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Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kel's we can review with Ryan kel Kelly. Now here's

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Speaker 1: kel beaver walks into a bar or subway or rather,

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Speaker 1: and there's no joke, that's all. Just a beaver walks

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Speaker 1: into the subway in Toronto, which resulted in the subway

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Speaker 1: stop of Royal York being shut down temporarily by the

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Speaker 1: Toronto Transit Authority or t T a anti discrimination lawsuit pending.

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Speaker 1: Tis the season to find beavers in abnormal places. Adult

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Speaker 1: beavers kick their young out of the dens in the

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Speaker 1: spring to disperse to new locations with high water runoff

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Speaker 1: associated with melting snow and rain. That's right. You can't

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Speaker 1: blame this young beaver for hanging out in the subway,

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Speaker 1: but you can blame its parents. Years ago, well, bird

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Speaker 1: hunting a large piece of high dry block land management

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Speaker 1: out in eastern Montana, I was shocked to find a

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Speaker 1: beaver carcass laying underneath the tall sage right in amongst

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Speaker 1: the prickly pear cactus miles from consistent water. Seemed wildly

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Speaker 1: out of place and kind of conjured up the images

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Speaker 1: down by the sun in search of water. Cool clear

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Speaker 1: water wood would be nice. More recently, my girlfriend and

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Speaker 1: I headed out on a mission to retrieve a supposed

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Speaker 1: road killed beaver near Three Forks, Montana, which, on one

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Speaker 1: hand I suppose you could call odd, but if you

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Speaker 1: think about the history of beaver and the Three Forks

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Speaker 1: locate the beaver, but we did swing into the Sack

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Speaker 1: of jewiah In because they have great poutine. That's right,

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Speaker 1: French fries, gravy cheese cards, just like they have in Canada.

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Speaker 1: And you were starting to think this had nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with Toronto. He is truly a master of his craft. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: some very nice person or persons bought us dinner. Don't

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Speaker 1: know who you are, but thank you, and to the

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Speaker 1: rest of you, be on the lookout for beavers and

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Speaker 1: strange places, even if you can't put your hands on one,

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Speaker 1: something good may come out of it. Happened to us anyway.

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Speaker 1: This week we've got listener emails, wildlife, crime and wisdom.

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Speaker 1: But first I'm gonna tell you about my week and

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Speaker 1: a new friend out of it. My goodness, this is

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Speaker 1: the one hundredth episode of Cal's Weekend Review, which is

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Speaker 1: milestone should get a moment of reflection. The average we

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Speaker 1: chorus of one hundred episodes. For reference, the Wizard of

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Speaker 1: Oz was forty words. Legends of the Fall, the novel

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Speaker 1: by Jim Harrison, which comes to mind as I look

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Speaker 1: two five twenty four words. Two in the Shade by

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Speaker 1: Tom mcgwain, just to shade over fifty thousand words. I'm

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Speaker 1: not comparing myself to these writers, mind you. I'm just

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Speaker 1: of stories harvested from the Ask Cal email, I want

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Speaker 1: released Grizzlies and rewards for Rainbows in Idaho. This week

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Speaker 1: We were set up with a strutter in three hands

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Speaker 1: Matt writes in imagine a place full of anti hunters

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Speaker 1: Eventually I hear birds two to three hundred yards away

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