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Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Col's Weekend Review, presented by Steel. Steel products are available

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Speaker 1: only at authorized dealers. For more, go to Steel Dealers

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal callahan. The

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Speaker 1: National Park Service uses thirty five hundred miles of toilet

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Speaker 1: paper and Yellowstone National Park every year. That's right, folks,

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Speaker 1: this is the kind of hard hitting news you expect

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Speaker 1: from Cow's weekend Review. I'm here to deliver the facts,

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Speaker 1: no crap. Yellowstone employees are stocking up on industrial sized

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Speaker 1: rolls of toilet paper in preparation for the explosive increase

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Speaker 1: in visitors this summer. According to a recent announcement from

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Speaker 1: the Park Service, there are more than four hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty two toilets at Yellowstone, and each one of them

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Speaker 1: gets cleaned every day and restocked with at scratchy single

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Speaker 1: ply paper everyone loves to hate. Keeping everything clean during

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Speaker 1: the summer can often be the number one or two

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Speaker 1: biggest task, especially at the most popular service areas, but

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Speaker 1: park staff put a smile on and roll with it.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand twenty one, more than four point eight

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Speaker 1: six million people visited Yellowstone, which according to my calculations,

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Speaker 1: means that each visitor accounted for about four ft of

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Speaker 1: t P. If you can't quite grasp that thirty miles

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Speaker 1: of toilet paper is enough to cover the distance from

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Speaker 1: Key West to Seattle. If that doesn't float your boat,

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Speaker 1: try this one. Thirty five hundred miles of toilet paper

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Speaker 1: means that you could t p the Empire State Building

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Speaker 1: with several layers. Two thousand twenty one was a record

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Speaker 1: setting year for National Parks tourism, and two thousand twenty

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Speaker 1: two could be more of the same. In any case,

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Speaker 1: the Park Service will be ready to do visitors a

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Speaker 1: solid and keep that toilet paper stocked. This week the

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Speaker 1: map Land Act Ticks carp and so much more. But

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Speaker 1: first I'm gonna tell you about my week, and ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, you just won't hardly believe it, but here's

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Speaker 1: a highlighter two for you. I finally got to eat

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Speaker 1: at Die Dewey or Die Do. I'm not even sure

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Speaker 1: how he says it, but the food is fantastic. That's

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Speaker 1: Chef Jesse Griffith's play Us in downtown Austin, Texas. They

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Speaker 1: source everything, they make it all from scratch, it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: And if you think that's unbelievable, I listened to Stranglehold,

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Speaker 1: you know the song by Ted Nugent, Yeah, that one,

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Speaker 1: and he was playing it. If you spend a lot

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Speaker 1: beat out of on the football field, then you probably

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Speaker 1: know Ted Nugent Stranglehold. Anyway, Ted Nugent played it just

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Speaker 1: for me, I mean, and the folks I was with,

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Speaker 1: like Phil and Kuran and Steve, And he played it

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Speaker 1: how you'd think. After that, we watched a scimitar horned

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Speaker 1: rix charge of truck while defending a newborn calf, put

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Speaker 1: my bare feet inside fossilized dinosaur footprints. Drink So Tall,

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Speaker 1: which is likely the base of the first beer ever

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Speaker 1: made in North America and makes a fine liquor when distilled.

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Speaker 1: We did that at the Desert Door Distillery and ate

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Speaker 1: again at the food truck. They're called Eden West Quail

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Speaker 1: Sandwich is Neil Geyberger's. The list goes on and it

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Speaker 1: is absolutely fantastic. I could fill up the whole podcast

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Speaker 1: with it, We made her back downtown, watched old Joe

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Speaker 1: Rogan embraces new Austin, Texas home and his Austin, Texas

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Speaker 1: crowd up on the comedy stage, and then Steven Ronella

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Speaker 1: and soliciting signatures for a citizens referendum that would turn

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Speaker 1: Yellowstone National Park into a wilderness area, And then of

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Speaker 1: course discussed the pros and cons of that one food

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Speaker 1: music controversy, high fences, low fences, history, biology, paleontology, and anthropology,

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Speaker 1: both modern and prehistoric, which is I'm sure it's just

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Speaker 1: to be home, mostly because I'm super proud, joyful even

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Speaker 1: to announce the return of the Land Access Initiative. For

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Speaker 1: you longtime listeners, you'll recall the Shiloh Pond project where

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Speaker 1: we as in all of us, helped to close a

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Speaker 1: much needed funding gap to preserve in perpetuity public access

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Speaker 1: and public land through a listener submission. Brent West of

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Speaker 1: the High Peaks Alliance helped us identify the project, and

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Speaker 1: us identify our next spot. All we're looking to do

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Speaker 1: Moving on to the legislation desk. Last week, the U. S.

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Speaker 1: we've covered several times on this program, the map Land

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Speaker 1: Act would fund the digitization of public land data. This

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Speaker 1: includes information related to legal easements on public land, boundary information,

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Speaker 1: easements that aren't currently listed anywhere online. If that sounds

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Speaker 1: for S. Nine zero four, the map Land Act. Elsewhere,

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Speaker 1: local governments to privatize public land. The bill hasn't been

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Speaker 1: twenty spoiler alert, I talk about poop up in Maine.

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Speaker 1: It looks like Sunday hunting isn't going anywhere this year.

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Speaker 1: The Legislature's Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee voted eight to

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Speaker 1: Wildlife found that thirty percent of the general population supports

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Speaker 1: other news, the U. S. Senate voted this month to

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Speaker 1: two years in the nineteen seventies. The measure will become

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Speaker 1: ping Lee as a trailblazer trying to solve a major

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Speaker 1: ecosystem problem with haute cuisine. Unfortunately, Lee wasn't taking carp

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Speaker 1: In wildcot carp are already popular as a food fish,

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Speaker 1: and they're most valuable when they're transported alive. In many

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Speaker 1: In two thousand eighteen alone, Lee transported and sold over

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Speaker 1: nine thousand pounds of fish that flouted these laws. For

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Speaker 1: that thing. Indep. That's all I've got for you this week.

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