1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: Kel's we can review with Ryan Kell Kell and now 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: here's Kel and Alabama's meth fueled attack squirrel has been 4 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 1: safely released into the wild. Of course, it doesn't look 5 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: like the squirrel was given math. If you've been following 6 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: the story of a multi felonied man in Alabama, you 7 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: know all about D's Nuts, which is the name of 8 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: the pet squirrel in question. Fun side note, I actually 9 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: have a friend whose email account, far into adulthood was 10 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: D's Nuts at hotmail dot com. If he's still got 11 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: that email, please write him and tell him to grow up. 12 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,520 Speaker 1: You've got mail anyway. The Associated Press interviewed the felon 13 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: while I was on the loose somewhere in Limestone County, Alabama. 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: Limestone County is just on the outskirts a Huntsville, Alabama. 15 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: If geographical marker is needed. Local officers were warned ahead 16 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: of executing a search warrant to look out for the 17 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: man's meth dosed pet squirrel trained to attack on command. 18 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: Authorities were unable to confirm that the squirrel was fed meth, 19 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 1: and oddly enough, the previous owner denied the allegations of 20 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: feeding the squirrel meth on a Facebook video taken while 21 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 1: he was still on the lamp. He was apprehended after 22 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: eventually ending a high speed chase by ramming another vehicle 23 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: with a stolen motorcycle. If having multiple felony warrants, high 24 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: speed chases, and possible animal cruelty doesn't sound bad enough, 25 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: it is illegal to keep a squirrel as a pet 26 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: in Alabama. As a kid, we're always told smoking pot 27 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: was the gateway drug to meth. Now I guess we 28 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: know what meth is, the gateway drug to illegal possession 29 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: of a squirrel named des Nuts. This week we're gonna 30 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: talk about rainbow trout, Arctic foxes, foo goo, and some 31 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: really cool stuff about wildlife and Independence Day. But first 32 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about my week. I went down 33 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: to that big, awesome Snake River country just south of 34 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: Yellowstone National Park and met up with some friends to 35 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: celebrate the willful giving up of independence, freedom and general 36 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: care free living to marriage. You know, a bachelor party 37 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: and not mine, a friend of mine. We had a 38 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: great crew, great camp site. We cooked up crispy Mountain 39 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 1: lion carnetas paired with some fine Portuguese wines, wines imported 40 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 1: by the bachelor himself. So you know, check out Osito 41 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: Wine distributing here in the state of Montana. If you do, 42 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: maybe I won't have to buy a wedding gift and 43 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: remember enjoy responsibly. On top of the food and wine, 44 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: we fished hard for two days at the boat launches 45 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: at the South Fork. We noticed freezers tricked out as 46 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: rainbow trout fish head receptacles. The story behind these nifty 47 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: setups is this Idaho Fishing Game would like anglers to 48 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: kill rainbow trout in order to give the native cutthroat 49 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: trout some room to breathe or reproduce. Rather, and order 50 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:05,519 Speaker 1: to incentivize anglers to kill rainbows, IDFG captures and estimated 51 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 1: six percent of the rainbow trout population. Each winner implants 52 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: tags in their heads and then re releases them. Think 53 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: of those tags as winning lottery tickets. Any angler who 54 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: turns in the tagged head of rainbow trout to Idaho 55 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: Fishing Game wins between twenty and a thousand bucks. In turn, 56 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: those collected trout heads give up a lot of important 57 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: information to the biologists at Idaho Fishing game, so everybody 58 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: wins except the rainbows. Of course, Idaho fishing game also 59 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: coals rainbows by a fish weirs and shocking anglers are 60 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: only a piece of the puzzle. The cutthroat trout is 61 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: one of the very few native trout species in the US, 62 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: and the Snake River variation, the fine spotted cutthroat, is 63 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: in a bit of trouble. Remember the movie Braveheart when 64 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: King Edward the First says the problem with Scotland is 65 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: it's full of Scots. If we can't get them out, 66 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: will breed them out. That's an abbreviated version of that quote. 