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Speaker 1: joined by Austin Riley Third Basement for the Atlanta Braves.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. You guys, beat you guys, beat

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Speaker 1: I mean, the racist is tough. They've you know, the

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Speaker 1: what September baseball is all about. It's I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: And and you know last night was luckily it was

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Speaker 1: lastly you guys won handily. Well, I mean in the end,

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Speaker 1: What do you do when when that's going on? You

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Speaker 1: And then if whoever wins the division, that you would

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Speaker 1: Arizona Fall League. Um. It happens the month of November. Uh,

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Speaker 1: von Albert von Tilser wrote many hit songs. Let me

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Speaker 1: tell you something, I'm a big Von Tills in your head.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Here's some more of his hits.

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Speaker 1: You're ready for this, Put on your slippers and fill

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Speaker 1: was like it was a mistake, but it wasn't if

424
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Speaker 1: it was a lab, like I said, if it was

425
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: a lab or a beagle, you'd be what. But there

426
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: are black wolves, there are white wolves, there are mixed

427
00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: color wolves. We recently saw a pack of hunt in Alaska.

428
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: We saw a pack of fourteen, all black wolves. I

429
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: didn't know that could happen. Dang, fourteen solid black wolves.

430
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: And when you're looking at him from a long ways

431
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: way through a spot and scope, you would be like,

432
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: holy sh it, there's a bunch of black dogs running

433
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: along because they're just black. M So it just it

434
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: doesn't strike me. It just doesn't strike me as insane.

435
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: As it's striking everybody else. And I think there's on

436
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: people's behalf. There's like a shipload of moral posturing. And

437
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: I think the most of the people that are most

438
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,959
Speaker 1: mad would have been just as mad if it had

439
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: been a wolf. And somehow, weirdly, when a woman does something,

440
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: it pisces people off more than when a guy does it.

441
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: That's true. And even though she's not gonna face any

442
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: legal trouble, this is gonna follow her around for the

443
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: rest of her life because it if a woman does something,

444
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: there's something about it that just makes even women hate

445
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: him more. You know, women, men, all right, they're not

446
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: given because it's like because she did this awful thing

447
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 1: and tried, thought she killed the wolf, try to kill

448
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: a wolf, it was a dog, It's like they're gonna

449
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: pile onto her harder. Yeah. I think it's the sheer,

450
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: just brazen confidence of that Facebook post to that's that's

451
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: adding a lot of feel and my but my context

452
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: there would be then that it is a genuine mistake, right,

453
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: that it's just an individual made a mistake. Yeah, And

454
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: a lot of people have like this disneyfication of like

455
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: what a wolf would look like, right, don't. I don't

456
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: think people even always really know exactly what they look at.

457
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: The people that are piste would have been pissed if

458
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: it was a wolf. Yeah, totally. The news coverage you

459
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: see of this, it always this is now like a

460
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: launching pad to talk about like the delisting wolves and

461
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: things like that. You see that in all these new

462
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: sources that are covering this story. It becomes it becomes

463
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: not that a woman shot at husky. It talks about

464
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: like the protection of wolves in the Rocky Mountains. It's

465
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: a referendum. It becomes a referendum on whether it's the state,

466
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: uh should be love to manage the resource. Yeah, so

467
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: it's like we shouldn't have wolves delisted because otherwise huskies

468
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: are getting shot. Husky get shot. We need to add

469
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: some more clear need to add some more clarity to

470
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: the story. Though. So she had posted that like on

471
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: the weekend, right, and the sheriff's office releases the statement

472
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: a few days later. Um, and then she puts a

473
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: follow up post on Facebook, and you had talked about

474
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: how she had shot it because it was like barking

475
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: at her or whatever. Here's what her post says, This

476
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: is just part of it, It says I would still

477
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: have shot it because it was aggressive and coming directly

478
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: for me. So that that was part of her story

479
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: that came out later. Uh, that the husky you know,

480
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: was posturing as though I was going to attack her. Hm,

481
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: I mean I can't buy that that. I don't have

482
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: problem with that. It's like dogs. We call it burger barking,

483
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: like coyotes do it. Dogs do it when they first

484
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: see a stranger. Hell, my dog does it through the

485
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: window of the truck, like she see someone walking in

486
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: the dark. Right, hackles go up. It's like it's yourself.

487
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: It's a convenient it's a convenient detail. I don't know.

488
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's true. I could see why

489
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: someone in this situation would feel the need to um

490
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: try to get themselves out of the death threats and

491
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: right like I can see why someone under great dear

492
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: rest might stretch the truth. But in and of itself,

493
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: that is not an outrageous claim. No, it's not. If

494
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: someone told me. If if if my wife was on

495
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: a hike with the kids and she came back and said,

496
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: we were way up so such and such place, and

497
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: some damn dog comes out of nowhere, barking and growling

498
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: at us. What I'd be like, you lie in right now.

499
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, that's like I can imagine that happened.

500
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of places that I've hunted in

501
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: South Dakota, Wyoming, it's like you have a random straight

502
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: dog come through your decoy spread while you're out there,

503
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, that's that's not anybody's pet, that's

504
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: just a dog out roman doing its thing. We were

505
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: turkey hunting in a in a remote area of Montana,

506
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: I mean as remote as you can getting hunting. Turkey

507
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: hunting remote area Montagna. At one point I looked out

508
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: across this large patch of open ground and I'm like,

509
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: what in the world is that. I couldn't tell what

510
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: was going on. As we got closer to investigated, it

511
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: was a domestic dog dragging a deer. Domestic dog dragging

512
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: a dead deer through the fields. Yep, very similar story.

513
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: Me and you remember Danny Morrison. Oh yeah, Um, me

514
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: and Danny were were turkey hunting in South Dakota and uh,

515
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: Danny was trying to get on this one gobbler and

516
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: then this thing just disappeared. A scene wasn't out in

517
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: the field anymore. And uh he pops up over this

518
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: little ridge to get a glimpse. Put byos up and

519
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: there's this stray dog that had killed this turkey, just

520
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: out in an open field. Yeah, eating on a turkey

521
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: out in the middle of grass pasture. You know. Here's

522
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: another quote from her follow up Facebook post. It's hiss.

523
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: My safety was top priority. This animal was growling, howling

524
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: and coming at me like he was going to eat me. Okay,

525
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: I don't know, I've never met the individual. I don't

526
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: know that that's true, but that is not outrageous. Yeah,

527
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: and even if it's not true, like you say, someone

528
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: told an outrageous lie, that might be a lie. It

529
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: was not an outrageous lie. Well, I mean either way,

530
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: Like you can see how she's just trying to hit

531
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: completely completely understanding. It's just the yeah, and you've you've

532
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: you've kind of pulled me over to the other side

533
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: to but it's just the Facebook that the complete kind

534
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: of her first post is like I smoked. I smoked

535
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: this wolf. I'm gonna tell my husband. And the next

536
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: post is like it was growling and snarling and charging

537
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: at me. I had no other choice. You know, it's

538
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: just kind of it's it's convenient. She's under tremendous dear

539
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: rest um. And again just we're not summed up yet

540
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: because I wanted we we need to hear the her

541
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: boyfriend to say. And and here I respect the um.

542
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: You know you know that Tammy want to stand by

543
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: your man. This is like stand by your woman, woman, woman.

544
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: Now you're you're referring to a follow up Facebook post

545
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: by the husband, and in that face post, one of

546
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: the details that he says is that she has not

547
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: been filed for any charges. Well you read the whole

548
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: she will not be filed for any charges, but the

549
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: sheriff's office UM says that they are investigating the thing.

550
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: She's not gonna get in trouble. She shouldn't, man like.

551
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: There were other claims which I don't know how people

552
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: came upon these that she addressed in the Facebook post

553
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: that she didn't have a wolf tag. She did have

554
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: a wolf tag. She says she has a wolf tag,

555
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: but I don't see anything in the sheriff's office statement

556
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: saying that she did. It just says it's under no

557
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:35,959
Speaker 1: I think it was clarified that she had a wolf

558
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: taga and it kind of doesn't matter. A lot of

559
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: this stuff is this A lot of it's like hate

560
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: the game, not the player. Do you know what I'm saying?

561
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: People are mad because they would have been mad if

562
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: she shot the damn wolf. Uh. Phil, you know that

563
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: you have a little machine that bleeps out obscenities. You're

564
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: gonna need to get a new one because the one

565
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: you've gotten out is going to be worn out. It's

566
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: gonna be worn out. But I want you to very carefully.

567
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: Spencer's gonna read it, and I want you to very

568
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: carefully bleep the Incenti's out. And I think this will

569
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: make a phenomenal T shirt. This is gonna make me

570
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: blush and and like our last uh email T shirt,

571
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,439
Speaker 1: this one lacks punctuation. But don't worry about because Phil

572
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: is gonna bleep it all out. No one will know

573
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: what it was that you said. That's right. Yeah, it's

574
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: just gonna sound like a mad lib when we're done,

575
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: where it's like insert. If we do a T shirt,

576
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can about check copyright maybe

577
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: the individual, but it would be with all the like

578
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: dollar signs and asterix and stuff for when you do

579
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: a lot like the last. But here's an individual whose

580
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: girlfriend is getting death threats and here's his response. Yeah,

581
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: I don't even fault them for this. We're talking about

582
00:35:55,080 --> 00:36:00,280
Speaker 1: making a template that other people could use this for ready. Yeah,

583
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: any you mother talk all that you cause not one

584
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: of you mothers are tough enough to act on any

585
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: of your bullshit. Said, If so, come to my place

586
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 1: and I'll beat your myself. Yeah, my girlfriend was out

587
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: hunting and shot a dog that was dumped out in

588
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: the woods. No charges have been filed or will be

589
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: filed because no laws were broke. It was a dear

590
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 1: chasing feral dog on the wrong place at the wrong time.

591
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: So if you want to be a bunch of cry

592
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: baby sheep, keep going, because we really don't give two

593
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: fings about what's going on or what's being said. Mistakes happened,

594
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: big deal, you cry baby motherfuls. And for any other

595
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: hunters who want to talk saying it looks bad, well

596
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: it does, you stupid mother. But mistakes happened. So, like

597
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: I said, any you want to act on any of

598
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: these threats and bullshit, come up, because I got one

599
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: for you. Sure, I love I totally understand. I don't understand. Uh.

600
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 1: My favorite part is, like you all you understand it

601
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: looks bad, Well, yeah, it does. Owning their ship and

602
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: in their intention was not to do what ended up

603
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: being done. Strip away the strip away the passion, strip

604
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: away the passion? What what? What is what is left

605
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: when you strip away the passion? Well, we was my

606
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: girlfriend made a mistake. She shot a dog. It was

607
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,399
Speaker 1: a dog out in the wild. It was a deer

608
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: eating dog. It was in the wrong place at the

609
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: wrong time. Sure, it looks bad. Mistakes happen, and no

610
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: laws are broken. That it's like, okay, strip away the passion.

611
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: And it's like you just aren't dealing with people who

612
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: are that. It's not like you're dealing with irrational people.

613
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:00,919
Speaker 1: It was a mistake. This sounds kind of irrational because

614
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: it's infused, you know about infused with passion. Shawn's Duck

615
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: report minutes on that trying to move on. You are

616
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: right in that you are one of the only people

617
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: I've seen take this stance on the internet, whether they're

618
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: in the hunting community or not. That uh this was kosher. No, no, no,

619
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: I want you to now, I want you to do this.

620
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: I want you to tell me what my stance is,

621
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: because I want to make sure you're paying attention to

622
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Okay, I'm not being fair your stances

623
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,439
Speaker 1: at she made a mistake and that it it could

624
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: happen to folks, and that that I think that much

625
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: of the anger is coming from people who have a

626
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: problem with something put in place by the state where

627
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,280
Speaker 1: she lives, and they're deflecting that honor in in a

628
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: big way. You know, earlier I was saying is because

629
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: it's a girl. But if it was a dude to

630
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: be bad, I take that back. I take that part back.

631
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,240
Speaker 1: They'd be pissed at a dude. Oh yeah, were you saying?

632
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm saying that like people kind of what

633
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: a woman does, like a woman goes to Africa and

634
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 1: get it's almost a little it's like, in a way,

635
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: it's a people experience it different. It's that whole Kendall Jones.

