WEBVTT - Ep. 151: Body of Water

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<v Speaker 1>This is a me eat podcast coming in you shirtless

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<v Speaker 1>severely vote bitten in my case underwear lessening podcast. You

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<v Speaker 1>can't predict anything, um me and the lavin ego. Here

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<v Speaker 1>did a little duck hunt in this morning? Is that

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<v Speaker 1>make you jealous? Christum browse? It does? It does? I

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<v Speaker 1>did a little driving this morning, did you? We're all

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<v Speaker 1>enjoying the wilds uh do, Christie Wound? If you run

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<v Speaker 1>through a couple of news points, love issues, let's do introductions.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll introduce you. Okay, sounds good? Uh. Author, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>get to say this very often. Author and poet Julia

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<v Speaker 1>Husain had books of poetry. Come on, don't start with that.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't believe me kidding? He had, He had multiple

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<v Speaker 1>works of poetry and one of the Iraq War was

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<v Speaker 1>going on. I would often catch myself saying, um, the

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<v Speaker 1>novelist and poet Saddam Hussein because he had published novels

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<v Speaker 1>and published books of poetry similar Similar to Saddam, krist

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<v Speaker 1>Dombrowski has, No, you don't have any novels, novels, not

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<v Speaker 1>yet books of poetry. I think that you're probably the

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<v Speaker 1>first poet, the first actual real live publishing poet that

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<v Speaker 1>we had on the show. That's fantastic, But I mean

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<v Speaker 1>the only three of you. Harrison's dead, right, that's true,

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<v Speaker 1>that's true. It was his birthday yesterday, by the way.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh it was. Yeah. Chris used used to guide, used

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<v Speaker 1>to you were like a guide for Jim Harris. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I wrote Jim down the river. Guiding is probably a

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<v Speaker 1>you know, not quite an accurate an exchange of money. No, No,

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<v Speaker 1>you guys are just hanging out and and every time

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<v Speaker 1>I would you have an idea, he would say, go

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<v Speaker 1>to the other bank, you know. So if anything he

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<v Speaker 1>was he was guiding, but not rowing. So you were

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<v Speaker 1>just like a facilitator, facilitator, a wine opener, dispenser of

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<v Speaker 1>chicken thighs like you got a lot of you know,

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<v Speaker 1>as a guide, right, you've seen the thousand people cast? Right?

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<v Speaker 1>Is he a good fisherman? He was an exceptionally good caster. Absolutely.

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<v Speaker 1>I remember being so thrilled when the first time I

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<v Speaker 1>saw him cast, and I've realized that he could actually cast.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, because I grew up in Michigan. I worked

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<v Speaker 1>for this, as did he, as did he, as did you,

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<v Speaker 1>as it as did uh so many Michian Tannins. But um,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I can remember I worked at this lodge

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<v Speaker 1>up in Grailing as a kid, and the experts, the

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<v Speaker 1>so called experts would come through and you'd always be

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<v Speaker 1>so disappointed when you actually saw him cast. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>they were so bad compared to you know, your buddies whatnot.

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<v Speaker 1>So the first time I said, Jim Cass, I thought

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<v Speaker 1>I was I was, well, yeah it was. That is

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<v Speaker 1>a relief as a guide when you see h the

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<v Speaker 1>client cast and they're good and you've never seen it before.

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<v Speaker 1>It's definitely just like yeah, But then you hope that

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<v Speaker 1>that doesn't come with some real she expectations. It usually

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<v Speaker 1>reverses the karma, right, you know, yeah, if you're if

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<v Speaker 1>you if you're telling me that you're Mike's two fingers

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<v Speaker 1>off your lip. Yeah, he's got really big hands. April

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<v Speaker 1>fulkey are you are you? Are you familiar with Have

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<v Speaker 1>you ever met Chris before? No, we haven't met. We

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<v Speaker 1>met about five minutes ago. Okay, had you had any when? Uh?

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<v Speaker 1>Had you seen his book around? I saw this afternoon. Sorry, Chris,

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<v Speaker 1>but I'm excited to learn more about it. We sprang

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<v Speaker 1>this on April. We didn't give April the long lead time. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>in order to go read up on on body of Water.

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<v Speaker 1>Ryan actually sprung it on me last night because I

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<v Speaker 1>I was podcasting Ryan this morning or this afternoon, and

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<v Speaker 1>I still see you tomorrow. He goes, oh, yeah, for

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<v Speaker 1>the Chris podcast, and I went, who what? So, but

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<v Speaker 1>what a pleasure. I'm I'm thrilled to be here. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>glad share professional connections though because of the whole you know,

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<v Speaker 1>fishing world. Are you guide still? I still got about

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<v Speaker 1>eighty days a year? Yeah, I've count that. It's still

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<v Speaker 1>being a guy. Dude. We have at this table right

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<v Speaker 1>now are four people who have at some point in

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<v Speaker 1>their life done professional been professional fly fishing guides? Are

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<v Speaker 1>you the only one who hasn't? I'm the one that hasn't,

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<v Speaker 1>the smart one with so that meaning there's four people

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<v Speaker 1>at this table who horror themselves out and one who hasn't.

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<v Speaker 1>Open that the driven snow. I think it's real good

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<v Speaker 1>for recruitment purposes that you never guided anybody. Uh. That's

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<v Speaker 1>the voice of Ryan Callahan who's also here, and then um,

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<v Speaker 1>then Yannimani, Hello, So we talked about that. I was

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<v Speaker 1>asking you a couple of news items. Yeah, um, a dude, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>a guy in Alaska. Check this out. A guy in Alaska. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>just got jail time in a one hundred thousand dollar

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<v Speaker 1>fine for poaching some moose. Man, those guys do not

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<v Speaker 1>mess around in Alaska. What do you mean some moose?

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<v Speaker 1>Because he killed three He killed and ditched three moose.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's what they think. Okay, we talked without four like

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<v Speaker 1>in Alaska. Depending on where you are, there's always exceptions,

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<v Speaker 1>but generally, like generally for a bull moves to be

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<v Speaker 1>legal in Alaska has to be either depending where you are,

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<v Speaker 1>has to be either a three have three brow times

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<v Speaker 1>on one side, or be fifty inches tip to tip

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<v Speaker 1>antler spread. Or you might be in a unit that's

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<v Speaker 1>what you'd call a four brow time unit where it

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<v Speaker 1>has to have four brow times on one side, oh

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<v Speaker 1>were and or b fifty in tip to tip. And

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<v Speaker 1>then there's other units that are like any bowl or whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>But but typically you're either it's either a three brow

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<v Speaker 1>time or four brow time area. And it's when we're

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<v Speaker 1>hunting moose, like it's real nice to see the brow

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<v Speaker 1>times because gauging fifty inch tip to tip is some

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<v Speaker 1>tricky ship, real trip it's nerve racking, like to shoot.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of guys like my brother Danny's a

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<v Speaker 1>very experienced moves hunter. He is not. It makes him

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<v Speaker 1>very uncomfortable to shoot a bowl on spread and to

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<v Speaker 1>not shoot a bull on brow time count. But it

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<v Speaker 1>seems like this feller was just real bad. It seems

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<v Speaker 1>like real bad at judging, and he'd kind of check

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<v Speaker 1>them once they were down to see if they're legal.

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<v Speaker 1>Three of them hundred thousand dollar fine. I like that, man,

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<v Speaker 1>I was gonna say, it's so be it. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>that's pretty ignoring because now and then you hear something

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<v Speaker 1>doing something like agreedgious stuff. Then is he winds up

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<v Speaker 1>with a misdemeanor, has to do like a day of

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<v Speaker 1>community service. They don't mess around, man Like Alaska does

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<v Speaker 1>not mess around on game and fish violations. They treated

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<v Speaker 1>like business. Is there not some sort of calculation that

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<v Speaker 1>you can make from afar? Yeah, So that's where the

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<v Speaker 1>stuff gets tricky. If he like, let's say he's broadside

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<v Speaker 1>and turns his head and look at you, there's all

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<v Speaker 1>these little tricks like if that outside swoop hits the

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<v Speaker 1>midpoint on his hump, or you know that a standard

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<v Speaker 1>run of the mill bowl is ear to ear. I

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<v Speaker 1>can't remember. I can't either, but it's out there's a

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<v Speaker 1>measurement of like, hey, like your typical mature bull is

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<v Speaker 1>x inches ear to ear ten per year and plus

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<v Speaker 1>ten in between. Yeah, so you got like that, and

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<v Speaker 1>then you imagine does it go you know, a percentage

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<v Speaker 1>of that? That way all this stuff, what you arrive

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<v Speaker 1>at is unless like a friend of mine, is a guide,

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<v Speaker 1>Like unless you look at and you're like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it blows like you you feel that your heart's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>stop because it's obviously don't mess around? So wait, did

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<v Speaker 1>they did they count? Did they measure? Then did it

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<v Speaker 1>come in? It? Like one was I read the article.

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<v Speaker 1>I came here with the other ones, but one, the

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<v Speaker 1>biggest one was around Okay, did he take any part

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<v Speaker 1>of the animal? Says more? All? Most of all three

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<v Speaker 1>went to waste? Most so is he stripping backstraps and stuff?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, you're asking a lot of great questions, and

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<v Speaker 1>I think that, uh, we have to do a little

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<v Speaker 1>more reading. Body mind just sent me the article. So

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a little bit guilty of having not done a

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<v Speaker 1>ton of research. But the outline of it, I have

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<v Speaker 1>a sense of the outline, but that um it said

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<v Speaker 1>like left most to rot. It sounds like a hundred thousand.

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<v Speaker 1>It's fair. That's big. Yeah, and I do. I was

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<v Speaker 1>wondering if there's a little more to the story because

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<v Speaker 1>I can see that price tag climbing, if I can

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<v Speaker 1>see that fine being less. If it was like guy

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<v Speaker 1>was caught with three moose that were fully processed going

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<v Speaker 1>to feed his family the ditchen the ditch of definitely

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<v Speaker 1>probably colors that many favorite past violations probably covered. Some

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<v Speaker 1>states have a thing where if it if it's a

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<v Speaker 1>trophy animal, then your fines go through the roof. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>poaching a trophy class animal costs you a lot more

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<v Speaker 1>money than than then if you're like a pop hunter,

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<v Speaker 1>then they slap you down harder. Uh. What a couple

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<v Speaker 1>of things I want to talk about. Oh, guy had

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<v Speaker 1>some feedback on something. Cal you were here for this

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<v Speaker 1>conversation where our buddy Steve kendrot this is tricky. Check

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<v Speaker 1>this out, Chris Uh, Our buddy Steve Kendrott shoots him

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<v Speaker 1>seek a deer down in Maryland and it's missing a

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<v Speaker 1>time in Antler time. His buddy shoots a sea Kadeer

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<v Speaker 1>and he's skinning it and there, lo and behold is

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<v Speaker 1>Steve Kendrot's antler time embedded in the buck. So they

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<v Speaker 1>are these are pugnacious little fighters, you know. And he

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<v Speaker 1>snaps his antler time off in the buck, and so

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<v Speaker 1>the guy uh kept the antler time. Steve was able

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<v Speaker 1>to take the anler time to match it up. And

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<v Speaker 1>I was saying, how I felt that if that friend

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<v Speaker 1>of his was an honorable friend, he would have given

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<v Speaker 1>Steve Kendra at the antler time. Steve Kendra, I'm glad

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<v Speaker 1>you said that, because everybody that rolled in we took

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<v Speaker 1>a vote at that day at the table. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>cal you said, you've made a good point that well

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<v Speaker 1>maybe the story, because I agree with you, like he

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<v Speaker 1>should have just given it to him. Becaw said, well,

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<v Speaker 1>the story is just as good if the anertine's hanging

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<v Speaker 1>like near that trophy that head, because he's like, this

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<v Speaker 1>is what I had in my neck and I was

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<v Speaker 1>still alive, right, but go ahead. Well, the guy, one

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<v Speaker 1>of the guys, one of the many guys that wrote

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<v Speaker 1>in about it, was looking at it like this. He's

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<v Speaker 1>contrary to my my personal opinion, he says, contrary to

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<v Speaker 1>my Steve's opinion. Um, he's like, the fight between these

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<v Speaker 1>two things happened outside the realm of man. The fight

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<v Speaker 1>was the fight, and it wasn't involved I didn't involve people,

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<v Speaker 1>And there's there's no room to weigh in on the

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<v Speaker 1>people perspective. They had a fight, and he likens it

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<v Speaker 1>to this. Let's say you've got a knife fight. Or

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<v Speaker 1>let's say someone came up and stabbed you in the

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<v Speaker 1>leg and in the scuffle, the his knife blade snaps

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<v Speaker 1>off in your leg. Whose knife blade is that? Now

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<v Speaker 1>that's a good no? Wait later, would that guy say, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I need you? Would like, what would your response to

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<v Speaker 1>that fair enough? That knife blade would go in my shelf? Absolutely,

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<v Speaker 1>and when people came over and be like, see that

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<v Speaker 1>knife blade? But would you feel differently if in this

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<v Speaker 1>fantastical world it was his finger that he had jabbed

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<v Speaker 1>into your thigh, broken his finger, and I would have

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<v Speaker 1>it on my shelf and when people came over and

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<v Speaker 1>they were and I caught him looking at it like

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<v Speaker 1>you see that, and I would tell them about it.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think it's a great comparison. I'm sorry, I

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<v Speaker 1>think that's a horrible comparison. So the time was in

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<v Speaker 1>the animal or in the animals donlers you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>because you missed it was in the animal right and animal.

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<v Speaker 1>So this book a like Buck A and Buck B. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>they get a fight and Buck A's antler ends up

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<v Speaker 1>snapping off into Buck B. My body shoots A, who's

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<v Speaker 1>missing it's antler, and his body shoots B and finds

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<v Speaker 1>embedded in its body, and the body keeps be bark. No,

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<v Speaker 1>you've explained it. But my thing is, what is what

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<v Speaker 1>is that buddy going to do with it? I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>it's one thing if it was if it was wedged

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<v Speaker 1>into the antler somewhere and it told the story like

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<v Speaker 1>what you're talking about. That makes sense. That's a piece

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<v Speaker 1>of art. You know, you're putting the story up to

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<v Speaker 1>mount on your wall. But it was ingrained in the shoulder.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't just hang it on. It's like that's like

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<v Speaker 1>having a fish sculpture and hanging a fly out of it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's got some stupid chuck an. It's ridiculous. Give it

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<v Speaker 1>to your buddy so he can superglue it onto his

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<v Speaker 1>You know, he mounted We thought he should hang it

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<v Speaker 1>from it in a deck with some decorative. Just set

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<v Speaker 1>it next to it, your guys. Is decor is a

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<v Speaker 1>lot different in my opinion. But okay, I don't think.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think bringing a knife to it is is

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<v Speaker 1>necessarily the same. Analogy. Great analogy. Okay, one more quick

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<v Speaker 1>one and then we're gonna we're gonna talk about other stuff. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>I know how to really attack this one. Not long

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<v Speaker 1>ago we were talking about this. We're talking about that

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<v Speaker 1>when you're sitting in a tree stand and it's cold

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<v Speaker 1>out and a big buck comes through, and you get

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<v Speaker 1>all excited, and then the big buck wanders off about

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<v Speaker 1>his business unscathed, and then I personally all sudn't feel

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<v Speaker 1>like I'm cold, like it left me like I then

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, this is like, God, am I cold? And

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<v Speaker 1>that guy was talking about how my brother when he

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<v Speaker 1>goes he calls going off to take a growler, going

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<v Speaker 1>off to take a heater. Right. The guy wrote in

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<v Speaker 1>about a doctor writes in to explain these two things.

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<v Speaker 1>He says, you haven't autonomic nervous system of the human

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<v Speaker 1>body and has two parts, the sympathetic nervous system and

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<v Speaker 1>the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system releases epidephrine,

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<v Speaker 1>EPERN and other stress hormones to prepare for what is

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<v Speaker 1>often referred to as fight or flight response. Some of

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<v Speaker 1>these things with like UH affects of these hormones increase

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<v Speaker 1>heart rate, dilate pupils, vassal constrict blood vessels. It shunts

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<v Speaker 1>blood to the core vital organs. The skin becomes pale, cool,

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<v Speaker 1>and diaphretic. The vassal constriction of peripheral vessels is why

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<v Speaker 1>a person might feel cold after a stressful encounter with

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<v Speaker 1>game animals dragon. On the other side, the parasympathetic nervous

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<v Speaker 1>system is known as the rest and digest nervous system.

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<v Speaker 1>The parasympathetic nervous system is active when the body is

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<v Speaker 1>not under stress, i e. Eating fornicating. Now, poor word

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<v Speaker 1>choice on his part, because fornicating means having sex outside

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<v Speaker 1>of marriage. How do you know that? Yes, there could

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<v Speaker 1>be probably only if you're married. Yeah, but I'm saying

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<v Speaker 1>you could be having like some serious stressful Let's say

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<v Speaker 1>you a fella was a woman. Let's say a woman

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<v Speaker 1>was married and the old man's off at work. I

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<v Speaker 1>feel like, right now he's got a little bit of

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<v Speaker 1>bad word choice with fornicating, because he's saying when the

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<v Speaker 1>body is not under stressed, I e. Eating, fornicating eating. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>fornicating isn't just synonymous with love making. Fornicating means marriage

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<v Speaker 1>outside of or sex outside of marriage. So a woman

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<v Speaker 1>could be in a situation where she's you know, like

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<v Speaker 1>nervous about being discovered by her old man, you dragon,

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<v Speaker 1>which could make it stressful, which would then involve the

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<v Speaker 1>other side of the nervous system. Yeah, where there's like

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<v Speaker 1>you got the fight and fight going on because you're poor.

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<v Speaker 1>You know. I think he should have said, um, love making,

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<v Speaker 1>which is makes that that word just makes people uncomfortable.

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<v Speaker 1>So the parasympathetic nervous system is active when the body

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<v Speaker 1>is not understressed, I eat, eating, love making, or in

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<v Speaker 1>this case, pushing out a grumpy The act of bearing

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<v Speaker 1>down to defecate stimulates the vague nerve, which is part

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<v Speaker 1>of the parasympathetic nervous system. When the parasympathetic nervous system

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<v Speaker 1>is stimulated, you get vaso dilation to peripheral blood vessels,

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<v Speaker 1>therefore increased blood flow to the skin, resulting in a

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<v Speaker 1>warmer sensation. Therefore, bearing out my brother's observation that when

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<v Speaker 1>he goes off in the woods on the cold morning

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<v Speaker 1>to turn over a rock, so to speak, Um, he

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<v Speaker 1>feels warmed up by it all, that's all. And can

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<v Speaker 1>you confirm that you do feel cooler or colder gonna

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<v Speaker 1>a big deer walks by? And what's the different? Where

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<v Speaker 1>does adrenaline fall into all of this? I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>what he's saying is that when a big buck comes by,

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<v Speaker 1>you get the adrenaline spike and then it drops and

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<v Speaker 1>you're that's when I become cold. And I do feel

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<v Speaker 1>that you get warmed up going off and rolling over rock. Definitely.

