WEBVTT - Ep. 88: Tight Lines, Degenerate Anglers 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.680 Some asshole is going to spill the beans. And that 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:14.960 asshole is me because I have purchased these. Oh you didn't. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.520 I'm sure you've seen some ridiculous ship happened on the 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.520 water in fifteen years ago. You couldn't have said it 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:25.320 much better. Buy back when Myles was on the podcast 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.120 and a lot more, a lot more think pieces were 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:34.800 being read it. I mean that that stuff took a 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.760 good morning to general. Anglers said, welcome to Bent one 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.479 final time, the fishing podcast that we've had going on 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.560 here for a year and a half. And I said 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.080 last week, don't be sad, don't be sad. This is 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.479 a New Orleans funeral. This is a this is a 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:54.160 celebration not of life, not death. And joining me for 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.800 that celebration. Oh my god, it's Hayden Samack and Phil 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.440 freaking Taylor is here. Phil him Man, you guys had 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.120 me back. I'm here. Yeah. We gotta we gotta have 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.600 Phil on on the on the on the final episode here. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.680 How could we not Joe? How could we not you 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:16.080 sound kissed. I didn't want him here, man, this was 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.200 supposed to be Joe. In my moment, Miles would have 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.160 been here too. We just can't afford to call New Zealand. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:24.280 So there's that. I've never figured out time zones. I'm 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.759 thirty one years old. I'll get to it eventually. Here's 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.399 the thing, Heyden, if this is a joyous funeral and 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.720 we're going to recreate that meme of the dudes dancing 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.800 with the coffin, we need we need at least three 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.760 people to hold a coffin. That's true, true, Depending on 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:45.319 who's coffin, maybe more. But anyway, Yeah, so yeah, I mean, 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.400 so let's let's let's talk what have what have we 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.760 done here? I gotta say, um, like, one of the 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.080 things that I've enjoyed about Bent so much has just 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.680 been how it has not been your standard fishing podcast 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.440 from from the beginning, you know, and uh, you know, 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.120 going back, Phil, Phil, we we had a it took us. 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.000 It took us a while to get going there, didn't it. 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.040 I always felt for you as the as the editor, 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.160 with us just dumping all these segments. How was that 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.800 was that for you? It was? Honestly, it became a 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.880 pretty well old machine quickly, quick quickly, Like I was 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.760 not upset with how fast it became very manageable. And 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.519 I don't know how much behind the scenes uh details 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.120 people want, but I mean they can probably put it together. 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.560 Bent is a it's an endeavor. Every week, Yeah, you know, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:33.600 Joe and Haydon and previously Miles. You know, there's six 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.200 or seven segments. Some of them are interviews. Some of 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.120 them have to be written in, especially in the case 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.880 back back when Myles was on the podcast and a 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.880 lot more, a lot more think pieces were being read. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:49.680 I mean that that stuff took all This is why 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.840 I asked Phil to come, because we're gonna have a 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.520 good time. And so so every week, you know, Joe, 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.480 Miles and Hayden would be uploading files on on a 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.120 on a drive for me to find and then I 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.320 don't have to piece them all together. And it's I'd 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.040 say the first two or three weeks were a process, 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.680 but man, this was I I this is my favorite 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.600 show to work on and and you guys have made 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.360 it easy on the back end. This was my favorite 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:18.360 show to host. Man challenges decide though, I will say, like, um, 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.639 you know, I remember early on people sort of either 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.760 loved or hated Ben and then a lot came back 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.280 around in the format, but from a creativity perspective. It 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.920 has kept it interesting despite being hard work like it is, 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.400 it has been so much fun coming up with all 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.320 these segments. And I think back like segments aside, there's 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.560 just been like some wacky ship that has happened throughout 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.440 this entire year and a half, Like there's things like 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.760 you can't buy. As an example, episode fifteen, when a 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.520 car drove right through Miles house while we were recording, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:52.280 this is what that sounded like, Hey dude, I'm sorry, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.760 we gotta pause. Something crazy just happened in my house 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.280 and I gotta go check it out. Something okay, I'm sorry. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.160 And then what I did after that, when I promoted 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.200 it on Instagram was I superimposed a Salt Life sticker 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.880 onto the back windshield of the car that drove through 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.480 his house. And I guess I did too good of 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.240 a job because people were like, holy sh it, it 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:17.240 would have a Salt Life sticker on it. So I 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.360 made Salt Life inadvertently look worse. But anyway, I mean, 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.320 this whole thing has been about segments. We certainly have 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.320 cornerstone ones that if you haven't figured it out already, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.120 I mean, this is our sort of this is our 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.839 greatest hits. This is just kind of the some some 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.680 core guys here talking about what bent was. And there 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.799 are certainly cornerstone segments UM, and for me, the biggest 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.320 one was always smooth Moves. And I think that comes 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.960 from it. Not no, not fish news, not fish news. 