Speaker 1: Smell us now, lady, Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia mea podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Radio Live. It's eleven am Mountain Time.
Speaker 2: That's seven pm Hungry time for those listeners in Hungary
Speaker 2: on Thursday, March sixth and we're live from Meet Eater
Speaker 2: HQ and Bozeman, Montana. I'm your host, Randall Williams, joined
Speaker 2: today by Maggie Hudlow and Brody Henderson. On today's show,
Speaker 2: we're kicking off a new segment called fake News. We'll
Speaker 2: call in with Rebecca Powell from the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take you backstage for a look at Meat
Speaker 2: Eater's new culinary show, Meet Eater ROAs. We'll chat with
Speaker 2: Caitlin Lo Spinoso aka Old Trapper Kate, and we'll round
Speaker 2: out the show with another long awaited Meat Eater movie Club.
Speaker 2: Maggie and Brody, how are you guys doing?
Speaker 3: Doing great? Not so bad?
Speaker 2: Lovely?
Speaker 4: How are you doing, Randall?
Speaker 2: I'm doing well. I'm doing well. It's great to have
Speaker 2: you here at Bozeman HQ.
Speaker 4: It's good to be here.
Speaker 2: Well. First up, in a new segment we're calling fake News.
Speaker 2: I'm going to share a selectively edited hunting or fishing
Speaker 2: related headline from the news, and Brody and Maggie need
Speaker 2: to fill in the blank with multiple choice options. Only
Speaker 2: one of these is true according to this news article.
Speaker 2: And here's where we'll add Phil's drop in later. Phil's
Speaker 2: just had.
Speaker 3: A really busy week.
Speaker 2: Kind of apologies to the listeners out there, Phil, what
Speaker 2: do you have to say.
Speaker 3: I don't need to disappoint anybody. It's been a crazy
Speaker 3: week here at Meat Eater HQ. We got a lot
Speaker 3: of new projects happening, and so I didn't have time
Speaker 3: to make a drop this week. I do have an idea,
Speaker 3: but then we thought we'd bring Chili in and then
Speaker 3: he whimped out, Chili, if you're watching, good job. So
Speaker 3: now we have nothing for you. And frankly, it's all
Speaker 3: Chili's fault.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Chilli's working on me roast right now. Phil.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing is is he he had agreed to
Speaker 2: do this, but then he said he couldn't figure out
Speaker 2: the chords, the chord progression, so he did WI. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So just imagine something. If you guys want to
Speaker 3: make some pitches in the live chat, I will read them,
Speaker 3: not necessarily take them into consideration, but if you have
Speaker 3: a really good one, you might break through the ceiling.
Speaker 2: And I know it sounds like we're just killing time here,
Speaker 2: but I really think that with the announcement, with the
Speaker 2: announcement of the new segment, folks were keyed up, they
Speaker 2: were ready to go. So just imagine in your head
Speaker 2: what this would sound.
Speaker 5: The live viewer counting that Phil's drops are the best
Speaker 5: part of the whole damn show.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I already feel like this show's
Speaker 2: a flop. On first head line, Phil.
Speaker 3: Sure thing, I'm using the slideshow for the very first time.
Speaker 2: They are a So this is our first headline. Rocky
Speaker 2: Mountain National Park has too many A trails, Rocky Mountain
Speaker 2: National Park has too many b elk Rocky Mountain National
Speaker 2: Park has too many C visitors, or Rocky Mountain National
Speaker 2: Park has too many D moose.
Speaker 5: So we're looking for the one that's that's fake, where.
Speaker 2: You're looking for the one that's true, for true, the
Speaker 2: actual headline.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna say b elk.
Speaker 2: Mag says b Elk.
Speaker 5: God, I think I just read an article about something else,
Speaker 5: Like I know they've had too many elk at one time,
Speaker 5: but I think the headline might be moose.
Speaker 4: That was my other thoughts.
Speaker 2: Moose is your final answer? Brody gets it?
Speaker 6: Phil?
Speaker 2: Do we have like a ding ding ding?
Speaker 3: If I were a professional engineer, I would have one prepared.
Speaker 5: But oh gosh. Well, although I could find you a
Speaker 5: headline that says they have too many elk, I could.
Speaker 2: Find you a headline that says they have too many
Speaker 2: visitors as well. This one comes from our friends at
Speaker 2: Outdoor Life. While moose populations are down across much of
Speaker 2: their range in North America, Colorado is a noteworthy exception.
Speaker 2: In Rocky Mountain National Park, wildlife managers are concerned that
Speaker 2: a moose population growing at five percent year over year
Speaker 2: is having a deleterious effect on wetland habitats and willow growth.
Speaker 2: A single moose can consume up to forty five pounds
Speaker 2: of willows in a day. In some areas of the
Speaker 2: park have seen a decline of up to eighty percent
Speaker 2: of their willows since nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 5: The wolves will take care of that problem for too long,
Speaker 5: Just give it a little time.
Speaker 2: I almost added wolves in there as an option, but
Speaker 2: I thought it might be two on the nose and
Speaker 2: perhaps you know, traumatizing or triggering to some of our audience.
Speaker 2: Onto our second headline, here, philm can wildlife heal? Blank?
Speaker 2: The science behind nature's unexpected remedy? The first answer is
Speaker 2: a chronic pain. The second is PTSD post traumatic stress
Speaker 2: disorder c IS autoimmune disorder d IS hypertension. What are
Speaker 2: we think of here?
Speaker 7: Gang?
Speaker 2: What can nature heal? According to this article?
Speaker 5: Go ahead, Maggie, you pick yours?
Speaker 4: Ha I'm I'm gonna go B again PTSD.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go see hmmm, well it's one to one Gang.
Speaker 2: The correct answer is b PTSD. Thank you, Corey. Is
Speaker 2: this show's really taken off? This one comes from sie
Speaker 2: Tech Daily. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts studied nineteen
Speaker 2: veterans with PTSD and observed notable psychological benefit. It's particularly
Speaker 2: reduced levels of anxiety among those who engaged in visits
Speaker 2: to wildlife sanctuaries, participated in wildlife care at rehabilitation centers,
Speaker 2: and engaged in bird watching, according to doctor Donna Perry.
Speaker 2: While many studies involving interactions between humans and other species
Speaker 2: aimed at improving psychological or physical health have involved domestic animals.
Speaker 2: Few studies have focused on wildlife.
Speaker 5: I think that's great news, but I don't think it's
Speaker 5: new news. People have been doing, you know, like when
Speaker 5: I was a guide, we used to do h like
Speaker 5: wounded warrior things. Yeah, in the outdoors.
Speaker 2: And the news is that we have the study to
Speaker 2: back it up. Phil Once you read me the date
Speaker 2: on that article.
Speaker 3: It says March sixth, twenty five, Holy crap.
Speaker 2: That's today's news. Brody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, like I said, don't think it's new news, boy.
Speaker 2: Rocky, start here onto our third headline. I kind of
Speaker 2: like this bit though.
Speaker 3: It's fun, and I would this is kind of a
Speaker 3: dry run. If people like it, we'll be back with
Speaker 3: bells and whistles and hopefully Brody will be more excited.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, it's not that I'm not excited. Like, I like
Speaker 5: it because I like arguing and you know, and trivia
Speaker 5: Spencer just doesn't put up with arguing about his questions.
Speaker 4: So you know, I know the answer to this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this one's been all over the.
Speaker 2: Place, but I thought my answers are so clever.
Speaker 3: Well, let's let's read the headline for the audio listeners.
Speaker 2: Here blank for dinner California officials urge residents to eat
Speaker 2: invasive blank Your options are skate for dinner. California officials
Speaker 2: urge residents to eat invasive sting rays frog legs for dinner.
Speaker 2: California officials urge residents to eat invasive bullfrogs, rodent for dinner.
Speaker 2: California officials urge residents to eat invasive nutria or d
Speaker 2: cactus for dinner. California officials urge residents to eat invasive
Speaker 2: African prickly pair.
Speaker 4: It's z nutria.
Speaker 2: Well, we've got a tie game, gang.
Speaker 3: There's a sound. I found one.
Speaker 2: The correct is rodent for dinner. California officials urge residents
Speaker 2: to eat invasive nutria. According to an article in the Guardian,
Speaker 2: This call to action came during National Invasive Species Awareness
Speaker 2: Week in late February. Neutrio were believed to have been
Speaker 2: eradicated from the Golden State in the nineteen seventies, but
Speaker 2: a growing population was detected in the Sacramento San Joaquin
Speaker 2: River Delta in twenty seventeen. The California Department of Fish
Speaker 2: and Wildlife has removed some five thy five hundred nutria
Speaker 2: from these wetlands so far, and federal officials are trying
Speaker 2: to make the consumption of nutrias somewhat enticing by drawing
Speaker 2: similarities to the taste of rabbit or dark turkey meat. Resources,
Speaker 2: including recipes for nutrient dishes such as stews and chili,
Speaker 2: are available on nutria dot com.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the New York Times really didn't do a good
Speaker 4: job of selling it. Their headline. Their headline was keep
Speaker 4: invasive species in check. Eat a big rat like rodent.
Speaker 5: I think. I think the funny thing about this is
Speaker 5: that this is coming out of California, which is like
Speaker 5: one of the most anti hunting states in the country,
Speaker 5: and they're like, oh, yeah, go kill these things.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of dead things.
