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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kel's We Can Review with Ryan kel Kelly and now

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Speaker 1: Here's kel Cocaine hippos are out of control in the

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Speaker 1: jungles of Colombia and must be stopped. Although that previous

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Speaker 1: sentence is technically accurate, there are no hippopotamus as snorting

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Speaker 1: and chopping illicit drugs, wearing pastel, loose fitting shirts, gold chains,

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Speaker 1: and rampaging through South America's waterway is on souped up

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Speaker 1: cigarette boats. But if anyone from adults swim in the

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Speaker 1: Cartoon Network is listening right now, consider atting Narco hippos

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Speaker 1: to your prime time lineup. I may not watch, but

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Speaker 1: I'll know it's out there and be happy. I'm not

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Speaker 1: just you. Welcome back to check it out the show

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Speaker 1: where we check things out. Guess we're checking out today?

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Speaker 1: Can you guess? Animals? Still? The real story is plenty wild.

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Speaker 1: Pablo Escobar, possibly the world's most famous drug dealer, who

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Speaker 1: in the eighties reportedly spent a thousand dollars a week

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Speaker 1: just on rubber bands necessary to hold together bricks of

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Speaker 1: hundred dollar bills, was a big wildlife fan. Unfortunately, he

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Speaker 1: wasn't satisfied with going out to see the thousands of

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Speaker 1: unbelievably cool species native to Colombia, like the pink river

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Speaker 1: dolphin or the spectacled bear, so he created a zoo

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Speaker 1: at one of his ranches with animals from all over

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Speaker 1: the world, giraffes, elephants, ostriches, as well as hippos one

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Speaker 1: male and three female. Once Escobar was killed and his

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Speaker 1: empire crumbled, the hippos wandered out of the zoo into

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Speaker 1: the nice, warm Colombian wetlands and made some baby hippos.

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Speaker 1: Hippos begat more hippos, and now scientists believe there are

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Speaker 1: more than eighty of the giant aquatic ungulates roaming across

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Speaker 1: almost eight hundred square miles, with the population continuing to

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Speaker 1: grow exponentially. As with so many non natives, they are

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Speaker 1: out competing native wildlife and having a detrimental effect on

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Speaker 1: the ecosystem. How ironic is it that in Africa hippos

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Speaker 1: are becoming more and more threatened, whereas in South America

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Speaker 1: they can't get rid of them fast enough. Culling them

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Speaker 1: is unpopular, and castrating males cost fifty thous dollars a

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Speaker 1: pop and doesn't seem to slow population growth much and

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Speaker 1: definitely doesn't do anything for the resource. Some scientists, however,

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Speaker 1: are viewing the Colombian hippo explosion as a kind of

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Speaker 1: place to seen rewilding opportunity. Apparently, tens of thousands of

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Speaker 1: years ago, a giant ungulate called the toxodon roamed South America,

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Speaker 1: about the same size as a rhinoceros. The toxodon went

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Speaker 1: extinct about sixteen thousand years ago and left a big

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Speaker 1: that is, until Pablo Escobar came along. Maybe Escobar wasn't

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Speaker 1: just a murderous, power hungry cartel boss, but also a

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Speaker 1: secretive and extremely ambitious paleo zoologist. Remember Chico, First you

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Speaker 1: get the money, then you get the power, then you

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Speaker 1: get the hippos. And then the hippos DeForest the jungle,

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Speaker 1: allowing sunlight down to the ground, and then they redistribute

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Speaker 1: the seeds, and then Chico, we see growth in the

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Speaker 1: jungle that people have never seen before. In my mind,

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Speaker 1: I thought I would go on with the accent and

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Speaker 1: go into the deforestation theory and seed redistribution are theoretical

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Speaker 1: Pablo the casual paleo zoologists came up with, you know,

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Speaker 1: because he has to sell the drugs to save the forest.

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Speaker 1: But I won't borrow you with that. This week we've

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Speaker 1: got Albert Cole poaching, round up ice fishing, and so

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Speaker 1: much more. But first I'm gonna tell you about my week.

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Speaker 1: Power equipment today. Alright, so everybody knows I'm back from Mexico.