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<v Speaker 1>You guys have a lot of strange ways of saying

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<v Speaker 1>taking a poop. I've heard three different ways in two minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>Because that's what you're saying though, right is you know,

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<v Speaker 1>like the term like turn out saying earlier that makes

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<v Speaker 1>people uncomfortable growler growlers? Oh love making it. Yeah, going

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<v Speaker 1>poop it just sounds so personal. I love it. I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's great. Pooping sounds fantastic. We use that like

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<v Speaker 1>that's what our what with our kids? Yeah, they need

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<v Speaker 1>to poop, they're pooping. It's just like I feel like

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<v Speaker 1>it's very family a family term it is, but taking

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<v Speaker 1>a growler is a hunting term. I'm in laden. I've

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<v Speaker 1>learned a lot so far. Well that's interesting. That's a

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<v Speaker 1>very wordy way of saying. Um, yeah, you know, but

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<v Speaker 1>I'm so happy that that's explained it just like it

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<v Speaker 1>makes sense right, seem like not engaged. I've been thinking

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<v Speaker 1>about poop a lot this fall because I've been, um,

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<v Speaker 1>I've been hunting hungarian partridge a lot. So I'm just uh,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, they like a covey of partridge. Huns will

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<v Speaker 1>roost together, and they roost tails together, so when you

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<v Speaker 1>find their roost, you actually find this neat little pile

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<v Speaker 1>of poop um And I can't you know, they're tough

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<v Speaker 1>to find. Bird. I have a great bird dog, but

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of times you're just walking around looking for

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<v Speaker 1>sign which are these little white tip dropping So the

0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.520
<v Speaker 1>same thing they come in, they back, they back into

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<v Speaker 1>each other and make a little circle and make a

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<v Speaker 1>little collective like poop group. No, I was not disinterested.

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<v Speaker 1>I was lost in thought, you know, doing my poet thing.

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<v Speaker 1>How do we getting out of that? How best? How

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<v Speaker 1>best to to get get to our subject matter at hand? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I could tell you why I think huns are the No,

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<v Speaker 1>not that. Oh, what is our subject I want to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about? Uh? I want to talk about your book

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<v Speaker 1>of course in bone fishing in general. Yeah, well that's

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<v Speaker 1>what I was gonna say. I could tell you about

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<v Speaker 1>how huns are the bones that do that. So I

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<v Speaker 1>have been thinking about them a lot this fall, and

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<v Speaker 1>and uh there's something to the um the seemingly uh

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<v Speaker 1>mundane habitat and huns living you know, uh, grassy hillsides

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<v Speaker 1>there their seat mostly seed eaters. They don't um, they

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<v Speaker 1>don't need a whole lot of agriculture to survive. They're

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<v Speaker 1>really hearty birds. Um. And they covey up. They group

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<v Speaker 1>up a lot of times. You know, bone fish will

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<v Speaker 1>uh we'll school up as well. But you're doing a

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<v Speaker 1>very good job man. For the most part. The reason

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<v Speaker 1>why I enjoy traversing that wide, wide country. It reminds

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<v Speaker 1>me of being on the flats. You know, there's there

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<v Speaker 1>are these what mcgwaen called these long silences you know

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<v Speaker 1>between would you actually find a covey of birds when

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<v Speaker 1>your dog goes on pointing. Uh, it's usually you know,

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<v Speaker 1>right about when you think nothing's gonna happen. And then

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<v Speaker 1>suddenly yeah, uh, I found some hunts. I shot some

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<v Speaker 1>huns one time of my late buddy Eric that had

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<v Speaker 1>their crops were full of um grasshoppers. Oh yeah, they

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<v Speaker 1>that's their chief chief food in the in the early fall,

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<v Speaker 1>and then they go to cheat grass after the hoppers,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, die off for the My buddy told me

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<v Speaker 1>he found one, uh clean one last year and the

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<v Speaker 1>hunt had in its crop a grasshopper that was still

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<v Speaker 1>kicking when he cleaned it. That doesn't surprise me, So

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<v Speaker 1>it upsets me a little bit, but doesn't surprise for

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<v Speaker 1>the just just like it'd be like a little bit startling,

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<v Speaker 1>I guess cleaning the bird and there's a live grasshopper

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<v Speaker 1>in there, Well, I wouldn't feel bad for him. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>You guys have all you I mean, as you've caught

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<v Speaker 1>a whole pile of bone fish right April. Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>think I've caught a few. Never really yep, yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>always kind of poo pooed those things. Got a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of white fish in my day. You can go if

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<v Speaker 1>you're if you got something else to do, because we

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<v Speaker 1>thought you'd caught bone fish. So oh really, yeah, I've

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<v Speaker 1>seen him. I took a couple of casts one time, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>a few, though only a few. Fifteen years ago. I

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<v Speaker 1>was down in Belize for I don't know, a couple

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<v Speaker 1>of weeks and I maybe landed a half dozen. Okay, nice,

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<v Speaker 1>So your butt Chrissy explains how that fish went from

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<v Speaker 1>being it does a lot of things, but explains how

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<v Speaker 1>like how that how the bone fish became a celebrity

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<v Speaker 1>fish when it used to just be a what well,

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<v Speaker 1>they threw it into piles that went into making dog

0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.520
<v Speaker 1>food back in the day. You know, the commercial netters would,

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<v Speaker 1>uh if bone fish ended up in their catch, they

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<v Speaker 1>would basically throw it into a pile that went to

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<v Speaker 1>uh to purina or or some other uh, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>undesirable pile of fish, right uh. And that the evolution

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<v Speaker 1>of that is really what, as you say, the book

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<v Speaker 1>is about, at least on um on the surface level. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>Why nineteen fifty one was when the first Bahamian bone

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<v Speaker 1>fish lodge was erected, this guy named Art See I

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<v Speaker 1>read the book, but I don't remember being that early really,

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<v Speaker 1>so people in we were thinking like, oh, this is

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<v Speaker 1>a cool fish to catch. Yeah, well, not very many people.

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<v Speaker 1>There was wealthy Floridian guy named Gil Drake Um who

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<v Speaker 1>had bone fish in the keys. There were a few

0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:11.320
<v Speaker 1>guys that had bone fishing the keys. Now most most

0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:14.600
<v Speaker 1>people that kind of famed Bahamian bone fish guy. This

0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:17.639
<v Speaker 1>guy named Crazy Charlie Smith. You know that Crazy Church

0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:20.359
<v Speaker 1>is the fly everyone knows about. But I got I

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<v Speaker 1>got a small problem. Yes, what's the guy's name again?

0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:26.280
<v Speaker 1>Because here's the guy you got me thinking, the guy

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<v Speaker 1>that shot the moose and got in trouble. Guess what

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<v Speaker 1>his name is? Gil Drake. No, he's got the perfect No,

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<v Speaker 1>Rusty counts. Rusty counts. That sounds like, yeah, Rusty counts. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So Gil Drake, Okay, so Gil Drake. And about nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>fifty one, I actually had to listen to this book

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<v Speaker 1>on audio book to remind myself of a few things. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I hadn't read it in a couple of years, so

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<v Speaker 1>I had to re requain myself. But uh, fifty one

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<v Speaker 1>sounds right. Gil Drake was this wealthy Floridian guy who

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<v Speaker 1>lived in Palm Beach in his is um. His wife

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<v Speaker 1>basically fronted into money, uh to go down to the

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<v Speaker 1>Bahamas and build a lodge um and he you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the flight from Palm beach to the east end of

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<v Speaker 1>Graham Bahama is really thirty five forty minutes, right, So

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<v Speaker 1>he found this at the far east end of the archipelago,

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<v Speaker 1>this little island that was that came to be called

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<v Speaker 1>Deepwater Key. And uh after a few months of being

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<v Speaker 1>down there, he hired a man named David Pender, who

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<v Speaker 1>who he hired to basically uh cleaned the island of

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<v Speaker 1>mangroves and helped them lug rock and and you know

0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:46.439
<v Speaker 1>rudimentary construction project. But soon he found out that Pender,

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<v Speaker 1>who had been born and raised on this tiny little island,

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<v Speaker 1>uh knew a lot about where the bone fish lived.

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<v Speaker 1>Right for what reason? Just be he I mean, he

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<v Speaker 1>grew up foraging. He was a shore for his father

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<v Speaker 1>had been a sponger, you know, and had drifted uh

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<v Speaker 1>uh kind of islands, islands, island. Pender says in the

0:26:09.080 --> 0:26:11.359
<v Speaker 1>book the sponger like got to collect sponges from the

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<v Speaker 1>exactly and that's not ornamental, right, that's for sponge. They

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<v Speaker 1>were so yeah, they were selling them for sponges. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>Pender contends that that the sponges were over harvested at

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<v Speaker 1>one point. Uh, so you know, he was basically a

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<v Speaker 1>sponger's son who had spent in an ordinarate amount of

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<v Speaker 1>timeand this tiny little island at the east end of

0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:38.159
<v Speaker 1>Grand Bahama, and so he knew where the bonefish lived.

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<v Speaker 1>He was basically be mused when uh Drake said, you

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<v Speaker 1>think you could show us where to catch them because

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<v Speaker 1>of you know, of what use was a bone fish? Right?

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<v Speaker 1>They were uh tedious to eat at best, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and there was snapper plentiful and and uh lobsters and whatnot.

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<v Speaker 1>So we talked about this that in Hawaii they make

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<v Speaker 1>a ground up patty. They're not bad. I've I've eaten one,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, but regardless, one thing we gotta do. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>somebody needs to explain, like what a bone fish isn't

0:27:14.280 --> 0:27:19.560
<v Speaker 1>where it lives. I can do it, go for it,

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<v Speaker 1>all right? Well, so it's a um you know, the

0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:27.359
<v Speaker 1>bone fish is a a sport fish. Now it's really

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<v Speaker 1>average is about three to five pounds. Um. It's a

0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:36.080
<v Speaker 1>fish that lives in deep water. Looks to you know,

0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:39.520
<v Speaker 1>the Western I or even the Midwestern I like a whitefish. Basically,

0:27:39.520 --> 0:27:42.280
<v Speaker 1>if you caught Lake Superior whitefish in Michigan, or you

0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:49.440
<v Speaker 1>caught Rocky Mountain whitefish, Um. The bonefish looks very very similar. UM.

0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:52.000
<v Speaker 1>It can travel with speeds of up to thirty miles

0:27:52.040 --> 0:27:55.640
<v Speaker 1>an hour. UM. So it's a you know, a super

0:27:55.640 --> 0:28:01.600
<v Speaker 1>sporty fish when hooked right, UM strong strong, kind of

0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:06.920
<v Speaker 1>straight ahead laser sharp runs. Not not real. UM. It

0:28:06.960 --> 0:28:09.320
<v Speaker 1>doesn't make a whole lot of buck rockets when you

0:28:09.320 --> 0:28:12.040
<v Speaker 1>hook them. The line going through the water, I cameber

0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:15.639
<v Speaker 1>I came up with this somewhere else? Did I don't know,

0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:19.320
<v Speaker 1>Maybe I stole it from someone. When that fish takes

0:28:19.359 --> 0:28:21.280
<v Speaker 1>off and your lines caught in the water, it sounds

0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:25.040
<v Speaker 1>like someone ripping news print. Yeah, that is exactly what

0:28:25.080 --> 0:28:27.399
<v Speaker 1>it sounds like. If you did steal that. That's a

0:28:27.440 --> 0:28:32.280
<v Speaker 1>good theft. Um. You you actually in the chapter I'm

0:28:32.440 --> 0:28:35.440
<v Speaker 1>kind of describing the physicality of the bone fish. I

0:28:35.840 --> 0:28:38.480
<v Speaker 1>quote a bit from Meat either the book. You have

0:28:38.520 --> 0:28:41.560
<v Speaker 1>a great line where you say their nose looks like

0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:48.800
<v Speaker 1>the working in of a rechargeable vacuum. I finger like

0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:52.360
<v Speaker 1>your mas va, your mom's the kind of vacuum like

0:28:53.080 --> 0:28:55.560
<v Speaker 1>stick in the wall with tell. I forget what those

0:28:55.560 --> 0:29:00.440
<v Speaker 1>are called, but dust something and that's not so that's

0:29:00.480 --> 0:29:05.160
<v Speaker 1>not um anyway. So they live um for the most

0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:09.000
<v Speaker 1>part in deep water where they're rarely caught, but they

0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:12.000
<v Speaker 1>come onto the flats defeats, so the saltwater flats being

0:29:13.320 --> 0:29:18.400
<v Speaker 1>ankle to knee deep really um and and exceptionally clear. Uh.

0:29:18.560 --> 0:29:22.800
<v Speaker 1>They eat crabs, they eat shrimp, they little benthic worms,

0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:26.320
<v Speaker 1>They eat sea urchins, they eat small perch. They even

0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:28.440
<v Speaker 1>eat small bone fish. There's a great story in here

0:29:28.440 --> 0:29:32.920
<v Speaker 1>where this old guy, David Pender who I mentioned, uh,

0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:35.840
<v Speaker 1>just catches a bone fish that has a small a

0:29:35.880 --> 0:29:39.440
<v Speaker 1>twelve pound bone fish that has a one pound bone fish, uh,

0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:44.000
<v Speaker 1>actually still alive and in its in its belly. Um,

0:29:44.120 --> 0:29:46.479
<v Speaker 1>it's the only fish you can maybe that's the only one.

0:29:46.520 --> 0:29:48.480
<v Speaker 1>But when a very few fish you can track down.

0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:57.360
<v Speaker 1>Oh sure, yeah, because they leave signs. They leave signs.

0:29:59.080 --> 0:30:01.840
<v Speaker 1>They go up and go into the mud and make

0:30:01.880 --> 0:30:03.720
<v Speaker 1>a little looks like it looks like someone like kind

0:30:03.720 --> 0:30:05.880
<v Speaker 1>of jammed golf ball down on the ground and pulled

0:30:05.920 --> 0:30:07.920
<v Speaker 1>it back out again, and you'd be like, oh, they've

0:30:07.920 --> 0:30:10.200
<v Speaker 1>been through here. Yeah, you see like dark gray patches

0:30:10.560 --> 0:30:14.320
<v Speaker 1>the MUDs everywhere. Yeah, and then those little little what

0:30:14.640 --> 0:30:18.360
<v Speaker 1>you call little divot rootings, Yeah, little rootings. But they

0:30:18.360 --> 0:30:21.440
<v Speaker 1>don't you know, they don't jump. I think they are

0:30:21.480 --> 0:30:25.320
<v Speaker 1>certainly fast, but they they're probably best renowned for their speed,

0:30:25.400 --> 0:30:28.400
<v Speaker 1>right and their and their strengths for their size. And

0:30:28.440 --> 0:30:32.000
<v Speaker 1>I think at the time when Gil Drake this this

0:30:32.080 --> 0:30:36.480
<v Speaker 1>Floridian was thinking he could make a fishing lodge based

0:30:36.520 --> 0:30:41.040
<v Speaker 1>on this bone fish, it was their their fickleness, you know,

0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:46.440
<v Speaker 1>they're the difficulty um of pursuit that kind of made

0:30:46.480 --> 0:30:49.440
<v Speaker 1>them a target as a sport fish. Um. I'm assuming

0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:52.600
<v Speaker 1>he never fished permit, you know, he would have, he

0:30:52.640 --> 0:30:55.760
<v Speaker 1>would have chanced upon him in the keys. Um. His

0:30:55.800 --> 0:31:00.520
<v Speaker 1>wife actually became an actually his son's wife, Into Drake,

0:31:00.600 --> 0:31:03.480
<v Speaker 1>became an incredible keys guide, and Fat Harrison used to

0:31:03.520 --> 0:31:05.920
<v Speaker 1>fish with her. Um. Do you do you don't recognize

0:31:05.920 --> 0:31:10.280
<v Speaker 1>that name, Linda Drake? Yeah, she she was. She was.

0:31:11.080 --> 0:31:14.480
<v Speaker 1>She also guided for this lodge where, um, most of

0:31:14.480 --> 0:31:19.320
<v Speaker 1>the book takes place, called Deepwater key. Um. Yeah. So anyway,

0:31:19.440 --> 0:31:26.800
<v Speaker 1>this old old man, David pender Um started guiding basically

0:31:26.840 --> 0:31:30.520
<v Speaker 1>for five dollars a day, and yeah, five bucks a day,

0:31:30.520 --> 0:31:33.360
<v Speaker 1>five bucks a day, right, um, And he had been

0:31:33.400 --> 0:31:38.000
<v Speaker 1>working at a some kind of a missile detection site

0:31:38.360 --> 0:31:41.200
<v Speaker 1>near Freeport. You know, I'm making probably five bucks a month.

0:31:41.280 --> 0:31:45.280
<v Speaker 1>So five bucks a day was just incredible raised for

0:31:45.360 --> 0:31:50.400
<v Speaker 1>him and opportunity um and over the course of because

0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:53.840
<v Speaker 1>there's a great story where he's like working there and

0:31:53.880 --> 0:31:55.880
<v Speaker 1>he must just be doing hard labor too, and it's

0:31:55.960 --> 0:32:00.240
<v Speaker 1>him and two other dudes, and that's when uh Rap

0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:04.120
<v Speaker 1>comes up and he's looking for a strong, healthy worker

0:32:04.240 --> 0:32:06.560
<v Speaker 1>and he's literally he doesn't know anything about these three

0:32:06.600 --> 0:32:10.640
<v Speaker 1>men except just he's just sizing them up. And Pinner

0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:13.720
<v Speaker 1>gets picked and he's like that that was the day

0:32:13.800 --> 0:32:16.800
<v Speaker 1>of all my days. That was the moment that wasn't

0:32:16.840 --> 0:32:20.560
<v Speaker 1>life changed? Right? It's an amazing It's a really a

0:32:20.560 --> 0:32:24.080
<v Speaker 1>beautiful moment. I think, Um it was. I want to

0:32:24.080 --> 0:32:27.160
<v Speaker 1>say it was whatever. Ruination Day is the same day

0:32:27.160 --> 0:32:31.640
<v Speaker 1>the Titanic sank Um, the Titanic sinking has a name, yeah,

0:32:31.720 --> 0:32:34.880
<v Speaker 1>Ruination Day, and it's based off the Titanic sinking. Well,

0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:38.040
<v Speaker 1>I had this argument with with my editor actually because

0:32:38.080 --> 0:32:41.440
<v Speaker 1>she said it was um it was a Gillian Welch

0:32:43.640 --> 0:32:46.960
<v Speaker 1>phrase or invention, but whatever, the same day, same day

0:32:46.960 --> 0:32:52.040
<v Speaker 1>Lincoln was assassinated, right and in the Titanic. Yeah, anyway,

0:32:52.120 --> 0:32:54.120
<v Speaker 1>so man, the guy a shot Lincoln. What a nut

0:32:54.200 --> 0:32:56.440
<v Speaker 1>job that guy was? Man, I didn't realize that I

0:32:56.480 --> 0:33:01.040
<v Speaker 1>recently was watching something that I mean, you're obviously nut job,

0:33:01.160 --> 0:33:03.000
<v Speaker 1>right man, But I mean just like, you know, it's

0:33:03.080 --> 0:33:06.800
<v Speaker 1>kind of like a drunken derelict, you know, total loser.

