wadaracha said 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.120 before biting into this fish. Last month, the Central Fish 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.000 Market outside the nation's capital Colombo was the site of 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.040 a major coronavirus outbreak that led to thousands of county 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:02.879 wide infections. Since the and fish sales and consumption in 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:07.199 Sri Lanka have plunged. Tens of thousands of tons of 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.600 fish have gone unsold because of this. And the final 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.000 quote here is are people who are in the fisheries 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.280 industry cannot sell their fish. People of this country are 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:20.480 not eating fish. What a Racchi said at the news conference. Um. 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.600 And he also had this to say before eating the fish. 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:24.520 And you could tell from this quote dudes upset and 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:34.080 not messing around. Now we've both watched this and this 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.360 guy could not have possibly made me want to eat 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:41.879 fish less. Okay, He throws a plastic shopping bag on 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.000 the table, pulls out what looked like to mackerel and 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.840 and somewhat hesitantly holds one like corn on the cob 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.760 and just takes a giant bite out of the fish's back, 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.400 right behind the dorsal fin, and like you hear the 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.520 spine crunch in his mouth, and you can like hear 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.840 the f a squish, and blood runs out of the 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:09.320 fish and drips on the paperwork in front of him. 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.800 He then holds up the blood stained paperwork and shows 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.320 everyone in the bite in the fish is back while 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.400 his hot Mike is picking up the sound of him 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:21.680 like chewing back whatever mackerel bits are left in his mouth. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.440 Now you saw the cut version. There's a longer version though, 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:26.879 and I swear there's a point where he he gags 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.639 a little. Okay, but if that was supposed to make 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:31.879 me want to run to the fish market, like God 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.679 help these people, and I mean it also goes without 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:38.479 saying this whole thing is totally based on unfounded panic. 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.720 Corona has never been linked to fish. I mean, hell, dude. 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:42.560 One of the first segments you and I ever did 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.680 on this podcast was about how you will not get 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:49.440 any sort of Corona type virus from a fish. But 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.720 obviously the people are blaming this outbreak in a crowded 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.040 market on the fish being sold. They're not the whole 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.880 shipload of people at the crowded mark, not the crowds 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.040 of people like snooze and breathing on Chela. Know, it 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.040 must be the face. It must be the mackerel. So 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:08.080 I just could This video is so worth a watch. Um, 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.480 you know, good, good effort to that guy. But yeah, 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.760 it's just you didn't help the seafood market with that one. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.000 I feel like we're missing some context because I have 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.639 no idea what he's saying, right, Like, I want to 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:21.520 know what what point he's making when he holds up 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:22.920 the bloody paper and he's like, I want to know 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.280 if he's like, see see held right here, dude. We 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:29.480 should We should have it overdub for our social pages. 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:32.359 We can have bad lip reading. It would be so 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.840 much fun. Oh god, it would be good. Yeah, look 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:39.159 how fresh the blood drips down the affidavit or whatever 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:41.920 he's holding. There was nothing. You didn't look, there's nothing 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.200 on the paper it makes me think he's like he's 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:47.240 got those fake notes that they bring out a press conferences, 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:48.879 like you know, you shuffle the papers like I have 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.480 important things to say, but there's nothing on the paper. 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.480 He has no notes. He didn't he didn't want to 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:56.600 bite the mackerel. The poor guy. He didn't want to 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.439 do that. It was It's just it's just awful. So, 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.040 oh well, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with eating parts 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:06.200 of the fish that that maybe we don't usually bite into. 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:07.800 I don't. I don't know about you, but I don't 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:10.320 go for the fish backs. It's like my top priority 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:13.040 the way that that that particular person did. But I'll say, 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:16.080 over the past a couple of years year at least, 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:17.880 I've really been trying to figure out how to use 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.040 more of the fish that I harvest instead of just 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:23.000 like whacking off the filets and tossing the rest, because 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:25.760 you know, depending on what kind of fish you're talking about, um, 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.080 the flames might only make up a third of the 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.199 entire body weight, and so that just it just feels 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.879 it feels wasteful right now. Absolutely how we've always done it, 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:34.280 but I'm trying to get better at it. And I 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:36.960 got started on this kick when I read a book 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.480 called The Whole Fish Cookbook by Josh Niland, who's an 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:44.920