Speaker 5: I know. But they need to call uh, they need
Speaker 5: to call our old friend Mark Kendrick, who uh see
Speaker 5: the chessbeak. Hemanaged Operation Rolling Thunder in the Chesapeake Bay,
Speaker 5: which is like the only place they fully eradicated those things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta say, I wasn't California nutrier. We're not
Speaker 2: on my radar.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, they scattered those things all over the
Speaker 5: place to create, you know, a fur industry back in
Speaker 5: the day, I believe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will point out that there is an invasive
Speaker 2: African prickly pair cactus called the Devil's cactus.
Speaker 5: Sounds nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did a little bit of research. Uh no,
Speaker 2: I don't think so. We don't have a tie breaker yet.
Speaker 2: That's a little wrinkle we should add next time we
Speaker 2: do this.
Speaker 3: So let's hold on. Let I just want to make
Speaker 3: sure we have this all correct. There was no drop, yes,
Speaker 3: no sound effects. I'll take credit for that. Yes, no tiebreaker.
Speaker 3: How do we feel this segment went?
Speaker 2: You know, I like it. I think I like potential.
Speaker 2: I think it's got real potential. Brody observed to me
Speaker 2: yesterday when we're sort of going over this that this
Speaker 2: would be a segment best played with some of our
Speaker 2: less uh less news following crew members. Yes, sure, the
Speaker 2: online Yeah, the less online people would probably have more
Speaker 2: fun with this one. But I was pleased that you
Speaker 2: both didn't get all of them right.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, So earn something new every day.
Speaker 2: Man, that's a start. Fantastic gang, Thank you. Joining us
Speaker 2: on the line first is Rebecca Powell, the program director
Speaker 2: for the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation. Rebecca, welcome to the show.
Speaker 6: Hey, thanks for having me. Happy to be here. Great show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, yeah, it can only go on from here.
Speaker 3: So I love honesty, Rebecca.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're glad that said that first segment didn't
Speaker 2: kill Huh. It's tough act to follow. First thing, can
Speaker 2: you tell us a little bit about the Bob Marshall
Speaker 2: Wilderness Foundation and maybe for folks that are not from
Speaker 2: this part of the world, what the Bob Marshall Wilderness is.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So I am the program director at the bon Marshall
Speaker 7: Wilderness Foundation. We're a nonprofit partner of the Forest Service
Speaker 7: and we help steward the one point six million acre
Speaker 7: Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.
Speaker 6: So the Bob Marsha Wilderness Complex.
Speaker 7: Is a northwest Montana kind of below Glacier National Park,
Speaker 7: above Yellowstone and Missoula area, and it makes three wilderness areas.
Speaker 7: So there's the Great Bear to the north, the Bob
Speaker 7: Marshall in the middle, and the Scapegoat Wilderness on the
Speaker 7: south end, and together that makes up the one point
Speaker 7: six Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex that we all just refer
Speaker 7: to as the Bob. So that is a little bit
Speaker 7: about the Bob Marshall Wilderness and us as a nonprofit organization,
Speaker 7: we're pretty small. We have seven full time, year round staff.
Speaker 7: We've been around for almost thirty years, and you know,
Speaker 7: the Bob Foundation started as a place for volunteers to
Speaker 7: get together and help clear those secondary trails and do
Speaker 7: some of the trail maintenance that wasn't getting done as
Speaker 7: Foreign Service was facing those budget cuts.
Speaker 6: As we've evolved, you know, we've gone.
Speaker 7: From more than just moving dirt and now as an organization,
Speaker 7: we do a lot of education about wilderness. We do
Speaker 7: have a pretty robust internship program. We have some traditional
Speaker 7: skills programs such as packing.
Speaker 6: We have Artists Wilderness.
Speaker 7: Connection program where we partner with the Hockaday Museum of
Speaker 7: Art in the Flathead National Forest and place a few
Speaker 7: artists in the back country each season to do some art.
Speaker 7: And then, of course the Bread and Butter is our
Speaker 7: volunteer program, so we have about forty projects usually each
Speaker 7: season that we take volunteers out.
Speaker 6: We have anything from you.
Speaker 7: Know, a day like National Trails Day doing a day
Speaker 7: of trail work, to ten day trips where you're in
Speaker 7: the back country for ten days.
Speaker 6: All of them are led by one of our crew leaders.
Speaker 7: We provide food and pack support, all the tools, and
Speaker 7: those opportunities are free for anybody who wants to join,
Speaker 7: given that it's within your physical limitations to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 7: And a lot of our work with the volunteers is
Speaker 7: clearing trails, is brushing, you know that all they're off
Speaker 7: the trails, clearing drains and improving tread. We do some
Speaker 7: work on some of those admin cabins of the back country,
Speaker 7: you know, rebuilding corrals, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: And there's some there's some unique challenges to that type
Speaker 2: of work in a wilderness area. Can you tell us
Speaker 2: a little bit about what a what a day of
Speaker 2: trail maintenance looks like for a volunteer crew.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So I always tell our crew leaders that they have
Speaker 7: the hardest job within the complex because they're training new
Speaker 7: volunteers each each week, you know, so depending on their
Speaker 7: hitch schedule, volunteer show up at a trailhead. We have
Speaker 7: up to eight to ten volunteers each project that meet
Speaker 7: a crew leader at the trailhead. We have volunteer packers
Speaker 7: that use horses and mules that carry in all the
Speaker 7: food and tool and group gear into a backcountry site
Speaker 7: and we set up a base camp and work on
Speaker 7: that base camp for however many days the trip is
Speaker 7: and because it's a designation wilderness, you know, no mechanized
Speaker 7: use within the wilderness. So we're using cross cut saws, handsaws,
Speaker 7: pulaskis looppers, that kind of stuff. And all the stuff
Speaker 7: that we get is transported into the back country with
Speaker 7: horses and mules. So it's primitive. Uh, it's uh, just how.
Speaker 6: We like it.
Speaker 2: A lot of sweat.
Speaker 6: It is a lot of sut and you know, volers
Speaker 6: are they're they're into it.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 7: People like to work hard and it's impressive to see
Speaker 7: the amount of people that come out and want to
Speaker 7: do hard work with us.
Speaker 2: That's great. Recently, we've been covering a lot of the uh,
Speaker 2: the layoffs affecting our public land management agencies, the Forest
Speaker 2: Service included. Can you can you speak to how those
Speaker 2: cuts at the Forest Service are affecting your organization sort
Speaker 2: of how you interface with the Forest Service.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a lot of ways that that's affecting our organization.
Speaker 7: We are, like you know, we pride ourselves on the
Speaker 7: relationship that we have at the Forest Service, the folks
Speaker 7: at the district level within those others five districts that
Speaker 7: manage the Bam Martial Wilderness Complex, and we are.
Speaker 6: Are close with all of them.
Speaker 7: So each season around January or so, we meet with
Speaker 7: those trails and wilderness folks and ask them like, hey,
Speaker 7: where do you guys need help?
Speaker 6: How can we help you get some volunteers in?
Speaker 7: And that's how we build our summer schedule and work
Speaker 7: through that, and then.
Speaker 6: Once the field season starts.
Speaker 7: You know, those folks that are on the ground for
Speaker 7: the Forest Service, those river rangers, those trail crews, those
Speaker 7: backcountry rangers, those are the people that we're communicating with
Speaker 7: on our trips. We're checking in on the radio every
Speaker 7: day with those folks where they're flagging out the work
Speaker 7: we need to do. Maybe they're out there a couple
Speaker 7: of days before that we show up and they're flagging
Speaker 7: out where to put a drain, you know, or to
Speaker 7: clean up a campsite.
Speaker 6: Or that kind of stuff.
Speaker 7: And the complex has experienced significant workforce cuts over the
Speaker 7: over the last few weeks.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, Rocky Mountain Ranger District had a back country
Speaker 7: crew of eleven and now they're down to three. Spotted
Speaker 7: Bear is similar. They had a back country crew of
Speaker 7: twenty something and now they're down to four or five people.
Speaker 7: So that's going to create significant barriers for the public
Speaker 7: and for us to be able to achieve the level
Speaker 7: of work that we hope to do.
Speaker 6: You know, as an example, we work with the Forest Service.
Speaker 7: We have our seasonal workforce that we ramp up to
Speaker 7: is about twenty six folks. That's crew leaders, that's interns,
Speaker 7: that's packer apprentices.
Speaker 6: Usually we hire.
Speaker 7: To two wilderness river rangers to go out with the
Speaker 7: with the river ranger out of Spotted Bear, and that
Speaker 7: that position no longer is there, and so we can't
Speaker 7: have those two.
Speaker 6: Interns go out on their own without it the supervisions.
Speaker 7: So we're we're readjusting, we're getting creative. We're trying to
Speaker 7: think of ways that we can still be effective and
Speaker 7: help out and be of service to to what's left
Speaker 7: out there.
Speaker 2: Gotcha. Do you have sort of concrete plans looking forward
Speaker 2: to the summer or are there still a lot of
Speaker 2: uncertainties at the moment.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean there's never any concrete plans right for
Speaker 7: Plan A, Plan B, Plan Plan D. You know, we're
Speaker 7: always adapting for weather and whatever, injuries.
Speaker 6: Illness, anything.
Speaker 7: This is definitely a big hitch in our in our
Speaker 7: program because of i mean shortages aside, workforce cuts aside.
Speaker 7: Our program budget was cut fifty percent because of.
Speaker 6: A lot of fun thing that we get is frozen currently.
