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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. Several

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Speaker 1: states are warning hunters about the presence of pea fast. No,

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Speaker 1: that's not, you know, some sort of urinary tract infection.

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Speaker 1: P FAST is also known as forever chemicals in deer

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Speaker 1: and other wild game. This is in case you didn't

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Speaker 1: have enough to worry about between c w D, episodetic

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Speaker 1: hemorrhagic disease, toxoplasmosis, and COVID. I don't make the news,

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Speaker 1: I just read it anyway. You may remember back in

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Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen when Michigan issued a do not eat

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Speaker 1: advisory for deer harvested near Oscoda Township along Lake Huron.

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Speaker 1: Since and Michigan officials have advised against eating deer liver

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Speaker 1: from anywhere in the state due to the presence of

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Speaker 1: these toxic chemicals. Main issued a similar advisory last year

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Speaker 1: for deer harvested in the Fairfield area, and in two

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Speaker 1: thousand twenty, Wisconsin advised against eating deer liver from animals

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Speaker 1: harvested around Marinette. A number of other states, mostly in

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Speaker 1: the northeast and Midwest, have issued similar warnings. P FAST

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Speaker 1: stands for per and polyfluoro alkali substances. These chemicals have

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Speaker 1: been around since the nineteen forties and are found in

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Speaker 1: everything from fast food wrappers to water resistant clothing, to

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Speaker 1: paint to fire suppressants. They're known as forever chemicals because

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Speaker 1: they're extremely difficult to break down. You can't burn them,

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Speaker 1: you can't dissolve them in water or destroy them with bacteria.

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Speaker 1: Once they're on the landscape, they're pretty much here to stay.

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Speaker 1: That's a problem because high concentrations of these chemicals can

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Speaker 1: increase your risk for kidney or testicular cancer, raise class

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Speaker 1: to all levels, and damage your liver and immune system.

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Speaker 1: Not that I know from personal experience, but none of

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Speaker 1: these things sound like a whole lot of fun. The

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Speaker 1: good news is that not all venison contains these chemicals,

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Speaker 1: and the chemicals tend to concentrate in the liver why well.

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Speaker 1: As you might expect, deer harvested near urban environments, military

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Speaker 1: bases and air strips tend to have higher levels of chemicals.

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Speaker 1: A survey of twenty seven deer in Pennsylvania found that

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Speaker 1: while one of the deer had forever chemicals and its liver,

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Speaker 1: none of the animals had high concentrations in their muscle tissue.

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Speaker 1: Since the purpose of the liver is to filter out

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Speaker 1: toxins from the blood, you can simply avoid eating the

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Speaker 1: liver if you're worried about ingesting forever chemicals. It also

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Speaker 1: may be easier than previously thought to get rid of

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Speaker 1: these substances. A team of chemists working at Northwestern University

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Speaker 1: published a study this year describing a technique for breaking

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Speaker 1: down forever chemicals using low temperatures and inexpensive common reagents.

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Speaker 1: If their technique proves effective on all classes of p fast,

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Speaker 1: we could have an easy way to dispose of these

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Speaker 1: toxins before they infect our environment, which is great for

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Speaker 1: the areas we haven't messed up yet. This week, we've

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Speaker 1: got Snort and Antelope Adventure, shooting ranges, and the crime desk.

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

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Speaker 1: my week Gay, you know, it's starting to get hard

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Speaker 1: to keep track of I am currently back in the

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Speaker 1: South Dakota State, this time running around with Sean Weaver

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Speaker 1: we're filming a new episode for the water Fowler and

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Speaker 1: all of us duck lore. As I write this, we've

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Speaker 1: located a bunch of birds and have been told no

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Speaker 1: we are finding ducks and geese and pheasants and numbers

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Speaker 1: that suggest we will connect with them soon. Fat mallards, pintails, teal, gadwall, widgeon,

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Speaker 1: Canada's The Gang is all here, which leads me to

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Speaker 1: the Snort report. Old Snort AICUs hunted so hard in

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Speaker 1: South Dakota for opening week of pheasants that she really

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Speaker 1: home to Montana to hunt my antelope tag where I

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Speaker 1: To kick things off, we set up camp, cleaned, organized

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Speaker 1: Instead of my typical habit of leaving everything a giant

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Speaker 1: history as one of the better hunting decisions I've made.

