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Speaker 1: everybody joined today very special guest Tucker Carlson, host of
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Speaker 1: and Tucker Carlson Originals, which got Crian wondering, Um, since
Speaker 1: Tonight is encapsulated in Today, what's the different scene in
Speaker 1: two shows? You know, I haven't need to I haven't
Speaker 1: looked at my contract, and no other is. There is
Speaker 1: a distinction, but it's a lot of talking in both.
Speaker 1: Hit me with a bunch of superlatives you have, like
Speaker 1: you're the you're the most watched cable news commentator, cable
Speaker 1: news newscaster, having been this is my year doing this,
Speaker 1: and having been the least watched cable news commentator. I
Speaker 1: see everything is kind of the Buddhist wheel of life,
Speaker 1: So I'm on one end of it at the moment,
Speaker 1: doubtless will be on the other end. You know you
Speaker 1: have it on the other end. You know you would
Speaker 1: know this because I can't say that we met but
Speaker 1: you um uh I was in your presence one time
Speaker 1: because years ago uh t r c P. Yes, theater
Speaker 1: rules about conservation partnership. They do this Capitol Awards dinner
Speaker 1: where they give the usually honor, they honor someone from
Speaker 1: each side of the aisle. Yes, so the honor Republican
Speaker 1: and a Democrat, and then usually someone from the House,
Speaker 1: usually from someone from the Senate, sometimes too governors. And
Speaker 1: you gave some opening remarks. You might have noticed a
Speaker 1: young man in the audience. So I like them, and
Speaker 1: I like try to unlimited there. I mean, I lived
Speaker 1: in Washington for a long time and I dealt with
Speaker 1: a lot. Obviously I care about conservation and the land
Speaker 1: and all that, and I but I only trust the
Speaker 1: groups with sportsman in um. I mean, if you can't
Speaker 1: tell a deciduous from a conifer, if you can't like
Speaker 1: identify fish species, like you're you're faking it. And those
Speaker 1: guys are for real and they fish and they shoot
Speaker 1: in and I like that. You have a conversation. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of there are a lot of fake
Speaker 1: groups out there. Whoa uh you know, I I've always
Speaker 1: only been focused on the sportsman ones. They're the best
Speaker 1: because they were talking the same language, because they're rooted
Speaker 1: in physical reality, you know, saving the environment. Okay, what environment?
Speaker 1: And how are you saving it? And how is it improving?
Speaker 1: You know, so if you can go to it, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's it. It's not it's a non ideal logical measure,
Speaker 1: but like, tell me what you're doing with the money.
Speaker 1: And and that's one of the reasons I like to you.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, okay, there's a stream near my house
Speaker 1: that they improved. How did they improve it? They you know,
Speaker 1: they put more cover. Do you know? They put some
Speaker 1: pools in. Like that's a good thing. The fish like it.
Speaker 1: I like it, you know, I'm happy to give money
Speaker 1: to them. Um anyway, So but the other day we
Speaker 1: did a tu who was more involved than that. It
Speaker 1: was us, our company, trot I think Trotten Limited did
Speaker 1: it right, the river clean up the Gallatin County chapter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's two companies that are base here, SIMS, like we're
Speaker 1: based here. SIMS is based here. The Waiter company. But
Speaker 1: then tu put on a basically just cleaning trash out
Speaker 1: of the lower. If you're taking tires out of the stream,
Speaker 1: I'm on your side. You know, I've mentioned a bunch
Speaker 1: of times. But do you remember the humorist m Patrick McManus,
Speaker 1: he's the right like humor fishing pieces. Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: He had a piece where he explained that the difference
Speaker 1: between a creek and a creek is that a creek
Speaker 1: has a tire in it. Truck tires all the time. Uh.
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Speaker 1: the help everybody out there. Uh here's I added this
Speaker 1: one cran, you know, I added a note New Jersey
Speaker 1: will now have no bear season at all. Um, it
Speaker 1: was that you weren't gonna be able to do it
Speaker 1: one on like state Land. Now you can't do it
Speaker 1: at all. And like they have a they have a
Speaker 1: management plan, but everyody's gotta sign off on the management plan,
Speaker 1: so they just are acting like they just haven't read
Speaker 1: the management plan. So now like past a certain deadline,
Speaker 1: no one actually said there can't be a bear season,
Speaker 1: but the opponents of the bear season just stalled furthering
Speaker 1: the management plan and like, haven't read it the deadline hit.
Speaker 1: Now that the deadline hit, it's too late in the year. Huh.
Speaker 1: If you live in New Jersey, gotta get a brand
Speaker 1: new governor. Phil Murphy campaigned is like ending the bear
Speaker 1: That was like a campaign promise to end bear hunting?
Speaker 1: Is there a population conservation argument to be made for
Speaker 1: the decision? New Jersey has the highest density of black
Speaker 1: bears in the They ate a kid from Regers a
Speaker 1: few years ago. Bears. It takes a lot for a
Speaker 1: black bear to eat someone. There have to be a lot.
Speaker 1: What they would do, what they would do that was
Speaker 1: stupid in my view, is when you hunt bears in
Speaker 1: New Jersey and you get a bear, you have to
Speaker 1: go to the check station. Okay, but they just have
Speaker 1: check stations out in public, like in a parking lot
Speaker 1: off the side of the road, and they publicize it here.
Speaker 1: When you get a bear, you very you go and
Speaker 1: you take it to what would make sense. You go
Speaker 1: to the Fishing Game office and you meet with a
Speaker 1: biologist and you go to a place a secure location whatever.
Speaker 1: Not secure, but it's not. It's like they don't like
Speaker 1: call the press to tell him you're coming down with
Speaker 1: the bear. They pull a tooth to get the biometric data,
Speaker 1: and you register the bear here they have like they
Speaker 1: were like on Saturday at noon, we'll be registering bears
Speaker 1: at this public pull out and so everybody shows up
Speaker 1: there and has like a connection. They do that what
Speaker 1: they did that with white tails too. I remember shooting
Speaker 1: deer in New Jersey and taking it down to the
Speaker 1: local Delhi and you show a guy and you hand
Speaker 1: you a sight. He's tag over the ham. It's just
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a site he's tag. Yeah. They would
Speaker 1: give you a red like tag that you would then
Speaker 1: clip on the deer after you checked it in. That's
Speaker 1: what they do in main. No sids is the international
Speaker 1: What the hell side he's call's that's right, not side,
Speaker 1: But it's like that same same sort of tag, like
Speaker 1: the metal tag E clip on. Uh. Murphy's one of
Speaker 1: those dudes that also as well. He's one of those
Speaker 1: dudes that during his state's lockdown, he had the really
Speaker 1: thing where someone made a very embarrassing video where he's
Speaker 1: out at a restaurant with everybody and then this woman
Speaker 1: comes off to him who's making the video, and she goes, Murphy,
Speaker 1: you're such a dick. I thought she was a bear hunter,
Speaker 1: but she was just pissed about the I think it's
Speaker 1: important to point out, though, that that the governor doesn't
Speaker 1: care about bears. He's not doing this on behalf of bears.
Speaker 1: He's doing it on behalf of the segment of the
Speaker 1: population that cares about bears, and he wants that vote.
Speaker 1: This person not out saving bears. Another states one of
Speaker 1: the like statistically crazy things, UH that that you're kind
Speaker 1: of glossed over is the student. The record student that
Speaker 1: was eaten was in a group of hikers. So you know,
Speaker 1: an individual is one thing. A group being accosted by
Speaker 1: a bear and an individual being taken out of that
Speaker 1: group puts it into a wholly another statistical category. Black bear.
Speaker 1: Has that ever happened before? I've never heard it, not
Speaker 1: to my knowledge. It's probably some crazy bear. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it is a wild deal with that that
Speaker 1: bear consumed part of that student and because of that,
Speaker 1: he was protecting his cash. And the UH has a
Speaker 1: DNR and in New Jersey, I can't think of what
Speaker 1: it is I say, um, the State Fish and Wildlife
Speaker 1: agency that always covers you. Right, you look like you
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. Yeh uh oh. We got
Speaker 1: a quick book report, so we have a bunch of
Speaker 1: times talked, but we're trying to explain, like, what's up
Speaker 1: with um? This became of interest, what's up with us?
Speaker 1: What what we used to call silencers but have been
Speaker 1: rebranded as suppressors. And I was explaining how when I
Speaker 1: first got a suppressor, I turned in my paperwork and
Speaker 1: it took fourteen months, and then I thought something had changed.
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know what changed, but it felt
Speaker 1: like something changed. And then someone starts talking about I'm
Speaker 1: holding in my hand what's called Yeah, this is some listen.
Speaker 1: I'm all for it, but this is some BS. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it, but it's b It's like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: holding my hand a suppressor that doesn't have the whole
Speaker 1: drilled in it, right, which prompted to me that there
Speaker 1: was a remember a garage band And when I was
Speaker 1: a kid in Michigan, there was a garage band that
Speaker 1: sold records and no hole in it and the record
Speaker 1: was called Drill your Own Hole. It's like the album
Speaker 1: it was marked, but you have to drill your own hole.
Speaker 1: So this is a drill your own hole and similarly
Speaker 1: take it over because Garret's gonna explain this whole world
Speaker 1: does Yeah, I was gonna say, if you drilled your
Speaker 1: own hole in the wrong spot, it'd probably wrecked the
Speaker 1: album and you'd probably have a like an adverse effect
Speaker 1: on your suppressor there if you just drilled it off
Speaker 1: to the side. Yeah, so that that company, Actually this
Speaker 1: is yours, that's mine. Yeah, so it doesn't have a
Speaker 1: hole in the end of it. When they send you
Speaker 1: your solvent trap, uh, they send you a drill bit
Speaker 1: and a guide for your drill bit just in case,
Speaker 1: just in case he might, you know, want to turn
Speaker 1: into a suppressor. Walk us through the walk us through
Speaker 1: all the legs. Yeah. So the legal like like you
Speaker 1: laid out with the regular suppressor side. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a pretty long but straightforward process where you have to
Speaker 1: file for to get your own suppressor. Right, this is
Speaker 1: solvent traps are just another form of a homemade suppressor.
Speaker 1: So people have been doing it, like with oil filters, right,
Speaker 1: they buy an oil filter, plug a hole in the
Speaker 1: end of it, and it's a suppressor. Because really a
Speaker 1: suppressor is just like a like a muffler on a car.
Speaker 1: Like that's maximum suppressors. They are pretty well, they were
Speaker 1: the first ones. Like Theodore Roosevelt ran a suppressor on
Speaker 1: his gun right there, right, Yeah, did you just learn
Speaker 1: that in your little research session or did you already
Speaker 1: know that? Oh Man NiFi was on the spot. Yeah
Speaker 1: he was, he was all about it. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: Cheddy Roosevelt rano suppressor lever action. Yeah, what was the chamber? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I did suppressor on a lever gun. Well,
Speaker 1: I think they had to have just like welded it
Speaker 1: on there. There's no other way to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so no, he did on several guns. But the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is so homemade suppressors have been around for a while.
Speaker 1: And so what the a t F did is they
Speaker 1: established this like it's a form one. So it's an
Speaker 1: e form that you can fill out that says, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to build a suppressor um and you have
Speaker 1: to get permission to build one. That's why there's not
Speaker 1: a whole drilled in the end of that one is
Speaker 1: I haven't got permission yet. And also you don't drill
Speaker 1: the whole till they say, you can drill the hole exactly.
Speaker 1: So the thing that's attractive about this that makes a
Speaker 1: hell of a lot more sense. Now, what's attractive about
Speaker 1: this is like your experience with fourteen months, which is
Speaker 1: a little different now, like it's more like seven to
Speaker 1: eight months. Yeah, well, Silence are Central, they're doing them
Speaker 1: in twelve weeks. Eight twelve weeks or no, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I feel like somebody kind of maybe misspoke
Speaker 1: when they said that, but it's still like seven to
Speaker 1: eight months. The nice thing about Silence are Central, it's
Speaker 1: different is like you saw it, you can go up,
Speaker 1: you know, buy your suppressor, fill out a form, and
Speaker 1: then they take it from there and you don't have
Speaker 1: to do anything, Like you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: how to fill out all the other paperwork. They just
Speaker 1: auto populated all and then they send it because they
Speaker 1: have a FFL in every state, they just send it
Speaker 1: directly to your house. Like there's no checkout process right
Speaker 1: like when it's approved, it goes right to your house
Speaker 1: and they do the fingerprinting. So like I noticed that
Speaker 1: they're at the Sturgist Bike Rally. At the Sturgist Bike Rally,
Speaker 1: they can fingerprint you. Yeah, which normally dudes. I think
Speaker 1: that dudes that sturges aren't looking to get fingerprinted. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, certainly not having sentence, but many have been before.
Speaker 1: This is the second time I got fingered. Just go
Speaker 1: down to the county jail. They have them for me.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, they should be on file broum. But the
Speaker 1: attractive thing with homemade suppressors or buying a solvent trap
Speaker 1: is you can realize explain what a solvent trap is,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, because nobody can see it that was
Speaker 1: being passed around. A solvent trap is for for all
Speaker 1: intensive purposes. It's a suppressor that doesn't have the handhole
Speaker 1: drilled in. Yeah, why would one. When you're cleaning your gun, right,
Speaker 1: you can push patches through your gun and it catches
Speaker 1: the solvent in the patches, so it doesn't. So I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I've actually pushed solvent into that solvent trap
Speaker 1: just because that's why I bought it. Do you think that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But here, let me ask you this. Do you think
Speaker 1: that anyone out there on the planet has um use
Speaker 1: the solvent trap? Just a trap? Solvent? Originally? Yes, like
Speaker 1: it was a thing. They looked a lot different than
Speaker 1: this right, it was. It was not a undrilled suppressor
Speaker 1: when it originally came out. Use that for a suppressor
Speaker 1: to but a Charman permit. So these solvent traps where
Speaker 1: they're attractive is like they're pretty much a suppressor without
Speaker 1: a whole drilled in the end of it and you
Speaker 1: can extrapulate from there. But what did that one cost you?
Speaker 1: So that was seven bucks? So they charge in the
Speaker 1: suppressor fees. Yeah, if you go to the same site,
Speaker 1: it's also seven hundred bucks for a suppressor, right, so
Speaker 1: there's the same cost. You'll notice my name and there's
Speaker 1: some other numbers are engraved on that and uh, put
Speaker 1: your glasses on. But the reason for it is if
Speaker 1: you buy a solvent trap, a lot of companies just
Speaker 1: you know, thinking maybe you want people to be able
Speaker 1: to find it in case you lose it, um ask
Speaker 1: if you want certain things engraved on the side of it.
Speaker 1: And the reasoning for that is when you turn a
Speaker 1: solvent trap into a suppressor, when you're filming filling out
Speaker 1: your e form, your form one, they require you to
Speaker 1: state your name, where it's manufactured, the serial number, and
Speaker 1: I think like the caliber, and they said it has
Speaker 1: to be printed on your suppressor that you're making. So
Speaker 1: lot of these companies, when they send you a solvent trap,
Speaker 1: they'll just ask you what you're putting on your form one,
Speaker 1: just in case you decided to turn, just in case
Speaker 1: you want to drill a hole. Um. Now, the attractive
Speaker 1: thing about it is if you're willing to go through
Speaker 1: like those steps. Um, A lot of times you're approved
Speaker 1: in sixty days, sometimes less, sometimes more like six weeks.
Speaker 1: You can have that now I screwed my then just
Speaker 1: as legal. The main difference is that it's electronics. So
Speaker 1: the reasoning that a regular suppressor takes so long is
Speaker 1: you send in all this paperwork to the A T. F. Right,
Speaker 1: and then they have to file it, and then they're
Speaker 1: checking on you and they're checking on the manufacturer. What's
Speaker 1: frustrating about is after all that time, when you send
Speaker 1: in your paperwork, the system that they check is the
Speaker 1: same system that when you go to go get a firearm. Right.
Speaker 1: So like a lot of knicks, right, yeah, the Knick system. Right.
Speaker 1: So like a lot of countries when they sell you
Speaker 1: fire up. Not a lot, but there's a lot of
Speaker 1: European countries when they send sell you a firearm, like
Speaker 1: you can buy it with a suppressor on it, because
Speaker 1: they're like, well, if we checked you out for a
Speaker 1: firearm and you don't have a you know, felonies or
Speaker 1: anything like that, why couldn't you have a suppressor. And
Speaker 1: so that's why I like the the whole solvent trap
Speaker 1: thing is pretty cool if you're willing to go through
Speaker 1: those steps right and and fill out an e form
Speaker 1: because yeah, six weeks usually you can have a suppressor.
Speaker 1: So are you waiting on um? Yeah, John Law until
Speaker 1: you can drill your hole. Yeah, I screwed up the
Speaker 1: first process they send you. They basically send you a
Speaker 1: confirmation email that says, hey, sign this and send in
Speaker 1: your fingerprints. Um. And I didn't see that. And then
Speaker 1: you have thirty days to print it off and send
Speaker 1: it back. And I did it at thirty five. And
Speaker 1: then I called him and pleaded with them, and they're like,
Speaker 1: no start over. But yeah, other than that, it would
Speaker 1: have been drilled by Now tell everybody about how you
Speaker 1: we're honored with Employee of the Month. You're a meta.
Speaker 1: I was. Yeah. It's also the first time on the
Speaker 1: podcast Garrett Long Second Ladies and gent Garrett Long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was at the feel doesn't know what you do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just for the audience, I guess. I guess my job
Speaker 1: is to make sure that people listen to the podcast. Um,
Speaker 1: so I'm the marketing director here. But yeah, I was
Speaker 1: on it when I was at Cheap Foundation. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't remember. But you didn't work for us then, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't work for you. Um, but that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: We were kind of upset actually because we tried to
Speaker 1: find like this specific brand of wild cheap whiskey to
Speaker 1: bring in and then we asked you after the podcast
Speaker 1: if you want to have a drink, and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't drink anymore. And then it was like a
Speaker 1: couple of months later, you were drinking like a beer
Speaker 1: in one of the episodes. We're like, oh, man, wrong
Speaker 1: brand of whiskey. Well, no, it's just I've I bounced
Speaker 1: around on drinking and drinking, like I like, I drank
Speaker 1: last night, but I still don't drink right right? Do
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying? I do feel like though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you were there for it was awkward last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what did I say to the waitress? Yeah, for half
Speaker 1: a shot of vodka in your body. She was very
Speaker 1: she didn't really know. Well, no, here's the problem. I
Speaker 1: didn't know they're normal. Pore is a two ounce poor.
Speaker 1: So I said I want half the amount, and so
Speaker 1: she goes so an ounce. I'm like, no, half the
Speaker 1: amount she goes was normally too. I'm like, well, I
Speaker 1: want a quarter a quarter of the normal amount, and
Speaker 1: Brody would like my give my left over to Brody.
Speaker 1: She's very accommodating. She also looked very confused. I do
Speaker 1: think we need to go back, though, Steve. This employee
Speaker 1: of the month thing, yeah, we kind of glossed over that.