Speaker 7: So the funding from you know, the Great American Outdoors
Speaker 7: Act that helps fund our interns and our trail crews
Speaker 7: and that kind of stuff. Some of the grants that
Speaker 7: actually fund paying for the food for our volunteers, those
Speaker 7: are all currently frozen.
Speaker 5: And heya, Rebecca, that's money that was already approved to
Speaker 5: go to you guys, correct, correct.
Speaker 6: That's money that's approved to us.
Speaker 7: That's like, for instance, the the America the Beautiful Grant
Speaker 7: that we get that that funds our invasives crew. So
Speaker 7: we have an invasive Species coordinator that works for us,
Speaker 7: and he has four interns and a crew leader that
Speaker 7: go around the complex and uh spray and map invasive
Speaker 7: weeds all summer long. That's funded from the America the
Speaker 7: Beautiful Grant, which we're in year three of a five
Speaker 7: year grant of that, and that has been has been frozen.
Speaker 7: So this is the time of year that we're hiring
Speaker 7: all of our interns and placing all those folks, and
Speaker 7: we kind of put a temporary pause on that because
Speaker 7: we don't want to hire all these folks and then
Speaker 7: be like, hey, guess what, we don't have the funding,
Speaker 7: so you can't go.
Speaker 6: Out there and do the work.
Speaker 7: So we have decided to just keep moving on as
Speaker 7: if we have that funding in place, and then we've
Speaker 7: made a deadline that if we don't have you know,
Speaker 7: confirmation and that funding at a certain time, we'll call
Speaker 7: it off and read re.
Speaker 6: Group our summer schedule.
Speaker 7: I mean, there's like I said, there's seven of us
Speaker 7: year round staff, and like five of us are are.
Speaker 6: Ready to roll up our sleeves and get in the
Speaker 6: back country.
Speaker 7: You know, it's folks that still spend quite a bit
Speaker 7: of time doing work in the back country. So we
Speaker 7: can still do some volunteer trips, we can still do
Speaker 7: some packing, we can do some other things. It'll just
Speaker 7: be quite abbreviated from what we had hopes and planned.
Speaker 2: So, folks, if folks are in just didn't supporting your work,
Speaker 2: how do they either go about volunteering and getting getting
Speaker 2: out there with you guys this summer, or if they
Speaker 2: maybe live remote or can't do trail work themselves house,
Speaker 2: can they support your mission?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, we do a lot of fundraisers right now.
Speaker 7: We have We partner with the Telly Ride Mountain Film
Speaker 7: Festival and do like a fundraiser and kind of circumnavigate
Speaker 7: the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.
Speaker 6: On Friday tomorrow, we have a show in Big FOURK.
Speaker 7: We have a show in Showdow, Montana, in Helena and
Speaker 7: Missoula and Whitefish, So anybody can go and buy tickets
Speaker 7: to come see us at those events, and we have.
Speaker 6: Raffles and fun stuff and a lot of great films
Speaker 6: on that.
Speaker 7: We also have like business partners, So if you're a
Speaker 7: business owner and you want to be part of the
Speaker 7: of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex and supporting that, you
Speaker 7: can join our business become a business partner.
Speaker 6: A big fundraiser for us actually is our license plates.
Speaker 6: So we have like the Bob license plates.
Speaker 7: It's when you go to the DMV. It's the one
Speaker 7: with like a pack string on it. Get those on
Speaker 7: your car. That's super supportive of us. We have monthly donations,
Speaker 7: all kinds of different donations, you know, Like I said,
Speaker 7: really only twenty percent of our funding comes directly from
Speaker 7: a forest service. The rest is all donations and fundraisers
Speaker 7: and merchandise sales.
Speaker 6: And all that stuff, So good deal in that any
Speaker 6: of that support, it was great.
Speaker 2: And as far as the volunteer side of things, if
Speaker 2: you know, if I get in the weight room or
Speaker 2: get in shape and I'm ready to grab a hold
Speaker 2: of crosscutsaw, what's my next step there?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So traditionally we've launched our volunteer projects by March first.
Speaker 7: That's on pause for right now, so we get confirmation
Speaker 7: that we have the funding to go ahead with that
Speaker 7: and hire our crew leaders and you know, buy volunteer
Speaker 7: food and all that stuff, and pay for the pack
Speaker 7: support that joins us out there. Our trips are all
Speaker 7: posted online on our website, on our social.
Speaker 6: Media will promote that once we launch those, some of
Speaker 6: our trips fill up really fast, some of them don't.
Speaker 7: We like to have a large variety of trips, so
Speaker 7: we'll have, like I said, some like just one day
Speaker 7: trips that are like lopping or pulling weeds or something,
Speaker 7: and then we have like I think that our most
Speaker 7: popular trip is like a five day trip. So you
Speaker 7: hike in, you work for two days, you have a
Speaker 7: day off, you work for two more days or one
Speaker 7: more day, and then you hike out. And those you know,
Speaker 7: there's there's different variations of the fitness levels you need
Speaker 7: for that, and we.
Speaker 6: Advertise that on our website.
Speaker 7: Some of them, you know, you're hiking fourteen miles into
Speaker 7: the back huntry over a mountain pass, and that's more strenuous,
Speaker 7: and the work you're doing is like clearing a trail
Speaker 7: that's you know, had a significant blowdown and you're on.
Speaker 6: A cross put all day.
Speaker 7: Some of the trips that are even longer, are you
Speaker 7: hike six miles into a backcountry site and you work
Speaker 7: on campsite restoration and you know, getting rid of fire
Speaker 7: rings and barry and poop and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6: That that's a little less strenuous. So we have.
Speaker 2: Everyone what you're selling excellent.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: Well, Rebecca, we I can I think I can speak
Speaker 2: for everyone in the building that we love the Bob
Speaker 2: Marshall Wilderness as we love all of our public lands. Uh,
Speaker 2: and so we appreciate the work that you do and
Speaker 2: hopefully we can maybe get a couple of us out
Speaker 2: on a crew with you this summer the next.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that sounds great.
Speaker 7: We have partner trips too, so if you want to
Speaker 7: just grab your friends and come join us. The whole
Speaker 7: Meat Eater crew can come out and you can't tell
Speaker 7: it because we're in wilderness.
Speaker 2: So I like that idea very much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can take some pictures.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you guys taking the time to hear from
Speaker 6: us and.
Speaker 7: Kind of shed some light onto the work that we're
Speaker 7: doing and our and our passion for the public land
Speaker 7: and the place.
Speaker 6: And thanks for having us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, happy to do it, and good luck. We appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Now, here's a transition we didn't rework after a little
Speaker 2: edit to our script.
Speaker 3: Hold hold on here, I'll help you out. And I
Speaker 3: guess that's why they called it fake news. There's an
Speaker 3: Elton John throwing something about like the pe tape or
Speaker 3: pizza Gate, and then you know, you got yourself a
Speaker 3: drop right there.
Speaker 5: Oh that's good, Phil.
Speaker 3: That's how the magic happens right here in this chair.
Speaker 3: And you guys got to witness it live.
Speaker 2: That's great. That's that's a uh. That's an example of
Speaker 2: someone adapting and and and you know, making it work
Speaker 2: in the show. But I'm going to read a transition
Speaker 2: that has not been reworked. Speaking of our new show,
Speaker 2: Meat Eater, ros Corey, why don't you walk down the
Speaker 2: hallway to the kitchen and see what's cooking. Oh great idea, Randall,
Speaker 2: are making me hungry with all that chatter about Meat
Speaker 2: Eater Roast walking down the hall.
Speaker 3: And I just want to I don't want to under
Speaker 3: under state how how this is like a first time experience.
Speaker 3: People are getting to see the behind the scenes Meat
Speaker 3: Eater headquarters right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who's that Yanni juggling.
Speaker 9: Johnny? What's cooking? Well, I'm just tenderizing these avocados.
Speaker 1: In case they have to use these for a for
Speaker 1: a part of their meal today.
Speaker 9: Uh what do you? May just explain what Media Roast
Speaker 9: is doing here.
Speaker 1: It's Meat Eater's new competition cooking show where we have
Speaker 1: two ordinary wild game cooks, which up to this point
Speaker 1: have all been meet your employees, and not just the
Speaker 1: ones that you expect to be good wild game cooks.
Speaker 1: You've got folks like carin in here, Maggie. How well
Speaker 1: maybe you would expect it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, take that cool?
Speaker 4: All right? Annie?
Speaker 9: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: What do you mean you have the challenge or the
Speaker 1: mystery that makes their competition. Well, we have two people,
Speaker 1: which makes the competition. But every episode there's a protein
Speaker 1: or a chunk of meat that is unknown to the
Speaker 1: contestants until the moment that I reveal it, and uh
Speaker 1: like right here in this uh cast iron, mini Dutch
Speaker 1: of and whatever they call these, just what meat is
Speaker 1: for a episode we're gonna film today, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: reveal it to the contestants and then they're gonna have
Speaker 1: ninety minutes to cook me and the two.
Speaker 9: Judges that were here, which one of them is gonna
Speaker 9: be Maggie Huddler.
Speaker 1: We also have the most famous butcher I know, and
Speaker 1: the foreman that you're judging today, and they're gonna have
Speaker 1: ninety minutes to cook us up something delicious.
Speaker 9: That means the.
Speaker 1: Best part about this show, this is episode number four
Speaker 1: with filming today, is that we've come to see that.
Speaker 9: Wild game cooking is not that hard.
