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Speaker 1: From Media Doors World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This

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Speaker 1: is Kel's we can review with Ryan kel Kelly. Now

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Speaker 1: here's Kel. Every year puppies are purchased in haste around

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Speaker 1: the country for Christmas gifts, with little thought as to

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Speaker 1: the expense to be incurred over the next ten to

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Speaker 1: fifteen years. Well, let me make the case for the

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Speaker 1: electric eel. While the puppy may show affection and will

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Speaker 1: no contest be more cuddly, it isn't going to return

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Speaker 1: any of the cash investment you put into it. If

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Speaker 1: you like, I thought at some point during dog ownership

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Speaker 1: that you should be able to claim dogs as dependence

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Speaker 1: on your tax returns. You know exactly what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: It's time we keep animals that actually pitch in around

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Speaker 1: the house. So put down that Doberman and get an

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Speaker 1: electric eel instead. They'll provide a different kind of entertainment

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Speaker 1: than the labrador doodle or shit sue. Sure, but the

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Speaker 1: benefit is you can put them to work right away

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Speaker 1: and there's no training or house breaking for this Christmas surprise,

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Speaker 1: Set it and forget it, like goal around. Popeil used

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Speaker 1: to say, if you visit the Tennessee Aquarium, you will

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Speaker 1: find McGill the electric eel powering Christmas Tree lights. Electric eels,

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Speaker 1: which aren't actually eels at all, but knife fish, emit

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Speaker 1: low voltage bursts of electricity when they are searching for food.

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Speaker 1: They emit these low voltage bursts to get prey to

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Speaker 1: twitch or react in the often murky water they hunt

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Speaker 1: in so the eel can detect them. The eels emit

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Speaker 1: higher voltage bursts when they are excited defending themselves are

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Speaker 1: trying to actually stun their next meal into submission. Fun

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Speaker 1: side note here, the monotreams, of which the platypus belongs,

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Speaker 1: are the only land mammals with electro receptors. The platypus

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Speaker 1: has forty thousand receptors in its bill that allow it

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Speaker 1: to identify the electric fields put off by it's prey.

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Speaker 1: But back to eels. The Tennessee Aquarium has harnessed this

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Speaker 1: eel power in the past by working with Tennessee Tech

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Speaker 1: University's I Cube Center to hook up the eels tank

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Speaker 1: with the system that takes these impulses and transforms them

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Speaker 1: into pre program tweets. If you search the Twitter account

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Speaker 1: at Eel Electric McGill, you can see them for yourself.

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Speaker 1: But now, as in currently get it current see what

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Speaker 1: I did there anyway? Currently the Tennessee Aquarium has plugged

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Speaker 1: into the eels juice to power Christmas trees lights. When

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Speaker 1: the eel is on the search for food, the tree

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Speaker 1: lights flicker on and off, and when he gets even

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Speaker 1: more excited, the tree gets a good glow to no

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Speaker 1: word on what happens to the tree or the Twitter feed.

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Speaker 1: During mating season, male eels spill the nest out of

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Speaker 1: their own saliva, in which the female eel can deposit

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Speaker 1: up to three thousand eggs. Sounds like exciting times to me.

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Speaker 1: Shocking even so, get that special someone some electrodes of strandolites,

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Speaker 1: an aquarium, and an electric keel this giving season, As

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Speaker 1: cousin Eddie would say, park, that's the gift that keeps

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Speaker 1: on giving the whole year. This week field observations and

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Speaker 1: ice fishing conundrum and tails from the back country. But

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Speaker 1: first I'm gonna tell you about my week. I met

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Speaker 1: up with one of my good hunting buddies. We had

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Speaker 1: drawn a very good elk tag and packed in for

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Speaker 1: the week. In this scenario, packing in involved an old

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Speaker 1: horse named shorty and a giant mule name Jugead. The

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Speaker 1: trip started with intermittent snow with bigger patches on frozen

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Speaker 1: south facing slopes. Then things changed. The mercury plummeted and

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Speaker 1: week and two ft of powders, snow and temps below zero.

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Speaker 1: We had a wall, tent, cots, all the wool and

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Speaker 1: big puffy down filled first light clothing, awesome sleeping bags,

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Speaker 1: our long absence from our vehicles and sub zero temps,

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Speaker 1: we were living very comfortably. I even packed in half

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Speaker 1: up Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey day was seven below zero, so

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Speaker 1: we got real cozy to the fire. When the severely

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Speaker 1: it turned out awesome. I brinded the bird about a

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Speaker 1: fourteen pound Miriam's turkey, a shot out in eastern Montana

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Speaker 1: What the reasoning was for that, don't ask. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: that our vehicles had been reported and a search and

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Speaker 1: rescue volunteer team had been notified and we're preparing to

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Speaker 1: you know, search and rescue us. As we sat next

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Speaker 1: those folks didn't have to stomp around the cold and

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Speaker 1: getting really old, broken down, has generally lost his love

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Speaker 1: to camp, which was a bummer in itself, but he

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Speaker 1: side note. It was truly a beautiful morning, and the

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Speaker 1: Every step I took sounded like moroccous filled with broken

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Speaker 1: a buck, here's a buck came to my ears. So

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Speaker 1: that the bucks slid down the steep ridge and light

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Speaker 1: can this is absolutely true. I kid you negative. I

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Speaker 1: So happy blated Thanksgiving to you all, whether you celebrate

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Speaker 1: or surrounded by family, or not at all. Moving on,

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Speaker 1: last week we talked about a first time hunter. I've

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Speaker 1: not require anyone born after nineteen seventy three to take

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Speaker 1: Florence for fifty eight years. Way to go Florence and Bill,

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Speaker 1: Moving on to a quick public service announcement from our

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Speaker 1: Canada desk bull kill. As we covered last week the

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Speaker 1: aquatic vegetation that is being eaten by purple sea urchins,

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Speaker 1: one listener on Vancouver Island Road in to say, I

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Speaker 1: just want to point out one very important use of

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Speaker 1: have taken a suitable piece of bull kill, cut off

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Speaker 1: the top quarter inch of the bulb to expose the bowl,

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Speaker 1: and then, after cutting the rest of the whip to

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Eric from Vancouver. Important to note

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Speaker 1: alcohol consumption. I just can't deny a good ingenuity sliding

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Speaker 1: it's in regards to your ice hole. You know that joke, right?

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Speaker 1: How do you kill a polar bear? Cut a hole

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Speaker 1: to Section to sixty three the Alberta Criminal Code, anyone

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