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Speaker 1: a traditional dam, which requires usually about a nine ft drop.

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Speaker 1: It's a huge difference. And then also apparently they say

427
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,119
Speaker 1: they've come up with new turbines that they claim are

428
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:39,679
Speaker 1: completely safe for fish, and I do not I do

429
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,159
Speaker 1: not understand the physics of this, if I'm gonna be honest,

430
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,879
Speaker 1: But the simple explanation from what I could kind of

431
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 1: parse out, seems to be that the blades have been

432
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: totally redesigned so that the blades of turbines spin, but

433
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,399
Speaker 1: they instead of chopping fish into tiny little bits, they

434
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 1: somehow push them away unharmed. And like somewhere in there

435
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: that they had this analogy to like it's sort of

436
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,080
Speaker 1: like an air bag, and I don't know how it works.

437
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 1: But again, they claim they've got these turbines redesigned so

438
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: they won't hurt fish, And all this together is just say,

439
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 1: like I really appreciate the thought and the effort and

440
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 1: the creativity and all the collaboration that so many people

441
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 1: seem to be putting into river ecosystems and dams and

442
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 1: energy generation right now. I am, as you know, as

443
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows, I'm fully in favor of damn

444
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: removal in terms of the ones that are screwing up

445
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 1: our fisheries. But I also, like, I get it. We

446
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: we need to be generating energy, and we need clean

447
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 1: energy from dams. So like, I'm hopeful that we can

448
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,400
Speaker 1: get rid of all the old shitty dams and learn

449
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: from our mistakes. But I also hope that we can

450
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: find ways to to harness the power of rivers without

451
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: completely screwing everything up and maintain their natural functions. I

452
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,120
Speaker 1: don't know that Natal Energy has this all figured out,

453
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,919
Speaker 1: but the fact that they're working on it gives me

454
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 1: this sense of hope, which is nice because usually, as

455
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 1: we've covered, when I'm talking about this, I'm like all dooming,

456
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: gloom and cynicism. So I get to feel a little

457
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: I found one that brought a little bit of hope

458
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: to this topic conversation. Well, it sounds great, but I mean,

459
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: I think the reality is even if if this stuff

460
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: moves forward, I mean, this is this is years down

461
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 1: the road, right, I mean, like it takes so much

462
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: time to to get us there. I am intrigued by

463
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: a damn that allows passage because it doesn't block the

464
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,959
Speaker 1: whole river. So like the turbine thing, that's just for

465
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: like the dummies that don't know to go that way. Yeah,

466
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: I mean, particularly for juvenile fish. They don't necessarily have

467
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 1: that much control when they're They just kind of go

468
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 1: wherever they go, you know, and and a lot of

469
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: them get chopped up in turbines. Yeah. Yeah, And I

470
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: spoke too quickly. You're right there. They are the baby

471
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,239
Speaker 1: fish that that's a deal. But I will say, you know,

472
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,680
Speaker 1: these damn issues, it doesn't come up quite as often

473
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 1: on the East Coast, like it's the damn removal is

474
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: such a big thing on the West coast with the

475
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,360
Speaker 1: salmon and steelhead runs. But just personally, I mean, there

476
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 1: was a damn that got blown out on a no

477
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: nothing river here that you've actually fished the Musconet Cong

478
00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,679
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, right, it's a stalker's stream. There's a

479
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of wild reproduction there but you're

480
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,640
Speaker 1: talking about the Klamate, which has so much recreational value

481
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: and could bring so many dollars in for a fishery,

482
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: And now here's this little stream out here that that

483
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: that's nothing. It's just a pretty little stream. In Jersey,

484
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: they blew out a couple of dams on the low end,

485
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: and like overnight, like the next season, there were stripers

486
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: and American chad in that river. So it's no joke.

487
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: How getting rid of a few like how quickly that

488
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 1: turns everything around? It's true. And and look the reason

489
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: that you don't there there's a ton of damn rouble

490
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 1: going on out east. You don't hear as much about

491
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: it because your main marquis species. You know, that whole

492
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,120
Speaker 1: Atlantic salmon thing. We we knocked them out a while ago,

493
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: that's true. If that's true, they don't exist in Maine

494
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,959
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, Like if we still had Atlantic salmon,

495
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,239
Speaker 1: this same conversation would be happening out east and just

496
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: the same way, right in my opinion, And I also

497
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: think that the folks on the West coast are looking

498
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 1: at Atlantic salmon is a cautionary tale and being like

499
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: we're not that far from that. We need to change

500
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: up what we're doing and and so at least that

501
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: that's how I hope that dynamics playing out. But I

502
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 1: also haven't given up on the Atlantic sem, and I

503
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: think there's a possible future for that if we can

504
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: figure out we'll see. That's a huge, huge conversation, man,

505
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 1: that we could get off on. But I mean, I've

506
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: Connecticut tried very hard to get that run going again.

507
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,479
Speaker 1: Didn't really work and and it really because you're right,

508
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: it does all come down to Damns. Like, unless they

509
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: have a free run, it's gonna be hard to ever

510
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: re establish that. Um. And I actually have fished to

511
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: a stream that runs through a farm of my wife's

512
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: grandparents and and caught tons and tons of fingerling Atlantics.

