WEBVTT - Ep. 42: Googans, Influencers, and Sages 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.440 The qualified Captain is about to get a whole lot 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.719 more content post. You just rinse that barking basement spinner 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:13.880 bait that you stole from your grandpa, and talk about 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.439 how much better the fishing was yesterday. Think about Swazie 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:21.639 was not whooping ass in roadhouse on the asphalt outside 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.760 the Hooters. Johnny Cash was not kicking in a fighting 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:26.159 in the mud and blood and the beer on the 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:31.280 pavement outside of Houla hands instantaneous pressure changes equivalent to 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:35.240 your body dropping six thousand feet under the ocean and 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:40.240 back to sea level and a meda second. Good morning, 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.640 degenerate anglers, and welcome to Bent, the fishing podcast that's 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.839 ready for summer, but not the uptick of Ask Clowns, 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.479 Google's jet Skiers, White Claw Shugars and Tito's Sluggers that 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.360 will be showing up at the ramp. I'm Joe, Sir 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:58.760 Melie A. Miles Nulty and uh it's it's a memorially 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:03.040 weekend mm hm, the unofficial the unofficial start of summer, 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.199 or or as I prefer to call it, three straight 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:09.600 months of amateur hour. That's that that's an apt description. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.039 I will say though, that I don't know. I have 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.400 mixed feelings about the holiday. Memorial Day weekend has changed 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:19.000 for me over time and with age. I'm sure it 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:25.000 probably has for you too. Yeah yeah, all right, sort 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.760 of before before we go do far down this road. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.319 Before I like start telling you my thoughts and associations, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.520 I gotta ask, are you is the whole purpose here? 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.640 Are you trying to set up like a nostalgic let's 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.200 wap stories about how great moral the weekend fishing used 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:40.680 to be back when we were single kind of deal? 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.200 Is that? Is that where you're going today? Well? Yeah, 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:50.720 that yes, that's yeah, back as you go first, okay, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.040 I mean yes, I was going to go back to 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.680 the before times as I call them, the pre kid 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.120 days and Memorial Day weekend. Back then that was my 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:03.280 striper nest weekend. Like I slept in the cutty cabin 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.120 a mild boat all weekend, which smelled like ass. I 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:07.920 mean it was. It was a terrible and it was 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.519 a toxic environment, but I mean, you don't care in 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.760 your twenty five and and and just had like a 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.160 revolving door of friends that would roll in and out 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.160 of the marina all weekend and we go just pound 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.320 the cows, and nowadays I just want to sit at 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.440 my in law's beach house, not deal with any of 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.359 the on the water madness, and just like drink gin 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.520 and tonics, perhaps a mohito. That's that's where I've That's 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.720 where I've gone. Uh, I guess I'm apologizing. I'm not 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.800 really apologizing. I'm just gonna say I can't. I can't 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.120 follow you. I can't go down this rose tinted memory 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.240 lane with you because I don't. I don't have it right. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.080 We we have in the past, like we've had segments before, 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.800 we swapped stories about single glory days, but but for 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.920 this one, I don't. I can't. I got none. I 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.200 associate this holiday with the end of fun and the 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.400 beginning of just work. Right because most of my adult life, 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.920 this weekend marked the official sort of NonStop guiding. It 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.600 meant that it meant that that was right, and and 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.760 that it meant the rivers We're gonna get crowded. The 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.959 fishing was just gonna steadily get worse, like from here 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.040 on out for the next few months, the fishing was 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.880 just gonna get poorer, and I was going to be 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.160 working basically every day until September, so I don't I 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.919 don't have the warm and fuzzies on this holiday. Uh. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.320 Whether or not I enjoyed my Memorial Days was was 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.040 usually dictated by the quantity of tips that I was 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.720 able to hustle, which is cynical and and kind of 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.880 shitty considering what this holiday is supposed to celebrate. But 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.240 I'm just being honest, that's the truth. Mhm, Well, that's 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:41.600 one way to completely ruin intro. I'm just completely Yet 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.680 you knew exactly where I was trying to take this, 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.960 and you I mean, I'm just gonna throw out there, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.720 in my opinion, my person, you could have played along. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.119 Now what killed you? To play a lot? I would 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.760 have been lying. That would have been do you want 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:55.600 me to lie to the people? Do you want to 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.280 tell them lies? I'm not gonna lie. No. But you 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.280 could have taken it like a more positive and you 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.520 could have been like, yeah, four, I was on the 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.880 water every day with my clients, driving all over the state, 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.840 chasing hatches, sleeping in trust. Those things are all technically true. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.080 I did those right, so you could have followed. You 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.560 could have followed the spirit of my intro, which would 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.680 have set me up to talk about how different last 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.600 year's holiday was, which I'm gonna do anyway despite your 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.080 unwillingness to follow, because like that's that I don't know 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.000 how to pivot. So I was gonna get into was 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.159 how last Memorial Day. Frankly, it was creepy, right because 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.120 we were in the thick of the pandemic and the 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.400 beach vibes were it was very strange, like like the 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.800 neighbors barely said hello. Everyone was really on guard. It 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.400 almost felt like you were breaking the rules by going 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.719 to the Jersey Shore that weekend. Um, And it was 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.320 a far cry from the usual party atmosphere you get 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:55.080 this weekend, which I think I expect that atmosphere to 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.240 be back this year just because of where we are 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.640 and how many people are vaccinated and so on. But 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.920 I will say, as creepy as it was last year, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.599 it also meant there weren't that many people around right, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.080 especially at night, because nothing was really open um, which man, 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.160 I had some really choice like high traffic striper spots 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.520 to myself and I pounded some fish around some of 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.040 the bridges down there. So, um, you know, I'm gonna 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.320 have my gear with me this weekend. I won't. I 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.720 won't go to the Beach Memorial the weekend without fishing gear. Um, 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.719 and we'll just say it depends what happens. I might. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.440 I might run a few late night ops covert ops. 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:34.240 If the tides the line, You're gonna do it. You 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.200 know you're gonna do it. And I bet last year 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.240 you got some weird looks if anybody saw you, because 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.799 I bet you were seeing as extra creepy, like sneaking 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.240 around at night when everybody else was hiding out. Nobody 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.440 saw me. I mean literally, it was late enough, it 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.360 was foggy and strange, and there there. I don't think 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.440 another car even drove over the bridge in the hours 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.320 I was out and I looked over that bridge. I 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.720 was like, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna go and 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:59.400 I'm gonna walk up on the bridge and I'm gonna 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.479 look down and if I see what I want, I 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.080 will stay. And I remember peeking over that bridge and 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.359 it was just a line of stripers in the shadow 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:08.920 line from one end of the bridge to the other. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:13.240 You know, Oh, I remember. I have a vague memory 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.080 of you like sending me photos and catching a bunch 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.560 of stripers around this right around this time last year. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.560 I remember that you're being like, get you. I don't 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:24.279 know what you said. You didn't say anything stupidly getting 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.000 on him. That's not what you would do. But you 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:33.160 just you sent me photos. You sent me photos showing 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.839 me evidence, and I was jealous. Uh, And I don't 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.120 want to further mess up. I realized I've been stepping 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:39.680 on your whole plan. I don't want to mess it 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.800 up any anymore. So I'm guessing this is where I'm 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.080 I'm supposed to ask you if you were pounding those 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:51.400 stripers with thirteen rods. Thank you you are, and I 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.760 was true story last mort of Day weekend was was 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.320 actually the first time I used their Omen Green Salt 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:02.240 Prototype X spinning reels. Those stripers, the aforementioned stripers I pounded, 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.520 Actually we're I'm not kidding. They were a trial run 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.880 of the thirteen gear I just got in my hands on. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.400 And since then, those very same sticks, right same exact gear, 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.240 have whipped a bunch more stripers Mahi and b side 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.160 bo Fens and so on. So those outfits, the exact 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.760 same ones, they are still kicking ass and taking names. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.680 Gotta say, I believe that I believe that because they 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.600 make really great stuff and we've established I'm I'm actually 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.800 I'm not actually all that excited about Moral Day, but 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.840 I am genuinely excited to say that bent is officially 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.320 brought to you by thirteen Fishing. Yes, we highly encourage, 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.000 highly encourage you to check out the fine selection of rods, reels, 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.960 and baits available at thirteen Fishing dot com. Use this weekend. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.000 It's an opportunity, right, use it. Get out on the 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.360 water and figure out what gear you're missing or or 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.040 what gear needs to be replaced. But I will say, 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.680 maybe don't be the guy rotting around with a bunch 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.280 of gear or maybe even a boat and trailer that 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:00.960 you have no idea how to use. There will be 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.480 plenty of that happening this weekend already. Oh yeah, No, 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.120 you're right about that. I've always looked at it like, um, 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.960 it's like an unwritten rule that inept voters and anglers. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.840 It's almost like they cannot partake in these activities until 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.880 Memorial Day weekend. I mean more support for why I 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.320 dislike it. I'm just saying I know, but it's like 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:23.000 the weekend before Memorial Days. It's one week right, and 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.480 it might be just as beautiful a May weekend as 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.440 Memorial Day will be. But in my experience there are 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.840 are are fifty to seventy less mooks. It has to 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.800 be Memorial Day to bring them out. This is this 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.480 is the season when the Qualified Captain is about to 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:42.720 get a whole lot more content. Oh wow? Was that 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.840 a social media A social media reference from Miles Nulty 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.000 and gentlemen? Good for people? I will admit I am 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.720 all in on the qualified Captain page. Oh yeah, not 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.640 not to mention, not to mention a couple of shout outs, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.319 not to be outdone, Jerry of the day and Kuk slams. 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.400 I may not know anything about social media habits or algorithms, 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.360 but I do know that watching other people make fools 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.920 of themselves is highly entertaining for everyone, because we all 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.360 love feeling superior. It's basically, you know what it is. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.400 It's the modern version of America's Funniest Home Videos. Oh yeah, dude, 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.080 and that shows still on and now all they do 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.719 is grab stuff off social media. Like nobody sends the 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.679 vhsame because they don't exist anyway. But you know you're right. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.400 Fails drive views, um, and that's just as true for 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.400 phishing content as dad's like getting hit in the nuts 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.200 by their kids. You know, um, And what you you 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:36.679 probably don't know is that TikTok is the platform for 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:41.439 posting viral fishing fails. I am aware that this exists. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.520 I have heard it brought up in meetings. Uh, and 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.000 I'm sure everyone will be shocked and horrified to learn 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:49.880 that I've never been on tick. You've got you, You've 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.880 got the TikTok. Dolci a. I'm not on there either. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.319 I'm not on TikTok either, But do you know who 0:09:55.440 --> 0:10:00.600 is on TikTok? Sadly? I do? Hell yeah, you do. Buckling, 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.319 freshen up your axe bodies, pray, grab a monster tropical thunder, 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.240 and absorb the wisdom of Lance V. Here comes trolling 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:13.520 with Lance to the land, to the boats, to the lake, 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.679 to the sea, being up then on nets, but your 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:23.840 boy lands V. What's up, skid marks? It's me. The 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.600 Internet's most winning is fishing guru slash celebrities slash personal trainer. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.120 Lance V back again to help your pathetic social media 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.800 efforts take above slightly mediocre. Oh and for all the 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.000 haters hoping I was done on the stumpster fire of 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.600 a podcast. Sorry not sorry. Miles and Joe are still 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.520 stroking me checks among other things they've been stroking lately 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:49.120 hashtag I stroke you choke anyway. This week we have 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.760 a question from thirteen year old Helmet W who writes 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.839 dear Lance. I've been having a really hard time getting 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.319 anyone to pay attention to my parlor, Tumbler and Vibra accounts. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.280 I think it's time I tried to talk any advice 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.720 for getting your fishing videos noticed on this platform. Great question, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.319 how though, And you're in luck because TikTok has a 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.160 cheat code. You ready, little buddy, Here's the secret campones 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:32.320 oh no, Hello No, matter what the you post on TikTok, 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.560 that ship will turn to instant gold if you said 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.560 it to oh no by capone hashtag take it to 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.679 the bank. Visionary anglers have been using compons oh no 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.240 to accentuate their fails and rack up views for months now. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.320 Just recently, at Big Water Fishing used in the video 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.600 of himself and properly fighting a walleye through the ice 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.560 while sitting next to his shovel, and at Muscle Milk 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.360 Daddy used it to highlight what happens when you use 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.679 budget lip grippers on a big both in side note, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.280 Muscle Milk Daddy might be the only listener to this 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.040 stupid show who has any real potential. But when most 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.680 people use a song, I just have to say, because 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.439 they don't use all the muscle milk at packs to 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.000 enhance their weak content. The truth is Hamilton's I don't 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.040 ever fail at fishing, but you and everyone else listen 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.640 to this lame podcast does, so. I suggest you harns 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.680 the power of oh No, squeeze every last drop of 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.720 its potency, and slather it all over the many videos 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.600 of you failing. Here's what I mean. You shoot a 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.480 video about your favorite passlord because that's what real g 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.000 influencers do, except on like us, you don't row pugs. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.520 You just rinse that barkain basement spinner bait that you 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.880 stole from your grandpa and talk about how much better 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:44.600 the fishing was yesterday. So you shoot a video about 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.360 your new kayak, except everyone knows it's from Costco and 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:48.880 you won't make a thirty feet for the bank at 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.679 the County Park pond before you flip it. You try 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.080 to boost your steeds with a commenter giveaway, except all 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:56.880 you've got to sweeten the pot is a half use 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.160 pack of pink Lizards and the beer Cusy you got 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:04.280 free with your last purchase of Fresh Scuy. So you see, Helen, 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.440 TikTok is the only platform that less losers like you 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.120 rise to the top because their algorithm is based solely 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.720 around the use of compounds. Oh no, of course Internet 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.280 Wizard's like me and the Coogan Squad. No, that algorithm 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.720 will eventually change. And since we know people on the 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.959 inside of TikTok, trust me when I say you want 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.400 to share from oh No to this in six to 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:37.439 eight months topic. That just confirmed every negative assumption I 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:42.160 have about TikTok. So we're good. I had no, I 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.480 didn't have any plans inside of it. Let's not pretendingly 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.360 I was. I was just about to get on until 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:48.800 I heard that I wasn't. But uh, but if the 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.560 trick to the whole thing is just, you know, set 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:56.800 shitty videos to shitty music, I'm definitely out me too. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:01.000 I think it's funny, man. I consider mysel the door open. 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.880 I can't in this day and age, you can't just 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.199 close it out completely. I'm probably gonna eat some of 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.880 the words I'm about to say. But I consider myself 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:14.360 fairly up on social media platforms, right. But much like Snapchat, 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.720 TikTok is another one where you bring it up and 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.920 I just go full old man mode. I'm like, I 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.000 don't understand this, And I'm a Facebook like Aunt Florence, 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.640 Like it's like my mom printing web pages to show 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.000 me things because sending a link doesn't compute, and she's 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.680 like I saw this thing on bed, Bath and beyond. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.840 I'm like, why did you waste thinking paper? Mom, I'm 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.480 sending me a link. Anyway. That's how I feel about TikTok, Like, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.680 what's what's different or better than posting a short video 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:44.440 on Instagram? Look, don't answer people like I'm not. I'm 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.880 not looking to be schooled. Don't school me. It's fine. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.200 I will get on TikTok, like just when it's going 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:50.840 out of style. It'll be like, like, you know, like 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.600 I did with Instagram. People like, ah, sermerely got on TikTok. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.080 We're already way past that. We're doing this now. You know. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.280 Maybe I will not eat these words. I'm not gonna try. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.920 I cannot I cannot envision a future where I'm like TikTok. Yeah, 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.920 I'm really into this. Uh and and I will say 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.720 that the past few minutes it didn't make me want 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.400 to go on TikTok, but it did make me want 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.000 to just go down into my basement and and listen 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:18.560 to Vinyl and read a hardcover book and drink something 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.280 very strong. Right, So so let's get away from this. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.760 Let's do let's do it. That's my bar and and 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.400 some for all you remember, this is the recurring segment 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.520 where you, the listeners, you hit us up and nominate 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.080 your favorite fishing bars. And we're doing God's work here, 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:41.080 people are I don't think people realize the significance of 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.720 this segment. We are compiling the world's greatest database of 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.240 places to drink after you get off the water. All right, Yeah, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.440 that's that's all you people drinking right now. Pay attention. Oay. 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.160 And this particular one might come in handy if you 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.760 have to be in Connecticut and you're trying to avoid 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.360 the inevitable circus that's happening on the water. Best God 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.160 damn bar tender from Tim buck to to Portland, Maine. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.640 The Portland argument for that matter. Okay, so today on 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:16.000 that's my bar. We are not we are not going 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:20.800 to Wisconsin. Can you believe it? Their first time? For everything? 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.000 I can't. I can't really believe it. And before we continue, 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.920 although we're not going to Scannie today, Land Lakes continues 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:33.560 to reign supreme as the undisputed worldwide champ of fishing bars, 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.800 at least according to this show. It absolutely that said. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.680 All that said, today we're featuring a state that I've 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.120 actually never set foot in much less I've no, I've 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.560 never been there. I'm guessing I'm guessing you have, and 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.520 that you're familiar with this area, but I've never been. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.080 I've never been to Connecticut. Yeah, no, I have been. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.240 I've I've spent some time in Connecticut, the a little 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.480 fishing up there, though somehow I missed, uh, this particular bar. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.120 So today's submission comes to us from Steve Farley, and 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.760 ironically what resonated with me most were some sort of 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:09.040 like peripheral comments that aren't even about this bar, just 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:15.680 good bars in general. Just understands. Yes, completely, Well, you'll 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.520 see what we mean. So let's get into it here. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.280 Steve writes, Alright, fellas I've been holding off on my 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:26.240 bar recommendation because I recently relocated the northeast Pennsylvania from Connecticut, 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:31.800 and bringing this gem up brings back some old memories. Anyways, 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.719 here we go. The Black Duck Cafe was first recommended 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:37.960 to me by some new friends I met when I 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.560 moved from Buffalo, New York to Norwalk, Connecticut. I told 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.280 my friends I had only one condition for a bar, 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.080 it has to be a dive I also happened to 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.320 love fishing, which they found out over time. Alas the 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:54.840 Black Duck Cafe pulling into the pulling into the gravel 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.199 parking lot set the scene for something I knew I 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:01.040 would enjoy, because, let's face it, no one has ever 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.800 gone to a dive bar that doesn't have a gravel 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.880 parking lot or a pothole city, as US East Coasters 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.680 refer to it. So there's the first comment. I had 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.800 never thought about it, right, But Steve is very correct. 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.200 Every good ship hole dive bar has a gravel parking lot, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.879 right Like think about Swayzy was not whooping ass in 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:28.360 roadhouse on the ass fought outside the Hooters. Johnny Cash 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.399 was not kicking in a fighting in the mud and 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.840 blood and the beer on the pavement outside of Hula Hands. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:38.400 So Steve nailed that part. Yeah, I'd call that accurate. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.160 I would say that your point is valid and and 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.880 the Suaves and Cash references are not lost. I mean, 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.000 thank you for those, But and I have I definitely 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.679 have many favorite dive bars with gravel lots, but I 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.359 also have a few with hard pan lots. So I 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.720 think in general I agree, but not entirely. The other thing, 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.720 the other thing that Steve brought into this without meaning 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.440 to that I gotta point out is is noticed how 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.600 he talked about bringing up this gem brought back old memories. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.040 And another part of this segment and why we love 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:12.200 it is because we have these deep connections to our 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.040 favorite bars, even if we haven't been there a long time, 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:15.880 and getting to just think about them and reminisce about 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.080 and talk about them. It's fun to have that bar 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.200 and and and and Steve hit on that. I don't 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.320 even know if he was aware of it. So anyway, 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.280 I'm gonna continue on with what with with with Steve's 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.040 email here, Steve says the Black Duck is located on 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:37.159 the Saga Tuck River, or should I say in because 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:41.320 the bar is literally an old barge tavern from eighteen 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:45.960 forty that is sinking into the river, and Steve sent photos. 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.679 Yeah yeah, it does quite literally appear to be sinking 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:55.560 and could potentially collapse into the river. Yet yeah you 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.440 got If you see the photos, you'll be like, oh, yeah, 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:02.000 that that doesn't look stable and oddly in of I 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.359 think I am I I think this is the first 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:11.040 bar we've featured that's actually a boat out there. Yeah, 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:12.840 and it's weird that it took us this long to 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:16.600 get to one. But anyway, back to Steve, he says, 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.600 so if that wasn't enough to get you excited, the 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:24.000 bar also features old fishing caps, painted buoy's and lures 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:29.520 so fake it hurts, and a miniature boat above the 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.280 main bar, suspended by chains, as if walking into a 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.280 place that is at a degree angle toward the water 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.640 and might also sink at any minute wasn't enough. Now 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:45.520 you've got a boat questionably dangling above your head. Great fun. Yeah, yeah, 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:47.840 So based on Steve's photos, the whole place it just 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.800 looks unstable like it's it's a it's a charious I 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.520 would describe it as carrious. It's good word. It's a 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:55.560 good word. It's a I would also say it's like 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.280 a it's just a giant lawsuit waiting to happen. But 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.000 I looked up the Black Duck and their menu and 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.320 fun fact, while you're waiting for it to cave in 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.760 and possibly send you to a watery, muddy, gray blow, 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.520 you can enjoy the Davy Jones burger, which is topped 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.680 with as that this is from the menu, hot buttery 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:19.440 lobster meat. And that's that's how I want to go out. 