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

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Speaker 1: Kel's we Can review with Ryan kel Kell and now

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Speaker 1: Here's kel. Peyton Manning received multiple puncture wounds to the

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Speaker 1: back of his neck and a fractured leg as a

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Speaker 1: result of nearly being carried away by a black bear.

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Speaker 1: The attempt at eating or predation incident occurred in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: It was broken up by Peyton's owner, a local pastor,

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Speaker 1: who ran at the black bear in let's say, a

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Speaker 1: hard blitz fashion. The medium sized black bear fell back

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Speaker 1: in the pocket and fumbled Peyton Manning, which, if you

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Speaker 1: haven't guessed, is a nine year old Maltese silky terrier

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Speaker 1: mix a canine a dog what a twist, which oddly enough,

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Speaker 1: is about the size of a football. After being dropped,

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Speaker 1: Peyton did an end around the house type move and

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Speaker 1: slid under a parked car while his owners, the pastor

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Speaker 1: and his wife, continued to drive the bear down field.

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Speaker 1: All Right, I don't know for certain that the multi

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Speaker 1: silky mix named Peyton Manning is actually the size of

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Speaker 1: a football, but I do know we can't pretend this

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Speaker 1: is the first time Peyton has been picked off the

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Speaker 1: first time he's been intercepted in his own backyard trying

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Speaker 1: to use the bathroom. For sure, if I was up

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Speaker 1: to date on my football, I'd be able to keep

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Speaker 1: the jokes running. But we seem to be in a

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Speaker 1: fourth and long situation already. Pennsylvania Fishing Game warns that

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Speaker 1: black bears are fresh out of their winter dens and

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Speaker 1: looking for food. Turn on the lights and make loud

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Speaker 1: noises before letting your pets out at night. Bad news

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Speaker 1: for light sleeping neighbors, but a real touchdown for Fido.

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania is a state known for a large black bear population. Currently,

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Speaker 1: the state hosts over sixteen thousand bears, which is down

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Speaker 1: from a peak of over twenty thousand individuals. Pennsylvania has

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Speaker 1: black bears in almost every county and has averaged a

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Speaker 1: hunter harvest of four thousand bears in the last five years.

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Speaker 1: That's on average, and eight hundred and seventy five pound

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Speaker 1: bear was checked in by a hunter in two thousand ten,

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Speaker 1: which is the heaviest in the state, but not necessarily

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Speaker 1: an anomaly, as there have been seven other bears that

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Speaker 1: have weighed in over eight hundred pounds reported since in

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Speaker 1: just the two thousand nineteen bear season, there was a

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Speaker 1: bear checked in over eight hundred, two checked in over

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Speaker 1: seven hundred and seven bears over six hundred. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you can do a lot of black bear hunting in

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Speaker 1: far flung places like Alaska and British Columbia and not

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Speaker 1: find bears in this weight class. Now, the biggest record

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Speaker 1: book bears won't go by weight, They go by skull size,

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Speaker 1: as weight fluctuates so wildly with bears between the spring

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Speaker 1: a seven hundred pound bear with a skull that measured

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Speaker 1: twenty three and three sixteenths, and the standing US hunter

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Speaker 1: taken black bear at twenty three and nine sixteen. Both

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Speaker 1: of those are Pennsylvania bears. The world record American black

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Speaker 1: bear is listed as a skull found outside of e

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Speaker 1: from Utah that skull measured twenty three and ten sixteens.

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Speaker 1: The football is a game of inches, black bears is

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Speaker 1: a game of sixteenths apparently. Now, how you come up

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Speaker 1: with these numbers, if you're interested, is very simple and accurate.

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Speaker 1: Grab a metal tape, your bear skull, and a framing level.

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Speaker 1: Find a square corner in your house or garage or wherever.

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Speaker 1: Place your bear skull in the corner with the point

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Speaker 1: of the nose touching one wall, in the outermost edge

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Speaker 1: of the occipital bone. You know that like thing, that

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Speaker 1: of the skull. Had these two measurements together, that's it.

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Speaker 1: Now you have successfully reduced an awesome animal to a number.

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Speaker 1: Your time is better spent in the kitchen rendering fat,

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Speaker 1: eating the roast beef of the woods, and sharing it

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Speaker 1: with others. But you know, measuring stuff is fun. This

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Speaker 1: week we've got people problems, record book rams, and so

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Speaker 1: much more. But first I'm gonna tell you about my

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Speaker 1: As for my week, all sorts of stuff is happening.

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Speaker 1: It is hired to keep track. I'm gearing up for

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Speaker 1: and by the time you hear this will be in Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Hunting to your Keys with Danielle Pruett and Chef Michael Hunter,

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Speaker 1: will try your best to avoid ticks, bag a few birds,

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Speaker 1: and do some serious cooking. I've been dragging out the

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Speaker 1: turkey gear calls Decoy's cameo. Here's a hot tip for

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Speaker 1: you budget minded conscious folks. Buy one of our leafy

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Speaker 1: tops and face masks. At first light. Throw that over

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Speaker 1: the top of whatever clothes you currently have. They're super durable,

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Speaker 1: with generations. I bring this up because I put two

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Speaker 1: one up as a makeshift ground blind, just high enough

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Speaker 1: more clothes than you think I would need. Tennessee is warm,

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Speaker 1: but it's humid. Turkey hunting is early, which I actually loved,

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Speaker 1: thing I've been doing, which, if I'm being honest, is

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Speaker 1: turkey hunters. Folks don't naturally shoot shotguns like a rifle,

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Speaker 1: But I shaved off parts of three teeth attempting to

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Speaker 1: with my good buddy Stephen Ronnella to do some archery

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Speaker 1: Next up a little housekeeping, then we'll get on with

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Speaker 1: the show. The Bear Grease podcast is finally out. Clay

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Speaker 1: Newcom does a fantastic job going deep on the subject

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Speaker 1: of mountain lions east in the Mississippi. Check that out.

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Speaker 1: Another thing I wanted to tell you is I follow

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Speaker 1: all sorts of food accounts on Instagram. One of these

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Speaker 1: super interesting cool stuff with bull kelp. Bull kelp is

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Speaker 1: and discouraging expiration of anwar. It should happen if it

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Speaker 1: two thousand nine, and two thousand twenty. Populations have been

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Speaker 1: six years, a new state record has been set every year. Congrats, David.

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Speaker 1: I have nothing against you, but I'm half hoping your

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Speaker 1: record doesn't stand for too long. As though sheep keep

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Speaker 1: multiplying and getting bigger and bigger. That's all I've got

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Speaker 1: for you this week. Thank you so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: let me know what's going on in your neck the

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Speaker 1: That's ask Cal at the Meat eater dot com. I'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you next week. And hunting had been at

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