0:33:07.760 --> 0:33:10.200
<v Speaker 1>You can't believe it even besides, like how bad you

0:33:10.240 --> 0:33:12.760
<v Speaker 1>are to kill a man, let alone kill the president.

0:33:13.040 --> 0:33:17.960
<v Speaker 1>But in addition, it was just like a drunken Yeah,

0:33:18.160 --> 0:33:23.720
<v Speaker 1>they're walked into the playhouse. Drunken theater. Guy, go ahead, though,

0:33:24.520 --> 0:33:29.000
<v Speaker 1>all right, I will see if anybody had any doubts

0:33:29.400 --> 0:33:33.240
<v Speaker 1>whether or not the assassin. But I could be like,

0:33:33.280 --> 0:33:37.840
<v Speaker 1>now there's a fine specimen of a gentleman did Yeah,

0:33:38.000 --> 0:33:43.400
<v Speaker 1>So it's Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the Titanic sinking and the

0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:48.680
<v Speaker 1>Black Sunday dust one adds up to ruinations. There you go,

0:33:49.080 --> 0:33:51.920
<v Speaker 1>and everybody's saying bad things happen in threes. And then

0:33:52.560 --> 0:33:56.680
<v Speaker 1>Gillian um First brought attention to this historical confluence on

0:33:56.720 --> 0:34:04.840
<v Speaker 1>her two thousand one album Time Good Yeah, okay, now

0:34:05.040 --> 0:34:08.480
<v Speaker 1>remind me, remind me the guy that goes down and

0:34:08.520 --> 0:34:10.360
<v Speaker 1>he and he opens the thing up to try to

0:34:10.440 --> 0:34:14.759
<v Speaker 1>establish a fishery, right, Gil Drake? Does he need to

0:34:15.000 --> 0:34:16.879
<v Speaker 1>because he's trying to take a fish that no one

0:34:16.920 --> 0:34:20.440
<v Speaker 1>cares about and make people begin part of his job

0:34:20.920 --> 0:34:24.799
<v Speaker 1>to market the fish. He needs like manufacture a clientele. Yeah,

0:34:24.840 --> 0:34:28.600
<v Speaker 1>but he's still decades really away ahead of himself as

0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:31.120
<v Speaker 1>far as acts concerned. I mean, this is the fifties.

0:34:31.200 --> 0:34:36.240
<v Speaker 1>So um, he's really just putting up a cool place

0:34:36.280 --> 0:34:38.920
<v Speaker 1>for he and his buds to go hang out. Um,

0:34:39.000 --> 0:34:40.840
<v Speaker 1>but he thinks it's fun and doesn't care if you

0:34:40.840 --> 0:34:43.760
<v Speaker 1>think it's fun exactly. He's he's fronted, his wife's fronted

0:34:43.800 --> 0:34:45.680
<v Speaker 1>in the money. He's he's going to go down and

0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:50.239
<v Speaker 1>enjoy himself and and then um, the fishery kind of

0:34:50.760 --> 0:34:55.479
<v Speaker 1>begins to take off, um, and and some crazy things coinside. Uh.

0:34:55.600 --> 0:35:00.680
<v Speaker 1>Timing wise, so as the rise of f ye fishing

0:35:01.360 --> 0:35:06.720
<v Speaker 1>uh for bone fish starts to happen, Um, we're also

0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:11.120
<v Speaker 1>looking at the height of the Columbian drug cartel. Right,

0:35:11.680 --> 0:35:16.920
<v Speaker 1>so um, you know Deepwater Key becomes this destination probably

0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:21.000
<v Speaker 1>next to uh Charlie Smith's Bang Bang Club, the great

0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:25.120
<v Speaker 1>Bahamian bone fish destination at the time. Right, what's Charlie

0:35:25.120 --> 0:35:30.359
<v Speaker 1>Smith's Bank Bank Club that's over on Androws. Yeah, that's

0:35:30.400 --> 0:35:34.600
<v Speaker 1>over on Andrews and Charlie Smith is probably the real famed. Uh.

0:35:34.640 --> 0:35:37.320
<v Speaker 1>If you ask people who started bone fishing, who was

0:35:37.320 --> 0:35:39.839
<v Speaker 1>the first Bahamian bone fish guy, almost everybody will say

0:35:40.080 --> 0:35:43.120
<v Speaker 1>Charlie Smith. They won't say David Pinder, who is at

0:35:43.200 --> 0:35:45.520
<v Speaker 1>the center of this book and actually was the first guy.

0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:50.040
<v Speaker 1>But there's really Pinder has that that's a generational family,

0:35:50.120 --> 0:35:52.080
<v Speaker 1>right because I was guided by a Pinder when I

0:35:52.120 --> 0:35:55.000
<v Speaker 1>was there. Yeahah, you might have been guided by William.

0:35:55.040 --> 0:35:57.240
<v Speaker 1>You might have been guided by Joseph. His two sons,

0:35:57.320 --> 0:36:00.520
<v Speaker 1>David Jr. And Jeffrey guide up out of Freeport. They're all,

0:36:00.560 --> 0:36:05.319
<v Speaker 1>you know, incredible. And then, um, third generation is a

0:36:05.320 --> 0:36:10.520
<v Speaker 1>guy named Miko Glinton, who's who's people know from his

0:36:10.520 --> 0:36:15.600
<v Speaker 1>his YouTube world and his I mean I think he

0:36:15.640 --> 0:36:17.440
<v Speaker 1>and I fished. Yeah, we fished for a day and

0:36:17.560 --> 0:36:19.640
<v Speaker 1>he would do this like he does the Michael Jackson turns.

0:36:20.040 --> 0:36:22.200
<v Speaker 1>He'll do a cast and the in between castle do this,

0:36:22.520 --> 0:36:24.440
<v Speaker 1>you know, Michael Jackson turned on the bat with the

0:36:24.440 --> 0:36:29.799
<v Speaker 1>boat and complete his cast. Yeah. Yeah, it's incredible. He

0:36:29.840 --> 0:36:31.520
<v Speaker 1>can throw his he can throw the whole line with

0:36:31.640 --> 0:36:36.200
<v Speaker 1>just his hands, you know. Um, so yeah, Miko is

0:36:36.280 --> 0:36:41.279
<v Speaker 1>third generation and um, you know the book. I'm getting

0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:44.319
<v Speaker 1>ahead of myself. But if we go back to the seventies,

0:36:45.280 --> 0:36:50.080
<v Speaker 1>Gil Drake's son comes around, becomes this also a great

0:36:50.200 --> 0:36:54.640
<v Speaker 1>young guide in the area, and um, bone fishes. The

0:36:54.640 --> 0:36:57.440
<v Speaker 1>bone fish is like a viable sport fish. Now suddenly

0:36:57.480 --> 0:37:01.000
<v Speaker 1>people are traveling to to the Bahamas to you know,

0:37:01.239 --> 0:37:06.640
<v Speaker 1>catch this fish. Right. Um. Meantime, the Bohemian economy is

0:37:06.960 --> 0:37:09.000
<v Speaker 1>in the tank, right Yeah, we're just getting to the

0:37:09.040 --> 0:37:12.399
<v Speaker 1>drug cartel. So we're still I mean, some people like

0:37:12.719 --> 0:37:17.279
<v Speaker 1>Prime Minister Linden Pindling are getting exceptionally rich, you know,

0:37:17.360 --> 0:37:21.200
<v Speaker 1>taking bribes from from the cartel, but everybody else is, um,

0:37:21.239 --> 0:37:27.080
<v Speaker 1>it's floundering. And about that time someone discovers that the

0:37:27.080 --> 0:37:29.920
<v Speaker 1>bone fish is the reason people are coming to You know,

0:37:29.960 --> 0:37:33.360
<v Speaker 1>we didn't use they didn't use the term eco tourism

0:37:33.400 --> 0:37:36.799
<v Speaker 1>back then, but um, someone had a good sense to say, look,

0:37:36.960 --> 0:37:40.440
<v Speaker 1>we can keep giving the Colombians all this money, um

0:37:40.560 --> 0:37:43.160
<v Speaker 1>or all this you know, play in the islands, or

0:37:43.200 --> 0:37:46.399
<v Speaker 1>we can kick them out all together and see if

0:37:46.400 --> 0:37:49.480
<v Speaker 1>our economy can actually be based on this this fish.

0:37:49.840 --> 0:37:53.520
<v Speaker 1>So as it would turn out in two thousand and ten,

0:37:53.960 --> 0:37:58.360
<v Speaker 1>that same fish that Pender guided toward for five bucks

0:37:58.360 --> 0:38:02.000
<v Speaker 1>a day in the fifties. The bone fish is a

0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:06.319
<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty one million dollar industry tourism wise per

0:38:06.400 --> 0:38:09.400
<v Speaker 1>year in the Bahamas is then the Bahamas alone, So

0:38:09.440 --> 0:38:11.879
<v Speaker 1>it's and that's you know, eight hundred thousand people, maybe

0:38:11.920 --> 0:38:15.600
<v Speaker 1>nine thousand now, but it's the it's the crux of

0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:18.839
<v Speaker 1>of their eco tourism industry. Um, and what's one day

0:38:18.920 --> 0:38:20.920
<v Speaker 1>of flats fishing out there right now? I want to

0:38:20.920 --> 0:38:26.319
<v Speaker 1>say it's seven seven bucks. Now, maybe there's a friend

0:38:26.320 --> 0:38:27.759
<v Speaker 1>of mine who did what it cost to go fish.

0:38:27.800 --> 0:38:29.440
<v Speaker 1>That's what it cost to go up and stay at

0:38:29.440 --> 0:38:34.360
<v Speaker 1>a lodge and fish in Alaska right bcs it lodges.

0:38:34.400 --> 0:38:36.480
<v Speaker 1>They do a lot of you know, week long packages.

0:38:36.520 --> 0:38:40.800
<v Speaker 1>So it's great for the entire economy there. Yeah. Um,

0:38:40.960 --> 0:38:45.120
<v Speaker 1>the can you still do like? I don't know why

0:38:45.120 --> 0:38:50.640
<v Speaker 1>you wouldn't be able to? Like in ninety six, my

0:38:50.719 --> 0:38:57.360
<v Speaker 1>brother flew to Cancun, took a bus to apply Adele

0:38:57.440 --> 0:39:03.120
<v Speaker 1>Carmen and then ball shiploads of beans and rice and

0:39:03.200 --> 0:39:07.840
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of water and just walked and slept on

0:39:07.880 --> 0:39:10.799
<v Speaker 1>the beach and fish bone fish And you'd like now

0:39:10.840 --> 0:39:12.279
<v Speaker 1>and then run into do it? Who was doing it?

0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:14.680
<v Speaker 1>But it wasn't like a thing people were doing. So

0:39:14.840 --> 0:39:19.880
<v Speaker 1>just do I y on the beach has complicated that

0:39:20.000 --> 0:39:21.359
<v Speaker 1>a couple of years ago. I mean you could still

0:39:21.360 --> 0:39:26.080
<v Speaker 1>do it in Mexico. You can still do it and believe. Yeah.

0:39:26.280 --> 0:39:29.640
<v Speaker 1>So if we go if we take that, uh, that

0:39:29.800 --> 0:39:32.840
<v Speaker 1>five dollars a day in the fifties, and we compare

0:39:32.880 --> 0:39:38.600
<v Speaker 1>it to the seven per guy day today seven dollars

0:39:38.680 --> 0:39:45.719
<v Speaker 1>seven hundred and nine dollars per day. Um. According to

0:39:46.160 --> 0:39:49.560
<v Speaker 1>this Econ guy that I talked to, nothing but gold

0:39:49.600 --> 0:39:53.000
<v Speaker 1>has appreciated more in that span of time. So you

0:39:53.080 --> 0:39:59.040
<v Speaker 1>take this fish that was basically thrown away, uh, discarded

0:39:59.160 --> 0:40:04.440
<v Speaker 1>into piles for dog food whatnot, and it literally becomes

0:40:04.480 --> 0:40:08.680
<v Speaker 1>the crux of this whole whole country's economy, gets him

0:40:08.680 --> 0:40:13.640
<v Speaker 1>out from under uh the drug cartels, um, you know,

0:40:14.400 --> 0:40:17.680
<v Speaker 1>the shadow of the drug cartel. And really now that

0:40:17.719 --> 0:40:23.480
<v Speaker 1>we're talking the third generation of Bahamian guides, uh helps

0:40:24.000 --> 0:40:27.560
<v Speaker 1>a country becomes self sufficient. Um. This guy Prescott Smith,

0:40:27.680 --> 0:40:31.560
<v Speaker 1>who's uh, go ahead, you can take You can take

0:40:31.560 --> 0:40:35.200
<v Speaker 1>this on later if you want. Um. Is the money

0:40:35.200 --> 0:40:37.160
<v Speaker 1>phone to Bohemians or is it all phone to Americans?

0:40:37.239 --> 0:40:39.439
<v Speaker 1>Good question, because take that when you want, well, I'll

0:40:39.440 --> 0:40:41.040
<v Speaker 1>take it on now is about where I was gonna go.

0:40:41.120 --> 0:40:46.040
<v Speaker 1>So um, Prescott Smith is the son of Charlie Smith,

0:40:46.080 --> 0:40:51.560
<v Speaker 1>that crazy Charlie guy, right, And what's Prescott? He's a

0:40:51.560 --> 0:40:58.080
<v Speaker 1>bohemian yet and he's funny. I didn't want to I was.

0:40:58.480 --> 0:41:00.560
<v Speaker 1>Oliver White recently corrected me. I said, oh, is your

0:41:00.560 --> 0:41:05.760
<v Speaker 1>wife bohemian? He said, bohemian? Right, it is. It's easy

0:41:05.800 --> 0:41:07.400
<v Speaker 1>to confuse it to you. A fact. When I was

0:41:07.440 --> 0:41:10.759
<v Speaker 1>working on this book, I must have said bohemian a

0:41:10.800 --> 0:41:13.600
<v Speaker 1>few times, and people thought, like, God, this guy. I

0:41:13.680 --> 0:41:15.279
<v Speaker 1>knew this guy was weird, but I didn't think even

0:41:15.320 --> 0:41:23.200
<v Speaker 1>that weird to write a book about bohemian. If crazy

0:41:23.280 --> 0:41:28.800
<v Speaker 1>Charlie was a local, yeah, so crazy Charlie. He has

0:41:28.880 --> 0:41:32.480
<v Speaker 1>a famous lodge over on Androws, and his son Prescott

0:41:32.520 --> 0:41:36.040
<v Speaker 1>has become the voice of this second third generation of

0:41:36.080 --> 0:41:40.240
<v Speaker 1>guy's basically saying we have to get these lodges out

0:41:40.280 --> 0:41:45.400
<v Speaker 1>from under the ownership of these wealthy um Floridian dudes

0:41:45.520 --> 0:41:49.000
<v Speaker 1>or or or wherever they're from, and we need to

0:41:50.080 --> 0:41:53.319
<v Speaker 1>we need to own these lodges because only if we

0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:58.840
<v Speaker 1>own them will the conservation be uh. The necessary choices

0:41:58.880 --> 0:42:02.279
<v Speaker 1>in conservation he made right. Um, he talks. That's a

0:42:02.280 --> 0:42:04.719
<v Speaker 1>bold statement. It is man, and he's a he's a

0:42:04.719 --> 0:42:07.480
<v Speaker 1>hated dude in a lot of ways. UM. You you

0:42:07.719 --> 0:42:10.799
<v Speaker 1>asked about the UM, can you just get a bag

0:42:10.800 --> 0:42:15.320
<v Speaker 1>of beans and rice and go kind of dirt bag it? Uh.

0:42:15.600 --> 0:42:19.880
<v Speaker 1>In the last couple of years, the Bahamas UH passed

0:42:19.920 --> 0:42:21.840
<v Speaker 1>the law that basically said you can't do that. And

0:42:23.520 --> 0:42:25.719
<v Speaker 1>when I was in the Bahamas, I mean I did

0:42:25.760 --> 0:42:27.400
<v Speaker 1>a lot of d I I knew that when I

0:42:27.440 --> 0:42:31.239
<v Speaker 1>was going there. You still couldn't guide there as you know,

0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:34.240
<v Speaker 1>if you weren't from there, but you could do it yourself.

0:42:34.280 --> 0:42:35.800
<v Speaker 1>So they've changed that in the last few years. In

0:42:35.880 --> 0:42:39.719
<v Speaker 1>the last few years, I shouldn't say this, Well, that's

0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:42.200
<v Speaker 1>the thing. It's not. I was actually down there. We

0:42:42.239 --> 0:42:46.640
<v Speaker 1>went down as a family, UM to celebrate the book

0:42:46.760 --> 0:42:49.359
<v Speaker 1>with this whole town, this little town of maybe three

0:42:49.760 --> 0:42:52.520
<v Speaker 1>people called mcclean's town, and that's where David Pender lives.

0:42:52.880 --> 0:42:55.120
<v Speaker 1>We went down to celebrate the publication of and I

0:42:55.120 --> 0:42:58.799
<v Speaker 1>wanted to take Luca our son bone fishing, so UM

0:42:58.840 --> 0:43:01.680
<v Speaker 1>I had to get him a license. But no one

0:43:01.800 --> 0:43:04.600
<v Speaker 1>thought you needed to have a license. They thought the

0:43:04.680 --> 0:43:07.080
<v Speaker 1>old rules were still in place, so to find the

0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:10.040
<v Speaker 1>actual license was as a classic high jinks of like,

0:43:10.160 --> 0:43:13.279
<v Speaker 1>you know, island time, you should go over see Steve. Well,

0:43:13.280 --> 0:43:15.319
<v Speaker 1>Steve told me to go over see April. You know,

0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:18.200
<v Speaker 1>blah blah blah. Um. So no one appears to be

0:43:18.280 --> 0:43:21.279
<v Speaker 1>monitoring it, but I had We had an argument in

0:43:21.360 --> 0:43:24.640
<v Speaker 1>the Bahamas, uh, and I don't want to say where,

0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:26.680
<v Speaker 1>because it's kind of not a place, not when people

0:43:26.719 --> 0:43:28.840
<v Speaker 1>go to. We had an argument in the Bahamas with

0:43:28.840 --> 0:43:31.400
<v Speaker 1>the guy we were rent in a house from where

0:43:31.880 --> 0:43:35.680
<v Speaker 1>he was insulted when we suggested the need for a

0:43:35.719 --> 0:43:40.080
<v Speaker 1>fishing license, and was especially insulted when we when we

0:43:40.239 --> 0:43:44.799
<v Speaker 1>mentioned that there was uh distances from the land where

0:43:44.840 --> 0:43:50.000
<v Speaker 1>you cannot spearfish, and he's like, didn't not that he

0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:52.879
<v Speaker 1>didn't like the law, was like insulted that we would

0:43:52.920 --> 0:43:54.920
<v Speaker 1>be so stupid as to bring up the idea that

0:43:54.960 --> 0:43:57.960
<v Speaker 1>someone could possibly even make that law. Yes, I had

0:43:58.000 --> 0:44:01.400
<v Speaker 1>the same conversation with a gentleman who who thought that

0:44:01.600 --> 0:44:04.080
<v Speaker 1>going to try to buy a license was the stupidest thing.