Speaker 1: I was very honored you want to spend I feel
Speaker 1: like you kind of mentioned it. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if the listeners are like I grasped that I got
Speaker 1: employed in a month. He got it, and and he
Speaker 1: does Everything he does is great. But it was kind
Speaker 1: of like it was sort of a looking back on
Speaker 1: the pandemic, Garrett, when everything got shut down, the governor closed,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, close the whole state. You
Speaker 1: weren't supposed to go anywhere. Garrett fearlessly just drove all
Speaker 1: over in his truck. He he became like ups meal
Speaker 1: Delivery Quarantine Services if you had a direct exposure and
Speaker 1: had to hold up, Garrett would come bringing your stuff.
Speaker 1: You look out your window and see him leaving stuff
Speaker 1: on your doorstep selflessly. Wow. Yeah, I actually didn't think
Speaker 1: you're gonna go into it that much, but I appreciate it. Well. Listen,
Speaker 1: you know, if there's a thing I like about people, um,
Speaker 1: I like the people who will only people who will
Speaker 1: shovel ship and not complain about it. And you were
Speaker 1: ship shoveling. Yeah, during the pandemic. He also woke up
Speaker 1: at the butt crack the other day to take Samantha
Speaker 1: Nyce shooting. So whenever you're on this podcast, no, no
Speaker 1: Spencer's experience, he usually hates the exact opposite. Definitely not
Speaker 1: Phil's experience. We'll get you next time. Next time we'll
Speaker 1: say some bad stuff about you. Oh cran, can you
Speaker 1: do the quick thing about the town? Oh okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So a couple of episodes ago, we talked about dear
Speaker 1: vehicle collision study where wolves and wolves saving lives possibly
Speaker 1: was kind of all part of that. Yeah, we weren't.
Speaker 1: We weren't quite sure about that, but in any case,
Speaker 1: there were a number of The study was done in Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and uh, I really butchered the pronunciation of one county
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. The correct pronunciation is Waka Shaw. Dozens of
Speaker 1: people wrote in to correct me on that, so we
Speaker 1: issued a correction a current NFL play, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what did what did you call it? Waukesha? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: someone who lives in Wisconsin with family and Wauka Shaw
Speaker 1: wrote that he was just absolutely stunned that the one
Speaker 1: thing that we had missed in our correction was that
Speaker 1: Waukashaw is where the film Grumpy Old Men has had
Speaker 1: no idea. No, I don't think any. I mean, I
Speaker 1: didn't know that until when we talked about that film
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, which brought up you need to go
Speaker 1: go to Instagram, go to my instagram probably cals to
Speaker 1: what's your scale? Cols is like old cal four or six.
Speaker 1: Mine's very tricky. It's at Stephen Ronella. Go there and
Speaker 1: you'll see. On April one, we had a we didn't
Speaker 1: what the French would calling homage. It's brilliant to grumpy
Speaker 1: old men called grumpy middle aged men. One of the
Speaker 1: most ruthless fight scenes you'll ever see wasn't It wasn't
Speaker 1: a Wabby Shaw on the I thought it was Wabble
Speaker 1: Show in the movie. Yeah it is. I thought, Oh,
Speaker 1: is this whole thing wrong? Do we need to issue
Speaker 1: another correction. It's gonna go the way of those when
Speaker 1: you get hair growing on your eyeball. How we quit
Speaker 1: talking about that. It's gonna go Walker Shaw is going
Speaker 1: away of that. Um anyway, go check that out. It's
Speaker 1: the one of the funniest videos we put out this year,
Speaker 1: real quick. And this is gonna tie into our next
Speaker 1: talking point. So it's really slick. Um. Seth and I
Speaker 1: are fresh off well, I am fresh off a spear
Speaker 1: fishing trip to Louisiana. I'm fresh off fishing trip to Louisiana. Seth,
Speaker 1: don't get in the water. I've told anybody this. I was,
Speaker 1: I was rasing. I was like, Seth, he's not like.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like he loves the water, doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be in it. I love boats, he likes It's not
Speaker 1: he likes the water. He likes boats. Uh. I kept
Speaker 1: harrassing about why he wouldn't get in there and take
Speaker 1: a take a little shot or two with the spear gun,
Speaker 1: and he clarified to me he likes to bring the
Speaker 1: fish to him, Yeah, that's right. I need to go
Speaker 1: like boats, I like rodding reels. Doesn't need to go
Speaker 1: in there with them. But we were. This is the
Speaker 1: thing that I've been wanting to do for a long time.
Speaker 1: My god, it was fun. We were diving the oil rigs.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's hard to even explain, man, thousands
Speaker 1: of oil oil platforms to do all manner of things
Speaker 1: out How many miles out there we go? I think
Speaker 1: just over seventy. Yeah, we had a distinct advantage because
Speaker 1: our buddies had just speared a our bodies were down
Speaker 1: there to do. Um who they both been on the podcast,
Speaker 1: Greg Fonts and Alex were no and you want to
Speaker 1: see some full circle, full circling. These two are featured
Speaker 1: in the Close Calls the Mediator's Campfire Stories Close Calls edition.
Speaker 1: They're featured in the Close Calls with spear Fishing Close Calls.
Speaker 1: Um hell's that saying about us? Seth? They were down
Speaker 1: there doing something. Oh, they were there for a spear
Speaker 1: fishing tournament. So they had already like beyond scouted for
Speaker 1: two days. So we got the real gravy pickings because
Speaker 1: we went on out of the Gulf, and they knew
Speaker 1: like that rig, that rig, that rig. When the Mississippi
Speaker 1: flows out, it's got like a murky fresh water and
Speaker 1: freshwater lays on the salt water. So when you go
Speaker 1: up to a rig, like you get out of the
Speaker 1: boat and swim up to a rig, you can't see
Speaker 1: anything man Like you can hold your hand out and
Speaker 1: can't see your fingertips. In fact, you can't reload your
Speaker 1: spear gun at the surface without moving it around to
Speaker 1: see what's going on, Like you can't see the other
Speaker 1: end of the gun. But when you dive down from
Speaker 1: three ft to fifteen ft, all of a sudden, it's
Speaker 1: like you like enter the blue water. Like it's just
Speaker 1: it's like someone pulling back the curtains. So you dive
Speaker 1: down and you get through that muddy murk. And also
Speaker 1: it's like the whole world opens up unbelievable, unbelievable fish uh,
Speaker 1: which gives me to this point. These guys, you know,
Speaker 1: you'll get we were we we went out one time,
Speaker 1: fire out to try chumming. So we're chumming. What was
Speaker 1: that fish we're chumming with? You remember not bunker, No,
Speaker 1: I don't remember that. I don't remember the name of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't remember either. They used the word I wasn't
Speaker 1: familiar with. I bet I would know it by a
Speaker 1: different name. They use a lot of the guys on
Speaker 1: there use a lot of French words in it. That
Speaker 1: all their ducks, the Cajuns, all their ducks that use
Speaker 1: the French word for the duck. Um. Sharks show up
Speaker 1: like like a mofo when you're doing this, and these guys,
Speaker 1: when a shark comes in and he starts getting like
Speaker 1: kind of aggressive, what's funny is they're very good at
Speaker 1: reading the shark's mood and they'll go in and chase
Speaker 1: him like they dived down and chase him off, dive
Speaker 1: down and maybe like pokem or hit him in the
Speaker 1: nose to run him off, like you're running off a dog. Ah.
Speaker 1: And we had a recent episode we do with Kimmy
Speaker 1: Werner and she talked about the same thing. And I
Speaker 1: was remarking on her going down and confronting sharks, diving
Speaker 1: down to him to confront him to get him to
Speaker 1: move away. And this guy was saying he was listening
Speaker 1: to Kimmy's hot tip about this, and he was surfing
Speaker 1: at Dana Point California, and there was a great white
Speaker 1: that was hanging around there and he charged at it
Speaker 1: with his surfboard and spooked it off. It's huge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: gotta took Kimmy's advice, got aggressive on it. It left
Speaker 1: and never came back, so he says. But he also
Speaker 1: mentions that he did not stay in the water. He
Speaker 1: returned the shore immediately. I didn't read it that far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So did the shark leave or did he leave a
Speaker 1: little bit of both, but he did successfully charge the shark.
Speaker 1: The fin disappeared, never to be seen again. But his
Speaker 1: vantage point from thereafter was from the shore looking out,
Speaker 1: not the surfboard looking down. He includes some beautiful photographs
Speaker 1: of the shark. Gorgeous. I like that shark a lot. Okay,
Speaker 1: now turn the attention is our last thing before we
Speaker 1: get to our guests. But this is this is sizeable, right.
Speaker 1: Are we ready to move on? Spencer has been advocating
Speaker 1: can I just tell him? Can we can just do
Speaker 1: you care if it's like kind of post modern feeling
Speaker 1: where we talk about talking about it, take the lead,
Speaker 1: go ahead, you don't care. It's very it's postmodern, it's
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, it's show businesses to thing called the
Speaker 1: fourth wall. Um, what you can imagine like whilet's stay
Speaker 1: watching the sitcom, you can see what's happened ng on
Speaker 1: three of the walls, right, like they come in the
Speaker 1: husband wife get an argument that the kids say something sassy. Right,
Speaker 1: you can see like three walls, but you never see
Speaker 1: the fourth wall. That's where the cameras so in show
Speaker 1: business will say that we broke the fourth wall. We're
Speaker 1: breaking the fourth wall. Spencer has been advocating heavily that
Speaker 1: we need to have a trivia, a trivia element, an
Speaker 1: occasional trivial trivia element to the show. Um, and I
Speaker 1: think it's got a lot of legs, and I see
Speaker 1: our path toward of board game. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: writing on this. If Spencer does, if he's good, that
Speaker 1: he has a bright future. These are trivia questions curated
Speaker 1: by me. You're not gonna find them anywhere else. Not
Speaker 1: trivia questions you're gonna get in trivial Pursuit or on
Speaker 1: Jeopardy Where your neighborhood bar and grill. This is exclusive
Speaker 1: to the Mediator podcast, but it's informed by audience correct,
Speaker 1: It's informed by things that people want to know these
Speaker 1: questions are born out of meat eaters for verticals. Tell
Speaker 1: what they are Steve hunting, fishing, wild foods, and conservation.
Speaker 1: That's right. And we have ten questions and there is
Speaker 1: a prize, so we have steaks, So no cheating off,
Speaker 1: Tucker cal when when you're writing down here, I want
Speaker 1: you to know, man, you don't have to participate. I
Speaker 1: was on Jeopardy about like like a celebrity Jeopardy or
Speaker 1: it was he was the bullshit edition, and you know
Speaker 1: I knew him. He was a nice guy. No, it
Speaker 1: was it was, Oh god, he's so unimpressive from also
Speaker 1: from Michigan. I'm sorry, No, Bob Woodward. The journalists, yeah,
Speaker 1: the journalist. And he didn't tear it up. No, he's
Speaker 1: a little slow. Actually, it was sort of surprised. And
Speaker 1: Peggy new In, who's very nice person. Why do you
Speaker 1: say it was bullshit? Do you think they like come on? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was like no Greek mythology and I did it
Speaker 1: hungover and did fine. It was pretty right. So the prize,
Speaker 1: so Spencer wanted forty five minutes, and we've negotiated down
Speaker 1: to think we're like twenty. Yeah, but I'm very excited
Speaker 1: about this. I think that if you I'm I hope,
Speaker 1: I'm I had Spencer sit. I made uh, Spencer has
Speaker 1: Brody's chair. I wanted to be so cold, s Spencer
Speaker 1: while he did it, to see how it went. And
Speaker 1: the prize is meat Eater has generously agreed to donate
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars to a conservation organization of the winner's
Speaker 1: choice in the winner's name. So that is what's on
Speaker 1: the line here. And if this takes off and becomes
Speaker 1: really good, we'll have to up the state. There we go.
Speaker 1: This is just an introductory level. Comminder, Philik and one
Speaker 1: of you tally up the scores for me while we
Speaker 1: do this. Right, look on, Natan, know what I should
Speaker 1: win everything. I'm saying, just tend to win everything. We
Speaker 1: were ready. Everyone has a white right. None of us
Speaker 1: know what's going on. We've never tried it. I thought
Speaker 1: we should just shout out the answers. Yeah, the first
Speaker 1: question is multiple choice. You're not going to get any
Speaker 1: more multiple choice after this, so I'm giving you. Do
Speaker 1: we keep our whole board secret? Yeah? I mean I
Speaker 1: don't want. I don't want cal Show and Garrett, And
Speaker 1: what I mean is we do all of that. There
Speaker 1: will be after the first question, I will tell you
Speaker 1: to reveal your answer, and then we'll have a moment
Speaker 1: where we can laugh at Seth because he wrote something
Speaker 1: dumb um and we all know what everyone's as. Probably
Speaker 1: that's right. Multiple choice. The topic is conservation. Which one
Speaker 1: of these conservation organizations is oldest? Wall Eyes Unlimited, Duck's Unlimited,
Speaker 1: Trout Unlimited, or White Tails unlimited. Which one is the
Speaker 1: oldest wal Eyes, Ducks, Trout or White Tails? Oh? Man, see,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's one of those ones where, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, that's obvious. I know what to put. Wow,
Speaker 1: look up. Huh. These are the only four unlimited uh
Speaker 1: conservation organizations that I could find. But I feel like
Speaker 1: we should start like a squirrel one at some point.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we have Rocky Mountain Squirrel Foundation. Is there
Speaker 1: really such a thing. No, we're gonna starts unofficially organization.
Speaker 1: He doesn't do anything with it. It used to be
Speaker 1: in the Honest's bio on the website that he is
Speaker 1: the founder of it. All right, does everyone have an answer?
Speaker 1: Reveal your answers. We have White Tails un Limited was
Speaker 1: found in nineteen two. Let me tell you why I
Speaker 1: put down what I never Walleyes Unlimited was found in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, Trout Unlimited in nineteen fifty five, and
Speaker 1: Ducks Unlimited. The correct answer was nineteen thirty seven. We
Speaker 1: got everyone did well there, listen, Here's why I thought
Speaker 1: it was gonna be one of those got you questions.
Speaker 1: That's kind of embarrassed. So now that I see that
Speaker 1: you're just going for I wanted it so bad to
Speaker 1: be Wales. And the great story about it is when
Speaker 1: it was founded, the founder was originally just going to
Speaker 1: just going to call it Ducks, but it was going
Speaker 1: to be an international organization, and one of the other
Speaker 1: founders pointed out to him that, well, this would be limited.
Speaker 1: This would be uh categorized as a limited corporation in Canada,
Speaker 1: so Canada would refer to it as Ducks Limited. And
Speaker 1: the founders quote was, damn it, we don't want limited Ducks.
Speaker 1: So the solution then was to name it Ducks Unlimited.
Speaker 1: But question, it's now Duck's Unlimited limited if you like
Speaker 1: dug around in the paperwork of what Canadians we forer
Speaker 1: do it as I'm guessing that's would be Comma limited. Ye,
Speaker 1: So that's and that then like I imagine Spawn Trout
Speaker 1: to give that name in white Tails and sure everyone else.
Speaker 1: So that's how it started, staying Canadians, you're into this,
Speaker 1: aren't you? Hey, where's our interest? Meters Phil, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people in the room. I don't think I
Speaker 1: would have had space to set it up. Turn mine
Speaker 1: up if you can't got it. Question to the categories
Speaker 1: public lands? Which state has the most national parks? M
Speaker 1: hm oh, I mean by number, you know, the number
Speaker 1: of them? Oh, I think the number of national parks.
Speaker 1: Hold on a minute, man, are you talking about like
Speaker 1: like uh, like what about like Gettysburg or something like
Speaker 1: what what the National Park Service would identify as an
Speaker 1: national parks? But this is not This is not square miles,
Speaker 1: is not percentage of land, the number of them that
Speaker 1: there are, and it is a close race at the top.
Speaker 1: I will give you that hint. Yeah, because I think
Speaker 1: the smallest national park on register is less than a
Speaker 1: square mile of land. I believe so that I think
Speaker 1: so that is not the question though, reminding the questions,
Speaker 1: letting people know there's really there's at Which state has
Speaker 1: the most? I don't think I have it right. What's
Speaker 1: your fear do you think did you go to the
Speaker 1: obvious or not obvious one on this one? Because I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about something that's probably wrong, worked yourself into a pretzel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to tell you. Does everyone have an answer
Speaker 1: but grudgingly reveal your answers. The only person who got
Speaker 1: it right is Tucker. It is a California, California, California, California. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll put you on. California leads the nation at nine.
Speaker 1: You then have Alaska at eight, Utah at five, in
Speaker 1: Colorado at four. Here's why I went Alaska because you
Speaker 1: know they have like the park, they have those like
Speaker 1: park and preserved designations and there's a lot of them. Man,
Speaker 1: talk about that earlier today. Explanations of why you were on. No,
Speaker 1: you do not, but I appreciate to tell you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna quit doing it. I'm just gonna be wrong. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm looking for that in this game. I want
Speaker 1: you to like make me fat chest self and explain
Speaker 1: how wrong you got it. That kind of thing. Keep
Speaker 1: it on. California nine, in Alaska eight, last GA eight,
Speaker 1: Ute five, Colorado four. The nine national parks are Channel
Speaker 1: Island's Death Valley, Joshua Tree, King's Canyon, lastin Volcanic Pinnacles,
Speaker 1: Redwood Sequoia, and Semity. You know, uh, a little bit
Speaker 1: of constructive feedback for you. Okay, I'm ready your You
Speaker 1: knocked it out of the park on the first tidbit,
Speaker 1: like the post question tidbit, the second no one wants
Speaker 1: to hear a list of nine things. I disagree. The
Speaker 1: second tidbit I thought was horrible. Okay, it's going forward.
Speaker 1: Too much information, Yeah, going forward. The first tidbit was wonderful,
Speaker 1: but it's already constrict, like you can get list nine
Speaker 1: things to somebody. Look at look at what happened in
Speaker 1: the competition side of things though, right we were like
Speaker 1: had a strong heat going and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: now we have a clear front runner. Two rounds like that.
Speaker 1: That's a mark of a good game. The tidbit was
Speaker 1: specifically for criticizing the tidbit, and I would like the
Speaker 1: first tidbits at a real bar. I'm rounding out your compliments.
Speaker 1: And hey, at least he didn't slow down the podcast
Speaker 1: or anything with that and keep us from question three.
Speaker 1: Ready ready, I just like the point out that Karen
Speaker 1: is also playing and she is also two for two.
Speaker 1: Have a whiteboard, so I don't trust what she says.