67 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: That's basically what's happening down on the South Fork of 68 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: the Snake. Instead of English lords trying to breathe the 69 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: Scots out of Scotland. Here, here you've got rainbow trout 70 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: breeding the cutthroat trout out of the South Fork of 71 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: the Snake. Rainbows are prolific and they hybridize with cutthroat, 72 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: producing lots of rainbows and lots of hybrids or cut bows. 73 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: When I say the lots, The two thousand eighteen fish 74 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: count came in at an astonishing six thousand, two hundred 75 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: and fifty three fish per mile. That's more than a 76 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: fish per foot. Of those, about half were rainbows or 77 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: cut bows. This is an abbreviated synopsis of the South 78 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: Fork situation here on the Weekend Review. Please check out 79 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: an in depth article written by meat eaters own Sam 80 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: Longdren called Shock and Awe Suppressing rainbow trout on the 81 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: South Fork of the Snake River. The issue I want 82 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: to address here is a social one, not so much 83 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: about fish, but about fisherman. I spoke with a bunch 84 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: of anglers on this trip, and if you were none 85 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: too pleased with efforts by the state to reduce rainbow 86 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: trout numbers, and some of these anglers appeared downright displeased 87 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: with yours truly for vocalizing my desire to help out 88 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: with those efforts to reduce rainbow trout numbers. They like 89 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: catching rainbows. I get it. I like catching rainbows. Fish 90 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: or fund to catch. If you happen to be a 91 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: fishing guide, more fish provide more opportunity for a successful 92 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: day on the water and better tips. But think of this, 93 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: Anglers can go damn near any place in the world 94 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 1: to catch rainbow trout. According to the USGS, rainbows have 95 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: made it to all fifty states, including Hawaii, as well 96 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Further afield, rainbows 97 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: are thriving in South America, Africa, Asia, Australasia which is 98 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: a nifty term for Australia, New Zealand and those other 99 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: big gast islands, oh and Europe and all maybe a 100 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty countries. The fine spotted cutthroat, however, only 101 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 1: exists in the south Fork of the Snake River. So 102 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: to all my angling friends out there, whether you're in 103 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: the guide seat or just pitching flies and spoons on 104 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: an evening float, we as a people have something special 105 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: with this fish. Step up and protect your resource in 106 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: the tastiest way possible. Smoke a rainbow or hell fry at. 107 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: That's what I did, pan fried, But before I did 108 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 1: the cooking, I lopped their heads off, put them in 109 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: a plastic bag provided by the State Idaho, along with 110 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: my license info and contact information, and dropped all that 111 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: in one of those aforementioned fancy freezers rigged up as 112 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: rainbow trout head receptacles. Believe me, you'll know if one 113 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: of my fish heads brings into cash prize. Moving on 114 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: a new land speed world record has been set. If 115 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: you're the competitive type, relax. This record is species specific 116 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: to the Arctic fox. A young female Arctic fox fitted 117 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: with a radio collar. I should actually tell you female 118 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 1: fox is called the vixen, so you could say a 119 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: young vixen fitted with a satellite transmitter traveled from Norway 120 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,359 Speaker 1: to Canada in seventy six days. That's a distance of 121 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: two thousand, one hundred and seventy five miles. Likely in 122 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: an attempt to find both food and a suitable mate. 123 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: The fox averaged about thirty miles a day from Spitzbergen, Norway, 124 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:19,679 Speaker 1: to Elsmere Island, Canada. Spitzbergen is located on the small 125 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: Bard Archipelago for those of you not up speed on 126 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: your geography terms, and archipelago is a cluster of islands. 127 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: The longest travel day for this Arctic fox was a 128 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: big ninety six point three mile push as it crossed 129 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: the Greenland ice sheet. This is the fastest known dispersal 130 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: of the species. Previous record was held by a mail 131 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: fox in Alaska. There are a lot of questions regarding 132 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: this fox's journey across two thousand, one hundred and seventy 133 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: five miles of snow and ice, Like, what did it eat? 134 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: That's a lot of calories burned to travel that far 135 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: in the cold, and of course why mate the effort. 136 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: But what I think we should focus on is the 137 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: fact that we, the United States of America, just prior 138 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: to the celebration of the birth of our nation, just 139 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: lost the Arctic fox overland dispersal distance time record to 140 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: a Norwegian triumph of the female of the species, for sure, 141 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: but come on, moving onto the Florida desk. Fugu or 142 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: puffer fish, is a higher risk, high reward type of 143 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: culinary experience. The reward it's a tasty fish. Supposedly, the 144 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: risk death In Japan, Fungu sales hit about ten thousand 145 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: tons annually, and butchers have to study for around two 146 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: years in order to prepare the fish. Despite rigorous training 147 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: and tight regulations, around fifty people die in Japan every 148 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: year from improperly prepared fugu. A couple more fun fugu facts. 