513
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 1: They dumped them way up there, and that was all

514
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 1: part of the program. UM. So good, good point. And

515
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of how to use that to

516
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: segue into my my always the challenge. Yeah, I'm trying

517
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,919
Speaker 1: really hard. Sometimes I jot something down and I have

518
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 1: it and I just don't. Um. So we're gonna go

519
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: from We're gonna go from the damn Damns to the

520
00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: damn COVID about that. I like that that's all I got.

521
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: That's all I got. Anyway, This story here comes to

522
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: us from the website of Denver seven News. Okay, headline

523
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: ice fishing tents to the rescue restaurant owner looking to

524
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: provide a personal dining experience. Okay, now, most of you,

525
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: you've already quickly put the pieces together here, right. It's

526
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: it's certainly no secret that the Rhona has dealt a

527
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: crushing blow to restaurants. And while I was delighted um

528
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,959
Speaker 1: to see outside dining create at least a little uptick

529
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: in business over this summer, I'm sure I'm not the

530
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: only one who was thinking like, well, that's great, but

531
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: what the hell do they do when it gets cold? Right?

532
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: And now? Now, furthermore, we all know that that restaurants

533
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: in many states are gonna get their legs cut out

534
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: again around the holidays with with the COVID spiking across

535
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: the country. Um, which is going to put the kabash

536
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: on on indoor dining even though it was already reduced

537
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: all summers. So good on Pam Breer, she's the owner

538
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 1: of West Main tap Room and Grill. In deb of

539
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: her for thinking outside the box and frankly I'm not

540
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 1: really surprised someone jumped on the ice fishing tent angle.

541
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: I was kind of waiting for this to happen. She's

542
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,719
Speaker 1: just the first one that I see. I've seen him

543
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: come out and do this. So, according to the story,

544
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,159
Speaker 1: you thought of this yourself. You're like, you know what

545
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: they need to do? Fish bullshit, No bullshit. I I

546
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: was like, that's where this is gonna go, and and

547
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: and here it went. So Denver is currently back in

548
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: the red zone in terms of virus transmission, and that

549
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: means gatherings are limited. Indoor events are not allowed, restaurants

550
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: can only serve on the patio or take out, and

551
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: last calls eight pm. And Pam Breer is not happy

552
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: with these renewed restrictions. Now. She says she got by

553
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: all summer at indoor seating and with tables outside. Now

554
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: she's dealing with the cold, can't have anyone inside. So

555
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: from the story, Brier said she considered purchasing a large

556
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: tent to seek customers that one of her patios, but

557
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: the thirty thousand dollar price tag was prohibited. Yeah, I

558
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: would imagine so given this situation, so at a customer's suggestion,

559
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: she purchased twenty nine smaller ice fishing tents and portable heaters. Okay,

560
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: thirteen of the tents will hold up to eight people,

561
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: and sixteen of them will hold up to four people.

562
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: And she says, we're gonna advertise it as a personal

563
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: dining experience for a party of four or party of eight.

564
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: She said. Now, she also said, right, she pulled customers

565
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: to see if they'd be interested in individual tent dining.

566
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: So I guess just like a table for one or two,

567
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: and she said many of them said yeah, like I'm down. So,

568
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: according to her, if her tent experiment works, if this works,

569
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: she may get through the winter and through the holidays

570
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: without having to layoff or furlough employees again, which is

571
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: what she's trying to avoid. And a couple initial thoughts

572
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: on this right, So, first, just just to put it

573
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: on record, my heart bleeds for the restaurant, Biz. I

574
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: have a lot of friends who are in it. I'm

575
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: sure you have a lot of friends who are in

576
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: it too. And I really do give her credit for

577
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: the ingenuity here. But my big question not to be

578
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: this guy, but like throughout this entire pandemic, has been

579
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: when does outside dining become inside dining. You know what

580
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying, You know what I'm driving at. I've seen

581
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: I've seen it here, like at the Jersey Shore. I

582
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: was down there in October. Restaurants enclosed their outside seating

583
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: intense and fired up heaters, and I can't help but think, like,

584
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: didn't you just kind of create the same environment as

585
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: inside dining? Right? And but listen to be to be clear,

586
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: I'm not coming down on these restaurants, right, it is

587
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: kind of a loophole. They need to make money. And

588
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: at least a few months ago, people around here had

589
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: no issue packing into a heated tent to eat a burrito, right,

590
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: So that's my first thought. Individual ice tents for a

591
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: couple of members of the household, maybe, But like, would

592
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: I cram into a well heated ice tent for eight

593
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: hours on a lake with eight dudes I don't live

594
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: with right now? I wouldn't. Like, I wouldn't write why

595
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: why risk that to go ice fishing? Um? And just

596
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: Other thoughts include how long until a child gets burned

597
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: on a propane heater or some lady charges the ship

598
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: out of her Fendi bag. Because I don't think I've

599
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: ever been in a pop up with a heater where

600
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: flesh or clothing wasn't singed like to some degree by

601
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: the end of the day. And and and lastly, if

602
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: you're a hardcore ice fisherman, think man, like, what what

603
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: a treat it will be to dine in an ice

604
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: tent while smelling of like zest or Irish spring instead

605
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: of ball sweat, and while enjoying the aroma of Rickatony

606
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: carbon era instead of you know, regurgitated Emerald Shiner's spilled

607
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: Miller high Life and farts. You know what a what

608
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: a strange twist, you know I have. I have a

609
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: lot of love for that particular aroma. It brings into

610
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: some wonderful memories. It's it's good, it can be good.