0:44:04.560 --> 0:44:06.920
<v Speaker 1>But you know, he's like, he's you're telling me that

0:44:06.960 --> 0:44:09.080
<v Speaker 1>there's no way it could be true that you can't

0:44:09.120 --> 0:44:15.840
<v Speaker 1>use spearfish where you want money, that's great anyway. So

0:44:15.920 --> 0:44:20.200
<v Speaker 1>Prescott Smith has become a kind of a controversial figure.

0:44:20.239 --> 0:44:24.200
<v Speaker 1>But what he talks a lot about conservation wise. Um,

0:44:24.280 --> 0:44:30.759
<v Speaker 1>the Bahamian Archipelago is a fascinating um geological specimen. If

0:44:30.760 --> 0:44:34.279
<v Speaker 1>you will, right, if you um, if you want to

0:44:34.360 --> 0:44:37.640
<v Speaker 1>forego you're ambient tonight, just pick up a book on

0:44:38.160 --> 0:44:42.560
<v Speaker 1>Bahamian geology. Um, it's it's a real sleeper. But everything

0:44:43.239 --> 0:44:46.640
<v Speaker 1>but every like five pages or something, you you discover

0:44:47.120 --> 0:44:51.000
<v Speaker 1>some really cool things. For one, UM, slavery didn't really

0:44:51.080 --> 0:44:56.120
<v Speaker 1>take in the Bahamas. Um, the Bahamas had a um

0:44:56.880 --> 0:45:00.560
<v Speaker 1>way different narrative in terms of colonialism than most of

0:45:00.600 --> 0:45:05.680
<v Speaker 1>the Caribbean. Uh because culturally it wasn't suitable ground to

0:45:05.719 --> 0:45:09.000
<v Speaker 1>grow cane both but the latter for the most part.

0:45:09.120 --> 0:45:14.000
<v Speaker 1>So for the same reason that cane didn't grow there.

0:45:14.640 --> 0:45:20.480
<v Speaker 1>The limestone. Right, Um, we we get this thing called

0:45:20.520 --> 0:45:25.920
<v Speaker 1>the freshwater lens. So obviously the islands exists in salt water,

0:45:26.080 --> 0:45:30.960
<v Speaker 1>but rain falls onto limestone and basically percolates through the

0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:36.600
<v Speaker 1>tiny um holes in limestone and then spreads out and

0:45:36.640 --> 0:45:39.160
<v Speaker 1>makes what's called the freshwater lens. It's like a meniscus

0:45:39.239 --> 0:45:44.080
<v Speaker 1>of freshwater that um allow the mangroves to flourish, floats

0:45:44.120 --> 0:45:45.879
<v Speaker 1>on top of the salt water. It floats on top

0:45:45.920 --> 0:45:47.640
<v Speaker 1>of it. Yet is that why when we were catching

0:45:47.640 --> 0:45:49.160
<v Speaker 1>baby tarp and they were saying it was I mean

0:45:49.239 --> 0:45:51.719
<v Speaker 1>I knew it was brackish. Yeah, That's exactly why I

0:45:51.760 --> 0:45:53.680
<v Speaker 1>was hearing how they could have how they could have

0:45:53.719 --> 0:45:56.040
<v Speaker 1>brackish water in that area. So that's how it doesn't

0:45:56.040 --> 0:45:58.880
<v Speaker 1>make any sense until you, you know, see this gigantic

0:45:58.920 --> 0:46:02.920
<v Speaker 1>map of so. Prescott Smith is a huge proponent of

0:46:03.320 --> 0:46:06.560
<v Speaker 1>preserving these freshwater lens is because they are the places

0:46:06.600 --> 0:46:10.360
<v Speaker 1>where mangroves can flourish. And if you can get mangroves

0:46:10.360 --> 0:46:12.759
<v Speaker 1>to flourish, you can get you know, the bait fish

0:46:12.800 --> 0:46:15.799
<v Speaker 1>to flourish, the lobsters which they commercially fish for to

0:46:15.880 --> 0:46:19.480
<v Speaker 1>flourish all of these things. Um, when that freshwater lens

0:46:19.680 --> 0:46:25.719
<v Speaker 1>is destroyed, uh, basically according to Prescott and really um,

0:46:25.920 --> 0:46:29.279
<v Speaker 1>this other biologist named Andy Danield Chuck who works at

0:46:29.320 --> 0:46:31.920
<v Speaker 1>you Mask you know, so he was you know a

0:46:32.000 --> 0:46:34.520
<v Speaker 1>great content that study, that study that they did, he

0:46:34.600 --> 0:46:37.239
<v Speaker 1>and his wife, Right, they did that incredible study. Right,

0:46:37.320 --> 0:46:39.879
<v Speaker 1>I mean, he's probably one of the people I talked

0:46:39.960 --> 0:46:43.319
<v Speaker 1>to scientifically the most while while working on his book,

0:46:43.360 --> 0:46:45.560
<v Speaker 1>and he helped establish, you know, the value of these.

0:46:45.719 --> 0:46:47.600
<v Speaker 1>I read the whole paper. It was fascinesting it is.

0:46:47.600 --> 0:46:50.279
<v Speaker 1>It just starts saying body of water instead of the book,

0:46:50.360 --> 0:46:52.759
<v Speaker 1>so it burns into people's head. Thank you. What the

0:46:52.800 --> 0:46:55.440
<v Speaker 1>name of the story is the body of Water? Two

0:46:55.520 --> 0:46:58.320
<v Speaker 1>things about the freshwater lens body of water. I have

0:46:58.480 --> 0:47:02.759
<v Speaker 1>often in body Water you mentioned the freshwater lens. Um, dude.

0:47:02.800 --> 0:47:07.239
<v Speaker 1>I spent a lot of time puzzling over how in

0:47:07.320 --> 0:47:09.120
<v Speaker 1>the hell, Like, let's say you see a little island.

0:47:10.160 --> 0:47:12.479
<v Speaker 1>It's got mangroves on it, but there's no fresh water,

0:47:13.040 --> 0:47:15.799
<v Speaker 1>there's no pond, there's no creek. I've often been like,

0:47:15.800 --> 0:47:18.400
<v Speaker 1>how in the world does that things survive? That's what

0:47:18.400 --> 0:47:20.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm wondering. So is that is that a Is that

0:47:20.680 --> 0:47:23.560
<v Speaker 1>a lens there? It's possible that there is one. But

0:47:23.640 --> 0:47:29.080
<v Speaker 1>mangroves are really like the most hardy plant you'll ever

0:47:29.120 --> 0:47:32.879
<v Speaker 1>come across. I mean, they can live basically underwater. Their

0:47:32.960 --> 0:47:35.799
<v Speaker 1>roots poke up and kind of snorkel for air, you know.

0:47:35.880 --> 0:47:41.360
<v Speaker 1>They um they can store salt water and shed it

0:47:41.440 --> 0:47:45.399
<v Speaker 1>basically through dead leaves, so they're an incredible survivor. Um.

0:47:45.640 --> 0:47:48.200
<v Speaker 1>I don't know that you know direct answer to that question,

0:47:48.200 --> 0:47:51.799
<v Speaker 1>but but I would say the kind of tenacity of

0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:54.640
<v Speaker 1>mangroves has something something to do with it. Can they

0:47:54.719 --> 0:47:58.480
<v Speaker 1>clip all their freshwater from the simple rain? It's got

0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:02.400
<v Speaker 1>to be that, right. This second point is you talk

0:48:02.440 --> 0:48:06.560
<v Speaker 1>about saltwater, how freshwater float on saltwater. I dove in

0:48:06.640 --> 0:48:12.000
<v Speaker 1>a in a body water in the Philippines where there

0:48:12.000 --> 0:48:18.480
<v Speaker 1>are freshwater species, and then you dive down and there

0:48:18.480 --> 0:48:21.359
<v Speaker 1>are saltwater species because it's like it's a freshwater lake

0:48:21.400 --> 0:48:23.920
<v Speaker 1>that has an out like like like a cave entrance

0:48:23.960 --> 0:48:26.439
<v Speaker 1>that leads out into the ocean. And so there's there's

0:48:26.480 --> 0:48:30.400
<v Speaker 1>these like sicklids that are up in the freshwater portion,

0:48:30.800 --> 0:48:33.759
<v Speaker 1>but then down in the saltwater portion you'll run into

0:48:33.760 --> 0:48:36.239
<v Speaker 1>barricoot and other stuff that come in and out. You

0:48:36.239 --> 0:48:39.600
<v Speaker 1>can dive down through and the temperature changes unbelievable. Do

0:48:39.680 --> 0:48:41.839
<v Speaker 1>they have blue holes down there? It was like one

0:48:41.840 --> 0:48:43.960
<v Speaker 1>of it was one of those. They didn't call it that,

0:48:44.040 --> 0:48:46.319
<v Speaker 1>but it was it was like a blue hole setup. Right,

0:48:46.320 --> 0:48:48.759
<v Speaker 1>there's a few of those around. Somehow these freshwater fish

0:48:48.800 --> 0:48:52.840
<v Speaker 1>got established in that these freshwater fish somehow got established

0:48:52.840 --> 0:48:55.319
<v Speaker 1>in there and formed like a little population. You dive down,

0:48:55.360 --> 0:48:58.239
<v Speaker 1>the water's warm and you dive down in there, and

0:48:58.280 --> 0:49:00.879
<v Speaker 1>also the water is like frigid, and there's that open

0:49:00.920 --> 0:49:04.480
<v Speaker 1>ocean salt water. But that somehow that that that body

0:49:04.560 --> 0:49:10.120
<v Speaker 1>of water fresh water on top of the well. So

0:49:11.000 --> 0:49:14.320
<v Speaker 1>I mean, if you if you imagine this, this table

0:49:14.400 --> 0:49:19.960
<v Speaker 1>here is is an island in the Bahamas. Whenever a

0:49:20.040 --> 0:49:24.080
<v Speaker 1>piece of ground is developed, an infrastructure is put in,

0:49:24.280 --> 0:49:26.839
<v Speaker 1>they basically have to cut into that limestone and when

0:49:26.840 --> 0:49:30.640
<v Speaker 1>they do that, they destroy that freshwater lens. So if

0:49:30.680 --> 0:49:35.160
<v Speaker 1>you look at um places like zuma Um where the

0:49:35.160 --> 0:49:39.440
<v Speaker 1>fishery has kind of been uh destroyed by resorts and such,

0:49:39.960 --> 0:49:43.400
<v Speaker 1>that's what guys like Prescott Smith are trying to stop

0:49:43.440 --> 0:49:47.560
<v Speaker 1>from happening, and really are are allowed in the guiding

0:49:47.600 --> 0:49:53.680
<v Speaker 1>community UM because they want to take this Bahamian resource

0:49:53.719 --> 0:49:56.400
<v Speaker 1>and keep it a Bohemian resource. They don't want, you

0:49:56.440 --> 0:49:59.520
<v Speaker 1>know what what has happened for generations. Someone comes in,

0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:05.480
<v Speaker 1>build something, mess is something up, leaves, it goes somewhere else,

0:50:05.520 --> 0:50:07.080
<v Speaker 1>and mess is something up. You know, they don't want

0:50:07.120 --> 0:50:12.360
<v Speaker 1>that same process. Are our bone fishing resorts doing that

0:50:12.840 --> 0:50:14.680
<v Speaker 1>level of development. Like when I think of a bone

0:50:14.680 --> 0:50:17.040
<v Speaker 1>fishing place, I think I'm being real chill, Well, how

0:50:17.080 --> 0:50:19.120
<v Speaker 1>long does it take for that so when you dig

0:50:19.200 --> 0:50:21.120
<v Speaker 1>up the flats bottom? I mean I heard it takes

0:50:21.120 --> 0:50:23.160
<v Speaker 1>an astronomical amount of time for it to get all

0:50:23.200 --> 0:50:25.160
<v Speaker 1>of its nutrients backs. Right, how long does it take

0:50:25.200 --> 0:50:29.120
<v Speaker 1>to do that? Well, I mean all, I would say,

0:50:29.160 --> 0:50:31.839
<v Speaker 1>exponentially longer than it takes to destroy it. So a

0:50:31.880 --> 0:50:37.600
<v Speaker 1>little tiny island like deep water Key Sorry, um, that's

0:50:37.640 --> 0:50:40.319
<v Speaker 1>like a two square mile island. I think you know

0:50:40.480 --> 0:50:46.239
<v Speaker 1>they proposed the economic well being on the island is

0:50:46.760 --> 0:50:48.399
<v Speaker 1>it was for a long time owned by a guy

0:50:48.440 --> 0:50:52.480
<v Speaker 1>that you know, we talked this about this but um

0:50:52.680 --> 0:50:57.400
<v Speaker 1>on the island, and they proposed putting in I think

0:50:57.440 --> 0:51:00.080
<v Speaker 1>a hundred houses. So that would that would do it?

0:51:00.120 --> 0:51:03.840
<v Speaker 1>I mean that would, um, a hundred houses would on

0:51:03.880 --> 0:51:10.600
<v Speaker 1>a two mile island basically damage significantly that habitat nearest

0:51:10.640 --> 0:51:13.000
<v Speaker 1>the island. Now, everyone wants a dock, right, everyone wants

0:51:13.040 --> 0:51:14.719
<v Speaker 1>a dock. And if you look at the damage that

0:51:14.880 --> 0:51:18.040
<v Speaker 1>all of those docks do, it's it is unbelievable. And

0:51:18.080 --> 0:51:22.399
<v Speaker 1>then you get the outboards you've ever seen all the scrapes, yeah, Chris,

0:51:22.480 --> 0:51:24.239
<v Speaker 1>especially when you're flying over that kind of when you're

0:51:24.239 --> 0:51:26.480
<v Speaker 1>flying over those flats and see all those out, those

0:51:26.480 --> 0:51:29.200
<v Speaker 1>engine scars out, and those take forever to repair. I

0:51:29.239 --> 0:51:33.040
<v Speaker 1>saw recently. So the guys want to build a house.

0:51:33.080 --> 0:51:36.319
<v Speaker 1>They're trying. They want to do like a golf course model. Yeah. Yeah,

0:51:36.400 --> 0:51:43.879
<v Speaker 1>basically come down in golf fish, right. I mean, the

0:51:43.920 --> 0:51:47.759
<v Speaker 1>notion that a small island could support kind of a

0:51:48.800 --> 0:51:54.960
<v Speaker 1>an ocean reef club sized development is crazy. But over

0:51:55.000 --> 0:51:58.280
<v Speaker 1>and over and over, management the management of this small

0:51:58.320 --> 0:52:03.680
<v Speaker 1>island changed hands, and as changed hands, you suddenly somebody

0:52:03.880 --> 0:52:06.160
<v Speaker 1>needed to make more money in the endeavor than the

0:52:06.239 --> 0:52:12.439
<v Speaker 1>last guy did, right, Um, And so uh essentially, as

0:52:12.480 --> 0:52:17.120
<v Speaker 1>the as we find it in the book Body of Water, Um,

0:52:16.400 --> 0:52:20.319
<v Speaker 1>the island itself is at an impass, and um the

0:52:20.360 --> 0:52:25.560
<v Speaker 1>community is is about to be uh damaged by what

0:52:25.719 --> 0:52:29.719
<v Speaker 1>might transpire. Right. So um. David Pender, who was was

0:52:29.760 --> 0:52:36.480
<v Speaker 1>the original guide, he goes basically through Um he becomes famous,

0:52:36.520 --> 0:52:38.239
<v Speaker 1>if you will, as a guy. He's he guides like

0:52:38.280 --> 0:52:41.760
<v Speaker 1>a J. McClain and Joe Brooks and all the famed

0:52:41.960 --> 0:52:44.600
<v Speaker 1>you know, magazine stars of the day. And they come

0:52:44.600 --> 0:52:47.960
<v Speaker 1>down and they write about him and he makes deepwater

0:52:48.040 --> 0:52:51.400
<v Speaker 1>key what it is, the the great destination of Bahamian

0:52:51.440 --> 0:52:54.920
<v Speaker 1>bonefish lodges. But there's there's kind of a caveat as

0:52:54.960 --> 0:52:57.920
<v Speaker 1>he's as he's working all these decades, he's not wearing

0:52:57.960 --> 0:53:02.879
<v Speaker 1>polarized glasses, so he's developing severe cataracts on his eyes.

0:53:03.320 --> 0:53:09.360
<v Speaker 1>And as the lodge itself grows kind of into fame, uh,

0:53:09.719 --> 0:53:13.120
<v Speaker 1>his site declines and he's eventually you know, ship can

0:53:13.239 --> 0:53:16.040
<v Speaker 1>by the lodge and given a severance of I want

0:53:16.080 --> 0:53:19.040
<v Speaker 1>to say, eighteen thousand dollars is the amount they gave

0:53:19.120 --> 0:53:21.520
<v Speaker 1>him for forty year or so years of service, which

0:53:21.760 --> 0:53:24.000
<v Speaker 1>um was the severance back that was you know, a

0:53:24.080 --> 0:53:26.920
<v Speaker 1>dollar an extra dollar twenty five a day. We should

0:53:26.920 --> 0:53:29.719
<v Speaker 1>point out here that the that these fish, and you

0:53:29.760 --> 0:53:34.279
<v Speaker 1>can talk about this as well, um, the preferred way

0:53:34.320 --> 0:53:38.960
<v Speaker 1>of catching them just to see them, yes, see them,

0:53:39.040 --> 0:53:41.120
<v Speaker 1>stalk them and cast him. I mean I've caught him

0:53:41.120 --> 0:53:44.680
<v Speaker 1>out just like dicking around too. But yeah, if you're

0:53:44.719 --> 0:53:47.720
<v Speaker 1>one vision, one's vision. I was just saying, one's eyesight

0:53:47.800 --> 0:53:52.279
<v Speaker 1>is quite important. Absolutely, yeah. I mean apparently Pender was

0:53:52.320 --> 0:53:55.760
<v Speaker 1>so skilled at finding these fish that one lodge owner

0:53:55.880 --> 0:53:58.480
<v Speaker 1>said he hears the fish, he doesn't need to see them.

0:53:58.520 --> 0:54:00.759
<v Speaker 1>But um, you know it was a knack to it

0:54:00.800 --> 0:54:04.080
<v Speaker 1>for sure. Man like spotting fish. It's huge. Like people,

0:54:04.120 --> 0:54:05.480
<v Speaker 1>you can be like no right there, no, no, no no,

0:54:05.600 --> 0:54:07.600
<v Speaker 1>no right there, right there there. It's like spot mule deer.