Speaker 1: Everybody that's that's participates as far as we've ped up
Speaker 1: some amazing stuff in an elimited amount of time, not
Speaker 1: knowing what they had to work with when they started,
Speaker 1: So the energy level is high or digging producing it
Speaker 1: with us, So I'm hoping that the viewers are going
Speaker 1: to like it too. Any questions Corey or from the
Speaker 1: next door I can just walk over there too, if
Speaker 1: you guys want to talk to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Johnest, I wonder if you're a little overconfident there
Speaker 2: in your assessment that the show is demonstrating that wild
Speaker 2: game cooking is not that hard. I will be joining
Speaker 2: you there in about an hour, and I'll be taking
Speaker 2: the helm at that stove, so I wouldn't really count
Speaker 2: your chickens before they hatch, as the old proverb goes,
Speaker 2: I think I might set a new standard for incompetence.
Speaker 1: A difficult chunk of game me for you too. You're
Speaker 1: not going to have. I'm not giving you like an
Speaker 1: ELF ten you're going to work with, So put your
Speaker 1: thinking cap on.
Speaker 9: Randall late, Oh you hear that from Max? No, you're
Speaker 9: in an hour, You're late.
Speaker 2: Oh geez, well we better wrap this sucker up then.
Speaker 2: Anything you like to add Chili, Yeah, you know, really
Speaker 2: rooting for you, Randall and the other contention as well.
Speaker 2: But h who should not.
Speaker 5: Be named Chilly, just wants to make sure you keep
Speaker 5: the kitchen clean while you're working.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Chili's going a great job remodeling this kitchen.
Speaker 9: Check out some beautiful.
Speaker 2: Artwork that's our new art gallery for those of you watching, Well,
Speaker 2: which way this way? Sam, there's the brains behind the
Speaker 2: whole and the creative the creative engine behind it all.
Speaker 2: Sam might just say hi to folks instead of hiding
Speaker 2: behind the.
Speaker 4: Lovely There's some real interesting stuff on that shelf behind
Speaker 4: Sam too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, what are some interesting ingredients that these
Speaker 3: folks have to work?
Speaker 1: She's attracted to the craziest stuff that is available in
Speaker 1: the outdoors, and so she really wanted to use the
Speaker 1: python oil. I can't remember who said this to Steve,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately or fortunately you look at it, it's rancid.
Speaker 1: So if you see this in an upcoming episode, you
Speaker 1: will know that that's the person that used it.
Speaker 9: Lost really wanted to use it, but it did.
Speaker 4: Not smell good.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we got grizzly.
Speaker 1: Bear fast, which we did use some grizzly bear grease
Speaker 1: the other day, and I wish I knew the story
Speaker 1: on how they legally obtained it. Maybe they got it
Speaker 1: from Alaska, I guess. But it was actually very delicious.
Speaker 1: Oh then the Maggie anchorin the other day used bison
Speaker 1: garum was It basically tasted like an extra rich soy sauce,
Speaker 1: like like mega umami.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm really curious how that was made. I would
Speaker 4: love to learn how to make garum It was delicious.
Speaker 1: We also, if you've never seen this exotic pasta from
Speaker 1: Italy called Penny Penny.
Speaker 2: I thought the e was silent, just pean.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's randall elbow macaroni, also from Italy.
Speaker 2: Got any wonderbread any ketchup?
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, buddy, we have we have like a
Speaker 10: crush shell.
Speaker 11: We have a crush shell for those that that can't
Speaker 11: get it done with, you know, from scratch. You can
Speaker 11: use catch up, wonderbread, that sort of stuff, and I'll
Speaker 11: be happy.
Speaker 1: To eat it, but it's probably gonna cost you a
Speaker 1: little bit of in the creativity.
Speaker 9: Uh point.
Speaker 2: You don't know what I'm gonna do with it yet.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, but I feel like that stuff's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a crutch.
Speaker 9: It's a little bit of an easy button.
Speaker 2: Well, well, I'm gonna see what I get for my
Speaker 2: uh mystery ingredient today and we'll just proceed from there.
Speaker 2: How's that sound.
Speaker 9: We'll see it these folks.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, thank you, sir.
Speaker 4: Now Randall has teased me with the prospect of a
Speaker 4: meat smoothie.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I've been told there's a blender and if
Speaker 2: all else fails can't nail the texture on the uh
Speaker 2: on the hot pan, it's they're going in there take
Speaker 2: it through a straw.
Speaker 4: I hope I'm not drinking my meal today.
Speaker 2: You very well might be.
Speaker 4: Phil.
Speaker 2: What do we got for some listener feedback here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because this reminder now is a good time to
Speaker 3: submit some questions for the crew to day Maggie, Brody
Speaker 3: and Randall. Yeah, this one was just funny to me.
Speaker 3: When you were looking at the tv raandl someone said,
Speaker 3: why does Randal always look like he's trying to remember
Speaker 3: his AOL password? Which that's just that's just a funny.
Speaker 3: That's just a funny joke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3: Ryan.
Speaker 2: I am really bad with passwords, so this is I
Speaker 2: usually I don't know what I look like when I'm
Speaker 2: trying to think of I think.
Speaker 5: You're just making sure you're saying what you're supposed to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, that's true. You know, just trying to
Speaker 2: stick to the script.
Speaker 5: Speaking before you think and get you in trouble.
Speaker 2: We like to have a nice clean show here.
Speaker 3: On that note, and I'm trusting you guys right now.
Speaker 3: I'm putting a lot of faith in in in you
Speaker 3: for not spoiling what's coming up next week. But Wang
Speaker 3: Gonzalez asks, if Randall wins the trivia tournament, are we
Speaker 3: going to see some suck at Randall stickers to replace
Speaker 3: the sucket Brody stickers.
Speaker 5: I we'll have to come up with something better and suck.
Speaker 2: It from the man himself.
Speaker 5: You heard it here that one's copyrighted to me.
Speaker 3: This is something that I'm curious about. Maybe it'll be
Speaker 3: a short answer. But Brendan asks. He says, hey, guys,
Speaker 3: y'all have any issues with lower turkey numbers due to predation.
Speaker 3: My turkey flocks that I've hunted for years got decimated
Speaker 3: by coyotes over the winter. I don't know where you are, Brendan,
Speaker 3: but if you're still in the chat, you want to
Speaker 3: let us know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's like very location dependent. I feel like I
Speaker 5: would say out here, numbers are are more influenced by
Speaker 5: the severity of winters and whether turkey flocks have access
Speaker 5: to this Some people might not like hearing this, but
Speaker 5: where turkey flocks out here have access to cattle pastures
Speaker 5: in the winter, they're going to do a lot better.
Speaker 5: They like getting down in that cattle pasture and pecking
Speaker 5: through the cow poop and where they can do that,
Speaker 5: they do pretty good. But we had a old winter
Speaker 5: well along stratch of cold, so it's yet to be
Speaker 5: seen what's going on with turkey numbers in Montana. I
Speaker 5: can't speak to anywhere.
Speaker 3: Brent Brendan says he's in New Jersey by the way.
Speaker 5: M Yeah, I mean predation is certainly a problem, like
Speaker 5: a net nest predation. I think you probably uh, raccoons
Speaker 5: are doing as much damage as coyotes.
Speaker 2: This this might be a question to uh Caitlin for
Speaker 2: share with our next guest.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, she knows a lot about Turkey's coyotes.
Speaker 3: She's smiling in the waiting room. I hope that's a
Speaker 3: good sign. Good good in the woods, asks Maggie. What's
Speaker 3: the crat craziest article you've written for me here? And
Speaker 3: I'll extend to like maybe maybe your favorite or something
Speaker 3: you're you're the most proud of that people should check
Speaker 3: out to.
Speaker 4: I wrote one about seafood fraud a few years ago.
Speaker 4: I think it was titled something like hog bunk of
Speaker 4: the sea because people will actually use hog bunk and
Speaker 4: slice it up as calamari and sell it as calamari.
Speaker 4: And there's like other instances of you know, like Chile
Speaker 4: and sea bass. It's I forget what it was actually called.
Speaker 4: It's like, uh something toothfish, and it's just like this
Speaker 4: renaming rebranding. Selling seafood is something that it maybe isn't
Speaker 4: just to market it to the consumer, which is really
Speaker 4: interesting because people still consume it and buy it.
Speaker 2: And that name really took hold after it was served
Speaker 2: for launch at Jurassic Park headquarters, just fictional island where
Speaker 2: Jurassic Park was. Philly got anything else from the check?
Speaker 3: Does Randall like skyline Chili?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: I love it so much. I love so much, Austin,
Speaker 2: Do you have any send it to me? I just
Speaker 2: made some. I just made some fake skyline a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago.
Speaker 5: Maybe you'll be making some in half an hour I could, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: in a blender.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 4: Do you put beans in skyline Chili?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: No, you can add you can add beans.
Speaker 4: Beans and noodles. Seems weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So so, typically it's served in a number of ways.
Speaker 2: You have a three way, which is chili. It's it's spaghetti,
Speaker 2: chili and cheese. And then you can have a four
Speaker 2: way where you either add chopped onions or beans chopped
Speaker 2: five way where you add both, or you serve them
Speaker 2: on a coney hot dog, little mini.
Speaker 4: Hot dog, hot dog with noodles.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, you could, but that's typically not the traditional way.
Speaker 2: Bee Dawson. I could go on for hours about Skyline Chili.