Speaker 1: I like it, Philip fact checker, I'm gonna do a
Speaker 1: scoreboard update. That's very unnecessary. Where Steve has zero correct
Speaker 1: and the only person in the room was zero, we're
Speaker 1: just getting started. Question three, the topic is biology. What
Speaker 1: is the term for when there is a distinct difference
Speaker 1: in size or appearance between males and females of the
Speaker 1: same species. I'll give you some examples. A female soft
Speaker 1: shell turtle grows about twice as big as a male
Speaker 1: soft shell turtle. A mule deer buck has antlers, well,
Speaker 1: a mule deer dough does not. These are examples of
Speaker 1: what biological term. It's basically, did you listen to the
Speaker 1: last episode of the Mediator podcast? Was this talked about?
Speaker 1: Then we're talked about. We've talked about how Neanderthals don't
Speaker 1: seem to have exhibited it and at low levels ospreys
Speaker 1: are extreme. Okay, does everyone have it written down? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I saze sports, so I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1: Just sorry. The correct answer, as most folks in the
Speaker 1: room macrofructations. The correct answer is what karine? That is ratual.
Speaker 1: That's hot. Who got I read that? Not only do
Speaker 1: you do? It seems like from the sculpt remains do
Speaker 1: Neanderthals did not have as extreme a form of sexual
Speaker 1: dimorphism is hominids or not? They were hominids as Homo sapien,
Speaker 1: but they a Their skeletal remains exhibit the same suites
Speaker 1: of injuries from what anthropologists call a confrontational style of hunting,
Speaker 1: and that it seems that the women were mixing it
Speaker 1: up with the men in big game hunting, a suite
Speaker 1: of injuries that is reminiscent of what you see on
Speaker 1: professional bull riders. They noted, it's a good book. I
Speaker 1: read all that out of Okay, all right, now we
Speaker 1: have Korean pitching a perfect game. That's the tidbit, three
Speaker 1: for three. Yeah, but she's disqualified because Brodie, did you
Speaker 1: get that one or not? It's only an honorable man.
Speaker 1: Caught up Phil Question four's fishing. The fifty one bass
Speaker 1: Master Classic, which is the super Bowl Bass Fishing, just
Speaker 1: wrapped up in June. The annual tournament features some of
Speaker 1: the world's most famous anglers on some of America's premier
Speaker 1: bass lakes and rivers. You need to name one body
Speaker 1: of water the bass Master Classic has been held on.
Speaker 1: Has been held on, Yes, any of the fifty one events.
Speaker 1: You need to name one of those lakes or rivers
Speaker 1: or impoundments that the Classic has been held on. Have
Speaker 1: to spell it right. No, I'm right there. I think
Speaker 1: we're writing down the same lakes down. This is gonna
Speaker 1: take me a minute to check all of your answers,
Speaker 1: because you have about forty options. The lake is or
Speaker 1: the the the tournament has been held on some some
Speaker 1: duplicates at some point, so you have to bear with us.
Speaker 1: We reveal on I see Garrett still writing Lake macro Fructation.
Speaker 1: All right, Steve, you go first. What do we got
Speaker 1: oka chobe Um? I don't. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: one of them because you sheld it so wrong. I can't.
Speaker 1: Did you write it this way? Steve? Yeah, lake of
Speaker 1: Lake of Florida Lake. Oh oh, he's got the same answer,
Speaker 1: but he probably spelled about kay. I do not I
Speaker 1: do not seek cho beyond you, Tucker, what is your answer?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry? How do you spell the nar? Think it's
Speaker 1: l A and I E R in Georgia. That is
Speaker 1: not one of them. Come on, I don't think. I
Speaker 1: think you're like, I don't even want to show, but
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't even know if there's bass Lake
Speaker 1: Michigan is correct, I don't even here. Two thousand they
Speaker 1: held the Bass Master Classic on Lake Michigan. That Wood
Speaker 1: Davies one with twenty seven pounds. Seth, what do you
Speaker 1: got like? Fork? He likes bass tournaments. That is not
Speaker 1: one of the lakes. Really really, what is this? I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know for a fact Lake Fork was
Speaker 1: on a stop on the series this year, not the
Speaker 1: Master Classics, the class So what is like? What fake answer?
Speaker 1: I had three question marks? So Garrett the person who
Speaker 1: have you caught bass? Like? Right? Have you caught bass before? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do it quite a lot around here? Yeah, get
Speaker 1: at it is the one person got it right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: fly Rod. Mainly he's lying, like I know this year
Speaker 1: it was held in Florida, but I forget the body
Speaker 1: of water name or not Florida, Texas. It was in Texas. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know what like? But I don't Ray Roberts. Roberts,
Speaker 1: I couldn't think of it. Okay, you got a tidbit
Speaker 1: or no, that's it. No, I think part of your
Speaker 1: signature deal should be a little tidbit. Yeah. Well the
Speaker 1: tidbit was telling Garrett that it was held in two
Speaker 1: thousand and in Wade Davies won it with twenty seven pounds. Alright.
Speaker 1: Question five, we no longer have a perfect game from Karan.
Speaker 1: The topic is biology. What is the color of spider blood? Spencer?
Speaker 1: That's it, that's the whole question. What is the color
Speaker 1: of spider blood? Is it different? You probably can't give
Speaker 1: me a hint. Is it different inside and outside the body? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because right exactly. I was just thinking that exact same,
Speaker 1: because I mean, who hasn't squashed a spider? Moved to disqualified?
Speaker 1: That's it? I like the way you think. That's very smart.
Speaker 1: What is the color of spider blood? Does everyone have
Speaker 1: an answer? Oh? No, I'm changing mind because you're not
Speaker 1: going to answer that. I thought I'm not very relevant question.
Speaker 1: I can answer anything. This could be an overthinking underthinking situation.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So what are you doing? You reveal
Speaker 1: your answers. The correct answer is blue? Which who got it? Cal?
Speaker 1: Got it blue? Steve? No? I know? Is that only
Speaker 1: Cal on that one? It is because it is because
Speaker 1: check He's gonna go over to the corner of the
Speaker 1: room and fact check their blood has an atom of
Speaker 1: copper instead of iron. Like most animals. They share this
Speaker 1: trait with snails and OCTOPI that was a good tidbit,
Speaker 1: Thank you, very good tidbit. Okay, I got a half
Speaker 1: time round up here. We have Karin and Cal tied
Speaker 1: for first with three, Brody Garrett tied for second, oh,
Speaker 1: and Tucker tied for second, and then we've got Steven
Speaker 1: Seth around it out last with one. These are hard, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm so depressed now. Out of all the hot tips
Speaker 1: that we're getting out of these, I'm thinking Wade Davies
Speaker 1: and the weight of the bass is probably the one
Speaker 1: that's gonna come in least handy. Yeah, yeah, Question six,
Speaker 1: back to the topic of conservation. Before becoming president, Teddy
Speaker 1: Roosevelt had held titles such as Minority Leader of the
Speaker 1: State Assembly, President of the Police Commissioners, and governor in
Speaker 1: what state? Teddy Roosevelt titles such as Minority Leader of
Speaker 1: the State Assembly, President of the Police Commissioners, and governor
Speaker 1: in what state? We have very confident, Tucker Carlson that
Speaker 1: so far's from How about this heat, Teddy Roosevelt introduced
Speaker 1: what caliber of side arm to the police department that
Speaker 1: he oversaw. Yes, Spencer, I don't know. Spencer's got zero.
Speaker 1: And he did it so they would kill fewer criminals.
Speaker 1: True story. That's a good tidbit. Good tidbit. Does everyone
Speaker 1: have an answer? Yeah, but I don't like mine. Reveal
Speaker 1: your answers. The correct answer is New York, which everybody
Speaker 1: but Garrett. Everybody but Garrett. What did you put down Garrett,
Speaker 1: North Dakota. I didn't put down Montana, Rhode Island. Why.
Speaker 1: It just seemed like geographically like an east somewhere. It's
Speaker 1: like just in the east. We have a fun article
Speaker 1: on the media dot com talking about Teddy how during
Speaker 1: when he while he held those roles, he really loved boxing,
Speaker 1: and there was a moment where he got hit so
Speaker 1: hard by an intern that it made him blind in
Speaker 1: one eye, and then he kept doing it all the
Speaker 1: way through the White House. But somebody told them that
Speaker 1: it was like unbecoming of a president to be walking
Speaker 1: around with black eyes and cuts on his face, and
Speaker 1: so he gave it up for a little bit. M hm.
Speaker 1: Question seven, we are on public lands. What is the
Speaker 1: deepest lake in America. What is the deepest lake in America?
Speaker 1: I saw some fast writing so far. I see some
Speaker 1: erasing as well, man made. I see no writing by
Speaker 1: Steve made so far. Come man made. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to give a hint. Oh, I see a third round
Speaker 1: of writing from Cal once a hundred dollar donations in Oregon.
Speaker 1: I am not giving any hints. I see everybody ready,
Speaker 1: but Steve, I honestly don't have an answer. Just come
Speaker 1: up with an answer that's not superior about write that
Speaker 1: down al right? Everybody reveals your answer the correct I
Speaker 1: was trying to think of though, So who got it right?
Speaker 1: We had Set and Brody and Cal, Garrett Tucker. No,
Speaker 1: I got it wrong, but I knew, but I knew
Speaker 1: the answer. It is located in Oregon. You see what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, And it is point five Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: one thousand ninety nine ft deep. And while it is
Speaker 1: the deepest lake in the USA, it is not the
Speaker 1: deepest lake in North America. That title is held by
Speaker 1: the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Speaker 1: That lake is two thousand ten ft deep, about sixty
Speaker 1: ft deeper than Crater Lake. You fish that one yet,
Speaker 1: Tucker small, it's small mouth. It's gotta be like gin
Speaker 1: clear right, yeah, no, no, I was there in bad weather.
Speaker 1: So tons of shoreline looks awesome. Yeah, m hm cool
Speaker 1: lag to creep on X for no reason. Alright, we're
Speaker 1: onto question eight. How many are There's ten questions, so
Speaker 1: we're coming off with the end. One of the most
Speaker 1: googled fire question is what is better between the two
Speaker 1: seventy Winchester in the thirty odds six Springfield. We aimed
Speaker 1: at answering this question in a recent article in media
Speaker 1: dot Com called caliber Battle to seventy Winchester versus thirty
Speaker 1: odds six Springfield. If you want that answer, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to go to the media dot com to see
Speaker 1: the winner. George Stillers did a great job of breaking
Speaker 1: down the two cartridges and declaring a winner. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna tell you who it was your interview that no, ok.
Speaker 1: Your question is what does the odds six stand for?
Speaker 1: In the name thirty odds six Springfield? We have a confidence, Steve,
Speaker 1: and a confidence ordinarily confident, confident, cal confident everybody but Garrett,
Speaker 1: who is our gun guy. Don't call him the gun guy.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a competing he's a competit. He's a
Speaker 1: competitive shooter, he's a solving. His garage floor is clean.
Speaker 1: He's got that deep pile rug in his garage, not
Speaker 1: a drop on it. So, but before you get the answer,
Speaker 1: what was the answer to the predicate question, like what
Speaker 1: is superior? I can't can't to drive traffic. You need
Speaker 1: to go to the media dot com traffic because it's
Speaker 1: a newer cartridge. You need to go to the media
Speaker 1: dot com and read Jordan Stiller's article from July one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's subjective but grounded. He does as good
Speaker 1: as job of breaking the two down. Is anybody just?
Speaker 1: But the ultimate thing is subjective? Yes, yet grounded. Yes,
Speaker 1: this question is not subjective. Everyone reveals your answers. The
Speaker 1: answer is the odd six refers to nineteen o six,
Speaker 1: the year the cartridge was adopted. I think we should
Speaker 1: give it the south who wrote year made Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: everybody got it? Oh no, no, I wrote, what did
Speaker 1: you write? I wrote, oh yeah, Oh man, I'm embarrassed
Speaker 1: admit this. I wrote zero six Because the way you
Speaker 1: format of your question, you said, what is odd six?
Speaker 1: Stand for the thirty? I thought you were trying to
Speaker 1: be tricky there with your last statement. The thirty refers
Speaker 1: to the caliber of the bullet in inches, while the
Speaker 1: old six stands for nineteen or six, the year the
Speaker 1: cartridge was adopted. That was question eight. We're on the
Speaker 1: question nine. What is the score? Phil? We have cal
Speaker 1: with six points in first place, really, followed closely by
Speaker 1: Brody with five, Tucker with four, and then Karin with
Speaker 1: and Steve with three. Oh, set Scott four as well?
Speaker 1: Did I say that? And Garrett has too? Beforehand? I
Speaker 1: thought it were taken six to win this and we
Speaker 1: have two questions left, so you guys are on a
Speaker 1: good pace. I'm I've gone from wanting to win to
Speaker 1: just not wanting to be last place, which is the
Speaker 1: mark of a good game. We got condition question nine
Speaker 1: the categories wildlife management. The two most common types of
Speaker 1: tracking collars that biologists use on animals are GPS and
Speaker 1: v h F. GPS, of course, stands for Global Positioning System.
Speaker 1: What does v h F stand for? Oh, that's a
Speaker 1: good one. It is a good one. The two primary
Speaker 1: times GPS and VHF. GPS is Global positioning system. What
Speaker 1: does v h F stand for? V is in venus.
Speaker 1: This is the hardest I've seen in the room think yet,
Speaker 1: because it's knowable. Yeah, it's like I think it feels
Speaker 1: like one of those things you should not right, m
Speaker 1: cal the front runners thinking especially hard. Those brows are
Speaker 1: very furrowed. I've strapped these onto animals, and so it's
Speaker 1: killing me that I don't confident. Does everyone have an answer?
Speaker 1: Reveal your answers. I'm not seeing correct. I think that's
Speaker 1: right right, Very high frequency that is correct. High frequency
Speaker 1: that is right, very high high frequency as you can
Speaker 1: get right, They're like, how high, very high, very high.
Speaker 1: Tucker is the only one that got that one right.
Speaker 1: VHF colors work by sending out a radio signal that
Speaker 1: allows biologist to physically locate the animal by using a
Speaker 1: receiver and directional antenna. They only cost about three hundred
Speaker 1: fifty dollars, while a GPS collar can cost anywhere from
Speaker 1: eight hundred to three Thank you, very high frequency, very
Speaker 1: high frequency. There were some close answers. I saw a
Speaker 1: few of you had like the very some people had
Speaker 1: the frequencies. Uh, Tucker was the only one to put
Speaker 1: it all together there. You can't buy him right now, No,
Speaker 1: I imagine, I don't know. I just got a couple
Speaker 1: of new dogs and I want callers from me, and
Speaker 1: there you can't get them. Run the last question, Phil,
Speaker 1: is it close? Uh? Well, the only way Cal can.
Speaker 1: Cal can't lose, but he can tie for first. Have
Speaker 1: a tiebreaker. We need to go to America. We don't
Speaker 1: tie Phil soccer stuff. There you go. I I like
Speaker 1: to Cal has six, Brody and you did that, Brody
Speaker 1: and don't like Yeah, I don't like just drag people
Speaker 1: through the dirt, Brody and Tucker. I tied for second
Speaker 1: and Seth is in third with four. Yeah. Like you
Speaker 1: know when the Olympus are coming up and they get
Speaker 1: to like gold right, they don't go like gold browns
Speaker 1: and they keep going, oh yeah the last place person.
Speaker 1: To remind everyone just let's focus on the winners. Let's
Speaker 1: focus on the lot of bitterness in this room. That
Speaker 1: focus on question ten. The topic is white tails. The
Speaker 1: most popular state mammal is the white tailed deer. In fact,
Speaker 1: there are twelve states that recognize the white tail as
Speaker 1: their state mammal. Name one of them really twelve states
Speaker 1: name one of the states that recognize the white tail
Speaker 1: as their official state mammal. This is for all the marbles,
Speaker 1: and I don't see cal looking confident. It ain't Arizona, Garrett,
Speaker 1: don't put Arizona. Oh, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I have to keep people up to speed on what
Speaker 1: I'm thinking. Does everybody have an answer? Reveal your answers.
Speaker 1: I will list off the correct answers. You can tell
Speaker 1: us if you're right, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Ohio,
Speaker 1: new hand, sure, Nebraska, Mississippi, Michigan, Steve, Illinois, Georgia, and Arkansas.
Speaker 1: You put a very logical answer though, but of course
Speaker 1: it's the steer right. So we had we had everybody
Speaker 1: get it right except Tucker and cow Okay, I missed.
Speaker 1: I said Louisiana, okay, which I don't know what the
Speaker 1: state mammal for Louisiana would be. So in our first
Speaker 1: ever time playing trivia, we were going to a tiebreaker.
Speaker 1: They both got what seven correct? Six? Six? Okay, So
Speaker 1: I'm out while you kind of fell behind. Are you
Speaker 1: kind of choked? Yeah? I missed the last two. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: You all can participate in the tiebreaker, but the only
Speaker 1: answers that matter are Brody and cow your question is
Speaker 1: in the number of days, how long is the gestation
Speaker 1: period of an ELK thesis? Will be the winner. Oh,
Speaker 1: this goes very well into our heated conversation last there's
Speaker 1: there's a good play on words right there, Steve. Steve.
Speaker 1: Steve filled the audience in and what the conversation was
Speaker 1: last night between Callum Brody while they got so bad.
Speaker 1: We were out celebrating the launch of meetings, camp Fire Stories,
Speaker 1: Close Calls, and we were celebrating the launch at a restaurant,
Speaker 1: and so everybody that was involved in that project was there,
Speaker 1: and Calum Brody got into a fight so bad that
Speaker 1: made other people at the table uncomfortable. The number of
Speaker 1: days those people get uncomfortable around people anyway, a little
Speaker 1: bit hard to track. It had to do with that
Speaker 1: Montana now has a Montana now has a primitive. They
Speaker 1: now have a flint lock season, which will be tacked
Speaker 1: on to the end of the general season. Brody, are
Speaker 1: you one of those folks that knows that how many
Speaker 1: days in each month? Because I just kind of gassed well,
Speaker 1: I guess too, all right, right, the correct answer by
Speaker 1: still in the two seventy caliber, the correct He's seventy
Speaker 1: kis coming in my mind. It's two by the winner
Speaker 1: with the answer of two seventy. That number comes from
Speaker 1: the Rocky Mountain ELK Foundation. So take it up with them,
Speaker 1: cal who was very wrong. I'm your skills is what
Speaker 1: failed there? You have an art in June. They get
Speaker 1: inseminated in September. Cali, you could have made an argument
Speaker 1: that I went over. No, no, no, you know, like
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, you can do it like prices
Speaker 1: going over. Yeah, yeah, price is right doing. But he
Speaker 1: didn't say that. Well done, Brody. Yeah, now body tell
Speaker 1: us who you're going to donate your one dollars too. No,
Speaker 1: let's keep in the family and do TRCP all right,
Speaker 1: Uh soccer Carlson, Um, you're here to go fishing, I am.