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Speaker 1: I'm slowly feeling the lard from the beans, rice and

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Speaker 1: tortillas drained from my veins. Because of this, I decided

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Speaker 1: that I should get a fish for I am. So

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Speaker 1: out on the ice and proceeded to catch one as

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Speaker 1: in one singular perch that happened to be the biggest

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Speaker 1: perch I have ever personally caught. That was awesome. It

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Speaker 1: happened to be a female full of eggs. The royal

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Speaker 1: The finished product led me to believe that I could

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Speaker 1: terrible perch fisherman. So if you know the secrets of

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Speaker 1: to a s K C A L. That's asked cal

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Speaker 1: at the mediator dot com. Also keep in mind that Bozeman,

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Speaker 1: Montana has zero ice fishing gear right now, so simple

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Speaker 1: solutions are best. I'd like to thank both thirteen Fishing

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Speaker 1: and Aaron Schmidt a k A. Schmidty of Northwood Baiton

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Speaker 1: Moving on, time to roll coal. Just kidding, but we

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Speaker 1: changing coal policy. This is a topic that many many

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Speaker 1: listeners have written in on a lot of fight You

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Speaker 1: Bird of boys and girls. Here's the brief overview past

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Speaker 1: administration nineteen seventy six developed a coal plan that broke

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Speaker 1: the provinces land down into four categories. Category one land

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Speaker 1: you are not going to get a permit on. Don't

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Speaker 1: try the places off limits to mining. Category two, probably

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Speaker 1: but definitely off limits to open pit mining. Categories three

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Speaker 1: lands that were designated as more and more suitable in

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Speaker 1: revamp the coal policy starting at category two and the

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Speaker 1: category two lands are where some great Alberta hunting and

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Speaker 1: fishing opportunities exist and where a lot of snow pack

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Speaker 1: collects to recharge the groundwater farmers, grazers and water drinking

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Speaker 1: communities depend on downstream. Selenium is bad for fish. Selenium

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Speaker 1: is a common byproduct of coal mining and coal power.

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Speaker 1: Selenium in the water affects the reproductive ability of fish.

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Speaker 1: While it will cause death an adult fish, it commonly

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Speaker 1: collects in the eggs. These headwater mountaintop strip mining operations

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Speaker 1: grayling bowl trout, and Alberta's only native rainbow trout. The

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Speaker 1: wastewater has the potential to run the full course to

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Speaker 1: the Hudson Bay through three different provinces. If you folks

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Speaker 1: in Quebec start thinking, Mary, it would be nice to

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Speaker 1: go out to the mountains and catch some fish. Tune

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Speaker 1: into the Bent podcast if you want the full fishing report.

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Speaker 1: I know Joe Surmeli and my nulty having in depth

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Speaker 1: So here's what we know. We know there are many

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Speaker 1: more risks to the Alberta natural resources if open pit

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Speaker 1: but are not limited to, the Livingstone Range, the Elk River,

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Speaker 1: You can figure all of this out by going to

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Speaker 1: back Country Hunters dot org forward slash Alberta underscore Coal,

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Speaker 1: Alberta underscore Coal, underscore mines. And you know what water

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Speaker 1: issues are international issues. I'm in Montana, I'm not that

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Speaker 1: Columbia for that matter. I'm gonna call him, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: to get up there and spend money on occasion, and

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Speaker 1: maybe let them know that they're grizzly bears. Are you know,

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Speaker 1: in need of a good pet? They're a little aggressive. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: moving on, we're taking a quick stop at the New

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Speaker 1: Hunting Opportunity Desk. Oklahoma's eight Representative, Justin Humphrey, recently introduced

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Speaker 1: House Bill six, which, if written into law, would create

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Speaker 1: the first ever big foot hunting season. While I'm always

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Speaker 1: Humphreys Bill, not at all. Longtime mediator collaborator Casey Brown

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Speaker 1: called this long ago with his gnome tussling with a

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Speaker 1: Bigfoot is supposed to be a ten foot tall harry

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Speaker 1: if you hunt Bigfoot, Bigfoot may hunt you. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you what you already know. Now. I've been

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Speaker 1: make sure that you tell them about the big Foot's scholarship.

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Speaker 1: electroforest voltai, which has a stronger shock than any other

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Speaker 1: recent study, scientists observe these eels in Brazil engaging in

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Speaker 1: a much more complex behavior. First, the eels corral smaller

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Speaker 1: send shocks into the pack with a total power estimated

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Speaker 1: at more than eight hundred volts. For context, seventy two

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Speaker 1: far more than enough to kill a person. This shock

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Speaker 1: stuns dozens of prey fish at a time. The eels

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