636
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: It's like because they're just like, you know, it's just

637
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: people feel it different. I agree it takes on like

638
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: a sexual that the hatred takes on like a sexual

639
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: violence kind of think in celt creeping in there a

640
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: little bit. I think if it were a dude, they

641
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: probably would have Well, I don't know how do I

642
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: quantify or qualify like worse, but I think the follow

643
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: up like a rabid dog and her dog was barking

644
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: or I felt intimidated, I was, you know, protecting myself.

645
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: I feel like something about that would not go over

646
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: as much if it were dude. Oh yeah, you're right,

647
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: there's something. There's something about that. Dude would have had

648
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: a harder time. A dude would have had a harder

649
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 1: time going down that path. Something you can't argue with, though,

650
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: is that it appears as though she did a very

651
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: good job of skinning out this husky. Great job, what's great?

652
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: Like it would have made for a very nice rug

653
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: if I I mean, I would get it, if if if,

654
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: I don't know if John Hayes would do it, but

655
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: I would put the bill to have it done and

656
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: just have to be like, hey, remember that whole deal.

657
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: Well there's that, and I don't think it's going to happen.

658
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: But how many people death threat, how many death I

659
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,879
Speaker 1: think you're underestimating how passionate dog would I would if

660
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: I could get it, no matter what I could get it,

661
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: I would put it in the I would get it rugged.

662
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: I would get it rugged, and I would sell in

663
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: the auction house of oodities. No, that's a that's a sure.

664
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: I think I think conservation it would fetch a generous bid.

665
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: And let's see if those folks would uh, you know,

666
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that auction house of Oddity's item. Instead

667
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: of that money going to the land Access Initiative of

668
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: our own, I would take the money from that bid

669
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: and give that money to the meal of your foundation.

670
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 1: And I would say in the end, in the end,

671
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: it was good for dear. I think this won't be

672
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: the last update we have on this story. And here's why.

673
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: The Sheriff's has said that they recovered eleven of the

674
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: dogs and they are currently at the animal shelter, but

675
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: they're not up for adoption at this time. What if

676
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: we find out in like a week that, like, yeah,

677
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 1: come get yourself an adult husky. They're super friendly, great

678
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: family dogs. Uh. We feel very good about their prospects

679
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 1: of of going to a home. I am not saying

680
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: that it could have had into anybody. I am saying

681
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: that when you strip the parts out, it's not as insane,

682
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: it's not as agregious as it's being portrayed fair. And

683
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: also people just like stop with the death threats, Like

684
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:27,760
Speaker 1: just stop, like the threat of violence over a dog

685
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: in that's just the internet. Well recently we had the guy.

686
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: There's been three guys that have brought lamas to check

687
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: stations thinking they had cow elk Okay? Did they all

688
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: get death threats? They missed they misstook an animal. There

689
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: was a guy in Colorado shot someone's mule. Thought he

690
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: shot of cow. Should they be put to death? They

691
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: shot something thinking it was something that wasn't ye. People

692
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: just need to do they need to die. I mean,

693
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: stop it, no, no, just like some people take that

694
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: real serious. I don't think the hunter would want I

695
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 1: don't think the Hunter would want to do this at all.

696
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: But if she, if she would come, if she came

697
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: on the show, I would love to have her on

698
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: the show. How about her husband boyfriend I only did

699
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:11,959
Speaker 1: I only didn't want to do it, but they wanted

700
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: to come and tell the story. It would be uh.

701
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: I would love to have him on the show. I

702
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: bet they come out of this with a renewed fervor

703
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: in their relationships. Seems like they have a good relationship passionate. Well, listen,

704
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: she was excited to share it. She was like, again,

705
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,839
Speaker 1: let's say it had been wolf. She was excited to share.

706
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: He's defensive of her. It's not like he didn't cut

707
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: and run. No, yeah, no, he's standing binder. Before the

708
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728
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,879
Speaker 1: we're tackling kind of a big one in the waterfowl

729
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 1: community space right now. When I called John Devney from

730
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: Delta Waterfowl asking for an interview on this subject, his

731
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: exact answer was, so, you want to write an article

732
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: on the most difficult waterfowl issue in the Western hemisphere,

733
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: So to which you said, yes, I do, and I

734
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: I've been off a lot here. It's taken me quite

735
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: a bit of time to uh right this article right,

736
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: this duck report on this and the subject is the

737
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: Klamath Basin in the Oregon California border. Um. For a

738
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: little context, the Lamath Bason is like Upper Klamath Klamath Lake,

739
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:07,280
Speaker 1: then Lower Klamath Refuge and Tuley Lake Refuge that drains

740
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: down the Klamath River. UM. The Lower Klamath Refuge was

741
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: Teddy Roosevelt's first waterfowl refuge, and that really surprises me

742
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: that he got to that before he got to oh, yeah,

743
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: because the waterfowl refuge might be different. But you know,

744
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: like that real urgency around the shore birds they were

745
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: shooting for the plintary trade. Yeah, I would have thought

746
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: that would have been one of his first things when

747
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: we were trying to save all the e grits and stuff, yeah,

748
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,839
Speaker 1: from commercial slaughter. Well, and there's so much, right, there's

749
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 1: so much waterfowl habitat and like the East and the South.

750
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: Even think about chess Peak Bay, Like during his time,

751
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: Chesspeak Bay is getting just raped in pillage for better

752
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: lack of words, and and he goes and picks the

753
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: Klamath all the way over on the west coast. But uh,

754
00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 1: the Lower Klamath and Tuly Lake refugees at their week

755
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: during the late nineteen fifties, we're holding four to five

756
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: million water birds. Two hundred thousand would migrate to the

757
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 1: refuge to molt in the summer. Um of all Pacific

758
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: Flyway water birds would stage here. It had more pintails

759
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: in just the Klamath Basin then occurred continentally, like this

760
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:26,919
Speaker 1: place is one of the most vital as as Dr

761
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: Chris Nikolai from Delta water Fowl put it. He says,

762
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: this is the second most important refuge system in in

763
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: the entire refuge system, Number one, Yukon Delta. Oh yeah,

764
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be some stuff around the gulf. Yeah,

765
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: yep um. And so all that is to say the

766
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: refuge is now bone dry, I mean, not a drop

767
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: of water in the whole thing. And they've canceled the

768
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 1: hunting season for it, uh, which is no surprise because

769
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: there's no ducks there anyway. And if you go down

770
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: here to the next kind of page, you'll see a

771
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: picture from Brian Huber. He's a waterfowl biologist out there

772
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: in California, and uh, the pictures are pretty grim and

773
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: unfortunate because it's just a whole beautiful oasis just cracked,

774
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: dirt and dry. Yeah, cracked, baked, click rock hard, cracked up,

775
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: dried mud man. Yeah, and a lot of schools. You know,

776
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,720
Speaker 1: it's important to note, like we are all very aware

777
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: of the drought that's just persisted across California and Oregon

778
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: and made you know, wetlands having a real hard time

779
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 1: in the West. Anyway, California just shut down like three

780
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: more refugees hunting seasons in the Central valley. But um,

781
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: there's more to the story with Klamath. And I'll try

782
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,800
Speaker 1: to not get too deep into the weeds here because

783
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: it's a huge thing to tackle. But one of the

784
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: biggest problems that Klamaths faced specifically is uh. According to

785
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: Ron Cole, the former manager of the Klamath Basin the complex,

786
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: the refuge complex, he really just has a problem with

787
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: what the E. S A Has done with the water. Um,

788
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: they discovered two suckers there, the the lost River sucker

789
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: and the short nose sucker in the complex there. That

790
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: now with the E. S A, a ton of the

791
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 1: water allocation from the Bureau of Reclamation project there has

792
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: gone to recovering these two suckers as well as of

793
00:49:56,320 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: course the threatened Southern Oregon Northern California still co host

794
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: s and salmon and uh, you know, the E. S

795
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: A has so much power right that like it kind

796
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:15,439
Speaker 1: of trump it's the trump card that the water all

797
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:21,840
Speaker 1: goes to recovering these these species. And in the early

798
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:26,359
Speaker 1: two thousands, two thousand six, ron Cole had kind of

799
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: helped bring all the partners to the table, all the

800
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: stakeholders so to speak, California or again a bunch of

801
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 1: Indian tribes, four counties, individual farmers, companies, irrigation districts, seven

802
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: n g O s. He kind of got them all

803
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: on one agreement, that was the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement,

804
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: and they all they all signed on with it, and

805
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: Congress never got it past. It just kind of went

806
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 1: to the hill to die, so to speak. And so

807
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,439
Speaker 1: now everyone's kind of fragmented, not all on the same

808
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: page anymore, and not really getting along like they had before.

809
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, the refuge, specifically Lower Klamathan Tuley

810
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,959
Speaker 1: Lake don't have a real water right. They have one

811
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 1: that's for agricultural use for thirty five acre feet, and

812
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: the Fish and Wildlife Service hasn't like they haven't kind

813
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: of demanded that water from the Bureau Reclamation. They have

814
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: exercised that water right. And so what you have now

815
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: is one of the most vital waterfowl habitats in the

816
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 1: country going bone dry and really no obvious way out

817
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: in the short term. Um, you know, it's it's it's sad,

818
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 1: it's sickening. Uh. You know, Ron Cole predicted it when

819
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 1: they didn't get the restoration agreement past, the refuge would

820
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: go dry eight out of ten years, and and you

821
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: just start sterilizing soil right like you're you're baking what's

822
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: wetland soil. You're you're pretty much cooking organic material. And

823
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 1: you know, they only had a hundred and twenty nesting

824
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: ducks on this whole place this year. Um hmm. It's

825
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: a sad deal. And you know, hopefully, hopefully kind of

826
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: it wakes some people up to the water situation in

827
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: the West as a whole, and like kind of the

828
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: importance of some nuance here. I don't think anyone really

829
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 1: has um like the end, he'll be all answer, But

830
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: you know, Ron called Ron Cole put it really interestingly

831
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 1: to me. He said, the Pacific Flyway is like a

832
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 1: three legged stool. You have the Klamath Basin, you have

833
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 1: the Central Valley in California, and you have the Bear

834
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: River Watershed right Salt Lake in Utah, and those three um,

835
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: those three places are kind of what props up and

836
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:12,919
Speaker 1: holds up the Pacific Flyways ability to have ducks. And

837
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:17,720
Speaker 1: Central Valley in California is that like, you know, wetland

838
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: loss and hardly any water salt lake is going dry.

839
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:27,359
Speaker 1: One's bone dry dry. And then Salt Lake is like

840
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:35,720
Speaker 1: you know, everyone's predicting five years type thing, and so yeah,

841
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: you you kind of just have this pervasive problem that

842
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:43,399
Speaker 1: hopefully I hope it sucks that it has to get

843
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: this bad for people to wake up to it, but

844
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:48,439
Speaker 1: you hope it's actually at this point like a wake

845
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: up call. We got to do something with. I was

846
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: gonna ask an ignorant question about like, well, they're birds,

847
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,240
Speaker 1: like can they not like fly to some other habitat

848
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 1: in the area, But it sounds like all the habitat

849
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: has gone some and evoly will but you're not gonna

850
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: right it's it's yeah, for sure in the short term, right,

851
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: they can go to other places. The problem is just

852
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: a when you look landscape wide and when you have

853
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 1: a net habitat loss right, eventually a carrying capacity of

854
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: the flyway just continues to decrease and you have um,

855
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: you know of all of California nesting mallards. California used

856
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: to nest a lot of mallards in the Central Valley

857
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 1: of those would all fly to the Klamath for their

858
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: summer molt. And now it's like they're gonna fly there

859
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:41,359
Speaker 1: and find what bear dirt. Um some will figure something out,

860
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:45,439
Speaker 1: but you'll have just a massive net loss birds. Man. Yeah,

861
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: And I think one of the interesting questions that brings

862
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: up is, you know, there's no such thing as a

863
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 1: free lunch, right how how far can you take it

864
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 1: when you are pushing water down a stream for the

865
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: salmon to keep the water cooler before they eventually take

866
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: out these klamath damns um as they allocate you know,

867
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 1: acre feet of water for these um suckers, as they

868
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: allocate water the little water they do have to these

869
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: other things, like how far do you pursue you know,

870
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: they the e s a right before before it's like

871
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 1: at the expense of everything else there. Yeah, you have

872
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:40,240
Speaker 1: some conservation dependent species they're hanging on by a thread,

873
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 1: and someone might ask, is it worth losing of our

874
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: ducks to save a conservation dependent species that is almost

875
00:55:55,520 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: certainly doomed anyway? Yeah, and you know the extinctions forever man. Yeah,

876
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: it's it's well, yeah, there's no I'm not saying that

877
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: like I have that. It's a tough one because you

878
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: could also be like we you know, maybe we'll get

879
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:12,240
Speaker 1: some great wet years and it won't be an issue anymore.