Speaker 2: I love it. Also a gold Star man, but Skyline
Speaker 2: really is probably my number one.
Speaker 3: A question from mogor Uh. He says he finished the
Speaker 3: new audiobook this week, the one that you made with Steve.
Speaker 3: He really enjoyed it. Congratulations. His question is how much
Speaker 3: research was needed for the project. And I guess, like
Speaker 3: you could say that in terms of months, or books
Speaker 3: or hours.
Speaker 2: I'll just say that that's my full time job. Trivia
Speaker 2: and podcasts and radio live are just sort of the
Speaker 2: icing on top, but none of that is in my
Speaker 2: job description. It's a full time job. I don't really
Speaker 2: know where to start with number of books, but yeah,
Speaker 2: we probably worked on that for oh, I guess maybe
Speaker 2: seven months for the first draft, and then rewrote a
Speaker 2: bit and then recorded it probably nine months out from
Speaker 2: when we started, So it's like a year long life
Speaker 2: cycle basically between getting it started and then the launch
Speaker 2: and promotion and everything.
Speaker 5: You're already researching the next one, aren't.
Speaker 2: You, in the spare time that I have. Yes, we've
Speaker 2: got another one coming out on the Buffalo Hide Hunters,
Speaker 2: which is kind of a subject near and dear to
Speaker 2: Steve's heart. So that's that's been a fun one to
Speaker 2: get started.
Speaker 3: There was a question regarding your crossword puzzle scores, Rano
Speaker 3: that we haven't gotten an update in a while, but
Speaker 3: then Spencer, our very own Spencer new Heart, responded that
Speaker 3: Randall scores are posted at the top of every crossword puzzle.
Speaker 3: If you go look at any of them, you'll see
Speaker 3: his score in the first sentence. Do you know what
Speaker 3: that means?
Speaker 2: Probably in the little lead in instructions thing. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: when Spencer puts together a crossword every week, he and
Speaker 2: Logan who plugs it into the website, give me that
Speaker 2: link in advance. You take it first, and I take
Speaker 2: it first, so then everybody can. And this week, let
Speaker 2: me just point out here that this week I scored
Speaker 2: a three ninety five with a record time of a
Speaker 2: minute and thirty four seconds. Pretty proud of that one,
Speaker 2: Thanks Spencer.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 2: Crosswords are an part of my job that aren't in
Speaker 2: my job description.
Speaker 4: Curious that is because you have a superhuman ability to
Speaker 4: get them done in that amount of time.
Speaker 2: I just don't have much else.
Speaker 3: Let's do one more on the heels. Let's do one
Speaker 3: more on the heels of the Meat Eater behind the
Speaker 3: scenes HQ. Yeah, this is kind of a big question
Speaker 3: for everyone, but Michael asks, what's your favorite part of
Speaker 3: working at Meat Eater? That could be anything from crossword
Speaker 3: puzzles to researching mountain men for months.
Speaker 2: Who wants to start?
Speaker 5: My favorite part is turning in a finished manuscript. The
Speaker 5: rest of it is isn't necessarily that fun, but man,
Speaker 5: when you're like, holy shit, we're done, like that's a
Speaker 5: good feeling.
Speaker 4: That's got to be satisfying.
Speaker 2: Yep, Maggie, I would.
Speaker 4: Say, just like the content that we get to work
Speaker 4: with day in and day out is really great and fun,
Speaker 4: and we like everyone that we work with is a
Speaker 4: fantastic person Like, it's just a really great community here.
Speaker 5: I didn't think about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, interrupted, I just couldn't help myself.
Speaker 4: No, every and every time I come into the office,
Speaker 4: I'm reminded of like all the good folks that work here.
Speaker 4: So that's it's nice, you don't You don't always get that,
Speaker 4: so I try not to take it for granted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would probably echo some variation of that. I
Speaker 2: enjoy coming into the office and just having fun all
Speaker 2: day long.
Speaker 5: Like today, all you're doing is having fun all day long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just make a couple of stupid jokes and act
Speaker 2: like a buffoon. You know, A lot of jobs require
Speaker 2: you to maintain some level of professionalism, and I like
Speaker 2: that I can just be a weirdo.
Speaker 3: I'll second that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let it, let it shine, just let it fly.
Speaker 3: Cool. Well, let's keep sending those questions in. We'll do
Speaker 3: one more round of those at the end of the seas.
Speaker 2: Those are some good ones. Thank you. Joining us on
Speaker 2: the line is Wild Turkey researcher and fur trapper Caitlin
Speaker 2: lo Spinoso, or as some of you may know her
Speaker 2: better on social media as old Trapper Kate. Caitlin. Welcome
Speaker 2: to the show.
Speaker 10: Hi, how are you.
Speaker 2: We're doing great? How are you?
Speaker 10: I'm good mentally? Oh no, but you know we'll get there.
Speaker 2: Good, good, Well, Caitlin tell us a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 2: you are a wildlife researcher and a fur trapper, and
Speaker 2: anybody who's following along on social media knows that you've
Speaker 2: been rather busy lately with your trapping season. Can you
Speaker 2: just give us a quick overview of of your trapping season,
Speaker 2: kind of what when that starts, when that ends, and
Speaker 2: how hard you go?
Speaker 8: Yes, So it's been a crazy season. Land trapping wrapped
Speaker 8: up here. The season closed on Friday, so I've been
Speaker 8: taken this week for some R and R, just kind
Speaker 8: of relaxing before I start setting for Biaber.
Speaker 10: We have another month of water trapping coming up here.
Speaker 8: So I had a great land trapping season, targeting bobcats
Speaker 8: and coyotes. I'm trapping all on public land, so I
Speaker 8: can't run a huge line. I probably average about twelve
Speaker 8: sets at any given time and just run those as
Speaker 8: I can while I'm working. And I did fantastic on bobcats.
Speaker 8: There was a record year. I doubled my goal. I
Speaker 8: was hoping I would get four. I got a nice,
Speaker 8: amazingly spotted, just beautiful cats. Yeah, that was actually my
Speaker 8: my last hurrah. Last week on them, I I doubled
Speaker 8: up and that spotted one was just a beautiful tom.
Speaker 10: But yeah, I got nine.
Speaker 8: Coyotes as well, and it was it was a grind
Speaker 8: this season.
Speaker 10: I really really enjoyed it, had a great time.
Speaker 2: Very cool. How did you get into trapping, if you
Speaker 2: don't mind us asking.
Speaker 10: Yeah, very non traditionally.
Speaker 8: I didn't have any history of trapping in my family.
Speaker 8: I didn't know any trappers. I just it was totally
Speaker 8: not on my radar. But I love the grind. I
Speaker 8: taught myself how to hunt in public land. I taught
Speaker 8: myself how to bass fish like a pro. I just
Speaker 8: always loved having some kind of really complex problem to
Speaker 8: solve in the outdoors. And I found myself in that
Speaker 8: kind of dead space between deer season and Turkey season,
Speaker 8: just really trying to find something I could go hard
Speaker 8: on and really get into. And I had the hardest
Speaker 8: time figuring out what that could be until I went
Speaker 8: into undergrad and I had a wildlife management course where
Speaker 8: trapping was discussed as a method for both research and harvest,
Speaker 8: and it kind of got my wheels turning. And I
Speaker 8: actually remembered the Wyoming beaver trapping episode that that was
Speaker 8: in I think season six of Meat Eater where Steve
Speaker 8: snared one and it just clicked like instantly.
Speaker 10: I was like, that's the next step, that's it.
Speaker 4: I can do that.
Speaker 8: And I had tons of beaver in the creek bottom
Speaker 8: that I was hunting on public, so I went in there.
Speaker 8: It took me two days, got my first beaver, and
Speaker 8: it just snowballed from there.
Speaker 10: I was. I was hooked, and now now I'm I'm doing.
Speaker 8: Everything that I possibly can coyote, bobcat, raccoon, possum, skunk, beaver,
Speaker 8: hopefully otter I'll get back into.
Speaker 10: There's not many here where I'm at here in Kansas now.
Speaker 2: But these pillows here that are on the screen, those
Speaker 2: you set those in for the auction house of otities,
Speaker 2: if I recall.
Speaker 8: So, not those ones in the picture there's there's a
Speaker 8: photo of me holding to those are the ones that
Speaker 8: I sent in. But yeah, I started so when I
Speaker 8: started trapping and I started out with beaver, I was
Speaker 8: getting all these you know, beautiful pelts and looking at
Speaker 8: the fur market obviously dried fur. It's been talked about
Speaker 8: a lot like the fur market was just in the tank.
Speaker 8: Beaver's come up a little bit with the with the.
Speaker 10: Western hat craze.
Speaker 8: But at the time, I was trying to figure out,
Speaker 8: how can I use this fur in in kind of
Speaker 8: a unique way that I'm going to be able to
Speaker 8: turn more of a profit than I would if I
Speaker 8: just sold the dried pelts to a fur buyer. And
Speaker 8: I started thinking about, like, how can I make it
Speaker 8: a novelty? And the first thing I thought it was like, man,
Speaker 8: these are these would make like a.
Speaker 10: Really awesome throw pillow.