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.399 I've said this for years. I want to die eating 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:27.920 a burger with lobster on it. So so that's that's good. Um. 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.960 And here's the last thing Steve wrote, which I love. Right, 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.920 He says, oddly enough, the one thing I appreciate most 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:39.240 about the Duck is the hinds ketchup in the glass bottles, 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:43.120 because that ship just taste better. Joe, you know this, 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:47.439 having undoubtedly been in some real New Jersey diners. He 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:50.640 could not be more correct. It is. It's rare. It's 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:54.119 very rare these days to find a place that uses 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:58.680 old school glass catchup bottles, or better yet, better yet right, 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.240 find a place that not only uses them, but refills 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:07.359 them because everything is just so freaking squeezeable and disposable 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:09.280 these days. Like if you gave if you gave my 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:11.720 kids a glass catchup bottle, they like they wouldn't know 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:14.199 how to get the catchup out the proper the proper 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:18.040 shake and tap technique is lost on their generation. Like 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.800 these kids wouldn't even know that sometimes you got to 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:23.080 start it with a butter knife. Thank you for that, 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.040 but hold on, hold on, the butter knife is only 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.000 for kids. I would say, that's a rooky move. You 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:31.280 gotta you know that, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:33.800 tap the Hinds logo with the heel of your hand 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.320 and hold the bottle at just the right angle. That's 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:39.840 that's the way you gotta do it. And and that 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:42.919 that's a nearly useless hot tip, unless unless you're head 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:44.600 to the Black Duck for a beer burger and a shot. 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:46.959 So I don't know where else you're gonna use those, 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:50.320 because I haven't seen glass catchup bottles and ages. Steve, 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:54.160 We really appreciate the submission so very much, and hopefully 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:56.520 Joe or I will get to the Duck before it's 0:22:56.560 --> 0:23:00.000 completely reclaimed by the river. If you. Yeah, I'm talking 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:01.840 to you out there. If you've got a fishy bar 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:05.400 that you think should be featured on this show, let 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:09.600 us know. Send an email singing its praises and uh 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:12.560 and be compelling. Send it to Bent at the meat 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:17.440 eater dot com. I wonder if anyone has ever fished 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:22.000 off off the black Duck barge while drinking. That's a 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.360 good question. I mean, like, that's like, what's it um Seattle, 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:27.560 Seattle Hotel where you can fish out the window. You 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.560 know I'm talking about. It's the famous thing led Zeppelin, 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:35.600 did it? Like I do that? Yeah, A little soak, 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:38.520 a little brew. Yeah, you should do that. You should. 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:40.720 I think this is a this is an important question 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:42.760 needs to be answered. There's only one way to do it, 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:46.600 and that's with you know, on the ground, true investigative research. 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:48.960 You should go there and you should do that, and 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:52.000 you should film it and then put it on TikTok. 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:55.439 And while you're doing video there you go won't we 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:57.800 won't do very well. And while you're doing that, I'll 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:00.720 be I'll be over here or actually, you know, I'll 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:03.399 still be sitting in my basement listening to vinyl and 0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:07.040 drinking and and and trying to dig up some valuable, 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:10.600 useful content for the current events competition we sometimes like 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:19.879 to call fish news. Fish news escalated quickly before we 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:24.040 hit fish news quick little housekeeping. Uh while back I 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:28.760 reported on the the big lake surgeon. I'm having a 0:24:28.760 --> 0:24:31.560 bunch of crushings on this story that I apparently screwed 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:33.359 up because I've already corrected the story once. But the 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:36.800 two pound lake sturgeon that got caught Detroit River, I 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:38.760 already have admitted that I was wrong about how it 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:41.520 was caught. A lot of people also seem to get 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:44.000 angry with or take issue with the way that we 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:47.720 framed the Detroit River as having once been a toxic wasteline, 0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:50.199 which it was. To be fair to us, it was 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:53.040 once that, but just to clear it all up so 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:55.800 that we're not, you know, shipping on your favorite river, 0:24:55.880 --> 0:24:58.199 it is a shiny example of what happens when we 0:24:58.240 --> 0:25:00.000 clean up our waterways. Because the Troit River is actual 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:02.760 in great shape now, it's great fishing. So I apologize 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:04.800 to all of you out there who got offended if 0:25:04.800 --> 0:25:07.320 you thought we were talking smack about your favorite river. 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:10.720 We know it's good now, but legitimately it used to 0:25:10.800 --> 0:25:13.240 be disgusting. It's just not any yeah. Yeah, And I 0:25:13.560 --> 0:25:15.760 feel that personally because I'll just say that one time 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:18.679 I took like a joking shot at at Detroit Proper 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:22.399 and learned quickly like people, there's Detroit Pride, and I 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:24.359 heard about it and I felt bad about it, and 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:29.119 I'm sorry about doing that back in the day. So yeah, exactly, 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:33.359 So Detroit, it's all good. Uh, we apologize. What we'd 0:25:33.359 --> 0:25:34.880 like to do is take you out for a cup 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:37.679 of coffee to make up for this. And if we 0:25:37.680 --> 0:25:39.600 were going to do that, we would take you to 0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:43.960 King Koi Coffee Garden in Vietnam. You get the plane tickets, 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:47.880 we get the coffee. It's just a quick shout out 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:51.240 for everyone that is written into alert ust to King 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:57.480 Chy Coffee in Vietnam. This is worth. It's it's tremendous. 0:25:57.520 --> 0:26:03.359 This is worth looking up the pots it is. It's 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:06.520 mostly made of water. There's koi swimming and all of it, 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:10.639 and it's just like ki Wonderland, Like there's like little 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:14.480 peninsulas that go out to a couch for your coffee 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:16.720 and you just sit there and you're just surrounded by koi, 0:26:16.800 --> 0:26:20.800 like you're sitting below the waterline to like you're down 0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:24.679 in it with the Koi having your coffee. This I 0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:27.919 can see, I can see King Koi Coffee Las Vegas happening. 0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:30.200 Doesn't it seem like something that like Vegas would be 0:26:30.240 --> 0:26:34.080 all about. Um? But yeah, we've we've dabbled in Koi 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:37.760 stories and things, so we do. We do appreciate the 0:26:37.840 --> 0:26:40.040 not to King Koi Coffee in Vietnam if we ever 0:26:40.080 --> 0:26:42.639 get there. We promised to record an entire episode live 0:26:42.840 --> 0:26:45.439 from the floor at King Koi Coffee. But look it up. 0:26:45.640 --> 0:26:47.280 I hope, I hope one day that's in our budget 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:49.520 that we can fly to Vietnam and looking up from 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:52.600 King cooking up. So thanks for all that. Keep those coming. 0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:56.760 We really enjoy those, everybody, And U reminder, this is 0:26:56.760 --> 0:26:59.879 a competition. Joe and I do not know what's the 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:02.199 where is the other one that's found somewhere in the 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:05.080 recesses of the Internet. And at the end of it, 0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:10.879 Phil the engineer, the engine and Phil the on the 0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:14.240 one and only, the one and only the decider will 0:27:14.320 --> 0:27:16.800 be picking a winner as the which one of us 0:27:17.160 --> 0:27:21.199 gets to emerge feeling the glory and the light of 0:27:21.200 --> 0:27:23.119 Phil shining upon us. And which one of us is 0:27:23.160 --> 0:27:26.800 just going to cry glory, the glory of love as 0:27:26.960 --> 0:27:31.919 just like Peter Ster. Alright, you're up first man. What 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:35.440 do you got Yeah, Okay, So you just talked last 0:27:35.480 --> 0:27:39.080 week about the mass speck pen, right, which quickly identifies 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:42.879 the fish species when you simply touched this pen uh 0:27:43.040 --> 0:27:45.960 to the Filet's right. And this, of course is to 0:27:46.200 --> 0:27:48.800 thwart fraud in the seafood industry. So I have a 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:53.800 story about another tool aimed at thwarting corruption and illegal fishing. 