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Speaker 1: quickly our top story this week, though not actually part

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Speaker 1: go straight to hell. That's number one. But two, I

425
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 1: don't feel like this could have been random. Right. There

426
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: was a photo in the article showing some of the

427
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 1: tackle he lost, and it was a lot. Man. I mean,

428
00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: this wasn't hit like an orchestrated hit. I there there's

429
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 1: no way that whoever did this didn't know exactly what

430
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: was in that truck, because this isn't like a break

431
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: the window and steal the iPod deal, you know what

432
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I assumed that maybe this was a

433
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: late night run to Walmart, butN this was broad daylight

434
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,360
Speaker 1: and there were plenty of other people in the parking lot,

435
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 1: and like nobody thought something was weird there. That unload

436
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: had to take time, right, Yeah, I mean, weird stuff

437
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 1: happens to the Walmart parking lot all the time. Let's

438
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: be asked. You know, you go to Walmart parking lot,

439
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: you kind of put your blinders on. You walk through it.

440
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 1: You pretend like you don't see anything, You get whatever

441
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: you need. There's whole websites devoted to the weird things

442
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,640
Speaker 1: that happened to Walmart. Because I was out of Walmart.

443
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 1: I saw a dude jump out of his truck and

444
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: cracky youngling on his way in, Like you're opening a

445
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,320
Speaker 1: beer to go refreshing. You need to be well hydrated

446
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 1: for that Walmart run. I get it. But all all

447
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: the sources of this story feature security cam photos of

448
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: a white Chevy Tahoe believed to be the purpose caught

449
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 1: on tape um and the public is being asked to

450
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 1: keep a lookout for it. But I don't even fully

451
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: understand that because in a couple of those shots, like

452
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: I can damn near read the entire license plate. So

453
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: I I hope that you know the local swat team

454
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: and suiting up right now, because that's what I want.

455
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: You know. While all theft is obviously low, I just

456
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: find the stealing of fishing gear extremely low. Like I

457
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: cringe when I see those posts pop up on forums

458
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 1: and on social media, like somebody jack my tackle bag

459
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 1: out of my truck like that, Just that just burns me.

460
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: I think every few years it seems like someone decides

461
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good idea to break into all

462
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: the guide rigs around here because they know where they're

463
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 1: going to be, right, and they know that there's usually

464
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: some cash for the shuttle driver in there, and there's

465
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 1: usually some gear. But it is vigilante justice and that's

466
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,199
Speaker 1: what keeps it from being anything that happens often honestly,

467
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 1: because the whole community of anglers around here finds out

468
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 1: who it is. Because the towns aren't that big, and

469
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: bad things happen to the that generally have nothing to

470
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: do with the police. So and I mean they're trying

471
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: to sell it, So what happens. It usually pops up

472
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: for sales somewhere and that's how they nail them, right. Yeah. Well,

473
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: to get back to your your fear of having your

474
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: gear stole, And just a final note because you'll appreciate this. Uh,

475
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: the day we had our security system installed here at

476
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: the house, my wife was unavailable to weigh in on

477
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 1: sensor placement. And it's a scam anyway, right because the

478
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: the the these services advertised like cheap monthly fifty bucks

479
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: a month, secure your house. Yeah, but then you find

480
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: out the package only comes with four free sensors, so

481
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: it's like pick the four most likely places someone will

482
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: break in, or you up the bill a couple grand

483
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: and arm every possible entry port. Right. So I bought

484
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: a handful of extra sensors that day, and I put

485
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 1: every single one in the garage. So we've since upgraded

486
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: the home in its entirety. Right, But at the outset,

487
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: they were like many weak points in the part where

488
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 1: my family sleeps, but the garage was Fort Knox, dude,

489
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: and my wife was when she came home, she was pissed.

490
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: But I had a valid argument, right, and this is

491
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding, thanks to something I saw on

492
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: c S I which taught me nobody ever expects a

493
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: locked door behind a locked door. So in other words,

494
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: people will break into a garage assuming the door inside

495
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: the garage from the house to the garage is unlocked.

496
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: And that's stuck with me. And now mine is mine

497
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: is is always locked that door. But I was like, hey,

498
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: you know I was breaking into this place. I had

499
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,640
Speaker 1: come in through the garage, and she kind of conceded,

500
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: but not really. She knew exactly what I was doing,

501
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: So there you go. I mean, I like that you

502
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: had that rational ready to go like, oh no, no, no,

503
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: it's not about my gear, honey, it's it's science. I

504
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,719
Speaker 1: learned it from C. S. I hold on. I appreciate

505
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: that very much. And you know, I actually this is

506
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: this is true. Until I got married to my wife.

507
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever lived in a house where

508
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: we locked the doors. It's just the Northeast way. Man.

509
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,959
Speaker 1: I love that Maybury idea, and I visited a lot

510
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: of places where it's like that. I am, I am.

511
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: It's just in grain, like I'm just a nut job,

512
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: or like I don't keep anything of value in my truck.

513
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,120
Speaker 1: Like no, I'm not getting I think it makes sense.

