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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 in now

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Speaker 1: Here's cal. If you've been following Col's Week in Review,

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Speaker 1: you know all about the cat native to Hollywood, the

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Speaker 1: famous Mountain Lion p. Twenty two, Well p. Twenty two

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Speaker 1: almost had a new competitor. Last week, Hollywood Animal Control

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Speaker 1: was called by concerned citizens to wrangle a servile cap

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Speaker 1: The servile, spelled s E r v A l is

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Speaker 1: native to Africa. Typically a golden coat with black spots

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Speaker 1: and stripes, stands about two ft at the shoulder and

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Speaker 1: can weigh in anywhere from fifteen to forty pounds. This

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Speaker 1: cat has been gaining in popularity as an exotic pet,

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Speaker 1: despite the fact that it is considered wild and therefore

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Speaker 1: subject to several layers of regulation in most states, not Texas.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the serval is not a species of concern

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Speaker 1: population wise, but considering its natural hunting ability, it would

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Speaker 1: be a major concern to just about any bird, mammal,

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Speaker 1: or reptile. It ran into the servile in relation to

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Speaker 1: its body size, as the longest legs of any cat,

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Speaker 1: making it an excellent jumper. They've been observed taking birds

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Speaker 1: from nine feet out of the air, as well as

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Speaker 1: being proficient diggers. The Spruce Pets dot Com has this

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Speaker 1: to say, exercise needs HI playfulness, HI energy, high intelligence,

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Speaker 1: HI friendliness, w kid friendly, WHOA pet friendly? WHOA? Sounds

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Speaker 1: like a perfect Christmas gift for someone you hate. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: the descriptions of these cats as pets should start out

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Speaker 1: with do not buy, which is probably why it was

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Speaker 1: found in the area that some referred to as holly weird.

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Speaker 1: In fact, with the exception of their ability to jump

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Speaker 1: and hunt, their habits sound similar to human Hollywood residents

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Speaker 1: that make the news very attractive. They sleep during the day,

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Speaker 1: primarily active at night, urinate on everything, not necessarily picky eaters,

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Speaker 1: but they puke a lot. Despite all of these complications,

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Speaker 1: people going all the way back to the Egyptians like

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Speaker 1: to keep the servile as pets. In this case, most

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Speaker 1: likely they had just attempted to keep it as a pet.

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Speaker 1: Breeders are found in the US, but the cats themselves

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Speaker 1: are not considered domestic. At risk of sounding like a

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Speaker 1: broken record, we know what cats that we call domestic

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Speaker 1: due to wildlife, So let's leave their hyped up cousins

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Speaker 1: alone and preferably in Africa. This week we're talking policy update,

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Speaker 1: It's Lake Trout corrections and God's Grizzly Bears. But first

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about my week. Oh Steve Ronnell

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Speaker 1: and myself hit the road once again, this time to Bmidgey, Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: home of the Midgey Lumberjacks and lumber Jails, the Bmidgee

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Speaker 1: State Beavers, and most importantly, one of the best College

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Speaker 1: Ducks Unlimited chapters in the entire U s of A.

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Speaker 1: But Midji State is only about six students, and these

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Speaker 1: college chapter volunteers are consistently a top college du chapter.

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Speaker 1: I noticed in two thousand eighteen they beat out Ole

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Speaker 1: Miss Texas A and M and Georgia. Southern Texas A

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Speaker 1: and M had an enrollment of just under seventy thousand

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Speaker 1: and two thousand eighteen. We're talking some motivated students and

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Speaker 1: it was a really cool thing to see and be

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Speaker 1: a part of. If you are currently in school, go volunteer.