0:27:54.160 --> 0:27:58.160 This one is much less technological than the mass speck pen, 0:27:58.240 --> 0:28:02.360 but cool nonetheless. So I have always been intrigued with 0:28:02.520 --> 0:28:05.520 three D printing, right since it became a thing, always 0:28:05.520 --> 0:28:09.080 fascinated by by how it's applied to fishing. Is a 0:28:09.119 --> 0:28:13.240 good specifically Okay, right, I'm happy, you're happy, But I've 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:16.760 always been interested in how it's applied to to fishing, 0:28:17.000 --> 0:28:19.639 and so far, I gotta tell you I'm not overly impressed, right, Like, 0:28:19.680 --> 0:28:22.720 I'm not saying there isn't some cool fish related three 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:25.160 D printed ship out there, but for the most part, 0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:27.959 like I've noticed with lures, you see stuff made with 0:28:28.040 --> 0:28:32.000 you know, consumer grade three D printers and it's like, yeah, okay, 0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:35.280 And like I I've I have trust issues with the plastic, right, 0:28:35.359 --> 0:28:37.000 I don't. I like, I don't. I don't fee it 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:40.440 doesn't feel strong. I don't think the consumer level stuff 0:28:40.480 --> 0:28:42.160 is very strong. And I even have like a couple 0:28:42.160 --> 0:28:44.920 of three D printed fly reels, And while I appreciate 0:28:45.000 --> 0:28:47.640 the design and work that went into that, from cad 0:28:47.760 --> 0:28:50.640 drawing to finished product, I'm like as as functional, but 0:28:50.640 --> 0:28:53.000 it's still kind of a novelty, Like I'm not opting 0:28:53.680 --> 0:28:56.360 into the three D printed reel over a normal real Well, 0:28:56.360 --> 0:28:58.280 and we did a whole sale been on the three 0:28:58.360 --> 0:29:01.040 D printed lures that look terrible because when we just 0:29:01.040 --> 0:29:03.760 made fun of them. No, actually we flagged one, but 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:05.360 we didn't do it because then we found out it 0:29:05.400 --> 0:29:07.240 was a young child making them, and we were like, 0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:09.360 oh we better not. Oh we didn't. I thought we 0:29:09.360 --> 0:29:12.520 were sorry, Kate, if you're listening now, we were gonna 0:29:12.720 --> 0:29:15.320 they were gonna crucify you, and then we just kind 0:29:15.320 --> 0:29:18.440 of did anyway. But yeah, it was all fun and games. 0:29:18.440 --> 0:29:20.760 So I was like, yo, bro, he's a leavin, so 0:29:21.000 --> 0:29:25.680 let's not look like terrible people anyway. Anyway. So look, 0:29:25.840 --> 0:29:28.240 so here's a great example of how three D printing 0:29:28.320 --> 0:29:30.920 is being used in a fishy way that is not 0:29:31.120 --> 0:29:34.320 a novelty. And this comes from New Zealand's Times Live. 0:29:34.800 --> 0:29:36.840 And we all know that one of the biggest threats 0:29:36.840 --> 0:29:40.840 to sharks globally is shark finning. And no, we are 0:29:40.920 --> 0:29:44.400 not replacing the shark fins with three D printed fins 0:29:44.440 --> 0:29:47.239 like that Annaka dolphin that lost its tail. Okay, So 0:29:48.000 --> 0:29:53.280 global assessments estimate that between twenty six million and seventy 0:29:53.280 --> 0:29:56.960 three million sharks are traded each year, but they estimate 0:29:57.000 --> 0:30:00.200 that the actual figure is likely to be far higher. Now, 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:04.080 these sharks are cotton nets finned and their bodies are dumped, 0:30:04.120 --> 0:30:05.720 and this happens a lot over in Asia, a lot 0:30:05.800 --> 0:30:10.000 of different countries. Dried shark fins fetch huge money. Right, 0:30:10.040 --> 0:30:12.000 They're supposed to be an aphrodisiac and I have all 0:30:12.040 --> 0:30:14.880 kinds of other health benefits. They make soup out of them. 0:30:15.040 --> 0:30:17.240 He actually recently talked about that great piece our buddy 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:21.240 river Horse wrote that covered or touched on shark fitting 0:30:21.440 --> 0:30:24.960 here in the States. Right, So this this happens legally 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:28.720 here too. Now, in most countries, shark fitting is very illegal, 0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:31.320 those some do allow it, but there's rules, like they 0:30:31.320 --> 0:30:34.320 insist that you know, theoretically the whole shark is supposed 0:30:34.320 --> 0:30:37.240 to be brought back and finned on land, which allows 0:30:37.520 --> 0:30:41.080 the proper authorities to properly i d the fish. Bringing 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:43.320 the whole shark back also means a boat off shore 0:30:44.080 --> 0:30:46.959 theoretically can't kill as many sharks because when you have 0:30:47.000 --> 0:30:50.080 the whole shark taking up you know, hold space, it 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:52.840 just they just take up more room. Um. You're also 0:30:52.840 --> 0:30:56.120 only supposed to target approved sharks, uh those that aren't 0:30:56.120 --> 0:30:59.400 protected or in endangered. But regardless, shark fins are are 0:30:59.400 --> 0:31:02.240 still in just such high demand that the practices rampant 0:31:02.280 --> 0:31:04.960 illegally all over the world. And in order to even 0:31:05.000 --> 0:31:07.600 try to nail people doing this illegally, first you have 0:31:07.640 --> 0:31:11.680 to be able to identify the fish by finn only 0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:14.280 similar to how we're trying to identify fake phil as 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:17.280 with the with the masspect um. If you can't prove 0:31:17.320 --> 0:31:18.840 that the finn is from a shark, you're not supposed 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:20.960 to harvest. It makes it difficult to follow through on 0:31:21.120 --> 0:31:26.240 repercussions and making a case. So the nonprofit organization Traffic, 0:31:26.520 --> 0:31:29.440 which keeps an eye on stuff like shark Finning wanted 0:31:29.480 --> 0:31:31.320 to do something to help, and they worked with the 0:31:31.440 --> 0:31:35.760 South African Department of Forestreet, Fisheries and Environment. They also 0:31:35.840 --> 0:31:39.320 worked with US shark expert Deborrah Abercrombie and they also 0:31:39.360 --> 0:31:42.760 got input from from several committed South African based service 0:31:42.760 --> 0:31:47.000 providers to create a set of ultra realistic three D 0:31:47.120 --> 0:31:52.000 printed shark fins that can be used by frontline enforcement 0:31:52.080 --> 0:31:56.320 agents as an i D guide. And they did this 0:31:56.880 --> 0:31:59.719 by first collecting real dried shark fins that have been 0:31:59.720 --> 0:32:02.040 comp scated during busts all over the world, and these 0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:06.520 included fins of eleven of the most commonly traded species. 0:32:07.360 --> 0:32:11.160 Great hammerhead is one of them, Oceanic white tip silky sharks, 0:32:11.600 --> 0:32:15.240 and they they laser scan all these fins and part 0:32:15.240 --> 0:32:17.680 of the story they use nylon as the primary material 0:32:18.160 --> 0:32:20.760 and the printing process they use gives the fins us 0:32:20.800 --> 0:32:24.600 like a slightly rough sand paper texture, similar to real 0:32:24.760 --> 0:32:28.000 dried shark fins found in the trade, and the story says, 0:32:28.280 --> 0:32:31.520 once these fins are are painted up right, you'd be 0:32:31.720 --> 0:32:34.560 hard pressed to tell the difference between a real dried 0:32:34.600 --> 0:32:38.880 shark fin and the fake fin. So currently there are 0:32:39.080 --> 0:32:44.000 three D scan files and associated painting instructions available for 0:32:44.120 --> 0:32:48.680 twenty two fins for free on the Traffic website as 0:32:48.720 --> 0:32:52.200 part of the organization's ongoing effort to combat the illegal trade. 0:32:52.240 --> 0:32:55.920 So any enforcement agency that deals with shark finning the 0:32:55.920 --> 0:33:00.560 world over anywhere can download all those files for and 0:33:00.680 --> 0:33:04.360 all the paint instructions and basically create a set of 0:33:04.400 --> 0:33:07.480 these fins that they can take with them and use 0:33:07.680 --> 0:33:12.600 in the field for quick I D. So we're just 0:33:12.680 --> 0:33:14.760 using some three D printing here, but I mean talk 0:33:14.800 --> 0:33:16.760 about using that in a in a way that has 0:33:17.480 --> 0:33:20.440 or can have significant impact. Right away, I thought that 0:33:20.480 --> 0:33:22.760 was really cool. I think that's cooler than three D 0:33:22.800 --> 0:33:26.000 printed fly reel. Sorry, no, you're You're absolutely right on 0:33:26.040 --> 0:33:28.160 so many levels. I saw this story. I'm really glad 0:33:28.320 --> 0:33:31.400 you took it because because I didn't otherwise, we we 0:33:31.440 --> 0:33:33.840 almost crossed over. We came very close. Two weeks in 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:36.280 a row, we've almost crossed almost almost but but not. 0:33:36.480 --> 0:33:40.840 I'm I'm appreciating that. And look, we I think everybody 0:33:40.960 --> 0:33:46.600 is aware that the massive depredation of sharks in the 0:33:46.640 --> 0:33:48.880 world is a problem for our aquatic existence and it's 0:33:48.920 --> 0:33:51.920 messing up our fisheries. Uh So anything we can do 0:33:51.960 --> 0:33:53.640 to get ahead of this. I'm all for it, and 0:33:54.360 --> 0:33:56.720 I think there's gonna be some challenges with us first 0:33:56.720 --> 0:33:59.960 getting them everywhere and then get them in use. But dude, 0:34:00.040 --> 0:34:04.280 like I said, anything anything that that helps in regulatory 0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:09.120 agencies cracked down on a illegal shark sales, I'm in sport. 0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:11.879 I mean, I have more questions. Like I I put 0:34:12.000 --> 0:34:14.399 faith in the research that like these are the right 0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:17.359 tools for the job, but I also wonder, like, man, 0:34:17.400 --> 0:34:20.600 can you make one fin or a fin or two 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:23.399 represents you know, that's representing all these different species and 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:27.920 do they really look that different? I'm just curious. I'm 0:34:27.920 --> 0:34:32.200 just asking does it does having that there, does it 0:34:32.239 --> 0:34:34.680 allow you to say for sure, oh no, that's definitely 0:34:35.239 --> 0:34:39.520 a great fan or yeah, exactly so. Um. But they 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:41.799 seem really confident that that this is going to be 0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:47.200 just instrumental in in in helping solve this problem, because 0:34:47.880 --> 0:34:50.879 as I understand it, it's only getting worse, Like they're 0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:55.640 more and more sharks every single year, and it's it's, 0:34:56.239 --> 0:34:58.440 as I as I understand it, one of the toughest 0:34:58.760 --> 0:35:02.640 sort of infractions in illegal seafood trade. To crack down 0:35:02.640 --> 0:35:07.279 on three D printing. I hope that goes well, I 0:35:07.280 --> 0:35:09.160 really do. I hope that anything, like I said, anything 0:35:09.160 --> 0:35:11.080 we can do and I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with 0:35:11.160 --> 0:35:16.120 technology and fish. But I'm going in the complete opposite direction. 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:20.319 Whereas you looked at a new technology that may have 0:35:20.520 --> 0:35:25.400 massive benefit to sharks and fisheries and humans, I'm looking 0:35:25.440 --> 0:35:28.680 at something that's completely useless and uh, we'll all be 0:35:28.800 --> 0:35:31.040 dumber for having heard about it. Oh, I love it. 0:35:31.080 --> 0:35:33.319 This sounds like a me story. Yeah it is. This 0:35:33.400 --> 0:35:36.120 is I channeled you for this. Uh, it's gonna be 0:35:36.160 --> 0:35:37.920 short because there's not that much to say. But it's 0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:42.080 so it's just so ridiculous. I had to do it. So. Supposedly, 0:35:42.360 --> 0:35:44.879 a company in Japan will soon be releasing something called 0:35:44.920 --> 0:35:50.400 the cat Sugyo Bag, which is a handbag designed to 0:35:50.440 --> 0:35:54.880 carry live fish. The company announced, you did it, You 0:35:54.920 --> 0:35:59.120 went for it. Great. The company announced the product a 0:35:59.120 --> 0:36:01.880 few weeks ago, but they were really prepared for the 0:36:01.960 --> 0:36:05.480 level of interest that it was going to generate. Within days, 0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:08.560 the fish bag got written up on sites all across 0:36:08.560 --> 0:36:11.560 the internet. Uh, some of which were like high fashion 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:16.480 blogs who incorrectly reported that the purpose of this item 0:36:16.840 --> 0:36:20.040 was to allow ornamental fish owners to take their finn 0:36:20.160 --> 0:36:23.120 pets out for a walk. That is not what it's 0:36:23.160 --> 0:36:26.520 for at all. Continue on. Could not be more wrong. 0:36:27.520 --> 0:36:30.680 As you know, the story kind of blew up, you know, 0:36:30.760 --> 0:36:35.440 with with websites like luxury Launches dot com proclaiming that 0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:38.840 the new innovation caters to the wishes of fish parents 0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:42.600 with a quirky container like bag for live fish designed 0:36:42.600 --> 0:36:46.920 as a more stylish, efficient, and environmentally friendly alternative to 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:51.800 the traditional water filled plastic bag. Who are these people? 