514
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 1: Like it's just so to contextualize this. This isn't like

515
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: an idealistic thing for me. It was I grew up

516
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: in house where you couldn't lock the doors because everything

517
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: was screened in, so all you had to do was

518
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: just punched through the screen and you're in. So it

519
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: didn't really matter. Our house got broken and do many

520
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: times when I was a kid, but we just couldn't

521
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: lock it. Design problem. Welcome to the tropics. This is

522
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: in Hawaii. Yeah, this is where I grew up in Hawaii,

523
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: like literally the giant screened in porch. There's no way

524
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: to secure that, like you just couldn't do it, and

525
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: they had as a major design flaw. And then in

526
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: college I lived in this this this house where I

527
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: think we just lost the keys within the first week

528
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: and then no one even bothered. It was just like whatever,

529
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: we got broken into there too. We also we also

530
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: had several of the guys on the couch, so there

531
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: was usually an alarm system there because somebody was on

532
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: the couch pretty much twenty four hours a day. But

533
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: still we got broken into there. And then after that,

534
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just kind of got out

535
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: of the habit of it. I never did it, but

536
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: but I married a woman who had just come from

537
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: New York and now it is like locked up all

538
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: the time. This has nothing to do with fishing, and

539
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: I ventured far and wide. I'm sorry about that, but uh,

540
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: I also don't have a great segue to get from

541
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: what I was like trying to buy some time for

542
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: a segue, and I don't exactly know I having to

543
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: get there. Apparently Phil counts the segways because my first

544
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: one sucked last week. And then I lost so year turn.

545
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say that that locking the door on

546
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: a house that, even though I'm getting used to it

547
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: now is is outside of my comfort zone. And for this,

548
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: this first story, I also went far, far outside of

549
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: my personal comfort zone into a strange, alien land that

550
00:29:54,400 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: seems primarily populated by teenagers and maybe tweens. Uh. That's right.

551
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: I wandered into the land of TikTok. Oh. Man, isn't

552
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: that against the law? Now, you shouldn't say that publicly?

553
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: I mean I did. It's true I went there. I

554
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: will also admit it was not my first foray into

555
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: into TikTok land. Uh. My god daughter a couple of

556
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: years ago showed it to me. But at that time

557
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: and I think she was like ten, and at that time,

558
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: from what I could tell, she just used it to

559
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: learn and practice dances. So I just didn't pay any attention.

560
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, cool, yeah, take your dancing whatever.

561
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what this app is. I fancy myself

562
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: pretty up on like modern media. But that's one where

563
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: I draw the line of the old man, like, I

564
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell that is. God, damn TikTok

565
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: appy kids. I don't know. I don't know what. I

566
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: don't get it again. All I know is it used

567
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: to be for dancing, but apparently it's evolved because I

568
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: hear now it's a national security threat. But also this

569
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: week I learned that one can find some strange and

570
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: obscure fish news in the swirling cosmos of TikTok. I'm

571
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: very curious. This is interesting. You're also giving away your sources,

572
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: so you know, I don't think it's going to be

573
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: a regular well that I draw from. Lacey Scott, a

574
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: sculptor by trade with a large TikTok, following shared a

575
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: story about rehabilitating a goldfish named Monstro this summer. And

576
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, in case somehow you missed this, here's a

577
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: little recap. In April, someone turned an unwanted ten year

578
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: old goldfish into a pet store that Lacey frequents. The

579
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: fish was in rough shape, barely able to swim, and

580
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: developing lesions on his belly from just laying there on

581
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: the gravel motionless. Pretty Much everyone in the story except Lacey,

582
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: was just waiting for this old, decrepit pet fish to die.

583
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: But not lazy, No. She took him home and set

584
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: up a quote hospital tank where she worked on rehabilitating him.

585
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: Several months later, not only was he eating, swimming, and

586
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: lesion free, but he grew substantially and his color changed

587
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: from jet black to this gorgeous, vibrant orange. And so

588
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: Lacy posted a story to her account, and I gotta

589
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: say it feels like a collaboration between the Humane Society

590
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: and Children's International. We get to see Monstro's metamorphosis from

591
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: a detected, dark, solitary abuse case to stunning colorful fish

592
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: twirling in a big, clean tank among the company of

593
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,719
Speaker 1: other fish, all set to inspirational piano music. And if

594
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: anybody is looking for a textbook definition of pathos, just

595
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: check out this video, because you got it. Seven and

596
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: a half million people watched Lacy's Monstro story. You know

597
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: you know what that means, right, She's gonna be the

598
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: next pit Bulls and Paroles. She'll have it. She'll have

599
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: an Animal Planet show the gold Rehabilitator don And I mean, look,

600
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: I get it. We all need a little good media

601
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: right now, right Like, I mean, hell, that's that's part

602
00:32:54,400 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: of the DNA of this show. But a goldfish, I mean, really,

603
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: what's the t So okay, all right, all right, And

604
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: let me let me be clear here though, I'm not

605
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: throwing shade at anybody in the story, especially not Lacy

606
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: or the pet store or even the original owner. In fact,

607
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: they all get props from me because they didn't do

608
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: what millions of other goldfish owners do when they're tired

609
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: of the fish that their kids want at the fair.

610
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: You know, the one they assumed be dead in a week,

611
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: but somehow it ended up surviving for over a decade.

612
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: And now the kids growing up and gone, and what

613
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: the hell are they gonna do with the stupid goldfish.

614
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: They don't want to kill their kids pet, but they

615
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: don't want to take care of it either, so you know,

616
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: they just set it free in a local pond. Let

617
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: me go back to nature or whatever. Those are the

618
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: people that I would like to publicly shame right now.

619
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: You people, you're the problem because goldfish are barely natural.

620
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: In fact, here's something we should all know. Invasive goldfish

621
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: are a major problem worldwide, spreading bacteria and disease and

622
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: competing with native wild fish. So listen up. If you

623
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: can't be bothered to care for your pet fish, take

624
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: responsibility for your actions and kill it. Quickly setting the

625
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: fish free in your local pond, or even flushing it

626
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: down the toilet will result in one of two outcomes.