0:54:07.760 --> 0:54:09.480
<v Speaker 1>But it's not the prefer I just want to say, like,

0:54:09.480 --> 0:54:11.880
<v Speaker 1>it's not the as fly fisherman to people, you know,

0:54:11.920 --> 0:54:13.319
<v Speaker 1>think we're just trying to make it harder. It's not

0:54:13.360 --> 0:54:16.800
<v Speaker 1>the preferred method. It's it's the most efficient method. So

0:54:17.080 --> 0:54:18.960
<v Speaker 1>if you could, you could blindcast all day and don't

0:54:18.960 --> 0:54:20.560
<v Speaker 1>get me wrong, when you find a whole school of

0:54:21.040 --> 0:54:23.760
<v Speaker 1>bone fish and they're mudding up, you can cast into

0:54:23.760 --> 0:54:25.879
<v Speaker 1>that enormous mess of fishing and you'll catch a bunch

0:54:25.920 --> 0:54:27.799
<v Speaker 1>of little I mean catch them out of channels because

0:54:27.800 --> 0:54:30.040
<v Speaker 1>they travel the channels. Yeah, but you know you're gonna

0:54:30.040 --> 0:54:32.160
<v Speaker 1>be blindcasting all day long. You're gonna be much more

0:54:32.160 --> 0:54:35.480
<v Speaker 1>productive if you start pulling the flats and you're siting them,

0:54:35.560 --> 0:54:39.719
<v Speaker 1>and then you can preferred because it's more productive. Because

0:54:39.760 --> 0:54:41.279
<v Speaker 1>if I said it's more productive to blow them up

0:54:41.280 --> 0:54:42.759
<v Speaker 1>with dynamite, that doesn't mean you're going to blow them

0:54:42.800 --> 0:54:44.920
<v Speaker 1>up with dynamite. I would actually argue it's more that

0:54:45.000 --> 0:54:46.799
<v Speaker 1>it's still more productive to fly fish for them then

0:54:46.840 --> 0:54:52.960
<v Speaker 1>blowing up up with dynamite. Okay, He's like, No, the

0:54:53.080 --> 0:54:55.920
<v Speaker 1>fishery is what it is is because people want to

0:54:55.960 --> 0:54:57.839
<v Speaker 1>go down and site fish for the fish. They're not

0:54:57.880 --> 0:54:59.480
<v Speaker 1>like I want to catch a bone fish and I

0:54:59.480 --> 0:55:01.960
<v Speaker 1>don't care if I'm if I'm out in a hundred

0:55:01.960 --> 0:55:03.799
<v Speaker 1>feet of water with a pound of lead and a

0:55:03.840 --> 0:55:06.440
<v Speaker 1>live shrimp. They're not. They want to come down and

0:55:06.440 --> 0:55:11.359
<v Speaker 1>they want to see that fish. If you prefer to

0:55:11.400 --> 0:55:13.880
<v Speaker 1>come down and see that fish and stalk that fish

0:55:13.920 --> 0:55:18.080
<v Speaker 1>and present fly whatever four ft off the end of

0:55:18.120 --> 0:55:19.759
<v Speaker 1>its nose firs, and you're not gonna scare the ship

0:55:19.800 --> 0:55:21.560
<v Speaker 1>out of it and have it pick it up. Like

0:55:21.680 --> 0:55:24.120
<v Speaker 1>that's the thing. If he's like all cunning and I

0:55:24.200 --> 0:55:26.279
<v Speaker 1>and I it was a tough day, you know, And

0:55:26.360 --> 0:55:28.600
<v Speaker 1>I said, I'm gonna give you a heat seeking bullet

0:55:29.160 --> 0:55:32.160
<v Speaker 1>and you can safely shoot it onto that mountain side

0:55:32.160 --> 0:55:36.480
<v Speaker 1>and it will find you know, the wouldn't do it.

0:55:36.560 --> 0:55:43.680
<v Speaker 1>I don't big we talk, So my only point I

0:55:43.719 --> 0:55:45.680
<v Speaker 1>mean to derail the conversation. But I was just saying,

0:55:45.719 --> 0:55:49.319
<v Speaker 1>like when the dude loses his right like waynes you're

0:55:49.360 --> 0:55:52.520
<v Speaker 1>kind of but as I say, Wayne is according to

0:55:52.520 --> 0:55:54.719
<v Speaker 1>the ownership at this lodge. And this is the you know,

0:55:54.800 --> 0:55:58.560
<v Speaker 1>this is the point in the book where he becomes

0:55:58.640 --> 0:56:02.440
<v Speaker 1>kind of that that you know, the classic archetypal figure

0:56:02.680 --> 0:56:05.840
<v Speaker 1>that was cast aside. Right, he helped basically, he literally

0:56:05.840 --> 0:56:08.120
<v Speaker 1>built the place with his hands. And then when he

0:56:08.160 --> 0:56:12.440
<v Speaker 1>becomes a little yes, less useful, he's cast aside. So

0:56:12.520 --> 0:56:15.200
<v Speaker 1>he um, he takes on a little bit of this

0:56:15.200 --> 0:56:20.520
<v Speaker 1>this mythic quality. And and as I would discover, he actually, um,

0:56:20.600 --> 0:56:23.719
<v Speaker 1>he didn't lose his sight altogether. We fished together quite

0:56:23.719 --> 0:56:26.239
<v Speaker 1>a few times, and he was just as good as

0:56:26.360 --> 0:56:30.560
<v Speaker 1>a spotting bone fishes, um as you or I would be,

0:56:30.560 --> 0:56:33.120
<v Speaker 1>because he could hear him, I don't know, he could

0:56:33.160 --> 0:56:35.800
<v Speaker 1>send them somehow, or or his eyes healed up. He

0:56:35.880 --> 0:56:38.319
<v Speaker 1>got cataract surgery and didn't tell anyone. You know, there's

0:56:38.360 --> 0:56:41.680
<v Speaker 1>a there are a few kind of mysterious missing pieces

0:56:41.719 --> 0:56:44.840
<v Speaker 1>in the in the narrative. Um, not missing because I

0:56:44.840 --> 0:56:48.280
<v Speaker 1>didn't research them, but missing because I got different answers

0:56:48.320 --> 0:56:52.759
<v Speaker 1>from you know, different people. Um, how what what even

0:56:52.760 --> 0:56:54.200
<v Speaker 1>brought you down there in first place? Were you trying

0:56:54.239 --> 0:56:59.040
<v Speaker 1>to work down there? No, I my original uh tripped

0:56:59.080 --> 0:57:03.160
<v Speaker 1>down there was on a how to Are aware two

0:57:03.200 --> 0:57:07.920
<v Speaker 1>piece for you know, Outside magazine, And um, I had

0:57:07.960 --> 0:57:10.399
<v Speaker 1>an old friend and old client. I'm sure you how

0:57:10.400 --> 0:57:12.759
<v Speaker 1>long have you been guiding or were you guiding before you?

0:57:15.120 --> 0:57:20.920
<v Speaker 1>So you probably have a large group of people you

0:57:20.920 --> 0:57:23.680
<v Speaker 1>would consider your friends, right, that you have from your

0:57:23.680 --> 0:57:26.640
<v Speaker 1>client set. So I had this awesome client, a guy

0:57:26.720 --> 0:57:29.680
<v Speaker 1>named Jeff Miller who grew up in St. Louis and

0:57:29.720 --> 0:57:35.160
<v Speaker 1>had fished at Deepwater Key from the late seventies early eighties. Um,

0:57:35.160 --> 0:57:37.000
<v Speaker 1>and when I went down there, he said, you gotta

0:57:37.040 --> 0:57:39.400
<v Speaker 1>meet this guy, David Pinner. He's he's the guy that

0:57:39.480 --> 0:57:41.920
<v Speaker 1>started at all. If you if you really want to

0:57:41.920 --> 0:57:44.440
<v Speaker 1>write about bone fishing in the Bahamas, you need to

0:57:44.480 --> 0:57:47.360
<v Speaker 1>know David Pinder. Of course, you know. I went down

0:57:48.720 --> 0:57:50.960
<v Speaker 1>with the hopes of dashing off an article and fishing

0:57:50.960 --> 0:57:55.040
<v Speaker 1>the rest of the time myself, right, Um, But on

0:57:55.200 --> 0:57:58.920
<v Speaker 1>subsequent trips I would bring groups of clients down. On

0:57:59.000 --> 0:58:01.960
<v Speaker 1>subsequent trips, I met Pender and spent a lot more

0:58:02.000 --> 0:58:04.240
<v Speaker 1>time with him and realized that he was one of

0:58:04.280 --> 0:58:07.280
<v Speaker 1>those kind of singular dudes, I mean, a person who

0:58:07.280 --> 0:58:11.240
<v Speaker 1>has spent his entire life on a two mile island.

0:58:11.360 --> 0:58:15.800
<v Speaker 1>I mean he grew up foraging for snails and crabs

0:58:15.840 --> 0:58:20.000
<v Speaker 1>and whatever he could find. Um lived on the same

0:58:20.600 --> 0:58:24.000
<v Speaker 1>plot of land that entire time. So um, the more

0:58:24.280 --> 0:58:26.040
<v Speaker 1>more time I spend down there, the more time I

0:58:26.080 --> 0:58:31.000
<v Speaker 1>realized that he he was the subject of whatever this

0:58:31.000 --> 0:58:32.959
<v Speaker 1>this book might be. And when you say you brought

0:58:32.960 --> 0:58:35.680
<v Speaker 1>people down like you were a promoter, no, I was

0:58:35.760 --> 0:58:38.360
<v Speaker 1>a host. I just hosted a group of my clients

0:58:38.360 --> 0:58:40.840
<v Speaker 1>who wanted to go down and bone fish at this lodge.

0:58:41.440 --> 0:58:44.280
<v Speaker 1>What's that relationship look like? It looks good if you

0:58:44.320 --> 0:58:48.160
<v Speaker 1>get it for free? I mean, yeah, so if you

0:58:48.200 --> 0:58:50.440
<v Speaker 1>get eight people, then um, you get to go for

0:58:50.480 --> 0:58:53.240
<v Speaker 1>free and then cut your check for whatever. The April

0:58:53.360 --> 0:58:55.680
<v Speaker 1>used to do that, right, But I also heart well, no,

0:58:55.800 --> 0:58:57.440
<v Speaker 1>and I used to do. I've done trips to the

0:58:57.440 --> 0:59:01.680
<v Speaker 1>Bahamas and Belize and yeah, and I'd get a check,

0:59:01.760 --> 0:59:03.959
<v Speaker 1>But I also would sit there and I wouldn't fish,

0:59:03.960 --> 0:59:07.000
<v Speaker 1>and yeah, that's right. But I would host these trips

0:59:07.120 --> 0:59:09.880
<v Speaker 1>and unless my client caught a permit, for example, I'd

0:59:09.880 --> 0:59:12.080
<v Speaker 1>be sitting on the boat being like, oh, and I

0:59:12.080 --> 0:59:15.640
<v Speaker 1>don't know about you, but my clients are great steelhead fishermen,

0:59:15.680 --> 0:59:17.600
<v Speaker 1>they're not all great in a flat boat. So I

0:59:17.600 --> 0:59:20.360
<v Speaker 1>did a lot of just sitting and watching. What do

0:59:20.400 --> 0:59:23.520
<v Speaker 1>you mean you would be like anxious about them being successful?

0:59:23.520 --> 0:59:27.560
<v Speaker 1>But no, I no, yes, no, I couldn't catch a fish. Professionally,

0:59:27.920 --> 0:59:30.320
<v Speaker 1>I didn't feel comfortable fishing until my clients had caught

0:59:30.320 --> 0:59:33.240
<v Speaker 1>a fish. I mean, there are two different kinds of hosts.

0:59:33.240 --> 0:59:36.400
<v Speaker 1>There are some hosts that that don't have that same consideration.

0:59:36.640 --> 0:59:39.680
<v Speaker 1>I felt it would be a professional courtesy to take

0:59:39.680 --> 0:59:41.840
<v Speaker 1>a back seat. What are they asking of you though,

0:59:42.400 --> 0:59:45.080
<v Speaker 1>to talk to them and just give them advice. So

0:59:45.120 --> 0:59:48.400
<v Speaker 1>these be people like in your in your case you

0:59:48.440 --> 0:59:52.880
<v Speaker 1>guys steelhead clients, you become friend professional friendly with the

0:59:52.920 --> 0:59:55.120
<v Speaker 1>clients and they say, man, I would love to go

0:59:55.200 --> 0:59:57.480
<v Speaker 1>fish bone fish, but I'm not comfortable just going down

0:59:57.520 --> 1:00:01.080
<v Speaker 1>there and cold rolling in Like you're be my host

1:00:01.920 --> 1:00:03.880
<v Speaker 1>so that I have a familiar face when I arrive

1:00:04.640 --> 1:00:07.520
<v Speaker 1>and when we arrange everything right, So it's not even

1:00:07.560 --> 1:00:10.760
<v Speaker 1>so April is going, I'm gonna make sure we're going

1:00:10.800 --> 1:00:15.400
<v Speaker 1>with the right operation. They got the right boat. We're

1:00:15.400 --> 1:00:17.120
<v Speaker 1>going to make sure that we're weve gotten in with

1:00:17.200 --> 1:00:19.800
<v Speaker 1>the right tides and the right you know, guides and

1:00:19.800 --> 1:00:24.360
<v Speaker 1>when something goes wrong, it's kind of on you. Yeah,

1:00:24.360 --> 1:00:26.640
<v Speaker 1>and you've been there before, right, you sussed it out.

1:00:26.680 --> 1:00:28.600
<v Speaker 1>You know how to get from the plane to the

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<v Speaker 1>shuttle to the lodge. And have you done this? M

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<v Speaker 1>It's something I'd no longer do. Um. I find it

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<v Speaker 1>really exhausting. It's a lot of work. Yeah, and well

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<v Speaker 1>it depends on I mean a lot of my clients

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<v Speaker 1>are amazing and for their friends, you know, it's a

1:00:43.760 --> 1:00:46.200
<v Speaker 1>great time. But you you still have to be on

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<v Speaker 1>And I don't know, did you did you take a

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<v Speaker 1>back seat? I wouldn't do a great business. No, no,

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't do it again. I wouldn't do it again.

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<v Speaker 1>How many times you do it enough? A dozen't? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>you know half it doesn't. I think it's a young

1:01:03.680 --> 1:01:06.600
<v Speaker 1>five fishing guy though. Boy was something you dreamed about? Man,

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<v Speaker 1>Because you get at that point, Oh yeah, you're here

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<v Speaker 1>like senior guys talking about doing these trips and you're

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<v Speaker 1>like if that sounds like paradise? Oh yeah, but you

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<v Speaker 1>end up you know it. Your your commission gets put

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<v Speaker 1>towards air fare and stuff, and yeah, you don't make

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<v Speaker 1>any money off of it, and you get to a

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<v Speaker 1>point as you get older, I think you're like, I

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<v Speaker 1>would rather pay to not have dude take a Yeah you,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean your guy. By the time I stopped doing it,

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<v Speaker 1>we our family was growing. I didn't want to be

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<v Speaker 1>going from the family at its best. It's a free

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<v Speaker 1>week of fishing at it's best. Right. Yeah, So it's

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<v Speaker 1>so just so I'm understand the business right, it's more

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<v Speaker 1>of a way because like guiding, I appreciate that guiding

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<v Speaker 1>can be lucrative, but I gathered from the guides I

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<v Speaker 1>know that it's a pretty it's like a bootstrap, it's seasonal. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it could be a tough way to make a living.

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<v Speaker 1>Just terms two thousand to uh, is that what you're saying? No, No,

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<v Speaker 1>that wasn't. I wasn't referring to anyone's particularly. My sense

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<v Speaker 1>of it is is that as a guide, it's like

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<v Speaker 1>a great lifestyle that people want to do, but when

1:02:15.160 --> 1:02:16.920
<v Speaker 1>it comes it's not like you know, there's a lot

1:02:16.960 --> 1:02:19.760
<v Speaker 1>of guys out there that aren't meanting money. So it's

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<v Speaker 1>the hosting do I'm understanding the business right. The hosting

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<v Speaker 1>is the thing you do because you want to go

1:02:25.560 --> 1:02:29.520
<v Speaker 1>down in your position. I would love to go down.

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<v Speaker 1>No way, I'm going to spend the money on that.

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<v Speaker 1>All I need to do to make it that I

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<v Speaker 1>can go is to assemble this trip. It's usually I

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<v Speaker 1>can't afford to pay that money to go on that.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's what I'll do to make it happen. There are

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<v Speaker 1>a number of book booking aige would you call a

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<v Speaker 1>and sees that that's their whole business, right, the entire business.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like it's another service that you can provide to

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<v Speaker 1>your stable of clients that keeps them hanging out with you. Also, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and so hey, I mean I've done it on the

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<v Speaker 1>hunt side, and I mean really it's I mean, be honest,

1:03:10.680 --> 1:03:13.920
<v Speaker 1>is doing a something very very similar every time he

1:03:13.960 --> 1:03:18.280
<v Speaker 1>sets up a meat eator shoot, right, And you get

1:03:18.280 --> 1:03:20.680
<v Speaker 1>a taste of it when you invite somebody out to

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<v Speaker 1>hunt with you, and there's that kind of like gnawing

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<v Speaker 1>feeling in the back of your head where you're like,

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<v Speaker 1>I know I shouldn't feel this way, but I really

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<v Speaker 1>want these guys to have success. I hope everything goes

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<v Speaker 1>well this trip. I hope we at least see something

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<v Speaker 1>that's not just total goat rope. The whole time. The

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<v Speaker 1>difference is is if you bring one guest on the show,

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<v Speaker 1>you have to deal with one person. But if you

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<v Speaker 1>have ten guests, there's usually a sour apple in there somewhere,

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<v Speaker 1>so it can make things interesting. Yeah, the lodge, the

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<v Speaker 1>post phishing lodge dynamic does not always show people out

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<v Speaker 1>their best. You know, April caught a twelve pounder. My

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<v Speaker 1>biggest fish was five cow. Kind of permit, what everyone's disappointed?

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<v Speaker 1>You did you see any permit? It turns into pretty

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<v Speaker 1>much drivel pretty pretty quickly, I think, or even well,

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<v Speaker 1>I wish they would have told me to bring that fly,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. And you're like, or why is the host

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<v Speaker 1>always getting the best guys? You know, that's a big

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<v Speaker 1>one too. I've heard nightmare stories from different like or

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<v Speaker 1>about different hosts. There's some great hosts and there's some

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<v Speaker 1>real shitty hosts. So there, as we all know. I

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<v Speaker 1>won't mention them, but yeah, there's some shitty one they're

1:04:30.560 --> 1:04:32.240
<v Speaker 1>just selfishly trying to get that free trip. But there

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<v Speaker 1>are other hosts who really care about your quality experience,

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<v Speaker 1>and a lot of a lot of people who host

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<v Speaker 1>trips own fly shops, so for them it's an opportunity

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<v Speaker 1>for them to sell gear. Right. Oh, no, ship man,

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<v Speaker 1>just like a neat little business you guys all got

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<v Speaker 1>involved in. There's a work you know you're talking about,

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<v Speaker 1>Like I think he almost said scam. No, No, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a I was gonna name I want to name my

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<v Speaker 1>daughter after my mother, but I wanted to name my

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<v Speaker 1>daughter uh zinny uh And Zinnia is a word. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a word that has to do with the guest host bond,

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<v Speaker 1>the bond that forms between the guests and the host.

