WEBVTT - Ep. 15: Choking on Chum Pods 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:05.280 Fly fishing for tarpin might be the most egregious example 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.240 of fishing excess on the planet. So I don't know 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.960 if you guys know the science behind a maxicab rocking 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.400 to the top two quickly can be dangerous, just as 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.000 the Greek dude with the wax wings or the kids 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.760 and crisscross. But lets you figure all that out, then 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:27.240 you can just sit back with the beer. Good morning, 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.760 degenerate anglers. Welcome to Bent, the fishing podcast that will 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.280 not judge you for eating two of the three sandwiches 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.879 you packed for lunch before eight am. I'm Joe Surmeli 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.680 Miles Nulty, and yeah, why does that happen? Like why 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.720 are you always starving at five am on a fishing trip? 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.360 Like clackwork dude. People are like, why you three sandwiches? 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.000 And I'm like, because I'm gonna eat two of them 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:53.720 before we break the inlet. It always happens. I mean, 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.279 I also think that disgustingly delicious roads necks are a 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.280 mandatory thing to bring on any good fishing trip. Gotta 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:05.080 have them, absolutely. I personally am a seven eleven, go 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:12.000 go to Kato kind of guy. I always say to Kato, 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.040 give me to Takato is the filly cheese steak one 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.440 and they're rolling right next to the hot dog on 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.160 the spinny thing there, so they getting used with some 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.480 of that weener essence, you know. And I also, you 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.640 know what als I love is bacon jerky, which is 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.680 stupid because it's it's just a bag of bacon. There's 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.800 really no jerky. You know. How about you? What what 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.400 what do you? What do you grab? Oh man? I'm 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.120 I am drawn to that greasy hot case like a 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.400 moth to a mile cardial and barks and flame, dude. 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.560 And and for as much as I love a halopenio 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.440 corn dog that's been roasted lovingly under a heat lamp 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.600 for thirty six hours, I'm not willing to compromise when 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.640 it comes to coffee. I mean, all right, okay, I 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:52.920 am willing to compromise if I have to, Like, if 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.320 I don't have other options, I will swig down some 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.520 thin bitter brew just for the caffeine, but I won't 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.400 enjoy it. Well, thankfully, Miles, you don't have to, because, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.240 as a reminder, this podcast is in fact entirely fueled 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.160 by Black Rifle coffee, and they have you covered. No 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.200 matter what your coffee needs, whether you're indulging in a 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.760 nice boogie pour over on a lazy Sunday morning or 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.720 mixing up a quick dose of the instant before sprinting 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.040 out the door on a Tuesday. 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The rest 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.960 of us are. Yeah, no, the rest most of us. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.280 Most people don't have their head. They're we're just kicking back, 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.880 enjoying our delicious coffee, and we do not appreciate your 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:11.160 filthy interjections. Anyway. That's that's probably enough. Of that. We're 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.960 supposedly here to talk about fishing, but I'm looking at 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.280 the set list here in front of me, and uh, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.920 it actually seems like we're gonna stick with fungal infections 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.040 metaphorically speaking, at least for the next few minutes, because 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.120 we are leading off this week's show with my least 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.480 favorite segment of all time, fungal infections. That was well 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.959 put that I like that, But Myles is right. He's back, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.720 ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Lance V. And look, okay, 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.760 we know that he can be kind of grading, all right, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.840 we get it. We we know that lance is not 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.000 what anyone imagines when they, I don't know, say, say, 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.800 gaze into the face of their newborn child and picture 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:50.960 a successful, prosperous and productive future. But look, he is 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.880 a reality, like it or not. Internet culture is alive 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.760 and well, and fishing is not immune. And in fact, 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.520 as listener Mike Mancini put it, this is a quote. Now, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.800 I am humbly requesting that you keep Lance V. I 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.880 hate that guy. He's the absolute worst, and he's the 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.160 perfect embodiment of what y'all are not. I love in 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.160 all caps to hate in all caps that guy and 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.440 he needs to stay Mike. This trolling with Lance is 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:24.800 for you, buddy, the land, to the boats, to the lake, 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.599 to the seed being up the n on nets. But 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:35.920 your boy lands. What's happening, Qualified captains, it's your favorite 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.640 Internet fishing guru, Lance Vie, here to aid you in 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:42.240 continuing education about killing it as an online angler. This 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.720 week we have a deep question from Josh why who 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:48.120 writes guys come on this? Lance v guy is a 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.159 freaking chuckle head. But if he had to pick just 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.080 one Instagram filter, what would it be? I have to 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.560 be honest, Josh, I didn't want to answer this question. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.320 In my opinion, this information is so powerful that it 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.080 could shave years off your pursuit of at greatness and 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.599 rocking to the top two quickly can be dangerous, just 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.200 as the Greek dude with the wax wings or the 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.920 kids and Criss Cross who spent decades in therapy to 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.839 overcome their desire to wear their pants backwards hashtag Daddy Mac. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.200 But I decided to go for it, so brace yourselves. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:23.039 The answer is half a Listen. I know that was 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.960 a lot to take in. Many of you are probably 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.200 in shock right now. Don't torch yourself for all the 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.039 mediocre fish photos you posted using Ludwig or Perpetua. Those 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.120 wasted opportunities to grow your social media presence. You didn't know. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.080 You were so sure using Nashville on that tight shot 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.880 of a bass pro brand crank bait would take your 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.800 posts from worthless to art that your ten followers would say, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.839 my god, it's breathtaking. You were absolutely positive the slightly 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.760 washed out look of the lark was perfect for another 0:05:55.800 --> 0:06:01.240 sun rise over the Paylake photo, and you were so wrong. 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.000 But I'm here to tell you it's okay. We all 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:08.360 make mistakes. Hashtag here with me. Haf A is the answer. 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.760 It's always been the answer, and you need not understand why. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.920 The details come with similar consequences to figuring out who 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.479 killed JFK or weather Vanilla Ice knowingly sampled that Queen 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.039 song in Ice Ice Baby, listen, I've already told you 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.400 too much, and I feared divulging for the information about 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.720 the powers of half a could lead to issues regarding 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.280 my personal safety or worse, a loss of sponsorship opportunities 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:34.320 with hashtag Nights of Columbus. Josh, You're welcome, but I 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.680 want to make it clear. I take no responsibility for 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.279 how you or anyone else uses this information hashtag risk 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:47.120 fact there. M M, well, that's actually gave me something 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.000 to think about this time. You like, he really found 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.000 a soulful place this week. I feel like we discovered 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.240 some some hidden well spring of depth that none of 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.400 us ever knew existed in in young Lance there. It's 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.480 it's almost like it's almost like we're trying to hint 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.320 at a more interesting and significant character so we can 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.919 disappoint everyone for our own amusement in a subsequent episode, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.160 or or maybe Lance will surprise all of us with 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.120 his development over time. It's like a slow process. You'll 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.280 you'll just have to keep tuning in to see what happens. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.560 Because as long as you guys keep sending questions to 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.680 Bent at the mediator dot com for Lance will keep 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.240 passing them onto him, and he'll keep answering them a 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:32.080 week or two after his deadline passes. That's how he rolls. Yep, yep, 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:37.040 and uh. While I have been begrudgingly forced into recognizing 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.040 the power and influence of twenty one century media, I 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.360 have not given up on what I will always consider 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:48.000 the nucleus of fishing culture. That is to say, skillful 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.640 and well crafted writing. Yeah, real writing, as in words 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.440 on printed paper, things we used to do in former lives. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.360 You and I both every so often we bring you 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.480 our book recommendations, and this week Miles as viewing a 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.760 brand spanking new title ten by one of our favorite authors, 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.440 who also happens to be a buddy of ours as well, 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:12.400 it's time for freaking philistines. What's it's a guy who 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.880 doesn't care about books or interesting films and things, and 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:25.080 unfas team. From a purely logical standpoint, sport fishing is stupid, pointless. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.360 We all know it. Even those of us who eat 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.360 our catch occasionally or often will admit that's not the 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.880 reason we fish. Fresh flesh is at best a bonus, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:45.119 at worst a justification. Fishing for sport is arguably hedonistic, cruel, narcissistic, selfish, sadistic, 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:50.080 and foolish. It can also be miserable, boring, excruciating, interminable 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:55.880 and obnoxious, but hot, damn when it's good, it's so good. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.640 I'm going to assume that if you're listening to this podcast, 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.920 you know exactly what I mean. Because fishing attracts obsessives. 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.520 It's a spectrum, of course, but every serious angler I've 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:14.080 ever known skews toward compulsion. Monty Burke is obsessed with obsessives. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.760 He's built a career writing about them, and his latest book, 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.840 Lords of the Fly, Madness, Obsession and the Hunt for 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:26.479 the World Record Tarpan, continues the trend. This book profiles 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.800 the rarefied subculture of individuals who have spent some or 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.080 in certain cases, the vast majority of their lives trying 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.160 to catch record Tarpan. If there are any heroes in 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.040 this story, however, they don't carry fishing rods or i 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.959 g f A certificates. The conquesting anglers are portrayed as 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.040 what I would assume them to be, wealthy, entitled jerk 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.520 offs who don't respect the fish, the place, or each other. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.480 The rootless guides who take those anglers fishing generally come 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.960 off as arrogant, unscrupulous, and bitter. Just about every character 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.560 in this book strikes as a deeply flawed human. If 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.200 there's a hero in this story, it's a tragic one. 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.520 The vanquished utopia that was the homelessauce of Florida. Tarpin 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.480 Fishery of the nineteen seventies and eighties. Burke describes it 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.440 almost as if it were the garden and the anglers 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.960 who indulged in its fruits, the men who precipitated the fall. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.560 He writes, the stories from on the water were stupendous, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.040 almost too hard to believe, but also an aggregate too 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.640 hard to ignore. On the Oklahoma Flat one day, Perez 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.480 held the boat steady for Robinson as fish came at 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.480 the boat from every direction. The tarpin began to form 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.280 a daisy chain, and we were somehow in the center 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.080 of it, says Robinson. It was thirty ft wide and 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.400 fifteen feet deep with fish from the top of the 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.360 water to the ocean floor. You could see flashes. It 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.080 was solid tarpan. Chitam and Lopez arrived one morning at 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.840 the Black Rock and had it to themselves. Hold on, 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.640 Shitam said, just take your time. There's more fish here 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.080 than night. Count Shitaman Lopez two were in the middle 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.640 of a daisy chain. It turned out one comprised of 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.880 some two thousand fish. Lopez hooked five fish and under 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.960 two hours. Over the next ten days he jumped more 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.960 than two hundred fish. He got sixty one of those 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.600 to the boat. It wasn't just the numbers of fish, though. 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.880 There were stories every day of massive fish seen but 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.839 not hooked, or hooked but not landed, fish well over 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.840 two hundred pounds. Everyone had a story, and those stories 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.400 of the monsters never to be caught, but only seen 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.520 or hooked, only to be lost, they were told with 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.559 more relish, more vigor, and more feeling than the stories 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.000 of the fish that were caught, even the ones that 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:47.640 became world records. It makes sense in angling, as in life. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.760 It is the ones that get away, that haunt our dreams, 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.680 that push us over the brink into a lustful madness. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.160 And Homas Sassa was the first place in these anglers 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:02.720 lives where hot damn, those dreams just might come true. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:07.000 The book's narrative wends its way through a dozen different characters. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.280 All the famous names of saltwater fly fishing appear, apt 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.920 cray palette huff records are created, then shattered, along with 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.120 new line classes, new tackle, new boats. The fishing world 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.120 descends upon this place where the tarpon are huge and plentiful. 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.480 They take what they can as quickly as they can, 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.319 and the place is left diminished. Some might say, decimated, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.640 and we absorb it all through Burke's deft and tactful voice. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.720 He remains a journalist in the best sense of that word, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.400 presenting the people, fish and events as factually as he can, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.480 except when he doesn't, diving into engrossing interludes and anecdotes 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.560 that skillfully tip his hand as an obsessed angler himself, 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.840 one who, like most everyone reading, missed the party and 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.240 knows that any sense of moral superiority he might feel 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.840 only comes from the fact that he wasn't lucky enough 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.400 to be among the offenders. One of the aspects that 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.560 makes this book so compelling is that honesty outside the 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.880 billfish tournament scene. Fly fishing for tarpin might be the 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:13.120 most egregious example of fishing excess on the planet. No 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.240 one in this country eats tarpin. Fly tackle is probably 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.240 the least effective method of catching one, and a good 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:23.840 guide charges eight hundred bucks a day, and the most stupid, pointless, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:28.280 and obsessive offshoot of tarpin fly fishing culture is record chasing. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:34.000 People spend entire lives and fortunes trying to catch one 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:38.800 fish whose gravitational pull can be measured as slightly greater 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.400 than another. They don't care about any other fish they 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.640 might catch. They don't even enjoy the experience of catching 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:50.120 a record. The fish don't actually matter. They just represent 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:55.679 challenge measurable benchmarks of validation. Lords of the Fly does 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.480 not shy away from any of that. In fact, it's 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.240 power lies and recognized thing that while this form of 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.520 fishing might seem reprehensible, it's really just the inherent nature 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:10.800 of sport fishing pushed to its furthest and perhaps ugliest extreme. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.920 So I have a confession, man, I have not read 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.000 Lords of the Fly yet, but not because I'm uninterested. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:25.000 That it sounds thoroughly enjoyable. It's good I haven't read 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.280 it because you have been promising to send me your 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:32.200 copy for over two weeks. Now. I mean, I know, 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.480 like the mail is slow, right, I get it, but 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.560 it ain't that slow. So until that happens, I'll just 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:42.440 have to sit here and reread Manti's Soubelly again. Yeah, 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.000 all right, Look, it's the book is sitting on my desk. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:50.640 It's right here. I'm looking at it right now, and 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.160 and along it's it's actually sitting stacked up with another 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.080 book that I've been promising to mail to you for 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.120 eight months. I don't know nine. It's all the same, 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.440 and that's all on me. But look, I have always 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.000 hated going to the post office. It's never been a 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.040 chore that I relish or enjoyed or did with any 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.960 sort of zeal. But the thought of standing in an 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.520 hour long serpentine line in the middle of winter during 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:18.640 a massive spike in COVID cases as uh, it's it's 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.600 really depressed the old motivation, you might say. No, I 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.000 get that. I understand I hate the post office too, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.880 especially during COVID. But what I also hear you saying 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.160 is I can expect those books to arrive what post vaccine? Yeah, 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.120 pretty much, so I'll put them on on the list 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.720 of all the other ship I can look forward to 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.640 when the day finally comes, seeing family, traveling, drinking in 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.480 places other than my basement with people other than my wife, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.800 going fishing with a whole group of buddies instead of 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:49.040 a select few that you assume are being careful. So great, thanks, Yep, 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:53.640 you're welcome. That is sadly true. But uh, while some 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:58.640 aspects of our lives fuel suspended, like dinosaur DNA trapped 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.640 in amber, for millions of years we press on. I'm 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:06.160 simply saying that life finds a way. You know. I 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.320 actually have a shirt with a snakehead skull on the 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.200 front drawn like the Jurassic Park logo that says life 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.160 finds a Way on the back. Yeah, it's It's one 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.360 of my favorite t shirts. Shout out to Geek on 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.880 the Water for giving me that anyway. One thing that 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:20.960 is certainly pressed on this year is news. But we 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.640 don't bring you the same horrible, divisive news you might 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.960 find elsewhere here at Bent. We bring you something that 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.960 just about all of us can come together on except 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.080 me and Miles, of course, who are trying to vanquish 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:39.760 each other. It's time for fish news. Fish news. That 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:44.720 escalated quickly before we we hit fish news. A little housekeeping. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.120 I'm I'm sorry. I apologize to everyone out there, but 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:57.240 I just I have to say this seriously enough. Just stop, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:01.200 I'm done, all right, and and and I will explain 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.000 what I'm talking about. It's nothing political, it's nothing you 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.119 might expect. It's all the things you know, but there's more. So. 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.679 First of all, you may you hopefully didn't notice this, 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.840 but when we were in the middle of recording fish news. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:21.040 Last week this happened. Hey dude, I'm sorry, we gotta pause. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.280 Something crazy just happened in my house and I gotta 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:30.040 go check it out. Something Okay, I'm sorry. So what 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.879 the hell was that? Well, that was the sound of 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.560 my elderly neighbor mixing up the gas and brake pedals 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.359 and driving her Subaru into the front of my house. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.320 This is where it's really happened. This This this happened 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:48.520 last week. People. I so when we record this, like, 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.480 we're on the computer so Miles and I can see 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.240 each other, and and the part that I'll add is 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.560 I couldn't hear it on my end, but you were 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.240 just like something crazy just happened. But then you left 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.360 and you didn't turn off your computer. So the last 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.119 thing I saw was you standing in your hallway yelling 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:07.239 at your wife, going are you kidding me? And I 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:13.080 was like, oh, I should probably leave the sessions, Like, yeah, 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.040 last night I saw that happened. So but all right, 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.480 good news on that. No one was hurt. All right, 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.600 nobody got hurt. The neighbor, who's a very nice woman, 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:24.680 she was not hurt. None of us were hurt. Everybody's fine. 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.320 That that's the really good news. The other good news 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.800 is that, man, I have incredible friends. By the time 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.920 that the tow truck had extracted the car from my home, 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.879 two of my people, one a structural engineer and the 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.560 other contractor had dropped everything they were in the middle of, 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.119 like the middle their work day, to come over and 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.520 assess the like the structural and tear to my house 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.600 and put up a temporary support wall so the whole 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:54.119 thing didn't fall down. And just to paint a clearer picture. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.199 What do I hear banging? Yeah, I'm sorry that My 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:04.280 buddies they show like my kid, that's fine, We're good. 