611
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: It's like the smell of gasoline. It smells memory brings

612
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: you to some good place. This is all I'm gonna say.

613
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: And I I got a couple of points. One I

614
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: think if I get this right, it sounds like maybe

615
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, But my I'm picturing individual parties dining within

616
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: these tents, not multiple tables with different people. And no, no, no, no,

617
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: you're right. So like she has all these tent set

618
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: up and you would reserve one. It's like we're a

619
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: party of eight. You get you get the big shelter, right,

620
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: So you're you're making that choice. I get it. That's fine,

621
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: that makes sense to me. That's the choice they're making.

622
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: That's great. I think that's a responsible choice for I

623
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: think that's way more responsible than what you were talking about. It.

624
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: Like I throw a big tent over the outside and

625
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: everybody sits together. But here's the other thing. I don't

626
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: know that this woman has ever spent any time inside

627
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: on ice shelters, who has spent a lot of time

628
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: in an ice shelter a reasonable amount of time and

629
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: even lived in them for days on end. There's not

630
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: a whole lot of room to move around, and so

631
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: it's not the most comfortable place. Like part of dining

632
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: out is being able to feel comfortable and relaxed, and

633
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: and that's not the experience when when you're in a

634
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: nice shelter. They're not They're not designed to spread out

635
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: and enjoy yourself. They're designed to like huddle up and

636
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: look down into a hole. Right. And then the last

637
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: thing I'm gonna say is the people I really feel

638
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: for here are the servers, because you know how hard

639
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: it is just to get in and out of an

640
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: ice shelter on your own. You took the word every

641
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: time you're drinks, every time, we're gonna spill every single sir.

642
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: The zipper stuck? Can you un zip the zipper? And

643
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: the dude's gonna be like, which zipper this not? That

644
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: just opens up the screen. I'm sorry, Pam. I wish

645
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: the best, but I really do this. I hope they're

646
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: their Eskimo ice shelters personally, because I'm a big fan

647
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: of those Estimo and I've spent a lot of time.

648
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: It better be real cold out because you know as

649
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: well as I do. You fire up a propane in

650
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: an Eskimo like it's I've been out when it's like

651
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: ten degrees and you're like taking ship off. Man, anybody

652
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: ice fishes nose like like you know, we're running the

653
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: super long on this one. I'm gonna say one of

654
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: the thing on that point. I ran into a guy

655
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: deer hunting this year who was in his own and

656
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: he had an ice shelter on top of his vehicle.

657
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you camping? And I was like, oh no,

658
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: I got a wall tent. We just used this for

659
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: a sauna. Seriously, exactly. My second story will not be

660
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: a problem if you're the kind of person who only

661
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: fishes inside of ice shanties. But we all know that

662
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: most of us fish most of our time outdoors, and yeah,

663
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: it's it's it's our preference, and so I'm gonna close

664
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: out this. My segment of this week was something it's

665
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: not exactly news, but I think it's important and and

666
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: it's just based off of something that happened recently. So

667
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, I posted a picture of

668
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: myself with a big gest bandage on my face after

669
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: I had a trip to the dermatolligence office, and honestly,

670
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: like I was just kind of threw it up there,

671
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: and I was really surprised how many people reached out

672
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: to offer like condolences, but to also share their own

673
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: stories of similar experiences, right, And so I figured, like

674
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: I just I thought about that for a while and

675
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: I decided I'm gonna cover this in Fish News. So

676
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: for many many years when I was guiding, I had

677
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: this stock line that I would tell clients when I

678
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: was covering myself in sun block during a guide trip,

679
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: and I would say that, well, you know, skin cancer

680
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: is the leading killer of fishing guides, and then I'd

681
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 1: usually followed up with with a stupid joke about cirrhosis

682
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: of the liver being a close second, right. And then now,

683
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: in researching this piece right now, actually couldn't find any

684
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: legitimate source materials support that claim that I've been using

685
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: for however many years. I did find a link to

686
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: something that I wrote making that statement, but that's not

687
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 1: exactly a verification. Uh, and so listit. I'm not saying

688
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: skin cancer isn't the leading killer of fishing guides, just

689
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: that I don't think anyone's really tracking those particular stats.

690
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: It very well could be. But here are some real

691
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: act rule stats for you. Skin cancer is the most

692
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: common form of cancer. In fact, it's more common than

693
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: all the other forms of cancer combined. One in five

694
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: Americans will be diagnosed with some form of it by

695
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 1: the time they reached seventy and unlike lots of other cancers,

696
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: we know what causes it, and we know how to

697
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: avoid it. We just don't always, you know, do the

698
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: things we know we should do. Dude, most most of

699
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: my life I didn't want to hear it, but like,

700
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 1: over the last ten years or so, I've gotten really serious.

701
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: I have a whole sunscreen regiment before I leave the

702
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: house to fish. Oh yeah, A look, man, I'm the

703
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: same way. I had my first skin cancer moved when

704
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: I was twenty nine, all right, and and my doctor

705
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: at that time just sort of put the situation in

706
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: terms that even my dumbass could understand before he performed

707
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: the surgery. He just simply said, to me, here's the deal.

708
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 1: You're going to die of something completely preventable because you're

709
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: an idiot. And there's no like swelling music. There's no melodrama.

