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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel. Steel products are available

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now here's your host, Ryan cal Callahan, a

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Speaker 1: Van Buren County man, gets jail time, fines, and a

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Speaker 1: lifetime loss of hunting privileges after poaching trophy bucks. Unethical

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Speaker 1: hunting activity, which I would say is an understatement, has

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Speaker 1: resulted in prison time, financial institution, and the previously mentioned

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Speaker 1: lifetime loss of hunting privileges in the state. Just thirty

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Speaker 1: three years old, Justin Ernst was successfully prosecuted for the

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Speaker 1: illegal taking of nine trophy white tail bucks just last year.

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Speaker 1: Now to let you know what type of fellow this

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Speaker 1: is what cracked the case was Michigan State Police troopers

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Speaker 1: were investigating ernst involvement in a domestic violence complaint. State

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Speaker 1: police then contacted the Department of Natural Resources conservation officers

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Speaker 1: and they noticed several deer in a nearby barn where

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Speaker 1: Ernst reportedly spent a significant amount of time. Um, this

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Speaker 1: is something I can you know, kind of relate to

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Speaker 1: old Earnce done. If I had a barn, I guaranteed

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Speaker 1: I would spend a lot of time back there anyway.

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Speaker 1: Conservation officers investigated and seized eight illegal bucks in the barn,

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Speaker 1: five ten pointers and three with eight points each. Two

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Speaker 1: days later, an anonymous tip to the d n r's

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Speaker 1: report all Poaching hotlines stated that Ernst had taken another deer.

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Speaker 1: Conservation officers confirmed that Ernst had taken another drovey buck,

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Speaker 1: increasing his total to yes nine. Ernst ended up pleading

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Speaker 1: guilty to felon in possession of a firearm, obtaining a

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Speaker 1: hunting license when ineligible, and illegal taking or possessing white

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Speaker 1: tailed deer. As part of his plea deal, Ernest was

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Speaker 1: given lifetime hunting revocation, ordered to pay twenty five thousand

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Speaker 1: months to five years in a Michigan Department of Corrections facility.

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Speaker 1: And in totally unassociated news, everyone's favorite mayor is a

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Speaker 1: mayor no longer. Craig Schubert, the mayor of Hudson, Ohio,

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Speaker 1: announced his resignation on Valentine's Day, just a few days

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Speaker 1: after he went viral for claiming that ice fishing leads

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Speaker 1: to prostitution. In his resignation letter, Schubert claims his statement

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Speaker 1: was a bit of dry humor and that he was

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Speaker 1: grossly misunderstood. In case you missed the story, I can't

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Speaker 1: believe that's possible. At this point. Schubert argued in a

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Speaker 1: city council meeting that allowing ice fishing in a local

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Speaker 1: park would lead to the erection of ice shanties. Ice

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Speaker 1: shanties would then lead to prostitution. Schubert sounds pretty serious.

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Speaker 1: He claims that it was his past experience as a

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Speaker 1: news reporter that planted the idea and his head, which

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Speaker 1: again doesn't sound like he's joking. Well. From the Weekend

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Speaker 1: Review crew, Jordan's Siller's, Alex Tilney and myself, Ryan cal Callahan,

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Speaker 1: we wish you the best of luck, but I recommend

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Speaker 1: that you stay away from ice shanties and ice fishing

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Speaker 1: regulations for the foreseeable future. This week, we've got the

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Speaker 1: Bad Bill round up, Ted Kazinski, and so much more.

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

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Speaker 1: this is where we enter with Ted Kay. Ted Kazinski,

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Speaker 1: the Uni Bomber, a buddy of mine, poured a ton

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Speaker 1: of time and energy and creative effort into a new

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Speaker 1: film that is coming out shortly, should be out by

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Speaker 1: the time you listen to this. It's called ted Ka,

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Speaker 1: filmed almost exclusively in Lincoln, Montana, and I gotta watch

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Speaker 1: it the other night at its official Montana premiere. If

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Speaker 1: you are unaware of who ted Kay is, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: watch the movie. One of the things I liked about

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Speaker 1: it is, uh, it's very noticeably filmed in Montana. Many

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Speaker 1: of the shots are in logging regrowth. It's familiar. It's

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Speaker 1: you know, places that any folks like us just you know,

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Speaker 1: hiked to off the side of an old forest service road.

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Speaker 1: And it's not the same old shot of going to

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Speaker 1: the sun road or you know the giant beautiful landscapes. Uh.

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Speaker 1: They did a really good job. And yeah, Montana still

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Speaker 1: looks pretty. Ted Kay is the film released by Neon.

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Speaker 1: Check it out wherever you can. I only bring that

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Speaker 1: so you need people to watch that movie. Kidding about that.

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Speaker 1: release and first fully waterfoul focused project produced by meat

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Speaker 1: but believe me, she makes an appearance in other news.

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Speaker 1: I ran a brand new steel chainsaw, knocked down some

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Speaker 1: diseased fur trees, bucked them up. And if you're ever

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Speaker 1: needing an Airbnb, that is super awesome, so awesome in fact,

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Speaker 1: which I type and located just outside of Missoula, Montana.

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Speaker 1: Check out Blackfoot base Camp. Search that out on Airbnb.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how that works, but you may be

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Speaker 1: able to. It's a sweet place. As a bonus, you'll

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Speaker 1: you know, I subbed myself out all right. Time getting

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Speaker 1: down to brass tacks, moving on, and almost all fifty

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Speaker 1: states rapid fire round up. Get your pencils or your

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Speaker 1: recording devices, whatever you kids do these days, just pay

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Speaker 1: attention I'm gonna go and reverse alphabetical order, just to

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Speaker 1: add some variety to your life. Wyoming, you have a

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Speaker 1: deluge of legislation coming your way, thirty six bills altogether.