Speaker 1: And you live in Maine. Yep, tell us about that,
Speaker 1: about how Maine you're you're explaining Maine kind of drives
Speaker 1: up as if fishing matter. Yeah. So we live in
Speaker 1: the Western Mountains in Maine, at the top of the
Speaker 1: Appalachian Chain in the United States, and um, really pretty area,
Speaker 1: great fishing, biggest brook trout in the United States. Been
Speaker 1: there my whole life, and we have landlocked salmon too
Speaker 1: throughout the watershed and they're great, great little game fish,
Speaker 1: and but it gets hot and so um we have
Speaker 1: a lot of still water fishing, a lot of lake fishing.
Speaker 1: I fly fish, So that's a problem because obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: casting lead cores, it loses. It's a p you like
Speaker 1: being a moving water for sure. I fish rivers mostly.
Speaker 1: There's about a maybe three week period where I live
Speaker 1: on a lake where we get um rising trout and salmon,
Speaker 1: and you know, you just kill it for that period.
Speaker 1: But you know, stripping scuds on sinking line just I'm
Speaker 1: not that into it. So but anyway, as the summer
Speaker 1: gets warm, what I always come out west to the
Speaker 1: state to fish every you know, every year without fail.
Speaker 1: And I have a lot of kids, and how many
Speaker 1: kids you got for and you got a kid coming
Speaker 1: out to fish with it, and so various kids will
Speaker 1: meet me out here and we're just get in the
Speaker 1: truck and drive around and stay motels and fish. What
Speaker 1: are the age ranges. My oldest is twenty six, second
Speaker 1: is twenty four. It was a outstanding fly caster, like
Speaker 1: one of the best. Is just a natural and a
Speaker 1: really good shot. My third is two and my fourth
Speaker 1: is eighteen, and they're all into the outdoors. Were raised
Speaker 1: that way, and but they have varying degrees of enthusiasm
Speaker 1: for fly fishing. Two out of four earlier are into it.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. I mean, considering you know how difficult
Speaker 1: it is to get a kid to learn to cast
Speaker 1: a fly rod? Is very difficult. And were you saying
Speaker 1: you just recently turned fifty. I'm fifty two. It's really old.
Speaker 1: But my my son, who's a who's a really superior
Speaker 1: fly caster, much better than I am. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: you have to make them. You have to make them,
Speaker 1: so you start them on spinning rods obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: throwing the daredevil on a whatever big castor spinning rod
Speaker 1: or whatever. And then at about when he was nine,
Speaker 1: I just switched him over to and eight waite because
Speaker 1: it's just easier to load it. And uh, he really
Speaker 1: hated it like a lot because his catch rate went
Speaker 1: to zero. And I was just a complete fashion coming
Speaker 1: after throwing spinners. Yeah, if you're throwing a daredevil in
Speaker 1: the Andreskoggin River like you're going to hook up for sure. Well,
Speaker 1: I started all my kids on nightcrawlers. Yeah. Well I
Speaker 1: never I never because that's in moral So I didn't
Speaker 1: do that. But but no bait fishing. But anyway, but
Speaker 1: I made him take up the fly. Rodney deeply resented it.
Speaker 1: And I've had a pretty lazy, fair attitude with my
Speaker 1: kids about most things. You know, you get to choose
Speaker 1: your political beliefs or what you know. It's not into
Speaker 1: forcing my beliefs and my kids except for a couple
Speaker 1: of things. And one of the most evening you have
Speaker 1: to be able to competently cast and this one kid,
Speaker 1: it sounds well because no one else is going to
Speaker 1: teach him, you know what I mean, that's like your
Speaker 1: duty as a father, and you gotta you know, I
Speaker 1: like wing shooting, so that too. But anyway, this one
Speaker 1: kid really hated it and stared at me in this resentful,
Speaker 1: almost edible way like I want to I want to
Speaker 1: kill you. And but I kept at it, and it
Speaker 1: was it was such a great victory because he really
Speaker 1: became talented and learned to love it. So I fished
Speaker 1: with him a lot. And but now I'm fishing with
Speaker 1: one of my girls. Are you're you're in Maine? You
Speaker 1: have a camp, right? We have a kid? How do
Speaker 1: you know that? Because that's like so main culture. You
Speaker 1: go out for a paddle and you go to the camp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every every house in May in the woods as a camp.
Speaker 1: And then we we have a camp which is our
Speaker 1: family house where we grew up, and then we have
Speaker 1: a fishing We have another camp which is off grid,
Speaker 1: just two cabins on a river, and that's the fishing camp.
Speaker 1: That's the fishing camp. So we fish at boat at both.
Speaker 1: But we have a like fully you know, no electricity
Speaker 1: or running water place, which is great. And your kids
Speaker 1: like going to the camp. They're obsessed. Yeah, they love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because i mean, you know, you can we shoot a
Speaker 1: lot and you know, you can shoot off the porch
Speaker 1: and swim in the river and the fishing for a
Speaker 1: couple of months is pretty great. It it turns up
Speaker 1: again in September. We're mostly for brook trout, and the
Speaker 1: brook trout really don't let any water over seventy there's
Speaker 1: not into it at all, so they find the springs
Speaker 1: so they just kind of disappear. But they come back
Speaker 1: in September. So you know, most of August is shooting
Speaker 1: heavy on the Tanna, right, you know, three awight into
Speaker 1: Tanna right that that that's how we clear the wood.
Speaker 1: And the forest in Maine is very different from the
Speaker 1: forest out here, and it's like a rainforest. That's a move.
Speaker 1: We get so much precipitation, and you know, white pines dominate,
Speaker 1: of course at the whole point of Maine is the
Speaker 1: eastern white pine. But we get a ton of spruce
Speaker 1: and fur and seed during a lot of other things,
Speaker 1: but mostly spruce and for just like just pop up
Speaker 1: like you know, like five o'clock shadow. They're just everywhere.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's a lot of a lot, but
Speaker 1: there's you know, you have to cut basically if it's
Speaker 1: your land, and so we try to use tanna right
Speaker 1: to do that because it's just so much more fun.
Speaker 1: That's how you shop them down. Well, no, I mean,
Speaker 1: we we use chainsaws typically, but tanna right is fun.
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, did you guys see that the you know,
Speaker 1: the story of the couple that had a gender reveal
Speaker 1: party for a baby, burn the burn the forest down.
Speaker 1: I just saw it. Just I saw in the news
Speaker 1: this morning that they were there being charged for the
Speaker 1: death of a firefighter. Fire thirty felonies or something. They
Speaker 1: got charged with. It was some it was some ridiculous
Speaker 1: number like that. It's pretty hard to set the forest
Speaker 1: in Maine on fire. It's really wet. Yeah, like a
Speaker 1: pig shows upside. It's a it's a little more like
Speaker 1: Oregon than it is Monte. And this is this is
Speaker 1: North North, like the big Northwood. This is western Maine,
Speaker 1: which is the mountainous part of Maine. So a lot
Speaker 1: of Maine, actually northern Maine is flat. Coastal Maine is
Speaker 1: rocky and really don't have that many evergreens um the
Speaker 1: mountains of western Maine, so sort of maybe two hours
Speaker 1: above Portland, and then it's all paper company land up
Speaker 1: to the Canadian border. That's less like pond swamp country
Speaker 1: more well, there's all over Maine, which is like the
Speaker 1: downside that an insane amount of water, insane amount of
Speaker 1: water and insane amount of swamps. And you know, depending
Speaker 1: on the year, the ticks are just ridiculous and you
Speaker 1: have to be happy, you know, comfortable with mosquitoes and
Speaker 1: black flights, which I am. I've just totally zend out
Speaker 1: and I don't even care. Um, but the ticks some
Speaker 1: years are really bad. In fact, it was last year
Speaker 1: the estimate was we lost half of all yearling moose
Speaker 1: to blood loss from ticks. Kid, Oh, it's into, it's real.
Speaker 1: It's totally intense this year. I mean I'm in the
Speaker 1: woods every day and six eight ticks, and I mean
Speaker 1: I haven't worn shorts a single day. I got to
Speaker 1: Maine on June tenth. I haven't worn shorts a single
Speaker 1: day because not one what is don't wear shorts and
Speaker 1: Maine because that's like you don't do that? And I
Speaker 1: still get six or eight ticks every day. The mortality
Speaker 1: on that moose study, uh, they were averaging a little
Speaker 1: over forty seven thousand ticks on each calf moves. Which
Speaker 1: ever seen it? I have not seen it in person,
Speaker 1: but it's over twenty pounds of ticks. You can imagine that.
Speaker 1: It's so well, I mean, it's disgusting obviously, like beyond
Speaker 1: it's like the most repulsive thing you've ever seen, but
Speaker 1: it's also just a tragedy. You see it and you
Speaker 1: just feel so sorry. Moose are a big thing where
Speaker 1: we live. I hit one two years ago, totally destroyed
Speaker 1: my truck. I hit a bull moose going seventy and
Speaker 1: just total to full size silverado on them. So they're
Speaker 1: kind of a threat. They killed dogs moose for that
Speaker 1: like the only thing in the main woods that will
Speaker 1: hurt you. So you kind of have ambivalent feelings about moose,
Speaker 1: but when you see the ticks on them, you really
Speaker 1: have sympathy because it's just and that's why they're in
Speaker 1: the swamps all day. You know, they're missing huge patches
Speaker 1: of fur, and the clusters of ticks are just like,
Speaker 1: never see anything like it. Tixer sizes your thumb. Thousands
Speaker 1: of them just gorge with blood gorged the poor animals.
Speaker 1: You know, is it widely known that you uh produce
Speaker 1: that you like, do your show from not Manhattan. I
Speaker 1: don't know that it is. Um. I had a remember
Speaker 1: being really when I found that out. I didn't know
Speaker 1: you could pull that off. Oh yeah, and it's it's
Speaker 1: gotta be people who are like, well, I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: that too, when people should. I mean, you know, some
Speaker 1: people really like cities. I I emphatically don't. I don't
Speaker 1: see the upside. I really strong feelings about it. I
Speaker 1: try to express them because there are a lot of
Speaker 1: great people who live in cities and I don't want
Speaker 1: to alienate them. It's like golf. I don't know I
Speaker 1: don't golf, but I don't attack golf. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's not in my heart. I do, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't say that out loud. Um, So I'm not
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not attacking cities, but I just I
Speaker 1: don't care to live that at all. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's a nice person. It seems like a nice person.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, uh, you know, I was gonna ask
Speaker 1: you about see that, show him, show him your arm, Spencer.
Speaker 1: Spencer got this listening tree. Now, he could have planted
Speaker 1: a thousand trees for what it cost him to get
Speaker 1: that tree. Like trees, Yeah, I was gonna ask you
Speaker 1: have tattoos. We're gonna argue about tattoos lately. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna answer that question. Let me just say I was
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville seven drunk and I did wind up with
Speaker 1: a couple and did Yeah. I mean it was the
Speaker 1: eighties and I drank a lot. I no longer drank
Speaker 1: or go to Jacksonville, So I'm fine now. But I
Speaker 1: do love trees, and I and I love that. And
Speaker 1: then you spend part of your year working out of Florida,
Speaker 1: so you'd pack up the whole operation everybody goes with you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: do they look forward to that part of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we live I mean, I really care about the outdoors,
Speaker 1: and so I'm here and uh and so yeah, we
Speaker 1: live on the west coast of Florida, UM on one
Speaker 1: of the Barrier Islands, where you know, tarpin fishing is
Speaker 1: a is kind of the center of the It's the reason,
Speaker 1: it's the reason the town is. End of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like tarping, Honestly, I don't. I like tarpin fishing.
Speaker 1: I live in like the world's capital tarpin fishing, But
Speaker 1: I really like snooking and redfish stuck mostly so all
Speaker 1: winter I fish for snook on a fly, and you know,
Speaker 1: you can catch one stock after the other in the mangroves,
Speaker 1: but to catch up forty and snook on the fly
Speaker 1: is definitely something you need to dedicate yours to doing.
Speaker 1: It's actually think it's actually harder than tarpin fishing. Tarpin
Speaker 1: fishing on a fly is heavily luck related, So I
Speaker 1: I do think that. I mean, it's just if you
Speaker 1: tried on a fly for tarpins, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you pulled it off, haven't you. Oh? Yeah, no, I've
Speaker 1: got I've got a handful. But it is I think
Speaker 1: I knew you win. Uh, Like you know my my
Speaker 1: buddies that are guides and do it all the time,
Speaker 1: like they definitely have this. Oh it happens or it doesn't,
Speaker 1: and there's no more thought. You have to be able
Speaker 1: to get the fly to them. It's very quick reaction.
Speaker 1: It's not casting, obviously to trout or even to snook
Speaker 1: where you know you're safe fish and you're thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: lead him. That's it's just a pure reaction. I fish
Speaker 1: with actually a one piece nine weight because I don't
Speaker 1: like nice thing. The big The one piece don't blow up,
Speaker 1: and that's why I do it, so I use a
Speaker 1: lighter rod for it. Explain me when you say blow up,
Speaker 1: well your rottle shatter. Oh you mean blow up like
Speaker 1: break well there's a big fish. Yeah. Have you have
Speaker 1: you got one of those mako reels? No, I those
Speaker 1: things are And it's so funny. I called one tarpin
Speaker 1: this spring because I go to main pretty early, so
Speaker 1: tarpin season where I live starts, well, it kind of
Speaker 1: depends on the year. Last year it started, I caught
Speaker 1: a tarpet in March. This year, it was a little
Speaker 1: bit later, maybe mid April, and I fished throughout April
Speaker 1: and early May, and my last day in Florida, I
Speaker 1: caught a tarp in my first cast, maybe d and
Speaker 1: twenty pound tarpin and my rod my son was using
Speaker 1: my rut so was. I borrowed a friend's rod and
Speaker 1: the reel was broken, and it it just I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, they just well, you know, you've caught him.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's almost a chore to catch him.
Speaker 1: You well, that's why people snap them off. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I caught the tarping, great, good for me, but you
Speaker 1: don't want to actually get into the boat because it's
Speaker 1: really intense. But this thing took off and the real
Speaker 1: hit my thumb and I couldn't use my hand. It
Speaker 1: was it was absolutely awful. So that's like the one
Speaker 1: kind of fishing. I fish a lot of fish every day,
Speaker 1: and that's the only kind of fishing where I think
Speaker 1: the real matters. I mean, even with snook, and I
Speaker 1: never put a fish on the reel ever. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I've seen people take more time to land a trout
Speaker 1: fly fishing trying to get it on the reel and
Speaker 1: mess around. And I've seen I've seen like pro tarpan
Speaker 1: people land tarpan with proper rod mechanics, proper real mechanics
Speaker 1: in less time than i've seen sloppy trout fishing. Its
Speaker 1: totally right, and it's like someone who's great. The guy
Speaker 1: I fished with Austin Ladder is actually from Montana can.
Speaker 1: I mean he can muscle a hundred and kind of
Speaker 1: tarp into the boat in like six minutes. But for
Speaker 1: a normal person like me who fishes a lot, but
Speaker 1: it is not a guide. I mean take twenty five
Speaker 1: minutes to get the fish to the boat. And Latin fact,
Speaker 1: last year I cut a fish that was big enough
Speaker 1: and it was a nasty enough fight that I actually
Speaker 1: took a nap in the boat. That's how old. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just it just wore me right out. That's awesome. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's what? How does snook fishing work? Snook fishing is like,
Speaker 1: how do you guys go about it? You just get
Speaker 1: out into flats boat. Actually, I do what I like
Speaker 1: to fish on foot for trout to I really don't
Speaker 1: like fishing from a boat. I never do float trips
Speaker 1: for example. I just I'm not into it. I'm not
Speaker 1: into Bobbera fishing in general, but I like to walk
Speaker 1: and I like it some nice long drift though, man,
Speaker 1: you do. To be honest, my snobbery is based on
Speaker 1: my lack of skill. So my son actually does a
Speaker 1: lot of indicator fishing, and he's like, you're an idiot
Speaker 1: for trout. I do a lot of swinging wet flies.
Speaker 1: I tied a lot, and I tie for myself and
Speaker 1: my son and a couple of other people. So I've
Speaker 1: got all these like super strong theories about trout fly.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm a purist. I love to
Speaker 1: tie flies and I always have, and I love wet
Speaker 1: flies and I love main featherweg streamers are the two
Speaker 1: things really that I spend most time time anyway. Whatever,
Speaker 1: So that anyone you know who ties, just asking what
Speaker 1: you tie affects how you fish. So if you're like
Speaker 1: super into tying hoppers, you know you're you're throwing hoppers
Speaker 1: early season, even when they're on the hoppers, because you
Speaker 1: tied it, and you've like spend on when I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about how the fish are reacting. Oh ship, it's purple
Speaker 1: this year or whatever. You know, what I mean. So
Speaker 1: like anyway, I don't do a lot of bobber fishing.
Speaker 1: I mostly do walk up fishing. I just like walking
Speaker 1: along rivers and streams um so for snook. You know,
Speaker 1: you get out. We have a lot of mangrove islands
Speaker 1: where we live, so I just get out. I always
Speaker 1: wait barefoot. There's really nothing that will. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're sort of awake, you're not going to step on
Speaker 1: a ray. You're fine. And and I try to, you know,
Speaker 1: you see the snook and then you try and fishing,
Speaker 1: you're like stalking along the edges of mangrove violence Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: looking for the awake or absolutely. And it's skinny water,
Speaker 1: very very I mean, I have a flats boat I
Speaker 1: have which actually sank tarping my son's. I bought a
Speaker 1: Hell's bay and I'm cheap, so I bought an old
Speaker 1: one and I had a bait well. Now why a
Speaker 1: Hell's bay would have a bait well, since I've never
Speaker 1: heard of someone using a Hell's bait of bait fish,
Speaker 1: But whatever, it had a bait well in it, and
Speaker 1: the valve in the bait well was bad, and the
Speaker 1: boat literally sank the second week of May off an
Speaker 1: island in Sherlotta Harbor as we were fishing with my
Speaker 1: son in it, and it cost me a huge amount
Speaker 1: of money to get it back. Have you done that?
Speaker 1: You buy insurance for it, which I never do because
Speaker 1: I know you can't. It can be legally dicey to
Speaker 1: walk away from dude. By the insurance, I think it's
Speaker 1: fifty bucks a year. It was like six thousand dollars
Speaker 1: to get the boat towed back to the marina. It
Speaker 1: was insane. It was insane. I'm still mad about it,
Speaker 1: but whatever. Anyway, the point is, um, I like to
Speaker 1: fish on foot very very much, and I do think
Speaker 1: your catch raate goes down. I mean, obviously, the most
Speaker 1: efficient way to fish just to have someone pull you
Speaker 1: stand on the platform at the front, hold your fly,
Speaker 1: you know, wait to see the fish draw it across
Speaker 1: his nose, you know whatever. But I fished by myself
Speaker 1: a lot, so I'm happy to catch fewer at this age.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm so freaking old that I'm happy, and
Speaker 1: I've caught a lot of fish. I'm I'm happy to
Speaker 1: catch fewer fish, but be more fully immersed in and
Speaker 1: is the is the mark the over forty inches it
Speaker 1: is for me. I mean, you know, anyone who fishes
Speaker 1: a lot winds up in your head kind of and
Speaker 1: so in my head is like, holy shit, that's a
Speaker 1: snook and and a forty and stuff for some rea
Speaker 1: snooker one of those weird fish where I think to
Speaker 1: get to that size there's just like four standard deviations
Speaker 1: of intelligence higher. So it's pretty easy to fool like
Speaker 1: ay in snook, just one after the other after the other,
Speaker 1: if you can, you know, I I tie a and
Speaker 1: Enrico Pagliazi baitfish that I think is pretty compelling to snook.