880
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:16,760
Speaker 1: But that's not what climate models are showing. No, climate

881
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: models are showing that this is the new norm. Yeah, yeah, totally.

882
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: And you just have you know, you have more development,

883
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: you have more egg like, you have so many more

884
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: things demanding water. Is the time of less water. I

885
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: can see someone saying, like, is there a Sophie's choice

886
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: do remain here? That you'd say, um, that you'd say

887
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:52,360
Speaker 1: that that it's too bad. It's heartbreaking. But some of

888
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: these things are gonna some of these things that are

889
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: are gonna have to step aside to make way for

890
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 1: the longevity of things that have a greater a greater

891
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: capacity to hang on. Right, Yeah, I mean the Klamath

892
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 1: Basin used to be four hundred thousand acres of wetland

893
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: habitat and then it's now like it's zero. Right, It's

894
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 1: things can this isn't gonna be but things can turn

895
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: with with with impounded water, with watersheds, things can turn

896
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 1: around so fast. But this is this is turning into

897
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 1: a long, long issue. Yeah, it's not like a freakish year.

898
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 1: It's the new norm. Yep. Especially in the West. You

899
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: know there's oh god, what was that. It's like Malika

900
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 1: Luka there's a lake that sits right about Pyramid Lake. Um,

901
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:55,919
Speaker 1: that's like Applia, right over the hill from Pyramid Lake.

902
00:57:56,120 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: That was the Dr. Chris nick I explained this to me.

903
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 1: It was our first. It has the distinction of being

904
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: our first National Wildlife refuge to be sold because it

905
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: just went dry and was never gonna have water again.

906
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 1: Hasn't had a duck on it in eighty years. You know. Yeah,

907
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:18,919
Speaker 1: it's just like it's a dry playa and put something else. Yeah,

908
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: they sold it off man turned it into BLM ground

909
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:27,440
Speaker 1: and you know that's it sucks to say, but that's

910
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:29,920
Speaker 1: where you see some of these other things going. Unless

911
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: I guess hopefully, Um, if anything, there's kind of a

912
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: there's kind of new spirit of the the actual current

913
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: refuge manager John Brandenburg. He he said to me, he said,

914
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 1: I have hope that this is what brings everyone back

915
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 1: to the table and gets everyone do like agree, Hey,

916
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: we need clean water going down the river for the salmon.

917
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: How do you get clean water? You put it through

918
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: a wetland. Right. Um, you know, we need a little

919
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: bit more equity because what we're doing is not working.

920
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:15,919
Speaker 1: And you know he he also said, how beautiful would

921
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 1: it be right too to have like Teddy Roosevelt's first

922
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 1: waterfowl refuge be kind of the pivotal moment of wetlands

923
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 1: in the West, Like we find a way to get

924
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: through this and and create a solution together, and our

925
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: generation be like the ones that like save the Klamath

926
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: for the long haul. Yeah, should be cool, but it's

927
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 1: interesting or deal. You know, Pacific flyways got like the

928
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 1: most liberal limits. They can shoot seven ducks of person

929
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: out there. They have the longest days. Um, but that's

930
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: not gonna last long. You keep losing all your wetlands

931
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: and all your water. You waterfowl hunter in the aerials

932
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 1: step up, Yeah, totally. The part of the problem that

933
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: happened with the different sucker species is you didn't have

934
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: a huge advocacy advocacy group arguing on their behalf the

935
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:16,479
Speaker 1: whole time. Yeah, you know, no one was knowing, people

936
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: weren't watching, people weren't yelling, right, And it winds up

937
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 1: in a situation where it becomes a federal e s

938
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 1: a issue and hunters, you know, hunters and angers get

939
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:32,160
Speaker 1: criticized for being overly focused on the stuff there, being

940
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: overly focused on trying to conserve the resources that they

941
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: like to go after. It's like, least someone's doing it. Yeah,

942
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, yeah, you just because you want to

943
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: shoot him. It's like, well, first, it's more complicated than that.

944
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 1: And second, wouldn't it be great if every species had

945
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: an advocacy group like this? Yeah, most people don't advocate

946
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: on behalf of any species. So to to knock on

947
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 1: hunters for advocating on behalf of the ones they like,

948
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 1: it's like, great, buddy, go advocate on behalf of the

949
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: ones you like. Yeah, or have you never done that? Right? Yeah?

950
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: And now you have? Right, you have even birders like

951
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 1: piste Off in the Pacific Flyway because all of a sudden,

952
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:15,000
Speaker 1: what they, you know, kind of had they were able

953
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 1: to kind of take for granted, right, was all these

954
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: beautiful refuges that they could go bird at. Now all

955
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 1: of a sudden they can't. Uh. An interesting thing about

956
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:28,120
Speaker 1: the the advocacy thing, you know, obviously I have a

957
01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: bias of wetlands, right, Like, there's a reason I love

958
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 1: wetlands involving duck hunting. But I think one of the

959
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 1: things here is you can't ever deny the importance of

960
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:42,120
Speaker 1: a wetland on a landscape. I mean, they are just there,

961
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:47,440
Speaker 1: just essential for everything. And you know, at the same

962
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: time that the salmon down river are facing like slow

963
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: warm water, dirty water, and they've got these like parasite

964
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 1: issues in this salmon population, and they're pushed more water

965
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 1: down river to try to speed up the water and

966
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:06,720
Speaker 1: make the water cooler. At the same time, they're like

967
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 1: neglecting the most easy obvious filter for that water, which

968
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:17,080
Speaker 1: is the wetlands. But hopefully, hopefully something changes. You know,

969
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 1: there's at least a lot of attention on it now. Ye,

970
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: So if you want to find out more and look

971
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: at some pictures and stuff, well the Clamath basin and

972
01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: the whole situation with Pacific Flyway waterfoule, will check out

973
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 1: Shawn's big article at the meater dot com. What are

974
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:35,439
Speaker 1: you gonna call it? Ah, yeah, I'm not I don't

975
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: know the exact title yet, but involved the clam It's

976
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:40,160
Speaker 1: there right now. Go to the meater dot com and

977
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: you'll find Shawn's article. And we got Austin Riley back

978
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:44,200
Speaker 1: with us here, so we're gonna get into We're gonna

979
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into talking about him now. Oh so, hey,

980
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: this this. This is an interesting thing. I mean, this

981
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:52,640
Speaker 1: has just happened. This will help get us into this

982
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 1: will help get us into sports talk. So we've covered

983
01:02:57,080 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 1: if you listen to the show, you've become somewhat of

984
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: a subject matter at brewn walleye tournaments because of our

985
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 1: very own Seth and Chester engaging in the Montana Walleye Tour.

986
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 1: So we've learned all about walleye tours and bags and

987
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:17,560
Speaker 1: all that. Well, yesterday I get a text Seth yesterday.

988
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 1: Sets not with us right now, but Seth yesterday text

989
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:27,920
Speaker 1: me a YouTube video titled Walleye Cheaters Busted. We got

990
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: weights and fish. So this is a walleye tournament in Cleveland, Ohio,

991
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 1: and two anglers, Jake Running and Chase Comiskey, weighed in

992
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 1: a five fish limit that went just over thirty three pounds.

993
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:49,400
Speaker 1: This is yesterday, so it says like this is posted

994
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 1: thirteen hours ago. After being announced winners and also Team

995
01:03:55,320 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 1: of the Year. The tournament master, like the tournament director,

996
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 1: cut open their fish found eight pounds of lead sinkers

997
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: and five fish. Also, I just talked to set this morning.

998
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: They also the fish were stuffed full of walleye flas whoa,

999
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: which is smart because some of these things they had

1000
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:23,280
Speaker 1: like four hounds lead sinkers in them. So how how

1001
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 1: no one ever just pell painated? Oh that you I

1002
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:31,960
Speaker 1: mean like like if you ran your hand over the

1003
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 1: if you just ran your hand over a fish, you know,

1004
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: it's not normal to find a rock hard? Can you

1005
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: explain how agreed just this is? Like just well yeah,

1006
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: because there's there's like all the stuff they've won. I mean,

1007
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 1: you know, these guys might win sixteen grand, twenty grand

1008
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 1: in a tournament and these are just small you know,

1009
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: these are hobby anglers. Well you're inna here how piste

1010
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 1: off people are when we're gonna play this little bit

1011
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 1: of this YouTube it but uh yeah, I had a

1012
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 1: pair of fish impliers. Walleye plays all kinds of lead weights.

1013
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:09,680
Speaker 1: And what's weird about this tournament is the fish are dead,

1014
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:13,560
Speaker 1: you know, like normalet terments are always working to keep

1015
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 1: the fish alive. On the big tournaments. They put him

1016
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 1: in these holding tanks, and the holding tanks have earth

1017
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:23,480
Speaker 1: magnets in them to search for stuff, and they're scanning fish.

1018
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 1: But Sets says, apparently these guys last year after winning

1019
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 1: failed to polygraph. But uh failed to polygraph. But the

1020
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:39,320
Speaker 1: evidence has already been destroyed, so this has been long suspected.

1021
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 1: And then this this video on YouTube's fifteen minutes long,

1022
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 1: but in it you see all the guys coming away

1023
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 1: in and Sean, we're gonna play the clip where the

1024
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 1: discovery happens. But you can hear there's a lot of

1025
01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:58,120
Speaker 1: grumbling where guys are like, but my fish are bigger

1026
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: than that. You can hear people be like, understand, there's

1027
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 1: no way, He's like, let me this, guys, let me

1028
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,640
Speaker 1: see those fish. We had fish that were bigger that.

1029
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 1: There's no way those fish way that. And things quiet down.

1030
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 1: And then and then here here's what happens in the

1031
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:20,760
Speaker 1: YouTube clip. We got weights and there we go. I

1032
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: love that. Everybody was like cheering after the bat. Oh,

1033
01:06:24,720 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: it was like brewing man like, people knew, people knew,

1034
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 1: and people here you were getting on the fact that

1035
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 1: so they they had weights, and they also were stuffing

1036
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:36,800
Speaker 1: them with walife filets. So apparently at first, like the

1037
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:40,200
Speaker 1: first thing they cut one, he cuts one fish open.

1038
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:42,080
Speaker 1: You see a guy that's down there fiddling with the fish,

1039
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: and he cuts one open and screams that out, and

1040
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:51,280
Speaker 1: the and the announcer. The announcer cox back basically is

1041
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 1: because the guy is standing right there like people are

1042
01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: braiding the guy. He's sustaining with staring at the ground

1043
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: like he's there's nothing he can do, right, he's so busted.

1044
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 1: But the first thing on the announce, the first impulse

1045
01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 1: the announcer has, he cocks back like he's gonna give

1046
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 1: that dude the biggest haymaker, but just does an air

1047
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 1: punch instead. Next I think he was throwing him out

1048
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 1: like a baseball umpire throws out a manager, just just arguing.

1049
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 1: That's what he did. He threw him. See. I thought

1050
01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:20,600
Speaker 1: he was like, I'm gonna hit him in the face,

1051
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 1: but then changed his mind to the air punch. That's

1052
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:25,560
Speaker 1: how you read it. Yeah, Austin, have you been thrown

1053
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 1: out of a game before? Show him the video and

1054
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:32,160
Speaker 1: then and then he can decide. At one time, rookie ball, Um,

1055
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:34,120
Speaker 1: that's the only time I ever been thrown out. Other

1056
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: than that, Um, I drew a line a ball was

1057
01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:41,880
Speaker 1: like it wasn't even close, Like and I was you know,

1058
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:45,480
Speaker 1: I was eighteen. I was stupid, and and that's like

1059
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 1: the last thing you can do. And like I tried

1060
01:07:47,640 --> 01:07:50,200
Speaker 1: to like discreetly, like as I might walking across the plate,

1061
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 1: I kind of like behind my back, I draw a

1062
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 1: line and I ended up getting tossed, So like like

1063
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:01,200
Speaker 1: obviously you got the plate and you know ball's gotta

1064
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 1: cross it anyway. It was like in the other pretty

1065
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 1: much in the other's batter's box. And I was just

1066
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 1: showing the umpire where where it came across. So you

1067
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 1: were saying, in case, this is actually where it crossed.