149 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: Fugu is the only traditional Japanese dish that can never 150 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: be served to the emperor, and fugu roughly translates to 151 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: river piglet, which actually makes it sound a lot more 152 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: tempting to me. The puffer fish produces a toxin called 153 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: tetro dotoxin. Now, we all know potassium cyanide, at least 154 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: in a poisonous reference sort of way. Well point five 155 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: five grams or half a gram of potassium cyanide. That's 156 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: like a dollar bill torn in half. That's half a 157 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: gram anyway, half a gram of potassium cyanide will kill 158 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty pound person, whereas only two milligrams 159 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: of tetro dotoxin has been proven to be a fatal dose. 160 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 1: So a tablet of this toxin, the size of your 161 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: average ibprofen pill, will kill twenty five of your buddies, 162 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: assuming they weigh around a hundred and sixty pounds apiece. 163 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: Tetro Dotoxin blocks the activation of nerve cells, which causes 164 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: all sorts of problems but will eventually lead to paralysis 165 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 1: and death. Seems like something folks wouldn't want to mess with. Well, 166 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: Florida man walked into a hospital feeling the effects of 167 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: both too much fudo and too much cocaine. Fun fact, 168 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 1: puffer fish is also known as blowfish, and cocaine can 169 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: be referred to as you get a Actually, there's another 170 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: old joke in here. You know how some folks say 171 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: I treat my body like a temple, others an amusement park. Well, 172 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: if that's true, this guy treats his body like an 173 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: old dingy casino. Sure he might have a good time 174 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,559 Speaker 1: for a while, but you might get robbed on the 175 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: way out. Anyway. Our adventurous eater slash sniffer experienced chest pains, vomiting, numbness, 176 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: abdominal pain, weakness. He was placed on dialysis to prevent 177 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: total kidney failure, developed pneumonia and as lungs attempted to 178 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: shut down. Must be a tasty fish. When you consider 179 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: the so called dangerous delicacies, you really have to wonder 180 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: if the flavor is actually in the risk the height, 181 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: so to speak. Like when you look at that old 182 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: hot dog in the back of the fridge, you know 183 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: what has the potential to cause serious illness. You weigh 184 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: the severe intestinal battle that could result from its consumption. 185 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: A voice is telling you know, don't do it. Another 186 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: voice is saying it's fine and so convenient. Is that 187 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: mental back and forth? The budget version of Fugu also 188 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: on the subject of strange foods, and also in Florida. 189 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has declared open 190 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: season on iguanas. The f WC encourages homeowners to kill 191 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: green iguanas on their own property whenever possible. Iguanas can 192 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: also be killed year round and without a permit, on 193 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: twenty two public lands in South Florida. Green Iguanas are 194 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: native to Central America and parts of South America, as 195 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: well as some Caribbean islands. Aside from being non native, 196 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: these iguanas are extremely destructive. They dig extensive tunnel systems 197 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: that can undermine the integrity of roads, houses, and sea walls. 198 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: They're difficult to contain because they can climb, swim, and 199 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: really haulass on the land. And of course they have 200 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: such a very diet they out compete native critters. On 201 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: top of that, they carry salmonella and routinely distribute that 202 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: nasty bacteria as they shed their skin. The green iguana 203 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: is just one of foul of invasive plants and animals 204 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: plaguing the state of Florida. The good news here is 205 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 1: the tasty silver lining, so to speak, is in my experience, 206 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: the green iguana is delicious. From my small dabbling in 207 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: the back legs, loins and tail meat of these invasive reptiles. 208 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 1: The flavor is as if a catfish and a chicken 209 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: got together and had a seventeen pound, five foot long 210 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 1: tasty baby. Just the other day, someone was telling my 211 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: buddy Steve about the pleasures of heading out in a 212 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: canoe with his twenty two rifle and coming back with 213 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: a cooler half filled with crushed ice and severed green 214 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: iguana tails, then bringing those tails over to a Cuban 215 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: buddy of his who's got his iguana tail cooking dialed 216 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: in perfectly. So get to it, Florida. Next time I 217 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: come down to pester your fish, I want to see 218 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: a Cuban style iguana food trucker too. But don't get 219 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 1: too fired up on eating reptiles just yet, especially raw geckos. 