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.439 So the house is still standing, but it's gonna be 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.560 some months before it's back to normal again around here. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.560 You can check out our Instagram pages to see photos 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.680 of the carnage and and the car in my house 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.320 that's at water Miles and at Joe's from Ellie. But wait, 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.960 there's more. That same day, a friend of mine, a 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:31.320 signature Unqui Fly designer fishing guide generally good human Andrew Grillos, 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.400 suffered a massive stroke, which is I mean, it's terrible. 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.120 It's also hard to magic because we're talking. We're talking 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.080 about a guy who does ultra marathons for fun. This 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.120 is not the person you're gonna expect this to happen, 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.040 to write, and and look, he's in for a long haul. 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:46.640 He's in for a lot of medical bills with his family. 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.200 And and listen, we've said it before, We're gonna say 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.480 it again. We anglers, we look out for our own. 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.160 So I'm asking everybody out there who has the ability 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.679 to help, if you can get on Instagram, look up 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.479 the hashtag flies for Andrew and and and bid on 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.440 something if if you're able to, there's all kinds of 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.320 amazing stuff up for grabs, from fishing gear to custom 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.840 art to guide trips by buddy Nick English is actually 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:14.280 auctioning off info like intel on his secret high alpine 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:19.160 trout lakes that he's spending. Yeah. Yeah, So a lot 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.159 of good people are chipping into help out and and 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:24.600 if you're able to, I just ask that you please 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.600 do so. Like I said, has been a NonStop dumpster 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:30.840 fire for for lots of us. But on the bright side, 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:32.919 you know, I gotta say, man, it's really show me 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.720 that we are able to come together and look out 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.560 for each other when we have to. And that's that's 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.879 worth something, you know, it's valuable. Yeah, and and and 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.560 no matter, no matter how much I think we all 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:48.360 feel the vibe, if nothing else one way or the other, 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.359 it's almost over, almost over. We're getting there. You know 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.280 what what what it looks like when it passes? We 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.240 don't know, but um, you know, just based on the 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.200 calendar alone, like we're all us that we're almost out 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.000 of the woods. We're going to see a change. We're 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.560 almost out of the woods. Anyway, housekeeping complete, let's move 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.480 on to the news you can use in the fish world. 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:13.160 Reminder that this is a competition. Miles and I do 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:16.600 not know what stories the other guys bringing to the table, 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:19.840 and at the end of this session are magical audio 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:23.280 engineer Phil will declare a news winner. I believe it 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:28.400 is my week to lead off. Okay, alright, great, so 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:31.879 let's let's lead off with this one um, which is 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:33.600 kind of silly, but I just couldn't leave it alone. 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.000 So as if e R doctors don't see enough action 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:39.960 in this time of COVID, an e er in Egypt 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:43.000 got put on notice when a man stumbled in gasping 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.080 for breath because, as it turned out, he had a 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.440 live fish stuck in his throat. You saw this story, 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:52.760 didn't the story? Yes, okay to step on your thunder. 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:54.119 But as soon as you said that, I was like, oh, 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:57.680 I know where he's going. It's a very me kind 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:59.960 of story. It comes it comes to us from t MS, 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:02.560 which is the news equivalent of the Urban Dictionary, but 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:06.400 still from the story. And when I say from the story, 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.359 this is literally written like text messages like that's the 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.560 kind like that's how their their their ship has written. 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:14.240 So anyway, journalism and his finest people exactly. A guy 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.280 who went fishing in Egypt got more than he bargained 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:18.680 for when his catch for the day tried going down 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:21.480 his gullet before he could even fry it up dot 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:27.240 dot dot, and it almost killed him. This, this one man, 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:33.800 This went down last week near Benny's sweep Swift, went 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:38.080 something about ninety miles south of Cairo. When this poor 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:41.400 fellow came stumbling into an e r down there, gasping 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:44.800 for breath and unable to speak. He obviously obviously had 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:48.199 something funky in his throat dash and that thing, it 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:51.600 turned out, was a live fish. Doctors diagnosed the blockage 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:53.760 in his windpipe after running him through an X ray 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.840 and other tests, and then immediately got to work in 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:03.920 extracting the damn thing with some tools. TMZ says, where 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:06.680 the video I did. We'll get to the video and 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:09.640 say there is a video, But you know the word 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:11.760 is the guy was okay after all. But as for 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:14.359 how this happened in the first place, bizarre, to say 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:18.239