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

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Speaker 1: Cal's weekend review, presented by Steel. Steel products are available

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Speaker 1: only at authorized dealers. For more, go to Steel Dealers

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now Here's your host Ryan cal Callahan.

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Speaker 2: The mayor of Tampa Bay, made international news last week

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Speaker 2: after she hooked into a million bucks worth of cocaine

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Speaker 2: on a fishing trip in the Florida Keys. Tampa Bay

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Speaker 2: Mayor Jane Caster told local media that she and her

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Speaker 2: family were fishing for lobster and mahi mahi when her

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Speaker 2: brother spotted something floating in the water. Hoping to find

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Speaker 2: fish in the shadow of the debris, they went to investigate.

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Speaker 2: Castor is a former narcotics officer, but it didn't take

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Speaker 2: a narco to notice something fishy about the tightly wrapped

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Speaker 2: packages of white powder. The plastic wrapping had started to decay,

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Speaker 2: but they could still make out an image of a

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Speaker 2: blue and purple butterfly on each. They found twenty four

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Speaker 2: kilos in total, which equal about seventy pounds of snow,

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Speaker 2: valued around one point one million bucks. The mayor and

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Speaker 2: her family brought the coke back to shore and called

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Speaker 2: the local Sheriff's Office US Border Patrol took the narcotics

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Speaker 2: into custody, and you can find images of the bales

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Speaker 2: of sneeze online. This isn't the first time a keel

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Speaker 2: full of nose candy was found in the ocean. In

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Speaker 2: April of this year, law enforcement found nearly four hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty million dollars worth of cocaine in Italian waters,

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Speaker 2: and in February, authorities in New Zealand seized more than

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Speaker 2: three tons of cocaine floating in the ocean. So while

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Speaker 2: it might seem a little coincidental that a former police

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Speaker 2: officer and current mayor of a major American city just

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Speaker 2: happened to find a bale of blow in the ocean,

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Speaker 2: international drug dealers apparently have a tough time securing their

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Speaker 2: bump on their boats. Now, before we get serious on

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Speaker 2: this story, let's just clear the air here. Common slang

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Speaker 2: terms for cocaine, according to American Addiction Centers dot Org,

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Speaker 2: would be blow, bump, see your big sea, coke, crack,

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Speaker 2: dust flake, the line, nosecandy, pearl, rail, snow, sneeze, sniff, speedball, toot,

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Speaker 2: and white rock. All right, if I missed any, don't

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Speaker 2: bother sending it in unless it's really funny. Anyway, if

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Speaker 2: you are wondering what cocaine does to fish, I could

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Speaker 2: find exactly one study that was published in the journal

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Speaker 2: Toxicology in twenty sixteen. That study involved zebrafish dancing with

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Speaker 2: the White Lady, and in that study, it would suggest

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Speaker 2: that fishing underleaking bales of booger sugar out in the

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Speaker 2: ocean could be unproductive, as cocaine largely bypassed the zebrafish's

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Speaker 2: brains and accumulated in their eyeballs in quantities large enough

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Speaker 2: to kill them. What causes hyperactivity in humans through the

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Speaker 2: ingestion of cocaine appeared to cause the zebrafish to become

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Speaker 2: less active, which means it would be a slow bite

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Speaker 2: under a bale of cocaine. So here's a takeaway one.

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Speaker 2: If you're looking at floating bales of blow, you may

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Speaker 2: want to skip over them and fish more traditional celt

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Speaker 2: patties because the bite's going to be slow. And if

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Speaker 2: you do keep a fish that you caught underneath a

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Speaker 2: bail of disintegrating cocaine in the big blue, you may

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Speaker 2: want to skip eating the eyeballs kind of swim here

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Speaker 2: with wasting big enough for you or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Huh problem buddy, huh huh do you do you? Do

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Speaker 2: you one piece of meat?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm scared. Now. This week we've got animal attacks,

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Speaker 2: legal eese, citizens, science, and so much more. But first

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you about my week, and my

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Speaker 2: week was great. Met up with Hayden Hansen, the fine

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Speaker 2: gentleman who won the get Ready for the Season auction

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Speaker 2: at BHA Rendezvous. We headed over to the weather Be

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Speaker 2: Factory and Shared in Wyoming, where we met the crew

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Speaker 2: on the factory floor, had all of our production line

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Speaker 2: questions answered. Then we zeroed in some different rifle combinations,

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Speaker 2: and busted clays with the new Weatherby side by sides,

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Speaker 2: which are amazing. We even got to tinker around with

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Speaker 2: and old Hayden is having a brand spanking new custom

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Speaker 2: three to oh seven topped with a Vortex razor LHT

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Speaker 2: for that package this next rendezvous. Hayden told me he's