710
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: He didn't like have a hallmark. But with me and

711
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 1: lock eyes and this meaningful appeal for me to change

712
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: my ways, you just like dropped that dead pan and

713
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: then grabbed a needle full of idocy and stuck it

714
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:15,919
Speaker 1: in me and hacked off a chunk of my neck

715
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: where right like right where the all those cells were mutating.

716
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: And this is also where I learned the contrary to

717
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: everything we were told as kids from the X Men

718
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: and teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, mutations don't actually turn us

719
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: into superheroes are half animal martial arts experts. They just

720
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: kill us really slowly, bullshit jokes aside. I'm like, I'm

721
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: really lucky that that mutation I had at twenty nine

722
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: was was something called a basal cell carcinoma. And I

723
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: know it's weird to say this, but if you're gonna

724
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: get skin cancer, that's the kind you want. They're they're

725
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: slow growing. I touched, dude. My mom has worked for

726
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: a dramatologist my whole life. I know all these terms. Yea.

727
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: So though if you get those, they're slow growing, they're

728
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 1: rarely fatal. The growth I had cut off a couple

729
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: of weeks ago was another basil cell. So again, I

730
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: got lucky. But there's a lot of people, including people

731
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: I know very well, who don't. And and true, there's

732
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: nearly eighteen thousand Americans die skin cancer every year. And

733
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: so bringing this back, people who fish a lot, meaning

734
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: you and and me and Joe and your buddies, we

735
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in the sun, and and

736
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:25,240
Speaker 1: that sun exposure drastically increases our chances of getting skin cancer.

737
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: It's just truth. Also, men are more than twice as

738
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: likely to die from skin cancer as women, mostly because,

739
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: as that doctor so astutely pointed, out to me in

740
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: my twenties, we have a higher tendency towards idiocy and

741
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: reckless behavior and stubbornness. Yeah, this is especially true for

742
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: young men. Not that doesn't apply to young women. All

743
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: of us should should hear this. But those are just

744
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: the stats. I don't know about you, but when I

745
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: was a kid, Smerion sunblock was just about as cool

746
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: as wearing a bike helmet, and like a tan served

747
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 1: as this marker of legitimacy, right, like you could just

748
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: look at someone to know like, oh, they go outside

749
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: like the boogie boards. Yeah, I think those attitudes are changing,

750
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: at least like it seems that way. If the prevalence

751
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: of buffs I mean for those you don't know, I'm

752
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: talking about those stretchable synthetic for skins to cover your

753
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: neck and face, the prevalence of buffs on the waters

754
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: any indication people are starting to figure it out. Like

755
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: I said at the beginning, I can't prove skin cancer

756
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: is the leading killer fishing guides, but just about every

757
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: guide I know who's been at it for a while

758
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: has had some form of skin cancer. And and even

759
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 1: if those facts I spout it for years were unfounded

760
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: I stand by the underlying intention that I had with

761
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: making that statement, right, Like, if you're on the water

762
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: a lot, like a fishing guide, you will get some exposure.

763
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: And Big six science tells us that exposure has a

764
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: good chance of giving you skin cancer, which very well

765
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: might kill you. Or if you're lucky, just mean you

766
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: have to go visit a friendly neighborhood dermatologist a couple

767
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: of times a year who will regularly come at you

768
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: with sharp objects and charge you a lot of money

769
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: for that privilege. I admit the covering myself from head

770
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: to toe looks silly, and reapplying sunblock every couple hours

771
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: of annoying, But honestly, man, I wish i'd started doing

772
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: it sooner, and and like you were saying, so do

773
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: most of the anglers that I know, Like we all

774
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: wish we had done this earlier and we didn't, and

775
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: now we're paying for it. Yea, So it's dude, So

776
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: do I I because it's it's not that big a deal.

777
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: And I also think that there's so many better sun

778
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: blocks out there now than when we were kids, Like

779
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: it was all just like greasy ass copper tone now,

780
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,760
Speaker 1: like my wife buys this ship. I mean, it's fifty

781
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 1: six dollars a bottle, but it like it also improves

782
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: my skin, It like evaporates immediately. But I'm very diligent

783
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: about it now, and I have been for probably about

784
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: the last ten years. Like I said, but I will

785
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: say one place I falter is I have this like

786
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: you know how they say no no white pants or

787
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: shoes after Labor Day. I have this thing where if

788
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: it's before May one, I just forget about. It's like

789
00:40:56,160 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: it's not blazing summer. And like I burned myself at

790
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: least once per spring in like March, you know what

791
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: I mean, because I'm just not thinking about it. Then.

792
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: Um no, I screw this up too, But I tried.

793
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be a lot better about it. I

794
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: really am. Yeah, And really the worst thing that comes

795
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: from from being so diligent is at some point, inevitably

796
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: late in the day you get the sweat I run

797
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: and like you're blind. That's the worst thing. You can't

798
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: wash it out. You can't, you can't wash it out.

799
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 1: It's terrible anyway, I um, I don't appreciate the force

800
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: can comment by by Buck sponsorship event just screwed the

801
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: pooch on that one. But that's okay um? And can

802
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: you think of a better analogy? No, no, no, no,

803
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: I cannot, I cannot. And this is good because I

804
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: know a couple of kids who I'm hoping he the

805
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: great advice to you you just gave. And this is

806
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: a story I'll try to make h made quick. But

807
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: if I'm just gonna go ahead and say, many of

808
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: you listening, and you're two hosts here, this is gonna

809
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: make you go Them's were the days to be young

810
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: and free and and without a mortgage. This is from

811
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 1: ABC twenty seven News out of Des Moines, Iowa. Headline

812
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,280
Speaker 1: to college freshman ditch school go on nationwide fishing trip.