627
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: Either that fish will die as slow, painful death, or

628
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: it will find a home in a local ecosystem and

629
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: mess things up. Goldfish are carp and as you've probably heard,

630
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 1: carp are wreaking havoc across North American fisheries. Goldfish are

631
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: no different from their hated cousins, just because they've been

632
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: selectively bred for the past two thousand years to be

633
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: pretty Getting rid of goldfish once they've gained a foothold

634
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: in a waterway is nearly impossible. They are impervious to

635
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: electro shocking, so the only way to get them out

636
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 1: is to poison every fish in the system and start over. Washington, Texas, Minnesota, California, Alaska, Nevada,

637
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: and Colorado, among other states, are dealing with major goldfish outbreaks.

638
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: And this isn't just an American problem. Canada, the UK, Australia,

639
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: they're all fighting the goldfish hordes. So monstro might make

640
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: for a touching TikTok story, but don't be fooled. He

641
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: is an ecological time bomb just waiting to be unleashed.

642
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: So I love the goldfish game at the old the

643
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: old carnivals there back in the day. I won to

644
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: one year. My mom kind of adopted them and named

645
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: them Jack and Diane, and they lived on a they lived.

646
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 1: They lived yep, little diddy, big meloncamp fan, my mom,

647
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: and they lived in a fishbowl in our kitchen. Jack

648
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: only survived for about two years. Diane lived in a

649
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: fish bowl with no filter yep, I mean forever much.

650
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: They are much much tougher fish than than people realize.

651
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: And I don't have anywhere around here that has a

652
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 1: population of them. I know this happens. I know it's

653
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: a problem. I know it's a thing. Um. Every once

654
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: in a great while, though, I'll bump into, you know,

655
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 1: a few dudes like I couldn't find live shiner, so

656
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: they go buy a bag of goldfish and uh, no

657
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: justification here, but I mean that orange pickerel chain pickerel dude,

658
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: a big orange goldfish hanging under that's not it's not cool.

659
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: It's not cool this. Yeah, no, no, no, I'm not

660
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: endorsing it at all. I've I've seen it, but I

661
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: don't have anywhere overrun with goldfish. Though, I've had aquariums

662
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: my whole life, and I'll I'll never forget this. As

663
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: soon as you started telling this story, took me right

664
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 1: back here. I stopped at the big pet mart here

665
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: one time years ago. I forget what I was buying.

666
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: But this this mother and this son who was I

667
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: don't know, ten or eleven, they literally come running in

668
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 1: like the houses on fire, with a tupperware container with

669
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: a goldfish that has flipped over, and they're like screaming

670
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: for someone to help them. They're like, please, someone, please,

671
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: and like, you know, it's a poor fourteen year old

672
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: kid work in the aquarium section. He's like, um ma'am,

673
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: I like it was dead. It was dead as ship

674
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: the hattles. But dude, it was like it was like

675
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: their dog just got hit by a car. It was like,

676
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: they're like, please do something like I was like dollar

677
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 1: ninety nine by another one, you know what I mean? Well,

678
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: I had a goldfish that lived for a similar amount

679
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 1: of time, but I didn't realize what I was holding

680
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: onto and we didn't flush until it was dead, so

681
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: I don't have to, you know, look back in shame. Yeah, okay, well, uh,

682
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: this next story, we're gonna talk about a fish that

683
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: not even the Mighty Lacey could revive. Okay, this this

684
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:48,919
Speaker 1: is a funky one. Okay, and this one caught my eye.

685
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: This is from the U K's Guardian headline King's Trophy

686
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: found preserved in centuries old Danish shipwreck. Oh man, I

687
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,919
Speaker 1: almost did this one. I'm so glad I didn't good

688
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,439
Speaker 1: on me. So this is this is kind of cool.

689
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: I appreciate this the short one, but I appreciate it. Uh.

690
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: A two meter long sturgeon and for US Americans that's

691
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: nearly seven feet a species today near extinction, has been

692
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: found preserved in the pantry of a five hundred year

693
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. As a

694
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:26,720
Speaker 1: quote here says, during archaeological excavations in two thousand nineteen,

695
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 1: a wooden barrel submerged inside the shipwreck revealed the almost

696
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: complete and well preserved remains of a sturgeon fish, Archaeologists

697
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: from Lund University in Sweden wrote in a recent article

698
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Uh and the discovery

699
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: was possible thanks to special characteristics of the Baltic, a

700
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: semi closed sea with low oxygen levels. So apparently as

701
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: I understand it. Um Aside from that low salinity, there's

702
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: a number of factors that make the Baltic excellent at preservation,

703
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: including a clay bottom. Apparently a clay bottom has a

704
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: much better job of preserving. So this boat belonged to

705
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: King Hans, and the story says Hans sailed to Sweden

706
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: in fo on his best vessel, the Gribbs, hunting, the

707
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: most imposing warship in the region, with the aim of

708
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,800
Speaker 1: restoring a union of the three Scandinavian countries under his crown.