1068
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:16,720
Speaker 1: If you really want to know where it was, where

1069
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:20,040
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, now you decide if this snare punch

1070
01:08:20,240 --> 01:08:22,400
Speaker 1: or if he's getting thrown out like an umpire would.

1071
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 1: So the announcers on the it's that guy, the guy

1072
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:33,639
Speaker 1: that's cutting here, and he said get the f out

1073
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 1: of here. So yeah, I think he was like, well,

1074
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:43,160
Speaker 1: I was trying to. I was trying to we can

1075
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:45,519
Speaker 1: make it that way for the a TV mini series. Yeah,

1076
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 1: when when you make a Netflix movie out of it'll

1077
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:50,040
Speaker 1: be that. He just he just gives him how many

1078
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 1: pounds of fish like coming at the way and where

1079
01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 1: you like look at a small fish and like what

1080
01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:59,840
Speaker 1: it or a small a pile of small fish and

1081
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 1: you you like, eyeball, what approximately that should weigh and

1082
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 1: then it's like seven times more with these fish that

1083
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 1: are known, so it's not like a three pounds shark. Yeah,

1084
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:16,519
Speaker 1: But also I was gonna I was gonna ask. Also

1085
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:19,599
Speaker 1: it's like, was there a big difference in like first instance,

1086
01:09:19,680 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 1: like okay, yeah, okay, So it's not like it was

1087
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:27,599
Speaker 1: just like well maybe not in that one right because

1088
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 1: of eight pounds of lead, probably a little bit of

1089
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:33,400
Speaker 1: a game. Well no, because people have to watch the

1090
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:36,320
Speaker 1: whole thing. It was like there's another team that had

1091
01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: overt right, So it was it was definitely they put it.

1092
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: Now apparently forty eight states have just like flat out

1093
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 1: rule against cheating in any tournament. So he's got it's

1094
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:55,760
Speaker 1: probably criminal. Oh yeah, very criminal. Most places, there's ane

1095
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 1: that talks about how the two angler team had won

1096
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars and victories. Wow, that's all going to

1097
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,920
Speaker 1: be under scrutiny now, Like I'm sure, Well, those guys

1098
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:09,559
Speaker 1: have won an article from you know, almost a year ago,

1099
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: so they were like prolific anglers in this area. Many

1100
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:22,200
Speaker 1: like mischievous. It's like felony still in money, Say, what's

1101
01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:28,960
Speaker 1: the worst cheating you've ever done? Uh? I grew up

1102
01:10:29,439 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: loving baseball in the late nineties, and you know, it

1103
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 1: was like it's hard to talk about cheating without with

1104
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:40,519
Speaker 1: a baseball player, without talking about steroids. Man, it's just

1105
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 1: like the height of all the people watch like I was,

1106
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 1: you could not miss the Cardinals play when Mark McGuire

1107
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,080
Speaker 1: was was chasing it was chasing that that that record,

1108
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 1: and no one, i mean maybe people were thinking that

1109
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:53,960
Speaker 1: I was pretty young at the time, but no one

1110
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:55,720
Speaker 1: was like looking at this guy thinking like why does

1111
01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:57,679
Speaker 1: he look like he just got stung by a hundred bees?

1112
01:10:57,760 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 1: Like no man should be should look like this. And

1113
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:03,360
Speaker 1: then and then the effect that that had on the

1114
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 1: week for a few years was was massive. I don't

1115
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:08,639
Speaker 1: know from someone who's like now a professional baseball player

1116
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 1: and he's that you still kind of feel that kind

1117
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 1: of that that with the weight of the steroid. No,

1118
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:15,559
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty it's pretty gone. Yeah, I mean we're

1119
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:18,439
Speaker 1: testing now. It's like you can't. Yeah, I mean we're

1120
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 1: getting we've had c DT. They're like, which the guys

1121
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:28,439
Speaker 1: that drugged us is I mean starting It's been like

1122
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: they've been there like every day for the last like

1123
01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:34,400
Speaker 1: two weeks, and like randoms whether it's blood tests or

1124
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,960
Speaker 1: you know here, and so it's like they've cracked down

1125
01:11:37,040 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 1: on it so hard. It's like guys aren't Yeah, guys

1126
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:43,600
Speaker 1: aren't getting away with it. They're just over yeah and

1127
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:47,120
Speaker 1: sophisticated beyond, Like it's not just anabolic steroids they're looking

1128
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:50,760
Speaker 1: for anymore. Yeah, they're looking forever. And like I said,

1129
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 1: it's like the they're taking blood. It's like you just can't,

1130
01:11:54,080 --> 01:12:05,040
Speaker 1: you can't get away with it. When did you guys

1131
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 1: when you were born? You were born in Tennessee, moved

1132
01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:09,640
Speaker 1: in Mississippi, right, Yeah, so I lived I lived in

1133
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: her Yeah, and I've never lived in Tennessee, like physically

1134
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 1: lived in Tennessee. Um. Um, I've lived in Hernando, Mississippi,

1135
01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 1: which is twenty minutes from Memphis. So it's like Memphis

1136
01:12:20,439 --> 01:12:24,760
Speaker 1: was the closest hospital. So that's that's that's why. Yeah,

1137
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 1: it's like that's the only place to go. Um My

1138
01:12:28,439 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 1: buddy is always you know, especially on the team, you're

1139
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 1: not from Mississippi or from Tennessee. I'm like, oh, that's why.

1140
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: That's why I was always always like Mississippiromssissippi, Mississippi, and

1141
01:12:37,240 --> 01:12:40,920
Speaker 1: that's born in Memphis. Tenn because your parents drove over

1142
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:44,760
Speaker 1: there the way. But birth certificate says Memphis, Tennessee, so

1143
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 1: you can't argue with it. He could still help out

1144
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:50,439
Speaker 1: with the Squirrel cook Off though, Oh yeah, we should

1145
01:12:50,479 --> 01:12:53,760
Speaker 1: talk about this. How connected to Tennessee? Do you feel

1146
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:58,719
Speaker 1: like a strong, super strong connection? Not really to Memphis

1147
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:01,680
Speaker 1: area though, right, I go up like I went up

1148
01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: there one time this all season for Luke Kong's concert.

1149
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:09,479
Speaker 1: That's the only time. So I don't don't, I said,

1150
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:12,720
Speaker 1: I get enough of somewhat of a big city, so

1151
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:16,000
Speaker 1: I stay stay secluded as possible. We ever got to

1152
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: meet Luke Oh yeah, yeah, he came into the locker

1153
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 1: room about a love over a month ago. Yeah. Yeah,

1154
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:25,719
Speaker 1: he's getting a great No, he doesn't know. He doesn't

1155
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:28,519
Speaker 1: know about this either, but so we're going to ramp

1156
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:30,760
Speaker 1: it up. Well, here's the thing we're trying to work on,

1157
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:32,320
Speaker 1: so you might you might have to come up because

1158
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:34,000
Speaker 1: if you can make it, we're trying to work on

1159
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 1: this sing where uh there's we're trying to get. There

1160
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:43,080
Speaker 1: were some people that wanted to move the National Squirrel

1161
01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 1: cook Off. World Squirrel cook Off has always been in Arkansas,

1162
01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 1: and they wanted to bring it to Tennessee, but the

1163
01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 1: animal rights people got onto it and like they're they

1164
01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 1: lost their venue. So we're trying to bring it back

1165
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 1: with a band. Yeah, you might need to bring up

1166
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,920
Speaker 1: a squirrel dish. I can do that and you can

1167
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:13,240
Speaker 1: revisit your birthplace the kill Messa squirrels one morning. So

1168
01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:15,240
Speaker 1: when when you were growing up there, what was the

1169
01:14:15,560 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 1: what was the How did you get introduced to hunting

1170
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: and fishing? Um? So I got introduced really by my

1171
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 1: my uncle, like bow hunting. Um my dad hunted. My

1172
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 1: dad grew up in Demas, Arkansas, small town. Um, die

1173
01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 1: hard duck hunter. Yeah, that's good duck hunting country right there. Um,

1174
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: die hard duck hunter. Like he tells me stories all

1175
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:39,080
Speaker 1: the time. This is when to me, he said, when

1176
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:41,960
Speaker 1: ducks were around. He doesn't think ducks ducks around anymore.

1177
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:45,639
Speaker 1: That's a common malady that happens when you get older. Yeah,

1178
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:49,720
Speaker 1: they're not around as perhaps where you hunted them, you know,

1179
01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 1: or they turned it into a Walmart or something, you know,

1180
01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 1: and it just seems like the whole world ended. Yeah.

1181
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 1: So he you know, he said he they used to

1182
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,040
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning kill limon and Mallard go

1183
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: to class like every the morning. So it's like and

1184
01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:05,080
Speaker 1: then kind of, as you know, my sister came around,

1185
01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 1: I came around, my brother came around. He just kind

1186
01:15:07,439 --> 01:15:10,479
Speaker 1: of stopped. Uh. He's more of a camp guy who

1187
01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:15,760
Speaker 1: loves to cook, um, have a having cocktail along with it. Um.

1188
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 1: But really, my uncle Heath introduced me to to to

1189
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:24,400
Speaker 1: deer hunting. Um why on Mississippi every weekend. I got

1190
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 1: the chance too. I was going down there um and

1191
01:15:27,560 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 1: and just spending the weekend with him hunting. Killed my

1192
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:32,680
Speaker 1: first actually killed my first deal with a rifle there,

1193
01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 1: killed my first boat or a dealer with the bow

1194
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:38,120
Speaker 1: there um and ever since then? What was that? Why?

1195
01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:41,800
Speaker 1: The Mississippi not not far from Startville, Mississippi State, about

1196
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:45,880
Speaker 1: an hour west of there. So did uh where'd you

1197
01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 1: wind up going to? So? What high school? Did you

1198
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:51,439
Speaker 1: go to? Sota Central? Uh? In South Haven, Mississippi? And

1199
01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:54,400
Speaker 1: by that point you were hardcore baseball? Yeah? At that point,

1200
01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: I mean I this is as as soon as I

1201
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:00,679
Speaker 1: could pick up a bat, I was swinging a baseball bat,

1202
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:04,200
Speaker 1: um and and just fell in love with it. My

1203
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:06,680
Speaker 1: my dad, um, you know, was a sports guy. He

1204
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:10,840
Speaker 1: punted at Mississippi State. UM played baseball there for his

1205
01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:13,960
Speaker 1: freshman year and then just just went to football only.

1206
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:17,240
Speaker 1: So we were always doing sports UM and just gravitated

1207
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 1: towards towards baseball versus football or basketball. There had to

1208
01:16:21,439 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 1: have been though, man, Like, there had to have been

1209
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:29,639
Speaker 1: either or or this or that moment. There's this there's

1210
01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:31,880
Speaker 1: this quote by Jim Harrison. I aishually I had it

1211
01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:34,160
Speaker 1: with me. The writer Jim Harrison has this quote. We're

1212
01:16:34,200 --> 01:16:38,559
Speaker 1: talking about where he grew up. He said that at

1213
01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 1: at some age it was either there was kids that

1214
01:16:41,080 --> 01:16:43,960
Speaker 1: had a baseball bat when they're riding their bike down

1215
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 1: the road, or the kids that had a fishing pole.

1216
01:16:46,880 --> 01:16:48,880
Speaker 1: And he said, and they might intermix a little bit,

1217
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: but their destinies were set, you know. But that didn't

1218
01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:56,640
Speaker 1: happen to you, Like, how was this sort of you

1219
01:16:56,680 --> 01:16:59,200
Speaker 1: know what I mean when you how was it figuring

1220
01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:03,639
Speaker 1: that out? Like from hunting, just like when you were young? Yeah,

1221
01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:05,800
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, to be involved in something that

1222
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:09,439
Speaker 1: would be if you're good at it, you have promised

1223
01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 1: at it. It requires unbelievable dedication. You can't be distracted, right,

1224
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:17,679
Speaker 1: and then you have to be looking at the stuff

1225
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: you're not gonna do, right, Yeah, I know. I mean

1226
01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 1: I remember growing up and and in the summers it

1227
01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:26,760
Speaker 1: was like, you know, all my buddies were going to

1228
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 1: the lake, all my buddies were going to the pool,

1229
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 1: they were going on vacation, and I was going to

1230
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:33,320
Speaker 1: play baseball. Um And it was just you know, one

1231
01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:37,640
Speaker 1: of those things that I love so much. Um And

1232
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,720
Speaker 1: it just like I said, it kind of what I

1233
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 1: was saying back earlier, is like I get the best

1234
01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:43,679
Speaker 1: of both worlds. Like it's that's how it was even

1235
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 1: you know, growing up, It's like summers were baseball winners

1236
01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 1: were hunting, and it's just like that's what that's what

1237
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: I did. Um and and and it was for me,

1238
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:55,360
Speaker 1: it was an easy choice between baseball and football. Like

1239
01:17:55,479 --> 01:18:00,400
Speaker 1: I I liked football, um, but I knew just the

1240
01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:03,479
Speaker 1: I think the tension to the small details that the

1241
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: game of baseball, you know, you have to understand and

1242
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:09,880
Speaker 1: and focus on the mental side of the game. Like

1243
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:12,559
Speaker 1: I think that was what you know, attracted me so much.