0:36:52.800 --> 0:36:56.680 Nothing about this is helping fish? Really, I I got 0:36:57.680 --> 0:37:00.360 so I've got a new low for myself. If this 0:37:00.440 --> 0:37:02.520 ever happens, I know that I have bottomed out. If 0:37:02.560 --> 0:37:06.360 I ever become a writer for Luxury Launches dot com, 0:37:06.400 --> 0:37:10.400 I have officially failed at life, that's for sure. I 0:37:10.400 --> 0:37:13.560 don't know that. And of course, just so you know. 0:37:14.719 --> 0:37:17.840 Of course, soon after that happened, other websites who like 0:37:17.880 --> 0:37:20.200 to make fun of ridiculous crap for sale picked up 0:37:20.200 --> 0:37:23.239 on the story, like said and Useless dot com, which 0:37:23.280 --> 0:37:26.400 calls itself the most depressive humor side on the Internet. 0:37:27.440 --> 0:37:30.600 The product, which it looks like it should be a 0:37:30.600 --> 0:37:33.680 prop from the life aquatic, Like I feel like someone 0:37:33.760 --> 0:37:36.359 stole it off the set of the Life of Quads. Yes, 0:37:36.520 --> 0:37:39.120 it's a it's a it's a handheld clear cylinder. It's 0:37:39.120 --> 0:37:42.200 got it's got a little carry handle on the top, 0:37:42.480 --> 0:37:45.000 clear cylinder with caps on each end and feet on 0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:48.120 the bottom, and this pressure gauge that looks like it 0:37:48.200 --> 0:37:51.440 came from an old timey Scooba suit sticking up off 0:37:51.440 --> 0:37:55.000 the top, old iron along or something. Yeah. M A 0:37:55.120 --> 0:37:59.360 Corporation who made this put up a few photos in 0:37:59.400 --> 0:38:02.319 an Instagram post a couple of weeks ago, clearly not 0:38:02.440 --> 0:38:04.880 knowing what they were getting into, which makes sense because 0:38:05.200 --> 0:38:07.839 m A Corps is actually in the business of making 0:38:07.840 --> 0:38:11.279 surgical equipment and this was their first foray into the 0:38:11.320 --> 0:38:15.960 world of stupid viral product development. The post was inundated 0:38:16.000 --> 0:38:18.439 with comments from people wondering where they could buy one 0:38:18.520 --> 0:38:21.680 to walk their pit fish and how much they would cost, 0:38:22.239 --> 0:38:25.600 as well as the expected Hecklers controls. The actual product 0:38:25.680 --> 0:38:28.799 is still in development, no models actually exist right now, 0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:31.920 but within days m A Corps took down the post 0:38:32.960 --> 0:38:34.640 even though because because it just got out of control. 0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:36.640 But you can still find the photos all over the 0:38:36.680 --> 0:38:40.280 internet and they show a host of different photoshopped fish 0:38:40.680 --> 0:38:43.800 riding around in the Cartsugio bag. If you look closely, 0:38:44.160 --> 0:38:46.000 first of all, you can tell the fish photoshop, and 0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:48.359 you'll also notice that the little pressure gauge on top 0:38:48.400 --> 0:38:51.280 read zero in every single photo, so it's it's clearly 0:38:51.320 --> 0:38:55.080 not actually working. The m A Corporation first tried to 0:38:55.080 --> 0:38:57.480 respond to all this insanity, explained the bag is not 0:38:57.560 --> 0:39:01.200 intended for pet owners. The idea to allow fish consumers 0:39:01.200 --> 0:39:07.000 to transport live food fish that they purchased or caught 0:39:07.760 --> 0:39:12.759 before consuming them, therefore ensuring maximum freshness. And I could 0:39:12.960 --> 0:39:18.479 in the damn tun Katsue person, it's gonna die. I'm 0:39:18.520 --> 0:39:21.040 not there to be walked like a chihuahua. I'm gonna die. 0:39:22.520 --> 0:39:25.439 I don't know what's more. I don't, dude, I don't 0:39:25.440 --> 0:39:27.759 know what's more mind boggling about this whole thing. The 0:39:27.800 --> 0:39:30.359 fact that someone developed this high tech carrying case for 0:39:30.400 --> 0:39:33.879 food fish, or the fact that thousands of people saw 0:39:33.920 --> 0:39:37.960 it and it would finally allow them to realize their 0:39:38.040 --> 0:39:41.440 dreams of walking their goldfish through Central Park on a summer. 0:39:42.320 --> 0:39:45.759 That is the most like mind bending part of the 0:39:45.800 --> 0:39:49.040 whole thing. To me. It's like, not only exactly It's 0:39:49.040 --> 0:39:50.560 like all these people came out of the woodwork and 0:39:50.640 --> 0:39:54.680 been like, finally, finally, I have wanted to take Mr 0:39:54.760 --> 0:39:59.120 Scribbles on a walk for years and now find it 0:39:59.200 --> 0:40:03.279 like the those smoking dog owners with their dogs and 0:40:03.320 --> 0:40:07.000 their air breathing pets walking around all happy. I hate them, 0:40:08.280 --> 0:40:10.719 although I say, I will say the opportunity for for 0:40:10.880 --> 0:40:14.279 viral video comedy. He imagine just like tone of the 0:40:14.320 --> 0:40:16.319 movies with that and have a lobster in there, some 0:40:16.440 --> 0:40:19.960 weird ship, do you know what I mean? I take 0:40:20.000 --> 0:40:22.240 that to take that to the Madison, stick a trout 0:40:22.239 --> 0:40:23.879 in there and just like hang out at the take 0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:26.400 out for a while, because what are you doing? I'm like, 0:40:26.440 --> 0:40:29.680 I like this one. Yeah, he helps me catch his friends. 0:40:29.800 --> 0:40:32.279 He tells me. He's like he's he's the Judas fish. 0:40:33.080 --> 0:40:36.160 Uh And I want to The last day I'm gonna 0:40:36.200 --> 0:40:38.920 say about this is like, I'm not a fan of 0:40:38.920 --> 0:40:42.960 this product, even if used as intended, because here's my often. 0:40:43.000 --> 0:40:45.560 Do you need that maybe in Japan? No, no, no, no, 0:40:45.719 --> 0:40:49.000 here's here's my thing. Hear me out. I'm I claim 0:40:49.080 --> 0:40:51.279 and I'm basing this off of not a whole lot 0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:53.360 of evidence, but I think that the stress of putting 0:40:53.360 --> 0:40:55.360 a fish in this tiny tank and carrying it around 0:40:55.840 --> 0:40:58.759 is gonna totally screw up the meat, Like that fish 0:40:58.880 --> 0:41:00.919 can be so stressed out. I don't think it's gonna 0:41:01.040 --> 0:41:04.160 do well. I think you're better off killing the fish quickly, 0:41:04.239 --> 0:41:06.319 bleed him out and just keeping it really cold. I 0:41:06.360 --> 0:41:10.240 think you will have a better product. Maybe I probably. 0:41:10.440 --> 0:41:12.680 I mean the impression I get though, is this is 0:41:12.719 --> 0:41:15.360 like you go to the store, put the fish in, 0:41:15.440 --> 0:41:17.719 and you are immediately heading to where it's going to 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:19.919 be consumed, Like it's not supposed to live in there 0:41:19.920 --> 0:41:22.440 for a long time. Frankly, I'm just curious. Have you 0:41:22.560 --> 0:41:24.920 ever bought a live fish at a fish market? Like 0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:27.560 every once in a while there will be live dog 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:29.799 in some of the markets around here, which I've never 0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:33.879 been sure if that's legal, but I see it nevertheless, 0:41:34.200 --> 0:41:36.480 and I have never bought a live fish from a 0:41:36.520 --> 0:41:46.360 fish market. Nope, never done it. Never done that. Okay, 0:41:46.400 --> 0:41:48.560 Well that was so that was your what you'll call 0:41:48.640 --> 0:41:50.560 your dumb story of the week. Let me just get 0:41:50.640 --> 0:41:54.680 dumber because this is a classic yeah sort of you'll see, 0:41:54.920 --> 0:41:58.320 this is a classic surmilling news story that's not only 0:41:58.600 --> 0:42:01.480 like not really news I'm only doing this because it 0:42:01.480 --> 0:42:04.000 gives me license to make fun of bad journalism and 0:42:04.080 --> 0:42:07.000 have a debate of sorts with you. I want your 0:42:07.040 --> 0:42:11.759 opinion on the subject matter of this piece which I found, yes, 0:42:11.840 --> 0:42:13.759 I know which, which I found on the website of 0:42:13.800 --> 0:42:16.759 b RC thirteen, which appears to be a local news 0:42:16.800 --> 0:42:20.600 source mainly for the Pocono Mountains region of Pennsylvania. The 0:42:20.640 --> 0:42:25.640 headline is, Okay, let's pay close attention now taking the 0:42:25.760 --> 0:42:31.439 bait at the Flybrary in Monroe County. So I'm aware 0:42:31.480 --> 0:42:36.080 of the library, Okay, So save your thoughts on flybrary 0:42:36.160 --> 0:42:38.160 until I get through this, because that's what I want 0:42:38.200 --> 0:42:41.520 to discuss. But first, here's what this this riveting story, 0:42:41.600 --> 0:42:44.320 which is it's really just a transcript of like a 0:42:44.360 --> 0:42:49.640 forty second newscast sets. You've heard of a little library 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:51.319 where you can leave a book and take a book, 0:42:51.360 --> 0:42:55.280 But have you heard of a flybrary. It's a phishing 0:42:55.360 --> 0:42:59.360 lover's version of a little library. This flybrary is located 0:42:59.400 --> 0:43:02.920 at the Shroud Township Forever Green Nature Preserve. The idea 0:43:03.120 --> 0:43:07.399 is to leave a lure or take a lure. When 0:43:07.400 --> 0:43:10.959 the broadhead chapter of Trold Unlimited first installed, the Flybrary. 0:43:11.080 --> 0:43:15.719 They left two lures on to start, and people are 0:43:15.840 --> 0:43:21.799 taking the bait now there Now there are nearly fifteen 0:43:21.960 --> 0:43:25.759 added by people who have visited. No live bait can 0:43:25.760 --> 0:43:29.400 be used at the park, so the extra lures cannot 0:43:29.400 --> 0:43:33.359 only help out fellow fishermen and women, but also the 0:43:33.400 --> 0:43:36.000 safety of the fish. And then there's this quote from 0:43:36.120 --> 0:43:39.960 Todd Burns, a local Trod Unlimited member, and he's he's 0:43:40.080 --> 0:43:44.440 very clearly trying to steer the reporter like back to 0:43:44.520 --> 0:43:49.160 the fly aspect of this whole thing. Like hence like 0:43:49.239 --> 0:43:52.640 hence the name Flybrary, and hence the verbiage which they 0:43:52.640 --> 0:43:55.439 show on the flyberry that says have a fly, leave 0:43:55.480 --> 0:43:59.040 a fly, need a fly, take a fly, And Todd says, 0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:02.760 they want you to use artificial lures only here specifically, 0:44:03.440 --> 0:44:06.759 we like to use flies. It's just one hook and 0:44:06.800 --> 0:44:09.200 most of us pinched the barbs down and that way 0:44:09.239 --> 0:44:11.360 when you catch a fish and it slides out easily 0:44:11.600 --> 0:44:13.400 and there's less of a chance of injuring the fish. 0:44:13.560 --> 0:44:15.480 But I just feel like like the producer of this 0:44:15.560 --> 0:44:18.719 segment either had no understanding of fly fishing, wants this 0:44:18.800 --> 0:44:22.160 to appeal more to the local bait dunkers and spinner 0:44:22.160 --> 0:44:27.600 heavers or is is just dim So again not exactly 0:44:27.600 --> 0:44:30.640 what i'd call like, holy shit, riveting news. But this 0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:33.320 opens up a discussion. So now I'm going to pause 0:44:33.400 --> 0:44:36.400 before I go on because I want your take on 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:41.040 these f library deals. So they're just so everybody understands. 0:44:41.080 --> 0:44:44.439 They're all over the country, and it's just a sort 0:44:44.440 --> 0:44:48.600 of it's this this national program where they'll send local 0:44:48.600 --> 0:44:50.840 folks who feel like putting them up the infrastructure to 0:44:51.120 --> 0:44:53.480 basically build your own little f library at at at 0:44:54.320 --> 0:44:57.719 access points wherever. And you know, the idea is to 0:44:57.719 --> 0:45:00.759 build community. You have a you leave a fly, you 0:45:00.800 --> 0:45:03.920 take fly whatever. I love the idea of it. I 0:45:03.960 --> 0:45:07.680 love anything that builds the angling community and solidarity. I 0:45:07.719 --> 0:45:12.160 think it's fun. I think it's it's I enjoy it. 0:45:12.239 --> 0:45:14.320 The first time I saw one was at the Mosquito 0:45:14.400 --> 0:45:18.719 Lagoon in Florida, and I put one of my clouser's 0:45:18.760 --> 0:45:22.200 up there just because I had extra, because I tied 0:45:22.239 --> 0:45:25.760 a lot of them. Do I think that it's actually 0:45:25.800 --> 0:45:30.319 going to generate any meaningful outcome? Like, do I think 0:45:30.320 --> 0:45:33.759 that this is gonna get a huge number of people 0:45:33.800 --> 0:45:37.200 into fly fishing or allow people who hadn't before been 0:45:37.239 --> 0:45:39.240 able to figure out what fly to use to finally 0:45:39.280 --> 0:45:42.799 be successful. No, my guess is what's gonna happen. Is 0:45:42.800 --> 0:45:44.640 it gonna be people use it the way I did, Like, Oh, 0:45:44.680 --> 0:45:46.760 I have a bunch of these because they haven't been working, 0:45:46.800 --> 0:45:48.680 so I'll put one here because I think that's cool, 0:45:49.160 --> 0:45:53.800 and it's it's gonna be like these these national depositories 0:45:53.840 --> 0:45:59.080 for mostly useless flies. So I like the I like 0:45:59.200 --> 0:46:02.880 the community, like solidarity. Let's have fun with this aspect. 0:46:02.960 --> 0:46:05.280 Let's not take this whole thing too seriously. Let's remember 0:46:05.360 --> 0:46:07.279 rolling it together. But I don't think it's gonna be 0:46:07.320 --> 0:46:09.960 the place where I find like the secret hot patterns. 0:46:10.880 --> 0:46:13.920 So we we could, we could not be more in agreement. 