709
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: And uh, this says we interpret the fish not so

710
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: much as a gift, but as a prestige display, said

711
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: Brendan Folly of Lundon University. But the ship sank on

712
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: its way. King Hans lived, but how much do you

713
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: want to bet? He was like, holy shit, tell me

714
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: someone got the sturgeon off the boat. You know what

715
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: I'm saying. This is a part of that story that

716
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: I was left lag on like the ship's sake, King

717
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: Hans survived, How did he survive? What happened that part

718
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: of the story, and that it's not there I looked

719
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: for it now. He got off on the lifeboat. But

720
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: the sturgeon went down and like someone went to the

721
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: guillotine or whatever over that. And I did find this

722
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 1: really funny because what struck me is they believe that

723
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: the fish was a show of prestige, which even though

724
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: it was salted in the pantry, it's really no different

725
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: than taxidermy now, right, like how much you want to

726
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: bet the whole voyage. The servants were like, sire, should

727
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: we cook the large sturgeon tonight? And King Hans was like, no,

728
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: not until King Henrick and Lord Jerk and look at

729
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 1: that's some bitch. Ain never gonna believe that ship. It's

730
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: like me as a little kid, I always had a

731
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: frozen something in the freezer, or I'd have some poor

732
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 1: bass or catfish roasting in the cooler because my dad

733
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: had to see it, and then my uncle had to

734
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: see it, and we had to drive it over from

735
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: my Grandpa Dossey. So King Hans, I understand you, I

736
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 1: get it. And I thought that was I thought that

737
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 1: was pretty cool. It was a great story, and part

738
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: of what I liked about it was was that it

739
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: showed how they learned more about the range of the

740
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: Atlantic sturgeon from finding that, and because that that species

741
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: is pretty much gone at this point. We we we've

742
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: done a really good job of destroying it. But it's

743
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: some of the only evidence have that in those waters

744
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: over in that part of the Atlantic, they used to

745
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: apparently be swimming around and no one seen him there

746
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: for a very long time. So I thought that was

747
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: a great, great choice show it was. It was a

748
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: good story, my my. Only the only thing they have

749
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: a picture I guess from a dive cam underwater, but

750
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: like I can't really it's a very hazy picture, like

751
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: you see the edge of the barrel, but I'm not

752
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 1: clearly seeing the fish unless you found a different source

753
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: than I know. I would like to really get a

754
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: good look at it, you know. But again, sturgeon kind

755
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: of like we we talked about I think last week,

756
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: cartilaginous fish, not not so much bony. They don't preserve

757
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: that well, makes sense. I'm sure it's been delicious. I all,

758
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: I know that's brand for that long, you know. We

759
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 1: I just want to point out that I think one

760
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: thing we do well on this show, at least this segment,

761
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: is we draw from a diversity of sources. We've got

762
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 1: USA today, We've got the Guardian, we've got TikTok, and

763
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: now we're gonna be uh, we're gonna be pulling something

764
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: from a very different source. Uh. And this is, you know,

765
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: once again from a scientific journal. We really, we really

766
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: cover the gamut. And you know, I think there are

767
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: very few things that just about everyone can agree upon. Okay,

768
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: but one of those things is that fish or slimy.

769
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: They just are. And all you out there do a

770
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: quick Google image search for fish flop Friday and thank

771
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:25,760
Speaker 1: me later. Speaking of fish being slimy, it's pretty common

772
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: knowledge among anglers anyway that fish have a layer of

773
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: mucus on their skin. That mucus layer is important. So

774
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 1: if you're planning to release the fish, try to avoid

775
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: scraping it off. Don't handle the fish more than necessary,

776
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,959
Speaker 1: use rubber nets if you can, don't drag the fish

777
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: up under grass or rocks or sand or the deck

778
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,760
Speaker 1: of a boat. Keeping that mucostal layer intact helps protect

779
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: fish from bacteria viruses. And I know some of you

780
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: out there saying, yeah, yeah, enough with the fish handling

781
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: one oh one. We know all this, Like people have

782
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: been telling this this for years. What's the point. Well, ever,

783
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: notice that it's not just fish that are slippery. Just

784
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: about everything that lives underwater has that similar slippery feel,

785
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: be a planter animal. And that's not an accident, it's

786
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: an evolutionary trait. That mucus layer does more than ward

787
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: off infection, it also reduces friction. Do you ever try

788
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: running in water? Yeah, it's it's hard. It's because they

789
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: don't get chubb rub, is what you're telling me. Well,

790
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: because of the mucoastal slime. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Uh,

791
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: and threw them off. Totally threw me off, and you

792
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: totally totally got in my head there. Uh, all right,

793
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: objects moving through water create far more dragon friction than

794
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: those moving through air, so it makes sense that anything

795
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,760
Speaker 1: living in water would have evolved some way of reducing

796
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 1: that drag. Both seaweed and fish have little pockets in

797
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: their skin, and those pockets are reservoirs for mucus. Those

798
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: reservoirs maintain the outer slime layer, both helping to prevent

799
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 1: infection and creating a more slippery surface so that fish

800
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: can pass through water more easily and plants don't get

801
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,439
Speaker 1: whipped around is violently by waves are current? Okay, I'm

802
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, as you're well aware, Joe, I am

803
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 1: fascinated by bioengineering. That is, borrowing design principles honed through

804
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 1: eons of natural selection and applying them to modern technology

805
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: to make it more efficient. And you know natural Yeah,

806
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: it says exactly what you just said in your Instagram.

807
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: Bio all the time and put all about it. And

808
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 1: so ships, right, especially those those huge long distance cardo ships,

809
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 1: they lose a tremendous amount of energy to fluid friction.