Speaker 8: So I just took, you know, I took the beaver
Speaker 8: that I got that first season, I tandemed myself and
Speaker 8: and I just got to making them into into pillows
Speaker 8: and selling them on just through Facebook, and they were
Speaker 8: selling really well. So then I thought, you know what
Speaker 8: about Etsy if I really got a store going and
Speaker 8: sold you know, Wallhannger pelts and you know, different fur
Speaker 8: items that I could make myself. And yeah, just kind
Speaker 8: of went from there. And those the ones that I
Speaker 8: donated when I made them. I really loved that pair
Speaker 8: was this beautiful, dark kind of chocolate beaver pelts and
Speaker 8: they matched perfectly, and and I was just sitting there
Speaker 8: like fixing them up, and I was going to the
Speaker 8: Meat Eater Live show that night actually when I finished them,
Speaker 8: and I was.
Speaker 10: Like, I wonder, I wonder if they would take.
Speaker 8: This for the auction house because I was like, that
Speaker 8: would be a really cool thing to see. You know
Speaker 8: how much these could get for the for the cause?
Speaker 8: And yeah, message Spencer and he was like, yeah, we'll
Speaker 8: take them. Heck yeah, And I was. I was super
Speaker 8: worried that they weren't gonna do much in the in
Speaker 8: the auction but they they actually did really well, so
Speaker 8: that was awesome.
Speaker 2: Do you remember what they sold for you got that?
Speaker 8: I think it was eight hundred and five if I remember,
Speaker 8: Oh nice, yeah, And I mean they were a beautiful set,
Speaker 8: and I like, I I was going to keep them
Speaker 8: for myself. I was like, oh, like if this can
Speaker 8: go to to raising some money for the cause, and
Speaker 8: obviously that's just like a super cool thing.
Speaker 2: To do, so very cool. We appreciate it very much.
Speaker 4: What do you typically sell a beaver throw pillow for?
Speaker 8: So I had been selling them, uh for depending on
Speaker 8: the size, probably eighty two one hundred eighty depending because
Speaker 8: I would make some like really little tiny ones that
Speaker 8: are like like just a cute little thing to have,
Speaker 8: and then I had some that were like eighteen twenty
Speaker 8: inches that would be and depending on the backing that
Speaker 8: I put on them, Like if I just did a
Speaker 8: basic kind of corduroy backing, obviously that's much cheaper. Some
Speaker 8: of them I did swayed, which is which is a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 8: Spencer does confirmed eight hundred five.
Speaker 10: Yeah I did.
Speaker 8: I did swayed on those, so it was really those
Speaker 8: were a really nice set. But yeah, I've done I've
Speaker 8: done double sided for which is going to be the
Speaker 8: most expensive. But yeah, the backing material adds adds a
Speaker 8: that's a big variation.
Speaker 10: The value and then the side.
Speaker 4: Sure did you already know how to sew or did
Speaker 4: you learn that as well?
Speaker 2: As same question if that's another thing you just figured
Speaker 2: out for something to do.
Speaker 8: I learned to make the pillows, you know. I was like,
Speaker 8: the idea for a pillow came into my head.
Speaker 10: And I was like, I don't know how.
Speaker 8: To stitch like a pillow cover, and so I, yeah,
Speaker 8: I learned that on the fly, and uh, it's it's
Speaker 8: so much fun. It's just you know, another another thing
Speaker 8: to keep me engaged with it and do something more
Speaker 8: with that with that fur. It really it it makes
Speaker 8: me very happy to you know, make as much back
Speaker 8: on that harvest, like make that harvest as meaningful as
Speaker 8: possible and get as much use as it out of
Speaker 8: it as I can.
Speaker 10: So yeah, I really enjoy that part.
Speaker 2: Very cool.
Speaker 4: It's impressive.
Speaker 2: So how are the critters in your neck the woods
Speaker 2: doing this year? What are your takeaways from the season
Speaker 2: as far as hair and hides and the health of
Speaker 2: the health of the populations.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so they've been They were really really healthy. Started
Speaker 10: the year.
Speaker 8: The coyotes were as about as fatty as I've seen
Speaker 8: them and super primed up.
Speaker 10: They stayed prime all the way through the end of
Speaker 10: the season.
Speaker 8: On Friday, I think, you know, obviously it was just
Speaker 8: talked about we had a really hard winner. The last
Speaker 8: couple winners have been kind of mild to where getting
Speaker 8: into February they would already have some rubs and and
Speaker 8: just losing.
Speaker 10: Those guard hairs.
Speaker 8: But this season they were they were primed like I
Speaker 8: have not seen since I've been here. This is my
Speaker 8: third season trapping here, so they're they were just fantastic.
Speaker 10: I was. I was over the moon with it, especially like.
Speaker 8: Friday, I picked up my last coyote of the season
Speaker 8: and she I was expecting her to have rubs and stuff,
Speaker 8: but she was still super prime. So this this is
Speaker 8: not a I mean, Kansas, it's not you know, a
Speaker 8: top tier first date usually. But the animals that I
Speaker 8: pulled this year were very very well, doing very well,
Speaker 8: very cool. Yeah, they had some I saw some crazy injuries,
Speaker 8: which I sent in a picture of one that that
Speaker 8: coyote that I pulled on Friday, she was super big, healthy.
Speaker 8: You wouldn't have thought that anything was wrong with her.
Speaker 8: And when I got to skinning her got down to
Speaker 8: her face and I hit metal and I was like,
Speaker 8: oh gosh, right around her eye, I hit metal, So
Speaker 8: I like pull the skin back and there's a broadhead
Speaker 8: sticking out of her eye socket. Wow.
Speaker 10: She was just gnarly.
Speaker 8: It was just when I got in there and started
Speaker 8: digging around, it was just sitting under her eyeball Like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you could not tell that anything was wrong. She
Speaker 8: had like a little lump under her eye that was
Speaker 8: healed over, scabbed over, And when I got to skinning,
Speaker 8: I hit metal and I could not figure out what
Speaker 8: it was and had to clean it up before I
Speaker 8: could see that it was a broadhead. But yeah, you
Speaker 8: wouldn't have known her. Her one eye was like up
Speaker 8: a little higher than the other because it was resting
Speaker 8: on the broad head. But the eye wasn't punctured like
Speaker 8: she was. She was doing great. So yeah, pretty crazy stuff.
Speaker 8: They're they're tough and they they made it through very
Speaker 8: well this year despite the harch weather.
Speaker 4: So oh yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for joining us. I know you've got
Speaker 2: to rest up before you kick off your your spring
Speaker 2: beaver trapping, so appreciate the update and we will check
Speaker 2: in with you again here soon.
Speaker 10: Yeah, sounds good. Thank you, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Our next segment is Meat Eater Movie Club. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Phil Jean Jacques Anoud's nineteen eighty eight feature The Bear
Speaker 2: offers a mesmerizing glimpse into the wilderness through the eyes
Speaker 2: of its ersine protagonists. This largely dialogue free film follows
Speaker 2: an orphaned cub who forms an unlikely dare I say,
Speaker 2: unnatural bond with an adult male grizzly while fleeing human
Speaker 2: hunters in the Canadian wilderness. The arc of the film,
Speaker 2: though simple, carries surprising emotional weight. We witness terror, playfulness, curiosity,
Speaker 2: and tenderness through the bear's experiences. In my own reading
Speaker 2: of the film, the human hunters or portrayed not as
Speaker 2: unredeemable killers, but as yet another species on the landscape,
Speaker 2: prisoners of their own nature, which adds a layer of
Speaker 2: moral complexity to the tale. But all else, the Bear
Speaker 2: is a noteworthy technical achievement in the underappreciated genre of
Speaker 2: animal movies, anod somehow elicits authentic performances from real bears,
Speaker 2: only rivaled in my mind by the profound work of
Speaker 2: Sam the orangutan in as the title character in the
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six comedy Dunstan checks In. The Bear manages
Speaker 2: to create moments of genuine emotion without excessively anthropomorphizing its subjects,
Speaker 2: although I think we might have some discussion on that later.
Speaker 2: I did add the qualifier excessively. The film stunning cinematography
Speaker 2: captures both the brutal reality and sublime grandeur of nature
Speaker 2: as it is red in Tooth and Claw. Most remarkable
Speaker 2: is the film's successful execution of what can only be
Speaker 2: described as the peculiar artistic vision of its French director.
Speaker 2: Ant had long been fascinated by nonverbal communication and specifically
Speaker 2: sought to make an animal the lead character in a
Speaker 2: psychological drama, a revolutionary concept that challenged conventional Hollywood wisdom.
Speaker 2: He boldly inverts the traditional literary conflict type of man
Speaker 2: versus beast, placing humans as the antagonists rather than the protagonist.
Speaker 2: Whereas films like The Gray Parentheses Media to Radio Live
Speaker 2: Episode two position large conivores as an existential threat to
Speaker 2: human survival, and those like The Edge Fanentheses Media to
Speaker 2: Radio Live Episode fifteen employ them to heighten familiar conflicts
Speaker 2: rooted in the human experience, The Bear elevates animal consciousness
Speaker 2: to the narrative center. This radical perspective shift forces viewers
Speaker 2: to confront uncomfortable questions about our fundamental relationship with wildlife
Speaker 2: and our place within nature's hierarchy. The Bear is a
Speaker 2: unique cinematic experience, particularly after a few glasses of wine.
Speaker 2: It's a testament to the power of filmmaking that transcends
Speaker 2: language barriers to speak directly to our primal understanding of survival, family,
Speaker 2: and the wilderness. Phil I appreciate your screen grab there. Now,
Speaker 2: what do the critics say? Roger Ebert gave this film
Speaker 2: three out of four stars and had this to say
Speaker 2: about the dialogue of the hunters quote. Their words are
Speaker 2: not meant to be language, but simply the sounds made
Speaker 2: by the animal named man. And I have a couple
Speaker 2: of quick facts for you here. It's based on a
Speaker 2: nineteen sixteen called The Grizzly King. Brody characterized it as
Speaker 2: a book written by a repentant French.
