WEBVTT - Ep. 24: Rollerblading with the Golf Course G.O.A.T. 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:04.800 So there you go. If Elon Musk ever gets to 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.960 build his creepy Martian utopia, we will have fish to 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.280 thank for it. I actually at one point wondered if 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.840 he was like real or not, like you may have 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:16.000 been like a robot. Every time somebody says lake Minnetonka, 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:18.079 I have to say to myself, why don't you purify 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.200 yourself in the waters Lake Minatonka. I missed the days 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.640 when you can marry people and not get it into trouble. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.040 Good morning, degenerate anglers, and welcome to Band the fishing 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.960 podcast that refused to include any kids that couldn't skate 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.680 in its roller hockey game. I'm Joe Surmellie A Miles Nulty, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.400 and I was one of those kids. I was not 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.920 in the game, but you know what I I didn't 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.199 care because I was at the skate park on a 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:52.000 skateboard where we wouldn't let any of you barney as 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.480 Blazers anywhere near the ramps or anything else for that matter. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.400 You weren't allowed. That's yeah, Look, that's fair. Skateboarder. You 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.880 were always cooler, right, And I'm not talking extreme rollerblading. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.839 I'm talking about in a hockey context here, Okay, I 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.360 I will say that I find it fascinating that skateboard 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.360 has remained cool, but rollerblades have disappeared. And I know 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.880 it makes perfect Now let's listen. Let's listen. Listen. I 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.520 see the fat dropping out in terms of extreme rollerblading, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.440 like like the skate park that the kids that bothered you. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:29.480 But nobody rollerblades anymore, period, not for fitness, not for anything. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.240 Like I don't even know if kids play street hockey anymore. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.520 I don't even know if that's a thing. Like like kids, 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.640 my kids age, what do they roll with on their feet? 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.440 You don't you don't have roller skates, you don't have, 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.240 you know, roller blades. I don't understand how that just disappeared. 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.679 But other than fishing, it was the only sport I 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.200 was ever into. I played street hockey weekly on blades 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.720 that looked like ice hockey skates. I had the CCM 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:58.680 official roller hockey skates, and even if I was playing goal, 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.080 I kept the skates on. Most kids are like playing 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:02.720 goal and putting my sneakers, and now you keep the 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.440 skates on. I mean, I'm not sure if you're actually 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:10.639 asking me what happened to rollerblades, because if that's the case, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.040 you were asking the wrong guy, because clearly I don't know, 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:15.440 and I don't want to know because I don't care. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.160 We could we could call up my cousin. I guess 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.640 he was. He was on the state roller hawking championship team, 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.000 I think, but he was really he was my younger cousin. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:25.600 He was a badass. Oh, I'd like to know more. 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.120 I'd like to know more about that. Could he not 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.399 ice skate? Is that why it was Hawaii? So ice 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.440 skating not so much. Gotta gotta gotta think about what 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.440 was appropriate, got it and got it. And just to 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.360 like close the loop on this, man, I think I 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:44.839 know what replaced rollerblades for the kids, and and they're 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:49.720 called razor scooters, and they're equally terrible. And I put 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:54.680 rollerblades and razor scooters together with Tankara rods. Alright, Yes, 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.160 that's where I put both of them into that category. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.000 Like they're the kind of thing, any of those things, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:01.400 the kind of thing you might you might have one 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.359 hidden like way in the back of your garage under 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.080 a bunch of stuff, and like you might even use 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.560 it occasionally when you were a hundred percent positive that 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.960 no one that you respect is gonna see you. But 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.200 if one of your buddies were to like, hey, what's 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:16.680 what do you got back here, and like see that 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.200 in your garage, you're gonna lie and you're gonna say 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.160 it belongs to your kid. Oh god, the letters were 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.600 gonna get about that one. We're gonna get letters about 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.240 Razor scooters, rollerblades all together. I said it, oh man, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.680 but you know we like letters, thank god. So that's okay. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.720 Speaking of places that you you won't find ten carra 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.800 stuff in Plaine View, let's head over to that was 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.520 a really good you like that. It was really well 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.440 the Upper Delaware on the Upper Delaware River. And I 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.480 am very tight with the White Tail Fly shop crew. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.720 So we've got kind of a different smooth Move segment 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.760 for you this week. I actually recorded this in the 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.760 shop months ago during prime season with shop manager Pat Cook. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.760 And let's just say we're all familiar with the kind 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.840 of nonsense guides on the water have to deal with, 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.280 but we've yet to venture into the life of the 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:10.320 shop guy, which is different. So here's a little taste. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:18.719 Why oh my little change of pace for smooth moves. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.080 Here this week. I am actually recording from inside White 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.520 Tail Country Fly Shop and Starlight p A, one of 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.240 my favorite shops on the planet and one of my 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.800 favorite destinations. And you know, uh, smooth Moves thus far 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.960 has been tailored to captains and guides telling stories of 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.680 ridiculous ship that their clients have done. But we want 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.400 to be all inclusive with the fishing industry, so we're 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.520 gonna change it up a little bit today. And we've 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.800 got Pat Cook here. How you doing, Pat? Doing pretty good? Good? Good? 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.440 Now the shop guys, the unsung hero Pat, don't you 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:56.719 feel unsung? Feel just kept in the corner like baby? 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.240 So I want to I want to give I want 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.080 to give voice to the unsung here. So um I 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:07.719 figured um similarly to uh some some lunacy that that 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:12.000 guides and captaincy. Um, this can be like groundhog Day, right, 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.320 just the same questions over and over. Yeah, i'd say 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.400 ten times, at least ten times a day. You get 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.120 the same question normally what fly works, which is an 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:27.400 easy one because I just say none of them, okay, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.359 But you've you've got to you've got to particularly stand out, 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.680 um customer interaction that you're gonna give us on smooth 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.640 moves today. So so lay it on me, man, how 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.160 this what? What? What? What he got? Well? Uh, so 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.320 I had a guy, let me think. I had a 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.760 guy come in. He's a nice guy. You know, he 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.520 was a nice guy, genuinely nice guy. Didn't know that 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.240 any of this was happening, meaning meaning you were gonna 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.880 be talking about him later. No, well, no didn't. I 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.200 don't think he realized the things that he was saying. 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.200 It was just one of those that's great. I actually 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.240 at one point wondered if he was like real or not, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.960 like he may have been like a robot. So so 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.360 it comes in, you know, he's Peter, and I don't Hey, 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.440 how you doing? And he's he's like, oh great, you know, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.120 just passing through, you know. And I'm like, okay, you 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.080 guys fishing. He's like, well, no, I only fish freshwater. 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:23.400 I don't fish the rivers. I was like okay. And 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.040 and also I thought maybe he missed, maybe he miss spoke, 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.440 you know, give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.120 he miss spoke. So then I'm like, okay, where are 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:32.800 you guys from? And he's like, oh, I live over 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.680 by Lake kum As, I said, I do only freshwater fishing. 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.080 This is a real conversational conversation. He said, okay, well, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.600 you know, if you ever think about getting out on 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.440 the rivers, we're here and he's like, yeah, I like 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:50.280 the freshwater. This legitimately happens. So then he gets over, 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.200 you know, he's looking around for a while, and he 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.880 gets over by the hats and he wants to buy something. 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.359 I can see that he wants support supports small business 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.720 souvenir if you will, wants to get something. So he's 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:06.080 looking at the hats and uh, He's like, well, why 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.640 is this hat twenty dollars more expensive than this hat? 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.840 And I said, well, one's waterproof. He says oh. He says, well, 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.800 what happens to the hat if it gets wet? And 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:17.560 I said, the waterproof one or the other one? He 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.760 said the other one. He said, well, generally has to 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.680 get wet. They collect dirt and they maybe lose a 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.360 little of their form. And he says okay. So then 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.080 he's trying to bolth on and then he says, well, 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.080 why does this hat fit differently than this hat does? 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.000 And he said, well, I'm not sure. It could be 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:37.920 the crown in the hat. I didn't know what to 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:42.160 say at that point. Um he ended up not buying 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.880 the waterproof hat. He ended up buying the powder blue 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.440 hat that I thought it might be for his daughter. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.320 But he said, this is gonna look great on me. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.680 Was it at least a white tail country flash? Now 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:59.280 it was something else, big brand, not a small not 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:06.120 a small shot. Okay, this is why I'm in favor 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.720 of us expanding the smooth move concepts this way. I 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.200 like this because even though even though that story doesn't 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.400 have like an oh damn punchline at the end of it, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.040 you know, like where someone takes a dump in the 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:20.200 livewell or falls out of the boat, it's it's more layered, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.240 and it realistically portrays what it's like to work in 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.920 the fishing service industry, because that's what it is. Guys 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:33.200 like guys like Pat deal with with this lunacy multiple 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.040 times a day most of the days that they go 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:39.560 to work. Yep, And it's it's it's more subtle, but 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.920 in some ways it's almost funnier because all right, I 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.960 guided for a lot of different shops over the course 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.360 of my guiding career, and I never worked the counter, 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.200 but I would see these poor kids show up every 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.760 morning when I was waiting to meet my clients and 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.319 they were opening the shop, and they just they had 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.240 this look of resignation in their faces, like like yeah, 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.839 kind of like Dante and Clerks when when they're opening 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:07.040 the shop, you know, exactly. And just to mix, I'm 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.280 gonna mix nineties comedy references here a bit, but like 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.080 if past smooth moves or the equivalent of like Jim 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.600 Carrey or Sinbad stand up, this one was squarely Stephen Wright. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:18.320 I get up the other day and everything in my 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.360 apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact replica 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:27.120 or maybe Mitch Hedberg, Right, that's a cynical dude, And 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.320 that's why I like them. And even if it wasn't 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.680 in a fly shop, if you ever work in retail ever, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.280 you understand why this is comical, especially because you, like, 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.000 you're so forced to stick to that customer is always 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:39.880 right thing, even if you're just dying to be a 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.240 total dick and you can't. And uh, anyway, look, I 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.000 would love to get a few more shop owners in 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:46.920 the mix. We know plenty of them, so that very 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.920 well could happen. Yeah, we do. We know a lot 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.360 of them, and hopefully they'll be here soon. In the meantime, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.680 let's let's keep up some of that that hot sales action. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.240 We're gonna move from buying ugly fishing hats that are 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:04.199 not water to selling gently used fishing waiters that hopefully 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.680 our waterproof in this week's sale, Ben, why did you 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.800 put the hand to pave? You don't know what I'm getting? Man? 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.120 What you didn't have to be so hurtful with me 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.800 so angry? Today we've got a listing I found on 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.880 offer up and this is from Philadelphia, p A. And 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.840 everything about this listing is so Philly I can hardly 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.560 stand it. This is a straight up Philly John right 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.280 here for the people in the area that know what 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:30.360 that term means. Up for grabs today we've got some 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:35.320 used neoprene boot foot waiters. But here's the title of 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:41.440 the listing. Phishing waiters spelled w A I T e 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.480 r s, as in waiter in a restaurant, which must 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.479 be like the you know, the pool waitress National Lampoon's 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:54.240 vacation Um. Anyway, fishing waiters, nothing wrong with them, just 0:10:54.520 --> 0:11:04.199 got too fat. I'm still laughing quick. I gotta I 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.000 gotta jump back for a second, though, I think you 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.080 need to maybe do a weekly word on John, because 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.880 I and many others out there have no idea what 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.760 you're talking about. J A W N. But it's not 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.840 a fishing term. Alright, well, Phillip, people still get it. Yeah, 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.920 I got nothing on that one. But when you did 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.120 send me this, I I I laughed a lot and 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.280 I'm still kind of laughing because of all the things 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.800 that you just heard right like they're they're the misspellings. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:34.199 There's there's everything going on, and and just got too fat, 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:38.080 like straight to the point. I actually I enjoyed it 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.480 so much. I actually texted back L O L and 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.320 I did. I hate text shorthand and I never used it, 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.080 but I did. I did that. I did it. I know, 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.400 I know you wrote to be I mean, let me see, 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.760 I hate L O L, but I actually am doing 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.079 that right now. So this listing forced you to briefly 0:11:56.120 --> 0:12:01.360 embrace text acronyms. Um Anyhow, the description mirrors mirrors the 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.720 listing title. It reads, fishing waiters spelled the same way 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:06.440 nine and a half. I just got too fat. But 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.559 you know what, I feel like it's at least possible 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.160 that that there's a shred of honesty here, Like he's 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.920 doing this, I think it's totally to be honest. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.480 no it Uh. This one reminds me of the guy. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:20.520 It's a little less tragic, but it reminds me of 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.040 the guys selling a surf gear because he hates his dad. 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.520 You know. It's like my dad's selling because my dad's 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.719 a Jersey Yeah that guy. Yeah, it makes me. I 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.600 love this level of honesty in a in a in 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.800 a sale post because it it reassures you. It's like 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.040 saying there's nothing wrong with this gear, Like there's nothing 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.600 wrong with these waiters. They're not leak in and and 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.760 and getting you all cold. They just don't fit because 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.040 I got fat. And I I believe that because he's 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:47.920 willing to be that honest in his text, I think 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.640 I think it's kind of a brilliant strategy. Really. Uh. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.320 And I also I sympathize with with his dilemma because 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.840 lord knows, I've been there, Like I have friends be like, dude, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.800 you're giving me a practically brand new SIMS foul weather suit, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.720 are you sure? And I'm like, yeah, you know, I 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.800 don't really, I don't really, I don't wear gray anymore, 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:06.920 you know, Like, didn't you just get this a few 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:11.360 months ago? Yeah? Yeah, I did, you know. So I 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.839 I feel you, brother, I feel like, oh man, I'm 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.640 not gonna touch I'm not gonna touch that one, Joe. 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.120 I'm gonna leave that alone. Um. But I feel like 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.160 we have to dive into the waiters a little bit 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:26.280 because as much as I appreciate his presentation, I have 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.360 a little issue with with this product and pricing. He's 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:34.920 asking fifty bucks. But these are Fish America Pro gear waiters. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.040 These are not your sims G four z s people. 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.040 These are these are like that stock brand that you 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.480 find at Walmart or Kmart or whatever you got. And 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.160 I'm not dogging on that kind of waiters. I've worn 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.760 plenty of them, but I doubt they cost more than 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:56.880 fifty bucks retail off the shelf. Yeah, I agree, because 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.240 these are the caliber waiters I bought for years, like 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.360 you know, school in college, and you just buy them, 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.880 and I would always just expect to buy a new 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.160 pair the following year. You know, they were what they were. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.200 But I was I was thinking the same thing because 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.960 let's just say they were eighty bucks, right, So thirty 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.480 bucks off isn't bad, but it's it's too risky of 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.760 an item, right. Waiters are one of those ones like 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.480 used waiters, You're you're taking a risk there because you 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.360 will be very uncomfortable. So I mean, I assume that 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.400 that the guy, you know, he's saying I got too fat, 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.000 and he's being honest, right, But at the same time, 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:31.480 it's still a risk. Like if I need to back 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.880 up waiters and saw these at a yard sale or something, 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.960 I'm still taking your word no matter how nice you 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.520 come off, that they don't leak. So for you know, 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.920 twenty bucks, I might, I might take that shot, but 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.840 fifty I don't know. Yeah, I dropped twenty on it, 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.440 but I don't think I'd go as high as fifty. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.600 But hopefully, hopefully someone does buy these from from this 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.040 particular individual, because I, as I've already said, I applaud 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.960 their honesty and their their their sales technique, um, and 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.400 I hope whoever winds up in them is very happy 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.360 and stays dry and they fit great. We both got 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.160 a very good laugh out of this one, and UH 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.720 and all of you out there continued to send us 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.240 just such good sale bin items and we love it. 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.680 So if and when you find a listing that you 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.960 think we should we should spend some time with, just 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:21.200 pass along to Bent at the meat eater dot com. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.160 If you're the kind of person that would be skeptical 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.240 of buying old hip boots out a garage sale, you 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.120 might also be skeptical of our ability to deliver the 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.520 most pertinent and accurate current events and fishing. But we're 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.040 gonna try and earn your trust anyway. It's time for 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:42.760 fish news. Fish news that escalated quickly. Alright, I have 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.800 um kind of a cool shout out this week. I 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.920 have to thank fifteen year old Marion Brosick because she 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.920 let me borrow her net. Okay, now hear me out. Okay, 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.200 this is great, Yeah, okay, Okay, you're gonna love this 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.080 for multiple reasons. Marin is the are my buddy Eric 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.120 bro Sick, and Eric he runs shuttle for us time 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.840 to time on a particular river um p A n 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.600 p A here in Northeast and a few weeks ago 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.560 I'm het up with my bud Nick Rafts, who was 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.280 a professional full time trout fishing guide on said river. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.720 He's been on the show. We've had nickels show right, 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.840 And as as we're dumping his boat in, I'm looking 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.200 around and I'm like, bro, you bring a net. And 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.640 now Nick Nick claims his net must have been stolen, 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.720 so I'll go with that. I'm gonna you know, I'll 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.640 let him have it. Your net got stolen. But regardless, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.840 we had no net. Okay, And suffice it to say, 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.440 like in this river, especially in the middle of the winter, 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.240 you ain't hooking a lot of trout, but generally speaking, 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.120 if you pin one, you're gonna one a net. Right. 