0:46:14.040 --> 0:46:17.560 I I truly love the idea of this. And again 0:46:17.600 --> 0:46:19.480 I'm just speaking personally here. I hate to say this, 0:46:19.520 --> 0:46:21.680 but I've bumped into a couple of these flybrary type 0:46:21.719 --> 0:46:26.520 things locally, and like you say, what's on them, if anything, 0:46:27.040 --> 0:46:31.280 is just like pure trash, like the most garbage kmart, 0:46:31.640 --> 0:46:35.879 like poorly tied yarn balls, or like the hooks are 0:46:35.880 --> 0:46:39.480 all rusty. And I've looked at them and my reaction 0:46:39.600 --> 0:46:42.120 is man, nobody that actually knows what they're doing on 0:46:42.160 --> 0:46:45.760 this river has contributed a fly to this f library. 0:46:45.880 --> 0:46:48.880 Like it's always it's like, why why why is there 0:46:48.880 --> 0:46:52.120 a saltwater popper in the library at this wild Brookie stream? 0:46:53.000 --> 0:46:54.920 Because I think you're right, like people see like, oh, 0:46:54.920 --> 0:46:56.360 I might be able to use that, but I'm not 0:46:56.400 --> 0:46:58.680 going to give up something that I actually might need. 0:46:59.120 --> 0:47:01.600 So here's this chip is ship that I haven't thrown 0:47:01.800 --> 0:47:04.480 ever and has no value, and I will stick that 0:47:04.560 --> 0:47:07.480 and now we will call it good. So I think 0:47:07.520 --> 0:47:09.919 in theory it's a great idea, um. And it does 0:47:10.160 --> 0:47:14.360 play theoretically into the communal aspect of fly fishing. Um. 0:47:14.400 --> 0:47:16.839 I've just not personally seen it work like it's supposed to. Now, 0:47:16.880 --> 0:47:19.799 I'm sure. So the mosquito legoon thing, that's interesting. I've 0:47:19.840 --> 0:47:22.080 actually never heard of one in an assaulty setting, though 0:47:22.120 --> 0:47:25.480 I'm not surprised. Um. But someone someone is gonna right 0:47:25.480 --> 0:47:26.799 in and be like the f library on the north 0:47:26.800 --> 0:47:29.080 fork of the Willowemack is better than the local fly shop, 0:47:29.160 --> 0:47:32.800 And okay, that's that's I'm not saying that doesn't exist. 0:47:33.200 --> 0:47:35.719 I just don't see it. And I'll just this, I 0:47:35.760 --> 0:47:37.560 have to I have to tell this very quick story. 0:47:37.600 --> 0:47:39.359 Years ago, a buddy of mine in Minnesota, you might 0:47:39.400 --> 0:47:41.479 be aware of this. I was trying to get something 0:47:41.520 --> 0:47:44.040 going called Scavenger fly Does that ring a bell? I 0:47:44.040 --> 0:47:46.680 don't know about that, okay, And I thought it was 0:47:46.719 --> 0:47:50.279 really cool, right. It had the flybrary aspect, but it 0:47:50.360 --> 0:47:52.919 was you sign up and you'd get a watertight fly 0:47:53.000 --> 0:47:55.239 box and it even had a little notebook and like 0:47:55.280 --> 0:47:57.360 a little mini golf pencil in there so that you 0:47:57.400 --> 0:47:59.800 could like leave a note about what worked. And the 0:48:00.000 --> 0:48:02.399 difference was you were supposed to hide it and then 0:48:02.440 --> 0:48:05.040 like leave clues, like give your buddy a clue and 0:48:05.400 --> 0:48:07.560 you know, or your fishing club guys or whatever, and 0:48:07.600 --> 0:48:10.040 it would sort of like grow and create this little 0:48:10.120 --> 0:48:12.040 club of sorts. It sort of riffed on on chio 0:48:12.120 --> 0:48:15.160 cashing as well, and the plan was to have these 0:48:15.239 --> 0:48:17.640 these scavenger fly boxes hit it all over the country. 0:48:17.920 --> 0:48:20.239 And I wrote about it. I thought it was neat. 0:48:20.280 --> 0:48:21.640 I'm like, I don't know if it's gonna work, but 0:48:21.640 --> 0:48:23.480 I think this is different and it's cool and it's 0:48:23.560 --> 0:48:26.319 thinking outside the box. Um So I wrote a blog 0:48:26.360 --> 0:48:28.640 about it. I filled my box planeted on a river 0:48:28.760 --> 0:48:31.480 in Jersey gave the clues and over the next couple 0:48:31.480 --> 0:48:33.880 of days got a response. Right, a couple of dudes 0:48:33.920 --> 0:48:35.800 found it, took a picture of them with the box 0:48:35.880 --> 0:48:38.360 added flies, left the note, and I was like, cool, 0:48:38.880 --> 0:48:41.319 this is cool. Did not take a full week for 0:48:41.360 --> 0:48:45.320 someone to just steal the box? Just Jack, just gone. 0:48:45.880 --> 0:48:48.880 And I wanted to believe that wouldn't happen. I was like, 0:48:49.360 --> 0:48:51.120 people will get behind this. This is not but I 0:48:51.200 --> 0:48:53.760 knew it would. I even wrote on the box with sharpie, 0:48:53.840 --> 0:48:56.319 don't be a dick and steal this box. But I 0:48:56.360 --> 0:48:59.960 have no faith in humanity. It was Jack and lets 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:02.480 than five days of being planted. I'm not even sure 0:49:02.520 --> 0:49:04.440 if these guys are still doing the scavenger fly thing. 0:49:04.520 --> 0:49:06.960 And this was three or four years ago. But that's 0:49:07.000 --> 0:49:09.920 that's my take. Love love the idea. I just don't know, 0:49:10.120 --> 0:49:13.880 you know. Yeah, I mean, anytime you're dependent on a 0:49:14.080 --> 0:49:17.280 large section of humanity doing the right thing, you're gonna 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:22.560 usually don't go into problems. Yeah, and you said that 0:49:22.680 --> 0:49:25.840 the scavenger fly thing that started in in Minnesota, in 0:49:25.840 --> 0:49:29.280 the Midwest, Minnesota, Yeah, Minnesota. Yeah, Well, my last story 0:49:29.800 --> 0:49:34.279 also revolves around that part of the country. That part 0:49:34.280 --> 0:49:36.160 of the world, though it has nothing to do with 0:49:36.239 --> 0:49:41.319 products or technology or anything like that. Uh, It's something 0:49:41.360 --> 0:49:43.279 we talked about a lot, right, we talk we talk 0:49:43.360 --> 0:49:46.960 a lot about invasive species on the show, legitimately, right, 0:49:47.320 --> 0:49:51.240 because fishing is a way of participating in the food web, 0:49:51.840 --> 0:49:54.600 and when new new creatures are introduced, that food web 0:49:54.719 --> 0:49:58.040 changes and the fishing changes. So anglers, all of us 0:49:58.080 --> 0:50:01.319 are invested in these topics. Right. We had we had 0:50:01.600 --> 0:50:03.799 Ikennelly on here a while back telling us how much 0:50:03.800 --> 0:50:07.480 he loves zebra muscles and milfoil, both of which is 0:50:07.520 --> 0:50:11.200 it a lot of handwringing from from just like these 0:50:11.239 --> 0:50:14.200 are lively topics, right, and I'll leave I'll leave that 0:50:14.239 --> 0:50:17.160 particular one, the milfoil and the muscles, for another day. 0:50:17.600 --> 0:50:20.440 But in this one, I'm gonna focus on a different 0:50:20.480 --> 0:50:24.680 freshwater invader, the spiny water flee. And I'm just curious. 0:50:24.960 --> 0:50:28.319 Have you ever seen an up close picture of a 0:50:28.320 --> 0:50:32.920 spiny water flee? I cannot say, I have no, dude, 0:50:33.160 --> 0:50:37.200 I I think they swam out of hr Geiger's nightmares. 0:50:40.880 --> 0:50:43.680 Really yeah, so picture you don't swim up, they swim 0:50:43.719 --> 0:50:45.160 up your pea hole, not that I know of. I 0:50:45.160 --> 0:50:48.359 didn't find anything about that. The picture picture a miniature 0:50:48.760 --> 0:50:51.239 version of one of those those face suckers from the 0:50:51.280 --> 0:50:57.840 Aliens movie franchise He Lives Underwater. That's what it looks like. Yeah, yeah, 0:50:58.160 --> 0:51:00.560 And and for those of you listening unless you're driving, 0:51:00.880 --> 0:51:02.640 google a picture of one right now so you can 0:51:02.640 --> 0:51:04.399 see what I'm what I'm saying like. It really does 0:51:04.520 --> 0:51:06.600 look like one of those face stucker's kind of spider 0:51:06.680 --> 0:51:09.920 lake with eight legs and to antenna up the front 0:51:09.960 --> 0:51:12.279 of the body. But instead of the tail that goes 0:51:12.320 --> 0:51:15.120 down your throat and lays eggs, they've got these really 0:51:15.200 --> 0:51:19.960 long barbed tails. That's sev of their body length there. 0:51:20.520 --> 0:51:24.839 Really honestly nightmarish, that's the best waygon describe them. So. 0:51:24.920 --> 0:51:27.720 Spiny water fleas are native to northern Europe and Asia, 0:51:28.040 --> 0:51:29.919 but like ale wives and a bunch of other things, 0:51:30.120 --> 0:51:33.000 they snuck over into North America and the ballasts of 0:51:33.040 --> 0:51:36.719 cargo ships. They're first discovered in Lake Ontario two, but 0:51:36.800 --> 0:51:38.839 have since spread throughout the Great Lakes and made their 0:51:38.840 --> 0:51:41.640 way into lots of other inland waters across the Midwest 0:51:41.640 --> 0:51:46.360 and Canada. They're very very good at moving from place 0:51:46.360 --> 0:51:50.760 to place because of that terrifying long barbed tail because 0:51:50.760 --> 0:51:52.880 they can. They can attach themselves to just about anything, 0:51:53.560 --> 0:51:58.680 ankle lines, fishing lines, boats, boots, whatever. They just stick 0:51:58.719 --> 0:52:02.600 to stuff. And so they can move from water like 0:52:02.680 --> 0:52:06.480 one water body to another, because especially anglers and boaters, 0:52:06.520 --> 0:52:10.080 we move around. We like to change it up. So 0:52:10.960 --> 0:52:14.960 North America has lots of native water fleas, not spiny 0:52:14.960 --> 0:52:18.080 water fleas, but but native versions, and those those native 0:52:18.080 --> 0:52:22.200 water fleas are important parts of our freshwater ecosystems. They 0:52:22.239 --> 0:52:26.759 eat algae, which helps improve water quality and keeps problematic 0:52:26.800 --> 0:52:29.440 blooms in check. They're also a primary food source for 0:52:29.480 --> 0:52:33.080 small fish. But spiny water fleas, on the other hand, 0:52:33.600 --> 0:52:38.000 eat native water fleas, and over here they have no predators. 0:52:38.239 --> 0:52:41.000 When small fish try to eat spiny water fleas, those 0:52:41.040 --> 0:52:44.680 long barbed tails either choke the fish or if they 0:52:44.680 --> 0:52:48.080 managed to get them down, puncture their internal organs. That's 0:52:48.080 --> 0:52:50.520 what I was gonna ask, but I figured without even asking, 0:52:50.560 --> 0:52:52.440 I was like, nothing can eat these. Nut's got to 0:52:52.480 --> 0:52:56.000 be part of the problem. And so so they're bad. 0:52:56.280 --> 0:52:59.200 Bottom lines that they're bad. And they showed up. They 0:52:59.239 --> 0:53:01.719 showed up around this same time as zebra muscles. But 0:53:01.760 --> 0:53:05.280 they haven't proliferated as rapidly, so they just haven't gotten 0:53:05.440 --> 0:53:07.200 nearly as much attention. Like they showed up and people 0:53:07.200 --> 0:53:09.560 were worried about it, but then it kind of weren't 0:53:09.600 --> 0:53:11.239 everywhere in the way that we thought they would be. 0:53:11.760 --> 0:53:14.400 So they've they've fallen off as one of the major concerns, 0:53:14.400 --> 0:53:18.120 But a recent report published in the journal Bioscience may 0:53:18.160 --> 0:53:22.920 indicate that they're more prevalent than than we realize, according 0:53:22.960 --> 0:53:26.640 to a researcher with I'm gonna say like possibly the 0:53:26.680 --> 0:53:32.160 greatest scientist name of all time, Jacob vander Zanden, who 0:53:32.200 --> 0:53:36.000 co authored the report and directs the University of Wisconsin 0:53:36.040 --> 0:53:40.280 madisone center for lemnology. Non native species can occur in small, 0:53:40.719 --> 0:53:45.680 self sustaining populations, smoldering like embers in a new habitat. 0:53:46.280 --> 0:53:49.480 Many will continue on with that modest life history, never 0:53:49.560 --> 0:53:53.400 having the negative ecological impacts that attract the invasive label. 0:53:53.640 --> 0:53:58.279 But sometimes an environmental trigger gets switched and the embers 0:53:58.320 --> 0:54:02.840 of these sleeper populations are fanned into a five alarm fire, 0:54:03.840 --> 0:54:06.640 and that might be exactly what's happening with water fleas. 0:54:07.480 --> 0:54:12.120 Vanders Enden's paper documents and explains the implications of a 0:54:12.120 --> 0:54:15.880 discovery made by students at the University of Wisconsin Madison 0:54:16.200 --> 0:54:19.360 in two thousand nineteen. Undergraduates that u W conducted the 0:54:19.400 --> 0:54:24.480 same field trip in nearby Lake Mendota that they do 0:54:24.560 --> 0:54:27.120 every year, sampling the lake and using as a field lap, 0:54:27.280 --> 0:54:30.799 but that year the nets were covered in thousands and 0:54:30.920 --> 0:54:34.840 thousands spiny water fleas, which had never happened before, and 0:54:34.880 --> 0:54:37.920 over two hundred sampling trips spanning three decades, they had 0:54:38.000 --> 0:54:40.960 never found a single water flee right, So the obvious 0:54:41.040 --> 0:54:44.600 conclusion would be that the water fleas had just recently 0:54:44.640 --> 0:54:47.640 invaded the lake and take over. But they have lots 0:54:47.680 --> 0:54:49.319 of data on this lake right because it's there, it's 0:54:49.320 --> 0:54:52.440 their field lap. And so when scientists dug through sediment 0:54:52.480 --> 0:54:55.800 coreps and and looked at other samples that they had stored, 0:54:56.200 --> 0:54:58.759 they found evidence that the fleas had been around for 0:54:58.800 --> 0:55:02.319 at least ten years, and all it took was one 0:55:02.440 --> 0:55:07.239 abnormally cold summer for billions of them to survive and 0:55:07.360 --> 0:55:10.760 lay eggs, and their population has remained steady ever since, 0:55:10.840 --> 0:55:15.160 even though temperatures went back to normal. We have no way, 0:55:15.239 --> 0:55:17.080 we haven't figured out a way yet of getting rid 0:55:17.120 --> 0:55:19.680 of spiny water flows without killing everything in a lake. 0:55:20.640 --> 0:55:25.359 And right now half the whole deal, Yeah, exactly, right now. Uh, 0:55:25.480 --> 0:55:28.480 it's anglers and voters like we're the one we're at 0:55:28.480 --> 0:55:30.520 the front lines of this. We we we need to 0:55:30.520 --> 0:55:35.520 be cleaning and drying all of our equipment completely before 0:55:35.560 --> 0:55:37.480 we go from one place to another. Thing is the 0:55:37.520 --> 0:55:40.440 thing about these things, they can't survive drying. So one 0:55:40.440 --> 0:55:42.480 thing we know it kills them. If they dry, they die, 0:55:43.200 --> 0:55:45.960 So keep that in mind. The study, it's going to 0:55:46.000 --> 0:55:48.759 be on the bumper sticker. Try to die. That's better 0:55:48.760 --> 0:55:52.040 than clean, drain dry for sure, the flea awareness bumper sticker. 