1244
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:15,519
Speaker 1: There was so much uh little side, you know, the

1245
01:18:15,600 --> 01:18:18,360
Speaker 1: little things that the side of the you know, baseball,

1246
01:18:18,439 --> 01:18:22,640
Speaker 1: that that I think attracted me more. Um. And like

1247
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 1: I said, just being able to do baseball and then

1248
01:18:25,479 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 1: one or for my hunting season. Yeah, I was thinking

1249
01:18:28,240 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 1: about that earlier when we were talking about your last

1250
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:35,320
Speaker 1: five games after a hundred and sixty two games, that

1251
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 1: it can come down to like a few pitches. You

1252
01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:43,719
Speaker 1: know that that level of detail and statistical and nominally

1253
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 1: in baseball, like this is not football. And that's that's

1254
01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 1: what I think. Some fans get so bored with it

1255
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,160
Speaker 1: and they you know, baseball is boring, it's like, but

1256
01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:58,160
Speaker 1: when you really dive into it, it's like, you know,

1257
01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:00,800
Speaker 1: there's so like the tens in the detail is so

1258
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:04,880
Speaker 1: huge in the game. Like you know, it's like, you know,

1259
01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 1: if I say there's a guy on first and you know,

1260
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:11,400
Speaker 1: somewhat of a slow runner, and I have an opportunity

1261
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:14,280
Speaker 1: to turn double play, I don't, um, you know, that

1262
01:19:14,360 --> 01:19:16,320
Speaker 1: guy ends up staying on first or second or whatever

1263
01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:18,640
Speaker 1: it may happen. It's like that guy ends up base hit,

1264
01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:20,720
Speaker 1: scoring and run. It's like, you know, looking back at

1265
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:21,720
Speaker 1: the end of the game, it's like, if I would

1266
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 1: have turned that double play, the game's you know, you know,

1267
01:19:24,160 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: we may be when it when about one versus losing

1268
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 1: by one and so it's like that small stuff is

1269
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,400
Speaker 1: to me is what you know? I think I love

1270
01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:33,360
Speaker 1: so much of it. And you have that level of

1271
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:35,599
Speaker 1: knowledge about all the players, like you know that someone's

1272
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:37,960
Speaker 1: a slow run. Yeah, yeah, we and part of it

1273
01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:40,479
Speaker 1: like analytically, you know, it's taken over to the game

1274
01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: so much. It's like if I don't know if you've

1275
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: noticed last night, it's like every between every batter, I

1276
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:49,320
Speaker 1: was like pulling out this card in my pocket and

1277
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:51,720
Speaker 1: it shows like where you know, it kind of gives

1278
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: us an idea where to play. You know, it has

1279
01:19:54,720 --> 01:19:57,280
Speaker 1: you know, how fast the guy I like plus minus

1280
01:19:57,439 --> 01:20:00,639
Speaker 1: like whether guy runs fast? Like that. You know what's

1281
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:02,759
Speaker 1: funny because I kept saying I was saying to someone's

1282
01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:04,680
Speaker 1: like that dude just pull a phone out of his

1283
01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 1: pocket and he's like, there's no way from the Diamondbacks.

1284
01:20:10,439 --> 01:20:15,479
Speaker 1: Did you'all see that happen? Yeah, the guys, that's what

1285
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 1: you say, There's no way he had a phone. No. No,

1286
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:19,280
Speaker 1: It's like we have like a little card they do

1287
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:22,280
Speaker 1: all like their their you know, analytical work. We get

1288
01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: it um and it kind of helps us, you know,

1289
01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: you know, we still play like the the eye test

1290
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 1: of you know, we can make adjustments if we want to,

1291
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: but we you know, it's very helpful. Is that kind

1292
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 1: of what what you're you're referencing when you start mixing

1293
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:38,200
Speaker 1: up how you guys are shifting up. Okay, so yeah,

1294
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:40,760
Speaker 1: that's that's where we get get our information. Are you

1295
01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 1: happy or disappointed at the shift? He's going away happy

1296
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:47,880
Speaker 1: in a way because I don't have to run the

1297
01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 1: right field. Um, you potentially we're shifting all the way

1298
01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 1: to write, Yeah, I don't know if I want. I

1299
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:55,960
Speaker 1: went I went out to shallow right field. Yes, a

1300
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:59,640
Speaker 1: couple of times. Um, you know, I'm I'm excited at

1301
01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:00,920
Speaker 1: that I don't have to do that next year. But

1302
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:03,240
Speaker 1: at the same time, like the rule is is you

1303
01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:06,400
Speaker 1: have to have to position players on each bag or

1304
01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:08,200
Speaker 1: each side of the bag next year of second base.

1305
01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 1: My thought process was, as long as you have a

1306
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 1: foot in in the dirt. I was just like, take

1307
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:16,439
Speaker 1: away the extremes, like the guys that go all the

1308
01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:19,000
Speaker 1: way out to right field. But it is what it is, um,

1309
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:21,639
Speaker 1: and I think it'll you know, it'll help some guys

1310
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 1: from a hitting standpoint, and it takes you know, and

1311
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:26,519
Speaker 1: then shows the value of you know, a true defender

1312
01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: of like the range. H you gotta have that that

1313
01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:31,720
Speaker 1: side of it next year, so it'll be cool. How

1314
01:21:31,880 --> 01:21:33,759
Speaker 1: I know, you probably can't get into too much detail,

1315
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:37,600
Speaker 1: but how um, how specific is the card? I mean,

1316
01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: you don't have a card on every player, right or

1317
01:21:40,200 --> 01:21:41,800
Speaker 1: not a card on every player, but like we have

1318
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 1: every player um and then I mean it's pretty basic.

1319
01:21:46,160 --> 01:21:49,160
Speaker 1: It's just you know, it's you know, whether we're shifting

1320
01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:51,760
Speaker 1: or not. Um and that, Like I said, that just

1321
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:53,759
Speaker 1: tells me if I'm if I'm going to right field

1322
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:57,000
Speaker 1: or not. And then um, if if he's you know,

1323
01:21:57,040 --> 01:21:59,680
Speaker 1: if he's a speed guy or if he's a slower guy.

1324
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:02,280
Speaker 1: That just kind of helps us tell you know, how

1325
01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:04,640
Speaker 1: much that game clock of you on our mind, of

1326
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:06,479
Speaker 1: how much time I have to to get the guy

1327
01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:09,920
Speaker 1: out and hurt to find someone's card and find your

1328
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: name on it. It's a slow guy, that's me. I'm

1329
01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:16,479
Speaker 1: that guy on someone's car that's like, hey, all the

1330
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:20,439
Speaker 1: time in the world. Just can you tell us what

1331
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:22,680
Speaker 1: he might say about Pete Alnto, Like what a few

1332
01:22:22,760 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 1: things details about it? He's straight up, which I mean,

1333
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:29,920
Speaker 1: that's kudos to him. He gets the ball, you know,

1334
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:32,840
Speaker 1: you've seen it, like he has the ball power all

1335
01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:36,040
Speaker 1: sides of the field. Um, I want to say he's

1336
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 1: an equal, like what we call an equal guy, Like

1337
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:41,040
Speaker 1: he gets down the line pretty pretty fine. So, um,

1338
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:45,760
Speaker 1: nothing nothing bad to say about Pete. Hey, you know,

1339
01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:51,400
Speaker 1: speaking of running fast, who wasn't found talk what's the

1340
01:22:51,479 --> 01:22:53,760
Speaker 1: dude that has the race? Like the seventh inning race?

1341
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:58,040
Speaker 1: I was hoping that the freeze. I know, I'm very shocked.

1342
01:22:58,080 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 1: He normally there every day I checked there. Explain this

1343
01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:04,720
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, So they what they do is um

1344
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:07,720
Speaker 1: and this is exclusive to Braves games. Right, So they

1345
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:09,439
Speaker 1: start on one side of the foul pole in the

1346
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:13,040
Speaker 1: warning track and they pick a random person in the fans.

1347
01:23:13,479 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, do you want to beat the freeze?

1348
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:17,040
Speaker 1: Where do they try to find like a fast looking dude?

1349
01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:19,320
Speaker 1: They because the dude that they had last day who

1350
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:20,920
Speaker 1: gets to do the run to get the base. So

1351
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 1: that guy he looked like you went and found like

1352
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 1: a pretty I mean, that wasn't just a random dude.

1353
01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 1: There's been guys that have beat the freeze. And yeah,

1354
01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:33,160
Speaker 1: and there's been guys that pulled Hammy's Uh, they've beat

1355
01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:35,600
Speaker 1: the free There's been guys that have a dirt that

1356
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:38,800
Speaker 1: have tripped, um, so I think they just go pretty random.

1357
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 1: But it's well, you got a nice little kick out

1358
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:43,960
Speaker 1: of it, especially, like I said, a guy that's you know,

1359
01:23:44,160 --> 01:23:46,759
Speaker 1: not stretched and he's about halfway there and he checks

1360
01:23:46,840 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 1: up because his hamstring is pulled, and it's like it's

1361
01:23:49,920 --> 01:23:52,560
Speaker 1: like John Colt. It's like Coulter's run right, Like the

1362
01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:54,400
Speaker 1: guy gets the head start. Yeah, yeah, guy gets like

1363
01:23:54,439 --> 01:23:58,200
Speaker 1: a fifteen you know yard yard head start, and you

1364
01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:06,679
Speaker 1: know he normally he's can roll you. Yesterday should shows

1365
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:10,080
Speaker 1: you for that. Yet to night will make it happen

1366
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:12,160
Speaker 1: to me. Man. Yeah, it goes viral a few times

1367
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:15,040
Speaker 1: a year because somebody trips and falls and, like you said,

1368
01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:20,680
Speaker 1: gets a serious injury. It's entertaining itself. What do you

1369
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:23,000
Speaker 1: have like a home hunting set up? Or is that

1370
01:24:23,120 --> 01:24:24,720
Speaker 1: just out of the question because you can't do all

1371
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:26,640
Speaker 1: you can't keep track of this. So I'm in a

1372
01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 1: hunting club on the Mississippi River in tunica Um. It's

1373
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 1: it's four thousand acres um just just west of Tunaka, Mississippi.

1374
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:39,360
Speaker 1: I think it's like twelve of us in it um

1375
01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 1: and that that's what that's why I you know, when

1376
01:24:42,560 --> 01:24:44,479
Speaker 1: I'm home, that's where where I hunt. So you got

1377
01:24:44,600 --> 01:24:46,839
Speaker 1: a spot where, even though you can't pay any attention

1378
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:49,040
Speaker 1: to that stuff because you gotta focus, You've got a

1379
01:24:49,080 --> 01:24:52,400
Speaker 1: spot that your friends and stuff just roll right into.

1380
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:55,080
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so, um, the way it works is, um,

1381
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:57,320
Speaker 1: like I said, there's twelve of us. One of my

1382
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:00,720
Speaker 1: my best friends is in it um will Craft and

1383
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:03,120
Speaker 1: his dad and so they you know with this new

1384
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:06,080
Speaker 1: Spartan you know they sell ear cameras are awesome this

1385
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:07,880
Speaker 1: time of year. Like I'm sitting in my locker ro

1386
01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:10,639
Speaker 1: I'm glued to it um because I'm you know, I'm

1387
01:25:10,720 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: checking them. Um. Oh yeah. So they, like said, they

1388
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:17,200
Speaker 1: fortunate enough. They kind of set everything up, you know,

1389
01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:20,640
Speaker 1: feed um whatever it may be. You know, hang some

1390
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 1: stands move from cameras around so that, like I said,

1391
01:25:23,400 --> 01:25:25,160
Speaker 1: when I whenever I do get home, you know I

1392
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:28,280
Speaker 1: can I can roll right into it. How do you, uh,

1393
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:30,640
Speaker 1: when you're talking about all the analytics and all the

1394
01:25:30,680 --> 01:25:32,880
Speaker 1: stuff to keep track of and all the studying, what's

1395
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:38,280
Speaker 1: your when when? And how do you just zone out?