Speaker 1: So um, I feel like I can do pretty well.
Speaker 1: But to catch a forty two foolist smoke that big,
Speaker 1: he's just been duped too many times, I think so,
Speaker 1: and I think and I just think it's just hard
Speaker 1: to get that big. And I just know from my
Speaker 1: catch rate, I've caught very few, like five in my life.
Speaker 1: And I fished a lot in the same place. That's
Speaker 1: the other thing. I fish in the same places, so
Speaker 1: I know that I know the places pretty well. You know,
Speaker 1: at a certain point you kind of know the water.
Speaker 1: And um, I've cut very few stoked that big. So
Speaker 1: I think that's the most exciting. I love tailing red fish.
Speaker 1: We've got some environmental problems where I live with the
Speaker 1: red tide, and I think it's really affected the red
Speaker 1: fish a lot. It's very upsetting. That's how to do
Speaker 1: with how they're draining water off a job, right, I
Speaker 1: think the golf courses. I mean, it's like, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of theories about it. I mean, I could
Speaker 1: bore you for hours. I won't, but there are a
Speaker 1: lot of theories on it. I've actually got so upset about.
Speaker 1: We did a couple of shows on it on Fox.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure anyone was interested except me, but um,
Speaker 1: I am interested in to use your platform. What are
Speaker 1: quality matters? Like? All that can always an environmentalist really
Speaker 1: really well, then why aren't you upset about the water
Speaker 1: quality in South Florida? Like and why is this happening?
Speaker 1: Is is it? It's clearly it's phosphates from development and
Speaker 1: golf courses. It's the cutting of the mangroves along the
Speaker 1: Army Corps dicking with the drainage. You know, it's often
Speaker 1: the arm and no offense. And I'm not against the
Speaker 1: Army Corps, and I think they do you know, good
Speaker 1: stuff in a lot of places, but boy, they they
Speaker 1: use blunt instruments. We had someone on the show that
Speaker 1: did We had someone on the show we recorded in Florida.
Speaker 1: Wish I wish we could find that episode. It was
Speaker 1: someone who's like they took a memory, had them on.
Speaker 1: They did have like a historic approach on it got
Speaker 1: into that big flood in the twenties that killed everybody,
Speaker 1: and and then everybody's like, Okay, so that's not gonna
Speaker 1: happen again, and then like overcorrected and that's exactly what
Speaker 1: that's And that's exactly right. And you know, the Army
Speaker 1: Corps job is not to make certain the water quality
Speaker 1: is good enough to sustain a robust fishery. That's kind
Speaker 1: of not what they're thinking that It was like, you know,
Speaker 1: hundreds of people got killed. That's exactly right. And Florida
Speaker 1: has a lot of water related drama. There's just a
Speaker 1: lot of water in Florida. That's complex. But you know,
Speaker 1: I've seen him do this a couple of times. There
Speaker 1: was a hurricane up in northern New England where we live,
Speaker 1: maybe fifteen years ago. I can't I can't really remember
Speaker 1: about fifteen years ago. And they had massive flooding in Vermont,
Speaker 1: and Vermont had all these you know, pretty blue lines
Speaker 1: of small board trout streams that are just and I
Speaker 1: like small stream fishing very much. You know, you get
Speaker 1: your came three weight and go, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like throw for Brookies and the Army corpsyman and basically
Speaker 1: paved all the streams. I'm overstating that slightly, but they
Speaker 1: they're just like, well, we have a problem with these
Speaker 1: streams are flooding the towns, and we're just going to
Speaker 1: take all the obstructions out what so that you know,
Speaker 1: you you bring earth moving equipment into a into a
Speaker 1: stream really and flatten it out, because thank you, that's
Speaker 1: exactly right. So really I'm not attacking them. I think
Speaker 1: there's probably a lot of good people the Army corp
Speaker 1: of engineers, but they're they're not thinking about the effects
Speaker 1: on on the fishery and that was distressing their task
Speaker 1: with the town floods, their engineers and but you just
Speaker 1: have to And by the way, I'm not I'm probably
Speaker 1: a little more on the Ted Kazinski side if the
Speaker 1: equation actually when it comes to development, actually a lot
Speaker 1: more of him being totally honest Montana guy. For a
Speaker 1: while he was a Montana guy and and obviously a
Speaker 1: bad person and kill people, and I'm totally opposed to that.
Speaker 1: But also, you know, not a stupid person at all,
Speaker 1: and a and a very deep person and an interesting
Speaker 1: person with a lot of anyway whatever, don't keep me going.
Speaker 1: But um, but I think you know, people have a
Speaker 1: right to have houses, and people want to live in
Speaker 1: pretty places, and you can't stop all development. You should
Speaker 1: stop all strip malls and dollar stores obviously, but you
Speaker 1: can't stop all development. And people want to golf. I
Speaker 1: get it. So you've got competing imperatives and desires and
Speaker 1: it's a country three million people. It can't just be
Speaker 1: about you know, fifty two year old fly fisherman. Okay,
Speaker 1: I get it. On the other hand, like the views
Speaker 1: of fifty two five fisherman should all should be represented.
Speaker 1: I think they should be. We should have Spencer on
Speaker 1: sometime just to talk about why he likes a golf
Speaker 1: golfing segment. Oh, I think that's was that episode one
Speaker 1: oh seven Saving the Evergladesh ever? Was that name of
Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, they did, they didn't. I thought they
Speaker 1: did a very good job. We had a couple of
Speaker 1: people various subjects, Kelly Ralston, Matt Cook, you and Yanni
Speaker 1: and Fort Lauderdale. That's correct, Okay, Saving the Everglades episode
Speaker 1: one of seven. Uh did you learn? Did you? Uh?
Speaker 1: Your dad got you started in fishing? Yeah, because his
Speaker 1: dad into it. Uh No, Actually, my father was an
Speaker 1: orphan who spent his early life in an orphanage. So no,
Speaker 1: wait really yeah, yeah, the home for little wanderers in
Speaker 1: real name. How what happened? How'd that go down? Well?
Speaker 1: He actually found out later his mother was just really
Speaker 1: really young, mid teens, and um, she was the Swedish girl,
Speaker 1: and she got pregnant and and so her parents made
Speaker 1: her put the baby up for adoption and wound up
Speaker 1: in this orphanage. So he grew up in foster homes,
Speaker 1: an orphanage, then ultimately was adopted. Your kid. You know,
Speaker 1: have you read your your dad's Wikipedia page? I've never
Speaker 1: read Wikipedia, saying I don't read a single word about
Speaker 1: myself for my family, not one time. Okay, the what
Speaker 1: you're saying like lines up with that page. But my
Speaker 1: impression of reading that was like this is out of
Speaker 1: a movie, like it it's a it's a tragic Wikipedia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tragic to hate that. The violation
Speaker 1: suprivacy are just like to extreme. You know, you're a
Speaker 1: public figure, I know, but my family has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with it. I had kind of this lunit to
Speaker 1: your dad's a historical personal My dad's a great a
Speaker 1: great man, and a and a and like a real
Speaker 1: outdoorsman and a really avid wing shooter and and and
Speaker 1: a great guy. And but he was very intense about
Speaker 1: camping in the woods and you know, bird hunting and
Speaker 1: dogs especially, always had always had bird dogs, a lot
Speaker 1: of them, and highly intense about it. So how did
Speaker 1: he because that was that that wanted to being a
Speaker 1: result of his adoptive family. Honestly, I don't really know,
Speaker 1: because like the things that are closest to you know,
Speaker 1: the least about actually, but I think when he was little,
Speaker 1: somebody brought him to a Y m C. A camp
Speaker 1: in Maine, and that had a huge effect. So then
Speaker 1: you know, he left high school, joined the Marine Corps.
Speaker 1: You know, didn't have credentials, but he's very smart. So
Speaker 1: he went up in journalism because they'll take anybody, and
Speaker 1: became a fairly prominent and successful reporter. At the l
Speaker 1: A Times in ABC News in California. So we lived
Speaker 1: in California. I grew up in California and southern California,
Speaker 1: and but we had this camp in Maine because he
Speaker 1: was he really felt it was important to eat beans
Speaker 1: and be cold and from New England, and so we
Speaker 1: would spend the summers. We go from Lajoya, California, which
Speaker 1: has got to be one of the richest zip codes
Speaker 1: in the world. It's all in the beach and everyone
Speaker 1: serfs and everyone's mom like smokes weed at the breakfast
Speaker 1: table too, And then we'd spend the summer in this
Speaker 1: beautiful but totally impoverished milltown where they made clothes pins,
Speaker 1: no exaggeration, that was the town business. They had a
Speaker 1: closed pin factory which around a business or night and
Speaker 1: there was never kind of any employment since. And we've
Speaker 1: been in that town our whole lives and it's just
Speaker 1: beautiful and they're great people, but it's very much a
Speaker 1: sporting culture. I mean, that's what without getting boring in
Speaker 1: one sentence. So Maine after the Civil War, Maine was
Speaker 1: an agricultural state. The Civil War happens, you know, every
Speaker 1: other man in the entire state joins the Union Army.
Speaker 1: I think that the highest enlistment rate of any state.
Speaker 1: They leave Maine for the first time and realized, wait
Speaker 1: a second, you can farm in places where there aren't
Speaker 1: granite boulders every four feet and the growing season is
Speaker 1: longer than six weeks. So every moved to Ohio. So
Speaker 1: Maine had I think ten million acres under cultivation in
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty. It now has a million acres. So the
Speaker 1: state went from like, yes, it went from being a
Speaker 1: state of farms to a state of of timberland, of
Speaker 1: paper company land. So it was bought up by the
Speaker 1: Pingree family of Massachusetts and a couple of others, and
Speaker 1: the majority of the state to this day is owned
Speaker 1: by Timber Holding Company. So in exchange for owning the
Speaker 1: majority of the state and there's very little public land
Speaker 1: and Maine, the paper company struck this deal where if
Speaker 1: you live in Maine you can use paper company land.
Speaker 1: There's no sense of It's the opposite of Montana and Wyoming,
Speaker 1: where you get shot for going on someone's land, especially Wyoming.
Speaker 1: In Maine, you can walk on to the land. It's
Speaker 1: like there's an expectation I can just hunt on your land.
Speaker 1: I can fish on your land, I can camp on
Speaker 1: your land. The only thing I can't do is cut
Speaker 1: the trees. So it's the state, but it's it creates
Speaker 1: such an interesting culture because you have a state full of,
Speaker 1: like by national standards, very poor people who have amazing
Speaker 1: sporting opportunities for hunting and fishing, and we have this
Speaker 1: incredible They reintroduced turkeys into Maine and they just went crazy.
Speaker 1: Obviously moose and deer. Where I lived, tons of bears, lots.
Speaker 1: I saw a bear on my property last week. I
Speaker 1: thought it was I thought it was a man. It was,
Speaker 1: so it was black bears, huge bears. And then we
Speaker 1: have trout and salmon, and then in the fall ruffle grouse,
Speaker 1: which and woodcock ruffle grouse and Maine are called partridge
Speaker 1: for some reason. Yeah I grew up when when I
Speaker 1: grew up, they would no one calls them grouse, but
Speaker 1: they are. But they were called pats patridge. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: spelled a A R. So you're just like, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're working part time in the woods, you know,
Speaker 1: cutting for the paper mill, or you work at the
Speaker 1: dollar store, you know, you don't have any money, but
Speaker 1: I mean, you really have a lot of opportunity in
Speaker 1: a way that they don't have out west. Obviously there's
Speaker 1: better fishing in some ways, there's better hunting out west,
Speaker 1: but the access in Maine is just incredible for normal people,
Speaker 1: and it creates a really interesting culture where or you know,
Speaker 1: people who work at the middle fly fish. So like
Speaker 1: in the state of New York, for example, you know
Speaker 1: a lot of other places Connecticut, the only people who
Speaker 1: fly fish are people who are rich, you know. But
Speaker 1: in Maine, like poor people fly fish and then tie
Speaker 1: their own flies, and it's just it's a really neat
Speaker 1: it's a really neat sporting culture. I think Karan sent
Speaker 1: us a article um from years ago where there was
Speaker 1: a thing in the Hollywood Reporter about some guy that
Speaker 1: decided you were fishing in Central Park. Yes, I was,
Speaker 1: and a guy was decided to make like a started
Speaker 1: to film you. Yeah, and you had to explain to
Speaker 1: him that I had this gig where I worked in
Speaker 1: New York on the weekends. So I would never obviously
Speaker 1: live in New York because that's soul destroying, but I
Speaker 1: had a job there on the weekend, so I would
Speaker 1: go into New York and stay in a hotel for
Speaker 1: two nights by myself, which is just like hell, Well
Speaker 1: you're on the roddle out, you know, it's hell. And
Speaker 1: I just had to get outside of with like driving
Speaker 1: me freaking crazy. I can't, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I would walk up to Central Park with my
Speaker 1: eight weight and try and catch bass in the park.
Speaker 1: Do you see a lot of people fishing there? No,
Speaker 1: I've never seen a fly right there. So I would
Speaker 1: do it every weekend I get off work. I hosted
Speaker 1: a morning show and then I'd walk up to the
Speaker 1: park and cast my stupid fly rod, just like feel better.
Speaker 1: And this guy comes up to me. He's filming me,
Speaker 1: and I thought, I want to hit this. You know,
Speaker 1: it's such a violation of your privacy fishing please, you know, God,
Speaker 1: it's like someone filming you having sex. It's like no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: this is the private realm. Like I'm not I don't
Speaker 1: want to be seen doing this. And it turned out
Speaker 1: he worked for Howard Stern and he was fine. He
Speaker 1: actually later died of a heroin o d weirdly or
Speaker 1: maybe not so weirdly, but he goes, what are you
Speaker 1: doing And I said, I'm fly fishing, and he said
Speaker 1: fly fishing. He thought I meant like house fly. I
Speaker 1: was fishing with house flies. He goes, where do you
Speaker 1: catch the flies? And I said, why don't. I was
Speaker 1: totally confused. But he's from New York, so like he
Speaker 1: doesn't know, you know, like he understands subway Matt, like
Speaker 1: he's you know. He said he was an idiot, and
Speaker 1: I said, no, I don't know. I tied the flage
Speaker 1: what do you many times? So I showed him my
Speaker 1: fly box with my stupid, you know, poppers. And at
Speaker 1: the time, I had this theory about poppers where I
Speaker 1: was gonna take sheet foam and make the popper out
Speaker 1: of pieces of sheet foam glued together, rather than like
Speaker 1: doing him on a drummall tool or whatever. I had
Speaker 1: this whole theory like I'm gonna create this new kind
Speaker 1: of popper or whatever, very ugly poppers, but very effective.
Speaker 1: So I like showed him my box of poppers. He
Speaker 1: has regular buddies. Actually, I I absolutely hated him, but
Speaker 1: once he get the camera out, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: don't be a dick trying to be nice and he
Speaker 1: didn't mean any harm. He was just dumb and you
Speaker 1: had to show him the poppers, because you never know
Speaker 1: who your first investor is going to be. My poppers
Speaker 1: at that point they were awful. It's funny how much
Speaker 1: mental disk space I've like devoted to dumb question like
Speaker 1: how to make the perfect phone popper? But actually I'm
Speaker 1: not bragging. I've perfected it. You take a nail, like
Speaker 1: a threepenny nail, and you put it in a drama
Speaker 1: tool and you just slide the foam over it and
Speaker 1: then you shape it with sandpaper. Well what was it
Speaker 1: you put the nail on the drumal? Yeah, it makes
Speaker 1: you basically you're turning your drama into a lathe. I
Speaker 1: mean it is, you're turning it into it like a
Speaker 1: tiny little lathe. Um, and you can actually use like
Speaker 1: a jeweler's lathe for it. But this is just way easier,
Speaker 1: and you can. It's crazy what you can? I mean,
Speaker 1: do you have a fish with poppers? I have. I
Speaker 1: don't do a ton of fly fish, to be frank,
Speaker 1: but I have for sure. You can get really carried
Speaker 1: away with it. It's crazy. Um, So I I obviously
Speaker 1: I need help, um, but I think the more do
Speaker 1: you tie hundreds of flies every year? Oh? Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of flies. Quick quick popper jump aside here some
Speaker 1: I'm dying to ask you anyway. Uh, you're year old
Speaker 1: man had a year long stant as the ambassador to
Speaker 1: the say Schelles. Yeah, did you get to go to
Speaker 1: one of the saddest things that ever happened? No, So
Speaker 1: I went to college. That's like the if you're into
Speaker 1: throwing poppers for giant Travalli fishing, it's like the best
Speaker 1: in the world. It's it's the destination. That's what I
Speaker 1: went there for my honey. I went there. We went
Speaker 1: to all Yeah, we didn't do it right. We went
Speaker 1: to we went all three major islands. We didn't go
Speaker 1: to any of the off islands. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We didn't go to like but that I didn't realize
Speaker 1: at the time. I kind of was half thinking that
Speaker 1: I would get it, I would throw it in. I
Speaker 1: don't really, it's to go from to go from the
Speaker 1: say Sheells to like the outer islands that are famous
Speaker 1: for fishing. Is about like getting from here to the
Speaker 1: say Shells. I mean it's like a whole thing, but
Speaker 1: in like a dangerous plane. Yeah, I mean it's just
Speaker 1: like it's not you know, just like like go talk
Speaker 1: to the guy down to the beach and having buzzy
Speaker 1: out there, you know. I mean it's like a whole
Speaker 1: different deal. So I've been there but not really had
Speaker 1: a great time though. Do you think it surprising? Most
Speaker 1: is um um. I can't remember what happened, but I
Speaker 1: had to go down and get a prescription for something,
Speaker 1: and it was like sixty six cents including my doctor's
Speaker 1: visit for xannex whatever they got going on, whatever they
Speaker 1: got going on for the medical plan. I think it's
Speaker 1: highly subsidized by tourists, Like when something happens, they don't
Speaker 1: charge any money. I get all my cody and coughs
Speaker 1: are up there. Yeah, like I got like a like
Speaker 1: an antibiotic or something that I can't remember. And uh,
Speaker 1: I mean so long ago, it's thirteen years ago, but
Speaker 1: I do remember. Oh, you know, we didn't talk about seth.
Speaker 1: What the freaking squirrel hides? Man? Oh, I'm laying here
Speaker 1: to as a reminder. Do you squirrel hunt a lot? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What do you use? Do you ever tie a fly
Speaker 1: called a squirrel tail? Is that a fly? Is here?
