WEBVTT - Ep. 40: Gerry Wants a State-Record Blue Trout 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.160 So to stimulate those neurons, I commonly whip out my 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.799 zippo and my soft pack of camels and light up 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.080 a ciggy while battling five foot waves in whirlpools and 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.480 no winning, because we're a bunch of inbred genetic deficiency 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:24.360 to enjoy fishing for other inbred genetic deficients. If it's 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.480 some kind of like you know, tweedledum olive, I don't 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.840 need to know it's the name. It's there's a little 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:30.640 green flight. That's what they're eating, right, So we're good. 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.239 If you don't like my ads, I don't care. You 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.760 can buy a canoe somewhere else. I'm not the only 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:41.320 guy in America selling canoes. Good morning, degenerate Anglers, and 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.240 welcome to Bent the Fishing Podcast. It's feeling confused because 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.720 it's no longer sure if saying it stroke it on 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.360 the water yesterday is a good or bad thing. I'm 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.760 Joe Surmelie, I'm Miles Nulty, and I feel like we're 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.200 I feel like we're about to dig into a core 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.840 issue that's facing the fishing community. Yeah, this is d 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.040 I think we're doing doing good things, doing good service 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.280 for context. This all stems from a conversation Joe and 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.440 I had recently when I went out and visited him 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:13.080 on that that right coast out there, and some confusion 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:18.760 ensued over the use of the verb to stroke in 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.480 relation to fishing success. The words seems to have opposite 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:26.119 meetings on our respective sides of the continent, right, that's right. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.440 Indeed it does, because in the conversation you you told 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.280 me that out west, stroking it on the water meant 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.840 you absolutely crushed it. You just hammered the fish. And 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:38.920 when you said that, it forced me I actually had 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.640 to check myself. I questioned my own longstanding use of 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:48.160 the term, because I have always used it negatively, like 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.440 stroked it to me means you had a really shitty day, 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.520 like you caught absolutely nothing. The joke, the joke, of course, 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.320 being that instead of catching fish, you are just out 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.000 there like wax in the carrot, you know, flog flog 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.840 in the bishop, instead of getting getting real ship done 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.840 on the water. That's aition I knew, and I think 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.200 I think in in further talking this out, I think 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.600 I've seen the semantic difference in terms of where it 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.640 breaks down. But we'll get there before we do though, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.280 I'm pretty sure you you like you went on a 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.160 deep dive? You did? You did? You did science on this? 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.720 What what did you do? I did? I actually I 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.880 conducted a little text survey among my buddies and the 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.240 results we're kind of interesting. This for like a science fair. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:35.200 I would win for this, um stroke hypothesis. Yeah, anyway, 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.280 all I did, I just simply blast texted the question. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.360 When you hear an angler say we stroked it yesterday, 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.480 what do they mean? So of the fifteen people pulled, 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.200 which is not a lot of people, right, we're not 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.440 small samples small sample size exactly, but you know time 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.040 is of the essence. Okay, Um, I think they were 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.720 more of it, Peter, Yeah, they just didn't answer me. Right, 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.280 This is not going in a science journal anyway. Um. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.440 Of the fifth teen people pulled, eight of them said 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.600 that it means you blanked, you skunked, scratched, zeroed. That 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:11.320 is the definition. I know. Interestingly though, right, Um, these 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:16.080 were all people that fish the Northeast saltwater scene specifically, 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.480 so they were all Northeast salty guys. That fascinating point 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.960 makes sense, it is, It is fascinating, and I I 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.000 am actually truthfully kind of on the edge of my 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.120 seat to hear the rest of the But before we 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.120 do that, I gotta I gotta jump in and uh 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.920 may I suggest that the rod and reel from our 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:40.080 good friends at thirteen Fishing might help you East Coasters 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.080 stroke it less and us West guys stroke them a 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.560 lot harder and more often. Yes, you can. You can 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.040 suggest that all you want, as you guys now know, 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.240 bent is brought to you by the cool people at 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.960 thirteen Fishing. In Yes, we have both been fishing a 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.560 ton of their stuff this season. Um, and it's extremely 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.240 kick ass, very well made. And I gotta say, whether 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.960 you I don't stroke it good or stroke it bad, 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:10.119 you will. You will look good stroking it because thirteen 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.880 is not afraid to make reels and rods with some 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.720 flair and pizzazz like I've been. I've been snakehead fishing 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.960 with their bright green inception sz um beginning of this season, 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.440 in the end of last um and that bait cast. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.160 If nothing else, I'm never going to lose it, like 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.960 You'll never set it down in big brush and have 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.200 to hunt for it. It's right, it might even glow 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.880 in the dark, So good stuff. It's true. Yeah, I'm 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.440 just how many times did you just say stroke it 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:43.159 in one paragraph? You know, by the end if someone 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.400 were to count the strokes in this episode by the end, 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.440 you know, and then time it with a Pink Floyd record. No, 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.520 so trippy, bro. But anyway, anyway, anyway, I want to 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.120 hear about the remaining seven inches in your poll. Tell 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.680 me about the polls. Okay, so sick. Out of those 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.880 remaining seven people had never even heard the term used 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.560 by anglers. This was completely far into them. Two of them, interestingly, 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.839 were local to me, and the others were from the 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.039 Midwest or the South, which includes Florida. But here's the 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.200 fun part. Here's here. This is science, right, guy, I 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:22.520 think sociology. There you go, So you got you're smarter. Um. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:27.480 Despite never hearing anyone utter the phrase stroked it as 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.200 it relates to fishing, they all guessed that it would 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.360 have a negative connotation. All right, I think I think 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.440 your your samples are are skewed considering that it's just 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.799 your friends. But what's give me the last one? There's 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.920 one more. And the remaining person was guide Marty Ye, 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.520 who guides on the Upper Della, where he's a good 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.520 friend of mine. He's been on this show. Uh. He 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.280 was the only one in the very small sample of 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.120 folks that said, stroke it means you nailed it, you 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.400 crushed right. But Marty, But Marty, this is here we 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.760 go again. Marty also spent lots of time in the 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.000 rockies in Alaska, which means you know, he's hung out 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.640 with you. Positive stroke with us with people. Yeah, And 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.120 the last thing I'll add, because I enjoyed it. My 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.800 buddy Jimmy Banano made it a point to clarify that 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:19.680 stroke it means you blank, but stroked them means you 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.320 hammered them. Though I've never even heard I've never heard 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.000 Jimmy use either of those terms. I've never heard anyone 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.960 in my circles say we stroked them. It's always we 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.160 stroked it, and it always means today sucked now. And 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.440 that's like, that is the critical point of difference. That 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:40.080 the them is the thing that defines the difference in 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.560 these two phrases from different parts of country. See, I've 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.599 never heard anyone in my circle say they stroked it. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.480 But when someone says, oh, we stroked him, it means 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.440 they absolutely wailed on the fact like that is that 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.520 is the the highest. If you're gonna describe your day 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.920 in terms that you know, it's it's next levels. Dude, 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.279 we stroked him. That that was you got it done. 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.760 So like when I heard you, like when we were 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.240 it happened because we were driving around and you were 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.280 calling friends for a fishing report, and I was sitting 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:11.520 next to you and you're on your cell phone and 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.440 I heard you talking about stroking it and the phrase 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.400 felt a little awkward, but I thought, you know, I 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.440 assumed it was the same thing as stroking them, when 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.680 in actuality, it was a complete opposite. I'm glad you 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.960 brought up the context so that people just don't think 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.720 we were just talking about stroking it in general for 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.640 hours while you were here. Make you bloody, Mary, We'll 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.280 go sit on on the veranda and talk about stroking it. Yeah, 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:35.840 it was, it was a little it was. It was 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.160 a little confusing. But I feel like through this this uh, 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.200 this sociological deep dive and and regional questioning, I think 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.360 we really solved the problem to day. Joe. I you 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.760 know me too. I feel we've done work today, We've contributed, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:53.520 We've made you all better, smarter, people. I'm very proud 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.480 of us, But let's move on from stroking our own 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.040 egos to stroking our fan base because we've got a 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:03.000 regional fishing report that we're excited about. This one, we 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.000 haven't done one well. Difference as as the majority of 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.800 listeners have caught onto at least, I think our regional 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.800 reports give us license to to just do some satire 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.160 and some fiction, to have a little fun. However, this 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:20.600 week's report is a legit. Its report is a loose 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:24.200 term here. It's more of a commentary. But uh, you 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.760 guys might recall a news piece that Joe covered not 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.000 long ago on on the West Virginia gold Rush. Yeah. Yeah, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.560 we talked about how West Virginia stocks just these insane 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.160 numbers of genetically modified golden trout pretty much more than 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.840 any other state, and listener Zack Smith felt it was 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.560 his duty as a West Virginia native to clarify why 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:50.360 West Virginia is so nuts so for bright orange freak 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:55.000 rainbow trout. And Zach actually got his first shout out 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.080 on this show a long time ago. Some of you 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.880 may remember he sent us an article that he wrote 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:04.400 about chummy for trout um. But after this after the 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.640 after the audio's act. Don't be shocked if we make 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:15.280 him our our full time appellation correspondent. Hey, Fellers, this 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.680 is just y'all's favorite trout trummer, Zach from West by God, Virginia. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.880 So you are recently touched upon a topic that's hotter 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.440 here than the Taco bell fire sauce. They using my 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.000 microwab golden trout, and that's the West Virginia gold rush, 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.480 all right. Now, First, and they explained why we've always 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.199 stalked a higher proportion of goldie's in the other states. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.240 And no, it ain't because we're a bunch of inbred 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:43.560 genetic deficiencies who enjoy fishing for other inbred genetic deficiencies. 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.320 I mean, that would just be a quaintie dick. It's 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.880 actually because of our affinity to the color gold, not 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.319 the mineral. We ain't got golden into our hills, were 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.040 sure as hell got cold. I mean, the two may rhyme, 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.679 but that's about the limit to their relationship. So the 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.920 best way to explain our affinity to the color, let's 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:09.000 use a religious analogy to flesh this out. So in 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:15.280 West Virginia, God is w vs football coach and Jesus 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:21.000 is our w V basketball coach. So God, Jesus and 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.680 all the other disciples will they wear blue and gold 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.439 uniforms now they out come with the game on Saturday 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.600 will impact what you're saying in your head on your 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:37.280 knees in church on Sunday. Thus, the color gold holds 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.439 a special place in our hearts. And let me tell 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:45.000 you this, once our d n R figures out a 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.360 way to pread blue trial, West Virginia will truly have 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:54.360 exceeded our slogan of almost head, because at that time 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.880 I'm gonna petition to have our slogan changed too. You 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.559 know that song by Apple of the Dog say Hello 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:07.160 to Heaven. That's right now. The funny thing about that 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.440 is that there are actually blue trout like I remember 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.240 I wrote about them years ago, and I'm pretty sure 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:18.520 it's a genetic mutation that naturally occurs in hatchery trout, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.680 which seems like an oxy moron. I'd i'd have to 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.880 go re research, but I think, um, it's like the 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.360 hatcheries can create all the golden trout, they want all 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.680 the orange ones, but they can't create the blue trout 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.720 on demand. That just kind of happens naturally, but only 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.760 the truck trout, and and I've seen it written about 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.560 most occurring in Pennsylvania hatcheries. So Zach will have to 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.920 get a merry, merry band of coal miners together and 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.320 hop the border and go on a rogue stocking mission. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.080 I guess that would that would really close the loop. 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.400 And you're you're, you're right on the blue trout thing. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.160 It's a it's a random mutation that occurs in about 0:11:54.640 --> 0:12:01.680 point zero zero zero zero seven hatchery rainbow, so very rare. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:06.000 And and as you're saying, at least in Pennsylvania, they 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.160 try to remove all the blue mutants from the stock 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.320 before they plant the fish, like they don't want those 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.280 getting into the trucks and out into the streams. And 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:14.840 I don't know the reason behind that, but I know 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.400 they don't. They don't want them getting out in the wild. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.600 But your chances of catching one are very rare. So 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.120 that piece was a great fallow up too to the 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.880 news story. Ran how about we uh, how about we 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.480 stick with theme here, Let's do a follow up to 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.480 a sale bin we did not too long ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:34.319 we're just we're just taking deep dives on previous segments here, 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.400 but this one is a gem. This is so freaking good, 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.400 this is amazing. I hope that all of you remember 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.840 the ad we covered from craig List, written by Jerry 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.480 Jared with the g Who's selling? Who's selling? Used canoe? 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.720 And uh, we've learned there's more to the Jerry saga. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.559 There's a lot here we kind of dug in thanks 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.679 to some help. And if you need either a used 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.960 canoe or a cup of tea, you gotta go can 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.600 But Jerry, why did you put the hand to pay 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.840 You don't know what I'm getting. Man, you didn't have 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.800 to be so hurtful with me, so angry. So a 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.439 few weeks back, we did a sale bin about Jerry 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.120 and he was the guy selling a canoe with no 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:19.080 photo but a very compelling, if poorly copy edited Craigslist ad, 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.920 and uh, Jerry gave us the idea for our Billy 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:27.000 Wants a Shotgun stickers, which are coming soon. I can 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.400 I can promise you that many of you expressed interest 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:35.120 in this sticker, as we knew you would, Billy Wants Shotgun. Uh. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:42.760 After airing that segment, we got this email that, uh, well, 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.599 I'll just dig into it here. It came from a 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.520 guy named Bryan Adams, whose name we're trying really hard 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.760 not to make fun of right now. But you must 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:58.080 really love his music. Huh yeah, he's He's he's pretty, 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.839 He's pretty good. I guess your gut am right, he is. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:09.840 I'm sorry, Brian can not help myself anyway. Bryan Adams 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.280 rode into inform us that Jerry's post was not a 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.960 random one off drunken lark like we thought it was. No, no, no, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:21.320 It turns out Jerry runs a regular satirical canoe sale 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.920 operation out of his house and uh and best of all, 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:31.200 Brian has actually met Jerry. And here here's what what 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.520 Brian wrote us. He said, you missed the mark on 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:39.000 Jerry slightly. He has been running ads for use canoes 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.120 for well over a year, started pre COVID. He actually 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.920 buys and sells quite a few of them, gets beat 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.040 up ones for cheap hammers the dents out, and makes 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.880 a few bucks. I know because I traded one with 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.600 him last spring and made the swap at a Trent 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.560 And gas station. So he actually does sell canoes and 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.960 a lot of them, but is just looking for conversation 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.320 you nailed that part. Yeah. Well, so Unfortunately Brian didn't 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:11.200 elaborate on his exchange with Jerry. I know station, and 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.400 I gotta say, right, this is like I grew up 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.760 in Trenton, My childhood home was in Trenton. This is 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.160 my turf, and I gotta say, um that that's probably 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.920 like the most benign handoff that's ever happened at a 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.600 Trenton gas station because I've spent some time, you know, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.520 at Trenton liquor stores before I was of age, and like, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.720 you know, so it is what it is, um, But 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.400 I I can't imagine wanting to spend more than two 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.360 minutes at a Trenton gas station. And I can't help 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.120 but wonder how long Brian Adams got stuck there, Like 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.840 what did they talk about? That's sadly we don't know. Uh. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.120 Brian didn't include those details, but he did send us 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.840 links to a few more posts that Jerry has put 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.040 up over the years. Yes, yes he did, and we 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.360 thank him very much that we edited some of those 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:01.320 together so that you can better understand and and further 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:07.920 appreciate the unstable genius of Jerry the Craigslist canoe guy, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.480 and before you read these, I got worried because I 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.800 was like, man, Billy wants a shotgun was real good? 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.080 What if the stickers are being made and there's a 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.720 better Jerry one liner in here? But I'm still pretty 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.200 sold on Billy wants to show. I don't think I 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.040 don't think there's a better one liner. But I'm glad 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.320 we have more to to build on the lower of Jerry. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.200 All right, So so here we go, without further ado, 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.520 some some of Jerry's greatest hits. Last year, I had 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.440 a bunch of canoes laying around. Yes, I do have 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:38.040 a mental problem involving canoes. So I ran these strange 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.160 ads and tried to make them funny and invited everyone 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.320 to have a cup of tea in my backyard. Well, 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.360 I ended up selling a lot of canoes, and I 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:49.640 met so many fine people. I sell Coleman's, Grumman's Old Towns, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.800 and all manner of fiberglass canoes. I try to keep 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.480 them around three hundred bucks. If you see an aluminum 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.400 canoe on Craigslist for six d I will have the 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.400 same canoe for three. If you don't like my ads, 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.080 I don't care. You can buy a canoe somewhere else. 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:09.440 I'm not the only guy in America selling canoes, so 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.800 we'll go on here. I had a guy bitch and 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.080 moan at me for pretending to be clever, and I 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.840 was told I should just post a picture. I don't 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.600 know how to post a picture. I will be sixty shortly. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.119 The guy who wrote me and bitched me out is 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.720 obviously a douse, light, a shush, laugh, a buzz kill, 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:31.120 and to kill joy, probably sexually frustrated in Wonder's whoy. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.840 Nobody likes him. I know why I have to fifteen 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.760 foot smoker canoes. I like that name. I imagine myself 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.480 headed down a Class five set of rapids in Colorado 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.960 or possibly Tanzania. To the right, a waterfall in certain Death. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.280 To the left, just a Titanic set of rapids, or 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.320 was it the other way around. Remember I'm almost sixty 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:56.040 and forget a lot of stuff. So to stimulate those neurons, 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.639 I calmly whip out my zippo and my soft pack 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.080 of camels and light up a cigy while battling five 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.560 foot waves in whirlpools. Life jacket, you asked, those are 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.560 for young children, and we will we will just say whimps, 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.200 and I'm a smoker in a smoker get it, ha, 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.119 These smokers are fine canoes. One is painted green and 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.119 the other just aluminum. Come buy one and hit the 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:24.040 rapids while having a hot tea. I am Jerry. Come 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:28.320 out chat while you buy a canoe and go enjoy America. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.159 Oh god, they're so good. We're gonna We're gonna do 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.560 a couple others really quick. I can't help myself. The 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.320 context The title for this next one was glad, I'm 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:46.239 not a soda can canoe. Okay, so here's how this 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:50.439 one's gonna go. Originally this ad was glad, I'm not 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.800 a beer can canoe. Some self righteous bastard must not 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.280 have liked the word beer and flagged my ad. What 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.159 insert your personal expletive. No one forces you to like 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.359 the ad, so just move on and do whatever the 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.160 hell it is you do with your life. Loser, Now 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.360 to the ad. Imagine you were a piece of aluminum 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.840 or even some box side, or would you rather be 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:15.240 a soda can or a canoe? Soda cans crushed up 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.359 and thrown in landfills, or recycled into more soda cans, 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.880 or made into seven thirty seven maxes. Canoes can live forever, 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:30.760 pleasing their owners and becoming much loved family members for generations. Okay, 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.520 last one, I'm gonna do one more. That's the one. 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.280 What an outstanding weekend. Several people came out, bought canoes, 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.159 and went out and had fun. They took control of 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.840 their lives and told their partners to either hop in 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:46.959 a canoe and have fun, or go hide in a 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:51.040 corner and make sad weeping noises back to the canoe. 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.679 It is an older old town. That should indicate to 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.120 you that this canoe is made of tough, hard light fiberglass. 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:02.440 It is red in all caps. It's about thirteen feet 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:06.159 and four inches. Many people I have found like the 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:10.600 short canoes, easily handled, stored, and thrown about. The guys 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.040 look for the thirteen foot canoes and think they are 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.800 like twenty ft long. Something about the male perception of length. Ah, 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.359 if you take it over Niagara Falls, you probably will die. 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:25.720 I assume no liability for such behavior. So swing on 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:29.360 by by it, have a blast in nature, feel the joy, 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.760 and send me a picture of your first outing. I 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:37.840 will give you a cup of tea to go. H oh, jerry. 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.919 If you're out there and you're listening. You put the 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:44.840 craft in online, use watercraft sales. I will drink a 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:48.080 hot toddy to you, sir. Yeah. I second that. Maybe this, 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.000 maybe this eventually leads to Jerry on the show. I 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.920 don't I don't know, but a big, a big thank 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.159 you to Brian Adams for alerting us to the depth 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:03.640 of Jerry's catalog. This is for you, Brian. It's true 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:20.000 everything do it fun the best thing to come from 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.600 that for me. Where the terms douse light and shush laugh? 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:27.600 I love it. I'm gonna start using them, yeah, you know. 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.800 I mean, hey man, you're such a shush laugh douse light? 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.480 Over here? Where? Who says that? Where is it? What 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:36.920 is that? I think I think you're kind of undermine 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.920 the purpose of those, like when you drop in front 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:41.720 of them, they're like, dounse light is one of those 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:45.680 insults that sounds dirty but isn't, Like that's the whole 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.040 point of it, Like, oh, that dude's a douse light. 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.320 It sounds like you're saying something you shouldn't, but you're 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.880 not that. I like those. I'm a fan of that, 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:56.560 and uh, I think I would like to work those 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:00.240 into my vernacular as well. Uh, and hopefully you won't 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.960 be calling me either a doubts letter shows laugh after 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:08.080 I completely destroy you in the weekly competition that we 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:16.399 call fish News. Fish news that escalated quickly. All right, 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:17.800 before we hit news, just a couple of things we 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:21.960 got to cover first. I have some very sad news 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:26.280 to report. You might remember that in the the inaugural 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:30.600 installment of our That's My Bar segment, I shouted out 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:34.879 the sipp and dip in Great Falls, Montana and the 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:39.879 iconic and venerable piano Pat who brought so much joy 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:44.000 to drinkers and parties for over fifty years. I'm sad 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:47.399 to say Pat died earlier this week, and in a 0:22:47.560 --> 0:22:51.119 rare if there's if there's an upside to this, which 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:54.080 I mean she She died peacefully, all reports indicate with 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:57.560 her family, so that's great. But if there's an upside 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:01.879 in a rare showing of bipartisan agreement, every single major 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:05.320 politician in the state of Montana, both Republican and Democrat, 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:11.400 paid tribute to her, every single one. Uh. And I'd say, 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:16.160 like achieving that nearly impossible feet just shows how universally 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.800 beloved she was here in Montana. Uh, and how much 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:24.560 we all love drinking in bars, so please just how 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:26.680 about how about everybody right now take a minute and 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:29.440 uh and join us in raising a drink to Pat. 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:34.639 I when I heard about this, I was personally sad 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.639