1396
01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:42,920
Speaker 1: I mean during season like as far as just that

1397
01:25:43,120 --> 01:25:45,320
Speaker 1: you I don't know, watch some dudes getting in a

1398
01:25:45,360 --> 01:25:47,640
Speaker 1: fight at a Walleye Tearraman on YouTube or whatever. I

1399
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:50,200
Speaker 1: mean talking about during before games. No, I mean just

1400
01:25:50,280 --> 01:25:53,320
Speaker 1: like in your schedule. I'm pretty low key. I'm not

1401
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:55,760
Speaker 1: gonna lie like I don't like to. I'm not one

1402
01:25:55,760 --> 01:26:00,000
Speaker 1: of those guys that's sitting, you know, in my hotel

1403
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:02,680
Speaker 1: room and like I'm studying film or um. You know

1404
01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:06,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check them like the next next day. Starter. Um.

1405
01:26:06,920 --> 01:26:09,000
Speaker 1: But you know, to me, it's like over a hundred

1406
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:12,599
Speaker 1: and sixty two games. If if you like, you gotta

1407
01:26:12,640 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 1: step away from it. Um or you know, I like

1408
01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:17,840
Speaker 1: to play golf on the on the road. If if

1409
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:19,760
Speaker 1: I get an off day, you know, I'll try to

1410
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:22,200
Speaker 1: hit the links just to do something different. It's like

1411
01:26:22,479 --> 01:26:25,800
Speaker 1: like I said, you're we may have like two to

1412
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 1: three days off in a month, and it's just like

1413
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:31,240
Speaker 1: I said, it's so repetitive every day. It's like hotel

1414
01:26:31,600 --> 01:26:34,960
Speaker 1: field home field, hotel field home field. So it's like

1415
01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:39,240
Speaker 1: doing something different. Um. I think is is huge from

1416
01:26:39,360 --> 01:26:41,240
Speaker 1: from the middle side of it. So you know, I

1417
01:26:41,600 --> 01:26:44,680
Speaker 1: lock in once I get to the yard. Um, like

1418
01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:47,920
Speaker 1: I said, I'll figure out who's pitching that night. Once

1419
01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 1: I get to the yard, I'll go in to do

1420
01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:51,519
Speaker 1: some homework. We you know, we have an app on

1421
01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:54,680
Speaker 1: our phone that we're able to log in and um.

1422
01:26:55,280 --> 01:26:57,680
Speaker 1: And you know, kind of like I said, do your

1423
01:26:57,720 --> 01:26:59,960
Speaker 1: homework short to speak of of what that picture is

1424
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 1: gonna try to do to you that night. Um. But

1425
01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, at at the same time,

1426
01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:07,120
Speaker 1: there's some you know, definitely got to step away at points.

1427
01:27:07,400 --> 01:27:10,400
Speaker 1: You've also always been a part of like competitive teams

1428
01:27:10,680 --> 01:27:14,400
Speaker 1: in the majors. And imagine you know, people who play

1429
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:17,800
Speaker 1: for a club that is eliminated from playoff contention by July,

1430
01:27:18,520 --> 01:27:20,640
Speaker 1: they like do feel that law more than you do.

1431
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:23,000
Speaker 1: It's it's probably a lot easier stay engaged when you're

1432
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:24,720
Speaker 1: like always in the hunge. Oh yeah, no doubt. I mean,

1433
01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:28,400
Speaker 1: like I said, it's like you're always looking, you know,

1434
01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:31,160
Speaker 1: even like this year, it's like you're always watching the

1435
01:27:31,200 --> 01:27:33,840
Speaker 1: box scores of the Mets. Um. We're we're seeing how

1436
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:36,880
Speaker 1: they're doing. Um. And I think that's that's the beauty

1437
01:27:36,920 --> 01:27:39,880
Speaker 1: of its. Like you said, you're you're playing for something. Uh,

1438
01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:42,880
Speaker 1: You're not just out there you know, trying to you know,

1439
01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:46,160
Speaker 1: whatever it may be for For teams that you know,

1440
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:48,479
Speaker 1: aren't aren't in a playoff contingent. But like I said,

1441
01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:50,800
Speaker 1: being able to being fortunate enough to be on a

1442
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:53,679
Speaker 1: team that you know, competes every year, it it definitely

1443
01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 1: makes it, you know, a lot easier to to go

1444
01:27:56,320 --> 01:27:58,680
Speaker 1: out there every day. And like I said, you're you're

1445
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:01,439
Speaker 1: playing for something, you know at the end of the year.

1446
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:05,639
Speaker 1: You know how the president has an intelligence briefing where

1447
01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:08,439
Speaker 1: people come in they right take it all down for it,

1448
01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:11,000
Speaker 1: you have to do your own like do you have

1449
01:28:11,120 --> 01:28:13,439
Speaker 1: does someone present to you about what's going on? Or

1450
01:28:13,439 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 1: you have to do your own research. You have you

1451
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:18,320
Speaker 1: have to go over the materials yourself. Uh no, like

1452
01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:20,519
Speaker 1: I said, that's like analytical side of the game is

1453
01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:23,439
Speaker 1: like grown so much in the last three or four years. Um.

1454
01:28:24,200 --> 01:28:26,599
Speaker 1: So like we get we have we have hitters meetings,

1455
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:30,120
Speaker 1: like we go over like scouting report um I Like

1456
01:28:30,120 --> 01:28:31,640
Speaker 1: I said, I just said that we we get a

1457
01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 1: scouting report on the picture. Someone for someone presents the

1458
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:38,040
Speaker 1: information someone verbally presents the information to that verbally and

1459
01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:41,400
Speaker 1: we get like paperwork on it. Um at the field

1460
01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:44,360
Speaker 1: and we can, um you know, go over and take

1461
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 1: all take as much or as little information as we

1462
01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:49,400
Speaker 1: want and like I said, form form a game plan.

1463
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:54,919
Speaker 1: Yeah who who? Uh So it's probably the most demanding

1464
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:59,920
Speaker 1: for the picture, I would say, so, um, just because

1465
01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:04,240
Speaker 1: is they're seeing so many different guys like me and

1466
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:07,240
Speaker 1: all his personality right right. So it's like for me,

1467
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:09,519
Speaker 1: it's like I may see you know, I may say

1468
01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:12,599
Speaker 1: one guy one night for guys really good um that night,

1469
01:29:12,760 --> 01:29:15,640
Speaker 1: or I may see four four guys. Um. So, but

1470
01:29:15,800 --> 01:29:18,760
Speaker 1: you know they're seeing you know, for sure nine you know,

1471
01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:21,800
Speaker 1: pinch hitting, you may see ten or eleven. Uh So,

1472
01:29:21,880 --> 01:29:24,360
Speaker 1: I think it's definitely more more important for for them.

1473
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:30,600
Speaker 1: What's it like to have all your all your finances

1474
01:29:30,680 --> 01:29:34,120
Speaker 1: just become like national news story, We'll you know what

1475
01:29:34,120 --> 01:29:37,040
Speaker 1: I mean, Like yeah, yeah, to be like he will

1476
01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:39,479
Speaker 1: get this much money in this ten years and all

1477
01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:41,559
Speaker 1: of a sudden. I mean, it's just there's no sort

1478
01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:44,720
Speaker 1: of like politeness about like actually, you know, don't know

1479
01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:48,920
Speaker 1: what Bob makes. You know, it's gotta be like you

1480
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:52,120
Speaker 1: gotta feel pretty early on, you know, early on in

1481
01:29:52,240 --> 01:29:54,400
Speaker 1: my career, I was, you know, a little a about it.

1482
01:29:54,800 --> 01:30:00,920
Speaker 1: But then it's like, you know, oh, I'm not gonna

1483
01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:02,680
Speaker 1: step away from it because of that reason. So you

1484
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:08,760
Speaker 1: just kind of not to sign the contract. I just

1485
01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:13,120
Speaker 1: don't want everybody to know. So, yeah, it's one of

1486
01:30:13,120 --> 01:30:15,640
Speaker 1: those things you embrace, you just kind of get over it. Uh,

1487
01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:18,639
Speaker 1: it is what it is. Sean and I were talking about.

1488
01:30:18,640 --> 01:30:20,080
Speaker 1: There was a player last night. I was having a

1489
01:30:20,200 --> 01:30:21,880
Speaker 1: couple of had a couple of rough plays, and the

1490
01:30:21,880 --> 01:30:24,360
Speaker 1: guy in front of us just yelled out his contract amount,

1491
01:30:24,680 --> 01:30:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like it was the thing his

1492
01:30:27,840 --> 01:30:32,719
Speaker 1: insult at the player was to yell out his contract amount.

1493
01:30:32,960 --> 01:30:38,280
Speaker 1: Was it was it Rosario? Yeah, okay, yep, yeah, which

1494
01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 1: was a weird, weird thing to this, I can imagine.

1495
01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:46,640
Speaker 1: So you had you you have, um, you signed a

1496
01:30:46,680 --> 01:30:50,360
Speaker 1: contract with the Braves. It was uh hadn't been done

1497
01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:55,719
Speaker 1: before like a link time. Yeah yeah, um, thank you Braves.

1498
01:30:56,160 --> 01:31:00,040
Speaker 1: Uh No, very very fortunate. Um. You know I I

1499
01:31:02,439 --> 01:31:06,120
Speaker 1: it made sense to me, um to to just be here,

1500
01:31:06,360 --> 01:31:08,160
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully for the rest of my career. I mean,

1501
01:31:08,360 --> 01:31:13,559
Speaker 1: I my family's five hours from here, you know, in Mississippi. Um,

1502
01:31:13,840 --> 01:31:16,599
Speaker 1: my wife and I had some family that lives here. Um,

1503
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:19,400
Speaker 1: you know, the organization is great, you know, the family

1504
01:31:19,479 --> 01:31:21,439
Speaker 1: relations are great. You know, having a little one that

1505
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:23,880
Speaker 1: just you know, it it made too much sense for

1506
01:31:24,120 --> 01:31:27,040
Speaker 1: for me not to you know, to to sign something

1507
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:29,680
Speaker 1: that was that was long term here. So when you

1508
01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:31,839
Speaker 1: when you did that, was it just kind of like, um,

1509
01:31:32,120 --> 01:31:35,439
Speaker 1: in terms of aspiration and career, when you got to

1510
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:39,880
Speaker 1: that point, it's just like a side relief. Where is it, like,

1511
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:42,759
Speaker 1: holy cow, man, now I really got to like performed

1512
01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:45,599
Speaker 1: for a long time, or else I'm gonna feel like dirt,

1513
01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:49,560
Speaker 1: you know. Um. And definitely was the side relief, just

1514
01:31:49,680 --> 01:31:55,000
Speaker 1: because you know, up until that point, you know, I

1515
01:31:55,040 --> 01:31:57,640
Speaker 1: could have been traded, you know, the next day, or

1516
01:31:58,080 --> 01:32:00,640
Speaker 1: or you know, I you know, a career injury that

1517
01:32:00,680 --> 01:32:02,640
Speaker 1: could happen. I could you know, not know what was

1518
01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:06,639
Speaker 1: my next move. Um. So you know, like I said,

1519
01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:09,879
Speaker 1: it was just you know that that right there alone,

1520
01:32:10,439 --> 01:32:12,599
Speaker 1: I think took a lot of weight off my shoulders,

1521
01:32:12,640 --> 01:32:14,680
Speaker 1: just knowing that, you know, my family set up for

1522
01:32:14,720 --> 01:32:16,280
Speaker 1: the for the you know, the rest of your life.