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Speaker 1: Why because it was relaxing and the next morning, high

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Speaker 1: Only to determine that despite this being an incredible spot

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Speaker 1: number two. Now, even a mile in antelope country is

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Speaker 1: foot is in my opinion, way more fun and certainly

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Speaker 1: known as the Alberta Mobile blind and unfortunately for me,

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Speaker 1: my clock was ticking. Only had a couple of days

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Speaker 1: Montana began. That's not when the antelope tag ends, but

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Speaker 1: less fun. On top of that, the forecast was calling

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Speaker 1: especially for the big prairie. They're heavy, they're extremely stable,

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Speaker 1: this is just kind of an interesting observation. When I

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Speaker 1: But this is something that happens very often in prairie country.

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Speaker 1: You can crawl hidden on ridges without providing the frightening

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Speaker 1: As I touched off the shot, old Snorticus decided that

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Speaker 1: the truck drove up to him, parted him up, and

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Speaker 1: never aware of the coyote. Now for good choice number two.

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Speaker 1: which is a super cool camper designed for off road living.

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Speaker 1: it also weighs about four thousand pounds dry, and mine is,

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Speaker 1: the forecast was laying heavily on my mind, as well

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Speaker 1: as the fact that a mud covered trailer would be way,

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Speaker 1: we got up real early, did some scouting for deer

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Speaker 1: bucks painfully in my mind and headed for Moms. Sad

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Speaker 1: wait for the dry wind to blow. A law enforcement

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Speaker 1: to say I told you so, but I do hope

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Speaker 1: driving on wet roads. If you wondered why that rule

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Speaker 1: Moving on to the legislative desk. A congressman from Utah

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Speaker 1: have to accommodate rifles, pistols, and shotguns. Congressman Blake Moore

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Speaker 1: introduced the bill to give hunters a safe place to

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Speaker 1: says it will enhance Pittman Robertson funding, presumably by encouraging

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Speaker 1: It's been endorsed by several big outdoor and conservation organizations,

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Speaker 1: including the Congressional Sportsman's Foundation, Duck's Unlimited, and the Mule

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Speaker 1: Deer Foundation. This might surprise you if you live in

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Speaker 1: accidents have happened. I know I'm speaking to the choir here,

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Speaker 1: nor is it appropriate, especially with a high powered hunting cartridge.

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Speaker 1: I've seen bullets zip through trees the size of my

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Speaker 1: Torso get yourself a nice big hillside it up your target,

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Speaker 1: you wanted to sight in your dear rifle. If you'd

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Speaker 1: like to weigh in on Congressman Moore's bill, it's called

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Speaker 1: the Range Access Act, and it's currently before the House

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Speaker 1: Natural Resources Committee, you'll want to get in touch with

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Speaker 1: your US representative. In California, another gun related bill is

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Speaker 1: having some consequences its authors may or may not have intended.

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Speaker 1: In June of this year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a

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Speaker 1: president of so Cal Top Guns, runs a program aimed

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Speaker 1: it virtually impossible for youth shooting sports groups to advertise

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Speaker 1: their events and programs. In response, a group of outdoor organizations,

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Speaker 1: including Safari Club International and the Congressional Sportsman's Foundation have

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Speaker 1: judge said just last week that she's expecting to uphold

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Speaker 1: Moving on to the crime desk, a group of six

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Speaker 1: Raby had pled guilty to three counts of failing to

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Speaker 1: resulted in fifty wildlife charges filed against five men. The

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Speaker 1: Whipperman couldn't say exactly why this family, whose last name

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Speaker 1: He described these folks as quote successful, so they weren't

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Speaker 1: you this week. Thank you so much for listening. Remember

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