810
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: So I found an article published last week in the

811
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: journal Physics of Fluid. You know, we've got the Guardians,

812
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: we got ticktok, we got Physics of Fluid, and that

813
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: it explains how ships hulls might be redesigned to mimic

814
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 1: fish and seaweed skin in order to make them up

815
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: to more efficient. And it also broke down the exact

816
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 1: physics of how that works. And I'm not even gonna

817
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 1: try to explain that because I have no idea what

818
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: I read. I don't understand it. But I do like

819
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: the idea of redesigning cargo ship holes to act more

820
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: like fish skin. In theory, the holes would be covered

821
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: in small cavities that are constantly supplied with a natural,

822
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: non toxic lubricant, maintaining a slippery surface and significantly diminishing

823
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: the ship's fuel consumption. So just remember, kids, what your

824
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: hands before you touch the boat, because you don't want

825
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 1: to pull off the slime layer. So I've never served,

826
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: but you're from Hawaii, so I assumed you have. Yes.

827
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: Is this like sex wax for your board? No? No,

828
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: that's the opposite. So what you wax a board in

829
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: order to make it stickier so that when you you

830
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: wax the top of your board so that when you

831
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: stand up you get some friction and something to grip on.

832
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: You don't bottom. That's why my bookie that's why my

833
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: bookie boards never went anywhere when I was a kid. Yeah,

834
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: you're doing it. You're definitely doing that wrong. Whoops. And

835
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 1: you know, we got a little extra neugget of knowledge

836
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: in there for all of those folks who don't know

837
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 1: anything about surf and surfboards. Will cover those topics in

838
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: another episode of fish News. In the meantime, we're waiting

839
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: with bated breath to see who Phil will choose for

840
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 1: this week's winner. And as soon as Phil has done

841
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: declaring a victor, we're going to kick over to a

842
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: new segment called Sage Lee Wisdom. With River Horse, It's

843
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,720
Speaker 1: going to take you away from the hustle and bustle

844
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: of life for a little while. You will forget about

845
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: the covids and just mellow out. Man, we promise, Let's

846
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: be honest. It sounded a little try hard, but Miles

847
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,760
Speaker 1: Nolte is the winner this week. I don't think anybody

848
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: asked for his Goldfish manifesto, but he provided it anyway,

849
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 1: So extra credit given where extra credit is due. If

850
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: one was wondering what criteria I used to determine the

851
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: winner every week, it's the same criteria that the judges

852
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: used to determine no Vacancy the winner of the Battle

853
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: of the Bands at the end of School of Rock. Hey,

854
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 1: now this is River Horse coming to you from the

855
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 1: deep deep South with the little Sage Lee Wisdom. Enjoy.

856
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: Have you ever stopped to wonder about water? The miracle

857
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: of it all, or the fact that it's even here

858
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:41,760
Speaker 1: on this earth? The average drop of water is aloft

859
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: in the sky for ten days or more, making a

860
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 1: journey around the globe. How far has it traveled in

861
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: its lifetime? Perhaps it was a shimmering turquoise wreath and

862
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: the Caribbean, or even a lonely glacial alpine lake before

863
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: it found its way to you. Most people run inside

864
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: when it rains. Not me. I love it. Here's a

865
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: story about the beauty of rainstorms, and hopefully the next

866
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: time you're in one, you'll stand there joyously and flat

867
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: out revel in it. My brothers and sisters, this is

868
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: called cloudburst. A storm, they say this town is about

869
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: to be lit up. Empty roads far and wide. They've

870
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: bellied up and tucked themselves away in cookie cutter neighborhood mansions.

871
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 1: There is handwringing in front of flat screens, alongside grave

872
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: concern that the least land rovers will need to go

873
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: to the car wash again for a fresh wax and polish.

874
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: I've run for it as well, straight for the water.

875
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:03,439
Speaker 1: I'm in the canoe on a lake. I live for rain.

876
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: The first tendrils of wind lift in nimbus, ever, dark

877
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: and undulating like boiling kettle water, envelop every scrap of horizon.

878
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:20,359
Speaker 1: I feel the subtle brevity of warmth in the air,

879
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: swimming upward, exchanged for far more bearable cool. And then

880
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: the first few untethered unmoored drops bigger than you might think,

881
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: and surreal in the way they side slip at an

882
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:38,399
Speaker 1: angle from the skies, and live running straight down, same

883
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,479
Speaker 1: as a river, which is simply water in the act

884
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: of falling to other places, same as us. Sometimes I

885
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: forego pulling the hood over my hair. I am much

886
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: more a fan of immersing myself than it. All Native

887
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: Americans have always felt rains to be signs of change.

888
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: This is true change. Your stars now mine are heavy

889
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 1: and bleeding fruit these days, more so, holding hopes a

890
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: lot that I can keep this ship ever studied the

891
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: helm and savor it. All of us have seen tumult

892
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: and train wrecks along the way. So if and when

893
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: days are sweeter than sweet, appreciate them and holds your breath.

894
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: It's on the loose now. The whole sky is red

895
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: lighting buckets upon buckets, poor down, and it feels so

896
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: good to stand in our casts out. So many exploding

897
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: droplets are blooming to and fro that it appears as

898
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: if every damn fish in the world is rising. What

899
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: else in simple nature feels this sensual and alluring, so

900
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 1: unquestionably all encompassing and soulful. Who is the fool that

901
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: invented the roof, and why is the rest of the

902
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: world under them instead of being out here on with

903
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: the head lamp. I'm going to fish on through the

904
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: night and ride the hips of this storm until she leaves,

905
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: and afterward, from a bedroll in the back of the

906
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: truck looking up at the stars, I'll be watching the weather,

907
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: wanting with desire for endless lifetimes of rain. All right, So,

908
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: do you know what river Horse is. I'm a little

909
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 1: afraid to ask, but tell me. Tell me. He's the

910
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: Ena of fishing. He's the entire collection of time life,

911
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: pure mood CDs for anglers. My house could be on

912
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 1: a fire burning, and if I had river Horse talking

913
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,399
Speaker 1: in my ear, I'd be like, this is fine, Yeah,

914
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:08,800
Speaker 1: this is all it's all good, it's all right, because

915
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: we lean on the funny and the humor at Bent

916
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: so much. But his segment just reminds me of one

917
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,319
Speaker 1: of those stress apps, which are very popular right now,

918
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,399
Speaker 1: because there's commercials on TV all the time to tell

919
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 1: you to just stop what you're doing and listen to

920
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: the sound of a waterfall for thirty seconds. So I look,

921
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: this was our first one from river Horse. I appreciated it.