1523
01:32:16,720 --> 01:32:18,640
Speaker 1: You know, don't have to worry about college for for

1524
01:32:18,760 --> 01:32:20,680
Speaker 1: a little man, like any any of those things. All

1525
01:32:20,720 --> 01:32:22,920
Speaker 1: the financial side of it was taken care of. But

1526
01:32:22,960 --> 01:32:25,519
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's like, Okay, now, you know,

1527
01:32:26,840 --> 01:32:29,040
Speaker 1: I expect more out of myself. Fans to expect more

1528
01:32:29,120 --> 01:32:31,960
Speaker 1: out of me, so that that definitely, you know, plays

1529
01:32:32,080 --> 01:32:34,720
Speaker 1: and I could picture that just being a huge you know,

1530
01:32:35,200 --> 01:32:39,280
Speaker 1: because then there's sort of this uh it's like the

1531
01:32:39,439 --> 01:32:42,920
Speaker 1: fans everyone they've bought something and now it better turn

1532
01:32:42,960 --> 01:32:49,120
Speaker 1: off um And And to me, that's like it's like

1533
01:32:49,479 --> 01:32:52,240
Speaker 1: another thing that like I love. It's it's just like, hey,

1534
01:32:52,280 --> 01:32:54,759
Speaker 1: I got I gotta just another reason to work harder

1535
01:32:54,800 --> 01:32:57,479
Speaker 1: and and try to try to perform better. Is just

1536
01:32:57,680 --> 01:33:01,280
Speaker 1: you know, try to be that guy that fans can

1537
01:33:01,360 --> 01:33:04,720
Speaker 1: rely on, my teammates can rely on um And and

1538
01:33:04,840 --> 01:33:06,840
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the beauty of it. To me, I

1539
01:33:06,960 --> 01:33:10,519
Speaker 1: spend a silly amount of time fantasizing about like the

1540
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:12,680
Speaker 1: deer hunting property i'd buy if I were to win

1541
01:33:12,760 --> 01:33:15,080
Speaker 1: the lottery or something. Now that you sign this contract,

1542
01:33:15,200 --> 01:33:17,000
Speaker 1: is that on your radar that you're gonna get a

1543
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:22,640
Speaker 1: farm Mississippi? I want? I would love to own some

1544
01:33:22,880 --> 01:33:26,640
Speaker 1: uh some land behind the levee um by the Mississippi River.

1545
01:33:26,840 --> 01:33:29,960
Speaker 1: Just um. Growing up hunting in the hills of Mississippi.

1546
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:32,439
Speaker 1: Deer on is big. Being in this camp that I

1547
01:33:32,520 --> 01:33:36,240
Speaker 1: am in now behind the levee Um. There's some giants

1548
01:33:36,280 --> 01:33:40,400
Speaker 1: that walk around there sneaky sneaky giants, swamp donkeys. Yeah,

1549
01:33:40,680 --> 01:33:44,040
Speaker 1: there you go. Um No, so that's definitely in the

1550
01:33:44,160 --> 01:33:46,920
Speaker 1: in the works and hopefully in the next couple of years.

1551
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:49,360
Speaker 1: What about like when farm two comes around, is that

1552
01:33:49,400 --> 01:33:51,519
Speaker 1: gonna be Mississippi as well? Are you thinking somewhere else?

1553
01:33:51,720 --> 01:33:55,599
Speaker 1: If you know, if I whatever purchase another piece, um

1554
01:33:56,120 --> 01:34:00,120
Speaker 1: out of state Illinois, I would love to be able to,

1555
01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:02,120
Speaker 1: you know, because you know I could be there in five,

1556
01:34:02,240 --> 01:34:05,920
Speaker 1: five or six hours. Um, not not far um, Like

1557
01:34:05,960 --> 01:34:07,960
Speaker 1: I said, would love a love a piece up there somewhere.

1558
01:34:09,040 --> 01:34:14,360
Speaker 1: Are you actively looking for stuff? Um? Always? Even even

1559
01:34:14,439 --> 01:34:17,519
Speaker 1: before I signed the contract, Like I said, it was

1560
01:34:17,560 --> 01:34:20,639
Speaker 1: a dream, Like I've always drained owing in my own

1561
01:34:20,760 --> 01:34:24,000
Speaker 1: land and um, you know, building it for the better,

1562
01:34:24,120 --> 01:34:27,640
Speaker 1: for for wildlife. My grandfather farmed, Um, so I was,

1563
01:34:27,840 --> 01:34:31,360
Speaker 1: you know, own a tractor riding around. Yeah. So it's uh,

1564
01:34:31,680 --> 01:34:34,679
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's owning a piece, you know that's

1565
01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, half of it's we call it like the

1566
01:34:36,680 --> 01:34:39,599
Speaker 1: wet side, which is on the Mississippi side of the levee,

1567
01:34:39,880 --> 01:34:42,800
Speaker 1: or the dry side. Um, you know, whether it's half

1568
01:34:42,840 --> 01:34:44,960
Speaker 1: and half farming a little bit, you know, definitely want

1569
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:48,719
Speaker 1: to want to do something just for people who aren't familiar.

1570
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:50,760
Speaker 1: Can you explain when you when you talk about blow

1571
01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:54,800
Speaker 1: the levee or so there's a huge levey. Yeah, there's

1572
01:34:54,800 --> 01:34:57,519
Speaker 1: a huge level that runs down the Mississippi River. Um,

1573
01:34:58,080 --> 01:35:00,680
Speaker 1: and it's just you know a flood flood you know,

1574
01:35:01,120 --> 01:35:04,280
Speaker 1: flood levee. Um. So just on the other side, like

1575
01:35:04,360 --> 01:35:06,000
Speaker 1: on the wet we called the wet side, which is

1576
01:35:06,040 --> 01:35:09,720
Speaker 1: the side closest to to uh to the river. Um.

1577
01:35:10,640 --> 01:35:15,840
Speaker 1: Just it's something about the just huge old um oak tree.

1578
01:35:15,920 --> 01:35:17,760
Speaker 1: I mean just trees are huge. I mean it's just

1579
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:21,160
Speaker 1: different to me. It's like old forest. Yeah yeah, yeah,

1580
01:35:21,200 --> 01:35:22,800
Speaker 1: it's like you you go on the other side, it's

1581
01:35:22,840 --> 01:35:26,160
Speaker 1: just like completely different. It's crazy. It's like when you

1582
01:35:26,240 --> 01:35:27,840
Speaker 1: go over there, it's like you're into me. You're in

1583
01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:30,560
Speaker 1: a whole another another world. Well it hasn't been so

1584
01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:33,639
Speaker 1: manipulated by man ye right. And then like you said,

1585
01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:35,439
Speaker 1: you're right there at the delta. So it's like on

1586
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:38,120
Speaker 1: the other the dry side, it's like straight flat pretty

1587
01:35:38,200 --> 01:35:42,639
Speaker 1: much all farmland. Um. So it's I love spending time

1588
01:35:42,840 --> 01:35:45,679
Speaker 1: behind behind the levee. H. That's a good term. Yeah,

1589
01:35:46,240 --> 01:35:51,200
Speaker 1: that's good. So what are your what are your plans

1590
01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:54,519
Speaker 1: this year? When you get down? Your season gonna lay low? Uh?

1591
01:35:54,720 --> 01:35:58,120
Speaker 1: You know we had little man, uh my my son

1592
01:35:58,280 --> 01:36:03,240
Speaker 1: eastan April, So, um, gonna gonna lay low this this

1593
01:36:03,360 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 1: offseason because I hadn't got to spend a whole lot

1594
01:36:05,160 --> 01:36:07,479
Speaker 1: of time with him. Um, I know, I'm going to

1595
01:36:07,720 --> 01:36:11,760
Speaker 1: Nebraska to hunt, uh hunt up there. It's kind of

1596
01:36:11,840 --> 01:36:13,680
Speaker 1: like my my year, my yearly thing that I do.

1597
01:36:13,800 --> 01:36:15,960
Speaker 1: But other than that, almost stay stay around the house.

1598
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:19,000
Speaker 1: Uh and just you know, spend as much time with

1599
01:36:19,080 --> 01:36:21,360
Speaker 1: him as possible. So like you got any trips you'll

1600
01:36:21,400 --> 01:36:24,120
Speaker 1: have to cancel if things go good. Uh no, that's

1601
01:36:24,200 --> 01:36:25,960
Speaker 1: I said, that's that's the only one I got I

1602
01:36:26,040 --> 01:36:28,760
Speaker 1: got planned this year. So did you mean your kid

1603
01:36:28,800 --> 01:36:32,600
Speaker 1: after the Baseball bat Company? No? So a lot of

1604
01:36:32,640 --> 01:36:42,240
Speaker 1: people's tea. Yeah even better. Um is it true that

1605
01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:46,880
Speaker 1: you got that so your your son was born during season? Yeah?

1606
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:49,560
Speaker 1: You guys get what's your what you guys get like

1607
01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:51,680
Speaker 1: a three day fraternity leave or how does that work? Yeah?

1608
01:36:51,760 --> 01:36:54,519
Speaker 1: So three days? Is I mean obviously if you need more,

1609
01:36:54,600 --> 01:36:58,479
Speaker 1: they do? You know? Alex is as good about it? Um?

1610
01:36:58,760 --> 01:37:01,640
Speaker 1: Were you playing on birth? And? Oh? Yeah? So I

1611
01:37:01,880 --> 01:37:06,320
Speaker 1: listen to that. So we were in l a um

1612
01:37:07,160 --> 01:37:10,920
Speaker 1: and Anda was, you know, call She called me a

1613
01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:13,400
Speaker 1: couple of times like hey, I'm having these weird you

1614
01:37:13,479 --> 01:37:15,960
Speaker 1: know pains, and it's just you know, it's like every

1615
01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:19,559
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Like I was like, maybe you know, call um,

1616
01:37:20,800 --> 01:37:23,320
Speaker 1: what's what's the terms. She's not. It's not there like

1617
01:37:23,400 --> 01:37:27,840
Speaker 1: the doctor, uh, midwife, midwife. Um, there it is. So

1618
01:37:27,920 --> 01:37:29,479
Speaker 1: I was like call her and just like see if

1619
01:37:29,520 --> 01:37:31,280
Speaker 1: you need to come in or whatever. And she was

1620
01:37:31,320 --> 01:37:35,240
Speaker 1: like they're called her And doctor was like, oh, they're

1621
01:37:35,240 --> 01:37:37,400
Speaker 1: probably just Braxton Hicks like you know, drink a bunch

1622
01:37:37,439 --> 01:37:39,599
Speaker 1: of water and put your feet up, blah blah blah.

1623
01:37:39,720 --> 01:37:43,719
Speaker 1: So um, this was like twenty minutes for game time.

1624
01:37:44,520 --> 01:37:47,360
Speaker 1: So I was like I told our trainer George. UM,

1625
01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:50,000
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, we call Anna just to make

1626
01:37:50,040 --> 01:37:52,080
Speaker 1: sure she knows, like if anything goes on to call

1627
01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:54,760
Speaker 1: you like that way I can you know, get get

1628
01:37:54,800 --> 01:37:59,360
Speaker 1: on plane and go. Um middle of the game, you know,

1629
01:38:01,320 --> 01:38:03,560
Speaker 1: you know, the middle of the game. Um. You know,

1630
01:38:03,680 --> 01:38:07,000
Speaker 1: George gets a call and it's going to the hospital. Um.

1631
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:10,040
Speaker 1: And at this point I think we're in like the

1632
01:38:10,240 --> 01:38:13,360
Speaker 1: seventh or eighth inning. They start looking at flights. There's

1633
01:38:13,400 --> 01:38:16,200
Speaker 1: no you know, no private flights that are gonna get

1634
01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:19,479
Speaker 1: me in there any earlier, you know, commercial flights. There

1635
01:38:19,560 --> 01:38:21,200
Speaker 1: was like the Red Eye was like the only thing

1636
01:38:21,240 --> 01:38:23,560
Speaker 1: I could take at this point because you know the

1637
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:28,000
Speaker 1: time change and stuff. Um so you're in you said

1638
01:38:28,000 --> 01:38:30,400
Speaker 1: you're in Los Angeles, Yeah, in l A. She's here.

1639
01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:33,040
Speaker 1: So her her aunt ends up coming, get to her,

1640
01:38:33,080 --> 01:38:35,960
Speaker 1: take her to the hospital. You know this is you

1641
01:38:36,040 --> 01:38:38,880
Speaker 1: know she's going, she's getting ready. Um as soon as

1642
01:38:38,880 --> 01:38:41,439
Speaker 1: the games over with George is like, hey, you gotta flight,

1643
01:38:41,560 --> 01:38:45,080
Speaker 1: you gotta leave. So like I'm like straight panic mode,

1644
01:38:45,160 --> 01:38:47,120
Speaker 1: go get in the shower. They get me a car,

1645
01:38:47,240 --> 01:38:49,200
Speaker 1: send me to the airport. Did you did you have

1646
01:38:49,280 --> 01:38:51,320
Speaker 1: the bat while this is going on? Well they didn't.