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<v Speaker 1>And I believe it's somehow related to it comes from

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<v Speaker 1>the action of a flower and the pollinator. Point being,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm interested in this guesthole situation. Don't get too interested.

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<v Speaker 1>It's really not that great. It's really not It was

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<v Speaker 1>a way for me to get down to get back

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<v Speaker 1>down there. I had a good buddy who he kind

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<v Speaker 1>of was a fixer of sorts for destination lodges, right, um,

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<v Speaker 1>And you could hire him and he would go hang

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<v Speaker 1>out at your lodge and help kind of ferret out

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<v Speaker 1>the usual crap that happens at those things. Right. Had

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit of theft, a little bit and like

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<v Speaker 1>not you know, taking cash under the table instead of

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<v Speaker 1>running at through the books type of stuff. And and

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<v Speaker 1>he had quite the experience out there in the Bahamas

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<v Speaker 1>and and just taught. He's like, man, I he's like

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<v Speaker 1>I had. He's like a part of the deal is

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<v Speaker 1>like I could take a boat out and go fish

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<v Speaker 1>and I he's like, but I didn't get to enjoy

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<v Speaker 1>any of it because there was so much animosity between me,

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<v Speaker 1>the white dude, and the staff, right the local guides. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>And he said the friction was like nothing he had

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<v Speaker 1>ever experienced. And but that's really what it was. It

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<v Speaker 1>was during that time of like, hey, we gotta make

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<v Speaker 1>sure that we control this industry and and because nobody's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna take care of it the way we wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>be taken care of. Yeah, yeah, no that I I

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<v Speaker 1>saw that dynamic at work too, And um yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>think you know, Um, it's funny because funny you bring

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<v Speaker 1>that up. Of all the things that reviewers talked about

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<v Speaker 1>in regard to this book Body of Water, no one

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<v Speaker 1>would no one would touch race, you know, even though

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<v Speaker 1>it's definitely a subject in the book. So you write

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<v Speaker 1>about race with the reviewers that want to talk about

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<v Speaker 1>how it talks about race. Yeah, even sitting here right now,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to talk about it. I mean stories,

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<v Speaker 1>I've got stories for days. But I'm just like, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>I got more tell me about Okay. Well, I mean

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<v Speaker 1>there's it's not surprising to me to hear that there's

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<v Speaker 1>a little racial tension between Well, there isn't every recreational economy,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's not like necessarily black, white, brown, white, whatever

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<v Speaker 1>it's you're from here, You're not from here. And even

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<v Speaker 1>though I'm making my living off of this industry, it

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<v Speaker 1>is totally totally hyper focused on people not from here

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<v Speaker 1>as an American, and you're going to feel it. It's

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<v Speaker 1>nothing to do with color, So it's more insider outsider,

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<v Speaker 1>but it happens to be overlaid with race rather than

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<v Speaker 1>being black versus white, right, I mean, according to Prescott Smith,

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<v Speaker 1>the guy mentioned earlier, he all, he says he's different

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<v Speaker 1>really Island Island. He says, you know, on on Androws,

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<v Speaker 1>race relations are far more evolved than they are on

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<v Speaker 1>say the east end of Graham Bahama, which I would

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<v Speaker 1>gather after spending a lot of time, there's there's a

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<v Speaker 1>lot more in the wilderness, if you will, right, Um,

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<v Speaker 1>But with that kind of racial tension though, man, it does.

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<v Speaker 1>It's there's a lot of it in Hawaii, and there's

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<v Speaker 1>an inside. It's insider outsider, but it's also not because

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<v Speaker 1>look at the like the derogatory term for an outsider

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<v Speaker 1>is like a howiy right, So ghosts you presume like

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<v Speaker 1>white ghost so like it's it's us them we they

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<v Speaker 1>inside outside, But it's overlaid by racial So there's a

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<v Speaker 1>moment in the books, it's probably two thirds of the

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<v Speaker 1>way through. There's this guy, Walter Recley, who's guiding me

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<v Speaker 1>uh On on a given day. And Walter did an

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<v Speaker 1>interesting thing. After guiding for this prestigious lodge deep Water

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<v Speaker 1>Key for twenty five years or so, he along with

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<v Speaker 1>another local guide from mc cleanstown, got together with a

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<v Speaker 1>couple investors and said, we want to build our own lodge.

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<v Speaker 1>Will you front us the money for this? And the investors,

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<v Speaker 1>who had fished with them for thirty years or so,

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<v Speaker 1>said yeah, let's do it. You know, we'll build it

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<v Speaker 1>across the channel from deep Water Key. It'll be within

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<v Speaker 1>i shot but and it won't have its own island,

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<v Speaker 1>but you know, you'll have your own boats, you'll have

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<v Speaker 1>your own dock, everything, and um, this is a place

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<v Speaker 1>called East End Lodge, which is still in existence and

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<v Speaker 1>still like yellow Dog takes people down there. Um. But

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<v Speaker 1>for a couple of years it was floundering, and so

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<v Speaker 1>Walter had to go back to work for the lodge

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<v Speaker 1>that he had turned his back on, and of course,

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<v Speaker 1>you you know, fall in at the bottom of the

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<v Speaker 1>totem polled. So we're sitting at lunch one day and

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<v Speaker 1>we're talking about this, and I'm trying to dig a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit out of him from a research standpoint. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I kind of play this conspicuous role in the book

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<v Speaker 1>and my poet and my a ficient guy to my

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<v Speaker 1>a nonfiction writer, what am I doing down here? But

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<v Speaker 1>he finally caves and and says, like, um, how would

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<v Speaker 1>you feel? He says, how would you feel if where

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<v Speaker 1>are you from again? Manitoba? That's what he says, And

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<v Speaker 1>say Montana? And he says, well, how would you feel if, um,

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<v Speaker 1>if someone opened up a lodge in Montana? Or if

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<v Speaker 1>you worked for a lodge and you worked your entire

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<v Speaker 1>life but you could never own the boats, you could

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<v Speaker 1>never own the equipment, you could never really get ahead, right,

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<v Speaker 1>And that's a you know, a moment in the book

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<v Speaker 1>where I and epiphany, if you will, where I begin

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<v Speaker 1>to see far deeper into the lens of these local

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<v Speaker 1>Bahamians because it's the answer is obvious, right, you feel

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<v Speaker 1>like shit, I understand exactly where they're coming from. Look

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<v Speaker 1>at believes now compared to what it used to be

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<v Speaker 1>when you know, you Americans, when I bought up everything

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<v Speaker 1>or standing to San Pedro, right like yeah, you guys,

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<v Speaker 1>you too, do the culprits. But yeah, I get where

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<v Speaker 1>they're coming from. I mean, it's a limited resource. Do

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<v Speaker 1>you see this up and BC? I mean BC is

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<v Speaker 1>a lot more controlled in some ways, right it is.

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<v Speaker 1>But yeah, there's always going to be that little bit

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<v Speaker 1>of I mean, you can be an American and have

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<v Speaker 1>a lodge, but we want to see that you've put

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<v Speaker 1>your time into you know, be one of us, because

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<v Speaker 1>it's just it's like, why are you here taking from

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<v Speaker 1>the resource? And what are you giving back? That's the

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<v Speaker 1>big question. What are you giving back? So that's you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the same question this guy, Prescott Smith asked the same question.

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<v Speaker 1>Walter asked, alright, So by the end of the book,

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<v Speaker 1>we um body of water, body of water, we we

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<v Speaker 1>see this lodge, uh called North Riding Point also kind

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<v Speaker 1>of an old prestigious lodge in the Bahamas which becomes

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<v Speaker 1>managed by this guy named Paul Adams, who had grown

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<v Speaker 1>up on deep Water Key, had grown up um with

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<v Speaker 1>David pinder as as a friend, as a mentor. His

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<v Speaker 1>his parents had managed the lodge, and then he goes

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<v Speaker 1>off to prep school and college whatever, ends up back

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<v Speaker 1>and at this lodge called North Riding Point. Their model

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<v Speaker 1>is far different. They want um, you know, we talked

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<v Speaker 1>about Miko earlier, Miko Glinton. They hired Miko away from

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<v Speaker 1>deep Water Key and said, we want to groom you

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<v Speaker 1>to be the manager of this place. In the meantime,

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna send your three kids to school, private school

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<v Speaker 1>and freeport. We're gonna give your wife a job as

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<v Speaker 1>assistant manager. Uh. Samantha is also a masseuse, you know. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>And so that that old kind of antiquated post colonial

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<v Speaker 1>model that deep Water Key had been following for so

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<v Speaker 1>long is beginning to be usurped, if you will, or

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<v Speaker 1>um bettered by by some newer lodges. So they're giving back,

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<v Speaker 1>even though the money is presumably coming from somewhere up here.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know exactly what makes it tricky is that

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<v Speaker 1>the industry is driven by outsiders, right right. It's like,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not like there's this economy going on and then

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<v Speaker 1>outsiders come in and they're like, Oh, what a cute

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<v Speaker 1>thing you've created here, We're gonna grab it from you.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like, well, no, ship. There's a lot of outside

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<v Speaker 1>interest in the economics of it because it's fueled by

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<v Speaker 1>outside and trust. If it wasn't for the if it

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't for outsiders coming to fish, those jobs wouldn't exist.

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<v Speaker 1>So what it's not, it's not it's clean, right right.

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<v Speaker 1>But I mean eventually it's the same discussion we're having

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<v Speaker 1>here in Montana. What is sustainable and what isn't? Right? Um,

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<v Speaker 1>what is erecting fifty or a hundred houses on a

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<v Speaker 1>to mile island sustainable to the environment? Probably not? Um,

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<v Speaker 1>Could this economy support it? Probably not? Would people continue

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<v Speaker 1>to go there after years and years? No, So you'd

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<v Speaker 1>end up with something that's not sustainable and was it?

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<v Speaker 1>And it's one of those things that, yeah, you have

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<v Speaker 1>the cliche loving something to death. It's one of those

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<v Speaker 1>things that in in pursuit of an ideal, you wreck

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<v Speaker 1>the entire You wrecked the entire point of it all. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean I I see the statistics in Montana were

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<v Speaker 1>the outdoor recreation industry is bringing in billions, literally billions

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<v Speaker 1>of dollars seven point one billion is the last stat

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<v Speaker 1>that I saw. And outfitting and guiding is third in

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<v Speaker 1>outdoor wreck tier of things, a lot behind lodging and gas.

1:14:37.240 --> 1:14:41.960
<v Speaker 1>So we're also contributing to those as well. Um, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a breaking point for sure, I think, And and

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<v Speaker 1>these are good examples, right, It's like, yeah, it's like,

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<v Speaker 1>well I was in Belize when it was really good

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<v Speaker 1>and it wasn't bought up, and so I don't even

1:14:56.120 --> 1:14:58.120
<v Speaker 1>want to go there anymore. So then you move on

1:14:58.160 --> 1:15:00.760
<v Speaker 1>to the next spot and ruin that. Like before you

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<v Speaker 1>guys get any of that, Like when you go around

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<v Speaker 1>you you're kind of rolling loud at this point, right,

1:15:07.439 --> 1:15:10.519
<v Speaker 1>I mean, had a role real quiet, and we typically

1:15:10.520 --> 1:15:12.559
<v Speaker 1>do roll real quiet, and if we don't roll real

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<v Speaker 1>real quiet, it's not good, right, So people, we try

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<v Speaker 1>to be discreet. Man. People don't know where somewhere. People

1:15:21.280 --> 1:15:23.519
<v Speaker 1>don't know we're somewhere unless they hear it from a

1:15:23.600 --> 1:15:26.400
<v Speaker 1>name until the episode airs, and then do you hear

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<v Speaker 1>it not. I mean we have starting that blew up

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<v Speaker 1>a place. Is that what you're getting at? No, I'm

1:15:31.960 --> 1:15:34.160
<v Speaker 1>not accusing you that, I'm just saying like I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>when you go and do like a kid that amazing

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<v Speaker 1>caribou hunt you know where you see that fifty miles

1:15:41.400 --> 1:15:47.000
<v Speaker 1>string of caribou coming through? Are your email inboxes getting

1:15:47.000 --> 1:15:49.400
<v Speaker 1>lit up every week? Like you want the thing that

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<v Speaker 1>we've been We get asked about most. We get asked

1:15:52.760 --> 1:15:57.000
<v Speaker 1>by by a factor of ten. Um. We get ask

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<v Speaker 1>most about a particular antalope unit. No kidding why Um?

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<v Speaker 1>Some things are self limiting okay, because of inaccessibility, because

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<v Speaker 1>of uh needed to like draw like limited entry permit

1:16:18.960 --> 1:16:22.519
<v Speaker 1>lotteries for tags right where there's only a set number

1:16:22.560 --> 1:16:25.160
<v Speaker 1>of participants that can engage anyways because they have a cap.

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<v Speaker 1>You could be carible hunting in a place that has

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<v Speaker 1>a quota. So it's it's the quota gets filled every year. Right, Um,

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<v Speaker 1>you could make it, you could make you could blow

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<v Speaker 1>it up and that you make it. Participation become harder

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<v Speaker 1>because there's increased interest and so therefore getting one of

1:16:45.400 --> 1:16:49.360
<v Speaker 1>those permits becomes more difficult. But in a lot of places,

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<v Speaker 1>including the place that we would never in a millionaires

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<v Speaker 1>divulge um. The the Antelope unit, we would never divulge. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't blow it up because there's that limiting thing.

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<v Speaker 1>There's gonna be set. A number of people are engaged

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<v Speaker 1>in the activity every year and that's kept by law

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<v Speaker 1>other things. Yeah, you could, you could blow it up.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think that that happens to some extent, but

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<v Speaker 1>a lot I think that a lot of the people

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<v Speaker 1>that watch the shore are like, honestly just interested in

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<v Speaker 1>seeing the experience, and a lot of it's not something

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<v Speaker 1>that people it's not something that a ton of people

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<v Speaker 1>really want to go do. Always um, in cases where

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<v Speaker 1>we are up front about it, sure, I have absolutely

1:17:30.280 --> 1:17:33.720
<v Speaker 1>no doubt that it that it that it does a

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<v Speaker 1>negative to it. Um. And there's all kinds of arguments

1:17:37.640 --> 1:17:41.479
<v Speaker 1>to be made about to what uh, to the extent

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<v Speaker 1>that awareness and advocacy and people's engagement with the resources

1:17:46.439 --> 1:17:51.639
<v Speaker 1>is beneficial. And there's two really good arguments. There's two

1:17:51.640 --> 1:17:56.639
<v Speaker 1>really good arguments, and I can articulate them both, and

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<v Speaker 1>I vacillate between the two. And the one is that, um,

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<v Speaker 1>there's this great stuff out there. I don't want anyone

1:18:04.080 --> 1:18:07.000
<v Speaker 1>to know about it. I just wanted for me. And

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<v Speaker 1>the other argument is is that that mindset, we'll sink

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<v Speaker 1>you in the end. Just had this discussion earlier today.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a it's a balancing act. Yeah, did my old

1:18:19.960 --> 1:18:24.200
<v Speaker 1>my old boss, This guy, Rusty Gates, he owned a

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<v Speaker 1>lodge on the Assemble up in Grayling, Michigan and was

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<v Speaker 1>one of the first fierce conservationists in that area. He um,

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<v Speaker 1>not a lot of them. No, he fought off like

1:18:33.800 --> 1:18:36.800
<v Speaker 1>Nestley and some big oil wells from going in, and

1:18:36.840 --> 1:18:41.200
<v Speaker 1>he amassed this group of doctors and lawyers who were

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<v Speaker 1>his clientele and basically said, look, they're gonna screw this

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<v Speaker 1>river up if we don't fight them. Until he started

1:18:46.280 --> 1:18:48.599
<v Speaker 1>this thing called the Anglish of the Assable. But you say,

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<v Speaker 1>in fact, I quit throwing my refrigerators and old exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>But I remember when I started bird on and he said,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, CD, that's not a that's not a sport.

1:18:58.880 --> 1:19:02.000
<v Speaker 1>You want to get too many people into. So there

1:19:02.120 --> 1:19:04.640
<v Speaker 1>is that, there is that feeling. But I read an

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<v Speaker 1>amazing book. Um. I was asked to write a blurb

1:19:08.640 --> 1:19:11.000
<v Speaker 1>for an amazing book by a writer named Dean Kuiper's

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<v Speaker 1>called The Deer Camp, which takes place in Michigan and

1:19:15.479 --> 1:19:18.719
<v Speaker 1>Keiper's He wrote for Spin magazine forever and has written

1:19:18.760 --> 1:19:22.839
<v Speaker 1>a lot of kind of environmental justice pieces, but he

1:19:22.960 --> 1:19:26.799
<v Speaker 1>talks a lot about all the Leopold's philosophy and basically

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<v Speaker 1>that notion that I'm gonna write read this note I wrote.

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<v Speaker 1>He says something like, we can be ethical only in

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<v Speaker 1>relation to something we can see, feel, understand, or otherwise

1:19:37.080 --> 1:19:41.720
<v Speaker 1>have faith in, you know, so that idea that um, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>you want to keep something yourself, but if you keep

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<v Speaker 1>it really all to yourself, the next generation ceases to

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<v Speaker 1>have the ability to have to that direct contact, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>that thing that inspires uh, stewardship and conservation and and whatnot.

1:19:57.160 --> 1:20:00.280
<v Speaker 1>And and that's the that's the the razor's edge you

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<v Speaker 1>walk right, It's I want to influence people. And you

1:20:05.200 --> 1:20:08.280
<v Speaker 1>got a book like Body Water here that's going to

1:20:08.360 --> 1:20:11.960
<v Speaker 1>be very influential to who reads it. But you want

1:20:11.960 --> 1:20:15.719
<v Speaker 1>to inspire folks just enough to where if they get asked,

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<v Speaker 1>if hey, just by chance, would you care if we

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<v Speaker 1>ended fishing in the state of Montown, they'd be like, boy,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I don't fish there personally, but I don't

1:20:26.160 --> 1:20:30.320
<v Speaker 1>think that's a good idea, right, but you don't necessarily

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<v Speaker 1>want him out there on the on the river. You

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<v Speaker 1>no doubt know the fishing writer John Geerrick, Yeah, and

1:20:39.000 --> 1:20:42.439
<v Speaker 1>then his uh, he's got a fly time buddy a

1:20:42.600 --> 1:20:45.880
<v Speaker 1>k bas No, it wasn't a k Best to said,

1:20:45.880 --> 1:20:48.160
<v Speaker 1>it's Yehny, who's the guy that had the quote about

1:20:48.200 --> 1:20:52.800
<v Speaker 1>what are you doing over there taxing? Brody? Know what

1:20:53.160 --> 1:20:56.240
<v Speaker 1>I'll bring this. I'll help you sell people on why

1:20:56.280 --> 1:20:57.880
<v Speaker 1>you're doing that, and I'll bring it full circle and say,

1:20:57.880 --> 1:21:01.519
<v Speaker 1>Brody's a fishing guide too. That's right in Colorado and

1:21:01.560 --> 1:21:03.839
<v Speaker 1>he used to do quite a few of these hosted trips.