Speaker 5: Guilman guil Frenchman.
Speaker 2: It was filmed over nineteen weeks in the Dolomites in
Speaker 2: Italy with three actors, twenty three bears, and lots of
Speaker 2: other critters. They had to teach this bear how to
Speaker 2: fish because he had been living in captivity in Utah
Speaker 2: and didn't have experience with fishing, so they hired a
Speaker 2: guy to come on set every day and release a
Speaker 2: fish into the pond. But the bear was initially afraid
Speaker 2: of the fish. And then this is my final note here.
Speaker 2: This one might go on a little bit. One day
Speaker 2: during production, Bart the bear injured a nod while the
Speaker 2: two posed for photographers. A Nod's wounds, which included claw
Speaker 2: marks on his back, had to be drained with a
Speaker 2: shunt for two months. Then I happened to find this
Speaker 2: quote from an interview. I believe it's translated from the
Speaker 2: original French. So I'll do my best. I was a
Speaker 2: very good friend of Zibert. One days, the photographer had
Speaker 2: to make the use you a picture of the director
Speaker 2: and z star this film. I had to show that
Speaker 2: my star was huge, so I stood on a little mound.
Speaker 2: Of course, all that protected me was a flimsy fence.
Speaker 2: So I went into his part his domain. I was standing,
Speaker 2: but he was so high I could not see his head.
Speaker 2: To make it even more apparent, I decided to squat.
Speaker 2: I always carry my viewfinder, you know, I took it
Speaker 2: like this. He had never seen my viewfinder. I immediately
Speaker 2: understood that I did something wrong. Ooh la la. He
Speaker 2: didn't add that I did. He leaned down with his
Speaker 2: mouth open. That means you're not my friend. I knew
Speaker 2: what to do. I decided to go limp bin.
Speaker 5: A great German accent.
Speaker 2: I really tried not to make this German brand.
Speaker 3: It's really good. You're you're kind of towing the line.
Speaker 3: I'd say it's more French than German, though I'm giving
Speaker 3: you credit.
Speaker 2: He stroked me on the shoulder and I went six
Speaker 2: seven meters down. I heard his mouth go ek ek
Speaker 2: ek eck. His trainer says okay, good boy, good boy.
Speaker 2: Clearly he too wanted to kill the director. The stench
Speaker 2: was incredible. I felt he missed an opportunity and crab.
Speaker 2: I felt that this was my mistake. Very Fortunately, I
Speaker 2: had read the book called Bear Attacks, and they explains
Speaker 2: that the only survivors.
Speaker 3: Of a bear attack now it's very German, were.
Speaker 2: Those who were playing dead. Apparently that was the only
Speaker 2: time I was a good actor that's German, when I
Speaker 2: was playing dead, so I trusted that I was dead.
Speaker 2: The last two months of shooting. I had to go
Speaker 2: to the hospital every morning and evening after the shoot,
Speaker 2: as I was seriously wounded. Otherwise I should be in
Speaker 2: a wheelchair today. The very touching thing is that for
Speaker 2: the z rest of the shoot, Bear never met my
Speaker 2: eyes again. Each time I was moving on Z set,
Speaker 2: he looked away like a dog feeling guilty.
Speaker 4: Well done, Randall.
Speaker 2: So I just thought that was too good not to share.
Speaker 2: And we couldn't play the video because it's in French, so.
Speaker 5: Well you could have translated in that voice.
Speaker 2: What do you guys think of the movie?
Speaker 5: Here? Big Picture to have a hard time calling it
Speaker 5: a movie. I think it's propaganda at best.
Speaker 4: Answer, finest sleep.
Speaker 5: It's like it's like nature good Man, bad, Hunting worse
Speaker 5: and uh. Like we were talking about Roger Ebert's Uh.
Speaker 5: Roger Ebert's review, that man, who was a very respected
Speaker 5: movie critic when he was still alive, said like part
Speaker 5: of his review is like it gives you a glimpse
Speaker 5: into how bears live, which tells you, like how much
Speaker 5: that guy knows about like how bears live. Like, I
Speaker 5: would add more respect for this movie if it was
Speaker 5: a Disney channel or a Disney movie where the bears
Speaker 5: talked and they had the funny raccoon sidekick that followed
Speaker 5: him around, Like it would have been better if it
Speaker 5: was done that.
Speaker 4: Way, right, I would have more respect for this movie
Speaker 4: if they didn't use a monkey and a child the
Speaker 4: noises that the cub makes, because if you haven't watched
Speaker 4: the bear the entire time, the cub is just.
Speaker 2: Like making these So that.
Speaker 4: I looked it up, it was either a monkey or
Speaker 4: a child making those noises.
Speaker 2: In my notes here, right between the note that says, oh,
Speaker 2: this is too sad and the note that says steep
Speaker 2: ass country, I have a note that says this bear
Speaker 2: is giving off strong monkey vibes.
Speaker 4: So monkey or child, so they.
Speaker 2: Couldn't just set the noises were bad.
Speaker 4: The noises were bad. I think it like the cinematography
Speaker 4: in the movie is beautiful.
Speaker 3: And it's it's really striking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like this movie looks looks incredible, like the Dolomites.
Speaker 4: It's it's really cool. And I think if they just
Speaker 4: had like music, like a good score, I think it
Speaker 4: would be a lot more powerful than these horrid whimpering.
Speaker 3: It's something else. The bear either that. The fully work
Speaker 3: overall is kind of rough. There's the very beginning when
Speaker 3: the mom is cleaning off her cub with her tongue
Speaker 3: and it sounds like a human being slurping jelly.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, Phil, For for those of us who aren't
Speaker 2: in showbiz, folly is a.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, fully. A fully artist is someone who records
Speaker 3: sounds after the movie is shot, basically fake sounds. Not
Speaker 3: I mean the sounds aren't fake, but.
Speaker 5: Something you have a lot of experience with.
Speaker 9: I do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I not just at meat Eater, but for for
Speaker 3: TV shows I worked. I worked on Mountain Men on
Speaker 3: the History Channel and all those footsteps you hear through
Speaker 3: the snow are my footsteps walking through snow. That's fully
Speaker 3: something after the fact, and then plug it in in
Speaker 3: the I.
Speaker 2: Think the moments like that are my favorite part of it.
Speaker 5: I think this movie should have ended with the folly
Speaker 5: of that male grizzly crunching that cub skull. That's like,
Speaker 5: that's how it would have ended in real life.
Speaker 4: Yet not the cub licking the bullet wound.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that was.
Speaker 2: My least favorite part of it. Was just the dynamic
Speaker 2: between the cub and the bore. But otherwise there were
Speaker 2: a lot of times where if I wasn't paying attention
Speaker 2: to what was coming out of the speakers, I was
Speaker 2: just like, man, I'm looking at some bears doing bear
Speaker 2: stuff in beautiful country.
Speaker 4: But the bear acting was really impressive, and apparently Bart
Speaker 4: the bear almost got an oscar for not killing the
Speaker 4: cub like that specifically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I there's also a there's a whole
Speaker 2: book about how they made this, and there's also a
Speaker 2: fifty minute documentary on YouTube of behind the scenes footage
Speaker 2: and it's ship I skimmed through it, and you get
Speaker 2: to see the trainers trying to stimulate the bears into
Speaker 2: making different faces and then sort of leading them around,
Speaker 2: through their through their steps on the scene, you get
Speaker 2: to see the lion.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: I think Bart the bear was better in Legends of
Speaker 5: the Fall when he rips up. Brad Pitt agreed.
Speaker 2: Totally, totally. But I think one of the things that
Speaker 2: bothered me the most. I mean, my notes are just chaos.
Speaker 10: Same.
Speaker 5: Were you just watching a movie with a coldie in
Speaker 5: your hand writing stuff down? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh, it was not a movie that I
Speaker 2: felt I had to pay particularly close attention to. But
Speaker 2: when he's cleaning the gun and there's not it's like
Speaker 2: this beautiful gun and he's got the action open and
Speaker 2: there's not like a drop of grease.
Speaker 9: On it anywhere.
Speaker 2: There's no grime or grid anywhere. That was the thing
Speaker 2: that just jumped out to me the most.
Speaker 5: You appreciated that, or you felt it was it.
Speaker 2: Was unrealistic for that guy, the way that guy looked.
Speaker 2: I don't think his gun was as clean as it was.
Speaker 4: I don't think you would have had that pretty of
Speaker 4: a gun either. I think this was like French director
Speaker 4: wanting to have this like, yeah, he's a bear hunter,
Speaker 4: he has a bear gun. As this pile of dead
Speaker 4: bears that the cub lays on, you know, like, but
Speaker 4: I did think it was a really cool gun. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And I looked it up and apparently it's Tom. Is
Speaker 4: this man's name Tom? I'm assuming you didn't pick that
Speaker 4: up in.
Speaker 2: The no French reading the Wikipedia.
Speaker 4: Same, So this is Tom and that's a Winchester eighteen
Speaker 4: sixty six Yellow Boy rifle, which is a very cool
Speaker 4: name for a very cool gun. I believe it was
Speaker 4: forty four rim fire.
Speaker 5: Not one you'd want to be shooting a grizzly with.