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Speaker 1: Many conservation organizations like Ducks Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers,

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Speaker 1: the Wildlife Society, National Wild Turkey Federation, Pheasants Forever, and

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Speaker 1: Trout Unlimited have college chapters. Just like with the non

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Speaker 1: college versions, you can meet new people who have common

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Speaker 1: interests and hopefully different hunting and fishing spots, all while

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Speaker 1: doing some good for habitat, wildlife and access. But Midgi

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Speaker 1: Minnesota was impressive in the fact that the area has

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Speaker 1: a ton of hunting and fishing opportunity, very outdoorsy place,

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Speaker 1: which in my mind coincides with the roughly graduation rate

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Speaker 1: at Bemidjee State University, at least it would have for

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Speaker 1: me anyway. Aside from talking conservation with a bunch of interesting,

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Speaker 1: for some fishing, which is much different than hard water

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Speaker 1: to bypass the parking fees on campus. Communal roads are

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Speaker 1: Walleye is the king fish us around those pirates, But

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Speaker 1: The pout has a single chin whisker or barba, which

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Speaker 1: is where it gets the name Bourbon. Cold water is

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Speaker 1: for juvenile fish, temperatures above fifty four degrees are intolerable.

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Speaker 1: Bourbon liver is huge in comparison to the size of

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Speaker 1: the fish. Roughly ten percent of the fishes masses liver.

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Speaker 1: It is tasty and full of fat, so if you're

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Speaker 1: into catching these good looking fish, don't throw that delicious

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Speaker 1: bit away. The world record rod and real bourbott comes

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Speaker 1: out of a lake called different Boker, but some call

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Speaker 1: it Defend Baker in Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan bourbott came in

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Speaker 1: at twenty five pounds two ounces. The biggest I have

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Speaker 1: I've got a ways to go, but a seven pounder

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Speaker 1: is nothing to pout about. In other fishing news, we're

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Speaker 1: going to release the first ever Col's Weekend review video series.

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Speaker 1: We're calling Field Reports. It could be the last ever

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Speaker 1: if you don't watch it, So watch it. This series

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Speaker 1: is going to be live shortly on the meat Eater

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel. Be on the lookout and let me know

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Speaker 1: what you think. I like going to check out conservation

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Speaker 1: stories and access stories, and I love telling you all

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Speaker 1: meat Eater YouTube channel so this three episode series doesn't

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Speaker 1: pass you by. One of the episodes is in Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: where I joined up with the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency

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Speaker 1: home from that trip with a pile of silver and

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Speaker 1: big head carp filets. I was working on a wan

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Speaker 1: Town recipe using this extremely neutral fish flesh, and as

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Speaker 1: my description on the old cal four oh six Instagram account.

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Speaker 1: plankton eaters spelled z o o plankton, which they are,

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Speaker 1: are actually animals, mostly tiny crustaceans. By contrast, phyto plankton

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Speaker 1: Thank you to Katie for sending me straight. And you

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Speaker 1: should eat asian kurp as a tasty side note, do

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Speaker 1: lot of feedback on my carp cooking playlist instead of

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Speaker 1: answering a bunch of messages. You can find that playlist

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Speaker 1: on Spotify. It is called Storytellers, and as far as

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Speaker 1: I know, my account name is Ryan Michael Callaghan and

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Speaker 1: telling you that I have just erased all hopes of anonymity,

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Speaker 1: so appreciate it. And last on the Public Service Announcement

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Speaker 1: Update list, John writes in with a really cool veterans

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Speaker 1: and veterans dependence program and well timed as sign up

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Speaker 1: closes March fifteen. It is called Heroes and Hives, which

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Speaker 1: teaches bee keeping you can help out the great Big

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Speaker 1: food Web by proliferating pollinators. Heroes and Hives is conducted

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Speaker 1: by Michigan State University. Being as I was brought up

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Speaker 1: this program at Notre Dame, the second best thing would

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Speaker 1: Onto the news the new Hampshire state record lake trout

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Speaker 1: the last state record was caught. Lake trout aren't actually trout.

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Speaker 1: They are a char, just like the other char we

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Speaker 1: He would say things like flapping my trap jack and

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Speaker 1: the state of Missouri stuck with me. Currently, Missouri Department

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Speaker 1: But we are in it for the access, not the accolades.

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Speaker 1: This next one is a special edition by that fantastic

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Speaker 1: Lord works in mysterious ways, but one mystery caught my

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