813
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 1: Okay uh. That could have been truncated for me to

814
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,760
Speaker 1: read Joe ditches all math classes go surf fishing. Still

815
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: doesn't understand square roots? Okay um? Anyway, So, according to

816
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: this story, best friends Luke Conson and Daniel Bowserack of

817
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: Virginia are living out of their parents van while they

818
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: drive state to state on a quest to catch each

819
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: state's official state fish. The eighteen and nineteen year old

820
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: buddies decided to embark on this journey after the pandemic

821
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,439
Speaker 1: derailed their college plans. Um and both of these dudes

822
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: were scheduled to be freshman at Clemson University. And here's

823
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 1: a quote about this from Conson, and I I want

824
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: to read it as certain, I want to read it

825
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: the way I think he would say it, but I won't. Okay,

826
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: I'll just anyway. So the quote is, Uh, Then, about

827
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: two weeks before moving in, they announced the first month

828
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 1: of classes would be online, and we didn't want to

829
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: do that. So then the story goes on to say

830
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: the trip took some convincing for their parents and a

831
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 1: lot of research and planning. Yeah, I bet it did, fellas,

832
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,240
Speaker 1: I bet it took a lot of convincing. And here's

833
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,720
Speaker 1: here's the thing, right, I look these cats up on Instagram,

834
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: and if you want to follow the journey, you can

835
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 1: find them at fish All fifty. That's all spelled out.

836
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go out on a limb, and I'm

837
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: just gonna say, based on looks alone, neither one of

838
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: these kids would be turned off by a KEG stand

839
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So if I put myself

840
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: in their shoes at that age, it makes me wonder

841
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: how the card was played, because I feel like I'd

842
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: have been smart enough to tell my folks, like, you know,

843
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: I'm really worried mom and Dad that I won't get

844
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: the education I deserve, you know, And I want to

845
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: see your hard earned tuition money setting me up for

846
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: the best possible future success. So let's just wait. Let's

847
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 1: just wait until I can get a quality in person

848
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 1: education where I can, you know, pop in and see

849
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: the professor from having trouble with my thesis. But in

850
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: my head, I'd be thinking no beer bonds, no skipping

851
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: class to fish, and I still have to live with

852
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: my parents. So yeah, college right now? Okay. And if

853
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: I'm wrong about these two, if I've misread them, fine,

854
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 1: but I do I feel so terrible for college kids

855
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 1: right now, especially freshman, because you go to be free

856
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: and part of your ass off and like learn a

857
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: little bit of sh it on the side. Um. And

858
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: if I proposed a nationwide fish toward my dad, it'd

859
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: have been like, sit your ass down and log into

860
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 1: business ethics right now. So anyway, back to the story,

861
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: here's another quote. I think we're probably staying safer than

862
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: most people just because we're not around too many people

863
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: and we're just outside kind of living our lives, said

864
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: balls Rack. I think it's a great way to take

865
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: this opportunity of the pandemic and turn it into something

866
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: that's pretty fun. Yeah, I'm so glad it's been fun

867
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: for YouTube buds. Okay, cheers to that. That's two people

868
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: who don't want to cry every night. But that's okay.

869
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: The Fish All fifty quest began on the East coast,

870
00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: then up to the Northeast and now into the Midwest,

871
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: and Constance says, we just kind of gave it a purpose.

872
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: There's a goal to it. It's not just any fish,

873
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: it's the specific species, which adds a feeling of accomplishment.

874
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: When you actually do get it, it's a little more difficult,

875
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 1: and then it closes out with this right, and here's

876
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 1: where I'm like, Okay, wait a sec. The fisherman spent

877
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: several days in Iowa trying to catch the channel catfish

878
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: with no luck. At first. They say fishing is teaching

879
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 1: them about patients and life in a pandemic. Dudes, no disrespect,

880
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: but like, it took you multiple days to catch a

881
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: channel catfish, right days, you somehow manage the wild brookie

882
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, which is our state. Fish Yet like

883
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,919
Speaker 1: you're getting tripped up on Channel cats and like has

884
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: panic buying an Iowa cleared the shelves of hot dogs

885
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: and cherry kool aid, you know what I mean? Um,

886
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: but look or like chicken livers or so. So I'm

887
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna keep an eye on the gram and

888
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: see what these dudes get up to. But like the

889
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: Channel struggles got me wondering, like, is this it was

890
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: fishing just a ruse? You know what I mean to

891
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: do like nationwide party tour, you know what I'm saying,

892
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: Like maybe it was like a look. I think that

893
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: the quote that you read from them completely answers your question.

894
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: And I think you know when they say we gave

895
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: it a purpose, that is a clear signal to be like,

896
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: all right, we need a road trip from how do

897
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: we how do we justify this as like a legitimate

898
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: thing that's like learning based. Oh bro, I don't know.

899
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,240
Speaker 1: I like to fish. Do you fish a little bit? Okay?

900
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,879
Speaker 1: I think and I'm not. But you know what that's

901
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: not if that's what they did, If it's total bullshit

902
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: and it's just like, yeah, we're gonna sell this state fish.