922
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: I hope you guys did and appreciated that reset. And um,

923
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: I really hope we hear from him more often, man, man,

924
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: so do. I I freaking love that dude. And it's

925
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: it's not just his voice, but that guy Craft's words

926
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: as well as anybody that's writing about fishing. In my opinion, Oh,

927
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: he's brilliant. I I I don't. I will never be

928
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: able to write like River no one, no one that

929
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: I know of Ken, So I hope he's on a

930
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: bunch more too, because I cannot think of a better

931
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: person to have speaking calmly to my ear holes as

932
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: we navigate the global dumpster fire of anyway and uh

933
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 1: and switching from soothing dulcet tones to what I consider

934
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: to be nails on a chalkboard. We're about to check

935
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 1: in with our barely tolerable correspondent Lance v Yes, yes, yeah, yeah,

936
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: Lances back, ladies and gentlemen, to bring us his own

937
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 1: version of wisdom safe totally saying brom telling you how

938
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: to win an Internet fishing And I'm sure this will

939
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 1: inspire a whole new delusive of hate mail in the

940
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: bent inbox that we have to read. Bring it to

941
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 1: the land, to the boats, to the lake, to the sea,

942
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: being up the n on net. But the boy lads, yo,

943
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 1: your boy lance v here again dropping all the knowledge

944
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: on how to be a true Internet angler, not just

945
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,760
Speaker 1: some poser with a stiff rod in a five connection.

946
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: This week, I'm gonna teach you how to get the

947
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: best fish photos to post online. Okay, so you caught

948
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: a nice fish. Good for you. It's probably half the

949
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 1: size of my smallest fish ever. But hey, we all

950
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: start somewhere now. Don't just take a couple of pictures

951
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: and let it go. Let it go, let it go,

952
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 1: hat tag frozen. This may be the best fish you

953
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: ever fondle. Don't waste the opportunity by getting all sappy

954
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 1: and looking like a tool. Think about the future, think

955
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: about the gram. Here are the top six tips to

956
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: help you get the most out of that fish numero.

957
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: You know, portable studio. I shouldn't even have to say this,

958
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: but if you've got a Gorilla pod to hold your

959
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: cell phone right, I sleep for mar Carilla pods son

960
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: in case some epic fishy ship happens in my dreams.

961
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:49,760
Speaker 1: It's as critical as your fishing rod. Selfie mode burst

962
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 1: ten second timer. Don't even come at me with a

963
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: three second timer. Bullshit. You cannot craft the perfect post

964
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: in three seconds unless you're remember of the Google squad

965
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: hashtag skills for days. So now let's assume you actually

966
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: caught something Numero does. Switch it up. Show for that

967
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,320
Speaker 1: fish around the lake like you're an uber driver on

968
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 1: a meth bench. At each new spot, put on a

969
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: fresh outfit and grab a round of picks. Run through

970
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,240
Speaker 1: your tackle box, pull out all your most expensive baits

971
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,439
Speaker 1: from your favorite brand partners, and then play a game

972
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:23,800
Speaker 1: I like to call pin the lower on the hog face.

973
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:26,879
Speaker 1: With the right planning execution, you can turn one hog

974
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: into twenty and spread your greatness out for years to come.

975
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, you need twenty pairs of

976
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:35,359
Speaker 1: sunglasses because nobody wears the same pair longer than half

977
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: a season. Numero trace spray and for sam Prey, spend

978
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 1: at least fifteen minutes taking pictures of the fish out

979
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:47,320
Speaker 1: of water. Don't listen to all that environmental bullshit about

980
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: keeping them wet. Fish breathe oxen just like you, me

981
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: and John B. There's plenty of oxygen in the air.

982
00:55:53,920 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: Hashtag science Numero quatrall act like you've been there. Only

983
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 1: idiots a softball dad smile for the camera. Even if

984
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 1: that fish is a p B. I'm gonna wear a

985
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: look on my face like here's what a decent one

986
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 1: looks like for your reference suckers. Numero O five brim

987
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: up shades on mask off. I'm not losing the sick

988
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 1: lids or Gucci shades obviously. If I'm wearing them and

989
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 1: you can clearly see the logos, I'm sponsored by them

990
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:26,760
Speaker 1: or we're in heavy negotiations regarding sponsorship. Meetings and calls

991
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: and ship are happening. But if you can't see my

992
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: face because there's a dope ass and sand clown posse

993
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: buff covering my grill, how is everyone going to know

994
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: that I'm the one holding the hog? First, I tilt

995
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: my flat brim up just enough, but make sure the

996
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 1: logo is still showing. Ivy shades are for your protection

997
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 1: because without them I could see right through you. Also

998
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: shave because beards are hippies. Hashtag modeling tips Numero six

999
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: Kama suit for that beast. Sure we all know the

1000
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:01,800
Speaker 1: basic group and impost and it's a classic for a reason.