1:21:05.160 --> 1:21:07.479
<v Speaker 1>I'm just keeping I'm just keeping your little side activity

1:21:07.520 --> 1:21:10.360
<v Speaker 1>and making it seem like it's have many side activities

1:21:10.400 --> 1:21:15.120
<v Speaker 1>going during these conversations. Help me out. Though, it wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>a k beast who said the role casting quote that

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna quote. Yeah. We even asked John about this

1:21:21.280 --> 1:21:25.479
<v Speaker 1>in some fishing writer, some fishing writer who John Gearrick

1:21:25.560 --> 1:21:31.680
<v Speaker 1>Admiers was saying, I won't write about any river that

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<v Speaker 1>I can roll cast across, and I can roll cast

1:21:34.920 --> 1:21:39.040
<v Speaker 1>a long way. That's a great I think that's a

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<v Speaker 1>really really great rules. Sure, it's okay to write about

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<v Speaker 1>the Missouri. It's like, are you bigger than right? What

1:21:46.160 --> 1:21:49.280
<v Speaker 1>do you like? You can keep that secret? Yeah, this Missouri.

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<v Speaker 1>You speak up, but you're walking the line, dude, because

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<v Speaker 1>there's no doubt. Like I read it, I've done that,

1:21:57.760 --> 1:22:01.160
<v Speaker 1>I've done that. I've five for bone fish in Mexico,

1:22:01.479 --> 1:22:03.720
<v Speaker 1>I flat fish for bone fish and Belize, I fly

1:22:03.800 --> 1:22:06.599
<v Speaker 1>fish for bone fish in the Bahamas. Okay, but kind

1:22:06.600 --> 1:22:10.840
<v Speaker 1>of like whatever did it? Moved on to other things.

1:22:11.520 --> 1:22:13.880
<v Speaker 1>But reading I'm like, damn, that is pretty cool, man,

1:22:14.320 --> 1:22:16.120
<v Speaker 1>I do It's like makes me want to go back

1:22:16.160 --> 1:22:17.800
<v Speaker 1>because you write about it. But we haven't talked about this,

1:22:17.800 --> 1:22:20.000
<v Speaker 1>but you write about it very beautifully. I can tell.

1:22:20.080 --> 1:22:22.400
<v Speaker 1>I can see you struggle as a poet and writer

1:22:22.720 --> 1:22:25.559
<v Speaker 1>because you're trying to mix. You're you're putting a poetic

1:22:25.640 --> 1:22:31.800
<v Speaker 1>sensibility into certain passages, but also there's a journalist sensibility,

1:22:31.800 --> 1:22:35.920
<v Speaker 1>and those two things are not always dancing nice. There

1:22:35.800 --> 1:22:39.800
<v Speaker 1>are not always like dancing nice dances and dirty. But

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<v Speaker 1>the point let me fish this thing to take the

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<v Speaker 1>writing on. But want to finish the point here, you're

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<v Speaker 1>sending people down there by writing beautifully about a place

1:22:48.200 --> 1:22:50.720
<v Speaker 1>that you feel could potentially be destroyed by people going

1:22:50.760 --> 1:22:54.000
<v Speaker 1>down there. I know you're setting up a real conundrum.

1:22:54.040 --> 1:22:57.519
<v Speaker 1>It's the thin edge of the wedge, right, Yeah, I

1:22:57.560 --> 1:23:01.400
<v Speaker 1>know it's I think. Um, you know, a place like

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<v Speaker 1>deep Water Key has been developed to the extent that

1:23:05.479 --> 1:23:07.759
<v Speaker 1>it can be developed, and it sounds like the money

1:23:07.800 --> 1:23:09.719
<v Speaker 1>was pulled. No one's gonna be able to build fifty

1:23:09.800 --> 1:23:13.000
<v Speaker 1>houses anymore. That that's kind of a pipe dream. Um,

1:23:13.040 --> 1:23:16.120
<v Speaker 1>But I do think about that. I've never written one

1:23:18.360 --> 1:23:24.160
<v Speaker 1>fishing piece on Montana that even remotely refers to a

1:23:24.240 --> 1:23:26.439
<v Speaker 1>body of water that you could locate. In fact, I

1:23:26.479 --> 1:23:29.519
<v Speaker 1>try to obscure it as as best as possible, right,

1:23:29.560 --> 1:23:36.960
<v Speaker 1>I try to, um super cute. Um, you know, I'll

1:23:37.880 --> 1:23:41.080
<v Speaker 1>I'll obscure it as best possible hunting hunting pieces in

1:23:41.320 --> 1:23:45.760
<v Speaker 1>the same way. Um, but back to your notion of

1:23:45.800 --> 1:23:50.240
<v Speaker 1>that that kind of poeticized journalism or whatnot. When um,

1:23:50.280 --> 1:23:52.760
<v Speaker 1>I showed David James Duncan an early draft of this,

1:23:52.840 --> 1:23:56.080
<v Speaker 1>who's a real good friend of mine, probably my first readers,

1:23:56.720 --> 1:24:00.720
<v Speaker 1>uh hisn The manuscript came back and every now and

1:24:00.720 --> 1:24:05.040
<v Speaker 1>then he would write this acronym which stood for poet

1:24:05.320 --> 1:24:10.080
<v Speaker 1>colon right pros exclamation point. You know so, um, it

1:24:10.080 --> 1:24:12.000
<v Speaker 1>did take me a long time to try to weed

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<v Speaker 1>myself out of the impulse to um to poeticize something

1:24:18.200 --> 1:24:20.320
<v Speaker 1>that really didn't need to be poeticized. Are you better

1:24:20.360 --> 1:24:24.200
<v Speaker 1>because um? Are you better because you just can't make

1:24:24.240 --> 1:24:29.479
<v Speaker 1>poetry pay? Oh? No, that took me, you know? Are

1:24:29.520 --> 1:24:33.000
<v Speaker 1>you better because one cannot make? No? That's why. That's

1:24:33.000 --> 1:24:36.160
<v Speaker 1>why poetry. There's a great guy Clark's song about that, right,

1:24:36.479 --> 1:24:38.559
<v Speaker 1>that's what keeps the poet free. I forget what the

1:24:38.640 --> 1:24:41.639
<v Speaker 1>actual line is, but yeah, no, poetry is not supposed

1:24:41.680 --> 1:24:44.960
<v Speaker 1>to pay. It's uh, it's below money, it's above money.

1:24:45.000 --> 1:24:53.400
<v Speaker 1>It hovers in the ether. It's romantics. Is lovemaking that? Yeah,

1:24:53.520 --> 1:24:56.080
<v Speaker 1>in the right field. I have a fun way to

1:24:56.160 --> 1:24:58.160
<v Speaker 1>make it pay. But a matter of fact, it has

1:24:58.240 --> 1:25:02.240
<v Speaker 1>cost me quite some money. But um, so you don't

1:25:03.680 --> 1:25:05.280
<v Speaker 1>do you still write poems? Yeah? I have a new

1:25:05.280 --> 1:25:07.839
<v Speaker 1>book of poems coming out in March called Ragged Anthem.

1:25:07.880 --> 1:25:11.360
<v Speaker 1>It actually has there's there's um, there's three hunting poems

1:25:11.400 --> 1:25:14.280
<v Speaker 1>in it. I can't trying to remember, because you were

1:25:14.320 --> 1:25:16.759
<v Speaker 1>once telling me you you didn't like to mix fishing

1:25:16.760 --> 1:25:19.000
<v Speaker 1>in poem. Right, no, no, there's and I actually went

1:25:19.040 --> 1:25:21.360
<v Speaker 1>back and look there's there's one poem in there. The

1:25:21.439 --> 1:25:23.519
<v Speaker 1>last poem in the book is it's not a fishing poem,

1:25:23.520 --> 1:25:26.080
<v Speaker 1>but it is a poem that has a brook trout

1:25:26.120 --> 1:25:29.439
<v Speaker 1>in it that's actually grabbed, you know, by hand and

1:25:29.800 --> 1:25:34.400
<v Speaker 1>eating over a stick fire. Um, it's you know, you

1:25:34.400 --> 1:25:36.519
<v Speaker 1>can what you can say about poetry. Everybody's gonna just

1:25:37.200 --> 1:25:40.200
<v Speaker 1>turn their phones off. Let me rip Let me rip

1:25:40.200 --> 1:25:41.720
<v Speaker 1>out a lot of poetry, and you tell me who

1:25:41.760 --> 1:25:44.360
<v Speaker 1>said it. Okay. Um, there are strange things done in

1:25:44.360 --> 1:25:47.240
<v Speaker 1>the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold

1:25:49.680 --> 1:25:54.760
<v Speaker 1>pop service, Sam Maghee. Okay, all right, you got me?

1:25:56.000 --> 1:25:58.400
<v Speaker 1>Can I rip out another one? This is the only

1:25:58.439 --> 1:26:01.759
<v Speaker 1>poem I know? Okay? Um? How was the hunting Hunter?

1:26:01.880 --> 1:26:07.719
<v Speaker 1>Bold Brother? The watch was long and cold? Rob Service? Okay?

1:26:08.760 --> 1:26:11.920
<v Speaker 1>Group bottle line of poetry? Oh man, Uh you know

1:26:12.080 --> 1:26:17.920
<v Speaker 1>yesterday was Harrison's birthday. Uh. He has a great line

1:26:17.920 --> 1:26:20.280
<v Speaker 1>from a poem called Cabbage. If only I had the

1:26:20.360 --> 1:26:24.639
<v Speaker 1>genius of a cabbage, or even an onion to grow

1:26:24.760 --> 1:26:28.200
<v Speaker 1>myself in their lamon a from the holy core that

1:26:28.280 --> 1:26:32.400
<v Speaker 1>bespeaks the final shape. Oh yeah, yeah, gives me a

1:26:32.439 --> 1:26:37.960
<v Speaker 1>little choke. Yeah. Yeah, well, you know you mentioned gear Rock.

1:26:38.080 --> 1:26:39.880
<v Speaker 1>He was sweet to this book. He I'd never met

1:26:39.960 --> 1:26:41.760
<v Speaker 1>him before. I've grown up reading him, you know. I

1:26:41.880 --> 1:26:46.160
<v Speaker 1>read everything I could. Uh. And then, um, my publicist

1:26:46.240 --> 1:26:48.120
<v Speaker 1>called me up in November, right after the book came

1:26:48.120 --> 1:26:51.000
<v Speaker 1>out and said, you know a guy named John Guy Rich.

1:26:53.360 --> 1:26:58.240
<v Speaker 1>I said, um, what some writer John Guy? I said,

1:26:58.320 --> 1:27:00.519
<v Speaker 1>John gear Rock. She said, yeah, you better check the

1:27:00.520 --> 1:27:02.519
<v Speaker 1>Wall Street Journal. He just wrote a review on Body

1:27:02.560 --> 1:27:05.640
<v Speaker 1>of Water. So no, yeah, he had he'd written a

1:27:05.680 --> 1:27:07.880
<v Speaker 1>beauty this quote on the back of the book. You

1:27:07.920 --> 1:27:10.760
<v Speaker 1>didn't know he was putting that in there. And that's

1:27:10.840 --> 1:27:13.719
<v Speaker 1>the paperback, so um, you know he wrote the review

1:27:13.720 --> 1:27:16.360
<v Speaker 1>about the hard back and I had no idea. No,

1:27:16.520 --> 1:27:20.200
<v Speaker 1>I just saw the literal paper, which was fantastic. It

1:27:20.280 --> 1:27:21.720
<v Speaker 1>was the first thing I saw when I well, I mean,

1:27:21.720 --> 1:27:24.920
<v Speaker 1>obviously it's the top quote, but definitely stuck out to me.

1:27:26.000 --> 1:27:28.439
<v Speaker 1>I saw the Body of Water. But he came up

1:27:28.479 --> 1:27:32.320
<v Speaker 1>to Missoula last year to give a reading. Fantastic crowd

1:27:32.320 --> 1:27:34.920
<v Speaker 1>out there, and we had a nice dinner and he said,

1:27:34.960 --> 1:27:38.160
<v Speaker 1>you know, um, he said, he wrote a good book.

1:27:39.200 --> 1:27:41.719
<v Speaker 1>Thanks not. It's really humbling to hear and he said,

1:27:42.080 --> 1:27:46.280
<v Speaker 1>but you can only write one bad one, so you know,

1:27:46.320 --> 1:27:48.479
<v Speaker 1>get back to work. All of the book, he says.

1:27:48.560 --> 1:27:53.519
<v Speaker 1>Krist Dombrowski's exacting descriptions of the sport made me long

1:27:53.600 --> 1:27:57.040
<v Speaker 1>to try it again and to wish that more fishing

1:27:57.120 --> 1:28:03.360
<v Speaker 1>books were written by poets. It's amazing. I'm excited to

1:28:03.360 --> 1:28:05.080
<v Speaker 1>read it, but I'm kind of scared. I don't want

1:28:05.080 --> 1:28:07.599
<v Speaker 1>to get sucked into wanting to fish for bone fish again.

1:28:07.720 --> 1:28:10.760
<v Speaker 1>You know what's funny, I have such little desire to

1:28:10.800 --> 1:28:15.520
<v Speaker 1>fish for bone fish at this point. I know, Yeah,

1:28:15.520 --> 1:28:20.120
<v Speaker 1>why What I don't miss, what I don't think I'll

1:28:20.160 --> 1:28:23.680
<v Speaker 1>ever not want to do, is is the hunt, the

1:28:23.800 --> 1:28:25.960
<v Speaker 1>visual hunt for the fish. And we were talking about

1:28:25.960 --> 1:28:29.120
<v Speaker 1>this earlier, you know, the preferred, the preferred way. I

1:28:29.160 --> 1:28:32.439
<v Speaker 1>think it's preferred because it does it takes us back

1:28:32.520 --> 1:28:35.680
<v Speaker 1>way back into that like place, to seeing brain that

1:28:35.760 --> 1:28:39.920
<v Speaker 1>has really not been missing from our world for too long.

1:28:39.960 --> 1:28:43.680
<v Speaker 1>It's you know, our new brain hasn't been in existence,

1:28:43.800 --> 1:28:46.240
<v Speaker 1>not up to date. No, it's not. So we desire that,

1:28:46.280 --> 1:28:50.200
<v Speaker 1>we we crave that that language, of that visual language,

1:28:50.200 --> 1:28:53.400
<v Speaker 1>and that that doctor was talking about. I mean, I

1:28:53.439 --> 1:28:56.080
<v Speaker 1>would imagine if it got cold out there, which it does.

1:28:56.200 --> 1:28:57.800
<v Speaker 1>You know, you heat up in that moment and then

1:28:58.560 --> 1:29:00.640
<v Speaker 1>if it's cold to get cold again, chill if you

1:29:00.680 --> 1:29:04.920
<v Speaker 1>have to take a heater. So I've been thinking about

1:29:04.880 --> 1:29:08.519
<v Speaker 1>something you said, April. You're right, Uh, dynamite is not. No,

1:29:08.920 --> 1:29:12.519
<v Speaker 1>I'm not kidding. You're right about this. If one found

1:29:12.560 --> 1:29:18.439
<v Speaker 1>themselves in bone fish country and someone and uh put

1:29:18.439 --> 1:29:20.240
<v Speaker 1>a gun to your head and they're like, you catch

1:29:20.320 --> 1:29:25.320
<v Speaker 1>one as fast as possible or I'll shoot you. Um, yeah, man,

1:29:26.520 --> 1:29:28.160
<v Speaker 1>that's probably what you would set out to do, is

1:29:28.160 --> 1:29:30.600
<v Speaker 1>go look for one. Yeah, you wouldn't go out and

1:29:30.680 --> 1:29:36.080
<v Speaker 1>start wailing away out and look you and a for

1:29:36.120 --> 1:29:38.400
<v Speaker 1>you guys are probably more an expert on this than I.

1:29:38.479 --> 1:29:41.200
<v Speaker 1>But I know people that guide bone fish in the Keys,

1:29:42.000 --> 1:29:44.240
<v Speaker 1>and I think that if you put that question to

1:29:44.520 --> 1:29:47.080
<v Speaker 1>at least two of my buddies down there and what

1:29:47.160 --> 1:29:51.200
<v Speaker 1>tool they would use, they'd say a very nudely spin

1:29:51.280 --> 1:29:54.640
<v Speaker 1>casting rod with a shrimp on it. But but I

1:29:54.680 --> 1:29:57.320
<v Speaker 1>wasn't necessarily saying that the fly is the most proctive.

1:29:57.360 --> 1:30:01.519
<v Speaker 1>I'm saying sit site fishing for then and casting to

1:30:01.600 --> 1:30:04.360
<v Speaker 1>them like a live crab in the flats that's going

1:30:04.400 --> 1:30:06.559
<v Speaker 1>to clean up everywhere so it doesn't matter if it's

1:30:06.560 --> 1:30:10.320
<v Speaker 1>flier or bait, but it's the site fishing and specifically

1:30:10.360 --> 1:30:12.880
<v Speaker 1>tracking that fish rather than just blind casting over and

1:30:12.920 --> 1:30:15.200
<v Speaker 1>over again and hoping one goes by. In the likelihood

1:30:15.200 --> 1:30:18.720
<v Speaker 1>that you're gonna spook one if you're just casting over

1:30:18.840 --> 1:30:20.880
<v Speaker 1>you know what books sent me down to want to

1:30:20.880 --> 1:30:24.320
<v Speaker 1>go catch one real man? Uh remember dude, I don't

1:30:24.320 --> 1:30:27.000
<v Speaker 1>know if he's on the scene anymore. Randall Kaufman. Yeah,

1:30:27.240 --> 1:30:29.479
<v Speaker 1>he was kind of big, like Oregon and ship like

1:30:29.520 --> 1:30:33.720
<v Speaker 1>that and sold fly tian equipment whatnot. He had a book, yeah,

1:30:33.800 --> 1:30:37.559
<v Speaker 1>Kaufman stream Born. He had a bone fish book. It's big,

1:30:37.600 --> 1:30:41.360
<v Speaker 1>it's hard back, great photos. And then my brother Danny

1:30:41.439 --> 1:30:43.960
<v Speaker 1>had one of those my bro Dames of Fisheries biologist.

1:30:43.960 --> 1:30:46.960
<v Speaker 1>I think you know this. Uh, he's a big fly

1:30:47.080 --> 1:30:52.439
<v Speaker 1>pole fisherman. He uh to this day. He had one

1:30:52.479 --> 1:30:58.439
<v Speaker 1>of those calendars where it's like cool fishing pictures. I

1:30:58.479 --> 1:31:00.479
<v Speaker 1>think I had this too, Yeah, and everything third one

1:31:01.520 --> 1:31:03.680
<v Speaker 1>was a bone fish picture or some dude on the

1:31:03.680 --> 1:31:08.000
<v Speaker 1>flats or some dude doing something like that, and you know,

1:31:08.200 --> 1:31:11.439
<v Speaker 1>every third day you're like, damn, that looks cool and

1:31:11.520 --> 1:31:14.640
<v Speaker 1>that's what like, you know, it was being inspired not

1:31:14.760 --> 1:31:16.960
<v Speaker 1>by people. I didn't know anybody that's ever done it.