903
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: Maybe we can do me, we can get credit for

904
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: it later. It clems in you man, if you're partying

905
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: across the U. S And Avan and these hellish times,

906
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: I wish I was you. Yeah, and and only that

907
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: they they've managed to sell it and frame it well

908
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: enough to get national media attention on it, which that

909
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,959
Speaker 1: tells me one thing and one thing alone. These guys

910
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: are gonna do great when they make it to college,

911
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 1: because they will be the kids that don't do any

912
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 1: of the reading or any of the prep, and we'll

913
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: come in and be able to bus their way through

914
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: every lecture and every paper and every discussion and sound

915
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: like it made sense and they planned it the whole way.

916
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: So I think they have a bright future ahead of them,

917
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: and I wish them well in their quest. Well, we're

918
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: gonna see who's got a bright future here, you or

919
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: me with Phil who's about to weigh in and and

920
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: and and declare a news winner this week and stick

921
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,720
Speaker 1: around because right after that we're gonna go do some drinking.

922
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 1: For that's my bar for inspiring me to make my

923
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: own appointment with a dermatologist. Myles Nulte, you're the winner

924
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: this week and going back to what you guys were

925
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: talking about at the top of the show. I would

926
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: like to give a shout out to Pierre. To Pierre

927
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: also ran I Mesh for teaching me that every vaguely

928
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: reggae sounding song was written by Bob Marley, every parody

929
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: song ever written was by weird al Yankovic, and for

930
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: providing me with a incredibly low grade MP three quality

931
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: soundtrack as I awkwardly flirted with girls over a o

932
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: L and sent messenger, as well as other puberty driven

933
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: horrors I experienced over my mom's Netscape connection. Best God

934
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: Damn Bartender from Tim buck to to Portland, Maine the

935
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: Portland argument for that matter. This week's That's My Bar

936
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: submission comes to us from Trevor Hubbs. Trevor was clearly

937
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: board one day at work and sent us a novella

938
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: about his local watering hole that turned into like by

939
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: the end, it kind of just devolved into a self

940
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: diagnosed psychotherapy session. I, for one, can relate to overthinking

941
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: insignificant stuff like you know, where one chooses to drink beer,

942
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: so I definitely resonated with this one. I had to

943
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: edit it down a little bit for time, but but

944
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: here's Trevor's shout out. I'll just add before you start

945
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 1: that like pour yourself a glass of something and like

946
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 1: snuggle in because this is like that's that's what this requires.

947
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: It's so good. It's very well done. So Trevor says,

948
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: what must a good fishing bar have? Good service, unique

949
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: and creative cocktails, decent food, friendly atmosphere, fair prices, a

950
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: general sense that you won't get hepatitis C. If you

951
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,280
Speaker 1: don't need any of the above, then the Reef Point

952
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: Resort in Hartford, Wisconsin is for you. Beautifully situated on

953
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: Pike Lake in east central Wisconsin, brief Point Resort offers

954
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 1: all the basic necessities to keep you alive edible food,

955
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: reasonable shelter, and potable tap water. If you arrive too early,

956
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,879
Speaker 1: they may not be open, but don't worry. The door

957
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:57,839
Speaker 1: is always unlocked. You just have to act as your

958
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: own bartender until someone arrives. Upon entering, your immediately hit

959
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: with the stale smell of spilled beer and whiskey with

960
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: just a hint of urine drifting in from outside. After

961
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: a nasal adjustment, you slide up to the greasy bar

962
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: and notice a crock pot full of chili from nineteen

963
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: sixty that's never been turned off. The bartender will be

964
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: cleaning pint glasses with a dirty rag, but that doesn't

965
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:24,439
Speaker 1: matter because the beer is served in cans anyway. When

966
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: the uppies from Milwaukee and the FIBs from Chicago go

967
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,439
Speaker 1: home each winter, a magical transformation occurs at the Reef

968
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: Point Resort. This bar, so dingy and disheveled in the summer,

969
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 1: somehow becomes a warm and inviting den when the snowflies.

970
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 1: Cigarette smoke and steam from wet clothes mixed with the

971
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 1: smell of melting nylon from coats that got too close

972
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: to numerous space eaters. The chili that in July you

973
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: wouldn't feed your dog now inspires a craving more associated

974
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 1: with a hungry wolf than a man. After a morning

975
00:50:56,480 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 1: methodically jigging for perch on the frozen lake wasteland, this

976
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: oasis of booze and warmth is the greatest place on Earth.

977
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: With the badgers or packers game on a small, blurry

978
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,240
Speaker 1: eighteen inch TV mounted in the corner, men and women

979
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: sip on their partially frozen cans of beer, shoveled dirty

980
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: chili into their mouths, and talk about pikes so large

981
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 1: they couldn't pull them through the hole in the ice.

982
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: We paid ten bucks for a frozen pizza with a

983
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: piece missing because the bartender was hungry, three dollars for

984
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: a bowl of that questionable chili, and three fifty for

985
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 1: canned beer from thirty packs. That's sitting a stack against

986
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: the wall behind the bar. But the best part is

987
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:40,439
Speaker 1: watching the other ice fishermen through the windows. You hear

988
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: the familiar call of flag and watch overweight men past

989
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: their prime race across the ice to their tip ups.

990
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: This site, over and over from November through February, is

991
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: what brings people to this small bar. We eat, drink,

992
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: watch fat guys fall down, and we couldn't be happier.

993
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: Every summer I swear I'll never go in there again.