1001
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 1: Wide angle, long arms big fish, but don't be afraid

1002
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 1: to mix it up. Hold it over your head like

1003
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,759
Speaker 1: Simba created in the front of your junk, lay it

1004
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 1: down on the deck and spoon it. Get creative and

1005
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: you might just turn into a legend like the dude

1006
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 1: who invented the fish bra. Props to you, Homie for

1007
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 1: real hashtag genius. Worry about how and when to use

1008
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: photoshop later, most because I haven't gotten the pirty copy

1009
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: of the program. My boy at Call of Doogie said

1010
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: he's securing, but first you gotta get the wrong material,

1011
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 1: and that all starts with a dope photo. Don't waste

1012
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 1: a big fish on your case any fish by not

1013
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: getting the right picks. If you're not gonna get good shots,

1014
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: why even bother going fishing. That's it for me, Lance V. Sorry,

1015
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 1: you had to listen to the rest of this dumbass

1016
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: show just to get my moment of shine. If you

1017
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 1: can't listen to the ship anymore, you need to go

1018
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 1: peep the Google squad on YouTube. Get with their program

1019
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,439
Speaker 1: now before I joined the team and take it over.

1020
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: Just mass and googs, mad love, don't you ever answer

1021
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: any emails? Man to be young and have the luxury

1022
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: of taking four frames of one fish to nail that

1023
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 1: perfect shot. Isn't what the kids are doing these days.

1024
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: What the lances of the world. Keep them, keep them everyone.

1025
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: I vividly remember taking film to the drug store and

1026
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 1: most of the role on the disposable Kodak point and

1027
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: shoot camera was empty. But I couldn't wait the three

1028
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:34,439
Speaker 1: months or whatever it would take to fill the role,

1029
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: and I had to have those first five gripping grins

1030
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: on the roll back immediately, and I would always just

1031
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: take them on half empty camera, only to two days

1032
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: later get back blurry and cut off fish. I mean

1033
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: you have to. You had to, because if you kept

1034
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: that one around like that disposable camera was going to

1035
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 1: get a drop of water at some point and then

1036
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 1: the whole roll shot. Do please, You're gonna make me

1037
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 1: have to go back to therapy. Because the biggest weak

1038
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 1: fish I ever caught I had on a disposable point

1039
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: and shoot camera. I mean massive. I should have mounted it.

1040
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: I should it was it was, It was massive, and

1041
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 1: like two days later I went trout fishing and it

1042
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 1: rolled out of my fishing vest into the water and

1043
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: that was the end of that. Yeah, I mean done,

1044
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 1: the fish was delicious, But I don't have a photo.

1045
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 1: Your memories probably better because, like to be to be honest,

1046
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,680
Speaker 1: I don't have any stories like that. I don't have

1047
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: any of my own fish pictures that really stick out

1048
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 1: for me. But I do have entire hard drives of

1049
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: other people's fish photos from all my years of guiding,

1050
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: right because I was just taking pictures of other people's

1051
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: fish and sending them to them. And the weird thing,

1052
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 1: And this is true. I can look back on those

1053
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: photos and some of them are well over a decade old,

1054
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: and I can remember the exact details of those fish,

1055
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Speaker 1: like the whole where we caught them, the weather that day,

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Speaker 1: what they ate. But I cannot tell you a damn

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Speaker 1: thing about any of the people holding those fish. Like

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Speaker 1: I could pass those people on the street and have

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Speaker 1: no idea who they are. I don't know their names,

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01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: I don't know where they're from, I don't know anything

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01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 1: about them. But I remember those fish. I remember the

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Speaker 1: stories of their fish. Well. Yeah, and you know, I see,

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Speaker 1: I'm a people person. But I give you a pass

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01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: on that because you were a guy that was work.

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01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just like new people every single

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Speaker 1: day day after day, which I think like gives you

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01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 1: a pass on not remembering exactly who caught what. So

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Speaker 1: I mean that makes sense to me. Big fish are

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01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 1: memorable for you people not so much. But in the

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01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: case I'm about to explain, I actually do remember the

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Speaker 1: fish and the angler, and four nights ago and almost

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Speaker 1: forty years ago, September twenty one, Albert McReynolds called a

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Speaker 1: world record striper in my home state of New Jersey.

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01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: And here in my office check this out right, I

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01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 1: have one of the original photos of al and that

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01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: massive bass hanging at a local marina. And it's it's

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01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 1: not a print that somebody made later. Okay, it's not

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01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 1: a copy. It is one of the originals, developed from

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01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 1: the film that was in the camera. That. Yeah, dude,

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01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's awesome, and it's a it's a

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01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 1: long twisted story about how I got that photo. Okay,

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01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: that I'll save for another time. But right now, since

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01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 1: we're almost out of time, here comes our end of

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Speaker 1: the line segment, a tribute, if you will, to McReynolds,

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01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: a classic lure and his legendary catch. Well that's not

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01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 1: allowed enough. This week, in honor of the recent passing

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01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: of one of surf fishing's greatest legends and most debated anglers.

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01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 1: I am calling out a very specific lure, all right,

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01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 1: the Rebel Minnow Salt Order version five and a half

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01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: inch model black back over silver. And I'm sure many

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01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 1: of you are familiar with the smaller sweetwater version of

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01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 1: this classic, right. It's been a staple in the bass,

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01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 1: pike and trout scenes for many decades. But it's the

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01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 1: big cousin with those three shiny stainless trebles that caught

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01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: Al McReynolds a seventy eight point eight pounds striped bass

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Speaker 1: on the night of September twenty one, nineteen two. For

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01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:28,440
Speaker 1: twenty nine years, that fish stood as the all tackle

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01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: world record striper, and so Connecticut angler Greg Meyerson took

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01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: an eighty one point eight pounder to the scale in

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01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:38,439
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven and beat it right now. Meyerson's fish

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01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: was caught from a boat. Mc reynolds landed his from

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01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: the Vermont Avenue Jetty in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and

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01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: it's a catch that has always been shrouded in mystery,

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01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:53,920
Speaker 1: and many people claim the conditions that night were far

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01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: too rough for al to have even been on that

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01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: jetty casting. Others claim he on the fish washed up dead.