Speaker 1: The squirrel hair leeches? There's there's one called the red
Speaker 1: squirrel nimph, that's a good one. I used red squirrel
Speaker 1: all My roommate and graduate school would tie flies for money.
Speaker 1: He would have contracts to sell them, and he would
Speaker 1: now and then he didn't hunt, but he would now
Speaker 1: and then accompany me to go out to shoot pine squirrels.
Speaker 1: And then you take her fur and put in a
Speaker 1: coffee grinder and make flies with it, make dubbing out
Speaker 1: of it. Well, actually, pine squirrel, just the pelt is like,
Speaker 1: it's an amazing leech pattern. I've used that, I've exactly,
Speaker 1: I've used that a lot. I was use mink, which
Speaker 1: is totally underrated for mouse patterns. I do a ton
Speaker 1: of mousing in mid day, by the way, which really
Speaker 1: they always tell you, oh, mousing is for you know,
Speaker 1: spring creek at full two in the morning. Bullshit, try
Speaker 1: it at noon. I'm not no, No, I'm serious. I'm serious.
Speaker 1: Swing a mouse pattern. I probably shouldn't say it. Just
Speaker 1: cast across forty five degrees, let it hang down, drag
Speaker 1: awake behind it. It's insane, what I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: And you only get about three casts and then it's
Speaker 1: like they're not taking it. Fine, move on to something else.
Speaker 1: But I would say, at least fifty percent time mid day,
Speaker 1: the biggest trout in the pool will be like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: and you hook up every single time. I've done that
Speaker 1: all over the world and river in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night too, totally or waiting through a muckey. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've done this like Silver Creek or you know and
Speaker 1: I or whatever. You know, it's like famous for midnight mousing.
Speaker 1: No mid day. Well, you know we saw that was
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the squirrels some our times. That beautiful
Speaker 1: job that it's gonna start a podcast called Squirrel Greefe Podcast.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna send him in a panther Martin and
Speaker 1: get your money? No, these are for a different project. Uh,
Speaker 1: these are for a friend of ours who's a squirrel enthusiast.
Speaker 1: We're gonna send him a black phase, eastern gray, gray phase,
Speaker 1: eastern gray. Sure fox squirrel. We're gonna send him the
Speaker 1: whole he's a squirrel enthusiast, but somehow he doesn't have
Speaker 1: squirrel hides. So you take the guard hairs out of
Speaker 1: this and that's like amazing taste stuff. Don't touch that one. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you can look at it, touch it, but just don't
Speaker 1: pluck anything for a guy named Guy we had. We
Speaker 1: had to do a guy named guys up. I did
Speaker 1: this morning show for four years. We had this guy
Speaker 1: come on once who like worked at some bald eagle preserve.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of bald eagles where we live.
Speaker 1: They eat my troad and so I deeply resent them.
Speaker 1: But whatever, So he has this bald eagle in the set.
Speaker 1: They're incredibly nasty animals. I've never seen one up close,
Speaker 1: but they're really hostile, and I think this is the
Speaker 1: burden new I didn't like it, and he was like
Speaker 1: angry at me, and at one point he jumps up
Speaker 1: and he loses a tail feather, so I snatched up think.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, you're not allowed to have that.
Speaker 1: Only Native Americans can have it. It's a federal okay, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: got it, So I bring it home. I took it
Speaker 1: and tied too wet flies out of it to soft tackles,
Speaker 1: and those were the single most effective for salmon I've
Speaker 1: ever fished. Bald eagle. We did. I can't here if
Speaker 1: we had him on, we had award none uh, And
Speaker 1: we raised that question with them, and he has he
Speaker 1: had this guy we had had on twice in his
Speaker 1: career issued citations for what you're talking about. There were
Speaker 1: egregious examples. The one, he's sitting at a stoplight and
Speaker 1: the guy next to him has his rear view mirror
Speaker 1: adorned with raft or feet, so he pulled him over
Speaker 1: to have a chat. The other one, he's leaving the
Speaker 1: grocery store and it happens to be walking by a
Speaker 1: truck and sees that the guy has a like a
Speaker 1: small truckload of rafter carcasses, and so he waited for
Speaker 1: him to come out of the grocery store to have
Speaker 1: asked asked him a few questions, but he said, like, yes,
Speaker 1: it's true. What those are The two times I was
Speaker 1: compelled to like follow up, Well, you can't be stupid.
Speaker 1: Whenever I eat California condor, I grill it indoors because
Speaker 1: it's just too provocative to put it on the barbecue.
Speaker 1: What was that? We're on? Squirrels talk about time, all
Speaker 1: kind of flies? What do you shoot squirrels with? What
Speaker 1: do you what do you think of it? It does
Speaker 1: too much damage? Man? But but now I have a
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Speaker 1: or an actual word. It is on the Mediator dot com.
Speaker 1: And you know who's great with this series that we do, Garrett.
Speaker 1: He is a good resource for our writer Jordan Stillers.
Speaker 1: Jordan has a question about uh using a twenty two
Speaker 1: to fifty on a white tailed deer, he will shoot,
Speaker 1: get an email, and Garrett always has the answer, what
Speaker 1: do you think of that fifty on a white tail? Uh?
Speaker 1: I don't know why, Like, sure you can do, but
Speaker 1: I agree, I completely agree. I completely agree. Two fifties.
Speaker 1: Are you think it's okay amazing on white tail? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's It's kind of like the whole argument with like
Speaker 1: six five three hundreds. You know, how could you hunt
Speaker 1: in elk with a six five until you've shot an
Speaker 1: elk with a six five three hundred, and it's very cis.
Speaker 1: People are like obsessed. I can't handle any more caliber,
Speaker 1: so I haven't gotten one. But it's like for good
Speaker 1: reason you're saying you like, yeah, man, they're legal rights,
Speaker 1: They're just they're moving so fast. When that bullet expands,
Speaker 1: when it hits, it's very catastrophic. Like it's same like
Speaker 1: I said, six If you've never shot one one a
Speaker 1: Weatherby's cartridges, you're shooting elk with one of those and
Speaker 1: you're it's just like whoa, that's it's way harder than
Speaker 1: like people are gonna hate this, but like then my
Speaker 1: win meg kind of relate. Yeah, as far as it
Speaker 1: comes out of it comes out of the barrel and
Speaker 1: a thousand feet faster than than your barrel life though,
Speaker 1: I mean, how many rounds can you put? Like two
Speaker 1: thousand and then you're done. Yeah, but they make your
Speaker 1: gun live ab as long as a smoker. It's totally right.
Speaker 1: But it also has to do with like all that
Speaker 1: is is heat, right, So it has to do with
Speaker 1: how you shoot your gun. If you went out with
Speaker 1: the six fifty and shot you know, a box of
Speaker 1: Ammo through it, and you just sort of wrapping rounds,
Speaker 1: then yeah, it's gonna anyway at this point, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you'd have to be sponsored. It's not too bad.
Speaker 1: I'm serious. I but I got I mean I shoot
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot, a lot, and I think about that.
Speaker 1: In fact, I even got an eight million in mouser
Speaker 1: because I buy a lot of Kurosa primary ammo because
Speaker 1: it's super cheap, like you know, Turkish am a Greek
Speaker 1: ammo from nine forty. It's like I don't give a ship.
Speaker 1: I'll clean my barrel with Windex. The gun costs four
Speaker 1: hundred bucks, do you know what I mean? And I
Speaker 1: can shoot and I actually like the round, but I'm
Speaker 1: not going to get a six five creed More because
Speaker 1: really I'm paying or three even three in a blackout
Speaker 1: I wanted to get. I wanted to get a Supressor
Speaker 1: in blackout because my friend was one is such a
Speaker 1: fun gun. So I'm not going to buy that AMMO
Speaker 1: because it just bums me out. It's every bowling pin
Speaker 1: that's like I shoot is two dollars or something. No thanks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just a lot of Yeah, they're popular because they're good.
Speaker 1: They are good, we're shootability by Tucker Carlson. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying the cost of AMMO. I was shooting a three
Speaker 1: way the other day, which I really like. I like mine.
Speaker 1: I actually have a I see your left handed left
Speaker 1: hand and butts the only rifle I have a left
Speaker 1: hand and bolt on it, and I like it. But
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, how much is a three weight round? Now? Like?
Speaker 1: What is it? What does it called? Yeah? Very but
Speaker 1: I shoot but all my god, all my bolk right
Speaker 1: hand because that's where they all come from. I was
Speaker 1: in my thirties before I had one, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: get used to it. I initially didn't like it when
Speaker 1: I got a left hand bolt. Do you know why
Speaker 1: I bought my I've only had one, it's my three eight,
Speaker 1: because it was cheaper. Honestly, no one wants a left
Speaker 1: hand bolt I just bought. I just bought a new
Speaker 1: seventeen HMR that you ever shoot the Ruger seventy seven
Speaker 1: like the model, and I've got it in three seven.
Speaker 1: It's like probably my favorite rightfalities, absolutely, and I just
Speaker 1: loved the action on it. So I saw one in
Speaker 1: seventeen and I was like, I just can't resist. And
Speaker 1: it was pretty cheap, but it was right handed, and
Speaker 1: I liked it better than the left but it's cheap anyway.
Speaker 1: I just think the cast had one of My brother
Speaker 1: Danny has it now in Alaska, really because it was
Speaker 1: right handed. Once Motime made to switch the left handed.
Speaker 1: Oh so you're all about that now? Now I'm Joe
Speaker 1: left hand. I mean, I've always been left handed, but
Speaker 1: now I got used to, Like, I got over the
Speaker 1: impulse to lower the guns, switch hands, work the bowl,
Speaker 1: which is once I got over it. Now I would
Speaker 1: never go back. But at first I'll just very because
Speaker 1: we shot hand me downs, Like you grew up shooting
Speaker 1: hand me down right hand. That's exactly how I grew up.
Speaker 1: And now I have so many right handed bolt action
Speaker 1: rifles that I would like, what am I going to
Speaker 1: do with them? All? You know what I mean? So
Speaker 1: I have to stick with them. Yeah, we're going on caliber's. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a covering. Yeah, hey, walk walk me through.
Speaker 1: Um uh oh, you know there's nothing I want to
Speaker 1: ask you. First. Do you argue about politics of your kids?
Speaker 1: Not once, not one time. We don't talk politics at
Speaker 1: home ever, ever, not one time. I raised my kids
Speaker 1: in Northwest DC and Washington, d C. In the city,
Speaker 1: and Washingtons are very I have to say. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a very screwed up place, and I'm glad I
Speaker 1: don't live there anymore. But I spent many years the
Speaker 1: decades there and it's a very pretty city. I mean,
Speaker 1: we lived right on a National park. You would not
Speaker 1: know you were in a city. It's like it's a
Speaker 1: it's a nice place stories kids, if you're going to
Speaker 1: do it in a city, but you're right in the
Speaker 1: middle of all this political drama. And because you are
Speaker 1: Washington had this pretty wonderful culture of nonpartisanship in the neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: So you live next to people because it's a trans
Speaker 1: and city, so it's like people coming into work for
Speaker 1: this administration that administration. The neighborhood that we lived in
Speaker 1: and raised our kids in was like the permanent people
Speaker 1: who stayed and because you're around it all day, you
Speaker 1: just didn't talk about it at all. We would never
Speaker 1: talk politics. In fact, it was like forbidden. You don't
Speaker 1: bring that ship up at a dinner party. And you
Speaker 1: know a lot of people with dinner party go over
Speaker 1: someone's house for dinner. That was very common every weekend.
Speaker 1: And like my neighbor was Hunter Biden's business partner, and
Speaker 1: then Hunter Biden lived right down the street. You know,
Speaker 1: we would never had many dinners with Hunter Biden. Always
Speaker 1: liked him. Our wives were good friends and we never
Speaker 1: talk politics one time ever ever. And you extended that
Speaker 1: into your and my wife was always pretty resolutely non political.
Speaker 1: Um she's from Michigan, talks just like you the car
Speaker 1: and the park and um. And she was always kind
Speaker 1: of liberal but kind just not you know, just nice person,
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Um, she got way more political when
Speaker 1: in Tifa showed up at her house. Uh, that kind
Speaker 1: of radicalized her a little bit. But but we just
Speaker 1: never weve gotten had never talked about I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think I've talked about my job with my kids
Speaker 1: a single time at dinner, not one time. And they
Speaker 1: sort of dimly were aware of what I did. But then,
Speaker 1: you know, we lived in a neighborhood with you know,
Speaker 1: senators and ambassadors and everyone has a kind of high
Speaker 1: profile sort of political job in the world that they
Speaker 1: grew up in and so and there are a lot
Speaker 1: of famous people, and so my kids were just like,
Speaker 1: they don't like that stuff. They don't like politics. Um, No,
Speaker 1: we never talked about it. And because it felt a
Speaker 1: little bit like if you're a porn star, would you
Speaker 1: come home and be like, yeah, you'll never gets what
Speaker 1: I did today? You just like, wouldn't. It's just kind
Speaker 1: of not for kids. That's how we always felt. And
Speaker 1: by the way, I don't think you should politicize your kids,
Speaker 1: Like what is that you know? They don't know? What
Speaker 1: do they know? They don't you know, they're not married,
Speaker 1: they don't have their own children, they don't pay taxes.
Speaker 1: They don't. They can't even vote, so like that are
Speaker 1: getting them involved. I do find it hard with them,
Speaker 1: um and deal with my own kids when you talk
Speaker 1: about politicizing, because something will come up and it's like
Speaker 1: extremely complicated, and they'll pick up a sentiment and I
Speaker 1: almost one of them be like, no, even though that's
Speaker 1: a sentiment I just expressed, don't have that sentiment, well
Speaker 1: kind of because there's a whole lot of things that
Speaker 1: went into that sentiment, and so just don't like how
Speaker 1: old are your children? Don't ride your bike? Uh, six
Speaker 1: eight and eleven? So I think if I were raising
Speaker 1: my kids now, thank god I'm not. They're all out
Speaker 1: of the house and all sort of happy and well adjusted.
Speaker 1: But if I were raising them now, I would push
Speaker 1: back against this ship because they are they are. There
Speaker 1: are totally unscrupulous people who are trying to politicize kids.
Speaker 1: And I don't almost don't care what your political views are.
Speaker 1: Stay the funk away from children. I mean that, like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? You know, you're not allowed to
Speaker 1: have sex with children. You shouldn't be allowed to politicize
Speaker 1: you know, their children, like stop And people are so
Speaker 1: aggressive in the world that I use to live in
Speaker 1: about throwing propaganda in your kids faces and laying these
Speaker 1: heavy duty moral trips on them and all the stuff
Speaker 1: that is so wrong that I think that if I
Speaker 1: had kids in like sixth grade, and they were coming
Speaker 1: home and saying stuff and be like, you know, fuck
Speaker 1: your teachers, honestly, fuck your teachers. Excuse me, sorry, Like
Speaker 1: I feel that way really strongly. I think it's like,
Speaker 1: it's so immoral to do that to someone who can't
Speaker 1: fight back over whom you have power. Teachers have power
Speaker 1: over kids. They can't disagree, Like, who would do something
Speaker 1: like that. You're not able to captive audience, I think that, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're not able to give the full they're they're
Speaker 1: not equipped to understand like all the steps that got
Speaker 1: there exactly. So when you introduce, like when you introduce
Speaker 1: even contemporary subjects to them, um, you lose sight of
Speaker 1: the fact that you're carrying behind you sort of like
Speaker 1: decades worth of understanding the evolution of ideas, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you just deliver them. They'd be like,
Speaker 1: you're giving them the answer without showing them the work.
Speaker 1: That's a really smart analogy, and I I recoil from it.
Speaker 1: But then I also don't want them to be like
Speaker 1: I don't want them to be naive and idiots. Well,
Speaker 1: kids also have a hair trigger sense of moral outrage.
Speaker 1: All children do. It's very easy to exploit. So it's
Speaker 1: very easy to tell kids there's a right side and
Speaker 1: a wrong side. The wrong side is im moral, the
Speaker 1: right side is virtuous, and kids will buy it. Kids
Speaker 1: are extremely judgmental because they're not aware of their own
Speaker 1: shortcomings because they haven't failed yet. So your average fifty
Speaker 1: two year old, which is where I find myself, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit harder to judge because you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of get I disagree with what you're doing,
Speaker 1: but I kind of get why you're doing it, or
Speaker 1: in that circumstances, maybe I would do the same. You're
Speaker 1: you're less judgmental as you age because you understand how
Speaker 1: incredibly complex life is and decisions are hard to wise,
Speaker 1: decisions are hard to reach, and sometimes people fail and
Speaker 1: you've failed, and you know, as my father Sho said,
Speaker 1: I was a kid, the root of all wisdom is
Speaker 1: knowing what an asshole you are, And as you age,
Speaker 1: you appreciate what an asshole you are. Kids do appreciate that,
Speaker 1: and so you can turn them into the camera rousion
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes and the cameras literally did this with
Speaker 1: kids that'd be like, you know, you know, here's an
Speaker 1: a K forty seven. Those are the bad guys, go
Speaker 1: kill them. They're like okay. And so to exploit that
Speaker 1: weakness in children strikes me as especially dishonorable. It really
Speaker 1: really did. I'm like so offended by it, I can't
Speaker 1: even And by the way it, you know, it goes.
Speaker 1: That's saying that the politics that kids are being exposed
Speaker 1: to are not my politics. But even if they were,
Speaker 1: I would disagree with it. I just I'm just liberal
Speaker 1: in a traditional sense that way. I think we should
Speaker 1: keep kids out of it. I really do uh talk
Speaker 1: talk through when you get involved in something like pebble mind,
Speaker 1: like on your show, I mean, you gotta be like
Speaker 1: inundated with all like every issue on the planet, right,
Speaker 1: And here's the one that probably um wasn't like it
Speaker 1: wasn't in the news cycle, you know, on a national sense.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like it wasn't sort of like driving the
Speaker 1: day's news, right, but you you kind of like hit
Speaker 1: on a thing like this an address and had people
Speaker 1: come talk about it and it's not a ratings play. No, no,
Speaker 1: it's definitely not my press. Like really Bristol Bay a
Speaker 1: lask like what the salmon spawn come on? How often
Speaker 1: do you get like how often do you do a
Speaker 1: thing where you bring a thing up that that is
Speaker 1: sort of dovetailed with your personal Like you don't do
Speaker 1: a fishing report every night? You're interesting fishing? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I try not, And this is something else you fight
Speaker 1: against his u h. I try not to be boorish,
Speaker 1: Like if you had given me any leash at all,
Speaker 1: I would have bored you about fly tying for like
Speaker 1: an hour because I can't control myself. You know, how
Speaker 1: do you wrap the hackle? That's not the right way
Speaker 1: to palmer, Like, I could actually get stultifying on the subject,
Speaker 1: but you pull yourself back, so you try try to
Speaker 1: be self aware and like, just because your interesting doesn't
Speaker 1: mean other people are and whatever, So I pull back
Speaker 1: a lot. I have all kinds of weird obsessions um,
Speaker 1: mostly having to do with hunting and fishing and nature
Speaker 1: and animals. Dogs. I'm really we have four dogs. They
Speaker 1: sleep on the bed, four spaniels you know, like, so
Speaker 1: I could do like a dog show, but not everyone else,
Speaker 1: Not everyone thinks like springers and English cockers are as
Speaker 1: endlessly fascinating as I think they are. Literally exactly. I
Speaker 1: literally looked at pictures of my spaniels on the plane
Speaker 1: today flying here. That's how obsessed him. But I don't
Speaker 1: I don't want to impose that in my audience because
Speaker 1: they're not as interested as I am. But occasionally there's
Speaker 1: there's a subject that the emotion comes welling up in
Speaker 1: such a way that I can't pull it back, and
Speaker 1: destroying the largest salmon spawning ground in the world because
Speaker 1: some Canadian copper company wants more, you know, no, And
Speaker 1: I just felt like that crossed a line in my mind.