1647
01:38:51,360 --> 01:38:55,640
Speaker 1: They luckily they didn't tell me, um because they well

1648
01:38:55,640 --> 01:38:57,280
Speaker 1: there was no there was like there was no reason

1649
01:38:57,360 --> 01:38:59,240
Speaker 1: too because the only flight I could take was a

1650
01:38:59,360 --> 01:39:01,880
Speaker 1: mental like so they were they weren't pulling me out

1651
01:39:01,920 --> 01:39:03,439
Speaker 1: like there's no sense and pulling me out of the game.

1652
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:07,320
Speaker 1: Um So, but they're working at it. Yeah, they're they're

1653
01:39:07,320 --> 01:39:09,559
Speaker 1: all like behind talking to my agent, getting every trying

1654
01:39:09,560 --> 01:39:12,280
Speaker 1: to get everything ready. Um So, as soon as the

1655
01:39:12,320 --> 01:39:14,840
Speaker 1: game is over, I shower, rush to the you know,

1656
01:39:14,880 --> 01:39:20,160
Speaker 1: the airport, UM to take the Red Eye, and like

1657
01:39:20,400 --> 01:39:24,000
Speaker 1: seven thirty I get a text from you know, Anna's sister,

1658
01:39:24,640 --> 01:39:28,439
Speaker 1: your dad, and I'm on the day flight. I end

1659
01:39:28,520 --> 01:39:31,559
Speaker 1: up missing it, which crushed me. That was that was tough.

1660
01:39:31,640 --> 01:39:33,720
Speaker 1: You got like no sleep on the flight because I'm

1661
01:39:33,720 --> 01:39:36,040
Speaker 1: sitting here, like, you know, thinking what you know what,

1662
01:39:36,360 --> 01:39:39,800
Speaker 1: you know, what all was going on? Um Landed said

1663
01:39:39,840 --> 01:39:41,519
Speaker 1: he had, you know, born at seventh. It's like seven

1664
01:39:41,600 --> 01:39:45,200
Speaker 1: thirty five. I landed like eight and end up getting

1665
01:39:45,280 --> 01:39:48,200
Speaker 1: up there like nine thirty. Traffic and everything and just

1666
01:39:49,439 --> 01:39:50,679
Speaker 1: it was a long a couple of days. But anyway,

1667
01:39:50,720 --> 01:39:53,439
Speaker 1: so we had an off day the next day. UM,

1668
01:39:54,600 --> 01:39:58,080
Speaker 1: and you know at that point, you know, I can

1669
01:39:58,160 --> 01:40:00,800
Speaker 1: only do so much. So I up, you know, having

1670
01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 1: the off day and and just missing the missing the

1671
01:40:03,080 --> 01:40:07,000
Speaker 1: one one game. But no, normally you can, I said,

1672
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 1: you get three days of maternity ly even. But it

1673
01:40:09,120 --> 01:40:12,840
Speaker 1: was a good little ride. Um but I tell and

1674
01:40:13,000 --> 01:40:14,799
Speaker 1: I was like it, maybe I have a blessing in disguise.

1675
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:18,080
Speaker 1: Because they waited so long to give her the epidural

1676
01:40:18,680 --> 01:40:20,760
Speaker 1: that my aunt ended up having to like step in

1677
01:40:20,880 --> 01:40:23,320
Speaker 1: and being a little mean, which I'm like, I don't

1678
01:40:23,320 --> 01:40:25,360
Speaker 1: know if I would have could have done that. So

1679
01:40:25,840 --> 01:40:27,360
Speaker 1: you may have been a blessing in the sky. You

1680
01:40:27,439 --> 01:40:29,360
Speaker 1: might not have been as good as an abbey. Yeah,

1681
01:40:30,000 --> 01:40:33,000
Speaker 1: so uh, you know, all things work out for a reason.

1682
01:40:33,080 --> 01:40:38,120
Speaker 1: So it's good. Do you guys desire to have more kids? Um?

1683
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:41,280
Speaker 1: I would? I think she would to you know, we've talked.

1684
01:40:41,360 --> 01:40:44,880
Speaker 1: I don't think anytime soon. Um, I think yeah, to

1685
01:40:44,880 --> 01:40:47,160
Speaker 1: think about it. Yeah, but I think there's definitely hopefully

1686
01:40:47,160 --> 01:40:48,880
Speaker 1: another one in the in the future. We need to

1687
01:40:48,880 --> 01:40:51,439
Speaker 1: do is get yourself a little calculator or a calendar

1688
01:40:51,960 --> 01:40:54,800
Speaker 1: and figure out Oh yeah, we've I've already talked about

1689
01:40:54,800 --> 01:41:00,599
Speaker 1: it planning in the off season. Yeah. Man, we're gonna

1690
01:41:00,960 --> 01:41:05,160
Speaker 1: do this January, right man, I'm gonna be there. I'll

1691
01:41:05,280 --> 01:41:07,640
Speaker 1: drive you down to the house. I be there for

1692
01:41:07,720 --> 01:41:09,880
Speaker 1: the whole san day. Be like, well, I thought it

1693
01:41:09,920 --> 01:41:11,400
Speaker 1: was gonna be that way, but we're kind of onto

1694
01:41:11,479 --> 01:41:15,880
Speaker 1: this really nice box, so it's gonna be you have

1695
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:18,160
Speaker 1: to go again. Well. The farther thing is is like,

1696
01:41:18,720 --> 01:41:21,360
Speaker 1: and I could have been anywhere else, and I make

1697
01:41:21,400 --> 01:41:23,760
Speaker 1: it on time, Like we happened to just be in

1698
01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:26,880
Speaker 1: the West Coast, happened to be playing in l A.

1699
01:41:27,520 --> 01:41:31,840
Speaker 1: Just couldn't have been playing Washington or Phillies or New

1700
01:41:31,920 --> 01:41:34,080
Speaker 1: York where I'm an hour or two. You know, I'd

1701
01:41:34,160 --> 01:41:38,320
Speaker 1: been five and a half hour flight. But talk to

1702
01:41:38,479 --> 01:41:41,920
Speaker 1: us about your quote that win viral earlier this year

1703
01:41:42,240 --> 01:41:45,280
Speaker 1: that I think it was popular among a lot about

1704
01:41:45,320 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 1: doors been I'll go ahead and say I didn't say that.

1705
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:51,439
Speaker 1: You didn't say that. So where did this come from?

1706
01:41:51,680 --> 01:41:54,400
Speaker 1: So there someone made I guess it was an account.

1707
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:56,880
Speaker 1: Let's say the quality real quick. It says I crushed

1708
01:41:56,920 --> 01:41:59,320
Speaker 1: the ball and hunt deer and it ain't deer season?

1709
01:42:00,120 --> 01:42:04,240
Speaker 1: Is that like the actual like insta liked graphic. Someone

1710
01:42:04,320 --> 01:42:08,479
Speaker 1: made that about you, the very small print like sack

1711
01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:11,360
Speaker 1: sports or something. Well, no, so it says Austin Riley

1712
01:42:11,439 --> 01:42:15,600
Speaker 1: didn't say this something like that. So this account that

1713
01:42:15,760 --> 01:42:20,599
Speaker 1: created this, I know, like it funny, funny quote. Great,

1714
01:42:21,040 --> 01:42:23,559
Speaker 1: But yeah, so it says, um, they like to say

1715
01:42:23,600 --> 01:42:25,960
Speaker 1: account made all this stuff. So it says like a

1716
01:42:26,080 --> 01:42:28,320
Speaker 1: bunch of random stuff like from players and that, like

1717
01:42:28,920 --> 01:42:32,120
Speaker 1: they you know, I didn't say this, but it's kind

1718
01:42:32,160 --> 01:42:35,680
Speaker 1: of funny. Oh yeah, it says Austin Riley did not

1719
01:42:36,120 --> 01:42:42,120
Speaker 1: say this about his recent hot streak, literally put it in.

1720
01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:46,240
Speaker 1: I've had to tell a couple of people that, yeah,

1721
01:42:46,240 --> 01:42:52,040
Speaker 1: it's a very small down to saying that now, like

1722
01:42:52,120 --> 01:42:56,080
Speaker 1: you should make that yours. I know, Um, I hadn't,

1723
01:42:56,120 --> 01:42:58,360
Speaker 1: but it's it's a it's a it's a hilary I've gotten.

1724
01:42:58,439 --> 01:43:01,240
Speaker 1: So when it came out, like all my buddies, like

1725
01:43:01,320 --> 01:43:04,880
Speaker 1: everybody was sending to me, it was good. So did

1726
01:43:04,960 --> 01:43:08,679
Speaker 1: that like introduce a lot of opposing players that would

1727
01:43:08,720 --> 01:43:10,000
Speaker 1: come up and talk to me like, oh, you like

1728
01:43:10,080 --> 01:43:14,519
Speaker 1: deer hunting to I think everyone. I mean really, if

1729
01:43:14,560 --> 01:43:17,720
Speaker 1: you look at my Instagram account, it's it's got It's not. Yeah,

1730
01:43:17,720 --> 01:43:20,479
Speaker 1: it's not. Everyone knows. Yes, everyone pretty much knew that

1731
01:43:20,560 --> 01:43:23,280
Speaker 1: I was, you know, being from Mississippi. Though, Oh, you're

1732
01:43:23,280 --> 01:43:25,800
Speaker 1: a big redneck hunter, aren't you. I was like, yeah,

1733
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:29,479
Speaker 1: I guess all right, man, I know, I know you

1734
01:43:29,560 --> 01:43:31,600
Speaker 1: gotta get out of here. But good luck with the

1735
01:43:32,240 --> 01:43:35,880
Speaker 1: family first and foremost appreciate that coratulations on your kid. Think,

1736
01:43:36,200 --> 01:43:37,599
Speaker 1: good luck with the rest of the year, and then

1737
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:40,840
Speaker 1: one's done. Good luck with the hunt. Appreciate it. I'll

1738
01:43:40,880 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 1: keep I'll keep an eye on it. Instagram make sure,

1739
01:43:43,400 --> 01:43:45,519
Speaker 1: for sure, So for sure I appreciate you guys have me.

1740
01:43:45,760 --> 01:43:49,519
Speaker 1: Oh know it's great man, best walk up song in

1741
01:43:49,640 --> 01:43:53,120
Speaker 1: baseball to you. You know I'm saying you have it?

1742
01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:55,720
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Stone called Yes, he was talking about how

1743
01:43:55,760 --> 01:43:57,880
Speaker 1: he doesn't have any connection to take me out to

1744
01:43:57,880 --> 01:43:59,599
Speaker 1: the ball game. But when I heard the glass shatter

1745
01:43:59,760 --> 01:44:02,640
Speaker 1: for on Steve Austin, I was like, oh man, if

1746
01:44:02,640 --> 01:44:05,519
Speaker 1: I was an imposing patriot, be so intimidated at that moment,

1747
01:44:05,800 --> 01:44:08,240
Speaker 1: so real quick on how that came out, so like

1748
01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:12,080
Speaker 1: Nelly hot in here has been like my walk up

1749
01:44:12,120 --> 01:44:14,280
Speaker 1: film for like ever since I got into pro ball.

1750
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:18,280
Speaker 1: But everybody on Twitter was like hammering me. I was like,

1751
01:44:18,360 --> 01:44:21,680
Speaker 1: you gotta tang, you gotta uh And I think I

1752
01:44:21,720 --> 01:44:23,360
Speaker 1: went through like a little skid where I struggle. I

1753
01:44:23,400 --> 01:44:25,800
Speaker 1: was like, I'm changing it and end up going off

1754
01:44:25,840 --> 01:44:28,560
Speaker 1: after it. So's it's stuck. I love it. And I

1755
01:44:28,640 --> 01:44:31,000
Speaker 1: got to the after one in the World Series w W.

1756
01:44:31,120 --> 01:44:36,840
Speaker 1: E sent me like an actual belt. It's my most

1757
01:44:37,000 --> 01:44:43,160
Speaker 1: like price. It says like w W World Series Champs

1758
01:44:43,200 --> 01:44:45,800
Speaker 1: on It's got the Atlanta enbow on its nest. Yeah

1759
01:44:45,800 --> 01:44:47,680
Speaker 1: I be Nelly never sent you like a face band, No,

1760
01:44:48,320 --> 01:44:51,960
Speaker 1: I got a huge belt. You who your real friends are,

1761
01:44:52,280 --> 01:45:00,120
Speaker 1: right man? Thanks good thanks good m