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Speaker 1: That should, you know, raise the hair on your neck

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Speaker 1: if you're a wildlife type of person. H B zero

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Speaker 1: zero zero five would update the state's wild horse and

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Speaker 1: borrow management plan. If you are paying any attention at all,

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Speaker 1: New Mexico just passed an action to allow US Fish

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Speaker 1: and Wildlife service to aerial gun wild cattle, and the

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Speaker 1: Helo Wilderness. Feral animals compete with livestock and wildlife resources

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Speaker 1: recreation funding. You know, if you're the type of person

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Speaker 1: in people's stockings for Christmas, you're also helping wildlife. If

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Speaker 1: zero zero six would update enforcement of invasive species statutes,

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Speaker 1: expiration date on certifications for grouse game bird farms, which

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Speaker 1: is something I'll tell you should pay attention to. This

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Speaker 1: program is what is keeping the biologically unsound idea that

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Speaker 1: pen raised sage grouse can somehow replace wild birds. There

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Speaker 1: are no substitutions for wild birds, and for healthy, huntable

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Speaker 1: and sustainable wild bird populations, you need healthy habitat, not incubators.

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Speaker 1: That's s F zero zero six one. There are also

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Speaker 1: some exciting developments to the state budget, with the possible

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Speaker 1: seventy five million dollars proposed by Governor Gordon to go

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Speaker 1: towards the Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust, a program

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Speaker 1: to fund wildlife crossings, which is great news for those

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Speaker 1: of Wyoming. Educating yourself on all of these bills and

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Speaker 1: advocating effectively for some and against others is a tall order,

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Speaker 1: but don't fret. The Wyoming Wildlife Federation has organized Camo

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Speaker 1: at the Capitol, an event taking place in Laramie on

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Speaker 1: Thursday February. The event is open to everyone and WWF

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Speaker 1: will get you up to speed on the issues, train

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Speaker 1: you in effective advocacy, and arrange for you to meet

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Speaker 1: with legislators if you can possibly make it. Don't pass

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Speaker 1: up this opportunity become a more effective advocate for hunting

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Speaker 1: fishing in the outdoors. Go to Wyoming Wildlife dot org

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Speaker 1: to learn more sign up. Everybody is always asking what

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Speaker 1: can I do to get more involved in conservation? Check

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Speaker 1: out all of these organizations, get a newsletter, read their stuff,

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Speaker 1: and when they offer super cool helpful things like this,

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Speaker 1: go meet people. Get proactive. Moving on to Wisconsin, you cheeseheads.

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Speaker 1: A B six six seven would authorize a sandhill crane

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Speaker 1: when it comes to breeding ingestation cranes, are a very

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Speaker 1: one for in depth background. Other Wisconsin bills a B

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Speaker 1: SBE would prohibit the Natural Resources Commission from establishing a

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Speaker 1: way the state determines navigability of rivers and by extension

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Speaker 1: apply to the State Division of Forestry, Fire and State

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Speaker 1: Lands for a navigability ruling, and it would establish clearer

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Speaker 1: navigability guidelines as well as a publicly available list of

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Speaker 1: motivation do you need? Twelve thousand acres bird hunting Turkey's

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Speaker 1: white tailed deer equip being such freeloaders. South Dakotans s

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Speaker 1: and night vision equipment while hunting coyotes and other predators. Again,

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Speaker 1: no matter how you feel about the issue, fishing game

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Speaker 1: regulations are easy to change. Bills are not. South Carolinian's

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Speaker 1: Department of Wildlife Fishing Parks. Anyway you'll get there. Pennsylvanians

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Speaker 1: As we've said before, the people who serve in these

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Speaker 1: That's you all from Massachusetts, and I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: Iowan's forgive us. In previous episodes, we whipped on SB

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Speaker 1: Connecticut folks. Take a look at HB five zero five four,

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Speaker 1: I've never done that. Alaskans. A proposed regulation change is

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Speaker 1: breeding the songbirds to death. They're eating them. The comment

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Speaker 1: It's that time of year. If you know of something

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Speaker 1: That's right, the wolf desk. It's a day that ends

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Speaker 1: Gray wolves historically covered the entire North American continent, the

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Speaker 1: In February of last year, Wisconsin hunters exceeded by eighty

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Speaker 1: In Secretary Holland's op ed, she called on the governors

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Speaker 1: this decision bans killing gray wolves in the Midwest, but

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Speaker 1: to the Foreign Affairs desk, a group of Spanish hunters

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Speaker 1: It's not really my cup of tea, and it may

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Speaker 1: let me put it this way. You're driving down the road,

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Speaker 1: a somber note. Eight people returning from a duck hunting trip,

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Speaker 1: passengers are presumed dead. The group had been hunting ducks

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Speaker 1: property of Hunter Parks, a local East Carolina businessman. Park's girlfriend,

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Speaker 1: friends had joined them. Their names were Jake Taylor, Daily Shepherd,

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Speaker 1: Core Sound Waterfowl Museum has established a fund to help

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Speaker 1: the families affected. If you'd like to contribute, visit core

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Speaker 1: expenses and other family needs associated with this disaster. If

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Speaker 1: you know anything about eastern North Carolina, you know that

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Speaker 1: duck hunting is like breathing over there. The high school

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Speaker 1: held a Camo day last week to honor the boys

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Speaker 1: who died, and I've seen messages on social media from

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Speaker 1: hunters around the state and around the country who did

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Speaker 1: on Facebook. The outpouring of support has been tremendous. Group

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Speaker 1: also asked everyone to wear camo last Thursday. This is

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Speaker 1: in the entire down East community. Again. If you'd like

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