Speaker 1: And it does match up with something that I try
Speaker 1: to introduce as a concept a lot, which is the
Speaker 1: more that people, especially I'm just gonna say it, I
Speaker 1: am one of them, but the more that rich people
Speaker 1: virtue signal about the environment and the earth, the more
Speaker 1: they tend to kind of degrade the environment in the earth.
Speaker 1: The more we talk about climate and I'm not anying
Speaker 1: the existence of climate change at all, It's clear to me.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, the more we focus on that,
Speaker 1: the more I noticed that, like the places I fish
Speaker 1: become dirtier and there's more garbage by the side of
Speaker 1: the stream, Like whatever happened to stopping littering, Like if
Speaker 1: you can't stop littering, then you're failing as a conservationist,
Speaker 1: Like because littering is despoiling the environment and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I just I really feel strongly about that. And air
Speaker 1: and water quality is like the most basic level of conservation.
Speaker 1: There's nothing theoretical about it. If the water is too
Speaker 1: dirty for the fish to live, you're guilty of a crime.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel about it. It's super simple, and
Speaker 1: we can measure that. It's not hard to know whether
Speaker 1: that's happening. You know, we don't need some scientific model. Well,
Speaker 1: really is the hockey stick real? Like what was the
Speaker 1: temperature in medieval Europe? We don't need to guess about
Speaker 1: water quality. We can find out immediately and we can
Speaker 1: look at the fishery and the health of the fishery
Speaker 1: and you know, d D T. We didn't need to
Speaker 1: guess that it was killing birds of prey because suddenly
Speaker 1: there are fewer birds of prey. Like we knew that
Speaker 1: the shells were getting thinner, and you know, Rachel Carson
Speaker 1: was right, Okay, so we stopped you anyway, you see
Speaker 1: my point. So on that subject, it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not against mining, I'm not against extraction. I'm not
Speaker 1: against medals. As a shooter. You know, I go through
Speaker 1: a lot of copper, so I'm I'm for copper. Copper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have jars and pennies in my closet, so you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not against copper. But it's a balance. You know,
Speaker 1: there are coppers found in a lot of different places,
Speaker 1: and like, how about we don't destroy this very rare place.
Speaker 1: And I was just in this weird circumstance or no
Speaker 1: fault on my own, where I had some small man,
Speaker 1: I'm a talk show host, I'm not elected to anything.
Speaker 1: I have no actual power. But there was just this
Speaker 1: weird confluence of events where I did have some measure
Speaker 1: of influence on this one specific thing. Yeah, it was timed,
Speaker 1: I mean it was timed right. Yeah. And again, my
Speaker 1: job is just to explain what I think the news means.
Speaker 1: It's a really simple job. My job is not to
Speaker 1: change the world old it's not to make you know,
Speaker 1: lead a movement or anything like that. I mean, I
Speaker 1: have a very narrowly defined job description in my head.
Speaker 1: What's going on in the world, what does it mean?
Speaker 1: That's it. That's my whole job. And I write my
Speaker 1: script every I write my open every night. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: write it after the show. And that's what I brewed
Speaker 1: on him. I'm basically a writer that I'm not basically,
Speaker 1: I'm literally a writer. That's my job. So I don't
Speaker 1: see myself as like waking up every morning to make
Speaker 1: the world better, you know, save some fishing spot that
Speaker 1: I happened to like. But it just so happened that,
Speaker 1: you know, I had the for a fleeting second, the
Speaker 1: power to have a small effect on this one thing
Speaker 1: that I cared about, and so I did. I tried
Speaker 1: to make a habit of that. I'm not an activist.
Speaker 1: On the opposite of an activist, what's the opposite of
Speaker 1: an activist? I like to watch. I'm a voyeur. I
Speaker 1: started as a print journalist. My dad was a print journalist.
Speaker 1: Like he. My dad had politics. I have politics. But
Speaker 1: ultimately you're job is to is to just sit quietly
Speaker 1: and watch things and try and figure out what they mean.
Speaker 1: And tell people what happened. I mean, I really feel
Speaker 1: that way. But what was so interesting about that moment
Speaker 1: in time, over the course of how long the back
Speaker 1: and forth of pebble mind has been going, was, uh,
Speaker 1: the activists from all corners of the activist world said,
Speaker 1: holy shit, even Tucker Carlson's talking about this. People are
Speaker 1: so dumb. It's like, even Carls and what, I'm on
Speaker 1: the side of some Canadian copper mine, Like, why would
Speaker 1: I be on that side? And I like Canada. I
Speaker 1: fished a lot in Canada, I used to have property
Speaker 1: in Canada, But like, why would I necessarily be on
Speaker 1: that side. It's just just how dumb people are. They're like, well,
Speaker 1: you must be for this. Well, no, actually I'm not.
Speaker 1: You know where people have assumption. I don't really care
Speaker 1: what people think of me. Obviously you can't be this
Speaker 1: hated if you care, and I really don't. But I'm
Speaker 1: always kind of amazed by the assumption that people have,
Speaker 1: well you must think this, will know, why would I
Speaker 1: think that? No, I really don't. And on the just
Speaker 1: because I don't have any weird mystical reason, but I
Speaker 1: I just really enjoy the outdoors. I have my whole life,
Speaker 1: and I have my views on actual environmental stuff are
Speaker 1: definitely more on the radical side. I just you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think that we should ban wood stoves because
Speaker 1: of climate change so like, but that doesn't mean I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think some of the climate stuff is
Speaker 1: is a pure power grab. And I noticed because I
Speaker 1: lived there for thirty years. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: the people involved in it, and you know, they don't
Speaker 1: ever go outside like ever. They know nothing about the
Speaker 1: natural world. And you're lecturing me on the environment. Really,
Speaker 1: you know, who do There's another agenda here, and it's
Speaker 1: a political agenda. It's politics, of course, so there's a
Speaker 1: political agenda. But the pure conservation environmentalist agenda is something
Speaker 1: I buy one hundred percent. Why wouldn't I? I I love nature,
Speaker 1: It's at the center of my life. You saying you
Speaker 1: mentioned um Rachel Carlson. Rachel Carson made me think of
Speaker 1: Rachel Maddow. You guys lined up at some point in
Speaker 1: your career. Is at a news organization when you're young? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hired her. Actually, Um, I had a show. There
Speaker 1: was a period when MSNBC didn't sort of know what
Speaker 1: it was. I had just I've beenn't seeing n for
Speaker 1: a long time. Um, I hated them. They were just
Speaker 1: so loathsome Oh my god, they're like the worst people.
Speaker 1: Was like the collection of the worst people in the world,
Speaker 1: all worked in one place, made it convenient to avoid
Speaker 1: it was it was, it was, And ultimately I laughed
Speaker 1: and MS was trying to rebrand as like a more
Speaker 1: populous I don't know what. They didn't really know what
Speaker 1: they wanted, but they made me the lead anchor there.
Speaker 1: I was later fired for low ratings. It didn't work. Um,
Speaker 1: but while I was there, I wanted someone to debate,
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to like that's what you guys
Speaker 1: link up was. Yeah. So I went through. We actually
Speaker 1: had all these tapes from different agents like people, well
Speaker 1: you should hire my client or whatever. And I got
Speaker 1: to hers and I was like, Wow, this woman is
Speaker 1: really smart and she's a she's a linear thinker. She'd
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, if this happens, then that happens. She wasn't.
Speaker 1: She was very rational in her debate STYT, which I love,
Speaker 1: and she's a nice person and so we brought her on.
Speaker 1: We hired her to do this debate segment, and I
Speaker 1: thought she was great. I always got along with her.
Speaker 1: Um in later life she got obsessed with fishing. That's
Speaker 1: what I wanted to ask about fishing. Yes, I knew
Speaker 1: that you guys had had some overlap at a news organization,
Speaker 1: and I knew she liked to fish. I was curious,
Speaker 1: if you guys are like, just like a funny play fishing.
Speaker 1: Well it was well, Actually what happened was she wasn't
Speaker 1: into fishing when she was a radio host actually on
Speaker 1: this like progressive UH network Air America that later went
Speaker 1: to FUNCTI. I remember that wasn't l frank and Franken
Speaker 1: started it exactly and it was just a different time,
Speaker 1: you know, where you could have friends with different views.
Speaker 1: That it was like a satellite show right right exactly,
Speaker 1: a big serious or whatever the hell. And she was
Speaker 1: not into fishing. I was. In fact, one of the
Speaker 1: reasons I got fired was I would like fish too
Speaker 1: much and not do my work. I was incredibly lazy
Speaker 1: and and tight old at the time. Getting fired makes
Speaker 1: you less lazy and entitled. But I would literally this
Speaker 1: show was shot in a warehouse in Cea Caucus, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: which is like it's it's where it's like a post
Speaker 1: industrial wastee. It's where all the slaughter houses words right
Speaker 1: outside the city, on the other side of the Lincoln Tunnel.
Speaker 1: It's truly unattractive, but they're all these retaining ponds there,
Speaker 1: and so I would always bring my fly rod and
Speaker 1: just like bass fish before the show. And anyway, I
Speaker 1: ultimately got fired because people see you on TV, is
Speaker 1: that's safe to assume you were fishing within twenty four hours?
Speaker 1: First of all? For sure? Well, now I mean I live.
Speaker 1: I mean I live on an island in a lake
Speaker 1: where you know, fish rise off my dock, so it's
Speaker 1: pretty easy. But anyway, I got fired, and she became
Speaker 1: the star of the network, which she still is. That
Speaker 1: was fifteen at least fifteen years ago, and she went
Speaker 1: on to serious startum and she's like one of the
Speaker 1: most influential people in the Democratic Party. Then she got
Speaker 1: into fishing, and then she got into fishing and she
Speaker 1: is she told me this, and I'm I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: butcher this, but I think was a friend of her said,
Speaker 1: you're under a lot of stress. You should go out
Speaker 1: into New York Harbor. There's pretty good striper fishing certain
Speaker 1: times a year, and you should pick up a fly
Speaker 1: rod and see if you can take one on a popper,
Speaker 1: And she did after the show, like at night, which
Speaker 1: is pretty crazy also kind of dangerous actually to be
Speaker 1: fishing in New York Harbor at night, you know. But whatever,
Speaker 1: But she got really really into it, like obsessed as
Speaker 1: people do with the fly rod, you know, something about
Speaker 1: the action of loading a rod. It's like one of
Speaker 1: the coolest sort of experiences in physics here, just like
Speaker 1: how does that happen? You know? Anyway, she got really
Speaker 1: into it, and we've always gotten along. I've never criticized her.
Speaker 1: I think she's totally sincere. You know, we just have
Speaker 1: different views, which has always been fine. We've never fished,
Speaker 1: you know, and she lives. I wanted. I wanted to
Speaker 1: hear that. You guys, we never did, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: that we will because um some of the guys that
Speaker 1: UM tr CP know her. Well. I just never go
Speaker 1: anywhere because like why would I. So I go to
Speaker 1: I go to Montana and Alaska and that's about it.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you about a current event d thing. UM,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're up on it or not.
Speaker 1: If you're not, you don't have to. UM. No, apologies necessary,
Speaker 1: but they did. So they voted on if you don't
Speaker 1: know this by now, like, we don't really, we don't
Speaker 1: release these the day we make them. Anyways, today, whatever
Speaker 1: the hell today is Thursday. It was a stone manning
Speaker 1: the BLM. Biden's tapped the person he tapped to head
Speaker 1: the BLM. You familiar with the story at all? Yep?
Speaker 1: Someone an earth first person or yeah, seemingly layout. So
Speaker 1: so they we're texting about this morning. It's it's undecided.
Speaker 1: It was like, but how is it a toss up?
Speaker 1: It's not a fifty to fifty toss up. It's like
Speaker 1: a five to five toss up. No, the Senate Committee
Speaker 1: on Energy and Natural Resources voted. It was split along
Speaker 1: party lines. So stri party lines, Um, so the vote
Speaker 1: will go to the full Senate. This is a really
Speaker 1: tricky one, man, it is I agree, lay it out,
Speaker 1: just lay a layout. Who not the if stansor butts.
Speaker 1: When Tracy Stone manning Biden's pick his nominee for the
Speaker 1: head of BLM Bureau of Land Management, Uh, she is
Speaker 1: or was at National Wildlife Federation, I believe is that
Speaker 1: that is right now? Okay? Um, in her younger days
Speaker 1: and this apparently was on record uh throughout her career,
Speaker 1: but now is much more much more on topic is
Speaker 1: University Montana ble Steve and I went to the University
Speaker 1: of Montana for stance Um. She was involved with earth First.
Speaker 1: Uh and like a radical group of Earth First, not
Speaker 1: as a high schooler, as a graduate student, as a
Speaker 1: graduate So you're getting up into you're getting up into
Speaker 1: being like a sentient beings. Ben, being a sentient being.
Speaker 1: Your parents shouldn't be coming in wave and a finger
Speaker 1: and being like now you know better? Right, So you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're well into your twenties. Yes, and uh, this this
Speaker 1: group of Earth first 's uh, there's a logging operations
Speaker 1: set set to go over the hill and the clear water.
Speaker 1: Um they were protesting that. Uh. Within that group, they
Speaker 1: decided in order to protest this, they were going to
Speaker 1: spike trees, which is the act of driving some sort
Speaker 1: of a rod into a tree that when a chainsaw
Speaker 1: bar and chain hit that can have some catastrophic destructive
Speaker 1: repercussions potentially with chunks of metal flying places. And you
Speaker 1: know it's it's a situation that can get somebody hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I know that A I don't even know where
Speaker 1: I just read it in relation to this story that
Speaker 1: a mill at least one known mill worker was killed
Speaker 1: from a blade hitting us an intentionally placed spike in
Speaker 1: in this situation or just in the history of it
Speaker 1: was like giving a round up on spiking how it's
Speaker 1: generally used to be that like done in the way
Speaker 1: you're gonna lay out people spike and they go like, hey,
Speaker 1: heads up, don't even bother their spike. You wouldn't. Not
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't. Um, you could also spike it not
Speaker 1: tell anybody, which is I'm not trying to one better
Speaker 1: than the other, but like worse than spiking is spiking
Speaker 1: and not telling anyone. You'd be like the I E.
Speaker 1: D or a land mine would be like the contemporary equivalent.
Speaker 1: I would say, I don't. I don't think that's too
Speaker 1: much of a stretch. You're hiding something that's gonna blow
Speaker 1: up in somebody's face. Um. Now, the two sides of this,
Speaker 1: from what I understand is, uh, Tracy stone Manning has
Speaker 1: been uh called like part of the group no knew
Speaker 1: about the tree spiking, very involved. And then the other
Speaker 1: side would be that she just retyped a letter for
Speaker 1: the group and was in fact, like not that involved,
Speaker 1: but attached to it. And she turned state's evidence on
Speaker 1: the tree spikers, the folks that actually committed the act
Speaker 1: of tree spiking. And I think too the guys went
Speaker 1: to prison, um for pretty good stance. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: not mistake. And it was they wrote. Ah, it's described
Speaker 1: um that subscribed in news articles as profanity laced. Uh.
Speaker 1: They wrote a profanity laced letter to the Forest Service saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we spiked the trees for some reason. I'll never understand this,
Speaker 1: and only the people involved would know. She transcribed it.
Speaker 1: She typed a hand she typed a handwritten letter and
Speaker 1: turned the letter in later. UM. Her story was that, oh,
Speaker 1: I was notifying them, like giving them the heads up.
Speaker 1: And in another way to look at it would be
Speaker 1: that you were complicit and it was part the plan
Speaker 1: to do it and tell people, and so you were
Speaker 1: part of it. You weren't like calling nine on one.
Speaker 1: And I think she's trying to recast it as more
Speaker 1: of like a nine one one call rather than a
Speaker 1: I l part of all part of the plan call. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I have, like I've transcribed plenty of stuff, and
Speaker 1: I don't always do it without adding my own little right.
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, there's there's parts of that
Speaker 1: that I I just it's hard to say. But um,
Speaker 1: so there's this. We can say that she's an eco terrorist,
Speaker 1: um or we can say she's just caught up in
Speaker 1: the wrong crowd. But like the over arching thing here
Speaker 1: is like it did happen a long time ago, thirty
Speaker 1: years but we know that no one cares. There's no
Speaker 1: statutal limitations on anything anymore. Minute right, Um, but she's
Speaker 1: had a long career and has pretty darn good marks
Speaker 1: as far as like her willingness to work with different
Speaker 1: groups and uh, you know, comple eat objectives on behalf
Speaker 1: of wild places throughout her career. Yeah. I don't buy
Speaker 1: the thirty year thing because if someone made you could
Speaker 1: make an off color joke thirty years ago and still
Speaker 1: lose your career. So the fact that you commit like uh,
Speaker 1: like you are are are not involved in in an
Speaker 1: act of terrorism, Like I don't think it would term out.
Speaker 1: I think it's tricky. It's like I don't I try
Speaker 1: to reading this morning, I try to get an opinion.
Speaker 1: I can't make a good opinion. I can't make a
Speaker 1: good opinion, Like, I don't know, it's very tricky for
Speaker 1: the Biden administration because here's like, oh, it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: it's radicalized domestic terrorism. And you've always been talking about
Speaker 1: that a whole bunch about not liking that, blaming me
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, yes, yeah, I mean a bunch of
Speaker 1: different lean. First of all, I'm in Montana, So let
Speaker 1: me just say, because I think it's required, I hate
Speaker 1: peeling Bureau of Land. Man. Actually I don't hate pealing,
Speaker 1: but I know that there I've had some intense conversations
Speaker 1: about Bureau of Land Management fishing out here. People are
Speaker 1: very strong feelings about them. Holy smokes. So as far
Speaker 1: as like if they're running their cattle out, whether they've
Speaker 1: been managing whenever the public land. Well, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get involved. This is not my region of the purity um.
