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Speaker 2: Have you ever spent way too long searching for something

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Speaker 2: to remember something you should have never forgotten. Well, that's

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Speaker 2: what it was like recruiting one of the best animal

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Speaker 2: experts around, Gabe Flores. To be honest, it's hard to

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Speaker 2: remember our team without him. Maybe it's because he was

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Speaker 2: like our patriarch. Or maybe it's because I was so

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Speaker 2: nervous the day I went to talk to him. I

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Speaker 2: guess we all start somewhere though.

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Speaker 3: Right, Okay, got it. I'll see what I can do,

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Speaker 3: mister Luke.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Marcus, and keep your walkie talking close. I'll let

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Speaker 4: you know if I figure anything else out.

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Speaker 3: There has to be someone I'm forgetting about. Think Marcus,

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Speaker 3: think huh. Let's see volunteers at the animal hospital. I

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Speaker 3: was the youngest one working there by ten years. The

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Speaker 3: animal surplus store, school, no Way, the reptile show, The

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Speaker 2: Months before even talking to mister Luke, I spent a

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Speaker 2: week in at a huge reptile show near the city hit.

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Speaker 2: Something I always looked forward to, and this one did

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Speaker 2: not disappoint. One of my all time favorite displays was

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Speaker 2: from a place near home, River rehab. Gabe, a boy

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Speaker 2: just a little older than me, had a bunch of

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Speaker 2: reptiles on display, along with loads of information about the

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Speaker 3: Hey there, welcome to the booth. Let me know if

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Speaker 3: you have any questions. My name's Gabe. Thanks, it's quat

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Speaker 3: a display you have here.

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Speaker 5: Thanks. This is more of a side hobby, but here's

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Speaker 5: my card. We were in a local rehab center about

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Speaker 3: You should come check it out sometime. Thanks. Wow, this

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Speaker 5: We're always looking for volunteers in the summer, and there's

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Speaker 3: Cool. Thanks Gabe, you're welcome.

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Speaker 5: Hope to see you there sometime then, Marcus, Marcus, nice

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Speaker 3: Thanks again.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure Gabe figured if I ever stopped by it

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Speaker 3: Wow, this seems like a fun place, lots of space,

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Speaker 3: remember me? No, okay, I'm just gonna wing it. Oh hi, there?

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Speaker 3: Are you looking for your group? My group, your camp group,

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Speaker 5: Oh I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Wait do I know you from somewhere? A Marcus? We

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Speaker 3: met at the Reptile Show. That's it. How's it going, man?

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Speaker 5: I'm so glad you stopped by. Are you looking for

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty good. Well, actually, I've been pretty busy and

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Speaker 5: Who doesn't know about Spilogy Squad around here?

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Speaker 3: Well, we've been struggling with more more animals getting injured, stuff,

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Speaker 5: I never really imagined there could be someone behind it.

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Speaker 5: That would be terrible, you're telling me. Anyways, we're trying

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Speaker 3: Actually, I wonder, well if you might think about joining us.

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Speaker 3: We could really use someone like you me during your team.

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Speaker 5: Oh wow, that's an honor. I mean, if there was

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Speaker 3: This sounds like a perfect fit. I guess yes.

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Speaker 5: If I could get the coverage here, it might just

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Speaker 3: That would be great. With all the work you've already

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Speaker 2: With Gabe on board, the team was well on its

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Speaker 2: The only problem was the challenges themselves were only getting worse.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Marcus, yep, what's going on? Well, I'm still over

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Speaker 4: much to explain right now, but I really could use

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Speaker 3: Say no more, I'll be over there in five just

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Speaker 4: Now River Rehab.

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Speaker 3: I'll fill you in later.

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Speaker 4: Roger, see you soon.

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Speaker 2: If I'm being truthful, it felt great going from one

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Speaker 2: problems were never ending. But when I got to mister Luke,

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Speaker 3: What's going on, mister.

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Speaker 4: Luke, I'm not too sure, but what I could tell

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Speaker 3: Whoa, and look right up there by those trees. There's

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Speaker 4: This isn't good. Falcons are known to feast on all

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Speaker 3: Them, and we're sure those are falcons.

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Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure. But I have a pair of binoculars

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Speaker 4: in the back seat of my jeep. If you want

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Speaker 4: to make sure, I'll grab them.

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Speaker 2: After rustling through the backseat of mister Luke's jeep, I

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Speaker 2: I guess you're prepared for all kinds of things. When

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Speaker 2: there was no denying they were falcons, circled like they

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Speaker 2: were searching and patrolling the whole area. But the craziest

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Speaker 2: part of it all was that each one had a

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Speaker 2: the shiny metal looked like little diamonds catching the light

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Speaker 2: every time the falcons flew back towards me. The other

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Speaker 2: alarming thing was that each falcon had some kind of

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Speaker 2: This meant one thing. These falcons were not wild, nor

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Speaker 4: Well, mister Luke, now what I'm just not sure, Marcus.

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Speaker 4: I just know we need to somehow get them out

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Speaker 3: Maybe we need to somehow deter them. Do we have

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Speaker 4: Maybe falcons are usually scared off by shining lights. And

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Speaker 4: if only we had some food. That's it.

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Speaker 3: That's it, what, Marcus.

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Speaker 4: We need two CDs for my car and that old

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Speaker 4: beef jerky and those CDs they're the perfect reflectors.

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Speaker 2: Within minutes, mister Luke had me set up near the

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Speaker 2: the magnifying glass and I had to close my eyes

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Speaker 2: they were so bright. Mister Luke set up across the

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Speaker 2: beef jerky. Just like that, the birds started to circle him,

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Speaker 2: and to his surprise, they went straight in for the food.

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Speaker 4: Marcus, come over here, hurry, this is something else coming.

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Speaker 4: It isn't every day you get to watch something like this.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe it's so close to us. But wait,

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Speaker 3: why are they staring like that? It's like they're looking

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Speaker 3: straight through us.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure, Marcus, but it reminds me of that

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Speaker 4: bobcat I told you about, and that doesn't give me

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Speaker 3: Hey, look at their blinders and their tags both have

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Speaker 3: an O and D label on them.

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Speaker 4: Marcus, You're right, man, I knew I could count on you.

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Speaker 4: That's a genius find.

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Speaker 3: It has to mean something. But now, what do we

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Speaker 2: The falcons took off faster than I could even count

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Speaker 2: to three. They stopped midfeast, turned their heads, and began

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Speaker 2: flying in a straight line out of sight. I'd never

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Speaker 2: seen anything like it. It's like they were robots or

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Speaker 2: answering a call. I had goosebumps all the way back

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Speaker 2: to the critter Q, and actually I still get them

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Speaker 2: every time I think about those birds. The only thing

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Speaker 2: me at that point was those three letters O, N D.