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01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: Some say a commercial fisherman gave him the striper, and

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01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: it has been written about over the years ad nauseum

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01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 1: spawning pro and anti McReynolds camps within the striper scene.

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01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: But the truth is, despite all the unknowns tied to

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01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: that fish, the bottom line is that it was qualified

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01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 1: by the I g f A. And the fact alone

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01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 1: that it was caught off the beach prompts many surfcasters

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01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: to this very day to vow that Meyerson's boat fishes

1115
01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 1: quote not my world record. As a young kid, I

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01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:38,439
Speaker 1: actually got to lay eyes on one of the few

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01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: replicas of the McReynolds bass in existence. And I mean

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01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 1: you could fit a basketball in its gaping mouth without

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01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 1: it touching the sides. That's no bullshit. It was far

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Speaker 1: wider and taller than me, the eight year old gawking

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01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: at this unfathomable fish hanging in a museum in Bringing

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01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. And I remember so vividly in that

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01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 1: cavernous bucket mouth someone had stuck a five and a

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01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 1: half inch rebel minnow black back over silver. And even

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01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: back then, at that young age. I remember staring at

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01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 1: that Laura and thinking, there's no way, there's there's no

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01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 1: way in hell it caught this fish to quote, no effects.

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01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 1: It was like feeding a tic tac to a whale,

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01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: like a hot dog in a hallway. Now, what I've

1130
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: never doubted is that a bass that size would eat

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01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 1: that lure all right. According to the legend, a school

1132
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 1: of giant striper's had mullet pinned against the rocks that

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01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 1: fateful night, and that lure that rebel would have matched

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01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 1: the size and profile of those mullet. But having fought

1135
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: big bass in the high forty pound range, knowing their power,

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01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:56,840
Speaker 1: I could just never get my head around the idea

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01:04:57,240 --> 01:05:02,320
Speaker 1: that that little hollow plastic rebel lasted for what McReynolds

1138
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:06,960
Speaker 1: claimed was an hour and twenty minute battle on twenty

1139
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 1: pound test mono to boot. So all of those relatively

1140
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 1: small trebles stayed glued in that thick, massive jaw for

1141
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: that long during a fight that McReynolds himself said made

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01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 1: his back ache and caused his forearms to lock. It

1143
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 1: always just seems so damn unlikely. But see that's the fun.

1144
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 1: Without these little questions, without all these little mysteries, and

1145
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:37,040
Speaker 1: there there are a lot more than just the lure

1146
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 1: tied to this catch. It makes me wonder if we

1147
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 1: would even be talking about the McReynolds bass today. The debate,

1148
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 1: the mystique, the allure of the whole thing is what

1149
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:52,520
Speaker 1: has kept the story in the forefront of the surfishing

1150
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:57,400
Speaker 1: and striped basque cultures. And sadly, on Sunday may tent

1151
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 1: Al mc reynolds past away, And though he had fans

1152
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 1: as well as detractors, better or worse, he will live

1153
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 1: on as a legend in the stripers scene, and that

1154
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:13,200
Speaker 1: rebel minnow will forever be known as the lore that

1155
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:21,760
Speaker 1: earned him that status. Right on, Well, you know what

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01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 1: A cheers to Al, because the truly great fish are

1157
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: the ones that come with truly great stories, and and

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01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:32,560
Speaker 1: that man, that is a great story. That's it for

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Speaker 1: this week. We hope you guys enjoyed the moment of

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01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:38,920
Speaker 1: Zen from River Horse got smacked down by the epiphany

1161
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:41,680
Speaker 1: that a gorilla pod is more critical than you're on

1162
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:44,520
Speaker 1: and real and finally understand that when your guide says,

1163
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:50,439
Speaker 1: please don't cast right now, you shouldn't freaking cast. Listen

1164
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: to your guide has always if you like what you're hearing,

1165
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:58,280
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1166
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01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:09,640
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Speaker 1: you let him up this weekend. Hey, one last note

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01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 1: before we go. You know, Miles and I work on

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01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:24,320
Speaker 1: a lot more here at Meat Eater than just Bent,

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01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:27,520
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Speaker 1: more famous than us. That is true, That is true.

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Speaker 1: And seriously, if you've ever had a near death experience

1179
01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 1: while fishing, we'd love for you to send just like

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Speaker 1: a basic gist of the story to Bent at the

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01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 1: meat Eator dot com. Okay, now to be clear, we're

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01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:50,400
Speaker 1: not talking about your buddy Tommy getting hooked in the

1183
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 1: calf meat with your musky buck tail. Okay, We're talking

1184
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Speaker 1: about heavy hitting stories that left you thankful to be

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01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:00,320
Speaker 1: alive and we do appreciate your input. And speaking of

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Speaker 1: listener emails that we love again, a listener named William,

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Speaker 1: who did not provide a last name, rode in and

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Speaker 1: said we should close every show with until next time,

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Speaker 1: get Bent. And I don't know about every show, but

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Speaker 1: just for you, just this week, William, until next time,

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