Speaker 1: But man, some people hate them, you know. I'd say
Speaker 1: a couple of things. One, you know, they're hiring a
Speaker 1: lot of radicals, like actual radicals, which freaks me out
Speaker 1: because I'm one thing, I'm not as radical. I believe
Speaker 1: in kind of incremental progress. I mean, I believe in nature,
Speaker 1: which doesn't know, there's something radical about nature it's like, no,
Speaker 1: they're there, big time radical. That guy's a freaking But
Speaker 1: in this case, I have a bunch of different feelings. One,
Speaker 1: I live in a region that is defined by logging,
Speaker 1: you know, lumber and paper mills. That's what you know,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. And I think the the threat
Speaker 1: to forests is not Wherehouse or Meade I p you know,
Speaker 1: it's not the traditional paper companies, the land management companies.
Speaker 1: It's the selling off of the physical assets of a
Speaker 1: lot of these companies to private equity firms like Beirut,
Speaker 1: the Yale Endowment, the University Endowment. And the problem is
Speaker 1: they whack the ship out of the land. And you know,
Speaker 1: your traditional like the Pingree family in Maine, which they
Speaker 1: own like a million acres of land they have for
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty years, like they cut carefully because
Speaker 1: that's you know, it's their land. But when you disaggregate
Speaker 1: this stuff, it creates incentives for people just to come
Speaker 1: in and just rape the land. And I'm against that.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a way to manage a forest that's
Speaker 1: good for everybody. And if the then gets chopped up
Speaker 1: into really small places and sold off, then it's a
Speaker 1: huge problem, like we don't get the forest back ever,
Speaker 1: thank you. So there are real concerns about how to
Speaker 1: manage forest, especially around fires. There's like an endless conversation
Speaker 1: that I'm super interested in because I live in the
Speaker 1: middle of a forest. But not to be boring, but
Speaker 1: so I think it's worth having a debate about how
Speaker 1: do we do this some of the the radicals you
Speaker 1: know on this subject, I am kind of sympathetic with
Speaker 1: making trees is ridiculous because first of all, who's it hurt?
Speaker 1: The working man, the most despised suffering group in America.
Speaker 1: The people are dying of fentinelods, the people who live
Speaker 1: near me all. You know, every man in my county
Speaker 1: has worked in the woods, as they say, in me
Speaker 1: at one point or another. I had a chainsaw blow
Speaker 1: up in me two years ago. I over sharpened the chain,
Speaker 1: you know those I don't know if you ever sharpened
Speaker 1: a chainsaw chain, but the files are incredibly sharp and
Speaker 1: you can weaken the chain if you're not paying attention.
Speaker 1: I didn't have my glasses and I was and the
Speaker 1: thing I was making a cut at shoulder height and
Speaker 1: the chain broke and nothing happened. Actually it was totally fine,
Speaker 1: but it scared the ship out of me. So like
Speaker 1: the idea people can get really hurt, but you're on
Speaker 1: a chance, say you had your your pro I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't know I had. Actually, honestly, I had those
Speaker 1: whatever the stupid cheap ear protection that Hiccock forty five wears.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just like the strap around because it
Speaker 1: does hurt your ears. And I didn't even have glasses
Speaker 1: on because it was like long story, but when it blops, no,
Speaker 1: I did flip flog, but it was but it was
Speaker 1: just scary. Anyway, I'm very sympathetic, Like spiking trees hurts
Speaker 1: exactly the wrong people if you're mad about what Warehouser's doing,
Speaker 1: taken up with the head of Warehouser and but not
Speaker 1: the man who's cutting the trees. Absolutely, And that's but
Speaker 1: that's like one of the things that I battle with
Speaker 1: on this conversation. That But it's also like the mark
Speaker 1: of a stupid kid, where it's like, have you ever
Speaker 1: met a logger that is logging because they hate trees.
Speaker 1: I've been around a lot along me too, and they
Speaker 1: love trees and they can talk about trees forever. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have a guy who is one of my closest
Speaker 1: friends in Maine. It was was longer alas like, but
Speaker 1: he can bore you for like three hours and did
Speaker 1: the other night just on hemlock. You know. The thing
Speaker 1: about hemlock is I mean, and I'm not exaggerating, like
Speaker 1: they love trees and you know everything about trees, and
Speaker 1: now they have Feller bunchers where I live. So it's
Speaker 1: like you're sitting inside a cab, you know, cutting ten
Speaker 1: trees at once. There's no you know, spiking is not
Speaker 1: because skinners and chainsaws are gone. Actually they're not a
Speaker 1: part of industrial loging anymore. But the point is hitting
Speaker 1: the guy on the ground who's making a wage. Really,
Speaker 1: if you're doing that, you're the exactly the kind of
Speaker 1: person I hate, which is a morally inflamed, out of touch,
Speaker 1: rich college kid with head up his ass, Like that's
Speaker 1: the wrong way to approach whatever you think the problem
Speaker 1: is is hurting the wager on or at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the food chain. I just hate that. But I
Speaker 1: do think that we should have a real conversation about
Speaker 1: forest management, and we're not because we're only about climate.
Speaker 1: I'm again, I'm not saying climate's not an issue. I
Speaker 1: think it is, but like we have actual solvable issues.
Speaker 1: You know, how do you manage a forest? The beetle
Speaker 1: kill it killed me. Forest management and climate change are
Speaker 1: like very dovetailed. They are, they are, but climate change,
Speaker 1: like climate change, is more real than the solutions to
Speaker 1: climate change. So my problem the climate change is not
Speaker 1: does it exist or whatever? I mean, it's hard to measure,
Speaker 1: but to something sense, it's measurable. And as someone who
Speaker 1: loves to snowshoe, it's clearly something's going on where I snowshoe. Okay,
Speaker 1: I get it. But what do we do about it?
Speaker 1: Is the real question, And that's a highly politicized question,
Speaker 1: the nuanced question with a lot of unknowns. What's not
Speaker 1: unknown is why the water quality sucks, or you know,
Speaker 1: if Beirut is somehow you know, selling off paper company
Speaker 1: land for condos on Moosehead, Like I think we can
Speaker 1: be against that. I guess that's my point. So like,
Speaker 1: let's start with the things that we can actually affect
Speaker 1: that have known solutions, Like why not start there? Like
Speaker 1: how about no more throwing McDonald's bags at your window?
Speaker 1: How about when you come to this country, the first
Speaker 1: thing you learned. We're totally welcome to have you. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm pro immigrant personally. We don't litter here. And by
Speaker 1: the way, if you literal were gonna cut your hands
Speaker 1: off because you're not allowed to do that. No littering,
Speaker 1: like no littering, just no littering. That would cut down
Speaker 1: on littering. Well, when I was a kid growing up
Speaker 1: in California, littering was like the worst thing you could do.
Speaker 1: You know. The sexual ethics in the world I lived
Speaker 1: in were very loose. I would say, you could have
Speaker 1: sex with anybody. But throwing a beer can out a
Speaker 1: window there was the crying Indian. Remember that because remember,
Speaker 1: like littering was bad. I still feel that way. Don't
Speaker 1: wreck the land, you don't throw ship on the land,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? They recreated that scene
Speaker 1: in Wayne's world too, Spencer, if that's closer. But if
Speaker 1: I've got a fifty gallon druma used motor oil, maybe
Speaker 1: don't pour it in the stream where I live. The
Speaker 1: paper companies they have, you know, they send the cruise in.
Speaker 1: You can't cut in the spring because it's too wet.
Speaker 1: You can't get the machines in there. Um so you know,
Speaker 1: late spring when it dries out a little bit, they'd
Speaker 1: send the cruise in to cut and the mosquitoes are
Speaker 1: so intense, it's like Alaska in western Maine, that they
Speaker 1: would take use motor oil and just pour it on
Speaker 1: the streams because it you know, mosquitoes can't lay their
Speaker 1: eggs and yeah, or another thing that people did where
Speaker 1: I live is to rustproof their cars. They drill holes
Speaker 1: around the top of the windows and they would pour
Speaker 1: use motor oil into the car are frame, get into
Speaker 1: the into the body of the car, and then it
Speaker 1: would solely drip out and that would keep your car
Speaker 1: from rusting. Remember that, Like that's bad, Like let's stop
Speaker 1: that kind of thing before we start, you know, stopping
Speaker 1: my woodstove. I don't know where they're at on it now.
Speaker 1: But there was, uh, who's the guy who's the guy
Speaker 1: that wrote like the no not the corrections, damn it?
Speaker 1: A novelist. I was reading his thing. He had to
Speaker 1: think about climate change, and he was looking at the
Speaker 1: insurmountability of of addressing the issue, and he was like
Speaker 1: basically pessimistic about the you know, getting like India on
Speaker 1: board and China on board and that do it, and
Speaker 1: he was like, the thing we can do is tighten
Speaker 1: up our program in all the areas that we can affect,
Speaker 1: meaning habitat preservation right clean, this is gonna go. There's
Speaker 1: one thing we can do, is is like batting down
Speaker 1: the hatches. That's how I feel, exactly know. And that
Speaker 1: was and it was it was the thought provoking set
Speaker 1: of ideas kind of like but I said, like I said,
Speaker 1: pessimistic or fatalistic, which is where I would you sit
Speaker 1: because um on that one, I just looking and be like, oh, now,
Speaker 1: globally like how climate change like to get the developing
Speaker 1: world on board, it just seems so hard to do. Man,
Speaker 1: So some people say, like, if it'll be, it'll wind
Speaker 1: up needing to be. It's gonna need to be a
Speaker 1: technological solution because it's not going to be that everyone
Speaker 1: that that globally everything, we have to revisit massive imperialism
Speaker 1: to get everybody on one program. And it's just harbon
Speaker 1: emissions are driven by industrial production and that's not what
Speaker 1: we do anymore. We let other countries do exactly, so
Speaker 1: the countries that and and global I mean, over time,
Speaker 1: the most powerful country in the world is the industrial
Speaker 1: power the country that makes the most ship has the
Speaker 1: most power. Was true of the UK, was true of
Speaker 1: the U S. It's becoming true of China. So that's
Speaker 1: very obvious when you look over this scope of a
Speaker 1: hundred years. So like, why would China say, well, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna de industrialize right as we're taking over the world.
Speaker 1: Probably not gonna happen. Same with India, same with Africa.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're if you're cooking dinner over cow pies,
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool to have bottled LP gas, Like,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you want that? And they do And I
Speaker 1: understand that. So I don't know, you need to kind
Speaker 1: of keep that in mind that we're not going to
Speaker 1: stop carbon emissions in a meaningful way until we can
Speaker 1: stop the industrialized, the emerging industrialized powers from building coal plants.
Speaker 1: And we can't because coal is just cheaper. How many
Speaker 1: coal plants is China build? This? Ye, I'm attacking China.
Speaker 1: I get it, that's their national interest. But we need
Speaker 1: to be honest about it. Oh, we we would have
Speaker 1: to ignore our history here in the United States in
Speaker 1: order to but we're not going to be honest. And
Speaker 1: and but let me just say this, is one thing
Speaker 1: I am an expert on. I'm not an expert on
Speaker 1: global climate change. I spent a lot of time reading
Speaker 1: about it, but I'm not hardly an expert. Obviously, I'm
Speaker 1: not a scientist. I'm an expert on politics. I think
Speaker 1: I can say that concludes of Lee. And whenever politicians
Speaker 1: of either party enter into a political debate, the solutions
Speaker 1: will be political. And by political, I mean they will
Speaker 1: be designed to enhance the power of the people designing
Speaker 1: the solutions. Sorry, that that's what it is. That's what
Speaker 1: politics is. How do I, yeah, exactly, how do I
Speaker 1: empower myself and dis empower you? And to pretend that
Speaker 1: because we call something science, that the rules of politics,
Speaker 1: which are fundamental laws that are unchanging, don't apply your
Speaker 1: lying and the true but it's also true for COVID
Speaker 1: doesn't mean COVID it's not real. It doesn't mean we
Speaker 1: shouldn't take precautions against our trying fight it or whatever.
Speaker 1: We should do all kinds of things. But the second
Speaker 1: politicians enter into the equation, they're overriding concern is how
Speaker 1: will these solutions make me more powerful? And that's just
Speaker 1: always true. It doesn't matter what the topic is, and
Speaker 1: for the rest of us to pretend it's not because
Speaker 1: someone yelled science in a crowded theater relying to ourselves
Speaker 1: and we're not. You know, we're not going to get
Speaker 1: to the wisest answer if we pretend that politicians aren't
Speaker 1: always acting to make themselves more powerful and us less powerful,
Speaker 1: because they are always that's true account. Can I get
Speaker 1: an amen? Yeah? I believe you, Laz Joonan Tuck, Carlson Spence,
Speaker 1: what do you need to plug? Wrote me a note
Speaker 1: through my computer. One last thing. We set up an
Speaker 1: email address called Trivia at the mediator dot com so
Speaker 1: you can wait to see how it went. Wouldn't That's
Speaker 1: what I want. Send an email there, tell me what
Speaker 1: you like, tell me what you didn't like, tell me
Speaker 1: if there's something you think I got wrong. But most
Speaker 1: of all, I want you to write in with your
Speaker 1: own questions that you want to stump Steve and the
Speaker 1: crew with. And if we use your question and give
Speaker 1: you a shout out on the podcast, and do you
Speaker 1: want to invite their feedback about whether you should be
Speaker 1: given more time and more latitude to pursue your trivia dream. Yes,
Speaker 1: I want you to convince Steve that this is a
Speaker 1: good idea. I can't believe I lost to a clerical
Speaker 1: error on my own. I never, I never, I never
Speaker 1: finish explained what you guys are fighting about. Oh last night? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they got a real bad fight, real bad. It
Speaker 1: was hard to track. Rode was more pointing out that
Speaker 1: you could now use a muzzleloader and flintlock. So fed up,
Speaker 1: she just almost left. My wife wanted to go home.
Speaker 1: She's so irritated. Uh. We had a debate last night.
Speaker 1: I'm trying because we got like it wasn't clear. It
Speaker 1: became that Um, it turned into this is this is
Speaker 1: what they got some mad about. It turned into would
Speaker 1: having a flintlock season at that time contribute to pushing
Speaker 1: more Elk off public land onto private and would they
Speaker 1: then return? I think that's what you guys were fighting about.
Speaker 1: We got into that, for sure, and Cal At one
Speaker 1: point Um tried to put Broody in his place, Kel
Speaker 1: saying I wouldn't come and tell you about wolves in Colorado,
Speaker 1: don't tell me about Elk and Montana. That was one
Speaker 1: of the lower points. That was the point him an
Speaker 1: asshole question. Flintlock? Is it rifle barrel or muskets, rifled
Speaker 1: barrel primitive like okay, traditional not in the new in
Speaker 1: but the lock is traditional, but the barrel is ok
Speaker 1: you can usually kill elk and you gotta and you
Speaker 1: can't use a telescope. You can't use the scope. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was it was the reason. Here's why they
Speaker 1: were so testy about it. Um, I don't want to
Speaker 1: spend a ton time. They were so testy about it
Speaker 1: because it's a it's a part of a longer thing.
Speaker 1: There's a conversation about are we pushing elk too hard?
Speaker 1: Too long? Yeah, that's a fair And so it was
Speaker 1: like this was like a proxy battle you had like
Speaker 1: the Soviet Union in America, right, which is like are
Speaker 1: we That was that? And then this was a flare
Speaker 1: up in Louse, you know about the flint lock that
Speaker 1: you guys are fighting about. Are we pushing elk too hard? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then but it took the form of like yet
Speaker 1: another example of we don't even need to get that
Speaker 1: we do on half of the word opportunity, Like everything's
Speaker 1: good if we provide more opportunity. Yeah, And at a
Speaker 1: point it might be just you can't kill elk seven
Speaker 1: months out of the year and meanwhile, while folks at
Speaker 1: the dinner table are getting uncomfortable and with like and
Speaker 1: Steve is scoring it like a boxing match. That's a
Speaker 1: great point, Brodie. And then Brodi would take is here
Speaker 1: and he said, oh, well, said Brodie, cow what he got.
Speaker 1: But does anyone think it's kind of I mean, to
Speaker 1: shoot an elk with a frontlock does seem like kind
Speaker 1: of sporting. That's the problem with the end of the
Speaker 1: argument is like, what do you gotta get flat? Like nothing?
Speaker 1: If it goes into effect, I will get one and
Speaker 1: kill an elk withly. But what I'm saying in the
Speaker 1: end it was a pointless argument. So what's the range
Speaker 1: for effective range for pontock? We need to put it?
Speaker 1: Because Seth grew up in the first state to ever
Speaker 1: have a flint lock deer season Pennsylvania. Did you learn
Speaker 1: all about this? Watch media on Netflix coming up September
Speaker 1: Because you're hunting white tails that go insane after they've
Speaker 1: been hunted with rifles for a couple of stuff. Did
Speaker 1: you ever take one of the phont lock? Yeah? Several? Wow, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we used to. It was the last season of the year,
Speaker 1: so it was like your last chance to get a
Speaker 1: deer for the standard. Are you talking to them? A
Speaker 1: lot of deer drives? I forgot they do that. Oh yeah, man, yeah,
Speaker 1: we shot an episode all about I haven't seen I've
Speaker 1: never done that. We haven't released yet, and I'll just
Speaker 1: tell you right now, well I could. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: like Spencer to watch all right, everybody, Uh, talker, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for coming out. It's fun to talk. This
Speaker 1: is what you guys do for a living. I really
Speaker 1: envy you. Oh yeah, painted about flintlock l hunting like
Speaker 1: you've already won. I don't know what you get paid,
Speaker 1: but you you win. Well. We're going up to the
Speaker 1: fish shack in Alaska, uh, starting tomorrow, right, and you
Speaker 1: know the rule up there is no politics over dinner either,
Speaker 1: So good. I like that it is now. I'm just saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: we should like that. But but I'm bringing my three
Speaker 1: kids too, so that would violate the other rule about
Speaker 1: not politicizing children. That's true. It's all about our treble
Speaker 1: hook snagging. You know what I like in salt water
Speaker 1: up there, You've got a position that of course you do,
Speaker 1: but you are allowed like it's yeah, put that down
Speaker 1: in future talking point future like saltwater snagging. Uh, okay,
Speaker 1: you're not. It's not. And I'm sorry it's not. And
Speaker 1: I don't care if you have a native exemption, it's not.
Speaker 1: And and put this question in there, why is it
Speaker 1: so much easier to land a salmon with a fly rod?
Speaker 1: Because about eyes in their mouths? Because when not hooked
Speaker 1: in the postman, No, that's totally true. Actually, I like
Speaker 1: my son's always on me for foul hooking fish on
Speaker 1: dry flies. Your resections aren't fast enough, whatever, But I
Speaker 1: always argue it's it's actually more impressive to land of
Speaker 1: foul hook fish, like in the Dorsho fan. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, when he's out there and you can feel
Speaker 1: his tail moving, we say they fight harder when you
Speaker 1: hook him in the motor. All right, everybody, thanks for joining,
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