1:31:16.960 --> 1:31:19.000
<v Speaker 1>It wasn't being inspired by people who did it. It

1:31:19.120 --> 1:31:22.000
<v Speaker 1>was being inspired by art. I feel like it's one

1:31:22.040 --> 1:31:25.280
<v Speaker 1>of those things that art sends you to do it.

1:31:25.680 --> 1:31:30.599
<v Speaker 1>Art doesn't send you to fish through the ice. Something

1:31:30.600 --> 1:31:32.320
<v Speaker 1>else sends you to fish to the ice. It's not art,

1:31:32.720 --> 1:31:37.360
<v Speaker 1>but art propels one, you know, madness, It sends you

1:31:37.400 --> 1:31:46.320
<v Speaker 1>to the ice and hunger, hunger or a buzz. But

1:31:46.640 --> 1:31:48.200
<v Speaker 1>it's just so easy to catch a lot of bone

1:31:48.200 --> 1:31:50.439
<v Speaker 1>fish in a lot in a lot of places. I

1:31:50.439 --> 1:31:53.160
<v Speaker 1>mean not always. I always say to people that you know,

1:31:53.320 --> 1:31:55.880
<v Speaker 1>especially people who are new to fishing, salt bone fish

1:31:55.880 --> 1:31:57.400
<v Speaker 1>are an excellent way to hone up your skills. I

1:31:57.439 --> 1:31:59.280
<v Speaker 1>don't want to take you permit fishing if you haven't

1:31:59.320 --> 1:32:01.879
<v Speaker 1>gone bone fish, because they're just gonna be like miserable.

1:32:01.960 --> 1:32:04.639
<v Speaker 1>Well and there, they can be difficult, especially those big ones.

1:32:04.640 --> 1:32:07.120
<v Speaker 1>I mean, they are just a whole new world. Right.

1:32:07.160 --> 1:32:09.800
<v Speaker 1>If you see someone getting nervous in front of a

1:32:09.840 --> 1:32:13.439
<v Speaker 1>bone fish, you know they're just going to free a permit.

1:32:13.720 --> 1:32:15.639
<v Speaker 1>But I think there's a lot of opportunity for this

1:32:15.760 --> 1:32:17.920
<v Speaker 1>art because it is pretty I mean you can go

1:32:18.040 --> 1:32:20.960
<v Speaker 1>to wile Ease and catch fifty bone fish. Really, especially

1:32:20.960 --> 1:32:22.960
<v Speaker 1>if you're casting into like a big over a day

1:32:23.040 --> 1:32:26.839
<v Speaker 1>or I mean over a trip that depends, but definitely

1:32:27.040 --> 1:32:29.200
<v Speaker 1>easy over a trip, easy over I mean there'll being

1:32:29.240 --> 1:32:32.000
<v Speaker 1>a big mud pile. Right, so you're literally just casting,

1:32:32.000 --> 1:32:35.280
<v Speaker 1>you're flying and stripping and anything's gonna bite. It makes

1:32:35.280 --> 1:32:36.760
<v Speaker 1>you feel like I was going about it all wrong,

1:32:36.880 --> 1:32:38.800
<v Speaker 1>and we do. We're kicking ask to catch a few

1:32:38.800 --> 1:32:40.800
<v Speaker 1>of them. Well that's what it should be like. Yeah,

1:32:40.960 --> 1:32:45.360
<v Speaker 1>they're you know, the the purest frown upon throwing into

1:32:45.360 --> 1:32:48.120
<v Speaker 1>the MUDs. But if you're a guy, you're a guide

1:32:48.200 --> 1:32:52.800
<v Speaker 1>or a host and it's day six or hate into

1:32:52.840 --> 1:32:58.720
<v Speaker 1>a mud, I think personally I really don't care. But

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<v Speaker 1>but for some people yet it can be deemed the

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<v Speaker 1>mud is really cool. There they You know, you see

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<v Speaker 1>this kind of dense cloud of milky water and then

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<v Speaker 1>you just see a little flash or two up to

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<v Speaker 1>little tails and wagging around. Do you have to kind

1:33:13.040 --> 1:33:15.679
<v Speaker 1>of disagree with you like you're earlier comment in April

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<v Speaker 1>and which bone fish Like, hadn't you ever heard of permit?

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<v Speaker 1>What do you mean? In the fifties by him? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>because I mean just think tongue in cheek. It's like

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<v Speaker 1>these things coming in and out of fashion to like

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<v Speaker 1>fly fishing or fishing in general is you know, it's

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<v Speaker 1>like driven by what's cool not And I know a

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<v Speaker 1>lot man who love bone fishing and do not like

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<v Speaker 1>to go fishing for permit or even turpin. You know

1:33:46.320 --> 1:33:47.800
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people who are into that. But a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of this also has to do with like in

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<v Speaker 1>the fifties, I don't know, we don't have enough time

1:33:51.680 --> 1:33:53.559
<v Speaker 1>to drive you know, to jump into the history of

1:33:53.560 --> 1:33:55.280
<v Speaker 1>like Joe Brooks and a lot of those guys. But

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of that, like you're saying it was fashionable

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<v Speaker 1>or a lot of people knew at that time that

1:34:00.360 --> 1:34:02.760
<v Speaker 1>they could catch bone fish, but they didn't know that

1:34:02.840 --> 1:34:06.519
<v Speaker 1>you could catch permit, so it wasn't necessary that. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean a lot of it could have just been that

1:34:07.760 --> 1:34:12.040
<v Speaker 1>he didn't didn't know that he could catch permit. Yeah,

1:34:12.040 --> 1:34:17.040
<v Speaker 1>pure ignorance. It's just like nobody fishes, you know, five

1:34:17.120 --> 1:34:20.080
<v Speaker 1>years ago, nobody threw flies at trigger fish, and like

1:34:20.360 --> 1:34:23.519
<v Speaker 1>everybody wants to catch trigger fish. Well they did five

1:34:23.600 --> 1:34:25.559
<v Speaker 1>years ago, but it's really trendy. Yeah, you know, it's

1:34:25.800 --> 1:34:30.559
<v Speaker 1>the hip like, you're right, it goes to it goes well,

1:34:30.600 --> 1:34:32.040
<v Speaker 1>that's I was going to get to that. I mean,

1:34:32.080 --> 1:34:37.400
<v Speaker 1>I think even ten fifteen years ago, people I thought

1:34:37.439 --> 1:34:40.559
<v Speaker 1>you couldn't catch permit. You know, now we think they're tough.

1:34:41.280 --> 1:34:45.440
<v Speaker 1>Late in the book, this guy, David Pender, this amazing

1:34:45.640 --> 1:34:49.160
<v Speaker 1>human being and one of the great guides and anglers

1:34:49.800 --> 1:34:53.360
<v Speaker 1>in the Caribbean, tells this story where at almost dinner,

1:34:53.479 --> 1:35:00.760
<v Speaker 1>this tiny little shack of dinner in mcclean's towns conch fritters, lobsters,

1:35:01.320 --> 1:35:05.080
<v Speaker 1>you know, peas and rice. I always get it wrong,

1:35:05.280 --> 1:35:11.720
<v Speaker 1>peas and rice. Um. And somehow one of his his

1:35:11.800 --> 1:35:15.200
<v Speaker 1>son's winds him into this glory story of having guided

1:35:15.680 --> 1:35:20.400
<v Speaker 1>back in the eighties a man, a Coca Cola executive

1:35:20.439 --> 1:35:23.839
<v Speaker 1>into a double on permit. He and his partner doubled

1:35:23.880 --> 1:35:28.120
<v Speaker 1>on permit and landed him simultaneously. You know. Um. So

1:35:28.880 --> 1:35:32.080
<v Speaker 1>it's a story that that's told in great detail, and

1:35:32.800 --> 1:35:38.960
<v Speaker 1>um it's like an amazing One fish goes east, peels

1:35:39.000 --> 1:35:41.040
<v Speaker 1>into the backing and leaves just a couple of cranks

1:35:41.120 --> 1:35:43.360
<v Speaker 1>left on the reel, and the other fish goes north

1:35:43.439 --> 1:35:46.559
<v Speaker 1>and does the same thing, and and penderested make these

1:35:46.600 --> 1:35:49.720
<v Speaker 1>incredible adjustments to land both of these fish and um

1:35:49.800 --> 1:35:53.960
<v Speaker 1>and they do. I remember going home after hearing that

1:35:54.080 --> 1:35:58.439
<v Speaker 1>story and uh and thinking, maybe, you know, we'd fallen

1:35:58.520 --> 1:36:01.479
<v Speaker 1>over into the edge of of and and lore and

1:36:01.760 --> 1:36:04.880
<v Speaker 1>this didn't actually happen. But at this point in the book,

1:36:04.880 --> 1:36:08.599
<v Speaker 1>I was gonna give Pinder his own his own voice, right,

1:36:08.760 --> 1:36:12.559
<v Speaker 1>he'd earned it, and um so I just I left

1:36:12.600 --> 1:36:15.040
<v Speaker 1>it his is. You know, he told the story. It happened,

1:36:15.040 --> 1:36:16.639
<v Speaker 1>But in the back of my mind, I was always thinking,

1:36:16.800 --> 1:36:18.280
<v Speaker 1>was you know it was that a little bit of

1:36:18.280 --> 1:36:21.040
<v Speaker 1>a fish tail? Um So, the book had been out

1:36:21.200 --> 1:36:26.200
<v Speaker 1>maybe um three or four or five months, and I

1:36:26.240 --> 1:36:31.080
<v Speaker 1>get this private message on my Facebook author page, and

1:36:31.560 --> 1:36:34.840
<v Speaker 1>it's a picture, an old black and white picture of

1:36:35.080 --> 1:36:37.479
<v Speaker 1>this old dude they called the Coca Cola Man and

1:36:37.560 --> 1:36:40.920
<v Speaker 1>Pinder sitting on the dock with these uh two permit

1:36:41.040 --> 1:36:45.280
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, the picture had been sent by uh, this

1:36:45.320 --> 1:36:48.559
<v Speaker 1>guy who basically captain's a yacht for the Coca Cola

1:36:48.600 --> 1:36:51.439
<v Speaker 1>Man and they go all over the world and and fish.

1:36:51.479 --> 1:36:55.800
<v Speaker 1>And he said, I was reading your book and I

1:36:55.840 --> 1:36:58.519
<v Speaker 1>got to this passage about the double on permit and

1:36:58.560 --> 1:37:01.160
<v Speaker 1>I said, oh my god, hey, boss, come here, you

1:37:01.200 --> 1:37:03.080
<v Speaker 1>gotta take a look at this or whatever. So he,

1:37:03.600 --> 1:37:07.439
<v Speaker 1>you know, procured the picture. Was down in the the

1:37:08.120 --> 1:37:10.640
<v Speaker 1>lodge or or the bar of the yacht, and he

1:37:10.720 --> 1:37:12.160
<v Speaker 1>took a picture of it and sent it to me.

1:37:12.200 --> 1:37:16.479
<v Speaker 1>And that's great. I'm told this before, but on the

1:37:16.520 --> 1:37:20.080
<v Speaker 1>difficulty of permit I was with I was down with

1:37:20.120 --> 1:37:21.680
<v Speaker 1>my brother one time. We were in the Bahamas, my

1:37:21.720 --> 1:37:24.559
<v Speaker 1>brother Danny, and he was out wanting around looking for

1:37:24.600 --> 1:37:29.360
<v Speaker 1>bone fish, and I was taking some We had been

1:37:29.400 --> 1:37:32.360
<v Speaker 1>spear fishing, and I was taking some snapper heads and

1:37:32.560 --> 1:37:36.880
<v Speaker 1>catching some little sharks, and uh, I hook a big ray.

1:37:37.160 --> 1:37:40.960
<v Speaker 1>You know, permits like the following. So the ray goes along,

1:37:41.800 --> 1:37:43.880
<v Speaker 1>and the ray just goes along, and he's moving along

1:37:43.880 --> 1:37:47.400
<v Speaker 1>and he's silting, stirring up the silt and spooking up stuff,

1:37:47.439 --> 1:37:49.439
<v Speaker 1>and so permit just in bone fish were just getting

1:37:49.439 --> 1:37:51.479
<v Speaker 1>the habit of following behind him to see what they

1:37:51.560 --> 1:37:55.280
<v Speaker 1>kick up. So here I have a big ray on

1:37:55.320 --> 1:37:58.639
<v Speaker 1>the end of my line. Okay, And after a couple

1:37:58.680 --> 1:38:02.479
<v Speaker 1>of seconds, there's to permit in mudding behind the ray

1:38:02.479 --> 1:38:04.439
<v Speaker 1>because he's raising the real ruckus because I got him

1:38:04.439 --> 1:38:09.160
<v Speaker 1>on my line. So I motioned frantically for Danny to

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<v Speaker 1>come over, because here, what better scenario you have to

1:38:13.439 --> 1:38:16.080
<v Speaker 1>permit that you know, we're feeding there, like looking for

1:38:16.080 --> 1:38:19.880
<v Speaker 1>food because they're following behind the ray and the rays

1:38:19.960 --> 1:38:22.600
<v Speaker 1>kicking up so much silt that there's like dust in

1:38:22.640 --> 1:38:26.640
<v Speaker 1>the air, dust in the water. So it would presumably

1:38:26.720 --> 1:38:31.439
<v Speaker 1>like impair the permit's vision in some way. And he

1:38:31.840 --> 1:38:35.200
<v Speaker 1>is able to just take cast after cast because I

1:38:35.240 --> 1:38:38.160
<v Speaker 1>can reel the ray in and then let him back again,

1:38:38.240 --> 1:38:40.519
<v Speaker 1>let the drag loose. He goes back out on the

1:38:40.560 --> 1:38:42.080
<v Speaker 1>permit and the ray go out and the permit the

1:38:42.160 --> 1:38:44.439
<v Speaker 1>ray come in the permit, and meanwhile he's like cast

1:38:44.520 --> 1:38:47.880
<v Speaker 1>after cast after cast after cast. Sons of bitches would

1:38:47.920 --> 1:38:54.120
<v Speaker 1>not know because they're like so yeah, like that, they

1:38:54.200 --> 1:38:57.520
<v Speaker 1>like run up, they want to I'm gonna kill that thing.

1:38:57.680 --> 1:38:59.639
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna stop and smell it. Look at the size

1:38:59.680 --> 1:39:03.400
<v Speaker 1>of their Did you cook that ray on purpose? No,

1:39:03.479 --> 1:39:04.960
<v Speaker 1>I was trying to get sharks and the ray picked

1:39:04.960 --> 1:39:10.880
<v Speaker 1>it up. I um, that ray lives today. Well, let's

1:39:10.880 --> 1:39:12.479
<v Speaker 1>something else killed the hammer head shark might have come

1:39:12.479 --> 1:39:14.320
<v Speaker 1>and killed it. I don't know. I didn't mess with it.

1:39:14.640 --> 1:39:22.680
<v Speaker 1>Kristen Browski body not though body, but body of water awesome, man,

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<v Speaker 1>thanks for having me. Yeah, people should go read the book, man,

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<v Speaker 1>please do. It's got like a real It tells a

1:39:29.640 --> 1:39:31.760
<v Speaker 1>cool story and it tells you and it tells you

1:39:31.800 --> 1:39:33.599
<v Speaker 1>what to do about it. There's a bunch of good

1:39:33.640 --> 1:39:37.559
<v Speaker 1>guiding David guiding stories in there. Another one pops into

1:39:37.720 --> 1:39:40.519
<v Speaker 1>into the head where he's got the investor in the

1:39:40.520 --> 1:39:44.040
<v Speaker 1>original owner in the boat. And I'm not gonna give

1:39:44.040 --> 1:39:46.559
<v Speaker 1>it away because you gotta go get and read Body

1:39:46.600 --> 1:39:49.960
<v Speaker 1>of Water to get this story. But that's a good one.

1:39:50.240 --> 1:39:53.839
<v Speaker 1>Like there's a fish on and then I'll hope is lost.

1:39:54.000 --> 1:39:57.880
<v Speaker 1>But then the guide says, you know what, let's try

1:39:57.960 --> 1:40:02.800
<v Speaker 1>this and yeah, and this is coming from a former guy, right, yeah, yeah,

1:40:02.840 --> 1:40:04.719
<v Speaker 1>I could go on. I know we're short on time,

1:40:04.800 --> 1:40:07.559
<v Speaker 1>but I was just thinking about the times where rowing

1:40:07.560 --> 1:40:10.040
<v Speaker 1>a boat, you know, you got to fish on and

1:40:10.080 --> 1:40:12.280
<v Speaker 1>they're not just like any two fish where you're like, yeah,

1:40:12.360 --> 1:40:14.280
<v Speaker 1>just skip that thing across the surface. But these things

1:40:14.320 --> 1:40:17.479
<v Speaker 1>are like bone a rod over there on the bottom

1:40:17.479 --> 1:40:19.439
<v Speaker 1>of the river, and you're like, okay, what am I

1:40:19.479 --> 1:40:21.200
<v Speaker 1>gonna do? How's it gonna work? Oh, there's a rapid

1:40:21.240 --> 1:40:23.439
<v Speaker 1>coming up, Holy sh it. And then somehow you at

1:40:23.439 --> 1:40:25.080
<v Speaker 1>the bottom of the rapid and you've got to fish

1:40:25.080 --> 1:40:33.479
<v Speaker 1>in one net and it's just everybody's Yeah, those are

1:40:33.520 --> 1:40:37.320
<v Speaker 1>good times, good stories. Kristen Browsky Body of Water. Folks

1:40:37.360 --> 1:40:40.800
<v Speaker 1>can go buy it on Amazon, right, And you gotta

1:40:40.880 --> 1:40:45.960
<v Speaker 1>know that you have influenced at least one more dirty

1:40:46.040 --> 1:40:49.600
<v Speaker 1>bum fishing guy to pursue his writing dreams. And my

1:40:49.640 --> 1:40:51.960
<v Speaker 1>buddy Colin Scott, you wanted me to be sure to

1:40:52.040 --> 1:40:56.720
<v Speaker 1>let you know that he uh really looks up to you,

1:40:56.720 --> 1:40:59.639
<v Speaker 1>and you let him know that it is in fact

1:40:59.680 --> 1:41:02.920
<v Speaker 1>pop boy. So he's still bumming at in ak and

1:41:03.400 --> 1:41:07.960
<v Speaker 1>writing screenplays. So you're not only are you ruining bonefish

1:41:09.000 --> 1:41:11.880
<v Speaker 1>people clouding it up, you're ruining writing and bringing in

1:41:11.920 --> 1:41:16.000
<v Speaker 1>all the kind of writers now competing precious limited resources.

1:41:16.000 --> 1:41:19.800
<v Speaker 1>Pretty soon they're all gonna have TV shows too. Come on,

1:41:20.240 --> 1:41:23.120
<v Speaker 1>it's great to be here. You guys are fantastic. Thank

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<v Speaker 1>you very much everyone,