Speaker 2: Well, clearly when you know the one. The other note
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 4: When he cuts the tips of the bullets.
Speaker 2: When he shoots, No, when he shoots the bear and
Speaker 2: he goes, the guy goes, oh, you spooked him, And
Speaker 2: I was just saying that you usually don't. If someone
Speaker 2: shoots something in the front half and there's a big,
Speaker 2: gaping wound, you usually don't call it spooked. Right You
Speaker 2: hit it, Yeah, you hit it, and probably greenviously wounded it.
Speaker 2: But spooked was the the word choice of the the
Speaker 2: screenwriter there.
Speaker 4: So, and then the bear goes on to kill a mule, yeah,
Speaker 4: like seriously, and you're a horse and then leave.
Speaker 2: I wrote here.
Speaker 3: Also like how the guy said my gun jam after.
Speaker 3: I don't know how that affected it.
Speaker 2: I wrote, uh, I wrote horse wounds are wild because
Speaker 2: they did have a lot of animal blood in this film.
Speaker 4: On the dog guts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what about the sex scene?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, there was there speaking of animal noises.
Speaker 4: There did not need to be that level of grunting.
Speaker 4: It was unnecessary.
Speaker 5: It's like a regular old movie with a sex scene.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the kid just watching with a.
Speaker 5: Kid watching, Yeah, that that.
Speaker 2: You can't do that if humans are your protagonists.
Speaker 5: No, you can't. You can't.
Speaker 2: So would you recommend this film?
Speaker 5: It's so hard for me. Like when Mike boys were younger,
Speaker 5: they would have watched it and probably enjoyed it, but
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have been able to watch it with them
Speaker 5: because I'd just been like, that's not right, that's not yeah,
Speaker 5: that's not right. That would never So, I mean, it's
Speaker 5: a it like has its moments, I guess, but no.
Speaker 4: Look when I was like ten years old, when I
Speaker 4: was a child, I watched Old Yeller on repeat. That
Speaker 4: was like my go to movie.
Speaker 5: That's some real shit there.
Speaker 4: That is some real shit. But I also enjoyed, Like
Speaker 4: do you guys ever see Wild America.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Marky Stove, Yeah was that his name?
Speaker 4: I think, Yeah, with really really awful animatronic bears. But
Speaker 4: like I loved that as a kid.
Speaker 5: Isn't that the guy had got in trouble for like
Speaker 5: for Raisin Bears.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for like staging Wildlife.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if this movie is ninety seven minutes long, there's
Speaker 2: probably fifty minutes of it that I could clip out
Speaker 2: and just play on repeat with a different sound. And
Speaker 2: I just glance over at the monitor every now and
Speaker 2: then when I'm watching an NBA game and they go
Speaker 2: to a TV timeout and I could just watch the
Speaker 2: bears kind of moving across the landscape.
Speaker 4: I would have been this would have been my jam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Randall, you said that you watched a little behind
Speaker 3: the scenes documentary and saw some kind of wild stuff. Yes,
Speaker 3: like what, I'm sorry, Well, I just suggest you, like
Speaker 3: like there's some scenes where they use puppets or how
Speaker 3: they were kind of like they had the bears chained up,
Speaker 3: so they did use.
Speaker 2: Like puppet or animatronic bears for some of the fighting scenes,
Speaker 2: but otherwise it's just real bears.
Speaker 4: And yeah, they were in the dream scenes.
Speaker 2: In the dream scenes, Yeah, when he eats, the Mario mushrooms,
Speaker 2: the Super Mario mushrooms and just goes wild. That reminded
Speaker 2: me of the time that I went to Chuck E Chee.
Speaker 2: When I went to Chuck E Cheese and I was
Speaker 2: much too old to go to Chuck E Cheese and
Speaker 2: the animatronic animals kind of pop out of the wall
Speaker 2: and there's purple lights flashing around.
Speaker 5: Age uncomfortable, horrible.
Speaker 2: Flashbacks to that, But yeah, they they I mean to
Speaker 2: move the animals around. They had chains on them, and
Speaker 2: they would kind of like walk them on the rocks,
Speaker 2: like across the river, and like you could see them
Speaker 2: sort of setting the bear on that piece of wood
Speaker 2: that he floats down on. It was pretty weird stuff,
Speaker 2: pretty weird stuff, but also interesting. I think that brings
Speaker 2: us the end of Meat Eater Movie Club. Another flawlessly
Speaker 2: executed segment until I dropped Phil's little prompt there at
Speaker 2: the end. But I think it turned out all right. Phil,
Speaker 2: what's the chat saying?
Speaker 3: Well, there was a funny little conversation that happened. Canadian
Speaker 3: Hunter asked us, now that you no longer have an internate,
Speaker 3: are you looking for a new Internnate? I'm assuming Canadian
Speaker 3: hunter's name is Nate. And then our very own internate
Speaker 3: Pipe piped in and said, intern isn't a title, it's
Speaker 3: a way of life. Wants an internate, always an internate,
Speaker 3: and then Spencer said, get back to work, Nate. I
Speaker 3: just thought that was funny. Jack's fishing asks that his
Speaker 3: kids or her kids love Meat Eater trivia? Is there
Speaker 3: any more coming up soon? There will be more Meat
Speaker 3: Eater Kids episodes this summer. We are currently in pre
Speaker 3: production on those sighting, so stay tuned. And honestly, that
Speaker 3: was pretty much the only question we got between the.
Speaker 5: Last No reactions to the movie.
Speaker 3: A lot of a lot of reactions. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if a lot of people watched watch
Speaker 3: the movie, so they didn't have a lot to say,
Speaker 3: but they had a lot of a lot of comments,
Speaker 3: mostly suggesting new movies like Leland suggested the legacy of
Speaker 3: a White til Yeah, there's been a lot of hundreds
Speaker 3: of beavers suggestions and that's a that's a newer movie,
Speaker 3: so that might be kind of fun to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is one that's on the list. Corey has
Speaker 2: been helping us curate our selections.
Speaker 3: So jess A cow Guys said that Brody was the
Speaker 3: only one old enough to see it by himself. It
Speaker 3: isn't true. This movie came out in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 3: I Randall was alive. I believe, I.
Speaker 2: Bet I was two years old.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's just like ben like it's people are
Speaker 5: still wi like it's been around.
Speaker 4: It's on Amazon, yeah right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very accessible for those of you with an
Speaker 2: Internet connection.
Speaker 5: Like people think they can hit me with those age
Speaker 5: jokes and I'm telling you it doesn't. Just like it
Speaker 5: just doesn't matter. Give up, Brody.
Speaker 3: Also, Spencer pulled a guy and another good one and
Speaker 3: wished you a very happy birthday today, Brody, Happy birthday, Brody?
Speaker 5: What's that?
Speaker 3: Spencer wished you a happy birthday in the chat? You
Speaker 3: have a lot of happy birthday messages from people, so
Speaker 3: I just thought i'd extend that to hear.
Speaker 4: I didn't fall for it this time, Spencer.
Speaker 5: I'm not following Spencer.
Speaker 3: Spencer everything about once every once a month, Spencer wishes
Speaker 3: happy birthday to someone in the chat, and it's when
Speaker 3: it's not their birthday, and he gets a kick out
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 5: And I'm glad he.
Speaker 3: Brody doesn't I'm glad.
Speaker 2: Well gang. Before we go, Brody's got a special call
Speaker 2: to action for you folks out there.
Speaker 5: Yes, Surrey, for the twenty twenty six calendar, we are
Speaker 5: doing another e fed Up Old calendar this year. It
Speaker 5: is going to be efed up old trucks, which you
Speaker 5: should interpret as e fed up old hunting rigs. So
Speaker 5: we'll be taking submissions kids, if you're listening, close your ears.
Speaker 5: The email to submit photos of your fucked up old
Speaker 5: hunting truck is fucked Up Old Trucks at the meat
Speaker 5: eater dot com. We are this year the calendar, we're
Speaker 5: going to donate a portion of the sales to back
Speaker 5: huntry hunters and anglers so they can keep on fighting
Speaker 5: these attacks on public lands. So that that's like, that
Speaker 5: reason alone is why you should buy the calendar. But
Speaker 5: they'll be they'll end up being some really cool photos
Speaker 5: of old trucks and and we'll sort through them. We'll
Speaker 5: get a bunch of them, hopefully. Then we're gonna have
Speaker 5: run a little contest for the fans where they can
Speaker 5: hop on the website and choose, will narrow down the
Speaker 5: selection to whatever fifty or one hundred that we like,
Speaker 5: and then then our fans can hop on the web
Speaker 5: page and vote, and those the ones that that get
Speaker 5: the most votes will end up in the calendar.
Speaker 3: And this is an example of a fucked up old truck,
Speaker 3: and you can tell that it's actually in pretty good shape,
Speaker 3: but it's got a lot of character.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's yea an example to chop down suburban I
Speaker 5: believe if you would like an insane conversation about the
Speaker 5: parameters of this prompt, please listen to Monday's Oh Yeah. Next,
Speaker 5: we're telling Steve and I how to make the calendar
Speaker 5: that Steve and I are making that great.
Speaker 2: I wasn't telling you make the calendar. Well, gang, it's
Speaker 2: been fun and we're running a little over time, So
Speaker 2: with that, I think we will bid you ado. Thanks
Speaker 2: for tuning in, and we'll see you here next week
Speaker 2: live for media to HQ. Signing off,