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.679 I don't know. Well, there's one part of fish news 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.680 that was my favorite, which we'll get too later, but 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.440 it wasn't the actual compiling of the news. Fish news 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.880 always seemed to me, man like if we're having like 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:01.800 a totally honest discussion about this, UM, fishers always seem 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.200 to me is like more of like a dutiful thing 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.520 like it Like it was, it was something that you 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.640 want to inform people that, I mean, you know, it 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.640 was a way to bring UM long form substance to 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:20.159 an otherwise totally substanceless park. No, but it was never 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.119 like the thing that I look forward to the most. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.440 The thing that I look forward to the most was 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:28.560 always like talking with folks and yeah, hearing about these 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:34.840 little like quirky nuances of people who took fishing as 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.400 like a major part of their life, like their identity. Yeah, 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.120 I thought smooth Moves just such a fun insight into 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.200 the lives of guides and charter captains, etcetera. I always 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:46.919 got off on it because I know so many of 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.200 these people personally, and when you're sitting around drinking beers 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:50.680 at the end of the day with these people, like 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.560 all they do is bitch about clients, you know what 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.320 I mean? Like, and it's like one of my favorite 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.279 parts of talking to a guide is hearing this stuff. Um. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.480 So that's why that one worked so well. Now, I'm 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.960 just like you guys know, there is one that stands 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.280 out above all. And in a year and a half, 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.039 all those smooth moves, some of them were terrific, but 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.120 there's one that stands out above all. And you guys 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.080 know which one. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna talk 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:14.880 about it. But here we get there. I want to 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.640 talk about some like other noteworthy I was gonna say, 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.640 but by all means, who are your runners up? Feel 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.640 if you have any, feel free to wear in. Um. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:28.000 The two that I loved. One was very recent. UM. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.760 One was a little bit further back. I loved the 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:37.240 the tech tycoon who shall not be named, that's that's 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.000 the one that I was going up forgot about that 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.960 wanting an approximation of what percentage of his body was 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:50.440 about to be covered in water. Um. I also really 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.279 liked one of our By the way, everybody guess Zuckerberg 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.880 or Elon Musk, and one of those is right, I 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.920 still don't give the full reveal. Well. Uh, the other 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.760 one that I really loved was I think our our 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:07.719 last smooth Moves, which was your buddy Bart talking about 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.240 his Uh it's a pretty good closer for for smooth moves. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.320 I was, Yeah, I felt bad because what we were 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:19.440 laughing at was actually horrible. Um in like the murder 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:25.200 of a raccoon family. Yeah, well, uh, you know it 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.160 hand all the elements scaring the old people, bad sandwiches, 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.560 you know, blood and guts. But there's one and and 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.320 and our longtime listeners are gonna know exactly where we're going. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.280 And we are going all the way back to episode six. 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.760 Now this is episode so think about that. Like the standout, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.520 like the one that shines above all the others, is 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.000 all the way back to episode six with fishing guide 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:59.360 Mandy Urick. Why this is where we reach out to 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.560 a guide, or a charter captain or an outfitter, basically 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.480 anybody who pays their bills or part of their bills 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.600 by taking other people fishing. So today we're talking with 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.000 Mandy Urick, one of my absolute favorite people to fish with, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.080 even though I've only got to do it on on 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.160 the ice and not in open water, which is I 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.080 know where you really do most of your guiding. Mandy, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.480 how long have you been guiding? I don't even know 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:27.960 how long you got it? About fifteen years plus right on, 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.120 So you know, I done it a couple of times, 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.880 just a few times. And I'm sure you've seen some 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.040 ridiculous ship happen on the water in fifteen years a guiding. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:43.880 You couldn't have said it much better. But so all right, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.160 I know you have a story liab set up for 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.800 us today. What do you got? Give us your smooth move? Uh. 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.200 I do a lot of guests guiding, like volunteer trips 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:56.560 that will donate for nonprofits, um, you know, or celebrities. 