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.640 So Eric was with us, and out of the kindness 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.400 of his heart, he drove Nick's rigg with the with 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.240 the trailer in tow to his own house and came 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.480 back with two net options, both of which were extremely short, 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:02.320 short handled wooden waiting nets like the standard waiting on them, 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.119 No there were there were no magnets, so we just 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.119 went with the one with the with the bigger hoop, 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.920 which turns out to be the net Eric had made 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.679 for Marin for Christmas a couple of years ago, custom 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.800 complete with a lovely purple lanyard, and while it was 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.840 awkward to wheel on a driftboat, we put a nine 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.480 and twenty three in it. So Maren apparently heard about 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.600 this later and was so happy her net came through 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.680 for us. Um, she told her dad she should be 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.720 on fish news. So, Maren, you've been on fish news. Okay, 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.919 I thank you for the net loan. Um. You you 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.359 had the proper tool. A full time professional trout fishing 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.600 guide did not, and I thank you for that. Props 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.680 to you, Maren, well done saving the day. I've got 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.720 I've got one quick thing too, and several different listeners 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.440 forwarded me this, so I'm just gonna cover it real quick. Um. 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.359 Have you ever noticed how it seems like whenever we 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.640 get on a roll with particular kinds of stories, something 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.840 along those same lines just keeps popping up everywhere, Like 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:00.880 like the last couple of weeks, we've each talked about 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.560 Wells catfish eating birds, right, And I'm not going to 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.880 do another full news story on it because two weeks 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.560 in rows enough. But just this last week, National Geographic 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.639 published a feature about Wells catfish titled Enormous Pigeon eating 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:20.320 catfish Wreaking havoc on Europe's ecosystems. We we can't do 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.800 it because we also told people duck lawyers are stupid, 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.960 So we can't keep talking about all these bird eating fish. 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.600 You know, we can't, but I do want to ship 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.280 like seriously, thanks to everybody said to me. It's a 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.640 really good read. And uh and I'll just for those 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.159 of you aren't going to read it because most of 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.520 you aren't. The coolest little nugget in there is about 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:44.639 how Wells catfish in France have adapted to intentionally like 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.680 feed on and prey upon the country's significant population of pigeons. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:50.520 And they kind of do it the same way that 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.720 that sharks will grab prey off of beaches. The catfish 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.840 are just like cruising right along the edge where we're 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.320 the birds congregate and and and they wait for a 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.240 pigeon to to get too close, and then they throw 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.439 themselves up on shore or grab a pigeon and like 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:08.400 flop back into the water. It's it's really cool. Uh. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.080 And and if you do read the article, there's this 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.480 one photo it's so good. It's like a drone shot 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.639 from above of this pack of Wells catfish circling this 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.120 little island that's just covered up in pigeons. Sneaky, they're 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:22.240 sneaky like that. Yeah, that's my shout out and and 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:26.679 and suggestion for some quick reading. As always, this is 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.480 a competition. Joe and I do not know which stories 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:32.040 the other one is bringing, and at the end of 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.479 it are illustrious and might add very handsome audio engineer 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.520 Phil will declare a winner. And then after that we're 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.680 gonna drip the soothing baritone of River Horse right into 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:45.120 your ear holes. Joe, you're up first, man. That was wonderful. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:46.960 That was way to butter up. Philth that was that 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.480 was good, buttering very good. Okay, So I get to 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:51.840 kick here, and this is such a relatable story I 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.399 can't even believe it. Very excited about this when it 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.119 comes to us from Michigan's m live dot com and 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.960 the headline is simply police solved mystery of a band 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.879 an ice fishing gear. Now, to tell this story properly, 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.040 I have to change their chronology and flow around just 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.600 a little bit, because it's gonna make it funnier. Okay, 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.240 So here's here's how breaks down. On Saturday, January nine, 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:17.080 police were called to Melancamp Lake because someone reported that 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.280 there was ice fishing gear on the lake near a 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.520 sizeable hole in the ice that looked like a spot 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.840 where someone fell through. Okay, And and by the time 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.560 this was noticed, the hole it actually refrozen over, the 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:31.400 story said, with a little more than an inch of ice. 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:35.240 So definitely scary and something worth calling the cops over. 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:39.119 Like that's that's freaky, right, um, And enrolled the Jackson 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:42.680 County Sheriff's Office dive team the fire department, and they 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:44.879 went all in. They broke through the ice, they checked 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.760 for a body in the water, but all they recovered 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.159 from the water was more ice fishing gear. There was 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.400 just more ice fishing gear down the hole, right, So 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:59.119 the police fascinating story. I wait, you're gonna love it. 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.680 You're gonna love it. Uh. The police then went door 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.960 to door asking if anyone had seen anything or if 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.280 if anyone was missing, but but they weren't. There were 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:11.160 no missing person's reports in the area. So the police 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:14.680 put the photos of the recovered gear on social media. Um, 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.280