0:55:52.920 --> 0:55:56.279 The study, Like, I think the study reminds us that 0:55:56.320 --> 0:55:58.480 we we really got to be even more diligent because 0:55:58.480 --> 0:56:01.080 what it shows is that you can even be in 0:56:01.120 --> 0:56:03.000 a body of water that isn't supposed to have water 0:56:03.040 --> 0:56:05.400 fleas because we may not have seen them yet, but 0:56:05.440 --> 0:56:09.399 they might be in a sleeper population right and and so, 0:56:09.719 --> 0:56:13.959 or they might be just starting to explode. And even 0:56:13.960 --> 0:56:17.439 though we're somewhere where those creepy little bastards aren't known 0:56:17.480 --> 0:56:20.319 to be well, you still might be picking them up. 0:56:20.320 --> 0:56:22.759 So just it's just my little p s a like 0:56:22.800 --> 0:56:25.160 giving you some evidence for why this is such a 0:56:25.160 --> 0:56:28.399 big deal of the clean drain dry It's because even 0:56:28.440 --> 0:56:30.680 if you're somewhere where you don't think one of these 0:56:30.680 --> 0:56:34.160 invasive populations might be, it's possible that they're they're they're 0:56:34.200 --> 0:56:37.520 just sleepers, so keep an eye out. Maybe the story 0:56:37.560 --> 0:56:39.200 doesn't address it, but like if you if you look 0:56:39.200 --> 0:56:41.520 at a small closed system like a lake where these 0:56:41.520 --> 0:56:44.839 things have just popped up, right, is that a death sentence? Like, 0:56:44.920 --> 0:56:46.719 I mean, if that's the bottom of the food chain, 0:56:47.560 --> 0:56:49.279 is that a is that a death sentence for a 0:56:49.320 --> 0:56:52.080 body of water over time? It's not take away this sentence, 0:56:52.160 --> 0:56:54.040 right because they've been in the Great Lakes for a 0:56:54.040 --> 0:56:56.200 long time and it hasn't the Great Lakes haven't created. 0:56:56.320 --> 0:56:59.239 But it's not good. It's it's certainly, I mean, the 0:56:59.280 --> 0:57:01.360 Great Lakes are just so huge. I'm thinking, like, you know, 0:57:01.520 --> 0:57:03.600 if you have these things in a smaller body of water, 0:57:04.480 --> 0:57:07.040 you know, I don't know, I just seems unkillable, you know, 0:57:07.440 --> 0:57:10.720 It's it's fascinating. And dude, it sounds like I always 0:57:10.800 --> 0:57:15.719 joked if blue fish and blue gills ever grew big 0:57:15.800 --> 0:57:17.960 enough where they could actually like bite you and hurt 0:57:18.040 --> 0:57:24.560 you like a shark. We'll be dead right. And I 0:57:24.560 --> 0:57:27.200 feel like these fleas are the same thing, Like, thank god, 0:57:27.240 --> 0:57:30.000 these are a micro organism and like not something that 0:57:30.120 --> 0:57:34.280 can drag me off to my own death exactly. But 0:57:34.360 --> 0:57:36.480 that now, it's good. It's good advice. And I'm guilty 0:57:36.520 --> 0:57:39.480 of it. I'm guilty of it, you know, throwing wet 0:57:39.480 --> 0:57:42.760 waiters and wet boots. Yeah, I think I think we, 0:57:42.960 --> 0:57:44.640 most of us, are guilty of that. And you're better. 0:57:45.080 --> 0:57:47.440 You're a better person if you take the time to 0:57:47.520 --> 0:57:50.600 do that. Um So, definitely something to be cognizanto. Phil 0:57:50.600 --> 0:57:52.120 has a lot to be cognizanto. He can he can 0:57:52.200 --> 0:57:56.320 visit the flybrary, he can handle the death fleas. He 0:57:56.400 --> 0:57:59.920 can make three D printed shark fins um or buy 0:58:00.040 --> 0:58:03.360 himself a fish purse to carry his pet fish around. 0:58:03.520 --> 0:58:06.160 So we'll see, we'll see who Phil declares the winner 0:58:06.200 --> 0:58:08.640 this week. And listen, we're gonna change things up a 0:58:08.640 --> 0:58:10.920 little bit. After we hear from Phil. We're going to 0:58:11.360 --> 0:58:14.960 actually do some sage lely wisdom with river Horse to 0:58:15.160 --> 0:58:17.800 close out the show. Okay, because we've been having a 0:58:17.800 --> 0:58:20.840 lot of fun joking around about Memorial Day crowds and everything. 0:58:21.320 --> 0:58:23.480 As always, you know, river Horse provides a sense of 0:58:23.560 --> 0:58:25.720 calm too, So not only we're gonna hear a great 0:58:25.720 --> 0:58:28.160 story here, we're gonna get that maybe that moment of zen, 0:58:28.280 --> 0:58:31.400 that moment of chill, perhaps we all need before going 0:58:31.440 --> 0:58:38.600 into a crazy weekend. Joe, when you first started your stories, 0:58:38.960 --> 0:58:42.520 I wasn't exactly smelling blood in the water, But after 0:58:42.560 --> 0:58:45.840 a while you set the hook in my attention and 0:58:45.880 --> 0:58:52.080 then proceeded to reel me in fishing. You're the winner 0:58:52.120 --> 0:58:55.520 this week, and I don't think we should be too 0:58:55.560 --> 0:58:57.760 hasty in just getting rid of all of these fish 0:58:57.760 --> 0:59:00.560 handbags quite yet. We should hold on them for I 0:59:00.560 --> 0:59:02.520 don't know, like a hundred years or something, until we 0:59:02.560 --> 0:59:06.320 decided to fall out. Teddy Williams and probably Walt Disney, 0:59:06.840 --> 0:59:09.040 let's be honest, elon musk down the road and we 0:59:09.040 --> 0:59:11.320 could take all of their heads for walks in Central Park. 0:59:11.880 --> 0:59:23.280 It'll be like a real life episode of Futurama. Hey, 0:59:23.400 --> 0:59:28.640 now this is realhoorse with some sagely wisdom. One of 0:59:28.640 --> 0:59:31.640 the most beautiful things in life is to share it 0:59:31.720 --> 0:59:36.240 with someone, be there just a fellow human, a friend, 0:59:37.000 --> 0:59:40.480 or a cherished, loved one. The best way I know 0:59:40.640 --> 0:59:44.640 to share is by feeding someone supper and taking them fishing. 0:59:45.560 --> 0:59:47.560 We all know there will be some bumps in the 0:59:47.680 --> 0:59:51.480 road along the way in life. Those bitter sweet low 0:59:51.600 --> 0:59:54.920 tides and the ever damn sweet times have read and 0:59:55.000 --> 0:59:58.600 high in the saddle, it's all good, and this is 0:59:58.640 --> 1:00:01.760 how we make sense of life and what matters to us. 1:00:02.440 --> 1:00:05.520 Here's a story about taking a soldier along for some 1:00:05.600 --> 1:00:12.320 water time called holding Steady. He is terrified of water. 1:00:12.680 --> 1:00:16.160 They tell me a soldier who has been through some 1:00:16.240 --> 1:00:19.720 things and would like to go fishing. I tell the 1:00:19.800 --> 1:00:23.840 Foundation that they can count on me. A few weeks later, 1:00:24.400 --> 1:00:28.400 I drive lonely farm roads a couple hours north, long 1:00:28.480 --> 1:00:32.200 before sunrise, to a small Texas town to pick him up. 1:00:33.040 --> 1:00:36.760 I wonder how things will go. The Foundation told me 1:00:36.800 --> 1:00:39.360 he was hit by a missile in a rock and 1:00:39.480 --> 1:00:42.160 has a torn up foot from jumping off a two 1:00:42.160 --> 1:00:46.800 story building. Why did they do that, I asked, because 1:00:46.840 --> 1:00:50.720 it was on fire, they replied. When I see him 1:00:50.720 --> 1:00:55.000 in the doorway, things aren't looking good. His eyes are 1:00:55.040 --> 1:00:59.680 red and he quickly places sunglasses over them. This is 1:00:59.720 --> 1:01:03.320 a tough day, he says. He uses a hand carved 1:01:03.360 --> 1:01:08.040 wooden cane and wears a long beard. He is trembling 1:01:08.520 --> 1:01:12.640 and looks cold. I hand him a jacket, which brings 1:01:12.680 --> 1:01:15.600 a hint of a smile. Do you want to stop 1:01:15.640 --> 1:01:19.560 somewhere for some breakfast, I asked, I'm not hungry much 1:01:19.640 --> 1:01:24.040 these days, he says. It is a bust for fishing. 1:01:24.720 --> 1:01:28.560 The day before there were tornadoes and gale force winds, 1:01:28.600 --> 1:01:32.880 and the fish are down deep. Today it's bluebird skies, though, 1:01:33.480 --> 1:01:36.080 so we sit in the sweet sun on the tailgate 1:01:36.200 --> 1:01:40.080 and share some beers. This is the anniversary of my 1:01:40.240 --> 1:01:43.640 friend's death, he says. He jumped on a grenade to 1:01:43.800 --> 1:01:49.360 save everyone. Sometimes I feel guilty. We look out at 1:01:49.400 --> 1:01:53.240 the lake for a long time, but your friend wants 1:01:53.240 --> 1:01:55.360 you to feel that the rest of your time here, 1:01:56.280 --> 1:02:00.080 or live it meaningfully, asked him. He holds up a 1:02:00.160 --> 1:02:02.520 hand to grab mine and gives me a punch on 1:02:02.560 --> 1:02:09.360 the shoulder simplify whispers. I wonder aloud, is there any 1:02:09.440 --> 1:02:11.360 chance you would want to go in the canoe for 1:02:11.400 --> 1:02:16.840 a while? He nods, almost imperceptibly. I put an arm 1:02:16.880 --> 1:02:19.840 around his shoulders and hold them as he sits down 1:02:19.880 --> 1:02:22.800 in the front of the wicker seat and trades out 1:02:22.840 --> 1:02:26.760 his cane from a huggany paddle. The fly rod leans 1:02:26.760 --> 1:02:31.080 against the truck, kicking off the bank. I shot excitedly, 1:02:31.960 --> 1:02:34.760 if the fishing were good, ad bomb out of cast 1:02:34.960 --> 1:02:38.600 right by that sunken tree. What do you mean bomb, 1:02:38.680 --> 1:02:44.600 he asked um. Simply the cast far. He laughs and 1:02:44.680 --> 1:02:48.440 shakes his head. The foundation told me he was standing 1:02:48.480 --> 1:02:52.160 next to a humby when a missile landed, and the 1:02:52.280 --> 1:02:56.720 instantaneous pressure change is equivalent to your body dropping six 1:02:56.840 --> 1:03:00.760 thousand feet under the ocean and back to sea level 1:03:00.800 --> 1:03:06.560 in a millisecond. We canoe for hours. Back in town, 1:03:06.840 --> 1:03:09.960 his girlfriend meets us at a brick of and pizza joint. 1:03:10.640 --> 1:03:13.680 He wraps her up in his arms, gently pulls her 1:03:13.720 --> 1:03:16.920 into the nook between his shoulder and neck, and breathes 1:03:17.000 --> 1:03:20.640 her in. He lines up shots of whiskey on the bar. 1:03:21.800 --> 1:03:25.520 I'm not normally into that sort of thing, but today 1:03:26.000 --> 1:03:29.800 I am. He'd be game for fishing again some day, 1:03:29.880 --> 1:03:33.880 he says, and actually trying to catch something. What do 1:03:33.920 --> 1:03:36.600 you mean? I say, you don't want to just paddle 1:03:36.640 --> 1:03:39.720 around and live vicariously by hearing stories of all the 1:03:39.840 --> 1:03:43.919 huge bass I've caught. He almost falls up the bar 1:03:44.000 --> 1:03:47.720 stool laughing, tells me I'm about as funny as throwing 1:03:47.760 --> 1:03:52.720 an egg into a ceiling fan. Later in the parking lot, 1:03:53.280 --> 1:03:58.000 light shimmers around him from the waning sunset. He is different. 1:03:58.640 --> 1:04:03.680 His eyes are clear, a look of contented kindness in them. 1:04:03.760 --> 1:04:06.720 He gives me a backcracker of a bear hug, and 1:04:06.840 --> 1:04:09.840 I asked him, was it a good day for you, 1:04:09.960 --> 1:04:13.640 my brother? When we got on the water, He says, 1:04:14.560 --> 1:04:20.360 everything changed. I hope you enjoyed that and can think 1:04:20.400 --> 1:04:23.080 of someone in your life that you can take on 1:04:23.240 --> 1:04:27.560 out there too. Here's to those who serve and to 1:04:27.720 --> 1:04:31.240 those who support them. Here's to getting back on the 1:04:31.280 --> 1:04:34.760 path of life again, no matter how tough the times 1:04:34.760 --> 1:04:38.680 have been along the way. Oh, I get by with 1:04:38.720 --> 1:04:43.560 a little help from my friends. Yes, indeed, life is beautiful. 1:04:44.240 --> 1:04:59.640 I'll see you out there. Well. That is all that 1:04:59.720 --> 1:05:02.560 we for you this week. No matter how you are 1:05:02.640 --> 1:05:05.600 choosing to spend moral day weekend, remember that you're more 1:05:05.680 --> 1:05:08.240 likely to get in a bar fight if the bar 1:05:08.400 --> 1:05:11.760 has a gravel parking lot. Yes, Joe would rather be 1:05:11.920 --> 1:05:14.520 sleeping alone in a filthy, damp boat cabin than spending 1:05:14.560 --> 1:05:18.240 time with his family. So yes, and finally, all of 1:05:18.280 --> 1:05:21.120 our our bullshit aside. Heeds some of that river Horse 1:05:21.120 --> 1:05:24.320 wisdom this weekend, put your rod and your gin and 1:05:24.400 --> 1:05:27.760 juice down long enough to reflect on the weight and 1:05:27.960 --> 1:05:30.520 significance of this holiday. It's about a whole lot more 1:05:30.600 --> 1:05:33.600 than getting a past to make a fool yourself in public. Yes, 1:05:33.880 --> 1:05:37.080 biggest yes of the whole clothes here. Huge thanks again 1:05:37.120 --> 1:05:40.800 to river Horse for closing out this week show so eloquently, 1:05:41.040 --> 1:05:43.920 and thanks from everyone here at Bent and the Mediator 1:05:44.000 --> 1:05:46.600 to all who serve and all those who have made 1:05:46.640 --> 1:05:49.120 the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom so we can do 1:05:49.200 --> 1:05:52.480 things like go fishing and make fun of people who 1:05:52.560 --> 1:05:56.760 suck at fishing. Well said, Well said. If you get 1:05:56.760 --> 1:06:00.400 any pictures of those people this weekend, post them with 1:06:00.520 --> 1:06:04.200 the Degenerate Angler and Bent podcast hashtag so we can 1:06:04.200 --> 1:06:06.920 revel in the misery of strangers with you doing so, 1:06:07.200 --> 1:06:09.200 I might just earn you a sticker pack from us, 1:06:09.600 --> 1:06:12.560 but posting videos to TikTok will not earn you a 1:06:12.560 --> 1:06:37.240 sticker pack because we're not on TikTok. M