994
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: But then December comes, deer season ends, and I find

995
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: myself knee deep in a six pack, sharing a stranger's

996
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: pocket jerky he calls a wildlife mix, and waiting for

997
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,879
Speaker 1: a tip up so I can watch another mad dash

998
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: across the ice. I can't tell if I had just

999
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: made myself depressed writing this reviewer. If I can't wait

1000
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: for ice fishing season, this probably says more about small

1001
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 1: town Wisconsin winners than it does about the Reef Point Resort.

1002
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: But it's now five o'clock and I have been able

1003
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: to pretend to be working while I type out this email.

1004
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: But if my boss sees me stay past five, he'll

1005
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: know it's not for work. So I gotta go. Thank

1006
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: you for that. Trevor can think of what what is

1007
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 1: the nostalgic show with a young Fred Savage that has

1008
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: the narrator the Wonder Years, The Wonder Years, Trevor, I

1009
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 1: would like to I would like to option this as

1010
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: a script for a film, and that I will put

1011
00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: in Sundance because that was I I couldn't even bring

1012
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: myself to interject because it was just so beautiful to

1013
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: listen to all that. No I I added nothing to that.

1014
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: That was all Trevor's vision when he was not working,

1015
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: and I think I think it was probably more productive

1016
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: than what he was supposed to do. In my opinion,

1017
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 1: it could have been. Or maybe it's proof that he's

1018
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: missing his true calling. You need to be, you know,

1019
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:21,879
Speaker 1: writing for for Reader's digest or something. He's that good

1020
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: and there there's so many there's so many references in

1021
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 1: there I could go off on, but I'll just stick

1022
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 1: to one. It was my favorite when he talked about

1023
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,720
Speaker 1: the smell of the slightly melted nylon with the space

1024
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: eaters and that that that takes me back to a

1025
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: steelhead trip years ago with a guy who was very

1026
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: proud of his brand new SIMS gortex jacket that he

1027
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: accidentally threw on the propane stove that was cooking our

1028
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: bacon and eggs on the drift boat. We were all fishing,

1029
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 1: going what the hell? And it just melted around the

1030
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: entire stove and stunk up. It was awful, and that's

1031
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: what I thought of. So thank you for taking me

1032
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 1: back to that moment, Trevor, which I honestly had forgotten about. Anyway,

1033
00:53:58,400 --> 00:53:59,800
Speaker 1: if you guys have a great bar, you want to

1034
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,439
Speaker 1: show out out and kill time at the office where

1035
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 1: you want to make it look like you're being productive

1036
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 1: when you're actually just waxing poetic about dive bars, send

1037
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: it our way. Okay. You can find us at bent

1038
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: at the metator dot com. And if you put in

1039
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: half as much effort okay as Trevor, we'll have a

1040
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: good chance of grabbing our attention. So you know, if

1041
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: you just happen to be in east central Wisconsin and

1042
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: you want to spend the night drinking. You're welcome because

1043
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: we just helped you out. I would go to that place,

1044
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:33,240
Speaker 1: but yep, that's that's our kind of place. But maybe

1045
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:34,799
Speaker 1: you're not in the mood to go out drinking. Maybe

1046
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: you're in the mood to spend a night fishing, and

1047
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 1: I respect that that's the case. Joe's got an end

1048
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: of the line segment this week about one of our

1049
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:46,800
Speaker 1: all time favorite lures that sounds so much sweeter in

1050
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: the dark, but like, if you really want to get

1051
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 1: a sense for it, it sounds the sweetest when it

1052
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: stops making noise because it just got hammered in the

1053
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: dark of night. So listen up, kids, because you were

1054
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:01,800
Speaker 1: about to learn why you're granddad had more bass skills

1055
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,919
Speaker 1: than you ever will and why you can do more

1056
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 1: exciting things after sundown. Then watch TikTok. If you just

1057
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: stop obsessing over all the new lures from Japan. Well

1058
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 1: that's not loud enough. The first commercially produced lure fred

1059
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Speaker 1: Arbigast ever unleashed on the angling masses, was called the

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Speaker 1: Tin Liz, a metal loure that looked like a rather

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Speaker 1: anatomically correct bait fish with a hinged metal tail that

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Speaker 1: flapped and wiggled. This was in two and there's a

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Speaker 1: strong chance that you've never heard of the tin Liz.

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Speaker 1: But over the next six years, Old Fred dropped some

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Speaker 1: innovative bombs on the angling world, several of which were

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Speaker 1: so powerful that over eighty years later, fish are still

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Speaker 1: dropping from the nuclear fallout of Fred's ingenuity. Some of

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Speaker 1: his former best sellers have drifted out of production, notably

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Speaker 1: the Hawaiian Wiggler, a predecessor of the modern chatter bait,

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Speaker 1: and the mudbug, which there is a striking resemblance to

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Speaker 1: the modern square bill crank bits that many young whipper

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Speaker 1: snappers probably assume we're invented by Brandon Pollitick or Aaron

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Speaker 1: Martin's within the last twenty years. No, you will not

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Speaker 1: find an incredible selection of arbor gas lures at big

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Speaker 1: box tackle shops these days. But you'll find too that

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Speaker 1: remained pretty unchanged since their debuts, the Hula Popper, which

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Speaker 1: hit the market in nineteen thirty six, and the Jitterbug,

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Speaker 1: which was released in nineteen thirty eight, And that is

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Speaker 1: the one that is the object of my affection in

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Speaker 1: today's segment. Many consider the jitterbug the most innovative top