220 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: The Brisbane Times reported on a thirty four year old 221 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: man that eight a raw echo at a Christmas party 222 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 1: last December. Like iguanas, geckos can carry the Salmonella bacteria, 223 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: and this party prank backfired to say the least, green vomit, 224 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,079 Speaker 1: black urine, testicle, swollen to the size of grape fruits, 225 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: and eventually death. There's nothing funny about this situation. I've 226 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,959 Speaker 1: certainly done my fair share of stupid stuff. On the 227 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: subject of dares going wrong, over in the EU, a 228 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: kid had to have his appendix removed after he had 229 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: complained of severe stomach pain. When the surgeon removed the 230 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: severely swollen appendix, they found it full of lead shots. 231 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: It turns out the youngster described as hyperactive, had been 232 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,679 Speaker 1: teased by his older siblings into playing a game of 233 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 1: eating lead shot left over on the family dinner table 234 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: after bird dinners. Another case in Australia of eating stuff 235 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 1: as a stunt involved a garden slug. This day are 236 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: taken and completed at age nineteen, didn't catch up with 237 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: the prankster until age seven. Along with the slug, the 238 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: young man ingested rat lung worm, which eventually turned into 239 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 1: EO sinophilic meningio cephalitis. As a note here, the c 240 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: d C advises against eating raw or undercook slugs, snails, frogs, shrimp, 241 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: and prawns personally um with you right up until the 242 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: shrimp and prawns. Additionally, perhaps the c d C should 243 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: add something in that warns against eating things on a dare, 244 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: or perhaps for all you folks listening when you go 245 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: to put something in your mouth, you should stop and 246 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: ask could this be considered to pray? Since this is 247 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: technically the Independence Day issue of Cal's Weekend Review, consider 248 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 1: the annual now world famous Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest. 249 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: Considering the context and the historical reality of what we're celebrating, 250 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: that just seems like kind of a waste. Think on 251 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: the folks that volunteered to knock back another invasive species 252 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: back in seventy eight. The invasive species in this case 253 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: would be the British. Anyway, these volunteers often went hungry 254 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: and had to scrounge for whatever they could. Fellow you 255 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: may have heard of General George Washington understood how to 256 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: harvest the fruits of the land, even use those fruits 257 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: to fuel his army. According to the general's journals, he 258 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: killed five wild turkeys one November day, some deer a 259 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: few days after, and again after being quote and camped 260 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: and gone a hunting, killed five buffaloes, wounded some others, 261 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: and killed three more deer. Another General Montgomery, under Washington's command, 262 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: marched north in the invasion of Canada. His army quote 263 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: shot so many pigeons that huge piles of the birds 264 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: were heaped several feet high before butchering at Valley Forge. 265 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: The first and second Pennsylvania Brigades, consisting of just under 266 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: two thousand men, consumed eight thousand, nine hundred and twenty 267 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: one pounds or four and a half pounds per person 268 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: of American shad that may have seventy eight excavations of 269 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: the Valley Forge site. Interestingly enough, turned up more white 270 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: tailed deer bones in the Virginia Brigades camp than the Pennsylvanians. 271 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if there is what state creates better 272 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: Hunter's rivalry, but that camp evidence could lay a good 273 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: historical foundation for one. I find it interesting that while 274 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: Washington was out feeding himself and his men by any 275 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: means necessary, he chose to express his frustration with the 276 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: Moderates and the Continental Congress by describing them as quote 277 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: still feeding themselves upon the dainty food of reconciliation. Anyway, 278 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: if you need a new independent state tradition, fuel your 279 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: celebration with some wild game, but not eating as a prank. 280 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. I hope you had a safe and 281 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: awesome weekend out enjoying our American birthright. Are fantastic and 282 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: beautiful public lands remember to leave me a review by 283 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: hitting that furthest right hand star and subscribe. If you 284 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: want to let me know how I'm doing or how 285 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: I screwed up, please shoot me an email to a 286 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: S K C A L that's asked Cal at the 287 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: meat eater dot com. 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