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Speaker 2: and wildlife. And if you haven't noticed, this year's land

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Speaker 2: Access Initiative project is up and a running. We've found

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Speaker 2: a really amazing place on the Lower Yellowstone here in Montana,

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Speaker 2: big old Cottonwood bottoms home to big game, small game,

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Speaker 2: migratory and upland birds. It's truly an incredible place, and

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Speaker 2: the fishing will blow your socks off too. I just

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Speaker 2: cannot believe there are still people out there who will

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Speaker 2: of outdoors people to come. So, if you want to

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Speaker 2: contribute to increasing the areas of hunting and fishing in

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Speaker 2: this great country, you can head over to the Meat

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Speaker 2: Eater auction House of Oddities and place a bid on

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Speaker 2: something cool and unique. We are adding a surprise round

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Speaker 2: of items just for you. You can always round up

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Speaker 2: for conservation after making a purchase at the meat eater

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Speaker 2: dot com, as well as donating directly to this project

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Speaker 2: in a text deductible fashion by sending a good old

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Speaker 2: fashioned check to my friends at Pheasants Forever Dash, Montana

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Speaker 2: build a wildlife area at seventeen eighty three burkl Circle

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Speaker 2: still can't pronounce that b U E r K L

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Speaker 2: and last, but not least, before we move on, I

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Speaker 2: do want to call out that we will cover some

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Speaker 2: portions of the Maui will fire situation on this episode.

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Speaker 2: I and we at meat Ea have had so much

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Speaker 2: fun in the state of Hawaii. I have a bunch

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Speaker 2: of friends on Maui who have shared so much with

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Speaker 2: me over the years, killer experiences, family dinner tables, fishing

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Speaker 2: and hunting spots, local knowledge, and just super limited in

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Speaker 2: how we can help from my landlocked state of Montana.

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Speaker 2: It's crappy feeling after lots of texting, there's some great

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Speaker 2: options for you to help by sending donations. You can

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Speaker 2: KA n P A c H. There you will find

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Speaker 2: the Maui Strong Fund, as well as a lot of

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Speaker 2: direct venmo options for displays families. Moving on to the

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Speaker 2: animal desk. Animal attacks are frequent on this here podcast,

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Speaker 2: but this week some of the strangest encounters I've heard

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Speaker 2: not have happened before. A sixty four year old Texas

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Speaker 2: woman named Peggy Jones was mowing her lawn in late

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Speaker 2: and she wakes up feeling panicked, which is understandable. Another

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Speaker 2: odd animal attack took place last month in the western

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Speaker 2: first recorded LINKS attack on a human in North America.

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Speaker 2: It's not hard to find reports of links attacking chickens

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Speaker 2: or dogs, but a wildlife biologist with Alaskaficient game told

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Speaker 2: the Anchorage Daily News that no one in North America

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Speaker 2: has ever documented a Lynx attack on a person. It's

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Speaker 2: unclear what motivated this specific attack, but Ontario officials urge

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Speaker 2: things you can do. By now, you've probably heard about

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Speaker 2: weeks ago. Three women were attacked while floating in inner

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Speaker 2: details and check out the grizzly images for yourself on

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Speaker 2: the meat eater dot com, which I'm just gonna say it.

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Speaker 2: Quit floating rivers and inner tubes. Just leave those rivers

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Speaker 2: for the hunting and angling crowd. Okay. Now, some ranchers

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Speaker 2: ranchers said, quote, they're getting aggressive. They're not afraid of humans.

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Speaker 2: along with several other states, but Wyoming Game and Fish

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Speaker 2: aggressively investigating landowners who block access to public waterways. Last year,

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Speaker 2: the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that the public could

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Speaker 2: they passed through private property. Prior to this ruling, the

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Speaker 2: New Mexico Game Commission had issued permits to some private

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Speaker 2: landowners allowing them to fence off stream access in a

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Speaker 2: direct violation of the state constitution. The court decision invalidated

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Speaker 2: reports from anglers of rivers and streams that remained blocked.

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Speaker 2: They took photographs of barbed wire and other types of

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Speaker 2: says they've even received reports of barbed wire at or

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Speaker 2: we stand ready to use every available tool to ensure

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Speaker 2: In other legal news, as I mentioned a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: the judge in the Wyoming Corner Crossing case has ruled

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Speaker 2: again in favor of the Corner Crossers. This time he

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Speaker 2: rejected a motion by Ironbar Holdings to stay his ruling

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Speaker 2: medieater dot com forward slash cal but I wanted to

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Speaker 2: highlight a message the judge sent to public land hunters again.

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Speaker 2: Lawyers for Ironbar Holdings argue that the judge should stay

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