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Speaker 1: word lure of all time. They're available in several sizes

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Speaker 1: and patterns, jointed and non jointed. The bodies are oblong

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Speaker 1: and look like tiny little Goodyear blimps. But despite the size,

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Speaker 1: joint and color combo you choose, all models feature an upturned, cupped,

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Speaker 1: heart shaped metal lip, and that, folks, is what really

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00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 1: gives the jitterbug it's boom. All you have to do

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Speaker 1: with the jitterbug is cast and real steadily warning. However,

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00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: original jitterbugs are light, air resistant and kind of cast

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Speaker 1: like ship. But still it's it's worth overlooking that minor ding. Okay,

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Speaker 1: As the Lord moves across the surface, its side to

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00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 1: side walking slash waddling action forces the outer edges of

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00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: that metal lip to tap the water one side, then

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00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 1: the other, back and forth at a high rate of speed,

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00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: and what you end up with is this high pitched gurgle. Subsequently,

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00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: all that lip slapping creates bubbles, which create a bubble

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00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: trail which basically draws an arrow to the target for

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00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: fish below during the entire retrieve. Now I love night

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00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: fishing for any species that bites after dark, And despite

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Speaker 1: the countless other varieties of walking top orders from birds

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Speaker 1: two bats too, I don't know what they make now chipmunks. Perhaps,

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00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 1: ask any bass angler forty year older what kind of

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Speaker 1: top order they tie on first for a dark ops

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00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: hog roping session. Most, if not all, are going to

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Speaker 1: call out the jitterbug from the get go. Fred arbor

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Speaker 1: Gas designed the jitterbug to shine in low light. Now,

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Speaker 1: back in a long gone era, like before I had kids,

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Speaker 1: I'd frequently dropped my raft on the Delaware River after

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Speaker 1: sundown for all nighter jitterbug only smallmouth flow. During that

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Speaker 1: same era, I do the same thing on local stocker streams,

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Speaker 1: swinging small jitterbugs through tailouts for holdover browns, and on

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Speaker 1: trips across the country. I can't tell you how many

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Speaker 1: times I've busted out a jitterbug only to shock another

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Speaker 1: angler I'm with. It's like that moment of realizing you

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00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: were both part of the same frat in college. You

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00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: both fish a lord that's been around nearly a century,

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00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: but act as if you're both in on some dark secret.

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Speaker 1: So why is that? It's because the jitterbug isn't cool? Man?

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00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: It's not new, it's not from Japan, it's not being

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Speaker 1: used by the Google squad, it's not winning the bass

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Speaker 1: Master Classic. It's fair to say it's squarely off the

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Speaker 1: radar of the young bucks. And even when they see it,

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00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 1: what they see is Grandpa's lore And what the hell

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00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: did he know? He didn't even have eight carrier braided

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00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 1: line or Squincher energy drink mix in his tactical tackle bag. Ironically,

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Speaker 1: the current leadership at Arbor Gast is trying to change

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Speaker 1: that via the Jitterbug two point oh same nineteen thirty

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Speaker 1: eight design, same action, though now those little blimp bodies

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Speaker 1: come in colors like Shadow, a mod frog pattern, Mutant

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Speaker 1: featuring sharp shrewse tiger stripes that resemble the Monster energy logo,

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Speaker 1: and Undead, which features a fish skeleton on the sides

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00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: and zombie like eyes. Bonus, All of these new patterns

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00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: glow in the dark. Now, I do appreciate the effort

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Speaker 1: to get the kids excited about the Jitterbug. And kids,

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Speaker 1: if a jitterbug with a glowing skeleton gets you excited

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Speaker 1: to buy it, buy it, that's great. Give it a

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Speaker 1: whirl and you'll soon realize that what you really need

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00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 1: is a plain black jitterbug, just like your great grand pappy.

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Speaker 1: Through and being able to see your jitterbug out there

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Speaker 1: is no benefit to you or the fish. It's auditory. Man.

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Speaker 1: When that gurgle stops on a still summer night, you'll

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00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: be hooked. Well, that's all the time we have this

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Speaker 1: week to recap. File at knives can be a real

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00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: pain in the ass when they're totally unnecessary to begin with.

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Speaker 1: You now understand the proper term for the place where

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Speaker 1: your beer can end goes on the boat. We found

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Speaker 1: a bar that both smells like you're an end, has

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Speaker 1: pollable water, and Joe may still end up in jail

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01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: over all that music he's illegally downloaded. I expect the

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Speaker 1: raid to happen anytime now, you know, so listen before

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01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: I head to the clink over bootleg gutter Mouth tracks.

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01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: I still have books of CDs downstairs somewhere that like

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01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 1: have all the music I downloaded from Lime Wire on

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01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: the disc and finally threw them away in the last move.

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Speaker 1: They're still in you know. Anyway. I would love to

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Speaker 1: have some more emails from you guys before I get

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Speaker 1: locked away, so please keep those comments criticisms, suggestions, bar nominations,

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Speaker 1: awkward photos, checking account routing numbers, and sale ban items

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Speaker 1: coming to bent at the meat eater dot com. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and hey, it's December. It means some of you might

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Speaker 1: maybe possibly be getting out on the ice this weekend

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Speaker 1: if there is any that's right. And remember, if you're

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Speaker 1: unsure the thickness, do the same thing and send your

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Speaker 1: huskiest friend out there first