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:01.240 We'll just lead into that. So we're we won't name names, 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.480 but we're all fishing, and we're on a bigger body 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.000 of water and the bite is really good, and uh 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.520 this clients like I have to use the restroom and 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.160 I'm like, hey, all right. I was like, we can 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.040 pack up and and I can run you back to 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.040 the landing. That snow problem. Oh no, no, no, I'll 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.400 be fine. So alright, like not a problem, Like I'm 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.720 on the front deck, got my back turned or whatever. 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.400 Just kind of turn the music up on the radio 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.400 kind of a deal. And so we're fine, you know. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.160 He's like yells at me like, hey, we're good, you know, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.480 and I'm like, yeah, all right. So you know, we 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.200 go back to fishing or whatever. And it's not even 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.040 a few minutes later and we're walleye fishing and uh, 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.880 I set the hook and it's a good one, you know, 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.160 And I don't keep fishing myself personally, but you know, 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:46.760 I'm like, hey, do you want do you want this 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.640 one too? And he's like, yeah, I have no problems. 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.800 So I unhook the fish and I turned around to 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.280 go throw it in the life. Well, and you can't 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.320 make this up, the dude ship in my life. Well 0:09:55.400 --> 0:10:01.640 and we fish and live. Well, he just that wasn't 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.960 the first one. You already had absolutely destroyed my life. 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.679 Well with these fish in it, no idea what to say. 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.720 I'm like having this meltdown, and I literally just dropped 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:20.960 the fish back over the side of the boat, trying 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.839 to be cool about it, right, like not to embarrass him, 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.520 but I'm like, what are you thinking, man, Like we've 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:30.440 got fish in the life. Well the worst part is 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.600 so like we were close to like filling out our 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.000 limit right being done for the day, and I'm like 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.000 for the rest of the day. I'm like, I didn't. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.079 I'm like, oh, this one's not big enough to keep 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:45.280 kept throwing fish back. Good for you for playing that game, 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.880 because I would have been like, dude, like they're all 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.800 the walleyes or now I'm who's eating it. I couldn't 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.520 have played that up, and I oh, man, good for you. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.560 I don't know how I would respond to that other 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.280 than to hand him like a net and be like, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.840 you need to clean that out right now. There wasn't 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:14.400 anything you can scoop but no, okay yea, So it 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.640 wasn't solid. It means he was getting right into the meat. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.520 Fish were brooding. I was going running through their circulatory system, 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.839 just mainlining poop. Basically what those fish were doing. It's 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.480 like it's like right there, we get to the we 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.600 get to the here it gets better, so we can 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.400 to the landing and we have a these in basive 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.600 species people that you know, check your boats or whatever. 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.800 So you gotta pull the drain plug and you gotta 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.080 pull the the live bul plug right let the water 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.800 run out gagging. I don't have a glove or anything 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.920 in there. I pulled a they have to pull the 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:52.320 plug in the live bulb. The species like monitor that 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:56.880 monitors the access is standing behind my boat, waters like 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.640 running on his feet and I'm like, dude, back up, 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:08.960 Like oh, I didn't have the heart to tell him, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:14.280 so what do you do with the water? Normally I do, like, 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.080 you know, I clean the fish for my package him up. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.080 It depends how long they're gonna be in town. Sometimes 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:24.560 they'll you know freezing freezeme form or whatever. So like 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.800 we get done with the inspection that like, I like 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.440 gets in the truck and I have to like go 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.120 drop him back off at his resort. And I was like, so, uh, 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.320 what do you want to do with these fish? Do 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.000 you want to clean him or do you want me 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.959 to clean up? And he's like, well, he's like could 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.120 you just clean him right out the cabin? He was like, 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:45.280 we're going to do a big fish fry. Tonight, So 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:51.240 I did clean these. You're a much nicer person. You 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.240 put your fish in a garbage bag, take them if 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.679 you want, go you you deal with your own poop fish. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:00.960 Thank you. The worst part is so they had like 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.160 this big dinner and they asked me to stay, and 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.520 I was like, they started eating the fish and I 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:10.360 was like, I gotta go, guys, I gottading tomorrow. So 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:20.920 they ate they he didn't. He didn't tell them shooting 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.160 and Alive Will. I think the standout and all that 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.600 was not what happened, not the taking the dump into 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.720 Live Will, but then the fact that the man invited 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.000 her to clean the fish and then join him and 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.000 whoever he was going to feed him to for dinner 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.120 that night. I think that was the That was the 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.200 thing that really said it over the top. But fish fill, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:44.080 Oh absolutely not. I just I want to say that 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.520 I loved Smooth Moves, and my favorite stories were all 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.239 of the ones of the people who were just completely oblivious. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.800 And I think a part of that is because I 0:13:54.800 --> 0:14:00.560 empathized with it. So I was like, I feel like 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.440 I have I have a little bit more street smarts 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.520 and common sense to to do something like the shifting 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.319 in the Live Well, I wouldn't be so presumptuous, But 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.760 there were some other stories where I'm like, man, I 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.080 I might do that, and I would be on this 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.600 goddamn podcast like I'm not going to It's it's really 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:23.400 deterred me from ever going on joining a god Oh no, yeah, 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.640 you know, you know. But there's one quote from that 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.040 that people have kicked up on on social over and 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.360 over again, which was there was nothing left to scoop 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.680 bud like people had, Like people have said that so 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.440 many times. And then when we did the giveaway of 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.840 Aaron Letters Magnum dubbing the Custom Benz, one of those 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.440 colors was Mandy's Live Well for that reason, so that 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.840 one that one, and then anybody who had a ship 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.800 or piss story after that, it's kind of like, ah, 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.120 your ship story is nothing compared to this, So that 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.680 we had to turn down a few, uh fecal matter stories. 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.480 What Mike COmON had that one with with the dude 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.120 wipe in his butt with one of his gloves, Yeah, 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.000 which was good, but I'm the guy didn't try to 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.960 make him eat the glove afterwards, you know what. I 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.280 think that guy was most danger of having Michael trying 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.880 to make him eat the glove man. Yeah. Yeah, so 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.160 smooth move is always always a favorite. And I appreciate 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:18.320 everybody across the industry who came on and uh, you know, 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.560 bared their souls and we're willing to talk openly about 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.520 that now. Something that we started ben out with, um 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.800 that sort of faded away a little for various reasons, 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.520 was we had this idea the beginning to have a 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:34.680 regional fishing report every single episode of the show, and UM, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.320 I don't know, I feel like you can weigh in 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.280 on this because you're a man who loves satire. They 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.560 were pure satire. They were always completely fake and some 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.720 work and some didn't. That like that wasn't one of 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.600 our greatest hits, although they were some of the most 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:50.160 fun things to write. Yeah, I would say the people 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.600 you got on to do those segments, I'd say seventy 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.600 five percent of them were definitely like in on the 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.320 bit had had some sort of acting I don't want 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.280 to say acting experience. It sounds like they were doing 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:05.360 like Sondheim. They could they could be, they could play 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.240 a character. And then with all due respect, there were 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.920 some people that were just so and clearly, and that 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.800 it was like is this a joke? I can't tell. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.040 I think that was the problem somewhere so good that 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.960 people didn't understand if it was fake or not. And 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:20.440 if you don't know it's fake, then it's just like 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.120 this just isn't very good, Like this guy's an asshole, 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.160 and I don't want to go fishing with him, right, 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.360 but I I will say, like the sleeper the one 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.680 I want to play. And we did a ton of them, um, 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.520 but there was one this is my personal favorite, and 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.800 this one flew under the radar a little bit. I'm 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.800 not saying it was the most popular or well received 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.880 UM fishing report that we ever did, but you gotta remember, 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.080 like one of the challenges, if you can call it that, 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.000 that we had with Bent was we launched this some 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.080 bitch like smack dab in the worst part of the 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:54.800 COVID pandemic. So like yeah, for better or worse, COVID 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.960 has been this like slightly woven theme throughout Bent, because 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.240 we we couldn't have waited, so at the time we 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.040 had this idea because all that you know, you couldn't 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.560 cross the border into Canada, so all the poor Canadian 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:10.120 outfitters and lodge owners. We're we're starving for money because 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.080 because nobody could come up and fish. So we had 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.439 this idea um for lardge owner Mitch McFly to to 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.439 weigh in on that, and this was always one of 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:28.119 my all time favorites either folks, Mitch McFly here with 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.760 your weekly fishing report from Pickerel Point Lodge on Alberta's 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.040 Pristine Spooner's Lake. Before I get into the fishing though, 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.280 we sure to hope you and your family are staying 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.639 healthy and happy in these hectic times. Particularly our valued 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.600 guests from the States. We've missed your friendly faces this season. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.200 It just hasn't been the same around here without seeing 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.480 fifteen dirty and mostly broken down cooler stacked outside the 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:54.119 doors of our quaint cottages, or getting those morning calls 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.960 in the office asking for someone to please bring over 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.720 a plunger. Anyways, quick bit of is keeping. Some of 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.480 our repeat guests may remember Old Gusts are a long 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.960 time boat mechanic. We've unfortunately had to lay Old Gusts 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.720 off for the season because, wouldn't you know it, we 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.720 didn't have a single large boat lower right past the 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.680 shallow water marker boys and run up on the rocks 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.119 at Thompson's Cove. Without the constant inflow of props to 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.320 refurbish and lower units to restore, we just couldn't keep 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.639 us busy, so we sent him home. He has a 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.040 good sport about it, though, and happy to spend a 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.560 little bit more time on his true passion carving small 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.600 wooden bears and moose. Hope to have a pyleum for 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.480 sale in the gift shop next season. Okay, then, I 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.920 am happy to announce that the Walleye byte has been 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.359 better than I have seen it in probably twenty years. 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:44.800 Some folks around here say it's due to the lack 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.879 of fishing pressure, but I think it's because the local 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:51.080 anglers go a little slower. We tend to favor a 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.919 more methodical approach instead of that fast, erratic, circular trolling pattern. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.040 I know most of you boys from the States rely on. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.800 It's like I always tell you, fellows, the hours of 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.760 a eleven AM to four thirty PM are not exactly 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.240 what i'd call prime time, but you can still find 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.480 at least a few polite fish to bite in the 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:11.440 middle of the day. You know they are a Canadian a. Surprisingly, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.960 I've caught quite a few fort pike right off the 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.280 docks this year. I've had a little more time to 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.399 do some fishing in the evenings because there aren't the 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.119 thirty to forty crushed bud light can strun about the 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.800 property that need rounding up for proper disposal in one 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.720 of them many many conveniently placed recycling bins we have 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:31.000 on site. A five A diamond spoon has been producing 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.840 really well for me, and I found it quite relaxing 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.200 and therapeutic to just cast in reel while I listened 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.160 to the call of the loons, which aren't completely drowned 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.119 out by kid rocking that chicken fried song blasting from 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.960 the picnic tables over at the boat house. I'd also 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.399 like to mention that, on the bright side, we've been 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.960 able to spend time improving our operation and beautiful facilities. 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.360 Based on your feedback, we've loaded up on Mrs butter 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.119 Worse and will only serve what you folks refer to 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:02.359 as that maple sap ship upon request. All of our 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.160 bag lunches will now include three packets of mayonnaise instead 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.760 of the usual one, and most importantly, we've upgraded our WiFi, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.959 so you will now be able to stream those UFC fights, 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.240 reruns of Dog the Bounty Hunter, and porn Hub from 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:17.919 anywhere on the property. Anything we can do to make 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.760 your stay here more comfortable, We just uh can't wait 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.440 to have you folks back. We pray that you can 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.600 return to the serene beauty of Alberta by m three 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:34.440 or at the very latest. Thanks and God bless So 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.600 that was that was read by my buddy Brad Fencon, 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:41.560 who's from Alberta and he is one of the nicest, kindest, 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.760 gentlest men you will ever meet. And I remember we 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.800 got feedback on that and they were like, did you 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.720 get Brad Fencon to say shit and porn Hub on 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:56.480 your podcasts? And I was like, that is the kind 0:20:56.480 --> 0:21:00.240 of power that that bet has. We can make we 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.760 can we can make Brad fence and sell his soul 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.000 Clay Knecom to say shit. I'll be real impressed because 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.359 you won't have the opportunity going for you to work on. Um. 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.359 But man, you know again, they used to be so 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.440 fun to write. We also, um, you know, Phil will 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.560 remember we also stuck in a few celebrity reports. We 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:24.040 had poetry by Brad Pitt. We had Matthew McConaughey. Matthew mcconaugheyes, 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.680 was my favorite. By the way. Matthew McConaughey was good. 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:28.920 I'm not I'm not playing Matthew McConaughey, but that was good, 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.240 especially at the end where he's like, that's the sound 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:34.880 between my ears. That's also sounded Tahiti. I'm I sufficient 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.800 in Tahiti right now. But all those celebrity check ins 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:39.920 were played by a guy named Gary Denoia and he's 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.960 Paradinoia on on Instagram, and uh, he's from New York 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:46.960 but he has ties to Philly and he is hysterical 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.400